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Yuureitou (Manga)

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Yuureitou, or The Ghost Tower, is a seinen mystery-horror manga by Taro Nogizaka (of Team Medical Dragon fame). It ran from 2010 to 2014.In 1952 a woman is killed by her adopted daughter by being tied onto a clock tower's hands until her back breaks.Two years later, the clock tower is now known as the 'ghost tower' and is supposedly haunted. Amano Taichi, a NEET, is attacked by someone or something in the same clock tower, and almost dies in the same way as the woman but he is rescued by a mysterious man named Tetsuo.Tetsuo is searching for a treasure that is connected with the ghost tower and asks Taichi to be his partner. Taichi's enticed by the idea of becoming extreme wealthy and is further convinced when his house mysteriously burns down. As it turns out, there's a Serial Killer out there that attacks people in the 'ghost tower'.
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No Celebrities Were Harmed
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No Celebrities Were Harmed: Hanazono bears more than a passing resemblance to Audrey Hepburn, even as a Japanese woman.
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Artistic License – Biology
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Artistic License – Biology: When Tetsuo reveals that he has run out of testosterone, his voice becomes more feminine. In reality, going off testosterone won't make your voice feminine even if you've only been on it for a while. In-story, there's also Tesla and Marube's belief that a Brain Transplant would not only be successful, but swap the bodies of the participants, though at least they have the justification of organ transplants being a relatively unexplored field in the story's time period (and also not being the most sane people).
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Mandatory Motherhood
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Mandatory Motherhood: In the opium village arc, since Taichi and Tetsuo are disguised as a married couple with Taichi as the wife, the villagers try to force them to conceive a child so they can get new blood in their village.
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Milholland Relationship Moment
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Milholland Relationship Moment: Tetsuo tells Taichi about how one of his former partners ended up dead after falling into one of the dead traps of the clock tower in search for the treasure. Tetsuo asks Taichi if he still wants to be his partner despite this and Taichi readily answers he still wants to follow him. After this, Tetsuo starts calling Taichi by his first name.
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Death from Above
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Death from Above: Due to the explosion collapsing the mansion, Shiro is crushed under rubble. He at least gets to make a Dying Declaration of Love in the end. The mansion has a couple of death traps that utilize this by having the ceiling come down on its victims. In-story we see many variations, mostly varying by time and circumstance.
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Poor Communication Kills
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Poor Communication Kills: If Taichi had told Tetsuo about his agreement with Marube earlier, he could have avoided their breakup. Or not, as it turns out, because Tetsuo was really just using it as an excuse to push Amano away.
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Heterosexual Life-Partners
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Heterosexual Life-Partners: Tetsuo and Taichi for the most part. They are each other's best and only friend. Taichi has some amount of sexual attraction to him though. At the end of the series, the platonic part turns to romantic, and they become a couple. Subverted with Tetsuo and Shirou Honjou. Tetsuo wanted them to be this, but Honjou was in love with Tetsuo and couldn't help seeing him as a woman.
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Fingore
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Fingore: At one point, Shinbanmushi cuts off the fingers of a woman trying to guard her face from his blade.
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Death of a Child
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Death of a Child: Two kids have died thus far and one was almost murdered.
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Offing the Offspring
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Offing the Offspring: The head of the opium village kills her adopted son, Manji, because she wanted to save the child she was pregnant with from being killed.
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Wholesome Crossdresser
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Wholesome Crossdresser: Taichi first disguises himself in drag to evade the police, but later finds crossdressing comforting and continues to wear a dress until Yamashina dies.
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Chained Heat
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Chained Heat: After getting their hands stuck in one of the mansion's death traps, Marube and Tetsuo were handcuffed together for a time. It actually proves vital to navigating several traps that follow, however.
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Depraved Bisexual
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Depraved Bisexual: Marube is mainly attracted to women, but he admits that sometimes muscularity of men turns him on.
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Murderers Are Rapists
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Murderers Are Rapists: The murderer of Hanazono is suspected to be this. This is later proven wrong as she was still a virgin when she died.
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Even Evil Has Standards
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Even Evil Has Standards: Amano is surprised to hear from Yamashina that Marube prosecutes rapists incredibly harshly. It initially comes off as something of a Moral Myopia, since at the time they also believe him to be molesting his daughter, but it later turns out to have been motivated more by Marube's obsession with his late lover, Onatsu, and his desire to 'become' her. (It's also followed with the fact that Marube was incredibly sympathetic towards a man who hacked apart the body of the woman he was infatuated with.) He also ends up briefly disregarding this standard at the climax when he threatens to rape Amano.
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Sympathetic Murder Backstory
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Sympathetic Murder Backstory: After learning about his backstory, Tetsuo turns out to be this.
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Villainous Incest
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Villainous Incest: Marube is way too touchy-feely with his daughter. Later we find out he's not her real father, but that doesn't make it any less creepy. He also tries to convince his biological son to have sex with him later, and potentially planned on continuing the chain with any of their descendants to that his and Onatsu's love could 'live forever'.
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Official Couple
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Official Couple: Taichi and Tetsuo/Akira.
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Killer Cop
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Killer Cop: Jinbabue turns out to be Shibanmushi. He is able to manipulate the evidence in the case to point to Tetsuo.
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Make It Look Like an Accident
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Make It Look Like an Accident: Manji is killed by a shed that he built, but it was the head of the village that killed him off.
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First-Name Basis
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First-Name Basis: Taichi calls Tetsuo by his first name. Tetsuo at first only calls Taichi by his last name Amano, but he starts calling by name in chapter 44. Towards the end, Taichi starts calling Tetsuo by his true name: Akira.
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Attractive Bent-Gender: Everyone seems to be attracted to Tetsuo, whether they perceive him as a beautiful maiden, as an attractive Bishounen man, or as something in between. Most of the girls are attracted to him as a man, Shiro is attracted to him as a woman, Taichi is initially attracted to him as a woman but later as a man, Marube sees him as someone in between, and Yamashina is secretly attracted to him as a man but tries to point out the androgynous features of Tetsuo's body in order to appear less gay. Played with in Taichi's case. When he first starts disguising as a woman, other women point out that he looks rather ugly. However, Marube takes an interest in him and likes him in those clothes (though he's Marube, after all), the village men are very much attracted to Taichi in his female disguise, but it's repeatedly pointed out that they haven't seen young women in years, and some criminals find him cute enough though they know he's male.
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Becoming the Mask
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Becoming the Mask: After Amano disguises himself as Tetsuo's wife to evade the police, he realizes how comforting crossdressing is and since he is in love with Tetsuo, begins to wonder if he actually wanted to be Tetsuo's crossdressing submissive husband. Minus the marriage part, and only in the beginning for the crossdressing part, they become lovers at the very end.
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"Could Have Avoided This!" Plot
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"Could Have Avoided This!" Plot: By the time Shibanmushi had been found and the treasure discovered, Taichi pointed out that Marube could have simply investigated the police department first before anything happened, which might have prevented all the victims of the story from getting killed.
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Would Hurt a Child
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Would Hurt a Child: Shibanmushi tries to kill a boy in one chapter. The kid lives but his mother dies.
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Leaning on the Fourth Wall
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Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Yamashina, when asked what he wants to do with the treasure, responds that he'd like to open a publishing company with stories that focus on societal "deviants". He mentions that by writing about those kinds of people in fiction, they'll start to get normalized in the public's eye and society will eventually see those same "deviants" as people like them. He even says as much while he's positioned right in front of the audience. At the end of the story, one police officer was looking into some mystery books and discovered that there were multiple "Ghost Tower" stories done by different mystery novelists, and also different versions of Marube and Onatsu in them. After learning this, Taichi and Tetsuo conclude that their Ghost Tower case is just one of many, and that maybe another time another Ghost Tower story will happen again, whether fictional or real.
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Trans Relationship Troubles
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Trans Relationship Troubles: Tetsuo mentions that he can't date women because they always freak out when he comes out. He ends up dating his (male) best friend, Taichi, who was the first person to accept him as male even after coming out to him.
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Liar Revealed
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Liar Revealed: After manipulating and blackmailing Taichi, Marube reveals to Tetsuo that Taichi has being cooperating with him behind his back and basically sold them off to him. This results in a serious fallout for Taichi and Tetsuo. However, Marube later points out that it should be obvious why Amano lied, and that he's actually using it as an excuse to keep Amano from getting hurt by staying at his side.
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Unreliable Voiceover: Tetsuo's narration of his friendship with Hideo had one clue left out; he says that he never told Hideo his secret, and the guy never knew about it. Hideo knew. He figured out accidentally when Tetsuo was unconscious. He just never said anything about it.
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Age-Gap Romance
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Age-Gap Romance: Tetsuo's biological parents Marube and Onatsu were ten years apart and the relationship started when the father was fourteen.
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Loser Protagonist
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Loser Protagonist: Taichi is a NEET and a Hikikomori at the start. Even when he gets better he's still socially awkward and always getting into trouble.
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Plot-Mandated Friendship Failure
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Plot-Mandated Friendship Failure: Taichi and Tetsuo have a fallout after Tetsuo finds out Taichi let himself get blackmailed by Marube and basically sold them off to him. This leads to Taichi finally growing some backbone and stop relying on others. This also results in Tetsuo admitting he had been manipulating Taichi from the start and their friendship was fake to begin with. However, the fallout of all these events culminates in the two of them becoming a couple at the end.
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Police Are Useless
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Police Are Useless: Tetsuo managed to evade capture by the police after killing his mother by using another woman's body in place of Reiko's. Also, Yamashina, a detective who gets involved in the investigation, is actually a cowardly man that is willing to sacrifice his enemy so that he could keep his life and save the lives of the other children when he was trying to find blood for Tesla. It's played with in his case however, since he's a very valuable ally to Tetsuo and Taichi in other situations and often gives them information and advice that helps them keep their profiles low.
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Bad Santa
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Bad Santa: After the deal with Amano, Yamashita, and Tetsuo went through, Tesla reappears in another place wearing a Santa costume and asked some children to pick out a person for his surgeries.
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Intrepid Reporter
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Intrepid Reporter: Deconstructed. Hanazono wants to stand out in her job as a newspaper reporter to break through in a male-oriented society. Her fearlessness makes her go to investigate the ghost tower on her own, which results in her getting killed by Shinbanmushi.
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Only Friend
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Tetsuo and Taichi for the most part. They are each other's best and only friend. Taichi has some amount of sexual attraction to him though. At the end of the series, the platonic part turns to romantic, and they become a couple.
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Parental Incest: Marube is sexually abusing his daughter, Satoko and wants to have sex with his son, Tetsuo.
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Yuureitou (Manga) / int_606244c2
 Yuureitou (Manga) / int_643618e5
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Replacement Goldfish
 Yuureitou (Manga) / int_643618e5
comment
Replacement Goldfish: An unsympathetic variant - in the epilogue, Amano happens to run into Mimura and his new wife, who heavily resembles Hanazono. He claims it's the only way he was able to move on after she was murdered, but it's heavily implied that he was only interested in finding someone with similarly good looks.
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Yuureitou (Manga) / int_643618e5
 Yuureitou (Manga) / int_68069489
type
Nipple and Dimed
 Yuureitou (Manga) / int_68069489
comment
Nipple and Dimed: Very, very averted. Amano fantasizes about a topless Hanazono, and later Tetsuo, several times.
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Yuureitou (Manga) / int_68069489
 Yuureitou (Manga) / int_6bda9a30
type
Meaningful Name
 Yuureitou (Manga) / int_6bda9a30
comment
Meaningful Name: Tetsuo means "Iron Hero", Satoko means "Sand Child", and Marube literally means "Round Pill Department". Reiko, Tetsuo's bith name, means "Pretty Girl", but can also mean "Ghost Girl" or "Zero Girl" if you change the kanji. On the other hand, Tetsuo's chosen name post-chapter 75, Akira, uses another kanji that also can sound like "Rei", the first part of "Reiko", which means strong and commanding.
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Yuureitou (Manga) / int_6bda9a30
 Yuureitou (Manga) / int_6d7cd3e
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Dead Person Impersonation
 Yuureitou (Manga) / int_6d7cd3e
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Dead Person Impersonation: Shiro's and Shino's mother took the identity of her husband's lover after she killed her.
 Yuureitou (Manga) / int_6d7cd3e
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Yuureitou (Manga) / int_6d7cd3e
 Yuureitou (Manga) / int_7301ae04
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Serial Killer
 Yuureitou (Manga) / int_7301ae04
comment
Serial Killer: Shibanmushi who turns out to be Jinbabue.
 Yuureitou (Manga) / int_7301ae04
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Yuureitou (Manga) / int_7301ae04
 Yuureitou (Manga) / int_733e007a
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Unwitting Pawn
 Yuureitou (Manga) / int_733e007a
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Unwitting Pawn: Marube blackmails Taichi in order to get closer to Tetsuo.
 Yuureitou (Manga) / int_733e007a
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Yuureitou (Manga) / int_733e007a
 Yuureitou (Manga) / int_7583ecbf
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Morality Kitchen Sink
 Yuureitou (Manga) / int_7583ecbf
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Morality Kitchen Sink: There are honest people who want to do the right thing placed alongside people who try but think selfishly, and people ho try to excuse their deplorable actions with For the Greater Good. A person with a clear and noble conscience isn't rare, but among the other shades of morality in the comic they stand out very much.
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Yuureitou (Manga) / int_7583ecbf
 Yuureitou (Manga) / int_759985ec
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Crotch-Grab Sex Check
 Yuureitou (Manga) / int_759985ec
comment
Crotch-Grab Sex Check: Marube does this to Tetsuo when he asks why he didn't bathe in the nude.
 Yuureitou (Manga) / int_759985ec
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Yuureitou (Manga) / int_759985ec
 Yuureitou (Manga) / int_80621707
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Arranged Marriage
 Yuureitou (Manga) / int_80621707
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Arranged Marriage: Reiko was sold off into an arranged marriage with Shiro by their adoptive mother. Shiro actually did fall in love with Reiko, but Reiko was only interested in friendship.
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Yuureitou (Manga) / int_80621707
 Yuureitou (Manga) / int_813afa05
type
Defiled Forever
 Yuureitou (Manga) / int_813afa05
comment
Defiled Forever: The men in this manga seem to have this attitude towards women. Shiro despises the women who became the sexual servants of American men post World-War II, Tetsuo makes a big deal about protecting his chastity to Shiro, and Marube is said to be more sympathetic to women who protect their chastity than women who give it up when he is acting as a prosecutor for a sex-related case. Marube's attitude extends to Satoko— while he says he planned on taking Satoko's virginity once she was of age, it turns out the main reason he acts the way he does is because he's a twisted inversion of Tetsuo: a man who wants to be a woman and switch back every few decades.
 Yuureitou (Manga) / int_813afa05
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Yuureitou (Manga) / int_813afa05
 Yuureitou (Manga) / int_8151ec48
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Driving Question
 Yuureitou (Manga) / int_8151ec48
comment
Driving Question: Who is the Shibanmushi? And, at least in the beginning, who is Tetsuo?
 Yuureitou (Manga) / int_8151ec48
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Yuureitou (Manga) / int_8151ec48
 Yuureitou (Manga) / int_819b6384
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Sympathetic Murderer
 Yuureitou (Manga) / int_819b6384
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Sympathetic Murderer: Shino ends up being this. Also, Amano in the late chapters.
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Yuureitou (Manga) / int_819b6384
 Yuureitou (Manga) / int_83b44e80
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Straight Gay
 Yuureitou (Manga) / int_83b44e80
comment
Straight Gay: Yamashina often drops hints of what parts of a guy he finds attractive that he often denies. It's later revealed that he was in love with and attracted to Takashi, a boy who was killed by the guy he tried to hand over to Tesla to save his life during the organ transplant search. He still claims that its because he's attracted to the androgynous bodies of young boys (which makes him a bit of a hebephile), but he is later revealed to be unattracted to Satoko and attracted to Tetsuo as a guy.
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Yuureitou (Manga) / int_83b44e80
 Yuureitou (Manga) / int_856a425a
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TheFifties
 Yuureitou (Manga) / int_856a425a
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The '50s: The manga takes place in the early 50s.
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Yuureitou (Manga) / int_856a425a
 Yuureitou (Manga) / int_8e647ba9
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Undercover as Lovers
 Yuureitou (Manga) / int_8e647ba9
comment
Undercover as Lovers: Tetsuo and Taichi pretend to be a married couple when they're on the run from the law. Taichi is the one playing the wife, by the way.
 Yuureitou (Manga) / int_8e647ba9
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Yuureitou (Manga) / int_8e647ba9
 Yuureitou (Manga) / int_8ed5c6e4
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Asshole Victim
 Yuureitou (Manga) / int_8ed5c6e4
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Asshole Victim: The adoptive mother of Reiko Fujiyama couldn't accept that her child couldn't be a woman and a wife for a potential suitor so she frequently fought with her child. Then, when Reiko left home to live as himself, he killed his mother because she wouldn't accept him as her son. In chapter 59, Tetsuo also confesses to Marube that when he was younger and his mother went with him to explore the tower, he was really happy when she told him that he was brave just like a (Japanese) guy. He told her that he was really happy to hear that, but in reality, his mother sent him down to the tower so that she could indirectly kill him. She only saved him when he acted more 'girly' by screaming for help.
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Yuureitou (Manga) / int_8ed5c6e4
 Yuureitou (Manga) / int_90ed43d4
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Brain Transplant
 Yuureitou (Manga) / int_90ed43d4
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Brain Transplant: Marube attempts to switch his brain with Tetsuo so that he can preserve his love with the owner of the ghost tower.
 Yuureitou (Manga) / int_90ed43d4
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Yuureitou (Manga) / int_90ed43d4
 Yuureitou (Manga) / int_91672d3e
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Children Are Innocent
 Yuureitou (Manga) / int_91672d3e
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Children Are Innocent: A dark take on the trope. After Tesla fails to force Taicho, Tetsuo and Yamashina to choose a human sacrifice for his organ transplant surgery, Tesla decides to leave the job to a group of children as they haven't developed the principles that would keep them from choosing someone that deserves to die and they will do whatever he says in exchange for toys.
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Yuureitou (Manga) / int_91672d3e
 Yuureitou (Manga) / int_9b34ee31
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Marriage of Convenience
 Yuureitou (Manga) / int_9b34ee31
comment
Marriage of Convenience: The real reason that Amano's childhood crush, Hanazono, is engaged to marry his childhood bully, Mimura, is because her mother is ill and Mimura is paying for her treatment; when Amano announces that he's going to become a rich man soon, she starts hoping for this from him instead, since Mimura's and his parents want her to quit her job. After she's killed by Shibanmushi, Mimura of course stops the payments as he has 'no obligation' to her anymore, and Amano's new motivation for finding the clock tower's treasure becomes keeping them up in his stead.
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Yuureitou (Manga) / int_9b34ee31
 Yuureitou (Manga) / int_9bcd82c0
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Took a Level in Badass
 Yuureitou (Manga) / int_9bcd82c0
comment
Took a Level in Badass: Taichi goes from relying on Tetsuo at the slightest sign of danger to beating criminals in the head with a stick (while in drag, no less!)
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Yuureitou (Manga) / int_9bcd82c0
 Yuureitou (Manga) / int_9c73b5b2
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Let Them Die Happy
 Yuureitou (Manga) / int_9c73b5b2
comment
Let Them Die Happy: Tetsuo does this to Shirou by telling him that he loved him all along. Taichi gives Yamashina the satisfaction of thinking that Tetsuo was male all along by pretending to be him as Yamashina dies.
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Yuureitou (Manga) / int_9c73b5b2
 Yuureitou (Manga) / int_9d137658
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The Chanteuse
 Yuureitou (Manga) / int_9d137658
comment
The Chanteuse: According to rumors, Reiko also had a beautiful voice. Tetsuo later asks Shino if she wants to sing with him after he tells Amano the rumors about his past life as 'Reiko'.
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Yuureitou (Manga) / int_9d137658
 Yuureitou (Manga) / int_9d3b4703
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This Is Reality
 Yuureitou (Manga) / int_9d3b4703
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This Is Reality: "People's feelings are nothing like the feelings of the people you read about in your magazines, Amano-kun."
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Yuureitou (Manga) / int_9d3b4703
 Yuureitou (Manga) / int_9fc04a54
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Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?
 Yuureitou (Manga) / int_9fc04a54
comment
Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?: Yamashina does this all the time when he remarks on how he prefers the physique of men to women.
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Yuureitou (Manga) / int_9fc04a54
 Yuureitou (Manga) / int_a201dad2
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Passive-Aggressive Kombat
 Yuureitou (Manga) / int_a201dad2
comment
Passive-Aggressive Kombat: When Tetsuo is made to be Marube's butler, Tetsuo does everything he can to resist conforming to Marube's sexual fantasies. Tetsuo decides to wear a uniform when Marube asks him to give him a shower, and then sharpens his nails to ensure that scrubbing Marube will be as painful as possible.
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Yuureitou (Manga) / int_a201dad2
 Yuureitou (Manga) / int_a431b0e6
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The Butler Did It
 Yuureitou (Manga) / int_a431b0e6
comment
The Butler Did It: Amano tries to tie Tetsuo into the Fujimiya family after seeing a picture of Reiko's family early on, and suspects that Tetsuo was a butler who killed Tatsu Fujimiya. Subverted, since there was a butler, but he didn't kill Tatsu, and he wasn't Tetsuo.
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Yuureitou (Manga) / int_a431b0e6
 Yuureitou (Manga) / int_a70223
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Karma Houdini
 Yuureitou (Manga) / int_a70223
comment
Karma Houdini: Marube chooses to die holding onto Onatsu's corpse in the burning Ghost Mansion, so he's never officially prosecuted for his crimes. Tesla and Q also escape, and they'll likely continue their more dubious experiments in addition to saving the occasional life. Technically, on the protagonist side, Tetsuo counts as well - he avoids going to jail for the death of his stepmother or the several partners he had before Amano, although he's already considered the murderer of the former and the others may well have been accidental.
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Yuureitou (Manga) / int_a70223
 Yuureitou (Manga) / int_a7aef9ff
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Obfuscating Stupidity
 Yuureitou (Manga) / int_a7aef9ff
comment
Obfuscating Stupidity: "Sharp-as-a-Razor" Jinbabue spends most of his appearances making incredibly flawed deductions at the drop of a hat and generally acting like a bumbling fool. It's actually all an act to divert suspicion from his identity as Shibanmushi. He even wears a false mustache.
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Yuureitou (Manga) / int_a7aef9ff
 Yuureitou (Manga) / int_a8adc5a0
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Like a Son to Me
 Yuureitou (Manga) / int_a8adc5a0
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Like a Son to Me: The village elder's not actually Manji's grandmother, just someone who took care of him after his parents had died. She mentions that she took care of him as if he were her own kin. It gets weird when she reveals that her own child was sacrificed in exchange for thinning out the numbers in the village, after Manji's parents gave birth to him.
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Yuureitou (Manga) / int_a8adc5a0
 Yuureitou (Manga) / int_ab1659d5
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Hero Stole My Bike
 Yuureitou (Manga) / int_ab1659d5
comment
Hero Stole My Bike: Tetsuo steals a bike so he and Taichi can transport more easily while they're on the run from the law.
 Yuureitou (Manga) / int_ab1659d5
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Yuureitou (Manga) / int_ab1659d5
 Yuureitou (Manga) / int_b02f996a
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Town with a Dark Secret
 Yuureitou (Manga) / int_b02f996a
comment
Town with a Dark Secret: The village that Tetsuo and Taichi ended up in was small and decent, but it ran on the principle that the numbers needed to be thinned out (even if children were involved) in order to keep resources at an equal level, and that the village is going barren because of all of the opium consumed over the years. There's also the island Shiro hails from, where the head of the family's wife is forced to commit suicide after he dies. The day of his father's funeral, a pregnant mistress of his arrived, and Shiro's mother - who was willingly going to take her life out of love for her husband - killed her. The other woman's body was placed in Shiro's mother's grave while she assumed her identity and fled the country, and the villagers are prepared to kill any outsiders who stumble upon the truth.
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Yuureitou (Manga) / int_b02f996a
 Yuureitou (Manga) / int_b034d333
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Film Noir
 Yuureitou (Manga) / int_b034d333
comment
Film Noir: The story is set in The '50s with mystery and murder being one of the main themes.
 Yuureitou (Manga) / int_b034d333
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Yuureitou (Manga) / int_b034d333
 Yuureitou (Manga) / int_b11ac9f5
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Abusive Parents
 Yuureitou (Manga) / int_b11ac9f5
comment
Abusive Parents: Marube is sexually abusing his daughter. Tetsuo's mother was willing to abandon him in the ghost tower and let him die for being too masculine.
 Yuureitou (Manga) / int_b11ac9f5
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Yuureitou (Manga) / int_b11ac9f5
 Yuureitou (Manga) / int_b1346878
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Fate Worse than Death
 Yuureitou (Manga) / int_b1346878
comment
Fate Worse than Death: Ultimately, Shibanmushi survived his long fall to the bottom of the clock tower, and became a quadruple amputee. He's in so much pain that not even drugs can dull it, and is now in the care of Tesla, who wants to run all sorts of experiments on him... at least until Marube shoots him, that is.
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Yuureitou (Manga) / int_b1346878
 Yuureitou (Manga) / int_bd50e676
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Queer Romance
 Yuureitou (Manga) / int_bd50e676
comment
Queer Romance: The budding romance between Taichi (a cis man with hints of genderfluidity) and Tetsuo (a trans man).
 Yuureitou (Manga) / int_bd50e676
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Yuureitou (Manga) / int_bd50e676
 Yuureitou (Manga) / int_bd5e9702
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His Name Is...
 Yuureitou (Manga) / int_bd5e9702
comment
His Name Is...: Just as Shirou is about to reveal Shibanmushi's name, his throat gets slit.
 Yuureitou (Manga) / int_bd5e9702
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Yuureitou (Manga) / int_bd5e9702
 Yuureitou (Manga) / int_beb9a361
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Anti-Hero
 Yuureitou (Manga) / int_beb9a361
comment
Anti-Hero: Tetsuo is a Pragmatic type, also qualifying for Byronic Hero due to his charisma and frequent angst. Taichi starts out as a Classical type and slowly gains Pragmatic qualities.
 Yuureitou (Manga) / int_beb9a361
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Yuureitou (Manga) / int_beb9a361
 Yuureitou (Manga) / int_c12ad193
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Fake Pregnancy
 Yuureitou (Manga) / int_c12ad193
comment
Fake Pregnancy: In the opium village arc, Taichi has to pretend to be Tetsuo's pregnant wife since the villagers have them trapped and they want to get new blood from them.
 Yuureitou (Manga) / int_c12ad193
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Yuureitou (Manga) / int_c12ad193
 Yuureitou (Manga) / int_c2d6fc5e
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Murder by Inaction
 Yuureitou (Manga) / int_c2d6fc5e
comment
Murder by Inaction: How Reiko/Tetsuo really killed his stepmother. Shibanmushi tied her to the hands of the clock tower to get her to tell him how to operate it, and she would have caved had she not seen her adopted child watching from a window, thinking she was going to be saved. Shibanmushi also retreated, planning to watch Tetsuo stop the clock, but Tetsuo simply watched as revenge for his stepmother almost leaving him to die in the maze as a child.
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Boom, Headshot!
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Boom, Headshot!: Just as Taichi tells Satoko and Yamashina that he solved a puzzle, Yamashina gets shot in the head by Shibanmushi. He doesn't die from it right away, and passes in Taichi's arms. At the very end of the manga, it's revealed he actually survived - likely with the help of Tesla - at the cost of his memories.
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Fan Disservice
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Fan Disservice: The scene of Hanazono's naked corpse being found tied to the clock tower's hands. Tetsuo and Amano having to briefly live under house arrest with Marube as his butler and in drag respectively is also this, as they're subject to almost constant sexual harassment. And Marube honestly looked pretty good in Onatsu's dress before he started trying to rape Amano.
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Environmental Symbolism
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Environmental Symbolism: During the village arc, Manji points out that the village statue seems to be getting more and more worn with time, making strange faces due to the corruption the village is faced with. After his murder, the statue appears to be monstrous, and it only got worse. After the arc was resolved, it mysteriously went back to near perfect condition.
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Cassandra Truth: Tetsuo once tells Taichi that he was Reiko, a woman who murdered her mother in a gruesome way two years ago and supposedly died. Taichi doesn't believe him.
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Never Suicide: After the floodgate of the village was unlocked, the villagers found Manji's body in a storehouse with a nail driven through his chest. Initially they all thought that he had expected to be punished for attempting to destroy their poppy fields and, due to village tradition that the population could not go above 55 people, he took his own life in exchange for that of his grandmother's.
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No Periods, Period: Averted. Tetsuo uses the blood from his menstrual cycle to make Taichi think that he'd had his virginity taken.
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Cast Full of Gay: Yamashina is gay, Marube is attracted to both men and women, Amano becomes attracted to Tetsuo as a man as the series progresses, and Tetsuo is attracted to Amano. Yup, that's pretty much all the main male characters.
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You Are Not Alone: Taichi and Tetsuo so many times throughout the manga. When Tetsuo has his Heroic BSoD after admitting that he killed his mother to Taichi in Chapter 63, Taichi tells Tetsuo that he understands how Tetsuo feels after killing Jinbabue. When Tetsuo decides to give up his self-ownership and current life to become Marube's wife and Tesla's experiment, Taichi begs him to stay and tells Tetsuo that he doesn't have to punish himself like this.
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Welcome to My World: Proceeds right after the slap Yamashina gives to Satoko. He tells her that she feels afraid and isolated in the mansion, filled with criminals and what society puts beneath them, and then points out (without having to point at himself) that people like him have to go through that uneasy feeling all the time.
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Pants-Pulling Prank: Tetsuo pulls down Taiichi's pants while he's still tied up to the clock as a way to threaten him to frame him as a pervert if he doesn't cooperate with him. Later, Taiichi pulls the same prank on Tetsuo to tease him, but Tetsuo reacts more negatively than he expected because a transman obviously has more issues with such exposure.
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Locked Room Mystery: In the opium village arc, Manji's corpse is found in a locked room. Everyone assumes it was a suicide, but Taichi's knowledge of mystery novels makes him conclude it was a murder.
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Bluffing the Murderer: Amano believes that Tetsuo is Shibanmushi, a murderous ghost who kills people who enter the ghost tower, and threatens him with a knife early on in his investigation. Ironically, Tetsuo actually turns out to be the one who killed his mother, although he wasn't the one who tied her to the clock.
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Whole-Plot Reference: Taro Nogizaka's Yuureitou is an expanded adaptation of Alice Muriel Williamson's "A Woman in Gray" from 1898. However, the lawyer that owned the haunted house is now an abusive father who owns a haunted clock tower, the woman who murdered her mother is now a transgender man who killed his adoptive mother, the attorney who investigates the tower is now a man in his twenties with no job and the villain that wants to seduce the daughter who killed her mother is now the owner of the ghost tower. Lampshaded in the last volume where Amano finds various books the manga referred its plot to.
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Amateur Sleuth
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Amateur Sleuth: Amano is turned into one when Marube asks him to investigate the tower and the murder.
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Disguised in Drag: Taichi pretends to be Tetsuo's wife while they flee the city after being framed for the deaths of several people who stumbled across an entrance to the clock tower's maze.
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The Maze
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The Maze: There's an underground maze filled with booby traps beneath the clock tower's mansion and it's said there's one under the clock tower too.
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Bookcase Passage
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Bookcase Passage: The mansion of the ghost tower has a secret maze that can only be entered through the secret door behind a bookcase.
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Period Piece: Set in the early 1950s.
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The Vamp: Marube's plan in chapters 50 through 60 is to seduce Tetsuo and break his will.
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Big Damn Heroes: Satoko and the police department when they save Tetsuo and Amano from Tesla and Marube at the end of the manga.
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Kill and Replace: Marube suggests that this was why Tetsuo approached Amano in the first place: he has a nondescript appearance (specifically, his thick prescription glasses mean most people don't look closely at his face) and no family members or close friends, so it wouldn't be hard for Tetsuo to steal his family register and claim that any pictures of Amano from childhood are of him. Tetsuo did have something like that in mind, but he actually planned to buy Amano's registry, not kill him for it. Though it's never really said what he would have done if Amano had died during the early stages of their investigation...
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Sealed with a Kiss
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Sealed with a Kiss: The Official Couple Taichi and Akira/Tetsuo kiss near the end of the final chapter.
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The Mourning After
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The Mourning After: Shiro's mother refused to remarry as she believed her husband was the only one for her. The same is true of Marube and his wife Onatsu, but that particular person takes it to disturbing levels.
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Gold Digger: Amano briefly dates a girl at the end of the manga, only to discover that she was cheating on him and using him for his money.
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Ambiguously Related: It's revealed that Satoko's mother slept around a lot, meaning that it's impossible to know whether Marube is her biological father or not. Satoko is deeply upset when she learns this and it's the final straw that gets her to run away from her abusive father.
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Attempted Rape: Happens twice. While lost in the tower without Amano or Yamashina in the clocktower treasure hunt arc, Satoko is ambushed by two men and is almost raped. She is saved by Yamashina and Amano. The second time, MARUBE tries to rape Taichi in order to make him leave Tetsuo.
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Faking the Dead: Although in the beginning of the story we are told that Reiko drowned in the river, Reiko did not die and took on the guise of Tetsuo Sawamura.
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Accidental Murder: Shino murdering the man at the island - at least, it started out that way, but Yamashina points out that strangling him after she'd clubbed him unconscious means she'll be likely be prosecuted more harshly.
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