Line #12 Manga/SlowStart


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:Aren't you glad we took a detour?]]
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4	Hana Ichinose was afflicted with mumps on the day of her high school entrance examination, and so, was unable to attend high school. Upon taking the exam a year later and gaining admissions into high school, Hana is concerned that her year-long sabbatical may alienate her from the students in her year, especially since she's now a year older than her peers. In spite of her slow start, Hana is determined to put forth her best effort and catch up to everyone else now that she's in high school.
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6	''Slow Start'' (スロウスタート) is a [[{{Yonkoma}} 4koma]] manga written by Yuiko Tokumi and has been serialised in ''Magazine/MangaTimeKirara'' since 2013. Its anime adaptation was released as a part of the Winter 2018 anime lineup. The anime is directed by Hiroyuki Hashimoto (who had previously worked on Manga/IsTheOrderARabbit) and is produced by Creator/A1Pictures. ''Slow Start'' may be [[http://www.crunchyroll.com/slow-start watched at]] Website/{{Crunchyroll}}.
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9	!!''Slow Start'' provides examples of:
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11	* AlliterativeTitle
12	* BigFancyHouse: Kamuri's home is modelled after European castles.
13	* BlackBeadEyes: Tama gets a pair at the beginning of chapter 45. They serve to illustrate her childish nature as she thanks Hiroe for some fanservice and says she'll lock the memories in her mind until she turns 18.
14	* BlandNameProduct:
15	** In the eighth episode, some of Karmuri's classmates offer her some Packy biscuit sticks.
16	** The school's ice-cream vending machine sells "Sixteen Ice" from "Plico", which is derived from Glico's "Seventeen Ice" brand.
17	* CameraAbuse: The camera collides with Hana in the opening sequence, knocking her over.
18	* ComicBookTime: Chapters 122 & 123 reveal that Tama once tried to stream a gal game as a little girl. If she was 16 when the manga started in 2013, she must've been born in 1997--so the incident in question would've predated Youtube itself if the manga still took place in the date it debuted.
19	* ConnectedAllAlong: Chapter 122 reveals that Tama once streamed a gal game as an elementary schooler that inspired Sane-chan to also start playing gal games.
20	* CulturalCrossReference: Tama jokes that her friends are like the Three Wise Men as played by the Three Stooges in episode eleven, but this is lost on her friends, and Eiko asks her to clarify as a result.
21	* DidntThinkThisThrough: When Hana buys her pancake chair and is informed she'll have to wait until tomorrow for delivery, she boldly declares she and her friends will carry it home. They make it halfway before she's on the verge of passing out.
22	* EliteFour: Tama dubs the main characters this, with Hana as their leader--to Hana's surprise.
23	* FestivalEpisode: The second half of episode eleven is focused around Hana and her friends attending a summer festival.
24	* FrameBreak: Out of embarrassment to her grandmothers' remarks about her classmates, Tamate's motions cause the very frame to shake as though she were beating it.
25	* HeroicBSOD:
26	** Hana is devastated when she is unable to take her high school entrance exams, worrying about the social implications it may entail. She considers becoming a ''{{Hikikomori}}'', but her mother manages to persuade her away from this path.
27	** In chapter 42, Tama is enjoying some {{fanservice}} anime when Eiko tells her that, if boobs jiggle too much and the Cooper's ligament snaps, they sag forever. That piece of knowledge haunts Tama to the point she collapses in despair.
28	* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Uses "Step" for chapter and episode counts.
29	* InnocentInnuendo: Eiko decides to dub her sister's soup as "Little Sister Sauce", and Hana is mortified. Eiko later admits that such a name implies that the soup comes from her sister's secretions.
30	* JapaneseSchoolClub: Dozens of chapters into the series, the main quartet become involved with the Hoshio Academy student council, but it's portrayed as being ''essentially'' a school club, and an excuse to add some upperclassmen to the story.
31	* MySignificanceSenseIsTingling: In chapter 115, after Hana is told she needs to go onstage to announce her new position on the student council, she breaks down crying from stage fright. Hannen Hiroe jumps up, fist clenched, and declares her support...despite being in a completely separate location. When Shion questions it, Hiroe says she "sensed something really relatable just now".
32	* MythologyGag: Hana's pancake-shaped chair makes a cameo in the anime's intro, even though the series stops before the point in the manga where she gets it.
33	* NoCommunitiesWereHarmed: In the anime, the town that Hana moves to is based on the resort town of Karuizawa, a resort town in the Nagano Prefecture.
34	* OneGenderSchool: Hana attends Hoshio Private Girls' Academy, an all-girls' school. Chapter 108 states there's a boy's school next door, but it doesn't mention if it's part of Hoshio or just an unrelated school.
35	* RunningGag: During the Hoshio school festival arc, every time a plot thread ends anti-climatically, a laurel wreath with "[Event] Arc ''Fin''" appears.
36	** "Hannen Hiroe's Culture Festival 2nd Day Arc ''Fin''", after Hiroe declines to show up two days in a row.
37	** "Elite Four's Boys' School Culture Festival Arc ''Fin'', when Hana declines to attend the neighboring culture festival.
38	** "Rich Girls' Daily Discussion Observation Arc ''Fin''", when Tama eavesdrops on Kamuri and some other rich girls to hear how they talk in private, only to overhear them making cute animal noises.
39	* SchoolgirlSeries: ''Slow Start'' follows in the everyday life of group of high school girls, one of which is a year older than her peers.
40	* SelfServingMemory: Chapter 123 revolves around Tama's attempt at streaming a gal game when she was a little girl. It begins with her own memory of the event, where she's basically a polished, professional V-Tuber with her own theme song. When we actually see the stream, shw wears an African tribal mask because she's camera shy, fumbles to open the CD case, and ends up singing karaoke since she lost the actual game. Present day Tama is mortified by what she sees.
41	* ShoutOut:
42	** In the fourth episode, Tamate is seen in her room with some ''Manga/BottleFairy'' manga, a series drawn by Tokumi.
43	** In the sixth episode, Tamate becomes irate when contemplating a girl who'd dated another guy previously. She is referring to Tamaki from VisualNovel/KakyuuseiTwo, who became controversial for frequently cheating on her partners.
44	** Chapter 123 has a shout out to -- of all things -- the Gaijin 4koma meme, with the girls taking the place of the four bored IGN journalists.
45	* SliceOfLife: ''Slow Start'' joins a well-established line of manga in Magazine/MangaTimeKirara in depicting the ordinary comings and goings in the lives of high school students.
46	* TroubledFetalPosition: After missing her entrance exams, Hana mopes in a corner during a flashback the second episode.

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