History Manga / InsideMari

* BatDeduction: One of the girls in the school, Yori Kakiguchi, [[spoiler: correctly deduces that someone else is inside Mari's body.]]

%% BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler: Momoka]] seems to be this.

* GrandTheftMe: Another trope that is deconstructed thoroughly throughout the story. For Isao the change is mostly terrifying. He doesn't know how he came to occupy Mari's body, doesn't know how to act when Mari's friends are around, and is afraid that he will ruin her social life. [[spoiler: This trope is later subverted when we learn that [[NotHimself Isao was never actually in Mari's body]]. [[spoiler: Double Subverted when learn Mari may be so broken that Isao/Mari is actually a SplitPersonality based on Isao's identity]]

* LoserProtagonist: Isao [[spoiler:and later Mari, who may have looked like an idol to Isao and Yori but turns out to have been concealing unsavory personal issues and possibly mental illness.]]

** Mari was one prior to her possession by Isao. She was a popular, straight A student who was respected by her classmates. There are hints that this might just be a [[StepfordSmiler facade]] she wears to hide her true feelings.

* StepfordSmiler: Quite a few characters show this tendency, particularly Mari's mother. Isao/Mari is forced into this role by his circumstances [[spoiler: and it's later revealed that Mari herself may have been a StepfordSmiler all along.]]

** As for Mari's father, he's usually at work, and seems to be actively avoiding dealing with any turmoil at home. Neglectful is the best way you could possibly describe him.

* * AbusiveParents:

!!Provides Examples Of:

* AbusiveParents: Mari's parents aren't physically abusive, but her mother may have done her psychological harm with excessive expectations [[spoiler: and by messing with her identity by changing her name in a jealous attempt to disassociate her from her deceased grandmother.]]

* FriendlessBackground: Isao and Yori.

* GrandTheftMe: Another trope that is deconstructed thoroughly throughout the story. For Isao the change is mostly terrifying. He doesn't know how he came to occupy Mari's body, doesn't know how to act when Mari's friends are around, and is afraid that he will ruin her social life. [[spoiler: This trope is later subverted when we learn that [[NotHimself Isao was never actually in Mari's body]].]]
** [[spoiler: Double Subverted when learn Mari may be so broken that Isao/Mari is actually a SplitPersonality based on Isao's identity]]

* LoserProtagonist: Isao [[spoiler: and later Mari, who may have looked like an idol to Isao and Yori but turns out to have been concealing unsavory personal issues and possibly mental illness.]]

* AbusiveParents: Mari's parents aren't physically abusive, but her mother may have done her psychological harm [[spoiler: by changing her name in a jealous attempt to disassociate her from her deceased grandmother.]]

** Mari, prior to her possession by Isao, was one of these. She was a popular, straight A student who was respected by her classmates. There are hints that this might just be a facade she puts in order to interact with others.
** Isao wanted to be this during his High School years, and thought that if he became a model student, people would flock to him. His hopes were shattered when, after becoming a very good student, he found himself lonely and with no friends. This led him to quit school altogether and become a shut-in hikikomori.

* LastNameBasis: Mari and Yori only refer to Isao as Komori. Isao's use of Mari's first name is quite presumptuous.

* MeaningfulHaircut: [[spoiler: real world Isao gets a buzz cut at the point where it becomes clear that Isao/Mari is a split personaltiy.]]

** It's also implied that Mari might be this for Yori, as Isao/Mari kisses her and then later comments that [[spoiler:his body felt as if it was moving on its own]]. The real Mari also purchased [[spoiler:dirty magazines targeted at straight men]] (although all of them formerly belonged to Isao, meaning that [[spoiler:her buying them]] could possibly be due to her StalkerWithoutACrush tendencies toward him), and rejected any boy who asked her out.

** Chapter 42 ends with Yori noticing Isao/Mari saying something that only Yori and Mari could possibly have known.

* HideYourGays: Mari appears to have been hiding her orientation, but Yori proved to be her ClosetKey.

* SplitPersonalityTakeover: Played with. [[spoiler: Assuming Isao/Mari was a disassociative personality, Mari waking up as Isao plays it straight and Mari making him vanish in chapter 61 inverts it.]]

* StalkerWithoutACrush: As Isao and Yori investigate the real Mari, she is revealed to have been stalking Isao in return [[spoiler:and may have learned enough to develop a SplitPersonality based on him]].

* JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind: [[spoiler: This occurs in chapter 67, with Komori, Mari, and Fumiko

* CallingTheOldManOut: Isao/Mari does this to Mari's parents after [[spoiler: they begin viciously arguing over Mari's not going to school and end up verbally attacking one another]].

* FreakyFridayFlip: Isao initially suspects he's exchanged bodies with Mari, but this trope is quickly subverted when we learn Mari is not occupying Isao's body

* HIdeYourGays: Mari appears to have been hiding her orientation, but Yori proved to be her ClosetKey.

* FalseFriend: [[spoiler: Momoka and her group]] appear to be false friends to Mari... but it becomes increasingly obvious that Mari may have a persecution complex and her viewpoint is not to be trusted.

** It's also implied that Mari might be this for Yori, as Isao/Mari's-body kisses her and then later comments that [[spoiler:his body felt as if it was moving on its own]]. The real Mari also purchased [[spoiler:dirty magazines targeted at straight men]] (although all of them formerly belonged to Isao, meaning that [[spoiler:her buying them]] could possibly be due to her StalkerWithoutACrush tendencies toward him), and rejected any boy who asked her out.
* StepfordSmiler: Quite a few characters show these sorts of tendencies, particularly Mari's mother.

* SplitPersonalityTakeover: Played with. [[spoiler: Assuming Isao was a disassociative personality, Mari waking up as Isao plays it straight and Mari making Komori vanish in chapter 61 inverts it.]]

* StalkerWithACrush: Isao is this at the beginning of the story. This is NOT played for laughs.
* StalkerWithoutACrush: As Isao and Yori investigate the real Mari, she is revealed to have been stalking [[spoiler:Isao in return]].

* BodySnatcher: Isao is this, but [[LaserGuidedAmnesia he doesn't really remember how it happened.]]

* GenderBender: Deconstructed. The main character is often scared with how different Mari's body is from his. He also feels guilty because, in his mind, he feels like he is stealing Mari's body. This is specially evident when Isao has his "first" period in Mari's body early in the story. Later chapters, however, suggest the GenderBender may be a subversion, due to revelations about Mari's past.
* GrandTheftMe: Another trope that is deconstructed thoroughly throughout the story. For the main character the change is mostly terrifying. He doesn't know how he came to occupy Mari's life and body, often doesn't know how to act when Mari's friends are around, and is often afraid that he will ruin her social life. [[spoiler: This trope is later subverted when it is found that Mari is not occupying Isao's body.]]

* LastNameBasis: Mari and Yori only refer to Isao using his last name, Komori. Isao's use of Mari's first name is quite presumptuous.

** Yori is in love with Mari. This is why she holds Isao with utter contempt and yet still decides to help him return to his body to free Mari of his influence.
** It's also implied that Mari might be this for Yori, as Isao-in-Mari's-body kisses her and then later comments that [[spoiler:his body felt as if it was moving on its own]]. The real Mari also purchased [[spoiler:dirty magazines targeted at straight men]] (although all of them formerly belonged to Isao, meaning that [[spoiler:her buying them]] could possibly be due to her StalkerWithoutACrush tendencies toward him), and rejected any boy who asked her out.

* FreakyFridayFlip: Another trope that is deconstructed thoroughly throughout the story. For the main character, the change is mostly terrifying. He often doesn't know how to act when Mari's friends are around, and is often afraid that he will ruin her social life. [[spoiler: This trope is later subverted when it is found that Mari is not occupying Isao's body.]]

* SplitPersonalityTakeover: Possibly. [[spoiler: Assuming Komori was some kind of split personality, Mari making Komori vanish in chapter 61 could be this.]]

* LoserProtagonist: Isao.

* AbusiveParents: Mari's parents aren't physically abusive, but her mother may have unwittingly done her psychological harm in the past [[spoiler: by changing her name in a jealous attempt to disassociate her from her deceased grandmother.]]

** Later again with [[spoiler:'normal' Isao]].
* AllMenArePerverts: Isao as Mari is subjected to this often.
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Played straight with Yori, as her older sister has just about had it with her Angsty teenager behavior. Averted with Mari's little brother, who is genuinely worried about her.
* AmbiguousDisorder: It's implied that the real Mari may have some form of disassociative personality disorder. [[spoiler: When Isao-as-Mari tells Mari's mother repeatedly that he is not Mari, she responds with a somewhat strained smile and some pills, and Mari seems to be gradually recovering some memories that Isao could not have.]]

%% BigDamnKiss: [[spoiler: Isao-as-Mari to Yori.]]

* CallingTheOldManOut: Isao-as-Mari does this to Mari's parents after [[spoiler: they begin viciously arguing over Mari's not going to school and end up verbally attacking one another]].
* CassandraTruth: Isao-as-Mari to both [[spoiler:Mari's parents]] and to [[spoiler: ''himself''.]] Only Yori knows that he is not the true Mari. Played with in reference to [[spoiler: the other Isao]], who pretends to believe Isao-as-Mari in order to keep Mari coming to spend time with him.

* CovertPervert: Mari is revealed to be this. She was secretly buying [[spoiler:porn magazines that were being sold by Isao at a local bookstore.]]
* DespairEventHorizon: Being kissed by [[spoiler:a boy]] becomes this to Isao/Mari.
* EmptyShell: Following the flashback of [[spoiler:Mari's memories as Fumiko]], she develops a fever and, upon coming out of it, becomes nearly catatonic. She will not speak, move, or even eat unless fed. Yori refers to her in this state as "empty."
%% FalseFriend: [[spoiler: Momoka and her group]] seem to be this to Mari.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: When Isao-as-Mari gets a call from Mari, the voice he hears crackles strangely over the phone. Later, it's revealed that [[spoiler: it wasn't Mari at all; it was the other Isao, recording his voice on his computer and changing the pitch to make himself sound like Mari, so that Isao-as-Mari would continue visiting him.]]

* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Yori and Isao initially see Mari as this. Naturally, the whole story is a {{Deconstruction}}.
* JerkAss: Isao is a hikikomori who deliberately lies to his family about his life in order keep their financial support. He tells them that he is attending college while he spends his day playing video games and seldom leaves his apartment.

* ManIFeelLikeAWoman: ''Subverted''. Isao does not take well the fact that he is in control of Mari's body, and can't even bring himself to look at her intimate parts. [[spoiler: He eventually gets to look at Mari's breasts, though]].

** Yori feels like this towards Mari. This is also the reason why she holds Isao with utter contempt and yet still decides to help him return to his body.

** Chapter 42 ends with Yori noticing Isao-in-Mari saying something that only Yori and Mari could possibly have known.
** Happens later on when [[spoiler: Isao as Mari kisses Yori, and states that he felt as if his body was moving on its own.]]

* StalkerWithoutACrush: As Isao and Yori investigate the real Mari, she is revealed to be this [[spoiler:towards Isao]].

The story deconstructs body swap stories by showing that an actual body swap would probably be utterly terrifying to the victims

* StepfordSmiler: Quite a few characters show these sorts of tendencies.

* WhamLine: "Let's lie down here together again sometime." It refers to [[spoiler:what Mari said to Yori when they met one day in the nurse's office]]. While Yori ''had'' mentioned this moment once in passing, she didn't mention that detail and there is no way Isao could have known it.

* GenderBender: Deconstructed. The main character is often scared with how different Mari's body is from his. He also feels guilty because, in his mind, he feels like he is stealing Mari's body. This is specially evident when [[spoiler: Isao has his "first" period in Mari's body]].
** [[spoiler:It may also be Subverted, due to recent chapters revealing Mari's past.]]

* BigDamnKiss: [[spoiler: Isao-as-Mari to Yori.]]
* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler: Momoka]] seems to be this.

* CovertPervert: [[spoiler: Mari is revealed to be this. She was secretly buying porn magazines that were being sold by Isao at a local bookstore.]]

* FalseFriend: [[spoiler: Momoka and her group]] seem to be this to Mari.

* AbusiveParents: Mari's parents aren't physically abusive, but they may have unwittingly done her psychological harm in the past [[spoiler: by changing her name in a jealous attempt to disassociate her from her deceased grandmother.]]

** A pretty graphic depiction at that. [[spoiler:It ends with Mari apparently calling Isao]].

* AmbiguousDisorder: It's implied that the real Mari may have some form of disassociative personality disorder. [[spoiler: When Isao-as-Mari tells Mari's mother repeatedly that he is not Mari, she responds with a somewhat strained smile and some pills.]]
* AmbiguouslyGay: Mari, who purchases [[spoiler:dirty magazines full of girls, rejects every boy who asks her out]], and who is implied to have [[spoiler:been the one that kissed Yori.]]

* OrIsIt: Is Isao really in Mari's body, or is she suffering from a disassociative personality disorder?