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Which isn't to say it's all fun and games for Kei at the top of the heap. See, it's [[Everyone Can See It|bleedingly obvious to everyone]] that Kei is in love with Hikari. But she's so focused on their rivalry that [[Oblivious to Love|she totally overlooks it]]. So he keeps up his half of the rivalry, hoping that she'll eventually see his feelings and return them.

 

 

** More specifically, the Special A has a private Greenhouse in which they appear to skip all of their classes, have special uniforms, and have an inexplicably large amount of funding for "comedically" random things.

*** The funding in question might come from the fact that most of the members come from incredibly rich families...

* [[Greek Chorus]]: Ryu, Jun, and Megumi frequently remain in the background and comment ''sotto voce'' on the current situation. Tadashi and Akira will occasionally join them.

* [[He Is Not My Boyfriend]]: Anytime anyone assumes Kei and Hikari are dating, her response is a cheery "He and I are rivals," with her laughing merrily and Kei looking like he just ate a lemon.

* [[I Was Just Passing Through]]: Kei just happens to be there when Hikari needs help. Nobody besides Hikari believes a word of it, though.

* [[Last-Name Basis]]: Highlighted by the fact that the sole exception to the [[First-Name Basis]] norm for Special A is Hikari always calling Kei "Takishima." One entire chapter of the manga has her coming to terms with calling him "Kei"... [[Status Quo Is God|only to go back to calling him "Takishima" at the beginning of the next chapter]].

* [[Oblivious to Love]]: Everyone else knows (or figures it out within minutes of meeting them) that Kei loves Hikari. She somehow misses this for ''over ten years'' (as of the start of the series).

** Note that this is only oblivious to anyone loving her (Hikari is similarly oblivious when Aoi flat-out states that he's going to seduce her) - Hikari is quite attentive to anything else, including romantic feelings directed towards someone else.

* [[The Only One Allowed to Defeat You]]: Hikari believes she is the only one allowed to even ''try'' to top Kei. Yahiro invokes her ire when he reveals that he has beaten Kei {{spoiler|in a rigged game}}.

* [[Pair the Spares]]: The manga seems almost singularly committed to doing this.

* [[Scholarship Student]]: Not quite, as the Hanazono family is shown to scrimp so that Hikari can go to the same school as everyone else, but the effect's the same.

* [[Schoolgirl Lesbians]]: Akira comes off as one, given her obsession with cute girls. {{spoiler|Not that it gets in the way of her attraction to Tadashi.}}

* [[Sink or Swim Mentor]]: Hikari, whenever she tries teaching anyone to do something she can do. Notably, she's generally shown failing to successfully teach her charges.

* [[Standard Female Grab Area]]: Sometimes used to defeat Hikari.

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