Kaze to Ki no Uta/YMMV


 * Alternative Character Interpretation - Since the series hasn't been fully translated, a few characters have gotten this.
 * Arc Fatigue - The reader is taken out of the main story about halfway through the fourth volume and treated to six volumes (out of a total of 17) worth of uninterrupted Backstory - and the scanlations are currently in the middle of that. To be fair, having three volumes about Gilbert's past does a lot to justify how the kid came to be so screwed up, but devoting two volumes to the life of Serge's father after that is perhaps a bit too much.
 * Crowning Moment of Awesome:
 * In story, Serge's fight with Jaques Dren is treated as this, securing his position as the most popular boy in school.
 * Pascal standing up in the middle of a Latin exam and announcing - in perfect Latin - that it is a dead language and they should be learning more useful subjects such as science instead and then walking out.
 * Pascal gets another one in volume 12,.
 * Serge managing to block one of Blough's punches with a book.
 * Crowning Moment of Funny: That one bunch of students hiding behind their own speech bubbles while spying on Serge and Rosemariné.
 * Evil Is Sexy: Auguste Beau. Certainly in-story, where he's known as something of a lady-killer; readers' opinions, on the other hand, are considerably more mixed. (He does seem to have avoided Draco in Leather Pants status, however - probably because even his fans acknowledge that he's an irredeemable bastard.)
 * First Installment Wins - There's a three-novel sequel called Kami no Kohitsuji. Seriously. Good luck trying to find any info on it.
 * Ho Yay
 * Aside from the Official Couple (and other obvious in-text examples), there's a fair amount of this going on as well.
 * Rosemariné and Jules have a lot of it. Just to start with, in their very first scene together, the former tells the latter, "You and only you are the one I allow into my heart".
 * Rosemariné also has a bit of it with Serge later on, which doesn't go entirely unnoticed by other students.
 * Sebastien's admiration for Serge often bleeds into this trope as well.
 * Jerkass Woobie:
 * Gilbert, Gilbert, Gilbert. He may be antagonistic and even violent toward Serge (especially in the beginning), but he sure went through a lot of crap in his life...
 * While he doesn't hold a candle to Gilbert when it comes to sheer woobiness, Rosemariné nonetheless qualifies once certain aspects of his past come to light. Yes, he's ill-tempered and physically abusive (particularly towards Gilbert himself) but he's also rather pitiable in his own right.
 * Magnificent Bastard - Arguably, Rosemariné. No matter how much of a Jerkass he is in the early volumes, he is just far too fabulous to hate.
 * Moral Event Horizon - Auguste certainly crossed this line when he . Alternatively, he crossed it a little before that with.
 * Needs More Love - Despite being an award winning manga that helped revolutionize shoujo and was made into an OVA special, the series itself has had little attention outside of Japan and (to a lesser extent) Italy. Even scanlations have only covered less than half of the manga so far.
 * Nightmare Fuel - Two words: . Really, though, any scene involving belongs here.
 * Tear Jerker - Doesn't even BEGIN to cover it.
 * True Art Is Angsty - It's an award-winner.
 * Unnecessary Makeover - For Patricia Biquet.
 * Viewer Gender Confusion
 * Rosemariné is a guy. Really.
 * Liliath in particular tends to cause this reaction, given that his looks and personality are very effeminate. It also doesn't help that other students call him a girl.
 * The Woobie - Both Serge and Gilbert. Mostly Gilbert, though, as has already been mentioned above.