Line #10 Manga/Softenni


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3	Asuna Harukaze, a second year middle school student, is a member of her school's soft tennis club. She's also a delusional dreamer. Along with her friend and foil Kotone Sawanatsu, the strange Kurusu Fuyukawa and the club's friendly big sister, Chitose Akiyama, they train every day to improve their tennis skills. Which they're going to need, because their skills have a lot of room to improve.
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5	''Softenni'' is a manga by Ryo Azuchi, which was serialized in ''Monthly Comic Blade'' from 2008 to 2011 and compiled into eight volumes. It was adapted into an anime in April 2011.
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7	!Tropes in ''Softenni'' include:
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9	* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: Elizabeth joins the team several chapters into the manga, but in the anime she's there from the start.
10	* AnimalReactionShot: Done with some cows reacting to Kotone's serve hitting a nearby fence.
11	* AnimeAccentAbsence: Averted. Elizabeth has a slight accent to her GratuitousEnglish, sort of like [[Manga/{{Sketchbook}} Kate]]. In addition, her Japanese is noticeably accented.
12	* AntennaHair: Chitose and Asuna both have this cut, Asuna even having three.
13	* AmbiguouslyGay: Asuna is never explicitly stated to be a lesbian, but has a lot of erotic fantasies about the other girls. However, these fantasies never involve ''her,'' just the other girls in sexy situations. She also dreams of being a sexy cougar when she grows up, but again, these fantasies never show her ''with'' anyone.
14	* BeachEpisode: The first half of episode 11 have the girls playing on a beach to relax before the big tournament.
15	* BearsAreBadNews: Bears three times the size of a human. [[FluffyTamer Kurusu tames it.]]
16	%%* BigEater: Chitose
17	* BunnyEarsLawyer: Nobody understands how Kurusu works, and she does things that don't seem physically possible. But she's ''the'' best player on the Shiratama team.
18	* CallingYourAttacks: Kotone and Sumino. Kotone tries to assign the rest of the team attack names, too.
19	%%* CatGirl: Misaki, not that she wanted it.
20	%%* CensorBox: Often in the form of animals.
21	%%** And one notoriously long [[RelaxOVision Relax-O-Vision]] in episode 3.
22	* ChildhoodMarriagePromise: Elizabeth made one to Mishimagi. He seems baffled by it. Kotone is even more baffled by it.
23	* CloseCallHaircut: Mishimagi's ponytail is cut off with a ''soft tennis ball''.
24	%% * CloudCuckooLander: Chitose and Asuna
25	* CrossdressingVoices: Leo Tenchi's voice is noticeably girlish, but that's because it's Creator/MiyukiSawashiro's.
26	** And just a couple of episodes later, he [[WholesomeCrossdresser literally crossdresses]], but it didn't end well for him.
27	* CovertPervert: One of Asuna's defining traits is her tendency to have erotic [[ImagineSpot Imagine Spots]] at the drop of a hat.
28	%%* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Kurusu and Kotone
29	%%* CuteLittleFangs: Seriha
30	* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Let's just say Leo's way of giving massage to the girls looks very ... sensual.
31	%%* DontTryThisAtHome: [[HypocriticalHumor Hilariously]], right after Asuna accepts Leo's spontaneous compliment.
32	%% * DotingParent: Kotone's dad.
33	%% * DoubleEntendre: The show's staple humor.
34	* DungeonBypass: In the mountain DeathCourse, rather than run across the hurdle treadmill, Kurusu throws some food up into the air, and Chitose ''plows'' through them all.
35	* EasyAmnesia: Asuna, after getting whacked in the head with a tennis racquet. Kurusu recovers her memory just as quickly with a chair that's also a massage chair and a coffeemaker.
36	* ElaborateUndergroundBase: Leads to a hot springs bath beneath the school, and in the process confirms everything students believe about secret, lavish faculty facilities.
37	%% * EmotionlessGirl: Kurusu
38	* EroticEating: Chitose and the banana in episode eight.
39	* ExtremeOmnivore: Chitose will even eat tennis balls just because they look like daifuku.
40	%% * ExpressiveHair: Kotone and Asuna
41	%% * FanService: To uncomfortably sexy levels at times. Leo's massage in particular comes to mind.
42	%% * GenkiGirl: Asuna
43	%% * GirlishPigtails: Kotone has them, and they're [[ExpressiveHair expressive]].
44	* GorgeousGaijin: Invoked, then averted. Asuna expects Elizabeth to outsize her, but finds that she's bigger (by a bit).
45	%% * GratuitousEnglish: Elizabeth, naturally.
46	%% * HappyEndingMassage: "God Fingers" Leo
47	* HardDrinkingPartyGirl: Played with for Miyoshi-sensei. Whenever she gets screen time, she's in the middle of drinking some kind of alcoholic beverage, with no partying whatsoever.
48	%% * HotBlooded: Kotone and Sumino
49	%% * HotForTeacher: Kotone and Elizabeth for Hiroshi.
50	* HotSpringsEpisode: Episode three, after a bad storm blows through. The Softenni Shorts also take place in one.
51	* HotterAndSexier: The manga is strictly soft ecchi, but the anime adds occasional nudity. And then the Softenni Shorts come along and you can forget about the "occasional" part.
52	%% * HugeSchoolgirl: Say "Hello!" to Naguno; episode six.
53	* ImagineSpot: Asuna, frequently. They're also perverted.
54	* ImprobablyFemaleCast: Only Hiroshi and Leo are the important male characters.
55	* IndirectKiss: Parodied. Leo thought Asuna used her lipstick to decorate his already {{Wholesome Crossdresser}} status, but a shift to the backseat shows that the lipstick belongs to Kurusu.
56	* InterspeciesRomance: Chitose and her... boyfriend, a giant salamander.
57	* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Happens to Asuna in the penultimate episode.
58	* MaskPower: Kurusu shows up in many different costume heads or a full costume for one reason or another. Although they have no actual effect, she's still implied to be the most talented member on the team in Episode 5, according to Chitose.
59	** She has a bunch of them in her house.
60	* ModestyTowel: At the mountain hot springs. Except for Kurusu.
61	* {{Multiboobage}}: One of the extra episodes features a pair of synthetic breasts modeled after Chitose's. They wind up attached to her at one point, but since she's already so busty, they sit on top of her breasts, making it look like she has four giant boobs.
62	* NoEnding: Both the manga and anime end rather abruptly after the resolution of the Asuna's amnesia plot. We never do get to see the upcoming tournament; even in the Softenni Shorts it still hasn't happened yet.
63	* {{Ojou}}: Elizabeth shows shades of it.
64	* TheOneGuy: Hiroshi Mishimagi and Leo.
65	* OhNoNotAgain: ''Just moments'' after the first episode kicks off, Asuna's mom goes, "'''Asuna!''' How many times have I told you not to treat the pitch fork like a tennis racket?!"
66	* OnceAnEpisode: The Harukaze family cow, Hanako, tries to make an escape.
67	* OpposingSportsTeam: Both Akadama and Kurotama Middle School.
68	* PhenotypeStereotype: Elizabeth, a blonde-haired, blue-eyed English girl. She lacks the usual big boobs though.
69	* PintSizedPowerhouse: Kurusu is ''tiny,'' but still a very strong player.
70	* PowersViaPossession: Yayoi Hiragishi is, for the most part, a ShrinkingViolet. Then she channels the spirit of Uzuki, her dead older sister, and turns into a tennis pro with some [[TheBerserker berserker]] tendencies.
71	* ReiAyanamiExpy: Kurusu is close enough; her height and complexion are different but her hair and personality match. The show acknowledges this whenever they do an Evangelion ShoutOut.
72	* RunningGag: Hanako, Asuna's cow, is always running away at the end of [[OnceAnEpisode each episode]].
73	%%* ScaryShinyGlasses: Chitose but she's shocked instead of being angry.
74	* SheCleansUpNicely: Kotone decides to dress in a very fashionable feminine casual [[HotForTeacher for an outing with Hiroshi]]. Too bad, though: [[TheRival Elizabeth]] copied it.
75	* ShipperOnDeck: Kotone gets support from Chitose and Asuna (especially Asuna) on [[SheCleansUpNicely her fashion makeover]].
76	* ShoutOut:
77	** When Leo's lineage as a master masseuse is described, Toki and Jagi, another two masters of PressurePoint techniques from ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'' turn up in the background.
78	** Episode 3 features an absurdly long escalator descent in the underground base, which gives Kurusu and Kotone the chance to replicate the [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion "Rei slaps Shinji"]] scene.
79	** One episode has a [[Manga/{{Berserk}} Behelit]] in the background for no particular reason.
80	** When Asuna pictures the rest of the club dying tragically, Chitose dies shielding her with the same pose as [[Anime/DragonBallZ Piccolo saving Gohan.]]
81	* SomethingWeForgot: As the Tennis Club drives home from the beach, they realize they forgot Yayoi, who's still up on that cliff.
82	* TemporalThemeNaming: The main four girls have a seasonal kanji in their surname, in addition to another [[MeaningfulName meaningful]] component.
83	** Asuna '''Haru'''kaze: Spring (+ "wind")
84	** Kotone Sawa'''natsu''': ("refreshing" +) Summer
85	** Chitose '''Aki'''yama: Autumn (+ "mountain")
86	** Kurusu '''Fuyu'''kawa: Winter (+ "river")
87	%% * ThreateningShark: Or sharks that are really Kurusu.
88	* {{Tomboy}}: Despite her girly hairstyle Kotone really enjoys physical activity and has a rather rash personality.
89	* {{Tsundere}}: Kotone acts very rash and strict towards her fellow club members but always for their own good.

Context Manga / Softenni