Ensemble Dark Horse: The Heron who torments Ohana at the inn is pretty much loved by everyone.
Les Yay: Minko/Ohana undertones. Teased in the novel draft, naked bath fights, Minko is the one who first appears to find Ohana in the Tokyo Rain, Minko's encouraging speech to the ill Ohana. Hell Yuina even lampshades it in one ep.
Rescued from the Scrappy Heap: Satsuki in Episodes 12 and 13, which showed that she does care about Ohana and her family.
Values Dissonance: The scene where Minko cuts up a fish to demonstrate her skills to some more experienced chefs; she does it very well as far as an untrained eye can tell, but the older chefs react, with dead seriousness, as if she had shoved it through a paper shredder, and tell her she must be a moron for thinking she could ever be a chef. Presumably, this was meant to inspire her to work towards even greater heights of perfectionism, but to a non-Japanese viewer it seems cruelly harsh and, well, perfectionist. Another scene has Ohana fangirl over someone putting on their work clothes and gush about how she did it with "not a single wasted motion," which seems weird for the same reason.
