History Manga / Mahoromatic

* ChefOfIron: Mahoro.

* Hypocrite: Mahoro, in spades. She's always saying "dirty thoughts are bad" but.........

* Foreshadowing:

** [[spoiler: Suguru is now a HeartBrokenBadAss, who's sole purpose in life is to kill combat androids. He's kept Mahoro's brooch as a reminder of her, and why he hates combat droids.]]

*** For a more jaded BitterSweetEnding or DownerEnding version, [[spoiler:Suguru is mortally wounded, and gets to see Mahoro one last time before he finally kicks the bucket. The anime does seem to imply this, having Suguru mention not being able to see a doctor in time as well as his natural organs getting hit.]]

* ShoutOut: Slash, to ''Cyborg009'', with his "acceleration device".
** Also, in one of the episodes Mahoro wears different dresses, two of which look like dresses that Minmei from {{Macross}} wore on occasion. You can see where the animators obviously got some of their mecha influences from.
** [[Literature/TheDeadZone Greg Stilson, United States President.]]
** Season 2, Episode 3. That mech's WaveMotionGun? Yep, that's SpaceBattleshipYamato.
*** Then Mahoro defeats it with [[MazingerZ Breast Missiles]].

* TorpedoTits: In a spoof of a robot attack in ''MazingerZ''.

* ArtificialHuman

* BenevolentAlienInvasion: The Saint, somewhat. [[spoiler: In episode 11 of Season 1, one of the Saint members gives a little backstory on how the members of Saint went throughout the galaxy looking for new species to contact, but were quite surprised at not finding any kind of life anywhere. And then when they find Earth, the first response humans have is of violence towards them, to the point where they end up having to make some combat androids to counter the human's hostilities.]]

** Both Slash and Ryuga do one to rescue Suguru and Mahoro in Season 2.

* ChekhovsGunman: See {{Foreshadowing}}
* ChristmasEpisode

**** For a more jaded BitterSweetEnding or DownerEnding version, [[spoiler: Suguru is mortally wounded, and gets to see Mahoro one last time before he finally kicks the bucket. The anime does seem to imply this, having Suguru mention not being able to see a doctor in time as well as his natural organs getting hit.]]
**** For a more EarnYourHappyEnding version, [[spoiler: Suguru is still wounded, but may likely survive it, given the likely advances in technology from Saint, and gets reunited with Mahoro, who probably no longer has any time restrictions left on her. They go back to Japan and reunite with their high school friends, and Minawa is implied to be there as well.]]

* ActorAllusion: [[spoiler:Suguru becoming a HeartbrokenBadass]] while voiced by Creator/NobutoshiCanna in the [[spoiler:anime's ending]] should remind us of [[{{Berserk}} another Nobutoshi Canna role]].

* ActorAllusion: [[spoiler:Suguru becoming a HeartbrokenBadass]] while voiced by NobutoshiCanna in the [[spoiler:anime's ending]] should remind us of [[{{Berserk}} another Nobutoshi Canna role]].

* ChekhovsGunman: Seeing {{Foreshadowing}}

** Suguru's grandfather imagining his wife being green-haired would be okay, but as it turns out, she's [[spoiler:Leesha of the Saint, and with Suguru's grandfather being head of Vesper, thus connecting Vesper to the Saint]].

* ActorAllusion: [[spoiler:Suguru becoming a HeartbrokenBadass]] while voiced by NobutushiCanna in the [[spoiler:anime's ending]] should remind us of [[{{Berserk}} another Nobutushi Canna role]].

* ChekovsGunman: Seeing {{Foreshadowing}}

* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: A song resembling "Gonna Fly Now" theme from the {{Film/Rocky}} films plays in episode 7 of Season 2.

** [[{{TheDeadZone}} Greg Stilson, United States President.]]

* BigBreastsBigDeal: Rin, the tall girl with long hair, of Suguru's trio female classmates, says that having big boobs is actually quite problematic for her due to backaches and the excessive attention she receives from guys. Chizuko and Miyuki, the other two girls, [[ACupAngst beg to differ]], and only wish they had "her problems."

At its core, Mahoromatic is a comedy with strong dramatic (even tragic) elements. As a comedy, it offers several laugh-out-loud moments. In fact, its signature CatchPhrase -- "Dirty thoughts are bad!" (or Japanese in Romaji: "Ecchi na no wa ikenai to omoimasu!")-- shows up in many variations on the net and in other anime. The ending in the [[{{Anime}} anime]] version is much darker than in the {{manga}}. [[MoodWhiplash You have been warned.]]

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[[caption-width:250:I think dirty thoughts are bad!]]

'''This show provides examples of:'''

* ZigzagPaperTassel: The title page illustration for chapter 8 showed Mahoro dressed up as a ''{{miko}}'', holding an ''ōnusa'' in one hand and exorcism sutras in the other. (This chapter is about searching for [[TheSevenMysteries ghosts at school]].)

** Season 2, Episode 3. That mech's WaveMotionGun? Yep, that's Space Battleship Yamato.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: A song resembling "Gonna Fly Now" theme from the {{Film/Rocky}} films plays in episode 7 of Season 2.