History Manga / ArmedGirlsMachiavellism

** When Nomura and Rin defeat Warabi in the manga he's allowed to follow through with his threat to make her and her entourage wear mawashi with the cameras rolling while Rin and Mary look on in satisfaction, though he intentionally didn't turn the cameras on to save Warabi's reputation. In the anime however Rin and Mary refuse to let him because of [[IDidntMeanToTurnYouOn their own experiences]] with Nomura putting theirs on for them.

** At Aiichi the Five Swords are chosen specifically among the school's best fighters (and [[CulturedBadass with the highest grades to boot]]). Inaba being a member in spite of being a middle schooler makes her the most feared even before she demonstrates she's indeed the strongest.
** At Hokkai the Six Kings are not only chosen for their fighting abilities, one can earn a spot by defeating a member in single combat - or lose it by challenging the current head and losing. In fact the Hokkai arc shows three former members who have lost their place when they tried to oppose Nonomura's takeover, [[spoiler:two of which takes part in Soda's attempted counter-coup]], and the arc's end shows that ''Amou took over the school while they were away'', with the finale implying that [[spoiler:she reduced the Six Kings to her subordinates]].
* AxesAtSchool: It started when Aiichi Symbiosis Academy went from an all-girls school to a co-ed school. It allowed the girls to carry weapons to defend themselves from the male student and they have so ever since. Members of the Supreme Five Swords are allowed to wield real swords.

* DefeatMeansFriendship: By defeating Rin and Mary, Nomura has unwittingly left them infatuated with him. Warabi's feelings are more on the friendship side, more than happy to pal around with him and even join him on his escapades when she believes that one of the other Five Swords have crossed a line. Satori strides the line between wanting to kill him and developing feelings for him. She'll be malevolent one moment and the next repeating his name in a sugar-coated voice obsessing over the picture of the two of them she had taken as part of her scheme.
** While Nomura doesn't subscribe to the idea that this is completely true, when it actually manages to work, he sees it as one of the ways that people, even those who initially start off hating one another, can bond and become friends without even realizing it at first.

* PottyEmergency: While Nomura and Rin are disclosing very personal parts of their lives together privately in episode 8 they're unaware that Warabi has awoken and desperately needs to go to the bathroom, but can't bring herself to get up and interrupt them lest they stop opening up to one another. Kyo-bo passes her a bucket. She's not amused. ...She swallows her pride and uses it.

* SignificantDoubleCasting: In the anime Satori and Misogi share the same voice actress. [[spoiler:They're in fact twins]].

** Satori relies heavily on [[ConfusionFu distracting her opponents through the movements of her eyes hinting at attacks at a different spot than the one she plans to hit]]. So of course in the OVA she finds herself facing Mary, who was trained to read the movements of her opponent's blade and limbs because she's trained in Western fencing, in which you just cannot read an opponent's eye due the mask (or, in the past, the face-covering helm), and the only reason Satori is not at the end of a ''brutal'' CurbStompBattle (and actually manages to turn tables on her) is that they're both wearing yukata that hamper Mary's movements far more than Satori's.

** Amou wears the winter uniform even in late spring and summer, while all the other females wear the summer version.

** At Hokkai the Six Kings are not only chosen for their fighting abilities, one can earn a spot by defeating a member in single combat - or lose it by challenging the current head and losing. In fact the Hokkai arc shows three former members who have lost their place when they tried to oppose Nonomura's takeover, [[spoiler:two of which takes part in Soda's attempted counter-coup]].

** Rin wears a sailor uniform. It's implied to be the badge of the leader of the Five Swords.

** {{Inverted}} with Amou, who is the only female student to wear the full uniform (everyone else ditches the jacket).

** {{Subverted}} twice with Chidori, again through poor choice of opponent: at first she appears as a Savate practitioner supplementing her kicks with an umbrella used with techniques from La Canne, the French fighting style that uses sticks like fencing sword, but her opponent is Choka, who is familiar with fencing by being Mary's assistant and with kicks supplementing swords through her duels with Nono (a Kashima Shiden Jikishinkage Ryu practitioner, with her school including kicking techniques); she later reveals she actually practices Kalaripayattu, Savate's direct predecessor, and her real weapon is the Urumi, a WhipSword, but Choka is a ''bullwhip'' user and knows exactly how her weapon moves, resisting until the Urumi cuts up the cracker of Choka's bullwhip.

** Amou is incredibly tough and [[RazorSharpHand can pierce and cut flesh with her bare hands]] and does the latter by reflex whenever hit, leaving the Five Swords and their assistants unable to figure out how to deal with her as anything they try just results in people getting wounded. Only when Mary and Rin try and attack her in the same spot [[TheLawOfDiminishingDefensiveEffort her parry reveals she not only can be hurt]] but that she's a Karateka from [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uechi-Ry%C5%AB Uechi-ryu]] with a rare skillset.

** The Five Swords are ''supposed'' to be the disciplinary committee but have effectively become this, handling the enforcement of rules among the students (their original function) and student passes and carrying actual (blunted) swords. In a variation, they're this only because ''the administration'' allows it (the headmistress and the school's owner have complete authority over them). As for the ''actual'' student council, they are either completely irrilevant or have been disbanded after the Five Swords took over their job.