History YMMV / InfiniteStratos

* ArcFatigue: Instead of moving the plot forward, the show keeps introducing girls to Ichika's harem and putting too much focus on the harem antics. [[spoiler:By the end of season 2, the heroes are no closer to stopping Phantom Task than they were at the beginning, and the ''World Purge'' [=OVA=] is just an extended romantic fantasy almost entirely disconnected to the main plot.]] Not helping at all are {{Schedule Slip}}s caused by the author's health problems.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Honne Nohotoke, a side-character that appeared in the anime in Pikachu-esque pajamas, appears to have gained quite a following for someone with a less than a minute of screentime. She did show up in a few scenes wearing the IS academy's prescribed uniform, but hers seem to have overly long sleeves compared to the rest.

** If [[http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=628521 this poll]] is anything to go by, Charlotte is ''by far'' the most popular girl, at least among the English-speaking fandom, with Houki and Laura neck-and-neck for second place, and Tatenashi at a distant third.

* TheScrappy: Who do the haters despise the most in this show? ''Ichika'', that's who. It's common to hear people saying that the show would be better if this bland [[IdiotHero blockhead]] wasn't around and simply focused on the girls doing funny antics.

* DieForOurShip: As you'd might expect, fans of any one of the harem girls feel this way about the rest of the harem. The most amount of vitriol goes to Houki, however. See SpotlightStealingSquad.

* SpotlightStealingSquad: This is what many fans (particularly those of Charlotte and Laura) feel of Houki. What makes this so notable? Houki is the ''female lead'', and the one with the closest relationship to Ichika amongst the harem. This goes hand in hand with DieForOurShip and ShipToShipCombat.

** If [[http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=628521 this poll]] is anything to go by, Charlotte is ''by far'' the most popular girl, at least among the English-speaking fandom, with Houki & Laura neck-and-neck for second place, and Tatenashi at a distant third.

** There is a scene in Volume 4 of the novels between Squall & Autumn that is full of subtext between them which was not present in the anime.

*** Volumes 4 & 5 were actually adapted pretty accurately, as was Volume 7 (though half of V4 was covered in an OVA, and the school festival in V5 was shortened in the anime but at the same time the Cinderella play was extended). It was Volumes 6 & 8 that really suffered AdaptationDecay; those volumes are the ones missing almost all their scenes. The series started off very faithful to the novels but around the middle of the second season, the anime started taking liberties with the source material until the final three episodes went into all-out anime original territory. [[http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=708315 This topic]] explains all the differences between the novels & anime (be warned for spoilers that span the entire series, both books & show).

* CrazyAwesome: Tabane Shinonono. A DitzyGenius who has created the IS in the first place, (presumably) programmed about 2000+ [=ICBMs=] to launch towards Japan (just to give her creation a stellar debut), and (supposedly) took control of an "unmanned" IS just to let her younger sister debut as a personal IS user on her birthday. Doubles as a subtle ActorAllusion, considering that she shares her seiyuu with [[LyricalNanoha Nanoha]]. When Tabane unveiled the IS to the world, she got a lot of ridicule and criticism. So what did she do? She [[DefeatMeansFriendship befriended]] them via mass ICBM launch.

* ArcFatigue: Instead of moving the plot forward, the show keeps introducing girls to Ichika's harem and putting too much focus on the harem antics. [[spoiler:By the end of season 2, the heroes are no closer to stopping Phantom Task than they were at the beginning, and the ''World Purge'' [=OVA=] is just an extended romantic fantasy almost entirely disconnected to the main plot.]] Not helping at all are {{Schedule Slip}}s caused by the author's health problems. Volume 11 was released on May 24, 2017, two years after volume 10.

* ArcFatigue: Instead of moving the plot forward, the show keeps introducing girls to Ichika's harem and putting too much focus on the harem antics. [[spoiler:By the end of season 2, the heroes are no closer to stopping Phantom Task than they were at the beginning, and the ''World Purge'' [=OVA=] is just an extended romantic fantasy almost entirely disconnected to the main plot.]] Not helping at all are {{Schedule Slip}}s caused by the author's health problems.

* EnsembleDarkhorse:
** Honne Nohotoke, a side-character that appeared in the anime in Pikachu-esque pajamas, appears to have gained quite a following for someone with a less than a minute of screentime.
*** She did show up in a few scenes wearing the IS academy's prescribed uniform, but hers seem to have overly long sleeves compared to the rest.
* FandomHeresy[=/=]FandomBerserkButton: Go on and make even a ''minuscule'' amount of criticism against Charlotte. May the heavens save you from the impending bloodbath.

* ArcFatigue: Instead of moving the plot forward, the show keeps introducing girls to Ichika's harem and putting too much focus on the harem antics. [[spoiler:By the end of season 2, the heroes are no closer to stopping Phantom Task than they were at the beginning, and the ''World Purge'' [=OVA=] is just an extended romantic fantasy almost entirely disconnected to the main plot.]] Not helping at all are {{Schedule Slip}}s caused by the author's health problems. Volume 11 was released on May 25th, 2017, two years after volume 10.

* DeaderThanDisco: As one of the {{Trope Codifier}}s for the BattleHarem genre of light novels (while ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'' came before, it had more focus on action than SliceOfLife school hijinks), both the novels and the first season of the anime were well-received, and the series was considered pretty innovative as far as HaremSeries go (for example, having the main character be a capable fighter rather than an OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent [[ThisLoserIsYou loser]]). Thanks to the [[SeasonalRot drop in quality of both the novels and the anime]], especially in [[AmericansHateTingle the west]], most of the fanbase dried up, and [[FollowTheLeader the large number of works that copied more than a bit from the series]] didn't help one bit. Today, whenever the series is brought up, it's usually to be blamed for the trend of mediocre PanderingToTheBase light novel adaptations that plague anime in TheNewTens, or to make fun of [[IdiotHero Ichika]].

** Maya Yamada has proven to be pretty popular despite her semi-minor role for both being a shapely/cute teacher and her IS Skills.
%%* FandomDarling: Charlotte, very much

* ArcFatigue: Instead of moving the plot forward, the show keeps introducing girls to Ichika's harem and putting too much focus on the harem antics. [[spoiler:By the end of season 2, the heroes are no closer to stopping Phantom Task than they were at the beginning, and the ''World Purge'' [=OVA=] is just an extended romantic fantasy almost entirely disconnected to the main plot.]] Not helping at all are {{Schedule Slip}}s caused by the author's health problems. As of 2016, the franchise hasn't released any new content.

* ArcFatigue: Instead of moving the plot forward, the show keeps introducing girls to Ichika's harem and putting oto much focus on the harem antics. [[spoiler:By the end of season 2, the heroes are no closer to stopping Phantom Task than they were at the beginning, and the ''World Purge'' [=OVA=] is just an extended romantic fantasy almost entirely disconnected to the main plot.]] Not helping at all are {{Schedule Slip}}s caused by the author's health problems. As of 2016, the franchise hasn't released any new content.

* ArcFatigue: Instead of moving the plot forward, the show keeps introducing girls to Ichika's harem and putting oto much focus on the harem antics. [[spoiler:By the end of season 2, the heroes are no closer to stopping Phantom Task than they were at the beginning, and the ''World Purge'' [=OVA=] is just an extended romantic fantasy almost entirely disconnected to the main plot.]] Not helping at all are ScheduleSlip{{s}} caused by the author's health problems. As of 2016, the franchise hasn't released any new content.

* ArcFatigue: Instead of moving the plot forward, the show keeps introducing girls too Ichika's harem and putting to much focus on the harem antics. [[spoiler:By the end of season 2, the heroes are no closer to stopping Phantom Task than they were at the beginning, and the ''World Purge'' [=OVA=] is just an extended romantic fantasy almost entirely disconnected to the main plot.]] Not helping at all are ScheduleSlip{{s}} caused by the author's health problems. As of 2016, the franchise hasn't released any new content.

* ArcFatigue: Instead of moving the plot forward, the show keeps introducing girls too Ichika's harem and putting to much focus on the harem antics. [[spoiler:By the end of season 2, the héroes are no closer to stopping Phantom Task than they were at the beginning, and the ''World Purge'' [=OVA=] is just an extended romantic fantasy almost entirely disconnected to the main plot.]]

** Among the members of Ichika's harem, Charlotte seems to be the fan favorite. See FanPreferredCouple. On top of being a sweet girl, her ability to excel with an older IS endears her to many.
** Laura is also quite popular as well, owing in large part to her close friendship with Charlotte and the fact that so much of the comedy surrounding her comes from her tendency to make everything SeriousBusiness.

* {{Faux Action G|irl}}uy: A male instance of this trope. Despite being the main character and receiving training from multiple tutors, Ichika manages to lose nearly every 1 on 1 fight he's in.

** [[{{Fanservice}} PLOT]] as coined by [[ImageBoard /a/]], possibly derived from "[[IReadItForTheArticles I WATCH xxx FOR THE PLOT]]"

* AmericansHateTingle: Season 2 was overwhelmingly considered to be a disgrace by most American fans. In Japan, the series sold like hotcakes and was just as popular as the first season.

* GameBreaker:
** Chifuyu Orimura, aka ''Brunhilde I'' - the first Mondo Grosso Champion. She's just a teacher now at the Academy, and seems to be content with it, but if her history and reputation is anything to go by, you ''don't'' want be on the business end of her in an IS suit (or, as one pilot found out in Volume 8 of the light novel, even without one). [[spoiler: The first time she showed up in an IS, presumably at age 14, she DID break the entire world's balance of power. Now she is 24 with a lot more experience...]] She herself seemed to lampshaded this in Volume 8 too, when gazing at her frozen IS.
--->'''Chifuyu''': When you wake up, it'll definitely be the decisive battle...
** There's also Laura's ''Schwarzer Regen'' -- in one-on-one combat, it's pretty much unbeatable. It has a massive rail gun as its main armament, it has an energy blade on each wrist, and it has remote-controlled tethers much like the Slash Harkens from ''Anime/CodeGeass'' to restrain opponents so she can shoot them more easily. To top it all off, she has an impenetrable barrier that can block anything as long as there's only one attacker.
** And then there's Tatenashi's ''Mysterious Lady'', which does away with standard kinetic weapons and lasers of the existing IS units in favor of [[{{Nanomachines}} nanotech-weaponized water]]. If one wants a sizable comparison of this IS to any HumongousMecha ever introduced in Anime, just these two words: [[spoiler:[[Anime/TurnAGundam Moonlight Butterfly]].]]
** In the second season's final episode, [[spoiler: Madoka's ''Kurokishi'' and Squall's ''Golden Dawn'' are downright unstoppable. It took a literal DeusExMachina to deal any damage to them, and even then it was merely a minor setback.]]

* StopHelpingMe: When Houki, Rin, and Cecilia all try to explain to Ichika how to use the IS with their {{Technobabble}}, it only serves to confuse him. On the other hand, Charles offers to duel Ichika, and after soundly [[CurbStompBattle stomping him]], he offers some tips on Ichika's weaknesses and explains things that makes it easy for him to understand. He also helps train Ichika on using a rifle, and seems a bit too friendly, causing the girls to get quite [[ClingyJealousGirl jealous]].

* BaseBreaker: