History Manga / VoicesInTheDark

* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Yuina]] in "I Don't Want to Be a Ghost".

!! Tropes in ''Voices in the Dark'' and ''New Voices in the Dark'':

* AllJustADream: [[spoiler: The events of "The Mystery of the Haunted House: Souichi's Version", and by extension, "The Mystery of the Haunted House". This is largely because the later stories involving the Tsujii family are mostly LighterAndSofter [[BlackComedy Black Comedies]] focusing on Souichi as a child, in contrast to the outright horror and {{gorn}} of "Haunted House", where he is an adult.]]

** The Earthbound victims in the story of the same name are revealed to be [[spoiler: trapped by guilt over crimes they have committed]].

** "Ghosts of Prime Time" centers on an unfunny stand-up duo becoming famous by [[spoiler: astrally projecting to tickle the audience and make them all laugh hysterically. They also tickle the protagonist's friend to death because the laughless protagonist could see the spirits and guessed their secret.]]

* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Yuina]] in "I Don't Want to Be a Ghost".

** Goro from "Greased" brutally tormented his little sister Yui to make himself feel better about his miserable life and was about to kill her before finally being killed their father. Right as he was strangling her he rants about how he intends to [[OmnicidalManiac kill everyone in revenge.]]

** Goro from "Greased" brutally tormented his little sister Yui to make himself feel better about his miserable life and was about to kill her before finally being killed their father. Right as he was strangling her he rants about he intends to [[OmnicidalManiac kill everyone in revenge.]]

* AndIMustScream: In "Earthbound," a mysterious illness afflicts adults and children alike. They stand in place in uncomfortable positions, unable to move. They also cannot eat food or drink water. Minoru's family begs him to come home, and let them help him with the condition. Experts theorize if it is a contagious condition, and if so then how does one quarantine it.

* {{Mundanger}}: In "Roar," two hikers end up lost in an area where a flash flood repeats daily, with the same illusions. One talks about how he has a phobia of water, that burdened his relatives as they passed him around. That isn't the mundane part. The mundane part is when they encounter an old man, who explains that he and his son were the only survivors of the flood, which happened over a decade ago because the old man had to choose between pulling out his baby or his wife from the rapids. [[spoiler:The protagonists realize that the man must be the orphaned one's father, but are unable to tell him before he succumbs to the despair of being unable to save his wife]].

* RapeAsDrama: Asano in "Earthbound" was raped in her sleep, and that gave her severe PTSD. She moves from apartment to apartment, paranoid that if she doesn't, that her assailant will come back to torment her further and is horrified to discover that [[spoiler: her recently-earthbound volunteering colleague was bound because he was her rapist]].

* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Keisuke has this reaction when he goes to the comedy club with Tsuguo. [[spoiler:He can see the spirits that the comedy duo are using to tickle the audience.]]

* AbusiveParents: The father in "Greased" is willing to force-feed his daughter cooking oil in order to [[spoiler: make her greasy enough to ''serve in his restaurant'' after disposing of his son in this way.]]

** "Death Row Doorbell" ends with the main character's family dead, and herself as the survivor. [[spoiler:But when the criminal who murdered them is executed, his projection stops appearing at her house, finally giving her some peace]].
** "Earthbound" is fairly bitter with a bit of hope. Asano learns that [[spoiler:the volunteer groups ''can't'' save the Earthbound victims, and she finds out the chief in her group was her rapist and a murderer to boot. Yet she resolves to not dive into despair or give up on other victims, and remains intact in body, albeit while traumatized]].

* DieLaughing: In "Ghosts of Prime Time", two comedians, Sasage and Azuki, [[spoiler: project tickle-spirits into the audience to get people to laugh at their awful comedy, in hopes of landing a regular spot on the titular television comedy hour, where they will be able to influence a greater audience. However, any comedians who serve as competition or those who know their secret are astrally-tickled to death, laughing 'til the end, for standing in their way. Keisuke and his mother are the only survivors]].

* EatTheEvidence: Done in "Greased" when [[spoiler: Goro is accidentally killed in an altercation, and he is served up at the family restaurant to rave reviews]]. The success of this motivates the father to try replicating the results.

** Similarly, Yui in "Greased" begins to have dreams about Mount Fuji erupting oil and flooding her town as she drowns in it. [[spoiler: When she wakes up in one of them, she sees that cooking oil is being forced down her throat by her father, hoping to prepare her for his restaurant.]]

** The customers at the restaurant in "Greased" become this when [[spoiler: Goro is killed and served up because he had been consuming grease for years]]. The sudden success makes the father desperate to achieve it again, regardless of the cost.
** Misaki in "I Don't Want to Be a Ghost" doesn't eat people...[[spoiler: but she does eat ''ghosts''. And they ''bleed'']].
* IgnoredEpiphany: Even after living a horrifying nightmare where his continued wickedness wound up causing him a painful and terrifying demise, [[spoiler:Souichi]] bitterly resolves to try and dream of his classmates suffering instead.

* MassOhCrap: In "Earthbound," the quarantine workers react this way when their attempts to get a man to a safe location [[spoiler:ends up dislodging his head, as he turned to stone]].

* RiseOfZitboy: Played for pure nausea in "Greased", wherein Goro, and eventually Yui, suffer hideous acne from the oily atmosphere of their restaurant. [[spoiler: Oh, and Goro squeezes all of his face pimples onto his sister.]]

** An old man [[spoiler:implied to be the father of one of the main characters]] who, waiting for the illusion of his wife drowning in "Roar", after thirty years of trying to save her phantom, finally jumps after her when she can no longer hold his net.
** The StarCrossedLovers from "In Mirror Valley" committed lovers' suicide in a river that separated their villages. Their ghosts proceeded to manifest every night over the river to make love - as a taunt for their families who had disapproved their relationship.

* SuperOCD: Goro Shirozaki of "Library Vision" is obsessed with keeping his 150,000-book heirloom library in perfect order, and can tell when so much as one book is out of place. He has also written a painstakingly detailed diary entry of every single day since the age of four.

* AdultFear:
** In "Roar," two hikers end up lost in an area where a flash flood repeats daily, with the same illusions. One talks about how he has a phobia of water, that burdened his relatives as they passed him around. That isn't the mundane part. The mundane part is when they encounter an old man, who explains that he and his son were the only survivors of the flood, which happened over a decade ago because the old man had to choose between pulling out his baby or his wife from the rapids. [[spoiler:The protagonists realize that the man must be the orphaned one's father, but are unable to tell him before he succumbs to the despair of being unable to save his wife]].
** In "Earthbound," a mysterious illness afflicts adults and children alike. They stand in place in uncomfortable positions, unable to move. They also cannot eat food or drink water. Minoru's family begs him to come home, and let them help him with the condition. Experts theorize if it is a contagious condition, and if so then how does one quarantine it.
** The same story has Asano reveal that [[spoiler:she was raped in her sleep, and that gave her severe PTSD. She moves from apartment to apartment, paranoid that if she doesn't, that her assailant will come back to torment her further]].

* AndIMustScream: The Earthbound victims [[spoiler:eventually turn to stone, and remain conscious the whole time. Even massaging their limbs doesn't do the trick]].

* RapeAsDrama: Asano in "Earthbound" was raped, and is horrified to discover that [[spoiler: her recently-earthbound volunteering colleague was bound because he was her rapist]].

** Invoked in "Earthbound", in which living people attach themselves to a certain spot, totally unmoving, [[spoiler: bound in place by guilt for crimes]]. Eventually, they harden to the point of being able to break like stone.

* TakenForGranite: Invoked in "Earthbound", in which living people attach themselves to a certain spot, totally unmoving, [[spoiler: bound in place by guilt for crimes]]. Eventually, they harden to the point of being able to break like stone.

* TogetherInDeath: An old man [[spoiler:implied to be the father of one of the main characters]] who, waiting for the illusion of his wife drowning in "Roar", after thirty years of trying to save her phantom, finally jumps after her when she can no longer hold his net.

* SuperOCD: Goro Shirozaki of "Library of Illusions" is obsessed with keeping his 150,000-book heirloom library in perfect order, and can tell when so much as one book is out of place. He has also written a painstakingly detailed diary entry of every single day since the age of four.

* MassOhCrap: The quarantine workers react this way when their attempts to get a man to a safe location [[spoiler:ends up dislodging his head, as he turned to stone]].

* EarWorm: A supernaturally malevolent one in "Splendid Shadow Song".