History Manga / MinamotokunMonogatari

* ImprobablyFemaleCast: Aside from the protagonist, Terumi, the only other prominent male character of the series so far is his recurring friend at the university.

* ADatewithRosiePalms: Happens quite often with most of the cast members when they're thinking about someone else; particularly, with the main character, Terumi.

* OperationJealousy: [[spoiler:Asahi agrees to only a platonic dating relationship with Terumi and refuses to have sex with him. Turns out Kaoruko anticipated this and already had Aoi ready to meet Terumi so his success with Aoi would make Asahi jealous.]]

Now comes with a newly established [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/MinamotoKunMonogatari character page]].

* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: Kaoruko's "research" would be considered questionable ''at best'' by real-world academia. Terumi might make an interesting case study but the potential for playing puppeteer with people's lives for the sake of a study is the kind of thing that makes human research ethics such a serious issue even in the social sciences. That she's a literature professor and not a social scientist really only makes it worse. [[AcceptableBreaksFromReality Then again, there'd be no story without her research...]]

Now comes with a newly established [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/MinamotoKunMonogatari character page]]!

* DisappearedDad: [[spoiler:Aoi's father]], of the "sporadic appearance" type. He's an important businessman and is almost always away at work, though he apparently tried to be a good father when [[spoiler:his daughter]] was young.

* TheStoic: Kaoruko, who always remains calm no matter what ridiculous stuff she does. The only time she shows emotion is when deceiving someone (like telling Asahi that Terumi looks at her lustfully).
** Aoi as well, who seems calm and in control of Terumi from the moment they first meet. The facade shows the occasional tiny crack.
* TheTease: Almost all of the women Terumi meet are like this. Aoi has even explicitly stated that when she meets someone prettier than her, she wants to tease them.

* KidsAreCruel: The source of Terumi's fears of women, and his troubles drinking milk.
* LikesOlderWomen: Terumi only really focuses on women older than him, which he realizes he's done since he was in kindergarten. It's part of his Genji-ish mother complex that made him a viable choice for Kaoruko's research.
** Subverted with Hanada. She is the same age as Terumi.
* MissingMom: Terumi's mother died when he was young. It is worth mentioning that while in TheTaleOfGenji Genji loved many women who looked like his mother, Terumi has no such complex (although he still wants to get over his past pains like Genji).
** [[spoiler:Recent chapters suggest Terumi does have a mother complex.]]

!! Minamoto-kun Monogatari contains examples of:
* {{Bishonen}}: Taken UpToEleven and entirely necessary for the plot to occur. People constantly wonder if Terumi is a girl. At one point he mentions that he once went bald and [[BaldWoman people still thought he was a woman]].
** However, the series manages to avoid ViewerGenderConfusion, since 90% of all characters are women and thus there aren't many men to compare Terumi to. Still, it's not InformedAttractiveness, since Terumi clearly becomes more girly to the viewers [[http://www.batoto.net/read/_/54867/minamoto-kun-monogatari_ch11_by_pinoymanga-scans/5 when women force him to wear makeup]].

* TheDeterminator: Terumi fancies himself this at the start, with his stated goal to overcome his fears and be able to have any woman he wants. He's... not so good at it, though he's making progress with Kaoruko's coaching.

* IncestIsRelative: Kaoruko kisses and makes sexual advances on Terumi, but she claims it's entirely for the sake of research.
** KissingCousins: As part of the research, the first girl that Terumi has a proper relationship with is his cousin, Asahi.

* DisguisedInDrag: [[spoiler:At one point in the story, [[ItMakesSenseInContext Terumi crossdresses to seduce a male teacher]].]]
** AttractiveBentGender: [[spoiler:And it works so well the teacher in question takes the bait instantly without a slightest suspicion.]]

* HiddenBuxom: [[ShrinkingViolet Chisato Hanada]] and boy howdy.

Terumi Minamoto is an eighteen-year old young man [[{{Bishonen}} with a face pretty enough to make people think he is a girl]]. In middle school Minamoto was bullied extensively by women who were jealous of his face. As a consequence of the trauma, he developed a fear of women, to the point of attending an all-boys high school. On his first day of college he decides to overcome this fear and become someone who can have sex with any woman he wants...

Almost immediately after deciding this, his father informs him that he is remarrying and that since their apartment is only big enough for two people, Terumi needs to move out. Terumi's father arranges for him to move in for the time being with his aunt (his father's younger sister), Fujiwara Kaoruko, who is also professor at his college.

She is a beautiful woman who has done much literary work using TheTaleOfGenji as a base, and is admired and respected by people of both genders. When Terumi arrives at her apartment, she quickly guesses that he was bullied due to his face and that he doesn't have any experience with women, and offers to help him get over his fear, in exchange of becoming her guinea pig for her research in her "[[GenderFlip Reverse]] [[WifeHusbandry Hikaru Genji Plan]]".

Helping him have sex with 14 women shouldn't be too much, right?

* HiddenBuxom: [[ShrinkingViolet Chisato Harada]] and boy howdy.

* [[spoiler:LikesOlderWomen]]: [[spoiler:Terumi only really focuses on women older than him, which he realizes he's done since he was in kindergarten. It's part of his Genji-ish mother complex that made him a viable choice for Kaoruko's research.]]

* MissingMom: Terumi's mother who died when he was young. It is worth mentioning that while in TheTaleOfGenji Genji loved many women who looked like his mother, Terumi has no such complex (although he still wants to get over his past pains like Genji).

* TheTease: Almost all of the women Terumi meet are like this

* TheTease: Almost all of the women Terumi are like this

-> '''Kaoruko''': The goal of my research is to get a deeper understanding of "TheTaleOfGenji", and for that, I need someone who understands what Prince Genji went through. So I'll need you to have sex with some women.
-> '''Terumi''': Sex?!?
-> '''Kaoruko''': Don't look so scared, it's not that many...it's only 14 women.