YMMV / A Town Where You Live

aka: Kimi No Iru Machi

• Accidental Innuendo: Some fans took Haruto's confession at Kazama's grave in an accidentally malicious light, with it sounding like he was genuinely glad his best friend died so he could hook up with Yuzuki rather than just finding good within the bad of said best friend's death.
• Alternative Character Interpretation: Especially concerning the male and female leads.
  • Haruto: Is he compassionate to a fault and wants to believe in the best of other people, or is he a naive, deluded idiot who is white knighting and is outright abusing his girlfriend's trust? (And as of chapter 256: naive, deluded idiot, or Jerkass?)
  • Yuzuki: Is she a sympathetic and well-meaning young woman who sincerely believes that everything will be better off if she sacrifices her own happiness in favor of others or is she a horrible bitch who plays mind games, uses the Deliberately Cute Child to her advantage, and keeps jerking Haruto around?
• Arc Fatigue: For some fans, the arc where Haruto transfers to Tokyo to confront Yuzuki is a headache/anger-inducing case of Arc Stall.
  • Many fans in the last two years were just wondering when the series is going to end as it just seems to be a day to day of his and Yuzuki's life for the last 100 chapters. It wasn't even a particularly interesting Slice of Life, to boot, chock-full of stupidity, miscommunication, too many direly unfunny One Dialogue, Two Conversations jokes and cheap "drama" for drama's sake (Haruto and Yuzuki's last breakup being the most egregious bit of chain-yanking). One can only imagine their satisfaction when the series actually ended.
• Base-Breaking Character: Yuzuki, ooh boy. On one side she is seen as a gentle naive girl, on the other she is a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing who likes to Mind Screw Haruto.
• Damsel Scrappy: Yuzuki can't seem to do anything that doesn't require Haruto to go out of his way to fix the problem. At one point even moving all the way to Tokyo.
• Die for Our Ship:
  • For most of this manga's run, any attitudes of this nature were toward either Yuzuki or Nanami.
  • With the Tokyo arc, Kazama, Yuzuki's boyfriend to many readers. Which makes his death in chapter 100 all the more...base breaking.
• Fan Nickname: Kimi No RAGE Machi, named for the manga's rather infuriating use of the Conflict Ball.
• I Knew It!:
  • Chapter 118, where Asuka allowed Haruto to be taken by his friends to a group date and coincidentally meet back up with Yuzuki after her two years-long absence. Many fans knew it was only a matter of time before they were made a couple again, despite the amount of hate the idea generated for both the readers and In-Universe. If anything people could see that this whole chapter was just an Ass Pull to get them to meet back up again.
  • In Chapter 198 when they were finally about to "cross the line" but things happened that prevented it (such as Yuzuki getting drunk and going to bed early), fans guessed this was done to pad it out so it would happen on Chapter 200, sure enough that's when it happened.
• The Scrappy: The lesbian girl who hits on pretty much all the female cast, and hangs out with Yuzuki with the full intention of stealing her away from Haruto. Of course being Yuzuki, she is completely oblivious to this and thinks Haruto is just overreacting. The author seems to have picked up on this as she seems to disappear to only make a quick appearance every now and again just to show she still exists.
• Shipping Bed Death: A lot of fans agree that as soon as Haruto and Yuzuki got back together the story started to go downhill. (Particularly with all the other characters that ended up Demoted to Extra or Out of Focus, the Flanderisation endured by others, Yuzuki being demoted to Satellite Love Interest and losing some of her previous personality, and Haruto's sometimes scummy behaviour in rekindling the relationship.)
• Ship-to-Ship Combat: Pretty prevalent throughout the series due to the number of girls that people want to see Haruto end up with.
• Why Would Anyone Take Her Back??: Haruto keeps taking back Yuzuki. Seriously she never tells him anything, takes on things often that require him to go out of his way to save her, flat out lies to him, breaks up with him without a word, screws with him, and now after an argument over a misunderstanding on her part (again) she storms out of Haruto's house, blocks his number, leaving him to almost file a missing persons report with how he can't get in contact with her and no one has seen her. Then when she finally comes back she doesn't even say a word to him as she just gets her suitcase. But for some reason he does everything he can to keep her.
  • Then once they get back together, she promises they will finally have sex the next day. So to make everything perfect Haruto cleans the house, cooks dinner, goes through mental heck trying to prepare to finally cross this line. What does Yuzuki do? She shows up late, is half drunk, eats the food, and states she is going to sleep because she is exhausted from partying with Miyu all day, leaving Haruto confused and understandably frustrated when she goes to bed. So after he cleans up everything, he goes to bed, and tries to go to sleep, Yuzuki looks over at him and gets angry at HIM.

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