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Kotoura-san (Manga)
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Kotoura-san is a yonkoma manga by Enokids, which was serialized in the web magazine Manga Goccha and Megami Magazine from 2010 to 2015. It was adapted into an anime directed by Masahiko Ohta for AIC in January 2013.The story follows Haruka Kotoura, a fifteen-year-old telepath who can't turn her ability off. As a child, she naively blurts out sensitive information and other people's private thoughts. This causes her to be unjustly labelled a compulsive liar; her friends and classmates reject and bully her, and her parents divorce because they cannot understand her special ability or how to deal with its repercussions. After years of persecution and ostracization, she transfers to a new high school, where she meets Yoshihisa Manabe, a good-hearted boy who is transparent, honest, and not scared of her ability.The series is available on Crunchyroll, or Netflix, but might not be available in your region.A sub-only DVD release by NIS America was released in August 2015 under the title of The Troubled Life of Miss Kotoura. | |
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Another Side, Another Story | |
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Another Side, Another Story: Non-game example. In the manga, the first chapters were written from Yoshihisa's perspective, but in the anime, it was completely from Haruka's perspective. | |
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Heroic BSoD | |
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Heroic BSoD: Eventually it would be too many to count. In episode 2, Haruka had one after seeing Hiyori's disdain towards her, complete with Wide Eyes and Shrunken Irises and vomiting, and, possibly, passing out. And again in episode 3, when Yoshihisa gets beaten up by several thugs sent by Hiyori. Haruka believes it's all her fault and decides to run away. The ride never ends! Also in episode 3 Hiyori has one at school, out of guilt for what she did to Yoshihisa. The stinger of Episode 8 has Haruka seeing a vision of a murder scene. She actually got so much shock that she fainted, with Blank White Eyes. In episode 10, Hiyori fell into this state, with Wide Eyes and Shrunken Irises, after she was arrested. | |
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Darker and Edgier | |
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Darker and Edgier: For Yonkoma based material. | |
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Forgot About the Mind Reader | |
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Forgot About the Mind Reader: Yoshihisa defies this in Episode 7 by not telling anybody else about his plans since his girlfriend is a telepath who should not know his Big Secret until The Reveal. Afterwards, he admits this as the reason behind his suspicious behavior to work around her Power Incontinence issue, and quite literally at that. | |
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Cool Old Guy | |
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Cool Old Guy: Zenzou Kotoura, the protagonist's grandfather, is something of a Dirty Old Man, but he absolutely stands by Haruka through the series, to the point where he disowns his own daughter after she abandons Haruka. He pays for all Haruka's living expenses, is absolutely supportive of her friends in the ESP Research Society, and welcomes them into his home when they go looking for her in Episode 4 and during Summer Break. The old monk is played straight. When he first encounters Haruka, he promises to bring her mother back and starts a decade-long research into ESP. Why? He wants to help Kotoura in any way possible. He also welcomes the ESP Research Society into his place when they have nowhere else to stay in Episode 4. It also helps he good friends with Zenzou. | |
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Gone Horribly Right | |
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Gone Horribly Right: When Yoshihisa and Zenzou begin digging for a hot spring, they find oil instead. They're not all that happy about it since they wanted to use the hot spring as an excuse to see Haruka bathing, and Zenzou is absurdly wealthy as is. | |
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Sand in My Eyes | |
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Sand In My Eyes: In chapter 1 of the manga, Haruka cried after Yoshihisa mentioned "people who want to leave are going to leave." When Yoshihisa asked, she denied crying and claimed of Onion Tears. Yoshihisa of course lampshaded about how fake it is. The eyecatch that follows has Haruka mentioned she actually keeps onions at home to make up excuses like this! | |
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Diegetic Soundtrack Usage | |
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Diegetic Soundtrack Usage: In episode 3, when the ESP Club members were singing karaoke, Yuriko picked the anime's opening theme for Haruka to sing. In episode 12 they do it again, and this time Haruka sings the (main) ending theme. | |
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Single Woman Seeks Good Man | |
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Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Kotoura and Yuriko fall for Manabe and Dai'chi respectively. | |
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The Glomp | |
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The Glomp: Yuriko did this to Haruka at the end of episode 2. | |
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No Sympathy | |
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No Sympathy: It's almost comical how fast nearly everybody at the new school writes off Haruka as a monster after they find out she has telepathy. Other than the ESP club, people don't even show any curiosity about her powers! | |
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Green-Eyed Monster | |
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Green-Eyed Monster: Detective Tsukino, who hates Haruka because the latter has things the former didn't, such as friends in high school. She unconsciously develops an evil alter-ego which attacks those she perceives to be popular. | |
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Breaking the Fourth Wall | |
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Breaking the Fourth Wall: The first episode's stinger has Haruka did a Dirty Mind-Reading... on the "tons of people on the other side of the TV." This show is aired during Otaku O'Clock, so viewer sexualization of Haruka is clearly unavoidable. Yoshihisa is jealous.invoked | |
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"Do It Yourself" Theme Tune | |
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"Do It Yourself" Theme Tune: Episode 5 ends with an upbeat end credits theme performed by all five members of the ESP Society. | |
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Like Father, Like Son | |
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Like Mother, Like Daughter: The Boyfriends of Haruka and Kumiko Kotoura tend often not to think with their brains, but to let a certain organ ca 80 cm below to take command. | |
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Holding Both Sides of the Conversation | |
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Holding Both Sides of the Conversation: The first preview video has Haruka interviewing herself, with her switching seats as the interviewer and the interviewee. | |
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Adaptation Expansion | |
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Adaptation Expansion: The Downer Beginning that shocked everyone? No, it does not exist in the manga. | |
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Ironic Echo | |
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Ironic Echo: During the anime's Downer Beginning, Kumiko harshly (and dramatically) pushes Haruka to the floor after the latter begs her not to leave. During the final episode, the brief scuffle between the two ends with Haruka pushing Kumiko down in the exact same fashion. | |
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Childish Pillow Fight | |
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Childish Pillow Fight: After Haruka rightfully calls her mother out on her cold treatment of her for the past ten years, she and Kumiko engage in this. | |
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Trash of the Titans | |
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Trash of the Titans: Subverted. Yuriko assumed this of Haruka's apartment in episode 5 since she's living alone, but that's not the case. | |
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Club Stub | |
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Club Stub: The ESP Society, having two members before Haruka & co. enters. | |
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Dirty Old Man | |
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Zenzou Kotoura, the protagonist's grandfather, is something of a Dirty Old Man, but he absolutely stands by Haruka through the series, to the point where he disowns his own daughter after she abandons Haruka. He pays for all Haruka's living expenses, is absolutely supportive of her friends in the ESP Research Society, and welcomes them into his home when they go looking for her in Episode 4 and during Summer Break. | |
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Good Victims, Bad Victims | |
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Good Victims, Bad Victims: A surprising amount of both for a 12-Episode Anime: Good Victims: In the Downer Beginning, Haruka did not cause any distrust among the people around her, she just made it apparent. Of course, she then becomes The Scapegoat and All of the Other Reindeer for this distrust even existing. Detective Tsukino is another example for being bullied about her height and then feared for being physically stronger than everyone else during her Dark and Troubled Past. She unconsciously develops an Enemy Within from this experience. This is the actual criminal, which Haruka herself broke. Bad Victims: Yes Men who uphold their facades to deny the truth they already know or their feelings which need to be admitted. Hiyori and her Girl Posse are such examples in the Present Day at first. Kumiko is another one for her use of I Have No Daughter! when Haruka revealed her parents' adultery. Like Hiyori, Kumiko also develops away from this during the Grand Finale. It's even implied that she finally realized that Haruka is Telepathic during that time. | |
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Parental Abandonment | |
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Parental Abandonment: Haruka and Yuriko. | |
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Bland-Name Product | |
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Bland-Name Product: YaHoi! | |
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Accidental Declaration of Love | |
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Accidental Declaration of Love: Manabe confronts Hiyori Moritani after she tries to alienate and bully Kotoura, primarily out of jealousy. He tells her directly to her face that he likes Kotoura, unaware that Kotoura overhears this outside the classroom. | |
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Shower of Angst | |
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Shower of Angst: Yuriko had one in episode 2, after the Flashback Nightmare about her Dark and Troubled Past. | |
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Butt-Dialing Mordor | |
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Butt-Dialing Mordor: At the end of episode 10, The ESP society sets out to find the criminal (whose crimes include assault, murder, and rape of teenage girls) using Haruka's telepathy. After she gets a very harsh Beam of Enlightenment, Haruka immediately keels over and nearly passes out again because she did not expect the criminal to have such a twisted, distorted, and unnaturally deep mental voice and that said criminal knows that the ESP Society has fallen for the Schmuck Bait. Thankfully, the criminal wasn't targeting Haruka during this incident. This doesn't last. In the next episode, the actual criminal (Detective Aki Tsukino's Enemy Within) deliberately targets Haruka not only because she has friends despite being a monster (Tsukino's main motive derived from jealousy), but also because of the aforementioned telepathy which Haruka showed to both her and Detective Gantestsu Ishiyama earlier in episode 10. | |
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Deconstructor Fleet | |
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Deconstructor Fleet: In two ways: The first is Haruka as the Moe Archetypal Character. Her major character tropes are either Deconstructed, Played for Drama, or simply cynical. This is due to... ...the second which is that the story directly challenges the idea of lying to hide one's true self. Is it worth the risk of Becoming the Mask just so you can belong in society? Is it really okay to hurt and shun the Honest Advisor who may not know better if at all? Take a look at a few of the related tropes to these questions like Abomination Accusation Attack, Yes-Man, and especially Crapsaccharine World. | |
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Even Evil Has Standards | |
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Even Evil Has Standards: Proof that Hiyori has some good in her is that even though she arranged some thugs to beat Yoshihisa up, she thought they went too far when they beat him so badly, he was sent to the hospital. | |
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Shipper on Deck | |
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Shipper on Deck: Haruka and Yoshihisa was so much of an Official Couple that everyone ships them. The boys in Haruka and Yoshihisa's class put their names under an Umbrella of Togetherness in episode 3. Yoshihisa at first seems offended by it, but rather than take offense that they shipped them together, he complains that they forgot to add hearts to it. Zenzou is all for the couple, too. He even berates Yoshihisa for missing the perfect moments for a Relationship Upgrade. Hiyori is also actively shipping Yoshihisa and Haruka, despite having a crush on Yoshihisa at the same time. Even she finds that to be strange. Dai'chi's mother ships Yuriko and Dai'chi, even when they're quite young.invoked Yuriko consistently gives advice to Kotoura on how she can get "that idiot" Manabe to take the next step. | |
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Training Montage | |
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Training Montage: Haruka goes through one in episode 5. | |
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Mouthful of Pi | |
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Mouthful of Pi: Yoshihisa does this as a Psychic Static to prevent Haruka from finding out what he may or may not be up to in episode 7. | |
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Girl on Girl Is Hot | |
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Girl on Girl Is Hot: Yoshihisa has those kinds of fantasies as well, after mistaking Haruka and Yuriko (episode 2) or Hiyori (episode 5) as Pseudo-Romantic Friendship. | |
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Unnamed Parent | |
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Unnamed Parent: So far, the only named parents are Haruka's mother Kumiko, her grandfather Zenzou (who took a parental role), and Yuriko's late mother Chizuru. Other parents are not named, even they may have a speaking role. | |
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Please, Don't Leave Me | |
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Please, Don't Leave Me: Haruka begs this of her mother in the first episode, but she ends up leaving anyway. It became her mother's biggest regret, but by then the damage was done. Yuriko tells this to Daichi in episode 11. | |
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Official Couple | |
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Official Couple: Haruka and Yoshihisa; declared as early as chapter/episode 2. | |
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Split Personality | |
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Split Personality: Detective Tsukino has one due to being bullied as a child. Her evil personality was in charge of revenge and was also the perp of the physical assaults on schoolgirls in episode 10. With the help of Haruka, the good side is able to eliminate the evil one and she is even ready to turn herself in to pay for "her" crimes, which is refused by her superior, whom she has an apparently close friendship with. | |
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Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism | |
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Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism: The show starts off very cynically, then gets Zig Zagged due to an ever-present Cerebus Rollercoaster since it's more of a Romantic Dramedy. In spite of all this, the show ends on a well-deserved Happily Ever After. | |
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Not a Date | |
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Episode 8, "It's Not a Date", ends with Haruka passing out after getting a nightmarish vision of someone being attacked. | |
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Actor Allusion | |
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Amusingly, this is also an Actor Allusion with Yayoi Kise/Cure Peace since both of them are voiced by Hisako Kanemoto, as noted above. | |
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Bedmate Reveal | |
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Bedmate Reveal: Happens to Yoshihisa and Hiyori in episode 7, after the psychotropic effects of Hiyori's bad, bad cooking. They slept together naked with Haruka on the same futon, with Yoshihisa in the middle. Yoshihisa thought he had a Three-Way Sex and had a Heel Realization. Hiyori thought she had sex with Yoshihisa. Both were not true, but Haruka lectured them nonetheless. | |
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Adaptational Protagonist | |
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Adaptational Protagonist: The manga has Yoshihisa as the sole protagonist. The Animated Adaptation upgrades his girlfriend Haruka's role from an important secondary character to the protagonist, mainly because of an emphasis on her healing. | |
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Crapsaccharine World | |
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Crapsaccharine World: Good grief. The people are literally living in lies and ignorant bliss. Practically everyone has No Sympathy, and Haruka is among the rare few who realizes what's wrong with this society thanks to her Telepathy and innocently exposing everyone's true feelings to their denial, disbelief, and chargin even though she can't help it. Worse, her once "Childhood Friends" then outcasted "the monster" (Haruka) so disgracefully, the insult haunts her for much of her life afterwards. | |
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Meanwhile Scene | |
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Meanwhile Scene: In episode 7, Haruka haven't been able to contact Yoshihisa and asked Yuriko and Dai'chi for assistance. Yuriko thought he might be having sex with Hiyori, but Dai'chi disagreed, saying she's still still struggling her summer assignments. The scene then cuts to the Moritani dojo and we see Hiyori's desk was moved to the middle of the hall, being surrounded by trainers. | |
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"I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight | |
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"I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight: Haruka does this with Detective Tsukino in episode 11 when they find out she's the attacker from earlier episodes. | |
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Blatant Lies | |
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Blatant Lies: Haruka seems to be hard to tell lies, so there are a few examples. The first on anime's promotional video, in which Haruka spent several minutes downplaying what telepathy does to her.. while having an increasing amount of nervous sweat on the face, and she found she can't go on any more at the end of the video. Of course, she's in no position to spoil the Downer Beginning. Manga-only: After Yoshihisa and Haruka came back to Haruka's apartment in Chapter/Episode 1, the first thing Yoshihisa asked was why Haruka lives alone, and Haruka wants to avoid telling him her broken past... | |
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Shut Up, Hannibal! | |
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Shut Up, Hannibal!: Yoshihisa's confrontation with Hiyori in the second episode. For all the bluster she's ready to give, Yoshihisa cuts through it all in just three lines, ending with a Love Confession in front of nearly the entire class (with Haruka overhearing the entire thing just outside of the classroom). | |
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Untrusting Community | |
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Untrusting Community: to Haruka and Yuriko by proxy since her mother had Super-Senses. See Crapsaccharine World above. | |
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Sufficiently Analyzed Magic | |
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Sufficiently Analyzed Magic: For Psychic Powers and not magic per se, but intentionally Averted to be Played for Drama nonetheless. Because these powers are so scarce in the setting, its science is literally unaware and unassuming that espers actually exist. This is why Haruka's Telepathy never could get an official diagnosis despite her mother's gradually aggressive means in trying to get it during the Downer Beginning. By contrast, Yuriko proudly Invokes this trope as one of her founding principles for the ESP Society and Research Club. | |
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Becoming the Mask | |
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Becoming the Mask: Exaggerated and Deconstructed. Japan has an idea called Tatemae which basically amounts to hiding your true self away from others as a means to be accepted into society. The Downer Beginning's tension stems from a naive, Cheerful Child named Haruka Kotoura who has Telepathy and has no idea since Psychic Powers are not recognized by this setting's science (ergo no formal and proper diagnosis for it). She openly states people's true feelings even though she doesn't know any better, especially since speech and thought sound exactly the same to her due to Power Incontinence. Because nobody wants to admit that she's right and risk being rejected, everybody blames her for their problems. Cue Break the Cutie via Trauma Conga Line. | |
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Flashback Nightmare | |
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Flashback Nightmare: Yuriko had one in Episode 2, when she was reminded about posthumous abuses on her mother's abilities, complete with a Big "NO!". Haruka endured more trauma than Yuriko was, so this trope happens a bit more commonly than Yuriko did. In episode 1, after finding Yoshihisa has no problems about her powers—which was a first for her—she starts to find him desirable as she goes to rest. Immediately she had a flashback which is pretty much the entire Downer Beginning, and decided she should must not make friends with him. Episode 6 has her recalling the scene when her mother disowned her. Which foreshadows something at the stinger. In episode 7, Yoshihisa stopped talking with her for two whole weeks, which got her worried about their relationship. This time she had a flashback about her and Yoshihisa being separated by the crowds, and Yoshihisa morphing into her mom who immediately disowns her. | |
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Beautiful Tears | |
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Beautiful Tears: At the end of episode 1, Yoshihisa is turned on by Haruka's crying. Dirty Mind-Reading, of course, follows. | |
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Stress Vomit | |
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Stress Vomit: In episode 2, this is the direct result of Hiyori's Poke in the Third Eye Mind Rape on Haruka, by using emphasizing the trigger of a girl who endured a decade of emotional trauma. | |
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The Stinger | |
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The Stinger: Episode 6, "Summer Vacation!", features an after-credits scene in which Kumiko coldly watches her daughter and her friends from afar (with the priest by her side). Episode 8, "It's Not a Date", ends with Haruka passing out after getting a nightmarish vision of someone being attacked. Episode 9 ("Everyone is Around Me") ends with a traumatized Hiyori kneeling over a girl's body in a dark alley, her hands coated with blood. | |
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Big Fancy House | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_4814d132 | comment |
Big Fancy House: Zenzou's house. Particularly exaggerated in Episode 6 when the ESP Club members went there—turns out it has a private beach, and Zenzou built a theme park just because Haruka brought friends back for the first time... | |
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Break the Cutie | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_4b316d47 | comment |
To quote the writeup at Break the Cutie: | |
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Changing Chorus | |
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Changing Chorus: Flower of Hope, the ending theme of the Animated Adaptation, has its chorus sang four times, each time with different lyrics. Given the song is as much about the trope of Heal the Cutie as the series itself, it is justified. | |
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Downer Ending | |
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Downer Ending: Episode 3, Yoshihisa gets hospitalized, Haruka moves because she blames herself, and Yoshihisa solemnly says he couldn't protect her. | |
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Love Confession | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_4e4f42be | comment |
Love Confession: Unusually early in anime. Episode 2. Yoshihisa declared his love towards Haruka when he confronted Hiyori. Haruka fell into tears as she overheard this. An official one occurs in the end. In episode 12 Haruka finally confesses to Yoshihisa, who in turn confesses to her out loud, as he did not realize that he didn't do so 'till then. In the manga this happened much, much earlier, as early as chapter three. Namely, it happens after Yoshihisa's first confrontation with Hiyori. Yoshihisa escorts Haruka home and confesses to her out loud, and she does the same in turn. Hiyori gives one to Yoshihisa in episode 11, long after he's established a relationship with Haruka. Although she plays it off while he's around, she breaks down in tears after he leaves. | |
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Wham Line | |
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Wham Line: Both caused Haruka to cross the Despair Event Horizon. | |
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Crazy-Prepared | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_50f66629 | comment |
Crazy-Prepared: Yuriko comments on being prepared for any situation in episode 6. | |
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Umbrella of Togetherness | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_51041191 | comment |
The boys in Haruka and Yoshihisa's class put their names under an Umbrella of Togetherness in episode 3. Yoshihisa at first seems offended by it, but rather than take offense that they shipped them together, he complains that they forgot to add hearts to it. | |
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Superhero Prevalence Stages | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_516705ce | comment |
Superhero Prevalence Stages: Very Early Stage and often in cruel ways as Haruka's Downer Beginning shows. Yuriko is purposely aiming for the Middle Stage. | |
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Bookends | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_5313c266 | comment |
Book Ends: The anime both opens and ends with Haruka going to school. The opening was Deliberately Monochrome, people are avoiding her, and she has Dull Eyes of Unhappiness. The ending was colourful (if not overexposed), and with her friends saying hi to her. No guess about what the symbolism is. | |
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Conveniently Coherent Thoughts | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_5318f34d | comment |
Conveniently Coherent Thoughts: Averted. Haruka eventually realized even with telepathy she didn't get to pick up everything, like her mom's remorse for disowning her. | |
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They're Called "Personal Issues" for a Reason | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_5358a6f3 | comment |
They're Called "Personal Issues" for a Reason: The whole reason why Tatemae exists in the setting. Deconstructed during the Downer Beginning due to Haruka's presence as an Innocently Insensitive Living Lie Detector and a Curious Honest Advisor which causes everyone to play on their facades. | |
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Wide Eyes and Shrunken Irises | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_544f9e3c | comment |
In episode 10, Hiyori fell into this state, with Wide Eyes and Shrunken Irises, after she was arrested. | |
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Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_544f9e3c | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_561dab6b | type |
Mistaken for Gay | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_561dab6b | comment |
Mistaken for Gay: Yoshihisa sees moments between Haruka and her female friends as laced with lesbian undertones. Even when Haruka was practicing her confession for him, he believed she was confessing to Hiyori and had a lesbian fantasy about them. | |
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Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_561dab6b | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_57b80b45 | type |
Fantastic Racism | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_57b80b45 | comment |
Fantastic Racism: To the Crapsaccharine World around them, Espers are either fakes, monsters, or both even though they blatantly prove their powers to be real. Any Yes-Man would do this to maintain the Tatemae ideal since espers are a threat towards his/her chances of being accepted into society, even if said epser doesn't know better (such as Haruka). So, they intentionally outcast espers to keep other people from knowing the cold hard truth about themselves and risk being rejected. | |
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Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_57b80b45 | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_5ad80bf8 | type |
It's All My Fault | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_5ad80bf8 | comment |
This is how Yoshihisa thought at the end of Episode 3, after Haruka vanished because she thought it's all her fault that he was attacked. | |
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Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_5ad80bf8 | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_5b04b205 | type |
I'm Taking Her Home with Me! | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_5b04b205 | comment |
I'm Taking Her Home with Me!: Played with in episode 2 when Haruka first meets Yuriko. The latter is ecstatic to meet the former and attempts to carry her to the ESP club room. | |
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Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_5b04b205 | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_5b0e992 | type |
Guilt Complex | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_5b0e992 | comment |
Generally, there is at least one person who thinks/says "It's my fault!", per episode. Usually Haruka (who has a Guilt Complex) or Hiyori. | |
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1.0 | |
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Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_5b0e992 | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_5f930b19 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_5f930b19 | comment |
Named After Somebody Famous: Yuriko's mother Chizuru Mifune was named after a Real Life clairvoyant, Chizuko Mifune, per Word of God. | |
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Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_5f930b19 | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_63389b0b | type |
Kids Are Cruel | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_63389b0b | comment |
Kids Are Cruel: In both Haruka and Yuriko's childhoods, they were picked on by kids their age. If that wasn't bad enough, the bullies made rather painful remarks (Haruka's mind-reading was the reason why her parents divorced and left her, and Yuriko's mother's "fake" psychic abilities were why she was Driven to Suicide). | |
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Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_63389b0b | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_643659d4 | type |
Spit Take | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_643659d4 | comment |
Spit Take: Haruka does this in the first episode when Yoshihisa sticks some chopsticks on his face in a really funny way. She does it again in episode 5 after Yoshihisa gives an embarrassing picture of a young Hiyori in a photo promoting their dojo. | |
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Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_643659d4 | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_64b59c6c | type |
Funbag Airbag | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_64b59c6c | comment |
Funbag Airbag: In episode 9 while Haruka is walking to school with everyone, busy lamenting to herself about perverts after overhearing a phone call between Yoshihisa and her grandfather, she accidentally walks head on into Detective Tsukino's chest. | |
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1.0 | |
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Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_64b59c6c | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_66ea7e5c | type |
Brought Down to Normal | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_66ea7e5c | comment |
Brought Down to Normal: In episode 8, Haruka's telepathy stops working due to a cold. She gets better, but her powers don't come back until the very end when she accidentally reads the mind of a violent criminal and faints. | |
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1.0 | |
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Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_66ea7e5c | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_68068108 | type |
Evil Laugh | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_68068108 | comment |
Evil Laugh: Tsukino lets out a sinister cackle when she attacks Haruka. | |
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1.0 | |
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Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_68068108 | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_6b05b601 | type |
Jerkass Has a Point | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_6b05b601 | comment |
Jerkass Has a Point: Hiyori points out that Haruka's mind-reading powers are an incredible invasion of privacy. Does this excuse in any way, shape, or form, the way she and others treat her for most of the story? Not really... but it's still a valid point, although it should be noted that Haruka can't turn off her mind reading or keep some of her findings secret. | |
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Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_6b05b601 | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_6b2b3b59 | type |
The Reveal | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_6b2b3b59 | comment |
The Reveal: In "Stand By Me", Tsukino is revealed to be the attacker. | |
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Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_6b2b3b59 | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_6b35bdff | type |
Serious Business | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_6b35bdff | comment |
Zenzou is all for the couple, too. He even berates Yoshihisa for missing the perfect moments for a Relationship Upgrade. | |
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1.0 | |
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Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_6b35bdff | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_6ee10e0 | type |
My Greatest Failure | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_6ee10e0 | comment |
My Greatest Failure: This is how Yoshihisa thought at the end of Episode 3, after Haruka vanished because she thought it's all her fault that he was attacked. And more importantly, Haruka causing her own mother to hate and abandon her pretty much defines who she is today. The Head Priest feels that his inability to help Haruka after her mother abandoned her was his greatest failure, and vows to bring them back together someday. Unfortunately, as evidenced by her comments in episode 7, her mother still wants nothing to do with her. | |
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Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_6ee10e0 | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_7040b6bc | type |
Understatement | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_7040b6bc | comment |
Understatement: The first preview video, having Haruka interviewing herself, gravely downplays the effects of telepathy on her. She did say, "I don't really want it," and quoted her constant Dirty Mind-Reading of Yoshihisa as an example. That is actually the least of her problems, particularly considering he's her first friend in nearly a decade. In fact, she started to sweat profusely as the "interview" went on and eventually she decided it's too tiring to go on. | |
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Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_7040b6bc | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_707b5ad8 | type |
Took the Wife's Name | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_707b5ad8 | comment |
Took the Wife's Name: Zenzou is Haruka's maternal grandfather. This implies her nameless father married into the Kotouras, likely a rural landed gentry household. | |
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1.0 | |
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Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_707b5ad8 | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_730d3664 | type |
Adaptational Angst Upgrade | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_730d3664 | comment |
Adaptational Angst Upgrade: The anime does this by shifting the focus from Yoshihisa to Haruka and adding in the very angsty Downer Beginning. | |
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1.0 | |
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Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_730d3664 | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_7315fd38 | type |
Covers Always Lie | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_7315fd38 | comment |
Covers Always Lie: Promotional material for the series advertised it as a Romantic Comedy. It is only half Rom Com, with the other half occupied with very dark drama. | |
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Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_7315fd38 | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_7758b2c5 | type |
Protectorate | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_7758b2c5 | comment |
Protectorate: The ESP Research Society: | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_7758b2c5 | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_786e5cac | type |
Circling Birdies | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_786e5cac | comment |
Circling Birdies: Hiyori, after she bangs her head against the wall a few times to get rid of thoughts about Yoshihisa and Haruka she doesn't want to have. | |
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1.0 | |
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Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_786e5cac | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_7870735b | type |
From Bad to Worse | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_7870735b | comment |
From Bad to Worse: The entire Downer Beginning lives and breathes this trope. | |
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1.0 | |
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Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_7870735b | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_7b5cd7ba | type |
Wrongfully Committed | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_7b5cd7ba | comment |
Wrongfully Committed: Subverted in the Downer Beginning. Haruka's mother plans to send Haruka to the mental ward and fights with Zenzou over it. Haruka isn't committed since several hospital visits show nothing truly wrong with her, at least not enough to take her in (since Psychic Powers are not recognized by the setting's mainstream science and Haruka isn't sick nor delusional in any sense). | |
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-0.3 | |
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1.0 | |
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Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_7b5cd7ba | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_7b6f0622 | type |
Curtains Match the Window | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_7b6f0622 | comment |
Curtains Match the Window: The entire cast. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_7b6f0622 | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_7c2ab26c | type |
Giving Up the Ghost | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_7c2ab26c | comment |
Giving Up the Ghost: Haruka in episode 12, after knowing the ESP Society is disbanding. | |
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1.0 | |
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Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_7c2ab26c | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_7e226b8a | type |
Orbital Shot | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_7e226b8a | comment |
Orbital Shot: This is used during the Downer Beginning when Haruka's elementary classmates chant "Monster! Monster! Monster!" towards her after they figured out she has Telepathy. It is done very effectively since that moment forever and clearly establishes her trigger as well as gives the viewers the sense of loneliness and betrayal even though she was being Innocently Insensitive. | |
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Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_7e226b8a | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_7ef728b1 | type |
Tsundere | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_7ef728b1 | comment |
Tsundere: Haruka to Yoshihisa. It runs in the family. Her mother is worse, towards Haruka. | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_7ef728b1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_7ef728b1 | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_7fbe9a30 | type |
Freak Out | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_7fbe9a30 | comment |
Freak Out In a flashback in episode 10, we see Yuriko had one of these when she saw her mother hanged herself. With Wide Eyes and Shrunken Irises. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_7fbe9a30 | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_80251be3 | type |
How We Got Here | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_80251be3 | comment |
How We Got Here: In episode 1, Haruka is seen walking alone to school, or, to be precise, people were avoiding her like plague◊. She has Dull Eyes of Unhappiness, then a Flash Back her entire life up to that point is gradually played out and how she got those eyes. | |
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1.0 | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_80251be3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
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Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_80251be3 | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_8042e814 | type |
Actually Pretty Funny | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_8042e814 | comment |
Actually Pretty Funny: Haruka tells off Yoshihisa for giving her an embarrassing photo of Hiyori, only to crack up while alone and have a hard time not laughing around Hiyori the rest of the next day. | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_8042e814 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_8042e814 | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_80a247a9 | type |
Breather Episode | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_80a247a9 | comment |
Breather Episode: Episode 5, which follows the ESP club as they enjoy some time together and at school. | |
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1.0 | |
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Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_80a247a9 | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_83444efe | type |
Moe | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_83444efe | comment |
The first is Haruka as the Moe Archetypal Character. Her major character tropes are either Deconstructed, Played for Drama, or simply cynical. This is due to... | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) | hasFeature |
Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_83444efe | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_83fb6177 | type |
First-Episode Twist | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_83fb6177 | comment |
First-Episode Twist: It looks like a lighthearted Romantic Comedy from the previews, but the first episode is about 75% angst, revealing that the show is actually a dramedy and the very embodiment of Mood Whiplash. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_83fb6177 | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_8a677d70 | type |
Naked Apron | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_8a677d70 | comment |
Naked Apron: Yoshihisa's fantasy when Haruka was cooking in episode 5. Obviously, no one is amused by this. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_8a677d70 | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_8c9cad1e | type |
Psychic Static | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_8c9cad1e | comment |
Psychic Static: Yoshihisa used multiplication tables and Mouthful of Pi to hide whatever he was planning in episode 7. | |
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1.0 | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_8c9cad1e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) | hasFeature |
Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_8c9cad1e | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_8e20979 | type |
Wham Episode | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_8e20979 | comment |
Wham Episode: In episode 8, where Haruka inadvertently reads the mind of a murderer. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_8e20979 | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_93e07cc3 | type |
Bowdlerised | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_93e07cc3 | comment |
In Episode 5, the ESP Club watches a Bowdlerised version of Scanners, where a tomato is made to explode instead of a man's head. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_93e07cc3 | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_9591377d | type |
Heel Realization | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_9591377d | comment |
Hiyori suffers this after she arranges for thugs to beat up Yoshihisa for choosing Haruka over her. The encounter doesn't go as planned, ending up with Yoshihisa getting injured - stabbed in the manga and sorely beaten in the anime - and sent to the hospital. She then suffers Heel Realization about how much of a Jerkass she's been. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_9591377d | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_961c6c22 | type |
Cutaway Gag | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_961c6c22 | comment |
Cutaway Gag: Episode 1 uses this as a weird sort of Meet Cute. After a dark and depressing backstory sequence, Haruka meets Yoshihisa, reads his mind, and she and the audience see...a purple frog-man in a desert doing a bizarre dance to a series of random noises. There's no real point to this freaky daydream other than as a "transition" to the cutesy OP and the much less dark second half of the episode. | |
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Prolonged Prologue | |
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Prolonged Prologue: The 10-minute-40-seconds-long Downer Beginning. | |
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There Are No Therapists | |
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There Are No Therapists: At least not for any esper or anybody closely related to one. Kumiko and Yuriko fit the latter. | |
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Big Bad | |
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To a lesser extent, Tsukino is the Big Bad of the "mysterious attacker" storyline. | |
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In the Blood | |
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In the Blood: That's the reason why Yuriko was bullied when she was younger—a compulsive liar's daughter will also be a compulsive liar. | |
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Cerebus Rollercoaster | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_98ce3773 | comment |
Cerebus Rollercoaster: There are some surprisingly dramatic and rage-inducing moments intertwined with the comedy. Let's take episode 7 as an example of the extent to this trope goes. The previous episode ends in a stinger where Haruka's mom Kumiko watches over Haruka and friends playing on the beach (drama). Episode 7 starts with several comedic scenes, followed by the Monk discussing Kumiko's response one the previous night to Zenzou (drama). The next day starts with Yoshihisa and Hiyori's Bedmate Reveal (comedy), followed by Haruka revisiting the room where she often holed up crying as a kid, with her discussion with the Monk (drama). The second half starts with Haruka unable to call Yoshihisa (drama), Yuriko decides to make up a search for him (comedy), and then Haruka finding Yoshihisa acting suspicious (drama with a single comedic scene). Then we see Haruka debriefing with Yuriko, where Yuriko showed her own Backstory (drama), Haruka tutoring Hiyori (comedy turned drama), and ends with the Surprise Party (drama). Seven switches is an episode. | |
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School Festival | |
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School Festival: The "ESP Fortune Telling" in episode 2 was held during a Cultural Festival in the manga. A sports festival is held in the second half of episode 5. | |
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Playing the Heart Strings | |
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Playing the Heart Strings: The prologue theme is 10 and a half minutes' worth of this. After a while, it suddenly turns into a Song of Solace and then into a Grief Song when the old woman sends the cat that Haruka had befriended to an animal shelter. Certain sections of the song even become a Recurring Riff to maintain this effect. | |
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I Can't Believe It's Not Heroin! | |
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I Can't Believe It's Not Heroin!: Hiyori's cooking is so bad that, when she and Yoshihisa eat some in episode 7, they both act like they're drunk and/or on some sort of hallucinogen. In the yonkoma, they did actually get drunk, but since they can't show minors drinking on TV in Japan, it was changed to this. | |
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Foreshadowing | |
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Episode 6 has her recalling the scene when her mother disowned her. Which foreshadows something at the stinger. | |
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Rock–Paper–Scissors | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_a129cb19 | comment |
Rock–Paper–Scissors: Played for Drama in the Downer Beginning. This is the first scenario when she innocently showed off her telepathy, to her detriment. Amusingly, this is also an Actor Allusion with Yayoi Kise/Cure Peace since both of them are voiced by Hisako Kanemoto, as noted above. | |
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My God, What Have I Done? | |
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My God, What Have I Done?: Hiyori suffers this after she arranges for thugs to beat up Yoshihisa for choosing Haruka over her. The encounter doesn't go as planned, ending up with Yoshihisa getting injured - stabbed in the manga and sorely beaten in the anime - and sent to the hospital. She then suffers Heel Realization about how much of a Jerkass she's been. Haruka believes she's the cause of all the strife between Yoshihisa and Hiyori, which ended up getting Yoshihisa hurt in the process because of the latter's jealousy. Yuriko suffers from this after Daichi takes a blow and ends up in the hospital. Not outright stated but this is the main thought Kumiko had after disowning Haruka. | |
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Mood Whiplash | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_a4c37cbe | comment |
Mood Whiplash: An omnipresent trope for the series, considering it being a constant Cerebus Roller Coaster ride. For example: Haruka's seeing Yoshihisa's goofy daydream that's enough to break the Deliberately Monochrome in the Downer Beginning. In the stinger of episode 8, Haruka was clearly really happy on her Not a Date with Yoshihisa and would want to "feel like this forever." The next second she saw a vision of a murder scene and fell into Heroic BSoD / Fainting Seer. Averted with the ending theme, though: there are a couple of different ending songs, seemingly chosen for each episode to fit the tone of the final scene. Contrast it with the opening, which is a very cheerful song that would make unaware viewers assume it's a straight comedy show. | |
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Parental Neglect | |
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Parental Neglect: Haruka's father. Let's say, his daughter is having serious social issues at school, and his wife was frantically trying to find a cause, to no avail. His response? Relegated it as "woman's work" and started rarely coming home. | |
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Karma Houdini | |
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Karma Houdini: Haruka isn't really the kind of girl who would deliver much retribution, so many of those who wronged her tend to get away with it. Haruka's father is the first obvious unpunished asshole, likely still with the girl he cheated Kumiko on. The lady who essentially sent the kitten that Haruka was taking care of to the pet equivalent of a slaughterhouse, likely out of spite, and drove Haruka down the Despair Event Horizon, simply walks off once the deed has been done and suffers no consequences. | |
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Super-Senses | |
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Super-Senses: Also Deconstructed. Yuriko's mother had telescopic vision and used that in a high-profile way, then people said she's a fake, and she was Driven to Suicide. | |
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Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_a9de87d2 | comment |
Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Yoshihisa. He manages to severely beat up 3 members of the Moritani dojo, by himself, even though they are all larger and more muscular than him. He gets beat up even worse in the process, but it's still quite a feat. | |
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Exploited | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_ac054f25 | comment |
Exploited with much glee by Hiyori in Episode 2, to the point that Haruka vomits. | |
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Reverse Cerebus Syndrome | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_ad03437f | comment |
Reverse Cerebus Syndrome: The Downer Beginning is a buildup for a Romantic Comedy, albeit a bit Darker and Edgier than the average. | |
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Blue with Shock | |
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Blue with Shock: In episode 2, when Haruka and Yoshihisa enter the ESP clubroom. In episode 4, when Haruka found the ESP club members had come to "catch" her, with Glowing Eyes of Doom. | |
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Heal the Cutie | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_b28ee15a | comment |
Heal the Cutie: This trope essentially describes Haruka Katoura's character arc: the show starts with all events lining up to Break the Cutie seemingly as much as possible, and the majority of the plotline is a depiction of her slow, steady return to being a Cheerful Child. | |
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Abomination Accusation Attack | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_b80238ca | comment |
Abomination Accusation Attack: Deconstructed. This is how the Crapsaccharine World's Tatemae ideal is maintained, even if the esper is perfectly innocent. | |
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Glowing Eyes of Doom | |
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Glowing Eyes of Doom: Played for Laughs in episode 4, when the rest of the ESP Club did this to Haruka so that they could "catch" her. | |
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Huge Schoolgirl | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_b95cd640 | comment |
Huge Schoolgirl: In episode 11, Detective Tsukino tells Haruka she was one while going through high school. Unfortunately, it made her an easy target for bullying. | |
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Genius Bruiser | |
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Genius Bruiser: Some of the men who practice at Hiyori's dojo are college graduates, coming from prestigious universities like Tokyo U and Harvard. | |
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Yes-Man | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_be192f18 | comment |
Yes-Man: They are everywhere since Tatemae is a dominant concept in the setting. These are the people that chase away psychics like Haruka, Yuriko's mother (who was Driven to Suicide), and Yuriko herself by extention even though the last one doesn't have any Psychic Powers. It's the fact that Yoshihisa and Dai'chi aren't this which gives the former twosome solace in an otherwise Crapsaccharine World for them. | |
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Through His Stomach | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_c0594195 | comment |
Through His Stomach: Dramatically subverted in Episode 3. Yuriko suggested Haruka to do that to Yoshihisa, and Haruka did make one... on the day after Yoshihisa was attacked. Also, see It's All My Fault for its symbolism. | |
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Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_c0e3994b | comment |
Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male: Daichi gets smacked around by Yuriko in episode 3 after he jokingly teased Haruka about wanting to dissect her while they were alone. Hiyori gets to beat up Yoshihisa with impunity, which is rather audacious considering she was responsible for sending him to the hospital with serious injuries earlier, escaping all punishment for that caper because she was "sorrowful". Haruka's mom, generally considered a colossal bitch, also assaults Yoshihisa rather viciously in public without any repercussions, and it is treated as vaguely heartwarming that she still cares enough about Haruka to come to her defense (never mind that she herself is treating Haruka far worse than Yoshihisa ever would). | |
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I Have No Son! | |
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I Have No Son!: Haruka's Backstory includes having her mother callously abandon her in front of her Grandfather and saying she wished she never gave birth to her. It's utterly heartbreaking. | |
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Big "NO!" | |
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Yuriko had one in Episode 2, when she was reminded about posthumous abuses on her mother's abilities, complete with a Big "NO!". | |
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Forgiven, but Not Forgotten | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_c301532f | comment |
Forgiven, but Not Forgotten: Most characters' feelings towards Hiyori, except Haruka herself. Yoshihisa was not amused knowing she was the one responsible for his attack in episode 4, and the credits of the same episode show he is shocked and suspicious when she starts hanging out with them. Ditto for Zenzou. Who makes Hiyori painfully aware that he knows what she's done in episode 6. Also, at the end of the first half when everyone comes out into Harukaland, Hiyori's character is inside a burning cage. | |
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True Companions | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_c313d43a | comment |
True Companions: The ESP Club for Haruka. It's one of the show's Central Themes. | |
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Offscreen Moment of Awesome | |
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Offscreen Moment of Awesome: Yoshihisa getting ambushed by four thugs. However, he manages to seriously beat all of them up by himself, forcing them to resort to stabbing him. | |
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Telepathy | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_c6d11745 | comment |
The first on anime's promotional video, in which Haruka spent several minutes downplaying what telepathy does to her.. while having an increasing amount of nervous sweat on the face, and she found she can't go on any more at the end of the video. Of course, she's in no position to spoil the Downer Beginning. | |
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Shout-Out | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out: A possible one to Dark Souls. The entrance to the ESP Club bears a striking resemblance to the room where the first Capra Demon is encountered. In Episode 2, Haruka tries to sneak away in a cardboard box. In Episode 5, the ESP Club watches a Bowdlerised version of Scanners, where a tomato is made to explode instead of a man's head. In Episode 7, at Haruka's birthday party, everyone else is arranged in a circle around her, clapping and taking turns saying "Congratulations!" | |
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Bait-and-Switch Credits | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_c76b215e | comment |
Bait-and-Switch Credits: While there are still a significant amount of comedy moments, The Downer Beginning is just the first tear-stained bump in the road. Guess you better have a forklift of tissue handy. | |
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Environmental Symbolism | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_cbd0ac32 | comment |
Environmental Symbolism: The Deliberate Monochrome ends with a shatter◊ of the desaturation filter revealing a more bright and cheerful palette, marking an abrupt end of Haruka's downward spiral of Break the Cutie. (At the same point she also ceases to have Dull Eyes of Unhappiness.) | |
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Spoiler Opening | |
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Spoiler Opening: Those who have watched episodes 2 and/or 3 would find the opening and ending spoiling. As you can see in the page image (clipped from the ending), Hiyori would eventually be a member of the ESP Club. This implies her issue with Haruka and Yoshihisa will resolve at some point. | |
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Lighter and Softer | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_ce6555f0 | comment |
Lighter and Softer: The anime seems to be toning down certain parts of the original yonkoma. Episode 3 has Yoshihisa beaten up significantly in the anime. In the yonkoma, he got stabbed, and was not conscious when Haruka came to check on him. Also, Hiyori convinces the thugs to go after Yoshihisa by telling him that he's stalking her. In the yonkoma, she tells them he raped her. In the anime, one story arc has a criminal prowling the streets savagely beating up schoolgirls, resulting in them getting hospitalized. In the yonkoma, the criminal actually rapes and murders them. | |
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Social Services Does Not Exist | |
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Social Services Does Not Exist: Unfortunately for both Haruka and Yuriko. Haruka's parents could rival Hayate's in jerkassery. To be fair however, Haruka's mother did attempt to see several doctors to discover what was wrong, but none of them could offer any help. Moreover, she also recognized the evil in disowning her own daughter. For all her faults, she does try to get better and that is a huge step above Hayate's parents. Yuriko's case is even more inexcusable since she witnessed her mother Driven to Suicide during her own Dark and Troubled Past. Seriously! It's as if this isn't enough of a Crapsaccharine World to begin with! | |
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Deliberately Monochrome | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_d028ca10 | comment |
Haruka's seeing Yoshihisa's goofy daydream that's enough to break the Deliberately Monochrome in the Downer Beginning. | |
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Good Shepherd | |
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The old monk is played straight. When he first encounters Haruka, he promises to bring her mother back and starts a decade-long research into ESP. Why? He wants to help Kotoura in any way possible. He also welcomes the ESP Research Society into his place when they have nowhere else to stay in Episode 4. It also helps he good friends with Zenzou. | |
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Mundane Made Awesome | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_d148b019 | comment |
Mundane Made Awesome: Episode 7 has a heartwarming example, both In-Universe and likely out: Haruka's Surprise Party. Justified for two reasons: One, it was not easy to keep this a secret from a telepath, and the gravitas of the success made everything Worth It from Yoshihisa's perspective; and two, this is likely Haruka's first birthday in years that was actually worth celebrating. It's understandable that she would take the time to enjoy the surrealism of the moment. | |
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You Are Not Alone | |
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You Are Not Alone: One of the main themes. Consider the situation: Yoshihisa and Dai'chi are the only teens that understand Haruka's and Yuriko's psychic problems, respectively. Haruka and Hiyori share annoyance over Yoshihisa's perversion, etc, etc. | |
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Blank White Eyes | |
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The stinger of Episode 8 has Haruka seeing a vision of a murder scene. She actually got so much shock that she fainted, with Blank White Eyes. | |
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HeiressToTheDojo | |
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Heiress To The Dojo: Hiyori in the anime, but she dislikes being it. This is why she has a crush on Yoshihisa; he didn't care about her position, similar to how he see Haruka now. | |
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Cross-Popping Veins | |
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Cross-Popping Veins: Several characters display these occasionally, usually Haruka or Yuriko. | |
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Poke in the Third Eye | |
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Poke in the Third Eye: Exploited with much glee by Hiyori in Episode 2, to the point that Haruka vomits. Daichi does this as well, with...better intentions, in Episode 3. He feeds Haruka images of her strapped to a table and him ready to dissect her, thinking that neither Yoshihisa nor Yuriko will be coming...30 seconds before they arrive with lunch and Haruka realizes he was teasing her. Yoshihisa also regularly does a much milder form of this to Haruka. He readily admits that he'll sometimes fantasize about her (including imagining a bust upgrade) just to get a reaction out of her - it's just a form of playful teasing to him. He even internally notes that fantasizing about her isn't as fun if she can't react, such as when she briefly lost her telepathy due to a cold. | |
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Solemn Ending Theme | |
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Solemn Ending Theme: The first four episodes use The Flower of Hope (Kibou no Hana) as the ending theme. While it is not completely sad, it is a more-or-less accurate portrayal of Yoshihisa's effect on Haruka—it starts with How do I stand again/ once I've fallen down?, with a refrain starting with that day you taught me the meaning of life, and gave me the strength to live on. | |
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Toy Ship | |
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Dai'chi's mother ships Yuriko and Dai'chi, even when they're quite young.invoked | |
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Television Geography | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_e022585 | comment |
Television Geography: Just compare Kotoura Station(in anime) with Urayasu Station(in real life) of Kotoura T�haku District. They look practically alike there. | |
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Stinger | |
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In the stinger of episode 8, Haruka was clearly really happy on her Not a Date with Yoshihisa and would want to "feel like this forever." The next second she saw a vision of a murder scene and fell into Heroic BSoD / Fainting Seer. | |
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Mama Bear | |
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Mama Bear: When she's first introduced to Manabe and the others, Kumiko punches Manabe in the gut for trying to kiss her daughter. She quickly reverts to her Jerkass behavior after realizing what happened. | |
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Last-Name Basis | |
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Last-Name Basis: Everybody towards everybody, even including Yoshihisa and Haruka who are supposed to be stable lovers. | |
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Self-Fanservice | |
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Self-Fanservice: In-Universe, Yoshihisa's fantasies about Haruka always have her being much curvier than she actually is. | |
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Cult | |
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Cult: Hiyori's parents run this in the manga, rather than a dojo. | |
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Hate Sink | |
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Hate Sink: Haruka's parents, due to their (mis)treatment of Haruka and no real redeeming qualities — her father is plain Parental Neglect, and while her mother does care for her a bit, she finally disowned her. | |
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Suspiciously Specific Denial | |
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Suspiciously Specific Denial: In episode 10, Haruka claims she wasn't thinking about Yoshihisa, shortly after they had a fight regarding her trying to find the criminal attacking high school girls. | |
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Battle Aura | |
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Battle Aura: In episode #2, when Manaba displays his "power" to embarrass Haruka with sexual thoughts about her, he sports a Battle resp. Sex Aura. | |
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O.O.C. Is Serious Business | |
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O.O.C. Is Serious Business: In episode 9, Daichi stops puffing up his lips strangely in order to discuss a series of serial muggings Kotora might have psychically picked up on. | |
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Backstory | |
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In the anime, Inspector first appeared as a cameo in episode 2, as part of Yuriko's Backstory. He does not appear in the corresponding manga. | |
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Talking the Monster to Death | |
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Talking the Monster to Death: In episode 2, Yoshihisa chews Hiyori after he found out that she psychically exploited Haruka during the Fortune Teller scene and teased her about the Stress Vomit. It's made better by Yoshihisa's Tranquil Fury, his Love Confession for Haruka, and the fact that both Haruka and Yuriko were eavesdropping on this conversation. The former sheds Tender Tears afterwards as the latter holds her tenderly. | |
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Crush Filter | |
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Crush Filter: The idealized, bustier version of Kotoura that Manabe frequently imagines is how he prefers to think of his girlfriend. | |
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Ham-to-Ham Combat | |
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Ham-to-Ham Combat: Yoshihisa and Zenzou get into a perverted argument about Haruka, the grandfather bragging about direct contact with her thighs and butt, Yoshihisa about the joy of seeing her flustered face. | |
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Clingy Jealous Girl | |
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Haruka believes she's the cause of all the strife between Yoshihisa and Hiyori, which ended up getting Yoshihisa hurt in the process because of the latter's jealousy. | |
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Big Damn Heroes | |
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Big Damn Heroes: | |
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Jerkass | |
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Jerkass: Haruka's parents abandon her because they just can't deal with the strain of raising her. It turns out by Episode 12, though, that Kumiko realized what she had done to her daughter and regrets her "I Have No Daughter!" line. | |
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Evil Old Folks | |
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The lady who essentially sent the kitten that Haruka was taking care of to the pet equivalent of a slaughterhouse, likely out of spite, and drove Haruka down the Despair Event Horizon, simply walks off once the deed has been done and suffers no consequences. | |
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Vomit Discretion Shot | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_edaedf90 | comment |
Vomit Discretion Shot: When Haruka had a Heroic BSoD after knowing what Hiyori thinks in Episode 2, she covers her mouth as the screen turns dark to hide the horror that prompts a student to exclaim with understandably surprising disgust since the trigger wasn't apparent to anybody else. See the trope's image◊ for the more queasy details. | |
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Early-Bird Cameo | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_f0089082 | comment |
Early-Bird Cameo: The Monk first appeared in the anime's Downer Beginning. That beginning does not actually exist in the manga. In the anime, Inspector first appeared as a cameo in episode 2, as part of Yuriko's Backstory. He does not appear in the corresponding manga. | |
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Surprise Party | |
| Kotoura-san (Manga) / int_f2ced7b8 | comment |
Surprise Party: In the second half of episode 7, Yoshihisa doesn't hang out with Haruka at all, nor does he talk to her very much. She and Yuriko go around town looking for him, and they suspect he's cheating on her, or at least up to no good. Then it turns out he was working because he wanted to get money to give a birthday party to Haruka since her birthday is September 1st. | |
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Easily Forgiven | |
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Easily Forgiven: Hiyori, despite bullying Haruka and nearly getting Yoshihisa killed. However, Justified in that Haruka can read Hiyori's mind and see that she's genuinely sorry for what she's done. And played absolutely straight by 8 episodes in to the extent that she regularly assaults Yoshihisa without being called on it. And in episode 12 Haruka's mother, Kumiko, is also easily forgiven by the former. Sure, she read her mind and saw that she cried right after she told her "I should have never given birth to you!", but that doesn't change the fact that she abandoned her and wanted to have nothing to do with her for almost 10 years. | |
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Corner of Woe | |
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Corner of Woe: Both Yoshihisa and Zenzou sit in one after they find out the mixed bathhouse is closed due to repairs in episode 7. | |
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Worth Living For | |
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Worth Living For: The main idea of the first ending Flower of Hope. Invoked by Haruka in Ep. 11 ducking from a baton strike by Detective Tsukino that's probably meant to kill her: | |
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Product Placement | |
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Product Placement: The Tottori prefectural government sponsors this series, in return for making the anime to be set in different parts of that prefecture. | |
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Earn Your Happy Ending | |
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Earn Your Happy Ending: After over 10 years' worth of emotional torture, Haruka definitely deserved hers, and the ESP Club made damn sure of that. See Book Ends or her profile picture◊ for a more visual comparison. | |
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Downer Beginning | |
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Good Victims: In the Downer Beginning, Haruka did not cause any distrust among the people around her, she just made it apparent. Of course, she then becomes The Scapegoat and All of the Other Reindeer for this distrust even existing. Detective Tsukino is another example for being bullied about her height and then feared for being physically stronger than everyone else during her Dark and Troubled Past. She unconsciously develops an Enemy Within from this experience. This is the actual criminal, which Haruka herself broke. | |
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Comically Missing the Point | |
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Comically Missing the Point: When Yuriko says she's gotten bigger in episode 6 and bounces her breasts in front of Daichi, he nonchalantly says that she must have gotten fatter. | |
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Special Edition Title | |
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Special Edition Title: Episode 5 with Theme of the ESP Society and Episode 6 with Flat as a Board, for the two episodes being a bit of a breather compared to the others. The other episodes use the solemn yet heartwarming Flower of Hope. | |
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Dragged by the Collar | |
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Dragged by the Collar: How Yoshihisa and Yuriko literally pull Haruka back into a happy childhood whenever her endearing insecurity gets the better of her; and thankfully always Played for Laughs. | |
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Brick Joke | |
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Brick Joke: The weird purple thing that Yoshihisa dreams about in the first episode does make a reappearance in the last as a prize in a claw machine that Yoshihisa plays while on a date with Haruka. | |
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Gloomy Gray | |
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Gloomy Gray: The beginning of the anime applies a progressively grey desaturation filter to mark Haruka's progressive, downward spiral of broken-ness that was brought by a power that she couldn't turn off. The beginning of her journey towards Heal the Cutie is symbolized by the shattering◊ of this filter, which is at a graphite colour at this point. | |
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Pet the Dog | |
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Kumiko Kotoura is the closest thing to one in the anime. She abandons Haruka during her childhood and dismisses her as a mistake, cruelly claiming that she ruins people's lives with her powers. Since then, the memory of her mother's disownment had haunted and tormented Haruka throughout her life. Even when she reunites with her daughter after years of separation, she treats her rather poorly. Of course, come the last episode, it's eventually revealed that she deeply regretted leaving her daughter behind, and towards the end, she starts to lighten up on her little by little, eventually making her a plate of eggs over easy for breakfast (as she did when Haruka was a child). The "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue suggests that she is now living with her daughter in her apartment and that their relationship is slowly starting to heal. | |
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