YMMV / Armed Girl's Machiavellism

aka: Busou Shoujo Machiavellianism

• Accidental Innuendo: The scene where Nomura helps girls dress mawashi in the fourth episode is full of this, including "I'm angry that he finished too soon with me" and "spread your legs and hold it tightly."
• Cliché Storm: Intentionally used by the author to depict manners of a one-gender school. At the same time, he loves playing with tropes and averting or subverting it as well.
• Crosses the Line Twice: Nono bopping Nomura in the head while he's pinning down Rin, causing them to kiss. And the collision is enough to break part of her mask, no less!
• Esoteric Happy Ending: The anime ends with Nomura beating Amou, who gets expelled from school for causing trouble, but still manages to make peace with her. All's well and good... except for the fact that Amou still declares Nomura to be hers and hers alone, not to mention she never really shows any remorse for her sociopathic behavior. Furthermore, it's implied she didn't actually learn anything from her experiences in Aichi Academy and will continue causing trouble elsewhere, and yet we're expected to believe her love for Nomura has redeemed her somewhat. Not to mention, getting out of the effective captivity the school had forced her into was her entire reason for going on such a rampage in the first place.
• Genius Bonus:
  • The manga has many fans among Japanese martial arts practitioners for it's rather realistic portrayal and many references to real Japanese fighting techniques and combat styles. The same case also applies to the prequel, Shinakoi. Probably even more so for Shinakoi, thanks to it being even more detailed when it comes to the martial arts aspect.
  • In the anime, Uchoka's pronunciation of her chosen nickname is horrible and gramatically incorrect (she mangles "Regina della Farfalla", meaning "Queen of the Butterfly". It's just as ridiculous in Italian), hinting early she's not really Italian as she pretends to.
• Growing the Beard: The anime starts hitting its stride when unveiling Nomura and Rin's backstories and Amou makes her move against Nomura and the Five Swords. Also, the animation is not nearly as half-assed as in the beginning.
• Magnificent Bitch: Satori/Misogi Tamaba of the Five Swords is one of the most ruthless and cunning opponents Nomura has to face. A girl who doesn't believe she's human, Satori had no qualms using any means to achieve victory, framing Nomura as a sexual deviant by drugging him and setting up an edited nude photo to have his friends turn on him. Anticipating he'll be looking for the original to prove his innocence, Satori ambushed him and Warabi with her sister, engaging Nomura herself. In battle, she dominates most of the fight with her bold strategy of doing a Full-Frontal Assault in the slippery baths which complimented her Confusion Fu techniques, and even after being defeated, she still manage to put Nomura in a no-win situation which would've worked had she not decided to let him go after being touch by his resolve. One of Nomura's greatest opponents and later one of his most valuable allies, Satori manage to show herself as a tricky fighter that should not be underestimated.
• Memetic Mutation: Calling Satori Morgan Freeman. It is however.
• Only the Author Can Save Them Now: In the Final Battle, Amou is portrayed as downright invincible, utterly destroying (to the point that it's almost portrayed as mortal injury) the Five Swords, each one of their Quirky Miniboss Squads, completely shrugging off hits from bladed weapons, countering everything that's thrown at her, and by the end of it taking a Magic Bullet and not going down. While it's stated that he could fight her as an equal in the past, considering that she just destroyed a large number of incredibly skilled fighters it stretches the Willing Suspension of Disbelief that he could even put a scratch on her during her rampage, let alone beat her. So of course, she purposefully loses.
• Squick: Episode 6 depicts Nomura touching a female bear's breasts. That's right, he molested an animal. It is paid pretty heavily for laughs since said bear was already quite fond of him.
• Woolseyism: The Italian translation renames Mary to Marie, changing her name with the proper French equivalent.