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* [[Narm]]: Considering how old this series is, of the episodes get so melodramatic that it comes off as comical or even stupid instead of touching in these modern days.
** Lunlun's {{spoiler|argument to prove that Walter is a good person compared to his fellow criminals ([[Anti-Villain|which he]] ''[[Anti-Villain|is]]'', but only Lunlun and the audience know it)}} is basically reduced to {{spoiler|"I lost my mom and so did he! his paintings reflect that! How could he be a bad person, waaaaaah!"}} Lunlun, sweetie, we know you're trying to help, but ''please'' stick to being [[The Messiah]] [[Stop Helping Me!|and not try to play lawyer]], okay?
*** Made even worse by how {{spoiler|Walter's [[Complete Monster]] "boss" tries to kill Lunlun so she won't be a [[Spanner in Thethe Works]]. He ties her up and leaves her in... a HUGE [[Drowning Pit]]. [[What an Idiot!|Which is VERY easy to find in the end]].}} Come ON, this isn't ''[[The Perils of Penelope Pitstop]]''!
** In the Latin-American dub, the emotional moment in which {{spoiler|the blind [[Heartwarming Orphan]] Lucero tries to disuade her friends from using the [[World War Two]] bomb as a "hostage" to get her medical attention}} becomes horribly hilarious once you notice that the dub VA is either a ''male'' trying to voice a little girl, or a very deep-voiced woman trying to do likewise. Either way, the [[Vocal Dissonance]] hits HARD and makes what was supposed to be a [[Tear Jerker]] completely ''ridiculous''.
** When [[Fallen Princess]] Margot laments her bad luck and how she's bound to marry an old [[Upperclass Twit]] to save her family from destitution, she covers her face with her hands and cries into them. Bad thing? She then flails around for a brief moment, and the already old animation gets so ''weird'' in these brief seconds that that it's funny instead of sad.
* [[Tear Jerker]]: It's a shoujo from [[The Seventies]], so emotional rollercoasters are expected. Some episodes take the cake, though, and while sometimes it goes into [[Narm]] territory, others work beautifully. Like the one in Sicilia in which {{spoiler|ex-[[Punch Clock Villain]] and actual justice fugitive Dario finds himself in a dilemma, since his criminal signature is his skill in lockpicking and using it to save Lunlun [[Locked in Aa Freezer|(who's trapped in an airtight bank vault)]] would get him caught ''right'' before the state of limitations kicks in at midnight. Ultimately, he saves her... and once he's done he offers to turn himself in, but his [[Inspector Javert]] lets him go saying that his debt with society is paid already -- adding that ''it's five minutes into midnight'' so he can't be prosecuted anymore.}} For a series that sometimes comes in as cheesy and overemotional, that episode was wonderfully done.
* [[The Woobie]]: Many, MANY woobies. Of all places in Europe. {{spoiler|Walter}}, {{spoiler|Alitta}}, {{spoiler|Dario}} and the kids of the Italian [[Orphanage of Love]] come as the biggest ones.
** [[Iron Woobie]]: Lunlun. Yeah, her trials bring her lotsa problems and she has her doubts and breakdowns, but she ultimately keeps going no matter what.