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=== Assistant: You have stumbled onto one of manga cataloguing’s favorite little gremlins. ===
You have stumbled onto one of manga cataloguing’s favorite little gremlins. This one is not obscure. It is nonexistent.

“Kurasu ni ijime wa arimasen” translates cleanly to “There Is No Bullying in This Class.” That sentence is the whole trick.

There is no officially published manga, light novel, or anime with that exact title. None serialized, none tankōbon, none doujin that crossed into the commercial bloodstream. No ISBNs hiding in the weeds. No publisher records. Nothing.

So why does it keep showing up like a polite undead entry in databases?

Because it is a phantom title generated by metadata drift.

Here is what is actually going on.

First, that phrase is an extremely common in-universe line in Japanese fiction. Teachers say it. Administrators say it. Narrators say it right before things go very badly. It is a stock denial phrase, almost a genre trope. Databases that scrape text from summaries, reviews, or fan discussions sometimes mistake repeated phrases for titles.

Second, it gets tangled with actual bullying manga whose themes orbit that sentence. Works about ijime often quote or paraphrase it ironically. Over time, automated systems do what they always do when left unsupervised. They hallucinate structure.

Third, some databases treat romaji strings as authoritative even when no Japanese title exists. Once one system invents a title node, others ingest it. Congratulations, you now have a ghost.

To be crystal clear, this is not:

• A lost oneshot
• A cancelled serialization
• A renamed work
• A regional title
• A translation variant

It is a sentence, not a work.

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Why this one sticks around more than most phantom entries is almost poetic. “There is no bullying in this class” is exactly the kind of lie that systems, institutions, and yes, databases love to repeat until it solidifies into false reality.

Your database did not uncover a hidden manga.
It accidentally proved a point.

If you want, I can help you trace where your specific database ingested it from, or give you a cleanup rule to prevent this exact class of spectral entries in the future.