Dohna Dohna - Let's Do Bad Things Together

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From the top left, clockwise: Kira Kira, Alice, Kikuchiyo, Porno, Medico. Antenna on the center.

Dohna Dohna - Let's Do Bad Things Together is a 2020 H Game and Eastern RPG developed by AliceSoft, the developers of the Rance series.

The Asougi Corporation controls almost all the aspects of the life of Asoubi City, and punishes people who commit the slightest infractions against their "Asougi Points" system with "Temp Work"(a mix of labour camp with reeducation camp). Thanks to being a provincial city, the Japanese government does not interfere in the internal city affairs. Against them, however, there is the Anti-Asougi clans: prostitution rings which use the money from prostitution to finance their fight against the corporation. Kuma, Porno, Zappa, Kira Kira, and Torataro, the game's heroes, are the members of the Nayuta Clan. The game begins with the group already formed and more or less in the middle of the war against Asougi, with the plot following the heroes' progressing struggle against the corporation, and against other Anti-Asougi clans.

In gameplay, Dohna Dohna is your typical JRPG played on a 2D view, with three kind of actions: MP skills, VP skills (which can only be used by filling a meter), and items. However, you don't get money from battles. Instead, you must get money through prostitution. Enter the game's most twisted mechanic: by defeating "talent" enemies with your last attack on a battle, you store them on a "garage" slot and can promote them to the "talent" slot. Then you have to play a reverse tower-defense game involve trying to get your talents to be taken by clients while competing with rival hustling agencies, all while trying to manage their stats and which talents you will keep for the next hustling phase, since they get cleared from the garage slot when you go into the field.

The catch? The "talent" monsters are actually Innocent Bystanders whom the heroes kidnapped while fighting the Asougi troops and took to locked rooms, forcing them to be prostitutes. By the appearances of some randoms, some of them are barely pubescent children ("barely" because all talents are able to get pregnant). There is a side quest involving unique talents, characters with their own personalities and unique designs, which involves unlocking storyline scenes with them fulfilling certain special conditions.

The game also contain a Persona-inspired "feeling" mechanic, which unlocks romantic erotic scenes between Kuma and the respective girls of the party, and some comedic moments with the guys. There are several ways of increasing the "feeling" stat which unlocks those events.

It was released on 29 October 2021 in English by Shiravune.

Tropes used in Dohna Dohna - Let's Do Bad Things Together include:
  • Action Girl: All the heroines pull their weight in gameplay, but in story, Kikuchiyo best examplifies this trope, relying primarily on her skills and power rather than gadgets and guile. Though she eventually goes down to overwhelming force, Kikuchiyo single-handedly takes down over half the Shinonome Group by herself.
  • Affably Evil:
    • Hisamitsu is usually polite and courteous, save for the time he rapes Mistress. Though he loses his cool once the good guys begin winning against the final boss, he recomposes himself and takes his defeat with grace.
    • The Foreigner is always polite, soft-spoken and mild-mannered, and is unlikely to be any better than the primary antagonist.
  • All Gays Are Pedophiles: Zappa, when asked what his type is, answers that he's gay, and "just happy ogling Joker", who appears to be no older than 14.
  • Always Identical Twins: Alyce and Yammy, though there is a twist that though they have the same shape, Yammy has completely different colors than Alyce.
  • Anti Hero: The Nayuta Clan and the other Anti-Asougi clans are on the deep end on this trope. They do not murder civilians but have no qualms at kidnapping Asougi City females which had the bad luck of being on their way and basically rape them by proxy, including virgins, young teens. And unceremoniously kick them out if they become useless to them, or even if they don't. You can dump on a S+ talent, after all.
  • Artificial Limbs: Shinazu had his limbs replaced with cybernetics.
  • Bad Boss: In contrast to Kikuchiyo and Shinazu, Tsuina treats her own subordinates extremely callously, even the ones who otherwise display no displeasure at serving her. She chops one subordinate's fingers off for failing her and has absolutely no regard for anyone's life.
  • Badass Adorable: Joker is cute and young, and he also can hit enemies straight to hell with his bat.
  • Blatant Lies: When Kirakira question if Zappa wants to break into an Asoubi facility out of petty revenge for a dinner-and-dashing incident of the day before, he audibly stutters, negates it's about it, and all he does is from a place of "righteous anger", and he wants to "fix society".
  • Bloodless Carnage: No enemy bleeds, but Kirakira takes it to absurd levels since she straight up is hitting people with a chainsaw.
  • Blood Knight:
    • Zappa jumps at any opportunity to fight Asougi, to the point Kuma has to rein him and remind him they cannot just go around beating them for no reason.
    • Shinazu loves a good fight too.
    • Lu Bu is obsessed with improving his own strength at the expense of everything else. He is estatic when the party begins beating him near the end of the story.
  • Boobs of Steel: Played for Laughs. Medico's only skill outside of healing at first involves her engaging in Confusion Fu and hitting her opponent with her fists frenetically. Porno also seems to engage in some sort of physical fighting but her damage is not even comparable.
  • Butt Monkey: Torataro. He is frequently teased by other members and has no luck with his love life either.
  • Buxom Is Better: Torataro says it's the only thing which can outmatch his preference for older women when talking about Medico.
  • Chained by Fashion: Zappa wears chain on his fists. It is supposed to show how strong he is but comes off mostly as Rule of Cool.
  • Chainsaw Good: Kira Kira uses a chainsaw in battle.
  • Cold Sniper: Yammy fits that stereotype, talking on a cold calculated tone, and Alyce averts it.
  • Cruel to Be Kind: Shinazu beats up Kikuchiyo before leaving her for their rival gang. However, it's clear he does so with her interests in mind, as he can see that she is in love with Kuma and that this had caused her to be distracted to the point where he can easily defeat her with a surprise attack, and he only does so after he meets with Kuma to make sure he would be good to her.
  • Damsel in Distress: Each of the heroine except Porno is captured at various points in the story and needs to be rescued. If the player does not do so at the earliest opportunity, it results in said heroine being raped.
  • Darkest Hour: Episode 23. Nayuta's big plan fails. Zappa is captured. Kuma finds himself woefully inadequate to be the leader. And the reader learns that Mistress had been Asougi's mole (if it wasn't already obvious) and the Anti-Aso clans had been playing into Asougi's hand all along.
  • Defeat Means Friendship: Yammy makes peace with the Nayuta clan once they defeat her and offers Alyce to them since they had both become disposable for their creators.
  • Defector From Decadence: Zappa came from the Hisamitsu bloodline. He ran away from Asougi and started his own anti-Aso clan after he finally had enough of them.
  • Defrosting the Ice Queen: Kikuchiyo begins the story cold and distant. She mellows out significantly thanks to her time in Nayuta.
  • Delayed Causality: Kikuchiyo's Voltage skill. However, rather than a Single-Stroke Battle, it is a Blade Spam that sends the enemies flying the moment she dramatically sheathes her blade.
  • Depraved Bisexual: Shion's Establishing Character Moment is stabbing Torataro in a pointless, childish gang fight out of sheer cruelty. Her second prominent scene is having lesbian sex with a schoolgirl. A bit later, you discover she sexually desires men as well.
  • Dude, Where's My Respect?: Torataro thinks he doesn't get enough respect from everybody, specially since him and Zappa founded the Nayuta clan.
  • Dumb Muscle: Zappa is pretty strong, but has the temper and capacity of thought of a child, never thinking things through.
  • Enemy Civil War:
    • From Asougi's point-of-view, that is how the fights between Anti-Asougi clans mean. A citizen is even punished for calling the police over a gang fight, an Asougi trooper saying he doesn't care.
    • Murasaki tries to orchestrate one between Nayuta and Shinonomeha clans in the museum, but Lu Bu intervenes before things get serious.
  • Enemy Mine:
    • Shinazu tried to make an alliance with the Flattt clan, but Murasaki refuses.
    • Kikuchiyo does help Kuma after he saves her from the Flattt's sniper at the Shinonome Warf, to the point she becomes an temporary part member.
    • Both the Shinonome Group and Flattt aid Nayuta during the climax, because at the end of the day, they hate Asougi much more than they hate each others.
  • Establishing Character Moment: Shion's first prominent scene involves her stabbing Torataro after her own minions started a fight, for no good reason. In other words, she is a murderous psycho.
  • Even Evil Has Standards:
    • The only qualm Kuma have about hustling girls is if they're from Asougi City or not. It saves Medico of becoming a plaything but, as her first Ero Event reveals, gave her a guilt complex.
    • Flattt has its share of rapists and psychos. Even then, Murasaki refuses to aid Tsuina fully knowing she has worthwhile intel for him after seeing her gun down a loyal retainer.
  • Everyone Can See It: Pretty much everyone can see that Kikuchiyo is head over heels for Kuma, except possibly the man himself.
  • Evil Costume Switch: Zappa, after he returns to Asougi near the end of the game. He changes back after Kuma convinces him to continue the fight.
  • Evil Old Folks: Mirei Yamamoto, Hisamitsu's grandmother. She holds greater authority than he does, and is probably the one who put the plan to use the Anti-Aso groups for Asougi's benefit into motion.
  • Extra Turn: Kikuchiyo's unlockable passive skill gives her a random chance to take an extra turn, based on her Technique stat.
  • Fashionable Asymmetry
    • Mistress only wears leg wear in her left leg.
    • Similarly, Kirakira only wears thigh-high stocking in her left inferior limb.
  • A Father To His Men: Shinazu takes a bullet for a random Shinonome goon without hesitation.
  • Five-Man Band: The four initial members plus Medico:
    • The Hero: Kuma, the protagonist, and defacto leader.
    • The Lancer: Kirakira, the Genki Girl whose attitude contrasts with the stoic and cynical Kuma.
    • The Smart Guy: Random impulsive behavior aside, Torataro is much smarter than Zappa and has the engineering skills to back up this fact.
    • The Big Guy: The official leader, a hot-headed giant which attacks with punches and wrestling techniques.
    • The Chick: Porno, the group's Morality Pet which is everyone's little sister. She also has the smallest base HP, so is for the best not putting her on vanguard.
    • The Sixth Ranger: Medico, a outsider to Asoubi which only joins after the hospital dungeon and knows nothing about how the city works, much less how much anti-heroic her new friends are.
  • Freudian Excuse: Kikuchiyo insists that her sister's upbringing is responsible for the way she turned out, implying that Tsuina's been mistreated severely as a child.
  • Friend to All Children: Zappa is quick to get on the good side of children like Antenna and Porno.
  • Gainax Bounce: Medico's breasts, all the time, during battle. Her very skimpy outfit justifies this.
  • Gameplay and Story Integration:
    • The rival hustling agencies are the same Anti-Aso clans which rival Nayuta in the story.
    • Torataro is one of your possible clients, using the nickname "Major D". And he can choose the prostitutes of rival clans. Just in case the player may not think it's him, his description says "IT'S MARKET RESEARCH!". As it turns out, he is also using the services of rival clans in the story. Depending of your luck, you may see him before or later this is revealed in-story.
  • Gameplay and Story Segregation: No matter how quick and easily you defeated the Flattt Clan in the all-girls school, the scene afterwards shows the fight went evenly matched. Also, even if you over-killed Shion, her clothes are shown as intact.
  • Good Old Fisticuffs: Zappa goes into battle only with his fists.
  • Hair-Trigger Temper: Zappa is prone to attack people over the slightest grievances. Kirakira comments "it's all he ever does", so forming the Nayuta clan is only an unintentionally good thing he did because Asoubi slightly inconvenienced him.
  • Hate Sink: Tsuina and her men are rotten to the core. With the exception of Hototogisu, who is loyal, stoic and competent, her goons are unrepentant sadists and rapists who have no justification for their heinous acts like the Anti-Aso gangs do. Tsuina herself is cowardly, spiteful, smug and treacherous.
  • Heads I Win, Tails You Lose: Murasaki's argument towards Kuma to help Nayuta at the end of the game. Nayuta wins? Asougi goes down, Murasaki can do whatever he wants. Asougi wins? One less rival..
  • Hoist by His Own Petard: In Zappa's third event, he decides to pick the last pizza slice as part of a game of Russian Roulette involving pizza tempered with extremely spicy pepper. The others quickly use that fact against him as they read his facial expressions, and he is forced to pick the absolute worst option, the only one which remained.
  • Hollywood Hacking: Averted. Antenna's impersonation method using radio waves is very realistic.
  • Honor Before Reason: When Tsuina issues Kikuchiyo a challenge for a duel, Kikuchiyo shows up alone, knowing it's a trap, and is predictably forced to face the entire group by herself, which leads to her needing to be rescued.
  • Hospital Hottie: Medico's combat outfit is meant to invoke that trope, but as she points out she is not a nurse, making it an aversion.
  • Humongous Mecha: The final boss is a mecha called The Original, a prototype for the Asoubi's cleaning robots. It's so big that doesn't fit the screen, and because of that, so it can show properly its attacks, the camera moves to show his upper side.
  • Hypocrite:
    • Tsuina has the audacity to call on tradition and bloodline when Shinazu finally had enough of her bullshit and turn on her after she repeatedly flaunts their traditions for her own spiteful goal.
    • Hisamutsu's final argument for Zappa is him saying his philosophy is one of carring the legacy of the past into the future. Except Hisamutsu has contempt for his grandmother and Asoubi clearly is trying to destroy what Japan used to be to build their own system on top of it. He seems even unable to capture his contradiction despite claiming Asoubi representing he "changing times" a few sentences later.
  • Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: Unusually, it is the protagonist rather than the bad guys who falls under this trope. Despite pistol being his primary weapon, Kuma can only ever hit targets at point blank range.
  • Joke Item: The Nayuta Cracker, a explosive which does hilariously low damage (only 10 health points). It's useful in certain situations, because it costs no MP and if used to finish off a talent it will award "technician points" (it will do damage equal to their total HP).
  • Jumped At the Call: Antenna is eager to join Nayuta the moment she is asked to by Kira Kira and Kuma, despite having no stakes on the fight aside of personal freedom.
  • Karma Houdini: Hisamitsu, the closest thing to a human antagonist, is spared. His grandmother, the one pulling his strings, appears deeply angered when Nayuta beheads the statue of the founder, but is otherwise unharmed. The foreigner who treats Alyce and Yammy like tools for his own purpose probably gets what he wants in the end and is also unharmed. About the only major antagonist who comes away worse is the Asougi corporation itself, being deep in troubles by the end, but even they may not fully go down.
  • Kick the Son of a Bitch: Tsuina is a real piece of work, so few tears are shed when Murasaki locks her up and hustles her. Bonus points for karma if she had her sister raped earlier.
  • Lady of War: Kikuchiyo. Honorable, aloof, elegant, deadly. She gets flusterred easily out of combat though.
  • Le Parkour: Zappa's second event involves him practicing this, saying it's a form of opposition to Asougi.
  • Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Antenna occasionally refers to game mechanic terms, such as boss fight or dungeon, when talking about the situation the characters find themselves in.
  • Limit Break: The voltage attacks, which can only be executed after a character-specific gauge is filled. That gauge can be filled by items, enemy attacks, or simply Zappa cheering his teammates up(it's one of his skills).
  • Love At First Sight: Shion is almost instantaneously infatuated with Joker, asking for contact information and a date.
  • Mafia Princess: Mibu Kikuchiyo is the heir of the Yakuza Anti-Aso Shinonomeha clan.
  • Magikarp Power: Joker will likely be the weakest party member by far when he first joins. However, he also has the highest growth rate in the game and a diverse skillset that allows him to both attack and support as the party requires.
  • Man Child:
    • Zappa does not go to high school like Kuma and Kirakira and looks older than them, yet he is a very obsessed fan of a Magical Girl show and gets angry when its broadcast is suspended for one week so the channel can air a golf championship in its time slot.
    • Alyce looks like a late teenager or young adult, but it is less developed mentally than Porno, Antenna, and Joker, to the point as her first Ero Event shows Medico have to give her a bath. However, she is still a deadly sniper.
  • Meaningful Name: Joker is nicknamed by Kuma after the way the game of Old Maid is played: who holds that card at the end is forced to keep it. So the Nayuta Clan is forced to keep him.
  • Naughty Nurse Outfit: Medico's nurse-like outfit, crafted by Porno and Kirakira, whose cleavage stops just short of exposing her nipples.
  • Paper Thin Disguise: Nayuta's costumes hardly conceal their identity, with most of them barely covering their face. It's a wonder their wanted posters are not printed all over the city.
  • Nipple-and-Dimed: Despite the fact the game is already full of hentai content, the on-field sprites of female party members still stop just short of showing nipples.
  • No Celebrities Were Harmed:
    • Aside of Medico asking if Lu Bu is Chinese like the figure he is named after, from where he and the organization he belongs to came from is never said, but it's pretty easy to deduce they are indeed Chinese communists thanks to that name, involvement in cruel human experimentation, and The Outsider's stereotypical Chinese-like appearance.
    • Asoubi themselves seem like a Japanese PRC, with dissenters and law-breakers sent to labor camps, indoctrination of children, relative isolation from the rest of the world, trying to increase their reputation through extravagant measures, and a social credit system.
    • Between this game's development and release Shinzo Abe ceased to be PM of Japan, but considering the LDP is almost always the ruling party of Japan, it's not hard to deduce who they are the PM and ruling party mentioned in the game.
  • Obviously Evil: Murasaki's all-white face, pointy nose and black lips makes a very evil-like combination. At first he seems to subvert this by trying to make peace with the Nayuta Clan and trying to help them, but turns out he was trying to goad them in conflict a third hustling faction, the Shinonomeha clan.
  • Only Known by Their Nickname: All Nayuta clan members, even between themselves. Medico is not even once referred by name before gaining that nickname, and Kirakira only goes through half of Kuma's name before he tells her to shut up, though you can still hear and read her say "Mito...".
  • Pragmatic Villainy: Tsuina cites this reason when she chooses to arm them with firearms and tries to ally with Asougi, blatantly going against their traditions and goal. Kikuchiyo points out that if this was truly the case, she could have easily accomplished this by remaining outside the city, as she already gathered the contacts necessary to be successful, and her real goal is to get revenge against the Shinonome Group.
  • Redemption Demotion: Despite joining you immediately after being fought as an boss, Zappa is back to the level he have when he left your party. The discrepancy is more notable the more under-leveled you are(boss Zappa has over 100k of HP when at worst the party members will have between 20k and 25k of HP). Of course, one may explain it as your party beating him so badly he was temporarily weakened.
  • Relationship Values: The game tracks each member of Nayuta's "feeling" for Kuma, which can be raised by hanging out with them or winning encounters with both them and Kuma in the vanguard. They unlock new skills and give stat buffs and, for the heroines, unlock different endings in the final chapters of the story.
  • Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves: After Shinazu ousts her from the clan, Tsuina tries to make an alliance with Flattt. Murasaki asks her to kill her own loyal subordinate first, and she does so without a second thought. Seeing first hand that she has no loyalty to anyone but her own wants, he promptly imprisons her and begins using her for their hustling business.
  • Run or Die: Downplayed in the first encounter with Lu Bu. The party strongly suggests steering clear of him, but a prepared player can easily beat him. Nothing happens if you do, however.
  • Running Gag: Zappa trying to make everything about fighting the corporation. He begins by not paying a restaurant bill and it only gets more ridiculous from there.
  • Russian Roulette: Zappa's third event involves a game of Russian Roulette involving pizza slices. Porno quickly figures it out how to win, or at least dodge the worst slice filled with pepper from pepper spray, because Zappa is the worst poker player ever and visibly reacts badly if someone picks a safe slice.
  • Serious Business: Kikuchiyo brings a katana to her first love making session with Kuma so she can end her own life if she shames herself in the process. Kuma is understandably put off.
  • Sliding Scale of Anti-Heroes: The Anti-Asougi clans fit nicely into Type III, with their kidnapping of innocent women for prostitution, all in the name of getting money to fight the corporation.
  • Small Name, Big Ego: Kirakira invokes this trope by saying Torataro has "delusions of grandeur".
  • Sore Loser: In Torataro's second event, he presses the reset button on a video game console after losing to Kuma on a fighting game.
  • The Spock: Kuma always advocate for "logical" choices, contrasting the other members' more hot-blooded nature. This does not always adequately explain Kuma's more selfless actions though.
  • Stating the Simple Solution: Medico brings up about the corporation's dominion is just over one city, and people could simply leave if they wanted. Torataro brings up they would lose everything they own since Asoubi own their assets and even if they didn't, the corporation's propaganda machine keeps them docile and unwilling to move.
  • Straight Gay: Zappa. He casually reveals he's only interested in guys, much to everyone's surprise, and otherwise displays no stereotypically gay traits or sexual interests whatsoever. Kira Kira does say in a Medico event he is untrustworthy though.
  • Stripperific: Every female party member of the Nayuta clan. Porno says it's to cover their true identity, since all mooks would look is at their assets and not their faces, when giving Medico her battle outfit and the latter questions its design.
  • Tsundere: Kikuchiyo, in spades.
  • Underboobs: Kira Kira's battle outfit features these.
  • The Unfettered: The Anti-Asougi clans will defeat the Asougi corporation, no matter how many girls will be raped to give them money.
  • Ungrateful Bitch: Hototogisu alone saves Tsuina when things go south for her, after all her other goons have been taken out. She later guns him down without a second thought to further her own agenda.
  • Unwitting Pawn: Every single Anti-Aso clan plays into Asougi's hand. Their rebellion provides an easy scapegoat for citizens' discontent and an outlet to pent-up stresses and needs for violence. They allow Asougi to experiment with new technologies and weapons by giving them something to fight. Even their hustling business helps to funnel the citizens' money to the corporation, as the clans purchase all their weaponries from Mistress, herself a mole from Asougi. Zappa thinks himself a traitor to the family, but in reality Hisamitsu considers his rebellion to be good service, and it is this realization that briefly causes him to give up all hope of taking Asougi down and returns to their service.
  • Video Game Caring Potential: Prostituting girls does not mean you should not care about their mental health and looks. Especially when those are stats which affects how much money they will give to you. Some clients even help by giving the girls' traits that can benefit them, you play a part by offering the girls to them.
  • Video Game Cruelty Potential:
    • Aside of what was already described, the hustling mechanic outright tells you what clients will do of negative to your girls, with traits like "crutches" and "blind".
    • The heroines are put in danger at various points in the story. If you deliberately choose to delay rescuing them, they will be gang raped by their captors.
  • What the Hell, Hero?: Shinazu gives Kuma one when Kuma does not stop Kikuchiyo from going to Tsuina to solve the problem herself, as he was the only one who could have. Right after, Joker asks if his face is hurting, implying he had been holding his face in his hand.
  • X Meets Y: Persona 5 meets Rance.
  • You Have Outlived Your Usefulness:
    • At the end, the Nayuta clan itself is at the end of this from Asougi, since they got too far in their fight against the company. Their existence was allowed as an way of anarchists and rebels to vent up their frustrations. Breaking inside the company's HQ? Hisamitsu sends a brainwashed Zappa to break their spirit and finish them off, and when that not works orders Izumi to crush them with a giant robot.
    • Lu Bu's handler, the nameless Foreigner, kills him after he loses to Nayuta near the end of the story, partly due to his diminishing usefulness, and partly due to his blood knight nature working against their interest, as they too oppose Asougi and hope the Anti-Aso clans would strike a blow against the corporation.


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