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In near-future Asia, Earl Shiori Genpou is a girl who has made a contract for her soul with the demon Sebastian. Shiori is pretending to be a boy called Kiyoharu because of a tradition that only a man can inherit the prosperious family business Funtom Co. Ltd. (There is no explanation for how this kind of rule is legal.) Shiori, who lives in the East, also in secret holds the position of the Queen's Watchdog, doing covert missions for the Queen of the West, whose name is never mentioned. (The world is divided into two blocs called East and West, which makes things simple to understand, but turns out to be irrelevant as far as the rest of the movie is concerned.)

 

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* [[Bald of Evil]]: Kujo.

* [[Battle Butler]]: Sebastian.

* [[Bifauxnen]]: Shiori.

* [[Big Fancy House]]: Shiori's manor.

* [[Bridal Carry]]: Sebastian carries first the injured Lin, then the injured Shiori.

* [[Candlelit Bath]]: In a flashback Hanae takes one {{spoiler|while Shiori's parents are getting murdered on her orders.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Deadly Gas]]: Necrosis is an inhaled poison even though it comes in pills.}}

* [[Deal with the Devil]]: Shiori with Sebastian.

* [[Did Not Do the Research]]: The superstitious (Christian) foreigners hold an "exorcism" because of the "Devil's Curse". This "exorcism", which is held in a church with many people attending, looks suspiciously like a solemn memorial ceremony for the victims. Clearly the people responsible for the script have little idea of what an exorcism is.

* [[Distaff Counterpart]]: Shiori to Ciel from the original manga. Though, Shiori isn't nearly as competent.

** Hanae gets a nude scene that shows practically nothing.

* [[Food Porn]]: Sebastian serves some very pretty dishes.

* [[Freudian Excuse]]: {{spoiler|Hanae}} gets one. {{spoiler|Her husband divorced her after a miscarriage that destroyed her ability to bear any more children. He then married her sister who gave birth to Shiori. So years later Hanae murdered her sister and her husband, and apparently sold Shiori to slavery. When that was done with, Hanae became a terrorist. Given at which point in the story we get her backstory, having been dumped by a guy is apparently meant to be an understandable reason for committing mass murder with chemical weapons.}}

* [[Guns Akimbo]]: {{spoiler|Lin.}}

* [[Heterochromia]]: Shiori has one dark eye and one blue eye. There is no indication that either of them is magical.

* [[Holographic Terminal]]: The only futuristic technology seen.

* [[Identical Grandson]]: It's never said outright if Shiori is Ciel's descendant or if Ciel even existed in this world, but we know that the Genpous used to be called Phantomhives, etc.

* [[In Name Only]]: The film takes from the original manga half of a premise and some general concepts. Ciel having been turned into Shiori and the time and place having been changed from Victorian England to near-future generic Asia is only the start of it.

* [[Legacy of Service]]: Lin's family has been serving the Genpou family for generations.

* [[Magic Antidote]]: {{spoiler|The color returns to Shiori's face}} ''within seconds''.

* [[Police Are Useless]]

* [[Sequel Hook]]: The evil conspiracy is still there. Not that there will be a sequel.

* [[Technicolor Toxin]]: {{spoiler|Necrosis is yellow.}}

* [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]]: There are [[Holographic Terminal|Holographic Terminals]] and the wind power takeup has apparently increased, but otherwise everything looks like it could be contemporary. However, there looks to have been a major political realignment at some point.

 

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