YMMV / American Born Chinese

• Anvilicious: Most of the racism aimed towards Jin in the novel, apart from the Innocently Insensitive moments from his third-grade teacher and Greg, who show a far subtler form of prejudice.
• Crosses the Line Twice: Chin-Kee, of course. He's so offensive he loops back around to being hilarious. The fact it's intentional both Out-Of-Universe and In-Universe doubles it.
• Esoteric Happy Ending: Jin and Wei-Chen end up reconciling after Jin apologizes, but there's always going to be an awkward wedge in their relationship, and Wei-Chen's lifestyle might have tragic consequences down the road when he has to account himself before Tze-Yo-Tzuh.
• Fridge Sadness: Chin-Kee's blatant view of white women as objects for procreation is bad enough of a stereotype. It likely hurts worse in-universe because Jin/Danny has a thing for all-American ladies.
• Genius Bonus: The four emissaries of Tze-Yo-Tzuh are a human, a lion, an ox, and an eagle: the Four Living Creatures which are traditionally associated with the four gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John) in Christianity.
• Misaimed Fandom: According to the author, there are some fans who find Chin-Kee "cute" and want images of him on T-shirts, even though he was supposed to be a deeply uncomfortable amalgamation of racist stereotypes. This made the author wish he had made Chin-Kee more blatantly offensive so people wouldn't find him cute. This is also the reason why Chin-Kee was replaced or retooled as Freddy Wong for the live-action series.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Suzy departs from the story after her falling out with Jin and never appears again. There's no apologies or any follow up which is a shame because she, Jin and Wei almost had a Power Trio thing going on and the story prioritized Jin and Wei's relationship with each other rather than to her.
• Unintentional Period Piece: Entire comic’s elements essentially act as time capsule on 2000’s era pop culture references (especially Chin Kee’s parody on Pat Oliphant’s “crispy fried cat gizzard” and Americal Idol contestant William Hung) with the final page being artist rendition of Asian Backstreet Boy.

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