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Kono Oto Tomare! is an ongoing Manga by Sakura Amyuu first published on August 4, 2012 in Jump Comics SQ.
Kurata Takezou is a second-year at Tokise High School, and with the graduation of his upperclassman, the only remaining member of the Koto Club. While the club is a cherished memory to him, it will soon be defunct if he cannot recruit at least four more members. Furthermore, his meek demeanor draws ire from bullies and delinquents in his class, who use his club room as a squatting ground.
During a particularly vicious encounter with the bullies, another student arrives and drives them off - Kudou Chika, the most feared freshman in the school. To make things even more confusing, Kudou gives Kurata a club application form, declaring that he, too, will play the koto. Why does such a rough-looking delinquent want to play the koto? And how far can he and Kurata take the floundering club?
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!! This work contains:
* ArmorPiercingResponse:
--> '''Hiro''': You really though I joined because I was moved by your performance? Before the performance, you said you didn't want to lose your precious friends or the place you belong, so I joined so I could tease you! Really.... looking at people like you disgusts me.\\
'''Kurata''': Is that all you wanted to say?\\
You must have a lot of free time, huh? Kurusu?\\
* AintTooProudToBeg: [[spoiler:Houzuki gets on her knees asking to borrow a 17-string koto from her mother.]]
* TheBeautifulElite: The Koto Club hilariously [[InvokedTrope invokes]] this during their second year performance. They all dress in kimonos and get BishieSparkle auras around them in their effort to look cool to recruit new freshmen. '''''It actually works''''', but then all their potential recruits bail the moment they learn how insane their practice schedules are.
* BigBrotherBully: Inverted; it's Takezou who gets insulted and looked down upon by his younger brother Takeru.
* BookDumb: Chika, Sane, Mittsu and Kouta all need tutoring help from their friend Tetsuki.
* [[BreatherEpisode Breather Chapter]]: After Takinami explicitly cancels club activities following the preliminaries, Chapter 55 is all about members of the club remembering how to relax.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Mio from Hakuto High is the focus of their koto club despite [[CloudCuckooLander his tendencies]].
* CharacterDevelopment: Almost every named character, even the more minor ones and those from other schools, get this.
* ChildhoodFriends: Chika and Tetsuki, also Kiryuu and Asano from Meiryou.
* ChildProdigy: Houzuki, a serious competitor in the most prestigious koto competition in the nation while only a middle schooler. Akira’s brother is another.
* CrushBlush: Though the club takes priority over romance, later chapters have some amazing moments and developments.
* CynicismCatalyst: [[spoiler:Akira losing to Houzuki; Takinami being forced to write songs.]]
* DarkHorseVictory: [[spoiler:Hakuto, which neither Himesaka nor Tokise has heard of, wins the Kanto Music Festival.]] Hurts even more since they played right after the main characters, who simply dismissed them and didn’t bother trying to listen.
* DelayedReaction: In Chapter 29, [[spoiler:Takinami gives the gang the score to practice for the school festival. When he answers their question about the score's origin, they take a while to [[BlueWithShock process it]].]]
* {{Determinator}}: Everyone in the Koto Club.
* DuetBonding: When Akira and Houzuki play together in Chapter 40.
* ElegantClassicalMusician: Most of the professional koto players fall into this, as well as [[spoiler:Takinami’s]] parents.
* EveryoneWentToSchoolTogether: Takinami and Chika’s aunt were in the same high school, but they didn’t actually interact.
* FamilyBusiness: Several of the characters come from groups that devote themselves to the Koto, and inheritance is passed down.
* FanGirl: Kazusa to Houzuki.
* GamingAndSportsAnimeAndManga
* TheGlomp: Kouta, ''full goddamn stop''. Chika spectacularly rebuffs him in chapter 60.
* ImCryingButIDontKnowWhy: In Chapter 39, [[spoiler:Akira suddenly starts crying, to everyone’s shock and confusion.]]
* InSeriesNickname: Included but not limited to: Chika, Takeyan.
* JerkAss: Club Advisor Takinami, Akira's grandmother.
* LastNameBasis: Takezou still refers to his club members by last name.
* {{Megane}}: Takezou
* {{Nosebleed}}: Several.
** On the Kanto Music Festival, Eidai High's Sentaro gets one when Houzuki tries to calm him down.
** Sane and Mittsu get at least two courtesy of Chika's aunt: when first meeting her and when she grabs Chika's phone and sends a rather bold picture of herself and Chika to the boys' chat.
** And then they get another one upon encountering Takinami’s sister in a bathrobe.
** Even ''Japanese Music Days'' reporter Tsukaji gets one on the prelims, albeit for a different reason.
* NotSoDifferent: Invoked by Satowa in Episode 7 when trying to convince Hiro to return to the Koto club. Both had joined the club because of their fascination with the club's atmosphere of friendship and love of the koto, albeit with different goals in mind.
* OnlySaneMan: Takezou, often among the four boys.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Lampshaded in the National primaries, when Chika expects Kazusa to come rushing for Houzuki, but she doesn't.
* PerformanceAnxiety: The club members understandably get this before their competitions and performances.
* RaisedByGrandparents: Chika, before the start of the series, [[{{nephewism}} now raised by his aunt Isaki.]]
* RealMenWearPink: Delinquent Chika likes sweets and strawberries.
* RousingSpeech: [[spoiler: Takinami]] to the club members after [[spoiler: their loss at the Kanto Music Festival.]]
* RyokanInn: Kurusu’s uncle owns one, and they went to it for their summer training camp.
* SaveOurTeam: The first few chapters are concerned with Takezou stopping the Koto Club from disbanding.
* ScaryFlashlightFace: Takinami in Chapter 20.
* SchoolOfNoStudying: Subverted, though Chika attempts to invoke this, the male club members are forced to study to pass their exams.
* SecondPlaceIsForLosers: Eidai High's Sentaro isn’t satisfied with winning in prefecture.
* SecretTestOfCharacter: In chapter 25, as Takezou points out, if Takinami was only looking out for himself, he would have already brought Chika to the first aid station for his injury.
* SeriousBusiness: The Koto and the Koto Club, of course.
* ShipperOnDeck: [[spoiler:Isaki towards Chika and Satowa, Kurata family (even Takeru later on!) towards Takezou and Hiro.]]
* ShrinkingViolet: [[spoiler: Yoshinaga Atsumu.]]
* SleepCute: Chika, Sane, Mittsu and Kouta having a sleep over at Tetsuki's during chapter 55. And Sane in particular from Amyuu’s official Instagram account.
* SpoilerOpening: The first cour's (Episodes 1-13) opening [[spoiler:spoils Hiro joining the Koto Club]].
* SpitTake: Happens multiple times.
* StepfordSmiler: Downplayed. [[spoiler: Kiryuu Ousuke]] seems to be genuinely happy around his friends, but is also terrified of losing those friends and ending up alone.
* StunnedSilence: Chapter 52, before [[SlowClap Mio]] [[DelayedReaction breaks it.]]
* SuccessfulSiblingSyndrome: [[spoiler: Akira]] to her brother.
* SugarAndIcePersonality: Houzuki plays at this in the beginning.
* JustForFun/SurprisinglySimilarCharacters: One can't help but remember ''[[Manga/MaidSama Maid-sama!]]''. Chika and Satowa specifically are often referred to by the community as "Usui and Misaki 2.0"; likewise, Sane, Mittsu and Kouta are considered the local Idiot Trio.
* SurroundedByIdiots: Takinami often laughs at the antics of his subordinates.
* TeamSpirit
* TearsOfJoy: Chika, after [[spoiler:winning the primaries]], and Houzuki, after [[spoiler:reuniting with her mom]].
* ThemeTuneCameo: The Koto Club plays the first opening theme during their performance at the school festival in Episode 16.
* ThroughHisStomach: Kudou and Houzuki trade places with each other every so often.
* TimeSkip: Four months, after Chapter 59.
* TrainingMontage: Several of these.
* UnderdogsNeverLose: Averted, and then justified.
* UnknownRival: Briefly, on the Kanto Music Festival, Hakuto, whose performance wasn’t even shown, takes the win from Tokise and Himesaka.
* WhamLine/Shot: When Takinami reveals that [[spoiler: Takezou and Kurusu have only one shot at the nationals.]]
* WillNotTellALie: Takinami makes a point of this, at first to tell the club members how little he thinks of them, but it comes up again [[spoiler: when he encourages the members after their loss on the Kanto Music Festival]], leading Takezou to realize that Takinami isn’t just messing with them.
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Kono Oto Tomare! is an ongoing Manga by Sakura Amyuu first published on August 4, 2012 in Jump Comics SQ.
Kurata Takezou is a second-year at Tokise High School, and with the graduation of his upperclassman, the only remaining member of the Koto Club. While the club is a cherished memory to him, it will soon be defunct if he cannot recruit at least four more members. Furthermore, his meek demeanor draws ire from bullies and delinquents in his class, who use his club room as a squatting ground.
During a particularly vicious encounter with the bullies, another student arrives and drives them off - Kudou Chika, the most feared freshman in the school. To make things even more confusing, Kudou gives Kurata a club application form, declaring that he, too, will play the koto. Why does such a rough-looking delinquent want to play the koto? And how far can he and Kurata take the floundering club?
----
!! This work contains:
* ArmorPiercingResponse:
--> '''Hiro''': You really though I joined because I was moved by your performance? Before the performance, you said you didn't want to lose your precious friends or the place you belong, so I joined so I could tease you! Really.... looking at people like you disgusts me.\\
'''Kurata''': Is that all you wanted to say?\\
You must have a lot of free time, huh? Kurusu?\\
* AintTooProudToBeg: [[spoiler:Houzuki gets on her knees asking to borrow a 17-string koto from her mother.]]
* TheBeautifulElite: The Koto Club hilariously [[InvokedTrope invokes]] this during their second year performance. They all dress in kimonos and get BishieSparkle auras around them in their effort to look cool to recruit new freshmen. '''''It actually works''''', but then all their potential recruits bail the moment they learn how insane their practice schedules are.
* BigBrotherBully: Inverted; it's Takezou who gets insulted and looked down upon by his younger brother Takeru.
* BookDumb: Chika, Sane, Mittsu and Kouta all need tutoring help from their friend Tetsuki.
* [[BreatherEpisode Breather Chapter]]: After Takinami explicitly cancels club activities following the preliminaries, Chapter 55 is all about members of the club remembering how to relax.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Mio from Hakuto High is the focus of their koto club despite [[CloudCuckooLander his tendencies]].
* CharacterDevelopment: Almost every named character, even the more minor ones and those from other schools, get this.
* ChildhoodFriends: Chika and Tetsuki, also Kiryuu and Asano from Meiryou.
* ChildProdigy: Houzuki, a serious competitor in the most prestigious koto competition in the nation while only a middle schooler. Akira’s brother is another.
* CrushBlush: Though the club takes priority over romance, later chapters have some amazing moments and developments.
* CynicismCatalyst: [[spoiler:Akira losing to Houzuki; Takinami being forced to write songs.]]
* DarkHorseVictory: [[spoiler:Hakuto, which neither Himesaka nor Tokise has heard of, wins the Kanto Music Festival.]] Hurts even more since they played right after the main characters, who simply dismissed them and didn’t bother trying to listen.
* DelayedReaction: In Chapter 29, [[spoiler:Takinami gives the gang the score to practice for the school festival. When he answers their question about the score's origin, they take a while to [[BlueWithShock process it]].]]
* {{Determinator}}: Everyone in the Koto Club.
* DuetBonding: When Akira and Houzuki play together in Chapter 40.
* ElegantClassicalMusician: Most of the professional koto players fall into this, as well as [[spoiler:Takinami’s]] parents.
* EveryoneWentToSchoolTogether: Takinami and Chika’s aunt were in the same high school, but they didn’t actually interact.
* FamilyBusiness: Several of the characters come from groups that devote themselves to the Koto, and inheritance is passed down.
* FanGirl: Kazusa to Houzuki.
* GamingAndSportsAnimeAndManga
* TheGlomp: Kouta, ''full goddamn stop''. Chika spectacularly rebuffs him in chapter 60.
* ImCryingButIDontKnowWhy: In Chapter 39, [[spoiler:Akira suddenly starts crying, to everyone’s shock and confusion.]]
* InSeriesNickname: Included but not limited to: Chika, Takeyan.
* JerkAss: Club Advisor Takinami, Akira's grandmother.
* LastNameBasis: Takezou still refers to his club members by last name.
* {{Megane}}: Takezou
* {{Nosebleed}}: Several.
** On the Kanto Music Festival, Eidai High's Sentaro gets one when Houzuki tries to calm him down.
** Sane and Mittsu get at least two courtesy of Chika's aunt: when first meeting her and when she grabs Chika's phone and sends a rather bold picture of herself and Chika to the boys' chat.
** And then they get another one upon encountering Takinami’s sister in a bathrobe.
** Even ''Japanese Music Days'' reporter Tsukaji gets one on the prelims, albeit for a different reason.
* NotSoDifferent: Invoked by Satowa in Episode 7 when trying to convince Hiro to return to the Koto club. Both had joined the club because of their fascination with the club's atmosphere of friendship and love of the koto, albeit with different goals in mind.
* OnlySaneMan: Takezou, often among the four boys.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Lampshaded in the National primaries, when Chika expects Kazusa to come rushing for Houzuki, but she doesn't.
* PerformanceAnxiety: The club members understandably get this before their competitions and performances.
* RaisedByGrandparents: Chika, before the start of the series, [[{{nephewism}} now raised by his aunt Isaki.]]
* RealMenWearPink: Delinquent Chika likes sweets and strawberries.
* RousingSpeech: [[spoiler: Takinami]] to the club members after [[spoiler: their loss at the Kanto Music Festival.]]
* RyokanInn: Kurusu’s uncle owns one, and they went to it for their summer training camp.
* SaveOurTeam: The first few chapters are concerned with Takezou stopping the Koto Club from disbanding.
* ScaryFlashlightFace: Takinami in Chapter 20.
* SchoolOfNoStudying: Subverted, though Chika attempts to invoke this, the male club members are forced to study to pass their exams.
* SecondPlaceIsForLosers: Eidai High's Sentaro isn’t satisfied with winning in prefecture.
* SecretTestOfCharacter: In chapter 25, as Takezou points out, if Takinami was only looking out for himself, he would have already brought Chika to the first aid station for his injury.
* SeriousBusiness: The Koto and the Koto Club, of course.
* ShipperOnDeck: [[spoiler:Isaki towards Chika and Satowa, Kurata family (even Takeru later on!) towards Takezou and Hiro.]]
* ShrinkingViolet: [[spoiler: Yoshinaga Atsumu.]]
* SleepCute: Chika, Sane, Mittsu and Kouta having a sleep over at Tetsuki's during chapter 55. And Sane in particular from Amyuu’s official Instagram account.
* SpoilerOpening: The first cour's (Episodes 1-13) opening [[spoiler:spoils Hiro joining the Koto Club]].
* SpitTake: Happens multiple times.
* StepfordSmiler: Downplayed. [[spoiler: Kiryuu Ousuke]] seems to be genuinely happy around his friends, but is also terrified of losing those friends and ending up alone.
* StunnedSilence: Chapter 52, before [[SlowClap Mio]] [[DelayedReaction breaks it.]]
* SuccessfulSiblingSyndrome: [[spoiler: Akira]] to her brother.
* SugarAndIcePersonality: Houzuki plays at this in the beginning.
* JustForFun/SurprisinglySimilarCharacters: One can't help but remember ''[[Manga/MaidSama Maid-sama!]]''. Chika and Satowa specifically are often referred to by the community as "Usui and Misaki 2.0"; likewise, Sane, Mittsu and Kouta are considered the local Idiot Trio.
* SurroundedByIdiots: Takinami often laughs at the antics of his subordinates.
* TeamSpirit
* TearsOfJoy: Chika, after [[spoiler:winning the primaries]], and Houzuki, after [[spoiler:reuniting with her mom]].
* ThemeTuneCameo: The Koto Club plays the first opening theme during their performance at the school festival in Episode 16.
* ThroughHisStomach: Kudou and Houzuki trade places with each other every so often.
* TimeSkip: Four months, after Chapter 59.
* TrainingMontage: Several of these.
* UnderdogsNeverLose: Averted, and then justified.
* UnknownRival: Briefly, on the Kanto Music Festival, Hakuto, whose performance wasn’t even shown, takes the win from Tokise and Himesaka.
* WhamLine/Shot: When Takinami reveals that [[spoiler: Takezou and Kurusu have only one shot at the nationals.]]
* WillNotTellALie: Takinami makes a point of this, at first to tell the club members how little he thinks of them, but it comes up again [[spoiler: when he encourages the members after their loss on the Kanto Music Festival]], leading Takezou to realize that Takinami isn’t just messing with them.
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Kono Oto Tomare! is an ongoing Manga by Sakura Amyuu first published on August 4, 2012 in Jump Comics SQ.
Kurata Takezou is a second-year at Tokise High School, and with the graduation of his upperclassman, the only remaining member of the Koto Club. While the club is a cherished memory to him, it will soon be defunct if he cannot recruit at least four more members. Furthermore, his meek demeanor draws ire from bullies and delinquents in his class, who use his club room as a squatting ground.
During a particularly vicious encounter with the bullies, another student arrives and drives them off - Kudou Chika, the most feared freshman in the school. To make things even more confusing, Kudou gives Kurata a club application form, declaring that he, too, will play the koto. Why does such a rough-looking delinquent want to play the koto? And how far can he and Kurata take the floundering club?
----
!! This work contains:
* ArmorPiercingResponse:
--> '''Hiro''': You really though I joined because I was moved by your performance? Before the performance, you said you didn't want to lose your precious friends or the place you belong, so I joined so I could tease you! Really.... looking at people like you disgusts me.\\
'''Kurata''': Is that all you wanted to say?\\
You must have a lot of free time, huh? Kurusu?\\
* AintTooProudToBeg: [[spoiler:Houzuki gets on her knees asking to borrow a 17-string koto from her mother.]]
* TheBeautifulElite: The Koto Club hilariously [[InvokedTrope invokes]] this during their second year performance. They all dress in kimonos and get BishieSparkle auras around them in their effort to look cool to recruit new freshmen. '''''It actually works''''', but then all their potential recruits bail the moment they learn how insane their practice schedules are.
* BigBrotherBully: Inverted; it's Takezou who gets insulted and looked down upon by his younger brother Takeru.
* BookDumb: Chika, Sane, Mittsu and Kouta all need tutoring help from their friend Tetsuki.
* [[BreatherEpisode Breather Chapter]]: After Takinami explicitly cancels club activities following the preliminaries, Chapter 55 is all about members of the club remembering how to relax.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Mio from Hakuto High is the focus of their koto club despite [[CloudCuckooLander his tendencies]].
* CharacterDevelopment: Almost every named character, even the more minor ones and those from other schools, get this.
* ChildhoodFriends: Chika and Tetsuki, also Kiryuu and Asano from Meiryou.
* ChildProdigy: Houzuki, a serious competitor in the most prestigious koto competition in the nation while only a middle schooler. Akira’s brother is another.
* CrushBlush: Though the club takes priority over romance, later chapters have some amazing moments and developments.
* CynicismCatalyst: [[spoiler:Akira losing to Houzuki; Takinami being forced to write songs.]]
* DarkHorseVictory: [[spoiler:Hakuto, which neither Himesaka nor Tokise has heard of, wins the Kanto Music Festival.]] Hurts even more since they played right after the main characters, who simply dismissed them and didn’t bother trying to listen.
* DelayedReaction: In Chapter 29, [[spoiler:Takinami gives the gang the score to practice for the school festival. When he answers their question about the score's origin, they take a while to [[BlueWithShock process it]].]]
* {{Determinator}}: Everyone in the Koto Club.
* DuetBonding: When Akira and Houzuki play together in Chapter 40.
* ElegantClassicalMusician: Most of the professional koto players fall into this, as well as [[spoiler:Takinami’s]] parents.
* EveryoneWentToSchoolTogether: Takinami and Chika’s aunt were in the same high school, but they didn’t actually interact.
* FamilyBusiness: Several of the characters come from groups that devote themselves to the Koto, and inheritance is passed down.
* FanGirl: Kazusa to Houzuki.
* GamingAndSportsAnimeAndManga
* TheGlomp: Kouta, ''full goddamn stop''. Chika spectacularly rebuffs him in chapter 60.
* ImCryingButIDontKnowWhy: In Chapter 39, [[spoiler:Akira suddenly starts crying, to everyone’s shock and confusion.]]
* InSeriesNickname: Included but not limited to: Chika, Takeyan.
* JerkAss: Club Advisor Takinami, Akira's grandmother.
* LastNameBasis: Takezou still refers to his club members by last name.
* {{Megane}}: Takezou
* {{Nosebleed}}: Several.
** On the Kanto Music Festival, Eidai High's Sentaro gets one when Houzuki tries to calm him down.
** Sane and Mittsu get at least two courtesy of Chika's aunt: when first meeting her and when she grabs Chika's phone and sends a rather bold picture of herself and Chika to the boys' chat.
** And then they get another one upon encountering Takinami’s sister in a bathrobe.
** Even ''Japanese Music Days'' reporter Tsukaji gets one on the prelims, albeit for a different reason.
* NotSoDifferent: Invoked by Satowa in Episode 7 when trying to convince Hiro to return to the Koto club. Both had joined the club because of their fascination with the club's atmosphere of friendship and love of the koto, albeit with different goals in mind.
* OnlySaneMan: Takezou, often among the four boys.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Lampshaded in the National primaries, when Chika expects Kazusa to come rushing for Houzuki, but she doesn't.
* PerformanceAnxiety: The club members understandably get this before their competitions and performances.
* RaisedByGrandparents: Chika, before the start of the series, [[{{nephewism}} now raised by his aunt Isaki.]]
* RealMenWearPink: Delinquent Chika likes sweets and strawberries.
* RousingSpeech: [[spoiler: Takinami]] to the club members after [[spoiler: their loss at the Kanto Music Festival.]]
* RyokanInn: Kurusu’s uncle owns one, and they went to it for their summer training camp.
* SaveOurTeam: The first few chapters are concerned with Takezou stopping the Koto Club from disbanding.
* ScaryFlashlightFace: Takinami in Chapter 20.
* SchoolOfNoStudying: Subverted, though Chika attempts to invoke this, the male club members are forced to study to pass their exams.
* SecondPlaceIsForLosers: Eidai High's Sentaro isn’t satisfied with winning in prefecture.
* SecretTestOfCharacter: In chapter 25, as Takezou points out, if Takinami was only looking out for himself, he would have already brought Chika to the first aid station for his injury.
* SeriousBusiness: The Koto and the Koto Club, of course.
* ShipperOnDeck: [[spoiler:Isaki towards Chika and Satowa, Kurata family (even Takeru later on!) towards Takezou and Hiro.]]
* ShrinkingViolet: [[spoiler: Yoshinaga Atsumu.]]
* SleepCute: Chika, Sane, Mittsu and Kouta having a sleep over at Tetsuki's during chapter 55. And Sane in particular from Amyuu’s official Instagram account.
* SpoilerOpening: The first cour's (Episodes 1-13) opening [[spoiler:spoils Hiro joining the Koto Club]].
* SpitTake: Happens multiple times.
* StepfordSmiler: Downplayed. [[spoiler: Kiryuu Ousuke]] seems to be genuinely happy around his friends, but is also terrified of losing those friends and ending up alone.
* StunnedSilence: Chapter 52, before [[SlowClap Mio]] [[DelayedReaction breaks it.]]
* SuccessfulSiblingSyndrome: [[spoiler: Akira]] to her brother.
* SugarAndIcePersonality: Houzuki plays at this in the beginning.
* JustForFun/SurprisinglySimilarCharacters: One can't help but remember ''[[Manga/MaidSama Maid-sama!]]''. Chika and Satowa specifically are often referred to by the community as "Usui and Misaki 2.0"; likewise, Sane, Mittsu and Kouta are considered the local Idiot Trio.
* SurroundedByIdiots: Takinami often laughs at the antics of his subordinates.
* TeamSpirit
* TearsOfJoy: Chika, after [[spoiler:winning the primaries]], and Houzuki, after [[spoiler:reuniting with her mom]].
* ThemeTuneCameo: The Koto Club plays the first opening theme during their performance at the school festival in Episode 16.
* ThroughHisStomach: Kudou and Houzuki trade places with each other every so often.
* TimeSkip: Four months, after Chapter 59.
* TrainingMontage: Several of these.
* UnderdogsNeverLose: Averted, and then justified.
* UnknownRival: Briefly, on the Kanto Music Festival, Hakuto, whose performance wasn’t even shown, takes the win from Tokise and Himesaka.
* WhamLine/Shot: When Takinami reveals that [[spoiler: Takezou and Kurusu have only one shot at the nationals.]]
* WillNotTellALie: Takinami makes a point of this, at first to tell the club members how little he thinks of them, but it comes up again [[spoiler: when he encourages the members after their loss on the Kanto Music Festival]], leading Takezou to realize that Takinami isn’t just messing with them.
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