Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch/YMMV


 * Canon Sue: Lucia
 * Crowning Moment of Awesome: Coco's in the manga, and the Black Beauty Sisters'  in the anime.
 * Crowning Moment of Funny: Hippo singing "Legend of Mermaid".
 * Crowning Music of Awesome
 * Die for Our Ship: Poor Michal.
 * Ensemble Darkhorse: Rina and Sara.
 * Everybody Remembers the Stripper: In volume 1's side notes, the author comments that, although chapter 3 introduces Rina and Yuuri, the only thing people seem to want to talk about is Kaito's Shower Scene.
 * Evil Is Sexy: Gaito, The Dark Lovers, Black Beauty Sisters, Sara, Michel and the Winged Ones.
 * Fan Dumb: Oh, so much. The amount of fangirls who declare Lady Bat's maleness (despite the blatant male chest) as Canon Dis Continuity must be seen to be believed.
 * Germans Love David Hasselhoff: This show has a surprising number of fans in the West, which begs the question why no TV station wants to air the show.
 * Hilarious in Hindsight: The seven mermaid races share their colors with seven of the eight Fairy Tones from Suite Pretty Cure, and given the whole idol shtick...
 * Padding: Transformation sequences.
 * Periphery Demographic: Teenage girls, especially in the Western audience.
 * Narm: The Baby/Coral Fairy from Episode 36.
 * That One Boss: "Aurora no Kaze ni Notte" in the video game Pichi Pichitto Live Start.
 * Title Confusion
 * Strangled By the Red String: Caren with Subaru, an anime-only character probably introduced only so people would stop slashing her with her sister.
 * Viewer Gender Confusion: Lady Bat, although officially male, causes a lot of confusion between fans.
 * What Do You Mean It's for Kids?: The more suggestive and bloody manga is rated "13+" in North America, where the Animation Age Ghetto compels manga publishers to put ratings on their books, yet it was originally published in Nakayoshi, a magazine for little girls.
 * What Do You Mean It's Not for Kids?: This same manga has gotten flak from reviewers in the Anglosphere for its innuendo and violence -- not because the series itself is for kids, which it is, but because no one over the age of ten would read a magical girl story. The fanbase would like to have a word with you. In fact, the fanbases of Magical Girl series for adults, like Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha, would also like to have a word with you.
 * Woolseyism: The Italian dub. The voice acting is great, the songs are possibly, even better than the Japanese ones. They completely substituted J-pop music, to much more pop-rock, and rewritten the lyrics to match the new song. Check it out yourselves.
 * Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Michal and Michel in the second season.