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** and Luffy wears an afro wig during his fight with Foxy, and everyone except [[Only Sane Man|Nami]] insists that the afro makes him stronger.
** [[Wild Take]]s and silly expressions in general are another favourite, even if the situation in the story is serious.
* [[Kozue Amano]], the creator of ''[[Aria (manga)|Aria]]'' and ''[[Amanchu!]]'', clearly has a thing for [[Scenery Porn]] [[Tropes Are Not Bad|Nobody complains,]] [[Doing It for the Art|for good reason.]]
* [[Kaoru Mori]] is an Anglophile. It definitely shows in the immense attention to the details of upstairs-downstairs dynamics, costume details and setting of [[Victorian Romance Emma]].
** She highlighted in ''[[A Bride's Story]]'' that she is also fascinated by Central Asia costumes and setting. All her female and male characters have exquisitely detailed embroidered clothes.
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*** Not exactly survivalists and not, for the most part, off the grid. They're people with unusual skills and interests who, often, live in remote areas; and those -have- to be the bulk of survivors, given the initial premise. Exactly what chance would a professor of post-colonial studies in the Bay Area have if all high-energy technology stopped working? The only 'survivalists' proper in the Emberverse series are the Aryan Brotherhood types who appear early in "Dies the Fire", and they don't do too well. The survivors center around an itinerant musician and a bush pilot, for example.
*** CUT also started as a survivalist cult in the Emberverse.
** He also seems to be very fond of the concept of the country squire, whether in the form of a [[The Draka|Draka]] landholder, a Prime of one of the Thirty Families of New Virginia (from his novel Conquistador), a Commander of post-change Britain in the [[Emberverse]], a zamindar of the [[The Peshawar Lancers|Angrezi Raj]], or a Hereditary Supervisor of the [[The General (1926 filmseries)|Civil Government]].
** However, his real thumbprint is his [[Food Porn]]. It occurs in all his books, from the fifth millenium to the Emberverse.
* Speaking of Piers Anthony... Sure, the Xanth books are filled with puns, but they lurk in other books too, not to mention the [[Meaningful Name]]s. And he loves logic puzzles; more than once has the climax of a book hinged on the protagonist figuring out a logic puzzle. (Off the top of my head: ''Golem in the Gears'', the Prisoners' Dilemma; ''With a Tangled Skein'', the [[Twelve Coins Puzzle]].)