History Manga / YandereKanojo

* BlandNameProduct: Reina's dad buys a [[UsefulNotes/PlaystationPortable "Play Halaytion Portable"]] along with a certain game [[VideoGame/MonsterHunter about partying up with others to hunt monsters]] that's extremely popular in Japan.

* AbhorrentAdmirer: Ugajin to Reina. [[TheStoic Manabu]] is just as put off by it as her.

* AllJustADream: The story featuring Reina as Cinderella turns out to be this.
* AprilFoolsPlot: The subject of chapter 27.1.
* AtArmsLength: Reina does this to Nanami the first time they fight.

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Reina really should, especially when a certain clown might be listening.
* BeachEpisode: Chapter 17.1.

* BigFriendlyDog: [[IronicName Chibita]], Reina's uncle's dog. [[spoiler:Except around Manabu.]]
* BishieSparkle: Shiratori, in his initial appearance.

* CatsAreMean: To be fair, it's Chibita who strikes first...
* [[TheDogBitesBack The Cats Strike Back]]: Chibita tries to scare a cat stealing a fish. The retaliation is swift.

* CooldownHug: Kouichirou to Ran in Ch 37.
* CosmeticCatastrophe: Reina starts out well when learning how to use makeup, getting Mayami to help her, but when she tries to go solo, it descends into this.
* CurbStompBattle:
** The Kendo Club shows up to defend the school from a possessed Reina, which ends exactly how you'd expect it to. Then the Judo Club shows up only to suffer the same fate.
** A-ko was trying to fight Ran for Kouichiro's love. She never stood a chance.
* DatePeepers: After telling Mayami she can't come with them when they go to see {{Film/Avatar}}, Reina and Manabu end up spending most of their date following Mayami after they see her seeing the same movie with some guy they don't know, to make sure he's not a creep.
* ADayInTheLimelight:
** Reina's parents in their flashback chapters, and Hijiri and Shiratori in chapter 27.
** Sumika and Nanami in ''their'' flashback chapters, and Shiratori solo in chapter 34. A-ko in chapter 37 and Hiromichi (the cafe manager) in chapter 39. Manabu's parents in chapters 61-63.
** Even Nanami's minions get one in 40.1.
* DeathByChildbirth: Azuma's wife.
* DemonicPossession: "The Cursed Black Bat". Manabu manages to stop it with ThePowerOfLove.

* DoctorJerk: The school doctor. And he ''knows'' it.

* FamilyFriendlyFirearms / NerfArm: The weapons shops sells weapons that look and feel like real weapons, but do no serious or permanent damage. They are only to be used for comedic effect.

* FracturedFairyTale: The Cinderella chapter, with Reina as Cinderella, Manabu as the wizard who helps her, Shiratori as the prince, and Nanami's gang as the stepsisters.

* GoldenSnitch:
** Mayami pulls this as hostess of a gameshow. Reina, as one of the contestants, is not happy.
** Leads straight to [[spoiler: a CrackDefeat when two guys in the background who admit they're so unimportant they don't even have names, and have not answered a single question right, win. The question? What is the name of the author of [[BreakingTheFourthWall Yandere Kanojo]]?]]
* GoodAngelBadAngel: Reina met them in the chapter where she tried to find out the reason Manabu wears glasses without need.
* GoodParents: Minor eccentricities aside, Reina's parents are definitely this. [[spoiler:Especially compared to Manabu's [[KickTheDog mom]] and [[ParentalAbandonment dad.]]]]

* HiddenDepths:
** A lot of seemingly {{Jerkass}} characters are actually decent people when the situation calls for it.
** Even characters like [[UnknownRival Nanami]], Sumika and Tsukihitsugi have these moments.

* IncrediblyLamePun: The series title.
** Elizadeath.
** Wakako seems to have the name she does just so the author could pun her name into Bakako in the title of the chapter she features in.
* KewpieDollSurprise: Many of the characters are prone to doing this.

* LoveEpiphany: [[spoiler:Hijiri in chapter 42.]]

* MythologyGag: Seen under {{Yandere}} for WhatCouldHaveBeen with Manabu's lil sis? Behold, [[ClingyJealousGirl Tsugumi]] [[BigBrotherAttraction Shiratori]], [[ItMakesSenseInContext Reina's pen pal over a misplaced letter.]]
* NeighborhoodFriendlyGangsters
* NiceCharacterMeanActor / MoodSwinger: [[spoiler:Reina's uncle, Souijiro/Soji.]]
* OddFriendship: A recurring theme. Most of the friendships are of this trope (Reina/Hijiri, Reina/Mayami, Manabu/Shiratori, Sumika/Nanami).
* OfficialCouple: Manabu and Reina's relationship is pretty much the entire point of the manga.

* OneNoteCook: Reina and curry. With a lot of help she made cookies one time.
* OpenSecret: By about four chapters in most students realize they're a couple; they're just smart enough not to say anything.
* {{Otaku}}: The Manager. He does know when to turn his enthusiasm off, if necessary.

* PaperFanOfDoom: Manabu buys one of these when Reina takes him to a weapons shop.

* SeriousBusiness:
** Bloomers.
** Shiratori always takes ''everything'' with such high fervor. Sometimes it's endearing, sometimes it's [[TheComicallySerious funny,]] sometimes [[TheResenter it's]] [[HeroicSelfDeprecation sad.]]
* SexySantaDress: Reina's employer outfits his female employees with this at Christmas.

* ShowWithinAShow: "Princess Mamii", a MagicalGirlWarrior anime.
* SmarterThanYouLook: Mayami and Manager. [[PairTheSmartOnes No wonder]] [[BirdsOfAFeather they got some]] ShipTease.
* SmokingIsCool: Manabu's grandfather smokes, and is as cool as they come.
* SpoofAesop: Beaten into the ground.
%%* SupportingHarem:
%%** Daikichi Ugajin's groupies are this in a literal sense.
%%** The concept of choosing one of them over the other, even in a hypothetical death or life situation, is incomprehensible to him. And the two of them care for each other. In a weird, unconventional way (but what else would you expect from this series?).

* TwoLinesNoWaiting: Is actually two different titles; a web published one (the 4-koma) and a print one (the conventional one). Since most scanlation sites just put the story up in order, it leads to the two-part stories being cut off in between.
* TyrantTakesTheHelm: Daikichi Ugajin and his groupies in Chapter 38.1.

* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Daikichi Ugajin, much to the dismay of Reina and [[TranquilFury Manabu]].
* WeWantOurJerkBack: Chapter 47.1 in a nutshell.
* WhamEpisode: Chapter 65 drops a huge one, when Manabu learns that [[spoiler: his father left his mother to take care of his sister after her messy divorce since her leech of a husband nearly bankrupted his family.]]
* WhatDoesSheSeeInHim: Manabu's a relatively ordinary-looking guy. Reina seems to think he's on the male supermodel/"legendary man-whore" end of the spectrum.
* WholeEpisodeFlashback: Reina's parents' first meeting, and Sumika and Nanami's first meeting, both get two chapters.

* {{Yonkoma}}

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[[caption-width-right:200:[[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent Manabu]] and [[JapaneseDelinquents Reina]]. Actually, you could call them [[Manga/FlunkPunkRumble Megane-kun and Yankee-chan]], if not for copyright issues.]]

* SupportingHarem:
** Daikichi Ugajin's groupies are this in a literal sense.
** Ugajin later intimates that it's more like TriangRelations, type 8. The concept of choosing one of them over the other, even in a hypothetical death or life situation, is incomprehensible to him. And the two of them care for each other. In a weird, unconventional way (but what else would you expect from this series?).

NOTE: The title of this series isn't supposesd to be read as "{{Yandere}}" but as the combination of "[[JapaneseDelinquents yankee]]" + "dere-dere". In this sense, 'yankee' means troublemaker, ''not'' American.

* ADayInTheLimelight:
** Reina's parents in their flashback chapters, and Hijiri and Shiratori in chapter 27.
** Sumika and Nanami in ''their'' flashback chapters, and Shiratori solo in chapter 34. A-ko in chapter 37 and Hiromichi (the cafe manager) in chapter 39. Manabu's parents in chapters 61-63.
** Even Nanami's minions get one in 40.1.

Tanaka Manabu is a regular honors student. On the way to school, he meets a girl carrying a bloody bat. That girl is Ryuuzaki Reina, leader of the school's female delinquents. It's love at first sight. ''Yandere Kanojo'' is a gag manga (with a combination of {{yonkoma}} and normal page) about having a yankee dere-dere girlfriend.

A drama CD came out in Japan in 2010.

NOTE: The title of this series isn't read as "{{Yandere}}" but as the combination of "[[JapaneseDelinquents yankee]]" + "dere-dere". In this sense, 'yankee' means troublemaker, ''not'' American.

* [[SkirtOverSlacks Kimono Over Boxers]]: [[AllMenArePerverts A crowd of male onlookers]] collectively drops to their knees in grief after Reina denies them a PantyShot, or something even better, this way while celebrating a badminton victory a little too enthusiastically.

* BigBraToFill: Lampshaded.

* AllGaysArePromiscuous: Shuuei Mori. In his introductory chapter, the first thing he says to every guy he meets is "Hey, wanna go to a hotel later?". [[{{Wimpification}} Then he meets Azuma and, well....]]

* {{Transgender}}: When several of the students find an old yearbook photo of Sally, the school's janitor, they see her as a male-bodied student in a boy's uniform. Sally laughs it off and says that back then she "hadn't blossomed as a woman yet".

NOTE: In the title of this series, "yandere" refers not to [[{{Yandere}} this term]], but to the "[[JapaneseDelinquents yankee]]"+ "dere-dere" combination. In this sense, 'yankee' means troublemaker, ''not'' an American.

Not to be confused with Manga/{{Onidere}}, which has a strikingly similar concept, but is only similar to this series in that regard.

* ZettaiRyouiki: Reina on one of her dates.

* HetIsEw: According to Shuuei Mori.

** Shiratori always takes ''everything'' with such high fervor. Sometimes it's [[{{Adorkable}} endearing,]] sometimes it's [[TheComicallySerious funny,]] sometimes [[TheResenter it's]] [[HeroicSelfDeprecation sad.]]

* OlderThanSheLooks: [[spoiler: The Principal's ''wife'', she was so [[{{Moe}} young looking]] and {{adorkable}} that most male students fell for her. Of course, it helps that they ''didn't'' realize she was the Principal's wife.]]

* FragileFlower:
** [[spoiler:The Principal's wife.]]
** [[spoiler:Reina]] also had her moments as well.

* {{Transsexual}}: When several of the students find an old yearbook photo of Sally, the school's janitor, they see her as a male-bodied student in a boy's uniform. Sally laughs it off and says that back then she "hadn't blossomed as a woman yet".

* ADayInTheLimelight: Reina's parents in their flashback chapters, and Hijiri and Shiratori in chapter 27.

* AllGaysArePromiscuous: Shuuei Mori. In his introductory chapter, the first thing he says to every guy he meets is "Hey, wanna go to a hotel later?".
** [[{{Wimpification}} Then he meets Azuma and, well....]]

* BearsAreBadNews: Subverted in one chapter. Manabu is worried about encountering bears when he and Reina are in the mountains looking for a Sakura tree. Reina reassures him and says she'd gladly kill and ''eat'' any bears threatening them. A bear overhears them and is absolutely terrified.

* GoldenSnitch: Mayami pulls this as hostess of a gameshow. Reina, as one of the contestants, is not happy.

* HiddenDepths: A lot of seemingly {{Jerkass}} characters are actually decent people when the situation calls for it.

* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: Reina's delinquent gang. They're in school every day, don't drink, smoke, or do drugs, and the only gang fight seen in the comics takes place with a felt-tip pen. Naturally enough, this gets lampshaded.
** Then Reina goes and lays a full-on smackdown in 27.1.

* PurelyAestheticGlasses: Manabu's glasses are just for show.
** A whole chapter is actually devoted to exploring the mystery of Manabu's glasses. Long story short, [[spoiler:they're basically a MementoMacGuffin from his grandfather.]]

* RelationshipUpgrade: In a roundabout way, chapter 27 has Hijiri and Shiratori acknowledging each other's mutual attraction and going out on a date. Due to their inexperience with such things, though, they don't actually think it was a date or that it makes them a couple.

* SupportingHarem: Daikichi Ugajin's groupies are this in a literal sense.

* MayDecemberRomance: Mayami and the Manager have plenty of significant ShipTease moments with each other. Being a first year, she's around fourteen-fifteen; Chapter 25 reveals that he's twenty-six. [[spoiler:[[RelationshipUpgrade Becomes official]] in chapter 68.1.]]
** It's revealed that Azami and Sousuke are also about the same amount of years apart. [[spoiler:Hence why Sousuke doesn't seem to mind their age gap when they begin dating.]]

** Even characters like [[UnknownRival Nanami]], Sumika and [[TheHunter Tsukihitsugi]] have these moments.

** [[InvertedTrope Bears think]] [[{{Badass}} Reina]] is bad news.