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[[File:Miss Kobayashi Dragon Maid Volume 1 cover.jpg|thumb|A completely ordinary redhead woman with glasses on the background; a chaos dragon that worships her feet on the foreground]]
Kobayashi-san, hung over and chugging medicine for an upset stomach, is off to her programming job's daily grind until she opens her fourth-floor apartment door and sees the massive head of a green, scaly winged dragon staring right into her eyes. The dragon, which is actually standing on the sidewalk, transforms suddenly into a pretty girl with long blond hair, four-point horns, and a green, scaly tail in a maid uniform, to Kobayashi's dropped-jaw surprise.
So begins the manga
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* [[Beach Episode]]: Only a few pages in the manga, this is expanded into a full episode (and adds Lucoa and Shouta) in the anime.
* [[Blood Knight]]: One feels Tohru's family was like this, and she was on her way to becoming one until a terrible injury made her confront her persistent unhappiness.
* [[Bratty Half-Pint]]: Kanna's friend, Riko Saikawa. She's only 9 years old and has quite the attitude problem. She has a habit of shouting her mouth off at others over the smallest of snide comments, which on more than one occasion nearly got her into trouble.
* [[Christmas Episode]]: Tohru gets excited about throwing a Christmas party, until she learns [[Jesus Christ|whose birth]] the holiday celebrates: "What? That bastard's son?!?"
* [[Clingy Jealous Girl]]: Tohru has fits of jealousy over Kobayashi paying attention to: Takiya, Kanna, Elma, Georgie and Iruru. When Kobayashi invites Kanna {{spoiler|to live with them}}, Tohru has a moment of [[You Never Did That for Me]].
* [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]]: Lots, but all very spoileriffic, since the story is based on those moments of affection and friendship.
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* [[Cooking Duel]]: Kobayashi and Tohru compete to make Kanna's ''bentō''. Fafnir stands in for Chairman Kaga.
* [[Cool Code of Source]]: Kobayashi writes (real, runnable) Python for her job.
* [[Cute Monster Girl]]: Most of the female cast.
* [[Department of Redundancy Department]]:In Chapter 30
{{quote|They'll get a free tour around Gehenna, Jahannam, Hellheim, and finally, the Lake of Fire.|Tohru}}
* [[Deliberate Values Dissonance]]: In the Other World, humans and dragons are enemies. But Tohru and Fafnir are Chaos dragons: even Kobayashi points out they are the villains in their war.
* [[Determinator]]: Tohru is dead-set on being the best maid she can be, taking any failure or miss very badly. This is only partly due to arrogance; the dragons we see in the manga are determined to succeed at anything they deign to try.
* [[Draconic Divinity]]: [[Cute Monster Girl|Lucoa]]'s true identity as the Aztec god Quetzalcoatl.
* [[Faking the Dead]]: Tohru knows most of the Chaos dragons think her dead. Outside of Lucoa, Tohru is in no hurry to correct them.
* [[Fantastic Racism]]: In the beginning, Tohru sneers regularly at lowly humans, telling Kobayashi, "I was taught to pay back any debt! Even one owed to a foolish, inferior human!" Fafnir and Iruru are even worse. Lucoa, a non-aligned dragon, and once worshiped in Central America as the divine, civilization-bringing Quetzalcoatl is much more positive about humans.
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* [[Human Sacrifice]]: Tohru is sick of people thinking all dragons are lolicons who want to devour young virgins. Elma admits even Harmony dragons accepted human sacrifices.
* [[I Owe You My Life]]: Later in the series, we find out how Kobayashi and Tohru met, and why Tohru agreed to be her maid. {{spoiler|Kobayashi standing up to Tohru's dad in chapter 20 certainly didn't take away from this}}.
* [[Love Potion]]: Tohru puts that in her Valentine Day's chocolates for Kobayashi, but don't gives them to her after Kobayashi talks about trust and how it can be easily broken, making Tohru realize(at least temporarily) the wrongness of her actions.
* [[Kamehame Hadoken]]: Kanna is able to create these, with the devastating effects you expect.
* [[Lyrical Dissonance]]: Tohru sings little ditties while she cleans about "exterminating all dirt" and "leaving nothing behind."▼
* [[Mayfly-December Romance]]: Fafnir warns Tohru that people live brief lives compared to dragons. At one point, Tohru's anxiety over this drives her to [[Corner of Woe|get away from it all]].
* [[Meido]]: Kobayashi, Takiya, and Saikawa's sister Georgie are all massive maid ''[[otaku]]s''. Tohru inverts this, as the only genuine maid in the series is not obsessed with maids.
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* [[Multicolored Hair]]: All the female dragons have this.
* [[Order Versus Chaos]]: Dragons are split between the factions of Harmony and Chaos, with some, like Lucoa, being non-aligned.
* [[Our Dragons Are Different]]: They can regenerate their tails like lizards, though the regenerations are magically quick and complete, of course.
* [[Running Gag]]s:
** [[Fantastic Fruits and Vegetables]]: Tohru is always flying off to the Other World to pick up special ingredients, such as rejuvenating elf spring water, or delicious fruits that try to bite back.
** Tohru thinks that if Kobayashi ''really'' loved her, she would [[Let's_Meet_the_Meat|eat Tohru's roasted tail]]: "It's good with rice." "It's not good ethically or physiologically!"
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* [[Sex Slave]]: In chapter 17, Tooru claims that she is a maid, which means a sex slave. Kobayashi, of course, tells Tooru that's not what a maid is.
▲* [[Lyrical Dissonance]]: Tohru sings little ditties while she cleans about "exterminating all dirt" and "leaving nothing behind."
▲* [[Sports Festival Episode]]: Lucoa shows up to support Shouta, to the delight of his male classmates.
* [[Tough Love]]: Tohru's father is not {{spoiler|upset that she was injured, then dropped out of}} the Chaos dragons' war with "the holy ones," but he has no tolerance for humans (like Kobayashi). He also demands Tohru respect the truce made that keeps our world (mostly) dragon-free.
* [[Villain Protagonist]]: Tohru was this, before she {{spoiler|dropped out of}} the Chaos dragons' war. She still displays little flashes of it, such as her willingness to solve most problems with violence, or just as casual entertainment: "Look at everyone lined up down there, Doesn't it make you want to swoop in and mow them all down?"
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