YMMV / MasaeAnela

• Accidental Innuendo:
  • Her exchanges with Chuggaaconroy in part 38 of Donkey Kong Country Returns (3D).
    Masae: (Giggling) I love how tiny you are! Look at how tiny you are!
    Chugga: Uh... Well... I'm... I have a few attributes, I'm the only way you can play through solo, and-oh, the giant glowing balls of awesomeness!
    Masae: (laughs) Nice title.
    Masae: Oh! Okay, so we blow each other along...
    Chugga: (immediately cracks up)
    Masae: SHUT UP. SHUT UP. SHUT UP. SHUT UP. No one listen to me.
  • In part 29 of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D Master Quest:
    Masae: I have bombs coming out of the wazoo right now. You know my wazoo? There's lots of bombs coming out of it. *beat* I don't know what a wazoo is, but we will run with it. We will run with it. We will work with wazoos.
  • From part 3 of her Kirby Mass Attack Let's Play: "You know what's better than two balls? Many balls!" She's playing pinball.
• Archive Panic: Her Tales of Vesperia Let's Play is 173 videos long, and it was made after Youtube removed the 10 minute time limit, so most of the individual videos are up to 30 minutes each. All in all it amounts to over 50 hours. That's probably the reason why there aren't many tropes pertaining to it on these pages.
• Broken Base: Masae's treatment of Yellow Pikmin during her Pikmin 1 blind run. Some fans think she should raise more and be more careful with the ones she has, while others defend her by pointing out how useless they are compared to later entries in the franchise.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: MomAnela (Masae's mother) is very popular with the fanbase.
• Harsher in Hindsight: Masae's many collaborations with Chuggaaconroy, which gave Masae a major Colbert Bump, takes on a sadder light when Masae revealed on Twitter in January 2024 that the two haven’t been friends for several years, as a result of Emile making Masae feel uncomfortable, constantly overstepping her personal boundaries. In particular, the way Emile constantly teased Masae, saying she looked cute when embarrassed, now comes across as less playful and more wince-worthy.
  • A later tweet from Chugga that was later verified by Masae explains that they wereromantically involved for 10 years and engaged for the last three of them, shedding new light on their previous dynamic and giving context to the lack of their future collaborations.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: It seems that Masae's been having similar luck to a certain other Let's Player when it comes to the games she chooses to do an LP, having ports, remakes or DLC announced shortly/during her playthrough:
  • A few months after finishing Kirby's Epic Yarn, it's enhanced 3DS port, Kirby's Extra Epic Yarn, was announced in the September 2018 Nintendo Direct.
  • Katamari Damacy Reroll was announced near the end of her playthrough of Katamari Forever. It was announced in the very same direct as Kirby's Extra Epic Yarn.
  • This happens twice with Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker. The first time happened after the finished the Wii U version, where the Switch version came out with extra levels themed after Super Mario Odyssey. After finishing those levels, the Special Episode DLC was announced.
  • Banjo and Kazooie were announced to be third DLC fighter for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate during her LP of Banjo-Kazooie. Even more hilarious, the episode uploaded the day after the announcement has Masae making a joke about Master Hand. To top that off, the episode in question was recorded weeks before the announcement. Needless to say, Masae herself was shocked when people pointed this out.
  • During the hiatus of her playing Super Mario 64, the All-Star port of it, Sunshine, and Galaxy were announced.
  • Two months after her Pokémon Snap LP's intended April Fool's Day 2020 release^note Schedule Slip ended up pushing it back to 2021., New Pokémon Snap got announced.
• Ho Yay: Refers to Sheena of Tales of Symphonia as "yummy".

• Most Wonderful Sound: She has an amazing singing voice, as heard at the end of the blue coin videos and this Conbravo announcement.
  • The "DERP!" that accompanies one of her on-screen text boxes chiming in to tell her she messed up or provide a fact-check.
    • Then we get the two combined.
• Never Live It Down:
  • During a Twitch stream for Stardew Valley, Masae accidentally lets out a Freudian Slip as she calls Nightbot "Nightbuttplug". This was made into a Nightbot command for her chat.
• Nightmare Fuel: Towards the end of her March 2017 stream, a viewer asked Masae, "What was the scariest thing you ever experienced?". She then shared a story about how she had a major car scare during her time as a new driver. While driving on the freeway early in the morning, both her gas pedal and brakes ended up getting stuck (at the time, she was driving an old car that started leaking oil, which messed with the gears), causing her to rocket through the freeway at approximately 130 MPH. It was so fast that if she applied the emergency brakes, the car surely would have flipped over. Worried that she was going to die in a crash, she immediately called her father to tell him that she loved him, and that this may be the end for her (words that no parent would ever want to hear from their child). Thankfully, no other cars were on the freeway since it was early in the morning, and miraculously, she eventually managed to brake the car and pull over to safety. The incident was so traumatizing that she's hated driving ever since.
  • A less serious example with the thumbnail for Part 50 of her The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask 3D Let's Play being an Extreme Close-Up of Link's Elegy of Emptiness statue.
• Tear Jerker:
  • Chibi Masae's Captain's Log at the end of Pikmin Episode 18:
  Wh-what have I seen today...? So many minions...All dead. So many loyal soldiers of my army, gone. In one fell swoop of that creature's saggy butt-stomp. What is this feeling? Is...Is it fear? Or is it...guilt?
  I...I didn't want my army to die like that, but it was my fault. I couldn't call them back in time. I-I felt so...alone...so powerless...in the presence of a hostile giant.

  I...I will avenge you all.

  I'm so sorry...
  • Her guest commentator (YouTube singer Adrisaurus) actually breaks down crying during her Undertale No Mercy stream. Several times.
  • You can tell she’s not in a good place during her attempts at clearing “Mummy Me Maze Forever” during her Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker playthrough. She sounds downright broken at points and had to take a break from it several times after attempting it for hours on end. You can just hear the barely restrained rage in her voice at some points. Even with really frustrating things in other games she tends to remain somewhat cheerful and energetic, but the combination of how long she’s been playing it, how long every individual attempt takes, replaying the same sections over and over and the fact that she admitted she wasn’t having fun with the level anymore seems to have just... worn her down. Mummy Me Maze Forever is specifically designed to be an endurance-based challenge, so it’s kind of expected but it’s still hard not to feel for the poor girl.
  • She is very clearly uncomfortable during Queen Vanessa's Manor to the point of outright saying she wants the mission to end between floors.
  • During Breath of the Wild she encountered a wild horse who kicked her when she approached, leading her to capture it and name it “Buttface”. She spends much of her time riding trash-talking the horse, only for it to valiantly sacrifice its life for her when it shields her from a Guardian blast with its own body. Furious and distraught, Masae kills the Guardian while lamenting the horse’s loss and how she took poor Buttface for granted.

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