History YMMV / Kanon

* SeinfeldIsUnfunny:
** Hard to believe, but Kanon 2002 was beloved by fans before 2006 came along and blew it out of the water, and now 2002 is looked upon as an inferior product for its low production values and cutting out so much of the plot that a lot of it becomes incomprehensible.
** The original visual novel was a huge success when it first came out in 1999, as it was the first HGame to prove that a visual novel [[PornWithPlot that focused more on plot than porn]] could be commercially viable. At one point it was the second highest-selling PC game in Japan, even staying in the national top 50 several times afterwards. However, with a lot of time having passed since its release and having been adapted several times, nowadays most people would fail to see what made it so special.

* TheWoobie: Yūichi becomes this after regaining his memories.

* FranchiseOriginalSin: Jun Maeda wastes most of the episodes on comedy, then he throws in a terrible event as a plot twist that is meant to make the show more serious, only to undo it with magic that takes away all the negative consequences. This became even worse in ''Anime/{{Charlotte}}'', where this not only happens 3 times in just 13 episodes, but too often and very close to each event, making it impossible for even fanboys of melodrama to overlook it.

* MainstreamObscurity: Quick, how many people can actually give detailed information about ''Kanon''?

* ValuesDissonance: Nayuki being Yuichi's first cousin and a potential love interest isn't seen as problematic in Japan, but does saddle her with the "Incest Girl" nickname in the west. Though an equal chunk of fandom from both sides of the pond has no objections to shipping Yuichi with Akiko, his ''aunt''; that ''is'' treated as incest in Japan and so the people who would ship that anyway exist in equal vocal numbers no matter where you are.

* UncannyValley: Key's hatedom ''loves'' to point out the characters' giant eyes and tiny mouths as disgusting or unnatural, though it's intended to be cute and much of the fandom sees it as such. It's especially bad in the 2002 anime; the character designs are more faithful to the original visual novel's art style than the 2006 anime, but it turns out that the game's art style ''really'' doesn't work in motion.
** The worst specific case of this is the ending image for Nayuki’s route, which has Yuuichi literally faceless. It’s even worse since Nayuki herself looks completely normal, which makes Yuuichi even more jarring.

* IAmNotShazam: Ayu's name is not Kanon. The main character of [[Manga/KanonByChihoSaito that ]] ''[[Manga/KanonByChihoSaito other]]'' [[Manga/KanonByChihoSaito series]] called ''Kanon'' linked at the top of the main page is named Kanon, but Ayu is not.

* {{Squick}}: It's bad enough that Yuichi has sex with Makoto after [[spoiler:she begins losing her humanity (or even at all)]], but they [[CrossesTheLineTwice also do it]] [[IncrediblyLamePun doggie-style]].

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: The first episode [[EstablishingCharacterMoment establishes Yūichi's gadfly/troll nature]] by pretending to have forgotten Nayuki's name and teasing her, in response to her question of whether he remembered it after seven years of separation. We also had Nayuki's [[CatchPhrase "Liar..."]] played for domestic comedy later in the same episode. Then [[WhamEpisode Episode 22]] comes, and we find out [[spoiler: Nayuki's side of the scene: she was ''truly'' afraid that Yūichi had forgotten her after seven years, and was dead serious when she asked him whether he remembered her name. In addition, her "Liar...", said in the midst of a HeroicBSOD, punches harder than before. ''Ouch'']].
** On a smaller scale, there's Makoto's VerbalTic, "auuu". [[spoiler:It turns from cute to tragic once it becomes the only thing she ''can'' say.]]

* FanNickname:
** Nayuki has been given the derogatory name of "Incest Girl" by western fans, due to the KissingCousins trope [[ValuesDissonance not being as well-received in many western countries]].
** Mai is known as "Sword Girl" for the sword she wields.

* FanNickname: Akiko Milfnase.
** [[LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya Kyuuichi]], specifically for the 2006 anime's Yūichi, since he and Kyon [[Creator/TomokazuSugita share the same voice actor]].
** Main Girl, [[KissingCousins Incest Girl]], Sword Girl, [[spoiler:Fox]] Girl and Sick Girl for the haremettes.

* {{Moe}}

* ValuesDissonance: Nayuki being Yuichi's first cousin and a potential love interest isn't seen as problematic in Japan, but does saddle her with the "Incest Girl" nickname in the west. Though very few people from both sides of the pond have and objections of shipping Yuichi with Akiko, his ''aunt''.

* UncannyValley: Key's hatedom ''loves'' to point out the characters' giant eyes and tiny mouths as disgusting or unnatural, though it's intended to be cute and much of the fandom sees it as such. It's especially bad in the 2002 anime; the character designs are very close to the visual novel's art style, and it turns out that the game's art style ''really'' doesn't work in motion.

* UncannyValley: Key's hatedom ''loves'' to point out the characters' giant eyes and tiny mouths as disgusting or unnatural, though it's intended to be cute and much of the fandom sees it as such.

** The original visual novel was a huge success when it first came out in 1999, as it was the first HGame to prove that a visual novel [[PornWithPlot that focused more on plot than porn]] could commercially viable. At one point it was the second highest-selling PC game in Japan, even staying in the national top 50 several times afterwards. However, with a lot of time having passed since its release and having been adapted several times, nowadays most people would fail to see what made it so special.

** In general, the original visual novel was a huge success when it first came out in 1999, as it was the first HGame to prove that a visual novel [[PornWithPlot that focused more on plot than porn]] could commercially viable. At one point it was the second highest-selling PC game in Japan, even staying in the national top 50 several times afterwards. However, with a lot of time having passed since its release and having been adapted several times, nowadays most people would fail to see what made it so special.

** In general, the original visual novel was a huge success when it first came out in 1999, as it was the first {{Eroge}} to prove that a visual novel [[PornWithPlot that focused more on plot than porn]] could be just as commercially viable as PornWithoutPlot games. At one point it was the second highest-selling PC game in Japan, even staying in the national top 50 several times afterwards. However, with a lot of time having passed since its release and having been adapted several times, nowadays most people would fail to see what made it so special.

* UncannyValley: Key's hatedom ''loves'' to point out the characters' giant eyes and tiny mouths as disgusting or unnatural, though it's intended to be cute and much of the fandom sees it as such.

** In general, the original visual novel was a huge success when it first came out in 1999, as it was the first {{Eroge}} to prove that a visual novel [[PornWithPlot that focused more on plot than porn]] could be just as commercially viable as PornWithoutPlot games. At one point it was the second highest-selling PC game in Japan, even staying in the national top 50 several times afterwards. However, with the game now being twenty years old and having been adapted several times, nowadays most people would fail to see what made it so special.

** In general, the original visual novel was a huge success when it first came out in 1999 and was, at one point, the second highest-selling PC game in Japan, even staying in the national top 50 several times afterwards. However, with the game now being twenty years old and having been adapted several times, nowadays most people would fail to see what made it so special.

* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: Hard to believe, but Kanon 2002 was beloved by fans before 2006 came along and blew it out of the water, and now 2002 is looked upon as an inferior product for its low production values and cutting out so much of the plot that a lot of it becomes incomprehensible.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Akiko Minase is quite popular with Western fans, to the point that some are surprised that she doesn't have her own route in the game. For proof, see the sheer amount of fan art starring her here: [[http://forums.animesuki.com/showthread.php?t=36880 1]]