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3	''Tokimeki Tonight'' (ときめきトゥナイト, lit. ''Heart-Throbbing Tonight'') is a {{shojo}} manga series by Koi Ikeno which ran in ''Magazine/{{Ribon}}'' magazine from 1982 to 1994, with 30 volumes. The plotline spans 3 generations of the Etou family. Years after the original manga was published, a reimaging of the series called ''Tokimeki Midnight'' was published in the magazine Cookie Box with 9 volumes.
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5	This series is about a girl named Ranze Eto, a girl who looked like an OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent, but her family is something that came straight out of ''Series/TheAddamsFamily''. You see, her father is a vampire and her mother is a werewolf. And it also turns out that Ranze has special powers of her own: for example, [[ShapeShifting whenever she bites anything, she can change herself into a carbon copy of that object]], [[MasterOfDisguise whether it's another person]] or an inanimate object such as a piece of bread. Only by sneezing can she return to her normal self.
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7	On her first day of school, Ranze meets a handsome guy named Shun Makabe. The chief problem with this is that [[ParentalMarriageVeto Ranze's parents will not allow her to date a human]] (and in fact have already [[ArrangedMarriage arranged a marriage for her with a boy in the demon kingdom]]) - although there may be much more to Shun than meets the eye. On top of this, Ranze also has a bitter {{rival}} in the pretty but spiteful Yoko Kamiya, the [[YakuzaPrincess daughter of a yakuza boss]], who is also in love with Shun (and has been for a while) and doesn't take kindly to Ranze intruding on her turf.
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9	The manga was adapted by Toho, with Group TAC as animation studio, into an anime that ran at 34 episodes on Creator/NipponTelevision from October 7, 1982 to September 22, 1983 and was directed by Creator/TatsunokoProduction veteran Hiroshi Sasagawa, famous for ''[[Anime/ScienceNinjaTeamGatchaman Gatchaman]]'' and the ''Anime/TimeBokan'' series. The anime was frequently preempted for baseball broadcasts and quickly fell into obscurity in Japan, but is much loved in Italy and the Middle East.
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11	[[JustForFun/IThoughtThatWas Must not be confused]] with {{Creator/Konami}}'s DatingSim series ''VisualNovel/TokimekiMemorial''.
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14	!!This series contains examples of:
15	* The80s: The manga series is set in this era; this is reflected by things such as old phones and the lack of modern technology.
16	* AlternativeForeignThemeSong: The Italian one is utterly awesome.
17	--> ''Simpatica e carina, è una bambolina, [oh, Ransie-re!]''
18	--> ''non si direbbe in giro che ha un papà vampiro, [oh, Ransie-re!]''
19	--> ''lo sguardo è sempre acuto come mamma lupo, [oh, Ransie-re!]''
20	--> ''anche se lei è sincera, a volte fa paura perchè...''
21	--> ''Ransie è una strega molto bella e deliziosa sai,''
22	--> ''ma se si arrabbia allora sono guai,''
23	--> ''sa usare tutte le magie, ''
24	--> ''per fare mille e più follie''
25	--> ''Ransie è una strega sempre dolce e premurosa sai,''
26	--> ''ma se s'infuria allora sono guai,''
27	--> ''anche se adesso è innamorata,''
28	--> ''lei non dimentica la meta, perchè...''
29	--> ''Ransie una strega è!''
30	* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Makabe feeding milk to Ranze as a bird, though she can consume human food. Real life birds (and cats) do not have the enzymes to break lactose in milk.
31	* ArcWords: 'If X dies, then I die'. Especially during the more serious parts of the manga.
32	* ArcVillain: In the anime, it's StalkerWithACrush Aaron at first. [[spoiler:We find out eventually that the true antagonist is The Demon King who threw out Shun based on an old prophecy.]]
33	* BeenThereShapedHistory: It's said that the black fairies are responsible for waging many wars in human society because they run on ThePowerOfHate.
34	* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: Seldom used as a nice little throwaway gag. Mori Eto (a vampire by birth)'s family tree shows that one of his relatives is... Creator/ChristopherLee. Also, one panel that shows a vampire village in Magic World has Vlad Tepes as one of the inhabitants (among other [[ShoutOut references]] such as [[Film/{{Nosferatu}} Graf Orlok]] and... [[Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow Frank N. Furter]]!?).
35	* BettyAndVeronica: Our preppy protagonist Ranze is the Betty (sweet, kind and socially awkward), while her ArchEnemy Yoko is the Veronica (boisterous, spoiled, selfish and annoying). This was before she underwent a JerkassRealization.
36	* BlackAndGreyMorality: The manga does lean on grey a lot, making sure to establish the good and bad sides of every named character. However, some villains are straight up evil, like Hades and the Black Fairy King, while Aaron (though an ArcVillain) is a nuisance at best.
37	* {{Bowdlerization}}: Amusingly ''inverted'' in the case of the Italian version of the anime, called ''Ransie la strega'' (Ransie the Witch). This version directly referred to the Demon/Magic World as '''Hell''', the ruler of that kingdom as '''Satan''' [[spoiler: thus implying that Shun really was Satan's son]] and all the creatures who sometimes visited the Eto household as coming from the depths of Hell. Yes, even [[ChristmasEpisode Santa Claus]].
38	* CerebusSyndrome: Volume 1, Ranze and her friends are getting up to typical rom-com shenanigans. [[spoiler:Volume 8, they're grappling with the conflicts on the underworld, mending the broken relationships surrounding the Demon King and trying to save innocent humans from being mauled by creatures.]]
39	* ChristmasEpisode: The anime has one where Ranze tries to find the perfect gift for Shun.
40	* ComingOfAgeStory: Past the comedy and romance, it's a gritty story about Ranze and her friends restoring peace to the underworld, but to get there they have to resolve all their personal demons first.
41	* CuteMonsterGirl: Imagine a fantasy kitchen sink of cute vampire, wolf, fairy, demon, demi-human and animal girls. The manga is ''full'' of them.
42	* ADayInTheLimelight: In one of the manga extras ''Potato's Merry Christmas'', Potato the dog gets transformed into a human for a day. He scores a date with a human girl, but unbeknownst to him, she is also a dog that Santa transformed into a human for a day.
43	* DubNameChange: In the Italian version, Shun is renamed Paul, and Yoko becomes Liza (pronounced "Leeza" as in Gibbons, not Minnelli). Ranze is Ransie, not having her name changed as much as having the spelling/pronunciation changed slightly.
44	* GeckoEnding: The anime, [[EnforcedTrope since the manga only finished in 1994]]. In this one, [[spoiler: Shun turns out to be the long lost prince of the Demon World, but he denies it and says the birthmark proving this is merely a mole. The Etos are kicked out of the Demon World until they can bring the prince back. And when Ranze's about to personally talk to Shun, Yoko interrupts... and the story ends there.]]
45	%% * Getting Crap Past The Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.
46	* {{Gonk}}: Whenever characters are shocked, surprised or angry, expect their facial expressions to revert into this.
47	* GratuitousEnglish: It's set in Japan, but occasionally you'll see a street sign or a magazine that has English words/text.
48	* HopelessSuitor: Tamasaburo stands no chance at winning Hanae Makabe's heart. [[spoiler: He actually collapses when Shun tells him she's remarried.]]
49	%%zce* HybridOverkillAvoidance
50	* LoveDodecahedron: Ranze accumulates an UnwantedHarem of male admirers (and Rinze becomes quite the casanova after he grows up), and there's a ton of unrequited love everywhere.
51	* LoveTriangle: Ranze is smitten with Shun at first sight. Unfortunately, she finds that Yoko also has eyes for him, and she's aggressively territorial about keeping him for herself.
52	* MonsterMash: What the Magic world appears to be. It is divided into tribes of various species such as vampires, werewolves, witches and so on.
53	* {{Mukokuseki}}: Ranze is half-vampire half-werewolf but passes as phenotypically Japanese because of her RavenHairIvorySkin. On the other hand, Yoko is Japanese but is a blonde. There are also many characters in the manga that have technicolour hair.
54	* OurFairiesAreDifferent: You have the White Fairies and the Black Fairies, and the Black Fairies' King is a colloquial asshole who wants to {{Take over the World}}s, hence inciting ThePowerOfHate to engineer wars between humans. He's also lecherous towards human women.
55	* OurVampiresAreDifferent: As stated above, Ranze can change herself into anyone (and any''thing'') she has bitten. Yes, this even applies to ''food'' for the first few episodes, before she can control it.
56	* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: Shiira usually looks 100% human, but her fangs, wolf ears and tail pop out when she's pissed. She also used to belong to a society of wolves, where she was considered a danger because of her inability to control herself when transformed.
57	* ReincarnationRomance: [[spoiler: Shun has an astonishingly similar appearance to Dark Carlo, the last known descendant of Prince Jean Carlo before his disappearance. Reading the notes Jean left behind, him and Ranze eventually piece together that he is the reincarnation of Jean and Ranze is the reincarnation of Jean's lover Lange]].
58	* SantaClaus: Guess who shows up in the ChristmasEpisode? Yes, THE Santa himself - he's considered a supernatural creature like the vampires are.
59	* {{Shinigami}}: Manga only. The first one that appears, named Georges, has to claim Narumi's soul due to a heart failure. Rinze, who's fallen in love with her (at 5!), with the help of his sister convinces him not to do so and save the little girl. Later on, Georges becomes an ally of the Etos and a semi-regular character (and a bit of a goofball too).
60	* {{Shoujo}}: With a supernatural twist, it's a shoujo romantic comedy about a CuteMonsterGirl navigating a world beyond ours.
61	* ShowWithinAShow: Mori writes novels for a living, and one of them becomes a bestseller and gets a movie.
62	* SingleTargetSexuality: [[spoiler: Both Ranze and Shun have never loved anyone else the way they loved each other.]]
63	* SneezeCut: In Episode 12, SantaClaus does this.
64	* StalkingIsFunnyIfItIsFemaleAfterMale: Both Ranze and Yoko like Shun, and some of the batshit insane things they do (like investigating his letters and snooping in his family matters) is portrayed as funny. [[spoiler: Ranze and Shun get together in the end, and she is never called out for her behaviour.]]
65	%%* StandingInTheHall: episode 11 Ranze (with 1 bucket) and Shun (with 2 buckets) do this together
66	* TimeSkip: The third volume takes place when Ranze is an adult [[spoiler:and has since married and had a daughter with Shun]].
67	* WalkingSpoiler: For the manga's first story arc, anything regards to the Demon King and [[spoiler: Makabe's lineage]]

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