Rosario + Vampire/YMMV


 * Ass Pull -- Part of the Gecko Ending of the second season anime. Tsukune somehow manages to call upon vampire powers he's only used once before, when he was injected with Moka's blood last season, with pretty much no foreshadowing. Whether or not you've read the manga, it just seems absurd.
 * Betty and Veronica -- Outer Moka (Betty) has to deal with a couple of Veronicas, namely Kurumu and Mizore.
 * Combat Sadomasochist: Routier. Although she doesn't like being hurt herself, she adores cutting others up.
 * Complete Monster: Gyokuro reveals herself to be one as the manga progresses.
 * Crowning Moment of Awesome -- See the page.
 * Crowning Moment of Funny -- See the page.
 * Crowning Moment of Heartwarming -- See the page.
 * Crowning Music of Awesome -- Season 1 ending theme Dancing in the Velvet Moon
 * Ensemble Darkhorse -- The bus driver; for some reason, lots of fans think he's really cool.
 * He has glowing eyes, always has his cigar and can drive his bus anywhere. How is that not really cool?
 * Gin has been involved in a lot more action recently. Probably because Tsukune's recent upgrade to Bishie status didn't quite fill the Bishounen quota for the female readers.
 * Kokoa is a generally well-liked addition to the main cast for her tough but ultimately endearing nature, and for notably breaking the mold by (*gasp) not falling for Tsukune!
 * Evil Is Sexy: Gyokuro Shuzen. To be fair, pretty much every plot-significant character is bishie these days.
 * Fan-Preferred Couple - Mizore/Kurumu ever since their on screen kiss.
 * Tsukune/Inner Moka is also the most popular pairing of the Harem.
 * Funny Aneurysm Moment - The joke in chapter 1 season 2 where Mizore wants to have babies with Tsukune becomes a lot less funny in the Snow Fairy arc when we find out there was a reason for her wanting a baby with him.
 * Remember when the Security Committee under Kuyou interpreted Youkai's "no humans" rule as an instant death penalty, to be carried out at 4:00 following the discovery, of "filthy human spies"? Aside from the Harsher in Hindsight example below, when you learn in Season II during San's arc that killing humans is strictly forbidden to monsters on pain of death, you realize that Kuyou may have actually put the entire Security Committee at risk!
 * Gecko Ending -- That's probably the kindest way to refer to the second season anime's ending. However, so little of the plot was intact to begin with that it hardly even counts. Season II of the anime could essentially be considered a gecko season.
 * Germans Love David Hasselhoff -- While far from obscure in Japan, it should be noted that in North America it consistently debuts in the top 5 on the New York Times Best Seller Manga list, sometimes even reaching #1.
 * As of mid-2011, it is the 7th best-selling manga title in North America, directly ahead of Fullmetal Alchemist, Dragonball Z, Soul Eater and One Piece. That is major!
 * Harsher in Hindsight -- That arc from the first serialization where the Newspaper Club and Student Police crossed swords at an even higher intensity than ever before, thus kicking off Cerebus Syndrome for the manga?
 * Idiot Plot -- Too often, Tsukune and/or his harem have a moment where they go off and do something plain dumb, only to get into loads of trouble. This is followed by an apology...until it happens again, in the next chapter. It seems to be fading as the story goes on, however. Mostly because trouble is following them now.
 * Kick the Dog: Miyabi.
 * Magnificent Bastard: Hokuto
 * Moe -- Inner Moka can pull this off at times.
 * Yukari is an 11-year-old witch. Nobody should look that cheery and adorable when threatening people with magical warfare. (The magic wand with the heart-shaped topper just makes it cuter.)
 * Moral Event Horizon -- The series has a few so far, and many, many attempts to hop, skip and flat-out run over the line, but so far the crown has to go to.
 * Don't think it counts.
 * Another instance is Hitomi Ishigami . Her motive for doing this was a revenge scheme against the Newspaper Club for exposing her plot to and use of modeling sessions as a pretense and getting her fired for it. So in other words, she  out of spite toward just a few of the students. It's also arguable that she may have crossed it earlier when she schemed with the Security Committee and Kuyou to murder Tsukune for the same reason.
 * Kuyou himself crosses it with his interpretation of the school rule "No humans allowed" as "Death to all filthy human spies!". Not only is he willing to commit murder based on his own twisted interpretation of a school rule, he's also completely willing to risk the lives of the existing members of the Security Committee by having Tsukune murdered. To make his mindset much worse,
 * Kanade Kamiya tap-dances over the MEH four times each day before breakfast. However, only one of his acts can count as his personal MEH, like, say,, for instance.
 * Nightmare Fuel --
 * Kahlua. Oh. God. Just. Kahlua.
 * Alucard is really damn freaky, you do not even know where it came from, nor if its even from our earthly plane. If it grabs you with those tentacles, it can pull you into itself and make you part of Alucard's whole. HOW MANY PEOPLE EXIST IN THAT THING!!! Adding to this, the thing is gigantic, barely describable in terms of appearance, and nearly impossible to kill.
 * Chapter 49.  HOLY FUCKING SHIT
 * Periphery Demographic: Perhaps owing to the increasingly Bishonen male cast and school life elements, this series has a surprisingly faithful female fandom.
 * Squick
 * Spotlight-Stealing Squad: Vampires have become this in later in the manga.
 * Tear Jerker -- The second manga's starting to throw around some much heavier story arcs, some of which have some very emotional moments:
 * There are hints that.
 * Reading the chapter with that in mind it seems like he actually
 * Akasha's . That is all.
 * They Changed It, Now It Sucks -- The anime adaptation lacked much of the original manga's plot, character depth, and atmosphere, and unapologetically bombarded the viewers with panty shots at the most inappropriate moments (read: all the freaking time). The second season was an In Name Only adaptation, being completely original and almost indisputably inferior.
 * although one can argue it was a Pragmatic Adaptation since the manga was just barely into it's second serialization at the time of the Anime's second season and any loyal to the manga anime adaptation for the second serialization would had quickly Overtook the Manga.
 * There are also those who prefer the Lighter and Softer anime, feeling that the manga was Flanderized into a bog standard shounen fighting series, losing almost all of the humor and charm the series had early on in the process.
 * Unfortunate Implications -- Mizore's arc in the manga creates some drama out of Mandatory Motherhood and Defiled Forever, because it just so happens Mizore's race can only bear children between the teen years and mid-twenties. They absolutely must be married off or placed in an arranged marriage to produce children before their premature menopause. It Gets Worse..
 * That's right. Mizore is a biological Christmas Cake.
 * The Woobie - All the girls have their own woobie moments, but the one that takes the cake would be Mizore. Spurned by her childhood love because she's not human; assaulted by the teacher she had a crush on, only to get the reputation of being violent from defending herself and became anti-social; ; and to top it off, no matter how much she loves Tsukune, he will most likely never return her feelings.
 * She cements this position in the second manga after
 * Kurumu gets her own woobie story when
 * Moka certainly qualifies. At the beginning of the manga we're told that Moka was picked on and ostracized by her peers and never had any real friends. Later on we find out that
 * Even worse, Omote Moka being
 * Kurumu gets her own woobie story when
 * Moka certainly qualifies. At the beginning of the manga we're told that Moka was picked on and ostracized by her peers and never had any real friends. Later on we find out that
 * Even worse, Omote Moka being
 * Moka certainly qualifies. At the beginning of the manga we're told that Moka was picked on and ostracized by her peers and never had any real friends. Later on we find out that
 * Even worse, Omote Moka being