History YMMV / TenchiMuyoGXP

* NightmareFuel: ([[spoiler: Upon taking control of the mech in Episode 24, Seina uses the force of his will to slowly crush a ship into a small ball, complete with a shot of the horrified crew. It's a very strange scene for such a lighthearted show.]]) Somehow made worse by the fact that the usual SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic starts playing ''as it happens''. Picture "The Rising Spirit" playing while Gaara crushes people. It's that much of a disconnect.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Seina's total fear at the sight of Kiriko [[BloodSplatteredWarrior covered in blood]] and her pain at his rejection. Gets dropped faster than you can blink.

* CreativeDifferences: Between the franchise creator Creator/MasakiKajishima and the series director Creator/ShinichiWatanabe. Kajishima hated the wacky harem hijinks and goofy characters introduced by Nabeshin,[[note]]Not that he is against some goofy comedy, as his other titles demonstrate, but almost turning ''GXP'' into a WidgetSeries was too much even for him[[/note]] as well as the handling of several his favorite characters. In the end, he even [[CanonDiscontinuity proclaimed the series non-canon]], and retold the story the way he liked in a series of novels.

* PropagandaPiece: the Galaxy Police have a really bad recruitment film, with things like Scoring Points and even a grabber-claw enticement offer.

* EarWorm: The opening song, in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dz9EjU6-whw two]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqQ-7vB3zl8 languages.]]
* {{Moe}}: Amane as a kid.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Seina's total fear at the sight of Kirika [[BloodSplatteredWarrior covered in blood]] and her pain at his rejection. Gets dropped faster than you can blink.

* BetterOnDVD

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Erma.
* MagnificentBastard: Seto.

* NightmareFuel ([[spoiler: Upon taking control of the mech in Episode 24, Seina uses the force of his will to slowly crush a ship into a small ball, complete with a shot of the horrified crew. It's a very strange scene for such a lighthearted show.]]) Somehow made worse by the fact that the usual SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic starts playing ''as it happens''. Picture "The Rising Spirit" playing while Gaara crushes people. It's that much of a disconnect.

* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap Seiryo Tennan qualifies. In the ''Tenchi'' [=OVAs=] he's an unlikeable fop who shows up just long enough for Tenchi to win a duel with him by default thanks to Mihoshi's bad piloting. In this series he's a credible threat and a genuinely likeable character, even if he is still a badass ButtMonkey.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Seina's total fear at the sight of Kirika [[BloodSplatteredWarrior covered in blood]] and her pain at his rejection. Gets dropped faster than you can blink.
* VillainDecay: Tarant Shank.

* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap (Seiryo Tennan qualifies. In the ''Tenchi'' [=OVAs=] he's an unlikeable fop who shows up just long enough for Tenchi to win a duel with him by default thanks to Mihoshi's bad piloting. In this series he's a credible threat and a genuinely likeable character, even if he is still a badass ButtMonkey.)

* NightmareFuel ([[spoiler: Upon taking control of the mech in Episode 24, Seina uses the force of his will to slowly crush a ship into a small ball, complete with a shot of the horrified crew. It's a very strange scene for such a lighthearted show.]]) Somehow made worse by the fact that the usual CrowningMusicofAwesome starts playing ''as it happens''. Picture "The Rising Spirit" playing while Gaara crushes people. It's that much of a disconnect.

* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap (Seiryo Tennan qualifies. In the ''Tenchi'' [=OVAs=] he's an unlikeable fop who shows up just long enough for Tenchi to win a duel with him by default thanks to Mihoshi's bad piloting. In this series he's a credible threat and a genuinely likeable character, even if he is still a BadAss ButtMonkey.)

* TheScrappy: NB (and some other elements of Watanabe's humor) wore out their welcome with some of the audience. Officially? Well, in the crossover episode with the ''TenchiMuyo'' cast that Masaki Kajishima directed, NB literally spent the whole time in a doghouse.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Seina's total fear at the sight of Kirika [[BloodSpatteredWarrior covered in blood]] and her pain at his rejection. Gets dropped faster than you can blink.

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome (All of Episode 24 for Seina: He gets sacrificed to a god. By "god", we mean "HumongousMecha". And by "sacrificed", we mean "made to pilot". It has to be ''seen'' to be believed.)
** (Seiryo gets one in the last episode. [[spoiler: His proposal is nothing short of pimptastic. Placing the ring on the rose, and then simply saying "For you birthday, my dear."? Classy and classic.]])
* CrowningMomentOfFunny (After being admitted into the GP academy, Seina is chosen as a representative of the freshman class. When he gets up before the whole school to make a speech, his luck causes the academy speaker system to dial itself up to eleven, resulting in the ''entire place'' being leveled when Seina opens his mouth.)
** From the English Dub. "Dump everything that isn't helping us fly." [[DoesThisRemindYouofAnything "No, I just got no batteries for that!"]] "Get a boyfriend." "I thought we were trying to ''lose'' dead weight."

* * {{Moe}}: Amane as a kid.