Line #1 Manga/MigiAndDali


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3	''Migi & Dali'' (ミギとダリ, ''Migi to Dari'') is a mystery manga series as well as the final work of Nami Sano before her death. The series was serialized in the manga magazine ''Harta'' and ran from 2017 to 2021.
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5	Set in 1990, the story begins with the Sonoyamas, an elderly couple from Origon Village, adopting a beautiful and good-natured boy by the name of Hitori. However, the boy has a secret. As it turns out, Hitori is actually a pair of twins--[[ProtagonistTitle Migi and Dali]]--pretending to be one person in order to find their mother's murderer, who also lives in the village.
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7	An anime adaptation was made by Geek Toys and [=CompTown=] and began airing in October of 2023.
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9	!!The series includes the following tropes:
10	* AccidentalMurder: [[spoiler: On the night she died, Metry was trying to get a 5-year old Eiji back and reunite him with his brothers. However, he didn't recognize her and pushed her away, causing her to fall to her death.]]
11	* AdultsAreUseless: Averted in Micchan's case as she saves Migi and Dali's lives multiple times throughout the story [[spoiler: with her final time being as a ghost.]]
12	* BabyBeMine: [[spoiler: Reiko Ichijou is actually infertile so when Metry gave birth, she took Eiji away from her as he resembled his father the most.]]
13	* {{Bathos}}: Just because it's a mystery-drama about twin brothers avenging their dead mother does not stop the series from having a lot of goofy over-the-top moments in the mix. After all, the author did previously work on ''Manga/HaventYouHeardImSakamoto''.
14	* BedTrick: [[spoiler:Reiko pushed her maid Metry to have sex with her husband while disguised as her, resulting in the birth of Migi, Dali and Eiji.]]
15	* BigBrotherInstinct: A good way to get on Dali's bad side is to hurt his younger brother Migi.
16	* BigDamnHeroes:
17	** [[spoiler:Reiko is attempting to strangle Dali to death when Micchan comes in and distracts her with dust enough to make her let go of the scarf she's using. After fighting off Reiko with Sardine also helping, Micchan uses this opportunity to free the twins and help them escape.]]
18	** During the final arc. [[spoiler: Reiko has locked her husband, the twins, Karen and Maruta in the secret room and Eiji has decided to set the house on fire in order to commit suicide. Everyone locked in tries to break the door open unsuccessfully but just when all seems hopeless and everyone is about to suffocate, Akiyama manages to break it from the outside.]]
19	* ChekhovsGun: Akiyama's bird suit. During the final arc, he uses it to distract the police so that the twins and Maruta can successfully sneak into the Ichijou household.
20	* CoordinatedClothes: Migi and Dali are shown to always be wearing matching sets of clothes. This is [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] though as they are pretending to be one person and it would be strange if Hitori showed up wearing different clothes than before.
21	* DisguisedInDrag: Dali occasionally dons the disguise of a girl named "Sali".
22	* DistantFinale: The final chapter takes place 3 years later where Migi, Dali, Akiyama and Maruta are still friends.
23	* DubNameChange: The anime changes the twins' fake name to "Solo."
24	* EarnYourHappyEnding: After being orphaned at the age of 5, being ostracized by most of the other kids for coming from an orphanage, [[spoiler: being accused of Micchan's murder and part of Dali's face getting burned, the twins finally get a happy ending when the Sonoyamas eventually find out about them and love and accept them as they are, so they no longer have to pretend to be Hitori. In addition, the murder charges against them are cleared.]]
25	* {{Foil}}: The Sonoyamas and the Ichijous whose families consists of the parents, two children and a dog. While the Sonoyamas come off as bumbling at times, they're HappilyMarried, want Hitori to live a normal happy life, and [[spoiler: after finding out about the twins, love both of them equally.]] The Ichijous on the other hand, appear to be the picture-perfect family on the surface but turn out to have issues of their own. Said issues being Akira having affairs with other women and Reiko's mental instability and obsession with perfection and according to Karen's comments about acting as a hostage for the Be Birds, she feels as though Reiko (greatly) favors Eiji over her. In addition, both families [[spoiler: are adoptive (at least on Reiko's end for the Ichijous) parents for at least one of Metry's children]] but while the Sonoyamas officially adopted Hitori into their family which the twins wanted to happen, [[spoiler: Reiko stole a baby away from his mother and Eiji grew up believing that she was his actual mother.]]
26	* {{Forgiveness}}: [[spoiler: Eventually both of the twins forgive Eiji for accidently killing their mother though it takes Dali a bit more time to do so.]]
27	* GoodParents
28	** When she was still alive, Metry was a loving mother who tried her best to take care of the twins despite their circumstances.
29	** The Sonoyamas are shown to be kind and caring people who want their adopted child to have a happy life. [[spoiler: When they do find out about Migi and Dali, they get both of the boys Christmas presents and love them just as they are.]]
30	* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: What Migi and Dali try to pass Hitori off as, a kind and helpful boy with blonde hair. Though Migi fits this trope a lot more than his brother Dali.
31	* HappilyAdopted: Migi and Dali make Hitori come off as this in front of their adoptive parents and [[spoiler: after the Sonoyamas find out the truth, the twins become this for real.]]
32	* HopeSpot: Micchan is successfully able to help the twins escape death and get out of the Ichijou household and is telling them to go to the police [[spoiler: when Reiko comes up from behind and slits her throat.]]
33	* IdenticalTwinIDTag: Migi and Dali are identical twins, with only their hair bangs being slightly different to help the audience tell them apart. [[spoiler:By the end, Dali's face is scarred in a fire, creating a more obvious distinction between him and Migi.]]
34	* IronicName: "Hitori" means "alone," the obvious joke being that "he" is actually two people. Extends to the English dub, which [[DubNameChange changes the name]] to "Solo."
35	* {{Irony}}: Despite working as a psychiatrist, Akira was completely unaware of his wife's mental instability and in fact made it even worse due to him neglecting her in favor of having affairs with other women.
36	* KidsAreCruel: A lot of the other kids in the story pick on the twins either because they came from an orphanage or because of their poor social skills. The only exceptions to this trope seem to be Akiyama, Karen, Eiji and eventually Maruta.
37	* {{Matricide}}: [[spoiler:Eiji killed his biological mother Metry by accident. After he finds out the truth, he murders his foster mother Reiko, this time willingly.]]
38	* MovingAwayEnding: [[spoiler:The series ends with Dali moving away to go to a specialist school, while Migi stays at Origon Village to become an artist. Despite being separated, Migi knows he and Dali will always be connected in their hearts.]]
39	* NameAndName: The series is about the titular pair of twins, Migi and Dali.
40	* OfficialCouple: By the end of the story, Karen and Maruta become a couple.
41	* {{Revenge}}: Migi and Dali's main goal in the story is to get revenge on the person who murdered their mother.
42	* SanitySlippage: [[spoiler: Reiko used to be fairly sane if a bit of a perfectionist. However, her sanity began to crack after finding out that she's infertile and then it fully goes out the window after she sees that her husband prefers Metry over her.]]
43	* SoundtrackDissonance: In TheStinger for Episode 11 of the anime, [[PublicDomainSoundtrack "Clair de Lune"]] plays as [[spoiler:Eiji murders Reiko.]]
44	* TookALevelInIdealism: Migi starts similar to his brother in terms of personality but becomes more trusting of others as the story goes on.
45	* TricksterTwins: The entire premise is about the twins Migi and Dali deceiving everyone around them by pretending to be one boy through lots of trickery.
46	* TrueCompanions: The time the final arc rolls around, the twins become this with Akiyama and Maruta where they all work together to find out the truth about the Ichijous as well as clear Hitori's name, dubbing their group the Be Birds. During the final chapter which takes place three years later, its shown that all four of them are still good friends.
47	* {{Twincest}}: Migi develops a crush on "Sali", unaware that's actually his twin Dali in drag. [[spoiler:Later on, Eiji also falls for "Sali" and even gets a kiss, which becomes ''really'' awkward when it's revealed Eiji is Migi and Dali's long-lost triplet brother.]]
48	* TwinSwitch: Migi and Dali are twins pretending to be a single boy named "Hitori". They're almost always together, frequently switching places to not let anyone find out their secret.
49	* TwinThemeNaming: Migi and Dali mean "right" and "left" respectively in Japanese.
50	* TwistedChristmas: Migi and Dali's mother was murdered on a Christmas Eve.
51	* WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler: Reiko has no qualms about trying to kill the main characters. There's also the matter of her trying to "re-educate" Hitori and later on Eiji.]]

Context Manga / MigiAndDali