Line #20 Manga/KotouraSan


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2	[[caption-width-right:300:The ESP Society. From left: Hiyori Moritani, Yoshihisa Manabe, Haruka Kotoura, Yuriko Mifune, and Daichi Muroto.]]
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4	''Kotoura-san'' is a {{yonkoma}} manga by Enokids, which was serialized in the web magazine ''Manga Goccha'' and ''Megami Magazine'' from 2010 to 2015. It was adapted into an anime directed by Creator/MasahikoOhta for Creator/{{AIC}} in January 2013.
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6	The story follows Haruka Kotoura, a fifteen-year-old {{telepath\|y}} who [[PowerIncontinence can't turn her ability off]]. As a child, she naively blurts out sensitive information and other people's private thoughts. This causes her to be unjustly labelled a compulsive liar; her friends and classmates reject and bully her, and her parents divorce because they cannot understand her special ability or how to deal with its repercussions. After years of persecution and ostracization, she transfers to a new high school, where she meets Yoshihisa Manabe, a good-hearted boy who is transparent, honest, and not scared of her ability.
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8	The series is available on [[http://www.crunchyroll.com/kotourasan Crunchyroll]], or Netflix, but might not be available in your region.
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10	A sub-only DVD release by [[Creator/NipponIchi NIS America]] was released in August 2015 under the title of ''The Troubled Life of Miss Kotoura''.
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12	!!''Kotoura-san'' contains examples of:
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17	* AccidentalDeclarationOfLove: Manabe confronts Hiyori Moritani after she tries to alienate and bully Kotoura, primarily out of jealousy. He tells her directly to her face that he likes Kotoura, unaware that Kotoura overhears this outside the classroom.
18	* ActorAllusion:
19	** Early in episode 1, [[Creator/HisakoKanemoto Haruka]] plays RockPaperScissors with her kindergarten class, but she always wins due to her {{Telepathy}}. It's funny because [[Anime/SmilePrettyCure Yayoi Kise/Cure Peace]] went undefeated in that game just ''months'' before the anime even premiered.
20	** The fourth preview video that features Dai'ichi Muruto who played up his sharing [[Creator/HiroShimono the same voice actor]] as the [[Manga/TheWorldGodOnlyKnows God of Walkthroughs]]. Like Keima he was constantly playing a Platform/PlayStationPortable-like console while Haruka was interviewing him.
21	* AbominationAccusationAttack: {{Deconstructed\|Trope}}. This is how the CrapsaccharineWorld's [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatemae Tatemae]] ideal is maintained, even if the [[PsychicPowers esper]] is perfectly innocent.
22	* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Haruka tells off Yoshihisa for giving her an embarrassing photo of Hiyori, only to crack up while alone and have a hard time not laughing around Hiyori the rest of the next day.
23	* AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: The anime does this by shifting the focus from Yoshihisa to Haruka and adding in the very angsty DownerBeginning.
24	* AdaptationExpansion: The DownerBeginning that shocked everyone? No, it does not exist in the manga.
25	* AdaptationalProtagonist: The manga has Yoshihisa as the sole protagonist. The AnimatedAdaptation upgrades his girlfriend Haruka's role from an important secondary character to the protagonist, mainly because of an emphasis on her {{heal\|thecutie}}ing.
26	* AnotherSideAnotherStory: Non-game example. In the manga, the first chapters were written from Yoshihisa's perspective, but in the anime, it was completely from Haruka's perspective.
27	* BaitAndSwitchCredits: While there are still a significant amount of comedy moments, The DownerBeginning is just the first tear-stained bump in the road. [[TearJerker Guess you better have a forklift of tissue handy]].
28	* BattleAura: In episode #2, when Manaba displays his "power" to embarrass Haruka with sexual thoughts about her, he sports a Battle resp. Sex Aura.
29	%%* BeachEpisode: The second half of Episode 6.
30	* BeautifulTears: At the end of episode 1, Yoshihisa is turned on by Haruka's crying. DirtyMindReading, of course, follows.
31	* BecomingTheMask: Exaggerated and {{Deconstructed\|Trope}}. Japan has an idea called [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatemae Tatemae]] which basically amounts to hiding your true self away from others as a means to be accepted into society. The DownerBeginning's tension stems from a [[CuriosityIsACrapshoot naive]], CheerfulChild named Haruka Kotoura who has {{Telepathy}} and has no idea since PsychicPowers are not recognized by this setting's science (ergo no formal and proper diagnosis for it). [[HonestAdvisor She]] [[MindOverManners openly states people's true feelings]] [[InnocentlyInsensitive even though she doesn't know any better]], especially since speech and thought sound exactly the same to her due to PowerIncontinence. Because [[CassandraTruth nobody wants to admit that she's right]] and risk being rejected, [[AbominationAccusationAttack everybody blames her for their problems]]. Cue BreakTheCutie via TraumaCongaLine.
32	* BedmateReveal: Happens to Yoshihisa and Hiyori in episode 7, after the psychotropic effects of Hiyori's bad, bad cooking. They [[SleepsInTheNude slept together naked]] with Haruka on the same futon, with Yoshihisa in the middle. Yoshihisa thought he had a ThreeWaySex and had a HeelRealization. Hiyori thought she had sex with Yoshihisa. Both were not true, but Haruka lectured them nonetheless.
33	* BigBad:
34	** Kumiko Kotoura is the ''closest'' thing to one in the anime. She abandons Haruka during her childhood and dismisses her as a mistake, cruelly claiming that she ruins people's lives with her powers. Since then, the memory of her mother's disownment had haunted and tormented Haruka throughout her life. Even when she reunites with her daughter after years of separation, she treats her rather poorly. [[spoiler: Of course, come the last episode, it's eventually revealed that she deeply regretted leaving her daughter behind, and towards the end, she starts to lighten up on her little by little, eventually [[PetTheDog making her a plate of eggs over easy for breakfast (as she did when Haruka was a child)]]. The WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue suggests that she is now living with her daughter in her apartment and that their relationship is slowly starting to heal.]]
35	** To a lesser extent, [[spoiler: Tsukino]] is the BigBad of the "mysterious attacker" storyline.
36	* BigDamnHeroes:
37	%%** Yoshihisa pulls one when saving Haruka in episode 11.
38	** Much earlier in episode 1's second half, Haruka, thanks to her {{Telepathy}}, saves both Yoshihisa and herself [[AvertedTrope from being]] [[LookBothWays run over by an oncoming, careless delivery van driver running the red light at full speed]].
39	* BigFancyHouse: Zenzou's house. Particularly exaggerated in Episode 6 when the ESP Club members went there--turns out it has a private beach, and Zenzou built a ''theme park'' just because Haruka brought friends back for the first time...
40	* BlandNameProduct: [[{{Platform/Yahoo}} YaHoi!]]
41	* BlankWhiteEyes:
42	** When Yuriko found her mother [[spoiler: hanged herself]] in the manga.
43	** When Haruka saw a vision of [[spoiler: a violent scene]] in episode 8's stinger, in which she immediately collapsed due to HeroicBSOD.
44	* BlatantLies: Haruka seems to be hard to tell lies, so there are a few examples.
45	** The first on anime's promotional video, in which Haruka spent several minutes downplaying what {{telepathy}} does to her.. while having an increasing amount of nervous sweat on the face, and she found she can't go on any more at the end of the video. [[spoiler: Of course, she's in no position to spoil the DownerBeginning.]]
46	** Manga-only: After Yoshihisa and Haruka came back to Haruka's apartment in Chapter[=/=]Episode 1, the first thing Yoshihisa asked was why Haruka lives alone, and Haruka wants to avoid telling him her broken past...
47	--->'''Haruka''': ''[blushing and sweatdropping]'' My, my parents went on a worldwide trip...\
48	'''Yoshihisa''': [[LampshadeHanging Don't tell such obvious lies...]]\
49	'''Haruka''': ILied...
50	* BlueWithShock:
51	** In episode 2, when Haruka and Yoshihisa enter the ESP clubroom.
52	** In episode 4, when Haruka found the ESP club members had come to "catch" her, with GlowingEyesOfDoom.
53	* BookEnds: The anime both opens and ends with Haruka going to school. The opening was DeliberatelyMonochrome, people are avoiding her, and she has DullEyesOfUnhappiness. The ending was colourful (if not overexposed), and with her friends saying hi to her. No guess about what the symbolism is.
54	* BreakingTheFourthWall: The first episode's {{stinger}} has Haruka did a DirtyMindReading... on the "tons of people on the other side of the TV." This show is aired during OtakuOClock, so viewer sexualization of Haruka is clearly unavoidable. Yoshihisa is jealous.[[invoked]]
55	* BreatherEpisode: Episode 5, which follows the ESP club as they enjoy some time together and at school.
56	* BrickJoke: The weird purple thing that Yoshihisa dreams about in the first episode does make a reappearance in the last [[spoiler: as a prize in a claw machine that Yoshihisa plays while on a date with Haruka]].
57	* BroughtDownToNormal: In episode 8, Haruka's telepathy stops working due to a cold. She gets better, but her powers don't come back until the very end when she accidentally reads the mind of a violent criminal and faints.
58	* ButtDialingMordor: At the end of episode 10, The ESP society sets out to find the criminal (whose crimes include assault, murder, and rape of teenage girls) using Haruka's {{telepathy}}. After she gets a very harsh BeamOfEnlightenment, Haruka immediately [[TwistedKneeCollapse keels over]] and nearly [[FaintingSeer passes out again]] because she did not expect [[spoiler: the criminal to have such a twisted, distorted, and [[EvilSoundsDeep unnaturally deep mental voice]] and that ''said criminal knows that the ESP Society has fallen for the SchmuckBait'']]. Thankfully, the criminal wasn't targeting Haruka during this incident. [[spoiler: This doesn't last. In the next episode, the actual criminal (Detective Aki Tsukino's EnemyWithin) deliberately targets Haruka not only because she has friends despite being [[YouMonster a monster]] (Tsukino's main motive derived from jealousy), but also because of the aforementioned telepathy which Haruka showed to both her and Detective Gantestsu Ishiyama earlier in episode 10.]]
59	* CallBack:
60	** In episode 4, when the monk mentioned his relationship with Haruka, there was a flashback from episode 1, when Haruka's mother brought the girl to him, asking him to exorcize Haruka.
61	** In episode 12, Haruka said [[spoiler: to her mom]] in her sleep that she wants eggs over easy. This is in fact, the same line as the first time she read people's minds in episode 1.
62	** In episode 6, Hiyori apologized to Haruka after recalling the former's bullying of the latter in episode 2.
63	* CerebusRollercoaster: There are some surprisingly dramatic and rage-inducing moments intertwined with the comedy.
64	** Let's take episode 7 as an example of the extent to this trope goes. The previous episode ends in a {{stinger}} where [[spoiler: Haruka's mom Kumiko]] watches over Haruka and friends playing on the beach (drama). Episode 7 starts with several comedic scenes, followed by the Monk discussing [[spoiler: Kumiko's]] response one the previous night to Zenzou (drama). The next day starts with Yoshihisa and Hiyori's BedmateReveal (comedy), followed by Haruka revisiting the room where [[spoiler: she often holed up crying as a kid]], with her discussion with the Monk (drama). The second half starts with Haruka unable to call Yoshihisa (drama), Yuriko decides to make up a search for him (comedy), and then Haruka finding Yoshihisa acting suspicious (drama with a single comedic scene). Then we see Haruka debriefing with Yuriko, where Yuriko showed her own {{backstory}} (drama), Haruka tutoring Hiyori (comedy turned drama), and ends with the [[spoiler: SurpriseParty]] (drama). Seven switches is an episode.
65	* ChangingChorus: ''Flower of Hope'', the ending theme of the AnimatedAdaptation, has its chorus sang four times, each time with different lyrics. Given the song is as much about the trope of HealTheCutie as the series itself, it is {{justified\|trope}}.
66	* ChildishPillowFight: [[spoiler: After Haruka rightfully calls her mother out on her cold treatment of her for the past ten years, she and Kumiko engage in this.]]
67	* CirclingBirdies: Hiyori, after she bangs her head against the wall a few times to get rid of thoughts about Yoshihisa and Haruka she doesn't want to have.
68	* ClubStub: The ESP Society, having two members before Haruka & co. enters.
69	* CoolOldGuy:
70	** Zenzou Kotoura, the protagonist's grandfather, is something of a DirtyOldMan, but he absolutely stands by Haruka through the series, to the point where he [[PapaWolf disowns his own daughter]] after she abandons Haruka. He pays for all Haruka's living expenses, is absolutely supportive of her friends in the ESP Research Society, and welcomes them into his home when they go looking for her in Episode 4 and during Summer Break.
71	** The [[GoodShepherd old monk]] is played straight. When he first encounters Haruka, he [[ThePromise promises to bring her mother back]] and starts a decade-long research into ESP. Why? He wants to help Kotoura in any way possible. He also welcomes the ESP Research Society into his place when they have nowhere else to stay in Episode 4. It also helps he [[HeterosexualLifePartners good friends with Zenzou]].
72	* ComicallyMissingThePoint: When Yuriko says she's gotten bigger in episode 6 and bounces her breasts in front of Daichi, he nonchalantly says that she must have gotten fatter.
73	* ConvenientlyCoherentThoughts: {{Averted\|trope}}. Haruka eventually realized even with telepathy she didn't get to pick up ''everything'', like her mom's [[spoiler: remorse for disowning her]].
74	* CornerOfWoe: Both Yoshihisa and Zenzou sit in one after they find out the mixed bathhouse is closed due to repairs in episode 7.
75	* CoversAlwaysLie: Promotional material for the series advertised it as a ''RomanticComedy''. It is only ''half'' RomCom, with the other half occupied with very dark drama.
76	* CrapsaccharineWorld: ''[[ExaggeratedTrope Good grief]]''. The people are [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal literally living in lies]] and [[IgnoranceIsBliss ignorant bliss]]. Practically everyone has NoSympathy, and Haruka is among the rare few who realizes what's wrong with this society thanks to her {{Telepathy}} and [[InnocentlyInsensitive innocently exposing everyone's true feelings]] [[CassandraTruth to their denial, disbelief]], and [[MindOverManners chargin]] even though [[PowerIncontinence she can't help it]]. [[FromBadToWorse Worse]], her once "ChildhoodFriends" [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer then outcasted]] "[[YouMonster the monster]]" (Haruka) so disgracefully, the insult haunts her for much of her life afterwards.
77	* CrazyPrepared: Yuriko comments on being prepared for any situation in episode 6.
78	* CrossPoppingVeins: Several characters display these occasionally, usually Haruka or Yuriko.
79	* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: [[spoiler: Yoshihisa. He manages to severely beat up 3 members of the Moritani dojo, by himself, even though they are all larger and more muscular than him. He gets beat up even worse in the process, but it's still quite a feat.]]
80	* CrushFilter: The idealized, bustier version of Kotoura that Manabe frequently imagines is how he prefers to think of his girlfriend.
81	* {{Cult}}: [[spoiler: Hiyori's parents run this in the manga, rather than a dojo.]]
82	* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: The entire cast.
83	* CutawayGag: Episode 1 uses this as a weird sort of MeetCute. After a [[DownerBeginning dark and depressing backstory sequence]], Haruka meets Yoshihisa, reads his mind, and she and the audience see...a purple frog-man in a desert doing a bizarre dance to a series of random noises. There's no real point to this freaky daydream other than as a [[MoodWhiplash "transition"]] to the cutesy OP and the much less dark second half of the episode.
84	* DarkerAndEdgier: For {{Yonkoma}} based material.
85	* DeconstructorFleet: In two ways:
86	** The first is Haruka as the {{Moe}} ArchetypalCharacter. Her major character tropes are either [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]], PlayedForDrama, or simply cynical. This is due to...
87	** ...the second which is that the story directly challenges [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatemae the idea of lying to hide one's true self]]. Is it worth the risk of BecomingTheMask just so you can belong in society? Is it really okay to hurt and [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer shun]] the HonestAdvisor [[InnocentlyInsensitive who may not know better if at all]]? Take a look at a few of the related tropes to these questions like AbominationAccusationAttack, YesMan, and especially CrapsaccharineWorld.
88	* DeliberatelyMonochrome: The DownerBeginning gradually applies the desaturation variety to mark Haruka's life story. It starts with the inverse: layers of white in full color, but more layers of gray add up until the {{Flashback}} appears to be covered in black mud as seen before the {{Flashback}}. This is most apparent when the elementary school scenes from the beginning and the ending of the DownerBeginning are shown side by side. The saturation ends with a [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/K-s-1-shatter_8830.jpg shatter into color]] upon meeting [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Yoshihisa]].
89	* DiegeticSoundtrackUsage:
90	** In episode 3, when the ESP Club members were singing karaoke, Yuriko picked the anime's opening theme for Haruka to sing.
91	** In episode 12 they do it again, and this time Haruka sings the (main) ending theme.
92	* DoItYourselfThemeTune: Episode 5 ends with an upbeat end credits theme performed by all five members of the ESP Society.
93	* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale:
94	** Daichi gets smacked around by Yuriko in episode 3 after he jokingly teased Haruka about wanting to dissect her while they were alone.
95	** Hiyori gets to beat up Yoshihisa with impunity, which is rather audacious considering she was responsible for sending him to the hospital with serious injuries earlier, escaping all punishment for that caper because she was "sorrowful".
96	** Haruka's mom, generally considered a colossal bitch, also assaults Yoshihisa rather viciously in public without any repercussions, and it is treated as vaguely heartwarming that she still cares enough about Haruka to come to her defense (never mind that she herself is treating Haruka far worse than Yoshihisa ever would).
97	* DownerBeginning: The anime is famous for it.
98	** To quote the writeup at BreakTheCutie:
99	-->The first ten minutes and twelve seconds of the first episode of ''Kotoura-san'' does nothing but systematically destroy the titular heroine's life.
100	** The main ending theme actually falls into this trope as well. It starts with SolemnEndingTheme music with the lyrics below, but ends with... see WorthLivingFor, below.
101	-->''How do I stand again, [[BreakTheCutie if I have stumbled]]?''
102	-->''[[AMindIsATerribleThingToRead maybe I shouldn't think too much about]] things I [[PowerIncontinence absent-mindedly read]]''
103	-->''[[BrokenBird In my tattered past]], [[LivingLieDetector there wasn't a single lie]]--''
104	-->''[[IJustWantToHaveFriends but will the truth be shown to it, if I imagine about it]]?''
105	* DownerEnding: Episode 3, [[spoiler: Yoshihisa gets hospitalized, Haruka moves because she blames herself, and Yoshihisa solemnly says he couldn't protect her]].
106	* DraggedByTheCollar: How Yoshihisa and Yuriko ''literally'' pull Haruka back into a happy childhood whenever her endearing insecurity gets the better of her; and thankfully always PlayedForLaughs.
107	* {{Dramedy}}: A RomanticComedy with a BrokenBird girlfriend... Certainly.
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111	* EarlyBirdCameo:
112	** The Monk first appeared in the anime's DownerBeginning. That beginning does not actually exist in the manga.
113	** In the anime, Inspector first appeared as a cameo in episode 2, as part of Yuriko's {{backstory}}. He does not appear in the corresponding manga.
114	* EarnYourHappyEnding: After [[DarkAndTroubledPast over 10 years' worth of emotional torture]], Haruka definitely deserved hers, and [[TrueCompanions the ESP Club]] made ''damn sure'' of that. See BookEnds or her [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/k-s-haruka-comp-350-v2_7197.jpg profile picture]] for a more visual comparison.
115	* EasilyForgiven: [[spoiler: Hiyori, despite bullying Haruka and nearly getting Yoshihisa killed. However, {{Justified}} in that Haruka can read Hiyori's mind and see that she's genuinely sorry for what she's done.]]
116	** And played absolutely straight by 8 episodes in to the extent that she regularly assaults Yoshihisa without being called on it.
117	** And in episode 12 [[spoiler: Haruka's mother, Kumiko, is also easily forgiven by the former. Sure, she read her mind and saw that she cried right after she told her "I should have never given birth to you!", but that doesn't change the fact that she abandoned her and wanted to have nothing to do with her for almost 10 years.]]
118	* EnvironmentalSymbolism: The [[DeliberatelyMonochrome Deliberate Monochrome]] ends with a [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/K-s-1-shatter_8830.jpg shatter]] of the desaturation filter revealing a more bright and cheerful palette, marking an abrupt end of Haruka's downward spiral of BreakTheCutie. (At the same point she also ceases to have DullEyesOfUnhappiness.)
119	* EvenEvilHasStandards: Proof that Hiyori has some good in her is that even though she arranged some thugs to beat Yoshihisa up, she thought they went too far when they beat him so badly, he was sent to the hospital.
120	* EvilLaugh: [[spoiler: Tsukino]] lets out a sinister cackle when [[spoiler: she attacks Haruka]].
121	* FantasticRacism: To the CrapsaccharineWorld around them, [[PsychicPowers Espers]] are either [[TheCassandra fakes]], [[YouMonster monsters]], or both even though they blatantly prove their powers to be real. Any YesMan would do this to maintain the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatemae Tatemae]] ideal since espers are [[MindOverManners a threat towards his/her chances of being accepted into society]], [[NoSympathy even if said epser]] [[InnocentlyInsensitive doesn't know better]] (such as [[{{Telepathy}} Haruka]]). So, they [[InvokedTrope intentionally]] [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer outcast]] espers to keep other people from knowing [[BrutalHonesty the cold hard truth about themselves]] and risk being rejected.
122	* FirstEpisodeTwist: It looks like a lighthearted RomanticComedy from the previews, but the first episode is about 75% angst, revealing that the show is actually a {{dramedy}} and the very embodiment of MoodWhiplash.
123	* FlashbackNightmare:
124	** Yuriko had one in Episode 2, when she was reminded about [[spoiler: posthumous abuses on her mother's abilities]], complete with a BigNo.
125	** Haruka endured more trauma than Yuriko was, so this trope happens a bit more commonly than Yuriko did.
126	*** In episode 1, after finding Yoshihisa has no problems about her powers--which was a first for her--she starts to find him desirable as she goes to rest. Immediately she had a flashback which is pretty much the entire DownerBeginning, and decided she should [[LeaveMeAlone must not make friends with him]].
127	*** Episode 6 has her recalling the scene when her mother disowned her. [[spoiler: Which {{foreshadow\|ing}}s something at the {{stinger}}.]]
128	*** In episode 7, Yoshihisa stopped talking with her for two whole weeks, which got her worried about their relationship. This time she had a flashback about her and Yoshihisa being separated by the crowds, and Yoshihisa ''morphing'' into her mom who immediately disowns her.
129	* ForgivenButNotForgotten: Most characters' feelings towards Hiyori, except Haruka herself.
130	** Yoshihisa was not amused knowing she was the one responsible for his attack in episode 4, and the credits of the same episode show he is shocked and suspicious when she starts hanging out with them.
131	** Ditto for Zenzou. Who makes Hiyori painfully aware that he knows what she's done in episode 6. Also, at the end of the first half when [[spoiler: everyone comes out into Harukaland, Hiyori's character is inside a burning cage]].
132	* ForgotAboutTheMindReader: Yoshihisa [[DefiedTrope defies]] this in Episode 7 by not telling anybody else about his plans since his girlfriend is a [[{{Telepathy}} telepath]] who should not know his BigSecret until TheReveal. Afterwards, he [[DiscussedTrope admits this]] as the reason behind his suspicious behavior to work around her PowerIncontinence issue, and quite literally at that.
133	* FreakOut %%Adding Haruka examples are welcomed%%
134	** In a flashback in episode 10, we see Yuriko had one of these when she [[spoiler: saw her mother hanged herself. With WideEyesAndShrunkenIrises.]]
135	* FromBadToWorse: The entire DownerBeginning lives and breathes this trope.
136	* FunbagAirbag: In episode 9 while Haruka is walking to school with everyone, busy lamenting to herself about perverts after overhearing a phone call between Yoshihisa and her grandfather, [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/funbag_airbag2.png she accidentally walks head on into Detective Tsukino's chest]].
137	* GeniusBruiser: Some of the men who practice at Hiyori's dojo are college graduates, coming from prestigious universities like Tokyo U and Harvard.
138	* GirlOnGirlIsHot: Yoshihisa has those kinds of fantasies as well, after [[MistakenForGay mistaking]] Haruka and Yuriko (episode 2) or Hiyori (episode 5) as PseudoRomanticFriendship.
139	* GivingUpTheGhost: Haruka in episode 12, after [[spoiler: knowing the ESP Society is disbanding]].
140	* GlowingEyesOfDoom: PlayedForLaughs in episode 4, when the rest of the ESP Club did this to Haruka so that they could "catch" her.
141	* TheGlomp: Yuriko did this to Haruka at the end of episode 2.
142	* GloomyGray: The beginning of the anime applies a progressively grey desaturation filter to mark Haruka's [[FromBadToWorse progressive, downward spiral]] of [[BreakTheCutie broken-ness]] that was brought by a [[{{telepathy}} power]] that [[PowerIncontinence she couldn't turn off]]. The beginning of her journey towards HealTheCutie is symbolized by the [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/K-s-1-shatter_8830.jpg shattering]] of this filter, which is at a graphite colour at this point.
143	* GoneHorriblyRight: When Yoshihisa and Zenzou begin digging for a hot spring, they find oil instead. They're not all that happy about it since they wanted to use the hot spring as an excuse to see Haruka bathing, and Zenzou is absurdly wealthy as is.
144	* GoodVictimsBadVictims: A surprising amount of both for a TwelveEpisodeAnime:
145	** Good Victims: In the DownerBeginning, Haruka did not cause any distrust among the people around her, [[LivingLieDetector she just made it apparent]]. Of course, she then becomes TheScapegoat and AllOfTheOtherReindeer for this distrust even existing. Detective Tsukino is another example for being bullied about [[StatuesqueStunner her height]] and then feared for being physically stronger than everyone else during her DarkAndTroubledPast. [[spoiler: She unconsciously develops an EnemyWithin from this experience. This is the [[AntiVillain actual criminal]], which Haruka herself broke]].
146	** Bad Victims: {{Yes M\|an}}en who [[BecomingTheMask uphold]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatemae their facades]] to deny the truth they already know or their feelings which need to be admitted. [[TheBully Hiyori]] and her GirlPosse are such examples in the PresentDay [[spoiler: at first]]. Kumiko is another one for her use of IHaveNoDaughter when Haruka revealed her parents' adultery. [[spoiler: Like Hiyori, Kumiko also develops away from this during the GrandFinale. It's even implied that [[HeelRealization she finally realized]] that Haruka is {{Telepath\|y}}ic during that time.]]
147	* GreenEyedMonster: [[spoiler: Detective Tsukino, who hates Haruka because the latter has things the former didn't, such as friends in high school. She unconsciously develops an evil alter-ego which attacks those she perceives to be popular.]]
148	* GreyRainOfDepression: the DownerBeginning is already DeliberatelyMonochrome, but this trope is in full effect during the stray cat incident, when Haruka got passed the DespairEventHorizon for a second time.
149	* HamToHamCombat: Yoshihisa and Zenzou get into a perverted argument about Haruka, the grandfather bragging about direct contact with her thighs and butt, Yoshihisa about the joy of seeing her flustered face.
150	* HateSink: Haruka's parents, due to their (mis)treatment of Haruka and no real redeeming qualities -- her father is plain ParentalNeglect, and while her mother does care for her a bit, she finally [[IHaveNoSon disowned]] her.
151	* IHaveNoSon: Haruka's {{backstory}} includes [[spoiler: having her mother [[ParentalAbandonment callously abandon her]] in front of her Grandfather and saying she wished she never gave birth to her]]. It's utterly heartbreaking.
152	* HealTheCutie: This trope essentially describes Haruka Katoura's character arc: the show starts with all events lining up to BreakTheCutie seemingly as much as possible, and the majority of the plotline is a depiction of her slow, steady return to being a CheerfulChild.
153	* HeiressToTheDojo: Hiyori in the anime, but she dislikes being it. [[spoiler: This is why she has a crush on Yoshihisa; he didn't care about her position, similar to how he see Haruka now.]]
154	* HeroicBSOD: Eventually it would be too many to count.
155	** In episode 2, [[spoiler: Haruka had one after seeing [[PokeInTheThirdEye Hiyori's disdain towards her]], complete with WideEyesAndShrunkenIrises and vomiting, and, possibly, passing out.]]
156	** And ''again'' in episode 3, when [[spoiler: Yoshihisa gets beaten up by several thugs sent by Hiyori. Haruka believes it's all her fault and decides to run away.]] The ride never ends!
157	** Also in episode 3 [[spoiler: Hiyori has one at school, out of guilt for what she did to Yoshihisa.]]
158	** The stinger of Episode 8 has Haruka [[spoiler: seeing a vision of a murder scene. She actually got so much shock that she fainted, with BlankWhiteEyes.]]
159	** In episode 10, [[spoiler: Hiyori fell into this state, with WideEyesAndShrunkenIrises, after she was arrested.]]
160	* HoldingBothSidesOfTheConversation: The first preview video has Haruka interviewing herself, with her switching seats as the interviewer and the interviewee.
161	* HowWeGotHere: In episode 1, Haruka is seen walking alone to school, or, to be precise, [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/K-s-1-1_8156.jpg people were avoiding her like plague]]. She has DullEyesOfUnhappiness, then a FlashBack her entire life up to that point is gradually played out and how she got those eyes.
162	* HugeSchoolgirl: In episode 11, Detective Tsukino tells Haruka she was one while going through high school. Unfortunately, it made her an easy target for bullying.
163	%%* HumansAreBastards: Holy shit, does this show shine a light on it... Among many examples, such as Haruka's parents abandoning her (Her mother gets better. Her father not so much.), there are the kids that are shown constantly calling Haruka a "monster", and making fun of her because of her family being torn apart and her powers, among many other dick moves. Yuriko faces the same, with many people, not just kids, but adults as well, mocking her about her mother being supposedly a fake psychic and her suicide.
164	* ICantBelieveItsNotHeroin: Hiyori's cooking [[LethalChef is so bad]] that, when she and Yoshihisa eat some in episode 7, they both act like [[IntoxicationEnsues they're drunk]] and/or [[MushroomSamba on some sort of hallucinogen]]. In the yonkoma, they did actually get drunk, but since they can't show minors drinking on TV in Japan, it was changed to this.
165	* IHaveNoDaughter: Haruka's parents disown her after she reveals that they are both having affairs. It's implied that Zenzou then disowned Haruka's mother, i.e. his daughter, because she disowned Haruka. [[spoiler: It turns out that her mom Kumiko regrets the decision.]]
166	* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: Haruka does this with [[spoiler: Detective Tsukino in episode 11 when they find out she's the attacker from earlier episodes.]]
167	* ImTakingHerHomeWithMe: Played with in episode 2 when Haruka first meets Yuriko. The latter is ecstatic to meet the former and attempts to carry her to the ESP club room.
168	* InTheBlood: That's the reason why [[spoiler: Yuriko]] was bullied when she was younger--''a [[CassandraTruth compulsive liar]]'s daughter will also be a compulsive liar''.
169	* IronicEcho: During the anime's DownerBeginning, Kumiko harshly (and dramatically) pushes Haruka to the floor after the latter begs her not to leave. During the final episode, [[spoiler: the brief scuffle between the two ends with Haruka pushing Kumiko down in the exact same fashion]].
170	* ItsAllMyFault:
171	** Generally, there is at least one person who thinks/says "It's my fault!", per episode. Usually Haruka (who has a GuiltComplex) or Hiyori.
172	** She didn't ''speak it out'', but this is how Haruka thinks about [[spoiler: the events in the latter half of episode 3 when Hiyori sent dojo members/cult thugs to attack Yoshihisa, causing Yoshihisa to be hospitalized and Hiyori having a MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment. She regressed back to her thinking from before and decided to leave for good. Of course, being a TwelveEpisodeAnime, it doesn't last long.]]
173	* {{Jerkass}}: Haruka's parents abandon her because they just can't deal with the strain of raising her. [[spoiler: It turns out by Episode 12, though, that Kumiko realized what she had done to her daughter and regrets her "IHaveNoDaughter" line.]]
174	* JerkassHasAPoint: Hiyori points out that Haruka's mind-reading powers are an incredible invasion of privacy. Does this excuse in any way, shape, or form, the way she and others treat her for most of the story? Not really... but it's still a valid point, although it should be noted that Haruka [[PowerIncontinence can't turn off her mind reading]] or keep some of her findings secret.
175	* KarmaHoudini: Haruka isn't really the kind of girl who would deliver much retribution, so many of those who wronged her tend to get away with it.
176	** Haruka's father is the first obvious unpunished asshole, likely still with the girl he cheated Kumiko on.
177	** The [[EvilOldFolks lady]] who essentially [[spoiler: sent the kitten that Haruka was taking care of to the pet equivalent of a slaughterhouse, likely out of spite,]] and drove Haruka down the DespairEventHorizon, simply walks off once the deed has been done and suffers no consequences.
178	* KidsAreCruel: In both Haruka and Yuriko's childhoods, they were picked on by kids their age. If that wasn't bad enough, the bullies made rather painful remarks (Haruka's mind-reading was the reason why her parents divorced and left her, and Yuriko's mother's "fake" psychic abilities were why she was DrivenToSuicide).
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180
181	[[folder: L-R]]
182	* LastNameBasis: Everybody towards everybody, even including Yoshihisa and Haruka who are supposed to be stable lovers.
183	* LighterAndSofter: The anime seems to be toning down certain parts of the original {{yonkoma}}.
184	** Episode 3 [[spoiler: has Yoshihisa beaten up significantly in the anime. In the yonkoma, he got ''stabbed'', and was not conscious when Haruka came to check on him.]] Also, Hiyori [[spoiler: convinces the thugs to go after Yoshihisa by telling him that he's stalking her. In the yonkoma, she tells them he ''raped'' her.]]
185	** In the anime, one story arc has a criminal prowling the streets savagely beating up schoolgirls, resulting in them getting hospitalized. In the yonkoma, the criminal actually rapes and murders them.
186	* [[LikeFatherLikeSon Like Mother, Like Daughter]]: The Boyfriends of Haruka and Kumiko Kotoura tend often not to think with their brains, but to let a certain organ ca 80 cm below to take command.
187	* LoveConfession:
188	** Unusually early in anime. Episode 2. [[spoiler: Yoshihisa declared his love towards Haruka when he confronted Hiyori. Haruka fell into tears as she overheard this.]]
189	*** An ''official'' one occurs [[spoiler:in the end]]. In episode 12 [[spoiler: Haruka finally confesses to Yoshihisa, who in turn confesses to her out loud, as he did not realize that he didn't do so 'till then.]]
190	*** In the manga this happened much, much earlier, as early as chapter three. Namely, it happens after [[spoiler: Yoshihisa's first confrontation with Hiyori. Yoshihisa escorts Haruka home and confesses to her out loud, and she does the same in turn.]]
191	** Hiyori gives one to Yoshihisa in episode 11, long after he's established a relationship with Haruka. Although she plays it off while he's around, she breaks down in tears after he leaves.
192	* MamaBear: When she's first introduced to Manabe and the others, Kumiko punches Manabe in the gut for trying to kiss her daughter. She quickly reverts to her {{Jerkass}} behavior after realizing what happened.
193	* MeanwhileScene: In episode 7, Haruka haven't been able to contact Yoshihisa and asked Yuriko and Dai'chi for assistance. Yuriko thought he might be having sex with Hiyori, but Dai'chi disagreed, saying she's still [[BookDumb still struggling]] her summer assignments. The scene then cuts to the Moritani dojo and we see Hiyori's desk was moved to the middle of the hall, being surrounded by trainers.
194	* MistakenForGay: Yoshihisa sees moments between Haruka and her female friends as laced with lesbian undertones. Even when Haruka was practicing her confession for him, he believed she was confessing to Hiyori and had a lesbian fantasy about them.
195	* MoodWhiplash: An omnipresent trope for the series, considering it being a constant CerebusRollerCoaster ride. For example:
196	** Haruka's seeing Yoshihisa's goofy daydream that's enough to break the DeliberatelyMonochrome in the DownerBeginning.
197	** In the {{stinger}} of episode 8, Haruka was clearly really happy on her NotADate with Yoshihisa and would want to "feel like this forever." The next second she [[spoiler: saw a vision of a murder scene]] and fell into HeroicBSOD / FaintingSeer.
198	** Averted with the ending theme, though: there are a couple of different ending songs, seemingly chosen for each episode to fit the tone of the final scene. Contrast it with the opening, which is a very cheerful song that would make unaware viewers assume it's a straight comedy show.
199	* MouthfulOfPi: Yoshihisa does this as a PsychicStatic to prevent Haruka from finding out what he may or may not be up to in episode 7.
200	* MundaneMadeAwesome: Episode 7 has a heartwarming example, both InUniverse and likely out: [[spoiler: Haruka's SurpriseParty]]. {{Justified\|Trope}} for two reasons: [[spoiler: One, it '''''was not''''' easy to keep this a secret from a {{telepath\|y}}, and the gravitas of the success made everything WorthIt from Yoshihisa's perspective; and two, this is likely Haruka's first birthday ''in years'' that was actually worth celebrating. It's understandable that she would take the time to enjoy the surrealism of the moment]].
201	* MyGreatestFailure:
202	** This is how Yoshihisa thought [[spoiler: at the end of Episode 3, after Haruka vanished because she thought [[ItsAllMyFault it's all her fault]] that he was attacked.]]
203	** And more importantly, Haruka causing [[spoiler: her own mother to hate and abandon her]] pretty much defines who she is today.
204	** The Head Priest feels that his inability to help Haruka after her mother abandoned her was his greatest failure, and vows to bring them back together someday. Unfortunately, as evidenced by her comments in episode 7, her mother still wants nothing to do with her.
205	* MyGodWhatHaveIDone:
206	** Hiyori suffers this after [[spoiler: she arranges for thugs to beat up Yoshihisa for choosing Haruka over her. The encounter doesn't go as planned, ending up with Yoshihisa getting injured - stabbed in the manga and sorely beaten in the anime - and sent to the hospital.]] She then suffers HeelRealization about how much of a JerkAss she's been.
207	** Haruka believes she's the cause of all the strife between Yoshihisa and Hiyori, which ended up getting Yoshihisa hurt in the process because of the latter's [[ClingyJealousGirl jealousy.]]
208	** Yuriko suffers from this after Daichi takes a blow and ends up in the hospital.
209	** [[spoiler: Not outright stated but this is the main thought Kumiko had after disowning Haruka.]]
210	* NakedApron: Yoshihisa's fantasy when Haruka was cooking in episode 5. Obviously, no one is amused by this.
211	* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Yuriko's mother Chizuru Mifune was named after a RealLife clairvoyant, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chizuko_Mifune Chizuko Mifune]], per WordOfGod.
212	* NoSympathy: It's almost comical how fast nearly everybody at the new school writes off Haruka as a monster after they find out she has telepathy. Other than the ESP club, people don't even show any curiosity about her powers!
213	* NotADate: In episode 8 of the anime, Yuriko forces Yoshihisa to have a date with Haruka as a punishment for his perverted thoughts towards Haruka earlier that episode. Haruka insisted that's ''not'' a date, just Yoshihisa's "assigned punishment." The people on the streets disagree. [[LampshadedTrope It's even the title of that episode]]. %%Anime-only.
214	* OfficialCouple: Haruka and Yoshihisa; declared as early as chapter[=/=]episode 2.
215	* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Yoshihisa [[spoiler: getting ambushed by four thugs. However, he manages to seriously beat all of them up by himself, forcing them to resort to stabbing him.]]
216	* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: In episode 9, Daichi stops puffing up his lips strangely in order to discuss a series of serial muggings Kotora might have psychically picked up on.
217	* OrbitalShot: This is used during the DownerBeginning when Haruka's elementary classmates chant "[[YouMonster Monster! Monster! Monster!]]" towards her after they figured out she has {{Telepathy}}. It is done ''very effectively'' since that moment forever and clearly establishes her trigger as well as gives the viewers the sense of loneliness and betrayal even though she was being InnocentlyInsensitive.
218	* ParentalAbandonment: Haruka and Yuriko.
219	* ParentalNeglect: Haruka's father. Let's say, his daughter is having ''serious'' social issues at school, and his wife was frantically trying to find a cause, to no avail. His response? Relegated it as "woman's work" and started rarely coming home.
220	* PlayingTheHeartStrings: The [[DownerBeginning prologue]] theme is 10 and a half minutes' worth of this. After a while, it suddenly turns into a SongOfSolace and then into a GriefSong when [[spoiler: the old woman sends the cat that Haruka had befriended to an animal shelter]]. Certain sections of the song even become a RecurringRiff to maintain this effect.
221	* PleaseDontLeaveMe:
222	** Haruka begs this of her mother in the first episode, but she ends up leaving anyway. [[spoiler: It became her mother's biggest regret, but by then the damage was done.]]
223	** Yuriko tells this to Daichi in episode 11.
224	* PokeInTheThirdEye:
225	** {{Exploited}} with much glee by Hiyori in Episode 2, to the point that Haruka [[spoiler:vomits]].
226	** Daichi does this as well, with...better intentions, in Episode 3. [[spoiler: He feeds Haruka images of her strapped to a table and him ready to dissect her, thinking that neither Yoshihisa nor Yuriko will be coming...30 seconds before they arrive with lunch and Haruka realizes he was teasing her.]]
227	** Yoshihisa also regularly does a ''much'' milder form of this to Haruka. He readily admits that he'll sometimes fantasize about her (including imagining a bust upgrade) just to get a reaction out of her - it's just a form of playful teasing to him. He even internally notes that fantasizing about her isn't as fun if she can't react, such as when she briefly lost her telepathy due to a cold.
228	* ProductPlacement: The Tottori prefectural government sponsors this series, in return for making the anime to be set in different parts of that prefecture.
229	* ProlongedPrologue: The 10-minute-40-seconds-long DownerBeginning.
230	* {{Protectorate}}: The ESP Research Society:
231	-->Yuriko "The objective of the ESP Research Society is to scientifically prove the existence of psychic abilities so that the general populace will acknowledge them. Also, to protect those with psychic abilities from people's prejudiced views."
232	* PsychicStatic: Yoshihisa used multiplication tables and MouthfulOfPi to hide whatever he was planning in episode 7.
233	* TheReveal: In "Stand By Me", [[spoiler: Tsukino is revealed to be the attacker]].
234	* ReverseCerebusSyndrome: The DownerBeginning is a buildup for a ''RomanticComedy'', albeit a bit DarkerAndEdgier than the average.
235	* RockPaperScissors: PlayedForDrama in the DownerBeginning. This is the first scenario when she [[InnocentlyInsensitive innocently showed off her telepathy]], [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer to her detriment]].
236	** Amusingly, this is also an ActorAllusion with [[Anime/SmilePrettyCure Yayoi Kise/Cure Peace]] since both of them are voiced by Creator/HisakoKanemoto, as noted above.
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238
239	[[folder: S]]
240	* SandInMyEyes: In chapter 1 of the manga, Haruka cried after Yoshihisa mentioned "people who want to leave are going to leave." When Yoshihisa asked, she denied crying and claimed of OnionTears. Yoshihisa of course lampshaded about how fake it is. The {{eyecatch}} that follows has Haruka mentioned she actually ''keeps'' onions at home to make up excuses like this!
241	* SelfFanservice: InUniverse, Yoshihisa's fantasies about Haruka always have her being much curvier than she actually is.
242	* SchoolFestival:
243	** The "ESP Fortune Telling" in episode 2 was held during a Cultural Festival in the manga.
244	** A sports festival is held in the second half of episode 5.
245	* ShipperOnDeck: Haruka and Yoshihisa was so much of an OfficialCouple that everyone ships them.
246	** The boys in Haruka and Yoshihisa's class put their names under an UmbrellaOfTogetherness in episode 3. Yoshihisa at first seems offended by it, but rather than take offense that they shipped them together, he complains that they forgot to add hearts to it.
247	** Zenzou is all for the couple, too. [[SeriousBusiness He even berates Yoshihisa for missing the perfect moments]] for a RelationshipUpgrade.
248	** Hiyori is also actively shipping Yoshihisa and Haruka, despite having a crush on Yoshihisa at the same time. Even she finds that to be strange.
249	** Dai'chi's mother ships Yuriko and Dai'chi, even when they're [[ToyShip quite young]].[[invoked]]
250	** Yuriko consistently gives advice to Kotoura on how she can get "that idiot" Manabe to take the next step.
251	* ShoutOut:
252	** A possible one to ''VideoGame/DarkSouls''. The entrance to the ESP Club bears a striking resemblance to the room where the first [[ThatOneBoss Capra Demon]] is encountered.
253	** In Episode 2, Haruka [[VideoGame/MetalGear tries to sneak away in a cardboard box.]]
254	** In Episode 5, the ESP Club watches a {{Bowdlerised}} version of ''Film/{{Scanners}}'', where a tomato is made to explode instead of [[YourHeadASplode a man's head]].
255	** In Episode 7, at [[spoiler: Haruka's birthday party]], everyone else is arranged in a circle around her, clapping and taking turns saying [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion "Congratulations!"]]
256	* ShowerOfAngst: Yuriko had one in episode 2, after the FlashbackNightmare about her DarkAndTroubledPast.
257	* ShutUpHannibal: Yoshihisa's confrontation with Hiyori in the second episode. For all the bluster she's ready to give, Yoshihisa cuts through it all in just three lines, ending with a LoveConfession in front of nearly the entire class (with Haruka overhearing the entire thing just outside of the classroom).
258	* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: Kotoura and Yuriko fall for Manabe and Dai'chi respectively.
259	* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: The show [[DownerBeginning starts off very cynically]], then gets [[ZigZaggingTrope Zig Zagged]] due to an ever-present CerebusRollercoaster since it's more of a [[RomanticComedy Romantic]] {{Dramedy}}. In spite of all this, the show ends on a [[EarnYourHappyEnding well-deserved]] HappilyEverAfter.
260	* SocialServicesDoesNotExist: Unfortunately for both Haruka and [[spoiler: Yuriko]]. Haruka's parents could rival Manga/{{Hayate\|TheCombatButler}}'s in jerkassery. To be fair however, Haruka's mother did attempt to see several doctors to discover what was wrong, but none of them could offer any help. [[spoiler: Moreover, she also recognized the evil in disowning her own daughter. For all her faults, she does try to get better and that is a huge step above [[ObliviouslyEvil Hayate's parents]].]] [[spoiler: Yuriko]]'s case is even more inexcusable since [[spoiler: she witnessed her mother DrivenToSuicide during her own DarkAndTroubledPast]]. Seriously! It's as if this isn't enough of a CrapsaccharineWorld to begin with!
261	* SolemnEndingTheme: The first four episodes use ''The Flower of Hope'' (''Kibou no Hana'') as the ending theme. While it is not completely sad, it is a more-or-less accurate portrayal of Yoshihisa's effect on Haruka--it starts with ''How do I stand again/ once I've fallen down?'', with a refrain starting with ''that day you taught me the meaning of life, and gave me the strength to live on.''
262	* SpecialEditionTitle: Episode 5 with ''Theme of the ESP Society'' and Episode 6 with ''[[ACupAngst Flat as a Board]]'', for the two episodes being a bit of a breather compared to the others. The other episodes use the solemn yet heartwarming ''Flower of Hope''.
263	* SpitTake: Haruka does this in the first episode when Yoshihisa sticks some chopsticks on his face in a really funny way. She does it again in episode 5 after Yoshihisa gives an embarrassing picture of a young Hiyori in a photo promoting their dojo.
264	* SpoilerOpening: Those who have watched episodes 2 and/or 3 would find the opening and ending spoiling. [[spoiler: As you can see in the page image (clipped from the ending), Hiyori would eventually be a member of the ESP Club. This implies her issue with Haruka and Yoshihisa ''will'' resolve at some point.]]
265	* SplitPersonality: [[spoiler: Detective Tsukino has one due to being bullied as a child. Her evil personality was in charge of revenge and was also the perp of the physical assaults on schoolgirls in episode 10. [[IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight With the help of]] [[ThePowerOfFriendship Haruka]], the [[SplitPersonalityTakeover good side is able to eliminate the evil one]] and she is even ready to turn herself in to pay for "her" crimes, which is refused by her superior, whom she has an apparently close friendship with.]]
266	* TheStinger:
267	** Episode 6, "Summer Vacation!", features an after-credits scene in which [[spoiler: Kumiko coldly watches her daughter and her friends from afar (with the priest by her side).]]
268	** Episode 8, "It's NotADate", ends with [[spoiler: Haruka [[FaintingSeer passing out after getting a nightmarish vision of someone being attacked]]]].
269	** Episode 9 ("Everyone is Around Me") ends with [[spoiler: a traumatized Hiyori kneeling over a girl's body in a dark alley, her hands coated with blood.]]
270	* StressVomit: In episode 2, this is the direct result of Hiyori's PokeInTheThirdEye MindRape on Haruka, by using emphasizing the trigger of a girl who endured a decade of emotional trauma.
271	* SufficientlyAnalyzedMagic: For PsychicPowers and not magic per se, but intentionally {{Averted\| Trope}} to be PlayedForDrama nonetheless. Because these powers are so scarce in the setting, its science is literally unaware and unassuming that espers actually exist. This is why Haruka's {{Telepathy}} never could get an official diagnosis despite her mother's [[MedicateTheMedium gradually aggressive means]] in trying to get it during the DownerBeginning. By contrast, Yuriko [[SoapBoxSadie proudly]] {{Invoke\|d Trope}}s this trope as one of her founding principles for the ESP Society and Research Club.
272	%%* SuperDeformed: The main cast in the ending of episode 5.
273	* SuperheroPrevalenceStages: Very Early Stage and [[DeconstructedTrope often in cruel ways]] as Haruka's DownerBeginning shows. Yuriko is [[InvokedTrope purposely aiming for]] the Middle Stage.
274	* SuperSenses: ''Also'' {{Deconstructed\|Trope}}. Yuriko's mother had telescopic vision and used that in a high-profile way, then [[spoiler: people said she's a fake, and she was DrivenToSuicide.]]
275	* SurpriseParty: In the second half of episode 7, Yoshihisa doesn't hang out with Haruka at all, nor does he talk to her very much. She and Yuriko go around town looking for him, and they suspect he's cheating on her, or at least up to no good. [[spoiler: Then it turns out he was working because he wanted to get money to give a birthday party to Haruka since her birthday is September 1st.]]
276	* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: In episode 10, Haruka claims she wasn't thinking about Yoshihisa, shortly after they had a fight regarding her trying to find the criminal attacking high school girls.
277	[[/folder]]
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279	[[folder: T-Y]]
280	* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: In episode 2, Yoshihisa ''chews'' [[ManipulativeBastard Hiyori]] after he found out that [[TheBully she]] [[PokeInTheThirdEye psychically exploited]] [[{{Telepathy}} Haruka]] during the FortuneTeller scene and [[OnceDoneNeverForgotten teased her]] about the StressVomit. It's made better by Yoshihisa's TranquilFury, his LoveConfession for Haruka, and the fact that [[spoiler: both Haruka and Yuriko were eavesdropping on this conversation. The former sheds TenderTears afterwards as the latter holds her tenderly]].
281	* TelevisionGeography: Just compare Kotoura Station(in anime) with Urayasu Station(in real life) of Kotoura Tōhaku District. They look practically alike there.
282	* ThereAreNoTherapists: At least not for any [[PsychicPowers esper]] or anybody [[InTheBlood closely related to one]]. Kumiko and [[spoiler: Yuriko]] fit the latter.
283	* TheyreCalledPersonalIssuesForAReason: The whole reason why [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatemae Tatemae]] exists in the setting. {{Deconstructed\| Trope}} during the DownerBeginning due to Haruka's presence as an InnocentlyInsensitive LivingLieDetector and a {{Curio\|sity Is A Crapshoot}}us HonestAdvisor which causes everyone to [[BecomingTheMask play on their facades]].
284	* ThroughHisStomach: Dramatically {{subverted\|trope}} in Episode 3. [[spoiler: Yuriko suggested Haruka to do that to Yoshihisa, and Haruka did make one... on the day after Yoshihisa was attacked. Also, see ItsAllMyFault for its symbolism.]]
285	* TookTheWifesName: Zenzou is Haruka's ''maternal'' grandfather. This implies her nameless father married into the Kotouras, likely a rural landed gentry household.
286	* TrainingMontage: Haruka goes through one in episode 5.
287	* TrashOfTheTitans: Subverted. Yuriko assumed this of Haruka's apartment in episode 5 since she's living alone, but that's not the case.
288	* TrueCompanions: The ESP Club for [[{{Protectorate}} Haruka]]. It's one of the show's {{Central Theme\|}}s.
289	* {{Tsundere}}: Haruka to Yoshihisa. [[spoiler: It runs in the family. Her mother is worse, towards Haruka.]]
290	* UnnamedParent: So far, the only named parents are Haruka's mother Kumiko, her grandfather Zenzou (who took a parental role), and Yuriko's late mother Chizuru. Other parents are not named, even they may have a speaking role.
291	* {{Understatement}}: The first preview video, having Haruka [[HoldingBothSidesOfTheConversation interviewing herself]], gravely downplays the effects of telepathy on her. She did say, "I don't really want it," and quoted her constant DirtyMindReading of Yoshihisa as an example. [[spoiler: That is actually the ''least'' of her problems, particularly considering he's her ''first friend'' in nearly a decade.]] In fact, she started to sweat profusely as the "interview" went on and eventually she decided it's too tiring to go on.
292	* UntrustingCommunity: to Haruka and [[spoiler: Yuriko [[InTheBlood by proxy]] since her mother had SuperSenses]]. See CrapsaccharineWorld above.
293	* VomitDiscretionShot: When Haruka had a HeroicBSOD after [[spoiler: knowing what [[PokeInTheThirdEye Hiyori thinks]]]] in Episode 2, she covers her mouth as [[FadeToBlack the screen turns dark]] to hide the horror that prompts a student to exclaim with understandably surprising disgust since the trigger wasn't apparent to anybody else. See the [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/eym5gcx_8134.jpg trope's image]] for [[QuiveringEyes the]] [[DullEyesOfUnhappiness more]] [[WideEyesAndShrunkenIrises queasy]] [[TearsOfFear details]].
294	* WhamEpisode: In episode 8, where Haruka [[spoiler: inadvertently reads the mind of a murderer.]]
295	* WhamLine: Both caused Haruka to cross the DespairEventHorizon.
296	-->'''Kumiko, Haruka's mother''': (Pushes Haruka off on the floor) [[spoiler: [[IHaveNoSon I should never have given birth to you.]]]]
297	-->'''Nameless lady''', to Haruka: Are you the one who has been feeding that cat? What a nuisance. [[spoiler: I took it to a shelter, so don't ever come here again.]]
298	* WorthLivingFor:
299	** The main idea of the first ending ''Flower of Hope''.
300	-->That day you taught me the meaning of life,\
301	and gave me the strength to live on\
302	and I embrace it with all my heart
303	** Invoked by Haruka in Ep. 11 [[spoiler: ducking from a baton strike by Detective Tsukino that's probably meant to kill her]]:
304	--->'''Kotuora:''' ''(internal monologue)'' Until recently, I thought the world would be better off if I'd never been born. Sometimes, I even felt like I should die. ''(Images of her [[TrueCompanions friends]] flash in her head)'' But, I don't want to die! I want to live! Manabe-kun!
305	* WrongfullyCommitted: {{Subverted\|Trope}} in the DownerBeginning. Haruka's mother plans to send Haruka to the mental ward and fights with Zenzou over it. Haruka isn't committed since several hospital visits show nothing truly wrong with her, at least not enough to take her in (since PsychicPowers are not recognized by the setting's mainstream science and Haruka isn't sick nor delusional in any sense).
306	* YesMan: They are everywhere since [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatemae Tatemae]] is a dominant concept in the setting. These are the people that [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer chase away]] psychics like [[{{Telepathy}} Haruka]], [[spoiler:[[SuperSenses Yuriko's mother]]]] (who was DrivenToSuicide), and [[spoiler: Yuriko herself]] [[InTheBlood by extention]] even though the last one doesn't have any PsychicPowers. It's the fact that Yoshihisa and Dai'chi [[AvertedTrope aren't this]] which gives the former twosome solace in an otherwise CrapsaccharineWorld for them.
307	* YouAreNotAlone: One of the main themes. Consider the situation: Yoshihisa and Dai'chi are the only teens that understand Haruka's and Yuriko's psychic problems, respectively. Haruka and Hiyori share annoyance over Yoshihisa's perversion, etc, etc.
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Context Manga / KotouraSan