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[[caption-width-right:350:Elementary school knight in shining armor]]
-> ''"I won't cry for you if you die doing this. Why, you ask? Because, Tsuwabuki... You are my valued servant. I can't lose you over something like this."''
[[caption-width-right:350:Elementary school knight in shining armor]]
-> ''"I won't cry for you if you die doing this. Why, you ask? Because, Tsuwabuki... You are my valued servant. I can't lose you over something like this."''
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* AgeGapRomance: When Nanami returns Tsuwabuki's handkerchief, she asks him to go steady with her. He's 10 and she's 13; the developmental gap between them is significant. It turns out neither of them are approaching the relationship from an honestly romantic point of view, but they value one another's company. They break up amicably by the end of the episode.
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* EngineeredHeroics: Mitsuru put Nanami's life in danger repeatedly so he could rescue her.
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* EngineeredHeroics: Mitsuru put Nanami's life in danger repeatedly so he could rescue her.her and look like the ideal big brother.
* EscapedAnimalRampage: Absurdly, this happens multiple times.
** A spooked horse runs through a school corridor on a collision course with Nanami, but a mysterious stranger does a DivingSave and rescues her just in the nick of time. Why was there a horse inside the school (and why were there suddenly chickens alongside it)? It's a RiddleForTheAges.
** Years prior, when Nanami was in elementary school, Touga saved her from a rampaging bull. Tsuwabuki witnessed this event and was so impressed with Touga's heroics that he decided he wanted to be a cool big brother just like him.
** And course, the runaway kangaroo... which has its own example above.
* IAmYourOpponent: Tsuwabuki says this to the kangaroo[[note]]He uses the classic [[ShonenDemographic Shōnen]] fight scene phrase, although translations generally do not put it literally[[/note]] after he beans it with the potted plant that he originally planned to bean Nanami with.
* EscapedAnimalRampage: Absurdly, this happens multiple times.
** A spooked horse runs through a school corridor on a collision course with Nanami, but a mysterious stranger does a DivingSave and rescues her just in the nick of time. Why was there a horse inside the school (and why were there suddenly chickens alongside it)? It's a RiddleForTheAges.
** Years prior, when Nanami was in elementary school, Touga saved her from a rampaging bull. Tsuwabuki witnessed this event and was so impressed with Touga's heroics that he decided he wanted to be a cool big brother just like him.
** And course, the runaway kangaroo... which has its own example above.
* IAmYourOpponent: Tsuwabuki says this to the kangaroo[[note]]He uses the classic [[ShonenDemographic Shōnen]] fight scene phrase, although translations generally do not put it literally[[/note]] after he beans it with the potted plant that he originally planned to bean Nanami with.
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* PursuedProtagonist: Nanami hears footsteps behind her walking through the streets at night, and as she becomes increasingly unnerved, she breaks into a run. Inevitably, she [[TwistedAnkle trips and falls]] and comes close to getting hit by a car. Fortunately the driver of the car pulls off to help her, but in the distance she sees a shadowy figure walk away. Somebody is after her.
* ReturningTheHandkerchief: Tsuwabuki declines to give his name when he saves Nanami from the horse, but he does leave her with a handkerchief that has his name on it. She goes off to the elementary school section to return it to him.
* SittingSexyOnAPiano: Nanami does a pose like this, but on a table on the cafeteria terrace, as she tries to cast herself as a DamselInDistress to her brother Touga. Touga doesn't buy it and excuses himself, leaving Nanami sprawled on the tabletop as he walks away.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Utena and Miki beat feet out of opposite sides of the frame when the kangaroo charges at Nanami.
* SparklingStreamOfTears: Nanami runs away from the conversation she was eavesdropping on before the misunderstanding is cleared up, and leaves a dramatic stream of yellow rose petals and sparkling tears in her wake.
--> '''Nanami:''' It's too cruel! The culprit who's trying to kill me is my own beloved brother! I wish I really were dead!
* StockSoundEffects: Cartoony "boing" sounds of the sort produced with a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jew%27s_harp Jew's harp]] can be heard when the kangaroo closes in on Nanami.
* TakingTheBullet: The kangaroo winds up to punch Nanami, and then suddenly Tsuwabuki is in front of her, shielding her from the blow, with the slow motion and everything.
* TemptingFate: Nanami says, "someone might be trying to take my life this very moment!" Then a baseball hits her square in the face.
* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Utena and Miki get alarmed, over-exaggerated grimaces when the kangaroo focuses its wrath on them.
* TreeCover: Miki and Utena hide behind a bush, and later, even more improbably, a drinking fountain as they spy on Nanami, trying to figure out who her prince is.
* ReturningTheHandkerchief: Tsuwabuki declines to give his name when he saves Nanami from the horse, but he does leave her with a handkerchief that has his name on it. She goes off to the elementary school section to return it to him.
* SittingSexyOnAPiano: Nanami does a pose like this, but on a table on the cafeteria terrace, as she tries to cast herself as a DamselInDistress to her brother Touga. Touga doesn't buy it and excuses himself, leaving Nanami sprawled on the tabletop as he walks away.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Utena and Miki beat feet out of opposite sides of the frame when the kangaroo charges at Nanami.
* SparklingStreamOfTears: Nanami runs away from the conversation she was eavesdropping on before the misunderstanding is cleared up, and leaves a dramatic stream of yellow rose petals and sparkling tears in her wake.
--> '''Nanami:''' It's too cruel! The culprit who's trying to kill me is my own beloved brother! I wish I really were dead!
* StockSoundEffects: Cartoony "boing" sounds of the sort produced with a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jew%27s_harp Jew's harp]] can be heard when the kangaroo closes in on Nanami.
* TakingTheBullet: The kangaroo winds up to punch Nanami, and then suddenly Tsuwabuki is in front of her, shielding her from the blow, with the slow motion and everything.
* TemptingFate: Nanami says, "someone might be trying to take my life this very moment!" Then a baseball hits her square in the face.
* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Utena and Miki get alarmed, over-exaggerated grimaces when the kangaroo focuses its wrath on them.
* TreeCover: Miki and Utena hide behind a bush, and later, even more improbably, a drinking fountain as they spy on Nanami, trying to figure out who her prince is.
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* BoxingKangaroo: One of the animals that charges at Nanami. (What in the world it was even doing at Ohtori Academy is never explained.)
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* BoxingKangaroo: One breaks out of the animals that charges at Nanami. (What containment, attacks Nanami, and ends up getting KO'd by Touga. What in the world it was it's even doing at Ohtori Academy is never explained.)
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* OutOfContextEavesdropping: Nanami becomes convinced Touga is the one plotting to kill her, with Anthy's help, due to a conversation she overhears between them. They were actually talking about killing pests that had infected the rose garden.
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* OutOfContextEavesdropping: Nanami becomes convinced Touga is the one plotting to kill her, with Anthy's help, due to a conversation because she overhears between them.overheads them debating about taking lives. They were actually talking about killing pests that had infected the rose garden.
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* NoodleIncident: Nanami's lackeys bluntly point out that there are a lot of people who would have a reason to hurt Nanami, they just don't know it.
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* TheAce: Touga's general awesomeness at everything is the source of both Nanami's and Mitsuru's fixation on him, and by the end even Utena is starting to wonder if he's more impressive than she initially thought.
* BattleButler: Nanami expects Mitsuru to take on even this role, fighting her three admirers so she doesn't have to bother with them.
* BehindTheBlack: A hilariously over-the-top example, as Mitsuru tells Miki and Utena why he's so focused on Nanami (and forgiving of her terrible treatment of him) while they all fail to notice Nanami ''in between them'' with a big reel-to-reel audio recording setup.
* BoxingKangaroo: One of the animals that charges at Nanami. (What in the world it was even doing at Ohtori Academy is never explained.)
* EngineeredHeroics: Mitsuru put Nanami's life in danger repeatedly so he could rescue her.
* OutOfContextEavesdropping: Nanami becomes convinced Touga is the one plotting to kill her, with Anthy's help, due to a conversation she overhears between them. They were actually talking about killing pests that had infected the rose garden.
* BattleButler: Nanami expects Mitsuru to take on even this role, fighting her three admirers so she doesn't have to bother with them.
* BehindTheBlack: A hilariously over-the-top example, as Mitsuru tells Miki and Utena why he's so focused on Nanami (and forgiving of her terrible treatment of him) while they all fail to notice Nanami ''in between them'' with a big reel-to-reel audio recording setup.
* BoxingKangaroo: One of the animals that charges at Nanami. (What in the world it was even doing at Ohtori Academy is never explained.)
* EngineeredHeroics: Mitsuru put Nanami's life in danger repeatedly so he could rescue her.
* OutOfContextEavesdropping: Nanami becomes convinced Touga is the one plotting to kill her, with Anthy's help, due to a conversation she overhears between them. They were actually talking about killing pests that had infected the rose garden.
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After being involved in several near accidents, Nanami becomes convinced that someone is trying to kill her. This leads her into a relationship with 4th Grader Mitsuru Tsuwabuki after he saves her life.
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