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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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** In Chapter Two, Ayaka drops her phone after receiving a certain piece of bad news.
** In Chapter 13, Ayaka drops her umbrella after seeing Shimakaze in the flesh for the first time.
* [[During the War]]: Apart from flashbacks, the story is set during the war with the abyssals.
* [[Empathy Doll Shot]]: In Chapter 22, RDML Abel recalls how her younger sister's old doll was all that had been found of her after the first abyssal attacks.
* [[Everything Is Big in Texas]]: Such a joke is made in Chapter Nine regarding the sheer size of the ostensibly ''onsen''-style repair baths.
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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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* [[Leaning on the Fourth Wall]]: Starting from Chapter 12, there are a few mentions of rolling successes, as if throwing dice in tabletop gaming.
* [[Libation for the Dead]]: In Chapter 39, {{spoiler|Uileag offers this at Ayaka's grave.}}
* [[Macross Missile Massacre]]: The Chinese use missile swarms to suppress abyssal installations on islands in the South China Sea.
* [[Magitek]]: Called "[[Mage: The Ascension|hypertech]]" in-universe, it is described as the bridge between conventional technology and the magic used by shipgirls.
* [[Mama Bear]]: In Chapter Two, Uileag's mother erupts in a fierce enough motherly anger as to frighten the war-hardened senior NCO father.
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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
* [[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.
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** [[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.
* [[Recap Episode]]: A large part of Chapter Four is dedicated to covering the events of ''Your Name'' as Ayaka regains her memories of them in-universe.
* [[Remember the Alamo!]]: In Chapter 19, General Shi invokes the names of three cities destroyed by the abyssals - Kokura, Los Angeles, and Tianjin - to remind the participants of the attack on the Spratly Islands to show the invaders no mercy.
* [[Running Gag]]:
** Ayaka being described as a giant beanstalk.
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