History Manga / ReKan

* Cloudcuckoolander: Hibiki's mother, Yuuhi, as seen in flashbacks. When she and her father Asahi meet for the first time, she relays a message from a dead pigeon, ''in pigeon''.

* CloudCuckooLander: Hibiki's mother, Yuuhi, as seen in flashbacks. When she and her father Asahi meet for the first time, she relays a message from a dead pigeon, ''in pigeon''.

* RubberFace: Narumi does this to Hibiki in episode 5 after being teased by about Kyouko falling for men who are like their father, and getting mad at Hibiki for blushing at the comment.

* ShipperOnDeck: Ero-neko ships Narumi/Hibiki because he thinks GirlOnGirlIsHot. Ghosts also ship the two, such as the beach ghosts giving the two matching heart shells, and telling Narumi not to be shy.

** Asahi, Hibiki's mother, apparently can do it too, as the first thing she says to her future husband was something in pigeon after he tried to retrieve the bird's corpse in the middle of a busy street.

* ItRunsInTheFamily: Kenta's older brother acts just as airheaded he does. The only difference between the two is his older brother is taller.

* SpeaksFluentAnimal: Hibiki says she can understand some of the things animals say, such as Ero-Neko.

* YamatoNadeshiko: Hibiki has quite a few points: she is polite and soft-spoken, lives in a [[UsefulNotes/JapaneseArchitecture traditional japanese house]], is a good cook, and as a HimeCut as well as TaremeEyes.

** The perverted cat's antics and his constant requests for a PantyShot.

* ChronicHeroSyndrom:

* BeachEpisode: The first part of episode 4 has the characters go to a beach. Which, due to the nature of this show, is also haunted by ghosts.

* BlatantLies: In episode 2, the characters discuss if they're more scared of humans, or ghosts. Narumi claims she's more afraid of humans after her grandmother's spirit appears over her, despite always screaming in fear at paranormal events.

* ButtMonkey:
** Kenta tends to get beat up by the girls a lot. Even for stuff he didn't do, but just happened to be around for.
** The perverted cat ends up this way when the ghosts start protecting Hibiki from his attempts to view her panties.

* ComicallyMissingThePoint: In episode 2, Kenta talks about a ghost story with a girl with no face who offers you an umbrella, then steals your face in return. Hibiki goes BlueWithShock over hearing it, then mentions that she met that ghost, but didn't take the umbrella, and instead was more upset about her not having a face. She then decides to create a TeruTeruBozu doll for the girl.

* FiveStagesOfGrief: Narumi's kid cousin suffers through one in episode 3. They later find out that his father passed away recently in an accident, while his mother was giving birth to another child. After Narumi learns how to cook eggs the way the kid's father did, he has a CryCute moment, learns to accept his father's passing, and moves on with his life to look after his new sibling.
* FlashBack: Used regularly in the show to reveal events that occurred with various characters in the past, such as when Narumi tells Hibiki about the times her grandmother tried to teach her how to cook, but she refused to learn.
* ForgottenFirstMeeting: Kyouko is very uneasy around Kenta's brother in episode 4. A FlashBack reveals they met years earlier, and she smacked him on the head after getting too excited over meeting the "Flame Haired Messiah" that was going around beating up delinquents picking on helpless girls. At the beach in the present, he doesn't seem to recognize her.

* FreudianExcuse: Kyouko claims that she's afraid of ghosts in episode 2. She then states that with a human, at least you can hurt them, while making a fist and punching into her other hand with it. This is shown some more in her FlashBack during episode 4, when she did in fact go around beating up thugs a few years earlier.

* InseriesNickname: Kyouko was nicknamed "Flame Haired Messiah" due to her tendency to beat up delinquents back in middle school. She's not too fond of it.

* ItRunsInTheFamily: Kenta's older brother acts just as airheaded he does. The only difference between the two is his older brother is taller.

** The perverted cat's antics and his constant requests for a PantyShot. The ghosts later end up protecting Hibiki as much as they can by thwarting his plans, such as when they constantly keep dragging him into the ocean during episode 4.

* ShipperOnDeck: Ero-neko ships Narumi/Hibiki because he thinks GirlOnGirlIsHot.
* SmashingWatermelons: One is done during episode 4. However, the ghost samurai helps Hibiki out by slicing the watermelon after she gently hits it. Several of the girls call the samurai out on it.

* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Narumi's cousin likes eggs prepared a certain way. Unfortunately her uncle, the kid's dad, was the only one who could cook the eggs that way, and he passed away recently in a traffic accident. Narumi then learns that he was taught by her grandmother, and asks for Hibiki's help in talking to her so she could learn to cook the eggs the same way.

** The perverted cat's antics and his constant requests for a PantyShot.

* BarehandedBladeBlock: The perverted cat does this to one of the samurai ghost's attacks in episode. Kana manages to take a picture of it.

** Kenta's ButtMonkey status is shown by him getting a door slammed on him in the first episode. And in episode 2, he keeps getting hit with things tossed by the other characters.

** Narumi claims she can't see them, and is claims to be very skeptical of the notion. However, she is able to see the ghost children in the park, and ends up playing with them while waiting on Hibiki.

* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: Narumi and Hibiki, Hibiki tends to act like a love struck teen toward Narumi and Narumi is an extreme {{Tsundere}} toward Hibiki.

* VitriolicBestFriends: Kana and Kyoko seem to have this kind of relationship, having grown up together.

** Hibiki claims cats are scarier than the ghosts, probably because the one cat she sees keeps asking to see her panties.
** Narumi is terrified of ghosts, the {{Irony}} is that they seem to like her, and it's possible Narumi has at least a little sixth sense, as she is able to see ghosts sometimes. Might be the reason she is so terrified of them

* MissingMom: Hibiki's mother passed away at some point before the story starts.

* MissingMom: Hibiki's mother is dead.

* ParentalAbandonment: Hibiki's mother passed away at some point before the story starts.

* BreadEggsMilkSquick: In episode 2, the teacher does a roll call. When he gets to Hibiki, she is sleeping. The ghosts answer for her, but then someone is also heard asking for a PantyShot. The teacher tries again, and once again the ghosts answer, with yet another request for a PantyShot.

* NightmareFuel: Before even the opening credits start for the first episode, we see a creepy ghost boy clinging to Hibiki's leg in an obvious ShoutOut to ''TheGrudge''.

* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Hibiki claims cats are scarier than the ghosts, probably because the one cat she sees keeps asking to see her panties.

* BestialityIsDepraved: Inverted example with Ero-Neko, the pervered cat. He tries to watch the girls changing in their locker room, and later tries to look up Hibiki's skirt.

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Narumi first sees Hibiki at a crosswalk. The latter crosses the street by hopping up and down and screaming. Narumi thinks she's strange at first, until she spots some handprints on Hibiki's leg, and then sees a ghost boy clinging onto it.
* GivingUpTheGhost: One of Hibiki's classmates does this in the first episode.

* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Several of Hibiki's classmates have already gotten used to see Hibiki acting weirdly and talking to air after only a week of school. Narumi is still insistent on being skeptical however.

Hibiki Amami is an odd girl who can see ghosts and otherworldly things, as well as talk to animals!

Originally a {{Yonkoma}}, it has received an anime adaptation as part of the Spring2015Anime lineup.