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* [[Alas, Poor Villain]]: {{spoiler|Alyssa's death. She's too cute to die, and too covertly evil to let get away, but it's still so damn ''sad'' to watch her go.}}
* [[Alternate Character Interpretation]]: Some suspect that Shizuru was [[Not Himself|not herself]] during her [[Psycho Lesbian]] phase, especially considering that immediately after {{spoiler|being resurrected}}, she [[Tears of Remorse|breaks down crying]], [[My God, What Have I Done?|begging for Natsuki's forgiveness]].
* [[Americans Hate Tingle]]: Italian Mai-[[Hi ME]] fans hate Shizuru.
* [[Base Breaker]]: Shizuru. She has many fans, but people who are fans of her victims often hate her. It's hard to find anyone who's indifferent.
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** {{spoiler|The Obsidian Lord. This guy arranges the entire Hime battle to make sure the Hime lose their loved ones so that he gains power from the battle, in during the battle in question in this series he plans destroy and re-create the world due his dislike for how Japan has become.}}
** Nagi, for being a [[Manipulative Bastard]] who is complicit in the above.
* [[Crack Pairing]]: In-series (well, in-series-''extra'') example -- the [[Omake]] for episode 21 seems to be [[Ship Tease|suggesting]] ''[[Teacher -Student Romance|Mai/Midori]]''!
* [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]]: Midori's [[Establishing Character Moment|first appearance...]] in both versions.
* [[Crowning Music of Awesome]]: It's by [[Yuki Kajiura]], what else can you expect?
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* [[Het Is Ew]]: Most of the heterosexual pairings besides (or especially) Akira/Takumi (and even then, Akira is [[Sweet Polly Oliver|pretending to be a boy]] for much of the series) get bashed.
* [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]: In early episode, some of Mai's yaoi fangirl friends imagine a romance between them because they find both of them cute (not knowing that Akira is a girl), before Mai tells them to keep her brother out of their [[Crack Pairings]]. And later in the series, Akira and Takumi do seem to be romantically involved.
* [[Incest Subtext]]: Mai and Takumi are quite a bit closer than you'd expect out of siblings, which gets furiously [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] at several points. Tate and Akira both accuse him of having [[Brother -Sister Incest|a sister complex]].
* [[Jerkass Woobie]]: Nao. She's bitter, hostile toward most people, goes [[Disproportionate Retribution|to great lengths]] to avenge her {{spoiler|losing an eye}} and robs perverts for fun because {{spoiler|her father was killed and her mother went into a coma during a robbery}}.
* [[Launcher of a Thousand Ships]]: Shizuru is the show's "crown princess of yuri", who probably has been paired with any named female character close to her age, though most fans prefer to ship her with Natsuki.
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* [[Real Women Never Wear Dresses]]: Fans have accused Akira of [[Chickification]] for wearing girlier clothes towards the end of the story (in the manga, there's a scene in the ending in which she's trying on a girl's middle school uniform). Not only it ignores that several of the HiMe are actually rather feminine girls (Shizuru is a [[Lady of War]], Natsuki is a Gunslinger who wears her hair very long and loves collecting lingerie, ''Mai'' herself is kinda motherly and a [[Supreme Chef]], etc.), but also "forget" that the main reason Akira dressed up as a guy is that she was trying to hide the fact that she was a HiMe in the first place, thus she started wearing skirts ''only'' when her mission was over and she had no real reason to hide her gender. [[Girliness Upgrade]], yeah; [[Chickification]], uhm, no.
** Interestingly enough, Akira is still using the highly masculine "ore" to refer to herself.
* [[Rescued From the Scrappy Heap]] or [[CreatorsCreator's Pet]]: [[Your Mileage May Vary|The jury's still out on exactly which trope is involved here]], but Yuuichi gets a noticeably larger role in the manga than in the anime, to the extent where he's the manga's protagonist, as well as several of his more [[Cannot Spit It Out|questionable]] [[The Load|aspects]] from the anime being removed or diluted.
* [[The Scrappy]]: Two of them, to varying degrees: Yuuichi ([[Non -Action Guy]] and [[Die for Our Ship]] effects) and Shiho ([[Clingy Jealous Girl]] who wants to take Yuuichi away from Mai, and even {{spoiler|kills Takumi}} out of spite).
* [[Suddenly Sexuality]]: Some viewers see Natsuki's pursuit of Yuuichi in the manga despite having no interest in boys in the anime as an example of this.
* [[True Art Is Angsty]]: Some fans are critical of the ending for {{spoiler|undoing the deaths and character traumas}}.
* [[What an Idiot!]]: Yuuichi. {{spoiler|His attraction to Mai becomes increasingly obvious halfway through the story, and while his desire to help is commendable, he breaks his promises to Shiho twice in doing so, eventually leading her to attack Mai after Nagi manipulates her some more.}}
* [[The Woobie]]:
** Akane, especially considering her mental breakdown after {{spoiler|the death of her boyfriend, Kazuya}}.
** Mai. She blames herself for a childhood tragedy in which her mother died and her brother's heart was weakened. She's forced to fight against her friends in the Carnival, and {{spoiler|loses two of her most important people}}. The toll these tragedies take on her becomes increasingly evident over time.
* [[They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot]]: A dark and tragic universe where [[Magical Girl|Magical Girls]] are given their powers as part of some Satanic ritual and are forced to kill each other to protect the ones they love ''could'' have made for an amazing story... if it had actually ''started'' with that plot instead of having it randomly hijack a completely different show after nearly two-thirds of the episodes had been carefully built up as a scientific deconstruction of the [[Magical Girl]] genre. Sunrise themselves apparently agreed with this assessment, considering they made EXA.
* [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]] with shades of [[Freudian Excuse]]: (manga) {{spoiler|Takumi's}} justification for his actions as host of the Obsidian Lord was that a world that has brought him absolutely nothing but suffering wasn't worth preserving.
** Considering he was {{spoiler|a corpse}} when Obsidian Lord assimilated him, it's not like he had much of a choice in the matter.