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** Ayato is very similar to a certain hero from [[SwordArtOnline another, rather similar, anime]] from A1Pictures. With the dub of this anime out, [[ErikKimerer Ayato]] is now the [[PokemonGenerations rival]] of [[BrycePapenbrook Kirito]] (although the latter only spoke in [[PokemonOrigins a different installment]] in which his rival sounds [[LucienDodge different]]).

* IronWoobie: Kirin, ''Kirin'', '''Kirin'''. Her father goes to jail, she goes to live with her EvilUncle Koichiro, who doesn't care about her and only wants her to increase his political influence as an UnwittingPawn, and that doesn't stop her from enjoying life with her friends.

* HilariousInHindsight: Ayato is very similar to a certain hero from [[SwordArtOnline another, rather similar, anime]] from A1Pictures. With the dub of this anime out, [[ErikKimerer Ayato]] is now the [[PokemonGenerations rival]] of [[BrycePapenbrook Kirito]] (although the latter only spoke in [[PokemonOrigins a different installment]] in which his rival sounds [[LucienDodge different]]).

* VanillaProtagonist: Ayato isn't only incredibly bland and generic, he also fills the other half of the genre's template for protagonist of being [[InvincibleHero ridiculously overpowered]].

'''Instead''': [[ViolationOfCommonSense He jumps up onto the balcony to return it]]...catching her in her state of undress.

** Silas Norman. He lures Julis and traps her in an abandoned building, unaware that Ayato would rescue her. When Ayato delivers a CurbStompBattle on Silas's robots, rather than fighting with him directly, he manages to escape with his last robot. Unfortunately for Silas, it leaves an opening for Ayato to send him falling out of the sky and Claudia to capture him.

* CounterpartComparison: Let's see : A [[VanillaProtagonist generically bland]] [[HeroesPreferSwords sword-wielding hero]] who's [[InvincibleHero Invincible]] and [[ChickMagnet attracts every girls around him.]] Is that Ayato or [[SwordArtOnline Kirito]]? There is one major difference between the two, though : Ayato is [[ChasteHero still single.]]

** Ayato, too. He can either be hated for being [[FollowTheLeader another]] [[VanillaProtagonist bland, generic,]] [[BoringInvincibleHero invincible]], or even [[MartyStu totally perfect]], [[HeroesPreferSwords sword wielding hero]] from a [[HaremGenre Harem]] light novel adaptation or like [[ShowyInvincibleHero BECAUSE]] of said invincibility.

* MartyStu: Ayato is so [[InvincibleHero invincible]] that he [[OvershadowedByAwesome overshadows all the girls of his harem]] to the point that Kirin can come off as a FauxActionGirl in comparison. He also [[ChickMagnet attracts just about every girl around him.]]

** There's also Ayato, who right off the bat performs an act like this - he has Julis's handkerchief, and wants to return it.\\

* WhatAnIdiot: After being attacked by an assassin during her duel with Ayato in the first episode, Julis never bothers to do anything about it. However it's a few episodes later that the true idiocy comes into play as after getting attacked a second time, she refuses to have protection on campus. It makes no sense why and it's completely boneheaded of her to do so.

** There's also our Main character, who right off the bat performs an act like this - he has Julis's handkerchief, and wants to return it.\\

* IronWoobie: Kirin, ''Kirin'', '''Kirin'''. Her father goes to jail, she goes to live with her EvilUncle, who doesn't care about her and only wants her to increase his political influence, and that doesn't stop her from enjoying life with her friends.

** There's also our Main character, who right off the bat performs an act like this - he has Julis's handkerchief, and wants to return it.
'''You'd Expect''': Him to find out what room she is in, and then take the elevator or stairs up to her room, knock on the door, and return it in person, introducing himself along the way.
'''Or''': Place a "found item" ad on a billboard or the school newspaper. Surely one of Julis's friends would eventually notice, if Julis didn't notice herself.

** Any scene involving Flora can come off as this, due to the fact that she sounds like she has a cold.

** The fact that Ayato freaks out as he did when Claudia seems to outright offer to sleep with him it just hilariously bad. It's like the writer's way of ensure the harem keeps going!

* WhatAnIdiot: After being attacked by an assassin during her duel with Ayato in the first episode, Julis never bothers to do anything about it. However it's a few episodes later that the true idiocy comes into play as after getting attacked a second time, she refuses to have protection on campus. It makes no sense why and it's completely boneheaded of her to do so.

* IronWoobie: Kirin, ''Kirin'', '''Kirin'''. Her father goes to jail, she goes to live with her {{Jerkass}} uncle, who doesn't care about her and only wants her to increase his political influence, and that doesn't stop her from enjoying life with her friends.

** The first episode has students forming to watch the fight between Ayato and Julis except that they're m all [[OffModel horribly animated]] and in [[ConspicuousCG incredibly]] [[SpecialEffectsFailure obvious CGI]]. It's just outright hilariously bad.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: If online forums are any indication, Saya and Kirin are probably the most popular characters in the series even to people who hated the show in general. This is mainly due to them having a very interesting relationship over the course of the show.

** The first episode has students forming to watch the fight between Ayato and Julis except that they're m all [[OffModel horribly animated]] and in [[ConspicuousCG incredibly [[SpecialEffectsFailure obvious CGI]]. It's just outright hilariously bad.

* EssembleDarkhorse: If online forums are any indication, Saya and Kirin are probably the most popular characters in the series even to people who hated the show in general. This is mainly due to them having a very interesting relationship over the course of the show.

* EssembledDarkhorse: If online forums are any indication, Saya and Kirin are probably the most popular characters in the series even to people who hated the show in general. This is mainly due to them having a very interesting relationship over the course of the show.