Line #29 Manga/Rabuta


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3	''[=RaButa=]'' is a oneshot manga written by Creator/CoolKyouShinsha about a popular girl named Kurume who falls in love with a delinquent named Harundo.
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5	!!This work contains examples of the following tropes:
6	* AddictionDisplacement: When talking about cigarette withdrawal symptoms after finding out that Harundo is GoingColdTurkey, Fuyu mentions that one of her friends performed oral sex to fight her addiction. [[TooMuchInformation Harundo cuts her off before she can go into any details]].
7	* AffectionateNickname: Kurume calls Harundo "Boss P".
8	* AnimalMotifs: Harundo is often compared to a pig due to his appearance. This is where Kurume's "[[AffectionateNickname Boss P]]" nickname comes from.
9	* BaitAndSwitch: Natsuya's introduction is initially set up like the beginning of a SiblingTriangle... until it's revealed that he's actually in love with Hiromi and wants Kurume's help.
10	* BrilliantButLazy: Harundo normally gets terrible grades, but he manages to get a 97 on a test after only a single study session. Turns out that ''he never bothered to read the textbooks before''.
11	* TheCameo:
12	** Harundo is wearing a ''Frau Rabbit'' shirt during the double date to the movies. Someone else is also dressed up as her during the school festival.
13	** Akiko from ''Metsuko ni Yoroshiku'' shows up during the school festival, though she lacks her signature gravity-defying pigtail. It's also implied that Fuyu is actually a grown-up Houka.
14	** Yuki (also from ''Metsuko'') is putting on a concert during the school festival.
15	* ConnectedAllAlong: While the two of them never learn it during the story, [[spoiler: the accident that resulted in Harundo's current appearance is the same one that killed Kurume's parents]].
16	* FamilyBusiness: Harundo's family owns a butcher shop. He inherits it post-series.
17	* FirstNameBasis: Harundo and Kurume switch to a first name basis after their first solo date.
18	* GamerChick: Kurume is shown to be highly skilled at playing arcade fighters (to the point that she was ''memorizing hitboxes'' after only a few rounds of a game she'd never played before). In fact, her cameo in ''Manga/ICantUnderstandWhatMyHusbandIsSaying'' states that she occasionally goes the the arcade with Harundo and she's a championship level player in ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear''.
19	* GoingColdTurkey: Part way through the story, Harundo quits smoking. When Fuyu asks him if he's suffering any withdrawl symptoms, he says that he hadn't been a smoker for long enough to really get addicted to it.
20	* HighschoolSweethearts: Later works establish that Harundo and Kurume get married and they take over his family butcher shop.
21	* IWasQuiteALooker: Harundo used to be a {{Bishonen}}, but he suffered a head injury and the made him lose his hair and caused his eyesight to deteriorate. Kurume says she prefers his current look.
22	* LoveConfession: The very first panel of the story is Kurume confessing to Harundo.
23	* {{Meido}}: Kurume has a maid named Fuyu who is also her ParentalSubstitute. Cool-Kyou Shinsha would later reuse her design in ''Manga/MissKobayashisDragonMaid'' as Tohru.
24	* MinorLivingAlone: Kurume's parents died when she was in middle school, and she's lived by herself ever since, with her maid Fuyu being the closest thing to parental supervision.
25	* {{Ojou}}: Kurume is wealthy enough that she can afford a maid despite both of her parents having been dead for several years. Information in ''Manga/MyGirlfriendWithoutWasabi'' reveals that her family used to be one of the three major houses alongside the Juse and [[Manga/{{Ojojojo}} Jigokumeguri]] families.
26	* OppositesAttract: Kurume is the an incredibly good student and the SchoolIdol. Harundo is a delinquent who is both {{Gonk}} and BrilliantButLazy.
27	* RescueRomance: Kurume fell in love with Harundo after he protected her from a boy she turned down.
28	* ShoutOut:
29	** Kurume's maid calls Harundo an "[[Webcomic/OnePunchMan S-class hero Pig God]] lookalike".
30	** Harundo and Kurume play ''VideoGame/StreetFighterII'' when they go to the arcade. ''VideoGame/GlobalChampion'' and ''VideoGame/StreetFighterIV'' are both mentioned by name on their way there.
31	** Fuyu recreates [[Manga/TomorrowsJoe Joe's iconic death scene]] after making all the maid outfits for the school festival.
32	--->'''Kurume''': I prefer ''Ashita Tenki ni Naare'' to ''Ashita no Joe'', but yeah... she's burned out.
33	** The title of one strip refers to Harundo and Kurume in their mascot costumes as "[[Anime/PrettyCure Piggy Cure]]''.
34	* StraightMan: Hiromi often finds herself playing this role.
35	* StrongFamilyResemblance: DoubleSubverted. Harundo and Natsuya look almost nothing alike (though Kurume can tell they're related because they have "a similar aura"). However, they looked very similar before Harundo's accident.
36	* ThroughHisStomach: Early on, Kurume attempts to make a bento for Harundo that tastes better than Yakisoba bread. Some bullies end up dumping it on the floor, but he eats it anyways.
37	* TokenRichStudent: Kurume attends a public high school without any real comment, though it's possible that [[MinorLivingAlone the lack of any legal guardians]] (her parents died when she was in middle school) is why she never applied for a private one.
38	* UptownGirl: Harundo is the son of a butcher. Kurume is an {{Ojou}}.

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