YMMV / Satou Kashi no Dangan wa Uchinukenai

• Adaptation Displacement: As is the norm with light novels, the manga is more well-known.
• Fan-Preferred Couple: Nagisa and Umino are taken as canon (in a Hide Your Lesbians manner) by many fans.
• It Was His Sled: Umino dies. It's a Foregone Conclusion in the books but the manga has a more ambiguous intro.
• Les Yay:
  • Umino isn't too interested in the boy that likes her. Instead, she wants to spend all her time with Nagisa.
  • Umino states that she's a mermaid who needs to find a friend or else she'll turn to sea foam. This emulates The Little Mermaid, minus the romance.
  • In splash pages and official art Nagisa and Mokuzu are always holding hands and being intimate.
• Tear Jerker:
  • The manga is notorious for being a mood ruiner. It seems like a normal story about a weird New Transfer Student befriending a girl and becoming her Manic Pixie Dream Girl but it goes downhill quickly once we find out Umino wasn't lying about her dad killing her dog.
  • Umino's murder in the end. The Truth in Television about how she could have been rescued if she hadn't refused the help adds to it without question.
• What Do You Mean, It's Not for Little Girls?: The series is about a somber middle school girl who is befriended by the eccentric New Transfer Student who thinks she's a mermaid. There's a lot of hand-holding between the two and the light novel has moe, brightly colored artwork. But with a title like A Lollipop Or A Bullet you shouldn't expect cute fluff from the manga. It's anything but. Umino is severely abused by her father and in a truly Tear Jerker of a Bittersweet Ending she ends up brutally murdered by him.