YMMV / Dragon Pilot: Hisone and Masotan

• Americans Hate Tingle: To say very few people liked this series in Latin America would be an understatement, and this is partly due to many reasons, including the premise of the show and the fact it was shown along Code Geass and Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn, two titles with already bigger fandoms which were released at the same within the region in Netflix. It doesn't help none of those shows were dubbed while this show did get a dub, and that dub, while not bad by any means, wasn't great either, due to the fact most of the cast were newcomers. The controversy behind the translation done by Brenda Nava, one of the most known Japanese-to-Spanish translator in both Mexico and Latin America (outside Brazil, the U.S. and Canada) in the first four episodes didn't help matters either.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Futomomo became quite popular with the fanbase shortly after his introduction in Episode 4.
• Fan Nickname: "How To Plane Your Dragon" was picked up among some English-speaking fans (It does help in Japan, the film was named as Hic to Dragon -Hic and the Dragon-, "Hic" being the Japanese name of Hiccup).
• Memetic Mutation: Any variation of referring to the series as a "vore anime."
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • Anastomosis. Whenever am OTF pilot is overwhelmed by different emotions (love, in the case of Hisone and Hoshino), their dragon will go berserk, gain yellow Hypnotic Eyes, and will try to aggressively digest the emotion... and the pilot too! To make things worse, this process burns through the pilots'(acid-resistant) suits very quickly, so had El and Hisone not been rescued, they would've died. Worse, those acid-resistant suits were a recent development, made earlier in the series, so any earlier pilots probably never had a chance.
  • The ending of Episode 11. It turns out that the Ritual requires a Human Sacrifice. The only thing left of the sacrificed miko is their torn clothing. Just how were they sacrificed?!
• Refuge in Audacity: One could argue that the concept of dragons that not only turn into fighter jets Transformers-style and are piloted from within their stomachs is audaciously weird enough. There's also the fact that poor Hisone gets devoured (and subsequently puked out) a grand total of three times in the first episode.

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