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Tokaku Azuma is a heartless teenage assassin on a mission of death. She's been sent to a prestigious boarding school to compete in an assassination game against eleven other beautiful killers. Their heinous mission: send the innocent and cheerful Haru Ichinose to an early grave. But when Tokaku finds herself strangely drawn to her intended target, she must utilize her lethal skills to keep her new friend alive -- and Haru must place her life in the ruthless, cold-blooded hands of the very woman sent to kill her.

 

 

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* [[The Clan]]: There are two assassin clans which have existed since ancient times: the Kuzunoha Clan of the West and the Azuma Clan of the East. Tokaku is the heiress of the Azuma Clan, {{spoiler|and Nio is the successor to the Kuzunoha, who adopted her as a little girl. There is also Haru's unnamed clan, which was really more of a [[The Man Behind the Man|Man Behind the Man]] [[Ancient Conspiracy]] that was quite possibly older than both of them.}}

* [[Deadly Graduation]]: The graduation itself was perfectly lovely. Cherry blossoms, singing, the whole shebang. It was how they got to where they were in the epilogue that made it "Deadly". {{spoiler|As revealed at the end of the series, Class Black is actually an elaborate [[Rite of Passage]] for Haru's clan, to test the "refinement" of her primer pheromone and see if she had what it took to be a queen bee. The test did not explicitly involve killing her best friend, but she did have to survive to graduate, and that meant she couldn't just roll over and let Tokaku kill her either.}} This conflict of interest had different endings between the anime and manga, corresponding with the different versions of Haru starring in them:

* [[Death Notification]]: [[Inverted]]. Each assassin gets 48 hours to kill Haru once they deliver their advanced notice, and if they fail to do so within the time allotted, they are immediately expelled from Class Black. {{spoiler|It becomes a plot point that there are not any rules pertaining to the exact nature of the notice except that it be delivered. Isuke uses that fact to her advantage by addressing her advanced notice as Banba's.}}

* [[Elaborate University High]]: Myōjō Private Academy integrates grades K through college into one major academic campus. The Grade 10 freshman year was divided into five classes: Class Blue, Class Green, Class Red, Class White and Class Yellow. The sixth and final class, Class Black, was only opened to enrollment at irregular intervals ranging anywhere from dozens of years apart to back-to-back.

* [[Hero Secret Service]]: Tokaku is single-handedly serving this role for Haru against eleven other trained assassins.

* [[Idiosyncratic Episode Naming]]: The episode titles are riddles texted to Tokaku by her psychology teacher from Private Academy 17, Kaiba.

* [[Psychological Thriller]]: '''''Akuma no Riddle''''' [[Deconstructed|deconstructs]] what sort of personalities and circumstances would be necessary for tropes like [[In Love with the Mark]] to function and explores the psychological implications of being a [[Hitman with a Heart]] and how a teenage girl becomes a [[Professional Killer]] in the first place.

* [[Pun-Based Title]]: The Japanese title is a pun on the ''[[w:Violin Sonata in G minor (Tartini)|Devil's Trill Sonata]]'' by [[w:Giuseppe Tartini|Giuseppe Tartini]].

 

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