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''Soil'' is a mystery-horror manga by Kaneko Atsushi.
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''Soil'' is a mystery-horror manga by Kaneko Atsushi.
Atsushi, which was serialized in ''Comic Beam'' from 2003 to 2010.
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* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Each book has a list of main characters along with their status.
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* [[spoiler: AnotherDimension / AlternateUniverse: Implied to be where the Suzushiros and probably Sakura & Sakuraba are really from (unless this is a computer world a la the Matrix...)]].
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* AnotherDimension: [[spoiler: AnotherDimension / AlternateUniverse: Implied to be where the Suzushiros and probably Sakura & Sakuraba are really from (unless this is a computer world a la the Matrix...)]].
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* MaskPower: Tokita the archeologist is always wearing clay masks. Later on a gang of masked boys create "foreign objects" [[as part of Kento and Misa's plot to destabilize reality.]]
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* MaskPower: Tokita the archeologist is always wearing clay masks. Later on a gang of masked boys create "foreign objects" [[as as part of Kento and Misa's plot to destabilize reality.]]
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* OneHeadTaller: Sakura, who towers over everyone else. [[spoiler: Her partner Sakurada is the [[Foil size of a toddler]]]].
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* OneHeadTaller: Sakura, who towers over everyone else. [[spoiler: Her partner Sakurada is the [[Foil size of a toddler]]]].toddler]].
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* [[BedlamHouse Bedlam Prison]]: [[spoiler: The secret, forgotten prison where the man who slaughtered Sayuri's village is kept, along with other criminally insane people. The head (only?) guard has declared himself [[Anime/DragonBallZ Yama, King of Hell]], and abuses the prisoners.]]
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* [[BedlamHouse Bedlam Prison]]: [[spoiler: The secret, forgotten prison where the man who slaughtered Sayuri's village is kept, along with other criminally insane people. The head (only?) guard has declared himself [[Anime/DragonBallZ [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yama_(Buddhism) Yama, King of Hell]], and abuses the prisoners.]]
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* HouseWife: Are there any fathers beside Mr. Suzushiro in Soil?
* {{Irony}}: The residents of Soil hate the Susushiros for [[spoiler: accidentally(?) getting them into a pyramid scheme involving salt, but if they'd gotten the salt analyzed they'd learn it was really rare and valuable ''meteorite'' salt.]]
** Yokoi wears a very unconvincing hair piece. [[spoiler: His gothy son shaves his head, save for two patches of hair.]]
* {{Irony}}: The residents of Soil hate the Susushiros for [[spoiler: accidentally(?) getting them into a pyramid scheme involving salt, but if they'd gotten the salt analyzed they'd learn it was really rare and valuable ''meteorite'' salt.]]
** Yokoi wears a very unconvincing hair piece. [[spoiler: His gothy son shaves his head, save for two patches of hair.]]
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* HouseWife: Are there any fathers beside Mr. Suzushiro in Soil?
* {{Irony}}: The residentsYou'll see a lot of Soil hate the Susushiros for [[spoiler: accidentally(?) getting them into since it's set in a pyramid scheme involving salt, but if they'd gotten the salt analyzed they'd learn it was really rare and valuable ''meteorite'' salt.]]
** Yokoi wears a very unconvincing hair piece. [[spoiler: His gothy son shaves his head, save for two patches of hair.]]StepfordSuburbia.
* {{Irony}}: The residents
** Yokoi wears a very unconvincing hair piece. [[spoiler: His gothy son shaves his head, save for two patches of hair.]]
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* KillItWithFire: [[spoiler: Kento tried to burn down Sayuri's shrine because he couldn't stand looking at her cats during mating season. Fortunately it doesn't work and he feels really ashamed afterward]].
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* KillItWithFire: [[spoiler: Kento tried to burn down Sayuri's shrine because he couldn't stand looking at her cats during mating season. Fortunately it doesn't work and but he feels really ashamed afterward]].afterward.]]
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* MaskPower: Tokita the archeologist is always wearing clay masks. [[spoiler: A gang of masked boys (led by Kento and Misa) use random "artwork" to destabilize reality.]]
* TheMenInBlack: Probably [[spoiler: Sakura and Sakurada of the Metropolitan Police Department, who seem to know exactly what's going on]].
* TheMenInBlack: Probably [[spoiler: Sakura and Sakurada of the Metropolitan Police Department, who seem to know exactly what's going on]].
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* MaskPower: Tokita the archeologist is always wearing clay masks. [[spoiler: A Later on a gang of masked boys (led by create "foreign objects" [[as part of Kento and Misa) use random "artwork" Misa's plot to destabilize reality.]]
* TheMenInBlack:Probably [[spoiler: Sakura and Sakurada of [[spoiler:of the Metropolitan Police Department, who seem to know exactly what's going on]].
* TheMenInBlack:
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* OneHeadTaller: Sakura, who towers over everyone else. [[spoiler: Her partner Sakurada is the size of a toddler]].
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: [[spoiler: The blindfolded man can apparently see using a kind of astral projection. He finally kills Sayuri, although it's more like they died at the same time and her soul went out to greet him]]. The "White Ghost"'s identity is still unknown.
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: [[spoiler: The blindfolded man can apparently see using a kind of astral projection. He finally kills Sayuri, although it's more like they died at the same time and her soul went out to greet him]]. The "White Ghost"'s identity is still unknown.
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* OneHeadTaller: Sakura, who towers over everyone else. [[spoiler: Her partner Sakurada is the [[Foil size of a toddler]].
toddler]]]].
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: [[spoiler: The blindfolded man can apparently see using a kind of astral projection. He finally kills Sayuri, although it's more like they died at the same time and her soul went out to greet him]]. The "WhiteGhost"'s identity Ghost" [[spoiler: who is still unknown.the vengeful spirit of Youhei Kosaka's girlfriend]] is a more standard one.
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: [[spoiler: The blindfolded man can apparently see using a kind of astral projection. He finally kills Sayuri, although it's more like they died at the same time and her soul went out to greet him]]. The "White
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* [[spoiler: RapeAsBackStory / RapeAsDrama: ''Practically every boys below 12'', plus the three delinquints' out-of-town victims.]]
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* [[spoiler: RapeAsBackStory / RapeAsDrama: [[spoiler: ''Practically every boys below 12'', boy in Soil'', plus the three delinquints' delinquents' out-of-town victims.]]
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* TerribleTrio: The three older delinquints. [[spoiler: Also victims of the Council President.]]
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* TerribleTrio: The three older delinquints. delinquents. [[spoiler: Also They're also victims of the Council President.]]
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* TraumaCongaLine: Poor, poor [[spoiler: Kento. He's raped by his dentist while under anesthesia, which causes him to feel ashamed whenever he thinks about sex, causing him to cut himself every time he masturbates. Then his dentist "hooks up" with him in high school and as proof of his "love" gives him a tape of the original rape. He can't stand watching cats in heat so he burns down their "owner's" shelter. He finally (finally!) has a consensual sexual encounter with a nice girl and she ''disappears from between his legs''. No wonder he's finally had it with this stupid world, which he's planning on destroying to get to his missing friend's.]]
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* TraumaCongaLine: Poor, poor [[spoiler: Kento. He's raped by his dentist while under anesthesia, which causes him to feel ashamed whenever he thinks about sex, causing him to cut himself every time he masturbates. Then his dentist "hooks up" with him in high school and as proof of his "love" gives him a tape of the original rape. He can't stand watching cats in heat so he burns down their "owner's" shelter.the {{CrazyCatLady}}'s shrine and feels terrible guilt when he realises that she was in there at the time. He finally (finally!) has a consensual sexual encounter with a nice girl and she ''disappears from between his legs''. No wonder he's finally had it with this stupid world, which he's planning on destroying to get to his missing friend's.]]
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''Soil'' is a mystery-horror manga by Kaneko Atsuhi.
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''Soil'' is a mystery-horror manga by Kaneko Atsuhi.
Atsushi.
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* [[BedlamHouse Bedlam Prison]]: [[spoiler: The secret, forgotten prison where the man who slaughtered Sayuri's village is kept, along with other criminally insane people. The head (only?) guard has declared himself [[DragonBall Yama, King of Hell,]] and abuses the prisoners.]]
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* [[BedlamHouse Bedlam Prison]]: [[spoiler: The secret, forgotten prison where the man who slaughtered Sayuri's village is kept, along with other criminally insane people. The head (only?) guard has declared himself [[DragonBall [[Anime/DragonBallZ Yama, King of Hell,]] Hell]], and abuses the prisoners.]]
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* XMeetsY: Visually, [[Comicbook/GhostWorld Daniel Clowse]] meets Creator/JunjiIto with a dash of ''Comicbook/BlackHole''.
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* CuteClumsyGirl: Onoda.
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* {{Dojikko}}: Onoda.
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* {{Determinator}}: Onoda [[spoiler:Yokoi in the past, and his disappering partner]], who wants to get to the bottom of the mystery no matter what.
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* {{Determinator}}: Onoda [[spoiler:Yokoi in the past, and his disappering disappearing partner]], who wants to get to the bottom of the mystery no matter what.
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* FreudianExcuse: [[spoiler: The trio of rapists were also victims of the Council President and they returned to Soil New Town to commit their crimes for unconscious revence.]]
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* FreudianExcuse: [[spoiler: The trio of rapists were also victims of the Council President and they returned to Soil New Town to commit their crimes for unconscious revence.revenge.]]
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* XMeetsY: Visually, [[Comicbook/GhostWorld Daniel Clowse]] meets Junji Ito with a dash of ''Comicbook/BlackHole''.
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* XMeetsY: Visually, [[Comicbook/GhostWorld Daniel Clowse]] meets Junji Ito Creator/JunjiIto with a dash of ''Comicbook/BlackHole''.
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--> There's no such thing as 'normal people'!
---> Sarg. Yokoi
''Soil'' is a mystery-horror manga by Kaneko Atsuhi
From Mangafox: Something strange is going on in "Soil New Town." The sudden disappearance of a seemingly normal family leads the two detectives Yokoi and Onoda to the idyllic town in the middle of nowhere. What looks like a routine case at first quickly turns into a complex and deadly riddle where nothing is what it seems to be. Will the two disparate investigators manage to solve the mystery before it's too late?
---> Sarg. Yokoi
''Soil'' is a mystery-horror manga by Kaneko Atsuhi
From Mangafox: Something strange is going on in "Soil New Town." The sudden disappearance of a seemingly normal family leads the two detectives Yokoi and Onoda to the idyllic town in the middle of nowhere. What looks like a routine case at first quickly turns into a complex and deadly riddle where nothing is what it seems to be. Will the two disparate investigators manage to solve the mystery before it's too late?
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''Soil'' is a mystery-horror manga by Kaneko
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Something strange is going on in "Soil New Town." The sudden disappearance of a seemingly normal family leads the two detectives Yokoi and Onoda to the idyllic town in the middle of nowhere. What looks like a routine case at first quickly turns into a complex and deadly riddle where nothing is what it seems to be. Will the two disparate investigators manage to solve the mystery before it's too late?
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* YouAreWhatYouHate: [[spoiler: The Council President hates filth and "foreign organisms" but admits to Kento that he's a foreign organism himself.]]
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* YouAreWhatYouHate: [[spoiler: The Council President hates filth and "foreign organisms" but admits to Kento that he's a foreign organism himself.]]]]
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* XMeetsY: Visually, [[GhostWorld Daniel Clowse]] meets Junji Ito with a dash of ''BlackHole''.
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* XMeetsY: Visually, [[GhostWorld [[Comicbook/GhostWorld Daniel Clowse]] meets Junji Ito with a dash of ''BlackHole''.''Comicbook/BlackHole''.
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* CargoShip: [[spoiler: The man who caused the blackout was in love with an electrical tower and brought it down so he could "be penetrated by it". Yeah, falling in love with inanimate objects is an actual thing (see the woman who married the Eiffel Tower).]]
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* CompleteMonster: [[spoiler: The council president has raped almost a whole generation of boys.]]
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* NauseaFuel: Yokoi is disgusting, Onoda's [[spoiler: apartment is filthy]], Sayuri has horrible burns, Tomiyama is constantly picking his nose, [[spoiler: the Council President is a pedophile rapist]], and [[spoiler: the mysterious blindfolded man draws with his poop]].
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* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: [[spoiler: The masked boys' random "art work" is meant to be so random it starts screwing with reality.]]
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Sarg. Yokoi
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* AbandonedHospital: [[spoiler: Used by Kanto and the rapists, it's the only place where the Council president's cameras can't see.]]
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* AbandonedHospital: [[spoiler: Used by Kanto Kento and the rapists, it's the only place where the Council president's cameras can't see.]]
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* ComedicSociopathy / WhatTheHellHero: Det. Onoda is straight-up abusive to Det. Yokoi [[spoiler: possibly because he sees a bit of himself in someone so determined to solve a mystery that "shouldn't be solved"]] and calls a rape case "stupid".
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* ComedicSociopathy / WhatTheHellHero: Det. Onoda Yokoi is straight-up abusive to Det. Yokoi Onoda [[spoiler: possibly because he sees a bit of himself in someone so determined to solve a mystery that "shouldn't be solved"]] and calls a rape case "stupid".
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* CowboyCop: [[spoiler: Onoda was on the MPD Yakuza taskforce before delving too deeply into a strange mystery which got him demoted]].
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* CowboyCop: [[spoiler: Onoda Yokoi was on the MPD Yakuza taskforce before delving too deeply into a strange mystery which got him demoted]].
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* CutAndPasteNote: [[spoiler: Kanto sends a fake ransom note using the Suzushiro's daughter's notebook in order to shake up the town. For added realism he includes his own ripped-out toenail.]]
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* CutAndPasteNote: [[spoiler: Kanto Kento sends a fake ransom note using the Suzushiro's daughter's Mizuki's notebook in order to shake up the town. For added realism he includes his own ripped-out toenail.]]
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* {{Determinator}}: Yokoi [[spoiler:Onoda in the past, and his disappering partner]], who wants to get to the bottom of the mystery no matter what.
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* {{Determinator}}: Yokoi [[spoiler:Onoda Onoda [[spoiler:Yokoi in the past, and his disappering partner]], who wants to get to the bottom of the mystery no matter what.
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* DopeSlap: Onoda to Yokoi, all the time and really hard.
* {{Dojikko}}: Yokoi.
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: One of Det. Onoda's academy classmates eats his gun after Det. Onoda's missing partner appears and accuses them of forgetting him, then he (classmate) falls into a vortex and sees a man who was missing for over a decade, still trapped in an outhouse.]]
* FairCop: Det. Yokoi isn't, although [[spoiler: we never see her with her glasses off]].
* {{Dojikko}}: Yokoi.
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: One of Det. Onoda's academy classmates eats his gun after Det. Onoda's missing partner appears and accuses them of forgetting him, then he (classmate) falls into a vortex and sees a man who was missing for over a decade, still trapped in an outhouse.]]
* FairCop: Det. Yokoi isn't, although [[spoiler: we never see her with her glasses off]].
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* DopeSlap: Onoda Yokoi to Yokoi, Onoda, all the time and really hard.
* {{Dojikko}}:Yokoi.
Onoda.
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: One ofDet. Onoda's Yokoi's academy classmates eats his gun after Det. Onoda's Yokoi's missing partner appears and accuses them of forgetting him, then he (classmate) falls into a vortex and sees a man who was missing for over a decade, still trapped in an outhouse.]]
* FairCop: Det.Yokoi Onoda isn't, although [[spoiler: we never see her with her glasses off]].
* {{Dojikko}}:
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: One of
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* {{Gonk}}: Det. Yokoi is kind of gonky while an actual gonk spies on the school counselor.
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* {{Gonk}}: Det. Yokoi Onoda is kind of gonky while an actual gonk spies on the school counselor.
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** Onoda wears a very unconvincing hair piece. [[spoiler: His gothy son shaves his head, save for two patches of hair.]]
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** Onoda Yokoi wears a very unconvincing hair piece. [[spoiler: His gothy son shaves his head, save for two patches of hair.]]
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* KillItWithFire: [[spoiler: Kanto tried to burn down Sayuri's shrine because he couldn't stand looking at her cats during mating season. Fortunately it doesn't work and he feels really bad afterward]].
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* KillItWithFire: [[spoiler: Kanto Kento tried to burn down Sayuri's shrine because he couldn't stand looking at her cats during mating season. Fortunately it doesn't work and he feels really bad ashamed afterward]].
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* MamaBear: [[spoiler: Do not mess with Kanto's mother.]]
* MaskPower: Tokita the archeologist is always wearing clay masks. [[spoiler: A gang of masked boys (led by Kanto and Misa) use random "artwork" to destabilize reality.]]
* MaskPower: Tokita the archeologist is always wearing clay masks. [[spoiler: A gang of masked boys (led by Kanto and Misa) use random "artwork" to destabilize reality.]]
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* MamaBear: [[spoiler: Do not mess with Kanto's Kento's mother.]]
* MaskPower: Tokita the archeologist is always wearing clay masks. [[spoiler: A gang of masked boys (led byKanto Kento and Misa) use random "artwork" to destabilize reality.]]
* MaskPower: Tokita the archeologist is always wearing clay masks. [[spoiler: A gang of masked boys (led by
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* MessyHair: Det. Yokoi Onoda can't do anything about her hair.
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* NauseaFuel: Onoda is disgusting, Yokoi's [[spoiler: apartment is filthy]], Sayuri has horrible burns, Tomiyama is constantly picking his nose, [[spoiler: the Council President is a pedophile rapist]], and [[spoiler: the mysterious blindfolded man draws with his poop]].
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* NauseaFuel: Onoda Yokoi is disgusting, Yokoi's Onoda's [[spoiler: apartment is filthy]], Sayuri has horrible burns, Tomiyama is constantly picking his nose, [[spoiler: the Council President is a pedophile rapist]], and [[spoiler: the mysterious blindfolded man draws with his poop]].
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* OminousMultipleScreens / SinisterSurveillance: [[spoiler: In the Council President's secret room, where he keeps an eye on everyone in Soil. Afterwards the room is Kanto and Misa's "headquarters", though it's not clear if the cameras still work.]]
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* OminousMultipleScreens / SinisterSurveillance: [[spoiler: In the Council President's secret room, where he keeps an eye on everyone in Soil. Afterwards the room is Kanto Kento and Misa's "headquarters", though it's not clear if the cameras still work.]]
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* [[spoiler: RapeAsBackStory / RapeAsDrama: ''Practically every boy between the ages of 9 and 19'', plus the three delinquints' out-of-town victims.]]
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* [[spoiler: RapeAsBackStory / RapeAsDrama: ''Practically every boy between the ages of 9 and 19'', boys below 12'', plus the three delinquints' out-of-town victims.]]
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* ThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow: It's strongly implied that the mystery of the Suzushiro's disappearance should be left alone for everyone's safety/sanity [[spoiler: just like Onoda's case of the disappearance of the Yakuza boss' organs years before caused his eventual demotion and his partner's disapperances]].
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* ThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow: It's strongly implied that the mystery of the Suzushiro's disappearance should be left alone for everyone's safety/sanity [[spoiler: just like Onoda's Yokoi's case of the disappearance of the Yakuza boss' organs years before caused his eventual demotion and his partner's disapperances]].
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* TrashOfTheTitans: [[spoiler: Det. Yokoi]]'s apartment is ''filthy''.
* TraumaCongaLine: Poor, poor [[spoiler: Kanto. He's raped by his dentist while under anesthesia, which causes him to feel ashamed when he thinks about sex, which causes him to cut himself every time he masturbates. Then his dentist "hooks up" with him in high school and as proof of his "love" gives him a tape of the original rape. He can't stand watching cats in heat so he burns down their "owner's" shelter. He finally (finally!) has a consensual sexual encounter with a nice girl and she ''disappears from between his legs''. No wonder he's finally had it with this stupid world, which he's planning on destroying to get to his missing friend's.]]
** [[spoiler: Onoda's obsession with the missing Yakuza boss' organs lead to his demotion and his wife leaving him; then again he might not have been a very pleasent person to begin with.]]
* TraumaCongaLine: Poor, poor [[spoiler: Kanto. He's raped by his dentist while under anesthesia, which causes him to feel ashamed when he thinks about sex, which causes him to cut himself every time he masturbates. Then his dentist "hooks up" with him in high school and as proof of his "love" gives him a tape of the original rape. He can't stand watching cats in heat so he burns down their "owner's" shelter. He finally (finally!) has a consensual sexual encounter with a nice girl and she ''disappears from between his legs''. No wonder he's finally had it with this stupid world, which he's planning on destroying to get to his missing friend's.]]
** [[spoiler: Onoda's obsession with the missing Yakuza boss' organs lead to his demotion and his wife leaving him; then again he might not have been a very pleasent person to begin with.]]
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* TrashOfTheTitans: [[spoiler: Det. Yokoi]]'s Onoda]]'s apartment is ''filthy''.
* TraumaCongaLine: Poor, poor [[spoiler:Kanto. Kento. He's raped by his dentist while under anesthesia, which causes him to feel ashamed when whenever he thinks about sex, which causes causing him to cut himself every time he masturbates. Then his dentist "hooks up" with him in high school and as proof of his "love" gives him a tape of the original rape. He can't stand watching cats in heat so he burns down their "owner's" shelter. He finally (finally!) has a consensual sexual encounter with a nice girl and she ''disappears from between his legs''. No wonder he's finally had it with this stupid world, which he's planning on destroying to get to his missing friend's.]]
** [[spoiler:Onoda's Yokoi's obsession with the missing Yakuza boss' organs lead to his demotion and his wife leaving him; then again he might not have been a very pleasent pleasant person to begin with.]]
* TraumaCongaLine: Poor, poor [[spoiler:
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* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: [[spoiler: Kanto and the other boys, all victims of the Council President. Misa, the lone girl in their group is sort-of a victim by proxy, as her rapists were also victims of the CP.]]
* WorldOfChaos: [[spoiler: What Kanto and his group want to cause, which will destabilize reality.]]
* {{Yakuza}}: [[spoiler: Onoda's last case as a MPD detective started with the disappearance of a Yakuza boss' organs without any cuts to his body and just spiraled out of control]].
* XMeetsY: Visually, [[GhostWorld Daniel Clowse]] meets JunjiIto with a dash of ''BlackHole''.
* YouAreWhatYouHate: [[spoiler: The Council President hates filth and "foreign organisms" but admits to Kanto that he's a foreign organism himself.]]
* WorldOfChaos: [[spoiler: What Kanto and his group want to cause, which will destabilize reality.]]
* {{Yakuza}}: [[spoiler: Onoda's last case as a MPD detective started with the disappearance of a Yakuza boss' organs without any cuts to his body and just spiraled out of control]].
* XMeetsY: Visually, [[GhostWorld Daniel Clowse]] meets JunjiIto with a dash of ''BlackHole''.
* YouAreWhatYouHate: [[spoiler: The Council President hates filth and "foreign organisms" but admits to Kanto that he's a foreign organism himself.]]
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* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: [[spoiler: Kanto Kento and the other boys, all victims of the Council President. Misa, the lone girl in their group is sort-of a victim by proxy, as her rapists were also victims of the CP.]]
* WorldOfChaos: [[spoiler: WhatKanto Kento and his group want to cause, which will destabilize reality.]]
* {{Yakuza}}: [[spoiler:Onoda's Yokoi's last case as a MPD detective started with the disappearance of a Yakuza boss' organs without any cuts to his body and just spiraled out of control]].
* XMeetsY: Visually, [[GhostWorld Daniel Clowse]] meetsJunjiIto Junji Ito with a dash of ''BlackHole''.
* YouAreWhatYouHate: [[spoiler: The Council President hates filth and "foreign organisms" but admits toKanto Kento that he's a foreign organism himself.]]
* WorldOfChaos: [[spoiler: What
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* {{Homage}} / ShoutOut: Those [[{{Uzumaki}} freaking spirals]].
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* {{Homage}} / ShoutOut: Those [[{{Uzumaki}} [[Manga/{{Uzumaki}} freaking spirals]].
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* {{MIB}}: Probably [[spoiler: Sakura and Sakurada of the Metropolitan Police Department, who seem to know exactly what's going on]].
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* {{MIB}}: TheMenInBlack: Probably [[spoiler: Sakura and Sakurada of the Metropolitan Police Department, who seem to know exactly what's going on]].
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''{{Soil}}'' is a mystery-horror manga by Kaneko Atsuhi
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* XMeetsY: Visually, [[GhostWorld Daniel Clowse]] meets JunjiIto with a dash of ''BlackHole''.
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* XMeetsY: Visually, [[GhostWorld Daniel Clowse]] meets JunjiIto with a dash of ''BlackHole''.''BlackHole''.
* YouAreWhatYouHate: [[spoiler: The Council President hates filth and "foreign organisms" but admits to Kanto that he's a foreign organism himself.]]
* YouAreWhatYouHate: [[spoiler: The Council President hates filth and "foreign organisms" but admits to Kanto that he's a foreign organism himself.]]
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* [[spoiler: AnotherDimension / AlternateUniverse: Implied to be where the Suzushiros and probably Sakura & Sakuraba are really from (unless this is the Matrix...)]].
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* [[spoiler: AnotherDimension / AlternateUniverse: Implied to be where the Suzushiros and probably Sakura & Sakuraba are really from (unless this is a computer world a la the Matrix...)]].
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* [[BedlamHouse Bedlam Prison]]: [[spoiler: Where the man who slaughtered Sayuri's village is kept. The head (only?) guard has declared himself [[DragonBall King Yama]] and abuses the prisoners.]]
* CargoShip: [[spoiler: The man who caused the blackout was in love with an electrical tower and brought it down so he could "be penetrated by it".]]
* CargoShip: [[spoiler: The man who caused the blackout was in love with an electrical tower and brought it down so he could "be penetrated by it".]]
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* [[BedlamHouse Bedlam Prison]]: [[spoiler: Where The secret, forgotten prison where the man who slaughtered Sayuri's village is kept. kept, along with other criminally insane people. The head (only?) guard has declared himself [[DragonBall Yama, King Yama]] of Hell,]] and abuses the prisoners.]]
* CargoShip: [[spoiler: The man who caused the blackout was in love with an electrical tower and brought it down so he could "be penetrated by it". Yeah, falling in love with inanimate objects is an actual thing (see the woman who married the Eiffel Tower).]]
* CargoShip: [[spoiler: The man who caused the blackout was in love with an electrical tower and brought it down so he could "be penetrated by it". Yeah, falling in love with inanimate objects is an actual thing (see the woman who married the Eiffel Tower).]]
* CouldntFindAPen / RoomFullOfCrazy: [[spoiler: The Blindfolded man's cell: all he has is his own feces, but he's used to draw a map of Soil... ''a brand-new city that didn't exist when he was there and could see.'']]
** Onoda wears a very unconvincing hair piece. [[spoiler: His gothy son shaves his head, save for two patches of hair.]]
* MeaningfulName: Soil is [[spoiler: soiled]], plus there's all the Jomon artefacts in the soil.
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* OminousMultipleScreens: [[spoiler: In the Council President's secret room, where he keeps an eye on everyone in Soil. Afterwards the room is Kanto and Misa's "headquarters", though it's not clear if the cameras still work.]]
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* OminousMultipleScreens: OminousMultipleScreens / SinisterSurveillance: [[spoiler: In the Council President's secret room, where he keeps an eye on everyone in Soil. Afterwards the room is Kanto and Misa's "headquarters", though it's not clear if the cameras still work.]]
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* [[spoiler: RapeAsBackStory / RapeAsDrama]]
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* [[spoiler: RapeAsBackStory / RapeAsDrama]]RapeAsDrama: ''Practically every boy between the ages of 9 and 19'', plus the three delinquints' out-of-town victims.]]
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** [[spoiler: Onoda's obsession with the missing Yakuza boss' organs lead to his demotion and his wife leaving him; then again he might not have been a very pleasent person to begin with.]]
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* EvilTrio
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* MamaBear: [[spoiler: Don't mess with Kanto's mother.]]
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* MamaBear: [[spoiler: Don't Do not mess with Kanto's mother.]]
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* MindScrew / OrIsIt:MindScrew
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* AbandonedHospital: [[spoiler: Used by Kanto and the rapists, it's the only place where the Council president's cameras can't see.]]
* AdultsAreUseless
* AdultsAreUseless
* CutAndPasteNote: [[spoiler: Kanto sends a fake ransom note using the Suzushiro's daughter's notebook in order to shake up the town. For added realism he includes his own ripped-out toenail.]]
* {{Determinator}}: Yokoi [[spoiler:Onoda in the past, and his disappering partner]], who wants to get to the bottom of the mystery no matter what.
** ImplacableMan: The Blindfolded Man.
** ImplacableMan: The Blindfolded Man.
* EvilTrio
* FreudianExcuse: [[spoiler: The trio of rapists were also victims of the Council President and they returned to Soil New Town to commit their crimes for unconscious revence.]]
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* OminousMultipleScreens: [[spoiler: In the Council President's secret room, where he keeps an eye on everyone in Soil.]]
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* OminousMultipleScreens: [[spoiler: In the Council President's secret room, where he keeps an eye on everyone in Soil. Afterwards the room is Kanto and Misa's "headquarters", though it's not clear if the cameras still work.]]
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* OurGhostsAreDifferent: The "White Ghost"'s identity is still unknown.
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* OurGhostsAreDifferent: [[spoiler: The blindfolded man can apparently see using a kind of astral projection. He finally kills Sayuri, although it's more like they died at the same time and her soul went out to greet him]]. The "White Ghost"'s identity is still unknown.
* [[spoiler: RapeAsBackStory / RapeAsDrama]]
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* ThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow: It's strongly implied that the mystery of the Suzushiro family's disappearance should be left alone for everyone's safety/sanity [[spoiler: just like Onoda's case of the disappearance of the Yakuza boss' organs years before]].
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* TerribleTrio: The three older delinquints. [[spoiler: Also victims of the Council President.]]
* ThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow: It's strongly implied that the mystery of theSuzushiro family's Suzushiro's disappearance should be left alone for everyone's safety/sanity [[spoiler: just like Onoda's case of the disappearance of the Yakuza boss' organs years before]].before caused his eventual demotion and his partner's disapperances]].
* ThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow: It's strongly implied that the mystery of the
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* CowboyCop: [[spoiler: Onoda was on the MPD Yakuza taskforce before delving too deeply into a strange mystery which got him demoted]].
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* ThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow: It's strongly implied that the mystery of the Suzushiro family's disappearance should be left alone for everyone's safety/sanity [[spoiler: just like Onoda's case of the disappearance of the Yakuza boss' organs years before]].
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* {{Yakuza}}: [[spoiler: Onoda's last case as a MPD detective started with the disappearance of a Yakuza boss' organs without any cuts to his body and just spiraled out of control]].
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* [[spoiler: AnotherDimension / AlternateUniverse: Implied to be where the Suzushiros and probably Sakura & Sakuraba are really from (unless this is the Matrix...)]].
* AxeCrazy: [[spoiler: A mysterious man who appeared in Sayuri's family's secure storage vault, was fine for a few months, then killed everyone. The only thing he'd say was that "he doesn't belong in this world".]]
* [[BedlamHouse Bedlam Prison]]: [[spoiler: Where the man who slaughtered Sayuri's village is kept. The head (only?) guard has declared himself [[DragonBall King Yama]] and abuses the prisoners.]]
* CargoShip: [[spoiler: The man who caused the blackout was in love with an electrical tower and brought it down so he could "be penetrated by it".]]
* AxeCrazy: [[spoiler: A mysterious man who appeared in Sayuri's family's secure storage vault, was fine for a few months, then killed everyone. The only thing he'd say was that "he doesn't belong in this world".]]
* [[BedlamHouse Bedlam Prison]]: [[spoiler: Where the man who slaughtered Sayuri's village is kept. The head (only?) guard has declared himself [[DragonBall King Yama]] and abuses the prisoners.]]
* CargoShip: [[spoiler: The man who caused the blackout was in love with an electrical tower and brought it down so he could "be penetrated by it".]]
* DopeSlap: Onoda to Yokoi, all the time and really hard.
* {{Dojikko}}: Yokoi.
* {{Dojikko}}: Yokoi.
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* FairCop: Det. Yokoi isn't really, although [[spoiler: we never see her with her glasses off]].
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* FairCop: Det. Yokoi isn't really, isn't, although [[spoiler: we never see her with her glasses off]].
* HouseWife: Are there any fathers beside Mr. Suzushiro in Soil?
* {{Irony}}: The residents of Soil hate the Susushiros for [[spoiler: accidentally(?) getting them into a pyramid scheme involving salt, but if they'd gotten the salt analyzed they'd learn it was really rare and valuable ''meteorite'' salt.]]
* {{Irony}}: The residents of Soil hate the Susushiros for [[spoiler: accidentally(?) getting them into a pyramid scheme involving salt, but if they'd gotten the salt analyzed they'd learn it was really rare and valuable ''meteorite'' salt.]]
* NauseaFuel: Onoda is disgusting, Yokoi's [[spoiler: apartment is filthy]], Sayuri has horrible burns, Tomiyama is constantly picking his nose, [[spoiler: the Council President is a pedophile rapist]], and [[spoiler: the mysterious blindfolded man draws with his poop]].
* [[spoiler: PortalNetwork: What those freaking spirals are, but they're very unstable]].
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* XMeetsY: Visually, [[GhostWorld Danial Clowse]] meets JunjiIto with a dash of ''BlackHole''.
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* XMeetsY: Visually, [[GhostWorld Danial Daniel Clowse]] meets JunjiIto with a dash of ''BlackHole''.