History YMMV / ReCreators

** Sota had a falling out to his friend Setsuna [[spoiler:and it's implied this was a factor in her suicide]] and hasn't been able to connect with anyone since, keeping a low profile and mostly going along with what everyone else says.

** The development of the confrontation between Syo and Yuya gets a lot of accusations in this, since despite the fact that all their original work is built on this conflict and Syo even comes to our world to take revenge on his former friend, [[spoiler:during only one scene it turns out that Yuya is not guilty and they become friends.]] It seems that all this was necessary only for them to fight in two episodes, and Yuya was purely formally considered a villain (even the FinalBoss), surprising the audience by this.

* DracoInLeatherPants: A sizable portion of the fanbase loves Altair, especially after the reveal of her motive, Thanks to a pretty stylish suit, ColdHam personality,and just doing pretty [[RuleofCool cool things]] despite the fact that she attacked the main characters, wants to destroy the world, and [[spoiler:cruelly kills Mamika and later Alicetaria]]. Thanks to a pretty stylish suit, her motivation for her actions and just doing pretty [[RuleofCool cool things]] in general. Her UndyingLoyalty and LesYay with [[spoiler: [[TheLostLenore Setsuna]] ]] also helps.

* DracoInLeatherPants: A sizable portion of the fanbase loves Altair, especially after the reveal of her motive, Thanks to a pretty stylish suit, ColdHam personality,and just doing pretty [[RuleofCool cool things]] despite the fact that she attacked the main characters, wants to destroy the world, and[[cruelly kills Mamika and later Alicetaria]]. Thanks to a pretty stylish suit, her motivation for her actions and just doing pretty [[RuleofCool cool things]] in general. Her UndyingLoyalty and LesYay with [[spoiler: [[TheLostLenore Setsuna]] ]] also helps.

* DracoInLeatherPants: The audience pretty quickly liked the Military Uniform Princess, despite the fact that she attacked the main characters and most likely wants to destroy the world. First of all, this happened because of the lack of information about her personality, a pretty stylish suit, a hidden motivation for her actions and just doing pretty [[RuleofCool cool things]] in general. [[spoiler:Even after killing Mamika in episode 8 she still has a lot of people cheering for her, both in and out of universe. Her UndyingLoyalty and LesYay with [[TheLostLenore Setsuna]] also helps.]]

** Despite the fact that some viewers see Mamika as an [[TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth obvious sacrificial lamb]], she still gets enough sympathy and love from the audience and the authors. She even got her own [[spoiler: "funeral ceremony"]] in real life.
** Having only appeared in two episodes at the moment, Hikayu quickly became this for several viewers. While some viewers see it as a cheap attempt to make the show a reason for vulgar and ambiguous humor, others consider her appearance as a rather witty move that helps expand the show's appeal to various aspects of Japanese pop culture. See ReplacementScrappy on this page for more details.

* EvilIsCool: The Military Uniform Princess and Magane both have are opposite sides of the chaotic scale and horrible people, yet with their interesting designs, personalities and CrazyAwesome powers, managed to gain a lot of fans in the process.

** One of the [[EstablishingCharacterMoment very first things the Military Uniform Princess does]] is to destroy Celesia's Vogelchevalier [[CrazyAwesome by using a sabre and a PPsh-41 submachine gun as a violin.]] From that moment on, the MUP became the show's most popular character, tons of fanart of that scene sprung up, and even a blog post by the sci-fi interest website Tor.com [[http://www.tor.com/2017/04/28/spring-2017-anime-preview-can-we-stop-adding-re-to-anime-titles-now/ couldn't resist mentioning it.]]

** As detailed in the {{Jossed}} section on the Trivia page, the old theory that Sota was one of Setsuna's Creations starts looking funny when [[spoiler:the concept got inverted in-show: rather than Setsuna create Sota as a means of letting him have a place he can live without his ailments, ''Sota'' creates a version of ''Setsuna'' to live in the ''Elimination Chamber Festival'' universe as a last resort to stop Altair.]]

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: The plot continuously tries to paint Altair as someone who is unguided in her attempt at getting retribution over her Creator's suicide because of grief, but as a lot of the audience reaction points on this very page can testify, not only is she hard to like because of how strong her KickTheDog moments are, but the final developments of the series ([[spoiler:which essentially are her forcifully invoking "OnlyTheLeadsGetAHappyEnding" InUniverse under pain of unstoppable planetary annihilation and walking away a KarmaHoudini]]) have made people ''loathe her'' because she turned the finale into something flat-out disappointing.

** Although the show is largely based on the deconstruction of many cliches of Japanese pop culture with the help of RealityEnsues, some of the audience found the intentional ClicheStorm in the characters' personalities as a trap in which the authors drove themselves. In their opinion, the fact that each of Created is a collective image of the protagonist of their genre, already makes their motivation and actions extremely predictable. [[spoiler: Although after episode 7, the realization that the creations are changing like actual people throws this out the window, showing off Magane and Mamika's CharacterDevelopment.]] Most of the arguments are because of the large amount of exposition and slow pacing of the series in episodes 2 through 6. [[spoiler: From that point on, however, some characters' developments and certain twists cause a faction to argue that their developments are based on standard ''subversions'' of their genres, which leads to a [[DeadHorseTrope whole different kettle of cliches]] in and of itself.]]

** It seems that the military is too easy to take it for granted that characters from fictional worlds have fallen into our world, and even consider Alisteria suspected of attacking her creator, despite the fact that she is a fictional heroine of the fantasy manga.

* TooBleakStoppedCaring: The show didn't have this initially, but toward the end of the series, it really began setting in primarily thanks to [[spoiler:the ''Elimination Chamber Festival'', wherein Altair challenged every other Creation to a fight and either killing or incapacitating them without breaking a sweat thanks to how the love of the fans [[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands give her new abilities completely out of thin air]], including one that makes her untouchable in the rubber and glue sense (plus, the fact that almost nobody outside of the main cast seems to ever grasp what's actually going on and what kind of threat this poses to not just Creationkind, but also to humanity as a whole).]]To cap it off, the people in charge of this show also worked on ''Anime/BlackLagoon'', ''LightNovel/FateZero'', and ''Anime/AldnoahZero'', which were similarly guilty of falling into this.

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: The show didn't have this initially, but toward the end of the series, it really began setting in primarily thanks to [[spoiler:the ''Elimination Chamber Festival'', wherein Altair challenged every other Creation to a fight and either killing or incapacitating them without breaking a sweat thanks to how the love of the fans [[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands give her new abilities completely out of thin air]], including one that makes her untouchable in the rubber and glue sense (plus, the fact that almost nobody outside of the main cast seems to ever grasp what's actually going on and what kind of threat this poses to not just Creationkind, but also to humanity as a whole).]]To cap it off, the people in charge of this show also worked on ''Anime/BlackLagoon'', ''LightNovel/FateZero'', and ''Anime/AldnoahZero'', which were similarly guilty of falling into this.

* ScapegoatCreator: A rare case of it being invoked by ''the people who made the show''. Following the series's lackluster conclusion, writer/director Ei Aoki and co-writer Rei Hiroe took to twitter, each blaming the other for the problems with the show while blocking everyone who sent complaints their own way. [[https://web.archive.org/web/20170916095443/http://otakomu.jp/archives/604715.html This action did not go unnoticed in Japan.]]

** ''AL:Lu'', which plays during Celesia and MUP's first fight in the real world, is classic Sawano OrchestralBombing with passionate female vocals.
** ''BRAVE THE OCEAN'', a beautiful, energetic song about breaking the chains of hate and revenge, serves as an excellent backdrop to both Celesia and Mamika's fight and [[spoiler:Celesia's EmergencyTransformation]].
** ''Here I Am'' is a sparkling, sunny work of hope that fits Mamika and her MagicalGirl principles to a T.
** ''Layers'', which serves as Military Uniform Princess's {{Leitmotif}}, is basically condensed epicness in the form of a song. Whenever MUP makes an appearance, the song helps make her presence known, and it also conveys her feelings regarding [[spoiler: Setsuna's death and her resentment against the creators]].

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: The show didn't have this initially, but toward the end of the series, it really began setting in primarily thanks to [[spoiler:the ''Elimination Chamber Festival'', wherein Altair challenged every other Creation to a fight and either killing or incapacitating them without breaking a sweat thanks to how the love of the fans [[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands give her new abilities completely out of thin air]], including one that makes her untouchable in the rubber and glue sense (plus, the fact that almost nobody outside of the main cast seems to ever grasp what's actually going on and what kind of threat this poses to not just Creationkind, but also to humanity as a whole).]]To cap it off, the people in charge of this show also worked on ''Anime/BlackLagoon'', ''LightNovel/FateZero'', and ''Anime/AldnoahZero'', which were similarly guilty of falling into this. Unsurprisingly, it's considered to be one of the most disliked anime of 2017 and has become one of the biggest AcceptableTargets for recent anime.

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: The show didn't have this initially, but toward the end of the series, it really began setting in primarily thanks to [[spoiler:the ''Elimination Chamber Festival'', wherein Altair challenged every other Creation to a fight and either killing or incapacitating them without breaking a sweat thanks to how the love of the fans [[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands give her new abilities completely out of thin air]], including one that makes her untouchable in the rubber and glue sense (plus, the fact that almost nobody outside of the main cast seems to ever grasp what's actually going on and what kind of threat this poses to not just Creationkind, but also to humanity as a whole).]]To cap it off, the people in charge of this show also worked on ''Anime/BlackLagoon'', ''LightNovel/FateZero'', and ''Anime/AldnoahZero'', which were similarly guilty of falling into this.

** The 16th episode begins with Celestia saying "I love the feeling of making something move."

** The fight between Mamika and Celesia in the second episode provoked a great deal of debate. Is Mamika a lunatic kid that had to be put down, or was Celesia egging her on after she made it clear she didn't want to fight anymore? Was Celesia attacking Mamika when she held her hand out to her a justified move, or proof she had no good intentions?

*** [[spoiler:Mamika's confession on episode 8 sends this question to overdrive. Is the confession is a platonic love between comrade, or a romantic one? Then we have Alice declaring a RoaringRampageOfRevenge against Mamika's killer. If Mamika was being romantically serious, are her feelings not as one sided as previously thought?]]

** The later half of the show gets hit hard with this. [[spoiler:Either it's an interesting look into original characters, fandom, and what can be considered "canon" for blank slate characters, or it's a weak justification to have the cast lose to her that can have anything she wants because her fans love her no matter what she does and has essentially devolved into a GenericDoomsdayVillain even as she snarks about her contenders being walking cliches.]]

** Many Fans are very interested in reading the stories of the Creations. Each one has interesting backgrounds and would like to see what they were before the anime occurred.

** Several fans generally agree that Charon applies for this trope. He was foreshadowed and hyped up as an important player in the latter half of the show, especially with how he was kept in the dark for much of the second half of the series. It was also hinted in the very first episode no less, that he was Selesia's ImpliedLoveInterest. However, his only physical appearances in the series are brief cameos at the end of Episode 12, 16, and 18, before receiving a full appearance in Episode 19. That episode is the only time the audience gets to learn about who Charon is, what his powers are, and his thoughts and feelings about being pulled out of his world. In light of this, some viewers certainly found the approach taken with his character, and his ensuing conflict with Selesia for being on the opposite side, to be rushed and unsubstantive. Considering that Charon was built up as having an important connection to Selesia, he was generally seen as a very underutilized character overall, as many viewers felt that he did not appear early or often enough to flesh him out into a belivable or relatable antagonist. Such viewers preferred that he appeared and met Selesia in the real world much earlier in order to build up and develop their conflict. Had Charon met and fought Selesia before the Elimination Chamber Festival, such viewers believed that this would've brough much needed development to both of their characters. Selesia's feelings on her LoveInterest being an antagonist was also something they felt would have added more emotional stakes to the conflict as well as developed her character, as she would now have to find the resolve to fight someone she admired and loved romantically. Prior to his Episode 19 appearance, Altair also vaguely hinted that Charon was carrying out his own activities on her behalf to further her plans. However, those actions are not documented by the series and viewers never learn what it was he was actually doing before the Elimination Chamber Festival. As it stands, apart from a few scarce mentions, Charon is hardly brought up by any of the other characters on both sides, and wound up seeming like an easy way for the writers to throw a ConflictBall Selesia's way.

** General consensus is that Charon applies for this trope. After being hyped up as an important player in the latter half of the show, especially with how he was kept in the dark for much of the second cour episodes before his big appearance in Episode 19, Charon ultimately only gets one full episode to show off his powers, explain his thoughts and feelings about being pulled out of his world, and establish a conflict with Celesia. And even afterwards, he's not brought up much.

* ValuesDissonance: While characters such as Hikayu are a dime a dozen in Japan and a mainstay of the country's output of fiction, in some western countries the sexualization of such characters to be {{Squick}}y and exploitative. It probably explains why the series' inclusion of such a character, while seen in Japan as a way to reference a common facet of the country's entertainment media, perturbed several foreign viewers.

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: The show didn't have this initially, but toward the end of the series, it really began setting in primarily thanks to [[spoiler:the ''Elimination Chamber Festival'', wherein Altair challenged every other Creation to a fight and either killing or incapacitating them without breaking a sweat thanks to how the love of the fans [[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands give her new abilities completely out of thin air]], including one that makes her untouchable in the rubber and glue sense (plus, the fact that almost nobody outside of the main cast seems to ever grasp what's actually going on and what kind of threat this poses to not just Creationkind, but also to humanity as a whole).]]To cap it off, the people in charge of this show also worked on ''Anime/BlackLagoon'' and ''Anime/AldnoahZero'', which were similarly guilty of falling into this.

* ScapegoatCreator: A rare case of it being invoked by ''the people who made the show''. Following the series's lackluster conclusion, writer/director Ei Aoki and co-writer Rei Hiroe took to twitter, each blaming the other for the problems with the show while blocking everyone who sent complaints their own way. [[http://otakomu.jp/archives/604715.html This action did not go unnoticed in Japan.]]

* HolyShitQuotient:
** Episode 6 looks much more serious than previous episodes due to the [[spoiler:brutal murder of the seller in the bookshop and the subsequent battle between the two groups of the Creations.]]
** Episode 7 ramps it up even higher when [[spoiler: Yuuya correctly predicts that creations change by being removed from their story, and that Magane has found a new purpose. Specifically, she now wants to be an EvilOverlord and killed her creator when [[YouHaveFailedMe he couldn't give her the infinite power she wanted.]]This is followed by her running into Sota and Mamika, stalking them while Sota finally reveals his relation to Altair.]] [[spoiler: Then the shows token naive character finds her resolve to not only fight for her ideals but kill for them if necessary; letting her set off a FantasticNuke.]]
** ''Every'' episode starting with Episode 17, when the ''Elimination Chamber Festival'' begins and all the stops are pulled out to defeat Altair and the Creations allied with her. And Episode 19 raises it to a new level, demonstrating the [[spoiler: death of Alicetaria and the tragic death of Selesia along with her LoveInterest Charon in a suicidal attack, with all the concomitant reactions of their creators.]] Everything finally reaches its climax in Episode 21 when [[spoiler: Altair fights fate itself to prevent Setsuna from dying again, and creates a new universe solely to be a world where the two of them can live happily together; essentially, becoming a Creator herself.]]

** [[spoiler:Altair's [[InvincibleVillain invincibility]] during the ''Elimination Chamber Festival'' is derived from the audience [[RootingForTheEmpire being on her side no matter how much of a villain she is]]. By this point though, most ''actual'' viewers had come to consider her as TheScrappy and were most certainly not rooting for her]].

* AccidentalAesop: Altair at the end of the series is pretty much one giant walking example of this regarding the dangers of [[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands adding all kinds of story-breaking powers to a character without rhyme or reason]] to a character, which will turn them into a GodModeSue. It can also be interpreted as a lesson that having powers is no substitute for actual character.

* FamilyUnfriendlyAesop:
** If you have strong envy for a more successful person, then you should recognize their destructive feelings and use this as a motivation and starting point to become better and achieve your goals. Otherwise, negative emotions will simply be buried deeper into the subconscious and will give negative results. Becomes more family friendly since it also says you need to admit those painful feelings so you don't lash out at those important to you, [[spoiler: like Sota did.]]
** Played for laughs in the 13th episode, when Meteora encourages authors to come up with more fanservice and heroines in swimsuits to simplify the life of the animators and make the work on the anime easier. And then came the HotSpringsEpisode, chapter 16...
** The power of fandom is so huge that it can not only maintain the character's popularity, but also fill it with a new perception and meaning, depending on how the character is seen by the fans. [[spoiler: The limitless power of fandom, acceptance, and interpretation cause anything touched by it to have as much power to it as it wants; by comparison, fans have far less tolerance for an "anything goes" policy with established canon stories, which means that even FanonDiscontinuity has as much power over a story as anything else.]]
** Sometimes, diplomacy, reasoning, or any sort of compromise just isn't going to work on people. [[spoiler:Just give them what they want, and maybe they'll work it out themselves.]]

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: The show didn't have this initially, but toward the end of the series, it really began setting in primarily thanks to [[spoiler: the ''Elimination Chamber Festival'', wherein Altair challenged every other Creation to a fight and either killing or incapacitating them without breaking a sweat thanks to how the love of the fans [[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands give her new abilities completely out of thin air]], including one that makes her untouchable in the rubber and glue sense (plus, the fact that almost nobody outside of the main cast seems to ever grasp what's actually going on and what kind of threat this poses to not just Creationkind, but also to humanity as a whole). To cap it off, the people in charge of this show also worked on ''Anime/BlackLagoon'' and ''Anime/AldnoahZero'', which were similarly guilty of falling into this.