History YMMV / ArcanaHeart

* BrokenBase: There are some [[FightingGame fighting game]] veterans that have a cold reception to the series just because it has an all-girls cast filled with BoobsOfSteel, GagBoobs, {{Fanservice}}, and {{Stripperific}} characters. Being an animesque series as well hasn't help matters in this regard.

* TheWoobie: Every time Fiona Mayfield loses, she ends up crying and pleading for the opponent to stay away from Mildred.

* LesYay:
** Most of the girls have something for another.

** Mei Fang also seems to have shades of this with her creator. In her ''Arcana Heart 3'' ending, it seems to be more than just shades.
** Mildred also, with Fiona.
** And of course, let's not forget the constant subtext (and later almost flat-out text) between [[LoveFreak Heart]] and [[{{Tsundere}} Saki]].

* TheWoobie: Every time Fiona Mayfield loses, she ends up crying and pleading for the opponent to stay away from Mildred.

* BadassDecay: Lieselotte. In ''Arcana Heart 1'', she's a bonafide EnfantTerrible assassin. Afterwards, she began to mellow down into JerkassWoobie.
* BrokenBase: There are some [[FightingGame fighting game]] veterans that have a cold reception to the series just because it has an all-girls cast filled with BoobsOfSteel, GagBoobs, {{Fanservice}}, and {{Stripperific}} characters.
** Being an animeish game doesn't do it favors in this regards as that in itself invites a broken base

* EpilepticTree - They tend to come up with theories with how Zenia and Lieselotte are related (they do look a bit alike...)
** [[LampshadeHanging Seems to be lampshaded]] with one of Zenia's win poses in ''Arcana Heart 3''. It has Lieselotte peeking in from the side, almost curiously: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02dSWBjBHRc Skip to 3:10 and see it here.]]
** [[spoiler: And as of Zenia's Arcana Heart 3 ending, it's confirmed they are sisters.]]
* FridgeHorror: Whatever happened to the nuns that were assisting Mildred in ''Arcana Heart 1''? After Mildred is defeated, she gets sucked into the Arcana world, and her floating castle vanishes... either the nuns got sucked in along with her, or it's possible ''they all died.''
* GameBreaker: Averted. Konoha's short physique helps her avoid many attacks, but she has a pretty short range.

* GeniusBonus: Akane Inuwaka's Arcana is named after a type of fox. Knowing that, check out her ears under that do-rag.
* LesYay: Most of the girls have something for another.

* {{Moe}} - The first fully ''Moe'' fighting game franchise.
* NightmareFuel: Lieselotte Achenbach... a cute little kid who's actually a world class assassin EnfantTerrible who carries a doll containing her ''sister'''s soul [[spoiler:(or so she thought)]]. Uuuhh...
* SurprisinglyImprovedSequel: The first game was too slow, the console version of the second game was a PortingDisaster, but the third game blows both of its predecessors out of the water big time.
* ThatOneBoss: Parace L'Sia in 3's Score Attack, quite possibly the single hardest fighting game boss EVER. Her attacks all come out way too fast and the range on them is too good for their to any reliable way of dodging them and she can easily pull off combos that will deplete your lifebar if she manages to hit you even once! Even her low health doesn't help because her TeleportSpam makes her too hard to hit most of the time, and she slowly recovers health during the fight and actually has a super move the lets her rapidly heal herself. Pretty much the only reliable way to beat her is to try again and again, because the more times you lose to her the less health she starts the fight with.
** As of [[UpdatedRerelease LOVE MAX]] however, the final part doesn't happen anymore. Good Luck.
* ViewerGenderConfusion - Raise your hand if you think that had it not been her name and the fact that this is an all-girls fighting game, you might pass up Dorothy Albright as a cute little boy.

* ThatOneBoss: Parace L'Sia in 3' Score Attack, quite possibly the single hardest fighting game boss EVER. Her attacks all come out way too fast and the range on them is too good for their to any reliable way of dodging them and she can easily pull off combos that will deplete your lifebar if she manages to hit you even once! Even her low health doesn't help because her TeleportSpam makes her too hard to hit most of the time, and she slow recovers health during the fight and actually has a super move the lets her rapidly heal herself. Pretty much the only reliable way to beat her is to try again and again, because the more times you lose to her the less health she starts the fight with.

* ThatOneBoss: Parace L'Sia in 3' Score Attack, quite possibly the single hardest fighting game boss EVER. Her attacks all come out way too fast and the range on them is too good for their to any reliable way of dodging them and she can easily pull off combos that will deplete your lifebar if she manages to hit you even once! Even her low health doesn't help because her TeleportSpam makes her too hard to hit most of the time, and she slow recovers health during the fight and actually has a super move the lets her rapidly heal herself. Pretty much the only reliable to beat is because the more times you lose to her the less health she starts the fight with.

* ThatOneBoss: Parace L'Sia in Score Attack, quite possibly the single hardest fighting game boss EVER. Her attacks all come out way too fast and the range on them is too good for their to any reliable way of dodging them and she can easily pull off combos that will deplete your lifebar if she manages to hit you even once! Pretty much the only reliable to beat is because her health doesn't restore completely when you retry the fight with her, so you can keep fighting and chip away a little at time till she finally dies.

* CompleteMonster: Drexler Institute. [[spoiler:They carried on a series of horrible experiments on unwilling young girls, many of which died or went insane (like Scharla), in order to create artificial Maidens. Plus there's the fact that they want to blow up Japan...]]

* TheComputerIsACheatingBastard - At least for the semi-boss of Story Mode.

* BadassDecay: Lieselotte. In Arcana Heart 1, she's a bonafide EnfantTerrible assassin, but afterwards, she began to mellow down into JerkassWoobie.
* BrokenBase: There are some or many FightingGame veterans that have a cold reception to the series just because it's an all-girls cast filled with characters with BoobsOfSteel, GagBoobs, {{Fanservice}}, and {{Stripperific}} characters.

** [[LampshadeHanging Seems to be Lampshaded]] with one of Zenia's win poses in ''Arcana Heart 3''. It has Lieselotte peeking in from the side, almost curiously: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02dSWBjBHRc Skip to 3:10 and see it here]]

** Played straight with Elsa. Depending on arcana selection, she has several infinite combos in Arcana Heart 3.
* GeniusBonus: Akane Inuwaka's arcana is named after a type of fox. Knowing that, check out her ears under that do-rag.

** Mei Fang also seems to have shades of this with her creator. In her Arcana Heart 3 ending, it seems to be more than just shades.

* {{Moe}} - The first fully ''{{Moe}}'' fighting game franchise.
* NightmareFuel: Lieselotte Achenbach... a cute little kid who's actually a world class assassin EnfantTerrible who carries a doll containing her ''sister'''s soul [[spoiler:(Or so she thought)]]. Uuuhh...

* ViewerGenderConfusion - Raise your hand if you think that had it not been her name and the fact that this is an All-Girls Fighting Game, you might pass up Dorothy Albright as a cute little boy.

* HeartwarmingMoments: Saki's ending in ''3'' would've been an utter TearJerker when she broke down in tears after seeing Fiona off after her attempts to restore her into humans were a complete failure and lie... had it not for Heart coming shortly after and comforts her, despite Saki trying to push her away, which pulls it to this trope.

* NightmareFuel: Lieselotte Achenbach... a cute little kid who's actually a world class EnfantTerrible who carries a doll containing her ''sister'''s soul [[spoiler:(Or so she thought)]]. Uuuhh...

* NightmareFuel: Lieselotte Achenbach

* BetterThanItSounds: To the guys out there, good luck trying to get your friends to play this without getting any looks.
** Overlaps with IReadItForTheArticles

* ViewerGenderConfusion - Raise your hand if you think that had it not been her name, you might pass up Dorothy Albright as a cute little boy.

* ViewerGenderConfusion - Raise your hand if you think that had it not been her name, you might pass up Dorothy Albright as a CuteShotaroBoy.

* LesYay: Most of the girls have something for another. Particularly notable with Clarice di Lanza, in that there is no such thing as subtext regarding her fixation with Elsa la Conti.

* NightmareFuel: Lieselotte Achenbach

* ViewerGenderConfusion - Raise your hand if you think that had it not been her name, you might pass up Dorothy Albright as a CuteShotaroBoy.