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* [[High School Sweethearts]]: With Miho.

* [[Idiot Hair]]: It's hard to find if common traits associated with it (idiocy and/or foolery, naiveness, mischieviousness, etc.) suit him, though.

* [[Odd Couple]]: With Takagi.

* [[Official Couple]]: With Miho.

** Though there's some [[Ho Yay]] subtext in Volume 4.

* [[Love At First Punch]]: With Miyoshi.

* [[Megane]]

* [[Odd Couple]]: With Mashiro.

* [[Driven to Suicide]]: Subverted. Mashiro thinks he did so out of despair, but realizes that he pushed himself until he died.

* [[Generation Xerox]]: He and his nephew have similar ambitions, and Moritaka's girlfriend is the daughter of the woman he loved.

* [[Nerd Glasses]]

* [[One Degree of Separation]]: Most editors who have been in the manga industry for at least 10 years prior to the start of the story have met him, and virtually everyone else has heard of him. When you consider that the main character is his nephew, it's quite easy to link people to him.

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* [[Insufferable Genius]]: Quite arrogant at first, but becomes somewhat humbler and better at interacting with other people over time.

* [[Oblivious to Love]]: Unwittingly causes Iwase to become attracted to him after he calls her a talented artist.

* [[Pet the Dog]]: Frequently, but the first bit involved giving most of the prize money for the Tezuka Award to his parents before buying a stereo with the rest.

* [[Hopeless Suitor]]: For Takagi.

* [[Ice Queen]]: Even more so than how Aoki used to be. Several characters, including Aoki herself, note the connection.

* [[The Only One Allowed to Defeat You]]: In regards to Takagi.

* [[Serious Business]]: ''Everything'' she takes an interest in becomes like a competition to her, especially where Takagi is concerned.

** {{spoiler|[[Defied Trope|Defied,]] right before his [[Moral Event Horizon]] [[Jumping Off the Slippery Slope|that would take him]] [[Complete Monster|to very dark places]]. After [[Heel Realization|holding himself back from hitting Aoki,]] [[Throw the Dog A Bone|he gets a job offer to be Hiramura's assistant]] as a way to pick himself up, and takes the oppurtunity to make up for what he's done. And while he's not even close to recovering from or making up for his actions yet, he seems to be clawing his way up to [[Jerk With a Heart of Gold]]. Heck, he's even getting coaching to lose the [[Gonk]] traits he's picked up.}}

* [[Just Friends]]: This seems to be what "Aoki Ko" wanted to have with him. There might have been some sort stronger relationship between them, {{spoiler|but he ruined everything when he became a [[Jerkass]]}}

* [[Oh Crap]]: Gets this when things go wrong, particularly when {{spoiler|he sees Aoki [[Pinky Swear]] with Hiramaru}}.

* [[Progressively Prettier]]: Inverted! Nakai has always been overweight and noticeably older than the other mangaka, but he looked relatively normal in his initial appearance and has since gotten steadily fatter and less attractive. This went into overdrive after {{spoiler|He [[Took a Level In Jerkass]] and later came back from his time at his mother's house, although this can be justified in that he has not been taking very good care of himself since he became a [[Jerkass]].}}

* [[Hair of Gold]]

* [[Hot Teacher]]: In Takagi's imagination after she reveals that she hopes to become one if she can't make it as a mangaka.

* [[Meganekko]]: When she has to make or read storyboards.

* [[Mentor Ship]]: Quite possibly with {{spoiler|Fukuda.}}

** He even gets [[Ocular Gushers]] when he hears about {{spoiler|Mashiro's marriage promise}}.

* [[Junichi Suwabe]]

* [[Mentor Ship]]: Quite possibly with {{spoiler|Aoki.}}

* [[Nice Hat]]