History Literature / HerzAusStern

* FiveManBand: Aison (the leader), [=NekoNeko=] (the lancer), Q-Ma (the smart guy), Hatschi (the big guy), Su (the chick)

* AdultFear:
** Su's mother finds her room empty and with an open window. Imagine that your daughter ran away in the middle of the night or might have even been abducted.
** Even worse for Aison - [[spoiler:His daughter ended up brainwashed and crazy and almost destroyed the whole galaxy - all because he wasn't a good father to her.]]

* AbortedArc: It is never explained what [=NekoNeko=] needed Su's presumed jewlery for - except for indicating she's a pirate.

* AdultsAreUseless: In more than half of all conflicts, it's the seven year old Su that comes up with the plans and solutions, while a whole bunch of experienced adult pirates can only commend her cleverness.

* AllThereInTheManual: The single sections in a chapter are regularly disjointed by an in-depth explanation of the world, its people or culture.

* ApocalypseHow: The Milkbeard Pirates try to prevent a Class X-3 galactical scale anihilation, caused by the dying of stars.
* ArcWords: Plenty that are repeated on every other page at least

* ArtisticLicensePhysics: The time in space is dilated and significantly slower than the time on earth. In reality, it would work the opposite - the time is moving slower in fast moving objects, according to Einstein's Special relativity theorem.
* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: The Milk Beard crew is ambushed by a gigantic space whale.

* CentralTheme: Milk. The plot is set in the Milky Way (which is actually made of milk), the main god is Hera, seven cow gods guard the universe, most described food is pastry with milk and drinking from holy milk gives you divine powers. Also on a figurative scale, as many characters have family issues.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: [=NekoNeko=] is revealed to have this. [[spoiler:She grew up in an orphanage with an abusive foster mother and snitching foster siblings, until her OnlyFriend gets killed by one of them.]]

* TheDragon: The Nightbringer, who swallows the lights of the stars. [[spoiler:Later revealed to be Aison's doughter Yoru.]]

* GuestStarPartyMember: Tonkin the fisherman is only around for chapters 7 and 8, and is absent afterwards.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: In the final chapter of the book, [[spoiler:Qlipot succeeds in drinking from the Golden Goblet and receives the pure power from the gods. However, because he cannot deal with the good power in the milk, it destroys him from the inside.]]

* LevelAte: The Milky Way, which is quite literally made of milk. Also Vanilland, which is made of vanilla.

** [=NekoNeko=] Nebulahome: Neko is "cat" in Japanese. Nebulahome (''Nebelheim'' in German) points to [[spoiler:Niflheim, the hell of old Germanic mythology.]]

** The seven cow planets are named after seven quarters of Tokyo. Cowdaiba is named after Odaiba, which is an artifical island - just as Cowdaiba [[spoiler:is an artificial planet.]]
* MixedAnimalSpeciesTeam: The Milkbeard pirates consist of a lion, a cat and a dog, as well as a robot polar bear - and a human girl.

* RuleOfThree: The pirates save three possessed children and receive three magical feathers as a reward for that. They are used to overcome three challenges on their journey.

* AbortedArc:
** It is never explained what [=NekoNeko=] needed Su's presumed jewlery for - except for indicating she's a pirate.
** In a way, the entire pirate scheme is abandoned quickly, as the crew never does anything more unlawful than escaping a traffic jam. [[spoiler:Justified, as the whole pirate crew was just a disguise.]]

Herz aus Stern (English: ''Heart of Star'') is the 2020 debut novel by German YouTuber and author Nino Kerl. It describes the fairytale of a seven-year old girl, Su, that joins an intergalactic pirate crew by accident and goes on an adventurous trip with them. Beyond the shallow kid's tale surface the book is full of mythology references, predominantly from Japanese and Greek mythology - justified, as the author's Youtube channel is about Japanese pop culture.

* ShoutOut: The research facility on Cowdaiba is called [[VideoGame/OcarinaOfTime Temple Of Time]]. The author explicitly mentioned that this is derived from the linked video game.

* YouRemindMeOfX: It is implied that the main reason why NekoNeko agreed upon taking Su with her is that her troubles reminded her of [[spoiler:her own dark past.]]

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Qlipot about Yoru, after she [[spoiler:swallowed the light of the golden heart]]

* CreepyChild: In Vanilland, the Milkbeard pirates encounter three children with a strange mark on their forehead, which causes them to be possessed and limp. [[spoiler:The Nightbringer, Qlipot's dragon turns out to be possessed with the same symbol.]]

* RedHerring: From the first chapter, the quince beans[[note]]eating them makes you exceptionally fast[[/note]] and the Get-Courage-Dust[[note]]lets you overcome your fears in a moment of dire need[[/note]] are introduced like they will become very important later. They will not - because the crew forgot to buy supplies.
* RhymesOnADime: The dream god Morpheus exclusively speaks in rhymes.

* PossessedChild: In Vanilland, the Milkbeard pirates encounter three children with a strange mark on their forehead, which causes them to be possessed and limp. [[spoiler:The Nightbringer, Qlipot's dragon turns out to be possessed with the same symbol.]]

** In a way, the entire pirate scheme is abandoned quickly, as the crew never does anything unlawful again. [[spoiler:Justified, as the whole pirate crew was just a disguise.]]

** ''"Forgive and forget"'' (do not worry)

* CentralTheme: Milk. The plot is set in the Milky Way (which is actually made of milk), the main god is Hera, seven cow gods guard the universe, and drinking from holy milk gives you divine powers. Also on a figurative scale, as many characters have family issues.

* Expy: Many, as the author heavily drew inspiration from real-life folklore and tales. The most clear example is Aison, to Iason from the Argonauts. [[spoiler:In the end, the entire arc is an expy to the Argonaut tale.]]

* MundaneUtility: When one of Anubis's guests forgot his [[Manga/DeathNote]] in the restaurant, it would have almost ended up being used as a ''guestbook''...

* TheDragon: The Nightbringer, who swallows the lights of the stars. [[spoiler:Later revealed to be Aison's doughter Yoru.