Samurai High School
A manga By Kashiwaba Hiro, about Half-Identical Twins. Kou, the brother, who is very feminine, excels at cooking, cleaning, arts and crafts, and Tsukiko, the sister, who is masculine, loves fighting and is a combat genius. The twins learn about the Samurai High School, where men test their strength and women test their femininity. However the only way they can attend is by swapping places. If they are to be found cheating, they and their family will be exiled to the moon for 500 years
Tropes used in Samurai High School include:
- Action Girl: Tsukiko
- Cut Short: It starts rushing towards the end in Chapter 24 with Kou and Tsukiko's scheme exposed and rapidly wraps things up in the next chapter, with the two being allowed to continue attending the school. Sadly, some side plot elements are Left Hanging.
- Gender Bender
- Half-Identical Twins
- How We Got Here: Chapter 16 of the manga. It started with the twins being followed by members of the newspaper club and then it went back to when and how it began. Chapter 23 also invokes the trope.
- Lethal Chef: Tsukiko
- Long Hair Is Feminine: When Tsukiko decided to enter school as a boy, she considered cutting her hair but her brother said it'd not be necessary. Just holding it in a ponytail would be enough. He was right. Also, he wore a wig to pose as his sister.
- Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy
- Non-Action Guy: Kou
- Out of Focus: Kou started off as a co-star with some chapters giving him focus, but he gets relegated to supporting character status as the series became more focused on Tsukiko
- Shout-Out: In the Christmas Episode, a Santa applicant was dressed like Mario and trying to get down a chimney that looked like the pipes from the Mario games.
- Skinship Grope
- Sweet Polly Oliver
- Tsundere: Kamiyama is a Type A towards Tsukiko, and Aya (When agressive) is a Type A to Kou.
- Wholesome Crossdresser
- Yamato Nadeshiko: Samurai High School trains girls for this role.