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Shiki (literally Corpse Demon) is a horror novel by Fuyumi Ono, first published in 1998. It was adapted into a manga illustrated by Ryu Fujisaki which ran in Jump Square from 2007 to 2011. The story takes place in a small village called Sotoba where, after the mysterious Kirishiki family moves in, a wave of unnatural deaths begins to occur. It soon becomes obvious to a select few that these deaths are the work of vampires (or Shiki as they're referred to in-series), led by Sunako Kirishiki (pictured right). Can they stop the ranks of The Undead, or will they join them?The manga was adapted to anime in 2010 by studio Daume. The anime is licensed by Funimation and was released on DVD and Blu-Ray in May 2012.The novel series is currently being translated here.Not to be confused with the Nasuverse characters, Ryougi and Tohno Shiki, nor with Shiki Misaki. DEFINITELY not to be confused with THAT Shiki.
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Anyone Can Die
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Anyone Can Die: And in fact, many of the cast members do die at least once.
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I Was Quite a Looker
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I Was Quite a Looker: Ikumi gets one flashback, looking quite stunning◊ compared to her present appearance.
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Madness Mantra
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Madness Mantra: Motoko Maeda's "Damn you old man.... Damn you old man....". Coupled with Sanity Slippage, Nao Yasumori sees visions of her family and breaks down chanting "I'm sorry..I'm sorry".
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Trailers Always Spoil
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Trailers Always Spoil: The next episode previews do this on a handful of occasions.
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Does This Remind You of Anything?
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Does This Remind You of Anything?: The deaths of several of the Shiki, especially the female ones. As a case in point, when Toshio Ozaki experiments on poor Kyoko, he first straps her to a table as he stands above her and later proceeds to slash her femoral artery and stake her through the heart while she's crying and begging him to stop. Sunako used to live a happy life until a man came along and turned her into a Shiki. Ever since then, she's hated herself for being "forsaken by God".
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Jumping Off the Slippery Slope
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Jumping Off the Slippery Slope: The villagers, especially Ookawa.
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Heterosexual Life-Partners
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Heterosexual Life-Partners: Toshio has a much closer relationship with his old friend Seishin than with his wife. It doesn't last.
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Diabolus ex Machina
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Diabolus ex Machina / Trash the Set: The villagers managed to save their village! Until a giant fire burned their entire village down.
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Cruel and Unusual Death
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Kyoko is first traumatized by Toshio experimenting on her, then is crudely staked to death. See Cruel and Unusual Death above.
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Breaking the Fourth Wall
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Breaking the Fourth Wall: In Chapter 33, Sunako specifically addresses the reader about why she's sharing the story of Cain and Abel.
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Primal Fear
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Primal Fear: Several, including the fear of illness that even young, healthy people are dying from, as well as, most infamously, the scene of Masao waking up in his coffin, unable to dig himself out or scream for help.
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Chekhov's Gun
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Chekhov's Gun: Remember the guy on the tractor that Megumi sees in the first episode? She'll be seeing him and his tractor again... And many, many more. To name a few, the offhand comments in the first episode, such as the destruction of the Jizou statues (the Shiki are weak against religious icons) and the time discrepancies between deaths in Yamairi (indicates the Shiki's plans for the area and hypnotic abilities). Motoko Maeda, a character who got a chapter and episode dedicated to her story. She also tells the villagers about the daughter who is taking care of her Shiki mother and starts the fire that burns the village down. Seishirou's pack of dogs served as a plot device later on.
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Verbal Tic
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Verbal Tic: Tatsumi and his "Ya".
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Shoot the Shaggy Dog
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Shoot the Shaggy Dog: Arguably, nobody in this story ends up completely getting their way.
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Impossibly-Low Neckline
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Impossibly-Low Neckline: Practically all of Chizuru's outfits feature this, some more than others.
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Uncertain Doom
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Uncertain Doom: A couple of characters don’t show up to the very end, even though they’re last seen alive.
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Incorruptible Pure Pureness
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Incorruptible Pure Pureness: Ritsuko post becoming Shiki. She refuses to attack others and even submits herself to starvation out of her own morality, despite how strong the inevitable hunger pains become, begging Tohru to let her friend escape before she inevitably attacks her.
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Break the Haughty
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A majority of the cast pretty much fall into this or Break the Haughty. Otherwise, it’s somewhere in between.
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He Who Fights Monsters
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He Who Fights Monsters: After the villagers find out about the Shiki, the humans become progressively more and more unhinged. Especially Toshio Ozaki, who tortures and kills his own wife.
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Hidden Depths
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Hidden Depths: Nearly every major character (and many minor ones), which really says a lot given the size of the cast. Hell, this show might as well be called Hidden Depths: the Anime.
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Stoic Spectacles
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Stoic Spectacles: Seishin.
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Thou Shalt Not Kill
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Thou Shalt Not Kill: Seishin. He waxes poetic to Toshio about all murder being wrong and walks out on him after he finds out Toshio experimented on and staked his Shiki wife, but he has no problem getting close to Sunako, who's killed countless humans. In his opinion, human sins don't apply to Shiki.
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Deconstructor Fleet
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Deconstructor Fleet: It is essentially one for horror fiction in general, particular vampire fiction: At first it starts off with the a family of Shiki moving to a small village and people start dying one after another, some having risen as Shiki. While the Shiki have been seen as the monsters of the story in the first half, further exploration shows that a majority aren't any different from how they act when they're alive and do retain their personalities and memories like Toshio's newly risen wife, who doesn't know why her husband is experimenting on her. A few are even remorseful for their actions and only do it because the Kirishikis force them under the threat of death to them or their loved ones and their own unbearable thirst for blood makes it even harder to resist. If they are horrible as Shiki, it only means they were horrible people when they were alive too. The 'hunters' or 'heroes' of the story, specifically the village doctor Toshio. He appears to be similar to Van Helsing, the man of logic who's fighting against the Shiki. In this case, his desire to save his patients from the Shiki. As the series goes on however, his repeated failures to save the villagers has him push to the deep end that he does questionable things in an attempt eradicate the Shiki such as experimenting on his newly risen wife to learn of the Shikis weaknesses, and it turns out he doesn't really care about the villagers, he just sees the Shiki issue as a matter of "win or lose". His attempts in trying to convince the villagers to consider the possibility of the supernatural is initially rebuffed with people refusing to see the truth on account on rationalism and when he the villagers do finally learn the truth, the war between them and the Shikis is less of heroic hunters fighting the evil vampire. In reality, it's the remaining townsfolk killing them out of survival; having been emotionally and mentally drained from being tormented by the vampires for the past months finally having some of them snap.
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Kick the Dog
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Kick the Dog: Megumi kills Kaori's dad and then taunts her about it. Tatsumi does this on a regular basis, mostly by tormenting the new Shiki and threatening their still living families.
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Ate His Gun
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Ate His Gun: Seishirou in chapter 35 of the manga.
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The Hero Dies
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The Hero Dies: Natsuno. Though he gets better, sort of... But ultimately played straight in Episode 22.
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Batman Gambit
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Batman Gambit: Chizuru bites Ozaki and commands him to burn all his notes regarding the Shiki and the deaths in Sotoba. He does so, even commenting that he carried out her orders like "a man possessed" (implying her hypnosis was aiding him). He gains her trust so that he can take her to the Kagura Festival, a place filled with religious symbolism and imagery, and expose her as a Shiki. In reality, he was never fully hypnotized by her. Natsuno had bitten him earlier, so his orders take priority over anyone else's. The gambit is a success: Chizuru is staked at the Kagura Festival and the entire village now believes in the existence of the Shiki.
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Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism: Very cynical, but interestingly enough manages to hold off on making any of its characters completely without redeeming qualities or at least a Pet the Dog moment or two.
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Conflict Ball
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Conflict Ball / Rule of Drama: The author’s trying to milk as much drama out of the setting as possible, and as a result the motivations behind many characters’ actions becomes if not straight out moronic then at least alien and nonsensical. There was also one particular scene where one Shiki was going about how they can’t possibly coexist with humans because “who eats livestock piece by piece?� — completely forgetting that things like dairy industry exist, and he doesn’t need to eat them to use them as blood stock. However, in another scene, the villagers themselves deny the possibility of coexisting with the Shiki.
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Curb-Stomp Battle
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They are also able to take more damage and can almost be inhuman in ability when compared to Shiki or normal humans. Tatsumi revealed that he believes Shiki are just those who failed to become Jinrou. Seishin and Yoshie show this off the best, where Seishin delivers a Curb-Stomp Battle to Ookawa and Yoshie gets her brains blown out but is still alive.
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Cast of Snowflakes
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Cast of Snowflakes: No villager looks the same if stood side by side each other. The entire village consists of people of different ages, and a wide variety too.
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"Could Have Avoided This!" Plot
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"Could Have Avoided This!" Plot: As Tomio points out to Sunako, had the Shiki simply approached the village openly and in good faith the two populations might have been able to co-exist rather than trying to destroy each other.
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Alternate Continuity
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Alternate Continuity: Both manga and anime borders over this, for the simple fact that Natsuno is one of the biggest threats against the Shiki after he gets turned into one of them himself and begins working along with Ozaki. In the novels? Natsuno never rises as a Shiki thus staying dead, and the little he did against the Shiki as a human is completely overshadowed by Ozaki, who does almost all the planning by himself originally. The same thing can be said for the manga. Yoshie doesn't die when she gets shot by Seishirou, and when the hypnotized humans attack Toshio and his group, Ookawa doesn't kill any of them, even after taking three knives to the back. Though this is shortlived as it ends up following a similar path as the anime.
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Natsuno, who is aloof towards others, hates Megumi and resents his parents for moving with him to a small town, doesn't hesitate to protect his friends and take a stand against the undead.
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Would Hurt a Child
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Would Hurt a Child: Most Shikis aren’t particularly picky about their victims, which will typically involve children and young teenagers.
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Humans Are the Real Monsters
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Humans Are the Real Monsters: By the end, the villagers perform some pretty unspeakable acts which the viewer is invited to see. It's made clear that (most of) the villagers were driven to those ends having suffered numerous tragic losses due to months of being systematically stalked and hunted by what amounts to be a supernatural organized crime family. However, almost all the Shiki are villagers, and retain their memories and personalities after rising, so they're really not that different from when they were alive. Except for a few Shiki like Tohru, they don't show remorse - all of the horrible and cruel things they do are things they'd have done/wanted to do as humans.
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Break the Cutie
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Break the Cutie: Kaori goes Ax-Crazy in Chapter 32 when her undead father tries to kill her. She applies a baseball bat to his head multiple times, and when that doesn't kill him, she gets out a pickaxe to finish him off. She then proceeds to shove his unrecognizable corpse into a closet for good measure. The epilogue shows that she at least somewhat recovers. A majority of the cast pretty much fall into this or Break the Haughty. Otherwise, it’s somewhere in between.
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Dedication
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Dedication: To 'Salem's Lot.
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Downer Ending
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Downer Ending: The story does a remarkable job of making you care about pretty much all the characters, their relationships with one another, and the life of the village itself - so how does it end? With almost all of those likable characters suffering very tragic ends, going insane and performing deeds that border on evil, and all they did to protect their town and families or stablish a safe haven ultimately for nothing.
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Mirroring Factions
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Mirroring Factions: The Shiki are considered monsters, but take a look at what the villagers are capable of doing. In the end, Shiki are completely human in nature.
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Disproportionate Retribution
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Disproportionate Retribution: Motoko Maeda decides to get revenge on her father-in-law who supposedly killed her family by starting a fire that burns down the whole village.
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Do Not Call Me "Paul"
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Do Not Call Me "Paul"/Embarrassing First Name: Natsuno Yuuki. He prefers people not to call him by his first name because he thinks it's too girlishnote  The Kanji in "Natsuno" is "summer field".
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Bookends
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Book Ends: The first episode begins with villagers with flashlights searching in the forest. So does the last episode.
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The Dragon
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The Dragon: Tatsumi and Yoshie are this to the Kirishiki family. They do all the work when they basically just sit in their mansion looking fabulous.
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Likes Older Women
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Likes Older Women: Tohru, who had a crush on Ritsuko.
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BlackAndGreyMorality
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Black-and-Grey Morality: The Shiki committed several actions such as killing, kidnapping, brainwashing and blackmailing in order to have their own homes where they live peacefully without having to hide all the time or afraid of humans hunting them. And yet, several of the Shiki such as Masao and Megumi happened to be colossal jerks and took the joy of preying on innocent people. There are sympathetic ones (such as Tohru) who are forced to kill humans with the threat that they will kill their families, or in hopes their victims will rise from the dead too. Meanwhile, the inhabitants of Sotoba want to defend their homes and families after they found out that the Shiki are responsible for the declining population and the disappearance and death of their relatives. But they end up killing any Shiki they come across, from strangers to close friends and even the very dead relatives they are mourning. They also kill innocent, still living people with the belief that they're collaborators for the Shiki, and some of them (like Ookawa) straight up enjoy the freedom to kill others without being condemned.
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Ominous Music Box Tune
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Ominous Music Box Tune: "Pendulum", the song that made the ending of Episode 4 ten times more frightening than it already was.
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Pragmatic Adaptation
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Pragmatic Adaptation: The anime noticeably changed the tone and narrative style of the original novel from something that was more of a mystery to a straight up horror story.
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Bunny-Ears Lawyer
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Bunny-Ears Lawyer: You'd think a man who juggles candy bars and wears a hot pink suit would be the last Shiki to be put in charge of running funeral services.
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Sanity Slippage
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Sanity Slippage: The penultimate episode features the villagers hard at work, chatting happily to one another and eventually tucking in to rice balls and boxed lunches...whilst covered from head to toe in blood from the previous night's Shiki extermination hunts, and the hard work in question being digging mass graves and shifting a huge number of corpses around. Nobody seems even slightly disturbed at what they are doing.
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Mind-Control Eyes
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Mind-Control Eyes: The Shiki have a variation of it that they use on humans after biting them.
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Noodle People
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Noodle People: Some of the characters are like this, especially Megumi◊. What on earth does she eat?
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Graying Morality
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Graying Morality: The story starts with the humans squarely in the white while the shiki's are in the black. As the story progresses however, both sides start to progressively move more and more into the black, until the point that it get's so muddled that the story leaves up to viewer interpretation over which side was A Lighter Shade of Black.
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Not So Invincible After All
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Not So Invincible After All: After the Shiki were outed, they didn't stand a chance against the villagers. They don't have any special powers besides hypnosis and being able to see better in the dark.
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Techno Babble
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Techno Babble: In this case, Medical Babble.
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Idiot Ball
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Idiot Ball: Natsuno, Ikumi, Akira, and Kaori all know about vampires being able to roam the streets at night, yet all of them leave the protection of their houses at one point or another. Doctor Ozaki doesn’t back Ikumi up when she accuses the newly arrived Kirishiki family. Doing this one thing would’ve likely prevented many of the oncoming disasters. On multiple occasions characters hand-wave away why they couldn’t call an outside help to fix their vampire infestation problem with poorly concocted explanations. Villagers in general act like low-intelligence NPCs. As a minor example, no one is overly suspicious about people suddenly up and leaving the village (and leaving all their possessions behind at that), or that it is always the same vehicle that transported them away. Justified, since it's revealed later they were just in denial that something supernatural was happening. Akira eventually goes into a vampire residence even though he’d been specifically warned against doing that because some vampires were able to stay active during the daytime. After finding out about vampires, on several occasions Toshio has a chance to save a villager that is being thralled (the vegetarian nurse, for instance). He chooses to do nothing and lets them get hunted to death. Chizuru for her 11th hour villain stupidity. She decides to drop her guard around Toshio, believing he's under her hypnosis and lets him take her into the midst of a celebrating crowd of humans. Were she to wait only a little bit longer, she’d have gotten herself the vampiric village she was so eager to have. Same applies to Seishirou for not organising a better protection for his wife when she did decide to get herself into a crowd of humans.
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Swiss-Cheese Security
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Swiss-Cheese Security: One of the children manages to break into the vampire castle by... breaking the backdoor. Which was made of thin plywood.
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Spared by the Adaptation
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Spared by the Adaptation: Somewhat. Natsuno is Killed Off for Real in the original novel. He comes Back from the Dead in the manga and anime, but dies later.
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Put on a Bus
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Put on a Bus: Subverted. Natsuno tries to do this to Kaori and Akira, but they come back. Invoked literally at the end with the survivors.
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Morality Kitchen Sink
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Morality Kitchen Sink: The Shiki vary from sympathetic to monsters, a few of them even resisting their hunger or killing just to feed, but many of them kill for fun. On the humans side we have Toshio, who has crossed the Moral Event Horizon (he still considers killing hypnotized victims to be murder), but most of them wanted to protect themselves from the Shiki. Things become even more complicated when humans have started an uprising against the Shiki and kill them without remorse - even their own family members. Humans then start killing people who so much as have a single bitemark on them and it gets worse from there.
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From Bad to Worse
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From Bad to Worse: Ax-Crazy and Roaring Rampage of Revenge also apply. Things go completely bonkers around Episode 18, when the villagers discover the existence of the Shiki.
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All Love Is Unrequited
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All Love Is Unrequited: Megumi for Natsuno, Tohru for Ritsuko and Seishirou for Chizuru.
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Curtains Match the Window
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Curtains Match the Window: Megumi and Natsuno.
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Stages of Monster Grief
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Stages of Monster Grief: You can observe every stage in the various undead characters.
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Black Eyes of Evil
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Black Eyes of Evil: A good deal of the Shiki, Sunako being the most prominent for it. Makes you wonder how no one noticed anything odd about them from the get-go... (unless of course the eyes were meant for the viewer to have an easier time differentiating people and Shiki.
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Straw Nihilist
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Straw Nihilist: Tatsumi and Seishin. Tatsumi outright claims to be a nihilist that doesn't even want to live, and that the only person he cares for is Sunako. Seishin hates himself, his position and the village so much that he ends up siding with the Shiki, as he believes that they at least kill because they have to.
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Defiled Forever
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Sunako used to live a happy life until a man came along and turned her into a Shiki. Ever since then, she's hated herself for being "forsaken by God".
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SlidingScaleOfSillinessVsSeriousness
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Sliding Scale Of Silliness Vs Seriousness: Shiki is far on the serious side of things. What little comic relief there is tends to be presented in such a way that you're not sure if you're supposed to laugh at it or not.
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Deconstruction
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Deconstruction: The story essentially functions as a deconstruction of horror literature.
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Stalker with a Crush
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Stalker with a Crush: Megumi. She goes to full Yandere territory after being turned into a Shiki, stalking her crush, Natsuno, and murdering his best friend (who she perceived as a threat).
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Creepy Doll
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Shizuka and her hand-puppet.
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Justified Trope
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Villagers in general act like low-intelligence NPCs. As a minor example, no one is overly suspicious about people suddenly up and leaving the village (and leaving all their possessions behind at that), or that it is always the same vehicle that transported them away. Justified, since it's revealed later they were just in denial that something supernatural was happening.
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Children Are Innocent
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Children Are Innocent: Little Susumu Yasumori's fear of Seishirou and Chizuru (in contrast to his parents' willingness to invite them over) may be intended to invoke this trope, as may the relatively small number of children (or at least very young children) who seem to have risen up as vampires.
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Big Bad
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Big Bad: Sunako Kirishiki is the leader of the Shiki and the reason behind the events of the series. She masterminds the plan to turn Sotoba into a safe haven where Shiki can live relatively normal lives.
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Sliding Scale of Vampire Friendliness
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Sliding Scale of Vampire Friendliness: Tohru, Kaori's dad, and Ritsuko are among vampires that can be considered friendly, but depending on what you're willing to accept, even Tatsumi can be seen as a nice guy. Except for Ritsuko, all of them still attack and kill people.
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Vampire Hickey
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Vampire Hickey: Bite marks occur a few time in the story when more and more people start mysteriously turning ill and dying. The first example being Megumi, who had gotten bitten after visiting the Kirishiki estate with it stated they found the wound but didn't make the connection at the time when she had turned ill out of the blue and her health rapidly decreased.
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Ironic Nursery Tune
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Ironic Nursery Tune: "Three Blind Mice" while Shiki are being killed in Episode 20.5. In the manga,the villagers sing an old cheesy 70's song while they kill Shiki. Ozaki concludes that they're doing it to keep their sanity and drown the Shiki's screams and pleas.
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Family-Unfriendly Death
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Family-Unfriendly Death: Megumi gets her head run over by a tractor. Then her heart impaled after her legs still wiggle about after her head is crushed. And this is shonen, not seinen. Kyoko is first traumatized by Toshio experimenting on her, then is crudely staked to death. See Cruel and Unusual Death above.
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The Only One Allowed to Defeat You
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The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: Toshio’s Plot Armor’s explanation is that Chizuru forbids her minions to kill him, because she wants to eat him herself. Later.
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What Measure Is a Non-Human?
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What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Some shiki want to coexist with humans but think it’d be an impossible task. Many humans torture and kill any shiki they see without any empathy, and explicitly deny the possibility of coexisting with them.
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Values Dissonance
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Values Dissonance: Invoked. It's noted several times that Sotoba is odd in that they bury their dead rather than cremate them, which is what is done with a majority of dead bodies in Japan. This is no doubt why the Shiki chose Sotoba to live in.
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A Day in the Limelight
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A Day in the Limelight: One chapter in the manga, and most of one episode and part of a second in the anime, are shown through Masao's point of view. The two OVAs also center around side characters. The first follows Hasegawa, the café owner whose family was never attacked, and Nao, who attacked her whole family in the hopes they would rise up. The second follows Kanami and Tae, who own the roadside restaurant Chigusa, and Motoko Maeda, who slowly goes insane as her family is picked off by Shiki and eventually sets herself on fire in Yamairi.
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Our Vampires Are Different
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Our Vampires Are Different / Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp": Shiki, the term for vampires in this series. These vampires do not display classic traits such as supernatural strength, so they're fairly easily to fight in hand-to-hand combat. This makes it so the villagers can easily fight and kill them even during the night, as they outnumber the Shiki and are better armed.. Also in addition to the traditional symbols like crosses, Japanese religious symbols seem to hurt them. This trope is lampshaded when Natsuno advises Kaori and Akira not to assume that every weakness fiction assigns to them will necessarily apply. Also interesting is that the victims fangs form behind the usual teeth rather than morph them.
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My God, What Have I Done?
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My God, What Have I Done?: Happens to Nao in episode 20.5. She believes that her family not rising up with her and her subsequent slaying by the villagers to be her punishment for killing them.
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Eye Scream
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Eye Scream: When Yasuyuki is dragged out into the sunlight, there's a close-up of his eye exploding.
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Action Mom
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Action Mom: Chizuko Murasako, Masao's sister-in-law. Although staking the vampires is supposed to be the men's job, she's not afraid to stake a few of her own (including Masao himself).
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Karma Houdini
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Karma Houdini: Sunako.
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Red Eyes, Take Warning
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Red Eyes, Take Warning: As if the Black Eyes of Evil mentioned above weren't enough, the Shiki tend to get this when feeding or about to feed.
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Adults Are Useless
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Adults Are Useless: Natsuno's parents, especially his father. In one go, Dad managed to let a Shiki into the house, agreed to allow another one in, twice (!) disposed of all the charms and crosses in Natsuno’s room meant for protection (because he hated superstition), made sure to unlock the door (because the village is safe and doing so shows the trust in others), and unlock and open the window. All of this of his own will, without anyone hypnotizing or manipulating him.
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Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass
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Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Tatsumi, with a hint of Obfuscating Stupidity. He does it on purpose to get people to trust him and think he's harmless.
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Alas, Poor Villain
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Alas, Poor Villain: Chizuru was a ruthless killer, but it's hard not to feel sorry for her when she is getting lynched while begging for her life when she is discovered as a Shiki by the villagers.
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Idiosyncratic Episode Naming
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Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: The episodes are written as plain old "The first chapter" when read in romaji, but the kanji used are words related to killing which are also read out like the numbers.
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Oh, Crap!
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Toshio binds his wife Kyoko at the hospital before she rises. Once she does, Toshio videotapes himself conducting horribly painful experiments on her to discover the Shiki's weaknesses. It was bad enough to hear Kyoko crying with fear and pain, begging her husband to stop while Toshio ignores her...but then he brings out the stake. What follows after... Later chapters of the manga indicate that no, she had absolutely no idea. Another woman that rises without another Shiki around stumbles home to her daughter, only to be confused that she cannot stomach normal foodstuffs anymore. So Kyoko, from her perspective, basically woke up to her husband torturing and murdering her out of the blue for no reason at all.
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Final Girl
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Final Girl: Kaori, by nature of being the most prominent female survivor.
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Pyrrhic Victory
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Pyrrhic Victory: Even though the villagers succeed in wiping out the Shiki, it comes with the high cost of most of the villagers being killed and the entire village getting burnt down. On the other end, Seishin and Sunako manage to escape with their lives, but Sunako's family and friends have been ruthlessly killed and her dream of a "Shiki Heaven" has pretty much been forever shattered.
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All for Nothing
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All for Nothing: In the end, neither side wins or comes out clean. Near all the Shiki created in the village are killed but at the cost of the villager's sanity. All that work to protect said village ends up meaningless when a brush fire ends up destroying it all. Sunako, the one that started it all, manages to escape but loses her faithful servants. All the survivors move away from the village and refuse to talk about what transpired there.
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Creepy Children Singing
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Creepy Children Singing: The track Pendulum starts out innocently enough with a childlike chorus singing a La La La melody, only for it to slowly descend into darkness and madness as the tune shifts into a a much grimmer tone with the singing starting to sound less like innocent children and more like they are screaming the melody.
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Elegant Gothic Lolita
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Elegant Gothic Lolita: In the manga, Sunako's clothing is sometimes inspired by Lolita fashion. Megumi's clothing comes close once in a while, but bears more resemblance to Japanese punk and gothic fashion.
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Perspective Reversal
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Perspective Reversal: The monsters are shown for the first half of the anime, but then you see humans becoming more and more vicious.
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Too Dumb to Live
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Too Dumb to Live: Too many instances to count. Megumi starts off the tradition by saying she thinks someone is watching her from the shadows in the forest...and then loudly proclaiming "GOOD!" and screaming about how she hopes it's a talent scout. Another particular instance was with the self-proclaimed shamaness Ikumi. While she had the right idea by figuring out the village was being plagued with Shiki and wanted to get rid of them, she executed that idea like a raging bull with no subtlety, planning, or intelligence, going around and making so much noise about the Shiki with the villagers and eventually publicly confronting the Shiki at their own castle that she made herself look like a fool. Naturally, her brash behavior just turns her into a target for the Shiki as they lure her out that night and it's implied that that she's Killed Offscreen.
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Must Be Invited
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Must Be Invited: One of the key limitations of the Shiki is their inability to cross thresholds unless invited in. They usually get around it by biting people outside, then hypnotizing them to let them in whenever they ask.
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Killed Offscreen
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Another particular instance was with the self-proclaimed shamaness Ikumi. While she had the right idea by figuring out the village was being plagued with Shiki and wanted to get rid of them, she executed that idea like a raging bull with no subtlety, planning, or intelligence, going around and making so much noise about the Shiki with the villagers and eventually publicly confronting the Shiki at their own castle that she made herself look like a fool. Naturally, her brash behavior just turns her into a target for the Shiki as they lure her out that night and it's implied that that she's Killed Offscreen.
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Berserk Button
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Berserk Button: Sunako does not like to be addressed as "Sunako-chan". Anyone who attaches that honorific with her name risks her wrath.
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Kiss of the Vampire
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Kiss of the Vampire: Sort of. At least the first few bites seem fairly harmless since they don't take much blood per bite (it takes several bites over several days to be fatal), and the bite marks themselves are so minor that the doctor initially mistakes them for insect bites.
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Slasher Smile
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Slasher Smile: The Shiki pull this off on a regular basis. Toshio gets a rather frightening◊ one in Chapter 30.
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Blonde, Brunette, Redhead
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Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: Out of the Kanemasa residents, we have Chizuru (Blonde), Sunako (Brunette), and Yoshie (Redhead).
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Nice Guy
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Nice Guy: Tohru. Even the resident Jerkass Masao likes him.
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Fan Disservice
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Fan Disservice: In her first scene as a Shiki, Megumi is wearing a low cut top, short skirt and Zettai Ryouiki. The sexiness, however, is mitigated by her unnatural body movements, as well as the fact that she's, you know, a corpse.
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Shout-Out
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Shout-Out: In Episode 6, Natsuno checks out a couple of horror flicks, one of them titled Texas Chainsaw Mackerel. Natsuno and Tatsumi's final confrontation is very similar to John Reilly and Giorgio's in Castle Freak (1995). The former had just evacuated two loved ones to safety and is going to settle the score with the surviving antagonist, even if it means their death. And it does, but they pull a Taking You with Me.
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Undead Child
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Sunako, pulling double duty as an Undead Child.
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Impaled with Extreme Prejudice
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Done by both Natsuno and Yoshie in the manga. With Yoshie doing it with dynamite against the villagers and Natsuno dragging Tatsumi into the fissure filled with Shiki corpses where both are impaled.
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Series Continuity Error
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Series Continuity Error: Earlier in the series it is established that vampires neither breath nor have a heartbeat. Later in the anime, however, Megumi (who’s a shiki, not a werewolf) is shown to get out of breath after a scene of dramatic running.
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Taking You with Me
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Taking You with Me: Natsuno corners Tatsumi and himself in a large fissure, the latter finally finishing the fight with a large bundle of dynamite. Done by both Natsuno and Yoshie in the manga. With Yoshie doing it with dynamite against the villagers and Natsuno dragging Tatsumi into the fissure filled with Shiki corpses where both are impaled.
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Spoiler Opening
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Spoiler Opening: In the second opening, Seishin's eyes◊ briefly look the same as when he reveals himself to be a Jinrou at the end. This is done for symbolic reasons in the first opening. Everyone who turns into skeletons in the opening become Shiki at some point in the story.
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Flat-Earth Atheist
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Flat-Earth Atheist: Natsuno's dad, who didn't marry Natsuno's mother because they questioned the principles of marriage and hates religion and holy icons. It comes back to bite him in the ass in the end by discarding the religious icons that could have saved Natsuno from the Shiki.
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Horror Hunger
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Horror Hunger: The Shiki suffer from it. It will force them to give in to it no matter what. Even Ritsuko nearly gave in to it in the manga and threatened her friend to stay away from her or else she would bite her. It also causes them to want to drink their targets of blood to death like a drug.
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Cassandra Truth
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Cassandra Truth: We see two big examples over the course of the series. The first is when Ikumi, who suspects that the Kirishikis are monsters, tries to rally the villagers, only to get dismissed as a lunatic by everyone, including Toshio Ozaki, who has actually been investigating the vampires but doesn't want anyone to know about them yet. The other is when Motoko tries to convince her family that they're slowly dying, to no avail.
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"Eureka!" Moment
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"Eureka!" Moment: Doctor Ozaki has one when talking with Natsuno.
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What the Hell, Hero?
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What the Hell, Hero?: Nurses Satoko and Kiyomi to Toshio Ozaki, after he refuses to act concerned that another nurse named Yuki had gone missing.
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Hypocrite
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Hypocrite: Seishin chooses to turn his back on Ozaki after he discovers he's tortured and killed his wife yet he has no problem siding with the shiki who kill on a daily basis.
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Retractable Appendages
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Retractable Appendages: Shiki's fangs form from behind their main teeth and can be retracted (think like how a snake bares their fangs).
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Put Them All Out of My Misery
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Put Them All Out of My Misery: Motoko is so upset about the deaths of her family that she burns down all of Sotoba in revenge.
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Unusually Uninteresting Sight
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Unusually Uninteresting Sight: The Anime Hair is so crazy in this series that this trope arguably applies. Hell, Tatsumi's hair looks like cat ears. The blood once the villagers start Shiki hunting. You'd think that they were playing paintball or something similar. For that matter, Sunako's and Chizuru's weird eyes never seem to put anyone off.
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Battle Butler
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Battle Butler: Tatsumi for the Kirishiki family.
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Anime Hair
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The Anime Hair is so crazy in this series that this trope arguably applies. Hell, Tatsumi's hair looks like cat ears.
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Chekhov's Gunman
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Remember the guy on the tractor that Megumi sees in the first episode? She'll be seeing him and his tractor again...
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Despair Event Horizon
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Despair Event Horizon: Mr. Yuuki crosses it when Natsuno seems to die, going pretty much bonkers. The last scene of the anime indicates that he's gotten over it. Toshio as well. His repeated failures in saving the villagers from the Shiki eventually lead him to experiment on his newly turned Shiki wife when she rises.
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Mama Bear
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Mama Bear: Motoko and Chizuko, though they're rather dysfunctional.
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Ambiguously Gay
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Ambiguously Gay: Natsuno Yuuki. He shows no romantic interest in any women whatsoever, while being quite close with his best friend Tohru, even calling him Tohru-chan. Later, he loses all determination to fight back when he finds out the Shiki sent after him is Tohru, and proposes they run away together. When Tohru refuses, Natsuno willingly offers his own blood, and eventually even lets Tohru kill him. Megumi even kills Tohru in the first place out of jealousy. Natsuno seems much less friendly towards Tohru after he comes back to life, though, and doesn't intend to spare him from the slaughter, but it’s possible that he’s doing this out of mercy.
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Expy
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Expy: The Kirishiki parents' mannerisms noticeably resemble those of Isaac and Miria. Going further on this, J. Michael Tatum even voices Seishiro in the dub. No such luck for Chizuru. Although Caitlin Glass does voice Yoshie Kurahashi, one of the Kirishiki Family's servants.
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Gonk
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Gonk: Masao◊ for one, though several characters could fall into this category.
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Gorn
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Gorn: The last few episodes, particularly the OVA Episode 20.5, turn into an almost endless stream of this.
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Unexplained Recovery
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Unexplained Recovery: Natsuno, although only in the anime and manga. The novels in the other hand...
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The Vamp
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The Vamp: Chizuru. Also a literal example since she’s basically a zombie vampire.
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Jerkass
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Jerkass: Many. Particularly toward the end—as the situation gets increasingly dire we see previously nice characters demonstrating increasingly assholish behavior.
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Mercy Kill
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Mercy Kill: To some humans-turned-Shiki, this is a blessing. Hasegawa does this at the end instead of letting the last group of Shiki from the tunnels burn to death.
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Creepy Child
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Creepy Child: Sunako, pulling double duty as an Undead Child. Shizuka and her hand-puppet. It's revealed in a flashback that Masao used to be one of these.
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Together in Death
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Together in Death: Tohru and Ritsuko.
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Our Werewolves Are Different
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Our Werewolves Are Different: Jinrou, given name by Sunako, are a rare subspecies of Shiki. Tatsumi compares Jinrou to the werewolves that accompany vampires in movies. Different from regular Shiki, Jinrou breathe, have a pulse, are able to walk in the sunlight, can survive off of regular food, and they never actually died. Their blood just changed to that similar of a Shiki. They are also able to take more damage and can almost be inhuman in ability when compared to Shiki or normal humans. Tatsumi revealed that he believes Shiki are just those who failed to become Jinrou. Seishin and Yoshie show this off the best, where Seishin delivers a Curb-Stomp Battle to Ookawa and Yoshie gets her brains blown out but is still alive.
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With Us or Against Us
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With Us or Against Us: Boils down to "Are you going to help us kill the Shiki, or do we kill you just in case you might be helping them?"
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Non-Malicious Monster
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Non-Malicious Monster: Tohru, who suffers from the guilt some new Shiki face of murdering humans for sustenance and still maintains his gentle demeanor. Several of the Shiki could fit in this category, all things considered.
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Evil-Detecting Dog
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Evil Detecting Dogs: Love turns highly aggressive towards Kaori's Shiki-fied father. Taro attempts to warn Ritsuko of an approaching group of Shiki in Episode 17.
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Pet the Dog
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Pet the Dog: Sunako decides to spare Seishin. He comes to her later on his own volition.
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Death Seeker
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Death Seeker: It's implied in the manga that becoming a Jinrou tends to end up making the person suicidal, with them usually needing something to keep them going to stop it. Tatsumi was a Straw Nihilist who wanted everyone to die, Yoshie clung to the hope of the village finally being a home she can live in peace and blew herself up with dynamite when that was impossible, and Natsuno had accepted that the village itself would be his grave just as he always feared it would be when he was alive. The Shiki aren't different, and many of them (including the mastermind Sunako) express desire to finally die.
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Actually Not a Vampire / int_59565725
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Ain't Too Proud to Beg / int_59565725
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Alas, Poor Scrappy / int_59565725
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All Are Equal in Death / int_59565725
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And Then John Was a Zombie / int_59565725
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Anime and Manga of the 2000s / int_59565725
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Anime and Manga of the 2010s / int_59565725
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Anime Hair / int_59565725
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Apathetic Citizens / int_59565725
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Ate His Gun / int_59565725
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Bath Suicide / int_59565725
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Beady-Eyed Loser / int_59565725
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Black Eyes of Evil / int_59565725
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Breaking and Bloodsucking / int_59565725
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Cast of Snowflakes / int_59565725
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Close-Knit Community / int_59565725
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Curtains Match the Window / int_59565725
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Daywalking Vampire / int_59565725
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Decoy Protagonist / int_59565725
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Devilish Hair Horns / int_59565725
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Do Not Call Me "Paul" / int_59565725
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Dying Race / int_59565725
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Elegant Gothic Lolita / int_59565725
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Fan Edit / int_59565725
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Fashion-Victim Villain / int_59565725
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Final Girl / int_59565725
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Freaky Funeral Forms / int_59565725
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Friendly Neighborhood Vampire / int_59565725
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Good Girl Gone Bad / int_59565725
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Gothic Horror / int_59565725
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Guns Are Worthless / int_59565725
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Hard Truth Aesop / int_59565725
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Headbutting Heroes / int_59565725
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Homage / int_59565725
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Horror Hunger / int_59565725
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Hunter of His Own Kind / int_59565725
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Improbable Hairstyle / int_59565725
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Innate Night Vision / int_59565725
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Kiss of the Vampire / int_59565725
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Monster Progenitor / int_59565725
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Murder the Hypotenuse / int_59565725
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Must Be Invited / int_59565725
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Oh, and X Dies / int_59565725
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One-Woman Wail / int_59565725
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Overdrawn at the Blood Bank / int_59565725
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Paper Talisman / int_59565725
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Perma-Stubble / int_59565725
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Primal Fear / int_59565725
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Put Them All Out of My Misery / int_59565725
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_59565725
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Shōnen Demographic / int_59565725
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Sliding Scale of Gender Inequality / int_59565725
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Small Town Boredom / int_59565725
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Stages of Monster Grief / int_59565725
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Taking Over the Town / int_59565725
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The Renfield / int_59565725
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Transhuman Treachery / int_59565725
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Trash the Set / int_59565725
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Undead Child / int_59565725
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Undeath Always Ends / int_59565725
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Unwanted Revival / int_59565725
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Vampire Hickey / int_59565725
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Vampire Lolita Archetype / int_59565725
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Vampire Procreation Limit / int_59565725
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Virus-Victim Symptoms / int_59565725
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Warm Bloodbags Are Everywhere / int_59565725
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Weakened by the Light / int_59565725
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Wooden Stake / int_59565725