YMMV / Legend of Himiko

• Awesome Music:
  • The anime's ending theme "Toki no Iro wo Kaete" ^note  "Change the Color of the Moment" by Mika Okudoi, this song is pretty much the only memorable thing about the anime, to the point where it's generally agreed that a song as awesome as this deserves a better fate than its association with a forgettable, mediocre anime that was quickly forgotten.
  • The opening theme, "Pure Snow" by Yuko Sasaki, is honestly even better than the ending. Like the ending, many agree that it deserved to be attached to a much better anime as opposed to being one of the, if not the only, memorable thing about this series.
• Complete Monster: Lord Shikara, General-Governor of Kune, is the wicked, ambitious son of the King of Kune who seeks the Bokkan for ends beyond his empire's. Shikara has his armies lay waste to the country of Yamatai so he can invade the fountain where the Bokkan is kept, murdering the mother of the then-infant guardian Himiko and attempting to toss Himiko herself into the Bokkan's flames. Corrupting the Bokkan's fountain, Shikara murders the temple's priests to turn them into his undead servitors and has the remnants of Yamatai's defenders hunted, ordering entire villages and their populations indiscriminately massacred to find their base. Along the way, Shikara regularly murders his own minions for any reason he can think of, even harvesting their bodies to use as undead soldiers through the corrupted fountain; horribly disfigures the love of his general Chosa, showing her to Chosa purely to torment them and killing them both when they try to escape; and murders his own father to take the throne for himself. Shikara ultimately tries to use the fountain's darkness to cleanse Yamatai of all human life to rule a land of lifeless darkness, hysterically aware of his own evil to his last breath.
• The Scrappy:
  • While most of the characters are just bland, few of them are as offensively annoying as the male lead Kutani, who's whiny, obnoxiously intrusive on both Imara and Himiko herself and an Ungrateful Bastard to Imara on top of that for saving his life.
  • Himiko herself, for being a whiny, gratingly annoying Pinball Protagonist who does little else but float from place to place and act as completely tangential to the plot ostensibly revolving around her.
• So Okay, It's Average: The anime is a Cliché Storm of epic proportions, but nothing about it screams "terrible." It's just a very mediocre setting with very mediocre characters and a hackneyed plot, with a few good characters here and there.
• Viewer Gender Confusion: Kira.