YMMV / The Unforgiving Flowers Blossom in the Dead of Night

• Adaptation Displacement: Many think that like other 7th Expansion works, the manga is adapted from the VN. It's the opposite. The VN is simply taken as reference more often since it's considered better than the manga overall.
• Awesome Music: The VN may not shine as much as When They Cry in that department, but it has its gems, starting with Yoi no kagefumi, which sums up the atmosphere of the series perfectly.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Midori seems to be the most popular character after Higanbana and Marie, having amassed quite a bit of fanart. In fact, this is the reason she is featured as one of four popularity winners in 07th Theater, alongside Mion Sonozaki, Beatrice, and Philip Butler.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: The fact that spider-lilies play an important plot in the story given that, years later, Ryukishi07 will be the story writer for Silent Hill f, which will also have spider-lilies as a motif.
• Jerkass Woobie:
  • Midori Kusunoki, a Rich Bitch who used to flaunt her wealth to the other students and got bullied for it. It's understandable that they wouldn't appreciate her acting haughty, but how is said bullying carried out? She's beaten just about every day and at almost any given moment by her classmates, and she's been forced to eat curry full of dead bugs and cockroaches. And what does she do in response to this? Escape into a fantasy world where everybody loves her. Compared to the likes of Hikaru, whose response to the bullying he brought upon himself was to torture the school's rabbits before finally killing his tormentors, Midori ultimately comes across as a sad, pathetic young girl whose whole life has turned into a spree of Disproportionate Retribution so bad she'd rather let her soul be eaten than endure it.
  • The second novel does state that Midori's determination to developing her acting skills has made people change their opinions for her, meaning that there's hope for her in the future.
• Les Yay:
  • Between Marie and Higanbana. In most of her talks with Marie, there would be a heart at the end of the speech. From this, you almost get the impression that she is flirting with her.
  • There's also some slight Ho Yay between Hameln and Hikaru in "Hameln's Castanets", when the narrative mentions that when Hameln leans towards Hikaru they're "close enough to kiss".
• Moe: Pretty much Sumire of the Twilight whole purpose within the story is to be the sympathetic moeblob at first.
• Narm: Kanamori's grinning and laughing can easily come across as this. Not to mention his narmy Large Ham speeches.
• Nightmare Retardant: Kanamori in the manga. He's supposed to be scary, but he isn't due to his exaggerated expressions. The manga in general suffers from this problem actually.
• Squick: In the manga, after Kanamori chokes Marie's spirit and seemingly kills her a second time, he actually rapes her remains. Jesus Christ, man...
• Tear Jerker: While the bullying by Marie's classmates is bad enough, the abuse by her teacher is quite heartrending.
• The Woobie: Reiko Osumi poses as this when she’s getting bullied by the entire class.

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