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{{quote|''"Recruiting Friends."''|'''Agenda of the Neighbor's Club'''}}

Kodaka Hasegawa is a second-year transferee to a [[Anime Catholicism|Catholic]] school, St. Chronica Academy, and as always, he finds it nigh-impossible to make friends due to his natural blonde hair (inherited from his late English mother) which makes him pass for a [[Delinquent]]. One day, he runs into the equally solitary and very abrasive Yozora Mikazuki while she speaks to her [[Imaginary Friend]], "Tomo-chan". They decide that the best way to improve their social situation is to found a ~~club~~ ~~-- Neighbors Club -- to~~ help them make friends and learn social skills.

Kodaka Hasegawa is a second-year transferee to a [[Anime Catholicism|Catholic]] school, St. Chronica Academy, and as always, he finds it nigh-impossible to make friends due to his natural blonde hair (inherited from his late English mother) which makes him pass for a [[Delinquent]]. One day, he runs into the equally solitary and very abrasive Yozora Mikazuki while she speaks to her [[Imaginary Friend]], "Tomo-chan". They decide that the best way to improve their social situation is to found a club—Neighbors Club—to help them make friends and learn social skills.

Joining them are five ~~others -- arrogant~~ school idol Sena Kashiwazaki, daughter of the school chairman, whose popularity with boys naturally earn other girls' ire; Yukimura Kusunoki, an extremely effeminate freshman who joins in the hopes that Kodaka teaches him how to be more manly; Rika Shiguma, a genius (and perverted) freshman; Kobato Hasegawa, Kodaka's younger sister and a second year middle-schooler with an obsession for goth culture and vampires; and Maria Takayama, a 10-year-old nun and teacher, who also serves as club advisor.

Joining them are five others—arrogant school idol Sena Kashiwazaki, daughter of the school chairman, whose popularity with boys naturally earn other girls' ire; Yukimura Kusunoki, an extremely effeminate freshman who joins in the hopes that Kodaka teaches him how to be more manly; Rika Shiguma, a genius (and perverted) freshman; Kobato Hasegawa, Kodaka's younger sister and a second year middle-schooler with an obsession for goth culture and vampires; and Maria Takayama, a 10-year-old nun and teacher, who also serves as club advisor.

One can only hope that these seven social losers can get their act together before the club implodes from their nigh-irreconcilable eccentricities.

''Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai'' ("I Don't Have Many Friends") -- also known by its canonical portmanteau name "Haganai" ~~-- is~~ an ongoing 2009 light novel series written by Yomi Hirasaka and illustrated by Buriki (of ''[[Denpa Onna to Seishun Otoko]]'' fame), with a 2010 manga adaptation illustrated by Itachi and [http://www.animenewsnetwork.~~com~~/news/2011-05-17/boku-wa-tomodachi-ga-sukunai-light-novels-gets-tv-anime an anime adaption by AIC] which aired as part of the [[Fall 2011 Anime]] lineup. Said anime has been picked up for North American [http://www.animenewsnetwork.~~com~~/news/2012-01-28/funimation-licenses-haganai-school-comedy-anime home video release] by [[FUNimation]].

''Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai'' ("I Don't Have Many Friends") -- also known by its canonical portmanteau name "Haganai"—is an ongoing 2009 light novel series written by Yomi Hirasaka and illustrated by Buriki (of ''[[Denpa Onna to Seishun Otoko]]'' fame), with a 2010 manga adaptation illustrated by Itachi and [http://www.animenewsnetwork.cc//news/2011-05-17/boku-wa-tomodachi-ga-sukunai-light-novels-gets-tv-anime an anime adaption by AIC] which aired as part of the [[Fall 2011 Anime]] lineup. Said anime has been picked up for North American [http://www.animenewsnetwork.cc//news/2012-01-28/funimation-licenses-haganai-school-comedy-anime home video release] by [[FUNimation]].

The series also inspired three spinoff mangas: ''Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai Plus'', a retelling of the story where Sena is the first girl Kodaka runs into and is a co-founder of the Club with Kate; ''Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai Anthology'', a series of one-shot stories revolving around the club; and ''Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai Shobon!'', a series of one-shots revolving around each club member and his/her relation to the Club.

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* [[Actor Allusion]]: From the Drama CD, [[Kana Hanazawa|Kobato]] once utters "[[Angel Beats!|Guard Skill: Hand Sonic]]", and [[Yuka Iguchi|Maria]] once quoted [[To Aru Majutsu no Index|Touma's]] [[Catch Phrase]] word for word, culminating in a headbite akin to that often done by Index (who shares the same voice actress as her). The ''[[Shinryaku! Ika Musume]]'' [[Shout-Out|Shout Outs]] are a combination of this and [[Ascended Meme]], due to the Ika Musume parody in ''[[To Aru Majutsu no Index]]-tan'' Episode 3.

* [[All Girls Want Bad Boys]]: Not that he realizes it, but Kodaka at the very least has this going for him. Yukimura goes without saying, putting his gender aside. Surprisingly, Yozora is also quite susceptible; while playing an otome game, she gets bored to tears by all the nice pretty boys until she ran across a delinquent ~~character -- who~~ looks like Kodaka, no less.

* [[All Girls Want Bad Boys]]: Not that he realizes it, but Kodaka at the very least has this going for him. Yukimura goes without saying, putting his gender aside. Surprisingly, Yozora is also quite susceptible; while playing an otome game, she gets bored to tears by all the nice pretty boys until she ran across a delinquent character—who looks like Kodaka, no less.

** Further reinforced in that chapter by the rest of the girls also agreeing with Yozora that the 'delinquent' in the otome game was more to their tastes, promptly shooting down Kodaka's reservations about dating that character.

* [[All Just a Dream]]: Chapter 1 of the [[Light Novel]], Chapter 1 of the manga, and Episode 0 of the ~~anime -- which~~ is absolutely hilarious in light of the series' premise. Then Kodaka wakes up and [[It Got Worse|it all goes downhill from there]].

* [[All Just a Dream]]: Chapter 1 of the [[Light Novel]], Chapter 1 of the manga, and Episode 0 of the anime—which is absolutely hilarious in light of the series' premise. Then Kodaka wakes up and [[It Got Worse|it all goes downhill from there]].

* [[Alternate Continuity]]: ''Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai Plus'' centers on the idea of "what if Kodaka ran into Sena first instead of Yozora".

* [[An Adventurer Is You]]: Sena believes in this trope, to the point of naming galge protagonists (usually male) after ''herself''.

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* [[Annoying Younger Sibling]]: Kobato, or at least that's how Kodaka sees her.

** In a surrogate way, Maria is also this to Yozora.

* [[Anything That Moves]]: Rika's as close to this as one can get sans the ~~sex -- finding~~ [[Humongous Mecha|mecha]], arthropods, [[My Friends and Zoidberg|and Kodaka]] all sexually attractive, and having attempted to kiss jellyfish and planarians in the past.

* [[Anything That Moves]]: Rika's as close to this as one can get sans the sex—finding [[Humongous Mecha|mecha]], arthropods, [[My Friends and Zoidberg|and Kodaka]] all sexually attractive, and having attempted to kiss jellyfish and planarians in the past.

* [[Art Shift]]: Lots of it in the manga.

* [[Balanced Harem]]: Yozora is the first girl Kodaka interacted with and is his fellow co-founder of the Neighbors Club, {{spoiler|as well as his [[Forgotten Childhood Friend]] with whom he's reconnecting}}; Sena displays the most romantic interest in him {{spoiler|and later becomes his fiancee}}; Kodaka displays the most attraction to [[Dude Looks Like a Lady|Yukimura]], much to his confusion and horror. Any affection from Rika is ambiguous, owing to her [[Lovable Sex Maniac|overly sexual antics]] and Kodaka's [[No Guy Wants to Be Chased|disdain for them]]. On the non-romantic side Kobato and Maria engage in childish squabbles over Kodaka's brotherly attention.

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{{quote|'''Narration Frame:''' "...Kodaka suddenly jumps onto Rika, roughly embracing her and stealing her lips..."

'''Kodaka:''' "''No I didn't!'' Also, stop making up the narration!" }}

* [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]]: Sena is a ~~subversion -- she~~'s beautiful, smart, a fast learner, athletic and very dedicated; her ego as big as her breasts doesn't make her a good friend. Rika plays it ~~straighter -- she~~ gets away with her eccentricities for being a genius and doesn't mind being alone (the only reason she's even in the Club is to get close to her "savior" Kodaka).

* [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]]: Sena is a subversion—she's beautiful, smart, a fast learner, athletic and very dedicated; her ego as big as her breasts doesn't make her a good friend. Rika plays it straighter—she gets away with her eccentricities for being a genius and doesn't mind being alone (the only reason she's even in the Club is to get close to her "savior" Kodaka).

* [[But Not Too Foreign]]: Kodaka (and his younger sister Kobato) is half-English, giving him a Japanese face and blonde hair, which makes everyone else assume he dyed it and is thus some [[Delinquent]].

* [[Buxom Is Better]]: Inverted, at least within the confines of the Neighbor ~~Club -- Yozora~~ constantly makes fun of Sena's big breasts and even gives her the nickname "[[In-Series Nickname|Meat]]" because of it.

* [[Buxom Is Better]]: Inverted, at least within the confines of the Neighbor Club—Yozora constantly makes fun of Sena's big breasts and even gives her the nickname "[[In-Series Nickname|Meat]]" because of it.

** [[Gag Boobs]]/[[Gainaxing]]: And the anime drives the point home by focusing many a [[Male Gaze]] towards Sena's breasts.

* [[Cannot Spit It Out]]: {{spoiler|Yozora cannot muster the courage to tell Kodaka that she is "Sora", his long-lost childhood friend, because she's frustrated that he doesn't recognize her (which is justifiable, because she has already grown her hair long during those ten years they never met), at least until he finally does after seeing her on the first day of classes after summer break with her hair cut short. Later, she reveals to him that she failed to meet up with him on his last day at Tooya City ten years ago because she was too scared to appear to him dressed as a girl.}}

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** Also, getting [[Kanae Ito]] to voice Sena the Kobato-chaser, which brings to mind Sanae the [[Ika Musume]]-chaser.

* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: Yozora's horror story about a girl who was killed by a ghost for betraying her friend (and driving her to suicide) over a boy they like. {{spoiler|Later that night, Kodaka can't fall asleep over the whole "betrayal of friends" thing, wondering if "Sora", his only childhood friend, felt the same way about him when they fail to meet on the day Kodaka has to move as promised.}}

* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: '''Six out of seven''' members of the Neighbors Club show signs of this in varying degrees of intensity and frequency. This makes the ~~seventh -- Kodaka -- stick~~ out like a sore thumb in his [[Only Sane Man|normalcy]], his [[Delinquent]] image notwithstanding.

* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: '''Six out of seven''' members of the Neighbors Club show signs of this in varying degrees of intensity and frequency. This makes the seventh—Kodaka—stick out like a sore thumb in his [[Only Sane Man|normalcy]], his [[Delinquent]] image notwithstanding.

** Taking the cake, however, is Maria, who's clueless even for a ten-year-old kid, such as believing Yozora's "Bible verses" that coerce her into lending her favorite naptime room to the Club (and not learning the truth until it was too late) and swimming naked in the pool upon Yozora's suggestion as "cure" for "vampirism" after Kobato bit her hand (cue punishment from her superior later that day).

* [[Comedic Sociopathy]]: Most of the time.

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* [[Delinquent Hair]]: The unwanted and misunderstood cause of Kodaka's social problems. In reality, he's a natural blonde.

* [[Deus Angst Machina]]: Parodied in-universe with one of Sena's eroge games. If even one flag is missed, there will be a bad ending with a horrible massacre, such as a great white shark suddenly appearing in a public pool and eating everybody. It's even [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] how incomprehensible and unlikely the bad endings are.

* [[Die for Our Ship]]: [[In-Universe]] [[Played for Laughs|comedic application]] at the end of Chapter 4/Episode 2. After she and Sena get a [[Downer Ending]] on a galge the latter was playing, Yozora storms out the clubroom (while Sena breaks down crying) to find and kill Akari -- ''a video game character'' ~~-- thinking~~ she spread the rumors that their protagonist was a [[He-Man Woman Hater]], causing Yukiko, a girl she and Sena were angling for, to turn him/them down... [[Comically Missing the Point|conveniently]] [[Moral Myopia|forgetting]] that it was ''their'' fault for shooting down Akari's friendly overtures with the most cruel options because they deem her proactive attitude (such as taking the initiative to introduce herself to the protagonist) a sign of being a [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing]].

* [[Die for Our Ship]]: [[In-Universe]] [[Played for Laughs|comedic application]] at the end of Chapter 4/Episode 2. After she and Sena get a [[Downer Ending]] on a galge the latter was playing, Yozora storms out the clubroom (while Sena breaks down crying) to find and kill Akari -- ''a video game character''—thinking she spread the rumors that their protagonist was a [[He-Man Woman Hater]], causing Yukiko, a girl she and Sena were angling for, to turn him/them down... [[Comically Missing the Point|conveniently]] [[Moral Myopia|forgetting]] that it was ''their'' fault for shooting down Akari's friendly overtures with the most cruel options because they deem her proactive attitude (such as taking the initiative to introduce herself to the protagonist) a sign of being a [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing]].

* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: The scene where Yozora puts lotion [["It's Not Rape If You Enjoyed It"|on Sena's back]]. [[It Makes Sense in Context]].

* [[Do Not Call Me Paul]]: Sena's father, Tenma, has a seemingly normal name, except it can also mean "Pegasus", and he does not like being called "Pegasus".

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* [[Girls Love Stuffed Animals]]: Kobato carries a patchwork rabbit around with her almost constantly.

* [[Gory Discretion Shot]]: Yozora's ghost story.

* [[Guide Dang It]]: Applied in-series in Chapter 16 of the manga. Sena has been getting nothing but [[Downer Ending~~|Downer Endings~~]] on a galge she was playing five times straight. Rika explains that the galge suffers from a [[Game Breaking Bug]] where it skips a crucial [[Event Flag]] unless the player uses the protagonist's [[Canon Name]] (or at least temporarily change the name before said flag). However, Sena is a believer in "[[An Adventurer Is You]]" and refuses to let "some other guy" take the fruits of the intense friendship she made with a girl she was rooting for, so what does she do? ''Shatter the CD and kiss the game goodbye.'' [[Wham! Line|Then Rika says she could've just fixed the bug.]] [[My God, What Have I Done?|Cue Sena crying on the window in regret.]]

* [[Guide Dang It]]: Applied in-series in Chapter 16 of the manga. Sena has been getting nothing but [[Downer Ending]]s on a galge she was playing five times straight. Rika explains that the galge suffers from a [[Game Breaking Bug]] where it skips a crucial [[Event Flag]] unless the player uses the protagonist's [[Canon Name]] (or at least temporarily change the name before said flag). However, Sena is a believer in "[[An Adventurer Is You]]" and refuses to let "some other guy" take the fruits of the intense friendship she made with a girl she was rooting for, so what does she do? ''Shatter the CD and kiss the game goodbye.'' [[Wham! Line|Then Rika says she could've just fixed the bug.]] [[My God, What Have I Done?|Cue Sena crying on the window in regret.]]

** Also, in Episode 8, Sena falls prey to a nightmarish [[Downer Ending]] on a galge featuring a shark attack on the pool killing both the hero and his harem girls. According to Rika, said galge is notorious for such bloody bad endings which are [[Unwinnable by Design|very easy to trigger should the player mess up with even a single flag]], earning it a "so bad it's good" reputation among gamers. Sena begs to differ, and angrily breaks the disk in half.

* [[Hero Worshipper]]: Kodaka's a stand-up guy and all, and possibly the only admirable person in the Neighbor Club, but according to Yukimura, he's also a paragon of [[Rated "M" for Manly|manliness]], a veritable "Man Among Men".

* [[Hidden Purpose Test]]: The Neighbor Club's recruitment poster has a seemingly nonsensical mission statement below [[Terrible Artist|an awful artwork]] by Yozora. Turns out the statement has the words "recruiting friends" encrypted diagonally. To Kodaka's surprise, [[Strange Minds Think Alike|there are people who are able to read that]].

* [[I Just Want to Have Friends]]: The ~~premise -- but~~ thanks to Kodaka, Yozora, Sena, Yukimura, Kobato, Maria and Rika's unusual traits, the only friends they can find are [[Lonely Together|each other]].

* [[I Just Want to Have Friends]]: The premise—but thanks to Kodaka, Yozora, Sena, Yukimura, Kobato, Maria and Rika's unusual traits, the only friends they can find are [[Lonely Together|each other]].

* [[Idiosyncratic Episode Naming]]: Every episode uses the characters for the series' shorthand name, "Haganai" (はがない), throughout the title, followed by a popular ShiftJIS [[Emoticon]] used in Japanese [[Message Board~~|Message Boards~~]], in episode order:

* [[Idiosyncratic Episode Naming]]: Every episode uses the characters for the series' shorthand name, "Haganai" (はがない), throughout the title, followed by a popular ShiftJIS [[Emoticon]] used in Japanese [[Message Board]]s, in episode order:

{{quote|'''00:''' Black Hotpot Gives Girls a Bad Smell -- 闇鍋は美少女が残念な臭い<ref>Yaminabe wa Bishōjo ga Zannen na Nioi</ref> (;´∀`)

'''01:''' We Can't Make Any Friends -- 僕達は友達が出来ない<ref>Bokutachi wa Tomodachi ga Dekinai</ref> (´・ω・`)

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* [[Mismatched Eyes]]: Kobato... er, [[Insistent Terminology|Reisys V. Felicity Sumeragi]], has a red eye and a blue eye. Though it is just her using contacts as part of [[Elegant Gothic Lolita|the costume she wears]] due to her persistent delusion that she's a vampire.

* [[Mook Horror Show]]: During the [[RPG Episode]].

* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: ~~Sena -- cranked~~ [[Up to Eleven]] in the anime.

* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: Sena—cranked [[Up to Eleven]] in the anime.

* [[Mundane Made Awesome]]: Transferring cell phone addresses. Kodaka and Yozora were so thrilled at having their first contacts outside home (though the manual way, both being not so tech-savvy) Rika, who easily shared hers with Yukimura through infrared, admits she feels as though she's "behind the times". This [[Green-Eyed Monster|does not sit well with Sena]] who, for such a rich kid, does ''not'' have a cell phone.

** [[To Aru Majutsu no Index|Index]] vs [[Ore no Imouto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai!|Kuroneko]] aka Maria vs Kobato.

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* [[Older Than She Looks]]: Kobato looks like a ten-year-old; she's actually thirteen.

* [[One of the Boys]]: {{spoiler|Yozora was one as a kid.}}

* [[Only Sane Man]]: Kodaka stands as the Neighbor Club's sole voice of reason. All his clubmates don't have friends due to their unusual and/or unpleasant ~~personalities -- he~~ just has his [[Delinquent Hair|appearance]] [[Face of a Thug|to]] [[Shrouded in Myth|blame]].

* [[Only Sane Man]]: Kodaka stands as the Neighbor Club's sole voice of reason. All his clubmates don't have friends due to their unusual and/or unpleasant personalities—he just has his [[Delinquent Hair|appearance]] [[Face of a Thug|to]] [[Shrouded in Myth|blame]].

* [[Or So I Heard]]: Sena about doujinshi.

* [[Our Vampires Are Different]]: Reisys V. Felicity Sumeragi ([[Blatant Lies|mistakenly known to some]] as [[Do Not Call Me Paul|Kobato Hasegawa]], Kodaka's younger sister of three years) drinks tomato juice (and resorts only to Pepsi whenever it's unavailable), claims to be [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|thousands of years old]] (though that doesn't stop her from carrying around a patchwork stuffed rabbit), and believes vampires already had an advanced magical culture while humans were still cavemen. She also claims to have a weakness to [[Weaksauce Weakness|cold water]] ~~-- not~~ that it stops her from doing well in swimming class (which presumably involves a lot of cold water), though, claiming she "uses a lot of magic" to adapt. And then there's those moments where her facade completely breaks and she devolves into cute little Kobato, speaking in Kyuushuu dialect and calling Kodaka "An-chan" instead of her usual "my kindred".

* [[Our Vampires Are Different]]: Reisys V. Felicity Sumeragi ([[Blatant Lies|mistakenly known to some]] as [[Do Not Call Me Paul|Kobato Hasegawa]], Kodaka's younger sister of three years) drinks tomato juice (and resorts only to Pepsi whenever it's unavailable), claims to be [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|thousands of years old]] (though that doesn't stop her from carrying around a patchwork stuffed rabbit), and believes vampires already had an advanced magical culture while humans were still cavemen. She also claims to have a weakness to [[Weaksauce Weakness|cold water]]—not that it stops her from doing well in swimming class (which presumably involves a lot of cold water), though, claiming she "uses a lot of magic" to adapt. And then there's those moments where her facade completely breaks and she devolves into cute little Kobato, speaking in Kyuushuu dialect and calling Kodaka "An-chan" instead of her usual "my kindred".

* [[Parental Abandonment]]: Kodaka and Kobato's English mother Airi is dead, and their father Hayato works in America, leaving Kodaka to [[Promotion to Parent|take care of Kobato all by himself]].

** Sena's father Tenma gives a [[Take That]] to this trope in the anime, calling Hayato trash for doing it. [[Berserk Button|Kodaka is none too pleased.]]

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* [[RPG Episode]]: TV episodes 2 and 5 and chapter 17 of the manga, as well as a volume in the light novel.

* [[Running Gag]]: [[Jerkass|Yozora]] says or does something cruel to [[Sitcom Arch Nemesis|Sena]]. Sena yells childish insults back at her and runs away crying. Usually happens [[Once Per Episode|once an episode.]]

* [[Second Year Protagonist]]: The main ~~trio -- Kodaka~~, Yozora and ~~Sena -- complete~~ with two underclassmen (Yukimura and Rika), a junior-high kid (Kobato), a ten-year-old advisor (Maria), and no need to worry about graduation, though no third-years of note.

* [[Second Year Protagonist]]: The main trio—Kodaka, Yozora and Sena—complete with two underclassmen (Yukimura and Rika), a junior-high kid (Kobato), a ten-year-old advisor (Maria), and no need to worry about graduation, though no third-years of note.

* [[Serious Business]]: Sena and her games.

** Exchanging cell phone numbers for Kodaka and Yozora.

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** To a lesser extent, Kobato and Maria, playing on their Dark vs. Light (i.e., vampire vs. nun) dichotomy.

* [[Slasher Smile]]: Kodaka's smile appears to be this to other people.

* [[So Bad It's Good]]: [[Invoked Trope|Invoked]] [[In-Universe]] in the third [[Light Novel]] with Rika describing "St. Joe's Academy Tale" as this word for word, being a lighthearted galge notorious for plunging straight into outright nightmarish [[Downer Ending~~|Downer Endings~~]] where [[Kill'Em All|both the hero and ALL his potential love interests die in the most horrifying ways]] should the player [[Unwinnable by Design|mess up with even a single flag]].

* [[So Bad It's Good]]: [[Invoked Trope|Invoked]] [[In-Universe]] in the third [[Light Novel]] with Rika describing "St. Joe's Academy Tale" as this word for word, being a lighthearted galge notorious for plunging straight into outright nightmarish [[Downer Ending]]s where [[Kill'Em All|both the hero and ALL his potential love interests die in the most horrifying ways]] should the player [[Unwinnable by Design|mess up with even a single flag]].

* [[Sophisticated As Hell]]: Rika in the fourth novel.

{{quote|'''Rika:''' "Oh, yeah, now [[Third Person Person|Rika]] is supposed to behave in a more refined way. Would you care for a fuck, sempai?"}}

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* [[Unusual Euphemism]]: "'''Universe!!!'''" (uttered twice, once by Rika while [[The Immodest Orgasm|climaxing]] while reading aloud her EVA x Gundam ero-doujin, and then by Sena running out of her house crying after being seen naked by Kodaka). Probably doubles as a [[Shout-Out]] to ''[[Turn A Gundam|Turn a Gundam]]''.

* [[Video Game Caring Potential]]: Sena becomes addicted to [[Dating Sim|dating sims]] because of this, to the point of referring to the characters in them casually as if they were her actual friends.

* [[Video Game Cruelty Potential]]: [[Played for Laughs]] in Chapter 4/Episode 2. While playing "Tokimeite Memorial Days", Yozora and Sena agreed -- [[Sitcom Arch Nemesis|for once]] ~~-- to~~ court shy Yukiko Nagata, while they keep shooting down overtures by Akari Fujibayashi, whom they deem a [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing]] just because she's proactive, with the most cruel options. [[Genre Savvy|Kodaka]] is none too amused. Their choices come back to [[Laser-Guided Karma|bite them in the ass]] when [[Video Game Cruelty Punishment]] kicks in and rumors that their protagonist, "Semoponume Kashiwazaki", was a [[He-Man Woman Hater]] became so ~~widespread -- whose~~ spread [[Comically Missing the Point|Yozora and Sena directly attribute to Akari]] ~~-- Yukiko~~ eventually shot him down. They ultimately got a [[Downer Ending]] so depressing [[Serious Business|Sena breaks down crying, while Yozora storms out of the clubroom threatening to kill Akari]].

* [[Video Game Cruelty Potential]]: [[Played for Laughs]] in Chapter 4/Episode 2. While playing "Tokimeite Memorial Days", Yozora and Sena agreed -- [[Sitcom Arch Nemesis|for once]]—to court shy Yukiko Nagata, while they keep shooting down overtures by Akari Fujibayashi, whom they deem a [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing]] just because she's proactive, with the most cruel options. [[Genre Savvy|Kodaka]] is none too amused. Their choices come back to [[Laser-Guided Karma|bite them in the ass]] when [[Video Game Cruelty Punishment]] kicks in and rumors that their protagonist, "Semoponume Kashiwazaki", was a [[He-Man Woman Hater]] became so widespread—whose spread [[Comically Missing the Point|Yozora and Sena directly attribute to Akari]]—Yukiko eventually shot him down. They ultimately got a [[Downer Ending]] so depressing [[Serious Business|Sena breaks down crying, while Yozora storms out of the clubroom threatening to kill Akari]].

** Also, while playing [[Monster Hunter]] Sena and Yozora spend most of their time griefing each other and ignoring everything else, including their mission and Kodaka.

* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]: Yozora and Sena are implied to be an extreme Type 2, sprinkled with a little bit of "[[With Friends Like These...]]". Yozora says that nicknames are only reserved for friends, even if it's an [[Embarrassing Nickname]] such as Sena's "[[Gag Boobs|Meat]]". On Sena's side, she confides to Kodaka that she is secretly happy with that nickname, because that was the first one she received. {{spoiler|Volume 4 of the light novel makes the subtext all the more obvious when Sena reveals that she has ''five'' pictures of Yozora, and comments that the latter, post-haircut, [[Stupid Sexy Flanders|looks stupidly handsome]] [[Bifauxnen|on a male school uniform]].}}

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