History YMMV / RosarioToVampire

* AssPull:
** Part of the GeckoEnding of the second season anime. Tsukune somehow manages to call upon vampire powers he's only used once before, when he was injected with Moka's blood ''last season'', with pretty much no foreshadowing. Whether or not you've read the manga, it just seems absurd.
** Pretty much most of the revelations and power-ups in the later chapters of the manga could count as this.

* AssPull:
** Part of the GeckoEnding of the second season anime. Tsukune somehow manages to call upon vampire powers he's only used once before, when he was injected with Moka's blood ''last season'', with pretty much no foreshadowing. Whether or not you've read the manga, it just seems absurd.
** Pretty much most of the revelations and power-ups in the later chapters of the manga could count as this.

** It also helps that it has a lot of [[HiddenDepths sympathetic]], consistently {{Badass}} female characters and a willingness to explore their opinions and CharacterDevelopment. This is rare in harem anime.

* HilariousInHindsight: The episode with Tsukune being attacked by a mermaid is a bit unintentionally hilarious considering that both his [[Creator/DaisukeKishio Japanese]] and [[Creator/ToddHaberkorn English]] actors have respectively voiced a male character who winds up falling in love with a mermaid protagonist (a [[Manga/MermaidMelodyPichiPichiPitch magical girl one]] for the former and a [[Manga/MyBrideIsAMermaid harem comedy one]] for the latter). The English version gets double points considering Outer Moka happens to be [[Creator/AlexisTipton voiced by said harem comedy mermaid]].

* BestKnownForTheFanservice: The anime adaptation contains much more {{fanservice}} than the manga, with breast and {{panty shot}}s galore, which has caused some backlash from certain parts of the fandom, but usually not to the point that it ruins the series for them. At least not until the 2nd season, which largely discards the plot in favor of [[UpToEleven even more fanservice]] to the point that most [[EstablishingShot Establishing Shots]] include ''someone's'' panties.

* ClicheStorm: The anime adaptation in comparison to the manga.
** To be fair, the manga was also this...initially. Before Season 2.

* BestKnownForTheFanservice: The anime adaptation contains much more {{fanservice}} than the manga, with breast and {{panty shot}}s galore, which has caused some backlash from certain parts of the fandom, but usually not to the point that it ruins the series for them. At least not until the 2nd season, which largely discards the plot in favor of [[UpToEleven even more fanservice]].fanservice]] to the point that most [[EstablishingShot Establishing Shots]] include ''someone's'' panties.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Season 1 ending theme [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiGMuR3f6zg Dancing in the Velvet Moon]]

* AssPull: Part of the GeckoEnding of the second season anime. Tsukune somehow manages to call upon vampire powers he's only used once before, when he was injected with Moka's blood ''last season'', with pretty much no foreshadowing. Whether or not you've read the manga, it just seems absurd.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: The bus driver; for some reason, lots of fans think he's really cool.
** He has glowing eyes, always has his cigar and can drive his bus anywhere. How is that ''not'' really cool? Not to mention he is some sort of mastermind.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: The joke in chapter 1 season 2 where Mizore wants to have babies with Tsukune becomes a lot less funny in the Snow Fairy arc when we find out there was a reason for her wanting a baby with him.

* HarsherInHindsight: That arc from the first serialization where the Newspaper Club and Student Police crossed swords at an even higher intensity than ever before, thus kicking off CerebusSyndrome for the manga? [[spoiler:Turns out it's Fairy Tale's fault.]]

* HoYay:
** Kurumu and Mizore in the Snow Village arc. Some omakes in that volume show Kurumu being {{tsundere}} towards Mizore after saving her, and Mizore being under a charm spell from the kiss.
** We also have Kokoa and Akuha's one-sided crushes on Moka.
** More [[HoYay/RosarioToVampire here]].

* MagnificentBastard: Hokuto
** And the Masked King/[[spoiler: Miyabi/ Alucard]]

* ValuesDissonance: Kurumu's mother Ageha is a really sweet person, quite charming and supportive of her daughter* and her daughter's friends. Being a succubus, though, she can have a few little quirks that really embarrass poor Kurumu, such as flirting with Tsukune a little or offering to teach him how to be a better lover for Kurumu.

** [[DysfunctionJunction I just want to give them all a hug.]]

** Kanade Kamiya has a lot of potential crossing points, but it's most likely that he crossed it by [[spoiler:killing Marin Kawamoto's husband ''in front of her'']].

** It's possible that Hokuto and Kiria may have crossed it during the festival arc. Hokuto chains up all of the harem (with the exception of Moka who had been kidnapped) inside a barrier created by Mikogami's rosary so that they don't stop him. Tsukune tries to fight him but he keeps getting knocked down and beaten to a bloody pulp RIGHT IN FRONT OF HIS FRIENDS. Kiria's was when he had Moka. He told her that he would let her go free if she removed her rosary by herself (back then only Tsukune could do that). To motivate her, he gave her a live camera feed on Hokuto beating up on Tsukune. Basically it boils down to, "Do the impossible bitch, or your boyfriend is gonna be paste."

* OutOfFocus: Hey, does anyone notice that Tsukune is missing in much of the official art and Capu2's intro?

* {{Squick}}

* LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt: [[spoiler: Moka is killed by Alucard by destruction of her Rosario. No surprise Tsukune figures out a way to bring her back, espeically after thier first kiss. Though, to be fair, it's Inner Moka who is in charge of the body after the final battle, it's just her personality and Outer's have essentially fused.]]

* {{Macekre}}: The English dub changed the scene of Mizore telling Tsukune to call her [[UsefulNotes/JapaneseHonorifics "Mizore-chan" instead of "Shirayuki-san"]] was instead changed to her telling Tsukune to call her his "little snowbunny" instead of her actual name.

** Also both of Mizore's character songs from Capu2 ("Snowstorm" and "Say Yes!"). It's no wonder that RieKugimiya has [[VideoGame/TheIdolmaster portrayed an idol]] [[VideoGame/Persona4 multiple times]].

* AwesomeArt: The first few volumes have quite bad art. After that, it sort of evens out. But as of Season 2- just in time to benefit CerebusSyndrome- every single page becomes absolutely beautiful- the poster art even more so.

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: Season 1 ending theme [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiGMuR3f6zg Dancing in the Velvet Moon]]
** Season 2 opening "[[EarWorm Discotheque]]"

** [[http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/20859.html As of mid-2011]], it is the 7th best-selling manga title in North America, directly ahead of ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'', ''DragonBallZ'', ''SoulEater'' and ''OnePiece''. That is ''major''!

* BrokenBase: While well-received from the most part, the GenreShift near the end of Season I and well into Season II of the manga is something a bit contentious. Some love how the series shifted from generic harem antics to a genuinely serious and complex plot that delves into the characters and their relationships. The other camp feels the series became a lot less "fun" and turned into a run of the mill Shonen Action series.

* MemeticSexGod: Really the members in the Newspaper club, but most obvious being Moka and Kurumu.

* SeasonalRot: The prevailing opinion is that Season 1 of the anime was okay, and Season 2 sucked. (This was not the case in the manga, in which Season 1 was okay- depending on what you read it for- and Season 2 was ''[[HolyShitQuotient awesome]]''.

* CompleteMonster: Gyokuro Shuzen is the EvilMatriarch of the Shuzen family and the leader of the genocidal anti-human organization Fairy Tale. In her position, Gyokuro tasks her men with sowing the seeds of the Human World's destruction, aiming at nothing less than humanity's annihilation by awakening the ancient vampire and EldritchAbomination Alucard. Gyokuro also brainwashed her gentle, kind daughter Kahlua into being an efficient assassin that cannot refuse her orders to kill, viewing Kahlua as a proud achievement. When she confronts the heroes, Gyokuro rips off her stepdaughter Moka's Rosary Seal, and proceeds to cheerfully laugh, enjoying the pain it causes Moka. It is then revealed that Gyokuro had implanted bits of Alucard into the other Shuzen vampires, which have devoured them from the inside out and turned them into ravenous ghouls. When Moka begs on hands and knees for Gyokuro to save her beloved Tsukune from this fate, Gyokuro agrees...and then mocks Moka's weakness before punching her in the face. She even directs Kahlua to murder her beloved little sister Kokoa with no remorse, Kokoa [[OffingTheOffspring being Gyokuro's own daughter as well]]. It's revealed Gyokuro's rage stems largely petty jealousy at Moka's mother, her rival Akasha. When she fuses with Alucard, Gyokuro gloats that she will destroy everything Akasha ever loved and destroy the world she protected. [[EvilIsSexy Beautiful,]] sadistic and unforgiving, Gyokuro viewed all in her path as nothing more than stepping stones for her own power.

* UnfortunateImplications: Mizore's arc in the manga creates some drama out of MandatoryMotherhood and DefiledForever, because it just so happens Mizore's race can only bear children between the teen years and mid-twenties. They absolutely must be married off or placed in an arranged marriage to produce children before their premature menopause. [[spoiler: Mizore tries to escape this fate by stripping and begging Tsukune to have sex with her]]. That's right. Mizore is a biological ChristmasCake.