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* InnocentCohabitation: The rule against Shin going into the women's rooms heavily implies this is expected.
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* UndignifiedDeath: [[spoiler:As Yuki is slowly choked to death by Sunako, Midori comments in her TheReasonYouSuckSpeech on her pathetic terrified face since she isn't prepared to die, unlike Minami who could FaceDeathWithDignity when Yuki had her murdered (Midori correctly assumes so since she didn't see it herself)]].

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* UndignifiedDeath: [[spoiler:As Yuki is slowly choked to death by Sunako, Midori comments in her TheReasonYouSuckSpeech on her pathetic terrified face since she isn't prepared to die, unlike Minami who (Midori correctly assumes) could FaceDeathWithDignity when Yuki had her murdered (Midori correctly assumes so since she didn't see it herself)]].murdered]].
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* UndignifiedDeath: [[spoiler:As Yuki is slowly choked to death by Sunako, Midori comments in her TheReasonYouSuckSpeech on her pathetic terrified face since she isn't prepared to die, unlike Minami who could FaceDeathWithDignity when Yuki had her murdered (Midori correctly assumes so since she didn't see it herself)]].

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* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler:Shin starts as a novelist struggling with both his writing and his mother's murder by his own father. Two of the women he's closest to are murdered and his house was burnt to the ground. In the end, he's a successful writer with a loving girlfriend in Hitomi]].



* ShrineToTheFallen: With three deaths in the backstory and more happening within the series, plenty show up. Those to Shin's mother, the the policeman Shin's father killed and [[spoiler:Nanaka]]'s are seen several times.

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* ShrineToTheFallen: With three deaths in the backstory and more happening within the series, plenty show up. Those to Shin's mother, the the policeman Shin's father killed and [[spoiler:Nanaka]]'s are seen several times.
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* TheJailBaitWait: Midori is seventeen, so this is pointed out as a issue when she makes a move on Shin.
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* FirstEpisodeSpoiler: The fact that Shin's father killed three people and is on death row for the murders is revealed at the end of the first episode and is an essential part of the plot.

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* FirstEpisodeSpoiler: FirstEpisodeTwist: The fact that Shin's father killed three people and is on death row for the murders is revealed at the end of the first episode and is an essential part of the plot.
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Shin Michima is a writer struggling to finish his current novel. For the past six months, he has been renting his house to five women:

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Shin Michima (Yojiro Noda of RADWIMPS fame) is a writer struggling to finish his current novel. For the past six months, he has been renting his house to five women:
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* WalkingSpoiler: It's difficult to discuss anything about the five women without giving away spoilers about them.
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* PromotedFangirl: [[invoked]] Hitomi is the daughter of a famous writer and one of the biggest bookworms around, so [[spoiler:being allowed to take part in voting for the winner of a major literature award]] qualifies as this for her.

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* PromotedFangirl: [[invoked]] PromotedFanboy: {{Invoked}}. Hitomi is the daughter of a famous writer and one of the biggest bookworms around, so [[spoiler:being allowed to take part in voting for the winner of a major literature award]] qualifies as this for her.

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Total strangers to each other, they were invited by mail by some person supposedly unknown to all of them to come live with Shin in exchange for a monthly rent of 1.000.000 yen. They live under four rules:

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Total strangers to each other, they were invited by mail by some person supposedly unknown to all of them to come live with Shin in exchange for a monthly rent of 1.000.000 1,000,000 yen. They live under four rules:



As Shin struggles to cope with recent tragedies in his own life and the women, as well as his publicist, Seiji Sakurai, try to help him in their own ways, a series of events begins to unfold that will change their life together forever.

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As Shin struggles to cope with recent tragedies in his own life life, and as the women, as well as women and his publicist, publicist Seiji Sakurai, Sakurai try to help him in their own ways, a series of events begins to unfold that will change their life together forever.
forever.

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* BreakingTheFellowship: [[spoiler:After Shin's house burns down with Minami inside, Shin and the remaining three women agree to part ways]].



* CaptainErsatz: During the casting for the drama adaptation of Yuzu's book, the name "Masumi Arimura" is repeatedly mentioned. The name is just one syllable away from that of real-life Japanese actress Kasumi Arimura.



* DrivingQuestion: Who are the five women? And who invited them?
* DwindlingParty: [[spoiler:Nanaka, Minami and Yuki all die in the last third of the series]]

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* DrivingQuestion: Who are the five women? Why are they involved with Shin's life? And who invited them?
* DwindlingParty: [[spoiler:Nanaka, Minami and Yuki all die in the last third of the series]]series]].



* EvenEvilHasStandards: Shin's father, while completely remorseless for killing his wife and her lover, feels genuinely sorry for the police officer he killed in a fit of rage and frequently writes to his mother.

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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Shin's father, while completely remorseless for killing his wife and her lover, feels genuinely sorry for the police officer he killed in a fit of rage and frequently writes to his the dead policeman's mother.



* ExtremeDoormat: Midori, who initially regularly gets shaken down for money by her [[spoiler:former foster brother.]]
* FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler:Minami. Despite being burned alive, she is never seen losing her composure.]]
* FalseConfession: One happened for [[spoiler:Nanka's murder]]. It quickly becomes clear that the real muderer coerced the confessor into it so there would be an official culpirt, while most of the character quickly saw the holes in the scenario.

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* ExtremeDoormat: Midori, who initially regularly gets shaken down for money by her [[spoiler:former foster brother.]]
brother]]. She gets better, though.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler:Minami. Despite being burned alive, she is never seen losing her composure.]]
composure]].
* FalseConfession: One happened for [[spoiler:Nanka's [[spoiler:Nanaka's murder]]. It quickly becomes clear that the real muderer murderer coerced the confessor into it so there would be an official culpirt, culprit, while most of the character characters quickly saw the holes in the scenario.



*** Nanaka arrives with sunglasses hanging from her collar and wearing a large straw hat. She later turns out to be an in-story celebrity.

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*** Nanaka arrives with sunglasses hanging from her collar and wearing a large straw hat. She later turns out to be an in-story a world-renowned celebrity.



** While reading tabloid saying something she doesn't like about her, Minami rants that she's going to "burn that place down". [[spoiler:She dies from burning down along with Shin's house.]]
** In a moment of being mad at Shin, Hitomi whishes for him to die three times. [[spoiler:Three of the women die after that.]]

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** While reading tabloid saying something she doesn't like about her, Minami rants that she's going to "burn that place down". [[spoiler:She dies from burning down along with Shin's house.]]
house]].
** In a moment of being mad at Shin, Hitomi whishes wishes for him to die three times. [[spoiler:Three of the women die after that.]]



* KillTheCutie: [[spoiler:Nanaka.]] This was also the intended fate for [[spoiler:Midori.]]

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* KillTheCutie: [[spoiler:Nanaka.]] [[spoiler:Nanaka]]. This was also the intended fate for [[spoiler:Midori.]][[spoiler:Midori]].



* OrphanageOfLove: Desconstructed. [[spoiler:Midori]]'s orphanage was run more like a foster home, complete with the couple running it making it a rule to be called "mom" and "dad" and for the children to treat each other like siblings. Possibly due to having been abandonned by her actual parents, she never liked the setup, considered it an abnormal upbringing, and couldn't wait to leave the place. The only person there she considered anything close to an actual relative was an older boy who had been asked to show her around upon her arrival.
* ParentalIncest: [[spoiler:Minami was sexually abused by her father when she was a child.]]

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* OrphanageOfLove: Desconstructed.Deconstructed. [[spoiler:Midori]]'s orphanage was run more like a foster home, complete with the couple running it making it a rule to be called "mom" and "dad" and for the children to treat each other like siblings. Possibly due to having been abandonned abandoned by her actual parents, she never liked the setup, considered it an abnormal upbringing, and couldn't wait to leave the place. The only person there she considered anything close to an actual relative was an older boy who had been asked to show her around upon her arrival.
* ParentalIncest: [[spoiler:Minami was sexually abused by her father when she was a child.]]child]].



* SinsOfOurFathers: At the beginning, Shin gets harassed through his fax machine for the murders his father committed, and it's generally played as the "being unfair towards the child" variation. However, the fact that his father is a muderer later benefits Shin in the form of [[spoiler:making his latest book a best-seller]], which the sender of the faxes considers to be inacceptable.

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* SinsOfOurFathers: At the beginning, Shin gets harassed through his fax machine for the murders his father committed, and it's generally played as the "being unfair towards the child" variation. However, the fact that his father is a muderer murderer later benefits Shin in the form of [[spoiler:making his latest book a best-seller]], which the sender of the faxes considers to be inacceptable.unacceptable.



* TheStoic: You've gotta hand it Shin, he takes everything that happens to him in the series with remarkable grace.

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* TheStoic: You've gotta hand it to Shin, he takes everything that happens to him in the series with remarkable grace.



* ThereIsOnlyOneBed: [[spoiler:When Hitomi moves in with Shin, thanks to the tiny appartment he moved into after the house burned down.]]

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* ThereIsOnlyOneBed: [[spoiler:When Hitomi moves in with Shin, thanks to the tiny appartment apartment he moved into after the house burned down.]]down]].



* WritersBlock: Shin is suffering from this in the beginning of the series; understandable, given his family situation.

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* WritersBlock: Shin is suffering from this in the beginning of the series; understandable, given his family situation.situation.

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Total strangers to each other, they were invited by mail by some person supposedly unknown to all of them to come live with Shin in exchange for a monthly rent of 1.000.000 yen per month. They live under four rules:

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Total strangers to each other, they were invited by mail by some person supposedly unknown to all of them to come live with Shin in exchange for a monthly rent of 1.000.000 yen per month.yen. They live under four rules:
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* DeathOfAChild: Invoked, but ultimately averted. The means used to kill [[spoiler:Minami]] were initially intended for [[spoiler:Midori]]. The killer considers that the latter being still a minor would have caused her death to attract more public attention than the older actual victim.

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* DeathOfAChild: Invoked, but ultimately averted. The means used to kill [[spoiler:Minami]] were initially intended for [[spoiler:Midori]]. The killer considers that the latter still being still a minor would have caused her death to attract more public attention than the older actual victim.

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