History Fanfic / Sisterhood

** She does it again while sober later on in an attempt to convince Hisao to stay with her in his dorm room instead of going out for a morning run while it's raining.

* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: A subtle variation. Lilly admits to Hanako that her friendship with Hisao could have lead to romantic feelings given the time and under the right circumstances, but since she cannot see, falling in love is a gradual process to her. (no love at first sight for her) When she realized Hisao was more drawn to Hanako, Lilly preemptively friendzoned Hisao in order to give Hanako a chance. Lilly also mentions to Hisao that this is probably what Hanako would do if she thought the shoe was on the other foot. (even if she was mistaken)

** Kenji appears to have watched DeathNote at some point.

** Lilly's mother mentioning how she always wanted to wake someone up using her mother's "ladle and frying pan" method is a reference to [[AzumangaDaioh Osaka]] who wanted to do the same.

* {{Samurai}}: Akira compares her father to one, and she's not far off the mark.

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: Instead of events as seen through a character's viewpoint, chapter 57 is a collection of emails and internet messages between Hanako and just about everyone in the cast.

** Averted in Lily's case, as she chose to stay in Japan.

* {{Samurai}}: Akira compares her father to one, and she's not that far off the mark.

** After the expansion, [[spoiler: Hanako bouncing back from failing her exams to being able to graduate the next year.]]

* CultureClash: Ultimately, this is the root cause for much of the conflict within the Satou family.

* LameExcuse: Hanako got Lilly to give her anticonception pills under the excuse of menstruation pains. She admits the excuse was blatantly transparent and is thankful to Lilly for being a good sport and playing along without asking any awkward questions.

* BrutalHonesty: Dialled UpToEleven whenever Akira interacts with her father.

** In her diary, Hanako also noted that she was on birth control pills. [[spoiler: During their first sex session in Scotland, Hisao didn't have a condom on...]]

* NoodleIncident: Near the end of the story, Hisao asks Lilly, Shizune and Misha to give his parents a tour of the school and keep them busy while he searches for Hanako. Lilly and Shizune take the opportunity to pry several embarrassing childhood stories out of Hisao's mom and Misha taunts Hisao about it over the phone later. Since that part is told from Hanako's perspective, she doesn't hear what exactly Misha found out.

** Who could forget the final words of the story? It's the very sentence most associated with Hanako after the release of the full game.

* SittingOnTheRoof: Hanako goes here near the end of the story to avoid everyone else.

* TraumaCongaLine: Hanako, Hisao and Lilly each go through one of these in the second half of the story.

* TheUnfavorite: [[spoiler: Akira has felt she was this in the eyes of her parents for a very long time and eventually has to admit to herself that her resistence towards mending the rifts in the family partially stems from the fear that doing so will just mean she'll go back to that role.]]

* HeroicBSOD: [[spoiler:When Hisao gets into an accident in front of Hanako, she so paralyzed by fear she can't even call for help. Her guilt about this sends her into a severe relapse and her actions drag Hisao and Lilly into a heroic BSOD of their own.]]

* HotLibrarian: Played with. [[spoiler: While Hanako is not a conventional beauty, you don't get hotter than ''having sex in a school library with a librarian''. ]]

* EarnYourHappyEnding: Hanako's, Hisao's and Lilly's 'little crippled family' gets violently shattered by events in the second half of the story. But they eventually come out of it much closer than before and it's completely due to each of them making a sincere effort to fix the situation.

* HalfBreedDiscrimination: Akira reveals that she was the only child with of mixed race at her school and got picked on as a result. [[spoiler: Fear of this persisting was the deciding factor in a LOT of decisions Lilly's parents made.]]

[[spoiler: HappilyAdopted: Hanako, eventually, though it takes her some time to take the step.]]

[[spoiler: * MalignedMixedMarriage: Lilly's parents. The only reason Hiroyuki's parents allowed the marriage at all is because their son threatened to elope otherwise. Even afterwards, they did what they could to get Karla to leave on her own.]]