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* [[Bleached Underpants]] : The [[Updated Rerelease|Updated Rereleases]] of this game are all clean versions. ''[[Nanaca Crash|NANACA†CRASH!!]]'' could also be a possibility.

** If you compare the old and new trailers, you can see that they even edited out the [[Panty Shot|Panty Shots]].

{{quote| '''Misato: '''"What were the ingredients in these?"<br />

'''Taichi: '''"Lemon and sugar and egg whites and-"<br />

* [[Break the Cutie]]: Okay, who ''doesn't'' go through this throughout the course of the story? There's Sakuraba, and... that's it, really.

* [[Bromantic Foil]] : Hiroshi, Tomoki, even Yutaka to an extent.

* [[Call Back]]: Especially common in {{spoiler|the sendback routes.}} Justified due to the loop mechanics.

* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: {{spoiler|The "Shimura Phenomenon", psuedophysics made up by Taichi which later prove to be essential to the ''entire plot''.}}

* [[Elevator School]]: Gunjou is one without the university.

* [[Every One Remembers the Stripper]]: Or more specifically, everyone remembers the [http://kotaku.com/5754680/the-xbox-360-game-bundled-with-a-vibrating-wand special edition vibrator].

* [[Four Loves]]: Considering the [[The Power of Love|theme of the game]], it appears often.

** Storge: Kiri towards Yutaka, Tomoki and Misato, {{spoiler|Nanaka towards Taichi, combined with Agape love}}. Sakuraba is also said to have a very good family, unlike Touko.

** [[Gratuitous English]]: Sakuraba gets to show off his [[Informed Ability|supposed]] bilingual ability in Miki's route.

* [[Groundhog Day Loop]]

* [[Hollywood Personality Disorders]]: Almost everyone in Gunjou has some sort of "ultramarine", but not all of them are specified. A few may even have multiple.

* [[Hyperspace Arsenal]] : Where Touko's Demon Harakiri Blade and Kiri's Buckmaster's Mark Point Crossbow come from. Also [[Lampshaded]] by Taichi.

{{quote| '''Taichi:''' "That's just too weird! There's no way something so big could fit in your pocket!"}}

* [[Irony]]: Despite Sakuraba being the most stable member of the group, he's also the [[Cloudcuckoolander]].

* [[I Take Offense to That Last One]] : An exchange of insults between Tomoki and Taichi.

'''Taichi:''' D-d-d-don't talk about my stocks! }}

* [[Kansai Regional Accent]]: Tomoki and Misato are hinted to be from Kansai. If so, then they pretty much avert [[The Idiot From Osaka]], as they're pretty knowledgeable, and Tomoki is basically the [[Straight Man]] of the guys.

** Earlier on, Taichi wonders to himself, "Am I some sort of [[Eroge]] hero or something?"

* [[Limited Wardrobe]]: Actually pointed out when Taichi remarks on how Youko never bothers to change her dirty uniform. When he asks how Touko is able to keep wearing the same dress while keeping it clean, Youko mentions that it's because she has multiple copies of the same outfit.

* [[Mohs Scale of Science Fiction Hardness]] : Very far on the "soft" end. The game could almost be categorized as [[Fantasy]], if not for the fact that the mechanics of the [[Groundhog Day Loop]] are an important plot point and a quantum pseudoscience explanation is given for the phenomenon.

* [[Multiple Endings]] : All of which are in a sense canon! However, Youko points out that {{spoiler|not a single one has been a good ending to the week. At best he's managed to reconcile with one person, but either everyone dies with Misato and Touko, or he does it in a bad way with Kiri or everyone dies and it was in a bad way and then the reset hit with Miki.}} There's only one 'true' ending.

* [[Panty Shot]] : At least one for almost every female character! Taichi likes pointing them out.

* [[Punny Name]]: In the [[Updated Rerelease]] on the [[Xbox 360]], Misato decides to call a dog "Poko-chin". Chinpoko is Japanese slang for a tiny penis...

** The hokora is also {{spoiler|the only place where Taichi can send everyone back.}}

* [[Sanity Slippage]] : Everyone, but it is most obvious with Taichi. Each arc shows you a more tragic and/or crazy Taichi than the last. It's especially bad in Kiri's route, which gets rather... unpleasant. It's the route that really introduces just how messed up Taichi is, so the writers pulled no punches in making the point. {{spoiler|During the final route, you get to see a different version where Taichi uses the knowledge from the notebooks to avoid all the really disgusting scenes. While Taichi may or may not be trapped forever depending on how you look at it, he's at least sane at last.}}

* [[The Power of Friendship]]: The game ''revolves'' around this. It's friendship that helps the Broadcasting Club live through their problems, even if they can't exactly get over them.

* [[The Power of Love]]: {{spoiler|As Taichi suffers a [[Heroic BSOD]] from being alone for so long, he draws upon the very first memory he has: his very own birth. That makes him realize that there was always at least one person in the world who would unconditionally love him, without ever asking anything in return: his mother, Nanaka.}}

** Thankfully, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVNZ4rcScUQ the new trailer] is a lot more indicative of the mood.

* {{spoiler|[[Trapped in Another World]]}}

* [[Utsuge]]: Especially in the final weeks.

* [[Xanatos Gambit]]: {{spoiler|Youko nearly pulls off one in the final week, figuring out what Taichi is up to she aids him without question in sending everyone else back to the real world. Then when only the two of them remain she torches all the saved records from the hokora then captures and plans to kill his "saved" self and live forever in a perpetual loop with him as a phenomena, with his reset self none the wiser to what has happened and incapable of learning the truth. Only a brutal last minute [[Hannibal Lecture]] by Taichi allows him to turn the tables and force her to leave instead.}}

* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]: Largely averted, as everyone and their dog notices Taichi's pure white hair and remarks upon it as strange. It's also a kind of a plot point.