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2	[[caption-width-right:350:The Minami Kamakura High School Girls Cycling Club]]
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4	''Minami Kamakura High School Girls Cycling Club'' is a SliceOfLife manga drawn by Noriyuki Matsumoto, illustrator of the ''Literature/BodaciousSpacePirates'' novel series. The manga has been serialized since August 2011, and an anime adaptation produced by Creator/JCStaff and Creator/{{ACGT}} began airing in January 2017. The anime is also being simulcasted by Crunchyroll.
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6	Hiromi Maiharu has recently moved to Kamakura, and in trying to ride a bicycle to her new school she meets fellow classmate Tomoe Akitsuki. They quickly become friends, and as they bond with new friends over bicycles, they eventually decide to form the Minami Kamakura High School Girls Bicycle Club. The series follows their peaceful friendships and the relaxing adventures they take with their bicycles.
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8	!!The series contains examples of:
9	* TwoDVisualsThreeDEffects: Used in some of the bicycling scenes, such as the race in episode 7.
10	* AccentUponTheWrongSyllable: In episode 12, Sandy's [=VA=]--bless her heart--gives her best shot at speaking in extended English dialogue. It's ''mostly'' passable, except for a few weird inflections that don't rise and fall the way natural English speakers would say it.
11	* {{Bifauxnen}}: Natsumi Higa looks a bit like a effeminate boy thanks to her neat BoyishShortHair.
12	* BookDumb: Hiromi may be optimistic and full of energy, but she's not very bright.
13	* BoyishShortHair: As mentioned above Natsumi Higa sports her hair like this.
14	* BunnyEarsLawyer: Korone wears cat ears and a tail and looks like a little girl, but she's the manager of the bicycle shop Cycle Flat.
15	* CherryBlossoms: There are many scenes of falling cherry blossom petals, especially at the start which takes place at the first day of term. It takes place in Kamakura, which is famous for its cherry blossoms as well.
16	* CoolOldLady: Ryuko Kamikura, the principal and Fuyune's grandmother. She used to be in a biking club like the girls are, and encourages them.
17	* TheDitz: Hiromi is rather dim-witted even to the point she attempts to ride her bike with her legs spread wide, having no idea she actually has to pedal to get it moving even though she must've seen other people do it.
18	* EarlyBirdCameo: Sandy appears in the first episode, before she's properly introduced.
19	* FailedASpotCheck: In the first episode, Hiromi and Tomoe ask each other if they're students at Minami Kamakura, while wearing the ''exact same school uniform''.
20	* GenkiGirl: Hiromi is generally full of energy, and Sandy even more so.
21	* GirlishPigtails: Fuyune sports a cute pair as her hairstyle, which makes her among the more ladylike, feminine characters out of the girls.
22	* GratuitousEnglish: Sandy's dialogue is packed full of random English words and phrases, sometimes with inflection that sounds awkward to the native English speaker.
23	* InSeriesNickname: Hiromi refers to Tomoe as "Tomo-chan."
24	* {{Iyashikei}}: The series is slow-paced, relaxing and focuses more on dramatic aspects.
25	* JapaneseSchoolClub: In this case, a bicycling club, where the show's main characters are a part of. Most of the anime revolves around the antics of the characters and their activities it.
26	* {{Mukokuseki}}: During the freshman orientation in the first episode, Hiromi's internal narration specifically calls attention to a certain blonde-haired girl being a foreigner, because otherwise [[GenericCuteness there'd be no way to tell]].
27	* [[MyHorseIsAMotorbike My Horse Is A Bike]]: Invoked by Hiromi, who relates her bike to a unicorn, down to its name.
28	* {{Ojou}}: Fuyune, the school principal's granddaughter, is rich enough for a butler/driver to drive her to school at the start and behaves in a well-bred, proper, ladylike way.
29	* OlderThanSheLooks: Korone may dress like a little girl and is short as one, but she's very insistent she's actually an adult.
30	* OneGenderSchool: Minami Kamaura High School is an all-girls' school.
31	* OverlyLongName: "Minami Kamakura High School Girls Cycling Club" is a bit of a mouthful for a club name.
32	* PhenotypeStereotype: Sandy hits nearly every cliché on the list: she's blonde, blue-eyed, busty, energetic, and speaks loudly in GratuitousEnglish.
33	%% * ProperTightsWithASkirt: Hiromi sports this.
34	* RealPlaceBackground: The city of Kamakura exists in Japan, around the outskirts of Tokyo.
35	* SceneryPorn: Kamakura is a very beautiful city, and the show frequently features lingering shots of it's gardens, outskirts, and surrounding environments.
36	* SchoolgirlSeries: The series is about schoolgirls and their bicycles in a cycling club.
37	* SenseiChan: Shiki seems to be a laid-back teacher, and the girls call her by her given name.
38	* ShoutOut
39	** In episode three, the adventure club has an image of Marika Kato, the protagonist of ''Literature/BodaciousSpacePirates'', the artist's other work.
40	** Hiromi calls her bicycle ''Manga/{{Unico}}'', after the Osamu Tezuka character.
41	* SleepCute: Fuyune and Higa get one aboard a train on the way home.
42	%% * SliceOfLife: The main genre.
43	* TalkingIsAFreeAction: After Natsumi falls at the starting line of the race in episode 6, the other club members have a nice long chat instead of, y'know.... ''racing''.
44	* TheStinger: After the credits there's a short live-action segment about properly buying and maintaining a bicycle.
45	* ThemeNaming: The four Japanese protagonists have the seasons incorporated into their names:
46	** Mai'''haru''' Hiromi (Haru meaning spring)
47	** Higa '''Natsu'''mi (Natsu for summer)
48	** '''Aki'''zuki Tomoe (Aki for autumn/fall)
49	** '''Fuyu'''ne Kamikura (Fuyu for winter)
50	** Adding to that, the teacher leading the club is called Mori '''Shiki''', with shiki written as "four seasons".

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