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{{quote|''Why does my hand have ''breasts'' on it?!''}}
The story of a boy whose girlfriend is also his right hand. No, not like ''[[A Date with Rosie Palms|that]]''.
Seiji Sawamura is a high school [[Delinquents|delinquent]]—a rude, disrespectful punk with a "bad dude" air and a skill with fighting that can lay out entire gangs with his "devil's right hand". But underneath his tough guy exterior is a noble soul who won't hesitate to defend an underdog. He's also lonely and unlucky in love—his reputation is so frightening that no girl he knows (other than 11-year-old neighbor Shiori) wants his attention or to be seen with him.
This state of affairs grates on him—failure after failure weighs on Seiji's mind, until one day, alone at home, he bemoans the fact that he seems destined to live his life [[A Date with Rosie Palms|with only his right hand as his lover]], and swears that he will accept any girl who will have him. When a strange girl's voice echoes "Really?" in the empty room, he is understandably surprised and confused—but it's nothing on how he feels a few moments later when he discovers that his right hand has turned into a miniature teenaged girl named Midori Kasugano. He ''really'' [[Literal Genie|should have picked a better choice of words]]...
Midori, it turns out, was a perfectly normal girl from another school who idolized Seiji from afar. How she turned into his hand neither knows, but she's happy with the situation even if Seiji isn't. She has surprising mobility—not only can she move his arm at will, but if she wants to go somewhere, she ''can'', and drag him along behind her however unwilling he might be. And to be honest, under any other conditions Midori would be a stunning catch—beautiful, domestic, utterly devoted to him, and filthy rich. But it's all outweighed (for Seiji, at least) by the fact that she's now not much bigger than a Barbie doll and grafted onto the end of his arm. Then there are the complications borne of the fact that his deadly, gang-beating right cross now has big aqua eyes and a cute giggle... And on the distaff side, what about Midori's ''original'' body, now in a coma and watched over by her tearful mother?
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* [[A-Cup Angst]]: Midori suffers from this a [http://www.tenmanga.com/chapter/MidorinoHibi17/170474-7.html couple] of [http://www.tenmanga.com/chapter/MidorinoHibi54/170536-19.html times.]
* [[Adaptation Distillation]]: The Manga goes off on some long tangents, but the anime focuses on Midori and Seiji.
* [[Adventurer Archaeologist]]: Hisashi Sakisaka
* [[All Girls Want Bad Boys]]: Subverted and defied. Seiji ''looks'' like a bad boy and displays the typical teenage rebelliousness but that's all he does. However, his reputation is such that women shun him rather than being turned on by him.
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* [[Cat Smile]]: Nekobe, a minor character, has this effect constantly
* [[Character Development]]: Midori took a big jump at the start of the series (which we don't find out until much later). After being a rather extreme [[Shrinking Violet]] for much of her life, when she finds herself attached to Seiji's arm, she takes a leap of faith and confesses her love for him. This, combined with the fact that she doesn't have to be shy since she's hidden from sight most of the time, causes her to go from garden variety [[Shrinking Violet]] to an eccentric, fun-loving, [[Hypercompetent Sidekick]].
** Seiji himself goes through some throughout the series, moving away from [[Violence Is the Only Option]] and developing a gentler, more socially apt side, underlined by his becoming less and less critical of Midori as the series goes on. While he tends to blow off Midori's advances as airheaded or insincere, after reading her diary he comes to appreciate the depth and complexity of her feelings, giving him the courage to acknowledge that he appreciates and cares for her as a human being and not just a hand.
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: Seiji and Midori think they've gotten Takamizawa to forget about the whole thing. But {{spoiler|his digital camera}} didn't.
* [[Cherry Blossoms]]: In the opening credits, also in one picture Kota has of Midori
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* [[Eagle Land]]: Lucy Winnlad is an American, you can tell because she has [[Wearing a Flag on Your Head|American flag panties]]. Her friend Daniel is [[Americans Are Cowboys|so stereotypical]] and Type Two that he takes [[Refuge in Audacity]].
** Also Lucy came to Japan to get away from him.
*** People tend to forget the Native American shaman. He's shown in a surprisingly nice light. He is the only one of an entire crowd of traditional medicine and religious men that knows what really happened to Midori.
* [[Even Evil Has Standards|Even Creepy Otaku Have Standards]] Takamizawa may be a doll fetishist with some very disturbing attitudes towards women, but even he knows that taking upskirt photos with a cellphone is not acceptable behavior.
* [[Even the Guys Want Him]]: Seiji. Not only is he a [[Chick Magnet]], he has a [[Cute Shotaro Boy]] head over heels for him.
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* [[Magnetic Girlfriend]]
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Nekobe, leader of the Crisom Angels, has a constant [[Cat Smile]].
* [[Megaton Punch]]
* [[Memetic Badass]]: In-universe example: Seiji's reputation around the school, specifically regarding his right hand. When he pretends it's broken to hide Midori, the stories [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Q5TZWCcwVU only get wilder].
* [[Modesty Towel]]: Seiji wears one ''in his own bathtub''. Normally would be an [[Egregious]] example of the trope, but it's perfectly [[Justified Trope|justified]] here since there's a girl on his arm. (And then the towel [[Naked People Are Funny|falls off . . .]])
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* [[Not What It Looks Like]]: Seiji's first attempt to return Midori to her comatose body made her mother faint on the spot and nearly got him ''lynched'' by a horde of angry maids.
* [[Oblivious to Love]]: Seiji. Good god, the guy has so many [[Even the Guys Want Him|female AND male suitors]], yet laments about how he can't find a girlfriend. It took pretty much the whole series for Midori (who was the most straightforward about her feelings out of all the characters) to make him understand how much she loves him; she had to be literally ''grafted to his arm'' to succeed, also.
** What makes it extra hilarious is that it's heavily implied that he liked Midori in return from the beginning of the series, and he gets really attached/possessive very fast. VERY, VERY oblivious.
* [[Ocular Gushers]]
* [[Of Corpse He's Alive|Of Corpse He's Conscious]]: One manga chapter deals with Midori dealing with household issues while Seiji's knocked out due to drinking some tequila. This includes having to drag Seiji's body over to greet a pizza delivery man and a textbook salesman and fighting off a theif that broke into Seiji's home.
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* [[Through His Stomach]]: Ayase, in the throes of her crush on Seiji, "accidentally" brings an extra lunch and has no choice but to offer it to him.
* [[Throw It In]]: Seiji's gang gets minor parts in a movie featuring their favorite actor, and get a little ''too'' into it...
* [[Training
* [[Tricksters|Trickster]]: Seiji's elder sister
* [[Troubled but Cute]]
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