YMMV / Mani Mani People

• Americans Hate Tingle: The original Japanese channel is quite popular, with over 1 million subscribers with over a billion views. The English version has an average subscriber count by other Lab316 channel standards, due to the bizarre stories not going over well with the English-speaking crowd.
• Esoteric Happy Ending:
  • Ren was kicked out of his house by his Abusive Parents in nothing but his underwear just because he annoyed them, only to be rescued by Mei and Yuina! Two girls who have admitted to being shotacons. The fact that Ren's parents were arrested for their abuse while he now lived with the two girls is supposed to be a happy ending, but in actuality Ren has gone from living with one abusive couple to living with another. Commenters even pointed out that had the genders been reversed, this would not be seen as positive.
  • Teruhito, who was revealed to have been financially abused by his father, was kicked out at the suggestion of his new step-siblings Mako and Mao, only for the latter two to ask him to come back after finding out the truth about their stepbrother and father. The story ends with the father being arrested and Teruhito living Happily Ever After with his step-siblings and mother. But similar to the story above, many feel he simply went from one abuser to another.
  • Kakeru, after waking up from a 1-month coma, gets married to Marin, who has been revealed cheating on him with a doctor at the hospital. Only going back to Kakeru when the "doctor" is revealed to be only an intern who did the same thing at another hospital (and was fired) and that Kakeru is revealed to be inheriting the hospital from his grandfather. Essentially Kakeru is marrying a woman he has been dating for three years who has just shown to have no problem cheating on/dumping him while he's in a coma (From saving her life no less) for someone she thinks is better only to go back to him when she finds out said someone was a fraud and that her boyfriend would be getting a large inheritance in the future.
  • Tomoki and Yuika get back together despite the latter immediately dumping the former after he helped her lose weight as she believed she could do much better tham him. Yuika only goes back to Tomoki after finding out that he's a professional boxer, mostly implying it's out of fear of him punching her. Tomoki takes her back but not before forcing her to regain the weight she had lost. While Yuika is definitely not likable by any means, the fact that Tomoki mentioning that he enjoyed watching her eat show signs of him possibly being a feeder while emotionally abusing Yuika into overeating to (re)gain weight. Yuika's eventually acceptance of her weight gain is supposed to come of as her realizing that Tomoki truly liked her for who she was rather than the way she looked, but can easily be seen as Stockholm Syndrome. In short, while Yuika is horrible, Tomoki's actions doesn't show him being much better either.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: In What would a world where everyone knew your deepest secrets look like?, many people assumed Moroboshi's Dark Secret was that he's the mastermind behind the Visualization events. They likely haven't seen the earlier released Future Number of girlfriends is visualized, where Moroboshi did indeed start a Visualization event, and his supercomputer implies that's not the first time he did one.
• Karmic Overkill: Ren once he is abandoned by everyone (including his parents) after the Visualization Phenomenon revealed his future occupation as "Unemployed." Granted he was a bully to Sora, who he mocked for being poor, unathletic, and fatherless. But the fact that even his parents (Who probably enabled, if not outright influenced his previous behavior) were quick to just give up on him to the point of disowning him was too much for the poor kid. Luckily, this ends on a hopeful note as Sora decides to help out his former bully to set him on the right path to improve his life.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic:
  • One of the biggest criticisms of this series is that the female antagonists are often Easily Forgiven by the main male character of stories despite their actions to the point where they come off as Karma Houdinis. It doesn't help that the reason for their antagonism in the first place is often due to shallow, petty reasons.
  • Hikari when it's revealed that she suffered a Career-Ending Injury and thus wanted to spend her time improving athletes. The same Hikari who acted more like a tyrant to the runners she was supposed to be managing. Especially to Tomoya, who she would outright bully and humiliate simply because he was too slow. The fact that the narrative tries to portray her as being responsible for Tomoya's improvement when it was her brother Kai who actually took the time to help Tomoya in a meaningful manner, to the point where Tomoya begs her to stay as manager left many scratching their heads.
  • Madoka who despite having feelings for him bullied Shinta simply because it was rumored that he didn't like her. (Even getting her friends involved). This reaches to the point where she hooked up with his neer-do-well older brother just because he looked like Shinta so she can get a baby that looked like him as well. Shinta rightfully rejects her, but not only does he ends up with her anyway, he also decides to raise her daughter as his own. It doesn't help that Madoka never even apologized for her previous treatment of him, making her come off as a Karma Houdini as well.
  • Mako and Mao, whose Establishing Character Moment is mistreating Keita simply because he's a part time food truck worker. We're supposed to feel bad for them when they found out that their new stepfather they grew to love only married their mother for them (They initially hated him until they found out he was rich). This is right after kicking out his son Teruhito for appearing to be a NEET, only wanting him back when they find out that their mother was pregnant and that he was the real breadwinner of the family. The narrative tries to make the girls sympathetic by revealing that their unemployed, abusive father was the reason for their disdain for guys without full-time jobs. But this hardly excuses their shallow behavior with many believing that Teruhito should've abandoned his step-family (Including the mother, who did nothing about him being kicked out.) along with his father.
  • Marin, who cheated on her boyfriend Kakeru while he was with a coma with Yuga, an hospital intern who claims to be a doctor, apologizes to her boyfriend immediately after Yuga gets exposed and fired from the hospital Kakeru is to inherit from his grandfather. She claims that she was tricked, but that doesn't change the fact that after three years of dating she started cheating on him while he's in a coma (After saving her life, no less) does nothing when her new companion insults him for being poor, and immediately goes back to him when her new doctor boyfriend is revealed to be a fraud and that Kakeru will inherit the hospital (Implying that he would soon become rich.) Not only does Kakeru takes her back without issue, but he even insists on getting married on the spot. Not a single person has a problem with this, including their friends Keita and Mel.^note In their defense, Keita and Mel thought Marin was there to visit Kakeru, not knowing that she was dating his "doctor."
  • Another Hikari, who looks down on her brother Hajime for being a dropout, is viewed as being an Ungrateful Bitch for mistreating him despite the fact the reason why he dropped out so that he could get a job to support her. The twist that she actually does love her brother and only treated him this way so that he wouldn't make sacrifices for her anymore feels tacked on and is only there so that the audience wouldn't hate her. However, while some sympathized with her, others believed that Hajime should've distance himself from her after saving her from Shintaro.