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''Shomin Sample'', short for ''Ore ga Ojōsama Gakkō ni "Shomin Sanpuru" Toshite Rachirareta Ken'' ("I Was Abducted by an Elite All-Girls School as a Sample Commoner"), is a Japanese {{Light Novel|s}} series by Takafumi Nanatsuki, which was published from 2011 to 2016 for 11 volumes. A manga adaptation was serialized in Ichijinsha's ''Comic Rex'' magazine from 2012 to 2018. A drama CD was released on February 20, 2013. An anime television series adaptation by Silver Link aired as a part of the Fall2015Anime season.
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''Shomin Sample'', short for ''Ore ga Ojōsama Gakkō ni "Shomin Sanpuru" Toshite Rachirareta Ken'' ("I Was Abducted by an Elite All-Girls School as a Sample Commoner"), is a Japanese {{Light Novel|s}} series by Takafumi Nanatsuki, which was published from 2011 to 2016 for 11 volumes. A manga adaptation was serialized in Ichijinsha's ''Comic Rex'' magazine from 2012 to 2018. A drama CD was released on February 20, 2013. An anime television series adaptation by Silver Link aired as a part of the Fall2015Anime season.
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''Shomin Sample'', short for ''Ore ga Ojōsama Gakkō ni "Shomin Sanpuru" Toshite Rachirareta Ken'' ("I Was Abducted by an Elite All-Girls School as a Sample Commoner") Commoner"), is a Japanese {{Light Novel|s}} series by Takafumi Nanatsuki, which was published from 2011 to 2016 for 11 volumes. A manga adaptation was serialized in Ichijinsha's ''Comic Rex'' magazine from 2012 to 2018. A drama CD was released on February 20, 2013. An anime television series adaptation titled Ore ga Ojō-sama Gakkō ni "Shomin Sample" Toshite Gets Sareta Ken (俺がお嬢様学校に「庶民サンプル」としてゲッツされた件 Ore ga Ojōsama Gakkō ni "Shomin Sanpuru" Toshite Gettsu Sareta Ken?) by Silver Link began airing aired as a part of the Fall2015Anime season.
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''The Case of Me Being Abducted by an Elite All-Girls School as a Sample Commoner'' (Japanese: 俺がお嬢様学校に「庶民サンプル」として拉致られた件 Hepburn: Ore ga Ojōsama Gakkō ni "Shomin Sanpuru" Toshite Rachirareta Ken?), also known as ''Shomin Sample'' (庶民サンプル ''Shomin Sanpuru?'') is a Japanese LightNovel series by Takafumi Nanatsuki. The light novel has been published by Ichijinsha since December 2011. As of July 2014, seven volumes have been published. A manga adaptation began serialization in Ichijinsha's Comic Rex magazine in July 2012. A drama CD was released on February 20, 2013. An anime television series adaptation titled Ore ga Ojō-sama Gakkō ni "Shomin Sample" Toshite Gets Sareta Ken (俺がお嬢様学校に「庶民サンプル」としてゲッツされた件 Ore ga Ojōsama Gakkō ni "Shomin Sanpuru" Toshite Gettsu Sareta Ken?) by Silver Link began airing as a part of the Fall2015Anime season.
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In a hidden school surrounded by mountains, young ladies of good families are taught everything a high class lady needs to know. They are also completely cut off from the outside world, keeping them sheltered and innocent; however, a problem has come up recently--more and more graduates are failing to cope with the modern world after graduation. To deal with this problem, they've decided to abduct a male commoner and enroll him as a student. They hope that this will be a gentle way to introduce the girls to the outside world.
Kagurazaka Kimito is chosen for this dubious honor, mostly because he seems utterly average; however, the school leaders also seem to have concluded he's a homosexual with a muscle fetish. When Kimito hears that the alternative may be castration (to protect the girls' purity), he eagerly plays along with this misconception. Now he'll just have to survive the attention of many high class young ladies that are completely out of touch with the world!
''The Case of Me Being Abducted by an Elite All-Girls School as a Sample Commoner'' (Japanese: 俺がお嬢様学校に「庶民サンプル」として拉致られた件 Hepburn: Ore ga Ojōsama Gakkō ni "Shomin Sanpuru" Toshite Rachirareta Ken?), also known as ''Shomin Sample'' (庶民サンプル ''Shomin Sanpuru?'') is a Japanese LightNovel series by Takafumi Nanatsuki. The light novel has been published by Ichijinsha since December 2011. As of July 2014, seven volumes have been published. A manga adaptation began serialization in Ichijinsha's Comic Rex magazine in July 2012. A drama CD was released on February 20, 2013. An anime television series adaptation titled Ore ga Ojō-sama Gakkō ni "Shomin Sample" Toshite Gets Sareta Ken (俺がお嬢様学校に「庶民サンプル」としてゲッツされた件 Ore ga Ojōsama Gakkō ni "Shomin Sanpuru" Toshite Gettsu Sareta Ken?) by Silver Link began airing as a part of the Fall2015Anime season.
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!!Provides examples of:
* AccidentalMarriage: Since Kimito saw Reiko nude in episode two, they'll just have to get married. [[DownplayedTrope However, for the most part nothing really comes out of it in-series until the end]], though Reiko certainly hasn't forgotten about it at any point.
* TheAce: Reiko is popular, intelligent, athletic, and does fairly well at everything. Except possibly singing, as her 'opera' aria shattered windows and was described by Aika as [[BrownNote sounding like a dying wildebeest]], whereas she protests people always complimented her opera singing.
* ACupAngst: One aspect of Aika's feelings of rivalry toward the far more busty Reiko.
* AdaptedOut: Karen's little sister Miyabi was removed from the anime.
* AmnesiacHero: It's hinted throughout the series that Kimito used to be a part of high society before something happened that caused him to lose his memories, and that his life as a normal commoner from then on is all that he remembers.
** Later on, the story clears the situation up: [[spoiler:Kimito is a commoner, but he did end up temporarily switching places with [[IdenticalStranger Miyuki's brother]] in his youth, which he doesn't remember. He manages to regain his memories soon after it's revealed to him]].
* BerserkButton: If you're making a mockery of [[UsefulNotes/McDonalds MaxBurger]], Kimito would like to take this time to kick your butt.
* BigBrotherAttraction: [[spoiler:While they aren't related in any way, Miyuki still considers Kimito her older brother despite being in love with him]].
* BirdsOfAFeather: Aika and Karen become this after [[spoiler:the former tries to help the latter become more popular]]
* BlandNameProduct:
** [[Ride/DisneyThemeParks Shomin Land]]! The commonest place on Earth!
** [[UsefulNotes/McDonalds MxBurger or MaxBurger]]
** [[VideoGame/DanceDanceRevolution Dance Dance Volcano]]
** [[{{UsefulNotes/Coffee}} Star Bacchus Coffee]], where you can get a foamuccino!
* BreastExpansion: [[spoiler: Aika.]]
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Hakua is a child prodigy in math and science, with a tendency to take off her clothes and write mathematical formulas all over the place.
* CouchGag: Each heroine periodically gets a cover of her [[MsFanservice raising her skirt.]]
* CutenessProximity: Karen suffers extremely from this. With most cute things, the closer she gets, the dumber and more instinctual she gets. It's at its worst when she's around little girls like Hakua.
** Exploited by Hakua herself; she just has to put up a cute act and people around her, like Kimito, will do just about everything she wants (which is mainly being doted on and spoon-fed).
* DancingRoyalty: [[UsefulNotes/JapaneseHonorifics Aika-sama]] is an instant master at [[VideoGame/DanceDanceRevolution Dance Dance Volcano]].
* DatePeepers: Which has unexpectedly realistic consequences. During Hakua's "date" with Kimito, the entirety of the former's maid staff simultaneously go on break to watch the date. At the end of the chapter, the maids are lambasted by Miyuki for slacking off on work and missing important phone calls.
* DitzyGenius: Hakua is smart, well educated, and a child prodigy. She also has a habit of writing complicated mathematical formulas all over the place and has a tendency to take off her clothes in the process.
* DreadfulMusician: [[spoiler:Reiko.]] Her rendition of "Ave Maria" (in EITHER language) was enough to [[GlassShatteringSound shatter glassware and windows]], as well as make chandeliers fall.
* {{Ecchi}}: For starters, each {{Manga}} volume has one of the girls lift her skirt for the reader.
* EyesAlwaysShut: The school president from episode 1. When her eyes open, [[SeriousBusiness things get scary]].
* FanservicePack: [[spoiler: Aika gets bustier over the manga, from completely flat to a modest handful.]]
* {{Fetish}}: The school thinks Kimito has a homosexual muscle fetish. He does however have a heterosexual leg fetish, specifically for thighs.
* FirstPersonSmartass: Kimito is very snarky in the light novels and manga.
* FishOutOfWater: Deconstructed, since all the girls are {{sheltered aristocrat}}s; exploring the outside world after receiving no preparation for its realities results in some ''serious'' culture shock, and most tend to not have successful lives after graduating as a result [[note]]Or at least, what the upper-class ''regards'' as successful[[/note]]. It's also the reason why Kimito was abducted in order to [[DefiedTrope defy]] this outcome.
* FormFittingWardrobe: The female uniform skirts all wedge on the ass to show the outlines of the buttocks. Bonus points that they are often used for PantyShot purposes for this series.
* FreezeFrameBonus: Take a good look at the moon in the opening credits, just as the UFO is towing Kimito past it. Stand on your head if necessary. It appears to be [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dandy_Sakano Dandy Sakano]], aka the 'Gets' comedian as referenced in the manga and opening theme.
* GadgeteerGenius: Welcome to Hakua Lab!
* GyaruGirl: Reiko dresses up as a kogal-styled gyaru for episode 4.
* GreenEyedMonster: Reiko gets very jealous when she finds out that Aika spends time with Kimito. She also get jealous when [[spoiler:Aika and Karen spend more time together and later become best friends]].
* HimeCut: Karen sports this hairstyle and lifestyle.
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: Aika's main purpose is to become popular. Karen also wants friends.
* IdiotSavant: Hakua. She can't dress herself and (at least until meeting Kimito) has a strictly regimented schedule, yet she is a scientific genius.
* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Parodied with Aika. Aika is too kind and pure at heart to the point that she's easily manipulated, as Kimito observes. [[PureIsNotGood On the other hand]], it should be noted that Aika is a bit of a tsundere, and is easily manipulated to believe outrageous things from Kimito.
* InnocentFanserviceGirl: Hakua again, considering she rids herself of clothes very often, but neither does she consider it weird, nor does she even ''remember'' doing it. Naturally, due to these factors, HilarityEnsues.
* JapaneseSchoolClub: The Commoner Club.
* [[SugarAndIcePersonality Kuudere]]: [[spoiler:Miyuki]] is apparently one as [[spoiler:she kisses Kimito awake every morning]].
* LongTitle: So long that the original title broke Website/ThisVeryWiki and the editors were forced to use a shorter one.
* MachoCamp: One of the more serious aspects to the show is that if Kimito is straight, the school will castrate him or cause him to permanently disappear. [[RunningGag Good thing he's gay! Yes sir, he loves muscle guys!]]
* MagicSkirt: In the opening theme, Karen's skirt defies gravity as she hangs upside down from a tree. Averted in the series itself at points.
* MarshmallowHell: Aika nearly suffocated when Reiko fell on her.
* MistakenForGay:
** Kimito, thanks to his ChildhoodFriend Eri telling the school that he has a muscle fetish. Bear in mind that it was a pair of girls asking about him that she told the lie to.
** Aika and Reiko find themselves in this predicament after Kimito finds them on top of each other in their underwear with a ''Manga/YuruYuri'' manga on the floor, much to their dismay.
** Outside the anime, the cellphone conversation between Kimito and his male friend about how the former misses male interaction leads to the latter thinking as much, due to the unintentional HomoeroticSubtext coming from Kimito's explanations.
* MistakenForPedophile: Kimito again on account of OlderThanSheLooks Hakua's always clinging to him, making him feed and dote on her, and then spontaneously stripping at the drop of a hat. Reiko and Aika claim to be worried about him committing a crime in their absence, while Karen's just jealous.
* MundaneObjectAmazement: Since the female students in the academy have been sheltered for so long with little to no knowledge of how the outside world works, anything that is considered mundane for normal people (like ordering at a fast food joint) easily amazes them. Frequently lampshaded by Kimito.
* NotWhatItLooksLike: Kimito accidentally walks in on Aika and Reiko wrestling on his bed in their underwear (long story), which immediately gives him the wrong idea and embarrasses them, and in the anime, even has them crying out the trope name as he's leaving. It also really doesn't help that a volume of ''Manga/YuruYuri'' was on the ground next to them.
* NiceGuy:
** As is the tradition with every harem anime, Kimito is a friendly guy at heart despite the false rumors about him.
** Similarly, nearly every girl in the academy who isn't [[{{Meido}} Miyuki]] [[{{Sadist}} Kujou]] fits into this bill, considering [[ShelteredAristocrat their upbringing]], ''especially'' Aika, who Kimito observed to be "too pure."
* OlderThanTheyLook: Hakua is 14 years old, but looks ''much'' younger.
* OvercomplicatedMenuOrder: Aika practices endlessly to get her [=MaxBurger=] order right. Stage fright stops her, but she later busts out a horribly complicated order perfectly at Star Bacchus Coffee, while advising others on a good starter order.
* PaintedOnPants: Not just pants, even ''skirts'' somehow look skin-tight on the girls.
* PleasePutSomeClothesOn: Hakua's genius must be unfettered, at least by clothes. This causes a lot of stress for Kimito and the others.
* PrinceAndPauper: [[spoiler:Near the end of the manga, it's revealed that Kimito temporarily switched places with [[IdenticalStranger Itsuki Kujou]], Miyuki's older brother, when they were kids. The arrangement was originally supposed to last a couple of days, but it was stretched into a month-and-a-half]].
* RewatchBonus: Miyuki wishing Kimito wouldn't wake up whenever she greets him in the morning takes on a ''whole'' new meaning when we find out [[spoiler:she kisses him until he wakes up]].
* RuleOfFunny: Nothing about the premise would change if Kimito really '''was''' gay, but much of the typical harem antic humor would have to be abandoned or replaced by something else.
* RunningGag:
** The {{Manga}} covers ''all'' feature each girl in the same pose lifting her skirt and giving a PantyShot to the viewer. Even [[SugarAndIcePersonality Miyuki]].
** The Light Novel covers have everyone do the heart-hands pose.
* ShelteredAristocrat: All of the girls are out of touch with the outside world.
* ShipperOnDeck: Hakua's ''entire maid staff'' wants to see her end up with Kimito. One maid even faints when she sees Hakua feeding Kimito.
* ShoutOut:
** Kimito's bookshelf contains some [[Manga/YuruYuri familiar]] [[Manga/TouhouBougetsushou manga]] [[Manga/MasamuneKunsRevenge titles]].
** Reiko becomes a fan of Ayano Sugiura ([[{{Tsundere}} "I love how serious and hard she works so as not to reveal her well-meaning intentions"]]).
** Aika likes Akari but Reiko says she [[GenericGuy "lacks presence"]].
** In episode 8, the fortune-telling app on Kimito's smartphone is a clear parody of ''Franchise/SailorMoon''.
** In the manga, Kimito and the girls play a ''Franchise/StreetFighter'' only for Ryu and Ken end up being {{Gender Flip}}ed and it's not really a fighting game.
** The dance-in-a-bun during the OP is a reference to ''Manga/SazaeSan'', one of the oldest manga/animes in Japan.
** Episode 12 of the anime runs on shout-outs and RuleOfCool: there is a BattleButler who delivers fight scenes that wouldn't be out of place in ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' (down to the visuals), SlowDoors resembling those of ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'', MatrixRainingCode, a HumongousMecha that heavily resembles a ''[[Franchise/{{Transformers}} Transformer]]'' and Karen defeats said mecha after claiming she trained in [[YearInsideHourOutside a room where time flows differently]], to which Kimito can almost fully say [[Anime/DragonBallZ "Room of Spirit of Time"]].
* ShowWithinAShow: During the second episode, Aika reads the entirety of the InUniverse manga ''Avatar Tonfa!''
* ShrinkingViolet: Aika is very shy around her classmates.
* SpoiledSweet: All of the female students are extremely kind and polite. The school specifically teaches the traits important to being a YamatoNadeshiko. However, this is also a primary cause of the culture shock alumni have to deal with upon leaving the school.
* SuperGullible: Aika has a habit of believing anything she's told no matter how ridiculous it may seem. Kimito often exploits this just to get a quick laugh.
* ThereAreNoTherapists: Despite an evident and abundant need for them. Kimito routinely lampshades their prominent absence.
* TokenMiniMoe: Hakua.
* {{Tsundere}}: Aika is a Type B kind, even given the nickname "tsun-pure" from Kimito. Although it should be noted that unlike most tsunderes where the "tsun" side if often acting violent towards the male love interest, Aika's "tsun" side is more in lines of being a ShrinkingViolet. Karen is a straighter example.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Reiko and Aika. It's hard to tell whether it is this or SitcomArchNemesis, when they aren't talking and when they're telling each other what they really think of each other.
* VoiceActor: Eri is a game seiyu in-universe.
* WhamShot: Kimito's assigned maid, Miyuki Kujou, treats him with contempt and disrespect, awaking him each morning with the hateful words "I wish you had never woken up." This becomes a wham line when it's revealed that [[spoiler:every morning she kisses him until he wakes (naturally he has no idea)]]. [[RewatchBonus Now re-read her greeting]].
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[[caption-width-right:350:Left to right: [[{{Sadist}} Miyuki]] [[{{Meido}} Kujou]], [[TokenMiniMoe Hakua]] [[DitzyGenius Shiodome]], [[SchoolIdol Reiko Arisugawa]], [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent Kimito Kagurazaka]], [[PureisNotGood Aika Tenkubashi]], [[KidSamurai Karen Jinryo]], [[BitchInSheepsClothing Eri]] [[ChildhoodFriend Hanae]].]]
In a hidden school surrounded by mountains, young ladies of good families are taught everything a high class lady needs to know. They are also completely cut off from the outside world, keeping them sheltered and innocent; however, a problem has come up recently--more and more graduates are failing to cope with the modern world after graduation. To deal with this problem, they've decided to abduct a male commoner and enroll him as a student. They hope that this will be a gentle way to introduce the girls to the outside world.
Kagurazaka Kimito is chosen for this dubious honor, mostly because he seems utterly average; however, the school leaders also seem to have concluded he's a homosexual with a muscle fetish. When Kimito hears that the alternative may be castration (to protect the girls' purity), he eagerly plays along with this misconception. Now he'll just have to survive the attention of many high class young ladies that are completely out of touch with the world!
''The Case of Me Being Abducted by an Elite All-Girls School as a Sample Commoner'' (Japanese: 俺がお嬢様学校に「庶民サンプル」として拉致られた件 Hepburn: Ore ga Ojōsama Gakkō ni "Shomin Sanpuru" Toshite Rachirareta Ken?), also known as ''Shomin Sample'' (庶民サンプル ''Shomin Sanpuru?'') is a Japanese LightNovel series by Takafumi Nanatsuki. The light novel has been published by Ichijinsha since December 2011. As of July 2014, seven volumes have been published. A manga adaptation began serialization in Ichijinsha's Comic Rex magazine in July 2012. A drama CD was released on February 20, 2013. An anime television series adaptation titled Ore ga Ojō-sama Gakkō ni "Shomin Sample" Toshite Gets Sareta Ken (俺がお嬢様学校に「庶民サンプル」としてゲッツされた件 Ore ga Ojōsama Gakkō ni "Shomin Sanpuru" Toshite Gettsu Sareta Ken?) by Silver Link began airing as a part of the Fall2015Anime season.
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!!Provides examples of:
* AccidentalMarriage: Since Kimito saw Reiko nude in episode two, they'll just have to get married. [[DownplayedTrope However, for the most part nothing really comes out of it in-series until the end]], though Reiko certainly hasn't forgotten about it at any point.
* TheAce: Reiko is popular, intelligent, athletic, and does fairly well at everything. Except possibly singing, as her 'opera' aria shattered windows and was described by Aika as [[BrownNote sounding like a dying wildebeest]], whereas she protests people always complimented her opera singing.
* ACupAngst: One aspect of Aika's feelings of rivalry toward the far more busty Reiko.
* AdaptedOut: Karen's little sister Miyabi was removed from the anime.
* AmnesiacHero: It's hinted throughout the series that Kimito used to be a part of high society before something happened that caused him to lose his memories, and that his life as a normal commoner from then on is all that he remembers.
** Later on, the story clears the situation up: [[spoiler:Kimito is a commoner, but he did end up temporarily switching places with [[IdenticalStranger Miyuki's brother]] in his youth, which he doesn't remember. He manages to regain his memories soon after it's revealed to him]].
* BerserkButton: If you're making a mockery of [[UsefulNotes/McDonalds MaxBurger]], Kimito would like to take this time to kick your butt.
* BigBrotherAttraction: [[spoiler:While they aren't related in any way, Miyuki still considers Kimito her older brother despite being in love with him]].
* BirdsOfAFeather: Aika and Karen become this after [[spoiler:the former tries to help the latter become more popular]]
* BlandNameProduct:
** [[Ride/DisneyThemeParks Shomin Land]]! The commonest place on Earth!
** [[UsefulNotes/McDonalds MxBurger or MaxBurger]]
** [[VideoGame/DanceDanceRevolution Dance Dance Volcano]]
** [[{{UsefulNotes/Coffee}} Star Bacchus Coffee]], where you can get a foamuccino!
* BreastExpansion: [[spoiler: Aika.]]
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Hakua is a child prodigy in math and science, with a tendency to take off her clothes and write mathematical formulas all over the place.
* CouchGag: Each heroine periodically gets a cover of her [[MsFanservice raising her skirt.]]
* CutenessProximity: Karen suffers extremely from this. With most cute things, the closer she gets, the dumber and more instinctual she gets. It's at its worst when she's around little girls like Hakua.
** Exploited by Hakua herself; she just has to put up a cute act and people around her, like Kimito, will do just about everything she wants (which is mainly being doted on and spoon-fed).
* DancingRoyalty: [[UsefulNotes/JapaneseHonorifics Aika-sama]] is an instant master at [[VideoGame/DanceDanceRevolution Dance Dance Volcano]].
* DatePeepers: Which has unexpectedly realistic consequences. During Hakua's "date" with Kimito, the entirety of the former's maid staff simultaneously go on break to watch the date. At the end of the chapter, the maids are lambasted by Miyuki for slacking off on work and missing important phone calls.
* DitzyGenius: Hakua is smart, well educated, and a child prodigy. She also has a habit of writing complicated mathematical formulas all over the place and has a tendency to take off her clothes in the process.
* DreadfulMusician: [[spoiler:Reiko.]] Her rendition of "Ave Maria" (in EITHER language) was enough to [[GlassShatteringSound shatter glassware and windows]], as well as make chandeliers fall.
* {{Ecchi}}: For starters, each {{Manga}} volume has one of the girls lift her skirt for the reader.
* EyesAlwaysShut: The school president from episode 1. When her eyes open, [[SeriousBusiness things get scary]].
* FanservicePack: [[spoiler: Aika gets bustier over the manga, from completely flat to a modest handful.]]
* {{Fetish}}: The school thinks Kimito has a homosexual muscle fetish. He does however have a heterosexual leg fetish, specifically for thighs.
* FirstPersonSmartass: Kimito is very snarky in the light novels and manga.
* FishOutOfWater: Deconstructed, since all the girls are {{sheltered aristocrat}}s; exploring the outside world after receiving no preparation for its realities results in some ''serious'' culture shock, and most tend to not have successful lives after graduating as a result [[note]]Or at least, what the upper-class ''regards'' as successful[[/note]]. It's also the reason why Kimito was abducted in order to [[DefiedTrope defy]] this outcome.
* FormFittingWardrobe: The female uniform skirts all wedge on the ass to show the outlines of the buttocks. Bonus points that they are often used for PantyShot purposes for this series.
* FreezeFrameBonus: Take a good look at the moon in the opening credits, just as the UFO is towing Kimito past it. Stand on your head if necessary. It appears to be [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dandy_Sakano Dandy Sakano]], aka the 'Gets' comedian as referenced in the manga and opening theme.
* GadgeteerGenius: Welcome to Hakua Lab!
* GyaruGirl: Reiko dresses up as a kogal-styled gyaru for episode 4.
* GreenEyedMonster: Reiko gets very jealous when she finds out that Aika spends time with Kimito. She also get jealous when [[spoiler:Aika and Karen spend more time together and later become best friends]].
* HimeCut: Karen sports this hairstyle and lifestyle.
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: Aika's main purpose is to become popular. Karen also wants friends.
* IdiotSavant: Hakua. She can't dress herself and (at least until meeting Kimito) has a strictly regimented schedule, yet she is a scientific genius.
* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Parodied with Aika. Aika is too kind and pure at heart to the point that she's easily manipulated, as Kimito observes. [[PureIsNotGood On the other hand]], it should be noted that Aika is a bit of a tsundere, and is easily manipulated to believe outrageous things from Kimito.
* InnocentFanserviceGirl: Hakua again, considering she rids herself of clothes very often, but neither does she consider it weird, nor does she even ''remember'' doing it. Naturally, due to these factors, HilarityEnsues.
* JapaneseSchoolClub: The Commoner Club.
* [[SugarAndIcePersonality Kuudere]]: [[spoiler:Miyuki]] is apparently one as [[spoiler:she kisses Kimito awake every morning]].
* LongTitle: So long that the original title broke Website/ThisVeryWiki and the editors were forced to use a shorter one.
* MachoCamp: One of the more serious aspects to the show is that if Kimito is straight, the school will castrate him or cause him to permanently disappear. [[RunningGag Good thing he's gay! Yes sir, he loves muscle guys!]]
* MagicSkirt: In the opening theme, Karen's skirt defies gravity as she hangs upside down from a tree. Averted in the series itself at points.
* MarshmallowHell: Aika nearly suffocated when Reiko fell on her.
* MistakenForGay:
** Kimito, thanks to his ChildhoodFriend Eri telling the school that he has a muscle fetish. Bear in mind that it was a pair of girls asking about him that she told the lie to.
** Aika and Reiko find themselves in this predicament after Kimito finds them on top of each other in their underwear with a ''Manga/YuruYuri'' manga on the floor, much to their dismay.
** Outside the anime, the cellphone conversation between Kimito and his male friend about how the former misses male interaction leads to the latter thinking as much, due to the unintentional HomoeroticSubtext coming from Kimito's explanations.
* MistakenForPedophile: Kimito again on account of OlderThanSheLooks Hakua's always clinging to him, making him feed and dote on her, and then spontaneously stripping at the drop of a hat. Reiko and Aika claim to be worried about him committing a crime in their absence, while Karen's just jealous.
* MundaneObjectAmazement: Since the female students in the academy have been sheltered for so long with little to no knowledge of how the outside world works, anything that is considered mundane for normal people (like ordering at a fast food joint) easily amazes them. Frequently lampshaded by Kimito.
* NotWhatItLooksLike: Kimito accidentally walks in on Aika and Reiko wrestling on his bed in their underwear (long story), which immediately gives him the wrong idea and embarrasses them, and in the anime, even has them crying out the trope name as he's leaving. It also really doesn't help that a volume of ''Manga/YuruYuri'' was on the ground next to them.
* NiceGuy:
** As is the tradition with every harem anime, Kimito is a friendly guy at heart despite the false rumors about him.
** Similarly, nearly every girl in the academy who isn't [[{{Meido}} Miyuki]] [[{{Sadist}} Kujou]] fits into this bill, considering [[ShelteredAristocrat their upbringing]], ''especially'' Aika, who Kimito observed to be "too pure."
* OlderThanTheyLook: Hakua is 14 years old, but looks ''much'' younger.
* OvercomplicatedMenuOrder: Aika practices endlessly to get her [=MaxBurger=] order right. Stage fright stops her, but she later busts out a horribly complicated order perfectly at Star Bacchus Coffee, while advising others on a good starter order.
* PaintedOnPants: Not just pants, even ''skirts'' somehow look skin-tight on the girls.
* PleasePutSomeClothesOn: Hakua's genius must be unfettered, at least by clothes. This causes a lot of stress for Kimito and the others.
* PrinceAndPauper: [[spoiler:Near the end of the manga, it's revealed that Kimito temporarily switched places with [[IdenticalStranger Itsuki Kujou]], Miyuki's older brother, when they were kids. The arrangement was originally supposed to last a couple of days, but it was stretched into a month-and-a-half]].
* RewatchBonus: Miyuki wishing Kimito wouldn't wake up whenever she greets him in the morning takes on a ''whole'' new meaning when we find out [[spoiler:she kisses him until he wakes up]].
* RuleOfFunny: Nothing about the premise would change if Kimito really '''was''' gay, but much of the typical harem antic humor would have to be abandoned or replaced by something else.
* RunningGag:
** The {{Manga}} covers ''all'' feature each girl in the same pose lifting her skirt and giving a PantyShot to the viewer. Even [[SugarAndIcePersonality Miyuki]].
** The Light Novel covers have everyone do the heart-hands pose.
* ShelteredAristocrat: All of the girls are out of touch with the outside world.
* ShipperOnDeck: Hakua's ''entire maid staff'' wants to see her end up with Kimito. One maid even faints when she sees Hakua feeding Kimito.
* ShoutOut:
** Kimito's bookshelf contains some [[Manga/YuruYuri familiar]] [[Manga/TouhouBougetsushou manga]] [[Manga/MasamuneKunsRevenge titles]].
** Reiko becomes a fan of Ayano Sugiura ([[{{Tsundere}} "I love how serious and hard she works so as not to reveal her well-meaning intentions"]]).
** Aika likes Akari but Reiko says she [[GenericGuy "lacks presence"]].
** In episode 8, the fortune-telling app on Kimito's smartphone is a clear parody of ''Franchise/SailorMoon''.
** In the manga, Kimito and the girls play a ''Franchise/StreetFighter'' only for Ryu and Ken end up being {{Gender Flip}}ed and it's not really a fighting game.
** The dance-in-a-bun during the OP is a reference to ''Manga/SazaeSan'', one of the oldest manga/animes in Japan.
** Episode 12 of the anime runs on shout-outs and RuleOfCool: there is a BattleButler who delivers fight scenes that wouldn't be out of place in ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' (down to the visuals), SlowDoors resembling those of ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'', MatrixRainingCode, a HumongousMecha that heavily resembles a ''[[Franchise/{{Transformers}} Transformer]]'' and Karen defeats said mecha after claiming she trained in [[YearInsideHourOutside a room where time flows differently]], to which Kimito can almost fully say [[Anime/DragonBallZ "Room of Spirit of Time"]].
* ShowWithinAShow: During the second episode, Aika reads the entirety of the InUniverse manga ''Avatar Tonfa!''
* ShrinkingViolet: Aika is very shy around her classmates.
* SpoiledSweet: All of the female students are extremely kind and polite. The school specifically teaches the traits important to being a YamatoNadeshiko. However, this is also a primary cause of the culture shock alumni have to deal with upon leaving the school.
* SuperGullible: Aika has a habit of believing anything she's told no matter how ridiculous it may seem. Kimito often exploits this just to get a quick laugh.
* ThereAreNoTherapists: Despite an evident and abundant need for them. Kimito routinely lampshades their prominent absence.
* TokenMiniMoe: Hakua.
* {{Tsundere}}: Aika is a Type B kind, even given the nickname "tsun-pure" from Kimito. Although it should be noted that unlike most tsunderes where the "tsun" side if often acting violent towards the male love interest, Aika's "tsun" side is more in lines of being a ShrinkingViolet. Karen is a straighter example.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Reiko and Aika. It's hard to tell whether it is this or SitcomArchNemesis, when they aren't talking and when they're telling each other what they really think of each other.
* VoiceActor: Eri is a game seiyu in-universe.
* WhamShot: Kimito's assigned maid, Miyuki Kujou, treats him with contempt and disrespect, awaking him each morning with the hateful words "I wish you had never woken up." This becomes a wham line when it's revealed that [[spoiler:every morning she kisses him until he wakes (naturally he has no idea)]]. [[RewatchBonus Now re-read her greeting]].
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