YMMV / O Maidens in Your Savage Season

• Draco in Leather Pants: While Niina has her reasons for what she does, primarily her being groomed by her acting teacher at a young age and then being ogled as a lust object, many fans gloss over Niina going behind Kazusa's back with her attempts at having Izumi for herself.
• Fan Nickname: "Pedo Steve Jobs" for Hisashi Saegusa due to a vague resemblance to the late Apple founder.
• Memetic Mutation: After the first anime episode, "Pork Miso Soup" as a new euphemism started making the rounds.
• Nausea Fuel: Rampant throughout due to the theme of the show, but most definitely in the scene when Niina kisses her acting teacher.
• Squick:
  • Several scenes fall under this such as the infamous ending of episode 1; Hitoha trying to flash her undergarments at her teacher; a majority of the humor; the list goes on.
  • Episode 7 features a new low in the form of Hisashi Saegusa — Niina's former acting teacher and a pedophile — kissing Niina, a high school student on the lips. While the kiss was consensual on Niina's part, it is disturbing all the same.
• Strawman Has a Point:
  • The Principal and Vice Principal are clearly meant to be Obstructive Bureaucrats who only ever show up to be obnoxious roadblocks for the girls. That said, they do make plenty of valid points:
    • When they threaten to shut down the Literature Club if they cannot find an advisor within a certain time frame, the girls act like they're being unfairly picked on. This doesn't change the fact that the school rules require that clubs have advisors, and the girls are breaking that rule. In addition, their point about the conduct of the Literature Club is also totally valid considering that reading erotic novels out loud and talking about sex constantly is quite inappropriate for a learning environment—it's implied that they're reading them and reacting so loudly that other clubs are getting bothered, and the administrators only came down on them hard because of that. Self-expression is one thing, but when it's interfering with others' abilities to do what they want—well, that's a different matter entirely.
    • Their decision to ban relationships and expel Rika and Shun for being seen near a love hotel is treated by the girls as nothing short of fascism. That said, it's not hard to see the reasoning behind that decision—a student had just dropped out due to getting pregnant and no less than a couple days later the love hotel incident happens. This is already bad enough optics for a school in the more laid-back West, but in the arch-conservative, socially structured Japan, it's a million times worse—reputation is everything and a scandal like this, likely would leave the school's reputation totally destroyed if the administrators chose to do nothing. Why should they put their futures and those of many teachers and students at risk because the students can't keep it in their pants?
    • Their refusal to believe Yamagishi when he explains that they only got into that situation because they were following him is taken as proof that the administrators are power-mad and want to make an example out of Rika and Shun. But while his claim is true, they have what seems like concrete evidence to all the world and Yamagishi doesn't have anything to counter it other than his word, and he does have a motive to cover for them, considering a student in the club that he's advisor to getting expelled would have a negative impact on his career. Occam's Razor would suggest that two people who are seen outside a love hotel are in fact there to have sex, and Yamagishi did actually lie about who he went to said love hotel with.
  • There's also a strange case where a character strawmans herself. Early on, Rika yells at a bunch of girls who are bothering her by talking about sex during their study hall, asking them if they have no shame. Later on, after she gets her own boyfriend, she says that it was wrong of her to get mad at others for being in love and that she was just jealous of them. However, those girls weren't talking about love—they were talking about sex in graphic detail. Rika had every right to snap at them considering they were distracting her while she was trying to study.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot:
  • Juujou leaves school due to getting pregnant. Sounds like it could potentially serve as some development for Sonezaki and Shun, what with it going hand in hand with the "sex" theme. Instead of diving further into it, the finale of the series kicks off with the literature club kidnapping Milo and taking him as hostage.
• What Do You Mean, It's Not for Little Girls?: With its more cutesy art style and focus on female puberty, lots of fans tend to lump it in with shoujo manga. The manga ran in Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine.

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