History Manga / KoiKaze

* ADateWithRosiePalms: Jarringly and explicitly shown to engage in this on impulse due to his escalating feelings for Nanoka. It serves as a strong point of guilt for Koshiro, who feels very out of control after the fact.

* LuminescentBlush

* ArtistsAreNotArchictets: Completely subverted by the manga. The manga could only have been drawn by someone who did know how to do technical drawings because it looks like it was drawn in the exact same way that Architects and Engineers used to do design drawings, ink on linen, before any shortcuts were available.

''KoiKaze'' started out as a manga series which then got adapted into an anime series in 2004 and immediately received a lot of attention for its harrowingly realistic examination of sibling incest. The painful and guilt-ridden romance between Koshiro and Nanoka is credibly full of angst and BelligerentSexualTension as the two struggle against their desires, refreshingly devoid of the blithe disregard for social mores and {{fanservice}} most {{shonen}} series on similar subjects tend to have.

* BrotherSisterIncest: Goes without saying. One of the best deconstructions of the trope around.
** Something of a reconstruction too, as it presents a situation where the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imprinting_%28psychology%29#Westermarck_effect Westermarck Effect]] doesn't come into play.

* CherryBlossoms: You can't have a Japanese romance without 'em.

* MayDecemberRomance: Aside from being her brother, he's also twelve years older than she is.

* YouSuck: If his comments about wishing to have a cute little sister are any indication, Odagiri is this to people who would watch this show in hopes of it having incest {{Fanservice}}.

* TogetherUmbrella: Turns up in a couple of episodes, especially during the rainy season.

* SurpriseIncest: Although they do find out rather quickly that they are related.

!!Tropes:

* NotBloodSiblings: [[spoiler: Cruelly averted; though the series offers a few hints here and there that it's going to pull this particular cop-out and tell us Koshiro is actually adopted, it ultimately [[RedHerring pulls the rug out]] from under everyone wishing this were the case.]]

** All of the side characters have reduced roles in the anime, do to time constraints, and some side characters are even cut completely.

** Something of a reconstruction too, however: could a brother and sister romance really happen, in view of what we know about the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imprinting_%28psychology%29#Westermarck_effect Westermarck Effect]]? Yes it could, at least if the brother and sister happened to be, say, separated at a very early age due to a divorce. Somebody apparently DidDoTheResearch.
*** Westermarck is a hypothesis, not a fact. Since it's based on a somewhat controversial and limited study, it's not enough to claim it negates the existence of one type of incest.

** PregmaticAdaptation: While most of the events from the manga are still in the anime, they are shuffled around to better fit the anime format - some events from early in the manga happen very late in the anime, and vice-versa, which leads to those events having a different context because of how different the relationship between Koshiro and Nanoka is when they happen.

** While most of the events from the manga are still in the anime, they are shuffled around - some events from early in the manga happen very late in the anime, and vice-versa, which leads to those events having a different context because of how different the relationship between Koshiro and Nanoka is when they happen.

* BottleFairy: Chidori, who once partied so hard that she was calling herself "Midori" as she pressed more booze on Odagiri to get him drunk with her.
** In addition to drinking hard, however, she's also rather hard-bitten and sometimes gets rather mean when she's drunk.

* VisibleSigh: Also makes an appearance or two. One humorous variation had a cloud forming and exploding over Nanoka's head with an audible pop when a boy mentioned rumors he'd heard that she had a brother complex.

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