History YMMV / Basara

* TheScrappy: The author has multiple side panels mocking King Ukon's unpopularity and for good reason. Ukon has almost no redeeming features, being incredibly incompetent, petty and paranoid - essentially a manchild given too much power. His parenting is beyond awful and since his children are the rulers of Japan, the cause of much grief. He's also not [[EvilIsCool compelling]] [[EvilIsSexy as a villain]] and is mostly a weak ineffectual cowardly old man lead to ruin by [[spoiler: Ginko]]. Sarasa and Shuri are both disgusted by how lame Ukon is and leave him [[spoiler: to die an ignominious death offscreen.]]

* HoYay: Quite a lot whenever Ageha is around. He's canonically bi though he has a charged, complicated dynamic with Shido stemming from then he was a slave in Shido's household. It's mostly one-sided as Shido is oblivious and Ageha would never admit it to him.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Ichimatsu of Hida who is a CrazyAwesome HotBlooded MasterSwordsman who would fit nicely in a Shounen series and brings levity to a story filled with brooding introspective characters. The author had a panel where she stated that Ichimatsu was inexplicably popular.

* {{Squick}}: You ''do not'' want to know [[spoiler: Ginko and Asagi's past.]]
* TheWoobie: [[spoiler: Although YMMV, Asagi.]] Poor guy was so confused the whole time. There's also Sakaki.

* TooCoolToLive: [[spoiler:Ageha,]] hands down!

* AntiClimaxBoss: [[spoiler: King Ukon by the end, is a frail, old man with many regrets. Shuri and Tatara are flabbergasted by how pathetic this big evil dictator actually is. Heck, he's killed offscreen, not by the rebellion, but by a group of angry peasants.]]
* EnsembleDarkhorse: Ichimatsu of Hida who is a CrazyAwesome HotBlooded MasterSwordsman who would fit nicely in a Shounen series and brings levity to a story filled with brooding introspective characters. The author had a panel where she stated that Ichimatsu was inexplicably popular
* FridgeBrilliance: Asagi's health. He was and is a sickly kid. [[spoiler: Later we learn that he's the son of Ginko and her father Ukon. The genetic problems resulting from incest caused him to be sickly.]]

* MoralEventHorizon: Ukon retroactively crosses this when [[spoiler: he kills Ginko's husband and rapes her]]. Previously, the reader was vaguely aware that he was a paranoid, incompetent and decadent king but most of the machinations and plots of the book are the result of his children. Then we see what he was like in his prime...
* TheScrappy: The author has multiple side panels mocking King Ukon's unpopularity and for good reason. Ukon has almost no redeeming features being incredibly incompetent, petty and paranoid - essentially a manchild given too much power. His parenting is beyond awful and since his children are rulers, the cause of much grief. He's also not [[EvilIsCool compelling]] [[EvilIsSexy as a villain]] and is mostly a weak ineffectual cowardly old man lead to ruin by [[spoiler: Ginko]]. Sarasa and Shuri are both disgusted by how lame Ukon is and leave him [[spoiler: to die an ignominious death offscreen.]]

* TheScarppy: The author has multiple side panels mocking King Ukon's unpopularity and for good reason. Ukon has almost no redeeming features being incredibly incompetent, petty and paranoid - essentially a manchild given too much power. His parenting is beyond awful and since his children are rulers, the cause of much grief. He's also not [[EvilIsCool compelling]] [[EvilIsSexy as a villain]] and is mostly a weak ineffectual cowardly old man lead to ruin by [[spoiler: Ginko]]. Sarasa and Shuri are both disgusted by how lame Ukon is and leave him [[spoiler to die an ignominious death offscreen.]]

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Ichimatsu of Hida who is a CrazyAwesome HotBlooded MasterSwordsman who would fit nicely in a Shounen series and brings levity to a story filled with brooding introspective characters. The author had a panel where he stated that Ichimatsu was inexplicably popular

* TheWoobie: [[spoiler: Although YMMV, Asagi.]] Poor guy was so confused the whole time.

* HoYay: Quite a lot whenever Ageha is around, but [[{{Bishonen}} Asagi]] has his moments. On a another note, the friendship between [[HeterosexualLifePartners Nachi and Hijiri]] offers some cute scenes.

* {{Squick}}: You ''do not'' want to know [[spoiler: Ginko and Asagi's past.]]

* HoYay: Quite a lot whenever Ageha is around, but [[{{Bishonen}} Asagi]] has his moments. On a another note, the friendship between [[HeterosexualLifePartners Nachi and Hijiri]] offers some cute scenes.