Vampire Princess Miyu/YMMV


 * Alas, Poor Villain: Not every Shinma is a Jerkass or a Complete Monster. Some of these are
 * Crowning Music of Awesome: The soundtrack is by Kenji Kawai, people. Of course it'll be awesome. Special mentions go to the OVA opening, Ranka the Beautiful Girl from the second OVA, and "Now comes the conclusion" aka "the third OVA's Tear Jerker song from ".
 * Hell Is That Noise: The deadpan, unemotional voices of Aiko's parents. Specially when you learn
 * Ranka the Beautiful Girl is both this and awesome. These kabuki-like sounds and the really creepy koto...
 * A shadow shows up and Flames in the darkness are also very scary.
 * Hearing Miyu's soft, gentle, and so terribly creepy giggles in the OAV is known to send people into fits of terror. Hear them around 7:16.
 * High Octane Nightmare Fuel: Oh God, so MUCH. From Aiko's parents deadpan voices to Ra-en and to Lemures's Shinma servant...
 * Awakening as a Shinma. Alright, one day you Awaken and get some powers and a One-Winged Angel form, but guess what? You will be burned to...an obscure place. Your family will suffer. And then get put into a Lotus Eater Machine. Life sucks if you happen to have any Shinma blood.
 * Ho Yay: In the TV series, pretty blatant between Larva and Garline, especially from the latter's side: he acts like a spurned lover, mentions Larva's "beauty", takes his hand, caresses his cheek... Considering that Garline is an Expy of Lemures, it's not really a surprise.
 * Les Yay: In the manga, the difference between how Reiha treats Ranka and Miyu is very... extreme. When Ranka is injured in the process of sheilding Miyu from her wrath, Reiha becomes very courtly and kisses her wounded hand. Ranka's reaction to this is a shudder.
 * In the TV series there's also the episode Love of the Dolls where an artist and her assistant end up pretty explicitly in a relationship together. Oddly enough, it gave the impression that the viewer should view this as bad or bittersweet ending, even though their previous dysfunctional relationship had turned pretty wholesome after becoming romantic.
 * Moral Event Horizon: Many Shinma leap over this limit, but some cases are worse than others.
 * In the anime, Lemures crosses it with gusto. Not only, but he uses a very cruel trap to recruit
 * Then we have  crossing it in the TV series, when  . She has kind of an excuse in the case of  since there's some degree of, but in the case of  she does it outta her free will.
 * By proxy,  crossed it too. Who is he? Well, he's  . Double when he
 * And the Shinma that  is not much better either.
 * Narm: The really... distracting Kabuki Sounds from the second OVA.
 * The abundance of Off-Model animation in the TV series.
 * The Scrappy: Reiha is hated by fans, and Himiko isn't really liked either.
 * Tear Jerker: The OP dares you to not cry at least once during the OAV's. Or during Miho's episode.
 * The Woobie: Aiko. Poor, poor Aiko.
 * There are MANY of those, actually. Aside of Aiko we have Aya, Mari, Ruri and Mamoru from the manga; Miyahito, Ryoko, and   from the OAV; and Miho from the TV series.