YMMV / The Heart of Thomas

• Moment of Awesome: Admit it, you cheered when Erich told off Juli's grandmother for making snide, racist remarks about her own grandson.
• Periphery Demographic: Initially serialized in a shoujo magazine for elementary school girls, the story's complex and sophisticated themes drew in an unexpected audience, including young men and others who otherwise would never have picked up a shoujo magazine. The popularity of Thomas helped create the modern Periphery Demographic for shoujo comics at large.
• Values Dissonance: Juli's view of his abuse at Siegfried's hands as a "sin" for which he must atone can be jarring to modern readers. Possibly counts as Deliberate Values Dissonance, since this attitude isn't unrealistic for a student at a conservative, 1970's-era boarding school.