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** She does a poor job of concealing that she's hungry after her stomach growls from not having eaten for a day.

** In the novel and episode 4 of the anime, she offers to do the laundry for Jirou while staying over at his place, after sparring. He catches her sniffing his recently used sweaty towel, after which all she manages to say is this:

* [[Base Breaker]]: [[In-Universe]], Jiro has unwittingly become this to Subaru's fangirls, on account of his (alleged) gay romance with Subaru. In fact, fangirls who approve of their relationship (implied to constitute roughly ''half'' of Subaru's entire fanbase), led by Nakuru, formed their own club, "Let's Warmly Protect Subaru-Sama Committee" (Mimamorugai), leaving the original club, "Shooting Star Subaru-Sama" (S4), entirely to the other half -- the ones who vehemently object to such a relationship.

** And it's slowly going to end up in a [[Civil War]].

** While its mentioned that Nagare is much stronger than Subaru, he never seems to actually be able to beat her, although it may be due to him holding back for her sake, such as the fight in episode 3, or her launching a surprise counterattack on him in episode 8.

* [[Cuteness Overload]]: Kanade asks Subaru (as "Punyuru") to call her "Kana onee-chan". She complies... and Kanade falls to her knees.

** {{spoiler|She then turns around and has "Punyuru" call Jiro "Jiro onii-chan" in the manga and light novel. He also falls to the ground.}}

* [[Dark-Skinned Blond]]: Nakuru.

** Subaru has [[Giver of Lame Names|a fondness]] for [[Gratuitous English]] names, like "Butler Knuckle" or "End of Earth", and gives Jiro the nickname "Silver Killer" when confronting him in the manga and [[Light Novel]]. Jiro points out how ridiculous these names are to Subaru's [[Luminescent Blush|embarrassment]].

** In episode 3, after Subaru accidentally sees her half naked, Kureha asks Jiro if Subaru mentioned her underwear. He says no.

** Jiro in episode 4.

** Nakuru in episode 8 as well, after jumping out a window to save a [[Boys Love]] manga Subaru threw out.

** In the light novels, Jiro is a ''big'' offender, partially because the story's written from his point of view, but that's no excuse for most of it.

* [[Hartman Hips]]: Kureha, although the school uniform tends to emphasize everyone's hips. Subaru's got surprisingly wide hips despite being a [[Bifauxnen]].

* [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy]]: Kanade is this towards Subaru and Jiro at the end of episode 12, especially after Jiro mentions wanting to be strong enough to protect someone.

** {{spoiler|In the light novel, after worrying about her own feelings, even after she promised Subaru she'd help her properly convey her feelings to Jiro, Kanade decides, with a bit of push from Jiro, albeit unwittingly, to step up her teasing of him. When he warns her that if she did that, in time he'd probably begin to hate her. Her response?}}

* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: Kanade may be a perverted sadist, but she genuinely cares for Subaru, and even encourages Jiro to be her friend since she can't find one on her own.

** Kanade also keeps her word in helping Jiro cure his gynophobia, though in ways which fluster and/or humiliate him.

** {{spoiler|In the manga's [[Sick Episode]], he even got to stand up and walk to Subaru even after he got ran over by a truck to tell her that he's not going to die before collapsing. He's fine after a few days' rest.}}

* [[Madness Mantra]]: Nagare before the paintball game:

* [[Manipulative Bitch]]: Kanade, who qualifies under ''multiple'' subtypes listed on that trope's page.

* [[Meaningful Name]]: Jirou's name means "stand by me", according to his father. Which now pretty much defines his relationship to Subaru.

* [[One Dialogue, Two Conversations]]: This trope happens too many times to count, especially in the [[Light Novel]] and, to a lesser extent, the manga. Some noteworthy examples:

** Twice in Episode 5. First, after Jiro got run over by Usami, his glasses somehow got stuck under her skirt. It doesn't help that he used rather vague language to explain the situation.

** The second was when he was consulting Subaru about his {{spoiler|[[First Kiss]]}}.

** There's another just in the light novel. Kureha asked what Subaru and Jirou were doing all day while she was away at camp. What they actually did was spar in the Sakamachi house's dojo. What Subaru said, though:

** Especially the [[Beach Episode]], where Subaru was wondering if he likes them [[Big Breasts, Big Deal|big]]. Jiro, thinking she is referring to the water melon the girl has he agrees. Even added they are taster that way much to Subaru's shock.

* [[Only Sane Man]]: It's common in these types of series to have some thinly veiled [[Boke and Tsukkomi Routine|manzai]] routines as conversations, but these seem to comprise half of Jiro's conversations in the [[Light Novel]]--Subaru and Kureha are particularly big offenders when it comes to saying ridiculous things. The anime adaptation has much less of it in favor of sight gags and [[Gratuitous English]], though.

* [[Pet the Dog]]: At the end of Episode 10 it turns out that Jiro, who apparently [[Forgotten Birthday|spent the entire August 28 - Kureha's birthday - sleeping till noon and eating instant noodles]], {{spoiler|actually bought her a large stuffed polar bear as a gift, partly as restitution for ''actually'' forgetting it last year in favor of a concert, causing her to beat him up and rip his souvenir t-shirt. [[Yank the Dog's Chain|Either way, she still beats him up (in joy)]]}}.

* [[Punny Name]]: Jiro's full name -- Sakamachi Kinjiro -- has the misfortune of having the last syllable of his surname and the first of his given name sound like "chicken". He literally panics when Kanade realized and [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mayo_chiki/v01/c002/22.html points it out].

'''Usami:''' "Sakama Chicken Jiro!" }}

** In the [[Light Novel]], Kanade suggests he marry someone with the surname "Okamachi" and adopt her surname, {{spoiler|so his new name, "Okamachi Kinjiro", can be read as "Okama Chicken Jiro" -- "Gay Chicken Jiro"}}.

* [[Supporting Harem]]: To [[Trope Codifier|Trope Codifiying]] levels, to the point that everyone is head over heels for Subaru.

* [[Suspiciously Specific Denial]]: Subaru does it at least twice, once in episode 4 as shown in the [[Bad Liar]] trope above, and later in episode 8 after he wakes up from the [[Lap Pillow]].

* [[Sweet Polly Oliver]]: Subaru

** [[Sweet on Polly Oliver]]: Jiro, though he knows Subaru is a girl.