History YMMV / EnchantedInTheMoonlight

** It's been a bit of a rough day: the protagonist has had a few near death experiences and is understandably skittish (such occurances are unusual) and just wants to go home where it's safe. Except waiting for her at home are a bunch of strange men, who she's seen throughout the day, and who had shown up to 'save' her from her problems. What's a normal woman likely to think: that these men are her heroes, or that they're stalkers, or some other kind of dangerous lunatic that she doesn't understand? What's worse, Samon has let them in. He's in on the whole thing. Someone very close to you is not who he appears to be, and in short order more people are trying to kill you. Your options are to become a brood mother for one of the weirdos Samon let in, get killed, or be captured and become a brood mother and THEN die at the hands of one of the less magnanimous ayakashi who've been after you all day. Top that off that, your choices are largely cosmetic, and mostly to keep you complacent and from attempting to run off. Your life is not your own, and the best you can hope for is HappinessInSlavery in conjuncture with your StockholmSyndrome.

** Shinra's sequel contains a healthy dose of AdultFear for both himself and the protagonist. As Shinra becomes more violent and aggressive, neither he nor the protagonist understand the cause or the cure. Shinra is aware that his behavior is changing, that he's behaving irrationally and abusively, but can't control himself and seems to be suffering an oni-specific variation of mental illness that coincides with his recent power boost. The protagonist on the other hand, behaves very much like the real-life equivalent of a woman on the fast track to being a DomesticAbuse statistic, rationalizing that Shinra used to be very sweet and that his changing behavior wasn't his fault. Only the fact that the protagonist pulls off a combination DeusExMachina / GetAHoldOfYourselfMan keeps it from ending in a tragedy.

* ValuesDissonance: The first sexual encounter of Miyabi and the protagonist is definitely nonconsensual, and would be much, much worse if this wasn't a romance game and therefore wall-to-wall FetishFuel. It's jarring, however, to see the protagonist reasoning that she only has herself to blame for not fighting off the (explicitly more powerful) ayakashi more resolutely.

* TakeThat: Possibly a subtle version, and really only comes into play if you've read both Miyabi's and Chikage's sequels and can do the comparison - especially if you read Miyabi's route first. Miyabi bows under political pressure and leaves the protagonist when she looses her powers in his sequel (although not without raising enough ruckus about it in the Mononoke village that he gets imprisoned for it later). Chikage however, explicitly states that he'd stick by the protagonist even if she ever lost her powers, a possible jibe against Miyabi's route. Chikage then follows through on those words, willing to step down as clan head to live with the protagonist.

** Most of the men protagonist PC will ever meet in her life are lieing to her: Samon was there specifically to spy on her, the 'normal' human men in her life are ayakashi in disguise who mean her harm, and even the love interests will keep her in the dark 'for her own good.' One wonders whether the protagonist is deliberately not thinking about how much of her life is potentially just a lie. No wonder she often feels insecure regarding her love interest.

** Shinra's sequel contains this for both himself and the protagonist, as he becomes more violent and aggressive, with neither of them really understanding the cause or the cure. Shinra is aware that his behavior is changing, that he's behaving irrationally and abusively, but can't control himself and seems to be suffering an oni-specific variation of mental illness that coincides with his recent power boost. The protagonist on the other hand, behaves very much like the real-life equivalent of a woman on the fast track to being a DomesticAbuse statistic, rationalizing that Shinra used to be very sweet and that his changing behavior wasn't his fault. Only the fact that the protagonist pulls off a combination DeusExMachina / GetAHoldOfYourselfMan keeps it from ending in a tragedy.

** Most of the men protagonist PC will ever meet in her life are lieing to her: Samon was there specifically to spy on her, the 'normal' human men in her life are ayakashi in disguise who mean her harm, and even the love interests will keep her in the dark 'for her own good.' One wonders whether the protagonist is deliberately not thinking about how much of her life is potentially just a lie. No wonder she often feels insecure regarding her love interest.

** Not to mention the times when the game treats the sexual assault as funny. Voltage often uses the music as cue for the emotion a scene is supposed to be portraying, and there are times when the game pairs the this-is-funny music with the protagonist protesting, in all seriousness, against the ayakashi love interest trying to feel her up. It feels almost like poorly done [[BlackComedyRape Black Comedy Sexual Assault]].

* ValuesDissonance: The first sexual encounter of Miyabi and the protagonist is definitely nonconsensual, and would be much, much worse if this wasn't a romance game and therefore wall-to-wall FetishFuel. It's jarring, however, to see the protagonist reasoning that she only has herself to blame for not fighting off the (explicitly more powerful) ayakashi more resolutely.