History Manga / KiniroMosaic

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Aya. However, Youko and Aya refer to it as black, making this more of a case of HairColorDissonance.

* FriendlyRivalry: Alice to both Karen and Karasuma in regarding to Shinobu (since Shinbou admires Karasuma and Karen really admires Shinbou). Regardless, she maintains a good relationship between the said two characters and any negative feelings are often PlayedForLaughs.

* RealPlaceBackground: During Shino's trip in the first episode, several real locations were featured, including Paddington Station in London and Kemble Station in South West England. The Cartelet's house is [[https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/cotswolds-b-b-owner-caron-cooper-makes-it-big-in-japan-fosse-farmhouse-castle-coombe-wiltshire-kinmoza-0sl88fnck based on a country hotel in England]].

* BigEater: Genki Girl Yoko is probably one, seeing her finished up her lunch before school. That was on top of breakfast. She's taller and bustier than most of the cast, but is not fat.

Karen also has some shades of this, in fact, it's even stated she can eat a lot of food without gaining weight.

** Alice is such a kindhearted sweetheart loli. She rarely holds any negative grudges and feelings towards anyone. In episode 7, Alice even helps improve and teach Shinobu some English language skills (which Shinobu will later get a good grade in the following English test) and even help cheers Shinobu up when Alice finds out that Shinobu didn't do that well on her math test.

Junior high student Shinobu Oomiya decides to do a week-long homestay in England. Her hosts, the Cartelets, have a daughter called Alice the same age, and despite the language barrier, the two become close friends. When the week ends and the two have to part, Alice swears that she'll one day she'll go to Japan and see Shinobu again. Years later, she does just that - she surprises Shino by transferring to her high school and coming to stay with her. High levels of cuteness ensue.

* Bare Your Midriff: In episode 11 of ''Hello'', Karen is seen wearing a shirt that shows her belly button.

* RealPlaceBackground: During Shino's trip in the first episode, several real locations were featured, including Paddington Station in London and Kemble Station in South West England.

* BigFancyHouse: The anime shows that Karen lives in a large estate complete with an equally massive manor. Definitely not a girl from a middle-class upbringing. It's also implied that she's relatively wealthy as well. In fact, in Episode 9, it's revealed that Karen is the landlord of an entire apartment.

Junior high student Shinobu Oomiya decides to do a week-long homestay in England. Her hosts, the Cartelets, have a daughter Alice the same age, and despite the language barrier, the two become close friends. When the week ends and the two have to part, Alice swears that she'll one day she'll go to Japan and see Shinobu again. Years later, she does just that - she suprises Shino by transfering to her high school and coming to stay with her. High levels of cuteness ensue.

* BigFancyHouse: The anime shows that Karen lives in a large estate complete with an equally-massive manor. Definitely not a girl from a middle-class upbringing. It's also implied that she's relatively wealthy as well. In fact, in Episode 9, it's been revealed that Karen is the landlord of an entire apartment.

* ChainOfDeals: After reading ''The Straw Millionaire'' fairytale Alice decides to try it for herself. She starts with a set of kokeshi dolls and eventually ends up with a ring worth 10000 yen.

* IndirectKiss: When Aya and Youko share a popsicle, Aya improperly splits it, so Youko takes a bite out of Aya's portion to balance things out. Aya turns bright red from the events, implying this to be the case.

* TranslationConvention: Averted for most of the series, where it's usually made plain whenever someone speaks in English (in Alice or Karen's case). However, come the final episode of ''Hello!'', things suddenly becomes muddled, as there are segments where both Alice and Karen speaking in English, followed by the two speaking in obvious Japanese... except in the latter segments, we're ''also'' shown Alice's mum speaking (and understanding!) Japanese. Complicating matters is how later on, we're shown her speaking in English, and she actually comments how Alice and Karen now use Japanese whenever they talk to each other.

* LateForSchool: In the ''Hello!'' intro, Youko can be seen dashing out of her house with toast in her mouth.

Clockwise from top: Aya, Karen, Alice, Shinobu, and Yoko.]]

Junior high student Shinobu Oomiya decides to do a week-long homestay in England. Her hosts, the Cartalets, have a daughter Alice the same age, and despite the language barrier, the two become close friends. When the week ends and the two have to part, Alice swears that she'll one day she'll go to Japan and see Shinobu again. Years later, she does just that - she suprises Shino by transfering to her high school and coming to stay with her. High levels of cuteness ensue.

** In Episode 6, Yoko is applying Chant-Aid (Band-Aid) bandages to Aya's sprain on her foot.

-->'''Yoko''': "Can't you be a bit more sensitive?!"
* CallBack: Yoko saying "Sea!" and Karen saying "Sky!", when asked about what they want to do for summer in episode 8 of ''Hello!'', to a similar exchange in the first season.

* ChildhoodFriends: Between Shinobu, Yoko and Aya, and between Alice and Karen.
* ColorFailure: Done by both Alice and Yoko in the final episode of ''Hello''.

** While everyone meets after their first day of the second year, Aya asks if Yoko isn't sad that the two are separated. Yoko says she at least has Alice, prompting Aya to run away while saying it's not fair. Yoko then wonders if Aya wanted to be with Alice that badly.
** After Yoko takes a bite out of Aya's popsicle to make them even, Aya gets really flustered. Yoko then wonders if Aya really wanted to eat that piece.

** In the first year, the cast [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/km-2-1-350_5357.jpg occupies both spots]]; Alice and Shinobu (circled red) in the middle of the front row, and Aya and Yoko (circled in blue) at the window seats.

* CouchGag: Occasionally, a single character sings the first part of ''Hello''[='=]s intro. Alice introduces the opening song in episode 2, while Shino does it in episode 5, Karen does it in episode 7, Aya does it in episode 9, and finally Yoko does it in episode 11.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindows: Aya, Yoko, and Isami.

* DuctTapeForEverything: Averted. In the final episode of ''Hello!'', Yoko tries to fix her kid sister's teddy bear with duct tape, and fails. Hard. Shino has to fix it for her the old-fashioned way: via sewing.

* FemininityFailure: Yoko's attempt to be more girly in Episode 4.
* FeudEpisode: Subverted. During one morning Yoko goes to pat some of Aya's bed hair down, and Aya slaps Yoko's hand away. Aya frets over the incident for the rest of the day, but Yoko had already forgiven her for it, and was more worried about being avoided throughout the day.

* GenkiGirl: Karen and Yoko to some extent.
* GilliganCut: At the start of the cast's second year, Aya is worried that they'll be split into separate classrooms. Alice replies that they're all under the same sky and not even national borders can separate them. The scene cuts to them looking at the classroom assignments and seeing that Shinobu, Aya, and Karen are in one class, and Alice and Yoko are in another.

** Yoko had these in middle school. She gets them again briefly when she tries imitating Aya in order to be more "ladylike".
* GirlsLove: Alice and Shino. And Aya towards Yoko, but this one may be on-sided, Yoko wasn't as clear as the others.

** Both Alice and Aya had that in the last episode, when [[spoiler:class arrangement means Alice goes with Yoko and Aya goes with Shinobu and Karen]].

* IndirectKiss: When Aya and Yoko share a popsicle, Aya improperly splits it, so Yoko takes a bite out of Aya's portion to balance things out. Aya turns bright red from the events, implying this to be the case.

* LateForSchool: In the ''Hello!'' intro, Yoko can be seen dashing out of her house with toast in her mouth.

* LettingTheAirOutOfTheBand: Happens in Episode 2 when Shinobu talks about dying her hair blonde when she graduates, in Episode 3 when the promise Karen made to Alice when they were younger was merely to return a borrowed pencil, and in Episode 6 when Yoko wishes that Aya was her mom after tasting her improved cooking.
* LoveBubbles: Shows up when Aya fixes Yoko's collar.
* LoveLetterLunacy: Yoko receives what appears to be a love letter in her shoe locker. [[spoiler:Turns out Shinobu wrote a letter to Alice's parents, hoping Alice would translate it into English]].
* LuminescentBlush: Aya is prone to blushing a lot, especially around Yoko. At one point her blush can be seen ''through a box''.

** This trope is lampshaded on Yoko in Karen's pie chart as "50% comedic retorts, 50% kind-hearted."

* NonuniformUniform: Karen wears a parka with the Union Jack above the uniform. The others mention that it may be against the rules. Also Yoko doesn't wear a ribbon and Alice wears a pink sweater.

* NotWhatItLooksLike: After Aya and Yoko try on each other's clothes, Aya changes back and says she'll clean Yoko's outfit before returning it. Yoko tries to fight for it back, only for her siblings to walk in while Yoko is holding on to Aya in a state of undress.

* RedOniBlueOni: Yoko's red to Aya's blue. Hair is even color-coded for your convienece.

** In the opening scene of season 2 episode 9, Alice and Karen are playing a game of tennis. Karen is wearing OjouRinglets and a red bow, referencing Reika from the tennis series ''Manga/AimForTheAce''. [[OnlySaneMan Yoko]] [[LampshadeHanging immediately lampshades this, stating outright that they're acting out a scene from a manga.]] This scene serves as {{foreshadowing}} as Honoka reveals later in the episode that she is in the tennis club. Karen [[IncrediblyLamePun smashes]] the reference home.

** In episode 10 of ''Hello'', after being smacked by Yoko, Karen does her variation of the "Even my father never hit me!" quote from ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam''.

* SleepCute: At the end of the second-year beach trip, Shinobu, Alice, and Karen all sleep in one seat, and Aya and Yoko in another.

* StatusQuoIsGod: Everthing stays constant, though one notable exception is the class arrangements when going to the second year; the former group of Shinobu, Alice, Aya, and Yoko are split up such that Alice and Yoko are in one class and Shinobu and Aya are with Karen in another class with a different homeroom teacher. This is the source of a few gags.

* StraightMan: Yoko and Aya, particularly Yoko.

* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Yoko as the Tomboy, Aya as the Girly Girl.
* TomboyishPonytail: When telling the group about her and Shinobu's younger days, Yoko wore her hair like this in the flashback.

-->'''Yoko''': "No, I don't think so."

-->'''Yoko''': "Face reality! And don't take off your clothes!"

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Aya. However, Yoko and Aya refer to it as black, making this more of a case of HairColorDissonance.

''Kiniro Mosaic'' (translates to ''Golden Mosaic'', also called ''Kin'iro Mosaic'' or ''[=KinMoza=]!'') is a SliceOfLife comedy manga drawn and penned by Yui Hara serialized in ''Magazine/MangaTimeKirara Max''. It received an anime adaptation by Creator/StudioGokumi in the Summer2013Anime season, while a second season, titled ''Hello!! Kiniro Mosaic'', aired during the Spring2015Anime season. The manga is licensed by Creator/YenPress in North America.

Compare to Yui Hara's other 4koma comedy Manga/WakabaGirl, about a sheltered Ojou trying to fit in and make friends.

* OfficiallyShortenedTitle: The Japanese publisher requested the American licensees to use the title ''[=KinMoza=]!''.

* CouchGag: Occasionally, a single character sings the first verse of ''Hello''[='=]s intro. Alice introduces the opening song in episode 2, while Shino does it in episode 5, Karen does it in episode 7, Aya does it in episode 9, and finally Yoko does it in episode 11.

* ComicallyMissingThePoint: While everyone meets after their first day of the second year, Aya asks if Yoko isn't sad that the two are separated. Yoko says she at least has Alice, prompting Aya to run away while saying it's not fair. Yoko then wonders if Aya wanted to be with Alice that badly.

* EvolvingCredits: The opening to ''Hello'' varies slightly from episode to episode. And in episode 5, the ending also starts to show slight edits as well. Alice starts introduces the opening song in episode 2, while Shino does it in episode 5, Karen does it in episode 7, Aya does it in episode 9, and finally Yoko does it in episode 11. A shot with everyone holding hands in a circle, with the camera showing each character one at a time, is also added in episode 5.

* NonuniformUniform: Karen wears a parka with the Union Jack above the uniform. The others mention that it may be against the rules. Also Yoko doesn't wear a ribbon, Shinobu wears a coat that's short at the torso, Alice wears a pink sweater.

* PoseOfSupplication: Alice falls to her knees when her {{Japanese Delinquent|s}} plan fails to get the intended reaction.

* StatusQuoIsGod: Everthing stays constant, though one notable exception is the class arrangements when going to the second year; the former group of Shinobu, Alice, Aya, and Yoko are split up such that Alice and Yoko are in one class and Shinobu and Aya are with Karen in another class with a different homeroom teacher. This is the source of a few gags

* WhosOnFirst: When Aya introduces herself to Karen, she says "Aya ya". Karen takes it to mean that her name is "Ayaya" and the two go back and forth on that point. Karen continues to call Aya "Ayaya" from then on.

* JapaneseDelinquents: Alice and Aya put up a delinquent act to appear more mature, complete with longer skirts, Aya putting on a face mask, and Alice pretending to smoke.

* LuminescentBlush

Clockwise from top: Aya, Karen, Alice, Shinobu, and Youko.]]

* {{Blackmail}}: Karen's primary intent, in the first episode of ''Hello'', was to dig up some dirt on Kuzehashi-sensei to get the teacher off her back. Needless to say it backfires.

** In Episode 6, Youko is applying Chant-Aid (Band-Aid) bandages to Aya's sprain on her foot.

* ConvenientlySeated: The cast [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/km-2-1-350_5357.jpg occupies both spots]]; Alice and Shinobu (circled red) in the middle of the front row, and Aya and Youko (circled in blue) at the window seats.

* CurtainsMatchTheWindows: Aya, Youko, and Isami.
* CustomUniform: Shinobu wears a coat that's short at the torso, Alice wears a pink sweater, and Karen wears a ''Union Jack'' sweater.

* FemininityFailure: Youko's attempt to be more girly in Episode 4.
* FeudEpisode: Subverted. During one morning Youko goes to pat some of Aya's bed hair down, and Aya slaps Youko's hand away. Aya frets over the incident for the rest of the day, but Youko had already forgiven her for it, and was more worried about being avoided throughout the day.

* GenkiGirl: Karen and Youko to some extent.

** Youko had these in middle school. She gets them again briefly when she tries imitating Aya in order to be more "ladylike".

** Both Alice and Aya had that in the last episode, when [[spoiler:class arrangement means Alice goes with Youko and Aya goes with Shinobu and Karen]].

* LettingTheAirOutOfTheBand: Happens in Episode 2 when Shinobu talks about dying her hair blonde when she graduates, in Episode 3 when the promise Karen made to Alice when they were younger was merely to return a borrowed pencil, and in Episode 6 when Youko wishes that Aya was her mom after tasting her improved cooking.
* LoveBubbles: Shows up when Aya fixes Youko's collar.
* LoveLetterLunacy: Youko receives what appears to be a love letter in her shoe locker. [[spoiler:Turns out Shinobu wrote a letter to Alice's parents, hoping Alice would translate it into English]].

** This trope is lampshaded on Youko in Karen's pie chart as "50% comedic retorts, 50% kind-hearted."

* NonuniformUniform: Karen wears a parka with the Union Jack above the uniform. The others mention that it may be against the rules. Also Yoko never wears her blazer.

* RedOniBlueOni: Youko's red to Aya's blue. Hair is even color-coded for your convienece.

** In the opening scene of season 2 episode 9, Alice and Karen are playing a game of tennis. Karen is wearing OjouRinglets and a red bow, referencing Reika from the tennis series ''Manga/AimForTheAce''. [[OnlySaneMan Youko]] [[LampshadeHanging immediately lampshades this, stating outright that they're acting out a scene from a manga.]] This scene serves as {{foreshadowing}} as Honoka reveals later in the episode that she is in the tennis club. Karen [[IncrediblyLamePun smashes]] the reference home.

* StraightMan: Youko and Aya, particularly Youko.

* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Youko as the Tomboy, Aya as the Girly Girl.
* TomboyishPonytail: When telling the group about her and Shinobu's younger days, Youko wore her hair like this in the flashback.

-->'''Youko''': "No, I don't think so."

-->'''Youko''': "Face reality! And don't take off your clothes!"

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Aya. However, Youko and Aya refer to it as black, making this more of a case of HairColorDissonance.

''Kiniro Mosaic'' (translates to ''Golden Mosaic'', also called ''Kin'iro Mosaic'' or ''[=KinMoza=]!'') is a SliceOfLife comedy manga drawn and penned by Yui Hara serialized in ''Magazine/MangaTimeKirara Max''. It received an anime adaptation by Creator/StudioGokumi in the Summer2013Anime season, while a second season, titled '''Hello!! Kiniro Mosaic''', aired during the Spring2015Anime season. The manga is licensed by Creator/YenPress in North America.

'''Kiniro Mosaic''' (lit. ''Golden Mosaic'', a.k.a. ''Kin'iro Mosaic'' or ''[=KinMoza=]!''. The hyphen is necessary as a pronunciation guide) is a SliceOfLife comedy manga drawn and penned by Yui Hara serialized in ''Magazine/MangaTimeKirara Max''. It received an anime adaptation by Creator/StudioGokumi in the Summer2013Anime season, while a second season, titled '''Hello!! Kiniro Mosaic''', aired during the Spring2015Anime season. The manga is licensed by Creator/YenPress in North America.

* BigFancyHouse: The anime shows that Karen lives in a large estate complete with an equally-massive manor. Definitely not a girl from a middle-class upbringing.
** It's also implied that she's relatively wealthy as well. In fact, in Episode 9, it's been revealed that Karen is the landlord of an entire apartment.

* EvolvingCredits: The opening to ''Hello'' varies slightly from episode to episode. And in episode 5, the ending also starts to show slight edits as well.
** Alice starts introduces the opening song in episode 2, while Shino does it in episode 5, Karen does it in episode 7, Aya does it in episode 9, and finally Yoko does it in episode 11.
** A shot with everyone holding hands in a circle, with the camera showing each character one at a time, is also added in episode 5.

* GirlishPigtails: Alice, an [[TheIngenue Ingenue]] with pigtails. Aya also wears long pigtails.

* {{Iyashikei}}

* MusicalEpisode[=/=]TheCastShowoff: Episode 12 ends with a musical story narrated by Shino.

*** Shinobu herself is a relatively friendly girl despite being the resident [[TheDitz ditz]] (particularly when both Alice and Shinobu first met in episode 1).

** ''Every'' character in general is ultimately very kind and friendly, and there is little to no real or actual antagonism between characters. This may as well be ''Nice Girls: The Anime''.

* SchoolgirlSeries
* SeriousBusiness: So, what should be done for the SchoolFestival, maid cafe or teahouse? Owing to their respective {{Foreign Culture Fetish}}es, Alice and Shinobu did argue over ''that''.

*** Shino's [[MusicalEpisode musical story]] later in the episode refers to both the [[Disney/TheLittleMermaid Disney]] and the original version of ''Literature/TheLittleMermaid''.

** In the opening scene of season 2 episode 9, Alice and Karen are playing a game of tennis. Karen is wearing OjouRinglets and a red bow, referencing Reika from the tennis series ''Manga/AimForTheAce''. [[OnlySaneMan Youko]] [[LampshadeHanging immediately lampshades this, stating outright that they're acting out a scene from a manga.]]
*** This scene serves as {{foreshadowing}} as Honoka reveals later in the episode that she is in the tennis club. Karen [[IncrediblyLamePun smashes]] the reference home.

* TheStinger: Every episode has an extra scene after the credits, but before the OnTheNext preview.

* WeightWoe: In episode 7:

* XMeetsY: Manga/AzumangaDaioh meets Great Britain.
* {{Yonkoma}}
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Aya. However, Youko refers to it as black, making this more of a case of HairColorDissonance.
** Aya also refers to it as black in season 2, episode 4.

** MusicalisInterruptus: Occurs quite often, but a noticeable instance is in episode 2 when Aya ruins a poignant moment with a logical comment. And again in Episode 6 when she's interrupted by Shinobu floating down the stream.