Web Animation / Gossip City

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Gossip City (噂のスカッと Uwasa no Sukatto, lit. "Gossip's Relief") is a YouTube anthology channel animated in Vyond. It is set in Uwasa City. While there are set characters with the same names, personality, and mostly the same families, new characters can have their own stories as well.

The English channel can be found here. The original Japanese channel can be found here. It has two sister channels:

• Kuro no Tettsui (黒のテッツイ, lit. "Black Iron Hammer") stars different characters but Gossip characters occasionally guest star there. It can be found here.
• Uwasa no Heiji (噂のヘイジ, lit. "Gossiper Heiji") focuses on Heiji's YouTube career as he films the daily lives of his boss Inuzuka and the Uwasa Gang. It can be found here.

Compare to similar channels MoniRobo, Trouble Busters, Revenge Films, and Refreshing Stories.

Gossip City contains examples of:

Tropes A-F

• Abandon the Disabled: In "Telling the truth to my sister who ran away from taking care of our dad," Haruka got annoyed with tending to her paraplegic grandfather and abandoned both him and her sister Nagisa, even when she was the one who caused the accident that caused his predicament in the first place on their way to celebrate the man's sixtieth birthday.
• Abusive Parents:
  • Kanta's mother would hit him whenever she was annoyed by something. This caused Kanta to be taken away and put in the foster system.
  • Mio's parents would beat her whenever she surpassed her younger sister Akane. This caused her to hang out with gangs, so she would convince them that she's a good for nothing.
  • Haru's mother often scolds her and doesn't feed her properly just because she was blind. When Haru told her story to the Uwasa Gang, they are angry and ended up taking Haru's mother to a crab fishing bob. Haru was adopted by a host family afterwards.
• Adaptational Species Change: Hokuro/Moley was changed to be an alligator in the English dub.
• Aerith and Bob: While the channel uses Japanese names, there is a character named Leon which is not a Japanese name. However, considering his father is Yujiro, it was probably his idea to give him a foreign name.
• Accidental Kidnapping:
  • Haruto's boss kidnapped his bride Ayane on the day of his wedding. It later turned out that the gang members he hired made a mistake and he actually kidnapped the Uwasa gang boss's niece named Ayana, who was having a wedding on the same day. This got him into trouble with the yakuza.
  • Iori's parents kidnap his fiancée Himari on the day of their wedding. When Iori came to rescue her, he discovered that it wasn't Himari who was kidnapped but her friend Misa who resembles Himari except for her hair color.
  • Shizuka's mother-in-law kidnapped her baby daughter, Miki, because she wasn't giving birth to the family's heir. However the baby turned out to be Mei, Masamune and Aoi's newborn child. This got her into trouble with the Uwasa Gang. They toss the mother-in-law up and down with the baby to cheer Aoi up.
• Accidental Public Confession:
  • Karen accidentally revealed her affair partner Kenny during an argument with the MC, her friends and her husband. Karen's husband divorced her after that and took custody of their son Tommy.
  • My husband and daughter kicked me out of the house without even knowing what I did for them - when the Ugumori brothers revealed that they chatted with Miki through an online game, Miki dismisses all the stuff she told them as a joke, especially that she was going to scam Kobayashi out of her money. Angered by her stepdaughter's lack of remorse, she kicks the brat out of her house.
• Actual Pacifist: Mei dislikes violence despite being the daughter of the Yakuza boss.
• Alpha Bitch: Ririka is the most popular girl in Takuya's high school. She began to bully Takuya when he accidentally got sweat on her clothes. He eventually got tired of the abuse and when she and her minions dropped the bread on the floor and goaded Takuya into eating it, he ate it causing them to think he was crazy. Later on, she tried to get with him when she found out that he became a successful author but he turned her down.
• Animesque: The channel's stories use Vyond's Business Friendly Style, which not only resembles anime from a glance but also allows for the use of visual conventions from anime and manga.
• Arranged Marriage: Amane is forced and threatened into one by Tatsuya's mother Okiku in order to unite both the Yamanba and Gyuki groups against Uwasa. However, Okiku only wanted to control the Yamanba Group.
• Ass Shove: In this story, when Sumomo used her toy wand bought by her mother Himari to heal her treacherous "ex-daddy" Masaki of his paraplegic state, she ended up shoving it up his butt, after which she runs off. After the passersby look at the scene, he became known as the town pervert for having a toy wand stuck in there in public.
• Ax-Crazy: Akio, Haruka's husband, looks like a Nice Guy at first, but he also has a violent side whenever he gets mad at her. The reason for this, according to Inuzuka, was because he was a drug junkie.
• Baby-Doll Baby: Rendered mentally ill by the stress of paying their debts, Akina and her mother look after a baby doll named "Haruka" because the former suffered a miscarriage on top of her husband leaving upon finding out her debt history.
• Backhanded Apology: When Haruto calls his sister Misaki out for cheating on her husband Ken, we have this exchange:
  Haruto: I thought you reflected on yourself last time!
  Misaki: I did! I was sorry... for not hiding it well enough and letting him find out.
• Beg the Dog: In During an earthquake my husband and his mother left me to save themselves, Kaori finds her husband and mother-in-law in an upside-down car as Heiji and Kanta both carry her and her baby to safety. The duo begs her to save them until they notice the two Yakuza, to which they switch gears and try to sell her out.
• Big Brother Attraction: Blair is hostile towards her sister-in-law Ali, even trying to harm her unborn baby by trying to trigger an allergic reaction because she couldn’t stand the fact that Ali slept with her brother while “she never got to do it with him.” Needless to say, when she confesses this to her brother and mother, they are appalled and immediately disown her.
• Big Sister Bully:
  • Karin is a downplayed example since she's the middle child, but she became this when their new sister Miko was born, for "stealing" their parents' attention from her, to which they sent Karin off to live with Aunt Yoshie for a year.
  • Sayaka liked to steal everything from her younger sister Nagisa just to make her despair ever since childhood.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing:
  • "My sister asked me for some money… But then…": Haruka's husband Akio appears to be a Nice Guy at first, but when Sachika steals him from her, he turns out to be a domestic abuser whenever he gets mad, with Inuzuka revealing that the man is both a dope fiend and a drug dealer on top of it.
  • "My husband took over my company and demanded a divorce so I thanked him": Mari's best friend from middle school Saori appears to be an asset for the fashion company she runs, but it turns out she conspired with the former's husband Hiroaki to take over the company. However, Mari takes it in stride and thanked them.
  • "My sister stole my fiancé and got pregnant but he was actually...": Tomoya seemed to be a kind, compassionate man when he dated and got engaged to Kaori, but it seemed be an act when he gave her alimony money when he revealed his affair with her younger sister Misaki and planned to marry her instead. However, it turned out not to be an act when Tomoya talks with Haruto and reveals his infertility complex; the former was afraid Kaori wouldn't want him until the latter talked him out of it.
• Blackmail: Masa passes himself for a cop to prank Miho for not letting him use her baby son Hide for a video that involves feeding him Mentos and Coke in that order. He recorded said prank and threatened to upload it to the internet if Miho refused to let him use her baby, only for the Ugumori brothers to show up. Leon then pins Masa down with a box they carried before he could do any harm.
• Blazing Inferno Hellfire Sauce: Near the end of "Telling the truth to my sister who ran away from taking care of our dad," Heiji eats the takoyaki Nagisa sent from Inuzuka only to hurt his mouth; it turns out Inuzuka put "death sauce" on the takoyaki as revenge for telling Mei he liked egg bolos and causing her to give him a pacifier on Valentine's Day.
• "Blind Idiot" Translation: Most of the episodes have grammatical errors, typos and misuse of words.
• Blue with Shock: The second panel of the thumbnail will always show the antagonist being blue with shock after their scheme backfires.
• Bound and Gagged: Hina was found tied up in a staff toilet while everyone searched for her on the day of her wedding with Kazuya. Her wedding dress was torn and had markings on her legs that read "thief", "slut", and "give him back".
• Brain Bleach: In "My fiancé and his mother were going to make me into their slave…" Mei tells Rin to iron all clothes but Inuzuka's fundoshi in the middle of their playing house. Sumomo "cuts" and expresses disgust at what Mei has just said.
• Bratty Teenage Daughter:
  • Miki doesn't only act bratty towards her mother Kobayashi and calls her useless, even getting her dad to side with her and kick her out. Turns out that Miki isn't Kobayashi's biological daughter, as her real mother passed away before her dad married Kobayashi.
  • Mika constantly disrespected her father Kotaro. When he tried to confront her when he saw her hanging out with a group of boys, she poured milk which caused him to snap and point out that he isn't her biological father.
  • Maki disrespected her mother Akiho Kuramoto and her father won't do anything to help. It later turned out that Maki wasn't Akiho's biological daughter and the reason she was so disrespectful was because of her father feeding her lies about Akiho spending away her college funds and her biological parents were in debt. Maki later apologized to Akiho and they made up.
  • Mari was a rebellious teenage girl who refused to tell her mother Azusa why she was upset. When Azusa called the school on Sumomo's advice, the teacher refused to answer as well. Turns out Mari was bullied by a girl named Harumi for defending another student the latter tried to pick on; the teachers wouldn't take her to task because she's the Chairman's daughter.
• Bring My Brown Pants: Both Haruhi's older sister and fiancé wetted themselves after Haruhi's "ghost" came out of her coffin to scare them out cold after the "mourning" relatives left the lovebirds alone in the "funeral".
• Butt-Monkey:
  • Haruto is always teased by his daughter Rin and it is played for laughs.
  • Heiji always gets in trouble with Inuzuka whenever the former badmouths, takes the piss out of, or (futilely) attempts to outsmart the latter, which pisses him off.
• Big Eater: Mrs. Kaori ate a lot of food at Rin's last birthday party. But after the virus rendered everyone unable to attend Rin's next party, she and her husband stole Rin's jelly present. It turned out that it was made from 1-year-old milk, so they ended up with stomachaches after they ate it.
• Cast Full of Crazy: Almost everybody is a Cloud Cuckoo Lander to some degree and half of the series' runtime is spent on the cast's random antics.
• Career-Ending Injury: Dr. Masa diagnosed Tetsu's pitching arm injury as broken beyond help, dashing his hopes of playing baseball. However, it turns out the doctor was lying; it was just a minor injury and Masa did this to break him up with Aki and have her to himself.
• Chairman of the Brawl: A variant of this occurs when Leon uses a still packaged massage chair to stop Mass from taking Miho’s son.
• Chased Off into the Sunset: The episodes featuring Heiji and Inuzuka end with the latter chasing the former down for pissing him off in some way.
• The Chew Toy: Heiji always gets chased down and put through hell by a pissed-off Inuzuka for his antics.
• Clear My Name:
  • Masashi was accused by his teacher, Mr. Shimada of stealing from his classmates since he was poor and from a foster family. Haruto and Ayane were the only ones who believed him when Masashi denied it. It was later revealed that it was Mr. Shimada who stole the things. He was fired and Masashi was proven innocent.
  • Some episodes focusing on Leon have him get falsely accused of some crime, but he manages to clear his name at the end.
    • In "I saved a woman's life, but she accused me of sexual harassment…" he was falsely accused of sexual harassment by Ms. Saki when he saved her from falling on the train tracks. Her friends helped back her story. Mamoru investigated the matter and found out that Ms. Saki and her friends were in debt and they were forced to carry out the plan to frame Leon. Ms. Saki confessed and she and the the women were arrested for false testimony. Luckily Ms. Saki regretted her actions and changed for the better.
    • In "A jewelry shop called me and said my son stole $100,000 worth of jewels..." he is also falsely accused of robbing a jewelry store by Natsuko, who was trying to cover her and her son's tracks. However, he was only one year old at the time, so his innocence is very quickly proven… even though he does help expose Natsuko by getting her to drop the bag where the stolen jewels were, causing them to fall out.
• Class Representative: Ayane is a very strict one in high school.
• Cloudcuckoolander's Minder: Taro and Mika play this role for Yujiro. They often scold him for his weird behavior and mannerisms.
• The Con: Kaori, Hiroshi's girlfriend appears to be a good woman but she is a wedding scammer, and she faked her pregnancy. When Hiroshi introduced her to his mom, she tells him to break up with her and he followed her to the pub where she is drinking beer despite revealing her fake pregnancy.
• Credit Card Plot:
  • Akemi and her mother steal Himari's credit card while Sumomo took her for a run, and go into a big spending spree overseas. However, their card was denied and Himari revealed to Akemi that the stolen card belonged to their mother; it turns out Sumomo heard their conversation and switched the cards.
  • Hiroshi took the Ugumori Group's corporate credit card from his younger sister, Hanako, to book a cruise for himself and his delinquent friends. However, she revealed it was supposed to be canceled and she quit the company. This led to the Ugumori Group's cruises boxing them in and taking them to the police once the truth was revealed.
• Crossover: This episode is a crossover with sister channel Black Iron Hammer and stars two characters from the channel, the Takanashi brothers.
• Crusading Lawyer: Koharu's father sued the company that she worked at for forcing her to resign in favor of a university graduate.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Yuria and Amane both defeat the abusive mother's husband Masa in less than 2 minutes despite him being a karate expert. When the hag brandishes a knife at both girls, Inuzuka shows up and curb-stomps her in less than that.
• Delicate and Sickly: Arisa has been sickly ever since she was born, and requires a lot of expensive treatments. She lost faith in getting better but Miyako was able to inspire her.
• Depending on the Writer:
  • Mei's attitude towards violence. She can be vehemently against it and often gives Inuzuka a hard time because of it or she has no problems engaging in violent methods.
  • Himari can be married to Iori or with a different husband depending on the episode. Sometimes Iori can be dead.
• Digging Yourself Deeper: Natsuko and her son: First, the son cheats his way into his dream high school by having someone else write his entrance exam for him, only for those people to threaten to reveal his cheating. Then in an attempt to pay them off, he and Natsuko arrange for him to rob a jewelry store, with Natsuko fully planning on framing Leon in order to show up Asuka. However, Leon is only one year old, so Asuka is able to initially clear things up. Natsuko then lies to the store owner again to keep him from calling the police, successfully getting him onto her side again until Yujiro shows up with Leon, confirming once and for one that he couldn’t have done it. Finally, when she’s panicking and trying to keep the owner from calling the cops, Leon crawls to her bag and when she takes it, tickles her to get her to drop it, causing the stolen jewels to fall out.
• Dine and Dash: Misa tried to do this when it turned out that Mita wasn't going to pay for the food that she and her son ate. She was however caught by Satoru and arrested after Leon called him.
• Disinherited Child: In "Telling the truth to my sister who ran away from taking care of our dad," After not visiting her grandfather even at his funeral and not responding to Nagisa's calls and LINE messages, Haruka and her husband, Ryoya, went to Nagisa's place and celebrated they're going to get a shared inheritance. However, Nagisa reveals only she and Inuzuka are going to get the inheritance; Haruka wasn't getting any because of her abusive messages towards their grandfather.
• Distracted by the Luxury: Kaori cheats on Mr. Hatakeyama after seeing Masa's expensive-looking wristwatch.
• Domestic Abuse: Teke would beat up his wife Rin regularly. When he began to hit Hannah, his daughter as well, Rin decided to run away and ended up reuniting with her old childhood friend Jo.
• Dream Reality Check: Ami pinched her face many times after assuming Tsubaki "became a single mother" to check if she wasn't just dreaming it up. But the next day, Koharu reveals Tsubaki's baby wasn't hers, but her sister Kikyou's.
• Dreary Half-Lidded Eyes: One of the two background girls often has this look while witnessing the craziness happening at a given point. Sumomo and Koharu also has this look at certain points.
• Driven to Suicide:
  • A 45-year-old man named Takatoshi Mouri decides to end his life in the ocean when he found out his wife Mikako cheated on him with a man named Masato. To make matters worse, their daughter Aki is not Mouri's daughter, but Masato's. However, he stops when Sumomo notices him along with her older friend Mamoru and his brother Leon, the latter two of who turn out to be his bosses.
  • Akina killed herself after enduring a toxic workplace at the company that her replacement Heiji worked at. Her father hired the Uwasa Gang to find out what happened at the company and they sent Heiji as a undercover employee.
  • Satsuki decided to throw herself off the bridge after she miscarried thanks to the stress caused by her boyfriend Haruki's parents. However, she is stopped by Amane, her former friend from high school.
  • A toyseller decided to throw himself into Tokyo Bay after enduring losses from scalpers who buy all the Sukatto-man toys from his shop leaving nothing for buyers. However, he was stopped by Heiji who managed to get out of the ocean after being thrown there by Inuzuka.
  • Haruhi tried to hang herself after her older sister slept with her fiancée but was stopped by Amane and Yuria. The two decided to get revenge on Haruhi's sister and fiancée for making her suffer.
  • Kakeru offed himself after he was betrayed by Sarah's husband, who forced him to shoulder their company's debts leaving behind his wife Natsumi and daughter Haru. Before his final moments, he contacted the Ugumori brothers to give Natsumi a job so they don't live a poor life.
  • Mio decided to end her life by standing on the train tracks. Leon caught her and refused to get off the train tracks until she gets off. Frustrated, Mio pulled Leon out of the way, saving both his and her life.
  • Hiromi decided to throw himself into Tokyo Bay after he found out that his wife is cheating on him, but he is stopped by Heiji.
• Drowning My Sorrows: Months after Haruhi announced her marriage, Amane finds her getting plastered at Heiji's bar. He tried to tell her to stop drinking but told Amane to walk her home, offering her one of Inuzuka's handkerchiefs as payment.
• Dub Name Change:
  • Early English videos localized character names until this video when they started to retain the original Japanese names.
  • In this story, main character Hiroshi Nohara is renamed Charlie Schultz in the English version.
  • In this story, the main character Hiromi was renamed Ariana Grande in the English dub.
  • In this episode, Yujiro is renamed Hiro for some reason.
  • Hokuro's name was changed to Moley.
• Early Installment Character-Design Difference: Some characters such as Iori and Rin's grandmother would go through different character designs in early videos before settling on their current designs.
• Early-Installment Weirdness: The earliest videos were shorter and did not feature the cyclical cast. Although one-off characters still show up as protagonists from time to time in later videos.
• Everyone Went to School Together: Haruto, Ayane, Himari, and Inuzuka all went to school together as shown in this episode.
• Extreme Close-Up: There are several shots where only the character's eyes or mouth are shown, mostly to emphasize the antagonist's intentions.
• Facial Horror: Sachika shows up at her sister Haruka's doorstep with her pretty face swollen and badly messed up one day after stealing Akio from her. It turned out Akio had a history of abuse towards Haruka and was a violent drug addict. The beating left Sachika permanently unable to do sex work and she was hauled off to a coal mine alongside Akio.
• Fake Pregnancy:
  • As part of her act, Kaori pretended to be 5 months pregnant. She tried to order wine but she is stopped by Hiroshi and then she tried to play it off as a joke.
  • Kaori pretended to be pregnant with Shota's baby after he cheated on Sanae with her. When Tomiko was about to hit her, she begged him not to because she was pregnant, but Tomiko knows that she wasn't pregnant.
  • Akane's father forced her to pretend to be impregnated by Miyako, who he mistook as her boyfriend so he can force "him" and "his" grandmother to pay compensation. However Miyako's grandmother didn't fall for it, and Miyako was able to defeat Akane's father and a cop (who was later revealed to be a fake cop) by throwing baseballs at them.
  • Saori forced Milf (who she mistook for a doctor) to tell her she's pregnant and that the baby is her Shouta's, her ex-boyfriend and her sister Kanami's husband. She did this so she can get Shouta back, however the real doctor said that she's just overweight and not pregnant.
• Faking the Dead: In this story, Haruhi stages a pretend funeral for herself with the help of Amane, Yuria, and Mei to get revenge from both her older sister and fiancé for driving her to suicide with their cheating.
• A Family Affair: Tomoya cheated on his fiancée Kaori with her sister Misaki.
• Financial Abuse: Kana's sister and parents stole money from her. When she found out, she decided to plant Heiji's money notes in her purse. When they tried to buy things with the fake money, Heiji forced them to make said notes by hand.
• Flower-Pot Drop: Mina's mother-in-law in My husband and mother-in-law treat me badly because I couldn't get pregnant... attempts to murder her in this fashion for not being able to get pregnant. Luckily, Tatsuya hits the plant pot away before it could hurt Mina.
• Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: Leon is more irresponsible than his younger brother Mamoru and he always has to look after his older brother.
• Former Teen Rebel: Miss Kagano is currently a teacher but she was a former delinquent in high school in order to make herself stand out in her family, which consisted of smart people.

Tropes G-L

• The Gambling Addict:
  • Misa is addicted to gambling using her husband Ken's salary, which forces her to rely on her friends to pay for meals. Ken eventually has had enough of her gambling habits due to her being unwilling to quit and divorced her.
  • Akiho's brother and his wife Kaori are addicted to gambling but they keep losing money which forces them to borrow money from Akiho's mother.
• Gold Digger:
  • Mikako only married Mouri for his money and had affairs with Masato.
  • Kaori cheated on Sho Hatakeyama with and even married Masa, who gloated about it to Mr. Hatakeyama. However, he revealed that Kaori is actually in massive debt and even borrowed money from the Yakuza. Then, Masa himself reveals he only dated her because he thought she was rich. To top it off, he is told that his company went bankrupt after Mr. Hatakeyama's students investigate and reveal all of his and Kaori's shady dealings.
  • Kana sought to steal Asuka Ugumori's husband Yujiro because he allegedly was rich, despite being married herself. However, when she showed up at the Ugumori household with Yujiro to declare they're going to marry… only for Asuka to reveal that he is just a regular employee and she's the CEO, at least in public appearance since her sons Leon and Mamoru are the ones who run the company. Much to Kana's further dismay, Yujiro recorded everything she said as she refused to leave him alone and sent it to her husband, who divorced her.
  • Mika left her boyfriend Ryou Nakajima for a CEO candidate named Ken, but then the current CEO decides to hand over his company to the Ugumori brothers due to Ken's incompetence. When Nakajima revealed he will become the CEO, Mika begs him to take her back.
  • Goro was dumped by his girlfriend Ryoka in favor of a rich man. Unfortunately for Ryoka, Goro revealed that her boyfriend filed for bankruptcy at his office and he had scammed her. The boyfriend was later arrested for marriage fraud. Years later, she attacked Goro and his daughter Koharu. He managed to save Koharu and sued her for her attack.
  • Haruka dumped Hiroshi^note not the one from Refreshing Stories before he lends her 10 thousand yen. On his way to a cafe, he finds out she also dated Heiji, who lent her 50 thousand for her ailing mother, making both men victims of a marriage scam. Then they decide to get revenge on her, with Inuzuka (reluctantly) helping them.
  • Kaori dumped Akio for a T University graduate and came to his mother's house to announce the news. However, she changes her mind when the woman reveals Akio is a Harvard graduate. She tries to get back with him only to get turned down and become reviled as "the woman hated by the Ugumori brothers".
  • Aki only dated Tetsu for his promising career as a baseball player. She dumped him for a rich doctor she dated on the side after Dr. Masa diagnosed Tetsu's pitching arm injury as a fracture beyond help. It later turns out Masa was the doctor Aki talked about and he lied about Tetsu's condition to have her all to himself.
  • Takuya only dated Tsubaki for her money. When Ami and Koharu found out, they tricked him into believing Tsubaki went bankrupt. He quickly breaks up with her, and only when the lie is revealed does he try to get back with her but Tsubaki rightfully rejects him.
  • Karen was about to marry a CEO and looked down on her father for being a farmer. Moreover, she demanded her sister, Maki, invite people from her company to the wedding. On her wedding day, Karen put up funeral portraits of both of them after several elite guests attended, courtesy of Leon Ugumori. However, Leon had enough of Karen's bratty behavior and pulled all the guests out of the venue; he and Mamoru investigate her and find out she orchestrated the car accident that killed their mother to claim the insurance and pay her host club debts.
  • Akane dumped Keichi because she found a new man who makes more money than him. It later turned out he was richer than Akane thought and when she heard he makes $300,000 a year, she tries to get back together with him and ditching her new boyfriend in the process. When he refused, she tried to kill him but was stopped due to a stomachache from drinking expired calpis.
  • Satsuki broke up with Yujiro because he was poor. Years later at a high school reunion, she found out that he's a CEO and promptly broke up with her boyfriend Ken and tried to get back together with him, but Yujiro decided to fight her instead and chased her until she fainted. Satsuki tried to get back together with Ken, but he refused.
  • Mika only dates guys for their money. When her boyfriend Leon told her he only makes $15,000 yearly, she dumps him. However at a match-making party, they meet again and Mika mocks Leon for being poor, however Mamoru reveals that he is the CEO and earns more money. Mika tried to get back together with Leon, but he has moved on with Hanako.
• Got Me Doing It: Whenever a story starts with the main character interacting with Leon, they will end up introducing themselves under the nickname Leon gave them only to correct themselves and introduce themselves properly.
• Green Around the Gills: Ryu turns green before vomiting from his motion sickness after the Uwasa gang catches up with Shizuka's abusive mother-in-law for kidnapping baby Mei, whom she mistook for Shizuka's baby daughter Miki.
• Green-Eyed Monster:
  • Karin became jealous of her younger sister Miko after she took their parents' attention from her. Their parents sent her to Aunt Yoshie's house as punishment for her abuse, but, she returned a year later for Miko's birthday and tricked the girl into getting her hands burned with the boiling chicken soup she made. After a scuffle with Toya got her scalded with her soup, their parents send her far away to work at a factory.
  • Mukumoto was so jealous of Haruto's success that he tried to kill Haruto's family while Haruto was away on a business trip. Fortunately, he called Ayane to warn her until Inuzuka and his groupies came to save them.
  • Rinka wanted to have what her sister Reika had, even throwing tantrums when she didn't get what she wanted. Turns out Rinka hated Reika for being born first and thus she was more loved than her.
  • Natsuko had a crush on Yujiro since high school and resented Asuka for dating and eventually marrying him. Therefore, she bullied Asuka whenever they encountered her and even framed the latter's baby son Leon to cover for her own son robbing a jewelry store in revenge and to get money out of her.
• Growling Gut: Tsubaki's stomach growls due to her skipping lunch.
• Grumpy Old Man: Kusuda was an old man who regularly complains and harasses others. He claims to be one of the country's founders and demands that people be thankful to him. It came to a head when he tried to hit a pregnant woman. When the video of him doing so came out, his daughter has had enough of him and sent him far away.
• Happily Adopted: Miki was adopted by Sho and his wife after her parents died in an accident and her relatives rejected her.
• Happily Married: Haruto and Ayane are happily married and they love each other. It's telling that when Ayane is married to someone else, she is usually unhappy.
• Hikikomori:
  • Ken became a shut-in after failing to enter T University.
  • Hinata became a shut-in after failing to get along with her colleagues at work.
• Hoist by Her Own Petard:
  • My sister lost her mind…: After burning Miko's hands with boiling chicken soup, Toya held his sister Karin off until she fell and a bowl of the same soup fell on her face.
  • My sister slept with my boyfriend…: Rinka forced her sister Reika's hands on the minestrone she cooked for their parents, but her response caused the pot to topple and pour the boiling contents all over Rinka.
  • My husband tried to make me eat a suspicious cake so I made him eat it and...: Kenta and his mother tried to poison Misaki with a cake laced with laxatives. However she was able to trick them into eating the cake (with Sumomo's help) by putting chocolate on it. The two had to be hospitalized after that.
• House Fire: Mami's house suffers one when she stole the kerosene for Himari's heater. When Mami confesses to it, Iori reveals it wasn't kerosene, but alcoholic spirits he and Sumomo got for Himari to drink, which burned faster than kerosene.
• Hypnotism Reversal: This story starts with Leon trying to hypnotize the protagonist Mari into sleeping, but he is the one who sleeps.
• I Never Said It Was Poison:
  • Nao took Maki to task about the offensive graffiti she scribbled about Hina as it matched up with the postcards she sent her since junior high. When Maki feigned ignorance and denied having written anything on Hina's legs, Nao replies she didn't mention it was written on a body part, exposing Maki as the culprit.
  • Ali, her husband, and mother-in-law question Blair about the fruit she slipped in Ali's food, only for her to say she never put the lemon juice in there. This exposed her as the culprit as none of them mentioned lemon juice.
• Identical Twin Mistake: In My sister was having an "affair" with my husband, who was already dead...., Kaori phoned Alisa about how she took her husband Kazuyuki away from him, but Alisa replied that she is in Kazuyuki's funeral for real, even showing her the funeral through videocall. This scares the crap out of Kaori as she thought that the man she bedded was actually his ghost when it was his unemployed, debt-sunk jerk twin brother.
• Impersonating an Officer:
  • Prince posed as a fake police officer and he ended up using this as a way to steal people's figurines by pretending to search them. When Heiji became one of his victims, Satoru, an actual police officer posed as a man that Prince targets and managed to catch him in the act and arrested him.
  • A man decided to try to scam Kirio by dressing up as a police officer and frame him for taking inappropriate pictures of his girlfriend. However the scam backfires since Kirio doesn't have a smartphone. The two were caught by Leon. He and Mamoru paid back their victims and charged the two scammers.
• Inconsistent Dub: Several things vary in the English dub from character names to even terminology, sometimes in the same episode.
• Indentured Servitude: Sab is forced to work in the sewers of India by the Uwasa gang to pay back the money he borrowed that he made Gen the guarantor of.
• Inelegant Blubbering: At the end of "My crazy wife cheated on me, got pregnant, and wanted ME to pay child support," Heiji bawls his eyes out when Hiromi is dismissed from the Uwasa gang. This would be a sad moment hadn't been after getting stung by Inuzuka's pet jellyfish in response to having Misa and Takashi search for his hairs to sell them as a good luck charm.
• Inheritance Backlash: In "My brother tried to take all of dad's inheritance, but all he got was dad's massive debt," Akito's father decided to leave the inheritance to him despite the former's irresponsibility and his brother Takeshi's objections. It later turned out that their father is in debt to the Ushioni group from paying Akito's debts from gambling. Akito was forced to work at the crab fishing boat by the gang.
• Instant Humiliation: Just Add YouTube!: Sumomo recorded a police officer's unfair treatment of Sho and posted it on her mother's Instagram. The police officer's boss fired him and gave him back the $1,000 that he was fined.
• I Want Grandkids: Mina's husband Shota, along with his mother, pesters her into getting pregnant for the sake of the latter.
• Last Disrespects: Kaori's boss took a selfie of himself next to Kaori's dad's body at his funeral. This prompted Kaori to use her wrestler moves on him.
• Lazy Bum:
  • My husband and daughter kicked me out of the house without even knowing what I did for them: Kobayashi's husband was an alleged novelist, but he became this once they married. She thought that he needed to recover from creative burnout, but he didn't write anything since then and went along with his daughter Miki's whims.
  • Husband pretends to be sick and tries to leech off of me: Hiroshi neglects doing the chores and feeding his daughter Kana despite agreeing to be a House Husband while his wife Mitsuki is out working.
  • My unemployed husband doesn't even do the housework…: Kazuma refused to do the chores while his wife Hiromi was away to work.
• Loan Shark: Inuzuka and Heiji visit Haruka's house to collect the debts amassed by her sister Sachika, as she told them that Haruka would pay for her. Thankfully, Inuzuka doesn't fall for it and gives Haruka his number to notify him if she sees her sister.

Tropes M-R

• Meet the In-Laws: Masa brings his fiancée Natsu to meet his father. However, he grilled Natsu on her educational background and she told him she graduated university at 19, he didn't believe her and forbade Masa from marry Natsu since he thought she was a high school graduate. However Masa reveals that Natsu graduated college at 19 because she skipped several grades. Sumomo and the girls then humiliated Masa's father by showing calling cards of prostitutes at the neighborhood. Masa soon cut ties with his father.
• Mirror Character: The Takanashi brothers are two high schooler brothers whose personalities and relationship dynamics mirror those of the Ugumori brothers. However, while Shu is as silly as Leon, his younger brother Natsuki is a rough delinquent who is skilled at sewing, much to his annoyance.
• Ms. Red Ink:
  • Atsushi's mother kept borrowing money from her daughter-in-law Kanami and spends it on shopping. When Kanami was kicked out by Atsushi, she subpoenaed his mother but when she didn't respond, the bank seized Atsushi's property.
  • Kaori tricked her mother Naomi into giving her money by lying that her father beat her and used the child support money on himself. Furthermore, she used up the money on host clubs (despite being underage) while giving part to her father to spend on booze.
• Momma's Boy:
  • "My husband and mother-in-law treat me badly because I couldn't get pregnant...": Mina finds out that her husband Shota always takes his mother's side whenever the latter abuses her. His brother Tatsuya always calls him out on this.
  • "My children were missing when I got home. My husband said something unbelievable": Kakeru is outright fanatical towards his mother, even forcing his children Rin and Ren, and his wife Ayane to revolve their lives around her. Things escalate to the point he dumped the kids to the mountains when she was away for groceries.
  • Jordon from "Mother-in-law “Give us your daughter’s heart. We need it for a heart transplant.”..." is so concerned with wanting to keep his mother happy, he essentially brushes off Julia telling him that she had been demanding that their daughter give up her heart to his sister’s baby, claiming that she didn’t have any bad intentions and that she was trying to reassure his sister. Even though he ultimately learns his lesson and Julia doesn’t divorce him, he’s still chastised and punished, by having to go along with Julia’s prank on his mother (which also opens his eyes that his own mother ultimately values herself over her grandchildren) to avoid getting divorced and is left in the mountains to walk back home.
  • "My husband and his mother treated me like a maid…": Alex excused his mother Blair's abusive behavior towards his wife Ali whenever she stood up to her mother-in-law, threatening to divorce her if she doesn't back down. However, they agreed to make up for her until Ali got pregnant. When the hag abused her even more because the doctors called her out on her abuse, Alex blamed Ali for pissing her off. Furthermore, when Ali had her baby, the mother-in-law wanted to raise it herself and force her to do housework instead.
  • "My fiancé and his mother were going to make me into their slave…": Takeshi started to take his mom's side when she rushed the wedding to make sure they trapped Ai in the marriage so she would be their slave.
  • "Ordered some sushi at my husband's parents' house, but then…": Ali's husband Bob always blamed the abuse heaped on her by his mother and sister on her. However, his grandma Helen threatened to leave him out of the inheritance if he didn't change his ways.
• Mugging the Monster: Two bullies forcibly pull up Amane's long-sleeved shirt only to reveal tattooed arms. Much to their dismay, Amane herself tells them that she is the daughter of a Yakuza boss.
• Neighbourhood-Friendly Gangsters: The gangs are friendly people and get along well with the main cast. However they will not hesitate to mete out cruel and unusual punishments on the antagonists.
• Named by the Adaptation: The English dub of this video gave the previously un-named mother-in-law the name Kayako.
• Never Mess with Granny:
  • Masako may be an old lady but she is an expert in boxing and she does not hold back when training Leon and Mamoru.
  • Hajime's grandmother may seem like a nice old lady, but she knows when she is being scammed and didn't hesitate in getting some scammers in trouble when they posed as police officers who are collecting money for Hajime's bail.
• Noodle Incident: In this story, when Himari caught Sumomo taking the head off of a mascot, the guy in the costume becomes even more distressed at the sight of Himari, recalling an incident about a high school girl who did the same.
• Not Actually His Child: Mikako tells her husband Mouri that their daughter Aki wasn't actually his, but of a lover of Mikako's.
• Obnoxious In-Laws: Has several examples of that. Most range from annoying to outright sinister.
• The Oldest Profession: In this story, Miki ends up becoming a call girl after Kobayashi kicked her out of her house and refused to pay for her university for her trouble.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: In My husband and daughter kicked me out of the house without even knowing what I did for them, Miki comes to Kobayashi's house and calls her "mom", something she never did before getting her kicked out of the house and asked her to pay for her university tuition. However, she was in the middle of a videocall with the Ugumori brothers, who saw through her lie and expose her to Kobayashi.
• Parental Abandonment: Sara left her baby daughter Natsu at Ayane's doorstep before leaving with her own parents despite the latter's protests. To make matters worse, Ayane herself left for vacation.
• Pillow Pregnancy:
  • Kaori told Misaki that she is pregnant with Sho's baby to get her to break up with Sho. It turned out to be a towel she stuffed into her stomach and she was found out pretty quickly.
  • Misaki told Kaori she was pregnant with Tomoya's child after he became engaged with the former. However, it turned out to be a towel she stuffed into her shirt. Later on, she landed in prison for running a marriage scam.
• Plagiarism in Fiction: In this story, after Saori and Hiroaki booted Mari out of her own company, it turns out the former's designs were lifted from those of foreign brands.
• Playing House: This episode starts with Rin and Mei playing house as the abused wife and monster-in-law, respectively, with Sumomo playing the director.
• Potty Failure: This happens to the antagonists after Sumomo forces them to consume expired products:
  • Keigo soiled himself at work after Sumomo spiked his cream stew with expired kalpiko in revenge for poisoning the pregnant Himari's food as a prank.
  • Kaori and her scam partner soiled their pants after being forced to drink expired calpis by a drunk Himari. Satoru gave them towels to cover themselves as he was arresting them.
  • Mr. Ken soiled himself after he drank wine made from one-year-old grapes made by Sumomo in revenge for canceling his reservation at Himari's restaurant.
  • Kaori's brother and his wife messed themselves after drinking Sumomo's expired coke.
  • Okiku is implied to suffer this after Sumomo forced her to drink three-year-old calpis for having her son Tatsuya sic one-hundred Gyuki goons on her school to kill Mei.
  • Sayaka suffers this after Miki punched her stomach.
• Punished with Ugly: Sachika, Haruka's sister from "My sister asked me for some money… But then…" was a sex worker who steals Akio from her. However, she ends up paying for it with her pretty face as Akio was not only a domestic abuser but a junkie as well. As a result of her disfigurement, she is permanently unable to do sex work and is hauled off with Akio to a coal mine instead after Inuzuka had him taken away.
• Quality over Quantity: Akito decided to manufacture more chairs at the expense of quality in contrast to his father Kenji, who believed in making quality products. He tried to cut Hiroshi's subcontracting company budget and force them make more chairs but they quit and Akito succeeded in his strategy. But then all the chairs released by the company broke, injuring people resulting in lawsuits which bankrupted the company while the subcontractor thrived due to their commitment to making quality chairs.
• Remarried to the Mistress: Masaki found his wife Himari's medical report and after seeing her cancer diagnosis, he insists that she take Sumomo to visit her parents' house in summer. However, the diagnosis was at least a decade ago, rendering Masaki's plans moot.
• Relationship Sabotage:
  • Nagisa's older sister Sayaka liked to steal boyfriends from her. Miyako exploits this by coldly telling Sayaka to steal her "significant other" Kouta, which causes their friendship to break up. To make matters worse, Nagisa's parents ordered her to break up with him and give him to Sayaka.
  • Amane, Yuria, and Mei found Haruhi's fiancé dating her older sister. When the former two went to check on Haruhi since Mei had to attend her father's birthday, they found out she tried to hang herself out of despair. To make matters worse, the older sister already had a boyfriend.
• Revenge Romance:
  • Rinka slept with Reika's boyfriend Kota and even bragged about it to her sister. This caused Reika to break up with Kota and cut ties with both.
  • Misaki announced to her sister Kaori that she's going to steal her fiancée. When she called Kaori to gloat about her plunder, she revealed that she had taken Mitsuru and her fiancée's name is Masaki. Mitsuru revealed that his wife Akiko had found out about the affair, and Akiko (who is Inuzuka in drag) came in and gave Misaki a good scare. Misaki moved to the bottom of the bridge to escape "Akiko's" wrath.
• Running Gag:
  • Whenever Inuzuka appears, the other characters address him by nicknames, much to his chagrin.
  • Inuzuka chasing Heiji down for pissing him off.

Tropes S-Y

• Sadist Teacher: Yamai was a brutal PE teacher who forced sick students to participate and hit people with balls for petty reasons. He even forced Nao to take off her hat revealing her bald head.
• Sanity Slippage: Akina and her mother lost their sanity after being forced to pay off their debts and think they are living in Michika's house when in fact they are living in a cave.
• Schoolyard Bully All Grown Up:
  • Kenya bullied Hanako in elementary school. Years later, after his company merged with the Ugumori group and becoming Hanako's subordinate, he still bullied and looked down on her. Hanako fired them and got them arrested for fraud.
  • Kana bullied Hanako in elementary school. Years later, she invited Hanako to a school reunion but told her the wrong location to humiliate her. However, karma strikes as Leon rescinded her job offer at the Ugumori Brothers company and the other students apologized for bullying Hanako.
• Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: Harumi could get away with bullying Mari and other girls because she was the Chairman's daughter. When the latter's mother Azusa came to the hospital to check on her, the former showed up and gloated about her connections and how he's good friends with the police, even when Azusa's husband is the police chief. However, she loses her connections after Mamoru bought Uwasa Middle School while Leon had the Chairman arrested.
• Secretly Wealthy:
  • Haruka may seem like an ordinary housewife but she is rich from being a YouTuber which is why when she divorced her husband, she was able to pay his huge divorce fee quite easily.
  • Gen worked as a janitor in Haruto and Maasaki's company. Maasaki, being an elite harassed him. When Haruto stood up for him, Maasaki decided to "punish" Gen by giving him a swirly on the toilet. Gen revealed that he has a company when Maasaki fires Haruto for standing up to him and withdrew his decision to purchase a stake in the company. The company eventually went bankrupt but Gen was able to hire employees for his company.
• Serial Homewrecker:
  • Kana was revealed to have multiple boyfriends and Asuka's husband Yujiro was her favorite. After exposing her to her husband who divorces her and leaves her alone in the apartment, Kana receives lawsuits from all of her boyfriends' wives.
  • Ryoka spends more time sleeping with her bosses than on her work and uses them to harass co-workers that she doesn't like such as Asuka. After Yujiro took over the company, he fired Ryoka and the bosses that she slept with. Afterward, Ryoka received lawsuits from the wives of said bosses.
• Sins of the Father: Kaito swore revenge on the Ugumori family ever since his sister Kozue fell into a coma due to a side effect of the medicine from Yujiro's pharmaceutical company. He finds ways to get revenge on the brothers and ruin their reputation.
• Shady Scalper: Two scalpers buy Sukatto-man toys from a toymaker and sell them at a much higher price. Other people are forced to buy the toys from them since they buy all the stock. Heiji managed to bungle their operation by tricking them into buying toys that are not selling well due to people hating them leaving them in debt.
• Shout-Out:
  • In this story, Leon makes a reference to Frozen by addressing Yuki as Olaf^ExplanationYuki is also the Japanese word for snow and he treats her like a snowman.
  • Yujiro's "Mature Woman March" at the start of the story is sung to the tone of the Mickey Mouse March. He even has Mickey Mouse ears while singing it.
• Sibling Murder: Toshi pushed his sister Kaho in front of a speeding truck, leaving her son Ken behind. He and his wife refuse to raise him, but Kaho's friend Natsuki intervened and decided that she will raise him. Years later, it turns out that he murdered Kaho in cold blood just to get insurance money and pay his debts to shady people. On top of that, the truck driver was also in on it.
• Sliding Scale of Continuity: The series falls between 1 and 2. While there are some things that stay the same such as the Suzumori family others like who is Himari's husband and Jo's backstory varies from story to story.
• Slipping a Mickey: In "My sister stole my fiancé and got pregnant but he was actually...", Misaki blurts out she have slipped a "Spiritas Capsule" on Tomoya's drink to knock him out and make him forget his fiancée Kaori. Judging by the other two's reactions, it's implied to be a strong sedative.
• Soda-Candy 'Splosion: In this video, Masa targets Miho's baby son, Hide, for this stunt and passes himself off as a police officer to prank her. He even records the prank to blackmail her into letting him use her baby, but the Ugumori brothers show up to stop him, with Leon pinning Masa down with a box he carried before he could do any harm.
• Staircase Tumble: Kaori shoved Yuria down the stairs for dismissing her threats. Luckily, Yuria didn't suffer major injuries, but she had to face with Kaori at 7:00 in the park with the latter's thugs.
• Sticky Fingers: Kaori from My sister was having an "affair" with my husband, who was already dead.... (sic) had a history of stealing and committing petty crimes since high school, which got her expelled and drove her to work as a hostess, sinking herself in debt. As an adult, she hoped for the death of her sister Alisa's husband Kazuyuki.
• Stern Teacher: Sho Hatakeyama is a teacher who has to deal with the antics of his students, but he does care about them all.
• Straw Feminist: Misa from "My crazy wife cheated on me, got pregnant, and wanted ME to pay child support" constantly brings up topics like patriarchy, male privilege, and how much of a free spirit she is to justify cheating on Hiromi with a guy named Takashi.
• Struggling Single Mother: In this story, it's revealed that Miki lied about the baby she forces Tsubaki to raise for her was Kikyo's, not only because her boyfriend impregnated her and ran off shortly after, and out of spite towards Tsubaki because the latter got to spend time with her friends while she had to raise a child alone while being unable to have maternity leave. In response, Tsubaki gives her father, who also was Miki's boss, a huge earful of hers.
• Supporting Protagonist: Many later episodes star a one-off character but one of the characters from the cast may also be starring in a given episode, usually helping them with their problems.
• Suicide Dare: In this story, Harumi reveals to Azusa that she told the latter's daughter Mari to jump off the apartment and gloated about it.
• Tampering with Food and Drink:
  • "My husband mixed paint in my stew while I was pregnant as a prank": Keigo mixes paint in his pregnant wife Himari's food as a prank for her inability to do the chores. Thankfully, nothing bad happened to the baby, but Sumomo wouldn't have any of it and returned the favor by spiking his cream stew with expired kalpiko.
  • "Ordered some sushi at my husband's parents' house, but then…": At a dinner gathering with her husband Bob's mother Blair and his sister Katy, they not only ordered measly tuna rolls for Ali but sprinkled wasabi and tabasco sauce all over them. When Ali tried to talk it out with Bob, he blamed it on Ali and threatened her with divorce. Later on, Ali served Blair a cup of vinegar in retaliation for trying to steal her savings with Bob's aid.
• Thinly-Veiled Dub Country Change: The English channel tries to make it set in the USA, despite obviously being set in Japan. Although the English dub mostly localizes the original Japanese cultural references, many Japanese elements still show up and character names mostly remain unchanged.
• Threatening to Cut Ties:
  • Daichi is an emotionally abusive husband who bullies his wife Minori by bringing out divorce papers whenever he gets upset, which he knows that she's unwilling to sign because she needs his marriage to pay her father's medical bills. When Ami helps Minori start up a business, Minori decides to divorce him for real, which Daichi isn't worried about because he believes that Minori will fail. When he learns that Minori's business is succeeding, he begs to remarry her because his own business is in the red.
  • Akemi is a lazy "housewife" who bullies her husband Ryou by forcing him to work and do all of the housework. Ryou hates Akemi, with the only reason why he got married to her being that she's a Mafia Princess who threatened to hurt Misaki, Ryou's ex-fiance who owes her family a debt, if he gets a divorce. Fortunately, Ryou befriends the Uwasa Publishing Company who manages to expose Akemi's father's mob connections, meaning that he can safely get divorced.
• Tinkle in the Eye: Masamune gets in the receiving end of this while learning to change baby Miki's diaper.
• Toast of Tardiness: Nagisa invokes this when searching for the "prince in a white horse" Miyako told her about, unaware that the latter was pulling her leg.
• Trash of the Titans:
  • Himari leaves her house to her parents when her mother-in-law criticized her for not apparently doing housework. When she returned with Iori, the house was a total mess.
  • After Takuya forced his wife Rikako to leave his house in favor of his twin sister Erika, their house became a mess since Rikako was the one doing the household chores.
• Trauma Button: Whatever Sumomo uses to punish the antagonists will trigger flashbacks on them whenever they are exposed to it.
• The Unfavorite:
  • Toya is a downplayed case. While his sister Karin gets all the attention from their parents, they are still decent to him. However, Karin ended up becoming this when their younger sister Miko was born, leading the former to abuse the latter.
  • Mizuki is a straight example. Her parents dote on her sister Haruka while ignoring her, and the only one who does care for her is her grandfather.
  • Kana's parents do not treat her well in favor of her sister Kaori, to the point of even asking Kana to quit college and earn money for Kaori.
  • Akina was favored more than her older sister Michika by their mother simply because she thinks Akina resembles her more and Michika resembles her father. She even forced Michika to give up her house for Akina. However, the house got demolished due to it being in poor condition and the two women became homeless and mentally ill.
  • Yuki was neglected and put down for not being as wealthy as her older brother Hiroshi. They even kicked her out of the family trip she organized with Leon's gift money for them out of spite.
  • Nagisa was neglected while her older sister Sayaka was spoiled rotten; the former's biological mother died, and the couple raising her were actually her uncles just to get the deceased woman's insurance money.
  • Mio was beaten by her parents whenever she surpassed her younger sister Akane, who they favor more. Akane even went as far as to steal Mio's fiancée by convincing him that Mio was abusing her and her parents went along with it.
• Vandalism Backfire:
  • In a last-ditch effort to make her sister Ayane take her to eat sushi, Karin wrecks the car where she and her husband Haruto are in, only for Haruto to tell her it was her husband Takeru's car. When Karin calls Takeru about the car she wrecked, he freaks out and reveals it belonged to his boss.
  • A woman broke a bonsai tree believing it wasn't worth much money. It turned out to be worth 9 million yen. This got her into trouble with the yakuza.
  • Ken wrecked two cars. When he called Hiroshi, his brother, he revealed that the two cars belonged to the bosses of Uwasa and Yamanba Yakuza. Ken was forced to work in a crab boat to pay off the debt.
  • Leon broke Natsuna's laptop by snapping it in half when she said he couldn't watch YouTube on it. It later turned out that the laptop belonged to one of Natsuna's clients and cost $3,000. His father, Toya was forced to pay the damages.
  • Iori's mother wrecked the car that he and Himari were planning to use to get to their honeymoon. It is later revealed that the car was a rental belonging to Heiji. She was forced to fix the cars for the rest of her life.
  • Aki broke an antique at the Ugumori residence thinking it was cheap. However it turned out to be worth 300 million dollars and was traded from a oil tycoon by Yujiro. Her husband was forced to hand his company to Yujiro as payment.
  • In this video, MC's mother-in-law painted her car with white paint which turned out to belong to the Uwasa Gang. When the gang found out, the mother-in-law. was forced to work to pay for the car and compensation to the gang and the MC.
• Vocal Dissonance: Sumomo sounds much older in later Japanese episodes despite being a child.
• Universal-Adaptor Cast: Many of the main characters have the same name, basic appearance, and base personalities and have mostly the same families.
• Wanted a Son Instead:
  • "My husband and mother-in-law were upset that we had another son, so they got rid of him": Koya wanted a daughter after his wife Kaoru had their son Hajime, thus Koya demanded Kaoru make it so. However, when she birthed a baby boy instead, they got devastated and looked down on Kaoru for her "failure." Moreover, the mother-son duo decided to dump the baby into a garbage truck.
  • "This grandmother kidnaps a 1-year-old, but she got the wrong baby": After Shizuka gave birth to her daughter Miki, her mother-in-law constantly harassed her for giving birth to a baby girl. Moreover, the abusive MIL demanded she get pregnant a second time and make sure it was a boy so that the Kojima family would have an heir.
• White-Collar Crime: Maezawa and the other managers have been embezzling money from the company. They faked a 50 million dollar order error and tried to make Tsukino take the blame for it. Mamoru, who recently got the company from his brother Leon, wasn't fooled and fired them.
• Wicked Stepmother: Ami was mocked by her stepmother for not having grades as good as her stepbrother Takuya. When Ami's father got cancer, they planted a listening device and heard about his plans to leave his inheritance to Ami. They tried to kill him, but the police were also listening in and promptly arrested them.
• Wire Fu: In this story, Mei orders Inuzuka and Heiji to bring the strings and pulleys to hold them up and make them look like goddesses in response to Natsu treating them, especially Mei, like children.
• Work Off the Debt: In Sister got divorced because she had an affair, so she said she was coming home but..., the Uwasa Group forces Misaki to work several part-time jobs to pay the debt she owes after paying the divorce settlement.
• Would Hit a Girl: Kusuda was willing to hit a pregnant lady just because she couldn't move out of his way.
• Would Hurt a Child:
  • The bikers were willing to kill Haru, a little girl just to get the garden that she is protecting. Fortunately, Ryu was able to stop them before they go through with it.
  • "My husband and mother-in-law were upset that we had another son, so they got rid of him": Koya and his mom threw baby Mamoru into a garbage truck because Kaoru didn't birth the baby girl they wanted. However, Hajime called the Presidents, who knew about this beforehand because Koya stated his idea while drunk.
  • Masa wanted to feed Miho's one year old son Coke and Mentos just so he could use the footage for YouTube. And when Miho and other parents refuse to let him use their babies, he resorted to stalking Miho and trying to blackmail her into letting him use her son for his video, even coming into her house to try to find him despite her protests. Luckily, Leon and Mamoru quickly stop him before he could find the baby.
• Yakuza: Unlike most examples, they are portrayed as sympathetic and they even help the protagonists by punishing the antagonists that torment them.
• Yandere:
  • Misaki was very much in love with Sho. He broke up with her when she got too clingy and she didn't take it very well, even going as far as trying to kill him.
  • Jo's mother was obsessed with Haruto even though he has a family with Rin and Ayane and kept stalking him. When Haruto rejected her, she tried to run over Rin but ended up hitting her son instead when he shoved Rin out of the way.
  • In this story, Maki was obsessed with marrying Nao's brother Kazuya. At his wedding, she hired a delinquent and both took the bride Hina away and tied her up; Maki even took her time to scrawl offensive graffiti with marker all over Hina's legs and tear her dress.

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