History YMMV / KadoTheRightAnswer

* GeniusBonus: Upon closer inspection on the books [=zaShunina=] reads, it's all literature on humanism and speculative fiction on humanity ascending with divine/otherworldy intervention. Episode 8's book, for example, was Murasaki Shikibu's "Three Cheers for Mankind", which concerned a lazy god creating humanity and abandoning them, and a second god telling the first about how a human reached their true potential.

* TheScrappy: Kanata Shinawa earned a divisive reputation quite quickly, with most detractors not liking how a ''[[Series/TheBigBangTheory Big Bang Theory]]''-type HollywoodNerd is part of a serious FirstContact series. Over time, however, opinion on her lightened up a lot, to the point where animosity towards her was reasonable, but not overwhelming.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: General consensus was that the story's potential wasn't fully realized, and it shows. The second half of the series has a more noticeable shift in tone, TheReveal concerning [[spoiler:Tsukai]] wasn't properly foreshadowed, and the consequences and benefits of humanity's gifts aren't explored adequately.

* WhatAnIdiot: The entire country of Japan gets this. When a near-godlike alien appears offering gifts of seemingly endless energy and technological progress, [[spoiler:did anyone seemingly have a clue there might be a catch]]?

* BrokenBase: The reveal that [[spoiler:Tsukai is an anisotropic being]] has been a point of contention. Either it's an interesting twist that gave [[spoiler:Tsukai]] some much needed depth or it was a poorly foreshadowed ShockingSwerve that completely derailed the show.

** Episode 9 has two instances in the same episode: Hanamori saying that he "likes" Shindo (using ''daisuki'', and in the context of the conversation with Tsukai is read as romantic), and [=zaShunina=] revealing that he developed feelings for him, but in a very different and unhealthy way.

* HypocriticalFandom: Among shippers, at least. Fans of Shindo/Hanamori find Tsukai to be immature and childish, when Hanamori shows himself to act that way as well. Shindo/Tsukai fans do the same.

* BaseBreakingCharacter: Saraka has been attracting some negative attention, due to her seeming immaturity as a negotiator compared to her peers, her {{Tsundere}} traits, and her opposition to [=ZaShunina=]. By the halfway point in the series, she acquired a large group of detractors, but after [[spoiler:her reveal as an anisotropic being like [=ZaShunina=]]], some viewers justified her stance and found her a more interesting character.

* TheScrappy: Kanata Shinawa earned a divisive reputation quite quickly, with most detractors not liking how a ''[[Series/TheBigBangTheory Big Bang Theory]]''-type HollywoodNerd is part of a serious FirstContact series.

* UnfortunateImplications: {{Downplayed}}. See CulturalPosturing above.

* BaseBreakingCharacter:
** Kanata Shinawa earned a divisive reputation quite quickly, with most detractors not liking how a ''[[Series/TheBigBangTheory Big Bang Theory]]''-type HollywoodNerd is part of a serious FirstContact series.
** Saraka has been attracting some negative attention, due to her seeming immaturity as a negotiator compared to her peers, her {{Tsundere}} traits, and her opposition to [=ZaShunina=]. By the halfway point in the series, she acquired a large group of detractors, but after [[spoiler:her reveal as an anisotropic being like [=ZaShunina=]]], some viewers justified her stance and found her a more interesting character.

* FanPreferredCouple: zaShunina x Shindou seems to be this. [[spoiler: A ''Newtype'' magazine description confirms that their relationship between them can be seen as romantic or based on trust, [[BaitAndSwitchLesbians give or take a few complications]].]]

* NightmareFuel: Episode 0 has [[WhamShot the sudden arrival of KADO]] [[DaylightHorror witnessed by the protagonist in the airplane that was just about to go of.]] Things only get worse when [[AlienGeometries KADO]] makes contact with the airplane in Episode 1. [[BodyHorror Poor Hanamori...]]

** [[WhamEpisode Episode 9]] is HighOctaneNightmareFuel.
* RewatchBonus: After Episode 6's reveal that [[spoiler:[=zaShuina=] has been slowly tampering with Shindo's mind]], previous episodes before the revelation become much more interesting to look at.
** The same goes for Saraka after episode 9.
* RonTheDeathEater: While Tsukai was always somewhat suspicious of [=zaShunina=] and his plans, and while she does admit that his gifts for humanity are helpful and she doesn't find fault with [=ZaShunina=] himself, episodes 7 and 8 made her stance on the matter very clear--that she prioritizes and appreciates the Earth's natural evolutionary process, something that will be lost after [=zaShunina=]'s gifts are fully bestowed on humanity-- a stance that Shindo even somewhat agrees with. After seeing some of these gifts and their initial benefits in action, how seemingly amiable [=zaShunina=] is, and an already present frustration with her, Tsukai's stance and character was twisted into one that seems to not want progress for humanity and deliberately wants to hold it back from greatness.
** Episode 9 has, on the other hand, resulted in a good number of viewers giving her a break, especially due to the revelations the episode has brought.

** Episode 9 has two instances in the same episode: Hanamori saying that he "likes" Shindo (using ''daisuki'', and in the context of the c9nversation with Tsukai is read as romantic), and [=zaShunina=] revealing that he developed feelings for him, but in a very different and unhealthy way.

** Episode 9 has two instances in the same episode: Hanamori saying that he "likes" Shindo (using ''daisuki'', but probably not in the romantic sense), and [=zaShunina=] revealing that he developed feelings for him, but in a very different and unhealthy way.

** Saraka has been attracting some negative attention, due to her seeming immaturity as a negotiator compared to her peers, her {{Tsundere}} traits, and her opposition to [=ZaShunina=]. By the halfway point in the series, she acquired a large group of detractors, but after [[spoiler:her reveal as an ansiotropic being like [=ZaShunina=]]], some viewers justified her stance and found her a more interesting character.

* FanPreferredCouple: zaShunina x Shindou seems to be this. [[spoiler: A ''Newtype'' magazine description confirms that their relationship between them can be seen as romantic or based on trust, [[BaitAndSwitchLesbians give or take a few complicataions]].]]

* Episode 9 has two instances in the same episode: Hanamori saying that he "likes" Shindo (using ''daisuki'', but probably not in the romantic sense), and [=zaShunina=] revealing that he developed feelings for him, but in a very different and unhealthy way.

** "''Kado'' is a visual novel" and variations therof, due to Episode 9 showing that [[spoiler:the Shindo [=zaShunina=]'s been interacting with isn't necessarily the same Shindo that started the series, and likening it to a visual novel player SaveScumming in order to get the best possible ending]].

** Saraka has been attracting some negative attention, due to her seeming immaturity as a negotiator compared to her peers, her {{Tsundere}} traits, and her opposition to [=ZaShunina=]. By the halfway point in the series, she acquired a large group of detractors.

* Episode 9 has two confessions in the same episode: Hanamori saying that he "likes" Sindo, and [=zaShunina=] revealing that he developed feelings for him, but in a very different and unhealthy way.

* RonTheDeathEater: While Tsukai was always somewhat suspicious of [=zaShunina=] and his plans, episodes 7 and 8 made her stance on the matter very clear--that she prioritizes and appreciates the Earth's natural evolutionary process, something that will be lost after [=zaShunina=]'s gifts are fully bestowed on humanity-- a stance that Shindo even somewhat agrees with. After seeing some of these gifts and their initial benefits in action, how seemingly amiable [=zaShunina=] is, and an already present frustration with her, Tsukai's stance and character was twisted into one that seems to not want progress for humanity and deliberately wants to hold it back from greatness.

* FanPreferredCouple: zaShunina x Shindou seems to be this. [[spoiler: A ''Newtype'' magazine description confirms that their relationship between them can be seen as romantic, [[BaitAndSwitchLesbians give or take a few complicataions]].]]

* FanPreferredCouple: zaShunina x Shindou seems to be this.

* NightmareFuel: Episode 0 has the sudden arrival of KADO witnessed by the protagonist in the airplane that was just about to go of. Things only get worse when KADO makes contact with the airplane in Episode 1.

** Yaha-kui zaShunina already used rather weird devices whose obvious potential to be abused with disastrous consequences have been regularly acknowledged, but [[spoiler: the Sansa]] is in a tier of its own. While not necessarily as directly dangerous as the Wam, [[UncannyValley it is terrifying in every way that the Wam isn't.]] [[BrainInAJar For starters, it looks like a human brain.]] [[MindScrew When it activates,]] [[spoiler: [[MindScrew the Sansa]]]] [[MindScrew essentially divides itself in ''loafs'' and starts assuming movements that make it look like either a bacteria/ameba and in doing so it gradually starts resembling a worm.]] ''Then'', it causes [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou those who view it (even on TELEVISION)]] to see multiple versions of themselves while their surrounding looks like a DisneyAcidSequence [[UpToEleven on crack.]] In [[IntrepidReporter Genno's]] case, one of his duplicates at first looks just as confused as - almost like a mirror image - but delivers a rather unnerving PsychoticSmirk.

* GeniusBonus: Upon closer inspection on the books [=zaShunina=] reads, it's all literature on humanism and speculative fiction on humanity ascending with divine/otherworldy intervention. Episode 8's book, for example, was Murasaki Shikibu's "Three Cheers for Mankind", which concerned a lazy god creating humanity and abandoning then, and a second god telling the first about how a human reached their true potential.

* GeniusBonus: Upon closer inspection on the books [=zaShunina=] reads, it's all literature on humanism and speculative fiction on humanity ascending with divine/otherworldy intervention. Episode 8's book, for example, was "Three Cheers for Mankind", which concerned a lazy god creating humanity and abandoning then, and a second god telling the first about how a human reached their true potential.

** zaShunina has his moments too, especially in episode 4 where he's seen reading a children's book about dinosaurs, patting a piece of bread, and being very awkward about using a mobile phone.

* RonTheDeathEater: While Tsukai was always somewhat suspicious of [=zaShunina=] and his plans, episodes 7 and 8 made her stance on the matter very clear--that she prioritizes and appreciates the Earth's natural evolutionary process, something that will be lost after [=zaShunina=]'s gifts are fully bestowed on humanity-- a stance that Shindo even somewhat agrees with. After seeing some of these gifts and their initual benefits in action, how seemingly amiable [=zaShunina=] is, and an already present frustration with her, Tsukai's stance and character was twisted into one that seems to not want progress for humanity and deliberately wants to hold it back from greatness.

* UncannyValley: [=zaShunina=] dips more and more into it as the series goes on, as his developing human emotions in direct contrast to his actions and motives make a startling contrast.

* RonTheDeathEater: While Tsukai was always somewhat suspicious of [=zaShunina=] and his plans, episodes 7 and 8 made her stance on the matter very clear--that she prioritizes and appreciates the Earth's natural evolutionary process, something that will be lost after [=zaShunina=]'s gifts are fully bestowed on humanity-- a stance that Shindo even somewhat agrees with. After seeing some of these gifts and their initual benefits in action, how seemingly amiable [=zaShunina=] is, and an already present frustration with her
Tsukai's stance and character was twisted into one that seems to not want progress for humanity and deliberately wants to hold it back from greatness.

* StrawmanHasAPoint: Tsukai has every reason to be suspect of [=ZaShunina=] despite his gifts to humanity, such as his unwillingness to tell humankind his real plans and this sudden burst of himan evolution where it previously was a slow process. But she's not able to make a clear argument for why, and her actions seem to represent the halt of progress going by the symbolism in the opening.