History Manga / BoardingSchoolJuliet

Until Romeo Inuzuka and Juliet Persia [[StarCrossedLovers fall in love]]. Now, these teenagers must navigate politics and the usual romcom misunderstandings as they try to keep their relationship secret.

* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: For all the cultural differences between the two countries, one thing both sides agree on is that the most badass students should be the ones in charge. Inuzuka and Persia are the leaders of each dorm and seem to be the best fighters of their year, seeing how much damage they can dish out. The head prefects for their respective dorms are the strongest students in the school, with Airu habitually beating up Romeo and Romeo admitting that he stands no chance against Cait.

** When Romio wants to take a couple's picture with Juliet, she goes along with it on one condition: that they burn it as soon as it gets developed, since it may get used as solid evidence for their secret should anyone else might find it. In the end they get a "sort-of" couple's picture, and Romeo even lists a LoopholeAbuse about the photo that he reasons it would never be used against them, and Juliet gladly accepts it.

* KissKissSlap: Justified. Romeo and Juliet definitely love each other, but they will only show their affection in private for good reasons. In public or with friends, they often end up beating the crap out of each other, often resulting in AmusingInjuries.

** While under surveillance by Airu, Romeo pulls this by pretending to be compliant, but secretly planned to sneak away to meet Juliet. However, Airu anticipated that Romeo planned this and manages to intercept him, beating him up and locking him in the shed. Romeo still manages to one-up his brother in that regard, as he also reasoned that Airu would do this, and enlists Kochou and Teria to help him escape.

** While Romeo is escorting Teria and Kochou during the festival, they prank him with a barrage of pies. He ends up with so many on him that they taunt him as the mysterious 'pie man'.
** It's established that Romeo had a tradition of leading the Black Cats to invade Juliet's birthday party each year so he could throw a pie in her face. During the birthday arc, he does this as an excuse to see Juliet on her birthday. Scott's attempts to taunt Romeo are interrupted by Hasuki pieing him, though he quickly gets his revenge by throwing a pie in her face when she gets distracted. Romeo and Juliet later pie each other as a way of bringing the pie fight to a draw.

** Persia's mother reveals back during her days in the academy [[spoiler: a Black Dog and a White Cat couple were exposed and socially pressured to drop out of school. Consequently they returned to their home countries and never were able to see each other again.]] As later revealed, [[spoiler:the couple was [[GenerationXerox Romeo's mother and Persia's father]].]]

* EarnYourHappyEnding: By the end of the series, most of the main characters grow up to have successful careers in life. Romio and Juliet managed to change the world (like they promised to do): the two countries are on the road to peace, and the segregation in Dahlia is a thing of the past. And unlike their literary namesakes, they did it ''without dying''. The series ends with the couple officially tying the knot, with all their friends and families in attendance.

* {{Foil}}: The Black Dogs and White Cats. The Black Dogs are often loud, rowdy, and less organized, and many of the Black Dogs characters either have NonUniformUniform or delinquent-esque attire and hairstyles (although the color theme of their uniforms are consistent). The White Cats, by contrast, are more structured and disciplined, follow a code of chivalry, and often keep their appearance neat. Their fighting styles are also different, as the Black Dogs fight [[AttackAttackAttack aggressively]], like delinquents. The White Cats are more organized, and duels they initiate take a LetsFightLikeGentlemen approach.

* ChekhovsGunman: The Black Dog child in the first chapter that Persia interacted with [[spoiler:turns out to be Leon's adoptive brother. Persia's action made him realize Westians are still people and prevent him from falling into complete hatred of West like Leon did, and this is what leads him to tell Inuzuka Leon's secret and ultimately convince Leon to take the open prefect position.]]

'''Mrs. Persia:''' Yes... But this is how it's meant to be. ''(sobs loudly)'' It's meant to be!

* {{Tsundere}}: Persia's mother goes in denial when meeting her daughter that she only ''happened'' to be passing by to attend the school festival, not because she wanted to see Persia. The lie is so obvious that all the witnesses realize this... except Persia.
* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Most of the characters suffer from this, the only ones who don't are Romio with Juliet and her parents (obviously so it doesn't count that much), [[spoiler: and later Aby with Somali]]:
** Scott has a crush on Juliet since the start and is apparently very upfront about it (but she mostly ignores so we readers don't know if she actually knows about his feelings or just sees him as fooling around).
** Some girls towards Romio: Hasuki, Leon and Teria did definitely like him, but Shuna is left a bit ambiguous (she implies having more of a BigBrotherWorship than actual romantic feelings).

** Chapter 53: Julio confronts Chiwa Inuzuka with her DarkAndTroubledPast: [[spoiler:as the Black Dog who dropped out of Dahlia because of her SecretRelationship... with Turkish Persia, Juliet's father.]]

** Some girls towards Romio: Hasuki and Teria did definitely like him, but Leon and Shuna are left a bit ambiguous (the latter is implied to have more of a BigBrotherWorship than actual romantic feelings).

Until Romeo Inuzuka and Juliet Percia [[StarCrossedLovers fall in love]]. Now, these teenagers must navigate politics and the usual romcom misunderstandings as they try to keep their relationship secret.

** School Sports Festival: Aby Ssinia, who uses the festival to gain more popularity while trying to discredit Percia as a White Cat Leader.

** Amnesiac Romio: Oddly enough, Romio Inuzuka himself, because he becomes outright hostile to Hasuki and Percia (especially toward the latter) in their attempts to restore his memories.
** Prefect Elections: Leon Inugami, most prominent opponent of Inuzuka and Percia in the elections, [[spoiler:and the one who eventually reveals their relationship to the whole school.]]
** Field Trip to the West: Turkish Percia, who forcibly takes Juliet away from the school trip, [[spoiler:and decides that she enroll in a West-exclusive high school.]]

* ArcWords: "Change the world." It is Inuzuka's and Percia's resolve to beat down each and every obstacle in their relationship.
* {{Arrowgram}}: Percia and Inuzuka often use arrows to send messages to each other.
* ASimplePlan: Chapter 12 has Percia trying to bring food to her sick boyfriend. It ends with her running--while dripping wet and screaming like hell--from dozens of angry schoolgirls chasing her through the hallways.
* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: For all the cultural differences between the two countries, one thing both sides agree on is that the most badass students should be the ones in charge. Inuzuka and Percia are the leaders of each dorm and seem to be the best fighters of their year, seeing how much damage they can dish out. The head prefects for their respective dorms are the strongest students in the school, with Airu habitually beating up Romeo and Romeo admitting that he stands no chance against Cait.

* BaitAndSwitch: One chapter started with the arrival of a beautiful blonde woman on Dahlia island, only seen from the back [[note]]later identified as Rackdoll Percia[[/note]]. Later in the same chapter, a beautiful blonde woman enters a beauty contest, and Romio even wonders how he never met her before. The two women are actually different people, and Romio apparently [[spoiler:forgets that the beauty contest is a ''crossdressing'' affair: the second "woman" is actually ''Cait Sith''.]]

* BrickJoke: During the Sports Festival, Juliet tells Romio that her mother came to watch her compete. That means she was witness to the infamous ending of the Sports Festival between Romio and Juliet. Later during the Cultural Festival, Rackdoll Percia shows up in person and boy [[MamaBear does she have a bone to pick]] with Mr. "boob-loving jackass" Romio.

* ChekhovsGunman: The Black Dog child in the first chapter that Percia interacted with [[spoiler:turns out to be Leon's adoptive brother. Percia's action made him realize Westians are still people and prevent him from falling into complete hatred of West like Leon did, and this is what leads him to tell Inuzuka Leon's secret and ultimately convince Leon to take the open prefect position.]]

* ContrivedCoincidence: In the final arc, Romio gets roped into multiple engagements with Hasuki, Leon and Char separately in the third and final day of their school trip. This leaves Romio in despair since this means he won't have enough time for his plans with Juliet to finally meet with her family. Considering Romio's luck, it was rather convenient that Hasuki and Leon got into circumstances that allowed them to find closure in the next two days [[note]]a chance meeting with Rackdoll Percia lets Hasuki decide for herself what she wants to do with her life, and Leon having an unexpected reunion with her missing mother[[/note]]. Char's plans aside, this leaves Romio ample time with Juliet after all. [[spoiler:They are going to need it, since Juliet's father is not as understanding as Romio hoped he would be.]]

* DistantFinale: The last chapter takes place 7 years after the rest of the series, with [[spoiler:Inuzuka's and Percia's wedding.]]

* EmptyNest: Mrs. Percia visits her daughter during the school festival as a surprise, and is a little hurt (though understanding) when she finds out that Juliet already made plans with her boyfriend.

'''Mrs. Percia:''' Yes...But this is how it's meant to be. ''(sobs loudly)'' It's meant to be!

** As much as the Black Dogs and White Cats hate each other, bringing the NonLethalWarfare back to Lethal is a line nobody is willing to cross. When [[spoiler:Percia and Inuzuka managed to convince the others that they were seriously fighting to kill each other]], everyone [[MassOhCrap freaked out]].

* FoeRomanceSubtext: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]]. Due to Inuzuka and Percia's web of lies to conceal their SecretRelationship, it is currently believed that 1), he sexually harassed her, and 2) he wants her dead. For [[FantasticRacism some reason]], nobody finds these two 'facts' contradictory.

* GilliganCut: In chapter 3, Percia explains to Inuzuka that disguising herself to go on a date with him would be [[SecretRelationship too risky]]:
-->'''Percia:''' You can't sway me with your tears! No means no!\\

* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: At first glance Inuzuka and Percia look like the exact opposite of this trope, but when they are alone they are arguably an even better example than their namesakes. Inuzuka is hopelessly romantic, has an idealized vision of how a relationship works, and gets embarrassed easily when he is with his girlfriend. In contrast, Percia is serious and practical, constantly has to remind Inuzuka that his romantic ideas are risky for them, and has more controlled reactions than him when she is the one who gets emotional.
* MeaningfulEcho: In the beginning, Inuzuka confesses to Percia during the sword duel at the fountain, back when she was hesitant about the relationship. 78 chapters later, Percia is the one that confesses to the amnesiac Inuzuka purposely reenacting the same duel, now having grown to love him the same.

* NotWorthKilling: A downplayed version. The Black Dogs and White Cats fight because that's all they've done for generations, and it's the only way any of them know how to interact with someone from the opposing side. Cats can only be important to Dogs as rivals, and vice versa. So Percia interprets Inuzuka's going easy on her as a 'rejection' of her, a statement that she doesn't matter to him in ''any'' way. The {{Irony}} is that Inuzuka acts like that because [[StarCrossedLovers he is in love with her]], and by being ObliviousToLove Percia managed to mistake his feelings for this trope.
* ObliviousToLove: The two lead characters are really dense. Right at the start of the series it's made clear that Percia had no clue that Inuzuka was in love with her. She also never notices that there are other people with feelings for her, and Inuzuka is equally bad in this aspect.

* ReflexiveResponse: Inuzuka and Percia have spent such a long time hiding their SecretRelationship, that [[spoiler:even after the secret is out and everyone has accepted it]] they resort to instinctively hiding or fighting whenever someone walks in on the two of them together. It apparently took two weeks before they got to finally kick that habit.

** The InterruptedIntimacy moments get a LampshadeHanging where, after their secret is finally out, Romio and Juliet try to shake off their habit (although it took two weeks). Romio explicitly says that they should set an example to get the two dorms to start being friendly with each other. (Romio being Romio, his ulterior motive was so they could finally go out in public) Much later, however, this actually becomes a ChekhovsSkill: The couple's stealth skills become especially handy [[spoiler:when trying to evade the many guards in the Percia estate.]]

** Percia's mother reveals back during her days in the academy [[spoiler: a Black Dog and a White Cat couple were exposed and socially pressured to drop out of school. Consequently they returned to their home countries and never were able to see each other again.]] As later revealed, [[spoiler:the couple was [[GenerationXerox Romeo's mother and Percia's father]].]]

** Apparently, once a year the Black Dogs would forcibly raid the White Cats dormitory to crash Percia's birthday party. On Percia's 16th birthday Inuzuka uses the raid as a smokescreen to see Percia, under his brother's nose.
** Near the end of the manga, most of the students at the field trip (White Cats and Black Dogs alike), with a little help from Rackdoll Percia, [[RoaringRampageOfRescue raid the Percia estate to rescue Juliet]]. The Black Dogs even CallBack to their annual tradition (mentioned directly above) during the whole thing, to the White Cats' chagrin.
* SweetOnPollyOliver: Percia disguises herself as a boy so she can hang out with Inuzuka without anyone knowing, but this causes several boys and girls to be attracted to "him".
* TalkToTheFist: After rescuing Percia from Maru's ambush but seemingly being mistaken for the assailant by her, Inuzuka gets so pissed with Maru's group that he punches the daylights out of them before they can even finish complaining about how he ruined their plan.

* {{Tsundere}}: Percia's mother goes in denial when meeting her daughter that she only ''happened'' to be passing by to attend the school festival, not because she wanted to see Percia. It's so obvious it's a lie that all the witnesses realize this...except Percia.

** Chapter 44: Rackdoll Percia, who [[AmbiguousSituation may or may not]] have figured out who her daughter's lover was, advises Juliet to break up with him if he was a Black Dog. Why? [[spoiler:In Rackdoll's time as a student at the academy, there was also a Black Dog and White Cat who fell in love, and upon being found out, peer pressure drove the two lovers apart as well as to drop out of the school.]]
** Chapter 53: Julio confronts Chiwa Inuzuka with her DarkAndTroubledPast: [[spoiler:as the Black Dog who dropped out of Dahlia because of her SecretRelationship...with Turkish Percia, Juliet's father.]]

** Chapter 109-110: [[spoiler:Turkish Percia finally shows up in person, and voices his intention to have Juliet move to a West-exclusive school.]]

* YoungLoveVersusOldHate: Another thing the manga borrows from ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet''. The two countries have already signed a peace treaty, but there is still plenty of hostility between them. When Inuzuka and Percia fall in love in spite of being in opposite sides, they are hesitant because they would be shunned by the entire school, but ultimately they decide they want to be together even if they don’t know when or if their relationship will be accepted.

* {{Bishonen}}: Romio is drawn like this from time to time.

* DeathGlare: it's PlayedForLaughs, but just try flirting with Persia in front of Romio, he won't take it very lightly.

* ObnoxiousInLaws: Juliet's father, [[spoiler: he doesn't accept Romio because he is a Towan, which is very hypocritical from him since he fell in love with a Towan woman when a teenager, there's even a swordfight between them because of Juliet. Even in the final chapter, during his daughter's wedding, he has a constant DeathGlare aura around him, probably PlayedForLaughs, but still.]]
* OffscreenTeleportation: almost any character can do this in most of the chapters.

* TearsOfJoy: despite being a FaceOfAThug, Romio is a really crying guy when it comes to his joyful moments with Juliet, the titular character also cried a few times in her happier moments (but she usually cries more in sad moments, which is the opposite of Romio, who always comfort her without shedding a tear).

* {{Bishōnen}}: Romio is drawn like this from time to time.

** Scott has a crush on Juliet since the start and is apparently very upfront about it (but she mostly ignores so we readers don't know if she actually knows about his feelings or just sees him as fooling around). UnrequitedLove

* WomenAreWiser: At least on the Black Dogs side. Hasuki has the best grades among the first year students of her dormitory, and the twins Teria and Kochou are both ChildProdigy that are already in second year of high school at 14. In contrast, the head prefect Airu seems to be the only named male characters of the Black Dogs that isn't BookDumb. On the White Cats side, women may not be wiser, but at least they are more prudent. Anne Sieber is the OnlySaneMan among the prefects of the dormitory, and Juliet is repeatedly shown to be more rational and self-controlled than her boyfriend. The Aby and Somali duo are the only characters to clearly avert this trope.

''Boarding School Juliet'', also known by its Japanese title ''Kishuku Gakkou no Juliet'', is a romantic comedy manga by Yousuke Kaneda. It is based on the popular Shakespeare play, ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet''. The series started serialization in 2015 [[note]]after a similar oneshot by the author was positively received[[/note]] and was released in English by Kodansha. The manga concluded on September 4th, 2019.

''Boarding School Juliet'', also known by its Japanese title ''Kishuku Gakkou no Juliet'', is a romantic comedy manga by Yousuke Kaneda. The series started serialization in 2015 [[note]]after a similar oneshot by the author was positively received[[/note]] and was released in English by Kodansha. The manga concluded on September 4th, 2019.

** Romio invented the Julio persona so Juliet can blend in with the Black Dogs. Unfortunately for him, Julio becomes ''very'' popular with his fellow Black Dogs that he gets alienated.

* GoneHorriblyRight: Romio pretending to be a sexual predator to scare off some White Cat primary schoolers and he can be alone with Juliet. It worked as he intended on the little girls...and Juliet.

* GoneHorriblyRight: Romio pretending to be a sexual predator to chase off some White Cat primary schoolers and he can be alone with Juliet. It worked as he intended on the little girls...and Juliet.

** Romio was in such a bad mood during the days leading to the Sports Fest that he barely acknowledged Juliet's presence when nearby. Juliet takes notice and schemes to help him snap out of it.

** Juliet sending Romio a letter telling him to help her practice for the three-legged race the next day. The thought of innocent skinship between the two of them caused Romio to scream in delighted panic for hours. From when he recieved the letter, to dinner, to the bath. It only ended during bedtime when someone screams at him to finally shut up.

** No girl is safe from getting into weird situations with animals.

** The Dahlia students manage to reunite with Romio and Juliet just after [[spoiler:Juliet has defeated her father Turkish in a duel.]] The students collectively standing up for Juliet was the clincher that convinced [[spoiler:Turkish that his daughter]] really did change Dahlia for the better.

* LastNameBasis: Notably, Juliet and Romio are called by their last names by most people close to them. This includes the couple themselves. [[spoiler:Juliet eventually starts calling Romio by his first name the very instant he recovers from his amnesia.]]

* HugeGuyTinyGirl: Is not that Inuzuka is huge, but Persia is tiny compared to him, as she only reaches his chest. Lampshaded when Juliet asked him to help her train for the three-legged race; the height difference between them makes the practice awkward, and they took several adjustments before finding the right position.

* JustInTime: Juliet manages to restore Romio's memories at midnight of their first anniversary.

* MassOhCrap: Romio, Juliet and all their friends (SecretKeeper and LockedOutOfTheLoop alike) when [[spoiler:Leon exposes the SecretRelationship to the whole school.]]

** Romio "dying" of HighPressureEmotion.
** Scott suffering several punishments from Char. And being used as [[GrievousHarmWithABody a basketball, shield, boomerang, etc.]] And Romio's favorite greeting for Scott usually involves [[GoombaStomp his feet]].