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* [[Complete Monster]]:

** {{spoiler|It's pretty clear that Genma is one by the end of the series.}}

** Daisuke does an impressive number of horrible things in the {{spoiler|short}} time we see him. He sleeps with his charges ({{spoiler|including his ''cousin''}}), posts [[Digital Piracy Is Evil|web-porn of his conquests]], tries to deny it when confronted about it and when that fails, tries to blame his lovers for his wandering eye and refuses to apologize for anything he did. He apparently gets a teacher to agree to sleep with him by drugging her, hires a gang to "take care" of one of his mouthier lovers, and tasers his would-be {{spoiler|and eventual}} killer [[Ungrateful Bastard|after she decides to spare him.]]

** Claude really has no redeeming qualities to speak of. He ends up slaughtering an entire building full of contractors who wished to live peacefully. All while wearing that [[Psychotic Smirk|evil bastard smile]], no doubt.

** Of course, Suou also has her fans, who thought that she gave the season a fresh approach which it sorely needed, since season 1 all over again (just substituting Amber with {{spoiler|Yin/Izanami}} would have stagnated the plot.

** And then you have the people who think that second season ''did'' stagnate the plot, and that Suou's spotlight stealing made it ''even worse''.

** Meena

* [[Moral Event Horizon]]:

** {{spoiler|The callous and horrible way in which Tanya kills her other best friend/crush Nika.}}

** Claude's massacre of a group of Contractors who just wanted to live in peace. Particularly since given [[Master of Illusion|his powers]], he had [[For the Evulz|no real reason to do it]].

* [[Toy Ship]]: Suou/{{spoiler|July,}} who's [[Emotionless Girl|somehow]] fond of her.

 

* [[Complete Monster]]: Ilya Sokolov, a creepy motherfucker even by Contractor standards. Just in case he wasn't horrifying enough, he casually revealed that he had been a [[Serial Killer]] '''before''' he became a Contractor. {{spoiler|''The guy who hired him'' thanks Hei for killing the psycho.}}

** {{spoiler|Genma, arguably, crossed into this territory.}}

* [[Crack Pairing]]: Hei/Hazuki. {{spoiler|Hilariously enough, the only shipping pair to actually get any action. [[Intimate Healing|That remuneration]] sure is awkward, huh?}}

* [[Crazy Awesome]]: Playing chicken with an ''airplane''. {{spoiler|Hei. Genma. Episode 9.}}

** He pulls some seriously awesome stuff in the last episode, though, and there's some more clear-cut moments in the second season.

* [[Crowning Moment of Funny]]: [[Darker and Edgier|Not much]], but Huang [[Fantastic Racism|slighting]] Mao into near-hissing only to be [[Insult Backfire|verbally drowned in vitriol]] by [[Deadpan Snarker|absolutely calm]] Hei might count. And there's the [[Private Defective]] team... "I'll totally sue you."

** Kiko's very existence serves as a comedy relief element for the series. Other than Mao's [[Sweat Drop|nervous sweat-beads]], she's the only other character who's frequently prone to over-exaggerated anime emotions, such as [[Wingding Eyes]] whenever an opportunity to make money comes around, and [[Expressive Hair]].

*** One great Kiko moment was when she and a friend were complaining about [[Adaptation Decay]] of some unnamed series.

** And, after Mao {{spoiler|wakes up in Amber's headquarters}}, he gives a long, dramatic monologue about how contractors always do the logical thing. When he get caught by the others for trying to non-chalantly walk out of the room, he tries to logically respond with a {{spoiler|"Meow."}}

*** '''"NI HAO!!!"''' (Cut from the dub)

** "[[Alien Sky|The stars are pretty]]."

* [[Fanon Discontinuity]]: Some people ignore the second season entirely

* [[Iron Woobie]]:

* [[Launcher of a Thousand Ships]]: Poor Hei gets shipped with ''everyone.''

* [[Leave the Plot Threads Hanging]]: The complete lack of explanation for the [[Eldritch Location|Gates]], [[Alien Sky]], and the like generally works well enough that resolving exactly what's going on would probably be a bit of a letdown.

**** Yeah, that's exactly i-UNTZ UNTZ UNTZ UNTZ UNTZ UNTZ UNTZ UNTZ UNTZ UNTZ UNTZ

** [[Fan Nickname|Chinese Electric Batman]]!

** [[Perverse Sexual Lust|I wish Hei'd rape me. ;_;]]

** Hei will die. But his soul will choose to go back in time, the time when he was happiest, and he will be at season 1 first episode. Suou who loves Hei wants to be with him too and wants to be in a time when Hei'd love her, but since he already loves Yin she'll go back in time before Hei is born, and became his mother.

** Nika and cockroaches - just... ''gah!''

** Izanami's awakening.

* [[Sequelitis]] / [[Seasonal Rot]]: A solid few of the fanbase are very and vocally dissatisfied with the new tone.

** Though many were somewhat mollified towards the end, when the [[Lolicon]] subtext was turned down and [[He's Back|Hei stopped acting so obnoxious]].

** Yin's nightmare. She keeps quietly saying Hei's name... which you quickly realize is the [[Emotionless Girl]] equivalent of screaming for help.

** Despite being a major [[Mind Screw]], {{spoiler|what happens to Nick in episode 12 is also oddly emotional, especially when you remember what his dream was.}}

* [[The Woobie]]: Havoc. Not bad for a reviled mass murderer who literally [[Eats Babies|drank the blood of children]].

** In season 2, Genma invokes the trope in hopes that it can apply to him ("Hey, having an unfortunate past can score me some [[Moe]] points!"). <ref>That'd probably work better if Hei didn't have the [[Dark and Troubled Past]] thing cornered and Amber, Suo, and Yin weren't covering the [[Moe]].</ref>

* [[Woolseyism]]: The first two episodes make more sense and fit the tone of the rest of the series quite a bit better in the dub; in particular, they changed Jean's completely-inconsistent-with-everything-else comments about "installing a personality" to something like "Contractors have feelings too" and replaced Mao's inexplicable line about Hei's coat only being bulletproof when ''he'' wears it with an excellent [[Deadpan Snarker]] moment along the lines of "Hei doesn't just wear that coat as a fashion statement."