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Helen ESP (Manga)
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })A manga written and drawn by Kigitsu Katsuhisa, the same mangaka responsible for Franken Fran.It tells the story of Helen Takahara La Guido, a young Japanese girl who, five years ago, lost her sight, hearing, and ability to speak in a traffic accident. Until the beginning of the story, Helen was having a peaceful and normal life with her uncle and her guide dog Victor, when suddenly strange powers woke on her.While the range of those powers is unclear, the series shows Helen helping several people in extremely unusual ways with them, as well as sensing and meeting beings that are unseen to normal people. Beside all this, she also can communicate with Victor via telepathy. With her innocent and optimistic nature, Helen is able to solve problems that couldn't be done by a regular human, albeit some of them get herself trouble.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Started in 2008 and finished in 2010, spawning only two volumes, the series is a big surprise to the readers who know Katsuhisa's other work. While Franken Fran presents us with shockingly violent scenes, very disturbing situations and (usually) not so happy endings, Helen ESP surprises in showing a more positive and light-hearted story. However, one thing that both series have in common is that the protagonists see themselves entangled in problematic situations of the human nature, and try to solve them no matter what cost. | |
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The Cameo | |
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The Cameo: Fran (yes, that Fran) makes a special appearance in the bonus chapter of volume 1. She even offers to help Helen in getting out of her disability. Hilariously, however, Helen asks Fran to help her in something else: to read Braille faster. | |
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Breaking the Fourth Wall | |
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Breaking the Fourth Wall: The last chapter of the series has Helen having a dream where she comes in contact with the person who was reading the story all along. She then warmly greets the reader. | |
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Cordon Bleugh Chef | |
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Cordon Bleugh Chef: Helen, surprisingly enough. Her uncle was cringing at the sight of the food she managed to cook despite her handicap, but was ready to eat it anyway so as to not hurt her feelings, and to his surprise, it actually tasted delicious. He attributes this to the fact that because she's lacking two of her senses, the other ones became a lot more acute to compensate. | |
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Gory Discretion Shot | |
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Gory Discretion Shot: Devil's death in chapter 4. He gets brutally and literally clubbed to pieces by angry townspeople who thought he was going to attack Helen. However, while the action takes place offscreen, you do get to see surprisingly gory glimpses of it and its aftermath; the end result wouldn't look out of place in Franken Fran (Though it would be tame by its standards). | |
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Dark Is Not Evil | |
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Dark Is Not Evil: Like the creator's earlier Franken Fran, the work has a number of beings that seem monstrous or terrifying, but turn out to actually be good-natured beneath the surface, like the demon from the first chapter whose claim of wanting to die to save her Master turns out to be entirely genuine and in good faith or the mysterious shadowy figure from the second chapter, that appears to menace Helen but later saves her from an attacker and rapist. Others are just as bad as they appear, though. | |
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Face of a Thug | |
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Face of a Thug: Helen's principal is introduced with Scary Shiny Glasses, steepled fingers, claiming his school supports diversity and tolerance while his face can only be described as Japanese Hitler. This turns out to be entirely correct, with every student being more than willing to help Helen (the principal himself makes no further appearances). | |
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But Not Too Foreign | |
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But Not Too Foreign: It is stated that Helen is half-Japanese, half-French (probably Corsican, given the name). | |
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When She Smiles | |
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When She Smiles: Victor was originally just the family's puppy, but when Helen lost her senses and parents, she understandably became a lot more withdrawn and bitter for a time. Getting her to smile again was the reason why Victor decided to train hard to become her eye-seeing dog. | |
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Origins Episode | |
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Origins Episode: Chapter 13 explains how Helen and Victor met. | |
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Japanese Delinquents | |
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Japanese Delinquents: Oguri's older brother Midou is a classic example — a hulking, foul-mouthed figure with spiky hair, mirror shades, and fingerless gloves with knuckle plates, first seen having just beaten someone unconscious before noticing Helen and starting to hassle her — though he reforms himself later. | |
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Creepy Doll | |
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Creepy Doll: One story features a female manequinn of the school falling in love with the teacher who built her, and tries to kill him because she can't have him physically. Subverted since the mannequin herself knows she is doing something wrong. | |
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Cute Mute | |
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Cute Mute: Helen. She's mute, but adorable as hell. | |
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Misunderstood Loner with a Heart of Gold | |
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Misunderstood Loner with a Heart of Gold: The supernatural creature of chapter 2, a sinister-looking, shadowy figure tied to the fourth floor and elevator of the town meeting hall and ends up terrifying Helen, but helps Helen when she is about to be attacked by a would-be rapist. Devil, from chapter 4. He's an aloof, distant, and widely hated dog who constantly steals food and can get pretty violent, but that's because he knows how dangerous humans can be after all his friends from the dog races were killed, and has to feed a baby that had been abandoned in a shrine where he lives. | |
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Ant War | |
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Ant War: In "Helen And The Dream", two warring ant colonies are who Helen has been advising. | |
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Invisible to Normals | |
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Invisible to Normals: Occasionally Helen meets supernatural deities that can't be noticed by other people. Some of them tend to be good-natured, while others... not really. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: A Japanese work that calls a deafblind "Helen" is likely to be influenced by Helen Keller; especially the fact that she visited Japan several times during the Pacific War of all times made her better known in Japan than in the US. | |
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Talking with Signs | |
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Talking with Signs: Helen's primary method of communicating with other people. | |
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