History Manga / DuskMaidenOfAmnesia

* SchoolgirlLesbians: ''The Six Year Sakura'' legend revolves around this.

* {{Yandere}}: One of the SchoolgirlLesbians featured in chapter 10. Yuuko shows signs whenever Momoe gets too friendly with Teiichi, especially in Chapter 17, although this is partially due to [[spoiler:Shadow Yuuko's influence]].

* PleaseKillMeIfItSatisfiesYou: When Yuuko's ghost tries to strangle [[spoiler: Yukariko]] during their first encounter, the latter is ''overjoyed'' and practically begs her to do it.

* MarshmallowHell: Teiichi frequently finds himself having his head buried in Yuuko's chest (which is of course initiated by Yuuko). Initially this was part of Yuuko teasing Teiichi, but as they grow closer it's becoming more romantic (and somewhat heartwarming) in nature.

* TheMourningAfter: [[spoiler: Teiichi adamantly refuses to get over Yuuko after she passes on, going so far as to try to bring her back by spreading the truth about her death and afterlife in the form of a new set of rumors, reasoning that because ''he'' was her final regret she wasn't able to fully pass on. Kirie thinks he's gone insane, but it turns out he's correct, and Yuuko returns to be with Teiichi.]]

* PleaseKillMeIfItSatisfiesYou: [[spoiler: Yukariko]] practically begs Yuuko to kill her during their first encounter.

* LaserGuidedAmnesia: [[spoiler:Yuuko can apparently cast off any memories that cause her pain or distress. These coalesce into Shadow Yuuko, who, being forced to take on Yuuko's jealousy for Teichii, decided that this time she was going to take all of Yuuko's memories of Teichii from her as well - ''including'' the happy ones.]]

* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: [[spoiler: It's not clear what is the cause of the plague 60 years ago. The village elders chalked it up to a god punishing everyone for not taking care of his shrine. However, the plague continues even after a sacrifice has been made, so it may have just been a normal unidentified plague.]]

** The Rock of Curses: A memorial to those who died in the plague Yuuko was sacrificed to stop.
** Akahito: The person selected as emissary of the mountain god, who chose the victim of, and presided over, the sacrifice. [[spoiler: Eventually revealed to have been Yuuko's own sister Yukariko.]]

** Averted with the seventh mystery however, when it's later revealed by [[spoiler: Yukariko]] that there are actually only six mysteries, the rumour of seven of them just spread because [[RuleOfSeven seven sounds better]]. Played straight again at the story's end though when Teiichi creates a new one, [[spoiler: Yuuko's Lover: Her relationship with him.]]

* AdaptationDistillation: The anime cut out a number of elements, such as Okonogi being a year older and a member of the newspaper club.

* AdaptationalHeroism: In the anime, [[spoiler:Yukariko does not betray her sister Yuuko and is never portrayed as being anything less than a kindly old lady who's always willing to help the Paranormal Investigations Club.]]
* AgeGapRomance: Yuuko died when she was 15 fifty-or-so years before the events of the series, while Teiichi is barely 13 by the end of the manga.
* TheAloner: For nearly 50 years, Yuuko has wandered the labyrinthine school where she died. Though she can still interact with physical objects, she's often completely unseen by other people; she can still try talking to them, but they only register her voice as coming from 'someone over there'. People who ''do'' catch glimpses of her are quickly frightened off by [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve the horrifying apparition they expect to see in a "haunted school"]], further alienating her from the world. It's a miracle she hadn't broken down after all that time... [[spoiler:though later chapters reveal that she was actually repressing her negative emotions like loneliness, which manifested as a [[EnemyWithout second]], [[ShadowArchetype much darker ghost]].]]
* AndIMustScream: Yuuko's death was one. Left to die all alone in a cold, dark, scary basement-shrine, [[spoiler:and it was her sister who did it to her. But what really takes the cake is Shadow Yuuko. She was the negative emotion and bad memories that regular Yuuko didn't want, and so expelled them from herself. The end result was a being left tormented by her unjust death, constantly living everyday with those horrible memories. This is only made worse by the fact that she was well and truly alone-- even normal Yuuko couldn't see her, and when she did, tried to ignore her, and would forcibly forget about her. Because of the way she normally appeared, most people ran from her when they did see her. Also, being Yuuko's negative emotions, that means that she didn't have any of the good ones throughout her entire time. Shadow Yuuko constantly belabors the point that she had no comfort at all through this time.]] Words are practically insufficient to convey how utterly terrible this poor girl's existence was.

* {{Bishonen}}: Teiichi. Most obvious during the times he (reluctantly) cross dressed.
* BleachedUnderpants: Explains the Fanservice. Also, two minor characters from the early chapters are from one of Maybe's hentai stories.

** Yukariko also suffered from this event. [[spoiler:She sacrificed her sister because she was most important to her and authentically believed that it was the only way to cure the plague. Problem was that it didn't. Everyone around her died and her father committed suicide over Yuuko's death. The cherry on top was seeing Yuuko's ghost and having it attack her. When it chose not to kill her, she took it to mean that Yuuko wanted her to suffer by living. For the rest of her life, she'd continue to be haunted by her sins since she only ever saw Yuuko's shadow, and never the other part of her.]]
* CainAndAbel: [[spoiler:Yuuko's younger sister Yukariko betrayed her and selected her to be the HumanSacrifice to stop a plague that infested their village. Yuuko returned as an evil spirit to get her revenge on Yukariko, but in the end she couldn't bring herself to kill her sister.]]

* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Teiichi and Momoe (in the manga; the anime gave her green eyes).

* UncannyFamilyResemblance: Kirie is Yuuko's grandniece. A resemblance, particularly of the eyes, was hinted at as soon as Kirie showed up, but in Chapter 20, she gets put into a long-haired HimeCut wig ...and the resemblance just ''jumps'' right out -- except for her [[ACupAngst figure]] (and the CatGirl ears). It's even noted by Kirie's grandmother, Yukariko, who is Yuuko's younger sister.

* ZettaiRyouiki: Yuuko on occasions in the Anime. In the Manga she mostly wears ProperTightsWithASkirt and teases Kirie for running around barelegged.

* AndIMustScream: Yuuko's death was one. Left to die all alone in a cold, dark, scary basement-shrine, [[spoiler:and it was her sister who did it to her. But what really takes the cake is Shadow Yuuko. She was the negative emotion and bad memories that regular Yuuko didn't want, and so expelled them from herself. The end result was a being left tormented by her unjust death, constantly living everyday with those horrible memories. This is only made worse by the fact that she was well and truly alone-- even normal Yuuko couldn't see her, and when she did, tried to ignore her, and would forcibly forget about her. And because of the way she normally appeared, most people ran from her when they did see her. Also, being Yuuko's negative emotions, that means that she didn't have any of the good ones throughout her entire time. Shadow Yuuko constantly belabors the point that she had no comfort at all through this time.]] Words are practically insufficient to convey how utterly terrible this poor girl's existence was.

** It wouldn't be the last time, either. While convincing Momoe that he's banishing an evil spirit, Teiichi gets another handful of Yuuko's considerable endowments. And he gets a full on [[MarshmallowHell faceful]] in a manga story when Yuuko insists on using the shower with him.

* ChekhovsGun: Akahito-san. [[spoiler: Turns out Akahito-san is the name of the person chosen to act as emissary of the mountain god Yuuko was sacrificed to appease.]]

** Akahito: The person selected as emissary of the mountain god, that chose the victim of and presided over the sacrifice. [[spoiler: Eventually revealed to have been Yuuko's own sister Yukariko.]]

* UncannyFamilyResemblance: Kirie is Yuuko's grandniece. A resemblance, particularly of the eyes, was hinted at as soon as Kirie showed up, but in Chapter 20, she gets put into a long-haired HimeCut wig ... and the resemblance just ''jumps'' right out -- except for her [[ACupAngst figure]] (and the CatGirl ears). It's even noted by Kirie's grandmother, Yukariko, who is Yuuko's younger sister.

* UnresolvedSexualTension: There's so much between Teiichi and Yuuko it's not even funny. [[spoiler: They finally confessed their feelings in chapter 23.]]

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: When the magnitude and futility of Yuuko's death hits her, [[spoiler: her little sister Yukariko has a breakdown. This was because Yukariko had been one who selected Yuuko as the sacrifice. Driven by guilt, she reopens the sealed shrine hoping Yuuko would still be alive, only to fall down the stairs and land face-first on her sister's corpse. The sight drives her to despair to the point that when Yuuko's vengeful ghost tries to kill her, Yukariko begs her to do it.]]

Yuuko Kanoe has been a ghost in the OldSchoolBuilding for a long time without being able to make contact with the living, until first-year junior high student Teiichi Niiya came along. Now they try to solve the mysterious circumstances under which Yuuko died, hindered by the fact there are at least ''seven'' different ghost stories about the school, some of which are possibly based on distorted accounts of her death.

** Akahito: The person selected as emissary of the mountain god, that chose the victim of and presided over the sacrifice.
** The Inter-dimensional 13 Steps: A room filled with mementos of Yuuko from when she was alive.
** Averted with the seventh mystery however, when it's later revealed by Yukariko that there are actually only six mysteries, the rumour of seven of them just spread because [[RuleOfSeven seven sounds better]]. Played straight again at the story's end though when Teiichi creates a new one, [[spoiler: Yuuko's Lover: Her relationship with him.]]

** In the first chapter, Teiichi doesn't quite believe Yuuko is a ghost, so he reaches out to grasp her shoulder, reasoning that a ghost will be insubstantial. That's just when she turns to face him, though, so he gets a handful of '''quite''' substantial breast. Yuuko is totally unfazed by this (see InnocentFanserviceGirl). She even jokes about it. ''"I suppose these tend to be quite the temptation."''

* AndIMustScream: Yuuko's death was one. Left to die all alone in a cold, dark, scary basement-shrine--and it [[spoiler:was her sister who did it to her. But what really takes the cake is Shadow Yuuko. She was the negative emotion and bad memories that regular Yuuko didn't want, and so expelled them from herself. The end result was a being left tormented by her unjust death, constantly living everyday with those horrible memories. This is only made worse by the fact that she was well and truly alone--even normal Yuuko couldn't see her, and when she did, tried to ignore her, and would forcibly forget about her when she did. And because of the way she normally appeared, most people ran from her when they did see her. Also, being Yuuko's negative emotions, that means that she didn't have any of the good ones throughout her entire time. Shadow Yuuko constantly belabors the point that she had no comfort at all through this time.]] Word are practically insufficient to convey how utterly terrible this poor girl's existence was.
* ArtShift: A few. Chapter 18 has a sudden one, while Chapter 21 has several panels containing little more than rough outlines. Whether these are due to a [[CreatorBreakdown creator breakdown]], [[DeusExMachina deus ex machina]], [[ExecutiveMeddling executive meddling]] or the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Sendai_earthquake_and_tsunami 2011 Sendai Earthquake]] is as of yet unknown.

* ChekhovsGun: Akahito-san. [[spoiler: Turns out Akahito-san is the name of the emissary of the mountain god Yuuko was sacrificed to appease.]]

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: When the magnitude and futility of Yuuko's death hits her, her little sister Yukariko has a breakdown. [[spoiler:This was because Yukariko had been one who selected Yuuko as the sacrifice. Driven by guilt, she reopens the sealed shrine hoping Yuuko would still be alive, only to fall down the stairs and land face-first on her sister's corpse. The sight drives her to despair to the point that when Yuuko's vengeful ghost tries to kill her, Yukariko begs her to do it.]]

* PleaseKillMeIfItSatisfiesYou: Yukariko practically begs [[spoiler:her sister's ghost to kill her during their first encounter.]]

* ThePowerOfLove: Yuuki [[spoiler:comes back the second time as a CuteGhostGirl out of her love for Teiichi.]]

** Yukariko honestly believed it was her family duty to sacrifice what she truly loved the most.

%%* CuteGhostGirl: Yuuko is downright adorable.

%%* GenkiGirl: Momoe, and Yuuko from time to time.

* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: [[spoiler: It's not clear what is the cause of the plague 60 years ago. The village elders chalked it up to a god punishing everyone for not taking care of his shrine. However, the plague continues even after a sacrifice has been made, so it may just be a normal unidentified plague.]]

* {{Meganekko}}: Sahara and Yuuko Kirishima in the past.

%%* MsFanservice: Yuuko, my god. And it's surprising, seeing as there are few to no panty-flashes, the fanservice often being done with Yuuko fully dressed.

* GenerationXerox: Kirie looks very similar to Yuuko and her grandma in their youth, and can even convincingly pass as them while wearing a long-haired wig (despite he lack of Yuuko's huge bust). [[spoiler:At one point, Kirie even speculates that her resemblance to Yuuko -- who crossed over into the afterlife -- is making Teiichi avoid her.]]

* {{Megane}}: Teiichi.
%%* {{Meganekko}}: Sahara and Yuuko Kirishima in the past.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: When the magnitude and futility of Yuuko's death hits her, her little sister Yukariko has a breakdown. [[spoiler:This was because Yukariko had been one who selected Yuuko as the sacrifice. Driven by guilt, she reopens the sealed shrine hoping Yuuko would still be alive, only to fall down the stairs and land face-first on her sister's corpse. The sight drives her to despair to the point where when Yuuko's vengeful ghost tries to kill her, Yukariko begs her to do it.]]

%%* TheTease: Yuuko enjoys teasing Teiichi.

** The Haunted Mirror
** Underground Demon
** Spirited Away
** The Rock of Curses
** Akahito
** The Inter-dimensional 13 Steps
** Averted with the seventh mystery however, when it's later revealed by [[spoiler: Yuuko's still living sister]] that there are actually only six mysteries, the rumour of seven of them just spread because [[RuleOfSeven seven sounds better]]. Played straight again at the story's end though when Teiichi creates a new one, [[spoiler: Yuuko's Lover.]]

* PurpleEyes: Yukariko has these, and her name even has the Japanese character for "purple" in it. [[spoiler:They're a hint to her plot significance as the only remaining survivor of the ritual Yuuko died in and the person responsible for her death.]]

Kanoe Yuuko has been a ghost in the OldSchoolBuilding for a long time without being able to make contact with the living, until first-year junior high student Niiya Teiichi came along. Now they try to solve the mysterious circumstances under which Yuuko died, hindered by the fact there are at least ''seven'' different ghost stories about the school, some of which are possibly based on distorted accounts of her death.

* AdaptationalHeroism: In the anime, [[spoiler: Yukariko does not betray her sister Yuuko and is never portrayed as being anything less than a kindly old lady who's always willing to help the Paranormal Investigations Club.]]
* AgeGapRomance: [[spoiler: Yuuko is damn near 70, while Teiichi is barely 13 by the end of the manga.]]
* TheAloner: For nearly 50 years, Yuuko has wandered the labyrinthine school where she died. Though she can still interact with physical objects, she's often completely unseen by other people; she can still try talking to them, but they only register her voice as coming from 'someone over there'. People who ''do'' catch glimpses of her are quickly frightened off by [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve the horrifying apparition they expect to see in a 'haunted school',]] further alienating her from the world. It's a miracle she hadn't broken down after all that time... [[spoiler:though later chapters reveal that she was actually repressing her negative emotions like loneliness, which manifested as a [[EnemyWithout second]], [[ShadowArchetype much darker ghost.]]]]
* AndIMustScream: Yuuko's death was one. Left to die all alone in a cold, dark, scary basement--and it [[spoiler:was her sister who did it to her. But what really takes the cake is Shadow Yuuko. She was the negative emotion and bad memories that regular Yuuko didn't want, and so expelled them from herself. The end result was a being left tormented by her unjust death, constantly living everyday with those horrible memories. This is only made worse by the fact that she was well and truly alone--even normal Yuuko couldn't see her, and when she did, tried to ignore her, and would forcibly forget about her when she did. And because of the way she normally appeared, most people ran from her when they did see her. Also, being Yuuko's negative emotions, that means that she didn't have any of the good ones throughout her entire time. Shadow Yuuko constantly belabors the point that she had no comfort at all through this time.]] Word are practically insufficient to convey how utterly terrible this poor girl's existence was.

** [[spoiler: Yukariko also suffered from this event. She sacrificed her sister because she was most important to her and authentically believed that it was the way to cure the plague. Problem was that it didn't. Everyone around her died and her father committed suicide over Yuuko's death. The cherry on top was seeing Yuuko's ghost and having it attack her. When it chose not to kill her, she took it to mean that Yuuko wanted her to suffer by living. For the rest of her life, she'd continue to be haunted by her sins since she only ever saw Yuuko's shadow, and never the other part of her.]]

* CerebusSyndrome: [[spoiler: Shadow Yuuko]] sucker-punches the manga's comedic slice-of-life nature with a tire-iron, especially [[spoiler: when Yuuko's true past is revealed.]]

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler: Yuuko died very slowly and painfully in a dark CreepyBasement, sacrificed to the village god by superstitious adults (and her own beloved little sister) who broke her leg so she couldn't escape.]]

* CuteGhostGirl: Yuuko is downright adorable.
* DancingTheme: In an interesting subversion Yuuko does a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bon_dance Bon Dance]] in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZ-pG5BUGnQ opening.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: Kirie, and Teiichi has shades of it.
* DeathGlare: When Yuuko was [[spoiler:an onryo, she was constantly glaring]].

* {{Expy}}: Yuuko. Long hime cut? Red eyes? Acts either mysterious or mischievous? Likes making one specific boy really uncomfortable? Yeah, sounds a lot like [[Manga/XxxHolic a certain Witch of Dimensions.]]

* FateWorseThanDeath: See BreakTheCutie.

* GenkiGirl: Momoe, and Yuuko from time to time.
* GenerationXerox: Kirie looks very similar to Yuuko and her grandma in their youth. With longer hair (and bigger breast), she can convincingly pass as them. [[spoiler: At one point, Kirie even speculates that her resemblance to the late Yuuko is what making Teiichi avoids her.]]
* GenreBusting: Horror + Romance + Mystery + Highschool comedy, to name a few.

* GlamourFailure: In the chapter where Kirie first appears, she tries to convince Teiichi to stop seeing Yuuko as a beautiful ghost girl and recognize her as an evil spirit/monster intent on destroying him. Soon after, [[spoiler: Yuuko loses her regular appearance and appears as a rotting corpse for a while, until Teiichi renews his faith in her and she goes back to being beautiful, voluptuous ... oh, and naked]].
* TheGlassesComeOff: [[spoiler:Kirishima Yuuko originally wore glasses, but stopped wearing them once she decided to get revenge against her bullies and destroy the ghost stories of the school.]]

* ImportantHaircut: [[spoiler:Kirishima Yuuko cuts her hair short after Kanoe Yuuko and Teiichi save her from becoming a sacrifice.]]

* KarmaHoudini: The bullies who [[spoiler: attempted to sacrifice Kirishima Yuuko get away nearly scott-free aside from having the living daylights scared out of them by the actual Yuuko-san.]]

* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler: Kanoe Yuuko was murdered by some superstitious villagers who believed a human sacrifice would stop a plague. They all subsequently died from that plague.]]

** The "Yuu" in "Yuuko" means "Dusk/Evening".

* {{Meganekko}}: Sahara and Kirishima Yuuko in the past.

* MsFanservice: Yuuko, my god. And it's surprising, seeing as there are few to no panty-flashes, the fanservice often being done with Yuuko fully dressed.

* OlderThanTheyLook: Yuuko is old enough to be your grandma, but due to being a ghost, she doesn't visually age, so she still looks and acts like a school girl. However, see also YoungerThanTheyLook below.

* ThePowerOfHate: How Yuuko [[spoiler: [[StringyHairedGhostGirl came back the first time]].]]
* ThePowerOfLove: How she [[spoiler: [[CuteGhostGirl comes back the second time]].]]

** [[spoiler: Shadow Yuuko]] has this down to an artform.

* TheSevenMysteries: This school's seven mysteries are (albeit warped) stories based on parts of Yuuko's death.

* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: Yuuko has no problem showing Teiichi her goods. In her ghost form at least, when he sees her skeleton on the other hand... [[spoiler:The reason she has no modesty over her ghostly body is that all of her negative emotions have been dumped onto shadow-Yuuko.]]
* ShipTease: [[spoiler: Before they finally spit it out]] Yuuko and Teiichi have this a lot. There are also hints of Kirie/Momoe.
* ShootTheShaggyDogStory: Yukariko's flashback and [[spoiler: Shadow]] Yuuko's memories reveal that [[spoiler: Yuuko was sacrificed by her fellow villagers to a malicious god with her own sister acting as the god's priest, Akahito-san, in order to stop a plague ravaging the village. The sacrifice didn't work, and worse, Yuuko returned as a StringyHairedGhostGirl determined to kill those responsible for her murder.]]

* TeensAreMonsters: Subverted: Yukariko does something truly monstrous but only because she's being manipulated by superstitious and hysterical adults. Unfortunately by the time she finally comes to her senses it's far too late.
* TheTease: Yuuko enjoys teasing Teiichi.

* TwelveEpisodeAnime

* UndignifiedDeath: Yuuko's left leg was broken to the point where the bone was sticking through and then she was tossed down a staircase and left to starve in a cold, dark basement.

* WellIntentionedExtremist: Yukariko honestly believed it was her family duty to sacrifice what she truly loved the most.

** Chapter 37 reveals that Yuuko was killed by [[spoiler: her own sister]].

* YamatoNadeshiko: Prior to her death, Yuuko was a proper and dutiful young woman, though she scoffed at the superstitions of the elders. [[spoiler:The other villagers and her own beloved sister murdering her in spite of everything she'd done for them, on the basis of an old legend, was what prompted her DyingDeclarationOfHate and coming back as a spirit of vengence.]]

** Yuuko looks older than the fifteen years old she was when she died. [[spoiler: Perhaps justified as splitting all of her negativity into Dark Yuuko leaves Yuuko an idealized version of herself.]] As a decades-old ghost who doesn't age, she later [[OlderThanTheyLook inverts]] the trope.

* MaybeMagicMaybeMundance: [[spoiler: It's not clear what is the cause of the plague 60 years ago. The village elders chalked it up to a god punishing everyone for not taking care of his shrine. However, the plague continues even after a sacrifice has been made, so it may just be a normal unidentified plague.]]

* TheXOfY

* FirstKiss: Yuuko and Teiichi have theirs in Chapter 18.

* UnresolvedSexualTension: There's so much between Teiichi and Yuuko it's not even funny. [[spoiler: They finally confessed their feelings in chapter 18.]]