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* {{Determinator}}: '''''NOTHING''''' will keep the old man from keeping the masquerade.
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* LetsGetDangerous: The old man never fights back when attacked (other than using Sumire's arm for any ArmorPiercingSlap that RuleOfFunny might demand), as he never breakscharacter. However, when forcefully separed from Sumire and held down in an arm lock, he's able to ''dislocate his own shoulder'' to break free and get back to puppeting.
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** [[spoiler:A single panel of ''Sumire 17'' adress him as "underling Tsukushi Nobuhiko".]]
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* HighlyVisibleNinja: The Old Man's simple, form-fitting plain black clothes are deliberately evocative of what inspired the stereotypical ''ninja costume'' - that of a Kabuki theatre prop handler, or Kuroko - which are by convention to be simply ignored by the audience. Said convention is continuously and humorously ignored as ''everybody'' notices him.
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* LosingYourHead: Sumire's joints aren't shaking-proof. Her friends tend to silently pass the head back to the Old Man for reatachment, [[SelectiveObliviousness pretending nothing happened]].
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* LosingYourHead: Sumire's joints aren't shaking-proof. Her friends tend to silently pass the head back to the Old Man for reatachment, [[SelectiveObliviousness pretending nothing happened]].
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** Also, see LosingYourHead above.
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* LosingYourHead: Sumire's joints aren't shaking-proof. Her friends tend to silently pass the head back to the Old Man for reatachment, [[SelectiveObliviousness pretending nothing happened]].
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** Also, see LosingYourHead above.
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* EmptyEyes: In the faces of ''any'' adult (be it teachers or [[spoiler:former classmates]]) who is misterioulsy failing to notice Sumire is a puppet. Often noticed, discussed [[spoiler:and eventually invoked]] by Sumire's friends, who wonder what's it all about until they realize [[spoiler:the Old Man has been puppeting Sumire for ''years'' and]] they all were people who knew of, and were willing to keep, the masquerade; [[spoiler:at that point, ''they'' do it themselves. Even discussing who had done the EmptyEyes better afterwards.]]
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* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: The Old Man does it, exactly ''once'', in the penultimate chapter, with Sumire looking at the graduation picture: "Oh my! There's a ghost of an old man in the picture!!"
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* {{Expy}} - The wrestling team's [[AndreTheGiant Ando the Giant]]. The girls wonder if he really is a high schooler.
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* {{Expy}} - The wrestling team's [[AndreTheGiant [[Wrestling/AndreTheGiant Ando the Giant]]. The girls wonder if he really is a high schooler.
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* [[StupidSexyFlanders Stupid Sexy Sumire]] - Throughout both series, Sumire has her fair share of admirers. More than one of them are fully aware that she's a puppet controlled by an old man. One of them likes her ''because'' she's a puppet controlled by an old man.
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* [[StupidSexyFlanders Stupid Sexy Sumire]] StupidSexyFlanders - Throughout both series, Sumire has her fair share of admirers. More than one of them are fully aware that she's a puppet controlled by an old man. One of them likes her ''because'' she's a puppet controlled by an old man.
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* DirtyOldMan: Invoked. Seeing how far he goes to keep up the masquerade, it's hard for people to not see the Old Man as one. He even gets taken in when the police suspect that he's a ''chikan''. However, even though he never speaks his mind, he doesn't take a lot of advantage over the fact that he puppets a sixteen/seventeen year old girl.
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* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Lex and Sakura to Yamabuki, Yamabuki to the Old Man.
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* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Sumire (Sanguine), Mizuki (Melancholic), Akebi (Choleric), and Renge (Phlegmatic)
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* FirstNameBasis: Sumire seems to be like this with everyone in her class, even after only meeting them.
* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Sumire (Sanguine), Mizuki (Melancholic), Akebi (Choleric), and Renge (Phlegmatic)
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* IllBoy: Kazuma, who seemed to have a bad case of anemia, but was really [[spoiler: suffering from heart problems and needed to be sent overseas for an operation]].
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* TheUnfettered: Both puppets act like this, if only because the danger that gets thron at them hits their handlers more often than not. The handlers, by the way, are very much TheFettered.
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* TheUnfettered: Both puppets act like this, if only because the danger that gets thron at them hits their handlers more often than not. The handlers, by the way, are very much TheFettered.
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* SpearCounterpart: Sakura is this to Sumire, and even comes with a DistaffCounterpart handler in the form of the Mysterious Woman.
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* LoveConfession: In ''17-sai'', after finding out that [...] was in love with a popular boy named Shuuji, Sumire pulled out all the stops to make him available for her to confess to on Valentine's Day. However, in the process, Shuuji ends up confessing to ''Sumire'' during that exact same confession, having fell in love with her through her antics and mistaking her friend's confession for her own on ''her'' behalf.
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* LoveConfession: In ''17-sai'', after finding out that [...] Sakura was in love with a popular boy named Shuuji, Sumire pulled out all the stops to make him available for her to confess to on Valentine's Day. However, in the process, Shuuji ends up confessing to ''Sumire'' during that exact same confession, having fell in love with her through her antics and mistaking her friend's confession for her own on ''her'' behalf.
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* MistakenForPervert: Seeing how far he goes to keep up the masquerade, it's hard not to see the Old Man as one. He even gets taken in when the police suspect that he's a ''chikan''.
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* MistakenForPervert: Seeing how far he goes to keep up the masquerade, it's hard not to see the MysteriousPast: The Old Man as one. He and the Mysterious Woman. We don't learn their names, ages, where they live, how long they've been at this charade, or what they did before they started their ventriloquism. Some of the girls even gets taken in when tried to tail the police suspect that he's geezer to learn more about him, but all they got was a ''chikan''.small receipt. [[spoiler: It's likely we never ''will'' learn more about them, since the author doesn't give a concrete explanation in the series afterword.]]
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* LoveDodecahedronLoveConfession: In ''17-sai'', after finding out that [...] was in love with a popular boy named Shuuji, Sumire pulled out all the stops to make him available for her to confess to on Valentine's Day. However, in the process, Shuuji ends up confessing to ''Sumire'' during that exact same confession, having fell in love with her through her antics and mistaking her friend's confession for her own on ''her'' behalf.
* LoveDodecahedron: Lex is in love with the Yamabuki, who has a one sided crush on the Old Man. Sakura is love with Yamabuki as well, and Ageha has ''some'' sort of infatuation with the Mysterious Woman. Sumire's friend Sakura has a crush on Shuuji, who has a crush on Sumire, who has some small crushes here and there. And that's not even getting into the rest of the many admirers she has across the two series...
* LoveDodecahedron: Lex is in love with the Yamabuki, who has a one sided crush on the Old Man. Sakura is love with Yamabuki as well, and Ageha has ''some'' sort of infatuation with the Mysterious Woman. Sumire's friend Sakura has a crush on Shuuji, who has a crush on Sumire, who has some small crushes here and there. And that's not even getting into the rest of the many admirers she has across the two series...
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* WeWillMeetAgain: Akebi promises this to Kazuma, who was leaving Japan to get a heart surgery overseas. [[spoiler: They do end up meeting again, and even get [[TheyDo married]] along the way.]]
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* HeCleansUpNicely: Downplayed with the Old Man. For the election, Akebi just slicks his hair back and gives him one of her guards' suits, but combining that with Sumire's natural kindness and helpful attitude sent the female school population into a tizzy.
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* RedLightDistrict: When the trio of ''17-sai'' try to spy on the Old Man to see what he's like outside of school, he see him enter a building here. At first the girls think that he's getting Sumire into seedy situations, but it turns out that he just helps at a daycare that's situated here, for some odd reason.
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* SecondYearProtagonist: Sumire in ''17-sai''.
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* SplittingWatermelons: The cast does this on the BeachEpisode of course, but the melon is smashed on the second person by Lex, who didn't fall for the girls' misdirection and sliced it in one go. He owes it all to the kendo practice.
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* SplittingWatermelons: SmashingWatermelons: The cast does this on the BeachEpisode of course, but the melon is smashed on the second person by Lex, who didn't fall for the girls' misdirection and sliced it in one go. He owes it all to the kendo practice.
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* SelectiveObliviousness - Teachers and adults in general (save for the occassional odd one) seem to purposely ignore the fact that Sumire is not a real girl. We do not learn the reason for this until the very last chapter.
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* WholeEpisodeFlashback - Taken to a whole new level: Three of the chapters are dedicated to Sumire's musing about her earlier childhood. These chapters are named, quite aptly, Sumire 10 Sai!!. Hilariously, Renge and Akebi go from balking at the obvious FridgeHorror that the Old Man has been doing this for six years, to eagerly anticipating the third flashback.
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* WholeEpisodeFlashback - Taken to a whole new level: Three of the chapters are dedicated to Sumire's musing about her earlier childhood. These chapters are named, quite aptly, Sumire ''Sumire 10 Sai!!.Sai!!''. Hilariously, Renge and Akebi go from balking at the obvious FridgeHorror that the Old Man has been doing this for six years, to eagerly anticipating the third flashback.
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* DudeMagnet: Sumire's pretty popular with the guys, in spite of (or sometimes ''because of'') the fact that she's a doll.
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* FreakyFridayFlip - Sumire and Sakura accidently switch puppet masters during a thunderstorm. The Old Man takes the opportunity to run with this trope. The Mysterious Woman controlling Sakura is not amused.
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* FestivalEpisode: Complete with MaidCafe and haunted house attraction!
* FreakyFridayFlip - Sumire and Sakuraaccidently accidentally switch puppet masters during a thunderstorm. The Old Man takes the opportunity to run with this trope. The Mysterious Woman controlling Sakura is not amused.
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* MaidCafe: The girls come up with one as part of the school festival. It doesn't do to hot at first, but after two {{Otaku}} take interest in Renge's clumsiness and Mizuki's [[CuteGlassesGirl bespectacled appearance]], they call in their acquaintances and make it a hit.
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* ElectionDayEpisode: As part of Ageha's latest scheme to charm the male student body, she decides to run for class president. Sumire joins the fray, however, but Ageha takes the lead due to her [[MsFanservice campaign assets]]. Sumire's friends fire back with their own brand of {{Fanservice}}-- the ''Old Man'', after they've cleaned him and suited him up. Sumire wins by a [[LandslideElection landslide]] thanks to the female student body's larger presence in the school.
* EnfantTerrible: Ringo Hime. She may understandably not want the Old Man in elementary school with her, but the steps she takes to try and kick him out are downright cruel for a little girl.
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* SnowedIn: During the ski trip, Sumire and Sakura get lost in a snowstorm, only to find an empty cabin for them to warm up in. When they discover that they don't have any more firewood to heat up the fireplace, both the puppets ''and'' the puppeteers decide to burn their outer garments in order to keep the fire going. It eventually leads to a NotWhatItLooksLike for the puppeteers and a bit of [[ShipTease awkward tension]] on the part of the puppets.
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A manga by Nagayoshi Takeru that takes quite a different spin on the usual high school comedy manga. Originally published as ''Sumire 17 sai!!'', an 18 chapter series running in ''Weekly Shonen Magazine'' in 2006, it gathered enough popularity to be expanded into a 52 chapter comic in ''Magazine Special'' under the new name ''Sumire 16 sai!!''. The new series ran between 2006 and 2008, and was adapted into a 12-episode live-action JDrama TV series.
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A manga by Nagayoshi Takeru that takes quite a different spin on the usual high school comedy manga. Originally published as ''Sumire 17 sai!!'', an 18 chapter series running in ''Weekly Shonen Magazine'' in 2006, it gathered enough popularity to be expanded into a 52 chapter comic in ''Magazine Special'' under the new name ''Sumire 16 sai!!''. The new series ran between 2006 and 2008, and was adapted into a 12-episode live-action JDrama [=JDrama=] TV series.
* TheGenericGirl: Renge had a lot of fears about being this in her [[{{Ventriloquism}} circle]] [[TheSmartGirl of]] [[MafiaPrincess friends]], and later chapters had her express a desire to make herself more "useful" to them. However, they don't mind her either way.
* MadeOfIron: Getting stung by hornets, running around in the cold, dragged along by a car and skidding on pavement, getting set on fire (''multiple times'', even)... The more the Old Man suffers, the more surprising it gets that he hasn't died from it all yet.
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* ManipulativeBitch - Ageha Kuroki
Kuroki. All she wants the [[AttentionWhore attention]] and servitude of the male student body, and she'll do anything to get it.
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** Saki Oomura in ''17-sai'', being the progenitor to Kuroki in personality and in looks.
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** Saki Oomura in ''17-sai'', being the progenitor to Kuroki in personality and in looks.
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* ShrinkingViolet - Renge OhyamaOhyama.
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* WoundedGazelleGambit: In ''17-sai'', Saki tried to do this to the Old Man and frame him for attempted rape by seducing him and making him fall over her. He ''does'' go on top of her... but only because [[SubvertedTrope there was a hornet's nest]] above where they were sitting and he was going to protect her from the stinging.
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* [[TheChick Renge Ohyama]] - An OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent who always was [[TheWoobie bullied and never had any real friends]]. She almost gets drafted into beeing the gofer for the school's hoodlums, but gets rescued by Sumire, whom she befriends.
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* [[TheChick Renge Ohyama]] - An OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent who always was [[TheWoobie bullied and never had any real friends]]. She almost gets drafted into beeing being the gofer for the school's hoodlums, but gets rescued by Sumire, whom she befriends.
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A recent manga by Nagayoshi Takeru that takes quite a different spin on the usual high school comedy manga. Originally published as ''Sumire 17 sai!!'', an 18 chapter series running in ''Weekly Shonen Magazine'' in 2006, it gathered enough popularity to be expanded into a 52 chapter comic in ''Magazine Special'' under the new name ''Sumire 16 sai!!''. The new series ran between 2006 and 2008, and was adapted into a 12-episode live-action JDrama TV series.
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Arecent manga by Nagayoshi Takeru that takes quite a different spin on the usual high school comedy manga. Originally published as ''Sumire 17 sai!!'', an 18 chapter series running in ''Weekly Shonen Magazine'' in 2006, it gathered enough popularity to be expanded into a 52 chapter comic in ''Magazine Special'' under the new name ''Sumire 16 sai!!''. The new series ran between 2006 and 2008, and was adapted into a 12-episode live-action JDrama TV series.
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* InnocentFanserviceGirl:
** Sakura's puppeteer should ''really'' consider wearing thicker clothing.
** Renge falls into this with her clumsy habits, her soft-spoken personality, and her two greatest "talents".
** Sakura's puppeteer should ''really'' consider wearing thicker clothing.
** Renge falls into this with her clumsy habits, her soft-spoken personality, and her two greatest "talents".
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** Renge falls into this with her clumsy habits, her soft-spoken personality, and her two greatest "talents".clothing.
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** Renge falls into this with her clumsy habits, her soft-spoken personality, and her two greatest "talents".
