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AoHaru Manga Library is a Youtube-based manga channel. It's an anthology of one-shot Rom Com stories with a set of recurring cast, usually involving the plain-looking but nice Keiichi Sato and one (or all) leading lady whose names are either 'Yui', 'Noa', or 'Nagisa' (and occasionally 'Kanae') but having different surnames in every story. Each story usually offers different backgrounds and settings.
The English channel can be found here. The Japanese channel can be found here and here (titled 'Tokimeki Days')
Aoharu Manga Library features examples of these tropes:
Abusive Parents: In a departure from the tradition where Keiichi has Good Parents, the episode My Parents Forced Me to Marry the CEO's Daughter But We're Poor Farmers… has Keiichi's parents being impulsive gamblers who squander his grandfather's farm and its tools, pulled Keiichi out of college just to manage the farm, set him up to an Arranged Marriage with a CEO with Yui as the daughter while micromanaging his spendings only so he can provide for their gambling addiction. Thankfully, Yui and her father are reasonable people (even if Yui started out a bit spoiled), and eventually Keiichi just flat-out disowned them.
All Girls Want Bad Boys: In stories revolving around Keiichi getting dumped, it's usually because his first girlfriend is attracted to his antagonist's bad boy attitude. This usually comes to bite them back in the end.
Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: This is generally zig-zagged. Many of the heroines take this form, especially when they're cast as CEOs, but it's usually Nagisa who gets this role, as she often has to play as the cold beauty with a tough exterior to be eventually melted after the encounter with Keiichi, especially if she's in a harem episode; she'd look like the tall and cool one compared to Yui and Noa. However, she's just as likely to play as a sweet-natured lady with the same model.
Androcles' Lion: Keiichi's kindness will eventually lead him to help someone in trouble without looking for background, while the antagonist will be ignorant and even ruin Keiichi's life for it. Later, it turns out that the one Keiichi saved is a figure of power who does their best to repay the favor and make the antagonist suffer for their callousness.
Bad Boss: When the stories are about office life, the male antagonist will usually be a corrupt chief or boss who makes Keiichi overwork, take all the credit for himself, and eventually proven to be incompetent at the same time too.
Benevolent Boss: Whenever Keiichi or any of the heroines is a company CEO or a chief, you can expect them to be supportive to their subordinates and will protect them from bad business rivals, especially those who have been proven to be bad news.
Beauty Is Bad: Played straight and inverted at the same time. In various stories where the antagonist is a young male character, they will most likely be a handsome young man with an extroverted personality, clicking with the popular trend to contrast with Keiichi's more plain looks and introverted personality. However, their personalities tend to be extremely shallow, only valuing other people by their looks and outer accomplishments. On the other hand, the heroines are also flat-out beautiful, but they are also good people who don't flaunt their beauty. In fact, it's the heroines who sometimes appear homely and unattractive at first, but turn out to be a complete knocker in both looks and heart later.
Cheaters Never Prosper: A recurring theme of the story is that Keiichi is an honest student or worker, whereas his antagonists tend to be cheaters who constantly screw the rules to get ahead in life, often at Keiichi's expense. However, Keiichi's hard work eventually pays off while giving him fortune, while the cheater's prosperity will be just temporary, and disaster awaits afterwards.
Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: In certain stories, Keiichi is depicted as an unassuming nerd who's pushed around by his peers but is secretly someone of high position (like a company CEO) who is competent, intelligent, and just likes to keep his life simple. When his status is revealed, he calmly and brutally gives a Humble Pie to his bullies.
Even Evil Has Standards: In ''A Beauty Asks Me to Pretend to Be Her BF So She Could Get Back at Her EX Who Cheated on Her?!'', Keiichi's ex, Miharu, appears to be the typical greedy dumper at first. However, during the school trip, she becomes increasingly uncomfortable with how her new boyfriend, Daigo, goes so far to mislead both Keiichi and Nagisa in the mountain at night by tampering with the direction for no clear reason. She ends up exposing Daigo out of her own conscience before both Keiichi and Nagisa come back safely. She also proves to be an aversion to the typical Gold Digger: After everything is over and Daigo's punishment is described, she apologizes to Keiichi and doesn't try to rekindle their relationship.
Gold Digger: Types of these characters (usually the female ones) appear a lot as antagonists due to the abundance of stories of Keiichi getting dumped because he's too humble or not having a luxurious lifestyle. When Keiichi is being a Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass, they try to get back to his good graces once he reveals his actual wealth and power, but after seeing their true colors, Keiichi usually rejects them.
Good Is Not Soft: Keiichi may start to be a pathetic wimp with no backbone despite being a good person, but he eventually Grew a Spine and is able to talk down and reject the bad guys' insults and bribery while standing for his principles. Certain stories also have Keiichi already being able to stand on his own.
Graceful Loser: After cheering up a dull, plain looking girl crying in a park… episode provides an unusual antagonist in the form of Usui. He dumps Yui after realizing that her dull, nerdy look will damage his reputation, but he wants to go back to her after she turns out to be beautiful. Yui rejects him for being interested in her on a superficial level, while Keiichi loves her for her personality and kindness. Rather than running away in despair, Usui instead just sighs in defeat, acknowledging that he really isn't the man for Yui, wishing her and Keiichi happiness as a couple.
Harem Genre: In stories where Nagisa, Yui, and Noa appear together, they usually end up forming a harem for Keiichi.
Heel–Face Revolving Door: Out of the heroine names, Kanae has only played the heroine a few times. Sometimes, she's playing the gold-digging antagonist or a supporting character like an Adorably Precocious Child.
Honest Corporate Executive: Company CEOs and presidents, even when they're not played by the good guys, are usually portrayed as reasonable and strive to be good, law-abiding corporate people who try to create the best workplace environment while giving the customers the best service. It's usually the section chief or bosses who are negatively portrayed.
Laser-Guided Karma: Karma is often mentioned whenever Keiichi reaps his fortune while the antagonist reaps their misfortune, as it's showing that Keiichi's good deeds and the antagonist's bad deeds finally catch up to them.
Karma Houdini: In stories where both Keiichi and the heroine get dumped by their first girlfriend/boyfriend, the ones who get humiliated are the ones who humiliated Keiichi. The heroine's dumper usually goes unmentioned and may have gotten away scot-free.
No Accounting for Taste: Early in the story, Keiichi is someone who can never spot the red flags that the girl he's pining for is actually a selfish Gold Digger, leading him to get cruelly dumped. He grows over it later by rejecting the same girl once she comes back, trying to reignite their relationship only after Keiichi becomes successful. Sometimes also lampshaded by Keiichi himself that he used to have 'bad taste with women' and only learned by experience with said Gold Digger.
No Antagonist: There are several stories where there are no antagonist characters; it's just Keiichi dealing with his own awkward feelings towards the heroine while trying to be as supportive as possible, or they get into a misunderstanding on their own.
Nice Guy: A constant trait of Keiichi in all his roles is that he's an overly nice and kind guy who looks like a Bully Magnet and doesn't like to stand out, thus is expected to 'finish last'. Karma always proves that expectation wrong.
Popular Is Evil: The male antagonists are usually obsessed with maintaining popularity, looking down on the lesser ones, especially Keiichi or whenever the heroines look plain. Similarly, the female antagonists are only interested in the most popular one so they can get more money and materialistic wealth from the popular one. This is sometimes inverted when it's the heroine who's popular: Either she is a Class Princess who never lets her popularity get in the way of common sense, or she learns the hard way how her attitude damages her standing and decides to make amends.
Shout-Out:
While the name 'Akuma' is often used for the middle-aged Bad Boss antagonist character, it's used again in the episode I Helped a Girl Who Got Fired from a Company, She Became A Rich CEO GF!?, where it turns out that this particular Akuma is the son of a company president who also happens to be a gamer (as he played Yui and Keiichi's developed game that becomes an instant hit). Considering that, one may wonder that this gamer president is a fan of Street Fighter and decided to name his son after Akuma/Gouki, only to unfortunately fail in raising him properly, and this Akuma becomes the typical antagonist.
In Boss Stole My GF & My Credit and I Got Fired! At Job Interview I Met My Ex-Rival…, Keiichi is an aspiring game developer who's forced to do sales and had his passion project stolen by his colleague Matsumoto while working under 'K Company'. This is most likely referencing Konami and their devastating controversy in 2015/2016 about their exodus to pachinko and mobile gaming, workplace abuse, and the resignation of Hideo Kojima. The reason why this is not falling into Take That! is that the story portrays K Company with better respect: Keiichi has more freedom and is able to resign without being blacklisted from the industry; there is no workplace abuse; and the problem stems solely from Matsumoto charming everyone and making Keiichi the fall guy. And once Matsumoto's fraud is exposed and causes damage to the company, the CEO simply punishes him rather than continuing to hound Keiichi.
In the same episode as above, Yui openly states that she gets inspired to cast Keiichi's Gold Digger ex as a villain for an Otome Game she has in mind. Perhaps she's trying to make her version of Fortune Lover, with the Gold Digger being the inspiration of the villainous game version of Catalina Claes.
Shallow Cannot Comprehend True Love: One of the recurring themes in these stories that forms the characterization of the antagonists.
The male antagonist will be the type of guy who only sees girls based on their superficial looks, therefore has a tendency to dump girls that they see as plain, dull, and ugly, and tells beautiful girls that fall for Keiichi's kindness that they're wasting their beauty on Keiichi's plain appearance.
Likewise, the female antagonist is usually a shallow Gold Digger who only sees men with how capable they are to give material wealth rather than true love obtained from getting to know and supporting each other even in hard times. In stories where Keiichi is already an accomplished and confident man, he makes it his point to avoid extravagant girls since they tend to be shallow. His preference mostly lies with plain, quiet, and down-to-earth girls since they're less likely to be shallow.
Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Keiichi's kindness and humility are usually the reasons why the main female (Nagisa, Yui, or Noa) falls for him. The gender inversion also applies in stories where Keiichi starts out as a self-assured, successful man. He has a tendency to ignore the prettier, more extravagant, but more abrasive and arrogant attention-seeking girl and instead goes for the plainer, but more down-to-earth heroine.
Smug Snake: An antagonist in the stories here tends to be a super smug, fun-chasing extrovert who likes to flex their elite status and look down on the more down-to-earth Keiichi, while usurping his place and being so self-assured that with their riches, they would be way more successful than Keiichi could ever be. By the end of the story, their smug attitude comes crashing down along with their plans to show that they are actually incompetent at their field, while Keiichi perseveres with his own hard work ethics, so they usually come back to Keiichi begging for a second chance, but at that point, Keiichi would have had enough of their smug shit and rejected them, leaving them to a horrible fate.
Tsundere: Certain stories have the heroine being a Tsundere. Usually, Yui is the one saddled with the role. Sometimes it's deconstructed that the Tsundere antics end up driving people away because they're not being honest with themselves.
Universal-Adaptor Cast: The story can range between varying scenarios, but mostly takes place in school or office life. Keiichi's role can range from that of an ordinary student to that of a company CEO.
Unsettling Gender-Reveal: Downplayed. In I Prayed to Get a Girlfriend, All 3 of My BFFs Were Actually Super Cute Girls!?, after wishing for a girlfriend in a shrine prayer, Keiichi is absolutely shocked when his 3 male friends come out of hot springs and reveal themselves to be girls. It's less severe than most examples because, after the initial shock, he quickly picks himself up because he's a calm introvert and asks calmly about their reasons.
Keiichi: '"W,w,w,whyyy… What the heck? What is happening here? WHY ARE YOU ALL GIIIIRRRLSSSSS!?!?" (Hey, God, what am I supposed to do in a situation like this? Laugh about it? Am I supposed to laugh it off? Don't be absurd!)
Wholesome Crossdresser: In certain stories, the heroines are dressing up like guys for varying reasons. They don't even bother with changing names, except for Yui, who's usually changed to the more masculine 'Yuu'.
Wingding Eyes: Usually the eyes of the antagonistic Gold Digger once they realize Keiichi rises in position surpassing the antagonistic rival, will be replaced with yen signs. This is to cue in their true money-grubbing nature that they're just interested in mooching him off as an ATM.
Workaholic: Keiichi is often the guy who focuses more on his studies, work, and integrity as a student/Salaryman. The bad guys usually ridicule him as being lame for it, but eventually the supporting cast will see it as a positive trait and help balance Keiichi's schedule.
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AoHaru Manga Library is a Youtube-based manga channel. It's an anthology of one-shot Rom Com stories with a set of recurring cast, usually involving the plain-looking but nice Keiichi Sato and one (or all) leading lady whose names are either 'Yui', 'Noa', or 'Nagisa' (and occasionally 'Kanae') but having different surnames in every story. Each story usually offers different backgrounds and settings.
The English channel can be found here. The Japanese channel can be found here and here (titled 'Tokimeki Days')
Aoharu Manga Library features examples of these tropes:
Abusive Parents: In a departure from the tradition where Keiichi has Good Parents, the episode My Parents Forced Me to Marry the CEO's Daughter But We're Poor Farmers… has Keiichi's parents being impulsive gamblers who squander his grandfather's farm and its tools, pulled Keiichi out of college just to manage the farm, set him up to an Arranged Marriage with a CEO with Yui as the daughter while micromanaging his spendings only so he can provide for their gambling addiction. Thankfully, Yui and her father are reasonable people (even if Yui started out a bit spoiled), and eventually Keiichi just flat-out disowned them.
All Girls Want Bad Boys: In stories revolving around Keiichi getting dumped, it's usually because his first girlfriend is attracted to his antagonist's bad boy attitude. This usually comes to bite them back in the end.
Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: This is generally zig-zagged. Many of the heroines take this form, especially when they're cast as CEOs, but it's usually Nagisa who gets this role, as she often has to play as the cold beauty with a tough exterior to be eventually melted after the encounter with Keiichi, especially if she's in a harem episode; she'd look like the tall and cool one compared to Yui and Noa. However, she's just as likely to play as a sweet-natured lady with the same model.
Androcles' Lion: Keiichi's kindness will eventually lead him to help someone in trouble without looking for background, while the antagonist will be ignorant and even ruin Keiichi's life for it. Later, it turns out that the one Keiichi saved is a figure of power who does their best to repay the favor and make the antagonist suffer for their callousness.
Bad Boss: When the stories are about office life, the male antagonist will usually be a corrupt chief or boss who makes Keiichi overwork, take all the credit for himself, and eventually proven to be incompetent at the same time too.
Benevolent Boss: Whenever Keiichi or any of the heroines is a company CEO or a chief, you can expect them to be supportive to their subordinates and will protect them from bad business rivals, especially those who have been proven to be bad news.
Beauty Is Bad: Played straight and inverted at the same time. In various stories where the antagonist is a young male character, they will most likely be a handsome young man with an extroverted personality, clicking with the popular trend to contrast with Keiichi's more plain looks and introverted personality. However, their personalities tend to be extremely shallow, only valuing other people by their looks and outer accomplishments. On the other hand, the heroines are also flat-out beautiful, but they are also good people who don't flaunt their beauty. In fact, it's the heroines who sometimes appear homely and unattractive at first, but turn out to be a complete knocker in both looks and heart later.
Cheaters Never Prosper: A recurring theme of the story is that Keiichi is an honest student or worker, whereas his antagonists tend to be cheaters who constantly screw the rules to get ahead in life, often at Keiichi's expense. However, Keiichi's hard work eventually pays off while giving him fortune, while the cheater's prosperity will be just temporary, and disaster awaits afterwards.
Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: In certain stories, Keiichi is depicted as an unassuming nerd who's pushed around by his peers but is secretly someone of high position (like a company CEO) who is competent, intelligent, and just likes to keep his life simple. When his status is revealed, he calmly and brutally gives a Humble Pie to his bullies.
Even Evil Has Standards: In ''A Beauty Asks Me to Pretend to Be Her BF So She Could Get Back at Her EX Who Cheated on Her?!'', Keiichi's ex, Miharu, appears to be the typical greedy dumper at first. However, during the school trip, she becomes increasingly uncomfortable with how her new boyfriend, Daigo, goes so far to mislead both Keiichi and Nagisa in the mountain at night by tampering with the direction for no clear reason. She ends up exposing Daigo out of her own conscience before both Keiichi and Nagisa come back safely. She also proves to be an aversion to the typical Gold Digger: After everything is over and Daigo's punishment is described, she apologizes to Keiichi and doesn't try to rekindle their relationship.
Gold Digger: Types of these characters (usually the female ones) appear a lot as antagonists due to the abundance of stories of Keiichi getting dumped because he's too humble or not having a luxurious lifestyle. When Keiichi is being a Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass, they try to get back to his good graces once he reveals his actual wealth and power, but after seeing their true colors, Keiichi usually rejects them.
Good Is Not Soft: Keiichi may start to be a pathetic wimp with no backbone despite being a good person, but he eventually Grew a Spine and is able to talk down and reject the bad guys' insults and bribery while standing for his principles. Certain stories also have Keiichi already being able to stand on his own.
Graceful Loser: After cheering up a dull, plain looking girl crying in a park… episode provides an unusual antagonist in the form of Usui. He dumps Yui after realizing that her dull, nerdy look will damage his reputation, but he wants to go back to her after she turns out to be beautiful. Yui rejects him for being interested in her on a superficial level, while Keiichi loves her for her personality and kindness. Rather than running away in despair, Usui instead just sighs in defeat, acknowledging that he really isn't the man for Yui, wishing her and Keiichi happiness as a couple.
Harem Genre: In stories where Nagisa, Yui, and Noa appear together, they usually end up forming a harem for Keiichi.
Heel–Face Revolving Door: Out of the heroine names, Kanae has only played the heroine a few times. Sometimes, she's playing the gold-digging antagonist or a supporting character like an Adorably Precocious Child.
Honest Corporate Executive: Company CEOs and presidents, even when they're not played by the good guys, are usually portrayed as reasonable and strive to be good, law-abiding corporate people who try to create the best workplace environment while giving the customers the best service. It's usually the section chief or bosses who are negatively portrayed.
Laser-Guided Karma: Karma is often mentioned whenever Keiichi reaps his fortune while the antagonist reaps their misfortune, as it's showing that Keiichi's good deeds and the antagonist's bad deeds finally catch up to them.
Karma Houdini: In stories where both Keiichi and the heroine get dumped by their first girlfriend/boyfriend, the ones who get humiliated are the ones who humiliated Keiichi. The heroine's dumper usually goes unmentioned and may have gotten away scot-free.
No Accounting for Taste: Early in the story, Keiichi is someone who can never spot the red flags that the girl he's pining for is actually a selfish Gold Digger, leading him to get cruelly dumped. He grows over it later by rejecting the same girl once she comes back, trying to reignite their relationship only after Keiichi becomes successful. Sometimes also lampshaded by Keiichi himself that he used to have 'bad taste with women' and only learned by experience with said Gold Digger.
No Antagonist: There are several stories where there are no antagonist characters; it's just Keiichi dealing with his own awkward feelings towards the heroine while trying to be as supportive as possible, or they get into a misunderstanding on their own.
Nice Guy: A constant trait of Keiichi in all his roles is that he's an overly nice and kind guy who looks like a Bully Magnet and doesn't like to stand out, thus is expected to 'finish last'. Karma always proves that expectation wrong.
Popular Is Evil: The male antagonists are usually obsessed with maintaining popularity, looking down on the lesser ones, especially Keiichi or whenever the heroines look plain. Similarly, the female antagonists are only interested in the most popular one so they can get more money and materialistic wealth from the popular one. This is sometimes inverted when it's the heroine who's popular: Either she is a Class Princess who never lets her popularity get in the way of common sense, or she learns the hard way how her attitude damages her standing and decides to make amends.
Shout-Out:
While the name 'Akuma' is often used for the middle-aged Bad Boss antagonist character, it's used again in the episode I Helped a Girl Who Got Fired from a Company, She Became A Rich CEO GF!?, where it turns out that this particular Akuma is the son of a company president who also happens to be a gamer (as he played Yui and Keiichi's developed game that becomes an instant hit). Considering that, one may wonder that this gamer president is a fan of Street Fighter and decided to name his son after Akuma/Gouki, only to unfortunately fail in raising him properly, and this Akuma becomes the typical antagonist.
In Boss Stole My GF & My Credit and I Got Fired! At Job Interview I Met My Ex-Rival…, Keiichi is an aspiring game developer who's forced to do sales and had his passion project stolen by his colleague Matsumoto while working under 'K Company'. This is most likely referencing Konami and their devastating controversy in 2015/2016 about their exodus to pachinko and mobile gaming, workplace abuse, and the resignation of Hideo Kojima. The reason why this is not falling into Take That! is that the story portrays K Company with better respect: Keiichi has more freedom and is able to resign without being blacklisted from the industry; there is no workplace abuse; and the problem stems solely from Matsumoto charming everyone and making Keiichi the fall guy. And once Matsumoto's fraud is exposed and causes damage to the company, the CEO simply punishes him rather than continuing to hound Keiichi.
In the same episode as above, Yui openly states that she gets inspired to cast Keiichi's Gold Digger ex as a villain for an Otome Game she has in mind. Perhaps she's trying to make her version of Fortune Lover, with the Gold Digger being the inspiration of the villainous game version of Catalina Claes.
Shallow Cannot Comprehend True Love: One of the recurring themes in these stories that forms the characterization of the antagonists.
The male antagonist will be the type of guy who only sees girls based on their superficial looks, therefore has a tendency to dump girls that they see as plain, dull, and ugly, and tells beautiful girls that fall for Keiichi's kindness that they're wasting their beauty on Keiichi's plain appearance.
Likewise, the female antagonist is usually a shallow Gold Digger who only sees men with how capable they are to give material wealth rather than true love obtained from getting to know and supporting each other even in hard times. In stories where Keiichi is already an accomplished and confident man, he makes it his point to avoid extravagant girls since they tend to be shallow. His preference mostly lies with plain, quiet, and down-to-earth girls since they're less likely to be shallow.
Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Keiichi's kindness and humility are usually the reasons why the main female (Nagisa, Yui, or Noa) falls for him. The gender inversion also applies in stories where Keiichi starts out as a self-assured, successful man. He has a tendency to ignore the prettier, more extravagant, but more abrasive and arrogant attention-seeking girl and instead goes for the plainer, but more down-to-earth heroine.
Smug Snake: An antagonist in the stories here tends to be a super smug, fun-chasing extrovert who likes to flex their elite status and look down on the more down-to-earth Keiichi, while usurping his place and being so self-assured that with their riches, they would be way more successful than Keiichi could ever be. By the end of the story, their smug attitude comes crashing down along with their plans to show that they are actually incompetent at their field, while Keiichi perseveres with his own hard work ethics, so they usually come back to Keiichi begging for a second chance, but at that point, Keiichi would have had enough of their smug shit and rejected them, leaving them to a horrible fate.
Tsundere: Certain stories have the heroine being a Tsundere. Usually, Yui is the one saddled with the role. Sometimes it's deconstructed that the Tsundere antics end up driving people away because they're not being honest with themselves.
Universal-Adaptor Cast: The story can range between varying scenarios, but mostly takes place in school or office life. Keiichi's role can range from that of an ordinary student to that of a company CEO.
Unsettling Gender-Reveal: Downplayed. In I Prayed to Get a Girlfriend, All 3 of My BFFs Were Actually Super Cute Girls!?, after wishing for a girlfriend in a shrine prayer, Keiichi is absolutely shocked when his 3 male friends come out of hot springs and reveal themselves to be girls. It's less severe than most examples because, after the initial shock, he quickly picks himself up because he's a calm introvert and asks calmly about their reasons.
Keiichi: '"W,w,w,whyyy… What the heck? What is happening here? WHY ARE YOU ALL GIIIIRRRLSSSSS!?!?" (Hey, God, what am I supposed to do in a situation like this? Laugh about it? Am I supposed to laugh it off? Don't be absurd!)
Wholesome Crossdresser: In certain stories, the heroines are dressing up like guys for varying reasons. They don't even bother with changing names, except for Yui, who's usually changed to the more masculine 'Yuu'.
Wingding Eyes: Usually the eyes of the antagonistic Gold Digger once they realize Keiichi rises in position surpassing the antagonistic rival, will be replaced with yen signs. This is to cue in their true money-grubbing nature that they're just interested in mooching him off as an ATM.
Workaholic: Keiichi is often the guy who focuses more on his studies, work, and integrity as a student/Salaryman. The bad guys usually ridicule him as being lame for it, but eventually the supporting cast will see it as a positive trait and help balance Keiichi's schedule.
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AoHaru Manga Library is a Youtube-based manga channel. It's an anthology of one-shot Rom Com stories with a set of recurring cast, usually involving the plain-looking but nice Keiichi Sato and one (or all) leading lady whose names are either 'Yui', 'Noa', or 'Nagisa' (and occasionally 'Kanae') but having different surnames in every story. Each story usually offers different backgrounds and settings.
The English channel can be found here. The Japanese channel can be found here and here (titled 'Tokimeki Days')
Aoharu Manga Library features examples of these tropes:
Abusive Parents: In a departure from the tradition where Keiichi has Good Parents, the episode My Parents Forced Me to Marry the CEO's Daughter But We're Poor Farmers… has Keiichi's parents being impulsive gamblers who squander his grandfather's farm and its tools, pulled Keiichi out of college just to manage the farm, set him up to an Arranged Marriage with a CEO with Yui as the daughter while micromanaging his spendings only so he can provide for their gambling addiction. Thankfully, Yui and her father are reasonable people (even if Yui started out a bit spoiled), and eventually Keiichi just flat-out disowned them.
All Girls Want Bad Boys: In stories revolving around Keiichi getting dumped, it's usually because his first girlfriend is attracted to his antagonist's bad boy attitude. This usually comes to bite them back in the end.
Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: This is generally zig-zagged. Many of the heroines take this form, especially when they're cast as CEOs, but it's usually Nagisa who gets this role, as she often has to play as the cold beauty with a tough exterior to be eventually melted after the encounter with Keiichi, especially if she's in a harem episode; she'd look like the tall and cool one compared to Yui and Noa. However, she's just as likely to play as a sweet-natured lady with the same model.
Androcles' Lion: Keiichi's kindness will eventually lead him to help someone in trouble without looking for background, while the antagonist will be ignorant and even ruin Keiichi's life for it. Later, it turns out that the one Keiichi saved is a figure of power who does their best to repay the favor and make the antagonist suffer for their callousness.
Bad Boss: When the stories are about office life, the male antagonist will usually be a corrupt chief or boss who makes Keiichi overwork, take all the credit for himself, and eventually proven to be incompetent at the same time too.
Benevolent Boss: Whenever Keiichi or any of the heroines is a company CEO or a chief, you can expect them to be supportive to their subordinates and will protect them from bad business rivals, especially those who have been proven to be bad news.
Beauty Is Bad: Played straight and inverted at the same time. In various stories where the antagonist is a young male character, they will most likely be a handsome young man with an extroverted personality, clicking with the popular trend to contrast with Keiichi's more plain looks and introverted personality. However, their personalities tend to be extremely shallow, only valuing other people by their looks and outer accomplishments. On the other hand, the heroines are also flat-out beautiful, but they are also good people who don't flaunt their beauty. In fact, it's the heroines who sometimes appear homely and unattractive at first, but turn out to be a complete knocker in both looks and heart later.
Cheaters Never Prosper: A recurring theme of the story is that Keiichi is an honest student or worker, whereas his antagonists tend to be cheaters who constantly screw the rules to get ahead in life, often at Keiichi's expense. However, Keiichi's hard work eventually pays off while giving him fortune, while the cheater's prosperity will be just temporary, and disaster awaits afterwards.
Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: In certain stories, Keiichi is depicted as an unassuming nerd who's pushed around by his peers but is secretly someone of high position (like a company CEO) who is competent, intelligent, and just likes to keep his life simple. When his status is revealed, he calmly and brutally gives a Humble Pie to his bullies.
Even Evil Has Standards: In ''A Beauty Asks Me to Pretend to Be Her BF So She Could Get Back at Her EX Who Cheated on Her?!'', Keiichi's ex, Miharu, appears to be the typical greedy dumper at first. However, during the school trip, she becomes increasingly uncomfortable with how her new boyfriend, Daigo, goes so far to mislead both Keiichi and Nagisa in the mountain at night by tampering with the direction for no clear reason. She ends up exposing Daigo out of her own conscience before both Keiichi and Nagisa come back safely. She also proves to be an aversion to the typical Gold Digger: After everything is over and Daigo's punishment is described, she apologizes to Keiichi and doesn't try to rekindle their relationship.
Gold Digger: Types of these characters (usually the female ones) appear a lot as antagonists due to the abundance of stories of Keiichi getting dumped because he's too humble or not having a luxurious lifestyle. When Keiichi is being a Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass, they try to get back to his good graces once he reveals his actual wealth and power, but after seeing their true colors, Keiichi usually rejects them.
Good Is Not Soft: Keiichi may start to be a pathetic wimp with no backbone despite being a good person, but he eventually Grew a Spine and is able to talk down and reject the bad guys' insults and bribery while standing for his principles. Certain stories also have Keiichi already being able to stand on his own.
Graceful Loser: After cheering up a dull, plain looking girl crying in a park… episode provides an unusual antagonist in the form of Usui. He dumps Yui after realizing that her dull, nerdy look will damage his reputation, but he wants to go back to her after she turns out to be beautiful. Yui rejects him for being interested in her on a superficial level, while Keiichi loves her for her personality and kindness. Rather than running away in despair, Usui instead just sighs in defeat, acknowledging that he really isn't the man for Yui, wishing her and Keiichi happiness as a couple.
Harem Genre: In stories where Nagisa, Yui, and Noa appear together, they usually end up forming a harem for Keiichi.
Heel–Face Revolving Door: Out of the heroine names, Kanae has only played the heroine a few times. Sometimes, she's playing the gold-digging antagonist or a supporting character like an Adorably Precocious Child.
Honest Corporate Executive: Company CEOs and presidents, even when they're not played by the good guys, are usually portrayed as reasonable and strive to be good, law-abiding corporate people who try to create the best workplace environment while giving the customers the best service. It's usually the section chief or bosses who are negatively portrayed.
Laser-Guided Karma: Karma is often mentioned whenever Keiichi reaps his fortune while the antagonist reaps their misfortune, as it's showing that Keiichi's good deeds and the antagonist's bad deeds finally catch up to them.
Karma Houdini: In stories where both Keiichi and the heroine get dumped by their first girlfriend/boyfriend, the ones who get humiliated are the ones who humiliated Keiichi. The heroine's dumper usually goes unmentioned and may have gotten away scot-free.
No Accounting for Taste: Early in the story, Keiichi is someone who can never spot the red flags that the girl he's pining for is actually a selfish Gold Digger, leading him to get cruelly dumped. He grows over it later by rejecting the same girl once she comes back, trying to reignite their relationship only after Keiichi becomes successful. Sometimes also lampshaded by Keiichi himself that he used to have 'bad taste with women' and only learned by experience with said Gold Digger.
No Antagonist: There are several stories where there are no antagonist characters; it's just Keiichi dealing with his own awkward feelings towards the heroine while trying to be as supportive as possible, or they get into a misunderstanding on their own.
Nice Guy: A constant trait of Keiichi in all his roles is that he's an overly nice and kind guy who looks like a Bully Magnet and doesn't like to stand out, thus is expected to 'finish last'. Karma always proves that expectation wrong.
Popular Is Evil: The male antagonists are usually obsessed with maintaining popularity, looking down on the lesser ones, especially Keiichi or whenever the heroines look plain. Similarly, the female antagonists are only interested in the most popular one so they can get more money and materialistic wealth from the popular one. This is sometimes inverted when it's the heroine who's popular: Either she is a Class Princess who never lets her popularity get in the way of common sense, or she learns the hard way how her attitude damages her standing and decides to make amends.
Shout-Out:
While the name 'Akuma' is often used for the middle-aged Bad Boss antagonist character, it's used again in the episode I Helped a Girl Who Got Fired from a Company, She Became A Rich CEO GF!?, where it turns out that this particular Akuma is the son of a company president who also happens to be a gamer (as he played Yui and Keiichi's developed game that becomes an instant hit). Considering that, one may wonder that this gamer president is a fan of Street Fighter and decided to name his son after Akuma/Gouki, only to unfortunately fail in raising him properly, and this Akuma becomes the typical antagonist.
In Boss Stole My GF & My Credit and I Got Fired! At Job Interview I Met My Ex-Rival…, Keiichi is an aspiring game developer who's forced to do sales and had his passion project stolen by his colleague Matsumoto while working under 'K Company'. This is most likely referencing Konami and their devastating controversy in 2015/2016 about their exodus to pachinko and mobile gaming, workplace abuse, and the resignation of Hideo Kojima. The reason why this is not falling into Take That! is that the story portrays K Company with better respect: Keiichi has more freedom and is able to resign without being blacklisted from the industry; there is no workplace abuse; and the problem stems solely from Matsumoto charming everyone and making Keiichi the fall guy. And once Matsumoto's fraud is exposed and causes damage to the company, the CEO simply punishes him rather than continuing to hound Keiichi.
In the same episode as above, Yui openly states that she gets inspired to cast Keiichi's Gold Digger ex as a villain for an Otome Game she has in mind. Perhaps she's trying to make her version of Fortune Lover, with the Gold Digger being the inspiration of the villainous game version of Catalina Claes.
Shallow Cannot Comprehend True Love: One of the recurring themes in these stories that forms the characterization of the antagonists.
The male antagonist will be the type of guy who only sees girls based on their superficial looks, therefore has a tendency to dump girls that they see as plain, dull, and ugly, and tells beautiful girls that fall for Keiichi's kindness that they're wasting their beauty on Keiichi's plain appearance.
Likewise, the female antagonist is usually a shallow Gold Digger who only sees men with how capable they are to give material wealth rather than true love obtained from getting to know and supporting each other even in hard times. In stories where Keiichi is already an accomplished and confident man, he makes it his point to avoid extravagant girls since they tend to be shallow. His preference mostly lies with plain, quiet, and down-to-earth girls since they're less likely to be shallow.
Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Keiichi's kindness and humility are usually the reasons why the main female (Nagisa, Yui, or Noa) falls for him. The gender inversion also applies in stories where Keiichi starts out as a self-assured, successful man. He has a tendency to ignore the prettier, more extravagant, but more abrasive and arrogant attention-seeking girl and instead goes for the plainer, but more down-to-earth heroine.
Smug Snake: An antagonist in the stories here tends to be a super smug, fun-chasing extrovert who likes to flex their elite status and look down on the more down-to-earth Keiichi, while usurping his place and being so self-assured that with their riches, they would be way more successful than Keiichi could ever be. By the end of the story, their smug attitude comes crashing down along with their plans to show that they are actually incompetent at their field, while Keiichi perseveres with his own hard work ethics, so they usually come back to Keiichi begging for a second chance, but at that point, Keiichi would have had enough of their smug shit and rejected them, leaving them to a horrible fate.
Tsundere: Certain stories have the heroine being a Tsundere. Usually, Yui is the one saddled with the role. Sometimes it's deconstructed that the Tsundere antics end up driving people away because they're not being honest with themselves.
Universal-Adaptor Cast: The story can range between varying scenarios, but mostly takes place in school or office life. Keiichi's role can range from that of an ordinary student to that of a company CEO.
Unsettling Gender-Reveal: Downplayed. In I Prayed to Get a Girlfriend, All 3 of My BFFs Were Actually Super Cute Girls!?, after wishing for a girlfriend in a shrine prayer, Keiichi is absolutely shocked when his 3 male friends come out of hot springs and reveal themselves to be girls. It's less severe than most examples because, after the initial shock, he quickly picks himself up because he's a calm introvert and asks calmly about their reasons.
Keiichi: '"W,w,w,whyyy… What the heck? What is happening here? WHY ARE YOU ALL GIIIIRRRLSSSSS!?!?" (Hey, God, what am I supposed to do in a situation like this? Laugh about it? Am I supposed to laugh it off? Don't be absurd!)
Wholesome Crossdresser: In certain stories, the heroines are dressing up like guys for varying reasons. They don't even bother with changing names, except for Yui, who's usually changed to the more masculine 'Yuu'.
Wingding Eyes: Usually the eyes of the antagonistic Gold Digger once they realize Keiichi rises in position surpassing the antagonistic rival, will be replaced with yen signs. This is to cue in their true money-grubbing nature that they're just interested in mooching him off as an ATM.
Workaholic: Keiichi is often the guy who focuses more on his studies, work, and integrity as a student/Salaryman. The bad guys usually ridicule him as being lame for it, but eventually the supporting cast will see it as a positive trait and help balance Keiichi's schedule.
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AoHaru Manga Library is a Youtube-based manga channel. It's an anthology of one-shot Rom Com stories with a set of recurring cast, usually involving the plain-looking but nice Keiichi Sato and one (or all) leading lady whose names are either 'Yui', 'Noa', or 'Nagisa' (and occasionally 'Kanae') but having different surnames in every story. Each story usually offers different backgrounds and settings.
The English channel can be found here. The Japanese channel can be found here and here (titled 'Tokimeki Days')
Aoharu Manga Library features examples of these tropes:
Abusive Parents: In a departure from the tradition where Keiichi has Good Parents, the episode My Parents Forced Me to Marry the CEO's Daughter But We're Poor Farmers… has Keiichi's parents being impulsive gamblers who squander his grandfather's farm and its tools, pulled Keiichi out of college just to manage the farm, set him up to an Arranged Marriage with a CEO with Yui as the daughter while micromanaging his spendings only so he can provide for their gambling addiction. Thankfully, Yui and her father are reasonable people (even if Yui started out a bit spoiled), and eventually Keiichi just flat-out disowned them.
All Girls Want Bad Boys: In stories revolving around Keiichi getting dumped, it's usually because his first girlfriend is attracted to his antagonist's bad boy attitude. This usually comes to bite them back in the end.
Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: This is generally zig-zagged. Many of the heroines take this form, especially when they're cast as CEOs, but it's usually Nagisa who gets this role, as she often has to play as the cold beauty with a tough exterior to be eventually melted after the encounter with Keiichi, especially if she's in a harem episode; she'd look like the tall and cool one compared to Yui and Noa. However, she's just as likely to play as a sweet-natured lady with the same model.
Androcles' Lion: Keiichi's kindness will eventually lead him to help someone in trouble without looking for background, while the antagonist will be ignorant and even ruin Keiichi's life for it. Later, it turns out that the one Keiichi saved is a figure of power who does their best to repay the favor and make the antagonist suffer for their callousness.
Bad Boss: When the stories are about office life, the male antagonist will usually be a corrupt chief or boss who makes Keiichi overwork, take all the credit for himself, and eventually proven to be incompetent at the same time too.
Benevolent Boss: Whenever Keiichi or any of the heroines is a company CEO or a chief, you can expect them to be supportive to their subordinates and will protect them from bad business rivals, especially those who have been proven to be bad news.
Beauty Is Bad: Played straight and inverted at the same time. In various stories where the antagonist is a young male character, they will most likely be a handsome young man with an extroverted personality, clicking with the popular trend to contrast with Keiichi's more plain looks and introverted personality. However, their personalities tend to be extremely shallow, only valuing other people by their looks and outer accomplishments. On the other hand, the heroines are also flat-out beautiful, but they are also good people who don't flaunt their beauty. In fact, it's the heroines who sometimes appear homely and unattractive at first, but turn out to be a complete knocker in both looks and heart later.
Cheaters Never Prosper: A recurring theme of the story is that Keiichi is an honest student or worker, whereas his antagonists tend to be cheaters who constantly screw the rules to get ahead in life, often at Keiichi's expense. However, Keiichi's hard work eventually pays off while giving him fortune, while the cheater's prosperity will be just temporary, and disaster awaits afterwards.
Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: In certain stories, Keiichi is depicted as an unassuming nerd who's pushed around by his peers but is secretly someone of high position (like a company CEO) who is competent, intelligent, and just likes to keep his life simple. When his status is revealed, he calmly and brutally gives a Humble Pie to his bullies.
Even Evil Has Standards: In ''A Beauty Asks Me to Pretend to Be Her BF So She Could Get Back at Her EX Who Cheated on Her?!'', Keiichi's ex, Miharu, appears to be the typical greedy dumper at first. However, during the school trip, she becomes increasingly uncomfortable with how her new boyfriend, Daigo, goes so far to mislead both Keiichi and Nagisa in the mountain at night by tampering with the direction for no clear reason. She ends up exposing Daigo out of her own conscience before both Keiichi and Nagisa come back safely. She also proves to be an aversion to the typical Gold Digger: After everything is over and Daigo's punishment is described, she apologizes to Keiichi and doesn't try to rekindle their relationship.
Gold Digger: Types of these characters (usually the female ones) appear a lot as antagonists due to the abundance of stories of Keiichi getting dumped because he's too humble or not having a luxurious lifestyle. When Keiichi is being a Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass, they try to get back to his good graces once he reveals his actual wealth and power, but after seeing their true colors, Keiichi usually rejects them.
Good Is Not Soft: Keiichi may start to be a pathetic wimp with no backbone despite being a good person, but he eventually Grew a Spine and is able to talk down and reject the bad guys' insults and bribery while standing for his principles. Certain stories also have Keiichi already being able to stand on his own.
Graceful Loser: After cheering up a dull, plain looking girl crying in a park… episode provides an unusual antagonist in the form of Usui. He dumps Yui after realizing that her dull, nerdy look will damage his reputation, but he wants to go back to her after she turns out to be beautiful. Yui rejects him for being interested in her on a superficial level, while Keiichi loves her for her personality and kindness. Rather than running away in despair, Usui instead just sighs in defeat, acknowledging that he really isn't the man for Yui, wishing her and Keiichi happiness as a couple.
Harem Genre: In stories where Nagisa, Yui, and Noa appear together, they usually end up forming a harem for Keiichi.
Heel–Face Revolving Door: Out of the heroine names, Kanae has only played the heroine a few times. Sometimes, she's playing the gold-digging antagonist or a supporting character like an Adorably Precocious Child.
Honest Corporate Executive: Company CEOs and presidents, even when they're not played by the good guys, are usually portrayed as reasonable and strive to be good, law-abiding corporate people who try to create the best workplace environment while giving the customers the best service. It's usually the section chief or bosses who are negatively portrayed.
Laser-Guided Karma: Karma is often mentioned whenever Keiichi reaps his fortune while the antagonist reaps their misfortune, as it's showing that Keiichi's good deeds and the antagonist's bad deeds finally catch up to them.
Karma Houdini: In stories where both Keiichi and the heroine get dumped by their first girlfriend/boyfriend, the ones who get humiliated are the ones who humiliated Keiichi. The heroine's dumper usually goes unmentioned and may have gotten away scot-free.
No Accounting for Taste: Early in the story, Keiichi is someone who can never spot the red flags that the girl he's pining for is actually a selfish Gold Digger, leading him to get cruelly dumped. He grows over it later by rejecting the same girl once she comes back, trying to reignite their relationship only after Keiichi becomes successful. Sometimes also lampshaded by Keiichi himself that he used to have 'bad taste with women' and only learned by experience with said Gold Digger.
No Antagonist: There are several stories where there are no antagonist characters; it's just Keiichi dealing with his own awkward feelings towards the heroine while trying to be as supportive as possible, or they get into a misunderstanding on their own.
Nice Guy: A constant trait of Keiichi in all his roles is that he's an overly nice and kind guy who looks like a Bully Magnet and doesn't like to stand out, thus is expected to 'finish last'. Karma always proves that expectation wrong.
Popular Is Evil: The male antagonists are usually obsessed with maintaining popularity, looking down on the lesser ones, especially Keiichi or whenever the heroines look plain. Similarly, the female antagonists are only interested in the most popular one so they can get more money and materialistic wealth from the popular one. This is sometimes inverted when it's the heroine who's popular: Either she is a Class Princess who never lets her popularity get in the way of common sense, or she learns the hard way how her attitude damages her standing and decides to make amends.
Shout-Out:
While the name 'Akuma' is often used for the middle-aged Bad Boss antagonist character, it's used again in the episode I Helped a Girl Who Got Fired from a Company, She Became A Rich CEO GF!?, where it turns out that this particular Akuma is the son of a company president who also happens to be a gamer (as he played Yui and Keiichi's developed game that becomes an instant hit). Considering that, one may wonder that this gamer president is a fan of Street Fighter and decided to name his son after Akuma/Gouki, only to unfortunately fail in raising him properly, and this Akuma becomes the typical antagonist.
In Boss Stole My GF & My Credit and I Got Fired! At Job Interview I Met My Ex-Rival…, Keiichi is an aspiring game developer who's forced to do sales and had his passion project stolen by his colleague Matsumoto while working under 'K Company'. This is most likely referencing Konami and their devastating controversy in 2015/2016 about their exodus to pachinko and mobile gaming, workplace abuse, and the resignation of Hideo Kojima. The reason why this is not falling into Take That! is that the story portrays K Company with better respect: Keiichi has more freedom and is able to resign without being blacklisted from the industry; there is no workplace abuse; and the problem stems solely from Matsumoto charming everyone and making Keiichi the fall guy. And once Matsumoto's fraud is exposed and causes damage to the company, the CEO simply punishes him rather than continuing to hound Keiichi.
In the same episode as above, Yui openly states that she gets inspired to cast Keiichi's Gold Digger ex as a villain for an Otome Game she has in mind. Perhaps she's trying to make her version of Fortune Lover, with the Gold Digger being the inspiration of the villainous game version of Catalina Claes.
Shallow Cannot Comprehend True Love: One of the recurring themes in these stories that forms the characterization of the antagonists.
The male antagonist will be the type of guy who only sees girls based on their superficial looks, therefore has a tendency to dump girls that they see as plain, dull, and ugly, and tells beautiful girls that fall for Keiichi's kindness that they're wasting their beauty on Keiichi's plain appearance.
Likewise, the female antagonist is usually a shallow Gold Digger who only sees men with how capable they are to give material wealth rather than true love obtained from getting to know and supporting each other even in hard times. In stories where Keiichi is already an accomplished and confident man, he makes it his point to avoid extravagant girls since they tend to be shallow. His preference mostly lies with plain, quiet, and down-to-earth girls since they're less likely to be shallow.
Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Keiichi's kindness and humility are usually the reasons why the main female (Nagisa, Yui, or Noa) falls for him. The gender inversion also applies in stories where Keiichi starts out as a self-assured, successful man. He has a tendency to ignore the prettier, more extravagant, but more abrasive and arrogant attention-seeking girl and instead goes for the plainer, but more down-to-earth heroine.
Smug Snake: An antagonist in the stories here tends to be a super smug, fun-chasing extrovert who likes to flex their elite status and look down on the more down-to-earth Keiichi, while usurping his place and being so self-assured that with their riches, they would be way more successful than Keiichi could ever be. By the end of the story, their smug attitude comes crashing down along with their plans to show that they are actually incompetent at their field, while Keiichi perseveres with his own hard work ethics, so they usually come back to Keiichi begging for a second chance, but at that point, Keiichi would have had enough of their smug shit and rejected them, leaving them to a horrible fate.
Tsundere: Certain stories have the heroine being a Tsundere. Usually, Yui is the one saddled with the role. Sometimes it's deconstructed that the Tsundere antics end up driving people away because they're not being honest with themselves.
Universal-Adaptor Cast: The story can range between varying scenarios, but mostly takes place in school or office life. Keiichi's role can range from that of an ordinary student to that of a company CEO.
Unsettling Gender-Reveal: Downplayed. In I Prayed to Get a Girlfriend, All 3 of My BFFs Were Actually Super Cute Girls!?, after wishing for a girlfriend in a shrine prayer, Keiichi is absolutely shocked when his 3 male friends come out of hot springs and reveal themselves to be girls. It's less severe than most examples because, after the initial shock, he quickly picks himself up because he's a calm introvert and asks calmly about their reasons.
Keiichi: '"W,w,w,whyyy… What the heck? What is happening here? WHY ARE YOU ALL GIIIIRRRLSSSSS!?!?" (Hey, God, what am I supposed to do in a situation like this? Laugh about it? Am I supposed to laugh it off? Don't be absurd!)
Wholesome Crossdresser: In certain stories, the heroines are dressing up like guys for varying reasons. They don't even bother with changing names, except for Yui, who's usually changed to the more masculine 'Yuu'.
Wingding Eyes: Usually the eyes of the antagonistic Gold Digger once they realize Keiichi rises in position surpassing the antagonistic rival, will be replaced with yen signs. This is to cue in their true money-grubbing nature that they're just interested in mooching him off as an ATM.
Workaholic: Keiichi is often the guy who focuses more on his studies, work, and integrity as a student/Salaryman. The bad guys usually ridicule him as being lame for it, but eventually the supporting cast will see it as a positive trait and help balance Keiichi's schedule.
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AoHaru Manga Library is a Youtube-based manga channel. It's an anthology of one-shot Rom Com stories with a set of recurring cast, usually involving the plain-looking but nice Keiichi Sato and one (or all) leading lady whose names are either 'Yui', 'Noa', or 'Nagisa' (and occasionally 'Kanae') but having different surnames in every story. Each story usually offers different backgrounds and settings.
The English channel can be found here. The Japanese channel can be found here and here (titled 'Tokimeki Days')
Aoharu Manga Library features examples of these tropes:
Abusive Parents: In a departure from the tradition where Keiichi has Good Parents, the episode My Parents Forced Me to Marry the CEO's Daughter But We're Poor Farmers… has Keiichi's parents being impulsive gamblers who squander his grandfather's farm and its tools, pulled Keiichi out of college just to manage the farm, set him up to an Arranged Marriage with a CEO with Yui as the daughter while micromanaging his spendings only so he can provide for their gambling addiction. Thankfully, Yui and her father are reasonable people (even if Yui started out a bit spoiled), and eventually Keiichi just flat-out disowned them.
All Girls Want Bad Boys: In stories revolving around Keiichi getting dumped, it's usually because his first girlfriend is attracted to his antagonist's bad boy attitude. This usually comes to bite them back in the end.
Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: This is generally zig-zagged. Many of the heroines take this form, especially when they're cast as CEOs, but it's usually Nagisa who gets this role, as she often has to play as the cold beauty with a tough exterior to be eventually melted after the encounter with Keiichi, especially if she's in a harem episode; she'd look like the tall and cool one compared to Yui and Noa. However, she's just as likely to play as a sweet-natured lady with the same model.
Androcles' Lion: Keiichi's kindness will eventually lead him to help someone in trouble without looking for background, while the antagonist will be ignorant and even ruin Keiichi's life for it. Later, it turns out that the one Keiichi saved is a figure of power who does their best to repay the favor and make the antagonist suffer for their callousness.
Bad Boss: When the stories are about office life, the male antagonist will usually be a corrupt chief or boss who makes Keiichi overwork, take all the credit for himself, and eventually proven to be incompetent at the same time too.
Benevolent Boss: Whenever Keiichi or any of the heroines is a company CEO or a chief, you can expect them to be supportive to their subordinates and will protect them from bad business rivals, especially those who have been proven to be bad news.
Beauty Is Bad: Played straight and inverted at the same time. In various stories where the antagonist is a young male character, they will most likely be a handsome young man with an extroverted personality, clicking with the popular trend to contrast with Keiichi's more plain looks and introverted personality. However, their personalities tend to be extremely shallow, only valuing other people by their looks and outer accomplishments. On the other hand, the heroines are also flat-out beautiful, but they are also good people who don't flaunt their beauty. In fact, it's the heroines who sometimes appear homely and unattractive at first, but turn out to be a complete knocker in both looks and heart later.
Cheaters Never Prosper: A recurring theme of the story is that Keiichi is an honest student or worker, whereas his antagonists tend to be cheaters who constantly screw the rules to get ahead in life, often at Keiichi's expense. However, Keiichi's hard work eventually pays off while giving him fortune, while the cheater's prosperity will be just temporary, and disaster awaits afterwards.
Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: In certain stories, Keiichi is depicted as an unassuming nerd who's pushed around by his peers but is secretly someone of high position (like a company CEO) who is competent, intelligent, and just likes to keep his life simple. When his status is revealed, he calmly and brutally gives a Humble Pie to his bullies.
Even Evil Has Standards: In ''A Beauty Asks Me to Pretend to Be Her BF So She Could Get Back at Her EX Who Cheated on Her?!'', Keiichi's ex, Miharu, appears to be the typical greedy dumper at first. However, during the school trip, she becomes increasingly uncomfortable with how her new boyfriend, Daigo, goes so far to mislead both Keiichi and Nagisa in the mountain at night by tampering with the direction for no clear reason. She ends up exposing Daigo out of her own conscience before both Keiichi and Nagisa come back safely. She also proves to be an aversion to the typical Gold Digger: After everything is over and Daigo's punishment is described, she apologizes to Keiichi and doesn't try to rekindle their relationship.
Gold Digger: Types of these characters (usually the female ones) appear a lot as antagonists due to the abundance of stories of Keiichi getting dumped because he's too humble or not having a luxurious lifestyle. When Keiichi is being a Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass, they try to get back to his good graces once he reveals his actual wealth and power, but after seeing their true colors, Keiichi usually rejects them.
Good Is Not Soft: Keiichi may start to be a pathetic wimp with no backbone despite being a good person, but he eventually Grew a Spine and is able to talk down and reject the bad guys' insults and bribery while standing for his principles. Certain stories also have Keiichi already being able to stand on his own.
Graceful Loser: After cheering up a dull, plain looking girl crying in a park… episode provides an unusual antagonist in the form of Usui. He dumps Yui after realizing that her dull, nerdy look will damage his reputation, but he wants to go back to her after she turns out to be beautiful. Yui rejects him for being interested in her on a superficial level, while Keiichi loves her for her personality and kindness. Rather than running away in despair, Usui instead just sighs in defeat, acknowledging that he really isn't the man for Yui, wishing her and Keiichi happiness as a couple.
Harem Genre: In stories where Nagisa, Yui, and Noa appear together, they usually end up forming a harem for Keiichi.
Heel–Face Revolving Door: Out of the heroine names, Kanae has only played the heroine a few times. Sometimes, she's playing the gold-digging antagonist or a supporting character like an Adorably Precocious Child.
Honest Corporate Executive: Company CEOs and presidents, even when they're not played by the good guys, are usually portrayed as reasonable and strive to be good, law-abiding corporate people who try to create the best workplace environment while giving the customers the best service. It's usually the section chief or bosses who are negatively portrayed.
Laser-Guided Karma: Karma is often mentioned whenever Keiichi reaps his fortune while the antagonist reaps their misfortune, as it's showing that Keiichi's good deeds and the antagonist's bad deeds finally catch up to them.
Karma Houdini: In stories where both Keiichi and the heroine get dumped by their first girlfriend/boyfriend, the ones who get humiliated are the ones who humiliated Keiichi. The heroine's dumper usually goes unmentioned and may have gotten away scot-free.
No Accounting for Taste: Early in the story, Keiichi is someone who can never spot the red flags that the girl he's pining for is actually a selfish Gold Digger, leading him to get cruelly dumped. He grows over it later by rejecting the same girl once she comes back, trying to reignite their relationship only after Keiichi becomes successful. Sometimes also lampshaded by Keiichi himself that he used to have 'bad taste with women' and only learned by experience with said Gold Digger.
No Antagonist: There are several stories where there are no antagonist characters; it's just Keiichi dealing with his own awkward feelings towards the heroine while trying to be as supportive as possible, or they get into a misunderstanding on their own.
Nice Guy: A constant trait of Keiichi in all his roles is that he's an overly nice and kind guy who looks like a Bully Magnet and doesn't like to stand out, thus is expected to 'finish last'. Karma always proves that expectation wrong.
Popular Is Evil: The male antagonists are usually obsessed with maintaining popularity, looking down on the lesser ones, especially Keiichi or whenever the heroines look plain. Similarly, the female antagonists are only interested in the most popular one so they can get more money and materialistic wealth from the popular one. This is sometimes inverted when it's the heroine who's popular: Either she is a Class Princess who never lets her popularity get in the way of common sense, or she learns the hard way how her attitude damages her standing and decides to make amends.
Shout-Out:
While the name 'Akuma' is often used for the middle-aged Bad Boss antagonist character, it's used again in the episode I Helped a Girl Who Got Fired from a Company, She Became A Rich CEO GF!?, where it turns out that this particular Akuma is the son of a company president who also happens to be a gamer (as he played Yui and Keiichi's developed game that becomes an instant hit). Considering that, one may wonder that this gamer president is a fan of Street Fighter and decided to name his son after Akuma/Gouki, only to unfortunately fail in raising him properly, and this Akuma becomes the typical antagonist.
In Boss Stole My GF & My Credit and I Got Fired! At Job Interview I Met My Ex-Rival…, Keiichi is an aspiring game developer who's forced to do sales and had his passion project stolen by his colleague Matsumoto while working under 'K Company'. This is most likely referencing Konami and their devastating controversy in 2015/2016 about their exodus to pachinko and mobile gaming, workplace abuse, and the resignation of Hideo Kojima. The reason why this is not falling into Take That! is that the story portrays K Company with better respect: Keiichi has more freedom and is able to resign without being blacklisted from the industry; there is no workplace abuse; and the problem stems solely from Matsumoto charming everyone and making Keiichi the fall guy. And once Matsumoto's fraud is exposed and causes damage to the company, the CEO simply punishes him rather than continuing to hound Keiichi.
In the same episode as above, Yui openly states that she gets inspired to cast Keiichi's Gold Digger ex as a villain for an Otome Game she has in mind. Perhaps she's trying to make her version of Fortune Lover, with the Gold Digger being the inspiration of the villainous game version of Catalina Claes.
Shallow Cannot Comprehend True Love: One of the recurring themes in these stories that forms the characterization of the antagonists.
The male antagonist will be the type of guy who only sees girls based on their superficial looks, therefore has a tendency to dump girls that they see as plain, dull, and ugly, and tells beautiful girls that fall for Keiichi's kindness that they're wasting their beauty on Keiichi's plain appearance.
Likewise, the female antagonist is usually a shallow Gold Digger who only sees men with how capable they are to give material wealth rather than true love obtained from getting to know and supporting each other even in hard times. In stories where Keiichi is already an accomplished and confident man, he makes it his point to avoid extravagant girls since they tend to be shallow. His preference mostly lies with plain, quiet, and down-to-earth girls since they're less likely to be shallow.
Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Keiichi's kindness and humility are usually the reasons why the main female (Nagisa, Yui, or Noa) falls for him. The gender inversion also applies in stories where Keiichi starts out as a self-assured, successful man. He has a tendency to ignore the prettier, more extravagant, but more abrasive and arrogant attention-seeking girl and instead goes for the plainer, but more down-to-earth heroine.
Smug Snake: An antagonist in the stories here tends to be a super smug, fun-chasing extrovert who likes to flex their elite status and look down on the more down-to-earth Keiichi, while usurping his place and being so self-assured that with their riches, they would be way more successful than Keiichi could ever be. By the end of the story, their smug attitude comes crashing down along with their plans to show that they are actually incompetent at their field, while Keiichi perseveres with his own hard work ethics, so they usually come back to Keiichi begging for a second chance, but at that point, Keiichi would have had enough of their smug shit and rejected them, leaving them to a horrible fate.
Tsundere: Certain stories have the heroine being a Tsundere. Usually, Yui is the one saddled with the role. Sometimes it's deconstructed that the Tsundere antics end up driving people away because they're not being honest with themselves.
Universal-Adaptor Cast: The story can range between varying scenarios, but mostly takes place in school or office life. Keiichi's role can range from that of an ordinary student to that of a company CEO.
Unsettling Gender-Reveal: Downplayed. In I Prayed to Get a Girlfriend, All 3 of My BFFs Were Actually Super Cute Girls!?, after wishing for a girlfriend in a shrine prayer, Keiichi is absolutely shocked when his 3 male friends come out of hot springs and reveal themselves to be girls. It's less severe than most examples because, after the initial shock, he quickly picks himself up because he's a calm introvert and asks calmly about their reasons.
Keiichi: '"W,w,w,whyyy… What the heck? What is happening here? WHY ARE YOU ALL GIIIIRRRLSSSSS!?!?" (Hey, God, what am I supposed to do in a situation like this? Laugh about it? Am I supposed to laugh it off? Don't be absurd!)
Wholesome Crossdresser: In certain stories, the heroines are dressing up like guys for varying reasons. They don't even bother with changing names, except for Yui, who's usually changed to the more masculine 'Yuu'.
Wingding Eyes: Usually the eyes of the antagonistic Gold Digger once they realize Keiichi rises in position surpassing the antagonistic rival, will be replaced with yen signs. This is to cue in their true money-grubbing nature that they're just interested in mooching him off as an ATM.
Workaholic: Keiichi is often the guy who focuses more on his studies, work, and integrity as a student/Salaryman. The bad guys usually ridicule him as being lame for it, but eventually the supporting cast will see it as a positive trait and help balance Keiichi's schedule.
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AoHaru Manga Library is a Youtube-based manga channel. It's an anthology of one-shot Rom Com stories with a set of recurring cast, usually involving the plain-looking but nice Keiichi Sato and one (or all) leading lady whose names are either 'Yui', 'Noa', or 'Nagisa' (and occasionally 'Kanae') but having different surnames in every story. Each story usually offers different backgrounds and settings.
The English channel can be found here. The Japanese channel can be found here and here (titled 'Tokimeki Days')
Aoharu Manga Library features examples of these tropes:
Abusive Parents: In a departure from the tradition where Keiichi has Good Parents, the episode My Parents Forced Me to Marry the CEO's Daughter But We're Poor Farmers… has Keiichi's parents being impulsive gamblers who squander his grandfather's farm and its tools, pulled Keiichi out of college just to manage the farm, set him up to an Arranged Marriage with a CEO with Yui as the daughter while micromanaging his spendings only so he can provide for their gambling addiction. Thankfully, Yui and her father are reasonable people (even if Yui started out a bit spoiled), and eventually Keiichi just flat-out disowned them.
All Girls Want Bad Boys: In stories revolving around Keiichi getting dumped, it's usually because his first girlfriend is attracted to his antagonist's bad boy attitude. This usually comes to bite them back in the end.
Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: This is generally zig-zagged. Many of the heroines take this form, especially when they're cast as CEOs, but it's usually Nagisa who gets this role, as she often has to play as the cold beauty with a tough exterior to be eventually melted after the encounter with Keiichi, especially if she's in a harem episode; she'd look like the tall and cool one compared to Yui and Noa. However, she's just as likely to play as a sweet-natured lady with the same model.
Androcles' Lion: Keiichi's kindness will eventually lead him to help someone in trouble without looking for background, while the antagonist will be ignorant and even ruin Keiichi's life for it. Later, it turns out that the one Keiichi saved is a figure of power who does their best to repay the favor and make the antagonist suffer for their callousness.
Bad Boss: When the stories are about office life, the male antagonist will usually be a corrupt chief or boss who makes Keiichi overwork, take all the credit for himself, and eventually proven to be incompetent at the same time too.
Benevolent Boss: Whenever Keiichi or any of the heroines is a company CEO or a chief, you can expect them to be supportive to their subordinates and will protect them from bad business rivals, especially those who have been proven to be bad news.
Beauty Is Bad: Played straight and inverted at the same time. In various stories where the antagonist is a young male character, they will most likely be a handsome young man with an extroverted personality, clicking with the popular trend to contrast with Keiichi's more plain looks and introverted personality. However, their personalities tend to be extremely shallow, only valuing other people by their looks and outer accomplishments. On the other hand, the heroines are also flat-out beautiful, but they are also good people who don't flaunt their beauty. In fact, it's the heroines who sometimes appear homely and unattractive at first, but turn out to be a complete knocker in both looks and heart later.
Cheaters Never Prosper: A recurring theme of the story is that Keiichi is an honest student or worker, whereas his antagonists tend to be cheaters who constantly screw the rules to get ahead in life, often at Keiichi's expense. However, Keiichi's hard work eventually pays off while giving him fortune, while the cheater's prosperity will be just temporary, and disaster awaits afterwards.
Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: In certain stories, Keiichi is depicted as an unassuming nerd who's pushed around by his peers but is secretly someone of high position (like a company CEO) who is competent, intelligent, and just likes to keep his life simple. When his status is revealed, he calmly and brutally gives a Humble Pie to his bullies.
Even Evil Has Standards: In ''A Beauty Asks Me to Pretend to Be Her BF So She Could Get Back at Her EX Who Cheated on Her?!'', Keiichi's ex, Miharu, appears to be the typical greedy dumper at first. However, during the school trip, she becomes increasingly uncomfortable with how her new boyfriend, Daigo, goes so far to mislead both Keiichi and Nagisa in the mountain at night by tampering with the direction for no clear reason. She ends up exposing Daigo out of her own conscience before both Keiichi and Nagisa come back safely. She also proves to be an aversion to the typical Gold Digger: After everything is over and Daigo's punishment is described, she apologizes to Keiichi and doesn't try to rekindle their relationship.
Gold Digger: Types of these characters (usually the female ones) appear a lot as antagonists due to the abundance of stories of Keiichi getting dumped because he's too humble or not having a luxurious lifestyle. When Keiichi is being a Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass, they try to get back to his good graces once he reveals his actual wealth and power, but after seeing their true colors, Keiichi usually rejects them.
Good Is Not Soft: Keiichi may start to be a pathetic wimp with no backbone despite being a good person, but he eventually Grew a Spine and is able to talk down and reject the bad guys' insults and bribery while standing for his principles. Certain stories also have Keiichi already being able to stand on his own.
Graceful Loser: After cheering up a dull, plain looking girl crying in a park… episode provides an unusual antagonist in the form of Usui. He dumps Yui after realizing that her dull, nerdy look will damage his reputation, but he wants to go back to her after she turns out to be beautiful. Yui rejects him for being interested in her on a superficial level, while Keiichi loves her for her personality and kindness. Rather than running away in despair, Usui instead just sighs in defeat, acknowledging that he really isn't the man for Yui, wishing her and Keiichi happiness as a couple.
Harem Genre: In stories where Nagisa, Yui, and Noa appear together, they usually end up forming a harem for Keiichi.
Heel–Face Revolving Door: Out of the heroine names, Kanae has only played the heroine a few times. Sometimes, she's playing the gold-digging antagonist or a supporting character like an Adorably Precocious Child.
Honest Corporate Executive: Company CEOs and presidents, even when they're not played by the good guys, are usually portrayed as reasonable and strive to be good, law-abiding corporate people who try to create the best workplace environment while giving the customers the best service. It's usually the section chief or bosses who are negatively portrayed.
Laser-Guided Karma: Karma is often mentioned whenever Keiichi reaps his fortune while the antagonist reaps their misfortune, as it's showing that Keiichi's good deeds and the antagonist's bad deeds finally catch up to them.
Karma Houdini: In stories where both Keiichi and the heroine get dumped by their first girlfriend/boyfriend, the ones who get humiliated are the ones who humiliated Keiichi. The heroine's dumper usually goes unmentioned and may have gotten away scot-free.
No Accounting for Taste: Early in the story, Keiichi is someone who can never spot the red flags that the girl he's pining for is actually a selfish Gold Digger, leading him to get cruelly dumped. He grows over it later by rejecting the same girl once she comes back, trying to reignite their relationship only after Keiichi becomes successful. Sometimes also lampshaded by Keiichi himself that he used to have 'bad taste with women' and only learned by experience with said Gold Digger.
No Antagonist: There are several stories where there are no antagonist characters; it's just Keiichi dealing with his own awkward feelings towards the heroine while trying to be as supportive as possible, or they get into a misunderstanding on their own.
Nice Guy: A constant trait of Keiichi in all his roles is that he's an overly nice and kind guy who looks like a Bully Magnet and doesn't like to stand out, thus is expected to 'finish last'. Karma always proves that expectation wrong.
Popular Is Evil: The male antagonists are usually obsessed with maintaining popularity, looking down on the lesser ones, especially Keiichi or whenever the heroines look plain. Similarly, the female antagonists are only interested in the most popular one so they can get more money and materialistic wealth from the popular one. This is sometimes inverted when it's the heroine who's popular: Either she is a Class Princess who never lets her popularity get in the way of common sense, or she learns the hard way how her attitude damages her standing and decides to make amends.
Shout-Out:
While the name 'Akuma' is often used for the middle-aged Bad Boss antagonist character, it's used again in the episode I Helped a Girl Who Got Fired from a Company, She Became A Rich CEO GF!?, where it turns out that this particular Akuma is the son of a company president who also happens to be a gamer (as he played Yui and Keiichi's developed game that becomes an instant hit). Considering that, one may wonder that this gamer president is a fan of Street Fighter and decided to name his son after Akuma/Gouki, only to unfortunately fail in raising him properly, and this Akuma becomes the typical antagonist.
In Boss Stole My GF & My Credit and I Got Fired! At Job Interview I Met My Ex-Rival…, Keiichi is an aspiring game developer who's forced to do sales and had his passion project stolen by his colleague Matsumoto while working under 'K Company'. This is most likely referencing Konami and their devastating controversy in 2015/2016 about their exodus to pachinko and mobile gaming, workplace abuse, and the resignation of Hideo Kojima. The reason why this is not falling into Take That! is that the story portrays K Company with better respect: Keiichi has more freedom and is able to resign without being blacklisted from the industry; there is no workplace abuse; and the problem stems solely from Matsumoto charming everyone and making Keiichi the fall guy. And once Matsumoto's fraud is exposed and causes damage to the company, the CEO simply punishes him rather than continuing to hound Keiichi.
In the same episode as above, Yui openly states that she gets inspired to cast Keiichi's Gold Digger ex as a villain for an Otome Game she has in mind. Perhaps she's trying to make her version of Fortune Lover, with the Gold Digger being the inspiration of the villainous game version of Catalina Claes.
Shallow Cannot Comprehend True Love: One of the recurring themes in these stories that forms the characterization of the antagonists.
The male antagonist will be the type of guy who only sees girls based on their superficial looks, therefore has a tendency to dump girls that they see as plain, dull, and ugly, and tells beautiful girls that fall for Keiichi's kindness that they're wasting their beauty on Keiichi's plain appearance.
Likewise, the female antagonist is usually a shallow Gold Digger who only sees men with how capable they are to give material wealth rather than true love obtained from getting to know and supporting each other even in hard times. In stories where Keiichi is already an accomplished and confident man, he makes it his point to avoid extravagant girls since they tend to be shallow. His preference mostly lies with plain, quiet, and down-to-earth girls since they're less likely to be shallow.
Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Keiichi's kindness and humility are usually the reasons why the main female (Nagisa, Yui, or Noa) falls for him. The gender inversion also applies in stories where Keiichi starts out as a self-assured, successful man. He has a tendency to ignore the prettier, more extravagant, but more abrasive and arrogant attention-seeking girl and instead goes for the plainer, but more down-to-earth heroine.
Smug Snake: An antagonist in the stories here tends to be a super smug, fun-chasing extrovert who likes to flex their elite status and look down on the more down-to-earth Keiichi, while usurping his place and being so self-assured that with their riches, they would be way more successful than Keiichi could ever be. By the end of the story, their smug attitude comes crashing down along with their plans to show that they are actually incompetent at their field, while Keiichi perseveres with his own hard work ethics, so they usually come back to Keiichi begging for a second chance, but at that point, Keiichi would have had enough of their smug shit and rejected them, leaving them to a horrible fate.
Tsundere: Certain stories have the heroine being a Tsundere. Usually, Yui is the one saddled with the role. Sometimes it's deconstructed that the Tsundere antics end up driving people away because they're not being honest with themselves.
Universal-Adaptor Cast: The story can range between varying scenarios, but mostly takes place in school or office life. Keiichi's role can range from that of an ordinary student to that of a company CEO.
Unsettling Gender-Reveal: Downplayed. In I Prayed to Get a Girlfriend, All 3 of My BFFs Were Actually Super Cute Girls!?, after wishing for a girlfriend in a shrine prayer, Keiichi is absolutely shocked when his 3 male friends come out of hot springs and reveal themselves to be girls. It's less severe than most examples because, after the initial shock, he quickly picks himself up because he's a calm introvert and asks calmly about their reasons.
Keiichi: '"W,w,w,whyyy… What the heck? What is happening here? WHY ARE YOU ALL GIIIIRRRLSSSSS!?!?" (Hey, God, what am I supposed to do in a situation like this? Laugh about it? Am I supposed to laugh it off? Don't be absurd!)
Wholesome Crossdresser: In certain stories, the heroines are dressing up like guys for varying reasons. They don't even bother with changing names, except for Yui, who's usually changed to the more masculine 'Yuu'.
Wingding Eyes: Usually the eyes of the antagonistic Gold Digger once they realize Keiichi rises in position surpassing the antagonistic rival, will be replaced with yen signs. This is to cue in their true money-grubbing nature that they're just interested in mooching him off as an ATM.
Workaholic: Keiichi is often the guy who focuses more on his studies, work, and integrity as a student/Salaryman. The bad guys usually ridicule him as being lame for it, but eventually the supporting cast will see it as a positive trait and help balance Keiichi's schedule.
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