You have travelled all the way into the Otherworld to find your lost siblings back, but are all of a sudden pushed into the position of the manager of the 14th Division of Soul Reapers. Said division has the lowest purification rate to happen in history, and it's up to you to fix that. You soon meet the sweet Class Leader, Ell, who introduces you into the strange world of the afterlife...
The game was a hybrid Visual Novel and turn-based RPG where the player controls a team of up to 5 characters on a board, fighting off waves of either monsters or vengeful spirits. In between battles, the player gets more of the story.
Compare Bleach, A3 and Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story. note
This game contains examples of:
- Aerith and Bob: Names range from fairly normal (Jamie, Louis, Ethan), to normal words converted into names (Day, Licht, June, Nine) to slightly unreal (Cyrille, Kati, Kirr).
- Licht is a special case; as it's not an existing word in English but it is in Dutch and Flemish, which simply means 'light' (As in both 'not dark' and 'not heavy') but is not used as a name there note .
- The Ageless: None of the characters age once they become Reapers.
- Always Accurate Attack: By default, attacks will always hit.
- Ambiguously Brown: Kirr and Day, which is a rarity for this kind of game.
- Anti-Frustration Features:
- If a battle is interrupted for whatever reasons, upon returning to the game, it will remember it and should you be selecting another battle (i.e you left a daily mission and you're going to the main story stages) it will give a notice.
- Once a goal in battle is earned, it's kept forever, meaning one can simply create separate teams for each of the objectives.
- Arbitrary Headcount Limit: You're limited to five units in a team.
- Artificial Stupidity: The AI, at times.
- It typically handles automatic runs very well, but it will typically activate skills when you wouldn't want it. For example, it may heal a unit that does not need the HP, or use the single-target attack skill when not needed. A way to circumvent the first one is to simply bring an AoE healer as opposed to a dedicated healer, but they might still heal the team when it's unneeded.
- Bribing Your Way to Victory: Players can buy gems with real-life money to have better chances at getting characters. This isn't necessary for playing through the story missions, but collecting all the SSR characters is very difficult without buying gems, especially with the limited-time events.
- But Not Too Foreign: Several characters are hinted to have a previous alignation from before they died, but the details are left as they are.
- Cap: Every card can, depending on the amount of its limit breaks and its rarity, only reach a certain level.
- You can only do the daily missions thrice.
- Casting Gag: Not the first time that Emiri Katou voices a cat-like creature who guides the protagonists.
- Chivalrous Pervert: Licht has a habit of flirting with any girl he sees, but he's in firm good guy territory.
- Critical Existence Failure: Subverted. Both enemies and your own units will look wounded when under half HP. The latter's voicelines when hit also change.
- Dark and Troubled Past: Every character has it.
- Dead to Begin With: Most characters are this.
- Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors: Subverted. It's true that all cards are of one of the three types, but these do not have a push-pull mechanic.
- Expository Pronoun: The lead manager uses wagahai, no doubt because of Souseki's book.
- When things get especially heated, Quincy refers to the opposing party with 'kisama', which is never used in real life (and then it would be comically bad).
- Five Stages of Grief: Sian goes through all five quite fast in one of his magical side stories.
- Foil: Ell and Quincy. They come from opposite sides and their death does not directly link to the reason as to how they got into the Otherworld. Both of them had a realization caused by emotion, and were shut out of where they came from initially as a result. While one of them makes his wish obvious everyday so that everyone knows it, the other is doomed to have his true desires remain unknown.
- Freudian Excuse: Several of the character's quirks have these.
- Guide Dang It!: There are multiple hidden mechanics that are shortly addressed, but not elaborated upon, such as the preferred management training bonus and the preferred gifts. Luckily, the fandom quickly
got onto that. - Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Ell. His eyes are also this color.
- Hello, [Insert Name Here]: Surprisingly subverted. You can give your manager a name that you can change at any time, once per day. But the characters only ever refer to her as "Manager" within the game.
- Limit Break: Very obviously inspired by Arknights and A3, when you get a copy of a certain card, you can use that card to increase the potential of that character. Their Level Cap will increase by five and several stats will be enhanced.
- Meaningful Name: 'El' is a common suffix that is the last syllable of virtually any angel name (Gabriel, Michael, etc.)
- 'Ghilley' may be derived from the similarly pronounced camouflage, which fits with his Stealth Hi/Bye nature.
- 'Licht' is Dutch for 'light'.
- 'Ghilley' may be derived from the similarly pronounced camouflage
- Necessary Drawback: Because battle is so simple (i.e there is no Def or Res, but all damage is 'true' damage), all skills that attack all enemies are very broken. However, skills can't always be triggered.
- Non-Uniform Uniform: All of their uniforms very visibly share aspects, but are individual enough to also see the person beneath the allegiation.
- Noodle Implements: In one of the side stories unlocked in chapter 5, Ghilley and Quincy meet at night. Ghilley is carrying what looks like fireworks, making Quincy wonder what he's going to do with that. Quincy is carrying a voodoo doll, and thus Ghilley wonders if Quincy's going to curse someone again. They silently wish eachother good luck and carry on.
- Power Equals Rarity: Subverted to a certain height. While SSR characters can reach the highest levels, and thus have more HP, since all skills do the same thing, R cards can also fulfill their role and high rarity cards are far from mandatory.
- Skill Scores and Perks: The constellations system consists of nodes you kindle with materials. It allows to strengthen the unit beyond the usual, by increasing the stats as well as providing skills.
- Spot the Impostor: Kirr gets into this situation in the 'Another Devil! Doppelganger' event. The second Quincy seems to be a remnant of the vengeful spirit's energy wave that was left behind, but as Kirr was also partially hit, he is able to 'feel' who it is simply because a part of Quincy's soul merged with him.
- Take Our Word for It: Due to its Visual Novel storytelling, the "fight scenes" are simply depicted using shaking sprites, flashing screens or are merely reacted to.
- Welcome to My World: In one of Louis' magical side stories, he gets fed up with his roommate Theo and Ethan does not want June as his roommate anymore either, so they switch. It goes relatively good at first, but gradually, they start realizing that having the other as roommate is worse and it's hinted that they eventually switch back.
