Etra Chan Saw It / Tropes G to L

Etra chan saw it! trope index
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G

• Gag Censor: In this episode, there is a scene where a naked Akamatsu jumps out of Akane's apartment to hide from her husband, and he lands on Yuri. His dick is also censored by Etra-chan herself during the parts where he isn't depicted as a chibi.
• Gambling Ruins Lives: Akamatsu and Kuroki are cousins who have a Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling-like dynamic; the plot starts with Akamatsu trying to scam the hardworking and financially responsible Kuroki by claiming he needs the money. The reason why Akamatsu needs money is because he lost his money playing pachinko. When Kuroki exposes Akamatsu's scheme to Akamatsu's parents, Akamatsu tries to murder Kuroki for "making him look bad," which fails thanks to Karin's boxing skills. When Akamatsu's parents force him to get a job at a factory he complains about how hard factory work is. All-in-all, Akamatsu is portrayed as a lazy, immature, self-pitying loser who gambles because he's too lazy to work for money.
• Gaslighting:
  • Akamatsu attempts this on a young Tsutsuji when he leaves the house with Yuri and comes back with Yuzuriha. When Tsutsuji asks him about it, the couple tells her that Yuzuriha is her mom while denying Yuri's existence. Even when she told it to her grandparents, Hiiragi and Azami, they also told her the same answer. Eventually, Tsutsuji started believing it until she asked Yuzuriha to make her a pudding, whose bad taste reminded her that Yuzuriha wasn't her real mom. Years later, when she confronted Akamatsu with the family register, he finally admitted to it. Moreover, he revealed his affair with Yuzuriha and therefore kicked Yuri out of the house for being sickly so he could marry the former. Enraged by the truth, Tsutsuji stormed out of the house.
  • To get revenge on Azami for abusing her, her husband and her siblings in law, Yuzuriha comes up with a plan where they all try to convince Azami that Yuzuriha has been dead for two months. This makes Azami believe that she saw the former's ghost. Their neighbors get in the act as well as they also don't like Azami. Eventually, Azami can't take it anymore and moves away.
• Get Out!:
  • When Hiiragi and Azami show up to congratulate Karin and Kuroki for having a "real" baby and mock Tsutsuji for being adopted, Karin splashes water in their faces and throws a bunch of objects at them, telling them to get out.
  • When Tsutsuji's parents show up at her house, they tell her that her sister, Yuzuriha, ended up in juvie as a result of being so spoiled. They reveal that they constantly praised her and ignored Tsutsuji to mold her into the "perfect human". They then ask to raise her daughter so they can try the same thing again. Tsutsuji refuses and tells them to leave.
    Tsutsuji: Go home, please. You'll never have my daughter! Never show your faces again!
  • While the girls grew tired of Azami's stinginess, Azami's intent of not only giving Akane an empty envelope but also throwing the receptionist under the bus is the last straw for Tsutsuji, so she stops her car and orders Azami to get out. When Azami refuses to leave, Yuzuriha throws her handbag out of the car to make her leave.
  • Katsura kicks Akane out of his house for cheating on him with Akamatsu twice.
    Katsura: This is the second time!! I can't trust you anymore! Get out!!
  • Katsura angrily yells at his wife Yuzuriha to get out of his house for giving birth to a child conceived out of her affair with their former neighbor, Tachibana.
    Katsura: Get out, you whore! Do you have any idea how I feel?!
• Gold Digger:
  • Akane is often cast in this role.
  • Yuzuriha tries to get Kuroki's non-existent fortune by marrying him while he was still in a coma.
  • In this story Yuzuriha starts off as one, being born in a dirt-poor family. This is a subversion, however, as she focused on working hard on her studies in addition to her beauty. When Yuzuriha put her sights on Tokusa for being rich, she realizes over time that she genuinely likes him.
  • Yuzuriha, who rejected and belittled Tokusa in middle school for being short, tries to get his attention after finding out that he became rich during a middle school reunion. Tokusa quickly rejects and tells her that he is going to marry Tsutsuji and he regrets having a crush on her back then.
  • Hiiragi is a male example, he leeches off of Karin by giving everything that she gave to him to his favorite hostess. He later breaks up with Karin when she refuses to lend him $20,000.
  • Yuzuriha only accepts Hiiragi's marriage proposal because he works in a company with a good salary. After they get married, Yuzuriha forces Hiiragi to change himself for the better. In the end, he manages to meet her expectations and they both are now Happily Married.
  • Yuzuriha only dates Hiiragi because he earns a lot of money as a doctor, he also doesn't mind despite being bullied by her in the past. It turns out Hiiragi has been manipulating her into marrying him so he can expose her past misdeeds to everyone during their wedding.
• Good All Along:
  • It's common for certain stories to rely on the regular antagonist characters' reputations from their antagonist roles to make it seem as if they're up to their usual antics at first, only for it to either turn out someone else is the antagonist this time and they're innocent, or the antagonist had a sympathetic Freudian Excuse this time for their behavior and turns good by the end.
  • In this episode Tsutsuji sees her mother-in-law, Azami as someone who's cold and somewhat odd around her, doing things like waiting outside of the shower room when she takes a shower. It later turns out she does truly care about her, and a lot of her odd behaviors have reasons behind them, such as patrolling the shower room because Azami's father-in-law is a massive pervert who has watched Azami as she bathed.
  • This episode has Azami and her dog chasing and yelling at Tsutsuji when she's walking home from school. It's later revealed that she was trying to protect her from Hiiragi.
  • In the middle of night, Akane sees two delinquent-looking guys, Akamatsu and Tachibana. She tries to avoid them, but they begin to follow her, causing her to be spooked and run away from them. It turns out they are actually trying to save Akane from Hiiragi, a pervert, who stalked and showed his naked body to her.
  • Tokusa sees a group of bikers consisting of Akamatsu, Tachibana, and Hiiragi in front of a convenience store, spooked by their presence, he decides to drive away after buying a drink from a vending machine nearby. However, Tokusa notices that he is being chased by Akamatsu and Tachibana and tries to evade them, unfortunately, they eventually catch up to him. It turns out the reason they were chasing Tokusa was because they wanted to give him the free drink he forgot to pick from the vending machine.
  • Kuroki hangs out with a bad crowd that consists of the antagonists (Akane, Akamatsu and Tachibana) to rebel against his older brother, Hiiragi. When Kuroki gets sick at the beach, his friends immediately help him, cementing them as Kuroki's true friends.
• Green-Eyed Monster: In this episode, Akane is jealous of Tsutsuji because she lives as a rich housewife, prompting her to borrow $10,000 under Tsutsuji's name behind her back. She eventually ends up getting arrested and her husband divorces her.

H

• Happily Adopted:
  • Tsutsuji gets adopted by her uncle Kuroki and aunt Karin after they find out that she was neglected by the family of Hiiragi, her other uncle. After the couple adopted Tsutsuji, they're met with criticisms and false rumors, despite this, they still care about her. When Hiiragi and his wife Azami mock Tsutsuji for being adopted after Karin gave birth to her child, Karin responds by kicking the couple out by throwing several things at them, which affirms Karin and Kuroki's love for Tsutsuji.
  • Tachibana's father Katsura re-married Yuri, who also brought her daughter Yuzuriha with her into their house. However, Katsura passed away in his sleep, leaving Yuri to raise both Yuzuriha and Tachibana, adopting him into her family. Four years later, Yuri re-married Tokusa who brought his son Kuroki with him. Yuzuriha and Kuroki adapted to the new family quickly, however, Tachibana didn't feel the same way due to the fact that he was not blood-related to either of them. Despite this, the family keeps treating Tachibana like their own and Tokusa also promises to cover Tachibana's tuition fees to study at the Etra Institute of Technology University so he could do what Katsura couldn't.
  • Akane was given a job and a place to stay by Kuroki and his parents at his guest house after escaping from her physically abusive father, Tachibana. After the summer season is over, Akane decides to quit her job and leave the house, though Kuroki encourages her to stay whenever she likes. However, Tachibana manages to find them, and Kuroki lets himself be beaten up by Tachibana to save Akane from him. Fortunately, a police officer, Karin, caught Tachibana beating Kuroki, with her father Akamatsu recording the beating, causing Tachibana to be arrested for assault. After the incident, Akane decides to stay at Kuroki's guest house, he also adopts her as his daughter, and she is now married to Katsura, and they have a son together.
  • Tachibana is adopted by Tokusa after Akane left them both. After Tokusa died protecting him from a speeding car, Kuroki and Yuzuriha adopt him. Things go well until they have a child of their own. Azami then remarks about Tachibana not being their own son and therefore worthless. After the boy overheard this, things start to go downhill from there. Fortunately, Kuroki and Tachibana are able to reconcile with each other a few years later.
  • Akane kidnapped Karin from her biological parents, Hiiragi and Yuzuriha, to get back at Hiiragi for cheating on her with Yuzuriha. Even though that Karin is not blood-related to her, she still raises and treats her like her own daughter, and Karin also wants to stay with her after knowing the truth about her biological mother.
  • Akamatsu was adopted by Tachibana and Karin after his mother Tsutsuji died giving birth to him, and his father Hiiragi was paralyzed in a truck accident, rendering him unable to care for Akamatsu. He only learns this after Tachibana died from cancer and he grew to dislike Hiiragi for what he perceived to be an insensitive joke when Tachibana lost his arm a few years prior. They make amends when Akamatsu learns the truth, but he still regards Tachibana and Karin as his parents.
  • Tsutsuji was adopted by Yuri and Katsura after her parents passed away. Despite there is no blood relation between the couple and Tsutsuji, they still treat her like her own daughter, but she ends up getting bullied by her classmate Akane for being adopted.
• Harmful to Minors:
  • In most episodes involving children growing up in abusive homes, the children are either beaten by their parent (or parents) or witnessed one of their parents, usually the mother, being beaten.
  • When Tachibana was a boy, he witnessed his mother sleeping with another man, with the man resembling Tachibana himself. He blocked the memory upon being caught and threatened by Yuzuriha until he crashes into a truck in his adulthood and unlocks that memory.
  • After Akane picked up Karin and Yuzuriha from prep school, the two impatiently left the car to look for their mom, only to see her kissing their teacher, Hiiragi. They expose it to their father, Kuroki, who divorces Akane and sues both her and Hiiragi.
  • Akane ends up getting kidnapped by Akamatsu and Hiiragi and then gets a knife placed near her throat. She later witnesses her mother point a gun at said kidnappers and threaten to shoot them.
• Haunted House:
  • Karin and her husband Kuroki live in an apartment that is supposedly haunted by a ghost who committed suicide inside the apartment. However, Azami wants them to move out because of how cheap the apartment is. Karin and Kuroki then started taking several photos of the presence of ghosts inside the apartment in an attempt to make Azami stop harassing them, unfortunately, she doesn't believe any of their "ghost sighting" photos. Eventually, Karin tells Azami that she and her husband will be moving out next year, and believing this, she stops harassing them. Next year, Azami and her husband Hiiragi then move into the cheap apartment after Karin and Kuroki moved out. However, she starts to regret her decision to move. Later that night, Azami experiences sleep paralysis, and the ghost^noteAkamatsu appears with a noose around his neck, causing her to be terrified of the ghost's presence. Because of this, she and her husband eventually moved out of that apartment and the ghost decides to follow her as well.
  • Karin moves into an apartment that was cheap because someone committed suicide there. However, she hears several footsteps coming from upstairs and also notices several intruders in front of her door, suspecting them to be the culprit of these footsteps, this causes her to inform her landlord about it. The police were then called to investigate the place because the landlord noticed several footprints on the second floor. The police eventually caught the intruders, though they turn out to be kids hanging out because they have no time to play because they were persuaded by their parents to study. The landlord then tells Karin that the kids never went upstairs, and she also informs her that there is not even a room above her, causing her to move out, with a ghost hiding inside her bag.
• Helicopter Parents: Hiiragi and Azami are extremely overprotective of their daughter Yuzuriha, to the point that they hire private investigators to dig up info on every boyfriend she gets. If they fail to meet their standards, the two pressure the boyfriend to dump Yuzuriha. Yuzuriha only learns about this when she announces her engagement to Kuroki, who does meet her parents' standards.
• Help, I'm Stuck!:
  • Azami tried to break into a house by getting through a window, but she was so fat, she couldn't get in completely and ended up needing the police to get her out.
  • Akane gets stuck in the garden fence when trying to steal Tokusa and Tsutsuji's vegetables.
• Henpecked Husband:
  • Katsura is treated coldly by his wife Azami and daughter Akane and they consider him as an ATM for their convenience. The harassment eventually ends with Katsura divorcing Azami.
  • Akamatsu turns into one after he was fired from his job, forcing him to be a househusband for his working wife, Yuzuriha.
  • Hiiragi becomes this after ditching Yuri for Akane. This turns out to be a mistake because Akane is the dominant partner in their relationship and refuses to do any housework, despite being a housewife.
  • Akamatsu gets treated by Akane like a slave after they got married. He also can't divorce her because her father would kill him if he dares to do it.
• Heroic Dog:
  • Kuroki owns a Shiba mix dog named Ho, who is usually pretty mild-mannered and a bit cowardly, so he's taken off guard one day when Ho slips his leash and runs ahead of him. By the time he catches up, he finds that Ho has bitten the hand of a man, Tachibana, for seemingly no reason, which really shocks him. Kuroki worries at first that Tachibana might try to have the dog put down for biting him, but then the parents of Tsutsuji, a neighborhood girl who likes to play with Ho, arrive and explain what happened. Tsutsuji had been walking home from school when Tachibana attempted to kidnap her. Ho had heard Tsutsuji's aborted attempt to cry for help and ran to save her, biting his hand and forcing him to let go of her. She'd then run away frightened, which was why she wasn't there when Kuroki caught up.
• Hiding Behind Your Bangs:
  • Hiiragi has his hair covering one of his eyes when he is depicted as a young boy.
  • When Yuzuriha first shows up, her hair covers her left eye. It was eventually revealed that she had a scar on her left eye from Hiiragi beating her.
• Hikikomori:
  • Yuri quits her job and becomes a shut-in after receiving several anonymous phone calls from Katsura, who is obsessed with her.
  • Karin was a shut-in for four years, until she personally meets Kuroki after chatting with him through video games. The two fall in love and tries to get married, despite Karin's parent's objection. However, the two learned that her parents already "married" her to a dying, old man for his wealth and supported her lifestyle so that she wouldn't know the truth. The old man's son helps the two annul the marriage, allowing them to be together.
  • Akamatsu becomes a shut-in when he failed to get into a medical college and Azami covered up his failure by keeping him isolated. He grew fat and hopeless, until he saves his childhood friend, Karin, from his unstable mother. With his mother's arrest and Karin's support, he decides to take control of his own life and shed his lifestyle.
  • Katsura seems to become one, after failing to get into the company he wanted to join and quitting his part-time jobs, but it turns out that he'd been studying and planning to join a different company to get better qualifications to try again and quit his part-time jobs because he'd saved enough money to tide him over for a while. He'd managed to finally get accepted into a company and was already planning to move out of his parents' house when Tokusa came to check up on him.
  • Akane and Azami became shut-ins because of their own reason. In Akane's case, she was rejected by her crush and was called a "pig" by him, as for Azami's, she was bullied by other girls because of her weight.
  • Hiiragi finds out that his favorite celebrity, Karin, has admitted to having plastic surgery. The reveal causes him to throw all of Karin's merchandise away and become a shut-in.
  • Hiiragi becomes a shut-in after a DNA test shows that he was actually the product of his mother's affair with another man.
• Hoist by His Own Petard:
  • Azami discriminates against Yuzuriha because she grew up in Southeast Asia, even using offensive slurs like "pig woman" and "illegal resident." Yuzuriha feigns ignorance of her harmful words, as she relearned Japanese when she returned to Japan, and she rewrites Azami's slurs in a calligraphy club at the annual festival to show people how her mother-in-law treated her. This results in Azami becoming despised by the neighborhood and her entire family cutting ties with her.
• Hollywood Genetics: Due to the semi-random casting for each episode, it's rare for children to look anything like their parents.
• Homoerotic Subtext: In this episode, it's revealed that Akamatsu's crush Tsutsuji is actually a crossdressing Kuroki. After he finds out about this, he doesn't think any less of his coworker and in fact gets turned on whenever Kuroki talks to him using his Tsutsuji voice.
• Honey Trap:
  • Akane is hired by Tachibana and Azami to seduce the latter's husband, Kuroki, so they can fabricate the evidence that he was cheating, in order to get the compensation money from him. Fortunately, Kuroki knew about their scheme and Akane felt guilty for trying to trick him because she was only in it for the money, plus she perceives him as a honest man who refuses to cheat on his wife.
  • Yuzuriha tries to trick Kuroki into having sex with her so she and Hiiragi can squeeze him out of his money by using the fabricated evidence of adultery that Hiiragi would take if Kuroki agrees to let her in his house. Fortunately, Kuroki doesn't fall for her. It turns out she was also doing the same thing to several men before Kuroki.
• Honorable Warrior's Death: When Akamatsu loses both his legs in battle, Hiiragi orders him to blow himself up with a grenade, claiming he has no more use for him and should just die an honorable death.
• Host Club: Quite a few episodes feature protagonists either working in or going to Hostess Clubs, but there's at least one episode featuring a Host Club. Tsutsuji, who had been abused and called ugly by her family her whole life, ends up wandering into one because she heard the hosts are paid to call women cute and she wanted at least one person to call her cute for once even if they were only being paid to do so. Tokusa, who is a host there, not only complies, but when he walks her out to call a taxi for her afterward, he tells her again off the clock to convince her he really means it and isn't just telling her that because he's paid to, in order to boost her confidence more. It works.
• Hot Springs Episode: One episode involves Tokusa and Akamatsu visiting a secret hot spring. They are soon joined by Azami, Akane, and Yuzuriha, who like to show off their naked bodies, with Akane flashing anyone who walks across the nearby hiking trail.
• How We Got Here:
  • One episode starts with Yuzuriha filming her husband, Akamatsu, cheating on her with Akane. The next two and a half minutes explain what led up to this moment.
  • Another starts with Akamatsu in Freak Out-mode inside of an internet cafe stall with someone knocking on the door. It then cuts back to earlier in the day to explain how Akamatsu ended up in this situation.

I

• I Am Not Pretty: Yuzuriha becomes obsessed with changing her face to look like the famous actress Karin when her boyfriend Hiiragi tells her she's not as pretty as her. Tokusa manages to convince her she's already beautiful the way she is, and she doesn't need to change anything about herself.
• I Have No Son!: Yuri of all people is the most likely to pull this if she catches her children mistreating other family members.
  • Yuri, in one episode, disowned her son, Hiiragi, after his fiancée caught him cheating on her.
  • Akamatsu's father, Kuroki, disowns him for not attending and helping prepare his mother's funeral because he and his wife kept purposely ignoring the phone calls from their daughter-in-law, who was trying to inform them about his mother's passing.
  • Yuri and Katsura in one episode disown their son, Hiiragi, after finding out he ignored their grandchildren's cries about his fiancée mistreating them, accusing them of just not wanting him to remarry.
  • Hiiragi's family disowns him for not only cheating on his wife, Tsutsuji, but also because he was having an affair with his brother, Kuroki's, wife, Akane.
  • Katsura and Yuri disown their daughter, Azami, for lying about Akane's needs while spending the money they sent to her for herself and stealing someone else's phone from the restaurant Akane works at.
  • Akamatsu is disowned by his parents for beating up his brother Hiiragi... Because the latter stole his girlfriend Akane from him. Naturally, Akamatsu doesn't care and disowns all of them in kind.
• I Never Said It Was Poison: When Azami finds the missing key to the safe, Tokusa reveals he had the key, so no one could have really found it without making a copy. When everyone asks her about this, she denies making a copy and stealing money from the safe. Tokusa then mentions he never told anyone about the stolen money, exposing her as the culprit.
• I Should Have Done This Years Ago: Through her daughter-in-law Tsutsuji's support, Azami divorces her husband Hiiragi, after he never helped her fight back against his parents and cheated on her, as she should have done it a long time ago.
• Inheritance Backlash:
  • Akane, Tokusa's estranged daughter showed up at his funeral to demand his inheritance. It later turned out that Tokusa didn't have much money because of his spending on his living expenses.
  • Azami didn't attend her father Tachibana's funeral, but she appears along with her husband Akamatsu at the family gathering to discuss the inheritance, despite her being already disowned by him for stealing in the past. Infuriated by Azami's selfishness, Hiiragi tricks her into inheriting a worthless piece of mountain by lying to her that there are gold buried in it, prompting her to take it immediately. Unsurprisingly, no matter how hard Azami and Akamatsu try, they will not find anything valuable in the mountain.
  • After Akane's father Akamatsu passed away, she demanded his inheritance. Her mother Yuzuriha was angry with her and hatched a plan to screw her over. Yuzuriha took out a huge loan and spent them until her death. Akane inherited only $2500 and a $20,000 debt that she could avoid if she gave up on the inheritance. Akane decided to ignore it, but by the time the debt collectors show up to collect the money, it was too late for Akane to give up the inheritance.
  • Akane, Azami, and Hiiragi only come to their father, Katsura's, funeral to discuss about the inheritance they will get from him. However, Katsura's lawyer, Yuzuriha, reveals that most of the inheritance will be given to Kuroki. It is then revealed that Katsura actually left his children the same amount of inheritance. However, Akane, Azami, and Hiiragi had already used most of them for frivolous things when he was still alive, leaving them with almost nothing.
• In Love with Looks: Akamatsu cheated on his wife Karin with Akane; while he claims that his affair was "true love," after Akane loses her looks due to an accident he tries getting back with Karin, showing just how shallow his "love" for Akane was.
• Intentional Weight Gain: Yuri is a seventeen year-old girl who receives a marriage proposal from Akamatsu, a forty-one-year-old man who wants to marry her because he's heard how attractive she was, though they won't actually meet until Yuri turns eighteen. Yuri can't just say no, as her family owes Akamatsu's family a lot of money, and Akamatsu's family has agreed to drop the debt in exchange for Yuri and Akamatsu's marriage. In order to avoid the marriage, Yuri decides to gain a bunch of weight so that Akamatsu won't be attracted to her. When Akamatsu sees Yuri, he's turned off and calls off the marriage.
• Interrupted Suicide: Tokusa tries to commit suicide by pill overdose because of his lack of sleep due to his abusive workplace; however, Akamatsu suddenly comes to his apartment to play games with him. It is revealed that Akamatsu noticed about Tokusa's condition and tries to convince him out of suicide.
• I Warned You:
  • Both Yuri and Karin try to warn Akane to stop having an affair with her boss, Akamatsu, but she ignores them until it is too late when his wife finds out. She then blames them for not warning her sooner, before Yuri quickly shuts her up.
    Yuri: Akane... we did stop you... didn't we? But it was you who didn't listen, right, Akane? Did you say $30,000? Not only did you waste your precious time in life and sell your body so cheap, but you even have to pay for that married man. How does it feel to buy such a low life with that much money?
  • In this story, Akamatsu tries to invest in real estate, despite warnings from both his family and real estate workers, Karin and Hiiragi, about the risk of failure. Unsurprisingly, Akamatsu's investment fails miserably, and he is forced into a lifetime worth of debt, as both Karin and Hiiragi predicted, and his family abandoned him before they become collateral damage when he inevitably fails.
• I Wished You Were Dead: In this story, Akane wants to apologize to Yuzuriha for bullying her back in middle school after finding out she was diagnosed with breast cancer and was told she had less than three months to live, Yuzuriha obliges and visits her. However, Yuzuriha reveals that she was burying all of her anger towards Akane for the sufferings she received from her, including the fact she was burning her school uniform to bully her furthermore, she then wishes in front of her that she would die sooner from the cancer.
• Identical Grandson: Sometimes the parent and their child are portrayed by the same actor of their respective ages.
  • In this episode, Karin and her aunt (also Karin) are identical to each other. It also serves as a plot point as Hiiragi is creepily obsessed with his sister before going after Karin as well, for having an identical appearance to her aunt.
  • In one episode, Karin's sister is Yuri, their mother is also Yuri, and Yuri's twin daughters are also Yuri.
• Identical Stranger:
  • In this story, Akane accuses Tsutsuji of being a pornstar, using an alleged image of her to prove it. Turns out the pornstar wasn't actually Tsutsuji; as the real Tsutsuji was a chubby high school student by the time the actual actress did her productions.
  • In this story, due to Akamatsu's wife's affair with another man, he is not biologically related to his son, who is also the kid version of himself.
  • Azami goes on a business trip to a village in a foreign country, then she gets approached and worshipped by several men because she resembles the goddess who saved the village from destruction. When she's about to leave the village, the men attempt to prevent her from leaving before the village chief Tokusa stops them from harming her.
  • In this story, Kuroki is mistaken by Yuzuriha for her ex-boyfriend because they look alike, she is also suspicious of his name because she thinks he faked his name. Fortunately, Yuzuriha completely acknowledges that Kuroki wasn't her boyfriend. However, right after Kuroki left, the actual ex-boyfriend comes into Yuzuriha's lodge, only to be killed by her immediately, because he was treating her like crap when they were still dating.
  • Akamatsu gets mistaken by Yuzuriha for her boyfriend, making her think that her boyfriend was a married man with children who is willing to cheat on his wife with her. Fortunately, the real boyfriend named Todomatsu shows up to clear up the misunderstanding. Both Akamatsu and Todomatsu almost look identical to each other; however, the latter has an Idiot Hair and a darker hair color.
• Identity Impersonator: In this episode, Yuzuriha buys Akane's identity and pretends to be her to hide from her abusive and obsessive ex-husband Hiiragi. However, Yuzuriha's cover is blown when she was forced to kill Hiiragi when he found her again, forcing her to become a fugitive and not seen ever since.
• Ignored Expert:
  • Tokusa, who owns his own foundation company, warned his older brother, Tachibana, not to build in Etra Hills because the ground was very loose. Tachibana ignored him since Tokusa didn't go to college. As a result, the new house became unlivable after an earthquake.
  • Yuri, who is an expert on bugs, warned Akane and Yuzuriha against wearing black clothes and perfume. They ignored her since they were jealous of her getting a lot of attention from the boys. This led to them being stung all over by hornets, while they were trying to steal watermelons.
  • Karin and her co-worker Hiiragi, who is much more experienced in real estate investment than her, tries to warn Akamatsu against a highly risky investment due to his complete lack of experience, effort, and luck, and concern over his family's livelihood. Akamatsu ignores their warning and invests on real estate, which, unsurprisingly, failed miserably.
• Imagine Spotting: Kuroki somehow sees his sister Akane's fantasy about him dumping Tsutsuji and marrying her instead, which prompts him to call her out.
• Impersonating an Officer:
  • Akamatsu runs a scam by impersonating a police officer to fool elderlies into giving him their bankbook under the pretense that their bank account is being used for criminal activity. After successfully scamming Tsutsuji, he attempts to do the same scam on Karin, though she manages to outsmart him by making him come to a particular house under the pretense that the occupant is her son. It turns out that the owner of the house is a retired police officer, with two police officers monitoring the situation, causing Akamatsu to be arrested for fraud.
  • Hiiragi dresses up like a police officer in an attempt to break into Yuri's apartment and possibly rape her by pretending to return her boyfriend's bag he stole earlier. Fortunately, Yuri manages to find the red flags in Hiiragi and he eventually gets arrested for thievery and police impersonation.
• Important Haircut: Yuzuriha cuts her own hair after she realizes that her boyfriend Hiiragi has gone too far with his hair fetish on her.
• Insane Troll Logic: Hiiragi is convinced that he and Akamatsu are in a gay love affair. What made him come to this conclusion? Akamatsu told him that his relationship with Karin isn't as passionate as it was four years ago, which Hiiragi interpreted as him saying that he's not in love with her anymore and wants to date him instead. Then when Akamatsu starts planning a late honeymoon to the Maldives with Karin, Hiiragi took that as him toying with his feelings instead of realizing that he misread the situation. Akamatsu and Katsura can't muster a response because of how nonsensical his line of thinking is.
• Insult to Rocks:
  • When Azami refused to admit her wrongdoing to her boss a few days after an incident during Akane's wedding day, Tsutsuji finds her logic absurd and alien, while apologizing to the aliens for the comparison.
  • When Tokusa asks his boss, Kuroki, why he hired Hiiragi, who barely does any work, Kuroki says that he needed the help, then says that he would hire a cat if it could carry plates. Tokusa then says that a cat would be a hundred times more useful than Hiiragi, only for Tsutsuji to say that's insulting to the cat.
• Irrational Hatred: Karin tries to introduce her fiance Tachibana to her family, but it all crashes and burns as no amount of evidence to the contrary can convince her judgmental mother Azami and her possessive brother Hiiragi that Tachibana isn't a despicable low-life that Karin needs to dump immediately. They're still ruminating on it a decade later, choosing to instead not speak to Karin or her family rather than admit any wrongdoing. Karin's father Akamatsu, however, is much more reasonable.
• The Irredeemable Exception: The episode called Some people change, others don't... features Tachibana, Akamatsu, and Hiiragi as a trio of delinquents who drink and smoke. Hiiragi convinces the other two to start shoplifting. Tachibana eventually feels guilty and gets himself a job to make an honest living and Akamatsu follows his example. Hiiragi is the only one who feels no remorse for his actions and grows up to be a criminal while Tachibana and Akamatsu successfully turn their lives around.
• Irony:
  • Akamatsu, the biggest horndog of the cast, is the only antagonist not involved in the orgy in this episode.
  • During an argument with Azami over stolen tickets, Akamatsu manages to have more common sense than her despite being drunk.

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• Joke and Receive: Akane jokingly tells Yuzuriha that she should be aware of her mother-in-law, Azami, fearing that she will show her true colors to Yuzuriha after marrying Hiiragi. She turns out to be right.

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• Karma Houdini Warranty: One episode Akane becomes a celebrity despite her being a massively untouchable bully to everyone in her middle school, including pretending what she did to other people was done to her instead. Cue Azami, enraged by her lies, made a forum post exposing her. Dozens of old classmates then follow suit and go as far as to even target her father, who's a scummy businessman himself. By the end of it, Akane ends up getting fired from her agency, and her father's company goes bankrupt.
• Karmic Shunning:
  • Akane selfishly abandoned her husband, Kuroki, and child, Tsutsuji for another man, leaving a letter to her family telling them that she wants nothing to do with them anymore. A year latter, Akane returns, having broken up with her old boyfriend, and asking Karin to help her contact with Kuroki, having been disowned by both her biological parents and in-laws and having to stay at a manga cafe. However, not only does Karin refuse to tell Akane where Kuroki went, she also informs Akane that Kuroki has found a new wife and that he and Tsutsuji want nothing to do with the woman who abandoned them.
  • Tachibana cheats on his fiancee, Yuri, with Yuri's sister, Akane, who has gotten pregnant with Tachibana's baby. Yuri and Akane's parents decide to switch Yuri with Akane, which causes Yuri and her younger brother Katsura to disown them. During the wedding, Tachibana's mom slaps Tachibana and Akane for what they did, and most of the wedding guests leave when they see that Yuri was replaced, with the few that stayed also leaving when they learned why. Tachibana, Akane and her parents get disowned by the rest their relatives and friends and are neighborhood laughingstocks, with Tachibana even having to quit his job due to his coworkers hating him. Even worse, because the company had several connections, Tachibana can't find another job.
  • Akamatsu divorces his wife, Karin and abandons his daughter Tsutsuji, because the woman he cheated with, Akane(who is also Karin's sister), is pregnant with a boy. Despite how horrible their actions were, they have the audacity to ask Karin and Tsutsuji to attend their wedding, which they refuse. During the day of the wedding, literally no one who was invited came, as everyone they invited knew about the circumstances of their marriage, and no one wanted to celebrate the birth of their son either. Even Akamatsu's parents hate him, with his father leaving behind all of his assets to Tsutsuji, and his mother disowning him when he tries to confront her about the inheritance.
• Karmic STD: In this story, Akamatsu slept with Akane after the latter told him that Karin worked at a bathhouse (thanks to Tsutsuji's poor wording). After realizing Karin actually worked in a public bath and the fact that Akane used to be a prostitute, he ends up contracting herpes.

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• Laborious Laziness: Azami and Akane are so lazy, that they put more effort into forcing Hiiragi to work multiple part-time jobs and coming up with excuses of why they can't work themselves. When Hiiragi starts working at Karin's family farm, they come all the way over to force him to come back and give them his money instead of just getting a job themselves.
  Tokusa: Geez... If they had the energy to come all the way over here, I'm sure they would be able to find a job.
• Lampshade Hanging: Akamatsu lampshades the title of the series when he returns home.
  Akamatsu: Etra-chan saw that I'm home!
• Language Barrier:
  • In this episode, as part of Azami's scheme to make Akane stop coming to Yuzuriha's house, she gets her husband John to pretend to be the tenant of the house who can only speak English, when he answers the door for Akane, she is unable to understand anything he says.
  • Yuri and Akane try to help John after seeing him unsuccessfully trying to ask people for help due to his inability to speak Japanese.
• Laziness Callout:
  • Azami is envious of Yuri because of the CEO's praise of her. In order to make Yuri look bad, Azami decides to spread rumors about Yuri; the CEO doesn't buy Azami's lies for a second, and chews her out for harassing other people rather than do her own job.
  • Akamatsu and Akane's wedding was a disaster because he tried to copy off of Katsura's wedding without doing any research and only spent a month planning it. When Akamatsu tries to blame Katsura for his poor decisions, Katsura counters by pointing out how he should have done more research and spent more time planning out his wedding.
• Lazy Bum: Akamatsu quits his job in an attempt to become a pro gamer; however, he does nothing but laze around at Tsutsuji's house. Annoyed by Akamatsu's behavior, Tsutsuji challenges Akamatsu in a fighting game. After winning several matches against Akamatsu, Tsutsuji calls him out for his laziness and decides to end their relationship. Several years after the breakup, Akamatsu takes Tsutsuji's advice and now works as a truck driver.
• Lethal Negligence:
  • Akamatsu is a Lazy Husband who is on thin ice with his wife, Yuzuriha, for cheating on her on top on his neglect of household chores and care for his son, Kuroki. One day, when Akamatsu is out with Kuroki, he leaves him roaming in the streets in order to go drinking and cheating with a hostess. Yuzuriha and her parents are naturally horrified that Kuroki was lost, and angered at Akamatsu for abandoning him. Worse, Akamatsu tries to "justify" himself by claiming that it was fine since Japan is a safe country and that the woman he was cheating with was at fault for making him cheat. Naturally, neither Yuzuriha nor her parents buy his excuses, causing him to get divorced and disowned.
  • Akane was an extremely neglectful mother who would take advantage of her husband's long work hours to party with men all day, leaving her own children alone. In addition, she was too lazy to clean the house, meaning her children lived in filth, and she would sometimes lock her own children out of the house, even during winter, when she had a man over. One day, she abandoned her kids, who were adopted by their much kinder uncle and wife. Years later, after her kids have grown up, she decides to come see them again...because she needs money. Her kids tell her off and abandon her as payback.
• Littlest Cancer Patient: The episode A mother is determined to do anything for her 5-year-old daughter who's terminally ill, but... centers around Yuri getting cancer at five years old and her mother Azami trying to save her. She later gets put on hospice to live out the remainder of her days.
• Locked Out of the Loop: Akamatsu was the only person at his workplace who was initially unaware that his coworker Tsutsuji was actually a crossdressing Kuroki.
• Loony Fan: Several of Hiiragi's fangirls start leaving gifts at Kuroki and Akamatsu's apartment because they think that Hiiragi lives there because he shares the same surname with the brothers. Later, one of the fangirls, Yuzuriha, tries to break into the apartment to have Hiiragi killed after the news of his relationship with a fellow idol was announced, while also unaware that he doesn't live there. Fortunately, Yuzuriha ends up getting arrested by the police for her trouble.
• Loophole Abuse: When Tsutsuji divorces Akamatsu for cheating and embezzlement, his parents slander her by twisting the reasoning around and threatens her with silence. She keeps the promise by faxing the divorce paper to her in-law's company's clients, printing multiple copies of the paper then throwing them on a windy day to spread it throughout the neighborhood, and not justify her reason to anyone asking, which she coldly repeats to her in-laws of how she should keep her mouth shut.
• Lost in Translation: One story involves Hiiragi acting really snobby towards coworkers who use certain words in his hearing. The problem is that in the original Japanese version of the episode, his issue was specifically that he has a low opinion of people who use English loan words for anything that already has an equivalent word in Japanese. The English dub doesn't properly convey this very well, making his attitude make little sense to any English speaker watching the episode.
• Love at First Punch: Tachibana fell in love with Yuzuriha after she ran over him with her motorcycle during a gang fight. The two of them later get married and have a daughter together.
• Love Interest vs. Lust Interest:
  • Akane often plays the role of the Lust Interest in stories where she acts as an antagonist; Akane typically desires men for shallow reasons like money, looks, or the thrill of stealing away another woman's man, while her rivals choose men for deeper reasons. Akane, while typically portrayed as very attractive, usually has a very unlikable personality, relying on sex appeal and feminine charm to woo men, while her less attractive rivals are able to win men with their more likable personalities. In stories where Akane ends up stealing away her rival's man, the relationship tends to go sour quickly due to their superficial personalities, with either Akane and/or her man discovering the hard way that a person who'll cheat with them would also cheat on them; by contrast, Akane's rivals tend to enjoy much more fulfilling relationship due to their willingness to be loyal to one another.
  • Yuzuriha and Tsutsuji are the Lust and Love Interest for Tokusa respectively; back in middle school, Yuziriha rejected and made fun of Tokusa for being short and having a babyface, while Tsutsuji, who received similar treatment for being tall was interested in him because of his kind-hearted personality. During the class reunion, Yuziriha tries flirting with Tokusa when she sees that he's handsome and rich. When Tokusa rejects her and reveals that he's engaged to Tsutsuji, Yuzuriha is confused that he'd choose a less attractive girl over her, showing that she's the same shallow girl she was in high school.
• Love Letter Lunacy:
  • Tokusa thinks he gets a love letter from Karin after rescuing her from her abusive ex-boyfriend Tachibana with his pro-wrestling skills. However, it turns out it isn't a love letter at all. Karin thanks Tokusa for helping her, then she gets interested in pro-wrestling due to the incident and she now dates someone else who is training to be a pro-wrestler, and the envelope also includes two tickets to her new boyfriend's debut match, causing Tokusa to not take the letter well, though he attends the match along with Akamatsu anyway.
  • Hiiragi cheated on his ex-wife Tsutsuji and after their divorce, he began writing love letters and sappy poetry dedicated to her, begging her to take him back. However, since he didn't know her new contact information, he sent them to his sister Karin so that she could send them over. All this accomplished was pissing off his dad, making his mother cry and wonder where she went wrong raising him, and giving Karin secondhand embarrassment.
• Loving Bully: Tachibana used to pick on Tsutsuji back in elementary school because he had a crush on her. In high school, he no longer bullies her and later saves her from Akamatsu but is still too scared to tell her how he feels.
• Lust Makes You Dumb:
  • Hiiragi is a plain-looking, soft-spoken man who's unpopular with women. He ended up settling for Yuri, a plain-looking overweight girl, under the belief that he couldn't do better. Before their wedding, Yuri decides to lose weight and use beauty products in order to look good for Hiiragi. Once Hiiragi sees how beautiful Yuri has become, he starts thinking he's a ladies man and starts cheating on Yuri with other women, which naturally leads to a divorce. Where this trope comes in is that it was revealed that Hiiragi's boss was the one who set them up, so him cheating on her results in him quitting due to his boss's anger at him.
  • Azami was a former Dude Magnet who rejected guys left and right because of her high standards, which included coming from a good family and having a six-figure salary. One day, she got engaged to Kuroki, who met her standards, only to lose her rich fiancée by cheating with an male host club worker.
  • Akane is dating Akamatsu, her boss who's also a married man. Akane is so sure that she won't get caught that she outright brags to her friends and even shows pictures of her and Akamatsu together. Her friends try to warn her to break up with Akamatsu, but she brushes them off. Once she gets caught and sued, she blames them for not trying hard enough to warn her; Yuri calls her out for her stupidity and refusal to listen to their warnings. To make matters worse, Akane ends up fired for screwing with Akamatsu (who got demoted and divorced) on company time.
  • Akamatsu has always been a playboy ever since he was a teenager. One day, he sleeps with the girlfriend of Tachibana's older brother, and gets a beating. Even as an adult he's hardly better; despite being genuinely in love with Yuzuriha, his lack of self-control means he cheats on her with Akane. While he got away with it for awhile thanks to Akane's Seamless Spontaneous Lie about being Akamatsu's sister, once Yuzuriha comes over to his parents' house and realizes that Karin is clearly not the girl who said she was Akamatsu's sister, she dumps and slaps him, leaving Akamatsu to lament his chance at love.
  • It was already bad enough that Akamatsu was cheating on his wife, Yuzuriha, with Akane, a fellow coworker. One day, thinking at Yuzuriha was at work, he brings Akane to his place and has sex with her in Yuzuriha's room and on Yuzuriha's desk. Unfortunately for them, Yuzuriha was taking the day off due to a bad headache and, while in her room's loft, catches them in the act and records the entire thing, with Akane not realizing that Yuzuriha was watching them until after she and Akamatsu finished having sex.

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