Kimi no Na Iowa: Difference between revisions

** Yorktown asks Ayaka whether saving Willie D was really the right thing to do, or merely what was right in her own eyes.

** The question of whether to give a screwup seven chances or 70 times 7 is asked, analogous to Peter's question of how many times to forgive a sinning brother.

** In Chapter 36, a character pulling a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] tells one who she had done it on behalf of the following:

{{quote|“You’re a righteous ship I would sink for... this counts as a good fight to have fought, a race to have finished and a faith to have kept… hah… doesn’t it? It’s okay. This is part of that plan to prosper you and give you hope and a future. Forget what is behind and strain toward what is ahead.”}}

* [[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, is wrapped up in an [[Enfant Terrible]]-sized package with the speed and agility of a car, and is still deployed in numbers more like infantry than ships. The second-weakest abyssal type, destroyers, all carry multiple artillery cannons and need direct hits from equivalent weapons to sink, and things only get worse for the [[Puny Earthlings]] from there. The same applies to the shipgirls opposing them; it is said in-universe that even a destroyer would easily overpower any wannabe sexual predator no matter what fancy grappling tricks might be employed, and an old battleship like Yamashiro can still pull a train or plow unstoppably through a crowd.

* [[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]]:

** 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]]:

** Chapter 12 mentions the cooldown to restart Stepping and how {{spoiler|Ayaka's}} magical defences are protecting her. A short while later, they fail at a bad time.

** In Chapter 29, Naganami mentions that no abyssals fight in melee. Guess what happens a few chapters later.

* [[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.}}