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Haruto Kirishima is a typical high school student living in Hiroshima: worrying about school and his Unrequited Love, Nanami Kanzaki. Everything's been normal, until one day, a stranger by the name of Yuzuki Eba announces that she's come from Tokyo to the countryside to attend high school. What's more, she's going to be living at his house, which of course worries Haruto about how that will look on him. Life just got interesting when this stranger came to town.

A Town Where You Live (君のいる町, Kimi no Iru Machi) is a manga by Kouji Seo that ran from 2008 to 2014 Weekly Shonen Magazine. This series, a blend of romantic drama and romantic comedy, is said to be a "character-driven romance", and is set in Seo's hometown. Over the course of its run, it gradually shifts towards more of a Harem Comedy/drama based around Sitcom-ish misunderstandings and hijinks.

A two-episode OVA series was released in 2012, followed by a TV anime series (with two OVA) in the summer of 2013.


This series provides examples of:

  • 10 Minute Breakup: Done multiple times between Haruto and Yuzuki. If they have a fight or seem to separate, expect them to make up or get back together within three chapters. Except in the ending, where Seo decides to throw caution to the wind and completely shake the story up by having them get back together out of the blue, get married, and have a kid at the age of 5 within four chapters.
  • Aborted Declaration of Love: Done at the Kouyasai after the school festival, Yuzuki turns Haruto down just before he asks her out.
  • Accidental Pornomancer: Haruto. Count the number of female characters who haven't: a) attempted to jump his bones (often drunkenly), b) been pictured in cheesecake poses to make him look like an Accidental Pervert, c) hinted at or outright admitted to being attracted to/having a crush on him, and then subtract that from the total number of female characters.
  • A-Cup Angst: Asuka
    Asuka: Besides, what's with that chest of hers?! What does she eat to get those?!
  • All Women Are Lustful: The overtones of this are unavoidable, when the reader notices the sheer amount of female characters seemingly eager to either line up for a ride in the Haruto-go-round, or failing that, just flirting with him extremely obviously (Rin and the driving instructor being noticeable examples of the latter). Turns outright Squicky when even Chisa, one of Yuzuki's former students and most certainly under the age of consent, way too easily decides to let Haruto have his way with her. Haruto calls her out on it.
  • Aren't You Going to Ravish Me?:
    • It seemed like Yuzuki was expecting Haruto to do this to her in chapter 198. She is quite peeved at him for not doing anything after she "went to sleep".
    • Yuzuki does this again when she comes to visit him, with her wondering when they are going to go to his place rather than sightseeing.
    • Chisa actually seems non-plussed at the idea that Haruto is not going to have sex with her because of the small fact that it would be incredibly illegal because of her being underage.
  • Babies Ever After: Haruto and Yuzuki, in the last chapter.
  • Bathtub Bonding: Asuka and Aoi do this regularly, Akari and Kiyomi are especially fond of it, and Yuzuki takes Nanami off for a spot of this early on. Asuka is pulled into some group bath sessions on her first trip to Hiroshima, but they just end up upsetting her.
  • Beneath the Mask: When Haruto first meets Rin, he wonders how such a level headed person could be related to Yuzuki, even if only as step-sisters. Eventually Rin gets tired enough of the mask that she completely discards it with Haruto, in fact she is more honest with herself around Haruto and eventually Yuzuki that she doesn't put it back on around them, leading her to become a...
  • Bitch in Sheep's Clothing:
    • Once Rin gets tired of playing goody-goody in front of Haruto.
  • Blind Mass Date: Haruto is begged by one of his college friends to go with him to a goukon so that the numbers will be even. It is here where Haruto sees Yuzuki again after about two years.
  • Brick Joke: After Takashi gets Kiyomi pregnant, he decides to marry her. As practice, Haruto plays the role of Kiyomi's father. At first, Haruto jokes with the line "Eh, it happens. Just get married." and the group has to scold him into taking it seriously. After several days of practice and Takashi is off to see Kiyomi's parents, her father's response basically boils down to "Eh, it happens. Just get married."
  • Butt-Monkey: Mina Nagoshi, who manages to always misinterpret everything about Haruto to her own detriment.
  • Character Focus: The focus of the story changes numerous times to the point where it's not really clear which girl is actually "winning."
  • Compressed Adaptation: The anime leaves out large chunks of the manga material due to only having 12 episodes to work with while trying to cover some 270 manga chapters. As a result, a lot of Time Skip takes place, along with many characters either being Adapted Out, Put on a Bus, or at best are Out of Focus for a large portion of the anime.
  • Cool Big Sis: Haruto's older sister, Aoi. Easily.
  • Conflicting Loyalty: Haruto deals with this a lot, whether it be his feelings for Yuzuki versus his friendship with Kyousuke, or his desire to be with Yuzuki over his connection to Asuka, things get complicated as a result.
  • Chastity Couple:
    • Haruto and Asuka were together for almost two years and yet they never got past the occasional kiss.
    • Haruto and Yuzuki did the same, up until issue 200.
  • Childhood Friends: Haruto, Takashi and Akari. The other two had no idea that Haruto and Yuzuki had already met before the start of the series.
  • Cloudcuckoolander: Yuzuki. Later on this aspect is toned down and replaced with being Haruto's girlfriend.
  • Cloudcuckoolander's Minder: Before the move, Haruto claimed the reason he could not leave Yuzuki alone was because she would get into trouble without him there to keep her out of it.
  • Covert Pervert: Haruto's new neighbor Miyu Does Not Like Men, but manages to interpret every other thing Haruto says as something indecent. Not to mention, it doesn't take much to make her go along with them. She seems to show a more perverted side when drunk.
  • Crossover: After Kimi no iru Machi cameos as a TV series in the manga A-Bout, there's a crossover chapter in the Kimi no iru Machi's official guidebook.
    • There's also a bonus crossover chapter with another of Seo's works, Princess Lucia in one of the latter's volumes. A bonus chapter in a later volume of Princess Lucia has a crossover between nearly all of Seo's series.
  • Cruel to Be Kind: Subverted. Haruto attempts to make Chisa dislike him, and when every other of his methods fails, he tries acting like a complete sexist prick and demanding he "have his way with her". He is incredibly horrified when Chisa actually responds by lying down on the floor and inviting him to do so.
  • Cry into Chest: Haruto pulls Yuzuki into one of these after her breakdown.
  • Dance of Romance: Averted, Haruto spends several chapters trying to dance with Yuzuki at the Kouyasai after the school festival, only to cause a bigger misunderstanding with the people around him.
  • "Dear John" Letter: Yuzuki writes one to Haruto and puts it in a present she gave him, however it was several months (and several attempts to stay with her regardless) later that he actually found and read the letter. It never crossed her mind at any point to tell him that she was just breaking up with him to pity date a friend of hers that was dying.
  • Death Glare: Akari, Kiyomi, and Nanami portray some chillingly-textbook-perfect examples of this in chapter 115 and 117. Asuka as well in Chapter 116.
  • Depraved Homosexual: A new girl added to the story whose sole characteristic is to hit on every woman that cross her field of vision.
  • Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life: Haruto is left discouraged by the fact that his friends and Yuzuki seem to have clearer goals in life; while he shows an aptitude and passion for cooking, he is unsure about whether he can do it for a living and instead ends up employed at a brewing company.
  • Distracted by the Sexy:
    • Haruto attempting to take Yuzuki to the convenience store so she could buy some underwear after getting her clothes wet. A gust of wind lifts up her skirt, and he gets a good Panty Shot in, though he was under the impression that she was Going Commando at the time.
    • Rin later claims she's not wearing a bra, then starts to pull her shirt so Haruto could get a glimpse of her breasts. Though he looks away, she still notices and teases him that he did peek initially.
  • Ditzy Genius: Yuzuki, most definitely. The Hiroshima arc shows that she's smarter than she lets on, consistently getting better grades opposed to all of her friends who at worst get average grades or above average at best, while Yuzuki's grades were borderline perfect. However, true to the trope, despite Yuzuki's surprisingly high intelligence, she's very naïve, having an uncanny ability of getting her into some rather amusing accidents and misunderstandings or in a more grave case, has a habit of handling serious problems in a completely wrong way that cause major problems. That is, breaking up with Haruto to indulge Kyousuke's dying request to date her before he succumbs to his illness. While on principle it wasn't bad that Yuzuki wanted to make her first friend in Tokyo's last few days happier, but the ensuing drama between the three of them could've been avoided or at least mitigated if Yuzuki took the time to properly talk to Haruto and explain the situation instead of giving him a letter telling him they're breaking up and subsequently breaking off all contact with him, when she should know how persistent Haruto is and knows her well enough to see through that lie.
  • Does Not Like Men: Haruto's new neighbor Miyu, due to being constantly hit on by persistent guys. Haruto of course becomes the exception.
  • The Dulcinea Effect: Even during the beginning of the series where he states he likes Nanami, he finds himself unable to leave Yuzuki alone whenever she's in trouble.
  • Dysfunctional Family: Essentially why Yuzuki moves to Hiroshima in the beginning of the story and why she leaves when there's a chance to fix it.
  • Easily Forgiven: A lot of the screw ups that Yuzuki does to Haruto are often forgiven or not even thought of after she gives him a big-eyed look. Thankfully averted by Haruto after he breaks up very roughly with Asuka in chapter 141 to reunite with Yuzuki, leading his friends to ostracise him. It takes about 20 chapters until Haruto and Yuzuki start to gradually reconcile with Haruto's friends, in chapters 166 and 169.
  • Everyone Can See It:
    • Haruto and Asuka. Their first encounter definitely qualifies as a Meet Cute.
    • Haruto and Yuzuki being the most blatant from the beginning.
  • Early-Bird Cameo: Fuuka Akitsuki makes a very brief appearance in the final chapter... which coincides with the debut chapter of the manga where she appears in.
  • Fainting: Yuzuki suddenly faints in the middle of the train station in chapter 255, and awakens later in hospital to be informed that it was due to excessive stress and exhaustion. Some slight Fridge Brilliance is involved: Yuzuki always shows up in Kochi in the morning, despite the fact that Kochi does not have a direct High Speed Rail link to Tokyo and she would have to change trains at one point; this sets up Rin's revealing to Haruto that she was actually taking the night bus because she couldn't really afford the trips, doing all of her work on it and waiting in an internet café until Haruto arrived.
  • False Rape Accusation: A girl comes up to Haruto and explains that she knew the guy that Asuka was seeing and he dumped her after they had sex. It turns out this was a complete lie and she just wanted to break them up so she could go after Asuka. What was her punishment? A "I'm sorry" and all was forgiven.
  • First Girl Wins: Haruto and Yuzuki. Although Haruto liked Nanami before Yuzuki, he actually met Yuzuki first at a festival when they were young. Thus stating that Yuzuki was the first to meet Haruto.
  • Flanderization: When she first appears, Mina Nagoshi misinterprets Haruto's actions as signs of romantic interest. While she is wrong, the misunderstanding is understandable, given the circumstances. After leaving the series then returning though, she seems to misinterpret everything, and in ways that're much less understandable than before. Even other characters pass comment on this.
  • Friendless Background: Haruto abruptly turns around when he sees all of his old friends talking with Asuka on the other side of a street.
  • From Bad to Worse: Haruto gets caught coming out of a love hotel with another woman by Nanami while he's dating Asuka which earns him a nasty look, than later on he gets an opportunity to explain himself to her, Akari, and Kiyomi sporting equally nasty looks. If looks could kill, this story would've ended sooner...
  • Genki Girl: Yuzuki is an airhead, an extremely energetic one at that.
  • Good Girls Avoid Abortion: After it turns out the Kiyomi is pregnant, both her and Takashi separately come to the conclusion to keep the baby.
  • In Vino Veritas: Haruto's neighbor Miyu is normally something of a Shrinking Violet. Give her a little alcohol and she loosens up to borderline Genki Girl levels. She's also makes for a Mean Drunk.
  • I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Why the story can get really complicated.
  • Living Emotional Crutch: When a party is thrown for Miyu prior to her leaving to study abroad in chapter 229, flashbacks and inner monologue show Haruto and Yuzuki consider her to be this, as her cheerful disposition frequently lightened the mood during Haruto's period of Friendless Background and hostility to Yuzuki's father, and her comically bad communication skills actually drove them to reconcile during the Okinawan vacation.
  • Long-Distance Relationship: Attempted by Haruto with Yuzuki, but the first time, things... happen. He is currently trying it again after being posted to work in Kochi while Yuzuki remains in Tokyo, with... somewhat more success.
    • Until Haruto breaks up with Yuzuki in chapter 256.
    • Haruto's co-worker also attempted this... less successfully.
  • Love Confession: Yuzuki gives multiples of these to Haruto, who gives a few of these to her in return.
  • Love Dodecahedron: It eventually evolves into this once the Tokyo arc gets past The Reveal.
  • Love Epiphany:
    • Happens to Haruto after Nanami and his sister point out to him who he's really been in love with all along.
    • Rin realizes far too late that she loves Haruto when a friend points out that, despite claiming she's happy Haruto and her sister have taken their relationship to the next level, she's crying.
  • Love Triangle: The beginning of the manga starts off with one for three primary leads: Yuzuki, Haruto, and Nanami.
  • Love Hurts
  • Manic Pixie Dream Girl: Yuzuki comes across as this early on, when she is much more enthusiastic and optimistic while Haruto is withdrawn and resentful about having her living with his family.
  • The Matchmaker: Rin ends up doing this for Haruto, setting up a date with him, then not showing up at the meeting spot. Instead he finds Yuzuki there. By this point in time he's dating Asuka, and was trying to move on with his life, but Rin didn't seem happy that he wasn't dating her sister after the trouble of transferring to Tokyo to be near her.
  • Meido: They decide to do a maid café for the summer festival.
  • Mistaken Declaration of Love: Several of Haruto's classmates throughout the story believe he has done as such.
  • Moment Killer:
    • Asuka calls Haruto just in time to avert a Make Up Kiss.
    • Rin reveals her presence just in time to avert a very romantic kiss in Chapter 155.
    • At this point it pretty much feels like Seo's only trick, as you can easily spot the set up for one.
  • Multiple Endings: Alternative chapters 200 were published with anime volumes. They also serve as alternative endings with other heroines.
  • Murder the Hypotenuse: An interesting variation of this occurs. Though no one is actually murdered per se, Kyousuke, Yuzuki's boyfriend, conveniently has a Soap Opera Disease and is going to die within a year, hence why Yuzuki decided to give him a happy last year. He attempts to undergo a surgery that could save his life, but instead it fails and he dies from the attempt.
  • Nice Guy: The lead characters Haruto and Yuzuki are kind, compassionate and sympathetic individuals who easily put others first. Though, the YMMV page shows there are indeed interpretations of the characters that are very much different.
  • Noodle Incident: Yuzuki offered Haruto a ride on her bike shortly after she learned how to use one, cue next panel where the mechanic that is fixing Haruto's bike now has another to repair. This incident is called back to at least twice later.
  • Not What It Looks Like: This plot is recycled so often, it's best if you don't try taking a shot every time Haruto or anybody else says this; the risk of alcohol poisoning is too strong. The "Cats Aren't That Bad" and "Crabs" chapters are particularly heavy-handed about it, but the chapter detailing how Haruto spent the night at his ex-girlfriend Asuka's house after getting totally FUBAR drunk is close behind.
  • Obfuscating Stupidity: Rin claims Yuzuki is to dumb to be her rival and in the beginning Haruto thinks along the same lines, however the Tokyo Arc seems to go to lengths to show her as this and she had typically higher grades than the other students in Hiroshima.
  • Oh, Crap!: Haruto at the end of episode 11, when he sees Asuka waiting for him by the front door of his parent's house. He claimed earlier he was home when she called, and she sees him coming home late with Yuzuki.
  • One Dialogue, Two Conversations: This manga could be considered The Series of this trope. Seriously one cannot go three chapters without the story of the week situation around a character thinking of one thing and everyone else thinking of something entirely different. Though it doesn't help that the characters have a habit of using vague comments.
    • Yuzuki being told that erectile dysfunction could lead to failed relationships. Believing the it is some kind of Gum Disease she goes around casually asking all of her friends about Haruto possibly having this.
    • Yuzuki's friend Miyu asks if she and Haruto would like to try this sometime to which she holds up a magazine with an article about a vacation. Yuzuki sees another article about sexual exploration and thinks she wants to have a threesome, and is later shocked that Haruto is so casual about accepting. (The scanlation lampshades the fact that the joke doesn't translate well to English, since it relies on a Pun based on the meanings of the verb "to go on" in Japanese.)
    • Haruto is on a trip with an old female friend to which he causally mentions that he met up with someone he hasn't seen in awhile and is happy to be with her. While he was talking about his girlfriend Yuzuki, she believed he was confessing his feelings to her.
    • Then there is the situation where Haruto's female neighbor Miyu asked if there was anything she could do to help him after he helped her earlier. He comments that she could help help him with a load he needs to get out. While he is talking about his dirty laundry, she assumed he wanted to have sex with her.
    • And yet again when Miyu tried to get Haruto and Yuzuki back together. Through her jokes to break the tension Haruto assumed that Yuzuki wanted to break up with him and Yuzuki assumed Haruto wanted to commit suicide.
    • Frankly, somewhere between "half" and "most" of the series wouldn't happen if the characters were capable of communicating clearly and directly like adult human beings.
  • Out of Focus: Quite a few characters come and go over the course of the series, like Narumi Kanzaki or Kikukawa, but the character with the steepest drop in prominence is probably Nanami, who went from one of the major focuses and love interests in the series with plenty of cover appearances to boot, to one of the most minor supporting characters, with less dialogue & character interaction than the rest of the supporting cast and no more cover or chapter title appearances for about 100 issues. She also tends to appear at the back of group shots.
  • Pair the Spares: By the end pretty much the entire cast has gotten into a relationship. Even Nanami, much to the ire of her fans.
  • Parental Neglect: Yuzuki felt subjected to this for most of her life by her father which is partially why she moved to Hiroshima in the beginning.
  • Please, Don't Leave Me:
    • All but actually said by Asuka when she feels the distance between herself and Haruto grow after they come back from Hiroshima together.
    • Haruto and Yuzuki seem to have made a commitment to never leave each other again. (Cue interference from life.)
  • Promoted to Love Interest: Asuka and Haruto started out as awkward friends who gathered around Kyousuke, after he died they decided to pursue a romantic relationship, the spark was there after all.
  • Red String of Fate: The initial OVA released in 2012 blatantly ends with the implication that even if Haruto and Yuzuki are in a difficult long distance relationship, they're bound together by the red string. The manga itself does support this, no matter what life puts Haruto and Yuzuki through: break-ups from the distance, individual relationships, years of not seeing each other, parental intervention, the universe always seemed to find some way to bring them back together.
  • Relationship Sabotage: Used a few times:
    • Haruto intentionally does this towards Yuzuki and Kyousuke, stating he can't be friends with them while still being in love with her. Interestingly his rival takes him up on it, rather than beating him up like you'd probably expect him to in this kind of situation. Yuzuki meanwhile isn't happy about being fought over.
    • Rin does this towards Haruto when she finds out he's dating someone other than Yuzuki. She has Yuzuki go on a group date, and Asuka, his girlfriend at the time, surprisingly allows him to go. Rin later asks how her sister was doing after they met at said group date, which Haruto didn't tell Asuka about. She later sets up a date with him and Yuzuki.
  • Relationship Upgrade: One of the signs of this taking place between Haruto and Yuzuki is that Haruto stops calling Yuzuki "Eba" and switches to calling her "Yuzuki" instead.
  • Rule of Drama: Yes. Especially when the plot starts focusing on Yuzuki.
  • Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl: Haruto and Yuzuki have this dynamic in the start.
  • Second Act Break Up: Mutual between Haruto and Yuzuki. However Haruto and Asuka, not so much...
  • Second Love: Asuka Mishima is this to Haruto. Unfortunately Rin doesn't like this, so she torpedoes this relationship in order to break them up.
  • She Is All Grown Up: She was no slouch to begin with, but after two years apart, Yuzuki became stunning.
  • Shipper on Deck: Rin for Yuzuki and Haruto.
  • Ship Sinking: The aftermath of the Tokyo arc goes to no short lengths to tell the reader that Haruto/Yuzuki is not happening. Likewise, Nanami tells Haruto that he's too late when he returns home over the winter break. Finally de-sunk as of chapters 140-141, with Haruto and Yuzuki being promoted to an Official Couple and even proposing marriage in issue 235. And then re-sunk in chapter 256. And finally re-de-sunk in chapter 260, just in time for the ending.
  • Shotgun Wedding: Turns out Kiyomi's parents had one, which makes it easier for her and Takashi to admit that they are getting married and she is pregnant.
  • Skewed Priorities: An amusing example comes after Haruto and Yuzuki rekindle their relationship: when Yuzuki's parents initially decide to move to Nagoya and the possibility that they'll bring her along is in the air in chapter 153, Haruto is very overdramatic about it and resolves to convince Yuzuki's parents to let her stay in Tokyo, despite the fact that Nagoya is only 3 hours of Shinkansen high-speed rail service away from Tokyo. Later in the plot, Haruto is way more accepting and literally responds that It Can't Be Helped when his employer sends him to Kochi in chapters 247-248, despite the fact that Kochi would be at least 7 hours away (going by Google Maps) and does not have any direct high-speed rail connections to Tokyo, meaning that Haruto and Yuzuki would only be capable of visiting each other on the weekends, which proved heavily stressful to Yuzuki. (Either that, or Haruto just fails at Japanese geography.)
  • Snow Means Love:
    • Haruto takes Yuzuki to see a local event where ice on a lake will crystallize into something that looks like a flower, it was after this that Yuzuki agreed to a Long-Distance Relationship with him.
    • It was also snowing when Haruto and Asuka confessed to each other.
  • Soap Opera Disease: Kyousuke is afflicted with a disease that's going to kill him within a year or so, but it's never quite explained what he has. Supposedly there's a surgery that he could undertake which could remove the disease, but of course, Rule of Drama dictates that it doesn't go well, so said surgery ends up killing him instead.
  • So Beautiful, It's a Curse: Miyu seems to have this problem.
  • Squaring the Love Triangle: After he gets to Tokyo Haruto is in a pretty standard Love Triangle with Yuzuki and Kyousuke, both of whom share feelings for her. Then Kiyomi Asakura shows up.
  • Stepford Smiler: Yuzuki and Akari.
  • Take That!: To George Morikawa in response to his own Take That! to the more recent plot elements of Kimi no Iru Machi in Hajime no Ippo... maybe. It's like he attempted to return fire without a witty counter.
  • The Tease: Rin enjoys toying around with Haruto.
  • Those Two Guys: More like that couple: Akari and Takashi, though they aren't in a relationship.
  • Through Her Stomach: This was Haruto's plan to win back Yuzuki from Kyousuke.
  • Time Skip: Two in less than 10 chapters.
  • Tone Shift: With all relational conflicts more or less resolved in the third quarter, the final quarter switches from romance drama to romance sitcom for the most part.
  • Train-Station Goodbye: How Yuzuki gets together with and breaks up with Haruto. At least the first time anyway... and the second time...
  • Tsundere:
    • Amagi, the chef that Haruto worked under part-time.
    • Haruto for Yuzuki.
  • True Blue Femininity: Nanami, who is usually gentle, sweet-natured and loves cooking usually wears blue.
  • Understanding Girlfriend: Asuka was almost saintly in what Haruto put her through (His college buddy forcing him to the goukon, the very existence of Shiori Amaya and the notes that get passed around about them doing it on their trip to Okinawa). However all that came to a crashing end eventually.
  • True Companions: For the most part the entire cast is this. They're a close knit group where even if there is some friction between them, you'd be better believe they'll be all to happy to reconcile and rekindle their friendship and be closer than ever afterwards.
  • Unlucky Childhood Friend: Akari for Haruto, Kiyomi for Kyousuke.
  • Unwanted Harem: A rather small one, but it's still there, around Haruto.
    • Small? It may include Yuzuki, Rin, Nanami, Akari, Shiho?, Asuka, Nagoshi and... possibly Kotone? At least 4, definitely.
    • Really, when even newly introduced female characters somehow find their way into suggestive poses around Haruto or outright try to jump him, the series starts to be less of a romantic comedy/drama, and more of a harem comedy.
  • The 'Verse: Takes place in the same world as Suzuka, Princess Lucia, and Fuuka.
  • Virgin Tension: Nanami decides to bring up her virginity in an arc that introduces a potential boyfriend for her, who is soon rumored to be a womanizer. This is quite an odd thing for a normally shy, reserved character, to mention to Haruto who she isn't even on a first-name-basis with, and somewhat unnecessary, as her chastity should be a foregone conclusion, given her personality and non-existent dating history
  • We Used to Be Friends: Everyone Haruto and Yuzuki were friends with before they got back together. To the point that Haruto was given the ultimatum to fix his relationship with Asuka or flat out lose their friendship, by his Best Friend of all people.
  • Wham Episode:
    • Chapter 49, 89, and 100. Especially once it's clear that Yuzuki×Haruto is sunk following their friend/rival's death.
    • Chapter 119: Yuzuki returns after a long absence.
    • Chapter 140-141: Haruto breaks up with Asuka. Yuzuki×Haruto is raised and recommissioned.
    • Chapter 256: Yuzuki×Haruto is re-sunk. Any bets on number of chapters until the re-raising and recommissioning?
    • Chapter 260: Haruto is transferred back to Tokyo. Yuzuki×Haruto is re-re-raised and re-recommissioned.
  • What the Hell, Hero?: Averted for the most part, much to the consternation of most of the fanbase. Defied as of chapter 141, just about all of Haruto's friends call him out on breaking up with Asuka and even Yuzuki gets called out for it. However they decide that their relationship together is what they want and pursue it regardless.
  • Yandere:
    • Haruto displays some yandere characteristics in the Tokyo arc, especially after he learns why Yuzuki broke up with him.
    • Nanami. If she does indeed have feelings for Haruto (though it's unlikely) then she would be this. For reference, please look under Death Glare. Also, she has Yandere eyes that would give Kotonoha Katsura a run for her money.
  • You Are Better Than You Think You Are: What Haruto tells Takashi when Takashi feels that he doesn't measure up to Kyousuke, whom Kiyomi loved before his death.
  • You Are Not Alone: Yuzuki intended to leave Haruto's life forever after she said goodbye to his hometown; cue Haruto giving her one of these as well as a Cooldown Hug at the end of her speech.

Alternative Title(s): Kimi No Iru Machi

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