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- Complete Monster:
- Bluebeard from season 1's "Bluebeard" is a seemingly charming rich gentleman, but in truth is a vicious Serial Killer who keeps the corpses of his murdered wives locked in a dark room. When his previous wife discovered his dark secret, he murdered her in a blind rage. Seeking a wife who would not disappoint him, Bluebeard woos a young maiden, Josephine, and coerces her into marriage, offering her riches and all his treasures, but warns her not to enter his cellar, for fear of her discovering his dark secret. When Josephine disobeys him—he had given her the keys to all the rooms—and discovers all of his previous victims, Bluebeard flies into a rage and chases her throughout the mansion, sword in hand, intent on killing her for her disobedience. Vengeful and unforgiving, masked by a polite exterior, Bluebeard was just as vile as his literary counterpart.
- The Wicked Stepmother from the series' renidition of The Six Swans is the villain who can compare to Bluebeard's evil deeds, since she's a Composite Character that blends the original stepmother and the cruel mother-in-law from the original tale and also gets quite a bit of Adaptational Villainy. In the first part of the tale she directly attacks Elise (the Princess) and her brothers via summoning a snake, kills her husband the King when he tries to confront her over turning his sons into swans, and then usurps the throne for herself. In the second part her villainy is amped up: when she finds out that Elise is still alive and more or less Happily Married, she goes to her kingdom under the excuse of visiting the Royal Couple after the birth of their first kid, verbally bullies Elise to the point of tears once alone with her, then kidnaps her newborn son and falsely accuses her of killing and eating him, thus tricking the girl's husband the Young King into near having her burned as a witch. Fortunately the Swan Princes save the baby and fly their way into the gallows, saving Elise and clearing her name in front of her husband and her subjects... and soon the Witch is subjected to a Karmic Death.
- Awesome Music: The OP (Niji no Hashi) and the ending (Watashi no Machi wa Merry Go Round), both by Ushio Hashimoto.
- World of Woobie: There are way, WAY too many woobies to mention and count in this series.