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* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: Usually on Kôta, sometimes Tayura. It seems that Kôta gets blamed and subsequent flak for alleged molestation even though Chizuru and Nozomu are the ones who initiate it, and usually prevent him from being able to escape by mounting top of him, or pinning him down with a hug.

* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: Mio, a frog-spirit, has oils that are basically a cure-all. Several times Chizuru and others need her to give up some. How do they do so? Get her to dress in a [[School Swimsuit]] and squat in a old metal tub until they... get their oil. Actually a reference to a Japanese old-wives' tale ([[Akira Kurosawa]] mentions it in his autobiography). There was indeed a frog whose secretions were used as medicine, and the best way anyone had found to get the stuff was to put the frog in a box with mirrors on all sides; as the theory went, the embarrassment and horror of seeing its own reflection would cause it to perspire profusely.

** Seems like it for the first few episodes, but then {{spoiler|averted hard during the last episode of the anime}}.

** In the manga, {{spoiler|it is averted. Kôta admits that he likes Chizuru and is not above doing perverted things with her in private, although he does need some coaxing}}.

* [[Emotionless Girl]]: Nozomu, although she does seem quite capable of love and lust. In the manga, which shows her alone at times, it reveals that she ''isn't'' emotionless -- but only when she's in her yôkai form. Or when she's alone. Or maybe her emotions cause her yôkai form to pop out. [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/kanokon/v04/c018/22.html Or... something.]

* [[Erotic Eating]]: Chizuru and Nozomu. You can probably already guess how and why.

* '''''<big> [[Fan Service]] </big>''''': Take a drink every time you see a fanservice shot. You'll be ''dead'' by the the end of the first episode.

* [[First-Name Basis]]: Played with: Nozomu calls everyone by their first name (without even [[Japanese Honorifics|honorifics]]) right off the bat, even if she just met them. That just underlines that [[No Social Skills|she is pretty carefree with politeness conventions]]… And of course, Kôta starts calling Chizuru by her first name (on her demand) within the first chapter. But she is a bit pissed that he uses such a formal honorific as -san, which reminds her she's [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|quite a bit older than he is]].

** The manga is a much more serious, nuanced series that can be rather serious but romantic. It's still very fanservicey, but a lot of emphasis is put on plot and characterization. To put it in perspective, the Anime is [[Rape Is Okay When Its Female On Male]]: the anime and the manga is pretty much a moderately lusty Seinen [[Romantic Comedy]] with some action in the vein of [[Rosario to Vampire]] with the emphasis on the comedy of the original manga and the fanservice of season II.

* [[Fusion Dance]]: If a yôkai and human are willing, they can temporarily fuse...mostly for fireball-throwing. Strangely enough, this is insinuated to require a deep emotional bond between the two, whereas Kôta and Chizuru can do it almost immediately upon meeting each other.

** The latest chapters of the translated Manga show that this is actually the decision they take there, too, and much earlier -- right after the fight between {{spoiler|Kôta and Saku.}} The "put on a bus" part only lasts ''one page''.

* [[Godiva Hair]]: Just about any time Chizuru removes her shirt, her hair just happens to fall and more or less ''glue'' itself to her nipples. However, subverted in one episode, where she uses pink heart-shaped stickers on her nipples.

* [[Magical Girlfriend]]

** ''Two'' magical girlfriends, in fact.

* [[Marshmallow Hell]]: Within the first five minutes, no less! Chizuru even lampshades this by demanding Kôta beg to be spoiled when she does it after a certain point. As the series goes on it actually becomes [[Marshmallow Hell|Marshmallow Heaven]] for Kôta and, believe it or not, makes for a [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]] or two when she uses it to relieve him from his stress. To the point that in chapter 41, {{spoiler|one week after he decided not to do anything sexual with Chizuru until the exams, he ''jumps with a mad expression and bloodshot eyes'' when he's teased a bit too much with Chizuru's breasts. Yes, he's literally ''addicted'' to them!}}

{{quote| '''''[[Does This Remind You of Anything?|"BREAAAAAAASTS!!!"]]'''''}}

* [[The Masquerade]]: There are enough non-humans in Kôta's school to fill up most of a classroom at least, but they are all masquerading in plain sight. One even graduates, only to turn around and re-enter the school as a Freshman again next year. Shown beyond a doubt in episode 10, {{spoiler|when they all shapechange to defend the school}}. Even more obvious in the manga, where it's pointed out the school is a [[Boarding School]] for delinquent yôkai.

* [[Megaton Punch]]: Tayura is on the receiving end of these a lot, usually from Chizuru.

* [[My Name Is Not Durwood]]: Kôta gains the name "Great Erotic King" due to his classmates misunderstanding the situations he ends up in. Amusingly in the manga, when {{spoiler|Nozomu leaves}} his classmates apologize for calling him that, since {{spoiler|she left citing that Kôta would only ever really love Chizuru.}} The next page, {{spoiler|When Nozomu comes back, saying she's going to be his mistress in a [[OT 3|threesome]] with him and Chizuru}}, they give up and go back to calling him that again.

* [[School of Hard Knocks]]: Somewhat. Fights between yôkai aren't encouraged, but the teachers don't seem to have a problem with these fights and they do observe/referee the matches. Fights between regular students aren't mentioned.

* [[Schoolgirl Lesbians]]: Ai and Ren are implied to be this if their affection for Chizuru('s breasts) is any hint. Unless it is a case of [[Single-Target Sexuality]].

* [[Shotacon]]: Pretty much the ''premise''.

* [[Shout-Out]]

** In chapter 30, when Chizuru asked Ai and Ren why they didn't tell Akane the truth when she saw them holding on to Kôta's tails when he was fused with Chizuru, they tell her that they thought of them as a hero of justice from fusion while doing the fusion dance pose from ''[[Dragonball Z]]''.

* [[The Siege]]: Episode 9

* [[Single-Minded Twins]]: The [[Perpetual Poverty|poor]] [[Ninja]] duo of Ai and Ren.

* [[Spank the Cutie]]: Played with in episode 3 -- Chizuru ''loves'' it, and it's the first time she gets Kôta to actively play along with her games.

* [[Stripperiffic]]: Nozomu's bathing suit {{spoiler|[[Fetish Fuel|consists of three Band-Aids]]}}.

* [[Tenchi Solution]]: The [[Gecko Ending]] of the anime and in the manga starting in the middle of volume 3, summed up with the final exchange in the anime between Chizuru and Nozomu:

{{quote| '''Nozomu:''' You're his lover.<br />