Wma to avi for mac. From here, Saya offers to mend Fuminori’s brain. If Fuminori accepts, his misperception disappears, but Saya leaves him, as she wishes for him not to see her pure form. Fuminori is arrested and confined in a mental hospital. Saya goes to look for her missing “father,” Professor Ogai, while Fuminori swears to wait forever for her return.

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Alternative Character Interpretation: Fuminori lives, and has been living, in the hell of his perceptions, for some time, and although he hates everything because it disgusts him, he goes a long while before even seriously considering doing anything wrong. And if Saya cures his madness, he suffers no ill effects. This raises some questions about Yosuke, Fuminori's neighbor. He loses his mind after literal seconds and turns immediately to violence against the monsters (his wife and daughter) and quite violently and sadistically rapes the only other human he thinks is in the the world, who appears to him as a prepubescent girl. Considering he was a sensitive homebody who liked his peace and quiet, was he really just a calm everyman, or did Saya trip over a psychosis that had been bubbling under the surface and got more than they bargained for?
- Alternatively, the only reason Fuminori DIDN'T lash out is because, as he was in the hospital, he was possibly restrained and had time to come to terms with his condition.
Awesome Music: 'Shoes of Glass', the ending theme for the first and third endings, is absolutely beautiful and epic.
Crosses the Line Twice: There's a hilarious aside where Fuminori mentions Saya's favourite food; spare ribs.
Germans Love David Hasselhoff: Or Americans Love Saya no Uta, rather; Nitro+ CEO Takaki Kosaka seemed genuinely surprised at Anime Expo 2014 that this game had American fans. He also went on to say that the title didn't sell well when it was new, but since then, it has become one of the company's most consistently best-selling titles over a 10 year period. It even got to the point where the most prominent adaptation is an American comic book.
Hilarious in Hindsight: One of the endings has Saya 'blooming' to turn things into meat-like monsters. Few years later, Hikaru Midorikawa voiced Zenya in sweet pool (another Nitro+ game, no less!) who can give birth to meat monsters.
- A fan made Saya into a playable character in Mugen. Come 2015, she is a playable fighter in Nitroplus Blasterz Heroines Infinite Duel. Oh dear..
Ho Yay:
- Yoh and Omi have quite a bit of subtext, if you squint. There's Omi's anger at Fuminori for being a jerk to Yoh, Yoh's and Omi's texting habits where the two share personal secrets, Yoh desperately wishing for Omi to be there whilst at Fuminori's house..
- Yoh and Saya, though it's got hefty amounts of disturbing material: Saya essentially kidnaps Yoh, gropes her, tells her that 'she's pretty' and her breasts are 'so big and soft', before raping her while saying '[we'll] love you to death'. While Saya does do this to give Fuminori 'family', the text makes it clear she's also doing it because she's jealous of Yoh, even though she has no real reason to be, as Fuminori makes it clear he wants nothing to do with Yoh and everything to do with Saya. A slightly later scene also has Saya joyfully engaging in raping Yoh along with Fuminori, which may or may not count.

Idiot Plot: A rather large amount of drama in the plot is caused by rampant stupidity — see the entries under Too Dumb to Live.
It Was His Sled: One of the first things anyone hears about is that Saya is actually a monster.
Memetic Mutation: Mentioning this game on some image boards will result in spam of 'Turns out your octopus girlfriend is a big nag with curlers in her tentacles, huh?'
Moment of Awesome: Ryoko gets one of these when she shoots and shatters the frozen Saya while an axe is sticking out of her shoulder, wearing a pretty damn impressive slasher smile on her face as she does so.
Moral Event Horizon:
- Happens when Fuminori decides he's fine with eating human flesh.
  - Accentuated by the fact that, right before, Saya gives him the opportunity to cure his mental illness. He'll lose Saya and end up in a mental institution for all the murders, but least he won't be in a constant living hell anymore. Refusing that marks the point when Fuminori officially discards his humanity.
  - Some would put it a little later, when Fuminori brutally rapes Yoh. It's not his first heinous act, but some of his actions before that were mostly in response to the really bad hand life had dealt him. Raping Yoh, though, that's a complete crossover into Blue-and-Orange Morality at best and pure sadism at worst. Especially since Saya altered her so he that sees her as a normal person, so he definitely has no excuse.
  - One of Fuminori's earlier actions — attempting to murder Koji, one of his best friends, just to get him out of the way — could also count.
- Saya essentially kidnapping and then raping Yoh, before turning her into the same being Saya is, an action that causes the victim severe, unending pain. Saya does this not only for Fuminori, but out of baseless jealousy. The fact that this comes so soon after Saya herself is raped makes it plain stomach-churning.
  - An earlier scene of her altering Yosuke's brain as an experiment may also count, though unlike Yoh's rape, this wasn't done out of malice and Saya clearly did not properly anticipate the consequences of it.
- Yosuke's sadistic rape of Saya. It makes his brutal death at Fuminori's hands pretty well-deserved.
Narm:
- As mentioned in the Funny Moments section, Koji's nightmare in one of the endings can be a little too silly to take seriously.
- The sex scenes, thanks to the cheesy voice-acting, cliched and almost melodramatic description, as well as the weird expressions and anatomy.
- Saya being raped by Yousuke, assuming you didn't find it horrible or frightening. The scene doesn't really do anything to further the plot (though the ones leading up to it do), and Saya's sudden helplessness feels cheapened by the fact that she's almost invincible in every other part of the story, to the point where it informs a major part of the climax.

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Nightmare Fuel: Seeing everything in gorn-o-vision. An Eldritch Abomination seeking to convert humanity into its own kind. A formerly normal person slowly (or not) being Driven to Madness, cannibalism, murder, rape, and utter depravity by both of the above. A Fate Worse than Death for at least one character, or even for every living human in one ending. There's definitely no shortage.
Nightmare Retardant: Realizing that one of the songs used from the game, Schizophrenia, was also used in a rather funny level in Talkhaus level contest played by raocow.
Paranoia Fuel: While the game exaggerates its effects, agnosia is a real disorder that, due to brain injury or neurological trauma, can distort a person's senses and perception in many different ways. Yikes.
Squick: ..Y'know, in case you didn't get the picture from reading the top of the main page. But even the premise only scratches the surface. It is in fact no hyperbole to say that the fact that Fuminori has sex with the obviously childlike Saya is the absolute least disturbing aspect of their relationship.
Story-to-Gameplay Ratio: Even by the genre standards, the game leans heavily on 'story' side, to the point of almost being a Kinetic Novel - it only has two choices, with one of them leading to an immediate, shorter ending, and the other one, on the longer route, deciding that route's ending.
Tear Jerker: The whole damn game, really. The music contributes a great deal to this.
Unintentionally Unsympathetic: The game would really be a lot more touching if the two main characters weren't horrible, monstrous people who are all too willing to throw away everyone else in the world for the sake of their 'love', going from torture to cannibalism to attempted murder to horrific rape, even to people they once considered friends. There's only so much callousness on

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