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A few things, and some of them are theories, to be clear. The comparison is mostly metaphorical.And while i'm with you in regard to psycho Ami's behavior, she was never related to the term itself, was she? Or how do you come to refering her to that?
This Ami is not the real Ami. I'm fairly certain the real Ami died in the accident, and Akira is too blinded by grief to realize this. Either something else has taken her form, or something is possessing her.
During Life of Prizes, we get a lot of information about the cuckoo that doesn't go anywhere. Granted, we get a lot of information in this game in general that doesn't go anywhere (120 pages on coffee beans), but the specific information about cuckoos felt like it had a "this is important" tag to it. Specifically -- mother cuckoos in many breeds do not keep their own nests. They instead visit another bird's nest after their eggs have been laid while the mother is a way and lays one egg in it. Cuckoo's pre-incubate their eggs before laying them, so this egg will hatch before any of the the others, and after hatching, the chick will push all the other eggs out of the nest, relying upon the mother's maternal instincts to get all the nurturing and sustenance for itself.
How does this relate to Ami? Ami is doing everything she can to keep the nest (harem) empty, and depending upon Akira's instincts to protect and nurture the last little bit of Sekai left in the world.
So when i say she's a cuckoo, I don't mean she's literally one, just that she's a not-entirely-human entity acting in a similar manner to one.