History Manga / AhAndMmAreAllSheSays

* BaitAndSwitchSentiment: Toda blushes and gets wide-eyed when Tanaka says "I like you," but then says that she feels the same about Yanagi and Norush, two other mangaka at the magazine. Tanaka probably didn't even realize the inadvertent meaning her words had.

* ParentalAbandonment: Tanaka was abandoned by her mother "from the start," and spent her entire childhood in children's home. This background is why she gets into manga publishing, as well as why she takes PornWithPlot more seriously than her fellow editors--she treats the fictional world as a replacement of a family she never had, and because of this, sees character relationships more seriously than her colleagues.

* PunBasedTitle: The title of ''X+C'' is based on a pun: the plus sign which is read as "tasu" in Japanese; which turns the title to "X tasu C," which sounds like "ecstasy."

** During the Comike arc, Norush thought he can finally "transition" from {{hentai}} to {{Shonen}} as he originally wanted [[spoiler:after securing offers from several shōnen magazines]]. The thing is, while editors in hentai frequently take a hands-off attitude as long as the product has enough "utility," readers tend to have more demands on shōnen works. This means as a rookie shōnen artist, he's practically under the thumb of his editor, as he realized first-hand in Chapter 11.

* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Norush constantly struggles with feeling inadequate compared to the other mangaka, especially the newcomer Toda. This is possibly due to the fact that he isn't really interested in hentai and mainly [[BleachedUnderpants uses it as a springboard]].

* FandomVIP: InUniverse. A certain Mineta Hajime is famous in the eromanga industry for consistently writing fan mail for ''three decades'' and thus quite venerated by the editors. Especially, if he bothers to address to an author instead of the magazine, the author in question is very likely to become a legend in hentai--or [[BleachedUnderpants whatever demographic they choose]].

** During the Comike arc, Norush thought he can finally "[[BleachedUnderpants transition]]" from {{hentai}} to {{Shonen}} as he originally wanted [[spoiler:after securing offers from several shōnen magazines]]. The thing is, while editors in hentai frequently take a hands-off attitude as long as the product has enough "utility," readers tend to have more demands on shōnen works. This means as a rookie shōnen artist, he's practically under the thumb of his editor, as he realized first-hand in Chapter 11.

* BleachedUnderpants: Norush dreams of drawing {{shonen}} manga, but an editor friend advised him to start as an eromanga artist first. [[spoiler:This gets {{deconstructed}} later on--Norush gets a job offer from a shōnen magazine, but that magazine's editor wants to capitalize on Norush's fame in {{Hentai}} and asks Norush to plan for an [[SexComedy ero-comedy]][[note]]As one may notice on the trope page, the first all-ages works from former Hentai artists are likely to be {{ecchi}}.[[/note]], a genre that the latter dislikes even more than Hentai. This causes the negotiation to fall through, and Norush needs to rethink what he ''really'' wants to draw, so he'd still be drawing Hentai--for a different publication, that is.]]

* ADateWithRosiePalms: It ''is'' a hentai magazine, after all, and several characters mention using it for this.

* LoveYouAndEverybody: Toda blushes and gets wide-eyed when Tanaka says "I like you," but then says that she feels the same about Yanagi and Norush, two other mangaka at the magazine. Tanaka probably didn't even realize the inadvertent meaning her words had.

* ReallySeventeenYearsOld: Toda claims she's 23. When Toda's sister Yuuko visits, Tanaka finds out that [[spoiler:she's actually 17 and has been lying about her age the entire time]].

** Tanaka says it's one of her favorite genres, but quickly clarifies that it doesn't mean she's lesbian or bisexual (she may be, so far she hasn't shown any interest in men).

* ReallySeventeenYearsOld: Toda claims she's 23. When Toda's sister Yuuko visits, Tanaka finds out she's been lying about her age, and is actually [[spoiler:about to turn 18]].

** Producers of pornography are actually the most finicky about compliance, since they're prime targets for the MoralGuardians. [[spoiler:This means after it's found Toda is [[ReallySeventeenYearsOld underaged]], she is immediately put on hiatus until 18, after an extensive investigation (by Japanese standards) confirms her actual date of birth. In addition, top execs in Inukai Publishing are trying to contain potential damage from this.]]

** In chapter 16, the movie theater Tanaka and Toda visit has a display resembling an [[Film/TheAvengers Avengers]] poster, and the movie they see is clearly ''Film/{{Joker}}''.

* AmbiguousDisorder: Some fans have speculated that Toda and Tanaka are both written as autistic, which could explain Tanaka's difficulty connecting to people or showing emotion, and Toda's problems verbalizing. [[FridgeBrilliance This offers an explanation as to why Tanaka can easily understand Toda when few others can.]] Some of Tanaka's personality may be due to her being a FosterKid, though.

* ContemptibleCover: {{Inverted}} InUniverse. Nishi advises Norush to design ''clean'' covers for his {{eromanga}} tankoubon, to avoid the embarrassment when the buyers go to the cash register.

* VisibleSlience: Frequently used throughout the series to mark Toda's verbalization process.

* {{Meganekko}}: Toda's debut one-shot ''Ferris Wheel Reversal'' stars a glasses-wearing high-school girl. And despite the manga itself is quite polarizing among readers, even those who don't like it admit her glasses are quite cute.
-->'''Anonymous {{Imageboard}} User:''' Yeah, the chick had nothing going for her except the glasses.

''Ah...and Mm...Are All She Says'' (''あーとかうーしか言えない'', ''Aa toka Uu Shika Ienai'') is an {{ecchi}} slice of life comedy by Kondou Shouma. The series is seralized on the ''Ura Sunday'' website since January 17, 2019.

* PunBasedTitle: The title of ''X+C'' is based on a pun: the plus sign which is read as "tasu" in Japanese; which turns the title to "XtasuC," which sounds like "ecstasy."

* PunBasedTitle: The title of ''X+C'' is based on a pun: the plus sign which is read as "tasu" in Japanese; which turns the title to "X to C," which sounds like "ecstasy."