History YMMV / AiYoriAoshi

* ValuesDissonance: Tina's [[BlackComedyRape ongoing sexual harassment]] of other women often in the form of groping their breasts. While it's PlayedForLaughs (and sometimes presented as hot, since Tina is a GorgeousGaijin), ever since the #MeToo era (and more societal awareness that even [[DoubleStandard women can be sex offenders]]), this comes off as disugsting and tone-deaf. And even though this anime aired before that era, in America, groping is seen differently than it is in Japan and not many people found it funny.

%%* ValuesDissonance: Aoi's submissiveness; Tina's [[BlackComedyRape ongoing sexual harassment]] of the other characters.

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Aoi. ExtremeDoormat? Purity Sue? Both? Neither? Debate rages.

* ValuesDissonance: Aoi's submissiveness; Tina's [[BlackComedyRape ongoing sexual harassment]] of the other characters.

** Possibly the main reason for much of the AlternativeCharacterInterpretation, due to the difference between Japanese and western cultures.

* [[HoYay Les Yay]]: Tina likes groping other women's (and girls') breasts. But she's [[NoBisexuals really]] in love with Kaoru. Also, there's her threat to go kiss Aoi and Miyabi if Kaoru won't kiss her.

** Played with when ''Tina'' discovers Aoi's habit of hugging people or objects in her sleep. She tells Aoi the next morning, "I thought I was going to have to switch teams just to survive," and there's an ImagineSpot of a wide-awake, seductively smiling Aoi fondling her. Meanwhile, the real Aoi is going into spasms of embarrassment, complete with LuminescentBlush and BigNo.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Tina. So much so that she becomes the main character for the ''Ennishi'' anime and her situation drives most of the conflicts since Kaoru and Aoi's have basically all been resolved already.

* TheScrappy: Mayu, whose spoiled AlphaBitch tendencies not only put her at odds with the rest of the group (especially Tina), but her [[UnrequitedLoveLastsFOrever complete inability to accept]] Kaoru's love for Aoi, [[spoiler:even after they get married]] shows her to be a SoreLoser. Due to this, she's easily the least liked member of the cast (even compared to Chika, who's generally the most hated after her).

* IdiotPlot: A mild example -- perhaps more of a None-Too-Clever Plot. But it really ''should'' be obvious to anyone paying attention that something odd is going on between Aoi and Kaoru; even the way they address each other -- Aoi calling the ostensibly lower-caste Kaoru "Kaoru-sama" while Kaoru calls the ostensibly higher-caste Aoi "Aoi-chan" -- should make people suspicious. Even more egregiously, while Aoi and Kaoru may have reason to keep their engagement low profile to avoid antagonizing Aoi's family, there's no good reason for Kaoru to pretend he's romantically "available," except that it keeps the "{{hilarity|Ensues}}" going.
** Averted in the manga, where, in spite of being sidelined or downplayed for comedic purposes most of the time, it is made fairly clear that Aoi's family is putting extreme pressure on Aoi and Kaoru to avoid giving any sign of being in a relationship. They even go so far as to actively attempt to break them up by trying to get Aoi to marry another man. This persists all the way up to the final volume where [[spoiler: Aoi is practically kidnapped in an attempt to get her to marry the other Kaoru who is supposed to be the new heir to Hanabishi clan. It's made clear that Aoi's father has been opposed to her relationship with Kaoru up to the very end. It's a little surprising that her father didn't put out a hit on the guy (you know, aside from the fact that that would have comprised the author taking the genre and structure of his story and breaking them over his knee).]]
** Especially at the end of Episode 20 "Cure." It's TOO SUSPICIOUS that Kaoru and Aoi just so happen to be sitting in a classroom alone while the sun is setting, having just kissed only to be found by Tina and the others who are completely oblivious to the whole situation.
** Subverted with Tina, who later admits that she ''did'' notice the attraction Kaoru and Aoi had for each other, but had doubts and (unaware of both their upper-class statuses and the enforced CannotSpitItOut) couldn't begin to guess why they were hiding it.

* TastesLikeDiabetes: Some feel this way about the romance between Kaoru and Aoi, especially as the series goes on and on and on.

** Averted in the manga, where, in spite of being sidelined or downplayed for comedic purposes most of the time, it is made fairly clear that Aoi's family is putting extreme pressure on Aoi and Kaoru to avoid giving any sign of being in a relationship. They even go so far as to actively attempt to break them up by trying to get Aoi to marry another man. This persists all the way up to the final volume where [[spoiler: Aoi is practically kidnapped in an attempt to get her to marry the other Kaoru who is supposed to be the new heir to Hanabishi clan. It's made clear that Aoi's father has been opposed to her relationship with Kaoru up to the very end. This troper is a little surprised that her father didn't put out a hit on the guy (you know, aside from the fact that that would have comprised the author taking the genre and structure of his story and breaking them over his knee).]]