Urushiba Rinka is having a strange day.
She was an ordinary girl with an ordinary life, until a
flying penguin and a swarm of glowing fish swimming though the air changed everything. Rinka soon finds that she is
involuntarily moving through things, walls, the floor of her apartment... and her clothes.
And she is not the only one who changed. A strange boy name Kyoutaro Azuma can teleport, her father can move things with his mind... and any number of petty criminals are using ESP to run wild.
Azuma is using his abilities to become a superhero, albeit with mixed success, and he wants Rinka to join him...
From the Author of
Ga-Rei.
A
character sheet is in the works.
This series provides examples of:
- Action Girl: Even before gaining her powers Rinka was capable of man handling multiple thugs.
- Affectionate Parody: Azuma is something of a send up of any one who ever wanted to be a comic book super hero.
- All of the Other Reindeer: ESPers aren't exactly well liked in Part 2.
- Ascended Fanboy: Azuma. And Rinka is the person who inspired him to become a superhero.
- Barrier Warrior: The pompadour boxer can project force fields.
- Big Damn Heroes: In chapter 24 Rinka along with the Panda and the pompadour boxer charge into the Diet Building and rescue the hostages.
- In chapter 25 Black Fist, Peggy, Ayumu, and Murasaki take out several espers to save the others.
- Brought Down to Normal: Peggy can do this to others by eating their fish. Also happens if ESPer dies or their heart stops.
- Bully Hunter: Rinka.
- But for Me, It Was Tuesday: Heroic inversion. Rinka saved Azuma from thugs six months before the story began and then promptly forgot about it.
- Clark Kenting: Averted. Azuma uses a mask to conceal his face and Rinka tries to keep hers hidden.
- Cloudcuckoo Lander: Azuma, so much. When he thinks he's about to die, he's mostly just annoyed that he won't be able to teleport any more.
- Comes Great Responsibility: Azuma’s guiding philosophy.
- Curbstomp Battle: The only way to describe the battle in Chapter 12.
- Cut Lex Luthor a Check: Invoked. Azuma explicitly tells Black Fist that there are nobler and better paying uses for her powers than crime. Then she says money isn't an issue for her.
- Dark Action Girl: Black Fist and Minami. As well as every female working for the Professor.
- Dark Is Not Evil: Azuma dear, even if this trope is in full effect that costume of yours is not going to inspire trust.
- Deconstruction / Reconstruction: Starts out as an about normal story about super heroes and personal heroism, then heads deep into deconstruction territory, and is coming back around to a reconstruction.
- Dowsing Device: One of Minami's allies has one that allows her to detect ESPers.
- Extranormal Institute: Any school age student with ESP has to go to one.
- Gonk: Quite a few of the unnamed characters.
- Government Conspiracy: The ones who killed Azuma's parents and Minami's mother, and drove the Professor to decide to destroy the world and create it anew.
- Hannibal Lecture: Minami delivers one to Rinka during their fight.
- Hope Bringer: Rinka in chapter 24.
- How Do I Shot Web?: Used realistically. All of the ESPers have trouble controlling their powers at first, but the main characters experiment and practice with them until they get the hang of it. Though not knowing that she can't phase through organic matter does turn out to be a problem.
- It Is Beyond Saving: How The Professor's group views society as a whole.
- I Just Want to Be Normal: Rinka. But her conscience won't have any of that. She gets Brought Down to Normal in chapter 18 via a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown, making it a case of Be Careful What You Wish For.
- Intangible Girl: Rinka. Also another girl who used her powers to attempt murder. Rinka had them taken away using Peggy and turned her over to the police.
- Jumped at the Call: Azuma
- Kick Chick: Rinka and Minami.
- Mass Super Empowering Event: Over 20% of the people in Kanto have become espers in Part 2.
- Masterof Illusion: The Professor's ESP ability. And he's very good at it.
- Missing Mom: Rinka’s missing her mother. Her father claims that she’s working overseas.
- No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: The bad guys want to beat Rinka and Azuma's ideals out of them. And when the esper task force starts arresting people, they're able to find Rinka and her friends very quickly because everyone already knew who they were—again, because they were helping people.
- No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: In Chapter 18, three espers working for the professor brutally beat down Rinka to the point she lost her powers because her heart stopped for a few minutes and publicly broadcasted it to make an example out of what happens to heroes.
- Papa Wolf: Rinka’s father. A bit of a deconstruction when his concern for Rinka causes his psychokinesis to run amok. He does a fair bit of property damage when she wasn’t in any real danger.
- Perpetual Poverty: Rinka and her father.
- Police Are Useless: Azuma certainly thinks so. "Only ESP can stop ESP." Their task force for hunting down espers is the overly brutal and possibly evil variant.
- Played Straight later on. The SDF got shot down by a couple of flying and teleportation espers and the only reason the rescue team worked for retaking the Diet Building was because of the 5-6 espers on their side...and Rinka
- Power Incontinence: Until an esper adjusts to their power, they suffer from this whenever they are awake. The esper prison exploits this weakness by keeping especially dangerous espers asleep at all times.
- Reality Ensues: Azuma and Rinka Catch Black Fist, and the police lament that they don’t have any evidence besides the word of a guy in a crow mask. One of the problems present is that there are no laws against ESP until the Wham Episode in chapter 18.
- The superpowered Yakuza Rinka beat up? They burn down her apartment building in front of her without a backward glance.
- See No-Holds-Barred Beatdown for what happens because she never covered up her identity.
- Retired Bad Ass: Rinka's father, a former cop.
- Shout Out
- Shown Their Work: Rinka's explanation of Kali (aka Arnis/Escrima) after using dual batons to beat up yakuza goons. The Philippine archipelago is also shown during her explanation.
- Super Empowering: The source of the fish that give people powers is actually the tablets engraved with the Ten Commandments, contained in the Ark of the Covenant.
- Super Registration Act: The government spends the summer break trying to decide whether to enact esper-specific laws and round up all the ones they can find. Considering that under the current laws, they can't even arrest pyrokinetics for arson, you can understand where they might be coming from. They decide to go through with it, revealing that they have a blood test for identifying espers and an underground prison dedicated to holding them. They don't seem to care that the actual bad guys are too powerful and too organized to get caught.
- Teleporters and Transporters: Minami and Azuma.
- They Would Cut You Up: Fear of this trope is why Azuma and Rinka don’t go to the authorities.
- This Is Reality: Heavily used.
- Time Skip: Part 2 starts One year and four months after the end of Part 1.
- Training from Hell: Over the summer break, Rinka and the others train with her father's old master to make up for their utter defeat at the hands of the Professor and his minions.
- Übermensch: A depressing number of ESPers decide to go this route.
- What Could Have Been: Segawa started brainstorming the idea while finishing up Ga-Rei, according to omakes, one of the ideas involved a Matrix-style hero who had the power to leap across buildings and blow holes into concrete... using farts. Ultimate move: explosive fart! Tragic Backstory: farted in bed and accidentally killed his wife! His editor immediately vetoed it. Same thing happened with the editor when Segawa started a suggestion to have a female protagonist, only more fearsome and doesn't rely on a male protagonist.
- Wham Episode: Chapter 18 had Rinka Brought Down to Normal after a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown that killed her for a few minutes, and Azuma is kidnapped by Minami.
- Chapter 26 The professor is dead, Rinka regained her power, and apparently its the end of part 1.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Rink is called out because she was focused on trying to go to the beach while the situation was getting worse.
- White-Haired Pretty Girl: Rinka, though she may just be a really, really light-color blond.
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