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''Tasogare Otome x Amnesia'' (aka ''Dusk Maiden of Amnesia'') is a [[GenreBusting comedy/tragedy/horror/supernatural/shounen/mystery/romance/ecchi]] manga by Creator/{{Maybe}} (and yes, that's the creator's [[OnlyOneName name]]).
Kanoe Yuuko has been a ghost in the OldSchoolBuilding for a long time without being able to make contact with the living, until first-year junior high student Niiya Teiichi came along. Now they try to solve the mysterious circumstances under which Yuuko died, hindered by the fact there are at least ''seven'' different ghost stories about the school, some of which are possibly based on distorted accounts of her death.
An [[AnimatedAdaptation anime adaptation]] by Creator/SilverLink aired as part of the Spring2012AnimeSeason.
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!!Examples:
* ACupAngst: Kirie is jealous of Yuuko in this regard.
* AdaptationDistillation: The anime cut out a number of elements, such as Okonogi being a year older and a member of the newspaper club.
* AdaptationDyeJob: Yuuko and Kirie have normal black hair in the manga while the anime gives them relatively dark/muted purplish and green-bluish hair respectively.
* TheAloner: For nearly 50 years, Yuuko has wandered the labyrinthine school where she died. Though she can still interact with physical objects, she's often completely unseen by other people; she can still try talking to them, but they only register her voice as coming from 'someone over there'. People who ''do'' catch glimpses of her are quickly frightened off by [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve the horrifying apparition they expect to see in a 'haunted school',]] further alienating her from the world. It's a miracle she hadn't broken down after all that time... [[spoiler:though later chapters reveal that her ghostly coping mechanism is a bit... [[ShadowArchetype extreme.]]]]
* ArtShift: A few. Chapter 18 has a sudden one, while Chapter 21 has several panels containing little more than rough outlines. Whether these are due to a [[CreatorBreakdown creator breakdown]], [[DeusExMachina deus ex machina]], [[ExecutiveMeddling executive meddling]] or the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Sendai_earthquake_and_tsunami 2011 Sendai Earthquake]] is as of yet unknown.
* [[spoiler: [[BackFromTheDead Back From The Afterlife]]: Yuuko returns due to Teiichi's efforts.]]
* BarbieDollAnatomy: Played straight often, since we see Yuuko (and occasionally one of the other girls) at least partially nude every few chapters.
* BeliefMakesYouStupid: In the flashback arc Yuuko espouses this, scornfully criticizing the village elders and her sister for turning to old-fashioned superstitions out of desperation.
* {{Bishonen}}: Teiichi. Most obvious during the times he (reluctantly) cross dressed.
* BleachedUnderpants: Explains the Fanservice. Also, two minor characters from the early chapters are from one of Maybe's hentai stories.
* BoyMeetsGhoul: Teiichi and Yuuko sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G...
* BreakTheCutie:
** Yuuko's past. [[spoiler:She was killed by other villagers and her own beloved sister by having her leg broken and thrown into a basement to slowly die.]]
** [[spoiler: Yukariko also suffered from this event. She sacrified her sister because she was most important to her and authentically believed that it was the way to cure the plague. Problem was that it didn't. Everyone around her died and her father committed suicide over Yuuko's death. The cherry on top was seeing Yuuko's ghost and having it try to kill her. When it chose to spare her, she took it to mean that Yuuko wanted her to suffer by living. For the rest of her life, she'd continue to be haunted by her sins since she only ever saw Yuuko's shadow, and never the other part of her.]]
* CainAndAbel: [[spoiler:Yuuko's younger sister Yukariko betrayed her and selected her to be the HumanSacrifice to stop a plague that infested their village. Yuuko returned as an evil spirit to get her revenge on Yukariko, but in the end she couldn't bring herself to kill her sister.]]
* CaughtTheHeartOnHisSleeve: When Yuuko decides to walk out of Teiichi's life, this is his response.
* CerebusSyndrome: [[spoiler: Shadow Yuuko]] sucker-punches the manga's comedic slice-of-life nature with a tire-iron, especially [[spoiler: when Yuuko's true past is revealed.]]
* ChekhovsGun: Akahito-san. [[spoiler: Turns out Akahito-san is the name of the emissary of the mountain god Yuuko was sacrificed to appease.]]
* ChickMagnet: Teiichi, who has three different women pining after him.
* ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve: To most people, ghosts are only visible if they already believe there's going to be something there, and then they usually see some ghastly specter in line with their fears rather than the real ghost. [[spoiler: Also applies to those who can see a ghost already, as their perception of the ghost can be changed by making them believe the ghost truly looks different.]]
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Momoe.
* ClingyJealousGirl: Yuuko can get jealous of Momoe's crush on Teiichi.
* CreepyBasement: The underground shrine has all the qualities of this, with a bonus corpse.
* CrossdressingVoices: Creator/JunkoMinagawa as Teiichi in the drama CD.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler: Yuuko died very slowly and painfully in a dark CreepyBasement, sacrificed to the village god by superstitious adults (and her own beloved little sister) who broke her leg so she couldn't escape.]]
* CryCute: Kirie is prone to this when she's scared.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Teiichi and Momoe (in the manga; the anime gave her green eyes).
* CuteGhostGirl: Yuuko is downright adorable.
* DancingTheme: In an interesting subversion Yuuko does a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bon_dance Bon Dance]] in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZ-pG5BUGnQ opening.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: Kirie, and Teiichi has shades of it.
* DeathGlare: When Yuuko was [[spoiler:an onryo, she was constantly glaring]].
* DisguisedInDrag / SweetPollyOliver: Teiichi and Kirie switch clothes in one of the extra chapters.
* DyingDeclarationOfHate: Yuuko dies while swearing revenge on [[spoiler:Yukariko and the others who sacrificed her.]]
* EmotionlessGirl: Yuuko was one prior to meeting Teiichi, [[spoiler:as she had cast aside [[ThePowerOfHate the one emotion that kept her rooted in the world of the living]].]]
* EnemyWithout: [[spoiler:Shadow Yuuko is explicitly everything Yuuko's repressed and denied about herself, especially any hurtful memories, unconsciously separated from her to spare her the mental suffering.]]
* EvolvingCredits: At the end of Episode 7, as the closing song plays, Yuuko [[spoiler: is no longer visible performing the song.]]
* {{Expy}}: Yuuko. Long hime cut? Red eyes? Acts either mysterious or mischievous? Likes making one specific boy really uncomfortable? Yeah, sounds a lot like [[XxxHOLiC a certain Witch of Dimensions.]]
* FanDisservice: [[spoiler: As mentioned below, Corpse-Yuuko. Still in a towel.]]
* FateWorseThanDeath: See BreakTheCutie.
* FreezeFrameBonus: The observant will see the screen flicker twice during the 1st trailer. [[spoiler: Pausing it reveals [[http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20111222173818/tasogare-otome/images/8/8e/Shadow.png this horrifying image of shadow Yuuko]].]]
* FirstKiss: Yuuko and Teiichi have theirs in Chapter 18.
* FunbagAirbag: Teiichi accidentally falls face-first into Yuuko's breasts in the special "Shower Room of Fresh Blood" chapter. He gets a {{nosebleed}} from it.
* GenkiGirl: Momoe, and Yuuko from time to time.
* GenreBusting: Horror + Romance + Mystery + Highschool comedy, to name a few.
* GlamourFailure: In the chapter where Kirie first appears, she tries to convince Teiichi to stop seeing Yuuko as a beautiful ghost girl and recognize her as an evil spirit/monster intent on destroying him. Soon after, [[spoiler: Yuuko loses her regular appearance and appears as a rotting corpse for a while, until Teiichi renews his faith in her and she goes back to being beautiful, voluptuous ... oh, and naked]].
* TheGlassesComeOff: [[spoiler:Kirishima Yuuko originally wore glasses, but stopped wearing them once she decided to get revenge against her bullies and destroy the ghost stories of the school.]]
* GhostAmnesia: The whole plot is built around this. [[spoiler:The shadow Yuuko is literally the spectral incarnation of Yuuko's cast-off memories.]]
* GirlishPigtails: Sahara, Minato and Kirie in her childhood.
* GreenEyedMonster: Yuuko is rather upset with Niiya after he returns from summer vacation only to start hanging out with Momoe and Kirie.
* HimeCut: Yuuko keeps her hair like this. [[spoiler: Fitting, as she was a YamatoNadeshiko when she was alive.]]
* HopelessSuitor: Both [[GenkiGirl Momoe]] and [[{{Tsundere}} Kirie]] have crushes on Niiya, but the OfficialCouple is Niiya and Yuuko.
* HumanSacrifice: As the Seven Mysteries come together, Yuuko is revealed to have died this way. [[spoiler: Later chapters reveal she was murdered by ''her own sister'' to stop a plague the villages blamed on a sadistic mountain god and its emissary, Akahito-san.]]
* ImportantHaircut / ExpositoryHairstyleChange: [[spoiler:Kirishima Yuuko started out with long hair kept up in a bun, but after deciding to get revenge, she lets it down. She cuts it short after Kanoe Yuuko and Teiichi save her from becoming a sacrifice.]]
* ItAmusedMe: Yuuko's reasoning for waking Teiichi up in the middle of the night in Chapter 12.
* JacobMarleyApparel: Played with. Yuuko originally appears in the current school uniform; it's Keiichi who convinces her to change into the antique school uniform she wears for the rest of the series.
* JapaneseSchoolClub: Yuuko founds the Paranormal Investigation Club, consisting of herself (as the [[IncrediblyLamePun ghost president]]) and Teiichi. Momoe appears to be a semi-member, despite already being part of the Newspaper Club, and Kirie seems to reluctantly join the circle.
* {{Joshikousei}}: Two different varieties of them, in fact! The modern uniform the female students wear and Yuuko's old fashioned one both apply.
* KarmaHoudini: The bullies who [[spoiler: attempted to sacrifice Kirishima Yuuko get away nearly scott-free aside from having the living daylights scared out of them by the actual Yuuko-san.]]
** LaserGuidedKarma: the bullies who [[spoiler: successfully sacrificed Kanoe Yuuko died in the plague they were trying to stop.]]
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: [[spoiler:Yuuko can apparently cast off any memories that cause her pain or distress. These coalesce into Shadow Yuuko, who, being forced to take on Yuuko's jealousy for Teichii, decided that this time she was going to take all of Yuuko's memories of Teichii from her as well - ''including'' the happy ones.]]
* LiteralSplitPersonality: It's revealed that Shadow Yuuko is the manifestation of Yuuko's negative emotions.
* MarshmallowHell: Teiichi frequently finds himself having his head buried in Yuuko's chest (which is of course initiated by Yuuko). Initially this was part of Yuuko teasing Teiichi, but as they grow closer it's becoming more romantic (and somewhat heartwarming) in nature.
* MeaningfulName:
** The "Yuu" in "Yuuko" means "Dusk/Evening".
** Also [[{{Moe}} Momoe]]. [[IncrediblyLamePun Yeah...]]
* {{Megane}}: Teiichi.
* {{Meganekko}}: Sahara and Kirishima Yuuko in the past.
* MoodWhiplash: All over the place, as the story switches between fanservice and jokes to human sacrifice and evil spirits astoundingly fast.
* TheMourningAfter: [[spoiler: Teiichi adamantly refuses to get over Yuuko after she passes on, going so far as to try to bring her back by spreading the truth about her death and afterlife in the form of a new set of rumors, reasoning that because ''he'' was her final regret she wasn't able to fully pass on. Kirie thinks he's gone insane, but it turns out he's correct.]]
* MsFanservice: Yuuko, my god. And it's surprising, seeing as there are few to no panty-flashes, the fanservice often being done with Yuuko fully dressed.
* MummiesAtTheDinnerTable: [[spoiler:Soon after Yuuko's death, Yukariko reopens the shrine and goes down to see her sister's body. She ends up crying and resting with her head in the dead Yuuko's lap. She's promptly attacked by her sister's ghost.]]
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: When the magnitude and futility of Yuuko's death hits her, her little sister Yukariko has a breakdown. [[spoiler:This was because Yukariko had been one who selected Yuuko as the sacrifice. Driven by guilt, she reopens the sealed shrine hoping Yuuko would still be alive, only to fall down the stairs and land face-first on her sister's corpse. The sight drives her to despair to the point where when Yuuko's vengeful ghost tries to kill her, Yukariko begs her to do it.]]
* MyGreatestFailure: [[spoiler:Yukariko considers her part in killing her sister a SenselessSacrifice.]]
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Yukariko [[spoiler: sacrificed her sister in hopes of stopping the plague. [[SenselessSacrifice It didn't work]].]]
* NonhumanLoverReveal: Teiichi doesn't realize Yuuko is a ghost when he first meets her, though he doesn't fall in love with her until later.
* {{Nosebleed}}: Teiichi has one [[spoiler:during an intimate moment in the school showers, creating a new school mystery.]]
* NotWhatItLooksLike: Momoe walks in on a situation where Yuuko has fallen on top of Teiichi (she'd put on his glasses for a joke, and they really screwed up her vision and balance) and ''then'' started getting flirtatious. Teiichi promptly yelps that "It's not what it looks like!" ...forgetting that the new girl can't see Yuuko, so it ''didn't'' look like anything naughty to her.
* OfficialCouple: Teiichi and Yuuko.
* OneSteveLimit: Averted and justified. Another character named ''Kirishima'' Yuuko eventually appears and the fact that Yuuko is a very common name in Japan is immediately brought up. Sadly, having the same name as the school's infamous Yuuko-san quickly gets some bullies the fodder they need to convince everyone that she has a connection to the ghost of the school and should be ignored at all costs. [[spoiler: This convinces her to take revenge on her tormentors and the ghost stories themselves by tormenting the former and destroying the latter.]] It backfires [[spoiler: when Kirishima's new ghost story ''Akahito-san'' convinces some girls that she should be sacrificed due to her supposed connection to Yuuko-san.]]
* OlderThanTheyLook: Yuuko is old enough to be your grandma, but due to being a ghost, she doesn't visually age, so she still looks and acts like a school girl. However, see also YoungerThanTheyLook below.
* OldSchoolBuilding: The school has been modified a lot over its history, leaving parts that are abandoned and badly neglected. The main characters' clubroom is so decrepit, they are probably breaking every health and safety rule in the book in using it.
* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: Teiichi, other than the fact that he can see ghosts when most others can't.
* OurGhostsAreDifferent:
** Apparently other than being invisible or having their appearance affected by those who do see them, ghosts aren't much different from humans in abilities.
** Shadow Yuuko seems to have a few tricks, however.
** Ghosts aren't just visible to those who have the sight, they're tactile as well
* OvertookTheManga: The first nine episodes are very loyal to the manga, but the anime goes in a somewhat different direction from episode 10 onward. It's a mild example, as it still sticks to the story and characters of the original manga.
* PantyShot: Happens often with Momoe and Kirie, but rarely, if ever, with Yuuko (given the length of her skirt).
* PleaseKillMeIfItSatisfiesYou: Yukariko practically begs [[spoiler:her sister's ghost to kill her during their first encounter.]]
* ThePowerOfHate: How Yuuko [[spoiler: [[StringyHairedGhostGirl came back the first time]].]]
* ThePowerOfLove: How she [[spoiler: [[CuteGhostGirl comes back the second time]].]]
* PurpleEyes: Yukariko has these, and her name even has the Japanese character for "purple" in it. [[spoiler:They're a hint to her plot significance as the only remaining survivor of the ritual Yuuko died in and the person responsible for her death.]]
* PrayerOfMalice: As she's dying, [[spoiler:Yuuko offers one to the god she was sacrificed to, offering her life in exchange for the ability to wreak vengeance from beyond the grave]].
* PsychoticSmirk:
** [[spoiler: Shadow Yuuko]] has this down to an artform.
** At the end of chapter 38, [[spoiler:Yukariko]] wears this alongside HiddenEyes [[spoiler:when she decides to sacrifice her sister]].
** [[spoiler:Yuuko died with this expression, having sworn to give herself up to hatred and kill everyone involved in her death.]]
* RaisedByGrandparents: Kirie was raised by her Grandma Yukariko, Yuuko's little sister.
* RapunzelHair: Yuuko-san, Kirishima Yuuko, [[spoiler: Shadow Yuuko, and Yukariko in her youth]] all have very long hair.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Averted with Yuuko and Kirie, [[spoiler: but played straight with Shadow Yuuko.]]
* SchoolgirlLesbians: ''The Six Year Sakura'' legend revolves around this.
* SenselessSacrifice: Yuuko was sacrificed to appease a malicious god the villagers believed was causing a devastating plague. Not only did it not work, it actually backfired horrifically.
* TheSevenMysteries: This school's seven mysteries are (albeit warped) stories based on parts of Yuuko's death.
** The Haunted Mirror
** Underground Demon
** Spirited Away
** The Rock of Curses
** Akahito
** The Inter-dimensional 13 Steps
** Averted with the seventh mystery however, when it's later revealed by [[spoiler: Yuuko's still living sister]] that there are actually only six mysteries, the rumour of seven of them just spread because [[RuleOfSeven seven sounds better]]. Played straight again at the story's end though when Teiichi creates a new one, [[spoiler: Yuuko's Lover.]]
* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: Yuuko is an odd example. Yuuko sees no reason for modesty in her ghost form, stripping out of one school uniform to put on another right in front of Teiichi, and not bothered at all when, despite having turned away, he gets a ''good'' look in a mirror. When Teiichi finds her actual corpse, fifty-some years dead, however, it's another story entirely -- she's utterly embarrassed, saying that her bones are as naked as a person can possibly get, begs him to cover the body, and calls him a pervert for not doing so immediately. [[spoiler: The reason she has no modesty over her ghostly body is that all of her negative emotions have been dumped onto shadow-Yuuko]].
* ShipTease: [[spoiler: Before they finally spit it out]] Yuuko and Teiichi have this a lot. There are also hints of Kirie/Momoe.
* ShootTheShaggyDogStory: Yukariko's flashback and [[spoiler: Shadow]] Yuuko's memories reveal that [[spoiler: Yuuko was sacrificed by her fellow villagers to a malicious god with her own sister acting as the god's priest, Akahito-san, in order to stop a plague ravaging the village. The sacrifice didn't work, and worse, Yuuko returned as a StringyHairedGhostGirl determined to kill those responsible for her murder.]]
* SlasherSmile:
** [[spoiler:Shadow Yuuko, combined with MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily. A large part of ''why'' she's terrifying.]]
** In the memories of Yuuko's past, [[spoiler: Yukariko sports one when she starts ranting at her sister about having to perform the ritual to appease the mountain god, and a PsychoticSmirk when she decides to sacrifice her sister]].
* StepfordSmiler: To the others, Yuuko is extraordinarily upbeat and nonchalant about her own death. [[spoiler:She has a good reason for this - all her negative emotions have been piled onto Shadow Yuuko, leaving her with only the positives.]]
* StringyHairedGhostGirl: When she first hears of her, Kirie suspects this of Yuuko, though [[CuteGhostGirl she's actually far from it.]] [[spoiler: Chapter 40 reveals Yuuko really ''was'' a textbook example of an onryo all along, having been consumed by rage and hatred towards her village - and especially her sister - when she died. However, she couldn't bring herself to kill Yukariko, leaving her grudge unfulfilled, and eventually cast aside her negative emotions and memories, which manifested as Shadow Yuuko.]]
* TeensAreMonsters: Subverted: Yukariko does something truly monstrous but only because she's being manipulated by superstitious and hysterical adults. Unfortunately by the time she finally comes to her senses it's far too late.
* TheTease: Yuuko enjoys teasing Teiichi.
* ThanksForTheMammary:
** In the first chapter, Teiichi doesn't quite believe Yuuko is a ghost, so he reaches out to grasp her shoulder, reasoning that a ghost will be insubstantial. That's just when she turns to face him, though, so he gets a handful of '''quite''' substantial breast. Yuuko is totally unfazed by this (see InnocentFanserviceGirl). She even jokes about it. ''"I suppose these tend to be quite the temptation."''
** It wouldn't be the last time, either. While convincing Momoe that he's banishing an evil spirit, Teiichi gets another handful of Yuuko's considerable endowments. And he gets a full on [[MarshmallowHell faceful]] in a manga story when Yuuko insists on using the shower with him.
** [[spoiler: The first manages to be somewhat plot-relevant, as Teiichi brings back Yuuko's memories of him by getting another handful.]]
** Kirie, who is quite jealous of Yuuko's figure, gets a handful while unthinkingly stiff-arming Yuuko and is shocked to discover she has a tactile as well as visual presence, which makes her even more jealous of Yuuko's figure.
* ThisIsUnforgivable: In the flashback arc, Yuuko initially couldn't comprehend why she - who had been [[NiceGuy nice to everyone]] - was chosen for a superstitious sacrifice. On the brink of death, she utters this [[MadnessMantra over and over]] when she realizes [[spoiler:her sister was the one who had chosen her, and the hatred born of this betrayal is what turned her into an onryo]].
* ThroughHisStomach: In one of the early chapters, Yuuko is shown feeding Teiichi from a bento. On the next page, she pulls him down onto her LapPillow. He's a bit weirded out by this because Yuuko, although very good-looking and ''[[BuxomIsBetter built]]'', has been dead for something like fifty years.
* TrueSight: Though everyone can see ''something'' of Yuuko if they expect something to be there (often of the horrific sort, which changes how she looks to them), only Teiichi and Kirie can see Yuuko [[spoiler: and the second, cast-off version of Yuuko]] as they really are. [[spoiler: Strangely, Yuuko's sister can see Shadow Yuuko as well, but not the normal Yuuko, hinting at her guilty past.]]
* {{Tsundere}}: Kirie.
* TwelveEpisodeAnime
* UncannyFamilyResemblance: Kirie is Yuuko's grandniece. A resemblance, particularly of the eyes, was hinted at as soon as Kirie showed up, but in Chapter 20, she gets put into a long-haired HimeCut wig ... and the resemblance just ''jumps'' right out -- except for her [[ACupAngst figure]] (and the CatGirl ears). It's even noted by Kirie's grandmother, Yukariko, who is Yuuko's younger sister.
* UndignifiedDeath: Yuuko's left leg was broken to the point where the bone was sticking through and then she was tossed down a staircase and left to starve.
* UnresolvedSexualTension: There's so much between Teiichi and Yuuko it's not even funny. [[spoiler: They finally confessed their feelings in chapter 18.]]
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Yukariko honestly believed it was her family duty to sacrifice what she truly loved the most.
** Kirie wants to solve the seven mysteries not to help Yuuko but to get rid of her because she perceives her as a threat.
* WeirdnessCensor: Yuuko claims she's fully visible in a crowd because everyone else just assumes she's supposed to be there and has about 50 years worth of MeasuringDay sheets on file to prove it.
* WhamEpisode:
** Episode 7 of the anime brings together a number of plot points that the anime had been skipping over (curse rock, [[spoiler:shadow-Yuuko's identity]], Yuuko's breakdown etc) in one wham-packed episode.
** Chapter 37 reveals that Yuuko was killed by [[spoiler: her own sister]].
* {{Yandere}}: One of the SchoolgirlLesbians featured in chapter 10. Yuuko shows signs whenever Momoe gets too friendly with Teiichi, especially in Chapter 17, although this is partially due to [[spoiler:Shadow Yuuko's influence]].
* YoungerThanTheyLook: Most characters due to the art style.
** Teiichi is twelve years old.
** Momoe is actually older than him, but still barely looks her age at thirteen.
** Yuuko look older than the fifteen years old she was when she died. [[spoiler: Perhaps justified as splitting all of her negativity into Dark Yuuko leaves Yuuko an idealized version of herself.]] As a decades-old ghost who doesn't age, she later [[OlderThanTheyLook inverts]] the trope.
* YourMindMakesItReal: Yuuko's aspect depends to a great extent on what one expects to see. Fear makes her more frightening and vice-versa. if you expect Shadow Yuuko that's the version you'll get, and Niiya's perception of Yuuko becomes in response to Kirie's doubts.
* ZettaiRyouiki: Yuuko on occasions in the Anime. In the Manga she mostly wears ProperTightsWithASkirt and teases Kirie for running around barelegged.
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[[caption-width-right:250: Hauntings: More awkward than you'd think.]]
''Tasogare Otome x Amnesia'' (aka ''Dusk Maiden of Amnesia'') is a [[GenreBusting comedy/tragedy/horror/supernatural/shounen/mystery/romance/ecchi]] manga by Creator/{{Maybe}} (and yes, that's the creator's [[OnlyOneName name]]).
Kanoe Yuuko has been a ghost in the OldSchoolBuilding for a long time without being able to make contact with the living, until first-year junior high student Niiya Teiichi came along. Now they try to solve the mysterious circumstances under which Yuuko died, hindered by the fact there are at least ''seven'' different ghost stories about the school, some of which are possibly based on distorted accounts of her death.
An [[AnimatedAdaptation anime adaptation]] by Creator/SilverLink aired as part of the Spring2012AnimeSeason.
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!!Examples:
* ACupAngst: Kirie is jealous of Yuuko in this regard.
* AdaptationDistillation: The anime cut out a number of elements, such as Okonogi being a year older and a member of the newspaper club.
* AdaptationDyeJob: Yuuko and Kirie have normal black hair in the manga while the anime gives them relatively dark/muted purplish and green-bluish hair respectively.
* TheAloner: For nearly 50 years, Yuuko has wandered the labyrinthine school where she died. Though she can still interact with physical objects, she's often completely unseen by other people; she can still try talking to them, but they only register her voice as coming from 'someone over there'. People who ''do'' catch glimpses of her are quickly frightened off by [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve the horrifying apparition they expect to see in a 'haunted school',]] further alienating her from the world. It's a miracle she hadn't broken down after all that time... [[spoiler:though later chapters reveal that her ghostly coping mechanism is a bit... [[ShadowArchetype extreme.]]]]
* ArtShift: A few. Chapter 18 has a sudden one, while Chapter 21 has several panels containing little more than rough outlines. Whether these are due to a [[CreatorBreakdown creator breakdown]], [[DeusExMachina deus ex machina]], [[ExecutiveMeddling executive meddling]] or the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Sendai_earthquake_and_tsunami 2011 Sendai Earthquake]] is as of yet unknown.
* [[spoiler: [[BackFromTheDead Back From The Afterlife]]: Yuuko returns due to Teiichi's efforts.]]
* BarbieDollAnatomy: Played straight often, since we see Yuuko (and occasionally one of the other girls) at least partially nude every few chapters.
* BeliefMakesYouStupid: In the flashback arc Yuuko espouses this, scornfully criticizing the village elders and her sister for turning to old-fashioned superstitions out of desperation.
* {{Bishonen}}: Teiichi. Most obvious during the times he (reluctantly) cross dressed.
* BleachedUnderpants: Explains the Fanservice. Also, two minor characters from the early chapters are from one of Maybe's hentai stories.
* BoyMeetsGhoul: Teiichi and Yuuko sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G...
* BreakTheCutie:
** Yuuko's past. [[spoiler:She was killed by other villagers and her own beloved sister by having her leg broken and thrown into a basement to slowly die.]]
** [[spoiler: Yukariko also suffered from this event. She sacrified her sister because she was most important to her and authentically believed that it was the way to cure the plague. Problem was that it didn't. Everyone around her died and her father committed suicide over Yuuko's death. The cherry on top was seeing Yuuko's ghost and having it try to kill her. When it chose to spare her, she took it to mean that Yuuko wanted her to suffer by living. For the rest of her life, she'd continue to be haunted by her sins since she only ever saw Yuuko's shadow, and never the other part of her.]]
* CainAndAbel: [[spoiler:Yuuko's younger sister Yukariko betrayed her and selected her to be the HumanSacrifice to stop a plague that infested their village. Yuuko returned as an evil spirit to get her revenge on Yukariko, but in the end she couldn't bring herself to kill her sister.]]
* CaughtTheHeartOnHisSleeve: When Yuuko decides to walk out of Teiichi's life, this is his response.
* CerebusSyndrome: [[spoiler: Shadow Yuuko]] sucker-punches the manga's comedic slice-of-life nature with a tire-iron, especially [[spoiler: when Yuuko's true past is revealed.]]
* ChekhovsGun: Akahito-san. [[spoiler: Turns out Akahito-san is the name of the emissary of the mountain god Yuuko was sacrificed to appease.]]
* ChickMagnet: Teiichi, who has three different women pining after him.
* ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve: To most people, ghosts are only visible if they already believe there's going to be something there, and then they usually see some ghastly specter in line with their fears rather than the real ghost. [[spoiler: Also applies to those who can see a ghost already, as their perception of the ghost can be changed by making them believe the ghost truly looks different.]]
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Momoe.
* ClingyJealousGirl: Yuuko can get jealous of Momoe's crush on Teiichi.
* CreepyBasement: The underground shrine has all the qualities of this, with a bonus corpse.
* CrossdressingVoices: Creator/JunkoMinagawa as Teiichi in the drama CD.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler: Yuuko died very slowly and painfully in a dark CreepyBasement, sacrificed to the village god by superstitious adults (and her own beloved little sister) who broke her leg so she couldn't escape.]]
* CryCute: Kirie is prone to this when she's scared.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Teiichi and Momoe (in the manga; the anime gave her green eyes).
* CuteGhostGirl: Yuuko is downright adorable.
* DancingTheme: In an interesting subversion Yuuko does a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bon_dance Bon Dance]] in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZ-pG5BUGnQ opening.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: Kirie, and Teiichi has shades of it.
* DeathGlare: When Yuuko was [[spoiler:an onryo, she was constantly glaring]].
* DisguisedInDrag / SweetPollyOliver: Teiichi and Kirie switch clothes in one of the extra chapters.
* DyingDeclarationOfHate: Yuuko dies while swearing revenge on [[spoiler:Yukariko and the others who sacrificed her.]]
* EmotionlessGirl: Yuuko was one prior to meeting Teiichi, [[spoiler:as she had cast aside [[ThePowerOfHate the one emotion that kept her rooted in the world of the living]].]]
* EnemyWithout: [[spoiler:Shadow Yuuko is explicitly everything Yuuko's repressed and denied about herself, especially any hurtful memories, unconsciously separated from her to spare her the mental suffering.]]
* EvolvingCredits: At the end of Episode 7, as the closing song plays, Yuuko [[spoiler: is no longer visible performing the song.]]
* {{Expy}}: Yuuko. Long hime cut? Red eyes? Acts either mysterious or mischievous? Likes making one specific boy really uncomfortable? Yeah, sounds a lot like [[XxxHOLiC a certain Witch of Dimensions.]]
* FanDisservice: [[spoiler: As mentioned below, Corpse-Yuuko. Still in a towel.]]
* FateWorseThanDeath: See BreakTheCutie.
* FreezeFrameBonus: The observant will see the screen flicker twice during the 1st trailer. [[spoiler: Pausing it reveals [[http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20111222173818/tasogare-otome/images/8/8e/Shadow.png this horrifying image of shadow Yuuko]].]]
* FirstKiss: Yuuko and Teiichi have theirs in Chapter 18.
* FunbagAirbag: Teiichi accidentally falls face-first into Yuuko's breasts in the special "Shower Room of Fresh Blood" chapter. He gets a {{nosebleed}} from it.
* GenkiGirl: Momoe, and Yuuko from time to time.
* GenreBusting: Horror + Romance + Mystery + Highschool comedy, to name a few.
* GlamourFailure: In the chapter where Kirie first appears, she tries to convince Teiichi to stop seeing Yuuko as a beautiful ghost girl and recognize her as an evil spirit/monster intent on destroying him. Soon after, [[spoiler: Yuuko loses her regular appearance and appears as a rotting corpse for a while, until Teiichi renews his faith in her and she goes back to being beautiful, voluptuous ... oh, and naked]].
* TheGlassesComeOff: [[spoiler:Kirishima Yuuko originally wore glasses, but stopped wearing them once she decided to get revenge against her bullies and destroy the ghost stories of the school.]]
* GhostAmnesia: The whole plot is built around this. [[spoiler:The shadow Yuuko is literally the spectral incarnation of Yuuko's cast-off memories.]]
* GirlishPigtails: Sahara, Minato and Kirie in her childhood.
* GreenEyedMonster: Yuuko is rather upset with Niiya after he returns from summer vacation only to start hanging out with Momoe and Kirie.
* HimeCut: Yuuko keeps her hair like this. [[spoiler: Fitting, as she was a YamatoNadeshiko when she was alive.]]
* HopelessSuitor: Both [[GenkiGirl Momoe]] and [[{{Tsundere}} Kirie]] have crushes on Niiya, but the OfficialCouple is Niiya and Yuuko.
* HumanSacrifice: As the Seven Mysteries come together, Yuuko is revealed to have died this way. [[spoiler: Later chapters reveal she was murdered by ''her own sister'' to stop a plague the villages blamed on a sadistic mountain god and its emissary, Akahito-san.]]
* ImportantHaircut / ExpositoryHairstyleChange: [[spoiler:Kirishima Yuuko started out with long hair kept up in a bun, but after deciding to get revenge, she lets it down. She cuts it short after Kanoe Yuuko and Teiichi save her from becoming a sacrifice.]]
* ItAmusedMe: Yuuko's reasoning for waking Teiichi up in the middle of the night in Chapter 12.
* JacobMarleyApparel: Played with. Yuuko originally appears in the current school uniform; it's Keiichi who convinces her to change into the antique school uniform she wears for the rest of the series.
* JapaneseSchoolClub: Yuuko founds the Paranormal Investigation Club, consisting of herself (as the [[IncrediblyLamePun ghost president]]) and Teiichi. Momoe appears to be a semi-member, despite already being part of the Newspaper Club, and Kirie seems to reluctantly join the circle.
* {{Joshikousei}}: Two different varieties of them, in fact! The modern uniform the female students wear and Yuuko's old fashioned one both apply.
* KarmaHoudini: The bullies who [[spoiler: attempted to sacrifice Kirishima Yuuko get away nearly scott-free aside from having the living daylights scared out of them by the actual Yuuko-san.]]
** LaserGuidedKarma: the bullies who [[spoiler: successfully sacrificed Kanoe Yuuko died in the plague they were trying to stop.]]
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: [[spoiler:Yuuko can apparently cast off any memories that cause her pain or distress. These coalesce into Shadow Yuuko, who, being forced to take on Yuuko's jealousy for Teichii, decided that this time she was going to take all of Yuuko's memories of Teichii from her as well - ''including'' the happy ones.]]
* LiteralSplitPersonality: It's revealed that Shadow Yuuko is the manifestation of Yuuko's negative emotions.
* MarshmallowHell: Teiichi frequently finds himself having his head buried in Yuuko's chest (which is of course initiated by Yuuko). Initially this was part of Yuuko teasing Teiichi, but as they grow closer it's becoming more romantic (and somewhat heartwarming) in nature.
* MeaningfulName:
** The "Yuu" in "Yuuko" means "Dusk/Evening".
** Also [[{{Moe}} Momoe]]. [[IncrediblyLamePun Yeah...]]
* {{Megane}}: Teiichi.
* {{Meganekko}}: Sahara and Kirishima Yuuko in the past.
* MoodWhiplash: All over the place, as the story switches between fanservice and jokes to human sacrifice and evil spirits astoundingly fast.
* TheMourningAfter: [[spoiler: Teiichi adamantly refuses to get over Yuuko after she passes on, going so far as to try to bring her back by spreading the truth about her death and afterlife in the form of a new set of rumors, reasoning that because ''he'' was her final regret she wasn't able to fully pass on. Kirie thinks he's gone insane, but it turns out he's correct.]]
* MsFanservice: Yuuko, my god. And it's surprising, seeing as there are few to no panty-flashes, the fanservice often being done with Yuuko fully dressed.
* MummiesAtTheDinnerTable: [[spoiler:Soon after Yuuko's death, Yukariko reopens the shrine and goes down to see her sister's body. She ends up crying and resting with her head in the dead Yuuko's lap. She's promptly attacked by her sister's ghost.]]
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: When the magnitude and futility of Yuuko's death hits her, her little sister Yukariko has a breakdown. [[spoiler:This was because Yukariko had been one who selected Yuuko as the sacrifice. Driven by guilt, she reopens the sealed shrine hoping Yuuko would still be alive, only to fall down the stairs and land face-first on her sister's corpse. The sight drives her to despair to the point where when Yuuko's vengeful ghost tries to kill her, Yukariko begs her to do it.]]
* MyGreatestFailure: [[spoiler:Yukariko considers her part in killing her sister a SenselessSacrifice.]]
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Yukariko [[spoiler: sacrificed her sister in hopes of stopping the plague. [[SenselessSacrifice It didn't work]].]]
* NonhumanLoverReveal: Teiichi doesn't realize Yuuko is a ghost when he first meets her, though he doesn't fall in love with her until later.
* {{Nosebleed}}: Teiichi has one [[spoiler:during an intimate moment in the school showers, creating a new school mystery.]]
* NotWhatItLooksLike: Momoe walks in on a situation where Yuuko has fallen on top of Teiichi (she'd put on his glasses for a joke, and they really screwed up her vision and balance) and ''then'' started getting flirtatious. Teiichi promptly yelps that "It's not what it looks like!" ...forgetting that the new girl can't see Yuuko, so it ''didn't'' look like anything naughty to her.
* OfficialCouple: Teiichi and Yuuko.
* OneSteveLimit: Averted and justified. Another character named ''Kirishima'' Yuuko eventually appears and the fact that Yuuko is a very common name in Japan is immediately brought up. Sadly, having the same name as the school's infamous Yuuko-san quickly gets some bullies the fodder they need to convince everyone that she has a connection to the ghost of the school and should be ignored at all costs. [[spoiler: This convinces her to take revenge on her tormentors and the ghost stories themselves by tormenting the former and destroying the latter.]] It backfires [[spoiler: when Kirishima's new ghost story ''Akahito-san'' convinces some girls that she should be sacrificed due to her supposed connection to Yuuko-san.]]
* OlderThanTheyLook: Yuuko is old enough to be your grandma, but due to being a ghost, she doesn't visually age, so she still looks and acts like a school girl. However, see also YoungerThanTheyLook below.
* OldSchoolBuilding: The school has been modified a lot over its history, leaving parts that are abandoned and badly neglected. The main characters' clubroom is so decrepit, they are probably breaking every health and safety rule in the book in using it.
* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: Teiichi, other than the fact that he can see ghosts when most others can't.
* OurGhostsAreDifferent:
** Apparently other than being invisible or having their appearance affected by those who do see them, ghosts aren't much different from humans in abilities.
** Shadow Yuuko seems to have a few tricks, however.
** Ghosts aren't just visible to those who have the sight, they're tactile as well
* OvertookTheManga: The first nine episodes are very loyal to the manga, but the anime goes in a somewhat different direction from episode 10 onward. It's a mild example, as it still sticks to the story and characters of the original manga.
* PantyShot: Happens often with Momoe and Kirie, but rarely, if ever, with Yuuko (given the length of her skirt).
* PleaseKillMeIfItSatisfiesYou: Yukariko practically begs [[spoiler:her sister's ghost to kill her during their first encounter.]]
* ThePowerOfHate: How Yuuko [[spoiler: [[StringyHairedGhostGirl came back the first time]].]]
* ThePowerOfLove: How she [[spoiler: [[CuteGhostGirl comes back the second time]].]]
* PurpleEyes: Yukariko has these, and her name even has the Japanese character for "purple" in it. [[spoiler:They're a hint to her plot significance as the only remaining survivor of the ritual Yuuko died in and the person responsible for her death.]]
* PrayerOfMalice: As she's dying, [[spoiler:Yuuko offers one to the god she was sacrificed to, offering her life in exchange for the ability to wreak vengeance from beyond the grave]].
* PsychoticSmirk:
** [[spoiler: Shadow Yuuko]] has this down to an artform.
** At the end of chapter 38, [[spoiler:Yukariko]] wears this alongside HiddenEyes [[spoiler:when she decides to sacrifice her sister]].
** [[spoiler:Yuuko died with this expression, having sworn to give herself up to hatred and kill everyone involved in her death.]]
* RaisedByGrandparents: Kirie was raised by her Grandma Yukariko, Yuuko's little sister.
* RapunzelHair: Yuuko-san, Kirishima Yuuko, [[spoiler: Shadow Yuuko, and Yukariko in her youth]] all have very long hair.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Averted with Yuuko and Kirie, [[spoiler: but played straight with Shadow Yuuko.]]
* SchoolgirlLesbians: ''The Six Year Sakura'' legend revolves around this.
* SenselessSacrifice: Yuuko was sacrificed to appease a malicious god the villagers believed was causing a devastating plague. Not only did it not work, it actually backfired horrifically.
* TheSevenMysteries: This school's seven mysteries are (albeit warped) stories based on parts of Yuuko's death.
** The Haunted Mirror
** Underground Demon
** Spirited Away
** The Rock of Curses
** Akahito
** The Inter-dimensional 13 Steps
** Averted with the seventh mystery however, when it's later revealed by [[spoiler: Yuuko's still living sister]] that there are actually only six mysteries, the rumour of seven of them just spread because [[RuleOfSeven seven sounds better]]. Played straight again at the story's end though when Teiichi creates a new one, [[spoiler: Yuuko's Lover.]]
* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: Yuuko is an odd example. Yuuko sees no reason for modesty in her ghost form, stripping out of one school uniform to put on another right in front of Teiichi, and not bothered at all when, despite having turned away, he gets a ''good'' look in a mirror. When Teiichi finds her actual corpse, fifty-some years dead, however, it's another story entirely -- she's utterly embarrassed, saying that her bones are as naked as a person can possibly get, begs him to cover the body, and calls him a pervert for not doing so immediately. [[spoiler: The reason she has no modesty over her ghostly body is that all of her negative emotions have been dumped onto shadow-Yuuko]].
* ShipTease: [[spoiler: Before they finally spit it out]] Yuuko and Teiichi have this a lot. There are also hints of Kirie/Momoe.
* ShootTheShaggyDogStory: Yukariko's flashback and [[spoiler: Shadow]] Yuuko's memories reveal that [[spoiler: Yuuko was sacrificed by her fellow villagers to a malicious god with her own sister acting as the god's priest, Akahito-san, in order to stop a plague ravaging the village. The sacrifice didn't work, and worse, Yuuko returned as a StringyHairedGhostGirl determined to kill those responsible for her murder.]]
* SlasherSmile:
** [[spoiler:Shadow Yuuko, combined with MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily. A large part of ''why'' she's terrifying.]]
** In the memories of Yuuko's past, [[spoiler: Yukariko sports one when she starts ranting at her sister about having to perform the ritual to appease the mountain god, and a PsychoticSmirk when she decides to sacrifice her sister]].
* StepfordSmiler: To the others, Yuuko is extraordinarily upbeat and nonchalant about her own death. [[spoiler:She has a good reason for this - all her negative emotions have been piled onto Shadow Yuuko, leaving her with only the positives.]]
* StringyHairedGhostGirl: When she first hears of her, Kirie suspects this of Yuuko, though [[CuteGhostGirl she's actually far from it.]] [[spoiler: Chapter 40 reveals Yuuko really ''was'' a textbook example of an onryo all along, having been consumed by rage and hatred towards her village - and especially her sister - when she died. However, she couldn't bring herself to kill Yukariko, leaving her grudge unfulfilled, and eventually cast aside her negative emotions and memories, which manifested as Shadow Yuuko.]]
* TeensAreMonsters: Subverted: Yukariko does something truly monstrous but only because she's being manipulated by superstitious and hysterical adults. Unfortunately by the time she finally comes to her senses it's far too late.
* TheTease: Yuuko enjoys teasing Teiichi.
* ThanksForTheMammary:
** In the first chapter, Teiichi doesn't quite believe Yuuko is a ghost, so he reaches out to grasp her shoulder, reasoning that a ghost will be insubstantial. That's just when she turns to face him, though, so he gets a handful of '''quite''' substantial breast. Yuuko is totally unfazed by this (see InnocentFanserviceGirl). She even jokes about it. ''"I suppose these tend to be quite the temptation."''
** It wouldn't be the last time, either. While convincing Momoe that he's banishing an evil spirit, Teiichi gets another handful of Yuuko's considerable endowments. And he gets a full on [[MarshmallowHell faceful]] in a manga story when Yuuko insists on using the shower with him.
** [[spoiler: The first manages to be somewhat plot-relevant, as Teiichi brings back Yuuko's memories of him by getting another handful.]]
** Kirie, who is quite jealous of Yuuko's figure, gets a handful while unthinkingly stiff-arming Yuuko and is shocked to discover she has a tactile as well as visual presence, which makes her even more jealous of Yuuko's figure.
* ThisIsUnforgivable: In the flashback arc, Yuuko initially couldn't comprehend why she - who had been [[NiceGuy nice to everyone]] - was chosen for a superstitious sacrifice. On the brink of death, she utters this [[MadnessMantra over and over]] when she realizes [[spoiler:her sister was the one who had chosen her, and the hatred born of this betrayal is what turned her into an onryo]].
* ThroughHisStomach: In one of the early chapters, Yuuko is shown feeding Teiichi from a bento. On the next page, she pulls him down onto her LapPillow. He's a bit weirded out by this because Yuuko, although very good-looking and ''[[BuxomIsBetter built]]'', has been dead for something like fifty years.
* TrueSight: Though everyone can see ''something'' of Yuuko if they expect something to be there (often of the horrific sort, which changes how she looks to them), only Teiichi and Kirie can see Yuuko [[spoiler: and the second, cast-off version of Yuuko]] as they really are. [[spoiler: Strangely, Yuuko's sister can see Shadow Yuuko as well, but not the normal Yuuko, hinting at her guilty past.]]
* {{Tsundere}}: Kirie.
* TwelveEpisodeAnime
* UncannyFamilyResemblance: Kirie is Yuuko's grandniece. A resemblance, particularly of the eyes, was hinted at as soon as Kirie showed up, but in Chapter 20, she gets put into a long-haired HimeCut wig ... and the resemblance just ''jumps'' right out -- except for her [[ACupAngst figure]] (and the CatGirl ears). It's even noted by Kirie's grandmother, Yukariko, who is Yuuko's younger sister.
* UndignifiedDeath: Yuuko's left leg was broken to the point where the bone was sticking through and then she was tossed down a staircase and left to starve.
* UnresolvedSexualTension: There's so much between Teiichi and Yuuko it's not even funny. [[spoiler: They finally confessed their feelings in chapter 18.]]
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Yukariko honestly believed it was her family duty to sacrifice what she truly loved the most.
** Kirie wants to solve the seven mysteries not to help Yuuko but to get rid of her because she perceives her as a threat.
* WeirdnessCensor: Yuuko claims she's fully visible in a crowd because everyone else just assumes she's supposed to be there and has about 50 years worth of MeasuringDay sheets on file to prove it.
* WhamEpisode:
** Episode 7 of the anime brings together a number of plot points that the anime had been skipping over (curse rock, [[spoiler:shadow-Yuuko's identity]], Yuuko's breakdown etc) in one wham-packed episode.
** Chapter 37 reveals that Yuuko was killed by [[spoiler: her own sister]].
* {{Yandere}}: One of the SchoolgirlLesbians featured in chapter 10. Yuuko shows signs whenever Momoe gets too friendly with Teiichi, especially in Chapter 17, although this is partially due to [[spoiler:Shadow Yuuko's influence]].
* YoungerThanTheyLook: Most characters due to the art style.
** Teiichi is twelve years old.
** Momoe is actually older than him, but still barely looks her age at thirteen.
** Yuuko look older than the fifteen years old she was when she died. [[spoiler: Perhaps justified as splitting all of her negativity into Dark Yuuko leaves Yuuko an idealized version of herself.]] As a decades-old ghost who doesn't age, she later [[OlderThanTheyLook inverts]] the trope.
* YourMindMakesItReal: Yuuko's aspect depends to a great extent on what one expects to see. Fear makes her more frightening and vice-versa. if you expect Shadow Yuuko that's the version you'll get, and Niiya's perception of Yuuko becomes in response to Kirie's doubts.
* ZettaiRyouiki: Yuuko on occasions in the Anime. In the Manga she mostly wears ProperTightsWithASkirt and teases Kirie for running around barelegged.
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[[caption-width-right:250: Hauntings: More awkward than you'd think.]]
''Tasogare Otome x Amnesia'' (aka ''Dusk Maiden of Amnesia'') is a [[GenreBusting comedy/tragedy/horror/supernatural/shounen/mystery/romance/ecchi]] manga by Creator/{{Maybe}} (and yes, that's the creator's [[OnlyOneName name]]).
Kanoe Yuuko has been a ghost in the OldSchoolBuilding for a long time without being able to make contact with the living, until first-year junior high student Niiya Teiichi came along. Now they try to solve the mysterious circumstances under which Yuuko died, hindered by the fact there are at least ''seven'' different ghost stories about the school, some of which are possibly based on distorted accounts of her death.
An [[AnimatedAdaptation anime adaptation]] by Creator/SilverLink aired as part of the Spring2012AnimeSeason.
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!!Examples:
* ACupAngst: Kirie is jealous of Yuuko in this regard.
* AdaptationDistillation: The anime cut out a number of elements, such as Okonogi being a year older and a member of the newspaper club.
* AdaptationDyeJob: Yuuko and Kirie have normal black hair in the manga while the anime gives them relatively dark/muted purplish and green-bluish hair respectively.
* TheAloner: For nearly 50 years, Yuuko has wandered the labyrinthine school where she died. Though she can still interact with physical objects, she's often completely unseen by other people; she can still try talking to them, but they only register her voice as coming from 'someone over there'. People who ''do'' catch glimpses of her are quickly frightened off by [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve the horrifying apparition they expect to see in a 'haunted school',]] further alienating her from the world. It's a miracle she hadn't broken down after all that time... [[spoiler:though later chapters reveal that her ghostly coping mechanism is a bit... [[ShadowArchetype extreme.]]]]
* ArtShift: A few. Chapter 18 has a sudden one, while Chapter 21 has several panels containing little more than rough outlines. Whether these are due to a [[CreatorBreakdown creator breakdown]], [[DeusExMachina deus ex machina]], [[ExecutiveMeddling executive meddling]] or the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Sendai_earthquake_and_tsunami 2011 Sendai Earthquake]] is as of yet unknown.
* [[spoiler: [[BackFromTheDead Back From The Afterlife]]: Yuuko returns due to Teiichi's efforts.]]
* BarbieDollAnatomy: Played straight often, since we see Yuuko (and occasionally one of the other girls) at least partially nude every few chapters.
* BeliefMakesYouStupid: In the flashback arc Yuuko espouses this, scornfully criticizing the village elders and her sister for turning to old-fashioned superstitions out of desperation.
* {{Bishonen}}: Teiichi. Most obvious during the times he (reluctantly) cross dressed.
* BleachedUnderpants: Explains the Fanservice. Also, two minor characters from the early chapters are from one of Maybe's hentai stories.
* BoyMeetsGhoul: Teiichi and Yuuko sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G...
* BreakTheCutie:
** Yuuko's past. [[spoiler:She was killed by other villagers and her own beloved sister by having her leg broken and thrown into a basement to slowly die.]]
** [[spoiler: Yukariko also suffered from this event. She sacrified her sister because she was most important to her and authentically believed that it was the way to cure the plague. Problem was that it didn't. Everyone around her died and her father committed suicide over Yuuko's death. The cherry on top was seeing Yuuko's ghost and having it try to kill her. When it chose to spare her, she took it to mean that Yuuko wanted her to suffer by living. For the rest of her life, she'd continue to be haunted by her sins since she only ever saw Yuuko's shadow, and never the other part of her.]]
* CainAndAbel: [[spoiler:Yuuko's younger sister Yukariko betrayed her and selected her to be the HumanSacrifice to stop a plague that infested their village. Yuuko returned as an evil spirit to get her revenge on Yukariko, but in the end she couldn't bring herself to kill her sister.]]
* CaughtTheHeartOnHisSleeve: When Yuuko decides to walk out of Teiichi's life, this is his response.
* CerebusSyndrome: [[spoiler: Shadow Yuuko]] sucker-punches the manga's comedic slice-of-life nature with a tire-iron, especially [[spoiler: when Yuuko's true past is revealed.]]
* ChekhovsGun: Akahito-san. [[spoiler: Turns out Akahito-san is the name of the emissary of the mountain god Yuuko was sacrificed to appease.]]
* ChickMagnet: Teiichi, who has three different women pining after him.
* ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve: To most people, ghosts are only visible if they already believe there's going to be something there, and then they usually see some ghastly specter in line with their fears rather than the real ghost. [[spoiler: Also applies to those who can see a ghost already, as their perception of the ghost can be changed by making them believe the ghost truly looks different.]]
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Momoe.
* ClingyJealousGirl: Yuuko can get jealous of Momoe's crush on Teiichi.
* CreepyBasement: The underground shrine has all the qualities of this, with a bonus corpse.
* CrossdressingVoices: Creator/JunkoMinagawa as Teiichi in the drama CD.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler: Yuuko died very slowly and painfully in a dark CreepyBasement, sacrificed to the village god by superstitious adults (and her own beloved little sister) who broke her leg so she couldn't escape.]]
* CryCute: Kirie is prone to this when she's scared.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Teiichi and Momoe (in the manga; the anime gave her green eyes).
* CuteGhostGirl: Yuuko is downright adorable.
* DancingTheme: In an interesting subversion Yuuko does a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bon_dance Bon Dance]] in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZ-pG5BUGnQ opening.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: Kirie, and Teiichi has shades of it.
* DeathGlare: When Yuuko was [[spoiler:an onryo, she was constantly glaring]].
* DisguisedInDrag / SweetPollyOliver: Teiichi and Kirie switch clothes in one of the extra chapters.
* DyingDeclarationOfHate: Yuuko dies while swearing revenge on [[spoiler:Yukariko and the others who sacrificed her.]]
* EmotionlessGirl: Yuuko was one prior to meeting Teiichi, [[spoiler:as she had cast aside [[ThePowerOfHate the one emotion that kept her rooted in the world of the living]].]]
* EnemyWithout: [[spoiler:Shadow Yuuko is explicitly everything Yuuko's repressed and denied about herself, especially any hurtful memories, unconsciously separated from her to spare her the mental suffering.]]
* EvolvingCredits: At the end of Episode 7, as the closing song plays, Yuuko [[spoiler: is no longer visible performing the song.]]
* {{Expy}}: Yuuko. Long hime cut? Red eyes? Acts either mysterious or mischievous? Likes making one specific boy really uncomfortable? Yeah, sounds a lot like [[XxxHOLiC a certain Witch of Dimensions.]]
* FanDisservice: [[spoiler: As mentioned below, Corpse-Yuuko. Still in a towel.]]
* FateWorseThanDeath: See BreakTheCutie.
* FreezeFrameBonus: The observant will see the screen flicker twice during the 1st trailer. [[spoiler: Pausing it reveals [[http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20111222173818/tasogare-otome/images/8/8e/Shadow.png this horrifying image of shadow Yuuko]].]]
* FirstKiss: Yuuko and Teiichi have theirs in Chapter 18.
* FunbagAirbag: Teiichi accidentally falls face-first into Yuuko's breasts in the special "Shower Room of Fresh Blood" chapter. He gets a {{nosebleed}} from it.
* GenkiGirl: Momoe, and Yuuko from time to time.
* GenreBusting: Horror + Romance + Mystery + Highschool comedy, to name a few.
* GlamourFailure: In the chapter where Kirie first appears, she tries to convince Teiichi to stop seeing Yuuko as a beautiful ghost girl and recognize her as an evil spirit/monster intent on destroying him. Soon after, [[spoiler: Yuuko loses her regular appearance and appears as a rotting corpse for a while, until Teiichi renews his faith in her and she goes back to being beautiful, voluptuous ... oh, and naked]].
* TheGlassesComeOff: [[spoiler:Kirishima Yuuko originally wore glasses, but stopped wearing them once she decided to get revenge against her bullies and destroy the ghost stories of the school.]]
* GhostAmnesia: The whole plot is built around this. [[spoiler:The shadow Yuuko is literally the spectral incarnation of Yuuko's cast-off memories.]]
* GirlishPigtails: Sahara, Minato and Kirie in her childhood.
* GreenEyedMonster: Yuuko is rather upset with Niiya after he returns from summer vacation only to start hanging out with Momoe and Kirie.
* HimeCut: Yuuko keeps her hair like this. [[spoiler: Fitting, as she was a YamatoNadeshiko when she was alive.]]
* HopelessSuitor: Both [[GenkiGirl Momoe]] and [[{{Tsundere}} Kirie]] have crushes on Niiya, but the OfficialCouple is Niiya and Yuuko.
* HumanSacrifice: As the Seven Mysteries come together, Yuuko is revealed to have died this way. [[spoiler: Later chapters reveal she was murdered by ''her own sister'' to stop a plague the villages blamed on a sadistic mountain god and its emissary, Akahito-san.]]
* ImportantHaircut / ExpositoryHairstyleChange: [[spoiler:Kirishima Yuuko started out with long hair kept up in a bun, but after deciding to get revenge, she lets it down. She cuts it short after Kanoe Yuuko and Teiichi save her from becoming a sacrifice.]]
* ItAmusedMe: Yuuko's reasoning for waking Teiichi up in the middle of the night in Chapter 12.
* JacobMarleyApparel: Played with. Yuuko originally appears in the current school uniform; it's Keiichi who convinces her to change into the antique school uniform she wears for the rest of the series.
* JapaneseSchoolClub: Yuuko founds the Paranormal Investigation Club, consisting of herself (as the [[IncrediblyLamePun ghost president]]) and Teiichi. Momoe appears to be a semi-member, despite already being part of the Newspaper Club, and Kirie seems to reluctantly join the circle.
* {{Joshikousei}}: Two different varieties of them, in fact! The modern uniform the female students wear and Yuuko's old fashioned one both apply.
* KarmaHoudini: The bullies who [[spoiler: attempted to sacrifice Kirishima Yuuko get away nearly scott-free aside from having the living daylights scared out of them by the actual Yuuko-san.]]
** LaserGuidedKarma: the bullies who [[spoiler: successfully sacrificed Kanoe Yuuko died in the plague they were trying to stop.]]
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: [[spoiler:Yuuko can apparently cast off any memories that cause her pain or distress. These coalesce into Shadow Yuuko, who, being forced to take on Yuuko's jealousy for Teichii, decided that this time she was going to take all of Yuuko's memories of Teichii from her as well - ''including'' the happy ones.]]
* LiteralSplitPersonality: It's revealed that Shadow Yuuko is the manifestation of Yuuko's negative emotions.
* MarshmallowHell: Teiichi frequently finds himself having his head buried in Yuuko's chest (which is of course initiated by Yuuko). Initially this was part of Yuuko teasing Teiichi, but as they grow closer it's becoming more romantic (and somewhat heartwarming) in nature.
* MeaningfulName:
** The "Yuu" in "Yuuko" means "Dusk/Evening".
** Also [[{{Moe}} Momoe]]. [[IncrediblyLamePun Yeah...]]
* {{Megane}}: Teiichi.
* {{Meganekko}}: Sahara and Kirishima Yuuko in the past.
* MoodWhiplash: All over the place, as the story switches between fanservice and jokes to human sacrifice and evil spirits astoundingly fast.
* TheMourningAfter: [[spoiler: Teiichi adamantly refuses to get over Yuuko after she passes on, going so far as to try to bring her back by spreading the truth about her death and afterlife in the form of a new set of rumors, reasoning that because ''he'' was her final regret she wasn't able to fully pass on. Kirie thinks he's gone insane, but it turns out he's correct.]]
* MsFanservice: Yuuko, my god. And it's surprising, seeing as there are few to no panty-flashes, the fanservice often being done with Yuuko fully dressed.
* MummiesAtTheDinnerTable: [[spoiler:Soon after Yuuko's death, Yukariko reopens the shrine and goes down to see her sister's body. She ends up crying and resting with her head in the dead Yuuko's lap. She's promptly attacked by her sister's ghost.]]
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: When the magnitude and futility of Yuuko's death hits her, her little sister Yukariko has a breakdown. [[spoiler:This was because Yukariko had been one who selected Yuuko as the sacrifice. Driven by guilt, she reopens the sealed shrine hoping Yuuko would still be alive, only to fall down the stairs and land face-first on her sister's corpse. The sight drives her to despair to the point where when Yuuko's vengeful ghost tries to kill her, Yukariko begs her to do it.]]
* MyGreatestFailure: [[spoiler:Yukariko considers her part in killing her sister a SenselessSacrifice.]]
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Yukariko [[spoiler: sacrificed her sister in hopes of stopping the plague. [[SenselessSacrifice It didn't work]].]]
* NonhumanLoverReveal: Teiichi doesn't realize Yuuko is a ghost when he first meets her, though he doesn't fall in love with her until later.
* {{Nosebleed}}: Teiichi has one [[spoiler:during an intimate moment in the school showers, creating a new school mystery.]]
* NotWhatItLooksLike: Momoe walks in on a situation where Yuuko has fallen on top of Teiichi (she'd put on his glasses for a joke, and they really screwed up her vision and balance) and ''then'' started getting flirtatious. Teiichi promptly yelps that "It's not what it looks like!" ...forgetting that the new girl can't see Yuuko, so it ''didn't'' look like anything naughty to her.
* OfficialCouple: Teiichi and Yuuko.
* OneSteveLimit: Averted and justified. Another character named ''Kirishima'' Yuuko eventually appears and the fact that Yuuko is a very common name in Japan is immediately brought up. Sadly, having the same name as the school's infamous Yuuko-san quickly gets some bullies the fodder they need to convince everyone that she has a connection to the ghost of the school and should be ignored at all costs. [[spoiler: This convinces her to take revenge on her tormentors and the ghost stories themselves by tormenting the former and destroying the latter.]] It backfires [[spoiler: when Kirishima's new ghost story ''Akahito-san'' convinces some girls that she should be sacrificed due to her supposed connection to Yuuko-san.]]
* OlderThanTheyLook: Yuuko is old enough to be your grandma, but due to being a ghost, she doesn't visually age, so she still looks and acts like a school girl. However, see also YoungerThanTheyLook below.
* OldSchoolBuilding: The school has been modified a lot over its history, leaving parts that are abandoned and badly neglected. The main characters' clubroom is so decrepit, they are probably breaking every health and safety rule in the book in using it.
* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: Teiichi, other than the fact that he can see ghosts when most others can't.
* OurGhostsAreDifferent:
** Apparently other than being invisible or having their appearance affected by those who do see them, ghosts aren't much different from humans in abilities.
** Shadow Yuuko seems to have a few tricks, however.
** Ghosts aren't just visible to those who have the sight, they're tactile as well
* OvertookTheManga: The first nine episodes are very loyal to the manga, but the anime goes in a somewhat different direction from episode 10 onward. It's a mild example, as it still sticks to the story and characters of the original manga.
* PantyShot: Happens often with Momoe and Kirie, but rarely, if ever, with Yuuko (given the length of her skirt).
* PleaseKillMeIfItSatisfiesYou: Yukariko practically begs [[spoiler:her sister's ghost to kill her during their first encounter.]]
* ThePowerOfHate: How Yuuko [[spoiler: [[StringyHairedGhostGirl came back the first time]].]]
* ThePowerOfLove: How she [[spoiler: [[CuteGhostGirl comes back the second time]].]]
* PurpleEyes: Yukariko has these, and her name even has the Japanese character for "purple" in it. [[spoiler:They're a hint to her plot significance as the only remaining survivor of the ritual Yuuko died in and the person responsible for her death.]]
* PrayerOfMalice: As she's dying, [[spoiler:Yuuko offers one to the god she was sacrificed to, offering her life in exchange for the ability to wreak vengeance from beyond the grave]].
* PsychoticSmirk:
** [[spoiler: Shadow Yuuko]] has this down to an artform.
** At the end of chapter 38, [[spoiler:Yukariko]] wears this alongside HiddenEyes [[spoiler:when she decides to sacrifice her sister]].
** [[spoiler:Yuuko died with this expression, having sworn to give herself up to hatred and kill everyone involved in her death.]]
* RaisedByGrandparents: Kirie was raised by her Grandma Yukariko, Yuuko's little sister.
* RapunzelHair: Yuuko-san, Kirishima Yuuko, [[spoiler: Shadow Yuuko, and Yukariko in her youth]] all have very long hair.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Averted with Yuuko and Kirie, [[spoiler: but played straight with Shadow Yuuko.]]
* SchoolgirlLesbians: ''The Six Year Sakura'' legend revolves around this.
* SenselessSacrifice: Yuuko was sacrificed to appease a malicious god the villagers believed was causing a devastating plague. Not only did it not work, it actually backfired horrifically.
* TheSevenMysteries: This school's seven mysteries are (albeit warped) stories based on parts of Yuuko's death.
** The Haunted Mirror
** Underground Demon
** Spirited Away
** The Rock of Curses
** Akahito
** The Inter-dimensional 13 Steps
** Averted with the seventh mystery however, when it's later revealed by [[spoiler: Yuuko's still living sister]] that there are actually only six mysteries, the rumour of seven of them just spread because [[RuleOfSeven seven sounds better]]. Played straight again at the story's end though when Teiichi creates a new one, [[spoiler: Yuuko's Lover.]]
* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: Yuuko is an odd example. Yuuko sees no reason for modesty in her ghost form, stripping out of one school uniform to put on another right in front of Teiichi, and not bothered at all when, despite having turned away, he gets a ''good'' look in a mirror. When Teiichi finds her actual corpse, fifty-some years dead, however, it's another story entirely -- she's utterly embarrassed, saying that her bones are as naked as a person can possibly get, begs him to cover the body, and calls him a pervert for not doing so immediately. [[spoiler: The reason she has no modesty over her ghostly body is that all of her negative emotions have been dumped onto shadow-Yuuko]].
* ShipTease: [[spoiler: Before they finally spit it out]] Yuuko and Teiichi have this a lot. There are also hints of Kirie/Momoe.
* ShootTheShaggyDogStory: Yukariko's flashback and [[spoiler: Shadow]] Yuuko's memories reveal that [[spoiler: Yuuko was sacrificed by her fellow villagers to a malicious god with her own sister acting as the god's priest, Akahito-san, in order to stop a plague ravaging the village. The sacrifice didn't work, and worse, Yuuko returned as a StringyHairedGhostGirl determined to kill those responsible for her murder.]]
* SlasherSmile:
** [[spoiler:Shadow Yuuko, combined with MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily. A large part of ''why'' she's terrifying.]]
** In the memories of Yuuko's past, [[spoiler: Yukariko sports one when she starts ranting at her sister about having to perform the ritual to appease the mountain god, and a PsychoticSmirk when she decides to sacrifice her sister]].
* StepfordSmiler: To the others, Yuuko is extraordinarily upbeat and nonchalant about her own death. [[spoiler:She has a good reason for this - all her negative emotions have been piled onto Shadow Yuuko, leaving her with only the positives.]]
* StringyHairedGhostGirl: When she first hears of her, Kirie suspects this of Yuuko, though [[CuteGhostGirl she's actually far from it.]] [[spoiler: Chapter 40 reveals Yuuko really ''was'' a textbook example of an onryo all along, having been consumed by rage and hatred towards her village - and especially her sister - when she died. However, she couldn't bring herself to kill Yukariko, leaving her grudge unfulfilled, and eventually cast aside her negative emotions and memories, which manifested as Shadow Yuuko.]]
* TeensAreMonsters: Subverted: Yukariko does something truly monstrous but only because she's being manipulated by superstitious and hysterical adults. Unfortunately by the time she finally comes to her senses it's far too late.
* TheTease: Yuuko enjoys teasing Teiichi.
* ThanksForTheMammary:
** In the first chapter, Teiichi doesn't quite believe Yuuko is a ghost, so he reaches out to grasp her shoulder, reasoning that a ghost will be insubstantial. That's just when she turns to face him, though, so he gets a handful of '''quite''' substantial breast. Yuuko is totally unfazed by this (see InnocentFanserviceGirl). She even jokes about it. ''"I suppose these tend to be quite the temptation."''
** It wouldn't be the last time, either. While convincing Momoe that he's banishing an evil spirit, Teiichi gets another handful of Yuuko's considerable endowments. And he gets a full on [[MarshmallowHell faceful]] in a manga story when Yuuko insists on using the shower with him.
** [[spoiler: The first manages to be somewhat plot-relevant, as Teiichi brings back Yuuko's memories of him by getting another handful.]]
** Kirie, who is quite jealous of Yuuko's figure, gets a handful while unthinkingly stiff-arming Yuuko and is shocked to discover she has a tactile as well as visual presence, which makes her even more jealous of Yuuko's figure.
* ThisIsUnforgivable: In the flashback arc, Yuuko initially couldn't comprehend why she - who had been [[NiceGuy nice to everyone]] - was chosen for a superstitious sacrifice. On the brink of death, she utters this [[MadnessMantra over and over]] when she realizes [[spoiler:her sister was the one who had chosen her, and the hatred born of this betrayal is what turned her into an onryo]].
* ThroughHisStomach: In one of the early chapters, Yuuko is shown feeding Teiichi from a bento. On the next page, she pulls him down onto her LapPillow. He's a bit weirded out by this because Yuuko, although very good-looking and ''[[BuxomIsBetter built]]'', has been dead for something like fifty years.
* TrueSight: Though everyone can see ''something'' of Yuuko if they expect something to be there (often of the horrific sort, which changes how she looks to them), only Teiichi and Kirie can see Yuuko [[spoiler: and the second, cast-off version of Yuuko]] as they really are. [[spoiler: Strangely, Yuuko's sister can see Shadow Yuuko as well, but not the normal Yuuko, hinting at her guilty past.]]
* {{Tsundere}}: Kirie.
* TwelveEpisodeAnime
* UncannyFamilyResemblance: Kirie is Yuuko's grandniece. A resemblance, particularly of the eyes, was hinted at as soon as Kirie showed up, but in Chapter 20, she gets put into a long-haired HimeCut wig ... and the resemblance just ''jumps'' right out -- except for her [[ACupAngst figure]] (and the CatGirl ears). It's even noted by Kirie's grandmother, Yukariko, who is Yuuko's younger sister.
* UndignifiedDeath: Yuuko's left leg was broken to the point where the bone was sticking through and then she was tossed down a staircase and left to starve.
* UnresolvedSexualTension: There's so much between Teiichi and Yuuko it's not even funny. [[spoiler: They finally confessed their feelings in chapter 18.]]
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Yukariko honestly believed it was her family duty to sacrifice what she truly loved the most.
** Kirie wants to solve the seven mysteries not to help Yuuko but to get rid of her because she perceives her as a threat.
* WeirdnessCensor: Yuuko claims she's fully visible in a crowd because everyone else just assumes she's supposed to be there and has about 50 years worth of MeasuringDay sheets on file to prove it.
* WhamEpisode:
** Episode 7 of the anime brings together a number of plot points that the anime had been skipping over (curse rock, [[spoiler:shadow-Yuuko's identity]], Yuuko's breakdown etc) in one wham-packed episode.
** Chapter 37 reveals that Yuuko was killed by [[spoiler: her own sister]].
* {{Yandere}}: One of the SchoolgirlLesbians featured in chapter 10. Yuuko shows signs whenever Momoe gets too friendly with Teiichi, especially in Chapter 17, although this is partially due to [[spoiler:Shadow Yuuko's influence]].
* YoungerThanTheyLook: Most characters due to the art style.
** Teiichi is twelve years old.
** Momoe is actually older than him, but still barely looks her age at thirteen.
** Yuuko look older than the fifteen years old she was when she died. [[spoiler: Perhaps justified as splitting all of her negativity into Dark Yuuko leaves Yuuko an idealized version of herself.]] As a decades-old ghost who doesn't age, she later [[OlderThanTheyLook inverts]] the trope.
* YourMindMakesItReal: Yuuko's aspect depends to a great extent on what one expects to see. Fear makes her more frightening and vice-versa. if you expect Shadow Yuuko that's the version you'll get, and Niiya's perception of Yuuko becomes in response to Kirie's doubts.
* ZettaiRyouiki: Yuuko on occasions in the Anime. In the Manga she mostly wears ProperTightsWithASkirt and teases Kirie for running around barelegged.
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''Tasogare Otome x Amnesia'' (aka ''Dusk Maiden of Amnesia'') is a [[GenreBusting comedy/tragedy/horror/supernatural/shounen/mystery/romance/ecchi]] manga by Creator/{{Maybe}} (and yes, that's the creator's [[OnlyOneName name]]).
Kanoe Yuuko has been a ghost in the OldSchoolBuilding for a long time without being able to make contact with the living, until first-year junior high student Niiya Teiichi came along. Now they try to solve the mysterious circumstances under which Yuuko died, hindered by the fact there are at least ''seven'' different ghost stories about the school, some of which are possibly based on distorted accounts of her death.
An [[AnimatedAdaptation anime adaptation]] by Creator/SilverLink aired as part of the Spring2012AnimeSeason.
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!!Examples:
* ACupAngst: Kirie is jealous of Yuuko in this regard.
* AdaptationDistillation: The anime cut out a number of elements, such as Okonogi being a year older and a member of the newspaper club.
* AdaptationDyeJob: Yuuko and Kirie have normal black hair in the manga while the anime gives them relatively dark/muted purplish and green-bluish hair respectively.
* TheAloner: For nearly 50 years, Yuuko has wandered the labyrinthine school where she died. Though she can still interact with physical objects, she's often completely unseen by other people; she can still try talking to them, but they only register her voice as coming from 'someone over there'. People who ''do'' catch glimpses of her are quickly frightened off by [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve the horrifying apparition they expect to see in a 'haunted school',]] further alienating her from the world. It's a miracle she hadn't broken down after all that time... [[spoiler:though later chapters reveal that her ghostly coping mechanism is a bit... [[ShadowArchetype extreme.]]]]
* ArtShift: A few. Chapter 18 has a sudden one, while Chapter 21 has several panels containing little more than rough outlines. Whether these are due to a [[CreatorBreakdown creator breakdown]], [[DeusExMachina deus ex machina]], [[ExecutiveMeddling executive meddling]] or the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Sendai_earthquake_and_tsunami 2011 Sendai Earthquake]] is as of yet unknown.
* [[spoiler: [[BackFromTheDead Back From The Afterlife]]: Yuuko returns due to Teiichi's efforts.]]
* BarbieDollAnatomy: Played straight often, since we see Yuuko (and occasionally one of the other girls) at least partially nude every few chapters.
* BeliefMakesYouStupid: In the flashback arc Yuuko espouses this, scornfully criticizing the village elders and her sister for turning to old-fashioned superstitions out of desperation.
* {{Bishonen}}: Teiichi. Most obvious during the times he (reluctantly) cross dressed.
* BleachedUnderpants: Explains the Fanservice. Also, two minor characters from the early chapters are from one of Maybe's hentai stories.
* BoyMeetsGhoul: Teiichi and Yuuko sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G...
* BreakTheCutie:
** Yuuko's past. [[spoiler:She was killed by other villagers and her own beloved sister by having her leg broken and thrown into a basement to slowly die.]]
** [[spoiler: Yukariko also suffered from this event. She sacrified her sister because she was most important to her and authentically believed that it was the way to cure the plague. Problem was that it didn't. Everyone around her died and her father committed suicide over Yuuko's death. The cherry on top was seeing Yuuko's ghost and having it try to kill her. When it chose to spare her, she took it to mean that Yuuko wanted her to suffer by living. For the rest of her life, she'd continue to be haunted by her sins since she only ever saw Yuuko's shadow, and never the other part of her.]]
* CainAndAbel: [[spoiler:Yuuko's younger sister Yukariko betrayed her and selected her to be the HumanSacrifice to stop a plague that infested their village. Yuuko returned as an evil spirit to get her revenge on Yukariko, but in the end she couldn't bring herself to kill her sister.]]
* CaughtTheHeartOnHisSleeve: When Yuuko decides to walk out of Teiichi's life, this is his response.
* CerebusSyndrome: [[spoiler: Shadow Yuuko]] sucker-punches the manga's comedic slice-of-life nature with a tire-iron, especially [[spoiler: when Yuuko's true past is revealed.]]
* ChekhovsGun: Akahito-san. [[spoiler: Turns out Akahito-san is the name of the emissary of the mountain god Yuuko was sacrificed to appease.]]
* ChickMagnet: Teiichi, who has three different women pining after him.
* ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve: To most people, ghosts are only visible if they already believe there's going to be something there, and then they usually see some ghastly specter in line with their fears rather than the real ghost. [[spoiler: Also applies to those who can see a ghost already, as their perception of the ghost can be changed by making them believe the ghost truly looks different.]]
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Momoe.
* ClingyJealousGirl: Yuuko can get jealous of Momoe's crush on Teiichi.
* CreepyBasement: The underground shrine has all the qualities of this, with a bonus corpse.
* CrossdressingVoices: Creator/JunkoMinagawa as Teiichi in the drama CD.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler: Yuuko died very slowly and painfully in a dark CreepyBasement, sacrificed to the village god by superstitious adults (and her own beloved little sister) who broke her leg so she couldn't escape.]]
* CryCute: Kirie is prone to this when she's scared.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Teiichi and Momoe (in the manga; the anime gave her green eyes).
* CuteGhostGirl: Yuuko is downright adorable.
* DancingTheme: In an interesting subversion Yuuko does a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bon_dance Bon Dance]] in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZ-pG5BUGnQ opening.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: Kirie, and Teiichi has shades of it.
* DeathGlare: When Yuuko was [[spoiler:an onryo, she was constantly glaring]].
* DisguisedInDrag / SweetPollyOliver: Teiichi and Kirie switch clothes in one of the extra chapters.
* DyingDeclarationOfHate: Yuuko dies while swearing revenge on [[spoiler:Yukariko and the others who sacrificed her.]]
* EmotionlessGirl: Yuuko was one prior to meeting Teiichi, [[spoiler:as she had cast aside [[ThePowerOfHate the one emotion that kept her rooted in the world of the living]].]]
* EnemyWithout: [[spoiler:Shadow Yuuko is explicitly everything Yuuko's repressed and denied about herself, especially any hurtful memories, unconsciously separated from her to spare her the mental suffering.]]
* EvolvingCredits: At the end of Episode 7, as the closing song plays, Yuuko [[spoiler: is no longer visible performing the song.]]
* {{Expy}}: Yuuko. Long hime cut? Red eyes? Acts either mysterious or mischievous? Likes making one specific boy really uncomfortable? Yeah, sounds a lot like [[XxxHOLiC a certain Witch of Dimensions.]]
* FanDisservice: [[spoiler: As mentioned below, Corpse-Yuuko. Still in a towel.]]
* FateWorseThanDeath: See BreakTheCutie.
* FreezeFrameBonus: The observant will see the screen flicker twice during the 1st trailer. [[spoiler: Pausing it reveals [[http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20111222173818/tasogare-otome/images/8/8e/Shadow.png this horrifying image of shadow Yuuko]].]]
* FirstKiss: Yuuko and Teiichi have theirs in Chapter 18.
* FunbagAirbag: Teiichi accidentally falls face-first into Yuuko's breasts in the special "Shower Room of Fresh Blood" chapter. He gets a {{nosebleed}} from it.
* GenkiGirl: Momoe, and Yuuko from time to time.
* GenreBusting: Horror + Romance + Mystery + Highschool comedy, to name a few.
* GlamourFailure: In the chapter where Kirie first appears, she tries to convince Teiichi to stop seeing Yuuko as a beautiful ghost girl and recognize her as an evil spirit/monster intent on destroying him. Soon after, [[spoiler: Yuuko loses her regular appearance and appears as a rotting corpse for a while, until Teiichi renews his faith in her and she goes back to being beautiful, voluptuous ... oh, and naked]].
* TheGlassesComeOff: [[spoiler:Kirishima Yuuko originally wore glasses, but stopped wearing them once she decided to get revenge against her bullies and destroy the ghost stories of the school.]]
* GhostAmnesia: The whole plot is built around this. [[spoiler:The shadow Yuuko is literally the spectral incarnation of Yuuko's cast-off memories.]]
* GirlishPigtails: Sahara, Minato and Kirie in her childhood.
* GreenEyedMonster: Yuuko is rather upset with Niiya after he returns from summer vacation only to start hanging out with Momoe and Kirie.
* HimeCut: Yuuko keeps her hair like this. [[spoiler: Fitting, as she was a YamatoNadeshiko when she was alive.]]
* HopelessSuitor: Both [[GenkiGirl Momoe]] and [[{{Tsundere}} Kirie]] have crushes on Niiya, but the OfficialCouple is Niiya and Yuuko.
* HumanSacrifice: As the Seven Mysteries come together, Yuuko is revealed to have died this way. [[spoiler: Later chapters reveal she was murdered by ''her own sister'' to stop a plague the villages blamed on a sadistic mountain god and its emissary, Akahito-san.]]
* ImportantHaircut / ExpositoryHairstyleChange: [[spoiler:Kirishima Yuuko started out with long hair kept up in a bun, but after deciding to get revenge, she lets it down. She cuts it short after Kanoe Yuuko and Teiichi save her from becoming a sacrifice.]]
* ItAmusedMe: Yuuko's reasoning for waking Teiichi up in the middle of the night in Chapter 12.
* JacobMarleyApparel: Played with. Yuuko originally appears in the current school uniform; it's Keiichi who convinces her to change into the antique school uniform she wears for the rest of the series.
* JapaneseSchoolClub: Yuuko founds the Paranormal Investigation Club, consisting of herself (as the [[IncrediblyLamePun ghost president]]) and Teiichi. Momoe appears to be a semi-member, despite already being part of the Newspaper Club, and Kirie seems to reluctantly join the circle.
* {{Joshikousei}}: Two different varieties of them, in fact! The modern uniform the female students wear and Yuuko's old fashioned one both apply.
* KarmaHoudini: The bullies who [[spoiler: attempted to sacrifice Kirishima Yuuko get away nearly scott-free aside from having the living daylights scared out of them by the actual Yuuko-san.]]
** LaserGuidedKarma: the bullies who [[spoiler: successfully sacrificed Kanoe Yuuko died in the plague they were trying to stop.]]
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: [[spoiler:Yuuko can apparently cast off any memories that cause her pain or distress. These coalesce into Shadow Yuuko, who, being forced to take on Yuuko's jealousy for Teichii, decided that this time she was going to take all of Yuuko's memories of Teichii from her as well - ''including'' the happy ones.]]
* LiteralSplitPersonality: It's revealed that Shadow Yuuko is the manifestation of Yuuko's negative emotions.
* MarshmallowHell: Teiichi frequently finds himself having his head buried in Yuuko's chest (which is of course initiated by Yuuko). Initially this was part of Yuuko teasing Teiichi, but as they grow closer it's becoming more romantic (and somewhat heartwarming) in nature.
* MeaningfulName:
** The "Yuu" in "Yuuko" means "Dusk/Evening".
** Also [[{{Moe}} Momoe]]. [[IncrediblyLamePun Yeah...]]
* {{Megane}}: Teiichi.
* {{Meganekko}}: Sahara and Kirishima Yuuko in the past.
* MoodWhiplash: All over the place, as the story switches between fanservice and jokes to human sacrifice and evil spirits astoundingly fast.
* TheMourningAfter: [[spoiler: Teiichi adamantly refuses to get over Yuuko after she passes on, going so far as to try to bring her back by spreading the truth about her death and afterlife in the form of a new set of rumors, reasoning that because ''he'' was her final regret she wasn't able to fully pass on. Kirie thinks he's gone insane, but it turns out he's correct.]]
* MsFanservice: Yuuko, my god. And it's surprising, seeing as there are few to no panty-flashes, the fanservice often being done with Yuuko fully dressed.
* MummiesAtTheDinnerTable: [[spoiler:Soon after Yuuko's death, Yukariko reopens the shrine and goes down to see her sister's body. She ends up crying and resting with her head in the dead Yuuko's lap. She's promptly attacked by her sister's ghost.]]
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: When the magnitude and futility of Yuuko's death hits her, her little sister Yukariko has a breakdown. [[spoiler:This was because Yukariko had been one who selected Yuuko as the sacrifice. Driven by guilt, she reopens the sealed shrine hoping Yuuko would still be alive, only to fall down the stairs and land face-first on her sister's corpse. The sight drives her to despair to the point where when Yuuko's vengeful ghost tries to kill her, Yukariko begs her to do it.]]
* MyGreatestFailure: [[spoiler:Yukariko considers her part in killing her sister a SenselessSacrifice.]]
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Yukariko [[spoiler: sacrificed her sister in hopes of stopping the plague. [[SenselessSacrifice It didn't work]].]]
* NonhumanLoverReveal: Teiichi doesn't realize Yuuko is a ghost when he first meets her, though he doesn't fall in love with her until later.
* {{Nosebleed}}: Teiichi has one [[spoiler:during an intimate moment in the school showers, creating a new school mystery.]]
* NotWhatItLooksLike: Momoe walks in on a situation where Yuuko has fallen on top of Teiichi (she'd put on his glasses for a joke, and they really screwed up her vision and balance) and ''then'' started getting flirtatious. Teiichi promptly yelps that "It's not what it looks like!" ...forgetting that the new girl can't see Yuuko, so it ''didn't'' look like anything naughty to her.
* OfficialCouple: Teiichi and Yuuko.
* OneSteveLimit: Averted and justified. Another character named ''Kirishima'' Yuuko eventually appears and the fact that Yuuko is a very common name in Japan is immediately brought up. Sadly, having the same name as the school's infamous Yuuko-san quickly gets some bullies the fodder they need to convince everyone that she has a connection to the ghost of the school and should be ignored at all costs. [[spoiler: This convinces her to take revenge on her tormentors and the ghost stories themselves by tormenting the former and destroying the latter.]] It backfires [[spoiler: when Kirishima's new ghost story ''Akahito-san'' convinces some girls that she should be sacrificed due to her supposed connection to Yuuko-san.]]
* OlderThanTheyLook: Yuuko is old enough to be your grandma, but due to being a ghost, she doesn't visually age, so she still looks and acts like a school girl. However, see also YoungerThanTheyLook below.
* OldSchoolBuilding: The school has been modified a lot over its history, leaving parts that are abandoned and badly neglected. The main characters' clubroom is so decrepit, they are probably breaking every health and safety rule in the book in using it.
* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: Teiichi, other than the fact that he can see ghosts when most others can't.
* OurGhostsAreDifferent:
** Apparently other than being invisible or having their appearance affected by those who do see them, ghosts aren't much different from humans in abilities.
** Shadow Yuuko seems to have a few tricks, however.
** Ghosts aren't just visible to those who have the sight, they're tactile as well
* OvertookTheManga: The first nine episodes are very loyal to the manga, but the anime goes in a somewhat different direction from episode 10 onward. It's a mild example, as it still sticks to the story and characters of the original manga.
* PantyShot: Happens often with Momoe and Kirie, but rarely, if ever, with Yuuko (given the length of her skirt).
* PleaseKillMeIfItSatisfiesYou: Yukariko practically begs [[spoiler:her sister's ghost to kill her during their first encounter.]]
* ThePowerOfHate: How Yuuko [[spoiler: [[StringyHairedGhostGirl came back the first time]].]]
* ThePowerOfLove: How she [[spoiler: [[CuteGhostGirl comes back the second time]].]]
* PurpleEyes: Yukariko has these, and her name even has the Japanese character for "purple" in it. [[spoiler:They're a hint to her plot significance as the only remaining survivor of the ritual Yuuko died in and the person responsible for her death.]]
* PrayerOfMalice: As she's dying, [[spoiler:Yuuko offers one to the god she was sacrificed to, offering her life in exchange for the ability to wreak vengeance from beyond the grave]].
* PsychoticSmirk:
** [[spoiler: Shadow Yuuko]] has this down to an artform.
** At the end of chapter 38, [[spoiler:Yukariko]] wears this alongside HiddenEyes [[spoiler:when she decides to sacrifice her sister]].
** [[spoiler:Yuuko died with this expression, having sworn to give herself up to hatred and kill everyone involved in her death.]]
* RaisedByGrandparents: Kirie was raised by her Grandma Yukariko, Yuuko's little sister.
* RapunzelHair: Yuuko-san, Kirishima Yuuko, [[spoiler: Shadow Yuuko, and Yukariko in her youth]] all have very long hair.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Averted with Yuuko and Kirie, [[spoiler: but played straight with Shadow Yuuko.]]
* SchoolgirlLesbians: ''The Six Year Sakura'' legend revolves around this.
* SenselessSacrifice: Yuuko was sacrificed to appease a malicious god the villagers believed was causing a devastating plague. Not only did it not work, it actually backfired horrifically.
* TheSevenMysteries: This school's seven mysteries are (albeit warped) stories based on parts of Yuuko's death.
** The Haunted Mirror
** Underground Demon
** Spirited Away
** The Rock of Curses
** Akahito
** The Inter-dimensional 13 Steps
** Averted with the seventh mystery however, when it's later revealed by [[spoiler: Yuuko's still living sister]] that there are actually only six mysteries, the rumour of seven of them just spread because [[RuleOfSeven seven sounds better]]. Played straight again at the story's end though when Teiichi creates a new one, [[spoiler: Yuuko's Lover.]]
* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: Yuuko is an odd example. Yuuko sees no reason for modesty in her ghost form, stripping out of one school uniform to put on another right in front of Teiichi, and not bothered at all when, despite having turned away, he gets a ''good'' look in a mirror. When Teiichi finds her actual corpse, fifty-some years dead, however, it's another story entirely -- she's utterly embarrassed, saying that her bones are as naked as a person can possibly get, begs him to cover the body, and calls him a pervert for not doing so immediately. [[spoiler: The reason she has no modesty over her ghostly body is that all of her negative emotions have been dumped onto shadow-Yuuko]].
* ShipTease: [[spoiler: Before they finally spit it out]] Yuuko and Teiichi have this a lot. There are also hints of Kirie/Momoe.
* ShootTheShaggyDogStory: Yukariko's flashback and [[spoiler: Shadow]] Yuuko's memories reveal that [[spoiler: Yuuko was sacrificed by her fellow villagers to a malicious god with her own sister acting as the god's priest, Akahito-san, in order to stop a plague ravaging the village. The sacrifice didn't work, and worse, Yuuko returned as a StringyHairedGhostGirl determined to kill those responsible for her murder.]]
* SlasherSmile:
** [[spoiler:Shadow Yuuko, combined with MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily. A large part of ''why'' she's terrifying.]]
** In the memories of Yuuko's past, [[spoiler: Yukariko sports one when she starts ranting at her sister about having to perform the ritual to appease the mountain god, and a PsychoticSmirk when she decides to sacrifice her sister]].
* StepfordSmiler: To the others, Yuuko is extraordinarily upbeat and nonchalant about her own death. [[spoiler:She has a good reason for this - all her negative emotions have been piled onto Shadow Yuuko, leaving her with only the positives.]]
* StringyHairedGhostGirl: When she first hears of her, Kirie suspects this of Yuuko, though [[CuteGhostGirl she's actually far from it.]] [[spoiler: Chapter 40 reveals Yuuko really ''was'' a textbook example of an onryo all along, having been consumed by rage and hatred towards her village - and especially her sister - when she died. However, she couldn't bring herself to kill Yukariko, leaving her grudge unfulfilled, and eventually cast aside her negative emotions and memories, which manifested as Shadow Yuuko.]]
* TeensAreMonsters: Subverted: Yukariko does something truly monstrous but only because she's being manipulated by superstitious and hysterical adults. Unfortunately by the time she finally comes to her senses it's far too late.
* TheTease: Yuuko enjoys teasing Teiichi.
* ThanksForTheMammary:
** In the first chapter, Teiichi doesn't quite believe Yuuko is a ghost, so he reaches out to grasp her shoulder, reasoning that a ghost will be insubstantial. That's just when she turns to face him, though, so he gets a handful of '''quite''' substantial breast. Yuuko is totally unfazed by this (see InnocentFanserviceGirl). She even jokes about it. ''"I suppose these tend to be quite the temptation."''
** It wouldn't be the last time, either. While convincing Momoe that he's banishing an evil spirit, Teiichi gets another handful of Yuuko's considerable endowments. And he gets a full on [[MarshmallowHell faceful]] in a manga story when Yuuko insists on using the shower with him.
** [[spoiler: The first manages to be somewhat plot-relevant, as Teiichi brings back Yuuko's memories of him by getting another handful.]]
** Kirie, who is quite jealous of Yuuko's figure, gets a handful while unthinkingly stiff-arming Yuuko and is shocked to discover she has a tactile as well as visual presence, which makes her even more jealous of Yuuko's figure.
* ThisIsUnforgivable: In the flashback arc, Yuuko initially couldn't comprehend why she - who had been [[NiceGuy nice to everyone]] - was chosen for a superstitious sacrifice. On the brink of death, she utters this [[MadnessMantra over and over]] when she realizes [[spoiler:her sister was the one who had chosen her, and the hatred born of this betrayal is what turned her into an onryo]].
* ThroughHisStomach: In one of the early chapters, Yuuko is shown feeding Teiichi from a bento. On the next page, she pulls him down onto her LapPillow. He's a bit weirded out by this because Yuuko, although very good-looking and ''[[BuxomIsBetter built]]'', has been dead for something like fifty years.
* TrueSight: Though everyone can see ''something'' of Yuuko if they expect something to be there (often of the horrific sort, which changes how she looks to them), only Teiichi and Kirie can see Yuuko [[spoiler: and the second, cast-off version of Yuuko]] as they really are. [[spoiler: Strangely, Yuuko's sister can see Shadow Yuuko as well, but not the normal Yuuko, hinting at her guilty past.]]
* {{Tsundere}}: Kirie.
* TwelveEpisodeAnime
* UncannyFamilyResemblance: Kirie is Yuuko's grandniece. A resemblance, particularly of the eyes, was hinted at as soon as Kirie showed up, but in Chapter 20, she gets put into a long-haired HimeCut wig ... and the resemblance just ''jumps'' right out -- except for her [[ACupAngst figure]] (and the CatGirl ears). It's even noted by Kirie's grandmother, Yukariko, who is Yuuko's younger sister.
* UndignifiedDeath: Yuuko's left leg was broken to the point where the bone was sticking through and then she was tossed down a staircase and left to starve.
* UnresolvedSexualTension: There's so much between Teiichi and Yuuko it's not even funny. [[spoiler: They finally confessed their feelings in chapter 18.]]
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Yukariko honestly believed it was her family duty to sacrifice what she truly loved the most.
** Kirie wants to solve the seven mysteries not to help Yuuko but to get rid of her because she perceives her as a threat.
* WeirdnessCensor: Yuuko claims she's fully visible in a crowd because everyone else just assumes she's supposed to be there and has about 50 years worth of MeasuringDay sheets on file to prove it.
* WhamEpisode:
** Episode 7 of the anime brings together a number of plot points that the anime had been skipping over (curse rock, [[spoiler:shadow-Yuuko's identity]], Yuuko's breakdown etc) in one wham-packed episode.
** Chapter 37 reveals that Yuuko was killed by [[spoiler: her own sister]].
* {{Yandere}}: One of the SchoolgirlLesbians featured in chapter 10. Yuuko shows signs whenever Momoe gets too friendly with Teiichi, especially in Chapter 17, although this is partially due to [[spoiler:Shadow Yuuko's influence]].
* YoungerThanTheyLook: Most characters due to the art style.
** Teiichi is twelve years old.
** Momoe is actually older than him, but still barely looks her age at thirteen.
** Yuuko look older than the fifteen years old she was when she died. [[spoiler: Perhaps justified as splitting all of her negativity into Dark Yuuko leaves Yuuko an idealized version of herself.]] As a decades-old ghost who doesn't age, she later [[OlderThanTheyLook inverts]] the trope.
* YourMindMakesItReal: Yuuko's aspect depends to a great extent on what one expects to see. Fear makes her more frightening and vice-versa. if you expect Shadow Yuuko that's the version you'll get, and Niiya's perception of Yuuko becomes in response to Kirie's doubts.
* ZettaiRyouiki: Yuuko on occasions in the Anime. In the Manga she mostly wears ProperTightsWithASkirt and teases Kirie for running around barelegged.
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''Tasogare Otome x Amnesia'' (aka ''Dusk Maiden of Amnesia'') is a [[GenreBusting comedy/tragedy/horror/supernatural/shounen/mystery/romance/ecchi]] manga by Creator/{{Maybe}} (and yes, that's the creator's [[OnlyOneName name]]).
Kanoe Yuuko has been a ghost in the OldSchoolBuilding for a long time without being able to make contact with the living, until first-year junior high student Niiya Teiichi came along. Now they try to solve the mysterious circumstances under which Yuuko died, hindered by the fact there are at least ''seven'' different ghost stories about the school, some of which are possibly based on distorted accounts of her death.
An [[AnimatedAdaptation anime adaptation]] by Creator/SilverLink aired as part of the Spring2012AnimeSeason.
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!!Examples:
* ACupAngst: Kirie is jealous of Yuuko in this regard.
* AdaptationDistillation: The anime cut out a number of elements, such as Okonogi being a year older and a member of the newspaper club.
* AdaptationDyeJob: Yuuko and Kirie have normal black hair in the manga while the anime gives them relatively dark/muted purplish and green-bluish hair respectively.
* TheAloner: For nearly 50 years, Yuuko has wandered the labyrinthine school where she died. Though she can still interact with physical objects, she's often completely unseen by other people; she can still try talking to them, but they only register her voice as coming from 'someone over there'. People who ''do'' catch glimpses of her are quickly frightened off by [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve the horrifying apparition they expect to see in a 'haunted school',]] further alienating her from the world. It's a miracle she hadn't broken down after all that time... [[spoiler:though later chapters reveal that her ghostly coping mechanism is a bit... [[ShadowArchetype extreme.]]]]
* ArtShift: A few. Chapter 18 has a sudden one, while Chapter 21 has several panels containing little more than rough outlines. Whether these are due to a [[CreatorBreakdown creator breakdown]], [[DeusExMachina deus ex machina]], [[ExecutiveMeddling executive meddling]] or the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Sendai_earthquake_and_tsunami 2011 Sendai Earthquake]] is as of yet unknown.
* [[spoiler: [[BackFromTheDead Back From The Afterlife]]: Yuuko returns due to Teiichi's efforts.]]
* BarbieDollAnatomy: Played straight often, since we see Yuuko (and occasionally one of the other girls) at least partially nude every few chapters.
* BeliefMakesYouStupid: In the flashback arc Yuuko espouses this, scornfully criticizing the village elders and her sister for turning to old-fashioned superstitions out of desperation.
* {{Bishonen}}: Teiichi. Most obvious during the times he (reluctantly) cross dressed.
* BleachedUnderpants: Explains the Fanservice. Also, two minor characters from the early chapters are from one of Maybe's hentai stories.
* BoyMeetsGhoul: Teiichi and Yuuko sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G...
* BreakTheCutie:
** Yuuko's past. [[spoiler:She was killed by other villagers and her own beloved sister by having her leg broken and thrown into a basement to slowly die.]]
** [[spoiler: Yukariko also suffered from this event. She sacrified her sister because she was most important to her and authentically believed that it was the way to cure the plague. Problem was that it didn't. Everyone around her died and her father committed suicide over Yuuko's death. The cherry on top was seeing Yuuko's ghost and having it try to kill her. When it chose to spare her, she took it to mean that Yuuko wanted her to suffer by living. For the rest of her life, she'd continue to be haunted by her sins since she only ever saw Yuuko's shadow, and never the other part of her.]]
* CainAndAbel: [[spoiler:Yuuko's younger sister Yukariko betrayed her and selected her to be the HumanSacrifice to stop a plague that infested their village. Yuuko returned as an evil spirit to get her revenge on Yukariko, but in the end she couldn't bring herself to kill her sister.]]
* CaughtTheHeartOnHisSleeve: When Yuuko decides to walk out of Teiichi's life, this is his response.
* CerebusSyndrome: [[spoiler: Shadow Yuuko]] sucker-punches the manga's comedic slice-of-life nature with a tire-iron, especially [[spoiler: when Yuuko's true past is revealed.]]
* ChekhovsGun: Akahito-san. [[spoiler: Turns out Akahito-san is the name of the emissary of the mountain god Yuuko was sacrificed to appease.]]
* ChickMagnet: Teiichi, who has three different women pining after him.
* ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve: To most people, ghosts are only visible if they already believe there's going to be something there, and then they usually see some ghastly specter in line with their fears rather than the real ghost. [[spoiler: Also applies to those who can see a ghost already, as their perception of the ghost can be changed by making them believe the ghost truly looks different.]]
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Momoe.
* ClingyJealousGirl: Yuuko can get jealous of Momoe's crush on Teiichi.
* CreepyBasement: The underground shrine has all the qualities of this, with a bonus corpse.
* CrossdressingVoices: Creator/JunkoMinagawa as Teiichi in the drama CD.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler: Yuuko died very slowly and painfully in a dark CreepyBasement, sacrificed to the village god by superstitious adults (and her own beloved little sister) who broke her leg so she couldn't escape.]]
* CryCute: Kirie is prone to this when she's scared.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Teiichi and Momoe (in the manga; the anime gave her green eyes).
* CuteGhostGirl: Yuuko is downright adorable.
* DancingTheme: In an interesting subversion Yuuko does a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bon_dance Bon Dance]] in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZ-pG5BUGnQ opening.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: Kirie, and Teiichi has shades of it.
* DeathGlare: When Yuuko was [[spoiler:an onryo, she was constantly glaring]].
* DisguisedInDrag / SweetPollyOliver: Teiichi and Kirie switch clothes in one of the extra chapters.
* DyingDeclarationOfHate: Yuuko dies while swearing revenge on [[spoiler:Yukariko and the others who sacrificed her.]]
* EmotionlessGirl: Yuuko was one prior to meeting Teiichi, [[spoiler:as she had cast aside [[ThePowerOfHate the one emotion that kept her rooted in the world of the living]].]]
* EnemyWithout: [[spoiler:Shadow Yuuko is explicitly everything Yuuko's repressed and denied about herself, especially any hurtful memories, unconsciously separated from her to spare her the mental suffering.]]
* EvolvingCredits: At the end of Episode 7, as the closing song plays, Yuuko [[spoiler: is no longer visible performing the song.]]
* {{Expy}}: Yuuko. Long hime cut? Red eyes? Acts either mysterious or mischievous? Likes making one specific boy really uncomfortable? Yeah, sounds a lot like [[XxxHOLiC a certain Witch of Dimensions.]]
* FanDisservice: [[spoiler: As mentioned below, Corpse-Yuuko. Still in a towel.]]
* FateWorseThanDeath: See BreakTheCutie.
* FreezeFrameBonus: The observant will see the screen flicker twice during the 1st trailer. [[spoiler: Pausing it reveals [[http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20111222173818/tasogare-otome/images/8/8e/Shadow.png this horrifying image of shadow Yuuko]].]]
* FirstKiss: Yuuko and Teiichi have theirs in Chapter 18.
* FunbagAirbag: Teiichi accidentally falls face-first into Yuuko's breasts in the special "Shower Room of Fresh Blood" chapter. He gets a {{nosebleed}} from it.
* GenkiGirl: Momoe, and Yuuko from time to time.
* GenreBusting: Horror + Romance + Mystery + Highschool comedy, to name a few.
* GlamourFailure: In the chapter where Kirie first appears, she tries to convince Teiichi to stop seeing Yuuko as a beautiful ghost girl and recognize her as an evil spirit/monster intent on destroying him. Soon after, [[spoiler: Yuuko loses her regular appearance and appears as a rotting corpse for a while, until Teiichi renews his faith in her and she goes back to being beautiful, voluptuous ... oh, and naked]].
* TheGlassesComeOff: [[spoiler:Kirishima Yuuko originally wore glasses, but stopped wearing them once she decided to get revenge against her bullies and destroy the ghost stories of the school.]]
* GhostAmnesia: The whole plot is built around this. [[spoiler:The shadow Yuuko is literally the spectral incarnation of Yuuko's cast-off memories.]]
* GirlishPigtails: Sahara, Minato and Kirie in her childhood.
* GreenEyedMonster: Yuuko is rather upset with Niiya after he returns from summer vacation only to start hanging out with Momoe and Kirie.
* HimeCut: Yuuko keeps her hair like this. [[spoiler: Fitting, as she was a YamatoNadeshiko when she was alive.]]
* HopelessSuitor: Both [[GenkiGirl Momoe]] and [[{{Tsundere}} Kirie]] have crushes on Niiya, but the OfficialCouple is Niiya and Yuuko.
* HumanSacrifice: As the Seven Mysteries come together, Yuuko is revealed to have died this way. [[spoiler: Later chapters reveal she was murdered by ''her own sister'' to stop a plague the villages blamed on a sadistic mountain god and its emissary, Akahito-san.]]
* ImportantHaircut / ExpositoryHairstyleChange: [[spoiler:Kirishima Yuuko started out with long hair kept up in a bun, but after deciding to get revenge, she lets it down. She cuts it short after Kanoe Yuuko and Teiichi save her from becoming a sacrifice.]]
* ItAmusedMe: Yuuko's reasoning for waking Teiichi up in the middle of the night in Chapter 12.
* JacobMarleyApparel: Played with. Yuuko originally appears in the current school uniform; it's Keiichi who convinces her to change into the antique school uniform she wears for the rest of the series.
* JapaneseSchoolClub: Yuuko founds the Paranormal Investigation Club, consisting of herself (as the [[IncrediblyLamePun ghost president]]) and Teiichi. Momoe appears to be a semi-member, despite already being part of the Newspaper Club, and Kirie seems to reluctantly join the circle.
* {{Joshikousei}}: Two different varieties of them, in fact! The modern uniform the female students wear and Yuuko's old fashioned one both apply.
* KarmaHoudini: The bullies who [[spoiler: attempted to sacrifice Kirishima Yuuko get away nearly scott-free aside from having the living daylights scared out of them by the actual Yuuko-san.]]
** LaserGuidedKarma: the bullies who [[spoiler: successfully sacrificed Kanoe Yuuko died in the plague they were trying to stop.]]
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: [[spoiler:Yuuko can apparently cast off any memories that cause her pain or distress. These coalesce into Shadow Yuuko, who, being forced to take on Yuuko's jealousy for Teichii, decided that this time she was going to take all of Yuuko's memories of Teichii from her as well - ''including'' the happy ones.]]
* LiteralSplitPersonality: It's revealed that Shadow Yuuko is the manifestation of Yuuko's negative emotions.
* MarshmallowHell: Teiichi frequently finds himself having his head buried in Yuuko's chest (which is of course initiated by Yuuko). Initially this was part of Yuuko teasing Teiichi, but as they grow closer it's becoming more romantic (and somewhat heartwarming) in nature.
* MeaningfulName:
** The "Yuu" in "Yuuko" means "Dusk/Evening".
** Also [[{{Moe}} Momoe]]. [[IncrediblyLamePun Yeah...]]
* {{Megane}}: Teiichi.
* {{Meganekko}}: Sahara and Kirishima Yuuko in the past.
* MoodWhiplash: All over the place, as the story switches between fanservice and jokes to human sacrifice and evil spirits astoundingly fast.
* TheMourningAfter: [[spoiler: Teiichi adamantly refuses to get over Yuuko after she passes on, going so far as to try to bring her back by spreading the truth about her death and afterlife in the form of a new set of rumors, reasoning that because ''he'' was her final regret she wasn't able to fully pass on. Kirie thinks he's gone insane, but it turns out he's correct.]]
* MsFanservice: Yuuko, my god. And it's surprising, seeing as there are few to no panty-flashes, the fanservice often being done with Yuuko fully dressed.
* MummiesAtTheDinnerTable: [[spoiler:Soon after Yuuko's death, Yukariko reopens the shrine and goes down to see her sister's body. She ends up crying and resting with her head in the dead Yuuko's lap. She's promptly attacked by her sister's ghost.]]
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: When the magnitude and futility of Yuuko's death hits her, her little sister Yukariko has a breakdown. [[spoiler:This was because Yukariko had been one who selected Yuuko as the sacrifice. Driven by guilt, she reopens the sealed shrine hoping Yuuko would still be alive, only to fall down the stairs and land face-first on her sister's corpse. The sight drives her to despair to the point where when Yuuko's vengeful ghost tries to kill her, Yukariko begs her to do it.]]
* MyGreatestFailure: [[spoiler:Yukariko considers her part in killing her sister a SenselessSacrifice.]]
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Yukariko [[spoiler: sacrificed her sister in hopes of stopping the plague. [[SenselessSacrifice It didn't work]].]]
* NonhumanLoverReveal: Teiichi doesn't realize Yuuko is a ghost when he first meets her, though he doesn't fall in love with her until later.
* {{Nosebleed}}: Teiichi has one [[spoiler:during an intimate moment in the school showers, creating a new school mystery.]]
* NotWhatItLooksLike: Momoe walks in on a situation where Yuuko has fallen on top of Teiichi (she'd put on his glasses for a joke, and they really screwed up her vision and balance) and ''then'' started getting flirtatious. Teiichi promptly yelps that "It's not what it looks like!" ...forgetting that the new girl can't see Yuuko, so it ''didn't'' look like anything naughty to her.
* OfficialCouple: Teiichi and Yuuko.
* OneSteveLimit: Averted and justified. Another character named ''Kirishima'' Yuuko eventually appears and the fact that Yuuko is a very common name in Japan is immediately brought up. Sadly, having the same name as the school's infamous Yuuko-san quickly gets some bullies the fodder they need to convince everyone that she has a connection to the ghost of the school and should be ignored at all costs. [[spoiler: This convinces her to take revenge on her tormentors and the ghost stories themselves by tormenting the former and destroying the latter.]] It backfires [[spoiler: when Kirishima's new ghost story ''Akahito-san'' convinces some girls that she should be sacrificed due to her supposed connection to Yuuko-san.]]
* OlderThanTheyLook: Yuuko is old enough to be your grandma, but due to being a ghost, she doesn't visually age, so she still looks and acts like a school girl. However, see also YoungerThanTheyLook below.
* OldSchoolBuilding: The school has been modified a lot over its history, leaving parts that are abandoned and badly neglected. The main characters' clubroom is so decrepit, they are probably breaking every health and safety rule in the book in using it.
* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: Teiichi, other than the fact that he can see ghosts when most others can't.
* OurGhostsAreDifferent:
** Apparently other than being invisible or having their appearance affected by those who do see them, ghosts aren't much different from humans in abilities.
** Shadow Yuuko seems to have a few tricks, however.
** Ghosts aren't just visible to those who have the sight, they're tactile as well
* OvertookTheManga: The first nine episodes are very loyal to the manga, but the anime goes in a somewhat different direction from episode 10 onward. It's a mild example, as it still sticks to the story and characters of the original manga.
* PantyShot: Happens often with Momoe and Kirie, but rarely, if ever, with Yuuko (given the length of her skirt).
* PleaseKillMeIfItSatisfiesYou: Yukariko practically begs [[spoiler:her sister's ghost to kill her during their first encounter.]]
* ThePowerOfHate: How Yuuko [[spoiler: [[StringyHairedGhostGirl came back the first time]].]]
* ThePowerOfLove: How she [[spoiler: [[CuteGhostGirl comes back the second time]].]]
* PurpleEyes: Yukariko has these, and her name even has the Japanese character for "purple" in it. [[spoiler:They're a hint to her plot significance as the only remaining survivor of the ritual Yuuko died in and the person responsible for her death.]]
* PrayerOfMalice: As she's dying, [[spoiler:Yuuko offers one to the god she was sacrificed to, offering her life in exchange for the ability to wreak vengeance from beyond the grave]].
* PsychoticSmirk:
** [[spoiler: Shadow Yuuko]] has this down to an artform.
** At the end of chapter 38, [[spoiler:Yukariko]] wears this alongside HiddenEyes [[spoiler:when she decides to sacrifice her sister]].
** [[spoiler:Yuuko died with this expression, having sworn to give herself up to hatred and kill everyone involved in her death.]]
* RaisedByGrandparents: Kirie was raised by her Grandma Yukariko, Yuuko's little sister.
* RapunzelHair: Yuuko-san, Kirishima Yuuko, [[spoiler: Shadow Yuuko, and Yukariko in her youth]] all have very long hair.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Averted with Yuuko and Kirie, [[spoiler: but played straight with Shadow Yuuko.]]
* SchoolgirlLesbians: ''The Six Year Sakura'' legend revolves around this.
* SenselessSacrifice: Yuuko was sacrificed to appease a malicious god the villagers believed was causing a devastating plague. Not only did it not work, it actually backfired horrifically.
* TheSevenMysteries: This school's seven mysteries are (albeit warped) stories based on parts of Yuuko's death.
** The Haunted Mirror
** Underground Demon
** Spirited Away
** The Rock of Curses
** Akahito
** The Inter-dimensional 13 Steps
** Averted with the seventh mystery however, when it's later revealed by [[spoiler: Yuuko's still living sister]] that there are actually only six mysteries, the rumour of seven of them just spread because [[RuleOfSeven seven sounds better]]. Played straight again at the story's end though when Teiichi creates a new one, [[spoiler: Yuuko's Lover.]]
* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: Yuuko is an odd example. Yuuko sees no reason for modesty in her ghost form, stripping out of one school uniform to put on another right in front of Teiichi, and not bothered at all when, despite having turned away, he gets a ''good'' look in a mirror. When Teiichi finds her actual corpse, fifty-some years dead, however, it's another story entirely -- she's utterly embarrassed, saying that her bones are as naked as a person can possibly get, begs him to cover the body, and calls him a pervert for not doing so immediately. [[spoiler: The reason she has no modesty over her ghostly body is that all of her negative emotions have been dumped onto shadow-Yuuko]].
* ShipTease: [[spoiler: Before they finally spit it out]] Yuuko and Teiichi have this a lot. There are also hints of Kirie/Momoe.
* ShootTheShaggyDogStory: Yukariko's flashback and [[spoiler: Shadow]] Yuuko's memories reveal that [[spoiler: Yuuko was sacrificed by her fellow villagers to a malicious god with her own sister acting as the god's priest, Akahito-san, in order to stop a plague ravaging the village. The sacrifice didn't work, and worse, Yuuko returned as a StringyHairedGhostGirl determined to kill those responsible for her murder.]]
* SlasherSmile:
** [[spoiler:Shadow Yuuko, combined with MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily. A large part of ''why'' she's terrifying.]]
** In the memories of Yuuko's past, [[spoiler: Yukariko sports one when she starts ranting at her sister about having to perform the ritual to appease the mountain god, and a PsychoticSmirk when she decides to sacrifice her sister]].
* StepfordSmiler: To the others, Yuuko is extraordinarily upbeat and nonchalant about her own death. [[spoiler:She has a good reason for this - all her negative emotions have been piled onto Shadow Yuuko, leaving her with only the positives.]]
* StringyHairedGhostGirl: When she first hears of her, Kirie suspects this of Yuuko, though [[CuteGhostGirl she's actually far from it.]] [[spoiler: Chapter 40 reveals Yuuko really ''was'' a textbook example of an onryo all along, having been consumed by rage and hatred towards her village - and especially her sister - when she died. However, she couldn't bring herself to kill Yukariko, leaving her grudge unfulfilled, and eventually cast aside her negative emotions and memories, which manifested as Shadow Yuuko.]]
* TeensAreMonsters: Subverted: Yukariko does something truly monstrous but only because she's being manipulated by superstitious and hysterical adults. Unfortunately by the time she finally comes to her senses it's far too late.
* TheTease: Yuuko enjoys teasing Teiichi.
* ThanksForTheMammary:
** In the first chapter, Teiichi doesn't quite believe Yuuko is a ghost, so he reaches out to grasp her shoulder, reasoning that a ghost will be insubstantial. That's just when she turns to face him, though, so he gets a handful of '''quite''' substantial breast. Yuuko is totally unfazed by this (see InnocentFanserviceGirl). She even jokes about it. ''"I suppose these tend to be quite the temptation."''
** It wouldn't be the last time, either. While convincing Momoe that he's banishing an evil spirit, Teiichi gets another handful of Yuuko's considerable endowments. And he gets a full on [[MarshmallowHell faceful]] in a manga story when Yuuko insists on using the shower with him.
** [[spoiler: The first manages to be somewhat plot-relevant, as Teiichi brings back Yuuko's memories of him by getting another handful.]]
** Kirie, who is quite jealous of Yuuko's figure, gets a handful while unthinkingly stiff-arming Yuuko and is shocked to discover she has a tactile as well as visual presence, which makes her even more jealous of Yuuko's figure.
* ThisIsUnforgivable: In the flashback arc, Yuuko initially couldn't comprehend why she - who had been [[NiceGuy nice to everyone]] - was chosen for a superstitious sacrifice. On the brink of death, she utters this [[MadnessMantra over and over]] when she realizes [[spoiler:her sister was the one who had chosen her, and the hatred born of this betrayal is what turned her into an onryo]].
* ThroughHisStomach: In one of the early chapters, Yuuko is shown feeding Teiichi from a bento. On the next page, she pulls him down onto her LapPillow. He's a bit weirded out by this because Yuuko, although very good-looking and ''[[BuxomIsBetter built]]'', has been dead for something like fifty years.
* TrueSight: Though everyone can see ''something'' of Yuuko if they expect something to be there (often of the horrific sort, which changes how she looks to them), only Teiichi and Kirie can see Yuuko [[spoiler: and the second, cast-off version of Yuuko]] as they really are. [[spoiler: Strangely, Yuuko's sister can see Shadow Yuuko as well, but not the normal Yuuko, hinting at her guilty past.]]
* {{Tsundere}}: Kirie.
* TwelveEpisodeAnime
* UncannyFamilyResemblance: Kirie is Yuuko's grandniece. A resemblance, particularly of the eyes, was hinted at as soon as Kirie showed up, but in Chapter 20, she gets put into a long-haired HimeCut wig ... and the resemblance just ''jumps'' right out -- except for her [[ACupAngst figure]] (and the CatGirl ears). It's even noted by Kirie's grandmother, Yukariko, who is Yuuko's younger sister.
* UndignifiedDeath: Yuuko's left leg was broken to the point where the bone was sticking through and then she was tossed down a staircase and left to starve.
* UnresolvedSexualTension: There's so much between Teiichi and Yuuko it's not even funny. [[spoiler: They finally confessed their feelings in chapter 18.]]
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Yukariko honestly believed it was her family duty to sacrifice what she truly loved the most.
** Kirie wants to solve the seven mysteries not to help Yuuko but to get rid of her because she perceives her as a threat.
* WeirdnessCensor: Yuuko claims she's fully visible in a crowd because everyone else just assumes she's supposed to be there and has about 50 years worth of MeasuringDay sheets on file to prove it.
* WhamEpisode:
** Episode 7 of the anime brings together a number of plot points that the anime had been skipping over (curse rock, [[spoiler:shadow-Yuuko's identity]], Yuuko's breakdown etc) in one wham-packed episode.
** Chapter 37 reveals that Yuuko was killed by [[spoiler: her own sister]].
* {{Yandere}}: One of the SchoolgirlLesbians featured in chapter 10. Yuuko shows signs whenever Momoe gets too friendly with Teiichi, especially in Chapter 17, although this is partially due to [[spoiler:Shadow Yuuko's influence]].
* YoungerThanTheyLook: Most characters due to the art style.
** Teiichi is twelve years old.
** Momoe is actually older than him, but still barely looks her age at thirteen.
** Yuuko look older than the fifteen years old she was when she died. [[spoiler: Perhaps justified as splitting all of her negativity into Dark Yuuko leaves Yuuko an idealized version of herself.]] As a decades-old ghost who doesn't age, she later [[OlderThanTheyLook inverts]] the trope.
* YourMindMakesItReal: Yuuko's aspect depends to a great extent on what one expects to see. Fear makes her more frightening and vice-versa. if you expect Shadow Yuuko that's the version you'll get, and Niiya's perception of Yuuko becomes in response to Kirie's doubts.
* ZettaiRyouiki: Yuuko on occasions in the Anime. In the Manga she mostly wears ProperTightsWithASkirt and teases Kirie for running around barelegged.
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[[caption-width-right:250: Hauntings: More awkward than you'd think.]]
''Tasogare Otome x Amnesia'' (aka ''Dusk Maiden of Amnesia'') is a [[GenreBusting comedy/tragedy/horror/supernatural/shounen/mystery/romance/ecchi]] manga by Creator/{{Maybe}} (and yes, that's the creator's [[OnlyOneName name]]).
Kanoe Yuuko has been a ghost in the OldSchoolBuilding for a long time without being able to make contact with the living, until first-year junior high student Niiya Teiichi came along. Now they try to solve the mysterious circumstances under which Yuuko died, hindered by the fact there are at least ''seven'' different ghost stories about the school, some of which are possibly based on distorted accounts of her death.
An [[AnimatedAdaptation anime adaptation]] by Creator/SilverLink aired as part of the Spring2012AnimeSeason.
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!!Examples:
* ACupAngst: Kirie is jealous of Yuuko in this regard.
* AdaptationDistillation: The anime cut out a number of elements, such as Okonogi being a year older and a member of the newspaper club.
* AdaptationDyeJob: Yuuko and Kirie have normal black hair in the manga while the anime gives them relatively dark/muted purplish and green-bluish hair respectively.
* TheAloner: For nearly 50 years, Yuuko has wandered the labyrinthine school where she died. Though she can still interact with physical objects, she's often completely unseen by other people; she can still try talking to them, but they only register her voice as coming from 'someone over there'. People who ''do'' catch glimpses of her are quickly frightened off by [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve the horrifying apparition they expect to see in a 'haunted school',]] further alienating her from the world. It's a miracle she hadn't broken down after all that time... [[spoiler:though later chapters reveal that her ghostly coping mechanism is a bit... [[ShadowArchetype extreme.]]]]
* ArtShift: A few. Chapter 18 has a sudden one, while Chapter 21 has several panels containing little more than rough outlines. Whether these are due to a [[CreatorBreakdown creator breakdown]], [[DeusExMachina deus ex machina]], [[ExecutiveMeddling executive meddling]] or the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Sendai_earthquake_and_tsunami 2011 Sendai Earthquake]] is as of yet unknown.
* [[spoiler: [[BackFromTheDead Back From The Afterlife]]: Yuuko returns due to Teiichi's efforts.]]
* BarbieDollAnatomy: Played straight often, since we see Yuuko (and occasionally one of the other girls) at least partially nude every few chapters.
* BeliefMakesYouStupid: In the flashback arc Yuuko espouses this, scornfully criticizing the village elders and her sister for turning to old-fashioned superstitions out of desperation.
* {{Bishonen}}: Teiichi. Most obvious during the times he (reluctantly) cross dressed.
* BleachedUnderpants: Explains the Fanservice. Also, two minor characters from the early chapters are from one of Maybe's hentai stories.
* BoyMeetsGhoul: Teiichi and Yuuko sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G...
* BreakTheCutie:
** Yuuko's past. [[spoiler:She was killed by other villagers and her own beloved sister by having her leg broken and thrown into a basement to slowly die.]]
** [[spoiler: Yukariko also suffered from this event. She sacrified her sister because she was most important to her and authentically believed that it was the way to cure the plague. Problem was that it didn't. Everyone around her died and her father committed suicide over Yuuko's death. The cherry on top was seeing Yuuko's ghost and having it try to kill her. When it chose to spare her, she took it to mean that Yuuko wanted her to suffer by living. For the rest of her life, she'd continue to be haunted by her sins since she only ever saw Yuuko's shadow, and never the other part of her.]]
* CainAndAbel: [[spoiler:Yuuko's younger sister Yukariko betrayed her and selected her to be the HumanSacrifice to stop a plague that infested their village. Yuuko returned as an evil spirit to get her revenge on Yukariko, but in the end she couldn't bring herself to kill her sister.]]
* CaughtTheHeartOnHisSleeve: When Yuuko decides to walk out of Teiichi's life, this is his response.
* CerebusSyndrome: [[spoiler: Shadow Yuuko]] sucker-punches the manga's comedic slice-of-life nature with a tire-iron, especially [[spoiler: when Yuuko's true past is revealed.]]
* ChekhovsGun: Akahito-san. [[spoiler: Turns out Akahito-san is the name of the emissary of the mountain god Yuuko was sacrificed to appease.]]
* ChickMagnet: Teiichi, who has three different women pining after him.
* ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve: To most people, ghosts are only visible if they already believe there's going to be something there, and then they usually see some ghastly specter in line with their fears rather than the real ghost. [[spoiler: Also applies to those who can see a ghost already, as their perception of the ghost can be changed by making them believe the ghost truly looks different.]]
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Momoe.
* ClingyJealousGirl: Yuuko can get jealous of Momoe's crush on Teiichi.
* CreepyBasement: The underground shrine has all the qualities of this, with a bonus corpse.
* CrossdressingVoices: Creator/JunkoMinagawa as Teiichi in the drama CD.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler: Yuuko died very slowly and painfully in a dark CreepyBasement, sacrificed to the village god by superstitious adults (and her own beloved little sister) who broke her leg so she couldn't escape.]]
* CryCute: Kirie is prone to this when she's scared.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Teiichi and Momoe (in the manga; the anime gave her green eyes).
* CuteGhostGirl: Yuuko is downright adorable.
* DancingTheme: In an interesting subversion Yuuko does a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bon_dance Bon Dance]] in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZ-pG5BUGnQ opening.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: Kirie, and Teiichi has shades of it.
* DeathGlare: When Yuuko was [[spoiler:an onryo, she was constantly glaring]].
* DisguisedInDrag / SweetPollyOliver: Teiichi and Kirie switch clothes in one of the extra chapters.
* DyingDeclarationOfHate: Yuuko dies while swearing revenge on [[spoiler:Yukariko and the others who sacrificed her.]]
* EmotionlessGirl: Yuuko was one prior to meeting Teiichi, [[spoiler:as she had cast aside [[ThePowerOfHate the one emotion that kept her rooted in the world of the living]].]]
* EnemyWithout: [[spoiler:Shadow Yuuko is explicitly everything Yuuko's repressed and denied about herself, especially any hurtful memories, unconsciously separated from her to spare her the mental suffering.]]
* EvolvingCredits: At the end of Episode 7, as the closing song plays, Yuuko [[spoiler: is no longer visible performing the song.]]
* {{Expy}}: Yuuko. Long hime cut? Red eyes? Acts either mysterious or mischievous? Likes making one specific boy really uncomfortable? Yeah, sounds a lot like [[XxxHOLiC a certain Witch of Dimensions.]]
* FanDisservice: [[spoiler: As mentioned below, Corpse-Yuuko. Still in a towel.]]
* FateWorseThanDeath: See BreakTheCutie.
* FreezeFrameBonus: The observant will see the screen flicker twice during the 1st trailer. [[spoiler: Pausing it reveals [[http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20111222173818/tasogare-otome/images/8/8e/Shadow.png this horrifying image of shadow Yuuko]].]]
* FirstKiss: Yuuko and Teiichi have theirs in Chapter 18.
* FunbagAirbag: Teiichi accidentally falls face-first into Yuuko's breasts in the special "Shower Room of Fresh Blood" chapter. He gets a {{nosebleed}} from it.
* GenkiGirl: Momoe, and Yuuko from time to time.
* GenreBusting: Horror + Romance + Mystery + Highschool comedy, to name a few.
* GlamourFailure: In the chapter where Kirie first appears, she tries to convince Teiichi to stop seeing Yuuko as a beautiful ghost girl and recognize her as an evil spirit/monster intent on destroying him. Soon after, [[spoiler: Yuuko loses her regular appearance and appears as a rotting corpse for a while, until Teiichi renews his faith in her and she goes back to being beautiful, voluptuous ... oh, and naked]].
* TheGlassesComeOff: [[spoiler:Kirishima Yuuko originally wore glasses, but stopped wearing them once she decided to get revenge against her bullies and destroy the ghost stories of the school.]]
* GhostAmnesia: The whole plot is built around this. [[spoiler:The shadow Yuuko is literally the spectral incarnation of Yuuko's cast-off memories.]]
* GirlishPigtails: Sahara, Minato and Kirie in her childhood.
* GreenEyedMonster: Yuuko is rather upset with Niiya after he returns from summer vacation only to start hanging out with Momoe and Kirie.
* HimeCut: Yuuko keeps her hair like this. [[spoiler: Fitting, as she was a YamatoNadeshiko when she was alive.]]
* HopelessSuitor: Both [[GenkiGirl Momoe]] and [[{{Tsundere}} Kirie]] have crushes on Niiya, but the OfficialCouple is Niiya and Yuuko.
* HumanSacrifice: As the Seven Mysteries come together, Yuuko is revealed to have died this way. [[spoiler: Later chapters reveal she was murdered by ''her own sister'' to stop a plague the villages blamed on a sadistic mountain god and its emissary, Akahito-san.]]
* ImportantHaircut / ExpositoryHairstyleChange: [[spoiler:Kirishima Yuuko started out with long hair kept up in a bun, but after deciding to get revenge, she lets it down. She cuts it short after Kanoe Yuuko and Teiichi save her from becoming a sacrifice.]]
* ItAmusedMe: Yuuko's reasoning for waking Teiichi up in the middle of the night in Chapter 12.
* JacobMarleyApparel: Played with. Yuuko originally appears in the current school uniform; it's Keiichi who convinces her to change into the antique school uniform she wears for the rest of the series.
* JapaneseSchoolClub: Yuuko founds the Paranormal Investigation Club, consisting of herself (as the [[IncrediblyLamePun ghost president]]) and Teiichi. Momoe appears to be a semi-member, despite already being part of the Newspaper Club, and Kirie seems to reluctantly join the circle.
* {{Joshikousei}}: Two different varieties of them, in fact! The modern uniform the female students wear and Yuuko's old fashioned one both apply.
* KarmaHoudini: The bullies who [[spoiler: attempted to sacrifice Kirishima Yuuko get away nearly scott-free aside from having the living daylights scared out of them by the actual Yuuko-san.]]
** LaserGuidedKarma: the bullies who [[spoiler: successfully sacrificed Kanoe Yuuko died in the plague they were trying to stop.]]
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: [[spoiler:Yuuko can apparently cast off any memories that cause her pain or distress. These coalesce into Shadow Yuuko, who, being forced to take on Yuuko's jealousy for Teichii, decided that this time she was going to take all of Yuuko's memories of Teichii from her as well - ''including'' the happy ones.]]
* LiteralSplitPersonality: It's revealed that Shadow Yuuko is the manifestation of Yuuko's negative emotions.
* MarshmallowHell: Teiichi frequently finds himself having his head buried in Yuuko's chest (which is of course initiated by Yuuko). Initially this was part of Yuuko teasing Teiichi, but as they grow closer it's becoming more romantic (and somewhat heartwarming) in nature.
* MeaningfulName:
** The "Yuu" in "Yuuko" means "Dusk/Evening".
** Also [[{{Moe}} Momoe]]. [[IncrediblyLamePun Yeah...]]
* {{Megane}}: Teiichi.
* {{Meganekko}}: Sahara and Kirishima Yuuko in the past.
* MoodWhiplash: All over the place, as the story switches between fanservice and jokes to human sacrifice and evil spirits astoundingly fast.
* TheMourningAfter: [[spoiler: Teiichi adamantly refuses to get over Yuuko after she passes on, going so far as to try to bring her back by spreading the truth about her death and afterlife in the form of a new set of rumors, reasoning that because ''he'' was her final regret she wasn't able to fully pass on. Kirie thinks he's gone insane, but it turns out he's correct.]]
* MsFanservice: Yuuko, my god. And it's surprising, seeing as there are few to no panty-flashes, the fanservice often being done with Yuuko fully dressed.
* MummiesAtTheDinnerTable: [[spoiler:Soon after Yuuko's death, Yukariko reopens the shrine and goes down to see her sister's body. She ends up crying and resting with her head in the dead Yuuko's lap. She's promptly attacked by her sister's ghost.]]
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: When the magnitude and futility of Yuuko's death hits her, her little sister Yukariko has a breakdown. [[spoiler:This was because Yukariko had been one who selected Yuuko as the sacrifice. Driven by guilt, she reopens the sealed shrine hoping Yuuko would still be alive, only to fall down the stairs and land face-first on her sister's corpse. The sight drives her to despair to the point where when Yuuko's vengeful ghost tries to kill her, Yukariko begs her to do it.]]
* MyGreatestFailure: [[spoiler:Yukariko considers her part in killing her sister a SenselessSacrifice.]]
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Yukariko [[spoiler: sacrificed her sister in hopes of stopping the plague. [[SenselessSacrifice It didn't work]].]]
* NonhumanLoverReveal: Teiichi doesn't realize Yuuko is a ghost when he first meets her, though he doesn't fall in love with her until later.
* {{Nosebleed}}: Teiichi has one [[spoiler:during an intimate moment in the school showers, creating a new school mystery.]]
* NotWhatItLooksLike: Momoe walks in on a situation where Yuuko has fallen on top of Teiichi (she'd put on his glasses for a joke, and they really screwed up her vision and balance) and ''then'' started getting flirtatious. Teiichi promptly yelps that "It's not what it looks like!" ...forgetting that the new girl can't see Yuuko, so it ''didn't'' look like anything naughty to her.
* OfficialCouple: Teiichi and Yuuko.
* OneSteveLimit: Averted and justified. Another character named ''Kirishima'' Yuuko eventually appears and the fact that Yuuko is a very common name in Japan is immediately brought up. Sadly, having the same name as the school's infamous Yuuko-san quickly gets some bullies the fodder they need to convince everyone that she has a connection to the ghost of the school and should be ignored at all costs. [[spoiler: This convinces her to take revenge on her tormentors and the ghost stories themselves by tormenting the former and destroying the latter.]] It backfires [[spoiler: when Kirishima's new ghost story ''Akahito-san'' convinces some girls that she should be sacrificed due to her supposed connection to Yuuko-san.]]
* OlderThanTheyLook: Yuuko is old enough to be your grandma, but due to being a ghost, she doesn't visually age, so she still looks and acts like a school girl. However, see also YoungerThanTheyLook below.
* OldSchoolBuilding: The school has been modified a lot over its history, leaving parts that are abandoned and badly neglected. The main characters' clubroom is so decrepit, they are probably breaking every health and safety rule in the book in using it.
* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: Teiichi, other than the fact that he can see ghosts when most others can't.
* OurGhostsAreDifferent:
** Apparently other than being invisible or having their appearance affected by those who do see them, ghosts aren't much different from humans in abilities.
** Shadow Yuuko seems to have a few tricks, however.
** Ghosts aren't just visible to those who have the sight, they're tactile as well
* OvertookTheManga: The first nine episodes are very loyal to the manga, but the anime goes in a somewhat different direction from episode 10 onward. It's a mild example, as it still sticks to the story and characters of the original manga.
* PantyShot: Happens often with Momoe and Kirie, but rarely, if ever, with Yuuko (given the length of her skirt).
* PleaseKillMeIfItSatisfiesYou: Yukariko practically begs [[spoiler:her sister's ghost to kill her during their first encounter.]]
* ThePowerOfHate: How Yuuko [[spoiler: [[StringyHairedGhostGirl came back the first time]].]]
* ThePowerOfLove: How she [[spoiler: [[CuteGhostGirl comes back the second time]].]]
* PurpleEyes: Yukariko has these, and her name even has the Japanese character for "purple" in it. [[spoiler:They're a hint to her plot significance as the only remaining survivor of the ritual Yuuko died in and the person responsible for her death.]]
* PrayerOfMalice: As she's dying, [[spoiler:Yuuko offers one to the god she was sacrificed to, offering her life in exchange for the ability to wreak vengeance from beyond the grave]].
* PsychoticSmirk:
** [[spoiler: Shadow Yuuko]] has this down to an artform.
** At the end of chapter 38, [[spoiler:Yukariko]] wears this alongside HiddenEyes [[spoiler:when she decides to sacrifice her sister]].
** [[spoiler:Yuuko died with this expression, having sworn to give herself up to hatred and kill everyone involved in her death.]]
* RaisedByGrandparents: Kirie was raised by her Grandma Yukariko, Yuuko's little sister.
* RapunzelHair: Yuuko-san, Kirishima Yuuko, [[spoiler: Shadow Yuuko, and Yukariko in her youth]] all have very long hair.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Averted with Yuuko and Kirie, [[spoiler: but played straight with Shadow Yuuko.]]
* SchoolgirlLesbians: ''The Six Year Sakura'' legend revolves around this.
* SenselessSacrifice: Yuuko was sacrificed to appease a malicious god the villagers believed was causing a devastating plague. Not only did it not work, it actually backfired horrifically.
* TheSevenMysteries: This school's seven mysteries are (albeit warped) stories based on parts of Yuuko's death.
** The Haunted Mirror
** Underground Demon
** Spirited Away
** The Rock of Curses
** Akahito
** The Inter-dimensional 13 Steps
** Averted with the seventh mystery however, when it's later revealed by [[spoiler: Yuuko's still living sister]] that there are actually only six mysteries, the rumour of seven of them just spread because [[RuleOfSeven seven sounds better]]. Played straight again at the story's end though when Teiichi creates a new one, [[spoiler: Yuuko's Lover.]]
* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: Yuuko is an odd example. Yuuko sees no reason for modesty in her ghost form, stripping out of one school uniform to put on another right in front of Teiichi, and not bothered at all when, despite having turned away, he gets a ''good'' look in a mirror. When Teiichi finds her actual corpse, fifty-some years dead, however, it's another story entirely -- she's utterly embarrassed, saying that her bones are as naked as a person can possibly get, begs him to cover the body, and calls him a pervert for not doing so immediately. [[spoiler: The reason she has no modesty over her ghostly body is that all of her negative emotions have been dumped onto shadow-Yuuko]].
* ShipTease: [[spoiler: Before they finally spit it out]] Yuuko and Teiichi have this a lot. There are also hints of Kirie/Momoe.
* ShootTheShaggyDogStory: Yukariko's flashback and [[spoiler: Shadow]] Yuuko's memories reveal that [[spoiler: Yuuko was sacrificed by her fellow villagers to a malicious god with her own sister acting as the god's priest, Akahito-san, in order to stop a plague ravaging the village. The sacrifice didn't work, and worse, Yuuko returned as a StringyHairedGhostGirl determined to kill those responsible for her murder.]]
* SlasherSmile:
** [[spoiler:Shadow Yuuko, combined with MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily. A large part of ''why'' she's terrifying.]]
** In the memories of Yuuko's past, [[spoiler: Yukariko sports one when she starts ranting at her sister about having to perform the ritual to appease the mountain god, and a PsychoticSmirk when she decides to sacrifice her sister]].
* StepfordSmiler: To the others, Yuuko is extraordinarily upbeat and nonchalant about her own death. [[spoiler:She has a good reason for this - all her negative emotions have been piled onto Shadow Yuuko, leaving her with only the positives.]]
* StringyHairedGhostGirl: When she first hears of her, Kirie suspects this of Yuuko, though [[CuteGhostGirl she's actually far from it.]] [[spoiler: Chapter 40 reveals Yuuko really ''was'' a textbook example of an onryo all along, having been consumed by rage and hatred towards her village - and especially her sister - when she died. However, she couldn't bring herself to kill Yukariko, leaving her grudge unfulfilled, and eventually cast aside her negative emotions and memories, which manifested as Shadow Yuuko.]]
* TeensAreMonsters: Subverted: Yukariko does something truly monstrous but only because she's being manipulated by superstitious and hysterical adults. Unfortunately by the time she finally comes to her senses it's far too late.
* TheTease: Yuuko enjoys teasing Teiichi.
* ThanksForTheMammary:
** In the first chapter, Teiichi doesn't quite believe Yuuko is a ghost, so he reaches out to grasp her shoulder, reasoning that a ghost will be insubstantial. That's just when she turns to face him, though, so he gets a handful of '''quite''' substantial breast. Yuuko is totally unfazed by this (see InnocentFanserviceGirl). She even jokes about it. ''"I suppose these tend to be quite the temptation."''
** It wouldn't be the last time, either. While convincing Momoe that he's banishing an evil spirit, Teiichi gets another handful of Yuuko's considerable endowments. And he gets a full on [[MarshmallowHell faceful]] in a manga story when Yuuko insists on using the shower with him.
** [[spoiler: The first manages to be somewhat plot-relevant, as Teiichi brings back Yuuko's memories of him by getting another handful.]]
** Kirie, who is quite jealous of Yuuko's figure, gets a handful while unthinkingly stiff-arming Yuuko and is shocked to discover she has a tactile as well as visual presence, which makes her even more jealous of Yuuko's figure.
* ThisIsUnforgivable: In the flashback arc, Yuuko initially couldn't comprehend why she - who had been [[NiceGuy nice to everyone]] - was chosen for a superstitious sacrifice. On the brink of death, she utters this [[MadnessMantra over and over]] when she realizes [[spoiler:her sister was the one who had chosen her, and the hatred born of this betrayal is what turned her into an onryo]].
* ThroughHisStomach: In one of the early chapters, Yuuko is shown feeding Teiichi from a bento. On the next page, she pulls him down onto her LapPillow. He's a bit weirded out by this because Yuuko, although very good-looking and ''[[BuxomIsBetter built]]'', has been dead for something like fifty years.
* TrueSight: Though everyone can see ''something'' of Yuuko if they expect something to be there (often of the horrific sort, which changes how she looks to them), only Teiichi and Kirie can see Yuuko [[spoiler: and the second, cast-off version of Yuuko]] as they really are. [[spoiler: Strangely, Yuuko's sister can see Shadow Yuuko as well, but not the normal Yuuko, hinting at her guilty past.]]
* {{Tsundere}}: Kirie.
* TwelveEpisodeAnime
* UncannyFamilyResemblance: Kirie is Yuuko's grandniece. A resemblance, particularly of the eyes, was hinted at as soon as Kirie showed up, but in Chapter 20, she gets put into a long-haired HimeCut wig ... and the resemblance just ''jumps'' right out -- except for her [[ACupAngst figure]] (and the CatGirl ears). It's even noted by Kirie's grandmother, Yukariko, who is Yuuko's younger sister.
* UndignifiedDeath: Yuuko's left leg was broken to the point where the bone was sticking through and then she was tossed down a staircase and left to starve.
* UnresolvedSexualTension: There's so much between Teiichi and Yuuko it's not even funny. [[spoiler: They finally confessed their feelings in chapter 18.]]
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Yukariko honestly believed it was her family duty to sacrifice what she truly loved the most.
** Kirie wants to solve the seven mysteries not to help Yuuko but to get rid of her because she perceives her as a threat.
* WeirdnessCensor: Yuuko claims she's fully visible in a crowd because everyone else just assumes she's supposed to be there and has about 50 years worth of MeasuringDay sheets on file to prove it.
* WhamEpisode:
** Episode 7 of the anime brings together a number of plot points that the anime had been skipping over (curse rock, [[spoiler:shadow-Yuuko's identity]], Yuuko's breakdown etc) in one wham-packed episode.
** Chapter 37 reveals that Yuuko was killed by [[spoiler: her own sister]].
* {{Yandere}}: One of the SchoolgirlLesbians featured in chapter 10. Yuuko shows signs whenever Momoe gets too friendly with Teiichi, especially in Chapter 17, although this is partially due to [[spoiler:Shadow Yuuko's influence]].
* YoungerThanTheyLook: Most characters due to the art style.
** Teiichi is twelve years old.
** Momoe is actually older than him, but still barely looks her age at thirteen.
** Yuuko look older than the fifteen years old she was when she died. [[spoiler: Perhaps justified as splitting all of her negativity into Dark Yuuko leaves Yuuko an idealized version of herself.]] As a decades-old ghost who doesn't age, she later [[OlderThanTheyLook inverts]] the trope.
* YourMindMakesItReal: Yuuko's aspect depends to a great extent on what one expects to see. Fear makes her more frightening and vice-versa. if you expect Shadow Yuuko that's the version you'll get, and Niiya's perception of Yuuko becomes in response to Kirie's doubts.
* ZettaiRyouiki: Yuuko on occasions in the Anime. In the Manga she mostly wears ProperTightsWithASkirt and teases Kirie for running around barelegged.
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''Tasogare Otome x Amnesia'' (aka ''Dusk Maiden of Amnesia'') is a [[GenreBusting comedy/tragedy/horror/supernatural/shounen/mystery/romance/ecchi]] manga by Creator/{{Maybe}} (and yes, that's the creator's [[OnlyOneName name]]).
Kanoe Yuuko has been a ghost in the OldSchoolBuilding for a long time without being able to make contact with the living, until first-year junior high student Niiya Teiichi came along. Now they try to solve the mysterious circumstances under which Yuuko died, hindered by the fact there are at least ''seven'' different ghost stories about the school, some of which are possibly based on distorted accounts of her death.
An [[AnimatedAdaptation anime adaptation]] by Creator/SilverLink aired as part of the Spring2012AnimeSeason.
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!!Examples:
* ACupAngst: Kirie is jealous of Yuuko in this regard.
* AdaptationDistillation: The anime cut out a number of elements, such as Okonogi being a year older and a member of the newspaper club.
* AdaptationDyeJob: Yuuko and Kirie have normal black hair in the manga while the anime gives them relatively dark/muted purplish and green-bluish hair respectively.
* TheAloner: For nearly 50 years, Yuuko has wandered the labyrinthine school where she died. Though she can still interact with physical objects, she's often completely unseen by other people; she can still try talking to them, but they only register her voice as coming from 'someone over there'. People who ''do'' catch glimpses of her are quickly frightened off by [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve the horrifying apparition they expect to see in a 'haunted school',]] further alienating her from the world. It's a miracle she hadn't broken down after all that time... [[spoiler:though later chapters reveal that her ghostly coping mechanism is a bit... [[ShadowArchetype extreme.]]]]
* ArtShift: A few. Chapter 18 has a sudden one, while Chapter 21 has several panels containing little more than rough outlines. Whether these are due to a [[CreatorBreakdown creator breakdown]], [[DeusExMachina deus ex machina]], [[ExecutiveMeddling executive meddling]] or the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Sendai_earthquake_and_tsunami 2011 Sendai Earthquake]] is as of yet unknown.
* [[spoiler: [[BackFromTheDead Back From The Afterlife]]: Yuuko returns due to Teiichi's efforts.]]
* BarbieDollAnatomy: Played straight often, since we see Yuuko (and occasionally one of the other girls) at least partially nude every few chapters.
* BeliefMakesYouStupid: In the flashback arc Yuuko espouses this, scornfully criticizing the village elders and her sister for turning to old-fashioned superstitions out of desperation.
* {{Bishonen}}: Teiichi. Most obvious during the times he (reluctantly) cross dressed.
* BleachedUnderpants: Explains the Fanservice. Also, two minor characters from the early chapters are from one of Maybe's hentai stories.
* BoyMeetsGhoul: Teiichi and Yuuko sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G...
* BreakTheCutie:
** Yuuko's past. [[spoiler:She was killed by other villagers and her own beloved sister by having her leg broken and thrown into a basement to slowly die.]]
** [[spoiler: Yukariko also suffered from this event. She sacrified her sister because she was most important to her and authentically believed that it was the way to cure the plague. Problem was that it didn't. Everyone around her died and her father committed suicide over Yuuko's death. The cherry on top was seeing Yuuko's ghost and having it try to kill her. When it chose to spare her, she took it to mean that Yuuko wanted her to suffer by living. For the rest of her life, she'd continue to be haunted by her sins since she only ever saw Yuuko's shadow, and never the other part of her.]]
* CainAndAbel: [[spoiler:Yuuko's younger sister Yukariko betrayed her and selected her to be the HumanSacrifice to stop a plague that infested their village. Yuuko returned as an evil spirit to get her revenge on Yukariko, but in the end she couldn't bring herself to kill her sister.]]
* CaughtTheHeartOnHisSleeve: When Yuuko decides to walk out of Teiichi's life, this is his response.
* CerebusSyndrome: [[spoiler: Shadow Yuuko]] sucker-punches the manga's comedic slice-of-life nature with a tire-iron, especially [[spoiler: when Yuuko's true past is revealed.]]
* ChekhovsGun: Akahito-san. [[spoiler: Turns out Akahito-san is the name of the emissary of the mountain god Yuuko was sacrificed to appease.]]
* ChickMagnet: Teiichi, who has three different women pining after him.
* ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve: To most people, ghosts are only visible if they already believe there's going to be something there, and then they usually see some ghastly specter in line with their fears rather than the real ghost. [[spoiler: Also applies to those who can see a ghost already, as their perception of the ghost can be changed by making them believe the ghost truly looks different.]]
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Momoe.
* ClingyJealousGirl: Yuuko can get jealous of Momoe's crush on Teiichi.
* CreepyBasement: The underground shrine has all the qualities of this, with a bonus corpse.
* CrossdressingVoices: Creator/JunkoMinagawa as Teiichi in the drama CD.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler: Yuuko died very slowly and painfully in a dark CreepyBasement, sacrificed to the village god by superstitious adults (and her own beloved little sister) who broke her leg so she couldn't escape.]]
* CryCute: Kirie is prone to this when she's scared.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Teiichi and Momoe (in the manga; the anime gave her green eyes).
* CuteGhostGirl: Yuuko is downright adorable.
* DancingTheme: In an interesting subversion Yuuko does a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bon_dance Bon Dance]] in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZ-pG5BUGnQ opening.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: Kirie, and Teiichi has shades of it.
* DeathGlare: When Yuuko was [[spoiler:an onryo, she was constantly glaring]].
* DisguisedInDrag / SweetPollyOliver: Teiichi and Kirie switch clothes in one of the extra chapters.
* DyingDeclarationOfHate: Yuuko dies while swearing revenge on [[spoiler:Yukariko and the others who sacrificed her.]]
* EmotionlessGirl: Yuuko was one prior to meeting Teiichi, [[spoiler:as she had cast aside [[ThePowerOfHate the one emotion that kept her rooted in the world of the living]].]]
* EnemyWithout: [[spoiler:Shadow Yuuko is explicitly everything Yuuko's repressed and denied about herself, especially any hurtful memories, unconsciously separated from her to spare her the mental suffering.]]
* EvolvingCredits: At the end of Episode 7, as the closing song plays, Yuuko [[spoiler: is no longer visible performing the song.]]
* {{Expy}}: Yuuko. Long hime cut? Red eyes? Acts either mysterious or mischievous? Likes making one specific boy really uncomfortable? Yeah, sounds a lot like [[XxxHOLiC a certain Witch of Dimensions.]]
* FanDisservice: [[spoiler: As mentioned below, Corpse-Yuuko. Still in a towel.]]
* FateWorseThanDeath: See BreakTheCutie.
* FreezeFrameBonus: The observant will see the screen flicker twice during the 1st trailer. [[spoiler: Pausing it reveals [[http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20111222173818/tasogare-otome/images/8/8e/Shadow.png this horrifying image of shadow Yuuko]].]]
* FirstKiss: Yuuko and Teiichi have theirs in Chapter 18.
* FunbagAirbag: Teiichi accidentally falls face-first into Yuuko's breasts in the special "Shower Room of Fresh Blood" chapter. He gets a {{nosebleed}} from it.
* GenkiGirl: Momoe, and Yuuko from time to time.
* GenreBusting: Horror + Romance + Mystery + Highschool comedy, to name a few.
* GlamourFailure: In the chapter where Kirie first appears, she tries to convince Teiichi to stop seeing Yuuko as a beautiful ghost girl and recognize her as an evil spirit/monster intent on destroying him. Soon after, [[spoiler: Yuuko loses her regular appearance and appears as a rotting corpse for a while, until Teiichi renews his faith in her and she goes back to being beautiful, voluptuous ... oh, and naked]].
* TheGlassesComeOff: [[spoiler:Kirishima Yuuko originally wore glasses, but stopped wearing them once she decided to get revenge against her bullies and destroy the ghost stories of the school.]]
* GhostAmnesia: The whole plot is built around this. [[spoiler:The shadow Yuuko is literally the spectral incarnation of Yuuko's cast-off memories.]]
* GirlishPigtails: Sahara, Minato and Kirie in her childhood.
* GreenEyedMonster: Yuuko is rather upset with Niiya after he returns from summer vacation only to start hanging out with Momoe and Kirie.
* HimeCut: Yuuko keeps her hair like this. [[spoiler: Fitting, as she was a YamatoNadeshiko when she was alive.]]
* HopelessSuitor: Both [[GenkiGirl Momoe]] and [[{{Tsundere}} Kirie]] have crushes on Niiya, but the OfficialCouple is Niiya and Yuuko.
* HumanSacrifice: As the Seven Mysteries come together, Yuuko is revealed to have died this way. [[spoiler: Later chapters reveal she was murdered by ''her own sister'' to stop a plague the villages blamed on a sadistic mountain god and its emissary, Akahito-san.]]
* ImportantHaircut / ExpositoryHairstyleChange: [[spoiler:Kirishima Yuuko started out with long hair kept up in a bun, but after deciding to get revenge, she lets it down. She cuts it short after Kanoe Yuuko and Teiichi save her from becoming a sacrifice.]]
* ItAmusedMe: Yuuko's reasoning for waking Teiichi up in the middle of the night in Chapter 12.
* JacobMarleyApparel: Played with. Yuuko originally appears in the current school uniform; it's Keiichi who convinces her to change into the antique school uniform she wears for the rest of the series.
* JapaneseSchoolClub: Yuuko founds the Paranormal Investigation Club, consisting of herself (as the [[IncrediblyLamePun ghost president]]) and Teiichi. Momoe appears to be a semi-member, despite already being part of the Newspaper Club, and Kirie seems to reluctantly join the circle.
* {{Joshikousei}}: Two different varieties of them, in fact! The modern uniform the female students wear and Yuuko's old fashioned one both apply.
* KarmaHoudini: The bullies who [[spoiler: attempted to sacrifice Kirishima Yuuko get away nearly scott-free aside from having the living daylights scared out of them by the actual Yuuko-san.]]
** LaserGuidedKarma: the bullies who [[spoiler: successfully sacrificed Kanoe Yuuko died in the plague they were trying to stop.]]
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: [[spoiler:Yuuko can apparently cast off any memories that cause her pain or distress. These coalesce into Shadow Yuuko, who, being forced to take on Yuuko's jealousy for Teichii, decided that this time she was going to take all of Yuuko's memories of Teichii from her as well - ''including'' the happy ones.]]
* LiteralSplitPersonality: It's revealed that Shadow Yuuko is the manifestation of Yuuko's negative emotions.
* MarshmallowHell: Teiichi frequently finds himself having his head buried in Yuuko's chest (which is of course initiated by Yuuko). Initially this was part of Yuuko teasing Teiichi, but as they grow closer it's becoming more romantic (and somewhat heartwarming) in nature.
* MeaningfulName:
** The "Yuu" in "Yuuko" means "Dusk/Evening".
** Also [[{{Moe}} Momoe]]. [[IncrediblyLamePun Yeah...]]
* {{Megane}}: Teiichi.
* {{Meganekko}}: Sahara and Kirishima Yuuko in the past.
* MoodWhiplash: All over the place, as the story switches between fanservice and jokes to human sacrifice and evil spirits astoundingly fast.
* TheMourningAfter: [[spoiler: Teiichi adamantly refuses to get over Yuuko after she passes on, going so far as to try to bring her back by spreading the truth about her death and afterlife in the form of a new set of rumors, reasoning that because ''he'' was her final regret she wasn't able to fully pass on. Kirie thinks he's gone insane, but it turns out he's correct.]]
* MsFanservice: Yuuko, my god. And it's surprising, seeing as there are few to no panty-flashes, the fanservice often being done with Yuuko fully dressed.
* MummiesAtTheDinnerTable: [[spoiler:Soon after Yuuko's death, Yukariko reopens the shrine and goes down to see her sister's body. She ends up crying and resting with her head in the dead Yuuko's lap. She's promptly attacked by her sister's ghost.]]
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: When the magnitude and futility of Yuuko's death hits her, her little sister Yukariko has a breakdown. [[spoiler:This was because Yukariko had been one who selected Yuuko as the sacrifice. Driven by guilt, she reopens the sealed shrine hoping Yuuko would still be alive, only to fall down the stairs and land face-first on her sister's corpse. The sight drives her to despair to the point where when Yuuko's vengeful ghost tries to kill her, Yukariko begs her to do it.]]
* MyGreatestFailure: [[spoiler:Yukariko considers her part in killing her sister a SenselessSacrifice.]]
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Yukariko [[spoiler: sacrificed her sister in hopes of stopping the plague. [[SenselessSacrifice It didn't work]].]]
* NonhumanLoverReveal: Teiichi doesn't realize Yuuko is a ghost when he first meets her, though he doesn't fall in love with her until later.
* {{Nosebleed}}: Teiichi has one [[spoiler:during an intimate moment in the school showers, creating a new school mystery.]]
* NotWhatItLooksLike: Momoe walks in on a situation where Yuuko has fallen on top of Teiichi (she'd put on his glasses for a joke, and they really screwed up her vision and balance) and ''then'' started getting flirtatious. Teiichi promptly yelps that "It's not what it looks like!" ...forgetting that the new girl can't see Yuuko, so it ''didn't'' look like anything naughty to her.
* OfficialCouple: Teiichi and Yuuko.
* OneSteveLimit: Averted and justified. Another character named ''Kirishima'' Yuuko eventually appears and the fact that Yuuko is a very common name in Japan is immediately brought up. Sadly, having the same name as the school's infamous Yuuko-san quickly gets some bullies the fodder they need to convince everyone that she has a connection to the ghost of the school and should be ignored at all costs. [[spoiler: This convinces her to take revenge on her tormentors and the ghost stories themselves by tormenting the former and destroying the latter.]] It backfires [[spoiler: when Kirishima's new ghost story ''Akahito-san'' convinces some girls that she should be sacrificed due to her supposed connection to Yuuko-san.]]
* OlderThanTheyLook: Yuuko is old enough to be your grandma, but due to being a ghost, she doesn't visually age, so she still looks and acts like a school girl. However, see also YoungerThanTheyLook below.
* OldSchoolBuilding: The school has been modified a lot over its history, leaving parts that are abandoned and badly neglected. The main characters' clubroom is so decrepit, they are probably breaking every health and safety rule in the book in using it.
* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: Teiichi, other than the fact that he can see ghosts when most others can't.
* OurGhostsAreDifferent:
** Apparently other than being invisible or having their appearance affected by those who do see them, ghosts aren't much different from humans in abilities.
** Shadow Yuuko seems to have a few tricks, however.
** Ghosts aren't just visible to those who have the sight, they're tactile as well
* OvertookTheManga: The first nine episodes are very loyal to the manga, but the anime goes in a somewhat different direction from episode 10 onward. It's a mild example, as it still sticks to the story and characters of the original manga.
* PantyShot: Happens often with Momoe and Kirie, but rarely, if ever, with Yuuko (given the length of her skirt).
* PleaseKillMeIfItSatisfiesYou: Yukariko practically begs [[spoiler:her sister's ghost to kill her during their first encounter.]]
* ThePowerOfHate: How Yuuko [[spoiler: [[StringyHairedGhostGirl came back the first time]].]]
* ThePowerOfLove: How she [[spoiler: [[CuteGhostGirl comes back the second time]].]]
* PurpleEyes: Yukariko has these, and her name even has the Japanese character for "purple" in it. [[spoiler:They're a hint to her plot significance as the only remaining survivor of the ritual Yuuko died in and the person responsible for her death.]]
* PrayerOfMalice: As she's dying, [[spoiler:Yuuko offers one to the god she was sacrificed to, offering her life in exchange for the ability to wreak vengeance from beyond the grave]].
* PsychoticSmirk:
** [[spoiler: Shadow Yuuko]] has this down to an artform.
** At the end of chapter 38, [[spoiler:Yukariko]] wears this alongside HiddenEyes [[spoiler:when she decides to sacrifice her sister]].
** [[spoiler:Yuuko died with this expression, having sworn to give herself up to hatred and kill everyone involved in her death.]]
* RaisedByGrandparents: Kirie was raised by her Grandma Yukariko, Yuuko's little sister.
* RapunzelHair: Yuuko-san, Kirishima Yuuko, [[spoiler: Shadow Yuuko, and Yukariko in her youth]] all have very long hair.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Averted with Yuuko and Kirie, [[spoiler: but played straight with Shadow Yuuko.]]
* SchoolgirlLesbians: ''The Six Year Sakura'' legend revolves around this.
* SenselessSacrifice: Yuuko was sacrificed to appease a malicious god the villagers believed was causing a devastating plague. Not only did it not work, it actually backfired horrifically.
* TheSevenMysteries: This school's seven mysteries are (albeit warped) stories based on parts of Yuuko's death.
** The Haunted Mirror
** Underground Demon
** Spirited Away
** The Rock of Curses
** Akahito
** The Inter-dimensional 13 Steps
** Averted with the seventh mystery however, when it's later revealed by [[spoiler: Yuuko's still living sister]] that there are actually only six mysteries, the rumour of seven of them just spread because [[RuleOfSeven seven sounds better]]. Played straight again at the story's end though when Teiichi creates a new one, [[spoiler: Yuuko's Lover.]]
* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: Yuuko is an odd example. Yuuko sees no reason for modesty in her ghost form, stripping out of one school uniform to put on another right in front of Teiichi, and not bothered at all when, despite having turned away, he gets a ''good'' look in a mirror. When Teiichi finds her actual corpse, fifty-some years dead, however, it's another story entirely -- she's utterly embarrassed, saying that her bones are as naked as a person can possibly get, begs him to cover the body, and calls him a pervert for not doing so immediately. [[spoiler: The reason she has no modesty over her ghostly body is that all of her negative emotions have been dumped onto shadow-Yuuko]].
* ShipTease: [[spoiler: Before they finally spit it out]] Yuuko and Teiichi have this a lot. There are also hints of Kirie/Momoe.
* ShootTheShaggyDogStory: Yukariko's flashback and [[spoiler: Shadow]] Yuuko's memories reveal that [[spoiler: Yuuko was sacrificed by her fellow villagers to a malicious god with her own sister acting as the god's priest, Akahito-san, in order to stop a plague ravaging the village. The sacrifice didn't work, and worse, Yuuko returned as a StringyHairedGhostGirl determined to kill those responsible for her murder.]]
* SlasherSmile:
** [[spoiler:Shadow Yuuko, combined with MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily. A large part of ''why'' she's terrifying.]]
** In the memories of Yuuko's past, [[spoiler: Yukariko sports one when she starts ranting at her sister about having to perform the ritual to appease the mountain god, and a PsychoticSmirk when she decides to sacrifice her sister]].
* StepfordSmiler: To the others, Yuuko is extraordinarily upbeat and nonchalant about her own death. [[spoiler:She has a good reason for this - all her negative emotions have been piled onto Shadow Yuuko, leaving her with only the positives.]]
* StringyHairedGhostGirl: When she first hears of her, Kirie suspects this of Yuuko, though [[CuteGhostGirl she's actually far from it.]] [[spoiler: Chapter 40 reveals Yuuko really ''was'' a textbook example of an onryo all along, having been consumed by rage and hatred towards her village - and especially her sister - when she died. However, she couldn't bring herself to kill Yukariko, leaving her grudge unfulfilled, and eventually cast aside her negative emotions and memories, which manifested as Shadow Yuuko.]]
* TeensAreMonsters: Subverted: Yukariko does something truly monstrous but only because she's being manipulated by superstitious and hysterical adults. Unfortunately by the time she finally comes to her senses it's far too late.
* TheTease: Yuuko enjoys teasing Teiichi.
* ThanksForTheMammary:
** In the first chapter, Teiichi doesn't quite believe Yuuko is a ghost, so he reaches out to grasp her shoulder, reasoning that a ghost will be insubstantial. That's just when she turns to face him, though, so he gets a handful of '''quite''' substantial breast. Yuuko is totally unfazed by this (see InnocentFanserviceGirl). She even jokes about it. ''"I suppose these tend to be quite the temptation."''
** It wouldn't be the last time, either. While convincing Momoe that he's banishing an evil spirit, Teiichi gets another handful of Yuuko's considerable endowments. And he gets a full on [[MarshmallowHell faceful]] in a manga story when Yuuko insists on using the shower with him.
** [[spoiler: The first manages to be somewhat plot-relevant, as Teiichi brings back Yuuko's memories of him by getting another handful.]]
** Kirie, who is quite jealous of Yuuko's figure, gets a handful while unthinkingly stiff-arming Yuuko and is shocked to discover she has a tactile as well as visual presence, which makes her even more jealous of Yuuko's figure.
* ThisIsUnforgivable: In the flashback arc, Yuuko initially couldn't comprehend why she - who had been [[NiceGuy nice to everyone]] - was chosen for a superstitious sacrifice. On the brink of death, she utters this [[MadnessMantra over and over]] when she realizes [[spoiler:her sister was the one who had chosen her, and the hatred born of this betrayal is what turned her into an onryo]].
* ThroughHisStomach: In one of the early chapters, Yuuko is shown feeding Teiichi from a bento. On the next page, she pulls him down onto her LapPillow. He's a bit weirded out by this because Yuuko, although very good-looking and ''[[BuxomIsBetter built]]'', has been dead for something like fifty years.
* TrueSight: Though everyone can see ''something'' of Yuuko if they expect something to be there (often of the horrific sort, which changes how she looks to them), only Teiichi and Kirie can see Yuuko [[spoiler: and the second, cast-off version of Yuuko]] as they really are. [[spoiler: Strangely, Yuuko's sister can see Shadow Yuuko as well, but not the normal Yuuko, hinting at her guilty past.]]
* {{Tsundere}}: Kirie.
* TwelveEpisodeAnime
* UncannyFamilyResemblance: Kirie is Yuuko's grandniece. A resemblance, particularly of the eyes, was hinted at as soon as Kirie showed up, but in Chapter 20, she gets put into a long-haired HimeCut wig ... and the resemblance just ''jumps'' right out -- except for her [[ACupAngst figure]] (and the CatGirl ears). It's even noted by Kirie's grandmother, Yukariko, who is Yuuko's younger sister.
* UndignifiedDeath: Yuuko's left leg was broken to the point where the bone was sticking through and then she was tossed down a staircase and left to starve.
* UnresolvedSexualTension: There's so much between Teiichi and Yuuko it's not even funny. [[spoiler: They finally confessed their feelings in chapter 18.]]
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Yukariko honestly believed it was her family duty to sacrifice what she truly loved the most.
** Kirie wants to solve the seven mysteries not to help Yuuko but to get rid of her because she perceives her as a threat.
* WeirdnessCensor: Yuuko claims she's fully visible in a crowd because everyone else just assumes she's supposed to be there and has about 50 years worth of MeasuringDay sheets on file to prove it.
* WhamEpisode:
** Episode 7 of the anime brings together a number of plot points that the anime had been skipping over (curse rock, [[spoiler:shadow-Yuuko's identity]], Yuuko's breakdown etc) in one wham-packed episode.
** Chapter 37 reveals that Yuuko was killed by [[spoiler: her own sister]].
* {{Yandere}}: One of the SchoolgirlLesbians featured in chapter 10. Yuuko shows signs whenever Momoe gets too friendly with Teiichi, especially in Chapter 17, although this is partially due to [[spoiler:Shadow Yuuko's influence]].
* YoungerThanTheyLook: Most characters due to the art style.
** Teiichi is twelve years old.
** Momoe is actually older than him, but still barely looks her age at thirteen.
** Yuuko look older than the fifteen years old she was when she died. [[spoiler: Perhaps justified as splitting all of her negativity into Dark Yuuko leaves Yuuko an idealized version of herself.]] As a decades-old ghost who doesn't age, she later [[OlderThanTheyLook inverts]] the trope.
* YourMindMakesItReal: Yuuko's aspect depends to a great extent on what one expects to see. Fear makes her more frightening and vice-versa. if you expect Shadow Yuuko that's the version you'll get, and Niiya's perception of Yuuko becomes in response to Kirie's doubts.
* ZettaiRyouiki: Yuuko on occasions in the Anime. In the Manga she mostly wears ProperTightsWithASkirt and teases Kirie for running around barelegged.
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* TeensAreMonsters: Subverted: Yukariko does something truly monstrous but only because she's been convinced she's doing the right thing by superstitious and hysterical adults. Unfortunately by the time she finally comes to her senses it's far too late.
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* TeensAreMonsters: Subverted: Yukariko does something truly monstrous but only because she's been convinced she's doing the right thing being manipulated by superstitious and hysterical adults. Unfortunately by the time she finally comes to her senses it's far too late.
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** Yuuko looked older than the fifteen years old she was when she died. Perhaps justified as the Yuuko we see is the idealized version of herself. As a decades-old ghost who doesn't age, she later [[OlderThanTheyLook inverts]] the trope.
* YourMindMakesItReal: Yuuko's aspect depends to a great extent on what one expects to see. Fear makes her more frightening and vice-versa. if you expect Shadow Yuuko that's the version you'll get.
* YourMindMakesItReal: Yuuko's aspect depends to a great extent on what one expects to see. Fear makes her more frightening and vice-versa. if you expect Shadow Yuuko that's the version you'll get.
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** Yuuko looked look older than the fifteen years old she was when she died. [[spoiler: Perhaps justified as the splitting all of her negativity into Dark Yuuko we see is the leaves Yuuko an idealized version of herself. herself.]] As a decades-old ghost who doesn't age, she later [[OlderThanTheyLook inverts]] the trope.
* YourMindMakesItReal: Yuuko's aspect depends to a great extent on what one expects to see. Fear makes her more frightening and vice-versa. if you expect Shadow Yuuko that's the version you'llget.get, and Niiya's perception of Yuuko becomes in response to Kirie's doubts.
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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler: Yuuko's death. Because of superstitious rumors, several adults (and her own beloved little sister) sacrificed her to the village god. By entrapping her in a dark CreepyBasement and breaking her leg so that she couldn't escape, so she would end up dying very slowly and painfully in there.]]
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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler: Yuuko's death. Because of Yuuko died very slowly and painfully in a dark CreepyBasement, sacrificed to the village god by superstitious rumors, several adults (and her own beloved little sister) sacrificed her to the village god. By entrapping her in a dark CreepyBasement and breaking who broke her leg so that she couldn't escape, so she would end up dying very slowly and painfully in there.escape.]]
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* MyGreatestFailure: [[spoiler:Yukariko considers her part in killing her sister in what would be a SenselessSacrifice and ShootTheShaggyDogStory is this.]]
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* MyGreatestFailure: [[spoiler:Yukariko considers her part in killing her sister in what would be a SenselessSacrifice and ShootTheShaggyDogStory is this.SenselessSacrifice.]]
* TeensAreMonsters: Subverted: Yukariko does something truly monstrous but only because she's been convinced she's doing the right thing by superstitious and hysterical adults. Unfortunately by the time she finally comes to her senses it's far too late.
**Kirie, who is quite jealous of Yuuko's figure, gets a handful while unthinkingly stiff-arming Yuuko and is shocked to discover she has a tactile as well as visual presence, which makes her even more jealous of Yuuko's figure.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Yukariko honestly believed it was her family duty to sacrifice what she truly loved the most.
**Kirie wants to solve the seven mysteries not to help Yuuko but to get rid of her because she perceives her as a threat.
**Kirie wants to solve the seven mysteries not to help Yuuko but to get rid of her because she perceives her as a threat.
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* YourMindMakesItReal: Yuuko's aspect depends to a great extent on what one expects to see. Fear makes her more frightening and vice-versa.
* ZettaiRyouiki: Yuuko on occasions.
* YourMindMakesItReal: Yuuko's aspect depends to a great extent on what one expects to see. Fear makes her more frightening and vice-versa.
* ZettaiRyouiki: Yuuko on occasions.
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** Yuuko looked older than the fifteen years old she was when she died. Perhaps justified as the Yuuko we see is the idealized version of herself. As a decades-old ghost who doesn't age, she later [[OlderThanTheyLook inverts]] the trope.
* YourMindMakesItReal: Yuuko's aspect depends to a great extent on what one expects to see. Fear makes her more frightening andvice-versa.
vice-versa. if you expect Shadow Yuuko that's the version you'll get.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: When the magnitude and futility of Yuuko's death hits her, her little sister Yukariko has a breakdown. [[spoiler:This was because Yukariko had been one who selected Yuuko as the sacrifice. Driven by guilt, she reopens the sealed shrine hoping Yuuko would still be alive, only to fall down the stairs and land face-first on her sister's corpse. The sight drives her to despair to the point where when Yuuko's vengeful ghost tries to kill her, Yukariko begs her to do it.]]
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* JacobMarleyApparel: Played with. Yuuko originally appears in the current school uniform; it's Keiichi who convinces her to change into the antique school uniform she wears for the rest of the series.
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** LaserGuidedKarma: the bullies who [[spoiler: successfully sacrificed Kanoe Yuuko died in the plague they were trying to stop.]]
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* PrayerOfMalice: As she's dying, [[spoiler:Yuuko offers one to the god she was sacrificed to, offering her life in exchange for the ability to wreck vengeance from beyond the grave]].
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* PrayerOfMalice: As she's dying, [[spoiler:Yuuko offers one to the god she was sacrificed to, offering her life in exchange for the ability to wreck wreak vengeance from beyond the grave]].
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* BreakTheCutie: Yuuko's past. [[spoiler:She was killed by other villagers and her own beloved sister by having her leg broken and thrown into a basement to slowly die.]]
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* BreakTheCutie: BreakTheCutie:
** Yuuko's past. [[spoiler:She was killed by other villagers and her own beloved sister by having her leg broken and thrown into a basement to slowly die.]]
** Yuuko's past. [[spoiler:She was killed by other villagers and her own beloved sister by having her leg broken and thrown into a basement to slowly die.]]
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* HopelessSuitor: Both [[GenkiGirl Momoe]] and [[{{Tsundere}} Kirie]] have crushes on Niiya, but the OfficialCouple is Yuuko and Niiya.
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* HopelessSuitor: Both [[GenkiGirl Momoe]] and [[{{Tsundere}} Kirie]] have crushes on Niiya, but the OfficialCouple is Yuuko Niiya and Niiya.Yuuko.
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* JapaneseSchoolClub: Yuuko founds the Paranormal Investigation Club, consisting of herself (as the [[IncrediblyLamePun ghost president]]) and Teiichi. Momoe appears to be a semi-member, despite already being part of the Newspaper Club, and Kirie seems to be reluctantly joining the circle.
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* JapaneseSchoolClub: Yuuko founds the Paranormal Investigation Club, consisting of herself (as the [[IncrediblyLamePun ghost president]]) and Teiichi. Momoe appears to be a semi-member, despite already being part of the Newspaper Club, and Kirie seems to be reluctantly joining join the circle.
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* MeaningfulName: The "Yuu" in "Yuuko" means "Dusk/Evening".
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** The "Yuu" in "Yuuko" means "Dusk/Evening".
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* ThePowerOfHate: How Yuuko [[spoiler:[[StringyHairedGhostGirl came back the first time]].]]
* ThePowerOfLove: How she [[spoiler:[[CuteGhostGirl comes back the second time]].]]
* ThePowerOfLove: How she [[spoiler:[[CuteGhostGirl comes back the second time]].]]
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* ThePowerOfHate: How Yuuko [[spoiler:[[StringyHairedGhostGirl [[spoiler: [[StringyHairedGhostGirl came back the first time]].]]
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* RapunzelHair: Yuuko-san, Kirishima Yuuko, [[spoiler:Shadow Yuuko, and Yukariko in her youth]] all have very long hair.
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* RapunzelHair: Yuuko-san, Kirishima Yuuko, [[spoiler:Shadow [[spoiler: Shadow Yuuko, and Yukariko in her youth]] all have very long hair.
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* TheSevenMysteries: This school's seven mysteries are (albeit warped) based on parts of Yuuko's death.
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* TheSevenMysteries: This school's seven mysteries are (albeit warped) stories based on parts of Yuuko's death.
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** Averted however, when it's later revealed by [[spoiler: Yuuko's still living sister]] that there are only six mysteries and that the seventh never existed in the first place, simply being a product of the belief that seven of them sounds better. Played straight again at the story's end though when Teiichi creates a new one, [[spoiler: Yuuko's Lover.]]
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** Averted with the seventh mystery however, when it's later revealed by [[spoiler: Yuuko's still living sister]] that there are actually only six mysteries and that mysteries, the seventh never existed in the first place, simply being a product rumour of the belief that seven of them just spread because [[RuleOfSeven seven sounds better.better]]. Played straight again at the story's end though when Teiichi creates a new one, [[spoiler: Yuuko's Lover.]]
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* ThanksForTheMammary: In the first chapter, Teiichi doesn't quite believe Yuuko is a ghost, so he reaches out to grasp her shoulder, reasoning that a ghost will be insubstantial. That's just when she turns to face him, though, so he gets a handful of '''quite''' substantial breast. Yuuko is totally unfazed by this (see InnocentFanserviceGirl). She even jokes about it. ''"I suppose these tend to be quite the temptation."''
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* ThanksForTheMammary: ThanksForTheMammary:
** In the first chapter, Teiichi doesn't quite believe Yuuko is a ghost, so he reaches out to grasp her shoulder, reasoning that a ghost will be insubstantial. That's just when she turns to face him, though, so he gets a handful of '''quite''' substantial breast. Yuuko is totally unfazed by this (see InnocentFanserviceGirl). She even jokes about it. ''"I suppose these tend to be quite the temptation."''
** In the first chapter, Teiichi doesn't quite believe Yuuko is a ghost, so he reaches out to grasp her shoulder, reasoning that a ghost will be insubstantial. That's just when she turns to face him, though, so he gets a handful of '''quite''' substantial breast. Yuuko is totally unfazed by this (see InnocentFanserviceGirl). She even jokes about it. ''"I suppose these tend to be quite the temptation."''
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* TrueSight: Though everyone can see ''something'' of Yuuko if they expect something to be there (often of the horrific sort, which changes how she looks to them), only Teiichi and Kirie can see Yuuko and [[spoiler:the second, cast-off version of Yuuko]] as they really are. [[spoiler:Strangely, Yuuko's sister can see Shadow Yuuko, as well, but not the normal Yuuko.]]
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* TrueSight: Though everyone can see ''something'' of Yuuko if they expect something to be there (often of the horrific sort, which changes how she looks to them), only Teiichi and Kirie can see Yuuko [[spoiler: and [[spoiler:the the second, cast-off version of Yuuko]] as they really are. [[spoiler:Strangely, [[spoiler: Strangely, Yuuko's sister can see Shadow Yuuko, Yuuko as well, but not the normal Yuuko.Yuuko, hinting at her guilty past.]]
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* WhamEpisode: Episode 7 of the anime brings together a number of plot points that the anime had been skipping over (curse rock, [[spoiler:shadow-Yuuko's identity]], Yuuko's breakdown etc) in one wham-packed episode.
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* WhamEpisode: WhamEpisode:
** Episode 7 of the anime brings together a number of plot points that the anime had been skipping over (curse rock, [[spoiler:shadow-Yuuko's identity]], Yuuko's breakdown etc) in one wham-packed episode.
** Episode 7 of the anime brings together a number of plot points that the anime had been skipping over (curse rock, [[spoiler:shadow-Yuuko's identity]], Yuuko's breakdown etc) in one wham-packed episode.
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** Yuuko looked older than the fifteen years old she was when she died. As a decades-old ghost who doesn't age, she later [[OlderThanTheyLook inverted]] inverts]] the trope.
