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* SupportingProtagonist: While the Master is the only character to appear in every episode, he is never the main focus of any episode's story, and throughout the series we learn little about his personal life. In a typical episode his role is to help to the focus character(s) of that episode solve their problems by offering them some sage advice.

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* SupportingProtagonist: While the Master is the only character to appear in every episode, he is never the main focus of any episode's story, and throughout the series we learn very little about his personal life. In a typical episode his role is to help to the focus character(s) of that episode solve their problems by offering them some sage advice.
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* SupportingProtagonist: While the Master is the only character to appear in every episode, he is never the main focus of any episode's story, and throughout the series we learn little about his personal life. In a typical episode his role is to help to the focus character(s) of that episode solve their problems by offering them some sage advice.
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* EverybodyHasStandards: Male patrons physically duking it out in his restaurant? Poor their cold drinks over their heads to cool them down; a male patron abusing his girlfriend? The Master will crack a bottle of beer over the man's head.

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* EverybodyHasStandards: Male patrons physically duking it out in his restaurant? Poor Pour their cold drinks over their heads to cool them down; a male patron abusing his girlfriend? The Master will crack a bottle of beer over the man's head.
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* CharacterDevelopment: When he first started out, he was a real prick but he quickly grew as a character first from guilt trip over Ryu getting stabbed and then seeing his illegitimate son for the first time.
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%%* KansaiRegionalDialect: An incredibly heavy one

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%%* KansaiRegionalDialect: An incredibly heavy one
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A Date With Rosie Palms is no longer a trope


* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: {{Invoked}}; after she starts dating Kimitoshi, she replies to Chu and Komichi that what attracted her to him the most is not just "his heart", but also "[[ADateWithRosiePalms his hands]]".

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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: {{Invoked}}; after she starts dating Kimitoshi, she replies to Chu and Komichi that what attracted her to him the most is not just "his heart", but also "[[ADateWithRosiePalms his hands]]"."his hands".

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* ChristmasCake: They constantly bemoan this, even when an ArrangedMarriage is in the works for one of them.


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* OldMaid: They constantly bemoan this, even when an ArrangedMarriage is in the works for one of them.
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* NiceHat: He always wears a hat, most often a green baseball cap. It also hides his bald head.

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* NiceHat: NeverBareheaded: He always wears a hat, most often a green baseball cap. It also hides his bald head.
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* AntiVillain: As a {{Yakuza}}, he's technically a criminal, but he's a JerkWithAHeartOfGold. He's loyal to his friends and allies, nor does he tolerate any unnecessary trouble.

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* AntiVillain: As a {{Yakuza}}, he's technically a criminal, but he's he has a JerkWithAHeartOfGold.HiddenHeartOfGold. He's loyal to his friends and allies, nor does he tolerate any unnecessary trouble.
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Marilyn's current boyfriend, a practicing chiropracter

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Marilyn's current boyfriend, a practicing chiropracterchiropractor.



%%* CowboyCop

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%%* CowboyCop* CowboyCop: She prefers to act quickly to catch the possible culprits without caring for procedures.
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* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: After Kanemoto tells a ghost story in the last episode of ''Tokyo Stories'' Season 1, Ryu flies into hysterics when he hallucinates aliens and ghosts, unable to ever eat watermelon ever again.

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* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: After Kanemoto tells a ghost story in the last episode of ''Tokyo Stories'' Season 1, Ryu flies into hysterics when he hallucinates aliens and ghosts, unable to ever eat watermelon ever again.



%%* VitriolicBestBuds: With Ryu

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%%* VitriolicBestBuds: With Ryu* UnrequitedLove: Has a crush on Ryu but is constantly rejected by him. In ''Tokyo Stories'', it is revealed that Kosuzu used to harbor romantic feelings for [[spoiler:Lee Punfa's father]] in the former's youth.



* NiceHat: He always wears a hat, most often a green baseball cap.

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* NiceHat: He always wears a hat, most often a green baseball cap. It also hides his bald head.

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* IntergenerationalFriendship: She forms one with an older woman, Yachiyo, who in her youth was a stripper like her.

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* IntergenerationalFriendship: She forms one with an older woman, woman named Yachiyo, who in her youth was a stripper like her.



* DearJohnLetter: He's on the receiving end of this when [[spoiler: his old teacher, who he has a fling with, has left the country, if not to [[NeverSayDie "someplace farther"]] than New York.]]

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* DearJohnLetter: He's on the receiving end of this when [[spoiler: his old teacher, who whom he has a fling with, has left the country, if not to [[NeverSayDie "someplace farther"]] than New York.]]



[[folder:Chu]]

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[[folder:Chu]][[folder:Tadashi/Mr. Chu]]

A jovial elderly man who provides commentary on the other patrons and happenings in ''Meshi-ya''.



An amateur photographer

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An amateur photographerphotographer.



* BreakingOfTheFellowship: This almost happens to them in their episode when while one is off taking care of her mother, the other two get into a bar fight.

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* BreakingOfTheFellowship: BreakingTheFellowship: This almost happens to them in their episode when while one is off taking care of her mother, the other two get into a bar fight.



* InSeriesNickname: The other regulars call them "The Ochazuke Sisters".

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* InSeriesNickname: The other regulars call Master refers to them as "The Ochazuke Sisters".



* HeroicBSOD: [[spoiler:When his mother suffers from dementia, Oki returns home to visit her, except she doesn't recognize him. He tearfully apologizes, lamenting his ill-strickened mother only remembers the days when he was a boy who loved to eat potato salad. Oki urges his understudy Tanaka to not neglect his own injured mother in the hospital as Oki did with his]].

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* HeroicBSOD: [[spoiler:When his mother suffers from dementia, Oki returns home to visit her, except she doesn't recognize him. He tearfully apologizes, lamenting the fact that his ill-strickened mother only remembers the days when he was a boy who loved to eat potato salad. Oki urges his understudy student Tanaka to not neglect his own injured mother in the hospital as Oki did with his]].

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