History Manga / PurpleEyesInTheDark

* NearVillainVictory: [[spoiler:Sonehara successfully shows Akio transform on national TV and Mai using psychic powers. However, she gets killed in her own explosion and Mai and Akio manage to escape the country before their identities become known. The manga ends before the result of the broadcast is shown.]]

** Rinko was going to be gang-raped by some punks, but she changed into her beast form and ripped them apart. Turns out Sonehara sent them.
** Odagiri brings a few men to rape Rinko, knowing they're likely to die the same way, which they do.

* BelligerentSexualTension: Shinya and Rinko clearly love each other but don't feel there's a good time to say so directly. Everyone teases them, of course, and it is obvious that they like each other. It does eventually flourish.
* BigBad: Kaoruko Sonehara persistently chases after Rinko and tries to catch her to use her as physical proof of her father's research, with a lot of people dying as collateral damage.
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: Shinya and Rinko who liked each other since childhood, eventually admit their feelings and even get married in a countryside church.

* CovertGroupWithMundaneFront: The transformer's clan use a heavy industry factory as a public front.

* GoodShepherd: A countryside priest raises no issue with two teenagers staying at the church, and at Shinya and Rinko's request doesn't call their parents or a hospital and weds them. But with Rinko's health getting worse, he finds a business card and [[NiceJobBreakingItHero calls Sonehara]] assuming she can help. He [[DivingSave saves her]] from Sonehara pushing rocks at expense of himself.
* HydroElectroCombo: Noticing Mai is standing near a loose corn, Sonehara splashes a bucket of water on her. However, Mai is resilient enough to not get stunned.
* IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim: Shinya doesn't let Rinko shoot Sonehara for [[spoiler:causing Maiko's death]] because she'll become no better than her. He doesn't want her to use her transformation offensively at all either.
* IncurableCoughOfDeath: Occurs with Odagiri [[spoiler: (Rinko and Akio get it, too)]], which seems to happen with transforming people when they get to the end of their lifespan.

* ItsNotYouItsMe: Rinko's excuse for not fully letting herself get into a relationship with Shinya is blaming herself. She's too scared of rejection about her ability to transform into a leopard.
* InvoluntaryShapeshifter: Rinko in the beginning transforms into a leopard panther any time she feels enough anger and loses a sense of herself while transformed. She begins to gain control over it after some time.

* KissingCousins: Mai and Akio, when they become romantically involved. Akio's mother was Mitsugu Odagiri's sister, making them first cousins.
* {{Lobotomy}}: Sonehara claims to be able to remove emotions and will by drilling the brain and tries that on Mai.

* MissingMom: Rinko's mother died two years ago. [[spoiler: Rinko herself disappears at the end of the first half and is presumed dead.]]

* PoliceAreUseless: Rinko refuses to report Sonehara's crimes to the police despite being suggested doing so, because she killed a few people too, and it'd be a huge problem if the government discovers her secret. With the increased body count, the police are instructed to shoot any wild panther on-sight.

* StrongFamilyResemblance: Mai looks an awful lot like Rinko, but Shinya tells Mai that there are noticeable differences.

* TechnicolorEyes: Purples eyes is a sign of the people who can transform into beasts.

* TogetherInDeath: This is the eventual fate of [[spoiler: Shinya and Rinko]], after having been separated for 15 years.

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Sonehara poisons her underground doctor who've helped to save her father and Rinko's child because she didn't feel he's worth keeping around with hush money.

* TakingYouWithMe: With her last strength, Rinko pushes Sonehara off the cliff with herself. [[spoiler:15 years later they both turn out alive.]]

* GoodShepherd: A countryside priest raises no issue with two teenagers staying at the church, and at Shinya and Rinko's request doesn't call their parents or a hospital and weds them. But with Rinko's health getting worse, he finds a business card and [[NiceJobBreakingItHero calls Sonehara]] assuming she can help.

* GoodShepherd: A countryside priest raises no issue with two teenagers staying at the church, and at Shinya and Rinko's request doesn't call their parents or a hospital and weds them.

* InvoluntaryShapeshifter: Rinko in the beginning transfors into a leopard panther any time she feels enough anger and loses a sense of herself while transformed. She begins to gain control over it after some time.

* YourDaysAreNumbered: Odagiri says that transforming humans tend to have shorter lifespans and implies that he's aware that his own is running out.

* PoliceAreUseless: Rinko refuses to report Sonehara's crimes to the police despite being suggested doing so, because she killed a few people too, and it'd be a huge problem if the government discovers her secret.
* ShapeshiftingExcludesClothing: Rinko's transformations destroy her clothing, leaving her naked when she returns to normal.

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** Odagiri brings a few men to rape Rinko, knowing they're likely to die, but now more in control Rinko simply escapes.
* BelligerentSexualTension: Between Shinya and Rinko. Everyone teases them, of course, and it is obvious that they like each other. It does eventually flourish.
* BigBad: Kaoruko Sonehara, who chases after Rinko and tries to catch her, to use her as physical proof of her father's research.
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: Shinya and Rinko, who eventually admit their feelings and even get married in a countryside church.
* ChildByRape: Odagiri drugged Rinko and slept with her. This resulted in Rinko getting pregnant.

* DisappearedDad: Sonehara's father died six years ago. [[spoiler: He's actually still alive, but mentally insane.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: Professor Sonehara, whose work on transforming humans was ridiculed and mocked. He suffered mentally from it and decided to burn himself. [[spoiler: His daughter doused him in water and saved him, but he went insane.]]
* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler: Rinko and Shinya]] do not get their happy ending, unless one considers [[TogetherInDeath their circumstances]] happy. But Mai and Akio fight against the clan, who wants to kill them, and Sonehara, who wants to expose their ability to the world, several times and have to deal with Akio's limited lifespan. But finally, they manage to [[spoiler: kill Sonehara and managed to get tickets and fake passports and are leaving Japan, preparing to live a happy and peaceful life overseas]].
* [[IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim If You Kill Her, You Will Be Just Like Her]]: Shinya says this to Rinko, when she wants to shoot Sonehara for causing Maiko's death.

* ItsNotYouItsMe: This is Rinko's excuse for not fully letting herself get into a relationship with Shinya. She's too scared of rejection about her abilty to transform into a leopard.
* InvoluntaryShapeshifter: The case for Rinko in the beginning, transforming into a leopard panther. She begins to gain control over it after some time.

* LoveTriangle: A Type 4, with Shinya and Rinko having mutual feelings for each other and Odagiri being the third wheel, who wants Rinko. Though it's implied he doesn't ''love'' Rinko, he merely wants her as his mate.
* MayflyDecemberRomance: Odagiri says that this is the case for people like him and Rinko, even if they are the same age as their partner, because of their severely shortened lifespan.

* NeverFoundTheBody: During the epic struggle between Rinko and Sonehara, both went over a cliff and into the water. [[spoiler: Both surive.]]
* PoliceAreUseless: Rinko refuses to report Sonehara's crimes to the police despute being suggested doing so, because she killed a few people too, and it'd be a huge problem if the government discovers her secret.

* TechnicolorEyes: Purples eyes, a sign of the people who can transform into beasts.

* AttemptedRape: Rinko was going to be gang-raped by some punks, but she changed into her beast form and ripped them apart.

''Purple Eyes in the Dark'' (''Yami no Purple Eyes'') is a manga created by Creator/ChieShinohara.