YMMV / Dusk Maiden of Amnesia

aka: Tasogare Otomex Amnesia

• Awesome Music:
  • "Choir Jail", the anime's opening.
  • Whatever the music is that plays towards the end of episode 8, where Niiya finally gets himself together and heads back to the clubroom and Yuuko.
  • "Requiem" plays in episode 12 when Yuuko fades away.
• Fan Nickname: Yuuko is called "Ghost Yomi" in certain corners of the net. The anime aired during the same season as Sankarea, whose female lead Rea is similarly known as "Zombie Saten".
• Fanon Discontinuity: While the series has a happy ending with Yuuko coming back to stay with Teiichi in episode 13, a lot of fans prefer the more bittersweet nature of episode 12 where Yuuko disappears after a heartfelt goodbye to Teiichi, and thus pretend that the series ended there.
• Jerkass Woobie: Shadow Yuuko. She is a malicious spirit for sure, but she has had to carry all the pain, loneliness, sadness that Yuuko discarded from herself for half a century. And unlike Yuuko, who has had the occasional people being able to perceive and interact with her, Shadow Yuuko has had to endure all of her existence entirely alone. It is frankly a surprise Shadow Yuuko isn't even more of an unhinged entity than she already is.
• Les Yay:
  • Momoe and Kirie in chapter 19, and Kirie towards Yuuko in chapter 20.
  • The entire Six Year Sakura story.
• Memetic Mutation: Yuuko is "the softest".^Explanation In the early days of the manga's fanbase on 4chan, anons posted that Maybe "draws the softest bitches, the softest" (referring to the team's NSFW doujins). Then a discussion began about which girls were the softest, which concluded with Yuuko as the answer because she was a ghost drawn by Maybe. This association has remained ever since.
• Moral Event Horizon:
  • The bullies attempting to sacrifice Kirishima.
  • Yukariko breaking Yuuko's leg and entrapping her in a basement to die.
  • The desperate village elders ordering the sacrifice of Yuuko to end the plague. The sad part is that this was a completely Senseless Sacrifice: the plague continued after the sacrifice and might simply have been a new disease that 1950s doctors couldn't identify.
• Narm: When Kirishima is about to be sacrificed, her captors choose to tear open her shirt and invoke some bouncing rather than actually hurt her.
• Squick:
  • The author confesses to not being interested in adult women in the commentary on the swimsuits in the chapter 13 omake, but with the way the original Japanese sentence is worded, it could be interpreted as "this corner doesn't call for the adults" instead of a fan translator's interpretation as "I have no need for an adult"; and the former would make more sense since the manga was serialized in a Shōnen magazine.
  • The revelation late into the series that Teiichi is only 12 years old and Yuuko is 17. That's not even going into the fact that Yuuko is (chronologically) literally old enough to be his grandmother.
    • As mentioned above technically Yuuko is indeed as a ghost around 77 years old, mentally she doesn't seem to be any more mature than a regular teenager would be, probably as a side effect of her titular amnesia. While then the relatively small mental age gap itself would be fine as a Puppy Love story material, what really makes it squicky is the frequent sexual innuendo between these two, and particularly how interested Yuuko is in physical intimacy with Teiichi, who as a 12 year old boy is shown to be understandably rather confused and uncomfortable about Yuuko's attention most of the time.

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