History Manga / ADistantNeighborhood

* HowDadMetMom: Hiroshi's grandmother tells him this story when he asks her about a memorial tablet on the family altar, dedicated to a man he doesn't know. The man in question is Shinichi Kotani, his mother's first husband, who met Hiroshi's father in the army and saved his life. Shinichi was killed in action and Yoshio made it his sworn duty to bring his remains back home to his family. He and Shinichi's widow became very close friends, eventually falling in love.

* CallingTheOldManOut: [[spoiler: Hiroshi gives in to thirty years of pent up resentment and sadness by giving his father quite the verbal dressing down when he intercepts him at the station, detailing exactly how things are going to be when he's gone.]]

* StrongFamilyResemblance: Hiroshi's daughter Akiko looks quite a bit like his younger sister Kyoko, even down to the haircut.

* TheAlcoholic: In his forties, Hiroshi is frequently derided by his family for being a drunk, and being hungover is actually what causes him to board the wrong train.

* TheAlcoholic: In his forties, Hiroshi is frequently derided by his family as being a drunk, and being hungover is actually what causes him to board the wrong train.

* MissedHimByThatMuch: [[spoiler: Hiroshi gets his train to Tokyo but bumps into an old man. He absent-mindedly apologizes before it hits him that the old man looks quite a bit like his father. The train door closes before he can do anything about it, however.]]

* LikesOlderWomen: Good grief, Daisuke. He takes seemingly no notice of girls his own age, but is quick to comment on beautiful older women like Kazue or Tamiko, and he even takes his mother's employee out on a "date". He seems to think he and Hiroshi have this in common, which [[TrappedInThePast technically isn't inaccurate]].

* TimeTravelRomance: Meshed together with AgeDownRomance. Hiroshi travels back to his teenage years and accidentally attracts the interest of Tomoko Nagase, a beautiful and studious girl who in his original timeline had never even spoken to him. Tomoko soon falls for him, and while Hiroshi doesn't properly reciprocate, he doesn't dissuade her from pursuing him, either. That said, he is also quite attracted to Mrs Shimada's pretty employee, who of course thinks he's just a kid and pays him no mind.

** Tomoko eventually married a dimplomat, and now lives abroad.

* StrongFamilyResemblance: Hiroshi's daughter Ayako looks quite a bit like his younger sister Kyoko, even down to the haircut.

** Masao was tragically killed in a motorcycle accident during his first year of college.

* PrecociousCrush: Little Kyoko has an instant one on Daisuke, who is eight years older than she is.

** Hiroshi's little sister Kyoko went to business school before joining a insurance firm in Tottori, where she eventually met her future husband. She's now a 45 year old housewife with two children.

* WhenYouComingHomeDad: Present-day Hiroshi uses work to distance himself from his family in spite of himself. His wife Yuko points this out to him and he brushes it off. [[HeelRealization He grows out of it.]]

* TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody: The more time Hiroshi spends in 1963, the more he acts and thinks like a teenage boy. He realizes this and worries that he might forget his adult life altogether.

* WhenAreYouComingHomeDad: Present-day Hiroshi uses work to distance himself from his family in spite of himself. His wife Yuko points this out to him and he brushes it off. [[HeelRealization He grows out of it.]]

* WarIsHell: Hiroshi's father Yoshio is a UsefulNotes/WorldWarII vet and went through hell during Japan's Burma campaign, including a bout of malaria that would have killed him had it not been for Shinichi.

* StrongFamilyResemblance: Hiroshi's daughter Akiko looks quite a bit like his younger sister Kyoko, even down to the haircut.

* SoreLoser: [[JerkJock Toru Onishi]] doesn't take kindly to Hiroshi beating him at endurance in P.E and later taunts him when he catches wind that Hiroshi is considering getting into sports.

* SoreLoser: [[JerkJock Toru Onishi]] doesn't take kindly to Hiroshi overtaking him in a track and later taunts him when he catches wind that Hiroshi is considering getting into sports.