History YMMV / AkashicRecordsOfBastardMagicInstructor

* LesYay: In Episode 1, [[SkinshipGrope Sisti fondles Lumia]], and comments on how the latter has beautiful skin and is developing a bustier figure while sniffing her at the same time. Later, they often share quite ambiguous moments, showing a rather close relationship as adoptive sisters and best friends.

* TaintedByThePreview: Even before the release, the show became a big target for ridicule because of its alleged ClicheStorm, which includes many ranobe stamps about magical academies, underrated main character and arrogant SpoiledBrat {{Tsundere}} as a central love interest. However, afterwards many were surprised by how cute and funnily the title played on these tropes.

* ShockingMoments: Episode 8, where past merry carelessness is suddenly replaced by [[spoiler: the "murder" of Glenn, the blood and the revival of corpses with the help of necromancy.]]

* CompleteMonster: Former Imperial Court Mage Guard [[EvilCounterpart Jatice Lowfan]] was stripped of his position for [[TheAggressiveDrugDealer using Angel's Dust]]--a drug which horrifically turned its user into an easily controlled, zombie-like creature--to control innocents into assassinating rivals in the Imperial Court Corps and nobles. Discovered by Glenn Radars, Jatice has his puppets murder Glenn's only friend out of spite, which [[KickTheDog he later taunts him about]]. Murdering a man, Jatice takes his identity and coerces Glenn's student Sistine into marrying him, while continuing to taunt Glenn.

* HolyShitQuotient: Episode 8, where past merry carelessness is suddenly replaced by [[spoiler: the "murder" of Glenn, the blood and the revival of corpses with the help of necromancy.]]

* ValuesDissonance: It may be difficult for a Western audience to understand why Sisti and others perceive her wedding as a rejection of her life goals and career, while in Japan it is believed that married women should not work, because, according to the traditional view, the husband must earn enough to his wife did not need to work and she could devote herself to the family.

* CounterpartComparison:
** With ''Manga/GreatTeacherOnizuka'', with which ''Akashic Records'' shares a common plot "a young and idealistic teacher, who possesses combat skills, becomes a teacher in high school, where she solves the problems of student losers". In addition, both the main characters, Onizuka and Glenn, are [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold outwardly infantile, lazy and stupid young guys]] who, however, in a critical situation always show their HiddenDepths and come to the aid of their students. At the same time, the GTO focuses more on the realism of situations and youth psychology, while Glenn's adventures are more fabulous.
** Weak in the "real" magic CombatPragmatist and the government's former ChildSoldier falls into the magical school by the patronage of his HotWitch stepmother, where he proves his combat merits to students and attacking terrorists. At the same time, one of his central LoveInterest, being hidden successor of the royal family, also learns in this school and was saved by him 2-3 years ago. Moreover, both series have DesignerBaby heroines with BigBrotherWorship. Are we sure this isn't ''LightNovel/TheIrregularAtMagicHighSchool''?

** Ren Gladars, Glenn's genderbent form is popular enough to reach tenth place in the popularity poll despite only barely in volume 8 and the fact she was only fully featured in that volume since Glenn changed halfway through that volume.

** Sera, "The Empress", is a very popular character despite only appearing in flashbacks and not having any major role in the main light novel volumes. She was popular enough to reach [[http://www.fujimishobo.co.jp/sp/201411rokudenashi/sousenkyo/ third place in the popularity poll]]. For comparison she beat other major characters including Glenn, Re=L, Celica, Albert and Eve.

* {{Narm}}: The final episode is full of this.
** It starts off with Glenn's synchronized running with Sisti and her silly wedding hairstyle and ends with a sharp change of genre to a movie about zombies.
** From the same episode comes an even more egregious example. Sisti's CombinationAttack with Glenn was meant to be a SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome but is more likely to confuse the viewer about how the resident FauxActionGirl is suddenly able to fight equally with someone who should logically be many times above her level.

%% In-universe examples for YMMV tropes go in the main page (or character page if it's character-specific, and that character has their own folder).

** From the same episode comes an even more egregious example. Sisti's CombinationAttack with Glenn was meant to be a CrowningMomentOfAwesome but is more likely to confuse the viewer about how the resident FauxActionGirl is suddenly able to fight equally with someone who should logically be many times above her level.

* {{Narm}}:
** The final episode is full of this.
*** It starts off with Glenn's synchronized running with Sisti and her silly wedding hairstyle and ends with a sharp change of genre to a movie about zombies.
*** From the same episode comes an even more egregious example. Sisti's CombinationAttack with Glenn was meant to be a CrowningMomentOfAwesome but is more likely to confuse the viewer about how the resident FauxActionGirl is suddenly able to fight equally with someone who should logically be many times above her level.

* CompleteMonster: [[TheAggressiveDrugDealer Jatice Lowfan]] was originally the member of the Imperial Court Mage Guards three years before the main story. However, he was stripped from his position after he found something called Angel's Dust, a drug that has horrible side effects that make its user into a mindless zombie that could be controlled by its master, but also with a consequences of death if the usage was overloaded. Jatice used this drug so that he could control most of the innocent people and then proceeds to slaughter the people in the Imperial Court Corps and some noble figures. When [[TheProtagonist Glenn Radars]] was trying to stop the drug's influence, Jatice then orders his puppets to execute Glenn's only friend, Sara Silvers. In the present day, he disguised himself as a coachman and made a deal with Leos Kleitos. However, Jatice [[CruelAndUnusualDeath killed Leos by his own drug]], left him as a rotten corpse and took his identity. When he meets with Glenn again after three years, he then [[KickTheDog proceeds to taunt him about his secret identity and what he had done in the past and then forces Sistine to marry him]]. While he doesn't affiliate himself with the evil organization called "Researcher of Divine Wisdom", he proves that he could be as bad as them, and despite claiming that he does all of this for greater justice, at the end of the day Jatice is a [[ItsAllAboutMe delusional madman]] who is also the most personal enemy that Glenn ever faced.

* ClicheStorm: To such a level that the personality of almost all the characters can be guessed by their character design. But not that it interfered with storytelling...
* CompleteMonster: [[TheAggressiveDrugDealer Jatice Lowfan]] was originally the member of the Imperial Court Mage Guards three years before the main story. However, he was stripped from his position after he found something called Angel's Dust, a drug that has horrible side effects that make its user into a mindless zombie that could be controlled by its master, but also with a consequences of death if the usage was overloaded. Jatice used this drug so that he could control most of the innocent people and then proceeds to slaughter the people in the Imperial Court Corps and some noble figures. When [[TheProtagonist Glenn Radars]] was trying to stop the drug's influence, Jatice then orders his puppets to execute Glenn's only friend, Sara Silver. In the present day, he disguised himself as a coachman and made a deal with Leos Kleitos. However, Jatice [[CruelAndUnusualDeath killed Leos by his own drug]], left him as a rotten corpse and took his identity. When he meets with Glenn again after three years, he then [[KickTheDog proceeds to taunt him about his secret identity and what he had done in the past and then forces Sistine to marry him]]. While he doesn't affiliate himself with the evil organization called “Researcher of Divine Wisdom”, he proves that he could be as bad as them, and despite claiming that he does all of this for greater justice, at the end of the day Jatice is a [[ItsAllAboutMe delusional madman]] who is also the most personal enemy that Glenn ever faced.

* BaseBreakingCharacter: It seems that [[DamselInDistress Rumia]] exists in the story only to regularly get into dangerous situations, being LivingMacGuffin for a variety of bad personalities.
* ClicheStorm: To such a level that the personality of almost all the characters can be guessed by their character design. But not that it interfered with telling story...

* AdvertisedExtra: Just looking at all the promotional material and trailers for the series, you would think Sistine is the main character, but the main focus of a good portion of the first few arcs is on Rumia, and [[SirNotAppearingInThisTrailer Re=L]] takes up a majority of the spotlight as well, meaning that Sisti is, at best, the third-most important character throughout most of the material the anime covers.

** The final episode is full of this, starting from Glenn's synchronized running with Sisti and her silly wedding hairstyle and ending with a sharp change of genre to a movie about zombies.
*** From the same episode comes an even more egregious example. Sisti's CombinedAttack with Glenn was meant to be a CrowningMomentOfAwesome but is more likely to confuse the viewer about how the resident FauxActionGirl is suddenly able to fight equally with someone who should logically be many times above her level.

* CompleteMonster: [[TheAggressiveDrugDealer Jatice Lowfan]] was originally the member of the Imperial Court Mage Guards three years before the main story. However, he was stripped from his position after he found something called Angel's Dust, a drug that has horrible side effects that make its user into a mindless zombie that could be controlled by its master, but also with a consequences of death if the usage was overloaded. Jatice used this drug so that he could control most of the innocent people and then proceeds to slaughter the people in the Imperial Court Corps and some noble figures. When [[TheProtagonist Glenn Radars]] was trying to stop the drug's influence, Jatice then orders his puppets to execute Glenn's only friend, Sara Silver. In the present day, he disguised himself as a coachman and made a deal with Leos Kleitos. However, Jatice kills Leos by his own drug and leave him as a rotten corpse and took his identity. When he meets with Glenn again after three years, he then proceeds to taunt him about his secret identity and what he had done in the past and then forces Sistine to marry him. While he doesn't affiliate himself with the evil organization called “Researcher of Divine Wisdom”, he proves that he could be as bad as them, and despite claiming that he does all of this for greater justice, at the end of the day Jatice is a [[ItsAllAboutMe delusional madman]] who is also the most personal enemy that Glenn ever faced.

* {{Narm}}: The final episode is full of this, starting from Glenn's synchronized running with Sisti and her silly wedding hairstyle and ending with a sharp change of genre to a movie about zombies.
* MemeticMutation: Sisti's SmugSmiler expression from the [[https://68.media.tumblr.com/7896382aac29b08d2ab0f89808fa5594/tumblr_onw2wkOsUA1vj5j9co1_500.gif#ActualImage first episode]].

* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: A woman has the right to realize her personal goals in life, and not become a weak-willed tool for the purposes of her close men. Early marriages are bad!
* RuleOfSymbolism: [[spoiler: Advertising posters and the first scenes with Glenn in the magical school, depicted him walking alone along the cold corridor. In the end, anime has scene, where already the happy Glenn walks down the corridor to meet his students, which should symbolize that now he has people who need him.]]

* AlasPoorScrappy: [[spoiler: Leos was obvious {{Jerkass}} and obviously few people liked, but his death in the 12th episode looks too cruel.]]