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* [[Foreign Fanservice]]: Angela, the fit foreign bird who eagerly takes off her top in the presence of Ohno's boyfriend.

* [[Funbag Airbag]]: Ogiue running into much taller and bustier Ohno.

* [[Genius Ditz]]: Kousaka. While he appears to be extremely manipulable and oblivious to most things, he is unbeatable at ~~videogames~~ and manages to secure a respectable career at the end of the series.

* [[Genius Ditz]]: Kousaka. While he appears to be extremely manipulable and oblivious to most things, he is unbeatable at video-games and manages to secure a respectable career at the end of the series.

* [[Genki Girl]]: Yoshitake and Susan in Chapter 56.

* [[Genre Savvy]]: Obviously.

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** Which may reference the first President's research project, having used the Genshiken club as research subjects without their knowledge. Once he's gone (to write his doctoral thesis), the episode titles become much more mundane.

* [[I Have This Friend]]

* [[Ignore the Fanservice]]: Kasukabe starts hitting on Kousaka in the most blatant way possible... and he just goes out to line up for a ~~videogame~~ release.

* [[Ignore the Fanservice]]: Kasukabe starts hitting on Kousaka in the most blatant way possible... and he just goes out to line up for a video-game release.

* [[Ironic Echo]]: Sue goes meta and quotes ''Genshiken itself'' in chapter 56, when Ogiue is fretting over the club's eclectic group of new recruits. Predictably, Ogiue panics when her infamous self-introduction is presented out-of-context to the new members, as she screams for Sue to shut up before she gets to the part about yaoi fangirls.

** [[Lampshade Hanging|"How do you know about that?!"]]

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* [[Onsen Episode]]: While the bath is more of a semi-outdoor furo -- much to the characters' disappointment -- they nonetheless self-consciously treat it as an onsen episode, complete with lampshading, when Ohno prompts Kasukabe on the lines she's supposed to say as the two share the bath.

* [[Otaku]]

* [[Out of Focus]]: Since ''Nidaime'', some of the former Genshiken members have pretty much disappeared from the radar, save occasional appearances. Not too surprising for Kasukabe and Kousaka, a bit more for Sasahara since he's Ogiue's boyfriend. Actually, even Ogiue seems more and more absent in the ~~latst~~ chapters, the story being increasingly focused on Hato.

* [[Out of Focus]]: Since ''Nidaime'', some of the former Genshiken members have pretty much disappeared from the radar, save occasional appearances. Not too surprising for Kasukabe and Kousaka, a bit more for Sasahara since he's Ogiue's boyfriend. Actually, even Ogiue seems more and more absent in the latest chapters, the story being increasingly focused on Hato.

** Which was explicitly the point of ''Nidaime'', to show what was happening with the new Genshiken membership. However, a drifting focus has been built into the series from the start as leadership has changed hands and the group has added and lost members. Kasukabe and her struggles with understanding otaku took much of the early focus, it drifted more onto Sasahara for his tenure as president, Ogiue grabbed the focus once her backstory started to come out, and now it's drifted towards the new group with Hato. Meanwhile, the other characters have moved in and out retaining a secondary focus and sometimes losing it. [[Truth in Television|It's remarkably alike to the feeling of watching a real college club evolve over several years as membership changes and the social circles ~~rebalance~~.]]

** Which was explicitly the point of ''Nidaime'', to show what was happening with the new Genshiken membership. However, a drifting focus has been built into the series from the start as leadership has changed hands and the group has added and lost members. Kasukabe and her struggles with understanding otaku took much of the early focus, it drifted more onto Sasahara for his tenure as president, Ogiue grabbed the focus once her backstory started to come out, and now it's drifted towards the new group with Hato. Meanwhile, the other characters have moved in and out retaining a secondary focus and sometimes losing it. [[Truth in Television|It's remarkably alike to the feeling of watching a real college club evolve over several years as membership changes and the social circles re-balance.]]

* [[Parody]]: The [[OVA|OVAs]] opening title parodies the opening theme of the remade version of [[Kujibiki Unbalance]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4IF_7UWJZE See Here].

* [[Phenotype Stereotype]]: Ohno's two American friends (and fellow Otaku) Angela and Sue are both pale and blonde, the former being blue-eyed and the latter green-eyed.