History Manga / ICantUnderstandWhatMyHusbandIsSaying

* CelebrityParadox: During the first episode, Hajime is shown looking at a screenshot of [[Franchise/LyricalNanoha Nanoha Takamachi]]; Nanoha and Kaoru are voiced by Creator/YukariTamura. One has to wonder if he finds one attractive because they sound like the other.

* ''Metsuko ni Yoroshiku'', which follows the story of Kaoru's high school {{Senpai|Kohai}}.

** Kaoru's high school {{Senpai|Kohai}} was Akiko, the protagonist of ''Metsuko ni Yoroshiku''. She's also Miki's relative seen working for him in Episodes 4 and 12.8. Yuzu from the same series also appears in Episode 4 of season two, now working as a mangaka.

* LongTitle: ''I Can't Understand What My Husband is Saying'' is long enough, but the Japanese title ''Danna ga Nani o Itteiru ka Wakaranai Ken'' is even longer (it literally means ''The Matter of Not Understanding What My Husband is Saying'').

* ADayInTheLimelight: Several episodes of season two focus on the supporting cast
** Episode 6 is an adaptation of ''My Girlfriend without Wasabi'' and focuses on Rino and Nozomu.
** Episode 8 deals with Youta "Mayotama" Tsunashi's past and how he became an {{Otaku}} and obsessed with his brother.
** Episode 13 is from Tanaka's point-of-view as she mediates Kaoru and Hajime fighting over [[spoiler:what their daughter's name should be]].

* OverprotectiveDad: In the Episode 9 {{Flashback}}, when Kaoru tells her father she's going out on a date, he offers her a taser to take; when she refuses, he offers an ''automatic rifle''. After she refuses that, too, he offers to come with her, making a bloodthirsty, insane grimace with blood dripping down the background of the scene. In the present, he threatened to kill Hajime when he said that Kaoru cooking badly was an endearing attribute; justified since he's a professional cook himself.

* MasturbationMeansSexualFrustration: * Despite Hajime of ''Manga/ICantUnderstandWhatMyHusbandIsSaying'' being HappilyMarried and having a [[InsatiableNewlyweds fulfilling sex life]] with his wife Kaoru, there's one time he's resorted to this. In [[ChristmasEpisode S1E12]], Kaoru has to go to bed early because she has to work the following day. Hajime then goes into a CornerOfWoe and reaches for a box of tissues, implying he feels blueballed and needs to masturbate off his frustration. What's worse, earlier that episode their married friends indicated ''they'' are intending to have sex that night, owing to [[UsefulNotes/ChristmasInJapan Japanese usually treat Christmas as a date night]].

* ADateWithRosiePalms
** Hajime wasn't just reading erotic comics and magazines he left in the living room - he was ''using'' them!
** At the end of Episode 12, Kaoru has to go to sleep early since she has to work the next day and Hajime reaches for a box of tissues. What's worse, it's during the six hours of sexuality[[note]]From 9 PM to 3 AM on Christmas Day, this time period contains the highest number of people having sex in Japan (see UsefulNotes/ChristmasInJapan)[[/note]].
** [[http://imgur.com/TypPrZ6 Hajime has two carton boxes for magazines that won't fit into his bookcase: one labeled "moe", the other one "fap"]].

* ChristmasEpisode: Episode 12 - Kaoru has to work late, so Hajime goes to a party with Kaoru's friends and their husbands. Since she has to work the next day, they can't spend any time together that night either, so it ends with Hajime [[ADateWithRosiePalms reaching for a box of tissues]].

* BlushStickers: Kyouko (Hajime's mother) and Ai-chan
* BuxomIsBetter: Hajime obviously has a breast fetish which Kaoru with her relatively big boobs is fully able to satisfy. Hilariously {{Lampshaded}} in the pilot.

An AnimatedAdaptation made up of three-minute ThirteenEpisodeAnime shorts aired during the Fall2014Anime season, with a second season during the Spring2015Anime season.

* BathtubBonding: The first ending has Kaoru and Hajime relaxing in the bath together (ending with Kaoru doing a BathKick). Later episodes would add them washing each other's backs.

* OverprotectiveDad: In the Episode 9 {{Flashback}}, when Kaoru tells her father she's going out on a date, he offers her a taser to take; when she refuses, he offers an ''automatic rifle''. After she refuses that, too, he offers to come with her, [[UpToEleven making a bloodthirsty, insane grimace with blood dripping down the background of the scene]]. In the present, he threatened to kill Hajime when he said that Kaoru cooking badly was an endearing attribute; justified since he's a professional cook himself.

* AdultFear: Working a dead-end job while living alone (as depicted in Kaoru's {{Flashback}}) is close to a living nightmare, and is an experience all too many loners are familiar with.
-->'''Kaoru''': [[SurvivalMantra It'll be ok. It'll be ok. It'll be ok.]]

* CelebrityParadox: During the first episode, Hajime is shown looking at a screenshot of [[Franchise/LyricalNanoha Nanoha Takamichi]]; Nanoha and Kaoru are voiced by Creator/YukariTamura. One has to wonder if he finds one attractive because they sound like the other.

''I Can't Understand What My Husband Is Saying'' (旦那が何を言っているかわからない件, ''Danna ga Nani o Itteiru ka Wakaranai Ken'') is a SliceOfLife comedy manga created by Creator/CoolKyouShinsha about an OfficeLady named Kaoru Samura and her {{Otaku}} husband Hajime Tsunashi. What started as a series of {{Yonkoma}} on Website/{{Pixiv}} turned into an AnimatedAdaptation as 3-minute ThirteenEpisodeAnime shorts for the Fall2014Anime season, with a second season during the Spring2015Anime season.

* {{GIFT}}: Hajime has to explain to Kaoru how this works in Chapter 7 of the manga.

** Naturally, the {{Otaku}} among the cast know it. Tanaka, despite not being one of them, also has a proficiency of {{Imageboard}}-speak.
** The second season's title adds "Second Thread" to the main title. This also come from {{Imageboard}} practices: as threads will automatically be closed after a certain number of replies, a "second thread" -- often marked as such -- will be created if the conversation still needs to be discussed.

* ShamWedding: Inverted. Hajime's father was under the impression that Hajime and Kaoru's wedding was actually an elaborate hoax, not realizing the truth until the two come to visit for New Years several months later. No one actually tried to trick him, he just didn't believe that his his son would be able to find a wife.

* YourCheatingHeart
** PlayedForLaughs when one of Kaoru's former co-workers comes over in hopes of sleeping with Hajime. Kaoru thought she was talking about playing a game since she referred to it as "[[{{Netorare}} NTR]]".
** Played straight when Kaoru's present day co-worker Tobe-chan tearfully mentions she's getting a divorce because she caught her husband cheating on her.

** It's no coincidence that Hajime would find [[Franchise/LyricalNanoha Nanoha Takamachi]] and his wife {{Moe}} given they're both voiced by Creator/YukariTamura. Also counts as CelebrityParadox.
** Likewise, when Hajime lights up after "sensing {{Moe}}", there's not only a "[[Franchise/{{Gundam}} Newtype spark]]" with the appropriate sound effect, his eyes turn into the same shape and color a la "[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny SEED]] [[SuperMode Mode]]". Hajime's voice actor Creator/KenichiSuzumura previously voiced [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny Shinn Asuka]] who frequently used "SEED Mode".

* EndOfSeriesAwareness: Season one Episode 13 begins with Hajime ranting about how he feels when a SliceOfLife ThirteenEpisodeAnime is ending, and [[AwesomenessWithdrawal how he wishes he could see what happens to the characters afterwards]]; He also notes just before an anime ends, something happens, like a graduation. [[spoiler:The end of season one? The episode is entitled "[[BabiesEverAfter Me, Her, and Another]]"]].

->'''Hajime''': [[Manga/EngagedToTheUnidentified MASHIRO-TAN]] IS [[MemeticMutation MY WAIFU]]!
->'''Kaoru''': '''I'M''' [[DontExplainTheJoke YOUR WIFE]]!

** The two schoolgirls in the first episode of season two are the girl from the track team in ''Manga/KomorisanCantDecline'' and Karrot from ''Frau Rabbit''.