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''Shiki'' (lit., Corpse Demon) is a horror manga that is based on Fuyumi Ono's novel by the same name and illustrated by Ryu Fujisaki, it ran in Jump SQ. The story takes place in a small village called Sotoba where, after a mysterious family moves in, a wave of unnatural deaths begins to occur. It soon becomes obvious to a select few, that these deaths are the work of <s>[[Our Vampires Are Different|Dead]] [[Tsukihime|Apostles]]</s> [[Our Vampires Are Different|vampires]] (or [[Title Drop|Shiki]] as they're referred to in-series). Can they stop the ranks of [[The Undead]], or will they join them?
The series is rather interesting as it presents the view from both the human and monster sides. On one hand, the Shiki {{spoiler|are simply trying to find a place to call their own. But their murderous instincts make peaceful cohabitation difficult.}} The humans (those who are in the know) {{spoiler|are, of course, simply defending themselves, although some characters cross lines that make them no better than the Shiki.}} This does leave it ambiguous which side the audience is supposed to root for.
[[Name's the Same|Not to be confused]] with the [[Nasuverse]] characters, [[Kara no Kyoukai:|Ryougi]] and [[Tsukihime|Tohno]] Shiki, nor with [[The World Ends With You|Shiki Misaki]].
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A [[Shiki/Characters|character sheet]] is now available.
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Not to be confused with [[Black_Cat_(manga)/Characters#Shiki|the character Shiki]] from ''[[Black Cat_(manga)|Black Cat]]''.
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* [[Adults Are Useless]]: Yuuki parents [[Too Dumb to Live|especially his father]], in one go he managed to let a vampire into the house, agreed to allow her brother in, disposed of all the charms and crosses Yuuki put in his room (because he hated supperstition) and made sure to unlock the door (because the village is safe and doing so show the trust in others) - all of which he managed to do out of his own will without anyone hypnotizing or manipulating him.
* [[Alternate Continuity]]: Both manga and anime borders over this, for the simple fact that {{spoiler|Natsuno is one of the biggest threats against the Shiki after he gets turned into one of them himself and begins working along with Ozaki}}. In the novels? {{spoiler|Natsuno never rises as a Shiki thus staying dead}}, the little he did {{spoiler|against the Shiki as a human}} is completly overshadowed by {{spoiler|Ozaki}} who does almost all the planning by himself originally.
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* [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]]: In Chapter 33 Sunako specifically addresses the reader as to why she's sharing the story of Cain and Abel.
* [[Break the Cutie]]: Kaori {{spoiler|goes [[Ax Crazy]]}} in Chapter 32 when {{spoiler|her undead father tries to kill her. She applies a baseball bat to his head multiple times, and when that doesn't kill him, she gets out a ''pickaxe'' to finish him off. She then proceeds to shove his unrecognizable corpse into a closet for good measure}}.
* [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]]: You'd think a man who juggles candy bars and wears a hot pink suit would be the last shiki to be put in charge of running funeral services.
* [[Campbell Country]]: {{spoiler|A strange [[Inverted Trope|inversion]], where despite the setting, the danger comes to the villagers from the new arrivals, not the way round.}}
* [[Cast of Snowflakes]]: No villager looks the same if stood side by side each other. The entire village consists of people of different ages, and a wide variety too.
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** And many, many more. To name a few, the offhand comments in the first episode, such as the destruction of the Jizou statues ({{spoiler|The Shiki are weak against religious icons}}) and the time discrepancies between deaths in Yamairi ({{spoiler|Indicates the Shiki's plans for the area and hypnotic abilities}}).
** Maeda Motoko. A character who got a chapter dedicated to her story {{spoiler|who also tells the villagers about the daughter who is taking care of her Shiki mother and starts the fire that burns the village down}}.
* [[Cool Shades]]: Tatsumi's glasses.
* [[Creepy Child]]: Sunako, pulling double duty as an [[Undead Child]].
** Also Shizuka and [[Creepy Doll|her hand-puppet]].
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** {{spoiler|The manga reveals that Maeda Motoko -- the villager with a paranoid and unhinged fear of outsiders who went crazy after all her family members died -- is responsible for the fire in the manga. Even setting herself on fire.}}
** For the anime, the second OAV also reveals the aforementioned.
* [[Do Not Call Me "Paul"]]: Natsuno Yuuki. He prefers people not to call him by his first name because he thinks it's too girlish.<ref>
** Sunako does ''not'' like to be addressed as "Sunako-chan." Anyone who attaches that honourific with her name risks her wrath.
* [[The Dragon]]: Tatsumi is this to the Kirishiki family, he does all the work when they just sit in their mansion looking fabulous.
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* [[Evil-Detecting Dog|Evil Detecting Dogs]]: Love turns highly aggressive towards {{spoiler|Kaori's shiki-fied father}}.
** Taro attempts to warn Ritsuko of an approaching group of shiki in episode 17.
* [[Expy]]: The Kirishiki parents' mannerisms noticeably resemble those of [[Baccano!|Isaac and Miria]].
** Going further on this, J. Michael Tatum even voices Seishiro. No such luck for Chizuru.
* [[Family-Unfriendly Death]]: {{spoiler|Megumi gets her head run over by a ''tractor''. Then her heart impaled after her legs still wiggle about after her head is crushed}}. And this is ''shonen'', not seinen.
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** Some fans even call Toshio and Seishin, Dr. ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'' and ''[[Monk]]''.
* [[Flat Earth Atheist]]: Yuuki's dad, who didn't marry Yuuki's mother because he questioned the principles of marriage and hates religion and holy icons. {{spoiler|It comes back to bite him in the ass in the end by discarding the religious icons that could have saved Natsuno from the Shiki}}.
* [[Gonk]]: [[media:
* [[Grey and Gray Morality]]: {{spoiler|The shiki killed humans to survive. The humans massacred the shiki to survive. Neither side is ''wrong'' for wanting to survive, but they're all still murderers.}}
** {{spoiler|That's not exactly true. The Shiki had no problems surviving on their own. You see that Sunako managed to live for a very long time after her flashback. What the Shiki wanted was their own society, so they wouldn't have to live in fear anymore. Which is why they attack Sotoba. This makes them a bit less sympathetic when you realize that some of the bite victims die instead of coming back.}}
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** {{spoiler|Played [[Back for the Dead|straight]] in episode 22.}}
* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: Ozaki has a much closer relationship with his old friend Muroi than with his wife.
* [[He Who Fights Monsters]]: After the villagers find out about the shiki, it slowly begins to fade between the line of who are the real
** {{spoiler|Doesn't matter if she was a Shiki or not. She had done nothing wrong upon turning into one. She even had no idea what was going on and watched as her own husband experimented and killed her.}}
* [[Hot Dad|Hot]] [[Hot Mom|Parents]]: Natsuno's parents. They are only in their early thirties (they had Natsuno when they were in college).
* [[Horned Hairdo]]: Akira.
* [[Humans Are the Real Monsters]]: As pointed out by [http://www.animenewsnetwork.
* [[Hypocrite]]: Ookawa {{spoiler|telling Sunako that there are consequences to committing murder. After murdering a bunch of innocent humans in the previous two episodes. Karma ends up stabbing him in the neck, though.}}
** {{spoiler|With the way things are going in the manga, he might not be this. He didn't kill any of the hypnotized humans even though he got stabbed by them.}}
*** {{spoiler|In the manga, he ends up killing the people at the shrine with the aid of the other villagers after coming to the conclusion that because Seishin was helping the Shiki. Then obviously the rest of the people at the temple are helping them as well. Ozaki even agrees with him.}}
** {{spoiler|In the manga, he enjoyed killing his Shiki son far too much. To the point that one of the other villagers was scared of him. He even smiled after killing him.}}
* [[It Got Worse]]: [[Ax Crazy|And]] [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge|HOW.]] Things go completely bonkers around episode 18, {{spoiler|when the villagers [[Go Mad
* [[Impaled with Extreme Prejudice]]: {{spoiler|Tatsumi, in the manga}}.
* [[Impossibly Low Neckline]]: Practically all of Chizuru's outfits feature this, some [[Absolute Cleavage|more]] than others.
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* [[Taking You with Me]]: {{spoiler|Natsuno corners Tatsumi and himself in a large fissure, the latter finally finishing the fight with a large bundle of dynamite.}}
** {{spoiler|Done by Natsuno and the female Werewolf Yoshie in the manga. With Yoshie doing it with dynamite against the villagers and Natsuno dragging Tatsumi into the fissure filled with Shiki corpses where Tatsumi is [[Impaled with Extreme Prejudice|staked]] though it's hard to tell if it happened to Natsuno as well. Even with him covered in blood.}}
* [[Techno Babble]]: in this case, Medical Babble.
* [[The Vamp]]: Chizuru.
* [[Together in Death]]: {{spoiler|Tohru and Ritsuko}}.
* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: Too many instances to count.
* [[Trailers Always Spoil]]: The next episode previews do this on a handful of occasions.
* [[Twelve-Episode Anime|Twenty-Two Episode Anime]]: Including an [[OVA]], which is episode 20.5.
* [[The Undead]]
* [[Unexplained Recovery]]: {{spoiler|Natsuno}}.
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* [[Unusually Uninteresting Sight]]: The [[Anime Hair]] is so crazy in this series that this trope arguably applies. Hell, Tatsumi's hair looks like ''cat ears''.
** The blood, anyone? You'd think that they were playing paintball or something.
* [[Values Dissonance]]: It's noted several times that Sotoba is odd in that they bury their dead rather than cremate them, which is what is done with a majority of dead bodes in Japan. {{spoiler|This is no doubt why the Shiki chose Sotoba to live in}}.
* [[Vampire Bites Suck]]: At least in {{spoiler|Yuuki's case}}.
* [[Vampire Invitation]]: One of the key limitations of the Shiki is their inability to cross thresholds unless invited in. They get around it by biting people outside, then hypnotising them to let them in whenever they ask.
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