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* CharacterTitle: ''"Blattodea"'' refers to roaches (and termites), so it works as a ProtagonistTitle for Chiyuri and an AntagonistTitle for Megumi. As mantises are closely related to roaches, it makes sense that Hanakamakiri also gets plenty of spotlight on Alice's side of the story.

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''"Blattodea"'' refers to roaches (and termites), roaches, so it works as a ProtagonistTitle for Chiyuri and an AntagonistTitle for Megumi. As mantises are closely related to roaches, it makes sense that Hanakamakiri also gets plenty of spotlight on Alice's side of the story.
** When Makoto is revealed to be a "termite-girl" who sabotaged Hibarigaoka prison by bringing Serena inside, the narration [[TitleDrop dramatically explains]] how termites belong to the Blattodea order despite resembling ants.

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** Dinoponera ends up trapped in a basement and forced to train with Sasori to ear her freedom, which she is obviously enraged about, since it was Sasori who got her gangraped the year before. Several chapters later, they are seen being oddly ''friendly and happy together'' after spending 3 months beating each other up hundreds of times.



* OrwellianRetcon: Dinoponera's BulletTime skill was called "Concentration Driving Force[=/=][[AlternateCharacterReading Free]]" in ''Arachnid'', but is changed to "Concentration Driving" or just "C. Drive" on the magazine version of Chapter 2. The published volumes and the magazine versions of following chapters actually flip-flop between the original term and the retcon one more than once.

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* OrwellianRetcon: Dinoponera's BulletTime skill was called "Concentration Driving Force[=/=][[AlternateCharacterReading Free]]" Free" in ''Arachnid'', but is changed to "Concentration Driving" or just "C. Drive" on the magazine version of Chapter 2. The published volumes and the magazine versions of following chapters actually flip-flop between the original term and the retcon one more than once.



** Sasori saves Setsuna from Rin and takes an interest on becoming a teacher figure to her like how Kumo was to Alice, which kind of... sort of... vaguely makes up for the whole "gang-raped a million times by dozens of zombies" thing?... She also puts a shirt on the perpetually-stripped girl, which is a surprisingly nice gesture.

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** Sasori saves Setsuna from Rin and takes an interest on becoming a teacher figure to her like how Kumo was to Alice, which kind of... sort of... vaguely makes up for the whole "gang-raped a million times by dozens of zombies" thing?... She also puts a shirt on the perpetually-stripped girl, which is a surprisingly nice gesture.gesture, and seems to treat Setsuna so well that they somehow end up looking all happy, friendly and cute together.



* ThrowTheDogABone: Upon being pulled into the Organization, Alice spends a good dozen chapters without getting beaten black, blue and counterclockwise. She even gets to eat pudding. Problem is, Hanakamakiri and especially Bekkobachi are some of the most untrustworthy people in the universe towards her. As soon as Alice tries to go outside on her own, Hanakamakiri [[YankTheDogsChain beats the stuffing out of her]].

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Upon being pulled into the Organization, Alice spends a good dozen chapters without getting beaten black, blue and counterclockwise. She even gets to eat pudding. Problem is, Hanakamakiri and especially Bekkobachi are some of the most untrustworthy people in the universe towards her. As soon as Alice tries to go outside on her own, Hanakamakiri [[YankTheDogsChain beats the stuffing out of her]].her]].
** After Setsuna is humiliated for several chapters and ends up trapped in a basement to be trained by Sasori of all people, we see her 3 months later managing to knock Sasori down and pin her to the floor, merrily celebrating having won 10 times in a row for a total of 313 wins and 312 losses so far.
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** Karina undressing herself and prostrating before Serena to report to her is a panel-by-panel recreation of Serena's introduction scene in ''Manga/{{Himenospia}}''.

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** Karina undressing herself and prostrating before Serena to report to her is a panel-by-panel recreation of Serena's introduction scene in ''Manga/{{Himenospia}}''. The climax of ''Himenospia'' took place in an underground prison, and the plot ''Blattodea'' involves all major characters including Serena converging into a prison.
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** PlayedForLaughs when Megumi sees Alice again and is so shocked that she flops on her back like a dead cockroach, in a silly pose with raised limbs and exposed panties.


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** In Chapter 37, Shoichiro encounters Serena already inside the prison, as Makoto introduces him to her under the pretense of Serena being a refugee skilled in resource management.

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* BlandNameProduct: After disappearing for a whole year in-universe, Kabutomushi is reintroduced hanging around an abandoned [="WcDonald's"=] restaurant in uniform as she casually blasts zombies left and right.

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** As before, the series "Sailor-Force" and "Kahen Rider" are repeatedly mentioned by geek characters in the story.
** Chiyuri is seen eating from a box of Pocky sticks named "Lucky". Alice does directly mention the "Pocky Game" at one point, though.
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After disappearing for a whole year in-universe, Kabutomushi is reintroduced hanging around an abandoned [="WcDonald's"=] restaurant in uniform as she casually blasts zombies left and right.right.
** Serena is seen eating "Cup Men" noodles. Back in ''Himenospia'' it was "Cup Poodle".
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** Himekuwagata reappears as a guard for Hibarigaoka Prison in chapter 36, like Murata implied in a Twitter Spaces roundtable interview held in 2023 when volume 6 was published.
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** Alice and Hanakamakiri are sexually harassed by a trio of yet more cartoonishly ugly rapist thugs the moment they step into a prison-shelter. Alice, who's being forced to be the ShadowDictator of the genocidal Organization that caused said outbreak, is disgusted enough to want to demolish the whole place. But then Chiyuri the MagicalHomelessPerson shows up [[CallBack just like in the fountain scene]] and demands the thugs stop to avoid trouble with the prison's management. And they actually do, as if to convey Alice is being unreasonable for resorting to violence every time this happens.

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** Alice and Hanakamakiri are sexually harassed by a trio of yet more cartoonishly ugly rapist thugs the moment they step into a prison-shelter. Alice, who's being forced to be the ShadowDictator of the genocidal Organization that caused said the outbreak, is disgusted enough to want to demolish the whole place. But then Chiyuri the MagicalHomelessPerson shows up [[CallBack just like in the fountain scene]] and demands the thugs stop to avoid trouble with the prison's management. And they actually do, as if to convey Alice is being unreasonable for resorting to violence every time this happens.

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* DudeShesLikeInAComa: There's a noticeable amount of scenes involving girls being threatened in their sleep. Worth noting is that the trope's fetish angle was spelled out in ''Konchuki'' by the same author on the same time period.

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* DudeShesLikeInAComa: There's a noticeable amount of scenes involving girls being threatened in their sleep. Worth noting is that the trope's voyeuristic fetish angle nature of those was spelled out in ''Konchuki'' by the same author on the same time period.


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** Subverted when Sasori takes an unconscious Setsuna to a bedroom and just removes her shredded clothes to put a shirt on her, appearing to have, for the time being, no ill intent towards the girl she previously got raped by zombies.


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* NippleAndDimed: Female nipples are mostly uncensored in volume releases of the shonen entries of the series since ''Choubu no Shinobi''. "Mostly" because a few pages were published unfinished, like a scene of Alice floating naked in a virtual void and another of Setsuna lying unconscious on the floor.
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** Tried and failed when Chiyuri asks Setsuna to stop bathing naked on a public fountain before the police finds out and the assassin girl just kicks her on the face while intending to murder her for no reason. Chiyuri manages to pacify Setsuna [[DefeatMeansFriendship with some walloping]] and small talk about ''"Sailor-Force"'' before anything terrible happens and they become best friends, contrasting with Alice who not only drives Setsuna away with fear after a far more violent fight but is also prevented from making peace by a hostile Kabutomushi who was demanding her to execute Setsuna.
** Alice and Hanakamakiri are sexually harassed by a trio of yet more cartoonishly ugly rapist thugs the moment they step into a prison-shelter. Alice, who's being forced to be the ShadowDictator of the genocidal Organization that caused said outbreak, is disgusted enough to want to demolish the whole place. But then Chiyuri the MagicalHomelessPerson shows up [[CallBack just like in the fountain scene]] and demands the thugs stop to avoid trouble with the prison's management. And they actually do, as if to convey Alice is being unreasonable for resorting to violence every time this happens.

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