History Manga / NijigaharaHolograph

* CountryMatters: As Makoto is threatening Maki with his scissors:

*** When Makoto attacks her with the scissors, The second time is after Later on, she attempts a RelationshipUpgrade with Makoto, but the sex apparently [[TheLoinsSleepTonight didn't happen]]. Makoto attacks her shortly afterward, and she is shown partly naked.

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* OhCrap: Near the end of the story, Hayato starts to have a meltdown in the police headquarters as the news reports that the swarms of butterflies are increasing and his superior tells him that a woman has committed suicide in the Nijigahara tunnel, just like 10 years ago.

* SenseiChan: {{Subverted|Trope}} by Sakaki. She's young, pretty, and physically affectionate toward Amahiko, treating him better than his own stepmother. However, she begins to hate Arié after getting hurt saving her from [[spoiler:Makoto]], and this turns into a complete apathy toward what eventually happens to her and toward the bullying of Takahama,

* TraumaticHaircut: When [[spoiler:Makoto attacks Maki]], the first thing he does is snip off part of her hair with scissors.

* AxCrazy: [[spoiler:Makoto]] is a psychopath who is a figure of violence throughout the story. He raped Arié, and struck Sakaki with a cinderblock when she intervened, causing her to lose her left eye. Later, he tells Amahiko that he’s burned his own house down, with the implication that he killed his family before doing so. As an adult, he assaults Maki and probably would have killed her [[spoiler:if Kohta hadn't speared him with an umbrella]].

* BullyBrutality: While Takahama's bullies were mostly content to take his money, after Arié is pushed down the well, Kohta starts to really beat up Takahama, culminating in him pulling out a knife. [[SubvertedTrope However, he's stopped by Hayato]], who hits him over the head with a piece of cinderblock after Kohta cuts his cheek instead of attacking Takahama.

* EyeScream: Sakaki wears bandages (and later, an eyepatch) that keep her left eye covered for most of the story due to her facial injuries. After she gets plastic surgery, she's apparently given a fake eye of some sort as it doesn't move with her good eye.
* GreenEyedMonster: Maki admits to Makoto that her reason for going along with what was done to Arié was that she liked Kohta but Arié was drawing his attention away.

* OhCrap: Near the end of the story, Hayato starts to have a meltdown in the police headquarters as the news reports that the swarms of butterflies are increasing.
-->The monster...the monster is on the move. *''starts screaming''*

* ScarsAreForever: Hayato still carries the scar on his cheek from when Kohta cut him. It didn't help that Maki ripped the bandage off in a moment of anger with him over how he and the others were treating Kohta afterward.

* TeacherStudentRomance: [[PlayingWithATrope Played with.]] Sakaki is very physically affectionate toward Amahiko, and based on his reaction in the teachers' workroom he certainly wants to return the favor, but this is dashed after he and Narumi have to hide under a desk while Sakaki and another teacher briefly make out.

Eleven years in the past, Arié Kimura's classmates pushed her down a well into the tunnel system in the Nijigahara embankment. In the current day, those same classmates must now deal with the psychological and emotional ripple effect of what they did, while a strange prophecy first spoken by Arié about a monster that will bring about the end of the world hovers over them.

** The one time that Arié and her father are seen together, the implication is pretty strong that he's going to do something violent to her, and maybe not for the first time. His tentpoled underwear a few panels later speaks volumes about his intentions.

* BarehandedBladeBlock: A variant, and {{subverted|Trope}}. When Amahiko tries to hit Takahama with a broom, Narumi tries to catch the broom in this way, but she either misses the grab or it goes through her hands, hitting her hard enough to break the handle and split her forehead open.

* RapeAsDrama: A fundamental part of the story, tying into the mythology surrounding Arié. Something about her nature drives people to try to assault her, regardless of her age.

* VaguenessIsComing: Arié frequently said "The monster in the tunnel will bring about the end of the world." The story spread throughout the school, and after her mother was found dead in the tunnel inside the Nijigahara embankment, her classmates had had enough and pushed her into the well, thinking getting rid of her would set things right. Later on, it's revealed that these events mirror a story Arié had been creating with Makoto. [[spoiler:By the end of the story, the end of the world may very well be underway.]]

** Arié is implied to have been sexually assaulted by her father, is raped by [[spoiler:Makoto]], and is dropped down the well by her classmates, causing injuries that leave her comatose.

* MindScrew: This is without question the most impenetrable and outright strange of Asano's works, with a constant feeling of mystery about what is real and what's in characters' heads, jumping timelines, and characters seeming to be jumping around in the timeline.

** The one time that Arié and her father are seen together, the implication is pretty strong that he's going to do something violent to her, especially with the state of his underwear a few panels later.

* BullyBrutality: While Takahama's bullies were mostly content to take his money, after Arié is pushed down the well, Kohta's bullying of Takahama becomes more violent, culminating in him pulling out a knife. [[SubvertedTrope However, he's stopped by Hayato]], who hits him over the head with a piece of cinderblock after Kohta cuts his cheek instead of attacking Takahama.

* ButterflyOfDeathAndRebirth: Cabbage butterflies appear throughout the story, both on their own and to some of the characters, sometimes glowing. Swarms of them pour out of the tunnel entrance in the Nijigarhara embankment several times, and at one point can be seen doing so all over the city. They also sometimes cover characters who are in severe physical or emotional trauma. By the end, their numbers have increased to the point of causing significant public alarm.

* MeaningfulName: "Nijigahara" can be written as "the plain of the rainbow" or "the plain of two children". When Sakaki notices the latter on a sign at the embankment, her husband relates an old legend about "kudan" (a cow with a human face that was a PortentOfDoom before its death) and how, whenever the former inhabitants sent a dead kudan down the river at that spot, twin kudans would be found there later. [[spoiler:Take note of how many scenes of physical violence or emotional pain take place throughout the story at that spot, and how both touch Amahiko and Arié near the end, especially with the reveal about them in the last chapter.]]

* AxCrazy: [[spoiler:Makoto]] is a psychopath who is a figure of violence throughout the story. He raped Arié, and struck Sakaki with a cinderblock when she intervened, causing her to lose her left eye. He's implied to have considered killing Amahiko after torching his own house, and might have done it if not for [[spoiler:seeing the half butterfly pendant Amahiko was wearing]]. As an adult, he assaults Maki and probably would have killed her [[spoiler:if Kohta hadn't speared him with an umbrella]].

* VaguenessIsComing: Arié frequently said "The monster in the tunnel will bring about the end of the world." The story spread throughout the school, and after her mother was found dead in the tunnel inside the Nijigahara embankment, her classmates had had enough and pushed her into the well, thinking getting rid of her would set things right. Later on, it's revealed that these events mirror a story Arié had been creating with Makoto. [[spoiler:By the end of the story, the end of the world may very well be underway

* DirtyCoward: Amahiko sees Takahama as this after learning that he snitched about Hayato and his other bullies taking his money rather than confronting them or doing anything else more proactive. It doesn't help that when he confronts Takahama about it and it turns into a larger during a later confrontation between Amahiko, Sakaki, and Takahama's mother, Takahama hides behind her and taunts Amahiko by quietly calling him an idiot after his mother says it.

* TeacherStudentRomance: [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]]. Sakaki is very physically affectionate toward Amahiko

* AxCrazy: [[spoiler:Makoto]] is a psychopath who is a figure of violence throughout the story. He tried to rape Arié, and struck Sakaki with a cinderblock when she intervened, causing her to lose her left eye. He's implied to have considered killing Amahiko after torching his own house, and might have done it if not for [[spoiler:seeing the half butterfly pendant Amahiko was wearing]]. As an adult, he assaults Maki and probably would have killed her [[spoiler:if Kohta hadn't speared him with an umbrella]].

* DirtyCoward: Amahiko sees Takahama as this after learning that he snitched about Hayato and his other bullies taking his money rather than confronting them or doing anything else more proactive. It doesn't help that, during a later confrontation between Amahiko, Sakaki, and Takahama's mother, Takahama hides behind her and taunts Amahiko by quietly calling him an idiot after his mother says it.

* GreenEyedMonster: Maki admits to her boss that her reason for going along with what was done to Arié was that she liked Kohta but Arié was drawing his attention away.

-->The monster...the monster is on the move.

* VaguenessIsComing: Arié frequently said "The monster in the tunnel will bring about the end of the world." The story spread throughout the school, and after her mother was found dead in the tunnel inside the Nijigahara embankment, her classmates had had enough and pushed her into the well, thinking getting rid of her would set things right. Later on, it's revealed that these events mirror a story Arié had been creating with Makoto.

* BullyBrutality: While Takahama's bullies were mostly content to take his money, after Arié is pushed down the well, Kohta's bullying of Takahama becomes more violent, culminating in him pulling out a knife. [[SubvertedTrope However, he's stopped by Hayato]], who hits him over the head with a piece of cinderblock after Kohta cuts his cheek instead of Takahama's.

** Arié's father either is raping her or is about to, based on the one time that they're seen together.

* ArcWords: "The butterflies that had been pulled apart by fate shall become one." Either said or written by multiple characters, it might refer to the classmates who mistreated Arié, or [[spoiler:the butterfly pendant formerly worn by Amahiko and Arié's mother whose halves are eventually worn by the two siblings when they seem to encounter each other after Arié wakes from her coma]], or [[spoiler:Amahiko and Arié themselves, as they were separated when they were very young]], or any or all of those.
* AxCrazy: [[spoiler:Makoto]] is a figure of violence throughout the story. He tried to rape Arié, and struck Sakaki with a cinderblock when she intervened, causing her to lose her left eye. He's implied to have considered killing Amahiko after burning his house, and might have done it if not for [[spoiler:seeing the half butterfly pendant Amahiko was wearing]]. As an adult, he assaults Maki and probably would have killed her [[spoiler:if Kohta hadn't speared him with an umbrella]].

* BullyBrutality: After Arié is pushed down the well, Kohta's bullying of Takahama becomes more violent, culminating in him pulling out a knife. [[SubvertedTrope However, he's stopped by Hayato]], who hits him over the head with a piece of cinderblock after Kohta cuts his cheek instead of Takahama's.
* ButterflyOfDeathAndRebirth: Cabbage butterflies appear throughout the story, both on their own and to some of the characters, sometimes glowing. Swarms of them pour out of the Nijigarhara channel, and other such channels at various points, and sometimes cover characters who are in severe physical or emotional trauma. By the end, their numbers have increased to the point of causing significant public alarm.

* RoomFullOfCrazy: The room over the cafe where Maki works. [[spoiler:Her boss has a doll which he believes is Arié inside at a table and has written ''hundreds'' of diaries of what he thinks is her account of what is supposed to happen when the world ends.]]

* TheReveal: [[spoiler:Amahiko and Arié are twins. Their mother was assaulted by their father when they were very young; she left him, taking Amahiko with her. He doesn't learn the truth until Arié wakes from her coma and finds him at the Nijigahara embankment, in an eerie and very disturbing manner.]]

** Arié is implied to have been sexually assaulted by her father, is raped by [[spoiler:the man who becomes Maki's boss]], and is dropped down the well by her classmates, causing injuries that leave her comatose.

* AxCrazy: [[spoiler:Maki's boss]] is a figure of violence throughout the story. He tried to rape Arié, and struck Sakaki with a cinderblock when she intervened, causing her to lose her left eye. He's implied to have considered killing Amahiko after burning his house, and might have done it if not for [[spoiler:seeing the half butterfly pendant Amahiko was wearing]]. As an adult, he assaults Maki and probably would have killed her [[spoiler:if Kohta hadn't speared him with an umbrella]].

* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:Maki's boss]] is run through with an umbrella by [[spoiler:Kohta]].

* VaguenessIsComing: Arié frequently said "The monster in the tunnel will bring about the end of the world." The story spread throughout the school, and after her mother was found dead in the tunnel inside the Nijigahara embankment, her classmates had had enough and pushed her into the well, thinking getting rid of her would set things right.

Eleven years in the past, Arié Kimura's classmates pushed her down a well into the tunnel system in the Nijigahara embankment. In the current day, those same classmates must now deal with the psychological and emotional ripple effect of what they did, while a strange prophecy about a monster that will bring about the end of the world hovers over them.

* DirtyCoward: Amahiko takes this attitude toward Takahama after learning that he snitched about Hayato and his other bullies taking his money rather than confronting them or doing anything else more proactive. It doesn't help that, during a later confrontation between Amahiko, Sakaki, and Takahama's mother, Takahama hides behind her and taunts Amahiko by quietly calling him an idiot after his mother says it.

* ArcWords: "The butterflies that had been pulled apart by fate shall become one." Either said or written by multiple characters, it might refer to the classmates who mistreated Arié, or [[spoiler:the butterfly pendant formerly worn by Amahiko and Arié's mother whose halves are eventually worn by the two siblings when they seem to encounter each other after Arié wakes from her coma]], or [[spoiler:Amahiko and Ari&eacute themselves, as they were separated when they were very young]], or any or all of those.

Eleven years in the past, Arié Kimura's classmates pushed her down a well into the channel in the Nijigahara embankment. In the current day, those same classmates must now deal with the psychological and emotional ripple effect of what they did.

* BullyBrutality: After Arié is pushed down the well, Kohta's bullying of Takahama becomes more violent, culminating in him pulling out a knife. [[SubvertedTrope However, he's stopped by Hayato]], who hits him over the head with a piece of cinderblock after Kohta cuts his cheek instead of Takahama.

* {{Gonk}}: Takahama is a chubby kid with almost simian facial features that make him look distinctly different from his classmates.

Eleven years ago, Arié Kimura's classmates pushed her down a well into the channel in the Nijigahara embankment. In the current day, those same classmates must now deal with the psychological and emotional ripple effect of what they did.

* ArcWords: "The butterflies that had been pulled apart by fate shall become one." Either said or written by multiple characters, it might refer to the classmates who mistreated Arié, or [[spoiler:the butterfly pendant formerly worn by Amahiko and Arié's mother whose halves are eventually worn by the two siblings when they seem to encounter each other after Arié wakes from her coma]].
* AxCrazy: [[spoiler:Maki's boss]] has been a figure of violence throughout the story. He tried to rape Arié, and struck Sakaki with a cinderblock when she intervened, causing her to lose her left eye. He's implied to have considered killing Amahiko after burning his house, and might have done it if not for [[spoiler:seeing the half butterfly pendant Amahiko was wearing]]. As an adult, he assaults Maki and probably would have killed her [[spoiler:if Kohta hadn't speared him with an umbrella]].
* BarehandedBladeBlock: A variant, and {{subverted|Trope}}. When Amahiko tries to hit Takahama with a broom, Narumi tries to catch the broom in this way, but it goes through her hands and hits her hard enough to break the handle and split her forehead open.

* NonStandardCharacterDesign: Takahama is a chubby kid with almost simian facial features that make him look distinctly different from his classmates.

Ten years ago, Arié Kimura's classmates pushed her down a well into the channel in the Nijigahara embankment. In the current day, those same classmates must now deal with the psychological and emotional ripple effect of what they did.

* EyeScream: Sakaki wears an eyepatch for most of the story due to eye trauma resulting from [[spoiler:the man who eventually becomes Maki's boss]] hitting her in the face with a piece of cinderblock. After she gets plastic surgery, she's apparently given a fake eye of some sort as it doesn't move with her good eye.
* {{Gonk}}: Takahama is a chubby kid with almost simian facial features that make him look distinctly different from his classmates.