History Series / HinatazakaDeAimasho

** In episode 227, Nao Kosaka dresses up as Rio Futaba of ''Literature/RascalDoesNotDreamOfBunnyGirlSenpai'' (although that character is a TeenGenius, not an adult), while Miku Kanemura wears a black bodyguard suit and carries a LawmanBaton (which slips out of her hand the moment she extends it).

** In ''Ganaoshi'' episode 2, Ayaka Takamoto demonstrates her special skill of telling the members apart only by scent. She gets [[spoiler:all 3 people correct]].

* GentleGiant: Kasuga and ''Hinabingo!'' hosts Sandwichman are pretty imposing guys, especially next to the girls, but they're reasonably kind people. Hina Kawata also tends to admire this kind of men, such as Sandwichman and Wrestling/RikiChoshu.

** Wakabayashi also likes books and is elated to know that Nao has read one that he wrote. He also gets a limited edition copy of ''[[FriendToBugs The Lady Who Loved Insects]]'' featuring Manamo's endorsement message in ''[=HinaAi=]'''s 2021 Christmas gift exchange episode.

* DeathCourse: There have been several segments featuring obstacle courses, such as the "Adults vs Minors Battle" and 2022's "KASUKE". Of course, nothing is lethal, but many obstacles are quite painful.
** A mainstay of these segments is the reflexology mat, which has little plastic stones jutting out meant to stimulate the blood vessels or pressure points on the feet. In episode 154, the contestants are required to ''rope skip on it''.

** In episode 259, Yoko Shogenji attempts the same skill. She gets [[spoiler:3 out of 5 people correct, including Kasuga]].

*** Meanwhile, Kasuga is very partial to Akari Nibu, and later comes to acknowledge Mana Takase as his #1 supporter, turning them into a LoveTriangle. With the arrival of the 4th gens, Kaho Fujishima has become his next favorite, although she usually acts annoyed by it (she revealed on her blog that it was exaggerated for the show).

* AttentionWhore:
** In ''[=HinaAi=]'' episode 37, Suzuka Tomita cries after Kasuga only cued her for comments about halfway into the episode.
** ''[=HinaAi=]'' episodes 81 and 82 are focused on the three 3rd gen members who joined after Hinano Kamimura, whom the production team felt have yet to shine since they're always drowned out by their aggressive seniors. They're put in a room with hidden cameras to find out how they act when their seniors aren't around.

** Miku Kanemura is also among the least fortunate in the show's competitive segments, especially when going against Nao Kosaka.

** In her "Motterude" segment appearance, Haruka Yamashita is revealed to often mishear words for completely different ones, and is also easily pressured by salespeople into buying frivolous items.

* SoundtrackDissonance: "Otoko Tomodachi Dakara", Shiho Kato's heartfelt solo song describing a [[PlatonicLifePartners platonic relationship]] between male and female childhood friends, is Haruyo Yamaguchi's de-stressing music of choice and featured in the comedic skit in her introduction episode. It's later played as background music for comedic moments in the 4th gen's introduction episodes, and Wakabayashi jokes that it's become the group's funniest song.

** Nao Kosaka is quiet, except when she's laughing at others' misfortunes.

** Shiho Kato's seldom-used nickname is Cool Anpontan (Cool Fool), suggested by her own mother. Nanami Konishi's parents gave her a similar nickname, Cool Ponkotsu Konishi.

** In Mirei Sasaki's bread history class in ''Ganaoshi'', Kasuga informs the class that bread was introduced to Japan by the Portuguese, along with guns, which leads Mirei to imagine that the Portuguese distributed the bread using "bread guns". The quip was immortalized as the title of her edition of the show's Blu-ray release.

* TheGenerationGap: In episode 254, members under age 20 are interviewed to learn more about their age group, in order to increase the low number of the show's teenage viewership. Among other things, they wish to receive more of both compliments and constructive criticism, and to reduce the formality between them and the older Audrey duo and production crew, such as by being addressed by their [[FirstNameBasis given names]] or without UsefulNotes/JapaneseHonorifics like "-san".

** In episode 257, Shiho Kato shares that during the filming of the "Kimi wa Honeydew" MV, she and Kumi Sasaki did impressions of yankees from the film ''Manga/{{Crows}}'' to stay motivated between retakes. They proceed to reenact it with Kasuga portraying a male yankee, ending with Wakabayashi taking him down with a surprise DivingKick.

** In episode 254, Nanami Konishi reveals that she usually dresses like a gyaru when going out, but
unlike actual gyarus, she's actually shy and finds it hard carrying a conversation.

*** Meanwhile, Kasuga is very partial to Akari Nibu, and later comes to acknowledge Mana Takase as his #1 supporter, turning them into a LoveTriangle. With the arrival of the 4th gens, Kaho Fujishima has become his next favorite.

The show began airing on March 2018 as ''Hiragana Oshi'' (ひらがな推し, "Hiragana Supporters", ''[=GanaOshi=]'' for short) in reference to [=Hinatazaka46=]'s former name, Hiragana [=Keyakizaka46=], and was renamed in April 2019 following the group's rebranding.

Like in the other Sakamichi groups, the lineups for [=Hinatazaka46=]'s music releases are usually announced in the show, and the "hit prayer" challenges to commemorate them are depicted here as well.

*** Music/Nogizaka46's hit campaign for their 29th single included catching beltfishes (''Trichiurus lepturus''), which are more abundant, and Mizuki Yamashita and Mao Ioki caught four in a day.

** In episode 130, Miku Kanemura imitates the style of a male K-pop star.

*** In ''[=HinaAi=]'' episode 137, resident explainer Yuka Kageyama complains that among the members, explaining to Kyoko is the most difficult. After Yuka announced her graduation from the group in early 2023, Kyoko wrote on her blog that she had finally understood the offside rule in soccer, which Yuka had tried to explain to her on multiple occasions, in appreciation of her.

** In Mirei Sasaki's bread history class in ''Ganaoshi'', Kasuga informs the class that bread was introduced to Japan by the Portuguese, along with guns, which leads Mirei to imagine that the Portuguese distributed the bread using "bread guns". The quip was immortalized as her Blu-ray release title.

** In episode 124, comedian Takashi Yoshimura, who co-stars with Wakabayashi in several other shows, is invited as witness to ensure that Wakabayashi honors his promise to call the members by their preferred nicknames should they appear in those shows. While he's hardly a low-key person himself, he's increasingly baffled by the nicknames and the scenarios the girls come up with to test them out, let alone Wakabayashi's willingness to actually adopt the nicknames. In the end, he begs to be blacklisted from the show, in contrast to him blacklisting Kanji Music/Keyakizaka46 years before due to their lack of variety show enthusiasm.

* TrappedByGamblingDebts: In the first episode of 2023, everybody gets the same amount of New Year's sushi as the Chacha coins they've collected in the previous year, with Hinano Kamimura receiving a huge plate of 35 pieces of sushi (the show had wanted to give it according to their individual contributions, but found the coins much easier to quantify). Meanwhile, Konoka Matsuda is in the red as she'd lost big time in the previous Hinatazaka Derby segment and is forced to WorkOffTheDebt by washing dishes, with a few [[ShoutOut shout-outs]] to the gambling manga ''Manga/{{Kaiji}}''.

** Hinano Kamimura is also this and once claims that she doesn't like it if others see her laugh because it might make them happy. However, she confesses in episode 107 that it has been exaggerated for TV and she's moving away from that character.
* DeathCourse: There have been several segments featuring obstacle courses, such as the "Adults vs Minors Battle" in ''Oshi'' and 2022's "KASUKE". Of course, nothing is lethal, but many obstacles are quite painful.

** In ''[=HinaAi=]'' episode 37, Satomitsu's disciple Konoka Matsuda offers a professional-sounding analysis of Hiyori Hamagishi's nominated line for the Quotes Award, from when Hiyori was about to eat a centipede.

* ExecutiveVeto: Discussed InUniverse; the members has occasionally pointed out that their management prohibits various comedic routines like making funny faces, but being variety buffs, they (especially the 1st gens) do it anyway.
* TheFakeCutie:
** The song "Azato Kawaii" ("Cunning Cuteness") is about this kind of girl. The hit prayer campaign for the album ''Hinatazaka'' which features the song involves them fishing at sea, since cunning girls are also called "fishers" (as in catching others' hearts).
** Memi Kakizaki narrowly beats Manamo Miyata as the top member in this in ''Hiragana Oshi'' episode 25. Both of them often [[AttentionWhore hog the camera]] with their ''burikko'' gestures.
** In episode 54, Miho Watanabe marks several members as either "natural" (天⃝ ''maruten'', literally "circled ''ten''", short for ''tennen'') or "faking" (や⃝ ''maruya'', "circled ''ya''", from やってる ''yatteru'', "doing [on purpose]"). Since then, a RunningGag is a member (usually Miho or Manamo) doing a cutesy impression and other members sternly raising a ''maruya'' sign in response... [[HypocriticalHumor and then doing the same thing not long after]]. This unfortunately started after Memi already graduated. A fan [[https://imgur.com/tglxldL compiled]] their "alignment" into a handy chart.
** They actually have done two Burikko Championships in ''[=HinaAi=]'', first proposed by Miho Watanabe. Wakabayashi points out that the show might have invented the Burikko Oogiri (witty one-liner contest).
** Fourth generation members such as Sumire Miyachi and Honoka Kishi have displayed their knack for this in their debut appearance on the show, ensuring that the ''burikko'' tradition would continue on despite Miho and Manamo's departure in August 2022 and January 2023.

** Her MM Sisters partner, Marie Morimoto, has said that she aspires to cultivate a sexy character as well.

* IntimacyViaHorror: In episode 219, Haruyo Yamaguchi is accused of often making other members watch horror movies with her to become closer.

** In episode 257, Shiho Kato shares that during the filming of the "Kimi wa Honeydew" MV, she and Kumi Sasaki did impressions of yankees from the film ''Manga/{{Crows}}'' to stay motivated between retakes. They proceed to reenact it with Kasuga, ending with Wakabayashi taking him down with a DivingKick.

* OlderThanTheyLook: In episode 250, in which members are separated by age groups into Teams Adult, Young, and Kids for the contests, Team Adult member Suzuka Tomita protests that Akari Nibu, who's the same age as her, is put into Team Young, while Team Young members complain that Haruyo Yamaguchi, who's short in stature but is actually 20, is put into Team Kids.

** In episode 227, Miku reveals that she was fond of the collectible card game ''Love & Berry'' as a child, and everybody can relate to that... except Kumi. Sarina Ushio explains to the Audrey duo that it was popular among girls born in and after 1997, again accidentally making fun of Kumi, who was born in 1996.\\

** Mitsuharu "Satomitsu" Sato, another comedian who's the regular host for the hit prayer challenges, is a fan of Konoka Matsuda and is known to send her gifts (mostly Audrey merch, but everybody assumed he'd given her clothes he wanted to [[MaleGaze see her wearing]]) and teach her some scriptwriting (he's a scriptwriter for several Hinatazaka shows). He's also known for crying ManlyTears every time the girls succeed at the given challenges, since he "also has a [young] daughter".

** In episode 227, Mitsuki Hiraoka reveals a photo from her high school cheerleader days, which she had only alluded to a few times previously (her school also made it to Koshien).

** In episode 227's coming-of-age celebration for members born in 2002, Miku Kanemura specifically requested the nama (literally "raw") chocolate brand Bunzoo to be served. It was later revealed that the brand was in fact founded and is still operated by [[https://youtu.be/hBBBUw_s6dY?si=tSnTnf1ligMFzux-&t=531 her real granduncle]], who's also credited as the inventor of nama chocolate itself.

*** In episode 222, Akari Nibu's multiple-choices question for Kage's graduation quiz has the names of the Junior Detective League members as the options, as one of them shares her name with the group's stage play, ''Ayumi''.

** In episode 8, aired in 2019, Kyoko Saito reveals that she aspires to produce her own cup ramen brand, which taste would be the same as her favorite Jjigae Miso Ramen from the Hidakaya chain, and with a commercial imitating the Coco Ichibanya TV spot in which the group appeared at the time. In 2023, Hidakaya (which had honored her with the title "Jjigae Miso Angel" in 2021) actually released the Jjigae Miso limited-edition cup ramen in collaboration with Cupstar (a cup ramen brand whose commercials often feature [=Hinatazaka46=] and Music/Nogizaka46) and Kyoko herself, whose likeness was displayed on the lids. Kyoko even [[https://twitter.com/cupstar_jp/status/1661567771526955009 reprised]] the aforementioned proposed commercial in one of the promotional videos.

** Nao Kosaka doesn't talk much in their variety shows, except when the hosts, who favor her, ask her first. She believes she's a ''{{hikikomori}}'' in a previous life, as she's a very indoor person, rarely went out with friends, and always wore a face mask back in her school days. Being from Osaka (Japan's center of comedy), she's quite an effective ''tsukkomi'' when she chooses to, and once laments that because of her looks and image, people often assume she can't be funny. In 2021, she got her own radio program, where she has proved that she can indeed be talkative.

* RealTrailerFakeMovie: [[spoiler:Shiho Kato]] wins a teaser writing contest in ''Hiragana Oshi'' episodes 20-21 and it's produced into a trailer for an AffectionateParody of ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' and ''Franchise/StarWars'', starring Kumi Sasaki and Mao Iguchi. Kumi's signature magic spell is "Wakabayashi", [[MagicalForeignWords pronounced like it's an English word]]. The film's title, ''Kiku-chan's Wonderful Journey'' (きくちゃんの愉快な旅), would also be referenced in [[spoiler:the title of Shiho's edition of the ''Ganaoshi'' DVD, "Toshi-chan and Her Merry Friends" (としちゃんと愉快な仲間たち)]].

* OneSteveLimit: During Honoka Kishi's debut appearance in episode 183, Audrey point out that she shares her name with their frequent collaborator and the show's recurring guest, comedian Manabu Kishi.

** In episode 257, Mirei Sasaki leans harder into this during the "womanly appeal" duel, in which she and Haruyo Yamaguchi compete in saying "Sunpu Castle" (an actual castle ruin turned public park in Shizuoka): she calls judge Kasuga "Muttsuri Kasuga" ("Uncommunicative Kasuga"), referring to the title of his 2019 edutainment miniseries on the female body, and [[ShowSomeLeg pulls up her trainer leg]] to expose her bright pink sock and tells him to look at her "Sunpu Castle", which is her knee.

* ArousedByTheirVoice: A recurring segment is where the members compete to say non-sexy words in the most seductive way possible. Miku Kanemura's whispering of "''Hatsugatsuo''" ("first-caught skipjack tuna") was particularly well-received and is referenced in her ''Ganaoshi'' Blu-ray title. In episode 30's contest held in Miyazaki Prefecture, the judge is none other than the prefecture's governor, Shunji Kono.

** In episode 257, Sumire Miyachi, the 4th generation's main cutesy girl, expands her assigned word (''ajitama'', "marinated boiled egg") into a complete sentence, causing an uproar as it goes against the game's established rules. Judge Kasuga gives her the win instead of disqualifying her, as he believes she has just opened the door to a [[DawnOfAnEra new era]] of the game, and also points out that even if only the assigned word was considered, she would still have won against Marie Morimoto anyway. While the members are shocked by this unexpected development, everybody does it like Sumire from that point on.

** In episode 257, Sumire Miyachi, the 4th generation's main cutesy girl, expands her assigned word (''ajitama'', "marinated boiled egg") into a complete sentence, causing an uproar as it goes against the game's established rules. Judge Kasuga gives her the win instead of disqualifying her, as he believes she has just opened the door to a [[DawnOfAnEra new era]] of the game, and also points out that even if only the assigned word was considered, she would still have won against Marie Morimoto anyway. Indeed, everybody does it like Sumire from that point on.

* ArousedByTheirVoice: A recurring segment is where the members compete to say non-sexy phrases in the most seductive way possible. Miku Kanemura's whispering of "''Hatsugatsuo''" ("first-caught skipjack tuna") was particularly well-received and is referenced in her ''Ganaoshi'' Blu-ray title. In episode 30's contest held in Miyazaki Prefecture, the judge is none other than the prefecture's governor, Shunji Kono.

** In episode 254, Rio Shimizu points out that the hosts call Tamaki Ishizuka by her first name and she prefers the same as well, but the Audrey duo are reluctant to do the SignificantNameShift.

* TheGenerationGap: In episode 254, members under age 20 are interviewed to learn more about their age group, in order to increase the low number of the show's teenage viewership. Among other things, they wish to receive more of both compliments and constructive criticism and to decrease the formality between them and the older Audrey duo and crew, such as by being addressed with FirstNameBasis or without UsefulNotes/JapaneseHonorifics like "-san".

* TheGenerationGap: In episode 254, members under age 20 are interviewed to learn more about their age group, in order to increase the low number of the group's teenage fans.

** In episode 257, Mirei Sasaki leans harder into this during the "womanly appeal" duel, in which she and Haruyo Yamaguchi compete in saying "Sunpu Castle": she calls judge Kasuga "Muttsuri Kasuga" ("Uncommunicative Kasuga"), referring to the title of his 2019 edutainment miniseries on the female body, and [[ShowSomeLeg pulls up her trainer leg]] to expose her shocking pink socks and asks Kasuga to see her "Sunpu Castle", which is her knee. [[spoiler:She still loses to Haruyo]].

* StockingFiller: Episodes 113-115 are a contest between the "cool kid" members who were daring enough to wear knee-high socks to school as children and the rest, who have to defeat them in various duels in order to be inducted into the "knee-high club".

** In episode 250, in which everyone wagers their favorite lunch box menu for the contests, Kumi Sasaki wagers the Pariya health lunch box, popular among fashion models, subtly showing off her familiarity with the brand.

* ShoeSizeAngst: The show sometimes discusses the unofficial "L Senbatsu" ("L Selection"), consisting of members with large shoe sizes. It started with Kumi Sasaki, and Ayaka Takamoto, Hiyori Hamagishi, Hinano Kamimura, and Mikuni Takahashi later also qualify, to their chagrin. The only one happy to be inducted, for whatever reason, is Yoko Shogenji, whose feet became large due to karate training.