YMMV / Superbook

• Awesome Music:
  • The season one English ending. The season one Japanese opening is also great.
  • The season two English opening. And the Japanese OP for series 2 as well, which was sung by Ritsuko Owada, a singer and voice actress primarily known for recording children's music.
• Gateway Series: In two senses. Many children (especially in Japan, where the series and its sister show Flying House were shown in church youth groups) counted this as their introduction to The Bible. Outside of Japan, some viewers cite Superbook as an introduction to the art style of anime, regardless of whether or not they were receptive to the preaching.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: The anime was popular in Japan and remains one of the most widely seen anime series of all time, but likely nowhere was it more popular than in Ukraine, where it was used as in evangelistic tool in the years after the Soviet Union collapsed and became something of a cultural phenomenon. The show's broadcast there was interspersed with live-action "Superbook Club" segments complete with a real-life, animatronic Gizmo. Superbook Club continues to this day but now reflects the American CGI reboot, with Gizmo's character design changed accordingly.
• Harsher in Hindsight: In season one Japanese/Italian ending credits, Chris, Joy and Gizmo, after scolding Ruffles for interrupting their walk, walk on, never noticing that they left Ruffles behind. It gets worse in season two when they let Ruffles transported into the computer.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Joy's last name in the English dub is Quantum, which becomes the last name of Chris and his family in the CGI reboot, with anime Chris's surname of "Peeper" being changed to "Pepper" and given to Joy instead.
• Nightmare Fuel: Lot's wife (named Elda in this version) being turned into a pillar of salt in episode 2 of the second series.
• Toy Ship: Chris and Joy.
• Values Dissonance: Being an anime about Adventures in the Bible, it would be hard not to run into this trope on occasion, but it can be jarring for modern audiences nonetheless.

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