The World Ends With You/YMMV


 * And the Fandom Rejoiced: All five main characters have confirmed appearances in Kingdom Hearts 3D, which Tetsuya Nomura hints is a taste of things to come.
 * Angst Dissonance:
 * The intro to the game simply has Neku explain how much he can't stand people in general. Basically, him yelling at a few people, then "I don't get people. Never have, never will." Doesn't really get elaborated on during the main story, but it finally gets an explanation in Another Day's Pork City quest:
 * This is actually hinted at in the main story, too: when, Neku thinks, "I feel like crap. This is just like that time... That time? What time? ... I can't remember."
 * Base Breaker: Joshua. His Jerkassery is either incredibly hilarious or incredibly annoying.
 * Regardless of their opinion of his character, the question of whether or not Joshua is gay makes some fans butt heads, too.
 * Broken Aesop: A New Game+ bonus allows you to . The theme of the game is . Oops.
 * Crazy Awesome: Minamimoto.
 * Difficulty Spike: regarding the first Tin Pin Stride challenge in 's week. It's devilishly difficult in comparison to the previous one, being the first one with full player roster (four, including Neku) and enemies having superhuman reflexes.
 * Draco in Leather Pants:
 * Joshua.
 * Minamimoto, too.
 * Ensemble Darkhorse: Minamimoto, Kariya, and 777.
 * Escapist Character: Hanekoma. He's always two steps ahead of everyone and but, mostly because of keeping in the background of things, he manages to keep a sense of mystique and interest to keep from being obnoxious about it.
 * Fanon: The concept of a "Music" of Shibuya is widespread and largely accepted with no explanation in fanfiction; it's never even alluded to in the game, though it does make some sort of sense and fit with the musical theme naming (Noise, Conductor, Composer, frequency, etc).
 * Fountain of Memes: Pick Sho Minamimoto's out loud quotes. Any of them, and fans of the game just might start having quote-offs or break out into math speeches.
 * Game Breaker:
 * If you use Mingle mode and come across another player doing the same, you can access that player's shop, which consists of what the player's characters were equipped with at the time. Through this, you can, early on in the game, buy pins that you normally wouldn't get for a long time, such as the Anguis and the Darklit Planet set, and quite easily demolish every enemy that comes your way.
 * That's not a Game Breaker, that's enforced Power of Friendship!
 * And of course the LASS thread set, short for "Lapin Angelique Suicide Special," which uses threads which require the SOS condition. The correct set of four grants an insane level of offense and defense, often meaning 0 damage on the user and Massive Damage to the enemy. There's even pins and threads which automatically inflict SOS at the beginning of battle. Combined with the Darklit Planets, any enemy you face is... pretty much SOL.
 * Neku and Joshua's Level 3 Fusion Attack. It can be used to basically skip the Nintendo Hard Phase 2 of Sho Minamimoto's boss fight by taking almost half his HP off. To put that in perspective, Shiki's level 3 Fusion has an Efficiency rating of 20, Beat's has an Efficiency rating of 30, and Joshua's level 3 Fusion has an efficiency rating of 99.99.
 * Genius Bonus:
 * Some of Minamimoto's references are just random math terms thrown around for fun, but then there's the Level i Flare...
 * And the HP count of both his forms in the Noise Report... but this one should be easy to get, considering how he recites Pi in-game.
 * Also, there's a Japanese Culture Genius Bonus: In Another Day, when Beat is trying to become a comedian, it's just plain funny. It becomes funnier if you know that there is a Japanese comedian by the stage name of BEAT Takeshi.
 * Goddamned Bats:
 * Though bats in this game aren't really goddamned so much as Frogs (especially if you use Joshua's floating move) or Shrews (who use bombs and drill attacks for massive damage, and on top of that burrow underground, making them difficult to attack).
 * Later, you encounter Frogs that absorb either short-range or long-range attacks. Or a particular kind of frog that absorbs both.
 * Pork City has battles that pair these attack-absorbing frogs with the ELEPHANTS.
 * Ravens tend to be this too. The big raven boss, Cornix Canor, is very representative in that it stays off screen for 90% of the time and just decides to stop by every once in a while, flying past your silly attempts at hitting it.
 * Any Taboo Noise, because they're stronger, require you to pay close attention to the Light Puck if you want to do any decent damage, and actively seek you out during a Scan. Additionally, the 'Gotta Bounce!' option is disabled during their battles, so you can not escape them.
 * Not to mention the jellyfish. They multiply endlessly. If you try to get the red jellyfish's Hard drop by waiting for it to spawn, the battle can easily take up to 10 minutes just because they spawn faster than you can finish them off.
 * Ho Yay Shipping:
 * It doesn't take very strong slash goggles to see several of the male shop keepers crushing on the player as hard as the females when you get their Friendship up -- the le Grand clerk in Cadoi City's offering to help the player slip into his purchases being the most explicit. He will drop several sexual compliments on the party as they shop -- however, there's only a one-third chance that there's even a girl in the party, meaning two times out of three he's hitting on a pair of fifteen year-old boys.
 * There's also a fair amount of Les Yay, too -- Shiki's most important character arc is, while Mina and Ai seem to care much more about each other than Makoto...
 * It's even Lampshaded in the bonus chapter at the end of the game, where Joshua's codename is 'Pink', someone comments on how a Rainbow Tin Pin Launcher was 'made for him' and he's the 'Roy G. Biv' of Tin Pin, and Josh himself offers to escort Neku alone down an abandoned drainage river and "spend some quality time". Shiki is torn between shock and Yaoi Fangirl-ism.
 * More here.
 * Larynx Dissonance: Admit it, when you first heard Joshua's voice, you were surprised that it was coming from the mouth of a 15 year old boy.
 * Magnificent Bastard: arguably qualify since their plans both failed and succeeded at the same time, but  is the crowning example of this trope. Just read the Secret Reports.
 * Memetic Mutation:
 * "Meme" is actually used in the psychological context rather than the present-day "internet joke" definition...
 * But while we're on the subject, Sho would like to you know that you are so zetta slow!
 * One Reaper uses the typical internet-memetic catchphrases "Oh really?" (orly?), "I see what you did there," (i see what u did thar) and "I know, right?" (inorite?)
 * Joshua can lock on to a single enemy multiple times to attack it For Massive Damage!
 * The proof is in the pudding. The pudding... OF THEIR DOOM!
 * Sho's also used similarly to Ultros to tell some Incredibly Lame Pun, but math related.
 * Joshua and his Super Jesus Beam. Joshua is a form of the name Jesus, after all.(Yoshua and Yeshua have the same root name.)
 * Come get some Hot Stuff.
 * Shiki's "Pants. Off. Now." and Beat's "IM DIGGIN' IT!" are popular among fans.
 * Tin Pin. SLAM ON!
 * For Tin-Pin is a Manly Game.
 * Must... resist... emo urges!
 * There's a party in my mouth!
 * Shut up and walk, dear. <3
 * Memetic Sex God: Minamimoto.
 * Moe: Rhyme.
 * Most Annoying Sound:
 * To some fans, Beat in general.
 * Joshua's "Whaaat?" every time he gets knocked down is the only reason why his levitation could possibly be a bad thing.
 * "Neku, do you need a break?" Especially when half of the time it's his fault that you're dying in the first place.
 * "ZETTA SLOW. SO ZETTA-SO ZETTA SLOW!" and "IIIIIINFINITY!"
 * "You're outta your vecto- You're outta your vecto- You're outta your vecto- You're outta your vecto- "*repeat ad infinitum*
 * "DIE, RADIAN!" "DIE, RADIAN!" - Notice three examples in a row are from the same guy.
 * Narm Charm:
 * The soundtrack kicks ass, but if you think about it for 30 seconds, you realize that a lot of it is a bunch of Japanese singers trying to sound like gangstas as they rap. But they put so much energy and effort into their performance, it's just adorable. And the songs still somehow manage to be completely awesome! That's an accomplishment, folks.
 * It gets even better if you listen to the lyrics of some of the songs. For example, "Game Over" is apparently sung by a businessman signing contracts and climbing up the corporate ladder.
 * Nightmare Fuel:
 * The Game Over sequence. The music suddenly stops, Neku whispers, "I'm fading..." in a horrified voice, and then both screens turn to static. It's even worse when you're fighting Game Masters, as they'll make a snarky comment too.
 * Sometimes, it'll be your partner who speaks when you die, and their death cries can get pretty horrifying. Like, who, instead of whispering like Neku, screams "]] That one's more of a Tear Jerker, however.
 * The Progfox is a boss that shapeshifts and has different forms. This is one of them.
 * Towards the end of Week 3, is kinda horrifying.
 * Plus,  can be shocking to some.
 * No Such Thing as Bad Publicity and/or Bile Fascination with a side of Getting Crap Past the Radar: Subverted; despite how it sounds, the "F" in Eiji's blog actually stands for ""
 * Player Punch: Several. The first one gets pulled surprisingly early, and it's far from being the last.
 * Punch Clock Villain: Arguably, most of the Reapers. They're inarguably the antagonists, but most of them don't have anything personal against the Players and are just doing their job. Furthermore, a good deal of them are quite decent, and will be at least grateful if they are helped by Players, like 777 and Kariya.
 * Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer/Rule of Funny: Proof that Square Enix has a habit of making too many addictive games: . And, yes, you can do exactly the same.
 * That One Boss:
 * Minamimoto. So zetta annoying, . And, inevitably, Kariya and/or Uzuki.
 * Konishi can be rather difficult as well, since she's a very confusing Puzzle Boss who can easily destroy you if you can't figure out exactly what you have to do just to scratch her. The solution is implied before the start of the battle, but it isn't explicitly stated and requires you to do things that you would not have thought about before.
 * Viewer Gender Confusion:
 * Oh, admit it. If there was no Voice Grunting, and if no one referred to her gender in-game, you'd think that Rhyme was a dude.
 * It's worse in the Japanese version, where she uses male personal pronouns. However, if you look hard enough, you can tell that she's female. Barely.
 * It's really not that Rhyme is unfeminine; if you know that she's female it's perfectly easy to see. It's just that a) they don't give you an indication of her gender until pretty late into the game and b) one is so used to seeing Bishonen who look even girlier you just assume it's a boy.
 * The Woobie: All of the main characters have their moments of being this.
 * Shiki
 * Beat
 * Rhyme
 * Even Neku and Joshua can be seen as this. The former, and the latter
 * Woolseyism: The game is just about made of them. Example given: Beat's rough, tough-guy speech patterns in Japanese were changed to Ebonics for the English version.
 * Woolseyism: The game is just about made of them. Example given: Beat's rough, tough-guy speech patterns in Japanese were changed to Ebonics for the English version.