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* IllGirl: Mei has some sort of unspecified disorder that causes anemia and low blood pressure. It's apparently not going to kill her or anything, but it does allow for both plot-relevant fainting and comedic pratfalls, like when she starts trying out for the various sports clubs and collapses at each tryout, to the point where the basketball team just tells her "No" for her own safety. It also resulted in one scare for Rinna and Sayo when she didn't wake up and they thought she had died due to having trouble finding her pulse.

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* GirlishPigtails: Sayo has her hair styled with two bushy pigtails most of the time, to reflect her girlish, friendly nature.




* wTinTest: Done indirectly. Around the midpoint of the first volume a girl, Haruka Fukuzono, approaches Mei and asks her out. Mei rejects her right away and the girl wanders off in search of her next crush, completely unbothered by her rejection. Later an identical looking girl approaches Mei and acts like they met before. Mei figures out she's not the same girl because there are no love arrows coming out from her. Once she points this out, the girl admits she's Haruka's younger twin sister and says that that's the first time that anyone has been able to tell them apart.

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\n* wTinTest: StudentCouncilPresident: [[spoiler:The younger Fukuzono twin]] is the student council president, as revealed in the stinger of the first volume where she says that things are going to get interesting around the school with Mei's ability. She's also implied to be able to see people's self-hatred.
* TwinTest:
Done indirectly. Around the midpoint of the first volume a girl, Haruka Fukuzono, approaches Mei and asks her out. Mei rejects her right away and the girl wanders off in search of her next crush, completely unbothered by her rejection. Later an identical looking girl approaches Mei and acts like they met before. Mei figures out she's not the same girl because there are no love arrows coming out from her. Once she points this out, the girl admits she's Haruka's younger twin sister and says that that's the first time that anyone has been able to tell them apart.

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* BeautyMark: Rinna has one under her left eye.
* BlessedWithSuck: How Mei sees her ability to see love arrows. It's caused her nothing but grief, especially when she tried to play matchmaker.
* ClingyJealousGirl: Sayo can get quite clingy and jealous of other girls who show an interest in Mei. At one point her love arrows basically turn into tentacles that wrap around Mei, because a third girl asked Mei out. Despite this, she insists that she just wants to be friends.

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* BeautyMark: Rinna has one under her left eye.
* BlessedWithSuck: How Mei sees her ability to see love arrows. It's caused her nothing but grief, especially when she tried to play matchmaker.
matchmaker and made the people she tried to pair up based on mutual attraction mad at her once they got to know each other.
* ClingyJealousGirl: Sayo can get quite clingy and jealous of other girls who show an interest in Mei. At one point her love arrows basically turn into tentacles that wrap around Mei, because a third girl asked Mei out.out, even though Mei immediately turned her down. Despite this, she insists that she just wants to be friends.



* FuroScene: Many. The three girls tend to take baths together on a regular basis, though after the first day Sayo decided to take her baths separately because her heart couldn't handle having a naked Mei so close to her every day. Still, there's a lot of ship tease in these baths and a lot of fun bonding.

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* FuroScene: Many. The three girls tend Rinna and Mei to take baths together on a regular basis, though after the first day Sayo decided to take her baths separately because her heart couldn't handle having a naked Mei so close to her every day. Still, there's a lot of ship tease and fun BathtubBonding in these baths and a lot of fun bonding.scenes.



* HappilyMarried: Mei's parents, apparently. When they send her off to her new boarding school, they both have solid love arrows pointing at each other.
* HighPressureEmotion: Rinna is always letting off large amounts of steam after particularly close moments with Mei.

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* HappilyMarried: Mei's parents, apparently. When they send her off to her new boarding school, they both have solid love arrows pointing at each other.
other. This is pretty much the only characterization they get, however.
* HighPressureEmotion: Rinna is always letting off large amounts of steam after particularly close moments with Mei.Mei, such as right after she goes out of her way to tell Mei that she will take her role as assistant class monitor seriously and promises to do her best.



* IJustWantToHaveFriends: Why Mei tries so hard to make friends. Due to the fact that she's an ill girl who spent a lot of time in the hospital as a kid, she's afraid of being lonely again and wants to make sure she always has friends.

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* IJustWantToHaveFriends: Why Mei tries so hard to make friends. Due to the fact that she's an ill girl who spent a lot of time in the hospital as a kid, where it was very hard for her to grow close to other kids, she's afraid of being lonely again and wants to make sure she always has friends.



* LoveAtFirstSight: Rinna falls for Mei the first time they meet, in the bathroom where Rinna is desperately trying to avoid throwing up. Mei ''hates'' this trope, though, seeing it as basically an attraction based on nothing but looks, without a care about anything deeper.
* LoveTriangle: Mei is at the center of one, with both her roommates madly in love with her, while she has feelings for neither.
* TheMatchmaker: Mei ''tried'' to be one using her power, but it resulted in a lot of hurt feelings when the pairs she set up would break up on bad terms once they actuallky got to know each other and get angry at her. Part of the reason for going to an all-girls boarding school was because she thought she could get away from all the people who remembered her.

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* LoveAtFirstSight: Rinna falls for Mei the first time they meet, in the bathroom where Rinna the former is desperately trying to avoid throwing up. Mei ''hates'' this trope, though, seeing it as basically an attraction based on nothing but looks, without a care about anything deeper.
* LoveTriangle: Mei is at the center of one, with both her roommates madly in love with her, while she has feelings for neither.
neither. On the bright side, all parties are friendly with each other.
* TheMatchmaker: Mei ''tried'' to be one using her power, but it resulted in a lot of hurt feelings when the pairs she set up would break up on bad terms once they actuallky actually got to know each other and get angry at her. Part of the reason for going to an all-girls boarding school was because she thought she could get away from all the people who remembered her.



* StressVomit: Rinna's stress vomiting in the bathroom over her starting high school and Mei's decision to check up on her is how they meet, and how Rinna falls for her. She does it again after Mei realizes that it was love at first sight for Rinna, and angrily blows her off, because she, Mei, hates love at first sight, considering it shallow and too strongly based on looks over personality.

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* StressVomit: Rinna's stress vomiting in the bathroom over her starting high school and Mei's decision to check up on her is how they meet, and how Rinna falls for her. She does it again after Mei realizes that it was love at first sight for Rinna, and angrily blows her off, because she, Mei, hates love at first sight, considering it shallow and too strongly based on looks over personality.personality.

*wTinTest: Done indirectly. Around the midpoint of the first volume a girl, Haruka Fukuzono, approaches Mei and asks her out. Mei rejects her right away and the girl wanders off in search of her next crush, completely unbothered by her rejection. Later an identical looking girl approaches Mei and acts like they met before. Mei figures out she's not the same girl because there are no love arrows coming out from her. Once she points this out, the girl admits she's Haruka's younger twin sister and says that that's the first time that anyone has been able to tell them apart.
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* Fainting: Anemia fainting is common for Mei, and she does it three times in a row while trying out for sports clubs, before the fourth just tells her not to bother just because they're worried about her safety. It also happens once at a plot-convenient moment, after asking Rinna out on a date, and ends with her taking her first trip to the school infirmary.

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* Fainting: {{Fainting}}: Anemia fainting is common for Mei, and she does it three times in a row while trying out for sports clubs, before the fourth just tells her not to bother just because they're worried about her safety. It also happens once at a plot-convenient moment, after asking Rinna out on a date, and ends with her taking her first trip to the school infirmary.


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* IDontWantToRuinOurFriendship: While Sayo definitely has feelings for Mei, she refuses to pursue a relationship currently because she doesn't want to lose Mei as a friend.
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* When Mei tries out for the sports clubs, it's given in a set of three. The first is the track club, where she's shown collapsed. The second is the tennis club, where she's shown collapsed. The last is the swim club, where she's shown to have sunk.
* When Mei tries out for the culture clubs, it's again given as a set of three. This time, though she's shown basically as TheAce, doing incredibly well in each club tryout.

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* ** When Mei tries out for the sports clubs, it's given in a set of three. The first is the track club, where she's shown collapsed. The second is the tennis club, where she's shown collapsed. The last is the swim club, where she's shown to have sunk.
* ** When Mei tries out for the culture clubs, it's again given as a set of three. This time, though she's shown basically as TheAce, doing incredibly well in each club tryout.
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[[From left to right: Rinna Fukatsu, Mei Haruno, and Sayo Shirayuki]]

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[[From [[caption-width-right:350:From left to right: Rinna Fukatsu, Mei Haruno, and Sayo Shirayuki]]

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[[From left to right: Rinna Fukatsu, Mei Haruno, and Sayo Shirayuki]]



* FuroScene: Many. The three girls tend to take baths together on a regular basis, though after the first day Sayo decided to take her baths separately because her heart couldn't handle having a naked Mei so close to her every day. Still, there's a lot of ship tease in these baths

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* Fainting: Anemia fainting is common for Mei, and she does it three times in a row while trying out for sports clubs, before the fourth just tells her not to bother just because they're worried about her safety. It also happens once at a plot-convenient moment, after asking Rinna out on a date, and ends with her taking her first trip to the school infirmary.
* FuroScene: Many. The three girls tend to take baths together on a regular basis, though after the first day Sayo decided to take her baths separately because her heart couldn't handle having a naked Mei so close to her every day. Still, there's a lot of ship tease in these bathsbaths and a lot of fun bonding.



* IllGirl: Mei has some sort of unspecified disorder that causes anemia and low blood pressure. It's apparently not going to kill her or anything, but it does allow for both plot-relevant fainting and comedic pratfalls, like when she starts trying out for the various sports clubs and collapses at each tryout, to the point where the basketball team just tells her "No" for her own safety. It also resulted in one scare for Rinna and Sayo when she didn't wake up and they thought she had died.

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* IllGirl: Mei has some sort of unspecified disorder that causes anemia and low blood pressure. It's apparently not going to kill her or anything, but it does allow for both plot-relevant fainting and comedic pratfalls, like when she starts trying out for the various sports clubs and collapses at each tryout, to the point where the basketball team just tells her "No" for her own safety. It also resulted in one scare for Rinna and Sayo when she didn't wake up and they thought she had died.died due to having trouble finding her pulse.



* TheMatchmaker: Mei ''tried'' to be one using her power, but it resulted in a lot of hurt feelings when the pairs she set up would break up on bad terms and get angry at her. Part of the reason for going to an all-girls boarding school was because she thought she could get away from all the people who remembered her.

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* TheMatchmaker: Mei ''tried'' to be one using her power, but it resulted in a lot of hurt feelings when the pairs she set up would break up on bad terms once they actuallky got to know each other and get angry at her. Part of the reason for going to an all-girls boarding school was because she thought she could get away from all the people who remembered her.

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* LoveAtFirstSight: Rinna falls for Mei the first time they meet, in the bathroom where Rinna is desperately trying to avoid throwing up.

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* LoveAtFirstSight: Rinna falls for Mei the first time they meet, in the bathroom where Rinna is desperately trying to avoid throwing up. Mei ''hates'' this trope, though, seeing it as basically an attraction based on nothing but looks, without a care about anything deeper.


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* RuleOfThree:
* When Mei tries out for the sports clubs, it's given in a set of three. The first is the track club, where she's shown collapsed. The second is the tennis club, where she's shown collapsed. The last is the swim club, where she's shown to have sunk.
* When Mei tries out for the culture clubs, it's again given as a set of three. This time, though she's shown basically as TheAce, doing incredibly well in each club tryout.

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* FuroScene: Many. The three girls tend to take baths together on a regular basis, though after the first day Sayo decided to take her baths separately because her heart couldn't handle having a naked Mei so close to her every day. Still, there's a lot of ship tease in these baths



* StressVomit: Rinna's stress vomiting in the bathroom and Mei's decision to check up on her is how they meet, and how Rinna falls for her.

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* StressVomit: Rinna's stress vomiting in the bathroom over her starting high school and Mei's decision to check up on her is how they meet, and how Rinna falls for her.her. She does it again after Mei realizes that it was love at first sight for Rinna, and angrily blows her off, because she, Mei, hates love at first sight, considering it shallow and too strongly based on looks over personality.
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Sandboxed for the moment because I don't have time to crosswick. I'll move it into the manga namespace when I do have time for crosswicking.

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High school first year Mei Haruno has a unique ability. She is able to see "love arrows," arrows going from someone to whoever they're attracted to, an ability that she's had all her life and has given her no end of grief. She decides to go to an all-girls school to get away from all the romance and drama that surrounded her in middle school. Now, if only it worked out that way.

As it turns out, she's surrounded by love arrows pointing between various girls, and two of them are pointing directly at her! Her elementary school friend Sayo Shirayuki, who she wasn't expecting to meet is the first one to show her love arrow, or arrows in this case. For some reason she has multiple arrows all pointing directly at Mei. The second is Rinna Fukatsu, who Mei finds in the bathroom dry heaving, and who falls in love with Mei at first sight, with a big fat arrow pointing directly at her. Mei, who doesn't have feelings for either of them beyond friendship, and in fact has never felt romantic interest in anybody, is now caught up in a love triangle only she is aware of. Even better, both girls who are in love with her are her roommates for the next three years.

If You Could See Love is a yuri comedy Manga by Teren Mikami and Yuuki Najani, focusing on the idea of being able to see love.

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!!If you Could See Tropes:
* BeautyMark: Rinna has one under her left eye.
* BlessedWithSuck: How Mei sees her ability to see love arrows. It's caused her nothing but grief, especially when she tried to play matchmaker.
* ClingyJealousGirl: Sayo can get quite clingy and jealous of other girls who show an interest in Mei. At one point her love arrows basically turn into tentacles that wrap around Mei, because a third girl asked Mei out. Despite this, she insists that she just wants to be friends.
* CrazyPrepared: When they were in elementary school, Sayo apparently carried around a sleeping bag for Mei to use when the latter fainted. This raised a few eyebrows with Mei, but she apparently appreciated the thought.
* GirlishPigtails: Sayo has her hair styled with two bushy pigtails most of the time, to reflect her girlish, friendly nature.
* HappilyMarried: Mei's parents, apparently. When they send her off to her new boarding school, they both have solid love arrows pointing at each other.
* HighPressureEmotion: Rinna is always letting off large amounts of steam after particularly close moments with Mei.
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: Why Mei tries so hard to make friends. Due to the fact that she's an ill girl who spent a lot of time in the hospital as a kid, she's afraid of being lonely again and wants to make sure she always has friends.
* IllGirl: Mei has some sort of unspecified disorder that causes anemia and low blood pressure. It's apparently not going to kill her or anything, but it does allow for both plot-relevant fainting and comedic pratfalls, like when she starts trying out for the various sports clubs and collapses at each tryout, to the point where the basketball team just tells her "No" for her own safety. It also resulted in one scare for Rinna and Sayo when she didn't wake up and they thought she had died.
* LoveAtFirstSight: Rinna falls for Mei the first time they meet, in the bathroom where Rinna is desperately trying to avoid throwing up.
* LoveTriangle: Mei is at the center of one, with both her roommates madly in love with her, while she has feelings for neither.
* TheMatchmaker: Mei ''tried'' to be one using her power, but it resulted in a lot of hurt feelings when the pairs she set up would break up on bad terms and get angry at her. Part of the reason for going to an all-girls boarding school was because she thought she could get away from all the people who remembered her.
* RightBehindMe: During Mei's first of many trips to the school infirmary, the nurse walks up right behind her and says she's glad the infirmary meets Mei's high standards. Poor Mei looks to be on the verge of a heart attack when she hears this.
* StressVomit: Rinna's stress vomiting in the bathroom and Mei's decision to check up on her is how they meet, and how Rinna falls for her.

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