Draco in Leather Pants: An in-story example: No matter what Kyosuke does (see Moral Event Horizon below) Kaoru sees him as more tragic than villainous. Minamoto is considerably worried by this.
Kyosuke cheats. Image management is a lot easier when you can erase memories. She eventually decides that he's too much of a villian for her to tolerate when he colony-drops a satellite to distract them while he goes to rescue his followers.
Genius Bonus: The Shout-Out Theme Naming for the characters are taken The Tale of Genji, or from people involved in its production. With Minamoto is named after Hikaru Genji himself. That confirms that this manga is really a Harem Genre like the original literature, and everybody wants Minamoto, even the guys, just like everybody wants Hikaru Genji in the original literature.
Harsher in Hindsight: Hyobu wearing a school uniform stops being funny, when you learn that he wears them as a sign of mourning for his old comrades. He didn't have funeral clothes and another member gave them to him because they were black, and they are in honor of them.
Moe: The Children...and Minamoto. As well as Kashiwagi, Bullet, Tin Toy, Yuuri, Akira, Hatsune, Naomi, and the children espers in general.
Kaoru falls under another trope, but when she wants to follow Mary into the bath, the other Children are right behind her...
All three of Phantom Daughter's personalities towards Kaoru. The affection seems to be mutual.
A B.A.B.E.L. clerk named "Mr. Tanaka" has a crush on Sakaki.
Kaoru gets a love letter from a female classmate, bue doesn't really like it, because she seeks such attention from adult women with big knockers.
The way Tsubomi tickled Masala's (who was possessing her grandson's sweetheart Sera) back after she put her in an armlock didn't look exactly platonic (Minamoto hit her for doing it in front of the children) with Masala's moaning.
It's really hard to understand any of the plight The Normal People say they suffer when what they do, such as blowing up bridges is a lot worse than what they accuse espers of doing. Also crossed by Black Phantom.
PANDRA and Hyobu leap over the horizon in chapter 161, when Hyobu brings down a satellite to crash on the city to distract BABEL. And in 163 Hyobu finally tries to kill Fujiko for real — only to be interrupted by Kaoru.
Values Dissonance: Minamoto slapping Kaoru after she (verbally) lashes out at her family. Kaoru then retaliates in her usual style.
The Woobie: All three of the Children under Suma. Doesn't stop them from giving as good as they get.
