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lovekoi manga is an original Rom Com anthology YouTube channel where manga is read out loud by various actors. It is the sister channel of Manga Soprano. The English channel can be found here
. The Japanese channel can be found here.
lovekoi manga features examples of the following tropes:
- Academia Elitism:
- Toma was a prep-school attendee who was made fun of for only managing to get into a bottom ranked university. His worst tormentor was Azusa, who, even as an adult, looks down on Toma, to the point where she tries to kick him out of a wedding he was invited to simply because the groom Yusuke is a Harvard graduate, which in Azusa's mind makes Yusuke too good to be friends with Toma. Yusuke gets angry and informs Azusa that Toma is both his friend and a famous and successful painter. When Azusa learns this information, she pulls a one-eighty and shamelessly starts trying to get with Toma.
- Tsurakawa is Yuui's ex-coworker who looked down on him under the assumption that he's a highschool dropout, said assumption being based on Yuui's age. At work, Tsurakawa constantly disrespected him while bragging about her college education, to the point where she forged documents in order to take over a project that Yuui was supposed to be in charge of under the assumption Yuui is too incompetent to do it. At an important client's wedding, Tsurakawa tries to kick him out saying that the wedding is too good for a high-school dropout. When she learns that the CEO's daughter is engaged to Yuui, she laughs and accuses the CEO of hating his daughter for letting her marry a dropout. When the CEO explains that Yuui graduated MIT at eighteen years old and therefore isn't a dropout, Tsurakawa's attitude completely flips and she starts aggressively flirting with Yuui, much to his disgust.
- Toma
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: In "My family betrayed me and kicked me out of the company. One day I help a fallen woman and...", Sueharu takes over his family's company and has his younger brother, Aoya, the acting president, kicked out of the company. Afterwards, he starts firing anyone he does not like one after another. He also recklessly causes the company's expenses using the money for himself. He even forces all of the salespersons to buy expensive cakes just to make himself look good to his clients. His actions result in many employees resigning from the company and he is forced to deal with many lawsuits.
- Fair-Weather Ex: In pretty much every story where the protagonist gets cheated on by their Gold Digger ex-girlfriend, the reason is almost always because the guy they cheated with makes more money. When the ex discovers that her old boyfriend has become more successful or was Secretly Wealthy, she will offer to get back with him, only to be rebuffed by either the protagonist or his new, more loyal girlfriend.
- Gold Digger: In "On the wedding day, my bride was looted by another man. Then encounters a pregnant bride...", Saiko dumped Kensuke for an elite guy right on their wedding day, causing him to fall into a depression and cry at a nearby beach until he found a pregnant bride named Urara, who was planted at the altar by the elite guy. Moreover, the elite revealed later that Saiko was his ex-girlfriend.
- The Grovel: In "On the wedding day, my bride was looted by another man. Then encounters a pregnant bride..." after the elite guy failed to take Ren and decided to leave, Saiko came back begging Kensuke for forgiveness after picking said guy over him. However, Kensuke isn't having any of it and declares he's going to fight her as well in court.
- Man Bites Man: In "On the wedding day, my bride was looted by another man. Then encounters a pregnant bride...", when the elite guy who stole Saiko from Kensuke dragged Ren away from Urara's home, he bit the bastard and the cats followed suit, scratching him.
- Shallow Cannot Comprehend True Love: Hayate is a handsome and extroverted bully who looks down on the gloomy and introverted Tsuwano. He invites Tsuwano to a matchmaking party in order to make himself look good, assuming that the girls will naturally be attracted to him and look down on Tsuwano. The exact opposite happens, with the girls being charmed by Tsuwano's good nature and being disgusted at Hayato's egotistical and bullying behavior. Even after being told this, Hayato insists that he is the better man because he has better looks and works at a prestigious company, and later loses it and attacks the girls when they decide to leave with Tsuwano, failing to understand that some girls care more about personality rather than looks or status.
