Etra Chan Saw It / Tropes A to F

Etra chan saw it! trope index
A to F | G to L (Humiliation Conga) | M to T (Mistaken For Cheating) | U to Z

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A

• 419 Scam: Tachibana receives an email message from an alleged high-ranking Nigerian official who promises him to double the amount of the money he lent to them; obviously, this turns out to be a scam, and Akamatsu and other people also fell for it. It is revealed that Hiiragi manipulated Tachibana, Akamatsu and others into getting scammed by sending them the scammer's email during their high school reunion as revenge for bullying him and not helping him from being bullied, respectively.
• A-Cup Angst: Yuri laments not being as well-endowed as her stepmother Karin and half-sister Yuzuriha.
• Abandoned Pet in a Box: Kuroki and his parents Yuri and Katsura find a box with a puppy in front of their house. It's later revealed that Akane left it at their house because she couldn't keep it at her apartment.
• Abuse Mistake:
  • Tokusa accidentally hits Karin's face during a workout, causing her to get nosebleed. However, when the couple arrive at the hospital, a doctor, Tsutsuji, mistakes Tokusa for being a Domestic Abuser and proceeds to call the police on him. Fortunately, the misunderstanding gets cleared up when Karin is forced to explain to Tsutsuji and the police that she tried to kiss Tokusa before he accidentally hit her.
  • Azami crawls into Akamatsu's room at the internet cafe, but she accidentally hits her own head on his desk. When the employee of the cafe named Karin goes to check them, she completely misunderstood what happened and proceeds to call the police on Akamatsu for supposedly hitting her.
  • Karin tries to save Kuroki from Tsutsuji because she thinks he is a victim of Domestic Abuse because of a photo of him having scars on his face. However, the "scars" turn out to be halloween makeup set up by Tsutsuji to impress his friends. However, after the misunderstanding with Karin was cleared, Yuzuriha messages Tsutsuji and expresses interest in the photo and praises her because she enjoys seeing children physically suffer, exposing herself as an Abusive Mom to her son, Hiiragi. Terrified by Yuzuriha's true nature, Tsutsuji calls Karin to rescue him from Yuzuriha.
• Academia Elitism:
  • Tachibana and his wife Azami look down on Tachibana's younger brother Tokusa for not going to college. When Tokusa starts his own company, they insist that he can't do it because he's a construction worker and only went to high school. When Tachibana decides to build his house on unstable land, Tokusa warns him not to do it. Despite the fact that Tokusa is a professional foundation builder, Tachibana scoffs at his warning simply because Tokusa is only a high school graduate. Just as Tokusa predicted, the house ends up destroyed due to an earthquake.
  • Hiiragi is a law student who attends a prestigious college, which he loves to brag about. He has a part-time job at a bar, which he slacks off at, under the excuse that an educated man like him isn't suited to doing physical labor and is more suited to intellectual tasks. When a group of Yakuza come into the bar, Hiiragi insults them. When they are about to beat him, he says that they'll regret beating him because he goes to Etra City Law School, and only manages to avoid a beating because the their superior calls them off. He ends up getting fired for his antics, and tries to get revenge by taking a bottle while ranting that his former coworkers and boss are "peasants" who should bow to him because he's an "elite at Etra Uni." Unfortunately for Hiiragi, he gets stopped by the Yakuza from before and gets beaten.
• Accidental Hero: When Hiiragi walks into a convenience store with the intention of robbing it, Tokusa and Tachibana are so exhausted from getting rid of the roaches in the store, that they don't even notice the knife he's holding. They manage to scare him away accidentally by talking about how they took care of the roaches, with Hiiragi thinking they're talking about a person. Only then, do they notice the knife he left behind when Karin points it out.
• Accidental Public Confession: When Azami calls out Akane and Yuzuriha for making false molestation charges, Akane responds by saying their attempt failed, then realizes that the rest of the class heard what she just said.
  Yuzuriha: Akane, you idiot!!
• Accomplice by Inaction: Tachibana witnesses his son's bully being beaten up by someone else, however, he decides to not save him because he thinks it's a fitting punishment for him for bullying his son.
• Adaptation Name Change: A variation; some episodes treat the character's names as their surnames, which results in scenarios where the male character's wives are referred to as Mrs. [name].
• Adoption Diss: After Tsutsuji's parents died in a car accident, she was taken by her uncle Hiiragi and aunt Azami, however, they neglect her in favor of their son. Tsutsuji's suffering ends when her other uncle Kuroki decides to take her in after she told him about the abuses she went through.
• Age-Gap Romance:
  • One episode features Karin being married to Katsura, who is significantly older than her.
  • Another episode features Karin as a high school teacher and Hiiragi as one of her students. They get married and have two kids by the end.
• Age Lift: The characters' ages vary wildly from one story to the next, ranging from children to elders, depending on what role they're playing. Notably, Azami is the character whose age is the most consistent, with her being portrayed as an older woman in most of her appearances. This can be funny in the English dub since her usual voice actress gives her a default old woman voice and doesn't bother to change it in the rare cases she appears as someone younger.
• Alcohol-Induced Idiocy: Several characters have done stupid things while drunk.
  • Akane flying sidekicks Hiiragi before beating up the other guys with her boyfriend Tachibana having to restrain her. Later on, she chases after Tokusa's friend group and manages to damage Kuroki's car.
  • Following an argument with his parents, Tachibana grabs a step-ladder so that he can climb into his friend Tokusa's room and sleep there. But because he was so drunk, he ended up climbing up to his roof and sleeping there instead.
  • After getting dumped by Hiiragi, Karin gets wasted with Yuzuriha. When Yuzuriha's younger brother walks into the room to see what's going on, Karin drunkenly hugs him and begs him to marry her.
  • After getting drunk with her friends, Yuzuriha tries to drink wine from her butt.
  • An example which unlike the previous ones is not Played for Laughs where a drunk Akamatsu tries to kick a pregnant Tsutsuji on the train.
  • An Inverted case where Akamatsu overhears and joins in on Karin's argument with Azami over stolen tickets. Despite being drunk, he somehow manages to be the reasonable one in the situation in contrast to Azami who is completely sober but refuses to take responsibility for her actions.
• All Girls Want Bad Boys: Akane starts liking delinquent-looking men because they saved her from a creep.
• Always Identical Twins:
  • In this episode, Yuri appears as a pair of identical twins.
  • Averted in this episode as Akane and Yuzuriha are depicted as fraternal twins instead of identical twins.
• Amnesiac Lover: Kuroki loses his memories relating to his wife, Yuri, due to being overworked for a year. Yuri tries to help Kuroki regain those lost memories, which rekindles their romance.
• Amicable Exes: Hiiragi and Yuzuriha divorced when their children were only a year old. When both of them visit Akamatsu in the hospital, it's shown that they are still on good terms with each other.
• Anachronism Stew: Occasionally there will be episodes set in the past but several characters will be using modern-day appliances.
  • The first section of this episode takes place ten years before the present day but Akamatsu and his younger brother Hiiragi are seen playing with Nintendo Switches which wouldn't be released until 2017.
  • Based on Tokusa's comments about him loving Dragon Quest as a kid but quitting after the third game, the majority of this episode takes place in either the late 80's or early 90's. However, Akane can be seen taking a picture of an explosion with a modern-day smart phone rather than a more time appropriate flip phone or Polaroid camera.
• …And That Little Girl Was Me: Inverted in this story. Karin narrates the story about a social worker suspecting the motive of a couple adopting a girl, but she didn't realize that the little girl was her, until Yuri spells it out.
• And There Was Much Rejoicing:
  • When Azami quits her job because of an incident during a wedding day and her boss scolding her for it, everyone in the workplace sighs in relief that she is finally gone.
  • After everyone in the party puts Akane in her place by calling her out of her ungratefulness toward Katsura for saving her life from drowning as well as her boyfriend breaking up with her for her attitude, she leaves the party in anger. The party went quiet for a moment before erupting into cheers.
• Animal Wrongs Group: Azami thinks people chaining their dog outside their house is animal abuse. She later tries to free the dogs from their leash because she felt bad for them; however, the dogs immediately start chasing Azami.
• Animated Actors: Every now and then it's suggested that this is what's going on behind the scenes, mainly in the anniversary episodes, but that doesn't really explain the child versions of the characters who sometimes appear. Nor the fact that occasionally multiple versions of the same characters at different ages will appear in the same story.
• April Fools' Plot:
  • A video has Tachibana and Akamatsu playing a prank on April 1st by spreading rumors that a magazine will be limited edition and very valuable. They didn't bother to retract the rumor and got into a lot of trouble.
  • Azami attempts to use April Fool's Day as an excuse to get revenge against Akane for telling on her to their boss for taking expired food home with her despite it being against the rules of the convenience store they worked for. Her "prank" involved framing her for stealing money from the manager by slipping it into her bag and then revealing that she was the one who'd done so after he yelled at Akane and made her cry. Naturally, no one else thought this was a very good prank.
• Arranged Marriage:
  • Yuri is arranged to get married with Akamatsu, who is 41-years old due to her family owing his family a favor. Yuri decides to become fat to make Akamatsu reject her for her appearance.
  • Azami arranges her niece Yuzuriha, who is 15-years old to get married with a 39-years old Tokusa so she can get a new way to leech off of money from them. Obviously, the marriage didn't go through as Tokusa opted to help Yuzuriha and her mother to escape from Azami's selfishness.
• Aroused by Idiocy: Akamatsu cheats on and later divorces Karin to be with Akane because Karin isn't reliant on him in regards to household tasks, while Akane is. Karma soon bites him when Akane's wasteful spending and inability to do household chores cause him to regret his decision, and he's unable to divorce Akane without having to pay a huge settlement fee to Karin.
• Aroused by Their Voice: While Katsura and Tsutsuji were gathering evidence of Tsutsuji's husband's affair, Katsura become infatuated with Yuri's voice from a recording of her, Karin, and Akane's conversation and asks her out after the affair is settled. More specifically, it wasn't just Yuri's voice but her snapping and verbally tearing Akane to shreds after the affair was discovered and Akane tried to blame her and Karin for not trying harder to stop her that made him fall for her.
• Asshole Victim: While Yuzuriha does have the highest kill count out of all the characters, several of her victims weren't exactly good people.
  • Yuzuriha initially mistakes Kuroki for her abusive ex-boyfriend though fortunately she realizes that he isn't him. However, the ex eventually shows up at her lodge and she ends up killing him.
  • In this episode, Yuzuriha took on Akane's identitiy in order to get away from her abusive husband Hiiragi. Hiiragi eventually found her though as he had been stalking her and Yuzuriha killed him in self-defense.
  • For an example that doesn't involve murder, Yuzuriha stole millions of yen from her mother Azami and fled overseas after getting fed up with her unsympathetic attitude. Though Yuri acknowledges that she committed grand theft, no one particularly cares since Azami was such a colossal Jerkass and everyone grew up with her blaming them for every bad thing that ever happened to them.
  • Hiiragi gets beaten up by Tachibana for stealing his girlfriend Yuzuriha from him, except Hiiragi was told that Tachibana was abusing her and wanted to protect her from him. Even so, he put Akane into a situation where she'd be alone with a man he believed to be a domestic abuser and ended up dumping her to get back together with Yuzuriha anyway, so the Misplaced Retribution he receives doesn't invite much sympathy for him.
• Attempted Homewrecker:
  • Akane is a Gold Digger who pursues Tokusa, who's dating Tsutsuji, under the assumption that Tokusa is rich. In order to get Tokusa to dump Tsutsuji, Akane sends what she thinks is evidence that Tsutsuji is a pornstar. However her plan backfires because Tokusa knows the pornstar and Tsutsuji are Identical Strangers due to research. To top it off, Tokusa isn't even rich, Akane just thinks he is due to a conversation she overheard.
  • Yuzuriha is Kuroki 's crazy ex-girlfriend who decides to crash his wedding. In order to try and steal him away, she shows up heavily pregnant and claims the baby is his in order to baby trap him. She's not actually pregnant, she just stuck a watermelon down her dress.
  • Akane is the daughter of Kuroki's manager Akamatsu, who becomes obsessed with him after meeting him at a company barbecue. Undeterred by the fact that he's already dating Karin, she tries everything from trying to convince him to cheat on Karin, lying about a pregnancy, getting her mother to try and bribe Karin to break up with Kuroki, and then finally one last ditch attempt to convince Kuroki to marry her. Poor Akamatsu gets transferred to the countryside to keep his crazy family away from Kuroki, despite being apologetic for their entitled attitudes.
• Attempted Rape:
  • In this chapter, Yuri was about to be sexually assaulted by the loan shark Akamatsu to pay her mother's debts. However, Karin steps in and kicks him before he could actually harm Yuri.
  • Akane attempts to get a drunk Katsura to a love hotel under the guise of helping him. Fortunately, he manages to escape from her.
  • Hiiragi abducts Karin from her wedding and tries to force her to kiss him in front of a makeshift altar, with the scene framed to look like he intended to do worse (and probably would have had Kuroki not arrived sooner.) Unlike the previous examples, Hiiragi's actions are motivated moreso by delusional insanity rather than pure lust, as he's convinced that Karin still loves him and they're just acting out her fantasy.
  • Two men stop Akane on the street and attempt to abduct her with obviously sexual intentions.
• Attractive Bent-Gender: Kuroki starts going to work while crossdressing as Tsutsuji so that his coworker Akamatsu wouldn't hesitate to warn him if he messed up (Kuroki was the manager's nephew) and also because he genuinely enjoys doing so. Akamatsu does indeed find "Tsutsuji" very attractive.
• Awful Truth:
  • Akamatsu discovered that his mother, Akane, wasn't the great mother he believed she was.
  • Kuroki soon finds out that his best friend, Hiiragi, wasn't as good of a person, let alone friend, as he believed. As well as his own hatred of him.
  • Akane discovers that the reason her mother Yuzuriha was so distant towards her was because her grandparents brainwashed Akane into spewing death threats at her when she was a little girl, and Yuzuriha never got over it.

B

• Babies Ever After: Too many stories end this way to cite any specific examples.
• The Baby Trap:
  • Akamatsu falls into this while he was cheating on his fiancée, Yuri, with a hostess, Akane, with the latter saying she was pregnant with his baby, forcing him to marry her instead.
  • Yuzuriha drugs Tokusa inside her house in an attempt to make him think that he impregnated her. In reality, she was already pregnant with Hiiragi's baby. Fortunately, Tokusa was able to run away from Yuzuriha's scheme and also exposed her and Hiiragi to the campus and the latter's household.
  • Yuzuriha comes to Akamatsu's apartment and claims to be pregnant with his baby. However, the situation turns sour when Yuri and Akane are also present, forcing him to run away. While she is indeed pregnant, though it is revealed she lied about the baby being Akamatsu's.
• Bad Review Threat: In this story, when Karin, Yuri, and Yuzuriha visit Akamatsu's organic cafe a second time, Karin notes that the cafe is empty despite being so crowded one week ago. When Yuzuriha shows her a 0.5-star review of the café, it turns out Akamatsu himself only let pretty moms get in without a reservation and he sexually harassed them after they breastfed their babies. To top it off, Yuzuriha plays a video on social media that shows him being an asshole to a mom whose baby puked on the table.
• Bait-and-Switch: This had Karin try to figure out who of her in-laws didn't like her by telling each of them that she didn't like one thing and to instead give her another thing. Akane was told that Karin hates cake but likes Japanese sweets. The next time Karin is over for dinner, Akane brings out a cake... only to also give Karin her own separate dessert, explaining she only got cake because her family loves it so much.
• Bait-and-Switch Character Intro: When Akane is presented with a ring that her soon to be husband Hiiragi picked out with his mother, she flips out and says that this wasn't the ring she wanted, making her seem like a Bridezilla. However, it's later revealed that she's actually a sweet person who got steamrolled by her future mother-in-law Azami all through the wedding planning process. Her outburst at the wedding was her being frustrated that she couldn't even choose what her wedding ring looked like.
• Based on a True Story: All of the episodes are based on real-life stories.
• Batman Gambit:
  • This video had Hiiragi plan one against Akamatsu for a past incident where the former harmed the latter's mother. After hearing about a ramen place that was known for gangs and scoping the place out himself, he intentionally took Akamatsu there and slipped one of his red hairs into the man's ramen when he wasn't looking. Akamatsu, who was infamously known for his temper over small things, flew into a rage, insulted the owner, and threw his bowl, which caused the gang members nearby to beat him senseless for insulting their boss.
  • One episode had Karin realize one of her in-laws didn't like her after being invited to a dinner where every dish served had eggs (which Karin previously stated her dislike for). So, she calls all of them individually and gives each a different claim that she dislikes something, knowing that the one who truly hates her wouldn't be able to resist using it against her.
• Beach Episode:
  • A video has Karin try to enjoy a day at the beach but unfortunately all the antagonists disregard the lifeguard's warning about the waves being too rough to safely enter the water, and she has to rescue them.
  • Another video has Tachibana and Akamatsu go to the beach with Tachibana's sister Tsutsuji. Akamatsu disregarded Tsutsuji's warnings when he went for a swim and ended up nearly drowning but she was able to save him.
• Bears Are Bad News: Tokusa encounters a bear cub and later its mother after finding his wandering daughter Yuri in the forest, who being a little girl, mistook them for dogs. While he manages to get himself and Yuri out of the situation unscathed, the whole experience left him with PTSD.
• Beauty Breeds Laziness: Akane steals Akamatsu away from Karin by pretending to be a feminine Housewife, in order to get her hands Akamatsu's money. Once Akane and Akamatsu are married, she stops doing housework, reveals that the lunches she gave Akamatsu were cooked by her mother, and spends Akamatsu's money on expensive luxuries. Karin could tell right away that Akane was lazy, by looking at Akane's nails and expensive accessories, but didn't bother warning Akamatsu as punishment for his cheating.
• Because You Were Nice to Me: In some stories where the antagonist character of the story isn't really as bad as they initially seem, an act of kindness on the protagonist's part is enough to make them have a Heel Realization and change their ways. Other times this trope is the reason why characters like Hiiragi and Yuzuriha end up stalking the protagonist.
• Becoming the Mask: Akamatsu initially only befriended Kuroki, and later his little sister Yuri, because he had a crush on their mother Yuzuriha and wanted to use his relationship with them to get closer to her. As the years go by however, Akamatsu and Kuroki genuinely become best friends while Yuri develops feelings for Akamatsu. When Akamatsu hears that Yuzuriha's boyfriend Katsura plans to propose to her, he plans to crash the dinner he plans to do so at, but Yuri also requests for Akamatsu to visit their house on the same night so she can tell him "something important". Akamatsu chooses Yuri. Cue Babies Ever After.
• Bedroom Adultery Scene: Karin walks into her room to find out that her husband Akamatsu was having sex with his sister, Akane. It turns out that the lovebirds aren't really siblings, they are only using that as an excuse to have an affair whenever Karin is not home.
• Best Friends-in-Law:
  • One story has Yuri and Tsutsuji as childhood friends who grow up to marry each other's older brothers. Tokusa is Yuri's older brother and Katsura is Tsutsuji's older brother.
  • Akamatsu and Kuroki become this after Akamatsu marries Kuroki's younger sister Yuri.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Yuri in certain episodes can snap if pushed too far. So can Katsura. Both can be pretty scary in their own ways when they snap.
• Beware the Quiet Ones: Hiiragi appears to be a quiet person at Akamatsu's workplace; despite this, he does his job properly. One day, Hiiragi suddenly notices something weird when Akamatsu gets a complaint call from someone at late night, causing him to approach and prevent Tachibana from sending his money to someone purported to be his granddaughter. The incident causes his other co-workers to think highly of him for his heroic actions.
• Big Brother Instinct:
  • Tokusa, after finding out that his fiancee Akane previously bullied his little sister Tsutsuji and planned on bullying her into being her slave once they're married, breaks up with her on the spot.
  • Hiiragi, after finding out that Azami falsely accused his little sister Tsutsuji of stealing money from the wallet she left behind at the restaurant his sister worked, vowed to make her pay. He eventually uses his skills as a detective to expose Azami for stealing money from her company, leading to her arrest.
  • Yuri stands up for her younger sister Tsutsuji when her mother-in-law Azami talked crap about her tea tasting as bad as Yuri's. And she did this while suffering morning sickness from being pregnant.
• Big Eater:
  • Yuzuriha's overweight brother-in-law Hiiragi steals a lot of food from her fridge, he even stole the birthday cake that Yuzuriha made for Tsutsuji's son Katsura, leading her to plan something against him.
  • Yuri loves to eat food, especially sweets. She always wants to eat after seeing food imagery and her stomach constantly rumbles.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Hiiragi appeared to be a good boyfriend to Akane. However his sister Yuzuriha revealed that Hiiragi beats her, and had been divorced two times due to domestic abuse.
• Biting the Handkerchief: Akane is seen biting a handkerchief after Hiiragi breaks up with her.
• Bittersweet Ending: While Hiiragi manages to ruin Akamatsu's life, he takes no joy in his revenge as he still regrets not seeing his grandmother one last time.
• Blaming the Cuckold:
  • When Akane gets caught cheating, she feels no remorse and claims that her affair was partially her husband Kuroki's fault for "not being enough of a man," much to the disgust of her parents, Kuroki, and her own children.
  • Akane claims that it's Yuri's fault that Akamatsu, Yuri's fiancee, was cheating on her with Akane for not giving Akamatsu enough attention. To make matters worse, she says this to Katsura, her own husband.
  • When Hiiragi is caught cheating by his wife Yuri, he claims that his affairs were her fault for not complimenting him enough.
  • Akamatsu blames Yuri for his cheating, claiming that it's her fault for not taking care of her appearance, conveniently forgetting the fact that Yuri doesn't have time to do so because in addition to being a housewife, she was also busy taking care of Akamatsu's parents, and Akamatsu refused to help her.
• Blaming the Victim:
  • Azami believes everything that happens in life is the result of their own choices. She blames Yuri for almost getting molested, blames Tsutsuji for being bullied in high school, and blames Tachibana for getting into a car accident, even though he was hit by a car that ran a red light.
  • When Akane arrives late for work because she got molested on a train, Akamatsu blames her for wearing something inappropriate.
• "Blind Idiot" Translation: Typos, grammar mistakes, and misuse of words galore. The voiceovers often correct the shoddy translation work in the comics themselves.
• Blood from the Mouth: At first, the men thought Yuri was dying because she was coughing up blood in her mouth. However, the women in the company revealed that she has endometriosis in her lungs.
• A Bloody Mess: Kuroki thinks that Yuzuriha has committed suicide in her bathtub, but it is revealed that the "blood" is actually wine because she wanted to have a wine bath, and she fell asleep afterwards.
• Born in an Elevator: In this episode, Yuri's water breaks, and her family wasn't home to take her to the hospital. She eventually decided to drive there herself when the taxi was uselessly far away, but the baby was due too soon and gave birth inside of the car. A driver behind her, Tachibana, got irate and checked the car to complain to her until he sees her giving birth and calls for an ambulance.
• Bouquet Toss:
  • When Akane the bride tosses the bouquet, Karin ended up grabbing it. However, Akane refuses the result and insults her, in which Karin returns the bouquet back to her. On the second toss, Karin's friend, Yuri, grabs it, which Akane also disapproves of. It then culminated in the girls passing the bouquet around, from Tsutsuji to Azami to the other background women, who all reveal that they never liked Akane. Eventually, it had to be given to a relative.
  • Another episode with Akane as the bride has her tossing the bouquet at Azami in an attempt to humiliate her for being single; however, she ends up kicking it instead because she believes receiving a bouquet from an arrogant person would bring bad luck.
• Bribe Backfire: Hiiragi tries to bribe Karin by giving her a job and her salary doubled at his company so she wouldn't testify against his nephew Akamatsu for molesting Tsutsuji, a schoolgirl inside a train. She refuses his offer and testifies against Akamatsu in court, causing him to be charged and found guilty of what he did to Tsutsuji.
• Brick Joke: When talking about how it's incredible it is that his son Kuroki is thinking about the family store at a young age, Tachibana also mentions that he himself acted pretty stupid at that age. During this scene, there is a panel featuring him and Karin as kids where he flips up her skirt. Later on in the episode, after Kuroki starts asking Karin on advice on how to become stronger, Tachibana mentions that Karin was always strong and there's a panel where child Karin is beating him up for the skirt flipping.
• Bridezilla: There are a bunch.
  • This one had Akane, the bride, kicking out her brother, Kuroki, because he was too ugly and claim that he was dead.
  • A different wedding that had Akane as the bride, had her forcing her fiance, Hiiragi into debt to pay for a very lavish wedding but her attitude caused the wedding to be canceled mid wedding.
  • Yuzuriha tries to kill Hiiragi with a knife after he exposed her past misdeeds to everyone during their wedding, causing the police to get involved.
• Bring My Brown Pants: Hiiragi wets his pants when a Yakuza gang confronts him and Akamatsu for forcing Kuroki to meet them.
• Broken Pedestal:
  • Karin saw restaurant owner Akamatsu as a nice old man who cooked good food. But a bad phone call from him at work (with him not noticing that it was her) led her to find out that he wasn't as nice as he appeared to be. Not to mention his abuse of his wife. The final nail in the coffin: The good food Akamatsu cooked actually came from said abused wife, eliminating the one redeeming quality he had left.
  • In this episode, Kuroki looked up to his best friend Hiiragi before the latter died. However, Akamatsu and Tachibana reveal that Hiiragi was actually a bully who bullied many students in the past. To make things worse, he also stole Kuroki's crush before he could confess to her, and she was actually blackmailed into marrying him so he can get her money and abused her. When everything is revealed, Kuroki's friendship with Hiiragi shattered and he started to realize that he began to hate him as well.
  • Tsutsuji used to think Yuzuriha was perfect due to how quiet and elegant she seemed. This opinion of her changed however after Tsutsuji found out that not only does Yuzuriha physically abuse her son Hiiragi, but she actually enjoys doing so.
• Brother–Sister Incest:
  • A video that had Akane be so mad that her brother Kuroki had a girlfriend and getting married that she crashed the wedding while wearing a wedding dress demanding that Kuroki don't marry. While Akane claimed that she didn't love Kuroki in a romantic way, she was very clingy to Kuroki after breaking up with her fiancé.
  • In another video, Karin's father Hiiragi is creepily obsessed with his sister to the point that Karin's mother divorced him and refused to let him anywhere near their daughter for 20 years because he began to act inappropriately towards her too due to her looking exactly like her aunt.
  • An episode that thankfully averts this. Akamatsu has a crush on Akane but she rejects him. Later on, he finds out that they are actually long lost siblings, making things extremely awkward between them for a while.
• The Bully:
  • Akamatsu and Tachibana are a duo of bullies who pushed Kuroki onto a train to be "spirited away", fortunately, a train conductor was able to open the door for him before the train leaves. When Kuroki transferred to another school, Akamatsu and Tachibana switched their attention to Karin for standing up to him and started bullying her. On graduation day, Akamatsu and Tachibana steal Karin's diploma in an attempt to lure her into a train to be "spirited away". However, Akamatsu and Tachibana become confused after Karin doesn't follow them, nobody else is inside the train, being given weird looks by other bystanders, and the doors of the train eventually close, trapping them inside, causing them to beg Karin to help them. Karin then tells them they are going to be the ones to be "spirited away" and the train eventually leaves with them trapped inside, which is revealed to be an out-of-service train going back to the garage. Because of this incident, Akamatsu and Tachibana are scolded by their respective parents and Karin was given her diploma back.
  • Akane is this towards Yuzuriha just because her crush preferring someone like Yuzuriha over her, causing her and her friends to bully Yuzuriha for several times. Yuzuriha tries to tell a teacher about the bullying, but she gets ignored by her. Akane eventually crosses the line by burning Yuzuriha's school uniform, forcing her to take her shirt off in front of her classmates, Akane and her friends then continue to insult Yuzuriha for taking her shirt off in the classroom. Feeling embarrassed by this, Yuzuriha runs away from her classroom and falls down the stairs, causing her to be admitted to a hospital. Eventually, the school finds out about the bullying, Akane and her friends get transferred to a different school and the teacher who ignored Yuzuriha's complaint also gets fired for ignoring the bullying.
  • Akane bullies her employee, Yuzuriha, after she was witnessing her affair with one of her employees, Akamatsu. She eventually fires Yuzuriha to humiliate her furthermore. It comes to bite Akane in the ass when her business closes down and Yuzuriha turns out to be her superior in the nursing home she is working at, and eventually her photos of the affair are spread through her workplace, causing her to be fired.
  • Hiiragi turned out to be a big bully since middle school. His bullying was really severe, it caused some students to stop coming to school. He also pretended to be a model student to hide his real personality.
  • Akamatsu ruined Tachibana, Hiiragi and Akane's lives during middle school. He and his minions attempted to rape Akane and also took a picture of her in her underwear, they framed Hiiragi to prevent him from enrolling at the high school of his choice, and they also blackmailed Tachibana to be their slave. Even after years have passed, Akamatsu continues harassing Tachibana by coming to his ramen store and also harassing a female regular who often visits the store. The trio eventually works together to make Akamatsu pay for the consequences, which ends up in his arrest and imprisonment.
  • Hiiragi bullies Kuroki for being an introvert, later Akamatsu joins in as well. Kuroki's teacher Akane also ignores the bullying because she thinks bullying is just another form of friendship. One day, they force Kuroki to visit a Yakuza house so they will stop bullying him for one week. The duo and Akane end up getting scolded by the gang for their actions. In the end, Hiiragi and Akamatsu completely stop bullying Kuroki.
  • Yuzuriha, Akamatsu and Tachibana physically bullied Hiiragi when they were in middle school. Years later, Hiiragi decides to plan a revenge against them by going after Akamatsu and Tachibana first before targetting Yuzuriha, the main culprit of his misery.
• Bullying a Dragon: Hiiragi ends up insulting the freaking Yakuza. The leader Katsura initially makes his men leave Hiiragi alone as the latter is a civilian with a honest paying job. Because of the stunt he pulled, Hiiragi gets fired, which he doesn't take well. A few days later, he returns to his old workplace and tries to attack one of his former co-workers. Coincidentally, the Yakuza also go back to the bar to repay the tab they left the last time they were there. Seeing that Hiiragi has basically reduced himself to a violent thug, Katsura allows Tachibana and Akamatsu to beat him up.
• But We Used a Condom!: This story has Akane deliberately poking a hole in Akamatsu's condom so she could get pregnant with his baby in an attempt to get his family's fortune, though she doesn't know that he was actually engaged to Yuri.

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• Call-Back: In an episode about Katsura's acute sense of smell, Tsutsuji makes a cameo in the end of the episode. This may be a reference to an earlier episode, where Tsutsuji can smell deathly omens.
• Calling the Old Man Out: In episodes involving abusive parents or guardians, it is common for the child, relative, or partner to call out the parent's behavior.
• Calling the Young Man Out: On the other hand, parents of the antagonist that aren't enabling their behavior scold or punish their misbehaving children for being disrespectful or nefarious.
• Canon Character All Along: When Kuroki hears about his wife Azami going to a love hotel with another black-haired man, he starts to think she's cheating on him. When Kuroki catches them going into the hotel again, the black-haired man is revealed to be Karin dressed up like a man.
• Can't Hold His Liquor: Akamatsu drinks while clubbing but he cannot hold his alcohol and gets drunk easily. One time he passed out when he was drunk and finished a party drink in a glass tube.
• The Casanova:
  • A female example, Yuzuriha is revealed to have relationships with four different men. She later dumps three of them and reveals that she is already married to the remaining man for his wealth. It turns out that she was also in a relationship with Akane, which is evident in the photo of them kissing.
  • Hiiragi dates three different women, one of them is even married. When the women find out about his antics, they make sure to humiliate him with different methods so he will be torn up, inside and outside.
• Catfishing: Akamatsu cheats on his wife Akane with his gaming teammate Yuzuriha, with Loberia as her handle. Unfortunately for him, Yuzuriha turns out to be a fake identity operated by an overweight Hiiragi with a voice changer to deceive men into giving him money.
• The Chain of Harm: Explored in this story. Tachibana suddenly turned violent towards Karin whenever he got angry, which happened infrequently and Tachibana always expressed remorse once he came to his senses, so Karin tried to shrug it off. However, when he almost strangles her one time, she has enough and tries to divorce him, at which Tachibana comes clean — He himself had been physically abused as a child by his father Hiiragi, with his mother Azami turning a blind eye towards it. He realized a while ago that he had a serious problem and began seeing a psychiatrist to treat his anger issues, and never told Karin about either because he didn't want to use either as an excuse for his behavior. Touched, Karin calls off the divorce and the two work together to help Tachibana get over his psychological wounds. Years later, Tachibana turns out a far more loving father to his own son Kuroki, and has none of it when his parents call again asking him to give Kuroki to them.
• Cheater Gets Cheated On:
  • Because of how many times she's involved in affairs, this trope naturally happens a few times with Akane.
    • Akane left Kuroki at the altar for Hiiragi, a man she had met a day before the wedding. A few years later, she comes crying back to her parents, who want nothing to do with her, saying that Hiiragi cheated on her.
    • Hiiragi and Akane cheated on their respective spouses with each other and had a baby. When Hiiragi's father suggests that the baby might be her ex-husband Kuroki's, they decide to get a DNA test to see who's the father. However, neither Kuroki nor Hiiragi is the father, with the real father being a guy Akane met at a club. Hiiragi has the audacity to get mad at Akane for cheating on him.
    • Akane stole Hiiragi away from Yuri on the day of Hiiragi and Yuri's wedding. She did this because she's a Serial Homewrecker who gets a thrill out of stealing another woman's man away. Even after she marries Hiiragi, she decides to cheat on him with another man. When Hiiragi learns this, he asks his sister Yuzuriha where their parent's graves are so he can apologize for committing adultery, but Yuzuriha rejects his apology, telling he deserves to be miserable with Akane for the rest of his life.
    • Akane is a promiscuous woman who has no problem sleeping with men who are taken. She decides steal Akamatsu away from his wife Karin under the assumption that he's rich, much to Karin's relief. The reason why Karin was so relieved was because Akamatsu is a womanizer who has a second wife along with multiple mistresses, much to Akane's horror. Akane tries to get with Tokusa under the assumption he was one of her many boyfriends, but Tokusa ignores her.
    • Akane cheated on her husband Kuroki with her boss Akamatsu, planning on marrying Akamatsu after she gets divorced. After she gets divorced from her Kuroki, she discovers that not only does Akamatsu not want to marry her because he got sued for his affair, but he was also seeing another woman behind Akane's back.
    • Akane stole Akamatsu from Yuri, eventually marrying him. She constantly rubs the fact that she stole Akamatsu in Yuri's face, even inviting Yuri to her and Akamatsu's wedding to further humiliate her. Akamatsu texts Yuri hoping to get back with her, a fact which Yuri reveals at the wedding. Naturally, Akane doesn't take it well.
    • Akane cheats on her fiancé Kuroki with Hiiragi. It's then revealed that Hiiragi was still engaged to Tsutsuji while this was going on. To make matters worse for Akane, when asked who he intends to marry, he chooses Tsutsuji, which naturally angers Akane.
  • Azami is a married woman who's having an affair with Hiiragi, who's also sleeping with Yuzuriha and Akane. Azami isn't happy when she finds out that Hiiragi is two-timing her.
• Chekhov's Gun: Akamatsu bought a glass ashtray for Yuzuriha in an attempt to get her affection. She accepts his gift and later uses it to hit Hiiragi when he is trying to break into her house because he was rejected by her. After the incident, Hiiragi becomes afraid of women.
• Chekhov's Gunman: Akamatsu is seen early in this episode watching Azami try to "fix" Yuri's strained back by chopping at it. At the end it's revealed that he told Yuri's husband Hiiragi about it.
• The Chikan:
  • Tsutsuji became a victim of this when she was harassed by Akamatsu inside a crowded train, fortunately, Karin witnessed them and saved her from him.
  • Akamatsu thinks someone was touching him inside a crowded train, the molester turns out to be Hiiragi, who has a crush on him.
  • Subverted, Azami falsely accuses Hiiragi of molesting her while commuting inside a train to get settlement money from him. This causes Tokusa, Yuri and Akane to debunk her accusation as they saw him holding his smartphone in one hand and the strap in the other. After Azami leaves the train, Hiiragi also tells Tokusa that he would never touch a woman's butt because he is gay.
  • Happens to Akane offscreen. She mentioned she was late for work because she got molested on the train. Akamatsu blames it on her for wearing something inappropriate.
  • Yuzuriha tells Akane, Azami, and Tsutsuji about a plan to raise money by falsely accusing a random people of molesting them on a crowded train, and forces Tsutsuji to be the pretend victim.
  • Subverted, Akamatsu gets falsely accused by Akane of molesting her in a subway, this turns out to be a part of the revenge plan hatched by her, Hiiragi and Tachibana to make Akamatsu face the consequences for making them suffer back in middle school. Even after Akane took back her sexual assault report against Akamatsu, he is still arrested and imprisoned for possessing unknown contents in his phone and computer, which is also part of the revenge.
• Children Are Innocent: It is common for the usual antagonists to be much nicer as children compared to their adult selves.
• Childhood Friend Romance:
  • Akamatsu and Akane were childhood friends who were dating each other since they were 14; however, their relationship wasn't approved by the former's parents because the latter was diagnosed infertile. Akamatsu later married Karin and presented Akane as his sister to her as an excuse so she can stay in their house to have an affair whenever she's not home. Not only that, if Karin gives birth to her baby, Akamatsu would divorce her and steal the custody of the baby and run away with Akane, with full support from Akane's parents.
  • A more positive example here. Akamatsu befriended Kuroki and his little sister Yuri in an attempt to get closer to their mother Yuzuriha, but ended up marrying Yuri instead.
  • When Tachibana was in elementary school, Tsutsuji fell in love with him after he grabbed her hat from a tree when he was making a delivery to her grandmother's house. Tachibana later reciprocates her feelings and they ended up married.
• Christmas Episode: One where Akane tells a 4-year-old Kuroki that Santa isn't real.
• Clear My Name: Tokusa decided to stay home when he felt sick. When he called his work, Yuzuriha told him that he was fired. Tokusa went there and demanded an explanation. Azami, who was the one who got him hired told him that he was fired because he was stealing from his clients. Tokusa tried to deny it but nobody believed him. It was eventually revealed that Tokusa's coworkers Akane, Akamatsu, and Tachibana were the real thieves led by Azami. They all lost their jobs and Tokusa was reinstated.
• Closet Sublet: Akamatsu sleeps in Tsutsuji's closet for several times, then it's revealed that he is only there because he has been hiding his porn magazines above the ceiling inside her closet the whole time.
• Clueless Detective: Hiiragi works for a freelance detective agency, and he tries to put his skills to use to run a background check on his beloved sister Karin's fiance Tachibana. He turns out to be incredibly incompetent, staking out his house for two weeks and coming to all the wrong conclusions about his private life^note He believes Tachibana is unemployed, when he's actually an off-duty sailor who invests in real estate. The "debt" he's incurred turned out to be said real estate investments. He also tries to claim that Tachibana had to repeat a year in college when in reality he simply took some time off.. Unsurprisingly, the detective agency is revealed to have gone out of business in the epilogue.
• Collector of the Strange: Hiiragi collected his children's baby teeth and their (as well as his own) fingernails and kept them inside a drawer in the closet he used to scare Akane for doing the same to her cousins Tsutsuji and Kuroki.
• Composite Character: In this episode, Tsutsuji is revealed to be a disguised Yuzuriha. In other episodes, they are separate characters.
• Conspiracy Theorist: Hiiragi thinks his sister's crime for stealing Tsutsuji's money is a government conspiracy to make her break up with him, Tsutsuji dismisses his pathetic claim as an alien language.
• "Could Have Avoided This!" Plot: After a series of events lead to Yuri giving birth in her sister's car, Karin, who is a nurse at the hospital, informs Yuri that she could have just called an ambulance instead of trying to drive to the hospital herself while in labor.
• Covers Always Lie: The thumbnail always splices together panels that weren't together originally and often alters dialogue in ways that are deliberately misleading. This partly serves as click-bait, but also serves to avoid spoiling the actual plot of the episode. Though the general rule of thumb is that anything in red text in the thumbnail is probably not something anyone actually said in the episode.
• Cranial Eruption: Hiiragi gets smacked in the head several times by his father Tokusa for stealing his sisters' belongings for his girlfriend, resulting in three bumps stacked on top of each other on his head.
• Crazy Cat Lady: We witness Akane's transformation into one in this story, where she decides to try and steal back the cats she left with her ex Tachibana after he and his new girlfriend Karin managed to treat them of illnesses that Akane didn't think to check for. After a brief stint in jail, she gets caught trying to steal Yuzuriha's cat as well and is sent right back to the slammer.
• Crazy-Prepared:
  • In an episode that takes place during the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami, it turns out that Katsura had been preparing his family just in case of this type of disaster for a long time. He nailed down all the furniture in the house to stop it from falling over in the event of an earthquake, played games with the grandkids meant to teach them what to do in the event of a tsunami, maintained backpacks with all the supplies the family would need to survive if they had to evacuate in a hurry and maintained a large support network of their neighbors who would be willing to help his family in the event of an emergency. This ultimately saves his family's lives when the disaster hits, even though he had passed away a mere three months prior.
  • When Tsutsuji and Yuri find a wallet left behind by one of the customers at the restaurant they work at, they put it in a plastic bag and wrap it with duct tape. Then they film themselves taking it to the police station to prove they didn't steal from it.
  • Katsura and Karin were doubtful about their daughter Yuri's relationship with Akamatsu, fearing that he will be after their inheritance when they pass away. They wrote several preparations for Yuri to get a smooth divorce and sell the mansion that she inherited from them, so Akamatsu and his family will not be able to get their hands on it.
• Creator Cameo: At least once an episode, the name 'Etra' will be mentioned as a company or as a brand.
  • Etra herself appears in the one-year anniversary video and as the announcer of the short film festival in this video.
  • Etra appears in a restaurant named after her in this video.
• Credit Card Destruction: After Yuri found out her credit card expired, her husband Kuroki helps destroy it. However, her neighbor Azami searched through their trash to steal it, even coming to her house to call her out for the card's missing pieces.
• Crossdresser:
  • Kuroki dresses up like a girl for his first date with Tsutsuji.
  • In another episode with Kuroki, he dresses up as Tsutsuji to work at his uncle's store, but Akamatsu ends up having a crush on him without knowing his real identity.
• Crossover: This episode is a crossover between Etra-chan saw it! and Animare.
• Cub Cues Protective Parent: In one episode, a toddler Yuri points at "a big doggy" when her father Tokusa finds her. Tokusa understandably freaks out as he realizes the "doggy" is a bear cub, and rightly deducts the mother will appear soon. Guess what happens next.
• Cult:
  • Yuri lived in a house consisting of four families that she considered as her own family, the big family was led by a woman who she thought was her grandmother, Azami. Yuri was the only one who went to school while the other children didn't. After Yuri told her teacher about her family, they broke apart and Yuri left her mother behind with her father and brother. It was later revealed that the "family" was actually a religious cult that discouraged education and none of them were biologically related to Yuri's family at all, and Azami was the leader of the cult. Yuri's mother also remained devoted to the cult even after Azami's death.
  • In one story, Yuzuriha finds out that her in-laws are followers of a shady cult, her daughter is eventually indoctrinated by them.
  • Akane, Azami, and Yuzuriha witnessed Karin saving a cat, they later come to her apartment believing she was a knight and chosen by God for her braveness, much to her annoyance. They also keep returning to Karin's apartment to annoy her with their babbling nonsense. In an attempt to get rid of those women, Karin pretends to be a follower of a cult named "Ramenism" and talks nonsense to them about the nonexistent cult, they decide to stop harassing her afterward.
  • Tachibana is extremely devoted to a cult named Yorozuism, they forbid the use of medicine as they believe using them is an act of defiance against their god, Yorozugami-sama. His devotion to the cult ended up making him neglect his own wife and two daughters. At the end of the episode, it's revealed that Tokusa's mother Yuri has become a follower of Yorozuism.
  • Azami attempts to get Yuzuriha into joining her cult. Fortunately, Yuzuriha is smart enough to reject her offer. However, Azami doesn't give up easily and she decides to get Yuzuriha's mother Tsutsuji to join the cult after coincidentally seeing Yuzuriha at the hospital. Irritated by Azami's behavior, Yuzuriha tells Azami's father about the cult she's following, causing him to teach her a lesson. Yuzuriha also manages to convince Akamatsu who also attempted to scam her into joining Azami's cult after losing his money and it eventually turns him into a devout follower of the cult.
  • Akane frequently visited Azami's house to extol the virtues of the cult she's a member of, which is led by Hiiragi. All seemed fine as Azami was the only one who didn't meet her with throwing eggs or insults. However, Akane learns of Hiiragi's true colors when she finds a beaten-bloody Akamatsu, whom he beat up with a baseball bat. While Hiiragi claimed it was for embezzlement, Akamatsu revealed that he and the cult's higher-ups were also in it for the money, which prompted Hiiragi to beat the poor sod to near death before hitting Akane as well. However, she runs away to Azami's house and the latter calls the cops on him.

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• Daddy DNA Test:
  • Yuzuriha insists Kuroki have a DNA test with his son to satisfy her suspicion about the boy's parentage. When the test reveals that Kuroki's son is not related to him, she faints.
  • Akamatsu forces Karin to take a DNA test out of an allegation of cheating. Unsurprisingly, the baby was Akamatsu's, but Karin still divorces him because of his stupidity and distrust.
  • After Akane gave birth to her child, Hiiragi insists that the baby was his until his father requests a DNA test since there is a chance that the child is Kuroki's, who was Akane's previous husband. Hilariously, neither of the men is the child's father, but instead, it's Akamatsu.
  • When Tachibana hears a rumor that Azami isn't his daughter, he does a DNA test on her and gets a zero percent match. It turns out that Akane cheated on him with Hiiragi.
  • Hiiragi requests a DNA test for his and Yuri's baby and asks his family to submit their DNA as well for a more accurate result. It turns out the test wasn't for his and Yuri's baby, but to confirm whether or not Kuroki is his real father. The test reveals a zero percent match, exposing Akane's affair.
  • Azami claims to be Tachibana's illegitimate daughter, however, Karin demands a DNA test to confirm her paternity. The result reveals that Azami is not Tachibana's daughter, and she actually turns out to be Hiiragi's illegitimate daughter from his affair with another woman. It is revealed that Hiiragi actually tried to pin the blame on Tachibana for his affair by using his daughter to cover his tracks.
  • Karin decides to get a DNA test when a senile Akamatsu claimed that he was her father, instead of Tachibana. When the results came out, Katsura turns out to be Tachibana's only child, while Hiiragi turns out to be the product of Akane's affair with another man, and Karin turns out to be not biologically related to either of them because she was accidentally switched with another baby at birth.
• A Deadly Affair:
  • Yuzuriha attempts to kill her lover's daughter, Tsutsuji, by giving her pieces of glass shards she passes off as candies to make him and his wife divorce so she could be together with him.
  • Tachibana finds his girlfriend sleeping with another man, causing him to assault the lover until his girlfriend hits him with a bottle due to her life being threatened, he ends up dying from the injury.
• "Dear John" Letter: After a year of work and neglect, Tsutsuji leaves behind a letter for Akamatsu to find, which said that she is leaving him. However, she doesn't divorce him because Akamatsu gave her a letter earlier before she left about how much she meant to him, and the two talk to each other about their issues.
• Death Glare:
  • Yuri shoots one at her husband Akamatsu upon his return. Turns out his coworker Tokusa revealed the former left work early and the company closed on weekends, contradicting his claim that he worked on said days.
  • Katsura gives one to his father Akamatsu to intimidate him into signing the contract so he can shut down his father's company and start his own company.
• December–December Romance: Tachibana and Tsutsuji are elderly neighbors who both lost their respective spouses years ago. They end up finding a Second Love in each other after thwarting a vegetable thief-turned-attempted murderer.
• Decomposite Character: Some videos feature older and younger versions of characters as relatives, usually as parent and child or grandparent and grandchild.
• Decoy Protagonist:
  • This video starts from Akane's perspective in regard to being estranged from her husband Kuroki, but switches to Kuroki's within seconds, as he deals with her going insane from her guilt for cheating on him.
  • This video starts off with Kuroki as the main character having to put up with his bad-tempered boss, Akamatsu. Later, the focus shifts to Hiiragi's perspective when he takes Akamatsu to a ramen place and tricks him into insulting the owner, leading him to getting beaten up by the offended gang members, all as revenge for splashing his mother with hot tea. The episode even ends with Hiiragi's character intro like it did for Kuroki at the beginning.
  • This story starts from Yuri's perspective about how she sees her emotionless husband Tachibana and son Kuroki who was bullied by Akamatsu until the latter was admitted into a hospital because he was attacked by someone else, causing her to worry if Tachibana was the culprit when he was questioned by the police. Then, the perspective switches to Tachibana as he witnesses Akamatsu being beaten up by Hiiragi, an unemployed man who got rejected from various universities. However, he decides to not save him because he thinks he deserved it for bullying Kuroki.
  • This story starts from Karin's perspective as she is forced to meet Hiiragi who has a lot of expectations for her to become his wife. Unsurprisingly, she rejects him for his unrealistic expectations. One year later, Karin finds out that Hiiragi is marrying Yuzuriha, though she doesn't care much about them. Later, the perspective changes to Yuzuriha when she accepts Hiiragi's marriage proposal so she can force him to change himself for the better, although it is also because she is after him for his money.
  • This story starts from Akamatsu's perspective. Halfway in, it's revealed that the story is actually a Villain Episode where the usual Humiliation Conga is told from the antagonist's perspective. The last four minutes switch to the perspective of Yuri, the actual hero.
  • This story starts from Akamatsu's perspective as he dumps Yuri because he doesn't like her cooking and later marries Yuzuriha who turns out to be a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing. Later, the story switches to Yuri's perspective as she figures out why Akamatsu broke up with her, she later gets introduced to Katsura and eventually marries him.
• Delusions of Beauty:
  • Hiiragi thinks that he is attractive after being praised by his friends for marrying Yuri, who recently became attractive after losing her weight. His delusions eventually escalates to the point where he decides to hit on other women, who are understandably creeped out by his behavior.
  • Akane thinks she is still the same beautiful woman from 20 years ago, despite the fact that her face started aging. She also looks down on Azami for looking too "old" despite both of them being in their 40s.
  • Hiiragi thinks he's an attractive man despite his appearance saying otherwise, just because he married Yuzuriha, who is 10 years younger than him. He later becomes a stalker to Yuri because he thinks his appearance "charmed" her.
• Demonic Possession: Akane gets possessed by an evil monkey spirit and she starts stalking Tokusa. She is eventually exorcised by Akamatsu.
• The Dentist Episode: Yuzuriha gets a toothache and has to go to the dentist. When she's about to get treated by Hiiragi, his wife Akane barges in and accuses him of having an affair with the receptionist Azami. After Yuzuriha exposes Hiiragi's affair with the security cameras, the anesthesia wears off, and she goes to a different dentist office and gets treated by Katsura.
• Depending on the Artist:
  • Akane, Azami, and Tsutsuji can wear either pants or skirts depending on the artist drawing the episode.
  • Most episodes use the stock chibi art in text bubbles when characters are out of view, though some artists will draw unique faces.
• Died in Your Arms Tonight:
  • Parodied in a TV series where Etra-chan dies in Hiiragi's arms before she could say her relation to him.
  • When Azami and Tokusa bring their dying daughter, Yuri to a place full of trees with cherry blossoms, she thanks her parents for raising her before she dies in Azami's arms.
• Dirty Coward: Hiiragi bullies Kuroki to make himself feel superior. However, when he was confronted by a Yakuza group for forcing Kuroki to meet them, he wets his pants.
• Dirty Old Man: Akamatsu fell in love with Akane who is 25 years younger than him, though when he met her teenage sister Tsutsuji, he touched Tsutsuji at any chance he got much to her discomfort. At a family party, he drunkenly rambled on how he likes women that are young and how he'll have a sister-in-law who is still in high school. When Akane heard of this, she immediately broke up with him before their wedding.
• Disappointed by the Motive: Tsutsuji learns that the reason her little sister Yuzuriha doesn't want to go to field day is because she wants to stay home and play video games. She becomes fed up with how spoiled she is and hits her.
• Disowned Parent:
  • Tsutsuji cuts ties with her parents for treating her like crap regardless of her achievements and several years later attempting to take her daughter in an attempt to raise her the same way how they treated her.
  • Kuroki doesn't consider Akane his mother anymore because she abandoned him when he was still a kid.
  • Tachibana disowns his mother Akane for cheating on his father with one of her employees. He was also witnessing her making out with the employee when he was in kindergarten, the later incident involving the affair photos fueled his resentment towards his mother.
  • Hiiragi cuts ties with his mother Azami because she was arrested for stealing Yuri's belongings just because he was absent when Yuri gave several ice cream bars to his teammates during a baseball training.
• Disowned Sibling:
  • Yuri and Katsura cut ties with their sister Akane for sleeping with and stealing Yuri's fiance.
  • Yuzuriha declares Hiiragi is no longer her brother after he ditches Yuri the wedding to be with Akane causing everyone to hate Yuzuriha and her parents just for being related to him.
  • Kuroki disowned and punched his brother Hiiragi for stealing his wife.
  • Tachibana decides to cut ties with his annoying younger sister Akane because she constantly came over his house and tried to take his wife's car without permission.
• Disproportionate Retribution:
  • Akane tries to murder her husband Kuroki by forcing him to eat excessively salty food for over a year just and then cheats on him with his coworker Akamatsu while he's in the hospital, all because he added a bit of soy sauce to some curry she made.
  • Hiiragi got fined and had his driver's license revoked for tailgating Kuroki. He decided to blame Kuroki for this and started stalking him. Once he had an opportunity, he knocked out Akamatsu and stole his car so that he could try and kill Kuroki in a hit and run.
• Distaff Counterpart: If you watch enough videos, one might notice that most of the girls can feel a bit like counterparts to the boys in their personalities and the roles they most frequently play. Or maybe the boys are Spear Counterparts to the girls. Some are more obvious than others, with the most obvious being Akane and Akamatsu, who both have the character Aka at the beginning of their names, and both sport the same shade of red hair, while Azami and Tachibana stand out for not having anyone in the cast they draw a direct parallel with. It also seems that the characters who parallel each other the most (Katsura and Yuri, Tokusa and Karin, Kuroki and Tsutsuji, Akane and Akamatsu, and Hiiragi and Yuzuriha) also end up being paired together romantically the most often.
• Distracted by the Sexy: Kuroki is distracted by Yuzuriha's beautiful appearance when he rides his scooter in the middle of rain. Unfortunately, the distraction causes him to crash into a truck because he didn't pay any attention to the road.
• The Dog Bites Back: After suffering several harassments from her boss, Akane. Yuzuriha decides to spread the photos of her affair around their workplace, causing Akane to be fired.
• Does Not Like Men: Karin dislikes men and stays away from them due to the trauma she received from her abusive father, though Tokusa manages to convince her to put an end to it.
• Domestic Abuse: Downplayed in this episode, Katsura assaults his wife Yuzuriha after he finds out that his daughter Hana is not related to him by blood, due to Yuzuriha's affairs with several men.
• Doting Grandparent: Akamatsu is a very, very loving grandfather to his granddaughter Yuzuriha, much to the annoyance of the rest of the family, since he's been filling Karin and Katsura's house with all the toys he's been buying for her.
• Downer Beginning
  • This episode begins with Akamatsu who is depressed due to being unemployed and feeling as though he can't trust anyone. From there, the viewer learn how he became like this from the first place. Back when he was a child, his parents would take every opportunity they could to compare him to his older brother Hiiragi who would also talk down to him. While he was able to forget about his home life when he was hanging out with his best friend Tachibana, the latter eventually had to move away after the two of them got into middle school. Then several years later, Akamatsu decides to visit his then girlfriend's apartment only to find out that she was cheating on him with his older brother. Enraged that Hiiragi was once again gloating at him, Akamatsu beats up his brother, cuts ties with his family and quits his job so he doesn't have to see his ex anymore.
  • Tsutsuji's parents die in a car accident and she ends up being neglected by her aunt and uncle.
  • This episode begins with Tsutsuji being harassed by her in-laws (verbally by Azami and sexually by Akamatsu) with her husband Hiiragi doing nothing about it and even enabling them. Eventually things come to a head when Akamatsu tries to force himself into the bathroom, fully intending to have his way with her while she's taking a shower and she ends up running away.
• Downer Ending: This story. Kuroki dies of the same illness that took his father Tachibana's life over a decade earlier, and there's no indication that his mother Yuzuriha suffered any consequences for cheating on his dad and putting the family in debt.
• Driven to Suicide: This happens in a few stories. Every time another character will manage to drag whoever was driven to that point back from the edge before they can carry it out.
• Dysfunctional Family:
  • Hiiragi's family is riddled with problems: drowning in debt, his parents are part of a shady cult, a shut-in older brother and an older sister who ran away to get away from these problems.
  • Karin's family have a lot of problems: Her father, Tachibana is an alcoholic, short-tempered Domestic Abuser. Her mother, Akane, is a hysterical woman who refuses to take care of her children and the house. Her older brother, Hiiragi, is a narcissist jobless man who often plays around with different women. Averted for her younger brother, Katsura, since he is the other Only Sane Man in the house along with her.

E

• Early Installment Character-Design Difference:
  • An early Japanese video has a different hair-styled Karin rather than black hair. There is also a red-haired Katsura in the same episode.
  • Etra-chan's design in the outro of earlier Japanese episodes is rather different from her current design, which is also used for the English outros. Interestingly, her old design still remains as her channel icon.
• Early-Installment Weirdness:
  • The earliest videos in the Japanese channel do not feature the cyclical cast, until this video first used the cast and has been stuck with it since. It's rather telling that the English channel skipped towards the episodes featuring the main cast.
  • In the very first English dubbed video, all the characters are voiced by a woman, and Yuzuriha is called Takahashi.
  • One earlier video casted Katsura as the antagonist, an anomaly nowadays since the protagonist actors are near-universally portrayed as good in every story. You'd expect Hiiragi or less commonly Akamatsu or Tachibana to play the role of a Stalker with a Crush in later videos.
• Earn Your Happy Ending:
  • One episode had Azami deal with an abusive marriage, terrible in-laws, and years of grief over her stillborn daughter. By the end, she manages to get a divorce, sue her ex and his family for a hefty sum, and gain a daughter thru her daughter-in-law.
  • Akamatsu had to endure unloving parents who treated him as The Unfavorite since childhood, a Big Brother Bully who constantly looked down on him, his girlfriend Akane cheating on him with said brother, and temporarily becoming a NEET due to quitting his job to not see Akane anymore. However, he eventually reconnects with his childhood friend Tachibana who hears out his troubles and then offers him a job at his company. Akamatsu then regains his trust in others, becomes more positive, and is implied to end up with Yuri at the end. It should also be noted that by this point in time, he has managed to cut ties with his toxic family.
• Easily Forgiven: An example that's Played for Laughs. After Akamatsu's family embarrasses Akane by speaking different languages in order to teach her a lesson on respecting cultures, she runs off angrily. Hiiragi then reveals that the reason he brought her to the family reunion in the first place was to get revenge on her for his brother. The family then yells at him for dragging them into this mess. However, Hiiragi was fully expecting this to happen, so he brings out some expensive sake and sure enough, is instantly forgiven.
• Embarrassing Nickname:
  • In this story, Tokusa gets the nickname "Rich Landowner," because of an incident when Akane misinterpreted "jinushi" for "owning several lands," instead of "having hemorrhoids."
  • The name Acchan was attributed to Tsutsuji at high school. Her boyfriend/husband Akamatsu initially nicknamed her "Azalea," which is the flower that Tsutsuji's name means in English, before shortening it to Acchan. This freaks her out when Karin and Tokusa refer to the nickname as the name of Akamatsu's nonexistent mistress.
• Even Evil Has Standards:
  • In this story, Yuzuriha attempts to hire a Yakuza group to kill Akane, however they refuse to take the job and instead turn her in to the police, leading to her arrest.
  • Akamatsu and Hiiragi are a couple of crooks trying to steal Tachibana's car. Hiiragi manages to get behind the wheel and make off with it without realizing the owner's daughter Akane is in the back. When he finds this out, he tries to let her go, not wanting this to turn into a kidnapping.
  • While Akamatsu and Tachibana may be in prison for their crimes, they mention that they only target adults. After learning that Hiiragi is in prison for messing with kids, they make it their goal to make his stint there a living hell and extend his prison sentence as they feel as though four years clearly isn't enough time for him to suffer.
• Everybody Did It: When Yuri discovers a few of her rings missing, she remembered inviting Yuzuriha, Akane, and Azami in her house before the rings were missing, which she and her husband Katsura hatched a plan to catch the suspect. When she called the three about the ring's whereabouts, they not only feign ignorance of the missing rings, but also accused each other of the theft. Yuri then invites them back into her house to find the rings, which they all "found" the rings that "appeared" to be misplaced. Through hidden surveillance cameras, Yuri and Katsura learn that all three of them stole her rings in the first place, which results in their arrest.
• Everybody Has Lots of Sex: Mostly the antagonists, but practically every character has slept with every other character of the opposite sex at least twice each, be it just for fun or to conceive the many, many children they've had together over the show's Negative Continuity.
• Everyone Has Standards: While Akamatsu and most of his coworkers hate Hiiragi due to how arrogant he is, they are all horrified when it seems like his arm was blown off.
• Evil-Detecting Dog: Akane's dog Momo is usually friendly towards new people but is scared to interact with Hiiragi. As it turns out, the reason why Hiiragi approached Akane that day was so that he could take Momo away from her and eat the dog once he got home. Thankfully, Momo was able to break free from him and Tokusa intervened.
• Evil Uncle: Evil aunt in this case, Azami leeched off of her sister Tsutsuji and spent the money that Tsutsuji saved for Yuzuriha for herself, she also tries to marry Yuzuriha off to someone who is far older than her after Tsutsuji fell ill due to overwork.
• Exact Words:
  • When Etra TV invited Tokusa and Tsutsuji to meet with their estranged mother, Akane, Tokusa initially refuses before Tsutsuji agrees to meet with her. Upon reuniting with Akane, Tsutsuji denounces Akane's abuse on live television and debunks Akane's "sob story" as Blatant Lies. She makes it clear that she wants to "meet" with Akane, but not "forgive" her.
  • When Akamatsu and Yuri divorced because he cheated on her with Azami, Yuri loses custody of the house she designed with the only consolation being any possession but the safe holding their savings. Yuri complies, in which she orders the house demolished and takes everything but the safe, which was emptied before Akamatsu and Azami return home.
  • When Akane found out there was no inheritance for her despite being told otherwise, her brothers Katsura and Tachibana tell her that their father Tokusa spent all his money on an expensive retirement house. However, the latter one tells her that despite this, Tokusa did leave her everything as he promised, and by everything he meant all his remaining debts.
  • When Tachibana and his family refused to move out of Katsura's house for multiple times, Katsura decides to let them to stay there as much as they want. However, a few days later, several people from a moving company start moving everything from the house, causing Tachibana to complain to Katsura, but he makes it clear that they can stay in his house, as long as they pay the rent, because he and his own family has already moved to a new house.
  • Tachibana and Yuri spend half a year renovating a decrepit old house the former's father Hiiragi owns, only for Hiiragi to announce that he's kicking them out so his daughter Akane and her husband Akamatsu can live there instead. So, they give Hiiragi his house back. Exactly the way it was before they moved in.

F

• Fair-Weather Ex: Akane abandoned her husband Kuroki and daughter Tsutsuji to be with another man. A year latter, she asks her ex-neighbor Karin to help her get back together with Kuroki, not because she regretted abandoning him and Tsutsuji, but because her parents disowned her, her former in-laws hate her, she's broke, and sleeping at a manga cafe. However, not only is Kuroki married to another woman, he also wants nothing to do with Akane.
• Fair-Weather Foe: Back in middle school, Yuzuriha made fun of Tokusa for being short and having a babyface. Years later, during their Class Reunion, when Yuzuriha learns that Tokusa is handsome and rich, she tries to seduce him, assuming that he still has a crush on her. However, not only is Tokusa no longer interested in her, he is also engaged to Tsutsuji, who was always nice to him.
• Faking the Dead:
  • Fed up with the harassment that she and her sister-in-law Tsutsuji faced from their mother-in-law Azami as well as being told to die, Yuzuriha pretends to hang herself. Azami then becomes terrified and holes up in her room, telling herself that it's not her fault and that she did nothing wrong.
  • In this episode, Katsura ends up faking his own suicide as part of a plan to expose his abusive parents as well as live his own life.
• False Friend:
  • In one episode, Hiiragi and Akane were seemingly best friends with Tsutsuji, but it's revealed they just using her, and never thought of her as a friend. First, Hiiragi asked Tsutsuji out on a date, with Akane recording, with the intention of humiliating her, but it failed because Tsutsuji turned him down. They then resort to pranking her at a summer festival, keeping her there until it ends, and having Tachibana scare her in the bathroom.
  • In this story, Kuroki looked up to his best friend Hiiragi until it was revealed that Hiiragi was stealing his crush behind his back just to make him suffer.
  • Yuzuriha appears to be Akane's best friend since middle school; however, it turns out that she is the real cuprit behind Akane's misfortunes because she dated her boyfriend behind her back for thrill and superiority.
• False Rape Accusation: In this story, Yuzuriha suggests boarding a train to fish for someone they could call a pervert and get money for Etra plushies. Akane and Azami go along and have Tsutsuji be the bait. Thankfully, the scheme fails big time when an old man points to a bug in Azami's shoulder, causing her to panic and swing her schoolbag wildly, hitting Yuzuriha and Akane in the scuffle.
• Filching Food for Fun: Azami steals some of Yuri's fries when she's not looking, but due to Yuri's naiveness, she ends up buying more fries for Azami because she thinks she liked them.
• Fire-Breathing Diner:
  • Akamatsu deliberately serves extremely spicy ramen to customers that he doesn't like for his own amusement, it eventually backfires when he serves his spicy ramen to a nerdy looking customer, causing him to be admitted into a hospital due to the extreme spiciness from the ramen. Akamatsu eventually gets fired from his job and the ramen company also demands compensation money from him for the damages he did.
  • Akane and Yuzuriha prank Azami by giving her sweet potatoes that are extremely spicy as revenge for trying to get free food from their sister Yuri.
• Firefighting Episode: Tokusa, Tachibana and Katsura are the firefighters who arrive at Akamatsu's house to ask him to stop making bonfires, however, he keeps insisting the fire will not spread to any house. Unfortunately, several of the dry leaves from the bonfire accidentally fly into his house, causing the building to catch fire, the firefighter trio immediately responds and quickly puts down the fire before it gets worse.
• Fish out of Water: When Yuri and her family moved north due to Kuroki's transfer, they feel unease by the uttering "thanks for nothing" by the neighbor until Tsutsuji learns that it was slang for "thanks for nothing and everything."
• Fitness Nut: When Akane heard that her friend Karin met her husband at a gym they both frequented, she decided to get a gym membership as well hoping for much the same. Instead, she met Hiiragi, a personal trainer at the gym who's a little too passionate about fitness. She ends up falling for him anyway.
• Five-Finger Discount: Azami stole a pack of cat food from Karin, claiming it was for her daughter Tsutsuji. However, when Karin and her mother Yuri find Tsutsuji, the little girl tells them that she and her mom actually aren't poor. Furthermore, Tsutsuji reveals that her mother Azami has stolen many things before, using her to get free food.
• Flipping the Bird:
  • Akane gives the middle finger to Akamatsu during an argument over the latter making bonfires.
  • Yuzuriha gives Akamatsu the middle finger for cheating on her with two different women and his obsession with young girls.
• Floral Theme Naming: The characters in the main cast are named after flowers and trees (ex. Azami means "thistle", Yuri means "lily", Tsutsuji means "azalea", Yuzuriha means "false daphne", Akamatsu means "red pine", Kuroki means "black wood"^note In actuality, he's named after the Symplocos kuroki tree, Hiiragi means "holly olive", etc.). The one time this is alluded to is in this episode, when Akamatsu nicknamed Tsutsuji after the English meaning, eventually shortening it to Acchan, much to her embarrassment.
• For the Evulz: Akane bullies the employees at every shop she goes to because she is bored.
• Forced from Their Home: "My husband brings home his lover and kicks me out of the house... Even my mother-in-law" [sic]: When Tsutsuji catches her husband, Hiiragi, on the couch with Akane, he demands a divorce and kicks her out of the house. Moreover, the cheaters plot to take the kids, Yuri and Akamatsu, away from her. However, Hiiragi's plot falls apart when he tries to get his mother Azami's blessing only for her to scold the lovebirds and call Tsutsuji over to discuss what to do with them.
• Foreign Culture Fetish: Akane becomes obsessed with American culture after living in LA for half a year during college. Akane being Akane, she winds up being a huge Jerkass about it, prompting her boyfriend Akamatsu to dump her. They meet again a decade later, with Akane having not changed a bit. Akamatsu's grandfather Tokusa, who happens to speak at least six languages, decides to teach her a lesson about respecting cultures.
• Foreshadowing:
  • In this video, Yuzuriha claims to have dated Akamatsu, only for him to suddenly dump her and disappear. Throughout her explanation, Akamatsu's face is never properly shown, and his hair is noticeably a lighter color than normal. It's later revealed that the Akamatsu Yuzuriha knows isn't the normal Akamatsu (who's Karin's husband in this video) and they merely have the same name, causing her to get confused.
  • Tsutsuji inexplicably has a mole under her left eye, then it's revealed that she is actually Yuzuriha who took facial surgery after being bullied by Akane and Azami.
  • When Akane tells Yuzuriha that she dated a man and got dumped by him after she told him about her real age. It all makes sense when Akane's ex-boyfriend turns out to be Yuzuriha's fiancé Akamatsu who is revealed to be lusting on younger girls.
  • When Kuroki is talking to Akane about how she reminds him of his daughter and how he wants her to remember her workplace if something happens, there is a shot of two people on a boat. These two people turn out to be Karin and her father Akamatsu who witness Tachibana beat up Kuroki and the two of them get him arrested.
  • When Yuri becomes a high-schooler, she starts styling her hair in a sidebraid just like her mother Yuzuriha. Akamatsu has a very unsubtle crush on her mother. It's revealed at the end that she was hoping that if she made herself look more like Yuzuriha, Akamatsu would become attracted to her.
  • Tsutsuji has black eyes instead of her usual light brown, then it's revealed that she is actually Kuroki crossdressing as a girl.
• Formerly Fat:
  • Yuzuriha was chubby in high school, and she was made fun of by other students. She lost weight and became a successful celebrity years later. Only one person, Yuri was supportive of her. Yuri was also chubby back in middle school, but she started losing weight before entering high school, because of this, she decided to motivate and help Yuzuriha to lose weight.
  • Yuzuriha had to deal with Azami making cutting remarks and being a Jerkass toward her because her daughter-in-law had gained a lot of weight during her pregnancy.
  • Yuri was fat and didn't wear makeup. She lost weight and had a makeover for her wedding making her beautiful.
  • Yuri started working out to lose weight after she was being made fun of by Akane for being chubby in an attempt to make Kuroki break up with her and date Akane instead.
  • Hiiragi in one story was both fat and an unrepentant Big Eater with a bad habit of stealing food from his older brother Tokusa and his wife Yuzuriha, even though they had their own separate kitchen and fridge upstairs from the rest of the family. This didn't change no matter how much Tokusa yelled at him, and their parents were no help. Then one day Hiiragi went too far by eating an entire birthday cake Yuzuriha had baked for her friend Tsutsuji's son. Yuzuriha responded by pranking him into eating food that she claimed had a cockroach in it. In reality, there was no cockroach, it was just prawn tails, but she didn't tell him that until 4 months later after he'd lost his gluttonous appetite and shed 38 pounds from the trauma of the incident. Naturally, this miffed him but he forgave her after becoming skinny finally led to him getting a girlfriend.
  • Azami lost a lot of weight because she was working non-stop to pay the compensation for cheating on her ex-husband Katsura with another man.
  • Akane and Azami decide to improve themselves after apologizing to their cousin Yuri for everything they did to her, they eventually lost their weight as well and are able to move on with their lives.
  • Tsutsuji was chubby in high school and it is used as evidence by Karin to disprove Akane's accusation against Tsutsuji of being a pornstar.
  • Hiiragi visibly loses weight over the course of this episode, as he got a job at a game studio and wanted to clean himself up.
• Formerly Fit:
  • Yuri eats a lot of food to get fat so she can get out from an Arranged Marriage with a 41-year-old Akamatsu. She starts losing her weight when Akamatsu retracted the marriage proposal after seeing her overweight appearance.
  • Hiiragi dumped Karin after his mother discovered Karin's family is blue-collared. Several years later, Karin met Hiiragi again and he gained a lot of weight.
  • This also happens to Akane in one episode where she reappears after having abandoned the family for 15 years to try and collect her inheritance after her father Tokusa dies.
  • Azami has unreasonable standards for a future partner and rejected many men who confessed to her. A few years later, she was able to find Kuroki who met her standards, and they became engaged. However, he broke off the engagement after finding out that she went to a host club. She eventually gains more weight as an unmarried middle-aged woman and tries again searching for a man who meets her standards by writing marriage letters to her neighborhood. Unsurprisingly, nobody takes her offer due to her appearance, causing her to harass more people in her neighborhood and the police arrest her for her trouble.
  • Akane gains more weight during her pregnancy after marrying Hiiragi and this leads them to have a cold relationship throughout their marriage.
  • Akamatsu gains a lot of weight after his girlfriend Yuzuriha broke up with him after she found out that he was cheating on her.
  • Akamatsu becomes overweight because he eats a lot at home to cover up the fact that he is cheating on Yuzuriha with Akane.
• Frame-Up: Akamatsu and his minions frame Hiiragi for stealing by having someone dressing up like him to do the act, preventing him to enroll at the high school of his choice. Years later, Akamatsu himself ends up getting framed by Akane by accusing him of molesting her in a subway, as revenge for making her and her friends suffer in middle school. Hiiragi also hacks into Akamatsu's email account and puts unknown contents into his phone to get him arrested.
• Framing the Guilty Party:
  • Akane accuses Azami of running a scam, and Karin also heard rumors of her stealing people's things. Because of a scamming attempt on Karin's grandmother, she and Yuri hatch a plan to catch the scammer by telling Akane that Yuri's grandmother won the lottery, with Azami nearby, eavesdropping on them. Karin and Yuri then meet at her grandmother's house with her husband Katsura accompanying her, and someone under the pseudonym of "Tsubaki" calls the house in an attempt to deceive Yuri's grandmother into giving the money to her. "Tsubaki" then arrives at Yuri's grandmother's house to receive the money, which leads to Karin unmasking her face, and the person who is trying to scam Yuri's grandmother turns out to be Akane. Hilariously, it's not just Akane who attempts to steal the money; the person she framed earlier, Azami is also trying to pull the same scam trick on Yuri's grandmother, causing both of them to be arrested for fraud.
  • Azami accuses Tachibana of being the person who broke into several homes during the daylight due to his history of robbery convictions. However, the burglar turns out to be Azami herself after Karin and her family found out that she tried to steal their big vase, making Tachibana innocent.

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