Princess Waltz/YMMV

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  • Ass Pull: While it turns into a Crowning Moment of Awesome pretty quickly, it's hard to deny that the shy Shrinking Violet Riko having been Liesel in disguise for the entire game is completely out of nowhere.
    • Though it could also be Fridge Brilliance. Besides, if Shizuka and Arata's mother were incognito for years, that means Liesel being a sleeper agent is not out of the question, and since it's implied she's been on Earth for awhile, she already has a marked advantage due to having already sussed out the terrain of the battlefield.
  • Ensemble Darkhorse: Angela in Japan, Liliana... in America.
  • Fan Disservice: Your Mileage May Vary on this one, but the first sex scene between Arata and Chris can come off as this. They're driven nearly insane with lust by a side effect they weren't aware of, and their bodies just basically go at it without being able to stop themselves. It's like a rape scene except both participants are being raped.
  • Foe Yay: Shizuka and Angela do not get a long, they respect each other and well, the tension is there.
  • Les Yay: Chris thinks Shizuka is breathtakingly beautiful upon first meeting her. A case of Chris Becoming the Mask, or is Shizuka capable of turning straight women lesbian?
  • Moe: Regardless of the seriousness of the story; being an Eroge it's still in there, all though not many would have expected it to come from Liesel.
  • Padding: The writers took a leaf out of Nasu's book; the fight scenes definitely don't use one word when seven will do.
  • Tear Jerker: Chris forcing herself to be killed by Arata in order to save him. That was one of the saddest scenes in the entire game not to mention the fact that it gives you a bad end right after it happens.
  • What an Idiot!: It's implied that only virgins are allowed to join the Waltz, since it's a competition for the prince's hand. There are numerous cases of princesses winning a spot and celebrating...by having sex. At least two girls explicitly had to drop out because they got pregnant.
  • Woolseyism: At one point when talking to Suzushiro as Iris, Arata/Chris use 'ore,' which is an absurd pronoun for someone like Iris to use. English can't do that. Instead, they change it to make it as though instead of slipping with what pronoun they're using, they accidentally refer to themselves in the plural with 'we.'