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{{quote|''"This is perhaps one of the most emotionally flaying anime series I have ever seen."'' |[http://www.themanime.org/viewreview.php?id=517 THEM Anime Reviews]}}
{{quote|''"Every time I watch the last episode of Saikano, I feel like I'll never be happy ever again. The world could end, and I wouldn't notice because I'd be too busy feeling the after effects..."''|[http://www.animenewsnetwork.
'''a.k.a.''' ''Saishuu Heiki Kanojo''; ''She, the Ultimate Weapon''; ''My Girlfriend, the Ultimate Weapon''. In the French translation, ''Larme Ultime'', a pun on "the ultimate weapon" (''l'arme ultime'') and "[[Tear Jerker|ultimate tear]]".
The tentative budding relationship between petite Chise and bitter, emotionally distant
Sound like the setup for many an anime featuring a troubled young man and his [[Extraordinarily Empowered Girl|extraordinarily empowered]] girlfriend? Brace yourself, because despite the trappings of the genre, this isn't your creepy bachelor uncle's [[Magical Girlfriend]] series. The series is subtitled "The Last Love Song On This Little Planet" and they don't pull any punches in delivering on the bittersweet tone implied by that line.
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* [[Action Girl]]
* [[Adaptation Distillation]]
* [[And I Must Scream]]:
** {{spoiler|Shuji's fate in the anime is to walk an empty earth, with nothing at his side but an [[Ax Crazy]] [[Energy Beings|energy being]] who "loves" him too much to end his suffering. It's strongly implied that said energy being [[Immortality Inducer|gave him immortality]], which makes the situation much worse.}}
** {{spoiler|Subverted in the manga. Shuji and Chise somehow leave the Earth ''in'' Chise, who has become some kind of spaceship....but Chise forgot humans need to eat.}}
* [[Anyone Can Die]]—A regular theme of this series, with most of the deaths being pretty senseless.
▲* [[Apocalypse How]] -- Class 0 or 1 (at the beginning of the series.)
* [[Art Major Biology]]
* [[Art Major Physics]]
* [[Artistic Age]]
* [[Ax Crazy]]
* [[Baker's Dozen]]
* [[Barbie Doll Anatomy]]: Done in a few scenes involving more nudity than just some exposed undergarments.
* [[Black Comedy]]
* [[Blessed with Suck]]
* [[Body Horror]]
* [[Broken Bird]]
* [[Cerebus Syndrome]]
* [[Character Development]]
* [[Chewing the Scenery]]
* [[Child Soldiers]]:
** Chise
** The teen boys in the Japanese army.
* [[Clothing Damage]]
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]
* [[Creepy Child]]
* [[Crucified Hero Shot]]
* [[Deconstructor Fleet]]: If you like angelic-looking super-powered girls and cyborgs with cool weapons and high-school-aged war heroes, this series has got all of that in abundance; but the very ''point'' of this whole story seems to be that all of these things would take a terrible psychological toll on their users, and that you would not be so enamored of them if ''you'' were on the receiving end of all the senseless death and destruction they would cause.
* [[Determinator]]
* [[Deus Angst Machina]]
* [[Dojikko]]
* [[Downer Ending]]
* [[Driven to Suicide]]
* [[Dying Declaration of Love]]
* [[Dying Like Animals]]
* [[Dysfunction Junction]]
* [[Emotionless Girl]]
* [[The End of the World as We Know It]]
* [[Face Fault]]
* [[Fan Disservice]]
* [[Fan Service]]: Chise's transformations cause plenty of [[Clothing Damage]] if you're not too busy crying buckets of tears to notice (or care).
* [[Femme Fatale]]
* [[Gallows Humour]]
* [[Gratuitous French]]:
** Random lines of it appear in the opening sequence. It's all correct, apart from suspect pronoun usage.
** Some of the soldiers Chise kills in the manga are Francophones and speak pretty good French in the text.
* [[Hammerspace]]
* [[Half-Human Hybrid]]
* [[Hannibal Lecture]]
* [[Hell Seeker]]
* [[Heroic RROD]]
* [[Hot for Student]]
* [[Huge Guy, Tiny Girl]]: Shuji and Chise are both supposed to be roughly the same age, and Chise is explicitly stated to be 17 in the anime, but Shuji looks tall and mature enough to be in college, while Chise is short and underdeveloped enough to look like she ought to be in junior high.
* [[Humans Are
* [[I Just Want to Be Normal]]
* [[It Got Worse]]
* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]
* [[Just Before the End]]
* [[Kill'Em All]]
* [[Light Is Not Good]]: When Chise uses her abilities, she starts to glow a bright white, looking almost angelic. Unfortunately, this is usually followed by lots and lots of people dying.
* [[Live Action Adaptation]]
* [[Love Dodecahedron]]
* [[Made of Iron]]
* [[Magical Girlfriend]]
* [[Manly Tears]]—Especially
* [[Meaningful Name]]:
** In both the anime and the manga, one character mentions that "Chise" means "the hearth" or "home" in the Ainu language.
** Tetsu ("iron") might be another case.
* [[Mercy Kill]]:
** Tetsu to another soldier.
** {{spoiler|Chise to the entire human race.}}
* [[Mix and Match]]
* [[Mood Whiplash]]
* [[Nuclear Weapons Taboo]]
* [[Only One Name]]
* [[Oracular Urchin]]
* [[Out-of-Clothes Experience]]
* [[Painful Transformation]]
* [[Panty Shot]]
* [[Person of Mass Destruction]]
* [[Pettanko]]
* [[Pet the Dog]]
* [[Plot Hole]]
* [[Poor Communication Kills]]
* [[Raging Stiffie]]
* [[Rape as Drama]]
* [[Rule of Cool]]
* [[
* [[Seinen]]
* [[Shadow Archetype]]
* [[Shoot the Shaggy Dog]]
* [[Shotacon]]
* [[Shower of Angst]]
* [[Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism]]—the meter's reading Hard-
* [[Small Girl, Big Gun]]: Tiny Chise's mechanical strength must be very impressive indeed, as a full-grown body-builder would have trouble hefting a gun that big.
* [[Snicket Warning Label]]
* [[Split Personality Takeover]]
* [[Star-Crossed Lovers]]
* [[Stepford Smiler]]
* [[Super-Deformed]]
* [[Super-Powered Evil Side]]
* [[Super Soldier]]
* [[Surprisingly Good English]]
* [[Ten-Minute Retirement]]
* [[There Are No Therapists]]
* [[There Is No Higher Court]] - Girl changed into weapon without her knowledge or consent. No one bats an eye.
* [[Twelve-Episode Anime|Thirteen Episode Anime]]
* [[Trailers Always Spoil]]: The trailer for the live-action version shows the very ending of {{spoiler|the end of the world}} even though it doesn't make sense by itself.
* [[Transformation Trauma]]
* [[Trickster]]
* [[Tsundere]]
* [[Unlucky Childhood Friend]]
* [[The Un-Reveal]]
** {{spoiler|The second bit isn't outright stated, but pretty much made obvious. The Earth will eventually die, and Shuji is confined to a [[Fate Worse Than Death]] due to energy-being Chise's [[Ax Crazy|"kindness"]].}}
** The best we get for the former in one of the
** A few enemies we get to see in person are speaking English, and one of the OVAs refers to enemy forces as "the Alliance"—which doesn't leave us knowing a whole lot more than we did before, however.
* [[Ultimate Lifeform]]: Chise ''is'' the ultimate weapon, [[Person of Mass Destruction|and it's not hard to see why]].
* [[War Is Hell]]: This story's entire thesis, freely seasoned with popular Japanese science fiction tropes.
* [[Wave Motion Gun]]
** At least, it results in a [[Sphere of Destruction]].
* [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?]]
* [[Where I Was Born and Razed]]
** {{spoiler|In the manga she does. In the anime, she's convinced not to. The manga has the ''good'' ending.}}
* [[Winged Humanoid]]
* [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]]
* [[Yandere]]
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