History YMMV / KamikazeGirls

* HiddenDepths: With both main characters in the film version.
** Ichigo was constantly bullied in school, and also has a [[ButNotTooForeign European father, which may have been the cause of said bullying]]; her need to vent her frustrations led her to the Ponytails and becoming one of them. She also played the piano before and was a StepfordSmiler.
** Momoko is surprisingly good at Pachinko despite her protests at the game (a nod to her seedy roots?), has a far better relationship with her grandma than either of her parents (or anyone else for that matter, Ichigo notwithstanding), and is shown to be just as much of a fighter as the rest of her family with a temper to match at the end of the story [[spoiler: where she saves Ichigo from the other biker gangs]].

** Momoko is surprisingly good at Pachinko despite her protests (a nod to her seedy roots?), has a far better relationship with her grandma than either of her parents (or anyone else for that matter, Ichigo notwithstanding), and is shown to be just as much of a fighter as the rest of her family with a temper to match at the end of the story [[spoiler: where she saves Ichigo from the other biker gangs]].

** Ichigo was constantly bullied in school, and also has a [[ButNotTooForeign European father, which may have been the cause of said bullying]]; it was this bullying that led her to the Ponytails and becoming one of them. She also played the piano before and was a StepfordSmiler.

** Ichigo was constantly bullied in school, and also has a [[WildMassGuessing European father, which may have been the cause of said bullying]]; it was this bullying that led her to the Ponytails and becoming one of them. She also played the piano before and was a StepfordSmiler.

** Ichigo was constantly bullied in school, and also has a [[WildMassGuessing European father, which may have been the cause]]; it was this bullying that led her to the Ponytails and becoming one of them. She also played the piano before and was a StepfordSmiler.

** Momoko is surprisingly good at Pachinko despite her protests (a nod to her seedy roots?), has a far better relationship with her grandma than either of her parents (or anyone else, Ichigo notwithstanding), and is shown to be just as much of a fighter as her family history suggest in the end.

** Momoko, on the other hand, is surprisingly good at Pachinko despite her protests (a nod to her seedy roots?), has a far better relationship with her grandma than either of her parents (or anyone else, Ichigo notwithstanding), and is shown to be just as much of a fighter as her family history suggest in the end.

** The movie is a bit less so than the manga (don't know about the novel itself yet), but the manga is heavy enough on it, what with how the cover has them standing so close, Ichigo is [[{{Bifauxnen}} mistaken]] for Momoko's boyfriend by her father, all the things they do for each other, and of course, at the end, with ([[spoiler:Momoko resting her head on Ichigo's back and blushing, whispering, "I really like you, Ichigo!"]]) Of course, YMMV, especially if you consider the bonus comic that the artist, Yukio Kanesada, did with Takemoto's permission, canon or not.
** Actually, the last line of the novel is [[spoiler: "Feeling the wind against me I softly laid my head against Ichigo's back, the way I might with a lover."]] Take that as you will.

* HiddenDepths: With both main characters

** Ichigo was constantly bullied in school, and also has a [[WildMassGuessing European father, which may have been the cause]]; it was this bullying that led her to the Ponytails and becoming one of them.