YMMV / Blood of Zeus

• Cry for the Devil: Seraphim is certainly evil, being a treacherous murderer, but once you've seen his tragic past, including the loss of his mother, dealt with the way he's toyed with and used as a pawn constantly, and knowing that he ends the first season either trapped in Tartarus or a slave to Hades' whims, it's hard not to feel a little sorry for him.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Apollo gathered a lot of fans for being a bisexual Long-Haired Pretty Boy and one of the genuinely nice Gods in the story. He and Hermes trying to be genuinely nice to Heron when they meet him gathered both of them a lot of fans.
• Evil Is Cool: Seraphim, cool name aside, is a handsome looking demon with incredible powers, has a bident whose movements he can command, and rides a winged lion.
• Friendly Fandoms: With Hades, another work released around the same time, and is also based on Greek myths that features attractive Animesque character designs, averting Monochrome Casting, and a main character with divine daddy issues.
• Just Here for Godzilla: Handful of viewers watch the series mainly for the gods as they find them more interesting than the mortals and being especially interesting interpretations.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • The series has its fair share, including plenty of gruesome deaths, the nightmarish design of the Giants that turn them into monsters that wouldn't be out of place on Berserk, some of the tragic pasts of the characters (especially Heron and Seraphim), among others. Being made by the same studio behind Castlevania, this shouldn't come as surprise.
  • What is probably the crowning moment, though, is Acrisius' wretchedly horrific demise at the hands of Seraphim, who begins by cutting off most of his left hand's fingers off as they fly off in slow-motion (not helped by Acrisius' pained reaction), and as Seraphim delivers a "The Reason You Suck" Speech to him, he then cuts off his left leg in extremely graphic detail and up-close while many flashbacks of Seraphim's past are shown clashing with the carnage unfolding, while Acrisius has his left eye gouged out before having his throat squeezed to the point his eyes become bloodshot, then getting Impaled with Extreme Prejudice and finally being subjected to an extremely brutal, prolonged, horrid No-Holds-Barred Beatdown that goes on... and on... and on and on and on and ON and ON ON ON ON ON FOR ONE LONG UNINTERRUPTED MINUTE by Seraphim, who completely consumed by Unstoppable Rage until there's nothing but an unrecognizable pile of viscera amid a massive pool of blood, with tons and tons of blood and gore splattered all over the interior of the cave and over Seraphim, himself coated from head-to-toe in his uncle's blood as the final flashbacks finish playing, before he lets out one heck of a bestial roar that can be heard over the distance. And during this sequence, the horrific music and the fact that it comes out of nowhere only make that much more disturbing. Granted that Acrisius' death was truly well-deserved for the horrendous atrocities he's committed in the series, but it's still NOT a good way to go...
• One-Scene Wonder: Hades only briefly appears at the end of the first season but his voice, appearance and general aura leave quite an impression.
• Rooting for the Empire: A number of fans hoped Hera would get her revenge on Zeus due to him being largely considered Unintentionally Unsympathetic in their conflict.
• So Okay, It's Average: Some find the show painfully average when compared to Powerhouse's previous series, Castlevania (2017). None of the characters are particularly deep or interesting, the fights, while relatively good, are nowhere near as good as Castlevania's, and the setting is pretty standard fantasy with a Greek dressing.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Given the Gods' interesting designs, quite many people wanted to have more focus in the story. Unfortunately, the only ones who received a proper time were Zeus, Hera, Hermes, Apollo, Ares, Hephaestus and Poseidon ( and Hades in the last episode), with the rest cast just standing there just to remind the audience that they still exist.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: The series tries to portray Zeus as a flawed but sympathetic character who while not immune to hypocrisy, later attempts to atone for his mistakes and actions. However, many fans see him as getting off too easily for being a Jerkass instead. A lot of it boils down to feeling that Zeus did not really do much to make up for his mistakes, in addition to his constant infidelity toward Hera while also gaslighting her. It also doesn't help that fans who are familiar with the Greek myths couldn't separate this depiction of Zeus from the original where he's morally worse, something that the show glossed over.

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