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** God help you if you hurt Shiro's love ones. He shows no mercy to the unlucky villains who do so.
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** God help you if you hurt Shiro's love loved ones. He shows no mercy to the unlucky villains who do so.
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** God help you if you hurt Shiro's love ones. He shows no mercy to the unlucky villains who do so.
** Likewise, if Shiro's in danger [[BigBrotherInstinct under Anri's watch]], don't expect to live very long or come out unscathed.
** God help you if you hurt Shiro's love ones. He shows no mercy to the unlucky villains who do so.
** Likewise, if Shiro's in danger [[BigBrotherInstinct under Anri's watch]], don't expect to live very long or come out unscathed.
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* AffablyEvil: For a gang leader, Anri is certainly popular and friendly to many people. He also cares about Shiro too much for his own good.
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** Anri is a shameless flirt and loves to tease his blood brother Shiro whenever he gets the chance to see him. He's also the leader of a notorious gang, manipulative, and downright scary in a fight.
** Saotome may be an essentric old man, but his analytical skills are top notch, and his methods for exacting justice are thought out brilliantly and scarily.
** Anri is a shameless flirt and loves to tease his blood brother Shiro whenever he gets the chance to see him. He's also the leader of a notorious gang, manipulative, and downright scary in a fight.
** Saotome may be an essentric old man, but his analytical skills are top notch, and his methods for exacting justice are thought out brilliantly and scarily.
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* MessianicArchetype: The symblism is certainly present for Shiro, as shown in "Tales from Other People"; [[spoiler: The Ha clan suffers from a short lifespan, and the only way to delay it is the opiate drug they consume or by consuming the flesh and blood of a certain human. [[MacGuffinGirl Shiro]] is that human.]]
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* MessianicArchetype: The symblism symbolism is certainly present for Shiro, as shown in "Tales from Other People"; [[spoiler: The Ha clan suffers from a short lifespan, and the only way to delay it is the opiate drug they consume or by consuming the flesh and blood of a certain human. [[MacGuffinGirl Shiro]] is that human.]]
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* CrapsackWorld: Japan is a powder cesspool in this work. Despite some parts being beautiful and ornate, many of its citizens in the lower class are suffering in dirt-poor conditions, while the middle and upper classes have constant infighting and are willing to betray and kill each other over the slightest inconveniences or insecurities. The Organization is no better; many of its members are suffering major BodyHorror because of their status as Halflings, resort to taking drugs to prolong their eventual deaths, and the leaders are ruthless and heartless.
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* CrapsackWorld: Japan is a powder cesspool in this work. Despite some parts being beautiful and ornate, many of its citizens in the lower class are suffering in dirt-poor conditions, while the middle and upper classes have constant infighting and are willing to betray and kill each other over the slightest inconveniences or insecurities. The Organization is no better; many of its members are suffering major BodyHorror because of their status as Halflings, resort to taking drugs to prolong their eventual deaths, and the leaders are ruthless and heartless.
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* BodyHorror: All Halflings have to go through this. Over time, they begin to grow painful bulbous mounds all over their body. The ''very least'' of the disease shows them with unnerving veins growing on certain parts of their body.
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* BodyHorror: All The Nehates and their children the Halflings have to go through this. Over time, The Nehates get the worst of it, as they begin to grow painful bulbous mounds all over their body. The ''very least'' of body, while the disease shows them with unnerving veins Halflings suffer from an ever growing on certain parts amount of nerve-like protrusions covering their body.body, with only an opiate to stop it for a while. Shiro's case was so bad that he was bandaged from ''head to toe'' as a child.
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* AnachronismStew: Even if the story's set in the Meiji era, a lot of contemporary Japanese items made their way into this time period. Sailor school uniforms, bunny outfits, references to manga from the far future, and especially certain 2010s clothing styles exist when they should have been made years later.
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* AmbitionIsEvil: Haruzumi's major goal is to usurp leadership from the Northern Troupe's current figurehead, and he'll let nothing stand in his way for that goal. [[spoiler:Even letting his longtime friend and his whole family line be executed to cover for him.]]
* AnachronismStew: Even if the story's set in the Meiji era, a lot of contemporary Japanese items made their way into this time period. Sailor school uniforms, bunny outfits, references to manga from the far future, and especially certain2010s 2000s clothing styles exist when they should have been made years later.
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* ClarkKenting: Whenever he goes out and has to do something in general society, Anri dyes his hair black. His foreign blond hair sticks out too much to let him do otherwise.
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** When they were little, both Shiro and Anri looked extraordinarily like beautiful girls. Made worse by their combat outfits.
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** Even Kojiro is not exempt from this treatment. While he catches the eye of many girls for his manly physique, many of the men in the crossdressing district ''adore'' him for it.
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* MadArtist: One singer is a perfectly normal, if essentric, person until she gets the itch to compose. Then she's stumbling all over the place, disheveled, frothing at the mouth, and ''filled'' with brilliant ideas.
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* FountainOfYouth: The Ha clan has a technique that allows the user to regress to a younger form for a small amount of time, at the cost of some physical exhaustion. [[spoiler:Anri]] knows the technique, having been in the Organization for a while, and uses it to comfort Shiro while he's in surgery. It takes him a week to regenerate.
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* AffablyEvil: For a gang leader, Anri is certainly popular and friendly to many people. He also care about Shiro too much for his own good.
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* MessianicArchetype: The symblism is certainly present for Shiro, as shown in "Tales from Other People"; [[spoiler: The Ha clan suffers from a short lifespan, and the only way to delay it is the opiate drug they consume or by consuming the flesh and blood of a certain human. [[MacGuffinGirl Shiro]] is that human.]]
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* MistakenForGay: One common gag is for someone to misinterpret the relationship between Kojiro and Shiro as romantic. Saburouta reluctantly congratulates Kojiro on "coming out" when he first stumbles onto them, and Saotome asks if Kojiro has become a man's "commuting wife" because he takes care of Shiro.
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* MistakenForGay: One common gag is for someone to misinterpret the relationship between Kojiro and Shiro as romantic. Saburouta reluctantly congratulates Kojiro on "coming out" when he first stumbles onto them, and Saotome asks if Kojiro has become a man's "commuting wife" because he takes care of Shiro. In "Tales from Other People", a woman mistook him as a patron to Shiro, who was MistakenForProstitute.
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* ImAManICantHelpIt: How Shiro sums up an encounter with a dead woman in "Tales from Other People":
--> '''Interviewer:''' Why can't you wait until they say "yes", huh? Why?\\
'''Shiro:''' Well, duh. Because I'm horny.
--> '''Interviewer:''' Why can't you wait until they say "yes", huh? Why?\\
'''Shiro:''' Well, duh. Because I'm horny.
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* BloodBrothers: This series loves this trope. Kojiro has this with Saburouta, and Shiro has this with Anri.
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* TheBeautifulElite: Many of the nobles the heroes encounter over the course of their journey are stunningly beautiful, and two of the underlings of the Northern Troupe are among the rich as well.
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* AuthorAppeal: Hmmm...do you think Tsukiji Nao loves [[CostumePorn elaborate costumes]], lean young men, HomoeroticSubtext, scenery porn, uniforms, men in lingerie and sexy costumes, cute girls, and heaps of rococo-level detail?
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* AuthorAppeal: Hmmm...do you think Tsukiji Nao loves [[CostumePorn elaborate costumes]], lean and feminine young men, HomoeroticSubtext, scenery porn, uniforms, men in lingerie and sexy costumes, cute girls, and heaps of rococo-level detail?
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** Kojiro's naive friend Ippei, formerly a one-shot character, is slowly being turned into emotional mincemeat over the course of the latest chapters...
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* {{Fetish}}: In "The Living Flower", Morizono turns out to have a fetish for [[TheCaretaker caretaking]], finding fulfillment and sexual satisfaction being the physical and [[Living|Emotional Crutch]] for his lovers and devoting himself to them. Shiro's intervention makes Tsutae, Morizono's wife, realize this and [[spoiler:intentionally falls off a cliff in order to hurt herself, all so she can make him happy in taking care of her.]]
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* {{Fetish}}: In "The Living Flower", Morizono turns out to have a fetish for [[TheCaretaker caretaking]], finding fulfillment and sexual satisfaction being the physical and [[Living|Emotional Crutch]] [[LivingEmotionalCrutch emotional crutch]] for his lovers and devoting himself to them. Shiro's intervention makes Tsutae, Morizono's wife, realize this and [[spoiler:intentionally falls off a cliff in order to hurt herself, all so she can make him happy in taking care of her.]]
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* {{Fetish}}: In "The Living Flower", Morizono turns out to have a fetish for [[TheCaretaker caretaking]], finding fulfillment and sexual satisfaction being the physical and [[Living|Emotional Crutch]] for his lovers and devoting himself to them. Shiro's intervention makes Tsutae, Morizono's wife, realize this and [[spoiler:intentionally falls off a cliff in order to hurt herself, all so she can make him happy in taking care of her.]]
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** Anri deliberately makes himself into Walking Fanservice. From what we've seen, his reasons for doing this were [[SexSlave less than]] [[DistractedByTheSexy family-friendly]].
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* SelfDeprecation: Shiro's method of umbrella-making, his unsuccessful attempts to sell his over-the-top creations, and how easily flattered he gets when Wakabayashi notes that he's put a tremendous amount of work into minute details that very few people will notice. Now look at the amount of elabourate work Tsukiji Nao puts into her art, backgrounds, and tiny details that very few people will notice...
** At one point later in the manga, a famous novelist dismisses the work of a friend of his who wrote a story about a HiddenElfVillage AncientConspiracy, calling it ridiculous and unreadable. [[spoiler: That ridiculous unreadable story is about the Ha Organization, the shadowy group that's been chasing Shiro and pulling the strings behind the scenes through the whole manga.]] Ouch.
** At one point later in the manga, a famous novelist dismisses the work of a friend of his who wrote a story about a HiddenElfVillage AncientConspiracy, calling it ridiculous and unreadable. [[spoiler: That ridiculous unreadable story is about the Ha Organization, the shadowy group that's been chasing Shiro and pulling the strings behind the scenes through the whole manga.]] Ouch.
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* SuperStrength: The Southern Troupe leader seems to have this, as he took off the head of one of his blood brothers with just one hand without batting an eye.
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* GoodIsNotNice: Saotome may be a senior police officer, but that doesn't mean he won't use any means necessary in order to exact justice, even if he almost commits treason for it.
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* HeirClubForMen: Gender Inverted for the Flower Mist Clan. Only the eldest daughter of the ruling family can inherit power, and it's for this reason that [[spoiler:Makiyo]] was forced to crossdress as a girl for his entire childhood. When his younger sister was born, the charade had gone along for long enough that they'd suspect foul play if he was suddenly revealed as male, so [[spoiler:Makiyo]] was forced to crossdress from then on and was effectively cut off from most activities, leading him to his [[DoesNotLikeWomen hatred of women]] and violent retribution on innocent Tree Women.
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* INeverSaidItWasPoison: When Saotome requests that Makiyo turn herself in, he brings out a handful of ribbons that he claimed were found in her room. Makiyo explains that those ribbons couldn't have been in there since the names embroidered on the ends were wrong-- something that Saotome never even mentioned, and was planning on her to point out.
* InfantImmortality: Averted very hard in the first chapter; all of the babies that the culprit had taken to care for were killed and buried by her with the exception of one.
* InfantImmortality: Averted very hard in the first chapter; all of the babies that the culprit had taken to care for were killed and buried by her with the exception of one.
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* AwesomenessByAnalysis: Having been in the business for more than two decades, Saotome is scarily efficient at his job, [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass though he comes off as a buffoon]]. During the Tree People arc, he was able to work out the culprit by running the statistics mentally and then setting up a simple trap to get the culprit to slip up.
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