YMMV / Granbelm

• Alternative Character Interpretation: Is Anna a villain? Did the writers intend her to be a villain? Is her villain-esque situation her fault? All major points of contention, as you can see by the rest of this page.
• Draco in Leather Pants: There's a good chunk of people who think that Anna did nothing wrong when it came to the truth about her not knowing about her lack of magical ability, and that nearly killing her own mother was deserved on the latter's part for keeping the whole thing a secret with Shingetsu for about a decade. While that doesn't excuse her very behavior and everything that lead to those events, it really didn't help with Shingetsu's seemingly apathetic way of handling the situation and Anna effectively being erased from the story due to magic, to the point that some people believed she bordered on being a Cosmic Plaything.
• Fan Nickname: For lack of an official name (until it was revealed to be VIOLA KATZE F.F.), the merged form of VIOLA KATZE and WHITE LILY was often referred to as VIOLA LILY.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • While the show was airing, life-sized dolls of Mangetsu and Shingetsu were auctioned off after being used in a promotional event. Then it turned out that Mangetsu is really a living doll In-Universe. Suddenly it started looking like the creators were engaging in some covert Black Comedy.
  • The show is also horribly paralleling to Kamen Rider Ryuki, except what happened here is much worse: In Ryuki The Hero Dies in the preultimate episode, The Lancer defeated the Final Boss and his wish granted, eventually the Rider Fight is no more; these all happens in Granbelm, except The Hero isn't even human, those who died in the fights were Ret-Gone, and The Lancer is doomed to be alone eternally to keep her wish standing.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • This show got compared to Puella Magi Madoka Magica pretty much instantly. Fast forward a couple of episode, and we got the confirmation that the character with Madoka's voice is the Big Bad. For extra irony points, she is a Psycho Lesbian, which almost sounds like a Take That! to Madoka's infamous Ambiguously Lesbian cast.
  • Mangetsu's Wrong Assumption in the first episode where she incorrectly concludes that she has been Trapped in Another World became even more hilariously thanks to Granbelm airing in the same season as four anime with this premise.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • Anna's regular screams of ERNESTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!
  • MILFBELM.^ExplanationThe fan term for the GRANBELM fought by the previous generation, given how many hot moms in the show were competitors in that era. Often used in the hypothetical, e.g. "I wish they'd made a spinoff about MILFBELM."
• Moral Event Horizon:
  • Anna crosses it in The Stinger of Episode 6 when she nearly kills her mother to get her hands on her family's crystal out of spite against Shingetsu.
  • If Suishou didn't cross it with cursing Kuon's sister Shisui into a coma and later killing Kuon, then killing Mangetsu in the penultimate episode while laughing insanely definitely sealed the deal.
• More Popular Spin-Off: The GRANBELM pachinko machine that launched in 2023 became surprisingly popular, far eclipsing any mention of the anime, which had already been struggling with a tiny fandom since 2019.
• Unintentionally Sympathetic: While Anna is definitely batshit insane and nearly killed her own mother, a lot of fans felt sympathy for her due to the fact that for about a decade, she had been Locked Out of the Loop about the truth of her own abilities by Shingetsu and her own mother, who let the entire thing go to her head and only finally relented to tell her the truth after she tried to murder someone. The sympathy peaked during Anna's and Shingetsu's final battle, which led to Anna being Ret-Gone from the story.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: While Shingetsu's burden of having high expectations due to her potentially high magic is understandably rough and that getting rid of said magic because of the potentially dangerous misuse that anyone can do with it is also an understandable goal to have, what started to put fans against her was the fact that she basically kick-started Anna's spiral to the mess she is today by secretly helping her perform a technique that her mother and grandmother couldn't do out of good intentions... which led to Anna believing that she was more powerful than she was. That ended up making Anna's own mother and Shingetsu telling her that she could never beat the latter without telling her why out of their love for her, making Anna think that they valued Shingetsu more than her. This went on for about a decade before the truth was finally spoken... with nearly disastrous results. During the battle between her and Anna in the next episode, we're shown that she does feel remorse for her actions and that she wants to make amends, but what rallied fans against her even more was that for all that she said about loving Anna and not wanting to put any burdens on her, it was her utter lack of understanding that for all her complaints about her magic, she never really understood that what she had was all that Anna had ever wanted, and to see that in the process of being thrown away forever because she personally didn't like it felt like a slap to Anna's entire reason for living. It really didn't help that her method of getting Anna to back out of the GRANBELM and realize that there was more to life than being a mage was to throw the huge differences between their strengths in her face.
• The Woobie: Everyone who participated in the Granbelm is basically one.