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* SweetTooth: If Akane goes too long without a sugar fix, she’ll get so angry that she becomes uncontrollable and might try to destroy the world. She’s also easily distracted by candy, instantly leaping for it no matter where it is and what she’s doing at the time.



* VitriolicBestBuds: Youko and Akane can't spend a minute together without bickering, but they still spend a lot of minutes together.

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* VitriolicBestBuds: Youko and Akane can't spend a minute together without bickering, but they still spend a lot of minutes together. Mikan and Okada also have shades of this, with the latter ofter teasing her as if waiting for her retaliation. And then there's the "rivalry" between Shiho the pervert and Rin the pervert-hunter.
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* ObliviousToLove: Surprisingly enough, it's largely averted. Aizawa noticed that Asahi was attracted to her and preemptively rejected him. Mikan gently points out that [[spoiler:Okada]] is wasting his time by coming to her part time job, but he refuses to get the point. Even Youko realizes how Asahi feels after a while, and isn't very good at hiding that she likes him back.

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* ObliviousToLove: Surprisingly enough, it's largely often averted. Aizawa noticed that Asahi was attracted to her and preemptively rejected him. Mikan gently points out that [[spoiler:Okada]] is wasting his time by coming to her part time job, but he refuses to get the point. Even Youko realizes how Asahi feels after a while, and isn't very good at hiding that she likes him back.
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* ObliviousToLove: Surprisingly enough, it's largely averted. Aizawa noticed that Asahi was attracted to her and preemptively rejected him. Mikan gently points out that [[spoiler:Okada]] is wasting his time by coming to her part time job, but he refuses to get the point. Even Youko actually does know how Asahi feels and isn't very good at hiding that she likes him back.

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* ObliviousToLove: Surprisingly enough, it's largely averted. Aizawa noticed that Asahi was attracted to her and preemptively rejected him. Mikan gently points out that [[spoiler:Okada]] is wasting his time by coming to her part time job, but he refuses to get the point. Even Youko actually does know realizes how Asahi feels after a while, and isn't very good at hiding that she likes him back.
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* ObliviousToLove: Surprisingly enough, it's largely averted. Aizawa noticed that Asahi was attracted to her and preemptively rejected him. Mikan gently points out that [[spoiler:Okada]] is wasting his time by coming to her part time job, but he refuses to get the point. Even Youko actually does know how Asahi feels and isn't very good at hiding that she likes him back.
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* ObliviousToLove: Averted with Mikan, who gently points out that Oka is wasting his time by coming to her part time job, but he refuses to get the point. Aizawa also noticed that Asahi was attracted to her and preemptively rejected him. Apart from that, everyone else seems pretty dense. [[spoiler:Or are they? Youko actually does know how Asahi feels and isn't very good at hiding that she likes him back.]]
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* SelectiveObliviousness: Youko isn’t QUITE as dense as she looks. She just doesn’t want to think too much about the relationship between Asahi, Aizawa and herself.
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* ArtEvolution: The characters' faces get more rounded and their eyes bigger as the series progresses. This makes them look somewhat more childish. Compare [[http://bato.to/read/_/187688/jitsu-wa-watashi-wa_v1_ch01_by_underdog-scans/9 Asahi]] and [[http://bato.to/read/_/187688/jitsu-wa-watashi-wa_v1_ch01_by_underdog-scans/12 Youko]] in the first chapter and [[http://bato.to/read/_/290648/jitsu-wa-watashi-wa_v7_ch55_by_underdog-scans/6 the same characters]] [[http://bato.to/read/_/290648/jitsu-wa-watashi-wa_v7_ch55_by_underdog-scans/14 50 chapters later]].

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* ArtEvolution: The characters' faces get more rounded and their eyes bigger as the series progresses. This makes them look somewhat more childish. Compare [[http://bato.to/read/_/187688/jitsu-wa-watashi-wa_v1_ch01_by_underdog-scans/9 Asahi]] and [[http://bato.to/read/_/187688/jitsu-wa-watashi-wa_v1_ch01_by_underdog-scans/12 Youko]] in the first chapter and [[http://bato.to/read/_/290648/jitsu-wa-watashi-wa_v7_ch55_by_underdog-scans/6 the same characters]] [[http://bato.to/read/_/290648/jitsu-wa-watashi-wa_v7_ch55_by_underdog-scans/14 50 chapters later]]. The use of shadows has also become much more elaborate.
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Outside from the obvious ArtEvolution, the types of gags used in the early chapters were also quite different. For example, they had a few instances of HarshWordImpact for Asahi, less exaggerated faces, a visibly different panel layout and far less {{Identical Panel Gag}}s.

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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Outside from the obvious ArtEvolution, the types of gags used in the early chapters were also quite different. For example, they had a few instances of HarshWordImpact for Asahi, less exaggerated faces, a visibly different panel layout and far less {{Identical Panel Gag}}s.
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Outside from the obvious ArtEvolution, the types of gags used in the early chapters were also quite different. For example, they had a few instances of HarshWordImpact for Asahi, a visibly different panel layout and far less {{Identical Panel Gag}}s.

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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Outside from the obvious ArtEvolution, the types of gags used in the early chapters were also quite different. For example, they had a few instances of HarshWordImpact for Asahi, less exaggerated faces, a visibly different panel layout and far less {{Identical Panel Gag}}s.
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Outside from the obvious ArtEvolution, the types of gags used in the early chapters were also quite different. For example, they had a few instances of HarshWordImpact for Asahi, a visibly different panel layout and none of the {{Identical Panel Gag}}s that the author started to use massively afterwards.

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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Outside from the obvious ArtEvolution, the types of gags used in the early chapters were also quite different. For example, they had a few instances of HarshWordImpact for Asahi, a visibly different panel layout and none of the far less {{Identical Panel Gag}}s that the author started to use massively afterwards.Gag}}s.
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Outside from the obvious ArtEvolution, the types of gags used in the early chapters were also quite different. For example, they had a few instances of HarshWordImpact for Asahi, a visibly different panel layout and none of the {{Identical Panel Gag}}s that the author started to use massively afterwards.
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* PaperThingDisguise: Youko is completely incapable of realizing that her father not only showed up for the sports festival, but has also been helping her win every event. Despite being about thirty feet tall. And having bats everywhere.
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* SuperSentaiStance: Might not be deliberate, but some of the "sexy" poses that hopelessly unsexy characters like Youko or Akari try to do look suspiciously familiar.

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* HiddenHeartOfGold: Mikan likes to emotionally hurt people as best she can, including lying about what they’re doing and ferreting out all their secrets. Or at least, that’s what she wants people to think. She only posts fake stories in her newspaper along with big warnings that she’s making everything up. For real stories she won’t use whatever material she has without permission.



* ImmortalImmaturity: Akane is incredibly immature, so Youko refuses to believe that she’s thousands of hears old.
* InformedDeformity: Think Akari is pretty? Well, you’re wrong. She is so lacking in sex appeal that it rubs off on Shiho.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: Apparently, Aizawa felt she was doing Asahi a favor by calling him out, rejecting him before he could confess and then telling him how he should focus on a romance that has some possibility of success.
* InstantCosplaySurprise: When Aizawa is distracted, Shiho makes her dress like a catgirl. It takes her awhile to actually notice.



* IResembleThatRemarks: Akane looks like a kid but tries to talk about how adult she is. Youko can easily bait her with candy and make her jump for things being held out of her reach.
* {{Jerkass}}: Akane is incredibly selfish and childish, abusing the hell out of everyone around her unless Akari manages to keep her in her place.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: At one point Akane helps Aizawa realize that her halfhearted attempt to give up on Asahi won’t work and she needs to think of a better way to stay with Asahi and Youko. The moment she turns her back, she begins gloating about how Aizawa will now be in her debt so she can get more candy and cake out of her.
* LaserGuidedKarma: The instant Akane gets Aizawa indebted to her, she tries to repay the favor by having all her friends also bake cakes for Akane. Trouble is, only Aizawa can handle cooking competently.



* LiteralMinded: Aizawa is puzzled by people considering her the Iron Lady. After all, she doesn’t have a particularly noteworthy amount of iron in her body.
* LovingAShadow: Asahi tends to admire girls who are more capable than he is and then he thinks that he loves them. It's probably good for Youko that she turns out to be a helpless dork. If she wasn't, Asahi likely would have gotten bored of her like he did with Aizawa and several girls before her.



* MinionWithAnFInEvil: Karen is sent to prove that Asahi knows Youko is a vampire, but when it becomes clear that they’re protecting each other she starts bawling in sympathy. Then she tries to sic her crows on them, but they start pecking at her head instead.
* MobileSuitHuman: The real Aizawa is about four inches tall and controls an Aizawa puppet body from inside its head.
* MorphicResonance: When Akane uses magic to look like Asahi, she keeps her huge horns. It’s so obvious not even Youko falls for it. That said, she can also use her illusions to make it look like her horns are detachable, so there's no real reason she couldn't do both.

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* MinionWithAnFInEvil: Karen is sent to prove that Asahi knows Youko is a vampire, but when it becomes clear that they’re protecting each other she starts bawling in sympathy. Then she tries to sic her crows on them, but they start pecking at her head instead.
* MobileSuitHuman: The real Aizawa is about four inches tall and controls an Aizawa puppet body from inside its head.
* MorphicResonance: When Akane uses magic to look like Asahi, she keeps her huge horns. It’s so obvious not even Youko falls for it. That said, she can also
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* BrokenPedestal: Early in the story, Aizawa thinks that her brother is a great role model. Once she hears that he picked a female body to infiltrate girl’s baths and that he’s a lazy bum, life becomes hell for him.



* ChristmasCake: Akari couldn’t get a boyfriend in highschool and has gone to one hundred marriage interviews in the present. When she thinks Shirou is flirting with her, she gets all blushy before he flat out says he simply admires her and that she’s too old for him. Turns out, she’s set on a prince riding in a white horse. Literally.
* {{Clairvoyance}}: Akane can see almost everything going on around her.
* ClassRepresentative: Aizawa is known for being very stubborn and straitlaced, though she relaxes a little into the story once she's made friends with Youko and Asahi.



* TricksterMentor: Sometimes when Akane isn’t being a jerk just for the sake of being a jerk, she’s trying to make people like Aizawa realize things about their own true desires. Though one of the times she does it [[JerkWithAHeartOfJerk she just wants Aizawa to be in her debt.]]
* {{Tsundere}}: Mikan messes with Asahi to keep her current relationship stable. She’s not comfortable stepping out of the childhood friend niche. However, when it becomes clear that she has to do something and make a move, she does it instantly and stops tormenting him for the most part.



* UnrequitedLoveSwitcharoo: Aizawa calls Asahi out to reject him before he can confess, advising him to find a new girl to like. He does and she promptly gets pissed off. Unwilling to accept that he got over her, she decides he must have figured out her true identity.
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* BadLiar: Asahi is known for being the worst liar ever. Some people are so gullible that he has even odds of fooling them, however. Also, after interacting with Youko a little, he realizes she’s almost as bad at lying as he is.


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* BrokenPedestal: Early in the story, Aizawa thinks that her brother is a great role model. Once she hears that he picked a female body to infiltrate girl’s baths and that he’s a lazy bum, life becomes hell for him.
* {{Buttmonkey}}: Shima and Ryou are the two supreme buttmonkeys in the story. When they clash head to head [[spoiler:even Ryou is creeped out by Shima and is unable to continue extorting him for free food.]]
* ChristmasCake: Akari couldn’t get a boyfriend in highschool and has gone to one hundred marriage interviews in the present. When she thinks Shirou is flirting with her, she gets all blushy before he flat out says he simply admires her and that she’s too old for him. Turns out, she’s set on a prince riding in a white horse. Literally.
* {{Clairvoyance}}: Akane can see almost everything going on around her.
* ClassRepresentative: Aizawa is known for being very stubborn and straitlaced, though she relaxes a little into the story once she's made friends with Youko and Asahi.


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* DudeShesLikeInAComa: Asahi and Youko get locked in her room one night. She keeps falling asleep while her mother and Akane are watching from outside with magic. Every time he falls asleep he refuses to try anything, so the next morning both of them call him a coward. That said, it was pretty obvious that Akane was messing with him, so if he HAD done something he would have had an audience.
* EvilIsPetty: Akane the demon principal is incredibly petty with her evilness. In fact, most of the time she’s ONLY petty, though she gets worse if she can’t get any candy. Everyone seems to agree that she’s definitely a demon though.
* FacePalm: Akari and Asahi do a simultaneous facepalm at how difficult it is to take care of Akane and Youko.


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* HalfHumanHybrid: Though referred to as a vampire, Youko is mainly just a human with big teeth, wings and a few quirky reactions to random things like garlic and crosses. Shiho/Shirou is a half werewolf, meaning there’s a human form and then a wolfman form that is actually just a guy with really nasty teeth.


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* HarshWordImpact: Being in the friendzone early on impales Asahi.
* HiddenHeartOfGold: Mikan likes to emotionally hurt people as best she can, including lying about what they’re doing and ferreting out all their secrets. Or at least, that’s what she wants people to think. She only posts fake stories in her newspaper along with big warnings that she’s making everything up. For real stories she won’t use whatever material she has without permission.
* HornedHumanoid: Devils like Akane have horns, apparently. She uses an illusion to pretend they’re just an accessory, but normally they're the obvious giveaway for when she's just impersonating people with her body doubles.
* HumanAlien: Apart from how tiny she is and the antenna on her head., Aizawa looks more or less completely human.


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* ImmortalImmaturity: Akane is incredibly immature, so Youko refuses to believe that she’s thousands of hears old.
* InformedDeformity: Think Akari is pretty? Well, you’re wrong. She is so lacking in sex appeal that it rubs off on Shiho.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: Apparently, Aizawa felt she was doing Asahi a favor by calling him out, rejecting him before he could confess and then telling him how he should focus on a romance that has some possibility of success.
* InstantCosplaySurprise: When Aizawa is distracted, Shiho makes her dress like a catgirl. It takes her awhile to actually notice.


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* IResembleThatRemarks: Akane looks like a kid but tries to talk about how adult she is. Youko can easily bait her with candy and make her jump for things being held out of her reach.
* {{Jerkass}}: Akane is incredibly selfish and childish, abusing the hell out of everyone around her unless Akari manages to keep her in her place.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: At one point Akane helps Aizawa realize that her halfhearted attempt to give up on Asahi won’t work and she needs to think of a better way to stay with Asahi and Youko. The moment she turns her back, she begins gloating about how Aizawa will now be in her debt so she can get more candy and cake out of her.
* LaserGuidedKarma: The instant Akane gets Aizawa indebted to her, she tries to repay the favor by having all her friends also bake cakes for Akane. Trouble is, only Aizawa can handle cooking competently.


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* LiteralMinded: Aizawa is puzzled by people considering her the Iron Lady. After all, she doesn’t have a particularly noteworthy amount of iron in her body.
* LovingAShadow: Asahi tends to admire girls who are more capable than he is and then he thinks that he loves them. It's probably good for Youko that she turns out to be a helpless dork. If she wasn't, Asahi likely would have gotten bored of her like he did with Aizawa and several girls before her.


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* MinionWithAnFInEvil: Karen is sent to prove that Asahi knows Youko is a vampire, but when it becomes clear that they’re protecting each other she starts bawling in sympathy. Then she tries to sic her crows on them, but they start pecking at her head instead.
* MobileSuitHuman: The real Aizawa is about four inches tall and controls an Aizawa puppet body from inside its head.
* MorphicResonance: When Akane uses magic to look like Asahi, she keeps her huge horns. It’s so obvious not even Youko falls for it. That said, she can also use her illusions to make it look like her horns are detachable, so there's no real reason she couldn't do both.


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* ObliviousToLove: Averted with Mikan, who gently points out that Oka is wasting his time by coming to her part time job, but he refuses to get the point. Aizawa also noticed that Asahi was attracted to her and preemptively rejected him. Apart from that, everyone else seems pretty dense. [[spoiler:Or are they? Youko actually does know how Asahi feels and isn't very good at hiding that she likes him back.]]


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* PaperThingDisguise: Youko is completely incapable of realizing that her father not only showed up for the sports festival, but has also been helping her win every event. Despite being about thirty feet tall. And having bats everywhere.


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* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Akane is ''old'' but neither looks nor [[ImmortalImmaturity acts]] it.


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** Rin keeps accidentally revealing information about the future, leaving herself unable to go home for longer and longer periods of time.
* SelectiveObliviousness: Youko isn’t QUITE as dense as she looks. She just doesn’t want to think too much about the relationship between Asahi, Aizawa and herself.


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* ShrinkingViolet: Mikan’s fortune god realizes that it doesn’t have to get in the way of her attempts to seduce Asahi because she doesn’t actually have the guts to try anything anyway. [[spoiler:Even if it looks like he baited her into trying to real, she was just pretending to be a jerk like usual.]]


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* SoreLoser: Fifty years in the future, Mikan still hasn’t given up on Asahi. She advises her younger self to aim to be more attractive as a wife instead of a girlfriend like she did.


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* SweetTooth: If Akane goes too long without a sugar fix, she’ll get so angry that she becomes uncontrollable and might try to destroy the world. She’s also easily distracted by candy, instantly leaping for it no matter where it is and what she’s doing at the time.
* TakeOurWordForIt: What does Shiho’s mother the super pervert do? Dunno, she’s always too surrounded by amazed guys to even catch a glimpse. A few words we don't even hear are enough to get Asahi to erupt in a nosebleed after being completely unimpressed by Akane, Youko and Akari trying their best to be sexy in front of him.


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* TricksterMentor: Sometimes when Akane isn’t being a jerk just for the sake of being a jerk, she’s trying to make people like Aizawa realize things about their own true desires. Though one of the times she does it [[JerkWithAHeartOfJerk she just wants Aizawa to be in her debt.]]
* {{Tsundere}}: Mikan messes with Asahi to keep her current relationship stable. She’s not comfortable stepping out of the childhood friend niche. However, when it becomes clear that she has to do something and make a move, she does it instantly and stops tormenting him for the most part.


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* UnrequitedLoveSwitcharoo: Aizawa calls Asahi out to reject him before he can confess, advising him to find a new girl to like. He does and she promptly gets pissed off. Unwilling to accept that he got over her, she decides he must have figured out her true identity.


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* WhatIsThisFeeling: Youko doesn’t seem to get that she likes Asahi, thinking a bout of jealousy is a shrine making her sick.


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* YoungerThanTheyLook: Sakurada looks like in his 30s. Nobody comments on this.
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* GagSeries: While there is some genuine plot and character development, what people read the series for is really the insanity of the cast and the absurd situations their stupidity puts them in. It helps that the construction is often rather "theatrical" (one chapter = one place and one situation).

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* GagSeries: While there is some genuine plot and character development, what people read the series for is really the insanity of the cast and the absurd situations their stupidity puts them in. It helps that the construction is often usually rather "theatrical" (one chapter = one place and one situation).
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* GagSeries: While there is some genuine plot and character development, what people read the series for is really the insanity of the cast and how the absurd situations their stupidity puts them in. It helps that the construction is often rather "theatrical" (one chapter = one place and one situation).

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* GagSeries: While there is some genuine plot and character development, what people read the series for is really the insanity of the cast and how the absurd situations their stupidity puts them in. It helps that the construction is often rather "theatrical" (one chapter = one place and one situation).
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* GagSeries: While there is some genuine plot and character development, what people read the series for is really the insanity of the cast and how the absurd situations their stupidity put them in. It helps that the construction is often rather "theatrical" (one chapter = one place and one situation).

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* GagSeries: While there is some genuine plot and character development, what people read the series for is really the insanity of the cast and how the absurd situations their stupidity put puts them in. It helps that the construction is often rather "theatrical" (one chapter = one place and one situation).
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* GagSeries: While there is some genuine plot and character development, what people read the series for is really the insanity of the cast and how the absurd situations their stupidity put them in.

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* GagSeries: While there is some genuine plot and character development, what people read the series for is really the insanity of the cast and how the absurd situations their stupidity put them in. It helps that the construction is often rather "theatrical" (one chapter = one place and one situation).
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* MaidCafe: Chapter 73 features the most terrifying maid café ever seen. [[spoiler:It has Akari working in it, and when it comes to FanserviceWithASmile, let's just say [[TheUnsmile she has trouble with the "smile" part.]]]]
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* SweetheartSipping: Done in chapter 68 between [[spoiler:Shimada and Ryou (whom Shimada doesn't know is a guy).]] The latter has an expression of utter despair, while the former makes a ''really'' creepy smile during the scene.
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* FemininityFailure: When [[MsFanservice Shiho]] does sexy poses, noses bleed everywhere. When Youko, Akari and Akane try to imitate her, err, [[http://bato.to/read/_/294473/jitsu-wa-watashi-wa_v7_ch57_by_underdog-scans/10 well.]]

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* FemininityFailure: When [[MsFanservice Shiho]] does sexy poses, noses bleed everywhere. When Youko, Akari and Akane try to imitate her, err, hum, [[http://bato.to/read/_/294473/jitsu-wa-watashi-wa_v7_ch57_by_underdog-scans/10 well.]]
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* TwoTeacherSchool: The teachers shown in the school are Akari, Akane in flashbacks, and that's it.


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* OneTeacherSchool: Akari seems to be the only teacher in the entire school.

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* WhamLine: Shortly after she successfully convinces the girl that she is Asahi's grand-daughter from the future, Rin accidentally calls [[spoiler:Akemi Mikan]] "Granny." Whoops.

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->''The love comedy with non-human heroines that are just a little dumb!''

Asahi Kuromine is your average high-schooler... besides having a really bad poker face. He currently has a crush on a fellow classmate named Youko Shiragami, the resident stoic IceQueen. When he tries to confess to her, he ends up discovering that she is a vampire... and that she will have to leave school if she's ever found out. He subsequently swears to keep this secret to allow her to continue with her school life.

However, though he may be the "Man Who Cannot Lie", he may have bitten off more than he can chew, as Shiragami herself turns out to be quite the cheerful ditz. He also has to contend with his malicious childhood friend-reporter Akemi Mikan who never lets any secret stay hidden, and Shiragami herself may not be the only supernatural being roaming around on the school grounds.

''Jitsu wa Watashi wa'' is a romantic comedy manga by Masuda Eiji, featuring a cast of lovable weirdos, supernatural or otherwise. It has a fun take on an overused premise and has good use of hilarious facial expressions.

[[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2015-01-26/vampire-romantic-comedy-manga-jitsu-wa-watashi-wa-gets-tv-anime/.83703 An animated adaptation of the series has been announced!]]

The manga has also been licensed by Seven Seas under the title [[PunBasedTitle "My Monster Secret"]], and will come out in the United States in January 2016.

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!!This manga provides examples of:

* AliensSpeakingEnglish: Not only do the members of Aizawa's race speak a perfect Japanese, they even have Japanese names for some reason (at least there is no indication they have a "real" alien-ish name).
* AllWomenAreDomsAllMenAreSubs: [[spoiler:At least in the BadFuture, 70% of women are doms and 90% of men are subs.]]
* ArcWords: The title of the series ("The truth is, I am…"). It's not only about the characters revealing that they are not human, but also about them coming to terms with their feelings.
* ArtEvolution: The characters' faces get more rounded and their eyes bigger as the series progresses. This makes them look somewhat more childish. Compare [[http://bato.to/read/_/187688/jitsu-wa-watashi-wa_v1_ch01_by_underdog-scans/9 Asahi]] and [[http://bato.to/read/_/187688/jitsu-wa-watashi-wa_v1_ch01_by_underdog-scans/12 Youko]] in the first chapter and [[http://bato.to/read/_/290648/jitsu-wa-watashi-wa_v7_ch55_by_underdog-scans/6 the same characters]] [[http://bato.to/read/_/290648/jitsu-wa-watashi-wa_v7_ch55_by_underdog-scans/14 50 chapters later]].
* BadFuture: Parodied. [[spoiler:In Rin's future, the Charismatic Pervert II has taken over the world, ushering in a FreeLoveFuture of sluts and perverts. A small resistance remains, comprised of the 10% of men who are not masochists, and 30% of women. And there are magical dragons, for some reason.]]
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Akane gives Aizawa her wish [[spoiler:and turns her to the size of a normal human to be closer with Asahi]] in exchange for some of Aizawa's wonderful treats. When things panned out and Aizawa is paying up [[spoiler:Akari convinced her to allow Rin, Shiho, and Youko as she has helped them too. At the sight of Youko's cooking, Akane tries jumping out the window]].
* BlazingInfernoHellfireSauce: Whatever is in Mikan's [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast "Russian Choux"]], it's not something to put in all hands.
* TheDitz: It's far easier to make a list of the characters in this manga who aren't complete idiots. Special mention goes to Shiragami whose goofiness has more often than not put her secret at risk. The only ''more or less'' level-headed characters are Asahi, Okada and Sakurada, Shiho, Mikan after her CharacterDevelopment, and ''sometimes'' Akari.
* GenerationXerox: Asahi and Youko's romance seems to mirror Touko and Genjirou's (Youko's parents) a great deal. Sometimes to the point of ContrivedCoincidence. [[spoiler:Karen reveals her learning Shirigami-kun was a vampire and he learning she is an angel]] ends up being nearly identical to Aizawa learning of Shirigami-chan's true nature and vice versa.
* GoodEyesEvilEyes: A good many of the characters will spit each other glares that wouldn't look out of place in the creepiest, most {{yandere}} of horror genres... The problem is nearly all of them will do it for the most [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotHeinous inane reasons]].
** The largest offender by far would be Karen, the foulest, most evil [[InsistentTerminology demon]] around, ready to [[PokeThePoodle curse]] you at the drop of a hat.
* HaremGenre: A downplayed example. While there are three different girls attracted to Asahi, they remain friendly to each other, and the series is almost devoid of FanService. The accent is rather put on the general goofiness.
* IdenticalPanelGag: The author loves repeating the position of characters, bubbles and even the general panel layout between two pages. And he somehow finds new ways to use this trope in every chapter it seems. There is notably an elaborate instance in the scene where [[http://bato.to/read/_/276749/jitsu-wa-watashi-wa_ch44_by_underdog-scans/13 Akane]] [[http://bato.to/read/_/276749/jitsu-wa-watashi-wa_ch44_by_underdog-scans/14 tastes]] [[http://bato.to/read/_/276749/jitsu-wa-watashi-wa_ch44_by_underdog-scans/15 Aizawa's]] [[http://bato.to/read/_/276749/jitsu-wa-watashi-wa_ch44_by_underdog-scans/16 cakes]].
* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: All chapter titles are in the form "Let's XXX".
* InterspeciesRomance: All over the place, be it the parents (Youko and Shiho are half-vampire and half-wolfman, and Akari has a demon ancestor) or Youko and Aizawa with Asahi.
* LighterAndSofter: The author's two previous works, ''How to Make an Invisible Man'' and ''Sakura Discord'', while they had some bits of comedy, were serious and melancholic love stories (the former especially). ''Jitsu wa'' on the other hand is pure, undiluted silliness.
* LiterallyFallingInLove: Akane tries to make a use of this trope when Youko and Asahi are locked in the former's room by sending a sleepy Youko onto Asahi with a spring, or literally tilting the entire house so that they fall on each other. All her efforts are in vain.
* NotWhatItLooksLike: Rin hugs Asahi at every opportunity, feeds him, and even spends an entire day riding around on his shoulders. It's actually [[spoiler:a rather cute grandfather/grand-daughter relationship]], but it doesn't look like that from the outside.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Youko has all the traditional weaknesses of a vampire, but hilariously downplayed: being exposed to the sun gives her a tan, being exposed to onion makes her cry, she is afraid of running water (but it doesn't hurt her) and seeing a cross irritates her a bit. So none of her "weaknesses" actually put her in danger of [[GlamourFailure exposing her secret]]. More generally, it seems that for vampires, sucking blood is an equivalent of kissing. They also eat food like anyone else.
* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: Their wolf form and human form are actually SplitPersonalities, and they switch whenever they look at the moon (or any pictures of a moon). Moreover, their body can even change features, including sex, depending on which personality is active. Although the only werewolf we've seen is only a half-blood, so how full-blood werewolves behave is still unknown.
* PowerWalk: Done in chapter 65 when all the main cast plus some others gather to rescue [[spoiler:Aizawa's brother, who is in the awful predicament of… being pampered by a clueless Karen who takes "her" for a ghost and wants to help her pass on.]] [[OnlySaneMan Asahi]] has his face hidden by a shovel during the scene.
* RunningGag: As the series' humour functions a lot on repetition, there are a few of those.
** Asahi's lies being transparent (though that's mostly in the early chapters).
** Youko's stomach growling.
** Shirou ending up in Shiho's clothes (or lack of clothes) after she transforms.
** Akane getting her comeuppance from Akari.
** Aizawa planting ice cream cones into Asahi's eyes (on the creamed side, [[EyeScream not the pointy side!]])
** Asahi's nosebleed and his subsequent nickname "Eromine-kun".
** Karen demanding a "thank you" as compensation.
* SeriousBusiness: The series basically runs on this, from a hot-blooded training to "dodge the sun" to a desperate race to get limited-edition burgers, to Youko almost crossing the DespairEventHorizon when she learns there won't be any run-for-the-bun in the obstacle race this year.
* TheSevenMysteries: There are seven ones at the school. [[spoiler:Karen, the "fallen angel," believes herself to be one of them until she learns the ''Elusive Student Council President'' isn't one of them. She is frustrated that Akane has two spots too]]. It is later noted [[spoiler:the mysteries have been around for years. While ''The After-School Vampire'' was likely Shirigami's father, Akane keeping her spots, and Shiho's mother was ''The Infirmary Pervert'', Asahi wonders who filled in the rest]].
## ''The After-School Vampire'' is Shirigami and the near-moments she was noticed.
## ''The Dwarf of the Corridor'' is Aizawa when she is seen in her natural size.
## ''The Flashy Werewolf'' is Shirou when trying to change out of female clothing.
## ''The Infirmary Pervert'' is Shiho being herself.
## ''The Spirit of the Home-Ec Room'' is Ryou in his female-ghost robot body.
## ''The Missing Principal'' is Akane and her not being recognized as the principal by many students.
## ''The Mysterious Horned Girl'' is Akane being noticed with her horned and thought of as a student.
* SomethingElseAlsoRises: Aizawa's antenna on her real body [[spoiler:shines brightly when she, or others of her kind, are sexually attracted to another being]]. She refuses to tell Asahi this [[spoiler:especially when, in human-size, her antenna glows really brightly]].
* ThemeNaming: Most characters have a color in their names, like '''Kuro'''mine (black), '''Shira'''gami (white), '''Ai'''zawa (blue) or Mikan (orange − although it's the fruit). It's usually (except for Youko) the color of their hair.
* ThereIsOnlyOneBed: Due to a series of improbable events (helped by the principal using her powers to put them in a position to bang because she thinks it's funny), Asahi and Youko end up trapped in her bedroom at night. First she suggests he take the bed, which he refuses. She refuses as well, and gets halfway through suggesting they share it before [[ThatCameOutWrong she realizes what she's saying]]. They both end up sleeping on the floor.
* VampireInvitation: One of the vampire weaknesses. Shiragami, being a half-blood, can enter any room uninvited, but feels incredibly guilty when doing so.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Youko and Akane can't spend a minute together without bickering, but they still spend a lot of minutes together.
* WhamLine: Shortly after she successfully convinces the girl that she is Asahi's grand-daughter from the future, Rin accidentally calls [[spoiler:Akemi Mikan]] "Granny." Whoops.
** Chapter 71: [[spoiler: I'VE ALWAYS BEEN IN LOVE WITH ASAHI-KUN!!!]]
* WingedHumanoid: All the vampires have the traditional large, retractable bat wings. [[spoiler:Angels apparently have four feathered wings.]]
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Youko is green, Mikan is orange, Aizawa is blue, Shiho is purple, Akane is pink, etc. Colors for all tastes!
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