History Manga / TheSecretNotesOfLadyKanoko

%% * {{Bishounen}}: Natsukusa Touta, Tsubaki Haru, Ouji Mitsuki, Jouran Hijiri, Yabuki You, etc.

* DumbBlonde: Momoka is BookDumb so she is constantly taking suplementary lessons and make-up exams. This does not extend other types of intelligence, as she is very insightful in other important matters.

** Hijiri wants Sayuri to be with a respectable man. This is while he is ObliviousToLove [[spoiler:and unknowingly has requited feelings for her.]] In fact, a lot of things he does (as established in flashbacks) are with the intention of fulfiling her desires. This places his MagnificentBastard acts in a more magnanimous light.

%% * {{Meganekko}}: Kanoko, Sachiko (pre-make over) and Yukari.

* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship:
** Momoka and Kanoko eventually. Since both of them never had REAL friends before, their friendship is quite cute and amusing.
** It's occasionally ventured into the HoYay territory. Even Tsubaki gets insecure over their friendship, and thinks to himself,"Good thing Hanai isn't a guy...I'm saved." THIS after Momo's very suggestive line about, well, wanting to become a guy. One can't help but draw conclusions as to why after reading her next exchange.
--->'''Kanoko:''' ''(referring to Tsubaki's affection)'' If you want something, you have to fight for it, get it?!
--->'''Momoka:''' ...If...I were a guy, I'd surely fight...\\
'''Kanoko''': Eh?\\
'''Momoka:''' ''(smiles in exasperation and then takes Kanoko's hands)'' There's someone I like better than Tsubaki-kun, this one is true!

* NotSoDifferent:
** Jouran Hijiri ''thinks'' he has this kind of dynamic with Tsubaki, but that's only because he attributes Naedoko's actions to him. According to Hijiri's ChildhoodFriend Sayuri, they're actually complete opposites. In fact Sayuri and Tsubaki fit this trope better.
** An example from the side-story collection: Shingyouji thinks she has nothing in common with the Computer Club leader, Otabe-san. Unbeknownst to her, and revealed to the readers at the end of her ADayInTheLimelight chapter, she has the same greed for money.

* Naodoko goes through this in ''The Secret Notes of Lady Kanoko''. Due to a childhood incident with some female classmates she became jaded with friendship and believed that she was better off on her own as an outside observer. Her experiences as a perpetual transfer student caused an epiphany that she really did want friends and that she was always making them whether she knew it or not.

%% * BigManOnCampus: Haru Tsubaki. Be it middle-school or high-school he is [[SexyManInstantHarem instantly popular]]. Hijiri Jouran counts too.

%% * ChildhoodFriends:
%% ** Jouran Hijiri and Himeno Sayuri.

%% * DumbBlonde: Momoka. She lives taking suplementary lessons and make-up exams.

** Kanoko, who preferred being alone and observing people rather than socializing.

%% * GoodIsNotNice: Kanoko and Tsubaki are not above manipulating and blackmailing people for their plans.
%% * HeroWorshipper: The Nekota twins simply ''adore'' Jouran!

%% * HeroicSelfDeprecation: Downplayed in Naedoko's case. She is fully confident in herself as a person but she does acknowledge that she looks like she doesn't belong within the company she keeps.
%% * HugeSchoolgirl: Sayuri -- but only during elementary school.

* EurekaMoment: Naedoko has one when she realises why she is getting so much unwanted attention from 'troublesome' individuals. The reason: [[spoiler:as a transfer student in middle school she never stayed in one place long enough for the 'troublesome' people to notice her.]]

* CoolKidAndLoserFriendship: Kanoko is a plain-looking, glasses wearing girl who has no interest in romance, while her friends are the most popular students in the school.