History YMMV / TheLuciferAndBiscuitHammer

* FanficFuel: [[spoiler:The previous loops. Animus and Anima have been playing their game for hundreds of years and the Ring Knights have pre-existing relationships with one another, neither is touched upon in-story. Even the circumstances of the previous Owl Knight are given a gloss over, giving fans plenty of opportunities to expand on their fights. Since each version of the Battle also featured different human Knights, it's also easy to write entirely new casts and put them in a random loop. Of course, every previous loop would be DoomedByCanon.]]

* FanficFuel: [[spoiler:The previous loops]]. While we're aware of Animus and Anima playing their game for hundreds of years, and we see the Ring Knights have pre-existing relationships with one another, neither points are touched upon in story. Even the circumstances of the previous Owl Knight are given a gloss over, giving fans plenty of opportunities to expand on their fights. [[spoiler:Given that each version of the Battle also features different human Knights, it's also easy to write entirely new casts and put them in a random loop.]]

** Good morning. I am the turtle knight Ron Yue. Right now, the planet is facing a crisis.
** ADVENTURE!

* TaintedByThePreview: Those who were looking forward to the anime adaptation were rather underwhelmed by its trailer, which showed very LimitedAnimation and gave everything a strange brown tint. This was unfortunately still the case in the first episode and still persists as of episode 6.

* FridgeBrilliance: A minor example at the beginning -- Yuuhi and Noi even fight over a lizard's "retreat gimmick", but at the start all Yuuhi could do in a fight was ''use his powers to run away''.
** The Master, Inachika Akatani, lost his precognition and other powers ''because'' he drew upon the akashic records - [[spoiler: the Mage has literally destroyed the future in order to travel back in time.]]
** Yuuhi's developed domain control [[spoiler: Babylon enhances his movements while miring his opponents. Since it only enhances what he already has, it]] requires him to have a strong baseline in skill, strength, and an agile mind to get the most use of it. [[spoiler: Skill, he inherits from Hangetsu. The rest of it clicks into place when he mentions digging all those trap holes helps him build strength and think.]] In short, he conducts his training arc right under everyone's noses. Even scarier when you realize [[spoiler: the slowing property of Babylon mirrors the pitfalls of his traps. The airspace around him effectively means he's fighting in favorable terrain wherever he goes.]] Batman would be proud.
** [[spoiler:The Biscuit Hammer and the Blues Drive Monster are so patently ridiculous because they were made by people whose childhoods were brutally cut short by their own actions. They frame their war as a ''game'' and make weapons with absurd appearances and silly names because they never properly grew up, mentally.]] Quite tragic upon realization.

* TooCoolToLive: [[spoiler: Hangetsu and The Master.]] Even to the end of the story, [[spoiler:Hangetsu]] remained one of the most popular male characters despite being gone for the majority of the series.

* TaintedByThePreview: Those who were looking forward to the anime adaptation were rather underwhelmed by its trailer, which showed very LimitedAnimation and gave everything a strange brown tint. This was unfortunately still the case in the first episode.

* AntiClimaxBoss: [[spoiler: The 12th Golem, despite looking the most impressive of all of them]] goes down in a few hits, with little effort.
** Justified, the knights trained just to end it in a few shots [[spoiler: [[OurGiantsAreBigger and considering how big it was]]]], it could only be done that way.

* FridgeBrilliance: A minor example at the beginning - Yuuhi and Noi even fight over a lizard's "retreat gimmick", but at the start all Yuuhi could do in a fight, was ''use his powers to run away''.

** Yuuhi's developed domain control [[spoiler: Babylon, enhances his movements while miring his opponents. Since it only enhances what he already has,]] it requires him to have a strong baseline in skill, strength, and an agile mind to get the most use of it. [[spoiler: Skill, he inherits from Hangetsu. The rest of it clicks into place when he mentions digging all those trap holes helps him build strength and think.]] In short, he conducts his training arc right under everyone's noses. Even scarier when you realize [[spoiler: the slowing property of Babylon mirrors the pitfalls of his traps. The airspace around him effectively means he's fighting in favorable terrain wherever he goes.]] Batman would be proud.
** The Biscuit Hammer and [[spoiler:the Blues Drive Monster are so patently ridiculous because they were made by people whose childhoods were brutally cut short by their own actions. They frame their war as a ''game'' and make weapons with absurd appearances and silly names because they never properly grew up, mentally.]] Quite tragic upon realization.

* FridgeBrilliance:A minor example at the beginning - Yuuhi and Noi even fight over a lizard's "retreat gimmick", but at the start all Yuuhi could do in a fight, was ''use his powers to run away''.

* FanficFuel: The previous battles. While we're aware of Animus and Anima playing their game for hundreds of years, and we see the Ring Knights have pre-existing relationships with one another, neither points are touched upon in story. Even the circumstances of the previous Owl Knight are given a gloss over, giving fans plenty of opportunities to expand on their fights.

* FridgeBrilliance - A minor example at the beginning - Yuuhi and Noi even fight over a lizard's "retreat gimmick", but at the start all Yuuhi could do in a fight, was ''use his powers to run away''.

* MemeticMutation -

* TooCoolToLive: [[spoiler: Hangetsu and The Master.]]

* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome -[[Awesome/TheLuciferAndBiscuitHammer And to complete the trifecta...]]
* NeverLiveItDown - TheOjou-esque Snake Knight fears she'll never marry now that Anima's sudden teleportations have revealed her darkest secret: [[spoiler: She's a closet {{Cosplay}} otaku!]] Naturally, no one else cares or notices.
* TooCoolToLive - [[spoiler: Hangetsu and The Master.]]

* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: Also A LOT. Often crosses over with SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome.
** Unicorn.
** Yayoi accidentally overkilling Shimaki's 7th golem during training is hard to forget.
** The Beast Knights' faces when they find out about the [[spoiler:Blues Dive Monster]].
** [[BrickJoke "Give me back my 5000 yen!"]]
** Mikazuki's ecstatic reaction to the [[spoiler:Blues Drive Monster.]]
* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments - When this series goes sweet it's hard to resist.
** Hisame remembering the moment she decided to do her best for Sami.
** Hanako's flashback monologue of her relationship with Tarou.
** The last page of Chapter [[spoiler:62,]] when [[spoiler:Samidare admits that she loves Yuuhi more than she does the Earth (this makes a '''lot''' of sense in context).]]
** Chapter 63. ''All'' of it.

* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome - A LOT. And there's at least one for each of main characters.
** Yuuhi's - One word, [[spoiler:Babylon]].
** Hanako's - [[spoiler:Soloing the 9th]]
** Masked Hangetsu's - Tossing around armed gangsters while wearing a paper bag over his head.
** Shimaki's - [[spoiler:Summoning golems 9,10 and 11 in a CurbStompBattle on Maimakterion]]
** [[spoiler:All of which are topped by Yuuhi's fight against two of the Mythical Beast knights and another beast knight at the same time. [[CurbStompBattle He absolutely dominates]].]]
*** [[spoiler:Even better when he reveals his true intentions to fight them. Because he´s the [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou the only one allowed to stop]] his beloved [[CuteBruiser Sami]] [[HeelFaceTurn destroying the world!]] ]]
** One of the most out-of-left-field and awesome reveals ''ever'':
--> [[spoiler:'''Anima:''' Do you see it? The Anti-Biscuit Hammer Celestial Body Dwarf Counter Weapon. '''Blues. Drive. Monster.''']]
** In chapter 58 [[spoiler:Samidare, after the Blues Drive Monster is destroyed, psychically takes over the debris and makes a humongous version of herself and fires the ultimate falcon punch, obliterating the biscuit hammer.]]
** For the series itself, the entirety of the final battle with Animus. And within that [[spoiler: the Beast Knights actually beating Animus on their own with minimal help from Samidare]].

** Justified, the knights trained just to end it in a few shots [[spoiler: [[OurGiantsAreBigger and considering how big it was]]]], it could only be done that way

* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments - Also A LOT. Often crosses over with SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome.

** The last page of Chapter [[spoiler:62,]] when [[spoiler:Samidare admits that she loves Yuuhi more than she does the Earth (this makes a '''lot''' of sense in context).]] If this doesn't bring a tear to your eye, then you have no soul...

* SugarWiki/NeedsMoreLove: Come on! Read the comic and tell me it isn't a sin that it hasn't even ever been on the table for animation.

SugarWiki/NeedsMoreLove: Come on! Read the comic and tell me it isn't a sin that it hasn't even ever been on the table for animation.

* AndTheFandomRejoiced: A few years after its conclusion and the cruelties of fate that resulted in an animated adaptation getting sidelined, in late 2013 English-speaking fans got the very happy news that Seven Seas has officially licensed the series, with the first volume (of an omnibus edition) due out in late 2014.

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome - A LOT. And there's at least one for each of main characters.
** Yuuhi's - One word, [[spoiler:Babylon]].
** Hanako's - [[spoiler:Soloing the 9th]]
** Masked Hangetsu's - Tossing around armed gangsters while wearing a paper bag over his head.
** Shimaki's - [[spoiler:Summoning golems 9,10 and 11 in a CurbStompBattle on Maimakterion]]
** [[spoiler:All of which are topped by Yuuhi's fight against two of the Mythical Beast knights and another beast knight at the same time. [[CurbStompBattle He absolutely dominates]].]]
*** [[spoiler:Even better when he reveals his true intentions to fight them. Because he´s the [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou the only one allowed to stop]] his beloved [[CuteBruiser Sami]] [[HeelFaceTurn destroying the world!]] ]]
** One of the most out-of-left-field and awesome reveals ''ever'':
--> [[spoiler:'''Anima:''' Do you see it? The Anti-Biscuit Hammer Celestial Body Dwarf Counter Weapon. '''Blues. Drive. Monster.''']]
** In chapter 58 [[spoiler:Samidare, after the Blues Drive Monster is destroyed, psychically takes over the debris and makes a humongous version of herself and fires the ultimate falcon punch, obliterating the biscuit hammer.]]
** For the series itself, the entirety of the final battle with Animus. And within that [[spoiler: the Beast Knights actually beating Animus on their own with minimal help from Samidare]].
* CrowningMomentOfFunny - Also A LOT. Often crosses over with CrowningMomentOfAwesome.
** Unicorn.
** Yayoi accidentally overkilling Shimaki's 7th golem during training is hard to forget.
** The Beast Knights' faces when they find out about the [[spoiler:Blues Dive Monster]].
** [[BrickJoke "Give me back my 5000 yen!"]]
** Mikazuki's ecstatic reaction to the [[spoiler:Blues Drive Monster.]]
* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming - When this series goes sweet it's hard to resist.
** Hisame remembering the moment she decided to do her best for Sami.
** Hanako's flashback monologue of her relationship with Tarou.
** The last page of Chapter [[spoiler:62,]] when [[spoiler:Samidare admits that she loves Yuuhi more than she does the Earth (this makes a '''lot''' of sense in context).]] If this doesn't bring a tear to your eye, then you have no soul...
** Chapter 63. ''All'' of it.

** The Biscuit Hammer and [[spoiler:the Blues Drive Monster are so patently ridiculous because they were made by people whose childhoods were brutally cut short by their own actions. They frame their war as a ''game'' and make weapons with absurd appearances and silly names because they never properly grew up, mentally.]] Quite tragic upon realization.

* NeedsMoreLove - Terribly so. This is ''the'' poster-boy for underrated manga. In Japan, it appeared in the same magazine as popular franchises like ''Manga/{{Trigun}}'', ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'', and ''Manga/ExcelSaga''. This had the effect of causing it to be overshadowed for most of its run. But on the other hand, it survived for its entire planned five-year storyline despite such stiff competition.

* NeverLiveItDown - TheOjou-esque Snake Knight fears she'll never marry now that Anima's sudden teleportations have revealed her darkest secret: [[spoiler: She's a closet CosPlay otaku!]] Naturally, no one else cares or notices.

* AlasPoorVillain - [[spoiler:Maimakterion's]] death. It's hard not to feel sorry when it says its last word to its only friend was "Goodbye".

* AndTheFandomRejoiced: When the series got an anime.

* TearJerker
** [[http://www.mangareader.net/732-50633-15/the-lucifer-and-biscuit-hammer/chapter-47.html The crying owl.]]
** [[spoiler:Tarou's]] death. After they were both speared through the chest by the ninth golem, the last thing he does is to tell [[spoiler:Hanako]] that he loves her, then uses his wish to save her life.
** Hanako finally [[http://www.mangareader.net/732-48076-21/the-lucifer-and-biscuit-hammer/chapter-41.html letting out]] [[http://www.mangareader.net/732-48076-25/the-lucifer-and-biscuit-hammer/chapter-41.html her]] [[http://www.mangareader.net/732-48076-26/the-lucifer-and-biscuit-hammer/chapter-41.html emotions]].
** Many other times, too. For example, [[spoiler: Hangetsu's death, the Master's death and the entire second battle with the 9th (when all of the Beast Knights wore funeral attire, as seen in the pages above) to name but a few.]]

* NeedsMoreLove - Terribly so. This is ''the'' poster-boy for underrated manga. In Japan, it appeared in the same magazine as popular franchises like ''Manga/{{Trigun}}'', ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'', and ''Anime/ExcelSaga''. This had the effect of causing it to be overshadowed for most of its run. But on the other hand, it survived for its entire planned five-year storyline despite such stiff competition.

** Chapter 63. ''All'' of it.