YMMV / Housing Complex C

• Alternate Character Interpretation:
  • After the conclusion, this seems to be the entire point for Kimi being revealed to be an almighty deity the entire time. Were they simply apathetic and let everything play out the way it did out of disinterest? Were they genuinely trying to live a normal life only to be forced to step up to godhood again? Or was it all just some game given the Secret Test of Character and creating an elaborate backstory with fake reactions, and in the end the Koshides ruined it so horribly that she opted for Rocks Fall Everybody Dies (besides Kan)? Even that last part is of note, since it's ambiguous whether Kan lived thanks to Kimi heeding his wish for her blessing, or the sign stone he used was entirely incidental and unintended.
  • At the same time, Kimi freaks out when she fears for Taka's safety, and seems legitimately distraught when she discovers Taka's body, and in both cases, it doesn't appear to have been an act, and later in said scene she seems to express open dismay at mankind's predilection towards violence and how it always seems to surround her specifically. She also gives Taka's diary to Koba, knowing that it would explain the situation to him, for no particular reason other than to let him in on the situation and seek an ally, while she gives Kon a way to save himself in the end, pointedly telling him that his god would forgive him for praying to her, and apologizing for getting him involved. All of this may point to Kimi being truly benign, and not as heartless as she originally appeared to be at the end.
• Complete Monster: Seichi and Keiko Koshide, a pair of murderous spouses, are responsible for the mysterious circumstances plaguing the titular housing complex. Introduced as the charming representatives over a group of Middle Eastern interns, Seichi and Keiko abduct and murder the residents in elaborate sacrificial rituals to revive their god Kuzululu. Just as sadistic as her husband, Keiko befriends the elderly Wada, only to betray her, and feigns being an unwitting pawn of her husband to make Kan put his guard down before trying to kill him.
• Genius Bonus: At the very end, when Kimi is revealed to be some kind of god herself, she mocks Yuri and her family for venerating a lesser god for basically selfish reasons. It's all but confirmed that the Koshide family are Cthulhu cultists, and Kimi is implied to be Yog-Sothoth, so she's 100% right: Yog-Sothoth is one of the most internally-important and powerful of all the Cthulhu mythos deities—so much that Lovecraft's own name for the mythos was "the Yog-Sotothery"—and is leagues above the much better-known Cthulhu, who is "only" the most recognizable character from the mythos. Cthulhu is a god, but at the same time is the high priest to much more powerful ones, including Yog-Sothoth.
• Moral Event Horizon: The Koshide family crosses it by setting up the entirety of the immigrants filling up Housing Complex C as an attempt to mass-murder everyone for a gigantic pile of sacrifices to what can only be assumed to be Cthulhu. This includes trying to murder Kimi, and they had likely done things like stick a dog's skinned head in the shaved ice syrup just to make everyone easier to pick off in their paranoia. As far as they all show for it, they're genuinely Ax-Crazy and don't care one bit for how messed up all this is — and they all pay for it dearly.
• Nausea Fuel: Kimi gets an idea for everyone to get along by having a shaved ice party with the foreigners and the old residents of the house. As they're eating, Kimi says that the shaved ice syrup tastes different from when she'd tasted it earlier that day. Then they find a dog's head in the syrup...
• Signature Scene: For better or worse, the ending where at the very end of the series, Kimi reveals herself to be a God in Human Form to serial killer cultist Yuri, tears down the mysteries of the entire story, provides "The Reason You Suck" Speech that tears into Yuri and humanity constantly murdering each other, and then turns Yuri into a popping blood balloon.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: Almost nothing in the series amounts to much, to the point that every other attempt at implying something larger at stake is brushed aside as a random element or part of Kimi's "game", making most of the series a non-stop cavalcade of Red Herring that isn't caused by the Koshides. This includes virtually every H. P. Lovecraft reference that isn't directly tied to Yog-Sothoth, which are all there mostly for a Shout-Out than an actual plot element.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: Kimi lets all the murders play out despite knowing from the start who is behind them (the Koshides) and in hindsight is as much of a False Friend to Yuri as she is to her, and once she drops her façade she calls Yuri stupid (more for following a "lesser god" who would not answer her than anything else) and then kills her. While we're supposed to sympathize with Kimi because she's Seen It All and only wanted to live in peace among humans (who inevitably turn to violence), she can come across as a harsh Jerkass God who lets countless people die to prove Humans Are Bastards and cares very little for the residents of Housing Complex C while putting on a sweet-girl act.

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