YMMV / Miniforce

• Awesome Music: The show’s rock opening theme song is definitely kickass.
• Cliché Storm: This show appears to take every page and cue from the Toku action show book in a very formulaic way, from the plots, our heroes’ actions, and the villains’ plans. Not only that, but it's cliché on the Slice of Life side of things too. The only thing that makes this show even slightly unique is the fact that our main heroes are animals.
• Designated Hero: The Miniforce are indeed heroic when they are in their suits fighting baddies, and they do get their jobs done, but man do they act like brats around Suzy when they are in their normal animal forms living at her house. Out of all four main members of the Miniforce, Volt is easily the worst offender, while Lucy is the best-behaved of the bunch (but even she has her moments occasionally too). Possibly justified in that, heroes who save the day or not, the Miniforce are still young kids.
• Hilarious in Hindsight
  • One of the Miniforce members is a blue squirrel with super speed named Volt. SAMG, the production team behind this show, has done outsourcing work on another cartoon starring a super-speedy blue mammal.
    • To further this comparison, the official YouTube upload of "Fortune of the Day" has a thumbnail that, out of context, resembles Soni—er, Volt losing rings after being hit by an enemy (in context, it's actually Volt being afraid of circles and those circles he's imagining just so happen to be yellow-colored). Coincidence or animator in-joke?
    • The original voice actor for Volt's ranger battle suit form, Um Sang-hyun (엄상현), has also voiced Sonic the Hedgehog in the Korean dubs of Sonic X and Sonic Boom, to boot. ^note As of Sonic Forces, any Sonic games with voice acting typically don't receive dubs beyond Japanese and English, which generally means that Sonic games aren't voice-acted in Korean, and any official Korean releases would only translate menus and subtitles at most if they're lucky. Also, Um Sang-hyun did not reprise his role of Sonic in the Korean dub of Wreck-It Ralph either, leaving Sonic's cameo there to be voiced by Kim Jang (김장) instead
    • Suzy sometimes pulls out a giant red mallet out of nowhere to beat up the Miniforce whenever she's pissed by them, quite similar to Amy Rose and her red mallet.
  • SAMG created the show to compete with a certain Toei-created tokusatsu series, yet they're also working with Toei's animation division on Miraculous Ladybug.
  • A few years later, South Korea would end up making an official installment of the Super Sentai series (as opposed to a mere Follow the Leader like Miniforce), called Power Rangers Dino Force Brave.
  • An agent team consisting of mainly animals tasked out to defeat bad guys who build evil machines? Sounds like the type of organization that Perry the Platypus might be a part of.
  • The teddy bear mechamon in "Dangerous Curiosity" resembles Stufful and Bewear in both appearance and the color scheme consisting of pink, white, and brown. To top it off, the robot even has a "seems cuddly but really dangerous" motif that was also stated in Stufful and Bewear's Pokedex entries. This episode originally aired in South Korea at least a year before Nintendo's first official Sun and Moon announcement.
  • In "Give Our Veggies Back", when Volt tries to play detective trying to figure out who stole the veggies from Suzy's garden, when he accuses Suzy of being the culprit, he says "The culprit is... YOU!!!" and does a finger point. This calls to mind either Conan and/or Yako Katsuragi, if the reference to either or both wasn't intentional.
  • The Power Crystals that the Miniforce use to replenish their powers are called "Zodiac-nite", at least in the English dub. Though most likely mere coincidence, the name does bring to mind the similar-sounding Knights of the Zodiac...
• Moe: The Miniforce, being badass adorables.
  • Suzy also counts.
• Narm Charm: While the English script is mostly faithfully translated from the original Korean, the no-name voice actors from both English dubs on YouTube and Netflix definitely have some stilted acting, especially coming from most of the villains (the original Korean voice track at least has a semblance of proper direction and emoting), and sometimes the script’s wording can get awkward too. Nein and Pascal especially have some awkward Large Ham moments, whether Nein’s plotting something evil with Pascal, or either one of them acts in disappointment over their own defeats. This is pretty much one of the major reasons why people (i.e. anyone not part of the young children target audience) would begin to watch this show
• Nightmare Fuel: Near the end of the second season, Pascal suddenly transforms into a giant dark energy-fueled dragon that has an unusually detailed character design, which is legitimately freaky coming from a normally lighthearted show like Miniforce. Even Nein was scared of Pascal when that happened in front of him.
• Reused Character Design: Since Miniforce X, some episodes reuse human character models from previous SAMG productions like My Giant Friend and Power Battle Watchcar.
• So Bad, It's Good: The English dubbing on either the YouTube or Netflix versions has very poor direction and clearly miscast. It's considered unintentionally hilarious by those who watch it (even the parts that aren't meant to be funny), and it's about on par with the infamous "Big Green" dubs of the Dragon Ball Z movies.
• Suspiciously Similar Song: One of the frequent music tracks (the orchestral one that plays every time the Miniforce gets their mission briefing from the chief's hologram) sounds very similar to the main hub theme from Namco Museum Remix for the Wii. That game did get a translated South Korean release, so it's debatable on whether or not it's coincidental.

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