YMMV / Georgie!

• Audience-Alienating Premise:"Hey, have you heard of that one shojo series?" "No, what's it about?" "Oh, it's about a girl trying to find her blood family, while navigating a Love Triangle between her adopted brothers. Also, there's a lot of yandere stuff, murder, suicide and rape involved. When will you start it?"
• Girls Show Ghetto: The series being a girl-oriented series is the main reason it didn’t get an official translation until 2023, outside of the Brother–Sister Incest plot.
• Ho Yay:
  • A mild case with Georgie and Elise, dressed as a boy to enter the boomerang contest. Elise almost kisses Georgie, making her blush. It is never brought up again
  • Catherine's mother gets really affectionate towards Georgie.
• Jerkass Woobie: Mary Buttman is bitter and spiteful towards her adopted daughter Georgie, but she is still grieving for her husband and died with only Arthur at her side. She is made a bit more sympathetic in the anime and has some moments of genuine affection towards Georgie, despite her strictness, which makes her kicking Georgie out all the more tragic.
• Moe: Georgie is a blonde, sweet, cheerful Naïve Everygirl, whose endearing nature is part of her appeal even in-universe.
• Moment of Awesome: Georgie saving Catherine from drowning and sharks.
• Squick:
  • The fact that two of Georgie's romantic interests are her adopted brothers can turn people off to the series. At the end of the manga, Georgie not only has Abel's child, it's also implied she'll start a relationship with Arthur.
  • In episode 27, Arthur saves Georgie from drowning and tries to save her with Kevin's help. When the fire doesn't start and Georgie's temperature drops, Arthur decides to strip naked and hug an unconscious, also naked Georgie, to share his body heat with her. Barring the fact that it's her adoptive older brother doing this, two other things make this really uncomfortable by modern standards: She's thirteen in that episode, and there are multiple shots of her exposed breasts, with her nipples in full view.
• Tear Jerker:
  • Mary's I Have No Son! speech to Georgie, not only verbally thrashing her, but also calling her a daughter of a prostitute and a criminal. She just let so many years of bitterness out she forgot she was talking to a 13-year-old girl, leading to her maybe Attempted Suicide. And it's so very cruel, especially in the manga
  • When Georgie gives Lowell back to his noble family, knowing she still loves him but can't be with him.
  • Abel's death in the manga, leaving Georgie to raise their son alone. Squick or not, it is tear-jerking.
• The Woobie:
  • Lowell and Georgie; they love each other but they are unable to be together because Lowell is engaged to Elise and when he and Georgie live together for a time, he becomes sick, and not even selling her precious bracelet for medicine money will help him, so she returns him home. In the manga, they meet again, Lowell admitting he still loves Georgie despite his marriage to Elise
  • Arthur. The poor kid has to deal with so much in both anime and manga, from watching his mother die, to being tortured, drugged, and attempting suicide in both anime and manga (the former, he slits his wrists in the bath and attempts to bleed out before he is found, while the latter he is under the influence of said drug and jumps off the boat he and Georgie are on, but is rescued by a fishing boat.) The manga's ending may be considered a Throw the Dog a Bone moment for him, since it's the first time in a long time he's been truly happy.

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