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    In General 
  • The "Throb!" (From the heart, just to be clear) reaction effect someone has towards someone else (mostly Rentarou) doing something heartwarming.
  • Everyone's Verbal Tics being lampshaded, especially Kusuri's.
  • The God of Love trying to get attention in the extra volume chapters, usually followed by Rentarou snarking at him.
  • Rentarou introducing the latest girlfriend with a sweat drop.
  • Hakari and Karane's Belligerent Sexual Tension.
    • Hakari and Karane somehow ending up making out. And trying to forget about it afterwards.
  • The Hanazonos, Kurumi, or Momiji drooling. Mostly Hahari.
  • Plot developments happening due to there being so many girls that it's difficult to keep track of them all.
  • The repeated - and redundant - excuse for having a limited number of girlfriends in a chapter: "Unfortunately, the rest of the family was either busy or had other things come up."

Character Specific

    Rentarou 
  • Rentarou choosing his love for the girls over common sense. Or overcoming physics and logic through The Power of Love.
    • Rentarou placing all of his girlfriends on equal footing with one another.
    • Going murderously berserk whenever someone insults his girlfriends in any way, and one of the girls holding him back.
    • Rentarou seemingly feeling no pain at all whenever Karane hurts him.
    • Rentarou's inhuman stamina and ridiculous amounts of attendance towards his girlfriends.
    • Rentarou's inability to recognize any form of attraction between his girlfriends and thinking they're being close friends.
    • Rentarou doing something that gets him called a "monster boyfriend", or points out how he's the most unhinged in a Cast Full of Crazy.

    Girlfriends 1 - 10 
  • Karane's inhuman strength.
  • Hakari trying to invoke Male Gaze in Rentarou. And failing.
    • Hakari's general lust for Rentarou.
    • Hakari's embarrassment towards her mom's antics.
  • Shizuka using her phone to speak even at moments when she shouldn't be able to and/or it makes no sense.
    • Shizuka being akin to an adorable animal to everyone around her.
    • Shizuka being ridiculously weak.
    • Shizuka being incredibly light, to the point some wonder if she weighs anything at all.
  • Nano's preference toward efficiency. In any situation.
    • Nano referring to everyone by their full name.
  • Kusuri's overly long and descriptive names for her drugs.
    • Kusuri needing to go to the bathroom. Or projecting it unto someone else.
    • Kusuri's face scrunching up whenever she's feeling despondent.
  • Hahari's deeply, deeply perverted mommy complex.
    • The Hanazonos being rich.
      "So this is the X of a wealthy family."
    • Hahari Giving Up the Ghost in reaction to something cute. Or lust-inducing.
    • Hahari taking snapshots of the girls.
    • Hahari being subjected to I'm Standing Right Here. And at times followed by the other girls snarking that she's in no place to protest.
  • Kurumi getting hungry from listening to words similar-sounding to food.
  • Mei mistaking whatever someone says as an order.
    • Mei making Hahari look like a Straight Man.
    • Mei's rainbow-colored eyes opening up.
    • Mei attempting to commit bodily harm to herself to appease Hahari, followed by either Hahari or Rentarou stopping her.
    • Mei sprouting dog ears and a tail, being compared to a puppy, or wanting to be a puppy.
    • Praising acts of affection from Hahari, no matter how ridiculous.
    • Mei being capable of performing almost any task with her Eyes Always Shut.
    • Mei putting Hahari's soul back in her body whenever she loses it.
  • Iku finding different means for "training" (i.e. experiencing pain).
    • Iku gulping when seeing something painful.
    • Iku instinctively turning around to be spanked.
  • Mimimi's utter lack of modesty.
    • Mimimi rationalizing remarks, requests, and actions towards her based on the fact that she's beautiful/her standards of beauty and perfection.
    • Mimimi smiling while clearly uncomfortable.
    • Mimimi's overly-slippery skin.

    Girlfriends 11 - 20 
  • Meme's embarrassment-induced disappearing acts.
    • Meme's face being obscured by something other than her bangs, from sunglasses to Nano's hair.
  • Chiyo's Super OCD.
    • Chiyo losing her glasses and crying. And probably saying something funny so it's not just pitiable.
  • Naddy screwing up both the Japanese and English languages.
    • Naddy sheepishly reverting to her Yamato Nadeshiko persona. Or at the very least just references to it.
  • Yamame's love for every living thing... even previously living things like stray leaves.
    • Yamame freaking out and tumbling over whenever she sees any form of fire.
  • Momiji's love for touching soft stuff. Mainly breasts.
  • Yaku's inability to identify or use modern technology.
    • Yaku struggling to understand English loan words.
  • Kishika lapsing into an infantile state.
    • Kishika begging to be killed when she regains her composure.
  • Ahko's subdued Cuteness Overload moments.
  • Uto confusing people with her attempts at philosophy.
    • Uto being a Dreadful Musician.
    • Uto losing her composure and letting out an "Eek!". Most likely because of Ahko getting too close.
  • Mai singing praises about Mei and calling her "my dear sister" at every opportunity.
    • Mai's impossible clumsiness.
    • Mai imagining Rentarou in a Crush Filter.

    Girlfriends 21 -  
  • Momoha's alcoholism and enforcing herself as an Anti-Role Model.
  • Rin's orgasmic reaction to anything violent.
  • Suu's Number Obsession and her rattling off any numbers she hears from others.
  • Eira reverse somersaulting away from anything that scares her.
  • Tama being drawn to look like an actual cat.
  • Himeka smiling smugly whenever she does something she considers abnormal.

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