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* [[Humanity Is Infectious]]: Every single Fog ship that Gunzou and Iona come into contact with is changed from the encounter. {{spoiler|Not always for the better.}} When Kongou meets Gunzou for parley, she leaves her core behind on her ship body (rather than bringing it in her Mental Model as the others do) in the hopes of avoiding it. {{spoiler|It doesn't work.}}
* [[Humanity Is Insane]]: Kongou forms this opinion as she sees each of her fleet-mates come into contact with Gunzou and Iona and develop "errors".
* [[Humans Are Special]]: The Fleet of Fog created Mental Models for themselves in an attempt to grow and develop the adaptability they observed in humans during the course of their blockade. For some of them, it worked a little too well. (Funnily enough, most of the human characters in ''-Ars Nova-'' are pretty flat and static—therestatic -- there's less than 6 hours of total screen time in the anime and sequel movie, and most of the non-battle time is spent on the Mental Models and their interactions and growth.)
* [[One-Gender Race]]: All Mental Models are female because "official documentation" refers to ships with female pronouns. (Presumably, whichever proto-Mental Model it was that studied the documentation was only looking at English and Japanese documentation—indocumentation -- in German and Russian, some ship classes are grammatically neuter or male, and are referred to by those pronouns.)
* [[Robot Names]]: Iona comes from the designation I-401 (I-yon...), as Japanese submarines don't get "real" names. {{spoiler|Likewise, Fog submarines don't normally get mental models.}}
* [[Shipper on Deck]]: Hyuuga ships [[Visual Pun|(heh!)]] Takao with Gunzou (not so much for Takao's sake, but to get Gunzou away from Iona so that she can have her—makingher -- making them [[Ship Mates]]).
* [[Shout-Out]]:
** Kyouhei comments [[Star Wars|"That's no battleship!"]] when he sees {{spoiler|Kongou's monstrous airship form -- which itself superficially resembles the Death Star.}}
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