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2	[[caption-width-right:246:They'll play the funeral march that's just for you.]]
3	Hayato Sakura is a normal high school boy, except for one thing: Ghosts are attracted to him. At every step he takes, ghosts (mostly girls) stick to his back, making it impossible for him to have a normal social life. On his 17th birthday, while running away from them, a tall blond man walks up to him and turns the ghosts into butterflies. Amazed by this incredible, beautiful man, who introduces himself as Undertaker Riddle, Hayato asks him to help with his problem and the man agrees with one condition: Hayato must make a contract with him to help him with his work of making funeral ceremonies to evil spirits.
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5	''Undertaker Riddle'' (''Sougiya Riddle'') is a supernatural manga by Akai Higasa, which was serialized in Creator/SquareEnix's ''Gangan Online'' magazine from 2009 to 2013.
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7	!!Tropes:
8	* AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: Souls that aren't qualified to go to either heaven or hell, stay at the Catacomb and work for the king as either secretaries or undertakers.
9	* AndYourRewardIsClothes: After making the contract with Riddle, Hayato gains brand new mourning clothes, similar to Riddle's.
10	%% * BadassInDistress: [[spoiler:Dante]] in chapter 17 was captured by Roen.
11	* BarrierMaiden: Faust is this to the Catacombs, as holder of the "Twilight's key". Without her, not just the Catacombs but also the human world and afterlife will be in danger. [[spoiler:Hayato is expected to become one, as newest holder of a Twilight's key.]]
12	* BatmanGambit: [[spoiler:Dante]] broke free from Roen by pretending to accept his offer of joining The Arcana, something that Roen knew he would do [[spoiler:if it wasn't for Dante's MoralityPet Hiren melting his heart.]]
13	* TheBeautifulElite: The Undertakers.
14	%% * {{Big Bad}}s: The Arcana's evil spirits.
15	%% * BlessedWithSuck: Hayato can not only see ghosts, but he's so good-looking that ghost girls are attracted to him.
16	%% * BridalCarry: Riddle's favorite way of carrying Hayato.
17	%% * BokeandTsukkomiRoutine: Roen as the Tsukkomi and Eve as the Boke. Hayato even wonders if they're a comedy duo.
18	* ButterflyOfDeathAndRebirth: [[OurSoulsAreDifferent The people's souls]] take the form of butterflies.
19	%% * ButtMonkey: Hayato, of course.
20	%% * CainAndAbel: [[spoiler:Dio and Dante, respectively. Dio even was the one who killed Dante in the first place.]]
21	%% * CastFullOfPrettyBoys
22	* CantLiveWithoutYou: Since both share a soul, Hayato can't live without Riddle. If Riddle dies, Hayato will die too.
23	%% * ChainsOfLove: Used in artbooks.
24	* TheChampion: Hayato's contract bonds him to Riddle in order to protect him from any attack while Riddle prepares the funeral for evil spirits.
25	* CommonalityConnection: [[spoiler: Dante took Hiren as his partner since both were betrayed by their respective families and were both afraid of being betrayed again, so both could depend on the other without fear.]] Not to mention both were troublemakers.
26	%% * CreepyCrosses: Seen from time to time. Justified since the main heroes are undertakers.
27	* %% CreepyMortician: Subverted since the Undertakers are mostly handsome men.
28	* CuteIsEvil: Eve is a CuteAndPsycho evil spirit whose territory is filled with [[CreepyDoll dolls and plushies]], a merry-go-round and balloons; a cute world that looks like it came out of a children's book is actually a deadly trap.
29	* [[DangerousSixteenthBirthday Dangerous Seventeenth Birthday]]: Hayato met Riddle and became an undertaker on his 17th birthday. [[spoiler:Riddle actually turned him into an undertaker because Hayato's power was increasing and attracting a lot of spirits he couldn't handle alone.]]
30	%% * DarkIsEvil: The evil spirits are mostly dressed in black.
31	%% * DarkIsNotEvil: The undertakers, who mostly wear black mourning clothes.
32	%% * DarkMessiah: [[MeaningfulName Messiah.]]
33	%% * DeadpanSnarker: Hayato Sakura.
34	* DeathGlare: ''Hiren'', [[NervousWreck of all people]] has an amazing one.
35	* DevotedToYou: {{Deconstructed}} with poor Hiren; after Dante [[spoiler:gets kidnapped for Roen]], the poor guy wants desperately to save him, without thinking about possible consequences or a plan whatsoever.
36	* DontFearTheReaper: These [[TheGrimReaper Grim Reapers]] are handsome men who will perform a beautiful, rose-filled funeral service for you.
37	* EmotionsVsStoicism: The undertakers are stoic and cold towards almost everyone, since they have lived so much with a job that makes them deal with dead people and evil spirits; they consider emotions as a sin since they can make you take a reckless and foolish move. Hayato, [[spoiler:as Faust's successor and future king]] must learn to balance these two things in his life to avoid becoming a cold automaton or an overemotional fool.
38	%% * FauxAffablyEvil: Some of the evil spirits, like the first one Hayato fights and [[CuteAndPsycho Eve]].
39	%% * FlippingTheBird: To show the brotherly love.
40	* FlowerMotifs: All undertaker pairs have an associated flower. Riddle and Hayato's are [[SomethingAboutARose roses]], Dante and Hiren's are spider lilies, Luka and Ansem's are Madonna lilies and Shall and Julian's are camellias.
41	%% * HauntedCastle: The Catacomb of the souls.
42	%% * HoistByTheirOwnPetard: The way Hayato deals with most of the evil spirits.
43	%% * HumanSacrifice: Someone in St. Paulo academy is killing blond or green-eyed students in a ritualistic way.
44	%% * IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: "Funeral Nth: The Undertaker [Verb]", since chapter 5.
45	%% * InvisibleToNormals: The ghosts, of course.
46	%%* ImpossiblyCoolClothes[=/=]ImpracticallyFancyOutfit: The Undertakers' mourning clothing.
47	%%** BadassLongcoat
48	%%** GorgeousPeriodDress: Exclusive to young girls
49	* {{Jerkass}}: Most of the undertakers are jerks towards Hayato.
50	** JerkWithAHeartOFGold: But at the end, they started to warm to him.
51	* KickTheDog: Hayato's fight with Eve is a big and strong kick to him.
52	* [[spoiler:KillTheOnesYouLove]]: [[spoiler:Riddle killed Sigurd, former king of the Catacombs and best friend after he went DrunkWithPower and almost destroyed the Catacombs.]]
53	* LightIsNotGood: The Arcana's evil spirits are mostly dressed in white to distinguish them from the DarkIsNotEvil's Undertakers. Also [[spoiler:Roen's castle in hell]] is completely white.
54	* {{Macguffin}}: The Twilight's key.[[spoiler:..that is inside Hayato's missing piece of soul.]]
55	* TheMafia: Dante, when he was alive, was leader of the Sicilian mafia at the age of 23.
56	* [[MistressAndServantBoy Master and Servant Boy]]: Riddle and Hayato often have this aura.
57	* MagicallyBindingContract: Hayato had to do one with Riddle to save his life. Now, half of Riddle's soul is bound to Hayato's in exchange for Hayato becoming Riddle's assistant and fellow Undertaker.
58	%%* TheManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler:Riddle and Sigurd.]]
59	* ParasolOfPain: Eve uses one [[spoiler:to kill Nemuro.]]
60	* PerpetualMolt: Commonly seen as a motif of The Arcana.
61	* PersonOfMassDestruction: [[spoiler:Hayato is a potential one.]]
62	* OneGenderSchool: St. Paulo academy, a boarding school just for men.
63	* OurGhostsAreDifferent: Normally ghosts are harmless, can be seen by certain people but some can turn into evil spirits that eat other people's souls by killing them.
64	* SexyPriest: Riddle disguises himself as a priest to enter and investigate in a Catholic all-boys school with Hayato as his altar boy. Cue {{squee}}s of both fangirls and the students.
65	* SituationalSexuality: One arc is about Riddle and Sakura investigating in an all-boys school. They all {{squee}} in delight at Riddle's beauty and sometimes Hayato's too. Of course he finds this creepy.
66	* SomethingAboutARose: Roses are [[FlowerMotifs a common motif.]] Riddle is normally seen with a bouquet of roses while performing funerals.
67	* {{Synchronization}}: Partnered undertakers share a soul, so they can track each other and share pain.
68	* ThatManIsDead: [[spoiler:Dante, after finally making peace with his brother and knowing the truth about his death, burned Dio and with him his past-self to go on living as "Dante the undertaker".]]
69	* TimeTravel: [[spoiler:Tracking Dante's soul, Hiren and Hayato somehow ended up in 1910's Sicily]]. Maybe they were tracking the soul without caring about the space/time thing.
70	** Later revealed that TimeTravel is impossible InUniverse. They're actually in an Arcana territory based in Dante's past.
71	* UnmovingPlaid
72	* WhamEpisode: Lots of them. The most whammy must be chapter 43.
73	* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: Holders of the Twilight's key are at risk of going DrunkWithPower. [[spoiler:Sigurd, Faust's predecessor, fell victim to this.]]
74	* YouAreNumberSix: The evil spirits of The Arcana are marked with roman numbers.

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