Every person possesses a special ability... Some feel blessed by their abilities and others feel cursed.
— Opening Narration
Ability No. X is a YouTube manga channel. A mysterious ball of energy hit Earth and caused a sudden mutation in mankind. People began to manifest extraordinary abilities such as controlling fire and babies being able to speak like adults. The English channel can be found here
. The original Japanese channel can be found here.
The channel is created by the Etra chan saw it! crew and stars different characters.
Ability No. X features the following tropes:
- Abusive Parents: When Ayame manifested her ability to hear the flowers, her parents frequently abused her because they wanted to cover it up. This made Ayame resentful of her ability and the flowers and she began to hurt them.
- Accidental Murder: Mr. Toma is a former cop. When a woman accused a man of stealing her purse, Mr. Toma jumped on the man believing him to be the thief but unfortunately he had a brain hemorrhage and he died. This drove him to guilt and he even ended up quitting his job because of it.
- Back-Alley Doctor: Sho was a doctor, but he sells drugs to criminals. When his wife found out, she tried to tell him to stop, but he refused saying that he is doing it for the family. She called the police, but the criminals ended up killing him to cover their tracks.
- The Bully: Kanzaki was a former bully who used her ability to steal vision from a classmate, blinding her. The classmate later died due to an accident on her way home.
- Blackmail: Rindo uses his ability to see other people's abilities to find out their darkest secrets and blackmail them.
- The Cameo: Etra from Etra chan saw it! appears in Saeko's story in a poster.
- Dead All Along: Kaoru saw that something is off his girlfriend Sayo. When she collapsed one day, Kaoru decided to go to her apartment with a friend to check out what was wrong with her, but when she collapsed, both men ran to the police to report it. It turned out that Sayo had been dead for a while after Ai accidentally killed her by pushing her which caused her to hit her head badly and had been controlled by Ai using her ability to control dead bodies.
- De-power: Metsu has the ability to permanently remove other's abilities.
- Downer Ending: Most stories end on a depressing, tragic note with the protagonists suffering by their or others' abilities.
- Darker and Edgier: Compared to Etra chan saw it!, this channel is a lot darker. It features several ability related deaths and Downer Endings.
- Expy: Ayame bears a heavy resemblance to Yuzuriha.
- Formerly Fat: Saeko was fat until she manifests her telepathy ability called "linking" and converses with Misato who helps her improve herself.
- "Groundhog Day" Loop: Eiji manifests an ability to turn back time during his wedding. He formed a city so everyone who lives there can relive the same day over and over with slight variations. Eiji's wife eventually gets tired of the time loop, wanting to have kids and left him.
- The Insomniac: Yuzuru has an ability that allows him to go several years without sleep. The side-effect is that he will get fatigued very slowly over time.
- Invisibility: Kiyosumi has the ability to turn himself invisible and he uses it to stealthy assassinate people.
- Meaningful Name: Yume means dream in Japanese and she has the power to manipulate dreams.
- School Bullying Is Harmless: Averted hard. When Kanzaki made a classmate blind and tormented her, she died in a road accident because she was not able to see. This caused her to feel guilty and stopped bullying others. When Kanzaki tried to atone for her sins in an attempt to be enlightened by the priest, not only is she not enlightened, but the priest kills her by using his ability to synthesize a poison which slowly kills her.
- Spontaneous Human Combustion: In one episode, a man explodes in the club that Naru went to. Turns out that it's his special ability.
- It Amused Me: Rindo has the ability to see other's abilities from a glance. He found out about Yuria's ability to kill people by cursing their pictures. He kept sending her threatening letters to expose her, causing her to be paranoid and start killing anyone that she suspects and ruining her life in the process. All because he was bored.
