!!Fridge Brilliance
* Manabe can't seem to keep his mouth shut. He usually blurts out whatever he's thinking, regardless of how silly, rude, or [[AllMenArePerverts perverted]] it is. He even has a DidISayThatOutLoud moment the first time Kotoura scans his brain; everyone else reacts with denial or confusion. This is why Kotoura's power doesn't bother him: he manually broadcasts most of his thoughts anyway, and has no interest in keeping secrets (unlike everyone she knew in childhood).
** This trait was eventually lampshaded by Haruka in episode 12, ''as the reason why [[LoveConfession she loves him]]''
** Another important thing is because being a LivingLieDetector was so soul-crushing to Haruka, Manabe actually gives her rare moments of emotional stability.
* Kotoura's trusting Manabe also makes sense once you meet her grandfather, who you could easily picture as [[LikeParentLikeSpouse Manabe in about fifty years]].
* A minor example that might count in the moment (but is spelled out afterwards) is when Manabe, Daichi, and Yoriko bed down in a priest's house, and the priest turns out to be just as much of a paranormal nut as Yoriko. Now this may seem like an unlikely coincidence, especially for a religious man, until you realize that this man lives near Haruka and was approached by her mom in the first episode in a short scene. It's likely this led to paranormal research. Of course, this is confirmed explicitly minutes later.
* Why did Manabe found himself having to run his libido off episode 8? In the first glance it sounds like he was just shy, but notice that Haruka didn't know she was [[spoiler:BroughtDownToNormal]] and saw Manabe as thinking nothing at all. If he did anything beyond just sexual fantasies--judging from what was in his head, he could just did if he just followed his libido--his image towards Haruka will completely be ''ruined''. God, everybody knows how would that work out...
* The choice of the Ending Theme ''The Flower of Hope'''s producers. Choosing Creator/HarukaChisuga as the singer may be obvious enough, but choosing [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ai_Kawashima Ai Kawashima]] as the composer and lyric writer takes the cake. Why? Judging from Website/TheOtherWiki's information, she can be seen as a DoomMagnet towards her parents, biological or adopted[[note]]Outside of a DisappearedDad, all of them died before she was 16. Biological mother died at 3, adopted father at 10, adopted mother at 16[[/note]]. Familiar enough? There aren't many people who can author "There isn't a lie in my tattered life/ but will truth come to me, if I imagined about it?" with experiences.
* Why does Haruka's {{Telepathy}} [[AvertedTrope avert]] ConvenientlyCoherentThoughts? Was it just [[PlayingWithATrope played with that way]] to hide the truth about [[spoiler: her mother's regret for abandoning her daughter]] until the GrandFinale? The answer is no. It's really [[AvertedTrope a safeguard against]] SensoryOverload, especially since PowerIncontinence is in play. Think of it like this: everybody's ''current thoughts'' already make a lot of "noise" to her. Now, add in everybody's ''memories'' simutaneously playing storyteller against her will. It would have been too much for [[BrokenBird her already fragile psyche]] "[[SubvertedTrope to process coherently]]".
* Some may call Haruka stupid for [[EasilyForgiven forgiving]] Hiyori in episode 3 when she had [[spoiler: manipulated her dojo mates to beat up Manabe for "Stalking" her]]. This was actually a ''smart move'' given [[AbominationAccusationAttack what people say about her]] and [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer her societal position]]. Had Haruka pressed charges, she would have had to use her {{Telepathy}} to make someone else suffer even if it wasn't likely to work since there is no actual proof that Hiyori was involved. She would have [[BecomingTheMask become the monster]] and then have subverted InnocentlyInsensitive. Also, consider this: would you go easy on someone who [[spoiler: stalks on somebody you care about]]? Hiyori hadn't thought that through because [[ClingyJealousGirl she was too jealous]] to see it ([[HumansAreFlawed a basic human folly]]), so of course her plan had GoneHorriblyRight. Haruka ''actually thought through all of this''.
* Episodes 9 through 11 have [[BrokenBase split the fandom apart]] mainly because the FairPlayWhodunnit was [[ItsEasySoItSucks too easy]], so they accuse the show of JumpingTheShark. Here's the thing: that mystery ''was not meant for the viewers to solve''. It's much better to think of it as a test whether or not the ESP Society is really a band of TrueCompanions (hence the fight between Haruka and Yoshihisa). Also, consider this question: ''Why was the criminal somebody that Haruka would have complete empathy for?'' If it had been some random schmuck, then the ending certainly would have felt cheap not just because of the trope's underlying rule, but because her {{Telepathy}} would not have been put to a personally impacting use for her as [[InvokedTrope she had wanted]] [[SinglePowerSuperheroes it to be]]. This arc was cleverly {{Foreshadowing}} [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMoments the epicly]] [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments emotional]] IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight ''that entire time''.

!!Fridge Horror
* Losing the stray cat is bad enough, but Haruka's utterly horrified and crushed expression when the fat bitch tells her the cat's been sent to a shelter can have only one reason: ''the fat bitch killed the cat.''
* In the equivalent of Episode 4 in manga, when the Monk recalled how he started to understand Haruka's pain, he used a different exchange than what is shown in the anime. At that time, Haruka suspected she was sick, and the Monk of course didn't think so. Haruka then mentioned why she felt that--her mom Kumiko wants to send her to a hospital, which caused a lot of friction between the latter and Zenzou. It's not so apparent, but given the context--especially if one have watched the DownerBeginning--it's a ''[[spoiler:mental ward]]'' that was in Kumiko's mind.
* [[spoiler:Detective Tsukino]]'s situation can also be considered this as a parallel to Haruka's own situation. [[spoiler:Had Manabe never interacted with Haruka, she may have been the one doing the murders herself.]]
* If being sick cancels an esper's abilities for an uncertain amount of time, doesn't that mean that Yuriko's Mother fell ill (probably in a different way or a way that doesn't have apparent symptoms)? [[spoiler: She could have gotten any sort of disease that is hard to tell in the beginning and, because no one knew about the effects of colds or diseases on espers, was falsely incriminated for being a fake and was shamed by the media, her publishers, etc. Shamed so much that she committed suicide and traumatized her daughter in the process.]]
* Even though it's PlayedForLaughs, [[spoiler:Zenzou]]'s fantasies about and behavior towards Haruka are still creepy, [[spoiler:given that he's her grandfather and she's 15. Which means that the only person who's willing to defend her and protect her from emotional abuse for most of the first 15 years of her life acts at best incredibly sexually inappropriately to her]].
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