YMMV / Romeo's Blue Skies

• Adaptation Displacement: The anime is much more well-known than the book it's based on, which is a much darker story. It doesn't help that the book is quite rare to find, and only recently got an English translation.
• Awesome Music:
  • The Japanese opening theme "To the Sky" is pretty good to listen to.
  • The Black Brother's theme "We're the Black Brothers!".
• Base-Breaking Character: Bianca gets this kind of treatment. Some viewers think that she's a good character who helps the members of Black Brothers and her role being Romeo's wife in the last episode is justified, while her detractors dislike her for lack of character development and being Romeo's new love interest.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Alfredo is by far the most popular character in the show next to Romeo. So much that he's the only supporting character in World Masterpiece Theater who managed to earn a high spot in popularity polls.
• Esoteric Happy Ending: The final episode is supposed to end on a positive note with Romeo being able to return home and the Wolf Pack learning to get along with the Black Brothers, but it doesn't change the fact that Luini remains scott-free and still keeps his habit of selling children to serve as chimney sweepers. Some of those kids are more likely to end up with abusive padrones with the Black Brothers not sufficient enough to help them. To make matters worse, it would take ten more years for the law to put a stop to Luini's practice once and for all, with many of those children ending up dead or missing like Alfredo.
• Fanon Discontinuity: "The Real Treasure" sometimes gets this kind of treatment. Not helping that it happened after the main plot was finished.
• Fan-Preferred Couple: Many fans find Angeletta to be a better match for Romeo over Bianca since they have plenty of interactions in the first half of the show. On the yaoi side, Alfredo/Romeo and Alfredo/Giovanni are quite popular too.
• Ho Yay: This show abounds some of the main male casts, particularly Romeo/Alfredo and Alfredo/Giovanni.
• It Was His Sled: Due to the show's popularity, Alfredo's death is something that many people are aware of nowadays.
• Launcher of a Thousand Ships: Alfredo gets this kind of treatment with some other characters, including Nikita, Romeo, Giovanni and even Angeletta.
• Magic Franchise Word: "Spazzacamino!"^Explanation An Italian word meaning "chimney sweep". This phrase is often shouted by chimney sweepers to attract customers who wanted their services.
• Memetic Mutation: "Where's Angeletta?"^Explanation Due to the series' lack of explanation about fates of other characters in the last episode, it's a common question that asked by many fans and viewers, especially that some of them think that she's suitable to be Romeo's love interest.
• Sacred Cow: The show is treated as this, both in Japan and overseas.
• Signature Scene:
  • The reunion between Romeo and Alfredo in San Babila church, and the formation of "Black Brothers".
  • The death of Alfredo.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character:
  • Luini. He is shown to be a menacing villain in the first few episodes yet disappears from the story after he sells Romeo and Alfredo to their padrones. Viewers never learn anything about him apart from his crimes and he doesn't show up again until the finale.
  • The same thing goes to the rest of the members of the Black Brothers and Wolf Pack. Though they help the main characters to achieve something, we never find out more about their backstories and to the Black Brother's case, the reasons why they are sold and become chimney sweepers.
  • The newspaper reporters in Episode 4 and 5. In the novel, they have a prominent role in exposing the child-slavery business in Milan but in the anime they only showed up in few episodes and don't appear after that.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: Giovanni's past, including his relationship with his father and his reasons to become a Benevolent Boss in his gang has left many fans with some questions, yet has never been touched upon.
• Too Cool to Live: There's a reason why Alfredo has to be killed.
• Values Dissonance: Dante and some other members of Black Brothers making fun of Nikita for joining in a boy's group like the Wolf Pack. Something like this could be seen as sexist to contemporary viewers.
• Vindicated by History: The show barely lasted 33 episodes and was met with poor ratings on its initial premiere, but in the years since has been considered one of the best entries in World Masterpiece Theater and often features in merchandise.