YMMV / Amnesia: Memories

• Americans Hate Tingle: The West does not like Toma, citing him as a horribly written yandere character with little depth to his darker side and a hard-to-swallow Good End. Japan, in contrast, loves him—he scored first place on their Amnesia popularity poll◊, and fifth out of one hundred for all of Otomate's games.
• Awesome Music
  • Zoetrope by Nagi Yanagi — The opening for the anime.
  • Reverberation by Kaori Oda — The opening for Memories.
  • Eien no Ichibyou (One Second of Eternity) by Kaori — The ending for Later.
• Base-Breaking Character: The heroine. Some consider her one of the worst otome game protagonists, due to her bland personality and extreme idiocy on Toma's route. Others argue that those fans are missing the point—that the heroine has a bland personality because she's amnesiac, and she regains it as her memories come back.
• Critic-Proof: The anime was universally panned by critics and anime fans alike, yet Sentai Filmworks decided to give it an English dub.
• Fan Nickname
  • Although the heroine lacks an official name, Lin is the most common name used by the fandom.
  • The two sides of Ukyo have their own names. The kind, slightly timid Ukyo is called Omote!Ukyo (Surface Ukyo) and the murderous, insane is Ura!Ukyo (Below/Other Ukyo).
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: Kent usually is near the bottom of Japanese fan polls, but he's quite popular with western fans.
• It Was His Sled: If you've heard of this visual novel, chances are highly likely that one of the first things you learned about it was Toma turning out to be a cage-loving Yandere, which is supposed to be a major Reveal in his and Shin's routes.
• Memetic Mutation: The cage ^{Explanation (Spoilers)}  One of the most notable scenes in Toma's route was him locking the Heroine up in a cage. Soon, cages became shorthand for Yandere love interests among Otome fans
• Moral Event Horizon:
  • There are two separate points where Ikki's fangirls can cross it. The first is Ikki's second Bad End, when they attack the heroine so severely she's left blind, deaf and comatose, all because of petty jealousy. The second is on the path to Ukyo's Normal/Good End, when they deliberately leave her to burn to death in a shrine, again because of petty jealousy.
  • Brought up in regards to Toma and Ukyo, who believe their actions (locking up and drugging the heroine in Toma's case, the heroine's various deaths at the hands of his split personality in Ukyo's) are unforgivable. Forgiving them is part of their Good Endings, except that the heroine automatically does so in Toma's and has to choose to do so to get Ukyo's.
• Never Live It Down: While it's considered many-a-person's first otome game and a classic for fans of the genre, easily the most enduring thing about the game is Toma being a cage-loving yandere.
• Why Would Anyone Take Him Back?: The so-called Good Ending for Toma's route feels like this to most players. His route involves him stealing the charging cable for the heroine's laptop so she can't check her messages, drugging her for several days to keep her at his home, and eventually going so far as to reveal his full Yandere personality by locking the heroine into a giant cage. He won't let her out anymore, except for using the bathroom, and he keeps her on a literal leash for that, and taking her phone away. Getting his Good Ending involves him trying to assault her because she managed to escape the cage. He stops only because he realizes she loved him back and there is no need to force her, not because he understands that he shouldn't act that way whether he's loved or not. And the two of them end up in what is supposed to be a happy relationship.
• The Woobie:
  • Ukyo. He is also an Iron Woobie.
  • The heroine! Her having amnesia, which cannot be cured in an ordinary hospital, is the least of her worries. She gets harassed by Ikki's fanclub in several routes, has to deal with Toma and his cruel actions in another, and even Joker World has everything wanting her dead.

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