History Manga / ScienceFellInLoveSoITriedToProveIt

* RelationshipLabelingProblems: The main plot is Himuro and Yukimura trying to scientifically prove or disprove the statement that they are in love with each other. Until they have proof they are unwilling to uncategorically say that they are.

The manga began serialization in the {{shonen|Demographic}} magazine ''Comic Meteor'' in 2016, and is still ongoing. It received a twelve episode adaptation from anime studio Zero-G that premiered on January 10th, 2020. The second season is set to be part of the Spring 2022 season.

* BullyMagnet: Both Yukimura and Himuro were this as children due to their nerdy interests, to the point their backpacks have insults written on them. For Yukimura, though, it had no effect at all--he's so ProudToBeAGeek that he just shrugged it off.

* DeliberatelyBadExample: As a {{Shonen}} series, some of the intended readers may not have much idea about what is a "good" or "bad" academic presentation. Shikijou's presentation is to show what a (realistically) "bad presentation" looks like: the speaker doesn't have a clue as to why they're doing the research presented and doesn't have the sense of answer "I don't know" to things they don't know.

* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: The episode names for the anime use the format of "Science-types Fell in Love, So They Tried to (task)". They are also labeled as "Proofs".

* SenpaiKohai: Kanade and Kosuke are the youngest student at the lab, the Kohai. This is notable by how they are referred to on a FirstNameBasis, while everyone else is LastNameBasis with one another. Yukimaru takes his role of training Kanade for her presentation seriously.

* SempaiKohai: Kanade and Kosuke are the youngest student at the lab, the Kohai. This is notable by how they are referred to on a FirstNameBasis, while everyone else is LastNameBasis with one another. Yukimaru takes his role of training Kanade for her presentation seriously.

* HotScientist: It's a romcom starring scientists, so naturally almost every character is attractive in a labcoat.

[[caption-width-right:350:Two geniuses with no awareness for love]]

** Yukimura suffers another in Chapter 63, chronologically taking place right after season 2's finale, where the cast repeats the [[AffectionateGestureToTheHead headpats]] experiment from early in the series now that the underlying conditions have changed [[spoiler:following the reveal that Kanade has fallen in love with Yukimura too. As before, if Yukimura headpats Kanade, Himuro gets jealous, but now if Yukimura headpats Himuro, then Kanade gets jealous. And if he uses both hands to headpat them at the same time, they relax enough to end up leaning on him, leaving him effectively trapped until Kosuke arrives to the lab and tries to kill him for having two girls all to himself.]]

* DatingSim: Kosuke plays one on a regular basis, to the point of considering his preferred character to be his girlfriend.

* MortonsFork: Kosuke points out that there tends to no good answer to the "Do you know why I'm mad at you?" question when it's between two romantic partners: saying they have no idea gets the person flack for not knowing, asking for the reason gets a MathematiciansAnswer and correctly guessing the reason gets the person flack for doing the maddening thing despite knowing that the person asking the question wouldn't like it. Unfortunately for Yukimura, he manages to TakeAThirdOption in the worst way possible.

** The Season 2 finale [[UpToEleven ups the ante]] [[spoiler:by having Kanade kidnapped by Shikijou and his cohorts, nearly raping her in the process, until Yukimura saves the day by getting Kanade back in one piece and having Shikijou and his friends arrested.]]

* MotherNatureFatherScience: {{Zigzagged|Trope}}. The cast, which are mostly grad students in different disciplines of science, is very gender-balanced. However, Kanade says in this university, there's still a huge gap in the gender ratios among the science majors.

* NoCommunitiesWereHarmed: While not apparent when romanized, the Saitama University (彩玉大学) where this series takes place, is merely based on, but not literally, the real-life Saitama University (埼玉大学). The author swapped one kanji to a homophonous one.

* DramaBombFinale: [[spoiler:The final episode of the second season suddenly darkens its tone from the rest of the show, revealing some incredibly deranged motives behind a side character, culminating in attempted rape and the tension of the situation halting when Yukimura pulls up a powerpoint slideshow in the middle of the confrontation. General consensus is that it's a poor ending to the season.]]

* DramaticDrop: In the opening scene of the anime, Yukimura drops the meal bar he's eating when he hears Himuro says she might be in love with him.

* CerebusSyndrome: While it starts off as a romcom with emphasis on the "com", the last two episodes of the first season get more serious in tone as Yukimura and Himuro's relationship is [[spoiler:threatened by a combination of Himuro's jealousy and Yukimura's inability to be more than TheSpock.]]

* TsurimeEyes: Yukimura and Himuro both have sharp, upturned eyes, which underlies their serious nature.

* AndTheAdventureContinues: [[spoiler:Even after sharing a kiss of the highest theoretical value, and seeing that their Oxycontin values were much higher during this event than under any other circumstance, Himuro and Yukimura continue their research into romance. They have to repeat their experiments for statistical validity, you know, so they need to kiss many more times. Kanade rolls her eyes and leaves them to their science-type flirting.]]

* MeetCute: {{Parodied|Trope}} in the ColdOpen of [=S1E05=], which has a stereotypical CuteClumsyGirl running late for school as she imagines meeting her soulmate as she runs around the corner. On cue, she crashes into Yukimura, and it's LoveAtFirstSight for her. However, her ToastOfTardiness landed jam-side down on her shirt, causing her to curse her luck (after a string of other unfortunate events that morning). This prompts Yukimura to go on a tangent about MurphysLaw before explaining why it's scientifically probable for her toast to land jam-side down before walking away. The girl briefly seems entranced... before passing him off as a nerd.

* FracturedFairyTale: The second half of [=S1E07=] focuses on Himuro retelling fairy tales updated to the modern day, generally making one of the characters a "science nerd", under the guise that the fairy tales are used as a vector to study romantic concepts.

* AuthorAvatar: Proof 19 and [=S1E08=] introduced Arika Yamamoto, an alumna of the cast's science college and a mangaka. The mangaka of the series is Alfred Yamamoto who also graduated from a science college and became a mangaka. The manga makes it even more obvious since Arika is shown with the avatar Alfred uses in the extras.

* KnightOfCerebus: Arika's arrival is the point where the series starts getting more serious, [[spoiler:and she deliberately plays the part in [=S1E12=], sabotaging Himuro's attempt to make up with Yukimura just for the sake of creating drama to use for her manga.]]

* LaserGuidedKarma: [=S1E12=] reveals that Arika [[spoiler:intentionally damaged Himuro's gift to Yukimura for the drama of it]]. As a result, Ibarada intentionally ordered extensive room service that Arika has to pay for as punishment.

** Testing this is the first experiment of episode 2, with Yukimura petting Himuro's head. It sets off Himuro's ExpressiveHair, prompting Yukimura to wonder what principle is allowing it to move independently. When Ibarada insists they need a control, they test the gesture with her and Kanade. Kanade finds it awkward, Ibarada [[TheGadfly makes it awkward]].

* AuthorAvatar: Proof 19 and episode 8 introduced Arika Yamamoto, an alumna of the cast's science college and a mangaka. The mangaka of the series is Alfred Yamamoto who also graduated from a science college and became a mangaka. The manga makes it even more obvious since Arika is shown with the avatar Alfred uses in the extras.

* BeachEpisode: Episode 9 to 12 are set at a beach resort at Okinawa as the cast goes there for a training camp and to present their research at a seminar. Most of episode 9 takes place on the beach with the cast in bathing suits, up until Kanade and Kousuke learn that they have to present to several renowned professors.
* BigDamnKiss: Episode 6 is focused on the cast trying to orchestrate this trope, starting with deciding on the factors that comprise the optimal atmosphere for it to take place and deriving a formula to calculate it. Their attempts end in failure by the end of the episode due to a MoodKiller, but their ideal parameters make a big comeback [[spoiler:at episode 12 for the trope to play out in full]].

* CerebusSyndrome: While it starts off as a romcom with emphasis on the "com", the last two episodes get more serious in tone as Yukimura and Himuro's relationship is [[spoiler:threatened by a combination of Himuro's jealousy and Yukimura's inability to be more than TheSpock.]]

* FracturedFairyTale: The second half of Episode 7 focuses on Himuro retelling fairy tales updated to the modern day, generally making one of the characters a "science nerd", under the guise that the fairy tales are used as a vector to study romantic concepts.

* ImpossibleTask: The second half of episode 7 involves several fairy tales being given a scientific spin courtesy of the cast. Their version of ''Literature/TheTaleOfTheBambooCutter'' involves Kaguya challenging her suitors to solve UsefulNotes/FermatsLastTheorem. The first suitor, who isn't good at math, is stumped. The second, with average ability, feels confident that he can solve it with assistance. The third, who is proficient, realizes that she doesn't intend to marry. After the tale's end, Himuro continues to a spiel on the history of the proof of the theorem before Kanade cuts her off.
* InVinoVeritas: Proof 17 and episode 7 showed the Ikeda lab having a drinking party with Yukimura and Ibarada the only one keeping their wits. Himuro becomes extremely clingy, Kosuke somehow mentally returned to childhood, Kanade revealed her jealousy that Himuro and Yukimura have each other when she doesn't have anyone and Professor Ikeda fell asleep. However, Yukimura, the only one who didn't drink, states that the ramblings of a drunk can't be merited.
* KnightOfCerebus: Arika's arrival is the point where the series starts getting more serious, [[spoiler:and she deliberately plays the part in episode 12, sabotaging Himuro's attempt to make up with Yukimura just for the sake of creating drama to use for her manga.]]

* LaserGuidedKarma: Episode 12 reveals that Arika [[spoiler:intentionally damaged Himuro's gift to Yukimura for the drama of it]]. As a result, Ibarada intentionally ordered extensive room service that Arika has to pay for as punishment.

* MeetCute: {{Parodied|Trope}} in the ColdOpen of Episode 5, which has a stereotypical CuteClumsyGirl running late for school as she imagines meeting her soulmate as she runs around the corner. On cue, she crashes into Yukimura, and it's LoveAtFirstSight for her. However, her ToastOfTardiness landed jam-side down on her shirt, causing her to curse her luck (after a string of other unfortunate events that morning). This prompts Yukimura to go on a tangent about MurphysLaw before explaining why it's scientifically probable for her toast to land jam-side down before walking away. The girl briefly seems entranced... before passing him off as a nerd.

* SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud: In the anime, Yukimura says the SoundEffectBleep censoring the name of the real life idol group he mentions in episode 3 (Judging by the letters shown, the group is most likely Music/{{AKB48}})

* ShoutOut: In Episode 12, Yamamoto talks about the "Romeo and Juliet Effect" to Yukimura, it features recolored versions of Juliet Persia and Romio Inuzuka from ''Manga/BoardingSchoolJuliet'' as the image for her explanation.

* NotSoAboveItAll: Despite her desire to do the experiments as much as Yukimura, Himiko tends to get super jealous whenever he gets paired up with another female (usually Kanade).

* DramaticDrop: In the opening scene of the anime, Yukimura drops the meal bar he's eating when he hears Himuro says she might be fell in love with him.