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* [[An Arm and a Leg]]: Chapter Two briefly mentions missing limbs among the injuries inflicted by the first abyssal attacks.
* [[Anyone Can Die]]: Dead major characters include {{spoiler|Takanami, Yamashiro and Ayaka herself, the last at least in a bad ending that ends at Chapter 39 but is switched away from in Chapter 40.}}
* [[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.
** Chapter Eight alludes to Peter's denial of Jesus.
* [[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.
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** 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". Similarly, Chapter Eight says "the fanatic or true believer does what he does with the full approval of his conscience and considers nothing beyond the pale." Certain reveals later...
** Chapter Seven mentions that no abyssals have been observed using magic yet. Guess what.
* [[Four Is Death]]:
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* [[Godzilla Threshold]]: After the initial abyssal attacks on China out of the Yellow Sea penetrated deeply enough inland to do damage to Beijing, fatally wounding none less than the then-president, the dying man told the PLA to do whatever it took to defend the people. They turned to the [[Nuclear Option]] and succeeded. The idea of a LAMP RUB<ref>As in to summon a [[wikipedia:AIR-2 Genie|Genie]]</ref> comes up a few times later as a kind of [[Black Comedy]] [[Running Gag]], only to be used for real in Chapter 36. {{spoiler|With a massive abyssal air attack underway that a human armada has been forced to retreat from, the PLARF CO is brought to the realization that nukes are the only way to drive off the attackers before they sink the armada and turn their attention to Chinese cities once again.}}
* [[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.
* [[He Who Fights Monsters]]:
* [[He Who Fights Monsters]]: The abyssals want to genocide Japan to avenge the 30 million dead and war crimes. Bad enough. They also want to exterminate the USA for failing to exterminate Japan the last time, and see any other country that fought in World War II but is now helping Japan as [[Les Collaborateurs]] who must also be destroyed unless it does a [[Heel Face Turn]] (from their perspective) and turns against Japan.▼
** Discussed in Chapter Eight -
{{quote|You fight monsters long enough, though, sometimes you start believing that anything's acceptable if it means protecting you and yours from them.}}
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* [[Heroic Safe Mode]]: Ayaka spends most of Chapter 40 in one following the events of the preceding chapters. {{spoiler|Naganami has been in one the whole time she's been around, at least until Chapter 33 when a fresh source of trauma springs a [[Tomato Surprise]] and causes her to regain her original personality, but also pushes her into [[Heroic BSOD]] instead.}}
* [[History Repeats]]:
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** 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.
* [[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]]:
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** In Chapter 41, {{spoiler|Ayaka is passed a set of tassels from now-sunken Yamashiro's spares.}}
* [[Translation Convention]]: Various bilingual or multilingual characters exist, including all shipgirls, and their use of non-English languages is mostly rendered as English in curly brackets instead of quotes.
* [[True Sight]]: As of Chapter Eight, following Ayaka's Reawakening, some of the people around her develop the ability to see her true nature even when she doesn't have her rigging out.
* [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]]:
** Practical holograms and [[Holographic Interface]]s are mentioned at various points.
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* [[Uncanny Valley]]:
** Most Summoned/Manifested shipgirls are inhumanly mechanical and precise in their motions, to the discomfort of observant humans. Also inverted in that they find Natural Borns too human.
** In Chapter Eight, the more humanlike abyssals are called simulations that still wouldn't fool the sober.
** In Chapter 12, Shimakaze tells Ayaka of how she finds fourth-plus generation Japanese diaspora off.
* [[Unusual Euphemism]]:
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