- Adaptation Displacement: Most North American anime fans are only familiar with the series through the anime adaptation, since the original light novels were never released in English.
- Fanfic Fuel: The anime ends off with 10 magic clones of Kazuki and 6 girls who are interested in him at most. This leaves it up to the viewers to think of who the remaining 4 clones would end up with, if one is to assume Kuriko was joking about taking half of them for herself.
- Like You Would Really Do It: Hah, yeah, like you'd really have Kazuki use up all his spells and die during the series! Wait... what? Oh... so you actually will, huh? Well... Didn't See That Coming. Even if he does spend most of the rest of the series hanging around as a ghost while they look for a way to revive him, it's still a shock.
- Once Original, Now Common: Any reader today would see the often-used Wizarding School setting, the bland protagonist, and the harem of girls competing for his attention for rather flimsy reasons, assume it to be a product of the early 2010s and tune out quickly. However, the novels began publication in 2000 and the anime adaptation first aired in 2003, well before light novels of this genre even became popular. It also has a host of character-driven Story Arcs, which is more than can be said of those that follow it.
- Padding: There's nothing in this series that couldn't have been done in 12 or 13 episodes, but instead it's 24 episodes.
- The Scrappy: The members of Kazuki and Yuna's class (Yokihiko Nakamaru in particular) may be collectively the most petty and selfish class in anime, putting Kazuki on trial and trying to mete out punishments simply because he is friendly with Yuna. They even go so far as to sabotage a collaboration with another class just to spite Kazuki while their schemes force him to use up two of his eight spells.
- They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot:
- It's a world where everyone has magic, everyone is judged on the basis of how many times they can use magic and the main character has barely any magic. This society is barely ever explored in favor of harem comedy hijinks.
- Additionally, the whole reason the girls are after Kazuki's genes (aside from Yuna who actually likes him) is because, while he only has eight spells, the power of each of them is potentially greater than those of any other mage in the world. How many of those spells are actually used on great, epic feats of magic? Just two! The one used to save Kuriko from two Behemoths that Dr. Akai said they would have needed the JSDF to contain and the one that saved Yuna's life, which was theoretically impossible. The rest were mostly wasted (at one point he uses a spell to prevent a boxed lunch from spilling and a grand total of 4 of them were use simply to make it snow).
- Unconvincingly Unpopular Character: Kazuki is your bog standard nice guy (often to a fault) harem protagonist. He also happens to have a noble lineage (he's connected to every major magical bloodline in Japan and Europe) and massive magical potentialnote . But for some reason, only the upper-upper class families know this. To everyone else in school, he's this magicless twerp who somehow has the attention of the three most-popular girls in school, even after he's used several of his uber-spells to save them from their own stupidity.
- The Woobie: Kazuki gets no respect from his peers because of the low amount of spells he can cast, and additional hatred from his classmates because a few girls actually like him.
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