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     M 
  • Mafia Princess:
    • In this story, Kaname is the granddaughter of the Chairman of the Shingeki Organization.
    • In this story, Hinako is the granddaughter of a yakuza boss.
  • Malingering Romance Ploy: In "My sick and coddled sister said she wanted my boyfriend..." Kasumi, who faked a respiratory ailment since childhood, invokes this upon learning her older sister Masumi is dating a man named Ren, whom the former wants for herself. When Kasumi seemed to have the upper hand after using her "sickness" to tug at Ren's heartstrings, her plan was all for naught as Ren saw through her all along and exposed her to her parents while defending Masumi. Eventually, her ploy falls apart when she blows up at Ren for not falling for her, over which her parents turn on her for lying to them all this time.
  • Maniac Tongue: Himeka sports one as she gloats to Aunt Takako about throwing her starving sister Kotomi out of the house if she gets sick. This is after the former killed the latter's dog just to spite her.
  • Matchmaker Failure: This story features an inversion. In her middle school days, Kana Takagi tried to hook up her best friend with her crush from a different school. Unfortunately, when Kana approached the guy to set them up for a date, the guy fell in love with her and not the friend, resulting in their friendship breaking up.
  • Messy Hair: At the school reunion party, Callaco's hair became a mess on top of losing her attractive looks and gaining a lot of weight.
  • Miles Gloriosus:
    • Komoru brags to his mother about how he beat his judo master at the first attempt and his alleged friendships with gang members. However, Mr. Fujisawa shows up to Ayaka's house and reveals that Komoru is actually a wimp, crying when girls younger than him beat him at judo. Even his alleged connections to gang members turned out to be a bluff.
    • After Kuzumi's father breaks the doorknob of Koji's house with his baseball bat to make Koji come out, he threatens to kill Koji with his bat, boasting that he's killed many men with it. In addition, while showing off his tattoo, he claims that he is part of a yakuza group called the Shingeki Organization. However, Koji tells him that he's never heard of Kuzumi's father being part of the Shingeki Organization, revealing that the house he wrecked belongs to the Chairman of the Shingeki Organization. Kuzumi's father then becomes scared after the other members of the Shingeki Organization show and he and Kuzumi meet the Chairman. After learning about what happened, Kuzumi's father is confronted by the members of the Shingeki Organization for wrecking the Chairman's house and for pretending to be a member of their group. Knowing that his cover is blown, he falls to his knees and begs for forgiveness. Noticing that his energy from earlier is gone, Koji asks him if the bat he threatened to kill him with was just for decoration. Kuzumi's father reveals that it was a scare tactic and that his boast of killing a lot of men with it was nothing more than a lie, revealing that he has only used it for baseball. He also reveals that his tattoo is really a sticker.
  • Mistaken for Pedophile: Ms. Midorihara ends up in the receiving end of this when her then-elementary-aged student Hiroki Takenaka put his face under her skirt and refused to let go of her. As a result, she got fired and since then Hiroki became wracked with guilt for ruining his favorite teacher's life.
  • Motherly Side Plait: Misako wears her hair this way, and cares for her kids Airi and Miu. She even stands up to her cheating husband Kazuhiko for refusing to let her take the kids outside to eat, because the restaurant she booked was in the same building he took a woman named Yumi to his affair.
  • Mrs. Robinson: In A weird middle-aged woman had the hots for me..., Mami Okamoto made sexual remarks towards convenience store worker Ichi despite him just starting college and her being married.
  • Mugging the Monster:
    • This chapter has an example where the "monster" actually wants to help. Hideo demands an unsuspecting Jin to take him to the hospital for "tripping" him. When Jin turns to help him, Hideo sees the latter's scary face and changes his mind, running like hell.
    • When R got a job in an advertising company, she is surprised to see her ex-boyfriend Yusuke Kawata, bullying him as usual until the other executives reveal she's a temp worker. To make matters worse for her, Kawata turns out to be the CEO of a Fortune 500 company, effectively terminating her contract with the advertisement agency and forcing her to work at a tiny company.
    • After the vacation ended, Maria and her parents planned to half-heartedly apologize to Ai and make her pay for everything they buy again. When they stumbled upon her and her husband Taketora, Maria sweet-talks him only to be told off and her mother realizes he's a gang leader. Taketora then has his men tell Maria what he really thinks of her, and forces her and her parents to give Ai her bag and money back.
    • When Shingo went to a restaurant with one of his latest clients, Hoshimi insults him and the client because she believes the former is still poor. However, her new boyfriend Takashi takes a look and tells her said client was the Chairman of the Shingeki Group.

     N 
  • Negative Continuity: Some of the stories featuring the series' main characters such as Mika, Ichi, Hideo, and/or Ririna are self-contained as they repeat different scenarios.
  • Never Lend to a Friend: While Koji and Kuzumi were dating, Kuzumi would always borrow money from him. Despite promising to pay him back, she never showed any signs of doing so. When Koji confronted her one day and asked her if she would ever pay him back, she revealed that she had no intention of ever doing so and that her promise to pay him back was nothing more than a pretext. She even told him that he had no heart for asking her to pay him back. After he told her that he would not lend her anymore money, she immediately broke up with him. A year later, after her father gets in trouble with the Shingeki Organization after he unknowingly vandalizes the Chairman's house and is forced to pay for a new door, after Koji tells the Chairman that Kuzumi still owes him money, she is forced to pay 4 million yen (the two million that Koji lent her, plus two million in taxes).
  • Never Win the Lottery: Yugami appears to win the lottery and decides to divorce her husband, Masashi. However, the lottery ticket turns out to be worthless because it already expired before it was stolen by her daughter, Love, from Masashi's desk as he bought the ticket a few years ago.
  • Noblewoman's Laugh: Himeko makes the pose associated with it, yet laughing is not heard in the dub.
  • No Name Given: In the "Blind Girl and Motorcycle Gang Leader" two-parter story, none of the characters, save for Namiko, have given names.
  • Not Actually His Child:
    • Hiroshi had his doubts about whether Marin was really his child due to her appearance and intellect. However, when he reunites with his old friend, Gakuta, who shows him a picture of his own daughter, he finds out it was Marin, confirming his suspicions.
    • Kazuo has always known that Aika is not his child due to him being infertile. After Miho got pregnant, knowing that she cheated on him, Kazuo confronted Aika's real father. However, the man didn't want anything to do with Miho or his unborn child and eventually ran away. Afterwards, feeling sorry for Miho's unborn child, he decided to not say anything and raise the kid as his own. After revealing the truth to Aika and calling her out for her cruel treatment of him, he tells her that if she had actually treated him like a human being and as a father, there could have been a real parent child bond between them even if they aren't related.
  • Not Blood Siblings:
    • Rin starts to put the moves on her brother Daiki when she finds out they're not blood-related. In the end, they get together after Daiki finds out that his online game partner, "Strawberry Girl", is actually a boy.
    • Before Eiji and his mom got kicked out of their house by his father, the man tells Eiji that he is adopted and therefore not related to Sayuki by blood. However, their sickly mother tells Sayuki the story of Eiji's past: Eiji was the son of an older brother of hers, who died in a car accident when he was a baby. She repeatedly pleaded with her husband not to hate him, but he refused.
    • Yuukioverheard his parents talking about him not being related to his brother Hirokazu by blood. This results in his clingy and mimicking behaviors earlier on as Yuuki wanted Hirokazu to see him as a real brother in spite of it.
  • Not Good with Rejection: After Ichi refuses to go out with Lilina, she convinces her father, Ichi's boss, to transfer him to work in the middle of nowhere, claiming that Ichi was playing with and hurt her. Unfortunately, Mika submits her resignation letter and tells the CEO that Ichi is one of the top employees at his company and that he will lose everything by transferring him. Moreover, Mika also exposes Lilina's true colors to the company before declaring her resignation, with Momoko, Hajime, and Ichi himself following suit.
  • Not So Above It All: Ayako Kisaragi is a strict company boss in public, but she turns out to be a fan and writer of BL manga whenever no one's watching.

     O 

     P 
  • Parental Abandonment: Yuki was abandoned by her father in the mountains. Fortunately, Takashi took her to live with her grandparents. Years later, while Yuki was helping Takashi with the store, her father returned to demand some money. He tried to punch her, but Takashi intercepted him and Hajime and Hideo were able to restrain him. The cops were called and he was arrested and put in jail.
  • The Pigpen:
    • One month after Ko decided to live in his car after his wife, Saki, and daughter, Rui, kicked him out, Rui calls him about a guy her mom brought to the house. Unlike Ko, the guy has a genuine BO problem. Turns out the smelly guy was only after the money of Saki's father, but the couple are left on their own after the man disowns her.
    • Lilina is revealed to be this when Mika reminded the former about how her family was so poor, she sprayed perfume all over her body to hide the smell of mold and when she got in trouble for it, she bawled like a baby.
  • Playing Sick: A variant. Kasumi did suffer a respiratory ailment earlier on, but after her operation, she faked it to get attention and pit them against her older sister Masumi. Years later, Kasumi is still faking her ailment and found Masumi dating a guy named Ren, whom she sets her sights on. When the couple comes to the sisters' parents' house, Ren calls Kasumi out for faking her sickness, even showing her parents a photo of himself at the slots, and Kasumi is shown smoking. She then rants at Ren, unknowingly exposing her own façade to her parents.
  • Poor Communication Kills: Teruo thought that Katsuya avoided him because the latter thought of him as a loser, so he abandons the group. However, it's revealed near the end that Katsuya acted like that because it was Teruo's birthday and he tried his best to plan everything.
  • Prone to Tears: After Kasumi accidentally exposes her true colors to her parents, Masumi remarks that she tends to cry a lot, a product of being spoiled all her life till adulthood.
  • Punny Name: Mento Harasu is an obvious one if you go by the Japanese naming pattern, which reads as "harassment".
  • Put on a Prison Bus: Saki and Yuki's parents are taken away by the police after Saki explains to them the abuse they put her through, including being locked out in the veranda for talking back to them.

     R 

     S 
  • Sadist Teacher:
    • Mr. Hideo harasses Ichi because he couldn't keep up with his curriculum and uses his 'most worthless player' system against him. When this came to light at a PTA meeting, he was fired.
    • Yoko Wada has a stamp point system where she awards well-behaving students and punished the badly behaved ones. However, she misuses it to torment students that she doesn't like and forces them to do extra chores. She humiliated Mika when she gives Ichi her eraser but he broke it and he apologizes by making her apologize in front of the whole class. She continued to do it under duress, even though Ichi took responsibility.
    • Tsunezo bullied Ichi because of his poor grades. When Ichi's mom was hospitalized, he forced Ichi to quit school. Years later, at a reunion, he continued to berate Ichi until Mika poured beer on him. Mika exposed Tsunezo's deeds and he was fired.
    • Mr. Eritto punched Ichi just because he was late for school, which caused Ichi to get injured after hitting the ground and he was forced to go to the hospital. While Ichi is recovering at the hospital, Mr. Eritto visits him and threatens to make his school life a living hell if he ever tells anyone how he got injured. However, a man named Mr. Hououin (whose pregnant daughter was the reason why Ichi was late in the first place) decided to interrogate Ichi about the incident and thanked him for saving his daughter after her water broke. A few days later, he found Mr. Eritto and had his men take him away. The school found out about Mr. Eritto's actions and fired him.
  • Secret Diary: Kazuhiko had one where he wrote complaints about his wife Misako and his affair with a woman named Yumi. Misako herself discovers it when her older daughter Airi mistook it for one of her schoolbooks and took it with her to school.
  • Secret Test of Character: I was helping a pregnant lady at the station and was late to my audition, but... Hinako is heading to an audition to join the theater company of her idol, Kyoko Fuji. She ends up late because she stopped to help a pregnant woman, only for the pregnant woman to be revealed to be Kyoko all along. Turns out the whole thing was part of the final audition to find people that the company would want to work with, and Hinako passes with flying colors. Ririna, on the other hand, fails because she didn't bother to help Kyoko and rudely told her to go away.
  • Self-Parody: One video features Ichi as a food blogger whose blog is known as "Attack on Ichi".
  • Serial Homewrecker: Ayla Saotome from "My daughter accuses me of cheating, so I set a wiretap in the house and..." is revealed to not only threaten Konomi with firing her husband Kazuma if she didn't divorce him, but also have done the same with other families in the past. It's further revealed that after she had the poor sod all to herself, she got bored after a month and dumped him. However, he takes her to court with the help of the families she has crushed and wins the case, resulting in Ayla's company tanking after the media took ahold of the case.
  • Shallow Cannot Comprehend True Love:
    • Mote is a tall, athletic and shallow boy who openly admits to caring only about a girl's looks. When he sees that the Formerly Fat Makabe is now skinny and beautiful, he tries to steal her from Hiroki, her short and nerdy boyfriend who liked her before she became pretty, assuming that Makabe was only with him because she couldn't do better before. Makabe gives Mote a tongue-lashing for thinking she would be stupid enough to dump a good guy who liked her for who she was for a guy who literally admitted to only liking her after she became pretty.
    • In "My sick and coddled sister said she wanted my boyfriend..." after Ren sees right through Kasumi's "sickly girl" facade and refuses to dump her sister Masumi for her while proclaiming the latter is more beautiful than the former, both inside and out. Moreover, when he calls her out for being a coward and demands proof of her sickness, Kasumi loses it and demands he shut up and fall for her since she was the prettier one while calling him an idiot for not doing so.
      Kasumi: Shut up already, you talk too much! Taking advantage of me… A pretty girl like me is asking you to go out with me! Just be quiet and be mine! I'm more attractive than her! You really are an idiot if you don't realize that!
  • Shoddy Knockoff Product:
    • An annoying classmate at my class reunion told me off...: When Ichi examined Ririna's "brand clothes" while she was flirting with him, he revealed they, along with her "crocodile leather" purse, were all fake. Turns out Ichi worked as an appraiser for a store for the real deal.
    • The watch I gave to my husband shot up in price... then he divorced me...: A wristwatch that resembled Takeshi's shot up in price, over which he divorces his wife Satomi and leaves her alone with her daughter. When Ms. Nagai showed up, Satomi notes she wears a jewel-embedded version of said wristwatch. Nagai then tells her that there were many fakes made of it, which makes Satomi realizes that Takeshi's watch was actually one of said fakes.
  • Shout-Out: For starters, the channel's title is one to Attack on Titan. It also contains references to Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba in the form of characters Shiori Chokonote  and Mr. Tomitanote  and to Sailor Moon in the form of Momokonote  and has a lot of references to Anpanman.
  • Shrinking Violet:
    • Tsukasa is a shy girl who compares herself to her supermodel sister Shiori. This makes her target for her kouhai Ririna's teasing, going as far as inviting Tsukasa to a party to make herself look prettier by comparison and score with Yuji.
    • Suzuka became shy and reluctant to go swim in PE class since some boys told her how ugly she looked in her swimsuit. This also makes her a target for Habumi, who forces her to attend a pool park on top of inscribing her in a swimsuit contest against her will just to embarrass her and make herself look prettier in comparison.
    • Kana Takagi is rich, but seems to be a shy, plain girl until Rikan shoves her into the pool later on, revealing she is actually a pretty girl.
    • Yuri is a flashy college student in Mami's group who was once a nerdy bookworm in her high school years. Being made fun of by her classmates led her to learn about makeup, relationships, and fashion, on top of lying about herself to fit in and avoid getting bullied again. However, she is still a nerdy bookworm under that facade and Mami eventually finds out the truth. She accosted her for it, only for resident introvert Takuma Kasai to show up and reveal that Mami was a black-haired, freckle-faced girl in her high-school years.
    • Emi Nibino is a shy, plain girl who wears her hair in a fringe cut. Ririna takes advantage of an upcoming school beauty pageant and forces her to compete under the threat of telling Shota Saeki about Emi's crush on him.
    • Mika is depicted as a shy girl in this story. She suffers routine bullying by her classmate Yabami and two other girls.
    • Yuki Ogura is a shy introverted girl whose hair covered her eyes and held a slouching posture. She secretly works as a bikini model to provide for her ailing mother.
    • Nagisa always wore Opaque Nerd Glasses and a face mask to hide her face. She defended Tomoya from Taizou's mockery.
  • Sigil Spam: In some chapters, the manji symbol (卍) is featured, mostly as a brand. Especially when Hideo is around for the chapter since it's the symbol associated with him.
  • Silly Walk: Konomi walks with her legs crossed in an exaggerated fashion whenever she turns, in spite of her looking like an Ojou.
  • Sins of the Father: Keika and her mother had been ostracized by Ren's father after Keika's father killed his wife in a DUI. The abuse got so bad that Keika's mom was Driven to Suicide. He soon realizes the error of his ways by the end though.
  • Slasher Smile: In My elementary teacher went missing over summer break. 10 years later…, Ms. Midorihara flashed one at Hiroki in a reunion party as part of acting like a creep to make Hiroki feel better over the incident at Shingeki Elementary.
  • Smug Snake: I went home for the holidays, and my sister demanded I take my clothes off...: Morao gloats to his in-laws that they will never be able to sue him for beating his wife Yuka. However, his bravado falls apart when Mika tells him that she hired a detective to get concrete proof of his abuse.
  • The Social Darwinist: Eiji's dad shows this attitude through his treatment of his wife and children: he marries his secretary and kicks his sickly bedridden wife and Eiji out of the house; the former for falling ill, the latter for his bad grades and being adopted. The mother revealed that he didn't actually build the company but inherited it from his own father; he's actually a slacker who can't do things by himself.
  • Sore Loser: Habumi tried to embarrass Suzuka by forcing her to participate in a swimsuit contest held at a pool park. However, her plans are foiled when Suzuka's surprising good looks led her to yell at the boys for wanting to see Suzuka and not her. As a result, her own friends abandon her, and gets kicked out of the park for assaulting one of them.
  • Spoiled Brat: The series has several examples of these, with Tsuneo being a recurring example in earlier stories.
    • Chinami became the new spoiled child after her older sister Chikage failed a private elementary test, leading their parents to see the latter as a failure. However, the tables turn on her when Chikage brings Kosuke to the house, as he worked in a big company. After receiving a slap for calling them out, Chinami left the house for half a year and came back 7 months pregnant, in an effort to marry someone better than Chikage. Her parents disown her after that.
    • Yuki was spoiled rotten by her parents, treating her older sister Saki as her maid, at one point even calling her as such and not as her sister. However, it all comes crashing down when Saki calls the cops on their parents for locking her out in the veranda and Saki leaves her on her own. Following the couple's arrest, Yuki was sent to live with strict relatives.
    • Kasumi was already spoiled from the get-go, but since she had an operation for a respiratory ailment, she kept faking illness just to be spoiled by her parents, getting her sister Masumi in trouble whenever she doesn't give her what she wants. Years later, she's still faking illness and upon finding out that Masumi was dating Ren, she wanted to steal him. When Ren comes to her family's house, he calls Kasumi out for being such a coward by acting like that.
  • Staircase Tumble: The episode Twin sister kicks her down the stairs... But it doesn't stop there... has Gozumi kick her twin sister Saki down a flight of stairs for getting Iketa's attention. When Iketa still visits and comforts Saki, Gozumi threatens her with doing this again. Once she gets caught, Gozumi herself falls down the stairs while running off and gloats about how she will ruin them.
  • Stalker with a Crush:
    • Kaori has been crushing on Ichi since college despite him having a girlfriend, she always leaves work early to stalk him and his girlfriend Mika under the delusion that she is his girlfriend. She even goes as far as to accuse him of cheating.
    • Gozumi spends her time stalking Iketa, sending him a bunch of love letters every day and even watching him in his sleep. However, when he asks her sister Saki out instead, Gozumi kicks her down the stairs and then abuses her while she recovers.

     T 
  • Tampering with Food and Drink: Tokiya attempts to get back at his bully Taiki by adding some buckwheat flour into his lunch to get back at him for stealing his food, he eventually falls unconscious due to his allergy to buckwheat flour.
  • Teen Pregnancy: Chikage's younger sister Chinami comes back 7 months pregnant after her parents turned on her because of Kosuke. She left the house to marry someone better than Chikage but found out her mark was already married.
  • Terrible Artist: Kirariis bad at drawing, unlike her older sister, Saki-kun. However, their parents favor the former while putting down the latter until art teacher Goriyama Tekken reviews her crappy paintings.
  • Those Two Guys: Hyodo and Ichijyo, who appear whenever there's someone arguing.
  • Threat Backfire: Buteko Fute attempts to get her husband to fire Hinako's husband from the Izakaya, however, he points out that her husband was already fired for having an affair with one of the part-timers behind her back.
  • Threw My Bike on the Roof: Natsumi, the leader of a group of delinquent gyaru girls, breaks Takumi's handheld console when she's fed up with his discussions about being a professional gamer.
  • Took a Level in Kindness: Dollero was a Bad Boss to his employees to the point that some of them quit, but when he saw a teenage girl named Sachi who plays the trumpet trying to end her life, he stops her and developed a bond with her. Sachi's friendship and teamwork with other band members during a concert inspire him to be a better boss to his employees.
  • Traitor Shot: Aira makes a traitorous expression after becoming Hideo's girlfriend.
  • Trash of the Titans: Saki's house became this after her husband, Ko, divorced her and took their daughter, Rui, with them, leaving Saki alone with her smelly new boyfriend after her own father disowned her years ago.
  • Traumatic Haircut: Fed up with Tsukasa stealing Yuji's attention from her, Ririna follows her to the bathroom and forcibly cuts off her hair after dumping a bucket of water on her.

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