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''Kimagure Orange Road''[[hottip:*:Quirky Orange Road]] is an anime that dates back to the 1980s, but the LoveTriangle between the three main characters remains a classic to this day. At the center of it is Kyōsuke Kasuga, the apparently OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent, whose family has just moved to another town due to the necessity of keeping their PsychicPowers a secret.
His first love interest is the beautiful Madoka Ayukawa, who seems to be a friendly and kind girl the first time their paths cross. When he meets her again at school, however, she acts icy and distant towards him, and school rumor insists that she is a [[{{Delinquents}} delinquent]]. Which facet of [[BrokenBird Madoka]] is the real one?
The third corner of the love triangle comes in the form of Hikaru Hiyama. She's a bubbly, innocent tomboy who immediately falls for Kyōsuke after seeing him make an incredible hoop shot (not knowing that he used supernatural powers) and is fond of [[TheGlomp glomping]] him and calling him "Darling!"
Predictably, Kyōsuke has no romantic feelings towards Hikaru (he ''does'' care for "Hikaru-chan", but [[LikeBrotherAndSister as a sister]]) and has eyes only for Madoka, who acts [[{{Tsundere}} alternately sweet and cold towards him]]. Even more predictably, Kyōsuke [[CanNotSpitItOut cannot declare his love for Madoka or reject Hikaru and thus end the love triangle]]. The reason? Hikaru absolutely '''adores''' [[OneeSama "Madoka-san"]] and has been her only friend from many years ago (as in, along with a boy named Yūsaku Hino, she's the only person who isn't afraid of her), and Madoka had already promised to help her win Kyōsuke. Of course, the setup gets even more tangled when ''Madoka'' herself begins developing feelings for Kyōsuke as well...
What elevates ''Kimagure Orange Road'' from a run-of-the-mill romantic comedy is the [[CharacterDevelopment depth and genuineness of its emotions and events]]. Despite the subplot of Kyōsuke keeping his supernatural powers a secret, the series is really a coming-of-age story of typical teenagers finding their way in the confusing realm of love that feels more realistic and nostalgic than most other romantic comedies.
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!!This show provides examples of:
* ActionGirl: Madoka. Also, the {{delinquent}} girls she used to hang out with; a {{filler}} anime episode centers on Madoka and one of them.
* AlmostKiss: Kyōsuke and Madoka ''love'' doing this.
* BeachEpisode: The pilot, and some later episodes.
* BettyAndVeronica: With Hikaru as Betty, Madoka as Veronica, and Kyōsuke as Archie.
** [[FilleFatale Sayuri Hirose]] tries to become a ThirdOptionLoveInterest and get Kyōsuke away from them. [[spoiler: She fails.]]
** Arguably a {{Deconstruction}}, in that Betty!Hikaru is the spoiled one, while Veronica!Madoka is the more reserved and selfless one. The only true resemblence to a real BettyAndVeronica is that Hikaru is middle-class and Madoka is rich, and yet both are as equally likable and deep as the other.
* BigEater: The twins Kurumi and Manami.
* BlindWithoutEm: Poor, poor Manami.
* {{Bokukko}}: Madoka, as a little girl. She grows up into a full-fledged {{Tsundere}}.
* BrokenBird: Madoka
* ButtMonkey: Hikaru's childhood friend/whipping boy Yūsaku.
** And Jingoro, the Kasuga's cat in the anime.
* CanNotSpitItOut: Kyōsuke wouldn't have had to keep up the charade with Hikaru for as long as he did if he had just told her about his true feelings upfront. Then again, he ''is'' the Poster Boy for Indecisiveness. (It doesn't help his situation that Madoka, due to her feelings of loyalty for Hikaru, keeps pushing Kyōsuke and Hikaru together [[spoiler: despite having feelings for Kyōsuke herself.]])
** In the manga, he is ''truly'' indecisive about who he likes more, though on most occasions he leans towards Madoka. In the anime, his only indecisiveness is not being able to tell Hikaru his true feelings.
* CanonDisContinuity : Komatsu is given two different first names during the series: Seiji (the more widely accepted one) or Masashi. Considering how little we know of any character that isn't in the Kasuga family, it's quite possible TheyJustDidntCare.
* CharacterExaggeration: Hikaru, in the TV series, sometimes goes from genuine GenkiGirl to straight TheDitz. Of course, this is [[{{Flanderization}} flanderized]] to death by her haters.
* CleaningUpRomanticLooseEnds: The first movie. The second movie tried very hard to set it up again.
** Except it didn't. Hikaru merely found she still felt a little ''something'' for him, but she wisely didn't act on it. The theme of the movie was more [[CharacterDevelopment about time healing wounds and giving things the chance to be attempted again]]. In this case, for Hikaru to be able to be around them again without repeating the whole 'Darling!' ClingyJealousGirl stuff she was doing during the series.
* ClingyJealousGirl: Hikaru. First in an innocent and childlike way, but more seriously and borderline {{Yandere}}-like in the first movie. She gets better, as seen above.
* CrazyJealousGuy: Oh God, Yusaku.
* CloudCuckoolander: Kurumi, who has a weird but lovable personality. She's a bit of a [[{{The Ditz}} ditz]] as well.
* ComingOfAgeStory: Maybe one of the best examples in anime.
* CoolBigSis: Madoka, towards the younger kids. Shu's girlfriend Yukari is a slightly more traditional version.
* DeathByChildbirth: [[spoiler: Kyōsuke's mother, Akemi, died after the twins' birth.]]
* {{Delinquents}}: Madoka and her ex-friends.
* EroticDream: OVA has both day and night dreams with Kyōsuke.
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Madoka, Madoka, Madoka.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: The owner of [[Music/{{Genesis}} Abcb]] is known only as "Master".
* FirstGirlWins: No matter which timeline you go by.
* FlowerFromTheMountainTop: Kyōsuke's maternal grandfather sent Takashi off to get snow from the mountaintop for his whiskey [[ParentalMarriageVeto if he wanted to marry his daughter]] Akemi (Takeshi is the only one in Kyōsuke's family [[{{Muggles}} without powers]]). [[spoiler:He got some help from Akemi herself.]]
* FreakyFriday: in an episode, Kyōsuke and his CuteShotaroBoy cousin Kazuya switch bodies. Kyōsuke does that because he hopes to gain Kazuya's telepathy, [[spoiler:but it does not work that way!]]
* TheGlomp: "Daaaarliiiiiing!"
* GroundhogDayLoop: Done a looong time before the movie came out, before the concept was even well-known.
* {{Homage}}: both plots and individual scenes are borrowed from a variety of contemporary films and anime, from a dream in episode 2 that reflects ''AnOfficerAndAGentleman'' to the New Year's Day special where the entire cast is recast in a parody episode of {{Toku}}, fighting a [[MegaNeko giant-sized Jingoro]], entitled [[TopGun "T.A.P. Gun"]]. (This was, after all, an [[TheEighties '80s]] show).
* HotAmazon: Played with, maybe deconstructed in regards to Madoka. She gets this reaction from older guys, but boys her age often say "NoGuyWantsAnAmazon" and steer away from "Madoka the Pick", no matter how hot she is. (In fact, even Hatta and Komatsu feared her at the beginning, and warned Kyōsuke about her bad fame in the second episode.) Kyōsuke is pretty much the first guy aside of Yūsaku who approaches her without fear (or ''despite'' his fear) in school.
* IdolSinger: Mitsuru Hayakawa is a male one. And yes, Kyōsuke switches bodies with him.
* IfYouEverDoAnythingToHurtHer: From the HotAmazon and the ButtMonkey, towards the OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent, in regards to the GenkiGirl.
* ImprobableWeaponUser: Madoka keeps guitar picks strapped to her thigh which she can throw with considerable force. In later episodes, the main characters have to deal with a [[{{Delinquents}} girl gang]] who wield such weapons as skateboards and yo-yos.
** Probably a spoof of Sukeban Deka ("Delinquent Girl Detective"), a popular shoujo manga about a reformed delinquent girl who used a yo-yo as a weapon to fight crime. There was a popular live-action show based on it that was airing at the time.
* IndirectKiss
* InLoveWithLove / LovingAShadow: WordOfGod says Akane is simply in love with the ''idea'' of being in love with Madoka.
* IntrepidReporter: In the second movie, Kyōsuke grows into one of these (as a wartime photographer in the former Yugoslavia).
* {{Jerkass}}: Hikaru can be downright cruel to Yūsaku.
** Not realy helped by how she makes it clear that she doesn't want to date him, and yet he's still pretty much a CrazyJealousGuy over her and often acts like she's his personal property.
* TheJimmyHartVersion: The background music during a ''Superman'' sequence comes ''this'' close to the classic movie theme, without breaking into the ''good part'' (and breaking copyright).
* LethalChef: Kurumi
* LoveTriangle: And ''how''. The KOR love triangle is so definitive, other romantic comedies had to invent the LoveDodecahedron.
* TheMaidenNameDebate: Takashi is the only non-powered Kasuga because he married into the clan.
* MementoMacGuffin: Hikaru's medallion. Several years ago she lost it to a bully, Madoka witnessed the incident and got it back for her, and that was the start of their friendship.
* MeaningfulName: Madoka's name references the night and darkness while Hikaru's name references the sun and light; both of which reflect their personalities. Kyōsuke's surname is that of the attendant of the sun goddess Amaterasu, fitting for someone caught between them.
* {{Meganekko}}: Manami has [[EnsembleDarkhorse one of the more dedicated fanbases in KOR fandom]], and her meganekko status plays an important part of this.
* MegaNeko: New Year's Special filler episode.
* MouthyKid: Kazuya, sometimes.
* MushroomSamba: Kurumi uses her powers to turn some normal mushrooms blue. They have side effects. HilarityEnsues.
* NoSmoking: Kyōsuke successfully gets Madoka to kick the habit. She starts it again in the second movie, though.
* OfficialCouple: [[spoiler: Kyōsuke/Madoka]]
* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: Kyōsuke... except for his psychic powers.
* PairTheSpares: Averted. After Hikaru is dumped by Kyōsuke, it would seem obvious that she and Yūsaku would hook up. However, this doesn't happen as Shin-KOR follows the manga timeline and has Hikaru leave for America shortly thereafter and stays there for a long time. This matching is notable for not even being used much in Fan fiction.
** Akane, the fourth corner of the love triangle (!) would seem to have a logical matchup with the unnamed LesbianSchoolgirl from the manga story "The Bus-Stop of Love". However, whenever she shows up in fan-works, things never work out. (She did get a pity-screw in Spring Wonder, though).
* ParentalAbandonment: Madoka loves her parents [[ParentsAsPeople and they love her back]], but they work abroad (Dad is an orchestra conduictor, Mom is a classic violinist) and so they're almost never seen around and Madoka has been basically raised by her older sister (and once said sister gets married, she and her hubby go to thr USA and Madoka lives alone). Hikaru's parents are there, but they're never seen and only heard in the background or mentioned.
* {{Plot-Based Voice Cancellation}}
* PsychicPowers
* RevengeFic: "Fanfic/RevengeRoad", anyone? Poor Hikaru!
* RunningGag: The YuppieCouple whose confessions of love always get interrupted.
* SayMyName: All said YuppieCouple ever does.
* SchoolgirlLesbians: Akane Kasuga, and young Shiori from the TV series.
** Akane is a more extreme case of {{Onee Sama}} admiration, especially considering that Madoka is {{Tall Dark And Bishoujo}}. At the very least, she's [[BiTheWay bisexual]].
* SecretKeeper: The Kasuga family must keep their psychic powers a secret, which tends to be a problem for Kyōsuke.
** Also, both Manami and the Master of Abcb know that Kyōsuke and Madoka have feelings for each other (even more so in the manga).
* SexoPhone: Madoka plays a mean sax in the TV series.
* ShipperOnDeck: In the manga, Kurumi wants Kyosuke to end up with Hikaru while Manami ships Madoka/Kyosuke. HilarityEnsues. [[spoiler: This takes a turn to the serious when Manami actually shows the red hat to Madoka and tells her about the love deal.]]
** Kazuya leans a LOT towards Madoka/Kyosuke, though he may be too young to really understand the deal.
** Akane actually was ''introduced'' as a Hikaru/Kyosuke shipper of sorts, and at some point she mistakenly thought that Kyosuke was cheating on Hikaru with Madoka and was NOT happy about it. [[StupidSexyFlanders Then she actually MET Madoka and fell for her, sorta...]]
* {{Shorttank}}: Hikaru mixes this with some {{Kawaiiko}} traits.
* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: Madoka loves Kyosuke for this, and because he was the first guy in their school (aside of Yusaku) who approached her without fear.
* StableTimeLoop: Involved in the time travel plot in the last two episodes of the TV series, as Madoka remembers meeting Kyōsuke five years ago even before he traveled back to the past. This instance of time travel also invokes:
** MeanwhileInTheFuture, and...
** NeverTheSelvesShallMeet: With Madoka. [[spoiler: Because according to Grandpa, the TemporalParadox would involve both selves being erased from existence, if they ever touched each other. It was ''this'' close to happen when Madoka met herself as a kid, but thankfully her older sister called out to little Madoka and she had to come back home.]]
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Kyōsuke and Kazuya. When the latter is introduced, ''everyone'' outside the Kasuga family [[LampshadeHanging comments]] on how he looks ''just'' like a five-year-old Kyōsuke.
* TallDarkAndBishoujo: Madoka. An UrExample and TropeCodifier
** Akemi also was one.
* TeamMom: Manami. She even helps keep her father in line when he's a little too lax in parenting.
* TenchiSolution: Of the "Don't commit completely" variety.
* TheOtherDarrin: There have been ''three'' casts for the main charas:
** Pilot episode: SaekoShimazu (Madoka), Yuu Mizushima (Kyōsuke), YokoOgai (Hikaru)
** TV series, OAV's and early radio dramas: HiromiTsuru (Madoka), TohruFuruya (Kyōsuke), ErikoHara (Hikaru). Additionally, ChiekoHonda (Kurumi) and MichieTomizawa (Manami), MariaKawamura (Madoka's sister), YoshikoSakakibara (Madoka's mom), KeiTomiyama (Takashi), YumiTakada (Akemi), NaokoMatsui (Akane), ShigeruNakahara (Shuu), ChiyokoKawashima (Hikaru's mom), Keiichi Nanba (Komatsu), Naoki Tatsuta (Hatta), KenichiOgata (Jingoro), ChikaSakamoto (Kazuya)...
** Late CD dramas: TomoSakurai (Madoka), RyoHorikawa (Kyōsuke), YukaImai (Hikaru), YukoMiyamura (Kurumi) and EmiMotoi (Manami)
* TokenYuriGirl: Akane Kasuga.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Madoka and Hikaru, Kurumi and Manami.
* {{Tsundere}}: Once again, Madoka.
** Madoka is quite moody, but only occasionally tsundere-like. "Kimagure" literally means, "whimsical" or "coquettish" and clearly refers to Her.
*** Actually Madoka is commonly cited as one of the ''original'' codifiers of the Tsundere archtype. Her ''complexity'' as a Tsundere is often favorably compared to the {{Flanderized}} [[JerkAss ultra-violent, whiny and bitchy]] nature of many modern Tsundere.
* WonderfulLife: In the final episode.
* YamatoNadeshiko: Manami, the oldest of the twins. Madoka too, in her gentler moments.
** And Akemi.
* {{Yandere}}: Hikaru was *this* close to become one in TheMovie. She got better (sorta), though.
* YuppieCouple: Umao and Ushiko ("Ushiko-san!" "Umao-san!")
* ZettaiRyouiki: Madoka uses it once in a while.
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''Kimagure Orange Road''[[hottip:*:Quirky Orange Road]] is an anime that dates back to the 1980s, but the LoveTriangle between the three main characters remains a classic to this day. At the center of it is Kyōsuke Kasuga, the apparently OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent, whose family has just moved to another town due to the necessity of keeping their PsychicPowers a secret.
His first love interest is the beautiful Madoka Ayukawa, who seems to be a friendly and kind girl the first time their paths cross. When he meets her again at school, however, she acts icy and distant towards him, and school rumor insists that she is a [[{{Delinquents}} delinquent]]. Which facet of [[BrokenBird Madoka]] is the real one?
The third corner of the love triangle comes in the form of Hikaru Hiyama. She's a bubbly, innocent tomboy who immediately falls for Kyōsuke after seeing him make an incredible hoop shot (not knowing that he used supernatural powers) and is fond of [[TheGlomp glomping]] him and calling him "Darling!"
Predictably, Kyōsuke has no romantic feelings towards Hikaru (he ''does'' care for "Hikaru-chan", but [[LikeBrotherAndSister as a sister]]) and has eyes only for Madoka, who acts [[{{Tsundere}} alternately sweet and cold towards him]]. Even more predictably, Kyōsuke [[CanNotSpitItOut cannot declare his love for Madoka or reject Hikaru and thus end the love triangle]]. The reason? Hikaru absolutely '''adores''' [[OneeSama "Madoka-san"]] and has been her only friend from many years ago (as in, along with a boy named Yūsaku Hino, she's the only person who isn't afraid of her), and Madoka had already promised to help her win Kyōsuke. Of course, the setup gets even more tangled when ''Madoka'' herself begins developing feelings for Kyōsuke as well...
What elevates ''Kimagure Orange Road'' from a run-of-the-mill romantic comedy is the [[CharacterDevelopment depth and genuineness of its emotions and events]]. Despite the subplot of Kyōsuke keeping his supernatural powers a secret, the series is really a coming-of-age story of typical teenagers finding their way in the confusing realm of love that feels more realistic and nostalgic than most other romantic comedies.
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!!This show provides examples of:
* ActionGirl: Madoka. Also, the {{delinquent}} girls she used to hang out with; a {{filler}} anime episode centers on Madoka and one of them.
* AlmostKiss: Kyōsuke and Madoka ''love'' doing this.
* BeachEpisode: The pilot, and some later episodes.
* BettyAndVeronica: With Hikaru as Betty, Madoka as Veronica, and Kyōsuke as Archie.
** [[FilleFatale Sayuri Hirose]] tries to become a ThirdOptionLoveInterest and get Kyōsuke away from them. [[spoiler: She fails.]]
** Arguably a {{Deconstruction}}, in that Betty!Hikaru is the spoiled one, while Veronica!Madoka is the more reserved and selfless one. The only true resemblence to a real BettyAndVeronica is that Hikaru is middle-class and Madoka is rich, and yet both are as equally likable and deep as the other.
* BigEater: The twins Kurumi and Manami.
* BlindWithoutEm: Poor, poor Manami.
* {{Bokukko}}: Madoka, as a little girl. She grows up into a full-fledged {{Tsundere}}.
* BrokenBird: Madoka
* ButtMonkey: Hikaru's childhood friend/whipping boy Yūsaku.
** And Jingoro, the Kasuga's cat in the anime.
* CanNotSpitItOut: Kyōsuke wouldn't have had to keep up the charade with Hikaru for as long as he did if he had just told her about his true feelings upfront. Then again, he ''is'' the Poster Boy for Indecisiveness. (It doesn't help his situation that Madoka, due to her feelings of loyalty for Hikaru, keeps pushing Kyōsuke and Hikaru together [[spoiler: despite having feelings for Kyōsuke herself.]])
** In the manga, he is ''truly'' indecisive about who he likes more, though on most occasions he leans towards Madoka. In the anime, his only indecisiveness is not being able to tell Hikaru his true feelings.
* CanonDisContinuity : Komatsu is given two different first names during the series: Seiji (the more widely accepted one) or Masashi. Considering how little we know of any character that isn't in the Kasuga family, it's quite possible TheyJustDidntCare.
* CharacterExaggeration: Hikaru, in the TV series, sometimes goes from genuine GenkiGirl to straight TheDitz. Of course, this is [[{{Flanderization}} flanderized]] to death by her haters.
* CleaningUpRomanticLooseEnds: The first movie. The second movie tried very hard to set it up again.
** Except it didn't. Hikaru merely found she still felt a little ''something'' for him, but she wisely didn't act on it. The theme of the movie was more [[CharacterDevelopment about time healing wounds and giving things the chance to be attempted again]]. In this case, for Hikaru to be able to be around them again without repeating the whole 'Darling!' ClingyJealousGirl stuff she was doing during the series.
* ClingyJealousGirl: Hikaru. First in an innocent and childlike way, but more seriously and borderline {{Yandere}}-like in the first movie. She gets better, as seen above.
* CrazyJealousGuy: Oh God, Yusaku.
* CloudCuckoolander: Kurumi, who has a weird but lovable personality. She's a bit of a [[{{The Ditz}} ditz]] as well.
* ComingOfAgeStory: Maybe one of the best examples in anime.
* CoolBigSis: Madoka, towards the younger kids. Shu's girlfriend Yukari is a slightly more traditional version.
* DeathByChildbirth: [[spoiler: Kyōsuke's mother, Akemi, died after the twins' birth.]]
* {{Delinquents}}: Madoka and her ex-friends.
* EroticDream: OVA has both day and night dreams with Kyōsuke.
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Madoka, Madoka, Madoka.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: The owner of [[Music/{{Genesis}} Abcb]] is known only as "Master".
* FirstGirlWins: No matter which timeline you go by.
* FlowerFromTheMountainTop: Kyōsuke's maternal grandfather sent Takashi off to get snow from the mountaintop for his whiskey [[ParentalMarriageVeto if he wanted to marry his daughter]] Akemi (Takeshi is the only one in Kyōsuke's family [[{{Muggles}} without powers]]). [[spoiler:He got some help from Akemi herself.]]
* FreakyFriday: in an episode, Kyōsuke and his CuteShotaroBoy cousin Kazuya switch bodies. Kyōsuke does that because he hopes to gain Kazuya's telepathy, [[spoiler:but it does not work that way!]]
* TheGlomp: "Daaaarliiiiiing!"
* GroundhogDayLoop: Done a looong time before the movie came out, before the concept was even well-known.
* {{Homage}}: both plots and individual scenes are borrowed from a variety of contemporary films and anime, from a dream in episode 2 that reflects ''AnOfficerAndAGentleman'' to the New Year's Day special where the entire cast is recast in a parody episode of {{Toku}}, fighting a [[MegaNeko giant-sized Jingoro]], entitled [[TopGun "T.A.P. Gun"]]. (This was, after all, an [[TheEighties '80s]] show).
* HotAmazon: Played with, maybe deconstructed in regards to Madoka. She gets this reaction from older guys, but boys her age often say "NoGuyWantsAnAmazon" and steer away from "Madoka the Pick", no matter how hot she is. (In fact, even Hatta and Komatsu feared her at the beginning, and warned Kyōsuke about her bad fame in the second episode.) Kyōsuke is pretty much the first guy aside of Yūsaku who approaches her without fear (or ''despite'' his fear) in school.
* IdolSinger: Mitsuru Hayakawa is a male one. And yes, Kyōsuke switches bodies with him.
* IfYouEverDoAnythingToHurtHer: From the HotAmazon and the ButtMonkey, towards the OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent, in regards to the GenkiGirl.
* ImprobableWeaponUser: Madoka keeps guitar picks strapped to her thigh which she can throw with considerable force. In later episodes, the main characters have to deal with a [[{{Delinquents}} girl gang]] who wield such weapons as skateboards and yo-yos.
** Probably a spoof of Sukeban Deka ("Delinquent Girl Detective"), a popular shoujo manga about a reformed delinquent girl who used a yo-yo as a weapon to fight crime. There was a popular live-action show based on it that was airing at the time.
* IndirectKiss
* InLoveWithLove / LovingAShadow: WordOfGod says Akane is simply in love with the ''idea'' of being in love with Madoka.
* IntrepidReporter: In the second movie, Kyōsuke grows into one of these (as a wartime photographer in the former Yugoslavia).
* {{Jerkass}}: Hikaru can be downright cruel to Yūsaku.
** Not realy helped by how she makes it clear that she doesn't want to date him, and yet he's still pretty much a CrazyJealousGuy over her and often acts like she's his personal property.
* TheJimmyHartVersion: The background music during a ''Superman'' sequence comes ''this'' close to the classic movie theme, without breaking into the ''good part'' (and breaking copyright).
* LethalChef: Kurumi
* LoveTriangle: And ''how''. The KOR love triangle is so definitive, other romantic comedies had to invent the LoveDodecahedron.
* TheMaidenNameDebate: Takashi is the only non-powered Kasuga because he married into the clan.
* MementoMacGuffin: Hikaru's medallion. Several years ago she lost it to a bully, Madoka witnessed the incident and got it back for her, and that was the start of their friendship.
* MeaningfulName: Madoka's name references the night and darkness while Hikaru's name references the sun and light; both of which reflect their personalities. Kyōsuke's surname is that of the attendant of the sun goddess Amaterasu, fitting for someone caught between them.
* {{Meganekko}}: Manami has [[EnsembleDarkhorse one of the more dedicated fanbases in KOR fandom]], and her meganekko status plays an important part of this.
* MegaNeko: New Year's Special filler episode.
* MouthyKid: Kazuya, sometimes.
* MushroomSamba: Kurumi uses her powers to turn some normal mushrooms blue. They have side effects. HilarityEnsues.
* NoSmoking: Kyōsuke successfully gets Madoka to kick the habit. She starts it again in the second movie, though.
* OfficialCouple: [[spoiler: Kyōsuke/Madoka]]
* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: Kyōsuke... except for his psychic powers.
* PairTheSpares: Averted. After Hikaru is dumped by Kyōsuke, it would seem obvious that she and Yūsaku would hook up. However, this doesn't happen as Shin-KOR follows the manga timeline and has Hikaru leave for America shortly thereafter and stays there for a long time. This matching is notable for not even being used much in Fan fiction.
** Akane, the fourth corner of the love triangle (!) would seem to have a logical matchup with the unnamed LesbianSchoolgirl from the manga story "The Bus-Stop of Love". However, whenever she shows up in fan-works, things never work out. (She did get a pity-screw in Spring Wonder, though).
* ParentalAbandonment: Madoka loves her parents [[ParentsAsPeople and they love her back]], but they work abroad (Dad is an orchestra conduictor, Mom is a classic violinist) and so they're almost never seen around and Madoka has been basically raised by her older sister (and once said sister gets married, she and her hubby go to thr USA and Madoka lives alone). Hikaru's parents are there, but they're never seen and only heard in the background or mentioned.
* {{Plot-Based Voice Cancellation}}
* PsychicPowers
* RevengeFic: "Fanfic/RevengeRoad", anyone? Poor Hikaru!
* RunningGag: The YuppieCouple whose confessions of love always get interrupted.
* SayMyName: All said YuppieCouple ever does.
* SchoolgirlLesbians: Akane Kasuga, and young Shiori from the TV series.
** Akane is a more extreme case of {{Onee Sama}} admiration, especially considering that Madoka is {{Tall Dark And Bishoujo}}. At the very least, she's [[BiTheWay bisexual]].
* SecretKeeper: The Kasuga family must keep their psychic powers a secret, which tends to be a problem for Kyōsuke.
** Also, both Manami and the Master of Abcb know that Kyōsuke and Madoka have feelings for each other (even more so in the manga).
* SexoPhone: Madoka plays a mean sax in the TV series.
* ShipperOnDeck: In the manga, Kurumi wants Kyosuke to end up with Hikaru while Manami ships Madoka/Kyosuke. HilarityEnsues. [[spoiler: This takes a turn to the serious when Manami actually shows the red hat to Madoka and tells her about the love deal.]]
** Kazuya leans a LOT towards Madoka/Kyosuke, though he may be too young to really understand the deal.
** Akane actually was ''introduced'' as a Hikaru/Kyosuke shipper of sorts, and at some point she mistakenly thought that Kyosuke was cheating on Hikaru with Madoka and was NOT happy about it. [[StupidSexyFlanders Then she actually MET Madoka and fell for her, sorta...]]
* {{Shorttank}}: Hikaru mixes this with some {{Kawaiiko}} traits.
* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: Madoka loves Kyosuke for this, and because he was the first guy in their school (aside of Yusaku) who approached her without fear.
* StableTimeLoop: Involved in the time travel plot in the last two episodes of the TV series, as Madoka remembers meeting Kyōsuke five years ago even before he traveled back to the past. This instance of time travel also invokes:
** MeanwhileInTheFuture, and...
** NeverTheSelvesShallMeet: With Madoka. [[spoiler: Because according to Grandpa, the TemporalParadox would involve both selves being erased from existence, if they ever touched each other. It was ''this'' close to happen when Madoka met herself as a kid, but thankfully her older sister called out to little Madoka and she had to come back home.]]
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Kyōsuke and Kazuya. When the latter is introduced, ''everyone'' outside the Kasuga family [[LampshadeHanging comments]] on how he looks ''just'' like a five-year-old Kyōsuke.
* TallDarkAndBishoujo: Madoka. An UrExample and TropeCodifier
** Akemi also was one.
* TeamMom: Manami. She even helps keep her father in line when he's a little too lax in parenting.
* TenchiSolution: Of the "Don't commit completely" variety.
* TheOtherDarrin: There have been ''three'' casts for the main charas:
** Pilot episode: SaekoShimazu (Madoka), Yuu Mizushima (Kyōsuke), YokoOgai (Hikaru)
** TV series, OAV's and early radio dramas: HiromiTsuru (Madoka), TohruFuruya (Kyōsuke), ErikoHara (Hikaru). Additionally, ChiekoHonda (Kurumi) and MichieTomizawa (Manami), MariaKawamura (Madoka's sister), YoshikoSakakibara (Madoka's mom), KeiTomiyama (Takashi), YumiTakada (Akemi), NaokoMatsui (Akane), ShigeruNakahara (Shuu), ChiyokoKawashima (Hikaru's mom), Keiichi Nanba (Komatsu), Naoki Tatsuta (Hatta), KenichiOgata (Jingoro), ChikaSakamoto (Kazuya)...
** Late CD dramas: TomoSakurai (Madoka), RyoHorikawa (Kyōsuke), YukaImai (Hikaru), YukoMiyamura (Kurumi) and EmiMotoi (Manami)
* TokenYuriGirl: Akane Kasuga.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Madoka and Hikaru, Kurumi and Manami.
* {{Tsundere}}: Once again, Madoka.
** Madoka is quite moody, but only occasionally tsundere-like. "Kimagure" literally means, "whimsical" or "coquettish" and clearly refers to Her.
*** Actually Madoka is commonly cited as one of the ''original'' codifiers of the Tsundere archtype. Her ''complexity'' as a Tsundere is often favorably compared to the {{Flanderized}} [[JerkAss ultra-violent, whiny and bitchy]] nature of many modern Tsundere.
* WonderfulLife: In the final episode.
* YamatoNadeshiko: Manami, the oldest of the twins. Madoka too, in her gentler moments.
** And Akemi.
* {{Yandere}}: Hikaru was *this* close to become one in TheMovie. She got better (sorta), though.
* YuppieCouple: Umao and Ushiko ("Ushiko-san!" "Umao-san!")
* ZettaiRyouiki: Madoka uses it once in a while.
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''Kimagure Orange Road''[[hottip:*:Quirky Orange Road]] is an anime that dates back to the 1980s, but the LoveTriangle between the three main characters remains a classic to this day. At the center of it is Kyōsuke Kasuga, the apparently OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent, whose family has just moved to another town due to the necessity of keeping their PsychicPowers a secret.
His first love interest is the beautiful Madoka Ayukawa, who seems to be a friendly and kind girl the first time their paths cross. When he meets her again at school, however, she acts icy and distant towards him, and school rumor insists that she is a [[{{Delinquents}} delinquent]]. Which facet of [[BrokenBird Madoka]] is the real one?
The third corner of the love triangle comes in the form of Hikaru Hiyama. She's a bubbly, innocent tomboy who immediately falls for Kyōsuke after seeing him make an incredible hoop shot (not knowing that he used supernatural powers) and is fond of [[TheGlomp glomping]] him and calling him "Darling!"
Predictably, Kyōsuke has no romantic feelings towards Hikaru (he ''does'' care for "Hikaru-chan", but [[LikeBrotherAndSister as a sister]]) and has eyes only for Madoka, who acts [[{{Tsundere}} alternately sweet and cold towards him]]. Even more predictably, Kyōsuke [[CanNotSpitItOut cannot declare his love for Madoka or reject Hikaru and thus end the love triangle]]. The reason? Hikaru absolutely '''adores''' [[OneeSama "Madoka-san"]] and has been her only friend from many years ago (as in, along with a boy named Yūsaku Hino, she's the only person who isn't afraid of her), and Madoka had already promised to help her win Kyōsuke. Of course, the setup gets even more tangled when ''Madoka'' herself begins developing feelings for Kyōsuke as well...
What elevates ''Kimagure Orange Road'' from a run-of-the-mill romantic comedy is the [[CharacterDevelopment depth and genuineness of its emotions and events]]. Despite the subplot of Kyōsuke keeping his supernatural powers a secret, the series is really a coming-of-age story of typical teenagers finding their way in the confusing realm of love that feels more realistic and nostalgic than most other romantic comedies.
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!!This show provides examples of:
* ActionGirl: Madoka. Also, the {{delinquent}} girls she used to hang out with; a {{filler}} anime episode centers on Madoka and one of them.
* AlmostKiss: Kyōsuke and Madoka ''love'' doing this.
* BeachEpisode: The pilot, and some later episodes.
* BettyAndVeronica: With Hikaru as Betty, Madoka as Veronica, and Kyōsuke as Archie.
** [[FilleFatale Sayuri Hirose]] tries to become a ThirdOptionLoveInterest and get Kyōsuke away from them. [[spoiler: She fails.]]
** Arguably a {{Deconstruction}}, in that Betty!Hikaru is the spoiled one, while Veronica!Madoka is the more reserved and selfless one. The only true resemblence to a real BettyAndVeronica is that Hikaru is middle-class and Madoka is rich, and yet both are as equally likable and deep as the other.
* BigEater: The twins Kurumi and Manami.
* BlindWithoutEm: Poor, poor Manami.
* {{Bokukko}}: Madoka, as a little girl. She grows up into a full-fledged {{Tsundere}}.
* BrokenBird: Madoka
* ButtMonkey: Hikaru's childhood friend/whipping boy Yūsaku.
** And Jingoro, the Kasuga's cat in the anime.
* CanNotSpitItOut: Kyōsuke wouldn't have had to keep up the charade with Hikaru for as long as he did if he had just told her about his true feelings upfront. Then again, he ''is'' the Poster Boy for Indecisiveness. (It doesn't help his situation that Madoka, due to her feelings of loyalty for Hikaru, keeps pushing Kyōsuke and Hikaru together [[spoiler: despite having feelings for Kyōsuke herself.]])
** In the manga, he is ''truly'' indecisive about who he likes more, though on most occasions he leans towards Madoka. In the anime, his only indecisiveness is not being able to tell Hikaru his true feelings.
* CanonDisContinuity : Komatsu is given two different first names during the series: Seiji (the more widely accepted one) or Masashi. Considering how little we know of any character that isn't in the Kasuga family, it's quite possible TheyJustDidntCare.
* CharacterExaggeration: Hikaru, in the TV series, sometimes goes from genuine GenkiGirl to straight TheDitz. Of course, this is [[{{Flanderization}} flanderized]] to death by her haters.
* CleaningUpRomanticLooseEnds: The first movie. The second movie tried very hard to set it up again.
** Except it didn't. Hikaru merely found she still felt a little ''something'' for him, but she wisely didn't act on it. The theme of the movie was more [[CharacterDevelopment about time healing wounds and giving things the chance to be attempted again]]. In this case, for Hikaru to be able to be around them again without repeating the whole 'Darling!' ClingyJealousGirl stuff she was doing during the series.
* ClingyJealousGirl: Hikaru. First in an innocent and childlike way, but more seriously and borderline {{Yandere}}-like in the first movie. She gets better, as seen above.
* CrazyJealousGuy: Oh God, Yusaku.
* CloudCuckoolander: Kurumi, who has a weird but lovable personality. She's a bit of a [[{{The Ditz}} ditz]] as well.
* ComingOfAgeStory: Maybe one of the best examples in anime.
* CoolBigSis: Madoka, towards the younger kids. Shu's girlfriend Yukari is a slightly more traditional version.
* DeathByChildbirth: [[spoiler: Kyōsuke's mother, Akemi, died after the twins' birth.]]
* {{Delinquents}}: Madoka and her ex-friends.
* EroticDream: OVA has both day and night dreams with Kyōsuke.
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Madoka, Madoka, Madoka.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: The owner of [[Music/{{Genesis}} Abcb]] is known only as "Master".
* FirstGirlWins: No matter which timeline you go by.
* FlowerFromTheMountainTop: Kyōsuke's maternal grandfather sent Takashi off to get snow from the mountaintop for his whiskey [[ParentalMarriageVeto if he wanted to marry his daughter]] Akemi (Takeshi is the only one in Kyōsuke's family [[{{Muggles}} without powers]]). [[spoiler:He got some help from Akemi herself.]]
* FreakyFriday: in an episode, Kyōsuke and his CuteShotaroBoy cousin Kazuya switch bodies. Kyōsuke does that because he hopes to gain Kazuya's telepathy, [[spoiler:but it does not work that way!]]
* TheGlomp: "Daaaarliiiiiing!"
* GroundhogDayLoop: Done a looong time before the movie came out, before the concept was even well-known.
* {{Homage}}: both plots and individual scenes are borrowed from a variety of contemporary films and anime, from a dream in episode 2 that reflects ''AnOfficerAndAGentleman'' to the New Year's Day special where the entire cast is recast in a parody episode of {{Toku}}, fighting a [[MegaNeko giant-sized Jingoro]], entitled [[TopGun "T.A.P. Gun"]]. (This was, after all, an [[TheEighties '80s]] show).
* HotAmazon: Played with, maybe deconstructed in regards to Madoka. She gets this reaction from older guys, but boys her age often say "NoGuyWantsAnAmazon" and steer away from "Madoka the Pick", no matter how hot she is. (In fact, even Hatta and Komatsu feared her at the beginning, and warned Kyōsuke about her bad fame in the second episode.) Kyōsuke is pretty much the first guy aside of Yūsaku who approaches her without fear (or ''despite'' his fear) in school.
* IdolSinger: Mitsuru Hayakawa is a male one. And yes, Kyōsuke switches bodies with him.
* IfYouEverDoAnythingToHurtHer: From the HotAmazon and the ButtMonkey, towards the OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent, in regards to the GenkiGirl.
* ImprobableWeaponUser: Madoka keeps guitar picks strapped to her thigh which she can throw with considerable force. In later episodes, the main characters have to deal with a [[{{Delinquents}} girl gang]] who wield such weapons as skateboards and yo-yos.
** Probably a spoof of Sukeban Deka ("Delinquent Girl Detective"), a popular shoujo manga about a reformed delinquent girl who used a yo-yo as a weapon to fight crime. There was a popular live-action show based on it that was airing at the time.
* IndirectKiss
* InLoveWithLove / LovingAShadow: WordOfGod says Akane is simply in love with the ''idea'' of being in love with Madoka.
* IntrepidReporter: In the second movie, Kyōsuke grows into one of these (as a wartime photographer in the former Yugoslavia).
* {{Jerkass}}: Hikaru can be downright cruel to Yūsaku.
** Not realy helped by how she makes it clear that she doesn't want to date him, and yet he's still pretty much a CrazyJealousGuy over her and often acts like she's his personal property.
* TheJimmyHartVersion: The background music during a ''Superman'' sequence comes ''this'' close to the classic movie theme, without breaking into the ''good part'' (and breaking copyright).
* LethalChef: Kurumi
* LoveTriangle: And ''how''. The KOR love triangle is so definitive, other romantic comedies had to invent the LoveDodecahedron.
* TheMaidenNameDebate: Takashi is the only non-powered Kasuga because he married into the clan.
* MementoMacGuffin: Hikaru's medallion. Several years ago she lost it to a bully, Madoka witnessed the incident and got it back for her, and that was the start of their friendship.
* MeaningfulName: Madoka's name references the night and darkness while Hikaru's name references the sun and light; both of which reflect their personalities. Kyōsuke's surname is that of the attendant of the sun goddess Amaterasu, fitting for someone caught between them.
* {{Meganekko}}: Manami has [[EnsembleDarkhorse one of the more dedicated fanbases in KOR fandom]], and her meganekko status plays an important part of this.
* MegaNeko: New Year's Special filler episode.
* MouthyKid: Kazuya, sometimes.
* MushroomSamba: Kurumi uses her powers to turn some normal mushrooms blue. They have side effects. HilarityEnsues.
* NoSmoking: Kyōsuke successfully gets Madoka to kick the habit. She starts it again in the second movie, though.
* OfficialCouple: [[spoiler: Kyōsuke/Madoka]]
* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: Kyōsuke... except for his psychic powers.
* PairTheSpares: Averted. After Hikaru is dumped by Kyōsuke, it would seem obvious that she and Yūsaku would hook up. However, this doesn't happen as Shin-KOR follows the manga timeline and has Hikaru leave for America shortly thereafter and stays there for a long time. This matching is notable for not even being used much in Fan fiction.
** Akane, the fourth corner of the love triangle (!) would seem to have a logical matchup with the unnamed LesbianSchoolgirl from the manga story "The Bus-Stop of Love". However, whenever she shows up in fan-works, things never work out. (She did get a pity-screw in Spring Wonder, though).
* ParentalAbandonment: Madoka loves her parents [[ParentsAsPeople and they love her back]], but they work abroad (Dad is an orchestra conduictor, Mom is a classic violinist) and so they're almost never seen around and Madoka has been basically raised by her older sister (and once said sister gets married, she and her hubby go to thr USA and Madoka lives alone). Hikaru's parents are there, but they're never seen and only heard in the background or mentioned.
* {{Plot-Based Voice Cancellation}}
* PsychicPowers
* RevengeFic: "Fanfic/RevengeRoad", anyone? Poor Hikaru!
* RunningGag: The YuppieCouple whose confessions of love always get interrupted.
* SayMyName: All said YuppieCouple ever does.
* SchoolgirlLesbians: Akane Kasuga, and young Shiori from the TV series.
** Akane is a more extreme case of {{Onee Sama}} admiration, especially considering that Madoka is {{Tall Dark And Bishoujo}}. At the very least, she's [[BiTheWay bisexual]].
* SecretKeeper: The Kasuga family must keep their psychic powers a secret, which tends to be a problem for Kyōsuke.
** Also, both Manami and the Master of Abcb know that Kyōsuke and Madoka have feelings for each other (even more so in the manga).
* SexoPhone: Madoka plays a mean sax in the TV series.
* ShipperOnDeck: In the manga, Kurumi wants Kyosuke to end up with Hikaru while Manami ships Madoka/Kyosuke. HilarityEnsues. [[spoiler: This takes a turn to the serious when Manami actually shows the red hat to Madoka and tells her about the love deal.]]
** Kazuya leans a LOT towards Madoka/Kyosuke, though he may be too young to really understand the deal.
** Akane actually was ''introduced'' as a Hikaru/Kyosuke shipper of sorts, and at some point she mistakenly thought that Kyosuke was cheating on Hikaru with Madoka and was NOT happy about it. [[StupidSexyFlanders Then she actually MET Madoka and fell for her, sorta...]]
* {{Shorttank}}: Hikaru mixes this with some {{Kawaiiko}} traits.
* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: Madoka loves Kyosuke for this, and because he was the first guy in their school (aside of Yusaku) who approached her without fear.
* StableTimeLoop: Involved in the time travel plot in the last two episodes of the TV series, as Madoka remembers meeting Kyōsuke five years ago even before he traveled back to the past. This instance of time travel also invokes:
** MeanwhileInTheFuture, and...
** NeverTheSelvesShallMeet: With Madoka. [[spoiler: Because according to Grandpa, the TemporalParadox would involve both selves being erased from existence, if they ever touched each other. It was ''this'' close to happen when Madoka met herself as a kid, but thankfully her older sister called out to little Madoka and she had to come back home.]]
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Kyōsuke and Kazuya. When the latter is introduced, ''everyone'' outside the Kasuga family [[LampshadeHanging comments]] on how he looks ''just'' like a five-year-old Kyōsuke.
* TallDarkAndBishoujo: Madoka. An UrExample and TropeCodifier
** Akemi also was one.
* TeamMom: Manami. She even helps keep her father in line when he's a little too lax in parenting.
* TenchiSolution: Of the "Don't commit completely" variety.
* TheOtherDarrin: There have been ''three'' casts for the main charas:
** Pilot episode: SaekoShimazu (Madoka), Yuu Mizushima (Kyōsuke), YokoOgai (Hikaru)
** TV series, OAV's and early radio dramas: HiromiTsuru (Madoka), TohruFuruya (Kyōsuke), ErikoHara (Hikaru). Additionally, ChiekoHonda (Kurumi) and MichieTomizawa (Manami), MariaKawamura (Madoka's sister), YoshikoSakakibara (Madoka's mom), KeiTomiyama (Takashi), YumiTakada (Akemi), NaokoMatsui (Akane), ShigeruNakahara (Shuu), ChiyokoKawashima (Hikaru's mom), Keiichi Nanba (Komatsu), Naoki Tatsuta (Hatta), KenichiOgata (Jingoro), ChikaSakamoto (Kazuya)...
** Late CD dramas: TomoSakurai (Madoka), RyoHorikawa (Kyōsuke), YukaImai (Hikaru), YukoMiyamura (Kurumi) and EmiMotoi (Manami)
* TokenYuriGirl: Akane Kasuga.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Madoka and Hikaru, Kurumi and Manami.
* {{Tsundere}}: Once again, Madoka.
** Madoka is quite moody, but only occasionally tsundere-like. "Kimagure" literally means, "whimsical" or "coquettish" and clearly refers to Her.
*** Actually Madoka is commonly cited as one of the ''original'' codifiers of the Tsundere archtype. Her ''complexity'' as a Tsundere is often favorably compared to the {{Flanderized}} [[JerkAss ultra-violent, whiny and bitchy]] nature of many modern Tsundere.
* WonderfulLife: In the final episode.
* YamatoNadeshiko: Manami, the oldest of the twins. Madoka too, in her gentler moments.
** And Akemi.
* {{Yandere}}: Hikaru was *this* close to become one in TheMovie. She got better (sorta), though.
* YuppieCouple: Umao and Ushiko ("Ushiko-san!" "Umao-san!")
* ZettaiRyouiki: Madoka uses it once in a while.
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*** Madoka's tsundere attitude seems to be justified. She's irritated by Kasuga's indecisiveness. He keeps giving her mixed signals about whether he wants a relationship with her or Hikaru. Also, because she doesn't want to hurt Hikaru's feelings, if it looks like Kasuga and Hikaru are becoming closer, she'll push them toward each other. Becoming cold toward Kasuga is just one of her methods. As the first movie shows, it's a battle between her own feelings for Kasuga, and not wanting to hurt Hikaru.
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Predictably, Kyōsuke has no romantic feelings towards Hikaru (he ''does'' care for "Hikaru-chan", but [[LikeBrotherAndSister as a sister]]) and has eyes only for Madoka, who acts [[{{Tsundere}} alternately sweet and cold towards him]]. Even more predictably, Kyōsuke [[CanNotSpitItOut cannot declare his love for Madoka or reject Hikaru and thus end the love triangle]]. The reason? Hikaru absolutely adores "Madoka-san" '''adores''' [[OneeSama "Madoka-san"]] and has been her only friend from many years ago (as in, along with a boy named Yūsaku, Yūsaku Hino, she's the only person who isn't afraid of her), and Madoka had already promised to help her win Kyōsuke. Of course, the setup gets even more tangled when ''Madoka'' herself begins developing feelings for Kyōsuke as well...
