History VisualNovel / TheShell

* ALoveToDismember: First murder arc ends with telling us that [[spoiler:Kusaka]] has sex with the rotting composite corpse of his sister and the other girls from Schisma before committing suicide depending on the player's choices. Unless he was killed.
* ACupAngst: Kazuna, Shugo’s wife.

* ContinuityNod: This series takes place after Innocent Grey's previous work ''VisualNovel/{{Cartagra}}'', in which Takashiro Shugo is the main character. Takashiro, Kazuna and Hatsune are returning character from ''Cartagra''.

* GuideDangIt. Seriously. Try beating this game without getting a bad ending on your own. The choices are numerous and the consequences are rarely immediately obvious. See also TrialAndErrorGameplay below.

* InconsistentDub: Or inconsistent subs, in this case. The English translation doesn't have a consistent romanization scheme for long vowels in Japanese. In the transliteration of the characters' names, the difference between short and long vowels is ignored - so "冬子" is written as "Toko" instead of, for instance, "Tōko" or "Touko", and so on. In the transliteration of UsefulNotes/JapaneseSiblingTerminology forms of address, however, the translation does represent long vowels (with double letters).

%%* FreudianExcuse: [[spoiler:Shinji and Rokushiki. Big time.]]

* MadArtist: During a period of deep insanity, Mamiya Shinzo created Kara no Shoujo by [[spoiler:killing his lover, Misa, and using her body as a model]]. Now that he’s sane again you might say he’s not terribly proud of his masterpiece.

* TheOjou: Everyone at Ouba academy, really, but especially Orihime.

* StrongFamilyResemblance: Toko is very similar to her mother Misa.

* ALoveToDismember: [[spoiler: Saya certainly doesn't let those arms and legs go to waste... ]]

---> [[spoiler:'''Toko''']]: It’s crying. This precious life, only having been born into this world moments ago... is crying. Ah... I’m so glad. I’m so glad that you’re healthy. His blood runs in your veins, the blood of a person that meant the most to me. Thank you so much for being born. Please...I want you to live and be happy in my place as well. I don’t have much time left to live...I am unable to even embrace the child I’ve given birth to...Nor can I convey these feelings to anyone...So let me rest...and pray that the next time I awaken, I will be in his embrace..
* EvilMentor: [[spoiler:Saya]] appears to have been one of sorts to [[spoiler: Karen]] at least for a while, but to what extent is anyone's guess.

* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler:Ayato and Fuyumi are revealed to be Michiru's parents. In a twist, she realises it before they (or Reiji) do.]]
** [[spoiler: The man Karen and Ayato thought was their uncle is actually their father. Yuzuru Kuroya had an affair with their mother, Rika Hinagami. See EveryoneIsRelated.]]
* EveryoneIsRelated: Because Ayato and Karen's father ReallyGetsAround. It turns out that Ayato, Karen, [[spoiler:Satsuki (the real one), Naori, Meguri, and Yu]] are all related. Ayako's father is [[spoiler: Ayato's grandfather, making her his half-aunt!]] Plus many other characters too minor to list are also related one way or another!
* IJustWantToBeYou: [[spoiler:Yukiko considers herself a hollow shell who merely “assimilated” other personalities by killing their bodies. She killed her twin brother when she was young and in a bad end she kills Yukari and adopts her personality, much to Reiji's horror.]]
** [[spoiler:Being forced to live in Satsuki's shadow by her mother with few even knowing of her existence, Ayako envied how reveried Satsuki was.]]

* KansaiRegionalAccent: Natsume, sort of. She speaks in a strange mishmash that’s mostly based on this, though.

* Bowdlerise: Yes, unbelievably. The hentai adaptation is far less graphic than the visual novels, and some characters are SparedByTheAdaptation, but it ends with [[spoiler:Shinji still at large]].