Gossip Evolution: Rumors flew around when Yoji left the Kugyou family.Good Girls Avoid Abortion: Arisa is initially set on an abortion and even gets the money for the procedure from the baby's father, but changes her mind and decides to keep the baby.Tanpopo had plenty of friends in Hokkaido, but knows no one in Tokyo and is immediately looked down on by her schoolmates for being a Scholarship Student. False Friend: Tsukiko to Tanpopo, although they eventually become friends for real.Driven to Suicide: Erika attempts this after Koki breaks off their engagement.Even cheery Tanpopo shows signs of this at times. Clingy Jealous Girl: Erika and Tsukiko for Koki.It turns out to be as a result of the car accident in which she lost her parents. Claustrophobia: Tanpopo has a huge fear of small spaces.Cannot Spit It Out: Tanpopo to Koki, and vice-versa.Butt-Monkey: Tanpopo initially, although she eventually makes friends and manages to win over the rest of the school as well.But Now I Must Go: In the end, Tanpopo decides to return to Hokkaido in order to care for her ailing grandparents.In Hokkaido she tries again by breaking the ice of the pond she's standing on, but Tanpopo drags her out and slaps some sense into her. Bungled Suicide: Erika slits her wrists after Koki breaks off their engagement, but survives.

Bittersweet Ending: Tanpopo decides to leave all her friends in Tokyo and move back to Hokkaido to care for her grandfather after his heart attack, but she and Koki are finally together and promise to wait for each other until they're reunited.

Although she insists she didn't have anything to do with it, Koki eventually manages to get the truth out of her. When Tanpopo leaves the gardening club, everyone immediately realizes that Erika was involved.

Erika as well, though it doesn't fool anyone for that long.

Since Tanpopo doesn't pick up on it, Tsukiko eventually gives up the subtlety and it becomes Bitch Alert.

Attention Whore: Erika, at least toward Koki.

Erika was originally engaged to Koki's older brother Yoji, but after Yoji disappeared, she and Koki became engaged instead.

Tsukiko gives one to Erika, asking her 'And what are you without the Yanaharas?!'.

Yoji asking Erika if she truly loves Koki or if she will fall out of love with him the way she did with Yoji.In an attempt to change the school's social hierarchy, she starts the Planting Club (despite live plants being banned at school), and through sheer persistence manages to win over some of her classmates, like popular but cold Koki Kugyo and ambitious, insincere Tsukiko Saionji. Stubbornly cheerful country girl Tanpopo moves to Tokyo to attend high school, but has trouble fitting in among her rich classmates. The manga is licensed in English by Viz Media. It ran in the shoujo magazine Shoujo Comic from 2000 to 2001, and was collected into five volumes. Imadoki! ('Nowadays!') is a manga by Yuu Watase.

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