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1* CompleteMonster: [[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate Professor Shinigami, real name Dr. Shimura]], was a sadistic SerialKiller of women in life who kept the bodies of his victims in suspended animation before being supposedly killed. Returning as an entity capable of murdering people through their dreams, Shimura returns to old habits by butchering countless more young women in their sleep and even trying to torture the young daughter of the cop who tried to gun him down to death in revenge. When Rem plunges into his victim's dreams to fight him, Shinigami eagerly attempts to kill her too through a swinging axe to slowly cut her open and bleed her out.
2* LesYay: Rem/Elizabeth.
3* {{Narm}}: It's relatively easy to spot the parts of the first episode where sexual content was removed, if anything due to the obvious NaughtyTentacles setup.
4* NightmareFuel: This being an anime about dreams, it's loaded with NightmareFuel. And let's not get started on Rem deteriorating into a skeleton, or her being graphically impaled on multiple long spikes...
5* ValuesDissonance: Being such a gleeful product of TheEighties, the series entertains a long list of points that would not fly today: the empowered protagonist wears campy {{Stripperiffic}} attire, at one point advises a girl to find a boyfriend not to feel lonely (and ''kisses'' her completely out of the blue), later finds a perverted PE teacher that is completely PlayedForLaughs, and has two grown men in love with her despite being implied to be a high-schooler or so.

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