- Americans Hate Tingle: The show is really popular in Japan, where it spawned two OVAs, one movie and one crossover movie with Macross Frontier. Outside of Japan, a lot of people dislike it due to its ridiculous premise and somewhat lower production values compared to the previous entries in the franchise. However, the series does have fans and most agree that the music is simply badass.
- Awesome Music: A whole soundtrack built around this. Totsugeki Love Heart, Try Again, Angel Voice...take your pick.
- Let's face it, if it's by Fire Bomber, it automatically qualifies as this.
- Special mention definitely goes to Holy Lonely Light
however. Pure, concentrated hard rock hot blooded badassery. - If you want good hype, then Try Again is for you. Slightly less metal than Holy Lonely Light, but still a really good song that will make you want to kick ass alongside Sound Force.
- Broken Base: There's a group of fans who dislike the series for its Super Robot feel, reuse of Stock Footage and Padding but there are those who like the Lighter and Softer atmosphere and the awesome rock songs.
- Designated Hero: It's hard to see why, if he weren't a Messianic Archetype, anyone would put up with Basara at all. He's continually blowing out the rest of the band, and, indeed, their fans, for his own reasons. He endangers the lives of military and civilian personnel by turning up in combat and getting in the way, and is completely insensitive to the feelings of pretty much everyone around him. He is right that singing is the answer to their problems, but since the logic behind it isn't discovered until much later in the show, it comes across as him being Right for the Wrong Reasons, yet everyone acts like his behavior's been completely vindicated when he saves the day, no questions asked.
- Epileptic Trees: For years, this series has been dogged by fan theories that Basara is the illicit love child of Minmay and Hikaru Ichijyo, exiled from his parents to escape the wrath of Misa. There is exactly zero official corroboration of this notion, only the circumstantial evidence that he is a spiky-haired Martial Pacifist prodigy in both music and piloting, with a hazy origin story. As far as facts are concerned, Minmay, Hikaru and their colony ship mysteriously disappeared 8 years before Basara was born (allegedly, he *is* an orphan, after all).
- Hilarious in Hindsight: Basara's custom Valkyrie piloted with a guitar is this now that playing normal games with a Guitar Hero controller is a thing.
- Ho Yay: Acknowledged in-universe with Basara and Gamlin by a gossip magazine, much to Basara's chargin.
- Memetic Mutation: The scene where Basara randomly eats a floating leaf.
- Narm Charm: The lyrics to Totsugeki Love Heart are ludicrously cheesy, yet it is sung in such a Hot-Blooded and inspirational way that it loops back to awesome.
- Hell, you could perfectly say that about the whole series itself.
- Slow-Paced Beginning: The first 17 episodes are seen as an absolute slog, being pretty much Strictly Formula. It does slowly start to ramp up the stakes once the City 7 abduction occurs in episode 12, but after Syvil is introduced in that same episode 17, things start to become interesting. By episode 22 and the introduction of the Sound Force, the show never looks back, and it all culminates in the spectacular battle above Lux in episode 26. It is this exact point where the show really grew the beard and became a must-watch for fans of Hot-Blooded mecha action.
- Squick: Mylene being 14 while in a love triangle with two adult men is unpleasant to say the least.
- The new producer of Mylene's songs in Dynamite is very creepy, what with locking her up and trying to rape her. Thankfully Ray and Veffidas come and bust her ass before she does the appaling deed.
- Viewer Gender Confusion: Geppelnitch is a dude?
- Vindicated by History: This is slowly getting some love after the release of the 2012 crossover movie with Macross Frontier.
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