Bokukko/Playing With

Basic Trope: A usually tomboyish female character who uses masculine pronouns.
 * Straight: Mariko uses the Japanese pronoun boku to refer to herself.
 * Exaggerated: Mariko is a Butch Lesbian, is indistinguishable from the male cast and uses ore.
 * Downplayed: Mariko uses boku, but only with her friends.
 * Justified:
 * Mariko was always surrounded by men and boys, so she picked up their speech patterns.
 * Mariko is a female-to-male transsexual, but wishes to keep this fact hidden.
 * Inverted: Haru uses atashi.
 * Subverted:
 * Mariko uses boku during her first appearance, but eventually she switches to watashi to embrace her femininity.
 * A character who appears to be a girl uses boku. This character is then revealed to be male.
 * Double Subverted: But then she goes back to using boku when she decides to play her favorite competitive sports again.
 * Parodied: Mariko changed her name to "Boku".
 * Deconstructed: Mariko uses boku because she's a tomboyish Otaku, and she gets teased by other students for it.
 * Reconstructed: But then they just get used to it and stop bothering her. Some of the girls even start using it themselves because they think it's cool.
 * Zig Zagged: Mariko uses boku. Then watashi. Then ore. Then atashi. Then she sticks to wagahai.
 * Averted: Mariko is standardly feminine and uses watashi.
 * Enforced: We've got enough of these Yamato Nadeshiko, let's add a cute tomboyish girl in next! We'll get a broader demographic.
 * Lampshaded: Mariko rants at Iwao saying "I" many times, and he mocks her speech. "Boku wa! Boku wa!"
 * Invoked: Mariko is very tomboyish, so it would make sense for her to speak masculinely in an anime series.
 * Defied: Mariko is a Yamato Nadeshiko.
 * Discussed: "Why don't you use watashi like a normal schoolgirl?"
 * Conversed: "What's with these tomboyish anime girls using male pronouns? I've never heard a Japanese girl in real life say boku."

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