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Problem: [[Inept Mage|Akko kind of sucks at magic]]. Flying on a [[Flying Broomstick|broomstick]] is supposed to be one of the simplest spells for a witch. Everyone around her effortlessly rose into the air and soared through the sky, while not even a [[Training Montage]], [[The Power of Friendship]], nor intense [[Calling Your Attacks]] sessions with [[No Indoor Voice]] could make Akko overcome gravity. No, Akko, transformation spells are ''not'' meant to give you rabbit ears. You're supposed to transform the animal sitting ''in front'' of you, not yourself.
Well, no fear! Her [[Plucky Girl|pluckiness]] and [[Genki Girl|''exceptional'' enthusiasm]] means she at least has a chance in the academy. Throughout her time in the academy, she inherits a much more important role: searching out the Seven Words of Arctus and yelling them ''really'' loud to revive the words. She is the world's least qualified person to do this, but fear not, for her [[The Power of Friendship|friends are always there to help]]!
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* [[Accentuate the Negative]]: In universe. In episode four, Annabel Creme--the author of the ''Night Fall'' series--quits writing due to the hate messages criticising her latest work. She passes her job to Lotte. {{spoiler|Lotte persuades her that she is a good author, and that she is a huge fan of her works, convincing her to keep writing.}}
** {{spoiler|This plays a role in Shiny Chariot's backstory. Chariot keeps receiving requests to make magic more
** Near the end of the series, a
** All these messages are blind hatred, attacking the person making a point instead of the point.
* [[After-School Cleaning Duty]]: Dished out to Akko and the trio almost every second episode, as punishment for them doing things they should ''not'' do in the first half of the series.
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* [[Cerebus Syndrome]]: The start of the series is episodic wacky adventures in [[Wizarding School]]. Professor Croix's introduction marks a significant turning point of the [[Myth Arc]]. By the time episode numbers hit twenty, the series becomes much more serious, with more emotional moments. Every episode around this mark will introduce [[Continuity Lock Out]], and either reveals new information, develops the characters, or advances the story.
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: Akko initially finds her stuff lying on the ground, guarded by a human-eating mandrake. That flower is used later on in the episode, by the she and her party, to attack the gigantic cockarice attacking the cast.
* [[Children Are Innocent]]: Akko
* [[Cosplay]]: In episode four, during a [[Show Within a Show|''Night Fall'']] release ceremony for the 365th entry, many people dress up as characters from the book series. Lotte was able to point and name at every single one of them and say which character they dress up as.
* [[Crash Into Hello]]: How Akko and Sucy meet.
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* [[Drive-In Theater]]: Akko visits this, among many other places, in "Akko's Adventures in Sucyworld". She watches a [[Retraux]] film which reveals how the inner Sucy thinks about her.
* [[Empathic Environment]]: At the beginning of episode 8, when Sucy is doing all sorts of creepy experiments and making potions, the weather is appropriately [[It Was a Dark and Stormy Night|dark and stormy]] to reflect this mood.
* [[Equivalent Exchange]]: Magic as a whole works like this. Witches cannot cast magic without the power provided by the Phliosopher's Stone, or another source. The school lights go off, and no one can use magic when something happens to the stone present at Luna Nova. {{spoiler|In episode 22, it is revealed that both Chariot and Croix has different methods of countering the diminishing magic in the world. Chariot absorbs the dreams of people, removing their magical ability in the process. Croix creates [[Sinister Geometry]] cubes to amplify and absorb people's emotions}}.
** In episode eleven, if Akko wishes to gain a bright future where she is a talented witch, she must give up her past. {{spoiler|She says no}}.
* [[Free Sample Plot Coupon]]: The Shiny Rod was just sitting on the floor in the forest in the Forest of Arcturus. Akko easily picks it up and keeps it. Finding the lost words of Arcturus, which the device helps with, is
* [[Freeze-Frame Bonus]]: In the first episode, when Akko holds out a guide to Luna Nova, you can pause the episode and read its content, which includes a history of Luna Nova, a map of the facility and how to access it, and pictures of the facility. Generally speaking, this applies to all English text in the show. {{quote|'''''Greetings from Luna Nova'''
In 420 AD at the site dedication for the prestigious witchcraft academy of Luna Nova, our founding mentor, Woodward of the Nine Olde Witches greeted our first 100 students with these words "Let this academy be the first milestone in restoring the art of witchcraft and all of its lost glory."}}
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: In episode 21, the animators used the fact that Japanese audiences probably don't know what English swear words are to sneak a very naughty word into a scene. This is when anonymous users online are complaining about the latest soccer game. {{quote|''piece of shit game''
''piece of shit referee''}}
* [[Good Angel, Bad Angel]]: In episode eight, the inner Sucys manifest themselves as angels to guide Akko through, well, Sucyworld. Played with, in that what the good angel is doing
* [[Heroic Self-Deprecation]]: [[Downplayed]]. Akko at the start of episode twelve does this briefly. This is even lampshaded. {{quote|'''Sucy''': Wow. Akko's feeling down in the dumps. I guess there's a first time for everything.}}
* [[Homage]]: In episode eight "Akko's Adventures in Sucyworld", the fangirl Sucy holds up a [[Star Wars|lightsaber]].
* [[Humongous Mecha]]: In episode 18, the ship that Akko and Constanze builds transforms into one. Akko proposes this plan, but Constanze's helper bots believe that a transforming mecha is a stupid idea
* [[It's a Long Story]]: In episode 22, Professor Croix asks Akko how she is in the town, and how she got to
* [[Journey to the Center of the Mind]]: The plot point of episode eight, "Akko's Adventures in Sucyworld", where Akko tries to wake up a sleeping Sucy.
* [[Late for School]]: How the series starts out. Akko asks around for a bus stop to take her to Luna Nova, but turns out, there are ''no'' buses that go there. Instead, you have to ride on a broomstick. Oh, also if you're late, you're expelled. The stakes are just a little high. Since the rest of the series happens, we can obviously conclude Akko made it... barely.
* [[Loan Shark]]: In episode
* [[Long Runners]]: In universe with ''Night Fall'', where the 365th novel was released in episode
* [[Look Ma, No Plane]]: In episode three, when Akko flies past an airplane after getting on a broomstick she can't control very well.
* [[Love Potion]]: A love ''bee'' in this case, appearing in episode ten. When it stings anyone, they instantly fall in love.
* [[Love Triangle]]: One is present in the ''Night Fall'' [[Show Within a Show|book series within the show]].
* [[Magic Kiss]]: [[Parodied]]. In episode eight, Sucy is asleep. Akko performs a [[Journey to the Center of the Mind]] and locates the sleeping Sucy within the sleeping Sucy. She drinks all the antidotes Lotte gave her, and is about to feed them to Sucy via a magical kiss.
* [[Memento MacGuffin]]: Akko's rare card of Shiny Chariot. {{spoiler|Diana has an even rarer card!}}
* [[Mood Whiplash]]: Episode seven begins with the dangers of magic. To use magic to commit murder, they will be eaten life slowly by mice. Use magic to resurrect the dead? Enjoy your [[Fate Worse Than Death]]. Then... {{quote|'''Akko''': Are all of these going to be on our next exam?
'''Professor''': Probably.}}
* [[My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels]]: Akko calls a cockatrice a "stupid bird" in the Forest of Arcturus, and now it wants to eat her. She meant to just cast a spell that Sucy gave her. Sucy uses Akko as bait to distract the cockarice while she harvests its poison.
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: Diana casts a family-secret revitalization spell in the second episode, to bring more life to the Memorial Tree which is special to Luna Nova. It led to the tree spreading its roots all over the campus. Then the trope occurs ''again'' as she tries to destroy what appear to be parasites on the tree's roots, but turns out to be Papiliodia
* [[No Indoor Voice]]: Akko can only speak by yelling. Nothing else. In addition, there appears to be a rule that the Words of Arctus can only be activated when yelled out at volumes louder than 90 dB.
* [[No Ontological Inertia]]: In episode ten, when the love bee was killed, the love spell from everyone it stung wears off. Thus, Andrew is no longer in love with Akko, and Lotte no longer has an
* [[Off-Model]]: If a character is small and far from the camera, it's difficult to tell exactly who they are. While it is expected that characters further away will be drawn with less detail, sometimes characters won't be drawn with basic features like eyes at all,
** In episode 17, a particularly noticeable example involves Akko in rat form standing on Amanda's shoulder, where she looked like an eleven year old having a frantic fifteen second session in Microsoft Paint.
* [[One Word Title]]: Episode two is titled "Papiliodia" and episode twenty-three is titled "Yesterday".
* [[Offscreen Teleportation]]: In the courtroom scene in episode eight, Akko is clearly seen sitting with the other Sucy characters
* [[Only Six Faces]]: In episode eight, Sucyworld is only made up of, you guessed it, Sucy. Every background character ''is Sucy''. In fact, there are no characters ''other'' than Sucy other than Akko taking a [[Journey to the Center of the Mind]]. {{quote|'''Judge Sucy''': The case of Sucy by Sucy for Sucy is now in session.}}
* [[Or Was It a Dream?]]: "Akko's Adventures in Sucyworld" ends with Akko waking up, with the world seemingly back to normal, and the events of the episode apparently a dream. That is, until Sucy brought up
* [[Our Dragons Are Different]]: The dragon in episode five
* [[Overly Long Name]]: In episode seven, we have "Constanze Braunschbank Albrechtsberger", who takes an exam right before Akko. Constanze is part of Amanda's trio.
* [[Public Domain Soundtrack]]: In episode ten, while Akko is hunting down a flying bumblebee, we have Andrew playing ''Flight of the Bumblebee''. Very clever, [[Studio Trigger]]. Very clever
* [[Recursive Canon]]: In episode eight, there is a number plate with the letters "LWA". Does this mean the characters of ''Little Witch Academia'' know they're in Little Witch Academia? Does this mean ''Little Witch Academia'' exists within ''Little Witch Academia''? Or does this mean that Sucy is the only person who knows, and is desperately dropping clues for other characters so they can recognise that they live in ''Little Witch Academia''?
* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: Sucy as a character is less enthusiastic, and serves as the blue oni counterpart,
* [[Retraux]]: In "Akko's Adventures in Sucyworld", the film that Akko and all other Sucys watch inside Sucy's mind are in black and white, and animated like older American cartoons than a Japanese series.
* [[The Reveal]]: {{spoiler|Did you know that Professor Ursula is Shiny Chariot all along?}} It's true! Go watch episode 15 yourself! Akko doesn't find out until the episode number hit their twenties.
* [[Screen Shake]]: Used in conjunction with action and fight sequences, as well in sequences where someone is hit. An example would be in "Akko's Adventures in Sucyworld", where Lotte hits Akko with a wand to put her to sleep, and the screen shakes to reflect this action.
* [[Ship Tease]]: The end of episode ten gives us one between Lotte and Frank, although Lotte immediately crushes any shipper's hope by stating that they're [[Better as Friends]]. The episode gives a more subtle one hinting at Akko and Andrew. Later on, there's plenty between Akko and Diana, especially in the episodes after "Cavendish".
{{quote|'''Frank''': What about you and Atsuko Kagari?
'''Andrew''': You're kidding.
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* [[Sink-or-Swim Mentor]]: Sucy briefly turns into this while teaching Akko how to fly on a broomstick. She does this by tying Akko to her own broomstick and making her bungee jump off a tower, then shooting her out of a cannon. Don't worry, because [[Toon Physics]] is at play no one gets hurt. {{quote|'''Sucy''': In order to win, you actually have to be able to ride a broom. I think it's best if you jump into the pool, completely head first.}}
* [[The Sky Is an Ocean]]: In "Stanship Take Off!", the airship that Akko and Constanze designs look like a seafaring vehicle. It even sailed on water before flying into the sky.
* [[The Song Remains the Same]]: The ending and opening songs remain in Japanese even in the English dub. This applies to both opening and ending sequences.
* [[Speed Stripes]]: Used quite frequently throughout all episodes. It's there to save budget so [[Studio Trigger]] won't make the mistake their ancestors at [[Gainax]] made and run out of money. They do ''not'' want to pull a [[Gainax Ending]].
* [[Surprisingly Good English]]: Despite being made by a [[Studio Trigger|Japanese studio]], the [[Freeze-Frame Bonus]] guide to Luna Nova Akko holds up in episode one features perfect English, with real, on topic information about Luna Nova that you [[If You Can Read This...|can read]]. English text throughout the series are appropriately high quality. The animators even
* [[Talking in Your Sleep]]: Akko after freeing all the Sucys from being executed inside Sucy's mind, talks in her sleep about how she did something good.
* [[Talking Is a Free Action]]: When Akko accidentally insults the cockatrice in episode
* [[Taken for Granite]]: The cockatrice in the Forest of Arcturus, in episode
* [[That Was Objectionable]]: In the courtroom scene in episode
* [[This Is a Drill]]: In episode 18, the "metamor-formation" [[Humongous Mecha]] uses a drill for the Wild Hunt.
* [[Training Montage]]: [[Parodied]] in episode three, with Akko trying (remember, ''trying'') to fly on a broomstick. Cue lots of intense yelling, book reading, and [[Epic Fail|epic failing]].
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* [[Valley Girl]]: In episode eight, one of the Sucys in Sucyworld is like this, complete with way too much makeup and trendy clothes. {{quote|'''Valley Girl Sucy''': I really want to be a Hollywood celebrity}}
* [[Word Salad Title]]: "Little" comes from the adolescent age of the main cast. "Witch" comes from how the cast uses magic. "Academia" comes from the [[Wizarding School]]. Put the three words together, though, and you'll end up with a big mess of nouns and adjectives.
* [[World Tree]]: Episode 15 reveals that, long ago, the world tree Yggdrasil thrived and spread magic everywhere. Over time, though, the tree grew weaker, and the power of magic diminished along with it. {{spoiler|The tree returns in the season 1 finale}}.
* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]: With characters such as Diana and Sucy.
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