YMMV / Full Moon

• Awesome Music:
  • Almost all of Full Moon's singles are well-integrated into the emotional beats of the story and serve as the ending themes to the anime, making for a more organic blend between the songs and the narrative.
  • "New Future," which Mitsuki uses to impress the judges at her first audition in one fell swoop, can seriously inspire you after a hard day.
• Die for Our Ship:
  • Mitsuki gets this treatment from hardcore Negi Ramen (Meroko/Takuto) fans as Takuto and Mitsuki are ultimately endgame in the manga and implied to be in the anime. Likewise, extreme Eichi fans and extreme Takuto fans also seem to hate each other quite a lot. The anti-canon group however are a select few and seem to have given up the fight for the past coup.
  • Arina Tanemura actually commented the MitsukiXTakuto shippers don't mind Eichi, but the MitsukiXEichi faction does not have the same feelings regarding Takuto. This is actually carried over on her staff.
  • That is the case for the Japanese fans. The American fans...are a bit more irrational.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Meroko's goat girl Shinigami friend has only appeared in one chapter, but her appearance was enough to give her a fanbase. Even Arina herself got confused by her sudden popularity.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: Thanks to Superlative Dubbing from Mitsuki's South Korean voice actress Lee Yong-Shin (in her Star-Making Role as a darling among South Korean dub actors), the series still retains a loyal fanbase in South Korea to this day, enough that Lee actually released a new remastered, crowd-funded edition of just her cover songs in the show in 2019.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • The Japanese version of the anime is far harder to watch now due to the actors of Takuto and Meroko, Yasuo "Yakkun Sakurazuka" Saito and Chieko Honda, dying in 2013.
  • Doubly so for Saito, who died in a traffic accident, not unlike another character in the manga.
• Ho Yay: Izumi kisses Takuto in the manga.
• Moral Event Horizon: In the anime, Izumi's is trying to trick and manipulate a despairing little girl into committing suicide, telling her that all the people she loves who're now gone are on the moon, waiting for her, and she only has to step off the building, and be with them... when in actuality, killing herself will only cause her to become a death spirit, stripped of her memories of her loved ones forever and never able to see them again. Then, when it fails thanks to her grandmother's intervention, just whipping up a strong wind to throw her off the building himself. All to stick it to a coworker he dislikes and score a few points with another coworker he fancies. There are a few token attempts to rehabilitate him after the fact, but wow.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • In the manga, the Shinigami remembering their pasts before they died. Takuto snaps, Izumi shuts down, and Meroko attacks Mitsuki with a soul-hunting whip.
  • Also in the manga, Jonathan restraining Izumi with his body, and later torturing him with memories.
• She Can Really Act: myco can surprisingly act, despite her only acting role being the lead character. Episode 42 cements it very well, and it's heart-wrenching.
• The Scrappy: Izumi gets this for his atrocious actions. Even after the story tries to redeem him somewhat, people will still hate him. See Moral Event Horizon above.
• Signature Song: Eternal Snow. The song was created by Changin' my life, and was made specifically for the anime. It's extremely important moment when the episode of the same name (but written in as エターナルスノー opposed to 永遠の雪) itself becomes one of the saddests moments in the anime.
• Too Bleak, Stopped Caring: The manga does an overall good enough job to leave light-hearted moments in to balance out the dark premise, but that doesn't change the fact that death and suicide are a very prominent theme, and the protagonist has been told she only has one year left to live. Particularly volume 4 where Mitsuki is confronted with the fact that everyone knows that she knows that Eiichi is dead, and hints of Izumi's past are given can be difficult to get through.
• What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?:
  • In the manga, a fourteen-year-old Eichi forcefully kissing a ten-year-old Mitsuki in the backstory, Abusive Parents, attempted rape (Meroko's past) and suicide as the one thing all shinigami have in common. It's surprisingly quite dark when you think about it!
  • As if a story about a child dying from cancer wasn't dark enough...

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