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Caterpillar (Manga)

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Caterpillar (Manga)	comment	Caterpillar (キャタピラー) is a 2012 spinoff to Arachnid written by Shinya Murata and published on Young Gangan. It was illustrated by Isuka Hakozaki until his sudden passing in 2013 and then by Hayami Tokisada after a year-long hiatus. Tokisada became the main illustrator for the series from then on.The story follows Miki "Imomushi" Inou, a young woman who was raised by an Organization of bug-like assassins after the murder of her sister Mika. To find the truth behind Mika's death, Imomushi moves into a battle royale on the cruise ship Ageha, where several other assassins have been convinced by a mysterious individual to hunt her for a reward while rich civillians bet on the outcome of the fights.Although Caterpillar is mostly a prequel to Arachnid, it is best read afterwards for its development of recurring characters and because it involves spoilers for the latter, with both stories meeting and ending at the same point.It ended on April 2018 at 97 chapters and was followed by a 2020 sequel titled Blattodea.An official English translation of the series was made available on Square-Enix's Manga UP! app in July 2022 and on Comikey in 2023.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_11a4bc8b	type	Spike Shooter
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_11a4bc8b	comment	Spike Shooter: Togehamushi's entire body, eyeballs included, grows long spikes when she's overly emotional or needs to defend herself. The spikes are nearly instantaneous and have apparently protected her from bullets, leaving her too cocksure that nothing can harm her in a straight fight.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_1282bf4f	type	No Celebrities Were Harmed
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_1282bf4f	comment	No Celebrities Were Harmed: Two high-ranked assassins based on Osamu Tezuka and Shotaro Ishinomori are introduced in this prequel.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_128e4ba8	type	Gatling Good
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_128e4ba8	comment	Gatling Good: After Paraponera launches the blade on his prosthetic arm, he shoves the stump through a crate and it neatly attaches itself to a gatling gun contained within.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_129749df	type	All Men Are Perverts
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_129749df	comment	All Men Are Perverts: Other than Kumo, Riock and Kagimushi, most of the male characters in the story are sexual predators. This includes the Green Tree Ant triplets, who are just children but keep harassing women to "play doctor" with them.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_12dd1d4c	type	Rape as Drama
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_12dd1d4c	comment	Rape as Drama: Sexual assault is a constant in Caterpillar, with several female characters having attempted or successful rape in their backstories and a few becoming unhinged and attempting to get others raped as well.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: Compared to Arachnid, Caterpillar has more graphic violence and breasts are uncensored. Ironically, Choubu no Shinobi and Blattodea later made a point of being at least as graphic as Caterpillar in spite of moving back to a shonen magazine.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_1564892c	type	Now That's Using Your Teeth!
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_1564892c	comment	Imomushi catching a knife with her teeth, referencing how she does that to Alice's and Dinoponera's weapons during the Arachnid Hunt.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_166e33f3	type	Little Miss Badass
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_166e33f3	comment	Little Miss Badass: Most of the female characters in the story, like Imomushi and Kabutomushi, were already abnormally powerful and very dangerous as children.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_178ca149	type	The Worf Effect
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_178ca149	comment	The Worf Effect: Riock is a towering and muscular Scary Black Man but this trope is all he is used for. New enemy shows up, he tries to punch them, fails and gets knocked out. And yet even he defeats more people on and off panel than Gokiburi does!
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_1909dc30	type	Died Standing Up
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_1909dc30	comment	Died Standing Up: Paraponera dies from his injuries while dramatically pointing his gun on a helpless Imomushi. She stands up and moves out of the way upon realizing what happened, and is startled when the corpse pulls the trigger seconds later. The scene is adapted from the story's pilot, where said character dies on his first encounter with Imomushi.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_1b5fa24a	type	The Brute
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_1b5fa24a	comment	The Brute: "Sia ferox" Riock, who just recklessly throws Megaton Punch after megaton punch. It's a bit of a Running Gag for him to get countered and easily defeated but he never learns.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_1b65dfad	type	The Cameo
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_1b65dfad	comment	Chapter 45 has Inaho Enoki from fellow bug manga Vector Case File discussing bark mantises. Chapter 46 has the in-universe equivalent of Kamen Rider creator Shotaro Ishinomori talking about crickets. Those interview scenes are based on the ones from Baki the Grappler, as are the ones featured in Killing Bites and other Fighting Series by Murata.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_1ba17583	type	The Ghost
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_1ba17583	comment	The Ghost: Alice Fujii makes a cameo in a bug funfacts scene about roaches, and later her exploits in the Arachnid Hunt are mentioned by Hanakamakiri when he explains she's supposed to be crowned as the new Boss of the Organization. She's only briefly seen in person on a flashback of the time Imomushi encouraged her to fight for herself. The assassin ranked 8th in the Organization is a man codenamed Tonosamabatta, or Migratory Locust. He's the one guy who never appears throughout the story, but one bonus poster shows he's supposed to look like how Oda Nobunaga is portrayed in Choubu no Shinobi. The Organization's Boss is never seen in-person but the story, at a point it is a prequel, reveals her identity and some of her background in a chapter published after her big reveal in Arachnid happened.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_1e05d2a9	type	Hair Antennae
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_1e05d2a9	comment	Hair Antennae: Oki has a pair of antennae to befit her cockroach theme. They even move while detecting movements around her. Oddly enough, she spontaneously gained those antennae just by identifying with a cockroach she saw back when she was an abandoned baby in a thrashed house.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_217a1adf	type	I Love the Dead
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_217a1adf	comment	I Love the Dead: When the Weaver Ant triplets ask Jigabachi to let them "play doctor" with a paralyzed Imomushi before he does anything to her, he comments them preferring a living woman instead of a corpse is "an unusual fetish". They reply that no, it's not that unusual... The original Shidemushi, who's a decrepit old man, is said to sometimes request female corpses from his subordinates for... undisclosed reasons. He takes the apparently dead Mika and puts her into some kind of bacta tank clearly not to revive her, as he's shocked when she springs back alive and starts choking him.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_2286675a	type	Quest for Sex
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_2286675a	comment	Quest for Sex: Arachnid and Caterpillar end with Alice and Hanakamakiri leaving their partners Gokiburi and Imomushi. The latter two swear to find and shag them even if they need to rape them.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_22cf536c	comment	Arachnid had mentions of people and plot hooks that retroactively pay off in Caterpillar: Kabutomushi mentions a "Hercules" weapon at one point in Arachnid. The prequel reveals it is a foldable double sword that belonged to the previous Kabutomushi. Amenbo is a mere Villain of the Week in Arachnid, but it is established she's good friends with Imomushi. Way after a small appearance in Caterpillar, she's the one who gets Imomushi and every other surviving assassin out of the Ageha ship.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_24321e44	comment	Only Sane Man: Kumo is noted for being unusually professional among his peers, but even then he enters the competition just looking to die in combat. Kabutomushi is a ruthless Sadist Teacher, but she's also surprisingly nice and reliable. Particularly compared to her mentor who nonchalantly killed anyone he thought to be weak, including children. Kagimushi seems like a rather pleasant old man and didn't treat Imomushi badly while training her, which is why it's surprising to see him appear as a threatening antagonist later in Blattodea.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_275847f0	type	Not Just a Tournament
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_275847f0	comment	Not Just a Tournament: The Death Caterpillar is actually a "Pest Control" meant to weed out traitors and kill wealthy civilians and politicians who are obstacles to the Organization. At the end of Caterpillar, the Ageha ship is flat-out nuked to cinders.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_281de59f	type	Extremely Short Timespan
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_281de59f	comment	Extremely Short Timespan: Prologue and flashback chapters aside, Caterpillar takes place in a single setting over the course of a single day. The last couple of chapters are a time skip into Arachnid's everlasting afternoon and then its aftermath.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_2882c8c1	type	Career-Ending Injury
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_2882c8c1	comment	Career-Ending Injury: Osamushi disappeared after losing control over his dominant arm, and in secret started producing derivative works of his own series. Ageha took advantage of his frustration to convince him to work for her in exchange for a shapeshiting artificial arm and eternal youth.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_2a6a8e89	type	Sadist Teacher
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_2a6a8e89	comment	Kabutomushi is a ruthless Sadist Teacher, but she's also surprisingly nice and reliable. Particularly compared to her mentor who nonchalantly killed anyone he thought to be weak, including children.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_2ae29c0d	type	The Dreaded
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_2ae29c0d	comment	As Imomushi is being beaten up by Dinoponera, an extra scene shows her thinking Dinopo is far too naive and childish to be able to beat a monster like Alice Fujii.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_2b14367f	type	Bring My Brown Pants
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_2b14367f	comment	Bring My Brown Pants: Multiple female characters in the story wet themselves when they're scared for their lives. The author really indulged in this trope many times over the years for sooooome reason, and has freely admitted this on his Twitter profile (NSFW link). In the beginning, Imomushi nonchalantly kills the kidnappers of a girl named Tomoe, who wets herself out of fear as she's still left tied to a chair. Ichijikukobachi is left cornered and defenseless in front of Riokku, who looks ready to punch her head off but leaves her be when she offers her envelope trinket in fear. She ends up wetting herself and suffering a Wardrobe Malfunction at the same time, and nervously thinks to herself she's done being an assassin. Togehamushi nonchalantly walks around naked like nobody can harm her spike-shooting body and takes on Riokku and Kagimushi. The latter doesn't want to resort to killing, so he throws a lightning-fast Megaton Punch just short of her face before the spikes can trigger. This scares her so much she falls on her back uncontrollably shooting spikes and suffering from incontinence.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_2b5ea43c	type	Bland-Name Product
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_2b5ea43c	comment	Bland-Name Product: Kahen Rider. i.e., Transforming Rider instead of Masked Rider.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_2c620f20	type	Cleanup Crew
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_2c620f20	comment	The Shidemushi are the Organization's Cleanup Crew and their original member is behind the Death Caterpillar game.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_2c628d38	type	Worf Had the Flu
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_2c628d38	comment	Worf Had the Flu: Kabutomushi gets the snot beaten out of her by Hiratakuwagata until Gokiburi and the Tsumugiari triplets arrive with the Heracles, a giant double-sword which can fold to crush people like the jaws of an alligator. From then on, Kabutomushi easily turns the fight around and defeats Hiratakuwagata by chopping one of her legs off. The entire fight is a Call-Forward to Kabutomushi getting owned by Dinoponera in the Arachnid Hunt and regretting not bringing Heracles for the event, implying she could have killed the ant-girl with it.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_2d409194	type	Unsettling Gender-Reveal
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_2d409194	comment	Unsettling Gender-Reveal: Imomushi tries to bathe with Hanakamakiri soon after meeting him, and is surprised to see Hana is actually a male crossdresser. Although Hanakamakiri tries to beat her up in response, afterwards he doesn't mind that she keeps treating him as a man. Hanakamakiri is forced to lift his dress as a way for Imomushi to tell him apart from a master of disguise. He is really embarrassed afterwards as Kumo assumes he's a Villainous Crossdresser and Riokku starts bugging him about it out of innocent curiosity.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_2e8441c9	type	The Bad Guy Wins
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_2e8441c9	comment	The Bad Guy Wins: The original Shidemushi has Osamushi sacrifice himself to nuke the Ageha and get rid of various VIPs who were troubling the Organization in some way. A year later, by manipulating Alice to kill the Army Ant Queen, the Boss causes a rape zombie apocalypse meant to halve Japan's population and things only get worse to the country from there to the early chapters of Blattodea.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_2f94135c	type	Thou Shalt Not Kill
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_2f94135c	comment	Thou Shalt Not Kill: Kabutomushi refuses to kill needlessly after her master, a mad man who believed himself entitled to kill anyone he wished because of his strength, killed her only friend. As such, she has a blank ranking within the Organization despite bragging about being their strongest hitwoman. This was not mentioned even once in Arachnid, and in fact contradicts the things she goes on to do in that story with no justification: she attacks enemies with clear killing intent, tries to convince Alice to kill Dinoponera (contrasting how she spares Himekuwagata in this prequel) and ends up killing the Boss without batting an eye to save Alice. Blattodea then tries to patch this half-assedly by showing everyone else she smashed actually survived and insisting Alice killed the Boss when she clearly didn't.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_319e4a2f	comment	When the Weaver Ant triplets ask Jigabachi to let them "play doctor" with a paralyzed Imomushi before he does anything to her, he comments them preferring a living woman instead of a corpse is "an unusual fetish". They reply that no, it's not that unusual...
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_337b9528	type	The Worf Barrage
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_337b9528	comment	The Worf Barrage: Every time Riock tries to punch somebody, he gets either blocked or countered and then is knocked out silly in one move. Kabutomushi has a signature Spam Attack with her halberd that blows enemies away. When she does it on a cramped corridor to kill Imomushi, she crushes a pipe on the wall and floods the place, so then both women flee for their lives and stop fighting. When she tries it against Ookuwagata, the girl simply catches the blade with her mandibles.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_3517000d	type	Mad Scientist
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_3517000d	comment	Mad Scientist: Jigabachi, who develops brainwashing devices and installed the mechanical tail on Sasori.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_356b1efb	type	Hammerspace
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_356b1efb	comment	Hammerspace: Hanakamakiri often pulls his scythes from out of nowhere, even when he's naked and seemingly unarmed. Then there's Sasori and her mechanical stinger tail. She doesn't even wear a lab coat in this story to serve as an excuse for why it can be concealed.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_361a1d26	type	Anguished Declaration of Love
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_361a1d26	comment	Anguished Declaration of Love: Hanakamakiri leaves a farewell letter to Imomushi after the Arachnid Hunt, stating he "betrayed" her to follow Suzumebachi's orders because he loves her and wants to ensure the Organization will never put a hit on her head again. Imomushi finds his reasoning nonsensical (she wouldn't resent him, she has no immediate enemies within the Organization anymore and he left her asleep and defenseless minutes before the rape zombies came knocking on her door) and just gets angry because he keeps skipping on their promise to have sex sometime.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_370aad9	type	Split Personality
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_370aad9	comment	Split Personality: The story features a split personality disorder that changes people's appearances, to the point of them aging back and forth as seen with the Kuwagata "sisters".
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_37499c8	type	OnceAnEpisode
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_37499c8	comment	Once an Episode: The National Geographic commentary on bugs happens on nearly every chapter, bordering on self-parody when used in response to a character doing something mundane or silly.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_396e1c2a	type	Face Death with Dignity
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_396e1c2a	comment	Face Death with Dignity: When Osamushi is mortally wounded by his pupil Kagimushi, he actually takes it very well because by exploding into a mushroom cloud he gets to be the one who terminates all the civilians and politicians within the Ageha in service of the Boss. He tells Kagimushi to flee and calmly dies singing the Astro Boy theme song.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_3a7266d3	type	Must Not Die a Virgin
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_3a7266d3	comment	Must Not Die a Virgin: Before going into the Ageha cruise ship, Imomushi had been trying to convince Hanakamakiri to have sex with either prostitutes or herself while saying it'd be a shame if he happened to die a vigin.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_3ad27180	type	The Chain of Harm
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_3ad27180	comment	The Chain of Harm: Kabutomushi is shown to be traumatized over being raised and trained by an unhinged child murderer, but as the current director of Pomario she's roughly half as sadistic and finds herself hunted by four of her disciples who hate her. They claim a lot of children still keep dying during training, even if not directly by her hand. Gokiburi nearly starved to death as a baby after being abandoned by her parents and was trained by Kabutomushi, which turned her into a controlling Psycho Lesbian who wants to enslave people.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Borders on a Downer Ending. Imomushi survives the Death Caterpillar hunt but is unable to save her sister. One year later, she fails to kill Suzumebachi as revenge for him lying about her sister's death, but Hanakamakiri brings her back home. Hanakamakiri actually had a deal with Suzumebachi for Imomushi to be spared in exchange for him helping Alice become the new Boss, and feels so ashamed over it that he leaves to parts unknown. As Japan falls apart from a zombie apocalypse, a very annoyed Imomushi sets out to find both Hanakamakiri and Alice.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_41914bb3	type	Blade Below the Shoulder
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_41914bb3	comment	Blade Below the Shoulder: Paraponera and Dinoponera have extendable needles inside thier arm guards, which have the immensely painful effect of their namesake ants' sting.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_43e36f2f	type	Acrofatic
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_43e36f2f	comment	Paraponera is an acrofatic man who survived a grenade exploding on his face and fights ferociously until he kills his prey or is killed himself.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_45a559cf	type	Wardrobe Malfunction
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_45a559cf	comment	Ichijikukobachi is left cornered and defenseless in front of Riokku, who looks ready to punch her head off but leaves her be when she offers her envelope trinket in fear. She ends up wetting herself and suffering a Wardrobe Malfunction at the same time, and nervously thinks to herself she's done being an assassin.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_4604fd4d	type	Worthy Opponent
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_4604fd4d	comment	Imomushi asks Dinoponera if she wants revenge for her father Paraponera's death, but the ant-girl seems unbothered and just says he must've died honourably against a Worthy Opponent.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: Riock has an expanded role here compared to Arachnid, but all it amounts to is trying and immediately failing to punch people. Most of Oki's screen time is spent on the background looking stupid. The only notable thing she does is deliver the Heracles blade to Kabutomushi after blackmailing the Green Tree Ants to make them help her, and even then she's briefly sexually humiliated before doing the same to them. Himekuwagata's three partners also spend all their time just looking stupid in the background and are defeated in all of 5 seconds once they do take their chances at fighting Kabutomushi.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_4873d055	type	Use Your Head
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_4873d055	comment	Use Your Head: Imomushi's signature technique is to nail her shoes to the ground, dodge an attack by bending backwards and then catapult herself head-first on enemies. She sometimes switches the headbutt for a Megaton Punch instead.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_4c240248	type	Strong Ants
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_4c240248	comment	Strong Ants: Some antagonists are ant-themed and have some of the associated quirks. Paraponera is an acrofatic man who survived a grenade exploding on his face and fights ferociously until he kills his prey or is killed himself. The Weaver Ant triplets have abnormally high strength and a device on their palms that lets them easily hold anything over their heads. Dinoponera comes equipped with poisoned stings and is shown to be greatly strong, fast and resistent, even if the story retcons her as being inferior to her father.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_4f828b45	type	Post-Climax Confrontation
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_4f828b45	comment	Post-Climax Confrontation: After the Death Caterpillar game is done with, the story skips to a year later in the Arachnid Hunt where it is known just why Imomushi is enraged with Suzumebachi. He sics Dinoponera on her, and the battle between Imomushi and Dinopo is reprised panel-by-panel as it was in the original. After Suzumebachi knocks Imomushi out and Dinoponera leaves, it is revealed Hanakamakiri came to retrieve her partner, and that he and Suzumebachi made an agreement of eventually forcing Alice to take over the Organization.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_5f3bb274	type	Late-Arrival Spoiler
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_5f3bb274	comment	Late-Arrival Spoiler: Chapter 59 of Caterpillar, first released while Arachnid was nearing its end, spoils the major plot twist of Yoriko being the Organization boss. The last two chapters also give the gist of what happened over the course of the Arachnid Hunt. Arachnid and Caterpillar were officially translated to English in 2022, several years after the end of their respective runs. The Caterpillar translation went past chapter 59 while Arachnid was still on chapter 31, and then finished in 2023 while Arachnid was still on chapter 53, indeed spoiling everything about Arachnid to Western readers. Avoided when both were published on the Comikey website: Caterpillar paused on chapter 93, the ending of the prequel part, without even a release date for the next chapter until the ending of Arachnid was uploaded.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_5f55ee96	type	Spam Attack
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_5f55ee96	comment	Kabutomushi has a signature Spam Attack with her halberd that blows enemies away. When she does it on a cramped corridor to kill Imomushi, she crushes a pipe on the wall and floods the place, so then both women flee for their lives and stop fighting. When she tries it against Ookuwagata, the girl simply catches the blade with her mandibles.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_60414102	type	Zombie Apocalypse
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_60414102	comment	Zombie Apocalypse: An outbreak of rape-zombies devastates Japan at the end of the story.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_61459062	type	Perception Filter
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_61459062	comment	Perception Filter: Nanafushi's gimmick as a stickbug-like assassin is being supernaturally ignored by people around her. This illusion can break if she loses focus, such as when Hanakamakiri glares at her general direction acting like he could see her when he actually couldn't.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_617f0563	type	Heelâ€“Face Turn
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_617f0563	comment	Heel–Face Turn: Both Riock and Kumo end up fighting on Imomushi's side after antagonising her.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_6293c185	type	Sequel Hook
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_6293c185	comment	Sequel Hook: In the ending, Suzumebachi and Hanakamakiri plot to make Alice the new Boss of the Organization in order to counter an unknown threat that had been infiltrated among them the whole time.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_63499260	type	VillainOfTheWeek
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_63499260	comment	Amenbo is a mere Villain of the Week in Arachnid, but it is established she's good friends with Imomushi. Way after a small appearance in Caterpillar, she's the one who gets Imomushi and every other surviving assassin out of the Ageha ship.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_6366f900	type	Old Soldier
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_6366f900	comment	Unka, an Old Soldier turned into a cyborg assassin after he lost his legs to a landmine.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_6563aeb6	type	Shameless Fanservice Girl
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_6563aeb6	comment	Shameless Fanservice Girl: Imomushi has a few scenes where she ends up fighting or casually walking around while nude. Togehamushi has the power to grow long spikes all over her body and doesn't bother wearing anything but a robe because of it. She has a gloomy demeanor and acts like no man or anyone else could ever touch her, but amusingly glomps Riock's head with a warm smile to impale him repeatedly without actually killing him.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_6627695f	type	Author Appeal
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_6627695f	comment	Author Appeal: As with Arachnid, the story heavily features information about bugs taken from research papers. Physical and sexual violence are presented in a clearly fetishized way, and the page layout is very frequently formatted as a half-page panel, a Reaction Shot on the bottom right and a hook to the next page on the bottom left.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_6660aaf	type	Herbivores Are Friendly
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_6660aaf	comment	Herbivores Are Friendly: The assassins introduced in this spinoff mostly have the traits of herbivore bugs, but this only serves to give them weirder ways of killing people.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_6bb25af4	type	Gratuitous Rape
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_6bb25af4	comment	Gratuitous Rape: Most of the characters in the Arachnid series are sexual predators, victims of rape or both. In Caterpillar, Imomushi, Hanakamakiri and a few more female characters all have Rape as Backstory and the matter is shown more graphically since it was a seinen publication. The story even ends with Imomushi expressing a desire to rape Hanakamakiri in a comical way, in the middle of a rape zombie apocalypse.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_6df54a73	type	Make Some Noise
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_6df54a73	comment	Make Some Noise: Paraponera suddenly screams at Kumo with great force to distract and (try to) shoot him dead. He's essentially "stridulating" like ants do, which is treated as unique to him and Dinoponera even though many other bugs can do that.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_73ef9ef3	type	Almighty Janitor
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_73ef9ef3	comment	Almighty Janitor: The Shidemushi are the Organization's Cleanup Crew and their original member is behind the Death Caterpillar game. Osamushi and Kagimushi work as mangakas. To be specific, they're expies of Osamu Tezuka and Shotaro Ishinomori. So the God of Manga, of all people, killed enough people to be ranked first within the Organization.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_75c33176	type	Saved by Canon
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_75c33176	comment	Saved by Canon: Characters like Imomushi, Hanakamakiri, Kabutomushi, Sasori and Kumo are known to still be alive by the events of Arachnid. Everyone eventually escapes from the Ageha on a a ship owned by Amenbo. Paraponera is the only character hit by the opposite trope, as it was a Foregone Conclusion that Imomushi would kill him. The twist is that she pretty much loses to him but he ends up dying from his injuries before he can finish her off.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_76933235	type	Depopulation Bomb
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_76933235	comment	Depopulation Bomb: The story ends with a zombie outbreak put in motion so the Organization can halve Japan's population and rule over its remains.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_76a5eaf8	type	Spotlight-Stealing Squad
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_76a5eaf8	comment	Spotlight-Stealing Squad: Kabutomushi gets a notably high amount of focus compared to the rest of the cast while fighting a group of her pupils in scenes that are mostly detached from the main plot of Caterpillar.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_79a0e313	type	Bolivian Army Ending
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_79a0e313	comment	Bolivian Army Ending: The story ends with Imomushi fighting off zombies in a massive outbreak to find Hanakamakiri and Alice.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_7ef70048	type	Big Bad Friend
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_7ef70048	comment	Big Bad Friend: Imomushi's sister Mika is in control of the Death Caterpillar hunt. She went insane and developed a split personality based on Akiho after being repeatedly raped and nearly killed.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_80a247a9	type	Breather Episode
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_80a247a9	comment	Breather Episode: Every once in a while there's a chapter that takes place during the period Imomushi and Hanakamakiri were getting to know each other.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_850258ca	type	I Know Mortal Kombat
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_850258ca	comment	I Know Mortal Kombat: Riock is a "Kahen Rider" fan who took from that show an idea of surviving through brute force alone and uses "Rider Punch" as his signature move.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_8591611a	type	Shameful Strip
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_8591611a	comment	Shameful Strip: The Weaver Ant triplets undress a restrained Imomushi intending to rape her before Jigabachi experiments on and kills her, but the kids start beating each other over who gets to molest her the most. This allows Imomushi to struggle and pull the syringe that's paralyzing her. Megumi is asked by the Weaver Ant triplets to strip herself in exchange for them carrying Kabutomushi's secret weapon for her. She does it while frowning at the ceiling in embarrassment, but gets angry when they make fun of her small chest and then strips them too to take pictures for blackmailing them.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: There are a couple of minor villains that don't escape the Ageha ship with Imomushi but aren't shown getting killed in the explosion either. The story prominently features Dinoponera fighting Imomushi at the Arachnid Hunt, but doesn't adress her terrible fate seen in Arachnid at all. There's also no word on what happened to Amenbo and Riokku when the zombie apocalypse broke out.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_889cff96	type	Quirky Miniboss Squad
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_889cff96	comment	Quirky Miniboss Squad: A colorful quartet of Kabutomushi's stag beetle students comes to challenge her out of anger over her abusive training. Half of them barely even get any page time.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_88ebc539	type	Always a Bigger Fish
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_88ebc539	comment	Always a Bigger Fish: The narrative exposition on paraponera clavata ants (aka bullet ants) in Caterpillar states they're so danguerous a group of army ants would avoid fighting a single one of them. This is likely Murata exaggerating though, and doesn't fit with how the army ant zombies are portrayed afterwards.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_8a817c2a	type	Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_8a817c2a	comment	Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: A lot of the bug assassins cement themselves as evil by attempting to rape someone or get them raped by someone else. They are also the ones most likely to fall victim to some Cruel and Unusual Death later... except for Kinohadakamakiri, who is among the worse of them due to his abuse of Hanakamakiri but comes to respect the boy's fighting prowess and, despite losing to Paraponera, survives the conflict with only some injuries.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_926e0d7d	type	Hot Springs Episode
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_926e0d7d	comment	Hot Springs Episode: The Febuary 2015 short crossover between Arachnid, Caterpillar and Killing Bites had Alice, Gokiburi, Imomushi, Hanakamakiri, Hitomi and Oshie hanging out at a hot spring.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_928ca2cc	type	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_928ca2cc	comment	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: The Ageha was meant to be sunk with everyone inside despite over 30 of the most formidable hitmen of the Organization being involved in the conflict, in an attempt to dispose of traitors. But apparently none of them were, and among them only Kabutomushi could be seen as expendable due to being a Token Good Teammate who wants to mantain her rule over Pomario. Imomushi saves 19 fellow assassins on her way out and also gains a grudge against the syndicate for how they ruined her sister's life, making Hanakamakiri worry that the Organization could kill her. This leads him to make a deal with their enemy Suzumebachi to ensure Imomushi's safety.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_963d947b	type	It's Personal with the Dragon
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_963d947b	comment	It's Personal with the Dragon: Paraponera earns this relationship with Imomushi when he fatally injures her sister Mika while Imomushi was trying to make peace with her.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: Yanagi "Swallowtail Butterfly" Akiho, the orphanage director who killed Imomushi's sister Mika and started the Death Caterpillar game to kill her too. But actually it's Mika herself posing as Yanagi.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_9843be73	type	As You Know
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_9843be73	comment	As You Know: Chapter 25 begins with a recap of the current situation. Justified since the story had been on hiatus for nearly a year. In the ending, Hanakamakiri explains in a letter to Imomushi what happened in the Arachnid Hunt after they left, which also serves as a recap to readers.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_9c6da41b	type	Spot the Imposter
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_9c6da41b	comment	Hanakamakiri is forced to lift his dress as a way for Imomushi to tell him apart from a master of disguise. He is really embarrassed afterwards as Kumo assumes he's a Villainous Crossdresser and Riokku starts bugging him about it out of innocent curiosity.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_9cede50e	type	Toplessness from the Back
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_9cede50e	comment	Toplessness from the Back: When the Weaver Ant triplets ask Gokiburi to undress in exchange for them carrying the heavy Heracles for her, she's seen from behind removing her bunnygirl costume while pouting and staring off at the ceiling.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_9d1cc720	type	Barbie Doll Anatomy
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_9d1cc720	comment	Barbie Doll Anatomy: Thanks to its seinen perks Caterpillar had defined nipples on the female characters, but genitals are still out of the question.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_9eca61c8	type	Production Foreshadowing
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_9eca61c8	comment	Production Foreshadowing: Chapter 25 starts with an As You Know recap that suggests bug-themed assassins have been around since ancient times. The 2017 manga Choubu no Shinobi establishes itself as a prequel in the Sengoku period by reusing the group shot of the assassins during a similar narration. Oddly enough, the samurai character in the panel got redesigned for the latter one.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_a2bff6bc	type	Rape Leads to Insanity
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_a2bff6bc	comment	Rape Leads to Insanity: Ichijikukobachi was gangraped when she was 14 and murdered her assailants in retaliation. She has nervous breakdowns while fighting and acts as if she's raping people with her drill weapon. Mika was repeatedly tortured and raped by Akiho at the orphanage until she developed a split personality based on her own abuser. After nearly dying, being raised as an assassin and finding that her efforts to let Imomushi have a normal life were for naught, she started the Death Caterpillar to get her sister raped to death too.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_a4d8473b	type	Stealth Sequel
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_a4d8473b	comment	Stealth Sequel: At first, all the reused elements from Jackals in both Arachnid and Caterpillar could be seen as mere production throwbacks. Then Roxy and her Alligator blade are directly mentioned in Kabutomushi's backstory, establishing the two series do share the same setting.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_a6123b72	type	Enfant Terrible
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_a6123b72	comment	Enfant Terrible: The little Weaver Ant triplets are obsessed with trying to force women to "play doctor" with them. Gokiburi, who at this point is around 14 years-old, turns the tables on them by stripping them and taking pictures of their dicks to use as blackmail material.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_a7382a73	type	Imagine Spot
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_a7382a73	comment	To make Kinohadakamakiri think he's gone evil, Hanakamakiri starts lying about how he's been following Imomushi around just to chop her limbs off and turn her into a literal nude caterpillar for sex slavery purposes, which is portrayed in a gruesome Imagine Spot.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_aa6c24ee	type	Slept Through the Apocalypse
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_aa6c24ee	comment	Slept Through the Apocalypse: When Imomushi is taken home after Suzumebachi knocked her out, she wakes up and is dumbfounded by the ongoing sex zombie apocalypse happening outside her apartment.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_aaedd10	type	Given Name Reveal
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_aaedd10	comment	Given Name Reveal: Kabutomushi's given name is revealed to be "Ran" in her backstory.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_ab5eea65	type	Dramatic Irony
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_ab5eea65	comment	Dramatic Irony: The encounter between Imomushi and Dinoponera at the Arachnid Hunt seen in Arachnid is reprised in its entirety, if only to point that she actually wasn't as tough as her father and to keep readers wondering just what became of her after she got raped offscreen by the ant-zombies.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_ac4ac8e5	type	Idiosyncratic Episode Naming
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_ac4ac8e5	comment	Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: Both Arachnid and Caterpillar are One Word Titles, and named after animals. Each chapter is named after dialogue or monologues said in them.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_ac6ea68c	type	Near-Villain Victory
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_ac6ea68c	comment	Near-Villain Victory: Paraponera defeats and nearly kills Imomushi during their rematch, but dies from his injuries while aiming at her.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_b2280b66	type	Retcon
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_b2280b66	comment	Retcon: When Imomushi gets worfed by Dinoponera at the Arachnid Hunt during Arachnid, she thinks to herself that Dinopo seems even stronger than her father Paraponera. By the time that scene is replayed in Caterpillar, though, readers have seen Dinoponera get humiliated by Alice and Sasori, how frail she is deep down and how Paraponera fought to his last breath against Imomushi and nearly killed her. The scene is extended so Imomushi takes back her statement and doubts Dinoponera will stand a chance against Alice.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_b252f072	type	Megaton Punch
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_b252f072	comment	Togehamushi nonchalantly walks around naked like nobody can harm her spike-shooting body and takes on Riokku and Kagimushi. The latter doesn't want to resort to killing, so he throws a lightning-fast Megaton Punch just short of her face before the spikes can trigger. This scares her so much she falls on her back uncontrollably shooting spikes and suffering from incontinence.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_b2cdd776	type	Bottomless Magazines
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_b2cdd776	comment	Bottomless Magazines: The Kumoito used by Kumo has an untold length of special spider thread inside it.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: One chapter has a cameo of Inaho Enoki from Vector Case File as she gives a lecture about misinformation in entomology. She's asked if cockroaches can evolve and become huge and agressive, and replies that's 100% false.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_b8236bb2	type	Double Weapon
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_b8236bb2	comment	Double Weapon: Kabutomushi's Heracles is revealed to be a giant double sword that can fold to slice people.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_bb2d4227	type	Cast Full of Crazy
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_bb2d4227	comment	Cast Full of Crazy: Most of the characters involved in the story are deranged in some way or other.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_c289826f	type	Double Standard Rape: Female on Male
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_c289826f	comment	Double Standard Rape: Female on Male: Imomushi's repeated attempts to get Hanakamakiri to lose his virginity are Played for Laughs. He's too big and Imomushi gets afraid of him, so she hires a prostitute but then shoos her out when the girl tries dunking a large fleshlight on the boy instead of (forcefully) having sex with him.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: In the ending, Suzumebachi remarks that the Boss is sparing no effort to find and kill an enemy "beyond their imagination". Then in Blattodea it turns out it's just Serena Cervantes, a recurring character from the author — specifically a version virtually identical to the introduced to Himenospia three months after said quote from Suzumebachi. So while even into Blattodea the characters have little idea of who Serena is, readers already had the full picture of her personality and motives since Himenospia had just ended.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_c5eee42a	type	Final Boss Preview
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_c5eee42a	comment	Final Boss Preview: Paraponera is Imomushi's Starter Villain and Final Boss. Kinohadakamakiri and Kumo come across Paraponera in the Ageha before Imomushi does and both men job to him one after the other just before she arrives.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_c660bc15	type	Fan Disservice
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_c660bc15	comment	Fan Disservice: There are multiple scenes of girls being raped by men on-panel, which was something the author was held back from portraying in the previous Arachnid series due to censorship standards of the shonen Gangan JOKER magazine at the time. To make Kinohadakamakiri think he's gone evil, Hanakamakiri starts lying about how he's been following Imomushi around just to chop her limbs off and turn her into a literal nude caterpillar for sex slavery purposes, which is portrayed in a gruesome Imagine Spot.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: One page shows Ageha in a Nazi military uniform striking the pose from the cover of Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS. Chapter 40 shows Kabutomushi holding a cellphone designed after the Kabuto Zecter. Chapter 45 has Inaho Enoki from fellow bug manga Vector Case File discussing bark mantises. Chapter 46 has the in-universe equivalent of Kamen Rider creator Shotaro Ishinomori talking about crickets. Those interview scenes are based on the ones from Baki the Grappler, as are the ones featured in Killing Bites and other Fighting Series by Murata. Osamu Tezuka is also portrayed as a master assassin, with multiple references to series like Astro Boy, Black Jack and Pheonix in his backstory and abilities.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_ca95473c	type	Series Continuity Error
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_ca95473c	comment	Series Continuity Error: When the series resumed a year after the passing of Isuka Hakozaki, Imomushi was first seen in chapter 26, nonchalantly walking around topless while holding the rest of her costume. Because Imomushi hadn't been stripped to that extent by Sasori in the previous chapter she was in, this page was edited for the volume 4 version and afterwards she fights Unka while wearing her usual strapless crop top and panties.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_cb92ce71	type	DefeatEqualsFriendship
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_cb92ce71	comment	Defeat Equals Friendship: Riock is shocked when Imomushi beats him in a fist fight and pledges his loyalty to her.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_cbe3a70d	type	Beware My Stinger Tail
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_cbe3a70d	comment	Beware My Stinger Tail: Sasori turns out to have a long mechanical scorpion tail attached to her back. How she hides that, especially in that miniskirt she wears, is anyone's guess.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_cc8564b3	type	Playboy Bunny
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_cc8564b3	comment	Playboy Bunny: The hostesses at the Ageha all wear bunnygirl costumes. Kabutomushi and Gokiburi do too, to try to blend with them while infiltrating the ship.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_ce287322	type	The Ugly Guy's Hot Daughter
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_ce287322	comment	The Ugly Guy's Hot Daughter: The cutesy Dinoponera to Fat Bastard Paraponera, but she's adopted.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_ce767e6f	type	Co-Dragons
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_ce767e6f	comment	Co-Dragons: Paraponera, the number 2 hitman of the Organization, is Ageha's bodyguard and acts as Imomushi's archnemesis for the story. He ironically kills his boss to get her out of the way when it turns out she's actually Imomushi's sister Mika. Osamushi, the number 1 hitman of the Organization, is convinced to work for Ageha in enchange for having his youth restored and acquiring an artificial right arm. He ends up letting himself be mortally wounded by his student Kagimushi to explode and accomplish the Organization's plan to sink the Ageha ship. Himekuwagata is a friend of Ageha's who taught her to control her mental disorder. She's tasked with sinking the Ageha to kill all the civilians aboard and is fought by Kabutomushi towards the end of the story.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_cf7ccd79	type	Orphanage of Fear
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_cf7ccd79	comment	Orphanage of Fear: The Orphanage Miki/Imomushi and Mika lived in. The employees beat Miki up for making trouble at school and the director's daughter, who goes on to become the main villain, sexually abuses Mika for years in exchange for Miki not being sent to a reformatory. Ran Kabuto was raised in Pomario, an orphanage that is a front for the Organization to train child soldiers and in which her once-beloved master Hercules killed her best friend for kicks. Once the beetle girl takes his mantle as Kabutomushi, she ends up treating her own pupils only slighty better as Himekuwagata accuses her of letting most of them die during training.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_d028e0da	type	An Arm and a Leg
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_d028e0da	comment	An Arm and a Leg: Paraponera gets an arm blasted by an explosive, Unka loses both legs to a landmine and Hiratakuwagata gets her right leg chopped by Kabutomushi. The unsettling subtext is that all three characters have a common link to Dinoponera, insinuating she might suffer such a loss eventually: Paraponera is her father, Unka mirrors her failure to keep up with Paraponera and half the point of Hiratakuwagata existing in the story is implying Kabutomushi could've beaten Dinoponera with the Heracles blade.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_d0f0a80d	type	One-Word Title
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_d0f0a80d	comment	One-Word Title: Arachnid, Caterpillar and Blattodea are the names of the main entries in the series.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_d609b01a	type	Carnival of Killers
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_d609b01a	comment	Carnival of Killers: Imomushi is the target of the "Death Caterpillar" game at the Ageha cruise ship. The people attacking her carry a series of envelopes with details on how her sister Mika was killed and rich people bet on the outcome of the fights. However, the actual point of the competition is to nuke the ship and get all the VIPs inside killed.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_dae3999d	type	Action Bomb
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_dae3999d	comment	Osamushi, the number 1 hitman of the Organization, is convinced to work for Ageha in enchange for having his youth restored and acquiring an artificial right arm. He ends up letting himself be mortally wounded by his student Kagimushi to explode and accomplish the Organization's plan to sink the Ageha ship.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_dae5c997	type	Action Girl
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_dae5c997	comment	Action Girl: Imomushi, Kabutomushi and virtually any other female assassin in the story are quite capable in combat.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_dda34434	type	Japanese Beetle Brothers
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_dda34434	comment	Japanese Beetle Brothers: Kabutomushi is a girly, intense and incredibly strong rhino beetle lady who faces a quartet of her students who are themed after stag beetles. Moreover, Kabuto gets to show off a Heracles beetle-themed weapon after her enemy upgrades to a Dorcus titanus stag.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_df41acb	type	Casual Danger Dialogue
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_df41acb	comment	Casual Danger Dialogue: When Kabutomushi is about to fight Hiratakuwagata, she asks Gokiburi to bring Heracles to her and promises she'll be free from Pomario afterwards. Goki pulls up her cellphone and says she wants to record Kabuto repeating it just to make sure she won't go back on her word, but is driven away by Hirata's rampage.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_dffd6a64	type	Glad-to-Be-Alive Sex
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_dffd6a64	comment	Glad-to-Be-Alive Sex: Even though Hanakamakiri promises to spend a night with Imomushi after they return alive from the Ageha ship, a year goes by and nothing happens for no real reason — with only a bait-and-switch dream scene of the two having sex at most. Imomushi then gets frustrated at Hanakamakiri departing for betraying her in a way she doesn't give a damn about and starts shouting she'll find and fuck him even if she must resort to rape, mirroring what happens between Goki and Alice in Arachnid.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_e2ccee25	type	Animal Motifs
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_e2ccee25	comment	Animal Motifs: It's what most of the author's works revolve around. The personalities and skills of every character are compared in wild life trivia sections to the behavior of certain insects or arachnids. Given Imomushi is a protagonist, she is associated with many different species of caterpillars unlike how most of the characters only get one species of their bug.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_e2f7ab99	type	Assassin Outclassin'
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_e2f7ab99	comment	Assassin Outclassin': Imomushi is hardly worried about being on a ship full of people trying to kill her. The Ageha nukes itself at the end of the story, but not only does Imomushi survive but she also takes 19 people away with her.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_e3c36782	type	Call-Forward
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_e3c36782	comment	Call-Forward: There are a number of scenes meant to echo later events from Arachnid — particularly those related to Dinoponera, curiously enough. Given what happens to her in Arachnid and considering those nods have a disturbing amputation subtext to them, Murata really seemed to want readers to be concerned about her... Imomushi catching a knife with her teeth, referencing how she does that to Alice's and Dinoponera's weapons during the Arachnid Hunt. When Jigabachi explains how he's using electrodes to paralyse Imomushi, he mentions the method can be improved to mind-control the victim, which later happens to Gokiburi in Arachnid. One minor villain, Unka, holds a grudge agaisnt Paraponera for apparently tricking him into tripping a landmine, but Imomushi argues that Unka himself was too weak and just got left behind. This is similar to Dinoponera's backstory in Arachnid, where she fails to keep up with her father and is left to die alone. Kabutomushi fights a shape-shifting girl who in her teen form looks suspiciously like Dinoponera and only defeats her by using the Heracles blade that, in Arachnid, she regrets not being able to use against Dinopo. Kabuto incapacitates her foe by chopping off her leg, similar to how Alice defeats Dinopo by forcing her to stab her own leg. The difference is that Kabutomushi refuses to kill her student but later insists Alice has to kill Dinoponera. Kumo and Paraponera fight each other, mirroring the battle between Alice and Dinoponera in Arachnid. The difference is that Paraponera wins, which is intended to show how weak Dinoponera is compared to him. As Imomushi is being beaten up by Dinoponera, an extra scene shows her thinking Dinopo is far too naive and childish to be able to beat a monster like Alice Fujii. Imomushi saves Kumo but remarks he'll likely get himself killed anyway sooner or later. He forces his own pupil to kill him in the first volume of Arachnid. The very final scene is a Call-Back to Imomushi talking to Alice back at the Arachnid Hunt, saying that the cause and solution for any troubles must be within oneself. It changes her lines a little so she tells Alice to carve her own path without depending on anyone, echoing Alice in the final Arachnid chapter saying a murderer like her cannot depend on other people.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_e4cf1ef0	type	Load-Bearing Boss
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_e4cf1ef0	comment	Load-Bearing Boss: When Osamushi dies, he detonates into a nuclear explosion that obliterates the Ageha ship. Imomushi manages to escape with Amenbo's help and brings along every other assassin that managed to make it to her. All the other guests and civilians die in either horror or blissful ignorance.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_e542d889	type	Gorn
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_e542d889	comment	Gorn: The story features a few gory scenes, including a closeup of a person's crushed head in one of the last chapters. Arachnid, in contrast, had to censor a scene of Sasori dissecting her own parents on the transition between the Gangan JOKER magazine and volume publications.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_e621b159	type	A-Cup Angst
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_e621b159	comment	Megumi is asked by the Weaver Ant triplets to strip herself in exchange for them carrying Kabutomushi's secret weapon for her. She does it while frowning at the ceiling in embarrassment, but gets angry when they make fun of her small chest and then strips them too to take pictures for blackmailing them.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_e8e56799	type	Blue-and-Orange Morality
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_e8e56799	comment	Blue-and-Orange Morality: Characters such as Shidemushi and Suzumebachi firmly believe that the Boss is a visionary genius for nuking Japan on purpose, discarding dozens of their most skilled personnel in a bloody competition and later causing a Zombie Apocalypse to halve the country's population.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_ea85d6ea	type	All Just a Dream
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_ea85d6ea	comment	All Just a Dream: Towards the end, Imomushi appears to finally have sex with Hanakamakiri but then wakes up and sees it was just a dream after all. Hanakamakiri had rescued her after Suzumebachi knocked her out and left her home with only a farewell letter.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_eb4ee9eb	type	Guns Are Worthless
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_eb4ee9eb	comment	Guns Are Worthless: Some characters do use guns, but hardly get any use out of them and soon completely forget they exist as focus is shifted to the assassins' weird insect-themed abilities and weapons. In the end, after much clowning around with gatling gun fire, Paraponera finally has Imomushi at his mercy but runs out of batteries and dies on the spot, his body only pulling the trigger after she had moved out of the way.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_eb7c34cf	type	Crossover
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_eb7c34cf	comment	Crossover: There was a short non-canon Hot Springs Episode between Arachnid, Caterpillar and Killing Bites. And a food contest comic, too. Inaho Enoki from Vector Case File and The Island of Giant Insects appears twice to give fun facts about certain bugs, but she's merely a cameo with no effect on the actual plot.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_eb9afb9d	type	Evil Old Folks
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_eb9afb9d	comment	Evil Old Folks: Jigabachi, the Mad Scientist who develops devices for torture and brainwashing. Unka, an Old Soldier turned into a cyborg assassin after he lost his legs to a landmine. Osamushi, the in-universe Osamu Tezuka who has killed enough people to be ranked the best assassin in the whole Organization, even above Paraponera. However, he's rejuvenated at the point he antagonizes Kagimushi. The original Shidemushi, who was hired by the Boss after losing everything in WWII and returns the favor by sacrificing himself to nuke the Ageha to get rid of a number of VIPs, with several innocent civilians caught in the explosion.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_efbfe117	type	Complaining About Rescues They Don't Like
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_efbfe117	comment	Complaining About Rescues They Don't Like: Death Seeker Kumo is defeated by Paraponera fair-and-square but Imomushi saves his life. Later she has to drag his injured body out of the Ageha while he practically throws a tantrum begging her to leave him for dead.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_f0fe7e80	type	But Now I Must Go
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_f0fe7e80	comment	But Now I Must Go: Hanakamakiri makes a deal with the enemy Suzumebachi so that by turning Alice into the new Boss and guarding her, Imomushi's life will be spared and he will be in a position to ensure no one in the Organization will ever target his partner again. He leaves Imomushi a farewell letter and disappears, thinking she wouldn't forgive him for such a "betrayal".
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_f17eb909	type	Somewhere, an Entomologist Is Crying
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_f17eb909	comment	Somewhere, an Entomologist Is Crying: The series greatly exaggerates insect qualities for the sake of justifying the superpowers of the assassins.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_f3626b09	type	Mercy Kill
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_f3626b09	comment	Mercy Kill: Caterpillar finds Paraponera's raping one of his targets and shoots her dead from out of pity.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_f55d739f	type	The Baroness
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_f55d739f	comment	The Baroness: Akiho is a sadistic sexpot dominatrix in a nazi uniform who wants to ruin Imomushi's life for no good reason after already killing her sister.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_f800dc72	type	Dual Age Modes
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_f800dc72	comment	Dual Age Modes: Himekuwagata initially appears as a child who represents the Dorcus rectus species, but she suddenly grows up and starts calling herself a curvidens. Then she finishes her transformation into a Chainmail Bikini-clad titanus adult. Her three forms are actually split personalities who consider each other sisters and are all conscious at the same time.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_f85354eb	type	Attempted Rape
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_f85354eb	comment	Attempted Rape: The antagonists threaten both Imomushi and Hanakamakiri with rape every so often.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_fb6b207f	type	You Killed My Father
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_fb6b207f	comment	You Killed My Father: Paraponera mortally wounds Mika right in front of Imomushi and she barely wins the ensuing fight. It is then seen this is why Imomushi intended to kill Suzumebachi at the Arachnid Hunt, as he knew Mika was alive all along but never told her and in fact kept blaming her over the girl's supposed death. Imomushi asks Dinoponera if she wants revenge for her father Paraponera's death, but the ant-girl seems unbothered and just says he must've died honourably against a Worthy Opponent.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_fd5f23a7	type	Skyward Scream
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_fd5f23a7	comment	Skyward Scream: Imomushi screams in rage and despair for four pages after her sister dies for real.
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Caterpillar (Manga) / int_fed93e1b	type	Dark and Troubled Past
Caterpillar (Manga) / int_fed93e1b	comment	Dark and Troubled Past: Every single character in the cast has a miserable backstory, except for some of the villains who turned out the way they did in spite of a normal upbringing.
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