| 1 | * 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 -- and not by the rebellion, but by a group of angry peasants.]] |
| 2 | * EnsembleDarkhorse: Ichimatsu of Hida who is a 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. |
| 3 | * FridgeBrilliance: Asagi's health. He was and is a sickly kid. [[spoiler: Later we learn that he's (possibly) the son of Ginko and her father Ukon. The genetic problems resulting from incest caused him to be sickly.]] |
| 4 | * HoYay: |
| 5 | ** 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. |
| 6 | ** [[{{Bishonen}} Asagi]] has his moments. He tends to have NoSenseOfPersonalSpace and gets handsy with men and women. |
| 7 | ** The friendship between [[HeterosexualLifePartners Nachi and Hijiri]] offers some cute scenes. |
| 8 | * MoralEventHorizon: Ukon retroactively crosses this when [[spoiler: he kills Ginko's husband and drunkenly 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... |
| 9 | * 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 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.]] |
| 10 | %%* {{Squick}}: You ''do not'' want to know [[spoiler: Ginko and Asagi's past.]] |
| 11 | %%* TheWoobie: [[spoiler: Although YMMV, Asagi.]] Poor guy was so confused the whole time. There's also Sakaki. |
| 12 | * TheUnreveal: We never really know whether Asagi [[spoiler: is really Ginko's child with her father or just a replacement for said child when they died at birth]]. Lampshaded by Asagi himself. |
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