YMMV / Jisei

• Nightmare Fuel: As if Yousei's murder wasn't gruesome enough, we're treated to a turbo-charged dose of fear when Kangai is splashed by the victim's blood, sending him into his first "blood contact" kansei episode. Rather than just reliving the victim's last moments, his mind is transported into the corpse, leaving him in momentary control of half a body crushed by a gigantic bell.
  • It's even worse if you think about it from the point of view of Aki and Aaron, who saw the whole thing. Imagine lingering beside a dead man, trying to pull yourself together enough to deal with the situation, when suddenly the twisted, mangled corpse moves and looks directly at you and tries to speak in spite of horrific injuries. And then imagine being Aki, realizing what's happened and knowing that it's your friend stuck in that twisted husk... (shudder)
• Tear Jerker:
  • Aki and Naoki's tragic family life. Their mother died and their father did his best to raise them but eventually snapped from the stress of being a single parent and gave in to his feelings of resentment towards them for inadverdently causing his wife to die. He would beat Naoki, and Naoki's kansei manifested in him remembering every single thing his father did. Aki straight up indicated she believed it was the anguish of being helpless that eventually woke her kansei... And she used it to make her dad beat HER up instead. Even with him arrested by the Child Services, it only forced them to run away for years and steal until Gurski found them.
    • Aki simply stating that it didn't matter if she felt the anguish of Li Mei or Naoki... Because she's already done it numerous times. Not to mention she's also felt her father's feelings for her mother's death. It essentially confirms how her light-hearted and sarcastic personality is a cover to all the misery and trauma she's had to endure for her brother and friend.
    • And then the family drama reaches it's height of tragedy during the Found Family ending of Yousei, where the utterly tragic truth of how Aki and Naoki's mother died was revealed. She was a test subject of the Dragon Blood, who died due to complications caused by it and gave birth to the twins who suffered not only for their powers, but also due to their father mistakenly blaming them for her death.
    • Naoki's clear devastation at the fact that things could have been better had their father knew exactly why their mother died. He actually gets angry, and bitterly states that he and his sister had let their father beat them because they believed they did deserve it, before silently breaking down.
    • And Aki completely LOSES it. She shows nothing but utmost anger at the world and bitterness towards Gurski for keeping it a secret. Imagine it. The man she knew as a friend for years, who had saved her and her brother, turned out to have lied it to her for so many years.
    • Despite it all, it's easy to feel bad for Gurski too. Yes, he knew and he kept it a secret. But he didn't have a choice. Had they knew from him, he would have been removed as their supervisor. He's lived for years keeping that secret
• Unfortunate Character Design: The protagonist finds a wad of bloody tape thrown away in the men's bathroom. The tape is thick and white and has a huge red bloodstain right in the middle and looks sort of like... Well, you know...