Kimi no Na Iowa: Difference between revisions

* [[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.

* [[Central Theme]]: As made explicit in the authors' notes to Chapter 40, there are meant to be four -

** Duty: The defense of humanity is the reason the shipgirls returned, but how far should they go and how much is acceptable sacrifice to that end? Ayaka for her part finds herself sandwiched between her duties to her bloodline and family as a daughter, priestess and wife and those to her nation and mankind as a whole as a soldier. The abyssals too consider their genocidal work a duty to the fallen that they failed previously, with all the literally deadly serious implications that entails.

* [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]]:

** Practical holograms and [[Holographic Interface]]s are mentioned at various points.

* [[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.