History YMMV / Betterman

* TheWoobie: Sakura. She's an IllGirl who has to spend a lot of her time sitting in a machine specially designed to keep her psychic powers from overwhelming her, which means she was never able to go to school or live a normal life like Keita and Hinoki.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-nRdqGUYGM Chin Requiem]], the show's ending theme, is suitably dark and intense.

* SoOkayItsAverage: The series isn’t perfect, with its uninteresting Opening, the confusing technobabble, average voice acting (on both sides of the Pacific), muted color palette, dark lighting, reuse of animation footage, and so on. But the series isn’t horrible, with plenty of strengths that make the show entertaining.

* {{Woolseyism}}: [=TechTV=] [[EditedForSyndication replaced the original Opening credits with the Ending sequence]] when broadcasting Betterman. Considering the opening seems to have nothing to do with the show (it ''might'' be a metaphor, somehow), and the ending credits are much more exciting anyway, this was probably for the better.

* BetterOnDVD: The series is easier to understand and get into by marathoning. In an ''Website/AnimeNewsNetwork'' review of the first DVD, the writer is glad that the disc includes five episodes. This allowed the viewers to watch enough episodes to get hooked.

* {{Woobie}}: Sakura. She's an IllGirl who has to spend a lot of her time sitting in a machine specially designed to keep her psychic powers from overwhelming her, which means she was never able to go to school or live a normal life like Keita and Hinoki.

* TheyJustDidntCare: The opening credits can cause this reaction, as it shows calm footage of a tidal pool and coral reef, a stark contrast to the actual show. Creator/TechTV actually did away with this opening (and the similar ED for the final episode) entirely - see {{Woolseyism}} below.

* {{Woolseyism}}: [=TechTV=] [[EditedForSyndication replaced the original Opening credits with the Ending sequence]] when broadcasting Betterman. Considering the opening seems to have nothing to do with the show, and the ending credits are much more exciting anyway, this was probably for the better.

--> '''Sakura:''' “our pancreatic juice is overflowing.

* TheyJustDidntCare: The opening credits can cause this reaction, as it shows calm footage of a tidal pool and coral reef, a stark contrast to the actual show. Creator/TechTV actually did away with this opening entirely - see {{Woolseyism}} below.

* {{Woobie}}: Sakura.

--> '''Sakura''': “Your pancreatic juice is overflowing.”

* TheyJustDidntCare: The opening credits can cause this reaction, as it shows calm footage of a tidal pool and coral reef, a stark contrast to the actual show. TechTV actually did away with this opening entirely - see {{Woolseyism}} below.

* {{Woolseyism}}: [=TechTV=] [[EditedForSyndication replaced the original Opening credits with the Ending sequence]] when broadcasting Betterman. Considering the opening seems to have nothing to do with the show, and the ending credits are much more exciting anyway, this was probably for the better.
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* BetterOnDVD: The series is easier to understand and get into by marathoning. In an ''AnimeNewsNetwork'' review of the first DVD, the writer is glad that the disc includes five episodes. This allowed the viewers to watch enough episodes to get hooked.

* MagnificentBastard: Mamon. The man willingly sacrifices many of his workers from the Super Human League just to convince Keade join him. It is later revealed that he already had Keade condition to join him at an early age and that the resources lost were not really necessary. To summon the first Brahman, he sacrifices over 200 of his own workers to charge the linker gel, and sacrifices the summoners and host body to bring in the monster. He later uses himself as a host body for the second Brahman and devices a plan on bring Betterman to him.

* RewatchBonus: Anyone rewatching the series now know why [[spoiler: Akamatsu is the first to be concerned about Sakura's safety.]]

* TheyJustDidntCare: The Opening credits causes this reaction, in which boring live-action footage of a coral reef is shown.
* {{Wangst}}: Several times, Hinoki would dive right into self-pity and take a looooong swim. There are some occasions in which her long self-pity has almost costs her own life.

* {{Woolseyism}}: [=TechTV=] had [[EditedForSyndication replaced the original Opening credits with the Ending sequence]] when broadcasting Betterman. Considering the opening was a boring footage of a tidal pool, and the Ending has an awesome song and surreal, enticing imagery, this was for the better.

* BetterOnDVD: The series is easier to understand and get into by marathoning. In an ''AnimeNewsNetwork'' review of the first DVD, the writer is glad that the disc includes five episodes. That way the viewers could get into the series.

--> '''Sakura''': “Your pancreatic juices will overflow.”

* {{Wangst}}: Several times, Hinoki would dive right into self-pity and take a looooong swim. There are some occasions in which her long self-pity has almost cost her own life.

* SoOkayItsAverage: The series isn’t perfect, with its uninteresting Opening, the confusing technobabble, average voice acting (on both sides of the Pacific), muted color palette, dark values, reuse of animation footage, and so on. But the series isn’t horrible

* {{Wangst}}: Several times, Hinoki would dive right into self-pity and take a looooong swim.
** Very true, to the point to which there has been some occasions in which her long self-pity has almost cost her own life.

* {{Woolseyism}}: [=TechTV=] had [[EditedForSyndication replaced the original Opening credits with the Ending sequence]] when broadcasting Betterman. Considering the opening was a boring footage of a tidal pool, and the Ending has an awesome song and surreal, enticing imagery, this was for the better.

* {{Woolseyism}}: [=TechTV=] had replaced the original Opening sequence with the Ending sequence when they broadcast Betterman. Considering the opening was a boring footage of a tidal pool, and the Ending has an awesome song and surreal, enticing imagery, this was for the better.

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: The series has tons of it. This show legitimately makes ''worms'' scary.

* MagnificentBastard: Mamon