History YMMV / ReCreators

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1_mpwbwlHQ "God of Ink"]], Sota's {{Leitmotif}}. Being a writer has never sounded so badass. Bonus points for SurprisinglyGoodEnglish and a chorus that cleverly [[{{Foreshadowing}} foreshadows]] the important details of [[spoiler: Sota's connection to Setsuna]].

** Rule34 artists made a few of Hikayu's {{Hentai}} fanmade game CGs, giving us a peek if her HGame.

* {{Defictionalization}}: Mamika's funeral [[https://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1625918 is held in]] ''RealLife''.

** Ohnishi. Quite a few fans see him as less of a character and [[AuthorTract more of the series creator making an attack on]] [[AcceptableTargets ecchi and H-game writers and their fans]]. Others think that it's entirely plausible that someone who makes PornWithPlot might not be the most upstanding person, and that he has more personality than the other Creators, who they consider bland.

* AuthorsSavingThrow: Like the Invoked In-Universe, for obvious reasons, it seems that it was provided in advance at the show itself, when Sota began to receive much less attention during the last arc and the start of the main action in the series. Whether it was intentional or not, it helped to reduce the annoyance of the audience due to his actions.

* AudienceAlienatingEnding: The series as a whole was increasingly criticized for many reasons, and the final episodes were already undergoing ArcFatigue, but the ending really tanked the show's reputation even among its fans. After a long buildup, the epic final battle against Altair is cut short by a DeusExMachina. [[spoiler:Souta makes a fictional version of her deceased creator, pacifying her and convincing her to let humanity live. She then leaves with her creator while [[SerialKiller Magane]] takes off in an airport, meaning [[KarmaHoudini both of them get away with all their horrible atrocities]]. Souta, and Meteora are the only heroes who get their happy ending, [[OnlyTheLeadsGetAHappyEnding while everyone else]] is either dead, forced back into being a fictional character with no free will, or traumatized.]] The heat was ''intense'', with InvincibleVillain Altair getting accused of being a straight-up Villain Sue who [[spoiler:only won because the story bent over backwards for her while screwing over many of the more likable characters and turning the anticipated epic finale into an AntiClimax]]. In major part because of this ending, the series fell into relative obscurity and is mostly considered a prime example of wasted potential.

** '''Meteora''': Music/LinkinPark, thanks to [[NamesTheSame sharing a name with one of their albums]], and Missile Mage thanks to her fight with Mamika.

* 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]]. Her UndyingLoyalty and LesYay with [[spoiler: [[TheLostLenore Setsuna]] ]] also helps.

* 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 awesome powers, managed to gain a lot of fans in the process (though the former has [[BaseBreakingCharacter just as many haters and detractors as well]], especially after the controversial finale).

** To nobody's surprise, many viewers like to wonder what would happen if the creations read fictions about themselves. More specifically, what would their reactions be to see themselves in lewd fan-works? What about meeting their actors, or reading/watching other stories? Nevertheless, by the example of Hikayu, who begins to cry when she sees sexual content with her and her boyfriend on the Internet, this may not be very positive.

** Darker variant -- after the finale, [[spoiler:the Military Uniform Princess has become a huge target for {{Revenge Fic}}s by fans]].

* 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 awesome powers, managed to gain a lot of fans in the process.

* EsotericHappyEnding: [[spoiler:The world is saved, but the general public is almost certainly unaware of it, having thought that the whole battle was merely a CrisisCrossover production. Altair received a happy ending by being reunited with Setsuna, and does not have to face any consequences for her actions during the series, despite being culpable in nearly bringing the world to annihilation. Nearly all the Creations who survived the ''Elimination Chamber Festival'' would go back to their home worlds, losing their status as independent existences and once more becoming aspects of fiction that their Creators can freely manipulate. Not to mention, Magane, a psychopathic serial killer is still unaccounted for and according to WordOfGod, will likely continue doing what she has been doing throughout the series.]] For these reasons, the ending was [[AudienceAlienatingEnding downright hated]] by many viewers.

* EsotericHappyEnding: [[spoiler:The world is saved, but the general public is almost certainly unaware of it, having thought that the whole battle was merely a CrisisCrossover production. Altair received a happy ending by being reunited with Setsuna, and does not have to face any consequences for her actions during the series, despite being culpable in nearly bringing the world to annihilation. Nearly all the Creations who survived the ''Elimination Chamber Festival'' would go back to their home worlds, losing their status as independent existences and once more becoming aspects of fiction that their Creators can freely manipulate. Not to mention, Magane, a psychopathic serial killer is still unaccounted for and according to WordOfGod, will likely continue doing what she has been doing throughout the series.]]

** Half of the fanbase loves Altair for her stylish outfit, her motive, and overall her cool factor. [[spoiler:This ends up being a meta-plot point as Altair is powered by her fans, something she illustrates through a montage of actual fan-art drawn of her]]. The other half can't say the same when she [[spoiler:[[KillTheCutie murders Mamika in a rage]] and later kills Alicetaria after rubbing the act in her face. This isn't helped with how her story ends, with her fanbase power enabling her to be an overpowered RealityWarper, forcing the heroes to give her [[TheBadGuyWins what she wants]].]]

* 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 forcefully 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.

* SpiritualAdaptation: WordOfGod claims that they viewed this project as a kind of anime version of ''Film/LastActionHero''.
* SpiritualSuccessor:

** Mamika shooting her pink TastesLikeDiabetes heart beams of destruction to [[spoiler: the edgy hardass Blitz Talker in episode 6]] can earn a few chuckles. On the other hand, she ''is'' a MagicalGirl hailing from a kids' show, so there was no other way that scene could have gone. [[spoiler: Averted for her last attack as she's dying. It is still a much darker pink, but loses the heart shapes and resembles a nuclear blast.]]

* WhatAnIdiot:
** Sota gradually begins to fall into this after 6-7 episodes, when many bad situations become terrible due to the fact that he either keeps silent about important nuances, or begins to read the motivational speech before Aliceteria, instead of unraveling the misunderstanding between her and Meteora.
** Aliceteria should have thought twice about attacking Altair even when she had taken steps to protect herself. [[spoiler:''[[NegatedMomentOfAwesome She got killed by her own attacks!]]'']]
** Magane has RealityWarper powers that are activated via conversation. Despite knowing about this incredibly powerful ability, in confrontation with her multiple characters decide to engage in conversation with, and reply to, that same RealityWarper, even when they're just there to fight her. In at least one fight Magane would have been rendered entirely harmless, and the outcome reversed, had her opponent just kept their mouth shut!

** Out of all Creators, Takarada is the most miserable one. First he gets locked away for who-knows-how-long, then his own creation interrogates him in a brutal way(although it quickly turns heartwarming) and then the aforementioned creation dies.

** Half of the fanbase loves Altair for her stylish outfit, her motive, and overall her preforming cool things. [[spoiler:This ends up being a meta-plot point as Altair is powered by her fans, something she illustrates through a montage of actual fan-art drawn of her]]. The other half can't say the same when she [[spoiler:[[KillTheCutie murders Mamika in a rage]] and later kills Alicetaria after rubbing the act in her face. This isn't helped with how her story ends, with her fanbase power enabling her to be an overpowered RealityWarper, forcing the heroes to give her [[TheBadGuyWins what she wants]].]]

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1_mpwbwlHQ "God of Ink"]], Sota's {{Leitmotif}}. Being a writer has never sounded so badass. Bonus points for [[SurprisinglyGoodEnglish ''astoundingly'' good English]] and a chorus that cleverly [[{{Foreshadowing}} foreshadows]] the important details of [[spoiler: Sota's connection to Setsuna]].

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1_mpwbwlHQ "God of Ink"]], Sota's {{Leitmotif}}. Being a writer has never sounded so badass.

* DesignatedVillain: It's hard to believe that Yuuya was supposed to be the main villain and leader of a street gang in his original work, when you see how friendly, caring and intelligent the guy he is. Eventually, he even acts as the CoolBigBro for the rest of the Created group, rather than the designated AntiVillain type.
** Episode 13 presents some additional information about his story that seems to suggest he was more a WellIntentionedExtremist than an out and out villain, whose motives are personal, not destructive. Leading a street gang stops being such an anti-social move once you find out Yuya was doing so in the middle of a post-natural disaster wasteland, where Arajin might have been the closest semblance of government the place has.
** [[spoiler:Episode 18 even reveals he is not even a bad guy. The real bad guy of his homeworld set him up.]]

** Yuuya and Syo, which also of course crosses into FoeYay. Syo seems pretty singlemindedly focused on Yuuya as is, while Yuuya expressed some sadness in not being able to fight with him while he was in the real world and Syo not summoned at the moment. Their banter in Episode 18 didn't help matters.

** Darker variant -- after the finale, [[spoiler:the Military Uniform Princess has become a huge target for {{Revenge Fic}}s by fans who blame her for the big-time EndingAversion]].