YMMV / Majin Tantei Nougami Neuro

• Awesome Music: Kodoku no Hikairi the ending song of the anime, which translates to "Light Of Loneliness" which fits the feeling of Yako's purpose in life being filled by Neuro very well, as well as describing Sasazuka, HAL and Sai's loneliness
  • Dirty, the opening of the anime, captures the action and insanity of the series.
  • The main theme of the series also has similar effects like the OP.
• "Blind Idiot" Translation: Sicks' other name was translated as "Jody Tubulik" by scanlators which is a mistranslation of "Zodia Kubrick" as shown through the original Japanese text as well as other languages who have officially translated the series.
• Complete Monster: Sicks, also known as Zodia Kubrick, absolutely revels in his evil. A monster from birth who slit the other babies' throats in his nursery and later murdered both his parents, Sicks comes into conflict with the demon detective Neuro Nōgami. Sicks tracks down his clone, X, and murders X's love, infiltrating the police by wearing the skin of a man he killed. He punishes a subordinate who had failed to find X by making him saw himself open with a rusty saw, admitting he didn't care about a fair punishment, he just wanted to see the man die. To present a meal for Neuro, a demon who eats mysteries, the sadistic Sicks forces a mansion's worth of people to commit murders in inventive ways and then blew them up when Neuro was repulsed by the gesture. When recruiting his "Fingers, " Sicks presented one with a cube made of the faces he had ripped from everyone close to him, and with another, he forced him to murder his own father. Sicks's goal was nothing less than the absolute annihilation of humanity, and on his orders, Japan suffered catastrophic death tolls before he and Neuro finally engaged in a Duel to the Death.
• Cult Classic: A moderately popular series in Japan, the only things it released stateside is a Viz license on the anime and not a dubbed version (said release is no longer available). That being said, it does have an interesting concept on the Monster of the Week storyline being necessary and the depths that Card-Carrying Villain-y can sink to.
• Draco in Leather Pants: Neuro and Sai.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: The Evil Chef Shirota is strangely popular within the Japanese fandom. Maybe it's because his One-Winged Angel was an example of extreme awesomeness. In fact, it's so popular, it appears in another series as well
  • Don't forget Higuchi. He has his own fansite, even.
    • Since his first appearance Higuchi has reliably beaten Sasazuka, X, and Godai in the character polls too.
  • Attractive Bent-Gender Neuro (AKA Neuko) scored 9th in the last character poll... and she was only hypothetical!
  • Taken to the extreme when food started gaining votes in the character polls.
• Evil Is Cool: Sai, HAL and especially Sicks on the evil part
• Growing the Beard: The series follows a Serial Killer Of The Week story till Sai shows up and the series gets much more interesting.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: From the final battle: "Phantom Thief Sai will steal your heart!". Of course, in this case it was quite literally.
• Love to Hate: Sicks Especially on how he kills Sasazuka, then revealed to be the cause of Harukawa's Freudian Excuse through being the cause of his lover's death
• Magnificent Bastard: The genius demon Neuro Nōgami arrives from the underworld, makes a hapless schoolgirl named Yako Katsuragi his proxy and uses her to help solve his mysteries so he can feed upon them. Neuro constantly outwits his quarry, deducing complex murders and making Yako a famous detective to raise his own profile, while brilliantly foiling other plots and gambles from villains. Neuro later encounters the atrociously evil Sicks who intends on exterminating humanity and decides to defend his food source, despising killing, as every human is capable of creating a mystery of their own for him. Neuro helps to organize the defeat of Sicks and his group with his trademark brilliance and audacious flourishes.
• Mind Game Ship: As pointlessly cruel as Neuro is to Yako, it almost comes across as affectionate as the series goes on.
  • Judging by the demonic date sim Neuro once played, pointless cruelty is his way of showing affection. And of course, Yako appears in Neuro's wet dream right next to the ultimate puzzle once.
• Moe: Miyasako Mutsuki, a little girl who wants Yako to help her grandfather.
• Moral Event Horizon: Sicks was never a nice person but what REALLY seals the deal is how he murders Sasazuka by having Sai briefly inflict Shape Shifter Guilt Trip by shifting into the forms of his family before finally shooting him himself...
  • It's then revealed that Setsuna's degenerating brain was caused by one of Sicks' drugs, thus is responsible for Harukawa's Freudian Excuse
  • Hell, he may very well have set a record in how fast he crosses it in-universe. Namely, slitting the throats of a nursery full of newborns with a razor blade hours after he was born.
  • DR crossed it when he willingly causes a flash flood, killing off a large percentage of the population of the city where Yako lives. Even Neuro, with his Thou Shall Not Kill policy, thought that he should die for doing that.
• Ship Tease: Chap 201 made lots of fangirls nosebleed and go Squee.
• Squick: Everything about Sicks
• Too Cool to Live: Sasazuka
• What Do You Mean, It's Not Political?: Twice over the HAL arc the danger of untrained civilian possessing fire weapons is brought up.
  • The Hayasaka brothers, a pair of yakuzas that were antagonists early in the manga, contact Goda to talk about something that might aid him in the investigation. Using a spice shop as a front, they're running a smuggling operation and one of the "goods" they delivered were crates full of handguns and other fire guns. What compelled them to act was that the cargo was delivered to what seemed to be ordinary college students. If they were your average criminal gun-and-runners wouldn't been any issue but civilians are a completely different thing. They flat out stated that if that amount of guns were to land in the hands of normal people, it would be "the end of civilization as [they] know it."
  • Later, the police force is distraught over all the armed population brainwashed by HAL to act as his army. The Chief in particular is seething over the fact that the police is having to be heavily armed to fight the masses, claiming that if this continues, they are going to end like those countries where cops armed with assault rifles are a common sight, illustrated by what seems to be American cops in full military gear apprehending robbers in New York.