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* {{Lolicon}}: Deconstructed as his peers find his taste for Lolicon and {{Moe}} gross (if slightly humorus) and [[IntendedAudienceReaction the audience is clearly supposed]] to find it creepy as well.
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A 22-year old college dropout, currently a {{NEET}} living by himself, financially sustained by the money sent by his parents.
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* FalseFriend: Satou becomes suspicious that she is only interacting with him in order to manipulate him almost immediately after they become fully acquainted. [[spoiler:He's right, but their relationship appears to take a healthier turn by the end of the series.]]
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: He never fulfills his dreams of becoming a game developer and is forced to return to his family's farm, but is shown to have hit it off with his arranged fiance and generally seems to be content with the direction his life is going in.]]
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* {{Fanboy}}: He has an obsession with a MagicalGirl character known as Pururin, to the point where he is almost constantly watching her show and his apartment is covered wall-to-wall with merchandise of her.
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* CharacterDevelopment: An interesting case in that he frequently regresses back to his old ways after making breakthroughs in becoming more sociable. [[spoiler: In the end, it is only after he is cut off from his parents' money and forced to get a job that his development finally sticks, though he's still clearly presented as having a long way to go.]]
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* LoserProtagonist: He's a {{hikikomori}} who does nothing but stay in his house all day, has never attended college, has paralyzing anxiety issues, is a barely concealed pervert, and acts like a jerk on a fairly regular basis.
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* LoserProtagonist: He's a {{hikikomori}} who does nothing but stay in his house all day, has never attended college, flunked out of college after one semester, has paralyzing anxiety issues, is a barely concealed pervert, and acts like a jerk on a fairly regular basis.
* TheSlacker: Beyond his crippling social anxiety, Satou is also quite lazy and is shown to have been an apathetic student during high school flashbacks. This ends up causing several problems when he and Yamazaki begin working on a galgame, as he continues to put off doing his share of the work.
* AmbiguousDisorder: Pretty heavily suggested to have Borderline Personality Disorder.
* AmbiguousInnocence: Satou is constantly debating whether she has more sinister motivations behind her kind actions towards him. [[spoiler: In the end we learn that he was right to suspect her but that she was not intentionally trying to be malicious.]]
* AmbiguousInnocence: Satou is constantly debating whether she has more sinister motivations behind her kind actions towards him. [[spoiler: In the end we learn that he was right to suspect her but that she was not intentionally trying to be malicious.]]
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* [[NiceGuy Nice Girl]]: However her kindness is repeatedly questioned by Satou, who suspects an ulterior motive. [[spoiler:It turns out that Misaki intentionally befriended an even worse loser like Satou to make herself feel better by comparison.]]
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* [[NiceGuy Nice Girl]]: However her kindness is repeatedly questioned by Satou, who suspects an ulterior motive. [[spoiler:It turns out that Misaki intentionally befriended Satou, who she perceived as an even worse bigger loser like Satou than herself, to make herself feel better by comparison.]]
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* NoSocialSkills: A little better than Satou, but not by much. The show makes a point of saying, awkward as he may be, he is ''not'' a hikikomori, and attends college and attempts to socialize during his time away from Satou.
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* NoSocialSkills: A little better than Satou, but not by much. The show story makes a point of saying, showing, awkward as he may be, he is ''not'' a hikikomori, and attends college and attempts to socialize during his time away from Satou.Satou.
* OnlyFriend: While Satou also interacts with Misaki fairly regularly, he is highly suspicious of her motives and is generally even more anxious and paranoid than usual when spending time with her. In comparison, he has no problem being his true LargeHam self around Yamazaki and never has any doubts about his relationship with him. [[spoiler: This is driven home when Yamazaki moves away near the end of the series, and Satou realizes just how much he relied on him as his only form of healthy social interaction.]]
* OnlyFriend: While Satou also interacts with Misaki fairly regularly, he is highly suspicious of her motives and is generally even more anxious and paranoid than usual when spending time with her. In comparison, he has no problem being his true LargeHam self around Yamazaki and never has any doubts about his relationship with him. [[spoiler: This is driven home when Yamazaki moves away near the end of the series, and Satou realizes just how much he relied on him as his only form of healthy social interaction.]]
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* RememberTheNewGuy: Though she briefly appeared in a flashback, we only learn about her the moment she's introduced, which is quite late in the series.
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* RememberTheNewGuy: Though she briefly appeared in a flashback, we only learn about her the moment she's introduced, which is quite late in the series. Somewhat justified in that Satou didn't really know her at all in high school beyond being aware of her.
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* FreudianExcuse: Played with. While Hitomi is responsible for sowing the seed of conspiracies into his head, as well as many of his hangups with women and other people in general, Satou gradually learns that blaming her only reinforces his problems and accepts that he's just as at fault for his problems.
* GeekPhysiques: He's noticeably gaunt and skinny, and is noted to go several days without eating when particularly stressed out.
* GeekPhysiques: He's noticeably gaunt and skinny, and is noted to go several days without eating when particularly stressed out.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Generally callous and introverted, though not an altogether terrible person.
* MrImagination: He spends so little time outside of his apartment that a large chunk of the series takes place in his imagination.
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* WeaknessTurnsHerOn: A rather brutal example. Misaki selects Sato for her "project" of curing him from being a {{hikikomori}}, and the time they spend together eventually leads to there being quite a bit of romantic tension between the pair. It's later revealed that [[spoiler:Misaki chose Sato, because she wanted to find someone who was even more "worthless" than she was and prove she could fix them because of her abusive stepfather telling her that she was a useless human being]]. As a broken recluse, Sato fit the bill.
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* WeaknessTurnsHerOn: A rather brutal example. Misaki selects Sato Satou for her "project" of curing him from being a {{hikikomori}}, and the time they spend together eventually leads to there being quite a bit of romantic tension between the pair. It's later revealed that [[spoiler:Misaki chose Sato, because she wanted to find someone who was even more "worthless" than she was and prove she could fix them because of her abusive stepfather telling her that she was a useless human being]]. As a broken recluse, Sato Satou fit the bill.
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* CovertPervert: Like Sato, he is also a big consumer of porn. In fact the two guys spend the whole series trying to create an erotic video game.
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* {{Bishonen}}: Compared to the sunken-faced Satou, Yamazaki is drawn to be relatively boyishly handsome. It helps emphasize the fact that, while an otaku, he is not a hikikomori.
* CovertPervert: LikeSato, Satou, he is also a big consumer of porn. In fact the two guys spend the whole series trying to create an erotic video game.
* CovertPervert: Like
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* {{Jerkass}}: At his worst, he's [[HairTriggerTemper very easily irritated]].
** JerkWithAHeartOfGold
** JerkWithAHeartOfGold
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* {{Jerkass}}: At his worst, he's [[HairTriggerTemper very JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Very easily irritated]].
** JerkWithAHeartOfGoldirritated and can rant about his hatred of nearly everything for hours, but is actually a fairly loyal and selfless person.
** JerkWithAHeartOfGold
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* ManipulativeBitch: In the manga.
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* ManipulativeBitch: [[ManipulativeBastard Manipulative Bitch]]: In the manga.
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* ManipulativeBitch: She invites Satou to sign up for the Mouse Road pyramid scheme. Misaki and Yamazaki also later get tricked into joining.
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* ManipulativeBitch: [[ManipulativeBastard Manipulative Bitch]]: She invites Satou to sign up for the Mouse Road pyramid scheme. Misaki and Yamazaki also later get tricked into joining.
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* {{Agnosticism}}: Although Misaki attends church with her aunt and uncle, she expresses doubt about God's existence.
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* {{Agnosticism}}: UsefulNotes/{{Agnosticism}}: Although Misaki attends church with her aunt and uncle, she expresses doubt about God's existence.
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* NiceGirl: However her kindness is repeatedly questioned by Satou, who suspects an ulterior motive. [[spoiler:It turns out that Misaki intentionally befriended an even worse loser like Satou to make herself feel better by comparison.]]
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* NiceGirl: [[NiceGuy Nice Girl]]: However her kindness is repeatedly questioned by Satou, who suspects an ulterior motive. [[spoiler:It turns out that Misaki intentionally befriended an even worse loser like Satou to make herself feel better by comparison.]]
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* {{Determinator}}: Absolutely refuses to abandon his galgame. [[spoiler:Turns out it's the only thing keeping him from going back him.]]
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* {{Determinator}}: Absolutely refuses to abandon his galgame. [[spoiler:Turns out it's the only thing keeping him from going back him.home.]]
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* HiddenDepths: The few times he bothers to do it, he proves himself to be a talented writer.
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* ((Determinator)): Absolutely refuses to abandon his galgame. [[spoiler:Turns out it's the only thing keeping him from going back him.]]
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* ((Determinator)): {{Determinator}}: Absolutely refuses to abandon his galgame. [[spoiler:Turns out it's the only thing keeping him from going back him.]]
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* ShaggyDogStory: [[spoiler:He ultimately fails to achieve his goals because of Satou's unreliability, and is forced to move back home to take over his family farm as a result.]] Satou is understandably guilt ridden when he finds out.
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* TheLoad: He is the biggest reason the galgame he and Yamazaki make is such a failure.
* MessianicArchetype: A weird example, but Satou manages to singlehandidly pull several people out from beyond the DespairEventHorizon, generally through sheer earnestness.
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* ExtremeDoormat / HairTriggerTemper: Begins the series as the former, putting up with Satou's jerkish behavior through impossible circumstances, but steadily becomes the latter over time, blowing up at Satou at the slightest provocation.
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* ((Determinator)): Absolutely refuses to abandon his galgame. [[spoiler:Turns out it's the only thing keeping him from going back him.]]
* ExtremeDoormat / HairTriggerTemper: Begins the series as the former, putting up with Satou's jerkish behavior through impossible circumstances, but steadily becomes the latter over time, blowing up at Satou at the slightestprovocation.provocation due to a mix of Satou's repeated failings and his own personal problems.
* FarmBoy: Though we learn this very late. He left his life in the country to go to college in the city.
* ExtremeDoormat / HairTriggerTemper: Begins the series as the former, putting up with Satou's jerkish behavior through impossible circumstances, but steadily becomes the latter over time, blowing up at Satou at the slightest
* FarmBoy: Though we learn this very late. He left his life in the country to go to college in the city.
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* HeroOfAnotherStory: His conflicts are alluded to several times, but Satou is too caught up in his own problems to pay ay attention to them. When Satou (and the audience) finally learns the whole story, [[spoiler:it's too late and he's forced back home.]]
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* HypercompetentSidekick: He's significantly more socially stable than Satou and also pretty much the only reason their galgame goes anywhere at all.
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* PutOnABus: [[spoiler: Moves back home right before the final few episodes, though Satou does speak with him a handful of times over the phone afterwards.]]
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* BrokenPedastel: Yamazaki actually looked up to him for protecting him in high school, and continues to do so for a long time when they reconnect. It's only after Satou's repeated failures to be a reliable partner and friend that he begins to lose his patience.
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* BrokenPedastel: BrokenPedestal: Yamazaki actually looked up to him for protecting him in high school, and continues to do so for a long time when they reconnect. It's only after Satou's repeated failures to be a reliable partner and friend that he begins to lose his patience.
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* BrokenPedastel: Yamazaki actually looked up to him for protecting him in high school, and continues to do so for a long time when they reconnect. It's only after Satou's repeated failures to be a reliable partner and friend that he begins to lose his patience.
* LargeHam: Though only when in the company of close friends or his own thoughts.
* NerdsAreVirgins: Averted. Hitomi taking his virginity on the last day of high school is a major point of anxiety for him.
* AloofDarkHairedGirl: Fits this to a tee.
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: She and her boyfriend come across as very detached from each other during most of their early scenes, but [[spoiler:his frantic attempt to stop her from committing suicide and her ensuing reaction prove that they do love each other]]. When Satou next sees her, they're engaged.
* BigBad: In an abstract way. She introduced Satou to conspiracies, left him despairing and confused after high school and later [[spoiler:attempts to get him to join a suicide pact]], but we quickly learn after she finally appears that she is her own person with her own problems, and a major part of her status as BigBad was Satou's own demonization of her.
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: She and her boyfriend come across as very detached from each other during most of their early scenes, but [[spoiler:his frantic attempt to stop her from committing suicide and her ensuing reaction prove that they do love each other]]. When Satou next sees her, they're engaged.
* BigBad: In an abstract way. She introduced Satou to conspiracies, left him despairing and confused after high school and later [[spoiler:attempts to get him to join a suicide pact]], but we quickly learn after she finally appears that she is her own person with her own problems, and a major part of her status as BigBad was Satou's own demonization of her.
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* TheGhost: Doesn't appear until around the middle of the series, though Satou constantly thinks and talks about her from the beginning.
* MsFanservice: The most strikingly attractive female character. Satou has multiple fantasies with her naked in them.
* NightmareFetishist: During high school she was fascinated with dark conspiracies. It is because of her rantings that Satou is as paranoid as he is today.
* TheOneThatGotAway: Satou continues to regret not going any further with her long after graduation.
* TheStoic: Incredibly composed and hard to read.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: She is partially responsible to Satou's current state of being, though Satou learns to accept that he himself is equally to blame.
* MsFanservice: The most strikingly attractive female character. Satou has multiple fantasies with her naked in them.
* NightmareFetishist: During high school she was fascinated with dark conspiracies. It is because of her rantings that Satou is as paranoid as he is today.
* TheOneThatGotAway: Satou continues to regret not going any further with her long after graduation.
* TheStoic: Incredibly composed and hard to read.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: She is partially responsible to Satou's current state of being, though Satou learns to accept that he himself is equally to blame.
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* RememberTheNewGuy: Though she briefly appeared in a flashback, we only learn about her the moment she's introduced, which is quite late in the series.
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* ExtremeDoormat / HairTriggerTemper: Begins the series as the former, putting up with Satou's jerkish behavior through impossible circumstances, but steadily becomes the latter over time, blowing up at Satou at the slightest provocation.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: He is the only person Satou has a normal, moderately healthy relationship with and the two spend plenty of time together.
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* NoSocialSkills: A little better than Satou, but not by much.
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* NoSocialSkills: A little better than Satou, but not by much. The show makes a point of saying, awkward as he may be, he is ''not'' a hikikomori, and attends college and attempts to socialize during his time away from Satou.
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* TookALevelInJerkass: A justified example. Initially incredibly patient and supportive of Satou but gets increasingly more annoyed and irritable as Satou continues to let him down. Over time we learn that there is more to blame for his behavior than Satou.
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* NayTheist: She believes that if He really does exist, then GodIsEvil for creating such an imperfect and miserable world.
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* NayTheist: She believes that if He really does exist, then GodIsEvil {{God is evil}} for creating such an imperfect and miserable world.[[CrapsackWorld awful world]].
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* ClassicalAntiHero: He is a highly unstable NEET who places all of the blame for his highly unstable life on a conspiracy organization known to him as the NHK. Yet he is ultimately a good-hearted person who wants to be a productive member of society, and most of his angst stems from feeling he is unable to lead a productive life.
* ConspiracyTheorist: Thanks to Hitomi's influence.
* ConspiracyTheorist: Thanks to Hitomi's influence.
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* ClassicalAntiHero: He is a highly reclusive and unstable NEET who places all of the blame for his highly unstable life on a conspiracy organization known to him as the NHK. Yet NEET, yet he is ultimately a good-hearted person who wants to be a productive member of society, and most of his angst stems from feeling he is unable to lead a productive life.
*ConspiracyTheorist: Thanks ConspiracyTheorist / TheParanoiac: He believes that an evil secret organization called the NHK is plotting to Hitomi's influence.keep him lonely and miserable forever.
** Throughout the series, he experiences delusions and {{hallucinations}} that the NHK is out to get him. He even imagines [[AnimateInanimateObject talking household objects]] warning him about the NHK, or small blue alien creatures harassing him.
* CovertPervert: He has an extreme porn addiction, which he tries but fails to hide from his mom and Misaki.
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** Throughout the series, he experiences delusions and {{hallucinations}} that the NHK is out to get him. He even imagines [[AnimateInanimateObject talking household objects]] warning him about the NHK, or small blue alien creatures harassing him.
* CovertPervert: He has an extreme porn addiction, which he tries but fails to hide from his mom and Misaki.
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* LoserProtagonist: He's a {{hikikomori}} who does nothing but stay in his house all day, has never attended college,has paralyzing anxiety issues, is a barely concealed pervert, and acts like a jerk on a fairly regular basis.
* LoserProtagonist: He's a {{hikikomori}} who does nothing but stay in his house all day, has never attended college,has paralyzing anxiety issues, is a barely concealed pervert, and acts like a jerk on a fairly regular basis.
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* {{Hikikomori}}
{{Hikikomori}} / {{NEET}}: These terms are repeatedly used in-universe to describe him, as he spends almost all of his time at home, and is an unemployed college dropout who freeloads from his parents' money. He slightly and slowly improves over time though.
** While Satou isn't a BasementDweller due to living away from his parents, at least twice he has worried about the possibility of moving back to his family home.
* LonersAreFreaks: Satou is so paranoid that other people may be mocking him, to the point that he shut himself away from society.
* LoserProtagonist: He's a {{hikikomori}} who does nothing but stay in his house all day, has never attendedcollege,has college, has paralyzing anxiety issues, is a barely concealed pervert, and acts like a jerk on a fairly regular basis.
** While Satou isn't a BasementDweller due to living away from his parents, at least twice he has worried about the possibility of moving back to his family home.
* LonersAreFreaks: Satou is so paranoid that other people may be mocking him, to the point that he shut himself away from society.
* LoserProtagonist: He's a {{hikikomori}} who does nothing but stay in his house all day, has never attended
* NoSocialSkills: Obviously, he is very socially withdrawn, and he has very few friends.
* {{Otaku}}: He watches too much anime, but not nearly as much as Yamazaki.
* {{Otaku}}: He watches too much anime, but not nearly as much as Yamazaki.
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* TrashOfTheTitans: Satou is a major slob and tends to leave his apartment littered with garbage. It gets even worse if he's gone on a spree of watching porn or playing video games.
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* AllTakeAndNoGive: Partway through the series, Satou begins to fear and hallucinate that Misaki may be trying to trick him into becoming completely dependent on her. [[spoiler:She is]].
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* {{Agnosticism}}: Although Misaki attends church with her aunt and uncle, she expresses doubt about God's existence.
* AllTakeAndNoGive: Partway through the series, Satou begins to fear and hallucinate that Misaki may be trying to trick him into becoming completely dependent on her. [[spoiler:Sheis]].is.]]
* AllTakeAndNoGive: Partway through the series, Satou begins to fear and hallucinate that Misaki may be trying to trick him into becoming completely dependent on her. [[spoiler:She
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* BrokenBird: She flinches noticeably when she presumes another character is going to strike her because of the fact that [[spoiler: she was forced to live with her abusive stepfather who constantly beat her]], and she also [[spoiler: attempts suicide by throwing herself off the same cliff her mother did years before]].
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* BrokenBird: She flinches noticeably when she presumes another character is going to strike her because of the fact that [[spoiler: she [[spoiler:she was forced to live with her abusive stepfather who constantly beat her]], and she also [[spoiler: attempts [[spoiler:attempts suicide by throwing herself off the same cliff her mother did years before]].
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* [[spoiler:DrivenToSuicide: Almost]], [[InterruptedSuicide Almost happens]] in the novel and anime.]]
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* GoodbyeCruelWorld: [[spoiler:Misaki spends most of the next-to-last episode talking to Satou about suicide notes, and particularly about one famous suicide note where the writer complimented his parents' cooking. She leaves a suicide note of that form on her bed ("The New Year's grated yams were delicious. So to everybody, goodbye."), which is Satou's cue to start looking for her.]]
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* GoodbyeCruelWorld: [[spoiler:Misaki [[spoiler:GoodbyeCruelWorld: Misaki spends most of the next-to-last episode talking to Satou about suicide notes, and particularly about one famous suicide note where the writer complimented his parents' cooking. She leaves a suicide note of that form on her bed ("The New Year's grated yams were delicious. So to everybody, goodbye."), which is Satou's cue to start looking for her.]]
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* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Deconstructed, [[spoiler:as she gloms onto the Satou because she needs to have the company of people she considers even more pathetic than herself.]].
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* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Deconstructed, [[spoiler:as she gloms onto the Satou because she needs to have the company of people she considers even more pathetic than herself.]].herself]].
* MixedAncestry: At one point she claimed to have a French grandfather, which would make her a quarter European.
* NayTheist: She believes that if He really does exist, then GodIsEvil for creating such an imperfect and miserable world.
* NiceGirl: However her kindness is repeatedly questioned by Satou, who suspects an ulterior motive. [[spoiler:It turns out that Misaki intentionally befriended an even worse loser like Satou to make herself feel better by comparison.]]
* [[spoiler:StalkerWithACrush:]] Misaki somehow knows an awful lot about Satou, and she is very obsessed about making sure that he always attends her counseling every night. [[spoiler:After he rejects her romantic advances, she attempts suicide.]]
* NayTheist: She believes that if He really does exist, then GodIsEvil for creating such an imperfect and miserable world.
* NiceGirl: However her kindness is repeatedly questioned by Satou, who suspects an ulterior motive. [[spoiler:It turns out that Misaki intentionally befriended an even worse loser like Satou to make herself feel better by comparison.]]
* [[spoiler:StalkerWithACrush:]] Misaki somehow knows an awful lot about Satou, and she is very obsessed about making sure that he always attends her counseling every night. [[spoiler:After he rejects her romantic advances, she attempts suicide.]]
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* HeManWomanHater: He tends to act this way when he's having girl troubles, at any rate.
* JerkAss: At his worst.
** JerkassWoobie
* NightmareFuelStationAttendant: As he has no experience of women beyond anime, he fails to see the problem with drawing a character who is a sickly, injured, [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot ghost robot schoolgirl maid]] - indeed, he thinks the character would be an appropriate, attractive heroine for an HGame.
* NoIndoorVoice: Especially when he's excited.
* NoSocialSkills
* {{Otaku}}: He has tons of Anime and gal game merchandise in his room. In the anime he even has a Pururin body pillow and life-sized doll, which he later hands over to Satou.
* JerkAss: At his worst.
** JerkassWoobie
* NightmareFuelStationAttendant: As he has no experience of women beyond anime, he fails to see the problem with drawing a character who is a sickly, injured, [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot ghost robot schoolgirl maid]] - indeed, he thinks the character would be an appropriate, attractive heroine for an HGame.
* NoIndoorVoice: Especially when he's excited.
* NoSocialSkills
* {{Otaku}}: He has tons of Anime and gal game merchandise in his room. In the anime he even has a Pururin body pillow and life-sized doll, which he later hands over to Satou.
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* HeManWomanHater: He tends CovertPervert: Like Sato, he is also a big consumer of porn. In fact the two guys spend the whole series trying to act this way create an erotic video game.
* HeManWomanHater / StrawMisogynist: While he does have a history of bad luck when it comes to romance, he thinks that all women are to blame for it. However he forgets to be sexist whenever he'shaving being friendly to a girl troubles, at any rate.
he likes.
*JerkAss: {{Jerkass}}: At his worst.
worst, he's [[HairTriggerTemper very easily irritated]].
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* NightmareFuelStationAttendant: As he has no experience of women beyond anime, he fails to see the problem with drawing a character who is a sickly, injured, [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot ghost robot schoolgirl maid]]- -- indeed, he thinks the character would be an appropriate, attractive heroine for an HGame.
* NoIndoorVoice: Especially when he'sexcited.
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NoSocialSkills: A little better than Satou, but not by much.
* {{Otaku}}: He has tons ofAnime anime and gal game merchandise in his room. In the anime anime, he even has a Pururin body pillow and life-sized doll, which he later hands over to Satou.
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* NightmareFuelStationAttendant: As he has no experience of women beyond anime, he fails to see the problem with drawing a character who is a sickly, injured, [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot ghost robot schoolgirl maid]]
* NoIndoorVoice: Especially when he's
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* {{Otaku}}: He has tons of
* StraightMan: To Satou. While both of them are nerds who have NoSocialSkills, Yamazaki is slightly more functional, as he is more willing to go outside, and he attends a vocational school.
** This is best shown in one episode where he has to snap Satou out of his addiction to the ''Ultimate Fantasy'' MMORPG.
** This is best shown in one episode where he has to snap Satou out of his addiction to the ''Ultimate Fantasy'' MMORPG.
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* ConspiracyTheorist: "It's a conspiracy" is practically her CatchPhrase.
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* ConspiracyTheorist: She convinced Satou that a global conspiracy is responsible for all of the world's problems. "It's a conspiracy" is practically her CatchPhrase.
CatchPhrase.
* [[spoiler:DrivenToSuicide:]] She takes along an unwitting Satou to join [[spoiler:an Internet suicide pact]], where they plan to [[spoiler:jump off a high cliff]] on a remote island, until [[spoiler:Hitomi's boyfriend [[InterruptedSuicide intervenes]] and proposes to her]].
* [[spoiler:DrivenToSuicide:]] She takes along an unwitting Satou to join [[spoiler:an Internet suicide pact]], where they plan to [[spoiler:jump off a high cliff]] on a remote island, until [[spoiler:Hitomi's boyfriend [[InterruptedSuicide intervenes]] and proposes to her]].
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* ManipulativeBitch[[ConMan Con Woman]]: After getting entangled in a pyramid scheme, her job is to recruit more suckers to join them.
* ManipulativeBitch: She invites Satou to sign up for the Mouse Road pyramid scheme. Misaki and Yamazaki also later get tricked into joining.
* PromotionToParent: Without even being orphaned, she pretty much acts like a [[ParentalSubstitute surrogate mom]] to her brother, a {{hikikomori}} {{man child}} who is ''even more isolated'' than Satou.
* ManipulativeBitch: She invites Satou to sign up for the Mouse Road pyramid scheme. Misaki and Yamazaki also later get tricked into joining.
* PromotionToParent: Without even being orphaned, she pretty much acts like a [[ParentalSubstitute surrogate mom]] to her brother, a {{hikikomori}} {{man child}} who is ''even more isolated'' than Satou.
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* {{Deuteragonist}}: She's been a part of the story for as long as Satou himself, and the basic plot gets kicked off because of her project.
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* LoserProtagonist: He's a {{hikikomori}} who does nothing but stay in his house all day, has never attended college, college,has paralyzing anxiety issues, is a barely concealed pervert, and acts like a jerk.jerk on a fairly regular basis.
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* PornStash: At one point, Satou downloads ''120 gigabytes of porn''.
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*[[spoiler: DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:DrivenToSuicide: Almost]], in the novel and anime.
* GirlNextDoor: Her innocence and rather plain beauty is, at first, an integral part of her relationship with Satou, combining this trope with ManicPixieDreamGirl. However, ''both'' tropes become [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] when she is slowly revealed to exhibit [[spoiler:nearly every symptom of a textbook case of Borderline Personality Disorder, including extreme self-esteem issues, self-harm, skewed social perspective, and an unhealthy (suicidally so) obsession with Satou.]]
* GoodbyeCruelWorld: [[spoiler:Misaki spends most of the next-to-last episode talking to Satou about suicide notes, and particularly about one famous suicide note where the writer complimented his parents' cooking. She leaves a suicide note of that form on her bed ("The New Year's grated yams were delicious. So to everybody, goodbye."), which is Satou's cue to start looking for her.]]
* LimitedWardrobe: She almost always wears the same sweater and miniskirt, even under freezing conditions.
* ManicPixieDreamGirl:[[spoiler:Deconstructed]].Deconstructed, [[spoiler:as she gloms onto the Satou because she needs to have the company of people she considers even more pathetic than herself.]].
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* GirlNextDoor: Her innocence and rather plain beauty is, at first, an integral part of her relationship with Satou, combining this trope with ManicPixieDreamGirl. However, ''both'' tropes become [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] when she is slowly revealed to exhibit [[spoiler:nearly every symptom of a textbook case of Borderline Personality Disorder, including extreme self-esteem issues, self-harm, skewed social perspective, and an unhealthy (suicidally so) obsession with Satou.]]
* GoodbyeCruelWorld: [[spoiler:Misaki spends most of the next-to-last episode talking to Satou about suicide notes, and particularly about one famous suicide note where the writer complimented his parents' cooking. She leaves a suicide note of that form on her bed ("The New Year's grated yams were delicious. So to everybody, goodbye."), which is Satou's cue to start looking for her.]]
* LimitedWardrobe: She almost always wears the same sweater and miniskirt, even under freezing conditions.
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* WeaknessTurnsHerOn: A rather brutal example. Misaki selects Sato for her "project" of curing him from being a {{hikikomori}}, and the time they spend together eventually leads to there being quite a bit of romantic tension between the pair. It's later revealed that [[spoiler:Misaki chose Sato, because she wanted to find someone who was even more "worthless" than she was and prove she could fix them because of her abusive stepfather telling her that she was a useless human being]]. As a broken recluse, Sato fit the bill.
* WeaknessTurnsHerOn: A rather brutal example. Misaki selects Sato for her "project" of curing him from being a {{hikikomori}}, and the time they spend together eventually leads to there being quite a bit of romantic tension between the pair. It's later revealed that [[spoiler:Misaki chose Sato, because she wanted to find someone who was even more "worthless" than she was and prove she could fix them because of her abusive stepfather telling her that she was a useless human being]]. As a broken recluse, Sato fit the bill.
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* FatalFlaw: Appears to have a very addictive personality, seeing how quickly and easily he becomes obsessed with internet porn or [=MMORPGs=] or whatever new thing he's discovering.
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* NightmareFuelStationAttendant: As he has no experience of women beyond anime, he fails to see the problem with drawing a character who is a sickly, injured, [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot ghost robot schoolgirl maid]] - indeed, he thinks the character would be an appropriate, attractive heroine for an HGame.
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