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** One detail everyone can manage to agree upon is that Itsumi was mysteriously ill in the months before her death, though the explanations for what caused it range from stress to poisoning to witchcraft. [[spoiler:Itsumi was actually pregnant.]]
** Sayuri, by her own admission, has been sickly ever since childhood and frequently has to miss school.
** One detail everyone can manage to agree upon is that Itsumi was mysteriously ill in the months before her death, though the explanations for what caused it range from stress to poisoning to witchcraft. [[spoiler:Itsumi was actually pregnant.]]
** Sayuri, by her own admission, has been sickly ever since childhood and frequently has to miss school.
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** One detail everyone can manage to agree upon is that Itsumi was mysteriously ill in the months before her death, though the explanations for what caused it range from stress to poisoning to witchcraft. [[spoiler:Itsumi was actually pregnant.]]
** Sayuri, by her own admission, has been sickly ever since childhood and frequently has to miss school.
** One detail everyone can manage to agree upon is that Itsumi was mysteriously ill in the months before her death, though the explanations for what caused it range from stress to poisoning to witchcraft. [[spoiler:Itsumi was actually pregnant.]]
** Sayuri, by her own admission, has been sickly ever since childhood and frequently has to miss school.
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''Girls in the Dark'', published in English as ''The Dark Maidens'', is a novel by Rikako Akiyoshi.
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The novel was first published in 2013, and was translated into English in 2018. It was also adapted into [[TheFilmOfTheBook a movie]] in 2017.
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The novel was first published in 2013, and was translated into English in 2018. It was also adapted into [[TheFilmOfTheBook a movie]] movie]], [[Film/TheDarkMaidens of the same name]], in 2017.
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* IAteWhat: The core idea of the mystery stew is that everyone must contribute something, and the only rule is that it can't be unsanitary or poisonous. Previous ingredients named range from rice cakes to rocks to an expensive watch, of all things.
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* IAteWhat: The core idea of the mystery stew is that everyone must contribute something, and the only rule is that it can't be unsanitary or poisonous. Previous ingredients named range from rice cakes to rocks to a an expensive watch, of all things.
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* IAteWhat: The core idea of the mystery stew is that everyone must contribute something, and the only rule is that it can't be unsanitary or poisonous. Previous ingredients named range from rice cakes to rocks to a an expensive watch, of all things.
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* PseudoRomanticFriendship: Itsumi and Sayuri were best friends from childhood, and Sayuri often remarks on Itsumi's beauty and her admiration for Itsumi. [[spoiler:Her desire to keep Itsumi beautiful, the way Sayuri admired her, is what drives her to kill Itsumi.]] Shiyo also claims to have had this sort of relationship with Itsumi, while Diana had an actual romantic crush on her.
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* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: Itsumi and Sayuri were best friends from childhood, and Sayuri often remarks on Itsumi's beauty and her admiration for Itsumi. [[spoiler:Her desire to keep Itsumi beautiful, the way Sayuri admired her, is what drives her to kill Itsumi.]] Shiyo also claims to have had this sort of relationship with Itsumi, while Diana had an actual romantic crush on her.
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* AbusiveParents: Itsumi's father is portrayed as this in some of the stories, slapping and berating her. [[spoiler:Itsumi's story reveals that incident really did happen, followed by him forcing her to get an abortion.]]
* TheManBehindTheMan: Sayuri is regarded by the other girls as being this to Itsumi, taking care of the fine details of running a club while Itsumi is the popular face. [[spoiler:Sayuri also fills this role in a much more sinister context, arranging to help fake Itsumi's death in order to get revenge on the other girls.]]
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* TeacherStudentRomance: A variation occurs in Mirei's chapter, where she accuses Sonoko of having an affair with Itsumi's father, the headmaster, and killing Itsumi to cover it up. [[spoiler:Itsumi]] turns out to be having an affair with Mr. Hojo.
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* TeacherStudentRomance: A variation occurs in Mirei's chapter, where she accuses Sonoko [[spoiler:Sonoko]] of having an affair with Itsumi's father, the headmaster, and killing Itsumi to cover it up. [[spoiler:Itsumi]] turns out to be having an affair with Mr. Hojo.
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* IllGirl:
** One detail everyone can manage to agree upon is that Itsumi was mysteriously ill in the months before her death, though the explanations for what caused it range from stress to poisoning to witchcraft. [[spoiler:Itsumi was actually pregnant.]]
** Sayuri, by her own admission, has been sickly ever since childhood and frequently has to miss school.
** One detail everyone can manage to agree upon is that Itsumi was mysteriously ill in the months before her death, though the explanations for what caused it range from stress to poisoning to witchcraft. [[spoiler:Itsumi was actually pregnant.]]
** Sayuri, by her own admission, has been sickly ever since childhood and frequently has to miss school.
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* TeacherStudentRomance: [[spoiler:Itsumi]] turns out to be having an affair with Mr. Hojo.
* Unreliable Narrator: As is typical for a RashomonStyle plot, the girls' versions of events range from self-serving interpretations of what happened to outright lies, [[spoiler:until Itsumi and Sayuri reveal what ''really'' happened.]] Even after TheReveal, it's not known how much ''anyone'' was telling the truth.
* Unreliable Narrator: As is typical for a RashomonStyle plot, the girls' versions of events range from self-serving interpretations of what happened to outright lies, [[spoiler:until Itsumi and Sayuri reveal what ''really'' happened.]] Even after TheReveal, it's not known how much ''anyone'' was telling the truth.
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* TeacherStudentRomance: A variation occurs in Mirei's chapter, where she accuses Sonoko of having an affair with Itsumi's father, the headmaster, and killing Itsumi to cover it up. [[spoiler:Itsumi]] turns out to be having an affair with Mr. Hojo.
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* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: Stated to have happened on previous occasions, since the rules of mystery stew only states that ingredients must be ''sanitary'', not necessarily ''edible.'' The most-cited example is when a member snuck a Chanel watch into the stew on a previous occasion. [[spoiler:Itsumi's ultimate goal was to poison the entire club save Sayuri, in order to get revenge on them for revealing her affair with Mr. Hojo to her father, but Sayuri ended up poisoning Itsumi's tea instead.]]
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* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: Stated to have happened on previous occasions, since the rules of mystery stew only states state that ingredients must be ''sanitary'', not necessarily ''edible.'' The most-cited example is when a member snuck a Chanel watch into the stew on a previous occasion. [[spoiler:Itsumi's ultimate goal was to poison the entire club save Sayuri, in order to get revenge on them for revealing her affair with Mr. Hojo to her father, but Sayuri ended up poisoning Itsumi's tea instead.]]
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''Girls in the Dark'', published in English as ''The Dark Maidens'', is a novel by Rikako Akiyoshi.
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Murder? Suicide? Nobody knows. One of the six members from the Literature Club is being gossiped as her murderer.
A week later, Literature Club is having a meeting. They want to make a memory their charismatic president by writing a short story and reading them in front of other members.
Each of the members' story is their own analysis about who murders Itsumi.
A week later, Literature Club is having a meeting. They want to make a memory their charismatic president by writing a short story and reading them in front of other members.
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* AlphaBitch: Itsumi, as the most popular girl in school, headmaster's daughter, and president of the exclusive Literature Club. Whether or not she is a LovableAlphaBitch changes between each character's point of view.
* BottleEpisode: The entire novel takes place over the course of a single evening in the Literature Club's salon.
* FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: All of the members of the Literature Club are cute Catholic schoolgirls, and each story accuses a different member of actually being the murderer due to some dark secret. [[spoiler:In the end, ''everyone'' has some kind of secret that they are protecting, but Itsumi and Sayuri turn out to be the cruelest of them all.]]
* FakingTheDead: Zigzagged. [[spoiler:Itsumi faked her suicide with Sayuri's assistance in order to get revenge on the rest of the club members, as revealed in the penultimate chapter. The very final chapter reveals that Sayuri then murdered her for real.]]
* FlowerMotifs: Lily of the valley, which Itsumi apparently died holding. Each girl's story involves her interpretation of what the flower means and how it relates to Itsumi's killer. [[spoiler:Itsumi's own story reveals that it represented her aborted daughter, whom she blamed the other club members for killing.]]
* HotTeacher: Mr. Hojo, the school's Japanese teacher and the Literature Club sponsor, is a good-looking man in his mid-20's whom all the girls admire. [[spoiler:Especially, Itsumi, who takes it a step further.]]
* IAteWhat: The core idea of the mystery stew is that everyone must contribute something, and the only rule is that it can't be unsanitary or poisonous. Previous ingredients named range from rice cakes to rocks to a an expensive watch, of all things.
* ImAHumanitarian: [[spoiler:And at the very end, Sayuri reveals that the secret ingredient of tonight's mystery stew was Itsumi's body.]]
* ItWasADarkAndStormyNight: The story opens with Sayuri thanking the rest of the club for gathering on a stormy night, during which they will share their theories about how and why Itsumi died.
* RashomonStyle: Each chapter of the novel is a different club member's tale of how they met Itsumi, the events they claim to have witnessed leading up to her death, and who they believe killed her and why.
* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: Itsumi and Sayuri were best friends from childhood, and Sayuri often remarks on Itsumi's beauty and her admiration for Itsumi. [[spoiler:Her desire to keep Itsumi beautiful, the way Sayuri admired her, is what drives her to kill Itsumi.]] Shiyo also claims to have had this sort of relationship with Itsumi, while Diana had an actual romantic crush on her.
* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: Stated to have happened on previous occasions, since the rules of mystery stew only states that ingredients must be ''sanitary'', not necessarily ''edible.'' The most-cited example is when a member snuck a Chanel watch into the stew on a previous occasion. [[spoiler:Itsumi's ultimate goal was to poison the entire club save Sayuri, in order to get revenge on them for revealing her affair with Mr. Hojo to her father, but Sayuri ended up poisoning Itsumi's tea instead.]]
* TeacherStudentRomance: [[spoiler:Itsumi]] turns out to be having an affair with Mr. Hojo.
* Unreliable Narrator: As is typical for a RashomonStyle plot, the girls' versions of events range from self-serving interpretations of what happened to outright lies, [[spoiler:until Itsumi and Sayuri reveal what ''really'' happened.]] Even after TheReveal, it's not known how much ''anyone'' was telling the truth.
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Itsumi Shiraishi, the Literature Club's President, is dead.
Murder? Suicide? Nobody knows. One of the six members from the Literature Club is being gossiped as her murderer.
A week later, Literature Club is having a meeting. They want to make a memory their charismatic president by writing a short story and reading them in front of other members.
Each of the members' story is their own analysis about who murders Itsumi.
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Each of the members' story is their own analysis about who murders Itsumi.
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