Hana no Ko Lunlun/YMMV

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  • Anvilicious: The Japan OVA is chock-full of anti-pollution calls.
  • Ear Worm: The opening song. Being a Mitsuko Horie song, this is pretty much a given.
    • The Latin-American Spanish version even more so.
  • French Love Lunlun: The show was quite successful in France under the name "Lydie's World Tour."
    • Latin-Americans also love "Angel the Girl of the Flowers".
  • 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 argument to prove that Walter is a good person compared to his fellow criminals (which he is, but only Lunlun and the audience know it) is basically reduced to "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 and not try to play lawyer, okay?
    • In the Latin-American dub, the emotional moment in which 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 Upper Class 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 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 (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. Walter, Alitta, 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.
    • Jerkass Woobie: Isabel. She lied to Lunlun and almost got her trapped in a cave hopelessly but she did it less out of utter malice and more in despair since she had been alone and friendless for years. And it's not like she intended to ge Lunlun lost in the cave, either.
    • Stoic Woobie: Sayid, the Moroccan boy Lunlun befriends, who almost never smiles and is harsh to those he doesn't know but is ultimately a young boy looking for his place in the world. (And ultimately shows some more emotions when he returns to his hometown and finds his old housre abandoned. His grandpa Sharo is more of an Iron Woobie, as he's more cheerful than his grandson and ultimately sacrifices his chance to return to Morocco with Sayid, asking Lunlun to take his place and help the kid. She does.
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