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* CreatorCareerSelfDeprecation: Hanzawa was a {{shoujo}} mangaka[[note]]Drew for ''Ripon''. This is why she's called a "genre traitor" by some ''Kirara'' followers, as she moved from Shoujo to {{Seinen}}[[/note]], and some of Koyume's traits came from Hanzawa's day working on shoujo. The most visible is their common inability in drawing men, and resorting to draw [[{{Bifauxnen}} very boyly-looking girl]] to pass as boys.

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* CreatorCareerSelfDeprecation: Hanzawa was a {{shoujo}} mangaka[[note]]Drew for ''Ripon''. ''Magazine/{{Ribon}}''. This is why she's (jokingly) called a "genre traitor" by some ''Kirara'' followers, as she moved from Shoujo to {{Seinen}}[[/note]], and some of Koyume's traits came from Hanzawa's day working on shoujo. The most visible is their common inability in drawing men, and resorting to draw [[{{Bifauxnen}} very boyly-looking girl]] to pass as boys.
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* NiceGirl: A complete and total sweetheart once you get to know her.
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* OdangoHair: She occasionally ties her hair up as this. Like her usual GirlishPigtails, it demonstrates her girlishness.
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* WhamLine: Tsubas's mother saying that she ''does'' read her daughter's work during the parent-teacher conference.

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* WhamLine: Tsubas's Tsubasa's mother saying that she ''does'' read her daughter's work during the parent-teacher conference.

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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Just before her parent-teacher conference, she wears her uniform properly and puts on hair extensions.



* FantasyForbiddingFather: Downplayed. They're not completely happy about their daughter drawing manga, even if they don't overtly oppose it. Kaos realizes that it's fairly hard for Tsubasa to keep going without her parents' support.

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* FantasyForbiddingFather: Downplayed. They're not completely happy about their daughter drawing manga, even if they don't overtly oppose it. Kaos realizes that it's fairly hard for Tsubasa to keep going without her parents' support. Despite that, it eventually turns out that Tsubasa's mother ''does'' read the manga, and the characters believe her dismissive attitude toward Tsubasa's work is meant to goad her to succeed.



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.* SoProudOfYou: She says that she respects Tsubasa's effort, even if she quickly backpedals and complains about her daughter using her as the basis for hre manga's villain.
* WhamLine: Tsubas's mother saying that she ''does'' read her daughter's work during the parent-teacher conference.
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* OneHitWonder: [[invoked]] She once produced a bestselling manga volume, but didn't have the motivation to make another one, since she prefers drawing for fun.

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* HeroicSelfDeprecation: Very frequently because of her negativity. For example, in the third episode she didn't eat not only because of ForgetsToEat, but also think that since she screwed up a storyboard for a gourmet manga in the beginning of that episode, she shouldn't eat.

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* HeroicSelfDeprecation: Very This happens very frequently because of her negativity.negativity, resulting in her negatively comparing herself to the other manga artists. For example, in the third episode she didn't eat not only because of ForgetsToEat, but also think that since she screwed up a storyboard for a gourmet manga in the beginning of that episode, she shouldn't eat.


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* OhCrap: In the manga, this is her reaction when, after turning in a career survey form with "Manga artist" as her sole choice, she learns that the teacher will refer to those forms when holding parent-teacher meetings.

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* IntrovertedCatPerson: She's one of the shiest protagonists in a ''Kirara'' series. On the other hand, the lack of cats in her environment leads to withdrawal symptoms.

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* IntrovertedCatPerson: She's one of the shiest shyest protagonists in a ''Kirara'' series. On the other hand, the lack of cats in her environment leads to withdrawal symptoms.


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* OtakuSurrogate: Despite being a high school girl, her interests are more similar to that of adult male {{Otaku}}. This is lampshaded when it's pointed out that her desk (which has anime figurines all over it) looks like it belongs to a 25-year-old man.

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* LastNameBasis: The main four call her "Fuura-senpai."



* SenpaiKohai: She's a kohai to Ririka and Mayu.

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* SenpaiKohai: She's a kohai to Ririka and Mayu.Miharu.



* FantasyForbiddingFather: Downplayed. They're not completely happy about their daughter drawing manga, even if they don't overtly oppose it. Kaos realizes that it's fairly hard for

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* FantasyForbiddingFather: Downplayed. They're not completely happy about their daughter drawing manga, even if they don't overtly oppose it. Kaos realizes that it's fairly hard forfor Tsubasa to keep going without her parents' support.
* HonoraryUncle: A variation, given that in the anime, Ruki addresses them with the terms for "aunt" and "uncle."
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** {{Meganekko}}: Once she gets glasses, it only enhances her already high levels of cuteness.

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** * {{Meganekko}}: Once she gets glasses, it only enhances her already high levels of cuteness.
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** {{Meganekko}}: Once she gets glasses, it only enhances her already high levels of cuteness.
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As per TRS, Fragile Flower is now "Prone To Tears"; this one was just an unhelpful pothole.


* VerbalTic: "Ababababa," when she's in shock. This comes [[FragileFlower pretty often]].

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* VerbalTic: "Ababababa," when she's in shock. This comes [[FragileFlower pretty often]].often.

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As per TRS, Fragile Flower is now "Prone To Tears"


* FragileFlower: Extremely sensitive and cries easily. Out of the 60 frames of the fifteenth chapter, 11 have her crying.


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* ProneToTears: Extremely sensitive and cries easily. Out of the 60 frames of the fifteenth chapter, 11 have her crying.
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* LovesTheSoundOfScreaming: A less malicious example than most, but she clearly delights in hearing the sound of terrified screams, which is a major part of the reason for her ghost act. Kaos in particular is a favorite target.


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* OlderThanTheyLook: Without her makeup, she looks no older than the main teenage cast, causing her friends to poke fun at her for having a babyface.
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* ChildhoodFriend: She's known Tsubasa since they were young.



* ChildhoodFriend: She and Ruki have known each other for a long time.



* BrokenPedestal: She was fairly close to her roommate, but the other girl left the dorm without telling Fuura or even leaving any contact information.



* YouCalledMeXItMustBeSerious: While she usually calls Kaos by her pen name, Haruko switches to "Kaoruko-chan" when offering to let her come home if she wants.

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* YouCalledMeXItMustBeSerious: While she usually calls Kaos by her pen name, Haruko switches to "Kaoruko-chan" when offering to let her come home if she wants.wants.


!!The Katsukis

Tsubasa and her brother's parents.
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: Tsubasa's mother is generally polite and even somewhat affectionate to her daughter, but Tsubasa's terrified of her mother, likening her to a "demon king."
* FantasyForbiddingFather: Downplayed. They're not completely happy about their daughter drawing manga, even if they don't overtly oppose it. Kaos realizes that it's fairly hard for
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* LoserProtagonist: As her mother tells the other dormmates, Kaoruko never excels at anything. Drawing is the ''only'' thing she's somewhat ''at ease'' on, not that she is particularly good at it, either.
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* CreatorCareerSelfDeprecation: Hanzawa was a {{shoujo}} mangaka[[note]]Drew for ''Ripon''. This is why she's called a "genre traitor" by some ''Kirara'' followers, as she moved from Shoujo to {{Seinen}}[[/note]], and some of Koyume's traits came from Hanzawa's day working on shoujo. The most visible is their common inability in drawing men, and resorting to draw [[{{Bifauxnen}} very boyly-looking girl]] to pass as boys.
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* SternTeacher: She's pretty but strict teacher, and only opens up when yaoi is concerned.

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* SternTeacher: She's pretty but a strict teacher, and only opens up when yaoi is concerned.
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* UsefulNotes/JapaneseHonorifics: Quite unusually for a parent, she calls her daughter "Kaos-sensei," and also appends "-sensei" to what her daughter calls the others (for example, "Koyume-chan-sensei.")

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* ElegantClassicalMusician: Her parents want her to learn how to play the piano, and have her play for them once she gets home.



* TextileWorkIsFeminine: As part of her playing the part of a proper lady, she's seen sewing while staying at her family's home.



* AmazinglyEmbarassingParents: She manages to embarrass Kaoruko by handing out her manga at the sweets store.

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* AmazinglyEmbarassingParents: AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: She manages to embarrass Kaoruko by handing out her manga at the sweets store.

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* NiceMeanAndInBetween: The Mean one of the three major adults. She's not completely heartless, but doesn't hold back when criticizing Kaos' work.



* NiceMeanAndInBetween: The Nice one of the three major adults, being a warm and nurturing dorm mother.



* YuriFan: She has been interested in YuriGenre since high school age, and sometimes bickled with the YaoiFangirl Nijino about on pairings.

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* YuriFan: She has been interested in YuriGenre since high school age, and sometimes bickled bickered with the YaoiFangirl Nijino about on pairings.



* NiceMeanAndInBetween: The In-Between one of the three major adults. She's serious and professional, but isn't quite as brutally honest as Mayu.



* UsefulNotes/JapaneseHonorifics: Quite unusually for a parent, she calls her daughter "Kaos-sensei," and also appends "-sensei" to what her daughter calls the others (for example, "Koyume-chan-sensei.")



* StrongFamilyResemblance: She has Kaoruko's pink hair and also wears braids.

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* StrongFamilyResemblance: She has Kaoruko's pink hair and also wears braids. In the manga, Kaos' friends and editor even mistake Haruko for Kaos.
* YouCalledMeXItMustBeSerious: While she usually calls Kaos by her pen name, Haruko switches to "Kaoruko-chan" when offering to let her come home if she wants.

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* AuthorAppeal: InUniverse, she ends up having her girls wear clothing with cats and English letters, because she thinks those things are cool.

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* AuthorAppeal: InUniverse, she ends up having her girls wear clothing with cats and English letters, because she thinks those things are cool. Three of her four storyboards (which are loosely based on Koyume, Ruki and Tsubasa's series) have a male character chopping wood as a display of his manliness, a display that reminds Kaos of her father.


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* {{Determinator}}: She has elements of this, as while she gets discouraged and upset very easily, she never actually gives up. She's amassed several bags full of rejected manuscripts from repeatedly trying to get her work published. Koyume notes that while Kaos hasn't gotten published (unlike Ruki and Tsubasa), her persistence is quite impressive, which makes Koyume feel somewhat inadequate.


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* PoseOfSupplication: She often goes into one when apologizing for wasting her editor's time.


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* AlliterativeName: '''Ko'''yume '''Ko'''izuka.


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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: The boy on Koyume's color pages looks a lot like Tsubasa, something that Ruki and Kaos notice almost immediately. Tsubasa, however, wonders why the boy is so feminine.


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* HeroicBSOD: Spending several days at her parents' house drains her energy so much that she's stuck acting like an {{Ojou}} until Kaos forces her to snap out of it.

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* CatapultNightmare: She has one about missing her deadline in Episode 12.



* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Nearly nobody in the dorm calls her Kaoruko, preferring her PenName Kaos instead. A rare exception is at school, when Ruki calls Kaos "Kaoruko-chan" while around other students due to not wanting to use her pen name at school, while Nijino-sensei and some of Kaos's classmates call her "Moeta-san" out of politeness.

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* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Nearly nobody in the dorm calls her Kaoruko, preferring her PenName Kaos instead. A rare exception is at school, when Ruki calls Kaos "Kaoruko-chan" while around other students due to not wanting to use her pen name at school, while Nijino-sensei and some of Kaos's classmates call her "Moeta-san" out of politeness. Even Kaos' ''mother'' generally calls her by her pen name.



* BlindingBangs: Her usual characteristic, which helps her act as a StringyHairedGhostGirl. When her hair is actually pinned up so that it isn't in front of her eyes, she's somewhat normal, and the other characters have trouble recognizing her.



* SoProudOfYou: While she can give fairly harsh criticism, once Kaos does succeed in getting published, Mayu tells her how proud she is of her.



* AffectionateNickname: Koyume calls her "Ri-chan."



* YaoiFangirl: Is this since high school. She even does yaoi pairings out of Tsubasa's {{shonen}} manga.

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* YaoiFangirl: Is this since high school. She even does yaoi pairings out of Tsubasa's {{shonen}} manga.manga.

!!Haruko Moeta

Kaoruko's mother, who runs a sweets store.
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* AmazinglyEmbarassingParents: She manages to embarrass Kaoruko by handing out her manga at the sweets store.
* GoodParents: She's very kind and supportive of her daughter's endeavors.
* KimonoIsTraditional: She's usually seen in a kimono.
* LastEpisodeNewCharacter: She's mentioned a few times, but only appears in the last episode.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: She has Kaoruko's pink hair and also wears braids.
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* UsefulNotes/JapaneseSiblingTerminology: She calls her older brother "Onii-sama," since she's from a traditional and wealthy family.

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* JapaneseSiblingTerminology: She calls her older brother "Onii-sama," since she's from a traditional and wealthy family.

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* JapaneseSiblingTerminology: UsefulNotes/JapaneseSiblingTerminology: She calls her older brother "Onii-sama," since she's from a traditional and wealthy family.



* MsImagination: She has a very active imagination and enjoys acting out her characters in order to write their dialogue. Fall short of {{Chuunibyou}} by the fact that she's actually the most mature of the main quartet most of the time.

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* MsImagination: She has a very active imagination and enjoys acting out her characters in order to write their dialogue. Fall short of {{Chuunibyou}} by virtue of the fact that she's actually the most mature of the main quartet most of the time.


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* OhCrap: She's horrified when Kaoruko manages to find a long-lost manuscript she drew.

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* AffectionateNickname: Ruki calls her "Tsu-chan," but switches to calling her "Tsubasa-san" around her parents for the sake of good manners.



* BoyishShortHair: Her short hair makes him look like a boy more. [[spoiler:When she goes back home in the twenty-eighth chapter, animated in the tenth episode, she needs to wear hairpieces to make her hair longer in order to satisfy her FantasyForbiddingMother, as the latter would prefer her to stay as TheOjou.]]

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* BoyishShortHair: Her short hair makes him look like a boy more.boy. Ruki notes that it used to be longer, before Tsubasa cut it to more easily get into the mindset best suited to drawing manga. [[spoiler:When she goes back home in the twenty-eighth chapter, animated in the tenth episode, she needs to wear hairpieces to make her hair longer in order to satisfy her FantasyForbiddingMother, as the latter would prefer her to stay as TheOjou.]]


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* JapaneseSiblingTerminology: She calls her older brother "Onii-sama," since she's from a traditional and wealthy family.


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* ParentalTitleCharacterization: Played with. She calls her parents "Otou-sama" and "Okaa-sama," ("Father" and "Mother"), but this is less indicative of the person she is and more of the person she has to be at home.

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* RapunzelHair: While not initially obvious because of how she ties it up, her hair is very long, and goes midway down her back. She keeps it that way because it's the only proof that

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* RapunzelHair: While not initially obvious because of how she ties it up, her hair is very long, and goes midway down her back. She keeps it that way because it's the only proof that she's gotten older.



* AuthorAppeal: InUniverse, she often draws characters, particularly boys, in a way that strongly resembles Tsubasa.



* SenpaiKohai: She's senpai to the other girls, since she's a year ahead of them and a more experienced manga artist. As such, all of them call her "[[FirstNameBasis Fuura]]-senpai."

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* SenpaiKohai: She's senpai to the other girls, since she's a year ahead of them and a more experienced manga artist. As such, all of them call her "[[FirstNameBasis Fuura]]-senpai."Fuura-senpai."



* CantHoldHerLiquor: She gets drunk the most easily out of all of her friends, and is visibly intoxicated while they're still at the bar.




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* SenpaiKohai: She's a kohai to Ririka and Mayu.
* SugarAndIcePersonality: She's fairly strict with Kaos, but nevertheless cares for her and tries to ensure that she doesn't give up.
* WasTooHardOnHer: She spends most of Episode 8 angsting about being too harsh in her rejections of Kaos' storyboards, partly out of a justified concern about how easily Kaos gets depressed, and partly because she's just as negative as Kaos.
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* IntrovertedCatPerson: She's one of the shiest protagonists in a ''Kirara'' series. On the other hand, the lack of cats in her environment leads to withdrawal symptoms.

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An shy OlderThanTheyLook high school girl whose work in a [[ProductDisplacement product-displaced]] ''Manga Time Kirara'' get panned by readers.

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An A shy OlderThanTheyLook high school girl whose work in a [[ProductDisplacement product-displaced]] ''Manga Time Kirara'' get panned by readers.



* FragileFlower: Extremely sensitive and cries easily. Out of the 60 frames of the fifteenth chapter, 11 has her crying.

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* FragileFlower: Extremely sensitive and cries easily. Out of the 60 frames of the fifteenth chapter, 11 has have her crying.



* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Nearly nobody in the dorm calls her Kaoruko, preferring her PenName Kaos instead. A rare exception is at school, when Ruki calls Kaos "Kaoruko-chan" while around other students due to not wanting to use her pen name at school.

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* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Nearly nobody in the dorm calls her Kaoruko, preferring her PenName Kaos instead. A rare exception is at school, when Ruki calls Kaos "Kaoruko-chan" while around other students due to not wanting to use her pen name at school.school, while Nijino-sensei and some of Kaos's classmates call her "Moeta-san" out of politeness.



* RapunzelHair: While not initially obvious because of how she ties it up, her hair is very long, and goes midway down her back. She keeps it that way because it's the only proof that



* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Both Kaoruko and Koyume got charmed by her in the first episode by her boyish charms to the point of LesYay.

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* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Both Kaoruko and Koyume got charmed by her in the first episode by her boyish charms to the point of LesYay. Tsubasa has also gotten confessions from girls in the past.



* NiceGirl: While all of the main characters are fairly pleasant, Tsubasa's kind and helpful nature often shines through, and the others often make note of it. This is especially evident when she proves fairly forgiving after Kaos makes mistakes on a few of her pages.



* SenpaiKohai: She's senpai to the other girls, since she's a year ahead of them and a more experienced manga artist. As such, all of them call her "[[FirstNameBasis Fuura]]-senpai."



* ClosetGeek: Her sternness stems from the fact that she wants to hide her manga hobbies. The sixth episode shoes this as a major dilemma for her.

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* ClosetGeek: Her sternness stems from the fact that she wants to hide her manga hobbies. The sixth episode shoes shows this as a major dilemma for her.


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* LastNameBasis: While most people call the girls by their first names or pen names, she uses their last names and "-san" out of politeness (as well as initially not knowing of their being manga artists), and they call her "Nijino-sensei."
* PoseOfSupplication: She goes into this after realizing Tsubasa's identity, to the point of slamming her head on the roof of the school.

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* AuthorAppeal: InUniverse, she ends up having her girls wear clothing with cats and English letters, because she thinks those things are cool.



* FriendlessBackground: Her editor suspects her of this because of her lack of storytelling skills, where she privately agrees.

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* FriendlessBackground: Her editor suspects her of this because of her lack of storytelling skills, where she didn't many have many friends when she was growing up, since she struggles to write realistic high school girls. Kaos privately agrees.



* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Nearly nobody in the dorm calls her Kaoruko, preferring her PenName Kaos instead.

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* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Nearly nobody in the dorm calls her Kaoruko, preferring her PenName Kaos instead. A rare exception is at school, when Ruki calls Kaos "Kaoruko-chan" while around other students due to not wanting to use her pen name at school.


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* BrutalHonesty: While she's relatively polite about it, she doesn't hesitate to tell Kaos when one of her ideas isn't any good.

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