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* ChickMagnet: Gender-inverted during the Okinawa trip, she has been confessed to eight times.
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* DudeMagnet: During the Okinawa trip, she has been confessed to eight times.
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* StringyHairedGhostGirl: Not that she's a ghost, but her resemblance to [[TheRing Sadako]] contributes a lot to her difficulties in getting to know others, since she creeps them out.
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* StringyHairedGhostGirl: Not that she's a ghost, but her resemblance to [[TheRing [[Literature/TheRing Sadako]] contributes a lot to her difficulties in getting to know others, since she creeps them out.
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* ShoutOut: The red track pants and grey sweater is the usual outfit of fellow [[StringyHairedGhostGirl frightening looking]] loner who [[SheCleansUpNicely cleans up nicely]], [[https://rei.animecharactersdatabase.com/images/Yamanade/Sunako.gif Sunako Nakahara]] from ''Manga/TheWallflower''. The two couldn't be [[PolarOppositeTwins more different however]]: Sunako's given up on [[{{Hikikomori}} human interaction]] and AllergicToLove yet [[BelligerentSexualTension constantly bickering]] with Kyohei, while Sawako just [[IJustWantToHaveFriends wants to make friends]] and [[ObliviousToLove oblivious]] to [[ICantBelieveAGuyLikeYouWouldNoticeMe Kazehaya's feelings for her]] despite her blossoming crush on him.
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* ShoutOut: The red track pants and grey sweater is the usual outfit of fellow [[StringyHairedGhostGirl frightening looking]] loner who [[SheCleansUpNicely cleans up nicely]], [[https://rei.animecharactersdatabase.com/images/Yamanade/Sunako.gif Sunako Nakahara]] from ''Manga/TheWallflower''. The two couldn't be [[PolarOppositeTwins more different however]]: Sunako's [[TheFirstCutIsTheDeepest given up up]] on [[{{Hikikomori}} human interaction]] and AllergicToLove yet [[BelligerentSexualTension constantly bickering]] with Kyohei, [[EveryoneCanSeeIt Kyohei]]; while Sawako just [[IJustWantToHaveFriends wants to make friends]] and [[ObliviousToLove oblivious]] to [[ICantBelieveAGuyLikeYouWouldNoticeMe Kazehaya's feelings for her]] despite [[TwiceShy her own blossoming crush on him.him]].
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* ShoutOut: The red track pants and grey sweater is the usual outfit of fellow [[StringyHairedGhostGirl frightening looking]] loner who [[SheCleansUpNicely cleans up nicely]], [[https://rei.animecharactersdatabase.com/images/Yamanade/Sunako.gif Sunako Nakahara]] from ''Manga/TheWallflower''. The two couldn't be [[PolarOppositeTwins more different however]]: Sunako's given up on [[{{Hikikomori}} human interaction]] and AllergicToLove yet [[BelligerentSexualTension constantly bickering]] with Kyohei, while Sawako just [[IJustWantToHaveFriends wants to make friends]] and [[ObliviousToLove oblivious]] to [[ICantBelieveAGuyLikeYouWouldNoticeMe Kazehaya's feelings for her]] despite her blossoming crush on him.
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Took A Level In Jerkass is when a formerly nice becomes progressively meaner in the story.
* AdaptationalJerkass: Perhaps it was the voice-work or a desire to give his "rivalry" with Kazehaya more weight, but the anime tended to portray him as more arrogant and insensitive at times compared to how he was written in the manga.
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* TookALevelInJerkass: Perhaps it was the voice-work or a desire to give his "rivalry" with Kazehaya more weight, but the anime tended to portray him as more arrogant and insensitive at times compared to how he was written in the manga.
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[[caption-width-right:300:Not as nice as she looks... mostly.]]
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* CharacterDevelopment: A little in Season 1 where she drops the cutesy nice act, opts for a more genuine personality and confesses to Kazehaya thanks to being inspired by Sawako. Much more in Season 2 due to her somewhat more mature approach to Kazehaya and Sawako's feelings, and taken even further in the manga as everyone prepares for university entrance exams and she's one of the many who's determined to get to the top, becoming a close friend and study partner to Sawako in the process.
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* CharacterDevelopment: A little in Season 1 where she drops the cutesy nice act, opts for a more genuine personality and confesses to Kazehaya thanks to being inspired by Sawako. Much more in Season 2 due to her somewhat more mature approach to Kazehaya and Sawako's feelings, and taken even further in the manga as everyone prepares for university entrance exams and she's one of the many who's determined to get to the top, becoming a close friend and study partner to Sawako in the process. By the end of the series, [[spoiler: she even confesses that the whole experience of losing Kazehaya to Sawako was worth it because she gained Sawako as a dear, irreplaceable friend in her life.]]
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* SelfDeprecation: When she comes back to the manga after a long absence, she describes herself as having a "bad personality" several times, smiling rather sadly as she does.
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* SelfDeprecation: When she comes back to the manga after a long absence, she describes herself as having a "bad personality" several times, smiling rather sadly as she does. [[YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre Sawako vehemently disagrees with her on this.]]
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** Becomes more of this to Sawako in the manga after her true colours are revealed, with the vitriol being only on her part naturally. She still treats Sawako as a rival but the two become friendlier as time passes, to the point that she's noticeably shocked and even saddened when she finds out that she and Sawako will not go to the same universities.
** She and Ayane also seem to share this kind of relationship in later chapters when they go to the same cram school along with Sawako, though the vitriol is more even-handed on both parts.
** She and Ayane also seem to share this kind of relationship in later chapters when they go to the same cram school along with Sawako, though the vitriol is more even-handed on both parts.
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universities. [[spoiler: By the end of the manga, the vitriol has faded to the point where Kurumi openly admits to herself that she now cares more for her former rival-in-love than she does for the former object of said love.]]
** She and Ayane also seem to share this kind of relationship in later chapters when they go to the same cram school along with Sawako, though the vitriol is more even-handed on both parts.
** She and Ayane also seem to share this kind of relationship in later chapters when they go to the same cram school along with Sawako, though the vitriol is more even-handed on both parts.
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* {{Yandere}}: Played with - ManipulativeBitch though she may be, but she ''dosn't'' go AxCrazy if things go south...
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* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: A big part of her character in the latter parts of the manga - even after Sawako and her friends have forgiven her, Kurumi struggles with forgiving herself. Sawako, Ayane and Chizuru, on more than one occasion, make sure to let her know that what's past is past, and that she's a good person now.
* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: A big part of her character in the latter parts of the manga - even after Sawako and her friends have forgiven her, Kurumi struggles with forgiving herself. Sawako, Ayane and Chizuru, on more than one occasion, make sure to let her know that what's past is past, and that she's a good person now.
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* HeroesLoveDogs: She mentions that her favourite animal is the dog.
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* IronicName: Played with. Sawako translates to "pleasant". It ''is'' accurate, but most others think it's an ironic name because she intimidates them.
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* ShipperOnDeck: Even [[ManChild Pin]] can see that Sawako and Shota have feelings for each other. In episode 17, [[spoiler: he even almost manages to trick the two of them into having their first kiss. Now if only he'd told Sawako to keep her eyes closed for ten seconds instead of five...]]
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** This gets her into trouble further down the line, as both her and Kazehaya misinterpret their liking of each other as two entirely different types of "like".
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* SpannerInTheWorks: [[spoiler:He unwittingly throws a wrench in the progress of Sawako and Kazehaya's budding relationship, causing them to misunderstand each other's motives. The virtue in this crass mistake is that he did not actually intend to do any harm, and that by giving them that unintentional shakedown, made them eventually realize that they're on the same page]].
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* TricksterMentor: Has sprinklings of this; that is, intentionally tricking or being outright mean to Sawako, but purely for the sake of helping her and Kazehaya out.
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* TricksterMentor: Has sprinklings of this; that is, intentionally tricking or being outright mean to Sawako, but purely for the sake of helping her and Kazehaya out. She also teases Kazehaya with the fact that as a girl, she can be more physical and affectionate towards Sawako than him, who has to keep his distance at first.
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* VitriolicBestBuds: With Kurumi in cram school later on in the manga. The two trade quips but are otherwise quite comfortable with each other, which [[NotSoDifferent actually makes a lot of sense.]]
* YoungerThanSheLooks: As the author herself pointed, that Yano looks about ten years older than she is. Also, at the first day in the high school, Chizuru referred to her as [[SempaiKohai 'sempai']].
* YoungerThanSheLooks: As the author herself pointed, that Yano looks about ten years older than she is. Also, at the first day in the high school, Chizuru referred to her as [[SempaiKohai 'sempai']].
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** With Kurumi in cram school later on in the manga. The two trade quips but are otherwise quite comfortable with each other, which [[NotSoDifferent actually makes a lot of sense.]]
** With Pin, even though they get on each other's nerves in almost all of their interactions. Pin tends to provide uncharacteristically good advice and seems to be nurturing towards her more than to the rest of his students.
* YoungerThanSheLooks: As the author herselfpointed, that pointed out, Yano looks about ten years older than she is. Also, at the first day in the high school, Chizuru referred to her as [[SempaiKohai 'sempai']].
** With Kurumi in cram school later on in the manga. The two trade quips but are otherwise quite comfortable with each other, which [[NotSoDifferent actually makes a lot of sense.]]
** With Pin, even though they get on each other's nerves in almost all of their interactions. Pin tends to provide uncharacteristically good advice and seems to be nurturing towards her more than to the rest of his students.
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* HiddenDepths: She is really smart academically and has the makings of an excellent teacher. She singlehandedly brought up the average scores for her class with her tutoring.
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* EntertaininglyWrong: The main ethos of her characterization. Sawako tends to arrive to the wrong conclusions in almost every interaction she is involved in, because she lacks the experience to know better. As such, she operates at a degree of awareness below her friends and fellow classmates, arriving to logical conclusions with the scarce information she was able to pick up, if any at all. She is about five steps behind whatever is being discussed by default.
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* EntertaininglyWrong: When he argues that [[spoiler:Kazehaya might have been in love with another girl]], Kazehaya and Sawako had drifted apart, making it not as obvious for him to figure out until Kazehaya outright points it out. He made a totally valid, but wrong assumption with what he had gathered.
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* {{Yandere}}: Played with - {{Manipulative|Bitch}} she may be, but she ''doen't'' go AxCrazy if things go south...
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* TookALevelInJerkass: Perhaps it was the voicework or a desire to give his "rivalry" with Kazehaya more weight, but the anime tended to portray him as more arrogant and insensitive at times compared to how he was written in the manga.
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* SpannerInTheWorks: For ''everyone'' that comes across him. He's just that stupid. The only virtue that one can rescue from him is that he's not malicious.
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* SpannerInTheWorks: For ''everyone'' that comes across him. He's him; he's just that stupid. The only virtue that one can rescue from him is that he's not malicious.
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* EyesAlwaysShut: Her eyes are usually never opened. She only opens them in the manga when she's scaring students in th4e class's haunted house.
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* BumblingDad: Kitao is a bit out of it and quick to jump to conclusions such as when he first meets Chizu and Ayane.
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* OverprotectiveDad: Very concerned for Sawako's wellbeing and her social life, especially if dating is involved. [[spoiler: He's the one who gives Kazehaya quite a grilling when they first meet, to say the least.]]
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* OverprotectiveDad: Very concerned for Sawako's wellbeing well-being and her social life, especially if dating is involved. [[spoiler: He's the one who gives Kazehaya quite a grilling when they first meet, to say the least.]]
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* ThickerThanWater: Invoked. Though they're not related, he adores Chizu as the little sister that he never had. He even comes back to town specifically to meet with her because they weren't able to meet when he brought his fianceé over the first time. It's precisely because of this that Chizu realizes that he'll never hold ''those'' kind of affections towards her.
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* ThickerThanWater: Invoked. Though they're not related, he adores Chizu as the little sister that he never had. He even comes back to town specifically to meet with her because they weren't able to meet when he brought his fianceé fiancee over the first time. It's precisely because of this that Chizu realizes that he'll never hold ''those'' kind of affections towards her.
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* ThickerThanWater: Invoked. Though they're not related, he adores Chizu as the little sister that he never had. He even comes back to town specifically to meet with her because they weren't able to meet when he brought his fianceé over the first time. It's precisely because of this that Chizu realizes that he'll never hold ''those'' kind of affections towards her.
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* SpannerInTheWorks: For ''everyone'' that comes across him. He's just that stupid. The only virtue that one can rescue from him is that he's not malicious.
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* InsistentTerminology: They repeatedly tell Sawako that they want her to call them by their nicknames, Ekko and Tomo, instead of the more formal way she ''always'' uses. Given how long it took her to call Ayane and Chizu more familiarly, it doesn't come as a surprise for them, so they don't mind reminding her.
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* ButNotTooForeign: Played with. Because of his name and his eccentricities, Sawako initially thinks that he's at least part-American. He's too unabashed and too forward from the get-go, much unlike how a Japanese boy would behave.
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* NiceGirl: Once you get past the rumors and her brashness, she's a cutie pie.
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* HiddenDepths: She doesn't quite look the part, but she's TheHeart of the group. It's not an understatement to say just how much she loves Sawako and Ayane.
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* HiddenDepths: She doesn't quite look the part, but she's TheHeart of the group. It's not an understatement to say just how much she loves Sawako and Ayane.
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* BerserkButton: She will not abide for Sawako even remotely suggesting that she and Ayane became her friends out of pity, and that by belittling herself, she's belittling them too.
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* BerserkButton: She will not abide for Sawako even remotely suggesting that she and Ayane became her friends out of pity, and tells her that by belittling herself, she's belittling them too.
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** A very heartwarming conversation he has with Sawako at the Christmas party reveals that he pays much more attention to his pupils (and, particularly, our main six characters) than anyone realises.
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* WorthyOpponent: She ends up considering Sawako this, and she's outright offended at how Sawako keeps bungling her confessions to Kazehaya when she herself was rejected; it's fair, knowing that at that very moment Kurumi sees Sawako as her equal in the same goal.
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* DidntSeeThatComing: When he interlopes between Kazehaya and Sawako, he was not expecting them to be ''that'' much in love with each other as they are.
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* HeroWorshipper: Towards Kazehaya. He has to tell her repeatedly that he's not in the pedestal that she puts him on, trying to hint that he's there for her taking; thing is, [[LiteralMinded she's not a girl whose mind works with hints]].
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* PerpetualFrowner: She looks ''very'' intimidating, and her classmates have commented that even whenever she is happy and making an effort not to shed TenderTears, she looks like she's about to blow off her lid. Otherwise, she's an angel.
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* BerserkButton: She will not abide for Sawako even remotely suggesting that she and Ayane became her friends out of pity, and that by belittling herself, she's belittling them too.
