History Literature / UndeadGirlMurderFarce

* CatSmile: Tsugaru has a habit of making these whenever he is goofing around or is trying not to frighten bystanders.

* LetOffByTheDetective: In the final episode, [[spoiler:Aya lets Nora/Jutte escape because she understands her true motives which is to free the three werewolf girls from their village's breeding practice even though Nora admits she killed three innocent human girls to cover their escape and deserves to be punished]].

* FairPlayWhodunnit: The cases that Aya handles give a lot of clues which encourage the audience to solve as well. The show does a good job in showing this.

* CoolGuns: Shizuku's primary weapon is a decorated musket with a bayonet, which she carries around in a bundle of cloth.

%% * AdaptationalAttractiveness: Downplayed with Aleister Crowley, with a moderately {{Ikemen}} design, but that's about it.
* AdaptationalMuscles: Compared to his appearance in the manga, which made him look younger and more slim, Tsugaru in the anime looks older and more muscular.

* IntimateHealing: The easiest way for Tsugaru to consume Aya's body to stave off his eventual transformation into an oni is by ingesting her bodily fluids, and Aya accordingly gives him her saliva via kissing him.

* ArcWords: A lot of situations that contradict the facts are called "farce", such as people being dishonest and the murder mysteries.

** This is implied in the final episode [[spoiler:on Louise's reason for helping Nora in her plot. She grows tired of being isolated in the village which doesn't help that her parents treated her because of her disability. She also feels guilty of exposing Nora which led to Rosa's death and believes Nora should punish her for what she did]].

* LetOffByTheDetective: In the final episode, [[spoiler:Aya lets Nora/Jutte escape because she understands her true motives which is to free the three werewolf girls from their village's breeding practice even though Nora admits she killed three innocent human girls to cover their escape]].

The story is set at the end of the 19th century in a world where supernatural beings exist. Aya Rindo, a disembodied head carried by her loyal maid Shizuka Hasei, requests the half-demon demon slayer Tsugaru Shinuchi to help her find her missing body in Europe as she believes that her assailant is there. As they travel, they solve supernatural cases and meet various figures along the way while looking for Aya's body.

* ActuallyThatsMyAssistant: Because Aya is hidden from the general public, the reputation of The Cage User detective usually goes to Tsugaru and Shizuka, even though their main job is to carry her around. Amongst detective circles, Aya is well-known on her own.

* ArchEnemy: Just like in the original canon, Professor Moriarty is Holmes' archnemesis. He is also considered to be Aya's archnemesis as well as given that he remembers her.

** Humans don't stand a chance against monsters, so beside Royce, only Shizuka has shown enough fighting capability. Arsene manages to beat Tsugaru, but before it's revealed Tsugaru was WillfullyWeak and keeping his strength as an ace.

* BayonetYa: Shizuka's rifle has a bayonet attached to it, which she liberally employs in her scrap with Tsugaru.

* CoolGuns: Shizuka's primary weapon is a decorated musket with a bayonet, which she carries around in a bundle of cloth.

* TheExoticDetective: Aya is a detective who is a living head and has to rely on Shizuka and Tsugaru to carry her in a cage so she can look at the evidence.

* MauveShirt: In Episode 8,[[spoiler:one of the Royce agents, Fatima Doubledarts, gets brutally killed by Jack the Ripper]].
* MeleeATrois: Episode 7 has Lupin VS Tsugaru VS Reynold Stinghart fighting over the diamond. It would have been just Lupin VS Tsugaru if Stinghart hadn't intervened to get rid both of them.

** Aya and Tsuguru find a secret underground passage that connects to the human village and the werewolf village. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, the two Royce agents, Kyle and Alice, also find the opening of the passage which Aya and Tsugaru used to go back into the werewolf village and lead the villagers into the werewolf village where they massacre the werewolves]].
* NinjaMaid: Shizuka is Aya's bodyguard and has combat skills to match the Oni Slayer Tsugaru.

** At the end of Episode 7, Aya and her allies are facing off against Moriarty's group starting with Aya, Sherlock, and Watson who face Crowley while Shizuka and Lestrade confront Carmilla. Meanwhile, the Royce agents are busy dealing with Lupin and Phantom with Tsugaru caught in the middle.
** The end of episode 12 shows Kyle facing Victor while Alice bumps into Crowley who just finished burning up a werewolf. Meanwhile, Shizuka finds Kaya being drugged by Carmilla, who is waiting for her.

* TheQuietOne: Shizuka rarely talks unless spoken to. Many people who are unfamiliar with the trio, including Tsugaru during his first encounter with her and Aya, often mistake Aya's voice for Shizuka doing ventriloquism.

* SmarterThanYouLook: While Tsugaru is far more irreverent and carefree compared to Aya and Shizuka, he's no slouch when it comes to investigations as Aya's assistant and can very much keep pace with her observations. Even when they first met, he's able to quickly piece together that it was no coincidence that they wound up meeting, and is the one to make the counteroffer of them teaming up to find whoever was responsible for their current states as a half-oni and severed head.

* SummationGathering: In the fourth episode, Aya has the Godard family and the servants gathered so they can listen to her summation regarding Hannah's murder.

* UndyingLoyalty: Shizuka is very loyal to her mistress. As she explains to Tsugaru, if her mistress wants to die, she'll find a way to achieve it.

** Aya and Tsuguru find a secret underground passage that the suspect behind the killings of the three human girls and three werewolf girls used to keep the evidence. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, the two Royce agents, Kyle and Alice, also find the opening of the passage which Aya and Tsugaru used to go back into the werewolf village and lead the villagers into the werewolf village where they massacre the werewolves]].

* OccultDetective: Given the series' story where supernatural beings exist, the trio solves cases related to the supernatural. The first case presented in the story is a murder of a vampire.

* FantasticRacism: Due to the supernatural existing in the world, both humans and monsters looked down at each other. As Tsugaru summarized, the two species cannot coexist.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler:Sherlock manages to capture and trick Lupin who disguised himself as Ganimard and hides the diamond from his reach. Unfortunately, due to his arrogance, Sherlock tells everyone where the diamond is (Watson's jacket) ''while Lupin is still in the room, uncuffed''. Because of that, Lupin successfully steals the diamond and flees from the scene until Aya and Tsugaru ambush him and Phantom in the greenhouse with Aya hiding inside the safe]].

* ParallelConflictSequence: At the end of Episode 7, Aya and her allies are facing off against Moriarty's group starting with Aya, Sherlock, and Watson who face Crowley while Shizuka and Lestrade confront Carmilla. Meanwhile, the Royce agents are busy dealing with Lupin and Phantom with Tsugaru caught in the middle.

* BadassNormal: Humans don't stand a chance against monsters, so beside Royce, only Shizuka has shown enough fighting capability. Arsene manages to beat Tsugaru, but before it's revealed Tsugaru was WillfullyWeak and keeping his strength as an ace.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: After Tsuguru mistook a parrot bird cage for Aya's cage, Aya ends up being abducted by the red-headed twin criminals. Despite her calm and snarking attitude, she goes into a panic and screams Tsuguru's name as the twins took her away.

** Lupin mistakes Annie as Aya Rindo until he actually meets her face to face. He's not surprised about her being a disembodied head.

* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: Unlike most adaptations, Professor Moriarty is NOT Sherlock's {{archenemy}}, instead being treated as a notable In-Universe DifficultySpike in Sherlock's career, but nothing beyond that.

* GoryDiscretionShot: The anime didn't show much of Jack the Ripper slaughtering the police force. The camera immediately cut away from the scene whenever he makes a kill.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Creator/AleisterCrowley and UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper appear in the story as part of a criminal organization headed by a man suspected to be Moriarty.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler:Sherlock manages to capture and trick Lupin who disguised himself as Ganimard and hides the diamond from his reach. Unfortunately, due to his arrogance, Sherlock tells everyone where the diamond is (Watson's jacket) ''while Lupin is still in the room, uncuffed''. Because of that, Lupin successfully steals the diamond and flees the scene until Aya and Tsugaru ambush him and Phantom in the greenhouse with Aya hiding inside the safe]].

* FinalSolution: In Japan nearly all non-humans have been purged by the authorities and have to live in TheFreakshow.

** Lupin mistakes Anne as Aya Rindo until he actually meets her face to face. He's not surprised about her being a disembodied head.

* InterpidReporter: Annie Kerber is a young reporter from the French newspaper, ''Epoch'', who writes about odd stories including the Cage User's cases. She happens to be acquainted with the trio.

* IntepidReporter: Annie Kerber is a young reporter from the French newspaper, ''Epoch'', who writes about odd stories including the Cage User's cases. She happens to be acquainted with the trio.

* MasterOfDisguise: Obviously, Lupin is known to be good at disguise and even dresses up as Sherlock until Mycroft Holmes arrives and points out the flaws of his disguise.

* SeenItAll: In the anime, Sherlock is unfazed about Aya being a living severed head which is in contrast to the manga where he's shocked to see her.