Another/YMMV

• Base Breaker: Izumi's treatment of Mei has made her fairly divisive with fans - mostly regarding whether it was justified or not.
• Broken Base: Regarding the ending, and generally split into three groups; those who think it was just as good, if not scarier, than the rest of the series, those who think the quality isn't as good but is enjoyable nevertheless, and those who think it was terrible and relied too much on gore rather than mystery.
• Non Sequitur Scene: The random dream sequence with Kouichi in the middle of episode 6.
• Crowning Music of Awesome: Anamnesis by Annabel, the ending theme.
• HSQ: Out of universe as the deaths escalate, but also in universe for Class 3-3 When Yukari dies, the students try to remain stoic and keep pretending Mei doesn't exist hoping that the charm would hold. When Mizuno dies, they debate whether or not pretending Kouichi doesn't exist would work, blaming him for talking to Mei. However when Kubodera dies, the students take a moment to let it sink in before running out of the class in a mass panic.
• Memetic Mutation: Pies.^[1]
• Narm:
  • For some, Sakuragi's death goes from horrifying to Black Comedy when you see her hand in the air and her foot leaning on the last stairstep, both twitching in an almost comical manner. That was a bit too much.
  • In episode 10, it's revealed that the calamity was stopped by killing the extra student. Teshigawara says, great, now we just need to figure out who the extra is! Then—he's interrupted by Kouichi and a needlessly loud background track.
  • While the fan-translation of the manga has iffy grammar in general, chapter 16 gives us this narmy little doozy.
  • The... almost the entirety of episode 11. It's packed to the brim with Shout-Out to other horror movies of the splatterhouse variety. The deaths are so ridiculous and the logic nonexistent that the audience can't help but laugh.
  • Then again, the whole point of the curse is that when death itself is coming for you, not even the laws of physics, probability or logic will save you.
  • In episode 12, the chandelier falls on a group of students trying to escape. One of them is unharmed and gets out. He runs for the door... and is immediately crushed by a random falling pillar.
  • What's the deal with all the explosions in episode 12? Were the homeowners smuggling live anti-tank munitions?
• Paranoia Fuel: Some of the deaths seem designed to show that no matter how careful you are, there is no possible way to anticipate and defend against every one of the infinite ways you may die every single day.
• The Woobie:
  • Mei.
  • Kouichi as well. His mother and aunt are both dead, the latter of which he has to kill himself as much as he doesn't want to.

1. ↑ After someone photoshopped Nurse Mizuno smashing her head into a pie instead of the elevator's floor, photoshopping images and creating GIFs to include pies in some way has become very popular. "Slice of pie" has even become a euphamism for death on 4Chan.