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In/Spectre

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In/Spectre	comment	In/Spectre (è™šæ§‹æŽ¨ç�†, meaning Kyokou Suiri or Invented Inference) is a series of light novels published by Kodansha in Japan with the story written by Kyo Shirodaira. It has two artists, with the first two editions of the first novel done by Hiro Kiyohara (Kodansha Novels/Kodansha Bunko) and the others by Chasiba Katase (Kodansha Taiga). It has an ongoing manga (also by Katase) and anime adaptation.At the young age of 11, Kotoko Iwanaga was abducted by youkai for two weeks and asked to become their "God of Wisdom," a mediator between the spirit and human worlds, to which the girl quickly agreed but at the cost of her right eye and left leg. Now, six years later, whenever youkai wish for their problems to be solved, they make their way to Kotoko for consultation.Meanwhile, Kurou Sakuragawa, a 22-year-old university student, has just broken up with his girlfriend after he fled alone when the two encountered a kappa. Seeing this as her chance to become closer to him, Kotoko immediately makes her move, hoping to get married to Kurou one day. However, she quickly realizes there is something more to Kurou when the youkai that come to her for help react to Kurou's presence the same way normal people typically react to theirs. With this knowledge, she asks for his help in solving the various issues presented by the supernatural, all the while wishing her newfound partner will eventually reciprocate her feelings.The first 18 manga volumes are available in English through Kodansha comics.An anime adaption produced by Brains Base began airing on January 11th, 2020. The second season aired in 2023.
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In/Spectre / int_10dcbe05	type	Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other
In/Spectre / int_10dcbe05	comment	Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Kotoko always mentions that Kurou is her boyfriend even if he doesn't act like it, but by the end of volume 6 of the manga, it is clear he does love her back. More explicit in Vol 16, after Kurou consoles Kotoko after Rikka caused her to have a mental breakdown and force her into a deal.
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In/Spectre / int_143939c1	type	Trailers Always Spoil
In/Spectre / int_143939c1	comment	Trailers Always Spoil: The anime trailer spoils within the first 15 seconds that Kurou is immortal.
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In/Spectre / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
In/Spectre / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: Kotoko mentions it would be bad if Rikka were to learn of the ghostly giraffe in the mountains that fatally attacked humans and leaving only two survivors, as it could lead to another "Steel Girder Nanase" event — cue Kurou getting a call from the police, letting them know that Rikka was one of the two survivors from the attack.
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In/Spectre / int_19211122	type	Feel No Pain
In/Spectre / int_19211122	comment	Feel No Pain: Surviving eating mermaid and kudan flesh renders the Sakuragawa children insensitive to pain as they grow older. Itâ€™s why Kurou barely bats an eye at having his arm eaten off by a crazed yokai, or Rikka constantly slicing her throat open like its nothing. Kotoko actually points out this is also likely the reason why Kurou has problems expressing emotions or why he has to overthink how to act, like how to handle a knife, as heâ€™d not only be immune to being cut by it, but also any injury would quickly heal.
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In/Spectre / int_1b5c9c48	type	The Blank
In/Spectre / int_1b5c9c48	comment	The Blank: Steel Girder Nanase has no face. In part because the real Nanase had her head crushed by a girder, but also because Rikka depicts her as having no face in her paintings.
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In/Spectre / int_1e0e8f80	type	Japanese School Club
In/Spectre / int_1e0e8f80	comment	Japanese School Club: Kotoko was a member of Eiei High School's Mystery Appreciation Club.
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In/Spectre / int_20b5cce7	type	"Do It Yourself" Theme Tune
In/Spectre / int_20b5cce7	comment	"Do It Yourself" Theme Tune: The ending song, 'Last Dance', is sung by Kurou's voice actor.
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In/Spectre / int_243cbd0d	type	Dope Slap
In/Spectre / int_243cbd0d	comment	Dope Slap: Saki does this to Iwanaga when the latter brags about being Kuro's current girlfriend.
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In/Spectre / int_2727c89a	type	Pride Before a Fall
In/Spectre / int_2727c89a	comment	Pride Before a Fall: Kotoko, who is very proud of her role as "Goddess of Wisdom", including the actions she takes to preserve the order of things. A flaw that Rikka is finally able to make use of at the conclusion of the Kirin's Curse case.
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In/Spectre / int_2f36d97	type	Older Than They Look
In/Spectre / int_2f36d97	comment	Older Than They Look: Kotoko, who, by the time the story starts in earnest, is already 19 and in college and yet is mistaken for a middle schooler. Kurou to a lesser degree. She turns 20 by volume 8.
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In/Spectre / int_3545b7df	type	Proper Lady
In/Spectre / int_3545b7df	comment	Proper Lady: Kotoko, about 95% of the time. She comes from a wealthy family, wears fancy, almost doll-like dresses, uses a fancy cane... but every now and then she's almost vulgar when she's talking to or about Kurou regarding their relationship, or rather, where she wishes their relationship would go. This is Played for Laughs. Rikka, who always had a dignified aura about her, even while sick in the hospital. Even if she's the Big Bad.
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In/Spectre / int_37fcf16	type	Death Is Cheap
In/Spectre / int_37fcf16	comment	To a lesser extent, Kurou and Rikka, given that's how their prophetic powers activate, but since they can regenerate even from mortal wounds...
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In/Spectre / int_3c3f28a5	type	Blessed with Suck
In/Spectre / int_3c3f28a5	comment	Blessed with Suck: Zigzags between this and Cursed with Awesome for Kurou. Not only is he immortal in the sense he can regenerate, even from fatal wounds, and he's also able to predict the future, but only as he's dying. It's a trait that is shared by Rikka.
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In/Spectre / int_3d2c6d30	type	Skewed Priorities
In/Spectre / int_3d2c6d30	comment	Skewed Priorities: Almost every male that encounters or even passes on the tale of Steel Girder Nanase mentions her huge breasts - often before they mention her holding a steel girder in a single hand... or her habit of swatting people with said girder. Even Kotoko mentions Nanase's large breasts, to which Saki exasperatedly asks if that's really important right now, since Nanase is currently about to attack them. Then again, Kotoko has something of a complex surrounding breasts. Particularly how small and underdeveloped hers are.
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In/Spectre / int_3ec18c6f	type	Sherlock Scan
In/Spectre / int_3ec18c6f	comment	Sherlock Scan: Played With. While Kotoko has really good deductive skills, she tries to pass it off as a true Sherlock scan. What most people don't know is that she also relies on the youkai to feed her information. If anything, her true ability, among humans, is to come up with explanations for mysteries that remove the supernatural elements in said mysteries.
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In/Spectre / int_3fff5717	type	Genius Cripple
In/Spectre / int_3fff5717	comment	Genius Cripple: Kotoko, being the goddess of wisdom for the youkai, gave up an eye and a leg as a requirement for the job.
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In/Spectre / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
In/Spectre / int_40bb59d0	comment	Blatant Lies: How Kurou (and Rikka) justifies walking off injuries that should've killed him to normal people. Even when taking a bullet to the head, Kurou simply says he got hit with the non-lethal side. Rikka herself does this when she's fatally hit by a delivery truck and recovering right away, saying she's ok because she was hit with the blunt end of it.
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In/Spectre / int_47b21ca6	type	Stress Vomit
In/Spectre / int_47b21ca6	comment	Stress Vomit: Saki cannot eat meat or think too much of her ex-boyfriend, Kurou, following their encounter with the Kappa AND from Saki realizing that Kurou is not entirely human, just as the Kappa said. Dwelling too much on it, will result on her vomiting or dry-heaving. Although she gets better as the Steel Girder Nanase arc progresses.
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In/Spectre / int_4852f325	type	I Just Want to Be Normal
In/Spectre / int_4852f325	comment	I Just Want to Be Normal: Rikka. The reason she was in the hospital is that she wanted the doctors to see if they could find a way to reverse the effects of the Kudan and Mermaid flesh on her body. Upon failure, she moves on to creating Steel Girder Nanase as a prototype before attempting to create a God that would do it for her. She also implies she wishes to make Kurou human again too.
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In/Spectre / int_4b153125	type	Piggyback Cute
In/Spectre / int_4b153125	comment	Piggyback Cute: At the end of Chapter 22 of the manga, Kurou gives Kotoko a piggyback ride as he carries her down the stairs of a mountain.
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In/Spectre / int_4b9a8e96	type	"Scooby-Doo" Hoax
In/Spectre / int_4b9a8e96	comment	"Scooby-Doo" Hoax: Inverted. One of Kotoko's main roles is to maintain the order between the supernatural and human world, and one way to accomplish that is convince people that the supernatural world does not exist. To accomplish this, whenever a supernatural being kills a human, Kotoko must come up with an explanation that has a human culprit. In one story, Kurou's part-time job requires him to go to an alleged Haunted House to pack the furniture. Despite the rumours of supernatural accidents in the place, nothing happens, with Kurou and his coworkers assuming whatever was haunting the place ran because Kurou scared it. After getting home, Kotoko reveals to Kurou that house was never haunted and the owner just made up those rumours to get people to stay away from the house while he looked for some dirty money hidden somewhere inside it.
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In/Spectre / int_4dbd3706	type	Clap Your Hands If You Believe
In/Spectre / int_4dbd3706	comment	Clap Your Hands If You Believe: Kotoko speculates that some Yokai might have this origin. Steel Lady Nanase is functionally a tulpa. Enough people believed the legend of the ghostly idol that would attack people with a steel girder that she actually materialized. Rikka is the one propagating the legend. So it's safe to assume that this is actually the case. It's also the reason she was hoping Rikka would not catch wind of the ghost giraffe that fatally attacked several hikers.
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In/Spectre / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
In/Spectre / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: Rikka's "The Reason You Suck" Speech to Kotoko has several of these.
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In/Spectre / int_51a3ba7	type	We Used to Be Friends
In/Spectre / int_51a3ba7	comment	We Used to Be Friends: Rikka and Kotoko, sorta. At the very least, they were friendly during the time Rikka lived at the Iwanaga residence.
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In/Spectre / int_56f083a1	type	Likes Older Women
In/Spectre / int_56f083a1	comment	Likes Older Women: Kurou had a crush on his much older cousin Rikka. It's lampshaded that older ladies are his type.
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In/Spectre / int_5a399cff	type	Malingering Romance Ploy
In/Spectre / int_5a399cff	comment	Malingering Romance Ploy: In a Christmas manga omake, Kotoko pretends to be sick to make Kurou take care of her, hoping to get some Intimate Healing out of it. Her ploy fails because a youkai offers to nurse her, prompting her to admit she was faking her illness.
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In/Spectre / int_5a3b8032	type	The Un-Reveal
In/Spectre / int_5a3b8032	comment	The Unreveal: Did Karin Nanase actually kill her father or was it an accident? Since it's not relevant to Kotoko's investigation, and Nanase's spirit is not around to confirm or deny it, the mystery will remain unsolved.
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In/Spectre / int_5aa4ec8a	type	Ambiguous Syntax
In/Spectre / int_5aa4ec8a	comment	Ambiguous Syntax: Kurou tries to imply that he was a coward that left Saki behind when they encountered the Kappa when he first tells the story to Kotoko. Kotoko sees clearly through this and even comments on it, stating that in truth, the Kappa ran away from him.
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In/Spectre / int_5c9503db	type	Classy Cane
In/Spectre / int_5c9503db	comment	Classy Cane: Kotoko uses one, given she's an amputee and wears a prosthetic leg.
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In/Spectre / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
In/Spectre / int_6b2b3b59	comment	The Reveal: Kurou. He wasn't actually the one that fled when Kurou and Saki encountered a kappa; instead, it was the kappa that fled in fear from Kurou after calling him a monster. Later on, we get the reveal that he's immortal, and the reason he's immortal is because he was fed mermaid and kudan flesh as a child, by the head of the clan. Rikka. She's alive. She has the same powerset as Kurou. She's also the Big Bad.
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In/Spectre / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
In/Spectre / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: The English name, InSpectre, makes sense for Kotoko's role as someone who has a role in inspecting scenarios on whether the supernatural is involved in a case that needs to be resolved as an Inspector.
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In/Spectre / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
In/Spectre / int_6d332aea	comment	Steel Girder Nanase. In reality, the real Karin Nanase was simply Driven to Suicide. Rikka created an urban legend around her, painting her as a vengeful ghost, that everyone bought into and materialized from there.
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In/Spectre / int_6d8e1136	type	Wild Card Excuse
In/Spectre / int_6d8e1136	comment	Wild Card Excuse: Kurou and Rikka are both immortals, so whenever they survive something that would kill a normal person, they claim they were hit by the "blunt end". But that excuse is ridiculous for getting hit by a truck or bullet and coming out unharmed.
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In/Spectre / int_762b9223	type	Played for Laughs
In/Spectre / int_762b9223	comment	Kotoko, about 95% of the time. She comes from a wealthy family, wears fancy, almost doll-like dresses, uses a fancy cane... but every now and then she's almost vulgar when she's talking to or about Kurou regarding their relationship, or rather, where she wishes their relationship would go. This is Played for Laughs.
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In/Spectre / int_777c0033	type	Technical Pacifist
In/Spectre / int_777c0033	comment	Technical Pacifist: Kotoko tries to resort to non-violent measures first, preferring dialogue to be the first option, and even quotes Tsuyoshi Inukai, Mahatma Ghandi and Martin Luther King. Kurou quickly points out that all three were assassinated.
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In/Spectre / int_78c4e567	type	Prosthetic Limb Reveal
In/Spectre / int_78c4e567	comment	Prosthetic Limb Reveal: While the reader already knows she's an amputee, Saki did not know, so she's quite surprised when Kotoko's leg falls off as she fights Steel Girder Nanase.
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In/Spectre / int_7ef08424	type	Quantum Mechanics Can Do Anything
In/Spectre / int_7ef08424	comment	Quantum Mechanics Can Do Anything: How the prophetic powers of the kudan, and those that have eaten kudan flesh, works: as they die, they see possible futures as if branches on a tree and they choose one, and the prophecy is basically declaring which branch they chose. Kurou and Rikka, due to being immortal, have a watered down version of this, so the ability to choose possible futures is limited on how probable they actually are in the first place.
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In/Spectre / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
In/Spectre / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: Kurou. While protecting Kotoko from a deranged youkai, he lets it bite his arm off without as much as batting an eye. Bonus points for the youkai dying from eating his flesh shortly after his arm completely regenerates.
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In/Spectre / int_8504b817	type	Where the Hell Is Springfield?
In/Spectre / int_8504b817	comment	Where the Hell Is Springfield?: The novel doesn't mention where in Japan Makurazaka City is.
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In/Spectre / int_851dda8f	type	Humanoid Abomination
In/Spectre / int_851dda8f	comment	Humanoid Abomination: How the Youkai see Kurou as. They sense him as a mix of human, mermaid and kudan, having eaten the flesh of such youkai as a child. Kotoko remarks that Kurou and herself are not entirely human following their history with youkai as children. In a way, Kotoko herself — as Rikka causes her to have a mental breakdown once Kotoko realizes how far she'd truly go as "Goddess of Wisdom".
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In/Spectre / int_8ff8d545	type	Kissing Cousins
In/Spectre / int_8ff8d545	comment	Kissing Cousins: Kurou was clearly attracted to his cousin Rikka, but it never went past an innocent childhood crush. Instead, he develops a type complex by feeling attracted to women who resemble Rikka, much to his first girlfriend Saki's chagrin once she figures this out. Rikka does say later on that Kurou shoulda been hers instead of Kotoko's when complaining about the latter, but it's unknown if it's actually a romantic interest or because she just simply doesn't want Kurou to be involved with Kotoko.
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In/Spectre / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
In/Spectre / int_970c790a	comment	Rikka. She's alive. She has the same powerset as Kurou. She's also the Big Bad.
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In/Spectre / int_98861790	type	Fireworks of Love
In/Spectre / int_98861790	comment	Fireworks of Love: In Chapter 23 of the manga, Kotoko and Kurou watch fireworks together. Kurou picks Kotoko up so she can see the fireworks better and she leans into a kiss.
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In/Spectre / int_9b06e314	type	Greater-Scope Villain
In/Spectre / int_9b06e314	comment	Greater-Scope Villain: Rikka constantly flips between this and Big Bad. She's not directly antagonistic towards Kotoko and Kurou, at least not at first, but the nature of what she's doing puts her in direct conflict with Kotoko. And so, when not antagonizing Kotoko in a more direct manner, she will instead precipitate minor events that will eventually keep Kotoko busy, using that time to move in the background and evade Kotoko's notice.
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In/Spectre / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: It's not until late into the Steel Girder Nanase arc that it hits you that Rikka would not only be alive but also be an immortal with the ability to predict the future, given she's also a surviving child of the Sakuragawa clan, even if some clues were out there early on. It's more obvious on a second reading.
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In/Spectre / int_9d1cc720	type	Barbie Doll Anatomy
In/Spectre / int_9d1cc720	comment	Barbie Doll Anatomy: A sickly thin and nude Rikka is shown a handful of times in the manga. Itâ€™s not meant to be fanservice, instead showing her in relation to Steel Girder Nanase and the formerâ€™s powers.
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In/Spectre / int_9ec132e7	type	Accomplice by Inaction
In/Spectre / int_9ec132e7	comment	Accomplice by Inaction: Seems to be Rikka's plan to ruin Kotoko's reputation among Yokai since providing a non-supernatural solution to the Kirin's Curse case, as it stands, would mean she's covering for a would-be murderer that accidentally got involved in said case. It culminates with said murderer committing suicide.
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In/Spectre / int_a33ff511	type	Indirect Kiss
In/Spectre / int_a33ff511	comment	Indirect Kiss: In chapter 19, Kotoko and Kurou eat the same crepe together.
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In/Spectre / int_a46825fa	type	Glass Eye
In/Spectre / int_a46825fa	comment	Glass Eye: Kotoko uses one. You really don't notice it until she plucks it out for cleaning and you see her empty eye socket.
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In/Spectre / int_a5fb0d24	type	Healing Factor
In/Spectre / int_a5fb0d24	comment	Healing Factor: Kurou, thanks to the mermaid flesh. Obviously, this also applies to Rikka.
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In/Spectre / int_a6123b72	type	Enfant Terrible
In/Spectre / int_a6123b72	comment	Enfant Terrible: At the end of the Steel Girder Nanase case, Kurou wonders if Rikka was evil since they were children, even before she ate the Youkai meat, and he was just too infatuated to realize that.
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In/Spectre / int_a679184b	type	Due to the Dead
In/Spectre / int_a679184b	comment	Due to the Dead: At the end of the Steel Lady Nanase arc, Saki pays tribute to Terada at the deserted gas station where he was killed, knowing that the Tokyo Metropolitan Police will shut the case and blame his death on a killer who's not arrested since they can't handle supernatural crimes.
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In/Spectre / int_a82ff02f	type	Meet Cute
In/Spectre / int_a82ff02f	comment	Meet Cute: Kurou first meets Kotoko when some children running down the hospital hall cause him to slip and Kotoko catches him before he falls on his back. Kotoko gets Love at First Sight in this meeting, but Kurou is in a relationship with Saki at the time and Kotoko can't make a move on him for two years. After Saki breaks up with Kurou, Kotoko confesses her feelings for him and they start dating a while later.
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In/Spectre / int_ac7cbf8d	type	Myth Arc
In/Spectre / int_ac7cbf8d	comment	Myth Arc: The series centers later (after the Steel Lady Nanase arc) around stopping Rikka from doing anything to harm human society by using the paranormal.
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In/Spectre / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
In/Spectre / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Kurou, once he receives a phone call from the police that Rikka is one of the survivors of the ghost giraffe attack. Kotoko, upon realizing she fell for Rikka's trap, complete with mental breakdown.
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In/Spectre / int_ad9fbc1e	type	Pyrrhic Victory
In/Spectre / int_ad9fbc1e	comment	Pyrrhic Victory: Kotoko solving the Kirin's Curse case in the way she normally handles her cases ends up backfiring on her when Rikka uses it to trap her into a deal.
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In/Spectre / int_b11ac9f5	comment	Abusive Parents: Well, more like clan heads in the case of Kurou. The head of Sakuragawa family forced his family, including distant relatives, to be fed a combination of kudan and mermaid flesh. Most died and those that survived still had bad childhoods.
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In/Spectre / int_bbc77bb5	type	Hard Truth Aesop
In/Spectre / int_bbc77bb5	comment	Hard Truth Aesop: People that believe a lie aren't dissuaded by the truth, but can be swayed to believe a different lie instead if it is interesting enough.
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In/Spectre / int_bcb452a9	type	Weirdness Magnet
In/Spectre / int_bcb452a9	comment	Weirdness Magnet: Both Kotoko and Kurou due to their relationship with Youkai during their childhood. Saki to a lesser degree, much to her chagrin.
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In/Spectre / int_bea77379	type	Youkai
In/Spectre / int_bea77379	comment	Youkai: Being a story that revolve around them, plenty of them appear; nekomatas, kappas and tanukis just being three of them.
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In/Spectre / int_bf1edb7e	type	Comforting Comforter
In/Spectre / int_bf1edb7e	comment	Comforting Comforter: During the Giraffe case, Rikka stays at a hotel room with Kotoko and Kurou. After she falls asleep on the couch, Kurou covers her with a blanket, making Kotoko jealous.
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In/Spectre / int_c20f49de	type	Tautological Templar
In/Spectre / int_c20f49de	comment	In a way, Kotoko herself — as Rikka causes her to have a mental breakdown once Kotoko realizes how far she'd truly go as "Goddess of Wisdom".
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In/Spectre / int_c3585f4a	type	Boom, Headshot!
In/Spectre / int_c3585f4a	comment	Boom, Headshot!: During the Steel Lady Nanase case, Kuro receives several fatal injuries to the head. Terada also tragically is killed by Steel Lady Nanase this way. At the end of the Sleeping Murder case, Koya Fujinuma pulls out a gun and is determined to kill Iwanaga and Kuro because They Know Too Much. Kuro takes a shot to the head and is killed, but immediately comes back to life and disarms Koya.
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In/Spectre / int_c3648b87	type	Teeth-Clenched Teamwork
In/Spectre / int_c3648b87	comment	Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Kotoko and Rikka, months prior to disappearing and becoming the Greater-Scope Villain and Big Bad of the series, as they investigate a murder.
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In/Spectre / int_c5f0119c	type	Insane Troll Logic
In/Spectre / int_c5f0119c	comment	Kotoko basically has to mix this with Insane Troll Logic to appease both Youkai and Humans alike whenever her wisdom is required and the order needs to be preserved.
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In/Spectre / int_c737726c	type	You're Not My Type
In/Spectre / int_c737726c	comment	You're Not My Type: Kurou to Kotoko, after Kotoko offers to be his girlfriend following his breakup with Saki. By the time the story starts in earnest, they're dating, but he still points out she's still not his type, though mostly to annoy her. It's also because his crush on Rikka still hangs over him.
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In/Spectre / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
In/Spectre / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: The manga's 14th volume had a bonus chapter where Kotoko is "happy" to see scenes from the manga animated. Kuro told her that the scenes didn't happen, including one with Kotoko being Rose and Kuro being Jack.
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In/Spectre / int_d782bd52	type	Equivalent Exchange
In/Spectre / int_d782bd52	comment	Equivalent Exchange: The Youkai took Kotoko's left leg and right eye in exchange for becoming their goddess. As she recovers in the hospital, she notes she's pretty ok with the arrangement.
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In/Spectre / int_daa59ba1	type	Puppy Love
In/Spectre / int_daa59ba1	comment	Puppy Love: Kurou was infatuated with his cousin Rikka during their childhood.
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In/Spectre / int_dc579c91	type	Contrived Coincidence
In/Spectre / int_dc579c91	comment	Contrived Coincidence: Kotoko basically has to mix this with Insane Troll Logic to appease both Youkai and Humans alike whenever her wisdom is required and the order needs to be preserved. Rikka weaponizes this to set up the stage for the events that lead to "Steel Girder Nanase" and the "Curse of the Kirin Ghost".
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In/Spectre / int_e24e15a6	comment	Has a Type: Kurou is attracted to tall classy women slightly older than him, so the fact that he's dating Kotoko is a shock for Saki. Later, Saki admits that dating against the type might be the best for Kurou, as he has grown a lot more as a result. Since his preference for this type comes from his crush on Rikka, there's definitely a case to be made for breaking away from it.
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In/Spectre / int_e2ccee25	comment	Animal Motifs: Kurou gets compared to a goat by both Saki and Kotoko. Maybe naive and simple-minded, but his tenacity should not be underestimated.
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In/Spectre / int_e621b159	type	A-Cup Angst
In/Spectre / int_e621b159	comment	Even Kotoko mentions Nanase's large breasts, to which Saki exasperatedly asks if that's really important right now, since Nanase is currently about to attack them. Then again, Kotoko has something of a complex surrounding breasts. Particularly how small and underdeveloped hers are.
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In/Spectre / int_e8e56799	type	Blue-and-Orange Morality
In/Spectre / int_e8e56799	comment	Blue-and-Orange Morality: Kotoko at times, particularly when it comes to protecting order. She doesn't hesitate to drag out the truth from the Otonashi family, even knowing the effects the aftermath may have on their family, to teach the Chairman a lesson for relying on supernatural powers to solve his problems. More than a few people comment on her ruthlessness when it comes to convictions.
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In/Spectre / int_e9604359	type	Monster of the Week
In/Spectre / int_e9604359	comment	Monster of the Week: The manga takes this approach, for a while, following the Steel Girder Nanase case, which took 6 volumes, as a sort of Breather Episode dynamic.
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In/Spectre / int_eb5b71fe	type	Clingy Jealous Girl
In/Spectre / int_eb5b71fe	comment	Clingy Jealous Girl: Kotoko. Justified in that the Steel Girder Nanase case sees Saki Yumihara, Kurou's former fiance, dragged into it. And Rikka, Kurou's childhood crush, being the Big Bad behind Steel Girder Nanase. Rikka. She laments to her landlord that her cousin has been stolen away by a "horrible girl" and her desire to break them up since Kurou should've been hers.
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In/Spectre / int_f3b590a	type	Vengeful Ghost
In/Spectre / int_f3b590a	comment	Vengeful Ghost: Steel Girder Nanase. In reality, the real Karin Nanase was simply Driven to Suicide. Rikka created an urban legend around her, painting her as a vengeful ghost, that everyone bought into and materialized from there. Yukie, the ghost a woman killed by her husband is a more straight-up example. The Ghost Giraffe. A giraffe brought to Japan during the early Showa period that was sealed away in a shrine after being "deified" in an attempt to stop the bad luck that befell the zoo after its death.
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In/Spectre / int_f8600b	type	Cool Big Sis
In/Spectre / int_f8600b	comment	Cool Big Sis: Rikka to Kurou, which is one of the reasons why he's attached to her.
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In/Spectre / int_f9439c84	type	Haunted House
In/Spectre / int_f9439c84	comment	In one story, Kurou's part-time job requires him to go to an alleged Haunted House to pack the furniture. Despite the rumours of supernatural accidents in the place, nothing happens, with Kurou and his coworkers assuming whatever was haunting the place ran because Kurou scared it. After getting home, Kotoko reveals to Kurou that house was never haunted and the owner just made up those rumours to get people to stay away from the house while he looked for some dirty money hidden somewhere inside it.
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In/Spectre / int_fc4f5f19	type	Go-Karting with Bowser
In/Spectre / int_fc4f5f19	comment	Go-Karting with Bowser: Sorta. A later volume has Kotoko retelling the story of an adventure she had with Rikka before she disappeared and became the Big Bad and Greater-Scope Villain of the series; and even after she has become the Greater-Scope Villain, she never antagonizes the people that knew Kotoko in the past. That said, said adventure served for Kotoko and Rikka to size each other up in the case they were to become antaganists.
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In/Spectre / int_ff0cea73	type	Diving Save
In/Spectre / int_ff0cea73	comment	Diving Save: In Chapter 23 of the manga, Rikka gets hit by a truck to save a boy playing in the middle of the road. She comes out unharmed thanks to her immortality.
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