YMMV / Romeo × Juliet

• Alternate Character Interpretation: The final scene depicting Romeo and Juliet standing in front of a reborn Escalus. Is it their spirits in the afterlife or have they somehow been brought back to the land of the living without explanation?
• Awesome Music:
  • Composed by the same guy who did the music for Final Fantasy Tactics!
  • Lena Park's renditions of the opening song "You Raise Me Up" (in both English and Japanese) are absolutely beautiful to listen to.
• Die for Our Ship: Poor Hermione.
  • It's made even more ironic when one remembers that in the show, Juliet would not abide disrespect of any kind toward Hermione. These particular fans of hers certainly aren't living by her example...
• Esoteric Happy Ending: Ends with most of the cast living happily ever after... all because Romeo and Juliet were horribly killed and sacrificed to a tree which had previously kept the city they live in afloat in the sky. What's worse, the show makes it very clear that none of this was Juliet's choice, but that every single woman born to the Capulet line had been sacrificed to this very same tree, meaning that she could have never reclaimed her throne (something the series had been building up to since the beginning) or ruled Neo Verona even if she wanted to.
• Fan Nickname: Curio and Francisco are nicknamed Fai and Kurogane by fandom.
• It Was His Sled: Romeo and Juliet die. If you weren't expecting that then you've never taken a high school English class.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • Ophelia is at first a simple Mysterious Waif, but as the story continues and her actual role in the story is revealed, she becomes completely unhinged and increasingly Ax-Crazy...
  • The idea of the Capulet daughters becoming one with Escalus to keep Neo Verona alive...
  • The Capulet Massacre is scary enough, but Portia's memory of the blood-covered Leontes explaining that he has killed them all while giving an Evil Laugh is creepy as FUCK.
• Spiritual Successor: To the 70's mecha anime Daimos, which is also a retelling of Romeo and Juliet IN SPACE!.
• Superlative Dubbing: Yep, there's some inevitable Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe, but it's worth enduring it to hear many of Shakespeare's original lines (from more than just Romeo and Juliet) paired with beautifully animated scenes and wonderfully delivered by some very talented voice actors.

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