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* WickedStepmother: ''A Frozen Summer Day'' has Akemi Nosaka, Youko's stepmother, who has been beating her for a long time.
* YourCheatingHeart: Eriko begins an affair with Mari's boyfriend in ''Suicide Room Number 404'', which leads to her suicide.
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* WickedStepmother: ''A Frozen Summer Day'' has Akemi Nosaka, Youko's stepmother, who has been beating her for a long time.
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* LockedInAFreezer: In ''A Frozen Summer Day'', [[spoiler: Akemi Nosaka's corpse was locked into the fridge]].
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* HeadTap: In ''Farewell To The Eye-Witness'', Ryoko smacks a bar on Murakami's head and he dies from the impact. [[spoiler: Subverted, she merely knocked him unconscious. Saiki came upon him after and beat him to death with multiple blows.]]
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* TapOnTheHead: In ''Farewell To The Eyewitness'', Ryokou smacks Murakami over the head with an iron pipe and he dies from it. [[spoiler: Subverted, it's revealed that he was merely unconscious from the one tap. Saiki then came across him and beat him over the head with the pipe multiple times, actually killing him.]]
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* ''Houmonsha wa Mayonaka ni... (Someone in the Dark...)'': Masami returns home from tennis practice, only to find her home abandoned and her mother and brother nowhere to be seen. And yet, someone is out to kill her?
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* ''Houmonsha wa Mayonaka ni... (Someone in the Dark...)'': (The Midnight Visitor)'': Masami returns home from tennis practice, only to find her home abandoned and her mother and brother nowhere to be seen. And yet, someone is out to kill her?
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* ChildhoodFriendRomance: ''Someone In The Dark...'' has Yoshitaka, who has had feelings for Masami for ages.
** Masanori in ''Red Destiny'', who confesses to Hisako in the beginning. [[spoiler: He wasn't confessing as himself, but does confess to her properly at the end.]]
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* ChildhoodFriendRomance: ''Someone In The Dark...'' ''The Midnight Visitor'' has Yoshitaka, who has had feelings for Masami for ages.
** Masanori in ''Red Destiny'', who confesses to Hisako in the beginning. [[spoiler: He wasn't confessing as himself, but does confess to herproperly at as himself in the end.end... kinda.]]
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* DeadAllAlong: ''Someone In The Dark...'' ends with the revelation that [[spoiler: Masami's mother and her little brother Ikuo were killed by the robbers the day she returned from tennis training, so she merely saw their spirits the days after]].
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* DeadAllAlong: ''Someone In The Dark...'' ''The Midnight Visitor'' ends with the revelation that [[spoiler: Masami's mother and her little brother Ikuo were killed by the robbers the day she returned from tennis training, so she merely saw their spirits the days after]].
* HeadTap: In ''Farewell To The Eye-Witness'', Ryoko smacks a bar on Murakami's head and he dies from the impact. [[spoiler: Subverted, she merely knocked him unconscious. Saiki came upon him after and beat him to death with multiple blows.]]
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** In ''Crystal Doll'', [[spoiler: this is a medically-induced condition for Mayumi Kuroki, to help with metabolism]].
* IndianBurialGround: The titular room in ''Suicide Room Number 404'', where women tend to commit suicide over lost or betrayed love. [[spoiler: Whether it's really cursed is left hanging, though it is mentioned that it might be, with it maybe being the reason for the enmity that springs up between Eriko and Mari.]]
* IndianBurialGround: The titular room in ''Suicide Room Number 404'', where women tend to commit suicide over lost or betrayed love. [[spoiler: Whether it's really cursed is left hanging, though it is mentioned that it might be, with it maybe being the reason for the enmity that springs up between Eriko and Mari.]]
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** In ''Crystal Doll'', [[spoiler: this is a medically-induced condition for Mayumi Kuroki, whose body is very fragile and allows her metabolism to help with metabolism]].
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* IndianBurialGround: The titular room in ''Suicide Room Number 404'', where women tend to commit suicide over lost or betrayed love. [[spoiler: Whether it's really cursed is left hanging, though it is mentioned that it might be, with itmaybe being the reason for the enmity that springs up between Eriko and Mari.]]
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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: In ''Someone In The Dark...'', ''The Midnight Visitor'', Masami notes how strange her mother is behaving, insisting that she stay at home or making her take her little brother along, if she absolutely must go outside. [[spoiler: It's the first hint to Masami that something definitely happened with the guys she encountered the day before.]]
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** Masanora in ''Red Destiny'', who confesses to Hisako in the beginning. [[spoiler: He wasn't confessing as himself, but does confess to her properly at the end.]]
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** Masanora Masanori in ''Red Destiny'', who confesses to Hisako in the beginning. [[spoiler: He wasn't confessing as himself, but does confess to her properly at the end.]]
* {{Gaslighting}}: In ''Suicide Room Number 404'', this is done to Eriko [[spoiler: by Mari and Tooru]]. She repeatedly sees the spirits of the previously deceased women at night, finds herself waking up and unable to move, all to make her go insane. [[spoiler: The 'spirits' are merely mannequins and Mari and Tooru having been spiking Eriko's coffee and wine, respectively.]]
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* SlapSlapKiss: In ''Suicide Room Number 404'', this is the relationship between Tooru and Mari. They fight, they make up and fight some more.
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* SlapSlapKiss: In ''Suicide Room Number 404'', this is the relationship between Tooru and Mari. They fight, they make up and fight some more.and make up.
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* AllMenArePerverts: In ''Farewell To The Eyewitness'', teacher Murakami. He used Ryoko's dropped trainpass as an excuse to get her into a situation, where he can blackmail her and tries to rape her. There's rumors of him having done this in previous schools, too.
* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: ''Kind Killer' with [[spoiler: Masaru and Suguru Magami]]. They're mentioned to have the same body build, same appearance and same voice.
* ArtisticLicenseMedicine: ''When The Bell Rings 5 Times'' has the victims die through broken necks, yet have an inordinate amount of blood splurting out when this happens, which is very unlikely to happen, unless the skin has been ruptured during strangulation.
* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: ''Kind Killer' with [[spoiler: Masaru and Suguru Magami]]. They're mentioned to have the same body build, same appearance and same voice.
* ArtisticLicenseMedicine: ''When The Bell Rings 5 Times'' has the victims die through broken necks, yet have an inordinate amount of blood splurting out when this happens, which is very unlikely to happen, unless the skin has been ruptured during strangulation.
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* AllMenArePerverts: In ''Farewell To The Eyewitness'', teacher Murakami. He used Ryoko's dropped trainpass as an excuse to get her into a situation, situation where he can blackmail her and tries try to rape her. There's rumors of him having done this in previous schools, too.
* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: ''KindKiller' Killer'' with [[spoiler: Masaru and Suguru Magami]]. They're mentioned to have the same body build, same appearance and same voice.
* ArtisticLicenseMedicine: In ''When The Bell Rings 5Times'' has Times'', the victims die through broken necks, yet have an inordinate amount of blood splurting out when this happens, which is very unlikely to happen, unless the skin has been ruptured during strangulation.
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* FourIsDeath: ''Suicide Room Number 404'' has [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the titular room]] on the fourth floor.
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* AllMenArePerverts: In ''Farewell To The Eyewitness, Eyewitness'', teacher Murakami. He used Ryoko's dropped trainpass as an excuse to get her into a situation, where he can blackmail her and tries to rape her. There's rumors of him having done this in previous schools, too.
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* AssholeVictim: Majority of the chapters end up having one. ''Farewell To The Eyewitness'' has Takashi Murakami, [[spoiler: Mari and Tooru from ''Suicide Room Number 404'']], ''When The Bell Rings 5 Times'' has [[spoiler: practically any of the guys who went after
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* AssholeVictim: Majority of the chapters end up having one. ''Farewell To The Eyewitness'' has Takashi Murakami, [[spoiler: Mari and Tooru from ''Suicide Room Number 404'']], ''When The Bell Rings 5 Times'' has [[spoiler: practically any of the guys who went afterafter Yoshie and killed her]].
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* YourCheatingHeart: Eriko begins an affair with Mari's boyfriend in ''Suicide Room Number 404'', which leads to her suicide.
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A two volume manga series that collects several of Creator/ChieShinohara's one-shots with a theme of murder, mystery or horror into it. The volumes contain the following one-shot chapters of her work.
* ''Kootta Natsu No Hi (A Frozen Summer Day)'': Youko is watching over her home for a few days, until her mother returns, when a robber forces his way into her house and holds her hostage, trying to get 40 Million Yen out of her.
* ''Yasashii Satsujinsha (Kind Killer)'': Ayumi wants to present her crush Magami a love letter and follows him after school, only to see him kill someone? There's no way Magami killed anyone, right?
* ''Houmonsha wa Mayonaka ni... (Someone in the Dark...)'': Masami returns home from tennis practice, only to find her home abandoned and her mother and brother nowhere to be seen. And yet, someone is out to kill her?
* ''Mokugekisha ni Sayonara (Farewell To The Eyewitness)'': Ryoko was only trying to protect herself from her perverted teacher Murakami! It was self-defense! But having run into someone on her way home, she needs to make sure to shut that eyewitness up.
* ''Weekend no Joutaijou (Weekend's Invitation)'': Noriko receives an anonymous invitation to a concert and meets her crush Shiki there. Rumors of a love triangle begin to form, because Shiki has a girlfriend.
* ''Nemuru Machi (Dead Town)'': Yuna and her friends from the archery club fall asleep on the train and end up getting out at the last station. Yet, the town is abandoned...
* ''Jisatsushitsu Room Number 404 (Suicide Room Number 404)'': Eriko moves in with her friend Mari. And when Eriko begins an affair with Mari's boyfriend, Mari commits suicide and seems to haunt Eriko out of spite.
* ''Soshite 5-kai no Suzu ga Naru (When The Bell Rings 5 Times)'': After a fight with her boyfriend, Aiko finds a bell and then herself waking up next to a corpse. Is she really a murderer? Has it to do with the bell?
* ''Crystal Doll'': Kazuya encounters a dead person, only to learn that it might be an android. And now the CIA is out to kill him.
* ''Fuyu no Hana wa Chinkon Hana (Winter Flower's Requiem)'': Mariko wants to see her dead best friend Ami one last time, to say farewell. But there is no corpse in the coffin?
* ''Akai Densetsu (Red Destiny)'': Hisako has known for ages that she's destined to be with someone, waiting to meet The One. But her friend begins to act strangely.
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!! Chie Shinohara The Best Collection Contains Examples Of
* AbusiveParents: Youko Nosaka's stepmother beat her repeatedly, after her father died.
* AllMenArePerverts: In ''Farewell To The Eyewitness, teacher Murakami. He used Ryoko's dropped trainpass as an excuse to get her into a situation, where he can blackmail her and tries to rape her. There's rumors of him having done this in previous schools, too.
* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: ''Kind Killer' with [[spoiler: Masaru and Suguru Magami]]. They're mentioned to have the same body build, same appearance and same voice.
* ArtisticLicenseMedicine: ''When The Bell Rings 5 Times'' has the victims die through broken necks, yet have an inordinate amount of blood splurting out when this happens, which is very unlikely to happen, unless the skin has been ruptured during strangulation.
* AssholeVictim: Majority of the chapters end up having one. ''Farewell To The Eyewitness'' has Takashi Murakami, [[spoiler: Mari and Tooru from ''Suicide Room Number 404'']], ''When The Bell Rings 5 Times'' has [[spoiler: practically any of the guys who went after
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Ryoko from ''Farewell To The Eyewitness''. [[spoiler: She beats a teacher, who tries to rape her, and then proceeds to calculate a plan to kill the person she ran into on her way home.]]
* ChekhovsGun: In ''Suicide Room Number 404'', the little trap Eriko sets for Mari in a moment of jealous insanity. [[spoiler: It's used to eventually incapacitate Tooru.]]
* ChildhoodFriendsRomance: ''Someone In The Dark...'' has Yoshitaka, who has had feelings for Masami for ages.
** Masanora in ''Red Destiny'', who confesses to Hisako in the beginning. [[spoiler: He wasn't confessing as himself, but does confess to her properly at the end.]]
* ChildProdigy: Mayumi Kuroki in ''Crystal Doll'', whose genius is making huge leaps in the creation of androids.
* DeadAllAlong: ''Someone In The Dark...'' ends with the revelation that [[spoiler: Masami's mother and her little brother Ikuo were killed by the robbers the day she returned from tennis training, so she merely saw their spirits the days after]].
* EvilTwin: ''Kind Killer'' has [[spoiler: Masaru Magami]].
* HumanPopsicle: In ''Winter Flower's Requiem'', this is the fate of people who are beyond saving with the current state of medicine.
** In ''Crystal Doll'', [[spoiler: this is a medically-induced condition for Mayumi Kuroki, to help with metabolism]].
* IndianBurialGround: The titular room in ''Suicide Room Number 404'', where women tend to commit suicide over lost or betrayed love. [[spoiler: Whether it's really cursed is left hanging, though it is mentioned that it might be, with it maybe being the reason for the enmity that springs up between Eriko and Mari.]]
* InSeriesNickname: ''Red Destiny'' has Hisako go by 'Chaco'.
* KillItWithFire: ''Dead Town'' has Yuna and Rin use fire to kill the poisonous moths.
* LockedInAFreezer: In ''A Frozen Summer Day'', [[spoiler: Akemi Nosaka's corpse was locked into the fridge]].
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: In ''Someone In The Dark...'', Masami notes how strange her mother is behaving, insisting that she stay at home or making her take her little brother along, if she absolutely must go outside. [[spoiler: It's the first hint to Masami that something definitely happened with the guys she encountered the day before.]]
* ThePlague: ''Dead Town'' had all of its inhabitants killed through poison found on the scales of a type of moth that originated from there.
* SlapSlapKiss: In ''Suicide Room Number 404'', this is the relationship between Tooru and Mari. They fight, they make up and fight some more.
* TakingYouWithMe: In ''Weekend's Invitation'', this is the plan of [[spoiler: Kuramoto]], who plans to jump out the window with Noriko. [[spoiler: He never actually meant it, since he let go of her, which allowed Shiki to keep Noriko safe.]]
* UndercoverCopReveal: In ''A Frozen Summer Day'', [[spoiler: the robber turns out to be Shiro Ikushima, a newbie on the police force, who went undercover as a robber to find Akemi Nosaka]].
* WickedStepmother: ''A Frozen Summer Day'' has Akemi Nosaka, Youko's stepmother, who has been beating her for a long time.
A two volume manga series that collects several of Creator/ChieShinohara's one-shots with a theme of murder, mystery or horror into it. The volumes contain the following one-shot chapters of her work.
* ''Kootta Natsu No Hi (A Frozen Summer Day)'': Youko is watching over her home for a few days, until her mother returns, when a robber forces his way into her house and holds her hostage, trying to get 40 Million Yen out of her.
* ''Yasashii Satsujinsha (Kind Killer)'': Ayumi wants to present her crush Magami a love letter and follows him after school, only to see him kill someone? There's no way Magami killed anyone, right?
* ''Houmonsha wa Mayonaka ni... (Someone in the Dark...)'': Masami returns home from tennis practice, only to find her home abandoned and her mother and brother nowhere to be seen. And yet, someone is out to kill her?
* ''Mokugekisha ni Sayonara (Farewell To The Eyewitness)'': Ryoko was only trying to protect herself from her perverted teacher Murakami! It was self-defense! But having run into someone on her way home, she needs to make sure to shut that eyewitness up.
* ''Weekend no Joutaijou (Weekend's Invitation)'': Noriko receives an anonymous invitation to a concert and meets her crush Shiki there. Rumors of a love triangle begin to form, because Shiki has a girlfriend.
* ''Nemuru Machi (Dead Town)'': Yuna and her friends from the archery club fall asleep on the train and end up getting out at the last station. Yet, the town is abandoned...
* ''Jisatsushitsu Room Number 404 (Suicide Room Number 404)'': Eriko moves in with her friend Mari. And when Eriko begins an affair with Mari's boyfriend, Mari commits suicide and seems to haunt Eriko out of spite.
* ''Soshite 5-kai no Suzu ga Naru (When The Bell Rings 5 Times)'': After a fight with her boyfriend, Aiko finds a bell and then herself waking up next to a corpse. Is she really a murderer? Has it to do with the bell?
* ''Crystal Doll'': Kazuya encounters a dead person, only to learn that it might be an android. And now the CIA is out to kill him.
* ''Fuyu no Hana wa Chinkon Hana (Winter Flower's Requiem)'': Mariko wants to see her dead best friend Ami one last time, to say farewell. But there is no corpse in the coffin?
* ''Akai Densetsu (Red Destiny)'': Hisako has known for ages that she's destined to be with someone, waiting to meet The One. But her friend begins to act strangely.
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* AbusiveParents: Youko Nosaka's stepmother beat her repeatedly, after her father died.
* AllMenArePerverts: In ''Farewell To The Eyewitness, teacher Murakami. He used Ryoko's dropped trainpass as an excuse to get her into a situation, where he can blackmail her and tries to rape her. There's rumors of him having done this in previous schools, too.
* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: ''Kind Killer' with [[spoiler: Masaru and Suguru Magami]]. They're mentioned to have the same body build, same appearance and same voice.
* ArtisticLicenseMedicine: ''When The Bell Rings 5 Times'' has the victims die through broken necks, yet have an inordinate amount of blood splurting out when this happens, which is very unlikely to happen, unless the skin has been ruptured during strangulation.
* AssholeVictim: Majority of the chapters end up having one. ''Farewell To The Eyewitness'' has Takashi Murakami, [[spoiler: Mari and Tooru from ''Suicide Room Number 404'']], ''When The Bell Rings 5 Times'' has [[spoiler: practically any of the guys who went after
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Ryoko from ''Farewell To The Eyewitness''. [[spoiler: She beats a teacher, who tries to rape her, and then proceeds to calculate a plan to kill the person she ran into on her way home.]]
* ChekhovsGun: In ''Suicide Room Number 404'', the little trap Eriko sets for Mari in a moment of jealous insanity. [[spoiler: It's used to eventually incapacitate Tooru.]]
* ChildhoodFriendsRomance: ''Someone In The Dark...'' has Yoshitaka, who has had feelings for Masami for ages.
** Masanora in ''Red Destiny'', who confesses to Hisako in the beginning. [[spoiler: He wasn't confessing as himself, but does confess to her properly at the end.]]
* ChildProdigy: Mayumi Kuroki in ''Crystal Doll'', whose genius is making huge leaps in the creation of androids.
* DeadAllAlong: ''Someone In The Dark...'' ends with the revelation that [[spoiler: Masami's mother and her little brother Ikuo were killed by the robbers the day she returned from tennis training, so she merely saw their spirits the days after]].
* EvilTwin: ''Kind Killer'' has [[spoiler: Masaru Magami]].
* HumanPopsicle: In ''Winter Flower's Requiem'', this is the fate of people who are beyond saving with the current state of medicine.
** In ''Crystal Doll'', [[spoiler: this is a medically-induced condition for Mayumi Kuroki, to help with metabolism]].
* IndianBurialGround: The titular room in ''Suicide Room Number 404'', where women tend to commit suicide over lost or betrayed love. [[spoiler: Whether it's really cursed is left hanging, though it is mentioned that it might be, with it maybe being the reason for the enmity that springs up between Eriko and Mari.]]
* InSeriesNickname: ''Red Destiny'' has Hisako go by 'Chaco'.
* KillItWithFire: ''Dead Town'' has Yuna and Rin use fire to kill the poisonous moths.
* LockedInAFreezer: In ''A Frozen Summer Day'', [[spoiler: Akemi Nosaka's corpse was locked into the fridge]].
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: In ''Someone In The Dark...'', Masami notes how strange her mother is behaving, insisting that she stay at home or making her take her little brother along, if she absolutely must go outside. [[spoiler: It's the first hint to Masami that something definitely happened with the guys she encountered the day before.]]
* ThePlague: ''Dead Town'' had all of its inhabitants killed through poison found on the scales of a type of moth that originated from there.
* SlapSlapKiss: In ''Suicide Room Number 404'', this is the relationship between Tooru and Mari. They fight, they make up and fight some more.
* TakingYouWithMe: In ''Weekend's Invitation'', this is the plan of [[spoiler: Kuramoto]], who plans to jump out the window with Noriko. [[spoiler: He never actually meant it, since he let go of her, which allowed Shiki to keep Noriko safe.]]
* UndercoverCopReveal: In ''A Frozen Summer Day'', [[spoiler: the robber turns out to be Shiro Ikushima, a newbie on the police force, who went undercover as a robber to find Akemi Nosaka]].
* WickedStepmother: ''A Frozen Summer Day'' has Akemi Nosaka, Youko's stepmother, who has been beating her for a long time.
