YMMV / The Hunters Guild: Red Hood

• Awesome Art: Yuki Kawaguchi was an assistant of Kōhei Horikoshi (yes, that guy), whose art is heavily praised, and it's clear she learned under him. The style is reminiscent of Horikoshi's in the character designs and expressiveness, but her take on a fantasy setting with a unique, weird take on the design of werewolves and Fractured Fairytale elements has also been praised a lot. The art even got praised by Boichi.
• Best Known for the Fanservice: The series got a lot of attention due Grimm's overly buxom figure. She overshadows the series' other main character, Velou, in the series' fandom, getting the lion's share of the fan art and often being front-and-center in video thumbnails. The series went on to introduce two more busty women (Debonair Diamond and Migael Gagia) who immediately got similar attention, overshadowing the rest of the supporting cast.
• Genius Bonus: "Wolfonium" may actually be tungsten, which has the Latin name wolframium.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: Much like certain other series, Red Hood gained an overnight following on western social media sites such as Reddit and YouTube, its subreddit reaching 1000 members when the series had only 3 chapters. Sadly, the same couldn't be said in its home nation, where it bled readership in the middle of its run until it was unfortunately cancelled.
• Just Here for Godzilla: While the series is about both Velou and Grimm, it's safe to say that most of the series' readers are there for Grimm and later Debonair.
• Magnificent Bastard: Ludwig Geppetto, also known as Heck Horlock, was once a respected member of the Hunters Guild and the second Red Hood. Growing disillusioned with the Guild’s use of the True Book to manipulate the world and entertain the eldritch beings who created it, he swore to destroy the book and Mercy Kill the whole world. He tore two pages from the book and erased all records of his existence, before taking a new identity and joining the Red List. Ludwig combines his magic with the magic of the stolen pages to create the power to negate the book's effect, before working with Cinderella to create Velou as a vessel for that power. He becomes the mayor of Kasoka Village, raising and secretly training Velou to be ready and determined to become the hunter. Ludwig lures the hunter Grimm to the village with werewolf attacks, before faking his death and orchestrating village's destruction. Keeping the eye on Velou until he comes to Guild's headquarters, Ludwig reveals himself and takes the boy to the book’s room so his mere presence will unravel its influence. As the world is being erased, he keeps Velou's allies at bay before comforting Velou and being convinced to let the boy kill him so the world will continue to exist free from the book’s influence.
• Narm: Names like "Chekhov series" and "wolfonium" caused more than a few readers to chuckle.
• Spiritual Successor:
  • It can be viewed as one for Hunter × Hunter for the people who have given up on the series after the constant Schedule Slip.
  • Especially early on, the series tends to get compared to Demon Slayer due to the similar premise of hunting down cannibalistic monsters that were once human.
  • Also compared a lot to Claymore due to both series having extremely similar first chapters and a similar premise overall.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: The series picked up a lot of interest at the beginning due to the interesting premise of hunting monsters in a grimm-fantasy setting. However, after the introductory arc, the story moves the focus on a standard exam arc that turned off many readers, leading to the series' early cancellation.