Dai no Daibouken/YMMV

• Alas, Poor Villain: Baran. Hadlar and his Chess Guard.
• Alternate Character Interpretation Aban is either a Cloudcuckoolander, a Genius Ditz or a case of Obfuscating Stupidity. Perhaps a mix of two or all three.
• Canon Sue: Soara, who might fall under Mary Sue Exemption due to her status as an archetypal perfect mom -probably idealized in Baran's memories and Dai's dreams.
• Complete Monster: Zaboera, Flazzard, Kill-Vearn and Vearn himself.
• Cliché Storm arguably part of the charm of this series: we expect to see countless RPG cliches from Dragon Quest and how the authors managed to pull them off in the non-playable media of manga and anime.
• Cult Classic: One of the lesser known manga works, but clearly a well detailed classic.
• Fan Yay Crocodine has been very conspicuous in the Kemono Bara Fan Yay world.
• He's Just Hiding: Aban, though he was stuck in some sort of secret dungeon for most of the plot. This is also what the main characters think happened to Dai at the end of the series.
• Magnificent Bastard: Avan and of course Vearn
• Narm Especially noteworthy are the tearful Heel Face Turns, every instance where Crocodine cries, characters sentimentalizing over how great Hyunkel actually is behind his Jerkass Facade, and Maamu and Pop's musings about love, their immaturity in love, etc. Baran's Heroic Sacrifice is a strange mix of genuinely moving and very Narmy. On the other hand, Hadler's death in Aban's arms is stupidly contrived.
• Squick Seriously, Hadler -especially his hyper demon form, aka "the love child of the Hulk and a giant spider in He-Man's underpants." That, and the fact that Albinasu might be in love with him.
• What an Idiot! Using a fire attack to unblock an obstructed room full of gunpowder?! Really clever Dai. Though, it's highly probable that he didn't knew any better about gunpowder's properties before that incident