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Originally a manga series by Shin Takahashi, it was adapted into a 13-episode anime in 2002. An OAV side-story was released in 2005, ''Saikano: Another Love Song'', as well as a [[Live Action Adaptation|live-action movie]] in 2006. All of these, apart from the live-action film, are licensed by Viz Media.
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* [[Action Girl]] -- Chise
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* [[Clothing Damage]] -- Chise. So. Much.
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]] -- Chise. Also partly a case of [[Obfuscating Stupidity]] when she acts like an ordinary schoolgirl.
* [[Creepy Child]] -- Chise's [[Super
* [[Crucified Hero Shot]]
* [[Determinator]] -- One of the main themes is people's amazing will to survive even though they know they're doomed.
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** Some of the soldiers Chise kills in the manga are Francophones and speak pretty good French in the text.
* [[Hammerspace]] -- Chise has to have something like this. That or she fabricates the things on the spot.
* [[Half
* [[Hannibal Lecture]] -- Chise occasionally gives this to soldiers. Sometimes from her own side.
* [[Hell Seeker]] -- Tetsu wants to go to hell because he thinks that's where he'd go after death and that death is the only way out of his misery.
* [[Heroic RROD]]
* [[Hot for Student]] -- {{spoiler|Fuyumi}}, in flashbacks.
* [[Huge Guy, Tiny Girl]]
* [[Humans Are Bastards]] -- Not played entirely straight, but the show makes it clear that everyone is guilty to some extent. At the same time, some passages sing the beauty of human life and the merit of committing to memory the fact that humans existed.
* [[I Just Want to Be Normal]]
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* [[Jerk With a Heart of Gold]] -- Shuuji. He gets better.
* [[Just Before the End]]
* [[Kill
* [[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]]
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* [[Only One Name]] -- According to [[Word of God]], this was in order to create an atmosphere of familiarity with the characters.
* [[Oracular Urchin]] -- {{spoiler|Chise increasingly knows what will happen as a result of the war.}}
* [[Out
* [[Painful Transformation]]
* [[Panty Shot]]
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* [[Pettanko]] -- Chise; young Fuyumi.
* [[Pet the Dog]] -- Chise and Shuuji love kitties. {{spoiler|They die horribly}}.
* [[Plot Hole]] -- Could be said to be voluntary. The fact that we never learn who's at war with whom and the identity of the [[Big Bad]] strengthens the status of ''Saikano'' as an allegory about war at large. Similarly, knowing how come Chise is chosen to become the ultimate weapon and how on earth that actually works isn't quite the point. See [[The Un
* [[Poor Communication Kills]] -- Double subversion {{spoiler|we learn fairly early on that some soldiers speak English. Then Tetsu meets up with soldiers and tries to talk them down in English. They don't understand English.}}
* [[Raging Stiffie]] -- Manga-only; Shuji.
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* [[Shower of Angst]]
* [[Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism]] -- Oooh boy.
* [[Small Girl, Big Gun]]
* [[Snicket Warning Label]] -- Besides the Episode 10 fansub, there is a warning in the manga in volume 2 that [[It Got Worse|it WILL get worse]] [[Fridge Horror|and you are in the MIDDLE of volume 2.]]
* [[Split Personality Takeover]] -- Gradually happens to Chise.
* [[Star
* [[Stepford Smiler]] -- Chise; Shuuji to a lesser extent; Fuyumi; Tetsu.
* [[Super Deformed]] -- The manga does this a ''lot'' in the most [[Mood Whiplash|inappropriate]] places.
* [[Super
* [[Super Soldier]]
* [[Surprisingly Good English]] -- The most noticeable use of English was from invading soldiers, who spoke passable (if noticeably accented) American English.
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* [[Tsundere]] -- Akemi.
* [[Unlucky Childhood Friend]] -- {{spoiler|Akemi}}
* [[The Un
** {{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 OVA's is {{spoiler|she, and only she, just so happened to fit the criteria to be the ultimate weapon. It's even mentioned that it could've been anyone and they would've used him/her.}}
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* [[Wave Motion Gun]] -- Kind of.
** At least, it results in a [[Sphere of Destruction]].
* [[What Measure Is a Non
* [[Where I Was Born and Razed]] -- Spectacularly averted: Chise's hometown not only doesn't get destroyed by her as one could expect, but it's in fact one of the only "safe" places on the earth due to Chise [[Meaningful Name|protecting it]], to such an extent that it gets dubbed "Chise's town" and people flock to it in a desperate effort to find refuge. However, she eventually decides that when the time comes, she'll {{spoiler|[[Shoot the Dog|destroy it herself rather than let everybody die painfully]]}}.
** {{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]] -- Who do you think?
* [[Yandere]] -- While Chise technically isn't one, her characterization certainly plays with this trope.
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