History YMMV / TheMysteriousCitiesOfGold

* CompleteMonster: Marinche comes ''quite'' close.

** [[spoiler: In season 2, [[BigBad Zares]] manipulate our heroes in various BatmanGambit in order to facilitate the [[TheChosenOne children]] discovering the CityOfGold for him. In the end, all he need is reaping all the rewards. But his greatest accomplishment is keeping his true identity a secret: he's truly Ambrosius, the diminutive eccentric friendly alchemist our heroes have being working with near the beginning. By the end of season 2, no one still hasn't discovered his secret identity yet (save for Tian Li who [[IdiotBall was too dumb enough not to warn our heroes.]]).]]

* ShipTease: Season 2 has a huge amount of ShipTease, mainly involving Zia with others boys, such as Esteban, Tao, Zhi, Prince Zhu, Gurban.

** [[spoiler: In season 2, we have Xares manipulate our heroes in various BatmanGambit in order to facilitate the [[TheChosenOne children]] discovering the CityOfGold and reaping all the rewards.]]

* GatewaySeries: For UK and other viewers outside North America this (along with ''Anime/{{Ulysses 31}}'') was the Gateway Series to anime in the same way as ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' or ''SailorMoon'' was for US viewers.

** Also, while the show is entirely set in Latin America, and a Spanish dub exist, it was never broadcast, aside from some Latin America channels. Undestandably, as Spain conquistadores are the Big Bads.

*** The whole show is very careful to reinforce the point that aside from the three children (and any other children they meet), very few are BlackAndWhiteMorality "good guys". Aside from those mentioned above, at least one tribe of Native Americans tries to sacrifice the children, and even the fabled Heva civilisation ended up in a war of mutually assured destruction with Atlantis. Arguably the central conceit in giving the medallions to children at birth is because they would only use them for the right reasons.

*** Oh, he knew how to aim it - [[spoiler:he explicitly states the first two are "warning shots", with Pedro aiming - Gaspard tells Gomez that must mean Mendoza cannot aim a cannon. The third shot (aimed by Mendoza) misses, but only just, giving Gaspard a haircut in the process. The fourth is likely to hit, but spoiled by the cannon ropes giving way - nevertheless, the ballistic trajectory comes close to making Gaspard a lot shorter and considerably less alive]]. This leaves the plot to move forward, while avoiding the fact that sword and spear injuries are easier to bowdlerise than those made by a cannonball.

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: After the release of the preview trailer for the sequel series, which showed that the series would be animated with CelShading, a lot of comments pretty much declared that the whole thing was permanantly ruined. Surprising? [[FanDumb No.]]
** Very much a case of Rose-Tinted Nostalgia Glasses on the part of some fans. Speaking as someone who loved the original series, the truth is that what made it special was being more than the sum of its parts - while some of the artwork in the original series was breathtaking, the overall quality of the animation actually varied wildly from episode to episode.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: "The Olmecs ''love'' children!" - though arguably as a dying race who require the life force of the children to keep their stasis strategy going, the line is played completely straight in this instance.

* DevelopmentHell: The sequel series seems to have slipped into this. Its release has been pushed back so many times that the best estimate we have for its air date is "some time in the first half of 2013".

*** The Spanish being the big bads is actually ''very'' debatable. If anything, the ''Olmecs'' are the Big Bads while everyone assumes the ''Spaniards'' are the Big Bads. There have been shown to be plenty of despicable people on both sides, with Marinche, probably being the closest you can get to a CompleteMonster in this series, is an Aztec. (Even the Spanish Doctor who's traveling with her is [[EvenEvilHasStandards disgusted]] when she suggests poisoning a villages's river supply)

* AndTheFandomRejoiced: The series in the west was a cult classic of the 80s, but no-one ever thought any more would come of it than that. Especially after the failure of the attempted reboot in 2005, most fans were thankful enough just for a good DVD release. Then all of a sudden in 2012, ''nearly thirty years after the series originally aired'' the most unexpected thing of all was announced- an '''official sequel''', picking up right from the end of the original series! To say the least, we DidntSeeThatComing!

* {{Squick}}: Maina is about the same age as the heroes, but she's engaged to a man who looks old enough to be her father.

* ValuesDissonance: Maina, a tween, is engaged to Viracocha, an adult man. Apart from Tao, who's disappointed she isn't available, everyone takes it in stride. Probably a case of TruthInTelevision; the concept of legal adulthood is a relatively new one and adolescents getting married was fairly common back then.

** On a whole other level of AmericansHateTingle coupled with

* GatewaySeries: For UK and other viewers outside North America this (along with ''{{Ulysses 31}}'') was the Gateway Series to anime in the same way as ''RanmaOneHalf'' or ''SailorMoon'' was for US viewers.

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: After the release of the preview trailer for the sequel series, which showed that the series would be animated with CelShading, a lot of comments pretty much declared that the whole thing was RuinedFOREVER. Surprising? [[FanDumb No.]]

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: After the release of the preview trailer for the sequel series, which showed that the series would be animated with CelShading, a lot of comments pretty much declared that the whole thing was RuinedFOREVER.

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel (by children's TV standards): The Jade Mask. ''Dear God, The Jade Mask...''.

* AmericansHateTingle: This show has a Spanish dub which got never broadcast, aside from some Latin America channels. Undestandably, as Spain conquistadores are the Big Bads.
** The Spanish being the big bads is actually ''very'' debatable. If anything, the ''Olmecs'' are the Big Bads while everyone assumes the ''Spaniards'' are the Big Bads. There have been shown to be plenty of despicable people on both sides, with Marinche, probably being the closest you can get to a CompleteMonster in this series, is an Aztec. (Even the Spanish Doctor who's traveling with her is [[EvenEvilHasStandards disgusted]] when she suggests poisoning a villages's river supply)
** The whole show is very careful to reinforce the point that aside from the three children (and any other children they meet), very few are BlackAndWhiteMorality "good guys". Aside from those mentioned above, at least one tribe of Native Americans tries to sacrifice the children, and even the fabled Heva civilisation ended up in a war of mutually assured destruction with Atlantis. Arguably the central conceit in giving the medallions to children at birth is because they would only use them for the right reasons.