Line #42 Manga/TanakaKunIsAlwaysListless


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2	[[caption-width-right:225:From top to bottom: Echizen, Miyano, Shiraishi, Ohta, Kato and Shimura, Rino and Saya, and the hero himself!]]
3	Tanaka-kun is always listless...
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9	...What, did you want to learn more?
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11	A SliceOfLife manga by Nozomi Uda, ''Tanaka-kun is Always Listless'' (''Tanaka-kun wa Itsumo Kedaruge'', 田中くんはいつもけだるげ) follows the life of an incredibly lethargic boy named Tanaka and his friend Ohta, a reliable straight-laced student who's made a habit of making sure Tanaka can get by living his day-to-day life despite his near-Zen levels of laziness and excessive sleepiness.
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13	His almost too-peaceful life is disturbed, however, when people begin to barge into it bringing the ghastly concepts of ''involvement'' and ''excitement'' and somehow or another, ''friendship.''
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15	The manga was serialized in ''Gangan Online'' from 2013 to 2019, and compiled into 13 volumes. It was adapted to anime for the spring 2016 season by studio Creator/SilverLink. The anime is available for [[http://www.crunchyroll.com/tanaka-kun-is-always-listless streaming]] on Website/{{Crunchyroll}} and later a dub from Creator/SentaiFilmworks.
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17	Has a character page in the works [[Characters/TanakaKunIsAlwaysListless here]].
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20	!!Tropes:
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22	* AdaptationExpansion: The anime is already shown to add more flavor to many of the scenarios featured in the manga, sometimes even upping the ShipTease, such as between the likes of Ohta and Tanaka in episode 1 when Ohta muses that Tanaka has "breathtakingly beautiful listlessness" after he's splashed by water, which doesn't seem to be his wording in the manga; or Ohta and Echizen in Episode 10 when he compliments her yukata (resulting in her getting flustered), something that doesn't happen in the manga.
23	* AdrenalineMakeover: Inverted with Miyano in one sketch, wherein her anxiety actually turns her into the listless, mature-seeming young woman she dreams of becoming.
24	* AffectionateNickname: Miyano calls Echizen "Ecchan," who in turn calls her "Myaano" (みゃーの, elongating "mya").
25	* {{Blackmail}}: What Tanaka threatens ''the gods'' with in order to maintain his peaceful, lethargic life. Hilariously, the more he attempts this, the more exciting his life becomes.
26	* BlandNameProduct: Episode 9 features a fast-food restaurant called [[UsefulNotes/McDonalds [=WcDonald=]'s]].
27	* BreakingTheFourthWall: The manga does this, usually to commemorate a big event like the anime announcement or a serialization anniversary. The anime plays with this to degrees as well - Tanaka makes it clear that he would want to be a background character instead of a protagonist, then successfully removes his facial features and fades away in an attempt to be like one in Episode 1.
28	* CatchYourDeathOfCold: In Episode 6, Tanaka is too lazy to use an umbrella when it's raining outside. He gets drenched by the rain and catches a cold.
29	* ChildhoodFriends: Echizen and Ohta. Though their past isn't yet elaborated on, they were apparently pretty close as kids and hung around each other's homes all the time before eventually drifting apart. It's claimed that the two were once part of a gang together (at least, according to the former).
30	* ContrivedCoincidence:
31	** As it turns out, Tanaka and Ohta's younger sisters are also best friends with each other.
32	** Miyano's younger brother has a crush on Tanaka's younger sister, and also views Tanaka as his master.
33	* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: This series is about a boy named Tanaka who's always listless.
34	* FaceOfAThug: Ohta and Echizen's scary looks when Echizen tells Tanaka they used to be in the same gang together in episode 3 gets a callback at the end of the episode when a police officer genuinely suspects that they're extorting Tanaka. In reality they're both very nice, regardless of how much Echizen is loathe to admit it.
35	* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: While Tanaka isn't foolish per say, he is very [[LazyBum lazy]], leaving Rino to do much of the housework.
36	* GenderReveal: Despite Tanaka and Ohta's imagining a vague male figure in the anime (in the manga the figure is more ambiguously drawn), [[spoiler:Miyano's "crush" turns out to be on Echizen.]]
37	* HeterosexualLifePartners: Ohta and Tanaka form a consistent buddy pair, and Tanaka can barely function without Ohta. [[HomoeroticSubtext The "heterosexual" part is left up to interpretation, however]].
38	* JustTheWayYouAre: Miyano wants to change herself into a listless, mature woman for her "most important person", but Tanaka bluntly destroys her dreams by telling her she's too hard-working for that and is better off as she is. She still wants to try, even though said person and her are already in a pretty stable relationship, give or take.
39	* LikeAnOldMarriedCouple: Word-for-word, this is Tanaka's picture of his relationship with Ohta and the apparent reason for its stability.
40	* LoveDodecahedron: Oh boy. Shiraishi likes Tanaka, who's interested in girls but is [[LikeAnOldMarriedCouple more comfortable being catered to]] by [[InTouchWithHisFeminineSide Ohta]] than pursuing romance. Tanaka's sister, Rino, [[BigBrotherAttraction loves her brother maybe a bit too much]] and sees Ohta as her [[UnknownRival rival]]. Miyano's [[BigLittleBrother brother]] Sora has a crush on Rino, who [[AllLoveIsUnrequited does not reciprocate]]. Miyano herself has a PseudoRomanticFriendship with her best friend Echizen, who seems to have hidden feelings for [[ChildhoodFriends Ohta]].
41	* OfficialCouple: Played with. [[spoiler:In Chapter 137, Tanaka and Shiraishi declare that they'll mutually be there for each other for a long time. In Chapter 140, Shiraishi is shown to join in with Tanaka and Ohta at [=WcDonald's=], implying that they're together for good.]]
42	* NoFullNameGiven: Barring Rino, Saya, and Sora (Miyano's younger brother) who have first names to differentiate them from their siblings, every named character is only known by their surname.
43	* PaperThinDisguise: Tanaka covers his face with a hoodie and, at Miyano's insistence, pretends to be a party-loving guy named Shidou-san to avoid conversation with Miyano's brother.
44	* PlanetOfSteves: As it turns out, there are a lot of students with the surname Tanaka in the school, probably one in each class, if chapter 25 is to be believed.
45	* ProfessionalSlacker: Tanaka's school day consists of finding the right place, the right angle and the right position to be able to nod off in class. This is largely inconsequential, as he's rarely caught, [[BrilliantButLazy his grades are fine]], and he is seldom considered a nuisance. Dude has made it an art.
46	* PseudoRomanticFriendship:
47	** Miyano and Echizen's dynamic, more or less. The crux of their relationship revolves around Echizen's (borderline-obsessive) [[CutenessProximity weakness for cute things]] leading her to cuddle [[{{Moe}} Miyano]] like a child; whereas Miyano idolizes Echizen as the "ideal woman" she aspires to be. The {{Homoerotic\|Subtext}} vibes are there (mainly coming from Miyano's end).
48	** Tanaka and Ohta behave like a couple, and Tanaka thinks of Ohta as his 'wife.' Even so, their relationship never goes past friendship.
49	* RealPlaceBackground: In the anime, the school campus is based on the [[https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/広島市立基町高等学校 Hiroshima Municipal Motomachi High School]], designed by the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroshi_Hara_(architect) same person]] who did the Kyoto Station.
50	* SailorFuku: Rino and Saya's uniforms.
51	* SceneryPorn: The show has a very well designed school and town.
52	* SchoolFestival: Episode 11 revolves around one in which Tanaka's class hosts a haunted house.
53	* ShipTease: Shiraishi and Tanaka get more as the series continue. With Shiraishi becoming the only person to motivate Tanaka to do anything.
54	* SickEpisode: Episode 6 has Tanaka catch a cold after getting drenched by the rain.
55	* SweetTooth: Ohta seems to have a life philosophy catering to his, and Miyano and Echizen are similarly fond.
56	* ThinkerPose: In Sora's introductory chapter, he does this on a park bench after confessing his love to Rino and got rejected. Tanaka, who was passing by, immediately lampshades this.
57	* ThinksLikeARomanceNovel: Echizen in regards to her interactions with Ohta and Tanaka, but ''especially'' Ohta. For example, in chapter 39, while the two of them are discussing the possibility of Tanaka having a girlfriend, she immediately reads the atmosphere like he's about to ask her out too, making her blush. As it turns out, he only wants to carry her around like a "replacement Tanaka"... and she angrily responds by [[EyePoke poking him]] in the eyes.
58	* ThoseTwoGuys: Shimura and Kato, two of Tanaka and Ohta's friends who occasionally hang out with the main duo and/or drag them into some wacky hijinks, to Tanaka's chagrin.
59	* ToastOfTardiness: Shows up in episode four with Tanaka chewing on a piece of bread...as Ohta carries him to class
60	* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Echizen and Miyano.
61	* TyopOnTheCover: At the start of episode 8, the show title is deliberately misspelled as "'''Nataka'''-kun is Always Listless." Tanaka is too tired to care.

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