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* BlamingTheVictim: Not exactly blaming but Chika's clubmates discourage from sueing their coach Todo for sexual harassment, believing that she'd cause problems not only for herself but also for them, branding them all as sluts and ruining their efforts to become strong tennis players.
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* {{Retirony}}: A non-fatal example. Luka resolves to quit her paper route job so her bullies can't exploit her for money, but intends to finish the rest of the week. [[spoiler:It's during that week that her leg is injured by a car.]]
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%%* StalkerWithACrush: Not meant to be romantic in the ''slightest'' and the protagonist is genuinely terrified of the guy.
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* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: In Volume 4's story ''Tomorrow'' has a slight variation--Luka is only bullied by the AlphaBitch and her GirlPosse, but everyone else in class (save for the protagonist) simply ignores her and watches the bullying from the sidelines, for fear that they'll be targeted next.
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* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: In Volume 4's story ''Tomorrow'' has a slight variation--Luka is only bullied by the AlphaBitch and her GirlPosse, but everyone else in class (save for the protagonist) simply ignores her and watches the bullying from the sidelines, for fear that they'll be targeted next. [[spoiler:It isn't until Luka's leg is injured while on her paper route that the protagonist finally confronts the girl gang violently, leading to the rest of the class joining in.]]
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A manga series by Reiko Momochi, each volume is either a stand-alone story itself, or contains several different stand-alone stories, each story focusing on a tough issue for the protagonist to either overcome... [[DownerEnding or succumb to.]] Said issues include but are not limited to abuse, prostitution, drugs, HIV and AIDS, bullying, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking falling in love for the first time...with someone of the same gender.]]
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It ran from 2000 to 2002 and was licensed by {{Creator/Tokyopop}}. As of April 2009, it is out of print.
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* AdultFear: So much of this it's painful even more horrific since every topic in this manga can happen in real life.
** ''The Door''. The protagonist's mother tries to push her to enter a better high school, making her think it will allow her dad to stay. Her dad leaves, and the protagonist out of spite enters a worse high school, and starts keeping up a collection of her scabs. When her mother finds the collection and rips it up, the protagonist has a breakdown and is motivated enough to grab a knife and slash her wrists. Cue her mother going MyGodWhatHaveIDone, calling emergency services, and talking guiltily with a counselor about what happened.
** In "Tears," Chika's parents see her tearing up an apology letter in a fit of rage. They sit down with her and demand an explanation; on hearing what happened with Coach Todo making her recite the apology while naked, they immediately pull up a list of sexual harassment lawyers, with [[PapaWolf her dad looking like he's going to tear the tennis coach apart]]. It's shown that if Chika had gone through with a lawsuit, they would have been completely on her side.
** Kyoko's father learns she became addicted to drugs [[spoiler:because it was the only way, in her mind, to get the grades she needed and enter Tokyo University. She has a breakdown when he and his wife force her into withdrawal by confiscating cocaine an refusing to let her go outside, starting to stab herself with a pencil]].
** ''The Door''. The protagonist's mother tries to push her to enter a better high school, making her think it will allow her dad to stay. Her dad leaves, and the protagonist out of spite enters a worse high school, and starts keeping up a collection of her scabs. When her mother finds the collection and rips it up, the protagonist has a breakdown and is motivated enough to grab a knife and slash her wrists. Cue her mother going MyGodWhatHaveIDone, calling emergency services, and talking guiltily with a counselor about what happened.
** In "Tears," Chika's parents see her tearing up an apology letter in a fit of rage. They sit down with her and demand an explanation; on hearing what happened with Coach Todo making her recite the apology while naked, they immediately pull up a list of sexual harassment lawyers, with [[PapaWolf her dad looking like he's going to tear the tennis coach apart]]. It's shown that if Chika had gone through with a lawsuit, they would have been completely on her side.
** Kyoko's father learns she became addicted to drugs [[spoiler:because it was the only way, in her mind, to get the grades she needed and enter Tokyo University. She has a breakdown when he and his wife force her into withdrawal by confiscating cocaine an refusing to let her go outside, starting to stab herself with a pencil]].
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* DrugsAreBad: The story ''Dizziness'' from Volume 3 goes into great detail on the negative consequences of drug use.
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* DrugsAreBad: The story ''Dizziness'' from Volume 3 goes into great detail on the negative consequences of drug use. Kyoko's father learns she became addicted to drugs [[spoiler:because it was the only way, in her mind, to get the grades she needed and enter Tokyo University. She has a breakdown when he and his wife force her into withdrawal by confiscating cocaine an refusing to let her go outside, starting to stab herself with a pencil]].
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* SelfHarm: ''The Door''. The protagonist's mother tries to push her to enter a better high school, making her think it will allow her dad to stay. Her dad leaves, and the protagonist out of spite enters a worse high school, and starts keeping up a collection of her scabs. When her mother finds the collection and rips it up, the protagonist has a breakdown and is motivated enough to grab a knife and slash her wrists. Cue her mother going MyGodWhatHaveIDone, calling emergency services, and talking guiltily with a counselor about what happened.
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* TroubledTeen: In "Tears," Chika's parents see her tearing up an apology letter in a fit of rage. They sit down with her and demand an explanation; on hearing what happened with Coach Todo making her recite the apology while naked, they immediately pull up a list of sexual harassment lawyers, with [[PapaWolf her dad looking like he's going to tear the tennis coach apart]]. It's shown that if Chika had gone through with a lawsuit, they would have been completely on her side.
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* ContemptibleCover: Sorta. The covers have words like "rape," "drugs" and "prostitution" super-imposed over terrified/sad girls...a good idea for what the stories contain, but you wouldn't want to be caught reading it in public.
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* SchoolgirlLesbians: Volume 4 includes the story ''Forbidden Kiss'', in which the protagonist is a girl who falls in love with one of her female classmates.
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* GoingColdTurkey: Kyoko's father tells her friends, after learning they weren't responsible for getting Kyoko addicted, that [[spoiler:the cocaine desire will never go away. Kyoko will spend the rest of her life having cravings and wanting to get that high again. Rehab is a good first step, but Kyoko has to put in the rest of the work]].
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* RealityEnsues: Kyoko's father tells her friends, after learning they weren't responsible for getting Kyoko addicted, that [[spoiler:the cocaine desire will never go away. Kyoko will spend the rest of her life having cravings and wanting to get that high again. Rehab is a good first step, but Kyoko has to put in the rest of the work]].
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* ChoosingDeath: The subject matter of the very first story. "Asparagus" thinks that since everyone will die anyway, being able to choose your own death is the apex of bravery. The protagonist eventually realizes how foolish this is after she nearly falls off a building.
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** In "Tears," Chika's parents see her tearing up an apology letter in a fit of rage. They sit down with her and demand an explanation; on hearing what happened with Coach Todo making her recite the apology while naked, they immediately pull up a list of sexual harassment lawyers, with [[PapaWolf her dad looking like he's going to tear the tennis coach apart]]. It's shown that if Chika had gone through with a lawsuit, they would have been completely on her side.
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** ''Tears'': Chika finally exposes Todo's misdeeds [[spoiler:over a loudspeaker at school, leading to him getting fired. That still leaves her and the other girls with the trauma, however, with several having transferred to escape from the groping and innuendos. They decide to learn from their mistakes in not speaking up]].
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* DescentIntoAddiction: Kyoko reasons that trying cocaine once won't hurt, as long as she doesn't make a habit of it. Then she starts using it to pass exams and lose weight, much to her friends' consternation as she starts singing karaoke with a DirtyOldMan to get drug money. By the end, she's calculating how much money she'll earn for drugs while the guy is trying to molest her in exchange or cash, ignoring the implications. Kyoko remains in denial that she has a problem, even when the drug dealers blackmail her parents.
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* PoliceAreUseless: The protagonist in the stalker episode would have had her problems solved if the cops had just ''arrested'' her ex-boyfriend for posting risque photos of her online and going through her trash.
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* PoliceAreUseless: The protagonist in the stalker episode would have had her problems solved if the cops had just ''arrested'' her ex-boyfriend for posting risque photos of her online and going through her trash. Instead, they keep telling her there's nothing they can do.
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It ran from 2000 to 2002 and was licenced by {{Creator/Tokyopop}}. As of April 2009, it is out of print.
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It ran from 2000 to 2002 and was licenced licensed by {{Creator/Tokyopop}}. As of April 2009, it is out of print.
** ''The Door''. The protagonist's mother tries to push her to enter a better high school, making her think it will allow her dad to stay. Her dad leaves, and the protagonist out of spite enters a worse high school, and starts keeping up a collection of her scabs. When her mother finds the collection and rips it up, the protagonist has a breakdown and is motivated enough to grab a knife and slash her wrists. Cue her mother going MyGodWhatHaveIDone, calling emergency services, and talking guiltily with a counselor about what happened.
** Kyoko's father learns she became addicted to drugs [[spoiler:because it was the only way, in her mind, to get the grades she needed and enter Tokyo University. She has a breakdown when he and his wife force her into withdrawal by confiscating cocaine an refusing to let her go outside, starting to stab herself with a pencil]].
** Kyoko's father learns she became addicted to drugs [[spoiler:because it was the only way, in her mind, to get the grades she needed and enter Tokyo University. She has a breakdown when he and his wife force her into withdrawal by confiscating cocaine an refusing to let her go outside, starting to stab herself with a pencil]].
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* AllJustADream: Tragically so. [[spoiler:In the story about a girl who falls for her also-female best friend, she comes over one night to see her friend being molested by her father. The step-mother comes home then and stabs him to death, and the protagonist takes her friend and runs away. The two find an abandoned mansion, drop out of school, confess their love for each other and then make love, vow to stay together forever...and then in the last two pages we discover it was all an instantaneous daydream by the protagonist, who ''really'' stabbed her friend's father. She stands there, [[LaughingMad laughing crazily]] while her friend calls 911]]. [[OrWasItADream Maybe]]. [[MindScrew It's not that clear]].
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* AllJustADream: Tragically so. [[spoiler:In the story about a girl who falls for her also-female best friend, she comes over one night to see her friend being molested by her father. The step-mother comes home then and stabs him to death, and the protagonist takes her friend and runs away. The two find an abandoned mansion, drop out of school, confess their love for each other and then make love, vow to stay together forever...and then in the last two pages we discover it was all an instantaneous daydream by the protagonist, who ''really'' stabbed her friend's father. She stands there, [[LaughingMad laughing crazily]] while her friend calls 911]].emergency services]]. [[OrWasItADream Maybe]]. [[MindScrew It's not that clear]].
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** The first story has the protagonist attending [[spoiler:Asparagus's funeral, where it's very undignified. The photo is unflattering, the priest pronounces her name wrong, and her bullies show up to pay respects but don't look mournful. When the protagonist calls them out, they go NeverMyFault and says it was "just a few pranks". This motivates the protagonist to get treatment for her suicidal thoughts and move forward in life because in death you get no dignity. It's implied that her relationship with her mother will improve]].
** In the story about drugs, Kyoko's parents [[spoiler:drive her to rehab. They tell her friends that college is no longer a priority; the big thing is that Kyoko is healthy, clean, and happy. The friend who got her addicted tries to pass a bag of cocaine but Kyoko tosses it out the car window, refusing to get sucked back in now that her parents are actually helping her. Just as the ending seems to be happy, her friend runs into the street while high, as a car hits her]].
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* ChoosingDeath: The subject matter of the very first story. "Asparagus" thinks that since everyone will die anyway, being able to choose your own death is the apex of bravery.
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* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler: Kyoko's addict-friend shows up to see her off in the final pages, and is then unceremoniously hit by a car off-screen.]]
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* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler: Kyoko's addict-friend shows up to see her off in the final pages, and is then unceremoniously hit by a car off-screen.]] It's because she was still taking drugs and ran into the street while high]].
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