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1. Dramatical Murder Mink Route

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nitro+CHiRAL's BLVisual Novel, DRAMAtical Murder, also known amongst fans as DMMD, features crisp, clean and fluid art style, Electronic Music soundtrack, various character expressions and elaborate CGs, a dark sci-fi story rendered bright and colorful, and of course, tons and tons of Boys' Love, with four main routes and one unlockable one. A first press edition was released on March 23rd, 2012, and a regular edition came out on the 27th of the following May. A sequel, DRAMAtical Murder re:connect was released on April 26th 2013. DRAMAtical Murder re:code, a PlayStation Vita remake of the original game tailored for a younger audience, was released on October 30th, 2014.

Some time ago, Midorijima, an island southwest of Japan, was purchased by the highly influential Toue Company. Their plan was to build a high-tech luxury amusement facility called Platinum Jail, for the exclusive perusal for all those rich enough around the world to afford it. Of course, the original inhabitants of the island got screwed in the process. What coexistence there once was between Midorijima's people and the lush natural environment prevalent throughout was abruptly cut off. All those who didn't leave the island at Toue Company's suggestion were eventually forced to move to a corner of the island called the Old Resident District. All those who have stayed cannot leave, unless they receive Toue's permission. The Toue Company won't give that permission anytime soon, as punishment from the head of the company who was highly annoyed at the more stubborn locals. Soon after development on Platinum Jail completed, Toue abandoned the former residents of the island outright.

Twenty years in the future, in Midorijima, an island southwest of Japan, a guy named Aoba lives with his tough-as-nails doctor granny, Tae, and his dog-type AllMate^note , Ren. Aoba's always found it odd how dropping his voice to a certain inflection could drive people to call up Heibon, the shop he's working at, to hear it again and again, buying Heibon's mechanical goods every time. But hey, it does its job, so why not make use of it? Sadly, said power can't really help him with that trio of rambunctious children that always show up at the store just to make a mess. He also has to contend with his unusual friends that are involved in gang activity that he's long since left behind. His life is an amicable one, although as with all who've been left to carry their lives out in the Old Resident District in the years of Toue's acquisition of Midorijima, it is by no means prosperous. In those ensuing years, a game called 'Ribsteez' (also known as 'Rib') rose in popularity, in which gangs of young men would go out of their way to engage in turf wars against one another. More recently, another competitor have been taking over people's interests; a game called 'Rhyme,' whose participants and their watchers scatter throughout the city to engage in fights that unfold on a virtual reality but are seen right before their eyes. Anyone can play 'Rhyme' if they have an AllMate and the fights are mediated and started by Usui, a judge with a female appearance and a male voice who randomly appears to signal the start of a match. Recently, a trend of 'drive-by' matches have started, where people can force others into a 'Rhyme' match with no mediation by Usui and most dangerously, any injuries taken during the game can impact the player's health in real life.

Aoba just wants to keep the peaceful life he shares with Tae and Ren, but the accidental download of a mysterious 8-bit game called 'Silent Oath' and getting caught in a drive-by 'Rhyme' game leads to any real chance of normalcy in his life going out the window..

An English patch for the full game can be found online. In Anime Expo 2018, JAST USA announced an official English localization.

An anime was announced as part of the summer 2014 anime lineup, the PV can be watched here.

DRAMAtical Murder provides examples of the following tropes:

• Abhorrent Admirer: Yoshie, the woman working at the delivery office, really likes Aoba. Her AllMate, Clara, seems to have the hots for Ren. Aoba and Ren, on the other hand, try to escape ASAP.
• Adorkable: Clear. He needs to be explicitly told that an umbrella can be used when it is raining, insists on calling Aoba his 'Master', and does not comprehend doors. He gets into Aoba's room by cutting the lock off of the veranda door!
• Affably Evil: Trip and Virus, once they reveal themselves as the leaders of Morphine.

• Aroused by Their Voice: A number of characters comment on it in-universe. Aoba weaponizes it to make sales, and it also comes in use in other crucial situations.
• Art Shift: Toward the end of the common route, the art briefly switches to a comic-book style when Clear punches out some of the brainwashed mooks.
• Artificial Human: Aoba (and by extension Ren) and Sei were created in a Toue laboratory for the purpose of researching the uses of their powers.
• Artificial Intelligence: AllMate have programmable personalities to be set by the user, and have a good degree of AI involved. Clear and the Alphas count as well, since they're robots.
• Attempted Rape: Done traumatically to Aoba, which brings his Superpowered Evil Side to surface and put a stop to.
• Authority Equals Asskicking: Many of the main characters are gang leaders or whatnot, and very capable in combat. Koujaku, leader of Beni-shigure easily fends off many mooks with his sword. Mink, head of Scratch, knocks out three at once with one punch. Noiz, the leader of Ruff Rabbit, fought a bunch of Yakuza without much stress and claimed he would have won, if he hadn't been interrupted.
• Badass Baritone: Mink and Ren.
• Badass Gay: Noiz and Mink (Koujaku and Clear don't really apply because their feelings towards Aoba fall under If It's You, It's Okay and Single-Target Sexuality, respectively).
• The Bad Guy Wins: In the bad endings, Aoba isn't able to succeed in using Scrap properly, and is thusly unable to both defeat Toue and save his love interest. In the bad ending epilogues, Toue's Evil Plan succeeding is usually acknowledged in passing.
• Battle in the Center of the Mind:
  • In the beginning of the game, Aoba and Ren get dragged into a Rhyme match with a person wearing a rabbit head who is later revealed to have been Noiz.
  • In the secret route, Aoba must face a berserk Ren in his mind.
• Beware of the Nice Ones:
  • Aoba when pushed into it; more-so when on the routes of those with a more active mentality.
  • Ren, who has the most brutal bad end of any of the love interests.
• Beware the Quiet Ones: Ren is the one who executes Aoba's Rhyme commands, after all. Let's not forget his own bad end, either.
• Beware the Silly Ones: Clear.
• Be Yourself: Invoked in Clear's good ending, where the player must not choose either option when using Scrap on Clear's mind, allowing him to choose for himself.
• Big Damn Heroes: Happens on the true route when Aoba is about to pass out from being beaten up by Virus and Trip, and his friends all burst into the scene to rescue him.
• Bleached Underpants:
  • The anime adaptation lacks sexual content and overt BL aside from Noiz kissing Aoba in episode 3. This is not the case with the bad ending OVA, which is more explicit than the TV anime, although the explicitness is still toned down compared to the games.
  • RE:Code replaces the sex scenes with tamer content and tones down the violence and gore, but the sexual content was replaced with more homoromantic scenes. General nudity is also censored (e.g. Clear's naked apron scene now has him wearing boxers). Additionally, Mizuki has his own route in RE:Code.
• Brainwashing: Hoo boy. The basis of much drama.
  • Brainwashed and Crazy:
    • In Noiz's route, said character is hypnotized using Dye Music and is sent to defeat Aoba.
    • One of the main conflicts in the common route has Mizuki and Dry Juice being subjected to this, courtesy of Morphine.
    • Also Happens to Akushima in Noiz and Mink's routes.
  • Brainwashing for the Greater Good: Every character's route reveals their respective anxieties and weaknesses, which they either fail to acknowledge or cannot change. This leaves Aoba with no choice except to use Scrap to prevent them from going berserk.
    • Inverted with Toue, a villain whose aim is to brainwash everyone on the island for the purposes of creating a utopia/dystopia.
• Bratty Half-Pint: Kio, Nao and Mio.
• Break the Cutie: Good God, there's plenty of this throughout the common route, individual routes, and most definitely the bad endings.
  • There's Mizuki, the leader of Dry Juice who's desperately trying to keep his team together and ultimately joins the mysterious Rib team Morphine, which leads to him and his team getting brainwashed and him kidnapping Aoba's grandmother. When Aoba tries to use Scrap on him, he fails and Mizuki all but breaks and ends up in a coma.
  • Koujaku grew up being abused by his father and watching his mother be abused, and he was forced to get tattoos by Ryuuhou as part of his training to become a yakuza boss. However, the tattoos fed his anger and led him to commit total genocide on the entire compound, including his own mother. In his drama CD, it's revealed that Koujaku's been suffering from depression for nearly twelve years.
  • Noiz can't feel any physical sensation, and rather than helping him, he was locked away by his parents. Even worse, they even said that he shouldn't have been born right within earshot. This has led to him engaging in Rhyme battles just to try and feel pain, even if it's simulated.
  • Poor, poor Aoba, especially in the bad endings.
    • Koujaku's Bad Ending: After failing with Scrap, which results in the tattoos taking over Koujaku's mind and turning him into a bloodthirsty monster, Aoba feels so horrible for failing and completely gives up, allowing Desire to take over completely. From then on, Aoba is now Shiroba: a masochistic, extremely messed-up version of Aoba who gets off on mentally breaking people and having extremely violent and bloody sex with Koujaku.
    • Noiz's Bad Ending: When he fails with Scrap, Aoba is trapped in Noiz's mind along with the latter. If that wasn't enough, every touch between them causes severely painful and horrifically bloody lacerations to cut across their bodies, which causes incredible agony. And despite Aoba's pleas for Noiz to stop and to snap out of it, Noiz refuses.
    • Mink's Bad Ending: Aoba not only makes the mistake in interfering with the events being shown in Scrap, but he ends up decapitated.
    • Clear's Bad Ending: After failing Scrap, Clear breaks down and both him and Aoba are taken away. While Aoba is constantly experimented on, Clear is repaired but reprogrammed into becoming less human and more robotic. Clear then proceeds to not only remove Aoba's eyes, but also his limbs to get rid of his free will. Aoba even gives up at this point, deciding that if turning into a doll is what will make Clear happy, then so be it.
    • Ren's Bad Ending: Dear God. When Aoba fails to avoid the literal blue screen of death, Ren loses all forms of reason and decides to 'become one with Aoba'. Aoba is then attacked and raped over and over again while being devoured alive, making for a truly painful scene in RE:Connect. But what really drives it home is that despite everything, Aoba still doesn't hate Ren, and even apologizes to him as he's dying.
• Bullet Time: Clear has one and only one instance in which he assumes a deep and commanding voice, during the common route, and it may or may not be due to Bullet Time—
  Clear: MAAAA-SUUUUU-TAAAA...
• Call-Back: In his route, Clear remembers that umbrellas are used in the rain.
• Came from the Sky: Clear, sort of. Aoba first meets him when Clear seemingly falls out of the sky in front of Heibon. As it turns out, Clear just has a bad habit of falling off of roofs.
• Cast Full of Pretty Boys: Duh. Granny is an important supporting cast member though, and her and Aoba's close familial bond provides a large number of early heartwarming moments.
  • And amongst the auxiliary cast, there are females, even if it's one of the Bratty Half-Pint trio and a gossipy and quite hammy forty-something-year-old woman that Aoba frequently delivers to and both he and Ren would like to avoid (for wearing of having to speak with her AllMate, who likes him and who the lady obviously ships with him).
• Caught in the Rain: For Aoba and Clear.
• The Charmer: Koujaku. His legion of female fans is proof of his popularity. Which, interesting enough, proves to be mostly shallow. When Koujaku is with Aoba he is shocked and red-faced when Aoba invited him to take a shower together.
• Cloudcuckoolander: Clear thanks Aoba for making him realize that the umbrella he carries around can be used during the rain, too. Clear is very much this, though for good reason.
• Color-Coded Characters: Aoba's color being sky blue, Koujaku's red, Noiz' green, Clear's yellow and Mink's pink. And, if you'd like to add him, Ren's would be deep blue.
• Combat Referee: When Rhyme became popular, Usui was introduced as one to enforce rules during combat and limit the damage to players.
• Compelling Voice: It turns out that in truth Aoba can instill his will onto other people with his voice when he drops it to a certain tenor; when put in situations wherein his life may be in danger, however, an even greater power comes out and his consciousness begins to black out.
• Conjoined Twins: When Aoba and Sei was born, they were connected by the hair. They were separated after Aoba appeared to be stillborn. Aoba opened his eyes after the separation, though.
• Contemplate Our Navels: Used more effectively than most, as in Clear's route he and Aoba eventually have a quiet conversation about the human perception on life and death, which fits in thematically with his predicament — and perhaps refreshingly, Aoba answers all his questions in a very honest manner, trying to offer the different kinds of views humans have on the matter, and why he thinks they might have them, without condescension.
• Cool Old Lady: Granny. She can make Aoba's band of misfits behave.
• Crapsaccharine World: Thanks to Toue.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass:
  • You didn't think Clear could kick ass, did you Aoba? Of course he did.
  • Inverted with Koujaku, he mostly appears badass, but his good ending has him being really adorkable when confessing his feelings for Aoba; he even gets a bloody nose during their sex scene!
• Cyberpunk/Post-Cyberpunk: While the setting has many of the trappings of the cyberpunk genre, it also portrays (most of) the cast being able to live normally until danger comes to the fore; that said, there's still hints of a Crapsack World beneath the surface of their idyllic, day-by-day lives.
• Cyberpunk Is Techno:
  • The original games has, save from some ending themes, Electronic Music soundtrack produced by Japanese Electronica duo GOATBED.
  • In the anime, the soundtrack is a mix of Techno/Trance and film-scorey sounds, a la TRON: Legacy. The opening theme and two of the ending themes are still electronica, done by the series' original composer mentioned above.
• Death Seeker: Sei, Aoba's twin brother. Also Mink, at least until..
• Defend Command: Applicable in Rhyme, which typically reduces the damage taken.
• Dreadlock Warrior: Mink.
• Drop-In Character: Usually, Koujaku is the one who drops by civilly, being Aoba's childhood friend, but later, everyone gets in on it. Granny usually just makes dinner for them all as they sit awkwardly by one another.
• Early-Bird Cameo: Sei, who isn't properly introduced until the final route of the game, and Ryuuhou, who appears only on Koujaku's route, appears in the second episode of the anime, when the story is still in the early stages of the common route.
• Editorial Synaesthesia:
  • Aoba's headaches can almost be felt by the audience due to the abrupt assault of red cracks on a darkening scene, in conjunction with an eerie, pulsing ambiance.
  • In an emotionally-engaging use of this trope, Clear's 'Jellyfish Song' is never directly sung to the player/viewer, with a soft, ethereal lullaby-like chorus taking its place every time he sings instead, which imparts the wonder and calming effect it has on Aoba on the player as well, whilst never having to bring up how and what he sings (although Aoba will mention that the lyrics are sweet at one point).
    • The anime eventually reveals a portion of the actual lyrics, before the full version was released.
    In between the waves
    Their voices drift far into the distance
• Fate Worse than Death: Aoba is subjected to this in some of the bad endings.
  • In Noiz and Ren's routes, Aoba is stuck in the respective character's mind permanently. In the former's route, Aoba is subject to intense pain with Noiz in a void, both bleeding as they are stuck with each other. In the latter's route, a berserk Ren continually devours Aoba while sexually assaulting him, obsessed with the idea of being closer to Aoba. Literally.
  • In Clear's route, experimental data is extracted from Aoba, and a reprogrammed Clear treats him like a doll, going so far as to amputate his legs and gouging his eyes out of obsession of making Aoba more like him: devoid of free will. Clear is happy, but at the cost of Aoba's well-being.
  • Koujaku's bad ending involves Aoba losing his mind because of Scrap and obeying Toue's wish for control. Koujaku himself goes insane from his tattoos, being kept like a animal in the basement by Aoba who is engaged in a violent romance with the mad man.
• Fight Unscene: The anime has Mizuki punch some guys out mere seconds after his introduction, but all that's shown is a close up of Bug Bomb's tag art and a few punching sound effects. Later, however, he's shown breaking someone's nose onscreen.
• First-Person Perspective: Compared to the previous Nitro+CHiRAL visual novels, DRAMAtical Murder is told through a first-person rather than a third-person point of view.
• Five-Man Band: The Leader - Aoba, although he also functions as The Chick / The Heart, who keeps everyone together and acts as a voice of reason amongst the more hotblooded and strange types in his group.
  • The Lancer: Koujaku, though he also has The Big Guy tendencies and certainly Undying Loyalty.
  • The Smart Guy: Noiz.
  • The Big Guy: Mink. Can also double as The Team Benefactor, since he has.. resources.
  • The Sixth Ranger: Clear and Ren. Clear's a bit of an odd case, in that he's a Cloudcuckoolander who has a bit of all three of the above supporting characteristics, and kind of acts as an 'outside' character to the others (his past also backs this up); his loyalty to Aoba often compliments Koujaku's, he has an incredibly good senses and memory that helps them out even more than Noiz and Mink's info gathering, and he can beat up a man as well as any of them.
  • Team Pet: Ren's this if not the Sixth Ranger.
• Freudian Trio: Aoba. Yes, just Aoba, since he has three split personalities. The normal Aoba is The Ego which cares for morality and other people's perceptions of himself, his Superpowered Evil Side is The Id that embodies his more primal and destructive urges, and Ren is The Superego who was originally created to maintain balance between the Ego and Id.
• Frozen Face: Sei, except in Mizuki's route in RE:Code. Also Ren at first when he became a human.
• Game Within a Game:
  • The first major event in the game is Aoba accidentally downloading a retro RPG on his Coil. This seemingly innocuous game turns out to have major plot repercussions, especially as events that take place within it begin mysteriously occurring in the real world.
  • Also present in one of Noiz's bad endings, where he and Aoba become trapped in an RPG-like simulation of the real world in his own mind due to his wish for them to be able to live out their lives normally. Forever.
• Gas Mask Long Coat: Clear, for initially no apparent reason.
• Giving Someone the Pointer Finger: Clear and Aoba wind up doing it to each other in the anime; Clear, when Aoba asks who he means by 'Master,' and Aoba, when saying he's not.
• Golden Ending: After completing the other routes, you can get the Secret Character's ending AKA the true one. Oddly enough, unlocking the true route also unlocks another route at the same time that only has a bad end, no good end. Though it's fairly obvious how to avoid this.
• Gorn: In the bad endings.
  • There is also a notable one in Clear's route, altough it's not that bad since Clear is a robot.
  • Koujaku's tattooing process is very bloody.
• G-Rated Drug: At least in the English patch, the way the characters phrase their playing their 'games', Rhyme or Rib, comes off with this implication; they'll 'do Rhyme,' etc.
• Gratuitous English: Everywhere. Most notably, the opening theme song and ending themes for Clear, Virus and Trip, and Ren.
  • Some of the (previously untitled) background music has been re-arranged and titled by the original composers. The new titles given to them are this trope in full effect (e.g 'Whodunit Howdunit Whydunit' and 'Tonight-Burn-Pledge-Trick').
• Guardian Entity/Attack Animal: AllMates have the capacity to be these in Rhyme.
• Guide Dang It!: Noiz's good ending. It's probably the hardest to get, because some of the answers you must give him are very similar and if you fail once, it's all over. Did we mention he's the only character with two bad endings?
• Hard Light: Although most who do Rhyme are not supposed to feel the pain of combat, when Aoba's forcibly made to participate by a mysterious bunny mascot-headed man, he feels every blow.
• Hates Being Touched:
  • Aoba feels this about his hair, as his hair seems to carry the same senses as skin — including pain. Especially pain, which is why he prefers not to cut his hair. He'll let Koujaku do it, though.
  • Also, Noiz.
• Holodeck Malfunction: This forces Aoba to get dangerous when pulled into Rhyme without his consent, although he doesn't have complete control over what he's doing due to his Trauma-Induced Amnesia.
• Homoerotic Subtext: Aoba and Koujaku have this in spades, more specifically when one isn't on his route. Since this is a BL game in which Aoba can pursue him, one confirm that Koujaku really does have a secret thing for him regardless of whether he's pursued or not, but if he's not, they still act like Heterosexual Life-Partners, with a lot of Undying Loyalty on Koujaku's side.
• Hot-Blooded: Koujaku. His specialty is riling up all the seemingly stoic people he meets as soon as he meets them because he thinks they're up to no good (he's, perhaps unsurprisingly, right about this). Which is basically every seemingly stoic character (there are a number of them).
• I'm a Humanitarian: In Ren's bad ending, he eats and rapes Aoba over and over in an endless cycle.
• Interface Screw: In Noiz' route, as Aoba uses Scrap on him, he gets to see his memories with Aoba in the form of a visual novel, except with severe discolorations, pixelation and errors in text rendering. Some people in the fandom thought this to be an actual error with their computer or program until they were told otherwise.
• Keigo: Clear speaks very politely and is the only main character to use boku when referring to himself. Virus is also extremely formal, addressing Aoba as 'Aoba-san'.
• Kimono-clad Badass: Koujaku.
• Kubrick Stare: Sly Blue, everytime he◊manifests◊.
• Large Ham:
  • The memorable seemingly-gangsta-lyfe-inspired introducer of each of Aoba's acquaintances is just about the hammiest character to ever grace sound systems for approximately two point five seconds at a time.
  • Akushima's popularity (amongst the audience) can be attributed to this exact reason as well.
• Literal Ass-Kicking: In the common route, Aoba gives Clear the boot in an attempt to provoke him and see if he's the one who dragged him in Rhyme.
• Magical Native American: Mink and his (deliberately nonspecific) tribe have shades of this. Toue's interest in Mink's people stemmed from the belief that they possessed some form of natural, scent-based mind control, and Aoba's narration in his route repeatedly mentions that Mink smells pervasively and pleasantly of cinnamon. It's never confirmed or refuted in the games, but in Mink's drama CD, Mink spells out that they had no special powers, just some herbal medicines that were good for meditation. Toue only thought they were magical, and wiped Mink's people out trying to grasp something that never existed. Mink's unusual smell is never really explained, however, but Toue mentions though that one possibility for the smell might be the herbs they smoke and Mink is regularly seen smoking his pipe.
• Mental World: Aoba can enter other people's minds by touching them and looking into their eyes. These mental worlds tend to be.. disturbing.

• Mind Screw: It is a Nitro+CHiRAL game after all. Ren's route gets the lion's share though.

• Mob War: While some groups, like Mizuki's, are like a brotherhood and even take care of the people and shops in the area in the district that they make their own, those who do Rib are notorious for their turf wars.
• Moral Myopia: Noiz.
• Multiple Endings: It's a visual novel; of course there's more than one possible ending.
• Mythology Gag: In the anime, a sign in Junk Shop Heibon reads 'It's a daisuki shonen,' essentially spelling out the series' Boys' Love roots.
• Naked Apron: Clear. With his gas mask still on.
• Neighbourhood-Friendly Gangsters: Koujaku's gang and Mizuki's group take care of the areas under their control. They treat the residents kindly and are quite popular.
• Never Trust a Title: The 'Murder' half of the title doesn't really make sense, since there are no murders performed. Though Fridge Brilliance kicks in when you realize that the 'Murder' part actually refers to Toue's brainwashing plans. Being brainwashed to the point of being brain-dead is the mental equivalent of a murder.
• Only One Name: Everyone, except Aoba.
• Pink Girl, Blue Boy: Aoba and Granny.
• Pixellation: Most CGs of the sex scenes have this. Justified since this is a normal rule in most Eroge.
• Police are Useless: Since they are basically lazy and corrupt. Aoba even pointed this trope out.
• Power Strain Black Out: Aoba experiences this frequently; the first time occurs when he's pulled into Rhyme.
• Rapunzel Hair: The true forms of Aoba and Sei are examples of this, with an overwhelming length that extends past their feet.
• Real Men Wear Pink: Mink and his pink bandana, Noiz and his cute cube AllMate and bunny-related everything, Koujaku and his flower theme.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Koujaku (Red) and Noiz (Blue), also the AllMates Beni (Red) and Tori (Blue).
• Ridiculously Human Robot: Clear is entirely indistinguishable from a human (being able to eat, have sex with humans, and contemplate the nature of human death) until he encounters the Alphas (to whom this trope also applies) and his body begins to break down. Even as he's dying, Aoba tells him he's the most human person he's ever known.
• Rubber Face: Clear pulls on Aoba's cheeks when trying to figure out what's 'different' about him than when he first saw him.
• Sanity Slippage:
  • Koujaku, when he met Ryuuhou in his route.
  • Ren, in his bad ending.
• Separated at Birth: Aoba and Sei, since Aoba had the misfortune — or fortune — of being stillborn for a while before eventually coming to life.
• Scenery Porn: Not only there's actual porn in this game, but the backgrounds and locations are gorgeously drawn.
• Scratch Damage: Typically, in Rhyme, even attacks which have been defended against still inflict some damage.
• Secret Character Route: Not so much of a secret at this point, but Ren's route can be unlocked after completing all the others'. It doubles as Sei's route as well, who is far more spoilery.
• Self Cest: Aoba with Ren. Later evolves into Twin Cest once Ren transfers his consciousness into Sei's body.
• Sharp-Dressed Man:
  • Virus wears a dark-blue suit and tie, while Trip sports a nice Waistcoat of Style.
  • Noiz, at the end of his route and throughout RE:Connect.
• Ship Tease: Noiz in particular, who kisses Aoba and says he doesn't get why it's so weird; Koujaku who acts like he's gay for Aoba (because he is) although they pass it off as bromance at first; Clear whose insistence that Aoba is his master and that he belongs to him is the reason Noiz and Koujaku start to get really pissed off, etc. It's everywhere until Aoba starts thinking about a particular man.
• Shonen Hair: Trip and Virus.
• Shout-Out: '2106 CR-L' is written in the Oval Tower's back entrance. 2106 can be read as 'Nitro' (ni-to-ro), while CR-L is (obviously) 'Chiral'
• Spell My Name with an 'S':
  • Is it Noise, Noiz, Noize? Rhyme or Lime? Rib or Lib? Or something else altogether?
  • For Trip's AllMate, is it Bertha or Welter?
  • The same can be said for Mink's AllMate after he finally gives him a name: Rurakan/Lulakan, Huracan, or Rulacane?
• Stealth Hi/Bye: Clear falls out of the sky. Aoba's reaction is priceless. He does this a lot, actually, since he doesn't seem to register the concept of a 'door.'
• The Stoic:
  • Ren, though adorably so.
  • Noiz also qualifies.
• Straight Gay: Every one of Aoba's potential love interests, even with Mink's pink bandana and Koujaku's flowery kimono, which in Japan is something of a gangsterish thing to wear, for men.
• Superpowered Evil Side: Aoba has one. So does Koujaku.
• Super Senses: Clear's hearing is.. strange. It's one of the first significant indications that Clear might not be entirely human, and is more than what he seems.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Between Koujaku, Noiz, Mink and Clear when they're forced to work together to find Granny. Koujaku doesn't trust Noiz or Mink at all, Noiz isn't exactly a team player at the best of times, Mink isn't very cooperative either and Clear is Clear. Aoba is the lone voice of reason.
• Theme Tune Cameo: Aoba's coil ringtone is the opening theme of the game.
  • In addition, Aoba is also a huge fan of the opening song's artist. One of the drama CDs even stated that Aoba bought every CD they released. Mizuki is also a fan of them.
• Title Drop: The title is completely nonsensical before and after it is revealed that it is based on a line◊ said by Toue in the visual novel.
• Trauma-Induced Amnesia: For Aoba.
• Tsundere:
  • Sure, Noiz doesn't really care for the rest of them, okay, but Aoba asked him really nicely to help him, so he did (..reveal himself to be totally eavesdropping on them).. Tch, whatever..
  • Aoba is also definitely this in Koujaku's route.
• Unusual Euphemism: The fan translation, at least, gives a few.. interesting examples to describe the male genitalia, such as 'love meat', 'love rocket', 'stick and bags', and so on.
• Vague Age: With the exception of Aoba (and Sei, by extension) and Noiz, no one's ages are confirmed. Judging by appearance, Mink would be in his mid or late thirties, and Mizuki would be between Aoba and Koujaku's age. Koujaku is estimated to be at least three years older than Aoba but no exact age is given; as an android, Clear's real age isn't specified; and the closest hint you get to Virus and Trip's ages is that they're six years apart.
• Vocal Dissonance:
  • The proctor of the Rhyme Games, Usui, whose body is a pretty woman's but voice is a deep-sounding dude's. Which makes sense, given that Sei is controlling her.
  • Also, Ren. For a cute, little dog AllMate, he has a really deep voice.
• What Is This Thing You Call 'Love'?: It's up to Aoba to teach Noiz the Power of Love in Noiz's route. Noiz reveals that his parents found him troublesome and basically abandoned him. He was given necessities, but was completely ignored. Others distance themselves from him or use him for his wealth or body.
• What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Clear.
• White Hair, Black Heart:
  • Averted with Clear, although he was supposed to be this. He does become this trope in his bad ending after being forcibly reprogrammed.
  • The Alphas, who are Clear's 'brothers', are this to a T.
  • Aoba becomes this in Koujaku's bad ending when his Super-Powered Evil Side completely takes over his weakened will.
• Yakuza: Aside from the numerous gangs populating Midorijima, there are also mentions of yakuza. Koujaku recognizes Trip and Virus as members of the yakuza. Not only that, Koujaku himself was born into a yakuza family.
• Yandere: The bad endings typically involve Aoba or his love interest becoming this and resorting to extreme and graphic measures to keep the other with them forever. Special mention goes to Clear, who cuts off Aoba's limbs to take away his free will, and Mink, who kills him to be able to keep his severed head as a keepsake.
• Your Mind Makes It Real: Prevalent in Rhyme Drive-Bys and in Aoba's excursions into other characters' Mental Worlds.
• You Gotta Have Blue Hair:
  • Aoba and Koujaku.
  • Also Ren in his RE:Connect route.