Line #51 Manga/ClearQualia


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3	''Clear Qualia'' (''Kuria Kuoria'' in Japanese) is a manga by Minari Endou, the same mangaka who brought us ''Manga/MariaHolic'' and ''Manga/{{Dazzle}}''. It ran in ''Monthly Asuka'' from 2006 to 2007.
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5	In a distant Island, people suffer from a strange disease called "Pinocchio". This disease causes the patient's limbs to rot, and before long, leads to death. But victims can have the disease cured by using artificial limbs or "exchanging" limbs of people with special antibodies. These people with the antibodies, who only exist one in 10,000, are called "Donors", and their bodies considered national treasures. One day, Dorothy, a Donor, exchanges her precious right eye for a male Plastica, a robot servant, who was about to get thrown away. Their meeting begins a story of a strange woman and her strange Plastica.
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8	!!Examples:
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10	* AccidentalPervert: Dorothy, when inviting her Plastica to share a bed with her.
11	* AllLovingHero: Dorothy sacrifices her eye to save the life of her plastica. She also see the good in everyone and puts herself last.
12	* AppliedPhlebotinum: Several of the characters view Donors this way. This is why Dorothy being kidnapped is such a RunningGag.
13	* ArtificialHuman: Plasticas.
14	** The cat "The Factory Manager" too.
15	* AxCrazy:
16	** Rod behaves violently when Dorothy first brings the Plastica home and Rod learns she gave up her eye.
17	** Eliza after finding out that Dorothy was a Donor.
18	** A dude wielding an axe too.
19	* BlatantLies: Rod introduces himself as a Plasitca.
20	* ChainsawGood: We see Rod wielding one and saying he wants to kill Dorothy's plastica.
21	* CloudCuckoolander: Dorothy. At one point she jumps out of a window and lands on top of Ponkotsu to be cute like Rapunzel.
22	* CrapsackWorld: The setting is a world where 99,999 out of every 100,000 people are afflicted with Pinocchio syndrome and the others are donors. Well, the donor part sounds good, but their existence sounds a little bad, too. Especially since later on that Donors are targets of kidnappings at the same time as Eliza had kidnapped Dorothy.
23	** Also, ParentalAbandonment is commonplace.
24	* DarkMessiah: Eliza tries to do this for her brother.
25	** Actually Rod was revealed to be a Donor also later on, but he is good with BlatantLies.
26	* DeadpanSnarker: Rod complains about everything.
27	* DeusExMachina: A dude Dorothy believes in the goodness of appeared out of nowhere in a car to save her from an AxeCrazy guy that was kidnapping her.
28	* DidntThinkThisThrough: It is implied that Dorothy had the wrong idea about what value an eye has. Her Guardian told her that a Doner's eye is their least valuable boy part. {{Lampshaded}} by a boy who asks her why she gave away her eye of all body parts?
29	* DoubleEntendre: The reason why you should not use the word "slave" in front of children. {{Lampshaded}} by Dorothy switching to the word "Subordinate" later on, which has the same literal meaning, but no DoubleEntendre.
30	* ElegantGothicLolita: Dorothy's mode of dress. She also wear opera length gloves too.
31	* EternalProhibition: Several characters no matter how young drink.
32	** Subverted, as it was in the house of a {{Yakuza}}.
33	* EveryJapaneseSwordIsAKatana: Rod also has an uspecified sword.
34	* EyepatchOfPower: Not in the normal sense. They just remind you of Dorothy being a MessianicArchetype.
35	* EyeScream: The manga starts with this as the first thing you read.
36	* FreudianExcuse: The whole big CrapsackWorld itself.
37	** Also for Eliza, her ill brother.
38	* FriendToAllLivingThings: Dorothy, not explicitly but implied.
39	* HypocriticalHumor: Dorothy's plastica teasing her about not being able to see that well because she has only one eye.
40	* IJustShotMarvinInTheFace: Averted as the safety was on. Becoming a RunningGag.
41	* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: '''Rod''': "What happened in the last chapter?"
42	** Ponkotsu also called Rod a supporting character.
43	* LoveMakesYouCrazy: Eliza.
44	* LoveMakesYouEvil: Eliza.
45	* MeaningfulName: Dorothy tries naming her plastica Koshi-san and Tsubu-san. After bean paste, and her bandages.
46	** [[TheSocialDarwinist Rod]] throws Ponkotsu at him as a slur. Dorothy being a CloudCuckoolander thinks its cute and it sticks.
47	** Also, "The Factory Manager" for the cat revealed to be mechanical.
48	** Dorothy is short for Dorothea, Greek for "Gift to God". Especially meaningful when you consider her personality.
49	* NoNameGiven: Several characters do not have names in the story.
50	* NotSoStoic: Rod, due to CharacterDevelopment.
51	* NotWithTheSafetyOnYouWont
52	* OrphanageOfFear: The Doner Centre, apparently.
53	* ParentalAbandonment: Eliza's orphan due to their extreme pinocchio syndromes.
54	** Also, Dorothy as she has a Guardian rather than parents, probably her Doner status kept her from being an orphan.
55	* PsychoLesbian: Eliza, if you interpret her that way.
56	* RunningGag: Slave being a part of the children's vocabulary thanks to Dorothy.
57	** Also, Rod and Ponkotsu and pointing guns at each other.
58	** Also, Dorothy being kidnapped.
59	* SexyBacklessOutfit: Some of Dorothy's outfits have low backs.
60	* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: Other way around, Dorothy calls her palstica her Slave. He interprets it as a DoubleEntendre.
61	* ShoutOut:
62	** ''Literature/{{Pinocchio}}''
63	** ''Literature/{{Rapunzel}}''
64	** ''Film/RomanHoliday''
65	** ''Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz''. She is Dorothy after all.
66	* SmokingIsCool: The {{Yakuza}}.
67	* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: Both Dorothy's pastica and Eliza are in on slave being a bad word.
68	* TheStoic: Rod, initially.
69	* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: A basic premise of the whole series.
70	* WickedStepmother: Dorothy's stepmother.
71	* {{Yakuza}}: Several characters are. Also, this sort of make Dorothy even more MessianicArchetype than ever.
72	* {{Youkai}}: '''Dorothy:''' "We only just escaped from the monster's ('''Rod's''') den.
73	** He was pictured in the speech bubble as a {{Youkai}}.
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