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Many years ago, the human world and the Elemental World coexisted peacefully, but were forcibly separated by a dimensional barrier. However, somewhere above Tokyo, there is someone actively working to break down the barrier and merge the two worlds once again, which could bring disastrous consequences to all of Earth. A handful of maidens have been given the power to communicate with elemental guardian spirits known as Arcana, which grant them the power to take the necessary steps to prevent this from happening.
 
This is the tale of '''''Arcana Heart''''', an [[ImprobablyFundamentally Female Cast|all-girls]] fighting game released in arcades and on the PlayStation 2. Apart from the roster of characters, this game's play mechanics are similar in some respects to ''[[Guilty Gear (Video Game)|Guilty Gear]]'', with their emphasis on speed and combos, and the ability to take battles really high into the air. An updated version, entitled ''Arcana Heart FULL!'' addressed some character balancing issues (the regular and ''FULL!'' versions of each character are selectable in the home version).
 
There's also the sequel ''Arcana Heart 2'', and its enhanced remake ''Suggoi! Arcana Heart 2''. The latter got a Playstation 2 port of... [[Porting Disaster|questionable performance]].
 
''Arcana Heart 3'' was released December 2009. And it will be ported to Playstation 3 and [[X BoxXbox]] 360 by Winter. And the one doing the port will be... [[Arc System Works]]. Confirmed for a Playstation Network release in the US, and a disc release in Europe.
 
The series is developed by Examu but has had various publishers: AQ Interactive (1 & 2, JP), [[Atlus]] (1, NA), [[Arc System Works|Arc System Works/Aksys Games]] (3, JP & NA), and Zen United (3, EU).
 
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* [[A God Am I]] - Look at the [[Big Bad]] entry below.
* [[All Your Powers Combined]] - Mildred.
* [[An Ice Person]] - Zenia Valov in ''Arcana Heart 2'' uses the default Arcana of ice.
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* [[Black Magician Girl]] - Dorothy Albright from ''Arcana Heart 2''
* [[Boobs of Steel]] - Mei-Fang, almost literally.
* [[Cast Fromfrom Hit Points]] - The main gimmick of Sorwat, Clarice's default Arcana.
* [[Cool Big Sis]] - Akane Inuwaka.
* [[Cute Little Fangs]] - Lilica
* [[Cute Witch]] - Yoriko. Shy and bookish, but she carries a mean skeletal [[Magic Wand]].
* [[Dark Is Not Evil]] - Only in Yoriko's case. Her Arcana's Element is Death, but she's really a good-natured witch (and friends with prankster half-demon Lilica, who is herself rather friendly and cheerful). Lieselotte, the Shadow Arcana holder, [[Creepy Child|isn't so nice]]. In the sequel, Clarice di Lanza is a demonic nurse and seems rather nice all around, and [[Say It Withwith Hearts|speaks with music tones.]]
* [[Deadpan Snarker]] - Saki
* [[Dojikko]] - Heart tends to fall down in the opening in her stage.
* [[Doppelganger Attack]] - Two of Konoha's super attacks, a normal super and her [[Limit Break|Critical Heart]] in ''2''.
** Ditto for Akane.
* [[Doppelganger Spin]] - Lilica uses "afterimage" (i.e. extreme speed) style doppelgangers in two of ''her'' supers.
* [[Elegant Gothic Lolita]] - ([[Gratuitous German|Obligatory German girl]]) Lieselotte practically ''defines'' this.
* [[Elemental Powers]] - In addition to the characters' standard attacks, the Arcana grant additional powers to the Maidens, and can be used interchangeably by anyone (though the characters all have their own preferred default Arcana).
* [[Empathic Weapon]] - Yoriko's staff... who is actually a very <s>stiff</s> powerful demon <s>stuck</s> transformed in a <s>rigid</s> <s>flacid?</s> staff shape. [[Freudian Slippery Slope|Penis]].
* [[Enfante Terrible]] - Kira Daidouji, who already has [[Take Over the World|world domination]] aspirations at the tender age of 11. (Aww...) Lieselotte's pretty damn creepy, too, the way she carries her sister's soul in the body of a legless puppet and all.
* [[Everything's Better Withwith Penguins]] - Zenia's default Arcana, "Almacia", the [[An Ice Person|ice Arcana]]
* [[Evil Albino]] - Liesolette Achenbach.
* [[Extra Ore Dinary]] - Fiona's default Arcana, Orichalkos.
* [[Extremity Extremist]] - Mostly on minor versions here. Saki and Akane mostly uses kick, and Zenia mostly uses punch. However, they also have one or two moves which involve their other unused limbs.
* [[Eyes Always Shut]] - Clarice, most of the time, unless she's not in a good mood.
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* [[Fragile Speedster]] - Lilica
* [[Genki Girl]] - Heart
* [[GunsA AkimboGod Am I]] - PetraLook Johannaat Lagerkvistthe in[[Big ''ArcanaBad]] Heartentry 2''above.
* [[Gratuitous Foreign Language]] - The names of many of the Arcana attacks.
* [[Green Thumb]] - Konoha's default Arcana, Moriomoto.
* [[Guns Akimbo]] - Petra Johanna Lagerkvist in ''Arcana Heart 2''.
* [[Half-Human Hybrid]] - Lilica is an half-demon, Konoha is part-dog, and Akane has fox ears that she's somewhat embarrassed about.
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]] - Surprisingly, ''Mike'' of all <s>people</s> demons is implied to do one in Yoriko's bad ending (first game), shielding Yoriko and Lilica from the energy of the spirit world long enough for them to escape.
{{quote| "Don't worry about me, [[Badass Boast|even this much power is but a refreshing breeze to a demon king]]!"}}
* [[Hey It's That Voice]] - Mostly averted at first, as the most well known seiyuu present in the first Arcana Heart is just Mikako Takahashi (as Heart, other people know her as [[Grenadier|Rushuna Tendou]] or [[Super Robot Wars|Kusuha Mizuha]]). The 2nd game introduces better known names like [[Marina Inoue]] (Petra), [[Kaori Shimizu]] (Zenia), [[Yu Kobayashi]] (Dorothy) and [[Sayaka Ohara]] (Clarice). The third game adds in [[Miyuki Sawashiro]] (Weiss, the new heroine) and [[Yuki Matsuoka]] ([[Playing Against Type|Scharharlot]]).
** You can also find several ''[[The Idolmaster (Video Game)|The Idolmaster]]'' seiyuus here, in particular [[Hiromi Hirata]] (Makoto Kikuchi) as Kamui, Mayako Nigo (Yayoi Takatsuki) as Lilica and Juri Takita (Kotori Otonashi) as [[Talking to Himself|Mei-Fang and Mei-Ling]]
* [[Humongous Mecha]] - Well...not ''humongous'' per se, but the mech Catherine drives is fairly large (standing, it fills the vertical screen space)
** {{spoiler|Ragnarok, the final boss of Arcana Heart 3, is a true humongous mecha... sort of. It's actually an oversized artificial arcana.}}
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* [[Improbable Age]]: Kira has a ''[[Morally-Ambiguous Doctorate|Doctorate]]'', a freaking ''Ph.D'' at the age of '''[[Fridge Logic|11]]''' [[Fridge Logic|years old]]. Catherine Kyoubashi one-ups her by getting her Ph.D at the age of ''10'' years old!
* [[Improbable Weapon User]] - Maori (and her sisters) uses an armory full of tops and giant paper cranes.
* [[ImprobablyFundamentally Female Cast]]
* [[Insufferable Genius]] - Kira Daidohji. She's extremely intelligent, but also very arrogant and condescending.
* [[Jack of All Stats]] - Heart
* [[Jerk Withwith a Heart of Gold]] - Mike, the self-proclaimed "demon king" sealed in Yoriko's staff. He's abrasive, boastful, and often callous (he's the one responsible for Yoriko's pact with the Death arcana, which terrifies her)...but he's also intensely protective of Yoriko, and seems to cause her inconvenience only out of denseness.
* [[Kamehame Hadoken]] - Partinias' Ouranio Toxo. In the second game, Petra's Critical Heart.
* [[Light Is Not Good]] - Mildred's an angel, so her attacks are light-based versions of the Arcana users' attacks.
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* [[Miko]] - Maori Kasuga (+ her sisters)
* [[Ninja]] - Konoha
* [[No Export for You]] - The second game. Probably largely due to the fact that the [[PS 2]] didn't handle the game well.
** The Xbox 360 version will not come to the US due to circumstances beyond Aksys' control. The 360 version, weighing in at 2 gigabytes, breaks the 800 megabyte limit for XBLA titles.
** The original game (and the sequel, obviously) skipped Europe.
* [[Nuns Are Mikos]] - Elsa and Clarice from the sequel game. Elsa plays this straight, but Clarice is [[Naughty Nuns|kinda naughty]].
* [[The Ojou]] - Petra
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** And ''Sugoi! Arcana Heart 2'' adds a [[Extremity Extremist|kick happy]] [[Dog Girl]] and a [[Dog Girl]] who is basically an [[Expy]] of Nakoruru (complete with bird), mounted on a wolf with a staff. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_oRwjzxtj0 There.]
* [[Playboy Bunny]] (Catherine's outfit. Or perhaps, better said: Swimsuit + Bunny Ears)
* [[Playing Withwith Fire]] - Mei-Fang's default Arcana
* [[The Power of Love]] - Taken literally with Heart's default Arcana Partineas, the Arcana of Love that launches [[Energy Ball|Energy Balls]] and [[Kamehame Hadoken|huge beams of sheer whoopass]].
* [[Powers Asas Programs]] - the Arcana
* [[Princess Curls]] - Petra
* [[Rapunzel Hair]] - Yoriko, Kamui, Mildred, Weib, Scharlachrot, Petra, Clarice, Angelia, Saki, and Maori.
* [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]] - Kamui, being the "Thousand Years Protector", is protected by her Arcana so that she never ages physically.
* [[Robot Girl]] / [[Anime Chinese Girl]] - Mei-Fang
* [[Romantic Two-Girl Friendship]] - Saki and Heart, and ''maybe'' Lilica and Yoriko; others are by ones own interpretation▼
* [[Rollerblade Good]] - Lilica
▲* [[Romantic Two-Girl Friendship]] - Saki and Heart, and ''maybe'' Lilica and Yoriko; others are by ones own interpretation
* [[Samurai]] - Kamui
* [[Save Both Worlds]]
* [[School Swimsuit]] - Kira wears one all the time, with the occasional lab coat over it. [[Justified Trope|Justified]] in that she fights while being waist-deep in a large slime that mimics her moves.▼
* [[Secret Character]] - Fiona in the first Arcana Heart, {{spoiler|Scharlachrot}} in the third.
* [[Shout -Out]] - {{spoiler|Scharlachrot}} has two. A number of fans have compared one of her attacks with [[Marvel vs. Capcom|the Omega Destroyer]], while on the character select screen she may mutter [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|"Anta baka?"]]▼
▲* [[School Swimsuit]] - Kira wears one all the time, with the occasional lab coat over it. [[Justified Trope|Justified]] in that she fights while being waist-deep in a large slime that mimics her moves.
** Eko's Critical Heart bears more than a passing resemblance to [[Touhou (Video Game)|Oni Sign "Missing Power"]]▼
* [[Screwed By the Network]] - The North American port of the first Arcana Heart removed the voices used during dialogued due to Sony Computer Entertainment of America's policy against games without English dubs. The same region's [[PS 3]] port of Arcana Heart 3 was forced to go download-only for the same reason. It was then further screwed when Sony shut down their download service for over a month shortly after its release.
** One of the console trophies is named "Sword Summoner mark III." Mark I and II were used by Nu and Lambda in the ''[[Blaz BlueBlazBlue]]'' series.▼
** The 360 port was screwed even further by "circumstances beyond" Aksys' control. The circumstances? The game's size is over 2 GB, and the limit for your typical XBLA title is 800 MB.
** Some of the downloadable colour palettes in ''Arcana heart 3'' make references to ''[[Guilty Gear (Video Game)|Guilty Gear]]'' and ''[[Blaz BlueBlazBlue]]'' (ASW's other works). For example.▼
* [[Slipknot Ponytail]] - Zenia, if you either beat her with a good attack or if you have a close call victory with her.▼
*** PetraSaki's DLC 3 palette is [[BlazGuilty BlueGear|RachelKy AlucardKiske/Millia Rage]]. ▼
▲* [[Shout Out]] - {{spoiler|Scharlachrot}} has two. A number of fans have compared one of her attacks with [[Marvel vs. Capcom|the Omega Destroyer]], while on the character select screen she may mutter [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|"Anta baka?"]]
*** DorothyClarice's DLC 3 palette is [[BlazGuilty BlueGear|Carl CloverBridget]]. ▼
▲** Eko's Critical Heart bears more than a passing resemblance to [[Touhou (Video Game)|Oni Sign "Missing Power"]]
*** Mei-FangFiona's DLC 3 palette is [[BlazGuilty BlueGear|Litchi Faye-LingMay]]. ▼
▲** One of the console trophies is named "Sword Summoner mark III." Mark I and II were used by Nu and Lambda in the ''[[Blaz Blue]]'' series.
*** Konoha's DLC 3 palette is [[BlazBlue|Bang Shishigami]].
▲** Some of the downloadable colour palettes in ''Arcana heart 3'' make references to ''[[Guilty Gear (Video Game)|Guilty Gear]]'' and ''[[Blaz Blue]]'' (ASW's other works). For example.
*** SakiKamui's DLC 3 palette is [[GuiltyBlazBlue|Hakumen]]. GearFor (Videoa Game)|Kymoveset Kiske/Millia[[Shout-Out]], Rageshe gets something of [[Guilty Gear|Johnny]].'s Mist Finer
*** ClariceMei-Fang's DLC 3 palette is [[GuiltyBlazBlue|Litchi Gear (Video Game)|BridgetFaye-Ling]].
*** FionaPetra's DLC 3 palette is [[GuiltyBlazBlue|Rachel Gear (Video Game)|MayAlucard]].
*** KonohaDorothy's DLC 3 palette is [[Blaz BlueBlazBlue|BangCarl ShishigamiClover]].
*** Lilica's DLC 1 palette is [[Darkstalkers (Video Game)|Morrigan Aensland]]. ▼
*** Kamui's DLC 3 palette is [[Blaz Blue|Hakumen]]. For a moveset [[Shout Out]], she gets something of [[Guilty Gear (Video Game)|Johnny]]'s Mist Finer
▲*** Mei-Fang's DLC 3 palette is [[Blaz Blue|Litchi Faye-Ling]].
▲*** Petra's DLC 3 palette is [[Blaz Blue|Rachel Alucard]].
▲*** Dorothy's DLC 3 palette is [[Blaz Blue|Carl Clover]].
▲*** Lilica's DLC 1 palette is [[Darkstalkers (Video Game)|Morrigan Aensland]].
*** One of Scharl's is Black*Rock Shooter
*** One of Lilica's is [[Disgaea: Hour of Darkness|Etna]].
*** One of Heart's is [[Persona 4 (Video Game)|Yukiko Amagi]]
** Several of the characters' alternates unlocked through DLC/Online resembles ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]'', in particular, Heart as Madoka Kaname, Saki as Homura Akemi ([[Les Yay|HMMMM...]]) and Petra as Mami Tomoe.
** And even by default, Catherine's color scheme and fighting style resembles [[Sonic the Hedgehog|Dr. Eggman/Robotnik]]
** Dorothy Albright's overall design (down to the [[Nice Hat]]) pretty much resembles that of ''[[Blaz BlueBlazBlue]]'s'' Carl Clover. Although, [[Older Than They Think|Dorothy comes first]].
** The Xbox 360 achivements are all over the ears with these such as "[[Fist of the North Star|Atatatatatatatatatatatatatata!]]", "[[Dirty Harry|Do You Feel Lucky, Punk?]]" and even "[[Touhou (Video Game)|Yukkuri Shiteitte Ne]]".
▲* [[Slipknot Ponytail]] - Zenia, if you either beat her with a good attack or if you have a close call victory with her.
* [[SNK Boss]] - Both Avalons. Parace from ''Sugoi! Arcana Heart 2'' as well.
** Parace comes back in the Score Attack Mode of the console port of ''Arcana Heart 3''. [[Oh Crap]].
*** She's even worse on Arcana Heart 3 than in the second game.
** Ragnarok in ''Arcana Heart 3'' gets extra points for being a boss designed for an ''entirely different style of gameplay''. And if time runs out, you can't continue.
* [[Super Mode]] - Arcana Force mode. Can be activated once per round, and provides an additional arcana-specific benefit.▼
* [[The Stoic]] - Zenia doesn't talk much... most of the time.
* [[Sugar and Ice Personality]] - Saki. Aloof most of the time, but after her ordeal was over, she was rather apologetic to Heart.
** Also Zenia. Most of the time super serious, but goes very sweet in front of kids.
▲* [[Super Mode]] - Arcana Force mode. Can be activated once per round, and provides an additional arcana-specific benefit.
* [[Take Over the World]] - Kira's ambition.
* [[Tall, Dark and Bishoujo]] - Saki, a young lady whose family studied in England, and who appears to have gotten her [[Shout -Out|character design inspiration]] from Chikane of ''[[Kannazuki no Miko]]''.
** Kamui could also count.
* (Pre-)[[Teen Genius]] - Kira. Built her own ether-powered [[The Blob|blob]], and the ether-circuits used to power Mei-Fang. In the sequel, Catherine Kyohbashi is another one, having built the huge robot she controls by herself.
* [[Time Stands Still]] - Anutpada (the time arcana)'s [[Limit Break]].
* [[Tokyo Is the Center of Thethe Universe]]
* [[Tokyo Tower]] - The backdrop for Lilica's stage in the first game.
* [[Utopia Justifies the Means]] - Mildred believes that the merging of the two worlds she's attempting will start a new golden age where everything will be a lot better than it is now. The fact that millions of people will die in the ensuing dimensional turmoil? Acceptable losses.
* [[Variable -Length Chain]] - {{spoiler|Scharlachrot}} uses them. Lots of them.
* [[White-Haired Pretty Girl]] - Zenia (ties her hair short), Lieselotte (more like White Haired ''Creepy'' Girl)
** Zenia's victory pose where she takes her [[Badass Longcoat|coat]] off and [[Letting Her Hair Down|lets her hair down]] [[Beautiful All Along|definitely]] [[She Cleans Up Nicely|qualifies.]]
* [[Widget Series]] - [[ImprobablyFundamentally Female Cast|All]]. [[Moe Moe|Moe]]. [[Fighting Game|Fighting]]. [[Fighting Game|Game]]. The fact that it actually stands on its own merits....
* [[Zettai Ryouiki]] - Petra's outfit. Long boots version.
** Heart as well. Knee socks variant.
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