YMMV / Akanesasu Sekai de Kimi to Utau

• Adorkable:
  • Nakajima Atsushi has a cute appearance, is clumsy and very awkward, has a speech impediment and acts like a little Fan Boy when it comes to his idol.
  • Mori Ōgai is a sweet guy who holds childish beliefs and doesn't keep his home clean. Everything he says and does, no matter how silly, only serves to make him even cuter.
• Alternate Character Interpretation:
  • Murasaki Shikibu, shy young man with self-expression issues or covert son of a bitch who loathes everyone and only keeps a nice facade around them?
  • Speaking of Shikibu, is Michinaga really a loving and supportive Parental Substitute to him or is he only slightly less abusive than his former family and uses the fact that he saved him from said family to demand the gratitude-driven loyalty that we see Shikibu showing? The fact that Michinaga stops an aristocrat from bullying a commoner woman he hardly knows, yet doesn't seem to do anything about the bullying that his own charge faces seems to cement the latter.
• Awesome Music: All of the opening tunes, really, but especially Kotohogi no Hana composed by Machigerita (yes, really), written by Yūki Takabayashi and performed by the five main cast members.
• Demonic Spiders: Enemies whose attacks get progressively stronger during a battle. They can One-Hit Kill your team if you don't kill them quick enough, even if you manage to fully replenish your team's HP. If your enemy's attack name is followed by a kanji numeric, you know you're in trouble. Especially annoying if they appear in the last floors of an event dungeon, their first blows are strong enough to deplete half of your HP.
• Fridge Horror: The Miko's amulet can rescue Men of Tsukuyomi who are eaten by shikigami. Okay, cool. But what about other humans who are not Men of Tsukuyomi who also get swallowed by them too?
• Good Bad Bug: The game sometimes mistakes Inoridono for the Ten country for some reason.
• Ho Yay: Pretty much a given for a canon with a Cast Full of Pretty Boys. The most popular pairing is Seimei × Shinsaku, while other pairings like Taishi × Imoko, Kamo × Hijikata, Kamatari × Fuhito and Michinaga × Teika also crop up frequently.
  • Teika and Narihira, whose interactions reek of Tsundere and Belligerent Sexual Tension. The second chapter of the former's story is basically dedicated to Ship Tease between them.
  • This exchange:
    Katsura: Take care of Shinsaku. I'm telling you, he's more adorable than he seems.
    Shinsaku: (blushes) Stop talking bullshit!
• Incest Yay Shipping: As mentioned above, the last two pairings listed involve members of the Fujiwara clan shipped together.
• Periphery Demographic: The game has also attracted a Yaoi Fangirl fanbase who ignores the miko and ship the Tsukuyomi danshi with each other.

• Quirky Work: One needs to have a pretty solid understanding of a wide span of Japanese history as well as mythology in order to fully appreciate the game. Add to that Yasuhide's sense of humor and the game's frequent use of poetry which requires one to have a good grasp of the Japanese language and the fact this game is not getting translated into English any time soon, you have a game that is fairly difficult to enjoy for a Western audience. In fact, most people who have played 100 Sleeping Princes and the Kingdom of Dreams would have never heard of AkaSeka.
• Tear Jerker: The fact that Katsura knows his friend Shinsaku moved to Miyabi and is not coming back, but still supports his decision.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: Search for the Priest of the Moon. It would have made a great story arc alongside bringing back Seimei (the Priest of the Sea) if the Priest of the Moon wasn't revealed right off the bat to be Inaba.
• Trolling Creator: If the epic "Perry" April Fools' Day joke isn't any indication.
• The Woobie:
  • Shikibu, my god, Shikibu. It's safe to assume he's the number 1 woobie in the entire game. Going through an abused childhood which leaves him with severe self-expression issues only to be on the receiving end of bullying which he doesn't have courage to stand up to because of said self-expression issues… It's enough for the heroine to actually hug him in-story.
    Shikibu: (flustered) I said be with me, not hug me.
  • Katsura who apparently lives a life on the run and never gets a moment of rest or peace because of his activism, so much so that when he gets a chance to leave Baku for a while, he is immensely glad that for once, he can let his guard down and not be prepared to run at top speed on short notice.

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