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** This also occurs with the five prince suitors who are interested in her. Although she has a choice in which one to marry, and she sends them on a [[Fetch Quest]], she is still expected to marry ''one'' of them.
* [[Art Shift]]: The art style becomes much more sketchy and rough when Kaguya runs away from the mansion, and becomes much colder and more focused in the scenes following.
* [[Artsy Moon]]: In this case, the "artsy" comes from size. In some shots of the film, notably the last one before the credits, the Moon takes up over half of the screen. The shot is made more weird by the lack of saturation when compared to the rest of the film, and the moon feels more "artsy" due to the film's broad and simplistic art style. {{spoiler|Justified, as Kaguya is from the Moon.}}▼
* [[Blue and Orange Morality]]: The {{spoiler|residents of the Moon. Having lived on the moon for their entire lives, they are unable to experience the wonders as well as the ups and downs of live on Earth. This means that they struggle to comprehend basic human emotions, and does not understand Princess Kaguya when she wishes to stay on Earth, citing that on the Moon, one cannot experience negative emotions. They neglect to mention that this also means that they cannot experience positive ones.}}
* [[Character Title]]: The Tale of the ''Princess Kaguya''.
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* [[Deliberately Monochrome]]: The desaturation variation is used to represent {{spoiler|the plainness and boringness of life in space and on the moon. At the end of the film, the colours become mute and desaturated to reflect Princess Kaguya leaving behind her nuanced life on Earth as well as the absence of colour in space.}}
* [[Deranged Animation]]: The animation style of the film adapts to Kaguya's emotions. In the scene where Kaguya runs away from the capital, the animation style becomes rough, unpolished, and uneven to reflect her sudden anger. Near the end of the film, when Kaguya reunites with Sutemaru, they run away together, and this is shown as them flying through the landscape. {{spoiler|Sutemaru's later [[All Just a Dream]] scene makes the flying scene more unnatural.}} In addition, the last scene {{spoiler|when Princess Kaguya is being taken away to the moon}} feature plenty of usage of this trope, involving people running across water and sitting on clouds.
* [[Diegetic Theme Cameo]]: The leitmotif of the film gets played a lot by Princess Kaguya. Sometimes she sings it with the children in the country, sometimes she plays it on the koto.
* [[Downer Ending]]: {{spoiler|Princess Kaguya forgets all memories of Earth and is taken to the Moon, where she cannot feel any more emotions or play in nature. As she flies towards the moon, she turns back and glances back at Earth with teary eyes, longing to return but never knowing why.}}
* [[Easy Amnesia]]: Perhaps one of the easiest methods to induce amnesia in any piece of media: {{spoiler|simply putting on a robe}}.
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* [[Soundtrack Dissonance]]: When Kaguya is being {{spoiler|taken away to the moon}}, joyful and festive music plays in a scene which should be melancholic. The soundtrack eventually progresses to a depressing and sorrowful song, averting the usage of the trope in the later parts of the scene.
* [[Unwanted Harem]]: With genders reversed. The harem is the group of male suitors who wish to marry Princess Kaguya, as well as the people waiting outside her palace hoping to catch a glimpse of her. In an attempt to make them go away, she sets an [[Impossible Task]] for them as an [[Engagement Challenge]]. Instead of the suitors, she wishes to marry her childhood friend Sutemaru.
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* [[The X of Y]]: The ''Tale'' of the ''Princess Kaguya'', fitting in the formula ''The (common noun) of the (Proper Noun)''.
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