History Manga / SchoolMermaid

* NakedOnRevival: [[spoiler:When a mermaid performs a BloodBath on their beloved and turns back into a human, the transformee reverts back naked, drenched on their beloved's blood. Makes sense because the clothes that they were wearing as humans were destroyed during their mermaid transformation.]]

* SchoolSwimsuit: The standard outfit of all mermaids bar replacing the name on the tag with a single English letter, notable retaining the exact design even as newer types come into prastice. [[spoiler: the final chapters reveal that this is over Shouko having been wearing her own when she started the Curse and became the Q mermaid alongside having been in her original play designs back when the concept itself was fictional In-Universe.]]

* CameBackWrong: It's possible for a mermaid to come back to the human world if she eats the flesh of her love interest but she'll be LockedIntoStrangeness for the rest of her life. The way to come back right is to eat the flesh of a mermaid whose letter is immediately after theirs.]

* NoBodyLeftBehind: [[Spoiler: Killed mermaids evaporate away as the sun rises, as in their bodies break apart into bubbles or foam. even their cut off flesh...]]

* DraggedOffToHell: Parodied, [[spoiler: to onlookers who had succeeded in their mermaid Hunt, failures as they are stripped down to the mermaid's swimsuit are ganged up upon and pulled down by the other mermaids]]. [[Spoiler: Non-Hunters instead simple see swirling water lines surrounding these girls as their clothes are replaced while they evaporate away]].

* AgeInappropriateDress: [[Spoiler: the mermaid swimsuits have a size limit which isn't exactly kind to Noriko when she is turned with hers' being stretched to the point of exposing her butt checks]].

* AgeInappropriateOutfit: [[Spoiler: the mermaid swimsuits have a size limit which isn't exactly kind to Noriko when she is turned with hers' being stretched to the point of exposing her butt checks]].

* StealthSequal: [[Spoiler: Prequel actually as the story ends with Toshiko and Naomi giving Ohara the Notebook and in reading order should know how that actually turns out]].

* DraggedOffToHell: Parodied, [[spoiler: to onlookers who had succeeded in their mermaid Hunt, failures as they are stripped down to the mermaid's swimsuit are ganged up upon and pulled down by the other mermaids]].

* OurMermaidsAreDifferent: Most obviously, they look like schoolgirls in swimsuits, able to "swim" through walls like they were water. [[spoiler:Though when they go on the attack, they start looking more like the mermaids from old tales i.e their skin becomes more scaly, they gain fins on their hands, their nose disappears and they suddenly sprout fangs. These fangs also seem Vampire-like as both Asami ans Sakura are shown getting bitten and later turn up as mermaids much sooner then normal failed hunters.]]

* OurMermaidsAreDifferent: Most obviously, they look like schoolgirls in swimsuits, able to "swim" through walls like they were water. [[spoiler:Though when they go on the attack, they start looking more like the mermaids from old tales i.e their skin becomes more scaly, they gain fins on their hands, their nose disappears and they suddenly sprout fangs.]]

Still skeptical? [[https://fanfox.net/manga/school_ningyo/c001/1.html See for yourself]]. Fair warning - this manga is pretty disturbing so view at your own risk.

* DoesNotLikeShoes: The Mermaids do not wear any sort of footwear and go barefoot all the time. Any human that becomes a Mermaid lost their shoes when they transformed.

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* ChristmasCake: [[spoiler:Noriko, so desperate to avoid this she willingly invokes the mermaid curse. Unfortunately, she becomes their oldest victim instead.]]

Still skeptical? [http://www.{{m}}fox.com/manga/school_ningyo/c001/1.html See for yourself]. Fair warning - this manga is pretty disturbing so view at your own risk.

Fair warning - this manga is pretty disturbing so view at your own risk.

Around a few Japanese high schools, an old worn out notebook is passed around detailing a certain spell that, when chanted at a certain time at night, will cause human looking mermaids to appear before the user. These mermaids wear Japanese style swimsuits with a letter on their chest. If the mermaid with the first letter of the name of the boy you love is caught and killed, all you have to do is eat the flesh of it while thinking of your true love and, presto, instant boyfriend. However the mermaids won't be caught so easily since they can swim through the walls and floors like water and are extremely fast to boot.

* AuthorAppeal: There's only one reason behind the mermaids being portrayed as cute (but creepy) teenagers in classic Japanese school swimsuit...

* MagicPants: {{Inverted}}. The mermaid transformation explicitly destroys clothing the transformee was wearing as a human and replaces them with the classic Japanese school swimsuit. Yet, if the mermaid performs the BloodBath to become human again, the swimsuit doesn't carry over in the reversion, possibly because the swimsuits are actually part of the mermaid transformation spell itself.

Originally published as a three-chapter one shot story, it was given a short serialization run that managed to produce two volumes of material. That was thought to be the end of it. But in 2016, the series was granted a second serialization run, under the title ''School Mermaid 2'' continuing the story with more added twists to the mermaids. Unlike the first series though, the second has a more central protagonist and connected storyline.