History Manga / AfterSchoolNightmare

%%* FirstLawOfGenderBending

%%* AbusiveParents: Kureha's father.

* DoesNotLikeMen: Kureha, but it's understandable since she [[spoiler: was [[RapeAsDrama raped as a child]] and [[AbusiveParents her father was an abusive bastard]].]]

* MaybeEverAfter: [[spoiler:The ending of the manga leaves it ambiguous as to whether or not the real Mashiro and Sou will get into a relationship despite having no memory of each other]].

* TheMatchmaker: Mashiro tries to help Shinbashi so he can befriend his crush Kureha, but it doesn't work. Later, [[spoiler: Shinbashi helps both Mashiro and Kureha with their relationship]]

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:In "the real world," a fire breaks out in the hospital where the lead characters' mothers are staying. Mashiro escapes to be born, while all her classmates are erased from existence as their mothers die or their fetuses are miscarried. Also, Mashiro's memories are torn to shreds by the birth. However, Real World Mashiro meets a Real World Sou in the final few pages, which makes it a ''little'' bit sweeter in the end.]]

* SugarAndIcePersonality: Sou, who is generally stoic and aloof most of the time; however, he tends to be more affectionate with Mashiro after falling in love with him.

* BisexualLoveTriangle: The protagonist Mashiro was born intersex but identifies as male and is torn between the girly and androphobic Kureha and the cold and dominant Sou. This love triangle represents Mashiro's conflicting feelings about his gender - he is happy to date Kureha as it puts him in a masculine position, but is uncomfortable with his attraction to Sou because he worries that it's proof that he's 'really' a girl. (Somehow, it doesn't occur to him that he might not be straight.)

* BisexualLoveTriangle: The protagonist Mashiro was born intersex but identifies as male and is torn between the girly and androphobic Kureha and the cold and dominant Sou. This love triangle represents Mashiro's conflicting feelings about his gender - he is happy to date Kureha as it puts him in a masculine position, but is uncomfortable with his attraction to Sou because he worries that it's proof that he's 'really' a girl. (Somehow, the idea that he might just not be straight doesn't come up.)

* DreamWithinADream: Chapter 37 sees Mashiro seemingly wake up from the dream in the previous chapter, except that he can't remember anyone's names. As time goes on, faces become pixelated and blurry. Eventually, he encounters the other version of himself and it's revealed that he's still dreaming.

%%* BastardBoyfriend: Sou.

%%* DreamWithinADream: Chapter 36.

%%* BlackKnight: [[spoiler: Kurosaki]]'s form in the dream world, who acts relentlessly against Mashiro.

''After School Nightmare'' (''Houkago Hokenshitsu'', literally translated as ''After School Infirmary'') is a {{shoujo}} PsychologicalHorror {{manga}} written and drawn by Creator/SetonaMizushiro. It is about a biologically intersex teenager, Mashiro Ichijo, whose body is male from the waist up but female from the waist down. Mashiro was raised as a boy but is terribly afraid that his various weaknesses and failings mean that he is actually a girl.

The manga begins with young Mashiro getting his first menstrual period. He comes across a strange woman, the clinician at a school clinic that he never noticed before, who tells him he must attend a special class once a week if he wishes to 'graduate'. In this class he and other troubled teens enter a DreamWorld, where they take on the form of their "true selves" and must fight for the right to "graduate". Mashiro also finds himself in a LoveTriangle with Kureha, a pretty girl who [[DoesNotLikeMen fears men]] and likes him because he is not quite male, and Sou, a handsome boy who [[StupidSexyFlanders believes that Mashiro is a girl]].

* DreamWorld: This is one of the main settings of the story. It can be entered by falling asleep in the infirmary.

* OutfitRipSexCheck: In the DreamWorld, a character tries to figure out Mashiro's gender by ripping open his uniform with a sword.

* AbusiveParents: Kureha's father.
* BastardBoyfriend: Sou.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:In "the real world," a fire breaks out in the hospital where the lead characters' mothers are staying. Mashiro escapes to be born, while all her classmates are erased from existence as their mothers die or their fetuses are miscarried. Also, Mashiro's memories are torn to shreds by the birth. However, Real-World!Mashiro meets a Real-World!Sou in the final few pages, which makes it a ''little'' bit sweeter in the end.]]
* BlackKnight: [[spoiler: Kurosaki]]'s form in the dream world, who acts relentlessly against Mashiro.

* DreamWithinADream: Chapter 36.

* FirstLawOfGenderBending

* KendoTeamCaptain: Kurosaki

* MagicalRealism

* NightmareDreams: And '''how'''!

* StalkerWithACrush: Sou.
* StepfordSmiler: Kurosaki.

''After School Nightmare'' (''Houkago Hokenshitsu'', literally translated as ''After School Infirmary'') is a {{shoujo}} PsychologicalHorror {{manga}} written and drawn by Creator/SetonaMizushiro. It is about a biologically {{intersex}} teenager, Mashiro Ichijo, whose body is male from the waist up but female from the waist down. Mashiro was raised as a boy but is terribly afraid that his various weaknesses and failings mean that he is actually a girl.

* BisexualLoveTriangle: The protagonist Mashiro was born {{intersex}} but identifies as male and is torn between the girly and androphobic Kureha and the cold and dominant Sou. This love triangle represents Mashiro's conflicting feelings about his gender - he is happy to date Kureha as it puts him in a masculine position, but is uncomfortable with his attraction to Sou because he worries that it's proof that he's 'really' a girl. (Somehow, the idea that he might just not be straight doesn't come up.)

''After School Nightmare'' (''Houkago Hokenshitsu'', literally translated as ''After School Infirmary'') is a {{shoujo}} PsychologicalHorror {{manga}} written and drawn by Creator/SetonaMizushiro. It is about a [[{{Hermaphrodite}} biologically intersex]] teenager, Mashiro Ichijo, whose body is male from the waist up but female from the waist down. Mashiro was raised as a boy but is terribly afraid that his various weaknesses and failings mean that he is actually a girl.

* {{Hermaphrodite}}: Mashiro.

* GirlishPigtails: Kureha, complete with [[HairDecorations hair ribbons]], and Midori with her twin braids.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:In "the real world," a fire breaks out in the hospital where the lead characters' mothers are staying, and every one of the main characters dies, never having a chance to be born, except for Mashiro, who comes into the world as a female. However, Real-World!Mashiro meets a Real-World!Sou in the final few pages, which makes it a ''little'' bit sweeter in the end.]]

* BrotherSisterIncest: Between Sou and [[spoiler:Ai]]. Except that [[spoiler:the version of Ai that Sou had his "first time" with was the ImaginaryFriend version of her, and he actually hasn't had any relations of any kind with his real sister in a while.]]

* DoesNotLikeMen: Kureha, but it's understable since she [[spoiler: was [[RapeAsDrama raped as a child]] and [[AbusiveParents her father was an abusive bastard]].]]

* {{Kuudere}}: Sou, who is generally stoic and aloof most of the time; however, he tends to be more affectionate with Mashiro after falling in love with him.

** Except [[spoiler:Sou]]'s mother [[spoiler:died in the fire]], so it couldn't have been him.
*** They could have [[spoiler:all simply passed out from smoke inhalation. Mashiro's mother says "''We're'' still in here," after all. At least some of the other mothers might have survived.]]

* BrotherSisterIncest: Between Sou and [[spoiler:Ai]].
** Except that [[spoiler:the version of Ai that Sou had his "first time" with was the ImaginaryFriend version of her, and he actually hasn't had any relations of any kind with his real sister in a while.]]
* DamselInDistress: Kureha, which especially shows in the dreamworld due to the form she takes. She heavily relies on Mashiro to protect her there.
** Until she gets her CharacterDevelopment.

* ImaginaryFriend: [[spoiler: The more commonly seen version of Ai]]

* {{Megane}}: Shinbashi.

* NoPeriodsPeriod: Averted on the very first page of the {{manga}}, to Mashiro's horror. Mashiro plays it off as "an illness which makes me bleed once a month."

Angst, drama and [[FreudWasRight Freudian imagery]] ensue...

'''''After School Nightmare''''' (''Houkago Hokenshitsu'', literally translated as ''After School Infirmary'') is a {{shoujo}} PsychologicalHorror {{manga}} written and drawn by Creator/SetonaMizushiro. It is about a [[{{Hermaphrodite}} biologically intersex]] teenager, Mashiro Ichijo, whose body is male from the waist up but female from the waist down. Mashiro was raised as a boy but is terribly afraid that his various weaknesses and failings mean that he is actually a girl.