Recap / How I Met Your Mother (And How I Met Your Father) Love Arc Chapter Seven: Hifumi’s Gift! Going to Comic Market?

Love Arc Chapter Seven: Hifumi’s Gift! Going to Comic Market?

Original Release: June 29, 2020 (Fanfiction.net), June 30, 2020 (AO3)

Summary

Hifumi gifts several of his classmates with tickets to Comic Market, including Makoto and Kyoko. Will Kyoko agree to go with her new boyfriend? Or will this be the one date she turns down?

Tropes

• Boring, but Practical: When going to Hifumi for a costume for her, Kyoko makes it clear that she just wants the costume to be serviceable and not flashy.
• Fan Convention: Hifumi mentions Comic Market coming up during Christmas vacation and invites his classmates to join him with extra tickets he was able to get, though only a few of them (Makoto, Kyoko, Aoi, Sakura, Leon, and Chihiro) actually want to go.
• Show Within a Show: In the present, it's revealed that one of Hifumi's Princess Piggles fanfic had gotten an Animated Adaptation made by his sister Fujiko.
• The Un-Reveal: It's never revealed in the chapter what Kyoko's costume for Comic Market is.