The first Ice Cream Baby cover featuring (From left to right) Vanila, Minthe, and Chocola.
Ice-Cream Baby is a Malaysian 4-Koma Comedy comic book written and illustrated by Neko.
The story features a group of Normal Secondary School Students: Minthe, Vanila, Chocola, and the other characters in their daily lives.
Tropes:
- All Love Is Unrequited: Chocola is dumped by every man she goes out with.
- Animesque
- Childhood Friends: Minthe and Chocola are friends since primary school.
- Crossdresser: Latte was forced to wear a girls uniform when he was studying in the girls school. Yam also has one, and it was hinted that her sister made him wear girl clothes when he was little.
- Disappeared Dad: Only Chocola's mother has appeared in the comic. The other characters' parents never show, and Coffee and Latte's parents are currently overseas.
- Dude Looks Like a Lady: Minthe's brother mistook Latte for a girl.
- Exactly What It Says on the Tin: There was a product that said they can make your skin fine and smooth as glass. When Chocola asks the promoter, we can see how fragile her skin is.
* Girlish Pigtails: Minthe. Chocola has them too. - Girls Love Stuffed Animals: Lime always give stuffed animals to Minthe. Until there is almost no more space left in her room.
- Heterosexual Life-Partners: Minthe, Chocola, Vanila, and Coffee.
- Idiot Hair: Vanilla.
- Idol Singer: Almond. Not really a singer actually, but he won a contest... So it also counts...
- Lethal Chef: Coffee's kitchen will explode whenever she cooks. The only one way to avoid that, is to cook something that looks really weird.
- Lonely Rich Kid: Chocola.
- Love Confession: Lime confessed to Minthe in the beginning of the second volume, but Minthe doesn't hear anything since she is listening to music. Later, Minthe accepted him.
- Naïve Newcomer: Coffee.
- New Transfer Student: Coffee and Latte.
- No Antagonist
- No Name Given: Minthe's older brother and Chocola's neighbor.
- Official Couple: Minthe and Lime.
- Older Than They Look: Their homeroom teacher looks like a teenager. At one point, she actually dress up as a school student.
- One Teacher School: Only the main character's homeroom teacher appeared in this comic.
- Ordinary High-School Student
- Otaku: All of the characters are fond of online games.
- School Festival: Occurred during the end of Volume 2.
- School Play: Almond and Chocola became Romeo and Juliet in the school play during the school festival. Turns out that Almond becomes a playboy Romeo.
- Slice of Life
- Supreme Chef: Latte.
- Theme Naming: All of the character's names came from food and drinks.
- Theme Twin Naming: Coffee and Latte.
- Transfer Student Uniforms: Coffee and Latte wear their old school uniforms, although Latte doesn't really wear his old school uniform.
- Twin Switch: Latte. He was discovered right away.
- Unlimited Wardrobe: They never wear the same clothes twice. Save for Chocola during her vacation, because she wants to avoid overweight luggage during the flight.
- Unwanted Harem: Almond.
- Word Salad Title
