YMMV / Inu × Boku SS

• Adorkable: Watanuki constant attempts to look and act like a delinquent, only to fail each time because of how much of a genuinely sweet kid he is, makes him very endearing.
• Awesome Music: The first opening, "Nirvana" by MUCC, if for no other reason than those mind-blowing vocals.
• Broken Base: Would the anime adaptation have benefited from adapting more chapters of the manga? Or was the anime adaptation able to end on a satisfying note even if it only adapted the early chapters of the manga?
• Ensemble Dark Horse:
  • Karuta Roromiya is the most popular resident of Ayakashi Hall aside from Ririchiyo and Soushi. Even though she doesn't do much in terms of plot, her stoic cloudcuckoolandery and gluttonous tendencies are very amusing to a lot of fans. Made even more apparent in the anime adaptation where she was voiced by the very popular Kana Hanazawa.
  • Chino Kotomura is the most popular of the Ayakashi maids for similar reasons to Karuta.
  • Among the male characters, Watanuki is well-liked for being a cute, Adorkable Bishōnen, his adorable relationship with Karuta, and the interesting friendship he develops with Inugami that ultimately ends up saving everyone.
• Genius Bonus: In biology, an atavist is "a genetic characteristic emerging after absence from several generations" or "an organism that has the characteristics of a more primitive type of that organism." Both definitions easily apply to the atavists in the series, a group of "genetic throwbacks" who essentially reincarnate into themselves every time they die.
• Ho Yay:
  • Between Karuta and Ririchiyo, such as the former trying to feed the latter, much to Nobara's delight.
  • An entirely one-sided example with Zange and Soushi, as Zange tends to flirt and fawn over Soushi when they're together. While Soushi lets him do so without protest, he never engages with Zange or acts with anything other than polite evasion.
  • In the reincarnation timeline there seems to be shades of this occurring between Zange and Renshou, with them playing at a "mommy" and "daddy" act.
• Moe:
  • Ririchiyo, Karuta, and Chino.
  • Watanuki is a male example, especially in the second half where he becomes younger and acts more openly childish as a result.
• No Yay: Nobara's fascination with Chino^*and Kotarou's little sister in the bonus episode has some uncomfortable overtones to it. Thankfully this trope is acknowledged by the other characters in-universe.
• One True Pairing: Outside of the main pairing, a lot of fans took a liking towards Watanuki x Karuta, especially because it's acknowledged in canon that the two like each other.
• Superlative Dubbing: It is generally agreed among English dub fans that the dub was one of the best put out by Sentai Filmworks. It helps that Sentai mirrored the Japanese version of the series by casting well established actors of their talent pool into the dub. Made even more impressive is that the very controversial Steven Foster was the ADR director and this was before Sentai grew the beard.