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[[File:Ar_tonelico_9297Ar tonelico 9297.jpg|frame|From left to right: Aurica, Lyner, Misha.]]
 
 
The ''Ar tonelico'' series consists of a trilogy of [[Eastern RPG|JRPGs]] for the [[PSPlayStation 2]] (the first two games) and [[PSPlay Station 3]] (the third game), developed by Gust Corporation of Japan, best known for their [[Atelier Series(franchise)|Atelier]] of video games, and localized in English by [[Nippon Ichi]] Software. The games (which are largely independent of each other in plot and characters) take place in a [[After the End|post-apocalyptic]] world of Ar Ciel, in which the ground was swallowed hundreds of years ago by a mysterious ''Sea of Death''. Humanity clings to life only on [[Floating Continent|Floating Continents]]s surrounding three great towers, each of which serves as the setting for a game. Humanity's engineering ability has regressed to a [[Steampunk]] level, and their only interface with the fantastic technology of the towers are the Reyvateils - [[One-Gender Race|an all-female race]] of artificial beings capable of [[Magic Music|singing songs to conjure]] [[Magic From Technology]].
 
The first game, ''Ar tonelico: Melody of Elemia,'' originally titled ''Ar tonelico: Sekai no Owari de Utaitsudzukeru Shoujo'' (''The Girl who Continues to Sing at the End of the World'') takes place in and around the first tower, in the region of Sol Ciel. This is where the series gets its name: '''Ar tonelico''' is the name of that tower. The story starts in the city of Platina, during an outbreak of enemy creatures called Viruses. The protagonist, a Knight of Elemia named Lyner Barsett, goes to investigate with fellow knight Ayatane, and the tower administrator, Shurelia. Unfortunately, they rapidly discover that the Viruses are able to turn intangible, rendering normal defeat impossible. Shurelia therefore sends Lyner on a quest for the only thing that can help them: the [[Mineral MacGuffin|Hymn Crystal Purger]]. Taking an airship, he travels down to the Wings of Horus, the [[Floating Continent]] that surrounds the tower. More accurately, he crashes thanks to an attack from a dragon, which complicates matters extremely.
 
In the process of searching for the crystal and a way to repair his airship, he meets and teams up with a number of people, including two Reyvateils. First is the shy Aurica, who healed his injuries after his crash. Second is the more outspoken Misha, actually his [[Forgotten Childhood Friend]]. But there's one problem - Misha [[Older Than They Look|looks much younger than she should be]]. Aside from those two are the wanderer Jack, the local [[Church Militant|church knight]] Radolf, and the [[Wrench Wench|airship grathmelder]] Krusche. As the story progresses, Lyner and his comrades not only try to find the Hymn Crystal and fix Lyner's airship, but discover the reason for Misha's youthful appearance, and the source of the recent Virus outbreak.
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The first game also has a single-episode [[OVA]] [[The Anime of the Game|adaptation]], which focuses on Lyner's crash and desire to return to Platina. Due to time constraints, the details of the plot are largely [[Compressed Adaptation|condensed and simplified]], with other elements left out entirely.
 
Tropes about the sequel, ''[[Ar Tonelico 2 (Video Game)|Ar tonelico II: Melody of Metafalica]]'' can be found on its page. Ditto for ''[[Ar Tonelico 3|Ar tonelico III]]''.
 
All the games have a number of drama CDs devoted to the heroine Reyvateils (and some other people besides). Some of the cast went on to have parts in the crossover game ''[[Cross Edge (Video Game)|Cross Edge]]''. There also exists a [[Manga]], set in Sol Ciel, titled ''Ar tonelico: Arpeggio''.
 
Aside from ''Elemia''-specific tropes, examples provided by the series as a whole can be found here, as well.
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=== The ''Ar tonelico'' games and related media provide examples of: ===
* [[Acceptable Feminine Goals]]: Many fans were surprised that Aurica suddenly gave up her dream of becoming the Holy Maiden, which she had worked so hard for despite such odds, and revealed that instead of wanting to become the local equivalent of Pope and reform the church, what she really wanted to do was settle down with Lyner and make music boxes in a small town. The fact that both starting reyvateils in [[Ar Tonelicotonelico 2II: (VideoMelody Game)of Metafalica|Ar Tonelico 2]] {{spoiler|end up co-maidens and head of the Metafalican government/church}} may be Gust's apology for this: the company [[Atelier Series(franchise)||normally averts this trope hard]].
** While it could be also said that Aurica was never interested in wielding authority and power in the Church, and just wanted to be able to contact the Goddesses. Anyway, in Misha's path and in Tyria's Drama CD it's revealed that she wasn't going to be the same position as a Pope (that position is given to Radolf), and instead, she was put in charge of a charity program, from which she resigned at the end of the game to fulfill her lifelong dream of becoming a music box crafter, with more than a few either hilarious or horrifying results.
* [[All There in the Manual]]: Much of the history of the world of Ar Ciel is explained in supplemental material that is only available in Japanese.
** Yay [https://web.archive.org/web/20140210064212/http://artonelico.isisview.org/wiki/index.php/Ar_tonelico for] [http://artonelico.wikia.com/wiki/The_Ar_tonelico_Wiki wikis]. Also, a [[Genius Bonus]] as a lot of the technology in the series is blatantly based off computers.
* [[Amplifier Artifact]]: Grathnode crystals.
* [[And Your Reward Is Clothes]]: Not that this is a bad thing for going through Cosmospheres.
* [[Apocalypse How]]: Ar Tonelico just loves these.
** The first age ends with a class 5, with everything retreating to artificial [[Floating Continent|Floating Continents]]s.
** The second age ends with a class 1, that would have been a class 3 had Mir succeeded
** {{spoiler|And the third age is about to end with a class X unless you do something about it}}
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* [[Bishounen]]: A lot of the guys count, but Flute also counts under his hat and mask (he's ''very'' pretty).
* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: The normal ending {{spoiler|where you choose to never awaken Shurelia [[Heroic Sacrifice|after she sings Suspend]].}}
* [[Blessed Withwith Suck]]: Third Generation Reyvateils get nifty song magic and all, but after coming into their powers, they have to take a substance called Diquility every three months just to ''continue living''. Averted with Origin and Beta type Reyvateils, who get the song magic and extended lifespans on top of it.
** ''Stronger'' song magic and ''very'' extended lifespans (Betas have about 150 years and the Origins are over 700 years old each, implied to be immortal for as long as the towers exist). Oh, and the Diquility Installation is pretty much equivalent to a first time.
* [[Brainwashed and Crazy]]: Happens to either Aurica or Misha, depending on who you chose to sing Purger, when Mir invades their Cosmosphere. They get better, though.
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* [[Defeat Means Friendship]]: Lyner's general goal in the true ending.
* [[Detached Sleeves]]: Aurica.
* [[Distressed Damsel in Distress]]: Every Reyvateil, at one point or another.
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: Diving, Installing and most other interactions between the main characters and their harem of Reyvateils are played up as... intimate affairs.
** And then there's Diquility installation, which is what can only be called "a PG-13 cherry popping sequence." There is an actual doujinshi that makes this reference in reverse context.
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* [[Double Entendre]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoODv8LVib8 Oh Aurica.]
** And that's among many others.
* [[Dragon Withwith an Agenda]]: {{spoiler|Bourd and Bishop Falss, in their own ways. Both to Mir, and Bourd to Falss as well.}}
* [[Dual Age Modes]]: {{spoiler|Misha}}
* [[Earthshattering Kaboom]]: The reason the sea of death is there in the first place.
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** Mir destroyed half of the land on one of the towers.
* [[Emotionless Girl]]: {{spoiler|Mir originally, which was what her creators wanted, but she grew out of it. Later, Bourd tried to find a way to make Reyvateils into this.}}
* [[The End of the World Asas We Know It]]: It's happened twice in the past- the first being the Grathnode Inferia, the second when Reyvateils on Ar tonelico revolted against humans and destroyed about half of the floating continent as well as the civilization on it.
** The endings where {{spoiler|Shurelia isn't revived,}} thanks to the supplementary material's ample [[Fridge Horror]] quotient. Total death toll: {{spoiler|the entire population of Metafalss once Frelia burnt herself out trying to keep them aloft. Even Metafalica wouldn't have saved them: power from Ar Tonelico is necessary for the EXEC portion of Metafalica.}}Of course, some argue there would have been [[No Endor Holocaust]]... At least for the first tower, since at the absolute minimum, {{spoiler|all of Metafalss would have died.}}
*** {{spoiler|Part three makes all ends where Mir is not freed an [[Inferred Holocaust]]: Without her involvement in the second game, the Heart of Gaea wouldn't have reached the third tower (at least not in time), thus dooming the entire planet.}}
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* [[Fantastic Racism]]: In ''Elemia'', Reyvateils are often treated as second class citizens, to the extent that Lyner is depicted as standing out for treating them like he would any normal human.
** Arguably justified in the first game, since aside from the portion of Tenba that Bourd is running, most of the racism is aimed at Reyvateils without a partner, such as Claire. This makes sense, seeing as {{spoiler|Reyvateils on the Wings of Horus had destroyed a good half of a continent when Mir rebelled.}}
** Inverted in the third game, where Reyvateils hold dominance over humans.
** Subverted in the city of Platina. When {{spoiler|The Church Attacks}} you can see how the knights fight without backup to give their Reyvateil partners time to rest and recover. Hilariously, the {{spoiler|Church Knights}} that they were fighting act more like Tenba grunts than anything else.
** Subverted again by Lyner in regards to {{spoiler|viruses, like Ayatane.}}
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** Finnel from the third game as well. Her stockings don't match.
 
* [[Fictionary]]: Reyvateils (and occasionally humans) communicate with Ar tonelico in a warped creole of English, German and Sanskrit known as [https://web.archive.org/web/20090228182444/http://conlang.wikia.com/wiki/Conlang:Hymmnos Hymmnos]. However, among themselves they speak garden-variety Japanese (or English, if you're playing the dub.) Apparently, Metafalss and Ar tonelico have different dialects of Hymmnos (or Hymnos in the English localization).
* [[Fiery Redhead]]: Subverted with Krusche. The only time she EVER gets fired up at all is when she's talking about or involved with high-tech airships and getting to the top of the Tower. 99% of the rest of the time she's the incredibly laid-back, droll, [[Deadpan Snarker]] type.
* [[Fix Fic]]: Done in-game {{spoiler|in Shurelia}}'s Cosmosphere story at the request of Lyner, who Justifies it by ([[Lampshade Hanging|what else]]) "the original sucks!" {{spoiler|Mir takes this [[This Is Unforgivable!|very personally]], which could be seen as a [[Take That]] to [[Fix Fic]] in general. Or she just takes her works [[Serious Business|way too seriously]]}}
** [[Fridge Logic|The completion of all cosmosphere levels could be referred to as this.]] Cosmosphere levels, especially the lower ones, represent a reyvateil's issues, where they act out inner conflicts and have not been able to resolve them. The job of a cosmosphere diver is essentially to act as a [[Self-Insert Fic]] [[Marty Stu]] character, breaking the reyvateil out of a hopeless cycle and encouraging them to reach a good ending. What Lyner did {{spoiler|when Shurelia died on her fifth cosmosphere level}} was exactly what a cosmosphere diver was supposed to do, since leaving something like that unresolved would have left {{spoiler|Shurelia}} scarred for life. Of course, Lyner was [[Wrong Genre Savvy]] {{spoiler|since Shurelia doesn't have a real cosmosphere, and this was just a visual novel she was using to replicate the experience.}} This becomes a [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]] {{spoiler|when Lyner really does treat it just like a real cosmosphere, and Shurelia like a real reyvateil.}}
* [[Flanderization]]: Any part of a Reyvateil's problems/desires gets blown up to ''spectacular'' proportions in their Cosmosphere. Later levels don't even ''try'' to hide it via metaphor.
* [[Floating Continent]]: The Wings of Horus, and Firefly Alley as a smaller example.
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* [[Game Breaking Bug]]: The first game had a glitch in which an item necessary to advance the plot could be acquired before activating a particular event that allows the player to progress.
** Though not necessarily game-breaking since it pertains to an end-game, extra-content boss, Ar Tonelico 2 had a boss that was virtually unbeatable because one of her moves would freeze the game and force a reset. The only way to prevent this was to beat her in one turn, preventing her from using it.
* [[Genius Ditz]]: Lyner is very definitely [[Book Dumb]], something he is repeatedly harassed about throughout the game. He also mastered the basics of [[Item Crafting|Grathmelding]] in less than a day and by doing nothing else than following instructions, became the main source of everything the party uses throughout the game. By the third phase, the stuff he cooks up rivals or surpasses [[Lost Technology|First Era technology]], he is teaching Grathmelding to the one who created its basic principles centuries ago and his magnum opus ends up being a pocket-sized version of the gigantic building-sized power reactor that powers their entire civilization, which by the way doubles as a
* [[Genre Shift]]: Cosmosphere's take a shift towards more [[Visual Novel]]-type stories. And, usually, each level is an [[Out-of-Genre Experience]].
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: Oh dear Lord, does it ever.
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* [[Godiva Hair]]: {{spoiler|Mir.}}
* [[Goggles Do Nothing]]: Krusche.
* [[Go-Karting Withwith Bowser]]: Happens in ''Elemia'', but you don't quite become aware of it until ''Metafalica''. {{spoiler|By Jakuri's own admission, the "Mir" inside Shurelia's corny magical girl love story was not an avatar, but rather the real one just playing along with the game, which she herself had scripted.}} So, at the time Lyner was trekking through the entire tower to find a way to save ominous and terrifying Mother Virus Mir, {{spoiler|Mir herself was content playing a retarded video game with Shurelia}}. Bizarrely, it actually makes some sense in hindsight, as the two were friends and, most of her nefarious plots having failed completely, she wasn't doing anything at the moment.
** To top it off, {{spoiler|the only remaining bit of bad blood Jakuri has against Lyner is completely unrelated to him stopping her century-long plans: She's angry about him rewriting the ending to her game.}}
*** {{spoiler|Well, she also dislikes him for being an [[Idiot Hero|idiot]].}}
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* [[High Altitude Battle]]: The first game features a battle with a giant dragon while riding an airship. But then, all three games are based on floating continents (and/or a massive tower) due to the Sea of Death covering the world.
* [[Homemade Inventions]]: As mentioned above, Lyner is the party's only real source of equipment, regardless of variety or technological complexity. Everything, including a pocket-version of the massive building-sized reactor built by ancient superadvanced technology that powers more than a third of the remaining civilization in the planet, is built by him, in a tent, from scraps.
* [[Hot Chick Withwith a Sword]]: Ayano used to be one of these. Now she's just hot.
** Also, Luca's vague and often-confusing "therapy sessions" appear to suggest that [[Everyone Is Bi]].
** Dualstalls. That is all.
* [[Humans Are Bastardsthe Real Monsters]]: ''Elemia'', at least near the beginning, has plenty of characters, especially in Tenba, who treat Reyvateils as easily replaceable property. When one can't get his Reyvateil partner to sing new magic because his physical abuse doesn't seem to be granting her any more [[Power of Love]] to make new songs, his teammate suggests just getting a new one. {{spoiler|Oddly, this seems to be caused almost entirely by [[Card-Carrying Villain]] Bourd, and his death almost ''instantly'' brings about an end to the [[Fantastic Racism]] (granted, because Bourd was the one ''encouraging'' it and the president of the company known for it was ''violently against it'').}}
** This is the reason for Mir's [[Kill All Humans]] and why her listed dislikes are humans.
*** {{spoiler|[[Restored My Faith in Humanity|She gets over it]] thanks to Lyner which ironically one of the only humans that she still hates because he has ruined her script.}}
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* [[Instant Awesome, Just Add Ninja]]: Misha's shinobi costume.
* [[Interspecies Romance]]: Human/Reyvateil romance is nothing anyone bats an eye at (they're fully capable of interbreeding), but there's also {{spoiler|the human Krusche and the Teru Jack/Harmonica, at the end of ''Elemia''.}}
* [[In the Name of Thethe Moon]]: Shurelia says something similar to this during the second level of her "Cosmosphere".
* [[Invisible Backup Band]]: Whenever one of the Reyvateils sings.
* [[Item Crafting]]: Grathmelding
* [[Joshikousei]]: All the heroine Reyvateils (so far) have a school uniform costume.
* [[Journey to Thethe Center of Thethe Mind]]: Diving into a Reyvateil's Cosmosphere both helps them craft new song magic and is an excellent form of psychotherapy. Unfortunately, it can be hazardous to the diver's health.
* [[Kill All Humans]]: {{spoiler|Mir's goal. Of course, she's just doing it for her fellow Reyvateils' sake.}}
* [[Kill'Em All]]: According to the myths, Sieryek, son of an El nemesys sovereign, killed the King of his own kingdom and some other ruling sovereigns which included his own father. However, he couldn't kill Princess Liarsha due to his love for her, instead telling her go free. In the end, the love that she had once shared with Sieryek turned to hatred and she eventually killed him and then herself immediately afterwards. Obviously, nobody survived.
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** Until you try them in real life. BBQ soda actually tastes as bad as one would imagine ([[Suspiciously Specific Denial|…not that this troper tested this in real life]]).
* [[Level Up At Intimacy 5]]: Diving into a Reyvateil's Cosmosphere (which involves playing through scenarios that are a cross between dating and psychotherapy) will result in the Reyvateil crafting powerful new songs which she can use in battle. In addition, to unlock new Cosmosphere levels, you must first invite them into your room at night and... have an intimate chat with them, with topics ranging from scenic observations to expressing jealousy.
* [[Like a Son to Me]]: Inverted. {{spoiler|Shurelia}} repeatedly tells Lyner that he reminds her of her father, probably due to Lyner's grathmelding genius & the fact that he's one of the few people to ever see {{spoiler|the goddess}} as a person who needs help sometimes, just like anyone else.
* [[Limit Break]]: In the first game, these can be activated after guarding a Reyvateil.
* [[Limited Wardrobe]]: Reyvateils get costume changes, but, except for Croix out of ''Metafalica'', who has a civilian set of clothes (with glasses), none of the other front-liners ever change clothes. While characters like Krusche or Amarie might get away with it, due to their "[[Stripperific|armor]]" essentially being bulletproof clothes, Leglius in particular is never seen outside of his full plate armor, which practically looks like its breastplate was made by welding the bow of a battleship to his chest.
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* [[The Mole]]: {{spoiler|Bishop Falss and Ayatane.}}
* [[Momma's Boy]]: {{spoiler|Ayatane. Literally everything he does is for his mother's sake (i.e Mir's), for [[Love Redeems|better]] or [[Love Makes You Evil|worse]]}}
* [[More Friends, More Benefits]]: Encouraged in the original - you could wind up being sexually abused in the Cosmosphere more often than you might like if you're assiduous about keeping the Cosmosphere up to date (What are you doing with that electricity, {{spoiler|Aurica}}?).
* [[Multiple Endings]]: The games allow you to choose which Reyvateil you'd like to spend the rest of your life with, as well as having a few more endings on top of that.
* [[Mundane Utility]]: In one of the radio dramas, the costume change is used as a quick way to change out of clothes.
* [[Musical Theme Naming]]: Harmonica and Flute.
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* [[One-Gender Race]]: Reyvateils, since something in the Y chromosome negates Reyvateil powers.
* [[One-Winged Angel]]: Shadow Mir. {{spoiler|Eventually subverted. They're just Mir's viruses/servants that she can summon. She can summon them in ''Metafalica''.}}
* [[Only Known Byby Their Nickname]]: [[All There in the Manual]] {{spoiler|Shurelia.}} See [[Replacement Goldfish]]
* [[Organic Technology]]: Reyvateils, in a way. The Origins in particular, {{spoiler|during high-level grathmelding, Shurelia will make comments about some of them. In one case, she'll comment about one product being "her brain."}}
* [[Person of Mass Destruction]]: {{spoiler|Mir is implied to be one, with the ability to be a major nuisance even when she's trapped in Ar Tonelico's equivalent of Cyberspace. Not to mention she's as powerful in some regards as the Goddesses of the three towers.}}
** {{spoiler|She's noted that she could definitely beat Shurelia in a fight simply because she knows all the latter's weaknesses. It helps that the former has a stronger up-front personality so she could simply bully the latter regardless.}}
* [[Powers Asas Programs]]: The various Hymn Crystals found in the two games are pretty much this. The Hymns (the song sung) vary depending on the singer, but the effects do not.
* [[Power of Love]]: The power of a Reyvateil's song is proportional to her [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|"intensity of emotion"]]. Blue Magic, for instance, is more powerful if the Reyvateil is in love with the person she's making it for.
* [[Power of Rock]]: In addition to powering [[Magic Music|spells]], songs are used at several points in the games to inspire the world's population.
* [[Power Perversion Potential]]: Misha's "ability" to go from a pre- and post-prepubescent ages {{spoiler|by adding/removing the Chronicle Key}}.
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* [[Random Encounters]]
* [[Rapunzel Hair]]: {{spoiler|Mir. Justified since it hasn't been cut for a few centuries.}}
* [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]]: Shurelia {{spoiler|[[Word of God|(Eoria)]]}}, Frelia, and Tyria, as these three are the Origin Reyvateils, and thus, are as old as the towers they administrate. Shun's getting on in age too. {{spoiler|Mir is also coming up on her four hundredth birthday - her life presumably extended by being locked in the Binary Field for a few of those centuries.}}
* [[Rebel Prince]]: Lyner is the future ruler of Platina, although [[Rebel Prince|not if he has anything to say about it.]] {{spoiler|And he succeeds in every route except possibly Shurelia's.}}
* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]: Mir
* [[Red String of Fate]]: As an equipable accessory that raises DP gains after battle (the String of Binding, although supposedly raises the trust between a vanguard and the Reyvateil he's protecting at the moment). However, its effects still kick in, no matter who in the active party has it equipped.
** Lyner's ignorance to its meaning embarrassed Shurelia. His suggestion to use it to enhance Radolf and his "unity" '''''freaked her out.'''''
* [[Refuge in Audacity]]: The sheer amount of [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|crap that gets past the radar]] is astounding, in the US release. (some other countries are more relaxed about things like sexuality, which explains it being 7+ in Europe and 12+ in Japan)
* [[Replacement Goldfish]]: {{spoiler|Shurelia}} in the backstory, which is why she has that name instead of her original name.
* [[Robot Girl]]: Mei Mei, Kanade.
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* [[Smug Snake]]: The majority of the villains are this, making it all the more fun to slap them around. {{spoiler|Bishop Falss and Bourd Rade from the first game}} are [[Egregious]] examples.
* [[Sound Stone]]: Hymn Crystals
* [[Spell My Name Withwith an "S"]]: Spellings for names were changed between the Japanese and American releases.
* [[Serial Escalation]]: Just how ''blatantly [[Fan Service|Fan Servicey]]y'' can we get the Reyvateils into next time without pushing the T rating? The third game features ''stripping to power up'', so god knows what's next.
** And in the end, the third game got an M rating in the US.
*** [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Rated M for Moe?]]
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* [[Stocking Filler]]: {{spoiler|Older Misha}}'s standard and shinobi costumes.
* [[Stripperific]]: Whooooo boy. Misha, Claire, Shurelia, Krusche, the president of Tenba... easily two-thirds or more of the female cast of the first game is dressed ''quite'' provocatively, with Aurica being the only one who's somewhat modestly dressed... and of course the player has the option of making her fight in nothing but a towel.
* [[Suspiciously Similar Song]]: The music track [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoBbyahBpXk Sleipnir] resembles the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XrDr-CPHZI Pyramid Cave] music from ''[[Sonic Adventure 2 (Video Game)|Sonic Adventure 2]]''.
* [[Talking to Himself|Talking To Herself]]: Aurica and {{spoiler|Mir}} share the same voice actress in Japanese.
* [[The Three Faces of Eve]]: The Three Supreme Goddess of Elemia (A.K.A {{spoiler|The Three Origins}})
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** Tilia as The Seductress
* [[That Makes Me Feel Angry]]: A [[Tropes Are Not Bad]] version. The language of Hymmnos places heavy emphasis on emotional state (and in fact has a whole grammar rule for them). This is pretty much needed for the Reyvateils to properly communicate their emotions to the tower to cast magic.
* [[Their First Time]]: Misha and Lyner react to their first dive with shyness, awkwardness, and Misha even saying its her first time. Diving is not sex but the level of intimacy is the same.
* [[Title Drop]]: Many of the hymns sung in the games say their title near the beginning or the end. Example, Chronicle Key and Implanta say their names within the first line of singing, and Sublimation says it's own in the chorus.
* [[Token Mini-MoeLoli]]: Misha in ''Elemia'' {{spoiler|until she gets her adult form back}}.
* [[Trademark Favorite Food]]: Lyner and Funbuns.
* [[Transformation Is a Free Action]]: The ladies have plenty of time to change clothes before attacking or getting attacked.
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* [[Visible Silence]]: Almost every scene in the game has at least one character doing this.
* [[Warrior Prince]]: Lyner.
* [[Warrior Therapist]]: Lyner. It's not just the Cosmospheres. {{spoiler|As of the second game, Mir still doesn't know what hit her.}}
* [[Welcome Back, Traitor]]: Welcome back {{spoiler|Ayatane, the guy who technically was the reason why everything turns crazy in Phase 2.}}
* [["Well Done, Son" Guy]]: Subverted by Lyner. It's not that he can't win Leard's favor, it's that he's actively refusing to do it, and doing something that makes Leard happy with him is one of the few things that actively annoys Lyner. This makes sense, given that most of the things that make Leard praise Lyner in the early game aren't very nice {{spoiler|and Lyner may resent him for what happened to Misha.}} In the scene where Leard finally says he's [[So Proud of You]], it's noteworthy that the other characters are far more excited about it than Lyner is. Apparently, the extent of Lyner's [[Character Development]] is not rejecting Leard's feelings: even when Lyner asks Leard to {{spoiler|help craft the hymn at the end of the game,}} it still feels as though Lyner is making the effort because Leard is his father, after all: their relationship is still rocky.
* [[White-Haired Pretty Boy]]: Ayatane.
* [[White-Haired Pretty Girl]]: {{spoiler|Shurelia,}} Ayano, Spica. Some official art reveals that Tastiella counted when she was younger, too.
* [[White Prince]] [[Wise Prince]]: Lyner has traits of both. On the Wings of Horus, he's considered an example of the [[White Prince]], but most of that is because he's a [[Fish Out of Water]] and at home he acts more like the [[Wise Prince]]. Despite being the heir of Platina, he rejects that power and prefers to be a common soldier. This may be because {{spoiler|if he becomes Leard's heir, it will be his job to train Misha's daughter and continue the cycle of useless sacrifice}}, as well as tensions with Leard.
* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?]]: Misha and heights.
** Comes off as a Wallbanger if you notice that (When you meet her) she lives in a man-made flying island just below a flying ''continent'', all of which are one Creative Virus away from crashing down.
* [[Widget Series]]: A textbook example of the trope, as quite a few of the things it parodies are already a bit weird in Japan. In Americans this means the reactions tend to range from bemusement to astonishment to abhorrence.
* [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]]: {{spoiler|Mir's first song, Harmonius, was meant to express her hope for the human race. However, since she was created with the hope of making an emotionless Reyvateil, it led to her being tortured and locked up. Nevermind that to be told "Your song's no good" would be an incredible insult all on its own, considering Reyvateils' songs are born out of their deep, heartfelt feelings. It's no wonder she started hating humans.}}
** {{spoiler|Perhaps more importantly, Mir, while connected to the tower, is keenly aware of the [[Fantastic Racism]] being leveled against Reyvateils, and her inability to do anything else to stop it leads to her (understandable) declaration that all [[Humans Are Bastardsthe Real Monsters]]}}
* [[The World Tree]]: The towers seem to be an analogue. There's also the fact that ''tonelico'' is ''toneriko'', the Japanese word for ash tree, which Yggdrasil was in Norse mythology.
* [[Wrench Wench]]: Krusche.
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