Osu Tatakae Ouendan/YMMV


 * Crazy Awesome: Just try and say it's not.
 * And to those who disagree: Can your cheerleaders motivate the people enough to revive themselves from what is possibly death, and then work up the strength to team up with the rival squad in order to focus the cheering energy of the world to a dying sun? And it works so well that the dead tree you cheered next to suddenly blossoms? I think not.
 * Germans Love David Hasselhoff: Its success with non-Japanese players is why Elite Beat Agents came about, followed by OTO 2 roughly a year later.
 * Good Bad Bugs (Lag Mode and Spin Mode, both of which require you to abuse the Anti-Frustration Features on Easy mode.
 * Moe: Aoi. She has glasses, a flat chest, unique hair, and she's a total ditz. No wonder why she's a fan-favourite!
 * Moment of Awesome: The final stages of both games are truly epic.
 * Never Live It Down: Kaoru is seen with a bear only once in the entire second game, yet it's nearly synonymous with him in fan works.
 * Tear Jerker: "Over the Distance" in OTO 1, and "Believe" in OTO 2.
 * Possibly "Glamorous Sky" in OTO 2 as well, unless you fail.
 * And if you get the bad ending, instead of a Heartwarming Moment, you get a Funny Moment where the ramen chef from the first game kills the moment by riding by on his very loud motorcycle.
 * That One Level: "Believe" from OTO 2 on expert. The song is easily the slowest in the game, even slower than "Over the Distance" from the original. Unfortunately, your life gauge still drains extremely quickly. This means that to make up for the life loss between notes, you need to get practically every note perfect to make it through. Some funny timing doesn't help matters.
 * And to hammer just how hard it is to keep your life meter up, it's entirely possible to fail all the cutscenes with an S rank.
 * Viewer Gender Confusion: Shinta Kikuchi
 * Possibly JIN 2, whose hairstyle is similar to Mana Shiratori's.
 * You could also count Kaoruko: blond lady in the choir level) to be a sort of reverse trap. It's even Lampshaded in the Let's Play.

Tropes exclusive to the Let's Play of the two games include:

 * Acceptable Targets: The Earth apparently hates France.
 * Memetic Badass: Shizuyama "Kijiro" Kazebayashi AKA The Pot Pimp.
 * MST3K Mantra: Tasian hopes that you don't think too much about the absurd length of the sequel's title.