Corpse Party/YMMV

• Americans Hate Tingle Ayumi took first place in the Japanese poll. As for the western audience, well... see below.
• Crowning Music of Awesome: Pretty much the whole soundtrack. Nicely ambient in all the right places too.
  • Corpse Party: Blood Covered: Repeated Fear's opening, Shangri-La. The ending theme is pretty sweet, too.
• Fan Nickname: Xseed's forum has taken to calling Tokiko Tsuji (one of the murdered ghost children) "Gurgles".
• Fridge Horror: Plenty of in-universe moments as the plot is pieced together, but one of the biggest involves a splattered corpse used for a bit of dark humor early on... mainly, who it turns out to be.
  • This is essentially the niche appeal of the game. You're given enough detail to comprehend the situation, but the rest is left to a horrifying imagination.
• Fridge Logic: If you die in Tenjin, the outside world completely forgets about your existence. However, Naho's blog instructions survive despite her dying in Tenjin.
  • This is eventually addressed in the Blood Drive chapter of Book of Shadows.
• Hell Is That Noise: The various Cruel And Unusual Deaths are accompanied by the corresponding sounds when people's eye sockets are stabbed with scissors or their tongues are cut out. While they're still conscious but unable to fight back!!! Sweet dreams...
• Ho Yay: Seiko likes to tease Naomi with this, along with baiting her about her crush on Satoshi. The splash images for their chapters love playing this up as well by posing the two girls in various embraces. The first promotional images for Book of Shadows follow the same motif. In the drama CD based on a Wrong End where Yoshiki ends up Buried Alive, Yoshiki has a hallucination where everyone is in love with him. Including Satoshi and Sakutarou. Including Kizami, who he never meets in-game (except as the "Anatomical Model" in the Science Room). In Extra Chapter 9, after accidentally breaking Sakutarou's glasses, Yoshiki has to walk him home. Sakutarou links arms with Yoshiki, who accuses him of feeling him up. It should also be noted that Satoshi and Yoshiki are on a First-Name Basis, which is a bit unusual for teenage boys in Japan. In Chapter 4, Satoshi hears a conversation between Naomi and Seiko just before finding Naomi hanging in the toilet stall about a Noodle Incident where Yoshiki actually touched Satoshi's crotch.
• Jerkass Woobie: Naomi, a snappish, petty girl who embodies some of the worst stereotypes of a Tsundere... and pays dearly for them.
  • The ghost children (you know, the ones who cut out your tongue and stab out your eye if they catch you and kill Mayu by ramming her repeatedly into a wall) become this once you find out how they died. It turns out they aren't so bad once they get their respective body parts back.
  • Sachiko, herself might count. She witnessed the principal killing her mother and was killed as a result (plus, the principal later went back and cut out her tongue). On her birthday! To keep her mother from getting lonely, she started killing children to send to her. Eventually, she went crazy and started killing because she enjoyed it.
• Nausea Fuel: see Hell Is That Noise and the Nightmare Fuel page for details. I dare you...
• Needs More Love
• Nightmare Fuel: The game's title should clue you in.
• Retroactive Recognition: This game was one of the first big roles for MANY popular voice actors of this generation. Some of them(like Tetsuya Kakihara and Tomokazu Sugita) have achieved MEGA stardom since this game.
• Squick: Most of the game...
• The Scrappy: Ayumi, for being The Load for most of the game due to being possessed so often, which leads to the player having to tread very carefully or get a Wrong End. Even Yuka can keep it together more. For those who see her as such, she gets a very satisfying comeuppance after she kills Naomi for her paper scrap in one of the final Wrong Ends.
  • Yuka herself is not very popular because of her childish personality and the fact that she's in love with her brother. That, and the fact that the girl just can't pee in the damn corner when she needs to go instead of starting an epic quest for a toilet.
  • Naomi is this for some players because of her excessive Tsundere tendencies. Not only does she push Satoshi away this way. it quite possibly led to Seiko's death by HER OWN HANDS.
• Trapped by Mountain Lions: One particularly ridiculous sub-plot was Satoshi's and Yuka's quest to find her a bathroom so she could go potty. This takes up far too much time, with some toilets having no stalls, others with big holes in the way, or the stalls are full of hanged girls, to the point that so much time and trouble would have been saved if she had just peed in a corner somewhere. They even pass an empty bucket several times!
  • Even more mortifying: that fucking quest to go potty is what ends up separating her from Satoshi and having her stalked by Kizami. And to top it off, Kizami even front-kicks Yuka in the gut and she loses control of her bladder from the blow. Many people think it serves her right.
• Unfortunate Implications: In Corpse Party: Musume, the Wholesome Crossdresser Miyu Shinohara is basically tentacle raped to death.