Web Animation / Paranormal High School

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Paranormal High School, (私立パラの丸高校^note literal translation: Private Paranormaru High School, typically shortened to Parako or Para High), is a comedic YouTube animation channel created by Taichi Matsuura of Plott Inc, started in May 2022.

In a world where everyone has supernatural abilities, instead of engaging in fierce battles, they simply carry on with their regular daily lives. This is the story of the everyday lives of protagonist Hikaru Tada, whose ability is simply to "glow a little," and his friend Masayoshi Kuroi, with the considerably more powerful "Black Hole" ability, as they interact with the strange people of their town. Other prominent characters include the gals Mirai Misato and Shoko "Heeko" Taira (who have the power to see into the future and travel to parallel universes respectively), landmine girl Riko Yamikawa (who has the literal powers of one), Poisonous Person Sumire Busujima (constantly generates venom which she has to expel, usually through vitriolic comments) and Shoko's older brother Hitoshi (who has the ability to bring "Equilibrium" to things)

Episodes are typically released on Wednesday and Saturday in Japan, with other days of the week releasing short-format videos. The videos cover a giant variety of content as well, from overt parody of other series, to the main cast just playing a game together, to just looking at the absurdity a person's powers can cause. While typically an episodic production, every now and then (typically once per season) a multi-part episode series is produced, fleshing out both the world and the main characters. These "Special Episodes" as they are known, are typically more serious in nature, albeit not without losing the humor prevalent in the series, often focusing on interpersonal drama between characters.

The channel also has a spinoff manga primarily focused on Mirai & Heeko, called The Gals Who Always Say Incredible Things: My Daily Life at a Private Paranormal High School (しれっとすげぇこと言ってるギャル。ー私立パラの丸高校の日常ー^note literal translation: Shiretto Sugee Koto Itteru Gal. - Shiritsu Paranomaru Koukou no Nichijou), that started in 2023, currently serialized in Tonari no Young Jump. It can be seen as an alternate retelling of the series, as while it mostly does it's own thing, any events from the main series adapted are typically given new context or fleshed out in alternate scenarios.

The original Japanese channel can be found here. A fan translation of specific (but not all) videos can be found here.

Paranormal High School and The Gals Who Always Say Incredible Things contains examples of:

• Abandoned Pet in a Box: Hikaru encountered this multiple times when he was younger, specifically with Cerberus dogs. Unfortunately for him, their owners would always end up taking them back after a while.
• Adaptational Expansion: The manga adaptation often ends up doing this to any event they adapt from the original web series, taking advantage of the medium to flesh it out more, such as Hikaru's first meeting with Mirai and Heeko. In the web series, he just happens to come across them while they're at his seat and they quickly befriend him; in the manga, he ends up taking them to Shin-Okubo after this encounter, trying to interview them for the school's newspaper.
• Adaptational Early Appearance: Hitoshi first appeared in the Spring 2025 Special Episodes, a time when the main cast are in their 3rd year of high school. In the manga however, he first appears in the manga-exclusive Tea Ceremony Arc, which is currently set during a time when the main cast are in their 2nd year.
• Affectionate Nickname: Mirai tends to give these out to the main cast, such as "Pikarun" for Hikaru, "Heeko" for Shoko and "Sumisumi" for Busujima.
• Affectionate Parody: Happens on occasion with videos, such as when Heeko is shrunken down to a kid, with the ensuing video entirely being a parody on Detective Conan (complete with Hikaru as Kogoro).
• An Ice Person: Multiple exist in the series, though usually said powers end up being less than effective for them, such as Hikaru's former upperclassman working a job at a sauna or his cousin Hinata freezing their heater due to her ability making her a Yuki-onna.
• Animation Bump: While the regular episodes tend to have Limited Animation for the most part, focusing on the voice acting and character interactions. the Special Episodes tend to bump up the animation quite a bit, even having occasional fight scenes within them. This goes doubly so for the music videos they've made, as well, just compare a regular episode to !! Bomb Cute Bomb !!.
• Anti-Climax: The Villain High Special Episodes deliberately ends this way. Hikaru and Masa have made up their friendship after having an intense fight, as well as Mirai and Heeko having a heart to heart over Heeko's jealousy towards Mirai's friendship with Busujima, with the confrontation with Villain High about to happen tomorrow...and then it cuts to one week later, Hikaru and Masa working their part time jobs and glossing over how they managed to beat Villain High. Hikaru even states that they probably would've needed 10 more episodes to cover everything.
• Baby Morph Episode: One video has all the members of the main cast (sans Hitoshi) and the physics teacher turning into children after encountering strange men at an amusement park (as another Detective Conan reference).
• Bad Future: The December 24, 2039 video showcases one, as part of the build-up for the Villain High Special Episodes. In it, people are shown wearing collars that seemingly nullify their powers, various parts of the city are destroyed (including Paranormal High) and posters of people from Villain High are plastered about, implying they took over. There is a resistance movement going around, organized by Hikaru's junior from the newspaper club, Makoto, though their attempts to recruit Masa end in failure, as he's far too depressed to help.
• Bait-and-Switch: This tends to be the type of gags the series goes for, but is especially used in videos with Riko, often playing off the assumption of her appearance as a landmine girl to her suddenly doing something unexpected of a person who dresses like she does. This is especially noticeable in the videos about her using social media.
• Be Careful What You Wish For: The basis for the Summer 2024 Special Episodes. Hikaru, after getting fed up for having a lame power compared to everyone else, makes a wish for a world without any supernatural abilities, and suddenly wakes up in college in a world without any powers. Beyond the initial confusion of suddenly being a college student however, he also realizes he never really became friends with Masa, Riko or the gals as a result, as their encounters with each other were the result of his power.
• Big Good: Introduced during the 3rd Anniversary Special Episodes, 11 appears to be this, seemingly recruiting people in secret to help protect the world, as he does to Hikaru for the 3rd Anniversary, and also being the one to recruit the team to take on Villain High during those Special Episodes as well.
• Bittersweet Ending: The Winter 2024 Special Episodes ended this way. Hikaru has been turned back to normal, and everyone absorbed by Noriko has been freed. When Masa questions what Noriko's plan was, however, she simply states that she liked Hikaru from afar and just wanted to be with him. Masa breaks down, realizing he was targeting her our of misguided jealousy, but Noriko affirms to him that due to her powers, Hikaru would've been in danger eventually and she was growing jealous towards all of his friends. Though Masa promises to find a way to help her stay with Hikaru, she simply states it's either her or Hikaru's friends. She then makes Masa promise to always watch over Hikaru for her, before erasing herself from everyone's memories. Everyone involved has their memories of the events erased except for Masa, who still remembers and vows to Hikaru he won't forget her.
• Captain Ersatz: A large number of minor and one-off characters tend to be this, such as one of Hikaru's former upperclassmen being a large reference to Portgas D. Ace from One Piece, or the girlfriend of one of his classmates being a clear reference to Frieren.
• Casual Danger Dialogue: Even when Mirai and Heeko are in seemingly dangerous situations, they don't particularly act scared or surprised, usually calmly commenting on some other thing that has their attention that isn't the danger. Justified, since with their special abilities, they can fairly easily escape any situation they find themselves in.
• Cat Girl: A Gender Inverted example, where Hikaru and Masa are turned into cat boys in one video. Played for Laughs as well, as they run the entire Sliding Scale of Anthropomorphism as they are transformed repeatedly, sometimes only vaguely being cat related.
• Class Trip: Occasionally a video will have this as the setting, but for the most part the series skips over the actual trip part and instead focuses on the downtime with characters, such as the girls gossiping about love or the guys pretending to sleep.
• Cerebus Rollercoaster: Most of the videos are comedic in nature, but every now and then they would mix a more serious undertone in the episode to be explored, such as the First Anniversary Special. This became a lot more prevalent once Special Episodes started being produced; while some of them still keep the overall comedic tone of the series throughout, certain ones like the Winter 2024 Special Episodes lean heavily on the serious side.
• Cheating by Copying: Parodied in one video, where a bunch of people try to copy off Hikaru's answer for a test in very obvious ways, despite the fact Hikaru himself doesn't even know if his answer was correct.
• Cry into Chest: Busujima does this to Mirai in the Winter 2024 Special Episodes after reuniting with her when she gets absorbed by Noriko like Mirai was.
• Cute Ghost Girl: The newspaper club briefly encounters one, who had the literal ability of being cute as her special ability. All except Hikaru comment on how cute she is before she seemingly departs, though she does return to bother Hikaru in a later video, since he was the only one who didn't call her cute.
• Dancing Theme: The opening to the Villain High Special Episodes, Better Better, featuring a segment where the main cast for the episodes just dance to the chorus. Ironically, the rest of the opening and the episodes themselves get pretty dark for the series, the lyrics even mentioning how things getting "slightly bitter" isn't so bad.
• Dating Service Disaster: Parodied in one short where Hikaru's sister Miharu thinks she installed a dating app, but it was actually an app for delinquents to pair for fights.
• Day in the Life: A couple videos focus on a specific member of the main cast explaining their daily routine to the viewer (or Hikaru), such as Heeko's nighttime routine or Busujima's morning routine.
• Deadly Game: A minor recurring episodic video that occurs is the hosting of a death game by a masked man, who commonly asks for people with strong abilities to participate as a form of challenge. Unfortunately for him, it usually ends up going awry, typically by the challengers being too strong, as seen when he invited an immortal man.
• Depending on the Artist: The series has multiple different artists working on it, with the art style changing depending on who is working on it. The general character designs don't change that much beyond the colors of their school uniforms and Special Episodes generally keep the same artist for the whole thing, but characters can look more realistic or stylized per video, as can be seen here and here.
  • Averted with the manga, which has a single artist (Otsuji) working on it, and thus characters generally have the same design the whole time through (outside of comedic moments)
• Drill Sergeant Nasty: The basketball team's new supervisor appears to be this, by the way he looks and sounds, but in actuality he turned out to be the complete opposite, advising the team to take it easy and even preparing treats for them as a break, Hikaru even noting maybe he's a bit too soft on them.
• Early-Installment Weirdness: Early videos with Masa would occasionally have him also acting as a straight man alongside Hikaru, and was notably more willing to snark back at Hikaru for his remarks, even willingly making fun of his ability. While he still will occasionally snark back at Hikaru, he's mostly seen as Innocently Insensitive, and no longer makes fun of Hikaru's ability at all.
  • Early videos also had less of a focus on what would be the main cast in general; while Hikaru and Masa still appeared fairly often, there were plenty of videos instead just focusing on various other members in the school with little to no involvement from either of the two, while characters like the gals or Rikotya weren't considered main characters at that point yet.
• Eldritch Abomination: While typically the supernatural elements in the series don't veer this far, every now and then they pop up, usually animated in a unique way to show something is off, most notably shown with the residents of Villain High and Noriko.
• The End of the World as We Know It: The plot of the first set of special episodes released involves stopping this, as Mirai learns the world would end that summer after trying to see the future past that point, prompting her and Heeko to find out what caused it.
• Ensemble Cast: While the series started off mainly focusing on Hikaru and Masa, fairly soon after their introduction Mirai, Heeko and Riko end up having episodes solely dedicated to them, without either Hikaru or Masa around, spreading out the focus a bit more. This becomes a plot point for the Villain High Special Episodes, where 11 notes how despite how the leader of Villain High may think, Hikaru is not the only protagonist of the world.
• Everyone Is a Super: The general gist of the setting is that everyone has special powers, but it also takes it further by showing that pretty much everyone but Hikaru has incredibly strong powers as well, such as his former upperclassman having strong ice powers or the kids who play dodgeball very seriously. Hikaru later gets an upgrade to his abilities after the Spring 2025 Special Episodes to just have general light based powers, however.
• Flash Forward: Occasionally, there will be videos showcasing the characters as they would be in the future, from anywhere to years in university or as young adults applying for jobs, This is often implied to be the result of Mirai telling the characters about the future due to her powers, though it has also been the focus of some of the special episodes as well.
• Food End: The Special Cultural Festival Special Episodes ends this way, with the main cast all going to eat at an all you can eat yakiniku restaurant. It ends up mostly just being Hikaru and Riko though, as everyone else ends up arriving late.
• Forgotten First Meeting: The 3rd Anniversary Special Episodes reveals Mirai and Heeko met each other as kids prior to their first meeting on a train in their first year of high school, though that memory was seemingly lost to them.
  • Subverted with Masa and Hikaru, as the end of that arc revealed the Hikaru they were protecting at the time was a fake, but played straight with later revelations in the Villain High Special Episodes, which showed Masa and Hikaru did in fact meet each other as kids prior to formally becoming friends in their first year of high school.
• Fractured Fairy Tale: Quite a few videos tend to be parodies of fairy tales but starring the main cast and their own powers and personality quirks, such as Riko and Hikaru in Hermes and the Woodcutter, or Busujima as Snow White.
• "Freaky Friday" Flip: Happens in one video, where the main cast (and some recurring characters) end up swapping around with each other.
• Gender Bender: Hikaru is briefly subjected to gender changes in the Special Cultural Festival Episodes, which is revealed to be the result of falling into a "Spring of the Drowned Girl" while training in the mountains, complete with the hot and cold water transformation (though in his case, it's hot and cold noodles).
  • Chapter 30 in the manga also has a similar premise, though in that case it affected everyone in the school, not just Hikaru.
• Giant Woman: Okinako, one of the students at Paranormal High, has this as her ability. Riko is also briefly transformed into one during a video, Played for Laughs the entire time.
  • Chapter 7 of the manga also has Heeko briefly turned into this, when everyone's powers end up getting swapped around.
• Girl's Night Out Episode: Happens on occasion, with a video focusing on all the female members of the main cast having a sleepover or going camping (though in the latter's case, Hikaru also ended up joining in his female form).
• Go-Karting with Bowser: Shortly after his introduction in the Spring 2025 Special Episodes, Hitoshi began taking part in some of the more light-hearted episodic videos of the series despite still being seen as an antagonist, such as playing Word Wolf with Hikaru, Masa and Busujima or joining Hikaru and Masa on a school trip. It's downplayed however, as Heeko notably does not participate in any episode in which he appears (or leaves before he enters) and Hikaru is usually pretty reluctant to have him around.
• Graduate from the Story: A graduation video was produced on March 9, 2024, showing the main cast graduating and going their separate ways, with many tears being shed, especially by Masa. The end of the video then reveals that time has then rewound back to their second year of high school (though the relationships they've made since then have been kept), seemingly caused by someone's power, averting this for now.
• Great Offscreen War: The Villain High Special Episodes reveal the world used to be a lot more like a world in a battle manga, complete with constant ability user battles and warring nations, until something put a stop to it and sealed away anything that would make the world less "peaceful". It's also revealed the one who did this was Heeko and Hitoshi's grandmother and her friends.
• Green Thumb: From the Summer 2025 Special Episodes, Green Riko's ability turned out to be this, with it running wild thanks to the summer weather. Hikaru's own ability proved to just strengthen the plants via photosynthesis, so he and the gathered Rikos instead stay around to help nurse her back to health.
• "Groundhog Day" Loop: An early video showed that one of Hikaru's classmates, Tokio, has the ability to rewind time, as he attempts to fix Hikaru and Masa's relationship after a falling out.
  • A more serious, downplayed version this trope is implied to be part of the series Myth Arc, as the Summer 2024 Special Episodes implied that Hikaru and co. have already graduated high school for a while, but Hikaru's own reluctance about leaving high school and something else has caused a time loop that resets time back to their 2nd year of high school. Makoto, and later the rest of the Newspaper Club sans Hikaru are also revealed to be trying to figure out how to break the loop as well.
• Heroic BSoD: Played for drama during the 3rd Anniversary Special Episodes, where Masa enters one in both the future and the past, causing him to engulf a part of the city in a black hole in the future, and letting Noriko take over his body in the past. Both times, Hikaru pulls him out of it.
• Image Song: The series has actually produced 3 so far:
  • torima., which is about Mirai and Heeko.
  • Inner Net Explorer, which is about Hikaru and Masa.
  • !! Bomb Cute Bomb !!, which is about Riko.
• Impending Clash Shot: Used as the thumbnail for the first episode and last episode for the Villain High Special Episodes.
• Intercontinuity Crossover: The channel occasionally crosses over with other Youtube channels or properties of Plott Inc, such as Karekore of Mixed Blood, with a video made on both channels. Typically in a short format, though sometimes the characters will appear in longer videos as well.
• Last-Second Photo Failure: The plot of the 500K subscriber special revolved around this, as the Gals go around trying to take selfies that always end up getting ruined at the last second.
• Literal Split Personality: The plot of the Summer 2025 Special Episodes has Riko split into 6 different versions of herself, causing her brother to get the main characters to help in tracking them down.
• Loony Friends Improve Your Personality: As the series goes on and Hikaru starts interacting and befriending the main cast, he becomes more open and friendlier to them as well, becoming more accepting of their quirks and personality traits. It's still downplayed, as he's still acting as the Only Sane Man most of the time and will call them out on doing insane things, but he definitely cherishes their friendship.
• Lower-Deck Episode: Occasionally, a video or short won't feature any of the main cast at all, instead focusing on side characters such as the Newspaper Club or Riko's brother Riku and what high jinks they get up to. It was more prominent in early videos, due to Early-Installment Weirdness, but it still happens fairly regularly in the shorts.
• Mentor Archetype: Hitoshi tries to be this to Hikaru after the events of the Spring 2025 Special Episodes, having taken a vested interest in him since then, but his antagonistic attitude towards Heeko and his Abhorrent Admirer tendencies towards Hikaru make him less than willing to hear him out.
  • It's also revealed in the Villain High Special Episodes that his antagonistic attitude towards Heeko was in part an attempt to be a Stealth Mentor towards her as well, as she was the only one in their family who had the potential to become as strong as their grandmother.
• Morality Chain: An inverted example with Noriko and Hikaru; many of her nastier traits are because she became closer to Hikaru and wanted him all for herself. Later turns into a straight example when she appears again in the 3rd Anniversary Special Episodes, where though she admits she doesn't really care about the world, she takes over Masa's body in an attempt to help him save past Hikaru, eventually sacrificing herself for Masa when his body is mortality wounded, justifying it by saying she didn't want to make Hikaru sad.
• Multiple Head Case: A classmate of Hikaru's once introduced him to his girlfriend, who ended up being a Cerberus type girl, complete with the multiple heads with differing personalities. It didn't last particularly long, as by the end of the video he ends up introducing him to his new girlfriend...conjoined snakegirl twins.
• Mundane Fantastic: The setting is generally portrayed as basically modern day Earth, but everyone has abilities they use for their daily lives. It's a bit downplayed, as on occasion someone's ability causes an incredibly out there situation that characters just have to comment on how weird it is, but for the most part people just act like normal people.
• New Year, Same Class: Shown off in a video where a new school year starts, with Hikaru concerned about knowing anyone in his class. Besides some recurring characters (such as Hayakawa) he knew being put in some other classes, all the other main characters were grouped together, to his relief. Though as later videos show, some of them ended up part of his third year homeroom eventually, presumably due to the loop.
• Not Zilla: One of the students in the main characters homeroom is revealed to have a mom who is very clearly based on Godzilla, when they come by for a PTA meeting. As an extra bonus, another one's mom turns out to be based on Mothra and another based on King Ghidorah.
• Only Sane Man: Often the role Hikaru ends up playing when putting up with everyone else's antics. Busujima as well once she joined the main cast, with the two either sharing the role or having to act as one to the other due to events.
• OOC Is Serious Business: Initially played for laughs in the Winter 2024 Special Episodes, with Hikaru suddenly starts being more outgoing and less introverted when he starts dating Noriko (his hair even starts turning from blue to yellow as a result.). This causes Masa to get very concerned, to the point he forms a team of Yanagi, Mirai and Busujima to find a way to return Hikaru back to normal. It takes a turn for the dramatic, however, when Yanagi is seemingly killed by Noriko, causing the group to take the situation more seriously.
• Plot-Mandated Friendship Failure: Videos leading up to the Villain High Special Episodes notably had retreads of older videos, such as the very first video, 8:30 AM Exam Day, but with the characters seemingly ending the video on a sour note. This comes to a head with the start of the Villain High Special Episodes, where both Hikaru and Heeko end up breaking off their friendships with Masa and Mirai respectively. Luckily, by the end of the arc they've rekindled their friendships after confronting one another about everything.
• Poisonous Person: Busujima and her family have this as her ability. She is able to use it offensively, such as shooting blasts of poison from her hands, but for the most part it's kept inside her, only really being released while she makes snarky comments.
• Red Skies Crossover: The series was part of a large crossover with other Plott animation channels (such as Grim Reaper Flag-chan!) in which various characters from the channels involved would get isekai'd. However their part of the crossover didn't really have them interact with any of the other characters they were crossing over with at all; the video on their channel was even structured like a standard Riko social media video. The characters themselves also just treated the whole thing as more like a Vacation Episode, as Heeko's ability meant they could leave any time they wanted.
• School Festival: Multiple school festivals have happened, to various degress of silliness, such as when the various girls of the school hosted really strange stalls. At least one of those times was given a multi-part episode series as well, being called the Special Cultural Festival, involving Hikaru getting into Gender Bender situations.
• School Uniforms are the New Black: Zig Zagged, despite the limited animation of the series. Characters are usually shown in a variant of their school uniforms, but that's mainly because the setting of a video is usually at school or right before/after, thus characters not having time to change. When a video is set outside school entirely, characters will have multiple different outfits depending on the occasion, most notably shown with the gals, who have a short about how many different outfits they've worn over the series.
• Seinfeldian Conversation: Mirai and Heeko love to do this, with many videos just being about the two of them talking about something quite random while someone (usually Hikaru) listens and silently comments.
• Speech-Centric Work: The series is primarily focused on dialogues between characters, having mostly Limited Animation in effect for most videos. While some videos do have more of an emphasis on animation, mainly with abilities or otherwise wild things happening, the videos mainly focus on characters talking and hanging out with one another.
• Standing in the Hall: Parodied in one video, where the entire student body is made to stand outside their classrooms for reasons unknown, with the entire video spent trying to figure out how to get back inside.
• Start of Darkness: Parodied in the Sigma Episode epilogue to the Villain High Special Episodes, where Hitoshi gives Hikaru a letter explaining his backstory and where his antagonism with Heeko began. It turns out to mostly be a recounting of random mundance grievences he experienced, such as when his grandmother accidentally erased his save data in Kirby Super Star, or when he got teabagged while playing a fighting game online.
• Stylistic Suck: Played for laughs in one short about taking it easy, where Heeko and Mirai note how they look pretty sloppily drawn, wondering if the artist is cutting corners and to do it properly next time.
• Super Drowning Skills: The school's swimming team all unfortunately have powers completely incompatible with swimming, being someone made out of the earth, someone who dies if the fire on their head goes out and a man made out of paper respectively.
• Super-Empowering: Part of Hitoshi's ability Equilibrium allows him to do this, drawing out the "average" hidden potential out of people. Him using it on Hikaru is also what reveals his powers were actually stronger than he initially realized, and he ends up growing stronger from there.
  • Saho Hasebe, Riko's junior in the tea ceremony club, also has a version of this as her ability, being able to boost another person's powers as well, which she unfortunately does to Riko's at one point.
• Super-Speed: Hayakawa, a friend of Masa and Hikaru, has this as his power, though he still ends up late to class despite it. Hikaru also develops this once his powers are upgraded, with Hayakawa even noticing and being his instructor when he goes to get a license for the use of super speed powers.
• Time Travel: The basic plot of the 3rd Anniversary Special Episodes involves Hikaru and Masa being sent to the future and the past respectively, to help protect someone important. This is quickly shown to be the other's counterpart in that time period.
• Toast of Tardiness: Parodied in one short where a student constantly tries to run into someone while having toast in their mouth in an attempt to start a Crash-Into Hello romance. Unfortunately for her, she happens to have Super-Speed and Time Master powers that constantly messes her up, as Busujima points out.
• Training Montage: Parodied in a video of the first day back to school after summer break, where Hikaru suddenly appears with a Heroic Build, explaining how he was out training over summer break. It's soon revealed that his newfound muscles were actually the result of another student's ability however, and he quickly returns to normal. He does confirm that he did actually train, however.
• Underground City: Hikaru, Masa and Riku encounter one during their hunt for the different Rikos in the Summer 2025 Special Episodes, where it's revealed Yellow Riko ended up making one in Osaka with her unique ability of Fast Tunnelling, where other landmine girls inhabit.
• Unsatisfiable Customer: The Gals and Rikotya encounter a duo in one video, but thanks to their own weird personality quirks they end up resolving the ordeal in a peaceful manner.
• Vacation Episode: The Gals go on a two-parter vacation trip to a little island town shortly after the Summer 2025 Special Episodes, getting into all sorts of wacky fun while there. They even meet a little girl name Mitsuru who ends up acting as an equivalent to Hikaru while there.
• Virtual Sidekick: Mirai temporarily installs a version of herself on Hikaru's phone during the Summer 2025 Special Episodes, when he and the gathered Rikotyas head to Switzerland. It doesn't prove to be particularly useful and eats up most of his phone's battery life though, to the point where Hikaru constantly starts muting it when it constantly starts interrupting him and Green Riko's heart to heart.
• Wacky Homeroom: The entire school is fairly wacky, but a common setting for a video involves the main characters' homeroom being affected by someone's ability, usually someone else in that class, and the ensuing high jinks that ensues.
• Weather Manipulation: Quite a few people have this as an ability, to the point it can cause drama between competing weather forecasters. Hikaru's sister Harumi also has a specialized version in having the ability to cause "Spring", which also doubles as Love Is in the Air.
• World of Technicolor Hair: A downplayed version, as a majority of the people in the setting have fairly normal hair colors, but there are quite a few people who have exotic hair colors that people don't really bat an eye too, usually in relation to a person's powers. Of the main cast, Hikaru has teal hair and Busujima has purple (though it is revealed it's that way due to her powers and she actually has black hair), which aren't treated as unique at all.
• You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Riko gives one to Hikaru at the end of the Summer 2024 Special Episodes, after letting him air out his grievances about how the powers he thought were useless were actually more important to him than he thought, and were responsible for forging friendships he sorely misses now. Riko says that his powers were just one aspect of him, and he can still rekindle the relationships he no longer has despite not having them anymore.
  • Hikaru himself also gives one to Future Masa in the 3rd Anniversary Special Episodes, mixed with You Are Not Alone. He mentions how surprised he was to see Masa in such a depressive funk, because that's how he feels about himself. He says it's because of Masa that he's met so many amazing people and had so much fun, that he's what he is today because of him, and that no matter what he'll stick by his side.
  • Masa gives another one to Hikaru in the Villain High Special Episodes, mixed with Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!. During their second fight Masa shuts down the idea that Hikaru is the main character of the world, that the fighting and sacrifices are because of him and he needs to live up to that expectation. Instead, he says that people did that simply because Hikaru is a likable guy, there is no main character of the world, and people can do whatever they want, just as he is going to and not to make that decision for him.