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  • Captain Obvious Reveal: After Tetsuo so much as bore his breasts the first time the readers saw him bathe, it didn't take the audience very long to guess that he used to be the missing Reiko.
  • Fair for Its Day: Tetsuo's feminine body aspects that cause him dysphoria and discomfort are often played for Fanservice and the narrative has a cursory understanding of how hormone therapy works, but it still makes it abundantly clear that he is a man and allows him to be a human and flawed main character, which was incredibly rare for the time it was published.
  • Magnificent Bastard: Tetsuo Sawamura is a mysterious man willing to help loner shut-in protagonist Taichi Amano accomplish his dreams of wealth by discovering the secret treasure of the "Ghost Tower". In fact the adopted son of the former owner, Tetsuo allowed his abusive mother to die to the killer "Shinbanmushi" for rejecting him as a transgender man before faking his death and transitioning, intending to use the treasure for money to become legally male and avoid punishment. Having 8 of his comrades already die from the tower’s traps, Tetsuo selected Taichi for his physical similarities and lack of life accomplishment, burning his house down to prevent him from backing out. Demonstrating a genius analytical skill and willingness to manipulate his own allies for his goals, Tetsuo extorts the current owner Marube's daughter Sakoto to become an employee, taunts police officer Yamashina with the knowledge the man he wants dead might be innocent, and threatens to kill Taichi if he attempts to out him. While briefly submitting to his depraved transphobic father Marube's sick whims for Taichi and Sakoto's safety and his own guilt, Tetsuo is convinced by Taichi to embrace his identity as "Akira" and escape, using his wits to destroy the Ghost Tower and live happily with Taichi as a gay couple.
  • Misaimed Fandom: Even after the manga explicitly stated otherwise, some fans still think that Tetsuo is a Sweet Polly Oliver who should "go back to being a woman" after "she" gets with Taichi. Tetsuo and Taichi do end up together, but it's a gay relationship as Tetsuo still identifies as a man by the finale, and Taichi likes him as a guy despite only showing interest in women. It's complicated.
  • No Yay: Between Marube and Satoko, and Marube and Tetsuo...hell, pretty much Marube and anyone.
  • Squick:
    • Be prepared to see many cut, broken, or squished bodies through your time in the manga. The frequency doesn't go down either.
    • Marube's ultimate, nonsensical plan: use brain surgery to swap bodies with Tetsuo so he can get impregnated and have a child, then proceed to do that over and over with different generations of offspring in order to make a testament to his love for Onatsu. Good god, that's just sick.
  • Too Bleak, Stopped Caring: The tone of this manga can get pretty harsh sometimes, and many of the characters have less than pleasant secrets they're willing to hide and aren't afraid to get their hands dirty. It's definitely par for the course for mystery, but, considering it ran from 2010 to 2014, it becomes somewhat uneasy to root for the protagonists when there are no true good figures in the tale.
  • Values Resonance: Though Yamashina's message about publishing more stories with "deviants" is laid out pretty blatantly, it still rings true even years after its publication. While the definiton of who counts as a "deviant" changes depending on the era and place, and people may make more stories concerning people once considered "deviant" in the time the manga is set; societies at large are still far and away from accepting those groups as a whole, which scares off writers who do want to write about them or makes such writers ignored by the public at large.

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