YMMV / Yuuna and the Haunted Hot Springs

aka: Yuragi Sou No Yuuna San

• Adorkable: Despite being the leader of a Tengu clan, Karura at heart is a teenage girl in love and is very awkward around Kogarashi when he isn't a doll.
• Americans Hate Tingle: Yuuna has won both popularity polls by a country mile in Japan, but opinions are more divided in the West.
• Audience-Alienating Ending: A fair amount of fans were upset that the Marry Them All that the final arc seemed to be building up towards instead ends with Kogarashi solely picking Yuuna while the other girls merely get to live with their false memories of the future where he picks them instead, and several do not take this well, with the girls drifting apart from Kogarashi over time and only Kogarashi and Yuuna getting a completely happy ending.
• Best Known for the Fanservice: In the same manner as To Love Ru, Yuuna may have a wide cast of characters of different archetypes with Story Arcs that are Played for Drama, but at the end of the day, any discussions of the series begins with its Fanservice element first above anything else.
• Cliché Storm: Apart from a few minor differences, Yuuna follows nearly every trope inherent to Ecchi and the Harem Genre to a tee.
• Ensemble Dark Horse:
  • Despite being an Ordinary High-School Student until she gains spirit vision, Chisaki has been named runner-up favorite in the popularity polls twice, the reasons being her adorable, Girl Next Door nature, yet hides a lewd mind that even she is ashamed of at times.
  • Coming in at third for twice in a row at the polls is Sagiri for her display of various Ninja abilities, Tsundere nature and shy demeanor over feeling how she's not feminine enough compared to other girls (Irony ensues when chapters dedicated to Sagiri emphasizes exactly how feminine she really is). It also helps that unlike other characters of the archetype in the genre, she was quick to learn that Kogarashi isn't a bad person and Accidental Pervert moments were merely accidents.
  • Although she ranked fourth in the first poll, but dropped to sixth for the second, Nonko remains popular despite not being a major character of the harem due to her party-loving, Cool Big Sister personality. It also helps that she accentuates the Ms. Fanservice Buxom Beauty Standard philosophy.
• Esoteric Happy Ending: Yuuna gets an emotional return to the semi-mortal plane due to the efforts of her love interest and friends, and a just-as-emotional confession from Kogarashi with the harem's implicit blessing. However, it comes hot off the heels of the harem gaining false memories of futures where they're the ones he picked instead of Yuuna, keeping those memories after being given the chance to erase them, and Kogarashi also having access to those memories but explicitly saying that all of those realities were lesser because Yuuna wasn't there—and this is during the emotional confession and in front of the harem to boot. A few of the main six don't take this well at all according to the epilogue illustrations, least of all Karura, but regardless the story depicts the ending as completely happy.
• Fan-Preferred Couple: While Kogarashi/Yuuna is by no means unpopular in the fanbase, many fans agree that a Marry Them All scenario is preferable over picking just one, especially to the girls who've showed explicit interest in him (Yuuna, Chisaki, Sagiri, Hibari, Oboro, and Karura), all of whom are supportive of each other and that Kogarashi treats each of them with kindess and makes an effort to make them happy. The ending breaking all but Yuuna's hearts through their false futures with Kogarashi only strengthened the sentiment.
• Friendly Fandoms: With fans of To-Love-Ru given they're both from the same genre and have a similar premise. Notably, Yuuna filled the empty void left by To-Love-Ru Darkness when the latter ended in early 2017, which is when this series started Growing the Beard.
• Growing the Beard: During its first year in Shonen Jump, many fans complained over the numerous harem cliches Yuuna played redundantly straight. By Chapter 49 of the Manga, readers began seeing an improvement when Yuuna, Chisaki and Hibari explicitly confess they have feelings for Kogarashi to each other, becoming rivals for his affections, which usually don't occur for a Shonen Jump series before heading into its sophomore year. This would be elevated when Hibari gives him a Love Confession at the year two mark, but is rejected, a rare moment for the Harem Genre at this point in the story's run.
• Never Live It Down: Even though she's turned over a new leaf, some readers can't let it slide that Karura was dead set on making Kogarashi her slave husband through the shirishiki curse, and would have accomplished doing so had Yuuna's poltergeist abilities not triggered in the nick of time.
• Shocking Moments: Chisaki's dream experience from chapters 145-149. This is not because of how fast the events went, but because of how brutal and prophetic it was In-Universe, especially considering the implications that it could have ended up that way.
• Squick: Given its intended premise, Fanservice in Yuuna was inevitable, but one instance presented in Chapter 141 had many fans say the series took it too far - while everyone was getting heated up by the effects of an aphrodisiac and acted very lewd, the sight of Koyuzu and Miria doing so was not a sight to see, especially when both characters have the appearance and personality of children.
• Spiritual Successor: Of To Love Ru, an earlier over-the-top Ecchi Unwanted Harem involving an Accidental Pervert and a group of girls with various quirks, published in the same magazine; whereas the girls in To Love Ru are largely Human Aliens with a Science Fiction spin, members of the harem in Yuuna fulfill Fantasy archetypes from Japanese folklore (such as Kitsune, Oni and Tengu).
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character:
  • Renge Shiratsuyu, the Student Council President introduced in Chapters 20 and 21, appeared to eventually join Kogarashi's harem. Unfortunately, she hasn't been seen since.
  • There's some people who feel this way about Kogarashi due to a majority of the Manga being centered around the girls rather than discovering anything new about the protagonist (despite most works in the genre often highlighting it's the harem who gets most of the story's attention). This became telling when, due to how how Out of Focus Kogarashi had been, he ranked sixth in the first popularity poll; by the second, he narrowly reached tenth place. Things would get picked up for him when the plot details more of Kogarashi's past and why he has an absurd debt in the first place.
  • The landlady of Yuragi Inn. She's mentioned throughout the series as someone who's been traveling around the world, but not once does she ever appear in person.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot:
  • The initial chapters of Yuuna made it clear the reason Kogarashi wants to help Yuuna pass on into the afterlife was because she will slowly become an evil, dangerous spirit if she remains stuck in the human world. Aside from her out-of-control poltergeist powers, there hasn't been the slightest hint of Yuuna showing off some dark character traits.
  • After Kogarashi is brought over to the Sanzu River, he discovers Ouga is manning the boat. While one would expect some words to be traded between him and his former master, the final chapter reveals she kicked him out of the afterlife almost immediately after he came in.
• What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?: This series runs into the same problems as To Love Ru when the latter had its run in Shonen Jump, except the Fanservice in Yuuna is more explicit compared to not just the former, but also the average Seinen work. In fact, the first popularity poll became controversial with Moral Guardians due to the girls in the color spread being practically nude with minimal Censor Steam; not even To-Love-Ru dared to go that far until Spin-Off Sequel To-Love-Ru Darkness^note Darkness was released in the monthly Shōnen magazine Jump Square instead, which allowed it to be more explicit, but not without scrutiny either, when it was reviewed by the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly to see if it violated a bill restriction with regards to material that could be sold to minors; they ultimate decided it did not.
• Writer Cop Out: The ending is viewed as this by some readers for not going through with the Marry Them All scenario that seemed to be building up throughout the final arc.