Yume Miru Kusuri/YMMV

• Complete Monster: Kyoka, just... Kyoka.
  • And her Girl Posse and Gaito.
• Crosses the Line Twice: It's all well and good that Mizuki tries to drown her worries in endless entertainments but did she really have to drug Kouhei and put him on a plane to Macau so they could go gambling before snorting some Fantastic Drugs and trying out erotic asphyxiation? Even if they were back the next day, that's just...
• Crowning Moment of Awesome: After seeing Kouhei subjected to the same treatment as her, Aeka finally snaps and berates the class for their apathy before finally hitting Kyoka and utterly talking her down.
  • And who could ever forget Kouhei and Aeka strangling Kyoka together near the end of the good end?
    • And don't forget that getting to that point involved Kouhei channeling his lifetime supply of awesome by escaping a pin, tasing one captor in the face, knocking the other two down, stealing the last one's knife, and taking Kyoka hostage with it and cutting her throat (though non-fatally). Nanaya would be proud.
• Crowning Music of Tearjerking: "On The Moonlit Rooftop." Used exactly once, on the school roof, with Kouhei trying desperately to keep a terrified Aeka from giving in to her self-loathing and doubt and committing suicide.
  • "Girls Are Made of Frosting Cake", especially its use when Mizuki shows up outside Kouhei's house after disappearing for 6 months.
• Crowning Moment of Heartwarming: "Kouhei... what will we do tomorrow...?" Aww... cue waterworks.
  • And before that, when Kouhei convinces Mizuki to stop being afraid of her future. Or really any scene where Kouhei attempted to prove he really loved her.
• Funny Aneurysm Moment: Kouhei finding Mizuki one morning in the student council office horny and drunk beyond belief (sake chasing down beer chasing down 100-proof vodka) is disturbingly funny. It can be rather less so if you realize she's probably pregnant at the time.
  • Also the stun-gun Nekoko wields. When you first see her first scene, it is hilarious. Then comes Aeka's route...
  • Realizing on subsequent playthroughs that the seemingly nonsensical and unimportant graffiti Kouhei sees on the underside of the bench in the beginning was probably written by Aeka after having gum stuck in her hair or Gaito continuously trying to pick her up when she wasn't interested.
  • When Aeka makes jokes about her family being poor and destitute, just to reveal she's kidding. But then later when it turns out her parents are barely employed, border-line abusive alcoholics. Only barely better than the jokes she made, really.
• Hilarity Ensues: So Kouhei and his girl are having wild, improbable, silly sex in a relatively easy-to-access place. Cue the entrance of some member of Kouhei's family!
• Kick the Son of a Bitch: The scene where Aeka and Kouhei in her Happy Ending finally snap at Kyoka in a cathartic rage and nearly murder her .
• Moral Dissonance: To stop Gaito from raping Aeka, Kouhei disarms several of Kyoka's Girl Posse and threatens Kyoka herself with a knife. After he backs off, they turn on their tormentor and try to strangle her to death, just barely averting the Moral Event Horizon but leaving with some exploitable photos.
  • There's no doubt that she deserved it. On the other hand...
    • It's worth noting that Kouhei says that going back and looking at the pictures he took made him feel sick.
• Most Annoying Sound: Kyoka's voice is incredibly nasally even for someone with a pronounced Kanto dialect.
• Tear Jerker: There are so many this troper doesn't even know where to start. How about "Aeka"? Or, to be more specific, when Kyoka holds up a stolen envelope and reveals its contents: the money for Aeka's tuition fees, torn to shreds. She just picks them up and spends the rest of the day taping them back together.
  • "...Please take the loneliness away for just a little while."
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: The girls' storylines are all wrapped up neatly, but so much more could have been done to explore and explain Kouhei's auditory hallucinations and the woman he sees in them.
  • • About that... this should answer most of your questions.
  • An apparently planned Aya plotline would have been interesting, but was most likely taken out, which is odd for a game involving drugs, rather abusive bullying and pregnancy...
    • This troper, for one, would have actually been interested in seeing a Kyoka plotline, since a lot of her more candid moments in Aeka's plotline seem almost to be cries for help and disgust with her current boyfriend/situation. Of course, it was still very nice to see her get what she deserved, but I was almost certain that the secret arc that Hirofumi intimated existed was supposed to be about her.
      • Or about Hirofumi.
• The Woobie: Oh god, where to begin? Well for starters, read the entire page again and all examples involving Aeka, then come back and tell us she doesn't deserve to have her Happy Ending.