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[[Genki Girl|Miki Koishikawa]]'s parents pull her aside one day after school to announce to her that they're getting a divorce. It seems that they met another couple on their recent trip to Hawaii, and hit it off so well that both couples want to divorce each other, swap partners, and remarry. Even more incredibly, the four [[Polyamory|want to all live together]] in one household... and the other couple have a boy Miki's age, the handsome [[Deadpan Snarker|Yuu]].

Romantic Comedy-Drama ensues.

 

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* [[Against the Setting Sun]]

* [[Akira Ishida]]: As Kei

* [[Ascended Extra]]: Kijima, Yuu's boss at the Junk Jungle. Started out as a one-panel character stuck in there just to let Miki know that Yuu quit his job so she wouldn't be home alone during their parents' honeymoons, became an [[Mentors|all-wise mentorly type]] who had a history with Ryouko and Nachan.

* [[Badass Adorable]]: Meiko, in a (generally) non-violent fashion. Her gaze of steel has even made Yuu quail.

* [[Clingy Jealous Girl]] - [[Crazy Jealous Guy]]: ''Lots''. There's Miki and Yuu around eachother, Suzu, Jenny, Arimi around Yuu. Kei, Ginta, and Michael around Miki. Satoshi around Meiko, etc.

* [[Cool Big Sis]]: Doris from the American arc. She's not really happy about it, since it works against her in the romance field: men, and specially her crush, only see her as a friend and not as a prospect girlfriend. {{spoiler|She has to prety much spell her intrest to Brian after Jinny and Bill get hitched.}}

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Yuu, in the beginning.

* [[Defeat Means Friendship]]: As demonstrated by Yuu and Miki's huge circle of friends by series' end. It comes with the bonus that sooner or later [[Cleaning Up Romantic Loose Ends|said defeated romantic rivals]] [[Pair the Spares|end up meeting their perfect matches]].

* [[Love Letter Lunacy]]: Part of the [[Backstory]]: Miki writes Ginta a love letter, and sticks it in a magazine in his bag. This magazine was actually borrowed from another boy, so the owner takes it out and reads the letter, humiliating Ginta, who [[She Is Not My Girlfriend|vehemently denies any feelings for Miki]], claiming she's one of the guys. Miki and Meiko, of course, came back to get something and heard every word...

* [[Luke, You Are My Father]]: By Yuu, ''repeatedly''. [[Genre Blind|He really ought to know better by the third time...]]

* [[Mistaken for Gay]]: Hilariously done with Satoshi and Yuu. {{spoiler|Satoshi spends some episodes pretending to have the hots for Yuu, to cover up their investigations about their possible common past and Satoshi's own feelings for Meiko; it works so well that Miki sees Satoshi as another rival for Yuu's affection, and at the same time Meiko seems to ship them a bit}}.

** Don't forget {{spoiler|Bill, who spends most of the last third of the anime thought to be a [[Invisible to Gaydar]], but ends the series dating Jinny. So yeah, he's somewhat of a [[Camp Straight]] instead.}}.

* [[Wager Slave]]: Tsutomu loses a tennis match, and as punishment has to shave his head.

* [[What Could Have Been]]: The original plan for the series, according to Yoshizumi herself, was to have Yuu and Miki find out they were really blood siblings, break up, and find love with other people. When she put this idea through to her editor the response was basically "You crazy, woman? The readers ''love'' Yuu and Miki as a couple!", and thus the two characters find out they were [[Not Blood Siblings]].

* [[Yamato Nadeshiko]]: Anju. Again, voiced by [[Kikuko Inoue]].

** Also, Ryouko Momoi.

 

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