YMMV / Leafie, a Hen into the Wild

• Adaptation Displacement: The novel is obscure, especially outside of Korea.
• Alternative Character Interpretation: Why, exactly, is One-Eye crying when she kills Leafie? Is she sad at having to help Leafie commit suicide as a Heroic Sacrifice? Mourning a Worthy Opponent and fellow Mama Bear before she makes the kill? Or is she crying in relief that her pups now won't starve? Or, given the timing, did she witness Greenie and Leafie's separation minutes beforehand, and was truly moved by it?
  • The reason One-Eye wept is because of empathy. In that moment, she truly understood that Leafie was also a devoted mother doing her best to protect her child, and that Leafie understood her as well. She fully knew that Leafie was willingly offering up her own life so that another mother would not have to watch her children die, and was deeply moved by the sacrifice. How else should you react when someone gives their life up to you in your most desperate moment?
• Best Known for the Fanservice: In the west it's usually more famous for being that movie with the Bishounen ducks.
• Fridge Horror: Leafie offering herself to One-Eye may seem heartwarming at first, but then you realize that she had been getting sicker through the entire film. Assuming One-Eye didn't get sick from eating Leafie, there may not be enough meat on her bones to sustain her and the young.
  • With Leafie allowing herself to be killed by the weasel. How will Greenie react if he ever returns to the everglade with his flock?.
• Friendly Fandoms: With One Stormy Night, another cutesy Asian animal-based animated film.
• He Really Can Act: For someone who doesn't have any other voice acting credits, Ryan Hollyman, who voices Wanderer/Wilson, Bat, the leader of the duck flock and the race announcer in the English dub, has a surprisingly good voice range, managing to make each character he voices sound quite distinguishable from one another. Particular mention goes to the race scene, when he voices the flock leader and the race announcer back to back in one moment.
• Jerkass Woobie: One-Eye Weasel. She is ferocious, merciless, and kills other animals, but the reason she does so is because she's only trying to eat and later in the year, create milk for her pups. She was also seen to be sad when she had to kill Leafie.
• Narm Charm: Some find the idea of a predator crying about killing a prey animal as Narm, but it may be for many reasons, several of which are Tear Jerker territory. See Alternative Character Interpretation above.
• Questionable Casting: In the English dub, Leafie doesn't sound like an adult. She sounds, at the oldest, like a teenager, sharply contrasting her more mature voice in the original Korean. One Eye also has this issue in a few moments, due to her and Leafie having the same voice actress in the dub.
• Squick: The conditions in the egg-barn, and the farm ducks' habits concerning their pond.
• Tear Jerker: Quite a bit. The death of Wanderer, Leafie and Greenie's goodbye, and Leafie's death stand out.
• The Woobie: Leafie. She has unrequited affections for Wanderer, who ends up dying (along with his mate), and many other things happen to her that she doesn't deserve. It doesn't help that she dies at the end of the film.