YMMV / Gacha Life

• Awesome Music: The City theme, "Nine Jack" by まんぼう二等兵, an upbeat groovy dance theme ready to put you on your feet!
• Broken Base: The update launched by Luni to prevent adult content from being created is rather divisive among the fandom. Either it's a good thing because it prevents minors from creating adult content, or a bad thing because it limits creativity and annoying censorship. For example, typing an actual sentence not intended to be obscene is censored. Thankfully, later entries such as Gacha Club and Gacha Life 2 fixed this issue.
• Friendly Fandoms: Judging from various fan-videos, the fandom tends to overlap with My Hero Academia, Miraculous Ladybug, Undertale, Friday Night Funkin', Sanders Sides, Dream SMP, Five Nights At Freddys and Danganronpa.
• It's Popular, Now It Sucks!: The game's popularity boom starting in late 2018 and continuing through 2019 in addition to the rise of the "Gacha Life Mini Movies" has made some people irritated, not helped by the fact that many of said kid-targeted movies have inappropriate content in them.
• Memetic Mutation: Gacha Life videos, which quickly developed a So Bad, It's Good reputation on YouTube for their Cliché Storm stories, obligatory Clip-Art Animation, Wangst, sometimes questionable content, and overall low quality.
  • it's my first day at gay high school i hope they dont realize im straight ^ExplanationA memetic screenshot from a Gacha video, which is often edited to replace the character with a straight character from works with a Cast Full of Gay. Sometimes the text is also edited to showcase when a character is somehow different from the others.
• No Such Thing as Bad Publicity: In spite of how infamous the underage fanbase can be at times, this still didn't stop it from being one of Lunime's most popular works to date at 50 million downloads and counting.
• Overshadowed by Controversy: Most discussion of the game, especially outside of its community, is centered around the discovery that several of Gacha Life's users have been making softcore pornographic content aimed at the game's underage fanbase. With child safety being a big issue these days, the developers issued an update to rid any Video Game Perversity Potential to stop this.
• Sequel Displacement: Gacha Life is very popular, yet it is one of the newer titles of Lunime's Gacha series that only a few people have heard of. In fact, its predecessor, Gachaverse, also has the Virtual Paper Doll feature.
• Sweet Dreams Fuel: The whole game is this. You get to make anime chibi Moe characters and form virtual friendships.

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