Line #33 YMMV/Nisekoi


1	* {{Adorkable}}:
2	** Kosaki is often bashful and easily embarrassed, especially around Raku.
3	** Tsugumi's very adorable whenever she's embarrassed too.
4	** Chitoge herself ends up like this after realizing she has feelings for Raku.
5	* ArcFatigue:
6	** The main plot surrounding the childhood proposal mystery. Despite having a rather engaging beginning that had a plethora of fans invested, only a few details overall about it were disclosed since then. That being said, the chapters that actually focus on childhood proposal are generally considered the best ones. The problem is that for each main story chapter there's at least five one shot chapters that serve little purpose beyond drawing out the manga. What's more is that even the characters themselves begun to not even care, especially when it was starting to seem like Raku said it to more than one person. Whenever anyone mentions it now it tends to be about how much it doesn't matter. The matter is ''finally'' revealed in Chapter 221 to be [[spoiler: Onodera much to everyone's non-surprise]], after '''two-hundred and twenty''' chapters of beating around the bush. It's quite telling that said reveal is shown in the anime's ''first episode''.
7	** Marika's ArrangedMarriage arc that lasted from chapters 180 to 195 had some people getting impatient to have it come to an end. The backlash is usually from the folk who aren't Marika fans that want the spotlight on somebody else, and are bewildered as to why one of Nisekoi's longer story arcs was given to such a character.
8	* AssPull: While at the beach, Raku finds himself alone with Kosaki, who carelessly blurts out a desire to kiss him. She panics over letting her feelings slip out.. only to find Raku randomly ''dozing off'' in the middle of his long-desired alone time with her, despite showing no signs of drowsiness before.
9	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The anime's first two opening songs "[[https://youtube.com/watch?v=bbA-Ij32VjA Click]]" and "[[https://youtube.com/watch?v=NKhqcSlK3qI Step]]" (both performed by Music/{{Claris}}) have catchy, upbeat tunes to set the audiences' mood before the show begins.
10	* BaseBreakingCharacter:
11	** While Kosaki is popular with the Japanese fandom due to her YamatoNadeshiko traits, topping character polls of the series, she is a much more divisive figure in Western fandom. In the latter fandom she's either "weak and boring" or "the only truly nice girl in the harem," with little middle ground.
12	** Chitoge's popularity among the fans of the series is split between those who love her for being a compelling heroine with great character development during the manga's run, and those who hate her and see her as a borderline [[TheScrappy scrappy]] whose violent {{tsundere}} traits (''especially'' at the beginning) with regards to Raku rubbed people off the wrong way. Her actions near the end of manga (see BrokenBase below) split the fandom over her character even ''further''.
13	** Raku is either liked for being one of the few unique harem protagonists among its contemporaries or is loathed for being a supremely dense idiot whose obliviousness towards the other girls' feelings border over insensitivity.
14	* BrokenBase:
15	** Creator/StudioShaft of all companies getting the rights to making the anime adaptation has caused a major split in the fandom. You're either on the side that enjoys the unique ''quirks'' they bring to the Rom-Com genre, or you're on the side that thinks SHAFT's style is just too much of an out-of-place distraction to fuse with this kind of story. The latter opinion only intensified with each Blu-Ray episode release, where the studio added all sorts of color filters to scenes that, in the original TV airing, looked ''completely normal'', leaving watchers to wonder what the hell was the production ''thinking''.
16	** [[spoiler: Chitoge running off to America]]. While you have everyone thinking this an incredibly bold move on her part, there were some fans who considered the action selfless and [[spoiler: respectfully bowing out after hearing that Kosaki liked Raku so that her friends [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy can get together]] and she doesn't have to break Kosaki's heart by getting with him]], while others derided her for [[spoiler: running away from her feelings in a ''big'' way and ultimately suffering no punishment or [[EasilyForgiven calling out for it]], especially given that she ran off without telling anybody and they'd been looking everywhere for her for ''months''. Some predict that despite this she's [[ForegoneConclusion going to get Raku anyway]] and Kosaki would have to deal with the emotional baggage of ''that''.]] Lo and behold, this is what happens in [[spoiler: Chapter 227.]]
17	** The series itself has some debate over those who are okay with its cliche plots and those who aren't. The positive fans cite the series as one that feels refreshing and straightforward after most harem manga try to shake the genre up or spin certain tropes on their head. The negative ones meanwhile cite that same straightforwardness as boring and mention that the amount of time the manga takes to get to those cliched plot points makes it a chore to read.
18	** The fans' reception to the manga's conclusion [[spoiler: (Raku choosing Chitoge over the other girls, especially Onodera, and their WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue)]] is...divisive so to speak.
19	* CaptainObviousReveal: Many, many people had guessed from the beginning that the promise girl was [[spoiler:Onodera. Guess who it turned out to be?]]
20	* ClicheStorm: Critics have accused the plot of doing little to innovate itself within the Harem genre.
21	* EndingFatigue: While the plot is largely derided for being dull, after [[spoiler: Marika is PutOnTheBus]] and [[spoiler: Raku has a LoveEpiphany towards Chitoge]] a scant few chapters later, many fans see little reason to keep the series going. Instead the series goes on, determined to have Raku reject ''everyone else'' before the story is over.
22	* EnsembleDarkHorse:
23	** Side characters Ruri and Shuu are quite popular. [[note]]They both often score high in official and unofficial popularity polls. In the official chapter popularity poll results in Chapter 164, 3rd place was Chapter 115 (a Ruri-centered chapter with a prominent role by Shuu) and 6th place was Chapter 85 (a Shuu-centered chapter).[[/note]]
24	** Out of Raku's Harem candidates, Marika ''always'' scores 1st in Popularity Polls. Marika naturally gloats about it to Chitoge's face whenever it happens. This however can be largely blamed on a FandomVIP nicknamed "Y-san", who infamously purchased ''800 copies'' of Weekly Shounen Jump just he could supply votes for Marika and is known for voting in the online polls literally thousands of times.
25	** Haru Onodera. Introduced late in the series, people regarded her as TheScrappy. After a series of CharacterDevelopment, she becomes a fan favorite, despite her limited appearances.
26	* FanficFuel:
27	** The revelation that the picture book [[spoiler: has four distinct endings]] gave rise to some fans who'd like to see what would happen if Raku had the same amount of options to take by the story's end.
28	** [[spoiler: The next generation.]] Even people who weren't particularly happy about the ending of the manga were curious about what kind of antics [[spoiler: Sasa and Haku]] would be getting into and what the other [[spoiler: offspring]] would look like, with some even hoping for [[spoiler: a ''reverse'' harem with Sasa at the center]].
29	* FanNickname:
30	** "Nisekoimonogatari" for the series. It ''was'' adapted by SHAFT after all.
31	** Onodera's inability to [[CannotSpitItOut spit it out]] and take charge has earned her the derogatory nickname of "Onodoormat". Similarly, among fans who aren't crazy about Chitoge or her personality, she's earned the moniker of "Shitoge".
32	** "Imoutodera" for Haru.
33	* HarsherInHindsight: A lot of the impressions as to the manga's ending draw multiple parallels with ''Manga/TheWorldGodOnlyKnows'' which ended nearly two years prior, to clarify: [[spoiler:both series had a severe case of EndingFatigue which bored off some fans; the male leads on both series end up choosing a girl who is not the PatientChildhoodLoveInterest;[[labelnote:Clarification]]While Chitoge also qualifies as Raku's Childhood love interest, Kosaki is the closest one both as to the description of the trope, and as parallel to her counterpart in [=TWGOK=], Tenri Ayukawa.[[/labelnote]] and three of the main love interests on both series share [[Creator/NaoTouyama common]] [[Creator/KanaHanazawa voice]] [[Creator/KanaAsumi actresses]]. Which is all the more gut-wrenching when one realizes that both Kosaki and Shiori share the same seiyuu.]]
34	* HollywoodHomely: People sometimes wonder how someone who looks like Raku could end up with girls like Chitoge. This trope is zig-zagged though, since it's revealed he was actually quite popular amongst the girls in middle school.
35	* IKnewIt:
36	** A lot of people called it that Marika [[spoiler:suffers from some kind of sickness]].
37	** Fans had been predicting Onodera [[spoiler: being the promise girl]] since day one.
38	** [[spoiler: Guess who is already in the list of [[MemeticMutation "Blonde Hair Girls Always Win" cliche]] in the final chapters?]]
39	* JustHereForGodzilla: As the series went on, it became clear to a lot of readers that the ChildhoodMarriagePromise StoryArc was just an ExcusePlot to establish a setting for current-time {{Harem}} shenanigans, but what keeps people coming back are the crazy, and absolutely hilarious, facial expressions seen amongst the characters. In addition, as described in FanPreferredCouple, a good chunk of readers continue to follow the series just to see how the Shuu/Ruri pairing plays out.
40	* [[HoYay Les Yay]]:
41	** Kosaki and Chitoge have a little bit during their bonding moment in [[InnocentInnuendo chapter 69]].
42	*** When Raku and Chitoge are locked in a room together early on in the series, Chitoge brings up Kosaki and talks about how sweet, cute, and wonderful she finds her and feels she "could get real tight with that girl". When Raku then starts gushing about Kosaki himself, Chitoge's response is to say that he "gets her" and that she agrees that Kosaki is "a total Girl's Girl", sparkles in her eyes as she says all this. A little bit later, Kosaki herself comes to look at Chitoge fondly and internally fawn over how charming and friendly she finds her so this goes both ways.
43	*** If you've listened to [[RealityHasNoSubtitles (and managed to understand)]] the DramaCD included with Kosaki's ''Recover Decoration'' single, then you'll get to hear Chitoge practically ''gush'' over how cute [[EvenTheGirlsWantHer Kosaki]] was being when she was asked to vocally act out line requests from fans of Chitoge's radio show. Multiple times. You can even hear Chitoge breathing '''''[[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything hard]]''''' in excitement when Kosaki tried out the first one.
44	** There's also some between Chitoge and Marika. The most blatant instance of this was the incident at the public bathhouse, where the two of them, while totally nude beneath the towels wrapped around them, sit next to each other at the sauna in competition to see which of them could endure the heat the longest, which ultimately results in them both passing out. Again, right next to each other and with nothing but towels on.
45	** Paula and Seishirou have a bit as well, though mainly [[{{Yandere}} Paula]]. A drunk Seishirou even kisses Paula in chapter 173 after commenting that she has soft looking lips, the same thing she said to Raku a few moments before.
46	*** Seishirou actually has a lot of this directed to her, [[EvenTheGirlsWantHer she's very popular with her female classmates]], [[PseudoRomanticFriendship Her and Chitoge's close friendship can delve into this,]] and then there is the time she accidentally brought a love potion to school which caused Paula, Chitoge, and even Onodera to fall in love with her.
47	** Marika's friend Mikage is described as being a "dirty old man" and is possibly an outright lesbian and it's hinted that the person she likes is Marika, though she says she's saving herself for Creator/JohnnyDepp.
48	** Haru's friend Fuu-Chan has some strong feelings for Haru. There is also Haru's slight obsession with becoming friends with Paula.
49	*** An extra has Fuu-chan taking pictures of Haru in exceedingly sexy poses, after they're done Haru asks Fuu-chan if she's okay because her [[NoseBleed nose is bleeding]], basically confirming her being gay for Haru.
50	** Haru is just a LesYay magnet. In addition to Fuu-chan and Paula above, Chapter 201 introduces her kouhai, Ricchan. The first thing Ricchan did after greeting her? Attempt a lover's kiss.
51	* MemeticLoser: At least on some Western ImageBoards, Onodera quickly became one in the manga's final stages due to her insecurity, her backing out on telling Raku how she ''really'' feels [[spoiler: even after Chapter 225]], and her place in the ending [[spoiler: shown without a full panel, being single and [[RomanticRunnerUp baking a cake for Raku and Chitoge's wedding]]. Ignoring that she got over it way before said wedding and even marries by the DistantFinale, Kosaki is often not seen in a flattering light as a heroine. It's gotten to the point where "baking the cake" has become (in the western sphere) a common euphemism for the second most important girl not getting with the main character/supporting the winning couple.]]
52	* MoralEventHorizon: Claude placing a listening device on Chitoge to listen to her every conversation and then locking Chitoge in an isolated room with no phone reception after listening to her plans of running away from home and stay at Raku's, cutting her off from any and all contact with her friends and not just Raku until they leave to America is definitely his ''biggest'' dick move in the entire series.
53	** [[spoiler: Claude then tops that by ''actually pointing a gun at Raku'' to prevent him from meeting Chitoge in chapter 218 just because of his jealousy.]]
54	* OneTrueThreesome:
55	** Chitoge/Raku/Tsugumi is a rather popular threesome. Raku/Chitoge is highly considered to come out as the primary romance, but because Tsugumi has shown feelings for Raku, and also happens to be a longtime friend to Chitoge, she is often seen as a mistress for the ''both'' of them.
56	** Alternatively, Chitoge/Raku/Kosaki as an easy solution for the primary LoveTriangle.
57	* {{Padding}}: From the introduction of Haru until Marika's long subplot with her mother is a very long stretch of chapters that only rarely addresses the main plot. The entire stretch of padding took well over a year to get through, and even then the final chapters ''still'' get padded out in places and we end up with EndingFatigue.
58	* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap: Haru was initially highly unpopular for her unfair attitude and unpleasant behavior, including going so far as to threaten to break Raku's pendant if he turned out to be the 'prince' that helped her earlier. However, as she interacted with him more she mellowed out considerably and even became more popular than her sister with some fans, who believe that she has more in common with Raku and is just all around more interesting.
59	* RetroactiveRecognition: The movie adaptation has an actor named Yuki Inoue portraying one of the extras. He would later on get his BreakoutRole as Hiroyuki Kudo in the 2019 {{tokusatsu}} ''Series/UltramanTaiga''.
60	* TheScrappy:
61	** Haru, Onodera's little sister, did not leave a good impression on readers shortly after her introduction for almost the exact same flaws people disliked about Chitoge early on...only ''much'' worse. She was since then RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap, see above.
62	** Claude can get this reaction from some for his overprotectiveness towards Chitoge after it stopped being a source of comedy fuel and started getting too creepy, or to some it always was creepy and only got worse. Raku's Yakuza group are at best misguided in their good intentions or being overbearing with it, but Claude is actively malicious and inconsiderate, making him the series' HateSink for many.
63	* ShipToShipCombat: As expected of a harem show with multiple girls, viewers are split on who they'd want Raku to end up with. The crowning example is with either Chitoge or Kosaki, which then leads to...
64	** [=OT3=] After Chitoge and Kosaki started becoming close, and the reveal that they used to be friends as kids, shipping both of them with Raku has started to become popular.
65	** Another [=OT3=] candidate with Raku is Chitoge and Tsugumi to which people will pair off Raku and Chitoge, but then have Tsugumi at the side as their loyal mistress.
66	* ThemePairing: The FanPreferredCouple Shuu/Ruri pairs two observant, savvy bespectacled characters who are each best friends with a member of the main harem and are frequently involved with it without romantic involvement with those in it. This is even {{invoked\|trope}} with them being referred to as "glasses buddies." Becomes an OfficialCouple toward the end of the series.
67	* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: You'd be surprised as to how many people thought the plot from the one-shot chapters were better than the actual overall manga. There are also those who were interested in the premise to start with but feel it's potential got wasted through ArcFatigue.
68	** Raku and Chitoge being the children of gangsters with warring gangs is one of the more unique angles of the harem romance set-up, as they have to pretend to be a couple in order to keep their fathers' respective gangs at peace with each other rather than risk a gang war that could destroy the whole town. Yet the two lead characters' family lives, how their fathers' line of work has effected them growing up, and what effect the Yakuza and Mafia gangs might have on the community around them, as well as the threat they could pose should Raku and Chitoge mess up their fake relationship, goes largely unexplored. [[DownplayedTrope The second OVA does address this somewhat]]: because Raku and Chitoge choose to eat at a restaurant where Marika is the waitress, ''all three of their groups'' decide to eat at that same restaurant. Raku's Yazuka clan, Chitoge's Beehive Gang, and Marika's special forces squad (who work for her father, the police commissioner) are ''this close'' to shooting each other just from sheer, unchained, [[TranquilFury barely-restrained]] hatred. Raku and Chitoge, who by this point really are catching feelings for each other, downright ''struggle'' to keep them all from trying to kill each other, and it's the first time the anime truly shows just how precarious Chitoge and Raku's situation really is. The only reason things didn't escalate into a gunfight was because Marika [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness dropped her polite facade]] and [[UnstoppableRage completely lost her shit]] before [[OneManArmy physically throwing every single cop, gangster, and Yakuza out the door of her restaurant]]. Her being the daughter of the police commissioner is literally the only reason she could get away with that.
69	* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic:
70	** Chitoge after her spat with Raku at the beach. It's a bit hard to feel sorry for her after Raku insinuates that a real relationship probably wouldn't work out with such a violent {{Tsundere}}, especially after she proclaims to hate him about 10 times despite his admission that he doesn't dislike her as much as he used to. She then completely shuns him and wants to cut off their staged relationship, even claiming not to care about the potential conflict between their families, only to slap Raku in the face when he gets fed up with her and actually agrees to cutting it off like she just said she wanted. Chitoge's position only gets more sympathetic in retrospect when we learn more about her issues, as then it's clear that she felt here like Raku was citing all the things Chitoge already hates about herself and saying that he hates them about her too and that such qualities would make it impossible for a real relationship with her to ever work out. But her following response was still disproportionate to Raku's actions, yet the onus is put on Raku to realize that his completely legitimate grievances with her abrasiveness "hurt her feelings", while Chitoge's remorse for her much more extreme behavior only comes much later.
71	** Raku fell into this late into the manga, as the more obvious the main girls' feelings for him, ''especially'' Onodera's, became on a surface level yet went totally unnoticed by Raku, the more it seemed like Raku was not just ObliviousToLove but oblivious altogether, inconsiderate, and unable to read the feelings of others around him due to being self-absorbed, internalizing what ''he'' feels and thinks about any given circumstances or people but never giving a thought to how his friends and possible Love Interests might feel and think, even when said friends and Love Interests' outward behaviors made it all too obvious and should've clued him in.
72	* ValuesDissonance: To western viewers it can seem very strange that Kyouko-sensei would [[QuittingToGetMarried quit her job just because she was getting married]], or that during the career counseling in chapter 122 marriage would be seen as an alternative to a career instead of a separate issue. While it is increasingly uncommon for a woman to quit her job to get married in western countries, in Japan and other eastern countries it's common enough to be expected.
73	* {{Woolseyism}}: Marika's [[UsefulNotes/JapaneseDialects native dialect]] (Tosa dialect in the manga, Fukuoka dialect in the anime) is translated into English as a southern-US accent. All of these accents have associations with a lack of sophistication, which is meant to contrast her typically [[FormalCharactersUseKeigo formal and refined speech patterns]], which don't translate well.
74	* WTHCostumingDepartment: The overly long ties that are part of the girls' uniform were likely meant to make the uniform stand out, but they just end up looking more impractical than anything (especially since they're held in place with a staple to keep from getting in the way, and since the ties are already so long it just makes it look even ''more'' impractical).

Context YMMV / Nisekoi