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* CruelTwistEnding: Most of them.
** Special mention to ''The Kind Mama's House.'' A young girl, Anna has been chatting with a blogger named 'Mama,' and soon sees her as more of a mother than her own mom. Mama sends Anna gifts, helps her with her homework, provides a shoulder to lean on...and then Anna discovers that Mama is stalking her and plans to murder her mother so ''she'' can be Anna's "real mother." Anna saves her mom and shouts at Mama to go away, and she does...[[spoiler:only to show up inside Anna's house days later, deciding to simply kidnap Anna and lock her up, just like she did many other children before her. The last scene shows Mama blogging about how spoiled her new daughter is, but that she still loves her.]]



*KarmicTwistEnding:
** ''Graduate Number 108:'' A popular elementary-school girl and her friends notice an odd shadow behind her in every photo in their yearbook. Each time they look again, the shadow is closer to her, until finally it drapes its arms around her shoulders. The girl figures it must be the spirit of a girl who went missing, because she never liked the protagonist and was "weird." [[spoiler: Then we discover that in reality, the popular girl bullies everyone into being her friend, and had killed the girl when she refused to be bullied, and burned the body in the incinerator. As the girl is ready to throw the yearbook into the incinerator to dispose the evidence, gloating that she'll continue to bully others into middle school and high school, the burnt corpse of the girl pops out and drags her inside.]]
** ''The Sacrifice Club:'' A girl learns about a sacrificial ritual that the town used to do during their festival centuries ago, and decides to kill the girlfriend of her crush so she won't have competition. During the festival, she, completely off the deep end now, lures the girl away from her boyfriend and prepares to sacrifice her...[[spoiler: only for her friends to turn against her, declare she's disgusting, and reveal her crush standing nearby, having seen everything. Everyone leaves her, alone and humiliated, in the forest. And then on her way back home, she runs into the ''real'' sacrifice club. And guess who this year's sacrifice will be?]]



* TwistEnding
** CruelTwistEnding: Most of them
** KarmicTwistEnding: ''Graduate Number 108,'' ''The Sacrifice Club''
** TwilightZoneTwist: ''Miracle Ball''


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* TwilightZoneTwist
** ''Miracle Ball:'' The captain of the girls' basketball team at school is having trouble with one particular member of the team--she tries her hardest, but she's just not as athletic as the others. The captain leaves her in the gym alone to practice at her request...an discovers the next day that she was killed when the backboard fell on her, severing her head from her body. Interesting, after that the team plays better than ever before, even when the girl was on the bench. [[spoiler: It turns out that immediately before her death, the girl prayed for a way to help her team...and some supernatural force transfigured her head into a basketball for her team. So whenever the team plays with the ball her head became, the girl's spirit aids her team and makes them stronger. The ending pages take place years in the future, as the captain has gone pro, and gives an interview as she holds that same ball, declaring she can't imagine playing without it.]]
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* HellishPupils: Our narrator has them [[spoiler:ever since dying in an explosion and becoming a spirit.]]
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* AllOfTheOtherRaindeer: The entire classroom in ''Scarecrow Teacher'' bullies their ShrinkingViolet teacher.

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* AllOfTheOtherRaindeer: AllOfTheOtherReindeer: The entire classroom in ''Scarecrow Teacher'' bullies their ShrinkingViolet teacher.

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* AllOfTheOtherRaindeer: The entire classroom in ''Scarecrow Teacher'' bullies their ShrinkingViolet teacher.



* ScaryShinyGlasses: If a character wears glasses, expect this to happen at least once.

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* ScaryShinyGlasses: If a character wears glasses, expect this to happen at least once.ScaryShinyGlasses[=/=]OpaqueLenses: The class rep in ''Execution Classroom'' develops these.


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* TransformationTrauma
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* EducationMama: Some of the protaganists meet their untimely fates because they were pressured by parents who wanted them to be the best.
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* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: Zig Zagged in ''The Day I Became a Demon,'' the protagonist wishes for her ex-best friend to "disappear from this world" after being bullied by her. She finds herself sent back in time to shortly before her friend turned on her, and decides that this means ''she'' must be the bully now, and bully her friend so much she'll want to die. But it turns out [[spoiler: that her best friend had made a wish ''first,'' and her wish was to SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong in bullying her friend--this time she would decide not to, and stick my her. Once the protagonist realizes her mistake, she manages to save her friend and the two repair their friendship in a rare happy ending.]]

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* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: Zig Zagged in ''The Day I Became a Demon,'' the protagonist wishes for her ex-best friend to "disappear from this world" after being bullied by her. She finds herself sent back in time to shortly before her friend turned on her, and decides that this means ''she'' must be the bully now, and bully her friend so much she'll want to die. But it turns out [[spoiler: that her best friend had made a wish ''first,'' and her wish was to SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong in bullying her friend--this time she would decide not to, and stick my by her. Once the protagonist realizes her mistake, she manages to save her friend and the two repair their friendship in a rare happy ending.]]

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* FreakyFridayFlip: ''Make-Believe Sisters.'' ItGotWorse.



* {{Yandere}}: The protagonist in ''The Sacrifice Club,'' [[spoiler: as well as the one in ''Bloody Valentine.'' The statue in ''Best Friend'' is this as well, of the "kill you so you'll never leave me" variety.]]

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* {{Yandere}}: The protagonist in ''The Sacrifice Club,'' [[spoiler: as well as the one in ''Bloody Valentine.'' The statue in ''Best Friend'' is this as well, of the "kill you so you'll never leave me" variety.]]variety, and even a ''three-year-old'' is this in ''Make-Believe Sisters.'']]

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* AfterlifeExpress: The bus in ''The Bus To the Underworld," (translated as "Bus To Hell" by some groups, though it actually goes to a generic afterlife, rather than ''Hell''). Apparently you can board even if you're not officially dead, as the protagonist boards it and [[spoiler: wakes up in her house after refusing to get off at the stop, with her family revealing she collapsed at the station and was in a coma for three days.]]

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* AfterlifeExpress: The bus in ''The Bus To the Underworld," Underworld,'' (translated as "Bus ''Bus To Hell" Hell'' by some groups, though it actually goes to a generic afterlife, rather than ''Hell''). Apparently you can board even if you're not officially dead, as the protagonist boards it and [[spoiler: wakes up in her house after refusing to get off at the stop, with her family revealing she collapsed at the station and was in a coma for three days.]]


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* DaylightHorror: The vast majority of the stories occur during the day.


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* HorrorDoesntSettleForSimpleTuesday: ''The Last Christmas'' takes place around the holiday-season, with the climax/ending on Christmas Eve night.


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* OurMermaidsAreDifferent
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* CloseKnitCommunity: An entire apartment complex provides a creepy example in ''The Friendly Apartment Complex.'' Residents all take care of and know each other, the adults tutor the children, they have a vegetable garden where they get all their food...and no one is allowed to leave the building for anything, contact the outside world, or even speak to people who don't live in the building. ''"We have everything we need right here."''
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* NothingExcitingEverHappensHere: Possibly. Considering that Yomi provides opening and closing narration to each story, and when you realize that [[spoiler: she herself is the ghost of a student who died in an explosion at a junior high school]], it's not too far a stretch to believe that all the stories are happening in the same area.


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* ScaryScarecrows: ''Scarecrow Teacher''
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* MurderTheHypotenuse: ''The Sacrifice Club'''s protagonist wishes to do this to her crush's girlfriend.

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* MurderTheHypotenuse: ''The Sacrifice Club'''s protagonist wishes to do this to her crush's girlfriend. [[spoiler: The extra pages for ''Bloody Valentine'' reveal that the [[{{Yandere}} protagonist]] succeeded in ''Institutionalizing/Jailing'' The Hypotenuse.]]
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* CatsAreMean: Saya the black kitten in ''BlackCatSaya'' shapeshifts into the protagonist's mother and terrifies her when they're left alone together. [[spoiler: It turns out she's doing this as {{Revenge}} for the protagonist telling her father to leave her to die when she was struck by their car. In the end, she murders the protagonist the same way and shapeshifts into ''her.'']]

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* CatsAreMean: Saya the black kitten in ''BlackCatSaya'' ''Black Cat Saya'' shapeshifts into the protagonist's mother and terrifies her when they're left alone together. [[spoiler: It turns out she's doing this as {{Revenge}} for the protagonist telling her father to leave her to die when she was struck by their car. In the end, she murders the protagonist the same way and shapeshifts into ''her.'']]

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* AfterlifeExpress: The bus in ''The Bus To the Underworld," (translated as "Bus To Hell" by some groups, though it actually goes to a generic afterlife, rather than ''Hell''). Apparently you can board even if you're not officially dead, as the protagonist boards it and [[spoiler: wakes up in her house after refusing to get off at the stop, with her family revealing she collapsed at the station and was in a coma for three days.]]



* CatsAreMean: Saya the black kitten in ''BlackCatSaya'' shapeshifts into the protagonist's mother and terrifies her when they're left alone together. [[spoiler: It turns out she's doing this as {{Revenge}} for the protagonist telling her father to leave her to die when she was struck by their car. In the end, she murders the protagonist the same way and shapeshifts into ''her.'']]



* CreepyDoll: Mary, in ''Mary's Dining Table,'' the entire doll collection in ''A House For Dolls'' may qualify...since [[spoiler: they're transformed humans and bleed when you prick them.]]

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* CreepyDoll: Mary, in ''Mary's Dining Table,'' Table;'' the entire doll collection in ''A House For Dolls'' may qualify...since [[spoiler: they're transformed humans and bleed when you prick them.]]



* KidsAreCruel

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* KidsAreCruelKidsAreCruel[=/=]TeensAreMonsters
* KillItWithFire: [[spoiler: While it's unknown if hitting her head on a rock or being thrown in the incinerator is what killed the missing girl in ''Graduate 108,'' there's no doubt about it that the protagonist met this fate.]]



* SpiritAdvisor: In ''The Bus To The Underworld,'' one of the ghosts on-board provides a listening ear to the protagonist's problems, gives her some advice, and then encourages her to keep living and enjoy her life. [[spoiler: [[HeartwarmingMoments He also turns out to be the ghost of her grandfather, who died before her mother was born and is waiting for his wife to join him in the afterlife.]]]]



* WhenTreesAttack: ''The Money-Tree'' [[spoiler: uses its roots to pull victims down underground, where it uses their life-force and greed as nourishment.]]



* {{Yandere}}: The protagonist in ''The Sacrifice Club,'' [[spoiler: ''Bloody Valentine.'' The statue in ''Best Friend'' is this as well, in the "kill you so you'll never leave" variety.]]

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* {{Yandere}}: The protagonist in ''The Sacrifice Club,'' [[spoiler: as well as the one in ''Bloody Valentine.'' The statue in ''Best Friend'' is this as well, in of the "kill you so you'll never leave" leave me" variety.]]
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* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: Zig Zagged in ''The Day I Became a Demon,'' the protagonist wishes for her ex-best friend to "disappear from this world" after being bullied by her. She finds herself sent back in time to shortly before her friend turned on her, and decides that this means ''she'' must be the bully now, and bully her friend so much she'll want to die. But it turns out [[spoiler: that her best friend had made a wish ''first,'' and her wish was to SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong in bullying her friend--this time she would decide not to, and stick my her. Once the protagonist realizes her mistake, she manages to save her friend and the two repair their friendship in a rare happy ending.]]
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* AFateWorseThanDeath[=/=]AndIMustScream: ''Mary's Dining Table,'' ''An Endless Game of Tag''

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* AFateWorseThanDeath[=/=]AndIMustScream: ''Mary's Dining Table,'' ''An Endless Game of Tag''Tag,'' ''Best Friend''

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* ChainOfPeople: A horrifying variant in ''The Land of Mermaids''



* HumanChain: A horrifying variant in ''The Land of Mermaids''
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* HumanChain: A horrifying variant in ''The Land of Mermaids''
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* YankTheDogsChain: [[spoiler: The Kind Mama's House, and the Extra Pages concluding Bloody Valentine's story]]

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* YankTheDogsChain: [[spoiler: The ''The Kind Mama's House, House,'' ''A House For Dolls,'' and the Extra Pages concluding Bloody Valentine's ''Bloody Valentine'''s story]]

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* BadSanta: ''The Last Christmas''



* LivingStatue: The statue in ''Best Friend.''



* TakenForGranite: [[spoiler: ''Best Friend'']]



* {{Yandere}}: The protagonist in ''The Sacrifice Club,'' [[spoiler: ''Bloody Valentine'']]

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* {{Yandere}}: The protagonist in ''The Sacrifice Club,'' [[spoiler: ''Bloody Valentine'']]Valentine.'' The statue in ''Best Friend'' is this as well, in the "kill you so you'll never leave" variety.]]
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* [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe Half The Girl She Used To Be]]: [[spoiler: Yomi's body was blown in half by the gas explosion in her classroom. After TheReveal, her narration-pages always show her as a floating torso.]]
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* AFateWorseThanDeath[=/=]AndIMustScream: ''Mary's Dining Table''

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* AFateWorseThanDeath[=/=]AndIMustScream: ''Mary's Dining Table''Table,'' ''An Endless Game of Tag''
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* CreepyDoll: Mary, in ''Mary's Dining Table''

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* CreepyDoll: Mary, in ''Mary's Dining Table''Table,'' the entire doll collection in ''A House For Dolls'' may qualify...since [[spoiler: they're transformed humans and bleed when you prick them.]]



* DollEpisode
* EarnYourHappyEnding: The genuinely happy endings are very rare--and when they do occur, the protagonist usually has to go through a lot of hell to get it.

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* DollEpisode
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* EarnYourHappyEnding: The genuinely happy endings are very '''''very''''' rare--and when they do occur, the protagonist usually has to go through a lot of hell to get it.



** ''Graduate Number 108:'' On the day of her graduation from elementary-school, a young girl looks through the class album and discovers a weird shadow lurking behind her. She and her classmates believe that she's been cursed, and it seems that one of her classmates, who disappeared some time ago, is behind it because she never liked the protagonist and rejected her friendship. [[spoiler: Again, half-right. The missing girl is behind it...but only because the protagonist bullies everyone into being her friend, and when the girl spelled it out for her and refused to be cowed, the protagonist ''murdered'' her. Her spirit is coming to get revenge.]]

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** ''Graduate Number 108:'' On the day of her graduation from elementary-school, a young girl looks through the class album and discovers a weird shadow lurking behind her. She and her classmates believe that she's been cursed, and it seems that one of her classmates, who disappeared some time ago, is behind it because she never liked the protagonist and rejected her friendship. [[spoiler: Again, half-right. The missing girl is ''is'' behind it...but only because the protagonist bullies everyone into being her friend, and when the girl spelled it out for her and refused to be cowed, the protagonist ''murdered'' her. Her spirit is coming to get revenge.]]
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* {{Backstory}}: The two-parter ''The Truth About Yomi'' gives our narrator one. [[spoiler: It's revealed that Yomi was once a normal girl who was severely bullied by her classmates. She only had one friend, whom she encouraged not to defend her because the bullies would turn on her next. One day the bullying became too much for her and, after getting her friend out of immediate danger, she [[DrivenToSuicide deliberately blew up a classroom]] [[TakingYouWithMe with her tormentors inside with her.]] The explosion blew her body in half, which is why she appears only as a floating torso in the stories that follow.]]



* DeadlyPrank: Sorta. In ''The Devil's Game,'' [[spoiler: the protagonist encounters a murderer in both the game and real life, and flees. The murderer corners her in the bathroom and she notices her life in the game is nearly gone. In desperation, she decides to erase the save file, hoping it will save her...and her friends come in as the murderer unmasks himself, revealing they were only playing a trick. But it's too late; in erasing the save file, the protagonist has wiped herself from existence.]]
* DisproportionateRetribution: Aside from the occasional MurderTheHypotenuse plots, ''The Devil's Game'' has [[spoiler: the protagonist's friend dressing as a murderer and chasing her into a bathroom, scaring her senseless because she was ignoring them.]] And ''Execution Classroom'' pretty much ''runs'' on this.
* DollEpisode



* KidsAreCruel



* {{Yandere}}: The protagonist in ''The Sacrifice Club,'' [[spoiler: ''Bloody Valentine'']]

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* {{Yandere}}: The protagonist in ''The Sacrifice Club,'' [[spoiler: ''Bloody Valentine'']]Valentine'']]
* YankTheDogsChain: [[spoiler: The Kind Mama's House, and the Extra Pages concluding Bloody Valentine's story]]
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* DeadAllAlong: Zig Zagged hard in [[spoiler: ''The Ocean is Calling'']]

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* AdultsAreUseless[=/=]NotNowKiddo



* CreepyDoll: Mary, in ''Mary's Dining Table''



* TheGameComeToLife: In ''The Devil's Game,'' the protagonist finds a seemingly-harmless RPG[=/=]DatingSim-like game's outcomes happen in the real world as well. Then she runs into a murderer in the game and discovers in the real world, someone is following her...



* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters



** KarmicTwistEnding: [[spoiler: ''Graduate Number 108,'' ''The Sacrifice Club'']]
** TwilightZoneTwist

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** KarmicTwistEnding: [[spoiler: ''Graduate Number 108,'' ''The Sacrifice Club'']]
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** TwilightZoneTwistTwilightZoneTwist: ''Miracle Ball''
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** TwilightZoneTwistEnding

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** TwilightZoneTwistEndingTwilightZoneTwist



** ''Graduate number 108:'' On the day of her graduation from elementary-school, a young girl looks through the class album and discovers a weird shadow lurking behind her. She and her classmates believe that she's been cursed, and it seems that one of her classmates, who disappeared some time ago, is behind it because she never liked the protagonist and rejected her friendship. [[spoiler: Again, half-right. The missing girl is behind it...but only because the protagonist bullies everyone into being her friend, and when the girl spelled it out for her and refused to be cowed, the protagonist ''murdered'' her. Her spirit is coming to get revenge.]]

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** ''Graduate number Number 108:'' On the day of her graduation from elementary-school, a young girl looks through the class album and discovers a weird shadow lurking behind her. She and her classmates believe that she's been cursed, and it seems that one of her classmates, who disappeared some time ago, is behind it because she never liked the protagonist and rejected her friendship. [[spoiler: Again, half-right. The missing girl is behind it...but only because the protagonist bullies everyone into being her friend, and when the girl spelled it out for her and refused to be cowed, the protagonist ''murdered'' her. Her spirit is coming to get revenge.]]



* {{Yandere}}: The protagonist in ''The Sacrifice Club,'' [[Spoiler: ''Bloody Valentine'']]

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* {{Yandere}}: The protagonist in ''The Sacrifice Club,'' [[Spoiler: [[spoiler: ''Bloody Valentine'']]
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''[[Manga/ZekkyouGakkyuu]]'' (''Screaming Lessons'') is {{Shoujo}} [[GenreAnthology horror anthology]] by Ishikawa Emi.

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''[[Manga/ZekkyouGakkyuu]]'' ''Manga/ZekkyouGakkyuu'' (''Screaming Lessons'') is {{Shoujo}} [[GenreAnthology horror anthology]] by Ishikawa Emi.
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''ZekkyouGakkyuu'' (''Screaming Lessons'') is {{Shoujo}} [[GenreAnthology horror anthology]] by Ishikawa Emi.

The stories are opened by a [[CreepyChild strange girl]] (whom discover later is named [[spoiler:Yomi]]). She also gives the ending narration, usually describing the moral of the story and warning her audience not to fall into the same trap the protagonist did.

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''ZekkyouGakkyuu'' ''[[Manga/ZekkyouGakkyuu]]'' (''Screaming Lessons'') is {{Shoujo}} [[GenreAnthology horror anthology]] by Ishikawa Emi.

The stories are opened by a [[CreepyChild strange girl]] (whom we later discover later is named [[spoiler:Yomi]]). She also gives the ending narration, usually describing the moral of the story and warning her audience not to fall into the same trap the protagonist did.

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''ZekkyouGakkyuu'' (''Screaming Lessons'') is {{Shoujo}} HorrorAnthology by Ishikawa Emi.

The stories are opened by a [[CreepyChild]] strange girl (whom discover later is named [[spoiler:Yomi]]). She also gives the ending narration, usually describing the moral of the story and warning her audience not to fall into the same trap the protagonist did.

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''ZekkyouGakkyuu'' (''Screaming Lessons'') is {{Shoujo}} HorrorAnthology [[GenreAnthology horror anthology]] by Ishikawa Emi.

The stories are opened by a [[CreepyChild]] [[CreepyChild strange girl girl]] (whom discover later is named [[spoiler:Yomi]]). She also gives the ending narration, usually describing the moral of the story and warning her audience not to fall into the same trap the protagonist did.



* BigBrotherIsWatching: ''Execution Classroom.'' "Can you come with us, please?"
* BreakTheCutie[=/=]BreakTheHaughty
** KillTheCutie
* ChristmasEpisode: ''The Last Christmas''
* CreepyChild: Yomi is this herself, but then you have the kids in the stories...



* GrowsOnTrees: In ''The Money-Tree,'' there's a special bonsai tree that has yen bills growing from it. Considering the genre, this proves to ''not'' be a good thing after all...
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: ''Execution Classroom.'' The kids started by getting rid of bullies and a SadistTeacher...then the power went to their heads...
* InfantImmortality: ''Nooo-o-o...''
* MurderTheHypotenuse: ''The Sacrifice Club'''s protagonist wishes to do this to her crush's girlfriend.
* ScareDare: ''The Abandoned School at Midnight''
* ScaryShinyGlasses: If a character wears glasses, expect this to happen at least once.



* TomatoInTheMirror: Appropriately enough, [[spoiler: ''In The Land of Mirrors'']]



* WithFriendsLikeThese: ''Kasako-san is Coming,'' ''The Judging Classroom''

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* WithFriendsLikeThese: ''Kasako-san is Coming,'' ''The Judging ''Execution Classroom''
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''ZekkyouGakkyuu'' (''Screaming Lessons'') is {{Shoujo}} HorrorAnthology by Ishikawa Emi.

The stories are opened by a [[CreepyChild]] strange girl (whom discover later is named [[spoiler:Yomi]]). She also gives the ending narration, usually describing the moral of the story and warning her audience not to fall into the same trap the protagonist did.
Despite being aimed at middle-schoolers, the manga is surprisingly-dark, and makes heavy usage of [[CruelTwistEnding Cruel Twists...]]

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The manga contains examples of:

* AnAesop: Usually the stories do have one, such as not being greedy.
* AnyoneCanDie
* AFateWorseThanDeath[=/=]AndIMustScream: ''Mary's Dining Table''
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor
* EarnYourHappyEnding: The genuinely happy endings are very rare--and when they do occur, the protagonist usually has to go through a lot of hell to get it.
* TwistEnding
** CruelTwistEnding: Most of them
** KarmicTwistEnding: [[spoiler: ''Graduate Number 108,'' ''The Sacrifice Club'']]
** TwilightZoneTwistEnding
* TomatoSurprise:
** In ''Bloody Valentine,'' the protagonist is planning a romantic date with her boyfriend for Valentine's Day. But then she starts to get threatening letters, becomes the victim of cruel jokes, and gets a stalker. Her classmates warn her that her boyfriend's ex is jealous, and may be behind the stalking and letters...[[spoiler: Well, they're half-right. But the girl isn't his ex--she's still his girlfriend, and the protagonist is a delusional yandere who threatened her crush's girlfriend so much he had to ''pretend'' to break up with her.]]
** ''Graduate number 108:'' On the day of her graduation from elementary-school, a young girl looks through the class album and discovers a weird shadow lurking behind her. She and her classmates believe that she's been cursed, and it seems that one of her classmates, who disappeared some time ago, is behind it because she never liked the protagonist and rejected her friendship. [[spoiler: Again, half-right. The missing girl is behind it...but only because the protagonist bullies everyone into being her friend, and when the girl spelled it out for her and refused to be cowed, the protagonist ''murdered'' her. Her spirit is coming to get revenge.]]
* WithFriendsLikeThese: ''Kasako-san is Coming,'' ''The Judging Classroom''
* {{Yandere}}: The protagonist in ''The Sacrifice Club,'' [[Spoiler: ''Bloody Valentine'']]

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