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5	Wakanae Akira wakes up to a normal day on her boring island home, only to learn that a new student is going to be transferring to her class. Much to everyone at her middle school's disappointment, the new kid, Nishigami Matsushirou, turns out to be an incredibly concentrated ball of pure angst. He introduces himself as a shinigami and tells the class that everyone who gets close to him dies.
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7	Nishigami proceeds to alienate his classmates to the best of his ability, but ends up class president alongside Wakanae to their mutual displeasure. However, as they interact, they begin to develop feelings for one another...
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9	[[FirstEpisodeResurrection And then Wakanae dies.]]
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11	''Shindere Shoujo to Kodoku na Shinigami'' ("The Dying[[note]]('Shindere' is one of the -dere forms composed of 'death' and 'sweet', which doesn't exactly lend itself to a proper English translation.)[[/note]] Girl and the Forlorn Death God") is a short-lived manga written by Masaki Himura (under the pen name Yuki Shinkiba) and illustrated by Yoshie Katou. It builds off of a generic premise to become anything but, as Wakanae and Nishigami weave their way through dubious traditions, xenophobic natives, and desperate foreigners in search of the truth behind the island's greatest secret.
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13	The manga began serialization in September 2011 in ''Gangan Online''; however, at the end of March 2013, it was announced that the manga had been put on [[SeriesHiatus indefinite hiatus]], due to Himura coming down with a sudden illness. On September 24, 2015, [[DiedDuringProduction she was reported to have died three months earlier, on June 17.]]
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15	!!This manga provides examples of:
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17	%%* AccidentalKidnapping: Of the mistaken identity variety. [[spoiler:Also leads to a second accidental murder, since they aren't very good at kidnapping.]]
18	* AccidentalMurder: [[spoiler:It turns out that Wakanae's death was a result of Nishigami accidentally pushing her over a railing and off a cliff. Fortunately for them both, she gets better, but not without cost.]]
19	* AccidentalTruth: Nishigami stumbles upon [[spoiler:Touka's hidden identity]] on nothing more than an empty hunch.
20	%%* AmateurSleuth: Nishigami is rapidly developing into this role.
21	* AndNowYouMustMarryMe: One of the perks of being the island's shrine maiden is the right to pick any man for your husband with a 100% success rate.
22	* ArkhamsRazor: [[spoiler:Miko Doctors? Puh-leeze, Touka, that's too damn rational to be true!]]
23	* BerserkButton: Yoroizuka doesn't take kindly to people insinuating that he approves of Lady Hahane or the associated myths.
24	* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:Kuro takes out Jane Doe; Touka saves Wakanae from being taken off the island.]]
25	* BoundAndGagged: Wakanae can't help but wonder why the hell anyone would restrain [[spoiler:a corpse]] so thoroughly.
26	* BroodingBoyGentleGirl: The leads. Nishigami is as brooding as they come (and with good reason, it seems), whereas Wakanae is far too nice to buy into his 'everybody hate me' facade (while being brave enough not to be scared away, unlike Rin).
27	%%* BrutalHonesty: Nishigami doesn't pull verbal punches.
28	* CatchPhrase: Nishigami has "I hate that part of you too", [[{{Tsundere}} usually aimed at Wakanae]].
29	%%* TheCavalry: Itsuki, Anna, and their classmates.
30	%%* ClassRepresentative: Both of them.
31	* ClearTheirName: Wakanae is far from thrilled that Nishigami has fallen under suspicion for a series of disappearances, even though he wasn't even on the island when they started.
32	* CloseKnitCommunity: Since the story takes place in a small island town, ''everyone'' is childhood friends and outsiders are grudgingly tolerated. Naturally, this leads to SmallTownBoredom.
33	* CutShort: The manga ran for only 20 chapters before going on indefinite hiatus due to the writer's illness. She passed away a few years later, leaving the story unfinished.
34	* DarkAndTroubledPast: Nishigami states in the first chapter that four people close to him have died in front of his eyes. The story has yet to expand on this...
35	%%* DeathIsCheap: For Wakanae. [[spoiler:And also for Touka.]]
36	* DevilInPlainSight: Kuro piles on the creepy and suspicious behavior just when it seems that he might be the serial killer. [[spoiler:[[RedHerring Of course, he isn't]], but he ratchets the creepy stuff back up to 11 the moment he becomes substitute school nurse.]]
37	* DisposableFiance: Subverted. [[spoiler:Their relationship has all the hallmarks of this and Touka even gives Nishigami the option to back out of their marriage, but he decides that it would be too inconvenient to be unable to talk to her.]] Also literal, in that [[spoiler:Touka is a literally disposable fiancee since she can resurrect.]]
38	%%* DrivenToSuicide: WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer...
39	* EagleEyeDetection: Nishigami's specialty. In one example, he constructs an entire narrative from [[spoiler:a splash of water on a curtain and a broken necklace at a fountain.]]
40	* ElectiveMute: As shrine maiden, Touka is bound by oath not to speak with any man, up to and including her own brother. [[spoiler:The sole exception to this is her husband, Nishigami.]]
41	%%* FakingTheDead: As part of a trap.
42	* FeminineWomenCanCook: Wakanae is a skilled cook, something that [[ThroughHisStomach works wonders]] on Nishigami. On a more depressing note, she had to learn how to cook because [[MissingMom her mother left the island]] years ago and hasn't been heard from since, and her dad works long hours as a police officer.
43	* FigureItOutYourself: Itsuki can't figure out why everyone else searching for the [[spoiler:missing cookbook]] keeps ignoring him. [[spoiler:The entire situation could have been avoided if he wasn't so ObliviousToLove...]]
44	%%* FriendlessBackground: Nishigami, since they all, y'know, ''died''.
45	* GirlNextDoor: Wakanae is a NiceGirl in general, though not as bubbly or outgoing as Rin. She isn't submissive or traditional enough to be a YamatoNadeshiko, though.
46	%%* GoodThingYouCanHeal: Part and parcel with resurrection, within reason.
47	%%* HarmfulToMinors: One minor in particular. Repeatedly.
48	%%* HyperAwareness: Nishigami has this in spades.
49	* IntelligenceEqualsIsolation: Nishigami also happens to be a genius, and has a knack for deduction.
50	%%* IronicEcho: "Use your common sense."
51	* ItsAllMyFault: Nishigami is convinced that the deaths of his four friends were caused by his existence, which is why he resolves to hate absolutely everyone, ''especially'' Wakanae. [[spoiler:Unknown to him, she heard his reason as he was grieving over her corpse, and she accepted Lady Hahane's offer of revival just to prove Nishigami wrong.]]
52	* LeftHanging: The third and last volume sets up [[spoiler:"Touka" having some kind of connection with Kuro and Kuro doing ''something'' with Yoroizuka's hidden eye]], but with the manga CutShort these mysteries never get explored.
53	* MasterOfTheMixedMessage: Neither Wakanae nor Nishigami have managed to properly state their feelings.
54	* NearDeathClairvoyance: Dead people get to float around for a bit before they're sucked down into the afterlife.
55	* NonActionGuy: Nishigami to a T. He'll still force himself if he has to.
56	%%* NothingExcitingEverHappensHere
57	* ObliviousToLove: Although they have their fair share of love-related miscommunication, averted with the protagonists (in a shonen manga, no less!). On the other hand, Itsuki is bad enough to make up for both of them.
58	%%* OffingTheOffspring: [[spoiler:Err, about those shrine maidens...]]
59	%%* TheOlderImmortal: [[spoiler:Apparently, Touka. By just how much remains a mystery.]]
60	* {{Pride}}: Yoroizuka's defining trait, [[spoiler:although [[PrideBeforeAFall his family has already fallen on hard times]].]]
61	%%* {{Polyamory}}: Touka is cool with it.
62	* ResurrectiveImmortality: [[spoiler:Through Lady Hahane's powers, a soul who dies on the island can revive in a body if they make their way back to it, even if it's ''someone's else'' body. This is why people want to die on the island.]]
63	* SadlyMythtaken: InUniverse, the general public isn't entirely clear on the intricacies of the Lady Hahane myth.
64	* SailorFuku: Wakanae and her female classmates wear white and blue ones, while Nishigami and the guys wear gray and dark blue blazer uniforms.
65	%%* SerialKiller: There's one on the island, and Nishigami finds himself as a suspect. [[spoiler:Although the "serial killer" only ever kills Wakanae, and that hardly even counts!]]
66	* SilkHidingSteel: Nishigami's barbs often cause another side of Wakanae to come out. While she tolerates his occasional tirades against her because she knows for a fact he doesn't mean it, she'll lay into him verbally or physically if he does it to any of her friends on the island. This happens frequently enough that she can come off as a {{Tsundere}}.
67	%%* SourOutsideSadInside: Nishigami's defining trait.
68	* StaircaseTumble: In Chapter 16, Wakanae falls over the staircase to the roof while trying to take her letter back from Nishigami. [[spoiler:This is surprisingly ''not'' lethal thanks to Nishigami catching her in time, but he's still sore from earlier and has to be brought to the infirmary.]]
69	%%* SuicideNotMurder
70	%%* TagTeamSuicide: [[spoiler:Touka tag-teams with ''herself'' in an oddly constructive variation of this trope. [[ItMakesSenseInContext Oh, and she drowns a baby.]]]]
71	* TownWithADarkSecret: [[spoiler:Lady Hahane's existence]] both enables and kicks off the plot.
72	%%* TragicVillain: [[spoiler:The desperate couple trying to revive their dead baby.]]
73	%%* {{Tsundere}}: Wakanae is ''anything'' but a natural Tsundere, but Nishigami's abrasiveness towards other people often forces her to be a Type B.
74	%%** Nishigami himself is a rare male Type A.
75	* TheUnsmile: For his [[spoiler:date with Wakanae]], Nishigami tries to follow Kuro's advice of "complimenting her with a smile". Unfortunately, his "smile" looks more like a smirk, which makes his compliment sound condescending.
76	* UnwantedSpouse: [[spoiler:Touka marries Nishigami so they can hold a conversation. Neither of them are particularly thrilled with the situation, but it would be too inconvenient to call it off.]]
77	%%* UnwillingSuspension
78	%%* WhodunnitToMe

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