YMMV / Akatsuki Blitzkampf

• Audience-Alienating Premise: The Protagonist is an officer of this world's equivalent of the Imperial Japanese Navy and so is the Big Bad. The antagonists are pretty much said world's equivalent of Those Wacky Nazis. It's really not needed to explain how... awkward these details can be for some gamers.
• Awesome Music: Something that can't be discussed is that this game has a gorgeous soundtrack:
  • The intro song War Start and its remix versions as Akatsuki's theme from Under Night In-Birth series are really damn snazzy.
  • Akatsuki's actual theme, Awakening, has great guitar riffs.
  • Marilyn Sue Dajie's theme Poisonous Flower is also both awesome and quite beautiful.
  • Fritz's theme, Song of Defeat/No Remains is magnificent-sounding and very appropriate for an Old Master like him.
  • The Ominous Pipe Organ sounds in Anonym Merel/Anonym-Guard's theme, Precepts/Method are really nice.
• Broken Base: EN-Eins Perfektewelt has been getting a bit of flack for changes in the gameplay, artstyle, etc. Basically turning something that was considered unique amongst Doujin Fighters into the same game everyone has played.
• Crossover Ship: Thanks to the crack-y magic of M.U.G.E.N, some Pixiv artists seem to have developed the idea of shipping Akatsuki with Byakuren Hijiri, Adler with Whip, Elektrosoldat with Juni, Murakumo with Sanae Kochiya, or Anonym with Dan Smith. Some of these ships even have their own Pixiv tags!
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Blitztank is apparently popular enough that he's the only other cast member to represent the series in BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle.
• Fan Nickname:
  • The game is sometimes called Blitzjew or JEWPUNCHER because not only do some of the characters look like Nazis, the game is set in a Nazi Germany-esque dystopian future East Asia. Nobody really refers to the game as this nowadays and doing such is frowned upon by the community.
  • Elektrosoldat's Super Move, the Blitzbombe, is commonly referred to as Heil Voltage and Nazi Pikachu.
  • EN-Eins Perfektewelt has been dubbed by few people as Jewpuncher: Fruity Pebbles Edition due to its more colorful visuals. Again, this has fallen out of fashion.
• Genius Bonus: Adler's story mode has allusions to the Ahnenerbe and the mystical city of Agartha.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: A certain episode of The Simpsons has a Liu Kang Captain Ersatz fighting a huge tank...
• Memetic Mutation: CHESTO!!!^Explanation Akatsuki's heavy version of his Armor Piercing Kick, AKA C Tatsu, has him yelling "CHESTO!" at the end. The move achieved iconic and memetic status thanks to Akatsuki's appearance in Under Night In-Birth, where it was a useful combo ender and combo starter due to its quick startup and could lead to big damage on counter hit and with Chain Shift.
• Narm: Not even a game as Darker and Edgier as this one is fully free of this trope:
  • Murakumo's dainty run comes off as damn hilarious.
  • In the earlier versions of the game, Elektrosoldat's Blitzbombe had the words Sieg Heil flashing in dark colors on a white background. Since that was a pretty tasteless detail, it was removed in Ausf. Achse... and replaced by an hilariously tacky Blitzbombe word in bright pink on a light blue background. Uh, wha—?
  • The character portraits for EN-Eins Perfektewelt try to be cubist-looking but brighter than the originals, but instead everyone looks as if they were either sleepy or stoned.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • Murakumo's ending finishes with a very creepy last shot where he stares at the player...
  • The mere existence of Blitztank, and specially when the players realize that it Was Once a Man and now it's stuck in a Fate Worse than Death as Mycale's mook.
  • Anonym's ending, in which she suddenly gets body-jacked by Mycale...
• Surprisingly Improved Sequel: The game's predecessor, Akatsuki Shisei Ichigō (while this game is more of the demo), had a paltry three characters at launch (five in updates) with no story. And was overall not well received. By comparison, Blitzkampf blows it out of the water.
• Suspiciously Similar Song: Akatsuki's theme Awakening bears a mild similarity to the title track of Joe Satriani's Surfing With the Alien.
• That One Level: Some of the SUGUROKU fights can be incredibly annoying to clear up, with the one featuring Sai, Marilyn and Wei at the same time as arguably one of the worse.