YMMV / Hyperdimension Neptunia the Animation

• Adorkable: Nepgear is seen to be shy in a cute way.
• Awesome Music: The anime has one of the most fabulous soundtracks in the series, starting with "Nep Symphonia" in its very opening scene.
  • "UTTS" plays during Neptune's first transformation and several other key moments.
  • The other transformation themes include "Goddess Awakening" (for Noire and Vert), "hand off" (used with Blanc and Plutia) and "Yellow Heart's Theme".
  • "Madness" and "Launch", the fighting BGM.
• Base-Breaking Character:
  • As usual, Nepgear, especially with Episode 4 after she first turns into HDD. The Conquest Ending casts a long shadow on her reputation. She does, however, still have fans, who view this episode as a Moment of Awesome.
  • Iris Heart is either super cool and awesome and does things her way, or a creepy sadistic lesbian rapist and a Karma Houdini. It's not as pronounced as in the games though, due to her Adaptational Heroism in the anime.
• Improved Second Attempt: The anime's take on Victory is generally considered an improvement in terms of story and characterization, such as amending Victory's controversial depictions of its main characters (particularly Iris Heart, who is portrayed as a genuinely heroic and sympathetic character) the other Candidates, as well as IF and Compa (who have returned to their Action Girl personalities), getting a more prominent role after they've been Demoted to Extra, and dialing back the excessive amount of comedy in favor of added drama. These adjustments would eventually be carried over in the Re;Birth trilogy and VII.
• Les Yay: Think the games already were brimming with this? The anime is taking this trope to extremes!
  • It's all but stated that IF and Compa are "friends with benefits", if Compa's semi-naked pic in IF's cellphone is any indication.
  • Nepgear enjoys being Vert's little sister in episode 6. Warm breasts, indeed... During this exchange Vert calls the angry Neptune a jealous sister-in-law. In addition, what Flower Motif is shown during this scene? Lillies.
  • Episode Eight has Vert rubbing lotion on Nepgear and copping a feel. Not to mention things going "Just as planned."
  • Episode 13 has two Verts getting rather... "friendly" with each other.
• Memetic Mutation: Noire's screaming in the English Dub.
  • "Oh my how lewd."
• Most Wonderful Sound: Neptune's laugh in the above "How lewd" scene.
• Narm:
  • Despite the originally parodic-jovial character of the original series, the anime sometimes tries too hard to be serious. This doesn't particularly work often times, especially with Vert, since almost every scene with her participation has at least one shot on her chest, usually with audible Jiggle Physics.
  • Arfoire attempts to steal the CPUs powers early on, and has some success. The way she first shows this? By using Neptune's Cross Slash...which is something anyone with slight proficiency in a sword could do. She then shows it by using Blanc's Tanzerine Trombe...or spinning around while holding a hammer.
• Rescued from the Scrappy Heap: The anime adjusts some of the character interactions, personalities, and traits with its adaptation, almost as if in response to how these characters were perceived in Victory:
  • Plutia was one of the most hated characters in the game by certain groups of people, but the anime viewers reaction to her anime counterpart is mostly positive and have demanded more from her in the games.
  • For the heroes themselves, Neptune is less of a Jerkass as with the rest of the CPUs, while Nepgear is no longer a Butt-Monkey, with her desire to become strong is from her finally getting over her codependency with Neptune.
  • It's worth noting that the writers were simply testing the water with these changes, as a lot of the positively received adjustments were included in the CPU's appearances in Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth1.
• Suspiciously Similar Song: The ending theme "Neptune Sagashite" sounds quite a bit like "Charlie Brown" by Coldplay, which came out two years prior.
• Superlative Dubbing: The English dub has loads of witty and hilarious lines and great performances, and while the usual debates apply with regards to the quality of the dub overall, the fanbase is in near unanimous agreement that the dub's version of Noire's infamous scream is infinitely better.
• Tear Jerker: Episode 10, when Neptune had to say goodbye to Plutia and an amnesiac Peashy and when Peashy remembered Neptune only for her to vanish as she said "Neptuna".
  • "Ito (Thread)", the ED used in that episode, does not help.
  Neptune: (looking at the crayon drawing Peashy made with a tearful smile) P-ko...
  • Neptune spends most of episodes 9 and 10 completely depressed due to Peashy suddenly leaving, which only gets worse when she finds out that they've become enemies thanks to Anonydeath. Given how she normally is, it can be pretty hard to watch.
• Watch It for the Meme: Getting into this anime, due to how the dialogue was handled in the English Dub (see the Memetic Mutation entry above.)