History YMMV / HeatGuyJ

%%* EvilIsSexy: Clair and [[spoiler: Shun]] certainly fit the bill.

* HilariousInHindsight: For fans of the English dub, Clair was one of if not the first villainous roles Creator/JohnnyYongBosch ever played, and he ended up doing many of the same things with [[Anime/CodeGeass Lelouch]] and especially [[{{Literature/Durarara}} Izaya]] that he did with Clair.

* HilariousInHindsight: For fans of the English dub, Clair was one of if not the first villainous roles Creator/JohnnyYongBosch ever played, and he ended up doing many of the same things with [[Anime/CodeGeass Lelouch]] and especially [[{{LightNovel/Durarara}} Izaya]] that he did with Clair.

* {{Squick}}:
** Shows up every so often, to the point it suggests that the characters just don't have very high standards for cleanliness or hygiene. Examples include:

* UnpopularPopularCharacter: Clair.
* TheWoobie: Most of the important guys (and one little girl).

* DracoInLeatherPants: Clair and [[spoiler: Shun]]. In Clair's case, the leather pants are literal as well as figurative!
** In a somewhat unusual case, though, the show seems to deliberately encourage it--particularly in Clair's case, as the flashbacks to him and his abusive father start good and early, and he gets more and more heroic/sympathetic things to do as the series goes on.
* EnsembleDarkhorse: Ken Edmundo and Boma.
* EvilIsSexy: Clair and [[spoiler: Shun]] certainly fit the bill.
* FoeYayShipping: Most of the fanfiction in this teeny tiny fandom is [=DaisukexClair=], even though they normally do not get along. [[spoiler: Except towards the end, where they help each other, but not actually for yaoi reasons.]]

* JerkassWoobie: Clair, Shun.

* {{Squick}}: Shows up every so often, to the point it suggests that the characters just don't have very high standards for cleanliness or hygiene. Examples include:

** "Rumor": [[MadBomber Samuel Kobayashi]] is a maniacal explosives expert and [[CameraFiend amateur photographer]] who regularly photographs women at landmarks he intends to destroy as a CallingCard, manufacturing "Beauty Cards" to be traded. Initially having targeted mailboxes and billboards, Kobayashi graduates to mass murder by targeting multiple buildings and structures, including the workplace of Special Services Officer Daisuke "Dice" Aurora, resulting in scores of deaths. After Dice realizes the connection between the Beauty Cards and the other bombings--with Dice subsequently evacuating his workplace of any inhabitants--Kobayashi's bomb taunts Dice when he cuts the WrongWire, subsequently [[BoobyTrap accelerating the timer of the explosive]], only failing due to the intervention of Dice's partner, the android "J".

** "Trust": [[ManipulativeBastard Gene Glen]] runs an illegal passport manufacturing operation which [[KillAndReplace kills women and steals their identities]]. Introduced [[HoneyTrap romancing the alcoholic Christina Gabriel]], Gene tries to entice Christina and her daughter Monica across the ocean, possibly as a ruse. When Monica refuses to leave Judoh with her mother, Gene lures Christina to a boat where 9 other women are held captive, fully intending to kill her and the other [[WouldHitAGirl women]] and [[CementShoes dispose of them in the water]], only stopped by the arrival of Dice and J.

* {{Moe}}: In a way, Clair. He comes off this way owing to his presentation as a childish [[IllGirl Ill Boy]] and his really crappy childhood. It helps that he's also ''really'', really cute.

* AudienceAlienatingPremise: This is perhaps the reason why the show was such a failure. It looks like a straightforward sci-fi buddy cop-style action series, as opposed to the serious drama it actually is. As a result, many people wrote it off as just another buddy-cop action show, and those who watched it because they ''liked'' straightforward action shows came away underwhelmed. This even translates to its poor performance in the US, where Chad Kime from Geneon points out that for every copy of the show sold, ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist'' sold 4 times as much, even when Geneon marketed it as from the people who made ''Anime/TheVisionOfEscaflowne'' (one of Bandai Entertainment's best-performing titles), and Creator/{{Funimation}} has said that it's one of the worst-performing shows on their streams.

* FoeYay: Most of the fanfiction in this teeny tiny fandom is [=DaisukexClair=], even though they normally do not get along. [[spoiler: Except towards the end, where they help each other, but not actually for yaoi reasons.]]

* CrazyAwesome: ''Clair!'' So crazy and so very, very wonderful.

* MagnificentBastard: Lorenzo Leonelli. His son Clair tries to live up to this, but [[SmugSnake falls short]].

* AudienceAlienatingPremise: This is perhaps the reason why the show was such a failure. It looks like a straightforward sci-fi buddy cop-style action series, as opposed to the serious drama it actually is. As a result, many people wrote it off as just another buddy-cop action show, and those who watched it because they ''liked'' straightforward action shows came away underwhelmed. This even translates to its poor performance in the US, where Chad Kime from Geneon points out that for every copy of the show sold, ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist'' sold 4 times as much, even when Geneon marketed it as from the people who made ''Anime/TheVisionOfEscaflowne'', and Creator/{{Funimation}} has said that it's one of the worst-performing shows on their streams.

* AudienceAlienatingPremise: This is perhaps the reason why the show was such a failure. It looks like a straightforward sci-fi buddy cop-style action series, as opposed to the serious drama it actually is. As a result, many people wrote it off as just another buddy-cop action show, and those who watched it because they ''liked'' straightforward action shows came away underwhelmed. This even translates to its poor performance in the US, where Chad Kime from Geneon points out that for every copy of the show sold, ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist'' sold 4 times as much, and Creator/{{Funimation}} has said that it's one of the worst-performing shows on their streams.

* MemeticMolester: Lorenzo is known to have been physically and emotionally abusive to Clair, and [[{{Fanon}} thought]] to have been [[{{Lolicon}} sexually abusive]] as well. His imposing and creepy nature doesn't help any.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: "Bay Side Slider", J's [[ThemeMusicPowerup Powerup Theme Music]], played on [[EverythingsLouderWithBagpipes bagpipes]] and [[AutobotsRockOut electric guitar]].
** Also "FACE", the opening theme. ''Hey! Boy! Looking for your soul!'' The second ending theme, "Hikari" by Kyoko's voice actress Creator/SaekoChiba is pretty nice, too.

* HilariousInHindsight: For fans of the English dub, Clair was one of if not the first villainous roles JohnnyYongBosch ever played, and he ended up doing many of the same things with [[Anime/CodeGeass Lelouch]] and especially [[{{LightNovel/Durarara}} Izaya]] that he did with Clair.

* {{Adorkable}}: Characters like J, Boma, and Edmundo can come off this way despite not looking it at first glance.

* JerkassWoobie: Clair, Shun

** Also "FACE", the opening theme. ''Hey! Boy! Looking for your soul!'' The second ending theme, "Hikari" by Kyoko's voice actress SaekoChiba is pretty nice, too.

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: "Bay Side Slider", J's [[ThemeMusicPowerup Powerup Theme Music]], played on [[EverythingsLouderWithBagpipes bagpipes]] and [[AutobotsRockOut electric guitar]].
** Also "FACE", the opening theme. ''Hey! Boy! Looking for your soul!'' The second ending theme, "Hikari" by Kyoko's voice actress SaekoChiba is pretty nice, too.

* FetishFuelStationAttendant: Boma. There's the fact that he's got a ''great'' body (which he doesn't seem to mind showing off), the fact that he's a badass swordsman, the fact that he's got a wolf's head, ''and'' a DarkAndTroubledPast...

* FridgeBrilliance: Shun effortlessly beats up Daisuke earlier in the series, but [[spoiler:in the finale Daisuke has the upper hand. Is it heroic resolve? No, it's that Shun still hasn't completely recovered from the sniper bullet that went through his chest not too long ago]]

* HilariousInHindsight: For fans of the English dub, Clair was one of if not the first villainous roles JohnnyYongBosch ever played, and he ended up doing many of the same things with [[CodeGeass Lelouch]] and especially [[{{LightNovel/Durarara}} Izaya]] that he did with Clair.

* HollywoodPudgy Spends a chapter dieting (read: starving herself) to look good in a bikini to impress her crush at a pool party [[spoiler: turns out he wasn't even there!]] even though she's not fat.

* MagnificentBastard: Lorenzo Leonelli. His son Clair tries to live up to this, but [[SmugSnake falls short.]]
* MemeticMolester: Lorenzo is known to have been physically and emotionally abusive to Clair, and [[{{Fanon}} thought]] to have been [[{{Shotacon}} sexually abusive]] as well. His imposing and creepy nature doesn't help any.

** After [[spoiler: Noriega kills Ian, he sends (it's implied) Ian's hand back to Clair, Giovanni, and Mitchal in a box]]. This is already squicky enough, but then Clair [[spoiler: fishes the ring he was wearing out of the box with a horrible squelching noise and sticks it on his own finger--''without cleaning it first!'']]
* SuperlativeDubbing: The English dub of this series is widely considered to be virtually flawless and every bit as enjoyable as the Japanese.
* UnpopularPopularCharacter: Clair

* MemeticSexGod: Clair and Boma.

* HilariousInHindsight: For fans of the English dub, Clair was one of if not the first villainous roles JohnnyYongBosch ever played, and he ended up doing many of the same things with [[CodeGeass Lelouch]] and especially [[{{Durarara}} Izaya]] that he did with Clair.

** Clair's initiation ritual for becoming Vampire involves him and everyone else present cutting his finger and dripping blood into a big vat of wine, from which everyone in attendance drinks.