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->Ohhh? I may exaggerate, but I didn't draw anything false, do ?
--> ''Kogasa'', when Yamane complained one of his earlier strips tarnished her reputation.
%%From http://danbooru.donmai.us/post/show/1069957, Moonspeaker translation.

''Hang In There, Kogasa-San'' is a VideoGame/{{Touhou}} Fan WebComic story about Kogasa Tatara and Sanae Kochiya being happily married and living together. Both are famous manga artists and the story describes their daily lives between traveling, conventions and general tasks for work. The catch is that all the story lines are based on the life of the author, Mizuki Hitoshi, comedically exaggerated.

It is published daily on {{Pixiv}}, and an English-translated and regularly updated version can be found [[http://danbooru.donmai.us/pool/show/2420 here]]. ('''[[NotSafeForWork NSFW]]''' ads warning).
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!!Tropes include:
* AcrophobicBird: Sadly, only the acrophobia part of the trope applies to Kogasa.
* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Suwako and Kanako for Sanae. Kogasa's parents are even weirder from a human perspective but they don't anger her as much.
* AuthorAvatar: Kogasa for the maker, Sanae for his wife, and random Touhou characters for everyone else.
* BigEater: Kogasa.
** A later arc gave {{justification}} to this--the author is from rural [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kochi_prefecture Kochi Prefecture]], where "country folks' hospitality is the amount of their food" and "sincerity is measured in calories."
** Yuyuko, much to Kogasa's despair due to two reasons: her tastes are expensive and recently she insists on Kogasa eating as much as her, usually when he's on a diet.
* BrattyHalfPint: Remilia and arguably Flandre.
* BrickJoke: Sanae's Youmu cosplay.
* ButtMonkey: Kogasa, most of the time.
* TheCameo: [[http://danbooru.donmai.us/post/show/886408 Look at what Kogasa]] [[{{Minecraft}} is playing]]
** [[spoiler:ActionBomb: The last panel of the above, look at the screen. Kogasa's about to be exploded by a Creeper ingame.]]
* CantHoldHisLiquor: Kogasa, who got drunk once by a ''single'' sip of beer.
* CloudCuckooLander: Changes between Kogasa and Sanae.
* CosplayOtakuGirl: Sanae, which provides much of the series' {{fanservice}}
* CovertPervert: Sanae. Not ''too'' covert though.
* CrackIsCheaper: Being both an {{Otaku}} ''and'' a BigEater does a number on Kogasa's budget. {{Lampshaded}} InUniverse.
* {{Crossover}}: Between VideoGame/{{Touhou}} and several other franchises when the characters would [[RuleOfFunny better suit the situation]]. The author has incredibly diverse tastes.
* CueTheRain: Kogasa always seems to be ruining the day by making it rain somehow. It's also discussed in the Anime Boston arc, where a lack of rain at that event is questioned by a fan.
** It still rained though, didn't it?
* {{Diary}}: The story is the author's journal.
* DistractedByTheSexy: Happened more than one time to Kogasa, often by Sanae.
* FanNickname: Sanaewife
** Kogasauthor
** [[JustForPun Sanaelation]], for the inevitable result of Kogasa drawing his wife's ire.[[labelnote:note]]Originated from an excellent fan translation of "yurusanae", itself an in-comic pun on "yurusanai" ("unforgiving")[[/labelnote]]
* FanDisservice: Whenever Kogasa does something incredibly adorable, at least one commenter will remind everyone else that she represents a 30-some year old man.
* FanTranslation: The Danbooru version via clever note placement.
* FoodPorn: Rather frequent, given that Kogasa and Sanae are both cardinal foodies.
* GenderFlip: The writer is male (as are a few of the other characters); his AuthorAvatar is female in {{canon}} and is drawn as a female (with female underwear etc); and yet considered male in-story.
* {{H-Game}}: Kogasa played one of these with obvious consequences.
* HappilyMarried: Kogasa and Sanae.
* LifeEmbellished: The premise of the comic.
* MadeOfIron: Kogasa.
** IronButtMonkey
* {{Meido}}: In once instance, Kogasa has to dress up as this as punishment.
* NoSenseOfDirection: Yamame.
* OtakuSurrogate: Sanae is a Gundam fan, sometimes to Kogasa's horror. (Kogasa himself is more into {{moe}}.)
* RunningGag:
** Kogasa orders a meal only to get a wrong one or nothing at all.
** Yuyuko brings Kogasa or Sanae to restaurants that're massively overpriced for the couple.
** Yamame getting lost and/or arriving late.
** Yuyuko forcing Kogasa to eat alot of food when she gets the chance.
** Sanae for whatever reason being unable to go on trips.
* ScheduleSlip: Rare for a daily webcomic. The only major period of slip was a 11-day period during mid-October 2011, when the writer claimed to be backlog of 16 pages of draft. He even tried to remedy the situation by uploading 3 archived strips in the beginning.
* SequentialArtist: a certain amount of the strips was basically the pain of being a doujinshi artist; there were poorly-conducted cons that made substantial loss (q.v. the below [=PMMM=] convention)[[labelnote:elaboration]]The PMMM franchise's unprecedented popularity forced the convention to extend from a one-day, single-room convention to being held in two convention rooms several blocks apart, and the con was divided into three sessions such that every participant were only allowed to have 90 minutes of time.[[/labelnote]]there've been cases where he had to attend cons that he didn't want any part of[[labelnote:elaboration]]For example: He entered a con for the urophiliac {{fetish}} only to attend two other cons nearby that were already full.[[/labelnote]].
* ShoutOut: An entire arc was more or less re-creating ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica''. Fitting, since the arc was on a [=PMMM=] con.
* ShowWithinAShow: Sort of. In one story arc, the characters watch episodes of ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica''.
* SliceOfLife
* WeightWoe: Sanae has that,and it affected Kogasa as well, as Sanae is actively weight-watching Kogasa.
* WhyDoYouKeepChangingJobs: Some of the one-shot characters do this. It's unavoidable due to the author using some of the game's rather distinctive cast members as extras.
* {{Yonkoma}}
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