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* [[Character Title]]: The Tale of the ''Princess Kaguya''.
* [[Costume Porn]]: In contrast to the people living in Princess Kaguya's village, the people living at the capital wears elaborate and decorative clothing. The clothes that Princess Kaguya wears serves as a visual representation of her transition from her childhood home to life in the capital. The scene where she runs away with Sutemaru has her throwing of the robes she is given, symbolising a transition back into her [[Arcadia]] lifestyle.
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* [[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.
* [[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.}}
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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.
* [[Ten-Minute Retirement]]: When Kaguya abandons her role as a princess and runs back to her childhood home. She shortly returns to the role when she discovers that {{spoiler|the children she grew up with has moved away.}}
▲* [[Time Skip]]: As the film follows the life of Princess Kaguya from birth to death, there are bound to be some of these scattered throughout the film. The skips from when Kaguya is a toddler to a child is noticeable, although many of the other skips are much more subtle and can easily be missed.
* [[Walking on Water]]: Princess Kaguya's parents do this near the end of the film. {{spoiler|The Princess is being taken away to the moon, and her parents beg and plead for her to stay. They run on water and fly up to the clouds where the Princess is.}}
* [[Weird Moon]]: In this case, the weirdness 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. {{spoiler|Justified, as Kaguya is from the Moon.}}
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