History Manga / AsobiAsobase

* CulturalCrossReference: A sizeable amount of the series' {{Shout Out}}s are to non-Japanese works, such as ''Franchise/HarryPotter'', ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'', and ''Series/SesameStreet''. Kasumi turns out to be a fan of ''Franchise/StarTrek'', which is notable since despite the franchise's popularity, it never quite caught on in Japan.

* CulturalCrossReference: A sizeable amount of the series' {{Shout Out}}s are to non-Japanese works, such as ''Franchise/HarryPotter'', ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'', and ''Series/SesameStreet''. Kasumi turns out to be a fan of ''Franchise/StarTrek'', which is notable since despite the franchise's popularity it never quite caught on in Japan.

** The "Senpai" in one of Kasumi's yaoi reading materials in episode 8 whips out a roll of super sticky tapes to bind his romantic partner. He then licks said tape and gets his tongue stuck on the roll.

* PyrrhicVictory: The Shogi Club technically wins the shoe tossing contest against the Pastimers' Club, but the president injures her so badly that she ends up having to be homeschooled. As a result, the club ends up meeting at her house, thereby giving the classroom back to the Pastimers.

* RunningGag: Hanako, Kasumi and Olivia's unusual fascination with kendama, which is usually a younger children's toy.

* TheNoseless: Played for laughs. While the manga and anime's standard character designs have noses, these are usually gone during comedic scenes. The main trio are especially liable to have this happen to them, most notably Hanako, thus leading to them having completely smooth faces when viewed from the side.

* CallBack: Remember that "Gobdwarfs" erotic scenario that Maeda brought up when Hanako asked him for BL materials that Kasumi could use? Chapter 55 of the manga has Kasumi buy a game of exactly that.

* RandomEventsPlot: Due to its nature as a gag series, Asobi Asobase has very little in the way of a "plot". Essentially each "chapter" of the manga is a random situation in which the girls explore or engage in some sort of wacky antics that have little to do with the one immediately before or after. The anime condenses these "chapters" into "Contents", adapted in an even looser order compared to the manga, and each episode consists of three of these.

* DirtyOldMan: Hanako's grandfather is this based on everything that Maeda and Hanako say about him, from his large collection of sex dolls to the Olivia android that he provided the vocabulary for talking about nothing but sex.
* DoesNotLikeMen: Both Chisato and Kasumi are afraid of men, which in the former's case led to her becoming a ChristmasCake. When Kasumi and Chisato realize how alike they are in that regard, Kasumi brags that unlike Chisato, she's perfectly fine with the prospect of being a spinster.

While the series contains an aesthetic of "cute girls doing cute things", it showcases surreal humor often featuring Kasumi, Olivia, and Hanako being jerks to each other and everyone they encounter, their classmates and teachers being just as neurotic, and lots and lots of butt jokes. The series received an anime adaptation by Lerche, which aired from July 8 to September 23, 2018. An OVA was released on December 26, 2018. The series is currently available for streaming on Website/{{Crunchyroll}}.

While the series contains an aesthetic of "cute girls doing cute things", it showcases surreal humor often featuring Kasumi, Olivia, and Hanako being jerks to each other and everyone they encounter, their classmates and teachers being just as neurotic, and lots and lots of butt jokes. The series received an anime adaptation by Lerche which began airing on July 8, 2018 and is currently available for streaming on Website/{{Crunchyroll}}.

* MundaneMadeAwesome: This is practically ''Mundane Made Awesome: The Manga/Anime''. Everything is dialed UpToEleven, no matter how normal they really should be. Typical conversations frequently spiral out of control into utter gibberish, and games are overly dramatic compared to what they really ought to be, courtesy of mainly Hanako, with lots of screaming and yelling.

* AbuseMistake: In an innocent example, Olivia and Kasumi practice using makeup on Hanako. Since none of them has much experience, they mess up, and Takayanagi-sensei walks in to the girls standing over Hanako, who has what appears to be a black eye (eye shadow) and a bruised cheek (rouge).

* AbuseMistake: In an innocent example, Olivia and Kasumi practice using make-up on Hanako. Since none of them has much experience, they mess up, and a teacher walks in to the girls standing over Hanako, who has what appears to be a black eye (eye shadow) and a bruised cheek (rougue).

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Played for laughs. When Hanako's phone game points out that Olivia is riddled with bacteria on her armpits, this is played out as being part of her body odor. In reality, while body odor can be caused by bacterial accumulation, it's pointed out that Olivia's body odor is due to the fact that she has active apocrine sweat glands as a person of Caucasian descent, a problem that has very little to do with bacteria as a whole. All in all, the joke further implies that Olivia, apart from the body odor, is untidy.

* TruthInTelevision: When Hanako smells her armpit, she says that Olivia has apocrine sweat glands. East Asians have been found to have very few apocrine sweat glands compared to those of European and African descent and thus have little-to-no body odor. Therefore, it makes sense that Olivia would have bad body odor compared to the Japanese Hanako and Kasumi. Also, as with most people with bad body odor, she doesn't quite notice her own funk, and also happens to be at the age where teens of her demographic/ethnicity start using deodorant (13-14 years old), only that she doesn't have peers of her demographic around her to let her know, and lives in a country where the very fact that someone points it out to her can be considered rude and in bad taste.