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** Likewise, we only hear about her {{spoiler|eating the flesh of the snail-people}} in vague narration, while everyone else is depicted in full, disgusting detail.

* [[Beneath the Earth]]: The final chapter.

* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: The [[Star-Crossed Lovers]] chapter. It says a lot that this is considered ''the high point'' of the manga.

* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: The [[Star-Crossed Lovers]] chapter. Just as it seems that Kirie and Shuichi fail to get the two lovers to an escape route from their abusive families, {{spoiler|they use the supernatural spirals to twist their bodies around each other, become a giant long fish, and jump into the water. As a result, they're the only confirmed survivors of what happens next}}. It says a lot that this is considered ''the high point'' of the manga.

* [[Body Horror]]: Like you wouldn't believe -- particularly freaky are the {{spoiler|human hedgerows inside the houses}} after the town succumbs to the curse.

* [[Campbell Country]]: Kurôzu-cho is an isolated village by the sea.

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* [[Important Haircut]]: Kirie is short-haired for more than half the tale after the chapter that shows the first time the spirals affected her directly, turning her from [[The Scully]] into a believer.

* [[It Got Worse]]: The first two chapters feature the female lead's boyfriend's parents deaths. The father becomes obsessed with spirals, killing himself by turning into a giant spiral. The mother by contrast, becomes deathly afraid of spirals, hallucinating her husband's body is in each one, and cutting off her own fingers tips, to get rid of the spirals. Then she finds out about the spiral in the inner ear... When they're cremated, their ashes turn into spirals with an image of their screaming face. It STILL gets worse. Much worse.

* [[It Sucks to Be the Chosen One]]: Given how many supernatural things go for Kirie, it's implied that she's important to the town, and indeed {{spoiler|breaks the curse with her love for Shuichi}}. Yet as a result, the spirals tend to make her an unwanted center of attention, like when her hair starts doing the loop-de-loops and a freaking ''cyclone'' wants her in the sky.

* [[Karmic Transformation]]: Tsubara in the "Snail" chapter.

* [[Kill'Em All]]

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* [[Non-Actor Vehicle]]: Fhi Fan, who played Shuichi in the movie, was a Thai model who never acted before or ever again after this part.

* [[Oh Crap]]: {{spoiler|Chie}}, upon realizing {{spoiler|that she's trapped inside the spiral building.}}

* [[Only Sane Man]]:

* ~~[[Only Sane Man]]:~~ Shuichi, which quickly reaches the point of absurdity. Then again, he along with a few other people had ''every'' single opportunity to just get out of town before things ''really'' started going to hell. {{spoiler|By the time he actually ''decides'' to do it, it's already too late.}}

** Shuichi, which quickly reaches the point of absurdity. Then again, he along with a few other people had ''every'' single opportunity to just get out of town before things ''really'' started going to hell. The reason why he doesn't at first is he's mourning his parents, and later it's to protect Kirie. {{spoiler|By the time he actually ''decides'' to do it, it's already too late.}}

** Tanizaki as well in the end. {{spoiler|By willingly cooperating with the curse, he ultimately becomes the last ''sane and reasonable'' human left alive in the village.}}

* [[Our Vampires Are Different]]: After getting bitten by mosquitoes, pregnant women start sucking people's blood. Drills are utilized.

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* [[Stalker with a Crush]]: A typhoon and a Jack In The Box. And Wakabayashi, however briefly.

** Azani Kurotani becomes this when Shuichi rejects her. For context, she has a moon shaped scar on her forhead, which seems to have the uncanny ability to draw in any guy, whether she likes them or not. As a result a rumor was spread about her that she would seduce men and throw them away. Kirie reluctantly introduces Azani to Shuchi, who is Kirie's boyfriend. Where most boys reacted to her scar with fascination and feel drawn to her, Shuichi reacts in fear, because the scar has slowly turned into a spiral. As a result of the rejection, Azani becomes obsessed with Shuichi and tries to get him to accept her like the other boys. However he rebuffs her and even explains why. Despite seeing the spiral herself, she's determined to steal him from Kirie. When Kirie demands she leave Shuichi alone, it only strengthens her resolve. Her spiral scar going from a skin deep image to a spiral shaped dent in her forehead. In one last attempt to steal him, Azani uses Okada, a boy who's drawn to her through her scar to lure him out. {{spoiler| Kirie suspecting something was up when Okada called Shuichi, heads for the park where they were to meet. She finds Azani there, who's left eye has been sucked into the now bigger spiral scar. The scar itself becoming a miniature black hole. Azani meets Okada and Shuichi in the park, rejecting Okada who violently takes her hat off. Seeing the in place of her eyes, the spiral scar that grew. As if things couldn't get worse, the scar swallows Okada before it tears Azani apart from the inside out. Shuichi hiding in a tree.}}

* [[Star-Crossed Lovers]]: ~~The two kids in the ''Twisted Souls'' chapter.~~

* [[Star-Crossed Lovers]]:

** The two kids in the ''Twisted Souls'' chapter. Ironically, they get the happiest ending out of everyone in the story, which is saying something.

** Eventually, {{spoiler|Kirie and Shuichi become this. While Shuichi goes to school outside the town, he drops out after his parents die. Shuichi offers that he and Kirie should run away, get away from the spirals and start a new life; Kirie says she can't because her family still needs her, especially her little brother. That devotion ends up being [[All for Nothing]]; her little brother becomes a snail person, and Kirie has to tell him to crawl for it to save him from hungry hikers. Her parents are at the bottom of the town, petrified as stone. When Kirie sees this, and Shuichi starts turning to stone as well, Kirie refuses to leave him. She uses her last moments to let the spirals take her, and wrap around her boyfriend. This breaks the curse, but leaves them frozen in time}}.

* [[Stupidity-Inducing Attack]]: It's strongly implied that the town is exerting a certain measure of mental influence on its inhabitants in order to make them easier prey, which would certainly explain many of the more... [[Idiot Ball|questionable decisions]] that crop up throughout the story.

* [[Surreal Horror]]