History YMMV / Shinzo

* CompleteMonster: [[BigBad Lanancuras]] was once a noble celestial god who guarded the Milky Way Galaxy, but eventually [[TheParagonAlwaysRebels became a downright Satanic figure]] due to his lust for power. When he began to subjugate and destroy all lower beings, the other celestials [[SealedEvilInACan imprisoned him inside a meteorite]] which later fell to Earth. From his prison, however, Lanancuras [[LeakingCanOfEvil continued to spread his reach]], brainwashing the King of the engineered Enterran race, Mushrambo, to annihilate every last human to prepare for his arrival. He selects Mushrambo to wipe out the last human city Shinzo and to kill the hibernating [[WouldHurtAChild six-year old girl]] [[TheChosenOne Yakumo]], the latter of which backfires on him when Yakumo uses a portion of Lanancuras's own power to stop Mushrambo and splits the Enterran's soul in the process. When the timeline resets so that the war never happened, Lanancuras orders his Kadrian lieutenants to massacre humans and Enterrans alike for failing him. Even at his final defeat, he spitefully reveals that he had planned for this, as his demise as the cosmic embodiment of the Milky Way will mean the [[TakingYouWithMe end of all life on Earth]].

* {{Squick}}: The Saban dub, particularly towards the end, likes to imply that Yakumo and Mushrambo are destined lovers. Mushrambo is [[spoiler:either three people at once: a kid, a teen and a fat anthropomorphic cat merged together, or the guy who wiped out the human race and tried to kill her. She also has the sexual and romantic experience of a six year old.]]

* EvilIsSexy: The WingedHumanoid Queen Rusephine and evil General Mushrambo in particular are very physically beautiful. At least until they [[OneWingedAngel transform themselves into monsters]], and the outside starts to reflect the inside. Played straighter with Lunaria of the Kadrians.

* ItsShortSoItSucks: One of the main issues is that the series didn't live up to its full potential because it had less episodes than other anime of its kind (The Manga was only two volumes long). As such, the plot is extremely rushed; there's not enough time devoted to many of the mini-arcs or to flesh out the villains, as almost of them were taken down very effortlessly. There were even three members of the QuirkyMiniBossSquad that were teased as the next enemies to be fought... only for Rusephine to reveal that she carded them offscreen in the ''very next episode''.

* ItsShortSoItSucks: One of the main issues is that the series didn't live up to its full potential because it had less episodes than other anime of its kind (The Manga was only two volumes long). As such, the plot is extremely rushed; there's not enough time devoted to many of the mini-arcs or to flesh out the villains, as almost of them were taken down very effortlessly. There were even three members of the QuirkyMiniBossSquad that were teased as the next enemies to be fought... only for Rusephine to reveal that she carded them offscreen in the very next episode.

* AntiClimaxBoss: Daku, Ryuma especially after Gyasa a lesser {{Mook}} lasted much longer than he did and Rusepine, as well as the rest of the Enterran Generals that only showed up as cards after the previous episode set them as equal to the past arcs' big bads.

* ItsShortSoItSucks: One of the main issues is that the series didn't live up to its full potential because it had less episodes than other anime of its kind. As such, the plot occurs too fast, there's not enough time devoted to many of the mini-arcs or to flesh out the villains, and there were three members of the QuirkyMiniBossSquad that went to waste.

* ItsShortSoItSucks: One of the main issues is the fact that the plot occurs to fast, with not enough time devoted to many of the mini-arcs. Even worse is that this could've been avoided as there were three more members of the QuirkyMiniBossSquad that the heroes could've fought.

* ItsShortSoItSucks: One of the main issues is the fact that the plot occurs to fast, with not enough time devoted to many of the mini-arcs. Even worse is that this could've avoided as there were three more members of the QuirkyMiniBossSquad that the heroes could've fought.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: The Seven Enterran Generals, only four were ever shown in major details in the series, while the rest were turned into cards. The Enterrans in general count as several of the different mini arcs were very rushed, making the possibilities of animal Enterrans very limited.

* EnsembleDarkHorse: In spite of being in only three episodes, Gyasa is by far the most memorable of the villains in series, being one of the few Enterran villains to put up a good fight till the end. He ''greatly'' overshadows his boss.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: The series is a Shonen, was broadcasted in Creator/FoxKids and marketed to children, but we are talking about an anime which shows nightmarish creatures and monsters, incredibly evil characters, deaths on screen including [[spoiler: our main heroine, ''for reals and permanently'' at the end of the series]], and some quite cynic moral aesops.

* EarWorm: Battle Play, the original Japanese OP, the English theme, and the Japanese BGM.