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''His & Her Circumstances'' (''Kareshi Kanojo no Jijō'', or ''[=KareKano=]'' for short) is a {{shoujo}} manga by Masami Tsuda.
Yukino Miyazawa is a gifted high school student lauded by classmates and teachers. This apparent brilliance, however, is mainly used as a means to garner praise. At home, Yukino is spoiled and slovenly.
When a new student, Soichiro Arima, proves himself the equal of Yukino, her narcissistic edifice is threatened with collapse, so she begins to plot Arima's downfall, whilst maintaining an air of friendship with him. A chance encounter leads Arima to discover Yukino's secret and romance begins to blossom… as they both learn to just be themselves.
The manga was adapted to anime by Creator/StudioGainax in 1998, directed by Creator/HideakiAnno, of ''[[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Evangelion]]'' fame. The anime began as a faithful adaptation of the manga, if somewhat quirkier in style. Halfway through, the anime's story goes in a completely different direction from the manga, which eventually led to an [[GainaxEnding inconclusive ending]]. [[DisownedAdaptation Tsuda herself was notably disappointed by the anime]]. Meanwhile, the manga continued for several more years, exploring the several parallel lives of supporting characters, as well as the main characters' pasts (and even their families' pasts), finally concluding with its 21st volume in 2005.
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!!This show provides examples of:
* AbsurdlyPowerfulStudentCouncil: After a TimeSkip, when Yukino's little sisters are entering high school, some exposition claims that Yukino and Arima have led the school to a glorious new era, with Yukino depicted as a Roman Legionnaire. Now, granted, they're both brilliant honor students, but ''what'' exactly have they been up to? ([[NoodleIncident It's never made explicit]].)
* AbusiveParents: [[spoiler: Arima's biological mother Ryouko's entire relationship with Arima was a constant cycle of abuse and neglect. She would beat him constantly when they were together and lock him alone in their apartment for long periods of time, only to return later and typically beat him more. Arima was constantly sick or starving and stated that he mainly survived off of stale bread. The very last interaction he had with his mother before being taken away was her coming home after a long absence to merely check if he had ''died'' yet before leaving again. ]]
* AdaptationDistillation: As with ''Manga/KodomoNoOmocha'', the anime team blended in enough screwball comedy to keep the [[{{Shoujo}} romantic aspects]] from getting too [[TastesLikeDiabetes saccharine]]. Masami Tsuda, however, was less than pleased with the result.
* AlphaBitch: Maho starts as this, but soon [[CharacterDevelopment she steps out]] [[LovableAlphaBitch of the role]].
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: How Yukino views Arima at first. He, on the other hand, is too smitten by her to even [[UnknownRival notice it]].
** Yukino is this to Maho and the latter acknowledges it.
* AspectMontage
* AuthorAppeal: Not very noticeable at first, but by the end of the manga, the story was slewing from one story the author wanted to tell to another – trouble was, they were only tangentially related to the main characters the readers cared about.
* BabiesEverAfter: The ending.
* TheBabyTrap: In the manga, this was how [[spoiler:Souichiro Arima]] was conceived and born.
* BalloonBelly: Happens to Yukino in Episode 5.
* BecomingTheMask: Yukino wore her mask of perfection for so long that even when she decided not to put on a fake persona anymore, she discovered that her true personality had become like the mask just less perfect.
** Arima also wore a mask of perfection, and a few more under the first one. [[spoiler:This became an issue in later chapters because the stress of it was slowly destroying his life socially and emotionally]].
* BeneathTheMask: Arima is insanely scared of what's beneath his.
** ItRunsInTheFamily: Because he desperately hopes that whatever problems his biological parents had were not passed down to him.
* BerserkButton: Mistake Tsubasa for a Middle Schooler and she'll explode. [[{{VisualPun}} No really.]]
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Arima may ''seem'' the perfect boyfriend -- good-looking, caring, chivalrous, understanding -- but it becomes clear quite soon that he has… issues. And there's Rika, who at the age of five managed to hit a boy some five years ''older'' with a baseball bat, and make him stop bullying her best friend Aya's older brother.
* {{Bifauxnen}}: Maho and Yukino in Steel Snow. Tsuda even {{lampshade|Hanging}}s it by commenting how, during the play, Yukino's shoulders broadened and her breasts flattened for some inexplicable reason.
* BigScrewedUpFamily: The Arima family suffered from a continuing cycle of abuse and heartache. Reiichirou, Souichiro's grandfather and Soji and Reiji's father, [[spoiler: was ''horribly'' physically abused by his own father because his father couldn't stand how beautiful he was.]] Reiichirou as a result was disconnected emotionally and abused his own children emotionally. Eiko as a result became a bitter and angry person, but Soji managed to rise above it and become a better man. [[spoiler: Reiichirou later connected with another woman, where Reiji was conceived, but harassment from the Arima family caused the woman to attempt murder-suicide with Reiji, destroying the boy emotionally.]] Finally, [[spoiler: Souichiro was emotionally stunted because of physical and emotional abuse he suffered from his biological mother Ryoko, and from the isolation he felt from the Arima family, who hated him because of Reiji.]]
* BlackSheep: What Arima is considered by his entire family, save for his aunt and uncle.
* BookAndSwitch: Done by Yukino, to hide a comedic book behind a more serious one.
* BreakHerHeartToSaveHer: Attempted by Arima [[spoiler: when he recovers his memories of Ryoko's abuse.]] He then starts pushing Yukino away out of fear to harming her. [[spoiler: It doesn't work. Even after ''he pretty much ravishes Yukino''.]]
* BrokenAce: Arima, ''very'' much so.
** Yukino is as well, but a far milder version.
* BrokenBird: [[spoiler: Arima. HOLY SHIT, ARIMA.]]
* BroodingBoyGentleGirl: As the series [[CerebusSyndrome becomes angstier]], Arima and Yukino fit in here more and more.
* CallingTheOldManOut: In the manga, it's [[spoiler: Calling the Old ''Woman'' Out.]]
* CanNotSpitItOut: Reiji reveals to Soji at one point that despite his cold nature, their father Reiichiro really does love him but can't ever say it because he always ends up saying the wrong thing to Soji. Eiko also implies that Reiichiro wants her to become what she wants instead of a doctor as she only wants to be one to impress him. He says it so harshly though that it still makes her run out in tears.
* CastHerd
* ChildProdigy: Arima (who else) is mentioned to have been one.
* ChivalrousPervert: Asaba, who's very much a womanizer but will not force a girl into anything if she doesn't want to, and is also a very loyal friend.
* ClassRepresentative: Yukino ''and'' Arima.
* ClassTrip: In the manga, the characters get to go to Kyoto in a class trip.
* ClingyJealousGirl: Tsubasa Shibahime, when introduced.
* ClipShow: That lasts 1 and 1/2 episodes.
* ClubPresident: Arima, too.
* CompletelyOffTopicReport: Aya Sawada's writing skill was discovered when she wrote a story that had nothing to do with the assigned report.
* CrocodileTears: Yukino attempts this when initially forced to do part of Arima's committee work. It fails.
* CutShort: The anime ran into even more of the problems with deadlines and budgets that plagued later episodes of ''Evangelion''. It was cut short due to Tsuda's dissatisfaction with the later episodes.
* ADateWithRosiePalms: While subject to a DiscretionShot, it's made perfectly clear that, when Arima is struggling with his own feelings of inferiority as well as his feelings towards Yukino, he takes matters into his own hands, so to speak, to relieve the emotional pressure. This contrasts with later, when, after his mother re-enters his life, Arima forces himself onto Yukino.
* DeadpanSnarker: Reiji.
* DefiledForever: [[spoiler: The manga's explanation for how Ryoko got as AxCrazy as she is, is apparently that she was molested in her childhood. You'd think that she was just claiming it to guilt-trip her son into giving her cash, but later flashbacks confirm her story.]]
* DemonHead
* DenserAndWackier: The anime's sense of humor is this in comparison to the manga, being a lot more zany and using more exaggerated facial expressions. The anime itself started out as a fairly faithful adaptation that was just a bit quirkier in style, but it eventually got to the point that the over-the-top comedy overtook the story's more dramatic elements as the main focus. This became a point of contention between Masami Tsuda and Hideaki Anno, since Tsuda felt that the anime was putting too much emphasis on the comedy to her liking.
* DistantFinale: The manga.
* DullEyesOfUnhappiness: [[spoiler: Arima, as his Dark Side emerges more and more.]]
* DysfunctionJunction: Including but not limited to the entire Arima family, as wells as much of the main cast.
* EarWorm: In Episode 6, after Yukino and Souichirou share an emotion-charged hug, Yukino is left alone when Souichirou leaves to clear his head. To her horror, a song she really hates starts playing in her head.
** The song is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXEGYswZ7BE SOS]] by the 1970s' pop band Pink Lady. Yukino's hating of the song has to do with the [[http://www.kiwi-musume.com/lyrics/pinklady/sos.html lyrics]] (making it a BilingualBonus for those who understand them when the song plays).
* EvilMatriarch: In the manga, [[spoiler:Arima's mother Ryouko.]] Also a [[ManipulativeBastard Manipulative Bitch]].
** Eiko, Arima's aunt, also applies, though it is later explained that she had a [[FreudianExcuse difficult family life]] which is why she resents her brother (Arima's adoptive father Shoji) and his family so much.
* FacelessMasses
* FakeBand: The Yin & Yang, where Kazuma is the lead singer. Their supposed amazing and revolutionary sound gets away from being shown because they only appear in the manga (and for five minutes in the anime).
* FamilyThemeNaming: Yukino and her sisters' names all end with the kanji "no" (野), which means "field".
* FlirtyStepsiblings: Kazuma and Tsubasa. Kazuma is the first to fall in non-step-sibling love with Tsubasa but eventually the feelings are mutual. Their parents are briefly surprised, but completely supportive. They also met in their mid-teens, so really there's nothing all that sibling like in their relationship.
* FreezeFrameBonus: See ShoutOut below.
* GainaxEnding: The anime came to an abrupt end just as a new arc was about to start, due to CreativeDifferences between Masami Tsuda and Hideaki Anno.
* GeckoEnding: A plot-unrelated ending coupled with not finishing the original arc, due to CreativeDifferences with a ''really'' upset Masami Tsuda.
* GenerationXerox: In the manga, it's shown that Yukino looks almost identical to her mother at the same age. [[spoiler: Later, Arima ends up both looking and sounding just like his father.]]
* GivingUpTheGhost: Happens in episode 13 from Kazuma's mom hitting him for not warning her that Tsubasa was coming over.
* GoGetterGirl: Yukino's personality in public.
* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: [[spoiler: When Soichiro and Yukino finally consummate their relationship, the following pages make it look like they just did the sexual equivalent of redeeming the souls of mankind.]]
* HappilyAdopted: Soichiro.
* HappilyMarried: Yukino's parents and Soichiro's adoptive parents. Also Kazuma's mother and Tsubasa's father later.
* [[SheIsAllGrownUp He Is All Grown Up]]: Takefumi much to Tsubaki's disappointment.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Arima and Asaba, especially in the noticeably darker-in-tone second half of the manga.
* HiddenDepths: Asaba Hideaki, resident ChivalrousPervert and Arima's extremely supportive best friend. It's not until the very last tankobon that the reader finds out about [[spoiler:his awful relationship with his JerkAss family and the loneliness it brings]].
** Reiichirou Arima, Eiko and Soji's father, comes off as an emotionless bastard to his family. Not only does he have frequent affairs on his wife, to the point where she demands a divorce and ''ditches'' the children, but he shows no interest in his children's accomplishments. Whenever Eiko or Soji would talk to him about their good grades or general activities, instead of praising their accomplishments he would admonish them for showing joy over insignificant things. [[spoiler: However, it was revealed that he suffered ''monstrous'' abuse from his own father for no other reason than the fact that he was beautiful. His whole body was covered in scars from the abuse, and it left him emotionally stunted. It turns out he really did love his children all along, but he didn't know how to express the love he felt for them because of the abuse he'd suffered and instead ending up hurting them with his emotionless nature, and he in turn resented them for his inability to express himself.]]
* ImpossiblyCoolClothes
* InformedAttribute: Yukino mentioned Arima’s ‘traditionally narrow eyes’ as one of his features she finds attractive. Due to the {{Mukokuseki}} art style, the audience have no way of seeing this. The audience DOES get treated to a picture of Arima with half-closed eyes though which is probably the closest way of making him look asian.
* JerkAss:
** The male students from another school who caused trouble for the gang during the Kyoto field trip.
** The male teacher who predicted failure for Kazuma when he wanted to quit school to join the 'Yin and Yang' rock band full time.
* KarmaHoudini: Arima ''punched'' a stranger for pushing Yukino when she tried to diffuse a fight during a school trip. The school adviser was watching -- and pretended he was going blind or senile.
* LetHerGrowUpDear: Hiroyuki's attitude toward his sweet little Yukino, and her mother's reaction, are textbook examples.
* LostInTranslation: The full Japanese title is a bit of a double entendre; "Kareshi" means "His" and "Kanojo" means "Her," but they also respectively mean "Boyfriend" and "Girlfriend."
* LoudspeakerTruck
* LuminescentBlush: Very common when characters in established or budding relationships are sufficiently embarrassed.
* ManipulativeBastard: Arima (initially) after finding out Yukino's secret.
-->'''Arima:''' What else am I supposed to do? I'm far too busy and you're the perfect person to do my work for me.
-->'''Yukino:''' Bastard!
-->'''Arima:''' You're going to be very useful. Well, I won't force you to do it. If you don't want to, just say so. That is, if you have that kind of courage.
-->'''Yukino:''' *teeth clench* You scheming bastard.
* MamaBear: Soichiros adoptive mother definitely counts. She can be seen protecting him from bullies ''by charging at them with a broom'' in flashbacks and is the one that [[spoiler: slaps his abusive biological mother]].
* MediumBlending
* MistakenForGay: Asaba, by Miyazawa when they hated each other and he revealed his plans for Maryland to her. His choice of words: "I'm going to take (Arima) from you."
* NightmareFace: If this were a horror series, the faces Yukino makes while chasing Tsubasa through the school would be '''terrifying'''. As it is, they're still very much this to the poor hunted.
* NoPeriodsPeriod: [[spoiler: At some point, Yukino realizes that her period hasn't come in at least two months and wonders if she's pregnant. Considering the TeenPregnancy trope below, she's right.]]
* NoSmoking: Played for laughs many times in the Manga, where in the series resident {{Author Avatar}} is smacked around by Yukino for smoking, as well as the series resident {{Yamato Nadeshiko}}.
* ObliviousMockery: Reiichiro, the father of Soji and Reiji, is hinted at not understanding that his dismissive attitude towards his children is incredibly hurtful. One obvious example is when he shuns Eiko's dreams of becoming a doctor, and simply asks "What?" when she flees the room in tears. The fact that he probably actually tried to encourage her to follow what she wants to do instead of trying to impress him makes it almost a bit heartbreaking.
* OfficialCouple
* OlderThanTheyLook:
** Tsubasa, who at fifteen was confused with a middle-schooler by her ''younger'' stepbrother.
** [[spoiler: Kazuma and Tsubasa in the distant finale. They still look like they did in high school.]]
** And Yukino's parents, who don't look they're nearing 40.
** When Soiichiro meets [[spoiler: his biological father]], you wouldn't guess that the latter is at least double as old. It turns ridiculous when it is said in the last chapter that [[spoiler: grown-up Soiichiro now looks exactly like his father, considering that Soiichiro actually looking like an adult in stark contrast to what Reiji looked like during his appeareance]].
* OneeSama: Yukino's "facade".
* ParentalAbandonment: Arima is the biggest case, but there are several others.
* ParentalNeglect: When Arima's mother wasn't beating him, she was leaving him alone for days on end. Becomes horrifying after she learns Arima isn't going to get her easy money and outright leaves him to ''die''.
* PapaWolf: Multiple cases:
** Seems to be a pattern for Miyazawa fathers with daughters. Hiroyuki had physical fights with Yukinos grandfather and resorted to elope with his wife (and even gets scorned till today). The ever-perfect Arima also faces quite some issues with Hiroyuki himself, despite them being a lot less extreme. [[spoiler: When Yukino teases Arima in the last chapter about Sakura marrying one day, he instantly gives a BigNo, causing her to remind him of this tendency in her family]].
*** Specifically interisting about this is that so far, the fathers have apparently always married into the family, rather then being born into it. So instead of it being a trait of Miyazawa males, it could rather be that the Miyazawa women share a certain taste for possessive men.
** Soji is very protective of Soichiro. He doesn't take physical action, but he defies his family multiple times whenever they bully his son. [[spoiler: He also protects and spoils Reiji from their sister as well as other bullies and it is explicitly stated that he was more of a father than an older brother to Reiji]].
** [[spoiler: Reiji]] turns out to be one. He at first seems to be uncaring, selfish and aloof, but the moment [[spoiler: Soichiros abusive mother]] appears, he literally [[spoiler: takes out a gun and attempts to murder her for Soichiros sake]].
* PetitePride: Sakura Tsubaki, resident {{Tomboy}}, is proud to admit she has no boobs at all.
* PinkySwear
* PottyFailure: A young Soichiro is shown in a flashback as having wet the bed soon after being taken in by his aunt and uncle, he breaks down in absolute horror and cries his eyes out, as he fully expects this action to result in his new parents ''beating'' him and is shocked when they instead comfort him.
* RapeAsDrama: [[spoiler:This skates a rather thin line, but during Soichiro's darkest time (when Ryoko resurfaces in his life), he forced himself on Yukino. He sees the act as rape, but when he tells that to Yukino (who was rather unperturbed by the whole thing) she is confused and replies that it wasn't, because she didn't refuse him either by saying no or pushing him away. (Paraphrased: "I only told you to wait, but I didn't tell you to stop!")]]
* RapeDiscretionShot: [[spoiler:When Arima pretty much ravishes Yukino, we only get to see her hair and her school things on the floor.]]
* RealityEnsues:
** Soichiro and Yukino are summoned to the teacher's office when their grades rapidly decline.
** When the rest of Yukino's classmates realize that they were tricked by Maho, they turn on her.
* RealMenCanCook: Apparently true for Asaba and Tonami. Arima still refuses (or very grudgingly complies) to eat what they make, though.
* RecycledSoundtrack: [[http://nicotter.net/watch/sm17981818 The recap theme]] is actually the ending theme to both the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBh17WtCDQw 1963]] ''and'' [[http://nicotter.net/watch/sm367191 2004]] versions of ''[[Anime/{{Gigantor}} Tetsujin 28]]'' and the ''Anime/SpaceBattleshipYamato'' opening was used in episode 26, both examples shouldn't be too much of a surprise since Creator/HideakiAnno initially directed this show
* RedOniBlueOni: Yukino is the red, Soichiro is the blue.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Episode 10 of the anime; when Tsubasa goes a BIT too far in her vendetta against Yukino... and incurs Yukino's wrath.
* SacredFirstKiss
* SexyDiscretionShot: Both in the manga and anime, when Yukino and Arima consummate their relationship, the imagery goes into a bunch of metaphorical scenes including them as young children. So much so that it came off as something like a BigLippedAlligatorMoment, with readers/viewers debating whether they actually had sex or not, until it was explicitly confirmed a few chapters/episodes later.
* SchoolIdol: Yukino works hard to maintain this status.
* SchoolPlay
* {{Shoujo}}
* ShoutOut: To Hideaki Anno's own Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion in episode 11 of the anime. When Yukino begins to think of people she's met in the past to compare another person to, a [[FreezeFrameBonus quick use of the freeze-frame feature]] [[BetterOnDVD on one's DVD player]] reveals images of Misato, Kaji, Asuka, Shinji, Rei, and Toji, amongst others. Then later on when she's taunted by the president of a rival class, an imaginary segment has her she growing to the size of a building and looking and sounding very much like a berserk EVA.
** In episode 1 Yukino is shown hunched over holding something in her palms, in a pose that is virtually a carbon copy of Rei when she holds Lilith's egg. In the same episode J. S. Bach's "Air" is playing in the background at one point (a piece used in NGE).
** Then in episode 23, as Yukino gets on a bicycle with Arima, she starts the process with a close-up on Yukino's eyes (ala Shinji), and says "Unit One", ala Evangelion.
** In general, there are a lot of stylistic choices extremely reminiscent of ''Eva'' in the anime, including a lot of elements from the last two episodes (original airing), such as spotlights on characters contemplating their situation and digesting their misfortunes, and even a ClipShow on episode 14 (as in ''Eva''), except it carried over to the first half of ep. 15 in ''Kare Kano''.
* SlasherSmile: Yukino Miyazawa sported a few of these.
* TheSnarkKnight: Maho Isawa.
* {{Squick}}: In-universe. Asaba's childhood photo of him being surrounded by older girls provokes this (silent) reaction from Miyazawa and Arima.
* StepfordSmiler: ''Both'' Yukino and Arima. She does it to be praised and get everyone's love and admiration, he does it to hide his problems.
* StockShoujoBullyingTactics: After she stops trying to be a model student, Yukino has the entire class stop speaking to her.
* SuperDeformed: Used ''heavily''. Yukino spends at least half her time onscreen in this form.
* TeenPregnancy: [[spoiler: The reason why Yukino and Arima marry soon after graduation is that she's pregnant with their eldest daughter, Sakura.]]
* {{Tomboy}}: Tsubaki.
* TroubledAbuser: [[spoiler: By definition Ryoko is this. It doesn't ever excuse what she did to her son, though.]]
* TwoFaced: Yukino is this at the beginning, but grows out of it. [[spoiler: Soichiro deals with it for most of the manga.]]
** [[spoiler: Interesting in the fact that while Yukino's dual life is played for laughs, Soichiro's is much more nightmare fuel and causes him to be wildly self-destructive.]]
* UnluckyChildhoodFriend: Tsubasa and, interestingly, we see the effects it has on her.
* VFormationTeamShot
* WellDoneSonGuy:
** Both Soji and Eiko spent a better part of their childhood trying to win their father over by being overachievers and excelling in school and extracurricular activities. But Reiichirou would only greet their accomplishments with scorn, and Soji stopped caring after a while. Eiko however was emotionally crushed by her father's repeated rejection and became a very bitter person as an adult. [[spoiler: Made all the more tragic by the fact that Reiichirou ''was'' proud of his children and loved them, but couldn't properly express it to them. It was also implied that Reiichirou recognized that they only pushed themselves to excel just to please him, which he thought was ridiculous.]]
** Soichiro's motives for being an over achieving student was trying to make up for what he thought was the burden he bought on his aunt and uncle and he simply wanted to give back the care they gave him by being successful. His aunt and uncle could care less about any such idea and just want Soichiro to be happy.
* WifeHusbandry: [[spoiler: Asaba, in regards to Yukino and Arima's daughter Sakura. He tries to back off years later, but she will have nothing of it.]]
* WiseBeyondTheirYears: In the early volumes, Yukino's little sister Kano would frequently give her advice about her social and love life.
** [[spoiler: In a flashback in the DistantFinale, Sakura, then age 3, tells her mother Yukino to feel free to go back to work -- she and her younger brothers will be fine.]]
* WoundedGazelleGambit: Subverted: Tsubasa tries it on Yukino, but [[GenreSavvy Arima]] isn't fooled one bit.
* YamatoNadeshiko: Shizune, Arima's adopted mother, pulls off all aspects of this perfectly. [[spoiler: This includes the "hidden steel" part of the trope, when she ends up coordinating with Yukino to get a chance to deliver a beatdown on Arima's abusive biological mother.]] Rika is clearly one in training.
* {{Yandere}}: [[spoiler: Arima's dark side]] has very strong whiffs of this. You slowly see his thoughts morph from wanting to be with [[spoiler: Yukino]], to wanting to isolate her from everyone and keep her just for himself. His fighting with these thoughts proves that [[spoiler: Arima]] is a good guy, but him imagining tying [[spoiler: Yukino]] in chains does not bode well for their relationship.
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[[caption-width-right:300:An AttentionWhore and a BrokenAce.]]
''His & Her Circumstances'' (''Kareshi Kanojo no Jijō'', or ''[=KareKano=]'' for short) is a {{shoujo}} manga by Masami Tsuda.
Yukino Miyazawa is a gifted high school student lauded by classmates and teachers. This apparent brilliance, however, is mainly used as a means to garner praise. At home, Yukino is spoiled and slovenly.
When a new student, Soichiro Arima, proves himself the equal of Yukino, her narcissistic edifice is threatened with collapse, so she begins to plot Arima's downfall, whilst maintaining an air of friendship with him. A chance encounter leads Arima to discover Yukino's secret and romance begins to blossom… as they both learn to just be themselves.
The manga was adapted to anime by Creator/StudioGainax in 1998, directed by Creator/HideakiAnno, of ''[[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Evangelion]]'' fame. The anime began as a faithful adaptation of the manga, if somewhat quirkier in style. Halfway through, the anime's story goes in a completely different direction from the manga, which eventually led to an [[GainaxEnding inconclusive ending]]. [[DisownedAdaptation Tsuda herself was notably disappointed by the anime]]. Meanwhile, the manga continued for several more years, exploring the several parallel lives of supporting characters, as well as the main characters' pasts (and even their families' pasts), finally concluding with its 21st volume in 2005.
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!!This show provides examples of:
* AbsurdlyPowerfulStudentCouncil: After a TimeSkip, when Yukino's little sisters are entering high school, some exposition claims that Yukino and Arima have led the school to a glorious new era, with Yukino depicted as a Roman Legionnaire. Now, granted, they're both brilliant honor students, but ''what'' exactly have they been up to? ([[NoodleIncident It's never made explicit]].)
* AbusiveParents: [[spoiler: Arima's biological mother Ryouko's entire relationship with Arima was a constant cycle of abuse and neglect. She would beat him constantly when they were together and lock him alone in their apartment for long periods of time, only to return later and typically beat him more. Arima was constantly sick or starving and stated that he mainly survived off of stale bread. The very last interaction he had with his mother before being taken away was her coming home after a long absence to merely check if he had ''died'' yet before leaving again. ]]
* AdaptationDistillation: As with ''Manga/KodomoNoOmocha'', the anime team blended in enough screwball comedy to keep the [[{{Shoujo}} romantic aspects]] from getting too [[TastesLikeDiabetes saccharine]]. Masami Tsuda, however, was less than pleased with the result.
* AlphaBitch: Maho starts as this, but soon [[CharacterDevelopment she steps out]] [[LovableAlphaBitch of the role]].
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: How Yukino views Arima at first. He, on the other hand, is too smitten by her to even [[UnknownRival notice it]].
** Yukino is this to Maho and the latter acknowledges it.
* AspectMontage
* AuthorAppeal: Not very noticeable at first, but by the end of the manga, the story was slewing from one story the author wanted to tell to another – trouble was, they were only tangentially related to the main characters the readers cared about.
* BabiesEverAfter: The ending.
* TheBabyTrap: In the manga, this was how [[spoiler:Souichiro Arima]] was conceived and born.
* BalloonBelly: Happens to Yukino in Episode 5.
* BecomingTheMask: Yukino wore her mask of perfection for so long that even when she decided not to put on a fake persona anymore, she discovered that her true personality had become like the mask just less perfect.
** Arima also wore a mask of perfection, and a few more under the first one. [[spoiler:This became an issue in later chapters because the stress of it was slowly destroying his life socially and emotionally]].
* BeneathTheMask: Arima is insanely scared of what's beneath his.
** ItRunsInTheFamily: Because he desperately hopes that whatever problems his biological parents had were not passed down to him.
* BerserkButton: Mistake Tsubasa for a Middle Schooler and she'll explode. [[{{VisualPun}} No really.]]
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Arima may ''seem'' the perfect boyfriend -- good-looking, caring, chivalrous, understanding -- but it becomes clear quite soon that he has… issues. And there's Rika, who at the age of five managed to hit a boy some five years ''older'' with a baseball bat, and make him stop bullying her best friend Aya's older brother.
* {{Bifauxnen}}: Maho and Yukino in Steel Snow. Tsuda even {{lampshade|Hanging}}s it by commenting how, during the play, Yukino's shoulders broadened and her breasts flattened for some inexplicable reason.
* BigScrewedUpFamily: The Arima family suffered from a continuing cycle of abuse and heartache. Reiichirou, Souichiro's grandfather and Soji and Reiji's father, [[spoiler: was ''horribly'' physically abused by his own father because his father couldn't stand how beautiful he was.]] Reiichirou as a result was disconnected emotionally and abused his own children emotionally. Eiko as a result became a bitter and angry person, but Soji managed to rise above it and become a better man. [[spoiler: Reiichirou later connected with another woman, where Reiji was conceived, but harassment from the Arima family caused the woman to attempt murder-suicide with Reiji, destroying the boy emotionally.]] Finally, [[spoiler: Souichiro was emotionally stunted because of physical and emotional abuse he suffered from his biological mother Ryoko, and from the isolation he felt from the Arima family, who hated him because of Reiji.]]
* BlackSheep: What Arima is considered by his entire family, save for his aunt and uncle.
* BookAndSwitch: Done by Yukino, to hide a comedic book behind a more serious one.
* BreakHerHeartToSaveHer: Attempted by Arima [[spoiler: when he recovers his memories of Ryoko's abuse.]] He then starts pushing Yukino away out of fear to harming her. [[spoiler: It doesn't work. Even after ''he pretty much ravishes Yukino''.]]
* BrokenAce: Arima, ''very'' much so.
** Yukino is as well, but a far milder version.
* BrokenBird: [[spoiler: Arima. HOLY SHIT, ARIMA.]]
* BroodingBoyGentleGirl: As the series [[CerebusSyndrome becomes angstier]], Arima and Yukino fit in here more and more.
* CallingTheOldManOut: In the manga, it's [[spoiler: Calling the Old ''Woman'' Out.]]
* CanNotSpitItOut: Reiji reveals to Soji at one point that despite his cold nature, their father Reiichiro really does love him but can't ever say it because he always ends up saying the wrong thing to Soji. Eiko also implies that Reiichiro wants her to become what she wants instead of a doctor as she only wants to be one to impress him. He says it so harshly though that it still makes her run out in tears.
* CastHerd
* ChildProdigy: Arima (who else) is mentioned to have been one.
* ChivalrousPervert: Asaba, who's very much a womanizer but will not force a girl into anything if she doesn't want to, and is also a very loyal friend.
* ClassRepresentative: Yukino ''and'' Arima.
* ClassTrip: In the manga, the characters get to go to Kyoto in a class trip.
* ClingyJealousGirl: Tsubasa Shibahime, when introduced.
* ClipShow: That lasts 1 and 1/2 episodes.
* ClubPresident: Arima, too.
* CompletelyOffTopicReport: Aya Sawada's writing skill was discovered when she wrote a story that had nothing to do with the assigned report.
* CrocodileTears: Yukino attempts this when initially forced to do part of Arima's committee work. It fails.
* CutShort: The anime ran into even more of the problems with deadlines and budgets that plagued later episodes of ''Evangelion''. It was cut short due to Tsuda's dissatisfaction with the later episodes.
* ADateWithRosiePalms: While subject to a DiscretionShot, it's made perfectly clear that, when Arima is struggling with his own feelings of inferiority as well as his feelings towards Yukino, he takes matters into his own hands, so to speak, to relieve the emotional pressure. This contrasts with later, when, after his mother re-enters his life, Arima forces himself onto Yukino.
* DeadpanSnarker: Reiji.
* DefiledForever: [[spoiler: The manga's explanation for how Ryoko got as AxCrazy as she is, is apparently that she was molested in her childhood. You'd think that she was just claiming it to guilt-trip her son into giving her cash, but later flashbacks confirm her story.]]
* DemonHead
* DenserAndWackier: The anime's sense of humor is this in comparison to the manga, being a lot more zany and using more exaggerated facial expressions. The anime itself started out as a fairly faithful adaptation that was just a bit quirkier in style, but it eventually got to the point that the over-the-top comedy overtook the story's more dramatic elements as the main focus. This became a point of contention between Masami Tsuda and Hideaki Anno, since Tsuda felt that the anime was putting too much emphasis on the comedy to her liking.
* DistantFinale: The manga.
* DullEyesOfUnhappiness: [[spoiler: Arima, as his Dark Side emerges more and more.]]
* DysfunctionJunction: Including but not limited to the entire Arima family, as wells as much of the main cast.
* EarWorm: In Episode 6, after Yukino and Souichirou share an emotion-charged hug, Yukino is left alone when Souichirou leaves to clear his head. To her horror, a song she really hates starts playing in her head.
** The song is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXEGYswZ7BE SOS]] by the 1970s' pop band Pink Lady. Yukino's hating of the song has to do with the [[http://www.kiwi-musume.com/lyrics/pinklady/sos.html lyrics]] (making it a BilingualBonus for those who understand them when the song plays).
* EvilMatriarch: In the manga, [[spoiler:Arima's mother Ryouko.]] Also a [[ManipulativeBastard Manipulative Bitch]].
** Eiko, Arima's aunt, also applies, though it is later explained that she had a [[FreudianExcuse difficult family life]] which is why she resents her brother (Arima's adoptive father Shoji) and his family so much.
* FacelessMasses
* FakeBand: The Yin & Yang, where Kazuma is the lead singer. Their supposed amazing and revolutionary sound gets away from being shown because they only appear in the manga (and for five minutes in the anime).
* FamilyThemeNaming: Yukino and her sisters' names all end with the kanji "no" (野), which means "field".
* FlirtyStepsiblings: Kazuma and Tsubasa. Kazuma is the first to fall in non-step-sibling love with Tsubasa but eventually the feelings are mutual. Their parents are briefly surprised, but completely supportive. They also met in their mid-teens, so really there's nothing all that sibling like in their relationship.
* FreezeFrameBonus: See ShoutOut below.
* GainaxEnding: The anime came to an abrupt end just as a new arc was about to start, due to CreativeDifferences between Masami Tsuda and Hideaki Anno.
* GeckoEnding: A plot-unrelated ending coupled with not finishing the original arc, due to CreativeDifferences with a ''really'' upset Masami Tsuda.
* GenerationXerox: In the manga, it's shown that Yukino looks almost identical to her mother at the same age. [[spoiler: Later, Arima ends up both looking and sounding just like his father.]]
* GivingUpTheGhost: Happens in episode 13 from Kazuma's mom hitting him for not warning her that Tsubasa was coming over.
* GoGetterGirl: Yukino's personality in public.
* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: [[spoiler: When Soichiro and Yukino finally consummate their relationship, the following pages make it look like they just did the sexual equivalent of redeeming the souls of mankind.]]
* HappilyAdopted: Soichiro.
* HappilyMarried: Yukino's parents and Soichiro's adoptive parents. Also Kazuma's mother and Tsubasa's father later.
* [[SheIsAllGrownUp He Is All Grown Up]]: Takefumi much to Tsubaki's disappointment.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Arima and Asaba, especially in the noticeably darker-in-tone second half of the manga.
* HiddenDepths: Asaba Hideaki, resident ChivalrousPervert and Arima's extremely supportive best friend. It's not until the very last tankobon that the reader finds out about [[spoiler:his awful relationship with his JerkAss family and the loneliness it brings]].
** Reiichirou Arima, Eiko and Soji's father, comes off as an emotionless bastard to his family. Not only does he have frequent affairs on his wife, to the point where she demands a divorce and ''ditches'' the children, but he shows no interest in his children's accomplishments. Whenever Eiko or Soji would talk to him about their good grades or general activities, instead of praising their accomplishments he would admonish them for showing joy over insignificant things. [[spoiler: However, it was revealed that he suffered ''monstrous'' abuse from his own father for no other reason than the fact that he was beautiful. His whole body was covered in scars from the abuse, and it left him emotionally stunted. It turns out he really did love his children all along, but he didn't know how to express the love he felt for them because of the abuse he'd suffered and instead ending up hurting them with his emotionless nature, and he in turn resented them for his inability to express himself.]]
* ImpossiblyCoolClothes
* InformedAttribute: Yukino mentioned Arima’s ‘traditionally narrow eyes’ as one of his features she finds attractive. Due to the {{Mukokuseki}} art style, the audience have no way of seeing this. The audience DOES get treated to a picture of Arima with half-closed eyes though which is probably the closest way of making him look asian.
* JerkAss:
** The male students from another school who caused trouble for the gang during the Kyoto field trip.
** The male teacher who predicted failure for Kazuma when he wanted to quit school to join the 'Yin and Yang' rock band full time.
* KarmaHoudini: Arima ''punched'' a stranger for pushing Yukino when she tried to diffuse a fight during a school trip. The school adviser was watching -- and pretended he was going blind or senile.
* LetHerGrowUpDear: Hiroyuki's attitude toward his sweet little Yukino, and her mother's reaction, are textbook examples.
* LostInTranslation: The full Japanese title is a bit of a double entendre; "Kareshi" means "His" and "Kanojo" means "Her," but they also respectively mean "Boyfriend" and "Girlfriend."
* LoudspeakerTruck
* LuminescentBlush: Very common when characters in established or budding relationships are sufficiently embarrassed.
* ManipulativeBastard: Arima (initially) after finding out Yukino's secret.
-->'''Arima:''' What else am I supposed to do? I'm far too busy and you're the perfect person to do my work for me.
-->'''Yukino:''' Bastard!
-->'''Arima:''' You're going to be very useful. Well, I won't force you to do it. If you don't want to, just say so. That is, if you have that kind of courage.
-->'''Yukino:''' *teeth clench* You scheming bastard.
* MamaBear: Soichiros adoptive mother definitely counts. She can be seen protecting him from bullies ''by charging at them with a broom'' in flashbacks and is the one that [[spoiler: slaps his abusive biological mother]].
* MediumBlending
* MistakenForGay: Asaba, by Miyazawa when they hated each other and he revealed his plans for Maryland to her. His choice of words: "I'm going to take (Arima) from you."
* NightmareFace: If this were a horror series, the faces Yukino makes while chasing Tsubasa through the school would be '''terrifying'''. As it is, they're still very much this to the poor hunted.
* NoPeriodsPeriod: [[spoiler: At some point, Yukino realizes that her period hasn't come in at least two months and wonders if she's pregnant. Considering the TeenPregnancy trope below, she's right.]]
* NoSmoking: Played for laughs many times in the Manga, where in the series resident {{Author Avatar}} is smacked around by Yukino for smoking, as well as the series resident {{Yamato Nadeshiko}}.
* ObliviousMockery: Reiichiro, the father of Soji and Reiji, is hinted at not understanding that his dismissive attitude towards his children is incredibly hurtful. One obvious example is when he shuns Eiko's dreams of becoming a doctor, and simply asks "What?" when she flees the room in tears. The fact that he probably actually tried to encourage her to follow what she wants to do instead of trying to impress him makes it almost a bit heartbreaking.
* OfficialCouple
* OlderThanTheyLook:
** Tsubasa, who at fifteen was confused with a middle-schooler by her ''younger'' stepbrother.
** [[spoiler: Kazuma and Tsubasa in the distant finale. They still look like they did in high school.]]
** And Yukino's parents, who don't look they're nearing 40.
** When Soiichiro meets [[spoiler: his biological father]], you wouldn't guess that the latter is at least double as old. It turns ridiculous when it is said in the last chapter that [[spoiler: grown-up Soiichiro now looks exactly like his father, considering that Soiichiro actually looking like an adult in stark contrast to what Reiji looked like during his appeareance]].
* OneeSama: Yukino's "facade".
* ParentalAbandonment: Arima is the biggest case, but there are several others.
* ParentalNeglect: When Arima's mother wasn't beating him, she was leaving him alone for days on end. Becomes horrifying after she learns Arima isn't going to get her easy money and outright leaves him to ''die''.
* PapaWolf: Multiple cases:
** Seems to be a pattern for Miyazawa fathers with daughters. Hiroyuki had physical fights with Yukinos grandfather and resorted to elope with his wife (and even gets scorned till today). The ever-perfect Arima also faces quite some issues with Hiroyuki himself, despite them being a lot less extreme. [[spoiler: When Yukino teases Arima in the last chapter about Sakura marrying one day, he instantly gives a BigNo, causing her to remind him of this tendency in her family]].
*** Specifically interisting about this is that so far, the fathers have apparently always married into the family, rather then being born into it. So instead of it being a trait of Miyazawa males, it could rather be that the Miyazawa women share a certain taste for possessive men.
** Soji is very protective of Soichiro. He doesn't take physical action, but he defies his family multiple times whenever they bully his son. [[spoiler: He also protects and spoils Reiji from their sister as well as other bullies and it is explicitly stated that he was more of a father than an older brother to Reiji]].
** [[spoiler: Reiji]] turns out to be one. He at first seems to be uncaring, selfish and aloof, but the moment [[spoiler: Soichiros abusive mother]] appears, he literally [[spoiler: takes out a gun and attempts to murder her for Soichiros sake]].
* PetitePride: Sakura Tsubaki, resident {{Tomboy}}, is proud to admit she has no boobs at all.
* PinkySwear
* PottyFailure: A young Soichiro is shown in a flashback as having wet the bed soon after being taken in by his aunt and uncle, he breaks down in absolute horror and cries his eyes out, as he fully expects this action to result in his new parents ''beating'' him and is shocked when they instead comfort him.
* RapeAsDrama: [[spoiler:This skates a rather thin line, but during Soichiro's darkest time (when Ryoko resurfaces in his life), he forced himself on Yukino. He sees the act as rape, but when he tells that to Yukino (who was rather unperturbed by the whole thing) she is confused and replies that it wasn't, because she didn't refuse him either by saying no or pushing him away. (Paraphrased: "I only told you to wait, but I didn't tell you to stop!")]]
* RapeDiscretionShot: [[spoiler:When Arima pretty much ravishes Yukino, we only get to see her hair and her school things on the floor.]]
* RealityEnsues:
** Soichiro and Yukino are summoned to the teacher's office when their grades rapidly decline.
** When the rest of Yukino's classmates realize that they were tricked by Maho, they turn on her.
* RealMenCanCook: Apparently true for Asaba and Tonami. Arima still refuses (or very grudgingly complies) to eat what they make, though.
* RecycledSoundtrack: [[http://nicotter.net/watch/sm17981818 The recap theme]] is actually the ending theme to both the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBh17WtCDQw 1963]] ''and'' [[http://nicotter.net/watch/sm367191 2004]] versions of ''[[Anime/{{Gigantor}} Tetsujin 28]]'' and the ''Anime/SpaceBattleshipYamato'' opening was used in episode 26, both examples shouldn't be too much of a surprise since Creator/HideakiAnno initially directed this show
* RedOniBlueOni: Yukino is the red, Soichiro is the blue.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Episode 10 of the anime; when Tsubasa goes a BIT too far in her vendetta against Yukino... and incurs Yukino's wrath.
* SacredFirstKiss
* SexyDiscretionShot: Both in the manga and anime, when Yukino and Arima consummate their relationship, the imagery goes into a bunch of metaphorical scenes including them as young children. So much so that it came off as something like a BigLippedAlligatorMoment, with readers/viewers debating whether they actually had sex or not, until it was explicitly confirmed a few chapters/episodes later.
* SchoolIdol: Yukino works hard to maintain this status.
* SchoolPlay
* {{Shoujo}}
* ShoutOut: To Hideaki Anno's own Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion in episode 11 of the anime. When Yukino begins to think of people she's met in the past to compare another person to, a [[FreezeFrameBonus quick use of the freeze-frame feature]] [[BetterOnDVD on one's DVD player]] reveals images of Misato, Kaji, Asuka, Shinji, Rei, and Toji, amongst others. Then later on when she's taunted by the president of a rival class, an imaginary segment has her she growing to the size of a building and looking and sounding very much like a berserk EVA.
** In episode 1 Yukino is shown hunched over holding something in her palms, in a pose that is virtually a carbon copy of Rei when she holds Lilith's egg. In the same episode J. S. Bach's "Air" is playing in the background at one point (a piece used in NGE).
** Then in episode 23, as Yukino gets on a bicycle with Arima, she starts the process with a close-up on Yukino's eyes (ala Shinji), and says "Unit One", ala Evangelion.
** In general, there are a lot of stylistic choices extremely reminiscent of ''Eva'' in the anime, including a lot of elements from the last two episodes (original airing), such as spotlights on characters contemplating their situation and digesting their misfortunes, and even a ClipShow on episode 14 (as in ''Eva''), except it carried over to the first half of ep. 15 in ''Kare Kano''.
* SlasherSmile: Yukino Miyazawa sported a few of these.
* TheSnarkKnight: Maho Isawa.
* {{Squick}}: In-universe. Asaba's childhood photo of him being surrounded by older girls provokes this (silent) reaction from Miyazawa and Arima.
* StepfordSmiler: ''Both'' Yukino and Arima. She does it to be praised and get everyone's love and admiration, he does it to hide his problems.
* StockShoujoBullyingTactics: After she stops trying to be a model student, Yukino has the entire class stop speaking to her.
* SuperDeformed: Used ''heavily''. Yukino spends at least half her time onscreen in this form.
* TeenPregnancy: [[spoiler: The reason why Yukino and Arima marry soon after graduation is that she's pregnant with their eldest daughter, Sakura.]]
* {{Tomboy}}: Tsubaki.
* TroubledAbuser: [[spoiler: By definition Ryoko is this. It doesn't ever excuse what she did to her son, though.]]
* TwoFaced: Yukino is this at the beginning, but grows out of it. [[spoiler: Soichiro deals with it for most of the manga.]]
** [[spoiler: Interesting in the fact that while Yukino's dual life is played for laughs, Soichiro's is much more nightmare fuel and causes him to be wildly self-destructive.]]
* UnluckyChildhoodFriend: Tsubasa and, interestingly, we see the effects it has on her.
* VFormationTeamShot
* WellDoneSonGuy:
** Both Soji and Eiko spent a better part of their childhood trying to win their father over by being overachievers and excelling in school and extracurricular activities. But Reiichirou would only greet their accomplishments with scorn, and Soji stopped caring after a while. Eiko however was emotionally crushed by her father's repeated rejection and became a very bitter person as an adult. [[spoiler: Made all the more tragic by the fact that Reiichirou ''was'' proud of his children and loved them, but couldn't properly express it to them. It was also implied that Reiichirou recognized that they only pushed themselves to excel just to please him, which he thought was ridiculous.]]
** Soichiro's motives for being an over achieving student was trying to make up for what he thought was the burden he bought on his aunt and uncle and he simply wanted to give back the care they gave him by being successful. His aunt and uncle could care less about any such idea and just want Soichiro to be happy.
* WifeHusbandry: [[spoiler: Asaba, in regards to Yukino and Arima's daughter Sakura. He tries to back off years later, but she will have nothing of it.]]
* WiseBeyondTheirYears: In the early volumes, Yukino's little sister Kano would frequently give her advice about her social and love life.
** [[spoiler: In a flashback in the DistantFinale, Sakura, then age 3, tells her mother Yukino to feel free to go back to work -- she and her younger brothers will be fine.]]
* WoundedGazelleGambit: Subverted: Tsubasa tries it on Yukino, but [[GenreSavvy Arima]] isn't fooled one bit.
* YamatoNadeshiko: Shizune, Arima's adopted mother, pulls off all aspects of this perfectly. [[spoiler: This includes the "hidden steel" part of the trope, when she ends up coordinating with Yukino to get a chance to deliver a beatdown on Arima's abusive biological mother.]] Rika is clearly one in training.
* {{Yandere}}: [[spoiler: Arima's dark side]] has very strong whiffs of this. You slowly see his thoughts morph from wanting to be with [[spoiler: Yukino]], to wanting to isolate her from everyone and keep her just for himself. His fighting with these thoughts proves that [[spoiler: Arima]] is a good guy, but him imagining tying [[spoiler: Yukino]] in chains does not bode well for their relationship.
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''His & Her Circumstances'' (''Kareshi Kanojo no Jijō'', or ''[=KareKano=]'' for short) is a {{shoujo}} manga by Masami Tsuda.
Yukino Miyazawa is a gifted high school student lauded by classmates and teachers. This apparent brilliance, however, is mainly used as a means to garner praise. At home, Yukino is spoiled and slovenly.
When a new student, Soichiro Arima, proves himself the equal of Yukino, her narcissistic edifice is threatened with collapse, so she begins to plot Arima's downfall, whilst maintaining an air of friendship with him. A chance encounter leads Arima to discover Yukino's secret and romance begins to blossom… as they both learn to just be themselves.
The manga was adapted to anime by Creator/StudioGainax in 1998, directed by Creator/HideakiAnno, of ''[[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Evangelion]]'' fame. The anime began as a faithful adaptation of the manga, if somewhat quirkier in style. Halfway through, the anime's story goes in a completely different direction from the manga, which eventually led to an [[GainaxEnding inconclusive ending]]. [[DisownedAdaptation Tsuda herself was notably disappointed by the anime]]. Meanwhile, the manga continued for several more years, exploring the several parallel lives of supporting characters, as well as the main characters' pasts (and even their families' pasts), finally concluding with its 21st volume in 2005.
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!!This show provides examples of:
* AbsurdlyPowerfulStudentCouncil: After a TimeSkip, when Yukino's little sisters are entering high school, some exposition claims that Yukino and Arima have led the school to a glorious new era, with Yukino depicted as a Roman Legionnaire. Now, granted, they're both brilliant honor students, but ''what'' exactly have they been up to? ([[NoodleIncident It's never made explicit]].)
* AbusiveParents: [[spoiler: Arima's biological mother Ryouko's entire relationship with Arima was a constant cycle of abuse and neglect. She would beat him constantly when they were together and lock him alone in their apartment for long periods of time, only to return later and typically beat him more. Arima was constantly sick or starving and stated that he mainly survived off of stale bread. The very last interaction he had with his mother before being taken away was her coming home after a long absence to merely check if he had ''died'' yet before leaving again. ]]
* AdaptationDistillation: As with ''Manga/KodomoNoOmocha'', the anime team blended in enough screwball comedy to keep the [[{{Shoujo}} romantic aspects]] from getting too [[TastesLikeDiabetes saccharine]]. Masami Tsuda, however, was less than pleased with the result.
* AlphaBitch: Maho starts as this, but soon [[CharacterDevelopment she steps out]] [[LovableAlphaBitch of the role]].
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: How Yukino views Arima at first. He, on the other hand, is too smitten by her to even [[UnknownRival notice it]].
** Yukino is this to Maho and the latter acknowledges it.
* AspectMontage
* AuthorAppeal: Not very noticeable at first, but by the end of the manga, the story was slewing from one story the author wanted to tell to another – trouble was, they were only tangentially related to the main characters the readers cared about.
* BabiesEverAfter: The ending.
* TheBabyTrap: In the manga, this was how [[spoiler:Souichiro Arima]] was conceived and born.
* BalloonBelly: Happens to Yukino in Episode 5.
* BecomingTheMask: Yukino wore her mask of perfection for so long that even when she decided not to put on a fake persona anymore, she discovered that her true personality had become like the mask just less perfect.
** Arima also wore a mask of perfection, and a few more under the first one. [[spoiler:This became an issue in later chapters because the stress of it was slowly destroying his life socially and emotionally]].
* BeneathTheMask: Arima is insanely scared of what's beneath his.
** ItRunsInTheFamily: Because he desperately hopes that whatever problems his biological parents had were not passed down to him.
* BerserkButton: Mistake Tsubasa for a Middle Schooler and she'll explode. [[{{VisualPun}} No really.]]
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Arima may ''seem'' the perfect boyfriend -- good-looking, caring, chivalrous, understanding -- but it becomes clear quite soon that he has… issues. And there's Rika, who at the age of five managed to hit a boy some five years ''older'' with a baseball bat, and make him stop bullying her best friend Aya's older brother.
* {{Bifauxnen}}: Maho and Yukino in Steel Snow. Tsuda even {{lampshade|Hanging}}s it by commenting how, during the play, Yukino's shoulders broadened and her breasts flattened for some inexplicable reason.
* BigScrewedUpFamily: The Arima family suffered from a continuing cycle of abuse and heartache. Reiichirou, Souichiro's grandfather and Soji and Reiji's father, [[spoiler: was ''horribly'' physically abused by his own father because his father couldn't stand how beautiful he was.]] Reiichirou as a result was disconnected emotionally and abused his own children emotionally. Eiko as a result became a bitter and angry person, but Soji managed to rise above it and become a better man. [[spoiler: Reiichirou later connected with another woman, where Reiji was conceived, but harassment from the Arima family caused the woman to attempt murder-suicide with Reiji, destroying the boy emotionally.]] Finally, [[spoiler: Souichiro was emotionally stunted because of physical and emotional abuse he suffered from his biological mother Ryoko, and from the isolation he felt from the Arima family, who hated him because of Reiji.]]
* BlackSheep: What Arima is considered by his entire family, save for his aunt and uncle.
* BookAndSwitch: Done by Yukino, to hide a comedic book behind a more serious one.
* BreakHerHeartToSaveHer: Attempted by Arima [[spoiler: when he recovers his memories of Ryoko's abuse.]] He then starts pushing Yukino away out of fear to harming her. [[spoiler: It doesn't work. Even after ''he pretty much ravishes Yukino''.]]
* BrokenAce: Arima, ''very'' much so.
** Yukino is as well, but a far milder version.
* BrokenBird: [[spoiler: Arima. HOLY SHIT, ARIMA.]]
* BroodingBoyGentleGirl: As the series [[CerebusSyndrome becomes angstier]], Arima and Yukino fit in here more and more.
* CallingTheOldManOut: In the manga, it's [[spoiler: Calling the Old ''Woman'' Out.]]
* CanNotSpitItOut: Reiji reveals to Soji at one point that despite his cold nature, their father Reiichiro really does love him but can't ever say it because he always ends up saying the wrong thing to Soji. Eiko also implies that Reiichiro wants her to become what she wants instead of a doctor as she only wants to be one to impress him. He says it so harshly though that it still makes her run out in tears.
* CastHerd
* ChildProdigy: Arima (who else) is mentioned to have been one.
* ChivalrousPervert: Asaba, who's very much a womanizer but will not force a girl into anything if she doesn't want to, and is also a very loyal friend.
* ClassRepresentative: Yukino ''and'' Arima.
* ClassTrip: In the manga, the characters get to go to Kyoto in a class trip.
* ClingyJealousGirl: Tsubasa Shibahime, when introduced.
* ClipShow: That lasts 1 and 1/2 episodes.
* ClubPresident: Arima, too.
* CompletelyOffTopicReport: Aya Sawada's writing skill was discovered when she wrote a story that had nothing to do with the assigned report.
* CrocodileTears: Yukino attempts this when initially forced to do part of Arima's committee work. It fails.
* CutShort: The anime ran into even more of the problems with deadlines and budgets that plagued later episodes of ''Evangelion''. It was cut short due to Tsuda's dissatisfaction with the later episodes.
* ADateWithRosiePalms: While subject to a DiscretionShot, it's made perfectly clear that, when Arima is struggling with his own feelings of inferiority as well as his feelings towards Yukino, he takes matters into his own hands, so to speak, to relieve the emotional pressure. This contrasts with later, when, after his mother re-enters his life, Arima forces himself onto Yukino.
* DeadpanSnarker: Reiji.
* DefiledForever: [[spoiler: The manga's explanation for how Ryoko got as AxCrazy as she is, is apparently that she was molested in her childhood. You'd think that she was just claiming it to guilt-trip her son into giving her cash, but later flashbacks confirm her story.]]
* DemonHead
* DenserAndWackier: The anime's sense of humor is this in comparison to the manga, being a lot more zany and using more exaggerated facial expressions. The anime itself started out as a fairly faithful adaptation that was just a bit quirkier in style, but it eventually got to the point that the over-the-top comedy overtook the story's more dramatic elements as the main focus. This became a point of contention between Masami Tsuda and Hideaki Anno, since Tsuda felt that the anime was putting too much emphasis on the comedy to her liking.
* DistantFinale: The manga.
* DullEyesOfUnhappiness: [[spoiler: Arima, as his Dark Side emerges more and more.]]
* DysfunctionJunction: Including but not limited to the entire Arima family, as wells as much of the main cast.
* EarWorm: In Episode 6, after Yukino and Souichirou share an emotion-charged hug, Yukino is left alone when Souichirou leaves to clear his head. To her horror, a song she really hates starts playing in her head.
** The song is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXEGYswZ7BE SOS]] by the 1970s' pop band Pink Lady. Yukino's hating of the song has to do with the [[http://www.kiwi-musume.com/lyrics/pinklady/sos.html lyrics]] (making it a BilingualBonus for those who understand them when the song plays).
* EvilMatriarch: In the manga, [[spoiler:Arima's mother Ryouko.]] Also a [[ManipulativeBastard Manipulative Bitch]].
** Eiko, Arima's aunt, also applies, though it is later explained that she had a [[FreudianExcuse difficult family life]] which is why she resents her brother (Arima's adoptive father Shoji) and his family so much.
* FacelessMasses
* FakeBand: The Yin & Yang, where Kazuma is the lead singer. Their supposed amazing and revolutionary sound gets away from being shown because they only appear in the manga (and for five minutes in the anime).
* FamilyThemeNaming: Yukino and her sisters' names all end with the kanji "no" (野), which means "field".
* FlirtyStepsiblings: Kazuma and Tsubasa. Kazuma is the first to fall in non-step-sibling love with Tsubasa but eventually the feelings are mutual. Their parents are briefly surprised, but completely supportive. They also met in their mid-teens, so really there's nothing all that sibling like in their relationship.
* FreezeFrameBonus: See ShoutOut below.
* GainaxEnding: The anime came to an abrupt end just as a new arc was about to start, due to CreativeDifferences between Masami Tsuda and Hideaki Anno.
* GeckoEnding: A plot-unrelated ending coupled with not finishing the original arc, due to CreativeDifferences with a ''really'' upset Masami Tsuda.
* GenerationXerox: In the manga, it's shown that Yukino looks almost identical to her mother at the same age. [[spoiler: Later, Arima ends up both looking and sounding just like his father.]]
* GivingUpTheGhost: Happens in episode 13 from Kazuma's mom hitting him for not warning her that Tsubasa was coming over.
* GoGetterGirl: Yukino's personality in public.
* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: [[spoiler: When Soichiro and Yukino finally consummate their relationship, the following pages make it look like they just did the sexual equivalent of redeeming the souls of mankind.]]
* HappilyAdopted: Soichiro.
* HappilyMarried: Yukino's parents and Soichiro's adoptive parents. Also Kazuma's mother and Tsubasa's father later.
* [[SheIsAllGrownUp He Is All Grown Up]]: Takefumi much to Tsubaki's disappointment.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Arima and Asaba, especially in the noticeably darker-in-tone second half of the manga.
* HiddenDepths: Asaba Hideaki, resident ChivalrousPervert and Arima's extremely supportive best friend. It's not until the very last tankobon that the reader finds out about [[spoiler:his awful relationship with his JerkAss family and the loneliness it brings]].
** Reiichirou Arima, Eiko and Soji's father, comes off as an emotionless bastard to his family. Not only does he have frequent affairs on his wife, to the point where she demands a divorce and ''ditches'' the children, but he shows no interest in his children's accomplishments. Whenever Eiko or Soji would talk to him about their good grades or general activities, instead of praising their accomplishments he would admonish them for showing joy over insignificant things. [[spoiler: However, it was revealed that he suffered ''monstrous'' abuse from his own father for no other reason than the fact that he was beautiful. His whole body was covered in scars from the abuse, and it left him emotionally stunted. It turns out he really did love his children all along, but he didn't know how to express the love he felt for them because of the abuse he'd suffered and instead ending up hurting them with his emotionless nature, and he in turn resented them for his inability to express himself.]]
* ImpossiblyCoolClothes
* InformedAttribute: Yukino mentioned Arima’s ‘traditionally narrow eyes’ as one of his features she finds attractive. Due to the {{Mukokuseki}} art style, the audience have no way of seeing this. The audience DOES get treated to a picture of Arima with half-closed eyes though which is probably the closest way of making him look asian.
* JerkAss:
** The male students from another school who caused trouble for the gang during the Kyoto field trip.
** The male teacher who predicted failure for Kazuma when he wanted to quit school to join the 'Yin and Yang' rock band full time.
* KarmaHoudini: Arima ''punched'' a stranger for pushing Yukino when she tried to diffuse a fight during a school trip. The school adviser was watching -- and pretended he was going blind or senile.
* LetHerGrowUpDear: Hiroyuki's attitude toward his sweet little Yukino, and her mother's reaction, are textbook examples.
* LostInTranslation: The full Japanese title is a bit of a double entendre; "Kareshi" means "His" and "Kanojo" means "Her," but they also respectively mean "Boyfriend" and "Girlfriend."
* LoudspeakerTruck
* LuminescentBlush: Very common when characters in established or budding relationships are sufficiently embarrassed.
* ManipulativeBastard: Arima (initially) after finding out Yukino's secret.
-->'''Arima:''' What else am I supposed to do? I'm far too busy and you're the perfect person to do my work for me.
-->'''Yukino:''' Bastard!
-->'''Arima:''' You're going to be very useful. Well, I won't force you to do it. If you don't want to, just say so. That is, if you have that kind of courage.
-->'''Yukino:''' *teeth clench* You scheming bastard.
* MamaBear: Soichiros adoptive mother definitely counts. She can be seen protecting him from bullies ''by charging at them with a broom'' in flashbacks and is the one that [[spoiler: slaps his abusive biological mother]].
* MediumBlending
* MistakenForGay: Asaba, by Miyazawa when they hated each other and he revealed his plans for Maryland to her. His choice of words: "I'm going to take (Arima) from you."
* NightmareFace: If this were a horror series, the faces Yukino makes while chasing Tsubasa through the school would be '''terrifying'''. As it is, they're still very much this to the poor hunted.
* NoPeriodsPeriod: [[spoiler: At some point, Yukino realizes that her period hasn't come in at least two months and wonders if she's pregnant. Considering the TeenPregnancy trope below, she's right.]]
* NoSmoking: Played for laughs many times in the Manga, where in the series resident {{Author Avatar}} is smacked around by Yukino for smoking, as well as the series resident {{Yamato Nadeshiko}}.
* ObliviousMockery: Reiichiro, the father of Soji and Reiji, is hinted at not understanding that his dismissive attitude towards his children is incredibly hurtful. One obvious example is when he shuns Eiko's dreams of becoming a doctor, and simply asks "What?" when she flees the room in tears. The fact that he probably actually tried to encourage her to follow what she wants to do instead of trying to impress him makes it almost a bit heartbreaking.
* OfficialCouple
* OlderThanTheyLook:
** Tsubasa, who at fifteen was confused with a middle-schooler by her ''younger'' stepbrother.
** [[spoiler: Kazuma and Tsubasa in the distant finale. They still look like they did in high school.]]
** And Yukino's parents, who don't look they're nearing 40.
** When Soiichiro meets [[spoiler: his biological father]], you wouldn't guess that the latter is at least double as old. It turns ridiculous when it is said in the last chapter that [[spoiler: grown-up Soiichiro now looks exactly like his father, considering that Soiichiro actually looking like an adult in stark contrast to what Reiji looked like during his appeareance]].
* OneeSama: Yukino's "facade".
* ParentalAbandonment: Arima is the biggest case, but there are several others.
* ParentalNeglect: When Arima's mother wasn't beating him, she was leaving him alone for days on end. Becomes horrifying after she learns Arima isn't going to get her easy money and outright leaves him to ''die''.
* PapaWolf: Multiple cases:
** Seems to be a pattern for Miyazawa fathers with daughters. Hiroyuki had physical fights with Yukinos grandfather and resorted to elope with his wife (and even gets scorned till today). The ever-perfect Arima also faces quite some issues with Hiroyuki himself, despite them being a lot less extreme. [[spoiler: When Yukino teases Arima in the last chapter about Sakura marrying one day, he instantly gives a BigNo, causing her to remind him of this tendency in her family]].
*** Specifically interisting about this is that so far, the fathers have apparently always married into the family, rather then being born into it. So instead of it being a trait of Miyazawa males, it could rather be that the Miyazawa women share a certain taste for possessive men.
** Soji is very protective of Soichiro. He doesn't take physical action, but he defies his family multiple times whenever they bully his son. [[spoiler: He also protects and spoils Reiji from their sister as well as other bullies and it is explicitly stated that he was more of a father than an older brother to Reiji]].
** [[spoiler: Reiji]] turns out to be one. He at first seems to be uncaring, selfish and aloof, but the moment [[spoiler: Soichiros abusive mother]] appears, he literally [[spoiler: takes out a gun and attempts to murder her for Soichiros sake]].
* PetitePride: Sakura Tsubaki, resident {{Tomboy}}, is proud to admit she has no boobs at all.
* PinkySwear
* PottyFailure: A young Soichiro is shown in a flashback as having wet the bed soon after being taken in by his aunt and uncle, he breaks down in absolute horror and cries his eyes out, as he fully expects this action to result in his new parents ''beating'' him and is shocked when they instead comfort him.
* RapeAsDrama: [[spoiler:This skates a rather thin line, but during Soichiro's darkest time (when Ryoko resurfaces in his life), he forced himself on Yukino. He sees the act as rape, but when he tells that to Yukino (who was rather unperturbed by the whole thing) she is confused and replies that it wasn't, because she didn't refuse him either by saying no or pushing him away. (Paraphrased: "I only told you to wait, but I didn't tell you to stop!")]]
* RapeDiscretionShot: [[spoiler:When Arima pretty much ravishes Yukino, we only get to see her hair and her school things on the floor.]]
* RealityEnsues:
** Soichiro and Yukino are summoned to the teacher's office when their grades rapidly decline.
** When the rest of Yukino's classmates realize that they were tricked by Maho, they turn on her.
* RealMenCanCook: Apparently true for Asaba and Tonami. Arima still refuses (or very grudgingly complies) to eat what they make, though.
* RecycledSoundtrack: [[http://nicotter.net/watch/sm17981818 The recap theme]] is actually the ending theme to both the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBh17WtCDQw 1963]] ''and'' [[http://nicotter.net/watch/sm367191 2004]] versions of ''[[Anime/{{Gigantor}} Tetsujin 28]]'' and the ''Anime/SpaceBattleshipYamato'' opening was used in episode 26, both examples shouldn't be too much of a surprise since Creator/HideakiAnno initially directed this show
* RedOniBlueOni: Yukino is the red, Soichiro is the blue.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Episode 10 of the anime; when Tsubasa goes a BIT too far in her vendetta against Yukino... and incurs Yukino's wrath.
* SacredFirstKiss
* SexyDiscretionShot: Both in the manga and anime, when Yukino and Arima consummate their relationship, the imagery goes into a bunch of metaphorical scenes including them as young children. So much so that it came off as something like a BigLippedAlligatorMoment, with readers/viewers debating whether they actually had sex or not, until it was explicitly confirmed a few chapters/episodes later.
* SchoolIdol: Yukino works hard to maintain this status.
* SchoolPlay
* {{Shoujo}}
* ShoutOut: To Hideaki Anno's own Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion in episode 11 of the anime. When Yukino begins to think of people she's met in the past to compare another person to, a [[FreezeFrameBonus quick use of the freeze-frame feature]] [[BetterOnDVD on one's DVD player]] reveals images of Misato, Kaji, Asuka, Shinji, Rei, and Toji, amongst others. Then later on when she's taunted by the president of a rival class, an imaginary segment has her she growing to the size of a building and looking and sounding very much like a berserk EVA.
** In episode 1 Yukino is shown hunched over holding something in her palms, in a pose that is virtually a carbon copy of Rei when she holds Lilith's egg. In the same episode J. S. Bach's "Air" is playing in the background at one point (a piece used in NGE).
** Then in episode 23, as Yukino gets on a bicycle with Arima, she starts the process with a close-up on Yukino's eyes (ala Shinji), and says "Unit One", ala Evangelion.
** In general, there are a lot of stylistic choices extremely reminiscent of ''Eva'' in the anime, including a lot of elements from the last two episodes (original airing), such as spotlights on characters contemplating their situation and digesting their misfortunes, and even a ClipShow on episode 14 (as in ''Eva''), except it carried over to the first half of ep. 15 in ''Kare Kano''.
* SlasherSmile: Yukino Miyazawa sported a few of these.
* TheSnarkKnight: Maho Isawa.
* {{Squick}}: In-universe. Asaba's childhood photo of him being surrounded by older girls provokes this (silent) reaction from Miyazawa and Arima.
* StepfordSmiler: ''Both'' Yukino and Arima. She does it to be praised and get everyone's love and admiration, he does it to hide his problems.
* StockShoujoBullyingTactics: After she stops trying to be a model student, Yukino has the entire class stop speaking to her.
* SuperDeformed: Used ''heavily''. Yukino spends at least half her time onscreen in this form.
* TeenPregnancy: [[spoiler: The reason why Yukino and Arima marry soon after graduation is that she's pregnant with their eldest daughter, Sakura.]]
* {{Tomboy}}: Tsubaki.
* TroubledAbuser: [[spoiler: By definition Ryoko is this. It doesn't ever excuse what she did to her son, though.]]
* TwoFaced: Yukino is this at the beginning, but grows out of it. [[spoiler: Soichiro deals with it for most of the manga.]]
** [[spoiler: Interesting in the fact that while Yukino's dual life is played for laughs, Soichiro's is much more nightmare fuel and causes him to be wildly self-destructive.]]
* UnluckyChildhoodFriend: Tsubasa and, interestingly, we see the effects it has on her.
* VFormationTeamShot
* WellDoneSonGuy:
** Both Soji and Eiko spent a better part of their childhood trying to win their father over by being overachievers and excelling in school and extracurricular activities. But Reiichirou would only greet their accomplishments with scorn, and Soji stopped caring after a while. Eiko however was emotionally crushed by her father's repeated rejection and became a very bitter person as an adult. [[spoiler: Made all the more tragic by the fact that Reiichirou ''was'' proud of his children and loved them, but couldn't properly express it to them. It was also implied that Reiichirou recognized that they only pushed themselves to excel just to please him, which he thought was ridiculous.]]
** Soichiro's motives for being an over achieving student was trying to make up for what he thought was the burden he bought on his aunt and uncle and he simply wanted to give back the care they gave him by being successful. His aunt and uncle could care less about any such idea and just want Soichiro to be happy.
* WifeHusbandry: [[spoiler: Asaba, in regards to Yukino and Arima's daughter Sakura. He tries to back off years later, but she will have nothing of it.]]
* WiseBeyondTheirYears: In the early volumes, Yukino's little sister Kano would frequently give her advice about her social and love life.
** [[spoiler: In a flashback in the DistantFinale, Sakura, then age 3, tells her mother Yukino to feel free to go back to work -- she and her younger brothers will be fine.]]
* WoundedGazelleGambit: Subverted: Tsubasa tries it on Yukino, but [[GenreSavvy Arima]] isn't fooled one bit.
* YamatoNadeshiko: Shizune, Arima's adopted mother, pulls off all aspects of this perfectly. [[spoiler: This includes the "hidden steel" part of the trope, when she ends up coordinating with Yukino to get a chance to deliver a beatdown on Arima's abusive biological mother.]] Rika is clearly one in training.
* {{Yandere}}: [[spoiler: Arima's dark side]] has very strong whiffs of this. You slowly see his thoughts morph from wanting to be with [[spoiler: Yukino]], to wanting to isolate her from everyone and keep her just for himself. His fighting with these thoughts proves that [[spoiler: Arima]] is a good guy, but him imagining tying [[spoiler: Yukino]] in chains does not bode well for their relationship.
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The manga was adapted to anime by Creator/StudioGainax, Creator/StudioGainax in 1998, directed by Creator/HideakiAnno, of ''[[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Evangelion]]'' fame. The anime began as a faithful adaptation of the manga, if somewhat quirkier in style. Halfway through, the anime's story goes in a completely different direction from the manga, which eventually led to an [[GainaxEnding inconclusive ending]]. [[DisownedAdaptation Tsuda herself was notably disappointed by the anime]]. Meanwhile, the manga continued for several more years, exploring the several parallel lives of supporting characters, as well as the main characters' pasts (and even their families' pasts), finally concluding with its 21st volume.volume in 2005.
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* EarWorm: In-universe version - In Episode 6, after Yukino and Souichirou share an emotion-charged hug, Yukino is left alone when Souichirou leaves to clear his head. To her horror, a song she really hates starts playing in her head.
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* EarWorm: In-universe version - In Episode 6, after Yukino and Souichirou share an emotion-charged hug, Yukino is left alone when Souichirou leaves to clear his head. To her horror, a song she really hates starts playing in her head.
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* AbsurdlyPowerfulStudentCouncil: After a TimeSkip, when Yukino's little sisters are entering high school, some exposition claims that Yukino and Arima have lead the school to a glorious new era, with Yukino depicted as a Roman Legionnaire. Now, granted, they're both brilliant honor students, but ''what'' exactly have they been up to? ([[NoodleIncident It's never made explicit]].)
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* AbsurdlyPowerfulStudentCouncil: After a TimeSkip, when Yukino's little sisters are entering high school, some exposition claims that Yukino and Arima have lead led the school to a glorious new era, with Yukino depicted as a Roman Legionnaire. Now, granted, they're both brilliant honor students, but ''what'' exactly have they been up to? ([[NoodleIncident It's never made explicit]].)
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* RapeAsDrama: [[spoiler:This skates a rather thin line, but during Soichiro's darkest time (when Ryoko resurfaces in his life), he forced himself on Yukino. He sees the act as rape, but when he tells that to Yukino she replies him that it wasn't, because she didn't refuse him either by saying no or pushing him away. (Paraphrased: "I only told you to wait, but I didn't tell you to stop!")]]
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* RapeAsDrama: [[spoiler:This skates a rather thin line, but during Soichiro's darkest time (when Ryoko resurfaces in his life), he forced himself on Yukino. He sees the act as rape, but when he tells that to Yukino (who was rather unperturbed by the whole thing) she is confused and replies him that it wasn't, because she didn't refuse him either by saying no or pushing him away. (Paraphrased: "I only told you to wait, but I didn't tell you to stop!")]]
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The manga was adapted to anime by Creator/StudioGainax, directed by Creator/HideakiAnno, of ''[[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Evangelion]]'' fame. The anime began as a faithful adaptation of the manga, if somewhat quirkier in style. Halfway through, the anime's story goes in a completely different direction from the manga, which eventually led to an [[GainaxEnding inconclusive ending]]. [[DisownedAdaptation Tsuda herself was notably disappointed by the anime]]. Meanwhile, the manga continued for several more years, exploring the several parallel lives of supporting characters, as well as the main characters' pasts (and even their families' pasts), finally concluding with its 21st volume.
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* RealSongThemeTune: The ending, "Yume no Naka e", released by Yousui Inoue in 1973 and [[CoveredUp made known to the generation that watched the show]] by Yuki Saitou in 1989. Arguably CoveredUp again for overseas anime fans, who only know it as "the duet from ''Kare Kano''".
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* {{Squick}}: In-universe: Asaba's childhood photo of him being surrounded by older girls provokes this (silent) reaction from Miyazawa and Arima.
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''Kare Kano'' originated as a manga by {{Shoujo}} author Masami Tsuda, later being adapted to anime by Creator/StudioGainax, directed by Creator/HideakiAnno, of ''[[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Evangelion]]'' fame. The anime began as a faithful adaptation of the manga, if somewhat quirkier in style. Halfway through, the anime's story goes in a completely different direction from the manga, which eventually led to its [[GainaxEnding inconclusive]]. Meanwhile, the manga continued for several more years, exploring the several parallel lives of supporting characters, as well as the main characters' pasts (and even their families' pasts), finally concluding with its 21st volume.
Known in English as ''His & Her Circumstances'' (although the Creator/{{Tokyopop}} manga uses the Japanese short title). The full Japanese title is '''''Kare'''shi '''Kano'''jo no Jijou'', which means just "His and Her Circumstances".
Known in English as ''His & Her Circumstances'' (although the Creator/{{Tokyopop}} manga uses the Japanese short title). The full Japanese title is '''''Kare'''shi '''Kano'''jo no Jijou'', which means just "His and Her Circumstances".
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* LetHerGrowUpDear: Takashi's attitude toward his sweet little Yukino, and her mother's reaction, are textbook examples.
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* LetHerGrowUpDear: Takashi's Hiroyuki's attitude toward his sweet little Yukino, and her mother's reaction, are textbook examples.
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** Soichiro and Yukino are summoned to the teacher's office when their grades rapidly decline.
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** When the rest of Yukino's classmates realize that they were tricked by Maho, they turn on her.
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* ADateWithRosiePalms: While subject to a DiscretionShot, it's made perfectly clear that, when Arima is struggling with his own feelings of inferiority as well as his feelings towards Yukino, he takes matters into his own hands, so to speak, to relieve the emotional pressure. This contrasts with later, when, after his mother re-enters his life, Arima forces himself onto Yukino.
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* DenserAndWackier: The anime's sense of humor is this in comparison to the manga, being a lot more zany and using more exaggerated facial expressions, and it eventually got to the point that it overtook the story's more dramatic elements as the main focus. This became a point of contention between Masami Tsuda and Hideaki Anno, since Tsuda felt that the anime was putting too much emphasis on the comedy to her liking.
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* DenserAndWackier: The anime's sense of humor is this in comparison to the manga, being a lot more zany and using more exaggerated facial expressions, and expressions. The anime itself started out as a fairly faithful adaptation that was just a bit quirkier in style, but it eventually got to the point that it the over-the-top comedy overtook the story's more dramatic elements as the main focus. This became a point of contention between Masami Tsuda and Hideaki Anno, since Tsuda felt that the anime was putting too much emphasis on the comedy to her liking.
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* DenserAndWackier: The anime's sense of humor is this in comparison to the manga, being a lot more zany and using more exaggerated facial expressions, and it eventually got to the point that it overtook the story's more dramatic elements as the main focus. This became a point of contention between Mayumi Tsuda and Hideaki Anno, since Tsuda felt that the anime was putting too much emphasis on the comedy to her liking.
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* DenserAndWackier: The anime's sense of humor is this in comparison to the manga, being a lot more zany and using more exaggerated facial expressions, and it eventually got to the point that it overtook the story's more dramatic elements as the main focus. This became a point of contention between Mayumi Masami Tsuda and Hideaki Anno, since Tsuda felt that the anime was putting too much emphasis on the comedy to her liking.
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* BrotherSisterIncest: Kazuma and Tsubasa. Well, sort of, since [[NotBloodSiblings they're step-siblings]]. Kazuma is the first to fall in non-step-sibling love with Tsubasa but eventually the feelings are mutual. Their parents are briefly surprised, but completely supportive.
** They also met in their mid-teens, so really there's nothing all that sibling like in their relationship.
** They also met in their mid-teens, so really there's nothing all that sibling like in their relationship.
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* FlirtyStepsiblings: Tsubasa and Kazuma.
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* FlirtyStepsiblings: Kazuma and Tsubasa. Kazuma is the first to fall in non-step-sibling love with Tsubasa and Kazuma.but eventually the feelings are mutual. Their parents are briefly surprised, but completely supportive. They also met in their mid-teens, so really there's nothing all that sibling like in their relationship.
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& GivingUpTheGhost: Happens in episode 13 from Kazuma's mom hitting him for not warning her that Tsubasa was coming over.
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& GivingUpTheGhost: Happens in episode 13 from Kazuma's mom hitting him for not warning her that Tsubasa was coming over.
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''Kare Kano'' originated as a manga by {{Shoujo}} author Masami Tsuda, later being adapted to anime by Creator/StudioGainax, directed by Creator/HideakiAnno, of ''[[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Evangelion]]'' fame. The anime began as a faithful adaptation of the manga, if somewhat quirkier in style. Halfway through, the anime's story goes in a completely different direction from the manga, which eventually led to its [[GainaxEnding inconclusive]] ending. Meanwhile, the manga continued for several more years, exploring the several parallel lives of supporting characters, as well as the main characters' pasts (and even their families' pasts), finally concluding with its 21st volume.
Known in English as '''His & Her Circumstances''' (although the Creator/{{Tokyopop}} manga uses the Japanese short title). The full Japanese title is '''''Kare'''shi '''Kano'''jo no Jijou'', which means just "His and Her Circumstances".
Known in English as '''His & Her Circumstances''' (although the Creator/{{Tokyopop}} manga uses the Japanese short title). The full Japanese title is '''''Kare'''shi '''Kano'''jo no Jijou'', which means just "His and Her Circumstances".
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''Kare Kano'' originated as a manga by {{Shoujo}} author Masami Tsuda, later being adapted to anime by Creator/StudioGainax, directed by Creator/HideakiAnno, of ''[[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Evangelion]]'' fame. The anime began as a faithful adaptation of the manga, if somewhat quirkier in style. Halfway through, the anime's story goes in a completely different direction from the manga, which eventually led to its [[GainaxEnding inconclusive]] ending.inconclusive]]. Meanwhile, the manga continued for several more years, exploring the several parallel lives of supporting characters, as well as the main characters' pasts (and even their families' pasts), finally concluding with its 21st volume.
Known in English as'''His ''His & Her Circumstances''' Circumstances'' (although the Creator/{{Tokyopop}} manga uses the Japanese short title). The full Japanese title is '''''Kare'''shi '''Kano'''jo no Jijou'', which means just "His and Her Circumstances".
Known in English as
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* AdaptationDistillation: As with ''Manga/KodomoNoOmocha'', the anime team blended in enough screwball comedy to keep the [[{{Shoujo}} romantic aspects]] from getting too [[TastesLikeDiabetes saccharine]].
** However, Masami Tsuda herself was… rather less than pleased. See the Trivia page for more info.
** However, Masami Tsuda herself was… rather less than pleased. See the Trivia page for more info.
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* AdaptationDistillation: As with ''Manga/KodomoNoOmocha'', the anime team blended in enough screwball comedy to keep the [[{{Shoujo}} romantic aspects]] from getting too [[TastesLikeDiabetes saccharine]].
** However,saccharine]]. Masami Tsuda herself was… rather Tsuda, however, was less than pleased. See pleased with the Trivia page for more info.result.
** However,
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* RecycledSoundtrack: [[http://nicotter.net/watch/sm17981818 The recap theme]] is actually the ending theme to both the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBh17WtCDQw 1963]] ''and'' [[http://nicotter.net/watch/sm367191 2004]] versions of ''[[Anime/{{Gigantor}} Tetsujin 28]]''
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* RecycledSoundtrack: [[http://nicotter.net/watch/sm17981818 The recap theme]] is actually the ending theme to both the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBh17WtCDQw 1963]] ''and'' [[http://nicotter.net/watch/sm367191 2004]] versions of ''[[Anime/{{Gigantor}} Tetsujin 28]]'' and the ''Anime/SpaceBattleshipYamato'' opening was used in episode 26, both examples shouldn't be too much of a surprise since Creator/HideakiAnno initially directed this show
