Alternate Character Interpretation: Was Kanaka a Sociopath? After her initial reappearance we're let to believe she's just a possessed Amasogi with the shape of the late woman, but flashbacks seem to indicate she wasn't that much different, besides the stereotypical traits of having no feelings, she's also a Thrill SeekerBlood Knight, uses her friends as sexual objects in a way that feels rapey even for this series and threats her son more like a toy and her daughter like a tool.
Angst? What Angst?: Kazuya stops himself from killing Kyouka at the last second, and later angsts about how he jumped to violence without first trying to understand what drove her to evil. But he doesn't bat an eye when Kukuri kills a horde of tsugumomo, all of which had the same Freudian Excuse as Kyouka did.
Better on DVD: The anime's fanservice is completely uncensored in the Blu-ray version...well, at least the Japanese ones for some episodes.
Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: One of the reasons the Fanservice jokes are so out of place that they frequently ignore the girls' previous characterizations just so they can perv on Kazuya.
Base-Breaking Character: Is Kazuya a likable character or is he bland as hell, he checks all the marks for generic harem/Shounen protagonist, but lately he's been slowly but surely subverting if not deconstructing that notion. His mother was so bland she veered on sociopathy. After she got a taste for the thrill of the fight she became a Blood Knight. Kazuya seems to have inherited these traits in an extremely downplayed version
Cliché Storm: So much so that it becomes Narm Charm in some moments. You can even arrange a drunken game, drinking each time when on screen appears any cliche from the Harem Genre.
Despite the rather silly humor and excess of vulgarity, this work is still full of information about Shinto and Japanese folklore, which makes it quite interesting for foreigners.
"Swapped!" is laden with Jungian psychology, to the point it's practically a primer on Jung's work.
Growing the Beard: Every arc starts pretty slow but starts to grow it eventually.
The first chapters were some epiosidic monster hunting, until the Sunao arc hits and kicks the backstory for the whole manga.
The Mayoiga arc is this for the whole manga, also works as it's central arc, every previous one building to this, and every other arc after being a consequence of this.
Squick: Mainly for some Western viewers because of demonstrative vulgarity and rude humor, especially jokes about pedophilia, incest and harassment.
