The Familiar of Zero/YMMV

""Tabitha has taken over Siesta as my favorite character, and not just because she is channeling Yuki. She is made of pure win, I don't usually like the stoic silent types, but something about Tabitha just makes my inner moe meter go berserk.""
 * Abandon Shipping: Many bailed on the Louise/Saito ship after
 * Angst? What Angst?: Deconstructed but not at first glance.
 * Audience-Alienating Premise: The Familiar of Zero actually evolved into this trope, due to the Flanderization of its main characters from "Ordinary High School Student Trapped in Another World" and "Tsundere-ish Cute Witch" into "Perverted Jerkass" and "Psychopathic Sadistic Tsundere" respectively.
 * Canon Sue: Tabitha's long lost twin sister, who seems to have been created from a checklist of Mary Sue cliches.
 * Colbert Bump: The series recently saw a huge upswing in popularity on the Spacebattles Creative Writing board after The Hill of Swords showed up on the Fanfiction Recommendations thread; prior to that, it had been an almost complete unknown in the community, now ZnT fanfic threads have practically taken over the board.
 * Crowning Moment of Awesome - . Big damn hero, even if he was fighting them for his girlfriend and not Tristain.
 * It's not so much that
 * And on top of that, he didn't kill a single enemy, only knocked them unconscious. Now thats what I'd like to call awesome!
 * Die for Our Ship: Siesta treats Saito much better than Louise, but is loathed by fandom for that.
 * Dismissed Gender/Double Standard/Values Dissonance - Invoked plenty of times to say the least. Although then again Louise is not acting very different from what nobles actually did during Ancient Rome and Middle Ages. At one point killing a commoner (not to mention beating them up if they displeased you) ceased to be a crime at all (that usually didn't apply to townsfolk though, who were under protection of law to the extent that you had to have a valid reason to kill them).
 * Double Standard: Louise gets bashed for her abuse of Saito, yet very few people seem to care about his creepy perversion or rape attempts on her which, unlike Louise's questionable actions, are never provoked.
 * Dude, Not Funny: In chapter 2 of the second light novel, Louise whips Saito (not with a riding crop, but a real whip) until he passes out from the pain, after a previous beating from the night before.
 * In another point, Louise woke up to find Saito trying to undress her in her sleep so he could rape her. Not nearly as many fans are bothered by this compared Louise's abuse of Saito.
 * Eight Deadly Words: With such unlikable main characters like Louise and Saito (especially Louise), as well as terrible execution and Unfortunate Implications, many people ditched the series halfway through the first season.
 * Ensemble Darkhorse: Tabitha, Miss Lougeville, Kirche.
 * Macekre: Original light novels are, even though they still aren't free from occasional Fridge Logic concerning their plot, a few levels over the anime adaptation, which had quickly devolved from grey-coloured story with occasional breathers to Tsundere comedy with a lot of Fan Service and something happening in the background. Because of that, some things were slightly changed, and some cut off completely, often resulting in removing heart-warming or awesome moments just to put more female body parts in (a very prominent example being, being changed into  ; another fine example is  , being cut completely).
 * Moe: Tabitha, so very much. To quote someone from animeblogger:


 * Louise may also count.
 * One True Threesome - Louise/Saito/Siesta is a popular pairing, likely because Louise and Siesta balance each other out. This was teased a little in the 12th volume where Louise says she would be disappointed if Siesta gave up on winning Saito so easily.
 * This is of course when shippers stop painting the other as a manipulating monster, who just wants to interrupt true love
 * Also Louise generally gets very violent when another woman so much as looks at Saito funny.
 * Rescued from the Scrappy Heap: Louise usually gets this treatment in fan fiction. Done first by The Hill of Swords and then by about 99.9% of all ZnT fanfics that came after it.
 * For many this already happened after she gave up her nobility to save Tabitha and went uphill from there.
 * The Scrappy: Louise and Saito both qualify, depending on who you ask.
 * Hell, Louise period. Her abusive treatment of Saito (despite being abused herself), irritating personality, refusal to own up what she does, and the fact she's the main heroine when she does barely do anything heroic has made her one of the worst Scrappies in anime history. Her character, alongside anime!Naru and Kirino, has made many people bail on the Tsundere archetype. Anime America voted her as the most annoying anime character, and rightfully so.
 * Tear Jerker: Seeing Tabitha's mother for the first time; emaciated, insane and paranoid. She hurls insults and silverware at her own daughter, making it that much worse when the cause is revealed
 * They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot
 * The anime works at a conversion ratio of three to four volumes per twelve episodes. Due to this, at least two thirds of the source material has been outright omitted, and the rest truncated or chopped up. Had the anime remained faithful to the source materials all along... well, too late now, unfortunately.
 * The manga and novels aren't immune to this criticism either. In fact, the series as a whole often comes under fire for having a terrific premise, and absolutely terrible execution. The fact that almost every character is wholly unlikeable for one reason or another (Love Makes You Crazy and Idiot Ball being the most common reasons) certainly doesn't help matters.
 * Unintentionally Unsympathetic: Louise. She does have a lot of issues, but that doesn't excuse in the slightest her atrocious abuse of Saito. She's the prime example of a Tsundere Shana Clone done completely wrong.
 * What an Idiot!: Saito still hasn't figured out that commenting about large breasts (or her lack thereof) around Louise is a bad idea.
 * The Woobie: You really can't help but feel sorry for Saito because of the abuse heaped upon him by Louise. Hell, even the other familiars feel sorry for Saito, and see his treatment as both a familiar and a human as horrible. Tabitha qualifies too, once you learn of.
 * Louise in the light novels if you can look past her treatment of Saito. She has a huge insecurity complex.