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* NoSell: Everblack Cannon is probably the most powerful weapon in the setting. It doesn't even scratch the core which spawns the space ocean and drives the Chronos nuts. It also doesn't do sh...tuff against the Sara Dredd abomination.
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* ShoutOut: One of the attendees at the Sakura Taurus costume party is dressed up as Franchise/{{Batman}}.
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* EldritchAbomination: The series is particularly fond of these:
** "Boiled Egg" is a piece of so-called "Old-timer's Inheritance" which literally hatches an immense energetic bird-like being.
** The "Sara Dredd" which comes after Lawson in her TA-21 is actually a materialized manifestation of her grudge turned up to extreme. The fighter ship is capable fo regeneration, transforms into a hideous beast and completely {{NoSell}}s the Everblack Cannon.
** The planet Sakura Taurus houses another piece of Olt-timer's Inheritance which absorbed the real Sara Dredd along with her fighter ship and now manifests Sara's thoughts into real objects. Several times we are treated to the view of the ship being entangled in an eerily bilogically looking web of cables and tentacles.
** "Boiled Egg" is a piece of so-called "Old-timer's Inheritance" which literally hatches an immense energetic bird-like being.
** The "Sara Dredd" which comes after Lawson in her TA-21 is actually a materialized manifestation of her grudge turned up to extreme. The fighter ship is capable fo regeneration, transforms into a hideous beast and completely {{NoSell}}s the Everblack Cannon.
** The planet Sakura Taurus houses another piece of Olt-timer's Inheritance which absorbed the real Sara Dredd along with her fighter ship and now manifests Sara's thoughts into real objects. Several times we are treated to the view of the ship being entangled in an eerily bilogically looking web of cables and tentacles.
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* HyperspeedEscape: When Estrantech is ambushed by fake Sara Dredd, the crew opts to flee using so-called "surfing" since Estrantech is unarmed and the launching dock was damaged, so the fighter ships are unable to launch.
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* ElectrinicSpeechImpediment: The TA ships suffer this in episode 11 when fighting in an anomalous ocean. They're flooded and the voice interface stutteringly announces the failre of the emergency teleport evacuation system.
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* PlanetSpaceship: The third episode of the first OVA has a huge ship that's thousands of kilometers long. It's powered by a miniature black hole that has become unstable and is threatening to destroy Earth if the ship reaches it.
* PseudoRomanticFriendship: Yohko seems to be quite close to Ayano to the point of coming to her rescue in one episode, when she mistakenly assumes, Ayano is in peril. It was an act for the festival and afterwards one of the organisers even remarks, they didn't expect a princess arriving to the priestess' rescue instead of a prince. Yohko's subsequent blushing only reinforce the implications that she and Ayano are more than JustFriends.
* PseudoRomanticFriendship: Yohko seems to be quite close to Ayano to the point of coming to her rescue in one episode, when she mistakenly assumes, Ayano is in peril. It was an act for the festival and afterwards one of the organisers even remarks, they didn't expect a princess arriving to the priestess' rescue instead of a prince. Yohko's subsequent blushing only reinforce the implications that she and Ayano are more than JustFriends.
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** The third episode of the first OVA has a huge ship that's thousands of kilometers long. It's powered by a miniature black hole that has become unstable and is threatening to destroy Earth if the ship reaches it.
** After Sakura Taurus awakens it literally uses the embedded Ta-21 ship to propel itself and even perform a HyperJump.
* PseudoRomanticFriendship: Yohko seems to be quite close to Ayano to the point of coming to her rescue inone episode, episode 17, when she mistakenly assumes, Ayano is in peril. It was an act for the Sea God festival and afterwards one of the organisers even remarks, they didn't expect there is a princess arriving legend that a hero will come to the priestess' rescue instead of a prince.but they didn't expect the hero to be female. Yohko's subsequent blushing only reinforce the implications that she and Ayano are more than JustFriends.
** The third episode of the first OVA has a huge ship that's thousands of kilometers long. It's powered by a miniature black hole that has become unstable and is threatening to destroy Earth if the ship reaches it.
** After Sakura Taurus awakens it literally uses the embedded Ta-21 ship to propel itself and even perform a HyperJump.
* PseudoRomanticFriendship: Yohko seems to be quite close to Ayano to the point of coming to her rescue in
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** Another one is Sakura Taurus which absorbed Sara Dredd and has become GeniusLoci. It manifests her memories in form of cherry blossom trees.
* ElectrinicSpeechImpediment: The TA ships suffer this in episode 11 when fighting in an anomalous ocean. They're flooded and the voice interface stutteringly announces the failre of the emergency teleport evacuation system.
* ElectrinicSpeechImpediment: The TA ships suffer this in episode 11 when fighting in an anomalous ocean. They're flooded and the voice interface stutteringly announces the failre of the emergency teleport evacuation system.
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* ForeheadOfDoom: Madoka's sizable forehead frequently reflects light, [[AudibleGleam complete with sound effects.]]
** The "Boiled Egg" is a faux planet which connecs to its visitors' subconscious and manifests their experience in form of familiar objects and locations.
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* EldritchLocation: The instances of so-called Old-timer's Inheritance are various anomalous objects strewn across the galaxy. One of them is so-called "Boiled Egg" a seemingly planet-shaped object with an eggshell shaped aureola. On the surface the "planet" looks mostly like Earth and manifests random pieces of Earthly architecture and locations, probably in relation with the visitors' subconscious. Then it hatches an EldritchAbomination.
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** Sakura Taurus after absorbing Sara Dredd manifests her memories in the form of cherry blossom trees. When Tensa destroys them, the planet literally comes alive and attempts to commit suicide by crashing into a comet.
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* BlandNameProduct: Yohko and Ayano use "Oasio"[[note]]Casio[[/note]] cellphones.
* CallingYourAttacks: Tensa in his HumongousMecha on Sakura Taurus announces every attack out loud to emphasize how [[LargeHam macho he is]].
** Later Madoka does the same when the protagonist group gets a hold of the Mecha and blasts their way towards Sakura Taurus' core.
* CallingYourAttacks: Tensa in his HumongousMecha on Sakura Taurus announces every attack out loud to emphasize how [[LargeHam macho he is]].
** Later Madoka does the same when the protagonist group gets a hold of the Mecha and blasts their way towards Sakura Taurus' core.
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* LookBothWays: The post-credits scene of ep. 6 when Ayano is on her way to reconcile with Yohko on the other side of the street. Ayano runs on the crosswalk disregarding the traffic lights and is hit by an incoming car. [[spoiler:She gets better.]]
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* WhamShot: While she's also had her down moments, Yohko is generally upbeat and confiden. Cue her mortified face, when towards the final third she encounters an entity, which ''[[IronicEcho damn well knows, who it picked a fight with]]'' and to the heroine's sheer horror completely {{NoSell}}s the [[WaveMotionGun Everblack Cannon]]. It ends with Yohko frantically mashing the trigger in a desperate fit of panic.
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** While she's also had her down moments, Yohko is generally upbeat andconfiden. confident. Cue her mortified face, face in Ep 13, when towards the final third she encounters an entity, EldritchAbomination in the form of Sara Dredd, which ''[[IronicEcho damn well knows, who it picked a fight with]]'' and to the heroine's sheer horror completely {{NoSell}}s the [[WaveMotionGun Everblack Cannon]]. Yohko promptly turns her ship around and flees in terror.%% It ends with Yohko frantically mashing the trigger in a desperate fit of panic.panic untl the weapon overcharges and explodes.
** A smaller one but still seroius occurs at the end of Ep. 6 when Ayano is [[LookBothWays hit by car]] on her way to reconcile with Yohko.
** While she's also had her down moments, Yohko is generally upbeat and
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* ChildhoodFriends: According to the flashbacks Ayano and Yohko were already pretty close as kindergarteners.
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* TeleportationMisfire: About halfway through the series, when the heroines are being Chrono-ed back home, due to an unknown interference they wind up in the middle of a desert to their utter shock. Fortunately [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot Lawson realizes it in time and brings them back safely]] but this is the first signal that the series is going to have a darker turn.
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* SentientCosmicForce: Probably the closest trope to what the so called Old-Timer(s) is - an interdimensional consciousness, probably of the HiveMind variety, born of SufficientlyAdvancedAliens which have AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence and run on BlueAndOrangeMorality. They disapprove of the influence on the universe by people from alternate timelines and intervene to prevent/undo the changes.
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* SentientCosmicForce: Probably the closest trope to what the so called Old-Timer(s) is - an intangible interdimensional consciousness, probably of the HiveMind variety, born of SufficientlyAdvancedAliens which have AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence and run on BlueAndOrangeMorality. They disapprove of the influence on the universe by people from alternate timelines and intervene to prevent/undo the changes.
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* PseudoRomanticFriendship: Yohko seems to be quite close to Ayano to the point of coming to her rescue in one episode, when she mistakenly assumes, Ayano is in peril.
* SentientCosmicForce: Probably the closest trope to what the so called Old-Timer(s) is - an interdimensional consciousness, probably of the HiveMind variety, born of SufficientlyAdvancedAliens which have AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence and run on BlueAndOrangeMorality. They disapprove of the influence on the universe by people from alternate timelines and intervene to prevent/undo the changes.
* SentientCosmicForce: Probably the closest trope to what the so called Old-Timer(s) is - an interdimensional consciousness, probably of the HiveMind variety, born of SufficientlyAdvancedAliens which have AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence and run on BlueAndOrangeMorality. They disapprove of the influence on the universe by people from alternate timelines and intervene to prevent/undo the changes.
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** One might think that the ships are just small fighters, given that they have a single pilot and engage is space dogfights. But they're actually huge; the TA series Terra uses are easily more then ten times the length of a Boeing747. Their carrier ships are thus far more massive than that.747.
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** One might think that the ships are just small fighters, given that they have a single pilot and engage is space dogfights. But they're actually huge; the TA series Terra uses are easily more then ten times the length of a Boeing
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* WaveMotionGun: Much like [[Anime/SpaceBattleshipYamato her namesake]][[note]]The Japanese titles are ''Uchuu Senkan Yamato'' and ''Soreyuke! Uchuu Senkan Yamamoto Yohko'', respectively[[/note]], Yohko's Super Strike has one, called the Ever Black cannon. In the TV series it's shown that Rouge's Red Snappers Superior has one too, called the Ultimate Impulse Cannon, and is of comparable or possibly equal power.
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* AudibleGleam: Whenever Madoka's [[ForeheadOfDoom giant forehead]] rears itself, it's accompanied by one of these.
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* GrailInTheGarbage: The second OVA episode features a crane game in the resort the characters visit. One of the prizes is a ''planetary system'', and a particularly valuable one at that. [[spoiler: Eventually a random kid wins it.]]
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* OppositeSexClone: Yohko's male clone, Yohsuke.
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* AlternateUniverse: The Chronos system, while often treated as a conventional time travel device, actually links alternate universes.
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