History Manga / HanaNoKishi

* [[CelibateHero Celibate Heroine]]: Ran rejects anyone who confesses to her as she is solely devoted to Sei. Then things become complicated when [[HeroesWantRedheads Ibara]] comes in...

* HeroesWantRedheads: Inverted. It is Ibara who is in love with Ran. Then played straight when Ran starts developing feelings for Ibara.

* {{Bishounen}}: Ibara, Souda, Houjou, and Midori.

* ArmorPiercingSlap:
** [[BewareTheNiceOnes Sei]] slaps Houjou after he steals a kiss from Ran.
** Ran slaps Ibara after he asks her to return to being a girl and tries to kiss her in Chapter 25.

* PoisonousFriend:
** Rin asks Ibara to join him in exposing Ran as a girl so she can stop being Sei's knight and just be a normal girl. Ibara pretty much rejects the idea and calls Rin out on doing something that goes against what Ran wants for herself.
** Shizuka is willing to go against the wishes of Midori and strike Ran directly as he feels that he is doing what is best for him.
** [[spoiler:Rei goes against Sei's wishes and the life she has chosen by trying to stop her from becoming the next head of the Ohtori family.]]

** Ran tells Houjou that the one thing she surpasses him in is having friends that she can place her trust in, the exact words her older brother Rei told Houjou.
*** Ibara tells Shizuka that the reason why Ran will defeat Midori is because while Ran places her trust in her friends, Midori does not place his trust in his "friends," mirroring the above words of both Ran and Rei, [[spoiler:who turns out to ''be'' Midori.]]

* {{Motif}}: The series uses recurring Myth/ArthurianLegend themes, such as the dueling arena for the First Knight challenges being called "The Round Table of Avalon," "Arondight"--the name of Lancelot's sword--is proclaimed before every duel, and the head of the Ohtori family marking its heir's twelfth birthday by following the pattern of King Arthur's Knights of the Round Table and choosing twelve knights to defend the Ohtori family, and the superior of the twelve is chosen as the First Knight.

* NumerologicalMotif

* MaliciousSlander: Students fear Souda out of rumors that he was held back a year for getting into a fight with several upperclassmen. It turns out that he got into the fight because the upperclassmen were insulting Souda's [[IllBoy ill younger brother]].

* {{Megane}}: Akasora-sensei and Shizuka.

* ChildhoodFriends: Ran and Sei, Rei and Sei, and Rei and Houjou.
* CompletelyMissingThePoint: Several times between Ran and Ibara. When Ibara thanks Ran for cheering him up over his situation with his older brother, Ran is confused and mistakes Ibara's thanks for her having to help him find clothing that would compliment Sei's for the dance. Later, Ran misreads Ibara again when she assumes him mentioning the color red meant that she should have chosen a red dress for Sei instead of a sakura-colored dress. Ibara explains that he meant a red dress would suit ''Ran''.

* DoggedNiceGuy: Ibara towards Ran, and Momokawa towards Sei. Ran is a gender-flipped version towards Ibara.

* NotSoDifferent:

* InSeriesNickname: Ibara often refers to Sei and Ran as "the [[EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses princess]] and her [[KnightInShiningArmor knight]]."

* EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses: Sei isn't technically a princess, but she's [[InSeriesNickname sure]] [[{{Ojou}} treated]] like one.

* SpoiledSweet: Sei.

* {{Motif}}: The series uses recurring ArthurianLegend themes, such as the dueling arena for the First Knight challenges being called "The Round Table of Avalon," "Arondight"--the name of Lancelot's sword--is proclaimed before every duel, and the head of the Ohtori family marking its heir's twelfth birthday by following the pattern of King Arthur's Knights of the Round Table and choosing twelve knights to defend the Ohtori family, and the superior of the twelve is chosen as the First Knight.

* RedHeadedHero: Ibara.

-->'''--Ran Kurono'''

* FiveManBand:
** TheHero: Ran, who doubles as a MagneticHero
** TheLancer: Ibara, who doubles as a GeniusBruiser
** TheSmartGuy: Momokawa, who doubles as a BadassBookworm and the FragileSpeedster
** TheBigGuy: Souda, who also doubles as a GeniusBruiser
** TheChick: Sei, who doubles as TheHeart
** SixthRanger: Rin, who doubles as a second {{Lancer}}, and Houjou, who doubles as a second SmartGuy and the TokenEvilTeammate

* HotDad: Ran's and Sei's fathers, Shidou Kurono and Jin Ohtori.

* WhiteHairedPrettyBoy: Souda.

* [[DeadLittleSister Dead Older Brother]]: Ran's older brother Rei was killed while trying to protect Sei from an attack. [[spoiler:It turns out that not only is Rei ''alive'' as "Midori"--Sen Kashiwazaki's "First Knight"--but he betrayed Sei and tried to ''kill'' her when they were children, but Ran protected her and Rei fled. Due to the psychological trauma, Ran could not remember who Sei's attacker was, so Sei lied and told Ran that Rei died trying to protect them from her attacker.]]

* IWillProtectHer:
** Ran will protect Sei. ''Always''. Ibara, Souda, Momokawa, Rin, and Houjou soon join her in this and to protect both Ran and Sei.
** [[spoiler:Rei's reason for attacking Sei in their childhood turns out to be so he can protect her from becoming the next head of the Ohtori family.]]

* HairOfGold: Sei, Momokawa, and Houjou.

* {{Nakama}}: Ran, Sei, Ibara, Souda, Momokawa, Rin, and Houjou.

* HoYay:
** Isagi Houjou asks Ran to dance with him, as he would rather dance with "beautiful" Ran than "strange girls," comments that Ran should wear a dress, calls her "Ran-chan," and :steals a kiss from her. Subverted as Ran is a girl and Houjou ''knows'' this because he's old friends with Rei, but everyone who doesn't know that assumes that Houjou is interested in a guy until Sei lies that Houjou's antics were a "performance" to liven up the dance.
** After learning about Ran's true gender, [[spoiler:Souda]] admits that he did notice that her facial expressions were pretty at times and that it made sense that she was a girl. He even adds that there were times he thought he was [[SweetOnPollyOliver turning "gay"]] because of her.

* LesYay:
** Naturally between [[TheChampion Ran]] and [[{{Protectorate}} Sei]]. And then there's their mutual {{unwanted harem}} [[EvenTheGirlsWantHer of girls]].
** At one point, Ibara even teases Sei, saying that she must sure love her "sir knight," and Sei agrees with a straight face, which later causes Ibara to wonder if Sei meant something different with Ran and wonders if he's thinking about it too much.

** Sei admits to Ran that she is in love with someone, but will not put love over her duty.

* ObliviousToLove: Inexperienced with love, Ran is unaware that Ibara has feelings for her or that her cousin Rin is in love with her until the latter confesses.

-->'''Ran:''' [[spoiler:Bro... ther...?]]

* ShojoGenre