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[[File:A2331-2.jpg|frame|From left to right: Watari, Saya, Tsuzuki, Hisoka, Yuma and Tatsumi.]]
{{quote|''Or, as I like to call it, "I Love My Dead Gay Bureaucrats."''|[http://forums.televisionwithoutpity.com/index.php?showtopic{{=}}3115668 This forum thread]}}▼
▲{{quote|''Or, as I like to call it, "I Love My Dead Gay Bureaucrats."''|[http://forums.televisionwithoutpity.com/index.php?showtopic=3115668 This forum thread]}}
Asato Tsuzuki is a [[Shinigami]] who has been working in the afterworld for 70 years (with a low wage), investigating cases related to unnatural deaths or deaths that refuse to produce. Although he is (very) capable, he is constantly in trouble because of his laid back and spacey attitude, and the little fact that can't retain a partner. Things seems to improve when Tszuki is assigned to work with the new shinigami Hisoka Kurosaki, a teenager with a very serious attitude, in contrast with Tsuzuki's playfulness. Unfortunately, in their first case together they cross paths with the insane Doctor Kazutaka Muraki, a man who has gotten supernatural powers in very questionable ways. The doctor is involved in a lot of dirty business (including the death of Hisoka), and now wants Tsuzuki...
Began as a [[Manga]] in 1997 and was made a 13 episode [[Anime]] in 2001. The author took a hiatus in 2003, leaving the series unfinished until January 2010, in which volume 12 was released. '''The series is, however, being continued as of recent notification.'''{{when}}
The English language
▲The English language version is titled ''[[Descendants of Darkness]]''.
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* [[Affably Evil]]: Muraki is a polite doctor who approaches one in the most sympathetic manner when he is not raping, cursing and killing 13 year old boys or conducting human experiments to bring back his dead brother to life so that Muraki may be the one to kill him the second time.
* [[Almighty Janitor]]: Tsuzuki is stuck in a department where he won't do much damage, but is singlehandedly one of the most powerful shinigami in the Bureau.
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* [[Big Eater]]: Tsuzuki has a very sweet tooth, and it is frequently shown that he spends all his money on sweets.
* [[Bluff the Impostor]]: When Hisoka suspects that Tsuzuki is possessed by a demon, he proves it by asking Tsuzuki to go get food for the group and "reminding" him that the Chief hates sweets. In reality, the Chief has a notorious sweet tooth, so when Tsuzuki falls for it, Hisoka's suspicions are confirmed.
* [[Boys Love]]: [[Playing
* [[Cast Full of Pretty Boys]]: The average female character has the life expectancy of a particularly stupid gnat or falls off the face of the earth after one or two appearances, and only one major character is not bishonen.
* [[Celestial Bureaucracy]]: The Shokan Division.
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* [[Creepy Cool Crosses]]: In the anime, Muraki is first seen kneeling in a church with the large shadow of a cross falling over him, which plays up his angel-like appearance; later he monologues about Christians in the Tokugawa era carving crucifixes on the backs of Buddha statues to conceal their faith (this accompanied by an image of Kwan Yin which looks oddly like a statue of the Blessed Virgin).
* [[Creepy Monotone]]: Muraki's got one.
* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]: Tsuzuki.
* [[
* [[A Day in
* [[Depraved Bisexual]]: Muraki
* [[Driven to Suicide]]: {{spoiler|Tsuzuki, when he was alive. He tries it again later. Hisoka hugs him out of it.}}
* [[Elemental Powers]]: The Shikigami (guardian spirits) can be divided into earth, fire, water and wind based types.
** [[Dishing Out Dirt|Earth:]] Genbu
** [[Playing
** [[Making a Splash|Water:]] Souryuu, Tenkou, Riko
** [[Blow You Away|Wind:]] Byakko, Kijin (though he seems to mostly use [[Words Can Break My Bones|the Power of Words]] and [[Shock and Awe|lightning]])
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* [[Expecting Someone Taller]]: Hisoka definitely didn't expect Kurikara, the famous and powerful King of Dragons, to be two heads shorter than ''himself''.
* [[Faking the Dead]]: {{spoiler|Hisoka dresses up as Hijiri and lets the demon possesing Tsuzki butcher him to trick said demon into thinking that Hijiri is really dead. He gets better. Muraki also poisons himself with low dosages to be able to handle a paralysis serum a la Romeo and Juliet.}}
* [[Four Eyes, Zero Soul]]: Muraki. (Are you getting the gist of this guy's personality yet?)
* [[The Four Gods]]: The main proof of Tsuzuki's competence is that he can control them ''all''.
** And then some: he actually controls 12 shiki in all, all the family of the main 4.
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* [[Gecko Ending]]: Muraki's mother and Saki. Completely different stories, between anime and manga, which changes Muraki's characterization quite a bit.
* [[Gender Flip]]: [[Word of God]], as in the manga, it is directly stated that originally several of the characters were going to have opposite genders than what they wound up as!
* [[Genre Shift]] / [[Out
* [[Good Thing You Can Heal]]: Muraki to Hisoka in the first volume, after covering a room in his blood and torturing him at length. He even contemplates vivisecting Hisoka to test out how strong his regeneration abilities really are.
* Gorn: Thanks to the shinigami [[Healing Factor]], the main characters get torn to pieces repeatedly and the results are splashed across the page in great detail. Some examples:
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* [[Hates Being Touched]]: Hisoka, no doubt as a result of several factors including his abusive family {{spoiler|who shunned him because of his empathic abilities ''and'' the deal with Yatonokami}}, as well as his ability to read people's thoughts via the emotions triggered from them {{spoiler|and also from being raped and murdered by Muraki}}.
* [[Healing Factor]]: All of the Shinigami, although they can be killed by {{spoiler|hellfire, as shown by Tsuzuki's suicide attempt.}} ''Extreme'' in Hisoka's case.
* [[Hey,
** Hard to catch at first, but Hisoka is [[Monster (
* [[Ho Yay]]: ... and how.
** Oh boy... where to begin... [[Even the Guys Want Him|Everybody wants Tsuzuki]]. [[Launcher of a Thousand Ships|EVERYBODY]].
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*** Not just looking, attempting to kiss. It was a contest.
*** And he never stood a chance, especially while trying to imagine him as a flat-chested girl.
* [[I Cannot Self
* [[I Have You Now, My Pretty]]: Muraki and Tsuzuki.
** And {{spoiler|Muraki and Hisoka}}, technically.
* [[Ill Girl]]: Tsubaki-hime and {{spoiler|Ukyou Sakuraiji}}
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* [[Les Yay]]: Self-identified lesbian Rika seemed to have a thing for Chizuru, while [[Those Two Girls|Saya and Yuma]] go around groping each-other in [[Hot Springs Episode|onsens]].
* [[Lethal Chef]]: Tsuzuki, moreso in the manga than the anime.
* [[Lost Him in
* [[Love Before First Sight]]: Dr. Muraki, quickly and obsessively, for Tsuzuki.
* [[Mad Eye]]: Somewhat averted in Muraki, since he has an artificial eye, but it only adds to his air of insanity.
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* [[Mommy Issues]]: Muraki's (ineffective) [[Freudian Excuse]]. Creepy doll lady.
* [[Morality Pet]]: In the later chapters of the manga, Ukyou Sakuraiji is the high school sweetheart and long time lady friend/fiancee to Muraki.
* [[Morally
* [[No, Mr. Bond, I Expect You to Dine]]: Muraki forces Tsuzuki to have a fancy dinner with him while he keeps Hisoka as a hostage.
* [[Our Vampires Are Different]]
* [[Ominous Latin Chanting]]: Occurs in the King of Swords arc.
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* [[Pinky Swear]]: Hijiri and Kazuza in the Devil's Trill arc
* [[Portmanteau Series Nickname]]: "Yami Matsu".
* [[Rape
* [[Right
* [[Scary Shiny Glasses]]: Muraki, and Tatsumi sometimes.
** Tatsumi all the time, especially if you break budget.
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* [[Shoot the Shaggy Dog]]: Double subverted with the ending to the Devil's Trill arc. {{spoiler|The whole point of the story was to keep Hijiri and Kazusa safe from the Demon. The Devil shows up at the end and tries to kill Hijiri and Kazusa. [[Hope Spot|Hijiri survives and the devil is vanquished]]...but Kazusa pulls a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] for Hijiri and dies anyway, rendering the whole arc pointless}}.
* [[Sprouting Ears]]: Tsuzuki has this happen to him sometimes.
* [[Stalker
* [[Stepford Smiler]]: Tsuzuki appears cheerful and childish, but in fact is a [[The Woobie|woobie]] with many issues.
* [[Suck My Rose]]: Muraki, and it only adds to his general creepiness.
* [[Tarot Motifs]]: Accompanying the murders in the cruise ship arc.
* [[Twelve-Episode Anime|Thirteen Episode Anime]]
* [[What Beautiful Eyes!]]: Muraki constantly tells Tsuzuki that his [[Purple Eyes]] are beautiful. Tsuzuki, on the other hand, hates them because they remind him {{spoiler|of his demon blood}}.
* [["Well Done, Son" Guy]]: Muraki, in a way.
* [[White
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