History Manga / Alyosha

Compare to the {{yonkoma}} ''Manga/KillMeBaby'' and the original "TykeBomb in High School" series, ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic''.

* NeverGetsDrunk: Alyosha. Another result of her assassin conditioning.

* OccidentalOtaku: Katie, full stop. It actually becomes a ''plot point'' during a chapter, as she's such a huge otaku that it actually saves her life.
** It turns out [[spoiler:Sarah Mclaren]] is ''also'' this, except for anime from the 70s and 80s. This is all ''Katie's fault'' too, since the former only started watching anime to better understand and work with her.
* TheOjou: Miru. Subverted in that she doesn't ''act'' like one, due to the rules of self-sufficiency that her grandfather had put in place.
* OlderThanTheyLook: [[spoiler:Commander Karamazova.]] If Katie is to be believed, she's ''at least'' 95 years old. She looks like she's barely twenty-five.
** [[spoiler:Sarah Mclaren]] is this as well. See ArtisticAge above.
* OneWordTitle: Also a ProtagonistTitle and ExcitedShowTitle.
* PhenotypeStereotype: Both Alyosha and Katie are blonde and blue-eyed.
* ProfessionalKiller: Alyosha for most of her life, prior to her "final mission".
* ProtagonistTitle: Also a OneWordTitle and ExcitedShowTitle.
* TheProfiler: Katie's role in the FBI is this.
* RummageSaleReject: Katie has no fashion sense.

* SchoolFestival: Katie is thrilled, of course.

* SeriousBusiness: Ultimately, Sarah and Katie don't get along because [[spoiler: Sarah is an OccidentalOtaku too, of the kind that hates "{{moe}} crap" like ''Magical Sewing 5'']].
* ShesAllGrownUp: Miru and Katie in the DistantFinale. [[spoiler:And of course, Alyosha when they finally reunite]].

* SpannerInTheWorks: Sorry [[spoiler:Commander Karamazova, Kortik-3]] won't let you get your way this time around.

* SpeakInUnison: "Because we're friends".
* StandingInTheHall: And one student reminds Candice-sensei that it is a DiscreditedTrope.

* SweetTooth: Alyosha, much to her own surprise. Indeed one of the few things ''guaranteed'' to get a reaction out of Alyosha is a sweet she hasn't tasted before.
* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: Katie tried this to stop her bullying, and it worked.
* TeenGenius: What Katie eventually turned into, having graduated at MIT at twelve years old.
* TheQuietOne: Alyosha, again.
* ThanatosGambit: [[spoiler: Kortik-3 ''lied'' about the bomb being a fake so Alyosha wouldn't rush to deactivate and get forever haunted by her failure.]]

* [[ThoseTwoGuys Those Two Girls]]: Oomagari Namae and Aonuma Beniko.

* ThroughHisStomach: How Miru gets Alyosha to finally open up to her: with cake.

* UnknownRival: Oomagari Namae to Alyosha, for Ryuunosuke's affection.

* WhenSheSmiles: Given how rare it is, whenever Alyosha does this, it lights up the room.
* WhyAmITicking: Miru gets a dangerous gift.
* WigDressAccent: What one Karamazov assassin tried. Too bad Katie immediately sees through it.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Tends to happen with an alarming degree to the opponents Alyosha face who somehow get away from her, and always done by someone ostensibly on their side.

* ExcitedShowTitle: Also a ProtagonistTitle and OneWordTitle.

* GagBoobs: Katie's older sister Jane's ''impressive'' rack. May double as BoobsOfSteel, since she's an actively serving member of US Marine Corps.
** Ironically Katie gains a set of these (after a two-month timeskip). She's understandably ''horrified'' at the development.

** During the Cultural Festival, Katie cosplays as [[ShowWithinAshow Super Sewing Vicuna]], but we also see [[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica Miru as Madoka]], [[Manga/UruseiYatsura Alyosha as Lum]] and [[Anime/MagicalAngelCreamyMami Candice-sensei as Creamy Mami]].

* {{Meganekko}}: Katie Lindberg.

The series is considered complete, with 36 chapters and 5 compiled volumes released.

* {{Megane}}: Asari Ryuunosuke.

* TheBully: Both Miru and Katie have had problems with bullies, Katie because of her [[IntelligenceEqualsIsolation intelligence]], Miru because of her [[MixedAncestry red hair]] and being a ShrinkingViolet.

* FriendlessBackground: Katie, prior to her assignment to Japan. Alyosha and Ryuunosuke also, though for different reasons -- the former because she was an assassin; the latter because he focused too much on his studies to even try. Miru, for being a MixedAncestry ShrinkingViolet.

* RealityEnsues: Alyosha [[spoiler:is apparently killed offscreen while trying to protect Grekov from angry rioters. Of course, they NeverFoundTheBody so...]]

* ZettaiRyouiki: The girl's uniform of the school the main cast goes to has this as part of its ensemble.
** The uniform is copied almost completely at the new school that Miru and Katie visit in Estolakia. [[spoiler:Not surprising, given the fact that it was Alyosha herself who founded the school, and is now its principal]].

* FriendlessBackground: Katie, prior to her assignment to Japan. Alyosha and Ryuunosuke also, though for different reasons -- the former because she was an assassin; the latter because he focused too much on his studies to even try. Miru, for being a MixedAncestry ShrinkingViolet

* GirlsNeedRoleModels: In universe, little Katie takes Sewing Vicuna as her role model.

* AMillionIsAStatistic: [[spoiler: 500 passengers on a plane died because Katie was supposed to be on it if she didn't get distracted by her hobby, but as far as the main cast (and by extension the readers) is concerned, the fact that she wasn't on it is all that matters. Also, Alyosha is a trained assassin who has killed 283 people, but the whole story is about her trying to live a normal life.]]

* {{Sensei-chan}}: Candice Hogg, the teacher from England that the Japanese Culture Research Club suddenly gets saddled with as an adviser. [[spoiler:Really just a cover for M16 spy Sarah Mclaren.]]

** During the Cultural Festival, Katie cosplays as [[ShowWithinAshow Super Sewing Vicuna]], but we also see [[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica Miru/Madoka]], [[Manga/UruseiYatsura Alyosha/Lum]] and [[Anime/MagicalAngelCreamyMami Candice-sensei/Creamy Mami]].

** During the Cultural Festival, Katie cosplays as [[ShowWithinAshow Super Sewing Vicuna]], but we also see [[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica Miru!Madoka]], [[UruseiYatsura Alyosha!Lum]] and [[MagicalAngelCreamyMami Candice-sensei!Creamy Mami]].

* FlowerMotifs: Shiyoh High School's symbol is a white four-leaf clover on a green field.

* MoodWhiplash: The series has always been something of a GenreBuster, but the "Tea Party" arc, that starts with girly tea party preparations, follows with some teen drama and then a bit of knife fighting to the death, to finish with bloody BlackComedy, stands out.

* BlandNameProduct: Little Katie watched ''Magical Girl Sewing 5'' in [[CartoonNetwork Gartoon Channel]].

** Alyosha worked for the Karamazov agency. Alyosha is also the nickname of the youngest of ''TheBrothersKaramazov'', Alexei.

** This theory soon proves correct: Karamazova's ways of artificially extending her life were starting to fail, so she latched on the plan to transfer her consciousness to a compatible "container", and the most compatible one happens to be Alyosha.

** [[{{Gundam}} Solomo... Japan, I have returned!]]

* ThoseTwoGirls: Oomagari Namae and Aonuma Beniko.

* ArtisticAge: Katie, Alyosha and Miru are sixteen years old. Katie might pass for a woman in her mid-twenties, and Miru looks barely as a tween. [[spoiler:Sarah McLaren]] is ''thirty six'', yet she looks in her late teens.