YMMV / Barakamon

• Awesome Music: This series gives us the fitting "Rashisa" as the opening theme and the beautiful "Innocence" as the ending theme.
• Broken Base: The Prequel series Handa-kun has proven very polarizing due to taking a completely different tone from the manga itself. Some are in favor of this change and say that the comedy is just as funny as it was in the original series. However, some fans take issue with it, accusing that it turns Handa into a Marty Stu or Anti Stu (when he was emphatically not one in the original) and saying that it just doesn't fit with the tone of Barakamon.
• Die for Our Ship: The fandom's peaceful in general, but some Handa/Hiroshi shippers conveniently ignore Kanzaki's Character Development.
• Ensemble Dark Horse:
  • Tamako, due to her being a closet Otaku and Yaoi Fangirl.
  • Hiroshi seems to be quite popular as well.
• Fan-Preferred Couple: Although the series tries to discourage shipping, the amount of Handa/Hiroshi fanart and doujinshi shows how much the fandom isn't bothered by it.
• Ho Yay:
  • Though the series actually makes fun of the Ho Yay between Handa/Hiroshi, some people in the fandom definitely went on board with Tamako on this one.
  • Kanzaki, a rather hardcore fan of Handa, pretty much worships the ground Handa walks upon, even keeping all his interviews.
• Moe: Hina, who’s really cute when not crying... and even when she is, too. Naru has her moments as well.
  • Handa, too. The way he excitedly tries to figure out how to eat cotton candy in the Festival Episode is absolutely adorable.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character:
  • One of Miwa and Tama's two friends at the middle school seems to be some kind of foreigner or part-foreigner, and later on at the sports festival, another ambiguously foreign boy who is presumably her brother is shown. Despite having characters with foreign blood being extremely unusual in a remote place like the Goto Islands, nothing about them is ever explained.
  • Nothing is ever really known about Shin Yoshida other than that he's the guy who always hangs around Higashino.
  • The identity of Naru's mother is never even brought up or speculated on by any of the cast in any great detail.
• The Scrappy: The two Tokyo-ites in the last few chapters of the manga are viewed this way by fans, who consider them to embody every obnoxious tourist stereotype in the book and to be a pointless distraction for a series that was drawing to its close.

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