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'''''Haikara-san ga Tōru''''' (はいからさんが通る?), also known as ''Smart-san'', is a Japanese shōjo manga series by Waki Yamato. It was serialized by Kodansha in the magazine Shōjo Friend from 1975 to 1977, and released in eight volumes. The title can be literally translated into English as ''Here Comes Miss Modern'' or ''Here Comes Miss High-Collar'' ("haikara" being the Japanese version of "high collar"), or ''Fashionable Girl Passing By.'' In 1977, it was awarded the 1st Kodansha Manga Award for shōjo. It also has been adapted into an anime series from the late seventies, and then into a film and some ''doramas''.
The female lead is Benio Hanamura, a young woman living in [[Imperial Japan|the Taisho Era]]. Benio has been raised by a single father, a high-ranked military man, since her mom died when she was a little girl. As a result, much to the despair of Hanamura Sr., Benio is a ''huge'' [[Tomboy]]: she doesn't want to get married, scoffs at boys, smokes, drinks, likes reading and riding her bike, and her only resemblances in regards to the [[Yamato Nadeshiko]] archetype are her looks and her penchant for wearing ''kimonos'' and ''hakama''. Her best friends are Tamaki Kitaouji, a more girlish but also openminded young woman, and Ranmaru Fujieda, a very girly-looking guy coming from a ''kabuki'' background.
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Eventually, Benio accepts the engagement -- to [[Please Dump Me|try scheming against it]] via telling and showing Shinobu that she's an ''horrible'' excuse for a [[Yamato Nadeshiko]], so he and his family will hate her and call everything off. Yet not only Shinobu turns out to be a [[Nice Guy]] who has come to like Benio as a person and has a saint-like patience to her blunders, but she finds herself falling for him...
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* [[Arranged Marriage]]: Shinobu and Benio. {{spoiler|In a subversion, it's because of a family tragedy (see [[Star-Crossed Lovers]]) rather than mere social and economic interests.}}
** [[Perfectly Arranged Marriage]]: When they get to know each other better.
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** {{spoiler|Kichiji}} also had her share of broken-ness in her past, though she takes it kinda in stride.
* [[But Not Too Foreign]]: Shinobu, half-Japanese and half-German.
* [[Driven to Suicide]]: {{spoiler|Benio}} tries to drown herself twice when {{spoiler|she believes Shinobu is dead.}} In the backstory, {{spoiler|Kichiji attempted to commits suicide after losing her lover, an army officer, in [[World War
* [[Dude Looks Like a Lady]]: Ranmaru [[Meaningful Name|Oh, Ranmaru]].
** [[Wholesome Crossdresser]]: He also pulls this more than once. Specially as Benio's "maid" when she moves into the Iijyuin home.
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