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* CoversAlwaysLie: While the English printing's slipcover art clearly depicts Mimi, the art directly on the hardcover book shows Mimi
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* CoversAlwaysLie: Just from a quick glance at the cover, the reader would think that the woman on the front with the red silhouette and blank, soulless eyes was the main villain. It's actually the hapless protagonist.
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* CoversAlwaysLie: Just from a quick glance at While the cover, English printing's slipcover art clearly depicts Mimi, the reader would think that the woman art directly on the front with the hardcover book shows Mimi
[[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mimi_2.jpg in a red silhouette and with blank, soulless eyeswas and monstrous hands in her hair]], which could fool someone into thinking she's the main villain. It's actually source of the hapless protagonist.horrors rather than the oft-time victim.
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* CreepyCemetery: There's an example located behind Mimi's new apartment after she moves. It starts out being more creepy in-universe [[spoiler:before it's revealed to be haunted]].
* DrivenToSuicide: The ghost woman in "Sound of Grass", along with the ashen woman in "Alone with You", [[spoiler:who is revealed to be Kei's mother]].
* DrivenToSuicide: The ghost woman in "Sound of Grass", along with the ashen woman in "Alone with You", [[spoiler:who is revealed to be Kei's mother]].
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* CreepyCemetery: There's an example located behind Mimi's After Mimi moves out of the apartments where "The Woman Next Door" takes place, she ends up getting a new apartment after she moves. It that's directly across from a cemetery. Mimi finds it rather unsettling to begin with, and it becomes even more so when [[spoiler:she starts out being more creepy in-universe [[spoiler:before it's hearing strange noises throughout the night]] and discovers that [[spoiler:some of the tombstones have been turned on their bases]]. The creepiness skyrockets when [[spoiler:it's revealed to be haunted]].
*DrivenToSuicide: The ghost woman in "Sound DrivenToSuicide:
** In "The Sound of Grass",along with the ashen Mimi and Naoto find a woman in a forest who has hanged herself for unknown reasons.
** "Alone withYou", [[spoiler:who You" opens with a woman [[SelfImmolation immolating herself]], who is revealed to be Kei's mother]].[[spoiler:Kei's mother]]; the reason for her suicide is never revealed.
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* IncessantMusicMadness: In "The Woman Next Door", Mimi gets very annoyed by the loud music coming from the apartment directly over hers, and is puzzled that the other people on that floor don't seem to be able to hear it as much as she can. It eventually becomes a non-issue as the man in that apartment becomes frightened by the woman in black and hurriedly moves away.
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!!This Manga Provides Examples Of:
* ArbitrarySkepticism: Mostly from Mimi's boyfriend Naoto. Mimi becomes incredibly frustrated by this in the final chapter.
* CoatHatMask: The neighbor's disguise in the first chapter.
* CoversAlwaysLie: Just from a quick glance at the cover, the reader would think that the woman on the front with the red silhouette and blank, soulless eyes was the main villain. It's actually the hapless protagonist.
* ArbitrarySkepticism: Mostly from Mimi's boyfriend Naoto. Mimi becomes incredibly frustrated by this in the final chapter.
* CoatHatMask: The neighbor's disguise in the first chapter.
* CoversAlwaysLie: Just from a quick glance at the cover, the reader would think that the woman on the front with the red silhouette and blank, soulless eyes was the main villain. It's actually the hapless protagonist.
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!!This Manga Provides Examples Of:
manga provides examples of:
* ArbitrarySkepticism: Mostly from Mimi's boyfriendNaoto. Naoto, who chalks up the weirdness she experiences to mundane causes. Mimi becomes incredibly frustrated by this in the final chapter.
chapter, [[spoiler:even breaking up with him, which sets up her betrayal by Misa]].
* CoatHatMask: The neighbor's disguise in "The Woman Next Door". She is only seen wearing an all-black wardrobe that completely covers her, along with a wide-brimmed black hat, a black face mask and dark glasses. [[spoiler:When thefirst chapter.
glasses fall off, there just seems to be a black void under the hat.]]
* CoversAlwaysLie: Just from a quick glance at the cover, the reader would think that the woman on the front with the red silhouette and blank, soulless eyes was the main villain. It's actually the hapless protagonist.
* ArbitrarySkepticism: Mostly from Mimi's boyfriend
* CoatHatMask: The neighbor's disguise in "The Woman Next Door". She is only seen wearing an all-black wardrobe that completely covers her, along with a wide-brimmed black hat, a black face mask and dark glasses. [[spoiler:When the
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* DumbMuscle: Mimi's new neighbor after she finally gets moved away from her ''first'' disturbing apartment. [[spoiler:He just keeps moving gravestones around so that the spirits of the dead can watch him pose]].
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* DumbMuscle: Mimi's new neighbor after she After Mimi finally gets moved away from her ''first'' disturbing apartment. [[spoiler:He apartment, she learns that her neighbor is a bodybuilder who likes to pose facing the cemetery next to their apartment. This just keeps seems to be eccentric behavior, but Mimi later discovers that the weird sound she hears at night is [[spoiler:her neighbor moving gravestones around so that the spirits of the dead can watch him pose]].
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* HeKnowsTooMuch: The woman in the first chapter is certainly unnatural, but she seems relatively harmless until Mimi learns what she is. Then she goes after Mimi to try to keep her quiet, likely because she doesn't seem able to speak.
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* HeKnowsTooMuch: The woman in the first chapter "The Woman Next Door" is certainly unnatural, but she seems relatively harmless until Mimi learns what she is. Then she goes after Mimi to try to keep her quiet, likely because she doesn't seem able to speak. Fortunately, as with the previous tenant of that apartment, the woman seems content to just frighten her.
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** The titular neighbor in "The Woman Next Door" is revealed to be [[spoiler: at least partially made of adjustable metal beams, which take the place of limbs and which she unscrews and extends at will to take different figures. Weirder still, she has fully functional and normal-looking gloved hands which can come off, her face is never seen, and she buys groceries, implying she needs to eat.]]
** It is heavily implied that the waitress from "At the Seashore" may be one of these. See NothingIsScarier.
* LighterAndSofter: Despite still being a horror story by any reasonable definition of the phrase, the stories presented here are somewhat lighter fare than most of Ito's work. In the words of one reviewer, they sure do [[spoiler:have the protagonist survive]] a lot more than his other works tend to, and since there isn't a buildup or devastating climax at the end of these events, all of the events are by definition less threatening to the heroes.
** It is heavily implied that the waitress from "At the Seashore" may be one of these. See NothingIsScarier.
* LighterAndSofter: Despite still being a horror story by any reasonable definition of the phrase, the stories presented here are somewhat lighter fare than most of Ito's work. In the words of one reviewer, they sure do [[spoiler:have the protagonist survive]] a lot more than his other works tend to, and since there isn't a buildup or devastating climax at the end of these events, all of the events are by definition less threatening to the heroes.
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** The titular neighbor in "The Woman Next Door" is revealed to be [[spoiler: at [[spoiler:at least partially made of adjustable metal beams, which take the place of limbs and which she unscrews and extends at will to take different figures. Weirder still, she has fully functional and normal-looking gloved hands which can come off, her face is never seen, and she buys groceries, implying she needs to eat.]]
** It is heavily implied that the waitress from "At the Seashore" may be one ofthese. See NothingIsScarier.
these, as she knows a little too much about all the deaths that have occurred at that beach and Tanaka destroys all the photos he took of her, plus the negatives.
* LighterAndSofter: Despite still being a collection of horrorstory by any reasonable definition of the phrase, the stories presented here stories, they are somewhat lighter fare than most of Ito's work. In the words of one reviewer, they sure do [[spoiler:have the protagonist survive]] a lot more than his other works tend to, and since there isn't a buildup or devastating climax at the end of these events, all of the events are by definition less threatening to the heroes.
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** The "Seashore", the enigmatic waitress as the beach cafe who tells Mimi and her friends about the grim history of the beach. The photos Tanaka took of her were apparently so utterly terrifying that he immediately discarded all of them and the negatives and refuses to answer what was on them when the others ask, saying he doesn't even want to think about them. Considering how horrific the photos of Furusawa turned out, but Tanaka still kept those, it implies something truly disturbing must've turned up on the others.
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** The In "Seashore", the Mimi and her friends meet an enigmatic waitress as the at a beach cafe who tells Mimi and her friends about the grim history of the beach. The photos Tanaka took of her were apparently so utterly terrifying that he immediately discarded all of them and the negatives and refuses to answer what was on them when the others ask, saying he doesn't even want to think about them. Considering how horrific Tanaka still kept the photos of Furusawa despite how horrifying they turned out, but Tanaka still kept those, it implies something truly disturbing must've turned up on the others.
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* MurderTheHypotenuse: Misa attempts to use the scarlet circle's ability to disappear people without a trace to kill Mimi and take her boyfriend for herself.
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* RiddleForTheAges: Nearly ever story has some sort of unsettling non-reveal that leaves the audience (and Mimi) wondering about what really happened.
** "The Woman Next Door" involves a very mysterious and apparently inhuman neighbour that lives next door to Mimi. She's covered completely in black clothing, but her limbs are constructed of extended metal struts with screws in them. Nothing else about her appearance is discovered or what she is, but her face is apparently so horrifying that Mimi faints immediately upon seeing it.
** In "Sound of Grass", Mimi and her boyfriend come across the rotting corpse of a hanged woman in the forest. The moment they look away, the corpse has suddenly turned to face them, and some sort of incorporeal black clumps start falling out of her that immediately sink into the ground. It's never discovered why any of that happened, who the hanged woman is, or what it is that's falling out of her.
** The "Seashore", the enigmatic waitress as the beach cafe who tells Mimi and her friends about the grim history of the beach. The photos Tanaka took of her were apparently so utterly terrifying that he immediately discarded all of them and the negatives and refuses to answer what was on them when the others ask, saying he doesn't even want to think about them. Considering how horrific the photos of Furusawa turned out, but Tanaka still kept those, it implies something truly disturbing must've turned up on the others.
** In "Alone with You", Kei's mother killed herself by self-immolation and returned as an ashy ghost to haunt her daughter (although apparently out of sentimental maternal attachment). The reason she killed herself in that way is never discussed.
** "The Scarlet Circle" is about a strange underground cellar room that simply has a painted red circle drawn on one of the walls. Anyone who stays in the room after the dark disappears without a trace, with the circle growing bigger and darker with each disappearance. What the circle is and what happens to the people it vanishes is never revealed. Another thing is that Naoko could somehow "sense" Mimi was in danger and knew exactly where to rescue her, and it's never revealed how or if the circle had anything to do with it.
** "The Woman Next Door" involves a very mysterious and apparently inhuman neighbour that lives next door to Mimi. She's covered completely in black clothing, but her limbs are constructed of extended metal struts with screws in them. Nothing else about her appearance is discovered or what she is, but her face is apparently so horrifying that Mimi faints immediately upon seeing it.
** In "Sound of Grass", Mimi and her boyfriend come across the rotting corpse of a hanged woman in the forest. The moment they look away, the corpse has suddenly turned to face them, and some sort of incorporeal black clumps start falling out of her that immediately sink into the ground. It's never discovered why any of that happened, who the hanged woman is, or what it is that's falling out of her.
** The "Seashore", the enigmatic waitress as the beach cafe who tells Mimi and her friends about the grim history of the beach. The photos Tanaka took of her were apparently so utterly terrifying that he immediately discarded all of them and the negatives and refuses to answer what was on them when the others ask, saying he doesn't even want to think about them. Considering how horrific the photos of Furusawa turned out, but Tanaka still kept those, it implies something truly disturbing must've turned up on the others.
** In "Alone with You", Kei's mother killed herself by self-immolation and returned as an ashy ghost to haunt her daughter (although apparently out of sentimental maternal attachment). The reason she killed herself in that way is never discussed.
** "The Scarlet Circle" is about a strange underground cellar room that simply has a painted red circle drawn on one of the walls. Anyone who stays in the room after the dark disappears without a trace, with the circle growing bigger and darker with each disappearance. What the circle is and what happens to the people it vanishes is never revealed. Another thing is that Naoko could somehow "sense" Mimi was in danger and knew exactly where to rescue her, and it's never revealed how or if the circle had anything to do with it.
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''Mimi's Tales of Terror'' (ミミの怪談, "Mimi's Ghost Stories") is a collection of horror stories based on urban legends, all centered around one [[WeirdnessMagnet incredibly unlucky]] college-aged woman named Mimi, written by Creator/JunjiIto. It's based on the book by the same name written by Kihara Hirokatsu and Nakayama Ichiro, who gave Ito permission to change things if he wanted. Still, the manga is LighterAndSofter than most of his work.
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''Mimi's Tales of Terror'' (ミミの怪談, "Mimi's Ghost Stories") is a collection of horror stories based on urban legends, all centered around one [[WeirdnessMagnet incredibly unlucky]] college-aged woman named Mimi, written by Creator/JunjiIto. It's based on the book by the same name written by Kihara Hirokatsu Kihara and Nakayama Ichiro, Ichiro Nakayama, who gave Ito permission to change things if he wanted. Still, the manga is LighterAndSofter than most of his work.
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''Mimi's Tales Of Terror'' (ミミの怪談, "Mimi's Ghost Stories") is a collection of horror stories based on urban legends, all centered around one [[WeirdnessMagnet incredibly unlucky]] college-aged woman named Mimi, written by Creator/JunjiIto. It's based on the book by the same name written by Kihara Hirokatsu and Nakayama Ichiro, who gave Ito permission to change things if he wanted. Still, the manga is LighterAndSofter than most of his work.
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''Mimi's Tales Of of Terror'' (ミミの怪談, "Mimi's Ghost Stories") is a collection of horror stories based on urban legends, all centered around one [[WeirdnessMagnet incredibly unlucky]] college-aged woman named Mimi, written by Creator/JunjiIto. It's based on the book by the same name written by Kihara Hirokatsu and Nakayama Ichiro, who gave Ito permission to change things if he wanted. Still, the manga is LighterAndSofter than most of his work.
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''Mimi's Tales Of Terror'' (ミミの怪談, "Mimi's Ghost Stories") is a collection of horror stories based on urban legends, all centered around one [[WeirdnessMagnet incredibly unlucky]] college-aged woman named Mimi, written by Creator/JunjiIto. It's based on the book by the same name written by Kihara Hirokatsu and Nakayama Ichiro, who gave Ito permission to change things if he wanted. Still, the manga is LighterAndSofter than most of his work.
This collection of supernatural horror was originally published in serialized form between 2002 and 2003. Creator/VizMedia licensed the series and released it in English on October 24, 2023.
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!!This Manga Provides Examples Of:
* ArbitrarySkepticism: Mostly from Mimi's boyfriend Naoto. Mimi becomes incredibly frustrated by this in the final chapter.
* CoatHatMask: The neighbor's disguise in the first chapter.
* CoversAlwaysLie: Just from a quick glance at the cover, the reader would think that the woman on the front with the red silhouette and blank, soulless eyes was the main villain. It's actually the hapless protagonist.
* CreepyCemetery: There's an example located behind Mimi's new apartment after she moves. It starts out being more creepy in-universe [[spoiler:before it's revealed to be haunted]].
* DrivenToSuicide: The ghost woman in "Sound of Grass", along with the ashen woman in "Alone with You", [[spoiler:who is revealed to be Kei's mother]].
* DumbMuscle: Mimi's new neighbor after she finally gets moved away from her ''first'' disturbing apartment. [[spoiler:He just keeps moving gravestones around so that the spirits of the dead can watch him pose]].
* HauntedHeroine: Notably averted. Mimi seems to stumble across the supernatural wherever she goes, but she's otherwise as normal as Ito protagonists get.
* HeKnowsTooMuch: The woman in the first chapter is certainly unnatural, but she seems relatively harmless until Mimi learns what she is. Then she goes after Mimi to try to keep her quiet, likely because she doesn't seem able to speak.
* HumanoidAbomination:
** The titular neighbor in "The Woman Next Door" is revealed to be [[spoiler: at least partially made of adjustable metal beams, which take the place of limbs and which she unscrews and extends at will to take different figures. Weirder still, she has fully functional and normal-looking gloved hands which can come off, her face is never seen, and she buys groceries, implying she needs to eat.]]
** It is heavily implied that the waitress from "At the Seashore" may be one of these. See NothingIsScarier.
* LighterAndSofter: Despite still being a horror story by any reasonable definition of the phrase, the stories presented here are somewhat lighter fare than most of Ito's work. In the words of one reviewer, they sure do [[spoiler:have the protagonist survive]] a lot more than his other works tend to, and since there isn't a buildup or devastating climax at the end of these events, all of the events are by definition less threatening to the heroes.
* NothingIsScarier: In "At the Seashore", [[spoiler:all of the photographs showing the waitress who shares the area's history with the protagonists are destroyed by the man who develops them, and are never shown]].
* NotSoImaginaryFriend: The ashen woman from "Alone with You", [[spoiler:who is actually the ghost of Kei's mother]]. Of course, she's only friendly from her perspective, and just disturbs Kei.
* UrbanLegends: The source of the stories related in the graphic novel. Referenced in the book's Japanese name, which translates more closely to "Mimi's Urban Legends".
* WeirdnessMagnet: Mimi, who doesn't do anything to invite or deserve all of the supernatural craziness she gets put through.
* WithFriendsLikeThese: In "The Red Circle", Mimi's friend Misa [[spoiler:plots to kill her and shack up with Mimi's boyfriend.]]
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''Mimi's Tales Of Terror'' (ミミの怪談, "Mimi's Ghost Stories") is a collection of horror stories based on urban legends, all centered around one [[WeirdnessMagnet incredibly unlucky]] college-aged woman named Mimi, written by Creator/JunjiIto. It's based on the book by the same name written by Kihara Hirokatsu and Nakayama Ichiro, who gave Ito permission to change things if he wanted. Still, the manga is LighterAndSofter than most of his work.
This collection of supernatural horror was originally published in serialized form between 2002 and 2003. Creator/VizMedia licensed the series and released it in English on October 24, 2023.
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!!This Manga Provides Examples Of:
* ArbitrarySkepticism: Mostly from Mimi's boyfriend Naoto. Mimi becomes incredibly frustrated by this in the final chapter.
* CoatHatMask: The neighbor's disguise in the first chapter.
* CoversAlwaysLie: Just from a quick glance at the cover, the reader would think that the woman on the front with the red silhouette and blank, soulless eyes was the main villain. It's actually the hapless protagonist.
* CreepyCemetery: There's an example located behind Mimi's new apartment after she moves. It starts out being more creepy in-universe [[spoiler:before it's revealed to be haunted]].
* DrivenToSuicide: The ghost woman in "Sound of Grass", along with the ashen woman in "Alone with You", [[spoiler:who is revealed to be Kei's mother]].
* DumbMuscle: Mimi's new neighbor after she finally gets moved away from her ''first'' disturbing apartment. [[spoiler:He just keeps moving gravestones around so that the spirits of the dead can watch him pose]].
* HauntedHeroine: Notably averted. Mimi seems to stumble across the supernatural wherever she goes, but she's otherwise as normal as Ito protagonists get.
* HeKnowsTooMuch: The woman in the first chapter is certainly unnatural, but she seems relatively harmless until Mimi learns what she is. Then she goes after Mimi to try to keep her quiet, likely because she doesn't seem able to speak.
* HumanoidAbomination:
** The titular neighbor in "The Woman Next Door" is revealed to be [[spoiler: at least partially made of adjustable metal beams, which take the place of limbs and which she unscrews and extends at will to take different figures. Weirder still, she has fully functional and normal-looking gloved hands which can come off, her face is never seen, and she buys groceries, implying she needs to eat.]]
** It is heavily implied that the waitress from "At the Seashore" may be one of these. See NothingIsScarier.
* LighterAndSofter: Despite still being a horror story by any reasonable definition of the phrase, the stories presented here are somewhat lighter fare than most of Ito's work. In the words of one reviewer, they sure do [[spoiler:have the protagonist survive]] a lot more than his other works tend to, and since there isn't a buildup or devastating climax at the end of these events, all of the events are by definition less threatening to the heroes.
* NothingIsScarier: In "At the Seashore", [[spoiler:all of the photographs showing the waitress who shares the area's history with the protagonists are destroyed by the man who develops them, and are never shown]].
* NotSoImaginaryFriend: The ashen woman from "Alone with You", [[spoiler:who is actually the ghost of Kei's mother]]. Of course, she's only friendly from her perspective, and just disturbs Kei.
* UrbanLegends: The source of the stories related in the graphic novel. Referenced in the book's Japanese name, which translates more closely to "Mimi's Urban Legends".
* WeirdnessMagnet: Mimi, who doesn't do anything to invite or deserve all of the supernatural craziness she gets put through.
* WithFriendsLikeThese: In "The Red Circle", Mimi's friend Misa [[spoiler:plots to kill her and shack up with Mimi's boyfriend.]]
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