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* IntercontinuityCrossover: Somato did a bonus chapter crossing over ''Shadows House'' with ''Kuro'', featuring Coco and Kuro waking up in Shadows House. [[spoiler:At least as far as Coco's concerned, it's AllJustADream she has ten years after the main story of ''Kuro''.]]
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This is false. Shirley has an unique ability to morph into various small things, including a clinger.


* AsteroidsMonster: If the soot generated by the Shadows isn't properly cleaned and disposed of, it gathers together and starts spawning animate blobs called 'Scorches' (or 'Clingers' in the fan translation), that try to latch onto and kill the dolls. [[spoiler:It is also possible for Shadows without strong personalities to dissipate and turn into their smaller Morph form, as Shirley demonstrates.]]

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* AsteroidsMonster: If the soot generated by the Shadows isn't properly cleaned and disposed of, it gathers together and starts spawning animate blobs called 'Scorches' (or 'Clingers' in the fan translation), that try to latch onto and kill the dolls. [[spoiler:It is also possible for Shadows without strong personalities to dissipate and turn into their smaller Morph form, as Shirley demonstrates.]]
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* HumanAllAlong: [[spoiler: Turns out there was no such thing as "Living Dolls" at all. All the Living Dolls were humans who were taken from a nearby village and mindwiped using coffee.]]

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* AdaptationalLateAppearance: The Robe doesn't appear in episode 4, which adapts the mini-arc that first introduced them; Rum instead gets spooked by the appearance of a faceless doll, which sends her running away. The announcement video for S2 reveals they'll be debuting there.

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* AdaptationalLateAppearance: The Robe doesn't appear in episode 4, which adapts the mini-arc that first introduced them; Rum instead gets spooked by the appearance of a faceless doll, which sends her running away. The announcement video for S2 reveals they'll be debuting revealed they would debut there.


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* WrongAssumption: [[spoiler:Maryrose assumes Kate is like her, a Morph who retains their memories from before becoming a Shadow, and so makes comments that hit Kate's feelings around her ''actual'' secret, that she's a HalfHumanHybrid who grew up human and turned into a Shadow, and is manipulating information to avoid drawing the attention of Shadows House, among other reasons. However, because Kate has yet to reveal her true secret at this point, the fact she doesn't contradict Maryrose [[RedHerring cues the audience to think the other Shadow's hit on the truth]].]]
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* ActorAllusion: Creator/JadSaxton once again voices [[Manga/{{Shiki}} a doctor that is slammed into the chaos of dealing with an deadly outbreak.]]

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* ActorAllusion: Creator/JadSaxton once again voices [[Manga/{{Shiki}} a doctor that is slammed into the chaos of dealing with an a deadly outbreak.outbreak of monsters.]]
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* ActorAllusion: Creator/JadSaxton once again voices [[Manga/{{Shiki}} a doctor that is slammed into the chaos of dealing with a virus.]]

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* ActorAllusion: Creator/JadSaxton once again voices [[Manga/{{Shiki}} a doctor that is slammed into the chaos of dealing with a virus.an deadly outbreak.]]
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* ActorAllusion: Creator/JadSaxton once again voices [[Manga/{{Shiki}} a doctor that is slammed into the chaos of dealing with a virus.]]
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* ByWallThatIsHoley: When Emilico, Kate, Shaun, and John accidentally cause the collapse of one of the walls of the Research Team's building, it falls in such a away that they're all standing where the window was - except for [[HardHead John]], who breaks through it unharmed.

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* ByWallThatIsHoley: When Emilico, Kate, Shaun, and John accidentally cause the collapse of one of the walls of the Research Team's building, it falls in such a away way that they're all standing where the window was - except for [[HardHead John]], who breaks through it unharmed.
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* OntologicalMystery: Every shadow-doll pair starts their life at the mansion on their own room, with little to no knowledge of how they came to be.
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* ByWallThatIsHoley: When Emilico, Kate, Shaun, and John accidentally cause the collapse of one of the walls of the Research Team's building, it falls in such a away that they're all standing where the window was - except for [[HardHead John]], who breaks through it unharmed.
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* LoveDodecahedron: John likes Kate, who can't stand him. Patrick has a crush on Emilico, and Sean may either like Emilico too or see her as a little sister, while she remains oblivious to both. Lou apparently likes Ricky, and Kate and Emilico share a close PseudoRomanticFriendship.

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The manga began serialization in the {{seinen}} manga magazine ''[[Magazine/ShonenJump Weekly Young Jump]]'' in 2018, and is ongoing. In December 2021 Creator/YenPress announced it had licensed the manga for release in North America, with the first volume released in June 2022.

An animated adaptation was announced in 2020, premiering in April 2021, with a second season announced in September 2021.

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The manga began serialization in the {{seinen}} manga magazine ''[[Magazine/ShonenJump Weekly Young Jump]]'' in 2018, and is ongoing. In December 2021 Creator/YenPress announced it had licensed the manga for release in North America, with the first volume released in June July 2022.

An animated adaptation was announced in 2020, premiering in April 2021, with a second season announced in September 2021.2021 and premiering in July 2022.



* WhamLine: The final line of chapter 106, which flips everything we thought we knew about [[spoiler:Kate and the Shadows House itself]] on its head.
--> [[spoiler:'''Kate:''' ''"My name is Kate Mirror. I came here in order to take back the Mirrors House."'']]

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* WhamLine: WhamLine:
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The final line of chapter 106, which flips everything we thought we knew about [[spoiler:Kate and the Shadows House itself]] on its head.
--> ---> [[spoiler:'''Kate:''' ''"My name is Kate Mirror. I came here in order to take back the Mirrors House."'']]"'']]
** Thomas [[spoiler:revealing how Barbara's kept producing soot]] in chapter 136:
---> [[spoiler:'''Thomas:''' "Giving her poison and calling it a medicine for her wound was the correct choice! Wahahaha! This is how adults do things!"]]
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A PM brought up Shaun commenting on the effect coffee has on Shadows, which I had taken for speculation on his part but has left me doubting whether I'm right, so I'm placing this back with the comment mentioned.

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* AlienCatnip: Suzanne and John loosen up a lot after drinking coffee in Chapter 125, prompting Shaun to wonder if they're drunk on it, and comes to the conclusion over-drinking coffee has an euphoric effect on Shadows.
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This is false, normal coffee has the same effect on Shadows as it does humans, namely the stimulating effects of caffeine, and also like with humans how much they're effected varies; the "special coffee" does nothing.


* AlienCatnip: Coffee has an euphoric effect on Shadows, akin to alcohol for humans.
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* SmugSnake: Patrick looks down on the other shadows and boasts how Ricky is obviously the best face among them, but when they're separated for the final part of the trial, [[BreakTheHaughty he starts to panic and his thoughts reveal him to be fairly insecure]]. Despite that he still goes out of his way to help Lou and she gives him her shears afterwards to let him cut through the hedge maze.

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* SmugSnake: Patrick looks down on the other shadows and boasts how Ricky is obviously the best face among them, but when they're separated for the final part of the trial, [[BreakTheHaughty he starts to panic and his thoughts reveal him to be fairly insecure]]. Despite that he still goes out of his way to help Lou and she gives him her shears afterwards to let him cut through the hedge maze.
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* SmugSnake: Patrick looks down on the other shadows and boasts how Ricky is obviously the best face among them, but when they're separated for the final part of the trial, [[BreakTheHaughty he starts to panic and his thoughts reveal him to be fairly insecure]].

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* SmugSnake: Patrick looks down on the other shadows and boasts how Ricky is obviously the best face among them, but when they're separated for the final part of the trial, [[BreakTheHaughty he starts to panic and his thoughts reveal him to be fairly insecure]]. Despite that he still goes out of his way to help Lou and she gives him her shears afterwards to let him cut through the hedge maze.

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* BigFancyHouse: The Shadows House is a gigantic mansion composed of two large buildings, each of which consists of many rooms and halls.



* TheBlank: The Shadows look like nothing so much as living silhouettes with clothes and hair decorations.

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* TheBlank: The Shadows look like nothing so much as more than living silhouettes with clothes and hair decorations.
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* AlienCatnip: Coffee has an euphoric effect on Shadows, akin to alcohol for humans.
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The manga was originally published in the {{seinen}} manga magazine ''[[Magazine/ShonenJump Weekly Young Jump]]'' since 2018, and is ongoing. In December 2021 Creator/YenPress announced it had licensed the manga for release in North America, with the first volume released in June 2022.

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The manga was originally published began serialization in the {{seinen}} manga magazine ''[[Magazine/ShonenJump Weekly Young Jump]]'' since in 2018, and is ongoing. In December 2021 Creator/YenPress announced it had licensed the manga for release in North America, with the first volume released in June 2022.
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* GothicHorror: The story has many hallmarks of this genre, having a dark, mysterious atmosphere and taking place in a [[BigFancyHouse shadowy European mansion]] where mysterious beings made of soot are served by children they refer to as "Living Dolls". Main character Emilico and her assigned mistress Kate soon realize that things are not what they seem, and they gradually uncover several dark secrets hidden by the inhabitants of the mansion.
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The manga was originally published in the {{seinen}} manga magazine ''[[Magazine/ShonenJump Weekly Young Jump]]'' since 2018, and is ongoing. In December 2021 Creator/YenPress announced it had licensed the manga for release in North America, with first volume released in June 2022.

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The manga was originally published in the {{seinen}} manga magazine ''[[Magazine/ShonenJump Weekly Young Jump]]'' since 2018, and is ongoing. In December 2021 Creator/YenPress announced it had licensed the manga for release in North America, with the first volume released in June 2022.

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The manga was originally published in the {{seinen}} manga magazine ''[[Magazine/ShonenJump Weekly Young Jump]]'' since 2018, and is ongoing. An animated adaptation was announced in 2020, premiering in April 2021, with a second season announced in September 2021.

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The manga was originally published in the {{seinen}} manga magazine ''[[Magazine/ShonenJump Weekly Young Jump]]'' since 2018, and is ongoing. In December 2021 Creator/YenPress announced it had licensed the manga for release in North America, with first volume released in June 2022.

An animated adaptation was announced in 2020, premiering in April 2021, with a second season announced in September 2021.

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* DramaticIrony: When [[spoiler:initially confronted with Living Doll Emilico, Kate wishes she'd got her name when they first met, so she could help her start to remember, unaware Emilico didn't ''have'' a name then]].



** Chapter 107 begins an arc about [[spoiler:Kate's]] origins.
* WrongAssumption: [[spoiler:Kate assumed Emilico had come from one of the villages that supply Shadows House with Living Dolls, and told her as much. As it turned out, she hadn't; she'd come from a traveling circus.]]

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** Chapter Chapters 107 begins an arc about to 114 recount [[spoiler:Kate's]] origins.
* WrongAssumption: [[spoiler:Kate assumed Emilico had come from one of the villages that supply Shadows House
origins, overlapping with Living Dolls, and told her as much. As it turned out, she hadn't; she'd come from a traveling circus.]][[spoiler:the debutante class's story]].
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-> [[spoiler:'''Kate:''' ''"My name is Kate Mirror. I came here in order to take back the Mirrors House."'']]

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-> --> [[spoiler:'''Kate:''' ''"My name is Kate Mirror. I came here in order to take back the Mirrors House."'']]
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* NonstandardCharacterDesign: In contrast to all of the other Living Dolls, Barbie has a feral, fanged appearance.

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* NonstandardCharacterDesign: In contrast to all of the other Living Dolls, Barbie has a feral, fanged appearance.appearance with a large scar on her forehead. [[spoiler:Barbie was badly injured when in one of Barbara's soot explosion at close range, which is why the latter is temporarily disqualified to be an adult.]]

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The manga was originally published in the {{seinen}} manga magazine ''[[Magazine/ShonenJump Weekly Young Jump]]'' since 2018, and is ongoing. An animated adaptation was announced in 2020, premiering in April 2021.

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The manga was originally published in the {{seinen}} manga magazine ''[[Magazine/ShonenJump Weekly Young Jump]]'' since 2018, and is ongoing. An animated adaptation was announced in 2020, premiering in April 2021, with a second season announced in September 2021.



* AdaptedOut: The Robe doesn't appear in episode 4, which adapts the mini-arc that first introduced them. Rum instead gets spooked by the appearance of a faceless doll, which sends her running away.



* AdaptationalLateAppearance: The Robe doesn't appear in episode 4, which adapts the mini-arc that first introduced them; Rum instead gets spooked by the appearance of a faceless doll, which sends her running away. The announcement video for S2 reveals they'll be debuting there.



* {{Bifauxnen}}: The shadow Maryrose wears a frilly shirt and breeches unlike the fancy dresses favored by the other female Shadows, many of whom think she's cool.

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* {{Bifauxnen}}: The shadow Shadow Maryrose wears a frilly shirt and breeches unlike the fancy dresses favored by the other female Shadows, many of whom think she's cool.



* CastHerd: You take your cast and multiply by two because they all come in pairs of Living Doll/shadow. But each Living Doll and shadow are part of at least one team/clique; and if you know one of either the Living Doll or Shadow, you can remember their other pairing.

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* CastHerd: You take your cast and multiply by two because they all come in pairs of Living Doll/shadow. Doll/Shadow. But each Living Doll and shadow Shadow are part of at least one team/clique; and if you know one of either the Living Doll or Shadow, you can remember their other pairing.



* DecadentCourt: The adult Shadows, and even some of the younger ones like Sara and Patrick, get up to a lot of scheming in their efforts to be favored by the Great-Grandfather of the mansion. 'Weak' or disloyal shadows are implied to be weeded out quite often, mostly through the debut trials.

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* DecadentCourt: The adult Shadows, and even some of the younger ones like Sara and Patrick, get up to a lot of scheming in their efforts to be favored by the Great-Grandfather of the mansion. 'Weak' or disloyal shadows Shadows are implied to be weeded out quite often, mostly through the debut trials.



* GeckoEnding: From episode 11 the story goes on anime-original route so to not end the season in the middle of a quite large arc, though it's made in a way that if the second season gets approved it can continue where it left off in the manga.

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* GeckoEnding: From episode 11 the story goes on an anime-original route so to not end the season in the middle of a quite large arc, though it's made in a way that if allows the second season gets approved it can to continue where it left off in the manga.



* HumanoidAbomination: The Shadows, of course. They’re [[spoiler:sapient soot who mimic other living beings, such as humans, and ultimately absorb/merge the living being they're copying.]]

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* HumanoidAbomination: The Shadows, of course. They’re [[spoiler:sapient soot who mimic other living beings, such as humans, and ultimately can absorb/merge the living being they're copying.]]



* SignificantDoubleCasting: Kate and Emilico notably avert this in the anime, being the only Shadow-Living Doll pair to not share a voice between them. [[spoiler:Later chapters that were published following the anime's completion reveal that Kate isn't a Morph mimicking a human like the other Shadows, but rather is her own being separate from Emilico.]]

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* SignificantDoubleCasting: Kate and Emilico notably avert this in the anime, being the only Shadow-Living Doll pair to not share a voice between them. [[spoiler:Later chapters that were published following the anime's first season's completion reveal that Kate isn't a Morph mimicking a human like the other Shadows, but rather is her own being separate from Emilico.]]



* WholeEpisodeFlashback: Chapters 75 to 77 feature Barbara and Maryrose's flashbacks to when they were debutantes, illuminating certain aspects of current events.

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Chapters 75 to 77 feature Barbara and Maryrose's flashbacks to when they were debutantes, illuminating certain aspects of current events.events.
** Chapters 103 to 106 have [[spoiler:the debutante class remember how they first met Emilico]].
** Chapter 107 begins an arc about [[spoiler:Kate's]] origins.
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* SignificantDoubleCasting: Kate and Emilico notably avert this in the anime, being the only Shadow-Living Doll pair to not share a voice between them. [[spoiler:Later chapters that were published following the anime's completion reveal that Kate isn't a Morph mimicking a human like the other Shadows, but rather is her own being separate from Emilico.]]
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* ChaosArchitecture: It's subtle if you aren't paying attention, but the layout of the Children's Building has shifted dramatically over the course of the series. Notably, the view from Kate's room in Chapter 7, including the vantage from which Emilico sees Barbie and Barbara walking on the bridge, is impossible given the current layout seen in maps.

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* ChaosArchitecture: It's subtle if you aren't paying attention, but the layout of the Children's Building has shifted dramatically over the course of the series. Notably, the view from Kate's room in Chapter 7, including the vantage from which Emilico sees Barbie and Barbara walking on the bridge, is impossible given the current layout seen in more recent maps.
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*ChaosArchitecture: It's subtle if you aren't paying attention, but the layout of the Children's Building has shifted dramatically over the course of the series. Notably, the view from Kate's room in Chapter 7, including the vantage from which Emilico sees Barbie and Barbara walking on the bridge, is impossible given the current layout seen in maps.
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* FunnyBackgroundEvent: During chapter 59, while the gang is mapping out the gardens of the Children's Building, there are several panels where John can be seen picking up a stick and playing with it in the background.

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