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** The blatant PowerCreep nature of new shikigami also helped putting off a lot of players from playing the game altogether. The sheer brokenness of new shikigami is a massive boon...to those who manage to pull them, since the game clearly favors the more recent releases in the way of event buffs and strange mechanics that are hard to counter using more accessible units. To those who ''didn't'' manage to get lucky with the gacha, they represent increasingly massive hurdles to their competitive viability in the long run, especially in the way of PvP and event rankings, since those who got the GameBreaker units can easily steamroll the game into the ground, while they themselves can't make a dent regardless of how much effort they put into it all.
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** The blatant PowerCreep nature of new shikigami also helped putting off a lot of players from playing the game altogether. The sheer brokenness of new shikigami is a massive boon...to those who manage to pull them, since the game clearly favors the more recent releases in the way of event buffs and strange mechanics that are hard to counter using more accessible units. To those who ''didn't'' manage to get lucky with the gacha, they represent increasingly massive hurdles to their competitive viability in the long run, especially in the way of PvP [=PvP=] and event rankings, since those who got the GameBreaker units can easily steamroll the game into the ground, while they themselves can't make a dent regardless of how much effort they put into it all.
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*** Rokumei Ōtakemaru is currently the strongest PVP shikigami in the game. He's a LightningBruiser who can NoSell most status effects, inflict a HerdHittingAttack that can take down entire teams in 2 or 3 turns, has powerful DamageReduction, and [[KillOneOthersGetStronger grows stronger]] with every fallen shikigami, friend or foe.
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*** Rokumei Ōtakemaru is currently the strongest PVP [=PvP=] shikigami in the game. He's a LightningBruiser who can NoSell most status effects, inflict a HerdHittingAttack that can take down entire teams in 2 or 3 turns, has powerful DamageReduction, and [[KillOneOthersGetStronger grows stronger]] with every fallen shikigami, friend or foe.
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** On the far end of the spectrum, there are players who believe firmly in the "The best defense is a good offense" doctrine. In lieu of pull or pushers, or even CC shikigami for that matter, they simply hunker down with extremely beefy HP and other defensive buffs. A Hakuzōsu specced for SPD and Hiyoribo are typically the cornerstones of this strategy, with one shutting down basically 35% of all incoming ATK, and the other healing off what little damage was dealt, as well as reviving those who were slain, which are rare. As a result, if you don't have a Hakuzōsu that's fast ''and'' tanky, you should probably forget about reaching higher ranks in PvP altogether because it ain't happening. While this setup is actually rather easy to defeat using CC or indirect damage, the dangerous thing about it is how uncommon it is to be running into these guys, and as such one will almost always be caught unprepared for them in the midst of normal PvP matches.
*** And then there are those that combine obscene survivability ''with'' disgusting indirect damage and/or free turns, simply by putting Bake-kujira and the larger Kujira into that team setup, and have Shiranui babysit them to provide them additional moves. All three of them are simply powerhouses when put together, especially Kujira and Shiranui, who already hit like a truck on their own. With his Skeletal Shield active, which procs on his turns, Kujira will just casually burst your shikigami down if you hit anyone on his team at all, while you can't really do anything about it if he's protected by Hakuzōsu. This kind of setup is currently the reigning meta in PvP, so if you can't find a way to counter them, or have your own Game Breakers to bring to bear, expect to lose constantly against these folks.
*** And then there are those that combine obscene survivability ''with'' disgusting indirect damage and/or free turns, simply by putting Bake-kujira and the larger Kujira into that team setup, and have Shiranui babysit them to provide them additional moves. All three of them are simply powerhouses when put together, especially Kujira and Shiranui, who already hit like a truck on their own. With his Skeletal Shield active, which procs on his turns, Kujira will just casually burst your shikigami down if you hit anyone on his team at all, while you can't really do anything about it if he's protected by Hakuzōsu. This kind of setup is currently the reigning meta in PvP, so if you can't find a way to counter them, or have your own Game Breakers to bring to bear, expect to lose constantly against these folks.
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** On the far end of the spectrum, there are players who believe firmly in the "The best defense is a good offense" doctrine. In lieu of pull or pushers, or even CC shikigami for that matter, they simply hunker down with extremely beefy HP and other defensive buffs. A Hakuzōsu specced for SPD and Hiyoribo are typically the cornerstones of this strategy, with one shutting down basically 35% of all incoming ATK, and the other healing off what little damage was dealt, as well as reviving those who were slain, which are rare. As a result, if you don't have a Hakuzōsu that's fast ''and'' tanky, you should probably forget about reaching higher ranks in PvP [=PvP=] altogether because it ain't happening. While this setup is actually rather easy to defeat using CC or indirect damage, the dangerous thing about it is how uncommon it is to be running into these guys, and as such one will almost always be caught unprepared for them in the midst of normal PvP [=PvP=] matches.
*** And then there are those that combine obscene survivability ''with'' disgusting indirect damage and/or free turns, simply by putting Bake-kujira and the larger Kujira into that team setup, and have Shiranui babysit them to provide them additional moves. All three of them are simply powerhouses when put together, especially Kujira and Shiranui, who already hit like a truck on their own. With his Skeletal Shield active, which procs on his turns, Kujira will just casually burst your shikigami down if you hit anyone on his team at all, while you can't really do anything about it if he's protected by Hakuzōsu. This kind of setup is currently the reigning meta inPvP, [=PvP=], so if you can't find a way to counter them, or have your own Game Breakers to bring to bear, expect to lose constantly against these folks.
*** And then there are those that combine obscene survivability ''with'' disgusting indirect damage and/or free turns, simply by putting Bake-kujira and the larger Kujira into that team setup, and have Shiranui babysit them to provide them additional moves. All three of them are simply powerhouses when put together, especially Kujira and Shiranui, who already hit like a truck on their own. With his Skeletal Shield active, which procs on his turns, Kujira will just casually burst your shikigami down if you hit anyone on his team at all, while you can't really do anything about it if he's protected by Hakuzōsu. This kind of setup is currently the reigning meta in
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* PlayTheGameSkipTheStory: Online gaming circles overwhelmingly focus on the gameplay itself, particularly collecting/raising shikigami and PvP, while the story parts don't receive as much attention even before it devolved into an utter KudzuPlot.
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* ThatOneAttack: Seimei's Divine Lightning passive. When he's attacked, Seimei has a 10% chance to proc a passive backlash that deals negligible damage, but has a whopping ''20%'' chance to stun if he's upgraded enough. The fact that it's random makes Seimei a risky target in PvP, and it can even proc if he takes [=AoE=] SplashDamage or lingering [=DoT=] from someone else. Imagine you're within inches of an easy win, and then that bloody dragon stunned your important damage dealers, thus leading to a complete reversal and the opponent coming out victorious instead. For Seimei players, its randomness makes it unreliable, but the stun property puts it above Kagura's similar counter move.
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* ThatOneAttack: Seimei's Divine Lightning passive. When he's attacked, Seimei has a 10% chance to proc a passive backlash that deals negligible damage, but has a whopping ''20%'' chance to stun if he's upgraded enough. The fact that it's random makes Seimei a risky target in PvP, [=PvP=], and it can even proc if he takes [=AoE=] SplashDamage or lingering [=DoT=] from someone else. Imagine you're within inches of an easy win, and then that bloody dragon stunned your important damage dealers, thus leading to a complete reversal and the opponent coming out victorious instead. For Seimei players, its randomness makes it unreliable, but the stun property puts it above Kagura's similar counter move.
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* EvilIsSexy: [[spoiler:The humanoid SSR iteration of Orochi.]]
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* QuestionableCasting: Many fans were upset towards Creator/TakehitoKoyasu in the role of [[AnimateInanimateObject Chōchin-obake]].
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* WTHCastingAgency: Many fans have this reaction towards Creator/TakehitoKoyasu in the role of [[AnimateInanimateObject Chōchin-obake]].
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* CameraScrew: The game's camera is entirely inadequate, even for a turn-based RPG. It's permanently locked on to a fixed point in the centre of the battlefield and you can only rotate it around that point. The real problem is that you can't zoom it in or out, meaning during some bigger battles where you have more shikis on your team they don't all fit on the screen at once so you will often have to adjust the camera to click on them, and when fighting large enemies the damage numbers will extend off the top of the screen, making it hard to track how much damage you're doing to them. Camera control is done with the same input as selecting targets too (either screen tapping or left mouse clicking) and is quite finicky, meaning you can often end up accidentally targeting the wrong thing when you just wanted to rotate the camera a bit.
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** "[[LightNovel/{{Konosuba}} Aqua]]" for Enmusubi-no-Kami. Both are voiced by Creator/SoraAmamiya, and are {{Physical God}}esses. Enmusubi-no-Kami is noted to have a fairly awkward kit that's so heavily chance-based that it works against itself, hence the comparisons with a certain "useless" goddess.
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** "[[LightNovel/{{Konosuba}} "[[Literature/{{Konosuba}} Aqua]]" for Enmusubi-no-Kami. Both are voiced by Creator/SoraAmamiya, and are {{Physical God}}esses. Enmusubi-no-Kami is noted to have a fairly awkward kit that's so heavily chance-based that it works against itself, hence the comparisons with a certain "useless" goddess.
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* HighTierScrappy: Onikiri, full stop. He is an intensely powerful and broken shikigami with a passive that lets him basically win matches with one hit, protection buffs be damned. Due to this, he's usually ''the'' one shikigami that you'll always use once you've summoned him, but at the same time he's also absolutely ''despised'' by those who have the misfortune of running into him in ranked matches without bringing another, extremely rare and specific SSR, along.
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* TierInducedScrappy: Onikiri, full stop. He is an intensely powerful and broken shikigami with a passive that lets him basically win matches with one hit, protection buffs be damned. Due to this, he's usually ''the'' one shikigami that you'll always use once you've summoned him, but at the same time he's also absolutely ''despised'' by those who have the misfortune of running into him in ranked matches without bringing another, extremely rare and specific SSR, along.
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* {{Adorkable}}: Enmusubi is a major ditz, surprisingly greedy (since she needs to pay to maintain her own shrine), is constantly bumbling into trouble and is obsessed with pairing romantic couples. She's also completely adorable.
* AlternateSelfShipping:
** Seimei has been shipped with Kuro Seimei, his EvilCounterpart, EnemyWithout and LiteralSplitPersonality.
** Shipping the Yin and Yang sides of Ungaikyo is also common, and this pairing also has canon basis in the entities' desire to touch each other.
* {{Anvilicious}}: No matter how well-intentioned or good-natured you are or what sympathetic background you come from, needless violence is wrong.
* SugarWiki/AwesomeMoments: Some of the cinematic scenes are extremely impressive; [[https://en.onmyojigame.com/yx/resource/devilfeastopening.mp4 the Demoniac Feast]] and [[https://en.onmyojigame.com/yx/resource/kinnaracg.mp4 Tune of Stars]] in particular are absolutely ''spectacular!''
* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The dream Seimei has [[spoiler: in which he kills Kagura]] at the beginning of episode 11 can be viewed as this. Neither is it mentioned again nor does it play any important role in the story.
* BreatherLevel: Surprisingly, some of the higher stages of certain skin dungeons can be this. The most prominent example of which is probably Ōtengu's Storm Peak, as difficulty takes a nosedive after surmounting stage 8, which is ThatOneLevel.
* BrokenBase:
** The Vietnamese playerbase of the game was split vertically in two following the October 16 update for the Garena build. The update had allegedly revealed a hitherto obfuscated map of the Chinese naval territories, which included the Vietnamese Trường Sa and Hoàng Sa island chains[[note]]While this development is nothing new, as the Chinese government had previously claimed ownership of many foreign islands and peninsulas in the Eastern Sea despite international opposition, the old in-game map didn't show this. It was speculated that something went wrong during the patching process which replaced the map with that of the global version, which always showed the new territory markings.[[/note]]. Naturally, many Vietnamese gamers didn't take lightly to this and boycotted the game, and Garena decided to just discontinue publishing and development of ''Onmyōji'' in the country altogether. This angered the remaining players who didn't want to let politics get in the way of their enjoyment of it. As of October 19 2019, the Garena build of ''Onmyōji'' is officially dead.
** The blatant PowerCreep nature of new shikigami also helped putting off a lot of players from playing the game altogether. The sheer brokenness of new shikigami is a massive boon...to those who manage to pull them, since the game clearly favors the more recent releases in the way of event buffs and strange mechanics that are hard to counter using more accessible units. To those who ''didn't'' manage to get lucky with the gacha, they represent increasingly massive hurdles to their competitive viability in the long run, especially in the way of PvP and event rankings, since those who got the GameBreaker units can easily steamroll the game into the ground, while they themselves can't make a dent regardless of how much effort they put into it all.
* ComplacentGamingSyndrome:
** The current must-have PVP shikigami now are Ashura, Semigoori Yuki-onna, Yomei Higanbana, and Rokumei Ōtakemaru, who have left the previous strategies to fall to dust.
*** While Ashura is a GlassCannon, his absurd damage output is enough to inflict a OneHitPolykill even against teams with Hakuzōsu for defense, so an entire battle can come down to whoever manages to attack first.
*** Semigoori Yuki-onna isn't that dangerous on her own, but her abilities as a WhiteMage can make it very difficult to take down her allies, her HerdHittingAttack will soften the enemy over time, and she can keep one enemy shikigami frozen out of play.
*** Yomei Higanbana can be invulnerable every other turn, and she starts out in her invulnerable state, making her HerdHittingAttack a solid method to take out GlassCannon shikigami.
*** Rokumei Ōtakemaru is currently the strongest PVP shikigami in the game. He's a LightningBruiser who can NoSell most status effects, inflict a HerdHittingAttack that can take down entire teams in 2 or 3 turns, has powerful DamageReduction, and [[KillOneOthersGetStronger grows stronger]] with every fallen shikigami, friend or foe.
** The former must-have [=SSRs=] were Onikiri and Hakuzōsu, the former due to his ridiculously-broken passive, and the latter to even ''attempt'' to resist that passive. Whereas older [=SSRs=] who hit hard could be defended against simply by putting on more shields and armor, or by crowd-controlling, Onikiri just made everything a freaking joke with his absurdly-powerful kit that ignores most manners of defenses on top of dealing obscene amounts of damage in a single swipe, often allowing him to win matches in one hit. And ''everybody'' used him in [[PlayerVersusPlayer PvP]], which made climbing the ranks a monumental task for those who didn't have him, or worse, had to fight those who ''do''. However, continuing PowerCreep has eventually left Onikiri a fairly mediocre shikigami, and while Hakuzōsu is still of some use, teams with some of the newer [=SPs=] can punch right through his defences.
** In the meta before Onikiri, ''everyone'' used Ootengu, or failing that, Ubume (or sometimes both), usually with Seductress soul, putting out more area of effect damage than anything else in the game. Ibaraki Doji may be popular for farming, but Ootengu and Ubume were popular for ''everything.'' They were, quite bluntly, [[GameBreaker horribly overpowered]] and players not lucky enough to get either of them were basically second-class.
** Competitive event bosses like Uber Orochi. There are, at most, ''maybe'' 3-4 valid teams that can be used to get the high damage scores necessary to get the top rewards, and the only things that vary between them are the choice of primary DPS[[note]]almost always Ibaraki Doji, although others can do in a pinch and sometimes Shuten Doji is more efficient[[/note]] and the pusher[[note]]the opposite of a puller, a shiki that can damage and slow all enemies to get your team more actions- it's almost always Kamikui, but Kiyohime equipped with Dawn Fairy soul is also a valid, if uncommon, option[[/note]], and ''maybe'' you can use Kaguya instead of Oitsuki, although nobody does. Otherwise, the use of both Ushi no Toki/Ushi no Koku Mairi and Bukkuman/Shoyo is ''literally mandatory-'' they're so ''[[GameBreaker insanely]]'' [[ThisLooksLikeAJobForAquaman overpowered against high HP bosses]] that if you ''don't'' use them it doesn't even qualify as SelfImposedChallenge- you're just messing around wasting your time.
** Uber bosses have daily leaderboards that show the team compositions of the 100 most-successful players each day, and it's not uncommon for upwards of ''95%'' of the top players to be running literally ''exactly'' the same lineup. This was, for example, [[NotHyperbole literally true]] during the Shiranui's Song uber boss, where exactly 95/100 of the top players were using the lineup of Ushi no Toki, Bukkuman, Oitsuki, Kamikui and Shuten Doji, and the other five were using the lineup of Ushi no Toki, Bukkuman, Oitsuki, Kamikui and Ibaraki Doji instead.
** The default team composition for 90% of the duel ranks, particularly the lower ones, is two pullers (Yamausagi or Kamaitachi) or a puller and a pusher (almost always SP Shuten Doji), Zashiki for orbs, and either 2 DPS (most commonly Onikiri and SP Ibaraki Doji) or a DPS and Orochi (for his ability to make the other DPS invincible and give it an immediate extra action), with either Seimei or Kagura (with Channel: Storm for another extra action). [[RocketTagGameplay The team with the higher-SPD puller wins, and the loser never even gets to act once before they get wiped out.]] There are a few other shikis you might see in variant compositions, such as Hakuzosu, a Kiyohime with Snow Spirit, or Hiyoribo, but for the most part "act first and attack repeatedly" is by far the most common strategy.
** On the far end of the spectrum, there are players who believe firmly in the "The best defense is a good offense" doctrine. In lieu of pull or pushers, or even CC shikigami for that matter, they simply hunker down with extremely beefy HP and other defensive buffs. A Hakuzōsu specced for SPD and Hiyoribo are typically the cornerstones of this strategy, with one shutting down basically 35% of all incoming ATK, and the other healing off what little damage was dealt, as well as reviving those who were slain, which are rare. As a result, if you don't have a Hakuzōsu that's fast ''and'' tanky, you should probably forget about reaching higher ranks in PvP altogether because it ain't happening. While this setup is actually rather easy to defeat using CC or indirect damage, the dangerous thing about it is how uncommon it is to be running into these guys, and as such one will almost always be caught unprepared for them in the midst of normal PvP matches.
*** And then there are those that combine obscene survivability ''with'' disgusting indirect damage and/or free turns, simply by putting Bake-kujira and the larger Kujira into that team setup, and have Shiranui babysit them to provide them additional moves. All three of them are simply powerhouses when put together, especially Kujira and Shiranui, who already hit like a truck on their own. With his Skeletal Shield active, which procs on his turns, Kujira will just casually burst your shikigami down if you hit anyone on his team at all, while you can't really do anything about it if he's protected by Hakuzōsu. This kind of setup is currently the reigning meta in PvP, so if you can't find a way to counter them, or have your own Game Breakers to bring to bear, expect to lose constantly against these folks.
* DemonicSpiders:
** Yamawaro. Despite being a low-tier R shikigami, he's known far and wide for his incredibly annoying skill that hits your entire team three times per volley, with a disturbingly high chance to Daze, giving him and his side more time to prepare for the next walloping, while your damage dealers are still recovering. Generally, Yamawaro is exceedingly annoying no matter where and how many of him appears, but secret zones and hard event stages are especially irritating, since those maps tend to have many of him at once. Being stunlocked by just one of him is already hair-tearingly irritating, but faced with two or even three at once, and you're probably already lost.
** During high levels of the Netherworld Gate challenge, Kyonshi Ani. Although the enemy shikigami stop leveling up once they hit level 40 at stage 31, their stats continue to endlessly increase [[TheComputerIsACheatingBastard to impossible levels]] until they're easily capable of killing even the most powerful teams of shikigami in only a couple of hits, meaning the only chance of progressing beyond a certain point is [[RocketTagGameplay getting in massive overwhelming damage to take them out before they can kill you]]. Unfortunately, Kyonshi Ani passively counterattacks whenever another shiki on its team dies, with a very high chance of stunning whatever it hits, so unless you OneHitKill everything (or at least all the Kyonshi Anis) in a stage on your first attack, or lock them down with CC (not a guaranteed thing as Kyonshi Ani's passive gives him free Effect RES), your shiki is going to take a major counterattack- which, since your DPS will naturally incline towards being a GlassCannon, can end up being enough to kill them in one shot, ''especially'' if there are multiple Kyonshi Anis in the stage all hitting them at once. Plus if you leave even one of them alive, they'll attempt to revive every one of their fallen allies with the time they bought by stunning your DPS. The potential stage 50 team comp of ''6 Kyonshi Anis'' is [[ThatOneLevel every player's nightmare]].
*** By the same token, the potential Netherworld Gate stage 52 team which includes a pair of Ootengus in the tier 2 spots beside the team leader. A common way of trivialising Netherworld Gate (including the aforementioned 6 Kyonshi Ani team) is locking them down with a fast CC shiki, commonly a Snow Spirit Kiyohime, and then killing them at your leisure. The problem is that Ootengu's Shelter makes him [[NoSell immune to the first CC he recives]], so if you're counting on this strategy to make your way through, it will fail you at stage 52 if you face this team comp. And because their stats are so inflated (they're far stronger than the 2 similar Ootengus you face in a stage 10 Soul zone), you ''have'' to one-shot kill ''both'' of the Ootengus (very difficult), or their Blade Storms will ''[[OneHitPolykill wipe you out]].'' It's the fact that a strategy which is perfectly valid for the other 69 stages is completely nullified here that makes them such a pain.
* DracoInLeatherPants: You can bet [[spoiler: Yaobikuni]] is ''bound'' to get this treatment in fan works. It is completely justified [[spoiler: as the {{big|BadFriend}} [[EvilAllAlong damn]] [[BitchInSheepsClothing reveal]] arrives ''way'' too late and portraying her accurately would be a big fucking spoiler to those not having reached that far in the story, and this is not to mention her [[NiceGirl original]] [[YamatoNadeshiko characterization]]'s having already been established in the minds of the majority of fans.]]
** Ōtengu is also getting this as well, what with his being a HeelFaceRevolvingDoor. Yuki-onna is also a frequent victim of this, as her villainy is not revealed until fairly late in the story.
* EvilIsSexy: [[spoiler:The humanoid SSR iteration of Orochi.]]
* FanNickname: As a fanon have it, Shiromujō's real name is "Tsukishiro" (actually, it is his skin name, ''Tsukishiro-no-enishi''), and its still sometimes being used by Kuromujō is the key to breaking him out of WistfulAmnesia. Following that line of thinking, Kuromujō's real name is also deemed as "Kurobane" (from skin name ''Kurobane-no-kizuna'').
** Failing that, they get called [[Manga/{{Gintama}} Okita and Hijikata]] respectively for [[Creator/KenichiSuzumura obvious]] [[Creator/KazuyaNakai reasons]].
** On the English servers, [[MsFanservice Yoto Hime]] has picked up the nickname "Panty Hime".
** Also on the English servers, Tamamo no Mae has acquired the silly nickname "Tamago no Mayo" (egg mayonnaise).
** "[[Manga/AttackOnTitan Armin]]" for Oguna and Yukidōji to a lesser extent, for [[Creator/MarinaInoue obvious reasons]].
** Onikiri has "Onigiri", "Rice Ball", "Anija" and "Mikazuki Munechika". Calling him by the name the real sword is currently known as, Higekiri, is also not uncommon.
** Less commonly, "[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders Noriaki Kakyoin]]" for Susabi, owing to their shared [[Creator/DaisukeHirakawa voice actor]], similarly-asymmetrical hair styles, deliberate bishōnen aesthetics, overall personality and attack pattern. Once the similarities sink in it's not difficult to see his 8-shot Scourge: Moon as a 20-meter-radius Emerald Splash, especially once it explodes and showers everything else in sight with projectiles...
** Yorimitsu is known as "Yoripotsu" in China, for becoming the official scapegoat of the game, so much so it became a meme.
** "[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventurePhantomBlood Dio Brando]]" for Arakawa-no-Aruji due to his [[Creator/TakehitoKoyasu voice actor]], and "[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders DIO]]" for his SP version which rolled out in early 2019.
** "[[LightNovel/{{Konosuba}} Aqua]]" for Enmusubi-no-Kami. Both are voiced by Creator/SoraAmamiya, and are {{Physical God}}esses. Enmusubi-no-Kami is noted to have a fairly awkward kit that's so heavily chance-based that it works against itself, hence the comparisons with a certain "useless" goddess.
** Ōtengu's 6th skin consisting of a white hooded outfit when coupled with his [[Creator/TomoakiMaeno voice actor]] sees him called [[VideoGame/ToukenRanbu Yamanbagiri Kunihiro]].
* {{Fanon}}: That Shiromujō and Kuromujō are really named "Tsukishiro" and "Kurobane" respectively.
* FanPreferredCouple: Though it can be safely assumed any and all successful couples in the fandom are fan-preferred since the game runs on AllLoveIsUnrequited with frequent TheLostLenore on the side. Here are a few examples:
** [[ParentalSubstitute Seimei]] [[BadassAndChildDuo x]] [[BecauseYouWereNiceToMe Kagura]]. Being the two master game icons and frequently sided together (by the game itself, no less), this seems to be the most populated het ship in the game. Although the ship is more popular towards eastern fans as western fans prefer to ship Seimei with Yaobikuni instead probably due to the fact that they find Seimei having a relationship with a kid a [[{{Squick}} little too disturbing]].
*** [[ShipTease Seimei x Yaobikuni]]. Popular enough among Chinese fans and the western fans, as stated above.
*** [[HoYay Seimei x Hiromasa]]. For fans of [[YaoiFangirl Yaoi / Slash]].
** [[ThoseTwoGuys Ibaraki-Doji x Shuten-Doji]]
** Susabi x Miketsu, what with their BroodingBoyGentleGirl dynamic and especially after the latter's past as a powerful ''inari'' is revealed.
** Ōtengu x Yuki-onna. Even though Yuki-Onna has a lot of ShipTease with her own Master, [[spoiler: Kuro Seimei]] in canon ([[EveryoneCanSeeIt and is even invoked by herself a lot of times, no less]]). In-canon, Otengu and Yuki-Onna's relationship is more professional than romantic, but it's probably because they're actually working together a lot [[spoiler:as the CoDragons to Kuro Seimei]]. The newest [[VideoGame/HearthstoneHeroesOfWarcraft Hearthstone-copy game of Onmyouji]], Onmyouji SSR, even gave them a card together. It's... [[https://i.imgur.com/ZG6M7Mc.jpg cute if not hilarious]] to say the least.
* FridgeBrilliance: The game includes references to one of Onigiri's historical names, Tomokiri (lit. equal cutter). In the story, [[spoiler: he mass-murdered his own kind.]]
* FridgeHorror: The possible fate of Yōko's other victims. Just think about it: Koi-no-sei isn't his first and only; Kappa has reported cases of ''yōkai'' going missing to the ''onmyōji'' before Koi-no-sei is kidnapped herself. At the end, only she is seen rescued. It can be very scary to imagine whatever happened to the rest of Yōko's victims and what he might have possibly done to them.
* FridgeLogic: The game has a crossover with ''Manga/{{Bleach}}''. {{Anachronism|Stew}} aside, this quickly makes one wonder how the {{shinigami}} from the latter canon with a completely different afterlife with a completely different set of lore and rules are going to integrate with the world of the former and its Buddhist-style ''jigoku''.
** Not that the ''Hōzuki'' crossover is free from this, with the existence of ''two different Enma'' in the canons. If the "idol" talk is anything to go by, this is probably explained as a result of time-travel.
* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments:
** [[LargeHam Yōko]]'s defeat at the end of chapter 7. ''Kooooon kooooon'', indeed.
** Thanks to the fact that Seimei's DeflectorShield NoSell[=s=] any purely debuffing skills except for that of Ame-onna, watching A.I Amanojaku Red tries to provoke your team members or A.I Dream Eater tries to put them to sleep can be quite hilarious.
** How Jikigaeru proves himself to be an obvious {{Tsundere}} regarding his feelings for Ame-onna. EveryoneCanSeeIt.
** Shuten-dōji's crying like a baby after he gets his butt kicked hard ''again'' by Seimei in chapter 22, and the conversation that follows.
** Hangan's epic OutOfCharacterMoment in episode 23.
** The infamous knockoff frog summons in side story #4.
* FriendlyFandoms:
** With ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'' for RelationshipVoiceActor reasons outlined in the trivia page.
** With ''VideoGame/GranblueFantasy'' because of the similar game mechanics.
** With ''VideoGame/ToukenRanbu'' because of [[AnthropomorphicPersonification Onigiri]].
** With ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' because of the similar premise of Japanese folklore creatures as cute girls.
** Starting in 2020, the Chinese and Japanese fanbase starts seeing an overlap with that of ''Shiwuyu/Tale of Food''.
* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: While the game is developed by a Chinese studio, it has a steady Japanese fanbase enough to spawn ''two'' [[TheMusical musical adaptations]] both performed in Japan by Japanese actors and even a ''themed cafe service'' in a cafe in Tokyo. It helps that the game is ''about'' Japan, revolves around Japanese folklore and history and stars an AllStarCast of big-name anime voice actors.
* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: The entire 1st side story. The fact it introduces the incredibly adorable Kurodōji and Shirodōji helps.
* HilariousInHindsight:
** The game shares a lot of its cast with Gintama, most notably the entire CelestialBureaucracy crew. Additionally, Kagura from both franchises are voiced by the same person.
** This is not the first time Creator/KosukeToriumi [[VideoGame/ToukenRanbu voices]] an [[AnthropomorphicPersonification personified sword]]. Both of them being well-known swords in Japanese history helps.
* IncestYayShipping:
** The Mujō brothers are frequently shipped together, thanks to the (probably unintentional) IncestSubtext in canon.
** Yorimitsu is reportedly shipped with Hiromasa due to both being Minamoto clansmen, though they aren't given any connections in canon.
* JunkRare:
** A small minority of SSR shikigami teeter dangerously closely towards this territory for a variety of factors, which include but are not limited to [[AwesomeButImpractical powerful but convoluted and overly-complicated kits]][[note]]Kusuriuri/Medicine Seller, Ryomenbotoke, Manga/InuYasha[[/note]], [[CripplingOverspecialization only being good at the off-meta things they do and not much else]][[note]]Arakawa-no-Aruji[[/note]], poor stats and/or utility relative to their rarity, subpar skills and effectiveness, or any combination of the above.
*** Thanks to the simply insane levels of PowerCreep, this has gone from "a small minority of [=SSRs=]" to "the overwhelming majority of [=SSRs=]", and even some of the earlier [=SPs=] like Ootengu Jr. Oh, you can still USE the old ones well enough since common [=PvE=] doesn't scale up with the power of new shiki releases, but if you want to do anything competitive, almost anything older than a year or two is basically worthless.
** The [[JokeCharacter frog shikigami]] are ''intended'' to be this, since they are both incredibly hard to acquire, and are completely worthless in combat.
* LauncherOfAThousandShips: Seimei himself. Period. Not only because he's the main character, but because he's a very kind {{Bishonen}} who always tries to help people, very charismatic, a ChickMagnet, the fact that he is a CelibateHero / ChasteHero, and has no official canon LoveInterest, leaves him ''very'' open to ''any'' possible pairings. Kagura, Yaobikuni, or Momiji being his most frequent ladies in fanworks, but it's not surprising to see him being paired with a lot of other characters in the series [[HoYay of any gender]].
* MindGameShip: [[spoiler: Again, [[ManipulativeBastard Yorimitsu]] and Onikiri.]]
* {{Moe}}: The grand prize goes to Shirodōji with his adorable looks and mannerisms, being a good and caring friend, bringing out the Mujō brothers' HiddenDepths and just being a lovely boy in general. His friend Kurodōji is a close second despite – or rather ''because of'' – his being a CreepyChild.
* NightmareFuel: Despite pretty packaging, this game has plenty of disturbing and violent content, especially in later events.
** The summoning animation for Kidomaru, will ''legitimately creep you out.'' It's shot [[ImpendingDoomPOV entirely from the first-person perspective of a small imp in the Demon's Walk as Kidomaru stalks it]]. The little critter looks around frantically as it hears the evil chuckling and the rattling of chains, but before it can escape the chains lash out of nowhere and bind it, enslaving it to the AxCrazy demon.
** The sheer amount of violence in many event [=PVs=] and memory scrolls. Taishakuten's in particular is squarely in {{Gorn}} territory, particularly the ''nightmarish'' scene where he purges the corrupt nobility by [[MindRape using his power to force them to confess their sins,]] [[PsychicAssistedSuicide then execute themselves by destroying their own spirit entities]]-- effectively ''ripping out their own hearts!''
* PlayTheGameSkipTheStory: Online gaming circles overwhelmingly focus on the gameplay itself, particularly collecting/raising shikigami and PvP, while the story parts don't receive as much attention even before it devolved into an utter KudzuPlot.
* ScrappyMechanic: Let's just say that the public announcement system when somebody manages to summon an SSR or SP shikigami isn't very well-appreciated. On a server-wide scale, it would seem harmless, and in theory it promotes the practice of complimenting your friends or guildmates if they manage to hit the 1% sweet spot that results in a rare shikigami being summoned, but in practice, it tends to have the opposite effect, especially if a player is particularly unlucky with the gacha. If you've spent all of your hard-earned jade and mystery amulets without gaining anything good out of the gacha, being flooded with torrents of notifications that your other friends were more lucky than you doesn't help, as instead of prompting you to compliment them, it feels like the game is deliberately rubbing salt into the wound instead. And as the cherry on top, these cannot be ignored either, as the game will incessantly pester you with the red notification on your menu bar that ''will not go away'' unless you open your inbox and read the messages yourself.
** Also, a lot of game mechanics are restricted to only being available at certain times of the day, usually for a few hours. This includes the basic Duel mode, the ''core [=PvP=] experience'' which would usually be the most appealing part of the game after you've completed the story content and built up a good team of shikigami, which is inexplicably only available for 4 hours per day[[note]]12:00-14:00 and 19:00-21:00 server time.[[/note]] The would later adjust it so you can fight unranked practice matches (which give no rewards) at other times at least, although it's still a poor compensation for those who are serious about climbing the ranked ladder or farming Honor to buy rewards from the shop, and it pretty much ended up entirely useless anyway since, with no rewards to fight for, almost nobody queues up for it.
** The Soul System in general; success or failure at the higher levels is determined by whether or not you can get perfectly optimised souls (when you see someone showing off their shiki build in chat that has 100% Crit and 300% Crit DMG you will ''burn'' with envy), but the system is blatantly and unashamedly rigged to screw you over, with [[DumpStat flat DEF, DEF% and Effect HIT (on souls that don't synergise with it)]] being ''insanely'' more likely to appear when leveling souls than [[OneStatToRuleThemAll Crit, Crit DMG, SPD and Effect HIT (on souls that DO synergise with it)]]. You can easily level up 10+ souls from level 0 to level 15 without getting a ''single'' rank-up on the essential stats, with soul after soul after soul having to be discarded because the game goes out of its way to only level up the useless ones.
* ShipsThatPassInTheNight:
** The Ōtengu/[[OneShotCharacter Yōko]] pairing is surprisingly popular within the fandom even though plot-wise they have never met.
** [[WarriorPoet Shoyō]] is also reportedly shipped with [[SmartPeoplePlayChess Kisei]]. The reason is likely because of their similar [[{{Bishonen}} looks]].
** Since only a handful of ''shikigami'' make appearances in the plot, pairings that involve those who don't tend to be this by default.
* ThatOneAttack: Seimei's Divine Lightning passive. When he's attacked, Seimei has a 10% chance to proc a passive backlash that deals negligible damage, but has a whopping ''20%'' chance to stun if he's upgraded enough. The fact that it's random makes Seimei a risky target in PvP, and it can even proc if he takes [=AoE=] SplashDamage or lingering [=DoT=] from someone else. Imagine you're within inches of an easy win, and then that bloody dragon stunned your important damage dealers, thus leading to a complete reversal and the opponent coming out victorious instead. For Seimei players, its randomness makes it unreliable, but the stun property puts it above Kagura's similar counter move.
* ThatOneBoss: Known GameBreaker characters, i.e Ibaraki-dōji and Susabi, are almost always {{nerf}}ed in the story mode in order to help the player advance the story. The same cannot be said for [[spoiler:Kuro Seimei, the final boss]] of chapter 18, to the point where there are ''entire forum threads'' dedicated to finding ways to defeat him.
* ThatOneLevel: There are just too many to concisely list, so here are a few examples. They are mostly found in the secret skin dungeons, which are purposefully made to be as inhumanly hard as possible as the AI team cheats ''[[TheComputerIsACheatingBastard hard]]''.
** Shishio's secret 10 has you play Guess Who? with him and a bunch of his clones, but only hitting the ''real'' Shishio does anything, since attacking the copies instantly heals every one of them to full. This basically forces you to take single-target DPS shikigami as your main damage dealer. And should you manage to KO the real Shishio, the enemy lineup is replaced by an extremely tanky setup that spits in the face of the ST DPS that you brought. Worse yet, that second lineup has a Momo, who could just simply revive Shishio and the madness starts all over again.
** Kingyo-hime's secret is just ''annoying'' to beat on level 10. Basically, you have to protect her while she takes the place of your onmyōji during the fights. Problem is, she's infuriatingly fragile, and will cause a mission failure if she dies. The AI being AI, they could just burst her down as soon as the battle begins and net you a game over, which they very well might. It wouldn't have been so bad otherwise, since with your own onmyōji you could manage the battle with their useful abilities. The other stages barely manage to avoid being here, since they're all rather simple to beat, before the meteoric difficulty spike takes round 10 right into this zone. And to top it off, the Bonus zone is simply round 10 but your Kingyo-hime is at base level and doesn't have any extra abilities, while the enemy boss does.
** Higanbana's stage 10 is usually pleasant, until you reach the boss herself and realize that she could put up a shield to block all damage you deal for 1 turn. This may not sound very problematic in and of itself, but her flower field, on top of dealing high damage, [[WoundThatWillNotHeal also reduces your units' max HP by 30% of the damage dealt each tick]], essentially putting a time/turn limit on your party until everybody dies from attrition. Normally, a high-leveled Chin and Onikiri could trivialize this fight, but the main issue is keeping them alive until the boss stage and beyond, as both are {{Glass Cannon}}s, and the two battles immediately prior are very likely to put a huge dent in your party's health, making them all the more vulnerable to being one-shot by the flower field on the next turn, or Higanbana's own escorts should they survive. It's notably one of a very small handful of Secret maps that cannot be bruteforced by Orochi.
** Inugami's secret is fairly easy if one has a reasonably strong team. However, stage 9 of that zone is a sharp DifficultySpike, with three separate enemy CC shikigami (Dōmeki, Mōba, and Hōōka) bearing down on you at once, with startlingly high Effect HIT that virtually guarantees to proc, pretty much permanently stun-locking your team in place until they die. Worse still is that Dōmeki and Mōba have the Fortune Cat ''mitama'' equipped, which regularly refills their orb meters to full on turn, allowing them to just spam their CC abilities relentlessly. Unless you can get lucky with ''mitama'' upgrading and get a lot of Effect RES, or can roll/borrow an SP Shuten-dōji from a friend, who has [[NoSell total CC immunity]] (and even then Dōmeki can still disable his special, necessitating that she be killed first), it's going to be rather nightmarish to clear. Making things worse is the boss Inugami's random ''mitama'' that he gets whenever you bring his HP meter to 0. Better [[LuckBasedMission pray that he doesn't also get a CC set]], or you're basically done for. Other than that, the rest of the secret zone is so easy it hurts.
** The story mode is infamous for its [[spoiler:first Kuro Seimei battle]], so much so that [[spoiler:passing chapter 18]] acquired minor memetic status.
* ThatOneSidequest: One of the regularly recurring weekly/fortnightly events is "Daruma Wishes", which adds random drops of cards with three types of Daruma (Base, Grade and Skill) on them which you can collect sets of from various actions to trade for these Daruma. Of course, Base and Grade Daruma are common enough that the only one worth bothering with is the [[RareCandy Skill Daruma]] (limited to 2 per event), but two extra Skill Daruma is quite a nice bonus. Trading for a Skill Daruma, however, costs 15 copies of each card. While you're guaranteed to get a Skill Daruma card every time you complete a bounty (easy) and Grade Daruma cards aren't ''that'' hard to get from Evo material zones (they can still be frustratingly rare, but Evo zones are pretty easy to clear in mere seconds), the [[RandomNumberGod drop rate]] for the Base Daruma cards (from Soul zones) is ''beyond'' abysmal. Exact numbers aren't known, but it's estimated the drop rate is as low as ''1-5%'' per run, so it's perfectly possible to do 20-30 Soul zones and not get even a ''single'' card. And since you need 30 to get the permitted 2 Skill Darumas, this means ''obscene'' amounts of grinding, which isn't even guaranteed to pay off at all! A lot of players wish [=NetEase=] would just scrap the event and replace it with one that's not so needlessly infuriating.
* TheissTitillationTheory: Yasha post-Awakening wears a bottom that appears so poorly secured the only explanation for why it stays on is magic.
* TierInducedScrappy: Onikiri, full stop. He is an intensely powerful and broken shikigami with a passive that lets him basically win matches with one hit, protection buffs be damned. Due to this, he's usually ''the'' one shikigami that you'll always use once you've summoned him, but at the same time he's also absolutely ''despised'' by those who have the misfortune of running into him in ranked matches without bringing another, extremely rare and specific SSR, along.
* ToyShip: Shirodōji and Kurodōji. The former's being a LivingEmotionalCrutch for the latter leads to some very adorable moments in the story.
* UnexpectedCharacter: Of the three shikigami from ''Manga/HozukisCoolheadedness'' appearing in the game, Houzuki went without saying and Oko was a fairly obvious choice, but pairing Peach Maki with Karashi as a single character was a very unexpected choice, as Maki is a character so minor she doesn't even have a character entry on either [[Characters/HozukisCoolheadedness our character page]] or [[http://hoozuki-no-reitetsu.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Characters the manga's own wiki]]. Even more ironically, Maki and Karashi are considered the most-useful of the three in-game.
* ViewerGenderConfusion:
** It is very easy to mistake Shirodōji and Kurodōji for girls until you hear their voices. There have also been fans who mistake [[LongHairedPrettyBoy Yōkinshi]] for a female character.
** [[CreepyCrossdresser Tamamo]]-[[DudeLooksLikeALady no]]-[[CrossdressingVoices Mae]], ''full stop''.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: the game is officially rated "8+", but it doesn't shy away from violent and grotesque depictions and descriptions.
* WTHCastingAgency: Many fans have this reaction towards Creator/TakehitoKoyasu in the role of [[AnimateInanimateObject Chōchin-obake]].
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* {{Adorkable}}: Enmusubi is a major ditz, surprisingly greedy (since she needs to pay to maintain her own shrine), is constantly bumbling into trouble and is obsessed with pairing romantic couples. She's also completely adorable.
* AlternateSelfShipping:
** Seimei has been shipped with Kuro Seimei, his EvilCounterpart, EnemyWithout and LiteralSplitPersonality.
** Shipping the Yin and Yang sides of Ungaikyo is also common, and this pairing also has canon basis in the entities' desire to touch each other.
* {{Anvilicious}}: No matter how well-intentioned or good-natured you are or what sympathetic background you come from, needless violence is wrong.
* SugarWiki/AwesomeMoments: Some of the cinematic scenes are extremely impressive; [[https://en.onmyojigame.com/yx/resource/devilfeastopening.mp4 the Demoniac Feast]] and [[https://en.onmyojigame.com/yx/resource/kinnaracg.mp4 Tune of Stars]] in particular are absolutely ''spectacular!''
* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The dream Seimei has [[spoiler: in which he kills Kagura]] at the beginning of episode 11 can be viewed as this. Neither is it mentioned again nor does it play any important role in the story.
* BreatherLevel: Surprisingly, some of the higher stages of certain skin dungeons can be this. The most prominent example of which is probably Ōtengu's Storm Peak, as difficulty takes a nosedive after surmounting stage 8, which is ThatOneLevel.
* BrokenBase:
** The Vietnamese playerbase of the game was split vertically in two following the October 16 update for the Garena build. The update had allegedly revealed a hitherto obfuscated map of the Chinese naval territories, which included the Vietnamese Trường Sa and Hoàng Sa island chains[[note]]While this development is nothing new, as the Chinese government had previously claimed ownership of many foreign islands and peninsulas in the Eastern Sea despite international opposition, the old in-game map didn't show this. It was speculated that something went wrong during the patching process which replaced the map with that of the global version, which always showed the new territory markings.[[/note]]. Naturally, many Vietnamese gamers didn't take lightly to this and boycotted the game, and Garena decided to just discontinue publishing and development of ''Onmyōji'' in the country altogether. This angered the remaining players who didn't want to let politics get in the way of their enjoyment of it. As of October 19 2019, the Garena build of ''Onmyōji'' is officially dead.
** The blatant PowerCreep nature of new shikigami also helped putting off a lot of players from playing the game altogether. The sheer brokenness of new shikigami is a massive boon...to those who manage to pull them, since the game clearly favors the more recent releases in the way of event buffs and strange mechanics that are hard to counter using more accessible units. To those who ''didn't'' manage to get lucky with the gacha, they represent increasingly massive hurdles to their competitive viability in the long run, especially in the way of PvP and event rankings, since those who got the GameBreaker units can easily steamroll the game into the ground, while they themselves can't make a dent regardless of how much effort they put into it all.
* ComplacentGamingSyndrome:
** The current must-have PVP shikigami now are Ashura, Semigoori Yuki-onna, Yomei Higanbana, and Rokumei Ōtakemaru, who have left the previous strategies to fall to dust.
*** While Ashura is a GlassCannon, his absurd damage output is enough to inflict a OneHitPolykill even against teams with Hakuzōsu for defense, so an entire battle can come down to whoever manages to attack first.
*** Semigoori Yuki-onna isn't that dangerous on her own, but her abilities as a WhiteMage can make it very difficult to take down her allies, her HerdHittingAttack will soften the enemy over time, and she can keep one enemy shikigami frozen out of play.
*** Yomei Higanbana can be invulnerable every other turn, and she starts out in her invulnerable state, making her HerdHittingAttack a solid method to take out GlassCannon shikigami.
*** Rokumei Ōtakemaru is currently the strongest PVP shikigami in the game. He's a LightningBruiser who can NoSell most status effects, inflict a HerdHittingAttack that can take down entire teams in 2 or 3 turns, has powerful DamageReduction, and [[KillOneOthersGetStronger grows stronger]] with every fallen shikigami, friend or foe.
** The former must-have [=SSRs=] were Onikiri and Hakuzōsu, the former due to his ridiculously-broken passive, and the latter to even ''attempt'' to resist that passive. Whereas older [=SSRs=] who hit hard could be defended against simply by putting on more shields and armor, or by crowd-controlling, Onikiri just made everything a freaking joke with his absurdly-powerful kit that ignores most manners of defenses on top of dealing obscene amounts of damage in a single swipe, often allowing him to win matches in one hit. And ''everybody'' used him in [[PlayerVersusPlayer PvP]], which made climbing the ranks a monumental task for those who didn't have him, or worse, had to fight those who ''do''. However, continuing PowerCreep has eventually left Onikiri a fairly mediocre shikigami, and while Hakuzōsu is still of some use, teams with some of the newer [=SPs=] can punch right through his defences.
** In the meta before Onikiri, ''everyone'' used Ootengu, or failing that, Ubume (or sometimes both), usually with Seductress soul, putting out more area of effect damage than anything else in the game. Ibaraki Doji may be popular for farming, but Ootengu and Ubume were popular for ''everything.'' They were, quite bluntly, [[GameBreaker horribly overpowered]] and players not lucky enough to get either of them were basically second-class.
** Competitive event bosses like Uber Orochi. There are, at most, ''maybe'' 3-4 valid teams that can be used to get the high damage scores necessary to get the top rewards, and the only things that vary between them are the choice of primary DPS[[note]]almost always Ibaraki Doji, although others can do in a pinch and sometimes Shuten Doji is more efficient[[/note]] and the pusher[[note]]the opposite of a puller, a shiki that can damage and slow all enemies to get your team more actions- it's almost always Kamikui, but Kiyohime equipped with Dawn Fairy soul is also a valid, if uncommon, option[[/note]], and ''maybe'' you can use Kaguya instead of Oitsuki, although nobody does. Otherwise, the use of both Ushi no Toki/Ushi no Koku Mairi and Bukkuman/Shoyo is ''literally mandatory-'' they're so ''[[GameBreaker insanely]]'' [[ThisLooksLikeAJobForAquaman overpowered against high HP bosses]] that if you ''don't'' use them it doesn't even qualify as SelfImposedChallenge- you're just messing around wasting your time.
** Uber bosses have daily leaderboards that show the team compositions of the 100 most-successful players each day, and it's not uncommon for upwards of ''95%'' of the top players to be running literally ''exactly'' the same lineup. This was, for example, [[NotHyperbole literally true]] during the Shiranui's Song uber boss, where exactly 95/100 of the top players were using the lineup of Ushi no Toki, Bukkuman, Oitsuki, Kamikui and Shuten Doji, and the other five were using the lineup of Ushi no Toki, Bukkuman, Oitsuki, Kamikui and Ibaraki Doji instead.
** The default team composition for 90% of the duel ranks, particularly the lower ones, is two pullers (Yamausagi or Kamaitachi) or a puller and a pusher (almost always SP Shuten Doji), Zashiki for orbs, and either 2 DPS (most commonly Onikiri and SP Ibaraki Doji) or a DPS and Orochi (for his ability to make the other DPS invincible and give it an immediate extra action), with either Seimei or Kagura (with Channel: Storm for another extra action). [[RocketTagGameplay The team with the higher-SPD puller wins, and the loser never even gets to act once before they get wiped out.]] There are a few other shikis you might see in variant compositions, such as Hakuzosu, a Kiyohime with Snow Spirit, or Hiyoribo, but for the most part "act first and attack repeatedly" is by far the most common strategy.
** On the far end of the spectrum, there are players who believe firmly in the "The best defense is a good offense" doctrine. In lieu of pull or pushers, or even CC shikigami for that matter, they simply hunker down with extremely beefy HP and other defensive buffs. A Hakuzōsu specced for SPD and Hiyoribo are typically the cornerstones of this strategy, with one shutting down basically 35% of all incoming ATK, and the other healing off what little damage was dealt, as well as reviving those who were slain, which are rare. As a result, if you don't have a Hakuzōsu that's fast ''and'' tanky, you should probably forget about reaching higher ranks in PvP altogether because it ain't happening. While this setup is actually rather easy to defeat using CC or indirect damage, the dangerous thing about it is how uncommon it is to be running into these guys, and as such one will almost always be caught unprepared for them in the midst of normal PvP matches.
*** And then there are those that combine obscene survivability ''with'' disgusting indirect damage and/or free turns, simply by putting Bake-kujira and the larger Kujira into that team setup, and have Shiranui babysit them to provide them additional moves. All three of them are simply powerhouses when put together, especially Kujira and Shiranui, who already hit like a truck on their own. With his Skeletal Shield active, which procs on his turns, Kujira will just casually burst your shikigami down if you hit anyone on his team at all, while you can't really do anything about it if he's protected by Hakuzōsu. This kind of setup is currently the reigning meta in PvP, so if you can't find a way to counter them, or have your own Game Breakers to bring to bear, expect to lose constantly against these folks.
* DemonicSpiders:
** Yamawaro. Despite being a low-tier R shikigami, he's known far and wide for his incredibly annoying skill that hits your entire team three times per volley, with a disturbingly high chance to Daze, giving him and his side more time to prepare for the next walloping, while your damage dealers are still recovering. Generally, Yamawaro is exceedingly annoying no matter where and how many of him appears, but secret zones and hard event stages are especially irritating, since those maps tend to have many of him at once. Being stunlocked by just one of him is already hair-tearingly irritating, but faced with two or even three at once, and you're probably already lost.
** During high levels of the Netherworld Gate challenge, Kyonshi Ani. Although the enemy shikigami stop leveling up once they hit level 40 at stage 31, their stats continue to endlessly increase [[TheComputerIsACheatingBastard to impossible levels]] until they're easily capable of killing even the most powerful teams of shikigami in only a couple of hits, meaning the only chance of progressing beyond a certain point is [[RocketTagGameplay getting in massive overwhelming damage to take them out before they can kill you]]. Unfortunately, Kyonshi Ani passively counterattacks whenever another shiki on its team dies, with a very high chance of stunning whatever it hits, so unless you OneHitKill everything (or at least all the Kyonshi Anis) in a stage on your first attack, or lock them down with CC (not a guaranteed thing as Kyonshi Ani's passive gives him free Effect RES), your shiki is going to take a major counterattack- which, since your DPS will naturally incline towards being a GlassCannon, can end up being enough to kill them in one shot, ''especially'' if there are multiple Kyonshi Anis in the stage all hitting them at once. Plus if you leave even one of them alive, they'll attempt to revive every one of their fallen allies with the time they bought by stunning your DPS. The potential stage 50 team comp of ''6 Kyonshi Anis'' is [[ThatOneLevel every player's nightmare]].
*** By the same token, the potential Netherworld Gate stage 52 team which includes a pair of Ootengus in the tier 2 spots beside the team leader. A common way of trivialising Netherworld Gate (including the aforementioned 6 Kyonshi Ani team) is locking them down with a fast CC shiki, commonly a Snow Spirit Kiyohime, and then killing them at your leisure. The problem is that Ootengu's Shelter makes him [[NoSell immune to the first CC he recives]], so if you're counting on this strategy to make your way through, it will fail you at stage 52 if you face this team comp. And because their stats are so inflated (they're far stronger than the 2 similar Ootengus you face in a stage 10 Soul zone), you ''have'' to one-shot kill ''both'' of the Ootengus (very difficult), or their Blade Storms will ''[[OneHitPolykill wipe you out]].'' It's the fact that a strategy which is perfectly valid for the other 69 stages is completely nullified here that makes them such a pain.
* DracoInLeatherPants: You can bet [[spoiler: Yaobikuni]] is ''bound'' to get this treatment in fan works. It is completely justified [[spoiler: as the {{big|BadFriend}} [[EvilAllAlong damn]] [[BitchInSheepsClothing reveal]] arrives ''way'' too late and portraying her accurately would be a big fucking spoiler to those not having reached that far in the story, and this is not to mention her [[NiceGirl original]] [[YamatoNadeshiko characterization]]'s having already been established in the minds of the majority of fans.]]
** Ōtengu is also getting this as well, what with his being a HeelFaceRevolvingDoor. Yuki-onna is also a frequent victim of this, as her villainy is not revealed until fairly late in the story.
* EvilIsSexy: [[spoiler:The humanoid SSR iteration of Orochi.]]
* FanNickname: As a fanon have it, Shiromujō's real name is "Tsukishiro" (actually, it is his skin name, ''Tsukishiro-no-enishi''), and its still sometimes being used by Kuromujō is the key to breaking him out of WistfulAmnesia. Following that line of thinking, Kuromujō's real name is also deemed as "Kurobane" (from skin name ''Kurobane-no-kizuna'').
** Failing that, they get called [[Manga/{{Gintama}} Okita and Hijikata]] respectively for [[Creator/KenichiSuzumura obvious]] [[Creator/KazuyaNakai reasons]].
** On the English servers, [[MsFanservice Yoto Hime]] has picked up the nickname "Panty Hime".
** Also on the English servers, Tamamo no Mae has acquired the silly nickname "Tamago no Mayo" (egg mayonnaise).
** "[[Manga/AttackOnTitan Armin]]" for Oguna and Yukidōji to a lesser extent, for [[Creator/MarinaInoue obvious reasons]].
** Onikiri has "Onigiri", "Rice Ball", "Anija" and "Mikazuki Munechika". Calling him by the name the real sword is currently known as, Higekiri, is also not uncommon.
** Less commonly, "[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders Noriaki Kakyoin]]" for Susabi, owing to their shared [[Creator/DaisukeHirakawa voice actor]], similarly-asymmetrical hair styles, deliberate bishōnen aesthetics, overall personality and attack pattern. Once the similarities sink in it's not difficult to see his 8-shot Scourge: Moon as a 20-meter-radius Emerald Splash, especially once it explodes and showers everything else in sight with projectiles...
** Yorimitsu is known as "Yoripotsu" in China, for becoming the official scapegoat of the game, so much so it became a meme.
** "[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventurePhantomBlood Dio Brando]]" for Arakawa-no-Aruji due to his [[Creator/TakehitoKoyasu voice actor]], and "[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders DIO]]" for his SP version which rolled out in early 2019.
** "[[LightNovel/{{Konosuba}} Aqua]]" for Enmusubi-no-Kami. Both are voiced by Creator/SoraAmamiya, and are {{Physical God}}esses. Enmusubi-no-Kami is noted to have a fairly awkward kit that's so heavily chance-based that it works against itself, hence the comparisons with a certain "useless" goddess.
** Ōtengu's 6th skin consisting of a white hooded outfit when coupled with his [[Creator/TomoakiMaeno voice actor]] sees him called [[VideoGame/ToukenRanbu Yamanbagiri Kunihiro]].
* {{Fanon}}: That Shiromujō and Kuromujō are really named "Tsukishiro" and "Kurobane" respectively.
* FanPreferredCouple: Though it can be safely assumed any and all successful couples in the fandom are fan-preferred since the game runs on AllLoveIsUnrequited with frequent TheLostLenore on the side. Here are a few examples:
** [[ParentalSubstitute Seimei]] [[BadassAndChildDuo x]] [[BecauseYouWereNiceToMe Kagura]]. Being the two master game icons and frequently sided together (by the game itself, no less), this seems to be the most populated het ship in the game. Although the ship is more popular towards eastern fans as western fans prefer to ship Seimei with Yaobikuni instead probably due to the fact that they find Seimei having a relationship with a kid a [[{{Squick}} little too disturbing]].
*** [[ShipTease Seimei x Yaobikuni]]. Popular enough among Chinese fans and the western fans, as stated above.
*** [[HoYay Seimei x Hiromasa]]. For fans of [[YaoiFangirl Yaoi / Slash]].
** [[ThoseTwoGuys Ibaraki-Doji x Shuten-Doji]]
** Susabi x Miketsu, what with their BroodingBoyGentleGirl dynamic and especially after the latter's past as a powerful ''inari'' is revealed.
** Ōtengu x Yuki-onna. Even though Yuki-Onna has a lot of ShipTease with her own Master, [[spoiler: Kuro Seimei]] in canon ([[EveryoneCanSeeIt and is even invoked by herself a lot of times, no less]]). In-canon, Otengu and Yuki-Onna's relationship is more professional than romantic, but it's probably because they're actually working together a lot [[spoiler:as the CoDragons to Kuro Seimei]]. The newest [[VideoGame/HearthstoneHeroesOfWarcraft Hearthstone-copy game of Onmyouji]], Onmyouji SSR, even gave them a card together. It's... [[https://i.imgur.com/ZG6M7Mc.jpg cute if not hilarious]] to say the least.
* FridgeBrilliance: The game includes references to one of Onigiri's historical names, Tomokiri (lit. equal cutter). In the story, [[spoiler: he mass-murdered his own kind.]]
* FridgeHorror: The possible fate of Yōko's other victims. Just think about it: Koi-no-sei isn't his first and only; Kappa has reported cases of ''yōkai'' going missing to the ''onmyōji'' before Koi-no-sei is kidnapped herself. At the end, only she is seen rescued. It can be very scary to imagine whatever happened to the rest of Yōko's victims and what he might have possibly done to them.
* FridgeLogic: The game has a crossover with ''Manga/{{Bleach}}''. {{Anachronism|Stew}} aside, this quickly makes one wonder how the {{shinigami}} from the latter canon with a completely different afterlife with a completely different set of lore and rules are going to integrate with the world of the former and its Buddhist-style ''jigoku''.
** Not that the ''Hōzuki'' crossover is free from this, with the existence of ''two different Enma'' in the canons. If the "idol" talk is anything to go by, this is probably explained as a result of time-travel.
* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments:
** [[LargeHam Yōko]]'s defeat at the end of chapter 7. ''Kooooon kooooon'', indeed.
** Thanks to the fact that Seimei's DeflectorShield NoSell[=s=] any purely debuffing skills except for that of Ame-onna, watching A.I Amanojaku Red tries to provoke your team members or A.I Dream Eater tries to put them to sleep can be quite hilarious.
** How Jikigaeru proves himself to be an obvious {{Tsundere}} regarding his feelings for Ame-onna. EveryoneCanSeeIt.
** Shuten-dōji's crying like a baby after he gets his butt kicked hard ''again'' by Seimei in chapter 22, and the conversation that follows.
** Hangan's epic OutOfCharacterMoment in episode 23.
** The infamous knockoff frog summons in side story #4.
* FriendlyFandoms:
** With ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'' for RelationshipVoiceActor reasons outlined in the trivia page.
** With ''VideoGame/GranblueFantasy'' because of the similar game mechanics.
** With ''VideoGame/ToukenRanbu'' because of [[AnthropomorphicPersonification Onigiri]].
** With ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' because of the similar premise of Japanese folklore creatures as cute girls.
** Starting in 2020, the Chinese and Japanese fanbase starts seeing an overlap with that of ''Shiwuyu/Tale of Food''.
* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: While the game is developed by a Chinese studio, it has a steady Japanese fanbase enough to spawn ''two'' [[TheMusical musical adaptations]] both performed in Japan by Japanese actors and even a ''themed cafe service'' in a cafe in Tokyo. It helps that the game is ''about'' Japan, revolves around Japanese folklore and history and stars an AllStarCast of big-name anime voice actors.
* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: The entire 1st side story. The fact it introduces the incredibly adorable Kurodōji and Shirodōji helps.
* HilariousInHindsight:
** The game shares a lot of its cast with Gintama, most notably the entire CelestialBureaucracy crew. Additionally, Kagura from both franchises are voiced by the same person.
** This is not the first time Creator/KosukeToriumi [[VideoGame/ToukenRanbu voices]] an [[AnthropomorphicPersonification personified sword]]. Both of them being well-known swords in Japanese history helps.
* IncestYayShipping:
** The Mujō brothers are frequently shipped together, thanks to the (probably unintentional) IncestSubtext in canon.
** Yorimitsu is reportedly shipped with Hiromasa due to both being Minamoto clansmen, though they aren't given any connections in canon.
* JunkRare:
** A small minority of SSR shikigami teeter dangerously closely towards this territory for a variety of factors, which include but are not limited to [[AwesomeButImpractical powerful but convoluted and overly-complicated kits]][[note]]Kusuriuri/Medicine Seller, Ryomenbotoke, Manga/InuYasha[[/note]], [[CripplingOverspecialization only being good at the off-meta things they do and not much else]][[note]]Arakawa-no-Aruji[[/note]], poor stats and/or utility relative to their rarity, subpar skills and effectiveness, or any combination of the above.
*** Thanks to the simply insane levels of PowerCreep, this has gone from "a small minority of [=SSRs=]" to "the overwhelming majority of [=SSRs=]", and even some of the earlier [=SPs=] like Ootengu Jr. Oh, you can still USE the old ones well enough since common [=PvE=] doesn't scale up with the power of new shiki releases, but if you want to do anything competitive, almost anything older than a year or two is basically worthless.
** The [[JokeCharacter frog shikigami]] are ''intended'' to be this, since they are both incredibly hard to acquire, and are completely worthless in combat.
* LauncherOfAThousandShips: Seimei himself. Period. Not only because he's the main character, but because he's a very kind {{Bishonen}} who always tries to help people, very charismatic, a ChickMagnet, the fact that he is a CelibateHero / ChasteHero, and has no official canon LoveInterest, leaves him ''very'' open to ''any'' possible pairings. Kagura, Yaobikuni, or Momiji being his most frequent ladies in fanworks, but it's not surprising to see him being paired with a lot of other characters in the series [[HoYay of any gender]].
* MindGameShip: [[spoiler: Again, [[ManipulativeBastard Yorimitsu]] and Onikiri.]]
* {{Moe}}: The grand prize goes to Shirodōji with his adorable looks and mannerisms, being a good and caring friend, bringing out the Mujō brothers' HiddenDepths and just being a lovely boy in general. His friend Kurodōji is a close second despite – or rather ''because of'' – his being a CreepyChild.
* NightmareFuel: Despite pretty packaging, this game has plenty of disturbing and violent content, especially in later events.
** The summoning animation for Kidomaru, will ''legitimately creep you out.'' It's shot [[ImpendingDoomPOV entirely from the first-person perspective of a small imp in the Demon's Walk as Kidomaru stalks it]]. The little critter looks around frantically as it hears the evil chuckling and the rattling of chains, but before it can escape the chains lash out of nowhere and bind it, enslaving it to the AxCrazy demon.
** The sheer amount of violence in many event [=PVs=] and memory scrolls. Taishakuten's in particular is squarely in {{Gorn}} territory, particularly the ''nightmarish'' scene where he purges the corrupt nobility by [[MindRape using his power to force them to confess their sins,]] [[PsychicAssistedSuicide then execute themselves by destroying their own spirit entities]]-- effectively ''ripping out their own hearts!''
* PlayTheGameSkipTheStory: Online gaming circles overwhelmingly focus on the gameplay itself, particularly collecting/raising shikigami and PvP, while the story parts don't receive as much attention even before it devolved into an utter KudzuPlot.
* ScrappyMechanic: Let's just say that the public announcement system when somebody manages to summon an SSR or SP shikigami isn't very well-appreciated. On a server-wide scale, it would seem harmless, and in theory it promotes the practice of complimenting your friends or guildmates if they manage to hit the 1% sweet spot that results in a rare shikigami being summoned, but in practice, it tends to have the opposite effect, especially if a player is particularly unlucky with the gacha. If you've spent all of your hard-earned jade and mystery amulets without gaining anything good out of the gacha, being flooded with torrents of notifications that your other friends were more lucky than you doesn't help, as instead of prompting you to compliment them, it feels like the game is deliberately rubbing salt into the wound instead. And as the cherry on top, these cannot be ignored either, as the game will incessantly pester you with the red notification on your menu bar that ''will not go away'' unless you open your inbox and read the messages yourself.
** Also, a lot of game mechanics are restricted to only being available at certain times of the day, usually for a few hours. This includes the basic Duel mode, the ''core [=PvP=] experience'' which would usually be the most appealing part of the game after you've completed the story content and built up a good team of shikigami, which is inexplicably only available for 4 hours per day[[note]]12:00-14:00 and 19:00-21:00 server time.[[/note]] The would later adjust it so you can fight unranked practice matches (which give no rewards) at other times at least, although it's still a poor compensation for those who are serious about climbing the ranked ladder or farming Honor to buy rewards from the shop, and it pretty much ended up entirely useless anyway since, with no rewards to fight for, almost nobody queues up for it.
** The Soul System in general; success or failure at the higher levels is determined by whether or not you can get perfectly optimised souls (when you see someone showing off their shiki build in chat that has 100% Crit and 300% Crit DMG you will ''burn'' with envy), but the system is blatantly and unashamedly rigged to screw you over, with [[DumpStat flat DEF, DEF% and Effect HIT (on souls that don't synergise with it)]] being ''insanely'' more likely to appear when leveling souls than [[OneStatToRuleThemAll Crit, Crit DMG, SPD and Effect HIT (on souls that DO synergise with it)]]. You can easily level up 10+ souls from level 0 to level 15 without getting a ''single'' rank-up on the essential stats, with soul after soul after soul having to be discarded because the game goes out of its way to only level up the useless ones.
* ShipsThatPassInTheNight:
** The Ōtengu/[[OneShotCharacter Yōko]] pairing is surprisingly popular within the fandom even though plot-wise they have never met.
** [[WarriorPoet Shoyō]] is also reportedly shipped with [[SmartPeoplePlayChess Kisei]]. The reason is likely because of their similar [[{{Bishonen}} looks]].
** Since only a handful of ''shikigami'' make appearances in the plot, pairings that involve those who don't tend to be this by default.
* ThatOneAttack: Seimei's Divine Lightning passive. When he's attacked, Seimei has a 10% chance to proc a passive backlash that deals negligible damage, but has a whopping ''20%'' chance to stun if he's upgraded enough. The fact that it's random makes Seimei a risky target in PvP, and it can even proc if he takes [=AoE=] SplashDamage or lingering [=DoT=] from someone else. Imagine you're within inches of an easy win, and then that bloody dragon stunned your important damage dealers, thus leading to a complete reversal and the opponent coming out victorious instead. For Seimei players, its randomness makes it unreliable, but the stun property puts it above Kagura's similar counter move.
* ThatOneBoss: Known GameBreaker characters, i.e Ibaraki-dōji and Susabi, are almost always {{nerf}}ed in the story mode in order to help the player advance the story. The same cannot be said for [[spoiler:Kuro Seimei, the final boss]] of chapter 18, to the point where there are ''entire forum threads'' dedicated to finding ways to defeat him.
* ThatOneLevel: There are just too many to concisely list, so here are a few examples. They are mostly found in the secret skin dungeons, which are purposefully made to be as inhumanly hard as possible as the AI team cheats ''[[TheComputerIsACheatingBastard hard]]''.
** Shishio's secret 10 has you play Guess Who? with him and a bunch of his clones, but only hitting the ''real'' Shishio does anything, since attacking the copies instantly heals every one of them to full. This basically forces you to take single-target DPS shikigami as your main damage dealer. And should you manage to KO the real Shishio, the enemy lineup is replaced by an extremely tanky setup that spits in the face of the ST DPS that you brought. Worse yet, that second lineup has a Momo, who could just simply revive Shishio and the madness starts all over again.
** Kingyo-hime's secret is just ''annoying'' to beat on level 10. Basically, you have to protect her while she takes the place of your onmyōji during the fights. Problem is, she's infuriatingly fragile, and will cause a mission failure if she dies. The AI being AI, they could just burst her down as soon as the battle begins and net you a game over, which they very well might. It wouldn't have been so bad otherwise, since with your own onmyōji you could manage the battle with their useful abilities. The other stages barely manage to avoid being here, since they're all rather simple to beat, before the meteoric difficulty spike takes round 10 right into this zone. And to top it off, the Bonus zone is simply round 10 but your Kingyo-hime is at base level and doesn't have any extra abilities, while the enemy boss does.
** Higanbana's stage 10 is usually pleasant, until you reach the boss herself and realize that she could put up a shield to block all damage you deal for 1 turn. This may not sound very problematic in and of itself, but her flower field, on top of dealing high damage, [[WoundThatWillNotHeal also reduces your units' max HP by 30% of the damage dealt each tick]], essentially putting a time/turn limit on your party until everybody dies from attrition. Normally, a high-leveled Chin and Onikiri could trivialize this fight, but the main issue is keeping them alive until the boss stage and beyond, as both are {{Glass Cannon}}s, and the two battles immediately prior are very likely to put a huge dent in your party's health, making them all the more vulnerable to being one-shot by the flower field on the next turn, or Higanbana's own escorts should they survive. It's notably one of a very small handful of Secret maps that cannot be bruteforced by Orochi.
** Inugami's secret is fairly easy if one has a reasonably strong team. However, stage 9 of that zone is a sharp DifficultySpike, with three separate enemy CC shikigami (Dōmeki, Mōba, and Hōōka) bearing down on you at once, with startlingly high Effect HIT that virtually guarantees to proc, pretty much permanently stun-locking your team in place until they die. Worse still is that Dōmeki and Mōba have the Fortune Cat ''mitama'' equipped, which regularly refills their orb meters to full on turn, allowing them to just spam their CC abilities relentlessly. Unless you can get lucky with ''mitama'' upgrading and get a lot of Effect RES, or can roll/borrow an SP Shuten-dōji from a friend, who has [[NoSell total CC immunity]] (and even then Dōmeki can still disable his special, necessitating that she be killed first), it's going to be rather nightmarish to clear. Making things worse is the boss Inugami's random ''mitama'' that he gets whenever you bring his HP meter to 0. Better [[LuckBasedMission pray that he doesn't also get a CC set]], or you're basically done for. Other than that, the rest of the secret zone is so easy it hurts.
** The story mode is infamous for its [[spoiler:first Kuro Seimei battle]], so much so that [[spoiler:passing chapter 18]] acquired minor memetic status.
* ThatOneSidequest: One of the regularly recurring weekly/fortnightly events is "Daruma Wishes", which adds random drops of cards with three types of Daruma (Base, Grade and Skill) on them which you can collect sets of from various actions to trade for these Daruma. Of course, Base and Grade Daruma are common enough that the only one worth bothering with is the [[RareCandy Skill Daruma]] (limited to 2 per event), but two extra Skill Daruma is quite a nice bonus. Trading for a Skill Daruma, however, costs 15 copies of each card. While you're guaranteed to get a Skill Daruma card every time you complete a bounty (easy) and Grade Daruma cards aren't ''that'' hard to get from Evo material zones (they can still be frustratingly rare, but Evo zones are pretty easy to clear in mere seconds), the [[RandomNumberGod drop rate]] for the Base Daruma cards (from Soul zones) is ''beyond'' abysmal. Exact numbers aren't known, but it's estimated the drop rate is as low as ''1-5%'' per run, so it's perfectly possible to do 20-30 Soul zones and not get even a ''single'' card. And since you need 30 to get the permitted 2 Skill Darumas, this means ''obscene'' amounts of grinding, which isn't even guaranteed to pay off at all! A lot of players wish [=NetEase=] would just scrap the event and replace it with one that's not so needlessly infuriating.
* TheissTitillationTheory: Yasha post-Awakening wears a bottom that appears so poorly secured the only explanation for why it stays on is magic.
* TierInducedScrappy: Onikiri, full stop. He is an intensely powerful and broken shikigami with a passive that lets him basically win matches with one hit, protection buffs be damned. Due to this, he's usually ''the'' one shikigami that you'll always use once you've summoned him, but at the same time he's also absolutely ''despised'' by those who have the misfortune of running into him in ranked matches without bringing another, extremely rare and specific SSR, along.
* ToyShip: Shirodōji and Kurodōji. The former's being a LivingEmotionalCrutch for the latter leads to some very adorable moments in the story.
* UnexpectedCharacter: Of the three shikigami from ''Manga/HozukisCoolheadedness'' appearing in the game, Houzuki went without saying and Oko was a fairly obvious choice, but pairing Peach Maki with Karashi as a single character was a very unexpected choice, as Maki is a character so minor she doesn't even have a character entry on either [[Characters/HozukisCoolheadedness our character page]] or [[http://hoozuki-no-reitetsu.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Characters the manga's own wiki]]. Even more ironically, Maki and Karashi are considered the most-useful of the three in-game.
* ViewerGenderConfusion:
** It is very easy to mistake Shirodōji and Kurodōji for girls until you hear their voices. There have also been fans who mistake [[LongHairedPrettyBoy Yōkinshi]] for a female character.
** [[CreepyCrossdresser Tamamo]]-[[DudeLooksLikeALady no]]-[[CrossdressingVoices Mae]], ''full stop''.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: the game is officially rated "8+", but it doesn't shy away from violent and grotesque depictions and descriptions.
* WTHCastingAgency: Many fans have this reaction towards Creator/TakehitoKoyasu in the role of [[AnimateInanimateObject Chōchin-obake]].
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