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12	[[quoteright:185:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/A1370-18_4935.jpg]]
13	[[caption-width-right:185:A {{Miko}} and her bodyguard. Sorta.]]
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15	''Towa Kamo Shirenai'' ("Maybe Forever") is a shoujo manga by Creator/MichiyoAkaishi, which was serialized in Shogakukan's ''Cheese!'' magazine from 1997 to 2000 and compiled into eight volumes.
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17	Kosumo Koganehara is a young girl with the bad luck of being both extremely ill and having a ''very'' rare blood type. Because of that, the poor kid has lived her life going from hospital to hospital, and lately she's had to go to the USA for treatment. While writing a letter, Kosumo has an horrifying seizure and must be operated, but no one can find a donor.
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19	Few blocks away from the clinic, a Japanese girl named Himiko tries to save a child from being hit by a truck and ends up being run over. She's rushed to the same clinic, but her injuries are so serious that she just won't make it. The doctors try to save her but fail, and then they realize that they can save Kosumo by donating Himiko's blood and heart to her. They ask her guardian and companion, Hitsuji, if he would allow them to do so, and he accepts.
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21	While Himiko dies, Kosumo is saved, and everything seems to be all right. Not only that, but soon Kosumo now more or less healthy and can come back home. However, she starts noticing that things aren't the same anymore... Demons! There are many devils targeting her and others! Why?
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23	The explanation is simple. Himiko wasn't a normal young woman, but a {{Miko}} and MagicalGirlWarrior coming from a powerful clan. When her organs and blood were given to Kosumo, then, she inherited her powers and mission. And now Kosumo has to come to terms with it, with Hitsuji's own opinions about he deal, and the terrible dangers coming from being the heiress of the 99-th Miko, destined to save Japan from destruction by demons.
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26	!!This manga provides examples of the following:
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28	%% * AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: [[spoiler: "Hitsuji, I will love you... for all eternity!"]]
29	%% * BodyguardCrush:
30	%% ** Hitsuji, on Himiko. [[spoiler: And Mizuki mixes this with UnluckyChildhoodFriend.]]
31	%% ** [[spoiler: Himiko's predecesor has this kind of relationship with a guy named Hishou, who already had a PrecociousCrush on her. It ended in tears.]]
32	%% * BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler: Hitsuji, via Susano-oh... his SuperpoweredEvilside of sorts.]]
33	%% * BrokenBird: [[spoiler: The 98th Himiko.]]
34	%% * ButterflyOfDeathAndRebirth: Butterflies! Everywhere! So pretty! [[OhCrap Wha...?]] Aieeeeeee!
35	%% * CameBackWrong: [[spoiler: Mizuki's sister, Azumi.]]
36	%% * DarkMagicalGirl: [[spoiler: Azumi, also a {{Necromancer}}.]]
37	* DealWithTheDevil: [[spoiler: Hishou sorta made one with the ice demon Hyousetsushin to save his father and his town. Hyousetsushin agreed to protect him, but at the cost of isolating him eternally from everyone else.]]
38	%% * DeconstructedTrope: PuritySue, through the swan song of one [[spoiler: 98th Himiko.]]
39	* DrivenToSuicide: Hitsuji intended to kill himself so he and Himiko could be TogetherInDeath. He doesn't go through, once the Ikutama starts glowing...
40	* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler: Kosumo and Hitsuji manage to vanish Tokoyo-no-kami, save the world and stay together. However, Mizuki's sister Azumi died again after a tearful confrontation with her brother, and .]]
41	* HeartTrauma: The source of Kosumo's troubles.
42	-->''I have the feeling that my poor heart is a defective product, which menaces to stop...''
43	%% * HeKnowsTooMuch: Himiko's clanswomen try to kill Kosumo because of this.
44	* HeroicSacrifice: By double: Himiko was fatally injured to save a little girl, and then her blood and organs were what saved Kosumo. Lampshaded by an American doctor, who refers to Himiko as "an heroine" while speaking to Hitsuji.
45	* IJustWantToBeNormal: Kosumo really wants to live and pull through. Pity she's sick.
46	%% * IKnowYouareInThereSomewhereFight:
47	%% ** [[spoiler: Kosumo and Mizuki, to Hitsuji. Doesn't really work. Kosumo tries again later via a TrueLovesKiss and succeeds.]]
48	%% ** Later, [[spoiler: Mizuki tries it towards Azumi, alongside a CooldownHug. It doesn't work either, but ultimately she's exorcised by Kosumo.]]
49	%% ** Kosumo was this, to the extreme. The action starts when she gets better.
50	* ImprovisedWeaponUser: Kosumo tries to protect herself and Hitsuji with a toy laser sword. It then glows and lets her channelize Himiko's powers within her.
51	%% * InvisibletoNormals: The Inugami
52	%% * LaserGuidedAmnesia: [[spoiler: Hitsuji, when BrainwashedAndCrazy via Susano-oh.]]
53	%% * LightIsGood: [[spoiler: The light released by the MagicMirror of Amaterasu, when Kosumo uses it against the BigBad Tokoyo-no-Kami.]]
54	* MacGuffin: Himiko's pendant, which contains a mystical item known as the ''ikutama''.
55	* MagicMirror: One of Kosumo's most powerful artifacts is one of these, known as the Mirror of Amaterasu. [[spoiler: She uses it to grant Azumi a MercyKill, and then to vanish Tokoyo-no-Kami.]]
56	%% * MagicalGirlWarrior: Himiko, and eventually Kosumo.
57	* MeaningfulName:
58	** Himiko's name comes from [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himiko the legendary queen of Yamataikoku.]]
59	** Himiko is associated often to Amaterasu, goddess of the sun. Likewise, Hitsuji's name means "sucessor of the Sun", alluding to him being in service of Himiko.
60	* MeaningfulRename: Every woman who becomes a Himiko priestess takes up the title as her first name, and is referred as such. [[spoiler: Hishou was actually named Koshou, but the 98th Himiko re-named him when she took him in.]]
61	%% * {{Miko}}: Himiko, the 98 women who preceeded her, and their entourage.
62	* ParentalFavoritism: Kosumo feels bad for, in her own words, "monopolizing" her parents's attention. She was putting said feelings in her letter to Mirai when she had ''the'' almost fatal seizure.
63	%% * PluckyGirl: Kosumo
64	%% * ReplacementGoldfish: An issue regarding Kosumo and Hitsuji.
65	%% * SayMyName: "HIMIKOOOOOOOOO!"
66	* ShockAndAwe: Himiko's thunder and lightning powers.
67	* SnowMeansDeath:
68	** Plays heavily in the backstory of a man named Hishou. [[spoiler: An angry snow/ice spirit (an Omiwatari spirit named Hitsoushin) caused a massive snowstorm that lasted days. Hishou, who had the ability to calm spirits down, went in the snow to try talking to them when his father, a local priest, almost froze to death. He manages to do it and the spirit pledges himself to him... and then becomes pretty much {{Yandere}} for the dude]]
69	** [[spoiler: Hishou and the 98th Himiko [[SnowMeansLove finally found each other again]] in a snowy day. (It's hinted that, by that time, Hitsoushin had given up on isolating Hisou from others). Two days later, she died of illness.]]
70	%% * StarCrossedLovers: [[spoiler: The 98th Himiko and her guardian Hishou.]]
71	%% * {{Shoujo}}
72	%% * TallDarkandHandsome: Hitsuji
73	* TrueLovesKiss: [[spoiler: Kosumo uses this in the end, to try debrainwashing Hitsuji. It causes his two personalities to start struggling... and when Azumi attacks Kosumo afterwards, he breaks free and protects Kosumo.]] Sort of a JustifiedTrope in this case: [[spoiler: Kosumo deduces that she can use her {{Miko}} powers to directly debrainwash Hitsuji, but to do so [[IntimateHealing she needs to have close skin contact with him.]] What would be better than a kiss on the mouth, huh?]]
74	* {{Tsundere}}: Kosumo starts as this. In her first meeting with Hitsuji, she scolds him for killing a butterfly in front of her. Then she protects him without hesitation from Himiko's other subordinates... and they start bickering right there.
75	%% * UnluckyChildhoodFriend: Poor, poor Mizuki.
76	* WhatTheHellHero: Three in the same scene! Kosumo calls ut Hisuji first, then he gets called out by Himiko's clanswomen led by Hiyoshi, and ''then'' Kosumo calls the ladies out for their treatment of Hitsuji.
77	%% * YamatoNadeshiko:
78	%% ** Himiko, before her death. Fitting, as she is the leaderess of a clan that is very traditional in addition to its mission.
79	%% ** All the Himiko priestesses are this, in different ways. The 97th Himiko was the OlderAndWiser version, the 98th Himiko kinda deconstructed it due to the psychological toll it took on her, and the 99th Himiko was the plucky and headstrong one.
80	* {{Yandere}}: [[spoiler: The revived Azumi, to a degree. Her desperate desire to live overrid anything else in her life, so she clings to the BrainwashedAndCrazy Hitsuji like crazy.]]
81	%% ** [[spoiler: Hitsoushin, my gawd.]]
82	%% * YouhaveFailedMe: Hitsuji gets told this by Hiyoshi and Himiko's other relatives. Kosumo stopped them.
83	* YouKillItYouBoughtIt: Well, Kosumo didn't exactly ''kill'' Himiko, but she got her heart and blood. Now she's stuck with Himiko's powers and life duty.

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