YMMV / Heidi, Girl of the Alps

• Americans Hate Tingle: The 2015 CGI remake^note which was made by Studio 100, a Belgian television studio who also owns the international distribution rights to the anime has gotten a very lukewarm reception in parts where the original Japanese adaptation is well-beloved, such as Germany and Latin America. In the latter region, particularly, those who dislike the remake blame Disney for "ruining" the series (as it previously aired on the Disney Channel there), even though they have nothing to do with it.
• Awesome Music: Some pieces from both soundtracks qualify.
  • Takeo Watanabe: The soothing Yorokobi no kodama, the beautiful Frankufuruto, the pretty cool Onji no ume and the extremely powerful Aruite Clara.
  • Gert Wilden: The pretty, peaceful Kleine Romanze, the fittingly-titled Schonheit, the soaring Die Berge von Heidi (unofficial title) and the ambient Die zarthlichkter von Heidi (also unofficial title).
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: Or better said, Latin Americans and Europeans (especially Italians) Love Heidi, Girl Of The Alps.
  • The series was aired in Spain for the first time in 1975. Nearly forty years later it still enjoys the occasional rerun, and it is still one of the few anime shows (together with Mazinger Z, Haha wo tazunete sanzenri -aka Marco- Science Ninja Team Gatchaman, Dragon Ball, Saint Seiya and Captain Tsubasa) that everybody knows about, even people who are not anime geeks. And "Rottenmeier" has become synonymous with "uptight, straight-laced hag".
  • The series has been enjoying popularity in Greece since the early 2000s when Modern Times bought the distribution rights to it, getting many books and DVDs, the theme song being featured in "Children's TV Favorites" CDs (as well as an instrumental karaoke version) and being one of the company's biggest franchises in general.
    • The remake series seems to be pretty popular here in Norway, with NRK Super re-running it frequently.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • One of the most well-known memes in the series is an image macro that consists of Heidi pushing a wheelchair with Clara sitting on it, with the next image consisting a photoshopped image of Heidi killing Clara by shoving her down the cliff. The image macros usually goes with joke captions of Heidi's disagreement with Clara's opinions.
  • German schoolkids parodied a line from the German theme song ("Heidi, deine Welt sind die Berge"^note Heidi, the mountains are your world) into "Heidi, deine Welt ist das Abflussrohr"^note Heidi, your world are the sewers. The spoof is much more famous than either the anime or its theme song, which by now are mostly forgotten in Germany.
• Moe: Heidi is a playful and innocent Friend to All Living Things.
• Retroactive Recognition:
  • In the original Japanese version, Heidi is voiced by Kazuko Sugiyama, who is perhaps better known as Jun the Swan from Science Ninja Team Gatchaman (which she had only done two years earlier) and as Ten from Urusei Yatsura.
  • In the Mexican Spanish version, she's voiced by Cristina Camargo, who Dragon Ball Z fans may know as the voice of Android 18.
  • Peter:
    • In Japanese, he is voiced by Noriko Ohara, who, even in Japan, is best known as the voice of Nobita Nobi from the 1979-2005 Doraemon series.
    • His Mexican Spanish voice Diana "Ad" Santos is the current voice of Minnie Mouse (according to The Other Wiki).
  • Ohara and Klara's seiyuu, Rihoko Yoshida, would be teamed again a few years later in Miyazaki's Future Boy Conan, with Ohara in the title role and Yoshida as Monsley. Yoshida also acted in what was arguably her breakout role, as the title character in Majokko Meg-chan, while Heidi was on the air, and would go on to roles like Maria in UFO Robo Grendizer and the title character in Miss Machiko.
  • Kohei Miyauchi (Heidi's grandfather) is perhaps better known as the original Japanese voice of Muten Roshi (AKA: the Turtle Hermit) from the original Dragon Ball series.
  • Miyoko Aso (Miss Rottenmeier) is perhaps best known in Japan as the original voice of Fune Isono in Sazae-san, Japan's longest running anime series.^note It's been airing since 1969.
• Tear Jerker:
  • Heidi's progressive fall into despair as she's away from home.^note As with the original book, and other adaptations, she gets better.
    • Heidi noticing Klara's grandmother suddenly leaving without anyone else noticing during a party, and leaves the house to beg her to return, to no avail, as she apologizes to Heidi. Even worse, once she returns home, she notices the party is over and one of the maids assures her with No Sympathy that everything will go back to normal. It's especially hard as the grandmother was one of the few things that made her stay in Frankfurt tolerable.
    • Days later, Heidi enters the art room and daydreams of being with her grandfather and Peter again when she sees a painting of an old man and a sheep guy in the mountains, only to notices its just a painting and she is caught by Rottenmeier, who discourages her to remember her previous life forever, worsening Heidi's depression.
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: The CGI remake. Aside from the change of animation, the new opening and some minor story changes are considered outright "offensive" by some fans of the original series.^note It should be noted that the German version uses the previous "Deine Welt sind die Berge" opening from their dubbed version of the anime.
• Toy Ship: Heidi and Peter have been shipped frequently. Since the unofficial sequels of the original Heidi novels involved the two getting married and having children together, perhaps it shouldn't be that surprising that people have been shipping iterations of these two characters for decades.

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