YMMV / Cute High Earth Defense Club LOVE!

• Awesome Music:
  • Try to get the theme song out of your head.
  • The Theme Music Power-Up, "Just Going Now!", which comes into play as victory approaches in the biggest fights.
• Base-Breaking Character: Yumoto, with fans either finding him adorable and subversive of the ditzy lead stereotype, or hating him for taking up most of the spotlight, as well as the running gag of him invasively cuddling Wombat.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: "Nee-san", The Okama Bartender from episode 7, only appeared in that episode, had a rather unique character design and didn't affect the plot or appear again.
• Broken Base: Episode 7 divided the fandom itself, due to a rape joke involving Yumoto and Wombat, as well as fans fervently arguing if the Ship Tease in the episode was genuine and to be appreciated, or if it was only queerbaiting and mocking homosexuality. It also received debate and backlash over being a filler episode with no real villain fight, along with the okama bartender character being either seen as respected representation or a cheap transphobic pot-shot. Another possibility is that the episode was mocking the Pseudo-Romantic Friendship elements common to the Magical Girl genre and the fervent shipping that results from it.
  • Some characters' hair colors, usually En's (dirty blonde/brunette) and Arima's (green/brown).
  • Whether season 2 is a step up from season 1 or a step back due to season 2's Spotlight-Stealing Squad of Yumoto, Goura and the newly-added Beppu twins. Adding to this is the fact the student council got Put on a Bus in the first episode of season 2 and some fans specifically watched Boueibu for the student council.
• Crosses the Line Twice: Zundar's ultimate plan for episode 3: to create an Earth where men only love men, and thus bring fertility rates to zero, leading humanity to ruin. Especially hilarious considering A) that no women were ever featured on the show and B) the rampant Ho Yay and Ship Tease.
• Fan Nickname:
  • Due to the long cumbersome title ^note even the official English title is very long and the unique take on the Gender Flip Magical Girl genre, some fans simply refer to this anime as the "magical boys anime".
  • Director Shinji Takamatsu believed the acronym would be 美L (pronounced the same way as "BL") but the fandom went with "Boueibu" instead. However, some people use "BL" to shorten "Battle Lover" or "Battle Lovers". As of season 2, Takamatsu uses "Boueibu LL" (read "Boueibu LOVE! LOVE!") to signify production tidbits on Twitter - "Boueibu LL" seems to be a standard Japanese fandom name.
  • DADacha for Dadacha, even if him wearing an apron makes him more like a Team Mom to some fans.
• Fridge Brilliance: The reason why the Battle Lovers and Caerula Adamas have wildly different naming schemes (with the latter having a more cohesive theme)? Hireashi presumably had experience with creating groups to conquer planets, so it would make sense their naming conventions has a consistent theme. Wombat however, probably didn't, seeing as he was an animal rights activist. That's why the Battle Lovers have inconsistent names. (Along with crappy catchphrases and it being in English)
• Fridge Logic: If the Muggle students of Binan know that their school is constantly under attack, why do they continue to go there? This applies to the sequel series as well.
• Fridge Sadness:
  • The ending songs are usually sung by the villains, this series's Conquest Club in the first season, the VEPPer in the second season, and the next Conquest Club in the sequel, and all have more melancholic or at least darker tones than the openings, which are always sung by the Defense Club, but there is one exception, and that's the OVA, where in addition to the opening, as usual, they also sung the ending, which given both the lyrics of the song, and the plot of the OVA, especially the Bittersweet Ending, has a sad implication that the real enemies in the OVA are THEMSELVES, especially for Yumoto, who doesn't want the graduation to happen.
• Friendly Fandoms:
  • With Free! and most other sports manga/anime for the male Fanservice. Lampshaded in season 2 episode 5, where there were many jokes about balls...volleyballs, mind you.
  • Also with Samurai Flamenco due to shared voice actors (Tomokazu Sugita and Toshiki Masuda). Idolish 7 (with shared actors Toshiki Masuda and Yusuke Shirai) to a lesser extent.
  • And naturally, since this is an Affectionate Parody, with Magical Girl works in general, with Sailor Moon easily being the most obvious of them, though more recently in 2023, it's growing with Pretty Cure as well, especially with Soaring Sky! PreCure having the first male Cure on a main team and a stageplay featuring an all-male team that immediately got the Boueibu fandom's attention from their announcement.
• Harsher in Hindsight: The jokes about Mr. Tawarayama's age and physical condition as well as his strange symbiosis with Wombat from episode 1 become this after learning in episode 2 that by the time he turns up in the series he's technically already dead, as Wombat accidentally killed him the day before.
• Heartwarming Moments:
  • One part of the OVA opening has the Defense Club happily hug each other, which is sweet on it's own, but it gets sweeter when En and Io, the two members of their group with a Sugar-and-Ice Personality, both give off such warm and genuinely happy smiles too, which overall makes it an even sweeter moment.
    • On top of that, it can be seen as a Continuity Nod to the first season's opening where they appear together, but while relatively friendly, they don't hug, but here in the OVA, they do, showing just how much they have gotten close to each other.
• He Really Can Act: Kazutomi Yamamoto has given Yumoto a cheerful and energetic voice that matches his Keet personality, that's why the two moments below stand out.
  • In the season 2 finale, after Yumoto lost his shit, just when he was preparing to kill the VEPPer, his voice noticeably lowers and is more aggressive sounding, showing how truly mad Yumoto is.
  • In the OVA, first, his voice is low again when Wombat snaps him out by attempting to get Yumoto to cuddle him, but this time he's more of sad than angry, and later, after the Monster of the Week pointed out he doesn't want the graduation to happen, he detransformed and as he stated why, he noticeably sounds like he is about to cry, complete with him stating he is a "failure as a Battle Lover".
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • When the series was announced. Indonesian fans got a kick out of the word "Binan", which is an an old-school slang from the country which means "homosexual"... three guesses for what the series is infamous for?
  • Akoya's Imagine Spot in chapter 2 of the online manga (ch. 2 was released on the 13th of November 2014) was him being "Bishōnen Senshi Gakuran Akoya", who wore a black gakuran-inspired suit with coattails, gloves and long boots. When the visual of the actual outfit was released on the site (November 18th 2014), it turned out that the Chevalier outfit had all of those things except coattails.
  • Bishonens in sailor suits?, hmmm... where have we seen that before???
  • On /a/, Io was dubbed "Jew" as early as Episode 1. Cue the Cosplay photoshoot from Episode 9.
  • Gora's evil, Zundar needle-affected form looks a lot like a hunter◊ from Bloodborne. Complete with axe and a hunter of alien monsters backstory!
• Ho Yay: There's a whole page for it.
• Incest Yay Shipping: Some fans have taken to shipping Aki and Haru together due to the amount of subtext they've displayed in only three episodes. They're fond of touching one another, are draped over one another at the beginning of their duet sequence, and the ending theme just kicks things into overdrive.
• LGBT Fanbase: Not surprisingly for a show with boatloads of Ho Yay, it has more than a few LGBT+ fans, from Ryuu being implied to be into men as well, to the subplot in season 1 between Atsushi and Kinshiro basically being a lover's quarrel (to the point it was even referred to as such in season 2 when on that topic), and Akoya being the definition of a gender non-conforming guy.
• Moe:
  • Anything and everything related to Yumoto. From his extremely cheery personality to his love of fluffy things to his voice, there's nothing about him that doesn't ooze adorableness. Exaggerated to the point of parody in episode 10.
  • He gets a rival in cuteness in episode 10 with Megawacchi, who is a parody of Meganekko clichés.
  • All of episode 4's second half, by courtesy of a Monster of the Week that lets the Battle Lovers age backwards into primary school kids and then babies.
• Moment of Awesome:
  • En and Atsushi uniting to save their friendship from the Hikikomori Monster of the Week, in Episode 8.
  • Kou Kinosaki's fate at the hands of Akoya and the lecture he gets from Arima right before it.
  • Kinshirou's Heel–Face Turn, when he resolves to do better after Good Former Friend Atsushi is injured saving his life.
  • En's response, when instead of feeling threatened, he's proud and pleased that Atsushi and Kinshirou are friends again.
  • The Conquest Club's long-awaited return and frankly badass Just in Time transformation, in the last-but-one episode of Season 2.
• Tear Jerker: Now has it's own page.
• What Do You Mean, It's Not for Little Girls?: It has colorful and cutesy visuals, with 5 pretty boys as Magical Boys, and quite a few Shout Outs to the famous anime Sailor Moon, which would seem like it's aimed for little girls...except it airs at Otaku O'Clock and the American Blu Rays are aimed for older teenagers, with a few like the Mentor Mascot using a dead corpse to make it seem like he's still alive, some nudity, and even a love hotel joke in season 2. That's not even getting into the novels, with the second novel's premise being the Battle Lovers looking after a child who earlier had a Bungled Suicide that was stopped by En, who initially had no idea he was trying to kill himself and thought he was a child who fell from the sky, and by the way, the fact they found out he was suicidal was NOT Played for Laughs.

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