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* AdaptationalPersonalityChange: In the manga, when she's with Nanako she shows a far more playful side and overall has a more debonair attitude around the girls who fawn over her. In the anime she's far more brooding and dramatic, with some of the levity in her interactions with Nanako removed.

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* FormalCharactersUseKeigo: Fukiko is an extremely polite speaker and tends to use Keigo, alongside the very formal ''[[UsefulNotes/JapanesePronouns watakushi]]'' as her personal pronoun. She almost never drops this, [[spoiler: save from the time Rei pressed her BerserkButton in her birthday party.]]



* {{Keigo}}: Fukiko is an ''extremely'' polite speaker and tends to use this, alongside the very formal ''[[UsefulNotes/JapanesePronouns watakushi]]'' as her personal pronoun. She almost never drops this, [[spoiler: save from the time Rei pressed her BerserkButton in her birthday party.]]
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* VocalDissonance: In the narration, Nanako describes her as having a deep, husky voice. In the manga, you can take her word for this, but it comes across as odd in the anime where Rei has a rather high-pitched voice courtesy of Creator/SumiShimamoto that could be described as boyish at most.
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* BrainyBrunette: Nanako's risky association with Rei eats into her study time: she misses cram sessions with the Sorority elders, daydreams in class, and loses her flash cards on the eve of revision. Much is made of the price of her grades slipping, and the likelihood seems high, but she passes anyway.

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* BrainyBrunette: Nanako's While her grades aren't often focused on, the fact that Nanako was able to get into the prestigous Seiran Academy is a good indication that she's a very good student. Her risky association with Rei eats into her study time: she misses cram sessions with the Sorority elders, daydreams in class, and loses her flash cards on the eve of revision. Much is made of the price of her grades slipping, and the likelihood seems high, but she passes anyway.

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* TheRival: To Fukiko.
* TheStarscream: Entertains this notion [[spoiler:during the Sorority Dissolution arc.]] In one telling scene, Fukiko catches her sitting in its leader's chair.



* SmugSnake: Not nearly as clever or as capable as Fukiko.

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* TheRival: To Fukiko.
* SmugSnake: Not nearly as clever or as capable as Fukiko.
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* TheStarscream: Entertains this notion [[spoiler:during the Sorority Dissolution arc.]] In one telling scene, Fukiko catches her sitting in its leader's chair.
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* TheStarscream: Entertains this notion [[spoiler:during the Sorority Dissolution arc.]] In one telling scene, Fukiko catches her sitting in its leader's chair.

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* BrainyBrunette: Nanako's risky association with Rei eats into her study time: she misses cram sessions with the Sorority elders, daydreams in class, and loses her flash cards on the eve of revision. Much is made of the price of her grades slipping, and the likelihood seems high, but she passes anyway.



* BerserkButton: Three: abusing Nanako, abandoning her, and/or [[spoiler:mocking her terrible family life.]] She'll beat up anyone who pulls any of them

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* BerserkButton: Three: abusing Nanako, abandoning her, and/or [[spoiler:mocking her terrible family life.]] She'll beat up explode on anyone who pulls pushes any of themthem.
* BlatantLies: After starving herself into hospital over Nanako's abandonment of their friendship -- the only one she's ever really had -- she pathetically insists that she has plenty of friends.



* ClingyJealousGirl: Towards Nanako; eventually to [[GreenEyedMonster extreme]] [[{{Yandere}} degrees]].



* DaddysGirl: A deconstruction. The trauma of her father's philandering manifests in Mariko as a general hatred of men, and she blames her passive mother for not fighting for the marriage rather than the man himself, whom she still treats with respect and hopeful affection. Only after her father [[spoiler:initiates a divorce]] does she [[CallingTheOldManOut realign her wrath at its source]], sparing some for herself, [[spoiler:and it's ultimately left ambiguous as to whether she's willing to reconcile with him.]]



* FanGirl: Of Kaoru

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* FanGirl: Of KaoruKaoru.
* FallenPrincess: [[spoiler:So cramped is the flat she and her now-divorced mother end up moving into, they have to share a bedroom.]] Unusually for the trope, she has the lion's share of her CharacterDevelopment beforehand and takes the downgrade in stride.



* LonelyRichKid: Sneered at by her peers for her [[FreudianExcuse absent]] father's profession, and admittedly [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold not the easiest person to get along with]], Mariko spent her birthdays [[FriendlessBackground alone with her mother]] in a lavish hotel suite until befriending Nanako.
* LonersAreFreaks: A manic, possessive MoodSwinger given to both haughtiness and self-loathing.



* AlphaBitch

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* AlphaBitchAdaptationInducedPlotHole: A minor one. The anime gave Misato a devoted GirlPosse with whom she's in near-constant company, undermining Mariko's claim that Aya, [[CommonalityConnection once like herself]], is "utterly alone and desperately lonely."
* AlphaBitch: For Nanako's class, at least. She's [[AlwaysABiggerFish hopelessly out-alpha bitched]] by Fukiko, who casually terminates her bullying of Nanako.


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* PetTheDog: Gives Aya a cold warning to discontinue her bullying of Nanako. She's also kind to Mariko after her hospitalization.


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* UsedToBeASweetKid: Alas, TheFirstCutIsTheDeepest.
-->'''Fukiko''': I was only twelve. But my heart died on that summer's day.


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* HiddenDisdainReveal: Tells Nanako that she never approved of her admittance into the Sorority, but put a dignified face on it and treated her with all due compassion.
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* TheHedonist: Though still [[NiceGuy nicer]] than the standard hedonist. [[spoiler: Most likely due to [[OnlySaneMan having to deal]] with his two very... complex younger sisters, Fukiko and Rei. I.e., in the anime he's seen visiting Rei in her apartment and trying to get her to quit smoking, since he's very worried about her health.]] In the manga, also, he's cockier than in the anime: i.e, when [[spoiler: Mariko shows her utter contempt of males in front of him and Takehiko]], once she's gone and done he [[YouGotSpunk decides to "bag" her anyway]], which doesn't happen in the anime (he's [[OhCrap rather surprised]] about her behavior, and at some point [[BelligerentSexualTension he engages in verbal banter with her]] [[ButtMonkey and falls off his chair in the end]]).

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* TheHedonist: Though still [[NiceGuy nicer]] than the standard hedonist. [[spoiler: Most likely due to [[OnlySaneMan having to deal]] with his two very... complex younger sisters, Fukiko and Rei. I.e., in the anime he's seen visiting Rei in her apartment and trying to get her to quit smoking, since he's very worried about her health.]] In the manga, also, he's cockier than in the anime: i.e, when [[spoiler: Mariko shows her utter contempt of males in front of him and Takehiko]], once she's gone and done he [[YouGotSpunk decides to "bag" her anyway]], anyway, which doesn't happen in the anime (he's [[OhCrap rather surprised]] about her behavior, and at some point [[BelligerentSexualTension he engages in verbal banter with her]] [[ButtMonkey and falls off his chair in the end]]).
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* IJustWantToBeFriends: Many of her more extreme actions are driven by how she's very lonely; she clings to Nanako since no one else at school wants to be friends with her due to her father's reputation as an erotic novelist.

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* IJustWantToBeFriends: IJustWantToHaveFriends: Many of her more extreme actions are driven by how she's very lonely; she clings to Nanako since no one else at school wants to be friends with her due to her father's reputation as an erotic novelist.
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* IJustWantToBeLoved: Desperately yearns for love and attention.
* [[spoiler: ImNotHungry: Refuses to eat after the incident with Nanako. Kaoru and later Nanako calls her out on it.]]

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* IJustWantToBeLoved: Desperately yearns for love and attention.
IJustWantToBeFriends: Many of her more extreme actions are driven by how she's very lonely; she clings to Nanako since no one else at school wants to be friends with her due to her father's reputation as an erotic novelist.
* [[spoiler: ImNotHungry: Refuses [[spoiler:Refuses to eat after the incident with Nanako. Kaoru and later Nanako calls her out on it.]]
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* OnlySaneWoman: The most down to Earth among the main girls, and she's easily the most well-adjusted of the Three Magnificent Ones.

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* OnlySaneWoman: The most down to Earth among the main girls, characters, and she's easily the most well-adjusted of the Three Magnificent Ones.Ones, the other two of which are gradually revealed to be rather unstable in their own ways.
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* PassiveAggressiveKombat: Even at her angriest, Fukiko almost never openly berates her target directly and more often than not she speaks in a soft and gentle voice, but her venomous words can pretty much pierce the victim's psyche to the bottom.

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* PassiveAggressiveKombat: Even In the anime, even at when she's at her angriest, Fukiko almost never openly berates her target directly and more often than not she speaks in a soft and gentle voice, but her venomous words can pretty much pierce the victim's psyche to the bottom.bottom. This isn't so much the case in the original manga, where she tends to let her anger show more often.
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* HeldBackInSchool: She's in Nanako's class despite being older than Nanako and their other classmates, since she had to take time off from school due to health problems.

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* HeldBackInSchool: She's in Nanako's class despite being a year older than Nanako and their other classmates, since she had to take time off from school due to health problems.
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* AdaptationPersonalityChange: Downplayed; while her personality is mostly unchanged in the anime, she tends to be more calm and composed, while in the manga she lets her emotions slip more often.

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* SilkHidingSteel: Basically, she's a YamatoNadeshiko in training.
* [[SupremeChef Supreme]] TeamChef: Cooking is one of her hobbies, and she and Tomoko are excellent at it. ([[LethalChef Contrasting with Kaoru.]]) Once she learns that Rei lives alone and doesn't feed herself properly, Nanako decides to [[ThroughHisStomach cook for her too.]])

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* SilkHidingSteel: Basically, she's a YamatoNadeshiko in training. \n While she doesn't have the traditional looks or style of dress of a yamato nadeshiko, she's a softspoken, kind-hearted girl who still has more willpower than it seems and will show a touch of steel if she's pushed enough.
* [[SupremeChef Supreme]] TeamChef: StockShoujoHeroine: One of the earliest examples, as the manga was first published in 1974. She's a NaiveEverygirl who's usually softspoken and sensitive, and while she finds herself in over her head at the prestigious Seiran Academy with cruel bullying and the Sorority's cutthroat politics, she still soldiers through it all and has more willpower than many would assume. She also has a love interest in the troubled {{Bifauxnen}} Rei Asaka, who's significantly taller than her.
* SupremeChef:
Cooking is one of her hobbies, and she and Tomoko are excellent at it. ([[LethalChef Contrasting with Kaoru.]]) Once she learns that Rei lives alone and doesn't feed herself properly, Nanako decides to [[ThroughHisStomach cook for her too.]])
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* ArmorPiercingSlap: She does NOT hesitate to slap Aya Misaki around. [[KickTheSonOfABitch Since Aya is the Alpha Bitch, we don't mind.]]



* ArmorPiercingSlap: Tries to hit [[spoiler: Junko's friends]] when it turns out [[spoiler: they signed the petitions too]]. Fukiko stops her, however.
** She ''does'' bitchslap [[spoiler: Yamamoto]] when she points out that [[spoiler: Fukiko is better than her, after Ogiwara has been kicked out of the Sorority]].

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