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* [[Anthology Comic]]: The manga as a whole consists of various one-shot short stories, though a number of them either follow the same characters over time or are in some manner interconnected.
* [[Book Ends]]: The first and very last stories (the latter being a [[Time Skip]]) are this, as they both involve the same characters.
* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: Many stories tend to end like this. An actual, straightforward "good end" is relatively rare.
* [[Childhood Friend Romance]]: Deconstructed in a couple of stories, in which the childhood friend in question is only being used for sexual satisfaction or experimentation.
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* [[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.
* [[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.
* [[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]].
* [[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.
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