History Manga / Nononono

** LovableAlphaBitch: Despite the first impression she usually makes, deep down she is actually quite a decent person that cares about others deeply.

* AssholeVictim: Even though his suicide is meant to be seen as an Alas, Poor Villain moment, it's really hard to feel any sympathy for [[Spoiler:Yuusuke Nonomiya]], because of how much of a cruel parent he was to [[spoiler:Yuuta]].

* AccidentalPervert: Played with; more than once Nono seizes on the assumption that s/he's a pervert transvestite rather than a girl.

* BarbieDollAnatomy: Averted when [[spoiler: Kishitani "helps" dress 'Yuuta' when she is sick and bedridden. ]]

* LoveDodecahedron: Nono likes Amatsu, who likes Kourogi, who likes Yuuta (Nono). [[spoiler:Kishitani]] likes Nono after finding out she's a girl, and the Emperor falls for her as well after seeing her dressed as a girl named Noriko. Komachi, the Emperor's sister, has a crush on Nono's disguise as Yuuta. There's also Satou, a side character, who has his fascination with "Yuuta" explored in a chapter of the manga.

* Manga/ElfenLied
* Manga/GokukokuNoBrynhildr]

Other manga by Lynn Okamoto:

Unlike Lynn Okamoto's other works, this one is substantially less violent and does not involve science-fiction.

* ShownTheirWork: Okamoto did quite a bit of travelling to study ski jumping rules and techniques, and shows great attention to detail with each jump the characters make.
* SlasherSmile: It's from the creator of ''ElfenLied'', what do you expect? The Emperor gets the best ones by far, but Nonomiya of all people gets plenty of good ones too. Mostly when she's trying to play it up for intimidation.

* Manga/KiwaguroNoBrynhildr]

* TheWatson: Every ski jumping scene has someone around who doesn't know anything about the sport, just so they can have the statistics of each jump explained to them.

Unlike Lynn Okamoto's other works, this one is substantially less violent and not involved science-fiction.

Nono Nonomiya's father was a skilled ski jumper, but never won an Olympic medal. His dreams of his children winning one were destroyed when Nono inherited all his ability and not her brother Yuuta, as women are not allowed into the sport. After the death of both her father and Yuuta, Nono decides to honor their memory by taking on her brother's identity and enrolling in a college famed for producing winter sports athletes. But she quickly discovers it will be very hard to keep her secret, let alone earn the respect of her fellow students while aiming to become the school's best jumper.

A sports manga by Lynn Okamoto, the creator of ''{{Elfen Lied}}''.

* ItGotWorse: At first it looks like the manga is just about a girl cross-dressing to enter the olympics. From there on the story slowly ups the rape, violence, and asshole antes.

* DidNotDoTheResearch: "The autopsy said the the body was of a girl" (even though it was Yuuta - a boy's). Even if only the skeleton remains, the shape of the pelvic girdle clearly gives away the real gender.
** However, for the actual focus of the manga (ski jumping), the author [[ShownTheirWork DID do a lot of research]].
** Given the huge amounts of NoticeThis in that particular scene, it may also be setting up for some kind of [[TheReveal reveal]].

* [[GratuitousEnglish Gratuitous Norwegian]]: In chapter 3 page 9 are some guys talking Norwegian. Norwegians use å, not ä. So the correct spelling would be forstått not forstätt. And it's one word as you can see. Forstått means understood.

** Nono is usually pretty cool, but does not take kindly to people insulting her father or brother.

* EvenTheGuysWantHim: At least one guy has an erotic drems about Nonomiya wihtout knownig that in reality he is a she, and that isn't counting the one guy that tried to rape Nono ''because'' [[DepravedHomosexual he thinks she's a boy.]]

* BarbieDollAnatomy: Averted when [[spoiler: Kishitani "helps" dress 'Yutta' when she is sick and bedridden. ]]

** LovableAlphaBitch: Despite the first impression she usually makes deep down she is if not kind then at least very decent person that cares about others deeply.

* AnimeAnatomy: Averted when [[spoiler: Kishitani "helps" dress 'Yutta' when she is sick and bedridden. ]]

* AttemptedRape: Ogata was fooled by his new rommate 'Yuuta', but [[DepravedHomosexual that was the problem]].

** Nono is usually pretty cool, but does not take kindly to people insulter her father or brother.

* CompleteMonster: Many characters apply. But there is a subversion with [[spoiler:Shiriya/Emperor who is later revealed to be quite honorable, if still a total asshole.]]

* EvenTheGuysWantHim: At least one guy has an erotic drems about Nonomiya wihtout knownig that in reality he is a she, and that isn't counting the one guy that tried to rape Nono ''because'' [[DepravedHomosexual he thought she is a boy]]

* ItGotWorse: At first it looks like the chapter it's just about a girl cross-dressing to enter the olympics. From there on the story slowly ups the rape, violence, and asshole antes.
* LoveDodecahedron: Nono likes Amatsu, who likes Kourogi, who likes Yuuta (Nono). Kishitani likes Nono after finding out she's a girl, and the Emperor falls for her as well after seeing her dressed as a girl named Noriko. Komachi, the Emperor's sister, has a crush on Nono's disguise as Yuuta. There's also Satou, a side character, who has his fascination with "Yuuta" explored in a chapter of the manga.

* TsunDere: Kourogi, after the first few chapters. Unusually, she is ''not'' ObliviousToLove, confessing (and being rejected) at their first meeting, and continuing to declare herself his girlfriend throughout the series. Also unusually, the boy she is tsundere for (Yuuta) is actually a girl (Nono).

* TheWoobie: Nono. Come on, the poor kid has been training all this time to win the Olympic gold medal, [[spoiler:but her dad just didn't care about her effort because, of course, there isn't a women's category in ski jumping, and focused all his attention on Yuuta, whose ability... just wasn't good enough.]]