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Crowning Moment of Heartwarming: Many. But you're sure to get one every time Chiyo and Sakaki end up spending some time away from their over crazed friends, especially the time when Sakaki slept at Chiyo's house to stay with Mayaa.
For Sakaki fans, anything dealing with Mayaa.
Graduation ceremony at the final episode, full stop. You might as well feel like crying along with Chiyo.
Chiyo and Kagura in episode 19.
Crowning Music of Awesome: The opening and closing themes, as well as many of the image songs. In particular, Kagura's "Ashita wa Makenai! GO! FRIEND!" and Sakaki's "Shin wa Shoujo Parashuuto".
Ear Worm: If you can listen to Soramimi Cake (aka "Mondegreen Cake") without it getting it stuck in your head, you are officially immune to any Ear Worm.
Hey, no mention of E'ye or E'ye 2; the songs used for the eye catchers during the commercial breaks? If that tune doesn't turn into a ringtone for your cell phone than you officially are deaf to any and all Ear Worm.
Fridge Horror: in Episode 5, we are introduced to Yukari's (ahem) driving behavior in a move called Take Our Word for It. Around the end of the episode, summer vacation has ended and the girls are looking through the photo's from their summer vacation at Chiyo's summer home. As Tomo hands the photographs to Sakaki, the girls mention that they notice something behind her on the photograph what resembles a person's head. A few sound effects of a speeding car and ambulances during reaction shots should clue you in. Apparently, Osaka even knew the guy!
If Osaka had gone through with what she was going to do with the knife, she would have stabbed her own hand or wrist.
Funny Aneurysm Moment: There's a joke in the supplementary lessons about Osaka thinking it will be a good day because she woke up early, only for an earthquake to rock the school a moment later. By the way, the school is in Tokyo.
Les Yay: Lots of it, but especially between Yukari and Nyamo.
And Tomo and Yomi.
Kagura's friendly rival deal with Sakaki definitely comes off this way.
Mary Sue: Could be a deliberate Subversion with Sakaki: she's tall, beautiful and athletic, intelligent and educated, is kind and polite and has a wonderful singing voice and may or may not be rich. Except she doesn't want any of this, she just wants to be small and cute and tend to cats, but all cats everywhere well, mostly anyway seem to instinctively attack her viciously. And the wounds she gets from those attacks, combined with her calm demeanor and her physical size make her seem to other students more like a scary delinquent than anything.
Also subverted by Chiyo. She's a wealthy child prodigy who makes her own lunches and goes to a hard-to-get-into high school, and pretty much everyone adores her for her cuteness. However, she's terrible at sports, and the "being a literal kid in high school" comes with a side of people not taking her seriously due to her size and age.
Memetic Mutation: "Mai waifu", as first spoken by Kimura when introducing his hot "waifu" to the girls. Used by fans to describe anime or video game women that are, in their opinion, "desirable".
Moe: The series itself is something you can curl up with, but Chiyo-chan is Moe to the nth degree (especiallywhen she's in the penguin suit), and Osaka and Kaorin are also incredibly cute.
This series is sort of proto-moe itself, once you think about it. It codified a lot of tropes related to the "genre".
The Scrappy: Mr. Kimura is this both in and out of universe. Even the mangaka seemed not to care for him, as he doesn't appear in the Suplemental Episodes. At least his wife loves him.
Superlative Dubbing: While fans give the English dub mixed to positive reviews, most official reviews don't hesitate to compliment the dub cast, and they do deserve props for getting just about every cultural reference across to Western viewers quite well.
Tastes Like Diabetes: "Aaa shit, you're so cute!" Yomi says, with an exasperated expression.
Tear Jerker: The end of the series. Sakaki gets plenty of scenes by herself that qualify.
Also Osaka is different from the other girls, combined with Dissonant Serenity makes her Nightmare Fuel; especially with a knife.
Values Dissonance: Sakaki's lack of self-esteem, especially when comparing herself to Chiyo, isn't between Japan and the west, but Sakaki and everyone else. Plenty of other people in the show comment on how attractive she is... it's just that Sakaki's personal ideals are very different.
You may feel sorry for Chiyo after all the abuse she cops from the two resident jerkasses.
Animals seem to have it in for Sakaki despite the fact that she adores them; her woobieness is rarely so highlighted as the time she lets Kamineko sink its fangs into her hand...and Sakaki doesn't pull her hand away so that she can finally pet him with the other one. Also noteworthy is the attempts Sakaki's friends make to please her. They try to be friendly and warm to her, but end up hurting her feelings. Kagura is particularly guilty of this when the two first meet.
It's hard not to feel for Osaka's inability to stay focused, let alone succeed sometimes.
Kimura's after Kaorin, much to her despair. You can't NOT feel bad for her, even though it's funny.
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