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3->''"Folklores are alive."''
4-->-- '''Opening line'''
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6''Hanako and the Terror of Allegory'' (''Hanako to Gūwa no Terā'') is a manga by Creator/SakaeEsuno, creator of ''Manga/FutureDiary'' and ''Manga/BigOrder''. It ran in ''Monthly Shonen Ace'' from 2004 to 2005, and was licensed in English by Creator/{{Tokyopop}}.
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8When DistressedDamsel Kanae Hiranuma finds her sleep disturbed by a man with an axe under her bed, she [[WhoYouGonnaCall follows a tip]] from an [[TheInternet internet]] chatroom and pays a visit to the [[OccultDetective Allegory Detective]], Daisuke Asou. Asou reveals that she has been possessed by an allegory, an UrbanLegend that turns its content into reality and haunts the people who believe in it. With the help of Hanako of the Toilet, a benign allegory possessing him who assists him in hunting allegories, Asou [[BigDamnHeroes rescues]] Kanae. In thanks, Kanae becomes Asou's assistant, and the three of them tackle the myriad allegory cases that come their way, while a deeper mystery of Asou's true nature slowly unfolds.
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13* AsianFoxSpirit: Kokkuri
14* BalloonBelly: Happens to the entire cast at the end of the [[spoiler:Woman in the Gap]] chapter.
15* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: Horribly {{subverted}}, the [[spoiler:leader of the suicide club]] tries to kill herself quickly and "beautifully" rather than be captured by the police, but instead dies slowly, painfully, and grotesquely, screaming "this isn't the way I wanted to die!"
16* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: In-universe, this is how Mifuyu intended for her story, Hanako and the Teller of Allegory, to end. Asou and Kanae ultimately getting into the relationship with each other, but Hanako, sensing that Asou no longer needs her, disappears. The final battle is basically Asou and Kanae trying to stop her from ending her story.]]
17* CuteLittleFangs: Hanako
18* DealWithTheDevil: The Demon in the Mirror will grant one wish in exchange for the wisher's soul.
19* DetectEvil: Asou gets the hiccups whenever he's near a person possessed by an allegory.
20* DistressedDamsel: Kanae, multiple times.
21* DreadfulMusician: Kanae can't sing.
22* {{Ecchi}}
23* EnemyRisingBehind: "This is [[CreepyDoll Mary]]. ''I'm right behind you.''"
24* EvilPhone: While [[CreepyDoll Mary]] is stalking you, she calls you every five minutes to give you a status update. Which culminates in the EnemyRisingBehind mentioned above.
25* {{Expy}}: In appearance only. Asou looks exactly like an older version of [[Manga/FutureDiary Yukiteru]], and Kanae looks a lot like Yuno with different hair.
26* EyeScream: The urban legend of ''The Piercing Hole and the White Thread'' and the chapter that revolves around it.
27** To elaborate: In the urban legend, a girl asks a friend of hers to pierce her ears. When the friend does so, a white thread, which turns out to be the girl's optic nerve, comes out of the piercing hole. The friend then unwittingly pulls the thread, causing the girls eyes to be ''pulled backwards out of their sockets.''
28** EarAche: An spin-off of the urban legend has the girl whose ears were pierced ask you if you are wearing earrings. If you answer "yes", she'll bite off your earlobes.
29* FanDisservice: Nozomi, [[spoiler:Kanae's [[FetusTerrible unborn twin sister]]]], spends all her screen time naked. It's [[FridgeHorror very creepy in hindsight]].
30** Additionally, the female fishmen have anatomically correct breasts.
31* FullFrontalAssault: The Woman in the Gap
32* GainaxEnding: [[spoiler:Sure, they all live happily ever after.. but [[MindScrew how]]?]]
33* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: Happens a lot in the Teke-Teke chapter.
34* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Kanae fatally stabs herself in order to stop Nozomi from killing Asou. The only reason Kanae survives is the RetGone [[NegateYourOwnSacrifice that occurs when an Allegory is defeated undoes the wound]].]]
35* JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind
36* LightmareFuel: The [[MirrorMonster Demon in the Mirror]] chapter quickly turns into a comic relief episode.
37* LostInTranslation: There is a possibility the title suffers from this (The correct translation may or may not be Hanako and the ''Teller'' of Allegory). Creator/{{Tokyopop}} is going to have [[SarcasmMode fun]] with the last couple of chapters.
38** Might be a weird case of bilingual pun with the Japanese pronunciation of both being the same. [[spoiler:As the teller brings terror.]]
39* MadeOfPlasticine: Kanae's maids. One of them is [[CleanCut cleanly]] scalped by a [[CreepyDoll doll]] with a [[AbsurdlySharpBlade knife]].
40* MirrorMonster: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The Demon in the Mirror]].
41* MonsterOfTheWeek: The Allegories
42* MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: The Slit-Mouthed Woman, but only because her mouth is much, ''much'' larger than her face.
43* {{Mundanger}}: In the [[spoiler:Teke-Teke]] chapter, a [[spoiler:suicide club]] rather than an allegory is behind the mystery.
44** Happens again in the [[spoiler:Akagami Aogami]] chapter, where the culprit turns out to be [[spoiler: a deliveryman using said urban legend as a motif for his murders.]]
45* NightmareFace: Lots of 'em, but the most notable is the Slit-Mouthed Woman.
46* OccultDetective
47* PornStash: {{Inverted}}: Asou keeps his ''vast'' collection of eromanga lying around his office, so Kanae takes it upon herself to stash it where potential clients won't be [[{{Squick}} squicked]] out by it.
48* PowerAtAPrice: Asou can detect people possessed by allegories with hiccups, but if he hiccups one hundred times consecutively, he will die.
49* PuffOfLogic: Because allegories only exist in the [[YourMindMakesItReal minds of people]], scanning them with a computer will destroy them.
50* RetGone: Because allegories only exist in the minds of people, all damage caused by the allegory will be reversed when it is eliminated. [[AllDeathsFinal Except deaths]].
51* SlasherSmile: The Slit-Mouthed Woman.
52* SuicidePact: The suicide club in the [[spoiler:Teke-Teke]] chapter
53* SuperpoweredEvilSide: [[spoiler:Asou]]'s allegorified self.
54* TechnoWizard: Hanako. Her laptop is apparently waterproof.
55* TooSpicyForYogSothoth: [[spoiler:The Demon in the Mirror is eventually driven to the brink when Kanae keeps (drunkenly) stretching the definition of "pop idol" to more and more extravagant heights, until he's ''begging'' Asou to end his torment.]]
56* TomatoInTheMirror: [[spoiler: Mifuyu reveals that Asou was never "becoming" an Allegory, but that he was always one to begin with. This is later turned on her, ironically, by Asou.]]
57* WriteWhatYouKnow: [[spoiler: Mifuyu based Asou's appearance, the main character in Hanako and the Teller of Allegory, off her late husband, and she admits that contrary to his backstory that he was the survivor and she was the victim, the reverse is true, just instead of a decapitation, it was a car accident.]]
58* UrbanLegends
59* YourMindMakesItReal: Allegories can only be created by people strongly believing in urban legends.
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