Little Cherry / YMMV

Adaptation Displacement: The TV animated series undisputedly became the embodiment of the franchise to the public, including articles on alleged animation plagiarism in China that have ignored the series' comic strip roots or its former popularity.
Archive Panic: It has amassed thousands of comic strips, numerous long stories, a short-lived Flash animation series, several animated TV seasons, novels, and activity books. The pre-2008 comics were compiled into many volumes, but the newer comics typically lie within the Childhood Comics magazine pages.^note
Awesome Music: The opening theme for Wugang Legend is a beautiful male vocal tune by boy band Top Combine about the young protagonist and her dreams. It was reused for the credits in subsequent seasons.
Germans Love David Hasselhoff: The first two seasons have a small but friendly following from the Arab nations where it aired.
Nightmare Fuel: In the Eight Immortals storyline, Cherry and allies encounter an animal stampede fleeing from an expanding lethal dark cloud. When the humans find themselves trapped between a cliff and the cloud, Ningsha points out that the animals chose to plummet to their demises, their corpses visible in the water.
Periphery Demographic:
- The comic strip has been targeted to children and had been aggressively marketed towards them, although it also had a substantial group of teenagers and young adults that it appealed through online bulletins, Q&As, and fan rallies back in the day, while drawing some older readers.
- It is slanted towards a female audience while it had acknowledged male fans for many years. In the comments on video site Bilibili, male viewers have admitted to watching the TV series while they were young.
They Copied It, So It Sucks!: It has gotten notoriety in its home country for allegedly lifting Chibi Maruko-chan's Chinese title and cast, which the public took note during and after the TV series' run.^note The creator claimed to have named the protagonist after cherries by random choice when she glanced at a fruit stand and wasn't aware of Maruko-chan at that point. While it's possible the TV series was too inspired by Maruko-chan, there have been no known copying of the storylines which are primarily sourced from the comics, and lots of people agree the comics are distinctive on their own.
Unintentional Period Piece:
- The old "noodle-hair" era is grounded to the late 90s-early 00s due to strips about characters being new to computers, the usage of cell phones with buttons, The War on Terror, celebrities like Nicholas Tse, and homages to The Matrix, The Ring, and My Sassy Girl.
- Season 1 of the TV series is clearly set in 2008 as it mentions the Beijing Summer Olympics' aftermath and an October date, and older cell phone designs remain widespread.
Values Dissonance: There are a number of Blackface gags centering on Lazy (his Gag Lips in the recipe), including a recurring segment in Humorous Collection where Cherry paints his face dark. Not to mention that Africans that manage to appear are portrayed as having sizable lips, including those in an Africa-set story in the first Childhood Comics issues. Unequivocally, these would have been red flags in western societies where such imagery is frowned upon.
What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?: The Flash shorts (and the comics they're adapted from) have gotten away with inappropriate elements such as blood, alcohol, death threats, and sexual material, which are mostly attributed to the adult characters, and were advertised in the comic volumes that were aimed at children.

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