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* CatSmile: Tomoko's expression while trying to choose a cake in episode 9.
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* WhatTheHellHero: To their mother's dismay, Tomoko prevents her brother from enrolling at his dream high school because she forgot to mail his application.

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* WhatTheHellHero: To their mother's dismay, Tomoko prevents her brother from enrolling at his dream high school because she forgot to mail his application. We don't see the angered lambasting she gets, but we do see how she gets reduced to a crying mess afterward.
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* WhatIf: The special included for Volume 18 features three of these. A common thread to all three are how, compared to how things turned out canonically for Tomoko, these relationships are in one way or another not ideal to Tomoko's personal growth.
** The first story features what would have happened had Tomoko just joined Masaki's trio of delinquents. It ends up with Tomoko on the lowest rung in the pecking order, and ends up being Masaki's gopher.
** The second story shows what happens if Tomoko became friends with Yuri, Mako, Sachi, and Koharu. Tomoko finds the experience exhausting due to Sachi and Koharu's bad habits, and eventually breaks ties from them with Yuri and Mako.
** The final story is what would happen if Tomoko became part of Asuka's clique (supplanting Kaho in the group). She's in the limelight a lot, and gets a lot of interaction with guys, but in the end feels empty, and can only feel happy while privately playing videogames at home.

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* WhatIf: The special included for Volume 18 features three of these. A common thread to all three are how, compared to how things turned out canonically for Tomoko, these relationships are in one way or another not ideal to Tomoko's personal growth.
growth. The special included in Volume 20 also continues each of these for a second look.
** The first story features what would have happened had Tomoko just joined Masaki's trio of delinquents. It ends up with Tomoko on the lowest rung in the pecking order, and ends up being Masaki's gopher.
gopher. The second part has Tomoko completely fitting in with the delinquents, and even brags that she's coming close to failing by the end of their first year, but she laughs it off. [[EveryoneHasStandards Masaki, Anna, and Reina don't find that funny at all.]] Even they do the bare minimum to keep from repeating the year, leaving Tomoko to shriek that she's actually the only true delinquent among them. She still manages to pass.
** The second story shows what happens if Tomoko became friends with Yuri, Mako, Sachi, and Koharu. Tomoko finds the experience exhausting due to Sachi and Koharu's bad habits, and eventually breaks ties from them with Yuri and Mako.
Mako. The second part has Tomoko and Sachi, in their 2nd year, getting along with each other on the surface again, but in reality, they're only hanging around each other until they can find better cliques. They eventually do find other groups to fit in with, which for Tomoko, doesn't include Yuri and Mako, despite saying they'd continue to talk with/text each other. When she sees Sachi hanging out with Koharu still, however, she wonders why those two STILL haven't broken things off...
** The final story is what would happen if Tomoko became part of Asuka's clique (supplanting Kaho in the group). She's in the limelight a lot, and gets a lot of interaction with guys, but in the end feels empty, and can only feel happy while privately playing videogames at home. The second part shows off Tomoko, now a 3rd year, in a classroom away from Asuka, Miho, and Fuuka, quietly reveling in the fact that she can now finally be a loner, despite being pestered by other students. However, she comes across a loner girl by herself, and decides that if she can't be a loner herself, she'll just become FRIENDS with one instead. Asuka and the others find Tomoko and accidentally scare the loner off, leaving Tomoko optimistic in thinking that perhaps that loner girl might find some friends for herself as well.
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* YuriGenre: The sheer amount of HomoeroticSubtext present after Tomoko gains a circle of friends, particularly her TwiceShy dynamic with Asuka, edge the manga very close to this.

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* AbortedArc: The OVA pulls a original story, involving Tomoko having a ForgottenFirstMeeting with Aomatsu, a friend of Tomoki that's now studying in the same school [[GodcreatedCanonForeigner despite the story being based on a draft by ]] Creator/NicoTanigawa and the whole OVA being created to promote the manga, the storyline was never followed up in the manga and Aomatsu never appeared.
* AccidentalDownerEnding: Given the anime never got a second season, the story ends right before Tomoko's social life starts improving.


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* GodcreatedCanonForeigner: Aomatsu, the protagonist of the OVA. A loner with anime-like fantasies that met briefly Tomoko during middle school and now is friends with Tomoki and studying in the same school, without either of the two knowing of the other.
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* LikeAnOldMarriedCouple: For a while, Akari was unaware that Tomoko and Tomoki were siblings, and mistook their snarky attitudes towards each other as a clear sign that they were a couple. Later on, Sachi makes the same mistake.

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* LikeAnOldMarriedCouple: For a while, Akari was unaware that Tomoko and Tomoki were siblings, and mistook their snarky attitudes towards each other as a clear sign that they were a couple. Later on, Sachi makes the same mistake.mistake for the same reason.
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* LikeAnOldMarriedCouple: For a while, Akari was unaware that Tomoko and Tomoki were siblings, and mistook their snarky attitudes towards each other as a clear sign that they were a couple.

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* LikeAnOldMarriedCouple: For a while, Akari was unaware that Tomoko and Tomoki were siblings, and mistook their snarky attitudes towards each other as a clear sign that they were a couple. Later on, Sachi makes the same mistake.

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