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[[caption-width-right:350:From left to right: Chizuru, Yuki, Yuta, Shun, and Kaname.]]

''Kimi to Boku'' (''You and Me'') is a {{Shounen}} and SliceOfLife manga that has an anime adaption revolving around four {{childhood friends}}--Kaname Tsukahara, Shun Matsuoka, and twin brothers Yuki and Yuta Asaba--and a new transfer student, [[ButNotTooForeign half-German and half-Japanese]] Chizuru Tachibana, who joins their circle, as they enter "their 17th spring" of high school.

US viewers may watch the first season at [[http://www.crunchyroll.com/you-and-me Crunchyroll.]] The second season can be [[http://www.crunchyroll.com/you-and-me-2 viewed here]].

A sequel aired as a part of the Spring2012Anime.

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!!This series provides the following tropes:

* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Many of the {{love interest}}s or {{love triangle}}s end up like this to a degree. Chizuru develops a crush on Masaki, who's [[ObliviousToLove oblivious]] and has a crush on Shun, who's also oblivious and [[spoiler:gets his own brief love interest]] later into the series. [[PatientChildhoodLoveInterest Hisako]] has feelings for Kaname, who in turn has feelings for Hisako's [[SiblingTriangle older sister]]. Yuki [[ShipTease seems]] interested in the cafeteria worker Kayo but their relationship doesn't go beyond one-sided mild interest, and Yuta gets a girlfriend named Takahashi in Chapter 9, [[spoiler:but they break up because she felt she was pushing her feelings onto him (even though he was beginning to like her back at the time)]]. Subverted in that [[spoiler:Masaki and Kaname both begin to show signs of reciprocation towards Chizuru and Hisako (respectively), and Yuta and Takahashi have been recently {{Ship Tease}}d]].
* AlmostKiss: [[spoiler:In Chapter 61, Kaname and Hisako nearly share an almost kiss when [[MomentKiller Shizuna]] walks in on them.]]
* BeautyMark: Chizuru has one under his right eye.
* BelligerentSexualTension: Between Chizuru and Masaki.
* BlatantLies: Chizuru keeps saying that Masaki isn't cute, but it's obvious he thinks so.
* {{Bishounen}}: Arguably, all of the boys, but twins Yuki and Yuta get the most attention InUniverse.
* BridalCarry: Chizuru carries Masaki to the infirmary after she gets hit by a ball in Chapter 26.
%%* BrutalHonesty: Akira.
* TheBusCameBack: Takahashi appears in Chapter 26 to give Yuta some Valentine's Day chocolate [[spoiler:and doesn't appear again until later in Chapter 58]].
* ButNotTooForeign: Chizuru is half-German.
* ButtMonkey: Kaname, who is often the butt of jokes, and Chizuru, who often [[AmusingInjuries gets hurt]] by either Kaname or Masaki.
* CannotSpitItOut: Masaki in her feelings for Shun, and Chizuru in his feelings for Masaki.
%%* CastFullOfPrettyBoys
* ChildhoodFriends: Kaname, Shun, Yuki, and Yuta. Koichi and Akira. Kaname and Hisako.
%%* ChivalrousPervert: Chizuru.
%%* ClassRepresentative: Kaname.
%%* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Shun, Yuki, and Yuta.
* ColourCodedCharacters: When they don't dress in matching clothes, Yuta wears blue and Yuki usually wears red or yellow.
%%* CoolTeacher: Koichi.
%%* {{Crossdresser}}: Shun, Yuta, and Chizuru during the cultural festival.
* CutenessProximity: Shun, when it comes to anything cool or cute-related.
%%* TheCutie: Shun.
* DanceOfRomance: [[spoiler:Yuta/Takahashi]] and Chizuru/Masaki during the sports festival.
* DatePeepers: Kaname, Shun, Yuki, and Chizuru not-so-subtly spying on Yuta's date with Takahashi.
* DaydreamSurprise: Chizuru has a dream about Masaki undressing. Cue him waking up with a [[LuminescentBlush red face]].
%%* DeadpanSnarker: Yuki and Yuta.
* DoggedNiceGuy: Masaki is a [[GenderInvertedTrope gender-flipped]] version for Shun, while Chizuru plays this trope straight in regards to Masaki.
* DontYouDarePityMe: Due to Masaki's petite stature, she is prideful and hates being offered help, taking it as being looked down on. This changes after Shun goes out of his way to help her, while others would merely give up after getting rebuffed.
* DudeLooksLikeALady: Shun, whose effeminate looks get him mistaken as a girl [[UnsettlingGenderReveal often]].
* DumbIsGood: Shun is so naive that he needs his friends to explain that Boyfriend + Girlfriend + Bedroom - Parental Supervision does not equal "studying".
%%* ExtremeDoormat: Takahashi.
* EveryoneCanSeeIt:
** Everyone can see that Masaki has a crush on Shun... [[ObliviousToLove except Shun]].
** Chizuru doesn't figure it out for a while too, but once he does, he [[GreenEyedEpiphany realizes]] that he likes Masaki.
* FairytaleMotifs:
** This is the theme of Shun's and Yuta's crossdressing cafe during the cultural festival.
** Played with when [[CasanovaWannabe Chizuru]] views Kayo as a Literature/{{Cinderella}}-figure as she's a pretty girl working as a cafeteria worker. When two students give her trouble and ask for extra food (due to Yuki getting extra food because he got a wrong order), Chizuru assumes that their Cinderella is a "fragile girl who never complains even when she's being bullied" and attempts to be her KnightInShiningArmour. Before he gets the chance to, it turns out that Kayo is able to handle herself rather coolly, surprising the gang.
%%* {{Fanboy}}: Ryunosuke towards Yuki.
%%* FiveManBand
* FirstNameBasis: All five of the main characters address each other by their first names.
* {{Flashback}}: There are several chapters dedicated to the gang's time in preschool to Koichi and Akira during their elementary and high school years.
%%* FlowerMotif
* GenerationXerox: When the gang visits their old preschool, a boy there has a crush on [[ObliviousToLove one of his classmates]] and gets jealous of Kaname's interactions with her, mirroring Kaname's PrecociousCrush on Kaori-sensei and getting jealous of Koichi's interactions with her.
* GeniusDitz: Yuki is surprisingly athletic in spite of his indifferent reaction towards sports.
* GirlNextDoor: Hisako to Kaname.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Pretty much the whole gang. Also, Koichi and Akira.
* HoldingHands: Masaki holds Shun's hand while he walks her home, but the moment [[MomentKiller sours]] when Shun suggests that they must [[LikeBrotherAndSister look like siblings]] after a woman notices that they're "getting along well". During the haunted house in the cultural festival, Masaki thinks that she grabbed onto Shun's hand after getting scared, but it turns out to be Chizuru's.
* HypocriticalHumor: The "Chocobanana" guy making fun of Chizuru's height during the cultural festival has elements of this [[spoiler: when he's revealed to be Akira]].
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy:
** [[spoiler: Takahashi ultimately breaks up with Yuta because she didn't want to force him to keep dating her when he didn't feel the same way, though he was showing small signs of reciprocation towards the end of their relationship.]]
** Chizuru often goes out of his way to help Masaki whenever it concerns Shun, in spite of his own happiness. Notable examples include retrieving Masaki's lost bear key chain that she received from Shun, cheering her up whenever she feels embarrassed or feels that Shun got the wrong idea about something, and when he used his own Christmas present (a ribbon for Masaki) to replace the messed up ribbon on Masaki's present for Shun. Subverted in that this doesn't stop Chizuru from romantically pursing Masaki.
%%* IdiotSavant: See GeniusDitz above.
* ImaginaryLoveTriangle: A preschool-aged Kaname gets [[GreenEyedMonster jealous]] when he thinks that Kaori-sensei might prefer Koichi over him.
* ImagineSpot: Ryunosuke has this in Episode 8 involving different scenarios between Yuta and the gang (e.g. ''Franchise/SuperSentai'', samurai, delinquent fights).
* InSeriesNickname: Chizuru gives everyone nicknames: Kaname as "Kaname-chi", Shun as "Shun-chan", Yuki as "Yukki", Yuta as "Yutan", and Masaki as "Mary" after "Mary had a Little Lamb". Kaname also calls Chizuru as "Monkey Boy".
* IndirectKiss:
** Hilariously discussed as Yuki worries about this when he has to drink from the same tea cup as Kaname, to his annoyance.
** In Chapter 20, when rumors spread that [[NotWhatItLooksLike Kaname and Masaki]] are dating because two girls thought they saw them kissing, Chizuru attacks Kaname and tries to get the Masaki's indirect kiss through Kaname.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Shun's younger brother Fuyuki.
* {{Keet}}: Shun and Chizuru.
* LettingHerHairDown: Kayo does this a few times, and it's during one of these occasions that Yuki notices her hair is curly/damaged.
* LikesOlderWomen:
** Twice has Kaname had crushes on older women: his preschool teacher and his neighbor's sister.
** Yuki seemed awfully interested in the cafeteria worker Kayo.
* LoveConfession: [[spoiler:Chizuru confesses to Masaki in Chapter 27.]]
* LoveHurts: In Chapter 26, Masaki attempts to give Valentine's Day chocolates to Shun, but sees him getting confessed to by another girl, so she runs off upset. The next chapter resolves things with Chizuru and Masaki eavesdropping on Shun later politely declining said girl's confession.
* LoveInterest: Each of the guys get their own (e.g. Hisako's sister and Hisako for Kaname, [[spoiler: a girl who Shun meets during their class trip]] for Shun, Kayo for Yuki, and Takahashi for Yuta) or even a LoveTriangle (e.g. Shun/Masaki/Chizuru and Hisako/Kaname/Shizuna).
* LoveTriangle: Chizuru develops feelings for Masaki, who has feelings for Shun, who is [[ObliviousToLove oblivious]].
** SiblingTriangle: Hisako has feelings for Kaname, who in turn has feelings for Hisako's sister.
* MeaningfulEcho: In Chapter 18, where it turns out both Fuyuki and Mamiya are nervous about what they're supposed to tell their parents about the other.
-->'''Fuyuki:''' ''[earlier in the chapter]'' If she calls the house when I'm in the shower and my parents... My parents end up answering it... If, if that happens, and they ask me, who was that just now? H-How... am I supposed to answer...
-->'''Mamiya:''' ''[later in the chapter]'' I mean, if you walk me home... What if my parents see you and ask, "Who was that just now?"... How am I supposed to answer that...?
-->'''Fuyuki:''' ''Ah... Who knew it'd be so embarrassing when two parties like each other.'' ...Just say I'm your boyfriend.
* MeetCute: [[spoiler:Shun with his love interest in Chapter 43 and again in Chapter 46.]]
* {{Megane}}: Kaname, Koichi, and the ClassRepresentative during Koichi's and Akira's high school years.
* MementoMacGuffin: Kaname carefully keeps a photo of Hisako, Hisako's sister Shizuna, and himself during a barbecue. This hints at his feelings for Hisako's sister (to Hisako's personal annoyance). Masaki strongly cherishes a bear key chain given to her by Shun at a summer festival.
* MistakenForAliens: When Akira first meets Koichi, he mistakes the latter for this after watching a television show with a similar premise.
* MomentKiller: Hisako's older sister Shizuna has a particular moment when she walks in on [[spoiler: Kaname's and Hisako's AlmostKiss]] in Chapter 61.
%%* MyBelovedSmother: Kaname's mother.
* NewTransferStudent: Chizuru. Koichi in elementary school.
%%* TheNicknamer: See InSeriesNickname above.
* NoNameGiven: Hisako's sister's name is not given in the manga and she is only called [[CoolBigSis "Oneesan"]]. The anime adaptation gives her a name: Shizuna. Also, Takahashi is only known by her [[LastNameBasis last name]] in both the manga and anime; the anime credits reveal her first name, Rina.
** NamedByTheAdaptation
* NotGoodWithPeople: Yuki, who ignores people whose "voices don't resonate with [his] heart". Kaname points out that he [[CompletelyMissingThePoint merely doesn't listen]].
* NotWhatItLooksLike:
** Twice in Chapter 20 between Kaname and Masaki. Two of Masaki's classmates see Kaname and Masaki sharing an umbrella together and mistakenly think they kissed. This only furthers when Masaki later purchases a gift for Shun and two guys start teasing Kaname because he's holding it (so they're under the impression that it's for him).
** Kaname also suffers from this in the same chapter with Chizuru, who, thinking that Kaname and Masaki are dating and kissed, tries to take Masaki's {{indirect kiss}} through Kaname. Koichi bumps into them and assumes that Kaname and ''Chizuru'' must be the ones dating.
* ObliviousToLove: Shun towards Masaki and Masaki towards Chizuru.
* OddFriendship: Koichi and Akira.
* OedipusComplex: The gang (minus Shun) just love to tease Kaname when it comes to his mother because they almost act like they're a couple.
-->'''Kaname's Mother:''' What's more important to you, Kaname-kun? Studying or your mother?\\
'''Kaname:''' ''[SpitTake]''\\
'''Yuki:''' Come on, she asked you something. "What's more important, me or your work?"\\
'''Chizuru:''' Don't make a girl cry!\\
'''Kaname:''' She's not asking me that! It's not like a fight between a man and a woman or something!\\
'''Yuta:''' Kaname, no matter how good you are at studying, you can't even understand a woman's heart.\\
'''Kaname:''' What's this about a woman's heart!
* OlderThanTheyLook: In his high school years [[spoiler: (and even present day where he's nearing his thirties)]], Akira gets this reaction.
** Masaki and Chizuru as well due to their short heights.
* OneDegreeOfSeparation: Kaname, Shun, Yuki, and Yuta have known each other since preschool, their high school teacher Koichi and his best friend Akira helped teach the gang's preschool class on an occasion when they were in high school, and Yuki played with Chizuru a few times as children.
%%* OnlySaneMan: Kaname.
* PatientChildhoodLoveInterest: Hisako to Kaname.
* PinkySwear: In a flashback, Akira promises Koichi that he'll do his best (and subsequently pass the school year) on the test in this fashion. He doesn't pass the test, but manages to pass the school year after crying to his teacher about having to "cut his fingers off", taking the pinky swear seriously.
%%* PluckyGirl: Masaki.
* PrecociousCrush: Kaname had a crush on his preschool teacher Kaori-sensei and the trope is almost described word-for-word by Yuki.
-->'''Yuki:''' Falling in love with your preschool teacher is a little precocious, isn't it?
* PreviouslyOverlookedParamour: Masaki initially pines for Shun, but eventually begins to fall for Chizuru after he expresses his affection for her, especially considering his kind treatment towards her.
* SacredFirstKiss: A preschool chapter involves Shun worrying over his first kiss.
* SecretRelationship: Briefly between Yuta and Takahashi in Chapter 9/Episode 7.
* SchoolgirlSeries: {{Gender Flip}}ped.
* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: Hilariously averted in Chapter 16. When a foreign woman is convinced that Chizuru is her son Michael and tries to bring him back home to America with her, she notices Shun and mistakes him as Chizuru's girlfriend. Chizuru goes along with it, probably thinking that it would help the situation, but it only makes things worse when the woman decides to bring ''both of them'' with her, leaving them to beg for help from the rest of the gang.
* ShipTease: Shun/Masaki, Chizuru/Masaki, Kaname/Shizuna, Kaname/Hisako, Yuta/Takahashi, and Yuki/Kayo. Even Kaname/Masaki is teased in one chapter, though it's more PlayedForLaughs and a double case of NotWhatItLooksLike.
%%* {{Shounen}}
%%* ShrinkingViolet: Takahashi.
* SickEpisode: Yuta in Chapter 4, Kaname in Chapter 7/Episode 4, and Chizuru in Chapter 44.
* SingleMindedTwins: Yuki and Yuta.
** Subverted. Yuki is the lazy one and Yuta is the responsible one.
%%* SliceOfLife
%%* StudentCouncilPresident: Kaname.
%%* ThemeTwinNaming: Yuki and Yuta.
%%* TrueCompanions: The five main characters.
* {{Tsundere}}: Kaname, Masaki, Chizuru, and Hisako.
* TwiceShy: Shun's younger brother Fuyuki with his girlfriend Mamiya.
* UmbrellaOfTogetherness: Played with in Chapter 20. Kaname offers to share his umbrella with Masaki after she loses hers, and they are mistaken for a couple by two girls. Chizuru and Masaki later bump into each other while shopping and it starts to rain, but they don't have umbrellas. A shopkeeper assumes they're a couple and offers them an umbrella. Masaki, still rattled from her earlier mishap and not wanting Shun to get the wrong idea again, refuses and runs off. The next day, Chizuru helps Masaki with her present for Shun, and a grateful Masaki offers to share her umbrella with him, to Chizuru's delight.
* UnsettlingGenderReveal: Chizuru after mistaking Shun for a girl.

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* BrutalHonesty: Akira.

* CastFullOfPrettyBoys

* ChivalrousPervert: Chizuru.
* ClassRepresentative: Kaname.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Shun, Yuki, and Yuta.

* CoolTeacher: Koichi.
* {{Crossdresser}}: Shun, Yuta, and Chizuru during the cultural festival.

* TheCutie: Shun.

* DeadpanSnarker: Yuki and Yuta.

* ExtremeDoormat: Takahashi.

* {{Fanboy}}: Ryunosuke towards Yuki.
* FiveManBand

* FlowerMotif

* IdiotSavant: See GeniusDitz above.

* ImagineSpot: Ryunosuke has this in Episode 8 involving different scenarios between Yuta and the gang (e.g. Franchise/
Franchise/SuperSentai, samurai, delinquent fights).

-->'''Fuyuki:''' [''earlier in the chapter''] If she calls the house when I'm in the shower and my parents... My parents end up answering it... If, if that happens, and they ask me, who was that just now? H-How... am I supposed to answer...
-->'''Mamiya:''' [''later in the chapter''] I mean, if you walk me home... What if my parents see you and ask, "Who was that just now?"... How am I supposed to answer that...?

* MyBelovedSmother: Kaname's mother.

* TheNicknamer: See InSeriesNickname above.

-->'''Kaname's Mother:''' What's more important to you, Kaname-kun? Studying or your mother?
-->'''Kaname:''' [''SpitTake'']
-->'''Yuki:''' Come on, she asked you something. "What's more important, me or your work?"
-->'''Chizuru:''' Don't make a girl cry!
-->'''Kaname:''' She's not asking me that! It's not like a fight between a man and a woman or something!
-->'''Yuta:''' Kaname, no matter how good you are at studying, you can't even understand a woman's heart.
-->'''Kaname:''' What's this about a woman's heart!

* OnlySaneMan: Kaname.

* PluckyGirl: Masaki.

* {{Shounen}}
* ShrinkingViolet: Takahashi.

* SliceOfLife
* StudentCouncilPresident: Kaname.
* ThemeTwinNaming: Yuki and Yuta.
* TrueCompanions: The five main characters.

* SecondYearProtagonist

SuperSentai, samurai, delinquent fights).

* ImagineSpot: Ryunosuke has this in Episode 8 involving different scenarios between Yuta and the gang (e.g. SuperSentai, samurai, delinquent fights).

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** While Masaki is addressed by her last name, she addresses the all five of the boys by their first names.

* FirsNameBasis: All five of the main characters address each other by their first names.
** While Masaki is addressed by her last name, she addresses all of the other main characters by their first names.

''Kimi to Boku'' is a {{Shounen}} and SliceOfLife manga that has an anime adaption revolving around four {{childhood friends}}--Kaname Tsukahara, Shun Matsuoka, and twin brothers Yuki and Yuta Asaba--and a new transfer student, [[ButNotTooForeign half-German and half-Japanese]] Chizuru Tachibana, who joins their circle, as they enter "their 17th spring" of high school.

* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Many of the {{love interest}}s or {{love triangle}}s end up like this to a degree. Chizuru develops a crush on Masaki, who's [[ObliviousToLove oblivious]] and has a crush on Shun, who's also oblivious and [[spoiler:gets his own brief love interest]] later into the series. [[PatientChildhoodLoveInterest Hisako]] has feelings for Kaname, who in turn has feelings for Hisako's [[SiblingTriangle older sister]]. Yuki [[ShipTease seems]] interested in the cafeteria worker Kayo but their relationship doesn't go beyond one-sided mild interest, and Yuta gets a girlfriend named Takahashi in Chapter 9, [[spoiler:but they break up because she felt she was pushing her feelings onto him (even though he was beginning to like her back at the time).]] Subverted in that [[spoiler:Masaki and Kaname both begin to show signs of reciprocation towards Chizuru and Hisako (respectively), and Yuta and Takahashi have been recently {{Ship Tease}}d.]]

* TheBusCameBack: Takahashi appears in Chapter 26 to give Yuta some Valentine's Day chocolate [[spoiler:and doesn't appear again until later in Chapter 58.]]

* DudeLooksLikeALady: Shun, whose effeminate looks get him mistaken as a girl [[UnsettlinggenderReveal often]].

* GenerationXerox: When the gang visits their old preschool, a boy there has a crush on [[ObliviousToLove one of his classmates]] and gets jealous of Kaname's interactions with her, mirroring Kaname's {{precocious crush}} on Kaori-sensei and getting jealous of Koichi's interactions with her.
* GeniusDitz[=/=]IdiotSavant: Yuki is surprisingly athletic in spite of his indifferent reaction towards sports.

* HoldingHands: Masaki holds Shun's hand while he walks her home, but the moment [[MomentKiller sours]] when Shun suggests that they must [[LikeBrotherAndSister look like siblings]] after a woman notices that they're "getting along well." During the haunted house in the cultural festival, Masaki thinks that she grabbed onto Shun's hand after getting scared, but it turns out to be Chizuru's.
* HypocriticalHumor: The "Chocobanana" guy making fun of Chizuru's height during the cultural festival has elements of this [[spoiler:when he's revealed to be Akira.]]

** [[spoiler:Takahashi ultimately breaks up with Yuta because she didn't want to force him to keep dating her when he didn't feel the same way, though he was showing small signs of reciprocation towards of the end of their relationship.]]
** Chizuru often goes out of his way to help Masaki whenever it concerns Shun, in spite of his own happiness. Notable examples include retrieving Masaki's lost bear key chain that she received from Shun, cheering her up whenever she feels embarassed or feels that Shun got the wrong idea about something, and when he used his own Christmas present (a ribbon for Masaki) to replace the messed up ribbon on Masaki's present for Shun. Subverted in that this doesn't stop Chizuru from romantically pursing Masaki.

* InSeriesNickname[=/=]TheNicknamer: Chizuru gives everyone nicknames: Kaname as "Kaname-chi," Shun as "Shun-chan," Yuki as "Yukki," Yuta as "Yutan," and Masaki as "Mary" after "Mary had a Little Lamb." Kaname also calls Chizuru as "Monkey Boy."

* LikesOlderWomen

* LoveInterest: Each of the guys get their own (e.g. Hisako's sister and Hisako for Kaname, [[spoiler:a girl who Shun meets during their class trip]] for Shun, Kayo for Yuki, and Takahashi for Yuta) or even a {{love triangle}} (e.g. Shun/Masaki/Chizuru and Hisako/Kaname/Shizuna).

* MeaningfulEcho: In Chapter 18, where it turns out both Fuyuki and Mamiya are both nervous about what they're supposed to tell their parents about the other.

-->'''Mamiya:''' [''later in the chapter''] I mean, if you walk me home... What if my parents see you and ask, "Who was that just now?" ... How am I supposed to answer that...?
-->'''Fuyuki:''' ''Ah... Who knew it'd be so embarrassing when two parties like each other.'' ... Just say I'm your boyfriend.

* {{Megane}}: Kaname, Koichi, and the {{class representative}} during Koichi's and Akira's high school years.

* MomentKiller: Hisako's older sister Shizuna has a particular when she walks in on [[spoiler:Kaname's and Hisako's AlmostKiss]] in Chapter 61.

* NoNameGiven: Hisako's sister's name is not given in the manga and is only called [[CoolBigSis "Oneesan."]] The anime adaptation gives her a name: Shizuna. Also, Takahashi is only known by her [[LastNameBasis last name]] in both the manga and anime; the anime credits reveal her first name, Rina.

* NotGoodWithPeople: Yuki, who ignores people whose "voices don't resonate with [his] heart." Kaname points out that he [[CompletelyMissingThePoint merely doesn't listen]].

** Twice in Chapter 20 between Kaname and Masaki. Two of Masaki's classmates see Kaname and Masaki sharing an umbrella together and mistakenly think they kissed. This only furthers when Masaki later purchases a gift for Shu and two guys start teasing Kaname because he's holding it (so they're under the impression that it's for him)

-->'''Kaname:''' [''{{spit take}}'']

* OlderThanTheyLook: In his high school years [[spoiler:(and even present day where he's nearing his thirties)]], Akira gets this reaction.

* PinkySwear: In a flashback, Akira promises Koichi that he'll do his best (and subsequently pass the school year) on the test in this fashion. He doesn't pass the test, but manages to pass the school year after crying to his teacher about having to "cut his fingers off," taking the pinky swear seriously.

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!This series provides the following tropes:

* GenerationXerox: When the gang visits their old preschool, a boy there has a crush on one of his classmates and gets jealous of Kaname's interactions with her, mirroring Kaname's {{precocious crush}} on Kaori-sensei and getting jealous of Koichi's interactions with her.

* HotMom: Kaname's mother.

* {{Bishounen}}: Arguably, all of the boys, but twins Yuki and Yuta get the most attention {{in-universe}}.

* DroppedABridgetOnHim: Chizuru after mistaking Shun for a girl.
* DudeLooksLikeALady: Shun, whose effeminate looks get him mistaken as a girl [[DroppedABridgetOnHim often]].

* ColourCodedForYourConvenience : When they don't dress in matching clothes, Yuta wears blue and Yuki usually wears red or yellow.

* ShowTheForehead: Hisako and Kayo.

A sequel started airing as a part of the Spring2012Anime.

* {{Pettanko}}: Masaki.

** Twice in Chapter 20 between Kaname and Masaki. Two of Masaki's classmates see Kaname and Masaki sharing an umbrella together and mistakenly think they kissed. This only furthers when Masaki later purchases a gift for Shu and two guys start teasing Kaname because he's holding it (so they're under the impression that it's for him).

* SchoolgirlSeries: Gender-inverted.

** Played with when [[CasanovaWannabe Chizuru]] views Kayo as a Literature/{{Cinderella}}-figure as she's [[BishoujoGenre pretty girl]] working as a cafeteria worker. When two students give her trouble and ask for extra food (due to Yuki getting extra food because he got a wrong order), Chizuru assumes that their Cinderella is a "fragile girl who never complains even when she's being bullied" and attempts to be her KnightInShiningArmour. Before he gets the chance to, it turns out that Kayo is able to handle herself rather coolly, surprising the gang.

* BishoujoGenre: Kayo.

** Played with when [[CasanovaWannabe Chizuru]] views Kayo as a Literature/{{Cinderella}}-figure as she's [[BishoujoGenre pretty girl]] working as a cafeteria worker. When two students give her trouble and ask for extra food (due to Yuki getting extra food because he got a wrong order), Chizuru assumes that their Cinderella is a "fragile girl who never complains even when she's being bullied" and attempts to be her PrinceOnAWhiteHorse. Before he gets the chance to, it turns out that Kayo is able to handle herself rather coolly, surprising the gang.