YMMV / Secret of Cerulean Sand

• Awesome Music: "What Can I Do?", which is the song from the series ED — the lyrics and the beat are so catchy, you'll find it hard to resist hitting the replay button.
• Captain Obvious Reveal: Instead of being in suspense about "Harry Killer's" true identity, you'll already know long before he even adopts the persona. If anything, you'll probably be wondering how Jane doesn't recognize her brother's voice, since he doesn't even bother to disguise it.
• Narm: Certain parts wind up being unintentionally funny, due to how they're animated:
  • George is meant to seem impassioned during his lecture about the cerulean sand, but ends up looking hammy instead, due to his overly dramatic gestures and appearing to get worked up over it. You really can't blame the board of directors for laughing.
  • In episode 22, William's mooks end up looking comically inept, when Jane outpaces them... by primly girly running down a flight of stairs (seen at 6:39-7:01, here).
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: Very popular in Norway, mainly due to it being aired as a Saturday-Morning Cartoon and offering something besides things from the well-known anime market to the Norwegian public.
• Serial Number Filed Off: If you've seen Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water, it will be impossible not to notice the similarities to it and draw comparisons between them.
  • The most obvious connection is their respective titles, with cerulean being a deeper shade of blue.
  • Jane essentially fills Nadia's role - being she's a girl with a locket containing the eponymous cerulean sand. Just as Nadia wears the Blue Water around her neck. And her dog (Comet) fills in for Nadia's pet lion cub (King).
  • George is an older looking version of Jean, dresses near exactly the same, and both are inventors.
  • Barsac is comparable to Nemo, as both are the commanders of their own ships (the Armadillo and the Nautilus respectively) and eventually ally with the child heroines of their respective series.
  • Harry Killer has an army of Malevolent Masked Men, not unlike the Neo Atlantians, though his cape and cowl resembles the one worn by Count Cagliostro.
  • Both shows adhere to a pervasive Steampunk aesthetic and are loosely based on works by Jules Verne. The Secret of Blue Water is inspired by "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea", while Secret of Cerulean Sand" borrows elements from "Facing the Flag" and "City in the Sahara".
  • And the show's OP "Naked Story" is shot similarly to the OP for "Blue Water". Simply replace the ocean with the desert.