Line #0 YMMV/AfterSchoolNightmare


1	* AudienceAlienatingEnding: The story alienated multiple fan factions with its ending to a degree that they no longer recommend it, for completely different reasons:
2	** The people who were reading for the mystery arc, who thought that the final explanation ([[spoiler:the story is a metaphor for pregnancy and childbirth]]) was simply too silly and bizarre, and [[VoodooShark raised far too many questions]] about the world building.
3	** The shippers, who were unhappy that Mashiro and Sou [[spoiler:end up in the real world but with no knowledge of each other or memory of their love]]. Alternatively [[spoiler:they felt the reveal about Sou's siscon issues was too much and turned it into a {{No Yay}}, or had preferred Kureha]]
4	** The people who were reading for the exploration of ambiguous gender, who thought that the revelation that Mashiro's gender ambiguity being because [[spoiler:they are actually fraternal twin fetuses struggling for possession of one life]], meant that the situation was either reactionary in implication or too fantastic to have any possible real-world relevance.
5	* BrokenBase: The manga's character design is seen as really pretty or quite ugly.
6	* DieForOurShip: Some people really have it out for Kureha... Sure, she's a ClingyJealousGirl who finds solace in Mashiro's company because she DoesNotLikeMen, but still... ''Poor, poor'' [[spoiler:childhood rape victim]] ''Kureha''. It's only made even worse by the DracoInLeatherPants status granted to [[TheCasanova Sou Mizuhashi]], Mashiro's other love interest, even when he's kind of a bastard...
7	* EsotericHappyEnding: It turns out [[spoiler:the entire series takes place in a metaphorical realm designed to prepare the unborn babies in a maternity ward for childbirth]]. [[spoiler:The babies who have already "graduated" are all born safely, but they lose their memories of anything that occurred in the series. As for the ones who haven't, they're wiped from existence (except for Mashiro, who escapes just in time to be born as a girl) as they and/or their mothers are killed in a hospital fire]]. A scene at the very end shows [[spoiler:Mashiro and Sou running into each other years later and having no idea who the other is]], teasing readers about possibilities that may never be.
8	* FanDislikedExplanation: Some readers disliked the ending that reveals [[spoiler:everything that happened in the series is just a metaphor for pregnancy and childbirth, with the students being unborn children]], as they felt it negates everything the characters experienced, especially since [[spoiler:they won't remember anything that happened anyway]]. The explanation given for Mashiro's struggles with gender identity ([[spoiler:they're actually a pair of boy-girl twins struggling for possession of one life]]) also didn't go over well with some fans, partly because it raised a lot of questions on what Kureha's [[spoiler:traumatic rape as a child]], Sou's [[spoiler:incestuous relationship with his sister]], or the other students' hang-ups could ''[[FridgeHorror actually]]'' [[FridgeHorror represent]].
9	* HoYay:
10	** Between Sou and Mashiro, who doesn't belong to either sex but identifies as male. Sometimes. That's sort of the entire point of Mashiro's journey. [[spoiler: And by the end, Mashiro identifies as female, full stop. Although it's less that Mashiro "identifies as female" than it is that [[FridgeHorror the unborn sister kills her twin brother to gain full control of the single life they were sharing]].]]
11	** Some consider Kureha x Mashiro to be LesYay.
12	* ValuesDissonance: Mashiro's gender identity is based on a very hard division between masculine and feminine (among other things [[HideYourGays largely ignoring the concept of homosexuality]]), to a point it can come across as offensive to some Western readers. And that's before getting into the problems with the ending that reveal that [[spoiler:Mashiro technically doesn't ''have'' gender issues because they're actually two different people struggling for possession of one life, not one person struggling with their own identity]].

Context YMMV / AfterSchoolNightmare