History Manga / MyNeighborSeki

* AcceptableFeminineGoalsAndTraits: Yokoi has a pretty strict idea on what boys do/like vs. what girls should do/like. She gets angry when Seki turns Jun's Rena doll into a masked vigilante, not because he's tampering with the doll at all but because she doesn't think it proper for Jun to grow up with that kind of action-y influence. She also doesn't believe that girls would be interested in monster movies, something that gets slightly disproven when her {{Tomboy}} friend starts raving about one. Conversely, she always expresses surprise whenever Seki does a typically feminine activity.

* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Despite Seki sometimes getting angry at Yokoi for interfering with his games or Yokoi's constant frustration at Seki being a distraction, the two of them do genuinely like each other. Yokoi has gone out of her way to spare Seki total humiliation and to aid him when he was freaking out and had to reach his bag. Seki has included Yokoi in his games from time to time, and at one moment when he was furious at her he immediately backed off when he accidentally made her cry.

* TheSilentBob: Seki is never shown actually speaking, and primarilly communicates through facial expressions, gestures and occasional handwritten notes. His sister Jun and their mother are also this.

* DirtyCoward: In the game of Shogi, the Gold General betrays and overthrows the King, then flees when his army is surrounded. He only returns after the King deals with the enemy army.

* HypocriticalHumor: One of Seki's mannerisms is to shush Yokoi when she's telling him to be quiet.

* NightmateFetishist: Seki has a tendency to create characters just to put them through hell. Yokoi is not amused, and usually intervenes to protect them and give them a happy ending.

* CoolBigSis: Seki's little sister Jun really likes Yokoi, and they spend a lot of time together in chapter 53. In chapter 79, Yokoi lends Jun her aid in getting included and, later, trying to defeat Seki when they play their own version of Go. She also holds Jun when she falls asleep after playing, even as her legs go numb. Goto's [[invoked]]ShippingGoggles read it as Jun feeling safe in her future sister-in-law's arms.

* ShipperOnDeck: [[ShippingGoggles Due to misunderstanding Seki and Yokoi's interactions and her own overactive imagination]], Gotou not only assumes that Seki and Yokoi are together, she's convinced they've already gotten physical with each other -- even ''in class.'' She decides to support their "relationship." [[TheCuckoolanderWasRight However, she'll be on the money...in about eight years.]] The sequel even shows that her vivid imagination towards Yokoi and Seki's relationship ended up taking up a career as a romance novelist.

** Rumi tries to block the low flight path with her book bag
** Seki counters by developing an invisible stealth plane out of scotch tape

''My Neighbor Seki'' (''Tonari no Seki-kun'', or "Next to Seki-kun") is an ongoing 2010 manga written and illustrated by Takuma Morishige for Media Factory's ''Comic Flapper'' compilation. The series later received an ONA and a 21-episode anime adaptation of 7 1/2-minute shorts in January 2014 courtesy of Shin-Ei Animation. Creator/SentaiFilmworks licensed the anime for North America; Vertical licensed the manga, and began releasing the English-language version starting in January 2015.

* UnknownRival: Uzawa frequently serves as this, dismantling Seki's schemes either on accident, due to clumsiness, or because he barged in without realizing what was going on. Seki and Rumi both seem to resent him for this, but Uzawa never seems to be aware of the trouble he causes or the disdain the other two have for him, and seems to view Seki as a friend.

** The SequelSeries shows that [[TheyDo she eventually marries Seki]] and [[BabiesEverAfter has a son with him.]]

* LaserGuidedKarma: Uzawa starts to play roughly with the Robot Dad and throws it in the Kaiju cardboard statue. Little did he know that the statue can mimic its film counterpart's regurgitation technique, where it sends whatever went down its throat back at double the force-- and sends it hurdling at Uzawa's chin, knocking him over.

* AudienceSurrogate: Considering how many people are wishing for Yokoi and Seki to be together ([[RuleThirtyFour not to mention those who want them to get physical]]), it's safe to say Gotou is this.

''My Neighbor Seki'' (''Tonari no Seki-kun'', or "Next to Seki-kun") is an ongoing 2010 manga written and illustrated by Takuma Morishige for Media Factory's ''Comic Flapper'' compilation. The series later received an ONA and a 21-episode anime adaptation of 7 1/2-minute shorts for the Winter2014Anime lineup courtesy of Shin-Ei Animation. Creator/SentaiFilmworks licensed the anime for North America; Vertical licensed the manga, and began releasing the English-language version starting in January 2015.

* AluminiumChristmasTrees: There are actually many variants of shogi that include many additional pieces not found in the standard game, including "queen's shogi", which introduces a 'queen' piece. The character used to abbreviate it can mean 'princess'; however, it is a different character than is used in the series, making it a partial example.

** Taken UpToEleven when Seki plays with a remote controlled car on his desk. He studies traffic laws and takes a driving test. He becomes frustrated and disappointed when he doesn't pass, trains hard for his second attempt, and is exultant when he does pass. Yokoi notices that he's even more serious about this than his usual games.

* AcceptableFeminineGoalsAndTraits: Yokoi has a pretty strict idea on what boys do/like vs. what girls should do/like. She gets angry when Seki turns Jun's Rena doll into a masked vigilante, since she doesn't think it proper for Jun to grow up with that kind of action-y influence. She also doesn't believe that girls would be interested in monster movies, something that gets slightly disproven when her {{Tomboy}} friend starts raving about one. Conversely, she always expresses surprise whenever Seki does a typically feminine activity.

* ChildhoodFriendRomance: A DownplayedTrope, in the sequel series Yokoi's friends assume that she and Seki must have been destined soulmates since they knew each other since middle school only for Yokoi to reveal that they actually fell out of contact with each other after they went to separate high school. It wasn't until they had a class reunion years later that they actually reconnected.

* {{Bishounen}}: One minor spa treatment Seki gives himself makes him absolutely ''glowing'' with health. His athletics improve, his hair becomes more glossy, and his skin is clearer than ever with soft (and strangely visible) lips. He's got the attention of every boy and girl in class, pretty much-- but the boys found his face a little creepy, so he stopped.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Yokoi (though it's white), and even more so when the volume covers and anime give her a purplish shade at the tips of her hair.