History Manga / ArmedGirlsMachiavellism

* AbsurdlyPowerfulStudentCouncil: The Five Swords are ''supposed'' to be the disciplinary committee but have effectively become this, handling the enforcement of rules among the students (their original function) and student passes and carrying actual (blunted) swords. In a variation, they're this only because ''the administration'' allows it (the headmistress and the school's owner have complete authority over them). As for the ''actual'' student council, they are either completely irrilevant or have been disbanded after the Five Swords took over their job.
** Hokkai has the Six King Swords, serving the same function as the Five Swords, likely due the administration allowing it (they have the same ownership). Differently from Aiichi they aren't the only ones to carry swords or other actual weapons, [[AsskickingEqualsAuthority they're just the best fighters in the school and use that to enforce their authority]] and could lose the place in case of defeat (three of Souta's followers are explicitely former members, thrown out by Nonomura when he took over).

* AsskickingEqualsAuthority:

* ArmorPiercingSlap: Nomura hands a well-deserved one to Satori after their fight.

** {{Subverted}} with the HEMA practitioners from Hokkai due their bad luck, as one is engaged by fellow HEMA practitioner Mary ([[ThisLooksLikeAJobForAquaman making each other fight a rare opponent who knows what they're dealing with]]) and the other is a poleax user who faces Rin, who knows how to deal with staff weapons.

** Hokkai has the Six King Swords, serving the same function as the Five Swords, likely due the administration allowing it (they have the same ownership). Differently from Aiichi they aren't the only ones to carry swords or other actual weapons, [[AsskickingEqualsAuthority they're just the best fighters in the school and use that to enforce their authority]] and could lose the place in case of defeat.

''Armed Girl's Machiavellism'' (武装少女マキャヴェリズム, ''Busō Shōjo Makyaverizumu'') is a Japanese manga series illustrated by Karuna Kanzaki and written by Yūya Kurokami. The series began serialization in Kadokawa's Monthly Shōnen Ace magazine in March 2014. An anime television series adaptation by Creator/SilverLink premiered on April 2017.

* AbsurdlyPowerfulStudentCouncil: The Five Swords are effectively this, handling the enforcement of rules among the students and student passes and carrying actual (blunted) swords. In a variation, they're this only because ''the faculty'' allows it.

** At Hokkai the Six Kings are not only chosen for their fighting abilities, one can earn a spot by defeating a member in single combat.

* ShownTheirWork: Most of the martial arts used by the characters are actual school of japanese martial arts. The techniques shown are generally very accurate to how it's performed in real-life. This is because author is a martial arts practitioner with extensive knowledge of many martial arts form.

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** After encountering Amou and being stabbed by her RazorSharpHands, Nomura took the habit of carrying a thick book over his belly to feel himself safer. Sure enough, Mary happens to be a rapier-using fencer specialized in stabbing attacks.

* AllMenArePerverts: Stated as the reason why girls in Aiichi are armed. They think all men are like this and want to protect themselves

*** Later in the manga, Satori finds herself facing Nakasone Kousetsu, who also can read an opponent's movements from their blade and throws her off. On the other hand, Kousetsu too relies on ConfusionFu through the use of multiple styles, something in which Satori, being trained into Keisha-Ryu Kidachi Kata (a school that was formed from ''ten different ones''), is much better than her, allowing her to make a formidable comeback.

* ThisLooksLikeAJobForAquaman: On a number of occasions, someone just happens to have a skill that counters to a specific ability of an opponent:

*** As she doesn't want to kill her opponents, Mary relies on stabbing her opponents in nerve clusters to make them fall in pain. Except [[TooKinkyToTorture Seira actually]] ''[[TooKinkyToTorture likes]]'' [[TooKinkyToTorture it]].

* AccidentalKiss: Nono, one of the female students, accidentally pushes Nomura onto Rin's mouth, causing the two to liplock.

** Satori relies heavily on [[ConfusionFu distracting her opponents through the movements of her eyes hinting at attacks at a different spot than the one she plans to hit]]. So of course in the OVA she finds herself facing Mary, who was trained to read the movements of her opponent's blade and limbs because she's trained in Western fencing, in which you just cannot read an opponent's eye due the mask (or, in the past, the face-covering helm).

* StealthParody: To shounen about martial arts. Although this show features realistic martial art battles, thanks to the author being a martial arts practitioner with extensive knowledge of many martial arts form, between Nomura and the girls, the author clearly does not forget about self-irony. [[spoiler: Once Koharu appears and the Hokkai arc starts though, the tone becomes more serious, similar to Shinakoi, without ever abandoning the comedic elements.]]

* BreatherEpisode: After Satori's defeat, the story focuses the aftermath of Satori's plan, apologies, and a bit of secret swapping. After that is an incident in with Choka's wig and Kyo-bo's cub going missing and most of cast banding together to find them both. The latter example though ends up distracting everyone from the instant [[spoiler: Amou finally makes her move]] and the shit really starts to hit the fan.

* CurbStompBattle: Amou dishes these out in rapid and merciless succession to [[spoiler: Satori, her sister, Warabi, and Kyo-bo]] while Nomura is busy trying to get his last stamp.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: The fact Masuko works for [[spoiler:Satori]] is anticipated by Nomura comparing Masuko's "black market" contact to Morgan Freeman when nobody else was around and [[spoiler:Satori]] later tells him she holds a grudge for the comparison.

* OneGenderSchool: Aiichi was originally an all-girl school and even after becoming co-ed, the female students still dominates the male student. [[spoiler: The other symbiosis school, Hokkai, was originally an all-boy school and like Aiichi, it's also recently become co-ed. It seems though, unlike Aiichi, Hokkai allows the female students to occupy important positions. This is shown when one of the members of the "Roku Ou-Ken" (Six King Sword), Hokkai's counterpart to the Supreme Five Sword, is revealed to be a girl.]]

Fudo Nomura was sent to this school after being part of a huge brawl. What will he do when the only options he has after enrolling are being expelled from that school or being corrected the way the rest of the male students there were...by being forced to dress and act like a girl!

* StealthSequel: While Tsukuyo being one of the main characters is the first hint that the series is set in the same universe as the author's and illustrator's previous work Shinakoi, it wasn't until [[spoiler: Koharu Narukami, Tsukuyo's older half-sister and the main antagonist of Shinakoi, appears that it's made clear that this series is set one year after Shinakoi's ending.]]

* ArtisticLicenseMartialArts: The manga generally averts this, but the anime still falls into this sometimes, thanks to lackluster animation causing some unrealistic movements.

** While Nomura doesn't subscribe to the idea that this is completely true every time he ''does'' however see it as one the ways that people, even those who initially start off hating one another, can bond and become friends without even realizing it at first.