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  • Adaptation Displacement: The series starts out as a web manga, which features a different staff from the ones in the published manga and its anime. Suffice to say, most people are more familiar with the cast of the latter and is mostly oblivious to the existence of the former.
  • Diagnosed by the Audience: Izumi is often theorized by fans to be autistic; she's incapable of caring for herself despite being 28 years old, has issues going outside of her room, and isn't good with people outside of her family.
  • Fridge Logic: In-show example.
    Yachiyo: "But... Wouldn't have it been simpler for me or someone else to pretend to be Takanashi?"
    [shocked beat]
    Jun: "Todoroki... A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do."
    Hiroomi: "You just realized it now, haven't you, Satou?"
  • Informed Wrongness: Souta is repeatedly made the bad guy for complaining when Inami punches him. Except, you know, she's punching him, with super-strength, whenever she gets close, for no reason other than her illness. To be fair, he does get kinda rude sometimes, but it's hard not to sympathize with his plight.
  • Les Yay:
    • Yachiyo and Kyouko. Most of it coming from Yachiyo. Including one blatant scene in the yonkoma:
      Yachiyo: "But you are right, if you don't break this habit of yours, you won't be able to fall in love."
      Inami: "Lo-!! Love..."
      [Yachiyo sees Kyouko walk by in the background]
      Yachiyo: "Ignore what I just said. It's okay if your partner is a woman."
    • And then there's the scene in which Kyouko proclaims, "Yachiyo is mine".
    • Popura's admiration of Kotori is also slightly suspect, which even gets commented on by Jun.
    • Kozue steadily ramps up towards Mitsuki, from accidentally following her instead of Youhei, to late night visits after nightmares, to straight-up propositions when Kozue's drunk. And Kozue is often drunk.
  • Memetic Mutation:
    • "X plays the tambourine"
    • Am I Poplar yet?!
    • Not Poplar anymore?
    • Still Poplar!
    • Sum wan wan!
    • In-universe: Kawai-souma-san
  • Moe: Popura, Aoi and Nazuna. In fact, Aoi even made the Top 8 during Saimoe 2010.
    • Please Don't forget crossdressing, toddler Takanashi Souta.
  • Rescued from the Scrappy Heap: During the first season, Inami turned off a lot of people due to her preconditioned reflex to punch men if they get close to her. This was due to how overused the gag was. Come the third season, this had mostly vanished, mostly due to Character Development.
  • Romantic Plot Tumor: During the first season some viewers felt that the events between Souta and Inami draw away too much attention from the other characters. Turned on its head during the Grand Finale Lord of Takanashi, where Inami's love for Souta actually helps resolve a good deal of his family's problems (with a little nudge from Poplar, of course).
  • The Scrappy: Inami's dad, full stop and more for being the reason why Inami is initially a Scrappy. Most people wonder why a character like him has any business being in a Status Quo Is God Slice of Life Comedy series. A lot of people thought that even Takanashi's "The Reason You Suck" Speech wasn't enough to deal with him. Some even see him as a half-assed way to make Inami seem more sympathetic.
  • Unintentionally Unsympathetic: For some viewers, Inami. We're supposed to feel pity because she can't help but punch any man that comes across, but that's something really hard to sympathize with, especially as she doesn't seem to do much to fix it. She also gets a romance plot with Souta that is supposed to be endearing, but fails because it just looks abusive (and when he complains about being punched, he's the one shown as the bad guy).
  • Values Dissonance: Kozue accuses Mizuki of being a naughty girl for her lesbian attraction toward Yachiyo, and that she should stop her unproductive thoughts and finally fall in love with a man. Regardless of Mizuki's true feelings, this still shows that in Japan homosexuality is mostly seen as "just a phase" to be grown out of.
  • The Woobie: Izumi is a very sick girl who can barely walk around and gets muscle cramps if she carries anything heavier than a pen.

Alternative Title(s): Working

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