Shiki/YMMV


 * Alas, Poor Scrappy:
 * Alas, Poor Villain:
 * Base Breaker: Megumi is either one of the best characters in the series or one of the worst. Her  don't help with this.
 * Complete Monster: In the manga
 * Crowning Moment of Awesome: Toshio's
 * Ear Worm: The opening theme, "Kuchizuke" ("Kiss").
 * Evil Is Cool: Resident Magnificent Bastard Tatsumi. Complete with obligatory sunglasses and motorcycle.
 * Evil Is Sexy:
 * Fan Disservice: In her first scene, Megumi is wearing a low cut top, short skirt and Zettai Ryouiki. The sexiness, however, is mitigated by her unnatural body movements, as well as the fact that she's, you know,.
 * Fashion Victim Villain: It seems that the more serious Shiki gets, the odder the costumes are.
 * High Octane Nightmare Fuel: Shizuka's demon puppet. When that doesn't get her an invitation into Yuuki's house, she tries a different tactic that is equally frightening.
 * Let's not forget
 * Ho Yay: Tohru and Yuuki have plenty of this at the start..
 * Idiot Plot: When going over all the symptoms, exhausting themselves trying to work out what is killing everyone, they somehow never draw the connection that the only thing every single victim has in common are bug bites.
 * To be fair, bug bites in the summer ain't all that uncommon.
 * Memetic Mutation: Shiki kid watering the homolust
 * Moral Event Horizon:.
 * Later in the manga
 * In episode 20 the villagers . It Got Worse in episode 21 where
 * It gets even worse in 20.5
 * The Shiki are hardly innocent either. masterminded the plan to turn the village into a haven for Shiki, fully endorsing the mass murder of the population in the hopes that some would rise from their graves.
 * Agreed. The Shiki were the ones who murdered people and encouraged any newly 'born' Shiki to go and feed on their own families. Especially since as Dr Ozaki proved, it took three feeds to actually kill a human. Why couldn't the Shiki keep rotating around the village and waiting for blood supplies to replenish?
 * Because the Kirishikis are the ones in control of them and they want the village to become a haven for Shiki. Which requires that they feed on everyone to they die. Regardless of whether the other Shiki want to.
 * Needs More Love
 * The Scrappy: Masao for being a whiny and self-centered teenager, and Megumi for being the same, as well as psychotic and sadistic as a Shiki, although she's more of a Base Breaker.
 * Uncanny Valley: The way the artist draws eyes, anyone?
 * The artist has a habit of using grayscaled images of real people for background characters.
 * In the manga
 * Wangst: Masao tends to do this.
 * What Do You Mean It's for Kids?: Shiki runs in Jump Square, which is a Shounen manga magazine, despite having obvious seinen overtones.
 * The ever heated internet argument about what is truly Shonen or Seinen will never die, but is almost totally accepted that monthly shonen manga will be more lax about showcases of detailed violence and sexually suggestive themes to the point of nudity.
 * The Woobie:.
 * Sunako, after her backstory is revealed.
 * Kaori who
 * The ever heated internet argument about what is truly Shonen or Seinen will never die, but is almost totally accepted that monthly shonen manga will be more lax about showcases of detailed violence and sexually suggestive themes to the point of nudity.
 * The Woobie:.
 * Sunako, after her backstory is revealed.
 * Kaori who