Due to their special connection, Urabe and Tsubaki have the ability to share their emotions and physical conditions through saliva - which Tsubaki is addicted to, and must taste some frequently to avoid going into withdrawal again. And that's just the start of the weirdness. The manga follows the two as they progress in their relationship.
The manga ran in the seinen magazine Monthly Afternoon from 2006 to 2014. An anime adaptation
aired from April to June 2012 as part of the spring 2012 season. It can be watched subbed in English on Crunchyroll and is currently licensed for release by Sentai Filmworks. An OVA was released along with the 9th volume of the manga in August 2012. It has also been dubbed in English by Sentai Filmworks.
Mysterious Girlfriend X provides examples of:
- Above the Influence: Tsubaki, for all his wants of doing perverted things to Urabe (and Hayakawa back in middle school), shows a lot of restraint.
- Accidental Pervert: Akira, repeatedly, although special mention goes to Chapter 33. A major part of his Character Development and the Official Couple's relationship development is him gaining the confidence and wisdom to talk and explain his point of view to Urabe.
- To elaborate, in Chapter 33, Akira has a risqué thought which he shakes his head to get rid of, causing his blindfold to fall off. The sight of the two very nude women in front of him (long story) stuns him long enough to get double-megaton slapped for his trouble.
- Adaptation Distillation: The anime has 13 episodes while the manga has over 60 chapters, and the anime covers up to volume 5 of the manga's current 9. As adaptations go it's mostly faithful, while often combining chapters for episodes and avoiding the occasional repetitive situations due to the manga's floating timeline. It also expands upon the surreal dream/imagination sequences from the earlier chapters. (And it ends just before the Idol arc.)
- Aggressive Submissive: Urabe is a tamer version. While usually The Stoic who Hates Being Touched and wears the pants in their relationship, the one time she allows Tsubaki to feel her up, she gives in when he impulsively holds her down and licks her ear. But Tsubaki gets cold feet to do anything further.
- Almost Kiss: The closest they've gone is in Chapter 80: They're watching fireworks, the mood is going smoothly, and they're only an instant away from finally kissing until they see Oka and Ueno nearby.
- An Aesop: The author's thesis: "Teenagers these days are too quick to have sex, and are missing out on all the fun that a not-quite-sexual relationship can be."
- And the Adventure Continues: Though Urabe has come out to Tsubaki's sister and they say they want to be together forever, ultimately little has changed. They still just a pair of dating high-schoolers who have not even kissed yet.
- Art Evolution: The characters gradually look older as the chapters go by, despite not aging (they're perpetually 17). Also Urabe's hair is longer in the first chapter, which was originally a self-contained work. The page image is from rather early in the manga's run.
- Author Appeal: Or maybe more accurately, Animator or Storyboarder appeal. Whoever is responsible for the closing sequence really has a thing for sleeping females, as it consists entirely of loving shots of Urabe, Oka, and even Tsubaki's older sister sleeping (and drooling, of course). The end of every volume has a page with a sketch of Urabe and the catchphrase "Don't you think a girl who's drooling in her sleep is kind of cute? Well, this is a manga about just such a girl." in the author's personal font.
- Beautiful All Along: Underneath her hair, Urabe is very attractive.
- Beach Episode: The anime adapts two separate "summer vacation" chapters into one episode.
- Berserk Button:
- Urabe loves Tsubaki, but she will not let him pressure her in any way. His attempts to hug her are the main cause of panty-scissors incidents.
- Don't try to kiss Tsubaki in front of Urabe. Just don't. Tsubaki doesn't take other guys noticing Urabe well either.
- Also Urabe seems to dislike Tsubaki liking an idol singer-model, despite the fact he only likes her because she looks just like Urabe.
- Beta Couple: Oka and Ueno, their classmates. About a third of the story lines are caused by Tsubaki listening to Ueno talk about trying something with Oka, another third are caused by Urabe and Oka talking.
- Between My Legs: Urabe in episode 2.
- Bland-Name Product: Tsubaki has a poster of Star Mars in his room.
- Blessed with Suck:
- Urabe. Seriously, psychic powers that only work through spit?
- Momoka. Her kicking power is so extreme that she has to wear restraints all the time.
- Both "twins" also have idol-level performance skills, which has a downside for each of them. The future wife has to avoid using them while the actual idol is locked out of normal relationships.
- Breaking the Fourth Wall:
- The characters remark on their upcoming anime in an
omake sequence. - In Chapter 21 of the manga where Tsubaki gets to feel Urabe's breasts for the first time, Tsubaki's feeling some hesitation to act on how he's feeling, but Urabe advises him that if he doesn't do it by the time she counts to 3, there won't be a story for that day.
- The characters remark on their upcoming anime in an
- Cargo Envy: In chapter 61, Akira becomes envious of the shirt he left with Urabe, as she decided to use as pajamas.
- Cat Girl: In behaviour and preferences, Urabe is quite cat-like. This is lampshaded with eyes, which are drawn in a very feline way. There's also a chapter that explores the previously unknown fetish of catgirls eating raw bacon.
- Catchphrase: Whenever Urabe gives Akira her spit.
- Urabe: "Here, Tsubaki-kun. This is for today."
- There are actually two versions: 今日の分 "your daily dose" and いつもの日課 "our regular routine" often with emphasis on "routine" since it's thought of as equivalent to their "bond." The second version almost completely replaced the first, but it has made a comeback lately.
- Character Development: Urabe and Akira are the main examples. Oka also qualifies, though in an odd way. When she's introduced, she's very similar to Urabe in her quiet personality, but as the manga went on she became noticeably more cheerful and mischievous. Odd in that there's no real reason for the change, except maybe to make her personality different from Urabe's.
- It's probably because she got a boyfriend around a similar time Urabe did.
- Or the fact that she reacts to Urabe's saliva just like Tsubaki.
- The "villainous" Hayakawa gets this as well, with a pretty good justification for her actions in Chapter 33 — Since Akira had a crush on her in middle school, she decides to settle for him, because she has had so many unrequited crushes of her own.
- It's probably because she got a boyfriend around a similar time Urabe did.
- Comic-Book Time: The characters are all perpetually kept in in their second year of high school. Even when the manga ended, there was no sign of them of entering the next grade, let alone graduation.
- Cool and Unusual Punishment: Urabe often puts Akira in his place with her deadly scissors...
- Trouser Space: ...which are safely tucked away in her underwear.
- Covert Pervert: On multiple occasions, Urabe's used Tsubaki's saliva to detect dirty thoughts, and later admitted to herself that her imagination isn't exactly squeaky-clean either. For example, she can no longer sleep in the nude after Tsubaki slept in her bed, causing her to have dirty thoughts whenever she tries.
- Cuteness Proximity: Urabe, believe it or not. Though she made sure to tell Akira not to look or listen beforehand.
- A Day in the Limelight: Tsubaki and Urabe's classmate Suwano gets a few of the later chapters to herself.
- Defrosting Ice Queen: Urabe, in several ways — Oka's refusal to leave her alone gets her to start doing things (like eating) at lunch, which she becomes accustomed to; Akira's presence is (slowly) getting her to open up to him.
- Demoted to Extra: Suwano in the anime, though only because it didn't adapt the later chapters where she has a larger role, teased as a rival love interest.
- Different for Girls: One of the extra chapters features what earlier scenes would have been like with the genders of the main cast swapped... which makes male-Urabe's weirdness come off as sexual harassment, at least to the female version of Akira. It's officially much more bizarre.
- Distracted by the Sexy: In episode 5, the boys are deliberately kicking the soccer balls during gym class a bit too far, and having to go retrieve them. They are doing it so they can sneak a peek at the girls in the swimming pool nearby. When Tsubaki's turn comes up however, he sees Urabe drying herself with a towel, misses the ball, and lands rather awkwardly. To make things worse for him, the towel hides her figure, so he's unable to see her in a swimsuit.
- Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male: Starting with the Idol arc, some fans regard Urabe's treatment of Tsubaki as moving into rather questionable territory. Momoka kicks Tsubaki in the head in a couple of Unprovoked Pervert Payback incidents while disguised as Urabe, but nobody calls her out for it due to a combination of the double standard and Rule of Funny. Urabe herself frequently uses her scissor demonstrations to give Tsubaki a scare, but unlike Momoka she never intentionally hurts Akira, and sincerely asks his forgiveness one time when she accidentally knicks him because her aim was off. The problem with the Idol arc is that she never explains to Tsubaki after it's all over that it was Momoka and not her who was kicking him around, so poor Tsubaki has no way of knowing that his girlfriend isn't going to randomly hit him in the future.
- Early-Bird Cameo: Oka's non-speaking classroom appearance in episode 1.
- Expy: Urabe is based vaguely on Sadako from The Ring. In looks, not personality.
- Eyelid Pull Taunt:
- Urabe does this as the pose for the picture Tsubaki took of her. She also does it every now and then to him.
- A picture of an idol doing this passes by briefly onscreen at the end of episode 9 after Urabe cuts up the magazine Tsubaki bought because the model looks a lot like her.
- Family-Unfriendly Violence: Sure, it's played mostly for laughs, but being threatened with a pair of scissors wouldn't really be that funny. She does panic and apologize when she accidentally stabs him in the forehead once.
- And later she does it intentionally so she can lick the blood off his cheek, in order to prove a point about cat ear cosplay and raw bacon. Her intent: Scare him into not trying to get her to cosplay again. Reality: Yet another new kink discovered.
- Fanservice Pack: While she was always cute, Urabe becomes much curvier in later chapters. (Maybe the characters are aging a bit...)
- Fantastic Arousal: Amongst other things, Tsubaki and Urabe can share their arousal levels through spit.
- Finishing Move: What Oka calls Urabe's panty-scissors attack.
- First Kiss: Not yet, despite being referenced a few times, but there's no doubt that the manga will eventually have a simultaneous saliva exchange.
- Although we have had a first boob grab, first earlick, and a few other things.
- Given Urabe's tendency to salivate uncontrollably when she becomes really happy, and Tsubaki's reaction to her saliva, this could set up a dangerous feedback loop.
- They came painfully close as of Chapter 59. Close enough to induce Post-Kiss Catatonia in Tsubaki.
- In one of the earliest chapters she gives him candy mouth-to-mouth, but neither think it counts - and it's All Just a Dream.
- The TV show does end with simultaneous, mutual drool finger-sucking, going further than the manga version of the scene. The way they react, they're practically kissing.
- Flash Step: Urabe does this when Tsubaki attempts to hug her.
- Foregone Conclusion: A very odd in-universe example - Urabe is mildly psychic, and she knows for a fact that she will lose her virginity to Tsubaki. This is an accepted fact of the setting. In addition, both Tsubaki and (most definitely) Urabe are the type that wouldn't go that far before marriage — Tsubaki, in some of his inner monologues, mentions that he can see the day quickly approaching that his "Mysterious Girlfriend" becomes his "Mysterious Wife."
- Genre Savvy: Oka is able to figure out the drool ritual pretty quickly after she introduces herself to Urabe. She then tastes the latter's drool from time to time to get an idea of what the former and Tsubaki are doing in their relationship.
- The Gloves Come Off: Or in Urabe's case, shoes. Anytime during sports when she gets serious she goes barefoot.
- Going Commando: Urabe and Tsubaki's sister don't wear anything under their yukatas. Urabe also does this in her school uniform one day, which turns out to be very windy.
- Hates Being Touched: Variation: Urabe doesn't like Tsubaki hugging her without permission, or being too "clingy" with her, plus she rarely holds hands. She has however hugged him whenever she feels like it.
- Hadaka Apron: Subverted in chapter 54. Then played straight. "Male Dream" indeed.
- Hoist by Her Own Petard: Hayakawa's attempt to break up Tsubaki and Urabe so she could then date him in episode 11 fails partly because he was Above the Influence, and also because Urabe suspected what the former was attempting to do, and came prepared to counter Hayakawa's attempt to have him taste her drool.
- Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: Oka and her boyfriend, although it's more of a case of NormalGuyExtremelyTinyGirl.
- Identical Stranger: Urabe and Momoka Imai look so much alike, that you can essentially consider them as "twins". Idol arc eventually shows that their similarity goes even beyond appearance as their personalities and abilities are very similar as well (Urabe has scissors, Momoka has high-kicks). And with a little help of hair-dye, they're practically indistinguishable from each other.
- This their similarity then becomes main reason why Tsubaki starts to buying Momoka's magazines. And on top of that it gives them chance to even pose as each other. Whether willingly or unwillingly.
- Only primal difference between them is their breast size.
- This their similarity then becomes main reason why Tsubaki starts to buying Momoka's magazines. And on top of that it gives them chance to even pose as each other. Whether willingly or unwillingly.
- Idiot Ball: The story is progressed by Akira learning how to be a boyfriend, as well as being phenomenally stupid at times, especially during the idol storyline.
- Chapter 37 in particular has Momoka practically being a case study in how not to impersonate someone. He never stops to think about why "Urabe" would be acting so weird. And by "weird" we don't mean the usual, we mean like asking what her own first name is. Granted, some of this may just be ordinary Genre Blindness.
- Actually, one of the following chapters covers that, Tsubaki thought with how Momoka kept coming up and the way (who he thought was) Urabe was acting, she was trying to be more like Momoka for his sake. He probably just brushed off her not responding to her name (and a few other weird things) as her being weird. She has done weirder after all.
- Chapter 37 in particular has Momoka practically being a case study in how not to impersonate someone. He never stops to think about why "Urabe" would be acting so weird. And by "weird" we don't mean the usual, we mean like asking what her own first name is. Granted, some of this may just be ordinary Genre Blindness.
- Important Haircut: Hayakawa gets one when her boyfriend breaks up with her.
- Improbable Weapon User: Urabe can, apparently, destroy anything with her safety scissors with pinpoint accuracy. The same safety scissors most would use for arts and crafts.
- Indirect Kiss: The Series. Tsubaki has to taste Urabe's sweet, sweet saliva frequently, or he goes into withdrawal.
- In-Joke: The characters shown on the movie ticket for "Science Boy and Magic Girl" are two of Riichi Ueshiba's characters from his earlier manga Discommunication.
- Which leads to a Crossover in the OVA, as the two leads of Discommunication are supporting characters.
- Insecure Love Interest: Both Tsubaki and Urabe towards each other. He goes into Crazy Jealous Guy mode when other boys start talking about her. Conversely, she goes into Clingy Jealous Girl mode when he first gets a magazine of another girl who strongly resembles her, and later when Hayakawa, the girl he used to like in middle school, shows up in his life again.
- Intergenerational Friendship: (Not literally, but the vibe is there.) Urabe becomes fairly chummy with Tsubaki's older sister after they keep running into each other in public. She's only been to their house a few times, but Tsubaki's sister recognizes her and they always end up spending time together whenever they meet. This eventually leads to Urabe telling her that she's her brother's girlfriend... while they're in the same public bath.
- Karma Houdini: Hayakawa, who after setting up a
Magnificent Bastard personality, she gets back with her boyfriend and has a happy end.- Also Momoka, whose only punishment for pulling identity theft on Urabe was getting hit by a thrown bag, and some pride lost. Nothing also happens to her managers who kidnap Urabe and force her to pretend to be Momoka.
- Last-Name Basis: After months of dating Tsubaki and Urabe still call each other by their family names.
- Lightning Reveal: How Tsubaki sees Urabe naked for the first time (though he denies seeing anything when she asks).
- Love Hurts: While waiting for Urabe in episode 6, Tsubaki runs into Hayakawa, the girl he used to have a crush on. Although he manages to brush her off while waiting, he later finds out she was hiding nearby while he was talking to his old crush. After he asks a theoretical question about Hayakawa, Urabe makes him taste her drool, and tears begin to stream from his eyes, giving him an idea of how she would feel if he started talking to her again.
- Love Is a Drug: The obvious metaphor for Tsubaki's addiction to Urabe's saliva.
- Luminescent Blush: Urabe, not once but twice in Chapter 54.
- Male Gaze: All the time. The ending of the anime slowly pans over several of the girls in the show, particularly while they're wearing revealing outfits.
- Manipulative Bitch: Hayakawa, Tsubaki's old crush from middle school. After being dumped by her boyfriend, she tries to hook up with him, despite knowing that he's already dating someone else. She tells both of them separately to attend her school's festival, and attempts to seduce Tsubaki by wearing her middle school uniform, as well as a wig to complete the look. Fortunately for him, he manages to stave off her advances, and Urabe also came prepared.
- Mexican Standoff: Possibly the oddest one in history. High-kicking leg against scissors?
- More like a case of Rock–Paper–Scissors: Tsubaki, since Urabe dominates him, Momoka falls for him, and, well, he folds like paper for the most part.
- Mindlink Mates: Tsubaki and Urabe have a variant of this — they can swap emotions and some thoughts via spit. Urabe, being more attuned to things than Tsubaki, can outright read his mind, Tsubaki gets an Empathy thing from it but not outright thoughts.
- Mistaken Identity: Momoka does this deliberately. It then escalates when her manager mistakes Urabe for Momoka as Urabe's running after Momoka in her (stolen) uniform, pulls her into his car and drives off.
- Motifs: The one-eyed "Bad Cat" brand or its staring eye appears on the female character's various outfits and uniforms as a sort of Author Avatar. Carried over to the anime.
- Mundane Made Awesome: Urabe tends to do this occasionally, particularly when utilizing her scissors.
- My God, What Have I Done?: Tsubaki feels this way when he lunges at Urabe after she allows him to feel her breast in episode 8. While she continually tells him she's not mad, the tears from her eyes makes him believe he assaulted her.
- Near-Rape Experience: Not technically, but Tsubaki sure acts like this trope after going a bit overboard when Urabe let him touch her breast in episode 8.
- Not Allowed to Grow Up: They've gone through several cycles of summer and winter, but they still appear to be in the same grade.
- Not Distracted by the Sexy: At least at first — when Urabe allows Tsubaki to feel her breast, he is initially fascinated by the fact that he can feel her heartbeat.
- Not So Stoic:
- When Urabe accidentally gives Tsubaki a minor cut on his head with her scissors, she is absolutely horrified.
- Ditto when Urabe comes upon Imai trying to sneak a kiss from Tsubaki. Urabe goes absolutely ballistic — pointing out that not even Urabe and Tsubaki have gone that far yet. This is enough to make Imai go away peacefully and on good terms — she had thought they had gone much further already.
- One-Book Author: Urabe is voiced in the anime by Ayako Yoshitani, whose acting career is otherwise entirely in live-action.
- Operation: Jealousy: At the end of episode 11, Urabe tells Tsubaki that she used to like a boy before transferring to his school. She tells him that if that boy suddenly wanted to meet up with her in secret, she probably would have done so, just like he had done with Hayakawa, which shocks him a little. She then immediately confesses that it was a lie, and that she didn't like boys prior to him. She then says that if her story made him a bit upset, he should remember the Golden Rule, or "do unto others what you would do for yourself." In other words, she was quite angry that he lied to her and met up with Hayakawa secretly, despite ultimately staying loyal to her in the end.
- Parental Abandonment: Of the "absent/out-of-focus parents" kind. Tsubaki's mother is deceased, but his father is rarely mentioned and seen (appearing once in the anime, when his family visits his mother's grave). His older sister most often serves as a Parental Substitute. Urabe's parents are similarly rarely mentioned and never seen.
- Porn Stash: Downplayed; Tsubaki collects magazines with his favorite female idol in them. Actually it's all gravure, just clothes and swimsuits with no nudity or sexual content, but Urabe thinks Tsubaki shouldn't look at any girl except for her, and shreds them whenever she discovers them just as if she had found his porn stash. The only erotic picture that Urabe allows Tsubaki to own is photo of her and Oka in their bikinis.
- Power Perversion Potential: If Urabe's powers works with any any other bodily fluids...
- Sweat works too. And tears... there may be something to this.
- Property of Love: Urabe explicitly does this in one chapter/episode, using Tsubaki's locker label. On her upper thigh.
- Relationship Upgrade: Tsubaki and Urabe go out almost immediately shortly after they spend a little time with each other.
- Retraux: The art style seems inspired by how manga were drawn circa 1995.
- Scenery Porn: At least one whole page in every chapter, at least initially, not counting the covers.
- Secret-Keeper: The only people to know about Tsubaki and Urabe's relatioship are (in order) Oka, Momoka, Suwano and most Tsubaki's sister. Oka was quickly established as Urabe's secret-keeper but it takes a good while for the others to find out in turn.
- While the others found out for themselves in some way or another, Urabe straight-up tells Tsubaki's sister that she and Tsubaki are dating. Since Tsubaki's sister is his Parental Substitute (after their mom died), this is kind of a big deal. But Tsubaki's sister doesn't let on to him that she knows about them.
- Due to an unfortunate meetup, and Tsubaki's inability to lie on the spot, this group expands by half a dozen of their female classmates in chapter 84 of the manga.
- Secret Relationship: Tsubaki and Urabe decide to keep their relationship a secret from everyone else. However in later chapters they even questioning as to why they are keeping it a secret.
- Sexiness Score: Episode 2 has Tsubaki's friends are rating the attractiveness of all of the girls in their class. When they reach Urabe, the boys conclude she's too weird to even rate, which makes Tsubaki inwardly annoyed.
- Sexy Shirt Switch: While the sexual aspect of this trope is subverted, Urabe in chapter 61 uses the shirt Tsubaki leaves in her apartment as her pajamas. Naturally this causes Tsubaki to feel jealousy of his shirt.
- Shear Menace: Urabe, who manages to adhere to the spirit of the trope with safety scissors. Though considering where she stores them, that's probably a good idea.
- She-Fu: Urabe's fighting style involves lots of acrobatics.
- She Is Not My Girlfriend: Tsubaki and Urabe keep this up for a really long time while dating. While neither one has any trouble accepting their relationship, Tsubaki would rather keep things a secret from their classmates for the time being.
- Shout-Out: A few Bland-Name Product ones appear in the anime: Tsubaki has a Star Mars poster, and one for The Day The Mars Stood Still, 2001: A Spece Odyssey (yes, spece), and Forbidden... something. (At least the 2001 poster is straight from the manga.) He also has some Big O merchandise.
- Also, the UFO on Urabe's pencil looks like the ones from Ground Control to Psychoelectric Girl.
- Posters for Kick-Ass and True Grit can be seen in Chapter 72 of the manga.
- Spit Take: Ueno does this when he sees Oka in a maid outfit during episode 11.
- Stalker with a Crush: Akira's ex-crush, Hayakawa.
- The Stoic: Urabe. Justified as she has a potentially very dangerous reflexive superpower and has to use focus to keep from chopping people up. However, she bursts out laughing in the middle of class in the first chapter of the manga/first episode of the anime, ending up on the floor. This helps peg her as a weirdo.
- Tareme Eyes: Suwano. The difference in eyes between her and Urabe is actually a plot point in a small story line.
- Thanks for the Mammary: A very rare aversion: Akira trips and is about to land on Urabe, and in order to specifically avoid this trope, he throws himself off to the side — and into the corner of her bedpost, seriously injuring himself. Further subverting the tropes, he actually discusses what he was thinking openly and honestly with her; she flat out tells him that she wouldn't want him hurt just to avoid something like that.
- Toplessness from the Back: Invoked for a scene for a movie they were shooting that Tsubaki walks in and catches the main female actor like this.
- Troll: Suwano teases at having feelings for Tsubaki and when Tsubaki confesses that he's taken, she says she doesn't mind being the "other woman". She seems to like to tease Urabe after she finds out more about their relationship, but oddly it feels like she's egging them on also.
- Tsundere: Urabe, much more dere than tsun, but definitely tsun sometimes, just to cover up just how happy Tsubaki sometimes makes her.
- Tsurime Eyes: Urabe. Invoked as one of the reasons why Tsubaki isn't that aggressive in furthering their relationship, at least in the physical aspect. He's intimidated by her eyes, which often make her look stern and irritated - though she really isn't.
- Unequal Pairing: Whether by accident or design, Urabe completely controls this relationship, with Tsubaki as an unmarried Henpecked Husband.
- Unmoving Plaid: The school uniforms in the anime have a static pencil-style crosshatching underlying the coloured areas.
- Unrequited Love: In episode 11, Hayakawa laments this, stating that every boy she's ever loved always loved someone else, from Tsubaki to her old boyfriend. Urabe tries to reassure her that she'll find someone someday who would truly love her.
- Villain Decay: Momoka reappears in a School Festival arc, singing on stage while impersonating Urabe again. But it's only to help promote the movie Tsubaki's Film Club made, for free.
- Wardrobe Malfunction: Identical Stranger Momoka, posing as Urabe and wearing her clothes, accidentally gives Tsubaki (and us) a free show when she bends down because her breasts are two to three sizes too small for Urabe's bra and blouse. When she realises this after he asked her to do it again - boot to the head.
- What Does He See in Her?: Hayakawa in episode 10. After Tsubaki accidentally slips out the drool ritual he does with Urabe, she attempts to woo him anyway, and tries to do the drool thing with him as well twice.
- Wounded Gazelle Gambit: In episode 10, Hayakawa, the girl Tsubaki used to like in middle school, runs into him again. After becoming interested in his ritual with Urabe and tasting her drool, she meets up with him again at night, and claims that the bruise on her face is due to her ex-boyfriend hitting her. She then asks him to go to her school festival and pretend to be her boyfriend to scare off her ex. Shortly after he agrees, she then rubs off the "bruise" at a nearby park fountain.
- Yaoi Fangirl: In the Gender Flip Omake, Akira's counterpart takes pictures of Urabe and Oka's drool-tasting.
