History Manga / AkumaNoRiddle

** Between Otoya's long black hair, spider motif, [[spoiler:PsychoLesbian]] tendencies, and being [[spoiler:a serial rapist and killer]], she's the spitting image of [[VisualNovel/AtlachNacha Hirasaka Hatsune]].

* {{Badass}}: Practically all of Class Black. Comes with the territory of being trained assassins.
** BadassGay: And most of them show attraction toward other girls.

* OvertookTheManga: The anime caught up with the manga around episode 5. Unlike other examples of this, though, the anime is based on the manga's original drafts, meaning it still follows the manga's plot despite the manga chapters not even being out yet. The manga, however, features several scenes between characters that the anime doesn't have, has more fleshed-out characters, and is more forward with the characters' sexualities and orientations. Some scenes in the anime have been changed around, though the anime also features scenes (such as Kouko's backstory) that the anime doesn't have or doesn't elaborate on. As such, it's best to experience both to get the full story.

* AllAccordingToPlan: [[spoiler:Tokaku choosing to defend Haru was all foreseen by the Chairwoman due to the possibility of Haru having the Queen Bee power.]]

''Akuma no Riddle'' (meaning Devil's Riddle, but officially translated as Riddle Story of Devil) is a manga series written by Yun Koga and illustrated by Sunao Minakata. It received an animated adaptation produced by {{Creator/Diomedea}} on April 3, 2014 as part of the Spring2014Anime season.

%%* AcademyOfAdventure: Myojo Academy.

%%* {{Badass}}: Practically all of Class Black.
%%** BadassGay: Naturally.

%%* CarnivalOfKillers: Pretty much sums up the main story.

%%* CuteAndPsycho: Most everyone, but especially [[spoiler:Otoya]]. Dear lord, [[spoiler:Otoya]].

%%* ImprobablyFemaleCast

* KillSteal

%%* MurderInc

%%* PsychoticSmirk: Plenty to go around.

* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: The relationship between Hitsugi and Chitaru. Episode 6, and their dual ImageSong, calls into question if it really was this or full-on love. [[spoiler:The manga confirms it on Hitsugi's side, but Chitaru's is ambiguous]].
%%* Tokaku and Haru could also count.

* TogetherInDeath: [[spoiler:Chitaru and Hitsugi]] in the manga [[spoiler:;it's assumed, at least by this Troper, that unlike the anime the manga actually killed the two off, but hey who knows.]]

* UnexplainedRecovery: Three characters ([[spoiler:Hitsugi]], [[spoiler:Haru]], and [[spoiler:Nio]]) are "fatally" stabbed in the heart and chest regions, but fully recover with no signs of lasting damage; [[spoiler:Chitaru]] recovers perfectly fine after [[spoiler:drinking a whole vial of poison]]; and [[spoiler:Sumireko]] somehow fully recovers from [[spoiler:falling down a 90-floor building]]. Out of all of them, only [[spoiler:Haru]]'s case provides any semblance of explanation: [[spoiler:titanium in her ribs]].

* WhamEpisode: Episode 6. It breaks the assassin-of-the-day pattern of the previous episodes by [[spoiler:eliminating ''three'' assassins at once]], and presents the first instance of CharacterDeath in the series by [[spoiler:killing off the two assassins that were put in focus]], while making parallels to [[spoiler:''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'']] to emphasize the circumstances. By the end of it all, even Tokaku and Haru were shaken. Unfortunately, [[spoiler:the ending]] mitigates the shock of the death scenes somewhat by [[spoiler:reviving the killed without explanation]].
* WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove?: An anime advertised as a survival game with lesbian assassins [[spoiler:is more like a story about Tokaku discovering what emotions are- she and Haru are irrefutably gay for each other though, so that much was true.]]
%%* WorldOfActionGirls

* TogetherInDeath: [[spoiler:Chitaru and Hitsugi]] in the anime.

* WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove?: An anime advertised as a survival game with lesbian assassins [[spoiler:is more like a story about Tokaku discovering what emotions are- she and pretty much everyone else are irrefutably lesbians though, so that much was true.]]

* BuryYourGays: An odd example since it's a manga about lesbian assassins trying to kill one another, but the two characters with most ShipTease, outside of the main couple, are [[spoiler:Chitaru and Hitsugi]], and they are the first characters [[KilledOffForReal to actually die on screen.]] Bonus points for [[spoiler:being a huge RomeoAndJuliet ShoutOut]] as well. [[spoiler:They survive in the anime's ending]].