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* [[Inelegant Blubbering]]: {{spoiler|Uileag}} crying in Chapter 39 is explicitly described as "loudly and uglily".
* [[Libation for the Dead]]: In Chapter 39, {{spoiler|Uileag offers this at Ayaka's grave.}}
* [[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.
* [[Pun-Based Title]]: It is an obvious play on ''Kimi no Na Wa'', the Japanese title for ''Your Name''.
* [[Shout Out]]:
** [[Ace Combat|"The other wants the world in every generation, and we shall fell every last one of them."]]
** The constructionmen in Chapter One share surnames with [[Quentin Tarantino]] characters: [[Pulp Fiction|Winnfeld]], [[Kill Bill|Driver, Kiddo]], [[Django Unchained|Candie, Schultz]] and [[Reservoir Dogs|White]].
** Constructionman Schultz reenacts the [http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/roll-safe Roll Safe "X can't happen if Y doesn't" gesture.]
** [[Spec Ops: The Line|"Death toll... too many."]]
** [[Invincible|"What do we have after 500 million?"]]
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** [[Schindler's List|"There will not be generations because of the abyssals."]]
** [[Linkin Park|He was angry. He should be. It wasn't fair.]]
* [[Sorry That I'm Dying]]: In Chapter One, {{spoiler|a badly-hurt Uileag who thinks he's dying asks that his apologies be passed along to Ayaka.}}
* [[Thirteen Is Unlucky]]: The abyssal attack on the Task Force VALKYRIE armada that claims the lives of {{spoiler|Ayaka and Yamashiro}} takes place on December 13.▼
* [[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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* [[Villain Opening Scene]]: After the summary, the prologue is about the abyssal supreme commander starting the attack on humanity.
* [[Worst Aid]]: In Chapter One, Uileag briefly contemplates the wisdom or lack thereof in moving someone who's been injured. He also tells a constructionman not to remove shrapnel lest the victim bleed out faster.
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