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* [[Childhood Friend Romance]]: Sugimura
* [[Cleaning Up Romantic Loose Ends]]: Harada and Sugimura can be seen walking together over the credits.
* [[Coming of Age Story]]: The story focuses on Shizuku growing up, and finding a purpose in life through writing.
* [[Cool Big Sis]]: Averted; Shizuku's college-aged sister Shiho obviously cares about her little sister, but she's very, ''very'' bossy.
* [[Covers Always Lie]]: In the same vein of [[Never Trust a Trailer]], the back of the Disney DVD box heavily implies that this is another Ghibli fantasy film. Theres a picture from her fantasy writing, along with the decription of Seiji being "mysterious" and the Baron being "a magical cat figurine who helps [Shizuku] listen to the whispers in her heart. Soon, Shizuku's exciting adventures carry her far beyond the boundries of her imagination." Metaphorically speaking, yes, you could say that. But literally is what the box is trying to sell.
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* [[Plucky Girl]]: Shizuku, of course.
* [[Real Song Theme Tune]]: "Country Roads", in two versions.
* [[Scenery Porn]]: [[Up to Eleven]]! Since this ''is'' a Ghibli production, you can expect the story to come to a standstill for wide establishing shots.
* [[Shout-Out]]: [[Kiki's Delivery Service|Jiji]] and [[My Neighbor Totoro|Totoro]] can both be seen on the shelves in the fantasy dollmaker's shop and Shizuku has a witch ornament hanging from her bookshelf (though it doesn't look like [[Kiki's Delivery Service|Kiki]]). The grandfather clock in Mr. Nishi's shop has [[Porco Rosso]] emblazoned on the dial.
* [[Show Within a Show]]: A major subplot is Shizuku trying to write a fantasy novel, and the scenes she works on are shown on-screen just as she imagines them.
* [[Slice of Life]]: The entire film revolves around this singular trope, focusing on the life of a teenage girl with the occasional pinch of [[Magic Realism]].
* [[Spin-Off]]: The fantasy novel Shizuku is writing eventually evolves into ''[[The Cat Returns]]'', though the story she starts with bears little resemblance to the final product.
* [[Write What You Know]]: Used as a trope within the story itself: Shizuku struggles with her translation of "Country Roads"--she is a city girl, after all--and her first attempt comes out as a storm of cliches. Her "Concrete Roads" parody, on the other hand -- ''"Western Tokyo, mountain Tama..."'' is spot on, and very funny. Her final version ditches the whole going back to the country motif and is instead about choosing one's road in life.
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