- All-Star Cast: Several characters, especially the Five Datable Cast and the adults, are voiced by A-List voice actors. Inverted with the lesser-known Takeo Ōtsuka, starring in his first lead role as mob protagonist Leon.
- Creator's Pest: While he doesn't go out of his way to make her unsympathetic, Yomu Mishima has mentioned that Marie began life as a manifestation of his dislike of "little sister" characters in visual novels. To his chagrin, she's one of the more popular characters.
- Flip-Flop of God: Word of God said that Marie’s love for Leon, is platonic sibling love. In the Marie Route Side Story, she directly admits during a Battle in the Center of the Mind to being a bro-con and in the Main Story Side Story, when Leon and Marie tried the Love Testing machine in the Weiss Airship, it showed rather a high compatibility between the two but they just awkwardly concluded that the machine is broken and agreed to never bring it up again.
- Life Imitates Art: Repeatedly, Leon reacts to the five romanceable cast praising Marie, by lamenting What Does He See in Her? The author, in various author's notes, interviews, and blog posts, laments the same thing, only about fans liking her instead.
- God Created Canon Foreigner: Louise Sara Rault is original to the Light Novel continuity and never appeared in the original Web Serial Novel.
- No Export for You:
- Seven Seas Entertainment initially stated they wouldn't be releasing the Marie Route Side Story internationally. However, after it was formally published as a Spin-Off novel series, subtitled Otome Games Are Tough For Us, Too!, in 2022, Seven Seas greenlit a translation for April 2024.
- Most of the side-stories are not included in the official releases, depending on the translator and vendor.
- Portmanteau Series Nickname:
- The series is referred at times as Mobuseka (combining Mob and Isekai).
- The Marie Route is referred to as Anoseka (shortened from the official title, Ano Otome gē wa Oretachi ni Kibishī Sekaidesu)
- Recursive Adaptation: Nick’s romance plotline with Dorothea Roseblade originated in the spinoff Marie Route, before being re-adapted and expanded in the eighth volume.
- Staff-Created Fan Work:
- Marie Route Side Story is often described as an author-created fanfic, and the author described their one-off side story where Leon grew up in the Alzer Commonwealth like this.
- The mangaka in charge of manga adaptation of the franchise, creates plenty of drawings like this. Which sometimes get mistaken for canon.
- Trolling Creator: The outrageous scenes that end the epilogues of the later Light Novels.
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