YMMV / Tokyo ESP

• Complete Monster: Hephaitos, the Machine Duke, is an Esper who has lived for over a century using his power of possession. Taking the bodies of teenage female espers both for their powers and to satisfy his lust, Hephaitos leads the assault on Murasaki Edoyama's house to capture Ren Jomaku while shooting at everything that he can and taking the body of Marume Maruyama, technopath and Ren's close friend, gloating to her about how her friend is gone. When the factions of Ares break up in a civil war, Hephaistos starts by using drones and bombs to destroy the streets of Tokyo while proclaiming his domain over the city and personally fatally injuring another of Ren's friends. When Marume starts regaining control of her body, Hephaitos tries to kill himself with the intention of taking her with him.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: The Kuroi twins, to the point Kobushi ended up becoming a prominent ally for the heroes and Kozuki for the villains.
• Ho Yay: Surprisingly for a manga with a predominantly female cast of main characters, most of the main characters have boyfriends or people they wish were their boyfriends. That being said...
  • Kozuki seems a little too...attached to Minami. She gave up stealing The Ark of the Covenant to stay with Minami when she could have finally given something to her grandmother to prove herself as Black Fist, eagerly protects Minami from danger, sits on her while she sleeps, and finds an excuse to kiss her on the cheek.
  • Related to this, Hibiki accuses them of flirting in the middle of a fight. This is after she lustfully licked Minami's blood off her blade, by the way, and she makes no attempts to hide the fact she's sexually interested in Minami. Even this crazy girl can tell Kozuki sees Minami as more than a ward.
  • By chapter 62, even Minami is aware of the fact she may have deeper feelings for Kozuki, and tearfully admits that, after everything that's happened so far, Kozuki is her everything.
  • The very first thing Minami and Kozuki do when they reunite in chapter 64? Hold hands while Minami says Kozuki's name and Kozuki looks close to breaking down in tears.
  • Minami says everything short of 'I love you' to Kozuki after telling Kozuki to wait for her, and that they can live freely starting the next day onward, in part 70.
    • And then Kozuki starts shrieking Minami's name as Minami gives Kozuki a sad smile and teleports away with the Dowser and the Professor. There's subtext and then there's being obvious.
  • Finally, at the very end, they get a Relationship Upgrade. They finally get to be together, and Minami is smiling.
• Just Here for Godzilla: A number of people have only heard of the anime because Sky Does Minecraft voices the male lead in the English dub.
• Magnificent Bastard: The Professor, formerly Hokusai Azuma, was an archeologist who discovered the Holy Ark containing the Super-Empowering Glowing Fishes. Becoming one of the first espers of the modern era, the Professor was betrayed and attacked by the General of his country and the Ares organization, which left his entire crew dead. Crafting his persona as "The Professor", he went back to Japan, adopting the son of one of his deceased crew-mates and begins plotting his vengeance against Ares, founding the terrorist group known as the Esper Liberation Front. Successfully opening the Ark atop the Tokyo Tower, the Professor causes a Mass Super-Empowering Event and despite his subsequent imprisonment, completes his revenge on Ares by leaving the heroes with instructions to take them down and free his beloved daughter. Driven to avenge his comrades, the Professor ruthlessly advances on his goals with care for none save his own child.
• Narm: Rinka awakens her Enemy Within by... sticking a finger up her nose. It gets even better; this is in the middle of an interrogation with her being grilled by a mind reading ESP user. Her head rears back, her eyes become black...and no one notices anything. They go on talking to her as if she hadn't just stuck her finger in her nose and her eyes changed to black.
• Replacement Scrappy: Ren, for taking the spotlight away from Rinka for much of Part 2. Though, thankfully, she eventually comes into her own, and for the final third of the story, the two are given near-equal time in the spotlight, with Rinka getting a slight majority. It's still and always will be her story, after all.
• Rooting for the Empire: The Professor's back-story is actually quite tragic, and enough to get people to back him in his plan to create a new world.
• The Scrappy: Ayumu can get close to being this at times, especially in the second half. In the first half, he's still a sexist jerk, but at least he ends up growing to grudgingly respect Rinka. By part two, he's the only original member of the group not to be happy to see Rinka back even after finding out she's completely clear of all charges against her AND they found her while she was stopping a hospital bombing, gets confrontational with Azuma for next to no reason, and has the gall to call Murasaki out for 'not acting seriously' literally moments after admitting to deliberately keeping her Locked Out of the Loop. About the only time his standoffish nature is justified is when he calls out Minami on her pity party after all the shit she made the cast go through working with The Professor.
• Unintentional Uncanny Valley: As opposed to being Gonk like some characters, the blonde haired CIA agent sometimes seen throughout the manga just seems...off. Her face is more realistic than the faces of other characters, which clashes with the world a bit.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: Claudia Kuroi gets an Alas, Poor Villain moment in her last scene, with her expressing sadness at the fact that she never had the family she wanted and feeling so depressed she cannot even be bothered to commit suicide. However, her reasons for her family not being around are entirely her own fault since she tortured and killed all her husbands and one of her daughters, which makes this come off as nothing more as blaming them for her actions, and after all her horrible actions throughout the story, from destroying her own family to holding underground fighting rings where she forced people to fight to the death and sold some of them as sex slaves, many readers found her final fate to be very cathartic and refused to feel sorry for her despite the author's intent.