History Manga / Hinamatsuri

* ManipulativeEditing: Chapter 32 focuses on a journalist trying to do a documentary about Nitta after all of the crazy stunts he's been involved in. When he discovers that Nitta is way more ordinary and responsible than someone with his reputation should be, the journalist takes the footage and edits it to make Nitta out to be a womanizing, scum sucking "Monster of the Heisei Era" based on [[QuoteMine totally innocuous statements]] from the initial interviews. At one point, he even has Nitta strike Sabu with an ash tray, and takes footage of what's really a lecture to the journalist into Nitta extorting for money.

** The key event that saves their horrible future is [[Franchise/BillAndTed forming a rock band and playing a song so great it brings peace]]. The build up and payoff for this climax, however, has ''Manga/{{BECK}}'' written all over it.

Yoshifumi Nitta is an up-and-coming {{yakuza}} who one day has a [[GirlInABox girl in a metal cocoon]] drop into his apartment -- specifically, onto his head -- from out of nowhere.

* JerkToNiceGuyPlot: Nitta and Hina, who go from selfish, somewhat spoiled individuals to people able to care for themselves and others. Heck, Ikaruga's introduction even has her pull out a checklist that documents all the ways Hina has become less of a jerk.

* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: Female, male, it matters not.

** Episode 8 features a restaurant named {{Franchise/JoJo|sBizarreAdventure}}nathan's. Chapter 83 also has Hina read a manga titled ''[=ZoZo=]'s Complex Adventure'' ([=ZoZo=] no Bimyou na Bouken).

** When Hina, Mao, and Anzu finally arrive for their SUPER SUGEE FESTIVAL rehearsal, she smugly enters the scene with a "[[Franchise/MetalGear Kept you waiting, huh?"]]. Furthermore, while the "back to the audience" pose has been done multiple times, Mao's version of it looks remarkably like [[Franchise/StreetFighter Akuma]]'s iconic "Wrath of the Raging Demon" finisher.

* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: Hitomi is the first friend Anzu makes, and tends to go out of her way to make Anzu happy and has become a little protective of her. Anzu is shown to be a bit possessive of Hitomi and becomes sad after finding out Hitomi is also friends with Hina.

** Hitomi's high school class puts on a science fiction play for their school festival, featuring Hitomi as the co-lead AI assistant to a researcher. Problem is her play is ''also'' scheduled for her monthly corporate meeting, so she has to clumsily juggle her professional and school lives once again.

** When Hina, Mao, and anzu finally arrive for their SUPER SUGEE FESTIVAL rehearsal, she smugly enters the scene with a "[[Franchise/MetalGear Kept you waiting, huh?"]]. Furthermore, while the "back to the audience" pose has been done multiple times, Mao's version of it looks remarkably like [[Franchise/StreetFighter Akuma]]'s iconic "Wrath of the Raging Demon" finisher.

* FreudianSlip: When Hina tries to tell Hitomi, Kengo, and Takashi about her psychic powers in Chapter 46, the latter slaps the former because she thinks she's delirious from hunger (they're stuck on a mountain at the moment). Both boys are shocked, but while Kengo expresses surprise that Hitomi would hurt a friend like that, Takashi (who has a hard to hide crush on Hitomi) is more shocked that she'd ''reward'' Hina with the grace of her hand slapping her cheek.

* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: In contrast to Takashi, Kengo, and Hitomi's shock over Hina's superpowers before the timeskip,the Ashikawa-gumi discovering Hina's powers was way more casual. They pretty much accept it as something that could obviously be capable of the daughter of their fearsome leader and leave it at that.

** Hitoshi's chapters call back to his first chapter with Hina, with chapter covers or spreads putting them side by side on the same street. They do this once he's introduced again in his second "Hang in There, Hitoshi" chapter..

** Chapter 82 has Nitta's subordinates very awkwardly try to worm their way into his good graces by following Hina's advice. Said advice amounts to flattering a manipulating Nitta the way a ''daughter'' would, so all of their attempts end up creeping Nitta out until he sadly realizes who they got their techniques from.

** When Hina, Mao, and anzu finally arrive for their SUPER SUGEE FESTIVAL rehearsal, she smugly enters the scene with a "[[Franchise/MetalGear Kept you waiting, huh?"]]. Furthermore, while thet "back to the audience" pose has been done multiple times, Mao's version of it looks remarkably like [[Franchise/StreetFighter Akuma]]'s iconic "Wrath of the Raging Demon" finisher.

** Hitomi delivers a crushing blow to Nitta's pride and economically strong-arms him into actively helping her stop [[spoiler:the Superhuman Organization for ever forming]]. She only got minor satisfaction from it, because while Nitta is now completely subservient to her, the fact that he ''is'' submissive bothers Hitomi greatly since he is the only adult Hitomi genuinely respects.

* HitMeDammit: Mika at one point starts restraining herself after getting one too many complants baout her monster strength hurting her martial arts students. Since those same students are there to get clobbered, in the mistaken belief that they'll become as strong as Nitta going through Mika's training, they try provoking her until she gives in.

* HostClub: Hina, through no fault of her own, turns her relatively normal job as a cafe waitress into this trope. She ends up attracting the attention of many of her town's lonely elderly male population, who come to the cafe to dote on Hina and have her talk to them as if she were someone dear to them. She even gets Nitta to indulge in it once!