History Manga / HellstarRemina

* BittersweetEnding: Technically a [[DownerEnding downer]], but it's strangely uplifting...
** It's uplifting because [[RayOfHopeEnding there's still]] ''[[RayOfHopeEnding hope]]''. They're still alive, which means there's at least a chance for a better future, even if it would take a miracle.

* {{Zeerust}}: The architecture and technology appear to have come straight out of the '60's-'70's era sci-fi. It even includes a RetroRocket [[http://mangafox.me/manga/hellstar_remina/v01/c004/35.html (here)]] as a means to evacuate [=VIP=]s from Earth.

* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: How does a Jupiter-sized ''organism'' form and not crush itself from its own gravity? There's a reason solid planets don't form that large--they would destroy themselves from their own gravity. [[http://mangafox.me/manga/hellstar_remina/v01/c001/30.html Even though it's actually nowhere near Jupiter size.]] Further, how does the Hellstar travel faster than light, let alone do so without killing itself? How does it withstand the vacuum of space, especially it's gigantic, sensitive eye, or its tongue? Lastly, how does it eat a planet like Earth or ''Jupiter'' without killing itself from the extreme heat, pressures, gasses and solids, radioactive material, and everything else from what it eats? All those questions were asked inside the story by the scientists who discovered and observed it. ''Nobody knows''. They did say it was from another universe, maybe it operates by different physics. [[HellGate Or...y'know...]]

* GuiltByCoincidence: Remina, who was born on the same day the planet emerged from the wormhole. This leads the public to believe she and her father are responsible for its appearance. It's implied that this is caused by hysteria and desperation rather than any genuine belief though.

* AssholeVictim: Just about everyone who dies, mostly by virtue of joining the Remina murdermob shortly before their demise. Also, the cabal of corrupt government officials and rich fatcats who try to escape to Planet Remina and, unsurprisingly, meet horrific ends.

%%* BadassBystander: The Hobo. Oh so, so much.

%%* BodyHorror: ''Don't'' take your helmet off on Planet Remina...

%%* BurnTheWitch: One of the many attempts to kill Remina.

%%* TakingTheBullet: [[spoiler:Yasumi]] to [[spoiler:Remina.]]
%%* ThatsNoMoon: See ShoutOut, above.

%%* {{Yandere}}: [[spoiler:Goda.]]

* DeadLineNews: An anchorman is reporting on the situation with Planet Remina and the riots all over the world. Just after mentioning that an angry mob is hunting down Remina, he is attacked by two MalevolentMaskedMen.

** It's uplifting because [[RayOfHopeEnding there's still ''hope'']]. They're still alive, which means there's at least a chance for a better future, even if it would take a miracle.

* WhatTheHellTownspeople: The entire planet turns against a teenaged girl, whom they'd previously adored, just because she shares a name with the planet that's going to eat them.
** Equally odd is that she became a country-wide sensation just because the new planet was given her name. These people are very easily amused...
** A major theme in the story is Mob Mentality, particularly how groups of people will idolize or demonize you for almost trivial (and sometimes one in the same) reasons.

* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: The cultists have many, many occasions to kill Remina, but never actually get around to it. Somewhat justified since, being batshit crazy cultists, they want to make her demise a ritualistic sacrifice during which she has to go through as much suffering as she supposedly brought to the people of Earth.

* AnAesop: Surprisingly enough for a Creator/JunjiIto story, it ends with a clear and uplifting one. [[spoiler: No matter how badly things have gone, no matter how bleak the future seems, so long as you are still alive there is hope for something better.]]
* ApocalypseHow: [[spoiler: Physical Annihilation of the Solar System by PlanetEater, to be exact. Given that stars go out in Planet Remina's wake, it presumably dishes out Stellar-class apocalypses casually.]] In fact the manga shows just ''how'' it gets there. The breakdown of society early on is merely icing on the cake.

* AssInALionSkin: Played deadly serious. [[spoiler: One of Planet Remina's tongues inserts itself into a discarded spacesuit to lure in the Mineichi family and make them let their guard down so it can devour them. It's likely the humanoid figures from the probe footage were actually a similar trick.]]

* BadassBystander: The Hobo. Oh so, so much.
* BigDamnHeroes: Goda gets a moment of this when he [[spoiler: saves Remina in the midst of ''missiles and an earthquake.'']] Then MoodWhiplash kicks in again.

* BodyHorror: ''Don't'' take your helmet off on Planet Remina...
* BrokenBird: Remina falls a bit into this, especially after [[spoiler: the death of her father.]]
* BurnTheWitch: One of the many attempts to kill Remina.

* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler: The bomb shelter. It ultimately allows the last survivors to escape Planet Remina's gluttonous maw.]]
* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler: The Mineichi family's long-lost elder son, now a hobo.]]

* ContrivedCoincidence: [[spoiler: Remina meets up with a hobo, who just happens to be the Mineichis' long-lost son, whose family also just happens to have some sort of bomb shelter in their basement which ends up saving Remina, the hobo, and a few others.]]
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Mineichi. He's happy to sponsor Remina to boost his popularity, but he's just as happy to [[spoiler: turn her over to an angry mob once associating with her threatens him.]]
* CosmicHorrorStory: Without doubt. [[spoiler: Although the ending ultimately defies the usual message of cosmic horror -- human life is indeed important, because with it comes hope, the potential for things to be better.]]
* CrucifiedHeroShot: Remina, her father and the hobo are all tied to a cross so they can be sacrificed. [[spoiler: The angry mob stabs her father with spears, and then lights them on fire.]]

* ExplosiveDecompression: [[spoiler: From the ''inside out,'' for the poor human survivors who got attacked on Planet Remina by the crewmember they purposely let die. Or they had all their internal organs crushed by the tentacle. Either way, it was painful.]]

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Yasumi does this by taking a knife in the back for Remina.]]

* HumansAreBastards: For the most part, anyway. Panicking at the thought of the coming apocalypse, the populace direct their anger towards Remina and her father, [[spoiler: brutally murdering the latter and chasing the former around the earth.]]

* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Goda claims he'll save Remina's life, even if she loved Yasumi instead. [[spoiler: [[IfICantHaveYou He's lying.]]]]
** [[spoiler: It's possible that he meant it at the time that he said it, only to change his mind later when he comes to believe that Remina hates him.]]

* MacrossMissileMassacre / NukeEm: The military fires a few dozen nuclear warheads at Planet Remina's tongue. [[spoiler: They bounce off and return to the sender.]]

* RedHerring: It's implied that one of the astronauts that land on Planet Remina is the long-lost son of the Mineiachi family, who dreamed of becoming a astronaut and ran away from home after his father forbade it. [[spoiler: He's not, the son is actually The Hobo]]

* SealedRoomInTheMiddleOfNowhere: [[spoiler: once Planet Remina eats the earth, the only survivors are trapped in an airtight fallout shelter drifting through the now-empty solar system. They have enough supplies to last a year.]]

* TakingTheBullet: [[spoiler: Yasumi]] to [[spoiler: Remina.]]
* ThatsNoMoon: See ShoutOut, above.
* [[spoiler:TheBadGuyWins]]: [[spoiler:Planet Remina successfully devours the earth.]]

* WitchHunt: Invoked by the [[spoiler: cultists and mob when Remina is tossed outside by Kunihiro.]]

* {{Yandere}}: [[spoiler:Goda.]]

* AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: Mostly averted.
* AirJousting: Once Planet Remina licks the Earth and makes the planet spin out of control, it's [[spoiler:Remina and The Hobo]] vs. [[spoiler:Most of Humankind]].

* GuiltByAssociation: The mob will also kill anyone who's with Remina. However, if that person turns against Remina, the mob immediately accepts him. But if that person wants ''nothing'' to do with the crazies, they will try to kill the person anyway.

** It's uplifting because there's still ''hope''. They're still alive, which means there's at least a chance for a better future, even if it would take a miracle.

* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: How does a Jupiter-sized ''organism'' form and not crush itself from its own gravity? There's a reason solid planets don't form that large--they would destroy themselves from their own gravity. (Even though it's actually nowhere near Jupiter size - http://mangafox.me/manga/hellstar_remina/v01/c001/30.html) Further, how does the Hellstar travel faster than light, let alone do so without killing itself? How does it withstand the vacuum of space, especially it's gigantic, sensitive eye, or its tongue? Lastly, how does it eat a planet like Earth or ''Jupiter'' without killing itself from the extreme heat, pressures, gasses and solids, radioactive material, and everything else from what it eats? All those questions were asked inside the story by the scientists who discovered and observed it. ''Nobody knows''. They did say it was from another universe, maybe it operates by different physics. [[HellGate Or...y'know...]]

%%* AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: Mostly averted.

%%* DirtyCoward: Kunhiro Mineichi.

* JerkAss: Kunhiro, who is clearly only tolerated by Remina and her friends because [[SpoiledBrat he's got the resources to help them out]]. [[spoiler:Until the attempted rape, anyway]].

* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: The cultists had many, many occasions to kill Remina, but never actually get around to it. Somewhat justified since, being batshit crazy cultists, they want to make her demise a ritualistic sacrifice during which she has to go through as much suffering as she supposedly brought to the people of Earth.
* WitchHunt: Invoked by the [[spoiler: Cultists and mob when Remina is tossed outside by Kunihiro.]]

* NoBiochemicalBarriers: ''Completely averted'', whatever passes for an atmosphere on Planet Remina's surface is incredibly toxic and acidic, and horribly melts a dying refugee the others use to test the air.

* NegativeSpaceWedgie: Planet Remina came to our region of space through a wormhole, therefore proving the phenomenon's existence. Not that such a breakthrough in astrophysics actually helps anyone...

* LeftHanging: As is common in both [[CosmicHorrorStory Cosmic Horror Stories]] and Junji Ito's, [[spoiler:whatever the hell was Planet Remina is never revealed. Nor is, for that matter, the identity of the first three cultists who wanted to sacrifice Remina, or why Goda had a tongue similar to Planet Remina's when he was dressed as a cultist.]]

* InsaneTrollLogic: People have somehow come up with the idea that sacrificing a girl named Remina will appease an entity that has, from a point before being named the same, has already been consuming planets and stars in its wake.

* RedHerring: Its implied that one of the astronauts that land on Planet Remina is the long-lost son of the Mineiachi family, who dreamed of becoming a astronaut and ran away from home after his father forbade it. [[spoiler: He's not, the son is actually The Hobo]]

* GuiltByCoincidence: Remina, who was born on the same day the planet emerged from the wormhole. This leads the public to believe she and her father are responsible for its appearance. Its implied that this is caused by hysteria and desperation rather than any genuine belief though.

* ContrivedCoincidence: [[spoiler: Remina meets up with a hobo, who just happens to be the Mineichi's long-lost son, whose family also just happens to have some sort of bomb shelter in their basement which ends up saving Remina, the hobo, and a few others.]]

* ArtisticLicensePhysics: At one point, the earth is spun around so fast that the stars blur in the sky like the hyperspace lines in Star Wars. Aside from everyone not instantly dying from this, there is even a scene where a huge group of people are able to use the centrifugal force to fly through the air ''all the way around the earth and back'', and some of them even survive falling back to the ground. If the rest of the Earth moves with you, you're not going to die from a little spinning. But if only the earth is spinning, and the air isn't, then...

--> '''Cultist''': [[AC: [[WeInterruptThisProgram We interrupt this broadcast]] to bring you a message. We represent a concerned group of citizens who love Mother Earth. [...] There remains but one way to save the Earth. Find Professor Oguro and his daughter Remina. Destroy them.]]

* SealedRoomInTheMiddleOfNowhere: [[spoiler: once Planet Remina eats the Earth, the only survivors are trapped in an airtight fallout shelter drifting through the now-empty solar system. They have enough supplies to last a year.]]

* [[spoiler:TheBadGuyWins]]: [[spoiler:Planet Remina successfully devours the Earth.]]