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-> ''"Recruiting Friends."''
-->--'''Agenda of the Neighbor's Club'''
Kodaka Hasegawa is a second-year transferee to a [[AnimeCatholicism Catholic]] school, St. Chronica Academy, and as always, he finds it nigh-impossible to make friends due to his natural blonde hair (inherited from his late English mother) which makes him pass for a {{delinquent}}. One day, he runs into the equally solitary and very abrasive Yozora Mikazuki while she speaks to her ImaginaryFriend, "Tomo-chan". They decide that the best way to improve their social situation is to found a club -- Neighbors Club -- to help them make friends and learn social skills.
Joining them are five others -- arrogant school idol Sena Kashiwazaki, daughter of the school chairman, whose popularity with boys naturally earn other girls' ire; Yukimura Kusunoki, an extremely effeminate freshman who joins in the hopes that Kodaka teaches him how to be more manly; Rika Shiguma, a genius (and perverted) freshman; Kobato Hasegawa, Kodaka's younger sister and a second year middle-schooler with an obsession for goth culture and vampires; and Maria Takayama, a 10-year-old nun and teacher, who also serves as club advisor.
One can only hope that these seven social losers can get their act together before the club implodes from their nigh-irreconcilable eccentricities.
''Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai'' ("I Don't Have Many Friends") is an ongoing 2009 light novel series written by Yomi Hirasaka and illustrated by Buriki (of ''DenpaOnnaToSeishunOtoko'' fame), with a 2010 manga adaptation illustrated by Itachi and [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2011-05-17/boku-wa-tomodachi-ga-sukunai-light-novels-gets-tv-anime an anime adaption by AIC]] in [[Fall2011Anime fall of 2011]].
Also inspired a spinoff manga, titled ''Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai Plus'', a retelling of the story where Kodaka runs into Sena first instead of Yozora and Sena forms the club with Kate.
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!!This series does have many examples of:
* ActorAllusion: From the Drama CD, [[KanaHanazawa Kobato]] once utters "[[Anime/AngelBeats Guard Skill: Hand Sonic]]", and [[YukaIguchi Maria]] once quoted [[ToaruMajutsuNoIndex Touma's]] CatchPhrase word for word, culminating in a headbite akin to that often done by Index (who shares the same voice actress as her). The ''ShinryakuIkaMusume'' {{Shout Out}}s are a combination of this and AscendedMeme, due to the Ika Musume parody in ''{{To Aru Majutsu no Index}}-tan'' Episode 3.
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Not that he realizes it, but Kodaka at the very least has this going for him. Yukimura goes without saying, putting his gender aside. Surprisingly, Yozora is also quite susceptible; while playing an otome game, she gets bored to tears by all the nice pretty boys until she ran across a delinquent character -- who looks like Kodaka, no less.
* AllJustADream: Chapter 1 of the LightNovel, Chapter 1 of the manga, and Episode 0 of the anime -- which is absolutely hilarious in light of the series' premise. Then Kodaka wakes up and [[ItGotWorse it all goes downhill from there]].
* AlternateContinuity: ''Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai Plus'' centers on the idea of "what if Kodaka ran into Sena first instead of Yozora".
* AnAdventurerIsYou: Sena believes in this trope, to the point of naming galge protagonists (usually male) after ''herself''.
* AnimalThemeNaming: The Hasegawa siblings' names translate to "Little Hawk" (Kodaka) and "Little Dove" (Kobato).
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Kobato, or at least that's how Kodaka sees her.
** In a surrogate way, Maria is also this to Yozora.
* AnythingThatMoves: Rika's as close to this as one can get sans the sex -- finding [[HumongousMecha mecha]], arthropods, [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and Kodaka]] all sexually attractive, and having attempted to kiss jellyfish and planarians in the past.
* ArtShift: Lots of it in the manga.
* BalancedHarem: Yozora is the first girl Kodaka interacted with and is his fellow co-founder of the Neighbors Club, [[spoiler:as well as his ForgottenChildhoodFriend]]; Sena displays the most romantic interest in him [[spoiler:and later becomes his fiancee]]; Kodaka displays the most attraction to [[DudeLooksLikeALady Yukimura]], much to his confusion and horror. Any affection from Rika is ambiguous, owing to her [[LovableSexManiac overly sexual antics]] and Kodaka's [[NoGuyWantsToBeChased disdain for them]]. On the non-romantic side Kobato and Maria engage in childish squabbles over Kodaka's brotherly attention.
* BeachEpisode: Episode 10.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor[=/=]BrickJoke: In Episode 8, Yozora expresses distaste for popular people. She also extends her rant to a pool scene from "St. Joe's Academy Tale", a galge Sena was playing at that moment, claiming had she made the game, she'd make it "godly" by adding a DownerEnding where a [[EverythingsEvenWorseWithSharks shark appears]] and [[KillEmAll kills all characters]]. A few seconds and one bad choice by Sena later, her galge dives straight into a nightmarish SuddenDownerEnding featuring that very scenario. Even Yozora was genuinely horrified at that instant before regaining her composure and claiming it is "godly". Rika remembers that the game was notorious for bad endings where ''the hero and all his romantic interests'' die in the most horrific ways [[UnwinnableByDesign should the player mess up with even a single flag]], even as Sena angrily breaks the disc.
* BettyAndVeronica: Yozora and Sena
* BigBrotherComplex: Kobato adores her brother (not that she says it out loud) and gets jealous when he starts spending a lot of time at the club (although she ultimately joins).
** BigBrotherInstinct: On the flip side, Kodaka feels this way towards Maria, more so than his actual sister who he considers an AnnoyingYoungerSibling. Naturally, his clubmates accuse him of being a {{lolicon}}.
* BigDamnHeroes: When Kodaka rescued Sena from a group of thugs... then [[WhatTheHellhero chews her out]] for provoking them after he saves her.
* BigEater: Maria.
* [[BigBrotherBully Big Sister Bully]]: Yozora towards Maria, in a surrogate way.
* {{Bishonen}}: Unusually for a harem protagonist, Kodaka definitely fits, what with his good looks and blonde hair. The series also gives a realistic take on his hair, giving him a natural dirty blond/brown hair pattern rather than the straight-up bleached look that delinquents go for. Not that most of his schoolmates can tell the difference.
* BlandNameProduct: [[TokimekiMemorial Tokimeite Memory Days]]
** [[{{Yahoo}} Yafoo Auction]]
** [[VirtualBoy Virsual Boy]]
** {{Microsoft}} -> Largehard
** [[{{Playstation}} Playing States]]
* BokeAndTsukkomiRoutine: With a chapter about the members of the Neighbor's Club studying and practicing traditional comedy techniques so that they can be funny people to hang around, it was inevitable this would appear.
* BoobsOfSteel: Every single time Sena plays an RPG, she is the melee attacker.
* BreakfastClub: A band of seven attractive social-idiots, outcasts and sociopaths bound in an attempt to gain friendship.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: "Did you forget what happened last chapter?"
** A separate example by Rika in Chapter 16 of the manga, which also features some PaintingTheFourthWall via the narration:
-->'''Narration Frame:''' "...Kodaka suddenly jumps onto Rika, roughly embracing her and stealing her lips..."
-->'''Kodaka:''' "''No I didn't!'' Also, stop making up the narration!"
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Sena is a subversion -- she's beautiful, smart, a fast learner, athletic and very dedicated; her ego as big as her breasts doesn't make her a good friend. Rika plays it straighter -- she gets away with her eccentricities for being a genius and doesn't mind being alone (the only reason she's even in the Club is to get close to her "savior" Kodaka).
* ButNotTooForeign: Kodaka (and his younger sister Kobato) is half-English, giving him a Japanese face and blonde hair, which makes everyone else assume he dyed it and is thus some {{delinquent}}.
* BuxomIsBetter: Inverted, at least within the confines of the Neighbor Club -- Yozora constantly makes fun of Sena's big breasts and even gives her the nickname "[[InSeriesNickname Meat]]" because of it.
** GagBoobs[=/=]{{Gainaxing}}: And the anime drives the point home by focusing many a MaleGaze towards Sena's breasts.
* CanNotSpitItOut: [[spoiler:Yozora cannot muster the courage to tell Kodaka that she is "Sora", his long-lost childhood friend, because she's frustrated that he doesn't recognize her (which is justifiable, because she has already grown her hair long during those ten years they never met), at least until he finally does after seeing her on the first day of classes after summer break with her hair cut short. Later, she reveals to him that she failed to meet up with him on his last day at Tooya City ten years ago because she was too scared to appear to him dressed as a girl.]]
* CantHoldHisLiquor: Sena's father, Tenma.
* CargoShip: InUniverse, Rika is a fangirl for [[HumongousMecha mecha-on-mecha]] pairings.
* CastingGag: The casting department for the drama [=CDs=] and the anime must have clearly thought of [[LightNovel/OreNoImoutoGaKonnaNiKawaiiWakeGaNai Kuroneko]] and [[ToAruMajutsuNoIndex Index]] when they drafted KanaHanazawa and YukaIguchi to voice [[ElegantGothicLolita Kobato]] and [[HollywoodNuns Maria]], respectively.
** Also, getting KanaeItou to voice Sena the Kobato-chaser, which brings to mind Sanae the IkaMusume-chaser.
* ChekhovsGun: Yozora's horror story about a girl who was killed by a ghost for betraying her friend (and driving her to suicide) over a boy they like. [[spoiler:Later that night, Kodaka can't fall asleep over the whole "betrayal of friends" thing, wondering if "Sora", his only childhood friend, felt the same way about him when they fail to meet on the day Kodaka has to move as promised.]]
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: '''Six out of seven''' members of the Neighbors Club show signs of this in varying degrees of intensity and frequency. This makes the seventh -- Kodaka -- stick out like a sore thumb in his [[OnlySaneMan normalcy]], his {{delinquent}} image notwithstanding.
** Taking the cake, however, is Maria, who's clueless even for a ten-year-old kid, such as believing Yozora's "Bible verses" that coerce her into lending her favorite naptime room to the Club (and not learning the truth until it was too late) and swimming naked in the pool upon Yozora's suggestion as "cure" for "vampirism" after Kobato bit her hand (cue punishment from her superior later that day).
* ComedicSociopathy: Most of the time.
* CringeComedy: To prove that {{eroge}} [[ItsNotPornItsArt are "art" and not porn]], Yozora makes Sena read out loud the dialogue of an H-Scene Yozora and Kodaka walked in on Sena playing through. [[{{Filth}} It turns out to be somewhat different than the beautiful, lovely consummation of the protagonists' love for each other Sena claimed.]]
-->'''Sena:''' "Like I can do this crap, dammit!" (Runs off crying)
** Also, Rika's favorite doujin... which turns out to be graphically explicit mecha-on-mecha H-action.
* {{Crossover}}: [[SeitokaiNoIchizon With]] [[http://www.seitokaixrinjinbu.info/ Seitokai No Ichizon]].
* CryCute: Frequently pulled off by the [[RichBitch otherwise haughty]] Sena every time her confident aura gets shattered in the most spectacular ways (usually courtesy of [[SitcomArchnemesis Yozora's]] meddling).
** Also, there's Kobato, every time her "vampire-loli" facade breaks (such as running naked to Kodaka because her bathwater has gone cold, and realizing that the air-conditioner was broken).
** And at the end of the third LightNovel and Episode 11, [[spoiler:''[[http://www.baka-tsuki.org/project/images/d/d0/Boku_wa_Tomodachi_ga_Sukunai_Vol3_Ch14_Img01.jpg Yozora]]'' herself, after she comes to school fresh from summer break with her hair cut short, and Kodaka finally realizing that she used to be "Sora", his ForgottenChildhoodFriend]].
* CuteLittleFangs: Sena
* CutenessProximity: Sena's somewhat prone to this.
* DeadpanSnarker: Stella, the Kashiwazaki family's stewardess.
* DeepImmersionGaming: Never has ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter'' been more awesome, and a DatingSim more weird.
* DelinquentHair: The unwanted and misunderstood cause of Kodaka's social problems. In reality, he's a natural blonde.
* DeusAngstMachina: Parodied in-universe with one of Sena's eroge games. If even one flag is missed, there will be a bad ending with a horrible massacre, such as a great white shark suddenly appearing in a public pool and eating everybody. It's even [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] how incomprehensible and unlikely the bad endings are.
* DieForOurShip: InUniverse [[PlayedForLaughs comedic application]] at the end of Chapter 4/Episode 2. After she and Sena get a DownerEnding on a galge the latter was playing, Yozora storms out of the clubroom (while Sena was crying) to find and kill Akari -- ''a video game character'' -- thinking she spread the rumors that their protagonist was a HeManWomanHater, causing Yukiko, a girl she and Sena were angling for, to turn their protagonist down... [[ComicallyMissingThePoint conveniently]] [[MoralMyopia forgetting]] that it was ''their'' fault for shooting down Akari's friendly overtures with the most cruel options because they deem her proactive attitude (such as taking the initiative to introduce herself to the protagonist) a sign of being a BitchInSheepsClothing.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The scene where [[FoeYay Yozora puts lotion]] [[ItsNotRapeIfYouEnjoyedIt on Sena's back]]. ItMakesSenseInContext.
* DoNotCallMePaul: Sena's father, Tenma, has a seemingly normal name, except it can also mean "Pegasus", and he does not like being called "Pegasus".
* DoubleEntendre: '''Every''' line in the ''[[SuperRobotWarsAlpha Ultra Mecha Wars Alpha 2]]'' H-doujin:
--> '''Mecha:''' "Ahh! It's going to break! My DT-field is going to break!"
* DroppingTheBombshell: Maria in the [[AudioAdaptation Drama CD]], while keeping a perfect CheerfulChild demeanor:
--> '''Kodaka:''' "How about you, Maria? Think you can pull it off?"
--> '''Maria:''' "Ya! Despite my appearance, I'm a longtime actor."
--> '''Kodaka:''' "Oh, that's a surprise."
--> '''Maria:''' "At one of the schools I used to go to, I was once told '[[WhamLine It's creepy how a kid like you always wears a fake, shallow smile]]' by one of my classmates!"
--> '''Kodaka:''' "O-Oh, is that right?"
--> '''Maria:''' "Ya!"
* DudeLooksLikeALady: Yukimura. Kodaka thinks he's actually a girl when they first meet and then it just gets worse when he becomes the club's [[{{Meido}} maid]], complete with uniform. [[spoiler:[[RecursiveCrossdressing Turns out he should have trusted his gut feeling.]]]]
* DysfunctionJunction: There's a reason the seven members of the Neighbor Club [[StealthPun don't have many friends]].
** Kodaka frequently gets mistaken for a {{delinquent}}, thanks to his (natural) blonde hair and a bad first impression on his first day in class.
** Yozora is a [[LonersAreFreaks natural loner]] who talks to an "[[ImaginaryFriend air friend]]" and is a huge {{jerkass}} to boot.
** Sena is an [[RichBitch arrogant child of privilege]], hated by girls due to her good looks and popularity with boys (or at least a bunch of doormats).
** Rika is another natural loner, but also a [[BunnyEarsLawyer perverted genius]].
** Yukimura [[DudeLooksLikeALady looks way too much like a girl for guys to be comfortable with]], and is a little too fascinated with the concept of manliness.
** Maria is an [[{{Sensei-chan}} immature child genius]] whose wisdom stems not as much from natural talent as from an advance education.
** Kobato is under a constant self-delusion of being a [[ElegantGothicLolita goth-loli vampire]].
* Ecchi: this anime is full of fanservice
* ElegantGothicLolita: Kobato's usual getup.
* EmbarrassingFirstName: "Semoponume Kashiwazaki", the protagonist's name in "Tokimeite Memorial Days", is random syllables produced by Sena and Yozora bickering over the controller.
* EpicFail: The only way to describe Kodaka's attempts at being funny in Chapter 11, especially his story "I'm Scared of Manjuus".
* EroticEating: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] by Rika during the FestivalEpisode.
* HairDecorations: Sena's butterfly hair piece. Yozora also has several ribbons tied to the ends of her hair. Kobato wears a barette as part of her ElegantGothicLolita clothing, and [[DudeLooksLikeALady Yukimura]] wears a flower in his hair.
* {{Expy}}: Kobato shares the same name as [[{{Kobato}} an angelic healer of hearts]], and is pretty much [[LightNovel/OreNoImoutoGaKonnaNiKawaiiWakeGaNai Kuroneko]] with the same short stature, tone of voice, and elegant high-class lady attitude but with blond hair, MismatchedEyes and twintails. As a bonus, all three share [[KanaHanazawa the same voice actress]].
** Maria sounds and looks like a purple-haired [[ToAruMajutsuNoIndex Index]] on a navy blue habit, complete with sharing [[YukaIguchi the same voice actress]].
* EyeCatch: Featuring a logo containing a version of the series title branded on the girls' bodies, in episode order (the first six has them on their uniforms, the last six in bikinis): [[TallDarkAndBishoujo Yozora]]'s right thigh, [[MsFanservice Sena]]'s right breast, [[ElegantGothicLolita Kobato]]'s back, [[HollywoodNuns Maria]]'s forehead, the underside of [[HotScientist Rika]]'s left leg, [[DudeLooksLikeALady Yukimura]]'s midriff, Kobato's right hand, the center of Maria's white one-piece swimsuit, Rika's right buttcheek, Yukimura's left palm, Sena's left sideboob, and [[spoiler:post-haircut]] Yozora's right shoulder.
* FaceOfAThug: Kodaka. This makes makes his classmates confuse him for a {{delinquent}}. Even, or rather, especially by his greatest fan. He's well aware of this, and when necessary, he's perfectly capable of [[ExploitedTrope exploiting]] it.
* FestivalEpisode: Episode 11.
* FirstNameBasis: Kodaka towards Sena and Yozora. Sena and Yozora, [[SitcomArchnemesis not so much]].
* FoeYay: There's something more to Yozora and Sena's relationship than their frequent squabbles would indicate. On Yozora's side, she believes nicknames are only for friends, even if it was as insulting as Sena's "[[GagBoobs Meat]]". On Sena's side, she confessed to Kodaka that she's secretly happy with her nickname because she has never been given one before. Then comes actual interaction: during the BeachEpisode Sena was apparently enjoying Yozora rubbing her back with suntan with her feet, and also commented [[spoiler:that Yozora, post-haircut, [[StupidSexyFlanders looks ridiculously handsome]] [[{{Bifauxnen}} on a male school uniform]]]].
* FootFocus: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] by Sena's "rewards".
-->'''Sena:''' "Well, when I tell the guys in my class I'll step on them, or let them lick my shoe, they'll do everything I say."
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Yozora doesn't like to be lumped together with bullies and thinks nicknames are for friends. [[spoiler:As a kid, she befriended Kodaka after she saved him from, and then joined him in fighting, a bunch of bullies.]]
* ForgottenChildhoodFriend: [[spoiler:Yozora is implied -- and ultimately confirmed -- to be [[OneOfTheBoys the "boy"]] who once saved Kodaka from, and ultimately joined him in fighting, a bunch of bullies when they were kids.]]
* FriendlessBackground: Kodaka isn't good at making friends beyond shallow acquaintances (save for a certain boy [[spoiler:who turns out to be [[OneOfTheBoys Yozora herself]]]]), but the rest of the Neighbors Club is even worse.
* FriendshipMoment: Yozora wasn't there for it, but Sena admits to Kodaka she's secretly happy even to have Yozora calling her "Meat" because nobody's ever given her a nickname before.
* GamerChick: Sena often stays up late playing her galges.
* GirlishPigtails: Kobato.
* GirlsLoveStuffedAnimals: Kobato carries a patchwork rabbit around with her almost constantly.
* GoryDiscretionShot: Yozora's ghost story.
* GuideDangIt: Applied in-series in Chapter 16 of the manga. Sena has been getting nothing but {{Downer Ending}}s on a galge she was playing five times straight. Rika explains that the galge suffers from a GameBreakingBug where it skips a crucial EventFlag unless the player uses the protagonist's CanonName (or at least temporarily change the name before said flag). However, Sena is a believer in "AnAdventurerIsYou" and refuses to let "some other guy" take the fruits of the intense friendship she made with a girl she was rooting for, so what does she do? ''Shatter the CD and kiss the game goodbye.'' [[WhamLine Then Rika says she could've just fixed the bug.]] [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone Cue Sena crying on the window in regret.]]
** Also, in Episode 8, Sena falls prey to a nightmarish DownerEnding on a galge featuring a shark attack on the pool killing both the hero and his harem girls. According to Rika, said galge is notorious for such bloody bad endings which are [[UnwinnableByDesign very easy to trigger should the player mess up with even a single flag]], earning it a "so bad it's good" reputation among gamers. Sena begs to differ, and angrily breaks the disk in half.
* HeroWorshipper: Kodaka's a stand-up guy and all, and possibly the only admirable person in the Neighbor Club, but according to Yukimura, he's also a paragon of [[RatedMForManly manliness]], a veritable "Man Among Men".
* HiddenPurposeTest: The Neighbor Club's recruitment poster has a seemingly nonsensical mission statement below [[HollywoodScribbling an awful artwork]] by Yozora. Turns out the statement has the words "recruiting friends" encrypted diagonally. To Kodaka's surprise, [[StrangeMindsThinkAlike there are people who are able to read that]].
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: The premise -- but thanks to Kodaka, Yozora, Sena, Yukimura, Kobato, Maria and Rika's unusual traits, the only friends they can find are [[LonelyTogether each other]].
* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Every episode uses the characters for the series' shorthand name, "Haganai" (はがない), throughout the title, followed by a popular [=ShiftJIS=] {{emoticon}} used in Japanese {{Message Board}}s, in episode order:
-->'''00:''' Black Hotpot Gives Girls a Bad Smell -- 闇鍋は美少女が残念な臭い[[hottip:*:Yaminabe wa Bishōjo ga Zannen na Nioi]] (;´∀`)
-->'''01:''' We Can't Make Any Friends -- 僕達は友達が出来ない[[hottip:*:Bokutachi wa Tomodachi ga Dekinai]] (´・ω・`)
-->'''02:''' There's No God in the Electric World -- 電脳世界は神様が居ない[[hottip:*:Dennō Sekai wa Kamisama ga Inai]] ( ﾟДﾟ)
-->'''03:''' There Are No Flags in the Swimming Pool -- 市民プールはフラグがない[[hottip:*:Shimin Pūru wa Furagu ga Nai]] (;´Д`)
-->'''04:''' Underclassmen Don't How How to Hold Back -- 後輩達は遠慮がない[[hottip:*:Kōhai-tachi wa Enryo ga Nai]] Σ(゜ロ゜;
-->'''05:''' Now the SAGA is Locked On in Full Battle -- 今度はSAGAがガチな戦い[[hottip:*:Kondo wa SAGA ga Gachi na Tatakai]] ヽ(`Д´)ノ
-->'''06:''' The Karaoke Box Doesn't Have Many Customers -- カラオケボックスは客が少ない[[hottip:*:Karaoke Bokkusu wa Kyaku ga Sukunai]] (つд⊂)
-->'''07:''' My Cell Phone Has Few Calls -- 携帯電話は着信が少ない[[hottip:*:Keitai Denwa wa Chakushin ga Sukunai]] _|￣|○
-->'''08:''' No School Swimsuits This Time -- スクール水着は出番がない[[hottip:*:Sukūru Mizugi wa Deban ga Nai]] \(^o^)/
-->'''09:''' The Board Chairman's Memories are Painful -- 理事長は追想が切ない[[hottip:*:Rijichō wa Tsuisō ga Setsunai]] (-_-)
-->'''10:''' No One Sleeps at Training Camp -- 合宿は皆が寝ない[[hottip:*:Gasshuku wa Minna ga Nenai]] ヽ(ﾟ∀ﾟ)ﾉ
-->'''11:''' You See, Girls Wearing Yukata are Extremely Cute -- 女子は浴衣姿がな、超かわいい[[hottip:*:Joshi wa Yukatasugata ga na, Chō Kawaii]] (ﾟ∀ﾟ)
-->'''12:''' [[TitleDrop We Don't Have Many Friends]] -- 僕達は友達が少ない[[hottip:*:Bokutachi wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai]] (`・ω・´)
* ImaginaryFriend: Kodaka first meets Yozora when he comes across her talking to her "air friend" (she explains it as the friend version of an air guitar), "Tomo-chan".
* [[spoiler:ImportantHaircut: After accidentally burning her hair at a festival at the end of summer break, Yozora cuts her hair short upon returning to school. At this point Kodaka finally recognizes her as "Sora", his ForgottenChildhoodFriend.]]
* ImprobableAge: Maria is a teacher, nun, and '''ten years old'''.
* InnocentFanserviceGirl: Thirteen-year-old Kobato has no qualms being seen by Kodaka naked (if you consider that Fanservice).
* InSeriesNickname: Sena's "Meat", given by Yozora, on account of her GagBoobs. She's actually ''happy'' with the nickname, because nobody has given her one before.
** For that matter, the series itself has a canonical portmanteau name: "Haganai" (はがない), derived from "Boku '''wa''' Tomodachi '''ga''' suku'''nai'''" ("wa" is written as "ha" in Japanese). It appears on some {{Eye Catch}}es tattooed on the girls, and its characters are [[IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming used in episode titles for the anime]].
** [[spoiler:Kodaka and Yozora called each other Taka and Sora respectively.]]
* InsistentTerminology: Kobato would rather be called "[[OverlyLongName Reisys V. Felicity Sumeragi]]".
* IntelligenceEqualsIsolation: Rika. The only reason she's even in St. Chronica is because Tenma, Sena's father and chairman of the school board, specifically drafted her to enroll in order to raise the school's prestige.
* ItsWhatIDo: Don't bother calling down Rika for being a pervert. She's proud of it.
* JapaneseSchoolClub
* {{Jerkass}}: Yozora. Sena probably would be one as well if this was a normal series; otherwise she's just a RichBitch GamerChick.
* LastEpisodeThemeReprise
* LimitedWardrobe: Rika is rarely seen without her lab coat, Kobato is almost always on her vampire cosplay and Yukimura goes everywhere on his maid outfit. And of course, Maria is a nun.
* LonelyRichKid: Sena. Whether her horrible attitude is caused by this or the cause of this has yet to be shown.
* LonelyTogether: The Neighbor's Club's raison d'etre.
* LoveableSexManiac: Rika.
--> '''Rika:''' "Yes, [[ThirdPersonPerson Rika]] is a pervert. Rika thinks about naughty things day and night. So what about it?"
* MaleGaze: The anime has one too many, including the opening.
* [[ManipulativeBastard Manipulative Bitch]]: Yozora slapped Maria twice, then gave her passages from Literature/TheBible that doesn't even exist to coerce her into lending her sleeping room to the Neighbors Club.
** As revealed in Episode 12, however, Maria thrice turned down her polite offers to lend the room for the Club's use, calling her a "poop" in the process, prompting her to [[ArmorPiercingSlap take matters to her own hands]].
* MarshmallowHell: Poor Kobato, having her face smushed in Sena's ample assets inside a crowded bus. She doesn't enjoy it in the least bit, but many others out there would have loved to be in her position.
* MeaningfulName: Yozora means night sky, Sena means starlet. Coincidence?
* MismatchedEyes: Kobato... er, [[InsistentTerminology Reisys V. Felicity Sumeragi]], has a red eye and a blue eye. Though it is just her using contacts as part of [[ElegantGothicLolita the costume she wears]] due to her persistent delusion that she's a vampire.
* MookHorrorShow: During the RPGEpisode.
* MsFanservice: Sena -- cranked UpToEleven in the anime.
* NewTransferStudent: Kodaka is a second-year high school transferee. So does Kobato, who's in second-year junior high.
* NoSocialSkills: Many chapters revolve around the members of the Neighbors Club consciously attempting to learn some social skill/s, usually at Yozora's suggestion.
* TheOjou: Sena, of the arrogant kind. And a FallenPrincess of sorts because of overdoing it.
* OlderThanSheLooks: Kobato looks like a ten-year-old; she's actually thirteen.
* OneOfTheBoys: [[spoiler:Yozora was one as a kid.]]
* OnlySaneMan: Kodaka stands as the Neighbor Club's sole voice of reason. All his clubmates don't have friends due to their unusual and/or unpleasant personalities -- he just has his [[DelinquentHair appearance]] [[FaceOfAThug to]] [[ShroudedInMyth blame]].
* OrSoIHeard: Sena about doujinshi.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Reisys V. Felicity Sumeragi ([[BlatantLies mistakenly known to some]] as [[DoNotCallMePaul Kobato Hasegawa]], Kodaka's younger sister of three years) drinks tomato juice (and resorts only to Pepsi whenever it's unavailable), claims to be [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld thousands of years old]] (though that doesn't stop her from carrying around a patchwork stuffed rabbit), and believes vampires already had an advanced magical culture while humans were still cavemen. She also claims to have a weakness to [[WeaksauceWeakness cold water]] -- not that it stops her from doing well in swimming class (which presumably involves a lot of cold water), though, claiming she "uses a lot of magic" to adapt. And then there's those moments where her facade completely breaks and she devolves into cute little Kobato, speaking in Kyuushuu dialect and calling Kodaka "An-chan" instead of her usual "my kindred".
* ParentalAbandonment: Kodaka and Kobato's English mother Airi is dead, and their father Hayato works in America, leaving Kodaka to [[PromotionToParent take care of Kobato all by himself]].
** Sena's father Tenma gives a TakeThat to this trope in the anime, calling Hayato trash for doing it. [[BerserkButton Kodaka is none too pleased.]]
* PerpetualFrowner: Yozora. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Kodaka.
* PerspectiveFlip: [[spoiler:The first half of Episode 12 shows the events from Kodaka's transfer until the formation of the Neighbors Club from Yozora's perspective, where it is revealed that she instantly recognized him as "Taka", but she CanNotSpitItOut because Kodaka can't recognize her in return as "Sora".]]
* PlayerKilling: Sena and Yozora can't really play nice.
* PottyEmergency: The end of Episode 10 has Sena coming to Kodaka and Yukimura's room and asking the former to escort her to the bathroom. He'd eventually do the same for Kobato and Maria, then kicks Rika out when it turns out she just wants to sleep with him. And when he goes out for the bathroom himself, he encounters Yozora at the doorstep.
* PrecisionFStrike: "Bitch" gets said a lot in Episode 2, while Yozora and Sena prejudge a video game character as a BitchInSheepsClothing.
* ProductPlacement: Whenever they don't use a BlandNameProduct it's fairly obvious as this (or maybe the author just hoping to be sent one for free for his service). While many of the games like "[[TokimekiMemorial Tokimeite Memorial Days]]" and so on are blanded, they explicitly play VideoGame/MonsterHunter and use [=PSPs=], and one game they're talking about even gets a little out-of-panel "Out now!" ShoutOut.
* RapeAsComedy: The "relay novel" (see RoundRobin).
* RapunzelHair: Yozora [[spoiler:until she cut it]]
* RealMenWearPink: The reason Yozora used to convince Yukimura to dress like a maid.
* RedOniBlueOni: Sena is the red, Yozora is the blue. In between is Kodaka, who stands as the blue to their red.
* "Music/RideOfTheValkyries": Yozora hums this to herself shortly before blowing Sena up in a game.
* RoundRobin: The club members try their hands at a "relay novel". It's a train wreck.
* RPGEpisode: TV episodes 2 and 5 and chapter 17 of the manga, as well as a volume in the light novel.
* RunningGag: [[JerkAss Yozora]] says or does something cruel to [[SitcomArchnemesis Sena]]. Sena yells childish insults back at her and runs away crying. Usually happens [[OncePerEpisode once an episode.]]
* SecondYearProtagonist: The main trio -- Kodaka, Yozora and Sena -- complete with two underclassmen (Yukimura and Rika), a junior-high kid (Kobato), a ten-year-old advisor (Maria), and no need to worry about graduation, though no third-years of note.
* SeriousBusiness: Sena and her games.
** Exchanging cell phone numbers for Kodaka and Yozora.
* ShaggyDogStory: Kodaka's "I'm Scared of Manjuus".
* ShoutOut: The members of the Neighbors Club may not have many friends, but the show [[ShoutOut/BokuWaTomodachiGaSukunai does have many Shout-Outs]].
* SitcomArchnemesis: Yozora and Sena all the way.
** To a lesser extent, Kobato and Maria, playing on their Dark vs. Light (i.e., vampire vs. nun) dichotomy.
* SlasherSmile: Kodaka's smile appears to be this to other people.
* SoBadItsGood: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] InUniverse in the third LightNovel with Rika describing "St. Joe's Academy Tale" as this word for word, being a lighthearted galge notorious for plunging straight into outright nightmarish {{Downer Ending}}s where [[KillEmAll both the hero and ALL his potential love interests die in the most horrifying ways]] should the player [[UnwinnableByDesign mess up with even a single flag]].
* SophisticatedAsHell: Rika in the fourth novel.
-->'''Rika:''' "Oh, yeah, now [[ThirdPersonPerson Rika]] is supposed to behave in a more refined way. Would you care for a fuck, sempai?"
* SplitScreenReaction
* StupidSexyFlanders: Yukimura gets this reaction from every other male.
* SuperDrowningSkills: Sena claims she cannot swim, blaming her primary school's lack of swimming lessons for it. This factors into her plea to Kodaka, who, for a harem protagonist, ''averts'' this trope by being a decent swimmer, to teach her how to swim.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: Occasionally you can hear in the background something suspiciously similar to the [[JohnWilliams Imperial]] [[TheEmpireStrikesBack March.]]
* TakeThat: There are many. One, continuing from the AscendedMeme above, has Kodaka wearing a stereotypical otaku virgin outfit, [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/boku_wa_tomodachi_ga_sukunai/v01/c017/18.html with a shirt that has a]] BlandNameProduct version of the MayoChiki logo on it.
* TallDarkAndBishoujo: Yozora
* TheImmodestOrgasm: Rika's UNIVERSE! and EXCALIBUR!
* TheTease: Rika can't talk without slipping a DoubleEntendre or saying something outright naughty.
* ThereAreTwoKindsOfPeopleInTheWorld: Sena in chapter 16.
-->'''Sena:''' "...There are two types of women. Ones that I can get along with, and all the other bitches."
* ThirdPersonPerson: Rika
* ThrowTheDogABone: Maria finds Kodaka's jokes hilarious.
* {{Tsundere}}: Yozora and Sena display traits of this in varying degrees. Sometimes the cast will also discuss this trope or accuse a person of being one. At one point they ponder about having a "tsundere omniscient narrator". It didn't make much sense.
* TsurimeEyes: Sena and Yozora accuse each other of having them.
* UnusualEuphemism: "'''Universe!!!'''" (uttered twice, once by Rika while [[TheImmodestOrgasm climaxing]] while reading aloud her EVA x Gundam ero-doujin, and then by Sena running out of her house crying after being seen naked by Kodaka). Probably doubles as a ShoutOut to ''Anime/TurnAGundam''.
* VaporWear: If [[http://250kb.de/u/111015/j/ec0wmEdCI419.jpg this screenshot]] is any indicator, Yozora is either GoingCommando, or she's wearing one hell of a thong.
** Maybe the lack of panty-shots is explained by a lack of panties?
* VideogameCaringPotential: Sena becomes addicted to [[DatingSim dating sims]] because of this, to the point of referring to the characters in them casually as if they were her actual friends.
* VideogameCrueltyPotential: PlayedForLaughs in Chapter 4/Episode 2. While playing "Tokimeite Memorial Days", Yozora and Sena agreed -- [[SitcomArchnemesis for once]] -- to court shy Yukiko Nagata, while they keep shooting down overtures by Akari Fujibayashi, whom they deem a BitchInSheepsClothing just because she's proactive, with the most cruel options. [[GenreSavvy Kodaka]] is none too amused. Their choices come back to [[LaserGuidedKarma bite them in the ass]] when VideoGameCrueltyPunishment kicks in and rumors that their protagonist, "Semoponume Kashiwazaki", was a HeManWomanHater became so widespread -- whose spread [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Yozora and Sena directly attribute to Akari]] -- Yukiko eventually shot him down. They ultimately got a DownerEnding so depressing [[SeriousBusiness Sena breaks down crying, while Yozora storms out of the clubroom threatening to kill Akari]].
** Also, while playing VideoGame/MonsterHunter Sena and Yozora spend most of their time griefing each other and ignoring everything else, including their mission and Kodaka.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Yozora and Sena are implied to be an extreme Type 2.
** WithFriendsLikeThese
* VomitIndiscretionShot: Poor Kodaka is on the receiving end of a double helping of regurgitated yaminabe ("black hot pot," where the participants each add ingredients to the pot and eat in the dark) from Yozora and Sena in Episode 0.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome: Transferring cell phone addresses. Kodaka and Yozora were so thrilled at having their first contacts outside home (though the manual way, both being not so tech-savvy) Rika, who easily shared hers with Yukimura through infrared, admits she feels as though she's "behind the times". This [[GreenEyedMonster does not sit well with Sena]] who, for such a rich kid, does ''not'' have a cell phone.
** [[ToAruMajutsuNoIndex Index]] vs [[OreImo Kuroneko]] aka Maria Vs Kobato in a way.
* WholesomeCrossdresser: Yukimura
** [[spoiler:RecursiveCrossdressing]]
* WiseBeyondTheirYears: [[AvertedTrope Averted]] by Maria, who's only ''educated'' beyond her years. She knows the contents of a high school textbook and is a teacher, but in every other respect she looks, acts, and is as intelligent as the 10-year-old child she is.
** Turns out her education completely and totally [[ChildrenAreInnocent skipped sex-ed]], as she apparently doesn't even know what a penis is until Rika explains how sex works to her. Plausible, given her education by what's apparently a fairly strict and uptight sect of Christianity/Catholicism (or the [[NunsAreMikos Japanese version of it anyway]]).
* XMeetsY: TheBreakfastClub meets LoveHina without the AbuseIsOkayWhenItsFemaleOnMale.
* YaoiFangirl[=/=]YuriFangirl: Rika mostly subscribes to the former, but can also swing to the latter, as evidenced by her writing a LesYay doujin starring her and Yozora.
* YouAreATreeCharlieBrown: Kodaka is forced to play a tree in the Neighbors Club's production of ''Momotaro''. This is ''after'' Yozora cut out a bunch of parts to accommodate the club's small size. Somehow she overshot the mark by one, so she added a tree back in.
* ZettaiRyouiki: Yozora
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[[caption-width-right:200:Attractive people, ''not so attractive'' personalities.]]
-> ''"Recruiting Friends."''
-->--'''Agenda of the Neighbor's Club'''
Kodaka Hasegawa is a second-year transferee to a [[AnimeCatholicism Catholic]] school, St. Chronica Academy, and as always, he finds it nigh-impossible to make friends due to his natural blonde hair (inherited from his late English mother) which makes him pass for a {{delinquent}}. One day, he runs into the equally solitary and very abrasive Yozora Mikazuki while she speaks to her ImaginaryFriend, "Tomo-chan". They decide that the best way to improve their social situation is to found a club -- Neighbors Club -- to help them make friends and learn social skills.
Joining them are five others -- arrogant school idol Sena Kashiwazaki, daughter of the school chairman, whose popularity with boys naturally earn other girls' ire; Yukimura Kusunoki, an extremely effeminate freshman who joins in the hopes that Kodaka teaches him how to be more manly; Rika Shiguma, a genius (and perverted) freshman; Kobato Hasegawa, Kodaka's younger sister and a second year middle-schooler with an obsession for goth culture and vampires; and Maria Takayama, a 10-year-old nun and teacher, who also serves as club advisor.
One can only hope that these seven social losers can get their act together before the club implodes from their nigh-irreconcilable eccentricities.
''Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai'' ("I Don't Have Many Friends") is an ongoing 2009 light novel series written by Yomi Hirasaka and illustrated by Buriki (of ''DenpaOnnaToSeishunOtoko'' fame), with a 2010 manga adaptation illustrated by Itachi and [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2011-05-17/boku-wa-tomodachi-ga-sukunai-light-novels-gets-tv-anime an anime adaption by AIC]] in [[Fall2011Anime fall of 2011]].
Also inspired a spinoff manga, titled ''Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai Plus'', a retelling of the story where Kodaka runs into Sena first instead of Yozora and Sena forms the club with Kate.
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!!This series does have many examples of:
* ActorAllusion: From the Drama CD, [[KanaHanazawa Kobato]] once utters "[[Anime/AngelBeats Guard Skill: Hand Sonic]]", and [[YukaIguchi Maria]] once quoted [[ToaruMajutsuNoIndex Touma's]] CatchPhrase word for word, culminating in a headbite akin to that often done by Index (who shares the same voice actress as her). The ''ShinryakuIkaMusume'' {{Shout Out}}s are a combination of this and AscendedMeme, due to the Ika Musume parody in ''{{To Aru Majutsu no Index}}-tan'' Episode 3.
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Not that he realizes it, but Kodaka at the very least has this going for him. Yukimura goes without saying, putting his gender aside. Surprisingly, Yozora is also quite susceptible; while playing an otome game, she gets bored to tears by all the nice pretty boys until she ran across a delinquent character -- who looks like Kodaka, no less.
* AllJustADream: Chapter 1 of the LightNovel, Chapter 1 of the manga, and Episode 0 of the anime -- which is absolutely hilarious in light of the series' premise. Then Kodaka wakes up and [[ItGotWorse it all goes downhill from there]].
* AlternateContinuity: ''Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai Plus'' centers on the idea of "what if Kodaka ran into Sena first instead of Yozora".
* AnAdventurerIsYou: Sena believes in this trope, to the point of naming galge protagonists (usually male) after ''herself''.
* AnimalThemeNaming: The Hasegawa siblings' names translate to "Little Hawk" (Kodaka) and "Little Dove" (Kobato).
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Kobato, or at least that's how Kodaka sees her.
** In a surrogate way, Maria is also this to Yozora.
* AnythingThatMoves: Rika's as close to this as one can get sans the sex -- finding [[HumongousMecha mecha]], arthropods, [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and Kodaka]] all sexually attractive, and having attempted to kiss jellyfish and planarians in the past.
* ArtShift: Lots of it in the manga.
* BalancedHarem: Yozora is the first girl Kodaka interacted with and is his fellow co-founder of the Neighbors Club, [[spoiler:as well as his ForgottenChildhoodFriend]]; Sena displays the most romantic interest in him [[spoiler:and later becomes his fiancee]]; Kodaka displays the most attraction to [[DudeLooksLikeALady Yukimura]], much to his confusion and horror. Any affection from Rika is ambiguous, owing to her [[LovableSexManiac overly sexual antics]] and Kodaka's [[NoGuyWantsToBeChased disdain for them]]. On the non-romantic side Kobato and Maria engage in childish squabbles over Kodaka's brotherly attention.
* BeachEpisode: Episode 10.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor[=/=]BrickJoke: In Episode 8, Yozora expresses distaste for popular people. She also extends her rant to a pool scene from "St. Joe's Academy Tale", a galge Sena was playing at that moment, claiming had she made the game, she'd make it "godly" by adding a DownerEnding where a [[EverythingsEvenWorseWithSharks shark appears]] and [[KillEmAll kills all characters]]. A few seconds and one bad choice by Sena later, her galge dives straight into a nightmarish SuddenDownerEnding featuring that very scenario. Even Yozora was genuinely horrified at that instant before regaining her composure and claiming it is "godly". Rika remembers that the game was notorious for bad endings where ''the hero and all his romantic interests'' die in the most horrific ways [[UnwinnableByDesign should the player mess up with even a single flag]], even as Sena angrily breaks the disc.
* BettyAndVeronica: Yozora and Sena
* BigBrotherComplex: Kobato adores her brother (not that she says it out loud) and gets jealous when he starts spending a lot of time at the club (although she ultimately joins).
** BigBrotherInstinct: On the flip side, Kodaka feels this way towards Maria, more so than his actual sister who he considers an AnnoyingYoungerSibling. Naturally, his clubmates accuse him of being a {{lolicon}}.
* BigDamnHeroes: When Kodaka rescued Sena from a group of thugs... then [[WhatTheHellhero chews her out]] for provoking them after he saves her.
* BigEater: Maria.
* [[BigBrotherBully Big Sister Bully]]: Yozora towards Maria, in a surrogate way.
* {{Bishonen}}: Unusually for a harem protagonist, Kodaka definitely fits, what with his good looks and blonde hair. The series also gives a realistic take on his hair, giving him a natural dirty blond/brown hair pattern rather than the straight-up bleached look that delinquents go for. Not that most of his schoolmates can tell the difference.
* BlandNameProduct: [[TokimekiMemorial Tokimeite Memory Days]]
** [[{{Yahoo}} Yafoo Auction]]
** [[VirtualBoy Virsual Boy]]
** {{Microsoft}} -> Largehard
** [[{{Playstation}} Playing States]]
* BokeAndTsukkomiRoutine: With a chapter about the members of the Neighbor's Club studying and practicing traditional comedy techniques so that they can be funny people to hang around, it was inevitable this would appear.
* BoobsOfSteel: Every single time Sena plays an RPG, she is the melee attacker.
* BreakfastClub: A band of seven attractive social-idiots, outcasts and sociopaths bound in an attempt to gain friendship.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: "Did you forget what happened last chapter?"
** A separate example by Rika in Chapter 16 of the manga, which also features some PaintingTheFourthWall via the narration:
-->'''Narration Frame:''' "...Kodaka suddenly jumps onto Rika, roughly embracing her and stealing her lips..."
-->'''Kodaka:''' "''No I didn't!'' Also, stop making up the narration!"
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Sena is a subversion -- she's beautiful, smart, a fast learner, athletic and very dedicated; her ego as big as her breasts doesn't make her a good friend. Rika plays it straighter -- she gets away with her eccentricities for being a genius and doesn't mind being alone (the only reason she's even in the Club is to get close to her "savior" Kodaka).
* ButNotTooForeign: Kodaka (and his younger sister Kobato) is half-English, giving him a Japanese face and blonde hair, which makes everyone else assume he dyed it and is thus some {{delinquent}}.
* BuxomIsBetter: Inverted, at least within the confines of the Neighbor Club -- Yozora constantly makes fun of Sena's big breasts and even gives her the nickname "[[InSeriesNickname Meat]]" because of it.
** GagBoobs[=/=]{{Gainaxing}}: And the anime drives the point home by focusing many a MaleGaze towards Sena's breasts.
* CanNotSpitItOut: [[spoiler:Yozora cannot muster the courage to tell Kodaka that she is "Sora", his long-lost childhood friend, because she's frustrated that he doesn't recognize her (which is justifiable, because she has already grown her hair long during those ten years they never met), at least until he finally does after seeing her on the first day of classes after summer break with her hair cut short. Later, she reveals to him that she failed to meet up with him on his last day at Tooya City ten years ago because she was too scared to appear to him dressed as a girl.]]
* CantHoldHisLiquor: Sena's father, Tenma.
* CargoShip: InUniverse, Rika is a fangirl for [[HumongousMecha mecha-on-mecha]] pairings.
* CastingGag: The casting department for the drama [=CDs=] and the anime must have clearly thought of [[LightNovel/OreNoImoutoGaKonnaNiKawaiiWakeGaNai Kuroneko]] and [[ToAruMajutsuNoIndex Index]] when they drafted KanaHanazawa and YukaIguchi to voice [[ElegantGothicLolita Kobato]] and [[HollywoodNuns Maria]], respectively.
** Also, getting KanaeItou to voice Sena the Kobato-chaser, which brings to mind Sanae the IkaMusume-chaser.
* ChekhovsGun: Yozora's horror story about a girl who was killed by a ghost for betraying her friend (and driving her to suicide) over a boy they like. [[spoiler:Later that night, Kodaka can't fall asleep over the whole "betrayal of friends" thing, wondering if "Sora", his only childhood friend, felt the same way about him when they fail to meet on the day Kodaka has to move as promised.]]
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: '''Six out of seven''' members of the Neighbors Club show signs of this in varying degrees of intensity and frequency. This makes the seventh -- Kodaka -- stick out like a sore thumb in his [[OnlySaneMan normalcy]], his {{delinquent}} image notwithstanding.
** Taking the cake, however, is Maria, who's clueless even for a ten-year-old kid, such as believing Yozora's "Bible verses" that coerce her into lending her favorite naptime room to the Club (and not learning the truth until it was too late) and swimming naked in the pool upon Yozora's suggestion as "cure" for "vampirism" after Kobato bit her hand (cue punishment from her superior later that day).
* ComedicSociopathy: Most of the time.
* CringeComedy: To prove that {{eroge}} [[ItsNotPornItsArt are "art" and not porn]], Yozora makes Sena read out loud the dialogue of an H-Scene Yozora and Kodaka walked in on Sena playing through. [[{{Filth}} It turns out to be somewhat different than the beautiful, lovely consummation of the protagonists' love for each other Sena claimed.]]
-->'''Sena:''' "Like I can do this crap, dammit!" (Runs off crying)
** Also, Rika's favorite doujin... which turns out to be graphically explicit mecha-on-mecha H-action.
* {{Crossover}}: [[SeitokaiNoIchizon With]] [[http://www.seitokaixrinjinbu.info/ Seitokai No Ichizon]].
* CryCute: Frequently pulled off by the [[RichBitch otherwise haughty]] Sena every time her confident aura gets shattered in the most spectacular ways (usually courtesy of [[SitcomArchnemesis Yozora's]] meddling).
** Also, there's Kobato, every time her "vampire-loli" facade breaks (such as running naked to Kodaka because her bathwater has gone cold, and realizing that the air-conditioner was broken).
** And at the end of the third LightNovel and Episode 11, [[spoiler:''[[http://www.baka-tsuki.org/project/images/d/d0/Boku_wa_Tomodachi_ga_Sukunai_Vol3_Ch14_Img01.jpg Yozora]]'' herself, after she comes to school fresh from summer break with her hair cut short, and Kodaka finally realizing that she used to be "Sora", his ForgottenChildhoodFriend]].
* CuteLittleFangs: Sena
* CutenessProximity: Sena's somewhat prone to this.
* DeadpanSnarker: Stella, the Kashiwazaki family's stewardess.
* DeepImmersionGaming: Never has ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter'' been more awesome, and a DatingSim more weird.
* DelinquentHair: The unwanted and misunderstood cause of Kodaka's social problems. In reality, he's a natural blonde.
* DeusAngstMachina: Parodied in-universe with one of Sena's eroge games. If even one flag is missed, there will be a bad ending with a horrible massacre, such as a great white shark suddenly appearing in a public pool and eating everybody. It's even [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] how incomprehensible and unlikely the bad endings are.
* DieForOurShip: InUniverse [[PlayedForLaughs comedic application]] at the end of Chapter 4/Episode 2. After she and Sena get a DownerEnding on a galge the latter was playing, Yozora storms out of the clubroom (while Sena was crying) to find and kill Akari -- ''a video game character'' -- thinking she spread the rumors that their protagonist was a HeManWomanHater, causing Yukiko, a girl she and Sena were angling for, to turn their protagonist down... [[ComicallyMissingThePoint conveniently]] [[MoralMyopia forgetting]] that it was ''their'' fault for shooting down Akari's friendly overtures with the most cruel options because they deem her proactive attitude (such as taking the initiative to introduce herself to the protagonist) a sign of being a BitchInSheepsClothing.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The scene where [[FoeYay Yozora puts lotion]] [[ItsNotRapeIfYouEnjoyedIt on Sena's back]]. ItMakesSenseInContext.
* DoNotCallMePaul: Sena's father, Tenma, has a seemingly normal name, except it can also mean "Pegasus", and he does not like being called "Pegasus".
* DoubleEntendre: '''Every''' line in the ''[[SuperRobotWarsAlpha Ultra Mecha Wars Alpha 2]]'' H-doujin:
--> '''Mecha:''' "Ahh! It's going to break! My DT-field is going to break!"
* DroppingTheBombshell: Maria in the [[AudioAdaptation Drama CD]], while keeping a perfect CheerfulChild demeanor:
--> '''Kodaka:''' "How about you, Maria? Think you can pull it off?"
--> '''Maria:''' "Ya! Despite my appearance, I'm a longtime actor."
--> '''Kodaka:''' "Oh, that's a surprise."
--> '''Maria:''' "At one of the schools I used to go to, I was once told '[[WhamLine It's creepy how a kid like you always wears a fake, shallow smile]]' by one of my classmates!"
--> '''Kodaka:''' "O-Oh, is that right?"
--> '''Maria:''' "Ya!"
* DudeLooksLikeALady: Yukimura. Kodaka thinks he's actually a girl when they first meet and then it just gets worse when he becomes the club's [[{{Meido}} maid]], complete with uniform. [[spoiler:[[RecursiveCrossdressing Turns out he should have trusted his gut feeling.]]]]
* DysfunctionJunction: There's a reason the seven members of the Neighbor Club [[StealthPun don't have many friends]].
** Kodaka frequently gets mistaken for a {{delinquent}}, thanks to his (natural) blonde hair and a bad first impression on his first day in class.
** Yozora is a [[LonersAreFreaks natural loner]] who talks to an "[[ImaginaryFriend air friend]]" and is a huge {{jerkass}} to boot.
** Sena is an [[RichBitch arrogant child of privilege]], hated by girls due to her good looks and popularity with boys (or at least a bunch of doormats).
** Rika is another natural loner, but also a [[BunnyEarsLawyer perverted genius]].
** Yukimura [[DudeLooksLikeALady looks way too much like a girl for guys to be comfortable with]], and is a little too fascinated with the concept of manliness.
** Maria is an [[{{Sensei-chan}} immature child genius]] whose wisdom stems not as much from natural talent as from an advance education.
** Kobato is under a constant self-delusion of being a [[ElegantGothicLolita goth-loli vampire]].
* Ecchi: this anime is full of fanservice
* ElegantGothicLolita: Kobato's usual getup.
* EmbarrassingFirstName: "Semoponume Kashiwazaki", the protagonist's name in "Tokimeite Memorial Days", is random syllables produced by Sena and Yozora bickering over the controller.
* EpicFail: The only way to describe Kodaka's attempts at being funny in Chapter 11, especially his story "I'm Scared of Manjuus".
* EroticEating: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] by Rika during the FestivalEpisode.
* HairDecorations: Sena's butterfly hair piece. Yozora also has several ribbons tied to the ends of her hair. Kobato wears a barette as part of her ElegantGothicLolita clothing, and [[DudeLooksLikeALady Yukimura]] wears a flower in his hair.
* {{Expy}}: Kobato shares the same name as [[{{Kobato}} an angelic healer of hearts]], and is pretty much [[LightNovel/OreNoImoutoGaKonnaNiKawaiiWakeGaNai Kuroneko]] with the same short stature, tone of voice, and elegant high-class lady attitude but with blond hair, MismatchedEyes and twintails. As a bonus, all three share [[KanaHanazawa the same voice actress]].
** Maria sounds and looks like a purple-haired [[ToAruMajutsuNoIndex Index]] on a navy blue habit, complete with sharing [[YukaIguchi the same voice actress]].
* EyeCatch: Featuring a logo containing a version of the series title branded on the girls' bodies, in episode order (the first six has them on their uniforms, the last six in bikinis): [[TallDarkAndBishoujo Yozora]]'s right thigh, [[MsFanservice Sena]]'s right breast, [[ElegantGothicLolita Kobato]]'s back, [[HollywoodNuns Maria]]'s forehead, the underside of [[HotScientist Rika]]'s left leg, [[DudeLooksLikeALady Yukimura]]'s midriff, Kobato's right hand, the center of Maria's white one-piece swimsuit, Rika's right buttcheek, Yukimura's left palm, Sena's left sideboob, and [[spoiler:post-haircut]] Yozora's right shoulder.
* FaceOfAThug: Kodaka. This makes makes his classmates confuse him for a {{delinquent}}. Even, or rather, especially by his greatest fan. He's well aware of this, and when necessary, he's perfectly capable of [[ExploitedTrope exploiting]] it.
* FestivalEpisode: Episode 11.
* FirstNameBasis: Kodaka towards Sena and Yozora. Sena and Yozora, [[SitcomArchnemesis not so much]].
* FoeYay: There's something more to Yozora and Sena's relationship than their frequent squabbles would indicate. On Yozora's side, she believes nicknames are only for friends, even if it was as insulting as Sena's "[[GagBoobs Meat]]". On Sena's side, she confessed to Kodaka that she's secretly happy with her nickname because she has never been given one before. Then comes actual interaction: during the BeachEpisode Sena was apparently enjoying Yozora rubbing her back with suntan with her feet, and also commented [[spoiler:that Yozora, post-haircut, [[StupidSexyFlanders looks ridiculously handsome]] [[{{Bifauxnen}} on a male school uniform]]]].
* FootFocus: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] by Sena's "rewards".
-->'''Sena:''' "Well, when I tell the guys in my class I'll step on them, or let them lick my shoe, they'll do everything I say."
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Yozora doesn't like to be lumped together with bullies and thinks nicknames are for friends. [[spoiler:As a kid, she befriended Kodaka after she saved him from, and then joined him in fighting, a bunch of bullies.]]
* ForgottenChildhoodFriend: [[spoiler:Yozora is implied -- and ultimately confirmed -- to be [[OneOfTheBoys the "boy"]] who once saved Kodaka from, and ultimately joined him in fighting, a bunch of bullies when they were kids.]]
* FriendlessBackground: Kodaka isn't good at making friends beyond shallow acquaintances (save for a certain boy [[spoiler:who turns out to be [[OneOfTheBoys Yozora herself]]]]), but the rest of the Neighbors Club is even worse.
* FriendshipMoment: Yozora wasn't there for it, but Sena admits to Kodaka she's secretly happy even to have Yozora calling her "Meat" because nobody's ever given her a nickname before.
* GamerChick: Sena often stays up late playing her galges.
* GirlishPigtails: Kobato.
* GirlsLoveStuffedAnimals: Kobato carries a patchwork rabbit around with her almost constantly.
* GoryDiscretionShot: Yozora's ghost story.
* GuideDangIt: Applied in-series in Chapter 16 of the manga. Sena has been getting nothing but {{Downer Ending}}s on a galge she was playing five times straight. Rika explains that the galge suffers from a GameBreakingBug where it skips a crucial EventFlag unless the player uses the protagonist's CanonName (or at least temporarily change the name before said flag). However, Sena is a believer in "AnAdventurerIsYou" and refuses to let "some other guy" take the fruits of the intense friendship she made with a girl she was rooting for, so what does she do? ''Shatter the CD and kiss the game goodbye.'' [[WhamLine Then Rika says she could've just fixed the bug.]] [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone Cue Sena crying on the window in regret.]]
** Also, in Episode 8, Sena falls prey to a nightmarish DownerEnding on a galge featuring a shark attack on the pool killing both the hero and his harem girls. According to Rika, said galge is notorious for such bloody bad endings which are [[UnwinnableByDesign very easy to trigger should the player mess up with even a single flag]], earning it a "so bad it's good" reputation among gamers. Sena begs to differ, and angrily breaks the disk in half.
* HeroWorshipper: Kodaka's a stand-up guy and all, and possibly the only admirable person in the Neighbor Club, but according to Yukimura, he's also a paragon of [[RatedMForManly manliness]], a veritable "Man Among Men".
* HiddenPurposeTest: The Neighbor Club's recruitment poster has a seemingly nonsensical mission statement below [[HollywoodScribbling an awful artwork]] by Yozora. Turns out the statement has the words "recruiting friends" encrypted diagonally. To Kodaka's surprise, [[StrangeMindsThinkAlike there are people who are able to read that]].
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: The premise -- but thanks to Kodaka, Yozora, Sena, Yukimura, Kobato, Maria and Rika's unusual traits, the only friends they can find are [[LonelyTogether each other]].
* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Every episode uses the characters for the series' shorthand name, "Haganai" (はがない), throughout the title, followed by a popular [=ShiftJIS=] {{emoticon}} used in Japanese {{Message Board}}s, in episode order:
-->'''00:''' Black Hotpot Gives Girls a Bad Smell -- 闇鍋は美少女が残念な臭い[[hottip:*:Yaminabe wa Bishōjo ga Zannen na Nioi]] (;´∀`)
-->'''01:''' We Can't Make Any Friends -- 僕達は友達が出来ない[[hottip:*:Bokutachi wa Tomodachi ga Dekinai]] (´・ω・`)
-->'''02:''' There's No God in the Electric World -- 電脳世界は神様が居ない[[hottip:*:Dennō Sekai wa Kamisama ga Inai]] ( ﾟДﾟ)
-->'''03:''' There Are No Flags in the Swimming Pool -- 市民プールはフラグがない[[hottip:*:Shimin Pūru wa Furagu ga Nai]] (;´Д`)
-->'''04:''' Underclassmen Don't How How to Hold Back -- 後輩達は遠慮がない[[hottip:*:Kōhai-tachi wa Enryo ga Nai]] Σ(゜ロ゜;
-->'''05:''' Now the SAGA is Locked On in Full Battle -- 今度はSAGAがガチな戦い[[hottip:*:Kondo wa SAGA ga Gachi na Tatakai]] ヽ(`Д´)ノ
-->'''06:''' The Karaoke Box Doesn't Have Many Customers -- カラオケボックスは客が少ない[[hottip:*:Karaoke Bokkusu wa Kyaku ga Sukunai]] (つд⊂)
-->'''07:''' My Cell Phone Has Few Calls -- 携帯電話は着信が少ない[[hottip:*:Keitai Denwa wa Chakushin ga Sukunai]] _|￣|○
-->'''08:''' No School Swimsuits This Time -- スクール水着は出番がない[[hottip:*:Sukūru Mizugi wa Deban ga Nai]] \(^o^)/
-->'''09:''' The Board Chairman's Memories are Painful -- 理事長は追想が切ない[[hottip:*:Rijichō wa Tsuisō ga Setsunai]] (-_-)
-->'''10:''' No One Sleeps at Training Camp -- 合宿は皆が寝ない[[hottip:*:Gasshuku wa Minna ga Nenai]] ヽ(ﾟ∀ﾟ)ﾉ
-->'''11:''' You See, Girls Wearing Yukata are Extremely Cute -- 女子は浴衣姿がな、超かわいい[[hottip:*:Joshi wa Yukatasugata ga na, Chō Kawaii]] (ﾟ∀ﾟ)
-->'''12:''' [[TitleDrop We Don't Have Many Friends]] -- 僕達は友達が少ない[[hottip:*:Bokutachi wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai]] (`・ω・´)
* ImaginaryFriend: Kodaka first meets Yozora when he comes across her talking to her "air friend" (she explains it as the friend version of an air guitar), "Tomo-chan".
* [[spoiler:ImportantHaircut: After accidentally burning her hair at a festival at the end of summer break, Yozora cuts her hair short upon returning to school. At this point Kodaka finally recognizes her as "Sora", his ForgottenChildhoodFriend.]]
* ImprobableAge: Maria is a teacher, nun, and '''ten years old'''.
* InnocentFanserviceGirl: Thirteen-year-old Kobato has no qualms being seen by Kodaka naked (if you consider that Fanservice).
* InSeriesNickname: Sena's "Meat", given by Yozora, on account of her GagBoobs. She's actually ''happy'' with the nickname, because nobody has given her one before.
** For that matter, the series itself has a canonical portmanteau name: "Haganai" (はがない), derived from "Boku '''wa''' Tomodachi '''ga''' suku'''nai'''" ("wa" is written as "ha" in Japanese). It appears on some {{Eye Catch}}es tattooed on the girls, and its characters are [[IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming used in episode titles for the anime]].
** [[spoiler:Kodaka and Yozora called each other Taka and Sora respectively.]]
* InsistentTerminology: Kobato would rather be called "[[OverlyLongName Reisys V. Felicity Sumeragi]]".
* IntelligenceEqualsIsolation: Rika. The only reason she's even in St. Chronica is because Tenma, Sena's father and chairman of the school board, specifically drafted her to enroll in order to raise the school's prestige.
* ItsWhatIDo: Don't bother calling down Rika for being a pervert. She's proud of it.
* JapaneseSchoolClub
* {{Jerkass}}: Yozora. Sena probably would be one as well if this was a normal series; otherwise she's just a RichBitch GamerChick.
* LastEpisodeThemeReprise
* LimitedWardrobe: Rika is rarely seen without her lab coat, Kobato is almost always on her vampire cosplay and Yukimura goes everywhere on his maid outfit. And of course, Maria is a nun.
* LonelyRichKid: Sena. Whether her horrible attitude is caused by this or the cause of this has yet to be shown.
* LonelyTogether: The Neighbor's Club's raison d'etre.
* LoveableSexManiac: Rika.
--> '''Rika:''' "Yes, [[ThirdPersonPerson Rika]] is a pervert. Rika thinks about naughty things day and night. So what about it?"
* MaleGaze: The anime has one too many, including the opening.
* [[ManipulativeBastard Manipulative Bitch]]: Yozora slapped Maria twice, then gave her passages from Literature/TheBible that doesn't even exist to coerce her into lending her sleeping room to the Neighbors Club.
** As revealed in Episode 12, however, Maria thrice turned down her polite offers to lend the room for the Club's use, calling her a "poop" in the process, prompting her to [[ArmorPiercingSlap take matters to her own hands]].
* MarshmallowHell: Poor Kobato, having her face smushed in Sena's ample assets inside a crowded bus. She doesn't enjoy it in the least bit, but many others out there would have loved to be in her position.
* MeaningfulName: Yozora means night sky, Sena means starlet. Coincidence?
* MismatchedEyes: Kobato... er, [[InsistentTerminology Reisys V. Felicity Sumeragi]], has a red eye and a blue eye. Though it is just her using contacts as part of [[ElegantGothicLolita the costume she wears]] due to her persistent delusion that she's a vampire.
* MookHorrorShow: During the RPGEpisode.
* MsFanservice: Sena -- cranked UpToEleven in the anime.
* NewTransferStudent: Kodaka is a second-year high school transferee. So does Kobato, who's in second-year junior high.
* NoSocialSkills: Many chapters revolve around the members of the Neighbors Club consciously attempting to learn some social skill/s, usually at Yozora's suggestion.
* TheOjou: Sena, of the arrogant kind. And a FallenPrincess of sorts because of overdoing it.
* OlderThanSheLooks: Kobato looks like a ten-year-old; she's actually thirteen.
* OneOfTheBoys: [[spoiler:Yozora was one as a kid.]]
* OnlySaneMan: Kodaka stands as the Neighbor Club's sole voice of reason. All his clubmates don't have friends due to their unusual and/or unpleasant personalities -- he just has his [[DelinquentHair appearance]] [[FaceOfAThug to]] [[ShroudedInMyth blame]].
* OrSoIHeard: Sena about doujinshi.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Reisys V. Felicity Sumeragi ([[BlatantLies mistakenly known to some]] as [[DoNotCallMePaul Kobato Hasegawa]], Kodaka's younger sister of three years) drinks tomato juice (and resorts only to Pepsi whenever it's unavailable), claims to be [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld thousands of years old]] (though that doesn't stop her from carrying around a patchwork stuffed rabbit), and believes vampires already had an advanced magical culture while humans were still cavemen. She also claims to have a weakness to [[WeaksauceWeakness cold water]] -- not that it stops her from doing well in swimming class (which presumably involves a lot of cold water), though, claiming she "uses a lot of magic" to adapt. And then there's those moments where her facade completely breaks and she devolves into cute little Kobato, speaking in Kyuushuu dialect and calling Kodaka "An-chan" instead of her usual "my kindred".
* ParentalAbandonment: Kodaka and Kobato's English mother Airi is dead, and their father Hayato works in America, leaving Kodaka to [[PromotionToParent take care of Kobato all by himself]].
** Sena's father Tenma gives a TakeThat to this trope in the anime, calling Hayato trash for doing it. [[BerserkButton Kodaka is none too pleased.]]
* PerpetualFrowner: Yozora. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Kodaka.
* PerspectiveFlip: [[spoiler:The first half of Episode 12 shows the events from Kodaka's transfer until the formation of the Neighbors Club from Yozora's perspective, where it is revealed that she instantly recognized him as "Taka", but she CanNotSpitItOut because Kodaka can't recognize her in return as "Sora".]]
* PlayerKilling: Sena and Yozora can't really play nice.
* PottyEmergency: The end of Episode 10 has Sena coming to Kodaka and Yukimura's room and asking the former to escort her to the bathroom. He'd eventually do the same for Kobato and Maria, then kicks Rika out when it turns out she just wants to sleep with him. And when he goes out for the bathroom himself, he encounters Yozora at the doorstep.
* PrecisionFStrike: "Bitch" gets said a lot in Episode 2, while Yozora and Sena prejudge a video game character as a BitchInSheepsClothing.
* ProductPlacement: Whenever they don't use a BlandNameProduct it's fairly obvious as this (or maybe the author just hoping to be sent one for free for his service). While many of the games like "[[TokimekiMemorial Tokimeite Memorial Days]]" and so on are blanded, they explicitly play VideoGame/MonsterHunter and use [=PSPs=], and one game they're talking about even gets a little out-of-panel "Out now!" ShoutOut.
* RapeAsComedy: The "relay novel" (see RoundRobin).
* RapunzelHair: Yozora [[spoiler:until she cut it]]
* RealMenWearPink: The reason Yozora used to convince Yukimura to dress like a maid.
* RedOniBlueOni: Sena is the red, Yozora is the blue. In between is Kodaka, who stands as the blue to their red.
* "Music/RideOfTheValkyries": Yozora hums this to herself shortly before blowing Sena up in a game.
* RoundRobin: The club members try their hands at a "relay novel". It's a train wreck.
* RPGEpisode: TV episodes 2 and 5 and chapter 17 of the manga, as well as a volume in the light novel.
* RunningGag: [[JerkAss Yozora]] says or does something cruel to [[SitcomArchnemesis Sena]]. Sena yells childish insults back at her and runs away crying. Usually happens [[OncePerEpisode once an episode.]]
* SecondYearProtagonist: The main trio -- Kodaka, Yozora and Sena -- complete with two underclassmen (Yukimura and Rika), a junior-high kid (Kobato), a ten-year-old advisor (Maria), and no need to worry about graduation, though no third-years of note.
* SeriousBusiness: Sena and her games.
** Exchanging cell phone numbers for Kodaka and Yozora.
* ShaggyDogStory: Kodaka's "I'm Scared of Manjuus".
* ShoutOut: The members of the Neighbors Club may not have many friends, but the show [[ShoutOut/BokuWaTomodachiGaSukunai does have many Shout-Outs]].
* SitcomArchnemesis: Yozora and Sena all the way.
** To a lesser extent, Kobato and Maria, playing on their Dark vs. Light (i.e., vampire vs. nun) dichotomy.
* SlasherSmile: Kodaka's smile appears to be this to other people.
* SoBadItsGood: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] InUniverse in the third LightNovel with Rika describing "St. Joe's Academy Tale" as this word for word, being a lighthearted galge notorious for plunging straight into outright nightmarish {{Downer Ending}}s where [[KillEmAll both the hero and ALL his potential love interests die in the most horrifying ways]] should the player [[UnwinnableByDesign mess up with even a single flag]].
* SophisticatedAsHell: Rika in the fourth novel.
-->'''Rika:''' "Oh, yeah, now [[ThirdPersonPerson Rika]] is supposed to behave in a more refined way. Would you care for a fuck, sempai?"
* SplitScreenReaction
* StupidSexyFlanders: Yukimura gets this reaction from every other male.
* SuperDrowningSkills: Sena claims she cannot swim, blaming her primary school's lack of swimming lessons for it. This factors into her plea to Kodaka, who, for a harem protagonist, ''averts'' this trope by being a decent swimmer, to teach her how to swim.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: Occasionally you can hear in the background something suspiciously similar to the [[JohnWilliams Imperial]] [[TheEmpireStrikesBack March.]]
* TakeThat: There are many. One, continuing from the AscendedMeme above, has Kodaka wearing a stereotypical otaku virgin outfit, [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/boku_wa_tomodachi_ga_sukunai/v01/c017/18.html with a shirt that has a]] BlandNameProduct version of the MayoChiki logo on it.
* TallDarkAndBishoujo: Yozora
* TheImmodestOrgasm: Rika's UNIVERSE! and EXCALIBUR!
* TheTease: Rika can't talk without slipping a DoubleEntendre or saying something outright naughty.
* ThereAreTwoKindsOfPeopleInTheWorld: Sena in chapter 16.
-->'''Sena:''' "...There are two types of women. Ones that I can get along with, and all the other bitches."
* ThirdPersonPerson: Rika
* ThrowTheDogABone: Maria finds Kodaka's jokes hilarious.
* {{Tsundere}}: Yozora and Sena display traits of this in varying degrees. Sometimes the cast will also discuss this trope or accuse a person of being one. At one point they ponder about having a "tsundere omniscient narrator". It didn't make much sense.
* TsurimeEyes: Sena and Yozora accuse each other of having them.
* UnusualEuphemism: "'''Universe!!!'''" (uttered twice, once by Rika while [[TheImmodestOrgasm climaxing]] while reading aloud her EVA x Gundam ero-doujin, and then by Sena running out of her house crying after being seen naked by Kodaka). Probably doubles as a ShoutOut to ''Anime/TurnAGundam''.
* VaporWear: If [[http://250kb.de/u/111015/j/ec0wmEdCI419.jpg this screenshot]] is any indicator, Yozora is either GoingCommando, or she's wearing one hell of a thong.
** Maybe the lack of panty-shots is explained by a lack of panties?
* VideogameCaringPotential: Sena becomes addicted to [[DatingSim dating sims]] because of this, to the point of referring to the characters in them casually as if they were her actual friends.
* VideogameCrueltyPotential: PlayedForLaughs in Chapter 4/Episode 2. While playing "Tokimeite Memorial Days", Yozora and Sena agreed -- [[SitcomArchnemesis for once]] -- to court shy Yukiko Nagata, while they keep shooting down overtures by Akari Fujibayashi, whom they deem a BitchInSheepsClothing just because she's proactive, with the most cruel options. [[GenreSavvy Kodaka]] is none too amused. Their choices come back to [[LaserGuidedKarma bite them in the ass]] when VideoGameCrueltyPunishment kicks in and rumors that their protagonist, "Semoponume Kashiwazaki", was a HeManWomanHater became so widespread -- whose spread [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Yozora and Sena directly attribute to Akari]] -- Yukiko eventually shot him down. They ultimately got a DownerEnding so depressing [[SeriousBusiness Sena breaks down crying, while Yozora storms out of the clubroom threatening to kill Akari]].
** Also, while playing VideoGame/MonsterHunter Sena and Yozora spend most of their time griefing each other and ignoring everything else, including their mission and Kodaka.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Yozora and Sena are implied to be an extreme Type 2.
** WithFriendsLikeThese
* VomitIndiscretionShot: Poor Kodaka is on the receiving end of a double helping of regurgitated yaminabe ("black hot pot," where the participants each add ingredients to the pot and eat in the dark) from Yozora and Sena in Episode 0.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome: Transferring cell phone addresses. Kodaka and Yozora were so thrilled at having their first contacts outside home (though the manual way, both being not so tech-savvy) Rika, who easily shared hers with Yukimura through infrared, admits she feels as though she's "behind the times". This [[GreenEyedMonster does not sit well with Sena]] who, for such a rich kid, does ''not'' have a cell phone.
** [[ToAruMajutsuNoIndex Index]] vs [[OreImo Kuroneko]] aka Maria Vs Kobato in a way.
* WholesomeCrossdresser: Yukimura
** [[spoiler:RecursiveCrossdressing]]
* WiseBeyondTheirYears: [[AvertedTrope Averted]] by Maria, who's only ''educated'' beyond her years. She knows the contents of a high school textbook and is a teacher, but in every other respect she looks, acts, and is as intelligent as the 10-year-old child she is.
** Turns out her education completely and totally [[ChildrenAreInnocent skipped sex-ed]], as she apparently doesn't even know what a penis is until Rika explains how sex works to her. Plausible, given her education by what's apparently a fairly strict and uptight sect of Christianity/Catholicism (or the [[NunsAreMikos Japanese version of it anyway]]).
* XMeetsY: TheBreakfastClub meets LoveHina without the AbuseIsOkayWhenItsFemaleOnMale.
* YaoiFangirl[=/=]YuriFangirl: Rika mostly subscribes to the former, but can also swing to the latter, as evidenced by her writing a LesYay doujin starring her and Yozora.
* YouAreATreeCharlieBrown: Kodaka is forced to play a tree in the Neighbors Club's production of ''Momotaro''. This is ''after'' Yozora cut out a bunch of parts to accommodate the club's small size. Somehow she overshot the mark by one, so she added a tree back in.
* ZettaiRyouiki: Yozora
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[[caption-width-right:200:Attractive people, ''not so attractive'' personalities.]]
-> ''"Recruiting Friends."''
-->--'''Agenda of the Neighbor's Club'''
Kodaka Hasegawa is a second-year transferee to a [[AnimeCatholicism Catholic]] school, St. Chronica Academy, and as always, he finds it nigh-impossible to make friends due to his natural blonde hair (inherited from his late English mother) which makes him pass for a {{delinquent}}. One day, he runs into the equally solitary and very abrasive Yozora Mikazuki while she speaks to her ImaginaryFriend, "Tomo-chan". They decide that the best way to improve their social situation is to found a club -- Neighbors Club -- to help them make friends and learn social skills.
Joining them are five others -- arrogant school idol Sena Kashiwazaki, daughter of the school chairman, whose popularity with boys naturally earn other girls' ire; Yukimura Kusunoki, an extremely effeminate freshman who joins in the hopes that Kodaka teaches him how to be more manly; Rika Shiguma, a genius (and perverted) freshman; Kobato Hasegawa, Kodaka's younger sister and a second year middle-schooler with an obsession for goth culture and vampires; and Maria Takayama, a 10-year-old nun and teacher, who also serves as club advisor.
One can only hope that these seven social losers can get their act together before the club implodes from their nigh-irreconcilable eccentricities.
''Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai'' ("I Don't Have Many Friends") is an ongoing 2009 light novel series written by Yomi Hirasaka and illustrated by Buriki (of ''DenpaOnnaToSeishunOtoko'' fame), with a 2010 manga adaptation illustrated by Itachi and [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2011-05-17/boku-wa-tomodachi-ga-sukunai-light-novels-gets-tv-anime an anime adaption by AIC]] in [[Fall2011Anime fall of 2011]].
Also inspired a spinoff manga, titled ''Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai Plus'', a retelling of the story where Kodaka runs into Sena first instead of Yozora and Sena forms the club with Kate.
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!!This series does have many examples of:
* ActorAllusion: From the Drama CD, [[KanaHanazawa Kobato]] once utters "[[Anime/AngelBeats Guard Skill: Hand Sonic]]", and [[YukaIguchi Maria]] once quoted [[ToaruMajutsuNoIndex Touma's]] CatchPhrase word for word, culminating in a headbite akin to that often done by Index (who shares the same voice actress as her). The ''ShinryakuIkaMusume'' {{Shout Out}}s are a combination of this and AscendedMeme, due to the Ika Musume parody in ''{{To Aru Majutsu no Index}}-tan'' Episode 3.
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Not that he realizes it, but Kodaka at the very least has this going for him. Yukimura goes without saying, putting his gender aside. Surprisingly, Yozora is also quite susceptible; while playing an otome game, she gets bored to tears by all the nice pretty boys until she ran across a delinquent character -- who looks like Kodaka, no less.
* AllJustADream: Chapter 1 of the LightNovel, Chapter 1 of the manga, and Episode 0 of the anime -- which is absolutely hilarious in light of the series' premise. Then Kodaka wakes up and [[ItGotWorse it all goes downhill from there]].
* AlternateContinuity: ''Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai Plus'' centers on the idea of "what if Kodaka ran into Sena first instead of Yozora".
* AnAdventurerIsYou: Sena believes in this trope, to the point of naming galge protagonists (usually male) after ''herself''.
* AnimalThemeNaming: The Hasegawa siblings' names translate to "Little Hawk" (Kodaka) and "Little Dove" (Kobato).
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Kobato, or at least that's how Kodaka sees her.
** In a surrogate way, Maria is also this to Yozora.
* AnythingThatMoves: Rika's as close to this as one can get sans the sex -- finding [[HumongousMecha mecha]], arthropods, [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and Kodaka]] all sexually attractive, and having attempted to kiss jellyfish and planarians in the past.
* ArtShift: Lots of it in the manga.
* BalancedHarem: Yozora is the first girl Kodaka interacted with and is his fellow co-founder of the Neighbors Club, [[spoiler:as well as his ForgottenChildhoodFriend]]; Sena displays the most romantic interest in him [[spoiler:and later becomes his fiancee]]; Kodaka displays the most attraction to [[DudeLooksLikeALady Yukimura]], much to his confusion and horror. Any affection from Rika is ambiguous, owing to her [[LovableSexManiac overly sexual antics]] and Kodaka's [[NoGuyWantsToBeChased disdain for them]]. On the non-romantic side Kobato and Maria engage in childish squabbles over Kodaka's brotherly attention.
* BeachEpisode: Episode 10.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor[=/=]BrickJoke: In Episode 8, Yozora expresses distaste for popular people. She also extends her rant to a pool scene from "St. Joe's Academy Tale", a galge Sena was playing at that moment, claiming had she made the game, she'd make it "godly" by adding a DownerEnding where a [[EverythingsEvenWorseWithSharks shark appears]] and [[KillEmAll kills all characters]]. A few seconds and one bad choice by Sena later, her galge dives straight into a nightmarish SuddenDownerEnding featuring that very scenario. Even Yozora was genuinely horrified at that instant before regaining her composure and claiming it is "godly". Rika remembers that the game was notorious for bad endings where ''the hero and all his romantic interests'' die in the most horrific ways [[UnwinnableByDesign should the player mess up with even a single flag]], even as Sena angrily breaks the disc.
* BettyAndVeronica: Yozora and Sena
* BigBrotherComplex: Kobato adores her brother (not that she says it out loud) and gets jealous when he starts spending a lot of time at the club (although she ultimately joins).
** BigBrotherInstinct: On the flip side, Kodaka feels this way towards Maria, more so than his actual sister who he considers an AnnoyingYoungerSibling. Naturally, his clubmates accuse him of being a {{lolicon}}.
* BigDamnHeroes: When Kodaka rescued Sena from a group of thugs... then [[WhatTheHellhero chews her out]] for provoking them after he saves her.
* BigEater: Maria.
* [[BigBrotherBully Big Sister Bully]]: Yozora towards Maria, in a surrogate way.
* {{Bishonen}}: Unusually for a harem protagonist, Kodaka definitely fits, what with his good looks and blonde hair. The series also gives a realistic take on his hair, giving him a natural dirty blond/brown hair pattern rather than the straight-up bleached look that delinquents go for. Not that most of his schoolmates can tell the difference.
* BlandNameProduct: [[TokimekiMemorial Tokimeite Memory Days]]
** [[{{Yahoo}} Yafoo Auction]]
** [[VirtualBoy Virsual Boy]]
** {{Microsoft}} -> Largehard
** [[{{Playstation}} Playing States]]
* BokeAndTsukkomiRoutine: With a chapter about the members of the Neighbor's Club studying and practicing traditional comedy techniques so that they can be funny people to hang around, it was inevitable this would appear.
* BoobsOfSteel: Every single time Sena plays an RPG, she is the melee attacker.
* BreakfastClub: A band of seven attractive social-idiots, outcasts and sociopaths bound in an attempt to gain friendship.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: "Did you forget what happened last chapter?"
** A separate example by Rika in Chapter 16 of the manga, which also features some PaintingTheFourthWall via the narration:
-->'''Narration Frame:''' "...Kodaka suddenly jumps onto Rika, roughly embracing her and stealing her lips..."
-->'''Kodaka:''' "''No I didn't!'' Also, stop making up the narration!"
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Sena is a subversion -- she's beautiful, smart, a fast learner, athletic and very dedicated; her ego as big as her breasts doesn't make her a good friend. Rika plays it straighter -- she gets away with her eccentricities for being a genius and doesn't mind being alone (the only reason she's even in the Club is to get close to her "savior" Kodaka).
* ButNotTooForeign: Kodaka (and his younger sister Kobato) is half-English, giving him a Japanese face and blonde hair, which makes everyone else assume he dyed it and is thus some {{delinquent}}.
* BuxomIsBetter: Inverted, at least within the confines of the Neighbor Club -- Yozora constantly makes fun of Sena's big breasts and even gives her the nickname "[[InSeriesNickname Meat]]" because of it.
** GagBoobs[=/=]{{Gainaxing}}: And the anime drives the point home by focusing many a MaleGaze towards Sena's breasts.
* CanNotSpitItOut: [[spoiler:Yozora cannot muster the courage to tell Kodaka that she is "Sora", his long-lost childhood friend, because she's frustrated that he doesn't recognize her (which is justifiable, because she has already grown her hair long during those ten years they never met), at least until he finally does after seeing her on the first day of classes after summer break with her hair cut short. Later, she reveals to him that she failed to meet up with him on his last day at Tooya City ten years ago because she was too scared to appear to him dressed as a girl.]]
* CantHoldHisLiquor: Sena's father, Tenma.
* CargoShip: InUniverse, Rika is a fangirl for [[HumongousMecha mecha-on-mecha]] pairings.
* CastingGag: The casting department for the drama [=CDs=] and the anime must have clearly thought of [[LightNovel/OreNoImoutoGaKonnaNiKawaiiWakeGaNai Kuroneko]] and [[ToAruMajutsuNoIndex Index]] when they drafted KanaHanazawa and YukaIguchi to voice [[ElegantGothicLolita Kobato]] and [[HollywoodNuns Maria]], respectively.
** Also, getting KanaeItou to voice Sena the Kobato-chaser, which brings to mind Sanae the IkaMusume-chaser.
* ChekhovsGun: Yozora's horror story about a girl who was killed by a ghost for betraying her friend (and driving her to suicide) over a boy they like. [[spoiler:Later that night, Kodaka can't fall asleep over the whole "betrayal of friends" thing, wondering if "Sora", his only childhood friend, felt the same way about him when they fail to meet on the day Kodaka has to move as promised.]]
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: '''Six out of seven''' members of the Neighbors Club show signs of this in varying degrees of intensity and frequency. This makes the seventh -- Kodaka -- stick out like a sore thumb in his [[OnlySaneMan normalcy]], his {{delinquent}} image notwithstanding.
** Taking the cake, however, is Maria, who's clueless even for a ten-year-old kid, such as believing Yozora's "Bible verses" that coerce her into lending her favorite naptime room to the Club (and not learning the truth until it was too late) and swimming naked in the pool upon Yozora's suggestion as "cure" for "vampirism" after Kobato bit her hand (cue punishment from her superior later that day).
* ComedicSociopathy: Most of the time.
* CringeComedy: To prove that {{eroge}} [[ItsNotPornItsArt are "art" and not porn]], Yozora makes Sena read out loud the dialogue of an H-Scene Yozora and Kodaka walked in on Sena playing through. [[{{Filth}} It turns out to be somewhat different than the beautiful, lovely consummation of the protagonists' love for each other Sena claimed.]]
-->'''Sena:''' "Like I can do this crap, dammit!" (Runs off crying)
** Also, Rika's favorite doujin... which turns out to be graphically explicit mecha-on-mecha H-action.
* {{Crossover}}: [[SeitokaiNoIchizon With]] [[http://www.seitokaixrinjinbu.info/ Seitokai No Ichizon]].
* CryCute: Frequently pulled off by the [[RichBitch otherwise haughty]] Sena every time her confident aura gets shattered in the most spectacular ways (usually courtesy of [[SitcomArchnemesis Yozora's]] meddling).
** Also, there's Kobato, every time her "vampire-loli" facade breaks (such as running naked to Kodaka because her bathwater has gone cold, and realizing that the air-conditioner was broken).
** And at the end of the third LightNovel and Episode 11, [[spoiler:''[[http://www.baka-tsuki.org/project/images/d/d0/Boku_wa_Tomodachi_ga_Sukunai_Vol3_Ch14_Img01.jpg Yozora]]'' herself, after she comes to school fresh from summer break with her hair cut short, and Kodaka finally realizing that she used to be "Sora", his ForgottenChildhoodFriend]].
* CuteLittleFangs: Sena
* CutenessProximity: Sena's somewhat prone to this.
* DeadpanSnarker: Stella, the Kashiwazaki family's stewardess.
* DeepImmersionGaming: Never has ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter'' been more awesome, and a DatingSim more weird.
* DelinquentHair: The unwanted and misunderstood cause of Kodaka's social problems. In reality, he's a natural blonde.
* DeusAngstMachina: Parodied in-universe with one of Sena's eroge games. If even one flag is missed, there will be a bad ending with a horrible massacre, such as a great white shark suddenly appearing in a public pool and eating everybody. It's even [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] how incomprehensible and unlikely the bad endings are.
* DieForOurShip: InUniverse [[PlayedForLaughs comedic application]] at the end of Chapter 4/Episode 2. After she and Sena get a DownerEnding on a galge the latter was playing, Yozora storms out of the clubroom (while Sena was crying) to find and kill Akari -- ''a video game character'' -- thinking she spread the rumors that their protagonist was a HeManWomanHater, causing Yukiko, a girl she and Sena were angling for, to turn their protagonist down... [[ComicallyMissingThePoint conveniently]] [[MoralMyopia forgetting]] that it was ''their'' fault for shooting down Akari's friendly overtures with the most cruel options because they deem her proactive attitude (such as taking the initiative to introduce herself to the protagonist) a sign of being a BitchInSheepsClothing.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The scene where [[FoeYay Yozora puts lotion]] [[ItsNotRapeIfYouEnjoyedIt on Sena's back]]. ItMakesSenseInContext.
* DoNotCallMePaul: Sena's father, Tenma, has a seemingly normal name, except it can also mean "Pegasus", and he does not like being called "Pegasus".
* DoubleEntendre: '''Every''' line in the ''[[SuperRobotWarsAlpha Ultra Mecha Wars Alpha 2]]'' H-doujin:
--> '''Mecha:''' "Ahh! It's going to break! My DT-field is going to break!"
* DroppingTheBombshell: Maria in the [[AudioAdaptation Drama CD]], while keeping a perfect CheerfulChild demeanor:
--> '''Kodaka:''' "How about you, Maria? Think you can pull it off?"
--> '''Maria:''' "Ya! Despite my appearance, I'm a longtime actor."
--> '''Kodaka:''' "Oh, that's a surprise."
--> '''Maria:''' "At one of the schools I used to go to, I was once told '[[WhamLine It's creepy how a kid like you always wears a fake, shallow smile]]' by one of my classmates!"
--> '''Kodaka:''' "O-Oh, is that right?"
--> '''Maria:''' "Ya!"
* DudeLooksLikeALady: Yukimura. Kodaka thinks he's actually a girl when they first meet and then it just gets worse when he becomes the club's [[{{Meido}} maid]], complete with uniform. [[spoiler:[[RecursiveCrossdressing Turns out he should have trusted his gut feeling.]]]]
* DysfunctionJunction: There's a reason the seven members of the Neighbor Club [[StealthPun don't have many friends]].
** Kodaka frequently gets mistaken for a {{delinquent}}, thanks to his (natural) blonde hair and a bad first impression on his first day in class.
** Yozora is a [[LonersAreFreaks natural loner]] who talks to an "[[ImaginaryFriend air friend]]" and is a huge {{jerkass}} to boot.
** Sena is an [[RichBitch arrogant child of privilege]], hated by girls due to her good looks and popularity with boys (or at least a bunch of doormats).
** Rika is another natural loner, but also a [[BunnyEarsLawyer perverted genius]].
** Yukimura [[DudeLooksLikeALady looks way too much like a girl for guys to be comfortable with]], and is a little too fascinated with the concept of manliness.
** Maria is an [[{{Sensei-chan}} immature child genius]] whose wisdom stems not as much from natural talent as from an advance education.
** Kobato is under a constant self-delusion of being a [[ElegantGothicLolita goth-loli vampire]].
* Ecchi: this anime is full of fanservice
* ElegantGothicLolita: Kobato's usual getup.
* EmbarrassingFirstName: "Semoponume Kashiwazaki", the protagonist's name in "Tokimeite Memorial Days", is random syllables produced by Sena and Yozora bickering over the controller.
* EpicFail: The only way to describe Kodaka's attempts at being funny in Chapter 11, especially his story "I'm Scared of Manjuus".
* EroticEating: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] by Rika during the FestivalEpisode.
* HairDecorations: Sena's butterfly hair piece. Yozora also has several ribbons tied to the ends of her hair. Kobato wears a barette as part of her ElegantGothicLolita clothing, and [[DudeLooksLikeALady Yukimura]] wears a flower in his hair.
* {{Expy}}: Kobato shares the same name as [[{{Kobato}} an angelic healer of hearts]], and is pretty much [[LightNovel/OreNoImoutoGaKonnaNiKawaiiWakeGaNai Kuroneko]] with the same short stature, tone of voice, and elegant high-class lady attitude but with blond hair, MismatchedEyes and twintails. As a bonus, all three share [[KanaHanazawa the same voice actress]].
** Maria sounds and looks like a purple-haired [[ToAruMajutsuNoIndex Index]] on a navy blue habit, complete with sharing [[YukaIguchi the same voice actress]].
* EyeCatch: Featuring a logo containing a version of the series title branded on the girls' bodies, in episode order (the first six has them on their uniforms, the last six in bikinis): [[TallDarkAndBishoujo Yozora]]'s right thigh, [[MsFanservice Sena]]'s right breast, [[ElegantGothicLolita Kobato]]'s back, [[HollywoodNuns Maria]]'s forehead, the underside of [[HotScientist Rika]]'s left leg, [[DudeLooksLikeALady Yukimura]]'s midriff, Kobato's right hand, the center of Maria's white one-piece swimsuit, Rika's right buttcheek, Yukimura's left palm, Sena's left sideboob, and [[spoiler:post-haircut]] Yozora's right shoulder.
* FaceOfAThug: Kodaka. This makes makes his classmates confuse him for a {{delinquent}}. Even, or rather, especially by his greatest fan. He's well aware of this, and when necessary, he's perfectly capable of [[ExploitedTrope exploiting]] it.
* FestivalEpisode: Episode 11.
* FirstNameBasis: Kodaka towards Sena and Yozora. Sena and Yozora, [[SitcomArchnemesis not so much]].
* FoeYay: There's something more to Yozora and Sena's relationship than their frequent squabbles would indicate. On Yozora's side, she believes nicknames are only for friends, even if it was as insulting as Sena's "[[GagBoobs Meat]]". On Sena's side, she confessed to Kodaka that she's secretly happy with her nickname because she has never been given one before. Then comes actual interaction: during the BeachEpisode Sena was apparently enjoying Yozora rubbing her back with suntan with her feet, and also commented [[spoiler:that Yozora, post-haircut, [[StupidSexyFlanders looks ridiculously handsome]] [[{{Bifauxnen}} on a male school uniform]]]].
* FootFocus: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] by Sena's "rewards".
-->'''Sena:''' "Well, when I tell the guys in my class I'll step on them, or let them lick my shoe, they'll do everything I say."
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Yozora doesn't like to be lumped together with bullies and thinks nicknames are for friends. [[spoiler:As a kid, she befriended Kodaka after she saved him from, and then joined him in fighting, a bunch of bullies.]]
* ForgottenChildhoodFriend: [[spoiler:Yozora is implied -- and ultimately confirmed -- to be [[OneOfTheBoys the "boy"]] who once saved Kodaka from, and ultimately joined him in fighting, a bunch of bullies when they were kids.]]
* FriendlessBackground: Kodaka isn't good at making friends beyond shallow acquaintances (save for a certain boy [[spoiler:who turns out to be [[OneOfTheBoys Yozora herself]]]]), but the rest of the Neighbors Club is even worse.
* FriendshipMoment: Yozora wasn't there for it, but Sena admits to Kodaka she's secretly happy even to have Yozora calling her "Meat" because nobody's ever given her a nickname before.
* GamerChick: Sena often stays up late playing her galges.
* GirlishPigtails: Kobato.
* GirlsLoveStuffedAnimals: Kobato carries a patchwork rabbit around with her almost constantly.
* GoryDiscretionShot: Yozora's ghost story.
* GuideDangIt: Applied in-series in Chapter 16 of the manga. Sena has been getting nothing but {{Downer Ending}}s on a galge she was playing five times straight. Rika explains that the galge suffers from a GameBreakingBug where it skips a crucial EventFlag unless the player uses the protagonist's CanonName (or at least temporarily change the name before said flag). However, Sena is a believer in "AnAdventurerIsYou" and refuses to let "some other guy" take the fruits of the intense friendship she made with a girl she was rooting for, so what does she do? ''Shatter the CD and kiss the game goodbye.'' [[WhamLine Then Rika says she could've just fixed the bug.]] [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone Cue Sena crying on the window in regret.]]
** Also, in Episode 8, Sena falls prey to a nightmarish DownerEnding on a galge featuring a shark attack on the pool killing both the hero and his harem girls. According to Rika, said galge is notorious for such bloody bad endings which are [[UnwinnableByDesign very easy to trigger should the player mess up with even a single flag]], earning it a "so bad it's good" reputation among gamers. Sena begs to differ, and angrily breaks the disk in half.
* HeroWorshipper: Kodaka's a stand-up guy and all, and possibly the only admirable person in the Neighbor Club, but according to Yukimura, he's also a paragon of [[RatedMForManly manliness]], a veritable "Man Among Men".
* HiddenPurposeTest: The Neighbor Club's recruitment poster has a seemingly nonsensical mission statement below [[HollywoodScribbling an awful artwork]] by Yozora. Turns out the statement has the words "recruiting friends" encrypted diagonally. To Kodaka's surprise, [[StrangeMindsThinkAlike there are people who are able to read that]].
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: The premise -- but thanks to Kodaka, Yozora, Sena, Yukimura, Kobato, Maria and Rika's unusual traits, the only friends they can find are [[LonelyTogether each other]].
* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Every episode uses the characters for the series' shorthand name, "Haganai" (はがない), throughout the title, followed by a popular [=ShiftJIS=] {{emoticon}} used in Japanese {{Message Board}}s, in episode order:
-->'''00:''' Black Hotpot Gives Girls a Bad Smell -- 闇鍋は美少女が残念な臭い[[hottip:*:Yaminabe wa Bishōjo ga Zannen na Nioi]] (;´∀`)
-->'''01:''' We Can't Make Any Friends -- 僕達は友達が出来ない[[hottip:*:Bokutachi wa Tomodachi ga Dekinai]] (´・ω・`)
-->'''02:''' There's No God in the Electric World -- 電脳世界は神様が居ない[[hottip:*:Dennō Sekai wa Kamisama ga Inai]] ( ﾟДﾟ)
-->'''03:''' There Are No Flags in the Swimming Pool -- 市民プールはフラグがない[[hottip:*:Shimin Pūru wa Furagu ga Nai]] (;´Д`)
-->'''04:''' Underclassmen Don't How How to Hold Back -- 後輩達は遠慮がない[[hottip:*:Kōhai-tachi wa Enryo ga Nai]] Σ(゜ロ゜;
-->'''05:''' Now the SAGA is Locked On in Full Battle -- 今度はSAGAがガチな戦い[[hottip:*:Kondo wa SAGA ga Gachi na Tatakai]] ヽ(`Д´)ノ
-->'''06:''' The Karaoke Box Doesn't Have Many Customers -- カラオケボックスは客が少ない[[hottip:*:Karaoke Bokkusu wa Kyaku ga Sukunai]] (つд⊂)
-->'''07:''' My Cell Phone Has Few Calls -- 携帯電話は着信が少ない[[hottip:*:Keitai Denwa wa Chakushin ga Sukunai]] _|￣|○
-->'''08:''' No School Swimsuits This Time -- スクール水着は出番がない[[hottip:*:Sukūru Mizugi wa Deban ga Nai]] \(^o^)/
-->'''09:''' The Board Chairman's Memories are Painful -- 理事長は追想が切ない[[hottip:*:Rijichō wa Tsuisō ga Setsunai]] (-_-)
-->'''10:''' No One Sleeps at Training Camp -- 合宿は皆が寝ない[[hottip:*:Gasshuku wa Minna ga Nenai]] ヽ(ﾟ∀ﾟ)ﾉ
-->'''11:''' You See, Girls Wearing Yukata are Extremely Cute -- 女子は浴衣姿がな、超かわいい[[hottip:*:Joshi wa Yukatasugata ga na, Chō Kawaii]] (ﾟ∀ﾟ)
-->'''12:''' [[TitleDrop We Don't Have Many Friends]] -- 僕達は友達が少ない[[hottip:*:Bokutachi wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai]] (`・ω・´)
* ImaginaryFriend: Kodaka first meets Yozora when he comes across her talking to her "air friend" (she explains it as the friend version of an air guitar), "Tomo-chan".
* [[spoiler:ImportantHaircut: After accidentally burning her hair at a festival at the end of summer break, Yozora cuts her hair short upon returning to school. At this point Kodaka finally recognizes her as "Sora", his ForgottenChildhoodFriend.]]
* ImprobableAge: Maria is a teacher, nun, and '''ten years old'''.
* InnocentFanserviceGirl: Thirteen-year-old Kobato has no qualms being seen by Kodaka naked (if you consider that Fanservice).
* InSeriesNickname: Sena's "Meat", given by Yozora, on account of her GagBoobs. She's actually ''happy'' with the nickname, because nobody has given her one before.
** For that matter, the series itself has a canonical portmanteau name: "Haganai" (はがない), derived from "Boku '''wa''' Tomodachi '''ga''' suku'''nai'''" ("wa" is written as "ha" in Japanese). It appears on some {{Eye Catch}}es tattooed on the girls, and its characters are [[IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming used in episode titles for the anime]].
** [[spoiler:Kodaka and Yozora called each other Taka and Sora respectively.]]
* InsistentTerminology: Kobato would rather be called "[[OverlyLongName Reisys V. Felicity Sumeragi]]".
* IntelligenceEqualsIsolation: Rika. The only reason she's even in St. Chronica is because Tenma, Sena's father and chairman of the school board, specifically drafted her to enroll in order to raise the school's prestige.
* ItsWhatIDo: Don't bother calling down Rika for being a pervert. She's proud of it.
* JapaneseSchoolClub
* {{Jerkass}}: Yozora. Sena probably would be one as well if this was a normal series; otherwise she's just a RichBitch GamerChick.
* LastEpisodeThemeReprise
* LimitedWardrobe: Rika is rarely seen without her lab coat, Kobato is almost always on her vampire cosplay and Yukimura goes everywhere on his maid outfit. And of course, Maria is a nun.
* LonelyRichKid: Sena. Whether her horrible attitude is caused by this or the cause of this has yet to be shown.
* LonelyTogether: The Neighbor's Club's raison d'etre.
* LoveableSexManiac: Rika.
--> '''Rika:''' "Yes, [[ThirdPersonPerson Rika]] is a pervert. Rika thinks about naughty things day and night. So what about it?"
* MaleGaze: The anime has one too many, including the opening.
* [[ManipulativeBastard Manipulative Bitch]]: Yozora slapped Maria twice, then gave her passages from Literature/TheBible that doesn't even exist to coerce her into lending her sleeping room to the Neighbors Club.
** As revealed in Episode 12, however, Maria thrice turned down her polite offers to lend the room for the Club's use, calling her a "poop" in the process, prompting her to [[ArmorPiercingSlap take matters to her own hands]].
* MarshmallowHell: Poor Kobato, having her face smushed in Sena's ample assets inside a crowded bus. She doesn't enjoy it in the least bit, but many others out there would have loved to be in her position.
* MeaningfulName: Yozora means night sky, Sena means starlet. Coincidence?
* MismatchedEyes: Kobato... er, [[InsistentTerminology Reisys V. Felicity Sumeragi]], has a red eye and a blue eye. Though it is just her using contacts as part of [[ElegantGothicLolita the costume she wears]] due to her persistent delusion that she's a vampire.
* MookHorrorShow: During the RPGEpisode.
* MsFanservice: Sena -- cranked UpToEleven in the anime.
* NewTransferStudent: Kodaka is a second-year high school transferee. So does Kobato, who's in second-year junior high.
* NoSocialSkills: Many chapters revolve around the members of the Neighbors Club consciously attempting to learn some social skill/s, usually at Yozora's suggestion.
* TheOjou: Sena, of the arrogant kind. And a FallenPrincess of sorts because of overdoing it.
* OlderThanSheLooks: Kobato looks like a ten-year-old; she's actually thirteen.
* OneOfTheBoys: [[spoiler:Yozora was one as a kid.]]
* OnlySaneMan: Kodaka stands as the Neighbor Club's sole voice of reason. All his clubmates don't have friends due to their unusual and/or unpleasant personalities -- he just has his [[DelinquentHair appearance]] [[FaceOfAThug to]] [[ShroudedInMyth blame]].
* OrSoIHeard: Sena about doujinshi.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Reisys V. Felicity Sumeragi ([[BlatantLies mistakenly known to some]] as [[DoNotCallMePaul Kobato Hasegawa]], Kodaka's younger sister of three years) drinks tomato juice (and resorts only to Pepsi whenever it's unavailable), claims to be [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld thousands of years old]] (though that doesn't stop her from carrying around a patchwork stuffed rabbit), and believes vampires already had an advanced magical culture while humans were still cavemen. She also claims to have a weakness to [[WeaksauceWeakness cold water]] -- not that it stops her from doing well in swimming class (which presumably involves a lot of cold water), though, claiming she "uses a lot of magic" to adapt. And then there's those moments where her facade completely breaks and she devolves into cute little Kobato, speaking in Kyuushuu dialect and calling Kodaka "An-chan" instead of her usual "my kindred".
* ParentalAbandonment: Kodaka and Kobato's English mother Airi is dead, and their father Hayato works in America, leaving Kodaka to [[PromotionToParent take care of Kobato all by himself]].
** Sena's father Tenma gives a TakeThat to this trope in the anime, calling Hayato trash for doing it. [[BerserkButton Kodaka is none too pleased.]]
* PerpetualFrowner: Yozora. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Kodaka.
* PerspectiveFlip: [[spoiler:The first half of Episode 12 shows the events from Kodaka's transfer until the formation of the Neighbors Club from Yozora's perspective, where it is revealed that she instantly recognized him as "Taka", but she CanNotSpitItOut because Kodaka can't recognize her in return as "Sora".]]
* PlayerKilling: Sena and Yozora can't really play nice.
* PottyEmergency: The end of Episode 10 has Sena coming to Kodaka and Yukimura's room and asking the former to escort her to the bathroom. He'd eventually do the same for Kobato and Maria, then kicks Rika out when it turns out she just wants to sleep with him. And when he goes out for the bathroom himself, he encounters Yozora at the doorstep.
* PrecisionFStrike: "Bitch" gets said a lot in Episode 2, while Yozora and Sena prejudge a video game character as a BitchInSheepsClothing.
* ProductPlacement: Whenever they don't use a BlandNameProduct it's fairly obvious as this (or maybe the author just hoping to be sent one for free for his service). While many of the games like "[[TokimekiMemorial Tokimeite Memorial Days]]" and so on are blanded, they explicitly play VideoGame/MonsterHunter and use [=PSPs=], and one game they're talking about even gets a little out-of-panel "Out now!" ShoutOut.
* RapeAsComedy: The "relay novel" (see RoundRobin).
* RapunzelHair: Yozora [[spoiler:until she cut it]]
* RealMenWearPink: The reason Yozora used to convince Yukimura to dress like a maid.
* RedOniBlueOni: Sena is the red, Yozora is the blue. In between is Kodaka, who stands as the blue to their red.
* "Music/RideOfTheValkyries": Yozora hums this to herself shortly before blowing Sena up in a game.
* RoundRobin: The club members try their hands at a "relay novel". It's a train wreck.
* RPGEpisode: TV episodes 2 and 5 and chapter 17 of the manga, as well as a volume in the light novel.
* RunningGag: [[JerkAss Yozora]] says or does something cruel to [[SitcomArchnemesis Sena]]. Sena yells childish insults back at her and runs away crying. Usually happens [[OncePerEpisode once an episode.]]
* SecondYearProtagonist: The main trio -- Kodaka, Yozora and Sena -- complete with two underclassmen (Yukimura and Rika), a junior-high kid (Kobato), a ten-year-old advisor (Maria), and no need to worry about graduation, though no third-years of note.
* SeriousBusiness: Sena and her games.
** Exchanging cell phone numbers for Kodaka and Yozora.
* ShaggyDogStory: Kodaka's "I'm Scared of Manjuus".
* ShoutOut: The members of the Neighbors Club may not have many friends, but the show [[ShoutOut/BokuWaTomodachiGaSukunai does have many Shout-Outs]].
* SitcomArchnemesis: Yozora and Sena all the way.
** To a lesser extent, Kobato and Maria, playing on their Dark vs. Light (i.e., vampire vs. nun) dichotomy.
* SlasherSmile: Kodaka's smile appears to be this to other people.
* SoBadItsGood: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] InUniverse in the third LightNovel with Rika describing "St. Joe's Academy Tale" as this word for word, being a lighthearted galge notorious for plunging straight into outright nightmarish {{Downer Ending}}s where [[KillEmAll both the hero and ALL his potential love interests die in the most horrifying ways]] should the player [[UnwinnableByDesign mess up with even a single flag]].
* SophisticatedAsHell: Rika in the fourth novel.
-->'''Rika:''' "Oh, yeah, now [[ThirdPersonPerson Rika]] is supposed to behave in a more refined way. Would you care for a fuck, sempai?"
* SplitScreenReaction
* StupidSexyFlanders: Yukimura gets this reaction from every other male.
* SuperDrowningSkills: Sena claims she cannot swim, blaming her primary school's lack of swimming lessons for it. This factors into her plea to Kodaka, who, for a harem protagonist, ''averts'' this trope by being a decent swimmer, to teach her how to swim.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: Occasionally you can hear in the background something suspiciously similar to the [[JohnWilliams Imperial]] [[TheEmpireStrikesBack March.]]
* TakeThat: There are many. One, continuing from the AscendedMeme above, has Kodaka wearing a stereotypical otaku virgin outfit, [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/boku_wa_tomodachi_ga_sukunai/v01/c017/18.html with a shirt that has a]] BlandNameProduct version of the MayoChiki logo on it.
* TallDarkAndBishoujo: Yozora
* TheImmodestOrgasm: Rika's UNIVERSE! and EXCALIBUR!
* TheTease: Rika can't talk without slipping a DoubleEntendre or saying something outright naughty.
* ThereAreTwoKindsOfPeopleInTheWorld: Sena in chapter 16.
-->'''Sena:''' "...There are two types of women. Ones that I can get along with, and all the other bitches."
* ThirdPersonPerson: Rika
* ThrowTheDogABone: Maria finds Kodaka's jokes hilarious.
* {{Tsundere}}: Yozora and Sena display traits of this in varying degrees. Sometimes the cast will also discuss this trope or accuse a person of being one. At one point they ponder about having a "tsundere omniscient narrator". It didn't make much sense.
* TsurimeEyes: Sena and Yozora accuse each other of having them.
* UnusualEuphemism: "'''Universe!!!'''" (uttered twice, once by Rika while [[TheImmodestOrgasm climaxing]] while reading aloud her EVA x Gundam ero-doujin, and then by Sena running out of her house crying after being seen naked by Kodaka). Probably doubles as a ShoutOut to ''Anime/TurnAGundam''.
* VaporWear: If [[http://250kb.de/u/111015/j/ec0wmEdCI419.jpg this screenshot]] is any indicator, Yozora is either GoingCommando, or she's wearing one hell of a thong.
** Maybe the lack of panty-shots is explained by a lack of panties?
* VideogameCaringPotential: Sena becomes addicted to [[DatingSim dating sims]] because of this, to the point of referring to the characters in them casually as if they were her actual friends.
* VideogameCrueltyPotential: PlayedForLaughs in Chapter 4/Episode 2. While playing "Tokimeite Memorial Days", Yozora and Sena agreed -- [[SitcomArchnemesis for once]] -- to court shy Yukiko Nagata, while they keep shooting down overtures by Akari Fujibayashi, whom they deem a BitchInSheepsClothing just because she's proactive, with the most cruel options. [[GenreSavvy Kodaka]] is none too amused. Their choices come back to [[LaserGuidedKarma bite them in the ass]] when VideoGameCrueltyPunishment kicks in and rumors that their protagonist, "Semoponume Kashiwazaki", was a HeManWomanHater became so widespread -- whose spread [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Yozora and Sena directly attribute to Akari]] -- Yukiko eventually shot him down. They ultimately got a DownerEnding so depressing [[SeriousBusiness Sena breaks down crying, while Yozora storms out of the clubroom threatening to kill Akari]].
** Also, while playing VideoGame/MonsterHunter Sena and Yozora spend most of their time griefing each other and ignoring everything else, including their mission and Kodaka.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Yozora and Sena are implied to be an extreme Type 2.
** WithFriendsLikeThese
* VomitIndiscretionShot: Poor Kodaka is on the receiving end of a double helping of regurgitated yaminabe ("black hot pot," where the participants each add ingredients to the pot and eat in the dark) from Yozora and Sena in Episode 0.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome: Transferring cell phone addresses. Kodaka and Yozora were so thrilled at having their first contacts outside home (though the manual way, both being not so tech-savvy) Rika, who easily shared hers with Yukimura through infrared, admits she feels as though she's "behind the times". This [[GreenEyedMonster does not sit well with Sena]] who, for such a rich kid, does ''not'' have a cell phone.
** [[ToAruMajutsuNoIndex Index]] vs [[OreImo Kuroneko]] aka Maria Vs Kobato in a way.
* WholesomeCrossdresser: Yukimura
** [[spoiler:RecursiveCrossdressing]]
* WiseBeyondTheirYears: [[AvertedTrope Averted]] by Maria, who's only ''educated'' beyond her years. She knows the contents of a high school textbook and is a teacher, but in every other respect she looks, acts, and is as intelligent as the 10-year-old child she is.
** Turns out her education completely and totally [[ChildrenAreInnocent skipped sex-ed]], as she apparently doesn't even know what a penis is until Rika explains how sex works to her. Plausible, given her education by what's apparently a fairly strict and uptight sect of Christianity/Catholicism (or the [[NunsAreMikos Japanese version of it anyway]]).
* XMeetsY: TheBreakfastClub meets LoveHina without the AbuseIsOkayWhenItsFemaleOnMale.
* YaoiFangirl[=/=]YuriFangirl: Rika mostly subscribes to the former, but can also swing to the latter, as evidenced by her writing a LesYay doujin starring her and Yozora.
* YouAreATreeCharlieBrown: Kodaka is forced to play a tree in the Neighbors Club's production of ''Momotaro''. This is ''after'' Yozora cut out a bunch of parts to accommodate the club's small size. Somehow she overshot the mark by one, so she added a tree back in.
* ZettaiRyouiki: Yozora
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** In a surrogate way, Maria is also this to Yozora.
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor[=/=]BrickJoke: In Episode 8, Yozora expresses distaste for popular people. She also extends her rant to a pool scene from "St. Joe's Academy Tale", a galge Sena was playing at that moment, claiming had she made the game, she'd make it "godly" by adding a DownerEnding where a [[EverythingsEvenWorseWithSharks shark appears]] and [[KillEmAll kills all characters]]. A few seconds and one bad choice by Sena later, her galge dives straight into a nightmarish SuddenDownerEnding featuring that very scenario. Even Yozora was genuinely horrified at that instant before regaining her composure and claiming it is "godly". Rika remembers that the game was notorious for bad endings where ''the hero and all his romantic interests'' die in the most horrific ways [[GuideDangIt should the player mess up with even a single flag]], even as Sena angrily breaks the disc.
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor[=/=]BrickJoke: In Episode 8, Yozora expresses distaste for popular people. She also extends her rant to a pool scene from "St. Joe's Academy Tale", a galge Sena was playing at that moment, claiming had she made the game, she'd make it "godly" by adding a DownerEnding where a [[EverythingsEvenWorseWithSharks shark appears]] and [[KillEmAll kills all characters]]. A few seconds and one bad choice by Sena later, her galge dives straight into a nightmarish SuddenDownerEnding featuring that very scenario. Even Yozora was genuinely horrified at that instant before regaining her composure and claiming it is "godly". Rika remembers that the game was notorious for bad endings where ''the hero and all his romantic interests'' die in the most horrific ways [[GuideDangIt [[UnwinnableByDesign should the player mess up with even a single flag]], even as Sena angrily breaks the disc.
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* BigDamnHeroes: When Kodaka rescued Sena from a group of thugs.
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* BigDamnHeroes: When Kodaka rescued Sena from a group of thugs.thugs... then [[WhatTheHellhero chews her out]] for provoking them after he saves her.
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* [[BigBrotherBully Big Sister Bully]]: Yozora towards Maria, in a surrogate way.
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* FestivalEpisode: Episode 11
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* FestivalEpisode: Episode 1111.
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* FoeYay: There's something more to Yozora and Sena's relationship than their frequent squabbles would otherwise show.
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* FoeYay: There's something more to Yozora and Sena's relationship than their frequent squabbles would otherwise show.indicate. On Yozora's side, she believes nicknames are only for friends, even if it was as insulting as Sena's "[[GagBoobs Meat]]". On Sena's side, she confessed to Kodaka that she's secretly happy with her nickname because she has never been given one before. Then comes actual interaction: during the BeachEpisode Sena was apparently enjoying Yozora rubbing her back with suntan with her feet, and also commented [[spoiler:that Yozora, post-haircut, [[StupidSexyFlanders looks ridiculously handsome]] [[{{Bifauxnen}} on a male school uniform]]]].
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* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Not that he realizes it, but within the Neighbors Club at the very least Kodaka has this going for him. Yukimura goes without saying, putting gender aside. Surprisingly, Yozora is also quite susceptible; she was bored to tears during an otome game by all the nice pretty boys until she ran across the delinquent. The delinquent who is just like Kodaka, no less.
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* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Not that he realizes it, but within the Neighbors Club Kodaka at the very least Kodaka has this going for him. Yukimura goes without saying, putting his gender aside. Surprisingly, Yozora is also quite susceptible; while playing an otome game, she was gets bored to tears during an otome game by all the nice pretty boys until she ran across the delinquent. The a delinquent character -- who is just looks like Kodaka, no less.
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* AnimalThemeNaming: The Hasegawa siblings' names translate to "Little Hawk" (Kodaka) and "Little Dove." (Kobato)
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* AnimalThemeNaming: The Hasegawa siblings' names translate to "Little Hawk" (Kodaka) and "Little Dove." (Kobato)Dove" (Kobato).
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* BalancedHarem: Yozora has FirstGirlWins and being a childhood friend in her favor, Sena displays the most romantic interest and gets the most development along those lines early [[spoiler:as well as becoming his fiancee later]] and Kodaka displays the most attraction to [[DudeLooksLikeALady Yukimura]] much to his confusion and horror. Rika... Rika is sort of left in the lurch along those lines.
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* BalancedHarem: Yozora has FirstGirlWins is the first girl Kodaka interacted with and being a childhood friend in her favor, is his fellow co-founder of the Neighbors Club, [[spoiler:as well as his ForgottenChildhoodFriend]]; Sena displays the most romantic interest and gets the most development along those lines early [[spoiler:as well as becoming in him [[spoiler:and later becomes his fiancee later]] and fiancee]]; Kodaka displays the most attraction to [[DudeLooksLikeALady Yukimura]] Yukimura]], much to his confusion and horror. Rika... Any affection from Rika is sort of left in ambiguous, owing to her [[LovableSexManiac overly sexual antics]] and Kodaka's [[NoGuyWantsToBeChased disdain for them]]. On the lurch along those lines.non-romantic side Kobato and Maria engage in childish squabbles over Kodaka's brotherly attention.
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor[=/=]BrickJoke: In Episode 8, Yozora expresses distaste for popular people. She also extends her rant to a pool scene from "Saint Joe's Academy Tale", a galge Sena was playing at that moment, claiming had she made the game, she'd make it "godly" by adding a bad ending where a [[EverythingsEvenWorseWithSharks shark appears]] on that scene and [[KillEmAll kills all the heroines]]. A few seconds and one bad choice by Sena later, her galge dives straight into a nightmarish DownerEnding featuring that very scenario. Even Yozora was genuinely horrified at that moment, before regaining her composure and claiming it is "godly". Rika remembers that the game was notorious for such {{Sudden Downer Ending}}s where ''the hero and all his romantic interests'' die in the most horrific ways [[GuideDangIt should the player mess up with even a single flag]], even as Sena angrily breaks the disc.
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor[=/=]BrickJoke: In Episode 8, Yozora expresses distaste for popular people. She also extends her rant to a pool scene from "Saint "St. Joe's Academy Tale", a galge Sena was playing at that moment, claiming had she made the game, she'd make it "godly" by adding a bad ending DownerEnding where a [[EverythingsEvenWorseWithSharks shark appears]] on that scene and [[KillEmAll kills all the heroines]]. characters]]. A few seconds and one bad choice by Sena later, her galge dives straight into a nightmarish DownerEnding SuddenDownerEnding featuring that very scenario. Even Yozora was genuinely horrified at that moment, instant before regaining her composure and claiming it is "godly". Rika remembers that the game was notorious for such {{Sudden Downer Ending}}s bad endings where ''the hero and all his romantic interests'' die in the most horrific ways [[GuideDangIt should the player mess up with even a single flag]], even as Sena angrily breaks the disc.
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* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Not that he realizes it, but within the Neighbors Club at the very least Kodaka has this going for him. Yozora in particular was bored to tears during an otome game by all the nice pretty boys until she ran across the delinquent. The delinquent who is just like Kodaka, no less.
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* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Not that he realizes it, but within the Neighbors Club at the very least Kodaka has this going for him. Yukimura goes without saying, putting gender aside. Surprisingly, Yozora in particular is also quite susceptible; she was bored to tears during an otome game by all the nice pretty boys until she ran across the delinquent. The delinquent who is just like Kodaka, no less.
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* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Not that he realizes it, but within the Neighbors Club at the very least Kodaka has this going for him. Yozora in particular was bored to tears during an otome game by all the nice pretty boys until she ran across the delinquent. The delinquent who is just like Kodaka, no less.
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* TheJimmyHartVersion: Occasionally you can hear in the background something suspiciously similar to the [[JohnWilliams Imperial]] [[TheEmpireStrikesBack March.]]
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* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: Occasionally you can hear in the background something suspiciously similar to the [[JohnWilliams Imperial]] [[TheEmpireStrikesBack March.]]
