History YMMV / Memories

* FirstInstallmentWins: The first short, ''Magnetic Rose'', is the most well-known.

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: In Russia, ''Cannon Fodder'' is best known from a fanmade music video to [[Music/NautilusPompilius NautilusPompilius]] song "Скованы одной цепью" (Bound By One Chain), to the point some commenters on YouTube state they were unaware this wasn't made specifically for the music video. The song touches the same topics of dystopia, collective responsibility and hopelessness, only applied to the USSR rather than fantasy steampunk Europe.

* AwesomeArt: The animation for all three shorts is positively gorgeous.
** WebVideo/BennettTheSage goes in-depth [[https://youtu.be/tke-cSo39OM?t=11m25s about just how complex some of the animation was]], including that TheOner from "Cannon Fodder" required the use of artwork the size of a wall-mural to capture it.

* NightmareFuel: The [[spoiler:Rampant [=AI=]]] in ''Magnetic Rose'', haunting [[spoiler: Heintz]] [[MyGreatestFailure with his most traumatic memory]], and using a LotusEaterMachine on [[spoiler: Miguel]] (and countless other corpses).

* {{Tearjerker}}: ''Magnetic Rose'' has more than a few moments that can bring tears. The worst may be [[spoiler:finding out that, for cute little Emily, getting the spacesuit costume she always wanted... [[KillTheCutie ended in]] [[HarmfulToMinors her tragic death]] ''[[DeathByFallingOver falling from the roof of her house]]'', because she was eager to help her daddy and show off her new space-suit]]. No wonder [[spoiler:Heintz]] spends so much time out on space missions.
** And just for good measure, [[spoiler: he gets to watch his daughter fall to her death both from on the roof and, later, from the ground, where she literally passes through him, only able to interact with her hologram after she'd already hit the ground and "died" again.]]
** And, as Sage pointed out in his review of it, none of Heintz's coworkers knew about it.

* HarsherInHindsight: "Stink Bomb," after one delves into the story behind the Fukushima Dai-ichi power plant disaster of 2011. The problem in "Stink Bomb" escalates because [[CorruptCorporateExecutive the Japanese]] [[ObstructiveBureaucrat higher-ups]] try to save face by obfuscating the truth, fudging data, and keeping secrets, which is ''exactly'' how the Fukushima situation was allowed to get to the point it reached; the power plant might have shut down safely had it not been for the decades' worth of bureaucratic bullshit and buck-passing that hid the plant's weaknesses (like outdated equipment) from the government and the public alike.

** WebVideo/BennettTheSage goes in-depth [[https://youtu.be/tke-cSo39OM about just how complex some of the animation was]], including that TheOner from "Cannon Fodder" required the use of artwork the size of a wall-mural to capture it.

** WebVideo/BennettTheSage goes in-depth [[https://youtu.be/tke-cSo39OM about just how complex some of the animation was]], including that ''Cannon Fodder'' required the use of artwork the size of a wall-mural in order to get some of the tracking shots used in the segment.

** And just for good measure, [[spoiler: he gets to watch his daughter fall to her death both from on the roof and, later, from the ground, where she literally passes through him, only able to interact with her hologram after she'd already hit the ground and "died" again.]]

* NightmareFuel: The [[spoiler:Rampant [=AI=]]] in ''Magnetic Rose'', haunting [[spoiler: Heintz]] [[MindRape with his most traumatic memory]], and using a LotusEaterMachine on [[spoiler: Miguel]] (and countless other corpses).

** And just for good measure, [[spoiler: he gets to see watch his daughter fall to her death both from on the roof and, later, from the ground, where she literally passes through him, only able to interact with her hologram after she'd already hit the ground and "died" again.]]

** And just for good measure, [[spoiler: he gets to see watch his daughter fall to her death both from on the roof and, later, from the ground, where she literally passes through him so he still can't catch her.]]

** And just for good measure, [[spoiler: he gets to see watch his daughter fall to her death both from on the roof and, later, from the ground]].

* {{Tearjerker}}: [[spoiler: Magnetic Rose]] has more than a few moments that can bring tears. The worst may be [[spoiler:finding out that, for cute little Emily, getting the spacesuit costume she always wanted... [[KillTheCutie ended in]] [[HarmfulToMinors her tragic death]] ''[[DeathByFallingOver falling from the roof of her house]]'', because she was eager to help her daddy and show off her new space-suit]]. No wonder [[spoiler:Heintz]] spends so much time out on space missions.

* HarsherInHindsight: "Stink Bomb," after one delves into the story behind the Fukushima Dai-ichi power plant disaster. The problem in "Stink Bomb" escalates because [[CorruptCorporateExecutive the Japanese]] [[ObstructiveBureaucrat higher-ups]] try to save face by obfuscating the truth, fudging data, and keeping secrets, which is ''exactly'' how the Fukushima situation was allowed to get to the point it reached.

* DudeNotFunny: For some people, ''Stink Bomb'' is more tragic and sad than anything else, largely due to FridgeHorror.
** Some people take it as really, REALLY BlackComedy instead.

** And just for good measure, [[spoiler: we get to see it both from on the roof and, later, from the ground]].

* FridgeHorror: During ''Magnetic Rose'', Heinz tries and fails to keep a music-box with a blonde dancer from falling off the table. Later, [[spoiler: we watch as his blonde daughter falls off the roof as he tries to save her]].

* NightmareFuel: The [[spoiler:Rampant [=AI=]]] in ''Magnetic Rose'', haunting [[spoiler: Heinz]] [[MindRape with his most traumatic memory]], and using a LotusEaterMachine on [[spoiler: Miguel]] (and countless other corpses).

* {{Tearjerker}}: [[spoiler: Magnetic Rose]] has more than a few moments that can bring tears. The worst may be [[spoiler:finding out that, for cute little Emily, getting the spacesuit costume she always wanted... [[KillTheCutie ended in]] [[HarmfulToMinors her tragic death]] ''[[DeathByFallingOver falling from the roof of her house]]'', because she was eager to help her daddy and show off her new space-suit]]. No wonder [[spoiler:Heinz]] spends so much time out on space missions.

* {{Tearjerker}}: [[spoiler: Magnetic Rose]] has more than a few moments that can bring tears. The worst may be [[spoiler:finding out that, for cute little Emily, getting the spacesuit costume she always wanted... [[KillTheCutie ended in]] [[HarmfulToMinors her tragic death]] ''[[DeathByFallingOver falling from the roof of her house]]'']]. No wonder [[spoiler:Heinz]] spends so much time out on space missions.

* HarsherInHindsight: "Stink Bomb," after one delves into the story behind the Fukushima Dai-ichi power plant disaster. The problem in "Stink Bomb" escalates because [[CorruptCorporateExecutive the Japanese higher-ups]] try to save face by obfuscating the truth, fudging data, and keeping secrets, which is ''exactly'' how the Fukushima situation was allowed to get to the point it reached.

* HarsherInHindsight: "Stink Bomb," after one delves into the story behind the Dai'ichi Fukushima power-plant disaster. "Stink Bomb's" problem escalates because the Japanese higher-ups try to save face by obfuscating the truth, fudging data and keeping secrets, which is ''exactly'' how the Fukushima situation was allowed to get to the point it reached.
* NightmareFuel: The [[spoiler:Rampant [=AI=]]] in ''Magnetic Rose'', haunting [[spoiler: Heintz]] [[MindRape with his most traumatic memory]], and using a LotusEaterMachine on [[spoiler: Miguel]] (and countless other corpses).

** A protest group in ''Cannon Fodder'' is arguing against the use of hazardous materials in the gunpowder used to fire the shells. The father who works at one of the enormous guns is later reprimanded (for something that was even his fault) and forced to stand within the firing chamber that is normally evacuated but for one operator, ''without his mask on''. Given how pallid and haggard the art style makes everyone look, it adds more horror with the ForeverWar slowly killing its population from within (for no reason at all).

* {{Tearjerker}}: [[spoiler: Magnetic Rose]] has more than a few moments that can bring tears. The worst may be [[spoiler:finding out that, for cute little Emily, getting the spacesuit costume she always wanted... [[KillTheCutie ended in]] [[HarmfulToMinors her tragic death]] ''[[DeathByFallingOver falling from the roof of her house]]'']]. No wonder [[spoiler:Heinz]] spends so much time out on space missions.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Arguably, Eva from ''Magnetic Rose'' [[spoiler: (or better said, the AI that took her BrokenBird personality)]]

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: The [[spoiler:Rampant [=AI=]]] in ''Magnetic Rose'', haunting [[spoiler: Heintz]] [[MindRape with his most traumatic memory]], and using a LotusEaterMachine on [[spoiler: Miguel]] (and countless other corpses).

* DudeNotFunny: [[YourMileageMayVary For some people]], ''Stink Bomb'' is more tragic and sad than anything else, largely due to FridgeHorror.

* {{Tearjerker}}: [[spoiler: Magnetic Rose]] has more than a few moments that can bring tears. The worst may be [[spoiler:finding out that the cute little Emily getting the spacesuit costume she always wanted... ended in her tragic death ''falling from the roof of her house'']]. No wonder [[spoiler:Heinz]] spends so much time out on space missions.

* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Arguably, Eva from ''Magnetic Rose''

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: The [[spoiler:Rampant [=AI=]]] in ''Magnetic Rose'', [[MindRape haunting one crew member with his most traumatic memory]], and using a LotusEaterMachine on another (and countless other corpses).

* TearJerker: The dude's traumatic flashbacks in ''Magnetic Rose'', since they're related to [[spoiler: his daughter's death.]]