Special A: Difference between revisions

* [[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.

* [[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.}}

* [[Talking With Signs]]: Megumi, rendering her [[The Voiceless]] most of the time.

* [[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.