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== The Main Series ==

 

* ''Kuro Arashi: The Prequel Story'', an origin story detailing the initial arrival of the first original character at the Hinata around the timeframe of episode seven of the anime, and how his presence subtly affected the [[Love Hina]] storyline prior to the start of the main story.

 

* [[All There in the Manual]]: As of about chapter 20, certain things can only be fully understood by reading the related side-stories, such as why Seno suddenly got a ninja follower before Mahorafest and what Yuuna was doing in a Halo costume at the festival, and later leading a special forces team in the battle

* [[Anyone Can Die]]: Invoked way back in chapter 4 with the result of the duel between Seno and Motoko, then later when Sabashii greased the bald-headed mage teacher, and most recently when {{spoiler|1=Amalla Su and the King of MolMol bit it}}

* [[Badass Crew]]: The titular crew, Ala Alba, and even Cleric Team.

* [[Badass Family]]: Motoko, Setsuna, Tsuruko, Seno. What do they all have in common? Besides [[Captain Obvious|wrecking faces]]. ''They're all related'' some way or another

* [[Dark Is Not Evil]]: Sabashii's explanation that of the types of mana, as employed by djinn and not mages, there's primordial darkness, which is not inherently evil, and wicked darkness, which is [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin]]

* [[Defeat Means Friendship]]: The Kuro crew kicked the stuffing out of ten mages from Mahora, then allied with them one chapter later

* [[Dueling Shows|Dueling FanFics]]: With Annoying Assassin's ''Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory'', at least according to some. The cast of Project: Arashi doesn't see it, and Annoying Assassin probably doesn't either. This was brought up by a forum member on AnimeB, who questioned whether Seno or Soma would win in a fight against each other, with most of the responses tending toward "Who the hell are those guys?"

* [[Dynamic Entry]]: Namusan makes his first appearance to engage the Kuro crew for the very first time by exploding an ancient statue of a turtle. Droids at Mages vs. Mars like to blow down buildings to come at the defenders from unexpected angles

* [[Holy Shit Quotient]]: Admittedly, the entire purpose for taking the manga battle of Mages vs. Mars [[Up to Eleven]] was to exponentially increase this factor. [[Your Mileage May Vary]] on the success thereof

* [[Hyperspace Arsenal]]: The Kuro crew each has their own individually-acquired bags of holding. The bag of holding has also been a running gag since the very beginning. Also, pretty much every weapon built or bankrolled by the Arlington Magic Society uses hammerspace magazines. Chao, as well, designed a slipspace-inspired version of hammerspace used on her battle armor and all her droids, notably ITSU and Chachamaru

* [[In Its Hour of Need]]: When the Royal Family of MolMol stood and faced the overwhelming armies of Namusan, despite having probably plenty of magic-aware allies to call upon. Overlaps with [[Last Stand]]

* [[Kissing Under the Influence]]: An unusual variation in that this was both played straight and averted by the very same scene. Motoko was in fact uproariously smashed when she decided she wanted to come onto Seno in front of God and everyone, but this trope wasn't used as a justification to have them do it when they wouldn't normally, {{spoiler|as they were already married by this point}}

* [[Heel Face Turn]]: Discussed a few times between Chao and Evangeline, concerning ''both'' of them having made them in the past, and then directly invoked by Cheryl in chapter 7

* [[Homosexual Reproduction]]: Akio traces his ancestry back to [[Schoolgirl Lesbians|Setsuna and Konoka]], who had a minimum of two male children to carry on the Sakurazaki and Konoe family names, respectively. It was [[Hand Wave|HandWaved]] away that it was done through a combination of science and magic

* [[Its Raining Men]]: Today's weather broadcast for Mahora: Titanium rain

* [[Kill It With Fire]]: Lampshaded by Akio, who determined that if zombies or the Flood were loose in their base, then a flamethrower was a good answer. Later averted when the flamethrower does absolutely nothing to Evangeline's ice wall

* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: "Your target answers to the name Chao Lingshen."

** Gutts of the Thousand Rockets

* [[Nothing Is Scarier]]: When the squad are put through their psychological tests, there are long stretches where they're beset by nothing more than the directed hostility generated by Evangeline, and it usually freaks them out more than her scare tactics

* [[Peek a Boo Corpse]]: It wasn't real, being part of Evangeline's illusion, but when Cheryl opened that closet in Eva's quarters, there was one of these waiting for her. That then disappeared

* [[Puny Earthlings]]: Completely averted with the new generation of Mage Knights. They've been trained to use magic, something completely unheard of to the Covenant, and therefore cannot be defended against, and considering that most of their training came from either Ku Fei or Asuna, you can bet they'll be going in close with the enemy

* [[Refuge in Audacity]]: A storytelling example, at this. The author has taken [[Halo]] and [[Mahou Sensei Negima|Negima]], two series which should realistically have never met, and managed to make them line up along a consistent timeline, meshing it simply by explaining that the [[Dark and Troubled Past|Dark and Troubled Future]] that Chao comes from was not a mere 100 years into the future, but over a full 500 years ahead, that Dark and Troubled Future being none other than the Human-Covenant War. And according to some, it works almost as good as any of the other Halo Expanded Universe novels

* [[Steel Ear Drums]]: Completely averted. Even advanced MJOLNIR Mk.VI armor won't completely protect your hearing from the sound of a thousand bolts of lightning hitting the ground within 100 meters of you, and the Marines around Kelly were shown to have bleeding from the ears and likely permanent deafness

* [[Take That]]: Yuuna's remark concerning [[Halo 3 ODST|'certain squads']] of ODSTs that wear fingerless gloves and helmets that don't seal, echoing the frustrations of pretty much every crewmember of Project: Arashi about that visual and technical faux paux on Bungie's part

* [[Theme Naming]]: Evangeline's command ship, the UNSC ''Yamato''. Ostensibly intended to reference being a sister ship to the known-in-canon UNSC ''Musashi'', the fact that Eva's ship is named after the famed Imperial Japanese superbattleship should not be lost on anyone. On top of that, Japanese naming convention for Japanese-set area

* [[This Is Wrong On So Many Levels]]: Cheryl and Alysia's reaction to Lucy picking up the murderous little doll Chachazero, and giving her a hug as though she were a precious child's toy. Which Chachamaru then said she was, to Lucy at least