YMMV / Classicaloid

• Alternate Character Interpretation: The Classicaloids and their past lives; are they still the same person through and through and are simply adapting to their new, far-future setting, or are they their own persons with new personalities donning their previous names and memories for a sense of identity?
• Audience-Alienating Premise: The anime's basic premise is that it is an absurdist comedy/slice-of-life involving humourously re imagined takes on famous composers. Since the humour and subject matter were so niche, it didn't gain much popularity with anime watchers. Many people thought it was (or found it as) too silly/over-the-top to give a chance or stick with, which led to it becoming one of the most under-watched shows of Fall 2016 and receiving a score of 6/10 on My Anime List.
• Americans Hate Tingle: The show is noticeably more popular back in Japan, having a large amount of merch and fans. Compared to the small fandom and low ratings of the episodes in the western audiences, this applies.
• Base-Breaking Character:
  • Is Beethoven's Large Ham personality and obsession with gyoza funny, or is he a one dimensional character whose entire concept needs some serious fleshing out?
  • Kanae is either justified for her short temper with all of the Classicaloids and Sousuke running around like hooligans, or she's rather harsh on them for no reason, given that she does sometimes lash out on them without any provocation as in Episode 2.
• Ensemble Dark Horse:
  • Even before he showed up, Schubert became a fan favorite due to how he would interact with Beethoven.
  • Chopin is fairly popular due to his Hikikomori tendencies and his social anxiety.
• Fanon: Due to most of her personality and backstory being an enigma, most people in the western fandom may go by the idea that Mitsuru is the Classicaloid form of Mendelssohn, due to Wild Mass Guessing prior to her first full appearance.
• Fridge Brilliance:
  • It's quite amusing for Chopin's songs to feature Vocaloids in it, when the whole series is filled with artificial (or at the very least unnatural) musicians.
  • The Classicaloids' childish moments, demeanor and, in Mozart's case, personality, can possibly be due to them being Born as an Adult (barring Tchaiko-chan, Bach and Bada-chan). They're not as much being kid-like adults as much as they're acting their age!
• Genius Bonus: Many references to the composers and their lifestyle, from their little-known quirks and facts about their music, are thrown around quite a lot for a comedy series.
  • Mozart's composing baton is a flute, a nod to one of his most famous plays, The Magic Flute.
• Growing the Beard: People seem to agree the show begins to pick up in quality once Bach, Tchai, and Bada start becoming more prevalent in episodes.
• Ho Yay: Schubert constantly talking about and praising Beethoven seems a little too much to be just simple idolization. Despite his beef with Mozart being rooted in history, his and Beethoven's relationship and how he and Schubert interact now might make it very easy to see Schubert as a Clingy Jealous Guy.
  • Later episodes of the show pretty much confirm this to be the case, and a late season 2 episode outright confirms him to be jealous of Mozart's close relationship with Beethoven. It's ostensibly platonic, but the dialogue wouldn't be out of place in a romantic context.
• Periphery Demographic: While the anime is primarily targeted towards children, it has garnered substantial popularity with music history fans due to the writers having Shown Their Work in regards to classical composers and their music.
  • The anime has also amassed a large number of fujoshi in its native Japan, likely due to the Pretty Boy character designs for the male composers and endless amount of Ship Tease in the show itself.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: The Classicaloids, Mozart and Beethoven in particular, fall into this at points due to their slow character development and how they border on jerks to Kanae, especially how they never seem to learn about how to stop making her mad.
  • Schubert's tendency to blend into the background in episode 21 is noted here to come out of left field to some extent, which leads to this trope regarding the change of heart he undergoes in that episode.
• What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?: While the anime is considered child-friendly in Japan, it would not be considered appropriate for children in other places such as the US, thanks to instances of alcohol consumption (without bad consequences and by minors) and swear words. This may be why Sentai Filmworks labelled the anime as TV-14 in their official translation.