History Manga / StardustTelepath

* {{Depower}}: Yuu claims to have lost her foreheadpathy (assuming it was anything more than her being [[ColdReader very perceptive]]) in chapter 38, while feeling anguished about the turns in her relationship with Umika.

* {{Symbolism}}: In chapter 33, as Yuu is stricken by a HeelRealization, the panel focuses on the back of her feet. One foot is neatly tucked into her ''[[UsefulNotes/InsideShoes uwabaki]]'', but her other foot is crushing the heel down and hanging out the back. It symbolizes both her "messy" personality and her divided mental state.

* BlandNameProduct: The characters use "Universe"-brand notebooks, rather than the real-life brand "Campus".

This self-proclaimed extraterrestrial says she possesses the power of "forehead telepathy", and when she presses her brow to Umika's she tells the frightened wallflower she knows all about her desire to head for the stars. Yuu claims she's been stranded [[IdentityAmnesia without her memories]], and she's looking for a way to return home. As the two girls bond over their mutual desire to leave Earth, they form the Rocketry Research Association with two of their classmates, the [[TeamMom gentle and caring class representative Haruno Takaragi]] and the ''[[SourOutsideSadInside mecha otaku,]]'' [[SourOutsideSadInside mechanical genius, and mega-grump Matataki Raimon]]. Together, the four girls brainstorm ways to reach for the stars. But as they struggle just to get their model rockets off the ground, it's clear they have a long way to go before they hit outer space.

* AmbiguousSituation: As Umika and Yuu sit in the woods hunting for clues in chapter 41, they have a bout of forehead telepathy with their faces strategically positioned just out of frame, so it looks like they ''maybe, might've'' gone in for a kiss.

** In the beginning, Umika is so meek she can't work up the courage to speak to other people, and Yuu breezes into her life to help her break her out of her shell. However, once Umika ''does'' start to improve (post-CerebusSyndrome), Yuu angsts over the fact that she ''wants'' Umika to be totally dependent on her and her forehead telepathy.

** Later, it's treated much more seriously as [[spoiler: her angst over the fact that Umika might outgrow her and her "forehead telepathy" drive Yuu to think of herself as a "bad alien", culminating in an extremely dramatic moment in chapter 42 where she slips into yandere mode, aggressively pins Umika to the ground, and seems poised to embrace her yandere side before getting ahold of herself and running away in tears.]]

* {{Depower}}: Yuu claims to have lost her forehead telepathy (assuming it was anything more than her being very perceptive) in chapter 38, while feeling anguished about the turns in her relationship with Umika.

* HeadbuttOfLove: Due to Yuu's forehead telepathy, touching foreheads becomes an act of affection between the girls. Later it evolves to the point they all mash their foreheads together and rub them furiously, messing up their hair and leaving giant red marks on their faces, as a kind of group hug.

** It's unclear if Yuu is actually an alien or if she's just ''chuunibyou''. There's nothing she says during "forehead telepathy" that can't be deduced purely through people-reading skills or contextual clues, she has no proof of being an alien, and she says she doesn't even remember anything about her life before she was "stranded" on Earth.

* MySkullRunnethOver: When Yuu finds herself dumbfounded by Matataki's explanation about how model rockets work, she tries to take a shortcut and use forehead telepathy to download the knowledge directly. However, it immediately backfires when the dense technical knowledge blows her off her feet.

** It's a ''Kirara'' manga, so obviously. Umika and Yuu are ''very'' touchy-feely with each other, including constant bouts of "forehead telepathy" backed by shoujo sparkles and one incident where Umika wakes up to find Yuu in her bed in a nightgown.

* TelepathicSpacemen: Umika says her "research" (i.e. sci-fi novels) have shown her this trope is true. Yuu claims to back it up with her "foreheadelepathy", but it's on the fence whether it's true or not.

* AdaptationalExpansion: The anime's second episode inserts an original scene of the girls discussing music on Yuu's home planet, a topic which will become vitally important later. It also has some original bits in the middle where Umika attempts to talk to Yuu but gets interrupted, including an early debut for class rep. Saya Kagami.

** Yuu has no past, so she doesn't know how much of her identity is a lie -- which is represented by the recurring motif of television static. Her ignorance of her past leads her to some very dark places, and her dream of making it back to her homeworld morphs into a desperation to settle the question of her own identity and how it affects her relationship with Umika.

** The codependent undertones in an extrovert glomming onto an introvert ManicPixieDreamGirl-style, and how it can negatively affect the extrovert's mental state when they think the introvert no longer needs them.
** The emotional baggage a person would need to have, to become a selfless TeamMom who puts others' dreams first while having none of their own.
** The psychological toll it takes when [[spoiler: a group of amateurs pin all their hopes and dreams on a contest they have no real chance of winning.]] Contrast that with its sister series ''Manga/AnimaYell'', which played the same situation off as a joke, with the fact that ''[=HoshiTele=]'' spent seven chapters just dealing with the emotional fallout.

** A sci-fi detective story where [[spoiler: the girls follow a trail of clues to piece together Yuu's origins.]]

* CerebusSyndrome: Starting with the final chapters of volume 2, the series swerves from fluffy 4-Koma comedy into emotional drama about regret and frustration. It stays there until mid-volume 3, when it strikes a more even balance between 4-Koma and anguished drama ... which only ends up making the characters (Yuu, in particular) look like {{Stepford Smiler}}s as they put on goofy 4-Koma antics to mask their melancholic angst.

* {{Deconstruction}}: Of ''moe yonkoma'' and ''iyashikei''. While at first it seems to play everything straight, after the CerebusSyndrome it starts to examine the typical ''Kirara'' setup with a more realistic eye, such as:
** The codependent undertones in an extrovert glomming onto an introvert ManicPixieDreamGirl-style, and how it can negatively affect the extrovert's mental state when they think the introvert no longer needs them.
** The emotional baggage a person would need to have, to become a selfless TeamMom who puts others' dreams first while having none of their own.
** The psychological toll it takes when [[spoiler: a group of amateurs pin all their hopes and dreams on a contest they have no real chance of winning.]] Contrast that with its sister series ''Manga/AnimaYell'', which played the same situation off as a joke, with the fact that ''[=HoshiTele=]'' spent seven chapters just dealing with the emotional fallout.

** The psychological toll it takes when [[spoiler: a group of amateurs pin all their hopes and dreams on a contest they have no real chance of winning.]] Contrast that with its sister series ''Manga/AnimeYell'', which played the same situation off as a joke, with the fact that ''[=HoshiTele=]'' spent seven chapters just dealing with the emotional fallout.