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* [[Theme Naming]]: As in ''[[Magic Knight Rayearth]]'', characters from the magical worlds are named for cars -- (Ferrari) Testarossa, Scaglietti, (Opel) Zafira, Signum, Vita, (Maserati) Shamal, (Nissan) Teana, Subaru, etc. In total, there are around ''forty'' characters/devices that share names with cars.
* [[Time Skip]]: Between each installment.
* [[Training from Hell]]: One particular subversion aside, most of the mage training in the series is shown to be very
* [[Translation Convention]]: Messages displayed and spoken by Mid-Childa's Magitek devices are usually in English or German<ref>Exceptions being humanoid Unison Devices such as Reinforce Zwei and Agito, Tohma's device Steed and Isis' device from ''Force''</ref>, but all non-device characters exclusively speak Japanese. Since no explanation is ever provided, and it's possible that Mid-Childa could have picked up any or all of these languages through dimension-hopping shenanigans, it's unclear where the [[Translation Convention]] is being applied, or whether it is being applied at all.
* [[Transformation Sequence]]: Present, but unusually for a [[Magical Girl]] series, ''not'' used as time-wasting [[Stock Footage]]. In fact, each main character gets ''at most'' two of these per season and only the first few times they transform.
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