YMMV / 18if

• Angst? What Angst?: Haruto doesn't seem all that shocked by anything that happens in the Dream Land. He doesn't bat an eye when he first kills someone, even if the victim is a cold-hearted murderer. It barely makes a dent in him that the reason why he's been asleep for so long is because he's been in a coma for years.
• Bizarro Episode:
  • Episode 7 is pretty damn weird, even by this show's standards. First, the episode features a major Art Shift to CGI through a painting filter to give the impression of a children's fairy tale. Haruto doesn't interact with the Witch and is merely a spectator for the whole episode. Also, the reasons as to why the Girl of the Week became a Witch are never really explained.
  • Episode 9 tops that. "The witch of eternal beauty" (an idol who suffered a breakdown after being flamed online for supposedly having a boyfriend and then being attacked by a delusional fan) gives everyone who had hurt her a Training from Hell in her new idol school. And since the main rule is "No men allowed", every man who appeared in her dream world is turned into a girl. After Haruto is outed as a man (thanks to Lily), he is tortured by his "classmates". And then his dick turns into a green genie and helps him escape.
• Esoteric Happy Ending:
  • Episode 5 ends with Mirei regaining her lost passion and it looks like she will skate again when she wakes up... except for the little detail that she is now an old lady. She can never skate again, even if she wants to.
  • Episode 6 ends with the girls that bullied Natsuki becoming victims of online bullying themselves, ironically for their treatment of Natsuki. While some of their comments force them to apologize to Natsuki for what they did to her, it comes across as hypocritical and cruel.
  • Episode 13 ends with Eve being pacified and the world spared, but Haruto's body dies in the real world when his dream self decides to go along with Eve to her reality. He spends the entire series trying to wake up, and decides to die anyway just to see what the other side is like.
• Fridge Horror:
  • As revealed in episode 2, when someone dies in the dream world, they die in the real world. One of the killers was planning to use that to keep killing without fear of retaliation before Haruto kills him.
  • Sono was buried underneath rubble after an earthquake and the episode ends without giving a hint as to whether she was rescued or not. Luckily, the last few episodes show she made it out of the rubble alive and well.
• Fridge Logic:
  • Eve dreamed up everything in our reality after eating the Fruit of Knowledge. If we go by the Bible, this also includes the life of her and Adam after they were kicked out of Eden, their kids, Cain's kids, and all the suffering that was inflicted on them as the generations kept piling up. Somehow, Eve didn't recognize how deep she got into creating her life's story during all of this. And if we don't go by it, she's been dreaming of countless people interpreting her life and taking what they got out of it in different directions.
  • Even if Eve stopped destroying the world because she now sees the appeal in it, she's still going back to her reality where none of the concepts of this world exist in hers. And by none of the concepts, it really means none, as she and Adam are still the first humans in their world, and no other human besides her and Haruto are there to invent what she dreamed of. Sure, she can come back every now and then, but it rings hollow when there's possibly nothing for her in the world beyond save the very people who drove her to Sleeping Beauty Syndrome in the first place.
• Narm Charm: The ugly face Haruto makes while crying for the third witch in Episode 3. In any other show, the overflow of emotions would be unintentionally funny, but here it's perfect for his reaction to the Witch's death, especially with how he got to know her over the course of the episode.
• Tear Jerker: Episode 3, the whole thing. Even the Inelegant Blubbering Haruto does near the end isn't laughed at because of how upsetting the circumstances were.

---