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** The mysterious crystals Asuna and Shun possess are referred to as a ''clavis'', which were created as keys to Agartha. In addition to granting the users immense powers, they power the ability to grant wishes, {{spoiler|including the power to bring the dead back into the world of the living}}.
** The mysterious crystals Asuna and Shun possess are referred to as a ''clavis'', which were created as keys to Agartha. In addition to granting the users immense powers, they power the ability to grant wishes, {{spoiler|including the power to bring the dead back into the world of the living}}.
** The melody Asuna hears at the beginning is revealed to be {{spoiler|Shun's final song}}. It touches her heart and is explained to be a vessel of a being's memories.
** The melody Asuna hears at the beginning is revealed to be {{spoiler|Shun's final song}}. It touches her heart and is explained to be a vessel of a being's memories.
* [[Crap Saccharine World]]: Agartha is a stereotypically Ghibliesque idyllic preindustrial land... where the hybrid offspring of Agarthan and Topsider are bullied by their pureblood Agarthan neighbours, they can't leave the towns without protection lest they get preyed on by monsters, and Agarthans that aid outsiders face exile.
* [[Cute Mute]]: Mana, the little girl who Shin and Asuna rescue.
* [[Cute Mute]]: Mana, the little girl who Shin and Asuna rescue.
* [[Disappeared Dad]]: Asuna's father died when she was little {{spoiler|and is implied to have been Agarthan, because he left behind a Clavis for his daughter and the Izoku consider Asuna to be "defiled."}}
* [[Disappeared Dad]]: Asuna's father died when she was little {{spoiler|and is implied to have been Agarthan, because he left behind a Clavis for his daughter and the Izoku consider Asuna to be "defiled."}}
* [[False Camera Effects]]: There is a [[Jittercam]] effect during certain action sequences, as well as a ridiculous amount of attention paid to shifts in lighting within scenes.
* [[False Camera Effects]]: There is a [[Jittercam]] effect during certain action sequences, as well as a ridiculous amount of attention paid to shifts in lighting within scenes.
* [[Have You Seen My God?]]: Shakuna Vimana is a massive ark that God himself wields to oversee Agartha.
* [[Have You Seen My God?]]: Shakuna Vimana is a massive ark that God himself wields to oversee Agartha.
* [[He Who Fights Monsters]]: The topsiders may have started the conflict with their plunder of Agartha, but by the time the film occurs, the latter are no more some saintly oppressed folk, but have become violently xenophobic. They exile their own for contact with topsiders, at least one {{spoiler|half-topsider child}} has stones thrown at her by Agarthan children while the adults just stand by and let it happen, and a cursed tribe of mutants exist that is tasked with hunting and murdering {{spoiler|the halfbreeds.}}
* [[He Who Fights Monsters]]: The Topsiders may have started the conflict with their plunder of Agartha, but by the time the film occurs, the latter are no more some saintly oppressed folk, but have become violently xenophobic. They exile their own for contact with Topsiders, at least one half-Topsider child has stones thrown at her by Agarthan children while the adults just stand by and let it happen, and a cursed tribe of mutants exist that is tasked with hunting and murdering the halfbreeds.
* [[Hereditary Curse]]:
* [[Hereditary Curse]]:
** The Izoku are a cursed, mutated tribe, doomed to wander Agartha aimlessly.
** The Izoku are a cursed, mutated tribe, doomed to wander Agartha aimlessly.