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* SenpaiKohai: He's Elma's sempai at work.
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* NamedByTheAdaptation: The official page of the anime reveals her real name (Nae Saikawa) in her character profile. It's later shown in Episode 4 of the second season of the anime. Meanwhile, other spinoff materials like ''Kanna's Daily Lif''e indicate that her full name is Sanae.

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* NamedByTheAdaptation: The official page of the anime reveals her real name (Nae Saikawa) in her character profile. It's later shown in Episode 4 of the second season of the anime. Meanwhile, other spinoff materials like ''Kanna's Daily Lif''e Life'' indicate that her full name is Sanae.
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* NamedByTheAdaptation: The official page of the anime reveals her real name (Nae Saikawa) in her character profile. It's later shown in Episode 4 of the second season of the anime. Meanwhile, other spinoff materials like Kanna's Daily Life indicate that her full name is Sanae.

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* NamedByTheAdaptation: The official page of the anime reveals her real name (Nae Saikawa) in her character profile. It's later shown in Episode 4 of the second season of the anime. Meanwhile, other spinoff materials like Kanna's ''Kanna's Daily Life Lif''e indicate that her full name is Sanae.

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* AdaptationalExpansion: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. In the episode 12 of the first season, he makes an on-screen appearance compare to only be a voice in chapter 32.

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* AdaptationalExpansion: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. In the episode 12 of the first season, he makes an on-screen appearance compare compared to only be being a voice in chapter 32.



* DoubleThink: He hates the idea of women being in the workforce and often looks down on Kobayashi's work competence, yet he usually forces his workload onto Kobayashi to complete.



* NotSoAboveItAll: While he hates the idea of women being in the workforce, he usually forces his workload onto Kobayashi despite her gender. Indicating that he might somewhat acknowledge her competence.
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* SempaiKohai: He's Elma's sempai at work.

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* SempaiKohai: SenpaiKohai: He's Elma's sempai at work.
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* {{Hypocrite}}: His choice insults for Kobayashi are calling her a useless slacker if she doesn't meet the quota, he expects of her while warning her to get her act together. So says the LazyBum who rarely does his own work and not only force said workload onto Kobayashi but is rather a bit clueless on how to do it himself.
* {{Irony}}: His go-to target of power abuse is a competent woman due to his old fashion views of gender roles. Yet the president and founder of the company he (now formerly) works for is a woman herself.

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* {{Hypocrite}}: His choice insults for Kobayashi are calling her a useless slacker if she doesn't meet the quota, quota that he expects of her her, while warning her to get her act together. So says the LazyBum who rarely does his own work and not only force said workload onto Kobayashi but is rather a bit clueless on how to do it himself.
* {{Irony}}: His go-to target of power abuse is a competent woman due to his old fashion fashioned views of gender roles. Yet the president and founder of the company he (now formerly) works for is a woman herself.

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One of Kobayashi's work friends. He and Kobayashi have mutual {{meido}} interest that brings them together.

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One of Kobayashi's work friends. He and Kobayashi have a mutual {{meido}} interest in maids that brings them together.



* ClosetOtaku: Towards {{Meido}}. He lampshades it in Chapter 4. In the anime, his apartment looks just like a stereotypical otaku den.

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* ClosetOtaku: Towards {{Meido}}. He lampshades it in Chapter 4. In the anime, ClosetGeek: Like Kobayashi, he hides his apartment looks just like a stereotypical otaku den.{{Otaku}} interests from most of his coworkers, but he and Kobayashi can at least be more open about their interests with each other.


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* {{Otaku}}: Like Kobayashi, he has an obsession with maids, which he lampshades in Chapter 4. In the anime, his apartment looks just like a stereotypical otaku den, with anime and video game merchandise everywhere.
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* PlayingGertrude: In-universe gender inversion. He was cast as the old man from the Japanese ''Kasajizo'' folktale in the group's [[DerailedFairyTale production]] of ''Literature/TheLittleMatchGirl'' despite everyone else playing roles closer to their ([[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld apparent]]) age.

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* BadBoss: To Kobayashi mostly, as he siphons his workload onto her because of his misogynic beliefs. It's also implied that nobody likes working for him.



* {{Hypocrite}}: His choice insults for Kobayashi is calling her a useless slacker if she doesn't meet the quota he expects of her while warning her to get her act together. So says the LazyBum who rarely does his own work and not only force said workload onto Kobayashi, but is rather a bit clueless on how to do it himself.

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* HateSink: There's nothing likable about him, which makes his eventual karma very satsifying. The fact that he has many similarities to abusive higher-ups in real life makes him more loathsome.
* {{Hypocrite}}: His choice insults for Kobayashi is are calling her a useless slacker if she doesn't meet the quota quota, he expects of her while warning her to get her act together. So says the LazyBum who rarely does his own work and not only force said workload onto Kobayashi, Kobayashi but is rather a bit clueless on how to do it himself.



* LaserGuidedKarma: He makes the mistake of harassing Kobayashi in front of an invisible Tohru, who proceeds to trip him non-stop, humiliating him in front of the whole work staff.

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* LaserGuidedKarma: He makes the mistake of harassing Kobayashi in front of an invisible Tohru, who proceeds to trip him non-stop, humiliating him in front of the whole work staff. He also gets fired later on for making Kobayashi do his work for him.
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* LovableAlphaBitch: She was described as being the class queen during her introduction, but it takes less than three pages for her to become close friends with Kanna. It should also be noted that she isn't actually popular.

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* LovableAlphaBitch: She was She's described as being the class queen "class queen" during her introduction, but in a sarcastic way that implies that this has more to do with her attitude than her actual popularity. However, she's not a bad person deep down and it takes less than three pages for her to become close friends with Kanna. It should also be noted that she isn't actually popular.
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[[folder:Georgie]][[folder:Sanae "Georgie" Saikawa]]
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* {{Meido}}: She's not actually a maid, but she's a big fan of them so she often dresses up as and pretends to be one. She even goes so far as to call her younger sister "{{Ojou}}-sama" instead of by her real name.

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* {{Meido}}: She's not actually a maid, but she's a big fan of them so she often dresses up as and pretends to be one. She even goes so far as to call her younger sister "{{Ojou}}-sama" instead of by her real name.name, much like how a real maid would address an employer.

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* BadBoss: He mainly verbally abuses Kobayashi and forces her to do his work. He's also not seen in a good light by his other subordinates either.


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* MeanBoss: He mainly verbally abuses Kobayashi and forces her to do his work. He's also not seen in a good light by his other subordinates either.

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* DreadfulMusician: Most of the Kobayashi household views him as this. With Tohru noting his Death Metal Scream sounds like "Hades Crushing Hercules."

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* DreadfulMusician: Most of the Kobayashi household views him as this. With Tohru noting his Death Metal Scream sounds like "Hades Crushing crushing Hercules."


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* NonconformistDyedHair: His hair is dyed blond and green, fitting for the guitarist of a DeathMetal band.
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* HappilyMarried: From what little is seen in chapter 122, her marriage with Tsurezure Kawayanagi is still holding strong.

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* HappilyMarried: From what little is seen in chapter 122, her marriage with Tsurezure Kawayanagi is still holding strong.

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* HappilyMarried: From what little is seen in chapter 122, her marriage with Tsurezure Kawayanagi is still holding strong.



* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Implied. Besides the fact that [[spoiler:he's an ex-ChildSoldier]], it's likely that he's also unaware of the existence of magic like his wife, let alone that she's employing several supernatural entities or that they're using a magical programming language.

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* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Implied. Besides the fact that [[spoiler:he's an ex-ChildSoldier]], it's likely that he's also unaware of the existence of magic like his wife, let alone that she's employing several supernatural entities or that they're using a magical programming language.entities.
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* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Implied. Besides the fact that [[spoiler:he may be an ex-ChildSoldier]]), it's likely that he's also unaware of the existence of magic like his wife, let alone that she's employing several supernatural entities or that they're using a magical programming language.

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* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Implied. Besides the fact that [[spoiler:he may be [[spoiler:he's an ex-ChildSoldier]]), ex-ChildSoldier]], it's likely that he's also unaware of the existence of magic like his wife, let alone that she's employing several supernatural entities or that they're using a magical programming language.
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* TakeThat: His BadBoss tendencies and StayInTheKitchen beliefs aren't that [[DeliberateValuesDissonance uncommon]] among older Japanese male bosses in RealLife. Moreover, if it weren't for his workplace incompetence, he would've been a KarmaHoudini.

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* TakeThat: His BadBoss tendencies and StayInTheKitchen beliefs aren't that [[DeliberateValuesDissonance uncommon]] among older Japanese male bosses in RealLife. Moreover, if it weren't for his workplace incompetence, incompetence outweighing his power abuse, he would've easily been a KarmaHoudini.KarmaHoudini in the [[TruthInTelevision Japanese work culture]].

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* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Implied. Seeing as her own series never had any supernatural elements ([[spoiler:unless you count her husband being an ex-ChildSoldier]]) and how she merely aquired Kobayashi's department rather than directly founding it, it's unlikely that she's aware of the existance of magic, let alone that she's employing several supernatural entities or that they're using a magical programming language.

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* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Implied. Seeing as her own series never had any supernatural elements ([[spoiler:unless you count her husband being an ex-ChildSoldier]]) and how she merely aquired acquired Kobayashi's department rather than directly founding it, it's unlikely that she's aware of the existance existence of magic, let alone that she's employing several supernatural entities or that they're using a magical programming language.



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A fellow worker at Kobayashi's company. She is the more active of ThoseTwoGirls that are Elma's work friends in the SpinOff ''Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: Elma's Office Lady Diary''.

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!!Wakita

A fellow worker at Kobayashi's company. She is
[[folder:Tsurezure Kawayanagi]]
!!Tsurezure Kawayanagi

The husband of Haru Jigokumeguri.

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the more active of ThoseTwoGirls that are Elma's work friends in the SpinOff ''Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: Elma's Office Lady Diary''.''Manga/{{Ojojojo}}'' page for details on his high school years.



* StupidSexyFlanders: She ends up developing a taste in drag kings after Elma crossdresses to act as her boyfriend on Christmas.
* ThoseTwoGirls: When not on her own, she is usually seen with a fellow co-worker named Mobu.
* WeightWoe: She's on a diet in ''Elma's Office Lady Diary'', and shows jealousy over Elma's ability to eat large quantities of food without a care in the world (though she quickly forgives her whe she sees how adorable she looks when eating).

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* StupidSexyFlanders: She ends up developing a taste TheFaceless: Unlike his wife who's UnseenNoMore in drag kings after Elma crossdresses to act chapter 122, his head and bandana are only shown partially.
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Implied. Besides the fact that [[spoiler:he may be an ex-ChildSoldier]]), it's likely that he's also unaware of the existence of magic like his wife, let alone that she's employing several supernatural entities or that they're using a magical programming language.
* MinorMajorCharacter: More so than his wife,
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* ThoseTwoGirls: When not on her own, she is usually
he's only seen with a fellow co-worker named Mobu.
* WeightWoe: She's on a diet in ''Elma's Office Lady Diary'',
his head and shows jealousy over Elma's ability to eat large quantities of food without a care bandana partially in the world (though she quickly forgives her whe she sees how adorable she looks when eating). chapter 122.



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!!Toyama

A character in ''Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: Kanna's Daily Life''. She is a grade-school student with long, black hair that makes up half of ThoseTwoGirls that are classmates with Kanna and Saikawa.

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!!Toyama

[[folder:Wakita]]
!!Wakita

A character fellow worker at Kobayashi's company. She is the more active of ThoseTwoGirls that are Elma's work friends in the SpinOff ''Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: Kanna's Daily Life''. She is a grade-school student with long, black hair that makes up half of ThoseTwoGirls that are classmates with Kanna and Saikawa.Elma's Office Lady Diary''.



* GivenNameReveal: Her name isn't revealed until the volume 7 chapter "Time for an Anniversary", when her birthday is one of the various things Kanna celebrates after learning about the concept of anniversaries.
* ThoseTwoGirls: The more prominent of the two female students that hang out with Kanna and Saikawa.

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* GivenNameReveal: Her name isn't revealed until the volume 7 chapter "Time for an Anniversary", when her birthday is one of the various things Kanna celebrates StupidSexyFlanders: She ends up developing a taste in drag kings after learning about the concept of anniversaries.
Elma crossdresses to act as her boyfriend on Christmas.
* ThoseTwoGirls: The more prominent of the two female students that hang out When not on her own, she is usually seen with Kanna a fellow co-worker named Mobu.
* WeightWoe: She's on a diet in ''Elma's Office Lady Diary'',
and Saikawa.shows jealousy over Elma's ability to eat large quantities of food without a care in the world (though she quickly forgives her whe she sees how adorable she looks when eating).


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A character in ''Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: Kanna's Daily Life''. She is a grade-school student with long, black hair that makes up half of ThoseTwoGirls that are classmates with Kanna and Saikawa.
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* GivenNameReveal: Her name isn't revealed until the volume 7 chapter "Time for an Anniversary", when her birthday is one of the various things Kanna celebrates after learning about the concept of anniversaries.
* ThoseTwoGirls: The more prominent of the two female students that hang out with Kanna and Saikawa.
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* MinorMajorCharacter: She's the president of Kobayashi's company and the scion of an influential family, but she only appears in a grand total of four panels (plus a photo in a newspaper article).

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* MinorMajorCharacter: She's the president of Kobayashi's company and the scion of an influential family, but she only appears in a grand total of four five panels (plus a photo in a newspaper article).

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* TheFaceless: She's mostly unseen save for a single chapter, but even then she's either looking away from the reader or the panel cuts off just above her mouth. That said, anyone who's read ''Ojojojo'' would know what she looks like.

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* TheFaceless: She's mostly unseen save for a single chapter, but even then unseen, in one chapter she's either depicted looking away from the reader or the panel cuts off just above her mouth. That said, anyone who's read ''Ojojojo'' would know what she looks like.like, and ''Dragon Maid'' readers get a proper look at her face in chapter 122.



* MinorMajorCharacter: She's the president of Kobayashi's company and the scion of an influential family, but she only appears in a grand total of three panels (plus a photo in a newspaper article).

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* MinorMajorCharacter: She's the president of Kobayashi's company and the scion of an influential family, but she only appears in a grand total of three four panels (plus a photo in a newspaper article).article).
* UnseenNoMore: Chapter 122 shows her face in a flashback panel where Kobayashi was coincidentally at the same bar as her and drunkenly bothered her.

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* IntergenerationalFriendship: He becomes part of Kobayashi's circle thanks to Lucoa. He's rather close with Takiya in particular, considering him to be a cool adult. On the other side of the spectrum, he doesn't seem to mind hanging around with Saikawa and Kanna, the former of which is a few years younger than him, and the latter of which is probably a few thousand years older.

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* IntergenerationalFriendship: He becomes part of Kobayashi's circle thanks to Lucoa. He's rather close with Takiya in particular, considering him to be a cool adult. On the other side of the spectrum, he doesn't seem to mind hanging around with Saikawa and Kanna, the former of which is a few years younger than him, and the latter of which is probably a few thousand years older. Later on he also develops a friendship with Taketo due to their similar experiences of being the victim of TheTease.


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* IntergenerationalFriendship: Starts to form a friendship with Shouta after they experience reciprocal empathy due to their similar experiences of being victim to TheTease.

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* DoesNotLikeMen: Downplayed. While she doesn't hate the opposite gender, Riko doesn't find them appealing and thinks boys are gross in general. May be justified due to her sexual orientation.

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* DoesNotLikeMen: Downplayed. While she doesn't hate the opposite gender, Riko Saikawa doesn't find them appealing and thinks boys are gross in general. May be justified due to her sexual orientation.



* InterclassFriendship: Riko comes from an upper-middle class background and it varies among her age group.

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* InterclassFriendship: Riko Saikawa comes from an upper-middle class background and it varies among her age group.



Riko's older sister who loves to roleplay as a maid.

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Riko's Saikawa's older sister who loves to roleplay as a maid.



* CoolBigSis: While they aren't seen to interact with each other much, Georgie does care a lot for Riko's wellbeing.

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* CoolBigSis: While they aren't seen to interact with each other much, Georgie does care a lot for Riko's Saikawa's wellbeing.



* {{Meido}}: She's not actually a maid, but she's a big fan of them so she often dresses up as and pretends to be one. She even goes so far as to call her younger sister Riko "{{Ojou}}-sama" instead of by her real name.

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* {{Meido}}: She's not actually a maid, but she's a big fan of them so she often dresses up as and pretends to be one. She even goes so far as to call her younger sister Riko "{{Ojou}}-sama" instead of by her real name.



* ShipperOnDeck: She spends episode 4 of ''S'' trying to get her sister closer to Kanna. For example, she shoves the two closer when Riko is freaked out by a haunted house.

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* ShipperOnDeck: She spends episode 4 of ''S'' trying to get her sister closer to Kanna. For example, she shoves the two closer when Riko Saikawa is freaked out by a haunted house.



* AdaptationalExpansion: Her re-appearance in second OVA extends her stay in Japan for a few days compared to ''Kanna's Daily Life'', along with her getting acquainted with the other cast other than Kanna and Riko.
* AdaptationalNiceGuy: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. Chloe's still a NiceGirl, but some of her InnocentlyInsensitive moments in ''Kanna's Daily Life'', such as her "comment" on the size of Riko's house, are AdaptedOut in the 2nd OVA.

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* AdaptationalExpansion: Her re-appearance in second OVA extends her stay in Japan for a few days compared to ''Kanna's Daily Life'', along with her getting acquainted with the other cast other than Kanna and Riko.
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* AdaptationalNiceGuy: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. Chloe's still a NiceGirl, but some of her InnocentlyInsensitive moments in ''Kanna's Daily Life'', such as her "comment" on the size of Riko's Saikawa's house, are AdaptedOut in the 2nd OVA.OVA.
* AdaptationalSkill: Zig-zagged. In ''Kanna's Daily Life'', she's shown to have been learning Japanese since meeting Kanna, though she isn't completely fluent. In the anime, she hasn't had any time to learn Japanese (since her visit occurs only a few weeks after she and Kanna first met), but Tohru used a spell to put her on par with a native speaker.



* SpoiledSweet: She may have her moments of brattiness, but Chloe is nonetheless a sweet girl who values her friendship with Kanna and later Riko.

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* SpoiledSweet: She may have her moments of brattiness, but Chloe is nonetheless a sweet girl who values her friendship with Kanna and later Riko.Saikawa.

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* ADayInTheLimelight: A chapter in ''Kanna's Daily Life'' gives her one where she interacts with Kanna, but without her maid attire, which greatly confuses the young dragon. In the main series, she gets it in Chapter 90, where she's the first of the cast to interact with [[spoiler:Azad in his new job... with her wanting to put him in a butler uniform.]]

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* ADayInTheLimelight: A chapter in ''Kanna's Daily Life'' gives her one where she interacts with Kanna, but without her maid attire, which greatly confuses the young dragon. In the main series, she gets it in Chapter 90, where she's the first of the cast to interact with [[spoiler:Azad in his new job... with her wanting to put him in a butler uniform. She also later starts helping him when he opens a detective agency.]]
* BecomingTheMask: [[spoiler:Becomes an actual assistant/maid when she joins Azad's detective agency.
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* ReformedButNotTamed: [[spoiler:Shouta's father recruits him to be a local overseer of magical beings integrating into human society. Azad, though he does take his job seriously (much to his own surprise), is still fairly belligerent in his thoughts, quite clearly still nursing his old grudges.]]

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* ReformedButNotTamed: [[spoiler:Shouta's father recruits him to be a local overseer of magical beings integrating into human society. Azad, though he does take his job seriously (much to his own surprise), is still fairly belligerent in his thoughts, quite clearly still nursing his old grudges. His partnership with Georgie seems to be allieviating this a bit though.]]

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* MarkOfTheSupernatural: As a powerful archmage, he has bluish-purple eyes. Shouta inherited them.



* SupernaturalIsPurple: As a powerful archmage, he has bluish-purple eyes. Shouta inherited them.

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* MarkOfTheSupernatural: Naturally, the only supernaturally inclined character among the humans has purple hair and eyes.



* SupernaturalIsPurple: Naturally, the only supernaturally inclined character among the humans has purple hair and eyes.
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* ForeignFanservice: Especially during the pool scene in the second anime OVA, with nearly all of Kanna and Saikawa's classmates looking at her in awe.

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* SmallRoleBigImpact: He only appears in one chapter[=/=]episode (technically two if you count his off-panel flashback appearance in chapter 32, but on-screen in episode 12), but if it wasn't for his power abuse of Kobayashi, it wouldn't led to her drinking her stress away and later (drunk) stumbling upon and rescuing a fatally injured Tohru.

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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: The main reason he targets Kobayashi specifically is that she's a woman in the workforce, regardless of her actual work quality.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: He only appears in one chapter[=/=]episode (technically two if you count his off-panel flashback appearance in chapter 32, but on-screen in episode 12), but if it wasn't for his power abuse of Kobayashi, it wouldn't led lead to her drinking her stress away and later (drunk) stumbling upon and rescuing a fatally injured Tohru.



* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: The main reason he targets Kobayashi specifically is that she's a woman in the workforce, regardless of her actual work quality.

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