Ben-To: Difference between revisions

However, he continues to ignore the warnings of both his classmates and the stockboy at the store until one day, when the "Ice Witch" offers to train him in the ways of the Wolves. [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|With her help, he just might survive long enough to buy a half-priced bento box at the grocery store]].

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* [[Action Dress Rip]]: Played with. During her first fight, Shaga's wearing a dress she was forced into, and uses a pair of chopsticks to hike it up to her hip.

* [[A Day in the Limelight]]: Episode 9, for [[The Scrappy|Shiraume]]. It went pretty much [[Attempted Rape|the]] [[Yandere|way]] [[Abuse Is Okay When Its Female On Male|you'd]] [[Unprovoked Pervert Payback|expect]].

* [[Balance of Power]]: {{spoiler|The Club of Heracles ostensibly ejected Orthros from the brawls in order to preserve this. In fact, it was just so he could win.}}

* [[Bedmate Reveal]]: Ayame to Yō in [[The Stinger]] to episode 3.

* [[Bland-Name Product]]: "Picky" and "Bretz", among others.

* [[Boobs of Steel]]: Zig-zagged. Ayame is the bustiest character (so far) but is below a less-endowed Yarizui in terms of fighting capability, but Matsy used to be the "Monarch Butterfly", the strongest Wolf in the east, and she's bustier (even back then) than Yarizui is.

* [[Color Coded for Your Convenience]]: The students are color coded according to year.

* [[Comedic Sociopathy]]: Satou being stripped twice, first time by Ume the second time by the girls that were trying to save him from flying for his clothes in an incinerator and gets burned butt-naked.

* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]: {{spoiler|Satou vs. Monarch}}. More humorously, Shaga vs. Satou in [[Virtua Fighter]] 2.

** Even more humorously Ayame/Asebi/Satou vs Sen in Virtua fighter. Nine matches, nine losses. Sen should just stick to actual fighting.

** Hounds, nothing. {{spoiler|The Club of Heracles}} figured out a rather smart, if [[Kick the Dog|incredibly dickish]], way of dealing with [[Blood Knight|Orthros]]. {{spoiler|Rather than trying to beat them, he got all of the other wolves to not start the brawl until after the Sawagis walked up and took the bento they wanted. Because the Sawagis' [[Goal in Life]] from a very young age had been to participate in the bento brawls, this ended up as an extremely traumatic experience that they still have nightmares about three years down the road.}} {{spoiler|Thanks to Satou being the [[Hot-Blooded]] [[Determinator]] that he is, however, this didn't work when he tried it again.}}

* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]: Orthros, since {{spoiler|the Club of Heracles essentially ejected them from the only thing they'd wanted to do since they were toddlers. They were traumatized to the point where they retired from hunting for three years, moved to another city, and still have nightmares over the incident.}}

* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: The Omelettits ([[Gag Boobs|Matsuba's]] winning recipe) in episode 7.

* [[Do-It-Yourself Theme Tune]]: The ending theme, "Egao no Housoku" is sung by [[Mariya Ise]] (Sen).

** Second episode as well.

* [[Food Porn]]: The bento boxes are made to look mouth-wateringly delicious.

** Among Oshiroi's [[Yaoi Fangirl|brainstormings]] is the idea that "Saito" will be attacked by two opponents, alluding to the Orthros fight later in the episode.

** While reading up on the Greek myth of Orthros, Satou finds out that the titular dog was killed by Heracles, and then remarks that Orthros' death was a tragic one.

** {{spoiler|[[Subverted Trope|Subverted.]] Club of Heracles defeated Othros by letting them take what they wanted without a fight, and is later destroyed by every other named character when he tries it again.}}

* [[The Juggernaut]]: Boars

** [[Born Unlucky]]: Not even charms will work around her.

* [[Kissing Cousins]]: Played with by Ayame and Yo.

* [[Rapunzel Hair]]: Ume, Ayame and Brunette.

* [[Reality Ensues]]: Satou actually does get hospitalized for his injuries in episode 8. However, said injuries were the result of jumping out of a 5 story window rather than a Bento brawl. {{spoiler|Also subverted - he's perfectly fine, and the bandages were a prank by Shaga.}}

** Satou later earns the nickname {{spoiler|Pervert, even though he doesn't want it}}.

*** He also gets the nickname {{spoiler|Two Dogs with Ren}}.

* [[Shower Scene]]: Sen gets one in the first chapter of the prequel manga.

** The Sawagis also get a rather [[Incest Subtext|loaded]] one in Episode 10.

* [[Soundtrack Dissonance]]: [[Ear Worm]] music plays during the calm right before a battle. Justified since the battles take place in either a convenience store or supermarket.

* [[Spoiler Opening]]: The second opening blatantly gives away the fact that {{spoiler|despite being introduced as villains, the Kyo twins will join the main cast.}}

* [[Truth in Television]]: a lot of the "bentou-hunting techniques and etiquette" shown in the series can be witnessed daily in Japanese supermarkets and department stores. Albeit with less blodshed!

* [[Twelve-Episode Anime]]

* [[Victory Is Boring]]: Satou's reaction to the hounds' methods to gaining bentos.

** {{spoiler|The Club of Heracles engineered this reaction for Orthros, but the result was less boring and more traumatic.}}

*** Exceeded by {{spoiler|the Monarch's Cart-Fu!!}}

**** Only to be outdone by {{spoiler|Orthos shopping basket [[Speed Blitz]]}}

** Only to be outdone by Sato in episode 12 when his stomach growls and in turns causes a chain reaction of stomach growling causing {{spoiler|Club of Heracles' gambit to fall apart.}}

** Episode 7: [[Interesting Situation Duel|Pool bento fight]]

** The story about the aftermath of the battle between the Wizard and Monarch Butterfly. Kaneshiro manages to win, but collapses on his way home due to expending all of his strength. What does he do? He makes sure to finish his bento before passing out!

* [[Wholesome Crossdresser]]: Satou in episode 5, [[Butt Monkey|not that he has any say in the matter, though...]]

** [[Dragged Into Drag]]

* [[World of Badass]]

* [[A Worldwide Punomenon]]: A special bento named "Tent of Food" ends up being the only thing shielding Satou's member from view when his trunks fall off in the [[Pool Episode]].

** Also, many of the recurring Wolves like Brunette, Monk, and Beardy have suffered this fate as well.

** To heck with all those characters, the real one who gets Worfed is {{spoiler|The Ice Witch, who gets beaten up rather easily by Orthros, see [[Worf Had the Flu]].}}