History Manga / DenjinN

* LogicalWeakness: [[RideTheLightning Tadahiro]] can be only in one place at a time and can only move through the electromagnetic fields. Sudou hold a meeting in the mountain area and asks everyone to leave their phones, making Tadahiro come up with another way to reach them. [[spoiler:Sudou later invite him into a truck with special surface cover, use a faked webcam feed in the laptop, and then [[SealedEvilInACan lock the laptop in a jar filled with liquid nitrogen]] rendering him powerless. If Tadahiro didn't come up with a backup plan, the case would have been closed.]]

* HeelRealization: [[spoiler:Tadahiro realizes surprisingly early in the story that killing people around Misaki is only making her scared and miserable, and he resolves to leave her alone. When the police begin suspecting her of the murders, he decides to come back into her life to protect her from being wrongfully arrested and resumes the killings. When Tadahiro splits himself into two, one of them is willing to destroy the other because he causes Mistaki distress.]]

* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler:Holding the entire world as hostage, Tadahiro's N half manages to make Misaki Kanzaki the world's number 1 idol by the means of nothing else being broadcasted and humanity genially wanting her to succeed so she wouldn't get killed. N gets KilledOffForReal by the combined effort of his better half and Sudou at the same time though.]]

** As their final gambit, [[spoiler:Sudou find a police officer with personal grudge against Tadahiro and ask him to shoot Misaki at the end of her concert to catch him off-guard so his EvenEvilHasStandards split personality can sneak into the system and finish him off. Misaki is on the ground bleeding, and Sudou discussed killing her before, but they've loaded the pistol with rubber bullets at the last minute before giving it to the officer.]]
* CantTakeCriticism: Misaki's idol group is noted to be not very good and she's aware of it. Tadahiro responds to any criticism online towards them, valid or not, with murder.
* CrazyPrepared: [[spoiler:Just in case Sudou are up to something, Tadahiro splits himself into two and hides the smaller part as a backup. Sudou manages to outwit and capture Tadahiro, so his other part manages to rescue himself.]]
* CreepyDoll: [[spoiler:Tadahiro uses a baby doll as his backup SoulJar, and later packs it with cameras, legs and weapons.]]
* CreepyTwins: The Soudou detectives are two formerly [[ConjoinedTwins craniopagus]] twins with CreepyShadowedUndereyes with a poor habit of making the police go along with odd or outright violent plans before explaining their practicality. The police also treats them as effectively one person.
* {{Curse}}: The murders are initially believed to be as supernaturally odd series of misfortune deaths by the public and Misaki before Tadahiro outs himself in public.

* {{Determinator}}: [[spoiler:Despite being shot and his brain in the open, detective Yanagida still tries to destroy Tadahiro to prevent him from escaping by any means necessary, though it proves to be futile.]]

* EvilIsPetty: [[spoiler:Despite using the world's best men to prepare Misaki's idol group for the concert, Tadahiro's N personality kills one of them for slipping up the lyrics mid-dancing and then half of them for getting distracted because of that.]]
* FromNobodyToNightmare: From a high school dropout and a lowly convenience store clerk to a supernatural being with the power over electricity.
* AGodAmI: Tadahiro views himself as an all-powerful being and shows no regard for human life aside Misaki's. Sudou admit it's hard to argue with it, because if their plan fails there really isn't any way to stop him. [[spoiler:Near the end, Tadahiro holds the entire world hostage and even the world's leaders have to attend Misaki's concert.]]
* GoodIsNotSoft: Sudou deduce that Misaki is Tadahiro's MoralityPet and blatantly threaten to kill her if he doesn't obey and do injure her a few times during the investigation despite his promises on destroying the world if she's hurt. Tadahiro ultimately decides to hear Sudou out.

* ArmorPiercingQuestion: The Sudou ask Tadahiro what he likes in Misaki more, her appearance or her personality, then cuts her nose. Tadahiro goes into UnstoppableRage, but Sudou ask the question again and Tadahiro shuts himself up.

* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: Tadahiro's murders are shown in gory detail, with people being cut apart or pierced by falling objects.

* CreepyTwins: The Soudou detectives are two formally craniopagus twins with CreepyShadowedUndereyes with a poor habit of making the police go along with odd or outright violent plans before explaining their practicality. The police also treats them as effectively one person.

* SueDonym: Tadahiro Nasu presents himself as "[[OneLetterName N]]". The Sudou note that out of Misaki's fans on the forums, Nasu so happens to be the only one whose name starts on N and uses that to their advantage.

* RealNameAsAnAlias: Tadahiro Nasu presents himself as "[[OneLetterName N]]". Sudo notes that out of Misaki's fans on the forums, Nasu so happens to be the only one whose name starts on N and uses that to their advantage.

* WeaksauceWeakness: Tadahiro can only be in one place at the time and can only move through the electromagnetic fields. Sudou hold a meeting in a mountain area with no phones, making Tadahiro come up with another way to reach them. [[spoiler:Sudou later invite him into a truck with special surface cover, use a faked webcam feed in the laptop, and then [[SealedEvilInACan lock the laptop in a jar filled with liquid nitrogen]] rendering him powerless. If Tadahiro didn't come up with a backup plan, the case would have been closed.]]

* BaitAndSwitch: [[spoiler:As a final gambit, Sudou find a police officer with personal grudge against Tadahiro and ask him to shoot Misaki at the end of her concert to catch him off-guard so his EvenEvilHasStandards split personality can sneak into the system and finish him off. Misaki is on the ground bleeding, and Sudou discussed killing her before, but they've loaded the pistol with rubber bullets at the last minute before giving it to the officer.]]

* GoodIsNotSoft: Sudou deduce that Misaki is Tadahiro's MoralityPet and blatantly threaten to kill her if he doesn't obey and does injure her a few times during the investigation. While Tadahiro replies that he'd destroy the world if she's harmed, he doesn't take the risk further.

* ThePollyanna: Misaki is a hard-working idol and doesn't really find having AxCrazy stalker too concerning. From her point of view, in order it's been explained to her, he's her biggest supporter, then protected her from the abusive police, then is mentally unstable and needs help, then would stop killing as long as she does as he says. [[spoiler:At the final concert, she manages to continue the performance as her groupmates are killed off one by one and shows no signs of trauma after Tadahiro has been stopped for good.]]

* HeelRealization: [[spoiler:Tadahiro realizes surprisingly early in the story that killing people around Misaki is only making her scared and miserable, and he resolves to leave her alone. When the police begin suspecting her of the murders, he decides to come back into her life to protect her from being wrongfully arrested.]]

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The police higher-ups go behind Sudou's backs and try to violently arrest Misaki and her family on the suspicion of being involved murders, even though the detectives believe she has no idea what's going on. Tadahiro, the real culprit, who already decides to leave her alone and stop the killings, returns to massacre the police squad and panicking Misaki says she doesn't mind him supporting her without considering what she has actually approved.

* InvincibleVillain: Tadahiro has the ability to manually control any electronic or electric device within his reach, and also has some proficiency with robotics. His range and awareness of what's happening near the devices proves to be infinite, and Sudou note that Tadahiro can TakeOverTheWorld with ease if he wanted to and there's no real way to prevent it, [[spoiler:which he does eventually and Sudou get really lucky Tadahiro's split personalities are conflicting]].

* CantTakeCriticism: Misaki's idol group is noted to not very good and she's aware of it. Tadahiro responds to any criticism online towards them, valid or not, with murder.

* FromNobodyToNightmare: From high school dropout and lowly convenience store clerk to supernatural being with the power to master electricity.

* PsychoElectro: Tadahiro after his transformation, resolving to murder anybody who gets in the way of Misaki's career.

* ShockAndAwe: Averted. Tadahiro's powers allow him to manipulate electrical devices, not fight people with energy blasts.
* StalkerWithACrush: Tadahiro towards Misaki. He keeps a hankie used by Misaki from school in a plastic bag and flips out when his boss at the convenience store throws it away. After he kills himself and gains the ability to RideTheLightning, he decides he will use his power to her Misaki advance in her idol career with extreme prejudice.

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Tadahiro Nasu is a downtrodden convenience store worker with nothing to live for but watching VR performances of Misaki Kanzaki, a pop idol who was once his classmate. Unable to take his oppressive life any longer, Tadahiro electrocutes himself only to find that his body has become pure electricity. With his newfound power to manipulate electrical objects, he'll do anything to support Misaki, whether she likes it or not.

* StalkerWithACrush: Tadahiro towards Misaki. He keeps a hankie used by Misaki from school in a plastic bag and flips out when his boss at the convenience store throws it away. After he kills himself and gains the ability to RideTheLightning, he decides he will use his power to her Misaki advance in her idol career ''by any means necessary''.