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''The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn't a Guy At All'' (Kinninaru Hito ga Otoko Jyanakatta) is an original {{doujin|shi}} manga by [[https://twitter.com/agu_knzm?lang=en Sumiko Arai]]. The first issue was posted on 10th April 2022 and has been updated weekly via her Twitter.

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''The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn't a Guy At All'' (Kinninaru (''Kinninaru Hito ga Otoko Jyanakatta) Jyanakatta'') is an original {{doujin|shi}} manga by [[https://twitter.com/agu_knzm?lang=en Sumiko Arai]]. The first issue was posted on 10th April 2022 and has been updated weekly via her Twitter.
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* {{Tsundere}}: Aya shows shades of this towards Mitsuki when the latter is unknowingly showing off her "Onii-san" vibes or showing up while Aya is boasting about their friendship. In one chapter Mitsuki asks for a towel to dry off and Aya yells at her to remain soaked forever, and in the next panel (lampshaded by the narration) Aya is carrying towels for Mitsuki to use.
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''The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn't a Guy At All'' (Kinninaru Hito ga Otoko Jyanakatta) is an original doujin manga by [[https://twitter.com/agu_knzm?lang=en Sumiko Arai]]. The first issue was posted on 10th April 2022 and has been updated weekly via her Twitter.

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''The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn't a Guy At All'' (Kinninaru Hito ga Otoko Jyanakatta) is an original doujin {{doujin|shi}} manga by [[https://twitter.com/agu_knzm?lang=en Sumiko Arai]]. The first issue was posted on 10th April 2022 and has been updated weekly via her Twitter.

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* YuriGenre: While Aya and Mitsuki haven't gotten together yet, the story seems to imply that they will eventually once Aya gets over the shock of her crush turning out to be a girl.

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* YuriGenre: While Aya and Mitsuki haven't gotten together yet, the story seems to imply that they will eventually once Aya gets over the shock of her crush turning out to be a girl.girl.
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* BatmanGambit: Narita, knowing fully well Aya and Mitsuki are music lovers, volunteers himself for after party organiser then picks Aya in the commitee since he claims he needs someone who knows a lot of music. She in turn picks Mitsuki as the third member for the same reason. This was all according to his plan of acting as an indirect RomanticWingman for Mitsuki to spend more time with Aya.

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* DistinguishingMark: Mitsuki took great measures at hiding them to separate herself from the music store clerk such as covering up the multiple ear holes behind her hair, wearing an armband over her wrist tattoo and cleaning the black nail polish from her fingernails. However, the mole underneath her right eye is enough for Narita to figure out she and the clerk were one and the same and had several close calls with Aya before she learned the truth.
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* AmbiguouslyBi: Even while at the height of her crush on "Onii-san", Aya still had a couple moments of blushing and being nervous around Mitsuki at school.
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* InformedAttribute: Narita claims the easiest thing for him is to get a girl to help him out due to his good looks and "male power". However, the only time he ever used it was on Mitsuki and Aya in his debut with both attempts failing miserably since the former was panicking while reluctant to show her homework and the latter called him out and gave Narita the insulting nickname of "Jerkface". which really gets to him.
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''The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn't a Guy At All'' is an original doujin manga by [[https://twitter.com/agu_knzm?lang=en Sumiko Arai]]. The first issue was posted on 10th April 2022 and has been updated weekly via her Twitter.

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''The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn't a Guy At All'' (Kinninaru Hito ga Otoko Jyanakatta) is an original doujin manga by [[https://twitter.com/agu_knzm?lang=en Sumiko Arai]]. The first issue was posted on 10th April 2022 and has been updated weekly via her Twitter.
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* ForegoneConclusion: Bonus one-page specials show Aya and Mitsuki as a couple living together five years down the road so it's a matter of when they would eventually become one in the main story.

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* ForegoneConclusion: Bonus The bonus one-page specials show Aya and Mitsuki as a couple living together five years down the road so it's a matter of when they would eventually become one in the main story.
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* ForgoneConclusion: Bonus one-page specials show Aya and Mitsuki as a couple living together five years down the road so it's a matter of when they would eventually become one in the main story.

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* ForgoneConclusion: ForegoneConclusion: Bonus one-page specials show Aya and Mitsuki as a couple living together five years down the road so it's a matter of when they would eventually become one in the main story.

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* ForgoneConclusion: Bonus one-page specials show Aya and Mitsuki as a couple living together five years down the road so it's a matter of when they would eventually become one in the main story.



* NoNameGiven: Aya and Mitsuki's male classmate remains unnamed until Chapter 23, when he introduces himself as Narita. The fandom nicknames him "[[{{Jerkass}} Jerkface]]," since that's the insult Aya makes toward him.

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* NoNameGiven: Aya and Mitsuki's male classmate remains unnamed until Chapter 23, 23 when he introduces himself as Narita. The fandom nicknames him "[[{{Jerkass}} Jerkface]]," since that's the insult Aya makes toward him.
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* AuthorVocabularyCalendar: Or at least translator's vocabulary calendar. In Chapter 15, Mitsuki, a music lover who seems to be of average intelligence, describes her uncle's record store as "moribund."

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* AuthorVocabularyCalendar: Or at least the translator's vocabulary calendar. In Chapter 15, Mitsuki, a music lover who seems to be of average intelligence, describes her uncle's record store as "moribund."
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* {{Jerkass}}: Aya and Mitsuki's male classmate, who's nicknamed "Jerkface" by the fandom, earns this nickname by initially coming off as one of these. He asks Mitsuki for her homework, then insults her when she claims that she didn't do it. He seems to be developing into a JerkWithAHeartOfGold over time, though.

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* {{Jerkass}}: Aya and Mitsuki's male classmate, Narita, who's nicknamed "Jerkface" by Aya (and the fandom, fandom), earns this nickname by initially coming off as one of these. He asks Mitsuki for her homework, then insults her when she claims that she didn't do it. He seems to be developing into a JerkWithAHeartOfGold over time, though.



* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: A male classmate asks Mitsuki for her homework in the optional subject, only to find that she apparently hasn't done it, prompting him to mockingly say that he thought she was supposed to be smart. Aya then delivers a short but succinct response that ends up getting to him.

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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: A male classmate Narita asks Mitsuki for her homework in the optional subject, only to find that she apparently hasn't done it, prompting him to mockingly say that he thought she was supposed to be smart. Aya then delivers a short but succinct response that ends up getting to him.



* SecretKeeper: Mitsuki and Aya's male classmate knows that Mitsuki is the girl in the record store.

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* SecretKeeper: Mitsuki and Aya's male classmate Narita knows that Mitsuki is the girl in the record store.



* WallPinOfLove: Mitsuki does this to her male classmate in the record store after he figures out her identity, and demands that he keep it secret from Aya.

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* WallPinOfLove: Mitsuki does this to her male classmate Narita in the record store after he figures out her identity, and demands that he keep it secret from Aya.

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* AccidentalMisnaming: Mitsuki accidentally calls Narita "Arita."



* NoNameGiven: Aya and Mitsuki's male classmate. The fandom nicknames him "[[{{Jerkass}} Jerkface]]," since that's the insult Aya makes toward him.

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* NoNameGiven: Aya and Mitsuki's male classmate.classmate remains unnamed until Chapter 23, when he introduces himself as Narita. The fandom nicknames him "[[{{Jerkass}} Jerkface]]," since that's the insult Aya makes toward him.
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* BlandNameProduct: In one single-page special, Aya and Mitsuki have to assemble IKEYA furniture.


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* CoordinatedClothes: In one single-page post set in the future, Aya and Mitsuki both wear overalls while assembling [[BlandNameProduct IKEYA]] furniture.
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Aya Oosawa, a gyaru high school student, frequents a small record store and develops a crush on the clerk, who has dark hair and wears a hoodie and a face mask. There's one problem- as the title implies, the clerk is actually her nerdy female classmate Mitsuki Koga. How will Aya react when she learns her crush is not acually a boy?

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Aya Oosawa, a gyaru high school student, frequents a small record store and develops a crush on the clerk, who has dark hair and wears a hoodie and a face mask. There's one problem- problem-- as the title implies, the clerk is actually her nerdy female classmate Mitsuki Koga. How will Aya react when she learns her crush is not acually actually a boy?



* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: A male classmate asks Mitsuki for her homework in the optional subject, only to find that she apparently hasn't done it, prompting him to mockingly say that he thought she was supposed to be smart. Aya then deivers a short but succinct response that ends up getting to him.

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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: A male classmate asks Mitsuki for her homework in the optional subject, only to find that she apparently hasn't done it, prompting him to mockingly say that he thought she was supposed to be smart. Aya then deivers delivers a short but succinct response that ends up getting to him.
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* UnsettlingGenderReveal: Subverted. While Anya is not happy when she finds out that the guy she has been crushing on was her female classmate, Mitsuki, she is not upset by the mere fact that she is a girl. Rather, she's upset by the fact that Mitsuki had been deceiving her and lying to her about her real identity.

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* UnsettlingGenderReveal: Subverted. While Anya Aya is not happy when she finds out that the guy she has been crushing on was her female classmate, Mitsuki, she is not upset by the mere fact that she is a girl. Rather, she's upset by the fact that Mitsuki had been deceiving her and lying to her about her real identity.
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* UnsettlingGenderReveal: Subverted. While Anya is not happy when she finds out that the guy she has been crushing on was her female classmate, Mitsuki, she is not upset by the mere fact that she is a girl. Rather, she's upset by the fact that Mitsuki had been deceiving her and lying about her real identity.

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* UnsettlingGenderReveal: Subverted. While Anya is not happy when she finds out that the guy she has been crushing on was her female classmate, Mitsuki, she is not upset by the mere fact that she is a girl. Rather, she's upset by the fact that Mitsuki had been deceiving her and lying to her about her real identity.
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* UnsettlingGenderReveal: Subverted. While Anya is not happy when she finds out that the guy she has been crushing on was her female classmate, Mitsuki, she is not upset by the mere fact that she is a girl, but rather, she's upset by the fact that Mitsuki had been deceiving her and lying about her real identity.

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* UnsettlingGenderReveal: Subverted. While Anya is not happy when she finds out that the guy she has been crushing on was her female classmate, Mitsuki, she is not upset by the mere fact that she is a girl, but rather, girl. Rather, she's upset by the fact that Mitsuki had been deceiving her and lying about her real identity.
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* UnsettlingGenderReveal: Subverted. While Anya is not happy when she finds out that the guy she has been crushing on was her female classmate, Mitsuki, she is not upset by the mere fact that she is a girl, but rather, she's upset by the fact that Mitsuki had been deceiving her and lying about her real identity.
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* LiarRevealed: [[spoiler:Aya finds out that the clerk is Mitsuki in chapter 18 after finding out her playlist is the same as hers. She does not take it well]].

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''The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn't a Guy At All'' is an original doujin manga by Sumiko Arai.

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''The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn't a Guy At All'' is an original doujin manga by [[https://twitter.com/agu_knzm?lang=en Sumiko Arai.
Arai]]. The first issue was posted on 10th April 2022 and has been updated weekly via her Twitter.



* LiarRevealed: [[spoiler:Aya finds out that the clerk is Mitsuki in chapter 18 after finding out her playlist is the same as hers. She does not take it well]].



* YuriGenre: While Aya and Mitsuki haven't gotten together yet, the story seems to implyt that they will eventually once Aya gets over the shock of her crush turning out to be a girl.

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* YuriGenre: While Aya and Mitsuki haven't gotten together yet, the story seems to implyt imply that they will eventually once Aya gets over the shock of her crush turning out to be a girl.

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* SchoolFestival: Aya and Mitsuki have to work on preparing for one. During their preparations, Aya finds out about Mitsuki's identity as the record store clerk.



* SecondYearProtagonist: Aya and Mitsuki are 17 at the start of the series, which seems to begin a few months into the story, so they seem to be second-years.

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* SecondYearProtagonist: Aya and Mitsuki are 17 at the start of the series, which seems to begin a few months into the story, school year(since the protagonists wear short-sleeved summer uniforms), so they seem to be second-years.
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* AuthorVocabularyCalendar: Or at least translator's vocabulary calendar. In Chapter 15, Mitsuki, a music lover who seems to be of average intelligence, describes her uncle's record store as "moribund."
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* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Mitsuki dresses boyishly when not in uniform, such as preferring pants over skirts, which results in her being mistaken for a guy. Aya, on the other hand, is a fashionable gyaru who dresses in a girly manner and wars makeup.

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* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Mitsuki dresses boyishly when not in uniform, such as preferring pants over skirts, which results in her being mistaken for a guy. Aya, on the other hand, is a fashionable gyaru who dresses in a girly manner and wars wears makeup.
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''The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn't a Guy At All'' is an original doujin manga by Sumiko Arai.

Aya Oosawa, a gyaru high school student, frequents a small record store and develops a crush on the clerk, who has dark hair and wears a hoodie and a face mask. There's one problem- as the title implies, the clerk is actually her nerdy female classmate Mitsuki Koga. How will Aya react when she learns her crush is not acually a boy?

!The manga contains examples of the following tropes:
*ClarkKenting: Mitsuki is able to disguise her appearance by wearing contacts instead of glasses, a hoodie and a face mask.
* CoolUncle: Mitsuki's uncle is the owner of the music store where she works, and he dotes on his niece.
*FestivalEpisode: In Chapter 16, Aya takes her twin younger brothers to a festival, where Mitsuki is running a stall.
*InternalReveal: The viewer knows from the end of the first chapter that the record store clerk is Aya's classmate, but Aya doesn't find out until Chapter 18.
*UsefulNotes/JapaneseSiblingTerminology: Aya refers to Mitsuki in her record store clerk persona as "Onii-san," not because she's her brother or anything close to the equivalent, but because she seems to be a young man whose name Aya doesn't know.
*{{Jerkass}}: Aya and Mitsuki's male classmate, who's nicknamed "Jerkface" by the fandom, earns this nickname by initially coming off as one of these. He asks Mitsuki for her homework, then insults her when she claims that she didn't do it. He seems to be developing into a JerkWithAHeartOfGold over time, though.
*LikesOlderMen: Aya is attracted to older guys and thinks that Mitsuki is one.
*LovesMyAlterEgo: Aya is in love with the clerk, but is relatively indifferent toward Mitsuki.
*NoNameGiven: Aya and Mitsuki's male classmate. The fandom nicknames him "[[{{Jerkass}} Jerkface]]," since that's the insult Aya makes toward him.
*TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: A male classmate asks Mitsuki for her homework in the optional subject, only to find that she apparently hasn't done it, prompting him to mockingly say that he thought she was supposed to be smart. Aya then deivers a short but succinct response that ends up getting to him.
-->'''Aya''': Someone who asks for help and then disses... Jerkface.
*SecretKeeper: Mitsuki and Aya's male classmate knows that Mitsuki is the girl in the record store.
*SecondYearProtagonist: Aya and Mitsuki are 17 at the start of the series, which seems to begin a few months into the story, so they seem to be second-years.
*TitleDrop: In Chapter 22, Aya has an InternalMonologue angsting about learning the clerk's true identity.
-->'''Aya''': I get it already. Looks like the guy I was interested in wasn't a guy at all.
*TitleDropChapter: Chapters 1, 2 and [[WhamEpisode 18]] all have the same name as the series.
*TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Mitsuki dresses boyishly when not in uniform, such as preferring pants over skirts, which results in her being mistaken for a guy. Aya, on the other hand, is a fashionable gyaru who dresses in a girly manner and wars makeup.
*WallPinOfLove: Mitsuki does this to her male classmate in the record store after he figures out her identity, and demands that he keep it secret from Aya.
*WhamEpisode: Chapter 18. Mitsuki leaves her phone on the desk, and Aya happens upon it, noticing that she has the same playlist as the record store clerk.
*WhamLine: In Chapter 18, Aya finds a clue that reveals Mitsuki's identity as the record store clerk.
-->'''Aya''': This is the playlist I sent... to Onii-san...?
*YuriGenre: While Aya and Mitsuki haven't gotten together yet, the story seems to implyt that they will eventually once Aya gets over the shock of her crush turning out to be a girl.

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