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Yuu Mikoshima enters the famous St. Millefeuille All-Girl High School with high expectations of it... and finds much more than she was prepared for. First off, Nagi, a cheerful classmate assigned to show her the school, attempts (admittedly) to seduce her, culminating in a French kiss. Next thing she knows, the school is being attacked by a three-ton monster that is after its stockpile of sugar. Somehow, Yuu is able to unleash a devastating power attack and knock it out and ends up kissing an angry girl named Mariya to combine their powers and kill the monster for good.

It turns out, St. Millefeuille is a special academy for training Magitek witches who can fight Formiks, monsters like the one Yuu defeated. Said monsters destroyed 80% of the world's sugar supply some 10 years ago and are still out for the rest. To fight them, each St. Millefeuille student has a special power and Yuu's is to absorb the powers of others through kissing, just like she did with Nagi and Mariya, with whom she eventually gets teamed up. Thus, her ordinary school life begins.

Otome Kikan Gretel is a Girls' Love manga by Kaoru Sudou, that was serialized in the Seinen magazine Comic Yuri Hime S from 2007 to 2008. It never officially concluded, as the author experienced serious health problems in 2009, retiring from the industry for over five years, during which the series had been apparently quietly canceled by the publisher.


Tropes found in this series include:

  • Berserk Button: If you have any plans about staying alive, don't eat Mariya's pudding.
  • Blank White Eyes: Yuu often gets this look when Nagi tries to seduce or flirt with her.
  • Breaking the Fourth Wall: "Is this what's commonly known as an Event Flag?" (Complete with options!)
    1) I'd be happy to go at it right away, too ♥
    2) Sorry, I'm not interested in that sort of thing.
    3) Eh!? Y-you're jokin...right?
  • Bug War: Many characters refer to Formiks as "insects".
  • Calling Your Attacks: "Pudding's Vengeance!"
  • Cast Full of Gay: Every character is a girl who likes girls.
  • Cat Girl: Makoto cosplays as a catgirl maid for her sister.
  • Cut Short: The manga ran for only five chapters and never continued from there, due to the creator dealing with health problems.
  • Dating Sim: Parodied, as some characters start seeing "event flags" at critical moments or mentioning filling up meters and maxing out gauges.
  • Dude, She's Like in a Coma: Nagi does this to Yuu after Yuu faints from Nagi's flirting sexual harassment.
  • Hot Springs Episode: Two out of six chapters so far. Long live hot springs!!
  • Innocent Innuendo: The pudding making scene, with added Visual Innuendo to boot.
  • Jizzed in My Pants: Yuu is afraid, that the female version of this trope may happen to her in mid-battle, since the power-reload is done via kiss.
  • Kill It with Fire: Some Formiks are particularly vulnerable to fire (it's implied that fire was a weakness of that particular Formik in the first chapters).
  • Mega Manning: Yuu has the ability to copy (and apparently, enhance) powers through exchange of bodily fluids but only for a brief time. Cue lots of kissing.
  • Meido: Makoto cosplays as a maid catgirl for her sister. And brings her coffee.
  • Military School: While the local regulations are not at all strict, St. Millefeuille is a classified government academy for training witches to counter the global Formiks threat.
  • Mission Control: Makoto. At least when she's not spending "quality time" with her big sister.
  • Ms. Fanservice: Nagi, and in this manga, that's really saying something.
  • Nose Bleed: Nagi provokes this reaction from Yuu a lot with Nagi insisting that it's "normal for a healthy young girl".
  • Power Limiter: Several girls have to wear these to prevent accidental use of their AUBE. Nagi's limiter is a pair of rings, Mariya's is a wristband, and Yuu's is a collar.
  • The Power of Love: It's very heavily implied that There Is Only One Bed for a reason.
    • You can just go ahead and scratch the "implied" part now.
  • Really Gets Around: Nagi is a Good Bad Girl, really.
  • The Rival: Yuzuka and Mariya; by extension, also their respective teams.
  • Say It with Hearts: Nagi is quite prone to heart symbols in her speech balloons.
    "Chop ♥"
  • Serious Business: Sugar and sweets in general, since Formiks ate most of the world's sugar some ten years ago. But especially pudding for Mariya.
  • Sibling Incest: Hikaru likes her little sister, Makoto.
  • Shout-Out: One of Tsukasa's attacks is called "Fahrenheit 451".
  • Skinship Grope: Nagi is prone to this.
  • Sound-Effect Bleep: In the "Fill in the Blanks" Omake.
    Nagi: "She wants me to bleep her five times a night now. And Maria loves it when you bleep her bleep. When you bleep, she makes the cutest noises..."
  • Superhero School: Technically a Wizarding School but in effect much closer to the former.
  • Super-Strength: Nagi's and, by extension, Yuu's AUBE.
  • Sweet Tooth: All girls in the story have one (and for a reason) but Mariya is particularly bad at controlling it.
  • There Is Only One Bed: Nagi, Yuu, and Mariya share a bed in their dorm and nobody bats an eyelid. Damn, that's one awesome school...
    Nagi: "So if you aren't satisfied with merely kissing, tell me anytime ♥. That's why the three of us share the same bed in our unit dorm ♥."
  • This Is a Drill: Mariya and Yuu's combined attack looks like a drill.
  • Tsundere: Mariya is an extreme Type Tsun. Even her cute dere side is slightly volatile.
  • Vapor Wear: On at least one occasion, courtesy of our resident Good Bad Girl/Lovable Sex Maniac...
    Nagi (Deliberately putting Yuu's hand on her [un?]fortunately clothed breast): No bra! ♥
  • Yuri Fan: Many of the student body swoon over watching Mariya and Yuu kiss.

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