History Headscratchers / MermaidMelodyPichiPichiPitch

* Why is the palace of Lucia very similar to the Taj Mahal? Shouldn't it be a Japanese palace since Luchia is the mermaid princess of the North Pacific (near Japan)?

** Obviously, you were CompletelyMissingThePoint of the entire first arc. The Meru story, which you cited, was written to combat this point of view. Meru thinks exactly like you do: that Hanon and the girls should be solely focused on fighting and any enjoyment of life on the surface, falling in love, going to school and going shopping are careless and cruel insults to what the other mermaids have gone through. It's because of this that Yuuri preys on her, and Hanon rescues her even though she likes to, shock horror, have fun. Furthermore? Although Meru thought that "Hanon has done jack crap to help (her) mother" (quoting you here), she shows at the end that, even though she was shopping and flirting, she was also working the whole time to find Meru's mom (with a jellyfish spy network, no less). You also cited Rina's intro, which is basically the same thing -- her single-mindedness just blinded her to what was really going on, and she learned to let go and was better off for it. On the other hand, there is one real example of lazy, flighty, duty-shirking princesshood in ''Pichi Pichi Pitch'' -- and can you guess who it is? '''Sara.''' Though her servant's cruel manipulation of her to try and make sure that she and Tarou were separated forever contributed some to her madness, poor Baaya didn't feel that she had much of a choice -- those two were going to run away together, completely neglecting the fact that Sara had a kingdom to run. In the end, she realizes that it was at least partially her fault for trying to run away from her responsibilities. Hanon and Rina learn from this and acknowledge that they only have a little time with their human (or semi-human, in Hamasaki's case) love interests, and that their most important task is to be princesses. The laziness and irresponsibility that you see the main characters as possessing is actually condemned by the series, and shopping for bikinis and chasing after boys does not mean throwing away ruling a kingdom and fighting off invaders.

** [[{{Tropers/Anderling}} My]] personal EpilepticTree to tie in with the "male sirenoids anywhere?" up above is that mermaids can and (unless their pearls are used to give birth to a new mermaid) ''have to'' reproduce sexually with human men. ([[Disney/TheLittleMermaid Atlantica]] [[MarsNeedsWomen Needs Men]], basically.) Thus, some of the mermaids ''are'' actually born (presumably the mother goes to land to give birth, like sea turtles), and the others have belly buttons because it's in their genes for mermaids to have them.

*** In the manga, Hamasaki is a descendant of the man who was saved by a mermaid and who started the Amagi shrine (where Rina is a miko), it is hinted that the man had children with the mermaid, so he is technically part mermaid (too bad they never showed up anything about the shrine in the anime).

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