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[[File:zero_no_tsukaima.jpg|frame|<small>[[Berserk Button|Don't]] call her [[Pettanko|flat-chested]] [[Groin Attack|OR ELSE!]]</small> ]]
[[In a World]] where young witches and wizards train at the [[Wizarding School|Tristain Academy of Magic]]. One of these students is Louise, who's so terrible at magic she's earned the nickname "Zero". When the time comes for students to summon their familiars, she ends up summoning Saito Hiraga, a normal teenager from modern Japan. Even though he's being treated like a dog and forced to do menial labor, Saito stays to protect his mistress. This means dealing with incoming advances from other women around him and getting involved in a war between Tristain's neighboring countries....
Originally a series of [[Light Novels]] written by Noboru Yamaguchi, it has since received
The light novels currently{{when}} stand at 20 volumes plus 3 side story volumes. You can find up to Volume 14 (and more being translated at varying speeds) [http://www.baka-tsuki.org/project/index.php?title=Zero_no_Tsukaima here].
Season 4, ''Familiar of Zero F'', can be viewed [http://www.crunchyroll.com/familiar-of-zero-f here] legally on Crunchyroll. As of 2019, a Blu-ray box set of all four seasons plus the OAV was available from Sentai Filmworks.
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{{tropelist}}
* [[Above the Influence]]:
** Saito persistently brushes off the advances of a [[Love Potion]] afflicted Louise in the first season. [[Heroic Comedic Sociopath|Being]] [[Jerk Sue|Louise]] it does not stop her being furious with him when she recovers.
** He often acts this way towards the other women as well, despite the fact that they all insist they're okay with it. While he has intentionally kissed some of them, he often ends up regretting it.
* [[A-Cup Angst]]:
*
** When Saito tries calming her by claiming to love flat chests Tabitha simply points out that hers are smaller. Louise just can't win.
** Seems to be affecting Tabitha a bit too in Season 4.
* [[Aerith and Bob]]:
** There are names like Henrietta, Guiche, Tabitha, Agnes... all appropriate for the setting. Then there are names like Hiraga Saito and Siesta. People do notice Saito's fairly strange name, but it's justified. Seems to be played straight in Siesta's case - there's no expy nation of Spain, her only named relatives have British-sounding names, and she's of {{spoiler|''Japanese''}} descent.
* [[Alien Sky]]: The world the show takes place in has two moons, thus everyone assumes Saito's lying when he says his world has one.
* [[Alternate Realm Boon]]: When summoned as a familiar for Louise, Saito gains the magical ability to use any weapon with great skill, from a simple broadsword to a fighter aircraft.
* [[Ambiguously Brown]]: Kirche.
* [[And Now You Must Marry Me]]:
** Wardes tries to do this to Louise in Season 1.
** Non-villainous example with Tabitha in Season 4. She tells Louise that if she ever gets in a bad argument with Saito again, Tabitha will take Saito away and marry him.
* [[Asleep for Days]]: Saito sleeps for three days after his first duel with Guiche.
* [[Armor-Piercing Slap]]: Louise gives one to Henrietta after the former confronts the latter about constantly hitting on Saito in episode 6 of Season 4. Henrietta tries to counter, but Louise blocks it, then it turns into a naked wrestling match in the hot springs.
* [[The Atoner]]: {{spoiler|Mr. Colbert.}}
*
* [[Author Existence Failure]]: In July 2011 the author, Noboru Yamaguchi, announced that he had been diagnosed with cancer and was to be operated on. The surgery in August of that year seemed successful at first, but he had further difficulties and succumbed to his cancer in April 2013, leaving the last two volumes unfinished.
* [[Awesome Moment of Crowning]]: {{spoiler|Saito and Louise}} get them, though {{spoiler|Louise's}} is significantly less awesome in the anime.
* [[Ax Crazy]]: {{spoiler|King Joseph of Gallia. The previous king awarded the throne to him instead of his brother. His brother expresses happiness over Joseph having been made king instead of the seething jealousy Joseph had been hoping to see. This causes him to snap and murder his brother in a fit of rage during a hunting trip some time after.}}
* [[Badass Bookworm]]: Tabitha.
* [[Baka]]: Louise constantly refers to Saito as "baka-inu" (literally "stupid dog"), usually when she's about to beat him senseless.
* [[Barehanded Blade Block|Bare-Handed Riding Crop Block]]
* [[Battle Couple]]
** Justified with any Void user. As their partner fights and protects them as their incredibly powerful spell takes some time to chant.
* [[Beach Episode]]
* [[Belligerent Sexual Tension]]
* [[Beta Couple]]
* [[Betty and Veronica]]
* [[Big Bad Wannabe]]
* [[Big Eater]]
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20100825105201/http://animearimasu.animeblogger.net/2006/08/12/zero-no-tsukaima-6
* [[Bishie Sparkle]]
* [[Black Comedy Rape]]
* [[Blow You Away]]
* [[Blush Sticker]]
* [[Body Double]]
* [[Bodyguard Crush]]
* [[Bolivian Army Ending]]
* [[Broken Bird]]: {{spoiler|Tabitha; more on [[Rags to Royalty]].}}
* [[Broken
* [[Buxom Is Better]]: Several of the women, particularly Henrietta and Siesta, utilize this trope in an attempt to seduce Saito. [[A-Cup Angst|Louise]] is [[Clingy Jealous Girl|not too happy]] about that.
* [[Can't Live with Them, Can't Live Without Them]]: Pretty much the premise of the series.
** Taken to literal extremes in Volume 8 of the novel. {{spoiler|A depressed Louise is upset that even in a dream, she's unable to tell Saito she loves him. Deciding she can't leave him until she's said it at least once, she attempts suicide just to meet him again, only to be stopped by Siesta. Only to fall either way. Don't worry, they get out safe and sound... at Guiche's expense...}}
* [[The Casanova]]: Guiche, and possibly Julio, though he tends to have girls running after him instead.
* [[Censor Steam]]: In the anime and light novels.
* [[Chains of Love]]: The second season ending theme, in lyrics and imagery.
* [[Character Development]]: Less apparent in the anime, but virtually every recurring character becomes more rounded as the series progresses, mostly as a result of growing maturity as well as the stark realisation of the looming threats of war.
** Louise's development is one of the most obvious; starting off as a [[Jerkass]] with a [[Hidden Heart of Gold]] who frequently abuses Saito physically and verbally, she eventually becomes a Type B [[Tsundere]] towards Saito after realising her own feelings to Saito and recognising his exploits, effectively overcoming her noble upbringing which [[Fantastic Racism|discriminates against commoners]]. The entire process took almost 20 volumes, spanning over a year in the series timeline.
** Saito also becomes more mature, though not as dramatic as Louise; starting off as a [[The Slacker|happy-go-lucky]] [[Ordinary High School Student]] who [[A Tragedy of Impulsiveness|could not resist being physically attracted]] to every beautiful woman he meets and ends up becoming a [[Chivalrous Pervert]] with clear objectives in life and who recognises his own failings and constantly reminds himself to [[Above the Influence|resist any temptations]] so as to remain faithful to Louise. This too also took over a dozen volumes.
** The young nobles from the Tristain Academy of Magic such as Guiche and Malicorne also became less of a [[
* [[Character Exaggeration]]: ''Every single named'' character gets this, with varying levels, in the anime; their quirks and personality traits are amplified for the sake of constant slapstick. Louise is more violent and mistrusts Saito more easily, resulting in more punishment and explosions for him; Saito himself is more of a willing pervert, the "accidental" part is less pronounced, resulting in him actually deserving some of the punishing; Siesta appears in situations she wasn't originally in, heavily exaggeriting her clingy quirks and snark comments on her bigger bossom over Louise's.
* [[Chekhov's Boomerang]]
* [[The Chessmaster]]
* [[Collector of the Strange]]
* [[Cool Loser]]
* [[Cool Ship]]
* [[Cool Teacher]]
* [[Cry Cute]]
** Pushed to the point of near-woobification in Volume 13 of the novels, when {{spoiler|a barely-composed Louise tells Saito that without him she'll never smile again, right before she drugs him and offers herself to Romalia's cause in order to have him sent back to Japan}}.
* [[Dance of Romance]]
* [[Dark-Skinned Redhead]]
* [[Death Faked for You]]
** In the anime, it was Tabitha who did the faking, but in both cases, {{spoiler|Mr. Colbert}} ended up recuperating in Kirche's family estate.
* [[Defeat Means Friendship]]
* [[Denied Food
* [[Determinator]]
* [[Dirty Old Man]]
* [[Dishing Out Dirt]]
* [[Double Standard Abuse (Female on Male)]]: Louise's treatment of Saito in the first two seasons and part of the third would not be condoned if it was the other way around
* [[Dude,
* [[Dude, Where's My Respect?]]: To list some of Saito's accomplishments:
** Fought {{spoiler|and stalled an army of seventy thousand.}}
** Saved {{spoiler|Tabitha, a princess of the neighboring country.}}
** Showed nobles that, yes, even commoners can kick their asses.
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** Refused a chance to abandon Halkegenia and return to his homeland Japan (although he was lined up to be murdered by the Pope's Windalfr, or fatally injured if he stepped into the portal), got a tank, and defeated an entire platoon of magitek weapons designed specifically to ward magic. By himself, with ammunition support from Tabitha and steering from Colbert. His victory was then claimed by Vittoro's {{spoiler|Crusaders faction}} to be entirely their job and their success. Twice. This time all of the Undine Knights were upset by that.
** ...And yet Louise still shows him no respect, even calling him a dog and continuing to whip him. She also refuses to accept his being a noble meaning similar or equal grounds to her. When this was mentioned to her in the Light Novel, she flew into a torrent about how . She then called him a dog some more for good measure.
* [[Elemental Hair]]: On the [[Played Straight]] side, we've got [[Fiery Redhead]] Kirche (fire affinity), [[Rei Ayanami Expy]] Tabitha (wind), Mme. Chevreuse (brown / Earth), and Miss Longueville (green / Earth). On the other hand, Shana Clone Louise, Ill Girl Cattleya, and their mother Karin all have pink hair, but all have a different affinity (Void, Earth, and Wind, respectively). It's notable that the main characters who are not magic users of some kind (Seito, Siesta, Marteau, Scarron, and Jessica) all have very dark brown or black hair.
* [[Elemental Powers]]
* [[Element Number Five]]
* [[Emotionless Girl]]
* [[Enemy Mine]]: Whenever the love triangle [[Love Dodecahedron|expands]], Louise and Siesta keep teaming up to try and take down the other girls to eliminate the competition.
* [[Even the Girls Want Her]]
** Tiffania as well, at least in the anime. If they are a character, they have stared at her breasts at least once.
* [[Even the Guys Want Him]]
* [[Excalibur in
* [[Expy]]:
** Louise and Saito strongly resemble [[Shakugan no Shana|Shana and Yuuji]] and have the same voice actors to boot.
** Tabitha is a [[Rei Ayanami Expy]].
* [[Eyecatch]]: Usually of a female character(s) in the show with a tiny animation of Saito and Louise on the bottom part of the screen.
* [[Fake-Out Make-Out]]: Times two.
* [[Familiar]]
* [[Fan Girl]]
** After his exploits in Romalia and Gallia, Saito comes back to Tristain and finds that a play his been written about him. It plays him up as a hero of the plebeians. His fan base has been extended to all the commoner woman who now want a piece of him (at least in the anime).
* [[Fan Service]]
* [[Fantastic Racism]]
** References in the light novels indicate the elves hold the "Holy Land," and are resented for this as well as being feared for having unusually powerful magic. Montmorency said at one point that even a Square Mage is at a disadvantage against an elf.
** This also applies to nobles, who treat commoners like crap because they can use magic and commoners can't.
* [[Fantasy Counterpart Culture]]
** First season also features a regicide named Cromwell. And the chancellor of Tristain is Cardinal Mazarin.
** Julio arrogantly named himself after the Fantasy Counterpart of Caesar, who apparently lived centuries ago in the history of the setting. So he's not actually a fantasy counterpart of a historical figure, just a fanboy of the fantasy counterpart of a historical figure.
** To sum up, all five major states in Halkeginia are actually fantasy counterparts of actual historical European states. Albion appears to be based on Tudor/Stuart England, Tristain on Belgium, Gallia on Bourbon France (or the Ancien Régime in general), Germania on Holy Roman Empire/Imperial Germany and Romalia on the Papal States.
** There are some scarce hints in the tenth novel that the Elves are Ottoman/Arab counterparts. For one thing, they're stated to control the Rub' al Khali (Arabia's Empty Quarter), and there's also a reference to them holding the Sahara.
** The fourteenth novel introduces a Gallian warrior named Batz Castlemorre. Charles de Batz-Castelmore was more commonly known as [[The Three Musketeers (
* [[Fat Best Friend]]
* [[First Girl Wins]]
* [[Fish Out of Water]]
* [[Floating Continent]]
* [[Forgotten Phlebotinum]]
** It's used once in Volume 2 and again in Volume 11. The purpose of the ability is to notify Gandalfr whenever his master is in danger he wouldn't otherwise know about. The first time it was used was when {{spoiler|Wardes turned traitor and tried to kill Louise.}} The second time was when {{spoiler|the golem Jörmungand ambushed Louise and his fellow Knights of Ondine}} on their way out of Albion. Both times it notified Saito of his master's peril so he could come to the rescue. Unfortunately there are a whole bunch of other times where it would have come in handy but is just never mentioned, so this trope is usually in effect.
* [[For the Evulz]]
**
* [[Gag Boobs]]
* [[Gainaxing]]
* [[Genki Girl]]
* [[Give Me a Sword]]
* [[The Glomp]]
* [[Grail in
* [[Gratuitous English]]
* [[Green-Eyed Monster]]
* [[Gunship Rescue]]
** Happens again at the end of Season 4, this time with a Mitsubishi F-2A fighter jet.
* [[Hadaka Apron]]
* [[Hair Color Dissonance]]
* [[Hair Colors]]
* [[Hair Color Spoiler]]
* [[Happily Married]]
* [[Happiness in Slavery]]
* [[Hard-Drinking Party Girl]]: Kirche.
* [[Harem Hero]]: Saito. How many girls are fighting on his side?
* [[Harem Series]]: While {{spoiler|Louise is the obvious [[First Girl Wins|winner]]}}, most of the women in the show have expressed interest in Saito at one time or another, {{spoiler|including newcomer [[The Quiet One]] Tabitha, [http://watchanimenow.com/video/zero-no-tsukaima-princesses-no-rondo-episode-12/ who seals his lips with a kiss.]}}
* [[Hegemonic Empire]]: Romalia also utilizes a different sort of hegemony over Halkagenia, a continent that consists of five independent nations (Albion, Gallia, Germania, Romalia, and Tristain). Romalia is relatively weak militarily, and it often remains neutral (such as when Albion declared war on Tristain), but the Romalian Emperor, by exerting control over the church, can nonetheless override the other rulers' decisions.
* [[Heroic Resolve]]: {{spoiler|In the last episode of season two, even as Saito's worn out and nearing his limit, he thinks of Louise and regains the will to fight an army of 70,000 die hard soldiers}}.
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: Last episode of season two.
* [[Hopeless Suitor]]: Pretty much any of the women who are interested in Saito. Louise will make sure to either confront them about it, or else beat up Saito out of jealousy.
* [[Hot
* [[Hot Chick with a Sword]]: Agnes.
* [[I Kiss Your Hand]]: Subverted. Princess Henrietta offers Saito her hand to kiss in recognition of his achievements, but Saito — being from modern Japan ([[What an Idiot!|though this really shouldn't be an excuse]]) — misunderstands what is meant by "kiss" and instead sweeps the princess off her feet in a deep embrace and kiss that leaves her stunned.
* [[Instant Expert]]: Saito temporarily gains mastery of any weapon he holds, though there's actually [[Justified Trope|a reason for this]].
** {{spoiler|Julio}} and {{spoiler|Sheffield/Myoznitnirn}} have similar commands of magical creatures and items, respectively. There's [[Justified Trope|a reason for that too]].
* [[Ironic Name]]: Kirche means Church in German, and she doesn't act anywhere near holy.
* [[It Gets Easier]]
* [[It Works Better
** The {{spoiler|Zero Fighter}} also falls victim to this in the anime.
* [[Jerkass]]
* [[Joshikousei]]
** In the anime, Saito sees the seifuku at a shop (how the shop obtained it is anybody's guess) and buys it for Siesta. Later in the episode when the main cast is trapped in a cave, Siesta comes running to them (complete with very audiable [[Gainaxing]]) wearing the seifuku, much to the party's amusement.
* [[Kick the Dog]]
* [[Kill It
* [[Kissing Cousins]]
** It's mentioned once, in passing.
* [[Last Stand]]
* [[Law of Inverse Recoil]]
* [[Lighter and Softer]]
* [[Limp and Livid]]
* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]
* [[Lost in Imitation]]
* [[Lovable Alpha Bitch]]
* [[Love Makes You Crazy]]
** This actually is a reoccurring theme in the franchise as a whole. To the point where it's actually easier to count the number of relationships where the partners ''aren't'' completely out of their minds then it is to count the number of relationships where people are.
* [[Love Martyr]]
* [[Love Potion]]
** Love Potions return again in the third season.
** Also, in the first case, at least, it seems to have the effect of severely altering the drinker's personality. Louise goes from regularly beating Saito to being ridiculously submissive. This is probably because if all it did was make her fall in love with Saito, the effect probably would have been unnoticeable, as her (denied) love for him was what led her to drink the potion in the first place.
*** Incidentally it
* [[Luminescent Blush]]
* [[MacGuffin Delivery Service]]
* [[Macho Camp]]
* [[Magic A Is Magic A]]
** [[Final Fantasy V|Exdeath]] says hello.
* [[Magical Girlfriend]]
* [[A Magic Contract Comes
** {{spoiler|Saito becomes Tiffania's familiar this way too.}}
** Louise seems to be the only wizard-wannabe to do that during the ceremony. I hardly imagine Montmorency kissing a frog without making a fuss. Another is the neigh-impossible thought that Louise could kiss a dragon or a manticore if she did manage to summon one. If it were me, good grief, I'd rather pick a human over anything.
***
**** In one of the light novels, there's a telepathic communication between the couple in the spoiler just above. It's stated that she looks as if she's in love when she responds to his mental voice.
* [[Magic Contract Romance]]: The romance between Louise and her familiar Saito.
* [[Magic Wand]]: Most of the mages use these, while some, like Tabitha and the headmaster, use staves instead.
* [[Magical Incantation]]: All elemental spells require incantations, which are composed of a random chain of actual names of runes from the various runic alphabets, especially the Elder Futhark.
* [[The Magocracy]]
* [[Making a Splash]]
* [[Marshmallow Hell]]
* [[A Match Made in Stockholm]]
* [[Meaningful Echo]]
* [[Meaningful Name]]
** If you think about it, Louise's unwanted nickname "zero" actually fits her very well, {{spoiler|since it turns out she can cast void magic to [[Anti-Magic|nullify magic effects]].}}
* [[Meido]]
** And most of episode 7, which involves an inn with waitresses in revealing meido outfits and a [[Macho Camp]] manager.
* [[Mind Rape]] / [[More Than Mind Control]]
** In volume 10, Louise confronts Saito on his (perceived) fearlessness, prompting him to explain somewhat angrily that {{spoiler|he’s actually scared out of his wits yet trying his best to retain composure}}. Fittingly, a normal person persevering in the face of danger and his own fear is precisely the theme of "[[Show Within a Show|The Hero of Ivaldi]]", the book Tabitha spends most of the volume reading.
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** Still unconvinced, in volume 11, Louise has Tiffania use her [[Mind Wipe|Oblivion spell]] to erase any possible thought-alteration that the contract could have caused, with somewhat unexpected results. For a while, Saito had noticed that he’d get severe bouts of homesickness whenever he was far from Louise, and it’s then revealed that {{spoiler|the Familiar contract acts as a suppressant for those emotions whenever the Master is close. While Louise’s other fears turn out to be unfounded, Saito is hit with a year’s worth of homesickness all at once and suffers a temporary [[Heroic BSOD]]. In the end, he gets over it and returns to Louise all the same, but not before voicing his annoyance at her continuing to distrust his feelings.}}
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* [[Mismatched Eyes]]
* [[Mistress and Servant Boy]]
* [[The Mole]]
** Not Belldandy, then?
* [[Moment Killer]]
** And if no one else can kill the "Moment" Saito will <s> accidently</s> find a way to say something stupid, usually about events involving another girl or Louise's breast size, out loud in front of [[Tsundere|Louise]].
* [[Mood Whiplash]]
* [[Mons]]
* [[My Friends and Zoidberg]]
* [[My Hero Zero]]
* [[New Transfer Student]]
* [[Not So Different]]
* [[Not What It Looks Like]]
** And whips were ''involved'' in at least one [[Not What It Looks Like]].
** One morning, Agnes bursts into Louise's room to deliver some news. Louise is straddling Saito on the floor. Her shirt's undone, her stocking is torn, and she's out of breath. Saito's only wearing his shorts. Not what it looks like, or exactly what it looks like? (Never mind the question of if she had started whipping the poor boy that morning, or perhaps had simply not stopped beating him since the night before.)
* [[Not Worth Killing]]
* [[Nuke'Em]]
* [[One-Man Army]]
* [[Ordinary High School Student]]
* [[Our Elves Are Better]]
** She's the nicest elf I've ever seen in more ways than one.
* [[Overly Long Name]]
** Long names, given the [[The Middle Ages|medieval]] setting, is common:
*** Louise's full name is Louise Françoise le Blanc de la Vallière, named after a real-life French courtesan.
*** Kirche's full name is Kirche Augusta Frederica von Anhalt Zerbst.
*** By the end {{spoiler|Saito's is Saito Chevalier de Hiraga des Ornières.}}
* [[Pettanko]]
** Tabitha takes the cake as far as (small) size is concerned, but it doesn't seem to bother her.
* [[Person of Mass Destruction]]
* [[Pet the Dog]]
* [[Playing
* [[Poor Communication Kills]]
* [[POV Boy, Poster Girl]]
* [[Power of Love]]
** In a reciprocal twist, the quickest way to recharge Louise's willpower is apparently to trigger any of her myriad feelings for Saito.
* [[Pragmatic Adaptation]]: The arcs and deeper details surrounding them are compressed in the anime, or some are outright ignored; case in point being Tiffania's introduction and eventually joining Saito's party, in the novels she took some time to gather courage to leave the forest, that and she was taking care of lost children, the anime glosses this over and make her join right in.
* [[Princess Curls]]
* [[Punch Clock Villain]]
* [[Pyromaniac]]
** {{spoiler|[[Complete Monster|His men are also real bad mofos]]... They were ordered to cross the Tristain border to burn down the school, thus [[Kill'Em All|killing all the students]]... [[Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil|When they hear, that only the female students were left there, they consider to let them live for their personal use]]... Although, after they'd be finished with them, [[Fate Worse Than Death|some of the girls probably would've wished for the first option]]. Menvil liked the suggestion, but he enjoys obviously murder more than sex. But then the actual plan is revealed: To take them as hostages because of the war Menvil's employers are.}}
* [[Quadratic Wizards Linear Warriors]]
* [[Rags to Royalty]]
* [[Ramming Always Works]]
* [[Rant-Inducing Slight]]
** Another occurs in novel Volume 11 ([[There Are No Coincidences|heh...]]). {{spoiler|After having his memories fixed, Saito rants about Louise's negatives (even ''Tabitha'' is amused), and later decides that finally giving Louise a piece of his mind is ''more important than dealing with the uber-golem below'', and does so without hesitation.}}
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* [[Ready for Lovemaking]]
* [[Reasonable Authority Figure]]
* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]
* [[Relationship Voice Actor]]
** In the English dub, at least, Tabitha and Kirche, the quiet young mage with serious parental problems and her busty, energetic redhead best friend, are also [[Lyrical Nanoha|Fate Testarossa and Arf]]... a quiet young mage with serious parental problems and her busty, energetic, redhead familiar.
* [[Reset Button Ending]]
** Considering that Volumes 7 and 8 had already been published, and gave a proper (and very good) development and resolution to the story arc of {{spoiler|Saito's death}}, this is probably more a case of [[Executive Meddling]] or [[Writer Cop Out|Producer Cop Out]].
* [[Royals Who Actually Do Something]]
* [[Schizo-Tech]]
* [[Screw You, Elves]]
* [[Secret Government Warehouse]]
* [[Separated
* [[She Cleans Up Nicely]]
** Derflinger as well, as when they first got him he was just some rusted junk but now his a clean and polished blade.
* [[She Is Not My Girlfriend]]
** In the light novels, at least, she {{spoiler|tried to commit suicide after Saito's heroic death, in distress not just because he was dead, but because even in a dream she couldn't say aloud that she loved him}}.
* [[Shout-Out]]
** Hard to say if it's this or [[Theme Naming]], but Guiche's giant mole-critter familiar is named Verthandi, the original (Norse) spelling of Belldandy's name from [[Ah! My Goddess]]. And some of the translations actually render the familiar's name as Belldandy
** One episode features the cast investigating a secret chamber in the school, the entrance of which happens to be in a girl's bathroom. [[Harry Potter (
** Also, the series features a character named Louise Valliere, a Cardinal Mazarin, a teacher named Chevreuse, a quest to retrieve an embarrassing item from a royal's lover, a port named La Rochelle, and references to the Siege of Amiens. [[The Three Musketeers (novel)|And that's just for starters.]]
** Kirche is a strange choice of name. If it was added as an obscure reference, however, there's [[Buck Godot: Zap Gun for Hire|Louisa Dem Five]] "[[Hello, Nurse!|I cause so many moral crises they consider me a religion.]]" (also with somewhat-dark skin and figure not too far off).
* [[Something Else Also Rises]]
* [[Squishy Wizard]]
* [[Stockholm Syndrome]]: Dear gosh Saito, he is pretty much kidnapped from his world and treated so badly that PETA would be up in arms if it was happening to a dog. But in time he falls in love with the woman who practically enslaved him.
* [[Status Quo Is God]]
* [[Stealth Hi Bye]]
* [[Subordinate Excuse]]
* [[Suck My Rose]]
* [[Summon Everyman Hero]]
* [[Superpowerful Genetics]]
* [[Super Speed]]
* [[Supporting Harem]]
* [[Stripperiffic]]
* [[Sword and Gun]]
** {{spoiler|Saito eventually acquires an AK rifle. Never mind how it got there or where the ammo comes from, combine an AK with the Gandalfr powers, and that guy just got scary.}}
* [[Sword and Sorcerer]]
* [[Take That]]
* [[Talking Weapon]]
* [[Tank Goodness]]
* [[Thanks for
* [[Theme Naming]]
* [[Twelve-Episode Anime|Thirteen Episode Anime]]: With 4 seasons now.
* [[This Is My Boomstick]]: The [[wikipedia:M72 LAW|M72 Light Anti-Tank Weapon]] is probably a play on this.
** While not exactly a weapon, the famous [[wikipedia:A6M Zero|Mitsubishi A6M Zero]] fighter is also an example.
** During the last episode they use a [[wikipedia:Flak 88|Flak 88]], the biggest [[Boom Stick]] of the whole series.
* [[Too Dumb to Live]]
**
* [[Took a Level
* [[Trademark Favorite Food]]
* [[Translator Microbes]]
* [[Trapped in Another World]]
** Played straight in the novels, one of his main motivations is getting back to his own world.
***
* [[Tsundere]]
** She actually suffers [[Flanderization]] of this. She begins the series by getting mad when his "Pet" does something wrong (like broken panties that randomly fall off from Louise). In the second season, she gets pissed when Saito looks at other women (justificable, but still...). At third season, however, she gets berserk against Saito by the smallest of details, details she actually is the one to blame.
** Her sister Eleonore ''may'' also be this, considering her rather...uh...[[Squee]]-full dreams.
* [[Unrequited Love]]: Pretty much all the women not named Louise towards Saito. It doesn't seem to stop them from trying however.
* [[Un-Sorcerer]]: Louise, of course.
* [[Unusual Ears]]: Tiffania's very nervous about her ears, and wears something to cover them most of the time.
* [[Upper Class Twit]]: Pretty much every student and many of the adult nobles seen throughout the series, including the ''good guys''. However, those whose position requires more diplomacy like [[Reasonable Authority Figure|the faculty]] or [[Royals Who Actually Do Something|the princess]] tend to have a more balanced outlook.
* [[War Is Hell]]: Invoked by a number of characters, including the protagonists, and is contrasted with the general sentiments of the populace, especially the nobility, that [[War Is Glorious]].
* [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?]]: Louise reasons that since Saito was summoned through her familiar-summoning ritual, he's a familiar, despite being blatantly obviously a walking, talking, thinking, feeling human being. She subsequently decides this means she doesn't have to ''treat'' him like a human and proceeds to treat him in a way that would have her [[Kick the Dog|arrested for]] ''[[Kick the Dog|animal cruelty]]'' in our world if it wasn't being played for laughs.
** Averted with the other Void magic users' human familiars.
* [[Whip It Good]]
** Their mom doesn't use a whip for her punishments, oh no she casts a ''Tornado Spell'' with ''[[Razor Wind]]'' as punishment.
** [[Groin Attack]]
* [[Wizarding School]]
* [[Yamato Nadeshiko]]
* [[Zettai Ryouiki]]
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