- Captain Obvious Reveal: If observant revealers were to remember Reina carrying an infant after stealing the Witchblade, Masane having amnesia after the Great Quake, that when Reina and Rihoko stand side-by-side they have similair physical features, and the fact that Reina and Takayama were involved with each other, it wouldn't be hard to guess that Rihoko and Masane aren't biologically related, and that Reina and Takayama are her biological parents.
- Complete Monster: Tatsuoki Furumizu, aka "Father", is the creator of the Cloneblade using Neogeness: women able to bear imitations of the Witchblade. Despite being raised by a loving mother, Furumizu loathed her, seeing his father as "perfection" he wished to achieve. Angered by his own sterility, Furumizu has young women indoctrinated where he implants them with his genetics and the Cloneblades, all the while making them believes he cares for them. Furumizu is well aware the process leads to mental instability and inevitable death but simply doesn't care. His manipulations lead many of the Neogenes to lose their minds and do great harm before succumbing, but Furumizu simply has a second generation created, not caring when the strongest Maria kills his previous "favorite" Reina. Furumizu is solely obsessed with his own perfection and creating the perfect "mother" to give birth to his legacy.
- Ensemble Dark Horse:
- Shiori has a lot of fan content for a character that only appears for less than a third of the series. Most likely do the fact that she has the same (though slightly larger) buxom bodytype as Masane and a lot of viewers finding her witchblade form appealing.
- Rihoko also has extreme fan love because of her cuteness, maturity, and relationship with the main protagonist.
- Fanon Discontinuity: This is supposedly Canon with the comic book...despite that it doesn't work as anything other than an Alternate Continuity from it. Needless to say, comic fans ignore this series, either out of hatred or simply due to the Continuity Snarl caused by its existence in the comic canon.
- Funny Moments: Masane gets invited to a fancy party for Wadou. Thanks to her, it takes less than half an episode for the party to turn into Reiji and Wadou trying to drink each other under the table.
- Heartwarming Moments: "You're not afraid of me?" "'Course not. You're still my mom."
- Ho Yay: Shiori for Reina. She actually kisses the lip print left on a teacup at one point.
- Moment of Awesome: The standards are set pretty high, considering the nature of the series, but the scene where Takayama outdrinks Wadou in episode 10 most certainly qualifies.
- Superlative Dubbing: When talking about the show, few pass up the chance to talk about its impeccable English dub.
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