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* [[Extreme Doormat]]: Some of the characters, particularly a number of the boys, are this.
* [[Extreme Doormat]]: Some of the characters, particularly a number of the boys, are this.
* [[Friends with Benefits]]: Brought up in a number of the stories. Though more often than not, not everyone in the relationship is really happy with the arrangement as it can tend to be either out of peer pressure or plain desperation.
* [[Friends with Benefits]]: Brought up in a number of the stories. Though more often than not, not everyone in the relationship is really happy with the arrangement as it can tend to be either out of peer pressure or plain desperation.
* [[Germans Love David Hasselhoff]]: The manga has something of a following in France.
* [[Maybe Ever After]]: Sometimes, it's left open whether the relationship between one young couple is really going to begin or last.
* [[Maybe Ever After]]: Sometimes, it's left open whether the relationship between one young couple is really going to begin or last.
* [[Mood Whiplash]]: The tone can jump all over the place, going from comedic to raunchy to melodramatic in the course of a few pages at times.
* [[Mood Whiplash]]: The tone can jump all over the place, going from comedic to raunchy to melodramatic in the course of a few pages at times.
* [[Not Blood Siblings]]: Deconstructed. One small arc focuses on a brother-sister pair who find themselves attracted to one another. But even with that clause, it's shown how stigmatizing it can be when out in the open.
* [[Occidental Otaku]]: The American schoolgirl in one of the later stories, which is strongly implied to be a facade for her to hide how alone she feels as a ''gaijin.'' To the point that her Japanese boyfriend wonders whether she would have still gone out with him back in America.
* [[Occidental Otaku]]: The American schoolgirl in one of the later stories, which is strongly implied to be a facade for her to hide how alone she feels as a ''gaijin.'' To the point that her Japanese boyfriend wonders whether she would have still gone out with him back in America.
* [[Otaku]]: In one story, one girl tries to attract the affections of a handsome if nerdy guy in school by feigning to like the same interests as him, [[Becoming the Mask|only to become an otaku herself]].
* [[Otaku]]: In one story, one girl tries to attract the affections of a handsome if nerdy guy in school by feigning to like the same interests as him, [[Becoming the Mask|only to become an otaku herself]].
* [[The Pollyanna]]: Some of the girls are shown to be this, putting up a facade to mask a rather different persona.
* [[Not Blood Siblings]]: Deconstructed. One small arc focuses on a brother-sister pair who find themselves attracted to one another. But even with that clause, it's shown how stigmatizing it can be when out in the open.
* [[Porn with Plot]]: With a lot of emphasis on story, though there's also much in the way of eroticism.
* [[Porn with Plot]]: With a lot of emphasis on story, though there's also much in the way of eroticism.
* [[Reality Ensues]]: One of the major points of the manga. More often than not, the relationships shown don't always seem to work out in the end or are doomed to fail, if not lead to unintended consequences.
* [[Reality Ensues]]: One of the major points of the manga. More often than not, the relationships shown don't always seem to work out in the end or are doomed to fail, if not lead to unintended consequences.