YMMV / Anecdote of Error

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• Adorkable:
  • Atshi is cute in part because she is socially awkward. When she isn’t under pressure, she drops the “awkward” part.
  • Luntsha also has her moments, as seen on page 59.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment:
  • The parody of page 64, which can best be described as the canonical page on acid. Then the comic continues as if nothing happened.
  • Not even the author knows what is happening in the fourth panel of page 67.
• Crack Pairing:
  • Yensha/Zeya. Despite the implied significant age gap, the fact that they are on opposite sides of a war, the fact that they hate each other, and the fact that Word of God has said it's not gonna happen, it's become a running joke among some segments of the fanbase, embracing the absurdity.
  • Shimei/Atshi is jokingly shipped by people who think it would be funny, never mind that Shimei bullies Atshi relentlessly. That said, it's usually considered to be one-sided on Shimei's part. Once it was revealed that Bateans practice polygamy, the shippers dragged Fulik into it as well.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Yensha is very well liked by the fanbase for her refusal to take nonsense from anybody and her tough antiheroic nature.
• Fan Nickname:
  • Shimei was called "Bully Girl" before her name was revealed, and even morganicfoods used it once, in order to mention the character before the name reveal without confusing readers.
  • Likewise, the readers call Kezaua Not!Fulik, because he looks like Fulik, but isn't.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • On page 18, Atshi tells Luntsha that anyone who hurts her family will face the wrath of a magical warrior. Luntsha asks if that’s why Atshi is attending their school, and Atshi denies this. Much later, Shimei reveals that housekeepers aren’t supposed to attend magic schools at all.
  • Shimei’s taunts are bad from the start, but become even worse once we learn that she bullies Atshi because she thinks she’s being uppity.
  • Luntsha never gets the chance to tutor Atshi in magic like she said she’d do on page 27, because she gets expelled just a few days later in Webcomic Time. Even worse, two pages later she says, “They won’t kick you out. At least, not on my watch.”
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Luntsha’s retort that Shimei and her group are just jealous that she and Atshi won’t date them, and their reactions thereof, become even funnier when Nishkose is revealed to be either lesbian or bisexual, and specifically cites finding Luntsha attractive.
• Never Live It Down:
  • Luntsha is rarely discussed without bringing up that she gets expelled for freeing a dangerous enemy combatant, based solely on a hunch.
  • Zeya has said “It’s Zeya,” only twice so far, but as far as the fans are concerned, that’s her Catchphrase.
• Nightmare Fuel: See here.
• What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?: Considering that this comic features bodily dismemberment, Fantastic Racism, a brutal war in which both sides are awful, and scenes of utter horror, one might wonder why this trope applies. That would be because the writer is a kid.
• The Woobie: Atshi. In spades. She gets accepted to a school of magic after numerous rejections, only to find that she sucks at magic and the other students bully her because of it. Then she is told that her acceptance into the school was due to a rounding mistake and that one more offense will get her kicked out. Then the school is invaded by an army that commits war crimes like it’s nothing, and her attempt at stopping them results in her best friend getting expelled, and that’s just the start. Not to mention the terrifying hallucinations she constantly suffers. The way the story is headed, it looks like things will get worse and worse until she finally breaks. Or worse.

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