History Manga / Arisa

* TheAce: Tsubasa sees Arisa as this, and highly respects her. But soon she discovers...
** BrokenAce: ...that Arisa is not like she imagined at all.

** You'd think that when two girls in the same class try to kill themselves in the same year and one of them is the ClassRepresentative the faculty or administration ''might'' be looking into it or launching some sort of investigation. Instead class 2-B continues to participate in King Time every Friday without any adults coming in to check on them or [[TwoTeacherSchool ever getting suspicious of the drawn curtains and closed doors]] or [[spoiler: that fire or the dead body or the missing student]].

* AmbiguousGender: The title of the King can refer to a girl, due to the Japanese term for it not having a gender pronoun.
* AxCrazy: [[spoiler:Midori]], the true King, ''in spades''.

* BigBad: The King. More specifically, [[spoiler:Midori]].
** Though since he also has help from [[spoiler: Kuudo]] at one point, this could count as a BigBadDuumvirate.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Mariko. [[spoiler:Also, the true King.]]
* BrokenBird: Shizuka (both figuratively and literally), though arguably this goes for a LOT of the characters in ''Arisa''.

* [[CallingTheOldManOut Calling the Classroom Out]]: [[spoiler: Manabe tells the class off after Midori was revealed]].
* CheshireCatGrin: The King, seen in shadows, often has these. [[spoiler: So do Kudou and Midori, both of whom play the part of the King.]]

* TheChessmaster: The King is one.
* TheChosenOne: The King chooses 5 members of the class as his representatives. [[spoiler: He himself is among them]].
* ClassRepresentative: Arisa.
* [[TownWithADarkSecret Classroom with a Dark Secret]]
* ClingyJealousGirl: Mariko for Arisa; she's jealous whenever she hangs out with others. This is part of why [[spoiler: she realizes "Arisa" isn't herself when Tsubasa ignores her to hang with Midori]].
* CreepyChild: A lot of them, notably [[spoiler: Midori. When he went to the foster home shortly after being abandoned by his mother and seeing his twin die the kindly matron thought that ''he'd lost his soul''.]]
* CreepyCleanliness: [[spoiler: Midori, the result of being left alone in a filthy apartment for most of his early life by his mother]]
* CreepyDoll: The King's messenger doll in chapter 7 is both a [[MonsterClown clown]] AND a CreepyDoll that speaks its threatening message and then laughs maniacally. Then it explodes. He later uses them to [[spoiler:attempt to murder Tsubasa, Kudou, and Arisa's mother]].

* DarkerAndEdgier: The manga's a good deal heavier than some of Ando's previous titles and is quite dark for the [[{{Shojo}} shojo genre]] in general.
* DisneyVillainDeath: Seems to be the preferred form of suicide in class 2B, [[NoOneShouldSurviveThat though overall it seems to be oddly ineffective]]. That or the school just had very low buildings...

* DrivenToSuicide: Anyone ostracized by the King.

* DrivingQuestion: Who is the King? [[spoiler: It's Midori, Arisa's really, ''really'' devoted boyfriend]].

* EvilAllAlong: [[spoiler:Midori]].
* EvilCripple: Shizuka has this effect. Then again, given her backstory, she can easily be read as a WheelchairWoobie.

* FakingAmnesia: Tsubasa does this while posing as Arisa.

* FreudianExcuse: [[spoiler: Midori and his twin brother Akari were neglected and abandoned by their mother to the point that Akari fell ill. When Midori tried to get help for his ailing brother, he was ignored and rejected by everyone he turned to, causing him to see everyone as a monster. His brother died soon after. This, combined with a bit of LoveMakesYouCrazy, is what motivates his despicable actions; he wants revenge, but he also wants to help the one person whom he felt something besides hatred for, Arisa.]]
** [[spoiler: Kuudo could also count, as it was his parents' abandonment of him due to his heart condition that caused him to resent the world. Ultimately, he also wanted to help Arisa, who was the only person that treated him with kindness.]]
* FriendlessBackground: [[spoiler: Mariko]].

* HappilyAdopted: Inverted, with Shizuka's borderline [[AbusiveParents abusive foster-mom]].
* HeartwarmingOrphan: Also inverted with Shizuka.
* HiddenVillain: The King.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler: It appears that King Midori's abuse of his "subjects" has finally come around to stab him in the back.]]

* IronicHell: Some of the King's granted wishes.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Manabe qualifies, though he might be equally classifiable as Tsundere as well.

* ManipulativeBastard: The King, able to control a whole classroom via cell phone.

* NiceGuy: Midori-kun. [[spoiler:[[ManipulativeBastard Or is he?]]]]
* NoHuggingNoKissing: Zig-zagged trope. This is wholly averted with Arisa who is canonically dating Midori and [[spoiler:Kudo has a crush on her]]. For Tsubasa, this is played fully straight as the story ends with little romance on her part and [[spoiler:while she did get kissed by Midori, it was more of Midori's ploy to manipulate her and expose her disguise]]. The closest to a ShipTease Tsubasa had with anyone is with Manabe due to Manabe becoming her greatest ally in solving the mystery but it ultimately went nowhere by the epilogue.

* OnlySaneMan: Tsubasa, Takeru, Manabe, and Midori, the only people not being manipulated/hypnotized by the King. [[spoiler:Subverted with Midori, who turns out to be the true King and completely AxCrazy.]]
* ParentalNeglect: Shizuka's foster mom.

* PolarOppositeTwins / SiblingYinYang: Arisa and Tsubasa. So, so much.
* PoorCommunicationKills: [[spoiler: Arisa tried to kill herself because she overheard Tsubasa telling her father how homesick she was and she was afraid this would get her taken away from her mother.]]

* PsychoSupporter: [[spoiler: Arisa has two: Her boyfriend wants to punish Tsubasa for "so casually stealing Arisa's boyfriend"; Kudou proclaims that he will always be her ally because she was the one who gave him the will to live.]]

* RedHerring: There are quite a lot of suspects for the King's identity. Namely, Arisa [[spoiler: who in fact was the King, but ''not'' the current, corrupt King]], Manabe, Mariko, Shizuka, Midori and Kudou. [[spoiler:Subverted with some of them.]]

* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: Those who betray or doubt the King are punished by him and ostracized from the class. This even includes his own followers, such as [[spoiler: Mariko]].

* SecretKeeper: Only Takeru, Manabe, and [[spoiler: the King]] know Tsubasa's posing as Arisa at first.

* ShrinkingViolet: Shiori.
* SlasherSmile: The King.

* StepfordSmiler:
** [[spoiler: Midori, so much so.]]
** Arisa is also one of these.

* TakingYouWithMe: This appears at first to be Kudou's intention in essentially becoming the dictator of class 2B, since he's going to [[spoiler: die of a weak heart and therefore wants to make as many of the students suffer as possible]].
** Subverted when it's revealed that [[spoiler:Kudou only wants to make class 2B the best class in the world for Arisa's sake but does so in an extremely dangerous and tyrannical manner. Midori twists that so the class's fame and/or where they're going will get the attention of his mother, but since she's already dead he'll settle for killing Arisa's mother and humiliating Tsubasa]].
* TeensAreMonsters: Might as well be the name of the manga.
* ThereAreNoPolice / PoliceAreUseless: Save for a few offhand mentions, there is a notable absence of law enforcement officers in this manga, leaving the murderous King of class 2B to run amok without repercussion.
** ''Finally'' averted in chapter 42 (the third to last chapter, mind you) when they show up at the summit meeting and mistakenly detain Tsubasa as a party-crasher and [[spoiler: arrest Midori, but don't frisk or cuff him which enables him to stab Arisa and run away. They (and Tsubasa wearing her Arisa-wig) trap him in Arisa's hospital room, but no one saw the other kid with the knife...]]

* TooDumbToLive: The police in chapter 42. [[spoiler:After apprehending Midori, they don't bother to handcuff or disarm him, which resultantly allows him to escape and stab Arisa with a concealed blade meant for her mother.]]
* TraumaInducedAmnesia: Invoked; Tsubasa fakes amnesia while pretending to be Arisa. [[spoiler: Arisa wakes up from her coma with amnesia.]]
** [[spoiler: [[FakingAmnesia She's lying]].]]
* {{Tsundere}}: Manabe, Type A.

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* WhenItAllBegan: [[spoiler: Shizuka]] was the first person marked as a traitor by the King.

* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: At least three of the King's pawns had very sad lives which made it easier for the real King to manipulate them: [[spoiler: The girl who tried to drug Tsubasa and drown her was shunned and bullied; the girl who pushed Tsubasa off a cliff and beat her own aunt tried to commit suicide and is now paralyzed; Kudou, who burned down a house so that class 2B could save the inhabitants and appear as heroes, has a weak heart and has been effectively abandoned by his parents]].

* {{Yandere}}:
** Mariko for Arisa. She gets better.
** [[spoiler:Kudou]] and [[spoiler: Midori]] for Arisa, the latter dangerously so.
*** Turns out [[spoiler:Midori]] is more yandere for [[spoiler:his dead twin brother, Akari, who he has projected onto Arisa]].

* {{Bishonen}}: Most of the male cast. Not surprising, given that it's a shoujo manga.

* BrokenPedestal: Tsubasa tries to inflict this status on the King, but the class just hates ''her'' for interfering with his wish granting.

* PutOnABus: Mariko.

* InformedAttribute: Tsubasa's "tough girl" personality.

* NeverMyFault: When the students of Class 2-B are confronted with the truth about [[spoiler: what Midori did, and what they were involved with,]] they immediately justify their actions as because of the King's manipulation, despite the fact that all of them were willing to sit by while their classmates were abused and people were hurt. That's ignoring the fact that it was their idolizing the King which gave [[spoiler: Midori]] his power in the first place. Manabe rightly calls them out on this. While it wasn't able to change much in the end, the classes reaction towards his words showed that his words affect them more than they let on.
* NiceGuy: Midori-kun. [[spoiler:Or is he?]]

->"I know everything about Arisa. She's her class representative, she has good grades, and she has a lot of friends. She's a very gentle girl who's liked by everyone. But... I didn't know anything about the real Arisa."

''Arisa'' is a 12-volume shojo manga written by Natsumi Ando, illustrator of ''Manga/KitchenPrincess''.

* TwinTelepathy: Seen in Volume 8. [[spoiler: When Tsubasa is hurt, Arisa flatlines in the hospital]]. Tsubasa even says not to underestimate the bond between twins as she races to help Arisa.

* AccompliceByInaction: Manabe calls the rest of 2-B by pointing this out [[spoiler:after the truth about Midori is revealed]], for all that they claim to never be at fault, they are all complacent and let him reign rule the whole class freely as he pleased.

* ActionGirl: Tsubasa is introduced as this, though she starts falling into FauxActionGirl territory later into the series.

* NeverMyFault: When the students of Class 2-B are confronted with the truth about [[spoiler: what Midori did, and what they were involved with,]] they immediately justify their actions as because of the King's manipulation, despite the fact that all of them were willing to sit by while their classmates were abused and people were hurt. That's ignoring the fact that it was their idolizing the King which gave [[spoiler: Midori]] his power in the first place. Manabe rightly calls them out on this, but it doesn't seem to do much in the end.

* YourCheatingHeart: Averted. [[spoiler: Though to Tsubasa it seems that this trope may be in effect when Midori kisses her, he only did that to drug her. He later calls her out kissing her sister's boyfriend.]]

->--'''Tsubasa Uehara'''

* HairDecorations: Mariko wears ribbons in her hair, emphasizing her childishness.

* PurpleEyes: Tsubasa and Arisa have them.