History Manga / TamamoChansAFox

* KansaiRegionalAccent: Tenko's Volume 1 profile notes she speaks in the Kyoto dialect (which falls under Kansai's).

* ExcitedShowTitle: In both Japanese, ''O-Inari JK Tamamo-chan!'', and English, ''Tamamo-chan’s a Fox!''.

* BeastMan: Leaving aside [[FoxFolk Tamamo and her sisters]], in their true forms, Kagachi is a humanoid weasel, Mitarai is a humanoid raccoon, [[spoiler:and Anpu is a humanoid canine (probably a jackal, given she's based on Anubis).]]

** A footnote from Anpu in chapter 75 states that the Morals Committee girl smells like Muu-chan. [[Chapter 80 reveals that Muu-chan is her long-lost pet ferret.]]

** In chapter 63, Mikki notes there're a lot of supernatural beings around the school, and Nakki wonders if there might be more they don't know about, [[spoiler:setting up for Anpu's arrival at the end]].

* ShapeshiftingTrickster: Tamamo and Osaki aren't much into the traditional kitsune trickster role, but Tenko is fond of light-hearted pranks, while Kagachi and Mitarai are a bit more actively malicious.

* BeachEpisode: Chapters 14-15 see Tamamo, Mikki and Nakki head to the beach, with Reiko-sensei as chaperone.

* TotallyNotAWerewolf: Tamamo mistakes Mitarai for a tanuki, but she's actually a shapeshifted raccoon. The students figure it out after identifying Mitarai's tail.

* ACupAngst: Nakki's a bit touchy about being flat-chested.
* AcademicAthlete: Nakki is the best between herself, Tamamo, and Mikki at academics. She's also a naturally gifted athlete, as she's shown outperforming Tamamo at multiple sports with minimal effort. She declines to join any athletic clubs, however, because, gifted though she is, she can never remember the actual ''rules'' of any sport.
* TheAlcoholic: Downplayed; a recurring observation in the series is that Tenko drinks a lot.
* AllAnimalsAreDogs: Some of her classmates have noticed that Tamamo seems to act more like a dog than a fox.
* AllLovingHeroine: Tamamo loves people equally and wants to be friends with everyone in her school. She doesn't hold much of a grudge against most people. Even when [[spoiler:a weasel girl and raccoon girl have been playing pranks on her all day, she states she would love to be friends with them in total honesty]].

* BigGuyLittleGuy: The rather tall Kagachi is the "big guy" to her "boss" Mitarai.

* BoisterousWeakling: At one point, Mitarai talks a big game about how she'll take on Tenko, then [[INeedToGoIronMyDog quickly excuses herself]]. A footnote for the page notes that while she puts up a bold front, she's actually a bit of a wuss.
* BookDumb: Tamamo's exceptionally capable... except when it comes to studying and school-related matters.
* CantHoldHisLiquor: Osaki; according to Tamamo, just the smell of liquor gets her drunk.

* ClassRepresentative: Tamamo runs for class president at the start of her second year, and wins the vote; unfortunately, no-one with failing marks can be class president, disqualifying her.
* CovertPervert: The Public Morals Committee girl is a wee bit too excited about giving Kagachi tights and admiring her legs in the process.

* CuteClumsyGirl: Osaki, Tamamo's younger sister, is prone to tripping and bumping into things whenever she moves around.
* ClingyJealousGirl: Osaki, which is surprising given her ShrinkingViolet nature. She gets flustered/angry when [[spoiler:other girls flirt with Motoki, one the few boy students that are aware of Osaki and her two sisters' true forms. Sadly, Motoki is unaware of this crush.]]

* DarkAndTroubledPast: Kagachi was a pet weasel who got left behind when her owners moved house, and was found by Mitarai, who took her in as her underling.

* DrunkenMaster: Osaki's clumsiness seems to vanish when she's drunk, as demonstrated when she's serving as a waitress in a cafe without any issue while drunk on the fumes of the liquor being served.

* EmbarrassingRelativeTeacher: Tenko gets a job as a teacher in volume 2, and almost immediately starts singling out her little sister for the hard questions.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: The Public Morals Committee girl, whose actual name hasn't been given.

* FaceOfAThug: With her dark skeleton-themed hoodie, [[HugeSchoolgirl tall lanky build]], ever present borderline SlasherSmile, shifty eyes constantly shadowed by said hoodie and bangs, and her constant chuckling to herself, Kagachi's probably the most physically intimidating girl in school. She even manages to get the strict Public Morals Committee girl to back off by simply staring at her and laughing quietly. [[spoiler:While early on, it's implied that she's not as averse to making new friends as Mitarai, later chapters establish her as rather kind-hearted, friendly, and eager to make new friends. Her growing friendship with Tamamo and Osaki have her open up more to the rest of the school, though she clearly still considers Mitarai her BestFriend.]]
* FamilyThemeNaming: For Tamamo and her sisters, it's ReligiousAndMythologicalThemeNaming, with all of them having names relating to fox spirits.
** Tamamo is all but outright said [[NamedAfterSomebodyFamous to be named for Tamamo-no-Mae]].
** Tenko [[ADogNamedDog is a tenko]], here a virtuous nine-tailed fox that's lived for over a thousand years and has slowly lost their tails until only four are left, who possesses strong divine powers and has achieved deification.
** Osaki is named for osaki, [[NonIndicativeName evil fox spirits]].

* FishOutOfTemporalWater: Tamamo finds all sorts of modern day objects, from trains and bicycles to TokyoTower, to be utterly amazing and worth pointing out.

* TheHyena: Kagachi is often chuckling to herself when she doesn't have anything to say. May overlap with MirthlessLaughter at times since she even does it when she's clearly embarrassed.

* LivingStatue: Tamamo and her sisters are the fox statues outside Inari's shrine in Kyoto, they occasionally revert to statue form in class, and can talk to other statues.

* MyInstinctsAreShowing: Played straight for Mitarai:
** While foxes, weasels and raccoons all stick to their territories, among the shifters only Mitarai is particularly invested in her turf.
** Mitarai always washes her food, which has the expected results when she washes cotton candy.
** Raccoons are known to take in orphans and raise them alongside their own young, reflected in Mitarai's propensity to consider taking in lost or orphaned animals and children.
* MysticalWhiteHair: Tamamo and her sisters all have silver hair.

* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Tamamo and her sisters are somewhere in the range of centuries old, with a footnote in chapter 22 commenting Tenko has two thousand years of firsthand experience to impart, and Nakki in chapter 60 and a footnote in chapter 62 saying Tamamo's over a thousand years old.

* SenseiChan: Reiko-sensei is the only teacher who can see Tamamo as a fox. Nakki suspects it's because she's childish at heart. Indeed, Reiko would love nothing more than to snuggle up with Tamamo's fluffy tail.
* ShapeshiftingExcludesClothing: Tamamo and Osaki can't change their clothes as part of their disguise (aside from their underwear), but Tenko can.

* SharedFamilyQuirks: Tamamo, Tenko and Osaki are all completely clueless about their human disguises not being perfect.

* ShrinkingViolet: Osaki's like this initially, but when she gets to know someone she gets more comfortable around them.

* TalkingInYourSleep: Tamamo falls asleep in her first period class on her first day of school. During this time she talks in her sleep about how she was granted permission to pose as human and go to school by Inari Okami, but that she would be punished if her true nature became widely known. Her classmates, upon hearing this, all decide they can't let her know she isn't fooling them.

* WindsOfDestinyChange: Tamamo is prone to causing good fortune around her, particularly if someone prays or makes offerings to her. If someone gets her mad, however, they find themselves afflicted with misfortune.

* {{Kitsune}}: Tamamo and her sisters are divine messenger fox spirits of the Fushimi Inari Shrine in Kyoto.

* CrossoverCosmology: Tamamo works at a cafe for visiting gods from foreign lands, and at the end of volume 4 [[Myth/EgyptianMythology Anpu]] shows up as a foreign exchange student, spending much of volume 5 trying to recruit Tamamo into her pantheon.

* InterspeciesRomance: Regardless of them being immortal bipedal fox spirits, any boys that see past their illusions have no issue declaring how attractive the three sisters are. Especially Tenko when she shows up to be a teacher in Tamamo's school. A boy even tells her up-front that he is in love with her and asks for a relationship with her.
Tenko is flattered by that declaration but turns it down due to them being a teacher and a student... for now.

* GrailInTheGarbage: When Tamamo's friends are looking for things to sell at a flea market Tenko brings out a bunch of lost national treasures and magical artifacts including the kotenmyo hiragumo.

* GlamourFailure: Much to the photography students' frustration, this is ''not'' the case with photos of Tamamo or her sisters. Photographs all show them to be beautiful young women with no hint of their true nature. However, the various traditional Japanese methods of seeing through a glamour (smearing one's eyebrow with saliva, looking through a hand-sign called "fox's window"...) are effective.

* ClingyJealousGirl: Also Osaki, surprisingly.[[spoiler: She gets flustered/angry when other girls flirt with Motoki, one the few boy students that are aware of Osaki and her two sisters true forms. Sadly, Motoki is unaware of this crush.]]

** [[spoiler: Osaki became smitten with one of the boys in volume two when she went shopping. She was in a hurry until she almost tripped but Motoki, the baseball jock, saved her. She still has a crush on him in volume five when Motoki sold his old glove to her. Osaki admires his scent and becomes jealous when Anpu came into the picture ask for his assistances. By the way, Motoki is oblivious to her feelings towards him.]]

* InterspeciesRomance: Regardless of them being immortal bipedal fox spirits, any boys that see past their illusions have no issue declaring how attractive the three sisters are. Especially Tenko when she shows up to be a teacher in Tamamo's school. A boy even tells her up-front that he is in love with her and asks for a relationship with her. Tenko is flattered by that declaration but turns it down due to them being a teacher and a student... for now.

* InvisibleToAdults: With the exception of Reiko-sensei, every adult Tamamo encounters sees her as a human with silver hair and red eyeliner. On the flip side, the only student who ''doesn't'' see Tamamo as a fox is the Public Morals Committee girl. Meanwhile, Kagachi and Mitarai normally appear human to everyone, being better shapeshifters than Tamamo and her sisters.

[[https://sevenseasentertainment.com/series/tamamo-chans-a-fox/ Has been released in English]] by Creator/SevenSeasEntertainment.

* BeastMan: Leaving aside [[FoxFolk Tamamo and her sisters]], [[spoiler:in their true forms, Kagachi is a humanoid weasel, Mitarai is a humanoid raccoon, and Anpu is a humanoid canine (probably a jackal, given she's based on Anubis).]]

* DemonicPossession: Neutral version. Nakki's partial transformation into a divine messenger kitsune in chapters 54-55 allows Inari Okami to hijack her body for Tamamo's parent/child meeting shortly afterwards, presenting herself as Tamamo's mother, which's helped by the fact that in possession, Okami looks like [[FusionDance an adult fusion]] of herself and Nakki.

* FaceOfAThug: With her dark skeleton-themed hoodie, tall lanky build, ever present borderline SlasherSmile, shifty eyes constantly shadowed by said hoodie and bangs, and her constant chuckling to herself, Kagachi's probably the most physically intimidating girl in school. She even manages to get the strict Public Morals Committee girl to back off by simply staring at her and laughing quietly. [[spoiler:While early on, it's implied that she's not as averse to making new friends as Mitarai, later chapters establish her as rather kind-hearted, friendly, and eager to make new friends. Her growing friendship with Tamamo and Osaki have her open up more to the rest of the school though she clearly still considers Mitarai her BestFriend.]]

* FootnoteFever: Most pages have a note at the side with info on something relating to that comic, some of which are from Tamamo or her sisters.

** Tenko mentions she is a regular at the cafe Tamamo works at in chapter 57 [[spoiler:which hints at the supernatural aspect of the place]].

* InvisibleToAdults: With the exception of Reiko-sensei, every adult Tamamo encounters sees her as a human with silver hair and red eyeliner. On the flip side, the only student who ''doesn't'' see Tamamo as a fox is the Public Morals Committee girl. [[spoiler:Meanwhile, Kagachi and Mitarai normally appear human to everyone, being better shapeshifters than Tamamo and her sisters.]]

* OfferingsToTheGods: Tamamo's classmates would stick coins in her locker or leave snacks on her desk and then pray for favors in the early chapters. Before they started to realize they should BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor.

* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: While Tamamo and her sisters are somewhere in the range of centuries old, only Tenko so far's been given a rough age, with a footnote in chapter 22 commenting she has two thousand years of firsthand experience to impart.

* ShapeshiftingTrickster: Tamamo and Osaki aren't much into the traditional kitsune trickster role, but Tenko is fond of light-hearted pranks. While Kagachi and Mitarai are more actively malicious.

* StatuesqueStunner: Kagachi towers over just about every other girl at school, and the other students find her attractive too, with one telling her she should join the Modeling Club.

* InterspeciesRomance: Regardless of them being immortal bipedal kitsune's, any boys that see past their illusions have no issue declaring how attractive the three sisters are. Especially Tenko when she shows up to be a teacher in Tamamo's school. A boy even tells her up-front that he is in love with her and asks for a relationship with her. Tenko is flattered by that declaration but turns it down due to them being a teacher and a student... for now.

* InterspeciesRomance: Regardless of their being immortal bipedal kitsune's, any boys that see past their illusions have no issue declaring how attractive the three sisters are. Especially Tenko when she shows up to be a teacher in Tamamo's school. A boy even tells her up-front that he is in love with her and asks for a relationship with her. Tenko is flattered by that declaration but turns it down due to them being a teacher and a student... for now.

* InterspeciesRomance: Regardless of them being immortal bipedal kitsune's, any boy that see past their illusions have no issue declaring how attractive the three sisters are. Especially Tenko when she showed up to be a teacher in Tamamo's school. A boy even told her upfront that he is in love with her and asked for a relationship with her. The feeling is mutual as Tenko was flattered by that declaration but turned it down due to them being a teacher and a student....for now.