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Ga-Rei is a 2005 manga series by Hajime Segawa about [[Ordinary High School Student]] Kensuke Nimura and definitely not ordinary high school girl named Kagura Tsuchimiya. After an incident involving a giant monster ghost baby Kensuke follows Kagura into her world of supernatural peril.

[[Ga-Rei Zero]] is a [[Prequel]] anime series that acts as Yomi (the first [[Big Bad]])'s [[Start of Darkness]]. It is also much [[Darker and Edgier]], Ga-Rei is quite [[Lighter and Softer|light]] in comparison.
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* [[Accidental Kiss|Accidental]] [[Sacred First Kiss]]/[[Crash Into Hello]]: How Kagura and Kensuke meet. It's quite painful for the latter, as the former runs into him on a ''motor scooter''.
* [[Action Girl]]: Many, Kagura, Kyouko and later  {{spoiler|Isoyama Izumi}} are the primary examples.
* [[Afterlife Express]]: Ghost train, rather.
* [[All Myths Are True]]
* [[Aloof Big Brother]]: Souzaemon, Kyouko's older brother, is both cold and extremely competent. Naturally, he rubs Kensuke the wrong way.
* [[Apocalypse Maiden]]: {{spoiler|Yomi. She just can't catch a break.}}
* [[Art Evolution]]: In leaps and bounds. Just compare the cover of Volume 1 to Volume 7.
* [[As Long as There Is Evil]]: The source of the Sesshouseki's power.
* [[Back from the Dead]]: Yomi.  {{spoiler|More than once.}}
* [[Beach Episode]]: They go to a water park, too.
* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: A big one {{spoiler|in Chapter 44}} with {{spoiler|Kensuke, Tsuina, Noriyuki, ''and'' Shizuru}}, i.e., everyone you've been expecting to show up for the past few chapters.
* [[Black Eyes of Evil]]: Anyone taken over by a Sesshouseki, complete with white [[Hellish Pupils]].
* [[Bland-Name Product]]: "[[Pocky|Poeky]]". Similarly, the fake clothing brand [[Brand X|Productive Emotion]].
* [[Blank White Eyes]]: Used extensively when the characters are super-deformed.
* [[Blinding Bangs]]: Izumi/Yomi, though not consistently.
* [[Body Horror]]: Tons and tons. They fight evil spirits, after all.
* [[Brainwashed and Crazy]]: {{spoiler|Kagura, under the influence of the Kyuubi.}}
* [[Butt Monkey]]: Yomi.
* [[Cain and Abel]]: Yomi and Kagura, in that order.
* [[Cat Fight]]: During Kagura's and Shizuru's festival fight, Noriyuki starts taking bets for who's going to win. Fanservice is mostly absent, though, since they're pretty beat up by the end.
* [[Chained by Fashion]]: Byakuei is chained to Kagura as an indication that it's sealed into her.
* [[Chivalrous Pervert]]: Noriyuki. Especially when it concerns Shizuru, interestingly enough.
* [[The Chosen One]]: {{spoiler|Kagura.}}
* [[Clingy Jealous Girl]]: Izumi definitely fits this
** Yomi actually shows a few glimpses of these when it comes to Kagura or Noriyuki. While it may not be clingy, it's definitely a scary jealousy
* [[Cool Big Sis]]: Yomi.
* [[Cool Sword]]: Kagura's appears to be a [[Laser Blade|laser]]; one of Yomi's is made out of several smaller blades attached to a [[BFS|single one in the center]]. Check the [[Power of Love]] page to see what Kensuke's Michael Revolution is capable of.
* [[The Corruption]]: Yomi struggles with it whenever she has screen time.
* [[Dark Action Girl]]: Yomi, Shizuru.
* [[Dead Little Sister|Dead Big Sister]]: [[Kill the Ones You Love|Kagura killed Yomi]] while Yomi was being controlled by the Sesshouseki (see [[Ga-Rei Zero]]). It doesn't seem to bother her at first, but it eventually takes its toll.
* [[Decoy Protagonist]]: Kensuke
* [[Demonic Possession]]: Izumi  {{spoiler|turns into a giant demon spider before Yomi takes over her body.}}
* [[Demoted to Extra]]: {{spoiler|''Kensuke'' of all people gets this treatment once Kagura forgets about him.}}
* [[Disney Death]]: {{spoiler|Kensuke is killed, but Kagura resurrects him with the power of the Kyuubi. She resurrects Yomi, too, though subconsciously.}}
* [[Damsel in Distress]]: [[James Bondage|Inverted]] with Kensuke. While he's lamenting about having to be rescued, a picture of an actual distressed damsel even shows up in the panel.
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: Replace "black/white priestess" with "lunar/solar priestess", and you start getting ''[[Kannazuki no Miko]]'' vibes.
* [[Earn Your Happy Ending]]:  {{spoiler|It look a lot of [[Heroic Sacrifice|heroic sacrifices]], but they did [http://www.onemanga.com/Ga-Rei/52/46/ earned it!] }}
* [[Easy Amnesia]]: {{spoiler|Happens to Kagura. Her memory is restored over time, though in the meanwhile it leads to [[Amnesia Danger]].}}
* [[The End of the World as We Know It]]: {{spoiler|[[Inherent in the System|Planned from the start.]] There's a reincarnation planned, but everyone on the planet has to die first.}}
* [[Eye Scream]]: Kensuke's eye gets slashed open when he tries to protect Izumi from Kirin. Since he no longer has a Sesshouseki inside him, he never fully recovers, and it leaves a huge scar.
* [[The Faceless]]: Lord Tamamo.
* [[Face Heel Revolving Door]]: Yomi starts out heroic in the beginning of ''Zero'', turns heel after being implanted with a Sesshouseki, turns face after being brought back to life, and in current chapters,  {{spoiler|is forcibly turned back into a heel. Girl can't catch a break.}}
* [[Furo Scene]]: Several. They're equally as generous with fanservice as they are with character development.
* [[Fire-Forged Friends]]
* [[Gotta Catch Them All]]: The [[Power Crystal|Sesshouseki]], in order to summon the Kyuubi.
* [[Groin Attack]]: Kagura to Kensuke. It's so painful Kensuke even [[Art Shift|art shifts]], and is left lying there for quite a while.
* [[Hard Gay]]: Koji Iwahata. The big badass ex-mercenary.
* [[Healing Factor]]: One of the benefits of having a Sesshouseki embedded within you.
* [[Heir to the Dojo]]: Played straight with Kensuke. His parents are kendo masters, which is the reason he can handle Michael XII.
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: Who else but {{spoiler|Yomi. At least she gets her break.}}
* [[Humongous Mecha]]: The spirit armor used by Tsuina. They're basically mechs that run on spirit energy.
* [[Ice Queen]]: After {{spoiler|her resurrection}}, Yomi is like this to pretty much everyone save Kagura.
* [[Inaction Sequence]]: Chapter 45, which is more or less an [[Info Dump]] {{spoiler|about [[The End of the World as We Know It]]}}.
* [[Incest Subtext]]: While not blood-related, there is A LOT of subtext between Yomi and Kagura, two people who see each other as sisters. May also count as [[Not Blood Siblings]].
* [[Interrupted Suicide]]: {{spoiler|Yomi, whose suicide is interrupted by Okama.}}
** In the same chapter, Izumi's dad, now undead, shapeshifts into his own monster of sorts.
* [[Karmic Death]]:  {{spoiler|Kazuhiro Mitogawa is killed by his own ''mother'', whom he had been aiming to [[Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas|resurrect]].}}
* [[Kissing Discretion Shot]]: Everytime {{spoiler|Kensuke and Kagura are about to kiss}} the manga takes some other angles or just skips some seconds.
* [[Knife Nut]]: Shizuru needs hers to summon Kurofoudo.
* [[Last-Second Word Swap]]: Kagura is about to confess her feelings for Kensuke...and then tells him it was [[Hard Gay|Iwahata]] who said he liked him. Nice going there...
* [[The Lifestream]]: The Reimyaku.
* [[Love Triangle]]: Quite a few for a relatively short series, all of which with Kagura in them (although not necessarily in the middle every time). There's Kensuke/Kagura/Shizuru, Kensuke/Kagura/Izumi, Kensuke/Kagura/Yomi, and Kagura/Yomi/Noriyuki.
* [[Made of Plasticine]]: The evil spirits, who regularly get shredded into pieces by Kagura and company. Justified since they're no longer human.
* [[Magnetic Plot Device]]: {{spoiler|Yomi}} gives off miasma, which attracts evil spirits.
* [[Maybe Ever After]]: {{spoiler|Arguably Kensuke and Kagura, after tons of [[Ship Tease]] and the culmination of Kagura actively using [[The Power of Love]] near the finale, with their relationship...doing something.}}
* [[Meaningful Background Event]]: In the last page of the final chapter,  {{spoiler|the whole group is reflected by a puddle on the ground. Look at it close enough, and you can see Noriyuki in the reflection, even though he isn't physically with the group. This signifies his status as a ghost before the epilogue.}}
* [[Meaningful Name]]: The kanji in Yomi's name mean "underworld". {{spoiler|It should be no surprise she was picked by Naraku.}}
* [[Mental World]]: {{spoiler|Izumi goes into one and refuses to come out while Yomi has control over her body.}}
* [[The Mentor]]: Yomi to Kagura; Noriyuki to Tsuina...and possibly to Shizuru.
* [[Mind Probe]]: Setsuna has the Eye of Satori, which allows her to read minds.
* [[Mr. Exposition]]: Kensuke fills this role from time to time, usually at the beginning of each chapter.
* [[Only Sane Man]]: Kensuke
* [[Onmyodo]]: Used extensively by the Countermeasures Department, but mostly by Kyouko and Souzaemon.
* [[Parental Abandonment]]: Kagura, Yomi, Shizuru, Kensuke to some extent... Parents are pretty much never talked about.
* [[The Power of Love]]: Used to cross dimensions, believe it or not.
* [[The Powers That Be]]: They're possibly the ones {{spoiler|attempting to end the world.}}
* [[Put on a Bus]]: {{spoiler|Kyouko, Shizuru, and Noriyuki all leave at the end of the Kyuubi arc. Fujiko retires, and the entire Countermeasures Department dissolves. It's not long before the action gets going again.}}
* [[Ret Canon]]: A few of the manga's later flashbacks borrow either characters or scenes from the anime. At this point, the anime could be considered manga canon.
* [[Rich Bitch]]: Shizuru. She gets better, though.
* [[Romantic False Lead]]: Shizuru to Kensuke. Later, {{spoiler|Yomi to Kagura, at least until Kagura regains her memories.}}
* [[Running Gag]]: Kensuke gets hit by vehicles really often. It's a wonder he hasn't died.
* [[Schoolgirl Lesbians|Schoolgirl Lesbian]]: {{spoiler|Izumi.}}
* [[Sealed Evil in a Can]]: The demon king from the first arc is sealed beneath the city.
* [[Sealed Inside a Person-Shaped Can]]: Byakuei within the Tsuchimiya heirs.
* [[Slasher Smile]]: While controlled by the Sesshouseki, Yomi sports these now and again.
* [[Shipper on Deck]]: The nameless tanuki.
* [[Shown Their Work]]: Chapter 48 features scenes taking place in Washington, The Vatican, and London. All of the scenes actually look like the cities they're representing.
* [[Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism]]: Waaay over to the idealistic side. It's quite pointed when compared to its [[Darker and Edgier]] anime.
* [[Sleep Mode Size]]: Byakuei, after the end of the Kyuubi arc.
* [[Spirit World]]: Lord Tamamo's Garden.
* [[Split Personality]]:  {{spoiler|Izumi and Yomi. [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] by Yomi herself when Kagura isn't sure who she's talking to.}}
* [[Team Pet]]: Despite not having a name, the baketanuki frequently saves the lives of the heroes by [[Voluntary Shapeshifting|turning]] into a giant wall. It's even used as a sled at one point.
* [[Trauma Conga Line]]: The entire [[Ga-Rei]] (including the [[Ga-Rei Zero|prequel anime]]) is just one long series of one tragedy after another befalling Kagura. When you read it in one sit, Kagura begin to look like [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|Shinji Ikari]], minus the whininess.
* [[The Power of Love]]: Apparently this is how Kagura gets the powers of the White Priestess. Not revealed to cornily...until suddenly Michael goes, "Kagura! It's time to use the power of love!"
* [[Took a Level in Badass]]: Shizuru, after her training with Noriyuki.
** Kensuke takes a few over the course of the manga as well.
* [[Villainous Crossdresser]]: Okama Zankurou.
** [[Meaningful Name|Okama]] is slang for "drag queen" in Japan.
* [[The Virus]]: Naraku seems to be some form of this.
* [[Wham! Episode]]: Chapter 33,  {{spoiler|when it's revealed that Kagura lost her memories, and to a certain extent that Yomi's come back from the dead.}}
* [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?]]: [[Bunny Ears Lawyer|Master Michael's]] Hepburn, a snowball ''machine gun''.
* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]]: At the end, what happened to {{spoiler|Noriyuki? Sure, Yomi merged with Kagura, but does that mean she took Noriyuki with her?}}
** {{spoiler|In the epilogue he's chilling as a ghost}}
* [[Worthy Opponent]]: Shizuru, to Kagura.
* [[Yakuza Princess]]: Shizuru.
* [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]]:  {{spoiler|Mitogawa rips Yomi's Sesshouseki out of her head once she is defeated by Kensuke and Kagura, and she fades away, presumably to arrive at [[The Lifestream]] a cleansed soul. Really, though, he just wanted the Sesshouseki for himself.}}

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