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=== This show contains examples of: ===
* [[A Date
{{quote| '''Hachimaki''' (as they're gathering equipment for the next mission): "This, this, this... And this too." * Places Hustler magazine in the cart* <br />
'''Tanabe''': "Wha... What is that?"<br />
'''Hachimaki''': "In this field of work men and women may have to live together in close quarters for several weeks. If we don't take matters into our own hands something ugly might happen. Here, this is yours." * Holds up a porn mag supposedly for women* }}
* [[A Day in
* [[Air Vent Passageway]]: Chapter 9 of the manga.
* [[Almost Kiss]]: Hachimaki and Tanabe nearly have one on the beach in episode 13, until a rocket launched by Hachimaki's brother nearly hits them.
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* [[Broken Bird]]: Claire. Increasingly broken as the series goes on. Edel was one in the past.
* [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]]: Many of the main characters are really good at their jobs, even if they're a bit eccentric. Such as Locksmith, Hachimaki, and Fee.
* [[Character Development]]: Quite a few characters get [[A Day in
* [[Clingy Jealous Girl]]: Tanabe towards Hachimaki, who gets angry or at least suspicious anytime she sees him hanging out with a woman. Lucie towards Cheng-Shin.
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: [[Deconstruction|Deconstructed]] with Fee's uncle, Roy Bryant. He was kind and talented, but almost terminally shy and autistic. Not that terrible ''per se'', but he had the misfortune of being the lone, unemployed, and ''black'' weirdo in the [[Deep South]]. He was feared and ostracized by almost everyone around, until some day, after the locals, suspecting him of kidnapping a neighbor's daughter, burned his shack, and he went off to the woods and was never heard about again. This still weighs on Fee.
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* [[Detonation Moon]]: Although a (relatively) minor one: the Tandem Mirror Engine accident that turns a considerable chunk of the Moon into ''dust''.
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: The odd imagery during the docking sequence in episode 14, combined with the context of the episode itself makes it pretty clear exactly what the scene is a metaphor of.
** Norio Wakamoto once again lends his voice to a [[
* [[Dying Alone]]: Hachimaki's dark self constantly reminds himself of this fate in the 2nd half of the season. Tanabe on the other hand, feels this trope should be averted, such as when the body of one of the early space pioneers makes its way back to Earth, and she feels he should be buried by his family, rather than sent back into the void of space.
* {{spoiler|[[Earn Your Happy Ending]]}}: {{spoiler|Both Hachi and Tanabe go through a heck of a lot before finally finding happiness at the very end of the anime.}}
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* [[Foreshadowing]]: That woman we see in the spacecraft in episode 1 when a stray bolt hits it? {{spoiler|She's the wife of Yuri}}, and in episode 10 we get more [[Character Development|background]] on why Yuri was obsessed with looking for space debris and why he joined the Debris Section in the first place.
* [[For Science!]]: Werner Locksmith "can only love space ships". Treated as realistically and thoughtfully as everything else.
* [[Freeze
* [[Friend to All Living Things]]: Yuri keeps a kennel for the station's officers' pets, because he's ''that'' good with animals.
* [[Gainaxing]]: Fee, who apparently [[Vapor Wear|doesn't wear a bra]].
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* [[Japan Takes Over the World]]: Never mentioned but inadvertently implied, due to everyone in the cast [[Creator Provincialism|acting in accordance with uniquely Japanese cultural norms]] pretty much all the time regardless of their actual nationality.
** Probably just on the animation crew part, manga was much more cosmopolitan, and all specifically Japanese relationship norms were limited basically just to Hachi and Tanabe, [[Justified Trope|who are both Japanese]].
* [[Jerk
** All Hoshino males, really: the brothers have clearly taken after their father. Hoshino's mom is basically a saint ([[Lampshade Hanging|and knows it]]).
* [[Karma Houdini]]: {{spoiler|Hakim.}}
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** As I see it, the primary theme of the manga is the ideological conflict between Ai's love and Hachimaki's ambition. (It's there in the anime too, but not so strong.)
* [[Love Hotels]]: Technically, accommodations for transitory visitors, but explained as the only non-work area on the station where a couple can do ''anything'' date-like and have privacy from co-workers.
* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]: To roughly the same level as [[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]. 7 main characters (Hachimaki, Tanabe, Fee, Yuri, Chief, Ravi, Edel), and a host of well developed and influential secondary (Claire, Hakim, Colin Clifford, Cheng Shin, Goro Hoshino, Werner Locksmith, Gigalt, Dolph) and tertiary (Harry Roland, Kyutaro Hoshino, Nono, The Ninjas, Lucy), characters.
** It's even worse in the manga, which doesn't have salarimen and Ninjas, but has a lot of ''other'' people.
* [[Loophole Abuse]]: In episode 4, when [[Spoiled Brat|Colin Clifford]] starts insulting the Debris Section, Hachimaki nearly punches his lights out in anger. But before he can, Tanabe does it instead, then [["The Reason You Suck" Speech|berates]] him for being such a jerk. Colin threatens to punish them for assaulting a non-employee, but then Fee mentions that there were only 5 people aboard the ship, and therefore they never had any non-employees in the area in the first place. Colin whines some more about it, but the director mentions that either Colin let this issue go, or else he could file a full report, and then Colin's father finds out about him being there illegally in the first place.
** It's done again in episode 14 when they move a satellite to avoid a meteoroid from destroying it. Robbie says that they're not allowed to destroy a natural body, so Hachimaki instead moves the satellite away to avoid the collison.
* [[Married to
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Yuri Mihairokov shares the name of famous cosmonaut [[Yuri Gagarin]], who was the first man in space. Werner Locksmith shares the name of Werner von Braun, one of, if not the most important rocket designers who ever lived whose designs include the terrifying V-2 for the Nazis, and the mighty Saturn V, the famous moon rocket. Ai Tanabe's name is also a pun, as 'ai' is the Japanese word for love, which matches with her belief in love's power.
* [[Memento MacGuffin]]: Yuri's [[Tragic Keepsake|wife's compass]]. Eventually, Yuri decides {{spoiler|[[It's All Junk|to send it back into space with a test rocket]] because he no longer needs it to preserve his wife's memory}}.
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* [[Mission Control]]: Literally, the Control section of ISVP 7. Much more prominent in the anime, where it has named characters related to the plot. Also, Fee often plays this role when Hachi, Ai, and Yuri perform EVA operations.
* [[Mistaken for Cheating]]: In episode 8, the Debris Section suspects Fee is having a secret affair with the Second Division director. Except that she's not, and she's not too happy about that accusation when she hears about it.
* [[Mohs Scale of Sci Fi Hardness]]: Very hard, possibly the hardest series ever ''made'' up to this point. [[I Want My Jetpack|Commercial spaceflight]] less than [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future|a century in the future]] and almost completely limited to the Earth Sphere itself. Detailed orbital mechanics, realistic effects of space on health, [[wikipedia:Dependency theory|dependency theory]], diapers under spacesuits, and ''invisible'' [[Frickin' Laser Beams|laser beams]]. Even the gratuitous [[In Space Everyone Can See Your Face]] is justified as mere thematic [[Closeup
** Even the Tandem Mirror drive is named after/based on a real magnetic confinement fusion technique, which has been noted to be uniquely suited to application as a space drive.
* [[The Mole]]: {{spoiler|Hakim Ashmead, a top Space Defense Front lieutenant who joined the ''von Braun'' mission in order to sabotage it.}} Played for even greater effect in the anime, where the character is introduced ''long'' [[Early-Bird Cameo|before his arc begins]], and is given a sympathetic background as Hachimaki's {{spoiler|[[Big Brother Mentor]]}}.
* [[Mood Whiplash]]: The El Tanika representative in episode 11, who tries really hard to help his country out in whatever way he can, watches his country from above in space. It's a very serene and touching scene. Then they cut to the ground, and there's a war going on down there, and the factory that had the plans and parts for his spacesuit gets destroyed. Unfortunately for him, he is able to see the smoke cloud from space.
* [[Motorcycle
* [[Multinational Team]]: The section, and the company as a whole, are nationally and ethnically diverse (but seem to act unilaterally Japanese in most cases).
** The most egregious example being when the El Tanikan-born, American-bred woman formally introduces herself and bows (in a manner identical to the way Tanabe, who ''is'' Japanese, did in the first episode) upon being transferred to a new department. Despite the fact that she's known everyone in that department for at ''least'' a year already.
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* [[Qurac]]: Mananga.
* [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits]]: Debris Section is where employees are sent when they either don't care where they go, or screw up so bad they can't be sent anywhere else. Of course, since they spend more time in EVA than anyone else, they wind up being the biggest zero-G badasses this side of the Orbital Security Agency.
* [[Ramming Always Works]]: Also see [[Planetes
* [[Relationship Upgrade]]: Happens in episode 14 with Hachimaki and Tanabe.
* [[Recycled in Space]]: Probably the only ''literal'' example. It's a show about recycling...in space...space recycling.
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* [[Sempai-Kohai]]: Tanabe does this with Hachimaki, even in the English dub.
* [[She Is Not My Girlfriend]]: Hachimaki uses this several times when either confronted with his past relationship with Claire, and anytime Tanabe sees him with another woman, and questions him about it.
* [[Shipper
* [[Shout-Out]]: Lavie's gag device to break the ice with Section 3's Debris department plays ''[[2001: A Space Odyssey
* [[Shown Their Work]]: Very much so.
* [[Sibling Yin-Yang]]: Hachimaki and Kyuutaro. He's an astronaut, he wants to build rockets and spaceships. Neither one believes that what the other pursues is a "serious" pursuit of outer-space.
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* [[Sociopathic Hero]]: Locksmith, although the degree of his detachment from humanity varies from manga to anime. {{spoiler|The graveside scene in the former had him damn near emotional, which is ''devastating'' to the reader, let me tell you.}}
{{quote| {{spoiler|I feel sad.}}}}
* [[Spell My Name
** It's [http://www.21stcenturysciencetech.com/Articles_2009/Summer-2009/Thoughts_on_fusion.pdf Tandem Mirror].
*** Seriously why would it be Tandem Miller? There was never any Miller involved!
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* [[Wham! Line]]: Hachimaki gives one at the end of episode 18.
{{quote| '''Hachimaki:''' I'm quitting the Debris Section.}}
* [[What You Are in
* [[White-Haired Pretty Boy]]: [[Rich Bitch|Colin Clifford]], and ''man'' is he gender-ambiguous. Especially with that camera thing.
* [[Why Do You Keep Changing Jobs?]]: Played with, Edel works full time in the Debris Section as a contract worker, but also has a part time job as a nurse. The characters are surprised when they see her during their physical exam.
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* [[Explosions in Space]]: There is an pretty big off-screen explosion {{spoiler|on the Moon, when a giant fusion engine blows up (read: a new crater visible from Earth)}}, but the depicted cone of ejected matter is realistic and [[Oh Crap|terrifying]].
* [[Gravity Sucks]]: Besides having realistic orbits paths, a ship about to crash into {{spoiler|a lunar city}} has to be shifted out of its path by a point-of-no-return it would reach quite a while before the actual impact.
* [[In Space Everyone Can See Your Face]]: +95% averted. Spacesuits have faceplates with integrated [[HUD|HUDs]], and are almost always lowered to protect against unfiltered sunlight and debris impacts. If you see a character's face in a spacesuit, it's a [[Closeup
* [[Latex Space Suit]]: Spacesuits are realistically bulky, and the astronauts all wear diapers/nappies.
* [[Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale]]: Baring a few unlikely coincidences such as Yuri searching for and finding a '''pocket compass''' in orbit around the Earth. These [[Contrived Coincidence|coincidences]] are all treated as miraculous events [[Lampshade Hanging|within the show]] and can be dismissed by the audience as [[Anthropic Principle|necessary in order for the show to have a plot]].
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