Pucca/YMMV
- Author's Saving Throw: Netflix's Continuity Reboot/third season Pucca: Love Recipe addresses many complaints about the Jetix series:
- Pucca and Garu's Flanderization is completely undone, with Pucca being a more reasonable Clingy Jealous Girl and Garu a stoic badass who enjoys Pucca's company as long as she doesn't get too clingy, thus making their relationship easier to root for.
- Dada gets completely reworked for this version, being slightly more competent, having a much more appealing design, and completely lacking his derided crush on Ring Ring that caused him to hold the Jerkass Ball many times during the Jetix series.
- Perhaps due to the aforementioned throw, the Chefs no longer act like jerks to Dada for no reason, even having an episode when they prove they do value Dada's place in Goh-Rong.
- A minor pet peeve was that Abyo acted like a Casanova Wannabe even though he had an on-off girlfriend in Ching. Love Recipe completely drops this part of the character.
- Ear Worm: "PUUUUCAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA LOVES GAAAARUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU..."
- Love Recipe's ending song as well: "Puuuucca's Sweeeet Loooove..."
- Ensemble Darkhorse:
- The Jetix series has the Vagabond Ninja Clan for being hilariously sympathetic, to the point many were dismayed they didn't appear in the third season's Continuity Reboot.
- Love Recipe has a few of these:
- Luke Skywalker parody Dandy, due to his Bishonen appearance, mysterious personality and general competence, which serves as an hilarious contrast to Dong King's reputation as The Scrappy. It says something about his popularity that him partnering with Dada led to the latter being Rescued From the Scrappy Heap.
- Ring Ring's right hand Ayo qualifies as well for being a cute Nice Guy whose crush on Ring Ring makes him endearing rather than annoying (as opposed to Dada's in the Jetix series). The fact he makes Ring Ring more likable also helps.
- Then there's Casano, an hilarious Hopeless Suitor for Pucca who, unlike most people in the series, doesn't mind being rejected and actually helps Pucca in getting Garu.
- Fan-Preferred Couple: Some people like to pair Dada and Dandy together due to their interesting dynamic.
- Pucca/Tobe has a bit of a fanbase due to an infamous fancomic, despite the pairing being a Crack Ship at best.
- Fridge Horror: One can't help but wonder how far Pucca would actually go with her nigh-obsession with Garu, were the two of them but a few years older.
- Ho Yay: Dada and Dandy have quite a bit of this in Love Recipe.
- Foe Yay: Garu and Tobe, to a freaking T.
- Jerkass Woobie: Pretty much most of the antagonists, but in particular Tobe, Fyah, The Vagabond Ninja Clan and The Pirates.
- Love to Hate: Most of the baddies qualify, if only because they're hilariously incompetent and make the plots more entertaining with their antics.
- Misaimed Fandom: A rare case in that it was Jetix who misunderstood Pucca and Garu's relationship, thus explaining their Flanderization in said series. Netflix's third season clearly amended this.
- Moral Event Horizon: While the villains of the series are more or less ineffectually hilarious, there are instances of this:
- In the Jetix series, Ring Ring crosses the line in "He Loves Me Not" with her truly heartless scheme to break Pucca to pieces. Also counts as one for Dada from going through her plans despite Pucca being the only one who consistently treats him nicely.
- Love Recipe's Dong King was a nasty person already, but the final episode truly shows how rotten he actually is. He pretends to be Garu's father to force him to betray the chefs of Goh-Rong's restaurant (who in this universe are his Parental Substitutes), which clearly gives him grief and doesn't take it well when his deception is exposed. All of this just for a petty vendetta he's the only one who actually remembers.
- And if he didn't cross it with that, trying to blow up Sooga Island for losing to Goh-Rong again will do the trick.
- Replacement Scrappy: Love Recipe discards most of Jetix's popular Rogues Gallery in favor of the Dong King Restaurant plot, which caused this reaction for some of the fanbase. While Ayo is quite popular and Fyah and The Pirates have their fans, Dong King is almost universally derided as the worst villain and character of the show.
- Rescued from the Scrappy Heap: A Base-Breaking example, but Love Recipe rescues Pucca, Garu, Dada and even Ring Ring to some extent, as detailed in Author's Saving Throw above.
- The Scrappy: Dong King is unanimously agreed to be the worst villain and character not just for Love Recipe, but for the series as a whole. While he's clearly meant to be a Hate Sink, his unappealing design, general inaction, and failure at being intimidating despite being the so-called Big Bad (thus making the well-regarded Tobe and Fyah his servants) has earned him nothing but scorn for fans.
- Surprisingly Improved Sequel: The third season/Continuity Reboot Love Recipe is widely regarded as this to the Jetix series, mostly for fixing the main couple after being subjected to extreme Flanderization in the previous series.
- Take That, Scrappy!: Let's just say fans thoroughly enjoyed Dong King's defeat in Love Recipe's final episode.
- They Changed It, Now It Sucks: While the Continuity Reboot Love Recipe is generally considered superior to the Jetix series, there are elements that are subjected to this, mostly regarding the change from 2D to 3D animation and discarding popular members of the Rogues Gallery in favor of new ones.
- Too Bleak, Stopped Caring: A common complaint of the Jetix series is that it ramped up Pucca and Garu's flaws to intolerable levels, making them extremely unlikable and thus having their relationship impossible to root for. Evidently Vooz agreed with this, since Love Recipe took great pains to defy this trope as seen in Author's Saving Throw above, which is why the reboot is considered a Surprisingly Improved Sequel by many.