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* RedBaron: The KZ Detective Team members all have some type of epithet. Most of it have to do with their abilities: Aya "the language expert," Kuroki "TheSocialExpert," Uesugi "[[GoodWithNumbers the numbers guy," and Kozuka "of Socials and Sciences". The exception is Wakatake "the Wave," referring to his unstable performance.

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* RedBaron: The KZ Detective Team members all have some type of epithet. Most of it have to do with their abilities: Aya "the language expert," Kuroki "TheSocialExpert," Uesugi "[[GoodWithNumbers the numbers guy," guy]]," and Kozuka "of Socials and Sciences". The exception is Wakatake "the Wave," referring to his unstable performance.
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* AlphabeticalThemeNaming: The four Detective Team KZ boys have "Kazu" in their first names: '''Kazu'''omi Wakatake, Taka'''kazu''' Kuroki, '''Kazu'''nori Uesugi, '''Kazu'''hiko Kozuka. [[spoiler:Broken as of the ninteenth novel ''The Disappearing Girl Knows'', when Tazuku Mikado joins.]]
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* AmateurSleuth: The Detective Team KZ is essentially this, somehow of a modern-day ''Literature/TheHardyBoys''.


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* KidDetective: Middle-schooler {{Amateur Sleuth}}s.


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* TimeSkip: A very short, anime-only one appears in episode 5, where Aya said the Detective Team was immediate put on hiatus at the time it was established, as they have to prepare for middle school entrance exams. This is in fact an artifact arising from the anime skipping the second and third novels[[note]]''The Ripped Page Knows'' and ''The Key Holder Knows'', respectively[[/note]]; their entrance exams is in the third novel, while at the beginning of the fourth novel, Aya is ''already'' a seventh-grade student.

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** Anime:
-->I'm Aya Tachibana. I couldn't have imagined that my encounter with four super-eccentric boys would change my life so much. This is the story of the exciting cases that we, Detective Team KZ, solve.
%%** From the second novel (''The Ripped Page Knows'') on, the first chapter (titled ''Aya Tachibana's Monologue'' from the third novel on) of every novel would include a summary of what Team KZ is, followed by a {{recap}} of what is essentially the first few minutes of anime.

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* CharacterDevelopment: As the series goes Aya seems to be knowing how she approached social skills wrongly.



* RedBaron: The KZ Detective Team members all have some type of epithet. Most of it have to do with their abilities.

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* RedBaron: The KZ Detective Team members all have some type of epithet. Most of it have to do with their abilities. abilities: Aya "the language expert," Kuroki "TheSocialExpert," Uesugi "[[GoodWithNumbers the numbers guy," and Kozuka "of Socials and Sciences". The exception is Wakatake "the Wave," referring to his unstable performance.

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* TheLeader: Wakatake basically plays this role.



* ShoujoDemographic: As ChildrensLiterature it is only marketed by its age group--10-12--without discussion of gender. Yet its emphasis on CharacterDevelopment and the fact that it has a female protagonist put it at the lower end of the shoujo demographic.

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* ShoujoDemographic: As ChildrensLiterature it is only marketed by its age group--10-12--without discussion of gender. Yet its emphasis on CharacterDevelopment and of the fact that it has a female protagonist put it at the lower younger end of the shoujo demographic.

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* AsleepInClass: Sunahara when he was first introduced.



* SleepingInClass: Sunahara when he was first introduced.

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* AcademicAthlete: The KZ group was chosen by [[CramSchool Shumei Seminar]] to be a group of this. Much of the athlete part is already evident in the anime, but the ''first page'' of the novel already reminded the little readers that the KZ team's minimum academic requirement is... top 2.2%[[note]]The exact language used in the novel is the deviation value of 70; translated into statistics it is equivalent to two standard deviations above mean in a normal distribution.[[/note]]

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* AcademicAthlete: The Team KZ group was chosen by [[CramSchool Shumei Seminar]] to be a group of this. Much of the athlete part is already evident in the anime, but the ''first page'' of the novel already reminded the little readers that the KZ team's minimum academic requirement is... top 2.2%[[note]]The exact language used in the novel is the deviation value of 70; translated into statistics it is equivalent to two standard deviations above mean in a normal distribution.[[/note]]


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* BookDumb: When Wakatake is not in the mood he can easily become this. This is why on one hand he is eligible for Team KZ, but on the other and couldn't even get into the middle school he wants.


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* SleepingInClass: Sunahara when he was first introduced.
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* RedBaron: The KZ Detective Team members all have some type of epithet. Most of it have to do with their abilities.


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* TokenMiniMoe: Nako, in the main series. Even Aya was slightly envious about her cute and innocence.
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For its demographics the novel delves into issues like \"deviation value.\" Do Japanese schoolkids really know this...?


* AcademicAthlete: The KZ group was chosen by [[CramSchool Shumei Seminar]] to be a group of this.

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* AcademicAthlete: The KZ group was chosen by [[CramSchool Shumei Seminar]] to be a group of this. Much of the athlete part is already evident in the anime, but the ''first page'' of the novel already reminded the little readers that the KZ team's minimum academic requirement is... top 2.2%[[note]]The exact language used in the novel is the deviation value of 70; translated into statistics it is equivalent to two standard deviations above mean in a normal distribution.[[/note]]

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* ChickMagnet: TheAce nature of the KZ make them to be this. Because of this, Aya's classmates were utterly jealous of Aya being friends with them.

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* ChickMagnet: TheAce The AcademicAthlete nature of the KZ make them to be this. Because of this, Aya's classmates were utterly jealous of Aya being friends with them.



* HotBlooded: Wakatake. He basically lives on thrives on impulses and his performance essentially depends on his mood. Thus, while he is usually capable, he can be very reckless (such as attempting to face the convenience store robber alone in ''The Missing Bicycle Knows''), and at times when he is down he is basically BookDumb--which is why he's the only person in the cast who can't get into a private middle school.



* PlotAllergy: ''The Egg Hamburg Steak Knows'' arc is based on the fact that Wakatake is allergic to pork. Basically, the case surrounds on how can he still get allergy-related hives after eating a burger patty with egg.

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* PlotAllergy: ''The Egg Hamburg Steak Knows'' arc is based on the fact that Wakatake is allergic to pork. Basically, the case surrounds on how can he still get allergy-related hives after eating a burger patty with egg.



* TheWatson: Aya's role when the KZ investigates. Her verbal abilities isn't the most useful in investigations, so her main role is to fill in the eponymous case notebook.

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* TheWatson: Aya's role when the KZ investigates. Her verbal abilities isn't the most useful in investigations, so her main role is to fill record in the eponymous case notebook.
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* AcademicAthlete: The KZ group was chosen by [[CramSchool Shumei Seminar]] to be a group of this.


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* ShoujoDemographic: As ChildrensLiterature it is only marketed by its age group--10-12--without discussion of gender. Yet its emphasis on CharacterDevelopment and the fact that it has a female protagonist put it at the lower end of the shoujo demographic.
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* LoveTriangle: Well, even this show is for tweens. By the ''egg burger'' arc (fourth in novels, second in anime), Aya may have developed feelings for Wakatake ''and'' Sunahara. The problem is Wakatake is occasionally a bit of a jerk to her, while Sunahara has a bad reputation.
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* MiddleChildSyndrome: Aya says it in episode 3:
-->Smart, athletic and good-looking, my brother is my mom's pride and joy. And my cute, innocent sister, Nako... She's my mom's favourite. But I have friends, too, [[FriendlessBackground now]], I guess.
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* HexagonalBubbles: Frequently used in the anime to show how Aya looks outside and feels outside.

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* HexagonalBubbles: HexagonalSpeechBalloon: Frequently used in the anime to show how Aya looks outside and feels outside.inside, complete with InternalMonologue.
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* YouthfulFreakles: Kozuka has those.

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* YouthfulFreakles: YouthfulFreckles: Kozuka has those.

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* HexagonalBubbles: Frequently used in the anime to show how Aya looks outside and feels outside.



* JapaneseDelinquents: This is people's opinion on Sunahara.

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* JapaneseDelinquents: This is people's opinion on Sunahara. Aya thinks otherwise.



* UnfortunateName: Probably when the team check up the German dictionary in Episode 3, they didn't check for "KZ"--it's short for "Konzentrationslager", or concentration camps. To their credit, KZ does mean something--it comes from "Katsu," Japanese word for "victory," through the [[UsefulNotes/JapaneseRomanization Kunrei-shiki form]] "'''K'''a'''z'''u."
* TheWatson: Aya's role when the KZ investigates. Her verbal abilities isn't the most useful in investigations, so her main role is to fill in the eponymous case notebook.

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* UnfortunateName: Probably when the team check up the German dictionary in Episode 3, they didn't check for "KZ"--it's short for "Konzentrationslager", or (UsefulNotes/NaziGermany's) concentration camps. To their credit, KZ does mean something--it comes from "Katsu," Japanese word for "victory," through the [[UsefulNotes/JapaneseRomanization Kunrei-shiki form]] "'''K'''a'''z'''u."
* TheWatson: Aya's role when the KZ investigates. Her verbal abilities isn't the most useful in investigations, so her main role is to fill in the eponymous case notebook.notebook.
* YouthfulFreakles: Kozuka has those.

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''Tantei Team KZ Jiken Note'' (''The Case Notebook of Detective Team KZ'') is a series of children's mystery novels created by Hitomi Fujimoto and illustrated by Komagata. The original novels were published by Creator/{{Kodansha}} since 2011, targeting a upper-elementary audience. It received a animated adaptation by Signal.MD[[note]]A subsidiary of Creator/ProductionIG that concentrates on CG and family-friendly works; ''KZ'' is its first series.[[/note]] starting from {{Fall 2015|Anime}}. %%Note: Anime credits does not list producer. And given it's aired in 6:45pm, it may not be only a single cour.

A spinoff, ''Yousei Team G Jiken Note'' (''The Case Notebook of Fairy Team G''), also exists, centering on Aya's younger sister Nako.
%%Series site: http://aoitori.kodansha.co.jp/series/KZ/

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''Tantei Team KZ Jiken Note'' (''The Case Notebook of Detective Team KZ'') is a series of children's mystery novels created by Hitomi Fujimoto and illustrated by Komagata. The original novels were published by Creator/{{Kodansha}} since 2011, targeting a upper-elementary audience. It received a animated adaptation by Signal.MD[[note]]A subsidiary of Creator/ProductionIG that concentrates on CG and family-friendly works; ''KZ'' is its first series.[[/note]] starting from {{Fall 2015|Anime}}. %%Note: Anime credits does not list producer. And given Given it's aired in 6:45pm, it may not be only a single cour.

A There is also a spinoff, ''Yousei Team G Jiken Note'' (''The Case Notebook of Fairy Genie Team G''), also exists, centering on Aya's younger sister Nako.
%%Series site: http://aoitori.kodansha.co.jp/series/KZ/jp/series/KZ/ (KZ), http://aoitori.kodansha.co.jp/series/G/ (G)


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* TheBully: Naho Takeda, at least towards Aya.


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* DitzyGenius: Unlike her worrywort sister, Nako is quite absent-minded.


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* InSeriesNickname: Almost everyone calls Aya "Aaya."


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* UnfortunateName: Probably when the team check up the German dictionary in Episode 3, they didn't check for "KZ"--it's short for "Konzentrationslager", or concentration camps. To their credit, KZ does mean something--it comes from "Katsu," Japanese word for "victory," through the [[UsefulNotes/JapaneseRomanization Kunrei-shiki form]] "'''K'''a'''z'''u."
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''Tantei Team KZ Jiken Note'' (''The Case Notebook of Detective Team KZ'') is a series of children's mystery novels created by Hitomi Fujimoto and illustrated by Komagata. The original novels were published by Creator/{{Kodansha}} since 2011, targeting a upper-elementary audience. It received a animated adaptation by Creator/{{NHK}} starting from {{Fall 2015|Anime}}. %%Note: Anime credits does not list producer. And given it's aired in 6:45pm, it may not be only a single cour.

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''Tantei Team KZ Jiken Note'' (''The Case Notebook of Detective Team KZ'') is a series of children's mystery novels created by Hitomi Fujimoto and illustrated by Komagata. The original novels were published by Creator/{{Kodansha}} since 2011, targeting a upper-elementary audience. It received a animated adaptation by Creator/{{NHK}} Signal.MD[[note]]A subsidiary of Creator/ProductionIG that concentrates on CG and family-friendly works; ''KZ'' is its first series.[[/note]] starting from {{Fall 2015|Anime}}. %%Note: Anime credits does not list producer. And given it's aired in 6:45pm, it may not be only a single cour.
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* InternalMonolohue: The anime shows up a lot of Aya's internal monologues.

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* InternalMonolohue: InternalMonologue: The anime shows up a lot of Aya's internal monologues.

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* ChickMagnet: TheAce nature of the KZ make them to be this. Because of this, Aya's classmates were utterly jealous of Aya being friends with them.



* GirlMagnet: TheAce nature of the KZ make them to be this. Because of this, Aya's classmates were utterly jealous of Aya being friends with them.


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* InternalMonolohue: The anime shows up a lot of Aya's internal monologues.
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* TheSocialExpert: Kuroki, with the trope named word-by-word.

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* TheSocialExpert: Kuroki, with the trope named word-by-word.word-by-word.
* TheWatson: Aya's role when the KZ investigates. Her verbal abilities isn't the most useful in investigations, so her main role is to fill in the eponymous case notebook.
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!''Tantei Team KZ Jiken Note'' contains exanples of the following tropes:

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* TheSmartGuy: Uesugi (math) and Kozuka (social and natural sciences) most often takes this role.
* SmartPeopleWearGlasses: Uesugi the numbers guy.
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* GirlMagnet: TheAce nature of the KZ make them to be this. Because of this, Aya's classmates were utterly jealous of Aya being friends with them.


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* JapaneseDelinquents: This is people's opinion on Sunahara.
* PlotAllergy: ''The Egg Hamburg Steak Knows'' arc is based on the fact that Wakatake is allergic to pork. Basically, the case surrounds on how can he still get allergy-related hives after eating a burger patty with egg.
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''Tantei Team KZ Jiken Note'' (''The Case Notes of Detective Team KZ'') is a series of children's mystery novels created by Hitomi Fujimoto and illustrated by Komagata. The original novels were published by Creator/{{Kodansha}} since 2011, targeting a upper-elementary audience. It received a animated adaptation by Creator/{{NHK}} starting from {{Fall 2015|Anime}}. %%Note: Anime credits does not list producer. And given it's aired in 6:45pm, it may not be only a single cour.

A spinoff, ''Yousei Team G Jiken Note'' (''The Case Notes of Fairy Team G''), also exists, centering on Aya's younger sister Nako.

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''Tantei Team KZ Jiken Note'' (''The Case Notes Notebook of Detective Team KZ'') is a series of children's mystery novels created by Hitomi Fujimoto and illustrated by Komagata. The original novels were published by Creator/{{Kodansha}} since 2011, targeting a upper-elementary audience. It received a animated adaptation by Creator/{{NHK}} starting from {{Fall 2015|Anime}}. %%Note: Anime credits does not list producer. And given it's aired in 6:45pm, it may not be only a single cour.

A spinoff, ''Yousei Team G Jiken Note'' (''The Case Notes Notebook of Fairy Team G''), also exists, centering on Aya's younger sister Nako.

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* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: This is why Aya ignored KZ and even her mother's warning against Sunahara; he shielded her from verbal abuses at least once.



* ClassRepresentative: Aya became one when she enters middle school. Ironically it makes her even more ''isolated'', due to a rumour about the school chooses the student with the best entrance exam score to hold that position.



* FriendlessBackground: Aya can't, and doesn't bother to small talk. This pretty much means her social circle is limited to the KZ and Suguhara.

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* FriendlessBackground: Aya can't, and doesn't bother to small talk. This pretty much means her social circle is limited to the KZ and Suguhara.Sunahara.


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* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: All novels, and by extension anime episode titles, are in the format of ''[Item related to the case] Knows''.

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''Tantei Team KZ Jiken Note'' (''The Case Notes of Detective Team KZ'') is a series of children's mystery novels created by Hitomi Fujimoto and illustrated by Komagata. It received a animated adaptation by Creator/{{NHK}} starting from {{Fall 2015|Anime}}. %%Note: Anime credits does not list producer. And given it's aired in 6:45pm, it may not be only a single cour.

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''Tantei Team KZ Jiken Note'' (''The Case Notes of Detective Team KZ'') is a series of children's mystery novels created by Hitomi Fujimoto and illustrated by Komagata. The original novels were published by Creator/{{Kodansha}} since 2011, targeting a upper-elementary audience. It received a animated adaptation by Creator/{{NHK}} starting from {{Fall 2015|Anime}}. %%Note: Anime credits does not list producer. And given it's aired in 6:45pm, it may not be only a single cour.


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%%Series site: http://aoitori.kodansha.co.jp/series/KZ/


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* HatesSmallTalk: Why Aya doesn't have many friends.

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->I'm Aya Tachibana. I couldn't have imagined that my encounter with four super-eccentric boys would change my life so much.
->'''Aya Tachibaba''', OnceAnEpisode.



* ChildProdigy: While the KZ counts to some degree, the person who plays this trope the straightest is... Aya's sister Nako, who has the IQ of 260 when she's at the fifth grade[[note]]That's the beginning of ''G''; at that point Aya is a high schooler[[/note]].



* FragileFlower: Aya simple can't handle pressure very well, and in the first few episodes she actually attempted to run away from problems she couldn't deal with.



* GoodAtNumbers: Uesugi. He was directly called "the numbers guy."

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* GoodAtNumbers: GoodWithNumbers: Uesugi. He was directly called "the numbers guy."
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''Tantei Team KZ Jiken Note'' (''The Case Notes of Detective Team KZ'') is a series of children's mystery novels created by Hitomi Fujimoto and illustrated by Komagata. It received a animated adaptation by Creator/{{NHK}} starting from {{Fall 2015|Anime}}. %%Note: Anime credits does not list producer. And given it's aired in 6:45pm, it may not be only a single cour.

A spinoff, ''Yousei Team G Jiken Note'' (''The Case Notes of Fairy Team G''), also exists, centering on Aya's younger sister Nako.
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!''Tantei Team KZ Jiken Note'' contains exanples of the following tropes:
* CramSchool: And got into the cram school system a bit further than most works--probably it's the first time the western audience heard of Japanese cram schools divide classes by academic performance. Aya got to know the KZ because she was gent to the "special class" in the cram school for being ''very'' lopsided; she's very strong in Japanese language but very poor in math.
* FriendlessBackground: Aya can't, and doesn't bother to small talk. This pretty much means her social circle is limited to the KZ and Suguhara.
* GoodAtNumbers: Uesugi. He was directly called "the numbers guy."
* TheSocialExpert: Kuroki, with the trope named word-by-word.

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