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Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga)
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Kaoru Hanabishi, an ordinary college student, runs into a beautiful young woman dressed in an old-fashioned kimono, lost and flustered in the complicated Tokyo subway system. After taking great pains to escort the woman to her destination, he discovers that she is really his childhood friend, Aoi Sakuraba, whom he had promised to marry almost two decades earlier...Except that the engagement was annulled by the Sakuraba clan when Kaoru left the Hanabishi clan, after years of abuse from his grandfather. Aoi — who had loved him since childhood and dreamed of marrying him — is unable to accept the annulment and tracks down Kaoru to find out why he doesn’t want to marry her. After they meet up again as adults, and he properly falls in love with her, they decide to reaffirm the engagement but are forced into an unusual situation: in order not to shame the Sakuraba family, they must keep their relationship a secret even as they move into a Sakuraba mansion with the help of Aoi's guardian, Miyabi Kagurazaki.Sure enough, almost immediately a group of college girls move into the mansion, one by one... and those who aren't already in love with Kaoru all quickly fall for him, as Kaoru and Aoi (who pose as a tenant and landlady, respectively) try to keep their relationship a secret.Ai Yori Aoshi ("Bluer than Indigo") began as a manga by Kou Fumizuki, which was serialized in Young Animal from 1998 to 2005. It received an anime adaptation in 2002 and a second season, Aoi Yori Aoshi: Enishi, in 2003. A Visual Novel with an original story taking place in the anime's continuity was released for PlayStation 2 in Japan in 2003, and a special English-language version was released for PC in North America by Hirameki International Group Inc..See also Umi no Misaki, the creator's subsequent series, also a harem-based romantic comedy but with very different relationship dynamics. | |
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Gruesome Grandparent | |
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Gruesome Grandparent: Kaoru's grandfather forbade him from every seeing his mother after he adopted him as the Hanabishi heir, burned nearly all of Kaoru's possessions relating to his mother, and savagely beat him with his cane when he tried to stop it. This ultimately led to Kaoru leaving the Hanabishis for good. | |
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Phenotype Stereotype | |
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Phenotype Stereotype: Tina is American, so of course she's tall, blonde, and blue-eyed. | |
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Diegetic Soundtrack Usage | |
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Diegetic Soundtrack Usage: In one episode, Kaoru of all people sings karaoke to the end theme. A different song (sung by Tina) plays over that episode's credits, perhaps indicating some kind of theme conservation law. Also, episode 15 starts with Aoi humming the opening theme. | |
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Single Woman Seeks Good Man | |
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Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Nearly every female in the cast geels attracted toward the Nice Guy Kaoru — at least three of them (Aoi, Tina, Mayu) from years before the opening of the series. | |
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Those Two Guys | |
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Inverted by Chika. At first she encourages her Those Two Girls, friends Natsuki and Chizuru, to leap to the wrong conclusions about the nature of her relationship with Kaoru. Later, when they call him her boyfriend, she corrects them and says he isn't — but wistfully. She'd love to be able to tell them he is. | |
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Childhood Friend Romance | |
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Childhood Friend Romance: Kaoru Hanabishi and Aoi Sakuraba. They first met as toddlers and their families put them in a Perfectly Arranged Marriage at an early age. As a result of Kaoru leaving the Hanabishi family, the engagement was cancelled, but Kaoru and Aoi still want to marry each other. | |
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Marshmallow Hell | |
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Marshmallow Hell: Kaoru is sandwiched between Tina's and Taeko's considerable chests in chapter 36 of the manga. He also gets a dose from Aoi, thanks to her more-prodigious-than-advertised assets and her tendency to grab things in her sleep. | |
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Green-Eyed Monster | |
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Green-Eyed Monster: Mayu Miyuki. The other members of the Unwanted Harem evoke jealousy, envy, and resentment in her heart, and she inspires similar feelings in some of them — especially Tina. Of course, Mayu's all-around nastiness toward Tina doesn't help matters. Miyabi resents Kaoru for hogging Aoi's attention all these years, and she flat-out tells him so. She also feels jealousy on Aoi's behalf whenever she sees him with the other girls. Aoi feels jealousy much more readily over time in the manga, especially once the harem reaches critical mass with the addition of Chika. She doesn't show it as much given the pronounced pressure from her family to keep a lid on the relationship. She finally admits it to Kaoru later on, and the pressure of having to keep the relationship a secret while watching other women be so openly affectionate puts a great strain on her. | |
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DudeHesLikeInAComa | |
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Dude, He's Like, in a Coma!: Tina and Kaoru are forced to spend a night in a love hotel (chaste, since they're only friends), on account of rain and having missed the homebound trains. While Kaoru is asleep, Tina silently debates with herself about kissing him. Judging from her thoughts the next day, she went through with it several times — and seemed alternately happy and regretful about taking advantage of him. Kaoru didn't notice. Tina and Aoi have each kissed a sleeping Kaoru on several occasions, starting when Aoi and Kaoru were toddlers. Aoi usually told Kaoru about it afterward. Tina, for whatever reason, didn't. Also, those Bedmate Reveals indicate that the girls living in the manor have no qualms about entering Kaoru's room, climbing into his bed, and cuddling up with him — all while he's fast asleep. | |
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Take My Hand! | |
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Take My Hand!: Kaoru and Aoi in the first season opening. In the first version, they fail, but in the second, they succeed. | |
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Alpha Bitch | |
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Mayu's family name is Miyuki, which means something like "beautiful snow." Fitting, given her haughty personality. | |
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Ordinary High-School Student | |
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Ordinary High-School Student: Kaoru's the college version. Or so it seems, until The Reveal that he's the (self-renounced) heir to the powerful Hanabishi clan. | |
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Cordon Bleugh Chef | |
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Cordon Bleugh Chef: Taeko is capable of producing decent meals, but she has a tendency to mix her normal meals with chocolate. | |
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Disappeared Dad | |
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Disappeared Dad: Kaoru's father died when he was five. | |
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Nightmare Fetishist | |
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Nightmare Fetishist: Taeko likes the idea of ghosts and poltergeists. Everyone else wants nothing to do with it. | |
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Parental Abandonment | |
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Parental Abandonment: Kaoru's parents are dead. Mayu's parents are the president of the family business and a famous fashion designer, and thus always traveling. Tina's parents live in the States, and she goes to college in Japan by choice. Taeko's father is dead, and her mother raised her as a single parent, and might also be deceased, as Taeko refers to her in the past tense. Both of Miyabi's parents died in a car accident, and she was raised by Aoi's parents. | |
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Lampshade Hanging | |
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Lampshaded more obviously when Tina and Mayu first meet; and Tina momentarily forgets how to speak English. | |
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Secret Relationship | |
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Secret Relationship: Kaoru and Aoi have a Perfectly Arranged Marriage from way back when and are very much in love, but Aoi's family, in order to avoid a scandal (the marriage had been called off when Kaoru left the Hanabishis due to the abuse from his grandfather), force them to keep it a secret. | |
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Head-Turning Beauty | |
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Head-Turning Beauty: Aoi draws all sorts of unwanted attention whenever she shows up on campus, not in spite of her extremely conservative attire but rather because of it. | |
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Tomboy and Girly Girl | |
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Worth noting: Tina is herself a mix of Tomboy and Girly Girl. On the one hand she likes groping girls and playing video games and drinking too much. On the other hand, she adores animals and has long, flowing hair and wears sexy (if casual) clothes. | |
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Gratuitous English | |
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Gratuitous English: Tina and Mayu have both spent a lot of time in English-speaking countries, yet neither speak it very well. Mild Lampshade Hanging when people keep asking Tina if she is really American. Lampshaded more obviously when Tina and Mayu first meet; and Tina momentarily forgets how to speak English. | |
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Significant Birth Date | |
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Significant Birth Date: Aoi was born on the day of Tanabata, which celebrates the once-a-year meeting of Orihime (Vega) and Hikoboshi (Altair) across the Milky Way. It's the Japanese equivalent to Valentine's Day. | |
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Accidental Pervert | |
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Accidental Pervert: Kaoru has several clumsy, often-half-dressed girls chasing after him every which way. Something of an inversion in that it's nearly always the fault of the girl in question. Also arguably subverted, in that everyone knows and admits that it's not Kaoru's fault. A couple of them, Chika and Tina, even attempt to use the situation to their advantage in their pursuit of Kaoru. One fairly innocently, the other... considerably less so. | |
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Office Lady | |
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Miyabi resents Kaoru for hogging Aoi's attention all these years, and she flat-out tells him so. She also feels jealousy on Aoi's behalf whenever she sees him with the other girls. | |
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Zigzag Paper Tassel | |
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Zigzag Paper Tassel: Done with the crew investigating the Big Fancy House's attic. Boy, do they look cute in the miko getups. | |
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Loved by All | |
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Loved by All: In one episode, Chika corners each of the girls and badgers them to find out if they "love" Kaoru, only to end the episode with the gleeful proclamation that everyone loves Kaoru. Since Children Are Innocent, to her that counts as a happy resolution to the issue. | |
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Please, Don't Leave Me | |
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Please, Don't Leave Me: Mayu does this to Kaoru when he attempts to leave her mansion to go home. | |
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Official Couple | |
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Official Couple: Kaoru and Aoi are formally engaged from the beginning. | |
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Achey Scars | |
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Achey Scars: Kaoru's, courtesy of his old mean grandpa. | |
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Prodigal Family | |
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Prodigal Family: When Kaoru shows up, Aoi immediately thinks it's a ploy of his family to get him to return to them, which prompts him to kick her out of his house. | |
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Shed the Family Name | |
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Shed the Family Name: Towards the end of the series, Aoi openly decides to give up the Sakuraba name so she can be with Kaoru for good. | |
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Bedmate Reveal | |
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Unrequited Love Lasts Forever | |
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Unrequited Love Lasts Forever: As shown in the Distant Finale, despite Kaoru's marriage to Aoi, Mayu still hasn't given up on him and visits their house at least once a month, often getting on Aoi's nerves in the process. | |
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Bittersweet Ending | |
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Bittersweet Ending: Aoi and Kaoru are together like they wanted, but they've been estranged from their families. On the one hand, Aoi says she and Kaoru are happy. She also says that she doesn't get to see him as much as she might like because he works long hours to support them. There is also the big fact that the True Companions have gone their separate ways, although Aoi says they do get to see each other sometimes. | |
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Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_40cc0c7e | |
| Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_45eed9a5 | type |
Not This One, That One | |
| Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_45eed9a5 | comment |
Not This One, That One: Kaoru initially thinks he'll get to live in the mansion, but in fact, he gets relegated to a much smaller house. | |
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| Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_46290b93 | type |
Manic Pixie Dream Girl | |
| Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_46290b93 | comment |
Manic Pixie Dream Girl: Averted. Although definitely a dream girl, and arguably pixie-ish, Aoi is decidedly not manic, or overtly quirky, or even all that chipper except when basking in her love for Kaoru. And if Manic Pixie Dream Girl-wannabee Tina ever had any chance at a beyond-platonic relationship with Kaoru, her abrupt disappearance for a year — ironically, in part to try to get her act together for Kaoru — completely sabotaged it. | |
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| Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_479d4e5a | type |
Would Hurt a Child | |
| Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_479d4e5a | comment |
Would Hurt a Child: Kaoru's grandfather showed no discomfort about beating him with a cane after his mother's death. | |
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Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_479d4e5a | |
| Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_4814d132 | type |
Big Fancy House | |
| Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_4814d132 | comment |
When Kaoru is spending the night at Mayu's Big Fancy House they have some very suggestive dialogue which turns out to be about a card game. | |
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Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_4814d132 | |
| Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_4e2d95e | type |
Thanks for the Mammary | |
| Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_4e2d95e | comment |
Thanks for the Mammary: Kaoru. Not from collisions, though, but because he tends to wake up and find this girl or that one has joined him in his bed while he was sleeping, for some inexplicable reason. | |
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| Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_4e3dee88 | type |
Their First Time | |
| Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_4e3dee88 | comment |
Their First Time: Chapter 138 is all about Kaoru and Aoi having sex for the first time. | |
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| Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_4efc4fae | type |
Good Scars, Evil Scars | |
| Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_4efc4fae | comment |
Good Scars, Evil Scars: Kaoru has "good" ones, after all he went through thanks to his grandpa. | |
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Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_4efc4fae | |
| Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_4f84cdef | type |
Smug Snake | |
| Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_4f84cdef | comment |
Smug Snake: Kaoru's half-brother, who outright abducts Aoi and manages to arrange for the manor to be closed down in an effort to make her marry him in place of Kaoru, so he can inherit. | |
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Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_4f84cdef | |
| Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_4fdf21ad | type |
Magical Girlfriend | |
| Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_4fdf21ad | comment |
Magical Girlfriend: Aoi sometimes borders on this. Except in the Christmas Episode, in which she really is this - to be exact, a Santa Claus who loses her magic necklace (the key to her homeworld), and grants Kaoru a wish after he finds it. He wishes to spend Christmas with her, and names her Aoi. The rest of the episode focuses on "Aoi" and Kaoru's special Christmas encounter. | |
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Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_4fdf21ad | |
| Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_52d1f46e | type |
Not What It Looks Like | |
| Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_52d1f46e | comment |
Not What It Looks Like: Subverted, as Kaoru gets into improper situations, but the girls actually listen to his explanations and realize it's not his fault. Sometimes even realize that it's not his fault even without explanations. And Aoi always gives him the benefit of the doubt. Miyabi's first appearance didn't even give Kaoru time to explain before she gave him a beatdown. | |
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Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_52d1f46e | |
| Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_54bb502b | type |
Nobody Poops | |
| Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_54bb502b | comment |
Nobody Poops: Averted once in the manga. Chizuru, trying to calm herself down and get over her fear of swimming, is shown sitting on a toilet with her swimsuit actually pulled down, implying that if she's not pooping, she's at least peeing. | |
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Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_54bb502b | |
| Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_5a40d6a | type |
Adaptation Distillation | |
| Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_5a40d6a | comment |
Adaptation Distillation: At least as far as the anime covers, it resequences certain events, yet maintains a coherent story flow. | |
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Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_5a40d6a | |
| Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_5beef860 | type |
Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? | |
| Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_5beef860 | comment |
Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Miyabi is physically capable of throwing Kaoru across a room — but the sight of Uzume bringing her a large dead bug makes her climb onto his back and wail, "NOO!" And Uzume, like a cat, brings her lots of bugs as a token of love. Tina has a phobia of thunderstorms. | |
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Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_5beef860 | |
| Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_5d414804 | type |
Just Friends | |
| Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_5d414804 | comment |
Just Friends: Tina. Except she probably didn't meet Kaoru until they were about seventeen, so more literally an Unlucky Teenhood Friend. Other than that, fits the trope perfectly. | |
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Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_5d414804 | |
| Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_5dd7c88e | type |
Nature Adores a Virgin | |
| Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_5dd7c88e | comment |
Aoi can also mean "pale," "green," "unripe," or "inexperienced." | |
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Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_5dd7c88e | |
| Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_62152263 | type |
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| Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_62152263 | comment |
"Dinner, Bath, or Sex" Offer: Aoi says this during an Imagine Spot by Kaoru. Inside it, it didn't matter which choice he picked, because he gets her no matter what. | |
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Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_62152263 | |
| Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_629fa757 | type |
Perfectly Arranged Marriage | |
| Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_629fa757 | comment |
Perfectly Arranged Marriage: Kaoru's and Aoi's respective families had expected for them to marry each other. Kaoru and Aoi love each other, but unfortunately, Kaoru's leaving the Hanabishi family broke the arrangement, thus causing the drama in the story. | |
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Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_629fa757 | |
| Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_62b41729 | type |
Puni Plush | |
| Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_62b41729 | comment |
Puni Plush: Only on occasion. Usually, it's when a character has been humiliated in some way. Often accompanied by a Face Fault or similar slapstick. | |
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Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_62b41729 | |
| Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_653c5c73 | type |
Cannot Spit It Out | |
| Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_653c5c73 | comment |
Cannot Spit It Out: With the notable exceptions of Mayu and Chika, pretty much all the girls, in their feelings toward Kaoru. Especially Tina, who's loved Kaoru for years. Also, for a different reason, Kaoru and Aoi are unable to reveal their relationship to the other characters. In "Moonlight" and the preceding episode(s), Tina's inability to admit she's leaving Japan to return to her family home in America — or even, when the time comes, to say goodbye. This is in character for Tina according to the various bits of backstory revealed earlier in the series; most notably when it's revealed that Tina's abrupt disappearance on her year-long around-the-world backpacking trip was the result of her inability to deal with her feelings for Kaoru. She also claims later to have seen something between Aoi and Kaoru right away as a major reason why she still couldn't spit out her feelings to Kaoru even after coming back. | |
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Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_653c5c73 | |
| Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_66dfe36a | type |
Missing Mom | |
| Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_66dfe36a | comment |
Missing Mom: The Hanabishi clan took Kaoru from her, at age five, when his father died. A few years later, she too died. Not just that, but his grandfather destroyed all her photographs and belongings. All of them, that is, except a jewelry box key young Kaoru gave young Aoi as a Very Special Present. | |
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Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_66dfe36a | |
| Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_675ff0f1 | type |
Apologises a Lot | |
| Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_675ff0f1 | comment |
Apologises a Lot: There are lots of apologises from everyone to everyone in this series. | |
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Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_675ff0f1 | |
| Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_67edaf78 | type |
Gargle Blaster | |
| Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_67edaf78 | comment |
Gargle Blaster: Tina's mysterious purple liquor of doom KOs Kaoru and Miyabi in one shot. In the anime, it's multicolored and glows in the dark. | |
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Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_67edaf78 | |
| Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_68069489 | type |
Nipple and Dimed | |
| Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_68069489 | comment |
Nipple and Dimed: To an extent. You can see nipples in close up, especially in the bathing scenes (good god there's a lot of them) but at other times, they're non-existent. | |
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Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_68069489 | |
| Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_6bda9a30 | type |
Meaningful Name | |
| Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_6bda9a30 | comment |
Meaningful Name: Aoi's surname (æ¡œåº Sakuraba) means "cherry-blossom garden" — she informs Kaoru that her family is named after a grove of cherry trees they've owned for centuries — and the name Aoi can mean "hollyhock flower" (which is the kanji she uses to spell her name, 葵) as well as "blue." Aoi can also mean "pale," "green," "unripe," or "inexperienced." Mayu's family name is Miyuki, which means something like "beautiful snow." Fitting, given her haughty personality. And to round out the flower-themed naming, (花è�± Hanabishi) is a flower shaped family crest and Kaoru spells his name with the kanji for "fragrant," è–« The title "Bluer Than Indigo" comes from the saying about indigo dye being bluer than the leaves it comes from, as a metaphor for the student surpassing their teacher. This is what Kaoru and Aoi do in the end when they separate from the families that brought them up and elope together, having learned what true love and family really mean to them. And then, of course, there's the fact that the è—� (ai, indigo) in the title is a perfect homonym for æ„› — that is, love, in the romantic sense that is usually reserved only for people truly dedicated to one another. | |
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Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_6bda9a30 | |
| Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_701c2f6 | type |
Love Hotels | |
| Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_701c2f6 | comment |
Love Hotels: Tina and Kaoru have to stay in a love hotel overnight when they get stuck in the city. | |
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Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_701c2f6 | |
| Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_71019994 | type |
Unwanted Harem | |
| Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_71019994 | comment |
Unwanted Harem: Kaoru has Aoi, Tina, Taeko, Mayu and Chika in love with him. Out of all of them, the only one he wants is Aoi, but circumstances prevent him from letting anyone else know that he and Aoi are the Official Couple. | |
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Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_71019994 | |
| Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_71bb775a | type |
Rebel Prince | |
| Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_71bb775a | comment |
Rebel Prince: Justified by Kaoru who went from reluctant to rebellious. He was the eldest son of the head of the Hanabishi Zaibatsu and was set to take over the zaibatsu after his father retired. Yet Kaoru never felt at home in the Hanabishi family and left to live alone in self-imposed exile after his mother died. Not to mention, there's the physical and mental abuse that his tyrannical grandfather subjected him to... | |
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Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_71bb775a | |
| Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_72b693d3 | type |
ThoseTwoGirls | |
| Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_72b693d3 | comment |
Most clearly paired off are Those Two Girls Natsuki (tomboy) and her bff Chizuru (girly girl). The other examples are somewhat more mix-and-match. As the two youngest recurring characters in the original anime series, Chika (tomboy) and Mayu (girly girl) could be paired off. One could make a case for Tina and Aoi. That would leave Miyabi (tomboy) and Taeko (girly girl), although pairing them off is odd in that the two of them don't interact much. | |
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Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_72b693d3 | |
| Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_7a265daa | type |
Eagleland | |
| Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_7a265daa | comment |
Eagleland (type 2): Kinda. Tina, the only major character from America, is rather brazen, especially by Japanese standards. Although technically Japanese, Mayu has spent a considerable portion of her life in Britain and the U.S. Naturally she's the brattiest character in the series. | |
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Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_7a265daa | |
| Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_7a9820d2 | type |
Totally Trusting Love Interest | |
| Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_7a9820d2 | comment |
Totally Trusting Love Interest: Despite having so many Not What It Looks Like situations, as the girls listen to Kaoru's explanations and actually believe him. Sometimes, he doesn't even need to explain anything. Except for his first encounter with Miyabi. He'd gotten out of the tub in an unsuccessful attempt to keep Aoi from coming in. Then he slipped and fell on top of her. So Miyabi enters and sees Kaoru, naked, kneeling between Aoi's legs with his hands firmly planted on her breasts. It was perfectly natural for Miyabi to throw him across the room and start trying to stomp him to death. | |
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Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_7a9820d2 | |
| Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_7eb49b31 | type |
Almost Kiss | |
| Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_7eb49b31 | comment |
Almost Kiss: Several instances of interruption by others when Kaoru and Aoi are about to kiss. | |
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Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_7eb49b31 | |
| Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_815055ba | type |
Plot-Induced Illness | |
| Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_815055ba | comment |
Plot-Induced Illness: When Kaoru walks through the rain to get Aoi, who's gotten lost on the Tokyo train system again. | |
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Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_815055ba | |
| Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_82fc5bdf | type |
Bratty Half-Pint | |
| Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_82fc5bdf | comment |
Bratty Half-Pint: Mayu. Not always the youngest, but always the brattiest. | |
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Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_82fc5bdf | |
| Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_85debad9 | type |
Plucky Girl | |
| Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_85debad9 | comment |
Plucky Girl: Most of the girls in the cast are plucky (to varying degrees, of course) — but it's Aoi's willingness to stand up to her family (and her friends in The Unwanted Harem) that prevents her from slipping into Extreme Doormat status. | |
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Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_85debad9 | |
| Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_863c780a | type |
Hopeless Suitor | |
| Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_863c780a | comment |
Hopeless Suitor: Any girl who isn't Aoi has no chance to get Kaoru. | |
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Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_863c780a | |
| Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_863fa679 | type |
What Happened to the Mouse? | |
| Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_863fa679 | comment |
What Happened to the Mouse?: The Team Pet Uzume doesn't show up after volume 9. | |
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Cute Clumsy Girl | |
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Chika's friend Chizuru is also a Cute Clumsy Girl, but seemingly a milder example than Taeko. She certainly swims like a klutz, especially for someone on the school swim team. If you can even call what she does swimming. | |
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Identical Grandson | |
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Identical Grandfather: An old photograph reveals that some presumed ancestor of Taeko, who looks identical to our Taeko even down to the glasses and maid outfit, had an unrequited crush on some presumed ancestor of Kaoru, who looks identical to our Kaoru. | |
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Art Shift | |
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Art Shift: Frequent in Imagine Spots. Also when any character is embarrassed or, sometimes, just witnessing someone else being embarrassed. | |
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Children Are Innocent | |
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Children Are Innocent: Chika acts (and looks) more like a nine-year-old than like a junior high student (or, in Enishi, a high school student). | |
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Your Favorite | |
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Your Favorite: The first meal that Aoi cooks for Kaoru at his apartment consists of all of his favorite foods. When he expresses surprise at this, she mentions that she'd remembered them since their childhood meeting. | |
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Chick Magnet | |
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Chick Magnet: Kaoru, although he never seems to pick up on it. | |
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All-Loving Hero | |
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All-Loving Hero: Aoi loves everyone, and everyone loves Aoi. Pretty much every female member of the cast aspires to be like Aoi. Ironically, however, Aoi seems a bit oblivious to the depths of devotion of her own mentor, Miyabi. | |
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Lovable Sex Maniac | |
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Lovable Sex Maniac: Tina, considering she's groped every female in the cast except Mayu, as well as practically assaulting Kaoru on a couple of occasions. | |
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Barbie Doll Anatomy | |
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In the anime version, everyone has Barbie Doll Anatomy. Except Tina (very briefly) in the episode where she and Kaoru get stuck in town and have to spend a night together at a love hotel. | |
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Forgotten First Meeting | |
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Forgotten First Meeting: Kaoru and Aoi knew each other when they were children. After Kaoru left the Hanabishi family, they didn't see each other for years, but Aoi still can't forget Kaoru and goes to look for him. She finds him almost immediately, but they don't recognize each other until Aoi shows him a childhood photo of them together. | |
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Mood Whiplash | |
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Mood Whiplash: The show bounces bizarrely between lighthearted (if not outright filler) fanservice and poignant romance. In the first season and much of the second, most of the poignancy comes from the backstory of Aoi and Kaoru. During the sequel Enishi — by which point most of the reasons for Aoi and Kaoru to worry for their future, and to keep their romance a secret, have been resolved — the poignancy tips increasingly toward Tina. | |
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Lonely Rich Kid | |
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Lonely Rich Kid: Mayu's Freudian Excuse is her extreme case of Parental Abandonment. | |
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Meet Cute | |
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Meet Cute: In Kaoru and Aoi's first encounter as adults, Kaoru helps Aoi get up after she trips at the train station. He then helps her get to the destination she was trying to reach, only to find out she was looking for his house as she's his childhood friend who has come to ask him to marry her. | |
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Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass | |
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Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Fairly tame example, but Taeko, of all people, is the one to lead the charge to take down the Obake haunting the mansion. Although it turns out to be just Tina's ferret Uzume. | |
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Scars are Forever | |
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Scars are Forever: Kaoru has many scars on his back because he was mistreated in his childhood by his grandfather. | |
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Girls Love Stuffed Animals | |
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Girls Love Stuffed Animals: There are lots of stuffed animals which where given to her by her father in Mayu's bedroom. Ussa, her favourite, reminds her of her first meeting with Kaoru. | |
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Skinship Grope | |
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Skinship Grope: Tina is very fond of doing this to the other girls. It's most certainly not relegated solely to the furo house. | |
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From Roommates to Romance | |
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From Roommates to Romance: After Kaoru left the Hanabishi family, his arranged fiancée Aoi chased after him to convince him to return and marry her. Since Kaoru has no intention of going back, Aoi ends up staying at his apartment as she traveled with no plans for lodge. After living with Aoi for a while, Kaoru comes to love her back and decides he does want to marry her after all. | |
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Selective Obliviousness | |
| Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_b0bce7aa | comment |
Selective Obliviousness: See Oblivious to Love, above. Conversely: it really should have been obvious to everyone that there was more going on between "Kaoru-sama" and "Aoi-chan" than just a tenant-landlady relationship. Leaving aside her odd deference toward him and his odd familiarity toward her ... how many words can Aoi go without mentioning Kaoru? A possible Retcon, but late in the manga Tina reveals she had known from the instant she first saw Kaoru and Aoi together that something was up between them, which contributed heavily to her most recent bout of Cannot Spit It Out with regards to Kaoru. | |
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Oddly Named Sequel 2: Electric Boogaloo | |
| Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_b18aeb20 | comment |
Oddly Named Sequel 2: Electric Boogaloo: The second anime season adds Enishi to the title. Likely comes from a chapter of the manga where Aoi tells Chika that as a group, they're all tied together by a karmic relationship called "enishi." Something that would have similar connotations to calling the sequel "True Companions" instead. | |
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RetCon | |
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A possible Retcon, but late in the manga Tina reveals she had known from the instant she first saw Kaoru and Aoi together that something was up between them, which contributed heavily to her most recent bout of Cannot Spit It Out with regards to Kaoru. | |
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Biting the Handkerchief | |
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Biting the Handkerchief: Tina does this in Mayu's Imagine Spot when Mayu envisions making a perfect lunch for Kaoru. | |
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Gorgeous Gaijin | |
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Gorgeous Gaijin: Tina, the blonde American who's already Ms. Fanservice in a Fanservice-heavy show. | |
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Take That! | |
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Take That!: Some of the in-universe video games seem to be light-hearted jabs at real-life video games. These may be more examples of shoutouts. A rare nasty example would be the in-universe movie "Pretty Horse," which seems to simultaneously a parody of movies about young girls and their love for horses — and also a pointed jab at Julia Roberts. | |
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12-Episode Anime | |
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12-Episode Anime: The anime sequel, "Enishi" has only 12 episodes. | |
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| Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_ba0791de | type |
First Girl Wins | |
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First Girl Wins: The female protagonist Aoi is Kaoru's childhood friend and fiancée. Actually, she wins before any potential love rival has the chance to even show up. | |
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Tear Jerker | |
| Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_bb53d08 | comment |
Tina gives it her best. Except, you know, actually admitting anything. Until "Moonlight." Arguably Taeko, who, one episodes suggests, may have been a Dogged Nice Girl toward Kaoru for several generations. | |
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Tragic Dream | |
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Tragic Dream: Everyone except Aoi who hopes to marry Kaoru. | |
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Ecchi | |
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Ecchi: Skyrockets to this level in a chapter of the manga, when Kaoru and Aoi have sex. | |
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True Companions | |
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Likely comes from a chapter of the manga where Aoi tells Chika that as a group, they're all tied together by a karmic relationship called "enishi." Something that would have similar connotations to calling the sequel "True Companions" instead. | |
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Omake | |
| Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_c387cc18 | comment |
Omake: One in each of the two seasons. Enishi's was also a Christmas Episode and a Shout-Out to Ah! My Goddess. | |
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Nice Guy | |
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Nice Guy: Kaoru, once he comes out of his shell. From a certain perspective, his tolerance of The Unwanted Harem is cruel both to Aoi and to the duped girls in question, but it's mostly his own kindness that keeps him from driving them off. That, and also they eventually become True Companions. | |
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| Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_c868a42a | type |
Freudian Excuse | |
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Freudian Excuse: Kaoru's abusive grandfather turned him into a recluse. Mayu's workaholic parents never paid her attention except when she accomplished something, so she's constantly craving attention, especially from Kaoru. | |
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Social Services Does Not Exist | |
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Social Services Does Not Exist: Kaoru's grandfather was apparently in the habit of beating the hell out of him with his cane while goons held him down and burning his deceased mother's last worldly possessions, just to show his tyrannical disapproval of her marriage to Kaoru's father. Kaoru should be nominated for sainthood for just running away without first snapping and murdering his grandpa, like any normal person would have done when pushed that far. | |
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Yamato Nadeshiko | |
| Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_d3427b48 | comment |
Taeko expresses her desire to be a Yamato Nadeshiko, in part to be "worthy" of Kaoru's love. But she's really more of an Extreme Doormat crossed with a Cute Clumsy Girl. Adorable but rather hopeless. | |
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Cheerful Child | |
| Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_d53ad027 | comment |
Cheerful Child: Chika may be slightly old for this, but she's within the extended parameters of the trope. | |
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Clingy Sleepers | |
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Clingy Sleepers: Aoi climbs into Kaoru's futon with him. When he questions her about this, she states that he clung tightly to her in his sleep, which makes her very happy. | |
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Vitriolic Best Buds | |
| Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_d7fc9fd0 | comment |
Vitriolic Best Buds: In the manga, Chika's assessment of the relationship between Mayu and Tina. Mayu loudly expresses outrage: "Just so we are clear, she will state it outright: Mayu absolutely hates Tina-san!" But then...◊ | |
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Intimate Healing | |
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Intimate Healing: When Kaoru gets a fever, Aoi gets naked inside Kaoru's futon to warm up his body. | |
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Cross-Popping Veins | |
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Cross-Popping Veins: Miyabi gets a whole flock of them around her during a montage of Taeko's clumsiness. | |
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Puppy Love | |
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Puppy Love: Kaoru and Aoi first meet and fall in love as toddlers. After being separated for years, they meet again and get engaged as adults. | |
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Bodyguard Crush | |
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Another way to divvy them up would be Miyabi (tomboy), who looks after Aoi (girly girl); and Aoi's would-be rivals Tina (tomboy) and Taeko (girly girl). Worth noting: Tina is herself a mix of Tomboy and Girly Girl. On the one hand she likes groping girls and playing video games and drinking too much. On the other hand, she adores animals and has long, flowing hair and wears sexy (if casual) clothes. | |
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Reasonable Authority Figure | |
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Reasonable Authority Figure: Aoi's mother, when she first comes to Kaoru's apartment, is prepared to take Aoi back home. She eventually relents and arranges the whole landlord situation for them to have a Secret Relationship. A major reason is that, during that meeting, she realized that fighting to stay with Kaoru is the first time Aoi ever actively disobeyed the family, taking it as a sign of just how determined Aoi was on the matter. | |
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Sexy Santa Dress | |
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Sexy Santa Dress: Not all that skimpy, but Aoi-Santa wears a Santa dress in the Christmas Episode. | |
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Translation Convention | |
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Translation Convention: The dub of the anime had Mayu use a British accent for speaking English. | |
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Mama Bear | |
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Miyabi's first appearance didn't even give Kaoru time to explain before she gave him a beatdown. | |
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The Ditz | |
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Combined with her role as The Ditz, this can lead Taeko into The Chew Toy territory. | |
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Supporting Harem | |
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Supporting Harem: The lead girl, Aoi, already won Kaoru's heart within the first few episodes. However, the girls of the supporting cast don't know and for various reasons, the main couple feel they need to keep their relationship a secret. This leads to Kaoru getting into some situations with other girls, but he always stays committed to Aoi. | |
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The Chew Toy | |
| Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_e4f5affb | comment |
The Chew Toy: Taeko. Which is not to say Taeko is never The Woobie; sometimes she is, especially in regard to her hopeless love for Kaoru. But as a combination of The Ditz and the Cute Clumsy Girl, Taeko brings a lot of "hilarity" down upon her own head (often literally), and this is nearly always played for laughs. | |
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Screaming Warrior | |
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Screaming Warrior: Miyabi in "Phantoms" (Enishi ep 4) definitely evokes this when she attacks Mayu by mistake. She might be a woman, but Screaming Woman was not being used here (that was earlier). | |
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TheUnwantedHarem | |
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Aoi also has an atypical relationship with this trope: whenever any member of The Unwanted Harem inquires about her feelings for Kaoru, she gets flustered and denies them. The initial reason is to keep their betrothal secret so as not to create scandal for the Sakurabas, but as the series progresses, the plausibility of this reasoning weakens. | |
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All Just a Dream | |
| Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_ea85d6ea | comment |
All Just a Dream: Subverted on two occasions in the Christmas Episode. The second subversion (and indeed the entire episode) may also be an example of Or Was It a Dream?? | |
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Shrinking Violet | |
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Shrinking Violet: Several characters — especially Tina and Kaoru — are implied to have been this until soon before the series begins. One explanation of Tina's bizarre Lovable Sex Maniac antics is that she's still trying too hard to overcome her inner Shrinking Violet. | |
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Adult Adoptee | |
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Adult Adoptee: The Sakuraba family adopts Miyabi after Aoi firmly declares that she will marry Kaoru, even if it means severing her family ties. | |
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Innocent Innuendo | |
| Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_f288cf3 | comment |
Innocent Innuendo: When Kaoru is spending the night at Mayu's Big Fancy House they have some very suggestive dialogue which turns out to be about a card game. And in chapter 41 of the manga, when Kaoru and Tina are forced by heavy rain to spend the night in a love hotel, there is suggestive dialogue which turns out to be about a video game they are playing. | |
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Hard-Drinking Party Girl | |
| Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_f5afa308 | comment |
Hard-Drinking Party Girl: Tina, and to a lesser extent Taeko. Not much lesser, though. Tina is an interesting case. She's clearly a Hard-Drinking Party Girl, yet she's also clearly the runner-up, the closest thing the series has to an Childhood Friend Romance. (They were about seventeen or so when they met, so Tina's more Just Friends than anything.) | |
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Haunted House | |
| Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_f9439c84 | comment |
Haunted House: It seems like a ghost haunts the mansion, terrorizing the girls (especially Tina) while they try to sleep. Subverted since it turns out to be just Tina's ferret Uzume. | |
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Drives Like Crazy | |
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Drives Like Crazy: Taeko treats driving an actual car like doing it in an arcade. The maneuvers we are shown are actually quite skillful, but scare the bejesus out of her passengers. | |
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Running Gag | |
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Running Gag: Subtle, but Suzuki sure likes trains. | |
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Team Pet | |
| Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga) / int_fb9e2ffd | comment |
Miyabi is physically capable of throwing Kaoru across a room — but the sight of Uzume bringing her a large dead bug makes her climb onto his back and wail, "NOO!" And Uzume, like a cat, brings her lots of bugs as a token of love. | |
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Cherry Blossoms | |
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Aoi's surname (æ¡œåº Sakuraba) means "cherry-blossom garden" — she informs Kaoru that her family is named after a grove of cherry trees they've owned for centuries — and the name Aoi can mean "hollyhock flower" (which is the kanji she uses to spell her name, 葵) as well as "blue." Aoi can also mean "pale," "green," "unripe," or "inexperienced." | |
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