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Akito holds some secret blackmail on two of the teachers, allowing him to get away with a great deal of misbehavior -- something which enrages Sana, especially when it disrupts the class. She vows to defeat Akito, and restore peace to the school. After several failures, she succeeds in beating Akito at his own game, but her victory over him is just the beginning of a surprising evolution of her relationship with the quiet, angry-seeming boy, as she discovers ''why'' is he so angry and starts trying to fix it...
 
''[[Kodomo no Omocha]]'' ("Child's Toy", and frequently [[Portmanteau Series Nickname|contracted]] to "''Kodocha''") is a fun, entertaining [[Shojo]] series that mixes comedy and drama in equal parts. Sana's irrepressible energy and rapidfire dialogue is second only to Excel of ''[[Excel Saga (Mangamanga)|Excel Saga]]'' for its speed and outrageousness. (In fact, Excel's original North American voice actress, Jessica Calvello, once expressed an interest in voicing Sana in English.) But unlike Excel, Sana is a force to be reckoned with, despite her non sequiturs and baffling leaps of "logic". Possessed of an immense empathy and a willingness to help even someone she characterizes as her worst enemy, she plows through troubles and problems with a bold determination and a choice of skills from the acting school she attends. It has frequently been described as "''[[Marmalade Boy]]'' [[This Is Your Premise Onon Drugs|on crack]]" due to Sana and Akito's superficial resemblance to Miki and Yuu.
 
An extra note of surrealism is added above and beyond that which normally surrounds Sana by the presence of Babbit -- an albino bat who acts as a [[Narrator]] and [[Greek Chorus]] for the show. In addition to his other schtick, Babbit is quite aware that he and the other characters are in an anime, and sometimes upbraids Sana and her friends for doing things they shouldn't on TV.
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* [[Big Fancy House]]: Both Sana's house and her grandparents'.
* [[Bishonen]]: Akito and Naozumi. Rei may count.
* [[Blue Withwith Shock]]
* [[Bowdlerise]]: The first disc of the FUNimation dub.
* [[Brick Joke]]: when Akito gives Sana her [[First Kiss]], a couple classmates on the background tell us that Akito gave his first kiss when he was a kindergartener, and when he admits they also add they had bet 10 yen each he couldn't do it. Halfway in the series, the girl he kissed as a kindergartener returns to Tokyo and slap him for that.
* [[Broke Episode]]: Or more accurately, broke filler mini-arc.
* [[But Not Too Foreign]]: Naozumi.
* [[Can't Get Away Withwith Nuthin']]: Mami never forgives Akito after he tries to ''drown her'' for calling him a demon, and when she learns about it Misako explicitly tells him it's his own fault for his abuse of her.
* [[Character Development]]: For a comedy, a pretty good one.
* [[Cherry Blossoms]]
* {{spoiler|[[Child Byby Rape]]: Hinted to be the case with Sana in the manga. Keiko gave birth to her when she was 13 or 14 years old and her dad was not only a much older man, but Keiko's ''uncle''. In the anime, we only know that Keiko was a teenage mom and that's all.}}
* [[Continuity Cameo]]: Babbit may be an anime-exclusive character, but it doesn't mean he is an outsider of the group character portrait cover of the final volume of the manga.
* [[Cool Big Sis]]: Natsumi, after the Hayama family's problems are partially resolved by Sana and they start to emotionally heal.
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* [[Cross-Popping Veins]]
* [[The Danza]]: Zenjiro as Zenjiro.
* [[Death Byby Childbirth]]: Akito's mother Koharu died right after she gave birth to him. Of course, milked as melodrama for all it's worth, since the badly traumatised Natsumi psychologically abuses her brother and blames him for that for years.
* [[Distant Finale]]: In the manga.
* [[Drives Like Crazy]]: Rei, at Sana's behest. But also Misako, though she does so ''inside'' the house in some kind of mini-car.
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* [[No Fourth Wall]]
{{quote| "This is supposed to be a [[Shojo]] anime!"}}
* [[The Nose Bleed]]: Sana's [[Stalker Withwith a Crush]], Ishida (No, [[Name's the Same|not]] [[Bleach|THAT one]]) has chronic nosebleeds. Other characters too, though much less often.
* [[Odd Friendship]]: Akito and Tsuyoshi, as well as Akito and Sana.
* [[Orphanage of Love]]: Where Sana and Naozumi were raised.
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* [[Sadist Teacher]]: Mr. Sengoku. He goes so far as to take Akito aside and punch him in the stomach, then getting him suspended when he fought back. In the Manga, {{spoiler|after Akito loses function in his right hand, Sengoku forces Akito to write a sentence on the chalkboard with his left hand. This pisses Sana off so much she goes and yells at Mr. Sengoku after class.}}
* [[Selective Obliviousness]]: Sana becomes ''very'' brokenhearted when she hears that Akito is dating someone else. When someone explains the obvious, she tries to rationalize it away one last time.
* [[Sex Asas Rite of -Of-Passage]]: Sana and Akito wanted to do this before {{spoiler|he was sent overseas}}, but {{spoiler|Sana proved to be too ticklish and the mood was ruined. Plus Rei and Misako barge in before anything else can happen}}. She gets an earful from her mother about what a bad idea this was.
* [[Shojo]]
* [[Show Within a Show]]: Also called ''Kodomo no Omocha'', it's actually based on a real Japanese TV show that sits 30 kids in a simulated schoolroom with a standup comedian as the "teacher"/emcee.
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