YMMV / Nouvelle

• Base-Breaking Character: Dove Dillinger initially. Fans either love the Queen of Noirs for her quirky personality, and genuinely loveable relationship with her little brother Loren; or find her utterly annoying and overpowered, wanting the God Slayer to finally get taken out and humbled by Erina. Dove does get a much warmer reception after she gets involved in a genuinely sweet, romantic relationship with Asahi and her tragic backstory regarding Baby Ruth is finally revealed though.
• Crack Pairing: The stories run on this: Takumi with Hisako, Akira with Megumi, Eizan with Shouko, and so on.
• Creepy Awesome: Ashitaro, truly a detestable and abusive character, but someone with the skills to put almost all other chefs of his generation to shame.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Aisha Akintola, the Littlest Competitor. Originally a very minor OC, but one who got a massive boost in appearances once fans demanded to see more of him.
• Foe Yay Shipping: Both Asahi/Dove and Loren/Nao are built on this, and have large fanbases because of it.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: In this story, a major plot point is that Erina's cooking tastes near identical to Soma's late mother's (Tamako Yukihira's) cooking. It wasn't until near the end of the manga that Tamako was revealed to have been horrible at cooking.
• Memetic Badass: Megumi. Unlike canon, she ended up failing upwards in this series, out-stalking Subaru, helping save Soma, defeating Shouko to gain an Elite Ten seat higher than even Soma's, and effectively remains undefeated throughout both stories.
• Salvaged Story: Nouvelle originally discarded all mentions of Azami's Central movement and Asahi's Noir shenanigans. These two elements take center stage in Classique, just being retrofitted into happening simultaneously, and very much at odds with one another, with the poor Tootsuki alumni stuck in the middle of it all.