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* [[Dashed Plotline]]: 1/20/14/30 year skips between the first five episodes (the sixth follows the fifth immediately).

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Rin in the first episode...

'''Rin''': "So instead of a lost cat, I found a lost man." }}

* [[Dead Sidekick]]: Subverted. {{spoiler|Apos kills Rin first when she comes to rescue Mimi and [[Left for Dead|leaves the latter to her fate]].}}

**** It actually seems that to be Guardian you have to {{spoiler|have aspects of both an Angel and an Immortal; Tajimamori was lucid and long-lived despite being an Angel, missing out on the healing ability, Apos is obvious in having literally everything, and Rin gained wings and the ability to affect Immortals}}.

* [[He Who Must Not Be Seen]]: The person Rin talks to on the phone in every episode. {{spoiler|Eventually revealed to be Tajimamori, [[The Faceless]] man with a beard from the credits. He was the Guardian of Yggdrasil, at least until Apos replaced him.}}

** [[Akira Ishida]]: The voice of Apos.

** [[Colleen Clinkenbeard]]: Voices Rin in the dub.

* [[Luke, I Am Your Father]]: Inverted when {{spoiler|Apos}} reveals that he is {{spoiler|Tajimamori}}'s son.

* [[Manipulative Bastard]]: Apos, probably more so than being a [[The Chessmaster|chessmaster]] even though he plays chess every now and then. There's nothing [[Magnificent Bastard|magnificent]] about how he goes about doing it, either.

* [[Mayfly-December Romance]]: Present (or at least Mayfly December [[UST]]), but it doesn't really come up. Thanks to the time scale of the series, mortals age and die, but nobody ever dwells on it.

* [[Meaningful Name]]: With a little knowledge of japanese, the Maeno (前, "in front of", 埜, "field, wilderness") family names suddenly start to make sense in context:

Maeno Mishio (前埜美汐): "Beauty of the Tide of the Field Before You" }}

** Considering how closely tied to Rin's character and destiny the Maeno family ends up being, it's interesting to notice their names all correlate the owners to some important event or situation in Rin's life similar to what their name implies (Kouki showing Rin the bright side of life, Yuki raising Teruki alone, with Teruki later proving to be the initial trigger to Rin {{spoiler|recovering her memories}}, and Mishio awakening Rin to the new and beautiful experience of parenthood). It's also interesting to note how the first kanji in their family name is precisely the kanji to indicate something in front of something else, alluding to the fact that they were always beside Rin, partly because {{spoiler|of their destiny as descendants of Tajimamori}}.

* [[Precision F-Strike]]: From the dub: "MERRY '''FUCKIN'''' CHRISTMAS!"

* [[Pre-Mortem One-Liner]]: Rin gets one in the first episode {{spoiler|(though the recipient [[Left for Dead|doesn't actually die]])}}. From the [[Woolseyism|dub]]:

* [[Private Detective]]: Rin, minus the [[Private Eye Monologue]].

* [[Psycho Lesbian]]: Sayara and '''especially''' Laura.