History YMMV / ADevilAndHerLoveSong

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: The series is rather interesting and original on its first volumes, but as the story progresses the characters get involved in so much drama it becomes hard to keep rooting for them. Mostly because no matter how much pain a character brings, they're never really punished.

* ValuesDissonance: How the series handles bullying in some instances. This is most notable with Anna. Anna is mute and was being bullied and made fun of at Maria's old school. Maria stuck up for her, leading to the pair of them being ostracised. However, the series later plays it as though Maria was in the wrong for having done so, as Anna felt driven out by her former friends and hated herself. Later on, Maria thinks she did the same to her mother, as her calling out the people who gossiped about her mother being raped led to her mother being friendless. In Japan there is a much greater emphasis on fitting in and getting along with others, even if they're being cruel to you over things that aren't your fault (Anna's disability in the former case, Maria's mother's rape in the latter). As a result the storyline comes off as presenting Maria being in the wrong for coming to Anna's defence even though she was her only real friend, and Maria being in the wrong for defending her mother from malicious gossip (when she was only a young child, no less).

* UnfortunateImplications: Yes, raping is bad, but if the rapist claims to have fallen in love with her [[spoiler: even if this victim will eventually commit suicide]] and becomes a priest... then everything is fine!
** The fact that many of Maria's bullies are evil girls who haaaaaaaaaaate Maria just because she's oh so pretty and so much more "honest" and "blunt" than them. Does the author think '''that''' lowly of teenage girls as a whole and projects that on the manga as a whole?

** The fact that so many of Maria's bullies are evil girls who haaaaaaaaaaate Maria just because she's oh so pretty and so much more "honest" and "blunt" than them. Does the author think '''that''' lowly of teenage girls as a whole? Not ALL of them are that vapid and shallow!

** The fact that so many of Maria's bullies are evil girls who haaaaaaaaaaate Maria just because she's oh so pretty and so much more "honest" and "blunt" than them. Does the author think '''that''' lowly of teenage girls as a whole?

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: The series is rather interesting and original on its first volumes, but as the story progresses the characters get involved in so much drama it becomes hard to keep rooting for them. Mostly because no matter how much pain a character brings, they're never really punished.

* UnfortunateImplications: Yes, raping is bad, but if the rapist keeps a look and her victim and claims to have fallen in love with her [[spoiler: even if this victim will eventually commit suicide]] and becomes a priest then everything is fine!

* UnfortunateImplications: John Cross [[spoiler: is a rapist who let his daughter's mother commit suicide and didn't take her into custody after she became an orphan, but he's shown as a dramatic figure rather than a MagnificientBastard, just because he kept writing letters to Maria's mother, became a priest and took care of children in his church.]]

* UncannyValley: Around volume 10 or so, the story starts taking a darker tone, involving rape and suicide. Despite this elements already being in the series, how they're treated and in what frequence are they featured becomes quite gruesome and nasty.

* TheWoobie: ''Maria''. Where to start? [[spoiler: She's the daughter of a teenager who was raped, and despite doing her best to raise her, she's DrivenToSuicide (at first she wanted to kill her daughter but couldn't bring herself to do it), leaving Maria amnesiac and alone. At Saint Katria, her only friend is actually a manipulator who doesn't defend her when she's expulsed. And at Tatsuoka, she's bullied when she first arrives.