YMMV / Gift From the Princess Who Brought Sleep

• Alternate Character Interpretation:
  • For Kaspar in his marriage—Is his neglectful and philandering ways a result of merely hedonistic selfishness and cruelty towards Margarita, a long-suffering wife who dearly loves him? Or is it the result of viewing her love as not directed at him so much as someone he looks like? In other words, she doesn't care about him, only Adam, and he picked up on it. The novel doesn't explore much before his death, but a fan comic by the head artist Ichika makes the suggestion.
  • How much of Margarita's actions were done with malicious intent depends largely on fan interpretation. She insists right up to the end that she's merely freeing people from a Crapsack World, but Elluka argues that it's all entirely a result of her own ego, wanting to punish a world that failed to make her happy. Eve is a little less ambiguous in her motivations to get rid of anything that stands in her way, but it's never fully explained how much of Margarita's actions were her own or a result of her underlying personality.
• Ho Yay: Elluka (Julia/Mayrana posing as her anyway) and Margarita have quite a close relationship; Margarita confides everything to her new friend, feels as though she'd known her forever when they just met, Margarita calls her a "precious, precious friend," it goes on.
• It Was His Sled: The fact that Margarita is really Eve in the Clockworker's Doll was spoiled for pretty much the whole fandom after it turned into a meme. Even casual fans of the songs are familiar with the twist at this point, despite the fact that it's not referenced in them anywhere.
• Moral Event Horizon: Margarita unleashes a synthetic plague on Toragay that not only kills most of the city, but could very well have killed all of Evillious had a cure not been found.
• Paranoia Fuel: Eve Moonlit's powers of hypnosis were so strong that for years and years everyone in Toragay, even a powerful sorceress, thought she was a human being instead of a small doll. There is no way to tell you're being tricked.
• The Un-Twist: The sisters Hanne and Heidemarie Lorre were actually Elluka and Gumillia in disguise. Considering the official page did a poor job of concealing this fact due to hints on their profile pages and not having profiles for either Elluka or Gumillia, The Reveal surprised very few people. Granted, compared to the novel's other twist, this hardly matters.