History Manga / Yuureitou

* QueerRomance: The budding romance between Taichi (a cis man) and Tetsuo (a trans man).

* VillainousIncest: Marube is way too touchy-feely with his daughter. Later we find out [[spoiler:he's not her real father]], but that doesn't make it any less creepy.

* ParentalIncest: Marube is sexually abusing his daughter, Satoko.

* BecomingTheMask: After Amano disguises himself as Tetsuo's wife to evade the police, he realizes how comforting crossdressing is and since he is in love with Tetsuo, begins to wonder if he actually wanted to be Tetsuo's crossdressing submissive husband. [[spoiler: Minus the marriage part, and only in the beginning for the crosdressing part, they become lovers at the very end.]]

* BrainTransplant: Marube attempts to switch his brain with [[spoiler:Tetsuo]] so that he can [[spoiler:perserve his love with the owner of the ghost tower]].

* BiTheWay: Tetsuo says he's straight, but has hints of having more feelings towards Amano than just wanting an [[HeterosexualLifePartners "eternal friendship"]]. [[spoiler: Eventually, Tetsuo's feelings for Amano win out.]]

* AttractiveBentGender: Everyone seems to be attracted to Tetsuo, whether they perceive him as a beautiful maiden, as an attractive Bishounen man, or as something in between. Most of the girls are attracted to him as a man, Shiro is attracted to him as a woman, Taichi is initially attracted to him as a woman but later as a man, Marube sees him as someone in between, and Yamashina is secretly attracted to him as a man but tries to point out the androgynous features of Tetsuo's body in order to appear less gay.

* AttractiveBentGender: Everyone seems to be attracted to Tetsuo, whether they perceive him as a beautiful maiden, as an attractive Bishounen man, or as something in between. Most of the girls are attracted to him as a man, Shiro and Taichi are attracted to him as a woman, Marube sees him as someone in between, and Yamashina is secretly attracted to him as a man but tries to point out the androgynous features of Tetsuo's body in order to appear less gay.

* TheNamesake: The title appears to be a TitleDrop for the ghost tower, but is also a StealthPun for Tetsuo.

* MeaningfulName: Tetsuo means "[[MadeofIron Iron]] [[AntiHero Hero]]", Satoko means "Sand Child", and Marube literally means "Round Pill Department". Reiko, [[spoiler: Tetsuo's birth name]], means "Pretty Girl", but can also mean "Ghost Girl" or "Zero Girl" if you change the kanji. On the other hand, [[spoiler: Tetsuo's chosen name post-chapter 75, Akira, uses another kanji that also can sound like "Rei", the first part of "Reiko", which means strong and commanding.]]

* TheNamesake: The series is named after the Ghost Tower and the story revolves around solving its mysteries.

* BiTheWay: Tetsuo is attracted to Satoko, admits that he was attracted to Marube, and has hints of having more feelings towards Amano than just wanting an [[HeterosexualLifePartners "eternal friendship"]]. [[spoiler: Eventually, Tetsuo's feelings for Amano win out.]]

* AccidentalMurder: [[spoiler: Shino murdering the man at the island.]]
* AntiHero: Tetsuo is a [[PragmaticHero Pragmatic type]], also qualifying for ByronicHero due to his charisma and frequent angst. Taichi starts out as a Classical type and slowly gains Pragmatic qualities.

** . [[spoiler:While lost in the tower without Amano or Yamashina in the clocktower treasure hunt arc, Satoko is ambushed by two men and is almost raped. She is saved by Yamashina and Amano.]]

* AttemptedRape: Happens twice. [[spoiler: While lost in the tower without Amano or Yamashina in the clocktower treasure hunt arc, Satoko is ambushed by two men and is almost raped. She is saved by Yamashina and Amano. The second time, MARUBE tries to rape Taichi in order to make him leave Tetsuo]]

* PlotMandatedFriendshipFailure: Taichi and Tetsuo have a fall out after [[spoiler:Tetsuo finds out Taichi let himself get blackmailed by Marube and essentially sold them off to him]]. This leads to Taichi finally growing some backbone and stop relying on others. This also results in Tetsuo [[spoiler:admitting he had been manipulating Taichi from the start and their friendship was fake to begin with]]. However, the fallout of all these events culminates in [[spoiler: the two of them becoming a couple at the end.]]

* SealedWithAKiss: [[spoiler:Taichi and Akira/Tetsuo]] kiss near the end of the final chapter.

* QueerRomance: The budding romance between Taichi (a cisman) and Tetsuo (a transman)

* AttemptedRape: [[spoiler: While lost in the tower without Amano or Yamashina in the clocktower treasure hunt arc, Satoko is ambushed by two men and is almost raped. She is saved by Yamashina and Amano.]]

* BecomingTheMask: After Amano disguises himself as Tetsuo's wife to evade the police, he realizes how comforting crossdressing is and since he is in love with Tetsuo, begins to wonder if he actually wanted to be Tetsuo's crossdressing submissive husband.
* BiTheWay: Tetsuo is attracted to Satoko, admits that he was attracted to Marube, and has hints of having more feelings towards Amano than just wanting an [[HeterosexualLifePartners "eternal friendship"]].

* DefiledForever: The men in this manga seem to have this attitude towards women. Shiro despises the women who became the sexual servants of American men post World-War II, Tetsuo makes a big deal about protecting his chastity to Shiro, and Marube is said to be more sympathetic to women who protect their chastity than women who give it up when he is acting as a prosecutor for a sex-related case. Marube's attitude extends to Satoko [[spoiler: he planned on taking Satoko's virginity once she was of age.]]

* FirstNameBasis: Taichi calls Tetsuo by his first name. Tetsuo at first only calls Taichi by his last name Amano, but he starts calling by name in chapter 44.

** Tetsuo and Taichi for the most part. They are each other's best and {{only friend}}. Taichi has some amount of sexual attraction to him though. [[spoiler:At the end of the series, they both give in to their mutual attraction and enter a homosexual relationship.]]

* PlotMandatedFriendshipFailure: Taichi and Tetsuo have a fall out after [[spoiler:Tetsuo finds out Taichi let himself get blackmailed by Marube and essentially sold them off to him]]. This leads to Taichi finally growing some backbone and stop relying on others. This also results in Tetsuo [[spoiler:admitting he had been manipulating Taichi from the start and their friendship was fake to begin with]].

* MyHeroZero: Tetsuo was intended to be named "Rei" (meaning 0) by Marube, but insisted that his name is [[spoiler:Akira, which used the same kanji as "Rei"]].

!!!This series provides examples of:

* FakingTheDead: [[spoiler:Although in the beginning of the story we are told that Rika drowned in the river, Reiko did not die and took on the guise of Tetsuo [[MeaningfulName Sawamura]].]]

* PoliceAreUseless: Tetsuo managed to evade capture by the police after [[spoiler: killing his mother by using another woman's body in place of Rika'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.

* AntiHero: Tetsuo is a [[Analysis/AntiHero Pragmatic type]], also qualifying for ByronicHero due to his charisma and frequent angst. Taichi starts out as a Classical type and slowly gains Pragmatic qualities.

* ArrangedMarriage: Rika is sold off into an arranged marriage with Shiro by the adoptive mother.

* AssholeVictim: The adoptive mother of Rika 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 Rika 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.]]

* AttractiveBentGender: Everyone seems to be attracted to Tetsuo, whether they perceive him as the beautiful maiden Rika Fujimiya, as an attractive Bishounen man, or as something in between. Most of the girls are attracted to him as a man, Shiro and Taichi are attracted to him as a woman, Marube sees him as someone in between, and Yamashina is secretly attracted to him as a man but tries to point out the androgynous features of Tetsuo's body in order to appear less gay.

* TheButlerDidIt: Amano tries to tie Tetsuo into the Fujimiya family after seeing a picture of Rika's family early on, and suspects that Tetsuo was a butler who killed Tatsu Fujimiya. Subverted, since there was a butler, but he didn't kill Tatsu, and he wasn't Tetsuo.
* CassandraTruth: Tetsuo once tells Taichi that [[spoiler:he was Rika, a woman who murdered her mother in a gruesome way two years ago and supposedly died]]. Taichi doesn't believe him.

* TheChanteuse: Rika 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, Rika 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 'Rika'.]]

* FakingTheDead: [[spoiler:Although in the beginning of the story we are told that Rika drowned in the river, Rika did not die and took on the guise of Tetsuo [[MeaningfulName Sawamura]].]]

* {{Transsexual}}: Tetsuo, [[spoiler:who was Rika Fujimiya prior to transitioning,]] is a trans man.

* TheVamp: Marube's plan in chapters 50 through 60 is to [[spoiler: seduce Tetsuo and break his will. 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.]]

* AbusiveParents: Marube is sexually abusing his daughter, Tetsuo's mother [[spoiler: was willing to abandon him in the ghost tower and let him die for being too masculine]]

* CastFullOfGay: Yamashina is gay, Marube is attracted to both men and women, [[spoiler: Amano is implied to be attracted to Tetsuo as a man at the end of the manga,]] and Tetsuo is attracted to Marube and Amano. Yup, that's pretty much all the main male characters.

* MurderersAreRapists: The murderer of [[spoiler: Hanazono]] is suspected to be this.

* StraightGay: Yamashina often drops hints of what parts of a guy he finds attractive that he often denies. [[spoiler: It's later revealed that he was in love with and attracted to Takashi, a boy who was killed by the guy he tried to hand over to Tesla to save his life during the organ transplant search. He still claims that its because he's attracted to the androgynous bodies of young boys (which makes him a bit of a hebephile), but he is later revealed to be unattracted to Satoko and attracted to Tetsuo as a guy.]]

* VillainousIncest: Marube is way too touchy-feely with his daughter. [[spoiler: Later we find out he's probably not her real father, but that doesn't make it any less creepy.]]

* HeterosexualLifePartner:
** Tetsuo and Taichi for the most part. Tetsuo even says he's his OnlyFriend. Taichi has some amount of sexual attraction to him though. [[spoiler:At the end of the series, they both give in to their mutual attraction and enter a homosexual relationship.]]

** Tetsuo and Taichi for the most part. Tetsuo even says he's his OnlyFriend. Taichi has some amount of sexual attraction to him though.