YMMV / Mitsumete Knight

• Ensemble Dark Horse: Raizze Haimer is the undisputable champion of this in the franchise. Despite her storyline being a crucial part of the original game's storyline, she wasn't marketed as a front main heroine unlike Sophia, Priscilla and Anne; yet, she was ranked 1st in the official character popularity ranking, with twice more votes than the 2nd ranked character, Anne (and in unofficial polls, she constantly ranks first as well). Due to this, she became the de-facto main heroine of the later produced Drama CDs, and second heroine after Sophia in the second game, Mitsumete Knight R.
• Tear Jerker: A LOT of them. Be prepared to shed a few tears when seeing some of the characters' unfortunate fates. For example, Raizze Haimer : Near the very end of the game, Her father, Wolfgario the Ravager, will try to storm Dolphan Castle in a surprise attack. After he's defeated by the Asian in a one-on-one duel, she tries to interpose between her father and the Asian, who's about to deal the Coup de Grâce, in vain. As a result, one week later, she decides to take revenge, and reveals herself as Salishuan the Spy to the Asian: but, she'll be torn between her feelings of duty as well as her love for her father, and her feelings of love for the Asian, if she has a high Love Gauge with him. In the Salishuan event, the scene is even more powerful thanks to Raizze's seiyuu awesome performance, and the Background Music which switches from to the epic Battle Theme Music "Salishuan The Spy" to the heartwrenching tune "Sorrowful Sword".
• The Woobie:
  • Sophia, oh so much. Her father, a former Holy Knight, got kicked out of the army after a failed battle, in which he also became handicapped on a leg, and because of this fell into alcoholism (and since she loves her father very much, she's terribly saddened by his decoherence). Because of this and also because Sophia's mother and brother are Ill Persons, the family is very poor and only holds on because Sophia works on a lot of hard-labour part-time jobs; she's estranged with her mother because her mother only thinks about her son's well being, she's forcefully financed to an obnoxious noble she's not in love with in the slightest, the local punks seem to love picking on her, Near the end of her storyline, by being at the wrong place at the wrong time, she becomes a Cute Mute;and if you manage to get her Happy Ending, she'll still have to leave behind her family (which is still screwed up, so her leaving them will make things even worse for them) to follow the Asian, even lampshading herself that she'll be seen as an egoist who may go to Hell for her sin.
  • Johan, despite being an obnoxious aristocrat, can be considered as this as well as Alas, Poor Villain, if you're looking him through his dominating mother issues, and his sincere but unrequited love for Sophia.