Samurai 7/YMMV
- Crowning Moment of Awesome: Many, but special mention must be made of Rikichi, and his attempt to shoot a Nobuseri Humongous Mecha with one of their own BFGs. It fails, but it was a noble effort by someone who spent the journey to Kanna as The Load. And a subsequent attempt actually works!
- Growing the Beard: The first two-thirds of the movie follows the plotline of the original Seven Samurai as close as it can, which works as well as you would expect when you adapt a 207-minute movie into sixteen half-hour episodes. The last third is an original storyline, allowing the series to finally stretch its wings and kick things into Serial Escalation territory.
- Ho Yay: Examples are on this page
- In Name Only: The original source (the movie Seven Samurai by Akira Kurosawa) did not have any of the following: mecha, the village priestess or her Annoying Younger Sister, Ukyo or his father or the whole plot involving Ukyo's lust for the village priestess, super-human samurai who can jump from spaceship to spaceship in hard space without any protection and slice mecha in half with only their katanas, robotic samurai (which some people believe kills Kikuchiyo's characterization and motives completely), one of the seven actually working for the bandit-mecha-warlord... etc, etc.
- Magnificent Bastard: Ukyo, as it turns out.
- Shipping
- The Scrappy: Katsushiro is hated by a good part of the fans, for his whininess and for accidentally killing Kyuzo.