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1	* AcclaimedFlop: Despite good to stellar reviews in both Japan and the US by critics and players alike, the game sold poorly due to poor marketing and bitter fandoms which were exacerbated by the AudienceAlienatingPremise and ContestedSequel nature of the game. It also came out near the end of the UsefulNotes/WiiU's troubled life when few people were interested in it anymore. It sold only around 33,000 units in Japan and 50,000 units in the U.S. For reference, ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIV'' sold 188,562 in its ''first week,'' ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'' ended up selling '''''303,666''''' in the same amount of time, and ''VideoGame/Persona5'' debuted with '''''337,767''''' on the [=PS4=] / [=PS3=].
2	** The Switch port did mildly better, selling [[https://nintendoeverything.com/japans-best-selling-games-of-january-2020/ just short of 40,000 copies]] in its launch month, though it then [[https://nintendoeverything.com/japans-best-selling-games-of-february-2020/ dropped off the sales chart]] in the following month.
3	* ActorAllusion:
4	** This wouldn't be the [[VideoGame/{{Aikatsu}} first]] [[VideoGame/AikatsuStars time]] Tiki was an idol, she was even an [[VideoGame/PriPara idol manager]] at one point and later became an [[Anime/AikatsuFriends idol AI navigator]].
5	** This isn't the first time [[Creator/AmiKoshimizu Maiko]] drank and partied hard; remember the [[VideoGame/Persona4 infamous club visit back in Iwatodai when all of the girls were partying like it was the end of the world?]]
6	** An IdolSinger voiced by Yoshino Nanjo...are we talking about Kiria, or [[Anime/LoveLive Eli Ayase]]?
7	*** Her Mirage, Tharja, also shares [[Anime/{{Symphogear}} Shirabe Tsukuyomi's]] penchant for vocalizing "staaaaares".
8	* ActorSharedBackground: Ellie's dub actor for ''VideoGame/FireEmblemHeroes'', Creator/JennyYokobori, is also half-Japanese.
9	* TheCastShowOff: A challenge of casting (and localization), as said during the Treehouse stream, was that many of the voice actors NEEDED to be this. Due to the central theme being the entertainment industry, which includes music, many of the actors involved had to be capable of singing. This is likely part of the reason why the game lacks an English dub.
10	* DawsonCasting: Most of the teenage/young adult main characters are voiced by actors in their early thirties. The most egregious example is 29-year-old Creator/KaoriFukuhara as '''''eleven-year-old''''' Mamori Minamoto.
11	* DevelopmentGag: ''Encore'' allows players to give Tsubasa a pair of glasses. Glasses were part of her [[https://imgur.com/EeuXqv7 original design concept]], which didn't make it to her final design in the original release.
12	* FakeAmerican: Yuichi Nakamura as Barry Goodman.
13	* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: While all other DLC survive in the Switch port, the Japan-only Hot Springs DLC and its rewards remain Wii U exclusive due to all versions of the Switch port being based on the international release of the original game instead. Because the Wii U eShop shuttered on March 27th, 2023, it cannot be bought anymore.
14	* MeaningfulReleaseDate: Possibly unintentional, but the date of the game's Australian release (June 25) is the one-year anniversary of the release of ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'' in Japan.
15	* NoDubForYou: The international releases don't have localized audio tracks and instead keep the Japanese audio. This was partially due to Atlus wanting to keep up the Japanese atmosphere and setting, but they also mentioned that the game's focus on music meant hiring the right voice actors and changing all the songs would increase the workload considerably and push the international release back a year.
16	* NoExportForYou: The "Hotsprings DLC" - which unlocked bathing suit alternate costumes for the characters - was deemed too inappropriate to localize for the NA release.
17	* RoleReprise:
18	** Creator/TomokazuSugita returns as Chrom.
19	** Creator/KanaAkutsu is back as Tharja.
20	** Hiromichi Kogami reprises his role as Virion.
21	** Voice acting [[ManOfAThousandVoices chameleon]] Creator/TakehitoKoyasu returns as Navarre, almost twenty years after he voiced him in the OVA, as well as Lon'qu.
22	* StillbornFranchise: According to the game's producer, this game was meant to kickstart a series of ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei''-inspired franchise crossovers with different [=IPs=], with ''♯FE'' being the first one. Due to the low sales mentioned above, the AudienceAlienatingPremise, [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs or maybe even both]], another game with this premise might not be seen anytime soon.
23	* TheOtherDarrin:
24	** From the 1990s OVA, Caeda, Jagen, Cain, Draug, Abel, Gordin, and Gharnef all have new voice actors. In the case of Jagen and Gharnef, their original voice actors died before the game was even released.
25	** Tiki is voiced by Creator/SumireMorohoshi in this game rather than Creator/IkueOtani.
26	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
27	** [[http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2016/08/20/tokyo-mirage-sessions-was-originally-going-to-be-a-pok-233-mon-crossover.aspx Nintendo initially wanted Fire Emblem to cross over with Pokemon.]] However, TPCI already had a crossover planned which would become ''VideoGame/PokemonConquest''.
28	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHkhJ1LvtkM The E3 trailer for the game]] suggested that the game was going to get a "M" rating. It ultimately got a "T" rating instead.
29	** A concert for ''♯FE Encore'' was meant to take place, [[https://serenesforest.net/2020/04/27/tokyo-mirage-sessions-fe-encore-concert-canceled-due-public-health-concerns/ but was cancelled]] due to the [[UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic Coronavirus pandemic]], and unfortunately never rescheduled. However, as compensation, remastered versions of some of the game's songs were released.
30	* WorkingTitle: ''Stainless''. The original name for the entertainment agency appears to be 'Stainless Entertainment', so it is connected in some way. A few placeholder graphics also call the game ''Fire Emblem Tensei ~A1 version~''. Likewise, as everyone knows, this was originally announced as ''Shin Megami Tensei X Fire Emblem''.
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32	!!General
33	* The risque content and mature humor (such as references to erotic modeling in the ''Gravure'' industry and the female characters's skimpy show outfits) caused the game to get a '''M''' rating from the ESRB when it was officially revealed. This led to the game being highly [[{{Bowdlerization}} censored]] for the overseas market. Despite the coming of the Switch era, when Nintendo lessens up the censorship standards, the Switch re-release would be based on the censored overseas version for all regions.
34	* The dance numbers were choreographed by professional dancers.
35	* A lot of the original music was produced by Avex Group with professional song writers writing the lyrics.

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