Attack On Mika / Tropes G to L

ATTACK on MIKA trope index
A to F | G to L (Gold Digger, Humiliation Conga) | M to T | U to Z (The Unfavourite)

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G

• Gainax Ending: This episode ends on everybody congratulating Hideo after a loan shark debt collector is about to send him away to work off his debt. The final shot is Mika congratulating Hideo.
• The Gambling Addict:
  • Yuta is an unemployed gambling addict who spends his free time at a pachinko store. When Kasuhiko, a delinquent and high school bully of his, steals and uses up all of the extra baskets Yuta bought to maximize his chances of winning, he uses the amount he won until then on the slots, where he meets Mr. Matsuhira.
  • Hideo is a gambling addict that spends money borrowed from other people using the pachinko store. Mika decided to teach him a lesson when he asked her for money, by bringing everybody to a diner and have them demand their money from Hideo including a loan shark collector.
• Gambling Ruins Lives: Yuta and Kasuhiko are both ex-classmates and gambling addicts who act as Foils to one another; Yuta is a kindhearted, unlucky gambler who eventually decides to overcome his addiction and make something of himself, while Kasuhiko is both The Bully and a Lazy Bum who intends to sustain himself entirely on gambling, even stealing Yuta's pachinko balls at one point. Years later, at a class reunion, Yuta has become a successful and respected businessman as a result of his hard work, while Kasuhiko is in large amounts of debt as a result of his gambling habit, and Hated by All of his former classmates as a result of him being a lazy, begging loser. Kasuhiko actually has the gall to beg Yuta, who he constantly bullied and robbed, for money, to which Yuta responds by asking offering him a job at his company, which Kasuhiko refuses. Yuta proceeds to verbally shred Kasuhiko a new one for being a shiftless jerk who refuses to put in the work to make something of himself.
• Gender-Blender Name:
  • I reunited with the girl who used to treat me like crap in high school... stars a boy named Asuka. He points this out himself.
  • The nerdy kid is actually a stud stars a girl named Noah even though it's typically a masculine name.
• Gentle Giant: Goriyama Tekken, Saki-kun's art teacher, is a buff man whose shirt's buttons threaten to shoot out because of his physique.
• Get Out!: Megumi's future husband and the other guests tell Herika to get out after recriminating her for being such an ungrateful brat towards her mother.
• Getting the Boot: Konomi gets literally kicked out of Ichi and Mika's yakiniku restaurant after she kept pestering the former to get back with her.
  Konomi: (screams) This place should go bankrupt already!!
• Goblin Face:
  • Ririna, Aira, and Konomi contort their faces in ugly expressions every time they're pissed off or scared.
  • Yabami displays a nasty one when Ichi calls her out on her bullying of Mika.
• Gold Digger: Has it's own page here.
• Gonky Femme:
  • Mami has a manly-looking face and a chubby body, made more jarring with her flashy clothes when Okamoto meets her again.
  • Recurring character Momoko also has a manly-looking face, but she has her hair arranged in odango and is a Nice Girl.
• Green-Eyed Monster: Ririna became very jealous of the new girl with a prosthetic leg since she was very popular with the students. She ambushed her and broke it.
• Groin Attack: In Short perverted teacher goes up to a tall female student and tries to harass her..., Mr. Shimoda lunged at Iori for exposing his depravity to the whole class, but she stopped him with a knee to the crotch.
• Gyaru Girl: Stories featuring gyaru girls as major characters have them hang around introverted guys for whatever reason, and usually end up in both becoming a couple or at least friends.
  • “Stop staring, creep!” The introvert is surrounded by annoying gals... “You’re ugly.” features a posse of delinquent gals seated around an introverted boy named Takumi. They all, except their leader Natsumi, are nice to him.
  • My life was ruined as a child... I met a flashy gal in high school “Remember me?”: Daiki's childhood friend Yuri became one after years of not seeing each other again. However, her new personality led her to force him into social activities. When Daiki asks her why she changed, she reminded him that he made her promise to be more outgoing when they were kids.
  • Here's what happened when the smartest kid pretended to be an outcast...: Natsuna Takagi is a gyaru who likes to tease protagonist Satori Sugino for being a nerd. After he saved her from a pair of thugs in his delinquent persona, she fell in love with him, unaware that the hardened delinquent and the nerd she teased were the same person.
  • I reunited with the girl who used to treat me like crap in high school...: Mizuki is a flashy gyaru who liked to tease and use Asuka as her errand boy. Turns out she did this because he found her lost earrings and since then she fell for him.
  • "The introvert is harassed by self-conscious girls" stars Lilina, Konomi, and Aira as gals who chatter among themselves while seating around an introverted Ichi, who helps the three of them study after he called them out for her flashiness.
  • "The gals in my swimming class accuse me of always staring until one day...": Keigo Fujimura ends up stumbling upon a notorious group of gyaru girls in his swimming class. One of them, named Kanae, challenges him to a swimming match to make him her slave only to lose. However, Kanae and one of the others beg him to watch them swim; it turns out she wanted to be a professional swimmer after reading The Little Mermaid as a child, but she ended up with a Career-Ending Injury after pushing herself to the limits and losing to another swimmer named Hana.

H

• Harmful to Minors: This chapter has a hospitalized Ichi show his father and Hajime's mother Hinako a photo he took of his mother Aoi and her "friend" making love. Turns out the "friend" is Hinako's husband.
• Hate Sink: Anyone who was the Jerkass in the series. Yoko Wada, Ririna, Tsuneo, and Hideo REALLY stand out as being this.
• Hates Their Parent:
  • Herika hates her mother, Megumi, for having to work as a hostess. Her sister, Chiyo, on the other hand, loves her despite of that and understands the circumstances that led her to work there in the first place.
  • Aika, like her mother Miho, hates her father Kazuo for no reason in particular, It's implied that Miho influenced her since Aika is actually not Kazuo's daughter.
• Henpecked Husband:
  • Kazuo is mistreated by his wife, Miho, and his daughter, Aika. The abuse escalates to the point where he divorces Miho and tells Aika that she is the daughter of another man.
  • Hiroshi Suzuki is abused by his daughter, Marin, and his wife, Kozue, for being a middle-school dropout. When he finds out that Marin is actually the daughter of his old friend Benta Gakuta, Hiroshi invites him into the house to teach both his daughter and his wife a lesson.
  • Ko is abused by his wife Saki and his daughter Rui. When even Rui tells him to go die, he goes to live in his car for a month. In that timeframe, Rui phoned him over a guy her mom brought to the house who actually has a body odor problem. Rui apologizes to him and tells him that the reason she hated him was because of her mother Saki's lies.
  • Naoto is an interesting example. His wife Akemi doesn't interact much with him, but uses their daughter Maya as a proxy to physically abuse him every time he's home. However, Maya genuinely loves her father despite that.
  • Yumi's dad is mistreated by his wife and his older son Katsuya. This drives him to go unemployed and take Yumi with him before divorcing his wife.
  • Masashi is treated coldly by his wife and stepdaughter, Yugami and Love. They decide to leave him when they appear to win a lottery. Unfortunately for Yugami and Love, Masashi figures out that the lottery ticket they stole from him already expired and proceeds with the divorce, causing them to beg him to take them back to the house.
  • "I came home a day early from my business trip to surprise my wife, but she told me not to come home": While Ichi's relationship with his wife Ririna seemed to run smoothly, she often squandered his money to buy brand stuff and verbally abuses him whenever he protested or tried to reason with her about something.
• Hidden Buxom: Yuki Ogura, the resident shy girl from the episode I found out that my favorite model was actually my introverted classmate?! always maintained a slouching posture to hide her large breasts and the fact she is famous bikini model Yuki-chan.
• Hiding Behind Your Bangs: Ai Sonozaki is a shy girl who sports a messy fringe cut that covers her eyes. However, during her stay with Taketora Ryugu after her parents and sister left her behind at the airport, she loses it after getting a makeover from his beautician friend.
• Hikikomori:
  • Komoru is a textbook example of one. He is a lazy slacker who mooches off his mother Ayaka, demanding her to give him allowance everyday. He goes as far as stealing from her to spend it on a game raffle.
  • Naoto Kato is a more sympathetic example. He was outgoing in his younger years, but he became a shut-in, until his father remarried and his two stepsisters Asumi and Kasumi have him kicked out of the house for it, against both his father's and stepmother's wishes. Asumi and Kasumi did out of partly concern, thinking he needed to get out the rut he was in and give him the push he needed to focus on his studies.
• Hoist by Her Own Petard:
  • Gozumi runs off when Iketa catches her squeezing Saki's broken leg and shows her the CCTV recordings of her abuse. However, as Gozumi threatened to ruin them both, she slipped down the stairs and broke her legs.
  • This story had Ririna, president of the class, cover for Ms. Momoko after she was hospitalized. As Ririna took over to impose her rules on the students, she forced them to wear shirts with "attractiveness scores", with hers and Hideo's in the high numbers. After Ichi got "lowered" from 50 to 1 for defending Mika, both teamed up with the other students in the school festival to rewrite the play to teach Ririna a lesson, namely by sewing markers on the back of the costumes and putting a minus in her 100.
• House Husband: Jin used to be a scary gang member until he met Kaede, a businesswoman. He married her and became a stay-at-home dad. He even makes lunches for his daughter Koharu.
• Host Club:
  • Megumi had to work as a hostess to provide for her twin daughters Chiyo and Herika. The former understands why she works there and loves her anyway, while the latter hates her for not giving her the life she wanted.
  • Shinko worked at a high-end hostess bar in Ginza. However, her toxic quips about Kota's girlfriend getting plastic surgery drove him away until Naomi, the bar's owner, shows up and fires Shinko for her behavior.
  • Asuka is offered a job at a host club by a random young man who tells him he has the capabilities to be a hist. Asuka takes it, and he soon gets into the top spot. However, his joy comes to a halt when his latest client turned out to be Mizuki.
• Huge Schoolgirl:
  • Iori is the tallest girl in her class.
  • Eri Kaito is a very tall girl which gets her labeled a "giant" by the school bullies.
• Hulking Out: Ayu bulks up with anger after Atsushi hanged up on her when she called him for sending an illustration for her wedding.
• Humiliation Conga: Has its own page.
• Hypocrite:
  • When a nerd accuses another student of cheating on a final exam.
  • Ms. Fukuda talks big about parents teaching autonomy to their children… by making them do things like helping with a barbecue or picking up trash. Hanae even lampshades this when Fukuda orders her daughters Mana and Kana to pick up ingredients for the beach barbecue.

I

• I Ate WHAT?!: When Hideo brought an order of shirako to Buteko's table, Hinako's husband tells her it was panther pufferfish shirako, which is poisonous. Buteko froths at the mouth from the poisoning until Hideo tells the man that he just found it on the counter. Relieved, the man tells him it was Japanese pufferfish then, which was rather safe.
• I Have No Son!:
  • Akira is disowned by his parents. According to them, his younger sister Nagi told them he assaulted her. However, it turns out Nagi never said that nor Akira did such a thing; her parents actually lied and she actually admires Akira in spite of him being an otaku.
  • After leaving for half a year, Chinami comes back 7 months pregnant in a failed attempt to marry someone of even higher status than Kosuke. She almost gets disowned for it and is left on her own by Chikage after their grandmother leaves the house to the latter.
  • "Her parents left the older sister with her relatives for 10 years... Until one day they found out...": When Mika stumbles upon Ririna's concerts after their parents left the former with Uncle Bata and Auntie Jyaga, she finds her parents watching on and tries to greet them. Much to Mika's dismay, the couple refused to recognize her and declared that Ririna was their only daughter, which drove Mika away into a sobbing mess.
• I'm Standing Right Here: At a sushi restaurant, Hoshimi shamelessly admits to being a gold digger. When Takashi reminded her of his presence, she backpedals and attempts to pass it off as a joke, but he doesn't fall for it and leaves.
  Shingo: Don't tell me you're still choosing your partners based on their money.
  Hoshimi: Of course I am! Money means everything in this world! I don't care who my boyfriend is as long as he has money!
  (Hoshimi gasps after realizing Takashi heard her)
  Takashi: What did you just say?!
  Hoshimi: (laughs nervously) I-I was kidding! It was a joke! I love everything about you, Takashi!
  Who cares about money?
• In Love with Looks:
  • Kozue is a rare case of a character who grew out of this trait being treated unsympathetically; she married her hard-working, but uneducated husband Hiroshi for his looks. Years later, she regrets having done so and states that she wishes that she chose a guy with a good education so that he would make more money.
  • Taizou is a handsome and shallow jock who believes that relationships are only about looks; he initially looked down on the overweight Makabe, but became interested in her after she lost weight. He tries to steal her from her boyfriend Hiroki, with his "argument" for why he would make a better boyfriend being that Hiroki is short and unpopular, which means that a pretty girl like Makabe is too good for him, while a handsome guy like Taizou would make a more fitting boyfriend. Taizou becomes shocked when Makabe rejects him and stays loyal to Hiroki, who unlike the openly superficial Taizou, liked her before she was pretty.
• Insufferable Genius: Tsuneo is a rich classmate and a stellar student, but he is arrogant and always brags about his intelligence. He looks down on Mika constantly who is poor, and must work hard to support her family.
• Intentional Heartbreaker: This episode features a variant where the person does it to avenge his girlfriend. Kaname leaves his girlfriend Rui (who is blind in one eye) for her sister Misa. However, it was actually a ruse by Kaname to punish the latter for bullying the former, as his break up drove her into a self-induced car accident that left her paraplegic and completely blind.
• Intentional Weight Gain: At the end of "Her parents left the older sister with her relatives for 10 years... Until one day they found out..." after a fat Ririna reunites with her sister Mika and tells of their abusive parents for mistreating the latter, the former reveals she intentionally put on weight to sabotage her career as an idol and spite the greedy couple for the earlier incident at the mall where they declared Ririna was their only daughter.
• Interrupted Suicide:
  • Dollero stops a girl named Sachi from killing herself after noticing she was tying a rope into a tree while he tried to figure out how to keep his company afloat.
  • After his mother and sister both stated they wanted him gone, Satoshi decides to throw himself off the rooftop. However, his three-fingered hand foiled his plan and he fell back to the rooftop, where he met with notorious delinquent Rena Mikami.
  • Hazuki stands in the way of a speeding truck after running away when Takuya told her she wasn't family and awaited for her demise until he finds her and pushes her out of the way. He apologizes for the things he said afterward.
• Ironic Echo:
  • When Naoto tells his wife Akemi that he'll have to report her for manipulating their unsuspecting daughter Maya into assaulting him, she derides such abuse as "a little girl's prank". When she threatens him with the same when Naoto has her and her lover beaten by Maya, he retorts her previous answer back to her.
  • This story starts with Mina rejecting Koharu's help when she lost her writing utensils, deriding it as pointless. At the end of the story after Mina accidentally revealed her true self to the boys she manipulated after nearly drowning at the swimming competition, she asks Koharu for letting her copy her homework, only for the latter to remind the former that she said her help was pointless.

J

• Jabba Table Manners: Ririna demonstrates these by wolfing down an avocado bowl.
• Japanese Delinquents: Unlike most examples, they can be very helpful. For example this video, they helped out a blind girl who ran away from her parents.
  • Rena Mikami interrupted the suicide of Satoshi Nohara, helped by the fact that he couldn't climb the fencing because of his three-fingered hand. They became friends, much to Kasumi's disgust.
  • Taketora Ryugu is a gang leader who took protagonist Ai Sonozaki in after her family left her alone at the airport to squander her savings. After the vacation ended, he accompanies Ai back to the airport to hold them accountable for their negligence.
• Japanese Ranguage: Aira and Ririna are sometimes called Aila and Lilina depending on the episode.

K

• Karmic Injury:
  • Misa mocked Rui for using an artificial eye after her tumor surgery, even going as far as stealing her boyfriend Kaname. Three years later, Misa had a self-damage car accident and lost her whole eyesight and the use of her legs, essentially rendering her disabled like Rui.
  • Gozumi shoved her sister Saki down the stairs because Iketa asked the former out. After Iketa finds out about it, he defends Saki and points out that the CCTV recorded her abuse, Gozumi runs off gloating before slipping and falling down the stairs herself, breaking her own leg as well. And unlike Saki, no one came to help her through it.
• Karmic Transformation:
  • Tenko justifies her bullying of Yuta by saying that she hates ugly things and it was her right as an attractive person. After her short stature (Due to refusing to drink milk) derails her dreams of becoming a model and rumors of her bullying Yuta spread throughout her school, she ends up gaining a lot of weight through stress eating. Becoming the "fat midget" she despised.
  • Lilina used to make fun of her sister Mika for being overweight, which was enabled by her parents. While Mika worked hard to lose weight, Lilina still made fun of her despite seemingly gaining a bit of weight herself. After Mika introduced her fiance, showed off her weight loss, and disowned her family, Lilina started binge eating and drinking, becoming fatter than Mika ever was.

L

• Lady Looks Like a Dude:
  • 'Ran into a bunch of punks - Only had $3000... "Is this enough for you?"': Kaoru dressed up as a small schoolboy and is frequently mistaken as male. After Ren loses to "him" in a fight, she reveals herself as female and they begin to date.
  • "Delinquent spoiled girl gets mad at me for helping her, until...": Masaki dresses like a man and is tomboyish. Hiiro initially thought she was a man until she almost drowned and Hiiro rescued her.
  • "I met a lost little boy while I was out camping so I took a bath with him...": Takashi met a little boy named Yuki while he was camping. He decided to bring the boy home deciding to call the police to collect him the next day. When they were taking a bath together, Takashi found out that Yuki was actually a girl.
  • "The weak looking new kid is brought to serve as a foil, until they find out that he's not a boy...!?": Aoi dressed up as a scrawny boy because she was being harassed by boys because of her beautiful body.
  • "The new boy was crying in the rain... but he's A GIRL...!?!?": Madara disguised herself as a man to escape being married off by her parents. Her coworker, Kido found out about her real gender when he caught her dressing when he was bringing her a clean towel.
  • "The tall girl enters the school swimsuit contest": Shion is a Huge Schoolgirl who dressed up like a boy because of her height complex, but resident bully Miniya still made fun of both her and her short friend Taiga.
• Laser-Guided Karma: In most of the stories, the antagonist is bound to receive karma for their actions.
• Love Interest vs. Lust Interest: The male lead is often pursued by two women who possess this dynamic; one woman often plays the role of a Gold Digger, only showing interest in men based on their money, being willing to dump her boyfriend/husband for wealthier men, and trying to get back with the male lead whenever she discovers he was actually wealthy/became wealthy. Meanwhile, the female lead loves the protagonist before he became wealthy, would never cheat on him, and is willing to struggle with the protagonist rather than dumping him when the going gets tough.