History YMMV / GensouShoujoTaisen

** Byakuren takes some time to get going, needing to enter her Super Saiyan form to gain her full stats and skills. Her finisher in that form also knocks her out of it, although she can change back into it on her next turn. She's entirely worth the effort, though, as her Buddhist skill combined with her morale capbreaking personal skill allows her to hit tremendously hard and become nearly invincible at full strength.

** Komachi has an unfortunate case of being a Super with bad Defense and even worse Armor than Nitori. Her low Melee stat means that she is heavily reliant on Triumph to do some actual damage, leaving her unable to make the most of some of her personal skills like Way of Avici or Spirit-Deatching Scythe. Her Slacker personal skill, while appealing at first, starts getting irrelevant when enemies start to hit OHKO range, like against Utsuho, Yumeko, or the bosses in the Nightmare arc.
** Tewi's main role is to increase the amount of points gained by allies. The problem is that she joins in the late game of ''Ei'', where points are less of a concern. She has very bad offense and defense and doesn't provide the support to be worthwhile in the long run.

* CreatorsPet: Some fans feel this way about Sanae. See ThatOneBoss below.

* TierInducedScrappy: Despite being a main character in ''Kou'' and the first half of ''You'', Nitori is a viable contender for the worst unit in all four games. She's a tanking unit with Guard, Support Attack, and Support Defense, but without the raw defensive stats to make using Guard viable. Her Extending Arm ability is made to let her act as a healer using items, but items in ''Kou'' are scarce and once-per-campaign, while from ''You'' onward actual healers like Lily White are readily available. She gains an Afterimage ability in the form of Optical Camouflage, but it costs her MP to use it, the ''only'' Afterimage ability that costs MP out of all the units that have one. Her new finisher in ''Yume'' has only 1 ammunition and runs off her weak Melee stat. Enough investment of funds, kills, and WP can make Nitori usable for those who like her, but her weaknesses are plentiful and her strengths few.

** One of Yuyuko's Personal Skills, 'Return to Yomi,' is stated to give her half the remaining SP of any defeated ally character. What is ''does'' is give her half the remaining SP of any defeated unit on the map. Combined with her Rally spirit command (+5 Power to all allies on her map), Yuyuko can have your entire party at max Power by turn 2, and still be packing a full SP bar. This Personal Skill is fixed in later versions, but still comboes hideously well with Mokou's resurrections and and Alice's Hourai Dolls.

** Chapter 70 of ''Yume''. This chapter is a defense mission where if any enemy crosses the white line and invades Eientei, you lose. Your party starts on the left side, while the right side is limited to the Three Fairies, making this chapter brutal if you haven't invested in them. The only bomb is held by a sheep which only defends, and this chapter introduces white sheep that have Double Move. If you don't have anyone with a MAP attack like Wind Sanae, Shinki, or Utsuho, or units with Zeal like Reimu, or units with Enable like Kaguya, or someone with maximum WP investment, prepare to have a very difficult time.

** Yuyuko is the most powerful support defender and morale booster in the game, depending on her choice of personal skill. She has good bulk that's made better by her shield, and her Ghostly Butterfly Dance+ personal skill causes her to automatically dodge any attack that her shield activates against. Since shields always activate on Support Defense, her Support Defense thus nullifies attacks altogether, while in the front she can be built to have what amounts to a significant Afterimage chance and a guarantee of surviving any enemy onslaught no matter how big as long as she Defends. The only reason someone wouldn't equip her with this skill is that Return to Yomi is even ''better'', granting her half the remaining SP on any ally who's shot down. This includes Alice's Hourai Dolls and Mokou's extra lives, both of whom can provide Yuyuko with near-limitless SP to spam Rally in order to increase the entire party's morale. If Rally isn't necessary, she can just use that SP on Enable to give allies more turns, or Soul to inflict big damage herself. Her Sense of Elegance and Ghost Spot personal skills would be top-tier skills on any other character, but Yuyuko's best skills are ''so'' good that they're overshadowed.

* DifficultButAwesome: Sanae as a player unit is reliant on her Faith gauge to improve her performance, which raises steadily as she hits enemies and dodges or grazes attacks. This means she takes a considerable amount of time to get going, and needs to use Faith to fuel her more powerful attacks, but at high Faith she's one of the strongest units in the game. Her difficulty and awesomeness scale depending on her choice of personal skill: Living God makes it much easier to get her up to 100% Faith, but MAXGOD ensures she'll ''stay'' there, meaning she can spam her finishers without limit, and gives her a big power boost once she does. Her FINAL MAXGOD personal skill in ''Yume'' makes her even more difficult but even more awesome by raising the gauge cap to ''200%'' and giving her such a gigantic power boost if she gets all the way up there that soloing the rest of the stage will be a breeze.

** Yuyuko. She has good enough bulk to tank hits, and she also comes with an ability that gives her an evasion boost if she has higher Skill than the enemy (which is a frequent scenario with anyone that isn't an EliteMook), meaning she can dodge as well. Her most notable personal skills are "Sense of Elegance" which doubles consumable item effectiveness, allowing her to spam Rally while regaining back her SP with Sakuya's Tea or the Rose Cookie, and "Return to Yomi," which gives her half the remaining SP of a defeated ally. Combine that with Alice's Hourai Dolls to use as cannon fodder and Yuyuko will never run out of SP. ''Yume'' gives her Enable to allow anyone to move again, and ''Soul'', which is helpful for the final spellcards of a boss fight.

** One of Yuyuko's Personal Skills, 'Return to Yomi,' is stated to give her half the remaining SP of any defeated ally character. What is ''does'' is give her half the remaining SP of any defeated unit on the map. Combined with her 'Butterfly Dance' spirit command (+5 Power to all allies on her map), Yuyuko can have your entire party at max Power by turn 2, and still be packing a full SP bar. In Versions 1.0.5 and up, Yuyuko no longer possesses this Personal Skill.

** Mokou lacks any kind of spirit command for a surefire dodge such as Alert or Sense (Alert+Strike) unlike other [[RealRobot "real robot"]] type girls. She just doesn't care/exert too much effort if ''Inaba of the Moon And Inaba of the Earth'' is any indication.
* GameBreaker: Mokou in ''Ei'' is incredibly powerful, having max level "Instinct Dodge" and "Berserk" as well as the ability to revive ''four'' times in a single map. Her new attacks, "Fujiyama Volcano" and "Possessed by Phoenix", have even greater damage output behind them than "Flying Phoenix" did in ''You''. Additionally, just like in ''You'', Mokou still has some of the highest natural mobility in your team behind Reimu and Sanae. She also has "HP Regen M" (recovers 20% of her max HP each player's phase), but YMMV depending on how useful that is for the player given her previously mentioned "Instinct Dodge" and "Berserk." Her most glaring downside is her lack of focused movement and MP consumption, the former which can be amended by pairing her up with Keine, and latter by giving her the "MP Save" skill (-20% MP cost) and possibly an item. Not only that, but you get her for the entirety of the Subterranean Animism plotline after being teased as a reinforcement unit in Imperishable Night's finale, subverting her presence in the third game being an EleventhHourRanger. Imagine if [[Anime/ArmoredTrooperVOTOMS Chirico]] [[VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsZ Cuvie]] possessed this many lives and could easily trigger his [[LightningBruiser "Abnormal Survivor"]] skill and that should give you an idea of Mokou's destructive capability. There's a good reason Sanbondo didn't allow her to go to the Moon.

** Sanae in ''You'' is by far the toughest boss you'll face until the FinalBoss. Her {{Miko}} innate skill gives her a great boost in Accuracy and Evasion, meaning that she will be able to hit even your dodgiest of units while your own struggle to even touch her. Her attacks are very powerful, and the special effects of her spell card can be debilitating. "The Day the Sea Split" will treat all attacks against Sanae as though she were standing in water, which largely means that they will do diminished damage. "Summon Takeminakata" gives her the spirit Focus auto-cast every turn, which will boost her already insanely high evasion and accuracy even higher. Finally, her final spell card is a MAP attack with a large range... and she casts Miracle after declaring the card, which gives her ''nearly every buff in the game.'' If you don't manage to take her out in a single turn or get all of your units away from her, she can easily cause a TotalPartyKill. She's a tough nut to crack even if you go into her battle prepared. Those who aren't will most likely get their asses kicked quite handily.
** Not surprising as she appears to be the favored character of the designers, possibly overlapping with CreatorsPet as she has perhaps the best animations and her 3rd special skill? [[GameBreaker SP Regen]] with a remark about her being the developers' "Waifu" in the notes.

* GoodBadBugs: One of Yuyuko's Personal Skills, 'Return to Yomi,' is stated to give her half the remaining SP of any defeated ally character. What is ''does'' is give her half the remaining SP of any defeated unit on the map. Combined with her 'Butterfly Dance' spirit command (+5 Power to all allies on her map), Yuyuko can have your entire party at max Power by turn 2, and still be packing a full SP bar.
** In Versions 1.0.5 and up, Yuyuko no longer possesses this Personal Skill.

* ThatOneBoss: Sanae in ''You'' is by far the toughest boss you'll face until the FinalBoss. Her {{Miko}} innate skill gives her a great boost in Accuracy and Evasion, meaning that she will be able to hit even your dodgiest of units while your own struggle to even touch her. Her attacks are very powerful, and the special effects of her spell card can be debilitating. "The Day the Sea Split" will treat all attacks against Sanae as though she were standing in water, which largely means that they will do diminished damage. "Summon Takeminakata" gives her the spirit Focus auto-cast every turn, which will boost her already insanely high evasion and accuracy even higher. Finally, her final spell card is a MAP attack with a large range... and she casts Miracle after declaring the card, which gives her ''nearly every buff in the game.'' If you don't manage to take her out in a single turn or get all of your units away from her, she can easily cause a TotalPartyKill. She's a tough nut to crack even if you go into her battle prepared. Those who aren't will most likely get their asses kicked quite handily.

** Chapter 70 of ''Yume''. This chapter is a defense mission where if any enemy crosses the white line and invades Eientei, you lose. Your party starts on the left side, while the right side is limited to the Three Fairies, making this chapter brutal if you haven't invested in them. The only bomb is held by a sheep which only defends, and this chapter introduces white sheep that have Double Move. If you don't have anyone with a MAP attack like Wind Sanae, Shinki, or Utsuho, or units with Zeal like Reimu, or units with Enable like Kaguya, or someone with maximum WP investment, prepare to have a very difficult time.
* ScrappyMechanic: How the second game handles units: the stronger the unit the higher its "cost" and each mission only gives you a certain total cost. This alone wouldn't be so terrible if not for the rather large number of characters by the end of the game. This might have been done with good intentions (namely stopping players for fielding only heavy hitters), but there's usually good reason why certain mechanics are not in normal Super Robot Wars games (closest thing would be how Alpha 3 handles its 4 unit squads, but it has no bearing on the total number of squad deployment)

** Yorihime in ''Ei''. She charges at you on ''turn 2'', comes with Miko, Supreme, Break Power Limit, Blocking, Predict, and '''Double Move''', and is equipped with an L-Shooter. Think Sanae, but ''even worse''. She also hits ''hard'', and will target the ship if it's in range. "Ame-no-Uzume-no-Mikoto" casts an effect where only melee attacks can hit Yorihime, which are limited to a few units. "Takemikazuchi" gives her Accel, and also lets her ''move through your formation'' and ''break the accuracy limit'', which '''becomes even more damage'''. Finally, "Amaterasu-no-Oomikami" is a MAP attack with a large range... and she casts '''Zeal''', which gives her a third action, and gets '''+40 in all stats!''' If you don't take her out quickly, she ''will'' cause a TotalPartyKill. And that's not even mentioning the Moon Rabbits that have very high stats as well. What makes this even harder is that great units like Yuyuko, Yukari, Mima, or Yuuka aren't present in the Silent Sinner in Blue arc. [[spoiler: And in the refight in the gaiden chapters of ''Yume'', even THOUGH you have all of the playable units, Yorihime's stats and abilities get jacked up even further if you enrage her, to the point where she comes packing '''Re-Attack''', mentioned below in Yumeko's section, and stats that put even the FinalBoss to shame HP, which makes it even more deadly.]]

** Yorihime in ''Ei''. She charges at you on ''turn 2'', comes with Miko, Supreme, Break Power Limit, Blocking, Predict, and '''Double Move''', and is equipped with an L-Shooter. Think Sanae, but ''even worse''. She also hits ''hard'', and will target the ship if it's in range. "Ame-no-Uzume-no-Mikoto" casts an effect where only melee attacks can hit Yorihime, which are limited to a few units. "Takemikazuchi" gives her Accel, and also lets her ''move through your formation'' and ''break the accuracy limit'', which '''becomes even more damage'''. Finally, "Amaterasu-no-Oomikami" is a MAP attack with a large range... and she casts '''Zeal''', which gives her a third action, and gets '''+40 in all stats!''' If you don't take her out quickly, she ''will'' cause a TotalPartyKill. And that's not even mentioning the Moon Rabbits that have very high stats as well. What makes this even harder is that great units like Yuyuko, Yukari, Mima, or Yuuka aren't present in the Silent Sinner in Blue arc. [[spoiler: And in the refight in the gaiden chapters of ''Yume'', even THOUGH you have all of the playable units, Yorihime's stats and abilities get jacked up even further if you enrage her, to the point where she comes packing '''Re-Attack''', mentioned below in Yumeko's section, and stats that put even the FinalBoss to shame, which makes it even more deadly.]]

** Yorihime in ''Ei''. She charges at you on ''turn 2'', comes with Miko, Supreme, Break Power Limit, Blocking, Predict, and '''Double Move''', and is equipped with an L-Shooter. Think Sanae, but ''even worse''. She also hits ''hard'', and will target the ship if it's in range. "Ame-no-Uzume-no-Mikoto" casts an effect where only melee attacks can hit Yorihime, which are limited to a few units. "Takemikazuchi" gives her Accel, and also lets her ''move through your formation'' and ''break the accuracy limit'', which '''becomes even more damage'''. Finally, "Amaterasu-no-Oomikami" is a MAP attack with a large range... and she casts '''Zeal''', which gives her a third action, and gets '''+40 in all stats!''' If you don't take her out quickly, she ''will'' cause a TotalPartyKill. And that's not even mentioning the Moon Rabbits that have very high stats as well. What makes this even harder is that great units like Yuyuko, Yukari, Mima, or Yuuka aren't present in the Silent Sinner in Blue arc. [[spoiler: And in the refight in ''Yume'''s gaiden chapters, even THOUGH you have all of the playable units, Yorihime's stats and abilities get jacked up even further if you enrage her, to the point where she comes packing '''Re-Attack''', mentioned below in Yumeko's section, and stats that put even the FinalBoss to shame, which makes it even more deadly.]]

** Yorihime in ''Ei''. She charges at you on ''turn 2'', comes with Miko, Supreme, Break Power Limit, Blocking, Predict, and '''Double Move''', and is equipped with an L-Shooter. Think Sanae, but ''even worse''. She also hits ''hard'', and will target the ship if it's in range. "Ame-no-Uzume-no-Mikoto" casts an effect where only melee attacks can hit Yorihime, which are limited to a few units. "Takemikazuchi" gives her Accel, and also lets her ''move through your formation'' and ''break the accuracy limit'', which '''becomes even more damage'''. Finally, "Amaterasu-no-Oomikami" is a MAP attack with a large range... and she casts '''Zeal''', which gives her a third action, and gets '''+40 in all stats!''' If you don't take her out quickly, she ''will'' cause a TotalPartyKill. And that's not even mentioning the Moon Rabbits that have very high stats as well. What makes this even harder is that great units like Yuyuko, Yukari, Mima, or Yuuka aren't present in the Silent Sinner in Blue arc.

* ThatOneLevel: Chapter 7 of ''Kou''. First off, it comes right after the previous chapter, so you don't get the chance to heal or upgrade units. Secondly, Sanae takes a cheap shot at the beginning and leaves Reimu with 500 HP, reduced MP and one less use of Fantasy Seal. Third, Daiyousei (your only dedicated healer unit in this game), is stuck on the other side of a crow blockade surrounding the rest of the party. Fourth, Momoji hits HARD and can take a hit too. All in all, this leads to a protracted war of attrition and the player having to learn to manage their resources.

** Mokou lacks any kind of spirit command for a surefire dodge such as Alert or Flash unlike other [[RealRobot "real robot"]] type girls. She just doesn't care/exert too much effort if ''Inaba of the Moon And Inaba of the Earth'' is any indication.

* ThatOneLevel: Chapter 7 of ''Kou''. First off, it comes right after the previous chapter, so you don't get the chance to heal or upgrade units. Secondly, Sanae takes a cheap shot at the beginning and leaves Reimu with 500 HP, reduced MP and one less use of Fantasy Seal. Third, Daiyousei (your only dedicated healer unit in this game), is stuck on the other side of a crow blockade surrounding the rest of the party. Fourth, Momoji hits HARD. All in all, this leads to a protracted war of attrition and the player having to learn to manage their resources.

* GameBreaker: Mokou in ''Ei'' incredibly powerful, having max level "Instinct Dodge" and "Berserk", as well as the ability to revive ''four'' times in a single map. Her new attacks, "Fujiyama Volcano" and "Possessed by Phoenix", have even greater damage output behind them than "Flying Phoenix" did in "You". Additionally, just like in "You", Mokou still has some of the highest natural mobility in your team behind Reimu and Sanae. She also has "HP Regen M" (recovers 20% of her max HP each player's phase), but YMMV depending on how useful that is for the player given her previously mentioned "Instinct Dodge" and "Berserk." Her most glaring downside is her lack of focused movement and MP consumption, the former which can be amended by pairing her up with Keine, and latter by giving her the "MP Save" skill (-20% MP cost) and possibly an item. Not only that, but you get her for the entirety of the Subterranean Animism plotline after being teased as a reinforcement unit in Imperishable Night's finale, subverting her presence in the third game being an EleventhHourRanger. Imagine if [[Anime/ArmoredTrooperVOTOMS Chirico]] [[VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsZ Cuvie]] possessed this many lives and could easily trigger his [[LightningBruiser "Abnormal Survivor"]] skill and that should give you an idea of Mokou's destructive capability. There's a good reason Sanbondo didn't allow her to go to the Moon.

* FridgeBrilliance: In [[SuperRobotWars Super Robot Wars]], stages that take place on satellites such as moons use a Space terrain instead of an Air terrain for flying units; however, in Gensou Shoujo Taisen, the Space terrain is replaced instead with the Night modifier. When the party visits the True Moon in Ei as a part of the Silent Sinner In Blue story arc, flying unit bonuses are still determined by their Air terrain, why is that? Because the True Moon has an atmosphere as opposed to any other moon!
* GameBreaker: Mokou in "Ei" incredibly powerful, having max level "Instinct Dodge" and "Berserk", as well as the ability to revive FOUR times in a single map. Her new attacks, Fujiyama Volcano and Possessed by Phoenix, have even greater damage output behind them than Flying Phoenix did in "You". Additionally, just like in "You", Mokou still has some of the highest natural mobility in your team behind Reimu and Sanae. She also has "HP Regen M" (recovers 20% of her max HP each player's phase), but YMMV depending on how useful that is for the player given her previously mentioned "Instinct Dodge" and "Berserk." Her most glaring downside is her lack of focused movement and MP consumption, the former which can be amended by pairing her up with Keine, and latter by giving her the "MP Save" skill (-20% MP cost) and possibly an item. Not only that, but you get her for the entirety of the Subterranean Animism plotline after being teased as a reinforcement unit in Imperishable Night's finale, subverting her presence in the third game being an EleventhHourRanger.

** Not surprising as she appears to be the favored character of the designers, possibly overlapping with CreatorsPet as she has perhaps the best animation and her 3rd level special skill? [[GameBreaker SP Regen]] with a remark about her being the developers' "Waifu" in the notes.

* ThatOneBoss: Sanae in ''You'' is by far the toughest boss you'll face until the FinalBoss. Her {{Miko}} innate skill gives her a great boost in Accuracy and Evasion, meaning that she will be able to hit even your dodgiest of units while your own struggle to even touch her. Her attacks are very powerful, and the special effects of her spell card can be debilitating. "The Day the Sea Split" will treat all attacks against Sanae as though she were standing in water, which largely means that they will do diminished damage. "Summon Takeminakata" gives her the spirit Focus auto-cast every turn, which will boost her already insanely high evasion and accuracy even higher. Finally, her final spell card is a MAP attack with a large range... and she casts Miracle after declaring the card, which gives her ''nearly every buff in the game.'' If you don't manage to take her out in a single turn or get all of your units away from her, she can easily cause a TotalPartyKill. She's a tough nut to crack even if you go into her battle prepared. Those who aren't will most likely get their asses kicked quite handily.

ThatOneBoss: Sanae in ''You'' is by far the toughest boss you'll face until the FinalBoss. Her {{Miko}} innate skill gives her a great boost in Accuracy and Evasion, meaning that she will be able to hit even your dodgiest of units while your own struggle to even touch her. Her attacks are very powerful, and the special effects of her spell card can be debilitating. "The Day the Sea Split" will treat all attacks against Sanae as though she were standing in water, which largely means that they will do diminished damage. "Summon Takeminakata" gives her the spirit Focus auto-cast every turn, which will boost her already insanely high evasion and accuracy even higher. Finally, her final spell card is a MAP attack with a large range... and she casts Miracle after declaring the card, which gives her ''nearly every buff in the game.'' If you don't manage to take her out in a single turn or get all of your units away from her, she can easily cause a TotalPartyKill. She's a tough nut to crack even if you go into her battle prepared. Those who aren't will most likely get their asses kicked quite handily.