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* AnAesop: It's disastrous to let your fear rule you, and just as bad to block fear out entirely. Learn to feel fear without letting it control your life.



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* TrendAesop: Nimura notes that the apocalypse made it remarkably less relevant who ha the best jewelry, car, or job.

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* TrendAesop: Nimura notes that the apocalypse made it remarkably less relevant who ha has the best jewelry, car, or job.
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* ILoveNuclearPower: It's hypothesized that nuclear bombs may have caused the devastation, although characters note that it's unlikely that nukes could have destroyed everything all by themselves. [[spoiler: at the end, the television station reports that several nukes have gone missing since the disaster]].
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Thus begins this horror manga by Minetaro Mochizuki.

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Thus begins this horror manga by Minetaro Mochizuki.
Mochizuki, which ran in ''Weekly Young Magazine'' from 1994 to 1999.



The series is largely a meditation on the nature of fear and the proper way to react to it. Nobuo and the cultists react by completely surrendering to their fear, which results in disaster. The surviving inhabitants of Izu peninsula, on the other hand, [[spoiler: ignore their fear of death and decide on mass suicide]], and Tokyo [[spoiler: survivors wind up eating drugged food that suppresses their fear -- and end up self-mutilating in desperation so they can feel something]]. Teru tries to feel fear without giving into it, but given the circumstances, is that even possible?

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The series is largely a meditation on the nature of fear and the proper way to react to it. Nobuo and the cultists react by completely surrendering to their fear, which results in disaster. The surviving inhabitants of Izu peninsula, on the other hand, [[spoiler: ignore their fear of death and decide on mass suicide]], and Tokyo [[spoiler: survivors wind up eating drugged food that suppresses their fear -- and end up self-mutilating in desperation so they can feel something]]. Teru tries to feel fear without giving into it, but given the circumstances, is that even possible?
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* NothingIsScarier: when the group arrives at [[spoiler: what used to be]] Mount Fuji, they begin to descend. [[spoiler: they can't see anything. The next two pages are what the characters see -- completely black, with no detail or information whatsoever]].

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* NothingIsScarier: when When the group arrives at [[spoiler: what used to be]] Mount Fuji, they begin to descend. [[spoiler: they can't see anything. The next two pages are what the characters see -- completely black, with no detail or information whatsoever]].
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* KaijuDefenseForce: Of no help whatsoever.
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* ActionSurvivor: Pretty much every (living) character to an extent, but most importantly the main cast, ''especially'' Teru; the amount of trauma, both physical and emotional, that he suffers nonstop through the series would be enough to kill the average man ten times over. Those include [[spoiler: surviving a bullet train crash, being crushed by boulders and conked on the head by a falling pillar, surviving a city-wide fire, a tetanus infection (with very little medicine), being dragged by a flood and thrown around by A FRIGGIN' TORNADO. All while starving, thirsty and scared out of his wits.]]

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* TheSquad: Nimura, Iwada, Ooiki, and Yamazaki.



* TheSquad: Nimura, Iwada, Ooiki, and Yamazaki.



* WorthlessYellowRocks: At the shopping mall, Iwada notes that it's freezing and they have no fuel to start a fire, since the various disasters have destroyed almost everything. Nimura gives him some thick sheafs of bills, pointing out that this is all they're good for.

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* WorthlessYellowRocks: At the shopping mall, Iwada notes that it's freezing and they have no fuel to start a fire, since the various disasters have destroyed almost everything. Nimura gives him some thick sheafs sheaves of bills, pointing out that this is all they're good for.
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* SelfHarm: How the survivors in [[spoiler: Tokyo]] act so they can try to feel something. They try so hard that most of them have slings, crutches, eyepatches, etc. It doesn't work.

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* SelfHarm: How the survivors in [[spoiler: Tokyo]] act so they can try to feel something. They try so hard that most of them have slings, crutches, eyepatches, eye patches, etc. It doesn't work.



* WouldNotShootACivilian: Averted hard.

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* WouldNotShootACivilian: Averted hard.Averted.
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A Five Man Band requires five different people.


* FiveManBand:
** TheHero: Teru
** TheLancer and TheBigGuy: Nimura
** TheSmartGuy: Iwada
** TheChick: Ako
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* FearLeadsToAnger: Happens to those who give into their fear. [[spoiler: including Teru, although Ooiki arguably deserved it]].

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