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* PlotHole: Not as glaring as some cases, but how the hell did [[spoiler:[[PsychoPsychologist Mitomo become the counselor]] to the surviving students when he'd been disowned from his family]]? Even assuming [[spoiler:he somehow had the credentials for such a practice, the idea that the school wouldn't have done a background check is baffling to the extreme]].
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* RedHerring: A lot of them:
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* RedHerring: A lot of them:
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* MercyKill: [[spoiler:Iku kills Ami Toono by lifting her off a metal pole she got impaled on during the bus crash at her request, as she'd rather die from bleeding out than being burned alive]].
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** Amano possibly stealing drugs from the hospital. [[spoiler:Never happened. The bus crash itself has nothing to do with the present day events beyond giving Mitomo's motivation.]]
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** Futami's suicide being actually a murder. [[spoiler:Neither. Just an accident.]]
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** Amano possibly stealing drugs from the hospital. [[spoiler:Never happened. The bus crash itself has nothing to do with the present day events beyond giving Mitomo's motivation.]]
** Futami's suicide being actually a murder. [[spoiler:Neither. Just an accident.]]
** Futami's suicide being actually a murder. [[spoiler:Neither. Just an accident.
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* BittersweetEnding: The culprit, [[spoiler:Shinichi Mitomo]], is caught and exposed, and it's implied at least some of the surviving students will be able to move on, [[spoiler:but he still traumatized several of them, and tricks Rika Konno into stabbing him -- whether he dies is left unanswered]].
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* BittersweetEnding: The culprit, [[spoiler:Shinichi Mitomo]], is caught and exposed, and it's all six of the survivors make it out alive, it being implied at least some of the surviving students that Sanada, Odzu, and Amano will be able to move on, [[spoiler:but he still traumatized on. However, [[spoiler:Kunikida]] has to confess to their involvement in Fumito's death and could face criminal charges despite it being an accident and their relationship with Odzu is nearly ruined, and [[spoiler:Shima]] is arrested both for killing [[spoiler:Shimizu]] ''and'' attacking Odzu. And thanks to [[spoiler:Mitomo]]'s manipulations, [[spoiler:Shima]] nearly kills himself, and [[spoiler:Konno]] is tricked into believing they killed Sanada and Amano via his manipulations, and [[spoiler:stabs him in front of several of them, and tricks Rika cops. Whether or not Mitomo dies and/or Konno into stabbing him -- whether he dies is arrested are left unanswered]].
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* EveryoneLives: [[spoiler:Besides possibly Mitomo, the only deaths in-story are the ones killed in the bus crash itself, and later Futami (whose death also happened prior to Mitomo's announcement).]]
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''Secret'' is a horror-mystery manga written by Yoshiki Tonogai and the SpiritualSuccessor to ''Manga/{{Doubt}}'' and ''Manga/{{Judge}}''.
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''Secret'' is a horror-mystery manga written by Yoshiki Tonogai and the SpiritualSuccessor to ''Manga/{{Doubt}}'' and ''Manga/{{Judge}}''.
''Manga/{{Judge}}''. Like its predecessors, it was serialized in ''Monthly Shonen Gangan'' from 2013 to 2015.
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* FirstEpisodeSpoiler: Iku is one of the three killers Mitomo talked about (although [[spoiler:in a MaternalDeathBlameTheChild sense]]).
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* EveryoneLives: [[spoiler:Besides possibly Mitomo, the only deaths in-story are the ones killed in the bus crash itself.]]
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* FirstEpisodeSpoiler: Iku [[spoiler:Iku]] is one of the three killers Mitomo talked about (although [[spoiler:in a MaternalDeathBlameTheChild sense]]).
* EveryoneLives: [[spoiler:Besides possibly Mitomo, the only deaths in-story are the ones killed in the bus crashitself.itself, and later Futami (whose death also happened prior to Mitomo's announcement).]]
* EveryoneLives: [[spoiler:Besides possibly Mitomo, the only deaths in-story are the ones killed in the bus crash
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* MaternalDeathBlameTheChild: Iku Sanada's mother died giving birth to him, and his father blames him for her death.
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* MaternalDeathBlameTheChild: Iku Sanada's [[spoiler:Iku Sanada]]'s mother died giving birth to him, and his father blames him for her death.
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* FirstEpisodeSpoiler: Iku is one of the three killers Mitomo talked about (although in a MaternalDeathBlameTheCHild way).
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** Iku's proclamation at the end of Chapter 1 that he killed again. [[spoiler:He's reffering to his mother's death giving birth to him.]]
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** Iku's proclamation at the end of Chapter 1 that he killed again. [[spoiler:He's reffering referring to [[MaternalDeathBlameTheChild his mother's death giving birth to him.him]].]]
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* MySisterIsOffLimits: The usually comedic trope gets PlayedForHorror to its [[{{Yandere}} logical extreme]]. [[spoiler:Shinichi Mitomo, the BigBad, masterminded the murders of the students, turning them against each other, because he was pissed that someone impregnated his sister before [[AttemptedRape he could]] and decided to take down the whole class to get at one guy.]]
* PlotHole: Not as glaring as some cases, but how the hell did [[spoiler:Mitomo become the counsellor to the surviving students when he'd been disowned from his family? Even assuming he somehow had the credentials for such a practice, the idea that the school wouldn't have done a background check is baffling to the extreme.]]
* PlotHole: Not as glaring as some cases, but how the hell did [[spoiler:Mitomo become the counsellor to the surviving students when he'd been disowned from his family? Even assuming he somehow had the credentials for such a practice, the idea that the school wouldn't have done a background check is baffling to the extreme.]]
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** Futami's suicide being actually a murder. [[spoiler:Neither. Just an accident.]]
* SurvivorsGuilt: [[PosthumousCharacter Futami]] apparently committed suicide because he was absent from school during the day of the accident which resulted in the death of his girlfriend, and he felt guilty because he believed that if he were present, he would have been able to save her and some other friends. [[spoiler:Subverted, since he didn't actually commit suicide. He fell to his death during an argument with another girl, who then faked his suicide note because she was afraid that she would be charged with his murder if the police found out about the true circumstances of his death.]]
* VillainousIncest: [[spoiler:Mitomo.]]
* WhateverHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler:Shima]] vanishes completely after [[spoiler:he's arrested following his suicide attempt]]. We never hear what happens to him after the fact.
* SurvivorsGuilt: [[PosthumousCharacter Futami]] apparently committed suicide because he was absent from school during the day of the accident which resulted in the death of his girlfriend, and he felt guilty because he believed that if he were present, he would have been able to save her and some other friends. [[spoiler:Subverted, since he didn't actually commit suicide. He fell to his death during an argument with another girl, who then faked his suicide note because she was afraid that she would be charged with his murder if the police found out about the true circumstances of his death.]]
* VillainousIncest: [[spoiler:Mitomo.]]
* WhateverHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler:Shima]] vanishes completely after [[spoiler:he's arrested following his suicide attempt]]. We never hear what happens to him after the fact.
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** Futami's suicide being actually a murder. [[spoiler:Neither. Just an accident.]]
* SurvivorsGuilt: [[PosthumousCharacter Futami]] apparently committed suicide because he was absent from school during the day of the accident which resulted in the death of his girlfriend, and he felt guilty because he believed that if he were present, he would have been able to save her and some other friends. [[spoiler:Subverted, since he didn't actually commit suicide. He fell to his death during an argument with another girl, who then faked his suicide note because she was afraid that she would be charged with his murder if the police found out about the true circumstances of his death.]]
* VillainousIncest: [[spoiler:Mitomo.]]
* WhateverHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler:Shima]] vanishes completely after [[spoiler:he's arrested following his suicide attempt]]. We never hear what happens to him after the fact.]]
* SurvivorsGuilt: [[PosthumousCharacter Futami]] apparently committed suicide because he was absent from school during the day of the accident which resulted in the death of his girlfriend, and he felt guilty because he believed that if he were present, he would have been able to save her and some other friends. [[spoiler:Subverted, since he didn't actually commit suicide. He fell to his death during an argument with another girl, who then faked his suicide note because she was afraid that she would be charged with his murder if the police found out about the true circumstances of his death.]]
* VillainousIncest: [[spoiler:Mitomo.]]
* WhateverHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler:Shima]] vanishes completely after [[spoiler:he's arrested following his suicide attempt]]. We never hear what happens to him after the fact.
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* BittersweetEnding: The culprit, [[spoiler:Shinichi Mitomo]], is caught and exposed, [[spoiler:but he still traumatized several of the surviving students and tricks Rika Konno into stabbing him -- whether he dies is left unanswered]].
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* BittersweetEnding: The culprit, [[spoiler:Shinichi Mitomo]], is caught and exposed, and it's implied at least some of the surviving students will be able to move on, [[spoiler:but he still traumatized several of the surviving students them, and tricks Rika Konno into stabbing him -- whether he dies is left unanswered]].unanswered]].
* FirstEpisodeSpoiler: Iku is one of the three killers Mitomo talked about.
* EveryoneLives: [[spoiler:Besides possibly Mitomo, the only deaths in-story are the ones killed in the bus crash itself.]]
* FirstEpisodeSpoiler: Iku is one of the three killers Mitomo talked about.
* EveryoneLives: [[spoiler:Besides possibly Mitomo, the only deaths in-story are the ones killed in the bus crash itself.]]
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* SurvivorsGuilt: [[PosthumousCharacter Futami]] apparently committed suicide because he was absent from school during the day of the accident which resulted in the death of his girlfriend, and he felt guilty because he believed that if he were present, he would have been able to save her and some other friends. [[spoiler:Subverted, since he didn't actually commit suicide. He fell to his death during an argument with another girl, who then faked his suicide note because she was afraid that she would be charged with his murder if the police found out about the true circumstances of his death.]]
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* PlotHole: Not as glaring as some cases, but how the hell did [[spoiler:Mitomo become the counsellor to the surviving students when he'd been disowned from his family? Even assuming he somehow had the credentials for such a practice, the idea that the school wouldn't have done a background check is baffling to the extreme.]]
* RedHerring: A lot of them:
** Iku's proclamation at the end of Chapter 1 that he killed again. [[spoiler:He's reffering to his mother's death giving birth to him.]]
** Amano possibly stealing drugs from the hospital. [[spoiler:Never happened. The bus crash itself has nothing to do with the present day events beyond giving Mitomo's motivation.]]
** Futami's suicide being actually a murder. [[spoiler:Neither. Just an accident.]]
* SurvivorsGuilt: [[PosthumousCharacter Futami]] apparently committed suicide because he was absent from school during the day of the accident which resulted in the death of his girlfriend, and he felt guilty because he believed that if he were present, he would have been able to save her and some other friends. [[spoiler:Subverted, since he didn't actually commit suicide. He fell to his death during an argument with another girl, who then faked his suicide note because she was afraid that she would be charged with his murder if the police found out about the true circumstances of his death.]]]]
* VillainousIncest: [[spoiler:Mitomo.]]
* WhateverHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler:Shima]] vanishes completely after [[spoiler:he's arrested following his suicide attempt]]. We never hear what happens to him after the fact.
* RedHerring: A lot of them:
** Iku's proclamation at the end of Chapter 1 that he killed again. [[spoiler:He's reffering to his mother's death giving birth to him.]]
** Amano possibly stealing drugs from the hospital. [[spoiler:Never happened. The bus crash itself has nothing to do with the present day events beyond giving Mitomo's motivation.]]
** Futami's suicide being actually a murder. [[spoiler:Neither. Just an accident.]]
* SurvivorsGuilt: [[PosthumousCharacter Futami]] apparently committed suicide because he was absent from school during the day of the accident which resulted in the death of his girlfriend, and he felt guilty because he believed that if he were present, he would have been able to save her and some other friends. [[spoiler:Subverted, since he didn't actually commit suicide. He fell to his death during an argument with another girl, who then faked his suicide note because she was afraid that she would be charged with his murder if the police found out about the true circumstances of his death.
* VillainousIncest: [[spoiler:Mitomo.]]
* WhateverHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler:Shima]] vanishes completely after [[spoiler:he's arrested following his suicide attempt]]. We never hear what happens to him after the fact.
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* BittersweetEnding: The culprit, [[spoiler:Shinichi Mitomo]], is caught and exposed, [[spoiler:but he still traumatized several of the surviving students and tricks Rika Konno into stabbing him- whether he dies is left unanswered]].
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* BittersweetEnding: The culprit, [[spoiler:Shinichi Mitomo]], is caught and exposed, [[spoiler:but he still traumatized several of the surviving students and tricks Rika Konno into stabbing him- him -- whether he dies is left unanswered]].unanswered]].
* LighterAndSofter: Compared to Tonogai Yoshiki's other works, anyway. [[spoiler:The original six survivors]] of the crash are still alive at the end of the story, and the culprit gets arrested for their crimes.
* MaternalDeathBlameTheChild: Iku Sanada's mother died giving birth to him, and his father blames him for her death.
* LighterAndSofter: Compared to Tonogai Yoshiki's other works, anyway. [[spoiler:The original six survivors]] of the crash are still alive at the end of the story, and the culprit gets arrested for their crimes.
* MaternalDeathBlameTheChild: Iku Sanada's mother died giving birth to him, and his father blames him for her death.
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* SurvivorsGuilt: [[PosthumousCharacter Futami]] apparently committed suicide because he was absent from school during the day of the accident which resulted in the death of his girlfriend, and he felt guilty because he believed that if he were present, he would have been able to save her and some other friends.friends. [[spoiler:Subverted, since he didn't actually commit suicide. He fell to his death during an argument with another girl, who then faked his suicide note because she was afraid that she would be charged with his murder if the police found out about the true circumstances of his death.]]
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* PlayedForHorror: The usually comedic MySisterIsOffLimits trope gets played to its [[{{Yandere}} logical extreme]]. [[spoiler:Shinichi Mitomo, the BigBad, masterminded the murders of the students, turning them against each other, because he was pissed that someone impregnated his sister before [[AttemptedRape he could]] and decided to take down the whole class to get at one guy.]]
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* PlayedForHorror: MySisterIsOffLimits: The usually comedic MySisterIsOffLimits trope gets played PlayedForHorror to its [[{{Yandere}} logical extreme]]. [[spoiler:Shinichi Mitomo, the BigBad, masterminded the murders of the students, turning them against each other, because he was pissed that someone impregnated his sister before [[AttemptedRape he could]] and decided to take down the whole class to get at one guy.]]]]
* SurvivorsGuilt: [[PosthumousCharacter Futami]] committed suicide because he was absent from school during the day of the accident which resulted in the death of his girlfriend, and he felt guilty because he believed that if he were present, he would have been able to save her and some other friends.
* SurvivorsGuilt: [[PosthumousCharacter Futami]] committed suicide because he was absent from school during the day of the accident which resulted in the death of his girlfriend, and he felt guilty because he believed that if he were present, he would have been able to save her and some other friends.
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* BittersweetEnding: The culprit, [[spoiler:Shinichi Mitomo]], is caught and exposed, [[spoiler:but he still traumatized seceral of the surviving students and tricks Rika Konno into stabbing him- whtether he dies is left unanswered]].
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* BittersweetEnding: The culprit, [[spoiler:Shinichi Mitomo]], is caught and exposed, [[spoiler:but he still traumatized seceral several of the surviving students and tricks Rika Konno into stabbing him- whtether whether he dies is left unanswered]].
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* BittersweetEnding: The culprit, [[spoiler:Shinichi Mitomo]], is caught and exposed, [[spoiler:but he still got innocent people killed traumatized seceral of the surviving students and tricks Rika Konno into stabbing him- whtether he dies is left unanswered]].
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Iku Sanada and five of his classmates are the only survivors of a bus accident that took the lives of the rest of the class. Counselor Shinichi Mitomo has been assigned to help them recover from the trauma. But Mr. Mitomo has different plans- one day, he gives them the shocking revelation that three of them are murderers, and one of them caused the accident. If they do not confess within a week, he will turn in the evidence he has to the police.
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Iku Sanada and five of his classmates are the only survivors of a bus accident that took the lives of the rest of the class. Counselor Guidance counselor Shinichi Mitomo has been assigned to help them recover from the trauma. But Mr. Mitomo has different plans- one day, he gives them the shocking revelation that three of them are murderers, and one of them caused the accident. If they do not confess within a week, he will turn in the evidence he has to the police.
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* MetaTwist: In ''Manga/{{Doubt}}'' and ''Manga/{{Judge}}'', [[spoiler:the culprit is someone [[TheDogWasTheMastermind completely unexpected]], and they always [[KarmaHoudini get away]] and [[TheBadGuyWins get what they want in the end]]]]. Here, [[spoiler:the culprit is the guy who outright said he was the mastermind from the beginning, and he actually gets arrested for his crimes]].
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* MetaTwist: In ''Manga/{{Doubt}}'' and ''Manga/{{Judge}}'', [[spoiler:the culprit is someone [[TheDogWasTheMastermind completely unexpected]], and they always [[KarmaHoudini get away]] and [[TheBadGuyWins get what they want in the end]]]]. Here, [[spoiler:the culprit is the guy who outright said he was the mastermind from the beginning, and he actually gets arrested for his crimes]].crimes]].
* PlayedForHorror: The usually comedic MySisterIsOffLimits trope gets played to its [[{{Yandere}} logical extreme]]. [[spoiler:Shinichi Mitomo, the BigBad, masterminded the murders of the students, turning them against each other, because he was pissed that someone impregnated his sister before [[AttemptedRape he could]] and decided to take down the whole class to get at one guy.]]
* PlayedForHorror: The usually comedic MySisterIsOffLimits trope gets played to its [[{{Yandere}} logical extreme]]. [[spoiler:Shinichi Mitomo, the BigBad, masterminded the murders of the students, turning them against each other, because he was pissed that someone impregnated his sister before [[AttemptedRape he could]] and decided to take down the whole class to get at one guy.]]
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''Secret'' is a horror-mystery manga written by Yoshiki Tonogai and the SpiritualSuccessor to ''Manga/{{Doubt}}'' and ''Manga/{{Judge}}''.
Iku Sanada and five of his classmates are the only survivors of a bus accident that took the lives of the rest of the class. Counselor Shinichi Mitomo has been assigned to help them recover from the trauma. But Mr. Mitomo has different plans- one day, he gives them the shocking revelation that three of them are murderers, and one of them caused the accident. If they do not confess within a week, he will turn in the evidence he has to the police.
Iku and his classmates rush to prove their innocence, but in a game where everyone has something to hide, it may not be easy. Just who are the killers, and who is the [[BigBad mastermind]] behind all this?
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* BigBad: The student who caused the bus [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident “accident”]]. Shinichi Mitomo, the school's guidance counselor who consults the students after the accident, is technically the mastermind, but his game is not [[DeadlyGame lethal]]- he simply claims that three of them are murderers, one of them caused the accident, and that he has the evidence, and encourages them to confess. The conflict is uncovering who the culprit is. [[spoiler:[[DoubleSubversion Except]] that [[HanlonsRazor the crash really was an accident]], and Mitomo made it look intentional to pin it on two of the students and get another thrown in jail]]. The culprit's motive for doing this was to [[spoiler:kill everyone who he suspects [[MySisterIsOffLimits got his beloved sister pregnant]]- [[BrotherSisterIncest he wanted her for himself]]]].
* BittersweetEnding: The culprit, [[spoiler:Shinichi Mitomo]], is caught and exposed, [[spoiler:but he still got innocent people killed and tricks Rika Konno into stabbing him- whtether he dies is left unanswered]].
* MetaTwist: In ''Manga/{{Doubt}}'' and ''Manga/{{Judge}}'', [[spoiler:the culprit is someone [[TheDogWasTheMastermind completely unexpected]], and they always [[KarmaHoudini get away]] and [[TheBadGuyWins get what they want in the end]]]]. Here, [[spoiler:the culprit is the guy who outright said he was the mastermind from the beginning, and he actually gets arrested for his crimes]].
Iku Sanada and five of his classmates are the only survivors of a bus accident that took the lives of the rest of the class. Counselor Shinichi Mitomo has been assigned to help them recover from the trauma. But Mr. Mitomo has different plans- one day, he gives them the shocking revelation that three of them are murderers, and one of them caused the accident. If they do not confess within a week, he will turn in the evidence he has to the police.
Iku and his classmates rush to prove their innocence, but in a game where everyone has something to hide, it may not be easy. Just who are the killers, and who is the [[BigBad mastermind]] behind all this?
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!This manga has examples of:
* BigBad: The student who caused the bus [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident “accident”]]. Shinichi Mitomo, the school's guidance counselor who consults the students after the accident, is technically the mastermind, but his game is not [[DeadlyGame lethal]]- he simply claims that three of them are murderers, one of them caused the accident, and that he has the evidence, and encourages them to confess. The conflict is uncovering who the culprit is. [[spoiler:[[DoubleSubversion Except]] that [[HanlonsRazor the crash really was an accident]], and Mitomo made it look intentional to pin it on two of the students and get another thrown in jail]]. The culprit's motive for doing this was to [[spoiler:kill everyone who he suspects [[MySisterIsOffLimits got his beloved sister pregnant]]- [[BrotherSisterIncest he wanted her for himself]]]].
* BittersweetEnding: The culprit, [[spoiler:Shinichi Mitomo]], is caught and exposed, [[spoiler:but he still got innocent people killed and tricks Rika Konno into stabbing him- whtether he dies is left unanswered]].
* MetaTwist: In ''Manga/{{Doubt}}'' and ''Manga/{{Judge}}'', [[spoiler:the culprit is someone [[TheDogWasTheMastermind completely unexpected]], and they always [[KarmaHoudini get away]] and [[TheBadGuyWins get what they want in the end]]]]. Here, [[spoiler:the culprit is the guy who outright said he was the mastermind from the beginning, and he actually gets arrested for his crimes]].
