* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-nRdqGUYGM Chin Requiem]], the show's ending theme, is suitably dark and intense. And then there's the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IXoF1zJhfw Juvenile version]] made specifically for ''Literature/KingOfKingsGaoGaiGarVsBetterman'', which turn up the creepy factor to great effect.
* BetterOnDVD: The series is easier to understand and get into by marathoning. In an Anime News Network 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.
* HoYay: Sakura and [[spoiler:herself. It's complicated.]]
* MagnificentBastard: Mamon. The man willingly sacrifices many of his workers from the Super Human League just to convince Kaede to join him. It is later revealed that he already had Kaede conditioned 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 devises a plan to bring Betterman to him by [[spoiler: using Hinoki as bait.]]
* {{Narm}}: Some of Sakura’s lines in the OnTheNext previews can be unintentionally funny:
--> '''Sakura:''' “Your pancreatic juice is overflowing."
* ProtagonistTitleFallacy: While Betterman plays an important role in the show (and constantly saves the day), the main character is Keita.
* RewatchBonus: Anyone rewatching the series now knows why [[spoiler: Akamatsu is the first to be concerned about Sakura's safety.]]
* SoOkayItsAverage: The series isn’t perfect, with its uninteresting Opening, the confusing technobabble, average voice acting (on both sides of the Pacific, except Mexico, when the dub was pretty good), 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.
* {{Wangst}}: Several times throughout the series, Hinoki dives right into self-pity and take a looooong swim. She will sometimes do this while ''right in the middle of a dangerous mission'', thereby endangering her own life. It gets to the point where ''[[BewareTheNiceOnes Keita]]'' gets fed up and calls her out on this.
* TheWoobie: Sakura. She 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.
* {{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.
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