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* [[Crowning Music of Awesome]]: The third OP, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jX4ZwBlQy0s Tattoo Kiss].

* [[Die for Our Ship]]: May Wong is ''really'' hated by some Leon/Sora shippers. [[Double Standard|Ken Robbins is not]], despite all the [[Les Yay]] subtext.

* [[Double Standard]]: According to fandom May is a whore, a bitch, a self centered [[Jerkass]] and should be shot to death... but Leon can get away with lots of shit and arrogant stunts and ''he's just misunderstoooooooood''. Specially bad when you recall {{spoiler|that Leon was the one who injured May and could have potentially ''killed'' her.}}

* [[Family-Unfriendly Aesop]]: Some of the training techniques and behaviors seen in both the Kaleido Stage and the International Circus Festival are ''not'' exactly ethical.

* [[Purity Sue]]: Sora Naegino is a ''deconstruction'' of this trope. She has traits that would make her the [[Ur Example]]... and yet they work ''against'' her. She has to balance her extreme idealism with her experiences in the circus world to keep believing in herself and the rest of the world and not go the [[Knight in Sour Armor]] route.

** {{spoiler|Sophie Oswald}} is a more by-the-book version, but it's a [[Justified Trope]]: {{spoiler|Being a [[Dead Little Sister]], she didn't last long enough, ''and'' Leon would've been OOC if he didn't idealize her due to the ''terrible'' circumstances surrounding her death.}}

* [[The Scrappy]]: No matter how much she was redeemed, May is ''still'' bashed and gets her share of [[Character Development]] ignored or handwaved by [[Fan Dumb]].

* [[Wangst]]: Sora's problems in the second season are very valid, but sometimes her angst ''does'' get extremely grating. Lampshaded by Fool, who tells her that {{spoiler|if she doesn't come around, she'll lose her chance to be the Kaleido Star, and as such she'll stop seeing him. And it happens for a while.}}