YMMV / Ayane's High Kick

• Adorkable: Ayane's obsession with puroresu. In her very introduction, she tries a lot of high-flying wrestling maneuvers and puts all her heart on it, Calling Your Attacks included. The fact that she miscalls some of them only adds to it.
• Ass Pull: Ayane's last minute victory over Sakurako. Earlier during the match, one of the ringside commentators said the ref should have stopped the fight due to Ayane taking such a beating that she had to lean on the ropes to remain standing, but the ref allowed it to continue. Meanwhile, when Ayane lands one kick that inflicts what barely amounts to a papercut on Sakurako's forehead, suddenly the ref jumps in and calls it off. It amounts to an extreme anticlimax, which gets lampshaded by Sakurako:
  Sakurako: (points at Ayane) "You know, don't you, I was winning this fight!"
• Values Dissonance: The series premise is about a girl who aspires to become a professional wrestler but is duped into taking kickboxing lessons instead. A viewer only familiar with American pro wrestling might scratch their head wondering how can someone be so dense, but this confusion only reflects how different pro wrestling is in Japan. Historically, Japanese pro wrestling (puroresu) has been influenced by striking martial arts like Karate and Muay Thai, so even its most theatrical forms often contain big exchanges of strikes, and thus it's not any kind of stretch that someone could be taught only punches and kicks and still think they are learning pro wrestling. Ayane herself rationalizes it this exact way, for instance when she reasons Kunimitsu might be training her to be like Yumiko Hotta, a real life wrestler who has a karate background and uses many kicks in her matches. This was even more intuitive at the time the OVA was produced, The '90s, when Japanese wrestling was going through a realistic stage called "shoot-style", which ended up leading to the founding of the first Mixed Martial Arts promotions in Japan.