YMMV / Ultraman Taro

• Accidental Innuendo: Mukadender is infamous for this. With the placement of its head and neck making it look like a... sensitive area of the male human body. Doesn't help that it shoots white webbing from its mouth or the name of the episode he appears in being "I Can Beat a Monster Too."^note  before the Mill Creek release the episode was referred to as"I Can Conquer a Monster Too!" in English. Some one at Mill Creek may have been having a laugh.
• Awesome Music: ZAT's wandaba theme. The cliffhanger music.
• Badass Decay: Jack in Episode 52.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: Even for a show as crazy as this something stand out
  • In episode 3 as Taro destroys the monster Live King (it gets better.) It does it Evil Laugh as the footage of it exploding is played forward and backwards to the rhythm of the laugh. It doesn't even make sense how it could even laugh at the moment considering it's frozen.
  • After the monster Rodera is destroyed its remains fall down as toy cars. After that brief scene, it's never mentioned again.
• Broken Base: Among the Showa entries of the franchise, Ultraman Taro is the most divisive with fans. While some found it to be an overall enjoyable series, others disliked its silly tone. Even in its time, the show suffered in ratings for this, leading to the Darker and Edgier Ultraman Leo
• Esoteric Happy Ending:
  • In the episode "Heaven and Hell Island Has Moved" Taro manages to kill the monster Ganza but realizes that it was pregnant with hundreds of baby crabs. So Taro uses his powers to make sure they can't grow bigger and lets them return to the sea. Then after that bit of mercy, it then cuts to everyone in Japan eating the baby crabs and all the characters talking about how good it is they have so many crabs to eat. Even though it was framed as a happy ending many fans found it quite disturbing, particularly with the Mood Whiplash with the previous scene.
  • The finale is this in hindsight. Kotaro decides to separate himself from Taro to prove that humanity can defend themselves. The problem is the next series, Ultraman Leo, Starts with Alien Magma and his monsters killing thousands of people, which may have been prevented if he was Taro at the time.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • Episodes 4 and 5 featured a King and Queen Tortoise protecting their young, with one of them perished to the humans in the latter episode. 47 years later, a similar episode happened in Ultraman Z made it even more tragic, only this time the titular Ultra instead killed a Red King, only for his host to find out it was actually protecting its unhatched egg halfway. Unlike Haruki who felt guilty of the Accidental Murder, the humans who killed the Queen Tortoise had no remorse for their actions whatsoever, going as far as to blame it on the turtle monsters.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Tarou's incidental music sounds much like the little synthesizer music Cinar mixed in to their infamous Ultraseven dub.
  • Also, a series with fairy tale based monsters associated with "Taro"?
• Memetic Loser: Zoffy gained this status for his embarrassing defeat at the hands of Birdon, even getting his head set on fire and briefly dying from getting stabbed by the bird monster's beak, despite being the captain of the Space Garrison and supposedly possessing the strongest beam in the universe.
• Memetic Mutation: See the Franchise page.
• Narm: The show can be a little too kid friendly or even silly sometimes...
  • The series is notorious for having some of the goofiest monsters in the franchise ever to be played seriously (see: Live King, Okariyan, Mushra, Depparas, and Piccolo). Mururoa especially stands out, for being an apocalyptic, light-destroying monster that took two episodes to defeat, yet looks like a Muppets reject.
• Never Live It Down: This show gave Zoffy Memetic Loser status after his embarrassing defeat and temporary death at Birdon's hands and ensured viewers would always remember him as Fire Head Man.
• Nightmare Fuel: Now has its own page.
• Paranoia Fuel: The Tortoises will find whoever takes mommy's eggs anywhere.
• Special Effects Failure: Despite getting a big budget upgrade from the past series, this happened quite a fair bit (especially in the suits department) due to the Oil Crisis hurting Japan at the time. Especially notable for the Mukadender suit - at one point where the monster is viewed from behind, the suit actually splits open to reveal an extra in a green shirt.
• Squick The Mother of Ultra giving birth to Taro using Kotaro’s body as an incubator.
• Values Dissonance: In the episode "The Fang Cross is a Monster’s Grave!" There's a scene where Kotaro and the 11-year-old Kenichi are taking a shower together in a public bathroom. This practice of being naked with others in public showers is far more normal in Japan than it is in America.
• What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?: Taro is notable by fans as being one of the goofiest entries in the series but despite that, it may surprise some people watching the series for the first time just how dark it can be. People dying from monsters is quite common, the violence while not as bad as Ace it's still extremely vicious at times, and while the theme of family may seem like a light-hearted Central Theme, it goes into darker territories of family like abandonment and losing loved ones.