Attack On Mika / Tropes A to F

ATTACK on MIKA trope index
A to F | G to L (Gold Digger, Humiliation Conga) | M to T | U to Z (The Unfavourite)

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A

• Abusive Offspring: To unrealistic levels. The way these kids cruelly treat their parents would have earned them a serious case of Corporal Punishment from even the most lenient parents.
  • Marin, a girl genius, abuses her father, Hiroshi, for being a middle-school dropout. He’s forced to be the breadwinner of the family and do all of the housework chores while Marin relishes in his misery. Hiroshi finds out from an old classmate that he’s Marin’s birth father, with Marin being the result of an affair he had with his wife. Once he arrives home, Marin continues to berate her “father” and demands that he move out, until he invites his old classmate and admits her true parentage. Marin finds her real father repulsing and begs Hiroshi to stay, but he’s not having any of it.
  • Aika, bullies her father Kazuo for no discernible reason. Should he try to reprimand Aika’s bratty behavior, she’ll emotionally abuse him. She expects Kazuo to pay for her expensive boarding at a college in Tokyo while continuing to insult him. Her first line alone is assuming Kazuo has already died for being gross. If Kazuo comes home early, only Aika and his wife have a decent cooked meal, while he only gets instant ramen. Feed up with her father trying to correct her attitude, Aika kicks him out, then demands Kazuo to leave his bank book, after he tells her that he’s not her real father. He refuses to leave without his money and moves out. 2 weeks later, Kazuo comes back to bring in divorce papers and reveal the whole truth that he’s infertile, so he knew straight away that his wife cheated on him, and the affair resulted in Aika. Kazuo tried to give her birth father a chance, but he bailed out on them. A few years later, Aika continues to harass Kazuo via texts, blaming him for all her troubles on not getting into college, her hard job, and demands help. Unsurprisingly, Kazuo blocks her.
  • Komoru is a NEET who leeches off his mother Ayaka, going as far as stealing from her just to win a raffle, and even beating her when she complains.
  • Kokomi, along with her mother, Mamiko, treats her father, Tsukasa, like trash and says that he stinks.
• Abusive Parents: Some stories feature parents abusing their children or playing favorites with them.
  • "I tried to help my sister, but I only had $1.15...": Osamu and Erika's parents were gambling addicts who abused the former and forced him to do the shopping for them and neglected to feed him whenever they lost a bet. However, Erika always defended him from their parents' abuse until they sold her to a gang to pay their debts.
  • "Parents go on a week-long vacation with only their favorite daughter...": The Uchida couple abused Saki and treated her like a housemaid, refusing to let her go to school while they spoil her sister Yuki. When Saki called them out for going on a vacation with only Yuki, they locked her up in the veranda right before leaving. And they’re all shocked to find Saki inside and berate her for not staying locked up on the veranda before she calls them out and reveals she called the police on them and spent the whole week collecting evidence of their abuse. And the parents continue to assert they did nothing wrong while getting arrested.
  • Masumi’s parents constantly showered her younger sister Kasumi, with affection and gave her whatever she wanted while punishing the former whenever the latter accused her of being mean to her. Once they meet Masumi’s fiancé Ren, they agree with Kasumi demanding he be her boyfriend, as if he was a mere toy to pass around. Once Ren exposed Kasumi for faking her illness, along with witnessing her Villainous Breakdown, they berate her for wasting away their money and demanded she either get a job or move out.
• Abandon the Disabled: Kana was sold by her parents to Seiji and Miho for 1 million yen because of she is autistic. Fortunately, the couple loved and raised her and when Kana's parents returned to take her back because the eldest daughter was going through a rebellious phase, the couple refused to give Kana back.
• Academia Elitism: Marin holds this attitude towards Hiroshi, her own father. Despite the fact that Hiroshi works hard to ensure that she attends a private middle-school, Marin looks down on Hiroshi and physically abuses him for not going to high school. Kozue, Hiroshi's wife, also regrets marrying him, stating that she should have chosen a man with better education. Marin also knows that Kozue is cheating on Hiroshi with another man and actually expresses excitement at the idea of receiving a new, more educated father. Marin gets her wish when Hiroshi discovers that Marin isn't his daughter and decides to divorce Kozue so that Benta, Marin's real father, can raise her instead. While Benta is a college graduate, he's overweight, bald, and deep in debt.
• Academic Alpha Bitch:
  • Callaco was the top student in her class and bullied her classmate Koki for surpassing her. She took advantage of his baldness from chemotherapy for his leukemia to bully him even more. Later on in the student reunion, she comes back as a disheveled, overweight woman. When Callaco found out Koki became a successful medic, she tried to sweet-talk him into marriage, only to be rebuffed for her past bullying of him before verbally tearing the entire student body down for their apathy.
  • Erica appears to have top grades in high school and bullied Yuko with her goons for surpassing her; things escalated to the point she purposely tipped over a beaker in biology class, with some of the fluid falling into Yuko's left eye. Five years later, she applied for a job in Ryota's construction company, with Yuko as one of the interviewers. After being reminded of her prank, Ryo pulls out his hammer and proceeds to terrorize her with it. Then Yuko sues her for it, causing Erica's parents to kick her out of the house.
• Ain't Too Proud to Beg:
  • My wife and daughter treat me horribly... I told her I'm not her real father…: Kazuo divorces his wife Miho and tells his daughter Aika that she was born from the former's affair with another man before leaving. They beg him to stay, not realizing it's too late.
  • When my disrespectful son met my boyfriend...: Komoru starts begging for mercy when Mr. Fujisawa drags him to a judo match, moments after he bluffed to his mother about being a powerful judo fighter with connections to gang members.
  • Parents go on a week-long vacation with only their favorite daughter...: Yuki begs her older sister Saki for help as their parents are taken away by the police. However, the latter has none of it and leaves her on her own for all the mistreatment she was put through.
  • I went home for the holidays, and my sister demanded I take my clothes off...: Morao is reduced to begging Yuka not to call the police on him after her sister Mika told him that she hired a detective for proof of his abuse.
• All Take and No Give: Yusuke Kawata ends up in a relationship like this when he met "R", who after a month she badgered him into buying a present for her. Furthermore, she flips her lid at him taking her to a cheap Italian restaurant he booked for her birthday, and leaves him for a rich guy.
• Alpha Bitch:
  • Kaneko is the most popular and rich girl in high school who bullied Ichi for being poor. Later on, she still acted like that even as the others changed and apologized for their actions. Ichi gives her a "Reason You Suck" Speech that tears her down completely in front of all of the former student body.
  • Habumi is the class' queen bee who bullied Suzuka for the shape of her body. The former decided to force the latter to attend a pool party in a swimsuit. To make matters worse, Habumi forcefully inscribed Suzuka in a swimsuit contest to embarrass her even further and make herself look prettier in comparison.
  • Uzami is the most popular girl in middle school who bullied the main character Kanako for being ugly. Even after middle school she still acted like one. She tried to flirt with the boys but they turned her down. Hiyori and Kanako gave her a lecture on inner beauty and how she hurt them.
  • Kusumi Kuju is the queen bee of the class, who bullied Touma Shinomori for being overweight, driving him to change schools and later lose weight to show her up. Years later, she gets invited to his wedding to actress Minami Umibe and reveals he is Sino, a member and the frontman of the fourth generation of The Chonies, her favorite band. Later on, he gives her a blistering speech about her past bullying and the other members of G4 join in on the speech. Kusumi broke and became admitted into a mental hospital after the whole ordeal.
  • Yabami was the class' queen bee who bullied Mika with her Girl Posse and forced her to attend a class trip to bully her even more and get close to Ichi.
• Amusement Park: The episode Proposed to a blind ex-girlfriend as a penalty… Her response was even more shocking has Hajime set Ichi up for a reunion with old friends at an amusement park.
• Annoying Younger Sibling:
  • Yuuki always clung to his older brother Hirokazu and refusing to leave him alone.
  • Haruko always gets in the way of her stepbrother Hatsuo's relationships. However, it turns out she was the little girl he met and fell in love with several years earlier and he didn't recognize her.
• Appropriated Appelation: In the Japanese version of "Parents treated me like crap… But after I got married…" Chinami always referred to Chikage as an imo-onna^note 芋女, lit. "potato woman," a pejorative used against women the speaker considered ugly, uncool, and/or worthless. After their grandmother gave her house to the former while the latter and their parents became destitute because Kosuke used their share of the inheritance to buy frivolities for them, Chikage appropriates the insult and gives Chinami a box full of potatoes.
  Chinami: Wait a minute! What do you think you're doing?
  Chikage: Aren't these potatoes delicious, right?
  Chinami: I already understand they're potatoes, you potato-woman!
  Chikage: Yeah, I'm a potato woman, so this is all I can give you. Eat well and give birth to a healthy baby.
• Arranged Marriage: Sayuki's father forces Sayuki into one with the CEO of one of his client companies, seemingly shooting down her hopes of marrying her adopted brother, Eiji. Much to her surprise and the man's dismay, the CEO she was going to marry turns out to be Eiji.
• Attempted Homewrecker: Kasumi from "My sick and coddled sister said she wanted my boyfriend...", who faked her respiratory sickness despite having an operation to correct it so they would spoil her even well into adulthood, tried to pull this on Masumi's boyfriend, Ren, so he would be moved into marrying Kasumi instead. However, Ren sees right through her act and calls her out for being a coward while defending Masumi, even exposing Kasumi's facade. As a result of not getting her way this one time, Kasumi blows up at him, effectively blowing her own cover in front of her parents.
• Auto Erotica: Junpei went to the garage and noticed his car shaking violently as he found out Saki was inside with a guy, clearly cheating on him.
• Ax-Crazy: Himeka from the story Creepy sister.... She doesn't only kill Kotomi's dog Ron but it's revealed she was like this since childhood; often breaking or trying to get rid of things. In the end, her sociopathic behavior and her mom's refusal to get her help leads to a malnourished Himeka about to burn down the house.

B

• Babies Ever After: "My ex-girl friend's father destroyed my house... "We're not together anymore... and..."" ends with Koji and Kaname having a kid together and Kaname's grandfather gushing over the kid.
• The Baby Trap: In My ex-girl friend's father destroyed my house..., Kuzumi comes with her dad to Koji's house to force him to get back together with her, claiming she's pregnant with his child, despite not having seen him for nearly a year after she broke up with him. It is later revealed that she was impregnated by a male host she spent money on while dating Koji.
• Backstabbing the Alpha Bitch: In "The queen bee of our class invited me to the pool in hopes of embarrassing me…" Habumi's Girl Posse abandons her after Suzuka wins the pool park's swimsuit contest, revealing they only stuck with Habumi just to get boyfriends. This, along with losing to Suzuka, causes Habumi to break down and assault one of her former minions, resulting in her getting kicked out of the pool park.
• Bad Boss:
  • Hajime's boss is a lazy bum who abuses his authority and kills time smoking. If it wasn't enough, his name is Mento Harasu.
  • Riku's boss, Iyamida-san, pushes all of his work onto his employees, with Riku being his favorite target due to Riku growing up in a single mother household, getting along well with the company's CEO, and being popular with ladies. He also nags at anyone who argues with him. In addition, no one can report him to HR due to him being very good at covering his tracks. One day, when Riku asks to take a leave of absence to organize his mother's funeral, Iyamida-san refuses to let him and even threatens to fire him if does, causing Riku to resign. The next day, Iyamida-san gets a call from the CEO, Hinako, who angrily tells him that his actions doomed the company and orders him to come to Riku's mother's funeral immediately. After he arrives, Hinako tells him that Riku's uncle, who is the vice president of Shingeki Co. Ltd., one of their company's main clients, no longer wants to do business with a company that would fire someone for pathetic reasons. In addition, Hinako knows about his constant mistreatment of Riku. When Iyamida-san denies it saying that there is no proof, Hinako shows him proof of all his actions, which had been gathered by HR. She then fires him on the spot.
• Bad People Abuse Animals: In Creepy sister..., Himeka gets fed up with her older sister Kotomi's dog, Ron, after he eats her handkerchief. She decides to poison his water with weed killer to get rid of him.
• Badass Biker: One episode has Namiko, a motorcycle gang leader save a blind girl from a drunk man trying to take advantage of her.
• Barely-There Swimwear: In PTA President promotes autonomy in her children, and the children give her a gift..., Ms. Fukuda showed up at the beach wearing a scandalously skimpy bikini, despite being the mother of two elementary-aged daughters. However, Hanae and the presents are grossed out because it also reveals her wrinkles and stretch marks.
• Beach Episode:
  • PTA President promotes autonomy in her children, and the children give her a gift...: Ms. Fukuda proposes a trip to the beach in one meeting. Since she's president of the PTA board and holds an authoritarian grip over the members, no one can say no to her, not even Hanae.
  • The punks try to use me as an errand boy when the pretty girls arrive, and...: An introvert rich boy named Sho Kawaminami is forced to go to the beach as an errand boy for a party-loving extrovert named Yabao, his girlfriend, and his fellow extrovert friends.
• Beautiful All Along:
  • I was left behind by my family, but a handsome gang leader saved me?!: The messy-haired Ai Sonozaki gets a makeover from Taketora's beautician friend and is revealed that she's pretty.
  • She was hiding her true self... But what was she really hiding from?: After being shoved into the pool by Rikan and her friend, the shy, freckle-faced Kana Takagi emerges as a beautiful girl, much to both bullies' confusion. Turns out she used makeup to hide it under a "plain girl" facade.
  • My classmate looked down on me because I was a middle school graduate.. [sic]: When Taizou left Tomoya and Nagisa behind after Taizou set him up a blind group date and both went to an izakaya for some drinks, Nagisa revealed her pretty face when she took off her glasses and face mask. The reason Nagisa wears them is that she was tired of so many guys asking her out because of her looks.
  • They excluded me from the after party for being fat and smelly, so...: Daichi was mocked by Taizou, Aira, and Ririna for being a fat introvert at a match-making party. They were no kinder to Lui who is plain-looking and wears glasses. Later, it was revealed that the looks were a façade and took off their glasses. Daichi was muscular, and Lui looked beautiful without their fake looks. Ririna and Aira tried to get together with Daichi but he rejects them in favor of Lui.
• Beauty Contest: Habumi forces Suzuka into a swimsuit contest, in order to embarrass her and make her serve as a foil to her so she will have Shouya all to herself. However, when Suzuka takes off her towel, she turns out to be better-looking than Habumi.
• Beg the Dog: Being a mostly cathartic series, some episodes end with the antagonist getting in trouble and begging their victims for mercy.
  • The Corrupt Corporate Executive who abused his adopted son Eiji, and later on kicked him and his own bedridden wife out of the house, only keeping his sister Sayuki. When he forces Sayuki in an Arranged Marriage with the CEO of one of his client companies, it turned out to be Eiji. When Eiji refuses to merge companies, the man begs him to reconsider, only to be rejected by both Eiji and Sayuki
  • Yuki begs to her older sister Saki after their parents are taken away by the police. However, the latter refuses and leaves for all the mistreatment she endured.
    Yuki: Wait! Please, help me! What am I supposed to do now? How do I live?
    Saki: Don't ask me… I mean it's your life, right? Live it the way you like…
    Yuki: Wait… You can't just leave me…
  • "I went home for the holidays, and my sister demanded I take my clothes off...": Morao is a CEO who merrily abused his wife Yuka and justified it as "educating her to be a good wife". However, when her sister Mika reveals she hired a detective and has evidences of his abuse, he is reduced to begging Yuka for forgiveness despite his earlier bragging and gloating.
  • "My parents who adore my sister tells me to leave the day before her wedding day...": Years after Aoi left the house and moved into her friend Hibiki's place because her parents mistreated her and refused to invite her to her sister Nina's wedding, the same parents who abused her show up at their place and plead to her for shelter because Nina's husband turned out to be a psychopath who made their lives (apparently except Nina's) hell. Understandably, Aoi has none of it and leaves the couple at the bastard's mercy.
  • After their grandmother leaves the house to Chikage, her younger sister, Chinami, begs her for help as she is 7 months pregnant and their parents disowned her for it. However, she refuses after all the abuse she endured and leaves her on her own.
  • Kuzumi begs Koji for help after the Yakuza group he married into enslave both her and her dad for causing damage to the Chairman's house.
  • Yugami dumps her husband Masashi after winning the lottery and takes her daughter Love with her, but when he told her the ticket expired and his knowing of her affair with his friend Takuya, they come back and Yugami begs him to let her back in. However, he refuses and sues her for damages.
  • Aika and Miho are reduced to begging Kazuo not to leave after he told the former she's actually the daughter of another man and divorced the latter after so many years of abuse he endured.
• Belated Child Discipline: Airi became a Spoiled Brat because of her mother Konomi's influence, often insulting her father Yutaka for not earning enough money. After Konomi loses custody of her due to going into debt, her new caretaker is shown reeducating her by teaching her basic manners such as saying "thank you" and "sorry."
• Best Her to Bed Her: In this story, Azusa declared she will marry whoever defeats her in judo. As expected, many guys try their best but she proved too strong for them, especially her unathletic friend Toma. However, he is spotted by a judo master and thanks to his training, he was able to defeat her.
• Big Brother Attraction: Erika is attracted to her older brother Sho, who is an introvert.
• Big Brother Bully: Katsuya bullies his younger sister Yumi for taking their father's side.
• Big Eater: Mika ordered a lot of food for two people at an restaurant... before handing the menu to Ichi so he can order.
• Big Fun:
  • Benta Gakuta, an old friend of Hiroshi's, is overweight and has a cheerful personality despite owing lots of debt, which are the reason he put on some weight and hide his bald head under a toupee.
  • Daisuke Kumada is a kind young man with a large physique, for which his coworkers call him "Kuma" (bear).
  • Teruo, one of Katsuya Shishida's new friends after swearing off delinquency, is a heavyset green-haired young man.
• Big Jerk on Campus: Shikio Ikasugi was a flashy popular guy in high school and quite a heartthrob with girls, but he was also a jerk who put his hands on many girls and made them cry as well. He even bullies nerdy transfer student Aoi Kokonoya for looking nerdy until the latter reveals she's an attractive girl in disguise.
• Big Little Sister: Hazuki is Takuya's younger sister, yet she is taller and more developed than him. One night, he finds out that the reason is that Hazuki is adopted; her real father is a classmate of his dad's who passed away moments after she was born and Takuya was one year old.
• Big "NO!":
  • In the Japanese version of Creepy sister..., Kotomi's and Himeka's mom shouts one of these at the sight of a malnourished Himeka preparing to burn down the house.
  • I invited the girl who made fun of me in high school into my wedding...: Kusumi lets one out at Touma Shinomori's wedding after being harshly roasted by her favorite band's G4 members for her past bullying of him, since he was their frontman, Sino.
  • My wife and daughter left me after they won the lottery, but...: Yugami lets one out when she learns from her now ex-husband, Masashi, that the lottery ticket her daughter, Love, stole from him had expired years ago.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing:
  • “Don’t dive into me♡” Bikini and a cute act...: Mina may seem like a nice and cute girl but it is in fact all an act to manipulate the boys. When the boys bungle saving her from drowning, she cusses the boys out, inadvertently revealing her true self. The boys stopped talking to her after that, with the exception of Abram, who actually liked being cussed out by her.
  • PTA board president Ms. Fukuda from PTA President promotes autonomy in her children, and the children give her a gift... seems like a nice, joyful, fun lady, but this is an act. She is actually a condescending authoritarian who can't tolerate the slightest bit of criticism. Furthermore, Fukuda singled Hanae out for being the only one who doesn't bow down to her.
  • A rare male example is found in Takapiro Saionji from On the day of the engagement, his true intentions are revealed.... When he and protagonist Hitomi Shiroki first met, he acted cordial and nice to her, warranting her to accept his offers for dates. However, when he met her childhood friend Yuji, he insulted the fact that he came from a poor family, with her calling him out. Things worsened when he came at her with a marriage application form and revealed his true colors when she turned it down, even driving Yuji away by barring him from work at Shingeki Corporation.
  • I went home for the holidays, and my sister demanded I take my clothes off...: Morao appears as a kind husband, but his act is exposed when a drunk Mika opened Yuka's shirt, exposing the bruises he (and his mother) left all over her body. When questioned by his in-laws, he justifies the abuse under the pretense of "educating" her and deriding her as "coming from an inferior family".
  • The queen bee of our class invited me to the pool in hopes of embarrassing me…: Habumi seems like a Nice Girl at first glance, but it's actually an act. She is the queen bee of the class and no one can say no to her, especially Suzuka, whom she forced to attend a swimsuit contest at a pool park in order to embarrass her and have Shouya all to herself.
  • '"Divorce me!" → "I've been waiting for you to ask!"': Supervisor Tatsuya Kunihara was a kind boss who was popular with female employees and was the one who introduced Aya and Reito to each other before they married. However, it turns out to be an act; Reito's coworker Suzuki-san revealed he was her boyfriend and cheated on her.
  • "The day after he asked me out, he got in an accident, so I stopped going to school...": After Kasei Kou's death by a car accident, Terao tried to reveal to Akari that the deceased wasn't the kind boyfriend he seemed to be, only to have the cops called on him because he clumsily revealed he pushed Kasei. Later on, her friend Saki sent her a video recording on Gekitter that showed Terao confronting Kasei as the latter revealed he only dated Akari for her money and gloating that she'll do anything he says because they're "so in love." Moreover, it turns out Kasei tried to hit Terao for trying to report him to the police only for the latter to push him in self-defense.
• Biting the Handkerchief: Near the end of this episode, Ririna is shown doing this after Hideo was thrown into the air by a now-buff Taiga.
• "Blind Idiot" Translation: This episode has Satoru claim that he has only three fingers on both of his hands however he is later shown to only have three fingers on his left hand while his right hand is normal.
• Boyfriend Bluff: Invoked and gender-inverted with Naoki Nakamura when he came to his sister Emma's place. He wanted Emma to pretend to be his girlfriend to get his pestering coworker Aika Ichinose off his back. However, it fails and Aika breaks down crying, so he tells her the truth.
• Bratty Teenage Daughter: Kazushige's daughter Haruka became rebellious when she entered middle school, refusing to talk with him about anything. This drives him to download a dating app to ask someone how a girl feels in order to communicate with his daughter.
• The B Grade: Mika's parents always had high expectations of her grades and they got on her when she got an 85 on a test.
• Bridezilla:
  • Herika becomes this right on her wedding day, when she finds out half of the guests didn't attend. This is because her mother Megumi's wedding was held at the same day, in a venue next to hers.
  • At Ririna's wedding, Ichi describes the concept of this trope applying it to Ririna. In her angry response, she briefly turns into a Notzilla, complete with breathing fire.
• Bring My Brown Pants: Erica fell unconscious and wetted herself after Ryo stopped his hammer a few inches of her face.
• The Bully: Uzaya bullies Asuka for having a shut-in brother, the rest of the class along with a teacher named Kuzunoki also take part in tormenting her. After Asuka's brother Sho exposed the misdeeds of Uzaya and the rest of Asuka's classmates to the school, they have their recommendations withdrawn and were allocated to a low-ranked university. Kuzunoki was also fired from his job for ignoring the bullying and he can never return as a teacher ever again.
• Bullying the Disabled:
  • Ririna threatens Sakura for being the center of attention thanks to her prosthetic leg. A day later, she ambushes her in the school backyard and breaks the latter's prosthetic leg in twain.
  • Rui's family became cold and dismissive towards her after she got an artificial eye to replace the one she got extirped for tumor surgery. However, her younger sister Misa actively mocks her and calls her "ugly" for it, even going as far as stealing her boyfriend Kaname from her.
  • This story stars a blind girl being abused by her parents and older sister. This escalates to the point she leaves her home and almost gets taken advantage of by a drunk man had Namiko not shown up.
  • Miyura-kun bullies Yui Kashiwabara for being hard of hearing and orders the entire class to ignore her.
  • Kasumi abuses her older brother Satoshi for being born with a three-fingered hand. Things escalate when she takes a picture of him with notorious delinquent Rena Mikami and makes it look like the latter prostituted herself. This drives Satoshi to yell his heart out, with Rena exposing Kasumi's usage of the school computers to doctor the accursed picture.
  • Lilian and her mom bullied Hinata to tears for her prosthetic leg. The second time the duo shows up, they steal Hinata's wallet when her brother Toma tried to pick it up.
• Business Trip Adultery:
  • Yuria seemed to go on business trips to provide for her son Riku. However, it turned out she went on these trips to cheat on Ichi. Later on, it's revealed she didn't even have a job and mooched off of him and her lover.
  • Ririna tells her fiancé Ichi that she is going on a company vacation to Thailand. However, Ichi sees the news that the plane that supposedly transported Ririna back to Japan had crashed into the Philippine Sea. When Ichi contacts Ririna, she tells him that her plane had landed in Japan. It's revealed that Ririna is actually having another vacation in the Indonesian island of Bali with her American lover after her vacation in Thailand was over.
  • Kazuma is accused of this by both his wife, Konomi, and their daughter, Ririna, as he returned from his business trip. As a result of being constantly ignored, he decides to wiretap the house to know what's going on. When he gathered the devices later on and listened to the recordings, he learned that his boss, Ayla Saotome, was behind all this. She called Konomi to demand she divorce Kazuma and threatened to have him fired if she didn't comply.

C

• Casanova Wannabe: Hatsuo Togari tries to hit on girls at his work and thinks he's handsome. He once caused a meeting with a company to end because he flirted with one of their female employees much to her discomfort. Togari then tried to flirt with Mika much to her discomfort, and even got mad at a janitor for blocking his view of her. However said janitor turned out to be the president of the company. Togari was fired from the company for sexual harassment.
• Captain Ersatz: Shiori Choko is basically Shinobu Kocho as a high schooler.
• Cold-Blooded Torture: After kicking Saki down the stairs, her sister Gozumi terrorizes her for getting Iketa's attention.
• Compensated Dating: In the original Japanese version of "A mean girl got jealous of the new girl with a prosthetic leg…" Hayate narrates at the end that Ririna engaged in this to pay Sakura the 1,500,000 yen^note $15,000 dollars in the English version in the JP version for the prosthetic leg she broke after being exposed to the entire classroom.
• Cool and Unusual Punishment: In this chapter, Junpei takes his wife Saki to Shingeki Pass as punishment for cheating on him and to scare her into signing the divorce papers. It turns out the pass was a spot for street racers and Junpei was one in his youth. Furthermore, he proceeds to drift through the road until she signs. After Saki gets off the car to take a break, Junpei leaves her behind, forcing her to walk home.
• Cool Aunt: Aunt Takako is the only relative Kotomi looks up to since was the one who gave her Ron the dog to ease her loneliness even after her younger sister Himeka was born. When Himeka poisoned Ron and plunged Kotomi into despair, she was the only one who stood up for the latter. In the end, she lets Kotomi live with her in Hokkaido with her pets.
• Corrupt Corporate Executive: Eiji's father is a CEO who abuses his sickly wife into doing the house chores, and hates his adopted son Eiji, favoring the boy's adoptive sister Sayuki for her good grades. One day, he decides to marry his secretary Masumi and kicks his sickly ex-wife (and Eiji) out of the house. It is revealed he had a history of forging documents and bribing people for his company.
• Corrupt Politician: Hatsutaro Tonaro was embezzling money from the town. When this came to light, he tried to hold an apology press conference but was arrested for the crime.
• Country Mouse: Keisuke Uemura is a college student who hails from a countryside town. However, he is bullied by his classmate Akiko for it until she's revealed to hail from the same countryside town as well.
• Crappy Homemade Gift: Kasumi from "My ex-girlfriend dumped me because of my handmade ring then invited me to her wedding" perceived Daichi's homemade wedding ring as crappy because of that and dumps him for not being rich.
• Crocodile Tears: Apart from feigning sickness, Kasumi recurs to fake tears whenever her older sister Masumi had something she wanted and refused to give it to her.

D

• Delicate and Sickly:
  • A father kicks out his wife and son but keeps the daughter...: Eiji and Sayuki's mother is a young woman who often fell ill, but this didn't stop her husband from forcing her to do the chores even in that state. Furthermore, the man kicks her and Eiji out of the house despite her protests and marries his secretary Masumi.
  • I put a voice recorder under my hospitalized brother's pillow: Yuuki is a sickly young boy who wanted to be with his older brother Hirokazu at all times, much to the latter's annoyance as their parents dote on the former.
  • My sick and coddled sister said she wanted my boyfriend...: Kasumi got operated from a respiratory ailment earlier on, but she decided to fake it to get attention from her parents and treat her older sister Masumi like crap for being the only one who saw through her ruse.
  • My parents kicked me out of the house while I was sick, but a few days later...: Lilina is a sickly girl whose parents always coddled and spoiled her rotten while neglecting and mistreating her sister Mika. She joins in on the mistreatment, ignoring that she is the one who took care of her illness.
• Depending on the Writer: Mika and Ichi are often paired together, but as love interests or parent and child depending on the story.
• Depraved Dwarf: Mr. Shimoda is a short teacher who looks after Iori and Akane's class, sexually harassing the former for being tall. After she coldly rebuffed his advances he accuses Akane of stealing the club money driving her to tears. Infuriated, Iori pretends to get back with him while live-streaming the whole conversation to the entire class. He tells her to take off her shirt, but she reveals this and the principal fired him. Shimoda lunged at Iori, only to be kicked in the groin by her.
• Didn't Think This Through:
  • "Parents treated me like crap… But after I got married…" features a double example: Chinami ran away from home for half a year after being hit by her father and tried to find herself a man richer than Chikage's husband, Kosuke, despite being in her teens. As expected, she comes back 7 months pregnant after finding out her mark was married. As for the sisters' parents, they use Kosuke as an ATM, but the greedy couple doesn't know the money he spent on their frivolities was their share of the inheritance money, effectively spending themselves broke by the time the grandmother revealed it to them and leaves the house to Chikage, who kicks her abusive parents and sister out.
  • "My wife and daughter left me after they won the lottery, but...": Masashi was barred by Yugami and Love from using the shower, which resulted in them forcing him out of the house while showering. However, this becomes the mother-daughter duo's undoing when Masashi goes to the bathhouse where he learns Yugami has been cheating on him with his richer friend and fellow patron, Takuya, by lying about being a single mom. As a result, Takuya dumps her after Masashi tells him the truth, leaving the duo completely helpless after stealing Masashi's lottery ticket and realizing it had expired years ago.
• Dirty Coward: In the second part of the "Blind Girl and Motorcycle Gang Leader" story, the older sister's friends all run away and leave her all alone upon seeing Namiko's gang coming over. However, Namiko reveals the blind girl came with her to reconcile with the older sister.
• Disappeared Dad: After Kazuo tells Aika that she is the daughter of another man who Miho cheated on him with, he reveals that when he confronted her real father, the man didn't want anything to do with her or Miho and eventually ran away after making a false promise that he would show himself after Aika entered high school.
• Disappointed by the Motive: Shikio Ikesugi is astonished that the reason why Maki lied about her husband Atsushi Kubota being abusive was because he worked late and she was lonely.
• Disguised in Drag: Mika's father dresses up and pretends to be her to lure Taizou out to teach him a lesson for causing Mika to get suspended from school.
• Disowned Sibling: In "Parents go on a week-long vacation with only their favorite daughter..." Saki declares to Yuki that they're no longer sisters after their parents got arrested. It becomes more cathartic since Yuki is the one to first declare Saki as not her sister but a maid.
  Saki: OK, good riddance, we are no longer sisters or family or whatever...
• Domestic Abuse: Yuka is a victim of this at the hands of her husband Morao and his mother. When her sister Mika and her family discovered the bruises under her shirt, Morao justifies it by saying they are just "educating" her to be a good wife.
• Downer Ending: This channel has a few dark endings:
  • After cutting ties with her shopaholic mother and reuniting with her husband who had been working hard to make ends meet with his newborn child, Yuki moved into an apartment together with him. Unfortunately, the doorbell rings and Yuki answers it only to turn out to be her deranged mother with a knife and the story ends with Yuki's screams.
  • A guy reunites with his girlfriend Sakura after escaping from Mana, his stalker. Unfortunately for him, Sakura flashed a creepy grin, implying she is a Yandere as well...
• Dr. Jerk: Dr. Kujoin was a mean doctor who looked down on Mika despite her childhood illness. He was forced to resign due to his attitude and rumors spread about his behaviour so he couldn't go to a different hospital. He became homeless, but Mika helped him in his hour of need which inspired him to change.
• Drowning My Sorrows:
  • Koji ends up doing this for a while after his former girlfriend, Kuzumi, breaks up with him and admits that she only saw him as an ATM after he refused to lend her anymore money. Thankfully, he was able to stop this after meeting Kaname, who was able to help him get back on his feet.
  • Ichi ends up doing this, along with quitting his job and becoming a recluse, after his wife, Lilina, divorces him after it's discovered that she had been cheating on him with his best friend, Taizo.
• Dub Name Change: In Mina's story, supporting character Aburaoka is renamed Abram in the English version.

E

• Empathy Doll Shot: A variant. At the end of Creepy sister..., as a malnourished Himeka holds a lit lighter to burn down her mom's house, the viewer is briefly treated to a shot of the remains of a teddy bear and a pair of scissors on the floor.
• Empty Eyes: As a kid, Kasumi smiled with solid black irises whenever she mocked her older sister Masumi for being the only one who saw through her fake illness. She displays these solid black eyes again years later when she declares her wish to take Masumi's boyfriend Ren as her own.
• Entitled Bastard: All over the place. No matter how much a bully or an Abusive Parent puts their victim through the wringer, the aggressors will always have the gall to demand favors, such as draining out the victim’s paycheck, using connections, or forgiveness after karma bites them in the ass. Unsurprisingly, The Dog Bites Back all the time at their bullies.
• Evil Uncle: Ichi's uncle refused to get a job and was always selling his mother's mementos for money and planned to force him to get a job after middle school. Ichi eventually moved into a high-school dorm and left his uncle high and dry.
• Eye Scream:
  • Rui suffered malignant melanoma and had her eye extirped and replaced by a glass one to keep appearances. Her sister Misa bullies her for it.
  • Yuko lost her left eye when Erica purposely tipped over a beaker on biology class. As a result, she spent her time holed up in her room until her childhood friend Ryota broke the door and came to her aid.
• Eyes Always Shut:
  • Mr. Sugawara, Airi's teacher, always has his eyes shut.
  • Both Kaname and her grandfather always have their eyes shut. Her grandfather is only shown opening his eyes when he is angry, such as when he is told by one of his men that the door won't open due to the doorknob being broken and when Kuzumi and her father complain about being forced to pay 7 million yen.

F

• Face of a Thug:
  • Jin has a scary face, which is fitting for a former gang member. However, he is actually a kindhearted man and currently a stay-at-home dad.
  • Yuto is a delinquent boy of whom Saki steers clear. However, he turns out to be a kind soul when he hears her crying after being locked up on the veranda by her parents. He even calls for his buddies to unlock it and let Saki stay in his place for the week.
• Failed a Spot Check: In this story, had Yugami checked the lottery ticket her daughter Love sent her in a photo, she wouldn't be up to her neck in debt by going in a shopping spree.
• Fair-Weather Ex: In stories that involve the antagonist breaking up with the protagonist for being poor, the antagonist will almost always try to get back with the protagonist when the latter's income improves.
• Fair-Weather Foe:
  • Back in high school Kaneko would often bully Ichi for being poor. By the time of their class reunion, Ichi has become a successful businessman while Kaneko is nearly bankrupt. Kaneko tries to get with Ichi, claiming that her bullying in high school was just her being a Loving Bully. Ichi doesn't buy it and rejects her, as not only is he engaged to Mika, he also sees that she's nothing but a parasite looking for her next host to leech off of.
  • Back in high school, Koki was often bullied for being bald, his main bully being the Academic Alpha Bitch, Callaco. Years later during the Class Reunion, when he has grown hair and become a successful doctor, most of his classmates offer insincere apologies while Callaco tries to get with him. Koki calls out his former classmates for their willingness to act nice to someone they teased just because he's successful, before leaving to be with his wife.
• The Fake Cutie:
  • Ririna hides her Jerkass behavior under a cutesy facade. It helps that her pink hair has green tips.
  • Mina adopts a cutesy persona to manipulate boys. However, it falls apart when she swears at the boys after they fight over who gets to save her from drowning at a swimming competition.
  • Aika Ichinose adopted a "dependable big sister" persona to manipulate male employees. However, protagonist Naoki Nakamura is the only one who didn't fall for her tricks, causing her to pester him to keep him under her thumb. She seems to be a Manipulative Bitch at first... only to turn out she did this to help her sick little brother.
• Fake Pregnancy: Aira claimed to be pregnant with Hideo's child and uses that fact to keep him as a boyfriend. When Hideo tried to break up with her, Ririna showed up and pointed out that she is drinking wine despite being pregnant and demanded that Aira take the pregnancy test. She decided to run from the restaurant instead.
• False Rape Accusation:
  • My toxic parents kicked me out, so I decided to run away with my cute childhood friend shows an example where a third party does the accusation on behalf of an alleged victim. Akira's parents suddenly kick him out of the house, claiming that his sister Nagi told them how he pinned her down and touched her. In the end, it turns out they were lying. Nagi never said anything of the sort and Akira never did that; it was just an excuse to kick Akira out of the house.
  • My wife was cheating on me in my brand new expensive car...: Upon discovering his wife Saki was using his brand new Mercedes-Benz to cheat on him with a guy named Atsushi, he calls the police and lies about his wife being assaulted. When the cops arrive and he tells Saki the same lie, she goes along with it. Junpei reassures her, not before warning her about making a false accusation, which drives Saki to change her mind and admit she was cheating.
    Junpei: I heard your screams coming from the garage, so I called the police in a hurry. I'm sure it was some thief trying to steal our car.
    He must have been waiting for the right timing. What a sneaky asshole.
    Atsushi: No! Saki and I are—
    Saki: (Gasps) That's right! I was just checking on the car when all of a sudden that guy came and attacked me! I was so scared!
    Atsushi: What!?
    Saki: I don't know that guy!
    Junpei: I'm so relieved to hear that. Well, I'm gonna go down to the police station now and file a police report. I'll have to testify that he's a stranger to you.
    By the way, I heard that if you make a false declaration, you will be punished too, so be careful. Well, you shouldn't be worried about that because you'd never lie.
• Fat Bastard:
  • When my disrespectful son met my boyfriend...: Komoru is overweight since he's a hikikomori, and is a jerk to his mother Ayaka. Thankfully, Mr. Fujisawa shows up to teach him a lesson.
  • An uneducated father surprises the smart bratty daughter...: Hiroshi's daughter Marin is overweight and bullies him for being a middle-school dropout.
  • Class bully keeps stealing my lunch so I prepared a surprise for him...: Taiki is a fat bully who steals Tokiya's entire lunches for multiple times because he blackmailed him into giving him free food so he would not report him to the teacher for breaking a vase.
• Father, I Want to Marry My Brother:
  • A father kicks out his wife and son but keeps the daughter...: Sayuki says this to her father as she defends her older brother Eiji. However, the man doesn't take it well and accused him of grooming Sayuki. Later on, he marries his secretary, Masumi, and kicks his sickly ex-wife and Eiji out of the house, only keeping Sayuki.
  • The queen bee of our class invited me to the pool in hopes of embarrassing me…: When Suzuka slaps her flashy older brother Shisuo for getting too close to her, he brings this up:
    Shisuo: Why? You said you wanted to marry me when you grew up!
    Suzuka: I was in kindergarten then!
• Five-Second Foreshadowing: Near the end of Creepy sister..., Kotomi warns her mom that Himeka might burn the house down at some point if her sociopathic behavior escalates. Even Aunt Takako gives her sister the same warning before hanging up on her. Then the abusive hag sees Himeka holding a lighter, preparing to do just that.
• Foregone Conclusion: If a character is not paired with the One True Pairing, the relationship is bound to end by the end of the episode.
• Formerly Fat:
  • When Ririna tries to put Tsukasa down one last time, the latter shows everyone a photo of the former in high school, where she was a chubby girl with small eyes. After getting rejected by Yuji for bullying Tsukasa, she went back to gorging herself on food, regaining all the weight she lost since high school.
  • Yuta and Tsuyoshi were chubby in elementary school and bullied for it, they gradually became slimmer when they entered middle school.
  • Makabe gained weight as a result of her parent's divorce. When she started going out with Takahashi, her childhood crush, she lost weight.
  • Taiga Ichinose was a fat high school student who asked Ririna out when Hideo told him "she had a thing for fat guys." However, when he finds out it was a set-up by Hideo as Ririna turns him down and mocks him for his weight, he was determined to lose weight to no avail until his classmate Anzu Momose recruits and trains him for the school sumo team.
• Formerly Fit:
  • I saw my former classmates at a class reunion, and...: Callaco was the beauty of high school and had the highest grades and bullied Koki for surpassing her to the point of exposing his bald head^note product of chemotherapy for his leukemia. Years later at the school reunion party, she has gained a lot of weight and her looks deteriorated.
  • An uneducated father surprises the smart bratty daughter...: When Benta Gakuta came over to the Suzukis' house, Kozue remarks that he looked skinnier 15 years ago. He replies that he gained a lot of weight and went bald out of the stress of taking on debts after losing his company.
  • I reunited with the girl that used to make fun of me, but she didn't know it was me...: Tenko ends up gaining a lot of weight after her failure to become a model and there were also several rumors of her bullying Yuta being spread through her school.
  • "Her parents left the older sister with her relatives for 10 years... Until one day they found out...": After Mika becomes a successful model thanks to Ichi's help, her abusive parents come back begging her to have Ririna signed as well. However, Ririna has become fat due to stress-eating over not measuring up to her parents' expectations. Moreover, Ririna herself revealed that she still cared for Mika and intentionally fattened herself as payback for the abuse they put Mika through.
• Former Teen Rebel: Natsu-san is revealed to have been a delinquent in her younger years.
• Fourth-Wall Observer: Sometimes Mika will make remarks throughout or at the end of a story even though she doesn't appear on-screen given that she is the titular character.
• From the Mouths of Babes:
  • Mana and Kana, Ms. Fukuda's elementary-aged twin daughters, give her something that looks... peculiar. The reason was that the girls overheard her saying she liked it "huge and thick", even saying what they heard when she and their dad were in the same room.
  • Maya took her jump rope to play pretend with her dad Naoto. She tells him that her mom likes to be tied up by a stranger, to which Naoto learns of Akemi's cheating.
  • Loveta presents to the class a vibrator his mother has been using. Needles to say, Konomi is mortified and tries to prevent him from to saying too much to prevent further humiliation.