History Manga / MyMonsterSecret

** Chapter 122 ends with an ''Manga/AshitaNoJoe'' reference, with Asahi falling asleep in the same pose that Joe took [[spoiler:when he died at the end of the series.]]

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: When it is revealed that [[spoiler:sucking blood is a form of sexual intercourse for vampires]], any scene where [[spoiler:blood-sucking is involved]] becomes chock-full of thinly-veiled sexual innuendo. Chapter 152 in particular has a field day with it, where Youko's urge to [[spoiler:suck Asahi's blood]] has blatant parallels with an urge for… ''something else''.

* TheSevenMysteries: There are seven ones at the school. 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 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. [[spoiler:Chapter 159 reveals Aizawa's father scouted out Earth in the past and his flashback shows him being close friends with Shirigami senior, so he is likely this one]].
## ''The Flashy Werewolf'' is Shirou when trying to change out of female clothing.
## ''The Infirmary Pervert'' is Shiho being herself.

** Nagisa's food tends to trigger ''Manga/ShokugekiNoSoma''-style foodgasms in Akane.

* ParanormalRomance: The setting includes vampires, aliens, werewolves, angels, demons, time travellers, gods of fortune, [[OneOfTheseIsNotLikeTheothers steam-bending perverts]], and other oddities. The story still mostly revolves around the progression of Asahi and Youko's romance, [[spoiler:including the events after they become a couple]], and the characters observing it.

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[[caption-width-right:350:From left to right: [[{{Troll}} Akane]], [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire Youko]], [[OnlySaneMan Asahi]], [[TheComicallySerious Nagisa]], [[TheTease Shiho]], [[TheFriendNobodyLikes Shimada]], [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Mikan]], [[NiceGuy Sakurada]], [[DeadpanSnarker Okada]].]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:From left to right: [[{{Troll}} Akane]], [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire Youko]], [[OnlySaneMan Asahi]], [[TheComicallySerious Nagisa]], [[TheTease Shiho]], [[TheFriendNobodyLikes Shimada]], [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Mikan]], [[NiceGuy Sakurada]], [[DeadpanSnarker Okada]].]]

* EarWorm: InUniverse, the Magical Akalyn theme song is regarded as this.

Kuromine Asahi is your average high-schooler... besides having a really bad poker face. He currently has a crush on a fellow classmate named Shiragami Youko, 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. And asks her to become... [[JustFriends "friends"]] with him.

However, being 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'' (literally "Actually, I...", but subtitled "I am...") is a romantic comedy and Masuda Eiji's [[Manga/HowToMakeAnInvisibleMan third]] [[Manga/SakuraDiscord series]], featuring a cast of lovable weirdos, supernatural or otherwise. It has a fun take on an overused premise, notably by mocking or exaggerating a few romcom and school-life clichés and playing with character archetypes, and has good use of hilarious facial expressions. It is also fond of parodying some horror, sci-fi and action shonen tropes. While the first 10 volumes mostly focus on the four main characters (Asahi, Youko, Mikan and the alien Nagisa) and their love square, later volumes explore the rest of the cast and the other aspects of the story more deeply, with the fantasy and sci-fi elements becoming increasingly more prominent. The series started in 2013 and ended in February 2017, with 196 chapters and 22 volumes.

*** The festival also has masks of [[Manga/ShinryakuIkaMusume Ika Musume]] and Series/KamenRiderWizard.

* HonoraryUncle: [[spoiler:When Future-Mikan sends her current teen-self a message, she notes Rin calling her "granny" doesn't mean Mikan is Rin's grandma, and could just be this to her. In Chapter 124, Momochi says that many younger Resistance members call Asahi "Grandpa" out of respect, much to Shiho's relief.]]
** [[spoiler:Ultimately confirmed: In the BadFuture Asahi never got married and had a single daughter, apparently with Youko via blood-drinking; said daughter is Rin's mother, meaning she's his only blood relative among the time travelers.]]

** Shimada being arrested after doing perverted stuff, by a surprisingly prompt police officer (it starts in chapter 18 as a FunnyBackgroundEvent, but it doesn't become a recurring gag until chapter 81).

* WackyMarriageProposal: [[spoiler:In Chapter 188, Genjirou shows up because Youko revealed herself to her classmates and starts flying away with her. Asahi, cheered on by his classmates, leaps out the classroom window and his friends (including Sen, Aizawa, Karen and even Akane) play SteppingStonesInTheSky so he can catch up with Genjirou and ask his permission to marry Youko.]]

* CentraTheme: In line with all of Masuda's series, ''Jitsu wa'' has a strong theme of learning to love yourself, your differences and your flaws, while trying to become a better person.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: A major one for the identity of the Charismatic Pervert II: [[spoiler:When she's first mentioned all the way back in Chapter 35, her silhouette is doing Youko's "cool beauty" pose.]]

* HerCodeNameWasMarySue: Chapter 155 has the class picking a play to perform for the culture festival, and the three entries fall under this. Firstly we have the tale of Princess Kaguya [[RecycledInSpace in Space]], which is clearly an analogue for Aizawa's experiences over the course of the series. Next is "She Was...a Cool Beauty", which Youko is pretty invested in. Subverted with the final entry, "[[Literature/{{Momotaro}} Momobutttaro]]"; it's written by Shiho, but she wants Aizawa to play the title character. Aizawa says she's okay with the play, but only if Shiho plays the lead...and Shimada plays the "excessively perverted monkey". Cue Shiho throwing her own script out the window.
** [[spoiler: Though it's later revealed that, while Aizawa did submit the first play, she wasn't the one who wrote it, and she only submitted it because she thought she had been ordered to by her surperiors. It turns out that it was Future!Aizawa who wrote it, and faked the orders]].
** IShouldWriteABookAboutThis: Aizawa's play essentially uses the story of Princess Kaguya as a cover to retell events from the last two years (read: the rest of the manga), allowing the audience to see all the good times the cast has had without their realizing it's real.