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{{quote|''There's no such thing as 'normal people'!''
''[[Soil]]'' is a mystery-horror manga by Kaneko Atsuhi
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* [[Abandoned Hospital]]: {{spoiler|Used by Kanto and the rapists, it's the only place where the Council president's cameras can't see.}}
* [[Adults Are Useless]]
* {{spoiler|[[Another Dimension]] / [[Alternate Universe]]: Implied to be where the Suzushiros and probably Sakura & Sakuraba are really from (unless this is a computer world a la the Matrix...)}}.
* [[Axe Crazy]]: {{spoiler|A mysterious man who appeared in Sayuri's family's secure storage vault, was fine for a few months, then killed everyone. The only thing he'd say was that "he doesn't belong in this world".}}
* [[Bedlam House|Bedlam Prison]]: {{spoiler|The secret, forgotten prison where the man who slaughtered Sayuri's village is kept, along with other criminally insane people. The head (only?) guard has declared himself [[
* [[Cargo Ship]]: {{spoiler|The man who caused the blackout was in love with an electrical tower and brought it down so he could "be penetrated by it". Yeah, falling in love with inanimate objects is an actual thing (see the woman who married the Eiffel Tower).}}
* [[Comedic Sociopathy]] / [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: Det. Onoda is straight-up abusive to Det. Yokoi {{spoiler|possibly because he sees a bit of himself in someone so determined to solve a mystery that "shouldn't be solved"}} and calls a rape case "stupid".
* [[Complete Monster]]: {{spoiler|The council president has raped almost a whole generation of boys.}}
* [[Cowboy Cop]]: {{spoiler|Onoda was on the MPD Yakuza taskforce before delving too deeply into a strange mystery which got him demoted}}.
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* [[Freudian Excuse]]: {{spoiler|The trio of rapists were also victims of the Council President and they returned to Soil New Town to commit their crimes for unconscious revence.}}
* [[Gonk]]: Det. Yokoi is kind of gonky while an actual gonk spies on the school counselor.
* [[Homage]] / [[Shout
* [[Housewife]]: Are there any fathers beside Mr. Suzushiro in Soil?
* [[Irony]]: The residents of Soil hate the Susushiros for {{spoiler|accidentally(?) getting them into a pyramid scheme involving salt, but if they'd gotten the salt analyzed they'd learn it was really rare and valuable ''meteorite'' salt.}}
** Onoda wears a very unconvincing hair piece. {{spoiler|His gothy son shaves his head, save for two patches of hair.}}
* [[Kids Are Cruel]]: One of the masked boys is identified by {{spoiler|the burn where his hair was set on fire in the past}}.
* [[Kill It
* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]: Each book has a list of main characters along with their status.
* [[Mama Bear]]: {{spoiler|Do not mess with Kanto's mother.}}
* [[Mask Power]]: Tokita the archeologist is always wearing clay masks. {{spoiler|A gang of masked boys (led by Kanto and Misa) use random "artwork" to destabilize reality.}}
* [[The Men in Black]]: Probably {{spoiler|Sakura and Sakurada of the Metropolitan Police Department, who seem to know exactly what's going on}}.
* [[Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane]]: A lot of the strange happenings have a reasonable (if disturbing) explanation -- [[Mind Screw|until they don't,]] and it's implied they never will.
* [[Messy Hair]]: Det. Yokoi can't do anything about her hair.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Soil is {{spoiler|soiled}}, plus there's all the Jomon artefacts in the soil.
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* {{spoiler|[[Portal Network]]: What those freaking spirals are, but they're very unstable}}.
* [[Pure Is Not Good]]: {{spoiler|The Town Council President}} is obsessed with maintaining Soil New Town's purity against "foreign organisms".
* {{spoiler|[[Rape
* [[Stepford Smiler]]s: Pretty much everyone but especially {{spoiler|the missing Suzushiro parents, who not only ignore their neighbors' harassment but also their daughter's "memory problems"}}.
* [[Stepford Suburbia]] / [[Uncanny Village]]: Soil New Town.
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** {{spoiler|Onoda's obsession with the missing Yakuza boss' organs lead to his demotion and his wife leaving him; then again he might not have been a very pleasent person to begin with.}}
* [[True Art Is Incomprehensible]]: {{spoiler|The masked boys' random "art work" is meant to be so random it starts screwing with reality.}}
* [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]]: {{spoiler|Kanto and the other boys, all victims of the Council President. Misa, the lone girl in their group is sort-of a victim by proxy, as her rapists were also victims of the CP.}}
* [[World of Chaos]]: {{spoiler|What Kanto and his group want to cause, which will destabilize reality.}}
* [[Yakuza]]: {{spoiler|Onoda's last case as a MPD detective started with the disappearance of a Yakuza boss' organs without any cuts to his body and just spiraled out of control}}.
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