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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...

* [[Action Girl]]: Hikari is frequently shown training, and it shows - the only times she's collapsed involved injury/illness combined with a rather large amount of exertion (after competing in several matches). Moreover, the only time she's lost ''any'' of those are, of course, when up against Kei. Further, she's yet to lose any physical fights she's been in, though you'd think she was made of cracked glass the way Kei reacts to the prospect of her fighting.

* [[Action Dress Rip]]: Hikari, chapter 10 and episode 6.

* [[Arranged Marriage]]: Several are attempted to be set up, and invariably it comes out that the would-be participants are interested (or are about to be interested) in someone else in the cast.

* [[The Beautiful Elite]]: You'd think a beauty exam was part of the Special A qualifying exam, looking at the cast.

* [[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.

* [[Lethal Chef]]: Hikari's most blatant lack of talent lies in her cooking - it doesn't help that she doesn't pay attention to her own strength, powdering rice while trying to clean it and mincing beef so fine it might as well have been ground. The fact that Kei is practically obsessed with her cooking (and in fact prefers it above any other food) is taken as the most extreme example of his infatuation with her.

* [[Nonchalant Dodge]]: Kei, and Hikari if Kei isn't the one attacking.

** Another exception for Hikari is if it's a main character guy attacking her, generally a villain trying to show her how helpless she is.

* [[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.

* [[True Companions]]: Despite various flare-ups, the members of Special A are all close to each other.

* [[Unknown Rival]]: Hikari gets a bunch of these, as several people wishing to become the center of attention for Kei try to get rid of her. She completely misses the point.

* [[Yaoi Guys]]: {{spoiler|1=RyuuXFinn appearing on the horizon. Subverted, though, as Ryuu walks in on a nude and very female Finn shortly after.}}

 

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