YMMV / Yowamushi Pedal

• Accidental Innuendo: This infamous picture of Imaizumi and Onoda. ^note Due to Onoda's hand placement of the flask being close to Imaizumi's crotch, also not helping that Imaizumi is showing off his abs
• Alternate Character Interpretation: Manami — Nice Guy In Harmony with Nature with a healthy side of The Gadfly or Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon? While he isn't quite as innocent as he seems at first, the latter is more of a Just for Fun interpretation that the fandom has taken a liking to. People will often jokingly say that Manami is actually Satan, just for the irony of him having angelic motifs.
• Awesome Music: The third ending song of the first season, Glory Road, performed by the Hakogaku team’s seyuu, is pretty awesome.
• Cargo Ship:
  • Arakita/Bepsi.
  • Aoyagi/Tire.
• Die for Our Ship: OH MY GOD: Kanzaki Miki! She's the main female character in a sports anime. Guess at to what the Yaoi Fangirls do to her!
• Draco in Leather Pants: Midousuji.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: The fandom has really seemed to take a liking to Midousuji.
  • Makishima is also very popular with the fandom, placing first in a 2014 popularity poll. Note the over 1000 votes difference to second place Onoda.
  • Watanabe-sensei himself is popular amongst the fans, placing 10th in the popularity poll.
  • Teshima and Aoyagi are popular with how high their positions are in the poll.
  • The whole Hakone team, but especially Toudou, Arakita, Shinkai and Manami.
• Fan Nickname:
  • Dadokoro for Tadokoro, due to his Team Dad tendencies. Fans sometimes add Mamakishima to the family.
  • T2 ("team of two" or "team futari" in Japanese fandom) for Teshima and Aoyagi (both the team and the ship).
  • Izumida is, of course, "Abu-kun."
  • Kuroda is "color-swapped Arakita," due to similarities in both design and personality, not to mention the same role in the IH team.
• Genius Bonus: Izumida names his specs Andy and Frank, which is likely a reference to the professional road bicycle racer Luxembourgish brothers Andy and Frank Schlek.
• Ho Yay: Has its own page now.
• Jerkass Woobie: Midousuji. His backstory is very tragic and gives watchers plenty of reasons to pity him, but his present actions often come out as petty and cruel.
• Launcher of a Thousand Ships:
  • Arakita is paired by the fandom with Fukutomi, Kinjou, Shinkai, Machimiya, Kuroda, Toudou, Onoda...
  • Onoda himself, with Onoda/Manami, Onoda/Midousuji, Onoda/Naruko and Onoda/Imaizumi being the most popular pairings.
  • Naruko is paired with quite a few people as well, such as: Imaizumi, Onoda, Tadokoro, Midousuji, Shinkai, Izumida, Miki, and Aya.

• Memetic Mutation:
  • Fans often jokingly compare Imaizumi's face to a dorito.
  • Fukutomi's "I AM STRONG."
  • Sugimoto's status as "the most experienced rider."
• Narm:
  • The "Abs abs abs" chant from Izumida.
  • THE PACK: the mass of cyclists who failed to get high rankings places on day 2 of the Interhigh and so are now riding as a huge group to ride at a high consistent speed to catch up to the other cyclists... that is played more or less as an unstoppable eldritch horror in the anime.
  • Arakita's withdrawn from the team in the third day of Interhigh can have this kind of effect for some, mostly because his teammates act like he died or something (Manami is especially guilty of this, going to the point of saying Arakita was a great person. In the past tense). But for the majority, it's still a very convincing Tear Jerker moment that crowns his Character Development, so there is a bit of Narm Charm element there.
  • The first race between Kinjou and Fukutomi consist largely of them saying their respective catchphrases ("I am a man that never gives up" and "I am strong"), each other's names, and explaining rules of the race to each other.
• Narm Charm: The whole idea of the power of the Love Hime song is utterly hilarious and strangely uplifting.
• Nightmare Fuel: Midousuji is Nightmare Fuel incarnate.
• One True Threesome: Onoda, Naruko, and Imaizumi.
• Padding: Due to its popularity in Japan (in its heyday it is always near the top of the TOC rankings along with Baki Dou in Akita Shonen Champion), the mangaka is able to extent the Interhigh match as long as possible, taking nearly 150 chapters just to finish the entire first year of Interhigh, some of the pages consists of cyclists riding to the finish line meters by meters until the very end
• Periphery Demographic: With fujoshi, to the point where many are surprised it's a Shōnen work.
• The Woobie: Onoda before joining the team. Friendless until high school...