Line #23 YMMV/Hamtaro


1	!! The Anime Series
2	* AccidentalInnuendo:
3	** Stan's treatment of female hamsters other than his sister qualifies. Bijou is [[NoYay particularly uncomfortable]] when they first meet; she objects to him hugging her and refusing to give up her paw.
4	** There's also the ways Sandy reacts to Stan flirting [[{{Hypocrite}} despite having Maxwell as a boyfriend]]. Usually she just drags him away while making a sarcastic comment though [[DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale she has used violence a few times]].
5	* AdaptationDisplacement: Other than hardcore anime fans, who has ever heard of the children's books?
6	* ArchivePanic: It ran for almost 300 episodes. Only 104 of those episodes were localized in English, and even fewer of those English episodes ever got released on home media.
7	* BaseBreakingCharacter:
8	** Howdy is probably the most divisive out of the main Hams, with people finding his jokester personality funny or annoying and repetetive.
9	** Stan, who was introduced a few episodes into the first season. Fans either love him or hate him for his [[LovableSexManiac constant]] [[CasanovaWannabe flirting]].
10	** Sandy gets this as well, mainly for her treatment of Stan. She's either justified in stopping him from flirting or a hypocrite because she's in a relationship herself.
11	%% * BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The Japan-only seasons had several episodes where the hamsters traveled to Lapis and Lazuli's world of candy, though this was dialed back for the final seasons.
12	* BizarroEpisode:
13	** The movies. They have their own continuity together, but they're all so ''strange'' and don't fit with the rest of the show.
14	** Later seasons had entire seasons' worth of episodes where the hamsters traveled to Lapis and Lazuli's world of candy, though this was dialed back for the final seasons.
15	* FanPreferredCouple:
16	** Unsurprisingly, just about every fan of the show ships Hamtaro/Bijou and Sandy/Maxwell.
17	** To a lesser degree, Dexter/Pashmina seems significantly more popular than Howdy/Pashmina. Some of the video games even nod to this.
18	* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff:
19	** It was very popular in Italy. Music/CristinaDAvena, who performed the Italian theme song (of this series and hundreds of other animes) made an album dedicated to ''Hamtaro'' in 2003, with 7 songs related to ''all'' the protagonists (including a shipping song about the Howdy/Pashmina/Dexter LoveTriangle, no less).
20	** It was also really popular in Canada, even getting exclusive merchandise there such as clothing and even Heinz pasta shapes!
21	* [[Main/{{Hoyay}} Ho Yay]]:
22	** Laura and Kana have a lot of Les Yay for whatever reason... [[Main/{{Squick}} which brings up some really bad thoughts]].
23	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KREZpxI68RQ This scene]] has another awkward-feeling moment of this trope.
24	* LauncherOfAThousandShips: Pashmina's already in a LoveTriangle with Howdy and Dexter, and Stan also flirts with her quite a bit. She also tends to be the ham-ham choice for ShipsThatPassInTheNight with ham-hams like Panda being paired with her.
25	* MemeticMutation:
26	** [[http://hamtaro.wikia.com/wiki/File:Hamtaro_sex_makes_babies-t2.jpg "SEX MAKES BABIES?!"]][[note]]No, this is not actually what Hamtaro was reacting to; he'd just run away from a monster-sized (to a hamster) wave.[[/note]]
27	** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBbpxTM2lew Twelve Is My Magic Number]]''[[http://wiki.animutationportal.com/Twelve_Is_My_Magic_Number]], an {{Animutation}} made all the way back in 2005, featuring {{Mondegreen}}s of the Japanese ending song.
28	** [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/hamtaro/images/e/e6/Screenshot_2015-06-21-23-02-30.png/revision/latest?cb=20150624185536 "You hate me, right?"]] [[note]]This is a scene from episode 135 where Hamtaro have a bad dream about Laura, and the image was taken from English fansub[[/note]] Not to mention that now in the recent days you can see this scene on Website/YouTube commonly (though not widely popular), but it was used in VideoGame/MegaManMaker community by its infamous Malaysian forum troll Fanduber for troll purpose and to annoy peoples.
29	** [[Anime/RurouniKenshin Kentaro]][[note]]During a normal airing of Hamtaro in its early morning timeslot, somebody at Cartoon Network goofed and, instead of airing the second half of the episode, aired an episode of ''Rurouni Kenshin'' instead. Cue all the fanart of Kenshin as a hamster.[[/note]]
30	* {{Moe}}: Pretty much all the hamster characters, being a series about {{Ridiculously Cute Critter}}s, but special mention goes to Bijou, a sweet and feminine French hamster with GirlishPigtails.
31	* NeverLiveItDown: Most of the hate for the series in the west purely boils down to the fact that it aired on ''Creator/{{Toonami}}'' once. Even years after it no longer airs on it, it seems to be the only thing people can talk about in regards to the series.
32	* NightmareFuel:
33	** The movies have a couple creepy scenes, including a devil-hamster (not Spat from the games) who can turn into a dragon.
34	** One of the later seasons' finale had an episode named "Sweet Worm Surprise!", where the Ham-Hams traveled to Lapis and Lazuli's world of candy and were eaten by a worm that lived there. In the following episode, Boss had to free them.
35	* OlderThanTheyThink: There was a [[https://lostmediawiki.com/Tottoko_Hamutaro:_Anime_Dechu!_(found_%22Hamtaro%22_anime_series;_1999) short OVA adaptation]] called [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGgb67cSCmY "Tottoko Hamutaro Anime Dechu!"]] that was made in 1999. [[MissingEpisode This version was lost in Japan for 18 years]] until it resurfaced online on [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPJjA0FnnuY July 20, 2017.]] This version has different character designs for the Ham-Hams and an earlier version of the show's theme song.
36	* PeripheryDemographic: For every preteen kid that decried this show as a [[{{Misblamed}} sign of Toonami's end times]], there was another kid within the same demographic that admitted to liking the show or secretly watched and said nothing for years to keep up with appearances. There were also even those who didn't care a wit about anything else on Toonami who watched the show simply because they liked this type of show and, in some cases, knew some of the voice actors from other series.
37	* PopularWithFurries: The characters are cute hamsters after all, so the series has its niche.
38	* TheScrappy: While Lapis and Lazuli have cute designs, most of the show's SeasonalRot is directly attributed to them and Sweet Paradise to the point that they took over a majority of the show following their first appearances. They had to be dialed back significantly for the show to regain its slice-of-life elements.
39	* ShipToShipCombat:
40	** Back when this show was on Cartoon Network, you wouldn't believe how many people fought over Hamtaro/Bijou or Boss/Bijou almost to the point of DieForOurShip in some circles. Dexter/Pashmina and Howdy/Pashmina got this treatment as well.
41	** As well as Travis/Laura and Roberto/Laura (yet [[DryDockedShip Laura does not like Roberto at all]].)
42	* ShipsThatPassInTheNight: Boss/Sparkle and [[ToyShip Cappy/Penelope]] are fairly popular ships despite there being little romantic interaction between them, especially with the former.
43	* TookTheBadFilmSeriously: While it isn't a bad show, putting ''Hamtaro'' on Toonami was not one of the network's better ideas; it was completely out of place for the block and almost guaranteed a hatedom from the get-go. So when ExecutiveMeddling gave them the show, the team went completely for broke on the promos, using a Creator/PeterCullen voice-over in a completely serious tone over heroic hamster antics in a valiant attempt to make lemonade out of the lemon they'd been given. The resulting promos were actually pretty awesome, but [[NeverTrustATrailer also had little to do with the majority of the show]].
44	* VanillaProtagonist: Hamtaro's defining trait is that he's a NiceGuy and he likes spending time with his friends, while his owner is a normal GirlNextDoor. All of his friends have their own quirky personalities, all different from each other, and many of them also have interesting backstories.
45	* VindicatedByHistory: The series was always well-received but it caught heat in America from older Toonami fans who wanted action anime, not cute hamsters. However, the eight-and-under crowd loved the show and it was a PetFadStarter for hamsters. As time went on, the younger fans that enjoyed the anime grew up and became vocal in their nostalgia. The reception of the series cleared up and it's known as a Toonami classic.
46	* {{Woolseyism}}:
47	** All the names have been changed and although most of the UsefulNotes/JapaneseHolidays and folk tales have been kept, they too had their name changes. Yet, talk to the American fans and most of them will refer to the dub and not the Japanese version.
48	** One episode that featured [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konpeito Kompeito]] was called "diamonds of sugar" in the dub.
49	** The Italian dub added a rather peculiar reference joke: Cappy's owners were renamed Sandra and Raimondo, after the beloved married couple and comedy duo of the late Sandra Mondaini and Raimondo Vianello.
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51	!! The Games
52	* SugarWiki/NoProblemWithLicensedGames: While not Game of the Year worthy, the games tend to be rather humorous and well thought-out adventure games with [[SidetrackedByTheGoldSaucer surprisingly addictive mini-games]].

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