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''Kyoukai Senjou no Horizon'' (officially translated as '''''Horizon in the Middle of Nowhere''''') is a set of school fantasy light novels by ''Minoru Kawakami'', with an anime produced by ''[[Sunrise (company)|Sunrise]]'' and a manga in ''Dangeki Daioh''.
In the far future, [[Earth-That-Was|humanity abandoned the devastated Earth]] and moved to the upper world of Tenjo. After war broke out, Tenjo and the laws of causation collapsed. Humanity was forced to return to the Earth, which had become uninhabitable except for an area called the Divine States. The Divine States were too small to accommodate all of humanity, so they duplicated the area and created a parallel world called the Harmonic Divine States. In order to once more reach Tenjo and rebuild the laws of causation, the Testament Union began attempting to rebuild history starting from 10,000 B.C. When the reproduction proceeded to 1413 A.D., a war broke out in the Divine States, and the Harmonic Divine States fell back onto the original world.
In the end, the humans living in the Harmonic Divine States lost their land and invaded the Divine States, which they renamed the Far East. The people of the Far East surrendered and the land was divided by the invaders. They tried to resume the reproduction of history, but the update of history was stopped in 1648 A.D., and the rumor rose of an impending apocalypse. Meanwhile on the floating city ''Musashi'', students and their instructors prepare for war; A war that will determine the fate of the world...
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Aside from its (in)famous heavy nature, the novels are known from using a rather unsual numbering for its books; there are 10 books as of 2011, but it counts as 4 Volumes, that is: Kawakami uses more than one book to amount a Volume, ex: Volume 1 is two books long, Volume 3 is three books long. The system seems to be [2 books = 1 Volume] or [3 books = 1 Volume], as Kawakami has followed these two patterns strictly.
All of it is part of a chronicle, divided in 6 stages:
* '''FORTH''' is the current world.
* '''AHEAD''' is the setting for '''Owari no Chronicle''': a developing futuristic society.
* '''EDGE''' is when mankind could travel, but leave the [[Earth-That-Was]]. The discovery of a fuel from AHEAD allows for further development.
* '''GENESIS''' is the stage when [[The End of the World as We Know It|the world ends]] and a time where [[Technology Marches On]] and FORTH is all but forgotten. This is when the anime takes place.
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[http://www.baka-tsuki.org/project/index.php?title=Kyoukai_Senjou_no_Horizon Baka-Tsuki has a translation project for the Light Novels.]
'''Note: Some spoilers for the light novels are here!'''
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* [[Absurdly Powerful Student Council]]
* [[Action Girl]]: Most of the girls, especially Makiko Oriotorai.
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** {{spoiler|Muneshige Tachibana and Gin Tachibana, near the end of the second part of volume two}}.
* [[Doorstopper]]: While the series currently has 10 light novels, the novels aren't that "light" as you can [http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/6494/end17991265234a07759425.jpg see here] <ref>starting from the far right side and the lower half, the first row of novels are actually ''Owari no Chronicle'', another series by Minoru which is loosely connected to this series, and also got "heavier" as it progressed.</ref>.
** For a quick comparison, all books that composes the ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' amounts to 1178 pages; the second volume of ''Kyoukai Senjou no Horizon'' (Shita Chp.<ref>All volumes are divided in chapters, some in two while others are in three, but keeps the same numbering.</ref>) is 1152 pages long.
* [[Duck Season! Rabbit Season!]]: {{spoiler|Tori Aoi uses a more subtle version of this to change Horizon's mind when he rescues her}}.
* [[Emotionless Girl]]: All automatons, given they're really machines, {{spoiler|but justified with P-01s because it carries the soul of Horizon. She lost all of her emotions upon the creation of the Deadly Sin Armaments}}.
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* [[Hot Shounen Mom]]: Kazuno and {{spoiler|[http://i40.tinypic.com/2yza8o2.jpg Nate Mitotsudaira's mother in volume three]}}. Depending on how you see it, Mrs. Aoi, too.
* [[Humongous Mecha]]: Gods of War; while typically fielded by the Testament Union, Naomasa of the Engineering Club at ''Musashi Ariadust Academy'' has fixed up an old one for her personal use.
* [[Invocation]]: "Judge"<ref>Judgement</ref> and "Tes"<ref>Testament</ref> are variants: they're used as a confirmation of an action, such as responding to a question or confirming an order from authority, much like the Japanese "Hai" is used as a formal "Yes".
* [[Kill'Em All]]: Averted in episode five. While {{spoiler|the reactor explosion in Mikawa decimates the entire region}}, no harm is performed on the public since {{spoiler|all the citizens who were [[Planet of Hats|actively supporting it]]}} have already left the area.
* [[Like Cannot Cut Like]]: In episode five, during {{spoiler|Tadakatsu Honda and Muneshige fight's, Honda's Slicing Dragonfly and Muneshige's Lype Katarripsi}} canceled each other's attack because {{spoiler|the former is the prototype of the latter}}.
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** While held prisoner by the K.P.A. Italia, P-01s reads a magazine about metal songs and style. The metalhead on the cover is a [[Lawyer-Friendly Cameo]] of Krauser II from ''[[Detroit Metal City]]''.
* [[Spell My Name with an "S"]]: Minor case regarding Nate's (or "Neito's") correct romanization of her name: while The Anime Network uses the latter, the original novel spelled her name in unadulterated English using the former.
* [[Theme Naming]]: As the current date being reproduced is during the Sengoku Era, many characters have names either reminiscent or precisely those of important players in the era.
* [[The Verse]]: Minoru created his own world in his books; they're divided in ''FORTH'', ''AHEAD'', ''EDGE'', ''GENESIS'', ''OBSTACLE'' and ''CITY''. ''Kyoukai Senjou no Horizon'' is part of the ''GENESIS'' saga, his previous work, ''Owari no Chronicle'', is part of the ''AHEAD'' saga.
* [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic]]: The anime likes to throw Christian symbolism akin to ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]''. "Judge(ment)", "Tes(tament)" and "GENESIS" are but a few, but episode five may remind you of ''[[End of Evangelion]]'''s own symbolism.
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