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* [[A-Team Firing]]: Normal weapons have difficulty hitting abyssals.
* [[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.
* [[Arc Words]]:
** [[Ace Combat|"X in every generation..."]]
** [[wikipedia:The lamps are going out|"The lamps (are) go(ing) out..."]]
** [[Mythology Gag|"Just a little more."]]
** [[Ace Combat|"We will start over from zero..."]]
** [[Honkai Impact 3rd|"This is my mission."]]
* [[Alternate History]]:
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* [[As the Good Book Says...]]: In Chapter Three, “What profit you if you save the whole world and lose your soul?!” is asked of Uileag.
* [[Atomic F-Bomb]]: Combined with [[Cluster F-Bomb]] and [[Punctuated! For! Emphasis!]], Uileag shouts in Chapter 39 that all the medals he gained were not "WORTH A DAMN! FUCKING! [[Country Matters|CUNT]]! THING!"
* [[Big Eater]]: Shipgirls regularly eat several times the amount normal humans do, although not to the full hundreds or thousands that their crews would have consumed previously.
* [[Bloodier and Gorier]]: Canon has almost exclusively [[Clothing Damage]], very occasional blood or injury, and only abyssals suffer [[Body Horror]]. Here, however, [[Reality Ensues]] is in play regarding the effects of high-powered naval artillery and antiship bombs, and similar to ''[[Freezing]]'', [[Clothing Damage]] is not about titillation, but comes with gore, even maiming and ''[[Terminator]]''-style degloving down to the endoskeleton.
* [[The Cavalry]]: Chapter Five detours from Ayaka's POV to show the members of Amalgam Five "Gonzalez" responding to an abyssal attack.
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* [[Flashback Cut]]: A large part of Chapter Four involves jumping back and forth between Ayaka's in-universe regaining her memories of what happened previously or in [[Flash Sideways]] and her reaction to them.
* [[Flashback Echo]]: Ayaka starts regaining her memories after seeing incoming shells that remind her of falling comet fragments.
* [[Flat Earth Atheist]]: It is mentioned in Chapter Seven that there are still people who refuse to believe in the supernatural despite everything going on.
* [[Foreshadowing]]:
** Ayaka is warned in Chapter Four that "some may take issue with your current model". Turns out that old anti-Japanese sentiments don't always die easy...
** She is also warned then about not being able to save everyone, long before it becomes an issue.
** Chapter Four also mentions "friends [giving] themselves over to an ideal far beyond reason and [losing] themselves in the process". Certain reveals later...
** Chapter Seven mentions that no abyssals have been observed using magic yet. Guess what.
* [[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.
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* [[Homage]]: In Chapter Three, an unknown voice delivers an adaptation of the G-Man's speech from ''[[Half-Life]] 2''.
* [[Inelegant Blubbering]]: {{spoiler|Uileag}} crying in Chapter 39 is explicitly described as "loudly and uglily".
* [[Instant Expert]]: It is mentioned in Chapter Seven that fairy pilots can just hop between plane types without needing to relearn how to operate them.
* [[Ironic Echo]]: In Chapter Three, Uileag gives not being able to leave anyone to die as the reason for his actions in Chapter One, something that Ayaka gives him grief over. In Chapter 36, {{spoiler|it's Ayaka's turn to do just that, something she acknowledges in Chapter 37.}}
* [[Libation for the Dead]]: In Chapter 39, {{spoiler|Uileag offers this at Ayaka's grave.}}
* [[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.
* [[Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex]]: Averted; shipgirls have no physiological problems having sex with humans, which works out well for all involved considering that semen intake is vital both as an immediate "mana potion" and a long-term boost to their abilities.
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** A [[Running Gag]] starting from Chapter Six is for others to expect Ayaka to look like the canonical version of Iowa.
** Also in Chapter Six is talk of Iowa discussing corn production with Khrushchev, [https://hon-haka.org/archives/2394 which happened in Pacific canon.]
** Starting from Chapter Six, people asking Ayaka why she doesn't look like canon!Iowa becomes a [[Running Gag]].
** Chapter Seven mentions failed experiments producing plushies of crying penguins and clouds, referring to what happens in the game when you fail a development.
* [[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.
* [[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.
* [[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]]:
** In Chapter Four, Uileag makes "A desperate prayer for one more time, one more chance to", and then the text cuts to a link to "Make This Right" from ''[[Furi]]''.
** Also in Chapter Four, a spoiler character says “Embracing the", and the text cuts to "Wisdom of Rage" also from ''Furi''.
* [[Precision F-Strike]]: In Chapter Seven, hitherto composed Cecil drops the F-bomb in response to Ayaka's concern that someone might see shipgirls as monsters.
* [[Pun-Based Title]]: It is an obvious play on ''Kimi no Na Wa'', the Japanese title for ''Your Name''.
* [[Reality Ensues]]: A small town in the middle of nowhere with less than a percentage point of its country's population just isn't going to be missed by the world at large, no matter how exotic the cause or affected the former inhabitants are.
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