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''The Longing of Shiina Ryo'' is a {{Light Novel|s}} written by [[http://thatguyfroma.wordpress.com Ryuno]], available [[http://menasepublications.blogspot.com/2011/01/longing-of-shiina-ryo.html here]] and on [[http://www.baka-tsuki.org/project/index.php?title=The_Longing_Of_Shiina_Ryo Baka-Tsuki]]. It is about a teenager nicknamed Shin-tsu who has spent most of his life fleeing from a series of unusual events that he has deemed "Mystery". The story picks up when Shin-tsu moves to yet another new town, which coincidentally is where Ryo, someone he met online and the only person who he has befriended during his life. Unfortunately, Shin-tsu can only hide for so long before Mystery finds him again...
[[http://www.facebook.com/TheLongingOfShiinaRyo Official Facebook Page]]
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!!Tropes:
%%* AccidentalPervert: When Shin-tsu wound up on top of Kouma when she tried to beat him up (possibly murder him).
%%* ActionSurvivor: Basically, Shin-tsu's life story.
%%* AgentMulder: Ryo (with Kouma as AgentScully), when they hear Shin-tsu's account of his past.
%%* AgentScully: Kouma (with Ryo as AgentMulder), when they hear Shin-tsu's account of his past.
%%* AllLoveIsUnrequited
%%* AllJustADream: [[spoiler:The ''Metamonogatari'' extra story.]]
%%* AllPsychologyIsFreudian: Kouma seems well versed in this model of psychology
%%* AnthropomorphicPersonification
%%* ArcWords: "At which point does an umbrella become a parasol?"
* BadassBookworm: When Kouma and Shin-tsu [[spoiler:(who tried to punch out [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu Shogushin]] with their Chinese kung fu movie fighting skills)]] found themselves in a pinch, Ryo used [[spoiler:her frail body to climb the metallic structure of the warehouse like a monkey and drop a heavy spotlight on the monster's head.]] Right, two experienced martial artists were saved by a wiki editor's knowledge of physics. [[OverlyLongGag At least Gravity worked fine at that time]].
%%* BewareTheNiceOnes: Do not ignore Shiina Ryo.
%%* BeyondTheImpossible: Shin-tsu [[spoiler:defies reality]] to have a BigDamnHero moment. Check the page for details.
%%* BilingualBonus
%%* BlatantLies: Most people believe Shin-tsu's stories are an example, but then again, they might be [[UnreliableNarrator entirely correct]].
* BlessedWithSuck: Shin-tsu's tendency to [[spoiler: literally be lost in thought]] lets him [[spoiler: skip a good portion of trying to figure out how to find Mystery.]]
* BreakingTheFourthWall: Shin-tsu actually talks to the reader about various things, such as whether he's running or only walking briskly.
%%* CassandraTruth: "I stopped believing in Santa Claus when he cheated me at cards." Just as an example.
* CatchPhrase: Shin-tsu's "UORYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!"
%%* CharacterDevelopment[=/=]AlternateCharacterInterpretation
%%* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler: Ms. Reikoku's countdown]]
%%* CherryBlossoms: Light novel set in Japan. What else is new?
%%* CheshireCatGrin: Kouma
%%* TheClimax: The fight after [[spoiler:Shin-Tsu realizes how to find Mystery.]]
%%* ClosedCircle: to Shin-tsu, this is what life and the world are.
%%* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Shin-Tsu
%%* ComedicSociopathy: Kouma
%%* CovertPervert Shin-tsu
* CrazyPrepared: Kouma's hand purse carries more than enough bandages and medicine to treat a wounded person, [[{{Hammerspace}} amongst many, many other things.]]
* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: Ms. Reikoku went to the warehouse after being told to do so by [[spoiler:an old man dressed in red.]]
%%* CulturalCrossReference: Shin-tsu's curry
%%* DeadpanSnarker: Kouma
%%* DeconstructorFleet[=/=]GenreBusting
* DidntSeeThatComing: When [[spoiler:the slice-of-life turns into supernatural mystery]], and once again when the mystery/crime exposition turns into a battle.
%%* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Ms. Reikoku [[spoiler: exorcises Ayaka by counting down like in class.]]
%%* DitzyGenius: Shiina Ryo.
%%* DoesNotLikeMen: Kouma
%%* DoubleStandard: Kouma treats Shin-tsu as a rival, and Ryo as a friend.
%%* EldritchAbomination: [[spoiler:Ayaka's '''Sugoshin'''.]]
%%* EmotionlessGirl: Kouma, to an extent.
%%* EnemyMine: Kouma enlists Shin-Tsu's help to help keep Ryo happy.
%%* EpiphanicPrison: Shin-tsu's life revolved around running from Mystery until he decides to hold his ground.
%%* ExpoSpeak: The dialogs are made of this, and mixed with BuffySpeak.
%%* {{Fanservice}}: played with, subverted and lampshaded.
* FirstNameBasis: Shin-tsu doesn't use honorifics when referring to Ryo, and both [[spoiler:Kouma and Ms. Reikoku]] take note of this.
%%* FreudianTrio
%%* GeniusBonus[=/=]InfoDump: Too many examples to pick just one.
* GenreSavvy: Shin-tsu begins to joke that he's in a novel, and both Kouma and Ryo try to utilize story structures to make sense of his life.
%%* GirlWithPsychoWeapon: [[spoiler:Ayaka]]
* HandsOffParenting: Shin-tsu is legally emancipated just prior to the start of the story.
%%* HealingFactor: Shin-tsu
%%* HeroicWillpower
* IfYouEverDoAnythingToHurtHer: Kouma to Shin-tsu, in relation to Ryo. She wasn't kidding.
* IKnowKarate: When Shin-tsu has to [[spoiler: defend himself from Kouma]]
%%* IJustWantToBeNormal: Shin-tsu
* InnerMonologue: Shin-tsu literally loses track of his surroundings when he does this.
%%* InvokedTrope: too many examples to count
%%* LampshadeHanging: They're very pretty, too, and go marvelously well with the drapes.
%%* LemonyNarrator
%%* LightNovel
%%* MaleGaze: Shin-tsu gives the reader a rather... unique perspective of the girls.
%%* MeaningfulName
%%* MetaGuy: Essentially everyone.
%%* MsFanservice: Reikoku-sensei.
%%* MultipleDemographicAppeal
%%* MundaneFantastic
%%* NewTransferStudent: Shin-tsu
%%* NotSoStoic: Kouma, in the presence of Ryo.
* NotWhatItLooksLike: When Shin-tsu has Kouma leave his apartment when Ms. Reikoku showed up one night.
* OccultDetective: [[spoiler: Ms. Reikoku]] seems interested in becoming this. Or getting [[spoiler:her students]] to become this, it's hard to tell.
* OddFriendship: Kouma Yon (borderline cynic) and Shiina Ryo (insufferable idealist)
%%* OhCrap: When Shin-tsu picked up the card he found on his desk.
* PostModern: As it gets; the characters seem to think the universe is run by tropes, for Christ's sake.
%%* Power Trio: Directly referenced by Kouma
* RapidFireTyping: Ryo with her cellphone.
%%* RealityWarper: "I can bend space and time!"
%%* RuleOfDrama: Played with and subverted.
%%* SeinfeldianConversation: Shin-tsu is prone to starting these with himself.
* SlowMotionFall: Shin-tsu sees Ryo fall in slow-motion the second time, [[spoiler: but because he's warping reality.]]
%%* SmallReferencePools[=/=]ReferenceOverdosed
%%* StepfordSmiler: Ryo is a Type A.
%%* SupportingProtagonist: Shin-tsu is the narrator, but I suspect Ryo may become the most important character.
%% Do not put First-Person writing on the page
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Shin-tsu makes a lot of these; [[spoiler: "I-it's not like I enjoy cross-dressing or anything!"]]
* TakingTheBullet: [[spoiler: Shin-tsu dives to catch Ryo when she falls in the warehouse, getting dinged up in the process.]]
%%* TinMan: Kouma
* {{Troperiffic}}: Shin-tsu may have been a troper in another life.
%%* TrueCompanions: Ms. Reikoku, in relation to the students under her.
* UmbrellaOfTogetherness: Ryo shares her parasol with Shin-tsu on the first day they meet face-to-face.
* UnfazedEveryman: Shin-tsu is an Unfazed Everyman that stood around weird things for way too long.
%%* UnresolvedSexualTension
* UnwantedHarem: Shin-tsu notices at couple points possibilities that could lead to a harem situation, and takes actions to avoid provoking such.
%%* WhenItAllBegan: Shin-tsu's been running from Mystery for a long time.
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''The Longing of Shiina Ryo'' is a {{Light Novel|s}} written by [[http://thatguyfroma.wordpress.com Ryuno]], available [[http://menasepublications.blogspot.com/2011/01/longing-of-shiina-ryo.html here]] and on [[http://www.baka-tsuki.org/project/index.php?title=The_Longing_Of_Shiina_Ryo Baka-Tsuki]]. It is about a teenager nicknamed Shin-tsu who has spent most of his life fleeing from a series of unusual events that he has deemed "Mystery". The story picks up when Shin-tsu moves to yet another new town, which coincidentally is where Ryo, someone he met online and the only person who he has befriended during his life. Unfortunately, Shin-tsu can only hide for so long before Mystery finds him again...
[[http://www.facebook.com/TheLongingOfShiinaRyo Official Facebook Page]]
----
!!Tropes:
%%* AccidentalPervert: When Shin-tsu wound up on top of Kouma when she tried to beat him up (possibly murder him).
%%* ActionSurvivor: Basically, Shin-tsu's life story.
%%* AgentMulder: Ryo (with Kouma as AgentScully), when they hear Shin-tsu's account of his past.
%%* AgentScully: Kouma (with Ryo as AgentMulder), when they hear Shin-tsu's account of his past.
%%* AllLoveIsUnrequited
%%* AllJustADream: [[spoiler:The ''Metamonogatari'' extra story.]]
%%* AllPsychologyIsFreudian: Kouma seems well versed in this model of psychology
%%* AnthropomorphicPersonification
%%* ArcWords: "At which point does an umbrella become a parasol?"
* BadassBookworm: When Kouma and Shin-tsu [[spoiler:(who tried to punch out [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu Shogushin]] with their Chinese kung fu movie fighting skills)]] found themselves in a pinch, Ryo used [[spoiler:her frail body to climb the metallic structure of the warehouse like a monkey and drop a heavy spotlight on the monster's head.]] Right, two experienced martial artists were saved by a wiki editor's knowledge of physics. [[OverlyLongGag At least Gravity worked fine at that time]].
%%* BewareTheNiceOnes: Do not ignore Shiina Ryo.
%%* BeyondTheImpossible: Shin-tsu [[spoiler:defies reality]] to have a BigDamnHero moment. Check the page for details.
%%* BilingualBonus
%%* BlatantLies: Most people believe Shin-tsu's stories are an example, but then again, they might be [[UnreliableNarrator entirely correct]].
* BlessedWithSuck: Shin-tsu's tendency to [[spoiler: literally be lost in thought]] lets him [[spoiler: skip a good portion of trying to figure out how to find Mystery.]]
* BreakingTheFourthWall: Shin-tsu actually talks to the reader about various things, such as whether he's running or only walking briskly.
%%* CassandraTruth: "I stopped believing in Santa Claus when he cheated me at cards." Just as an example.
* CatchPhrase: Shin-tsu's "UORYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!"
%%* CharacterDevelopment[=/=]AlternateCharacterInterpretation
%%* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler: Ms. Reikoku's countdown]]
%%* CherryBlossoms: Light novel set in Japan. What else is new?
%%* CheshireCatGrin: Kouma
%%* TheClimax: The fight after [[spoiler:Shin-Tsu realizes how to find Mystery.]]
%%* ClosedCircle: to Shin-tsu, this is what life and the world are.
%%* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Shin-Tsu
%%* ComedicSociopathy: Kouma
%%* CovertPervert Shin-tsu
* CrazyPrepared: Kouma's hand purse carries more than enough bandages and medicine to treat a wounded person, [[{{Hammerspace}} amongst many, many other things.]]
* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: Ms. Reikoku went to the warehouse after being told to do so by [[spoiler:an old man dressed in red.]]
%%* CulturalCrossReference: Shin-tsu's curry
%%* DeadpanSnarker: Kouma
%%* DeconstructorFleet[=/=]GenreBusting
* DidntSeeThatComing: When [[spoiler:the slice-of-life turns into supernatural mystery]], and once again when the mystery/crime exposition turns into a battle.
%%* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Ms. Reikoku [[spoiler: exorcises Ayaka by counting down like in class.]]
%%* DitzyGenius: Shiina Ryo.
%%* DoesNotLikeMen: Kouma
%%* DoubleStandard: Kouma treats Shin-tsu as a rival, and Ryo as a friend.
%%* EldritchAbomination: [[spoiler:Ayaka's '''Sugoshin'''.]]
%%* EmotionlessGirl: Kouma, to an extent.
%%* EnemyMine: Kouma enlists Shin-Tsu's help to help keep Ryo happy.
%%* EpiphanicPrison: Shin-tsu's life revolved around running from Mystery until he decides to hold his ground.
%%* ExpoSpeak: The dialogs are made of this, and mixed with BuffySpeak.
%%* {{Fanservice}}: played with, subverted and lampshaded.
* FirstNameBasis: Shin-tsu doesn't use honorifics when referring to Ryo, and both [[spoiler:Kouma and Ms. Reikoku]] take note of this.
%%* FreudianTrio
%%* GeniusBonus[=/=]InfoDump: Too many examples to pick just one.
* GenreSavvy: Shin-tsu begins to joke that he's in a novel, and both Kouma and Ryo try to utilize story structures to make sense of his life.
%%* GirlWithPsychoWeapon: [[spoiler:Ayaka]]
* HandsOffParenting: Shin-tsu is legally emancipated just prior to the start of the story.
%%* HealingFactor: Shin-tsu
%%* HeroicWillpower
* IfYouEverDoAnythingToHurtHer: Kouma to Shin-tsu, in relation to Ryo. She wasn't kidding.
* IKnowKarate: When Shin-tsu has to [[spoiler: defend himself from Kouma]]
%%* IJustWantToBeNormal: Shin-tsu
* InnerMonologue: Shin-tsu literally loses track of his surroundings when he does this.
%%* InvokedTrope: too many examples to count
%%* LampshadeHanging: They're very pretty, too, and go marvelously well with the drapes.
%%* LemonyNarrator
%%* LightNovel
%%* MaleGaze: Shin-tsu gives the reader a rather... unique perspective of the girls.
%%* MeaningfulName
%%* MetaGuy: Essentially everyone.
%%* MsFanservice: Reikoku-sensei.
%%* MultipleDemographicAppeal
%%* MundaneFantastic
%%* NewTransferStudent: Shin-tsu
%%* NotSoStoic: Kouma, in the presence of Ryo.
* NotWhatItLooksLike: When Shin-tsu has Kouma leave his apartment when Ms. Reikoku showed up one night.
* OccultDetective: [[spoiler: Ms. Reikoku]] seems interested in becoming this. Or getting [[spoiler:her students]] to become this, it's hard to tell.
* OddFriendship: Kouma Yon (borderline cynic) and Shiina Ryo (insufferable idealist)
%%* OhCrap: When Shin-tsu picked up the card he found on his desk.
* PostModern: As it gets; the characters seem to think the universe is run by tropes, for Christ's sake.
%%* Power Trio: Directly referenced by Kouma
* RapidFireTyping: Ryo with her cellphone.
%%* RealityWarper: "I can bend space and time!"
%%* RuleOfDrama: Played with and subverted.
%%* SeinfeldianConversation: Shin-tsu is prone to starting these with himself.
* SlowMotionFall: Shin-tsu sees Ryo fall in slow-motion the second time, [[spoiler: but because he's warping reality.]]
%%* SmallReferencePools[=/=]ReferenceOverdosed
%%* StepfordSmiler: Ryo is a Type A.
%%* SupportingProtagonist: Shin-tsu is the narrator, but I suspect Ryo may become the most important character.
%% Do not put First-Person writing on the page
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Shin-tsu makes a lot of these; [[spoiler: "I-it's not like I enjoy cross-dressing or anything!"]]
* TakingTheBullet: [[spoiler: Shin-tsu dives to catch Ryo when she falls in the warehouse, getting dinged up in the process.]]
%%* TinMan: Kouma
* {{Troperiffic}}: Shin-tsu may have been a troper in another life.
%%* TrueCompanions: Ms. Reikoku, in relation to the students under her.
* UmbrellaOfTogetherness: Ryo shares her parasol with Shin-tsu on the first day they meet face-to-face.
* UnfazedEveryman: Shin-tsu is an Unfazed Everyman that stood around weird things for way too long.
%%* UnresolvedSexualTension
* UnwantedHarem: Shin-tsu notices at couple points possibilities that could lead to a harem situation, and takes actions to avoid provoking such.
%%* WhenItAllBegan: Shin-tsu's been running from Mystery for a long time.
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