Special A: Difference between revisions

* [[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.

* [[Hot Blooded]]: Both Hikari and her dad. It's shown that part of the reason that she gets permission to pursue her rivalry (even going to an extremely expensive school) is because her hot blood inspires ''his'' similarly hot blood, and the elder Hanazono supports this completely.

* [[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.

* [[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.}}