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The plot itself bounces between solving the individual cases of [[Monster of the Week|one time]] murders and much larger overreaching situations such as the mystery of the Phantom Thief X. Perhaps the most distinctive feature of the series is when the culprit reveals his/her true nature and transforms into another form entirely. At this point Neuro reverts to his [[Game Face|demon form]] and devours the mystery. That said, it should be noted that since any bystanders (Yako excluded) never see Neuro doing this it can be interpreted as more of a mental representation.
While the search for the [[MacGuffin|ultimate mystery]] at seems like a typical [[Excuse Plot]] for a [[Mystery of the Week]] setup, once the character dynamics and the world are established, [[Growing the Beard|the series kicks into high gear]] with the [[It Was His Sled|HAL arc]]. As it turns out, despite the usual [[Shonen]] conventions, Neuro was [[Cassandra Truth|not kidding]] when he said that he was starving to death. A main character that is [[Crutch Character|gradually growing weaker]] the more he [[Heroic RROD|uses his power]] instead of getting stronger ad absurdum, a female character whose [[Character Development|growth]] is [[Took a Level In Badass|important to the story]] and a [[Crazy Awesome|whole]] [[Humans Are Insane|lot]] [[Always Chaotic Evil|of]] [[Love Makes You Crazy|crazy]] [[Ill Girl|people]] make this a very unique and surprising series.
[[Adaptation Decay|Pity about the anime.]]
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* [[Butt Monkey]]: Ishigaki. To a lesser extent, Yako and Godai for Neuro.
* [[Card-Carrying Villain]]: One of the most disturbing examples ever; the series explores what would happen if someone really ''believed'' in being Evil.
* [[Cast From Hit Points]]: Neuro.
* [[Catch Phrase]]: "The mystery is already on the tip of my tongue."
** "The criminal is... ''you!''"
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* [[Crossover]]: In one of the omakes of ''[[Muhyo and Roji]]''.
* [[Decoy Protagonist]]: Arguably, Neuro. The series spends a lot of time on Yako's character growth.
* [[Demoted to Extra]]: In the manga Ai is Sai's loyal partner in crime and [[Foil]]. In the anime she only appears once as a cameo.
* [[Dissonant Serenity]]: {{spoiler|Sai is more or less the very incarnation of this trope.}}
* [[Driven to Suicide]]: {{spoiler|Honjou towards the end. And long before that Higuchi's parents.}}
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* [[Evil Versus Oblivion]]: Neuro vs. Sicks
* [[Evilly Affable]]: Tierra is the most prominent example.
* [[Evolutionary Levels]]: Neuro uses this to describe the times Yako [[Took a Level In Badass]]. Learning to read people, developing super strength, and so on. Being Neuro, he still manages to make this sound insulting, but if later-series Yako is to a normal human what a complex, multicellular organism with built-in armor is to a paramecium?
* [[Face Heel Turn]]: {{spoiler|Sasazuka in the latest chapters partially performs one of these, changing from a hero to a not-quite-villainous, but significantly more ruthless [[Villain Protagonist]] , in order to seek revenge against Sicks for the murder of his family. He doesn't get to enjoy it for long, though, as the confrontation ends in his [[Family-Unfriendly Death]] }}
* [[Fate Worse Than Death]]: What awaits you the moment you ''really'' piss off Neuro.
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* [[Karma Houdini]]: To a certain extent, {{spoiler|Kasai.}}
* [[Kid Detective]]: Subverted in that although Yako is supposed to be the leader of the agency, in fact all the detective work is done by Neuro.
* [[Kid with the Leash]]: [[Blatant Lies|Neuro tells]] {{spoiler|Sasazuka}} that Yako controls him and is taking terrible advantage. Their relationship seems like an inversion, but when Yako is serious {{spoiler|about no longer being a detective,}} she does what she wants.
* [[Kill All Humans]]: Manga only villain Sicks, to a T.
* [[Lack of Empathy]]: Neuro ''is'' a demon, after all. The idea of giving a shit about what beings other than him want or feel generally does not occur to him.
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* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: With Sasazuka as blue and Godai as red.
* [[Redemption Equals Death]]: In the manga, {{spoiler|Phantom Thief X/Sai.}}
* [[Sadist Teacher]]: Apparently Neuro thinks that the best way to help Yako grow is to torture her.
* [[Sealed Evil in a Can]]: Err, box. And a red one at that!
* [[Self-Made Orphan]]: Sicks.
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* [[Serious Business]]: Mysteries, for Neuro, which makes sense since he's starving to death and they're not his food, but they're evidence that the energy he eats should be present. This becomes a problem during the HAL and Sicks arcs, when crimes are being caused not by human twistedness but the electronic drug, biology, and so on. See [[No Mister Bond I Expect You to Dine]].
* [[Sidekick Ex Machina]]
* [[Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism]]: Some human beings are just plain evil: others are crazy and even a mild-mannered housewife can decide to {{spoiler|start planting bombs}}. Even good people can have disgusting obsessions and our minds are at the mercy of our biology (poor, poor Setsuna, not to mention Sai). Except...
* [[So Last Season]]: Subverted, then inverted. While Neuro makes more use of the Seven Weapons during later arcs, they're not power-ups or new attacks but techniques he's had all along: they just weren't needed until now due to the [[Sorting Algorithm of Evil]]. In fact, the reason he's using them isn't that he's gotten stronger but because {{spoiler|he's growing weaker as he starves to death, and he needs the most powerful spells in the demon world to do things he could have done with normal tools before.}} Turns out to be a double subversion, since the power that turns the tide in the last story arc is one that hasn't been a big deal before: {{spoiler|human allies.}}
* [[Spell My Name with an "S"]]: X or Xi which is pronounced Sai.
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* [[Surprisingly Good English]]: Seriously. Not even one "spilled" R. The fact that a word is mispelled in English is a plot point, even.
* [[Takehito Koyasu]]: as Neuro, who else?
* [[The Power of Love]]: In the manga, Neuro doesn't eat mysteries per se but the energy that would drive someone to do terrible, shameful, twisted things, knowing they're that wrong (otherwise, why try to hide them?). When he finally devoured the energy that caused the {{spoiler|creation of HAL and the entire HAL arc,}} there's so much of it he acts like he's sugar high.
* [[The Virus]]: The electronic drug. It hacks the victim's mind {{spoiler|and finds something to exaggerate in order to make them useful to HAL. For instance, a childhood fondness for digging holes in the sand becomes an obsession with making holes in people.}}
* [[Training From Hell]]: In hindsight, ''everything Neuro does to Yako.''
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