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{{quote|''My name is Amao Kakeru. It's my fifth year in grade school. This time around, the game that gets us all fired up . . . is called LiveOn! Those who battle using mysterious monsters called forth from cards are referred to as CardLivers. CardLive on!''
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Amao Kakeru loves the mysterious card game called LiveOn, in which players can summon real-life monsters to life. The only problem is that he's never won a single game. Not only that, but he lacks a powerful LiveChange card that would allow him to transform into a monster himself. This all changes one day when he meets a mysterious puppy monster named Peddal who can create monster cards at will. From Peddal he gains the Tategami Wolf (Maned Wolf) card, allowing him to change into a pyrokinetic monster wolf that can talk to his monsters.

A [[Mons]] series in the vein of ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' with a splash of ''[[Digimon]]''.

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* [[Animal Motifs]]: Dogs and wolves for Kakeru. Birds for Ai. Fish for Tohru.
* [[Animal Talk]]: The monsters can only be understood by other monsters or a human transformed using a [[Live Change]] card.
* [[Attack! Attack! Attack!]]: This is the chief reason Kakeru tends to lose.
** This is the core creed of Totsugeki Mustang's life.
* [[Big Badass Wolf]]: Kakeru's transformed state, Tategami Wolf.
* [[Bilingual Bonus]]: Almost all of the monsters, and Kakeru and Peddal's banter.
* [[Bishie Sparkle]]: Tohru, lampshaded by Kakeru. "I wonder why Tohru sparkles?"
* [[Eloquent in My Native Tongue]]: Peddal, to human ears sounds like a normal puppy. To monsters he sounds ridiculously well-versed and intelligent. 
* [[Flying Seafood Special]]: All of the aquatic monsters. 
* [[Gatling Good]]: Ai's Gatling Goose card, which summons a gosling with a minigun in its beak.
* [[Gratuitous English]]: Peddal likes to use complicated English phrases.
* [[Gratuitous French]]: What Tohru speaks in.
* [[The Load]]: Kakeru's Sarusalsas, whose main function in any episode is to cower behind Kakeru. They'll only attack if victory is assured and aren't really strong at all.
** Their function is to work as the [[Power Source]] to summon stronger monsters, but even then ... they're still craven.
* [[Mons]]
* [[Our Werewolves Are Different]]: Tategami Wolf.
* [[Power Trio]]: Kakeru, Tohru, Ai.
* [[Princely Young Man]]: Tohru. 
* [[Worf Barrage]]: Totsugeki Mustang role in most episodes is to be summoned, charges into battle, and gets instantly wiped out.
* [[Quickly-Demoted Woman]]: Ai is the top player in Kakeru's school, until Kakeru gets the Tategami Wolf card. Episode 4 is practically an extreme lampshade hanging of this trope as people forget Ai even plays LiveOn now that there's a BOY in the school who can LiveChange. 
* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: Totsugeki Mustang and Shippou Mustang, respectively.
* [[Running Gag]]: Kakeru getting Japanese and English words mixed up.
* [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here]]: Zenith (the monarch of the Vast Ocean type) almost does this when he gets creeped out by his [[Card Liver]]'s furry-esque cosplay.
* [[Serious Business]]: Somewhat averted. Oddly enough despite the fact that children are running around and turning wild monsters into playing cards that come to life, it's made clear that [[Live On]] doesn't dominate human culture like in other Mons franchises.
* [[Three Amigos]] 
* [[Unusually Uninteresting Sight]]: Kakeru, you can't turn into a magic wolf here, you'll block traffic.
* [[A Worldwide Punomenon]]: Almost all of the monsters used in LiveOn are based on some kind of [[Incredibly Lame Pun]], sometimes in Japanese (I.E. - Jukaiju - forest monster), sometimes in English (Heater Rabbit - [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]) and sometimes in both (Sarusalsa - salsa ape).
** There's also a baffling amount that are terrible bilungual puns referencing American pop culture. For instance: [[Pirates Of The Carribean|Jack Knife Sparrow]], and Rusou ("candle") Crow.

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