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  • Adaptation Displacement: Though series itself is already quite niche, it is more known than the comics it was based on.
  • Angel/Devil Shipping:
    • Raf and Sulfus, quite literally. It's canon that they both have a crush on each other.
    • You also have Miki and Gas.
  • Awesome Music: Each character has an Image Song; though the songs are not sung by the original voice actors, they have catchy beats and hooks and sung in English.
  • Germans Love David Hasselhoff: In the Anglosphere (particularly in North America), the show has become a Cult Classic where it is one of the few Mondo TV series to have a genuine unironic fanbase rather than people watching out of Bile Fascination.
    • The series is also a Cult Classic in the Francophonie (especially in France). To boot, the French version is readily available in its entirety online.
  • Hollywood Pudgy: In episode 4, Urie worries about her weight despite being drawn with the same skinny-build as her friends. Raf and Miki are understandably confused by this. However, Cabiria gladly makes fun of her.
  • I Am Not Shazam: The main heroine is not named "Angel", but Raf. In fact, there is nobody named Angel in the series. The title is actually an example of Gratuitous English.
  • Narm: Mostly due to the jarring voice acting in English.
    • The animation and the frequent Off-Model gives also a good touch of narm to the animated series.
  • The Scrappy:
    • Dolce/Sweet, for various reasons, is one of the most hated characters in the fandom. Whether it be her being made specifically for the show and not existing in the comics, or having little personality outside being preppy and loving shopping, she has few fans.
    • Raf also gets a bit of hate (justified or otherwise) due to her temper and her obsession with Sulfus.
  • Tear Jerker: For the animated series, the thing that first drove Reina to her Start of Darkness? She fell in love.
  • Unintentionally Sympathetic: Raf and Sulfus once get (separately) punished after they are seen together, only without being even told what exactly they did wrong, implying that if someone says you did something wrong, then you must accept the consequences no matter what, even if you aren't told what you did wrong exactly. It doesn't help that the rules imply that a girl being together with a boy (or vice versa) is "giving in to the devil" (which the so-called "VETO" also implies).
  • Values Dissonance: Gas having no other personality traits than being Obsessed with Food, and being constantly mocked because he's fat, was already quite grossophobic for the The New '10s.

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