History YMMV / DearS

* FamilyUnfriendlyAesop: Slavery is both fulfilling and awesome! Slaves should be expected to fulfill their masters' wills, whether it be following direct orders or intuiting what the master wants ahead of time. Masters have the right to treat slaves however they want, with the caveat that [[spoiler:the slaves as a whole will just rebel if the masters stop treating them with love.]]

* JerkassWoobie: Dear lords, poor Takeya. When his father is introduced in the final chapters, we learn why he's so abrasive, and it's not pretty. When Takezou isn't being neglectful, he's being horribly abusive. Takeya spent his formative years with a parent who paid absolutely no heed to his family, often away on "research" projects and not caring about the family's important events, but when he returns home, and he ''always'' returns home at some point, he proceeds to act like a human wrecking ball, either seizing or destroying everything of value in Takeya's life, up to and including taking his girlfriend away from him. In fact, Harumi, Takeya's step-mother was once his girlfriend until his father decided to take her for himself, as a wife. Then he makes clear that he's ''loaning'' Takeya the tuition fee for the local highschool which Takeya MUST attend, and Takeya has to hold down a job in addition to that to pay his own bills, with the explicit demand that said tuition will be repaid upon graduation, ''AND'' when Takeya finds himself happy with Ren, after many trials, decides it will be a good idea to swoop in, seize Ren and launch her into orbit to die, and when Takeya runs out of his apartment after her, (having had to come to her rescue repeatedly before then) has him arrested under false charges, and then makes himself "unavailable" so that Takeya stays in jail until it's too late for him to do anything about it. What's worse, is that he considers Takeya is acting "unreasonably" for chasing after Ren in the first place. Implying that he conditioned Takeya to withdraw and sulk when someone comes trying to take his girlfriend away, like we saw when Hirofumi tried to wedge himself into Ren's life.

* JerkassWoobie: Dear lords, poor Takeya. When his father is introduced in the final chapters, we learn why he's so abrasive, and it's not pretty. When Takezou isn't being neglectful, he's being horribly abusive. Takeya spent his formative years with a parent who paid absolutely no heed to his family, often away on "research" projects and not caring about the family's important events, but when he returns home, and he ''always'' returns home at some point, he proceeds to act like a human wrecking ball, either seizing or destroying everything of value in Takeya's life, up to and including taking his girlfriend away from him. In fact, Harumi, Takeya's step-mother was once his girlfriend until his father decided to take her for himself, as a wife. Then he makes clear that he's ''loaning'' Takeya the tuition fee for the local highschool which Takeya MUST attend, and Takeya has to hold down a job in addition to that to pay his own bills, with the explicit demand that said tuition will be repaid upon graduation, ''AND'' when Takeya finds himself happy with Ren, after many trials, decides it will be a good idea to swoop in, seize Ren and launch her into orbit to die, and when Takeya runs out of his appartment after her, (having had to come to her rescue repeatedly before then) has him arrested under false charges, and then makes himself "unavailable" so that Takeya stays in jail until it's too late for him to do anything about it. What's worse, is that he considers Takeya is acting "unreasonably" for chasing after Ren in the first place. Implying that he conditioned Takeya to withdraw and sulk when someone comes trying to take his girlfriend away, like we saw when Hirofumi tried to wedge himself into Ren's life.

* JustForFun/XMeetsY: The most obvious to fans is that the series is a mix of Chobits and Alien Nation.

* XMeetsY: The most obvious to fans is that the series is a mix of Chobits and Alien Nation.

* ShoutOut: May be unintentional, but the series feels very similar to Chobits - slightly awkward guy is saddled with a hot, ditzy girl who refers to herself in the third person. Harem hilarity ensues.

* Shoutout: May be unintentional, but the series feels very similar to Chobits - slightly awkward guy is saddled with a hot, ditzy girl who refers to herself in the third person. Harem hilarity ensues.

* UnfortunateImplications: Ren, the female lead, wears an over-sized dog collar around her neck and is quite insistent about being treated as a slave. The series actually looks into why this is, helping to lift some of the "unfortunate" off of it.

* HoYay: In the manga. Mildly hinted at with Khi and Takeya (Khi doesn't mind being 'ordered' by Takeya...). Played straight with (to the displeasure of) Hirofuni and [[StalkerWithACrush Xaki]]. Khi's relationship with 'Young Master' also had some shades of this too.

* NeedsMoreLove

* UnfortunateImplications: Ren, the female lead, wears an over-sized dog collar around her neck and is quite insistent about being treated as a slave. The series actually looks into why this is, helping to lift some of the "unfortunate" off of it.

* HoYay -- In the manga. Mildly hinted at with Khi and Takeya (Khi doesn't mind being 'ordered' by Takeya...). Played straight with (to the displeasure of) Hirofuni and [[StalkerWithACrush Xaki]]. Khi's relationship with 'Young Master' also had some shades of this too.
* {{OT3}} - Manga Only: A rare canonical example in that [[spoiler:with all [=DearS=] now fertile, Ren, Miu, China and even Nyu, all want to participate in 'baby making' with Takeya.]]
* UnfortunateImplications - Ren, the female lead, wears an over-sized dog collar around her neck and is quite insistent about being treated as a slave. The series actually looks into why this is, helping to lift some of the "unfortunate" off of it.

* HeartwarmingMoments -- Child!Takuya throwing flowers over a crying Child!Neneko. "You're beautiful! You look like a princess!"

* FunnyMoments -- Neneko: "So this is a [=DearS=]...[[ClingyCostume her suit must be bonded to her on an atomic level...]] [[SkinshipGrope Nice breasts]] [[MoodWhiplash you've got.]]"
** In episode 9.5, Miu catches Ren "Watching porn to study Takeya's preferences in the earthling ways of sex."
-->'''Ren:''' "Holy cow, that looks pretty complicated..."
-->'''Miu:''' "IS SHE SPINNING!?"

* UnfortunateImplications - Ren, the female lead, wears an over-sized dog collar around her neck and is quite insistent about being treated as a slave.

* {{OT3}} - Manga Only: A rare canonical example in that [[spoiler:with all [=DearS=] now fertile, Ren, Miu, China and even Nyu, all want to participate in 'baby making' with Takeya.]]

* HeartwarmingMoments -- Child!Takuya throwing flowers over a crying Child!Neneko. "You're beautiful! You look like a princess!"

* HeartwarmingMoments -- Child!Takuya throwing flowers over a crying Child!Neneko. "You're beautiful! You look like a princess!"
* JerkAss: KHF referred to Takeya as the biggest douchebag in anime history