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[[caption-width-right:350:Introducing our StudentCouncilPresident!]]

->''"I am well aware that this Student Council is my harem."''
-->--'''Ken Sugisaki'''

At Hekiyou Academy, the Student Council is selected by what amounts to a popularity contest. As such, the Council mostly consists of attractive girls, though there is one man among them - Ken Sugisaki. His lofty, crazy and yet somehow attainable goal? [[HaremSeeker To turn the four girls of the Student Council into his harem]]. So begins ''Seitokai no Ichizon''.

Based on a series of light novels, the series received an anime adaptation in the fall of 2009 by StudioDEEN. A second season was announced in March of 2011 and confirmed for the fall 2012 season, animated by {{AIC}}.

There is also an [[http://vndb.org/v3209 DS game]] where the player can get a [[EarnYourHappyEnding chance to make the harem for Ken themselves.]]

This now has a [[Characters/SeitokaiNoIchizon character sheet]].


Many characters have yet to be covered, this page NeedsWikiMagicLove.
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!!Provides Examples Of:

* AbsurdlyPowerfulStudentCouncil: Though in practice, they function more like an elite club.
* AccidentalPervert: Ken ends up with Mafuyu's panties in one episode after she lost them during the school festival somehow.
** Every game that Elise wants to play with Ken turns out to be ''very'' perverted two or three seconds in.
* ACupAngst: In one of the anime episodes, Ken calls Kurimu "Pettanko" everytime she says "Stamp". Of couse he does this to make Kurimu say "Pettanko" instead. [[CrowningMomentOfFunny It works.]]
--> Kurimu: Stamp.
--> Ken: Pettanko.
--> Kurimu: Stamp.
--> Ken: Pettanko.
--> ''Beat.''
--> Ken: Stamp.
--> Kurimu: Pettanko.
* AloofDarkHairedGirl: Chizuru tends be quiet, snarky and more emotionally distant than the other girls, though it's implied that she's invoking it. Back in middle school she doesn't seem to have acted like this.
* AesopAmnesia: Played with: After seeing their own promotional video, the cast promises to actually do their jobs and become better people. One scene later, everything is back to normal, much to Ken's confusion.
* BeachEpisode: Does it still count as a beach episode if the cast is in swimsuits the whole time but never leaves the Student Council room?
* BeautifulAllAlong: So much that when Minatsu let her hair down, Ken didn't recognize her and was completely awe-struck at the beauty of this unknown girl. [[UpToEleven She was plenty cute already.]]
** Minatsu doesn't recognize Mafuyu without her ribbon, despite being sisters.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Mafuyu, of all people, is this. Usually played for comedy, but it also happens in a more serious part of the show: when [[spoiler: Ken's bully in junior high school says that Ken was a freak pervert asshole and a two-timing bastard, [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Mafuyu surprisingly slams said bully in the face with her bag.]] It gets even more awesome when you realize that all the other members were present, including the HotBlooded {{Tsundere}} Minatsu, yet the shy Mafuyu who usually stays behind the scenes and [[DoesNotLikeMen is afraid of boys]] becomes the first one to lose her cool and stick up for Ken]].
* {{Bishounen}}: Ken
* [[spoiler: BittersweetEnding: The series ends with all the girls confessing their love to Ken, however due to the circumstances (The president and Chizuru being seniors are graduating while Minatsu and Mafuyu have to move away) the whole group are separated and life moves on.]]
* BlankWhiteEyes: Ken when driven to tears by yet another destroyed fantasy.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: The '''second line''' of the anime is "are we really animating this thing?"
** Also the beginning of the DS Game, where the cast talk about the game itself.
** The first episode of the second season reveals that Ken apparently wrote the LightNovels, [[spoiler: which they give to the next student council]].
* BromanticFoil: Ken, upon proclaiming himself a protagonist in an {{eroge}}, is told he's this instead.
* BrotherSisterIncest: Subverted twice [[spoiler:when Ken was "two-timing". One of the girls was just his stepsister and in the end he chose his childhood friend.]]
* BuildingOfAdventure: With very few exceptions, the show takes place entirely inside the Student Council Room.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Ken. Although for the most part he acts like a perverted idiot, he actually does care about his fellow student council and helps them out, not to mention he was able to join the student council because he had the top scores in the school. Made even more so in episode 3 when [[spoiler: asked if the rumors that he was two-timing during junior high were true, he calmly answered yes instead of denying it, causing [[HotScoop Lilicia]] to eventually give up publishing it.]]
* ButNotTooForeign: Lilicia.
* CatchPhrase: "This is not a harem, it's the student council!"
* ChekhovsGag: Remember when [[spoiler: Minatsu tried a wedding dress from the Theatre Club]] in Episode 1? Well, it's mentioned again in the last episode when it is revealed that [[spoiler: Minatsu's dream is to become a bride]]. [[HilarityEnsues Cue Ken's reaction...]]
** [[spoiler: Minatsu brings up a good point though: Why the hell is that still back there?]]
* ChickMagnet: So far there are only '''2''' female characters in this show who are not interested in Ken, one of whom never met him directly.
* ChivalrousPervert: It's implied that at least some of Ken's behavior is an act. He's shown himself quite willing to get himself into bad situations to spare the rest of the council. He does almost all of the paper work for the council just so he can create a fun environment for the girls to hang out in.
* ColorFailure
* ConversationalTroping: While Ken fancies himself as the protagonist of a harem series, it's brought up that the [[BromanticFoil protagonist's best friend]] is often the one who's girl-crazy and thus doomed to fail. This is just the tip of the iceberg.
* CoolBigSis: Chizuru.
* CooldownHug: Subverted with delightful viciousness by Chizuru:
--> '''Chizuru:''' ''Come here, Key-kun. (Hugs him) There there, it's okay.''
-->'''Ken:''' ''(Weeping) Oh, Chizuru-san, I've been dirtied!!''
-->'''Chizuru:''' ''(Keeping gentle tone of voice) Oh, don't worry, you've always been covered in filth to begin with...''
-->'''Ken:''' ''(Literally cracks) Waaaahhh!!''
* CovertPervert: [[YaoiFangirl Mafuyu]].
* CreditsRunningSequence: The ending.
* {{Crossover}}: With ''LightNovel/BokuWaTomodachiGaSukunai''. [[http://www.seitokaixrinjinbu.info/ Here's a picture.]]
* CutenessProximity: Chizuru towards Kurimu, especially in the morning.
** In the game. Make Ken choose to ask Lilicia and Nakameguro for help. And watch Mafuyu trap on her ''Paradise''.
* DeadpanSnarker: Mafuyu can say the most cruel, perverted and twisted things with a straight face and ''still'' be as cute as a button.
* DefiedTrope: Minatsu is informed that she should be a GenkiGirl BookDumb character when everyone is discussing their academic strengths. She disagrees and helps Kurimu with her math.
* DerailedForDetails: A rather basic math problem gets derailed in this way.
* DoesNotLikeMen: Mafuyu, while an enthusiastic YaoiFangirl, is personally afraid of men. Ken is the exception.
* DontExplainTheJoke
--> '''Ken''': Fine. Pokkoncho is obviously...
--> '''Kurimu''': Obviously?
--> '''Ken''': Uhh.....Oh yeah, did you all record that show from last night?
--> '''EVERYONE''': WHAT'S POKKONCHO?!
** But seriously, WHAT THE HELL IS POKKONCHO?!
* DrivesLikeCrazy: Magiru only drives once to take Ken home when he is sick, but wow does she fit the bill.
* DuckSeasonRabbitSeason: In the first episode where Kurimu is loudly approving requests with her stamp by saying ''shonin'' ("approved"), Ken stands behind a nearby blackboard and mutters ''UsefulNotes/{{pettanko}}'' ("flat-chest"). This continues for a few seconds, until Ken switches and mutters ''shonin'' and Kurimu reacts by saying "pettanko". Once her brain catches up, [[ACupAngst she starts crying]] into Chizuru's generously endowed chest...
--> '''Kurimu''' (Rolling on the ground like a baby) ''"Chizuru, I hate you!!"''
* DudeLooksLikeALady: Nakameguro.
* DysfunctionJunction: Zany antics and laughter aside, everyone in the council has some deep seated personal trauma, be it bullying (Chizuru), a broken family (Minatsu and Mafuyu) or a broken heart (Ken). It could probably be argued that Kurimu uses her position on the council to make up for her lack of physical development.
* {{Eroge}}: Knowing about these is surprisingly key to the entire plot.
* {{Expy}}: Ken, before joining the Student Council, [[spoiler: was a slightly less insane [[CrossChannel Taichi Kurosu.]]]] Also, some fans think of him as [[spoiler: [[HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi K1.]]]]
* EndlessGame: Lilicia and Elise have one of Shiritori. They both use the mono aluminum strategy, meaning every word past the first is an aluminum compound beginning with "mu". Color my [[YourHeadASplode head asploded]].
* FaceFault
* FamilyUnfriendlyAesop: Parodied in-universe with Ken's speech that Kurimu really doesn't need to bother with fixing any of her flaws because being an [[GenkiGirl energetic]] idiot makes her popular and attractive. It's taken to heart and freaks him and Chizuru out, so they put an end to that.
* {{Fanservice}}: Usually takes place in Ken's overactive imagination, with the exception of Episode 5, or when the girls are wearing swimsuits. Also again in the game.
* FlippingTheTable
* GamerChick: Mafuyu, who spends quite a lot of her time in the show on her PSP or updating some gaming wiki (and she gets really upset when Ken asks her to drop the latter in favor of getting back to work).
* GratuitousEnglish -- Just one the most funny since it's Ken saying it.
--> '''Ken''': '''OH MY GOD!'''
** In the anime:
--> '''Kurimu''': '''Get out.'''
* HaremSeeker: Sugisaki Ken, and ''proud of it.'' He ''really'' wants this harem, enough for [[BookDumb an academically average boy]] like him to study hard enough to get the grades necessary to get into the council.
* HeyItsThatVoice: Chizuru has the same voice as the oldest of the Seven Stakes of Purgatory, [[UminekoNoNakuKoroNi Lucifer]].
*** Now there is a reason to fear why.
** [[TakashiKondo Ken]] is [[Manga/BlackCat Train Heartnet]] and for the lulz, also [[Manga/KatekyoHitmanReborn Hibari Kyouya]].
** Best Cameo Ever: [[TakahiroSakurai Echo of Death-niisan]]
** Come on guys, how can you guys forgot about [[MamikoNoto Lilicia]]? She even has a second role as [[Anime/HellGirl Enma Ai]] herself!
* HiddenDepths: Akaba Chizuru: Loving big sister? [[MagnificentBastard Cunning and sadistic seductress?]] Cute and fluffy sheep impersonator? Which one ''is'' she, really?
** Don't forget to add "global mover and shaker". She had a freaking ''million-dollar check'' (actually, ¥100,008,049) in her possession!
* HighlyVisibleNinja: Ken's speech on public morals is not taken well [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/seitokai_no_ichizon/v02/c007/37.html at first.]] Lampshaded in the same breath though.
* {{Hikikomori}}: Mafuyu, who is both a gaming-obsessed shut-in and one of the more popular students in her class. Somehow.
** The latter's partially lampshaded in that she was asked to wear a tiny outfit in public, but was too socially inept to realize she was supposed to be embarrassed while wearing it. This got her enough notoriety with the student body that she won a spot on the council.
* HimeCut: Chizuru.
* HotTeacher: Student Council Advisor Magiru Satori. [[http://a.imageshack.us/img143/3695/25satori1ep5.png Seriously]]: a black choker, a miniskirt and ZettaiRyouiki ''with visible garters?'' Hekiyou Academy seems to have a very loose staff dress code. Then again, Satori-sensei apparently doesn't teach any classes anyway.
* HomoeroticSubtext: The main point of Mafuyu's delusions, but in episode 12 it becomes "real" along with Nakameguro!
* HypocriticalHumor: Minatsu lectures Ken about not being able to recognize her with her hair in a different style, and a few episodes later they go by train to Tokyo. When Mafuyu takes her ribbon off, Minatsu is unable to tell it's her own sister.
* IdiotHair: Kurimu
** AntennaHair: In episode 6, after finding out [[spoiler: that the Shiina sisters are transferring to a school on the mainland]], Chirizu is playing with Kurimu's ahoge. Kurimu sits up quickly and suddenly has about eight sticking out of various spots on her head.
--> '''Ken:''' ''The ahoge multiplied!'
* IKnowMortalKombat: Ken claims reading FistOfTheNorthStar [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/seitokai_no_ichizon/v02/c007/42.html allowed him to catch kunai]].
* ImagineSpotting: Kurimu is not only able to see Ken's eroge-like fantasies, she can [[MediumAwareness pull it off the screen]]. Also, it runs on a floppy disc.
** Not just any floppy disc, but an [[WhatAreRecords ancient]] 5 1/4" floppy disc!
* InnerMonologue: Ken narrates his InnerMonologue when he has been banished to the other side of the room for talking. It confuses the girls to no end.
* {{Jerkass}}: Aka in the second season.
* {{Kawaiiko}}: Mafuyu, sweet Mafuyu.
* KonamiCode: Shows up in the strangest of places -- as the title for the second ending theme.
* [[ArrowCatch Kunai Catch]]: Ken has mad skills, see IKnowMortalKombat for details.
* {{Kuudere}}: Ken comments that Chizuru's coldness will just make her sweetness more intense. She agrees: when she liked one guy, she filled his locker with reams of paper with the words "I love you" written [[RoomFullOfCrazy over]] [[{{Yandere}} and over]] [[StalkingIsLove and over]]. Intense.
* LoliCon: Ken is accused of being this when he brings Lilcia to this student council room.
* LuckyCharmsTitle: Lampshaded, of all things. When the PortmanteauSeriesNickname ''[=SeiZon=]'' is considered, so is the idea of adding a little decorative star in there.
* ManChild: Kurimu is ''eighteen'' years old but has a maturity surpassed by Lilicia's little sister, Elise.
* MeaningfulName: The name of each of the girls in the Council corresponds to the season in which Ken met them in; they are as follows: '''Sakurano''' (Cherry-Blossom-Field) Kurimu = Spring. Shiina '''Minatsu''' (Deep-Summer) = Summer. '''Akaba''' (Red-Leaves) Chizuru = Autumn. Shiina '''Mafuyu''' (True Winter) = Winter. These are significant as [[spoiler: they represent the times in the previous year of Ken's life when meeting each of them gradually helped him out of suicidal self pity and depression.]]
* {{Meganekko}}: Chizuru, part-time as she only wears glasses when doing extended reading/writing. Nakameguro offers a male variant in Mafuyu's [[ImagineSpot fantasies]].
** He also wears them when he appears outside of Mafuyu's mind. In fact, he looks exactly the same!
* MinimalistCast: There are 5 main characters, and only about a dozen people are ever shown on screen. Ever.
* ModestyBedsheet: ''Mafuyu''...seriously just look at ''[[http://i49.tinypic.com/fu2fkw.jpg it]]'' with your own eyes.
--> ''OH PLEASE HAVE MY CHILDREN, MAFUYU-CHAN!!''
** Chizuru also has one when she wakes up from sleeping on the train in episode 7. It looks like she's wearing a dress, really.
* {{Moe}}: {{In-Universe}}. Kurimu is so moe it hurts apparently.
--> (referring to Kurimu) '''Entire cast:''' ''Dangerously moe...''
* MoodWhiplash: This show '''LOVES''' doing this.
* MoralityPet: Kurimu is Chizuru's. Strong emphasis on pet. Or possibly mindslave.
* MsFanservice: Chizuru, mostly.
* MyFriendsAndZoidberg: Whenever Kurimu says a saying she adds except Ken.
* NoFourthWall: The show doesn't have a fourth wall to begin with, considering the first two minutes are spent discussing how the characters will adapt ''their own series'', which crosses over with SelfDeprecation and WhoWouldWantToWatchUs?
--> '''Ken:''' ''This is why I didn't want to be animated.''
--> '''Kurimu:''' ''An anime that actually works by featuring only one room exists only on Sunday evenings!''
** Later, on their trip to Tokyo in Episode 7, the council is shown triumphantly arriving in Tokyo in the morning. After the scene cut, the council is sitting around a table that night in the hotel.
--> '''Kurimu:''' ''Why? What happened to walking around Tokyo? Odaiba? Shizuya?''
--> '''Ken:''' ''There's no way we'd go to places like that. This is the Heikyou Academy Student Council, you know?''
** The manga, which goes in a slightly different direction, has Ken tasked to write a light novel about the student council. Why? Because he already wrote one. He finds this out [[http://mangafox.me/manga/seitokai_no_ichizon/v01/c002/1.html when he is offered a copy of the original light novel on which both the manga and anime are based as part of a promotion]]. He has no memory of this; [[spoiler:apparently Chizuru wiped his brain after he wrote it.]]
*** Come to think of it, there might as well not even be a pretend fourth wall in the manga's first volume as the majority of it is about how they are now a serialized manga.
* NotAMorningPerson: Chizuru, whose CutenessProximity towards Kurimu actually increases when she is half-conscious in the morning. She doesn't seem to become evil until she's awake, just clingy.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Elise accuses Ken of this when discussing her trip to the student council, to spy on them, with her sister at the end of the episode.
* {{Ojou}}: Lilicia, the Newspaper Club President. Voiced by none other than MamikoNoto. Chizuru also qualifies to a lesser extent with her (usually) ladylike speech patterns.
* OjouRinglets: Lilcia and Elise.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Kurimu is actually an 18 year old ''senior'' at her school, and yet looks younger than Mafuyu.
* OnlySaneMan: While Ken does not normally fullfil the qualifications of this trope, when the student council runs a radio show he plays this trope to the T so that he would be safe for radio. He breaks down when one part has [[BrotherSisterIncest Minatsu and Mafuyu]] read a {{yuri}} script on air.
* OnlySixFaces: Well, not even six, really. I mean, there's only about a dozen different people shown. But the girls all seem to have the same face.
* [[TwoTeacherSchool One Teacher School]]: Do we even see any other teachers?
* {{Otaku}}: Each member of the council, aside from Kurimu, embodies a different fanboy/fangirl stereotype, namely:
** Ken: {{Moe}} HaremAnime, HGame {{Otaku}} and YuriFanboy.
** Chizuru: {{Lolicon}} and YuriFangirl.
** Minatsu: HotBlooded and {{Shounen}} FightingSeries {{Fangirl}}.
** Mafuyu: YaoiFangirl GamerChick.
* PantyShot: [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/seitokai_no_ichizon/v01/c001/11.html Kurimu]] in the Manga, [[http://danbooru.donmai.us/post/show/586759/panties-pantyshot-psp-screencap-seitokai_no_ichizo Mafuyu]] in the anime.
* PettingZooPeople: Chizuru once she adopts her "~mokyu" verbal tic.
* PlayingDoctor: Subverted most strangely by Lilicia's little sister Elise, who's [[WiseBeyondTheirYears wise beyond her years]].
* ProudToBeAGeek: Ken is not shy about being a fan of [[HGame H-Games.]]
** Neither is [[GamerChick Mafuyu]] about her obvious gaming addiction.
*** Does Mafuyu even realize she's a geek?
* RapunzelHair: Chizuru's and Mafuyu's hair goes ''well'' past their waist.
* RummageSaleReject: The girls' school uniforms are pretty odd, but ''alright''...but as for the guys? Can you say "magenta-and-black plaid slacks"? Honestly, it works on a miniskirt, but who had the bright idea to put this pattern on any pair of pants?
* SchoolFestival: The festival in question doesn't show until episode 10, but deciding on its theme is the major round-table discussion for episode six.
** In the game, the scene is depending on your decision before. [[spoiler: Seeing Chizuru and Kurimu wearing in a bunny dress while doing a race]] or [[spoiler:helping Minatsu in a "Horse" Battle]]
* {{Sentai}}: After deciding that the school festival theme of the year is "{{Hot Blooded}}ness", the council goes into a Sentai tangent, including trying to decide their colors. A reference to ''Manga/TentaiSenshiSunred'' even makes it in.
* SeriousBusiness-- Elise's cat's cradle patterns. Somehow she shows the entire cosmos using a piece of string.
--> '''Ken:''' ''I can see it! The sky's tears!''
--> '''Elise:''' ''Cat's cradle is so much fun!''
--> '''Ken:''' ''It's too much fun! It's beyond the fun any human can enjoy!''
* ShapedLikeItself: Mafuyu won't forget about Sugisaki-senpai until the day Mafuyu forgets about senpai!
* ShipperOnDeck: Elise, Lilicia's sister, ships Ken/Lilicia.
* ShipTease: The famous Episode 11, seriously this episode only exists to tease all [[spoiler: Ken/Mafuyu]] shippers.
* {{Shiritori}}: Ken and Elise, Lilicia's little sister, play a round when she invades the council room in episode eight. This gets annoying for Ken when Elise keeps ending up at the names of rival light novel publishers.
* ShoutOut: Here we go: Within the first episode alone, there are nods to ''SuzumiyaHaruhi'', ''LuckyStar'', ''HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi'', ''KOn'', ''DragonBall Z'' and ''DragonBallEvolution''... the Student Council knows their fellow fictions, several of these are in the space of 2 minutes ''before the title sequence''.
** ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'', ''Manga/DeathNote'', ''Anime/YuGiOh''...
** ''VisualNovel/{{Clannad}}'' as well, with the argument about the names Sunohara and Okazaki.
** Count Franchise/ResidentEvil too.
** Episode 3 brings us [[Anime/HellGirl ippenshindemiru]]?
*** And ''PokeMon''.
** Episode four has extended sequences referencing ''StrikeWitches'' ([[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRVGccQEqoE shot for shot]]) and ''{{K-ON}}!''
*** And I definitely think that the entrance scene of the said episode is definitely like [[LightNovel/MariaSamaGaMiteru Marimite]]
** ''LightNovel/{{Toradora}}'' now. Honestly, let's quit listing the references. We're getting to SerialEscalation here.
** Ken's face in episode 7 certainly reminds this troper of snake-faced former-captain of the [[Manga/{{Bleach}} 3rd Division]].
** Now we've got recalls of ''SuzumiyaHaruhi'' and ''HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi'', as well as ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid''.
** Episode 10 gives us ''KimiGaNozomuEien'' among others.
*** ...Including directly referencing [[TengenToppaGurrenLagann Kamina's]] death (complete with blurred up version of the ''exact'' shot).
** Episode 11 has FateStayNight. Apparently Mafuyu played it.
** As well as {{Castlevania}}.
** Episode 12 combines this with MythologyGag, referencing KeyVisualArts and the KyotoAnimation adaptation of ''VisualNovel/{{Air}}''.
*** ''PapanoIukotooKikinasai!'' and ''Manga/HeavensLostProperty'', anybody?
*** Also references ''HikaruNoGo''.
** [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/seitokai_no_ichizon/v02/c007/37.html That headband]] rings a [[{{Naruto}} bell]].
*** Asuka's answer to meeting the council is to defeat them ''DynastyWarriors'' style!
* SiblingYinYang: The Shiina siblings. Minatsu is the outspoken, tomboyish one. Mafuyu is the petite, quiet one.
* SidetrackedByTheAnalogy: Kurimu and word problems don't mix. Takeshi's story is more complex than the arithmetic in it.
* SleepLearning: Chizuru is seen using it on Kurimu, and the effects make themselves visible the next morning.
* SomethingWeForgot: At the end of episode five, Chizuru gets a look in her eye that says this. Turns out that Ken is still in that locker.
* StepfordSmiler: Recent chapters and episodes imply that Ken's happy-go-lucky persona is a defence mechanism to keep him from a severe emotional trauma from back in junior high, and not his actual personality.
* StudentCouncilPresident: Kurimu, though she's a bit airheaded for someone in a position of leadership, and as revealed in episode 2, [[BookDumb a bit lacking as well in the matters of academics]].
* StupidSexyFlanders: Nakameguro.
* TakeThat: ''"Let's add an orb around the star!!" [[DragonballEvolution "...evolution."]] "Don't mention that one!!"''
* {{Telepathy}}: At [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/seitokai_no_ichizon/v01/c001/25.html one point in the manga]] Minatsu can read Ken's thoughts and Ken thinks it's a good thing because it shows how close they are.
* TheAtoner: [[spoiler:After Ken's two-timing hurt his stepsister, not only did he not defend himself against his classmates' bullying, he even ''asked'' for it.]]
** [[spoiler:In truth, he didn't two time at all - it was mostly due to his misplaced guilty conscience. His stepsister went into depression when Ken, who she was in love with, started dating his childhood friend. The couple broke up when Ken spent more time taking care of his stepsister. He couldn't make both happy. Each of the girls in the student council saved him during his first year of high school. Joining the student council is his way of showing his gratitude toward them with the belief he can keep everyone happy this time.]]
* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: Lampshaded with Mahiru, who refuses to teach. Although... she was never really given a chance to. She has about thirty seconds of screen time total so far.
* TheTease: Chizuru
* ThirdPersonPerson: Mafuyu thinks Mafuyu should always refer to Mafuyu in the third person.
** She takes this UpToEleven when she is pretending to have [[LaserGuidedAmnesia amnesia]], to create a TearJerker play, she still refers to herself in the third person while asking what her name is.
* TokenMiniMoe: Kurimu, who ironically is ''older'' than Mafuyu, the youngest of the group.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Kurimu and her usa-maru. Which are so sweet most people wonder how she can eat so many. They also apparently "taste like happiness."
** On a side note, the name "usa maru" could come from the mangaka Usamaru Furuya, who wrote and illustrated a manga called "Happiness". ShoutOut? Maybe.
* TranquilFury: OhCrap ''every'' female member of the Student Council when Ken is [[AccidentalPervert playing]] with Elise and her games turn out...weird at best.
* TricksterArchetype: Chizuru, yet again.
* {{Troperiffic}}: This show is out to use every. single. trope. possible. And some that ''aren't.'' It's obvious during the ''first episode.''
* {{Tsundere}}: Minatsu. Lampshaded approximately four seconds in, even before she really does anything tsunderelike.
** Lilicia may also qualify.
** Mafuyu has a tsundere blog. I-it's not like she's updating it because she l-likes it, dummy.
* UnreliableNarrator: Ken, lampshaded by Kurimu.
* [[spoiler: UnresolvedSexualTension]]: [[spoiler: Too bad Ken, even though one of the girls has actually confessed to you she still has no intention of having sex with you]].
* VerbalTic: The cast randomly assigns each other one, and runs with it. Chizuru's "Mokyu~" stands out the most.
* VictoriousChildhoodFriend: At first played straight and then subverted: [[spoiler:In middle school Ken was in a LoveTriangle with his sister-in-law and his childhood friend. His childhood friend won, but the relationship did not end well... at least for Ken.]]
** [[spoiler: He starts dating her again in the novels. A bit of a BaseBreaker for the English speaking fandom at least.]]
* WhiteHairedPrettyBoy: Nakameguro, an imaginary Mafuyu [[{{Shipping}} constantly ships]] with Ken. Who turns out to be an actual person.
* WhoWouldWantToWatchUs?: At one point, the cast tries to write a novel of their own "adventures", even though they are characters in a book. This quickly turns into a HostileShowTakeover. Everyone has wildly divergent ideas of what they want the story to be.
** Kurimu wants something like ''LightNovel/MariaSamaGaMiteru''
** Minatsu wants something akin to ''FistOfTheNorthStar'' with Ken fighting his nonexistent [[CainAndAbel big brother]].
** Mafuyu wants a yaoifest. With the big brother character.
** Chizuru wants a MistressAndServantBoy story.
** Ken's story is dense with HaremGenre tropes. In order:
*** [[AccidentalPervert Accidentally seeing Kurimu in the shower]], Minatsu cooking breakfast for him in a HadakaApron, Chizuru [[TheTease asking Ken to put suntan oil on her]] (in the Student Council Room?) and Mafuyu [[{{Dojikko}} tripping]] only to say that she's [[VaporWear not wearing panties]].
**** Considering what happened in episode 10, the latter may be more "real" than imagined...
* WingdingEyes: During episode four's ''K-ON!'' segment, Kurimu gets yen-sign eyes when she thinks of the student council band becoming rich via [[ImageSong character songs]].
** It's even [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]], too.
* WrongGenreSavvy: Ken, who believes himself to be in one of his eroge.
* {{Yandere}}: Non romantically. [[spoiler:Chizuru's]] old friend Kanade was jealous of how she fit in and got along with everyone and tried to bully her into submissions. She wanted to be her only friend.
** It has been stated Mafuyu has a blog centered around her acting like this.
* YaoiFangirl: Mafuyu, who has a passion for seeing Ken and almost any other male in bromance.
* YuriFan: Ken and Chizuru.
* ZettaiRyouiki: Every one of the girls wear Grade A as part of their uniform, with Minatsu and Lilicia getting a SS grade due to their additional TwinTails {{Tsundere}} status.
** Heck, they actually keep their ZettaiRyouiki ON ''[[FetishFuel along with their skimpy swimsuits]]'' in Episode 5.

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