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* DarkSecret: A sub-theme involves uncovering and coming to terms with dark truths that others try to hide.
** [[spoiler:Rio and Yuta were originally put in their grandfather's care after their father left, but the grandfather shortly collapsed and died. Fearing separation from her brother, Rio buried her grandfather in the backyard and kept it a secret for some time until she befriended Natsuru.]] When Natsuru discovers [[spoiler:the grandfather's corpse, he is understandably horrified.]]
** For all they know, Rio and Yuta's father went to Alaska to work as a fisherman. [[spoiler:He actually lied to them and used it as an excuse to abandon them. Rio discovering this while out grocery-shopping leaves her absolutely devastated.]]



* EdibleThemeNaming: The character's white kitten is named "Tofu".

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* EdibleThemeNaming: The character's Suzumura siblings' white kitten is named "Tofu".



* FirstKiss: [[spoiler:Natsuru and Rio share one in a closet in a seaside Japanese inn, right before the police find them.]]

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* FirstKiss: [[spoiler:Natsuru and Rio share a tender one in a the closet in a seaside Japanese inn, right before the police find them.]]



* IgnoranceIsBliss: A major theme of the story. Natsuru was able to have a blissful time with Rio before finding out about [[spoiler:her grandfather being buried in the backyard]], and Rio was able to stoically wait things out with Yuta before finding out that [[spoiler:her father was ''not'' on a fishing trip and had simply abandoned them]]. This is the basis of the TitleDrop at the end: sometimes the gods lie in order to keep humans happy.



* IgnoranceIsBliss: A major theme of the story. Natsuru was able to have a blissful time with Rio before finding out about [[spoiler:her grandfather being buried in the backyard]], and Rio was able to stoically wait things out with Yuta before finding out that [[spoiler:her father was ''not'' on a fishing trip and had simply abandoned them]]. This is the basis of the TitleDrop at the end: sometimes the gods lie in order to keep humans happy.


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* PromotedToParent: After their father left to work as a fisherman in Alaska [[spoiler:and their grandfather died]], Rio had been raising Yuta by herself, buying food with what little expenses they had and doing housework in addition to her schooling.

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* IWillWaitForYou: [[spoiler:After Rio and Yuta are taken away, Natsuru vows to wait for Rio to return. She does, sooner than he expected.]]



* ThanksForTheMammary: In the very beginning of the chapter, Natsuru comforts himself by deliberately groping his mother's breasts...and she doesn't reprimand him for it.

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* ThanksForTheMammary: In the very beginning of the chapter, Natsuru comforts himself by deliberately groping hugging his mother's breasts...and she doesn't reprimand mother with his hands on her breasts, stating it reminds him for it.of when he was a toddler. Her response is an annoyed comment that he's too old to do that.
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''The Gods Lie'' (''Kamisama ga Uso o Tsuku'') by Kaori Ozaki is a short 5-chapter manga about a boy's friendship with one of his female classmates.

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''The Gods Lie'' (''Kamisama ga Uso o Tsuku'') by Kaori Ozaki is a short 5-chapter manga about a boy's friendship with one of his female classmates.
classmates. Its chapters were serialized from March to July 2013 in the {{seinen}} magazine ''Afternoon'', and compiled into a single volume.

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* EdibleThemeNaming: The character's white kitten is named "Tofu".



* FirstKiss: [[spoiler: Natsuru and Rio share one in a closet in a seaside Japanese inn, right before the police find them.]]

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* FirstKiss: [[spoiler: Natsuru [[spoiler:Natsuru and Rio share one in a closet in a seaside Japanese inn, right before the police find them.]] ]]



* FoodThemeNaming: The character's white kitten is named "Tofu".

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* RealityEnsues:
** The kids keep a beetle in a little cage with little idea how to properly feed it. It dies within a few days.
** Natsuru, Rio, and Yuta [[spoiler:try to run away together]] but, being eleven, they only make it so far before being found. Furthermore, [[spoiler:the resulting missing person investigation directly leads to the police discovering the grandfather's body at the now totally abandoned house]].



* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** The kids keep a beetle in a little cage with little idea how to properly feed it. It dies within a few days.
** Natsuru, Rio, and Yuta [[spoiler:try to run away together]] but, being eleven, they only make it so far before being found. Furthermore, [[spoiler:the resulting missing person investigation directly leads to the police discovering the grandfather's body at the now totally abandoned house]].



* WouldHitAGirl: Natsuru gets in trouble for hitting a girl who was bullying Suzumura.

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* WouldHitAGirl: Natsuru gets in trouble for hitting a girl who was bullying Suzumura.Suzumura.
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* FirstKiss: [[spoiler: Natsuru and Rio share one in a closet in a seaside Japanese inn, right before the police find them.]]
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Natsuru asks Suzumura to take care of the kitten, and Suzumura agrees in exchange for an exact fee. Natsuru and Suzumura have never interacted much before, but Natsuru goes as far as to skip summer soccer camp in order to stay at her rundown house, both to help take care of the kitten and to avoid the new coach. The two gradually develop a strong bond over their lack of parental figures (Natsuru's mother is a widow, while Rio and her brother are waiting [[MinorLivingAlone by themselves]] for their single dad to get back from a fishing trip), but their happiness together gets upended when the Suzumuras turn out to be hiding a disturbing secret....

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Natsuru asks Suzumura to take care of the kitten, and Suzumura agrees in exchange for an exact fee. Natsuru and Suzumura have never interacted much before, but Natsuru goes as far as to skip summer soccer camp in order to stay favor of staying at her rundown house, both to help take care of the kitten and to avoid the new coach. The two gradually develop a strong bond over their lack of parental figures (Natsuru's mother is a widow, while Rio and her brother are waiting [[MinorLivingAlone by themselves]] for their single dad to get back from a fishing trip), but their happiness together gets upended when the Suzumuras turn out to be hiding a disturbing secret....
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Natsuru asks Suzumura to take care of the kitten. Natsuru and Suzumura have never interacted much before, but Natsuru goes as far as to skip summer soccer camp in order to stay at her rundown house, both to help take care of the kitten and to avoid the new coach. The two gradually develop a strong bond over their lack of parental figures (Natsuru's mother is a widow, while Rio and her brother are waiting [[MinorLivingAlone by themselves]] for their single dad to get back from a fishing trip), but their happiness together gets upended when the Suzumuras turn out to be hiding a disturbing secret....

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Natsuru asks Suzumura to take care of the kitten.kitten, and Suzumura agrees in exchange for an exact fee. Natsuru and Suzumura have never interacted much before, but Natsuru goes as far as to skip summer soccer camp in order to stay at her rundown house, both to help take care of the kitten and to avoid the new coach. The two gradually develop a strong bond over their lack of parental figures (Natsuru's mother is a widow, while Rio and her brother are waiting [[MinorLivingAlone by themselves]] for their single dad to get back from a fishing trip), but their happiness together gets upended when the Suzumuras turn out to be hiding a disturbing secret....
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11-year old Natsuru Nanao is a sporty elementary school aged boy. Though he is enthusiastic about playing soccer, he is less enthusiastic about having to interact with his soccer camp's new coach, a man who makes insensitive comments about his skills and his mother's single status. One day he finds an abandoned kitten in a box and decides to take it home. He can't keep it due to his mother's allergies, but luckily he bumps into a classmate while outside: the tall and secretive Rio Suzumura, who is walking to the grocery store with her little brother Yuta.

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11-year old Natsuru Nanao is a sporty elementary school aged boy. Though he is enthusiastic about playing soccer, soccer with his friends, he is less enthusiastic about having to interact with his soccer camp's new coach, a man who makes insensitive comments about his skills and his mother's single status. One day he finds an abandoned kitten in a box and decides to take it home. He can't keep it due to his mother's allergies, but luckily he bumps into a classmate while outside: the tall and secretive Rio Suzumura, who is walking to the grocery store with her little brother Yuta.
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11-year old Natsuru Nanao is a sporty elementary school aged boy. Though he is enthusiastic about playing soccer, he is less enthusiastic about having to interact with his soccer camp's new coach, a man who makes insensitive comments about his skills and his mother's single status. One day he finds an abandoned kitten in a box and decides to take it home. He can't keep it due to his mother's allergies, but luckily he bumps into a classmate while outside. He sees his tall classmate Rio Suzumura walking to the grocery store with her little brother.

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11-year old Natsuru Nanao is a sporty elementary school aged boy. Though he is enthusiastic about playing soccer, he is less enthusiastic about having to interact with his soccer camp's new coach, a man who makes insensitive comments about his skills and his mother's single status. One day he finds an abandoned kitten in a box and decides to take it home. He can't keep it due to his mother's allergies, but luckily he bumps into a classmate while outside. He sees his outside: the tall classmate and secretive Rio Suzumura Suzumura, who is walking to the grocery store with her little brother.
brother Yuta.
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* CoolOldGuy: Coach Okada, the older coach of Natsuru's soccer team who had to drop out while getting treated for cancer. Both the kids' description about him as well as Natsuru's conversation with him at the hospital indicate that he is a kind man who always likes to encourage his team. The boys are not happy that he has to be replaced with Maruo Sakai, a younger but less kind coach.

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11-year old Natsuru is a sporty elementary school aged boy. Though he is enthusiastic about playing soccer, he is less enthusiastic about having to interact with his soccer camp's new coach, a man who makes insensitive comments about his skills and his mother's single status. One day he finds an abandoned kitten in a box and decides to take it home. He can't keep it due to his mother's allergies, but luckily he bumps into a classmate while outside. He sees his tall classmate Rio Suzumura walking to the grocery store with her little brother.

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11-year old Natsuru Nanao is a sporty elementary school aged boy. Though he is enthusiastic about playing soccer, he is less enthusiastic about having to interact with his soccer camp's new coach, a man who makes insensitive comments about his skills and his mother's single status. One day he finds an abandoned kitten in a box and decides to take it home. He can't keep it due to his mother's allergies, but luckily he bumps into a classmate while outside. He sees his tall classmate Rio Suzumura walking to the grocery store with her little brother.


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* LastNameBasis: As expected with someone he barely knows at first, Natsuru refers to Rio as Suzumura. It leads to some confusion when he moves in with them, as at one point he says "Suzumura" when calling to her but Yuta thinks ''he'' is the one being talked to due to him having the same last name.
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* FirstNameBasis: Natsuru refers to his mother by her first name, Ritsuko.
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* CheerfulChild: Yuta, Rio's younger brother, has a very cheery demeanor. It's deconstructed, however, as the only reason he's able to be so cheerful is because Rio does so much to keep him shielded from the unpleasant things happening to them.

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* ComingOfAgeStory: It's about two kids maturing right before they begin middle school.



* ComingOfAgeStory: It's about two kids maturing right before they begin middle school.
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** Natsuru, Rio, and Yuta [[spoiler:try to run away together]] but, being eleven, they only make it so far before being found.

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** Natsuru, Rio, and Yuta [[spoiler:try to run away together]] but, being eleven, they only make it so far before being found. Furthermore, [[spoiler:the resulting missing person investigation directly leads to the police discovering the grandfather's body at the now totally abandoned house]].
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* IgnoranceIsBliss: A major theme of the story. Natsuru was able to have a blissful time with Rio before finding out about [[spoiler:her grandfather being buried in the backyard]], and Rio was able to stoically wait things out with Yuta before finding out that [[spoiler:her father was ''not'' on a fishing trip and had simply abandoned them]]. This is the basis of the TitleDrop at the end: sometimes the gods lie in order to keep humans happy.

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* EmotionlessGirl: This is how Rio initially comes across to Natsuru and their classmates. As the two of them bond, Rio starts showing more emotion with Natsuru...and he eventually finds out just why she was so emotionally reserved.



** The kids keep a beetle in a little cage. It dies within a few days.

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** The kids keep a beetle in a little cage.cage with little idea how to properly feed it. It dies within a few days.
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Natsuru asks Suzumura to take care of the kitten. Natsuru and Suzumura have never interacted much before, but Natsuru goes as far as to skip summer soccer camp in order to stay at her rundown house, both to help take care of the kitten and to avoid the new coach. The two gradually develop a strong bond over their lack of parental figures (Natsuru's mother is a widow, while Rio and her brother are waiting by themselves for their single dad to get back from a fishing trip), but their happiness together gets upended when the Suzumuras turn out to be hiding a disturbing secret....

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Natsuru asks Suzumura to take care of the kitten. Natsuru and Suzumura have never interacted much before, but Natsuru goes as far as to skip summer soccer camp in order to stay at her rundown house, both to help take care of the kitten and to avoid the new coach. The two gradually develop a strong bond over their lack of parental figures (Natsuru's mother is a widow, while Rio and her brother are waiting [[MinorLivingAlone by themselves themselves]] for their single dad to get back from a fishing trip), but their happiness together gets upended when the Suzumuras turn out to be hiding a disturbing secret....

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11-year old Natsuru is a sporty elementary school aged boy. One day he finds an abandoned kitten in a box and decides to take it home. He can't keep it due to his mother's allergies, but luckily he bumps into a classmate while outside. He sees his tall classmate Rio Suzumura walking to the grocery store with her little brother. Natsuru asks Suzumura to take care of the kitten. Natsuru and Suzumura have never interacted much before, but this chance encounter changes both of their lives.

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11-year old Natsuru is a sporty elementary school aged boy. Though he is enthusiastic about playing soccer, he is less enthusiastic about having to interact with his soccer camp's new coach, a man who makes insensitive comments about his skills and his mother's single status. One day he finds an abandoned kitten in a box and decides to take it home. He can't keep it due to his mother's allergies, but luckily he bumps into a classmate while outside. He sees his tall classmate Rio Suzumura walking to the grocery store with her little brother. brother.

Natsuru asks Suzumura to take care of the kitten. Natsuru and Suzumura have never interacted much before, but this chance encounter changes Natsuru goes as far as to skip summer soccer camp in order to stay at her rundown house, both to help take care of the kitten and to avoid the new coach. The two gradually develop a strong bond over their lives.
lack of parental figures (Natsuru's mother is a widow, while Rio and her brother are waiting by themselves for their single dad to get back from a fishing trip), but their happiness together gets upended when the Suzumuras turn out to be hiding a disturbing secret....
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* SilentTreatment: After rejecting a trio of girls at the start of the year, they stopped talking to Natsuru.

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* SilentTreatment: After rejecting a Natsuru rejected Himegawa's chocolate, her trio of girls at the start of the year, they stopped stop talking to Natsuru.him.
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** Natsuru's dad is either absent or deceased.

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** Natsuru's dad is either absent or deceased.died of cancer before the start of the story.
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* ThanksForTheMammary: In the very beginning of the chapter, Natsuru comforts himself by deliberately groping his mother's breasts...and she doesn't reprimand him for it.
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11-year old Natsuru is a sporty elementary school aged boy. One day he finds an abandoned kitten in a box and decides to take it home. He can't keep it due to his mother's allergies, but luckily he bumps into a classmate while outside. He sees his tall classmate Rio Suzumura walking to the grocery store with her little brother. Natsuru asks Suzumura to take care of the kitten. Natsuru and Suzumuya have never interacted much before, but this chance encounter changes both of their lives.

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11-year old Natsuru is a sporty elementary school aged boy. One day he finds an abandoned kitten in a box and decides to take it home. He can't keep it due to his mother's allergies, but luckily he bumps into a classmate while outside. He sees his tall classmate Rio Suzumura walking to the grocery store with her little brother. Natsuru asks Suzumura to take care of the kitten. Natsuru and Suzumuya Suzumura have never interacted much before, but this chance encounter changes both of their lives.
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** Natsuru, Rio, and Yuzu [[spoiler:try to run away together]] but, being eleven, they only make it so far before being found.

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** Natsuru, Rio, and Yuzu Yuta [[spoiler:try to run away together]] but, being eleven, they only make it so far before being found.



* StrongFamilyResemblance: Suzumura and her little brother Yuzu look a lot alike, though they have different hair colour shades. They both resemble their father.

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* StrongFamilyResemblance: Suzumura and her little brother Yuzu Yuta look a lot alike, though they have different hair colour shades. They both resemble their father.

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* DisappearedDad:
** Natsuru's dad is either absent or deceased.
** Suzumura's father [[spoiler:said he was going to Alaska to work, but just abandoned his kids with their grandfather]].
* DistantFinale: The series ends a while after the previous events. It's only a short timeskip but it's enough for Natsuru and Suzumura to both develop.
* ComingOfAgeStory: It's about two kids maturing right before they begin middle school.
* FestivalEpisode: In one chapter, Natsuru and the siblings go to a summer festival.



* SilentTreatment: After rejecting a trio of girls at the start of the year, they stopped talking to Natsuru.

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* RealityEnsues:
** The kids keep a beetle in a little cage. It dies within a few days.
** Natsuru, Rio, and Yuzu [[spoiler:try to run away together]] but, being eleven, they only make it so far before being found.
* SilentTreatment: After rejecting a trio of girls at the start of the year, they stopped talking to Natsuru.Natsuru.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Suzumura and her little brother Yuzu look a lot alike, though they have different hair colour shades. They both resemble their father.
* WouldHitAGirl: Natsuru gets in trouble for hitting a girl who was bullying Suzumura.

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''The Gods Lie'' (''Kamisama ga Uso o Tsuku'') by Kaori Ozaki is a short 5-chapter manga about an elementary school boy's friendship with one of his classmates.

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''The Gods Lie'' (''Kamisama ga Uso o Tsuku'') by Kaori Ozaki is a short 5-chapter manga about an elementary school a boy's friendship with one of his classmates.female classmates.

11-year old Natsuru is a sporty elementary school aged boy. One day he finds an abandoned kitten in a box and decides to take it home. He can't keep it due to his mother's allergies, but luckily he bumps into a classmate while outside. He sees his tall classmate Rio Suzumura walking to the grocery store with her little brother. Natsuru asks Suzumura to take care of the kitten. Natsuru and Suzumuya have never interacted much before, but this chance encounter changes both of their lives.



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* AbandonedPetInABox: Natsuru finds a kitten in a box and takes it home. He can't keep it so he gives it to Suzumura.
* FoodThemeNaming: The character's white kitten is named "Tofu".
* HugeSchoolgirl: Most of Suzumura's classmates only reach her shoulders. As a result of height, she gets teased.
* NewTransferStudent: Natsuru transferred schools at the start of the year.
* SilentTreatment: After rejecting a trio of girls at the start of the year, they stopped talking to Natsuru.
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