YMMV / Ode to Kirihito

• Catharsis Factor: While it’s frustrating that Tatsugaura still won the election even after all that he had done, him being subjected to a Karmic Transformation via Monmow Disease (and after all that he had done trying to suppress Kirihito’s research into it) is pretty damn satisfying.
  • Mahn, who was an absolutely deplorable character all throughout, also falls victim to Monmow Disease.
• Jerkass Woobie: Urabe is a well-intentioned friend of Kirihito who is attempting to right the wrong that resulted in his Trauma Conga Line as well as his being made into an Unperson. Unfortunately, he is severely mentally ill and a Serial Rapist, to the point of impregnating a woman. When he finishes the work he's required to do, he throws himself into a car, feeling unfit to live with the person he is.
• Squick: The manga can be a Trauma Conga Line not just for Kirihito but the reader too, with how it features things like:
  • Monmow Disease, a (thankfully) fictional illness that gradually changes a person’s anatomy into something less and less human as time goes on. Imagine your bones atrophying to accommodate a doglike body structure, and not only that, the change happening slowly. The patient would also be unable to eat almost anything save for raw meat, making them even more doglike. If the illness doesn’t kill you, then the toll it takes on your mental state probably will, as it nearly does to Kirihito multiple times.
  • A baby being Eaten Alive by a snake, though thankfully, we don’t witness the process itself.
  • Kirihito being raped by a literal bitch. This rather understandably, brings him to one of his lowest points.
  • Reika dying via a human tempura trick gone horribly wrong, which means essentially being deep fried.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: Urabe can be this to some, given how even though he’s a loyal friend to Kirihito through and through, he’s still a Serial Rapist who assaults not only his friend’s girlfriend but also the woman he claims to love. Though interestingly, Urabe himself seems aware of it, and it’s likely the reason why he ends up comitting suicide by throwing himself at a speeding car.
  • Reika can also be this to some extent, given that she had previously raped those considered “freaks” after offering them false hope, doing the same to Kirihito. Though she does actually help him later on.
• The Woobie: Kirihito goes through the absolute worst torture a human can experience for an entire year and half just so his boss could have a better chance at winning the election. He becomes broken enough to become a Jerkass Woobie for a period of time but course-corrects.