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''Hohzuki Island'' is a horror {{manga}} by Kei Sanbe.

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''Hohzuki Island'' (''Hohzuki no Shima'') is a horror {{manga}} by Kei Sanbe.
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* AdultFear: Young children, forgotten by society, taken to an island to be sexually abused, hunted, and brutally murdered?


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* ChildrenForcedToKill: Young children, forgotten by society, taken to an island to be sexually abused, hunted, and brutally murdered?

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* InfantImmortality: Painfully averted.
** [[spoiler: Or not! All the kids survive.]]

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* InfantImmortality: ImprobableInfantSurvival: Painfully averted.
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averted...[[spoiler: Or not! All the kids survive.]]

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* BeeAfraid: When one of the villains accidentally attacks attacks a wasp's nest thinking that he was disarming a different kind of trap.



* ScaryStingingSwarm: When one of the villains accidentally attacks attacks a wasp's nest thinking that he was disarming a different kind of trap.



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* CatScare:That damn rabbit!

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* CatScare:That CatScare: That damn rabbit!



* EvilTeacher -''Obviously''. Though Kuwadate seems to revel in it more than the others.

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* EvilTeacher -''Obviously''.EvilTeacher: ''Obviously''. Though Kuwadate seems to revel in it more than the others.



* MysteriousIsland
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* AbusiveParents - what got the children onto the island, basically.

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* AbusiveParents - what AbusiveParents: What got the children onto the island, basically.



* AdultFear - Young children, forgotten by society, taken to an island to be sexually abused, hunted, and brutally murdered?

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* AdultFear - AdultFear: Young children, forgotten by society, taken to an island to be sexually abused, hunted, and brutally murdered?



* BigBrotherInstinct - Kokoro, caused by his mother telling him to take care of his sister before she abandoned them.

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* BigBrotherInstinct - BigBrotherInstinct: Kokoro, caused by his mother telling him to take care of his sister before she abandoned them.



* BlindSeer - Yume can tell whose walking near her by the sound of their footsteps, and can tell when someone is lying by their voices.
* CatScare - That damn rabbit!
* CreepyChild / UndeadChild - The girl in white. Fortunately, she [[spoiler:they?]]seems to be benevolent towards the children.
* CuteAndPsycho - Yukino, ''again''.

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* BlindSeer - BlindSeer: Yume can tell whose walking near her by the sound of their footsteps, and can tell when someone is lying by their voices.
* CatScare - That CatScare:That damn rabbit!
* CreepyChild / UndeadChild - The UndeadChild:The girl in white. Fortunately, she [[spoiler:they?]]seems to be benevolent towards the children.
* CuteAndPsycho - CuteAndPsycho: Yukino, ''again''.



* CuteMute - Hatsune. It brings dangerous attention to her multiple times.

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* CuteMute - CuteMute: Hatsune. It brings dangerous attention to her multiple times.



* FanDisservice - Yukino walking around nude? Nice. Yukino walking around nude about to [[spoiler:bludgeon a child to death with a wooden sword?]] Not so nice.

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* FanDisservice - FanDisservice: Yukino walking around nude? Nice. Yukino walking around nude about to [[spoiler:bludgeon a child to death with a wooden sword?]] Not so nice.



* HarmfulToMinors - Violence? Sexuality? Check and double-check.

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* HarmfulToMinors - HarmfulToMinors: Violence? Sexuality? Check and double-check.



* InfantImmortality - Painfully averted.

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* InfantImmortality - InfantImmortality: Painfully averted.



* MaleGaze - played more for creepiness than fanservice.

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* MaleGaze - played MaleGaze: Played more for creepiness than fanservice.



* ParentalAbandonment - ALL OF THE CHILDREN.

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* ParentalAbandonment - ParentalAbandonment: ALL OF THE CHILDREN.



* TheReveal: [[spoiler: The epilogue reveals that most of the weirdness had an explanation: Hisanobu's bloody drawer was the result of trying to hide a disease that caused him to ''vomit blood'' and the knife was to stop anyone from taking him off the island he loved so much. The RoomFullOfCrazy was the result of Shu's sleepwalking and carving messages to his mom. The eerily beautiful voice was Hatsune singing to herself - she hadn't spoken in so long that she didn't recognize her own voice. The ghost girl really is a ghost, however.]]

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* TheReveal: [[spoiler: The epilogue reveals that most of the weirdness had an explanation: Hisanobu's bloody drawer was the result of trying to hide a disease that caused him to ''vomit blood'' and the knife was to stop anyone from taking him off the island he loved so much. The RoomFullOfCrazy was the result of Shu's sleepwalking and carving messages to his mom. The eerily beautiful voice was Hatsune singing to herself - she herself:she hadn't spoken in so long that she didn't recognize her own voice. The ghost girl really is a ghost, however.]]



* SocialServicesDoesNotExist / DepartmentOfChildDisservices - take your pick. How else could the events on this island be occurring?

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* SocialServicesDoesNotExist / DepartmentOfChildDisservices - take DepartmentOfChildDisservices: Take your pick. How else could the events on this island be occurring?
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* ReverseCerebusSyndrome: It starts off having the adults being evil and taking out life insurance on the children so that they could kill one of them whenever they were running low on funds, leading to the kids attempting to go to the other side of the island and escape. [[spoiler:All deaths that take place are undone]] [[spoiler:except for one adult]] [[spoiler:despite at least one[[note]]Namely, being tossed off a cliff and landing ''on a rock'' so hard that blood splattered from landing on his back[[/note]] revoked "death" being blatantly lethal and it turns out that only the villain is actually evil and the adults are actually good.]]

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* ReverseCerebusSyndrome: It starts off having the adults being evil and taking out life insurance on the children so that they could kill one of them whenever they were running low on funds, leading to the kids attempting to go to the other side of the island and escape. [[spoiler:All deaths that take place are undone]] [[spoiler:except for one adult]] the adults]] [[spoiler:despite at least one[[note]]Namely, being tossed off a cliff and landing ''on a rock'' so hard that blood splattered from landing on his back[[/note]] revoked "death" being blatantly lethal and it turns out that only the villain is actually evil and the adults are actually good.]]

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* GenkiGirl: Yukino's high school friend, who cheerfully refers to her black eye as "new makeup" courtesy of her father. Then again, she doesn't stay genki for very long afterward, although it's off-screen.

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* GenkiGirl: Yukino's high school friend, Mai, who cheerfully refers to her black eye as "new makeup" courtesy of her father. Then again, she doesn't stay genki for very long afterward, although it's off-screen.



* PetTheDog:Kuwadate's one and only act of goodness in the manga comes from [[spoiler:saving Hisanobu when his illness nearly got to be too much.]]

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** We never learn why the missing Hisanobu is on the island, but [[spoiler:given that he says that only "part of" the reason he was sent to the island was to recover from his illness,]] he may also be a straight example.
* PetTheDog:Kuwadate's PetTheDog: Kuwadate's one and only act of goodness in the manga comes from [[spoiler:saving Hisanobu when his illness nearly got to be too much.]]
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* PetTheDog:Kuwadate's one and only act of goodness in the manga comes from [[spoiler:saving Hisanobu when his illness nearly got to be too much.]]
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* BigEater: Futoshi. Deconstructed in that his binge eating was brought on by the trauma of losing his parents.
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** Yukino and her friend, who suffer from emotional neglect and physical abuse, respectively.

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** Yukino and her friend, who suffer from emotional neglect and physical abuse, respectively. [[spoiler:Though in Yukino's case it seems to be more of a case of HandsOffParenting.]]
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Lolicon and shotacon have been disambiguated. Links with too little context are being removed - "paedo" is not always a trope, examples where the tropeworthiness is unclear are being removed. Also, please do not use "loli" as a synonym for little girl; see Lolicon And Shotacon as to why not


* {{Lolicon}} - Kuwadate makes at least two rape attempts on poor Hatsune.
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* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Despite the [[DisneyDeath Disney Deaths]] of all the children (including Hisanobu) and Usui and Headmaster are actually ''dead.'']]

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* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Despite the [[DisneyDeath Disney Deaths]] of all the children (including Hisanobu) and Hisanobu), only Usui and Headmaster are actually ''dead.'']]
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* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Despite the [[DisneyDeath Disney Deaths]] of all the children (including Hisanobu) and Kuwadate, Usui and Headmaster are actually ''dead.'']]

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* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Despite the [[DisneyDeath Disney Deaths]] of all the children (including Hisanobu) and Kuwadate, Usui and Headmaster are actually ''dead.'']]
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A horror manga by Kei Sanbe.

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A ''Hohzuki Island'' is a horror manga {{manga}} by Kei Sanbe.



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This !!This manga provides examples of:of:


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* BeeAfraid: When one of the villains accidentally attacks attacks a wasp's nest thinking that he was disarming a different kind of trap.



* GoshHornet: When one of the villains accidentally attacks attacks a wasp's nest thinking that he was disarming a different kind of trap.
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Bad wick.


* ReverseCerebusSyndrome: It starts off having the adults being evil and taking out life insurance on the children so that they could kill one of them whenever they were running low on funds, leading to the kids attempting to go to the other side of the island and escape. [[spoiler:All deaths that take place are undone]] [[spoiler:except for one adult]] [[spoiler:despite at least one[[note]]Namely, being tossed off a cliff and landing ''on a rock'' so hard that blood splattered from landing on his back[[/note]] revoked "death" being blatantly lethal and it turns out that only the CompleteMonster is actually evil and the adults are actually good.]]

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* ReverseCerebusSyndrome: It starts off having the adults being evil and taking out life insurance on the children so that they could kill one of them whenever they were running low on funds, leading to the kids attempting to go to the other side of the island and escape. [[spoiler:All deaths that take place are undone]] [[spoiler:except for one adult]] [[spoiler:despite at least one[[note]]Namely, being tossed off a cliff and landing ''on a rock'' so hard that blood splattered from landing on his back[[/note]] revoked "death" being blatantly lethal and it turns out that only the CompleteMonster villain is actually evil and the adults are actually good.]]
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** [[spoiler:Except not really.]]


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* ReverseCerebusSyndrome: It starts off having the adults being evil and taking out life insurance on the children so that they could kill one of them whenever they were running low on funds, leading to the kids attempting to go to the other side of the island and escape. [[spoiler:All deaths that take place are undone]] [[spoiler:except for one adult]] [[spoiler:despite at least one[[note]]Namely, being tossed off a cliff and landing ''on a rock'' so hard that blood splattered from landing on his back[[/note]] revoked "death" being blatantly lethal and it turns out that only the CompleteMonster is actually evil and the adults are actually good.]]
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Updated to meet new Nightmare Fuel criteria.


* AdultFear / HighOctaneNightmareFuel - Young children, forgotten by society, taken to an island to be sexually abused, hunted, and brutally murdered?

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* AdultFear / HighOctaneNightmareFuel - Young children, forgotten by society, taken to an island to be sexually abused, hunted, and brutally murdered?
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* PoorCommunicationKills: [[spoiler:If only some of the children and Yukino had been ore honest/receptive, a lot of the horrible incidents could have been avoided!]]

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* PoorCommunicationKills: [[spoiler:If only some of the children and Yukino had been ore honest/receptive, more honest or receptive, a lot of the horrible incidents could have been avoided!]]avoided]]
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* GenkiGirl: Yukino's high school friend, who cheerfully refers to her black eye as "new makeup" courtesy of her father. This being ''seinin'', she doesn't stay ''genki'' for very long afterward, although it's off-screen.

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* GenkiGirl: Yukino's high school friend, who cheerfully refers to her black eye as "new makeup" courtesy of her father. This being ''seinin'', Then again, she doesn't stay ''genki'' genki for very long afterward, although it's off-screen.
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* CuteAndPsycho - Yukino-Sensei, ''again''.

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* CuteAndPsycho - Yukino-Sensei, Yukino, ''again''.



* EvilTeacher -''Obviously''. Though Kuwadate-Sensei seems to revel in it more than the others.
** [[spoiler: And then it turns out the only ''truly'' evil one was Kuwadate-sensei. Everyone else was just [[PoorCommunicationKills confused and scared.]]]]
* FanDisservice - Yukino-Sensei walking around nude? Nice. Yukino-Sensei walking around nude about to [[spoiler:bludgeon a child to death with a wooden sword?]] Not so nice.

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* EvilTeacher -''Obviously''. Though Kuwadate-Sensei Kuwadate seems to revel in it more than the others.
** [[spoiler: And then it turns out the only ''truly'' evil one was Kuwadate-sensei.Kuwadate. Everyone else was just [[PoorCommunicationKills confused and scared.]]]]
* FanDisservice - Yukino-Sensei Yukino walking around nude? Nice. Yukino-Sensei Yukino walking around nude about to [[spoiler:bludgeon a child to death with a wooden sword?]] Not so nice.



* PoorCommunicationKills: [[spoiler:If only some of the children and Yukino-sensei had been ore honest/receptive, a lot of the horrible incidents could have been avoided!]]

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* PoorCommunicationKills: [[spoiler:If only some of the children and Yukino-sensei Yukino had been ore honest/receptive, a lot of the horrible incidents could have been avoided!]]
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You are a terrible person and you should feel bad.


* AdultFear / HighOctaneNightmareFuel - Young children, forgotten by society, taken to an island to be sexually abused, hunted, and brutally murdered? [[{{Anoniguy}} This Troper]] won't be sleeping tonight.

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* AdultFear / HighOctaneNightmareFuel - Young children, forgotten by society, taken to an island to be sexually abused, hunted, and brutally murdered? [[{{Anoniguy}} This Troper]] won't be sleeping tonight.murdered?
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* BigBrotherComplex - Kokoro, caused by his mother telling him to take care of his sister before she abandoned them.

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* BigBrotherComplex BigBrotherInstinct - Kokoro, caused by his mother telling him to take care of his sister before she abandoned them.
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**[[spoiler:The dog did it.]]
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** [[spoiler: And then it turns out the only ''truly'' evil one was Kuwadate-sensei. Everyone else was just [[PoorCommunicationKills confused and scared.]]]]
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horror manga by Kei Sanbe.

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A horror manga by Kei Sanbe.

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