History VisualNovel / InYourArmsTonight

* MistakenForPregnant: In Koichi's version of the "Baby Trouble?!" sub story, he assumes MC is pregnant due to her buying baby books, causing him to avoid sex with her. She was actually only using them for her latest work assignment.

* SexySpectacles: Ebihara normally wears contacts, but in his "Another Story" route he occasionally dons glasses when he's in a more casual mode outside of work.

* YourCheatingHeart: The basic premise of the game.
** Koichi is always unfaithful to the protagonist, kicking off the whole plot. His mistress, Ai Yashima, also turns out to be married [[spoiler:to his boss]].
** On several routes, the protagonist also begins a romance with someone else while still married to Koichi.
** Koichi's route reveals that [[spoiler:his father has carried on a long-standing relationship with another woman, which both Koichi and his mother know about and which his mother refuses to acknowledge]], contributing to Koichi's rather skewed ideas about what marriage entails.
** In Genji's "Another Story" route, the protagonist's friend Yukako also has an affair with a married man.

!!In Your Arms Tonight includes examples of the following tropes:

* AttemptedRape: In Ginnosuke's route, [[spoiler:Ai drugs the protagonist and brings in a pair of thugs to rape her, although Ginnosuke arrives before anything can happen]].

* SomewhereAPaleontologistIsCrying: In one of the side stories, Koichi bonds with a kid over their shared love of dinosaurs, and claims pteranadons were dinosaurs (they weren't) and evolved into birds (they didn't). These are common mistakes for laymen, but seem incongruous for a man who has been established as an avid dinosaur fan.

* MarriageBeforeRomance: In Koichi's main route, the [[ArrangedMarriage arranged marriage]] eventually becomes this.* TheMistress: Ai Yashima.

* BenevolentBoss:
** Kippei Ebihara, the manager of the design division, is strict and demanding of his employees but also fair. He's a very hands-on manager who does a lot of field work himself rather than leading from a desk, and he's very supportive of employees who prove their work ethic and willingness to improve.
** Hana Ichikawa, Ebihara's superior and the person responsible for promoting the protagonist to the design division, is also an example, as well as being a bit of a TricksterMentor.

* TheMistress: Ai Yashima.

* PetTheDog: Numerous times on Koichi's route, before he properly thaws out.
* PickyEater: Koichi will not eat eggplant, and says that he dislikes black-colored foods in general.
* TheProudElite: Koichi is a successful businessman with a promising career in a major corporation. He is handsome, elegant, and absolutely cold, viewing his marriage as a business contract formed based purely on the practical benefit that both members receive from it. Whether or not he ends up displaying any warmer and humbler qualities thanks to the protagonist's influence depends on which route you're playing.

* RealMenEatMeat: Kiyoto says so in his "Another Story" route, protesting the protagonist's vegetable-heavy meals.

* ReassignmentBackfire: In Koichi's route, at least, his reassignment turns out to be for the best - despite the lack of opportunity for promotion, he comes to realize that he enjoys the work on its own merits rather than only viewing it as a route to further advancement. His sequel proves that it's not all sunshine - a year later, he's still being snubbed by his new colleagues, who view him with suspicion and are quick to attribute any success on his part to backhanded tactics - but his company gives him an official commendation for his work and with the protagonist's help, his co-workers begin to come around.

* SexlessMarriage: Three months into their marriage, the protagonist and Koichi have not once had sex, and he sleeps in his office rather than sharing a room with her.

* {{Sleepyhead}}: Ritsu can and will fall asleep at the drop of a hat, even in the midst of a conversation. The protagonist mostly finds it kind of amusing, although he gives her a bad moment when he nods off in the bath and causes her to worry that he's about to drown himself.

* TeacherStudentRomance: One-sided Hot For Teacher variety. Ritsu is a high school physics teacher, and some of his female students are obviously taken with him. He mostly resorts to hiding from them.
* WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove: On his route, Koichi admits that he really doesn't understand love and isn't sure he's capable of loving another person. [[spoiler:He chose the protagonist as his wife because an incident when they were very young children has left him convinced that, if he's capable of loving anyone, she is probably his best chance.]]

* WouldHitAGirl: Ginnosuke slaps the protagonist on her face (once).

* BreakTheHaughty: Koichi gets a vigorous session of it on his route. A similar sequence of events, although not quite on as drastic a level, occurs to him in Ginnosuke's route as well.

* CigaretteOfAnxiety: Aiba quit smoking some years ago, but ends up (temporarily) falling off the wagon due to protagonist-related stress.

* DefrostingIceQueen: Koichi, on his route (and on Ginnosuke's).
* DoggedNiceGuy: Aiba puts the protagonist's happiness before anything else, even when she's married and he sees no hope of her ever returning his feelings.

* ForgottenFirstMeeting: The protagonist and Koichi met not long after she was born, due to their parents being friends. Because she was an infant at the time, the protagonist naturally has no memory of this, although Koichi is aware of it prior to meeting her again as an adult thanks to a photograph and hearing the story from his parents.
* FriendlessBackground: In Koichi's sequel, his mother describes him as a solitary child, never able or even willing to try to connect with his peers.

* GracefulLoser: Koichi, eventually, in some routes:
** In Ebihara's route, Koichi contacts Ebihara [[spoiler:while the protagonist is in the hospital, telling him that she's in critical condition in order to get Ebihara to rush to see her. He then sends the two of them off to have a private conversation, fully expecting it to result in the protagonist leaving him for Ebihara]].
** In Ginnosuke's route, Koichi begs the protagonist for another chance, but when it's clear that it's too late because she's already fallen in love with Ginnosuke, he accepts it gracefully and admits that it's his own fault for not appreciating her sooner.
* GroinAttack: In Kiyoto's route, the protagonist has to knee him in the groin to make him back off when he starts getting too frisky with her at her office.

* HighSchoolSweethearts: The protagonist and Genji, in Genji's route when do they end up together.

* IDontWantToRuinOurFriendship: The main reason Aiba has spent eight years failing to let the protagonist in on the fact that he's in love with her.

* IWasJustPassingThrough: Ebihara in Ginnosuke's route. [[spoiler:He claims scheduling conflicts for a business trip he was supposed to take to Paris, recommending the protagonist as his replacement. That this gives the protagonist the chance to reunite with Ginnosuke while she's there is purely coincidental! Or would be, if Ebihara didn't also go to the trouble of obtaining and passing along Ginnosuke's contact information.]]
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Genji is a spoiled, narcissistic alpha male who is far too accustomed to people bending over backwards to indulge him, and tends to sulk when they don't. On the other hand, he genuinely values his friends and family and thinks nothing of using his considerable resources to help them (although he may grumble about it all the way), and if called on his self-centered ways, he actually ''listens'' and is not too proud to apologise and mend his ways.
* KarmaHoudini: Koichi's sequel shows that several people, Akiko and [[spoiler:the husband of his former mistress]] among them, feel Koichi came out of his affair scot-free and without suffering any consequences for his actions. Koichi himself is aware how close he is to this trope, especially in his epilogue and sequel, and makes few efforts to defend himself from the criticism he faces from his actions as a result.
* KickTheDog: Koichi is a dog-kicking machine for much of the game. Some particularly notable examples:
** Early in Aiba's route he makes a point of informing the protagonist that he just doesn't find her attractive as an explanation for his affair. This is mostly to provide further justification for the protagonist to divorce him, freeing her up to begin a relationship with Aiba, but it also does a number on her self-confidence for a good bit of the route.
** Late in Ebihara's route, without discussing it with the protagonist he announces to both his parents and hers that he is going to make her quit her job. When she calls him out on it afterwards and points out that they seem to want very different things out of their marriage and may be better off divorcing, his response is to ask who would cook his meals for him. [[spoiler:When the protagonist ends up in the hospital following a car accident, Koichi tells her company not to allow any of her colleagues to contact or visit her.]]
* KindheartedCatLover: Ginnosuke Oguri.
* LikesOlderWomen: Twenty-one-year-old Kiyoto aggressively pursues the thirty-two-year-old protagonist, and has had numerous flings with older women in the past.

* MarriageBeforeRomance: In Kiochi's main route, the [[ArrangedMarriage arranged marriage]] eventually becomes this.
* MatchmakerCrush: In his route, Ritsu falls for the protagonist in the process of trying to help her salvage her marriage with Koichi.

* NotHelpingYourCase: Via a bad case of CannotSpitItOut - in Koichi's sequel, the protagonist very badly ''wants'' to trust Koichi, but between his insistence that they not let his co-workers know she's his wife and his refusal to in any way deny Miss Ito's claim that he's having an affair with her, he doesn't give the poor protagonist anything to work with.

* OnlyFriend: Koichi has only one actual friend, Ritsu Moriyama. Their friendship has lasted as long as it has partly on the basis of their similarities and mutual common ground, but mostly by virtue of Ritsu being a very laid-back person who doesn't bother to get worked up about much.
* OperationJealousy: In Ritsu's route, Ritsu attempts to spur Koichi into cleaning up his act by making it seem like he and the protagonist are having an affair. Unsurprisingly, it backfires.
* PerpetualFrowner: Kiochi rarely smiles in any of the routes. An open-mouth smile is even more rare...although this could just be when he's around the protagonist [[spoiler: until he falls in love with her]] in some of the routes.

* BlandNameProduct: At the end of Ebihara's POV story, Akiko and the other girls present the protagonist with a "[[{{Wii}} Fii]]".

* [[CrazyJealousGuy Crazy Jealous Girl]]: Ai Yashima is a [[GenderInvertedTrope gender-inverted]] example of the CrazyJealousGuy, in at least Ginnosuke's route. This girl goes far beyond [[ClingyJealousGirl clingy]] and flies to psychotic. [[spoiler: Ai drugs the protagonist and hires two men to rape the protagonist, just because she wants Koichi back.]]

** When Kiochi eventually falls in love with the protagonist, he cannot even stand to see the protagonist around other men.

* ForgottenFirstMeeting: The protagonist and Koichi met when they were very young. Neither of them remember.

* ForgottenFristMeeting: The protagonist and Koichi met when they were very young. Neither of them remember.

* [[CrazyJealousGuy Crazy Jealous Girl]]: Ai Yashima is a [[GenderFlip gender-flipped]] example of the CrazyJealousGuy, in at least Ginnosuke's route. This girl goes far beyond [[ClingyJealousGirl clingy]] and flies to psychotic. [[spoiler: Ai drugs the protagonist and hires two men to rape the protagonist, just because she wants Koichi back.]]

* [[CrazyJealousGuy Crazy Jealous Girl]]: Ai Yashima is a [[GenderInvertedTrope gender-inverted]] example of the CrazyJealousGuy, in at least Ginnosuke's route. This girl goes far beyond [[ClingyJealousGirl clingy]] and flies to psychotic. [[spoiler: Ai drugs the protagonist and hires two men to rape the protagonist, just because she wants Koichi back.]]

* CareerVersusMan:
** In all of the main routes in which the protagonist is still married to Koichi, she faces pressure from his family and hers to quit her job and focus on taking care of the house and having children. In all such routes, she refuses, as she loves her job and is very good at it; in Koichi's route, one of the few points in his favor early on is that he firmly defends her choice to keep working and refuses to push her to quit.
** In Ebihara's sequel, he's tapped for a transfer to another city, leaving the protagonist torn between staying in Tokyo or leaving her job to move with him. She attempts to TakeAThirdOption by applying for a position in the same city, but when that doesn't pan out, she resolves to quit her job in favor of their relationship. [[spoiler:Ebihara, realizing the difficult position he's put her in, declines the transfer so that the two of them can continue working as a team in Tokyo, with plans to separate from Ichikawa designs and start their own firm.]]
** Similarly, in Soji's epilogue, the protagonist grows frustrated with their long-distance relationship, since it means she can't do anything to support Soji while he continues with his physical therapy and doesn't even hear about it when he gets sick. However, there are very few job opportunities in her field in the rural area where he's living. As in the above example, she finally resolves to quit her job and relocate to be with Soji, [[spoiler:only for Soji to refuse to hear of it because he admires her work and knows how much it means to her]].

* AbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder: Genji and the protagonist were [[HighSchoolSweethearts high school sweethearts]], but then Genji left the country to pursue his career. He intended to resume their relationship when he came back, but after not hearing from him for twelve years, the protagonist has moved on and gotten married.

* AbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder: Genji and the protagonist were HighSchoolSweethearts, but then Genji left the country to pursue his career. He intended to resume their relationship when he came back, but after not hearing from him for twelve years, the protagonist has moved on and gotten married.
* AbusiveParents: The protagonist's father is very harsh and controlling. This is made especially clear in Genji's route, in which the protagonist and Akiko talk about how much he controlled and restricted her back when they were in high school, and the protagonist eventually describes his behavior as emotionally abusive (although not to his face).

* [[CrazyJealousGuy Crazy Jealous Girl]]: Ai Yashima is a [[GenderInvertedTrope gender-inverted]] example of the CrazyJealousGuy. In at least Ginnosuke's route, this girl goes far beyond [[ClingyJealousGirl clingy]] and flies to psychotic. [[spoiler: Ai drugs the protagonist and hires two men to rape the protagonist, just because Ai wants Koichi back.]]

* HighSchoolSweethearts: The protagonist and Genji, until he left the country to pursue a career in soccer.

* FourthDateMarriage: The protagonist had married Koichi after only meeting him three times, one of the times during their childhood, an event that neither can remember.

* CrazyJealousGuy: [[GenderInvertedTrope Gender-Inverted]]. Ai Yashima. In at least Ginnosuke's route, this girl goes far beyond [[ClingyJealousGirl clingy]] and flies to psychotic. [[spoiler: She drugs the protagonist and hires two men to rape the protagonist, just because Ai wants Koichi back.]]

* SlasherSmile: [[spoiler: In Ginnosuke's route, the Ai flashes one to the protagonist if the player chooses that the protagonist attempt to stop two thugs from killing Ginnosuke.]]

* WouldHitAGirl: Ginnosuke slaps the protagonist on her face [[spoiler: because even after he warned the protagonist to stay away from Ai Yashima, the protagonist decided to meet up with her in a sketchy bar, where the protagonist [[AttemptedRape almost got raped]] by two thugs hired by Ai.]