Eternal Fighter Zero / YMMV

Adaptation Displacement: Chances are, if you know about AIR, Kanon, One: Kagayaku Kisetsu e, and/or MOON, it's because their characters are in Eternal Fighter Zero. Special mention goes to MOON, as it's so obscure it doesn't have an anime or TV Tropes page.
Crosses the Line Twice: Misuzu's Final Memory is a recreation of her final moments in life and she takes three steps forward towards her opponent. Seeing the attack connect, especially when winning a round with it, recalls one of the most somber moments in AIR. Seeing her miss only to trip and fall flat on her face while her clothes and hair suddenly return to normal, however, ends up circling back around to being hilarious.
Dancing Bear: The casts of Air, Kanon, and One: Kagayaku Kisetsu e are in Eternal Fighter Zero. This is the only reason why anyone actually gets around to watching these series (or playing their visual novels).
Game-Breaker: Kanna, simply Kanna: Her attacks have huge range and priority, and she wasn't nerfed for the multiplayer, which means players can abuse her high-priority attacks and damage outputs, so she's normally banned from high-level play. Fighting style-wise, she's like a combination of Justice and Dizzy, both from Guilty Gear.
Hilarious in Hindsight:
- The game has a cast of 23 playable characters, distributed in an 8x3 grid, with the second place of the last row reserved for the random select. Several years later, comes Arcana Heart 3: LOVE MAX!!!!!, another all-female Fighting Game, which use the exact same distribution for its roster.
- In this game, Ayu grows wings behind her to fight; later in the 2002 anime version of Kanon, she's seen with pink wings during the Spoiler Opening.
- EFZ may have been the first, but certainly not the last game to put Key/Visual Arts characters to fight just because it's fun; we have, for example, Kanon and Air Smash, an Affectionate Parody of Super Smash Bros. with characters from AIR and Kanon; and another one called Glove On Fight, a boxing game with Super-Deformed, Ax-Crazy characters, which features Ayu and Akiko as playables; and there's also Tomoyo Fighter, a series of Beat 'em Up games starring, as its name indicates, Tomoyo from CLANNAD.
- In Kanon, Makoto lost all her memories about her past; Later, EFZ gave her amazing fighting skills and mastery with guns. Now, who are we talking about? Makoto Sawatari, or Jason Bourne?
- And this wouldn't be the last time we would see Akiko's Car Fu super. Years later, in Marvel vs. Capcom 3, She-Hulk would pull the same stunt.
- This game also has Misuzu grow wings and plant book traps. In My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, Twilight Sparkle would permanently grow wings at the end of Season 3, and in My Little Pony: Fighting Is Magic, she has book traps as well.
- A brown-haired girl with above-average physical strength has an ice-powered sister.
Iconic Character, Forgotten Title: Far more people know EFZ's cast from this game than from AIR, Kanon, One, and especially Moon.
Memetic Mutation: The Sayurispin, thanks to Sayuri being graduated from Rugal's school. ^Explanation
Moe: Well, it's a Fighting Game with cute and adorable girls, masters of quirky fighting styles, so everyone counts to varying degrees. Special mention to Mayu and Mio for the ONE side, Sayuri and Nayuki for the Kanon side, and Misuzu and Kano for the AIR side. They all even sport moe stares in her portraits.
Pop-Cultural Osmosis: A number of players had interest in AIR, Kanon, One and MOON, simply because of the characters' appearance here. Note that the last novel doesn't even have an anime or TV Tropes page - that's how obscure they are.
That One Boss: Say what you want about Kanna, at least she goes mild on you at difficulties 1 and 2; Unknown, on the other hand, can be a headache at level 2: fast attacks, high priority, and a tendency of filling the screen with energy orbs and vertical lasers will keep you occupied for a time.

YMMV / Eternal Fighter Zero

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