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''Grim Grimoire'''GrimGrimoire''''' is a 2007 [[Real Time Strategy|real-time strategy]] game brought to you by [[Vanillaware]] and [[Nippon Ichi]].
 
It tells the tale of a magically-gifted child called Lillet Blan, who gains admission to a renowned [[Wizarding School]] called the Tower of Silver Star. There she meets an eclectic ensemble of students and teachers- the [[The Obi-Wan|mysterious and bearded old headmaster]], the sarcastic and [[Obviously Evil]] Sorcery teacher, and the cold but perceptive honourhonor student, to name a few- and learns about the four schools of Glamour, Necromancy, Sorcery and Alchemy.
 
Everything is going swimmingly until the fifth day, when Lillet awakens to find that [[Everybody's Dead, Dave|everyone is dead]] and that [[Sealed Evil in a Can|a sinister evil has been unleashed from within the school]]. Lillet is soon killed as well, but suddenly finds herself in a [[Groundhog Day Loop]], thrust back to her very first day in school but [[Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory|retaining all the knowledge she learned in the meantime]].
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After taking the sensible approach of alerting her teachers, [[Adults Are Useless|only for it to result in spectacular failure]], Lillet realizes that her only chance of averting her fate and escaping the time loop [[It's Up to You|is to do it all herself]]. Along the way, she'll delve into the history of the school and discover dark secrets about practically every member of the facility, including herself.
 
''Grim GrimoireGrimGrimoire'' wears [[Harry Potter|its inspirations]] on its sleeve, and none the worse for it. Though the plot has been described as weak, the characters more than make up for it, with a whole school full of freaks and lunatics barely capable of organizing their own twisted love lives, let alone a workable school.
 
This might explain why [[It's Up to You|they're all totally useless]].
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A [[Video Game Remake]] ''GrimGrimoire OnceMore'' featuring extensive story additions, a fully voiced story (at the cost of a new set of CVs), and overhauled gameplay was announced in 2022 for July 2022 release.
 
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* [[Adults Are Useless]]: As Lillet learns ''repeatedly''.
* [[The Archmage]]: Calvaros
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** Only in the localization. Gammel Dore just had a name change to appeal to the Harry Potter fans in America. Advocat may be a snarker, but he and Snape are on two completely different levels.
* [[The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard]]: They aren't restricted by silly things such as resource levels or build times--in fact, you can even catch the computer in the act of teleporting in more [[Mooks]] for it to use.
* [[Crippling Overspecialisation]]: Affects the Skullmage, who's role as chief killer of ethereal units is easily taken by other more versatile creatures.
* [[Cute Witch]]: Lillet, of course!
** {{spoiler|...who then becomes a [[Hot Witch]] in the epilogue.}}
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* [[Karmic Death]]: {{spoiler|All the bad guys, thanks to some particular cleverness on the part of Lillet.}}
* [[Lightning Bruiser]]: Chimeras are massively destructive (and can actually out damage dragons since they have a higher attack rate) and move alarmingly fast, and ignore obstacles, but their HP gradually decreases. Also, while the game lists them as having close to the same HP as dragon, their defense is nowhere nearly as high so they die much more easily.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: {{spoiler|You cannot help but suspect Margarita ''Surprise'' from the beginning.}}
** It's less obvious in the Japanese version, where her last name is 'Frozen'.
* [[Mighty Glacier]]: Dragons. By far the slowest units in the game- but by FAR the strongest (most units die in one or two attacks, unless they're astrals, but using skull mage using astalize on the dragon can solve this) and by far the most durable. It's attacks. They. It takes an ARMY to bring down even one. Or a well placed [[Not Completely Useless|sleep spell]] from a Grimalkin.
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* [[Out of Time, Out of Mind]]
* [[Playing with Fire]]: Sorcery units all have fire themes to them.
* [[Poor Predictable Rock]]: Forced on the player in one level where summoning is blocked, leaving the only option to ''create'' Alchemy units in order to take on a Sorcery based force.
* [[Robe and Wizard Hat]]: Mostly Lillet and Gammel.
* [[Schoolgirl Lesbians]]: Apparently {{spoiler|Lillet and Amoretta}}.
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* [[Tall, Dark and Snarky]]: Advocat, who takes the Snape role with relish.
* [[Theme Naming]]: With three exceptions, every character is, for no apparent reason, named after an alcoholic beverage. Two in the Japanese version (Gammel Dore is Gammel Drask in Japan.)
* [[Tome of Eldritch Lore]]: Lillet keeps getting more powerful versions of these, and they stay with her each reset.
* [[Tsundere]]: Opalneria has been described as... passionate.
* [[Vain Sorceress]]: Opalneria is ''[[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|way]]'' [[Older Than They Look|older than she looks]], but she keeps using magic to look younger. By the end {{spoiler|she loses her [[Christmas Cake]] status and ends up looking like a schoolgirl, to the disappointment of [[Likes Older Women|some]]. Although this is [[Informed Attractiveness]] since we never see her after she does it.}}
* [[Weaksauce Weakness]]: [[Mighty Glacier|Dragons]] and [[Lightning Bruiser|Chimeras]] are all but unstoppable- unless you get a Grimalkin to cast Sleep on them. Oh dear.
* [[Wendee Lee]] (in englishEnglish dub): Lillet Blan
* [[White-Haired Pretty Girl]]: Amoretta.
* [[Wishplosion]].: An incredibly epic one. Lillet {{spoiler|summons a massively powerful devil, which fulfilsfulfills the [[Big Bad|Big Bad's]] contract with him, which gets rid of said [[Big Bad]] - and then Lillet drops a [[Logic Bomb]] on the demon, making a contract and then wishing for it to ''embrace God''. The demon refuses and therefore suffers the consequences.}}
* [[Wizarding School]]
* [[The Worf Effect]]: The teachers seem to serve one purpose, to have the unholy crap beaten out of them. Repeatedly.
* [[Worker Unit]]: Elves/ghosts/imps/blobs.
* [[X Meets Y]]: ''[[Harry Potter]]'' meets ''[[StarcraftStarCraft]]'' meets ''[[Groundhog Day]]''. And if ''that'' isn't enough to pique one's interest....
* [[Yandere]]: Lujei, Lujei, Lujei.
* [[You Require More Vespene Gas]]: Mana, harvested from crystals.
* [[Zerg Rush]] -: On the first couple of days, you can just mass-manufacture your unit of choice and march them to the objective. Not so much on the later days, where your opponents tend to have a mix of unit types. Phantom swarms, for instance, go from awesome (when the AI tends to have little to counter them) to short-lived (when the AI gains Homunculi and alchemy area-of-effect attacks) to awesome again (when you figure out the subtle nuances of using other units to take out said Homunculi and area-of-effect defenses before sending in the crazy sword-swinging avenging ghosts soldiers).
 
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