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[[File:princessesofvalhalla.png|frame|The princesses of Valhalla planet.]]
{{quote|''"It's no guess. It's for reals."''|'''Spottenheim'''}}
''[[UFO Princess Valkyrie]]'' is an [[Anime]] about magical princesses from outer space. One of said princesses, namely Valkyrie, lands her spacecraft on the Tokino Bath House, killing its current manager, the teenage Kazuto Tokino. So in order to save his life, Valkyrie gives him half her soul. Thus the obviously adult Valkyrie is transformed into a young girl who looks and acts like a child.
Valkyrie and her fellow princesses have magical powers. So whenever Kazuto and his crew encounter any problems, she is able to transform and protect him.
Aside from causing Kazuto and his sister Rika financial problems by damaging the bath house, Valkyrie has caused problems for her sister Hydra. Valkyrie ran away because she was supposed to marry a man she didn't love. Hydra, as the second oldest unmarried princess, is going to have to marry him if Valkyrie doesn't, so she goes to Earth and wreaks havoc trying to find Valkyrie. Eventually, she is stopped by Kazuto's shrine priestess neighbor and childhood friend, Akina Nanamura, who turns her into a little girl (like Valkyrie, but with her adult mind) so she is "easier to control". Also, Hydra crashed into Akina's shrine, and Akina keeps her around so she can "work off the damage".
Akina is also a childhood friend of Kazuto and has a secret crush on him, often putting her at odds with Valkyrie. So she and Hydra are sometimes partners in crime to cause problems for Kazuto and crew.
Later, Sanada, a catgirl maid of the royal family of Valhalla, the planet whence comes Valkyrie and Hydra, returns looking for Valkyrie. She is not shocked by Valkyrie's new appearance; in fact, she finds the new Valkyrie intolerably cute. Sanada takes her mission to protect Valkyrie to extreme lengths, including, for example, turning a bunch of ordinary girls who talk even indifferently to Kazuto, into mindless catgirl servants for the Tokino Bath House.
More crazy characters come along, including prima donna/diva/ditz Laine, [[Cloudcuckoolander]] Chorus, and the intolerably ruthless "older princesses".
The show is light (mostly) in nature and is kind of a slice of life show. There are four seasons, of varying length. The second season is more serious and dark than the others, mainly because of Valkyrie Ghost, a mysterious figure who appears to Kazuto.
This is a fun show to watch for its [[Rule of Funny|comedic elements]], but [[Your Mileage May Vary]]. Additionally, it contains many instances of [[Fan Service|fanservice]]. (After all, it takes place in a [[Furo Scene|bath house]].)
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* [[Absolute Cleavage]]: Nesty.
* [[Action Girl]]: Hydra.
* [[A
* [[A Day in
* [[Amazon Brigade]]: The Valhalla princesses.
* [[Ambiguously Brown]]: Hydra.
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* [[Bizarre Alien Biology]]
* [[Brainwashed]]/HappinessInSlavery: [[Catgirl]] servants. Pharm's [[Meganekko]] servants. Seriously, there aren't interplanetary weapons treaties against ray guns that transform ordinary women into slavishly loyal servants to a foreign power?
* [[Blind Without
* [[Brainy Brunette]]: Rika.
* [[Bratty Teenage Daughter]]: Laine.
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* [[Evil Is Sexy]]: Valkyrie Ghost, as Hydra is [[Les Yay|quick to point out]]...
* [[Evil Twin]]: Valkyrie Ghost
* [[Expy]]: Look at Princess Inarba and just try to tell me she doesn't physically remind you of [[Ah! My Goddess
* [[Fake Ultimate Hero]]: Parodied by Sanada's "Nekomimizukin" in the 3rd season.
* [[Fallen Hero]]: {{spoiler|Valkyrie Ghost}}.
* [[Fan Service]]
* [[Femme Fatale]]: Valkyrie Ghost.
** Also Hydra at first.
* [[Fetish Fuel Station Attendant]]: Look at the cast of girls and take your pick.
* [[First Girl Wins]]: Subverted somewhat. {{spoiler|Though she has apparently "lost" to Valkyrie, Akina, in the last episode, enters a wish letter that will be granted by magical properties of Valhalla. Three people make wishes, but her letter is the only one not destroyed by little Valkyrie}}.
* [[Fridge Horror]]: Sanada's Cat-Ear Gun. Several perfectly innocent girls fall victim to it, turning them into Catgirl Maids enslaved to Sanada and the Royal House of Valhalla. It's all fun, games, and blatant [[Fan Service]] in the show, but if you think about it a bit, those girls had their DNA rewritten and now function as unpaid, mind-controlled labor at the bathhouse. They still have their ordinary lives, surrounded by people who have no idea what happened to them and just think they're making a fashion-statement with their new ears, but at any time, they may be called away from their life to serve their true master. They have no choice in the matter. That's... kind of bad, isn't it?
** One episode actually addresses this, apparently most of the transformed girls had rather unhappy lives before they got zapped, being bored and/or lonely, but now have friends (each other), more interesting work (for an alien princess), and more confidence (apparently they gained natural enthusiasm as catgirls). It's probably a bit of an [[Author's Saving Throw]] [[Ass Pull]], but it does show that it's a positive transition on the whole.
* [[Fridge Logic]]: Sooo... how many {{spoiler|innocent Valhallan fighter pilots}} do you figure got killed {{spoiler|as a part of the [[Secret Test of Character]]}} at the end of season one?
** Or what about all the civilians that would have been in the targeted area when Little Val accidentally turned on the weapons systems of Hydra's ship? The [[MST3K Mantra]] seems to be physical law in this series.
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* [[Fusion Dance]]: Akina and Hydra's "Akidra".
* [[Glasses Girl]]: Pharm and Rika.
* [[Great Offscreen War]]: Mar, Mur, and Spot fought in one.
* [[Harem Anime]]: Kazuto is surrounded by women. Whether they desire him or not is somewhat irrelevant (but quite a few do).
* [[Hollywood Cyborg]]: Chorus {{spoiler|might be one.}}
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* [[Hot Teacher]]: Pharm.
* [[Idiot Hair]]: Rika, who definitely does not reflect the implication.
* [[
* [[Ironic Hell]]: Essentially, where Inarba sends a character if he/she has been bad. But only for a short time.
* [[Kick the Dog]]: Literally, seen with Little Val and Spot. Justified and averted because [[Children Are Innocent]].
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* [[Little Miss Snarker]]: Little Hydra.
* [[Lolicon]]: Akina accuses Kazuto of being this when she first sees him with Little Val, but the whole thing is...well, complicated.
* [[Love Triangle]]: Kazuto, Valkyrie, Akina. Even Laine made this into a Love Square at first.
* [[Magic Wand]]: The titular character's [[Weapon of Choice]].
* [[Magical Girl]]: Valkyrie, Hydra, Mehm...pretty much all the princesses.
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* [[Magic Pants]]: Valkyrie and Hydra. Their outfits seemingly able to accomodate the change in size during transformation. Also, little Valkyrie does not wear pants (just a skirt) while the adult one does.
* [[Meganekko]]: Pharm. Also something she is [[Fetish Fuel|fond of]]...
* [[
* [[Miko]]: Akina.
* [[Mono
* [[Moral Dissonance]]: Sanada, when one [[Fridge Logic|opens the fridge]]...
* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: Laine and Miss Sanada.
* [[Musical Episode]]
* [[Mysterious Past]]: How Spot came to be Valkyrie's pet.
* [[Nerds Are Sexy]]: Pharm takes this [[Up to Eleven]] and back again.
* [[Nice Guy]]: Kazuto.
* [[The Nicknamer]]: Rika, who calls Little Valkyrie "Valkyu".
** Also Little Valkyrie who calls people by cute variations of their names, like "Hydie" for Hydra and "Chorie" for Chorus.
* [[Non
* [[Not Blood Siblings]]: The eight princesses of Valhalla are referred to as sisters due to tradition rather then any blood relation.
* [[Not Himself]]: Used ironically, as the past versions of Laine see a [[No Doubt the Years Have Changed Me|marked difference]] in the character of their future self.
* [[Odd Friendship]]: Akina and Hydra.
* [[Official Couple]]: {{spoiler|Kazuto and Valkyrie.}}
* [[Onee
* [[The One Guy]]: Really, other than the little pet guys, Kazuto is the only major, or even recurring, male in the show.
* [[Only Sane Man]]: Kazuto and Spot usually share this role.
* [[Only Sane Woman]]: Rika.
* [[OVA]]: Season One's ''"Special Series' Highlights Episode"'' and ''"UFO Princess Valkyrie: SPECIAL - Bridal Training"''
** All of "UFO Ultramaiden Valkyrie 3"'s "About the Relationship Between Girls and Glasses" season.
** ''"Banquet of Time, Dreams, and Galaxies"'' 's two episodes.
* [[Panty Shot]]
* [[Power of Friendship]]: Parodied, because Akina and Hydra have to actually become mad at each other in order to activate their [[Fusion Dance]], and separate when they get along again.
* [[Pretty in Mink]]
* [[Religion Is Magic]]: Priestess Akina.
* "[[
* [[Romantic Comedy]]
* [[Rousseau Was Right]]: Arguably, {{spoiler|the tragedy of Valkyrie Ghost}}.
* [[Sealed Evil in a Duel|Sealed Natural Disaster in A Duel]]: The Blizzard of Time, and {{spoiler|four lost princesses of Valhalla}}.
* [[Shotacon]]: Akina, when she saw the de-aged Kazuto as a result of the aforementioned [[Fountain of Youth]]
* [[Shout-Out]] Chorus spends an entire episode claiming ''something'' is coming to destroy the Earth, among the things she claims it to be are four [[Space Battleship Yamato|White Comets]], the [[Star Wars|Star of Death]], and [[Transformers|Unicron]].
** Less blatantly, the [[Magical Girl|princesses of Valhalla]] draw their power from Valhalla's [[Sailor Moon|moons.]]
* [[Shrines and Temples]]: The Nanamura shrine.
* [[Small Girl, Big Gun]]: Sanada and the Catgirl ray gun.
* [[The Snark Knight]]: Rika.
* [[Space Pirates]]
* [[Stalker
* [[Star
* [[Straight Man]]: Rika, to everyone else, and is probably the borderline [[Only Sane Man]].
* [[Strange Girl]]: Chorus. She thinks she's a robot and has also thought she is an alien. (Well, technically she's right about the alien part.)
* [[Talkative Loon]]: Chorus.
* [[Talking Animal]]: Mar, Mur, Spot.
* [[Tall, Dark and Bishoujo]]: Valkyrie, back in her academy days.
** Hydra and Nesty also.
* [[Team Pet]]: Spot.
* [[Third Person Person]]: Little Valkyrie.
* [[Time and Relative Dimensions In Space]]: The whole Laine thing.
* [[Time Travel]]: Laine, Laine, and Laine.
* [[Token
* [[Transformation Sequence]]: Valkyrie, Hydra, Valkyrie Ghost, Laine, Sanada!
* [[Troll]]: Chorus, may or may not be intentional.
* [[Troubled but Cute]]: A lot of the characters fall under this, actually.
* [[Twelve-Episode Anime]]
* [[Unlucky Childhood Friend]]: Akina.
* [[Unwanted Harem]]
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** [[Morphic Resonance]]: While she is a capable [[Voice Changeling]] too, the two parts of hers she can't possibly modify are her breasts (she is somewhat well endowed) and her antennae thing which is also her 'weak point' since pulling it means she will revert back. These are the only thing that can give away her disguise, especially when she try to put on a disguise as a male character.
* [[Waif Prophet]]: Chorus. Even though [[Talkative Loon|most of what she says is nonsense]], she is somehow able to predict the {{spoiler|12 Moons of Valhalla}} [[Story Arc|arc]].
* [[Whole
* [[World of Buxom]]: Out of the eight princesses, Chorus is the only one who isn't extremely ample, and that's because despite her height, she's actually one of the youngest if not ''the'' youngest of the princesses.
* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]: Hydra and Chorus.
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