History Manga / Arisa

[[caption-width-right:230:Arisa and Tsubasa]]

* CreepyDoll: The King's messenger doll in chapter 7 is both a [[MonsterClown clown]] AND a CreepyDoll that speaks its threatening message and then laughs maniacally. Then it explodes.
** He later uses them to [[spoiler:attempt to murder Tsubasa, Kudou, and Arisa's mother]].

* SameContentDifferentRating: The manga was bumped from a teen rating to an older teen rating due to mature and darker themes.

* ShootTheShaggyDog: Sure seems like it, with [[spoiler: Arisa flatlining and Tsubasa seemingly pushed down the stairs/beaten to death after her identity is exposed.]] They got better, though [[spoiler: Arisa got amnesia and Tsubasa still doesn't suspect Arisa's boyfriend of anything]] (that got better too, though there's still danger, and now [[spoiler: some kid appears out of nowhere to stab Midori in the back]]).

[[PolarOppositeTwins Tsubasa and Arisa are really different]].

Arisa is her [[ClassRepresentative class' rep]], [[BrainyBrunette has the best grades]] and a lot of friends. She is really [[TheIngenue good natured]] and everybody likes her.

Tsubasa is known as the "Demon Princess" of her school, because she is a {{Delinquent}} who always gets into fights, and her [[OneOfTheBoys only friends are boys]] because the girls are dead scared of her. Also, [[BookDumb she's got really bad grades]].

So when Tsubasa says that she's envious of her, Arisa suggests they [[TwinSwitch change places for one day]].

However, there are things about Arisa and her school that she hasn't mentioned to Tsubasa -- dangerous things. And when Arisa [[InterruptedSuicide tries to kill herself]] in front of Tsubasa and [[AngstComa falls into a coma]], Tsubasa decides that she must know the truth about Arisa in order to save her.

* StockShoujoBullyingTactics: Shiori gets trash dumped on her desk, which is referred to as "the garbage," and Tsubasa is beaten, harassed, and threatened for daring to go against the King. Yhe King himself also engages in such tactics to appease his subjects.

* StockShoujoBullyingTactics: Shiori gets trash dumped on her desk, which is referred to as "the garbage," and Tsubasa is beaten, harassed, and threatened for daring to go against the King. the king himself also engages in such tactics to appease his subjects.

* StockShoujoBullyingTactics: And then some.

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler: The reason Midori eventually took control of Arisa's King's time forum? It all started because Mariko wanted the king (Arisa at the time) to actually give her the questionnaire of the next test.]]

** Seems to be a theme: Worst example is [[spoiler: Midori and his twin's]] mother, who actually abandons [[spoiler: them, one of them to death,]] in a tiny, filthy, freezing apartment without food and heat. She did name [[spoiler: Midori]] as her insurance beneficiary but that just makes the hatred worse.

* AbusiveParents: Implied with [[spoiler: Shizuka]] and [[spoiler: her aunt.]]

* ActionGirl: Tsubasa is introduced as this.

** [[spoiler: Midori]] learned this early in life when [[spoiler: his mother abandoned him and his twin to die and when he dared to leave (mom said the outside world was full of monsters) ''Santa Claus'' pushed him away and called him dirty and everyone else ignored him]].

** You'd think that when two girls in the same class [[spoiler: try to off themselves]] in the same year and one of them is the [[ClassRepresentative Class Rep.]] the faculty/administration/clergy ''might'' be looking into it or launching some sort of investigation...instead class 2-B continues to participate in King Time every Friday without any adults coming in to check on them or [[TwoTeacherSchool ever getting suspicious of the drawn curtains and closed doors]] or [[spoiler: that fire or the dead body or the missing student]].

* AdultsAreUseless: You'd think that when two girls in the same class [[spoiler: try to off themselves]] in the same year and one of them is the [[ClassRepresentative Class Rep.]] the faculty/administration/clergy ''might'' be looking into it or launching some sort of investigation...instead class 2-B continues to participate in King Time every Friday without any adults coming in to check on them or [[TwoTeacherSchool ever getting suspicious of the drawn curtains and closed doors]] or [[spoiler: that fire or the dead body or the missing student]].

* [[spoiler: EvilTwin: Heavily implied with Arisa, but not proven. Considering his twin is dead, Midori is this by default.]]
* [[spoiler:EvilAllAlong: Midori.]]

* [[spoiler: FakingTheDead: The criminal the class murdered was actually faking. The police caught him just as he was about to leave the country.]]

* BlondeGuysAreEvil: Kudou, though he turns out to be more of a WellIntentionedExtremist who only wants to [[spoiler:make class 2B the best class in the world for Arisa's sake]].

* StockShoujoBullyingTactics

* EasilyForgiven: [[spoiler: Mariko]].

* GenkiGirl: Mariko.

* HairDecorations: Mariko.

** ''Finally'' averted in chapter 42 (the third to last chapter, mind you) when they show up at the summit meeting and mistakenly detain Tsubasa as a party-crasher and [[spoiler: arrest Midori, but don't frisk or cuff him which enables him to stab Tsubasa and run away. They (and Tsubasa wearing her Arisa-wig) trap him in Arisa's hospital room, but no one saw the other kid with the knife...]]

[[[PolarOppositeTwins Tsubasa and Arisa are really different]].

->"I know everything about Arisa. [[TheAce She's her class representative, she has good grades, and she has a lot of friends]]. [[ProperLady She's a very gentle girl who's liked by everyone]]. [[BeneathTheMask But...]] [[BrokenAce I didn't know anything about the real Arisa]]."

[[SiblingYinYang Tsubasa and Arisa]] [[PolarOppositeTwins are really different]].

* KeepingSecretsSucks

* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: King Time started out innocently enough, but when the eponymous figure started to become deified by the students in 2B, [[spoiler:Arisa]] found out the hard way that [[spoiler:she could no longer control her creation, especially after [[AxCrazy Midori]] took over]].

* [[CallingTheOldManOut Calling The Classroom Out]]: [[spoiler: Manabe tells the class off after Midori was revealed]].

* [[TownWithADarkSecret Classroom With A Dark Secret]]

* DrivingQuestion: Who is the King? [[spoiler: It's Midori, Arisa's really, ''really'' devoted boyfriend]]