History Manga / MPDPsycho

** The original dismemberment killer, whose crime triggered the protagonist's HeroicBSOD that started his MPD, has a UsefulNotes/PlayStation in his apartment.

* GenreShift: It starts out as a wacky hyperviolent detective drama with a BrokenAce protagonist and typical VillainOfTheWeek antagonists. Then [[spoiler: the DecoyProtagonist dies, gets reincarnated, becomes a MacGuffin]] while the story becomes a CloningBlues ConspiracyKitchenSink about psychics, with FaceHeelRevolvingDoor aplenty.

* CloningBlues:
** Heavily explored. When one character learns he's a ''backup'' to a major politician, he decides to go and kill the man. [[spoiler: He almost succeeds, heavily wounding him, getting killed himself... And being used as spare parts to save the politician's life.]]
** One case involves two barcode killers who are both spares of someone else. They end up fighting to the death, because they have identical BloodKnight personalities.

* {{Doppelganger}}: [[spoiler: EVERYONE SEEMS TO HAVE ONE. OR FIVE.]] This is later explained however [[spoiler: the same company responsible for the barcode killers also had an ''[[Film/TheIsland Island]]''-style side-business going on were they would clone the rich and famous in order for the clones to serve as spare parts.]]

%%* DefectiveDetective
%%* DetectiveDrama

* NecessaryEvil:

* ClipShow: Courtesy of the EyeRemember (see below).

* DudeLooksLikeALady: It doesn't help that his name also happens to be ''Lucy,'' of all things.
** It is widely believed that Lucy Monostone was inspired by Marilyn Manson.

* AuthorAppeal: Eiji Otsuka has a thing for showing mutilated naked bodies of young women, massive body trauma from bullets and explosions, and EyeScream.
** And [[BoundAndGagged BDSM.]]
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Averted with a nauseating vengeance.

* BrownNote: The songs of Lucy Monostone has been shown to have mind altering effects on its listeners.
** In a messy WholeEpisodeFlashback, we're shown what it does to rabbits.
** °C's cover versions of his songs alter the effects since the music is different.

* CloningBlues: Heavily explored. When one character learns he's a ''backup'' to a major politician, he decides to go and kill the man. [[spoiler: He almost succeeds, heavily wounding him, getting killed himself... And being used as spare parts to save the politician's life.]]

* DecoyProtagonist: Played with. [[spoiler: Amamiya, or, rather the Amamiya that used to be Kobayashi, dies a third of the way in. Then comes back [[BodySurf in a different body]] and is passed around by dominant personalities of several other bodies before coming to Tetora's possession.]]

* DefectiveDetective
* DetectiveDrama
* {{Doppelganger}}: [[spoiler: EVERYONE SEEMS TO HAVE ONE. OR FIVE.]]
** This is later explained however [[spoiler: the same company responsible for the barcode killers also had an ''[[Film/TheIsland Island]]''-style side-business going on were they would clone the rich and famous in order for the clones to serve as spare parts.]]

* EyeScream: Brought into play frequently in the series, especially when a character decides to get rid of his own barcode once and for all. Or when someone else does this to them.

* {{Fingore}}: Machi lost two of her fingers in a bombing earlier in her career. She wears prosthetics so as not to freak out her colleagues -- which happens anyway when one day she forgets them.

* GambitPileup: Exemplified by the WholeEpisodeFlashback as it contains a self-contained example with the conflicting intentions of °C, Kimihiko, Shinji, Wakana, [[spoiler: whatever the true identity of Miwa is]] and Gakuso in general.

* GenocideFromTheInside: A subdued form: some of Lucy Monostone's songs can inspire a 'kill each other' intention in a group of people (or other mammals). The SoleSurvivor that comes out on top is irrevocably changed from the experience.

* GrandTheftMe
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: Things didn't work out so well between [[spoiler: Kido]] and that subway train...

* NecessaryEvil: Shinji Nishizono is the personality that usually deals with the VillainOfTheWeek before the TimeSkip.

* RapeAsDrama

* {{Seinen}}

** Continuing the Franchise/MobileSuitGundam theme, Tetora's ''foreigner'' gang takes names of Gundam characters as codenames when masked.

* SplitPersonality: The driving force of the series are the myriad of personalities that share the body of Kazuhiko Amamiya, including a genius detective, a child, a cross-dresser, and a cold blooded killer. And that's ''[[FromBadToWorse just getting us started.]]''

* StuffedInAFridge: Detective Kobayashi's girlfriend, mutilated but still alive, is delivered to his office stuffed in an ice-chest... ''Minus her arms and legs.''

* SuicidePact: The mass suicide of [[spoiler: Lucy Monostone and his fanatical followers]] in the church.
** Multiple cases involve tributes to the above.

* {{Fanservice}}: There are several instances of male and female nudity which don't involve gaping wounds. They are, however, borderline IKEAErotica.
** MsFanservice: Miwa gets less attention than Machi, but both sisters get in on that a lot.
** FanDisservice: Of course, half the time it's part of the plot and therefore surrounded by appropriately mood-ruining dialogue, not to mention that {{Gorn}} far outweighs the fanservice and sometimes features a CallBack or two to it.
** For example, the one PantyShot of Miwa we are ever shown is [[spoiler: right after she is shot by Shinji Nishizono]].
** ShamelessFanserviceGirl: Machi does this in-story a few times. Wakana too.

* {{Meganekko}}: A rare un-Moe example in Tenma, one of the detectives working with Sasayama after the timeskip. She's short, and her [[BlindWithoutEm glasses are HUGE]], which leads to him constantly teasing her about looking like a korobockle.
* MindScrew

* FingerInTheMail: A killer sends one of the detectives looking for him the armless, legless torso of [[StuffedIntoTheFridge the detective's girlfriend in an ice chest]].

* RedShirtReporter: Toguchi again. He used to be a war correspondent, so he's not queasy around the gruesome deaths. Played with, however, [[spoiler: when it turns out his missing eye was bar-coded, and while he dies as per this trope, it's because he himself goes on a killing spree]] while reporting on it!
** The unnamed character that sort of replaces him on TV later on is notably a much more boring ordinary 'stay far away from the action' type.

* KudzuPlot: Who's good, who's evil, who's barcoded, who's a clone, who's whose split personality? It's not helped by the quick succession of OnlySixFaces supporting characters who often die within the same chapter they're introduced in, and may also be someone's clone. And that's before the BodySurfing, LatexPerfection and JediMindTrick abuse.

''MPD Psycho'' is a PsychologicalHorror / {{Detective|Story}} {{Manga}} written by Eiji Otsuka (''Manga/TheKurosagiCorpseDeliveryService'') and illustrated by Shou Tajima (''Film/KillBill,'' ''VideoGame/{{Galerians}}''). It was originally released in 1997, and is currently being published in the manga magazine Monthly Young Ace. It is licensed in North America by Creator/DarkHorseComics. In 2002 the series received a six episode live-action miniseries adaptation, directed by controversial filmmaker Creator/TakashiMiike.

* {{Doppelganger}} -- [[spoiler: EVERYONE SEEMS TO HAVE ONE. OR FIVE.]]

* DudeLooksLikeALady -- It doesn't help that his name also happens to be ''Lucy,'' of all things.

* EyeRemember -- Apparently, since the barcoded eyes are artificial, you can download most things their owner saw with it into a computer. Sasayama gets understandably upset when this leads to [[spoiler: the replay of Kobayashi's sex life and the mutilation of his girlfriend]].
* EyeScream -- Brought into play frequently in the series, especially when a character decides to get rid of his own barcode once and for all. Or when someone else does this to them.

* EyesDoNotBelongThere -- Most of the cover arts. Unsurprising, considering the eye-barcode and EyeScream obsession of the plot.
* FaceHeelRevolvingDoor -- Tetora Nishizono. He's introduced as a {{Foil}} to Shinji, then [[spoiler: he kills him, then a bunch of other characters, big and small, then he essentially takes Shinji's place in the plot]] then he becomes a {{Deuteragonist}}. Sasayama is as surprised about this as the reader probably will be by that point.
* {{Fanservice}} -- There are several instances of male and female nudity which don't involve gaping wounds. They are, however, borderline IKEAErotica.
** MsFanservice -- Miwa gets less attention than Machi, but both sisters get in on that a lot.
** FanDisservice -- Of course, half the time it's part of the plot and therefore surrounded by appropriately mood-ruining dialogue, not to mention that {{Gorn}} far outweighs the fanservice and sometimes features a CallBack or two to it.

** ShamelessFanserviceGirl -- Machi does this in-story a few times. Wakana too.
* FantasticDrug -- Whatever it is in the candies of the Candyman.
* FateWorseThanDeath -- Many of the {{serial killer}}s in this series seems to specialize in inflicting fates worse than death on their victims. See BreakTheCutie and BrainFood for some specific examples.
* FingerInTheMail -- A killer sends one of the detectives looking for him the armless, legless torso of [[StuffedIntoTheFridge the detective's girlfriend in an ice chest]].

* GenreShift: It starts out as a wacky hyperviolent detective drama with a BrokenAce protagonist and typical VillainOfTheWeek antahonists. Then [[spoiler: the DecoyProtagonist dies, gets reincarnated, becomes a MacGuffin]] while the story becomes a CloningBlues ConspiracyKitchenSink about psychics, with FaceHeelRevolvingDoor aplenty.

** Continuing the Franchise/MobileSuitGundam theme, Tetora's 'foreigner' gang takes names of Gundam characters as codenames when masked.

* WingedHumanoid: One of Sasayama's cases deals with ritual killings of people with 'wings' -- uniquely deformed shoulder blades, in fact, but their killer takes the time to draw wings for them on whatever surface he leaves the body on.

* CoverVersion: C rose to prominence as a cover artist performing Lucy Monostone's songs. The rearranged music produces a different psychotropic effect than the originals, however. [[spoiler: It's one of the things that gets her killed.]]

** The unnamed character that sort-of replaces him on TV later on is notably a much more boring ordinary 'stay far away from the action' type.

** This turns to the worst when first [[spoiler: Amamiya's body is killed when under Shinji's control, becoming a MacGuffin to be passed around as a key to stabilize the power of Lucy Monostone]], and then when [[spoiler: we learn that Machi is an [[FakeMemories artificial personality of Wakana]] who is one of Gakuso's researchers]]. Sasayama somehow makes it his goal to reunite them at any cost.

** Toguchi, the one-eyed cameraman, is wearing an assortment of different eyepatches, among them is one with the avian skull-mask of an [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Angel]] on it.

** One fight scene is basically a rapid-fire exchange of Franchise/KamenRider references to EvilKnockoff characters therein.

* CharacterDevelopment -- Amamiya becoming more empathic because of Miwa and Machi. Sasayama becoming a better detevtive once [[CrutchCharacter Kobayashi and later Amamiya]] stop helping him. Tetora becoming less prone to ChronicBackstabbingDisorder.
* CharacterOverlap -- The cop Sasayama also appears in Ohtsuka's ''Manga/TheKurosagiCorpseDeliveryService'', plus a big scar on his head and minus a leg.
* ChekhovsGunman -- Whenever a long-running character turns out to have a barcode, even if they have died a while ago.
* ClipShow - Courtesy of the EyeRemember (see below).
* CloningBlues -- Heavily explored. When one character learns he's a 'backup' to a major politician, he decides to go and kill the man. [[spoiler: He almost succeeds, heavily wounding him, getting killed himself... And being used as spare parts to save the politician's life.]]

* CoverVersion -- °C rose to prominence as a cover artist performing Lucy Monostone's songs. The rearranged music produces a different psychotropic effect than the originals, however. [[spoiler: It's one of the things that gets her killed.]]
* {{Cult}} -- Lucy Monostone led one. Multiple imitations soon followed, though "Lucy Seven" - sets of seven people, all inventive serial killers, is the recurring one in the series.
* DeathByIrony -- Some of the perpetrators are dealt with in the same manner as how they treated their victims.
* DecoyProtagonist -- Played with. [[spoiler: Amamiya, or, rather the Amamiya that used to be Kobayashi, dies a third of the way in. Then comes back [[BodySurf in a different body]] and is passed around by dominant personalities of several other bodies before coming to Tetora's possession.]]

* SplitPersonality: The driving force of the series are the myriad of personalities that share the body of Kazuhiko Amamiya, including a genius detective, a child, a cross-dresser, and a cold-blooded killer. And that's ''[[FromBadToWorse just getting us started.]]''
** Once the BodySurf aspect comes along, anyone can apparently 'store' multiple personalities in them, but many will go insane and die if they get even one in their body, while others, like Amamiya, are fine with a score of them. It's explicitly mentioned to depend on the physical body rather than the core personality it was born with, for the GrandTheftMe cases.
** Exemplified when Tetora [[GrandTheftMe borrows the occasional delinquient's body]] -- one outright kills himself when Tetora lets him go.

* UnsoundEffect: Both played straight and for humor often in the {{manga}} series. At one point, when the protagonist adjusts his glasses after a morale-boosting speech, his co-worker responds to the written sound effect with: ''"Did you just say 'Shining?'"''
* WingedHumanoid: One of Sasayama's cases deals with ritual killings of people with 'wings' - uniquely deformed shoulder blades, in fact, but their killer takes the time to draw wings for them on whatever surface he leaves the body on.

* YouAreNumberSix: °C. Yes, 'Degrees Celsius', except it's always spelled like that.

* AccidentalAimingSkills: When Zenitsu comes to kill [[spoiler: Toguchi]] astride a combat helicopter, he has a good laugh when a full-auto barrage in his general direction fails to hit him. Then his helicopter crashes into the next building over because a stray round killed his pilot.

* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: Michelle Partner (who is a man), Miss Having (who [[IHaveManyNames has many names]]).

** And the [[BoundAndGagged BDSM.]]

* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: Lee Harvey Oswald and Mark David Chapman are stated to be members of the original Lucy Seven, high-impact killers inspired by Lucy Monostone's legacy.
* BlackEyesOfEvil: The Candyman's black-and-white eyes either have the sclera maxed out or black irises. Considering his occupation, it's probably the former.
* BodySurf -- Mixed in with PowersAsPrograms, CameBackWrong and a lot of confusion.
* BrainFood -- Used in nightmarish fashion by one flower-loving serial killer who cuts open his victims skulls to use their brains as flower pots. ''While they're still alive''.
* BreakTheCutie -- The serial-killer in the first chapter taunts Detective Kobayashi by telling him that he raped his girlfriend, ''multiple'' times, while in the process of ''cutting off her arms and legs.''
* BrownNote -- The songs of Lucy Monostone has been shown to have mind-altering effects on its listeners.

* CallBack -- The weird full-page pictures of girls in various states of undress and/or dismemberment at the start of each chapter, including some of Machi and Miwa? They get referenced by the plot many issues after they first appear.