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My Lovely Ghost Kana (Manga)
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Some years ago, a girl killed herself. She was only discovered when one of the neighbors reported a strange smell. When the police arrived, she had been dead for quite some time. The body had decomposed and was unidentifiable. The local paper ran a very small article about the event, which was quickly forgotten. Before long, it was as if this girl had never been alive.Daikichi has lost his job and place to live. On the verge of homelessness, he ends up moving into an old, mostly abandoned and allegedly haunted apartment building. When he moves in, he meets Kana, a cheerful girl who is already there. As it turns out, she's been there ever since she killed herself in that apartment all those years ago. At first, Kana is overjoyed at having someone to talk to - and buy beer; boy did she miss beer. Daikichi is in denial that she could really be a ghost, but after running, quite literally, through her, he is forced to accept the fact. After a few beers, and a few more beers for her, Daikichi asks her about her death.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Kana doesn't remember who she was, or why she killed herself. She has only vague memories about the event. It was at sunset on a summer night. The only thing she remembers thinking was "I don't want to die at night." Nighttime scared her. So she sat down at a window and, while watching the sunset, stabbed herself in the chest. "Many times." The last thing she remembers seeing is her blood spurting out, sparkling in the light of the sunset, which seemed to her set the room on fire. She thought "How beautiful..." and died.After Kana tells him this, Daikichi ponders if, given his circumstances, he wouldn't do something similar. Kana immediately tells him to never think that. No matter what, he must keep on living. A ghost telling him to live makes Daikichi laugh and he tells her he's sure he will be ok, at least for that night. They continue talking, and when he reaches out to point to Kana's chest where she should have had scars from her suicide, they are both surprised to find he is able to physically touch her. For a moment his hand is resting on her unscarred, soft breast. ("HEY! Ecchi!") That night they make love, and Kana remembers how it feels to be alive. In the morning, everything seems normal and Daikichi wonders if Kana might not have disappeared. He lifts the blankets and she peeks out, opens her eyes and says, "Good morning~" And they begin to fall crazily, deeply in love with each other.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); })As the story unfolds, local convenience store manager Inagawa Goro (39; soon to be 40; unmarried; occupation: convenience store manager; hobby: the supernatural) becomes more and more interested in Daikichi and Kana, looking for the supernatural experience he's wished for since he was a child. Later, we meet Utako, another "abandoned" girl who moves into the apartment with barely more than the clothes on her back and a guitar. With only a few expository lines from Daikichi, her vague backstory suddenly changes from "homeless" to horrifying.My Lovely Ghost Kana is written and illustrated by Tanaka Yutaka, spanning a year of Kana and Daikichi's lives in three volumes, running from 2006-2009. Somewhere between Slice of Life and Magical Girlfriend, it's a story that deals with two people, their love for each other, and how their love carries them from their difficult pasts into a bright and hopeful future.The overall story veers between Kana and Daikichi's growing relationship, her antics as a Magical Girlfriend, the occasional hints of the despair behind her death, quite a few Tear Jerker moments of heartwarming happiness and how Kana's life-after-death touches nearly everyone she meets for the better as she learns that it's never too late to be happy, never too late to love, and never too late to live.(One warning: this manga does have a lot of explicit sex, especially in the first dozen chapters. Very sweet, romantic, tender lovemaking; but things do get pretty wet and messy on a regular basis and it's nsfw.) | |
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All Men Are Perverts: Averted. Did we mention this wasn't your typical ecchi manga? Daikichi can barely get his hands off Kana (just as she can't get hers off him), but he's firmly Kana-sexual and doesn't even try to look at Utako when he helps her with her hot water problem in volume 2. Inagawa has a Thanks for the Mammary incident with Kana, and is thrilled by it. Not because he touched her boobs, mind you, but because he touched a ghost. Even when he grows infatuated with her, it's more due to her supernatural nature than anything, and even then, it's an innocent, Puppy Love-like infatuation. | |
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Supernatural Phone | |
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Supernatural Phone: Daikichi finds an old cell phone and through Kana's ghost powers, is able to communicate with her through it, though she doesn't need a phone on her end. Its camera is also the only one that can take pictures she shows up in. | |
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Mirror Routine | |
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Mirror Routine: Daikichi and Kana are cleaning opposite sides of a window and go through a short routine, then burst out laughing at each other. | |
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Bridal Carry | |
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Bridal Carry: Daikichi does this to Kana when she catches a cold in chapter 7. | |
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Single Woman Seeks Good Man | |
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Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Kana is only interested in Daikichi, who is a Nice Guy. | |
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Ambiguous Situation | |
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Ambiguous Situation: It's strongly implied that Utako may have been the victim of human trafficking due to her contract, but it's not outright stated exactly what happened to her prior to meeting Daikichi and Kana. | |
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In Medias Res | |
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In Medias Res: After a short one-page prologue, the story starts with Daikichi buying some beer at the convenience store... as he has already met Kana and she's the one who sent him to fetch drinks. | |
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Suggestive Collision | |
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Suggestive Collision: When Daikichi rescues Utako from boiling hot water in the shower, they slip and fall on top of each other, accidentally kissing. Kana is not amused, and immediately turns on the cold water. | |
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Lampshade Hanging | |
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Amano Daikichi's full name means "great luck from heaven". He lampshades the tragic Irony of it as he's been about as down on his luck as you can get when the story starts (he's lost his job, been kicked out of his apartment, and is actually contemplating suicide when he moves into the haunted building)...until he meets Kana and both become blessed with lots of happiness. It's ven more symbolic from Kana's point of view, as "luck" literally came to her after ten years of solitude. | |
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Limited Wardrobe | |
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Limited Wardrobe: All characters to some extent, although you can easily find justifications for it: Kana is a ghost and doesn't need to change clothes outside of aesthetic reasons; Daikichi and Utako don't have many possessions anyway; Inagawa and Yaguchi are almost always seen at the convenience store, where they wear their uniforms. Some characters do get a completely different outfit at least once in the story, though, like Kana with the dress Daikichi gave her. | |
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Sickeningly Sweethearts | |
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Sickeningly Sweethearts: Played with. Not a day passes without Kana and Daikichi cuddling and talking with hearts to each other, but they also have plenty of non-sickeningly sweet moments, like goofing around while wiping the window pane or arguing over whether or not to buy the new spicy ramen brand. Also, you'd expect them to shower each other with I love yous, but they don't - which is yet another thing in itself as it feels like they both know they don't need to. The only times where they do say it are, 1) indirectly, at the immensely emotional end of volume 1, when Daikichi calls her his "beloved Kana" and Kana says she won't let the person she loves die, and 2) on the last page of chapter 21, where Kana outright says "I love you" to Daikichi after one of the most "aaaw" inducing moment of the series. | |
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Beat Panel | |
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Beat Panel: After Utako moves in, but before Kana and Daikichi know she is there, Kana has been hearing strange noises in the apartments: | |
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Gratuitous English | |
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Gratuitous English: Kana has a habit of using English words out of the blue, to which Daikichi will often respond by a bemused "Why in English?". | |
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Official Couple | |
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Official Couple: Daikichi and Kana are the main couple of the story from the very start, which centers around their relationship. | |
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Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism | |
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Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism: Clearly set on the idealism side of the scale, but not all the way. The story doesn't try to hide the fact there is darkness in the world, as evidenced with chapter 1 opening directly with Kana's suicide and Daikichi's desperate predicament. But quickly, they fall in love, put the past behind them and start building a new life with each other. Even then, not everything's necessarily perfect, but they don't let anything shatter their happiness. As the story progresses, other characters also exhibit a similar determination to keep moving forward while caring deeply for those around them. In the end, the manga basically closes with Daikichi stating that "the world isn't such a bad place". | |
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Starving Artist | |
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Starving Artist: Utako writes songs, plays the guitar, and sings for a living. When she moves in in the same building as Kana and Daikichi, she barely has more than the shirt on her back. Thankfully, her last appearance leaves us with the feeling things are going to improve, as she's off to record her first CD. | |
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The Pollyanna | |
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The Pollyanna: As the combination of Dark and Troubled Past and Angst? What Angst?—or rather, it's Angst? What Angst? that stems from this trope, should we say. Kana is already one when the story starts. Daikichi's mood is (understandably) somber in chapter 1, but he becomes one from the next chapter onwards, and the afterword of volume 1 describes it as one of his major traits. Like Daikichi, Utako starts off as rather depressed, before becoming another embodiment of the trope soon after befriending Daikichi and Kana. | |
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Say It with Hearts | |
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Say It with Hearts: Both Kana and Daikichi tend to end sentences with hearts, especially in... "intimate" moments. | |
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Scenery Porn | |
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Scenery Porn: Not so much as to distract from the story but still a few. The view of the ocean from the top of the ferris wheel and the scenes at the Grave for Wandering Spirits are notable. | |
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Invisible to Adults | |
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Invisible to Adults: Children, elderly people, and animals are the only ones who ever perceive Kana other than Daikichi without necessarily sharing a close relationship with her. It's assumed but never actually spelled out that Utako eventually is able to talk directly with Kana, although she still can't see her and when she tries to take pictures of Kana and Daikichi on her cellphone, it's rare that even a part of Kana is visible. Circumvented by the "dead" cellphone Daikichi finds which she can call, send texts to, and is capable of taking her picture. Inagawa uses it to interact with Kana on their date. | |
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Power Perversion Potential | |
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Power Perversion Potential: Kana happily uses her powers to sneak into the men's section of a bathhouse. Later when they're having sex, she accidentally starts floating and pulls Daikichi into a Zero-G Spot. | |
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Thanks for the Mammary | |
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Thanks for the Mammary: Used in a surprisingly serious tone in chapter 1, as Daikichi reaches out to point out Kana's lack of scars on her breasts, and to everyone's surprise, ends up making physical contact with her for the first time. Kana laughs it off, and next thing they know, they're very sweetly making love on the floor. Used in its usual comical tone in chapter 10: Inagawa is talking with Daikichi in the store, while Kana is standing (invisibly) in front of him apologizing to Dakichi for just having caused stuff to fall of the shelves. Inagawa makes a gesture with his hands of how he wishes he could just reach out and grasp something of the supernatural, and, well, Kana is standing right there. | |
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Magical Girlfriend | |
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Magical Girlfriend: Kana, once more, of the Cute Ghost Girl type. | |
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Bookends | |
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Bookends: The story opens and closes in the spring, one year apart, with the sakura outside the apartment in full bloom. The first volume itself begins and ends very similarly, with Daikichi coming to the convenience store to buy a few things and going home, where Kana welcomes him energetically. | |
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Luminescent Blush | |
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Luminescent Blush: Most characters at some point, but especially on Kana, when she's really happy, has been drinking or doing other things. | |
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Lucky Charms Title: Please call him "Pure ☆ Sensei." If you leave out the "☆'' it will make him cry. | |
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All Women Are Prudes | |
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All Women Are Prudes: Averted. Kana and Daikichi are just as enthusiastic and active in their relationship as each other, including the sexual aspect of it. | |
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Central Theme | |
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Central Theme: The past is in the past, and it's better to focus on the future than be trapped looking at what might have been. | |
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Next Thing They Knew | |
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Used in a surprisingly serious tone in chapter 1, as Daikichi reaches out to point out Kana's lack of scars on her breasts, and to everyone's surprise, ends up making physical contact with her for the first time. Kana laughs it off, and next thing they know, they're very sweetly making love on the floor. | |
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Single-Target Sexuality | |
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Single-Target Sexuality: Both Daikichi and Kana towards each other. When Utako moves in, Daikichi acts as nothing more than a kind neighbour towards her. Kana has a friendly Skinship Grope with Utako and shows harmless curiosity towards men body types in the public bath, but is never seen to be attracted towards anyone else but Daikichi, and the story even states she had never known love before him. | |
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Death Glare | |
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Death Glare: After Inagawa indulges in his occult interests one time too many (and harasses a customer in the process), Yaguchi gives him a nasty glare. Her expression is mild, but the lightning in the background more than makes up for it. | |
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Our Ghosts Are Different | |
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Our Ghosts Are Different: Kana can only be perceived by animals, the elderly, the very young, or someone who loves her. She's cold enough to chill beer in her cleavage, but gets warmer when she's horny. She can move through walls and people, but she can move physical objects and to Daikichi, she's substantial enough to have sex and even support his weight. She cannot leave the place where she died until she breaks the barrier to rescue Daikichi, after which it's not a problem. She can eat and drink, but doesn't need to. She seems to become more substantial and "alive" the more she is loved. | |
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Formula-Breaking Episode | |
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Formula-Breaking Episode: Chapter 15.5 is a quick one shot about a completely different and normal (two humans) high school couple visiting a love hotel. They never meet or even see the main characters at any point during the story and we never see them again after the chapter is over. | |
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The Power of Love | |
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The Power of Love: One of the most important themes of the manga. While it's never made explicit, the story regularly hints at Kana becoming warmer, more substantial, and generally more "real" and "alive" in proximity to someone who loves her—and the more they love her, the more real she gets. The best example is of course Daikichi: before they get to know each other, she passes right through him, but after their meaningful conversation, he can touch her to a degree (his hand still passes through her sometimes on their first night together). The next time we see them having sex, she's perfectly solid, and by the end of the story, even things like Kana "melting" on top of Daikichi and getting him covered in ectoplasm don't happen anymore, as if she had definitely gotten solid around him, all the time. The only exception is at the end of volume 1, possibly because she had been weakened after forcing her way out of the barrier that bound her to the abandoned building. And then, there's the fact she gets warmer, sometimes very much, when they make love—warmth being what differentiates the living from the dead, who are cold. Kana even remarks this on two occasions, and even here, there's a progression in what she says: at the end of chapter 1, her first time with Daikichi has her saying it felt like being alive; fifteen chapters later, she drops out the "felt like" altogether and states that it's good to be alive. This applies later on to Utako and Inagawa too: at first, Utako can neither see, hear or touch her, but as their friendship grows, she gets to hear her, and sometimes, see parts of her body. Inagawa doesn't develop a deep friendship with her, but his kind words at the end of their date get him to have a brief but clear vision of her. In a less metaphoric and more Slice of Life application of the trope, The Power of Love is also what makes Kana and Daikichi's life so happy, even when they don't have much materially and financially speaking. They live on love alone, but that's a lot of love. | |
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Unfazed Everyman | |
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Unfazed Everyman: Past Daikichi's first meeting with Kana, his total absence of reaction at being soaked with ectoplasm, Kana's paranormal antics, or being told that there is another ghost in the house when he has good reasons to believe ghost exist, can elicit downright hilarious situations. He does get creeped out by Kana's way of paying him back for doodling on her face, though. But then, it was really scary... | |
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Meaningful Name | |
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Meaningful Name: Amano Daikichi's full name means "great luck from heaven". He lampshades the tragic Irony of it as he's been about as down on his luck as you can get when the story starts (he's lost his job, been kicked out of his apartment, and is actually contemplating suicide when he moves into the haunted building)...until he meets Kana and both become blessed with lots of happiness. It's ven more symbolic from Kana's point of view, as "luck" literally came to her after ten years of solitude. The uta in Utako's name can mean "poem" or "song", and ko is a common ending for feminine names. Basically, it's the Japanese equivalent of a girl being named Melody, and she happens to be a musician. | |
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FanService | |
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Fanservice: It's certainly more ecchi than fanservicey, but Kana and Utako are nice to look at. Utako gets what comes as close to straightforward Fanservice at the beginning of the chapter where she is in the shower. The cover of volume 2 as well as several chapter title pages show Kana in a bikini or a shorter dress than usual with camera angles focusing on her cleavage, butt, or crotch. Some of them can be quite jarring with the content itself as the manga is rather chaste apart from the sex scenes. | |
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Driven to Suicide | |
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Near the end of the chapter with Inagawa's date with Kana, he wonders if he might not have crossed paths with Kana... before... and that if he had only been a little nicer to her at the time... then maybe... | |
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Naked First Impression | |
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Naked First Impression: Kana and Daikichi meet Utako by following the sobbing coming from the showers, so eventually, this trope comes into play. | |
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Furo Scene | |
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Furo Scene: An entire chapter is devoted to one of Dakichi and Kana's regular visits to a local bathhouse. Most of it involves Kana very sweetly expressing her appreciation for how many different kinds of bodies there are, from the ones who have seen a lot of life to the brand new. | |
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Slice of Life | |
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Slice of Life: As much as there are Magical Girlfriend moments, there are ordinary days as well. Kana likes beer ("Angelheart Draft" is a favorite) and watching baseball on TV. She loves spicy food and is always trying to sneak extra hot spices into their food against Daikichi's wishes. Daikichi gets a job and starts fixing up the apartment with Kana's help. They go out to the amusement park, shopping, eating, and the only difference between them and any other young couple is that she is a ghost...and in the end, even that's not important. | |
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Ferris Wheel Date Moment | |
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Ferris Wheel Date Moment: In Chapter 9 Daikichi and Kana go on a date to the amusement park, now that she can leave the apartment building. They save the Ferris wheel for the very end, and share a beautiful view of the ocean from the car. | |
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Shower Scene | |
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Shower Scene: Daikichi and Kana first encounter Utako face-to-face in the shower. Another chapter opens with Utako showering, which leads to the Skinship Grope mentioned beneath. | |
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Signature Style | |
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Signature Style: Tanaka-san's poetic, Minimalist, haiku-like narration segments, along with severe Mood Whiplash. | |
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The Needless | |
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The Needless: Kana can eat and drink, but does so for personal enjoyment rather than sustenance, and doesn't need to breathe either because she's a ghost. | |
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Undead Barefooter | |
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Undead Barefooter: Kana is a ghost who goes barefoot. Of course, she also never leaves the house, and can fly...so shoes are not an issue. | |
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Ridiculously Alive Undead | |
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Ridiculously Alive Undead: Kana can eat and drink despite not needing to, and can even make herself substantial enough to have sex with her (living) boyfriend Daikichi. | |
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Unaffected by Spice | |
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Unaffected by Spice: Kana loves spicy food and is constantly trying to sneak hot spices into Daikichi's meals, although he doesn't have nearly as much of a spice tolerance and wishes she'd stop. | |
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Blush Sticker | |
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Blush Sticker: Most characters, but Kana and Daikichi most frequently when they're really happy. | |
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Barbie Doll Anatomy | |
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Barbie Doll Anatomy: The sex scenes are usually drawn discretely enough that we don't get a good view of anybody's crotch. In the few cases where we do, Kana and Daikichi are both quite featureless. Kana's breasts are uncensored, though, as are the breasts of a bathing woman in the bathhouse. | |
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Dogged Nice Guy | |
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Dogged Nice Guy: In some ways, Inagawa. His obsession with the occult and Kana eventually materializes as infatuation, but he doesn't romantically pursue her, has no problems with her being in a relationship with Daikichi, and is even on very good terms with Daikichi. | |
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Mood Whiplash | |
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Mood Whiplash: The whole series is a story about love and living, but to point out how important love is and why life is worth living, there are the occasional scenes that hammer it home by showing you the complete opposite. Stylistically even, the serious sides of the story—especially dialog regarding Kana's death—are written in an almost poetic style, contrasting with the more prosaic writing style of the rest. Near the end of the chapter with Inagawa's date with Kana, he wonders if he might not have crossed paths with Kana... before... and that if he had only been a little nicer to her at the time... then maybe... The chapter "Kana and Mom" starts out very silly, then suddenly turns around and kicks you in the gut hard, with a very poignant, very human moment, and will leave you in tears at the end. The chapter "Under The Stars" has got to set some kind of record, abruptly changing the mood seven times. The chapter "Kana at Sunset" has a minor one on the last panel of page 18. Might be initially hard to notice, but look behind Daikichi at Kana's face on the wall in the panel. Near the end of ch. 17, "Kana's Friend", a creepy-looking old man asks Utako to perform a particular song that means a lot to him. She gives it all she's got and draws a crowd, and the man appears to be moved by the performance, but when it's over he leans in and tells her to die then walks away. Utako is left in stunned silence for several panels, then decides to go back to playing. | |
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Naked People Are Funny | |
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Naked People Are Funny: Obviously averted 99% of the time as the sex scenes are all sweet and emotional, but there's one scene in the last chapter where the trope applies: Kana and Daikichi are lying out by the window, drowsing after having sex, when Kana notices Utako walking away from the apartments. Kana really wants to wave to her, but since Utako can't see her, she gets a still drowsy Daikichi to stand on his feet and wave in her place — stark naked from the balcony rail. | |
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Porn with Plot | |
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Porn with Plot: It's basically a Slice of Life romance manga that just so happens to have explicit sex scenes. | |
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Cute Ghost Girl | |
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Cute Ghost Girl: Kana is a ghost who is utterly adorable. | |
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Idiosyncratic Episode Naming | |
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Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: Chapters are titled "Life 1", "Life 2"... | |
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Skinship Grope | |
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Skinship Grope: Kana likes sneaking up on Utako and playfully grabbing her from behind. | |
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Rubber Face | |
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Rubber Face: Kana does it twice to Daikichi at the end of volume 2. Both times, it makes poor Utako scream in horror, as she's not aware of Kana's existence and only sees Daikichi's face getting suddenly deformed for no apparent reason. Kana can stretch her own face in a similar manner, and uses this face to prank people, especially young kids. | |
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Genki Girl | |
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Genki Girl: Kana again. Although when Utako first comes to their apartment to meet her, she is surprisingly overcome by an extreme case of shyness. Seeing the normally bubbly, cheerful Kana shyly peeking out from behind the curtain as Utako comes in somehow makes her even more utterly adorable. | |
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My Greatest Second Chance | |
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My Greatest Second Chance: The day they meet, Kana talks Daikichi out of committing suicide. At the end of volume 1, she's even more determined to not let him die. The whole story can be seen as a tale of second chance. Both Kana and Daikichi starts a new life together from scratch, but the second chance vibes are even stronger in Kana's case. | |
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Mundane Luxury | |
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Mundane Luxury: Kana and Daikichi are thrilled when he brings a dead cellphone home from his part-time job. When powered by Kana's ghostly waves, it can work again, from taking pictures to sending texts and so on. The texting and calling functions don't look like they can work with someone else than Kana, though. | |
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Love Triangle | |
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Love Triangle: Subverted. The introduction of Utako looks like a classic setup for this, especially with a shower-based incident soon after she moves in. It's put to rest right away when Kana starts smacking Daikichi for it and Utako immediately deduces that Kana is a ghost. She is overjoyed at finally meeting Daikichi's girlfriend to the bemused delight of both Daikichi and Kana. | |
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Hyper-Competent Sidekick | |
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Hyper-Competent Sidekick: Yaguchi is constantly having to keep Inagawa—her boss—in line and pay attention to the store rather than Daikichi, as well as frequently being subjected to his monologues about the supernatural. | |
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Maybe Ever After | |
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Maybe Ever After: The manga ends on a somewhat open ending, never telling us whether Kana will one day "move on" or not. The author note in volume 3 explains, however, that she has no reason to, nor is there any reason to separate her from Daikichi, giving hope to many readers that they will stay together for the rest of Daikichi's life... or longer. | |
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Tear Jerker | |
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The day they meet, Kana talks Daikichi out of committing suicide. At the end of volume 1, she's even more determined to not let him die. | |
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Inside a Wall | |
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Inside a Wall: Kana sometimes hides herself inside a wall when she doesn't want to talk to Daikichi. Being a ghost, it's much easier for her. | |
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Boy Meets Ghoul | |
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Boy Meets Ghost: The story revolves around Daikichi meeting and entering a romantic and sexual relationship with Cute Ghost Girl Kana. | |
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Headbutt Thermometer | |
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Headbutt Thermometer: In Chapter 7, Daikichi checks Kana's temperature by touching their foreheads together, to see if her fever's gone. | |
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Ecchi | |
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It's certainly more ecchi than fanservicey, but Kana and Utako are nice to look at. Utako gets what comes as close to straightforward Fanservice at the beginning of the chapter where she is in the shower. | |
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Bespectacled Cutie | |
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Bespectacled Cutie: Utako is a quirky musician who wears glasses. | |
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Nice Guy | |
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Nice Guy: Daikichi is very tender with Kana, always caring for her well-being, as well as for her pleasure in their most intimate moments. He also lends a hand several times to Utako out of sheer friendliness and helps set up Inagawa's "date" with Kana, telling him about it and lending him his phone so Inagawa can finally talk with her. For all her antics and pranks, Kana has a big heart of gold, as best demonstrated when she brings back a balloon to its young owner in an amusement park, or when she talks through Pure ☆ Sensei to reassure Kanako's mother, even though she didn't have to. With the help of Daikichi and Yaguchi, she also sets up a "date" with Inagawa just so he can fulfill his dream to talk to a ghost. | |
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Ghostly Chill | |
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Kana's Ghostly Chill is perfect for chilling beer, apparently. | |
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Nothing Is Scarier | |
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Nothing Is Scarier: Invoked in a very unique fashion towards the end of the first volume. Five pages of pure black with only a short paragraph of text on two of them. In context, it is a scary, tear-inducing moment of anxiety before finding out which sort of ending is coming—happy, sad, or downright devastating. | |
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Ghost Amnesia | |
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The whole story can be seen as a tale of second chance. Both Kana and Daikichi starts a new life together from scratch, but the second chance vibes are even stronger in Kana's case. | |
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Broken Bird | |
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Broken Bird: The first indication that Utako is in the apartments is sobbing from the showers. Her backstory is only hinted at but she has clearly been through something terrible. Kana and Daikichi's friendship helps her get better. | |
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Played for Drama | |
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Played for Drama when Daikichi is buried by a landslide and on the brink of death. Kana uses the hitodama to summon an enormous amount of heat and light, enough to keep him alive and get the authorities to investigate the strange light, finding him before it's too late. | |
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Clingy Jealous Girl | |
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Clingy Jealous Girl: Kana is not amused by the accident between Daikichi and Utako in chapter 15. She knows it's nothing more than an accident, and it's not like she has anything to worry about anyway, but still. | |
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Hitodama Light | |
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Hitodama Light: Kana can create several small balls of flame around her. They are a good indication of her mood, since there are more of them and they make little "pop" sounds when she is especially happy. Also used amusingly when Daikichi finds an old "dead" cellphone and discovers that Kana can use it to keep in touch with him. A stylized hitodama is her chat icon and takes place of the signal meter on her phone. Played for Drama when Daikichi is buried by a landslide and on the brink of death. Kana uses the hitodama to summon an enormous amount of heat and light, enough to keep him alive and get the authorities to investigate the strange light, finding him before it's too late. | |
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Mundane Utility | |
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Mundane Utility: Kana's Ghostly Chill is perfect for chilling beer, apparently. Also, Kana's ghostly waves can make a dead cellphone work again. A stylized ghost light even takes the place of the service icon! | |
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NO INDOOR VOICE | |
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No Indoor Voice: At first, Utako belongs to the school of thought that if she can't see or hear Kana, she should speak loudly so Kana can hear her. | |
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Hard-Drinking Party Girl | |
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Hard-Drinking Party Girl: Other than Dakichi, there's little that Kana likes more than a cold beer, although it's more like a mortal pleasure she misses, and it never seems to affect her. It becomes a regular ritual for Kana and Daikichi to share a six-pack at the end of a day. (Although she does her best to get straight to "drinking beer" whenever possible.) | |
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Good People Have Good Sex | |
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Good People Have Good Sex: Kana and Daikichi are very, very happy together, and are always satisfied after having sex with one another. | |
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Dying Alone | |
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Dying Alone: Poor Kana. It was to the point that virtually no one cared or even knew about her death until they found her decomposing body. Even then, it was easily forgotten. | |
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Running Gag | |
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Running Gag: The doctor scolding Daikichi for "doing it too much", with what looks very much like envy written all over his face. As a bonus, when Inagawa is feeling lovesick after his first contact with Kana, he's revealed to have gone to the same doctor, who scolded him too. "Inagawa Goro; 39, soon to be 40; unmarried; occupation: convenience store manager; hobby: the supernatural". Yaguchi coping with Inagawa's antics. Utako just can't take a shower in peace. Daikichi doesn't like spicy food nearly as much as Kana does, much to his dismay when she keeps sneaking "Hell-level" spices into their meals. | |
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Informed Poverty | |
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Informed Poverty: Mostly averted. The apartment Kana and Daikichi live in look like a bed-sitter, with the shower (and probably also the toilets and laundry) on the landing. They own neither a phone nor a cellphone, much less a computer or anything fancy. Daikichi does get his hands on an old discarded TV set at the beginning of the story, and later on a water-logged cellphone that he can use to communicate with Kana, but those are about the only luxuries they get, and only because they got them for free. On the other hand, Daikichi gets a job that keeps him paid well enough that they can stay decently fed and afford non-vital commodities like their daily six-pack. | |
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Undeath Always Ends | |
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Undeath Always Ends: Averted in a literal sense, applied in a metaphorical one. Kana is still a ghost at the end of the story, but being with Daikichi makes her feel alive again. The more traditional meaning is teased a few times when Daikichi wonders when and if Kana will "move on". The last scene has Kana and Daikichi watching the sakura blossoms fall and planning to do it again next year, and per the author's notes at the end of volume 3, it will never happen, because Kana is not the kind of ghost who needs to "move on". She belongs where she is now. | |
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Rose-Haired Sweetie | |
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Rose-Haired Sweetie: Kana has pink hair and is very sweet and kind in personality. | |
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Cherry Blossoms | |
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Cherry Blossoms: There's a big tree in the apartment's yard as mentioned above. Given the many connotations of cherry blossoms in Japanese culture (death, fragility of life, renewal, passing from one stage of life to another, beauty of nature, first love...), it's highly symbolic, especially as it's in full bloom both when Daikichi meets Kana and at the end of the story. | |
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Dark and Troubled Past | |
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Dark and Troubled Past: All three residents of the abandoned building, in spades. How none of them let it affect them is a big part of how heartwarming the story is: Daikichi lost his job, became homeless, and was planning on killing himself in the abandoned apartment he ended up in before Kana intervened and saved his life. Kana herself can't remember her life prior to dying for the most part, but it was obviously not the best since she ended up killing herself, and no one even realized she'd died until enough time passed that her body had started to decompose. Even then, no one even knew who she was and so she languished inside her apartment for years until Daikichi showed up. Utako's terrible past is mostly hinted at, but she's strongly implied to have been the victim of human trafficking thanks to the contract she was roped into. | |
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