Beat Blades Haruka

Beat Blades Haruka is an Eroge released by Alice Soft in 2008. Considered a spiritual successor to Beat Angel Escalayer. Starting in 2009, a three episode OVA was released by Milky.

The main character is Takamaru Ikusabe, a horny teenager who inherits leadership of a combat organization called the Jougenshuu from his father. During the course of the game, he must manage three heroines of the Jougenshuu in their battles against the Noroi, an organization bent on taking over the world (Of course!). However, the heroines' powers must be charged via sexual stimulation, which leads to all sorts of awkwardness.


 * Adaptation Decay: With only three episodes the OVA was, sadly, unable to adapt much of the game itself.
 * Alternate Character Reading: The Blades, read as 閃忍 or "flashing ninja".
 * And the Adventure Continues...: The OVA leaves out a good portion of the game's story, ending just after Subaru gets rescued with at least three major antagonists still remaining.
 * Anti-Grinding: Towards the end of the game, the enemies just keep piling on, making it difficult to grind while keeping up your peace points, which are necessary to view some of the endings.
 * Autobots Rock Out: With added reed flutes!
 * Color Coded for Your Convenience: The three Blades' elemental powers are easily identifiable by their clothes.
 * Curtains Match the Window: Narika (red eyes, pink hair, and a mostly red and white color scheme) and Subaru (blue eyes and hair)
 * Elites Are More Glamorous: The Blades are the elite fighting force of the Jougenshuu and are the only ones the player actually controls. It pays to have a name.
 * Emergency Weapon: All of your heroines have an attack that requires no energy to use. However, it's incredibly inaccurate and only ever does one damage even if it does hit, so if you ever run out of energy, you're pretty much screwed.
 * Eyes Always Shut: Hagane Itou
 * Faux Action Girl: Haruka in the OVA. Whenever she gets into a fight, it generally ends with her getting raped and having to be bailed out by Narika. This may be irritating to some players as in-game, she has the potential to be the strongest of the three heroines.
 * Fire, Ice, Lightning: Haruka uses lightning based attacks, Narika uses fire and Subaru uses ice.
 * Fragile Speedster: Narika.
 * Highly-Visible Ninja: The main characters are nominally ninjas, but they operate more on Magical Girl tropes than anything else. Justified in that highly visible fights (and victories) help keep the morale of the citizenry up.
 * Hot Chick with a Sword: No prize for guessing who.
 * In the Name of the Moon: All the time. Lampshaded in the OVA after Narika gets too carried away.
 * Instant Awesome, Just Add Ninja/Spiritual Successor: Basically, it's Beat Angel Escalayer with ninjas instead of aliens, a more polished battle system, and more heroines to manage.
 * Intimate Healing: Sex is required to charge power and raise vital stats.
 * Multiple Endings
 * New Game+: Clearing the game once unlocks a second full-length campaign with different enemies and CGs, which is required for One Hundred Percent Completion}}.
 * The Punishment: If the player loses a non-boss battle, the battle leader gets raped by the enemy. This, however, gives them a stat boost at the incredibly steep cost of one love point.
 * Recurring Riff: The opening theme, Like the Wind and Flame, is a fairly popular track for Alicesoft to rearrange and re-release, having been on at least three of their separate albums.
 * Tanuki: Gokudarou Danuki is one.
 * Well-Intentioned Extremist: Minazuki and Soukaku.
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair}: Narika (pink) and Subaru (blue).
 * You Lose At Zero Trust