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* [[All There in the Manual]]: The manual in the localized US version explains every aspect of their game with tender, loving care. Quite unusual for a shmup. Character and world backstories, point systems, variations between modes. The manual even gives you the game's own exploits for finding 1ups (life ups) and getting your score really high.
** It also advertises Ice Palace as a [[Bonus Stage]], and it's somewhat right, as in the majority of the points in most score runs are gained from it. Just hope you don't end up with a red background when you enter it...
* [[An Asskicking Christmas]]: The second game, which takes place at Christmas time and involves another round of blowing up a bunch of demons.
* [[Animal Motifs]]: Each character's wings matches their [[Fairy Companion]]. Windia is an owl, Casper is a bat, Follett is a dragon, Rosa is a fairy and Lei is a cherub. Sakura is a "witch", not an "angel" and instead flies on a classic broomstick. And Supe, since her Familiar is the ghost of an undead demonic monster, has strange, bony wings with ragged-looking membranes a worrying shade of red-purple stretched between them. She manages to make them look cute though.
* [[Art Shift]]: The first game is more typical of Junya "Joker" Inoue's art style. The characters' proportions, and the sizes of their heads and eyes, are greatly altered for the second game. The smartphone mode of the first game has re-done artwork by Yukinatsu Mori.
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* [[Creator Cameo]]: Junya Inoue voices Jitterbug, and a boss in ''Deathsmiles II''.
* [[Creepy Doll]]: In the second game: two optional bosses in the form of a gigantic teddy bear with a big bulge in its crotch and an eye hanging out, and a gigantic rabbit doll. The final stage has a number of evil cherubs with red glowing eyes who laugh while their heads spin around ''[[The Exorcist|Exorcist]]''-style.
* [[Cute'Em Up]]: Downplayed. Although the series does have some cute elements, it comprises monsters that are downright scary and genuinely evil [[Big Bad]] villains, as well as an otherwise serious plot.
* [[Darker and Edgier]]: The story of ''IIX''.
* [[Deadly Walls]]: Averted. Even if you get squished between a wall and a screen edge, you'll simply be harmlessly shoved to where there's open space.
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