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Sumika Murasame is deeply in love with her [[Genki Girl|cheerful classmate]] and [[Just Friends|friend]] Ushio Kazama. Ushio has [[Schoolgirl Lesbians|a thing for girls]], too, but... she's into ''[[Moe Moe|cute]]'' girls. Sumika may be [[Tall, Dark and Bishoujo]] but the problem is that she is ''too'' [[The Stoic|cool]]: top student, class representative, perfect in sports, [[Action Girl|black belt in karate]], the list goes on. Not only girls, even guys are slightly afraid of approaching her. She herself, for all that's holy, doesn't want to [[I Don't Want to Ruin Our Friendship|endanger her friendship with Ushio]], as much as it pains her to hide her feelings.

 

 

In addition, the series is groundbreaking in that it not only is one of the few GL manga to take place in a mixed sex school, as opposed to a [[One-Gender School|girls only school]], but it also touches on the ostracization and loneliness that young Japanese lesbians experience.

 

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*** Besides, it's a [[Romantic Comedy]]. When has [[Genre Savvy|finding your true love come easily in this genre]]?

*** And don't forget her middle school confession...

* [[Gainaxing]]: Used on Ushio during one of Sumika's [[Imagine Spot|Imagine Spots]].

* [[Gayngst]]: Averted at first. Sumika is quite prone to angst, but only over Ushio's [[Oblivious to Love|obliviousness to her feelings]], not over her sexuality in and of itself. Ushio, Tomoe and Miyako are entirely comfortable with their sexuality.

* [[Genki Girl]]: Ushio.

* [[GIRL]]: Azusa assumes that the author who writes her favorite GL novels is a girl, whereas in reality, the author is Ushio's brother who has a collection pre-war yuri magazines...

* [[Girly Run]]: Ironically or not, Akemiya runs this way.

** Sumika too, sometimes.

* [[Hero Secret Service]]: Sumika gets one when she becomes targeted by otaku, since her presence in a class is practically an [[Instant Win Condition]] during their Atlethic Festival, which determines which class gets first pick for jobs for their next festival (the otakus' reasoning being that if they are able to incapacitate Sumika, their class will have to accept their proposition for a [[Maid Cafe]]). Tomoe too, and apparently they are students. And talk about Sumika as if she were the first line of defense.

* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: Hearing Sumika and Miyako is like hearing [[Mobile Suit Gundam 00|Feldt Grace and Louise Halevy]] again.

** Kiyori is also [[Candy Boy|Sakuya]].

** Ushio's brother is also [[Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu|Yuuto.]]

* [[Hypocritical Humor]]: Sumika's dad lecturing her on her use of their family's karate style kinda loses its impact when two of school's black belts picked a fight with some guys hitting on Ushio and got their ass kicked. She is, however, [[Hypocrisy Nod|swift to point the hypocrisy]].

* [[Idiots Cannot Catch Colds]]: Miyako mentions casually that we now know Sumika isn't a complete fool, due to this.

** [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy]]: She ''tries'' to have this mentality, but fails.

* [[Imagine Spot]]: [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in episode/chapter 5. Multiple times, Sumika drops into a momentary fantasy about Ushio, only for Miyako to interrupt with a comment along the lines of, "That's what you're thinking about, right?" Sumika yells at her to stop peeking into other people's fantasies.

* [[Love Makes You Dumb]]: A lot of the comedy is derived from Sumika going through this trope.

* [[Loving a Shadow]]: Implied to be what Azusa's obsession with Orino Masaka really is.

* [[Master of the Mixed Message]]: Ushio toward Sumika--increasingly so during the course of the series.

* [[Meido]]: The local meido cafe is sometimes visited and the whole gang once dresses up as maids during their stay at Ushio's place.

*** In the chapter 10 omake, there is a girl who looks a bit like Rei (no, not [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|THAT Rei]]).

*** When Ushio is asked what she said to Sumika during Yuri Fes, the answer is "[[Omake|naisho]]".

** [[Hellsing|The Major]] himself [http://img695.imageshack.us/img695/543/sasamekikotov03c13isntt.png leads an assassination team] against Sumi before and during the athletic festival.

** [[Kare Kano|Yukino Miyazawa]] explaining love in Chapter 23. Sort of.

* [[The Thing That Goes Doink]]: At Sumika's family home/karate dojo in episode 3.

* {{spoiler|[[They Do]]: [[Arc Fatigue|Freakin' finally.]] }}

* [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]]: Sumika and Ushio, and Tomoe and Miyako.

* [[Tsurime Eyes]]: Sumika and Tomoe.

* [[Wholesome Crossdresser]]: {{spoiler|Akemiya Masaki a.k.a. Akemi-chan}}. The situation isn't helped any by the fact that Ushio is [[Dropped a Bridget On Him|strongly attracted to his female persona]].

** Leads to him garnering minor [[The Woobie|Woobie points]] when all the girls Kiyori point out as Ushio's type turn him down

* [[World of Cardboard Speech]]: Sumika gives something like this when Ushio tries to lecture her about letting Lotte run in the rain, even though it was more likely she'd catch a cold.

** {{spoiler|"What the hell do you even know about Lotte?! She said she wants to be stronger. She said she wants to be just like me. She said she likes me just how I am! She said she loves how big and strong I am! And I... I... can't become any smaller or cuter!"}}

* [[You Are Not Alone]]: Mild example in chapter 21, when Ushio tries to distance herself from Sumika for "causing her trouble", Sumika bluntly reminds her that they were friends now, so it was okay for Ushio to get mad, just like she got mad because her friend was being insulted. Cue blushing.

** Also, the entire series is like this about the trials of being gay in Japan.

* [[Yuri Fan]]: Ushio's brother, Norio, who writes [[Yuri]] [[Light Novels|novels]]. Likewise, Azusa, who writes yuri doujinshi and attends yuri conventions, and is also a fan of Norio's novels.

* [[Yuri Genre]]: Not very explicit but it's there. Azusa Aoi even [[Lampshade|lampshades]] it, going into lengths about how [[Girls Love]] should be [[Subtext|subtle]].

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