YMMV / Yatterman

• Awesome Music: "Yatterman's Theme" and "Yatterking's Theme", probably the most iconic themes of the franchise other than "Tensai Doronbo". Both of them are cheery, Saturday-morning hero themes that even their descendants know to this day.
  • "Yatterman's Theme" is so well remembered that the 2008 series gives us six different variations of the tune to get stuck in our heads.
  • "Tensai Doronbo" pops up in the 2008 remake, and even the live-action movie.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: The first introduction of the Odate Buta song. After Doronjo calls Odate Buta a "clever pig", Boyakky mentions the fact that he (the pig) recorded it own song, so he puts on the record and starts dancing to the song (which is about how flattery can help you achive greatness, even if you are a pig), which is accompanied by a video clip featuring surreal visuals with some bits of live action footage. Doronjo is confused and annoyed at first, but once Boyakky starts singing about her she joins in. After the musical number is over, Doronjo is still into the singing and dancing until she realizes that the song is in fact mocking her, since it pretty much calls her a pig, so she kicks Boyakky in the head and the villains go back to their business like nothing happened. The entire musical sequence has nothing to do with the rest of the episode, outside of promoting the release of the song on record.
• Continuity Lockout: The final episodes of the 2008 series feature Yatter-King, which was first introduced in the tie-in animated movie, with little to no explanation outside of a few lines that would sound like a Cryptic Background Reference to those who haven't seen the movie. Actually lampshaded by the narrator at the end of episode 58, where he urges the viewers to watch the movie before the next episode comes out in order to get what's the backstory behind the transformation.
• Crossover Ship: And an officially licensed one at that! A Japanese dating service ran an ad campaign in the late 2010s depicting Doronjo going on a blind date with Blackjack and hitting it off with him, with later ads depicting the two as a married couple. The theme of the campaign was "encounter beyond your imagination".
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Odate Buta, who went on to become the Time Bokan franchise's mascot. Invoked In-Universe when Boyacky explains why Buta got his personal song.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff:
  • Italy is the only country in the world where all the episode of the series (called Yattaman there) were bought and dubbed. Not only that: reruns of the show were very common on local channels, DVDs of all episodes were sold and you can still find a handful of dedicated cosplayers of the main characters at the Italian conventions. There were even plans of a fan-made new installment of the Time Bokan series, but sadly it never came to be.
    • Yatterman loves Italy too: the final battle of the 2009 movie is fought in the Southern Alps.
    • On January 15 2013 Yatterwan was drafted in a political campaign advertising.
  • Same goes for Poland — somehow the Italian dubs of two series of Time Bokan found their way to a Polish TV stations. If you grew up in the nineties, chances are that this was the first anime you've watched.
  • It's also quite fondly recalled in Latin-America, even if not at the same level of the original Time Bokan or Yattodetaman.
• Harsher in Hindsight: The 1977 and 2008 series can be seen as this due to the events of 2015's "Yatterman Night" as Episode 11 reveals that both the 1977 series and the 2008 remake happened, with the 2008 series being a product of Dokurobei's attempt at revenge for his first defeat.
  • There is a particularly striking moment of this in the punishment outro of episode 29 of the 2008 series, in which Dokurobei manifests as a skull-shaped moon, something he would later create while "punishing" the whole of humanity with mass destruction during "Yatterman Night". A skull moon also appears in the finale of the 2009 live action film.
• Jerkass Woobie: Just in case there was any doubt where the writers wanted to twist audience sympathies, the 2008 series outros are heavily skewed towards wringing a few tears for the amoral but unfortunate Doronbos. If the spectacle of Doronjo trying and failing to adjust to normal civilian life (foreshadowing the ending) while suffering flashbacks was not enough, the second version has the whole gang pedalling away from their last cruel punishment, presumably, while crying buckets, before consoling each other while watching a drive-in movie of their exploits.
• Moral Event Horizon: In episode 27, after being imprisoned by the underground people and almost devoured, the Doronbo Gang is rescued by Gan and Ai. How do Doronjo and her henchmen thank them? By feigning they want to hug and kiss Gan and Ai as a reward...and then kicking them to push them inside the cage they were trapped in, closing the door, taking the key and running away. For a trio of usually comic and sympathetic villains, that was pretty low.
• Most Wonderful Sound:
  • Yatterwan's "WAOOOOOOOOO!" and the theme song for the Surprise Mecha attack.
  • To many, it was the Doronbo Gang song.
• Sequel Displacement: It can be argued that Yatterman is the most popular installment in the entire Time Bokan series. You don't see the original Time Bokan getting a revival or a movie.
• Values Dissonance: Doronjo's crush on Yatterman-1 later on in the series and Tonzura's hitting on Ai-Chan at least once can be seen as this to some, considering that Gan and Ai are young enough to be their children.
  • The original had certain instances of kids being slapped for misbehaving. Whether you think it was excessive or justified is up to you.
  • Also, later installments (the live action movie, Yatterman Nights) clarify that Boyakky is a professional pervert lusting on high school students and Tonzura was as immoral as him. As such, in-universe the Dorombo gang are considered perverts doing despicable things.
• What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?: It is, despite the nudity and the fanservice.
  • Makes Sense In Context: Even around shows made for kids there's a huge market of action figures geared to older people. Kids back then were seen as unable to understand the fanservice, but their older brothers still ended up getting Doronjo's figures for their collection.
• Woolseyism: The 2008 series features multiple istances of characters speaking in the Kansai dialect, from Yatter Ankoku's entire character to an episode where the Dorombos change the past so that Osaka becomes the capital of Japan and both Gan and multiple side characters start speaking in the dialect. The Italian dub changes it to a Roman accent to preserve the comedic tone.

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