YMMV / The Day I Became a God

• Broken Base:
  • The final few episodes where the series shifts gears into its more dramatic plot have divided the fandom — some were pleased, others were left very unsatisfied (to put it lightly), and some just felt it was So Okay, It's Average.
  • The ending. Was it heartwarming and brought everything to a bittersweet, but comforting conclusion? Or was it a contrived mess of Glurge filled with unfortunate implications?
  • Largely due to a division between die-hard Key fans who stuck through the experimental period of works like Rewrite and Charlotte and more casual ones who might only have seen the biggest titles, there was some discourse over whether this (and Summer Pockets) was proof that Key and Jun Maeda were one-note or whether this was a triumphant return to old ways to Win Back the Crowd.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • Ashura's motorcycle crash scene, especially with the blood dripping from his leg.
  • The scene where Yota gets beaten down by the guards after Shiba orders them to take him out of the sanatorium where Hina is, and he is seen bleeding from his mouth. Fortunately, he succeeds to take Hina back as soon as she remembers him.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Hiroto Suzuki is set up as an antagonistic figure in the series early on and has some of the most intriguing characterization, abilities, and backstory out of the entire cast. He ends up only meeting Yota and his friends after he's fulfilled his part in capturing Hina, and after he provides Yota access to Hina's current whereabouts, he and his partner are never seen again. For all that he was built up to be a major character, Suzuki leaves the story having accomplished very little.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: Many potential character arcs and loose threads go unresolved or fail to carry any subsequent weight after their limelight episode. Examples include Izanami's relationship with her father and Suzuki's role outside of providing Yota access to Hina.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic:
  • Shiba, Hina's caretaker after her chip is removed and she becomes traumatized, can be a bit hard to love. While she does seem to care for Hina's wellbeing and her Freudian Excuse of becoming a caretaker for terminally ill children due to losing her own child to a terminal illness can invoke some sympathy, her cold attitude towards Yota and constant dismissal of the time he, Hina and their friends spent together as just them spending time with a machine didn't help in endearing her to some viewers.
  • In the second half of the series, Yota himself can come off as this to some. While his reasons and circumstances are sympathetic, he’s still trying to take a terminally ill girl out of necessary medical care just so that they can live together again. Said girl doesn’t even remember him, at first, and Yota unintentionally upsets her multiple times due to lack of training, even raising his voice at her in frustration when she understandably cannot grasp certain concepts and doesn't respond to things the way he wants her to. It just makes him look incredibly selfish and naive.