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* [[Be Careful What You Wish For]]: Subverted with {{spoiler|Theofratus}}, whose fate is ''exactly'' what he was wishing for. Played straight later in the game, though then again, the subconscious wishes from the heart are also a tricky thing...
** ''Never'' wish to be alone. You might not like how it plays out.
* [[Beary Cute]]: The Mana of Life inhabits and brings the teddy bear held by Pamela Ibis to life.
* [[BFS]]: Flay's mechsword. Anna's katana is longer than she is tall. Also, Vayne can transform himself into a huge sword, or wield one in his [[Finishing Move]]. And Renee from the [[Quirky Miniboss Squad]], as well as some generic student enemies.▼
* [[Bishonen]]: Have you looked at the box?▼
* [[Bittersweet Ending]]/[[Downer Ending]]: The bad ending, which is, you know, [[Shaped Like Itself|bad]].▼
** Jess's ending isn't much better. {{spoiler|After the credits, we see her taking medicine in a bed (implying her condition has worsened) and Vayne tells her that ''this one'' will be the cure.}}▼
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▲* [[
** And when we say Vayne's sword is big, try about 6 or more times his size.
** And a Boss ''is one''.
▲* [[Bishonen]]: Have you looked at the box?
▲* [[Bittersweet Ending]]/[[Downer Ending]]: The bad ending, which is, you know, bad.
▲** Jess's ending isn't much better. {{spoiler|After the credits, we see her taking medicine in a bed (implying her condition has worsened) and Vayne tells her that ''this one'' will be the cure.}}
▲* Bizzarchitecture: Considering the island is created by alchemy, any of the natural landscapes could also apply. And they definitely ''do apply''. Floating midair platforms, endless underground levels, and some seriously big trees are the least of what you see here.
* [[BLAM Episode]]: most of Muppy's Character Quests fall into this category.▼
* [[Blessed with Suck]]: Pity the poor fool who pacts with the Mana of Light. On one hand, yeah! You get combat abilities far surpassing what one could have without a Mana! And you become pretty awesome! On the other, be prepared to be (possibly publically) humiliated (on a huge scale) whenever the Mana is bored and is in need of entertainment (often).
** {{spoiler|Also Vayne, whose powers bring him nothing but trouble.}}
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* [[Contrived Coincidence]]: {{spoiler|Theofratus' attempts at healing Jessica ([[It Got Worse|it got a]] ''[[It Got Worse|lot]]'' [[It Got Worse|worse]] for her) caused him to view himself a failure, seeking a way to end his own (implied to be long) life, leading to Vayne being "born".}} And then it just so happens that Jess is the first person that Vayne befriends in school.
* [[Combination Attack]]: The Variable Strike. It doesn't matter which characters are used for the attack as long as the last one in the chain will be Vayne.
* [[Cute Monster Girl]]: Pamela; also Nikki and the other Beastman girls. And then there are those angel and demon enemies...
* [[Dark Is Not Evil]]: it only wants to grant wishes, that's all...
* [[Death Is a Slap on The Wrist]]: When your party dies, you conveniently wake up in the school infirmary, none the worse for wear- unless you died in a story important battle, where you get a game over.
* [[Defeat Means Friendship]]: Not ''quite'' friendship, but you get Roxis in this manner.
** Played straight with Nikki's
* [[Delinquent]]: Frequently enough for the '''Defender of Justice''', {{spoiler|at least until his second-to-last Character Quest}}. Also, {{spoiler|Jess}} confesses to being one before being accepted into the academy.
* [[Detached Sleeves]]: Part of the school uniform!
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{{quote|'''Vayne''': Just... please be gentle.}}
* [[Face Palm]]: The Vice-Principal does this fairly often.
* [[Familiar]]: The Mana, which are [[Elemental Embodiment
* [[Faking the Dead]]/[[Faux Death]]: Vayne, run far away should Flay ever come up with an idea he won't explain to you.
* [[Fantastic Racism]]: Mana were experimented on loooong ago. One that breaks free ends up fighting the party out of revenge. {{spoiler|Also, in the last chapter of the game, upon discovering that [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?|Vayne is a Mana, everyone but his friends fears/hates him/blames him/accuses him/etc etc etc.]]}}
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** [[Morph Weapon|Vayne uses a cat that transforms into his sword. It proceeds to be able to change shape at will in battle, to an even bigger sword if need be in mid-attack.]]
** [[Hammerspace|Jess uses a bag/purse whose contents seem endless amounts of random objects (lampshaded by Vayne repeatedly).]]
** [[
** [[Demonic Dummy|Pamela uses her stuffed bear, which, coincidentally is posessed by her Mana.]]
** [[Drop the Hammer|Nikki's hammer isn't that bad]] [[
** [[Cool Spaceship|Muppy uses his spaceship,]] [[BFG|and all the conventional weaponry that it might entail...]] [[Transformation Ray|and some]] [[Flying Saucer|more unconventional ones.]]
** [[Tarot Motifs|Roxis uses tarot cards,]] [[Death Dealer|both by throwing them]] [[Whip It Good|and using them as a card whip.]]
*** His attacks also alter the flow of battle by manipulating the turn system, thereby [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]].
** [[
* [[Inexplicable Treasure Chests]]: From a mountain range that the school often uses for athletic classes, to the school library, to the very definitely final dungeon {{spoiler|the first half of which is a conglomerate of several past dungeons because they're memories- of course, it somehow manages to have the recipes for the best equipment in the game in treasure chests that definitely weren't there before.}}
* [[Insistent Terminology]]: Early chapters have Flay constantly refer to the workshop as the <s>Bat</s> Flay Cave.
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* [[Lethal Chef]]: In the first [[School Festival]], the students at the restaurant booth prefer the Principal's baking over the Vice-Principal's.
** Speaking of lethal cooking, Pamela and Jess's potions technically count. Bonus for Jess actually having lunch that is...purple...and moving.
* [[Loads and Loads of Loading]]: Sadly, the PSP port on UMD is riddled with this, but according to RPGFan's [https://web.archive.org/web/20160827065022/http://www.rpgfan.com/reviews/manakhemia-psn/index.html review] of the PSN paid download edition, the loading times were reduced, thus making that version tolerable.
* [[Load-Bearing Boss]]: Final castle falls when you defeat the last boss. Justified, in that it's a castle created by wishes.
* [[Luminescent Blush]]: the female characters are often shown having these.
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** Vayne's special attacks all involve shadows, lots and lots of sharp blades, creepy red eyes, and surprisingly violent battle quotes. {{spoiler|So it makes sense that the final boss is a horrible mass of [[Red Eyes, Take Warning|red eyes]] that [[Tears of Blood|cry black gunk]]. Oh, and his [[Reality Warper|true power]] is pretty scary too.}}
** When Isolde {{spoiler|kills one of your friends to force Vayne's powers to surface}}, you have to think: {{spoiler|what if Vayne ''wasn't'' able to bring him/her back, and Isolde took the leap from slightly unbalanced teacher to murderer?}} Even worse than that, {{spoiler|she didn't even ''flinch'' when she killed them. If Vayne couldn't wish him/her back to life, what was to stop Isolde from murdering all of them right then and there to keep said murder a secret?}}
* [[Nostalgic Music Box]]: Dream of the Black Cat, the music that plays over each chapter's beginning scene/flashback.
* [[Not So Stoic]]/[[Not So Above It All]]: Anna.
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*** {{spoiler|And flunks AGAIN so that he doesn't leave you behind during your senior year.}}
* [[One Hundred Percent Completion]]: Collecting most, if not all, the weapon/item/armor recipes and then making them is necessary to fully upgrade the characters' abilities.
** Not particularly difficult to do that, and that's not even close to one hundred percent completion. However, your reward for a 100% complete encyclopedia- weapons, armor, materials, recipes, monsters, places, etc- is a [[News Travels Fast|rumor]] that increases all stats by 30, which is a fair amount. It's also accessible from the beginning of a New Game+. Now, if 100% grow book chars at the beginning of the game (with those stats their basic attack command can hit anywhere from mid 100s- Pamela, to 400+: Jess. The enemies in early game start with 60-90
* [[Only Sane Man]]: Nikki ends up being this when they discover Muppy, who manages to fool Vayne, Jess, and Flay with a story that only idiots would fall for. What about Anna, Roxis, and Pamela? Well, they kinda... make an attempt at ignoring the entire thing.
** Nope, even Roxis fell for it. He thinks Muppy's "disabled", [[Rule of Funny|humorously...]]
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** Flay says, "I wasn't trying to outwit the Vice Principal or make Anna owe me" when asks about his motives for helping Anna's grades. Right...
* [[That Came Out Wrong]]: The Trivia Contest judge explaining his prolonged absence by "playing with the youngsters". The [[Large Ham|MC]] was not amused.
* [[Theme Naming]]: The [[Bonus Boss
* [[Timed Mission]]: A lot of the classroom assignments have time limits.
** And sometimes if they don't, then things get turned into a [[Timed Mission]] anyway as you attempt to rush to your objective before night falls and the monsters all rocket in power- including the bosses.
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* [[Walking the Earth]]: Implied to happen in one of the endings, thanks to the ''old habits'' of a certain ''someone''.
* [[Wave Motion Gun]]: [[Impossibly Cool Weapon|Flay's sword, in addition to being a BFS, drill, and shruiken thrower, can also shoot a giant shockwave that looks like this.]]
* [[Weaksauce Weakness]]: The [[Bonus Boss
* [[Wham! Episode]]: The end result of Anna's 4th character quest if you tell her the wrong answers. You ''will'' feel her hate.
* [[Where Are They Now? Epilogue]]: The character endings.
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* [[Wiki Walk]]: Anna Lemouri. Frequently launches into mental monologues that result in strange (and often violent) reactions to perfectly normal events.
* [[Wizarding School]]: Once again, setting of the game.
* [[You All Look Familiar]]: Lots of [[NPC
* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]: Jess has pink hair and Anna's is sort of a teal. Pamela's hair is purplish, but that might be because she's a ghost. Flay is a redhead, but it's darker than in real life. Vayne, of course, [[White-Haired Pretty Boy|fits another trope]]. Blondes [[Dumb Blonde|Nikki]] (with her [[Expressive Hair|Expressive]] [[Idiot Hair]]) and [[Blond Guys Are Evil|Roxis]] ([[Rapunzel Hair]]) are comparatively normal.
* {{spoiler|[[You Lose At Zero Trust]]: The bad ending is gotten if you don't make any [[Relationship Values|character like you enough]].}}
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