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* MyGreatestFailure: The main reason why Hina refuses to live with Hiro and Daichi is because [[spoiler:she rationalized that she killed her mom and dad with her capriciousness, so [[HeroicSelfDeprecation she doesn't deserve to be happy living with her brothers]]. Mao's dad dispels this notion on her, finally accepting to live with them]].

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* IndifferentBeauty: Mao is gorgeous but hardly seems to notice her looks, or ever use them.



* IndifferentBeauty: Mao is gorgeous but hardly seems to notice her looks, or ever use them.

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* IndifferentBeauty: Mao IntergenerationalFriendship: Subverted. Albeit Hiro is gorgeous but hardly seems 7 years older than Mao, and much ado is made about their age difference, they're still considered to notice her looks, or ever use them.be within the same generation (±7 years is the usual range).
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* SingleTargetSexuality:
** Mao has eyes for no one that is not Hiro.
** [[spoiler:Daiki considers no girl that is not Mao, even to the point of being InnocentlyInsensitive to his cousin, who is in love with him]].

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* MoralityPet: [[spoiler:Mao becomes Hiro, Daichi and Hina's main coping mechanism after spending the good part of a decade estranged from one another after the death of their parents, bringing them together finally under the same roof]].



* NightmareFetishist: Mao really likes weird, ambiguously demonic looking stuff.

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* NightmareFetishist: Mao and Daiki really likes like weird, ambiguously demonic looking stuff.



* OneHourWeek: The scenes at school are only of lunch hour, when Mao meets up with Chii and Oda. She is hardly ever seen studying.

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* OneHourWeek: The scenes at school are only of lunch hour, when Mao meets up with Chii and Oda. She is hardly ever seen studying.studying, implying that academics are not an issue.
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Several years pass, and Mao, now seventeen-years-old, is in high school and lives with her father, her stepmother, and the latter's daughter. She continues to check up on Hiro, who is now twenty-three and has a job as an entry level programmer, every now and then, but the stress of adjusting to her new family life causes Hiro to ask again if she'd like to move in with him. This time, Mao agrees.

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Several Nine years pass, and Mao, now seventeen-years-old, is in high school and lives with her father, her stepmother, and the latter's daughter. She continues to check up on Hiro, who is now twenty-three and has a job as an entry level programmer, every now and then, but the stress of adjusting to her new family life causes Hiro to ask again if she'd like to move in with him. This time, Mao agrees.

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* DoggedNiceGuy:
** Oda towards Mao, Chii towards Oda, Mao and Radical/Sugimoto towards Hiiro.
** Daichi's cousin is this towards him, and she's shown to be deeply hurt by his constant rejection of her.



* DoggedNiceGuy: Oda towards Mao, Chii towards Oda, Mao and Radical/Sugimoto towards Hiiro.



* HugeSchoolgirl: [[spoiler:When Hina enrolls in Mao and Daichi's school, she's a good head taller than all the girls in her class and most of the boys]].



* InnocentlyInsensitive: Daichi becomes notoriously snappy when someone suggests that he and his cousin from Kansai are an item, and his vehement denials are show to cut her deep, seeing that she's deeply in love with him.



* ReplacementGoldfish: Mao acts as one for Hiro for most of the manga. It is not until Hina finally decided to come home when the relationship between Mao and Hiro finally took off.

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* ReplacementGoldfish: Played with. Mao acts as thinks she's one for Hiro for most of the manga. It manga, as she's under the impression that she's usurping Hina. [[spoiler:It's later shown that this is not until Hina finally decided to come home when the relationship between Mao and what Hiro finally took off.expects of their relationship]].



** Chihiro supports Mao and whomever Mao loves [[spoiler: even if that meant she (Chii) would have to give up her love]].

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** Chihiro supports Mao and whomever Mao loves [[spoiler: even [[spoiler:even if that meant she (Chii) would have to give up her love]].

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* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe:
** Mao loves Hiro because at her loneliest and most abject, he always offered her company and sought to bring her to his home so that she felt included.
** [[spoiler:Daiki loves Mao because she's the only person who offered him consolation when his parents died]].



* ChildhoodFriends: Hiro and Mao.

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* ChickMagnet: Oda is one because of his handsomeness and his ability to talk to girls, which he forged at home being a boy with six sisters.
* ChildhoodFriends: Hiro Hiro, Hina, Daichi and Mao.



* ContrivedCoincidence: What are the chances that the biggest fan of Mao's cellphone novel turned out to be in love with the same guy as her?

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* ContrivedCoincidence: ContrivedCoincidence:
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What are the chances that the biggest fan of Mao's cellphone novel turned out to be in love with the same guy as her?her?
** [[spoiler:Mao's mother shows up at the moment Mao has finally formalized her return to her dad's home, and when she's about to formalize her own relationship with Hiro]].



* CuddleBug: Played for laughs. In spite of their {{Tsundere}} tendencies, they are both very affectionate people, and they're tremendously susceptible to being given affection too.



* DullEyesOfUnhappiness: Hina seems to sport these.

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* DullEyesOfUnhappiness: Hina seems to sport these. [[spoiler:She sports these due to the fact that she thinks that she "killed" her parents by whining for a toy, which sent them on the road where they had their traffic accident]].


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* GracefulLoser:
** [[spoiler:Daiki gives up on Mao due to the fact that she brought the colors back into Hiro's life, and is being successful in bringing their family together where both he and Hina failed]].
** [[spoiler:Mao's mother tries to come into her daughter's life with the best intentions she can, and after spending a considerable time putting herself together to accomplish it, but she showed up too late, so Mao declines her offer to live together]].
** Subverted with [[spoiler:Radical]], who becomes a royal mess after [[spoiler:Hiro rejects her]]. It almost completely destroys her relationship with [[spoiler:Mao]] and it takes her a while to climb out of the rut.
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* TheMatchmaker: [[spoiler:One of the first things that Hina does when she returns home is setting herself the goal of finding a girlfriend for Daichi]].

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* AwfulWeddedLife: The main problem between Mao's parents is that [[spoiler: she married her best friend in a reactionary action, and not the person that she thought she loved. She eventually cheated on him on that "loved" one, and ended up abandoning her husband and daughter, and spent ten years alone trying to put herself together into something resembling a person that was at least worthy of living with Mao. but she showed up too late]].



* GoodParents: the Nakamura couple.

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* GoodParents: the The Nakamura couple.couple.
* HimeCut: Mao's hairstyle as a high school student.



* HimeCut: Mao's hairstyle as a high school student.

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* HimeCut: Mao's hairstyle as a high school student.JailBaitWait: [[spoiler:At the end of the story, Hiro is literally counting the days so that he can marry Mao.]]



* LikeASonToMe:
** Both Hina's and Daichi's aunts where they are staying become this for them.
** [[spoiler:Hina's stepmom spends a considerable time and effort to become this for Mao, and eventually succeeds]].



* LoveDodecahedron: Chii likes Oda, who likes Mao, who likes Hiro, whom [[spoiler: her new friend "miss Radical"/Sugimoto]] also likes.

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* LoveDodecahedron: Chii likes Oda, who likes Mao, who likes Hiro, whom [[spoiler: her new friend "miss Radical"/Sugimoto]] also likes.likes, whom in turn is liked by [[spoiler:her online buddy ReiRei]].



* MissingMom: It is hinted that Mao's real mother has not visited her ever since the divorce years earlier. [[spoiler: Mao runs into her in chapter 44.]]

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* MissingMom: It is hinted that Mao's real mother has not visited her ever since the divorce years earlier. [[spoiler: Mao runs into her in chapter 44.44, having come with pure intentions to live with Mao, but having turned up too little too late.]]



* RepeatWhatYouJustSaid: [[spoiler:At the end of the manga, Mao literally has to pry on Hiro so that he finally states clearly what his intentions are, as he has a habit of dragging on the implications of what he wants to say instead of actually saying it. After he tells her that he wants to marry her, she immediately accepts]].



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* SliceOfLifeSliceOfLife: Most of the manga consists of the household interactions between Mao and Hiro, and later Daichi.

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* AgeGapRomance: What a romantic relationship between Mao and Hiro would fall into. She is 17 and he is 23, and while they don't have a big age difference he doesn't approve of the idea of a high school girl dating a working man.



* MayDecemberRomance: What a romantic relationship between Mao and Hiro would fall into. She is 17 and he is 23, and while they don't have a big age difference he doesn't approve of the idea of a high school girl dating a working man.



* [[ReplacementGoldfish Replacement Sister]]: Mao acts as one for Hiro for most of the manga. It is not until Hina finally decided to come home when the relationship between Mao and Hiro finally took off.

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* [[ReplacementGoldfish Replacement Sister]]: ReplacementGoldfish: Mao acts as one for Hiro for most of the manga. It is not until Hina finally decided to come home when the relationship between Mao and Hiro finally took off.



* [[spoiler: SiblingTriangle: Mao likes Hiro, who is starting to reciprocate. So far so good, then comes recent chapters and we discover that Daiki ''also'' has feelings for Mao.]]

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* [[spoiler: SiblingTriangle: Mao [[spoiler:Mao likes Hiro, who is starting to reciprocate. So far so good, then comes recent chapters and we discover that Daiki ''also'' has feelings for Mao.]]
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The series won the 2014 Kodansha Award for Best Shoujo Series.

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The series won the 2014 Kodansha Award for Best Shoujo Series.Series, and is available digitally in English through Kodansha USA.
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* HypocriticalHeartwarming: Chii is complaining to Mao about how Oda is an idiot. Mao agrees, saying that he is an idiot. Chi quickly shoots back that Mao is not allowed to call him an idiot.
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* TookALevelInJackass: Mao's dad was originally a nice guy that truly loved his family. [[spoiler:Then he found out his first wife cheated on him soon after they got married and to the her old boyfriend that scammed her.]]
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->''Back in the day, that place was a house filled with magic—a place where you ended up smiling even if you were crying. Surely, an invisible wizard must have lived there. Or so I thought.''

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->''Back ->''"Back in the day, that place was a house filled with magic—a place where you ended up smiling even if you were crying. Surely, an invisible wizard must have lived there. Or so I thought.''
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* WriteWhatYouKnow: Mao's cell phone novel "House of the Sun" (under the penname "Kuukai") is basically her living with Hiro, but changing their names (e.g. Mao to Kaoru, Hiro to Takeshi). Hiro doesn't realize this, mistakes the kanji for "Kuukai" as "Sorami," and thinks the novel is by his co-worker Sugimoto because she is rumored to writes novels and he feels as though "Kaoru" is similar to Sugimoto; in reality, Sugimoto is merely a fan of Mao's novel.

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* WriteWhatYouKnow: Mao's InUniverse cell phone novel "House of the Sun" (under the penname "Kuukai") is basically her living with Hiro, but changing their names (e.g. Mao to Kaoru, Hiro to Takeshi). Hiro doesn't realize this, mistakes the kanji for "Kuukai" as "Sorami," and thinks the novel is by his co-worker Sugimoto because she is rumored to writes novels and he feels as though "Kaoru" is similar to Sugimoto; in reality, Sugimoto is merely a fan of Mao's novel.
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* DullEyesOfUnhappiness: [[spoiler: Hina. She blames herself for their parents' accident.]]
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* CallBack: At the beginning of the manga, Hiro is excited and announced that his little sister returning home. The manga ends when Hina finally comes home.


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* DullEyesOfUnhappiness: [[spoiler: Hina. She blames herself for their parents' accident.]]


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** For all his faults, [[spoiler: Mao's father]] was the one who convinced Hina to finally come home.


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* [[ReplacementGoldfish Replacement Sister]]: Mao acts as one for Hiro for most of the manga. It is not until Hina finally decided to come home when the relationship between Mao and Hiro finally took off.
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**[[spoiler: [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness Subverted.]] When she finally moved back to her father's place, Mao finds out that she is actually a nice and caring mother once she actually took the time to get to know her.]]


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**The Nakamura father used to come home late at night, until a teenaged Hiro demanded that they buy a house close to his workplace so that Dad can get home early.
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* BishieSparkle: Hiro's boss always has it on. It's even lampshaded in Chapter 48.
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->''Back in the day, that place was a house filled with magic—a place where you ended up smiling even if you were crying. Surely, an invisible wizard must have lived there. Or so I thought''

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->''Back in the day, that place was a house filled with magic—a place where you ended up smiling even if you were crying. Surely, an invisible wizard must have lived there. Or so I thought''
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The series won the 2014 Kodansha Award for Best Shoujo Series.


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* BreakingTheFourthWall: The author released a special chapter after the manga won the Kodansha Award, where the characters acknowledge the prize.
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* SupremeChef: Everything Hiro makes is delicious and looks good. In contrast, Mao belongs to the other end of the spectrum.

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* SupremeChef: Everything Hiro makes is delicious and looks good. In contrast, Mao belongs to [[LethalChef the other end of the spectrum.spectrum]].
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** Daiki also likes [[spoiler: Mao]], and his cousin is [[ImpliedTrope implied]] to like [[spoiler: him]] in chapter 32.

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** Daiki also likes [[spoiler: Mao]], and his cousin is [[ImpliedTrope implied]] to like [[spoiler: [[ImpliedLoveInterest implied]] [[KissingCousins to like him]] in chapter 32.]]



* MayDecemberRomance: What a romantic relationship between Mao and Hiro would fall into. She is 17 and he is 23, and while they don't have a big age difference he doesn't aprove of the idea of a highschool girl dating a working man.

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* MayDecemberRomance: What a romantic relationship between Mao and Hiro would fall into. She is 17 and he is 23, and while they don't have a big age difference he doesn't aprove approve of the idea of a highschool high school girl dating a working man.



* MissingMom: It is hinted that Mao's mother has not visited her ever since the divorce years earlier.

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* MissingMom: It is hinted that Mao's real mother has not visited her ever since the divorce years earlier. [[spoiler: Mao runs into her in chapter 44.]]
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This series badly NeedsMoreLove.



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* DullEyesOfUnhappiness: Hina seems to sport these.
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* RealMenHateSugar: Averted with Hiro. Mao on the other side plays it straight.


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* SweetTooth: Hiro, big time. Every single day he buys cream puffs.
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* HimeCut: Mao's hairstyle as a high school student.
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* AloofDarkHairedGirl: Mao unless Hiro brings out her inner {{Tsundere}}. Very much the impression her classmates have of her.


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* NightmareFetishist: Mao really likes weird, ambiguously demonic looking stuff.
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* CoolBigSis: Oda's sister.
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* LuminescentBlush: Mao is the queen of this trope around Hiro or in relation to Hiro.

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