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* TheBeard: In the Confession Festival Arc, we have 2 of them: Kuroha for Sueharu and Mitsuru for Shirokusa for the same purpose of getting revenge. Eventually, Shirokusa shaves hers off after ditching her revenge plans, pursuing Sueharu for real while Sueharu becomes attached to him after an epiphany, but the feeling wasn't mutual at the time.
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* LongTitle: As expected from a harem work, it has the phrase "The Romantic Comedy Where The Childhood Friend Absolutely Won't Lose" as its title.
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* ArcSymbol: Apples, especially golden ones slowly turning black, signify first love that spreads over one's body and eats away at it.
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* HatesRichPeople: Tetsuhiko makes it clear he loathes rich folks after Shiro's father tells him he did a background check on him and asks him if he's using Sueharu to get revenge on his own father.
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* PlasterCastDoodling: After Sueharu protects Shiro from a nasty fall, he breaks one of his arms and gets it covered with a plaster cast. Ooragi Shion takes advantage of him sleeping, so she can write, "Shion-chan the genius was here" on his cast and then denies being the one who wrote it.
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* PoseOfSupplication: Sueharu has a bad habit of trying to get out of a situation or gain people's favor by groveling when it's not warranted or even called for at all. Some of his friends are exasperated by this flaw of his.
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* BuxomBeautyStandard: Shirokusa's ample bosom is oft-described her best appeal (with her pervy classmates wondering about their size) and one of the areas she beats Kuroha at, even though Kuroha isn't lacking in size, at least compared to the flat-chested Momo, [[FakeBoobs who has to wear breast pads to make her boobs look bigger]].
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* BuxomBeautyStandard: Shirokusa's ample bosom is oft-described as her best appeal (with her pervy classmates wondering about their size) and one of the areas she beats Kuroha at, even though Kuroha isn't lacking in size, at least compared to the flat-chested Momo, [[FakeBoobs who has to wear breast pads to make her boobs look bigger]].
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* IdiotHair: Sueharu has a strand of hair that stand sticking upward which suits his energetic, moronic personality.
* IdiotHair: Sueharu has a strand of hair that stand sticking upward which suits his energetic, moronic personality.
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* LoveDodecahedron: ''It is a mess''. In the Confession Festival arc, We have Kuroha in love with Sueharu, who in turn is in love with Shirokusa, who is pretending to date Mitsuru. At first, it's a LoveTriangle once Shirokusa reveals that she's in love with Sueharu all along and faked a relationship with Mitsuru just to get revenge on Sueharu with Sueharu doing the same with Kuroha. Later on, Shirokusa dumps her plans for revenge and starts pining for Sueharu for real, but at that point, he lost interest in her and confesses to Kuroha in the end, but gets brutally rejected, even though Kuroha still loves him. Post-Festival, Kuroha and Shirokusa love Sueharu who shows interest in neither, but a third LoveInterest named Momosaka arrives to claim him for herself. [[spoiler:Then Kuroha's sisters start to crush on him.]] .
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* LoveDodecahedron: ''It is a mess''. In the Confession Festival arc, We have Kuroha in love with Sueharu, who in turn is in love with Shirokusa, who is pretending to date Mitsuru. At first, it's a LoveTriangle once Shirokusa reveals that she's in love with Sueharu all along and faked a relationship with Mitsuru just to get revenge on Sueharu with Sueharu doing the same with Kuroha. Later on, Shirokusa dumps her plans for revenge and starts pining for Sueharu for real, but at that point, he lost interest in her and confesses to Kuroha in the end, but gets brutally rejected, even though Kuroha still loves him. Post-Festival, Kuroha and Shirokusa love Sueharu who shows interest in neither, but a third LoveInterest named Momosaka arrives to claim him for herself. [[spoiler:Then Kuroha's sisters start to crush on him.]] .]]
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->''"Love isn't something you fall into. It spreads all over your body, eating away at it. In the winter of my first year of high school, I fell victim to love's poison. '''She''' was my first love."''
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->''"Love isn't something you fall into. It spreads all over your body, eating away at it. In the winter of my first year of high school, I fell victim to love's poison. '''She''' She was my first love."''
* IdiotHair: Sueharu has a strand of hair that stand sticking upward which suits his energetic, moronic personality.
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* TheBeard: In the Confession Festival Arc, we have 2 of them: Kuroha for Sueharu and Mitsuru for Shirokusa for the same purposes of getting revenge. Eventually, Shirokusa shaves hers off after ditching her revenge plans, pursuing Sueharu for real while Sueharu becomes attached to his after an epiphany, but the feeling wasn't mutual at the time.
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* TheBeard: In the Confession Festival Arc, we have 2 of them: Kuroha for Sueharu and Mitsuru for Shirokusa for the same purposes purpose of getting revenge. Eventually, Shirokusa shaves hers off after ditching her revenge plans, pursuing Sueharu for real while Sueharu becomes attached to his him after an epiphany, but the feeling wasn't mutual at the time.
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* BlandNameProduct: To avoid using trademarks, both the anime and light novel, the app they use to message each other is called Nine instead of [[https://line.me/en/ Line]] and they upload and view videos on [[Website/YouTube WeTube]].
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** To avoid using trademarks, both the anime and light novel, the app they use to message each other is called Nine instead of [[https://line.me/en/Line]] and they Line]].
** They also upload and view videos InUniverse on [[Website/YouTubeWeTube]].WeTube]].
* BookSmart: Shirokusa is said to have top grades and is an AcademicAthlete though we don't see this on-screen.
** To avoid using trademarks, both the anime and light novel, the app they use to message each other is called Nine instead of [[https://line.me/en/
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* BookSmart: Shirokusa is said to have top grades and is an AcademicAthlete though we don't see this on-screen.
* CartoonThrobbing: When Tetsuhiko suggests asking out Kuroha to Sueharu in the first episode while he's knocking a nail into a wooden board, he hammers his thumb instead out of shock and it starts throbbing.
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* ChickMagnet: Sueharu has managed to secure Kuroha Shida, Shirokusa Kachi, and Maria Momosaka from childhood all the way to high school. Then Kuroha's sisters all fall in love with him. Then he managed to get a fan club in his High School after getting back into the acting. However, the concept of girls fighting over him annoys him so much.
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* ChickMagnet: Sueharu has managed to secure Kuroha Shida, Shirokusa Kachi, and Maria Momosaka from childhood all the way to high school. Then Kuroha's sisters all fall in love with him. Then he managed to get a fan club in his High School after getting back into the acting. However, the concept of girls fighting over him annoys him so much.
* CompressedHair: Shirokusa has long hair but she's able to fit it all under a boyish cap somehow before she takes it off.
* CuteLittleFangs: Rena Asagi has a tiny fang for some reason and she's pretty cute.
* CuteLittleFangs: Rena Asagi has a tiny fang for some reason and she's pretty cute.
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** The three main love interests of course never give up on pursuing Sueharu and trying to make him pick them providing contrast to the Shida twin sisters who know that their attraction for him clash with their older sister's feelings and seem to have given up at getting him to reciprocate.
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** The three main love interests of course never give up on pursuing Sueharu and trying to make him pick them providing contrast to the Shida twin sisters who know that their attraction for him clash clashes with their older sister's feelings and seem to have given up at on getting him to reciprocate.
* CrushBlush: Characters who have feelings for Sueharu get those, but it's more apparent with Sueharu himself when he talks to his first crush Shirokusa or thinks about her.
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* FormerChildStar: Averted and played with. Sueharu had a troubled childhood as a child actor, where his mom died during the filming of "Child Star", which forced him to go on an indefinite hiatus till high school. His current life is pretty normal and less troubled except in the romance area.
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* FormerChildStar: Averted and played Played with. Sueharu had a troubled childhood as a child actor, where his mom died during the filming of "Child Star", which forced him to go on an indefinite hiatus till high school. His current life is pretty normal and less troubled except in the romance area.
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* GambitPileup: [[spoiler:What the Confession Festival story arc boils down to.]]
** [[spoiler:Shirokusa pretends to go out with Mitsuru in order to get Sueharu’s attention. This is all part of her plan to get Sueharu interested in her and then reject him when he decides to confess to her. The reason for this plan is that Shirokusa believes Haru broke their childhood promise and abandoned her. After learning of Haru’s circumstances, she abandons her plan, reveals her identity as “Shiro” to Haru, and is more than willing to accept his declaration of love.]]
** [[spoiler:Mitsuru, after hearing of the aforementioned “rumor”, decides to play along, even goes at lengths to antagonize Haru, spurring the latter into one-upping him at the festival. The reason for his actions is to make Haru, his idol, regain his interest in acting.]]
** [[spoiler:Kuroha consoles Haru over the Shirokusa ordeal and suggests that he should take revenge against Shirokusa for breaking his heart. This is part of her own revenge plan against Haru. She can get close to him while they are discussing their course of action, and should he switch his target of affection to Kuro, she will promptly reject him. The motive is to get back at him for rejecting her before the story begins.]]
* GirlNextDoor: Kuroha is the literal girl next door, along with her three sisters. They are all romantically in love with Sueharu, their neighbor.
** [[spoiler:Shirokusa pretends to go out with Mitsuru in order to get Sueharu’s attention. This is all part of her plan to get Sueharu interested in her and then reject him when he decides to confess to her. The reason for this plan is that Shirokusa believes Haru broke their childhood promise and abandoned her. After learning of Haru’s circumstances, she abandons her plan, reveals her identity as “Shiro” to Haru, and is more than willing to accept his declaration of love.]]
** [[spoiler:Mitsuru, after hearing of the aforementioned “rumor”, decides to play along, even goes at lengths to antagonize Haru, spurring the latter into one-upping him at the festival. The reason for his actions is to make Haru, his idol, regain his interest in acting.]]
** [[spoiler:Kuroha consoles Haru over the Shirokusa ordeal and suggests that he should take revenge against Shirokusa for breaking his heart. This is part of her own revenge plan against Haru. She can get close to him while they are discussing their course of action, and should he switch his target of affection to Kuro, she will promptly reject him. The motive is to get back at him for rejecting her before the story begins.]]
* GirlNextDoor: Kuroha is the literal girl next door, along with her three sisters. They are all romantically in love with Sueharu, their neighbor.
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* GambitPileup: [[spoiler:What What the Confession Festival story arc boils down to.]]
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**[[spoiler:Shirokusa Shirokusa pretends to go out with Mitsuru in order to get Sueharu’s attention. This is all part of her plan to get Sueharu interested in her and then reject him when he decides to confess to her. The reason for this plan is that Shirokusa believes Haru broke their childhood promise and abandoned her. After learning of Haru’s circumstances, she abandons her plan, reveals her identity as “Shiro” to Haru, and is more than willing to accept his declaration of love.love.
** Mitsuru, after hearing of the aforementioned “rumor”, decides to play along, and even goes to lengths to antagonize Haru, spurring the latter into one-upping him at the festival. [[spoiler:The reason for his actions is to make Haru, his idol, regain his interest in acting.]]
**[[spoiler:Mitsuru, after hearing of the aforementioned “rumor”, decides to play along, even goes at lengths to antagonize Haru, spurring the latter into one-upping him at the festival. The reason for his actions is to make Haru, his idol, regain his interest in acting.]]
** [[spoiler:KurohaKuroha consoles Haru over the Shirokusa ordeal and suggests that he should take revenge against Shirokusa for breaking his heart. This is part of her own revenge plan against Haru. She can get close to him while they are discussing their course of action, and should he switch his target of affection to Kuro, she will promptly reject him. The motive is to get back at him for rejecting her before the story begins.]]
* GirlNextDoor: Kuroha is the literal girl next door, along with her three sisters. They are all romantically in love with Sueharu, their neighbor.
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** Mitsuru, after hearing of the aforementioned “rumor”, decides to play along, and even goes to lengths to antagonize Haru, spurring the latter into one-upping him at the festival. [[spoiler:The reason for his actions is to make Haru, his idol, regain his interest in acting.]]
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** [[spoiler:Kuroha
* GirlNextDoor: Kuroha is the literal girl next door, along with her three sisters. They are all romantically in love with Sueharu, their neighbor.
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* LingerieScene: Happens when Shirokusa messages Sueharu to come and see her swimsuit in episode 9. She takes off her cardigan and shows it to him, asking for his opinion, to which he passionately responds that she's so gorgeous and he's thankful she'd do such a thing for him. She gets emotional and relieved by his answer... then sits on his lap in her bikini and {{UST}} ensues.
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* LoveDodecahedron: ''It is a mess''. In the Confession Festival arc, We have Kuroha in love with Sueharu, who in turn is in love with Shirokusa, who is dating ([[spoiler:not really]]) 3rd Year Mitsuru. It turns into a LoveTriangle once Shirokusa reveals that she is in love with Sueharu all along and faked a relationship with Mitsuru in order to get revenge on Sueharu with Sueharu doing the same with Kuroha. Later on, Shirokusa dumps her plans for revenge and starts pining for Sueharu for real, but at that point, he lost interest in her and confesses to Kuroha in the end, but got brutally rejected, though Shida ends up shooting herself in the foot since she still loved him. Post-Festival, Kuroha and Shirokusa love Sueharu who shows interest in neither, but a third LoveInterest in the form of Maria Momosaka arrives in order to claim him for himself. [[spoiler:Then Kuroha's sisters start to crush on him, and let’s not forget about the Sueharu Maru fan club that gets formed at the Season 1 finale/Volume 5]] .
* LoverTugOfWar: Fights in this manner frequently happen in this work. One of these ends with all of [[ACupAngst Momo]]'s breast pads falling out of her bra.
* LoverTugOfWar: Fights in this manner frequently happen in this work. One of these ends with all of [[ACupAngst Momo]]'s breast pads falling out of her bra.
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* LoveDodecahedron: ''It is a mess''. In the Confession Festival arc, We have Kuroha in love with Sueharu, who in turn is in love with Shirokusa, who is dating ([[spoiler:not really]]) 3rd Year pretending to date Mitsuru. It turns into At first, it's a LoveTriangle once Shirokusa reveals that she is she's in love with Sueharu all along and faked a relationship with Mitsuru in order just to get revenge on Sueharu with Sueharu doing the same with Kuroha. Later on, Shirokusa dumps her plans for revenge and starts pining for Sueharu for real, but at that point, he lost interest in her and confesses to Kuroha in the end, but got gets brutally rejected, even though Shida ends up shooting herself in the foot since she Kuroha still loved loves him. Post-Festival, Kuroha and Shirokusa love Sueharu who shows interest in neither, but a third LoveInterest in the form of Maria named Momosaka arrives in order to claim him for himself. herself. [[spoiler:Then Kuroha's sisters start to crush on him, and let’s not forget about him.]] .
* LoveHurts: One of theSueharu Maru fan club {{Central Theme}}s of the work is that gets formed at love, particularly first love, is painful and is often compared to a curse.
--> '''Sueharu:''' ''[while watching Shiro practice]'' First love is poison. I thought I had eased theSeason 1 finale/Volume 5]] .
pain with a new love, but the poison of my first love is still eating away at me.
* LoverTugOfWar: Fights in this manner frequently happen in thiswork.work, including the opening. One of these ends with all of [[ACupAngst Momo]]'s breast pads falling out of her bra.
* LoveHurts: One of the
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** Shida herself shows regret in rejecting Sueharu in the Confession Festival due to effectively losing any trust he had in her making it more difficult for her to secure his heart in the future, going so far as to [[spoiler:fake amnesia in order to get a fresh start]].
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** Shida Kuroha herself shows regret in rejecting Sueharu in the Confession Festival due to effectively losing any trust he had in her making it more difficult for her to secure his heart in the future, going so far as to [[spoiler:fake amnesia in order to get a fresh start]].
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* NiceGirl: Out of the main female characters, Momo is the kindest and most polite girl ever. She encourages Rena to join them on the fun instead of just filming them all day and hugs Sueharu [[spoiler:when he visits his mom's grave and breaks down, telling him how she, too, loved his mom.]]
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* NiceGirl: Out of the main female characters, Momo is the kindest and most polite girl ever. She encourages Rena to join them on in the fun instead of just filming them all day and hugs Sueharu [[spoiler:when he visits his mom's grave and breaks down, telling him how she, too, loved his mom.]]]]
* OcularGushers: After Kuroha rejected Sueharu and the Confession Festival ended, he's still on the stage crying in this manner over the whole fiasco.
* OcularGushers: After Kuroha rejected Sueharu and the Confession Festival ended, he's still on the stage crying in this manner over the whole fiasco.
* SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud: Ooragi Shion, Kachi's family {{Meido}}, has a silly habit of actually saying the words "hmph!", "gulp", and "giggle", etc.
-->'''Tetsuhiko:''' She's smart, she's athletic, her debut work won the Akutami Award, and she got her own pin-up making her famous nationwide. [...] She's super popular on TV, too.
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* SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud: Ooragi Shion, Kachi's family {{Meido}}, has a silly habit of actually saying the words "hmph!", "gulp", and "giggle", etc.
* SurprisinglySuddenDeath: Sueharu's mother was supposed to act in an in-universe scene involving this, but a FatalMethodActing accident ended up happening for real. This lead to his childhood retirement from acting.
* ThemeNaming: The name of the two main girls [[spoiler:refer to clovers. Kuroha sounds like “clover”, while Shirokusa is named after the white clover]]. Conveniently, [[MeaningfulName they both wear their respective flower in their hair]].
* SurprisinglySuddenDeath: Sueharu's mother was supposed to act in an in-universe scene involving this, but a FatalMethodActing accident ended up happening for real. This lead to his childhood retirement from acting.
* ThemeNaming: The name of the two main girls [[spoiler:refer to clovers. Kuroha sounds like “clover”, while Shirokusa is named after the white clover]]. Conveniently, [[MeaningfulName they both wear their respective flower in their hair]].
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* SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud: Ooragi Shion, Kachi's family {{Meido}}, has SugarAndIcePersonality: Shirokusa can be quite distant with her classmates like tearing apart her notes because a silly habit of girl wanted to copy them, as Shirokusa sees compares her to a parasite and is acknowledged to be detached InUniverse. However, she's kind to the people she cares about and Sueharu defends her by saying she's actually saying the words "hmph!", "gulp", "cheerful and "giggle", etc.
even innocent!"
* SurprisinglySuddenDeath: Sueharu's mother was supposed to act in an in-universe scene involving this, but a FatalMethodActing accident ended up happening for real. Thislead led to his childhood retirement from acting.
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** The name of the two main girls [[spoiler:refer to clovers. Kuroha sounds like “clover”, while Shirokusa is named after the whiteclover]].clover shirotsumekusa]]. Conveniently, [[MeaningfulName they both wear their respective flower in their hair]].
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--> '''Sueharu:''' ''[while watching Shiro practice]'' First love is poison. [[LoveHurts I thought I had eased the pain with a new love, but the poison of my first love is still eating away at me]].
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* VitriolicBestBuds:
** Tetsuhiko never misses a chance at holding Sueharu in a headlock, hitting him, or throwing him in a pool while screaming [[GratuitousEnglish "Go to hell!"]] whenever he's merely thinking of something perverted much to Sueharu's bewilderment. Sueharu gives him the same treatment, especially when he acts like an ass. Although they are frequently bickering, they are still close friends and Tetsuhiko gets angry when someone badmouths Sueharu.
---> '''Sueharu:''' ''[after Tetsuhiko holds him in a headlock]'' Tetsuhiko, you bastard! What was that for?\\
** Tetsuhiko never misses a chance at holding Sueharu in a headlock, hitting him, or throwing him in a pool while screaming [[GratuitousEnglish "Go to hell!"]] whenever he's merely thinking of something perverted much to Sueharu's bewilderment. Sueharu gives him the same treatment, especially when he acts like an ass. Although they are frequently bickering, they are still close friends and Tetsuhiko gets angry when someone badmouths Sueharu.
---> '''Sueharu:''' ''[after Tetsuhiko holds him in a headlock]'' Tetsuhiko, you bastard! What was that for?\\
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* VitriolicBestBuds:
**VitriolicBestBuds: Tetsuhiko never misses a chance at holding Sueharu in a headlock, hitting him, or throwing him in a pool while screaming [[GratuitousEnglish "Go to hell!"]] hell!" whenever he's merely thinking of something perverted much to Sueharu's bewilderment. Sueharu gives him the same treatment, especially when he acts like an ass. Although they are frequently bickering, they are still close friends and Tetsuhiko gets angry when someone badmouths Sueharu.
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* YellowEyesOfSneakiness: Tetsuhiko has yellowish eyes and is a ManipulativeBastard and is often wearing a shit-eating, mischievous grin on his face.
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* BuxomIsBetter: This is oft-described as Shirokusa's best appeal (with her pervy classmates wondering about their size) and one of the areas she beats Kuroha at, even though Kuroha isn't lacking in size, at least compared to the flat-chested Momo, [[FakeBoobs who has to wear breast pads to make her boobs look bigger]].
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* BuxomIsBetter: This BuxomBeautyStandard: Shirokusa's ample bosom is oft-described as Shirokusa's her best appeal (with her pervy classmates wondering about their size) and one of the areas she beats Kuroha at, even though Kuroha isn't lacking in size, at least compared to the flat-chested Momo, [[FakeBoobs who has to wear breast pads to make her boobs look bigger]].
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[[caption-width-right:349:It's a tale involving revenge and love triangles.]]
->''"Love isn't something you fall into. It spreads all over your body, eating away at it. In the winter of my first year of high school, I fell victim to love's poison. '''She''' was my first love."''
-->-- '''Sueharu Maru''''s OpeningMonologue
''Osamake: Romcom Where The Childhood Friend Won't Lose'' (''Osananajimi ga Zettai ni Makenai Love Comedy'') is a {{Light Novel|s}} series written by Shuichi Numaru and illustrated by Ui Shigure, which began publication in 2019. A manga adaptation illustrated by Ryou Itou began serialization the same year in ''Magazine/MonthlyComicAlive'', and an anime adaptation aired as part of the Spring 2021 anime season.
The title of this work promises to be "the love story where the childhood friend doesn't lose", but how can that happen and still keep up dramatic tension? Simple: make every girl a childhood friend!
Kuroha Shida is Sueharu Maru's pretty and affectionate childhood best friend. However, when she confesses to Sueharu, he immediately rejects her because he's interested in someone else. This is where the attractive award-winning Shirokusa Kachi comes into the picture, the girl whom Sueharu calls his FirstLove. However, his spirit gets crushed when he quickly learns that Shirokusa has a boyfriend. Kuroha then comforts him and presents him with an offer he can never refuse: getting revenge.
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!!This work provides examples of:
* AffectionateNickname: Kuroha calls Sueharu "Haru," while Shirokusa refers to him as "Su-chan."
* AffectionateParody: Of the HaremGenre and {{RomCom}}s. Even the title itself parodies the UnluckyChildhoodFriend trope. It also spoofs the idea of having a harem/polygamy (which Sueharu immediately shoots down) comparing it to an emperor conquering three kingdoms.
* BalancedHarem: The plot rotates between Kuroha, Shirokusa, and Momo in terms of screen time, chemistry, and depth. Even the Shida twins who aren't primary love interests for Sueharu and are mere {{hopeless suitor}}s in the harem, get fleshed out to some degree in episode 9 as they ruminate their hopeless suitor status in a poetic and tragic manner.
* AloofDarkHairedGirl: Shirokusa has long, black hair, and is generally aloof towards most of her classmates, with the exception of Sueharu and her female friends.
* ArcWords: "First love is a curse" or "Love is poison" fitting its recurrent LoveHurts theme.
* BeachEpisode: Episodes 8 and 9 take place in Okinawa.
* TheBeard: In the Confession Festival Arc, we have 2 of them: Kuroha for Sueharu and Mitsuru for Shirokusa for the same purposes of getting revenge. Eventually, Shirokusa shaves hers off after ditching her revenge plans, pursuing Sueharu for real while Sueharu becomes attached to his after an epiphany, but the feeling wasn't mutual at the time.
* BettyAndVeronica: [[GirlNextDoor Kuroha]] is the Betty to [[AloofDarkHairedGirl Shirokusa's]] Veronica and Sueharu's Archie. Post Confession Festival, [[BettyAndVeronicaSwitch Kuroha and Shirokusa switch roles]] with Momo being [[ThirdOptionLoveInterest Cheryl]].
* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler:At first, Kuro is more than happy to help Sueharu despite being rejected but it's revealed that she had already planned to dump him once he got what he wanted. Only to later deeply regret it as she still loved him.]]
* BlandNameProduct: To avoid using trademarks, both the anime and light novel, the app they use to message each other is called Nine instead of [[https://line.me/en/ Line]] and they upload and view videos on [[Website/YouTube WeTube]].
* BuxomIsBetter: This is oft-described as Shirokusa's best appeal (with her pervy classmates wondering about their size) and one of the areas she beats Kuroha at, even though Kuroha isn't lacking in size, at least compared to the flat-chested Momo, [[FakeBoobs who has to wear breast pads to make her boobs look bigger]].
* TheCasanova: We never see him in action, but Sueharu makes it pretty clear that Tetsuhiko is a three-timing (even up to 7 girls) non-committal bastard. Tetsuhiko points out that they are all from different schools to avoid trouble, but Sueharu is certain that [[DeathByWomanScorned Tetsuhiko will get stabbed by a vengeful woman one day]] (not that he minds).
* ChickMagnet: Sueharu has managed to secure Kuroha Shida, Shirokusa Kachi, and Maria Momosaka from childhood all the way to high school. Then Kuroha's sisters all fall in love with him. Then he managed to get a fan club in his High School after getting back into the acting. However, the concept of girls fighting over him annoys him so much.
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: The very premise of the story involves the idea of the childhood friend winning the heart of the protagonist. Now with all three of Sueharu's prominent LoveInterests being his childhood friends!
* CompressedAdaptation: It's not that noticeable, but some of the details regarding the characters and minor events in the original light novel are removed in the anime adaptation, such as Shirokusa's clumsiness being downplayed, and the conclusion to the cooking competition in episode 8 getting cut.
* {{Determinator}}:
** The three main love interests of course never give up on pursuing Sueharu and trying to make him pick them providing contrast to the Shida twin sisters who know that their attraction for him clash with their older sister's feelings and seem to have given up at getting him to reciprocate.
** On a non-romantic note, Shirokusa always tries to do her best in dance practices for their commercials and [=MV=]s, staying up at night to practice more even when her foot is hurting her. She is determined to be strong and stand beside Sueharu on stage.
--->'''Shirokusa:''' I want to show Su-chan that I can do it when I try.\\
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'''Shirokusa:''' I think it's wrong to rely on him (Sueharu) unconditionally. It's rude to start being dependent before I've done whatever I can myself.
* TheDitherer: It's the main plot point that Sueharu is inconsistent; one minute, he's drawn to Shirokusa, and another, he confesses to Kuroha. Then he rejects the latter's advances on him because as much as he loves her, his feelings aren't 100% there, and even thinks of the other girls, though he still doesn't have the heart to outright reject her. Or else the light novel would have ended too early.
* FakingAmnesia: [[spoiler:Kuroha tries to pretend she has amnesia, not remembering the confession event at the festival, and losing her odd habit of combining weird foods. However, she's quickly caught as she says something at the end of the second arc that proves she never lost her memory at all.]]
* FatBestFriend: Meiko, the girl with the bob hair who's always hanging around Shirokusa in class, is on the chubby side and acts like her spokesperson and assistant.
* FirstLove: Sueharu refers to Shirokusa as such, after talking to her at high school for the first time. However, it doesn't last much. First love is also called a curse by some of the characters.
* ForgottenChildhoodFriend: "Shirou" turns out to be one to Sueharu, the child of one of his sponsors. However, Shirou turns out to be Shirokusa, and he simply misheard the nickname.
* FormerChildStar: Averted and played with. Sueharu had a troubled childhood as a child actor, where his mom died during the filming of "Child Star", which forced him to go on an indefinite hiatus till high school. His current life is pretty normal and less troubled except in the romance area.
* TheGadfly:
** Ooragi Shion has no filter whatsoever in her childish exchanges with Sueharu, where she's constantly trying to provoke him and refers to him as a "toy" for the three girls that are in love with him. She even points out to him that he's undeserving of their affections.
** Asagi Rena, as well. She calls Sueharu "Paisen" (the inversion of Senpai, as she's his junior at school) to mock him and frequently calls him an idiot, much to his irritation.
* GambitPileup: [[spoiler:What the Confession Festival story arc boils down to.]]
** [[spoiler:Shirokusa pretends to go out with Mitsuru in order to get Sueharu’s attention. This is all part of her plan to get Sueharu interested in her and then reject him when he decides to confess to her. The reason for this plan is that Shirokusa believes Haru broke their childhood promise and abandoned her. After learning of Haru’s circumstances, she abandons her plan, reveals her identity as “Shiro” to Haru, and is more than willing to accept his declaration of love.]]
** [[spoiler:Mitsuru, after hearing of the aforementioned “rumor”, decides to play along, even goes at lengths to antagonize Haru, spurring the latter into one-upping him at the festival. The reason for his actions is to make Haru, his idol, regain his interest in acting.]]
** [[spoiler:Kuroha consoles Haru over the Shirokusa ordeal and suggests that he should take revenge against Shirokusa for breaking his heart. This is part of her own revenge plan against Haru. She can get close to him while they are discussing their course of action, and should he switch his target of affection to Kuro, she will promptly reject him. The motive is to get back at him for rejecting her before the story begins.]]
* GirlNextDoor: Kuroha is the literal girl next door, along with her three sisters. They are all romantically in love with Sueharu, their neighbor.
* GreenEyedMonster:
** Sueharu's male classmates are always jealous of the attention he gets from cute girls, calling him "guilty!" while comically crying to the point where Kuroha has to tell them to leave him alone.
** Kuroha herself. Much of the conflict revolves around her jealousy towards Shirokusa Kachi for being Sueharu’s first love since he rejected Kuroha when she asked him out. This persists past the Love Confession Festival despite turning down Sueharu’s feelings for her.
* HiddenDepths: Several characters aren't as what they initially appear to be:
** At first, Shirokusa is an {{Aloof Dark Haired|Girl}} TeenGenius (she won an award for her novel at the age of 17), but as the series progresses, we see that she's clumsy, very hard-working, ProneToTears, and has a habit of self-deprecation.
** Who would've thought that the sweet, perfect [[spoiler:childhood friend Kuroha]] is a selfish, ManipulativeBitch?
** Similarly, Tetsuhiko seems to be a RomanticWingman for Sueharu and Shirokusa, except he's just manipulating things for his own interests and doesn't really care for their complicated love lives when it doesn't benefit him.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Kuroha gets jealous that Sueharu is getting attention from other girls since she herself is still in love with him, but as her competition points out, Kuroha herself rejected Sueharu's confession in public out of pettiness with video evidence to boot. So Kuroha really has no foothold to stand on regarding Sueharu's love life since she was given an opportunity to be with him and shot it down.
* ImagineSpot: Episode 10 starts with one, where Sueharu is imagining a naked Shirokusa caring for him in an erotic manner, rather than all three girls being there and fighting over caring for him over his broken arm.
* InstantHumiliationJustAddYouTube: Or [=WeTube=] in this case, but Tetsuhiko uploads the video where Sueharu publicly confesses to Kuroha and gets rejected by her with a short "No." to a Website/YouTube knockoff site.
* JealousRomanticWitness: Any of Sueharu's {{Love Interest}}s seeing him "flirt" with another girl is enough to make them jealous, sad, or angry. However, it's more prominent in episode 9 where both Kuroha and her little twin sisters have to see him worry about Shirokusa at different points in the trip. Later on, Kuroha even admits that seeing them together felt worse than when she rejected him.
* LingerieScene: Happens when Shirokusa messages Sueharu to come and see her swimsuit in episode 9. She takes off her cardigan and shows it to him, asking for his opinion, to which he passionately responds that she's so gorgeous and he's thankful she'd do such a thing for him. She gets emotional and relieved by his answer... then sits on his lap in her bikini and {{UST}} ensues.
* LongTitle: As expected from a harem work, it has the phrase "The Romantic Comedy Where The Childhood Friend Absolutely Won't Lose" as its title.
* LoveDodecahedron: ''It is a mess''. In the Confession Festival arc, We have Kuroha in love with Sueharu, who in turn is in love with Shirokusa, who is dating ([[spoiler:not really]]) 3rd Year Mitsuru. It turns into a LoveTriangle once Shirokusa reveals that she is in love with Sueharu all along and faked a relationship with Mitsuru in order to get revenge on Sueharu with Sueharu doing the same with Kuroha. Later on, Shirokusa dumps her plans for revenge and starts pining for Sueharu for real, but at that point, he lost interest in her and confesses to Kuroha in the end, but got brutally rejected, though Shida ends up shooting herself in the foot since she still loved him. Post-Festival, Kuroha and Shirokusa love Sueharu who shows interest in neither, but a third LoveInterest in the form of Maria Momosaka arrives in order to claim him for himself. [[spoiler:Then Kuroha's sisters start to crush on him, and let’s not forget about the Sueharu Maru fan club that gets formed at the Season 1 finale/Volume 5]] .
* LoverTugOfWar: Fights in this manner frequently happen in this work. One of these ends with all of [[ACupAngst Momo]]'s breast pads falling out of her bra.
* TheManInFrontOfTheMan: Kuroha decides to be Haru's sidekick in his plan for revenge, although it is obvious that she is the true mastermind of the team. [[spoiler:And it is eventually revealed that she was manipulating him, only to be able to reject him later.]]
* MarryThemAll: Rejected by Sueharu when Tetsuhiko brings it up making a harem as a possible solution to his dilemma. The latter justifies it by saying making them all happy is "both kindness and humanism", but Sueharu thinks it's too low and scummy instead.
* MissingMom: While filming a scene for "Child King", Sueharu's mother hit her head and died. This forced him to leave show business.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone:
** After learning the real reason Sueharu didn't come to visit her, Shirokusa is deeply ashamed of her past actions against him.
** Shida herself shows regret in rejecting Sueharu in the Confession Festival due to effectively losing any trust he had in her making it more difficult for her to secure his heart in the future, going so far as to [[spoiler:fake amnesia in order to get a fresh start]].
* NeverMyFault: [[spoiler:When Kuroha decides to reject Haru, even though she seems sorry for having rejected him, she decides that it is his fault, for having rejected her earlier.]]
* NiceGirl: Out of the main female characters, Momo is the kindest and most polite girl ever. She encourages Rena to join them on the fun instead of just filming them all day and hugs Sueharu [[spoiler:when he visits his mom's grave and breaks down, telling him how she, too, loved his mom.]]
* PolarOppositeTwins: Akane is rational and intelligent which is best represented by the glasses she wears, while her twin sister Aoi is delicate, gentle, and good with social interactions, unlike Akane.
* PoorCommunicationKills: The entire Confession Festival plot could have been avoided had Shirokusa known about Sueharu's DarkAndTroubledPast, which in turn would prevent Shirokusa from initiating her OperationJealousy with Mitsuru which caused Sueharu to retaliate with his own since [[TwiceShy Sueharu and Shirokusa were mutually in love with each other at the time]]. Then again, [[GreenEyedMonster Kuroha]] and [[ManipulativeBastard Tetsuhiko]] had other plans...
* RomanticWingman: Subverted for Tetsuhiko. He initially appears to be one to Sueharu in pursuing Shirokusa, but he's actually manipulating him for his own gain. He later offers his services to the 3 Love Interests post-Confession Festival in order to increase Sueharu's reputation and clout for his ends.
* SchoolIdol: Shirokusa Kachi is the most popular and beautiful girl at their school and is pretty much idolized by everyone there.
* ShowWithinAShow: With the main character being a former child star, there are several television dramas mentioned. Few directly affect the present plot, though.
* SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud: Ooragi Shion, Kachi's family {{Meido}}, has a silly habit of actually saying the words "hmph!", "gulp", and "giggle", etc.
* SurprisinglySuddenDeath: Sueharu's mother was supposed to act in an in-universe scene involving this, but a FatalMethodActing accident ended up happening for real. This lead to his childhood retirement from acting.
* ThemeNaming: The name of the two main girls [[spoiler:refer to clovers. Kuroha sounds like “clover”, while Shirokusa is named after the white clover]]. Conveniently, [[MeaningfulName they both wear their respective flower in their hair]].
** All the girls have colorful names. Kuroha's sisters are even nicknamed the Colorful Sisters.
*** Shirokusa -> Shiro (White)
*** Kuroha -> Kuro (Black)
*** Midori (Green)
*** Aoi (Blue)
*** Akane -> Aka (Red)
*** Maria Momosaka -> Momo (Peach/Pink)
*** Rena's family name Asagi means "light yellow"
* TemptingApple: Apples are repeatedly used as a motif for love in which falling in love is likened to something that "spreads over your body and eats away at it", just like how poison spreads in apples and makes them rot. The apples are golden in the anime, symbolizing the object of desire and temptation.
--> '''Sueharu:''' ''[while watching Shiro practice]'' First love is poison. [[LoveHurts I thought I had eased the pain with a new love, but the poison of my first love is still eating away at me]].
* TitleOnlyOpening: Episode 6 forgoes both the opening and closing credits sequence, completing the second arc.
* {{Tomboy}}: Shirokusa used to dress like one as a child, even wearing a cap and using the muscular "boku" to refer to herself.
* VitriolicBestBuds:
** Tetsuhiko never misses a chance at holding Sueharu in a headlock, hitting him, or throwing him in a pool while screaming [[GratuitousEnglish "Go to hell!"]] whenever he's merely thinking of something perverted much to Sueharu's bewilderment. Sueharu gives him the same treatment, especially when he acts like an ass. Although they are frequently bickering, they are still close friends and Tetsuhiko gets angry when someone badmouths Sueharu.
---> '''Sueharu:''' ''[after Tetsuhiko holds him in a headlock]'' Tetsuhiko, you bastard! What was that for?\\
'''Tetsuhiko:''' Well, you were spacing out. That's prompt to get me to attack you, you know?
** [[CuteLittleFangs Rena Asagi]] and Sueharu have such a dynamic. She's constantly mocking him and he isn't above using the headlock move on her in retaliation and she's still in his friends' circle.
* YellowEyesOfSneakiness: Tetsuhiko has yellowish eyes and is a ManipulativeBastard and is often wearing a shit-eating, mischievous grin on his face.
[[caption-width-right:349:It's a tale involving revenge and love triangles.]]
->''"Love isn't something you fall into. It spreads all over your body, eating away at it. In the winter of my first year of high school, I fell victim to love's poison. '''She''' was my first love."''
-->-- '''Sueharu Maru''''s OpeningMonologue
''Osamake: Romcom Where The Childhood Friend Won't Lose'' (''Osananajimi ga Zettai ni Makenai Love Comedy'') is a {{Light Novel|s}} series written by Shuichi Numaru and illustrated by Ui Shigure, which began publication in 2019. A manga adaptation illustrated by Ryou Itou began serialization the same year in ''Magazine/MonthlyComicAlive'', and an anime adaptation aired as part of the Spring 2021 anime season.
The title of this work promises to be "the love story where the childhood friend doesn't lose", but how can that happen and still keep up dramatic tension? Simple: make every girl a childhood friend!
Kuroha Shida is Sueharu Maru's pretty and affectionate childhood best friend. However, when she confesses to Sueharu, he immediately rejects her because he's interested in someone else. This is where the attractive award-winning Shirokusa Kachi comes into the picture, the girl whom Sueharu calls his FirstLove. However, his spirit gets crushed when he quickly learns that Shirokusa has a boyfriend. Kuroha then comforts him and presents him with an offer he can never refuse: getting revenge.
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!!This work provides examples of:
* AffectionateNickname: Kuroha calls Sueharu "Haru," while Shirokusa refers to him as "Su-chan."
* AffectionateParody: Of the HaremGenre and {{RomCom}}s. Even the title itself parodies the UnluckyChildhoodFriend trope. It also spoofs the idea of having a harem/polygamy (which Sueharu immediately shoots down) comparing it to an emperor conquering three kingdoms.
* BalancedHarem: The plot rotates between Kuroha, Shirokusa, and Momo in terms of screen time, chemistry, and depth. Even the Shida twins who aren't primary love interests for Sueharu and are mere {{hopeless suitor}}s in the harem, get fleshed out to some degree in episode 9 as they ruminate their hopeless suitor status in a poetic and tragic manner.
* AloofDarkHairedGirl: Shirokusa has long, black hair, and is generally aloof towards most of her classmates, with the exception of Sueharu and her female friends.
* ArcWords: "First love is a curse" or "Love is poison" fitting its recurrent LoveHurts theme.
* BeachEpisode: Episodes 8 and 9 take place in Okinawa.
* TheBeard: In the Confession Festival Arc, we have 2 of them: Kuroha for Sueharu and Mitsuru for Shirokusa for the same purposes of getting revenge. Eventually, Shirokusa shaves hers off after ditching her revenge plans, pursuing Sueharu for real while Sueharu becomes attached to his after an epiphany, but the feeling wasn't mutual at the time.
* BettyAndVeronica: [[GirlNextDoor Kuroha]] is the Betty to [[AloofDarkHairedGirl Shirokusa's]] Veronica and Sueharu's Archie. Post Confession Festival, [[BettyAndVeronicaSwitch Kuroha and Shirokusa switch roles]] with Momo being [[ThirdOptionLoveInterest Cheryl]].
* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler:At first, Kuro is more than happy to help Sueharu despite being rejected but it's revealed that she had already planned to dump him once he got what he wanted. Only to later deeply regret it as she still loved him.]]
* BlandNameProduct: To avoid using trademarks, both the anime and light novel, the app they use to message each other is called Nine instead of [[https://line.me/en/ Line]] and they upload and view videos on [[Website/YouTube WeTube]].
* BuxomIsBetter: This is oft-described as Shirokusa's best appeal (with her pervy classmates wondering about their size) and one of the areas she beats Kuroha at, even though Kuroha isn't lacking in size, at least compared to the flat-chested Momo, [[FakeBoobs who has to wear breast pads to make her boobs look bigger]].
* TheCasanova: We never see him in action, but Sueharu makes it pretty clear that Tetsuhiko is a three-timing (even up to 7 girls) non-committal bastard. Tetsuhiko points out that they are all from different schools to avoid trouble, but Sueharu is certain that [[DeathByWomanScorned Tetsuhiko will get stabbed by a vengeful woman one day]] (not that he minds).
* ChickMagnet: Sueharu has managed to secure Kuroha Shida, Shirokusa Kachi, and Maria Momosaka from childhood all the way to high school. Then Kuroha's sisters all fall in love with him. Then he managed to get a fan club in his High School after getting back into the acting. However, the concept of girls fighting over him annoys him so much.
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: The very premise of the story involves the idea of the childhood friend winning the heart of the protagonist. Now with all three of Sueharu's prominent LoveInterests being his childhood friends!
* CompressedAdaptation: It's not that noticeable, but some of the details regarding the characters and minor events in the original light novel are removed in the anime adaptation, such as Shirokusa's clumsiness being downplayed, and the conclusion to the cooking competition in episode 8 getting cut.
* {{Determinator}}:
** The three main love interests of course never give up on pursuing Sueharu and trying to make him pick them providing contrast to the Shida twin sisters who know that their attraction for him clash with their older sister's feelings and seem to have given up at getting him to reciprocate.
** On a non-romantic note, Shirokusa always tries to do her best in dance practices for their commercials and [=MV=]s, staying up at night to practice more even when her foot is hurting her. She is determined to be strong and stand beside Sueharu on stage.
--->'''Shirokusa:''' I want to show Su-chan that I can do it when I try.\\
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'''Shirokusa:''' I think it's wrong to rely on him (Sueharu) unconditionally. It's rude to start being dependent before I've done whatever I can myself.
* TheDitherer: It's the main plot point that Sueharu is inconsistent; one minute, he's drawn to Shirokusa, and another, he confesses to Kuroha. Then he rejects the latter's advances on him because as much as he loves her, his feelings aren't 100% there, and even thinks of the other girls, though he still doesn't have the heart to outright reject her. Or else the light novel would have ended too early.
* FakingAmnesia: [[spoiler:Kuroha tries to pretend she has amnesia, not remembering the confession event at the festival, and losing her odd habit of combining weird foods. However, she's quickly caught as she says something at the end of the second arc that proves she never lost her memory at all.]]
* FatBestFriend: Meiko, the girl with the bob hair who's always hanging around Shirokusa in class, is on the chubby side and acts like her spokesperson and assistant.
* FirstLove: Sueharu refers to Shirokusa as such, after talking to her at high school for the first time. However, it doesn't last much. First love is also called a curse by some of the characters.
* ForgottenChildhoodFriend: "Shirou" turns out to be one to Sueharu, the child of one of his sponsors. However, Shirou turns out to be Shirokusa, and he simply misheard the nickname.
* FormerChildStar: Averted and played with. Sueharu had a troubled childhood as a child actor, where his mom died during the filming of "Child Star", which forced him to go on an indefinite hiatus till high school. His current life is pretty normal and less troubled except in the romance area.
* TheGadfly:
** Ooragi Shion has no filter whatsoever in her childish exchanges with Sueharu, where she's constantly trying to provoke him and refers to him as a "toy" for the three girls that are in love with him. She even points out to him that he's undeserving of their affections.
** Asagi Rena, as well. She calls Sueharu "Paisen" (the inversion of Senpai, as she's his junior at school) to mock him and frequently calls him an idiot, much to his irritation.
* GambitPileup: [[spoiler:What the Confession Festival story arc boils down to.]]
** [[spoiler:Shirokusa pretends to go out with Mitsuru in order to get Sueharu’s attention. This is all part of her plan to get Sueharu interested in her and then reject him when he decides to confess to her. The reason for this plan is that Shirokusa believes Haru broke their childhood promise and abandoned her. After learning of Haru’s circumstances, she abandons her plan, reveals her identity as “Shiro” to Haru, and is more than willing to accept his declaration of love.]]
** [[spoiler:Mitsuru, after hearing of the aforementioned “rumor”, decides to play along, even goes at lengths to antagonize Haru, spurring the latter into one-upping him at the festival. The reason for his actions is to make Haru, his idol, regain his interest in acting.]]
** [[spoiler:Kuroha consoles Haru over the Shirokusa ordeal and suggests that he should take revenge against Shirokusa for breaking his heart. This is part of her own revenge plan against Haru. She can get close to him while they are discussing their course of action, and should he switch his target of affection to Kuro, she will promptly reject him. The motive is to get back at him for rejecting her before the story begins.]]
* GirlNextDoor: Kuroha is the literal girl next door, along with her three sisters. They are all romantically in love with Sueharu, their neighbor.
* GreenEyedMonster:
** Sueharu's male classmates are always jealous of the attention he gets from cute girls, calling him "guilty!" while comically crying to the point where Kuroha has to tell them to leave him alone.
** Kuroha herself. Much of the conflict revolves around her jealousy towards Shirokusa Kachi for being Sueharu’s first love since he rejected Kuroha when she asked him out. This persists past the Love Confession Festival despite turning down Sueharu’s feelings for her.
* HiddenDepths: Several characters aren't as what they initially appear to be:
** At first, Shirokusa is an {{Aloof Dark Haired|Girl}} TeenGenius (she won an award for her novel at the age of 17), but as the series progresses, we see that she's clumsy, very hard-working, ProneToTears, and has a habit of self-deprecation.
** Who would've thought that the sweet, perfect [[spoiler:childhood friend Kuroha]] is a selfish, ManipulativeBitch?
** Similarly, Tetsuhiko seems to be a RomanticWingman for Sueharu and Shirokusa, except he's just manipulating things for his own interests and doesn't really care for their complicated love lives when it doesn't benefit him.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Kuroha gets jealous that Sueharu is getting attention from other girls since she herself is still in love with him, but as her competition points out, Kuroha herself rejected Sueharu's confession in public out of pettiness with video evidence to boot. So Kuroha really has no foothold to stand on regarding Sueharu's love life since she was given an opportunity to be with him and shot it down.
* ImagineSpot: Episode 10 starts with one, where Sueharu is imagining a naked Shirokusa caring for him in an erotic manner, rather than all three girls being there and fighting over caring for him over his broken arm.
* InstantHumiliationJustAddYouTube: Or [=WeTube=] in this case, but Tetsuhiko uploads the video where Sueharu publicly confesses to Kuroha and gets rejected by her with a short "No." to a Website/YouTube knockoff site.
* JealousRomanticWitness: Any of Sueharu's {{Love Interest}}s seeing him "flirt" with another girl is enough to make them jealous, sad, or angry. However, it's more prominent in episode 9 where both Kuroha and her little twin sisters have to see him worry about Shirokusa at different points in the trip. Later on, Kuroha even admits that seeing them together felt worse than when she rejected him.
* LingerieScene: Happens when Shirokusa messages Sueharu to come and see her swimsuit in episode 9. She takes off her cardigan and shows it to him, asking for his opinion, to which he passionately responds that she's so gorgeous and he's thankful she'd do such a thing for him. She gets emotional and relieved by his answer... then sits on his lap in her bikini and {{UST}} ensues.
* LongTitle: As expected from a harem work, it has the phrase "The Romantic Comedy Where The Childhood Friend Absolutely Won't Lose" as its title.
* LoveDodecahedron: ''It is a mess''. In the Confession Festival arc, We have Kuroha in love with Sueharu, who in turn is in love with Shirokusa, who is dating ([[spoiler:not really]]) 3rd Year Mitsuru. It turns into a LoveTriangle once Shirokusa reveals that she is in love with Sueharu all along and faked a relationship with Mitsuru in order to get revenge on Sueharu with Sueharu doing the same with Kuroha. Later on, Shirokusa dumps her plans for revenge and starts pining for Sueharu for real, but at that point, he lost interest in her and confesses to Kuroha in the end, but got brutally rejected, though Shida ends up shooting herself in the foot since she still loved him. Post-Festival, Kuroha and Shirokusa love Sueharu who shows interest in neither, but a third LoveInterest in the form of Maria Momosaka arrives in order to claim him for himself. [[spoiler:Then Kuroha's sisters start to crush on him, and let’s not forget about the Sueharu Maru fan club that gets formed at the Season 1 finale/Volume 5]] .
* LoverTugOfWar: Fights in this manner frequently happen in this work. One of these ends with all of [[ACupAngst Momo]]'s breast pads falling out of her bra.
* TheManInFrontOfTheMan: Kuroha decides to be Haru's sidekick in his plan for revenge, although it is obvious that she is the true mastermind of the team. [[spoiler:And it is eventually revealed that she was manipulating him, only to be able to reject him later.]]
* MarryThemAll: Rejected by Sueharu when Tetsuhiko brings it up making a harem as a possible solution to his dilemma. The latter justifies it by saying making them all happy is "both kindness and humanism", but Sueharu thinks it's too low and scummy instead.
* MissingMom: While filming a scene for "Child King", Sueharu's mother hit her head and died. This forced him to leave show business.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone:
** After learning the real reason Sueharu didn't come to visit her, Shirokusa is deeply ashamed of her past actions against him.
** Shida herself shows regret in rejecting Sueharu in the Confession Festival due to effectively losing any trust he had in her making it more difficult for her to secure his heart in the future, going so far as to [[spoiler:fake amnesia in order to get a fresh start]].
* NeverMyFault: [[spoiler:When Kuroha decides to reject Haru, even though she seems sorry for having rejected him, she decides that it is his fault, for having rejected her earlier.]]
* NiceGirl: Out of the main female characters, Momo is the kindest and most polite girl ever. She encourages Rena to join them on the fun instead of just filming them all day and hugs Sueharu [[spoiler:when he visits his mom's grave and breaks down, telling him how she, too, loved his mom.]]
* PolarOppositeTwins: Akane is rational and intelligent which is best represented by the glasses she wears, while her twin sister Aoi is delicate, gentle, and good with social interactions, unlike Akane.
* PoorCommunicationKills: The entire Confession Festival plot could have been avoided had Shirokusa known about Sueharu's DarkAndTroubledPast, which in turn would prevent Shirokusa from initiating her OperationJealousy with Mitsuru which caused Sueharu to retaliate with his own since [[TwiceShy Sueharu and Shirokusa were mutually in love with each other at the time]]. Then again, [[GreenEyedMonster Kuroha]] and [[ManipulativeBastard Tetsuhiko]] had other plans...
* RomanticWingman: Subverted for Tetsuhiko. He initially appears to be one to Sueharu in pursuing Shirokusa, but he's actually manipulating him for his own gain. He later offers his services to the 3 Love Interests post-Confession Festival in order to increase Sueharu's reputation and clout for his ends.
* SchoolIdol: Shirokusa Kachi is the most popular and beautiful girl at their school and is pretty much idolized by everyone there.
* ShowWithinAShow: With the main character being a former child star, there are several television dramas mentioned. Few directly affect the present plot, though.
* SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud: Ooragi Shion, Kachi's family {{Meido}}, has a silly habit of actually saying the words "hmph!", "gulp", and "giggle", etc.
* SurprisinglySuddenDeath: Sueharu's mother was supposed to act in an in-universe scene involving this, but a FatalMethodActing accident ended up happening for real. This lead to his childhood retirement from acting.
* ThemeNaming: The name of the two main girls [[spoiler:refer to clovers. Kuroha sounds like “clover”, while Shirokusa is named after the white clover]]. Conveniently, [[MeaningfulName they both wear their respective flower in their hair]].
** All the girls have colorful names. Kuroha's sisters are even nicknamed the Colorful Sisters.
*** Shirokusa -> Shiro (White)
*** Kuroha -> Kuro (Black)
*** Midori (Green)
*** Aoi (Blue)
*** Akane -> Aka (Red)
*** Maria Momosaka -> Momo (Peach/Pink)
*** Rena's family name Asagi means "light yellow"
* TemptingApple: Apples are repeatedly used as a motif for love in which falling in love is likened to something that "spreads over your body and eats away at it", just like how poison spreads in apples and makes them rot. The apples are golden in the anime, symbolizing the object of desire and temptation.
--> '''Sueharu:''' ''[while watching Shiro practice]'' First love is poison. [[LoveHurts I thought I had eased the pain with a new love, but the poison of my first love is still eating away at me]].
* TitleOnlyOpening: Episode 6 forgoes both the opening and closing credits sequence, completing the second arc.
* {{Tomboy}}: Shirokusa used to dress like one as a child, even wearing a cap and using the muscular "boku" to refer to herself.
* VitriolicBestBuds:
** Tetsuhiko never misses a chance at holding Sueharu in a headlock, hitting him, or throwing him in a pool while screaming [[GratuitousEnglish "Go to hell!"]] whenever he's merely thinking of something perverted much to Sueharu's bewilderment. Sueharu gives him the same treatment, especially when he acts like an ass. Although they are frequently bickering, they are still close friends and Tetsuhiko gets angry when someone badmouths Sueharu.
---> '''Sueharu:''' ''[after Tetsuhiko holds him in a headlock]'' Tetsuhiko, you bastard! What was that for?\\
'''Tetsuhiko:''' Well, you were spacing out. That's prompt to get me to attack you, you know?
** [[CuteLittleFangs Rena Asagi]] and Sueharu have such a dynamic. She's constantly mocking him and he isn't above using the headlock move on her in retaliation and she's still in his friends' circle.
* YellowEyesOfSneakiness: Tetsuhiko has yellowish eyes and is a ManipulativeBastard and is often wearing a shit-eating, mischievous grin on his face.
