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[[File:rinkasakuragari.jpg|frame|Souma and Masataka.]]
'''''Sakura Gari''''' is a Taishou Era romantic story by [[Yuu Watase]], ten years in the making. It centers around the 16 year old Tagami Masataka as he tries to find his place in life. While attempting to start prep school as a rounin, he encounters Saiki Souma, the 25-year-old son of a distinguished noble of the Saiki Koushyaku family, and becomes part of the Saiki household as a mix of boarding student and servant. The Souma and the Saiki households, however, are hiding some very dark secrets, and Masataka unwittingly starts getting involved...
This manga is a rather explicit entry in the [[Boys Love]] genere, and is departure from the usual [[Yuu Watase]]'s usual work in [[Shoujo]] romantic series.
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* [[Abusive Parents]] - {{spoiler|Sakurako's mother abused Souma physically, emotionally ''and'' sexually, having snapped after her child became [[The Unfavorite]].}}
** Katsuragi hints that {{spoiler|his mother was abusive too}}, during the [[Motive Rant]] he sprouts while he is {{spoiler|raping and torturing Masataka.}}
*** For that matter, Katsuragi's wife Asayo suggests that {{spoiler|her father was like this as well, saying that a beating was always a good remedy when she messed up.}}
* [[Accidental Pervert]] - Masataka meets Katsuragi... when he walks on him giving Souma head.
* [[Alone in a Crowd]] - Souma is constantly in a [[Friendless Background]], especially his childhood where he was trapped in a living hell to the extend it almost drove him into [[Go Mad From the Isolation]] territory. That said, Masataka gets his fair share of this as well.
* [[Alpha Bitch]] - Kanako Kawamori
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* [[Ass Shove]] - A not-comedic example -- {{spoiler|one of Katsuragi's torture methods against Masataka included him forcibly shoving a household object up the guy's anus ''right after having raped him''.}}
* [[The Atoner]] - Souma's father tries to pass himself off as one. {{spoiler|Souma's mother Abigail was a woman he had an affair with in England, but he had to go back to Japan to [[Arranged Marriage|marry his fiancee]]. Abigail was already pregnant with Souma at the time, and she died at childbirth}}. His way of making amends to her? Have {{spoiler|Souma dress up as Abigail and continually apologize to him}}. Yeah, he's messed up.
** Also, {{spoiler|Souma's guilt about Sakurako's situation gets him in huge problems since she's ''literally'' crazy for him. And later, when Masataka snaps horribly on him for all of his sexual abuse [[Kick the Dog|and hiding the info about Takafumi's demise]], Souma feels so guilty that he tries to kill himself to atone. [[Tear Jerker|"Masataka... is this enough...?"]].}}
* [[Attempted Rape]] - Subverted: it's believed that {{spoiler|Terashima}} went into the warehouse {{spoiler|Sakurako}} was locked in to rape her, as revenge against {{spoiler|Souma}}; later we learn that {{spoiler|she had called him up voluntarily, then [[Fingore|crushed his hand]] and pushed him down the stairs.}}
* [[Berserk Button]] - DON'T touch Masataka. Souma will fucking '''KILL''' you, and he will not make it painless.
** And do NOT attract Souma's attetion to yourself. Either Katsuragi or {{spoiler|Sakurako}} will catch and torture you, and neither will make their punishments easier either.
* [[Beware the Nice Ones]] - Souma is gentle, kind, caring and generally submissive, allowing anyone to screw him if he can get by in life. But you touch Masataka and you've [[Berserk Button|crossed the line]].
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* [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing]] - Katsuragi seems to be a normal, efficient and handsome doctor at first. Then we see him having sex with Souma, but he still looks like a shady but not ''openly'' evil man, even supporting Masataka when he deals a [[What the Hell, Hero?]] to a nobleman during the ball. Later, we see {{spoiler|that Sakurako has told him to slowly kill her father via poison}}. And later, there's both [[Domestic Abuser|his abuse of his]] [[Yamato Nadeshiko|wife]] and what he did to Masataka (read: {{spoiler|raping and torturing him out of jealousy.}})
** Oh that's not even the worst of it. Then we get to find out what he did to ''Souma!''
* [[Bi the Way]] - Souma doesn't really make gender distinctions.
* [[Boys Love Genre]]
* [[Break the Cutie]] - First, we see Masataka getting horribly and painfully broken in the Saiki household as time passes. Then we learn Souma that became so broken by the end of his childhood that he grew into an [[Empty Shell]] [[Stepford Smiler]] who allowed anyone to screw him if he could get by in life in return. Honestly, the base premise of the entire series ''is'' this trope.
* [[Broken Ace]] - Souma. He's handome, affable, rich, intelligent, a skilled businessman. . . and horrifyingly screwed up.
* [[Broken Bird]] - Katsuragi's wife Asayo, utterly broken for his abuse. {{spoiler|She ends up killing him.}}
** Souma is one of the rare male cases of this trope.
* [[Brother-Sister Incest]] - Half-siblings version: {{spoiler|Souma and Sakurako. They even have sex in the second chapter of the manga.}}.
** Except that {{spoiler|Sakurako happens to be Youya, his ''brother.''}}
*** And further subverted when we find out that {{spoiler|Youya is in fact the product of Kato and the wife of Souma's father (the one he left Souma's mother for), and hence Souma and Youya are actually not related at ALL.}}
* [[But Not Too Foreign]] - Souma is half Japanese, half English.
* [[Cannot Spit It Out]] - {{spoiler|Souma can't bring himself to tell Masataka that he loves him and instead rapes him repeatedly, and then gives him an index of poems to describe his feelings. A straight-out confession would have been much less psychologically scarring.}}
* [[Casanova]] - Souma is the King of this... except that that he's not seducing anyone. Everyone else just wants to screw him and he lets them.
* [[Celibate Hero]] - Masataka for the majority of the beginning, claiming that he has no interest in things like love, and that love is simply for people's self-satisfaction. (In fact, once he has a wet dream and goes take a cold bath in the nearest well, extremely ashamed). Which also brings him a bunch of internal conflict when he starts feeling attracted to Sakurako and {{spoiler|Souma}}
* [[Censor Shadow]]
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{{quote|{{spoiler|Sakurako}}: "That night, I called him (read: {{spoiler|Terashima}}) deliberately... like with all the persons who had a relationship with {{spoiler|Oniisama}}... It's so intresting! Just by punishing them for one night and taking pictures, all of them got scared and became strange..."}}
* [[Coming of Age Story]] - For Masataka, albeit a VERY traumatic one.
* [[Creepy Child]] - {{spoiler|''Both'' Souma and Sakurako}}, after {{spoiler|the death of Lady Saiki}}.
* [[Cute and Psycho]] - {{spoiler|Sakurako's mother, who went crazy after Souma was appointed as heir and her kid was disinherited, and soon started abusing him in all senses.}}
* [[Cute Shotaro Boy]] - Souma as an eleven year old. [[So Beautiful It's a Curse|Unfortunately]] [[Squick|for him]].
* [[Dances and Balls]] - Souma takes Masataka with him to a Dance Ball. Masataka, being a commoner, feels very out of place and uncomfortable.
* [[Dark and Troubled Past]] - Souma and pretty much the entire household. Masataka and his sibling/s as well
* [[Deal with the Devil]] - metaphorical. {{spoiler|Souma, after passing over the [[Despair Event Horizon]] the first time when he [[Break the Cutie|is broken]] by his stepmother's physical and sexual abuse, and completely isolated and alone because all the adults turn a blind eye to it, turns to Katsuragi for support. He tells him half-heartedly that if Katsuragi kills Sakurako, he'll let him have him.}} [[It Got Worse|Wrong, wrong move.]]
* [[Death by Childbirth]] - {{spoiler|Souma's English birth mother, Abigail.}}
* [[Death by Falling Over]] - Subverted: {{spoiler|Sakurako pushes Terashima down the stairs after crushing his hand, but that's not what kills him. [[Man On Fire|Catching fire]] is what gets him done.}}
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** Also, Katsuragi.
* [[Depraved Homosexual]] - Some of the men that Souma sleeps with.
* [[Despair Event Horizon]] - Both Souma and Masataka get hit with this.
** {{spoiler|Sakurako}} came ''real'' close as a little kid, when {{spoiler|she walks on Katsuragi forcing Souma to kill her mother (Becoming a [[Creepy Child]] and then being confined to the old household grounds doesn't help)}}. She finally goes right over when {{spoiler|she thought she had killed Souma.}}
* [[Determinator]] - Despite all of the trauma he goes through, when Masataka pulls himself together, he can come up with impressive bravery. Like when {{spoiler|he throws the boiling tea on Katsuragi's face so he can escape his torture}} or {{spoiler|saves himself and a pretty much suicidal Souma from dying in a fire.}}
* [[Driven to Suicide]] - {{spoiler|Masataka (almost cuts off his throat with a dagger)}}, {{spoiler|Souma (slits his wrists open and puts his bleeding arm inside the full bath tub)}}, and {{spoiler|Sakurako (slits her wrists open too, then drowns self in a freezing lake)}}. Only the latter dies from it though.
** Also subverted. Many outsiders believe that {{spoiler|Sakurako's mother killed herself by wrist cutting, but Katsuragi killed her by poison and then forced Souma help him make it look like a suicide.}} This further leads to {{spoiler|the start of Souma becoming a suicidal [[Empty Shell]] from both guilt and the heavy trauma he experiences when Katsuragi rapes him the night after this event and continues to sexually abuse him for the remainder of his childhood.}} Wait, wait, wait, we're not finished yet. Then [[It Got Worse|It Gets Worse]]. [[Serial Escalation|No, really.]] Truth is... {{spoiler|Katsuragi claims that Souma entered [[Deal with the Devil|into a deal with him]], when Souma, desperate and already broken from being abused, off-handedly says that he'll let Katsuragi have him if he kills Sakurako. Unfortunately, Katsuragi takes him at his word, and holds this over Souma's head for years, continuously reinforcing the idea that they killed her together, and driving him further ''beyond'' the [[Despair Event Horizon]] into true suicidal territory and making it impossible for him to ever return to a state even resembling psychological stability.}}
* [[Dropped a Bridget On Him]] - A huge shocker coming in the form of {{spoiler|Sakurako. Or better said, ''Youya''}}.
* [[Dysfunction Junction]] - Between Souma's childhood, {{spoiler|being raped and tortured DAILY, silently and lonely while everyone pretends it doesn't happen}}, Matasaka's childhood {{spoiler|as a lonely and psychologically abused [[Child by Rape]]}}, and the ''entire'' situation with {{spoiler|Youya, and Souma's stepmother}}, you have [[Up to Eleven]] extremes that just keep on climbing.
* [[Even the Guys Want Him]] - Souma. Souma. Souma. Souma. Seriously, this trope ''is'' Souma.
* [[Eye Scream]] - {{spoiler|Katsuragi rapes and tortures Masataka, and his last action is putting the other's hand in a pot of boiling water. To free himself, Masataka ''throws the pot on Katsuragi's face'', injuring his eyes and badly scarring his face.}}
** [[Hoist by His Own Petard]]: {{spoiler|Souma finds out. He's NOT happy.}}
* [[Fatal Attractor]] - Every one of Souma's lovers are shown to have horrible endings. He even notices and mentions it himself. Of course, [[Jerkass|this doesn't stop him from continuing to take lovers]].
** He actually believes that its because he breaks up with them that [[Driven to Suicide|they go and kill themselves or get into fatal accidents that may have been suicide attempts]]. ... Despite having a degree from Tokyo University and being a CEO of a company, Souma [[Selective Obliviousness|can be really really]] ''[[Too Dumb to Live|stupid]].''
* [[Fingore]] - {{spoiler|Sakurako crushes Terashima's hand before pushing him down the stairs.}}
** {{spoiler|And Katsuragi puts Masataka's hand in boiling water.}}
* [[Forbidden Fruit]] - The one person Souma finds himself truly falling in love with is the ''only'' person who has absolutely no romantic interest in him. As a matter of fact, it's addressed that the main reason he fell in love with Masataka was because Masataka was "different from the others." And Souma, of course, unaccustomed to not getting sex from someone he wants, proceeds to {{spoiler|tie Masataka up and rape him repeatedly}}.
** From a different angle, this borders on a strange inversion/distortion of [[I Love You Because I Can't Control You]], where everyone wants to control and screw Souma, treating him like a possession, a "doll", but Souma loves Masataka because Masataka ''doesn't'' try to control or possess him (i.e. Masataka's affection is pure (read: not bound by sexual possessiveness)).
* [[Force Feeding]] - In chapter 6 Sakurako tries to literally force Masataka to eat some of the food she made for him. He's reluctant to do so because the last time she fed him something she had secretly snuck in some glass.
* [[Fridge Brilliance]] - Once you read the part where {{spoiler|Sakurako reveals to Masataka her... er, his true gender}}, you may recall that a certain scene around the beginning had more than one subtle hint towards this particular reveal...
* [[Go Mad
* [[Good Scars, Evil Scars]] - {{spoiler|Masataka is ''heavily'' scarred after Katsuragi's [[Cold-Blooded Torture]], which includes whipping. In returns, he leaves Katsuragi himself scarred when he throws boiling tea on him.}}
* [[Heroic BSOD]] - {{spoiler|Masataka}} has a HUGE one when he learns that {{spoiler|Takafumi was dead in a police raid and Souma kept it from him.}} And we're not counting counting the one the morning after {{spoiler|Souma raped him.}}
* [[High
* [[Historical Fiction]]
* [[Horrible Judge of Character]] - Masataka. Honestly, there are all these horrible rumors about Souma, Souma himself acts ''really'' weird, strange events keep occurring, and... he just thinks Souma is a nice master. Right.
* [[Ho Yay]] - In addition to the obvious [[Yaoi]] relationships, there's a lot of hints that some side characters are attracted to Souma.
** Considering that it's '''[[Really Gets Around|Souma]]''', odds are they've slept with him already.
* [[Humiliation Conga]] - {{spoiler|Katsuragi, overlapping with [[Karmic Death]].}}
* [[If I Can't Have You]] - ''Everyone'' does this over Souma. And then Souma in turn does this to Masataka.
* [[Ill Boy]] - Masataka's younger brother, Mitsugu. First, he has a weak heart. Then he gets Spanish influenza (the same one that killed ''thousands'' of people in that same decade) and barely survives. Finally, he catches pneumonia. [[Butt Monkey|Yikes.]]
** Also, the reason why Souma leads the Saiki clan is because of his father's very frail health.
* [[Important Haircut]] - {{spoiler|Masataka gives one to Souma to signify Abigail's definitive passing and his father's acceptance of such a fact.}}
* [[Impoverished Patrician]] - {{spoiler|Abigail, and Souma until he's aknowledged by Lord Saiki and appointed heir.}}
* [[Incorruptible Pure Pureness]] - how Souma sees Masataka. What is interesting is that originally Masataka is seen as pure because he's inexperienced and "untouched", however, conversely [[Break the Cutie|the more horrible things he goes through]], the more and more he approaches [[The Messiah]] archetype,<ref>No, not [[Messianic Archetype]]</ref>
* [[It Got Worse]] - Masataka's situation seems to be this way with every chapter. As does Souma's backstory. By the end, they've gone ''way'' beyond the [[Despair Event Horizon]].
* [["It's Not Rape If You Enjoyed It"]] - ''painfully'' deconstructed. Both the rape victim ''and'' the rapist suffer painfully because they think this is true.
* [[I Wished You Were Dead]] - Masataka tells this to Souma in the middle of his [[Heroic BSOD]]. {{spoiler|Souma tries to commits suicide.}}
** Souma wishes this on his step-mother, {{spoiler|and then Katsuragi steps in to replace her in the abuse-and-daily-rape detail after forcing Souma to be complicit}}. Let's just say, Souma does ''not'' have a good history with this trope.
* [[Just Friends]] - Souma and Masataka at the beginning... although the very strong romantic undertones indicate what's to come. Masataka believes they're [[Like Brother and Sister|Like Brothers]], while Souma wants [[Relationship Upgrade|something entirely different]].
* [[Karmic Death]] - {{spoiler|Katsuragi was using drugs to slowly kill the already ill Lord Saiki. Souma forcefeeds him a high dose of the same drug through a kiss, as punishment for torturing Masataka ''and'' abusing Asayo, then deals a ''brutal'' [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]] to the immobilized and poisoned Katsuragi before walking away. And after Souma leaves, Asayo (who has [[Cute and Psycho|finally snapped]] after all of her husband's abuse) [[Kill It with Fire|sets him on fire.]].}}
* [[Kick the Dog]] - So not only is Katsuragi {{spoiler|a disgusting pedophile}}, he {{spoiler|rapes and tortures Masataka because of his jealousy}} ''and'' he beats his poor wife.
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* [[Looking for Love In All the Wrong Places]] - Souma is a combination of this and a [[Casanova]].
* [[Love Hurts]] - And ''how''.
* [[Love Makes You Dumb]] - Souma, you are a fucking idiot when it comes to Masataka.
* [[Love Redeems]] - {{spoiler|Souma}}. Eventually.
* [[Love Triangle]] - There is initially a love triangle between Souma, Masataka, and Sakurako. With Souma pining after Masataka, who is attracted to Sakurako, who {{spoiler|is a [[Yandere]] for [[Brother-Sister Incest|her brother Souma]]}}. The attraction pretty much ends when she starts force-feeding him glass, though.
* [[Loving a Shadow]] - {{spoiler|Souma's father}}
* [[Madwoman in the Attic]] - {{spoiler|Sakurako, who has been locked in an old warehouse near the Saiki mansion for nine years after her mother died. Everyone else outside the household believes that she died of illness few after Lady Saiki died. After Terashima's "fiery" death, though, she's allowed to return to the main house.}}
* [[Mistaken for Murderer]] - Souma by Masataka, with some [[Guilt by Coincidence]] thrown in.
* [[Misunderstood Loner with a Heart of Gold]]: Rumours are everywhere, everyone calls him the "Angel of Death" or the "Western Doll", or say that he's cursed, but Souma is really a kind person. ... [[Go Mad From the Isolation|As long as you don't push him off the edge of what little psychological stability he has]].
* [[My Sibling Will Live Through Me]] - {{spoiler|Or more exactly, My Mother Will Live Through Me. Damn, Youya - er, Sakurako.}}
** Abigal and Souma. Nuff said.
* [[Never Suicide]] - {{spoiler|Because Souma hated his stepmother Sakurako for abusing and raping him, Katsuragi takes his words literally and forces a reluctant, young Souma to kill her.}}
** It's worse than that - {{spoiler|because Sakurako was daily abusing and raping Souma, one day he got fed up and casually mentioned to Katsuragi that if he killed Sakurako, he'd let him "have" him. Cue Katsuragi killing her with poison, and then pulling a shocked and horrified young Souma into the room to slit her wrists to make it look like a suicide. Of course, that night Katsuragi starts raping and abusing Souma.}} You have to wonder which was worse: {{spoiler|Katsuragi or Sakurako?}}
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* [[Not Evil, Just Misunderstood]] - Again, Souma gets saddled with this. Of course, he thinks that he ''[[It's All My Fault|really is]]'' [[Driven to Suicide|evil]].
* [[Old Retainer]] - Several, though Ohatsu and Katou are the ones who fill in the most.
* [[The Ophelia]] - The young maid {{spoiler|who actually ''survived'' to Sakurako's torture/murder of Souma's lovers, but lost the baby of Souma's that she was pregnant with.}}
* [[Please Don't Leave Me]] - Souma asks this of Masataka when he finds all the pictures Sakurako took of him having sex. He doesn't take it well when [[Little No|Masataka refuses]]. Cue [[It Got Worse]].
* [[Psychotic Love Triangle]] - Masataka/Sakurako/Souma and Masataka/Souma/Katsuragi.
* [[Rape and Switch]] - Definitely {{spoiler|Masataka}} is going this way. Poor thing.
** Manages to ''just'' scrape through on a subversion in that {{spoiler|Masataka ''was'' turned on when Souma hit on him in the library back in the very first chapter, indicating at least [[Bi the Way|some kind of attraction before that point]] }}, but it still swerves close enough to this trope played straight to be a little [[Unfortunate Implications|uncomfortable]]. The fact that their relationship before this point was rather more pure and platonic with serious [[Ho Yay]] subtext could also be seen as another way this trope was subverted. It's still not a nice outcome for the poor boy, though.
** {{spoiler|''Souma''}} on the other hand, has this trope played rather more straight, where he was raped and used for sex by so many people that he eventually came to just not distinguish between genders and would sleep with men or women.
* [[Rape as Drama]] - {{spoiler|Masataka}} getting raped by Souma and later by {{spoiler|Katsuragi}}. [[Dark and Troubled Past|Oh, and Souma]] {{spoiler|being raped by his stepmom Sakurako and Katsuragi}} and pretty much any person who finds him attractive, but that's more because he feels he has to indulge everyone's desires.
* [[Rape Is Love]] - {{spoiler|Souma raped Masataka}} because he ''"loves"'' him. This trope is then slowly and systematically deconstructed, pulled apart, twisted, inverted, and [[Metaphorgotten|re-constructed upside down in an entirely different geography]] over the chapters following this event. First the reader gets to see how horrifically traumatised {{spoiler|Masataka}} becomes, then how {{spoiler|Souma}} desperately [[Please Don't Leave Me|tries to stop him from leaving him]], and then the consequences as they culminate in an [[It Got Worse]] climax, interspersed between the slow [[The Reveal|reveal]] of the sheer and utter god-awful [[Fate Worse Than Death]] that is their pasts, showing how [[Break the Cutie|broken]], [[Stepford Smiler|psychologically traumatised]], and [[Scars Are Forever|scarred they are]].
** Same goes to {{spoiler|Kasuragi, towards Souma.}} Except its a bit more like {{spoiler|rape, torture and subjugate because he "loves" him.}} Well, "love" in the sense that he's wanted to [[Complete Monster|literally possess him]] since [[Squick|Souma was eleven.]]
** This goes into [[Fridge Horror]] as {{spoiler|the only way Souma has ever been shown any affection is through the way various people rape and sexually molested him, or through his consensual sexual encounters as an adult. By this point sex is pretty much the only way that he knows of to show his affection.}} Hence why he didn't take it well when Masataka rejected him.
* [[Really Gets Around]] - Souma. Almost ''everyone'' knows that a huge defining trait about him is that he's willing to sleep with ''anyone''.
* [[Secret Keeper]] - Sort-of. {{spoiler|As a child, Sakurako saw how Katsuragi forced Souma to kill their mom. She went from [[The Cutie]] to [[Creepy Child]] and then to [[Yandere]] afterwards.}}
** Another is {{spoiler|the [[Old Retainer]] maid, Ohatsu, who witnessed Souma's abuse at the hands of Sakurako's mother, but didn't say anything because it would involve too many problems for the whole household.}}
** And {{spoiler|Souma witnessed Sakurako's murder of Terashima, but kept his mouth shut since he blamed himself for it.}}
* [[Selective Obliviousness]] - Yes, Souma, we're ''[[Sarcasm Mode|sure]]'' that the reason why all your lovers keep dying in suspicious circumstances is because [[It's All My Fault|you break up with them]]. This stretches into [[Too Dumb to Live]] territory eventually. No, literally, {{spoiler|he never realises that Youya was killing off all his lovers and that he would eventually try to kill him despite him ''threatening to do so'', and he seems to just not take into account the fact that Katsuragi has a thing for torturing, raping and ''killing people and making it look like suicides''}}.
* [[Self-Made Orphan]] - {{spoiler|Sakurako told Katsuragi to slowly poison Lord Saiki to death, apparently as revenge for her abandonment. Souma found out and used the same poison in Katsuragi's fatal [[Humiliation Conga]].}}
* [[Sensitive Guy and Manly Man]] - Respectively: Masataka and Souma, Masataka and Takafumi, Mitsugu and Masataka, Souma and Katsuragi, {{spoiler|Youya and Masataka.}}.
* [[Shallow Love Interest]] - Sakurako passes herself off as this to Masataka, who genuinely starts falling for her. Unfortunately for him, {{spoiler|she's a scary [[Yandere]] who actually hates him and is [[Brother-Sister Incest|incredibly possessive of her brother]].}}.
* [[She Cleans Up Nicely]] - [[Gender Flip
* [[Shown Their Work]] - Watase made quite the bit of research on the Taisho period, and it shows.
* [[Shut UP, Hannibal]] - Matasuka gives the non-verbal slap equivalent to Sakurako
* [[Snow Means Death]] - {{spoiler|Sakurako dies this way, slitting "her" wrists open with a katana and drowning self in a pond as the snow falls.}}
* [[So Beautiful It's a Curse]] - The readers are constantly reminded in the story of how Souma suffered a [[Dark and Troubled Past|messed up childhood]] due to his gorgeous looks.
** [[It Got Worse|By the end]], this trope is played for completely horrible and terrifying physical and emotional traumatising effect. [[Break the Cutie]] all round.
* [[Spurned Into Suicide]] - {{spoiler|Souma's ex-lover Yoshino.}}
* [[Stalker with a Crush]] - It's mentioned several times that anyone who starts having a relationship with Souma ends up becoming this. Souma, in turn, starts acting this way towards Masataka.
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* [[Tall, Dark and Handsome]] - Katsuragi. Too bad he's an absolute ''[[Complete Monster|asshole]]''. {{spoiler|He later is horribly scarred when Masataka subjects him to [[Eye Scream]].}}
* [[Together in Death]] - {{spoiler|When Sakurako locks Souma and Masataka in a burning building, Souma resigns himself to this. Masataka, however, goes [[Determinator]] and saves them both.}}
* [[Trauma Conga Line]] - Souma is the poster child for this trope, although Masataka gets slugged with it a fair few times himself.
* [[Troubled Abuser]] - Souma
* [[The Unfavorite]] - {{spoiler|Sakurako became this after Souma's arrival. In response, Sakurako's mom starts abusing Souma.}}
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* [[Yandere]] - Good god, {{spoiler|Sakurako}}. The girl is absolutely [[Axe Crazy|batshit insane]]. One moment she'll be acting all sweet, the next she'll be trying to kill you.
** Souma too, though he mellows out later on. And then we see ''why'' he is like that...
** Katsuragi, for Souma.
** {{spoiler|Asayo, when she deals Katsuragi the last part of his [[Karmic Death]].}}
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