History VideoGame / NamuAmidaButsuUtena

* KilledOffForReal[=/=]PermanentlyMissableContent: Notably '''averted''' in this game compared to its predecessors – this game does not have a permanent damage/repair mechanic and Buddhas cannot be killed, even if their HP is brought down to zero, and they will be instantly healed to full after each sortie.

* ArtificialStupidity: Auto-playing battles in this game is ''extremely'' inefficient – there are two AI modes, the first completely ignores spells and will just have the Buddhas spam basic attacks, which can cause players to fail the objective of passing the map for the first time without exceeding a certain number of turns, and the second completely expends any and all spells as soon as they're available without saving them for strategic use, and neither of them allow enemy prioritizing which can be useful for taking out those with lower HP or those with their own spells first.

* SpiritualSuccessor: This game is often compared to ''VideoGame/ToukenRanbu'', but it is actually the spiritual successor to ''VideoGame/BungoToAlchemist'', as it shares more similarities to the latter than the former.
** The playable characters are not personifications; they are already humanoid figures.

* SubmissiveBadass: All Buddhas are under the command of the ''dōmori'', but they are deities with divine powers and the capability to salvage mankind. This is not to mention Buddhas who ''serve other Buddhas'' as well.

The modern world as we know it seems normal and filled with people going about their lives, but deep in the dark recesses of the Sixth Heaven, the evil demon lord [[BigBad Māra]] gathers an army of materialized destructive emotions (''bonnō'' 煩悩, "kleśas") to wreck havoc on mankind and drag them down into endless torment as part of his revenge plot after his defeat against Shaka Nyorai/Shakyamuni. With humanity on the brink of disaster unseen to the mortal eye, it is up to Buddhas to work their divine power in battle to stop them and save mankind… with ''you'' as their commander. Oh wait, [[VideoGame/KantaiCollection doesn't this]] [[VideoGame/ToukenRanbu sound]] [[VideoGame/BungoToAlchemist way too familiar]]…

The game has received an anime adaptation produced by DMM pictures and aired on April 2019, making it part of the Spring2019Anime season. The ''-UTENA-'' game itself became defunct on August 31, 2020.

** The anime includes things like an anti-{{glamour}} used to mask Buddhas' divine aura to the human eye and the need to create a barrier dimension of sorts before ''kleśas'' purification can take place. None of this is present in the game.

[[AC:Tropes listed here are about the ''-UTENA-'' game by default, and tropes related to the 2016 game should be noted as such. Page under construction.]]

* OrphanedSeries: The Buddha introduction series on [=YouTube=], despite promising an episode on Hōshō Nyorai in its latest episode uploaded in Sep 2018, has never been updated since.

The game has received an anime adaptation produced by DMM pictures and aired on April 2019, making it part of the Spring2019Anime season. ''-UTENA-'' has become defunct on August 31.

''Namu Amida Butsu! -UTENA-'' is the 2019 reboot by DMM Games of a little-known defunct 2016 online game entitled ''Namu Amida Butsu!'' developed by Visualworks, in which the player assumes the role of the ''[[NonEntityGeneral dōmori]]'' (堂守, roughly "guardian") of fictitious Bonnō Temple (梵納寺) who summons, trains and sends [[CastFullOfPrettyBoys good-looking]] Buddhas into battle against ''kleśas'' and unlocks stories as the game progresses. Not related to ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena''.

The game has received an anime adaptation produced by DMM pictures and aired on April 2019, making it part of the Spring2019Anime season.

* DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist: Considering this game lacks the permanent damage/character loss mechanic of its predecessors, all you get for letting a Buddha's HP reach zero is their being unable to perform for the rest of the sortie, after which they get their full HP back. The only true penalty for this comes by letting the ''entire party'' die in battle, which will fail the sortie.

* ExcitedTitle: The title of the game ends with a glottal stop (small ''tsu'') and an exclamation mark.

* ContinuityReboot: Knowledge of the 2016 game is not needed to enjoy ''-UTENA-''; the latter takes the bare-bones premise of ''kleśas'' purification and builds a completely different plot featuring characters not existing in the previous game.

* AdaptedOut: Due to LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters, only the Thirteen Buddhas and Karuraten are adapted in the anime. In addition, unlike anime of predecessor games where the existence of the NonEntityGeneral is confirmed despite their not actually appearing, the ''dōmori'' is excluded from adaptation period; you can almost tell if someone's an anime-only fan by whether they know who the ''dōmori'' is.

* AdaptedOut: Due to LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters, only the Thirteen Buddhas and Karuraten are adapted in the anime. In addition, unlike anime of predecessor games where the existence of the NonEntityGeneral is confirmed despite not actually appearing, the ''dōmori'' is excluded from adaptation period; you can almost tell if someone's an anime-only fan by whether they know who the ''dōmori'' is.

* AdaptedOut: Due to LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters, only the Thirteen Buddhas and Karuraten are adapted in the anime. In addition, unlike anime of predecessor games where the existence of the NonEntityGeneral is confirmed despite not actually appearing, the ''dōmori'' is excluded from adaptation period.

* AdaptedOut: In addition to excluding a lot of Buddhas appearing in the game due to LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters, the ''dōmori'' also doesn't appear in the anime despite their importance in game canon.

* EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: In addition to having a noticeably different art style in the 2016 game, characters who were in that game had some wildly different designs from their ''-UTENA-'' counterparts: for one, Dainichi dressed [[AdaptationalModesty more revealingly]], Kannon and Seishi dressed ''[[AdaptationalSkimpiness less]]'' revealingly, Yakushi's outfit had a hood, Ashuku wore a short skirt with a longer sheer garment underneath rather than one tapered frilled skirt, plus she wore high-heels instead of ''geta'', Miroku wore a mere buttoned shirt instead of a ''tángzhuāng'', Karura didn't have a human form, and no one had internal affairs clothing because internal affairs wasn't a thing back then.

* LiteralSplitPersonality: The cast not infrequently contains these, as different names for a single mythological figure in real life get made into separate characters.

* ArtisticLicenseReligion: For starters, actual Buddhist deities aren't depicted as dashingly good-looking men with over-the-top personalities who engage in SliceOfLife hijinks.

* BokeAndTsukkomiRoutine: This game allows an attendant and an ''assistant'' attendant to be appointed, and clicking on either can lead to an answer from the other which usually makes the exchange this.