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* [[Nice Hat]]: This seems to be a requirement for being a heroine of a "main" Atelier game; every heroine has some bit of headwear that is prominent to varying degrees. Liese and Annie have particularly notable hats; Liese's is doubly notable as it disappears once she's no longer the main character in ''Atelier Annie''.

* [[Nintendo Hard]]: The third game of the series, ''Atelier Lilie'', has a reputation for being hellishly difficult to complete with any kind of satisfactory ending without a lot of planning beforehand and knowledge of how the game works. The optional material in many of the latter games tends not to slouch, either.

* [[No Export for You]]: It took eight years for any material of the series to be released in America, and that started with the first ''Atelier Iris'' game. To this day, despite a PS2 remake for the first two games and PSP remakes for the Gramnad games (''Judie'' and ''Violet''), none of the first five games in the series have ever shown any sign of being brought over. The ''Atelier Marie & Elie'' manga also took over half a decade to cross the Pacific, and [[Screwed by the Network|with Tokyopop's financial troubles and closure, the last volume was cut from publication]]. Atelier fans used to have good reason to think that the series was "cursed" in the West, especially for "classic-style" games, but with all the Arland games out and with chances being good that Ayesha will see the light of day over here, that doesn't seem to be the case any longer, though there's still no indication that the original five games will ever be exported.

* [[No Fourth Wall]]: Popo's amusing tutorials in ''Atelier Iris''.

** Also, during one scene in ''AI1'', Norn the Catgirl gets frightened by all the monsters in the woods, and asks to sleep in the same bag as Klein. She thinks it's innocent, but Klein gets the entirely ''wrong'' idea and says "[[Media Watchdog|No way! The ESRB would go nuts!]]"