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[[caption-width-right:350:Little kid; big blades]]
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* AwkwardKiss: When Tsuwabuki tries to kiss Mari he purses his lips with his mouth open so he looks like a gulping fish. Mari smacks him for his impertinence and storms off.
* ComplimentBackfire: The moment when Nanami tells Tsuwabuki "I like you the way you are now" cements his resolve to attend the Mikage Seminar.
* FaceRevealingTurn: Tsuwabuki is facing away from Utena when she arrives at the dueling arena, and when he looks over his shoulder at her, she is shocked to see her challenger is Nanami's grade school lackey.
* ComplimentBackfire: The moment when Nanami tells Tsuwabuki "I like you the way you are now" cements his resolve to attend the Mikage Seminar.
* FaceRevealingTurn: Tsuwabuki is facing away from Utena when she arrives at the dueling arena, and when he looks over his shoulder at her, she is shocked to see her challenger is Nanami's grade school lackey.
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* GrayRainOfDepression: Rain falls continuously during this episode and is it used to mark Tsuwabuki as different from the older characters. He wears a raincoat, but eveyone else carries umbrellas. The rain doesn't let up, and Tsuwabuki becomes more and more frustrated. When he becomes a Black Rose duelist the weather clears.
* HistoryRepeats: Tsuwabuki's duel goes much like Nanami's did--he initially overwhelms Utena with speed, but she regroups, [[MeleeDisarming knocks his sword into the air]], and cuts his rose. The similarities end there, however; the Black Rose duelists always suffer a breakdown after the loss of their rose, but Nanami kept fighting even after she lost.
* IndirectKiss: Mari helps herself to a chocolate bar that Tsuwabuki bought, but tells him eat the rest when she leaves. He can't bring himself to take a bite out of it after thinking of this trope, although he doesn't seem to know what it means to him.
* InnocentInnuendo: Occurs multiple times:
** Tsuwabuki knocks it out of the park while discussing the bento he's making for Nanami.
--> '''Tsuwabuki:''' ''[Gripping a banana]'' If she eats this, I'll be satisfied.\\
'''Mari:''' That's filthy!
** The scene between Utena, Anthy and Tsuwabuki hinges on the word "iroiro" which means "various," but literally reads as "many-colored," and in East Asia "color" has an underlying connotation of sex and desire. Yamada, Tanaka, and Suzuki react weirdly because all the talk of "iroiro experience" sounds salacious, and they change color as a visual pun. When Anthy chimes in, making the innuendo decidedly ''not'' innocent, she says that she and Utena are "iroiro adults."
** The shadow play is about a girl proudly announcing that she had her first time and got proof of her adulthood. Her parents are dismayed...but it turns out she donated blood for the first time rather than whatever scandalous thing they were imagining.
* MatryoshkaObject: The item on the desks during the duel is a haniwa-like figurine holding the chocolate bar that Mari took a bite out of. During the duel, when Utena sends Tsuwabuki's sword flying, it breaks one of the figurines and it is ''caught'' by a smaller figurine hidden inside. One interpretation of this is that within the desire to [[SexAsARiteOfPassage become an adult through sexual experience]] is the urge to do harm to others.
* MysteriousNote: Utena opens her locker and there's no sign of the duel invitation. But there is an umbrella in there that she seems surprised to see, and when she opens it, the invitation is taped to the inside.
* NotNowKiddo: Characters throughout the epsiode belittle or exclude Tsuwabuki for being the youngest character in the series. In some cases his questions make them too uncomfortable to give him straight answers.
* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: Nanami asks Tsuwabuki if Mari is his girlfriend, and he's a little too emphatic in denying it.
* ARealManIsAKiller: During the duel, Tsuwabuki says that to become an adult, he must defeat an adult. While this statement isn't necessarily murderous on its own, the stated intent of all Black Rose duelists is to win Anthy in order to kill her.
* ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem: When Tsuwabuki trespasses on the student council meeting, Nanami throws her weight around a little, saying that since she's the acting president, it's okay for him to be there.
* SpeedBlitz: During the duel, Tsuwabuki attacks Utena before she gets a chance to draw her sword. Since he is power copying Nanami he is very fast, and it may be a little difficult to catch but he [[CloseCallHaircut cuts a few strands of Utena's hair]] when she dodges.
* TakingAdvantageOfGenerosity: Mari talls Tsuwabuki that Nanami is going to use him up and abandon him.
* TaughtByTelevision: After talking with Utena and Anthy about how "adult[[note]]iroiro[[/note]] experience" is necessary to be an adult, Tsuwabuki watches a compilation of kiss scenes from movies. Subverted in that when he tries to kiss someone, it goes poorly.
* HistoryRepeats: Tsuwabuki's duel goes much like Nanami's did--he initially overwhelms Utena with speed, but she regroups, [[MeleeDisarming knocks his sword into the air]], and cuts his rose. The similarities end there, however; the Black Rose duelists always suffer a breakdown after the loss of their rose, but Nanami kept fighting even after she lost.
* IndirectKiss: Mari helps herself to a chocolate bar that Tsuwabuki bought, but tells him eat the rest when she leaves. He can't bring himself to take a bite out of it after thinking of this trope, although he doesn't seem to know what it means to him.
* InnocentInnuendo: Occurs multiple times:
** Tsuwabuki knocks it out of the park while discussing the bento he's making for Nanami.
--> '''Tsuwabuki:''' ''[Gripping a banana]'' If she eats this, I'll be satisfied.\\
'''Mari:''' That's filthy!
** The scene between Utena, Anthy and Tsuwabuki hinges on the word "iroiro" which means "various," but literally reads as "many-colored," and in East Asia "color" has an underlying connotation of sex and desire. Yamada, Tanaka, and Suzuki react weirdly because all the talk of "iroiro experience" sounds salacious, and they change color as a visual pun. When Anthy chimes in, making the innuendo decidedly ''not'' innocent, she says that she and Utena are "iroiro adults."
** The shadow play is about a girl proudly announcing that she had her first time and got proof of her adulthood. Her parents are dismayed...but it turns out she donated blood for the first time rather than whatever scandalous thing they were imagining.
* MatryoshkaObject: The item on the desks during the duel is a haniwa-like figurine holding the chocolate bar that Mari took a bite out of. During the duel, when Utena sends Tsuwabuki's sword flying, it breaks one of the figurines and it is ''caught'' by a smaller figurine hidden inside. One interpretation of this is that within the desire to [[SexAsARiteOfPassage become an adult through sexual experience]] is the urge to do harm to others.
* MysteriousNote: Utena opens her locker and there's no sign of the duel invitation. But there is an umbrella in there that she seems surprised to see, and when she opens it, the invitation is taped to the inside.
* NotNowKiddo: Characters throughout the epsiode belittle or exclude Tsuwabuki for being the youngest character in the series. In some cases his questions make them too uncomfortable to give him straight answers.
* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: Nanami asks Tsuwabuki if Mari is his girlfriend, and he's a little too emphatic in denying it.
* ARealManIsAKiller: During the duel, Tsuwabuki says that to become an adult, he must defeat an adult. While this statement isn't necessarily murderous on its own, the stated intent of all Black Rose duelists is to win Anthy in order to kill her.
* ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem: When Tsuwabuki trespasses on the student council meeting, Nanami throws her weight around a little, saying that since she's the acting president, it's okay for him to be there.
* SpeedBlitz: During the duel, Tsuwabuki attacks Utena before she gets a chance to draw her sword. Since he is power copying Nanami he is very fast, and it may be a little difficult to catch but he [[CloseCallHaircut cuts a few strands of Utena's hair]] when she dodges.
* TakingAdvantageOfGenerosity: Mari talls Tsuwabuki that Nanami is going to use him up and abandon him.
* TaughtByTelevision: After talking with Utena and Anthy about how "adult[[note]]iroiro[[/note]] experience" is necessary to be an adult, Tsuwabuki watches a compilation of kiss scenes from movies. Subverted in that when he tries to kiss someone, it goes poorly.
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* TheGadfly: After Utena awkwardly tells Mitsuru she thinks you need experience in adult things to be an adult, Anthy "innocently" adds "Miss Utena, there are lots of adult things about us."
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