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Metamorphosis (2013) (Manga)

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Saki Yoshida is about to graduate from middle school. Problem is, she hasn't any made any friends during her time over there, so she decides to add some make-up to herself with the help of her mother. While she does gain notable attention from other students as a result, this sets her on a path that will lead to her ruin.Metamorphosis (変身, Henshin, and also called Emergence) is a manga written by ShindoL, loosely inspired by the novel of the same name. It was originally published in the magazine Comic X-Eros from July 26, 2013 to March 26, 2016 and later republished in tank�bon format by Wanimagazine. An official English translation was released by Fakku in 2017.Not to be confused with the famous novel by Franz Kafka, nor the classical poem by Ovid.Spoilers are unmarked!
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Dirty Coward
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Dirty Coward: Saki's father sells his own daughter out to her mother when their illicit and incestuous affair is caught, blaming his own daughter for everything. Worse, he just allows her to get kicked out and eventually live on the streets, all without a single drop of remorse.
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Compensated Dating
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Saki's classmates. Not only do they willingly misdirect her to take up Compensated Dating in order to 'fit in' with the cool girls' clique, the moment the boys cling to her and further blackmail her for sexual favors from said Compensated Dating, the girls then act like they're jealous at her, then bully her, driving her out of schoolnote They have nothing to do with Hayato either. And the next time they meet, it seems that the girls fulfilled their goal: Without Saki, they managed to snare the boys. Seeing Saki later in the future, both boys and girls heartlessly assault her and make a point to assault her pregnant belly, contributing to possibly killing the unborn child, while stealing her hard-earned money, accusing her as a thief and some of them taking portraits of the assaultnote Their Karma Houdini status is more or less also implied and clear: They come from a rich family, which enabled them to demand favors from Saki and also buy those expensive handbags. If someone actually bothers to bring this to the courtroom, they are more likely able to afford the best lawyers to defend their case.. They are examples of Teens Are Monsters at its finest, especially because unlike a majority of her offenders, they simply do it For the Evulz instead of wanting to manipulate Saki.
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I Just Want to Have Friends
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I Just Want to Have Friends: According to her character bio, Saki Yoshida doesn't have any dreams, but she just wants friends. It goes terribly wrong.
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Dirty Old Man
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Kumagai is a Dirty Old Man with connections and paid Saki to have sex with him as part of the Compensated Dating, so he's definitely one of the Jerkass antagonists. However, Kumagai has also worked with the department of justice, giving him insight of which one is a bad man or not. He might have done bad things himself while he abuses his position, but even he knows that Hayato is not a good man, something that he semi-advised to Saki (before degrading her and then having sex with her). And generally, it was not his idea to take portraits of their sex scene for blackmail; that's all on Saki's friends who suggested the Compensated Dating, he's just a client of the service.
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She Cleans Up Nicely
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She Cleans Up Nicely: Deconstructed. Getting a makeover to look beautiful doesn't magically help you develop social skills, and since Saki is still the same nerd with little to no social skills even after the change, she's not prepared to deal with the social circles she ends up falling into because of her looks and ends up getting badly mistreated.
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Gyaru Girl
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Gyaru Girl: After she starts doing sex work to help pay off Hayato's debts, Saki goes for the ganguro look by getting a deep tan, bleached blonde hair, tattoos, and piercings.
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Even Evil Has Standards
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Even Evil Has Standards: Even though Hayato is a corrupting and toxic prick, he's outright furious with her and kicks her out of his apartment when he discovers that she's been spending his money on drugs, accusing her of "just wanting to get high" and calling her a "fucking junkie". Alternatively, it's less how she wasted his money, but the kind of drugs she's buying: While Hayato himself has been snorting his own drugs within Obata's store (and taught Saki about it), he was never seen using heroin or things that could make him imagine a fake reality (which Saki used). Kicking Saki out may be seen as Hayato not even wanting anything to do with heroin, not even as an item he could sell in the black market and cover his debt. Kumagai is a Dirty Old Man with connections and paid Saki to have sex with him as part of the Compensated Dating, so he's definitely one of the Jerkass antagonists. However, Kumagai has also worked with the department of justice, giving him insight of which one is a bad man or not. He might have done bad things himself while he abuses his position, but even he knows that Hayato is not a good man, something that he semi-advised to Saki (before degrading her and then having sex with her). And generally, it was not his idea to take portraits of their sex scene for blackmail; that's all on Saki's friends who suggested the Compensated Dating, he's just a client of the service.
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Beautiful All Along
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Beautiful All Along: Saki's transition from plain nerdy type to attractive involves little else besides her styling her hair better and wearing makeup.
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Teens Are Monsters
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Teens Are Monsters: All of Saki's classmates either take advantage of her by forcing her to sleep with them, or just verbally abuse and outright shun her. They're also the ones who suggested Compensated Dating for her to buy expensive items just so Saki can 'fit in' with their 'cool' clique (and Saki eats up all those as a part of her 'transformation'), and someone takes pictures of her Compensated Dating just to Blackmail her for their own sexual favor, leading to all of the above. And to top it all off, some of them even beat her up in the final chapter when they come across and recognize her as a drug-addled beggar.
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Broken Tears
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Broken Tears: Saki dissolves into tears upon seeing herself in the mirror and realizing what she's become after being beaten up by her former classmates near the end of the story.
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Ambiguous Ending
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Ambiguous Ending: Did Saki die at the end, with the scene of her as a mother in the future being a near-death hallucination (as comments by the author seem to suggest)? Or did she really survive, after all, clean up her life, and become a mother for real?
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Date Rape
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Date Rape: Saki's first date post-makeover is with a guy named Hayato, who quickly picks up on her naïveté. He gets her drunk, gives her a dose of some form of drug, has sex with her while she's high, then puts his number in her phone and leaves after she's passed out. She enjoys the experience and comes back to him repeatedly for the same, but it's clear that she doesn't understand how she's been taken advantage of.
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Butt-Monkey
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Butt-Monkey: Saki, oh so much, to the point that it's Played for Drama and a Deconstructed Trope as the manga goes on. She starts out the story having a Friendless Background, then gets raped on her first outing with her future boyfriend, and it only gets even worse from that point on.
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Friendless Background
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Friendless Background: The opening pages establish that Saki didn't make any friends during middle school due to being shy. Her makeover is an attempt to rectify this, but it goes very, very wrong.
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Downer Ending
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Downer Ending: The manga ends with Saki dead from a drug overdose after being beaten up, horribly violated, and robbed by some of her former classmates. Any hope of her surviving is revealed to be an Imagine Spot, and her unborn baby dies with her.
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Bookends
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Bookends: The first time we see Saki Yoshida, we see her stressing about her Friendless Background and her attempts to change it. The final moments of her life has the same pose, albeit this time realizing what she has become thanks to her appearance.
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Stereotypical Nerd
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Stereotypical Nerd: Before her makeover, Saki is shown to be a friendless loner who wears her hair in unfashionable twin braids, has Nerd Glasses, and wears her school uniform in the appropriate old fashioned way. She has little social knowledge about how to make friends and is shown later on to not even see when people are obviously trying to fool her/use her.
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Parental Incest
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Parental Incest: Saki's father rapes her, then spins it to her mother to make her think that Saki tried to seduce him. In a betrayal of her promise to always have Saki's back, her mother takes her father's side and assaults her, and Saki runs away from home.
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Lack of Empathy
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Lack of Empathy: Being a World of Jerkass, virtually anyone and everyone around Saki either takes advantage of her, abuses her in various ways, or just outright want nothing to do with her.
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Jerkass Has a Point
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Jerkass Has a Point: Kumagai is the first client of Saki's Compensated Dating and is portrayed as unpleasant like a majority of the characters. However, he's not completely wrong when he tells Saki that Hayato isn't the kind person Saki thinks he is. Additionally, while he insults Saki for having lowered herself to the point of being not as good as when they first met, it can also serve as a warning that Saki should really hit the brakes about further degrading herself. But she refuses to stop anyway.
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Driven to Suicide
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Driven to Suicide: After she's assaulted by her classmates, Saki manages to drag herself to a filthy public restroom. She looks at herself in a mirror and is so horrified by everything that's happened to her and by what she's become that she smashes the mirror and deliberately overdoses on her remaining heroin supply, dying shortly thereafter.
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Descent into Addiction
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Descent into Addiction: Saki's downfall starts when Hayato plies her with booze and drugs. She gets hooked on having sex with him while high, and her addictions eventually escalate to the point that she takes payment for her sex work in drugs rather than money. Making this even worse is having heroin addiction forced on her by Obata, as she proves unable to escape its clutches. Even after she tries to go sober after learning she's pregnant, she falls Off the Wagon due to the severe pain of withdrawal, and eventually dies from an overdose.
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Because You Were Nice to Me
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Because You Were Nice to Me: Saki wants to Work Off the Debt from Hayato, because in her eyes, he's been so nice and supportive, especially after taking her in after her parents kicked her out of her house. Unfortunately, Hayato is actually not nice.
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From Bad to Worse
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From Bad to Worse: As the story progresses, more and more people exploit Saki for their own selfish desires and reasons, and Saki herself begins descending further into her sex and drug addictions.
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Nerds Are Naïve
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Nerds Are Naïve: Despite her changing her nerdy appearance, Saki's gullibleness and naïveté regarding the ill-intentions others have towards her is part of what leads to her ending up in so many horrible situations. In the first chapter, she hangs out with a random guy who hits on her, trusting him even as he tells her he's drugging her all because he tells her he loves her just to sleep with her. Justified, in that Saki hasn't had any friends for her entire adolescence, so she has little idea of how to navigate social situations and is desperate to make friends.
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Go Out with a Smile
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Go Out with a Smile: Saki dies smiling, not because she's satisfied or something, but because she's Driven to Suicide via overdose, and the heroin allows her to have a happy Dying Dream which makes her smile.
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Deconstructed Trope
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Hayato is drawn with a blatant "handsome but manipulative smug sexual predator" face so the first time the readers see him, they all know he's just a walking red flag (and additionally, even a bastard like Kumagai knows he's not a good man even by description alone). In a deconstruction, his seduction of Saki succeeds because she has No Social Skills to detect all those red flags, and that may be why Hayato targets her in the first place.
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Deconstruction
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Deconstruction: Metamorphosis is a harsh examination of a lot of tropes and plot points that are used much more cavalierly in other hentai works, showing how physically and psychologically destructive they would actually be to a girl in those circumstances.
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Laser-Guided Karma
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Laser-Guided Karma: By implications, Hayato would still be screwed in the long run as well: He was already in big debts and Saki has been helping him. Now that he dumped her and she died, there's no one who would help him pay his debts and soon, he may receive visit from a debt collector and may as well die from beating. Unfortunately, we never see him get to the point.
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There Are No Therapists
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There Are No Therapists: Not once does Saki decide to seek professional help to cope with her drug addictions and eventual pregnancy, nor do any of the adults in Saki's life recommend such help to her. Justified towards the end, when Saki is practically broke and living off the street, unable to pay for food or even her drugs, much less a therapist.
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Big Bad
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Even though Hayato is a corrupting and toxic prick, he's outright furious with her and kicks her out of his apartment when he discovers that she's been spending his money on drugs, accusing her of "just wanting to get high" and calling her a "fucking junkie". Alternatively, it's less how she wasted his money, but the kind of drugs she's buying: While Hayato himself has been snorting his own drugs within Obata's store (and taught Saki about it), he was never seen using heroin or things that could make him imagine a fake reality (which Saki used). Kicking Saki out may be seen as Hayato not even wanting anything to do with heroin, not even as an item he could sell in the black market and cover his debt.
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Never My Fault
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Never My Fault: Saki's father blames the entirety of their illicit affair on his own daughter once they're caught by Saki's mother. In fact, it was he who sexually assaulted her repeatedly.
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Fix Fic
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Fix Fic: A Redditor created an alternate ending called I'm Gonna Fix That Girl where Saki is saved at the last minute by Josuke Higashikata, who uses his Stand to cure her. It ends with the Dying Dream of Saki and her daughter like in canon, only this time, it's the reality, with Saki remembering how Josuke saved her life.
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Karma Houdini
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Karma Houdini: Every single person in Saki's life who enabled her drug and sex addiction and/or physically, emotionally, and sexually abused her, practically get away scot-free. Ironically, only Saki herself really ends up suffering the consequences of her own bad decisions and actions.
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Junkie Parent
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Junkie Parent: Played with. After Hayato abandons Saki, she finds out that she's pregnant, and vows to have the baby and clean up her act. However, she can't take the withdrawal pains and starts using heroin again.
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Adults Are Useless
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Adults Are Useless: Played for Drama. None of the adults in Saki's life even try to help her get out of her eventual addiction, with all of them only having their own selfish interests or desires in mind, many even enabling her worsening drug habits and sex addiction. Not even her own parents for that matter, with her father raping her and her mother proving to be easily gullible and manipulated into disowning her daughter without any second thoughts or regrets.
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Porn with Plot
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Porn with Plot: It's labeled hentai for a reason. However, it surprisingly has a solid and realistic (and depressing) plot running through the story, attracting several people who gets intrigued with the non-porn depressing parts of the plot.
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Abusive Parents
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Abusive Parents: Saki's father, on top of raping his own daughter, blames Saki for seducing him once he's caught by Saki's mother, and refuses to want to do anything with her after that. By extension, Saki's mother qualifies as well, given that she disowned, kicked out, and abandoned her daughter without a second thought, despite there being evidence that Saki's father had raped her and that it wasn't consensual.
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Everyone Has Standards
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Everyone Has Standards: Eventually, even Saki's new drug dealer pushes her away due to her poor hygiene and terrible smell resulting from her prolonged homelessness. He practically throws the drugs at Saki just so she can get lost.
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Corrupt the Cutie
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Corrupt the Cutie: Saki gradually turns from a naïve and relatively innocent schoolgirl into a drug-addicted prostitute thanks to being used, abused, and manipulated by several men who only see her as an outlet for their urges.
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Forced Addiction
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Forced Addiction: Even after Saki starts turning tricks for the clients of Obata's heroin bar to help pay off Hayato's debt, she's still assaulted by the bar's patrons and Obata, who injects her with heroin to make her more compliant. She gets addicted almost immediately, and gets to the point where she accepts drugs instead of money for her services, which eventually leads to Hayato kicking her out.
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Stock Shoujo Bullying Tactics
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Stock Shoujo Bullying Tactics: At one point, Saki discovers that her desk has been defaced, with "Gross", "Pervert", "Whore", "Die", and other harsh words and phrases scrawled all over it.
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I Have No Son!
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I Have No Son!: Saki's own mother, after finding out about the apparent affair her husband was having with their own daughter (actually him raping her), ends up kicking Saki out of their house, with Saki's father also wanting nothing to do with her as well.
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Show Within a Show
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Show Within a Show: ShindoL released a page of bonus material on his Patreon which reveals that Metamorphosis is a fictional movie in-universe. Saki's actress arrives on-set wearing a ShindoL boggin cap, is shown putting on makeup, and takes direction on her expression during a sex scene. She also tries to do a coke-snorting scene, but it goes badly, and Hayato's actor asks if she's okay. However, it still doesn't change that the Show Within a Show itself also has a Downer Ending, even if they're played by sane and nice people.
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Irony
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Irony: Saki ended up becoming addicted to sex and drugs in a misguided attempt to make friends in her life. These addictions eventually end with her living alone on the street and ultimately Dying Alone.
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LOL, 69
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LOL, 69: Played for Drama, as Saki Yoshida is shown to be attending her middle school's 69th annual graduation ceremony — eerily foreshadowing her fate of suffering under the sex industry.
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Fan Disservice
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Fan Disservice: While this is a hentai manga and the sex scenes are portrayed as one might expect, a great deal of them are very uncomfortable to take in due to the circumstances and/or what's happening to Saki.
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Hypocrite
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Hypocrite: Saki's mother tells her daughter that she'll always be on her side no matter what happens. Once Saki's father tells her that Saki has been coming onto him (which could not be further from the truth), Saki's mother immediately disowns her.
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Drugs Are Bad
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Drugs Are Bad: While the many sexual traumas Saki endures are horrifically scarring, it's her drug addictions that eventually destroy her life, both by causing and fueling the behaviors that lead to some of the aforementioned traumas and by taking their own severe toll on her physical and mental health.
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World of Jerkass
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World of Jerkass: This story takes place in real-world Japan. However, it certainly exaggerates the darker side of its urban life, especially the drug dealing, prostitution, and in addition also serves as a commentary to the social life of Japan's collectivism culture which results in massive Apathetic Citizens syndrome and the violence it brought, especially when done by certain teenagers who are well off. As a result, the only genuinely nice person you see in this story is Saki (and her imaginary daughter), as she is just naive and innocent. The rest are varying levels of assholes.
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Sliding Scale of Beauty
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Sliding Scale of Beauty: Saki is considered a world-class beauty after her makeover, of course, considering the world she lives in, being a world-class beauty turns out to be bad for her.
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Hate Sink
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Hate Sink: In a World of Jerkass like this, everyone not named Saki are all variants of despicable people. However, a few "individuals"/"groups" stand out: Saki's father. While Hayato was the one responsible for corrupting Saki, her father did nothing to stop his daughter's sex addiction, and in fact took advantage of and enabled it, even repeatedly raping his own daughter to satisfy his own desires. And when he and Saki end up getting caught by Saki's mother, he ends up selling his own daughter out rather than come clean. And why does he do all these? Because he just got fired from his company and turns towards his lust to compensate. Saki's classmates. Not only do they willingly misdirect her to take up Compensated Dating in order to 'fit in' with the cool girls' clique, the moment the boys cling to her and further blackmail her for sexual favors from said Compensated Dating, the girls then act like they're jealous at her, then bully her, driving her out of schoolnote They have nothing to do with Hayato either. And the next time they meet, it seems that the girls fulfilled their goal: Without Saki, they managed to snare the boys. Seeing Saki later in the future, both boys and girls heartlessly assault her and make a point to assault her pregnant belly, contributing to possibly killing the unborn child, while stealing her hard-earned money, accusing her as a thief and some of them taking portraits of the assaultnote Their Karma Houdini status is more or less also implied and clear: They come from a rich family, which enabled them to demand favors from Saki and also buy those expensive handbags. If someone actually bothers to bring this to the courtroom, they are more likely able to afford the best lawyers to defend their case.. They are examples of Teens Are Monsters at its finest, especially because unlike a majority of her offenders, they simply do it For the Evulz instead of wanting to manipulate Saki.
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Too Good for This Sinful Earth
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Too Good for This Sinful Earth: Even if she has been wronged by so many people around her, Saki never really blamed, hated or held a grudge towards those who wronged her. Not even her parents, not even Hayato, not even her classmates. She just blames herself for not being able to please others, feeling like she really brought herself to her own situation; she's never one to take the stance of Never My Fault. Therefore, she dies miserably in this World of Jerkass.
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Devil in Plain Sight
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Devil in Plain Sight: Hayato is drawn with a blatant "handsome but manipulative smug sexual predator" face so the first time the readers see him, they all know he's just a walking red flag (and additionally, even a bastard like Kumagai knows he's not a good man even by description alone). In a deconstruction, his seduction of Saki succeeds because she has No Social Skills to detect all those red flags, and that may be why Hayato targets her in the first place. Those who have read a lot of hentai manga and are familiar with the genre's cliches may note that Saki's father is bad news from the start because he is drawn with the 'stock Dirty Old Man rapist' face.
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Dying Alone
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Dying Alone: Saki herself, after realizing how she ruined her own life thanks to sex and drug addiction, ends up committing suicide alone in a public bathroom.
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Dying Dream
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Dying Dream: As Saki is expiring, she briefly sees a vision of a life with her baby, free of the horrors she's experienced.
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The Corrupter
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The Corrupter: Hayato is this to Saki, introducing her to multiple vices, raping her, and starting her eventual downward spiral.
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Pet the Dog
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Pet the Dog: Generally subverted, as any decent acts done by other characters (to Saki) are usually followed from or by a horrible act. After Kumagai tells Saki that she has degraded her value so much, he decides to pay her a good sum of money which would be enough for her to eat a fancy meal... for free. It's only after Saki insists to have more because of her addiction that he gives her exactly what she wants, which is horrible. For all of his terrible actions, Hayato at least let Saki stay with him after her parents kicked her out. While he does kick her out later, it was because she was (rightfully) not fulfilling her end of the deal by not getting him the money he desperately needed, as well as her senselessly wasting his money on illegal drugs (heroin, in this case) that even he refuses to touch. The hobos, after gang-raping Saki while being high, turn out to be among the few people who can be said to be genuinely giving a helping hand to Saki, giving her shelter and decent food after she is left homeless.
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