Hachibe Maeda is a guy with very, ''very'' particular tastes in women, who has yet to find a girl with all his ideal attributes: big, crystal blue eyes; perky breasts "like bullet trains"; a husky, womanly voice; lean, streamlined legs; etc.
The good news is, he's been accepted at a prestigious high school in Tokyo, and he's sure he'll find his ideal girl in the big city.
The bad news is, when he gets there, he finds the boy's dormitory has been burned down, and he can't afford an apartment.
The good news is, he's offered a place to stay... in the girls' dorm... with four beautiful women, each of whom has one of the attributes he's looking for in a girl (fiery redhead Sakurako and her eyes, shy and bespectacled Yukari and her breasts, twenty-something teacher Tsubame and her legs, and sarcastic ninja-girl Kirino and her voice).
The bad news, he almost immediately gets off on the wrong foot with them, and now they all think he's crazy, a pervert, or both. Okay, so he ''is'', but that's beside the point...
Thus begins this endearingly warped and {{ecchi}} take on harem comedies and every {{Moe}} fetish you can possibly imagine, from the creator of ''MidoriNoHibi''. As Maeda quests (with limited success) to win over the girls, he finds himself learning more about them (and himself) as he learns to appreciate them for more than their parts.
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This series provides examples of:
*BerserkButton (mess with the girls in Maeda's harem at your own risk)
*CaptainErsatz (not exactly, but two characters are clearly inspired from Evangelion: Sensei Tsubame has purple hair, drinks heavily, and is a car nut/crazy driver...Misato. Sakurako has orange hair with red ribbons, blue eyes, and a fiery temper...Asuka Langley Sohryu.)
**This troper finds that this manga is very similar to Love Hina in terms of characters. Sakurako = Naru, Yukari = Shinobu, Hachibei = Keitaro.
*ChivalrousPervert (Maeda)
*ChristmasCake (Tsubame)
** Which makes Hachibe (and us) a CakeEater.
*CrashIntoHello
*{{Fanservice}} (and lots of it! And almost always spoofed)
*FourTemperamentEnsemble
*HandsomeLech (Maeda)
*HaremNanny (Tsubame)
*HotShounenMom (Tenmaku's mom shows where the eyes came from, and Hachibe's certainly qualifies)
*LittleMissSnarker (Kirino)
*LoveFreak (Haiji)
*{{Meganekko}} (Yukari)
*{{Moe}} (alternately spoofed and embraced)
*{{Ninja}} (Kirino)
*{{Ojou}} (Ayame)
*RichBitch (Ayame)
*SadistTeacher (Sajima, the guy who came to stop Hachibe and his parts fetish)
** [[spoiler:As it turns out, he and Hachibe are NotSoDifferent, as they both are parts fetishists, although he has a reason why he stopped and why he's trying to stop Hachibe.]]
*SeriousBusiness
*ShoutOut (From {{Platoon}} and LandOfTheDead to InitialD and Sally The Witch... and those are just for starters.)
*StatusQuoIsGod (Not like the story won't go further, but the girls appear to refuse to learn anything from their past experiences with Hachibei. The fact they live with for more of a year just make it worse.)
*StupidSexyFlanders (Haiji)
*{{Tsundere}} (Sakurako)
*WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome (The aforementioned {{Fanservice}} spoofing)
*TheUnwantedHarem (subverted: Maeda definitely ''wants'' these girls)
** Could even be inverted. As noted above, it's Maeda who wants the girls, it's the girls ''who don't want him.'' [[spoiler: Until recently. And only in some cases. And then there's ''Ayame'', who's [[StalkerWithACrush just nuts]].]]
*YaoiFangirl (Yukari)
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