History Manga / City

* LoopholeAbuse: The CITY Race, while requiring people to team up in pairs, also advises participants to "Bring Your Own". Once this is revealed at the end of the race, everybody begins to exploit the rule, with (...) shifting his partner to his mouse and the BYO to his animal companions and Kamaboko Oni's fanbase counting themselves as the BYO since his fame "brought" them to him.

* JustInTime: CITY South is about to be elimated from a match because a handful of players aren't there, but one by one they come back to start the game. As it turns out a majority of them were late because they were winning ''other sports competitions'' (Kurogane with a baseball game for their school's team, Naeba with fishing, Shirogane with e-sports, Kasuga with a running marathon, and the others overslept), but their determination to play together is short-lived due to [[TheAce Sasago]] being injured again.

* FranchiseZombie: Happens in-universe with ''Mr. Bummer: Life Sure is Hard, If You Ask Me''. When we're first introduced to the plotline, the creator has finally run out of ideas and ends the long-running comic...then the replacement artist falls through at the last minute and he and his editor desperately struggle to keep ''Mr. Bummer'' going...

** One of the first obstacles in the City Cup is called the "Wonderwall".

* GoldenTicket: The 4th Annual City Race features eight random confirmation tickets spread throughout town. Only the sixteen people who found the tickets can participate this year, making everyone else livid.

->''"[[OnceUponATime Long ago,]] there lived a bird. One day, the bird fell asleep while flying and a tragedy occurred. The bird flew beak-first into a long rock protruding up from the ground. The bird was afflicted by a disease which caused it to turn into stone as well, and so it remained lodged in the rock as eons passed by. In some eras it was worshipped, in others it was used for storage... Its function changed as it took root in different areas. And now...''

->''[[BaitAndSwitch This is the story of a City that has nothing to do with that bird.]]"''

* FranchiseZombie: Happens in-universe with ''Mr. Bummer: Life Sure is Hard, If You Ask Me''. When we're first introduced to the plotline, the creator has finally run out of ideas and ending the long-running comic...Then the replacement artist falls through at the last minute and he and his editor desperately struggle to keep ''Mr. Bummer'' going...

** The English translation of Chapter 83 has one CITY South member shout "[[WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget Go-Go Gadget]]".

** The entire CITY South soccer team has amazing talent in it, enough to win professional competitions...but none of that is ''ever'' used for soccer, and the group eschews practice most days in favor of Sasago hard carrying the team when he isn't injured.

* TryingNotToCry: After weeks of putting it off, Matsuri finally decides to tell Ecchan that she's moving away. Both of them are trying their hardest to not be broken up about it, with both cracking jokes so they don't have to be reduced to sobbing wrecks and using the pumpkin mask Matsuri put on Ecchan as their excuses (so Ecchan can cry freely while Matsuri doesn't have to look her in the eye to break the bad news).

* ExactlyWhatItCaysOnTheTin: Just like one would naturally expect, CITY is a city. Other nearby settlements have similar short but apt titles, such as TOWN or COUNTRY.

* TryingNOtToCry: After weeks of putting it off, Matsuri finally decides to tell Ecchan that she's moving away. Both of them are trying their hardest to not be broken up about it, with both cracking jokes so they don't have to be reduced to sobbing wrecks and using the pumpkin mask Matsuri put on Ecchan as their excuses (so Ecchan can cry freely while Matsuri doesn't have to look her in the eye to break the bad news).

** Chapter 80's official English title is "[[Film/NoCountryForOldMen No Summer Vacation for Old Men]]".

** IN the CITY Gold Cup, three of the horses mentioned are [[Film/MaryPoppins Supercali, Fragilistic, and Expiali]].

* FailedASpotCheck: Easy Death Machine and Sannanbou, two horses instated in the CITY Gold Cup, are revealed mid-race not to be horses at all (one is a robot and the other a gazelle). While Sannonbou was eventually disqualified from competition for not being a horse, this was ''long after'' he'd already participated in the race and got disqualified for a completely different reason, while nobody ever questioned Easy Death Machine until it broke down near the finish line.

* FailedASpotCheck: Easy Death Machine and Sannonbou, two horses instated in the CITY Gold Cup, are revealed mid-race not to be horses at all (one is a robot and the other a gazelle). While Sannonbou was eventually disqualified from competition for not being a horse, this was ''long after'' he'd already participated in the race and got disqualified for a completely different reason, while nobody ever questioned Easy Death Machine until it broke down near the finish line.

* FailedASpotCheck: Easy Death Machine and Sannonbou, two horses instated in the CITY Gold Cup, are revealed mid-race not to be horses at all (one is a robot and the other a gazelle). While Sannonbou was eventually disqualified from competition for not being a horse, this was ''long after'' he'd already participated in the race and got disqualified for a completely different reason, while nobody ever questioned Easy Death Machine at all until it broke down near the finish line.