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* AttentionWhore: Hann gradually becomes this in "Social Love", continuing to fake a relationship with Nanno because of the clout and the attention it brings him.

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Hann gradually becomes this in "Social Love", continuing to fake a relationship with Nanno because of the clout and the attention it brings him.him.
** The principal of Lerdvidthi School in "Trophy" counts as one as well. Even when [[spoiler: Mew paints a genuinely bad piece of art on stage proving that she did not create the paintings she said she did, and a student from the school of the real artist Mew plagiarized from exposes what she did, the principal completely ignores the cold hard facts in favor of the attention Mew's "art skills" bring him and his school.]]



* LiteralGenie: In form of the, well, bathroom stall wall in the Wonderwall episodes. Writing anything on it will make it come true. This, of course, does ''not'' end well.

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* LiteralGenie: In form of the, well, bathroom stall wall in the Wonderwall episodes. Writing anything on it will make it come true. This, of course, does ''not'' end well.As you might expect, things go horribly wrong.



* PlagiarismInFiction: The central theme of "Trophy". Mew feels invisible, untalented and as if everyone is better than her at her school, which praises and elevates talented visionaries and geniuses. Nanno tells her to plagiarize art off the internet and claim it as her own, which she does, putting her in the spotlight at school.



* SelfHarm: [[spoiler: In "Trophy", when Mew is asked to create a piece of art on-stage as part of an open house program at school, she ''bashes her own dominant hand with a hammer'' in order to get out of it and blames Pui as the one who did it. Spoiler alert, it doesn't get her out of it due to posting on social media prior that she supposedly can draw with her non-dominant hand.]]

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* SelfHarm: [[spoiler: In "Trophy", when Mew is asked to create a piece of art on-stage as part of an open house program at school, she ''bashes her own dominant hand with a hammer'' in order to get out of it and blames Pui as the one who did it. Spoiler alert, it doesn't get her out of it due to [[ChekhovsSkill posting on social media prior that she supposedly can draw with her non-dominant hand.]]]]]]
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* AttentionWhore: Hann gradually becomes this, continuing to fake a relationship with Nanno because of the clout and the attention it brings him.

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* AttentionWhore: Hann gradually becomes this, this in "Social Love", continuing to fake a relationship with Nanno because of the clout and the attention it brings him.
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''Girl From Nowhere'' is a Thai [[PsychologicalHorror psychological horror]] [[GenreAnthology anthology series]] that aired on GMM 25 and is available outside of Thailand through {{Creator/Netflix}}. It stars Chicha Amatayakul as Nanno, a mysterious, clever girl who transfers to different schools, exposing the lies and misdeeds of the students and faculty at every turn.

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''Girl From Nowhere'' is a 2018 Thai [[PsychologicalHorror psychological horror]] [[GenreAnthology anthology series]] that aired on GMM 25 and is available outside of Thailand through {{Creator/Netflix}}. It stars Chicha Amatayakul as Nanno, a mysterious, clever girl who transfers to different schools, exposing the lies and misdeeds of the students and faculty at every turn.
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* BrokenBird: Ms. Aum in "Thank You Teacher". She's distraught over her husband running away from her and [[spoiler: is abusive towards her young child because of it. The big PlotTwist of the episode is that Ms. Aum was never talking to her son, she's ''hallucinating'' him. [[OffingTheOffspring She killed her son]] shortly after her husband got up and left, and the culmination of all this leads to her shooting up the school assembly and [[DrivenToSuicide shooting herself as well.]]]]

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* BrokenBird: Ms. Aum in "Thank You Teacher". She's distraught over her husband running away from her and [[spoiler: is abusive towards her young child because of it. The big PlotTwist of the episode is that Ms. Aum was never talking to her son, she's ''hallucinating'' him. [[OffingTheOffspring She killed her son]] shortly after her husband got up and left, left,]] and the culmination of all this leads to her shooting up the school assembly [[spoiler: and [[DrivenToSuicide shooting herself as well.]]]]

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* BrokenBird: Ms. Aum in "Thank You Teacher". She's distraught over her husband running away from her and [[spoiler: is abusive towards her young child because of it. The big PlotTwist of the episode is that Ms. Aum was never talking to her son, she's ''hallucinating'' him. [[OffingTheOffspring She killed her son]] shortly after her husband got up and left, and the culmination of all this leads to her shooting up the school assembly and [[DrivenToSuicide shooting herself as well.]]]]



* ParentalNeglect: The reason TK shoplifts and causes trouble is to get the attention of his absent father.
* RiseOfZitboy: In "The Rank", Ying gains acne after eating chocolate and falls out of the Top 10 beauties. Desperate to get back in, she tries multiple beauty products and sabotages other girls to make herself seem more beautiful in comparison.

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* ParentalNeglect: The reason TK shoplifts and causes trouble in "Lost & Found" is to get the attention of his absent father.
* RiseOfZitboy: In "The Rank", Ying gains acne after eating chocolate and falls out of the Top 10 beauties. Desperate to get back in, in (and take her revenge on Nanno, who outranked her), she tries multiple beauty products and sabotages other girls to make herself seem more beautiful in comparison.

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The series has been renewed for a second season. NeedsWikiMagicLove.

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The series has been was renewed for a second season.season in August of 2020. NeedsWikiMagicLove.


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* AttentionWhore: Hann gradually becomes this, continuing to fake a relationship with Nanno because of the clout and the attention it brings him.


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* DenserAndWackier: The premise of "The Rank" is more PlayedForLaughs than anything else.


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* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: Nanno fits this to a tee.
* EverybodysDeadDave: [[spoiler: After the entire school chases Bam when she goes to erase all the writing off the cubicle wall in "Wonderwall, Part 2", she finds out the writing is unable to be erased and instead writes that she wishes everyone would disappear to make them stop bombarding her. Everyone does... that is, everyone ''in the entire world''. Bam is the only one left and the episode ends with her desperately calling out if anyone's there to an empty campus.]]


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* ParentalNeglect: The reason TK shoplifts and causes trouble is to get the attention of his absent father.

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* SelfHarm: [[spoiler: When Mew is asked to create a piece of art on-stage as part of an open house program at school, she ''bashes her own dominant hand with a hammer'' in order to get out of it and blames Pui as the one who did it. Spoiler alert, it doesn't get her out of it due to posting on social media prior that she supposedly can draw with her non-dominant hand.]]

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* RiseOfZitboy: In "The Rank", Ying gains acne after eating chocolate and falls out of the Top 10 beauties. Desperate to get back in, she tries multiple beauty products and sabotages other girls to make herself seem more beautiful in comparison.
* SelfHarm: [[spoiler: When In "Trophy", when Mew is asked to create a piece of art on-stage as part of an open house program at school, she ''bashes her own dominant hand with a hammer'' in order to get out of it and blames Pui as the one who did it. Spoiler alert, it doesn't get her out of it due to posting on social media prior that she supposedly can draw with her non-dominant hand.]]
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''Girl From Nowhere'' is a Thai thriller/psychological horror [[GenreAnthology anthology series]] that aired on GMM 25 and is available outside of Thailand through {{Creator/Netflix}}. It stars Chicha Amatayakul as Nanno, a mysterious, clever girl who transfers to different schools, exposing the lies and misdeeds of the students and faculty at every turn.

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''Girl From Nowhere'' is a Thai thriller/psychological horror [[PsychologicalHorror psychological horror]] [[GenreAnthology anthology series]] that aired on GMM 25 and is available outside of Thailand through {{Creator/Netflix}}. It stars Chicha Amatayakul as Nanno, a mysterious, clever girl who transfers to different schools, exposing the lies and misdeeds of the students and faculty at every turn.
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''Girl From Nowhere'' is a Thai thriller [[{{Anthology}} anthology series]] that aired on GMM 25 and is available outside of Thailand through {{Creator/Netflix}}. It stars Chicha Amatayakul as Nanno, a mysterious, clever girl who transfers to different schools, exposing the lies and misdeeds of the students and faculty at every turn.

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''Girl From Nowhere'' is a Thai thriller [[{{Anthology}} thriller/psychological horror [[GenreAnthology anthology series]] that aired on GMM 25 and is available outside of Thailand through {{Creator/Netflix}}. It stars Chicha Amatayakul as Nanno, a mysterious, clever girl who transfers to different schools, exposing the lies and misdeeds of the students and faculty at every turn.
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''Girl From Nowhere'' is a Thai thriller [[Anthology anthology series]] that aired on GMM 25 and is available outside of Thailand through {{Creator/Netflix}}. It stars Chicha Amatayakul as Nanno, a mysterious, clever girl who transfers to different schools, exposing the lies and misdeeds of the students and faculty at every turn.

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''Girl From Nowhere'' is a Thai thriller [[Anthology [[{{Anthology}} anthology series]] that aired on GMM 25 and is available outside of Thailand through {{Creator/Netflix}}. It stars Chicha Amatayakul as Nanno, a mysterious, clever girl who transfers to different schools, exposing the lies and misdeeds of the students and faculty at every turn.

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A mysterious, clever girl named Nanno transfers to different schools, exposing the lies and misdeeds of the students and faculty at every turn.

Stars Chicha Amatayakul as the main lead, Nanno.

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A ''Girl From Nowhere'' is a Thai thriller [[Anthology anthology series]] that aired on GMM 25 and is available outside of Thailand through {{Creator/Netflix}}. It stars Chicha Amatayakul as Nanno, a mysterious, clever girl named Nanno who transfers to different schools, exposing the lies and misdeeds of the students and faculty at every turn.

Stars Chicha Amatayakul as the main lead, Nanno.
The series has been renewed for a second season. NeedsWikiMagicLove.


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* BungledSuicide: [[spoiler: Due to Bam wishing the school janitor would die and writing about it on the cubicle wall, "Wonderwall, Part 1" ends with the janitor hung in front of the school for the entire student body to see.]]


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* SelfHarm: [[spoiler: When Mew is asked to create a piece of art on-stage as part of an open house program at school, she ''bashes her own dominant hand with a hammer'' in order to get out of it and blames Pui as the one who did it. Spoiler alert, it doesn't get her out of it due to posting on social media prior that she supposedly can draw with her non-dominant hand.]]
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* SlidingScaleOfBeauty: The all-girls school in "The Rank" uses a system to rank its students based beauty. It's treated like somewhat of a caste system, [[TheBeautifulElite with the top ten students being treated like the elite or royalty]], living in a pristine mansion while other students have to deal with sub-par living conditions. Being fat is also treated as unbeautiful, with Chompoo, a plus-sized student, being in the lower ranks and treated like a lower lifeform by others. Only when she gets surgery to lose weight that she rises up the ranks. This, of course, satirizes how much our society values outward appearance versus what's inside.

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* SlidingScaleOfBeauty: The all-girls school in "The Rank" uses a system to rank its students based on beauty. It's treated like somewhat of a caste system, [[TheBeautifulElite with the top ten students being treated like the elite or royalty]], living in a pristine mansion while other students have to deal with sub-par living conditions. Being fat is also treated as unbeautiful, with Chompoo, a plus-sized student, being in the lower ranks and treated like a lower lifeform by others. [[spoiler: Only when she gets surgery to lose weight that she rises up the ranks. ranks.]] This, of course, satirizes how much our society values outward appearance versus what's inside.

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* CuteSportsClubManager: Nanno becomes this to the soccer players when she becomes their new manager in "Wonderwall, Part 1". This infuriates Bam, the other manager who is seen as more of a nuisance to the players than helpful.



* HowWeGotHere: "Thank You Teacher" opens with Ms. Aum shooting up a school assembly. The rest of the episode reveals how we got to that point.



* MockMillionare: In "Hi-So", Dino is believed to be the richest kid in school but is actually quite poor. He ends up renting a mansion from Nanno in order to keep up the charade and fool his spoiled rich friends.

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* MockMillionare: MockMillionaire: In "Hi-So", Dino is believed to be the richest kid in school but is actually quite poor. He ends up renting a mansion from Nanno in order to keep up the charade and fool his spoiled rich friends.


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* ShipperOnDeck: The entire school for Hanno, the pairing between Hann and Nanno in "Social Love". It seems harmless if a bit extreme at first, but it's soon taken UpToEleven very, very quickly.
* SlidingScaleOfBeauty: The all-girls school in "The Rank" uses a system to rank its students based beauty. It's treated like somewhat of a caste system, [[TheBeautifulElite with the top ten students being treated like the elite or royalty]], living in a pristine mansion while other students have to deal with sub-par living conditions. Being fat is also treated as unbeautiful, with Chompoo, a plus-sized student, being in the lower ranks and treated like a lower lifeform by others. Only when she gets surgery to lose weight that she rises up the ranks. This, of course, satirizes how much our society values outward appearance versus what's inside.
* SoundtrackDissonance: The school shooting in "Thank You Teacher" is set to cheery Christmas music, since the episode is set around the holiday season and there are Christmas decorations set up everywhere.
* StatusQuoIsGod: [[spoiler: In "Social Love", Nanno falls into a coma after falling off the school rooftop, leaving Hanno to take care of her for the rest of his life. Nanno is A-OK in the next episode, now in a different school as per usual.]]
* TheStoic: Nanno, natch.
** Subverted in the Wonderwall episodes, where she acts nicer and more like a typical high school student. Of course, this still all part of the facade.
** Also subverted in "Lost & Found", a significant episode in that it shows that Nanno is capable of having a heart, and this time, the feelings are genuine.

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* AllJustADream: What everyone at the end of [[spoiler: BFF part 2]] is led to believe, [[spoiler: but then a loop of Nanno cackling at them shows this isn't the case.]]
* AmbiguousEnding: Trap. It's up to the viewer as to [[spoiler: who killed Koh.]]
** The end of Wonderwall part 2.

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* AllJustADream: What everyone at TheAgeless: Whatever Nanno is, she seemingly does not age and forever remains a high school student. This is exemplified in the end of BFF episodes; [[spoiler: BFF part 2]] is led to believe, [[spoiler: but then a loop of Nanno cackling at them was part of the class featured in the episode, but she hasn't grown any older since then when she shows this isn't up at the case.reunion years later.]]
* AmbiguousEnding: Trap. It's up to AllJustADream: [[spoiler:What everyone at the viewer as end of "BFF, Part 2" is led to [[spoiler: who killed Koh.believe, but then a loop of Nanno cackling at them shows this isn't the case.]]
** The end of Wonderwall part 2.* AmbiguousEnding: In "Trap", it's up to the viewer as to [[spoiler: who killed Koh.]]



* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: A semi-running theme on the characters in this show.
** The premise of Wonderwall part 2, as Bam realizes what she's done.

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* BottleEpisode: They venture outside in some scenes, but most of "Trap" takes place within one classroom.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: A semi-running theme on the characters in this show.
** The premise of
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* DeathIsCheap: Best shown in Apologies, but it's shown throughout the series that Nanno won't and can't die.
* DrivenByEnvy: The reason why Taew and I-Tim eventually turn on Nanno in Apologies.

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* DeathIsCheap: Best shown in Apologies, "Apologies", as she's shown coming back to life multiple times in the episode, but it's shown throughout the series that Nanno won't and can't die.
* DrivenByEnvy: The reason why Taew and I-Tim eventually turn on Nanno in Apologies."Apologies".



* LaserGuidedKarma: The premise of the series. Nanno makes sure that her victims get their deserved karma.
** It's especially noticeable in the pilot episode, when [[spoiler: the teacher has sex with Nanno, she asks several times if he's sure he wants to have sex with her, and whether he knows what he's doing is wrong.]]
* LiteralGenie: in Wonderwall.
* MurderByInaction: A poor female student is left to die right outside the classroom in Trap. [[spoiler: Revealed at the end of the episode to not actually be the case, she just had an asthma attack out of fear and fainted.]]

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* {{Expy}}: Nanno is one of {{Manga/Tomie}}.
* LaserGuidedKarma: The premise of the series. Nanno makes sure that her victims get their deserved karma.
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karma. It's especially noticeable in the pilot episode, "The Ugly Truth", when [[spoiler: the teacher Mr. Win has sex with Nanno, she asks several times if he's sure he wants to have sex with her, her and whether he knows what he's doing is wrong.]]
* LighterAndSofter: For a show so dark and disturbing, "Lost & Found" is quite light-hearted in comparison.
* LiteralGenie: In form of the, well, bathroom stall wall in Wonderwall.
the Wonderwall episodes. Writing anything on it will make it come true. This, of course, does ''not'' end well.
* MockMillionare: In "Hi-So", Dino is believed to be the richest kid in school but is actually quite poor. He ends up renting a mansion from Nanno in order to keep up the charade and fool his spoiled rich friends.
* MurderByInaction: A poor female student is left to die right outside the classroom in Trap."Trap". [[spoiler: Revealed at the end of the episode to not actually be the case, she just had an asthma attack out of fear and fainted.]]



** In Thank You Teacher, [[spoiler:it is revealed that Ms. Aum's son has been dead since her husband left them.]]

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** In Thank "Thank You Teacher, Teacher", [[spoiler:it is revealed that Ms. Aum's son has been dead since her husband left them.them (due to her own doing, she kills him shortly after her husband leaves) and is hallucinating him still being with her.]]



* YourCheatingHeart: Revealed to be [[spoiler: Thap]] in the BFF episodes. [[spoiler: Twice! First with Nanno in high school but also with his wife's friend and fellow classmate during present-day.]]

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* YourCheatingHeart: YourCheatingHeart:
** Averted by Hann in "Social Love", saying he'll only fake a relationship with Nanno in public so he and Yui can stay together... [[spoiler: until he doesn't, leaving Yui for Nanno and causing the entire school to antagonize Yui as a result.]]
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Revealed to be [[spoiler: Thap]] in the BFF episodes. [[spoiler: Twice! First with Nanno in high school but also with his wife's friend and fellow classmate during present-day.]]
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* DeathIsCheap: Best shown in Apologies, but it's shown throughout the series that Nanno won't and can't die.
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* BlackAndGrayMorality: With minor exceptions like the first episode, most of the series operates on this. Most of the characters are on varying shades of gray while others are darker. Could arguably also be GreyAndGrayMorality instead in some episodes.
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* YourCheatingHeart: Revealed to be [[spoiler: Fong]] in the BFF episodes. [[spoiler: Twice! First with Nanno in high school but also with his wife's friend and fellow classmate during present-day.]]

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* YourCheatingHeart: Revealed to be [[spoiler: Fong]] Thap]] in the BFF episodes. [[spoiler: Twice! First with Nanno in high school but also with his wife's friend and fellow classmate during present-day.]]

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* DrivenByEnvy: The reason why Taew and I-Tim eventually turn on Nanno in Apologies.
* EvilLaugh: Nanno has a very peculiar cackle that is extremely unnerving.




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* YourCheatingHeart: Revealed to be [[spoiler: Fong]] in the BFF episodes. [[spoiler: Twice! First with Nanno in high school but also with his wife's friend and fellow classmate during present-day.]]
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* AllJustADream: What everyone at the end of [[spoiler: BFF part 2]] is led to believe, [[spoiler: but then a loop of Nanno cackling at them shows this isn't the case.]]


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* LiteralGenie: in Wonderwall.
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** [[spoiler: Wonderwall part 2.]]

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** [[spoiler: The end of Wonderwall part 2.]]
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** In [[spoiler: Thank You Teacher, it is revealed that Ms. Aum's son has been dead since her husband left them.]]

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** In [[spoiler: Thank You Teacher, it [[spoiler:it is revealed that Ms. Aum's son has been dead since her husband left them.]]
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* MurderByInaction: A poor female student is left to die right outside the classroom in Trap. [[spoiler: Revealed at the end of the episode to not actually be the case, she just had an asthma attack out of fear and fainted.]]
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* AmbiguouslyHuman: ''Nanno.'' She looks just like a regular high school girl, and it's never explicitly or even implied as to what she is, but it is extremely clear she isn't human.
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Stars Chicha Amatayakul as the main lead, Nanno.
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* LaserGuidedKarma: The premise of the series. Nanno makes sure that her victims get their deserved karma.
** It's especially noticeable in the pilot episode, when [[spoiler: the teacher has sex with Nanno, she asks several times if he's sure he wants to have sex with her, and whether he knows what he's doing is wrong.]]

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** [[spoiler: wonderwall part 2.]]

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** [[spoiler: wonderwall Wonderwall part 2.]]

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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: The premise of Wonderwall part 2.

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* AmbiguousEnding: Trap. It's up to the viewer as to [[spoiler: who killed Koh.]]
** [[spoiler: wonderwall part 2.]]
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: A semi-running theme on the characters in this show.
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The premise of Wonderwall part 2.2, as Bam realizes what she's done.




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** The case with the BFF episodes. [[spoiler: The first half of part 2 is Nanno revealing what actually happened during her school days, vs what was told in part 1.]]
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishedFor: The premise of Wonderwall part 2.

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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishedFor: BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: The premise of Wonderwall part 2.
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A mysterious, clever girl named Nanno transfers to different schools, exposing the lies and misdeeds of the students and faculty at every turn.

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!! This series provides examples of:
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishedFor: The premise of Wonderwall part 2.
* UnreliableNarrator:
**In [[spoiler: Thank You Teacher, it is revealed that Ms. Aum's son has been dead since her husband left them.]]

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