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''Yumekui Kenbun'' (夢喰見聞) or ''Nightmare Inspector: Yumekui Kenbun'' in the English translation, is a [[Shonen]] [[Horror]] series written and illustrated by Shin Mashiba, set in the end of the Taisho era. It takes place mostly in Ginseikan (Silver Star in English), the teahouse run by Mizuki Asahina.

 

 

The series is mostly episodic, and each chapter sees Hiruko helping a new client discover what their nightmare means. There is an overarching story about the origins of the baku and the histories of the Silver Star's residents Hiruko, Mizuki, and Hifumi, but the emphasis is on the customers.

 

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* [[A Love to Dismember]] - The body part in question isn't ''quite'' severed, but in one later chapter, a man {{spoiler|bricks his wife up in a wall and leaves her arm sticking out, stroking it and talking to it.}}

* [[All Just a Dream]] - Often subverted, but {{spoiler|grandly played straight in the end}}, when they find out that {{spoiler|just about everything that happened since Chitose took over as Hiruko the Baku is all a massive nightmare created by Azusa, with the help of the Delirium.}}

* [[Crapsack World]] - If a [[Bittersweet Ending]] is the best you can hope for...

* [[Cruel Twist Ending]] - Some of the chapters could've been pleasant happy endings if not for this trope's sudden appearance.

* [[Dead All Along]] - Several clients turn out to be dead. {{spoiler|Also, the real Chitose.}}

* [[Diabolus Ex Machina]] - The series loves making it seem as if a customer's story will end happily, then introducing a sudden out-of-nowhere twist or reveal that puts a much more sinister twist on things.

* [[Foe Yay]] - Tsukishiro and {{spoiler|Azusa}} in the last volume. Might overlap with [[No Yay]] for some people.

* [[Gainax Ending]] - The series ends with this, with a touch of [[No Ending]] because really, the resolution isn't one. The last couple pages just make it ''[[Mind Screw|worse]].''

* [[Groundhog Day Loop]] - In one of the first chapters, this seems to be happening to a customer, who every night writes in her dream on a piece of paper "every day will be exactly the same" {{spoiler|or rather, Hiruko writes it for her, as the end of the chapter hints}}- and indeed, it is.

* [[I Found You Like This]] - Kashina is introduced as the girl who helped {{spoiler|Chitose}} survive during the time he was {{spoiler|locked up and tortured.}} When she meets him again much later, she hugs him, and then kisses him shortly afterwards. {{spoiler|Then it turns out she was imprisoned by the same people who tortured Chitose, and that she was only helping him because if he died, she'd be tortured next, making her arguably a deconstruction.}}

* [[Love Hurts]] - Happens with many of Hiruko's customers, sometimes involving the death of some person or another.

* [[Mandatory Twist Ending]] - To the point where when a chapter ends 'without' a twist of some sort, it's so surprising it practically counts as a twist in itself.

* [[Mind Screw]]

* [[Trapped in TV Land]] - Overlaps with [[Dream Land]] in several cases, including a woman who wishes to be with her dead husband in a sketch of his and gets her wish (with unexpected consequences, of course), a nightmare where Hiruko enters a manga, and possibly some other examples.

* [[Unreliable Narrator]] - Many of the clients are hiding something, or have memories altered due to trauma. In several cases, the client is actually dead (or not even human to begin with!) already and we don't know until the end of the chapter.

 

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