Gold Digger / ATTACK on MIKA

ATTACK on MIKA trope index
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• Ririna/Lilina is often depicted as one in several episodes, usually involving Ichi as her boyfriend:
  • "My ex dissed my girlfriend as a 'gold digger', but...": Lilina dumps Ichi once he makes it clear he isn't becoming a CEO. Three years later, she invites Ichi to her wedding to Narikin Goods' CEO. When he attends the event with his new girlfriend, Mika, Lilina accuses her of being a gold digger. However, when the Narikin CEO seemingly reveals that Ichi is the CEO of Shingeki Concierge International and one of his clients, she does a 180° and kisses up to Ichi until he tells her that Mika is the CEO. As a result, the man calls off the engagement and her parents abandon her. What's more, no one would flock to her because of the scandal.
  • "I was about to propose, but she showed up with her new wealthy boyfriend...": Lilina shows up at the park where she is to meet up with Ichi for their date and reveals that she is dating successful businessman Taizou, right when he is about to propose to her. She tells him that Taizou is her new boyfriend, then breaks up with him and even stomps on the wedding ring he worked so hard for because it doesn't have a jewel. Years later, when he is about to marry Mika, she shows up looking haggard because Taizou failed in his business and got up to his neck in debt, then forced her to take part of said debt, only to run away.
  • "She broke up with me because my house was old and run down...": She doesn't like that her boyfriend, Ichi, is feeding the homeless and sprays perfume all over him whenever he goes on dates with her. When he takes her to his parents' house when she forces him to, she accuses him of lying to her, even though he always told her that he is poor, sprays her entire perfume bottle at him, and walks off. The next day, she starts to spread rumors about him. Years later, when Lilina brags to both him and Mika that she's marrying a rich man named Okamoto, it's revealed he and Ichi knew each other when the former was homeless. When Lilina mocks Ichi for starting a company that helps the poor, Okamoto threatens to call off the wedding and Mika exposes Lilina's true colors, including the fact that Lilina herself is from a poor family and that she would always wear tons of perfume to hide the scent of mold, to everyone, causing her to run away crying. Afterwards, Okamoto calls off the wedding and breaks up with her.
  • "My wife divorced me while I was away on business... 3 years later...": She cheated on her husband, Ichi, while he was on his business trips. When he finally got the opportunity to not have to go on business trips for anything, Ririna dumps him in favor of Taizou and divorces him, causing him to resign and become a shut-in. However, Ichi decides to write a blog about his life stories and spins them into funny stories. A while later, Ichi is offered to have his blog published into a book under the pen name of "Zero," which is then adapted into a film three years later. At the movie's premiere, Ichi runs into Lilina and Taizo, who proceed to mock him for still being single and miserable. However, they are instead shocked and, in Lilina's case, angered when Ichi reveals that not only is he "Zero" and he became successful after they betrayed him, but he is also dating the actress Mika Shingeki. Six months later, Lilina begs for help at Ichi and Mika's apartment, revealing that Taizou's stocks tanked and he pinned all his debts on her before running away. When she tells Ichi that he should help her since she was the reason his blog became successful, Mika jokingly suggests that she tell everyone that she was the model for the villain who left her husband, saying that no one will feel any sympathy for her. Ichi then calls security when Lilina refuses to leave.
  • "She dumped me for my car but we ran into each other a few years later...": Ririna only dated Ichi for his good grades and, therefore, his potential to make money. She dumped Ichi for working at a small factory and driving an old car, which drove him to work hard to forget about her. A few years after he started his own company, Ririna shows up and gloats to him that she's engaged to Hideo, who owns a chain of restaurants. However, when Ichi reveals that he is a rich CEO, she dumps Hideo and tries to get back with him, but he refuses and reveals he is already engaged to his secretary, Mika, instead. Since then, Ririna tries to hook up with rich men, but they turn her down because she is in her thirties, while the only ones who did give her the time of day were ten years older than her.
  • '"There are no survivors" The plane that my girlfriend was on crashed...!?': She dated Ichi for working at a big company and lied to Ichi about going on a company vacation to Thailand to cover up her affair with an American man named Michael on the Indonesian island of Bali. When Mika revealed the truth to Ichi, he gathered both his parents and in-laws to confront her about her affair. When Ririna admitted to her cheating, she even justified it because the man wasn't as "stingy" as Ichi. As a result, he calls off the engagement and forces her to pay compensation. While Ririna shrugged it off because of Michael's riches, the man calls her to announce his company went under and broke up with her when she refused to give him money. Ririna tries to get back with Ichi after realizing he was a scammer, but he has none of it and goes through with his lawsuit, driving her to work a night job to pay the debt.
  • "I came home a day early from my business trip to surprise my wife, but she told me not to come home": Ririna married Ichi for his money, using it to buy herself designer-brand stuff and even going as far as selling his car models away to feed her habit. While Ichi tolerates her behavior because of her kind demeanor, he soon finds out it was an act when he wakes up to Ririna and Hideo going on a joyride without noticing he was in the backseat. After he leaves the lovebirds behind in response to them thrashing his car in their adventure, Ririna threatens divorce and gloats he'll give her compensation. Much to her dismay, Ichi reveals the car was a vintage worth a million dollars while Hideo reveals he lied about being a company top dog to cover up that he's a NEET. Ririna tries to get back with Ichi only for him to kick her out of his house and sue her.

• Aira/Aila is also depicted as a gold digger and can be more malicious than Ririna/Lilina in trying to get what she wants.
  • My new girlfriend keeps making me buy her expensive things and... Aira only dated Hideo for his money, and kept demanding that he buy gifts for her. When Hideo realized that he was running out of money, he decided to get a job at a bar. At the bar, he overheard Aira admitting to her friend that Hideo was just an ATM to her and that she already has a boyfriend. Hideo fell into a slump after that until Ririna comes to check on him.
  • "My ex-girlfriend didn't know that she was about to marry a...": Aila breaks up with Ichi since he barely makes enough money to satisfy her. A few years later, she runs into Ichi again at an expensive restaurant where is celebrating his adopted daughter, Mika's, birthday and introduces her fiancee, Gorgeous, who is the number one host in town. She then proceeds to mock Ichi for still being poor, accuses him of only adopting Mika so that she can take of him when he gets older, and claims that he only cares about work. Even after learning that Ichi will be promoted for all of his hard work, she still makes fun of him. However, after learning that Gorgeous is the leader of a notorious gang called the Gekishin Gang, she tries to call off the marriage and get back with Ichi, only for Mika to remind her that she promised to marry Gorgeous. Gorgeous' father then arrives and warns her about what will happen to her if she calls off the marriage, forcing her to agree to the marriage.
  • "She dumped me because I couldn't afford a ring when I proposed to her... 5 Years later...": Aila dumped Kazuma because he wasn't able to buy her an expensive ring and ripped up his love letter. Years later, she got engaged to Ichi, who is a rich actor. When the two met again, after hearing about Kazuma becoming a successful novelist, she tried to get back together with him. However, he refused, since he has moved on with his new girlfriend Konomi Kanemochi. Furthermore, it was revealed that Ichi and Konomi were the actors who starred in the movie based on the novel that Kazuma wrote. However, Kazuma chews her out for being a parasite trying to leeching off of him and dissing Konomi. As a result, Ichi broke off the engagement and Aila was forced to work to pay the damages.

• My wife was paying for her lover with my credit card, so I cancelled it... features a male example. Gurune gives her affair partner gifts that she buys with her husband Hayate's credit card. When he cancels the card and Gurune can't afford the trip that she and her partner were on, he broke up with her and tried to escape, but he was forced to work off their debt along with Gurune.
• Wife and daughter treated me like crap, so I decided to disappear..."Dad, help me!": Another male example is the stinky man Saki brought to the house after her husband, Ko, left her. Turns out he was only after Saki's father's money, but he's left unable to do anything after Saki gets disowned for lying about her husband.
• My ex invited me to her wedding and got a big shock...: Julie dumps Ichi for choosing taking over his father's small business instead of joining any company. Five years later, she gloats about her upcoming marriage and invites Ichi to rub it in. But Ichi tells her he is a CEO and the groom, Satoshi, is an employee of his. As expected, Julie does a 180° and begs Ichi to take her back in the middle of the wedding ceremony. Much to her dismay, Ichi married his childhood friend Mika long ago. Satoshi, on the other hand, did know about Julie's infidelity with other men, having been informed of this by Ichi, but he let it slide as he already planned the wedding. This action of hers became the last straw for Satoshi, who forces her to confess everything to the guests.
• Ran into my ex-wife at a matchmaking party…: Sarah divorces her husband, Atsushi, when he lost money over selling his light novel. However, when his work won an award and got back in business, she changes gears and begs him to marry her again. However, her friends tell her to leave Atsushi alone and expose her affairs with other men to him.
• I saw my former classmates at a class reunion, and... A fat, disheveled Callaco flattered Koki in an attempt to marry him after he told her he's a doctor. However, Koki sees through it and calls her out for this.
• On the day of the engagement, his true intentions are revealed...: Takapiro Saionji is yet another male example, revealed by Yuji's recordings to not care about his fiancee Hitomi's feelings, only wanting to marry her for her family's money. Furthermore, he planned to divorce her after a year of marriage and spend her family assets on his girlfriend on the side. As a result, he is humiliated by his own parents and in-laws before transferring him to a faraway branch office.
• My girlfriend dumped me because I didn't have money... 3 years later, I encounter her...: Hoshimi dated the laidback CEO Shingo, but dumps him upon realizing he's not as rich as he seemed. Later, she is dating a guy named Takashi at a restaurant where Shingo went to eat with a client. After Takashi dumps her after learning she is only dating him for his money, she begs Shingo to take her back, but he rejects her. Eventually, Takashi realizes that Hoshimi cheated on him and used her many other lovers as her personal ATMs, with some already engaged to her. To the surprise of nobody, they all sue her for marriage fraud when Takashi revealed the truth.
• My ex-girl friend's father destroyed my house... "We're not together anymore... and...": Kuzumi dated Koji for his money and kept borrowing money from him. She claimed that she would pay him back, but showed no signs of ever doing so. When Koji confronted her one day and asked her if she would ever pay him back, she revealed that she had no intentions of ever doing so and that her promise to pay him back was nothing more than a pretext. She even told him that he had no heart for asking her to pay him back. After he told her that he would not lend her anymore money, she immediately broke up with him. Furthermore, she outright admitted to seeing him as an ATM after doing so.
• My wife was cheating on me in my brand new expensive car...: Saki married Junpei just for his money until he caught her cheating on him with a guy named Atsushi inside his brand new Mercedes-Benz. She even admits that she wanted to marry someone who would be her ATM, driving Junpei to call the cops on the lovebirds.
• My ex-girlfriend dumped me because of my handmade ring then invited me to her wedding: Kasumi rejected Daichi's handmade wedding ring and broke up with him. Three years later, she spots him and invites him to her upcoming wedding. To Kasumi's surprise, her groom, Todo-san, tells her Daichi became a recognized fashion designer and he is dating Aika, a famous model. As expected, Kasumi tries to sweet-talk him into taking her back, but he tells her that he's marrying Aika. Todo-san then shows up and calls Kasumi out for her greed before canceling the wedding.
• My girlfriend dumped me because she thought I was a cheapskate... A few years later...: Konomi dumped Ichi for taking her to a cheap yakiniku restaurant. Five years later, Ichi became engaged to Mika and became a successful businessman. When Konomi mocks him with her new boyfriend Taizou, he tells her Ichi's grandfather is the CEO of Shingeki Holdings. From there on, Konomi stalked him, even going back to the yakiniku restaurant she insulted. However, Ichi gets sick of her crap and tells her off before having her (literally) kicked out of the place. She tried to get back with Taizou, without knowing she already revealed her true colors to him earlier on.
• My wife and daughter left me after they won the lottery, but...: Yugami only married Masashi for his money and flat-out says this to his face after supposedly winning the lottery. To add insult to injury, she slept with and lied to his friend Takuya about being a single mom, which prompted the man to dump her. After trying and failing to get back with Masashi, he sues her for damages.
• My girlfriend who has a child said she was on a business trip, but...: Yuria cheated on Ichi with another man while going on business trips and leaving her son Riku with him. When Ichi found out about her cheating, she called him "a poor loser who works from home" and even expressed joy at Riku's condition, telling Ichi that she got to "party with her boyfriend for a few more days". However, her antics come to an end when he comes to visit and has her boyfriend Ryoji listen to her ramblings and reveal Ichi is a famous consultant who made more money than him. Unsurprisingly, she begs Ichi to take her back only to be rejected and it turned out she didn't even have a job and mooched off of Ichi and Ryoji.
• I reunited with my ex-girlfriend at an upper class grocery store...: Sumomo breaks up with Takashi after his father's company went bankrupt and makes fun of him for being poor. Several years later, when they meet again at a grocery store, she continues to make fun of Takashi until she finds out that he is the owner of the same grocery store. Since then, Sumomo starts calling him in an attempt to get back with him.
• I just wanted to marry her for her money, but on the day of the wedding...: Takuto Nishida is a male example who leeched off of several women, he later targets an unattractive woman named Eli Aikawa to seduce her in an attempt to get her money, though he gradually starts falling in love with her. However, Eli breaks up the engagement after eavesdropping Takuto's conversation about her with his friend on the phone. This eventually causes Takuto to change himself for the better and and he is able to reconcile with Eli again.
• My girlfriend dumped me because I didn't make as much money as you... 3 Years later... [sic]: Konomi broke up with Hideo because he wasn't making enough money for her dream wedding. Hideo tried to charge her for ditching him at the altar, but he was unsucessful. Years later, Hideo and Ririna found her at one of Hideo's restaurants. She kept making fun of them in front of her new boyfriend Ichi, who is supposedly much richer than Hideo. Ririna revealed that Hideo makes $80,000 and owns a lot of sushi chains. Ichi broke up with Konomi and the two were able to sue her.
• '"Divorce me!" → "I've been waiting for you to ask!"': Aya cheated on her husband Reito Shimizu with the supervisor Tatsuya Kunihara, who got them together in the first place. Moreover, Reito caught them being together on his way to the bakery to buy her a cake and found out she torn apart his love letter towards her. However, Aya accuses Reito of cheating on her when she spotted him with his coworker Eiko Suzuki and shoves divorce papers on his face. When Eiko reveals Kunihara was cheating on her, which drives the man to beg her for forgiveness to no avail, while Aya uselessly tries to get back with Reito but he already signed the divorce papers.
• "I caught my wife cheating with one of my workers": Maki cheated on her husband Atsushi with the good-looking Shikio Ikesugi because the former was seemingly poor. When Atsushi surprised the both of them, she tried to shoo him out only for Shikio to reveal Atsushi was his company's CEO. Moreover, it turns out she lied to Shikio about her husband being an abusive lazy bum and that her last name was "Iukoi". Upon being discovered, Maki justified her affair by saying he came home late and she was lonely, on top of complaining about the budget. Eventually, Atsushi was tired of her crap and sued her for damages, with Shikio refusing to pay the alimony for her.
• ''I ran into my ex girlfriend when I went shopping with my girlfriend and...'': Konomi Kanemochi dates Riku Okamoto for his money and always makes up anniversaries so that he will buy her expensive things. One day, she breaks up with him for neglecting another of their "anniversaries", not caring that he didn't have enough money to buy her something, calls him a pauper, and tells him to never go near her again. A year later, Riku runs into her again at the high-end store she works at while shopping with his new girlfriend, Hinako. Konomi refuses to serve them, mocks Riku for still being poor, and accuses Hinako of being poor. When Riku tells her to not insult Hinako, Konomi tells her boyfriend to beat Riku to a pulp and put him in his place. Unfortunately, before he can do so, both he and Konomi are approached by a bunch of tough looking men who are revealed to work for Hinako's grandfather, a yakuza boss. The men then drag Konomi and her boyfriend outside to "talk it out".