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* [[Chronic Hero Syndrome]]: Karatsu, the medium. Whether he does it out of curiosity, boredom or the goodness of his heart, he just can't seem to abandon a penniless corpse in need. This is a frequent source of exasperation for Sasaki.
** Sasaki comments in the first volume that the reason the restless dead come to him is because he's "a guy that can't say no." For all that he's a cynical wiseass, he's astonishingly compassionate.
* [[Cluster F -Bomb]]: Kereellis, Yata's alien-possessed hand puppet, is very foul-mouthed; the others' language can get salty at times.
* [[Cool Old Guy]]: Sasayama.
* [[The Coroner]]: Given that the protagonists work outside the law, they obviously don't have professionals to rely on. Makino (as an embalmer) usually fills this role in regards to the plot, but for professional aid they usually have to pull Sasayama into the case.
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** Corpses, both male and female, are realistically rendered in various states of undress.
** When Makino is finally given a nude scene, {{spoiler|it's as she's being prepped to be dissected for a plastinated corpse exhibition. Alive.}}
* [[Five -Man Band]]:
** [[The Hero]] -- Karatsu (psychic)
** [[The Lancer]] -- Sasaki (most commonly the foil to Karatsu. Also the [[Team Mom]])
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* {{spoiler|[[Jack the Ripper]]: Shows up in a flashback story in volume 6.}}
* [[The Lab Rat]]: Makino, occasionally.
* [[Laser -Guided Karma]]: After helping their first suicide victim and (with his permission) taking a lottery ticket from his corpse as 'payment', the group discover it's a winning ticket. It turns out to be just enough money for starting capital for the service, and the group continues to do their good deeds for promises of karmic payoff. Several villains also get defeated in a very karmic manner.
* [[Magical Defibrillator]]
* [[Manly Tears]]: Numata tends to do this a lot. Or at least protests that his crying counts as manly tears a lot. But he also explains that the tears aren't manly if the emotion isn't genuine.
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* [[Meganekko]]: Sasaki. She's even called this in the notes at the back of the English-language volumes
* [[Mentor Occupational Hazard]]: {{spoiler|Numata's dowsing master.}}
* [[Million -to -One Chance]]: The evil insurance agent has learned how to manipulate the odds to make this a method of murder. {{spoiler|So naturally his [[Karmic Death]] involves such an unlikely event.}}
* [[Misapplied Phlebotinum]]: A young scientist invents an invisibility suit {{spoiler|and uses it to sneak into women's locker rooms so he can watch them undress. At the end it's admitted his perversion actually saved the world from having invisible spies and assassins running around, so it's mostly a good thing.}}
* [[Moment Killer]]: {{spoiler|Makino's}} [[Ship Tease|walk with]] [[Butt Monkey|Yata]] is interrupted by him being dragged off to help with an obese corpse.
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* [[Red Right Hand]]: What with his business suit, scar running across his head and missing leg, the Kurosagi crew's first reaction to Sasayama is to assume he's [[Yakuza]]. {{spoiler|He's an ex-detective.}}
* [[Sadist Teacher]]: Played with in the school arc in Vol. 11. {{spoiler|the Vice-Principal is a nasty, shouting, stereotypical [[Sadist Teacher]], but the gentle, forgiving, Principal is a serial child murderer.}}
* [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here]]: Karatsu was about to do this when he heard about Yata's alien-channeling hand puppet, but then the puppet exposed Karatsu's talent.
* [[Shout Out]]: Quite a few.
** For starters, Numata makes many shout outs to classic shonen titles as a result of reading too much manga.
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