Kagihime Monogatari/YMMV


 * Audience-Alienating Premise: It's a show about girls with keys that fight each other in Pocket Dimensions for their stories. Whether it's good or not is up to you.
 * Critical Backlash: It didn't do very well in Japan when it was released.
 * Freud Was Right: As mentioned on the Does This Remind You of Anything? trope of the main page, Key Princesses act rather . . . weird when having keys plunged into their chests. Shown by Arisu in the manga, it apparently works if you insert it in the back too.
 * Shocking Swerve:
 * So Bad It's Good
 * Theiss Titillation Theory: Some of the Key Princesses' outfits.
 * They Copied It, So It Sucks: To some Rozen Maiden fans.
 * They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: Arguably. Despite ostensibly being about a There Can Only Be One scenario, the anime and manga focus mostly on the characters, only actually showing a few of the fights (most of which are fairly lazily done). You can actually find artwork of the other Seekers of Alice who never made a full appearance around, and see profiles of them on the show's site. Sort of a shame, since a lot of them seemed like they'd make fairly interesting battles.
 * What Do You Mean It's Not for Little Girls?: It may have the word "princess" in the title and have girls transforming into personifications of fairy tales, but this story is loaded with Freudian Excuses and deals with dark themes such as rape and incest.
 * What Do You Mean It's Not for Little Girls?: It may have the word "princess" in the title and have girls transforming into personifications of fairy tales, but this story is loaded with Freudian Excuses and deals with dark themes such as rape and incest.