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* YoureInsane: He says this to Marube and Doctor Tesla after [[spoiler:they reveal they want to perform a brain transplant surgery between him and Marube]].
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* TheNeedsOfMany: He measures the value of life by numbers. He's willing to sacrifice one life to save three and later he cancels the organ transplant surgery and lets Tetsuo go because Tetsuo claimed he placed bombs that wouls kill hundreds of people unless Tesla releases him.
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* TheNeedsOfMany: TheNeedsOfTheMany: He measures the value of life by numbers. He's willing to sacrifice one life to save three and later he cancels the organ transplant surgery and lets Tetsuo go because Tetsuo claimed he placed bombs that wouls kill hundreds of people unless Tesla releases him.
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* ParentalIncest: [[spoiler:He has molested his daughter Satoko. However, they are not related by blood. Later, he seduces Tetsuo, who is revealed to be his long lost daughter Fujimiya Rika.]]
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* ParentalIncest: [[spoiler:He He has molested his daughter Satoko. However, [[spoiler:However, they are not related by blood. Later, he seduces tries seduce to Tetsuo, who is revealed to be his long lost daughter Fujimiya Rika.]]
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* RapeAsBackstory: [[spoiler:She She has been molested by her stepfather Marube.]]
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!!Doctor Tesla
A doctor who runs an unlicensed research facility.
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* BackAlleyDoctor: He runs an unlicensed research facility and is not among using a human for experimental organ transplant surgeries.
* ButNotTooForeign: [[spoiler:He has western blood in him.]]
* MadDoctor
* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate
* TheNeedsOfMany: He measures the value of life by numbers. He's willing to sacrifice one life to save three and later he cancels the organ transplant surgery and lets Tetsuo go because Tetsuo claimed he placed bombs that wouls kill hundreds of people unless Tesla releases him.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: He wants to save as many lives as possible and to do that he's willing to kidnap Taichi, Tetsuo and Yamashina, inject them with a deadly virus and force them to choose a human sacrifice for Tesla's experimental organ transplant surgery in order to save three people.
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!!Amano Taichi
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* DistressedDude: He often gets in trouble and it's up to Tetsuo to save him.
* GenreSavvy: Being a fan of mystery novels usually helps him as he's trying to solve a mystery.
* UnwittingPawn: Marube blackmails Taichi in order to get closer to Tetsuo.
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* ArrangedMarriage: Tetsuo was arranged to marry a man when he lived as a woman. He did like his fiance as a friend, but he could not love him.
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* AttractiveBentGender: Everyone seems to be attracted to Tetsuo, whether they perceive him as the beautiful maiden Rika Fujimiya, as an attractive {{Bishonen}} man, or as something in between. Most of the girls are attracted to him as a man, Shiro and Taichi are attracted to him as a woman, 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.
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* AttractiveBentGender: Everyone seems to be attracted to Tetsuo, whether they perceive him as the a beautiful maiden Rika Fujimiya, maiden, as an attractive {{Bishonen}} man, or as something in between. Most of the girls are attracted to him as a man, Shiro and Taichi are attracted to him as a woman, 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.
* BlindingBangs: He had this look as [[spoiler:Rika]].
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* BrokenBird
* ByronicHero: He's charismatic, smart, has no qualms with manipulating and killing people and frequently angsts over his past, [[spoiler:killing his mother]] and his transsexuality.
* ByronicHero: He's charismatic, smart, has no qualms with manipulating and killing people and frequently angsts over his past, [[spoiler:killing his mother]] and his transsexuality.
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* BrokenBird
BrokenBird: Being a transsexual, Tetsuo has lived a life were he has been oppressed, isolated and rejected as no one has been able to understand him. [[spoiler:Shiro]] could see that Tetsuo always had the sad eyes of a trapped person.
* ByronicHero: He's charismatic, smart, attractive, has no qualms with manipulating and killing people and frequently angsts over his past, [[spoiler:killing his mother]] and histranssexuality.transsexuality.
* ChickMagnet: Tetsuo is very popular among the ladies and many women blush at his presence.
* ByronicHero: He's charismatic, smart, attractive, has no qualms with manipulating and killing people and frequently angsts over his past, [[spoiler:killing his mother]] and his
* ChickMagnet: Tetsuo is very popular among the ladies and many women blush at his presence.
* LetThemDieHappy: [[spoiler:Right before Shiro dies, Tetsuo lies to him and tells him he also loved him and gives him a LastKiss.]]
* MeaningfulName: Tetsuo means "Iron Hero". [[spoiler:Reiko, Tetsuo's birth 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.]]
* MeaningfulName: Tetsuo means "Iron Hero". [[spoiler:Reiko, Tetsuo's birth 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.]]
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: "Tetsuo" is merely the name he chose to use when he met Amano. [[spoiler:His real name is Rika, but he hates it because it's a girl's name. Post-chapter 75, he starts using the name Akira.]]
* {{Sarashi}}: He wears one to flatten his chest.
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* SympatheticMurderBackstory: [[spoiler:He's Rika, the woman who killed her adopted mom. However, it's hard to not sympathize to Tetsuo as he was abused by his mother who refused to accept him as a man and tried to force him to live and act as a woman.]]
* {{Transsexual}}: Tetsuo was designated female at birth, but identifies as male.Before Prior to transitioning, [[spoiler:he lived as Rika and]] he was never comfortable living as a woman and wished to be accepted and treated as a man.
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* {{Transsexual}}: Tetsuo was designated female at birth, but identifies as male.
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* AbusiveDad: Satoko is noticeably terrified of him and he keeps her under strict regulations. [[spoiler:It's It's later told he's been molesting her. And [[spoiler:And let's not get into his outright disgusting treatment of his biological daughter Rika/Tetsuo.]]
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!!Yamashina
A policeman that befriends Taichi and Tetsuo.
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* FriendOnTheForce
* {{Shotacon}}: He's attracted to the androgynous bodies of young boys.
* StraightGay: Yamashina often drops hints of what parts of a guy he finds attractive that he often denies.
* TragicBromance: When he was a child, he had a friend named Takashi that Yamashina saw as "the main character of his life". One stormy night, Yamashina saw Takashi getting killed by a man named Tanaka and the criminal got away with it. Yamashina joined the police to one day get the chance to arrest and imprison Tanaka.
!!Shirou Honjou
Rika's fiance who went missing two years ago.
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* DyingDeclarationOfLove: [[spoiler:He tells Rika/Tetsuo that he loves him before dying. [[LetThemDieHappy Tetsuo tells him he loved him too.]]]]
* FacialHorror: [[spoiler:His face was horribly disfigured some time after Rika broke up with him.]]
* IncompatibleOrientation: He really loved Rika, but she couldn't reciprocate his feelings because [[spoiler:she couldn't bring herself to love a man]].
* IWasQuiteALooker
* LoveAtFirstSight: He fell in love with Rika the moment he first met her.
* NotWithThemForTheMoney: He admits that he at first wanted to get close to Rika to get her family fortune, but after he met Rika he fell in love with her for real and completely forgot about the money.
* PerfectlyArrangedMarriage: He was Rika's arranged fiance by her stepmother, but he truly loved Rika. Unfortunately, she only saw him as a friend.
* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler:He tries to kill Shinbanmushi along with him. He fails.]]
* TraumaInducedAmnesia: His memories got messed up as a result of the trauma of [[spoiler:getting his face horribly disfigured]].
A policeman that befriends Taichi and Tetsuo.
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* FriendOnTheForce
* {{Shotacon}}: He's attracted to the androgynous bodies of young boys.
* StraightGay: Yamashina often drops hints of what parts of a guy he finds attractive that he often denies.
* TragicBromance: When he was a child, he had a friend named Takashi that Yamashina saw as "the main character of his life". One stormy night, Yamashina saw Takashi getting killed by a man named Tanaka and the criminal got away with it. Yamashina joined the police to one day get the chance to arrest and imprison Tanaka.
!!Shirou Honjou
Rika's fiance who went missing two years ago.
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* DyingDeclarationOfLove: [[spoiler:He tells Rika/Tetsuo that he loves him before dying. [[LetThemDieHappy Tetsuo tells him he loved him too.]]]]
* FacialHorror: [[spoiler:His face was horribly disfigured some time after Rika broke up with him.]]
* IncompatibleOrientation: He really loved Rika, but she couldn't reciprocate his feelings because [[spoiler:she couldn't bring herself to love a man]].
* IWasQuiteALooker
* LoveAtFirstSight: He fell in love with Rika the moment he first met her.
* NotWithThemForTheMoney: He admits that he at first wanted to get close to Rika to get her family fortune, but after he met Rika he fell in love with her for real and completely forgot about the money.
* PerfectlyArrangedMarriage: He was Rika's arranged fiance by her stepmother, but he truly loved Rika. Unfortunately, she only saw him as a friend.
* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler:He tries to kill Shinbanmushi along with him. He fails.]]
* TraumaInducedAmnesia: His memories got messed up as a result of the trauma of [[spoiler:getting his face horribly disfigured]].
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* SelfMadeOrphan: [[spoiler:He's Rika, the woman who killed her adopted mom. However, turns out he wasn't the one tied her to the clock, but Tetsuo still says [[MurderByInaction he indirectly killed her by doing nothing to save her.]]]
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* SelfMadeOrphan: [[spoiler:He's Rika, the woman who killed her adopted mom. However, turns out he wasn't the one tied her to the clock, but Tetsuo still says [[MurderByInaction he indirectly killed her by doing nothing to save her.]]]]]]]
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* IfItsYouItsOkay: Tetsuo makes clear several times he's not into guys, but he eventually begins to feel attracted to Amano, the first person who has completely accepted him as a man. [[spoiler:He ends up in a romantic relationship with Amano at the end of the story.]]
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* IfItsYouItsOkay: Tetsuo makes clear several times he's not into guys, but he eventually begins to feel attracted to Amano, the first person who has to completely accepted accept him as a man. [[spoiler:He ends up in a romantic relationship with Amano at the end of the story.]]
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* MurderByInaction: [[spoiler:This turns out to be the real way Tetsuo's killed his adoptive mother. She was tied to the clock tower by a killer after the treasure within, but since she'd abused Tetsuo for his transgender identity as a child, he simply stood and watched. Tetsuo himself makes no attempt to claim it wasn't murder, telling the cops he'd killed her and using it as a reason that Amano shouldn't be his friend.]]
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* MurderByInaction: [[spoiler:This turns out to be the real way Tetsuo's Tetsuo killed his adoptive mother. She was tied to the clock tower by a killer after the treasure within, but since she'd abused Tetsuo for his transgender identity as a child, he simply stood and watched. Tetsuo himself makes no attempt to claim it wasn't murder, telling the cops he'd killed her and using it as a reason that Amano shouldn't be his friend.]]
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* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Tetsuo... At least he tries to be.
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* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Tetsuo... At least he tries to be. [[spoiler:Subverted as they end up romantically involved at the end of the story.]]
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* AmbiguouslyBi: He claims to be straight, but he shows hints of attraction towards Shiro and Amano. [[spoiler:He ends up in a romantic relationship with Amano at the end of the story.]]
* BecomingTheMask: [[spoiler:At first, Tetsuo was only pretending to be Taichi's friend so he could use him to get to the treasure and get Taichi's birth certificate in exchange for the money. Eventually, Tetsuo really came to consider Taichi his best and only friend after going through so much together and Taichi accepts Tetsuo for who he is.]]
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* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Taichi.
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* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Taichi. [[spoiler:Subverted as they end up in a romantic relationship at the end of the story.]]
* IfItsYouItsOkay: Tetsuo makes clear several times he's not into guys, but he eventually begins to feel attracted to Amano, the first person who has completely accepted him as a man. [[spoiler:He ends up in a romantic relationship with Amano at the end of the story.]]
* IfItsYouItsOkay: Tetsuo makes clear several times he's not into guys, but he eventually begins to feel attracted to Amano, the first person who has completely accepted him as a man. [[spoiler:He ends up in a romantic relationship with Amano at the end of the story.]]
* MurderByInaction: [[spoiler:This turns out to be the real way Tetsuo's killed his adoptive mother. She was tied to the clock tower by a killer after the treasure within, but since she'd abused Tetsuo for his transgender identity as a child, he simply stood and watched. Tetsuo himself makes no attempt to claim it wasn't murder, telling the cops he'd killed her and using it as a reason that Amano shouldn't be his friend.]]
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* SelfMadeOrphan: [[spoiler:He's Rika, the woman who killed her adopted mom.]]
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* SelfMadeOrphan: [[spoiler:He's Rika, the woman who killed her adopted mom.]] However, turns out he wasn't the one tied her to the clock, but Tetsuo still says [[MurderByInaction he indirectly killed her by doing nothing to save her.]]]
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* LovableCoward
* NiceGuy
* NiceGuy
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* IJustWantToHaveFriends: Tetsuo really wishes to have friends. However, due to his complicated circumstances and transsexuality, he can't someone who doesn't leave him out of fear and who accepts him for who he is until he meets Amano.
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* IJustWantToHaveFriends: Tetsuo really wishes to have friends. However, due to his complicated circumstances and transsexuality, he can't couldn't find someone who doesn't leave him out of fear and who accepts him for who he is until he meets Amano.
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* BerserkButton: Tetsuo is normally calm and easy-going, but say or do something that reminds him of his trans issue and you better watch out.
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* BerserkButton: Tetsuo is normally calm and easy-going, but say or do something that reminds him of his trans issue issues and you better watch out.
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* {{Transsexual}}: Tetsuo was designated female at birth, but identifies as male. [[spoiler:When he lived as Rika, he was never comfortable living as a woman and wished to be accepted and treated as a man. After killing her mother, she started living as Tetsuo.]]
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* {{Transsexual}}: Tetsuo was designated female at birth, but identifies as male. [[spoiler:When he Before transitioning, [[spoiler:he lived as Rika, Rika and]] he was never comfortable living as a woman and wished to be accepted and treated as a man. After killing her mother, she started living as Tetsuo.]]
man.
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The protagonist of the story. A loser {{NEET}} who finds himself pulled into bizarre events trying to solve the mystery of the Ghost Tower after he's saved by a mysterious man named Tetsuo.
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* ParentalAbandonment: He never knew his parents and was raised in an orphanage until his stepfather adopted him.
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* UnluckyEverydude: At the start, he's just a loser {{NEET}}, so far all the women he's fallen for haven't felt the same and due to his bad luck he almost ends up getting murdered by Shinbanmushi and getting saved by Tetsuo.
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* UnluckyEverydude: At the start, he's just a loser {{NEET}}, he has no relatives or friends, so far all the women he's fallen for haven't felt the same and due to his bad luck he almost ends up getting murdered by Shinbanmushi and getting saved involved in the mystery by Tetsuo.Tetsuo.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Because he wanted to talk more to the IntrepidReporter Hanazono, he ended up telling her about the Ghost Tower and the murderer that hides there. Although he warned her to not go alone, she ends up going to investigate the tower on her own and gets killed by Shinbanmushi.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Because he wanted to talk more to the IntrepidReporter Hanazono, he ended up telling her about the Ghost Tower and the murderer that hides there. Although he warned her to not go alone, she ends up going to investigate the tower on her own and gets killed by Shinbanmushi.
A mysterious man with a high interest in the Ghost Tower and it's secrets. He ends up involving Amano in his investigation after he saves his life.
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* AmbiguousGender: It's revealed to the reader from early on that Tetsuo is physically female, but it isn't made clear that he's a transman until much later on.
* BerserkButton: Tetsuo is normally calm and easy-going, but say or do something that reminds him of his trans issue and you better watch out.
* BrokenAce: Tetsuo is attractive, charming, intelligent and Amano sees him as everything he wishes to be. However, beneath all that he hides a ton of issues coming from his transsexuality and [[spoiler:killing his adopted mother so he could live as a man]].
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* ByronicHero: He's charismatic, smart, has no qualms with manipulating and killing people and frequently angsts over his past, [[spoiler:killing his mother]] and his trans issues.
* FakingTheDead: [[spoiler:He's actually Rika, who pretended her death after killing her mother in other to escape from the police and live as a man.]]
* FakingTheDead: [[spoiler:He's actually Rika, who pretended her death after killing her mother in other to escape from the police and live as a man.]]
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* ByronicHero: He's charismatic, smart, has no qualms with manipulating and killing people and frequently angsts over his past, [[spoiler:killing his mother]] and his trans issues.
transsexuality.
* FakingTheDead: [[spoiler:He's actually Rika, whopretended faked her death after killing her mother in other to escape from the police and live as a man.]]]]
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* IJustWantToHaveFriendsIJustWantToHaveFriends: Tetsuo really wishes to have friends. However, due to his complicated circumstances and transsexuality, he can't someone who doesn't leave him out of fear and who accepts him for who he is until he meets Amano.
* OldFriendNewGender: A tragic version. Tetsuo was engaged to a man when he lived as a woman. He eventually told his fiance he could not marry him because he identified as male and he did not like men, but hoped they could be like brothers. His fiance was considerably confused and not soon afterwards [[spoiler:Tetsuo killed his adopted mother and "died"]]. When they meet again Tetsuo's fiance is horribly disfigured and does not know this. He doesn't know anything about Tetsuo transitioning or the incidents in the past. He still sees Tetsuo as a woman and Tetsuo keeps up the facade of romance until [[spoiler:his fiance dies protecting him]].
* RedHerring: Tetsuo initially seems is set up as a suspect of Shibanmushi's true identity, but this is later proven wrong.
* SelfMadeOrphan: [[spoiler:He's Rika, the woman who killed her adopted mom.]]
* SelfMadeOrphan: [[spoiler:He's Rika, the woman who killed her adopted mom.]]
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* {{Transsexual}}: Tetsuo was designated female at birth, but identifies as male. [[spoiler:He used to live as Rika]].
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* SmokingIsCool
* StrongFamilyResemblance: [[spoiler:He is the spitting image of his real mother Onatsu. Unfortunately, this is the source of his real father Marube's lust.]]
* {{Transsexual}}: Tetsuo was designated female at birth, but identifies as male.[[spoiler:He used [[spoiler:When he lived as Rika, he was never comfortable living as a woman and wished to live be accepted and treated as Rika]].
a man. After killing her mother, she started living as Tetsuo.]]
* StrongFamilyResemblance: [[spoiler:He is the spitting image of his real mother Onatsu.
* {{Transsexual}}: Tetsuo was designated female at birth, but identifies as male.
A public prosecutor with high influence in politics who recently bought the Ghost Tower.
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!!Fujimiya Rika
* BrokenBird
* DrivenToSuicide: She killed herself after killing her adopted mother. [[spoiler:Actually she went into hiding and became Tetsuo.]]
* {{Ojou}}: The heir to Tatsu Fujimiya's fortune. She has the looks, wealth, honor, and status, so one might wonder why she kills her mother and herself. [[spoiler: As Tetsuo, he loses all of these except for his looks. He loses his wealth because he no longer has a family register and isn't recognized as a citizen and honor and status because he no longer identifies himself as the Fujimiya heir.]]
* SelfMadeOrphan: Killed her adopted mom.
* {{Transsexual}}: [[spoiler:Rika was never comfortable living as a woman and wished to be accepted and treated as a man. After killing her mother, she started living as Tetsuo.]]
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!!Fujimiya Rika
* BrokenBird
* DrivenToSuicide: She killed herself after killing her adopted mother. [[spoiler:Actually she went into hiding and became Tetsuo.]]
* {{Ojou}}: The heir to Tatsu Fujimiya's fortune. She has the looks, wealth, honor, and status, so one might wonder why she kills her mother and herself. [[spoiler: As Tetsuo, he loses all of these except for his looks. He loses his wealth because he no longer has a family register and isn't recognized as a citizen and honor and status because he no longer identifies himself as the Fujimiya heir.]]
* SelfMadeOrphan: Killed her adopted mom.
* {{Transsexual}}: [[spoiler:Rika was never comfortable living as a woman and wished to be accepted and treated as a man. After killing her mother, she started living as Tetsuo.]]
Marube's daughter.
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* AttractiveBentGender: Everyone seems to be attracted to Tetsuo, whether they perceive him as the beautiful maiden Rika Fujimiya, as an attractive Bishounen man, or as something in between. Most of the girls are attracted to him as a man, Shiro and Taichi are attracted to him as a woman, 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.
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* AttractiveBentGender: Everyone seems to be attracted to Tetsuo, whether they perceive him as the beautiful maiden Rika Fujimiya, as an attractive Bishounen {{Bishonen}} man, or as something in between. Most of the girls are attracted to him as a man, Shiro and Taichi are attracted to him as a woman, 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.
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* BecomingTheMask: 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.
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* BecomingTheMask: 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.
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* AttractiveBentGender: Everyone seems to be attracted to Tetsuo, whether they perceive him as the beautiful maiden Rika Fujimiya, as an attractive Bishounen man, or as something in between. Most of the girls are attracted to him as a man, Shiro and Taichi are attracted to him as a woman, 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.
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* IJustWantToBeYou: Taken to the creepiest extreme possible. [[spoiler:He ''wants to have a brain transplant with Tetsuo'' because he wants have the body and beauty of Onatsu, even if it's only for one day.]]
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* AmbiguouslyBi: He claims to be straight, but he shows hints of attraction towards Shiro and Amano. [[spoiler:He later sleeps with Marube, but claims that his feelings were from a lack of parental love that he received from Marube.]]
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* AmbiguouslyBi: He claims to be straight, but he shows hints of attraction towards Shiro and Amano. [[spoiler:He later sleeps ends up in a romantic relationship with Marube, but claims that his feelings were from a lack Amano at the end of parental love that he received from Marube.the story.]]
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* OlderThanHeLooks: Downplayed but he looks pretty young for someone nearing middle aged. He works out.
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* IfItsYouItsOkay: He at first feels attracted to Tetsuo as a woman, but he eventually accepts him as a man and even states he doesn't want to be with a Tetsuo who has given up on being a man.
* TheAtoner: [[spoiler:He tries to atone for killing his adopted mother by forcing himself to live as a woman, just like she wanted.]]
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* AbusiveDad: Satoko is noticeably terrified of him and he keeps her under strict regulations. [[spoiler:It's later told he's been molesting her. And let's not get into his outright disgusting treatment of his biological child Rika/Tetsuo.]]
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* ParentalIncest: [[spoiler:He has molested his daughter Satoko. However, they are not related by blood. Later, he seduces Tetsuo, who is revealed to be his long lost child daughter Fujimiya Rika.]]
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* SelfMadeOrphan: Killed her adopted mom then killed herself. [[spoiler: Tetsuo DidNotDieThatWay]]
* {{Transsexual}}: [[spoiler:Rika was never comfortable living as a woman and wished to be accepted and treated as a man.]]
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* {{Transsexual}}: [[spoiler:Rika was never comfortable living as a woman and wished to be accepted and treated as a man. After killing her mother, she started living as Tetsuo.]]
* {{Transsexual}}: [[spoiler:Rika was never comfortable living as a woman and wished to be accepted and treated as a man. After killing her mother, she started living as Tetsuo.]]
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* StrongFamilyResemblance: [[spoiler:He is the spitting image of his real mother Onatsu. Unfortunately, this is the source of his real father Marube's lust.]]
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* AnythingThatMoves: He harasses Satoko, Amano, and Tetsuo because he is attracted to them and gets off on it.
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* {{Jerkass}}
* LoveAtFirstSight: [[spoiler:He fell in love with Tetsuo's real mother Onatsu the moment he first saw her.]]
* LoveFatherLoveSon: Deconstructed. [[spoiler:He was in love with Tetsuo's real mother Onatsu and now lusts after Tetsuo because of his resemblance to her. The problem is Tetsuo is also ''[[ParentalIncest his]]'' child.]]
* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler:He is the biological father of Tetsuo, also known as Fujimiya Rika.]]
* ParentalIncest: [[spoiler:He has molested his daughter Satoko. However, they are not related by blood. Later, he seduces Tetsuo, who is revealed to be his long lost child Fujimiya Rika.]]
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* LoveAtFirstSight: [[spoiler:He fell in love with Tetsuo's real mother Onatsu the moment he first saw her.]]
* LoveFatherLoveSon: Deconstructed. [[spoiler:He was in love with Tetsuo's real mother Onatsu and now lusts after Tetsuo because of his resemblance to her. The problem is Tetsuo is also ''[[ParentalIncest his]]'' child.]]
* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler:He is the biological father of Tetsuo, also known as Fujimiya Rika.]]
* ParentalIncest: [[spoiler:He has molested his daughter Satoko. However, they are not related by blood. Later, he seduces Tetsuo, who is revealed to be his long lost child Fujimiya Rika.]]
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* TheOjou: {{Ojou}}: The heir to Tatsu Fujimiya's fortune. She has the looks, wealth, honor, and status, so one might wonder why she kills her mother and herself. [[spoiler: As Tetsuo, he loses all of these except for his looks. He loses his wealth because he no longer has a family register and isn't recognized as a citizen and honor and status because he no longer identifies himself as the Fujimiya heir.]]
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* TookALevelInBadass: 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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* HaveYouTriedNotBeingAMonster: Tetsuo is treated this way because [[spoiler: he is trans. After coming out to Shiro as a man, Tetsuo offers Shiro eternal friendship in place of a relationship. Shiro cannot handle this and never accepts the fact that he no longer has a wife. When Shibanmushi confronts Tetsuo and asks Tetsuo to become his ally in the Chapter 40s, he tells Tetsuo that Shiro saw Tetsuo as a monster who offered him eternal friendship, and that only a monster could love and accept another monster.]]
* HeterosexualLifePartner: With Taichi
* HeterosexualLifePartner: With Taichi
* ByronicHero: He's charismatic, smart, has no qualms with manipulating and killing people and frequently angsts over his past, [[spoiler:killing his mother]] and his trans issues.
* FakingTheDead: [[spoiler:He's actually Rika, who pretended her death after killing her mother in other to escape from the police and live as a man.]]
* HaveYouTriedNotBeingAMonster: Tetsuo is treated this way because he is trans. [[spoiler:After coming out to Shiro as a man, Tetsuo offers Shiro eternal friendship in place of a relationship. Shiro cannot handle this and never accepts the fact that he no longer has a wife. When Shibanmushi confronts Tetsuo and asks Tetsuo to become his ally in the Chapter 40s, he tells Tetsuo that Shiro saw Tetsuo as a monster who offered him eternal friendship, and that only a monster could love and accept another monster.]]
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Taichi.
* IJustWantToHaveFriends
* FakingTheDead: [[spoiler:He's actually Rika, who pretended her death after killing her mother in other to escape from the police and live as a man.]]
* HaveYouTriedNotBeingAMonster: Tetsuo is treated this way because he is trans. [[spoiler:After coming out to Shiro as a man, Tetsuo offers Shiro eternal friendship in place of a relationship. Shiro cannot handle this and never accepts the fact that he no longer has a wife. When Shibanmushi confronts Tetsuo and asks Tetsuo to become his ally in the Chapter 40s, he tells Tetsuo that Shiro saw Tetsuo as a monster who offered him eternal friendship, and that only a monster could love and accept another monster.]]
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* {{Transsexual}}: Biologically female, identifies as male. [[spoiler:He used to live as Rika]].
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* HaveYouTriedNotBeingAMonster: Tetsuo is treated this way because [[spoiler: he is trans. After coming out to Shiro as a man, Tetsuo offers Shiro eternal friendship in place of a relationship. Shiro cannot handle this and never accepts the fact that he no longer has a wife. When Shibanmushi confronts Tetsuo and asks Tetsuo to become his ally in the Chapter 40s, he tells Tetsuo that Shiro saw Tetsuo as a monster who offered him eternal friendship, and that only a monster could love and accept another monster.]]
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* TheOjou: The heir to Tatsu Fujimiya's fortune. She has the looks, wealth, honor, and status, so one might wonder why she kills her mother and herself. [[spoiler: As Tetsuo, he loses all of these except for his looks. He loses his wealth because he no longer has a family register and isn't recognized as a citizen and honor and status because he no longer identifies himself as the Fujimiya heir.]]
* SelfMadeOrphan: Killed her adopted mom then killedherselfherself. [[spoiler: Tetsuo DidNotDieThatWay]]
* TheOjou: The heir to Tatsu Fujimiya's fortune. She has the looks, wealth, honor, and status, so one might wonder why she kills her mother and herself. [[spoiler: As Tetsuo, he loses all of these except for his looks. He loses his wealth because he no longer has a family register and isn't recognized as a citizen and honor and status because he no longer identifies himself as the Fujimiya heir.]]
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* AnythingThatMoves: He harasses Satoko, Amano, and Tetsuo because he is attracted to them and gets off on it.
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