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* [[A-Team Firing]]: Normal weapons have difficulty hitting abyssals if not equipped with hypertech either of their own or to take targeting data from shipgirls. How much is due to the simple reality of conventional antiship weapons not being made to hit human-sized targets and how much is due to exotic factors is debated in-universe.
* [[Actor Allusion]]: In Chapter 31, one of the hints as to the abyssal supreme commander's true identity is that her voice is described as "like a stony river". {{spoiler|In Japanese, "stone river" is literally translated as Ishikawa... as in Yui Ishikawa, the Japanese voice actress of ''[[Azur Lane]]'''s Enterprise.}}
* [[Adaptational Badass]]: Shipgirls have, beyond the physical superhumanity inherent to their being warships, [[Teleport Spam]], full spellcasting, and [[More Dakka]] for cruiser-and-above units. They fight abyssal encounters that are larger than in canon, to say nothing of Demons that now {{spoiler|can Step, have [[Anti-Magic]], destroyers with barrages and cruisers with [[Beehive Barrier]]s,}} or the leadership {{spoiler|who as [[Evil Counterpart]]s have the same supernal magic.}}
* [[Aerith and Bob]]: Most Natural Borns retain their original names, which are normal-for-their-culture ones like Alice or Ayaka. This is contrasted against the Summoned/Manifested who use their ship names rather than bothering to adopt human ones, and many of said names are things not normally used as names.
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** Chapter Eight alludes to Peter's denial of Jesus.
** Or Energy is called "mana from Heaven" in Chapter Nine.
** Yorktown asks Ayaka whether saving Willie D was really the right thing to do, or merely what was right in her own eyes.
** The question of whether to give a screwup seven chances or 70 times 7 is asked, analogous to Peter's question of how many times to forgive a sinning brother.
** Ayaka wonders just how far the parable of the lost sheep can be extended.
** [[Religious Bruiser]] {{spoiler|Northampton}} throws Biblical allusions and quotes around like candy.
** In Chapter 36, a character pulling a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] tells one who she had done it on behalf of the following:
{{quote|“You’re a righteous ship I would sink for... this counts as a good fight to have fought, a race to have finished and a faith to have kept… hah… doesn’t it? It’s okay. This is part of that plan to prosper you and give you hope and a future. Forget what is behind and strain toward what is ahead.”}}
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** Legacy: For Ayaka it is the problem of living up to the example of her bloodline and (believed to be) far more capable mother. Historical baggage also affects others, as all shipgirls are moulded by the accomplishments, experiences and failings of their past lives, and so too are the abyssals driven by the need to deal with their own unfinished business.
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: In Chapter Eight, Uileag is mentioned to be holding something tightly enough as to hurt. It's later revealed to be {{spoiler|a ring}}.
* [[Chest of Medals]]: In Chapter 39, {{spoiler|Uileag says that he drove himself into nigh-suicidal heroics that got him enough in the way of awards to wear as armor.}}
* [[Code Emergency]]:
** In Chapter Five, the spectre of a Case Jötunn - hostile magic user - comes up but doesn't come to pass. This [[Chekhov's Gun]] doesn't get fired until Chapter 32.
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* [[Four Is Death]]:
** [[Doom Magnet]] William D Porter, whose outrageously bad luck causes harm to those around her, has the callsign Uatu One-Four. Later, {{spoiler|Ayaka is [[Cast from Hit Points|Casting from Hit Points]] in her attempt to save everyone during the retreat from Southeast Asia and runs out after the 256th - 4^4 - rescue,}} and she is once again to blame.
** Inverted in Chapter 32, where it is on the fourth attempt that the [[Sole Survivor]] aircrew of a critically-damaged bomber manages to eject.
** In Chapter 33, it is on the fourth attack of each combo that {{spoiler|Northampton}} manages to get through Naganami's defences.
** The first shipgirl to sink is {{spoiler|Takanami, callsign Riptide}} Four.
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* [[Gory Discretion Shot]]: What exactly happened to a would-be mugger in Chapter 40 is left ambiguous. Uileag only notices some kind of distant mess and red stains around Ayaka's mouth.
* [[Great Offscreen War]]: Not one but two of these. First and further back is some vaguely alluded-to mess with "Yamata" that is strongly implied to be but never outright confirmed as the events of ''[[Debt of Honor]]'', given various Japanese characters' talking about the stains it left on Japan. Second is a "Terror" that Ended over a decade ago, but not before badly impacting the Middle East.
* [[Guilt-Free Extermination War]]: The abyssals want nothing less than the total annihilation of Japan and the USA. They have made unambiguously clear that any other country involved in World War Two must either do a [[Face Heel Turn]] and join them in destroying Japan, or else face the same fate, no other peace talks or surrenders accepted. Even historically-unaligned nations have had their maritime industry destroyed. Mankind naturally has no qualms with fighting back with extreme prejudice.
* [[Hands Go Down]]: In Chapter Nine, Stingray asks the class if they think they can juggle the requirements of spellcasting in their heads. A few hands rise. She asks further about doing so in the heat of combat. The hands drop.
* [[He Who Fights Monsters]]:
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* [[No Conservation of Energy]]: Shipgirls may be [[Big Eater]]s, but they don't need to eat the hundreds to thousands of men's worth of food that their ship selves' crews would have needed in order to function properly.
* [[Non-Fatal Explosions]]: In Chapter One, {{spoiler|Uileag gets caught in an abyssal bombing that briefly knocks him out, but he is still able-bodied enough after he regains consciousness that he can lead multiple rescue expeditions. It takes a second bombing, which has him [[Blown Across the Room]], to inflict internal injuries that lead to a month-long coma.}} One Corpsman remarks on his luck.
* [[Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond]]: This is used to put the abyssal threat into perspective and illustrate why the shipgirls are needed. By naval standards, a PT boat is no match for a "true" warship, being reliant on ambush tactics and numbers to prevail. Compared to humans, an abyssal PT Imp mounts heavy weapons that will tear a tree in two, never mind a man, will resist anything less,
* [[The Oathbreaker]]: {{spoiler|The abyssals consider themselves this. Halsey made a promise that they
* [[Out-of-Character is Serious Business]]: Even years after the Cometfall, Ayaka still finds strange that her once staunchly exclusive grandmother is willing to consider applicants to the shrine who aren't linked to the family either by blood or marriage.▼
▲* [[The Oathbreaker]]: {{spoiler|The abyssals consider themselves this. Halsey made a promise that they couldn't fulfil, and now they're going to set things right, whatever it takes.}}
* [[Offscreen Moment of Awesome]]:
** The fall and later retaking of Pearl Harbor take place at some point in between Chapters One and Three. The readers get naught but brief comments as to what happened during these two vital battles.
** Chapter 32 starts in the midst of a campaign to liberate Southeast Asia, one that has retaken Singapore by the start of Chapter 36, but none of the intermediary battles are covered onscreen.
▲* [[Out-of-Character is Serious Business]]: Even years after the Cometfall, Ayaka still finds strange that her once staunchly exclusive grandmother is willing to consider applicants to the shrine who aren't linked to the family either by blood or marriage.
* [[Overranked Soldier]]: Discussed and inverted in Chapter Seven. Ayaka asks why a captain is commanding a mere six shipgirls, something that seems like a junior NCO's assignment. Cecil points out to her that, command of the support staff notwithstanding, having a battleship and a carrier means this would normally be for an admiral to take instead.
* [[Painting the Medium]]:
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** Averting [[Rock Beats Laser]], anti-abyssal guerillas are not having a good time; unlike normal human invaders, even the weakest PT Imp is [[Immune to Bullets]] and retaliates with heavy weapons that will tear a tree in half, never mind a man. Anything that does work, the abyssals have the numbers to push through, and their not having a civilian populace to be [[Slave to PR]] to means that they have no rules of engagement forcing them to play nice with humanity.
** William D Porter being a clumsy, fratricidal [[The Jinx]] is not [[Played for Laughs]] like in most other ''[[Kantai Collection]]'' stories, but instead results in her being [[The Millstone]], [[The Friend Nobody Likes]], and developing suicidal ideation from the guilt of her repeated wrongs however accidental.
** [[Ragdoll Physics]] looks funny in fiction, but is wince-inducingly agonising in "reality".
** People don't universally react to an [[Inhumanly Beautiful Race]] with attraction or desire. Some have [[Uncanny Valley]] reactions.
** [[A Man Is Always Eager]]? No. When Ayaka turns out to be an [[Insatiable Newlyweds|Insatiable Newlywed]] whose newfound postmarital hunger drives her into [[Making Love in All the Wrong Places]], Uileag is more than a little disturbed and reluctant.
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** Chapter 12 mentions the cooldown to restart Stepping and how {{spoiler|Ayaka's}} magical defences are protecting her. A short while later, they fail at a bad time.
** In Chapter 29, Naganami mentions that no abyssals fight in melee. Guess what happens a few chapters later.
* [[Thank the Maker]]: Summoned shipgirls swear by the Secretary of the Navy or equivalent office.
* [[Thirteen Is Unlucky]]:
** In Chapter One, {{spoiler|after completing 12 runs of search and rescue, it is on the next one that Uileag falls victim to a second abyssal bombing.}}
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