A Date A Live Visual Novel.
Date A Live: Ars Install provides examples of:
- Artificial Intelligence: Maria Ars the A.I. controlling the virtual reality of the game, meaning she is neither a human nor a spirit, this same meaning applies to Marina. Until the collective energy of the Spirits accumulated in the system turns them both into a Irregular Spirits, that is.
- Bad Habits: For some reason, Marina is dressed like a nun minus the coif (nun's hat), despite acting nothing like one.
- Big Bad: It's clear that Marina Ars is the main antagonist of the visual novel from the get-go. Marina is the one responsible for trapping Shido and the Spirits in the system, and by the end of the game she eventually manages to take over the Fraxinus. However, what is not obvious, is that Westcott is the offscreen Greater-Scope Villain who ordered her to do all of the above.
- Dark Is Evil: Marina is essentially a Darker and Edgier Maria, and also the Big Bad.
- The Game Come to Life: The premise is that Shido gets trapped inside the game after trying out the new game the Fraxinus crew made.
- Heel–Face Turn: Marina slowly undergoes this throughout the story, before finally earning Redemption Equals Death at the end of the game.
- Shout-Out: One of Origami's facial expressions has her clasping the right side of her face with her palm. That's just one hand short of copying the infamous "yandere trance" face of Yuuno Gasai.
- Spell My Name With An S: Ars or Arusu? The former is how it's MEANT to be spelled in English, but the latter is how it comes out thanks to how Japanese syllables work.
- Tomato in the Mirror: Maria isn't the real Ars.
- Walking Spoiler: Marina's identity, her role, as well as her backstory spoils the entire visual novel.
- What Is This Thing You Call "Love"?: This is the tagline of the 2nd Date A Live visual novel at Compile Heart's
website.
Cue the "What is love?" jokes amongst the English-speaking fans.
