The Corrupter: Hayato is this to Saki, introducing her to multiple vices, raping her, and starting her eventual downward spiral.Later, when her life is spiraling out of control, she goes back to her client to try to get money from him, but he coerces her into degrading acts before he'll pay her. Unfortunately, a picture of her with her client gets into the hands of some of her male classmates, and they coerce her into having sex with them as the price for not leaking it to the school. Compensated Dating: Saki is talked into going into enjo kosai by one of her classmates, but she is deeply guilt-ridden by her first experience and confides in her mother, who promises that she'll always be by Saki's side.When Saki looks at herself in the public bathroom mirror (just before shattering it), her hair reverts back to the long, thick plaits she had in the beginning. She starts out the story having a Friendless Background, then gets raped on her first outing with her future boyfriend, and it only gets even worse from that point on. Butt-Monkey: Saki, oh so much, to the point that it's Played for Drama and a Deconstructed Trope as the manga goes on.Broken Tears: Saki dissolves into tears upon seeing herself in the mirror and realizing what she's become after being beaten up by her former classmates near the end of the story.Some printings of the English translation move the title up so that it obscures her chest. Bowdlerise: The cover art features Saki in the process of getting undressed, exposing her breasts, with the title along the bottom.The final moments of her life has the same pose, albeit this time realizing what she has become thanks to her appearance. Bookends: The first time we see Saki Yoshida, we see her stressing about her Friendless Background and her attempts to change it. ![]() Unfortunately, Hayato is actually not nice. Because You Were Nice to Me: Saki wants to Work Off the Debt from Hayato, because in her eyes, he's been so nice and supportive, especially after taking her in after her parents kicked her out of her house.Beautiful All Along: Saki's transition from plain nerdy type to attractive involves little else besides her styling her hair better and wearing makeup.Ambiguous Ending: Did Saki die at the end, with the scene of her as a mother in the future being a near-death hallucination (as comments by the author seem to suggest)? Or did she really survive, after all, clean up her life, and become a mother for real?.Not even her own parents for that matter, with her father raping her and her mother proving to be easily gullible and manipulated into disowning her daughter without any second thoughts or regrets. ![]() None of the adults in Saki's life even try to help her get out of her eventual addiction, with all of them only having their own selfish interests or desires in mind, many even enabling her worsening drug habits and sex addiction. ![]() By extension, Saki's mother qualifies as well, given that she disowned, kicked out, and abandoned her daughter without a second thought, despite there being evidence that Saki's father had raped her and that it wasn't consensual.
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