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[[caption-width-right:300: [[PsychicPowers Kyōsuke]] [[CluelessChickMagnet Kasuga]] between [[GenkiGirl Hikaru]] [[RomanticRunnerUp Hiyama]] and [[TheAce Madoka]] [[HeroWithBadPublicity Ayukawa]].]]

''Kimagure Orange Road''[[note]]Quirky Orange Road[[/note]] is a manga created by Izumi Matsumoto and serialized in ''[[Magazine/ShonenJump Weekly Shonen Jump]]'' from 1984 to 1987. The anime had a pilot episode to promote the manga in 1985, which was followed by a 48-episode TV anime series which aired from 1987 to 1988, a TV movie from 1988 (''Kimagure Orange Road: I want to return to that day''), and 8 OAV's (set in the TV series continuity) released in between 1989 and 1991. There were also a theatrical movie set several years post-series (''Shin Kimagure Orange Road: Summer's Beginning'') and a Drama CD series from 1997.

The LoveTriangle between the three main characters remains a classic to this day. At the center of it is Kyōsuke Kasuga, the apparently OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent, whose family has just moved to another town due to the necessity of keeping their PsychicPowers a secret.

His first love interest is the beautiful Madoka Ayukawa, who seems to be a friendly and kind girl the first time their paths cross. When he meets her again at school, however, she acts icy and distant towards him, and school rumor insists that she is a [[{{Delinquents}} delinquent]]. Which facet of [[BrokenBird Ma]][[AloofDarkHairedGirl do]][[{{Tsundere}} ka]] is the real one?

The third corner of the love triangle comes in the form of Hikaru Hiyama. She's a bubbly, innocent tomboy who immediately falls for Kyōsuke after seeing him make an incredible hoop shot (not knowing that he used supernatural powers) and is fond of [[TheGlomp glomping]] him and calling him "Darling!"

Predictably, Kyōsuke has no romantic feelings towards Hikaru: he ''does'' care for "Hikaru-chan" (what 15 year old guy can ''really'' resist a cute girl practically throwing herself at him?), but has eyes only for Madoka, who acts [[{{Tsundere}} sweet (but cold when he disappoints her because of his indecisiveness) towards him]]. Even more predictably, Kyōsuke [[CanNotSpitItOut cannot declare his love for Madoka or reject Hikaru and thus end the love triangle]]. The reason? Hikaru absolutely '''adores''' [[OneeSama "Madoka-san"]] and has been her OnlyFriend from many years ago (as in, along with a boy named Yūsaku Hino, she's the only person who isn't afraid of her), and Madoka had already promised to help her win Kyōsuke. In addition, Madoka has shown she really dislikes it if Kyōsuke does anything to hurt or upset Hikaru. Of course, the setup gets even more tangled when ''Madoka'' herself begins developing feelings for Kyōsuke as well...

What elevates ''Kimagure Orange Road'' from a run-of-the-mill romantic comedy is the [[CharacterDevelopment depth and genuineness of its emotions and events]]. Despite the subplot of Kyōsuke keeping his supernatural powers a secret, the series is really a coming-of-age story of typical teenagers finding their way in the confusing realm of love that feels more realistic and nostalgic than most other romantic comedies.

After Creator/AnimEigo lost the license in 2004, it was almost forgotten in Western anime circles, but Creator/DiscotekMedia announced on August 12, 2018 that it was going to release a remastered Blu-Ray of the series which was released on March 26, 2019, with the [=OVAs=] and first movie released on July 29, 2019. The TV Series, [=OVAs=], and first movie can be watched on Website/{{Crunchyroll}}.

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!!'''Manga/KimagureOrangeRoad''' provides examples of:
* TheAce: Madoka is [[BrainyBrunette extremely smart]] and [[RenaissanceMan talented at almost everything]] (she's a musician, a singer and songwriter, [[AcademicAthlete is very good at sports and one of the best students in her school]]). Due to her emotional fragility, sadness and loneliness, she's a BrokenAce, though.
* ActionGirl: Madoka. Also, the JapaneseDelinquent girls she knows and maybe used to hang out with; a {{filler}} anime episode centers on Madoka and one of them.
* AlmostKiss: Kyōsuke and Madoka ''love'' doing this.
* AloofDarkHairedGirl: Madoka, who is tall, pretty and rather cool (at least she appears like that, but she's NotSoStoic at all...).
* AmazonChaser: Played with, maybe deconstructed in regards to Madoka. She gets this reaction from older guys, but boys her age often say "NoGuyWantsAnAmazon" and steer away from "Madoka the Pick", no matter how hot she is. (In fact, even Hatta and Komatsu feared her at the beginning, and warned Kyōsuke about her bad fame in the second episode.) Kyōsuke is pretty much the first guy aside of Yūsaku who approaches her without fear (or ''despite'' his fear) in school.
* AmazonianBeauty: Madoka. She's beautiful and feminine, but physically well built and muscular, and you just have to watch how she defeats male delinquents to understand how strong she is.
* AntiHero:
** Kyōsuke is a ClassicalAntiHero. He's cowardly and indecisive because he's in love with Madoka, Hikaru loves him, and he thinks he'll never be good enough for Madoka. He's also BookDumb and lazy.
** Hatta and Komatsu are {{Classical Anti Hero}}es as well. Lazy, unlucky, BookDumb, cowardly, pathetic and ''extremely'' lecherous.
** Yūsaku also fits, but besides being unlucky, he's angry and violent because of his selfish unrequited love feelings towards Hikaru. He manages to be a mix of a ClassicalAntiHero and a rude and selfish variant of a ByronicHero.
** Madoka doesn't fit as she's ''not'' an AntiHero, but she can be considered as a {{Downplayed|Trope}} version of a ByronicHero: extremely intelligent, introspective and attractive, but also emotional and fragile, being an [[MisunderstoodLonerWithAHeartOfGold extremely selfless, good-hearted outcast]], and can be a MoodSwinger.
* BaitAndSwitchCredits:
** The Italian opening. The lyrics of the theme song were clearly written by someone who don't know anything about the story. The song is mostly about Kyosuke (called by his [[DubNameChange dub name]] "Johnny") and his powers, not a single word about the love triangle which is the main plot of the anime. It uses some random adjectives to describe Kyosuke, like "sincere" (when for most of the series he's anything but) or even "affascinante" (meaning "charming, seductive"). It also states that mind-reading is one of his powers, which is of course not true.
** The French opening is not as inaccurate but still qualifies. The lyrics focus too much on Kyosuke's family, especially Kurumi and Manami, while they barely mention Madoka and Hikaru, who are much more important characters.
* BeachEpisode: The pilot, and some later episodes.
* BettyAndVeronica:
** Cute, naive, affectionate {{Genki Girl}} Hikaru is the Betty, and sexy, mysterious, yet faithful and affectionate too AloofDarkHairedGirl Madoka is the Veronica, with Kyōsuke being the Archie.
** The trope is [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructed]], however. Madoka is more selfless, while Hikaru is more spoiled.
** [[FilleFatale Sayuri Hirose]] tries to become a ThirdOptionLoveInterest and get Kyōsuke away from them. [[spoiler: She fails.]]
* BigEater: The twins Kurumi and Manami. Somewhat justifed as using their PsychicPowers drain them of energy and thus they need to eat to recover it; double since Kurumi is ''very'' gung-ho about her psychic skills, and once in a while Manami uses hers to fix the messes Kurumi causes.
* BlandNameProduct: Sayuri wins a trip to Hawaii in a fast food restaurant called ''Mc Cotonalt.''
* BlindWithoutEm: Manami almost can't see without her glasses. When Madoka saved her, and they stood close to each other, she hardly recognized her friend.
* {{Bloomers}}: Worn by Madoka and her classmates during PE.
* BookDumb: Kyōsuke and his friends Hatta and Komatsu. Their grades are quite bad.
* BrokenBird: Madoka. Just Watch the [[BigDamnMovie first movie.]]
* BroodingBoyGentleGirl: Genderflipped; Kyōsuke is the gentle boy, while Madoka is the brooding girl. However, Madoka is in truth just a TroubledButCute MisunderstoodLonerWithAHeartOfGold.
* ButtMonkey:
** Kyosuke. There is no episode where something hilariously bad doesn't happen to this kid.
** Hikaru's childhood friend/whipping boy Yūsaku.
** Jingoro, the Kasuga's cat in the anime.
** Hatta and Komatsu, obviously. They're essentially a PluckyComicRelief, after all.
* CanNotSpitItOut: Kyōsuke wouldn't have had to keep up the charade with Hikaru for as long as he did if he had just told her about his true feelings upfront. Then again, he ''is'' the Poster Boy for Indecisiveness. (It doesn't help his situation that Madoka, due to her feelings of loyalty for Hikaru, keeps pushing Kyōsuke and Hikaru together despite having feelings for Kyōsuke herself.) In the manga, he is ''truly'' indecisive about who he likes more, though on most occasions he leans towards Madoka. In the anime, his only indecisiveness is not being able to tell Hikaru his true feelings.
* CanonDiscontinuity: Komatsu is given two different first names during the series: Seiji (the more widely accepted one) or Masashi.
* CharacterExaggeration: Hikaru, in the TV series, sometimes goes from a genuine GenkiGirl to a straight-up [[TheDitz ditz]].
* TheChikan: In a manga chapter, Kyosuke is distressed because Madoka is mad with him, and his cousin Kazuya advises him to act perverted towards Madoka to get her to forgive him. [[IdiotHero Too dumb to acknowledge that this is an obvious plot to get back at him]], Kyosuke falls for it and [[TooDumbToLive he decides to fondle Madoka in the subway]]... but before he makes the attempt, another woman gets fondled near them and angrily confronts her harasser. Madoka states how much she detests that kind of man, and Kyosuke wisely loses his nerve and realizes that apologizing to Madoka is the right action to earn her forgiveness.
* ChristmasEpisode: See the very next trope. a GroundhogDayLoop.
* ChristmasEveryDay: Kyosuke uses his PsychicPowers to repeat Christmas three times, trying to get to the party with the "right" girl (without pissing off Madoka or crushing Hikaru's happiness). No-one else is aware of the repeats.
* ClingyJealousGirl: Hikaru. First in an innocent and childlike way, but more seriously and borderline {{Yandere}}-like in the first movie. She gets better, as seen above.
* CloudCuckoolander: Kurumi, who has a weird but lovable personality. She's a bit of a [[{{The Ditz}} ditz]] as well.
* ComingOfAgeStory: Maybe one of the best examples in anime.
* ConvenientlySeated: routinely {{Defied|trope}}. Kasuga sits in the middle of class. Ayukawa has a window seat, but not the 'protagonist seat'. Two grades down, the twins sit in the middle of the aisle near the classroom door.
* CoolBigSis: Madoka, towards the younger kids. She's great with children and even with pets, despite her appearance and reputation. Shu's girlfriend Yukari is a slightly more traditional version.
* CrashIntoHello: Hikaru and Kyōsuke meet this way. Hikaru further thinks there was an AccidentalKiss in the collision.
* CrazyJealousGuy: Oh God, Yusaku. Hikaru makes it clear that she doesn't want to date him, yet he keeps going on no matter what she says and often acts like she's his personal property.
* CreatorCameo: Manga chapter 125, ''Special: Izumi Matsumoto goes to Chiba!'' He also appears in volume 16's last chapter, when he's a talent show's (not very good) participiant.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Toba Tatsuro is clumsy and believes in the DeliveryStork, but he runs faster than TheAce Madoka.
* DeathByChildbirth: [[spoiler: Kyōsuke's mother, Akemi, died after the twins' birth.]]
* {{Delinquents}}: Madoka (at least, she is believed to be a delinquent) and her "ex-friends".
* DeliveryStork: Toba Tatsuro, a new teacher at Kyosuke's school, introduced in volume 14, believes in this.
* DietEpisode: In Chapter 95, Hikaru notices that she's gained weight and goes on a diet, fearing she's getting fat. Kyosuke notices her changed eating habits, he also notes that she has become heavier and her breasts are bigger now, from which he concludes that she's pregnant. [[spoiler: It turns out it's just a growth spurt.]]
%%* TheDitz: Hikaru (and to a lesser extent Kurumi).
* DubNameChange:
** When the series was translated to Italian as 'È quasi magia Johnny' ("It's almost magic, Johnny") all characters got name changes in an effort to slightly alter the show's setting from Japan to... basically nowhere (Italian dubs often change Japanese names to a random mix of Italian, English, and Japanese names). So Kyosuke, Madoka and Hikaru became Johnny, Sabrina and Tinetta. Kyosuke's sisters Manami and Kurumi were known as Manuela and Simona. When the show was brought to Spain straight from the Italian version, the names Tinetta and Simona were changed to the more Spanish-sounding Rosa and Tamara.
** In the Swedish dub, the name of the show was changed to Superfamiljen (The Super Family), Kyosuke became Kurre Karlsson, Madoka became Madeleine Aurell and so forth.
* EroticDream: OVA has both day and night dreams with Kyōsuke.
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Madoka, Madoka, Madoka.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: The owner of [[Music/{{Genesis|Band}} Abcb]] is known only as "Master".
* FirstGirlWins: No matter which timeline you go by.
* FlowerFromTheMountainTop: Kyōsuke's maternal grandfather sent Takashi off to get snow from the mountaintop for his whiskey [[ParentalMarriageVeto if he wanted to marry his daughter]] Akemi (Takeshi is the only one in Kyōsuke's family [[{{Muggles}} without powers]]). [[spoiler:He got some help from Akemi herself.]]
* FourGirlEnsemble: Hikaru is [[TheDitz the sweet ditzy one]], Kurumi is [[{{Bokukko}} slightly tomboyish]], Madoka is [[MsFanservice the sexy one]], and Manami is the TeamMom. However, Madoka is a good TeamMom too, but Manami also fits the role in the case of her family because she actually replaces her MissingMom.
* FourPhilosophyEnsemble: Perfectly fitting their temperaments: [[TheDitherer Kyōsuke]] is the Apathetic, [[MisunderstoodLonerWithAHeartOfGold Madoka]] is the Realist, [[GenkiGirl Hikaru]] is the Optimist, and [[CrazyJealousGuy Yuusaku]] is the Cynic.
* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Friendly but indecisive Kyōsuke is the phlegmatic, thoughtful and selfless Madoka is the melancholic, hyperactive and cheerful Hikaru is the sanguine and rude karateka Yūsaku is the choleric.
* FreakyFridayFlip: In an episode, Kyōsuke and his cousin Kazuya switch bodies. Kyōsuke does that because he hopes to gain Kazuya's telepathy, [[spoiler:but it does not work that way!]]. Will not be the last time. He also pulls it with the local IdolSinger Mitsuru Hayakawa.
* TheGhost: Madoka's older sister, who apparently lives with her, is never seen at all. She only ever appears in ''I Want To Return To That Day'', in a RememberTheNewGuy scene. (Though she is an offscreen voice in ''Message In Rouge'', the very last OVA, which is the last thing the original Anime team made.)
* TheGlomp: "Daaaarliiiiiing!"
* GoodIsNotSoft: Madoka is likely the most altruistic character in the series, and is normally kind and polite, but it's a ''very'' bad idea to piss her off. And, of course, don't hurt her loved ones or weak people when she's there!
* TheGraduateHomageShot: In one episode, Kasuga chases after Ayukawa to a wedding she appears to be participating in, duplicating the shot. It's just a rehearsal for her sister's wedding, which traditionally the bride does not attend, and a bridesmaid is used as a stand-in.
* GroundhogDayLoop: Done a looong time before the movie came out, before the concept was even well-known.
* TheHero: Kyōsuke has PsychicPowers, but it's actually Madoka who saves weaker people from delinquents.
* HeroWithBadPublicity: Madoka, who is believed to be a delinquent and is TheHero, although Kyōsuke is the one with PsychicPowers.
* {{Homage}}: Both plots and individual scenes are borrowed from a variety of contemporary films and anime, from a dream in episode 2 that reflects ''Film/AnOfficerAndAGentleman'' to the New Year's Day special where the entire cast is recast in a parody episode of {{Toku}}, fighting a [[MegaNeko giant-sized Jingoro]], entitled [[Film/TopGun "T.A.P. Gun"]]. (This was, after all, an [[TheEighties '80s]] show).
* IdolSinger:
** Mitsuru Hayakawa is a male one. And yes, Kyōsuke switches bodies with him.
** Yukari, Madoka's cousin-in-law, is the singer of her and her boyfriend Shu's pop band.
* IfYouEverDoAnythingToHurtHer: From the ActionGirl and the ButtMonkey, towards the OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent, in regards to the GenkiGirl.
* ImprobableWeaponUser: Madoka keeps guitar picks strapped to her thigh which she can throw with considerable force. In later episodes, the main characters have to deal with a [[{{Delinquents}} girl gang]] who wield such weapons as skateboards and yo-yos. Probably a spoof of ''Manga/SukebanDeka'' ("Delinquent Girl Detective"), a popular shoujo manga about a reformed delinquent girl who used a yo-yo as a weapon to fight crime. There was a popular live-action show based on it that was airing at the time.
* IndirectKiss: For example when Madoka and Kyosuke share an apple.
* InLoveWithLove: WordOfGod says Akane is simply in love with the ''idea'' of being in love with Madoka.
* InsecureLoveInterest: Kyosuke is in love with Madoka, but he thinks he isn't and will never be good enough for her. He thinks she's beautiful, intelligent, mature... and compared to her, he looks like a kid.
* IntrepidReporter: In the second movie, Kyōsuke grows into one of these (as a wartime photographer in the former Yugoslavia).
* LastNameBasis: Kyosuke never addresses Madoka by her first name, she's always 'Ayukawa.' Although fairly early on he drops any honorifics.
* LethalChef: Kurumi
* LoveTriangle: And ''how''. The KOR love triangle is so definitive, other romantic comedies had to invent the LoveDodecahedron.
* LuminescentBlush: Episode 2. Kyosuke and Madoka are washing dishes together when their hands accidentally brush together. Quickly they broke contact and kept on washing dishes, lowering their heads and avoiding eye contact. Their faces were completely red as they did so. Soooo cute.
* MeaningfulName: Madoka's name references the night and darkness while Hikaru's name references the sun and light; both of which reflect their personalities. Kyōsuke's surname is that of the attendant of the sun goddess Amaterasu, fitting for someone caught between them.
* MeetCute: Kyōsuke met Madoka while chasing down her hat when it got blown away in the wind.
* MegaNeko: Jingoro in the New Year's Special filler episode.
* MementoMacGuffin:
** Hikaru's medallion. Several years ago she lost it to a bully, Madoka witnessed the incident and got it back for her, and that was the start of their friendship.
** Kyousuke's been hanging onto Madoka's hat ever since she gave it to him.
* MisunderstoodLonerWithAHeartOfGold: Madoka.
* ModelScam: Subverted. Hikaru meets a man that claims to be a photographer and asks her if she would like to be a model. When Hikaru gleefully tells her best friends Kyosuke and Madoka about it, Madoka warns her about perverts that claim to be photographers. Hikaru and Madoka agree to go together to the meeting place just in case. There they find out that the man IS a professional photographer with a legitimate offer... And Kyosuke's father.
* MoodWhiplash: The second half of the ''I Want to Return to That Day'' movie is much, ''much'' more serious than the rest of the series.
* MouthyKid: Kazuya, sometimes.
* MushroomSamba: Kurumi uses her powers to turn some normal mushrooms blue. They have side effects. HilarityEnsues.
* NoSmoking: Kyosuke successfully gets Madoka to kick the habit. She's seen smoking again sometimes in the second movie, though, probably because of her anxiety due to Kyōsuke's disappearance, but it's not explained why.
* OfficialCouple: [[spoiler: Kyosuke / Madoka.]]
* TheOner: The "Kagami no Naka no Actress" opening sequence is a tour-de-force of cel animation with no cuts and no painted backgrounds -- everything onscreen is drawn on cels because the camera keeps moving around. It even forms an endless loop because the sequence begins and ends with Jingoro running up the stairs.
* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: Kyosuke... Except for his psychic powers.
* PairTheSpares:
** Averted. After Hikaru is dumped by Kyosuke, it would seem reasonable that she and Yusaku would hook up. However, this doesn't happen as Shin-KOR follows the manga timeline and has Hikaru leave for America shortly thereafter and stays there for a long time. This matching is notable for not even being used much in Fan fiction.
** Akane, the fourth corner of the love triangle (!) would seem to have a logical matchup with the unnamed Lesbian Schoolgirl from the manga story "The Bus Stop of Love." However, whenever she shows up in fan works, things never work out.
* ParentalAbandonment: Madoka loves her parents [[ParentsAsPeople and they love her back]], but they work abroad (Dad is an orchestra conductor, Mom is a classic violinist) and so they're almost never seen around and Madoka has been basically raised by her older sister (and once said sister gets married, she and her hubby go to the USA and Madoka lives alone). Hikaru's parents are there, but they're never seen and only heard in the background or mentioned.
* PlotBasedVoiceCancellation: Whenever Kyosuke has a PropheticDream, the PropheticDream tells him always only half of the truth, e.g. the words he hears and the scenes he sees are always out of context.
* PowerPerversionPotential: There are many examples:
** Kurumi once transformed Kyousuke into a PantyThief (by accident: she had hypnotized him into obeying any and all orders and forgot to break it, and Hatta and Komatsu jokingly ordered him to bring them female underwear. Then they started doing it seriously); while under the effects of the above mentioned hypnosis, Kyousuke used his teleportation abilities to steal panties and bras ''[[ImpossibleThief while they were being worn]].''
** Kazuya has exchanged body with Kyousuke to try and perv on Madoka and Hikaru with Kyousuke sometimes going with it willingly because, in the body of a five years old, he'd be able to do just that without fear of punishment.
** In early appaerence Kazuya use his Telekinesis power to lift Madoka's skirt.
** Kyousuke's cousin Akane can make people see as someone else. More than once she had to stop herself from using Kyousuke's face to get her way with Madoka.
* PropheticDream: Whenever Kyosuke has a PropheticDream, the PropheticDream tells him always only half of the truth, e.g. the words he hears and the scenes he sees are always out of context.
* PsychicPowers:
** The Kasuga clan (Kyousuke's mother's family; his dad married into the family) have shown a rather wide array of skills:
** [[MindOverMatter Telekinesis]] and PsychicTeleportation can be done by all family members.
** Kyousuke also has shown an ability for [[{{Seers}} precognition]] and [[TimeTravel traveling through time]] (plus ''self'' hypnosis).
** Kyouske's Telekinesis is very powerful. He was able to lift a steamroller (10-20 tons!) at least twenty feet in the air and move it a full city block, while suffering from a severe head cold or the flu.
** His little sister Manami has demonstrated the ability to [[{{Technopath}} erase videotapes with her mind]].
** His ''other'' little sister Kurumi is good at performing hypnosis (and potential {{brainwashing}}), though she mostly uses her powers to hypnotize [[ButtMonkey Kyousuke]].
** Cousin Akane can [[MoreThanMindControl appear to be someone else to others]], while other cousin Kazuya has all of the powers Kyousuke has, [[ChildProdigy but much stronger]] -- with a side dish of [[TelePathy mind reading]] and BodySurf (the latter activated by [[UseYourHead giving an headbutt]]).
* RedOniBlueOni:
** Hikaru to Madoka
** Kurumi to Manami
** Hikaru, Kurumi, Komatsu & Hatta, Yuusaku, Kazuya to Kyousuke
** Kyousuke to Madoka or Manami
* RunningGag: Ushiko and Umao are a newlywed couple that serve as one of the primary running gags in the TV series. Their appearance in an episode generally consists of them saying the same romantic lines to one another, followed by a chaotic event involving Kyosuke or other primary characters, sometimes in the most ludicrous places.
* SailorFuku: The uniform at the school Madoka and her friends attend has gakuran for the guys and gray and white serafuku for the girls.
* SayMyName: All said YuppieCouple ever does.
* SecretKeeper: The Kasuga family must keep their psychic powers a secret, which tends to be a problem for Kyosuke. Kyosuke tries especially hard to keep the secret this time, because they have to move to a new city and start over every time their cover's blown. In the anime the Master of Abcb knows that Kyosuke and Madoka have feelings for each other. In the manga, so does Manami.
* SexoPhone: Madoka plays a mean sax in the TV series.
* ShipperOnDeck:
** In the manga, Kurumi wants Kyosuke to end up with Hikaru while Manami ships Madoka / Kyosuke. HilarityEnsues. [[spoiler: This takes a turn to the serious when Manami actually shows the red hat to Madoka and tells her about the love deal.]]
** Kazuya leans a LOT towards Madoka / Kyosuke, though he may be too young to really understand the deal.
** Akane actually was ''introduced'' as a Hikaru / Kyosuke shipper of sorts, and at some point [[MistakenForCheating she mistakenly thought]] that Kyosuke was cheating on Hikaru with Madoka and was NOT happy about it. [[StupidSexyFlanders Then she actually MET Madoka and fell for her, sorta...]]
** Yukari, during the performance of "Salvina no hana no you ni"
* {{Shorttank}}: Hikaru mixes this with some {{Kawaiiko}} traits.
* SickeninglySweethearts: Ushiko and Umao.
* SingleMaltVision: Kyosuke and Madoka are whiling away in a bar and Madoka notices Kyosuke seems somewhat plastered. When she asks if he's all right, he exclaims: "Woww! Look, look, theee are two Ayukawa sisters! Just like my sisters, Kurumi and Manami!"
* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: Both Madoka and Hikaru think like this regarding Kyousuke. Madoka loves him because he was the first guy in their school (aside of Yusaku) who approached her without fear, whereas Hikaru at first likes Kyousuke for making a super 3-pointer, but soon comes to love him for being a NiceGuy.
* StableTimeLoop: Involved in the time travel plot in the last two episodes of the TV series, as Madoka remembers meeting Kyosuke five years ago even before he traveled back to the past. This instance of time travel also invokes:
** MeanwhileInTheFuture, and...
** NeverTheSelvesShallMeet: With Madoka. [[spoiler: Because according to Grandpa, the TemporalParadox would involve both selves being erased from existence, if they ever touched each other. It was ''this'' close to happen when Madoka met herself as a kid, but thankfully her older sister called out to little Madoka and she had to come back home.]]
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Kyosuke and Kazuya. When the latter is introduced, ''everyone'' outside the Kasuga family [[LampshadeHanging comments]] on how he looks ''just'' like a five year old Kyosuke.
* SuckOutThePoison: Done by Kyosuke when a snake bites [[spoiler: Madoka]].
* TeamMom: Manami. She even helps keep her father in line when he's a little too lax in parenting.
* TimeStandsStill: In an occasion Kyosuke's grandfather hands him a pocket watch that allows him to actually stop time for 60 seconds. Cue in Kyousuke accidentally winding the watch backwards and freezing himself instead of the world around him, and making everyone else think that he's dead (no pulse). Fortunately Hikaru give him a KissOfLife and Kyosuke is revived.
* TimeTravellingLesbians: uses the device, and has time-travelling queer characters as well.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl:
** Kyōsuke's younger sisters Kurumi (tomboy) and Manami (girly girl). Kurumi is boisterous, irresponsible, and a LethalChef, Manami is reserved, domestic, motherly, and the TeamChef. Though in this case, it's [[YamatoNadeshiko Manami]] the one with a TomboyishPonytail.
** Madoka and Hikaru began as this as little girls, years before meeting Kyōsuke. In the current story, by the time he came into their lives they had switched to LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine, although both [[GirlyGirlWithATomboyStreak with some tomboy tendencies]].
* TookTheWifesName: Takashi is the only non-powered Kasuga because his wife was the only daughter and he married into the clan.
* {{Tsundere}}: Madoka is commonly cited as one of the ''original'' codifiers of the Tsundere archetype (joining the club formed by [[Anime/MazingerZ Sayaka Yumi]], [[Manga/TheRoseOfVersailles Oscar François de Jarjayes]], [[Manga/UruseiYatsura Lum]], and [[Manga/RanmaOneHalf Akane Tendō]].) Her complexity as a Tsundere is often favorably compared to the nature of many modern Tsundere. "Kimagure" means, "whimsical", and clearly refers to her.
* WeAreTeamCannonFodder: Yusaku, Hatta, Komatsu, Manami, and Kurumi have no real significance to the story.
* [[ItsAWonderfulPlot Wonderful Life]]: In the final episode.
* WordSaladTitle: The title doesn't really mean anything. Most of the action takes place on Orange Road, but several episodes aren't set there and Orange Road itself doesn't hold any significance to the characters or their growth.
* YamatoNadeshiko: Manami, the oldest of the twins, is reserved and domestic but BewareTheNiceOnes as she is prepared to use telekinesis when the situation calls for it.
** Madoka actually turns out to be one. While [[NoGuyWantsAnAmazon very strong and with the reputation of a delinquent]], her look with long black hair perfectly fits, as well as her personality traits: she's very selfless, kind, polite and devoted to the ones she loves.
* {{Yandere}}: Subverted: Hikaru showed some traits in TheMovie, but she also was under '''lots''' of mental pressure for other reasons and the whole LoveTriangle simply made her [[HeroicBSOD reach a breaking point]].
* YuppieCouple: Umao and Ushiko ("Ushiko-san!" "Umao-san!")
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