YMMV / Fuuka

• Adorkable: Yuu's the lead songwriter and a vocalist in an up-and-coming rock band, but you'd never know it by his dorky mannerisms and clumsy social skills.
• Awesome Music:
  • "Climber's High" by Manami Numakura, the series' Opening.
  • In 2018, to commemorate the end of the manga, Kouji Seo wrote the new song "Wings of light", performed by Lynn herself.
• Broken Base:
  • Killing off the titular character will do this. Got even worse when a lookalike came in hundreds of chapters later, after just establishing a new Love Interest who, while named Fuuka like the original, was essentially her own person. The fact that this lookalike was running around only stirred up some unnecessary drama.
  • Episode 10 actually averting Fuuka's death and having her leave Fallen Moon had very mixed reception from fans, to say at least. On one hand, it makes the anime unpredictable and saves Fuuka from a death that is in of itself a broken base. On the other hand, it still invokes They Changed It, Now It Sucks! and it becomes superfluous anyways with her leaving Fallen Moon.
• Cliché Storm: At least in the anime: band gets famous, lead singer considers going solo, brief amount of conflict, band gets back together just in time for a performance at the end. The original source Manga is considerably more complicated.
• Designated Villain: The anime subverts it with Akira Mogami, the producer that attempts to convince Fuuka to go solo. At first, it seems he is only interested in profit and does not approve of Fuuka's decision to remain with the Fallen Moon. When Fuuka seriously considers going solo, he can notice her insecurity and advises her to think it over. In the epilogue, when she once again declines his offer, he instead offers to sponsor the entire band.
• Epileptic Trees: A Fuuka Akitsuki look-alike appeared in chapter 135, and people came up with conclusions that she's either the original Fuuka with amnesia, a stalker who dresses herself up to be like Fuuka, or some sort of extended figment of Yuu's imagination. It turns out that it's a version of choice two; she's a returning extra who admired Fuuka and wanted to be more like her, but comes to understand what she would have really wanted for her friends.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Fuuka Aoi's father, or more specifically, the truck he drives, is often regarded as its own character and praised or feared for its deed of killing the original Fuuka, giving it the nickname of Truck-kun.
• Ho Yay: There are some not-so-subtle moments in the series:
  • First of all, there is Mikasa teasing Yuu in the earlier chapters.
  • Not long afterwards, Mikasa is teasing Nachi much more often than he did with Yuu.
  • In a downplayed example, Yuu actually seems to somewhat admire Yuuga Akagi. It doesn't help that Yuuga himself gradually got a bit interested in Yuu. Not that he would admit it, though.
  • But the biggest one comes in chapter 149:
    • The title alone: What I Want To Give.
    • Nico not only gives out a song he was working on for Yuu to finish. He actually manages to snap him out of the indecisive state he was in, caused by the all-but-outright embargo that a powerful figure in the music industry placed on the The Blue Wells due to an earlier argument, with just a few sentences.
    • One should note that it was stated by his fellow band members that Nico has never given away any songs to anyone before.
    • Nico's band mentions that him spending some time with Yuu is the first time in a long while that Nico was hanging out with anyone other than Tama.
    • Yuu's...interesting choice of words when describing Nico's skill in playing the bass.
    Yuu: How does he get his fingers to move like that?
• It Was His Sled: Anyone reading this nowadays likely already knows that Fuuka dies.
• Just Here for Godzilla: Whenever there's a Fuuka discussion thread when the anime was airing, there's almost always someone who asks when the truck that kills her will appear.
• Memetic Mutation: Due to Fuuka's death by truck, the Japanese truck is now regarded to be as deadly as the Japanese cold, and any time a truck turns up in any series (or real life!) and kills (or comes close to killing) anyone, that truck will be given the nickname Truck-kun, Truck-sama or something similar. It is also often joked that Fuuka is now Trapped in Another World, due to how such stories stereotypically start in Light Novels.
• Moral Event Horizon: The reporters at Fuuka's funeral that tried to make Yamato and Suzuka cry by bringing up Fuuka's childhood. According to one of them, the couple didn't even shed a single tear.
• Narm: The fact that the second Fuuka is the child of the man who accidentally ran original Fuuka over. That kind of coincidence is like one out of a soap opera, and still some fans crack up about it.
• So Okay, It's Average: The anime, with the only major point of contention being Fuuka's unexpected survival.
• Spoiled by the Format: When it came to the anime, it was not exactly hard for fans to guess that with only 12 episodes, the producers would go for a Gecko Ending / What If? scenario where Fuuka survives.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: As a result of some of the plot changes for the anime, Fuuka Akitsuki ends up as this for many viewers. In this version, Yuu ends up entering into a relationship with Koyuki, with this serving as Fuuka suffering an Green-Eyed Epiphany. After surviving her encounter with the truck, Fuuka decides to abandon the band and pursue a solo career because she can't stand having seemingly unrequited feelings for Yuu. This was all after her previous insistence on sticking with the band. Fuuka leaving them ends up triggering Yuu to realize that he is actually in love with Fuuka and even after breaking things off with Koyuki, Fuuka continues to avoid them because she doesn't want to confront her feelings. In other words, Fuuka quit the band because she was jealous and was reluctant on owning up to this fact. The fact that she gets both the band and Yuu as a boyfriend at the end without anyone ever confronting her over this is just the icing on the cake.