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The year is Orbital Era 311. In the cluster of space colonies (or "Structure") called Kirkwood, located at the fifth Lagrangian point, 17-year old plucky Akiha Shishido is entering into an [[Arranged Marriage]]. She'd be the first one in her family to marry, but she's still in school and wants nothing to do with it. She and her little assistant, Imoko, get out of the way and end up walking into an abandoned space colony run by sentient AI Leopard, who's firmly on the side of crazy. At the same time, a mysterious girl named Honoka awakens and begins leading Akiha into more than she planned. Inter Colony Police member Itsuki Kannagi is also watching the events...

 

 

The title is a reference to the similarly named ''[[The Girl Who Leapt Through Time]]''.

 

* [[Absurdly Powerful Student Council]] -- The Student Council of Akiha's school is apparently so powerful, they can mess with the [[Space Police|ICP]] if they want.

* [[Actor Allusion]] -- The manga version already makes one such joke. If Leopard (who's voiced by Jun Fukuyama) were human, in his own words, he'd look like [[Code Geass|Lelouch Lamperouge]].

** Taken a step further in the ''Sora Wo Kakeru Shoujo D'' manga. {{spoiler|Near the end, Leopard's shell cracks. The next scene features [http://img842.imageshack.us/img842/6838/1279812212664.jpg this]. Look familiar?}}

** Bougainvillea and Mintao are voiced by the seiyuus for [[Mai-Otome|Arika Yumemiya and Nina Wang]], whom they much resemble.

** Nerval is played by [[Mobile Suit Gundam|Ghiren Zabi]]'s seiyuu. Lelouch vs Ghiren... fight!

*** [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|"COLONY...DROP!"]]

** Xanthippe is played by [[Rie Tanaka]]. Her hobby is listed as "singing" and her weakness is [[Dreadful Musician|"tone-deaf"]].

* [[After the End]] -- It is only vaguely alluded to throughout the series, but humanity nearly wiped itself out more than once, which is most likely why {{spoiler|the Shishidou council decided to create the Brain Colonies in the first place. This works pretty well. If you like boxes.}}

* [[Anime First]] -- The manga spinoff(s) came later.

* [[Anti-Magic]] -- Stated to be {{spoiler|Nami's}} power.

* [[Arc Words]] -- "[[Title Drop|The Girl Who Leapt Through Space]]"

* [[Artificial Limbs]] -- Sakura's scarf doubles as a second set of arms. In fact, she uses it more than her real arms.

** She also likes to [[Les Yay|fondle Itsuki with them]].

** Apparently her scarf is also a [[Head Pet]]. It's well, alive.

* [[Ax Crazy]]/ [[Omnicidal Maniac]] -- {{spoiler|Nami}}

* [[Batman Can Breathe in Space]] -- And so can {{spoiler|Nami}} with her suit.

* [[Berserk Button]] -- Do ''not'' call Imoko a "boiled potato", as Leopard learned the hard way.

* [[BFS]] -- Leopard's Sword

* [[Big Damn Heroes]] -- Takane gets a few of these moments.

* [[Bishie Sparkle]] -- Leopard. Nobody else is impressed.

** Nami goes back to this at the end after {{spoiler|Aleida/Kagura destroys the source of her powers}}.

* [[Calling Your Attacks]] -- Leopard's Soul Shouts.

* [[Chekhov's Gunman]] -- Akiha's sister Nami is one of the first characters introduced, but is completely irrelevant to the plot until episode 11. Then she suddenly becomes very important.

** The red-haired woman who repeatedly appears in Akiha's dreams early on is eventually revealed to be (or at the very least look exactly like) {{spoiler|[[The Dragon|Aleida]]}}.

* [[Colony Drop]] -- Very barely avoided when Leopard decides to Colony Drop himself, then parodied when Nerval {{spoiler|colony "drops" Leopard on the moon. Colony suplex, more like}}.

** Then dropped for real, then averted ''again''. Leopard drops a lot.

* [[Combining Mecha]] -- Inverted: Bougainvillea and Mintao's joint QT Arms can split in two if needed.

* [[Crazy Prepared]] -- The Department of Mysteries issues standard equipment to its officers "to act in every possible situation". This of course includes three differently-styled sets of female swimwear just in case the officer and two civilians come in a situation where an opportunity for [[Fan Service]] arises.

* [[Demonic Possession]] -- Professor Fon's comments about Leopard's new mirrors hints that {{spoiler|this is what happened to Leopard, due to the [[Evil Twin]] residing inside them.}}

* [[Desperately Looking for a Purpose In Life]] -- Akiha.

* [[Deus Est Machina]]: The raison d'etre of Brain Colonies -- especially Nerval. However, even gods have their complexes.

* [[Disney Death]]: {{spoiler|Imo-chan appears to have survived her kamikaze-manoevre against the antimatter-missile--saved by Nerval, no less}}.

** Itsuki's mecha with a gatling gun ''in its crotch'' is also worth mentioning.

* [[Don't You Dare Pity Me!]] -- Completed inverted by Nami, who WANTS everyone to pity her. The fact that no one is willing to indulge her is what largely leads to her {{spoiler|[[Face Heel Turn]]}}

* [[Dramatic Wind]] -- Takane is so cool, she finds one ''on the Moon surface''.

* [[Egopolis]] -- Leopard, being big enough to contain a city structure within him, takes pride in his city by, for example, naming all the animal species within him after himself. ''Crocodilius leopardus'', anyone?

** ''Panthera pardus leopardus''?

* [[Expy]] -- Takane is a dead ringer for Chikane from ''[[Kannazuki no Miko]]''

** And then there's Nina, who looks and acts very much like an older, time-transplanted [[Mariasama ga Miteru|Sei Satou]].

*** Honoka's resemblance to [[.hack|Tsukasa]] probably means nothing.

* [[Face Heel Turn]] -- {{spoiler|Nami, mostly due to her [[The Unfavorite|Unfavorite]] status, and Takane (though she's only [[Mind Control|Mind Controlled]])}}

* [[Faking the Dead]] -- Itsuki fakes her own death and becomes a [[New Transfer Student]] at Akiha's school, as Honoka had one episode prior. [[Hilarity Ensues]] when Bou and Min see her and run off, thinking they've seen a ghost.

* [[Fan Nickname]] -- "Leloupard" for Leopard, due to his voice actor, [[Jun Fukuyama]], who did [[Code Geass|Lelouch]]. "Soaring Cake Girl" for the series.

* [[Fun with Acronyms]] -- '''Q'''uantum '''T'''echnology '''A'''dvanced '''R'''einforced '''M'''aneuvering '''S'''hroud.

** Also, '''Q'''uantum '''T'''ransducing '''E'''nvironment '''C'''rosslink '''T'''errain '''O'''perational '''R'''einforcer.

** Also what the AIs are trying to turn all of humanity into. For our own safety, of course.

** Nami is implied to be this, hiding away in her room. Though in her case it was a (mostly ignored) cry for help.

* [[I Have the High Ground]] -- Takane's standard combat maneuver.

* [[Indirect Kiss]] -- Leopard gets a [[Luminescent Blush]] and says the trope name when Akiha drinks some of the tea he had been scanning. Yes he is a very large computer but as has been mentioned before he is quite insane.

* [[La Résistance]] -- What the protagonists have become.

* [[Lady of War]] -- Takane.

* [[Large Ham]] -- Leopard, as expected from Lelouch's [[Expy]]. Though here, it's mostly played for laughs.

* [[Lightning Bruiser]] -- Takane. That, or [[Glass Cannon]] given how thin she is.

* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]

* [[Logic Bomb]] -- Inverted: AI logic bombs a human. Leopard answers to the question "What are you?" with the [[Armor-Piercing Question|counter question]] {{spoiler|" Do you humans understand what you are?"}} and after a moment of awkward silence glees about how this question always short-circuits the human mind.

* [[Luke, I Am Your Father]] -- {{spoiler|Nerval to Leopard.}}

* [[Macross Missile Massacre]] -- Animation studio Sunrise loves it.

* [[Mars Needs Women]] -- Much like ''Xenoglossia'', it is possible for a human girl and a computer AI to love. Honoka's the matchmaker of this unusual pair.

** Sakura is also the reason why he's a black belt who can do missile kung fu, so it all balances out

* [[Master Computer]] -- Leopard

* [[Meido]] -- Imo-chan, and several others in the employ of the Shishidou family.

* [[Ms. Fanservice]] -- Itsuki. As if seeing her stretched out along the bottom of the title picture wasn't enough of a clue, episode four has her roped into [[Fetish Fuel|red leather bondage gear]] and then a [[Clothing Damage|rapidly disintegrating]] (and already [[Stripperiffic]]) [[Latex Space Suit|outfit]].

** And episode 10 has her be the only character to receive a closeup of their (fairly cute, actually) pajamas during the sleepover.

** The position is taken over by Tsutsuji in later episodes who is permanently wearing nothing more than a tiger-stripe bikini.

* [[New Transfer Student]] -- Both Honoka and Itsuki.

* [[Nice Hat]] -- Honoka

** Aleida's does double duty as a [[Badass Cape]].

* [[Ninja Maid]] -- Imo-chan

* [[Noblewoman's Laugh]] -- Xanthippe's.

* [[Non-Human Sidekick]] -- Imoko for Akiha, UL is Itsuki's.

* [[Ominous Latin Chanting]] -- Leopard's theme music, usually reserved for colony warfare.

* [[Omniscient Council of Vagueness]] -- The ICP is presented as one in every sense of the trope.

* [[Out of the Inferno]] -- Mr. Black Belt gets to pull one off.

* [[Paper-Thin Disguise]] -- Undercover spying is not Itsuki's best skill. Mostly due to in-character [[Critical Research Failure]] (see "Schoolgirl Lesbians" further below for details).

** Not to mention Leopard wearing a ''moustache and glasses''.

** Imoko's rather weak attempt to [[Wig, Dress, Accent|dress up]] as Kazane and impersonate her in a video conference fools no one.

* [[Picture Drama]]

* [[Powered Armor]] -- UL's police armor and [[Implacable Man|Aleida's]] combat gear.

* [[Product Placement]] -- It was small at first -- logos of the show's sponsors flying by on the highway of the stars -- but then comes episode 14. [[Code Geass|The Anime God cried the day Sunrise sold their souls to Pizza Hut]].

** In fact, {{spoiler|Bougainvillea and Mintao apparently ended up liking pizza so much, ''they put a Pizza Hut logo on the side of their spaceship''!}}

* [[Raygun Gothic]]

* [[Robotic Reveal]] -- After getting heavily injured (and with a lot of blood) it turns out that {{spoiler|Akira}} is a Naviman in a droid.

* [[Sarashi]] -- Itsuki sports these under her schoolgirl attire.

** The second drama goes into detail on this, when Itsuki receives a package from Nina to help her undercover. It includes a manga on the subject, with Itsuki blushing.

** Akiha's suit also makes her look like a human sized [[Overman King Gainer]].

** Akiha's "Imagine, imagine!" as she is about to place the Golden Orb into place may be a reference to ''[[Stellvia of the Universe]]'', where it is Arisa's [[Catch Phrase]], which she uses while handling heavy but delicate objects with mechanical arms. Also, the male student uniforms in Akiha's school are suspiciously similar to those on Stellvia.

* [[Space Police]] -- Itsuki.

* [[Space Stealth]] -- Leopard has a stealth system built in, allowing him to skirt around undetected and appear at [[Large Ham|dramatically]] [[Big Damn Heroes|appropriate]] [[Invisibility Flicker|moments]].

* [[Stripperiffic]] -- The Q-Tector suits leave almost ''nothing'' to the imagination.

** Tsuji's tiger-print bikini also qualifies. Justified that on Earth, she was trying to blend in with the natives . . . but not when she starts wearing it away from Earth.

* [[Sucking-In Lines]] -- Leopard's [[Wave Motion Gun]].

* [[Tall, Dark and Bishoujo]] -- Takane.

* [[Techno Babble]] -- Honoka delivers a textbook example in the beginning of episode 5 as she sumarizes the status of Leopards parts.

** Sakura goes to both extremes in episode seven by speaking total gibberish, mostly made up of sound effects, while a subtitle track explains the details in technobabble, which may as well be gibberish.

* [[The Thing That Goes Doink]] -- First episode, first scene, very first thing you see and hear.

* [[Those Two Guys]] -- Julio and Neneko, Akiha's classmates.

* [[Zettai Ryouiki]] -- This show practically runs on it.

** The Surre Academy female uniforms default to an A-Rank.

** Ituski, Boo, and Min's Q-Tector suits.

** Also Boo and Min's regular police uniforms.

 

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