Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch/YMMV

• Canon Sue: Lucia
• Crowning Moment of Awesome: Coco's jailbreak and conversion of Sara without her pearl in the manga, and the Black Beauty Sisters' turning on Michel just before they die 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 Discontinuity 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.