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* BackseatChangingRoom: One early scene has Misaki changing in the backseat while Kadotake is driving. When she accuses him of peeking, he [[DriverFacesPassenger turns to face her]] and vehemently denies it, which causes him to almost crash the car since he wasn't watching the road.
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* AllForNothing: Despite all the risks and sacrifices and dog kicking Detective Ganda went through, including [[spoiler:losing Haru to suicide]], ultimately, Ganda is unable to [[spoiler:stop Yuo's plan]]. The same goes for Misaki and her friends, as well, as their own intervention ultimately amounts to nothing as well.
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* TheBadGuyWins: Ultimately, [[spoiler:Yuo gets everything that he wants in the end, and the main cast are unable to even really hinder his plans at all.]]
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* DownerEnding: And a very bitter one at that. To wit: [[spoiler:Misaki and her allies are completely unable to stop Yuo's plans, resulting in the mass suicide he orchestrated succeeding, leading to the deaths of over 30 people. This makes all the sacrifices and effort that she and Gada put in pointless. Ai is saved by Mitsuru's quick thinking, but is unable to stop the ritual from happening, leaving her traumatized as a result. Mitsuru goes through with the ritual, and while he is saved at the last moment, he left horribly burned all over his body, so much so that the audience doesn't even see his appearance after the ritual is over. Even worse, his father is driven to accidentally kill himself by the ghosts of his sister and her friend, effectively leaving Mitsuru alone. Misaki is left emotionally devastated by the incident. So much so that she once again leaves Tokyo to get away from the job like she did when she committed murder for the first time. Ai is thus forced to take up her role as necromancer to compensate, which, to her credit, she appears to be a natural at. Misaki returns to Tokyo to finally get information on her mother from Hiratsuka, only to find out that she's a mental health patient, apparently having mentally broken from her line of work. She can't even see her mother properly because she has an episode, leaving her further shaken. She seeks SexForSolace with Luna, Hiratsuka's daughter, and even seems to be willing to move in with her to escape her past as a necromancer, only for Luna to be killed by a Grudge Transfer Specialist carrying out an act of revenge on behalf a man Luna betrayed. Misaki retakes up her mantle of necromancer to hunt down the Specialist, only to end up accidentally getting him killed when she interferes with his job, finding out too late that he was familiar with her mother. The only possible bright spot in all this is that she may begin a relationship with Kadotake.]] Damn.
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* TheBeard: A tragic nonconsensual example sets up the final storyline. Its revealed that [[spoiler:Luna]] had a boyfriend before she met Misaki named Ryota Yabusaki. However, [[spoiler:Luna]] was just using the man to keep up social appearances and hide her sexuality. The man was unaware of this however, and believed that they were in a real relationship. Luna broke up with the man after several months of dating, revealing the truth to him. The man felt so betrayed and distraught by this, that he lost his ability to trust people. He sought psychiatric treatment, but he only got worse. Luna never apologized or offered recompense to the man, and practically cut all contact with him. The man eventually became so filled with anger towards her regarding the situation that he decided that he had to get back at her no matter what, even if it meant [[spoiler:committing suicide so that he could curse her from beyond the grave with his grudge.]]
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* TheBeard: A tragic nonconsensual example sets up the final storyline. Its revealed that [[spoiler:Luna]] had a boyfriend before she met Misaki named Ryota Yabusaki. However, [[spoiler:Luna]] was just using the man to keep up social appearances and hide her sexuality. The man was unaware of this however, and believed that they were in a real relationship. Luna [[spoiler:Luna]] broke up with the man after several months of dating, revealing the truth to him. The man felt so betrayed and distraught by this, that he lost his ability to trust people. He sought psychiatric treatment, but he only got worse. Luna [[spoiler:Luna]] never apologized or offered recompense to the man, and practically cut all contact with him. The man eventually became so filled with anger towards her regarding the situation that he decided that he had to get back at her no matter what, even if it meant [[spoiler:committing suicide so that he could curse her from beyond the grave with his grudge.]]
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* MurderSuicide: The truth of what really happened to [[spoiler:Yuo's parents]]. In the final chapter, it is revealed that this is also functionally how Grudge Transfer Specialists work. They take a dead person's grudge, generally someone who commits suicide for that very purpose, turn it into a curse, and transfer it over to a specific target so that the target can be killed by the grudge that the previously deceased person created, effectively making it a suicide induced murder from beyond the grave. The specialists don't particularly care whether or not the person holding the grudge has a legitimate grievance or not, though many times they do. They merely carry out their job and curse someone to death. This is what ends up happening to [[spoiler:Luna]].
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* TheBeard: A tragic nonconsensual example sets up the final storyline. Its revealed that [[spoiler:Luna]] had a boyfriend before she met Misaki named Ryota Yabusaki. However, [[spoiler:Luna]] was just using the man to keep up social appearances and hide her sexuality. The man was unaware of this however, and believed that they were in a real relationship. Luna broke up with the man after several months of dating, revealing the truth to him. The man felt so betrayed and distraught by this, that he lost his ability to trust people. He sought psychiatric treatment, but he only got worse. Luna never apologized or offered recompense to the man, and practically cut all contact with him. The man eventually became so filled with anger towards her regarding the situation that he decided that he had to get back at her no matter what, even if it meant [[spoiler:committing suicide so that he could curse her from beyond the grave with his grudge.]]
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* SexForSolace: One way to look at Misaki [[spoiler:having sex with Luna in the final chapter, despite having shown no interest in women up to that point,]] is that she was simply looking for some form of physical comfort or emotional support after the disastrous end to the previous chapter.
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** Misaki later brings this up to [[spoiler:Luna when the latter brings the former to a hotel for sex, maybe to dissuade her from penetration]]. The latter's response is to simply tell Misaki that she has other way of making her feel good.
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* AmbiguouslyBi: A very unusual example. For almost entire series, Misaki has show to be nothing else other than straight. She nearly lost her virginity as a teenage to her first love, who was a boy, and got her first orgasm on her job from a male client [[spoiler:eating her out]], and clearly enjoyed it after the fact. She also primarily works as Dominatrix on male clients, and clearly enjoys it on some level, despite her protestations to the contrary. However, suddenly in the last chapter, she [[spoiler:allows herself to be seduced by Luna, Hiratsuka's daughter, and has a one night stand with her. She even consents to living with the woman afterward.]] She has never shown any interest in women before this, and even seemed somewhat perplexed by her best friend's lesbianism, wondering why she outed herself. In fact, Misaki hasn't been shown to pursue romantic relationships at all throughout the story up to this point. A [[WatsonianVersusDoylist Watsonian]] explanation would look at a statement Misaki made to Kadotake after [[spoiler:Luna's death]], which seems to indicate that she was just looking for some kind of escape from her old life, and may have latched on to [[spoiler:Luna]] for that. A Doylist explanation would be that the story needed a final dramatic conflict, and having Misaki be in a relationship with the final victim would give her a dramatic, personal reason to be involved. And their sex scene added fanservice. The audience is simply left to wonder.
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* AmbiguouslyBi: A very unusual example. For almost the entire series, Misaki has show was portrayed to be nothing else other than straight. She nearly lost her virginity as a teenage to her first love, who was a boy, and got her first orgasm on her job from a male client [[spoiler:eating her out]], and clearly enjoyed it after the fact. She also primarily works as Dominatrix on male clients, and clearly enjoys it on some level, despite her protestations to the contrary. However, suddenly in the last chapter, she [[spoiler:allows herself to be seduced by Luna, Hiratsuka's daughter, and has a one night stand with her. She even consents to living with the woman afterward.]] She has never shown any interest in women before this, and even seemed somewhat perplexed by her best friend's lesbianism, wondering why she outed herself. In fact, Misaki hasn't been shown to pursue romantic relationships at all throughout the story up to this point. A [[WatsonianVersusDoylist Watsonian]] explanation would look at a statement Misaki made to Kadotake after [[spoiler:Luna's death]], which seems to indicate that she was just looking for some kind of escape from her old life, and may have latched on to [[spoiler:Luna]] for that. A Doylist explanation would be that the story needed a final dramatic conflict, and having Misaki be in a relationship with the final victim would give her a dramatic, personal reason to be involved. And their sex scene added fanservice. The audience is simply left to wonder.
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%%** Ai counts as this, herself, particularly after the events of the first case, involving the deaths of [[spoiler: her niece]] and her older sister.
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* LipstickLesbian: Shizue doesn't fit either extreme, making her [[StraightGay a straight]] example. Her [[BoyishShortHair hair's short]] and she tends to dress casually, but she's still feminine.
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** The last chapter, however, ends on a very ambiguous note, with Misaki finding herself in the exact same situation she was in when [[spoiler:Luna came on to her]], except with Misaki in [[spoiler:Luna's position where she was standing over watching the object of her affection peeing]], with Kadotake now in Misaki's position doing the peeing. The story leaves it ambiguous however if this new situation ends the exact same way as the first situation, with [[spoiler:Misaki coming on to Kadotake the same way Luna came on to her]].
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** The last chapter, however, ends on a very ambiguous note, with Misaki finding herself in the exact same situation she was in earlier in the chapter when [[spoiler:Luna came on to her]], except with Misaki in [[spoiler:Luna's position where she was standing over and watching the object of her affection peeing]], with Kadotake now in Misaki's position doing the peeing. The story leaves it ambiguous however if this new situation ends the exact same way as the first situation, with [[spoiler:Misaki coming on to Kadotake the same way Luna came on to her]].
