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Maria Watches Over Us
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })"Maria Watches Over Us" (Maria-sama ga Miteru [i.e. the Virgin Mary] or "Marimite") is set in Lillian Girls' Academy, a Catholic all-girls' High School. The school has a "soeur system", in which an older student adopts a younger student by giving the younger student her rosary, frequently having elements of a Pseudo-Romantic Friendship.The student body is led by a self-perpetuating oligarchy (it's supposedly democratic in theory, but due to 100% incumbency as shown by the failed Rosa Kanina candidacy...) called the Yamayurikai, of three groups of soeurs. The oldest students are three leaders elected in a rubber-stamp election by the student body at large. Their petites soeurs, in their second year are upgraded to Boutons (rosebuds), and so on. This leads to lots of Gratuitous French such as "Rosa Chinensis en Bouton Petite Soeur".Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Yumi Fukuzawa is a first-year student who idolizes Sachiko Ogasawara, the Rosa Chinensis en Bouton. One autumn day, Sachiko stops Yumi as the two pray to the statue of the Virgin Mary, to correct Yumi for having an improperly tied scarf. Later that day, Sachiko abruptly asks Yumi to be her petite soeur, despite having only just met her. The rest of the Yamayurikai objects... and Yumi, feeling unworthy, turns Sachiko down. Sachiko vows to win Yumi as her soeur by hook or crook...Maria Watches Over Us started out as a popular series of light novels written by Oyuki Konno and illustrated by Reine Hibiki, which were published from 1998 to 2012. It was adapted into a 12-Episode Anime in 2004, with a second season (titled Printemps) during the same year, a third season released as an OVA from 2006 to 2007, and a fourth and final season airing in 2009 after a prolonged wait. The show has been licensed in its entirety for North American distribution by Nozomi Entertainment/Right Stuf... with subs only. There is a dub version, but it's only available on Animax Asia.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); })In 2010, the series was made into a Japanese live-action film.See also Maribato!, a doujin Fighting Game featuring the characters from Maria-sama ga Miteru as playables.Not to be confused with a food spread made from yeast extract that's known for its distinctive and controversial flavor. | |
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Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: Yumi and Shimako seem particularly to suffer from this during one of the school festivals. | |
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Yumi and Sachiko often come dangerously close to a relationship upgrade. It never happens. | |
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Phenotype Stereotype: Most people the girls interact with during their class trip to Italy are blond and blue-eyed. Sei gets her blue eyes and blonde hair from a European ancestor. | |
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One-Gender School: The school is an all-girls Catholic school. | |
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Title Drop: The first episode, when Sachiko tells Yumi to pay closer attention to her appearance because "Maria-sama is watching." Also, after Shiori pushes Sei away in the church when Sei tries to embrace her. | |
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Comic-Book Time: The plot in the light novels has undergone an immense time dilation to postpone Sachiko's graduation. | |
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The Glomp | |
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The Glomp: Sei → Yumi. Also Youko → Yumi on one occasion, much to the latter's surprise. | |
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Real-Place Background. The anime uses many locations in Musashino and Kichijoji, which are towns in the Greater Tokyo region. | |
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Alpha Bitch | |
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Alpha Bitch: Touko initially comes off as this, until she begins accumulating Pet the Dog moments and Yumi discovers things that made Touko build emotional walls around herself. Better examples would be Kikuyo, Kieko, and Yukari, Sachiko's social-climbing distant cousins in episode 1 of the OVAs. They take an immediate dislike to Yumi — as much out of jealousy for her closeness to Sachiko as for her relative inferiority on the social ladder — and spend most of episode 1 trying to humiliate her. Fortunately, Sachiko doesn't buy a word of it, and the end result is Yumi's modest "finest hour. | |
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Ordinary High-School Student | |
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Ordinary High-School Student: Yumi starts off as one of these, until she receives the attention of a certain Ojou. | |
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Animated Actors: In the chibi "Maria-sama ni wa Naisho" omakes. | |
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Spiritual Successor | |
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Spiritual Successor: To Dear Brother. They're both similarly melodramatic anime about lesbian and Pseudo-Romantic Friendship relationships in an all-girls school. | |
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Parental Abandonment | |
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Parental Abandonment: They're there, but we almost never see them. This also fuels Touko's Jerkass facade: with her parents killed in a car crash, the infant Touko — the sole survivor — was adopted by Sachiko's distant relative, who happened to be a classmate of Touko's mother in Lillian... only to grow to resent the fact that she mostly receives help out of pity for her situation. | |
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Bland-Name Product | |
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Bland-Name Product: Tsutako's "Ganon" camera. | |
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Tomboy and Girly Girl | |
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Tomboy and Girly Girl: Subverted by Rei and Yoshino. Rei, in spite of being tall and boyish-looking (and being captain of the school Kendo team) has rather girlish interests, while short, long-haired Yoshino loves thriller stories and watching sports. | |
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Hidden Depths | |
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Hidden Depths: All the girls, but the Foetida Roses especially. | |
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Shrines and Temples | |
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Shrines and Temples: In the "Spring" season. Particularly, Shimako first met Noriko when the latter went to her family's shrine. | |
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Bait-and-Switch Lesbians | |
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Bait-and-Switch Lesbians: Sachiko's overtly romantic courting of Yumi in the first few episodes transforms into mere sisterly affection as soon as both girls become soeurs. Many of the other relationships are subject to the same trope as well. | |
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Official Couple | |
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Official Couple: Yumi & Sachiko. Also Noriko & Shimako, despite having a totally different dynamic. | |
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Shōjo Demographic | |
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Instrumental Theme Tune: The first and third seasons have Pastel Pure. The second season subverts this as it is a song set to Pastel Pure. | |
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Don't You Dare Pity Me! | |
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Don't You Dare Pity Me! In the fourth season, Touko's reason for rejecting Yumi's rosary. Yoshino also had this attitude toward Rei at some point, which lead her to decide to have a heart operation so she's not so fragile anymore. | |
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Absurdly Powerful Student Council | |
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Absurdly Powerful Student Council: This trope is played even straighter than usual, with the Yamayurikai positions being virtually hereditary (i.e., passed down from "older sister" to "younger sister"). The possible power abuse is mitigated by the fact that the Yamayurikai seem to be both benign and possessed of an acute sense for exceptional candidates. | |
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Date Peepers: A very jealous Yoshino on Rei. As well as the reporters trying to get good photographs for the newspaper. | |
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Trope Codifier | |
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Trope Codifier: Yumi and Sachiko's relationship helped codify the typical Yuri Genre seme and uke: an older Aloof Dark-Haired Girl School Idol and a shorter, younger girl (often with Girlish Pigtails) who admires her. | |
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Giving Someone the Pointer Finger | |
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Giving Someone the Pointer Finger: Yoshino is particularly fond of this. | |
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold | |
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold: While he might be a jerk Suguru genuinely cares for Sachiko and her friends in his own way. He has behaved defensively on Yumi's and Touko's behalf, and has been supportive of Yumi and Sachiko's bond. In the fourth season he even warns Touko that she'll ultimately alienate even the few people who still care for her if she keeps up with her Jerkass facade. | |
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Honorifics | |
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Honorifics: Punched up a notch — upperclassmen are "-sama", rather than "-sempai". Underclassmen are usually "-chan". | |
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Women Are Wiser | |
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Women Are Wiser: While probably not intended, a mild case of this seems to be in effect throughout the series, as the majority of male characters are philandering assholes while the relationships between the girls are presented as pure and beautiful. | |
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Even the Girls Want Her | |
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Even the Girls Want Her: Happens to all of the popular girls, which makes sense considering the setting. Especially Sachiko receives a lot of admiration, but after a while gets outshined by Yumi. | |
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Beta Couple | |
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Beta Couple: Two — Rei and Yoshino, and Shimako and Noriko. | |
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School Newspaper Newshound | |
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School Newspaper Newshound: Minako and her soeur Mami. | |
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Trans Tribulations | |
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Trans Tribulations: Arisugawa "Alice" Kintarou. She describes herself as having received "a male body by mistake," and that she really wanted to attend Lillian. When she's not wearing her school uniform, she dresses as a girl. Her friends in both schools usually address her as Alice and behave supportively. | |
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EnjoKosai | |
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Enjo Kosai: One episode revolves around rumors that Eriko engages in this. It turns out that she was just being forced to go out with her brothers and father. | |
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Does Not Like Men | |
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Does Not Like Men: Sachiko and Kanako especially. In Sachiko's case, so much so that she's utterly repulsed by the touch of a man, and actually faints just by seeing an all-male student council. Surprisingly, Sachiko has no problem being with Yumi's younger brother Yuuki, possibly because he looks like her. Knowing this might lead people to ''certain ideas''. | |
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Giving Up the Ghost | |
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Giving Up the Ghost: This occurs in one of the Niwanaishos. Yumi and Youko are trying to get a scene right that involves drinking a nauseous mix of strawberry juice and milk. They mess the scene up two times. During the last take Yumi passes out and gives up her ghost. | |
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Sailor Fuku | |
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Sailor Fuku: Lillian Girls' Academy's uniform is an old-fashioned, dark green sailor fuku with a long skirt. | |
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Arranged Marriage | |
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Arranged Marriage: Sachiko and Suguru. Called off later in the novels. The engagement was purely based on their parents' assumption that they really love each other, only to realize that as time passed Sachiko no longer loves Suguru, who never loved her in the first place. | |
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Left Hanging | |
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Left Hanging: The series ends before Yumi's graduation, and many things are left unresolved, most notably how the relationship between Yumi and Sachiko will progress. | |
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Ambiguously Christian | |
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Ambiguously Christian: It's stated that you aren't required to be Christian to go to the school. There's an air of ambiguity about who is actually Christian and who is not, but in general the main cast (besides the explicitly Buddhist Noriko) seems entirely Christian, with a possible exception of Yumi in the novels. | |
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Kissing Cousins | |
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Kissing Cousins Sachiko's arranged marriage with Suguru, which is ultimately called off after their parents (who misunderstood their situation) realized they never loved each other at all. Also, if one interprets their relationship in that way, Rei and Yoshino. | |
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Art Shift | |
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Art Shift: From the third series onwards there has been a change in animation style, resulting in — or possibly due to — the characters' aging. | |
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Discretion Shot | |
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Discretion Shot: To avoid Sei and Shiori's kiss, and to avoid exposing Yoshino's chest when she shows off a scar left by her heart surgery. | |
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Class Trip | |
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Most people the girls interact with during their class trip to Italy are blond and blue-eyed. | |
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Long-Running Book Series | |
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Long-Running Book Series | |
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School Festival | |
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School Festival: Two of them per year — Lillian's and Hanadera's. | |
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Whole Episode Flashback | |
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Whole Episode Flashback: Sei gets one in both the first and second seasons. The first was about the backstory in the "Forest of Thorns" arc, and the second was about her meeting with Shimako. | |
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Camera Fiend | |
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Camera Fiend: Takeshima Tsutako. She's not a member of the school newspaper's staff, but she frequently takes pictures for them and is rarely seen without her camera. Sei remarks her reputation for this is well known despite being a freshman. | |
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Pseudo-Romantic Friendship | |
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Pseudo-Romantic Friendship: Despite the series' reputation of having a cast of nothing but lesbians, there's only one explicit case of that; many of the characters' relationships are extremely close and bordering on romantic, but they never cross that line. Lillian seems to have nearly institutionalized these kinds of relationships. | |
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Too Much Alike | |
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Too Much Alike: Sei and Suguru. Their mutual dislike becomes hilarious once you realize that they're basically gender-swapped versions of each other. | |
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Elaborate University High | |
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Elaborate University High: Averted, which is interesting considering that just about every parody of the show portrays it as one. Lillian only has small facilities that you'd expect in any regular high school, it has no boarding division (everyone commutes) and most auxiliary buildings are made of wood. It does, however, border an actual university (which admittedly doesn't look like more than a community college, though). | |
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Hide Your Lesbians | |
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Hide Your Lesbians: Despite a plethora of subtext, there is only one explicitly lesbian relationship in the whole series. | |
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Xanatos Gambit | |
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Xanatos Gambit: Sei's wager with Sachiko. If Sachiko wins, Sachiko gets a cute soeur and the Cinderella show will go on. If Sachiko loses, the Cinderella show will go as originally planned. Sachiko's "sore-loser" personality ensures that even if she doesn't make Yumi her soeur before the show, the two will grow very close and will eventually end up as soeurs anyway afterward. This is exactly what happens. | |
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Omake | |
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Omake: Maria-sama ni wa Naisho (Keep it a Secret from Mary) | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: During the Foetida Roses Feud/Crisis in the first season, at one point Youko and Sei are in a pose very similar to the trademark pose by Commander Gendo and Vice-Commander Fuyutsuki | |
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Melodrama | |
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Melodrama: Yoshino is melodrama personified, although Yumi and Sachiko sometimes get in on the action. | |
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Cool Old Lady | |
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Cool Old Lady: Several, all of them former students of Lillian: The principal — during the Forest of Thorns scandal, she supports Sei's innocence... because she knows she was part of the original story. Yumiko, Kei's landlady, who is revealed to have been soeurs with Sachiko's grandmother, with whom she had a decades-long estrangement, only to resolve in in time before said grandmother passes away. Yukari's great-grandmother, who is unmoved by her descendant's petty social maneuvering, but finds Yumi's simple heartfelt singing charming. | |
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Spin-Off | |
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Spinoff: There's a series of light novels called Oshaka-sama mo Miteru, or Buddha Watches Too in English, based around Yuuki and his schoolmates from Hanadera. | |
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Unfortunate Names | |
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Unfortunate Names: Rosa Foetida means "fetid/stinking rose". | |
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Ambiguously Gay | |
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Ambiguously Gay: Essentially all the girls, except Sei, who is the only open lesbian in the cast. | |
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Souvenir Land | |
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Souvenir Land: The amusement park in the anime appears to be more or less like this. Not that Yumi or Sachiko mind. | |
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Ojou | |
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Ojou: Sachiko. Most of the cast fits since they come from rich families. However, the Chinensis family seems to be a natural Ojou breeding ground. Sachiko and Youko have a regal air about them (with Youko as the undisputed "queen" of Lillian during her term as Rosa Chinensis and Sachiko as her princess). Even sweet, down-to-earth Yumi has a following among her schoolmates worthy of an Oujo; also, her incoming petite soeur Touko definitely counts as a haughtier variant. | |
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Suspiciously Specific Denial | |
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Suspiciously Specific Denial: Sei (this is from when she was asking to borrow Yumi in order to have them get food for her while she read a novel) "It's not like I am going to strip her naked and play with her body." | |
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Catchphrase | |
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Catchphrase: "Gokigenyou!" and "Onee-sama!" by most characters. | |
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Dark Is Evil | |
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Dark Is Evil: Invoked when Kanina Shizuka asks Yumi what she thinks a rosa canina flower (her nickname) looks like, and Yumi replies: "A black colored flower." Shizuka tells her she's right, but Yumi then looks it up and discovers it's actually pink. Kanina later laments: "It would have been cooler if it was black." Subverted in that Kanina's actual motivations aren't bad at all. | |
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Crash-Into Hello | |
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Crash into Hello: Yumi and Sachiko meet when Yumi runs into Sachiko. | |
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Boke and Tsukkomi Routine | |
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Boke and Tsukkomi Routine: In many of the Post Episode Trailers, sometimes with Yumi using a Kansai Regional Accent. | |
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High School Rocks | |
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High School Rocks: Lillian is the platonic ideal of an all-girl high school, populated as it is by thoughtful, beautiful and fun-loving students. | |
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Drives Like Crazy | |
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Drives Like Crazy: Sei could give Yukari a run for her money. Suguru's driving is crazy some of the time, and otherwise perfectly normal. | |
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Team Mom | |
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Team Mom: The Rosa Chinensis seat seems to be reserved for this role, though Youko and Yumi have generally comported themselves better in the role than Sachiko. | |
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Theme Naming | |
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Theme Naming: Samurai and noble families, fitting with Lillian being an upper-class school. | |
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Will They or Won't They? | |
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Will They or Won't They? Yumi and Sachiko often come dangerously close to a relationship upgrade. It never happens. There is the milder variety with all those girls chasing other girls to become their soeur. | |
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