History Manga / Yuureitou

* WholePlotReference: Taro Nogizaka's Yuureitou is an expanded adaptation of Alice Muriel Williamson's "A Woman in Gray" from 1898. However, the lawyer that owned the haunted house is now an abusive father who owns a haunted clock tower, the woman who murdered her mother is now a [[spoiler: transgender man who killed his adoptive mother]], the attorney who investigates the tower is now a man in his twenties with no job and [[spoiler: the villain that wants to seduce the daughter who killed her mother is now [[AdaptationalVillainy the owner of the ghost tower.]]]]

** Yamashina, when asked what he wants to do with the treasure, responds that he'd like to open a publishing company with stories that focus on societal "deviants". He mentions that by writing about those kinds of people in fiction, they'll start to get normalized in the public's eye and see those same "deviants" as people like them. He even says as much while he's looking ''straight at the audience''.

* ArmorPiercingSlap: After Satoko starts screaming that she doesn't want to be with "weird" people like [[WholesomeCrossdresser Taichi]] and [[StraightGay Yamashina]], Yamashina's had enough of her attitude and slaps her across the face.

* WelcomeToMyWorld: Proceeds right after the ArmorPiercingSlap Yamashina gives to Satoko. He tells her that she feels afraid and isolated in the mansion, filled with criminals and what society puts beneath them, and then points out (without having to point at himself) that people like him have to go through that uneasy feeling all the time.

''Yuureitou'', or ''The Ghost Tower'', is a seinen [[MysteryFiction mystery]]-{{horror}} manga by (...) (of ''Manga/TeamMedicalDragon'' fame). It ran from 2010 to 2014.

''Yuureitou'', or ''The Ghost Tower'', is a seinen [[MysteryFiction mystery]]-{{horror}} manga. It ran from 2010 to 2014.

* {{Transgender}}: Tetsuo, [[spoiler:who was Reiko Fujimiya prior to transitioning,]] is a trans man.

* TheFifties: The manga takes place in the early 50s.
* FilmNoir

* DefiledForever: The men in this manga seem to have this attitude towards women. Shiro despises the women who became the sexual servants of American men post World-War II, Tetsuo makes a big deal about protecting his chastity to Shiro, and Marube is said to be more sympathetic to women who protect their chastity than women who give it up when he is acting as a prosecutor for a sex-related case. Marube's attitude extends to Satoko [[spoiler: While he says he planned on taking Satoko's virginity once she was of age, it turns out the main reason he acts the way he does is because he's the opposite of Tetsuo: a man who wants to be a woman.]]

* BiTheWay: Tetsuo says he's straight, but has hints of having more feelings towards Amano than just wanting an [[HeterosexualLifePartners "eternal friendship"]]. [[spoiler: Eventually, Tetsuo's feelings for Amano win out. Something of a deconstruction, as there are also hints that Amano is genderfluid.]]

NeedsWikiMagicLove.

* ReplacementLoveInterest: An unsympathetic variant - in the epilogue, Amano happens to run into Mimura and his new wife, who heavily resembles Hanazono. He claims it's the only way he was able to move on after she was murdered, but it's heavily implied that he was only interested in finding someone with similarly good looks.

** Tetsuo's mother [[spoiler: was willing to abandon him in the ghost tower and let him die for being too masculine]].
* AccidentalMurder: [[spoiler: Shino murdering the man at the island - at least, it started out that way, but Yamashina points out that strangling him after she'd clubbed him unconscious means she'll be likely be prosecuted more harshly.]]

** Subverted with Tetsuo and [[spoiler: Shirou Honjou]]. Tetsuo ''wanted'' them to be this, but [[spoiler: Honjou]] was in love with Tetsuo and couldn't help seeing him as a woman.

* InfantImmortality: Averted. Two kids have died thus far and one was almost murdered.

* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Marube chooses to die holding onto Onatsu's corpse in the burning Ghost Mansion, so he's never officially prosecuted for his crimes. Tesla and Q also escape, and they'll likely continue their more dubious experiments in addition to saving the occasional life. Technically, on the protagonist side, Tetsuo counts as well - he's avoids going to jail for the death of his stepmother or the several partners he had before Amano, although he's already considered the murderer of the former and the others may well have been accidental.]]

''Yuureitou'', or ''The Ghost Tower'', is a seinen [[MysteryFiction mystery]]-{{horror}} manga.

* UnreliableVoiceover: Tetsuo's narration of his friendship with Hideo had one clue left out; he says that he never told Tetsuo his secret, and he never knew about it. [[spoiler:Hideo knew. He figured out accidentally when Tetsuo was unconscious. [[SecretSecretKeeper He just never said anything about it.]]]]

Way BetterThanItSounds. It spans to more than just that beginning.

* {{Transsexual}}: Tetsuo, [[spoiler:who was Reiko Fujimiya prior to transitioning,]] is a trans man.