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* [[Abuse Is Okay When Its Female On Male]]: But only in the brawls. YMMV, but in general, Ume's chronic assaults on Satou are shown to be not OK, and occasionally get [[Played for Drama]].

* [[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.

* [[Affectionate Parody]]: Of [[Shonen]] [[Fighting Series]].

** [[Indecisive Parody]]: Once you get past the concept, you'll notice that a fair amount of the [[Hot-Blooded]] action is played completely straight.

* [[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.

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

{{quote| '''Announcer''': EXCELLENT!!!}}

** 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).

* [[Dragged Into Drag]]: Satou in episodes 4 and 5

* [[Ecchi]]: More so in the second half of the series.

* [[Embarrassing Nickname]]: {{spoiler|Nikaido brands Satou as "Pervert". This also applies to just about every nom de Guerre, despite most sounding cool on the surface}}.

* [[Muse Abuse]]: Oshiroi is very, very guilty of this in universe.

* [[Naughty Nurse Outfit]]: The Sawagi twins infiltrate Satou's hospital in tight pink nurse outfits. Of course, the actual nurses working there are older and dress much more modestly.

** {{spoiler|Sen's and Ayame's}} are also the result of this. {{spoiler|Sen once attempted to buy a ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chu-hi Chu-Hi Ice]'' (a type of Vodka mixer) with her bento, while Ayame fell asleep in Lake Park after eating her first Honor Seal Bento.}}

** Orthros is the only example that averts this trope, as their name derives from a genuinely fearsome two headed dog from Greek myth.

* [[Nice Hat]]: Asebi's hat.

* [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown]]: {{spoiler|Monarch beats the living shit out of Satou.}}

** And later, {{spoiler|Orthros}} beats the living shit out of {{spoiler|EVERYONE.}}

* [[Product Placement]]: This anime is sponsored by [[Sega|SE-GA!]]

* [[Pun-Based Title]]: ''Bentō'' rhymes with ''sentō'' ("battle").

* [[Raging Stiffie]]: Satou in Episode 5 after {{spoiler|he gets knocked out by the Monarch and wakes up with the store's young, female God of Discounts standing over him.}} And again in [[Pool Episode|episode 7]], when Brunette's top rips open and Shaga rubs her breasts against his back. {{spoiler|It ends up working to his advantage, however, as he can use it as a rudder to help steer him to the Bento.}}

* [[Rage Quit]]: In Episode 8, Sen throws Satou's Sega Dreamcast out the window after losing consecutive matches to Ayame, Asebi, and Satou without being able to land a single hit on any of them.

* [[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.}}

* [[Shaming the Mob]]: {{spoiler|Satou does this in the finale. And it is ''[[Crowning Moment of Awesome|awesome]]''.}}

** That's also arguably [[Inverted]] - {{spoiler|how many times have we ever seen the hero trying to shame the mob ''into'' fighting instead of out of it?}}

* [[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.