This Art Club Has a Problem Imari Coletta This Art Club Has a Problem Imari Colette

There'southward something wrong with this Art Club!

Mizuki Usami has a problem with the Fine art Club: the lodge president is a slacker, their newly-recruited kouhai hardly shows up, and the only other person who takes his work (somewhat) seriously, Subaru Uchimaki, is more concerned about painting the 'Ultimate ii-D Bride' than doing whatever 'proper' piece of work! Volition this Art Gild always get their affairs in order?

This Art Club Has a Problem! (Kono Bijutsubu Niwa Mondai ga Aru! or Kono Bijutsubu ni wa Mondai ga Aru!; Japanese: この美術部には問題がある) was originally a two-shot Piece of Life manga by Imigi Muru, and was subsequently serialized in Dengenki Maoh. It began running in 2012 and, as of September 2020, has twelve volumes. An anime adaptation premiered in July 2016, which tin be watched on Crunchyroll; an English-linguistic communication Blu-Ray was released in 2019.

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This Series Has Tropes!

• A-Cup Malaise: Nonoka has this. Probably doesn't help that her shell definitely likes girls with big breasts.
• Accidental Pervert: Uchimaki ends up every bit this from time to time; usually the other political party is Usami (with perhaps two exceptions). Additionally, he is unfortunately defenseless with lewd materials twice, once with a hentai magazine, and once with a DVD with a nude adult female sketch lesson. Both times, the actual culprit was the society president, and both times Uchimaki gets reprimanded by Tachibana.
• Adaptation Expansion: The two sisters who go looking for a pervert in Episode 2 never appear in the manga.
• Adaptation-Induced Plot Pigsty: In Episode three Sayaka uses the excuse of looking for a scoop to visit the art society, and Mizuki says zero interesting always happens at that place. In the manga, Sayaka was able to bring up the art club's swimming pool incident as a counterpoint; in the anime though, the art order hadn't painted the pool yet, so Sayaka but says that it's called a scoop considering she's looking for something that isn't there.
• All Men Are Perverts: Largely averted, with the exception of the guild president and some of the past members of the art club.
  • All-only-completely averted with Uchimaki. Notably, despite his "devotion" to 2-D "brides," he tends to be Not Distracted by the Sexy.
• Almost Kiss: Usami nearly gives one to a sleeping Uchimaki, but restrains herself, opting to draw on his face up instead.
• Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: Mizuki's mother likes to overhear on her daughter'due south conversations, especially when they're with Subaru. Later, Usami's male parent is introduced, and he'due south a unlike kind of embarrassing.
• Amusing Injuries: Mizuki frequently delivers hard hits in reaction to things, specially to Subaru and the president. The furnishings rarely stick for long.
• Attractive Bent-Gender: Maria thinks a cross-dressing Subaru is pretty beautiful; she'southward not lonely.
• Beautiful Dreamer / Sleep Beautiful: In Work 62, Usami falls asleep on Uchimaki's shoulder, and, instead of waking her, Uchimaki draws her portrait.
• Birds of a Feather: Uchimaki and Imari are both huge Otaku leading them to becoming friends pretty quickly.
• Bullheaded Without 'Em: Tachibana-sensei.
• Breaking the Quaternary Wall: Piece of work 5 begins with this.
• Brick Joke: This occurs a relatively often in the series.
  • In Work 15/Episode three, Mizuki'due south friends get her and Subaru to stand together for a cartoon, and Sayaka takes a picture of the two in what looks like a Funny Groundwork Outcome. At the end of the segment, the picture is used for a scandalous newspaper commodity Sayaka writes, all to work Mizuki up.
• Bridal Carry: Subaru catches Mizuki in this manner later on she falls off a stepstool.
• Brilliant, but Lazy: The club president. He gets good grades only spends near of his time asleep.
• Barrel-Monkey: A purposely-unnamed character introduced in Piece of work eighteen, who gets angry his painting was browbeaten by Subaru's in a previous art contest. His first appearance is the only one where he gets any form of respect; every other time he shows up, something bad usually befalls him.
• Buxom Is Improve: The order president is of this stance, much to Nonoka's chagrin.
• Call-Back: Commonly, but not always, a production of a Brick Joke. Examples include the "pool-art incident," Usami and Uchimaki getting stuck in the storage room, "Loli-maki," and the fourth dimension Usami and Uchimaki helped a lost fiddling daughter.
• Cannot Spit It Out: Usami likes Uchimaki very much, only cannot bring herself to say it outright.
• Casting Gag: Usami'due south one-sided crush on Subaru marks the second fourth dimension Ari Ozawa has played a school daughter with a hopeless shell on an artist in her own grade, not to mention that they are both members of an art club in their corresponding schools.
  • This isn't the first time Yuusuke Kobayashi played a character named Subaru.
• Character Tic: In the anime, Sayaka likes to throw up a "V" sign when she successfully trolls someone.
• Childhood Friend:
  • Kaori is this for Usami.
  • Nonoka, who is the club president'due south babyhood friend.
  • Uchimaki's elder sister, Yurine is introduced along side her childhood friend, Aoi.
• Chuunibyou: Imari is one, correct down to wearing a medical eyepatch similar Rikka in Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions. "Evil Grimoire Exploration Gild," indeed.
• Clingy Jealous Girl: Mizuki gets pretty anxious if there'south a chance that Subaru and some other daughter might have something together.
• Comically Missing the Point:
  • After Mizuki's fine art competition entry is ruined, the club submits Subaru's catgirl-in-a-swimsuit painting instead, which surprisingly wins second place. Mizuki finds it unacceptable, and Subaru agrees, because he thinks his painting should've won offset prize.
  • While Mizuki and Subaru have a spat over Maria, Mizuki throws the president's pillow at Subaru's identify. The president calls Usami out, and then adds that the pillow is a really expensive, foreign one. Colette is surprised at the president'due south priorities.
  • When Nonoka warns Tachibana-sensei that the club president is "aiming for her body," the teacher interprets this as the guy wanting to dial her.
• Comic-Book Fourth dimension: All iv seasons take cycled more than than one time, but none of the characters have changed grades.
• Compressed Accommodation: Episode 3 of the anime has a segment which adapts Piece of work 7 of the manga, only without the middle part containing the grouping's antics in a bookstore, keeping the sentimentality while reducing the Mood Whiplash.
• Corrupt the Cutie: Colette tends to do this with the neighourhood kid, Moeka.
• Cloudcuckoolander: Colette and her numerous antics. At that place'due south likewise Aoi.
• Cloudcuckoolander's Minder: Uchimaki Yurine for her Childhood Friend Aoi.
• Gild President: Subverted, as he merely uses the room to slumber all the time.
• Cute Clumsy Daughter: Tachibana Yumeko-sensei, the new order advisor for the Art Guild.
• A Day in the Limelight: The concluding office of Episode 10 focuses on Kaori, as she tries to dig up some dirt on Maria.
• Death Glare: The president is on the receiving end of Usami'southward in Work 21 and Nonoka'southward anytime she's present and he's perving on Tachibana-sensei.
• Diegetic Soundtrack Usage:
  • A snippet of the anime's ending is heard in episode half dozen, filling in some awkward silence after Maria asks if Mizuki and Subaru were dating.
  • Colette is listening to the catastrophe theme on her music player during Episode eight.
• Ditzy Genius: Uchimaki qualifies... when he actually bothers to create normal artwork. Actually, he qualifies regardless, since his piece of work is high-quality, simply his normal artwork is even better. One of his paintings of a 2-D Helpmate won second prize in a contest, though.
• "Exercise Information technology Yourself" Theme Melody: Nana Mizuki (Tachibana) and Sumire Uesaka (Colette) respectively perform the opening and ending themes.
• Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male person: Usami does this quite a lot to both the Club President and Uchimaki. To a lesser extent, Nonoka does this to the club president periodically whenever he is up to something pervy (or seems to be).
• Dropping the Bombshell: Happened during the two-shot, when Uchimaki revealed he was leaving the Art Club since he was about to finish his perfect 2-D Bride.
• Early-Bird Cameo: In the anime, Colette can be seen hiding in a locker in the first episode, two episodes before she'south formally introduced.
• Every Man Has His Price: The manner the sometime club advisor, Koyama-sensei, managed to commission posters for other clubs... past bribing the order president with a box of books on sleeping well.
• Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Everyone just calls the club president by his title. It isn't until his childhood friend, Nonoka, appears that nosotros learn his existent proper name, or rather nickname: Yoh-chan.
• Expressive Accessory: Mizuki'south pilus-prune changes expressions with her mood.
• Eyes Always Shut: Nonoka has this, regardless of her mood.
• Cruel Comatose Standing Up: The president does this in Work 8.
• First-Name Basis: Some of the characters e'er are referred to by their first names, to the extent that their surname isn't even provided in the piece of work. Colette, Usami's friends, Yurine (to avoid confusion with her younger brother), and Aoi being the biggest examples.
  • In Work 33/Episode 12 Subaru asks if he tin telephone call Mizuki by her first name, considering he'south fallen for another character who shares her terminal proper name. Mizuki after turns down his request, but it was fine by then because Subaru had fallen out of beloved with the character.
• The Gadfly:
  • Sayaka likes to say and do things to get a rise out of Mizuki.
  • The society president loves to mess around with people. His favorite target is Usami and her crush on Uchimaki.
  • Yurine, specially where her younger brother is concerned.
• Hibernate the Prove:
  • What the Club President and Uchimaki were trying to do when they accidentally ruined Usami'south entry to an art contest.
  • Colette does this when she painted the bust. Once more, it doesn't work.
• I'yard Crying, only I Don't Know Why: When Subaru says that he's kidding about Mizuki feeling deplorable if he quit the society, Mizuki suddenly tears up. She isn't even aware of it until Subaru points it out.
• In Medias Res: Piece of work 43 opens with Mizuki and another pupil hiding in a locker, so goes back to testify how they got into that predicament in the first place.
• Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: Instead of "chapters," the manga is divided into "works."
  • Each anime episode's title is a mashup of all the titles of the individual segments.
• Immoral Journalist: Sayaka says that a news "scoop" is called that because you lot need to dig for something that isn't there.
• Indirect Kiss: When Kaori messes up Subaru's drinkable request, she offers her beverage to him. Mizuki is fully aware of the implications, so she snatches the drink for herself, which leads to Subaru taking Mizuki'due south drink and downing it for himself. Mizuki is quite satisfied with the outcome.
• Innocent Innuendo: In Episode 9, Subaru and the president are lone in the club room. The president says that it'southward just the two men alone in the room, and if Subaru knows what that means. Subaru immediately thinks of a Boys' Love situation, but the president was just talking about looking at the hentai magazine they found previously.
• Insane Troll Logic: The president periodically employs this to get what he wants, particularly of Tachibana-sensei. Aoi also uses this a decent amount.
• It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Fourth dimension: Painting the school swimming pool before commencing the cleaning... unfortunately, the President didn't bother checking to make sure it was water-soluble!
• Japanese School Gild: The serial centres on the school's Fine art Lodge.
• Just Friends: Uchimaki and Maria are this. Despite what Usami thinks at outset.
• Last-Proper name Basis: With a story ready in mod Nihon, information technology'south no surprise that this is the dominion rather than the exception, with about adults being only known by their surname.
• Locked in a Room: Usami and Uchimaki ended up as such while looking for a bosom in the long-unused social club store room.
• Dear Alphabetic character Lunacy:
  • In Piece of work nine/Episode 2 Subaru receives a letter from an underclassman and requests Mizuki'southward help in turning her downward.
  • Work 35 and 36 are near Mizuki and friends practice writing a love letter of the alphabet, and the events following it.
• Love Triangle: Imari appears as Usami'south rival for Uchimaki'southward affections, merely she isn't actually.
• Luminescent Blush: Usami has i not infrequently and, nearly eighty percent of the time, Uchimaki has something to do with it.
  • Periodically, other characters gets this likewise, including Tachibana-sensei and that rival-guy. Another notable example is Uchimaki, who gets this on rare occasion, notably in Work 71.
• Heed over Matter: In Piece of work nine, subsequently Uchimaki brags about his latest "bride" having Psychic Powers, Usami tries angle a spoon, and is shocked to see it work. Uchimaki didn't believe her, nevertheless, and it hasn't come up up again since.
• Modesty Shorts: When Subaru remarks that he can run into upwardly Mizuki'due south skirt when she's modeling for him, she puts on some shorts under her skirt before she gets dorsum to modeling. She does this at other times also.
• Mood Whiplash: Episode one opens with a more than comedic segment in which Mizuki'south plight is Played for Laughs in the first one-half, and switches to a somewhat more serious segment in which she'due south taken more seriously in the second half.
• Motifs: Nigh half of Usami's works which are actually shown involve apples, a reference to Paul Cézanne'southward still lives.
• Mr. Imagination: Maria constantly goes on about grimoires and supernatural powers.
• Ms. Fanservice: Tachibana. She gets a practiced number of swimsuit shots, and is a frequent target of the Male Gaze.
• Nice Daughter: For all her eccentricities, Maria is a kind person who helps others out if they need aid.
• No Name Given:
  • The Club President in the anime, since his childhood friend, Nonoka, doesn't appear.
  • Work xviii introduces a classmate who is always interrupted when trying to introduce himself.
• Non-Uniform Compatible:
  • Subaru wears an orange sweater with his wintertime compatible and a cherry-red sweater with his summer uniform.
  • Kaori wears a xanthous sweater instead of a blazer.
• Nosebleed: Subaru sees a half-naked Usami accidentally and equally a result this starts bleeding into his artwork, every bit he draws bodies with realistic proportions instead of busty ones like he intends.
• Oblivious to Dearest: Uchimaki seems completely oblivious to Usami's feelings.
  • Played around with. Uchimaki repeatedly states he's not interested in 3D girls, including in regard to Usami. Yet, due to their interactions, he gradually starts seeing her every bit a girl and not equally an individual tangential to himself.
  • Later on, it is unsaid that Uchimaki has this with regard to his own (possible) feelings toward Usami, as indicated by the diverse ways he ends up being unconsciously influenced by her (mostly seen in his artwork).
• Odd Friendship: The society president and Moeka develop this.
• One Degree of Separation: This occurs several times.
  • The lost piffling girl, Moeka, turns out to be Koyama-sensei'due south granddaughter. Meanwhile, the masked girl she was with in her first appearance is implied to be Colette.
  • The little girl with a beautiful strap is really the younger sis of the underclassman who confesses to Uchimaki.
  • Usami and Kaori actually met Yurine and Aoi when they were really little. Similarly, the gild president and Nonoka met Tachibana when they were at a similar historic period. Kaori and Colette (implied) likewise met about a yr earlier the series began.
• One Dialogue, Two Conversations: Ordinarily caused by Colette. For example, Colette and the president in Work eleven/Episode 5: he's talking about seeing what looks like Subaru and Tachibana about to buss, but she thinks he's talking most her painting the bosom.
• Only Sane Human: Usami feels that she'southward the only i in the club who takes the guild activities seriously.
• Otaku: Uchimaki, who's obsessed with creating the Ultimate two-D Bride. Maria Imari is also an anime fan, a reason why she and Uchimaki become fast friends.
• Panty Shot: Happens multiple times.
  • The president takes an upwardly-brim shot of Mizuki in episode 1. It happens a chip differently in the manga, although the result is the same.
  • Mizuki flashes Subaru again when she'due south admiring the wearing apparel she'south wearing in Episode 7, though this time the audition doesn't see it.
  • When Usami is drawing a portrait of Uchimaki, he keeps trying to tell her that he can run into her panties, but she interrupts him, insisting that he stay still and tranquility while posing for her, so he ends up seeing them the entire session. He wisely keeps quiet about this.
  • When hiding from a teacher in Work 87, Usami ends upwardly flashing Uchimaki big fourth dimension. Again, she doesn't notice; he ends up staying quiet about it, although it does effect his artwork.
• Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: Definitely the feel of the society early, until Koyama-sensei, the one-time club advisor, commissioned a affiche on behalf of the other clubs.
• Pose of Supplication: Dogeza occur quite frequently in this series. Notably:
  • Mizuki falls to her knees when Sayaka gets her to say she likes Subaru more than drawing.
  • Colette assumes the stance once the art society finds the the bust she painted.
• Really Addicted of Sleeping: The guild president tries to sleep whenever and wherever he tin and has devoted lodge funds toward the purpose. The reason he started this was revealed in Work 38.
• Running Gag: Well, it is a one-act. Any of the characters' various quirks and other tendencies are played this mode and almost all of them accept at least 1. That aside, examples include:
  • Colette's diverse games and guises.
  • Drawing on the club president'due south face up.
  • That classmate and self-proclaimed rival of Uchimaki's getting interrupted whenever he says his name. And also when his efforts go unnoticed past the people he wants to notice them.
  • Uchimaki getting scolded by teachers for things that aren't his mistake.
  • Morohoshi-sensei chasing a trouble-maker, mostly Imari.
• Satellite Character: Ryouko. At to the lowest degree Karoi is the Genki Girl and Sayaka is The Gadfly; Ryouko doesn't do much bated from supporting others' statements and hanging out with the others.
• Shipper on Deck: Just about everyone wants to see Mizuki and Subaru become a couple, especially Mizuki's friends and Uchimaki'due south older sister.
• Shout-Out:
  • In Episode v, the fine art social club's manga shelf is lined with volumes of Now Game!.
  • In Episode 10, Uchimaki is painting Renge, albeit without her Girlish Pigtails.
• Shower of Awkward: Sort of. In Piece of work 71, Uchimaki accidentally walks in on Usami drying herself off and dressed merely in a Modesty Towel; this causes much awkwardness for a while.
• Spock Speak: Subaru speaks like this at all times.
• Stealing from the Till: The Guild President uses the club'southward funds to buy pillows and futons for naps, and the club room'southward sofa is implied to have been obtained similarly.
• Strange Minds Think Alike: Imari has this with Colette and Uchimaki periodically.
• Stranger Danger:
  • Colette's first impression of the new club advisor, Tachibana-sensei.
  • Invoked towards Usami and Uchimaki when they were helping a mother find her lost daughter. The daughter won't come up about them when they finally found her, no thanks to a certain masked person heavily implied to be Colette.
• Sustained Misunderstanding: In Work xi/Episode five, the president sees Subaru about to give Tachibana mouth-to-oral fissure and soon after encounters Colette. He says something major was happening, and Colette assumes he knows near something else she did, so she fesses up. Her vague answers only assist to reinforce the president'southward idea that Colette had a mitt in hooking Subaru up with Tachibana.
• Talking in Your Sleep: The president does this from time to time.
• Those 2 Guys:
  • Mizuki'south 3 daughter friends, Sayaka, Kaori, and Ryouko. They are singled-out from each other but mundane compared to the main cast nevertheless.
  • Uchimaki's older sister, Yurine, and her friends, Aoi and Nakamu.
• Treasure Chase Episode: While rummaging through manga left behind by the past members of the Art Club, Uchimaki, Usami, and Imari found a note promising them a valuable treasure. In the end, they found it, which is a box of hentai magazines.
• Trying Not to Cry: What Usami ulimately failed at doing while trying to talk Uchimaki out of quitting the club. As it turns out, the waterworks are what convinced Uchimaki to stay in the club, because he institute the characteristic endearing.
• Tsundere: Usami is usually on the dere side, just can switch quite abruptly to the tsun side when facing Uchimaki's weird antics.
• The Ugly Guy's Hot Daughter: Granddaughter in this case; the adorable Moeko is the plain Koyama-sensei's granddaughter. This is lampshaded past Koyama-sensei himself!
• Umbrella of Togetherness: It's raining really difficult in Work 38/Episode 12. While Mizuki is running errands for some teachers, Kaori snatches her umbrella, setting up her and Subaru sharing one for the walk home.
• Unknown Rival: The classmate who starting time appears in Work 18 is a self-proclaimed rival of Uchimaki when it comes to fine art and subsequently for Usami's affections. He is incredibly unsuccessful with regard to both, despite Uchimaki not actually competing in either.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: In Episode 2 of the anime two extras are revealed to exist sisters, and it seems similar the two will get out on a chase for a predator at the school. All the same, they don't take whatever relevance for the balance of the flavor. This is not true of the manga, where they never appear to begin with.
• Wholesome Crossdresser: Uchimaki has no problem crossdressing when asked to exercise so and, if it'due south for his artwork, he'll crossdress without existence asked.
  • In Piece of work 43 Subaru asks Maria to take off her uniform so he can use them as a reference signal. She agrees, on the condition that he wears it.
• Your Answer to Everything: 2nd waifus, for Subaru.

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Culling Title(s): Kono Bijutsubu Niwa Mondai Ga Aru, This Fine art Social club Has A Problem

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