YMMV / TerraforMARS

• Accidental Innuendo: This gem from Chapter 48, page 9:
  "Man. I'm the only one who can handle your balls."
• Americans Hate Tingle: The series is quite a fad in Japan and South East Asia, but elsewhere, it has virtually no fanbase.
• Awesome Music:
  • The opening song, Amazing Break
  • There were many problems with the anime's second season, but bringing in motherfucking SEIKIMA-II for a few tracks including the second Opening was not one of them.
  (translated lyrics) KILL ALL THE HUMANS
  MAKE THEM CRY OUT AND SUFFER
  INCINERATE EVERY LAST ONE
  FROM THE FACE OF THIS WOOOOOOORLD!
• Fan Nickname:
  • Johj: The cockroaches, due to their Starfish Language.
  • Terra Censors: Due to the insane censorship in the anime.
• He's Just Hiding: Many people seem to believe Adolf isn't dead, mainly due to the lack of a body or any evidence. Considering the series he's in, though, the chances of him being alive are very slim.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • The black circles in episode 3 has led to some people filling them out with◊ their◊ imaginations◊
  • OBUNGA, a hideously photoshopped abomination of Barack Obama's face to look like one of the roaches. Your guess is as good as ours.
• Moment of Awesome:
  • Mixed with a Tearjerker, Marcos goes on an absolute rampage when we see him transform for the first time, smashing a roach's face in with a flying knee, then in a literal blink of an eye, dashing up to a roach to decapitate it with a mighty uppercut. So awesome that Viz used the clip to promote their dub.
  • Adolf's fight with the roaches after he regains consciousness, especially the "Fuck you" he delivers before electrocuting them.
  • Eva Frost pulls a Big Damn Heroes on Akari. Saving him from a Chinese warship, single handed, and does enough damage that the Chinese had to temporarily retreat!
• Narm:
  • Some people find the censorship of the TV version of the anime makes it hard to take seriously. Reaches full Narm levels in Episode 3, where the severed heads and bodies of the human cast are obscured by black circles. Unintentional hilarity ensued◊.
  • The design of the roaches just looks ridiculous to some people.
• Narm Charm:
  • Some people actually like the roaches' weird faces because of how uncomfortably human they are.
  • The blatant racist imagery can get laughable: the roaches are such Ax-Crazy space-egyptian gangstas that they carry an incurable virus shaped like an ankh and one of Earth's strongest soldiers is a blonde man who's the result of centuries of eugenics.
• Nightmare Fuel: Chapter 77 - a bagworm moth caterpillar with a human mouth and teeth, after 20 years of "evolution." The cockroaches were bad before, but imagine what will happen when the bagworm moths evolve into humanoids...
  • Taken up a notch when we find out that Martian roaches managed to get Bugs I operational, launched it to Earth, and despite it being successfully shot down, have survived and established a colony and have been infiltrating human society for over 16 years with only Japan and the U.S. mounting any kind of resistance. Their speed and proficiency in reading maps, using electronic devices like computers and cell phones, and the fact that they're specifically not Axe-Crazy Omnicidal Maniacs, but act with deliberate precision and premeditation, coordinating their every move is completely chilling, especially considering the fact that they don't care about their own lives as long as they complete the mission objective.
• Only the Author Can Save Them Now: The Terraformars have practically unlimited members at their home planet. No matter how many are killed, they just keep coming much stronger and smarter than before. The heroes escape Mars by the skin of their teeth just to find the roaches had forces on Earth with the support of a human faction since the BUGS II mission. By the time the series got on hiatus, the roaches were swiftly building strongholds around the world and everyone was jobbing pathetically to the Invoker, with no sort of solution in sight to prevent the invasion and much less to colonize Mars as planned.
• Overshadowed by Controversy:
  • The TV broadcast got more attention for the ludicrous censorship than anything else.
  • The roaches' suspicious resemblance to racist caricatures has also become more well-known than the actual plot.
• This Is Your Premise on Drugs: A cheesy gornfest premise about murderous, goofy-looking alien roaches that wouldn't be out of place in a C-list 80's horror film, played terrifyingly straight.
• Unfortunate Character Design: At least one reviewer has pointed out how the designs of the roaches can be compared to racialized caricatures of black men. Certainly not helping matters is that in a later episode they hold pistols sideways or Gangsta Style.

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