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* RomanticRunnerUp: Both [[BirdsOfAFeather Souma and Tachibana]] enter into the TriangRelations with Yanagi and Kujou knowing from the get-go that they're at a disadvantage. In Souma's case, he even acknowledges that he is kind of doomed from the start.
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* RomanticRunnerUp: Both [[BirdsOfAFeather Souma and Tachibana]] enter into the TriangRelations a LoveTriangle with Yanagi and Kujou knowing from the get-go that they're at a disadvantage. In Souma's case, he even acknowledges that he is kind of doomed from the start.
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* BaitAndSwitchSentiment: Kujou's answer when Tachibana probes her on her feelings for Yanagi at the end of Chapter 17. Kujou bluntly states that she likes him, only to follow up with how she likes the rest of their college circle, too. [[LampshadeHanging Tachibana, on the other hand, is in disbelief that someone would say such a thing in "real life."]]
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* LoveYouAndEverybody: Kujou's answer when Tachibana probes her on her feelings for Yanagi at the end of Chapter 17. Kujou bluntly states that she likes him, only to follow up with how she likes the rest of their college circle, too. [[LampshadeHanging Tachibana, on the other hand, is in disbelief that someone would say such a thing in "real life."]]
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The series is licensed in English by Creator/SevenSeasEntertainment, with the first volume scheduled for a May 2023 release.
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''Last Game'' is a {{shoujo|Demographic}} manga by Shinobu Amano, which was serialized in ''Magazine/LaLa'' from 2011 to 2016 and compiled into 11 volumes.
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* {{Adorkable}}: Yanagi and Kujou can get painfully awkward around each other. It's pretty endearing though
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* PoorCommunicationKills: Both Yanagi and Kujou are terrible at communicating. Kujou does not get subtext and is often confused by Yanagi being {{Tsundere}}. Yanagi can't always read Kujou because she's so stoic and lets his insecurities get to him. It often takes a 3rd party to explain what's going on.
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* InsecureLoveInterest: Yanagi is often incredibly insecure about dating Kujou, before and after they start dating. Part of it is that Kujou is ruthlessly practical to the point of being insensitive, part of it is that Kujou is bad at communicating so Yanagi doesn't know what she's thinking.
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The first few chapters come across as this. Yanagi's a RichBitch {{Jerkass}} who tries to play around with Kujou's feelings. The narrative makes you think that's the story and suddenly there's a TimeSkip and he's in college and mellowed into a DoggedNiceGuy. The story does occasionally reference to him being ashamed of his younger self.
* EveryoneCanSeeIt: It's pretty much a running gag that everyone knows Yanagi and Kujou are practically dating and just haven't realized it.
* EveryoneCanSeeIt: It's pretty much a running gag that everyone knows Yanagi and Kujou are practically dating and just haven't realized it.
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* IHatePastMe: Don't remind Yanagi of his SpoiledBrat days.
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* IHatePastMe: Don't remind Yanagi of his SpoiledBrat days. A grade school time capsule that contained a rant he wrote about beating Kujou makes him realize he was such a little prick back in his younger days.
* IntentionalHeartbreaker: This was the titular "Last Game" Yanagi planned to play with Kujou. Win at love: Get her to confess her love only to mercilessly rip her heart out. Fortunately for everyone involved it went as well as every other one-sided competition between them ever went.
* IntentionalHeartbreaker: This was the titular "Last Game" Yanagi planned to play with Kujou. Win at love: Get her to confess her love only to mercilessly rip her heart out. Fortunately for everyone involved it went as well as every other one-sided competition between them ever went.
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* LovingBully: Younger Yanagi towards Kujou.
* MenDontCry: Averted with Yanagi, who often bawls outright.
* MenDontCry: Averted with Yanagi, who often bawls outright.
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* MenDontCry: Averted with Yanagi, who often bawls outright.
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* MrsRobinson: Downplayed and PlayedForLaughs, but Kujou's mother, Miwa, who is a ShipperOnDeck for both her daughter and Yanagi, also makes several cracks that she wishes she was younger so that she could be the one to hook up with him. Also, humoursly enough, Yanagi ends up on FirstNameBasis with Miwa before he even does with Kujou.
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* MrsRobinson: Downplayed and PlayedForLaughs, but Kujou's mother, Miwa, who is a ShipperOnDeck for both her daughter and Yanagi, also makes several cracks that she wishes she was younger so that she could be the one to hook up with him. Also, humoursly humorously enough, Yanagi ends up on FirstNameBasis with Miwa before he even does with Kujou.
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* PairTheSpares: Tachibana and Souma seem to be heading down this route.
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* RomanticRunnerUp: Both [[BirdsOfAFeather Souma and Tachibana]] enter into the TriangRelations with Yanagi and Kujou knowing from the get-go that they're at a disadvantage. In Souma's case, he even acknowledges that he is kind of doomed from the start.
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* AlwaysSecondBest: Souma's resentment towards Yanagi early on is a result of him resenting Yanagi's upbringing and wealth, feeling that he's coasting off of an easy life. Kujou ends up shutting down this belief. Later on, his resentment transitions to them both having feelings Kujou and Souma's realization that he is destined to be the RomanticRunnerUp.
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* MrsRobinson: Downplayed and PlayedForLaugh's, but Kujou's mother, Miwa, who is a ShipperOnDeck for both her daughter and Yanagi, also makes several cracks that she wishes she was younger so that she could be the one to hook up with him. Also, humoursly enough, Yanagi ends up on FirstNameBasis with Miwa before he even does with Kujou.
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* MrsRobinson: Downplayed and PlayedForLaugh's, PlayedForLaughs, but Kujou's mother, Miwa, who is a ShipperOnDeck for both her daughter and Yanagi, also makes several cracks that she wishes she was younger so that she could be the one to hook up with him. Also, humoursly enough, Yanagi ends up on FirstNameBasis with Miwa before he even does with Kujou.
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* MrsRobinson: Downplayed and PlayedForLaugh's, but Kujou's mother, Miwa, who is a ShipperOnDeck for both her daughter and Yanagi, also makes several cracks that she wishes she was younger so that she could be the one to hook up with him. Also, humoursly enough, Yanagi ends up on FirstNameBasis with Miwa before he even does with Kujou.
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** NotSoStoic: There are times when even she can't keep calm and assess the situation. When she received news that her mother was in a non-fatal accident her usual countenance crumbled and allowed Yanagi to see that she really did care about something.
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** NotSoStoic: There are times when even she can't keep calm and assess the situation. When she received news that her mother was in a non-fatal accident her usual countenance composure crumbled and allowed Yanagi to see that she really did care about something.wasn't truly an ice queen without feelings.
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** NotSoStoic: There are times when even she can't keep calm and assess the situation.
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** NotSoStoic: There are times when even she can't keep calm and assess the situation. When she received news that her mother was in a non-fatal accident her usual countenance crumbled and allowed Yanagi to see that she really did care about something.
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* StalkerWithACrush: A PlayedForLaughs example. It takes Yanagi ten whole years to realize that this is basically what his following Kujou all their lives amounts to. Fortunately, his fake/repressed behavior kept anyone from realizing it. To Yanagi's credit, he's disgusted with his own behavior after coming to terms with his own feelings. And even after he realizes his feelings, he still has a tendency of following Kujou around if he feels some boy is getting too close to her.
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* StalkerWithACrush: A PlayedForLaughs example. It takes Yanagi ten whole years to realize that this is basically what his following Kujou all their lives amounts to. Fortunately, his fake/repressed behavior kept anyone from realizing it. To Yanagi's credit, he's disgusted with his own behavior actions after coming to terms with his own feelings. And even after he realizes his feelings, he still has a tendency of following Kujou around if he feels some boy is getting too close to her.
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** {{Kuudere}}
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* IDontWantToRuinOurFriendship: Even after Kujou realizes her feelings she refuses to confess to Yanagi due to this trope. Justified due to a hilarious bit of LaserGuidedKarma. Yanagi used to flaunt his girlfriends to Kujou to make her jealous and when the relationship would eventually deteriorate, he and his girlfriend would never speak again. This left Kujou with the impression that that's how he would treat her and she didn't want to be abandoned.
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* BettyAndVeronica: Interestingly, Yanagi and Souma think the other is the Betty to Kujou. Yanagi and Kujou are childhood friends and Yanagi knows everything about Kujou and is integrated into her life. Shouma and Kujou are similar economic status, they're on a first name basis and Kujou tends to go to Souma for advice. This is the major source of jealousy and tension between the two.
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* BettyAndVeronica: Interestingly, Yanagi and Souma think the other is the Betty to Kujou. Yanagi and Kujou are childhood friends and Yanagi knows everything about Kujou and is integrated into an integral part of her life. Shouma and Kujou are similar economic status, they're on a first name basis and Kujou tends to go to Souma for advice. This is the major source of jealousy and tension between the two.
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* BettyAndVeronica: Interestingly, Yanagi and Shouma think the other is the Betty in regards to Kujou. Yanagi and Kujou are childhood friends and Yanagi knows everything about Kujou and is integrated into her life. Shouma and Kujou are similar economic status, they're on a first name basis and Kujou tends to go to Shouma for advice. This is the major source of jealousy and tension between the two.
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* BettyAndVeronica: Interestingly, Yanagi and Shouma Souma think the other is the Betty in regards to Kujou. Yanagi and Kujou are childhood friends and Yanagi knows everything about Kujou and is integrated into her life. Shouma and Kujou are similar economic status, they're on a first name basis and Kujou tends to go to Shouma Souma for advice. This is the major source of jealousy and tension between the two.
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* BettyAndVeronica: Interestingly, Yanagi and Shouma think the other is the Betty in regards to Kujou. Yanagi and Kujou are childhood friends and Yanagi knows everything about Kujou and is integrated into her life. Shouma and Kujou are similar economic status, they're on a first name basis and Kujou tends to go to Shouma for advice. This is the major source of jealousy and tension between the two.
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Has nothing to do with familiarity with in-universe fiction.
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** At first glance Tachibana is the ideal pretty, polite, and charming young woman straight out of a dude's dreams. The key words there being "ideal" and "dream", as Shiori [[GenreSavvy points out]] since nobody is that perfect unless they're putting up an act. Sure enough, Tachibana quickly proves to be petty, scheming, jealous, and vain when behind closed doors.
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** At first glance Tachibana is the ideal pretty, polite, and charming young woman straight out of a dude's dreams. The key words there being "ideal" and "dream", as Shiori [[GenreSavvy points out]] out since nobody is that perfect unless they're putting up an act. Sure enough, Tachibana quickly proves to be petty, scheming, jealous, and vain when behind closed doors.
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* HoldingHands: The most common way Yanagi and Kujou show affection, dating back to when they were in high school
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* UnkownRival: Yanagi's childhood rivalry is entirely on his end. A rare positive example as Yanagi's obsession meant that he became her friend when she would have otherwise been alone.
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* UnkownRival: UnknownRival: Yanagi's childhood rivalry is entirely on his end. A rare positive example as Yanagi's obsession meant that he became her friend when she would have otherwise been alone.
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* LemonyNarrator: The captions can get very snarky especially when dealing with Kujou and Yanagi
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* UnkownRival: Yanagi's childhood rivalry is entirely on his end. A rare positive example as Yanagi's obsession meant that he became her friend when she would have otherwise been alone.
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* MenDontCry: Averted hard with Yanagi, who often bawls outright.
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* MenDontCry: Averted hard with Yanagi, who often bawls outright.
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From their elementary school years to high school, they play this game. Well, he plays it, she never notices, to Yanagi's lasting frustration, which eventually leads to him concocting a diabolical plan: He'll beat her by making her fall in love with him only to reject her when she confesses. This works about as well as everything else he tries. By the time they enter college, he's still following her and eventually decides to play a [[TitleDrop "last game"]] with her: if he can put a ring on her right ring finger, then he wins. As the game goes on, though, he realizes that he may actually feel something more for Kujou and slowly starts to fall in love with her.
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From their elementary school years to high school, they play this game. Well, he plays it, she never notices, to Yanagi's lasting frustration, which eventually leads to him concocting a diabolical plan: He'll plan--he'll beat her by making her fall in love with him only to reject her when she confesses. This works about as well as everything else he tries. By the time they enter college, he's still following her and eventually decides to play a [[TitleDrop "last game"]] with her: if he can put a ring on her right ring finger, then he wins. As the game goes on, though, he realizes that he may actually feel something more for Kujou and slowly starts to fall in love with her.
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Naoto Yanagi has it all. He's smart, handsome, rich, and popular with everyone around him. He's the king of his world, and it's all his for the taking. However, his world becomes completed dominated by the quiet and plain Mikoto Kujou, who turns out to be better than him at everything from grades to sports. From then on a serious - that is to say, seriously one-sided - rivalry erupts between Yanagi and Kujou as he becomes obsessed with beating her.
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Naoto Yanagi has it all. He's smart, handsome, rich, and popular with everyone around him. He's the king of his world, and it's all his for the taking. However, his world becomes completed completely dominated by the quiet and plain Mikoto Kujou, who turns out to be better than him at everything from grades to sports. From then on a serious - that is to say, seriously one-sided - rivalry erupts between Yanagi and Kujou as he becomes obsessed with beating her.
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* LastNameBasis: Kujou and Yanagi. It's more out of habit, as seen when they try to call each other by their first names for the first time, they promptly go back to addressing each other by their surnames (mainly because Kujou forgot).
* LikeAnOldMarriedCouple: Kujou and Yanagi. Part of how EveryoneCanSeeIt.
* LoveYouAndEverybody: Kujou's answer when Tachibana probes her on her feelings for Yanagi at the end of Chapter 17. Kujou bluntly states that she likes him, only to follow up with how she likes the rest of their college circle, too. [[LampshadeHanging Tachibana, on the other hand, is in disbelief that someone would say such a thing in "real life."]]
* LovingBully: Younger Yanagi towards Kujou.
* LikeAnOldMarriedCouple: Kujou and Yanagi. Part of how EveryoneCanSeeIt.
* LoveYouAndEverybody: Kujou's answer when Tachibana probes her on her feelings for Yanagi at the end of Chapter 17. Kujou bluntly states that she likes him, only to follow up with how she likes the rest of their college circle, too. [[LampshadeHanging Tachibana, on the other hand, is in disbelief that someone would say such a thing in "real life."]]
* LovingBully: Younger Yanagi towards Kujou.
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* LikeAnOldMarriedCouple: Kujou and Yanagi. Part of how EveryoneCanSeeIt.
* LoveYouAndEverybody: Kujou's answer when Tachibana probes her on her feelings for Yanagi at the end of Chapter 17. Kujou bluntly states that she likes him, only to follow up with how she likes the rest of their college circle, too. [[LampshadeHanging Tachibana, on the other hand, is in disbelief that someone would say such a thing in "real life."]]
* LovingBully: Younger Yanagi towards Kujou.
* LoveYouAndEverybody: Kujou's answer when Tachibana probes her on her feelings for Yanagi at the end of Chapter 17. Kujou bluntly states that she likes him, only to follow up with how she likes the rest of their college circle, too. [[LampshadeHanging Tachibana, on the other hand, is in disbelief that someone would say such a thing in "real life."]]
* LovingBully: Younger Yanagi towards Kujou.