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== A lot of the tropes in this series are already covered at [[A Little Princess]]. Tropes exclusive to ''Shokojo Sera'' include the following
* [[Accidental Kiss]]: In Episode 40, while playing the raisin game, two little girls do this.
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* [[Girl Posse]]: Jessie and Gertrude play this role as foils to Lavinia.
* [[Good Samaritan]]: Mrs. Brown, the baker, in the episode where Sara {{spoiler|finds a sixpence when she is starving. Sara then continues the chain reaction by giving all but one of her buns to a starving beggar-girl, Anne.}} Donald Carmichael, on two occasions: {{spoiler|when he mistakes her for a beggar and gives her sixpence, and later when he buys matches from her on a cold winter day.}} The dressmaker mentioned below (see [[Redemption in the Rain]]) also qualifies.
* [[Gray Rain of Depression]]: Rain is to
* [[Halloween Episode]]: Near the end of the series, the Seminary stages a Halloween party, which Sara is [[Throw the Dog a Bone|allowed to attend]] thanks to Amelia Minchin's intercession. She even gets to take part in the party games with the other girls, and helps Lottie carve her pumpkin. However, this being ''Shokojo Sera'', things go horribly wrong: {{spoiler|Lavinia and her friends terrorize Lottie by dressing up as ghosts, causing her to drop her lantern and accidentally set the stable on fire, unknown to her. Sara ends up taking the fall for this, and is thrown out of the Seminary as a result.}}
* [[Heel Face Turn]]: Miss Minchin undergoes one at the very end. She is even seen holding the Seminary cat in her arms, in a fairly obvious example of [[Pet the Dog]], to indicate this.
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* [[Shown Their Work]]: This series does an excellent job of recreating London circa 1885, complete with realistic social, historical, and even geographical material.
* [[Sibling Yin-Yang]]: Maria and Amelia Minchin are a particularly elaborate example. Maria is thin, with an angular face, bad-tempered, sensitive to any perceived slight, enterprising, [[Kick the Dog|mean to the school cat]], spends her time studying, and is the school's authority figure. Amelia is plump, round-faced, good-humoured to the point of submissiveness, silently takes everything that her [[Onee-Sama|respected elder sister]] dishes out, is good at embroidery and playing the piano, is [[Pet the Dog|friendly to the cat]], is not above reading "women's novels", and is firmly under Maria's thumb. This makes their role reversal at the end all the more awesome.
* [[Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism]]: This series begins firmly at the idealistic end, spends a good two-thirds depicting many characters as [[Humans Are
* [[Soundtrack Dissonance]]: The French and Italian theme songs are happy, light-hearted pop songs that are in stark contrast to the actual content of the series. If this was unintentional, then it would count as [[Narm]].
* [[Sumi Shimamoto]]: She plays Sara.
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* [[Yamato Nadeshiko]]: Sara is a very good example of a [[Yamato Nadeshiko]] in training, even if we allow for the disparity in cultures. [[Sumi Shimamoto|It's in the seiyuu.]] To wit: she's kind, docile, obedient to authority, and humble despite her great wealth - and she continues to display all those traits even in the worst sort of adversity. She also looks the part, except for the short hair.
=== The 2009 drama has examples of
* [[Adults Are Useless]]: Either the adults are downright evil (Mimura Chieko), clueless (Mimura Emiko) or genuinely want to help (Aran-sensei) but doesn't have the power to.
* [[Adult Child]]: Emiko is a cheerfully childish woman who still sleeps with a stuffed animal, in contrast to her stricter and colder sister.
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