YMMV / 100 Sleeping Princes and the Kingdom of Dreams

• Adorkable:
  • Iria is easily flustered and embarrassed at the drop of a hat but also sweet-hearted and dependable.
  • Kanoto is sweet, shy but also awkward, and not used to interacting with women aside from his mother due to having grown up in seclusion.
  • Theodor has a penchant to ramble about his interests in technology and current popular culture, Cannot Talk to Women, has a tiny fear with interacting with people in general, and easily becomes shy around the Heroine.
  • Eins is shown to be cheerfully friendly and dorky despite (or perhaps because of) his strange personality quirks. Did we also mention that he makes up names for his attacks?
• Alternative Character Interpretation:
  • How much of Fllayg's behaviour prior to Chapter 5 of Main Story Part 2 was an act? While it turns out that he genuinely loves chocolate, was he actually disturbed by Morta and Nepenthes or were his reactions to them just him pretending?
  • On a relatively less serious note, given that the majority of events of anime shorts' second episode took place in Tiga's screenplay, were Lid and Sai's little comments throughout the episode them just reading their lines or them commenting on the ridiculousness of the screenplay?
• Bizarro Episode: While April Fool's events are supposed to be silly, the event in 2017 takes the cake as it released a character named Tamago who is an egg whose vocabulary mainly consists of "hya". In its pre-awakening route, the Heroine invites Leonie and Nepenthes over to get advice on how to take care of it. While Leonie intends to raise it, Nepenthes makes it clear that he wants to eat it instead and even asks the egg on how it wants to be cooked. Leonie of course opposes to this, and Nepenthes then says that another option is to eat it after it hatches. Its Sun ending is fairly normal as it hatches into a chick who thanks the Heroine and Leonie for taking care of it and they decide to name it "Yuuki". However, in the Moon Ending, Nepenthes decides to fry the egg in order to get it to hatch. After doing so, the egg hatches into a... weird egg thing with arms and legs and its face resembles that of Nepenthes who then jumps into his arms and calls him "papa". Due to its resemblance to Nepenthes, the egg is then named "Mini-Nepe". The Heroine even lampshades that she has no idea what is going on.
• Ensemble Dark Horse:
  • The Snowphila Princes (Frost, Graysia and Synny) seem to be extremely popular within the fanbase.
  • Out of the princes from the Country of Jewel, the most popular seem to be Tiga, Lid, and Sai (especially Lid though) due to their amusing personalities and their dynamic with each other.
• Harsher in Hindsight: Many of the friendly interactions that Fllayg has with the other princes in the earlier chapters of Part 2 become this after the reveal in Chapter 5 that it's all an act and he's in league with the other villains.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • This game as well as AkaSeka share a huge number of their cast with Touken Ranbu as well as one another.
  • In Chapter 2 of Main Story Part 2, Morta thanks Avi and Fllayg for helping find the missing children in Circo and hopes that the two of them experience a sweet death soon ^note  For context, Morta genuinely believes that death is the greatest reward. While he meant no ill will at all, Fllayg is very much disturbed by this. In Chapter 5 of Part 2, it is revealed that not only is Fllayg one of the villains, but he is also their leader, meaning that Morta managed to basically tell the Big Bad to go die and get away with it.
  • This wouldn't be the last time that Daisuke Ono voices a character named Apollo who has fire powers.
• It Was His Sled: Hope is the Heroine's older brother and he dies at the end of Main Story part 1.
• Jerkass Woobie:
  • While the Circo princes are initially hostile towards the Heroine due to her being an adult, a lot of their issues (Morta's Death Seeker tendencies, their distrust for adults, Welger's hatred for people lying and Drole's Self-Harm) stem from their past where the adults of their country lied to them and used them for experiments.
  • As messed up as Makoto is, it's pretty understandable and kind of tragic how he turned out that way considering his entire family (save for Sky) was assassinated during a conspiracy and how he's still being hunted down by others.
• Just Here for Godzilla:
  • Many players have gotten into the game due to its crossover with Black Butler.
• Moe:
  • Procyon, who is an 8-year old Cheerful Child who is friendly to everyone he meets, calls the Heroine "big sister", and wants to be a good big brother.
  • Despite being 2000 years old, Koga qualifies as this as he has the appearance of a small child with a matching voice to boot and he gets upset when he's called cute.
  • Rolf. He is shown to be very quiet and shy boy who wears the clothes that his mother makes (many of which are designed for girls) because it makes her happy.
• Spiritual Successor: It comes in the form of AkaSeka, which can be summed up as "Yume100, only overly Japanese".
• Squick: A lot of the stuff that Nepenthes eats, from monster eyeballs to poisonous plants to stuff so disturbing that it has to be censored via pixelation.
• Viewer Gender Confusion: Those who aren't familiar with the game (and even those who are just starting the game) would be forgiven for thinking that Tormari is a girl due to his feminine voice and love for wearing cute dresses.
• The Woobie:
  • Miya. His mother constantly favors his brother Iria over him and at one point even tells him that it's his fault that another country tried to attack Iria.
  • When he was younger, Haku's abusive mother would hit him and said abuse caused him to suppress his emotions in order to cope.
  • Lecian. When he was younger, he saved Micaela and Adiel from a miasma in the forbidden grounds but at the cost of his wings turning black. Due to many of Arbitro's citizens believing that those with black wings are cursed, this led to him being ostracized and him isolating himself to a castle in the outskirts of the country.
  • The Heroine herself. When she was a little girl, her family was attacked, and she was sent to another world. Believing that she was gone forever, her older brother Hope lost it and eventually became the Big Bad of Part 1 of the Main Story. Her other older brother Light (AKA Navi) was killed, and his soul was then transferred to a stuffed animal. When she finally finds out the truth at the end of Part 1, Hope dies.
  • Adam. He is a genuinely sweet young man who cares a lot about his brothers. However, he has a condition that causes him to inadvertently summon Yumekui and he appears to be in great pain every time he does so.
  • Akito. Despite being a good person who tries to use his powers to protect his country, he is generally feared by the people of Virastin and is even barred from certain ceremonies due to being from a family of poisonous flower fairies. This has left him with low self-esteem and he seems absolutely distraught over the events of Chapter 4 of Main Story where Ivan takes control of the fairies and uses them to ruin the country's flowers and hurt others.
  • Zant. When he was younger, he, his brother and their parents went to the Earth Shrine behind their castle in order to strengthen the soil around it. However, he and his brother's powers went out of control and this resulted in an accident that killed their parents. Since then, Zant started to become more withdrawn from others.
• WTH, Costuming Department?: The moon awakening for Vio's Runway version. Most notably, the pants. It has been described as and compared to a number of things including: a fish pond, clown pants, the "Our Get Along Shirt", his personal bubble pants, a paddling pool, the 10th circle of hell, a fountain, and a flying saucer.