Line #29 Manga/SkipAndLoafer


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2	[[caption-width-right:300:You just have to take life one step at a time.]]
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4	Excellent student Iwakura Mitsumi has always dreamt about leaving her small town, going to a prestigious university, and making positive change in the world. But she’s so focused on reaching her goals that she’s not prepared for the very different (and overwhelming) city life that awaits her in a UsefulNotes/{{Tokyo}} high school. Luckily, she makes fast friends with Shima Sousuke, a handsome classmate who’s as laid-back as she is over-prepared. With Sousuke by her side, the naive country bumpkin slowly begins to adjust to city life, forming her own bonds and discovering her own strengths along the way.
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6	''Skip and Loafer'' is a SliceOfLife {{Seinen}} manga written by Misaki Takamatsu which began publishing in 2018, and was licensed by Creator/SevenSeasEntertainment in 2020. In 2021, an anime series was announced to be in production. The anime is being produced by Creator/PAWorks and started airing in April 2023.
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9	!!This manga provides examples of:
10	* AnAesop: Takamine has one at the end of episode 4, "Tingling and Scraping". You should spend your time doing what you feel is the right thing, since you won't know what you may regret until years later. Also, it's fine to focus on things you consider important, but sometimes, it's also nice to stop and smell the flowers.
11	* BaitAndSwitch: Chapter 50 seems to be building up to a love confession from [[spoiler:Ujiie to Mitsumi]]: she suddenly has a montage of moments that could be interpreted as him having an interest in her, ''and'' they're alone in the classroom at sunset... [[spoiler:only for him to say that it's Yasaka he likes]]. She's surprised, but relieved that she doesn't have to turn down her friend.
12	* BetterAsFriends: [[spoiler:After much teasing, Mitsumi and Shima finally give dating a try... and it makes both of them uncomfortable. Shima especially is not having a good time on his first real date with her even though he was the one who suggested they go out (and only because he thought it's what Mitsumi wanted), so they hold off on it and go back to being friends.]]
13	* BlandNameProduct: Mitsumi, Shima and Kurume visit a "Sutama" together for drinks, a parody of the Japanese name for Starbucks, "Sutaba".
14	* ChildhoodFriends:
15	** Mitsumi and Fumino are best friends, and Fumino is Mitsumi's main point of contact with her hometown during the school year, aside from her family.
16	** Shima is old friends with his fellow child performers Chris and Ririka, though had a falling-out with the latter at some point. Looking at them, Mitsumi compares the unique dynamic between them to her and her own childhood friend Fumi.
17	* ChristmasEpisode: Chapter 28. The characters go Christmas shopping, and some members of Class 1-3 go bowling to celebrate the end of term.
18	* CrazyPrepared: Student council treausurer Takamine Tokiko, who schedules out every single minute of her day. Mitsumi is inspired by her dedication, but is too easily distracted to adopt her strategy.
19	* DatePeepers: Mika and Nao-chan independently decide to spy on Mitsumi and Shima's zoo outing, and decide to cooperate when they run into each other there.
20	* DoggedNiceGuy: Yamada is this towards most girls but especially Yuzuki. He repeatedly tries to pursue her, though Yuzuki is turned off by how he isn't interested in her specifically (besides her beauty) but in the idea of a relationship.
21	* GenderConcealingWriting: Averted in the manga with Nao, who explicitly mentions she's biologically male and is introduced as the "younger brother" of Mitsumi's father, while the story maintains that she's Mitsumi's transgender aunt. The anime meanwhile introduces her as Mitsumi's father's '''sibling''' (''kyoudai'', which covers a range of older-brother/younger-siblings and is written in hiragana in the Japanese subtitles to preserve ambiguity). The anime episode that adapts the sleepover does keep in Nao's lines about being biologically male, though.
22	* InformedAttractiveness: Shima and Yuzuki are repeatedly said to be two of the best-looking people in their grade.
23	* IntergenerationalFriendship: Mika befriends her classmate's aunt Nao due to Nao seeing a lot of her younger self in Mika.
24	* NewYearHasCome: In Chapter 29, Mitsumi returns home to celebrate the new year with her family; they stay up to wait for the turnover. It also [[ADayInTheLimelight focuses on Nao]] and sheds some light on why she doesn't like coming back home as much.
25	* ObliviousToLove: Yamada doesn't pick up on the fact that his classmate, Tomoe-chan, has a crush on him. [[spoiler:At first, anyway. He eventually realizes it and the two begin dating.]] Takamine as well seems oblivious to the fact that Segawa, a boy from the soccer team, is crushing hard on her.
26	* OddFriendship:
27	** The central friendship, uptight country bumpkin Mitsumi and carefree and popular urbanite Shima, are mentioned to be an odd duo.
28	** Makoto and Yuzuki couldn't be any more opposite with one being quiet, plain and introverted and the other being an [[SchoolIdol beautiful and popular]]. However, the two of them grow into being best friends who care greatly for each other.
29	* PowerOfFriendship: This series utilizes a low-key version where despite Mitsumi's running into obstacles when trying to befriend people, she still tends to get through to the people she wants to befriend. Notably, Tokiko learns to relax around her and has a dream sequence reflecting real life where she misses the bus and begins to cry, but a cat-Mitsumi is there for her.
30	* SchoolFestival: Volume 4 features Tsubame Nishi High School's extravagant cultural festival.
31	* SchoolPlay: Mitsumi's class puts on ''Theatre/TheSoundOfMusic'' for the cultural festival, although Mitsumi isn't able to contribute much due to her obligations to the student council.
32	* ShoutOut:
33	** The movie the main characters get together to watch in episode 3 is ''Film/GoneWithTheWind'', albeit the characters have their names tweaked (Rhett Butter instead of Rhett Butler; Scarlet Ohana instead of Scarlet O'Hara).
34	** One AU chapter has the cast in a delinquent setting, themed after the ''Series/HighAndLow'' movie series.
35	** Shima has posters of ''Music/BohemianRhapsody'' and ''Film/TheBluesBrothers'' in his room. In the anime, this is slightly changed into "Pomeranian Rhapsody" and "The International Game Brothers", the latter being the ''Blues Brothers'' poster but with [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario and Luigi]] instead.
36	** The class puts on a compressed version of ''Theatre/TheSoundOfMusic'', [[BlandNameProduct renamed]] to ''The Family Singers''.
37	* SobriquetSexSwitch: Mitsumi's aunt used to be called "Naoki", a masculine name, which she shortens to the gender-neutral "Nao".
38	* SunkCostFallacy: Mentioned by Shima in "Tingling and Scraping". Mitsumi comes up with a method to reduce her time wasting, but then is told by her senpai that it's probably not a good idea, since she herself realized that her method is flawed and it's hard to say what is and isn't a regret until later. Mitsumi wants to give her method a try after having wasted a night getting it together, but Shima points out that such a thing would be an even greater waste of time. Mitsumi is surprised at his brutally cold, but reasonable logic.
39	* StylisticSuck: The singing scenes in the play is slightly off-key in the anime in some parts. As some students who participate in the chorus don't go through formal training, nor is there any autotune, this is deliberately done to potray their inexperience more realistic.
40	* ValentinesDayEpisode: There's a Valentine's Day two-parter, featuring the girls making chocolate for their male classmates and a love confession between two of the characters.
41	* WillTheyOrWontThey: Mitsumi slowly develops a crush on Shima, and while he cares for her, he isn't sure if he does so romantically or platonically. [[spoiler:They briefly date before Mitsumi offers to break it off, sensing that the feelings she has for him aren't the same as the ones he has for her. But then Shima is implied to be jealous when his classmates gossip that she and Ujiie are a thing...]]

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