History Manga / Yuureitou

* [[Blackmail]]: Tetsuo uses the truth about his lie about Amano having a wife and money in order to get Amano to investigate the tower for the first time.

* [[Transsexual]]: [[spoiler: Tetsuo, whose was Reiko Fujimiya prior to transitioning,]] is a trans man.

* Blackmail: Tetsuo uses the truth about his lie about Amano having a wife and money in order to get Amano to investigate the tower for the first time.

* The Chanteuse: Reiko Fujimiya [[spoiler: prior to coming out as a transgender man]] was known as an [[BrokenBird eccentric]] yet beautiful woman who [[FemmeFatale murdered her mother]]. According to rumors, Reiko also had a beautiful voice. [[spoiler: Tetsuo later asks Shino if she wants to sing with him after he tells Amano the rumors about his past life as 'Reiko'.]]

* Transsexual: [[spoiler: Tetsuo, whose was Reiko Fujimiya prior to transitioning,]] is a trans man.

* PoliceAreUseless: Tetsuo managed to evade capture by the police after [[spoilers: killing his mother by using another woman's body in place of Reiko's]]. Also, Yamashina, a detective who gets involved in the investigation, is actually a cowardly man that is willing to sacrifice his enemy so that he could keep his life and save the lives of the other children when he was trying to find blood for Tesla.

* ParentalIncest: Marube is having sex with his underage daughter, Satoko.

* Shotacon: Yamashina finds the legs of young boys sexy, later [[UnfortunateImplications confessing that he is]] [[AllGaysArePedophiles gay]].

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: When Tetsuo reveals that he [[spoilers: has run out of testosterone, his voice becomes more feminine. In reality, going off testosterone won't make your voice feminine even if you've only been on it for a while.]]
* Asshole Victim: The adoptive mother of Reiko Fujiyama couldn't accept that her child [[spoiler: couldn't be a woman and a wife for a potential suitor]] so she frequently fought with her child. Then, when Reiko left home to [[spoiler: live as himself, he killed his mother because she wouldn't accept him as her son. In chapter 59, Tetsuo also confesses to Marube that when he was younger and his mother went with him to explore the tower, he was really happy when she told him that he was brave just like a (Japanese) guy. He told her that he was really happy to hear that, but in reality, his mother sent him down to the tower so that she could indirectly kill him. She only saved him when he acted more 'girly' by screaming for help.]]
* BecomingTheMask: After Amano disguises himself as Tetsuo's wife to evade the police, he realizes how comforting crossdressing is.
* BluffingTheMurderer: Amano believes that Tetsuo is Shibanmuchi, a murderous ghost who kills people who enter the ghost tower, and threatens him with a knife early on in his investigation. Ironically, Tetsuo [[spoilers: turns out to be the one who killed his mother.]]

* The Chanteuse: Reiko Fujimiya [[spoiler: prior to coming out as a transgender man]] was known as an [[BrokenBird eccentric]] yet beautiful woman who [[FemmeFatale murdered her mother]]. According to rumors, Reiko also had a beautiful voice. [[spoilers: Tetsuo later asks Shino if she wants to sing with him after he tells Amano the rumors about his past life as 'Reiko'.]]

* Parental Incest: Marube is having sex with his daughter, Satoko.

* Shotacon: Yamashina finds the legs of young boys sexy, later [[UnfortunateImplications confessing that he is]] [[AllGaysArePedophiles gay]]

* TheVamp: Marube's plan in chapters 50 through 60 is to [[spoiler: seduce Tetsuo and break his will.]] [[spoiler: Tetsuo later sleeps with Marube and temporarily decides that the best punishment for killing his mother, who was also Marube's wife, is to live his life as a woman.]]

* Wholesome Crossdresser: Taichi first disguises himself in drag to evade the police, but later finds crossdressing comforting and continues to wear a dress until [[spoiler: Yamashina dies]].

* BecomingtheMask: After Amano dresses in drag to evade the police, he realizes how comforting crossdressing is

* PassiveAgressiveKombat: When Tetsuo is made to be Marube's butler, Tetsuo does everything he can to resist conforming to Marube's sexual fantasies. Tetsuo decides to wear a uniform when Marube asks him to give him a shower, and then sharpens his nails to ensure that scrubbing Marube will be as painful as possible.

* AdaptationExpansion: Taru Nogizaka's Yuureitou is an expanded adaptation of Alice Muriel Williamson's "A Woman in Gray" from 1898. However, the lawyer that owned the haunted house is now an abusive father who owns a haunted clock tower, the woman who murdered her mother is now a transgender man who killed his adoptive mother, the attorney who investigates the tower is now a man in his twenties with no job and [[spoiler: the villain that wants to seduce the daughter who killed her mother is now [[AdaptationalVillainy the owner of the ghost tower.]]]]
* ArtisticLicenseBiology: No, going off testosterone won't make your voice feminine even if you've only been on it a while.

* DisguisedInDrag: Taichi had to do this later.
* DrivingQuestion: Who is the Shibanmushi?

* {{Transsexual}}: Tetsuo is a trans man.

In [[TheFifties 1952]] a woman is [[SelfMadeOrphan killed by her adopted daughter]] by being tied onto a clock tower's hands until [[CruelAndUnusualDeath her back broke]].

Tetsuo is searching for a treasure that is connected with the ghost tower and asks Taichi to be his. Taichi's enticed by the idea of becoming extreme wealthy and is further convinced when his house mysteriously burns down. As it turns out, there's a SerialKiller out there that attacks people in the 'ghost tower'.

Tetsuo is searching for a treasure that is connected with the ghost tower and asks Taichi to be his. Taichi's enticed by the idea of becoming extreme wealthy and is further He's further convinced when his house mysteriously burns down. As it turns out, there's a SerialKiller out there that attacks people in the 'ghost tower'.

* {{Transsexual}}: Tetsuo is a trans man. A woman trying to be a man at least.

In [[TheFifties 1952]] a woman is [[SelfMadeOrphan killed by her adopted daughter]] by being tied onto a clock tower's hands until [[CruelAndUnusualDeath her back broke]].

''Yuureitou'', or ''The Ghost Tower'', is a seinen [[MysteryFiction mystery]]-{{horror}} manga.

* WouldHurtAChild: Shibanmushi tries to kill a boy in one chapter. [[spoiler:The kid lives but his mother dies]].

Way better than it sounds. It spans to more than just that beginning.

* Crossdresser - Taichi had to do this later as a disguise

Tetsuo is searching for a treasure that is connected with the ghost tower and asks Taichi to be his. Taichi's enticed by the idea of becoming extreme wealthy and is further He's further convinced when his house mysteriously burns down. As it turns out, there's a SerialKiller out there that attacks people in the 'ghost tower'

* {{Transsexual}}: Tetsuo is a trans man.

In [[TheFifties 1952]] a woman is [[SelfMadeOrphan by her adopted daughter]] by being tied onto a clock tower's hands until [[CruelAndUnusualDeath her back broke]].

* TheFifties: The manga takes place in the early 50s.

* TheFifties: The manga takes place in the early 50s.

* SympatheticMurderer: [[spoiler:Shino]] ends up being this.

* {{Bishonen}} Tetsuo.
* HeterosexualLifePartner: Tetsuo and Taichi for the most part. Tetsuo even says he's his only friend. [[spoiler:Taichi has some amount of sexual attraction to him though]] Tetsuo wanted to be [[LikeBrotherAndSister adopted sibling but he was in love with him.

* HeterosexualLifePartner: Tetsuo and Taichi for the most part. Tetsuo even says he's his only friend. [[spoiler:Taichi has some amount of sexual attraction to him though]]

''Yuureitou'', or ''The Ghost Tower'', is a SeinenGenre [[MysteryFiction mystery]]-{{horror}} manga.