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* ItWillNeverCatchOn: Kojika thinks [=CDs=] are just some fancy fad that'll go the way of Betamax because they can't even record music like cassette tapes. Aoko is much more savvy about them and even jokingly bets they'll see who was right in ten years' time.
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* ItWillNeverCatchOn: Kojika thinks [=CDs=] are just some fancy fad that'll go the way of Betamax because they can't even record music like cassette tapes. Aoko is much more savvy about them and even jokingly bets they'll see who was right in ten five years' time.
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* ItWillNeverCatchOn: Kojika thinks [=CDs=] are just some fancy fad that'll go the way of Betamax because they can't even record music like cassette tapes. Aoko is much more savvy about them and even jokingly bets they'll see who was right in ten years' time.
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* EasilyOverheardConversation: Alice and Soujuurou have a conversation about each other in the large foyer of the mansion. [[spoiler:Alice calls out for Aoko to come in already after Soujuurou leaves, as she was listening in the next room over. Both of them are mages, which is an easy explanation for both sides of the eavesdropping]].
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* ShoutOut: Nasu notes in character commentary that Tobimaru's coat is specifically modelled after the signature coat of ''Series/{{Columbo}}''.
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** Nasu notes in character commentary that Tobimaru's coat is specifically modelled after the signature coat of''Series/{{Columbo}}''.''Series/{{Columbo}}''.
** Cock Robin complains that Soujuurou thinks he's [[Film/GoneWithTheWind Scarlett O'Hara]] when he tries to run away from the bird.
** Aoko mentions that her taste in men is preferably anyone like [[Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger the muscled Austrian]] in that [[Film/ConanTheBarbarian1982 barbarian film]].
** Nasu notes in character commentary that Tobimaru's coat is specifically modelled after the signature coat of
** Cock Robin complains that Soujuurou thinks he's [[Film/GoneWithTheWind Scarlett O'Hara]] when he tries to run away from the bird.
** Aoko mentions that her taste in men is preferably anyone like [[Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger the muscled Austrian]] in that [[Film/ConanTheBarbarian1982 barbarian film]].
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* BigFancyHouse: The Kuonji Mansion, the house Alice, Aoko, and later, Soujuurou reside in.
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* BigFancyHouse: The Kuonji Mansion, the house Alice, Aoko, and later, Soujuurou reside in. It is explicitly the biggest and fanciest house of them all in Misaki City because the Kuonji Group that Alice's father came from is extremely filthy rich.
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* SequelHook: WordOfGod is that there are several bits throughout the story meant to lead into the next instalment of the trilogy if avid-eyed players pay attention to the script. Most notable is the Extra Story in and of itself as it skips several months in-between Winter 1988 and Summer 1989 to when May Riddell Archelot is already an established entity among the cast, with it hinted that something went down when May first arrived in Misaki to meet the leads.
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* TastesBetterThanItLooks: Soujuurou's pile of noodles appears to be a highly unappealing pile of oily vegetables, slimy noodles, and bizarrely mixed sauce. Alice has to internally admit it tastes fine after giving it a hesitant bite.
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* MortonsFork: The principle behind Alice's Scratch Dumpty Ploy. As it's based on Humpty Dumpty, it can't actually be destroyed by external forces, only when it chooses to fall and detonate. If the unwary target takes their eyes off it for a second, it falls and detonates. [[spoiler:And if they manage to keep their eyes on it the whole time, Alice's inscribed spell will have Dumpty detonate anyway when the timer runs out. Soujuurou only manages to survive it by the skin of his teeth and was still exposed to enough curses to fatally injure him if Aoko and Alice hadn't quickly removed them from his comatose body]].
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* InterfaceSpoiler: The individual character voice settings will reveal characters who haven't actually been named yet (Ritsuka Suse) or shown up (Yukihiro Tokitsu) at that point in the plot because triggering their voiced lines will show them in the menu.
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* TooLongDidntDub: Cock Robin's lines are actually voiced in the console port even if it's not used in dialogue. However, since this is only revealed when the player checks the dialogue logs and plays Cock Robin's lines corresponding to certain prose segments, the dialogue is not available for transcription in non-Japanese scripts.
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* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Lugh's backstory.
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* BackToBackBadasses: Aoko and Soujuurou in Chapter 5.
* BadassNormal: Soujuurou.
* BadassNormal: Soujuurou.
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* EyeScream: [[spoiler: Touko's Mystic Eyes explode during her climactic clash with Aoko.]]
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* EyeScream: [[spoiler: Touko's [[spoiler:Touko's Mystic Eyes explode during her climactic clash with Aoko.]]
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* PlayboyBunny: Aoko gets to use one in an Extra Scene. Maybe a compensation for the lack of H.
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* TimeMaster: Whoever controls the Fifth Magic.
* {{Tsundere}}: Aoko to Soujuurou.
* TwoGirlsAndAGuy: Aoko, Alice, and Soujuurou respectively.
* {{Tsundere}}: Aoko to Soujuurou.
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* WithAFriendAndAStranger: Aoko is the protagonist, Alice is her childhood friend and close confidant, and Soujuurou is the stranger whose meeting with Aoko changes both their lives on the get go.
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* WithAFriendAndAStranger: Aoko is the protagonist, Alice is her childhood friend and close confidant, and Soujuurou is the stranger whose meeting with Aoko changes both their lives on the get go.go.
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* TheEighties: The setting of the story. The exact year is never outright stated but the descriptions of Kitsy Land's sordid history date it to 1988. Frequent reference is made to the fact that Japan was in an economic bubble at the time in the narration and how the economic prosperity slowly built up over the past decade is sure to crash in the next decade with Tokitsu's doomed venture as a microcosm of what happened to the nation.
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* TheEighties: The setting of the story. The exact year is never outright stated but the descriptions of Kitsy Land's sordid history date it to 1988. This is further supported by a plot point revolving around the very specific occurrence of a new moon in early December during this decade. Frequent reference is made to the fact that Japan was in an economic bubble at the time in the narration and how the economic prosperity slowly built up over the past decade is sure to crash in the next decade with Tokitsu's doomed venture as a microcosm of what happened to the nation.
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* PrideBeforeAFall: Alice's greatest Ploy, [[spoiler:Flat Snark]], refuses to obey her loss after being discovered because it believes its sheer power will easily let it destroy Aoko for her flagrant refusal to lie down to it. [[spoiler:It gets blown up by Aoko as a result, with the narration specifically noting it finally felt the same despair of loss as its many victims]].
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* FieldPowerEffect: The mere release of [[spoiler:Flat Snark]] into the environment floods Kitsy Land with ancient Ether, which Aoko can take advantage of herself to pump for magical energy and negate her exhaustion fighting the puppet in chapter 5.
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* MickeyMousing: The [[spoiler:Kitsy Land amusement park starting up sequence is timed in sequence to have the roller coaster lights ascending upwards light up as the music reaches its crescendo and reveal just how much Alice has turned the tables on Aoko and Soujuurou]].
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* MickeyMousing: The [[spoiler:Kitsy Kitsy Land amusement park starting [[spoiler:starting up sequence is timed in sequence to have the roller coaster lights ascending upwards light up as the music reaches its crescendo and reveal just how much Alice has turned the tables on Aoko and Soujuurou]].Soujuurou]].
* {{Mooks}}: [[spoiler:Flat Snark forms an army of bread men]] sourced from Kitsy Land's many bakeries, which Aoko's most basic magic attack can mow down with ease. [[spoiler:When they start upgrading themselves to tank that, Aoko realizes it's only a matter of time before they learn to adapt to her strongest attacks so she and Soujuurou need to come up with a plan better than just running around]].
* {{Mooks}}: [[spoiler:Flat Snark forms an army of bread men]] sourced from Kitsy Land's many bakeries, which Aoko's most basic magic attack can mow down with ease. [[spoiler:When they start upgrading themselves to tank that, Aoko realizes it's only a matter of time before they learn to adapt to her strongest attacks so she and Soujuurou need to come up with a plan better than just running around]].
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* NighInvulnerability: Lugh {{No Sell}}s a kick that could break a tree in half.
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* NighInvulnerability: NighInvulnerability:
** Lugh {{No Sell}}s a kick that could break a tree in half.
** Lugh {{No Sell}}s a kick that could break a tree in half.
* OminousFog: When [[spoiler:Flat Snark]] is released, it floods the area with an unnatural green fog that spawns various fairy tale creatures and warps [[spoiler:Kitsy Land's various attractions into all kinds of bizarre monstrosities. It's later revealed to actually be a constant stream of Ether being spewed by Flat Snark, which Aoko uses to her advantage to power herself up. Flat Snark reveals itself by rearranging the fog to form an upside-down skull of which its moon form serves as a glowing eye within the fog skull]].
* RecordNeedleScratch: Used to hilarious effect as Aoko and Soujuurou can finally let their guard down [[spoiler:with the destruction of Flat Snark]] and have a heart-to-heart when Soujuurou reveals he does not actually have a crush on Aoko when she came to that conclusion and asked. Aoko punches him in response.
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* SituationalSword: The [[spoiler:Flat Snark can only weaponize the image of creatures or non-modern items]], so Aoko realizes that an ordinary modern food stall with no mascot imagery is the one environment [[spoiler:in Kitsy Land that Flat Snark can't convert into its minions to attack her and Soujuurou.]]
* SpottingTheThread: The fight against [[spoiler:The Flat Snark]] comes down to this. The only way to escape it is to figure out its true form, something that shouldn't exist, and taking it down. Aoko has given up on this because [[spoiler:[[NeedleInAStackOfNeedles they're trapped in an amusement park where everything is coming to life as living nightmares]]]], but Soujuurou has already noticed that [[spoiler:[[ThatsNoMoon the moon in the sky is full]], when it was a new moon earlier that night]].
* SpottingTheThread: The fight against [[spoiler:The Flat Snark]] comes down to this. The only way to escape it is to figure out its true form, something that shouldn't exist, and taking it down. Aoko has given up on this because [[spoiler:[[NeedleInAStackOfNeedles they're trapped in an amusement park where everything is coming to life as living nightmares]]]], but Soujuurou has already noticed that [[spoiler:[[ThatsNoMoon the moon in the sky is full]], when it was a new moon earlier that night]].
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* SituationalSword: The [[spoiler:Flat Snark can only weaponize the image of creatures or non-modern items]], so Aoko realizes that an ordinary modern food stall with no mascot imagery is the one environment [[spoiler:in Kitsy Land that Flat Snark can't convert into its minions to attack her and Soujuurou.]]
Unfortunately, Snark decides to just start weaponizing buildings as a whole]].
* SpottingTheThread: The fight against[[spoiler:The Flat [[spoiler:Flat Snark]] comes down to this. The only way to escape it is to figure out its true form, something that shouldn't exist, and taking it down. Aoko has given up on this because [[spoiler:[[NeedleInAStackOfNeedles they're trapped in an amusement park where everything is coming to life as living nightmares]]]], but Soujuurou has already noticed that [[spoiler:[[ThatsNoMoon the moon in the sky is full]], when it was a new moon earlier that night]].
* SpottingTheThread: The fight against
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* TheEighties: The setting of the story. The exact year is never specified outright stated but the descriptions of Kitsy Land's sordid history date it to 1988 at the earliest.1988. Frequent reference is made to the fact that Japan was in an economic bubble at the time in the narration and how the economic prosperity slowly built up over the past decade is sure to crash in the next decade with Tokitsu's doomed venture as a microcosm of what happened to the nation.
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* MarionetteMaster: Touko.
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* MarionetteMaster: Touko.Touko whose [[spoiler:second]] puppet familiar sent after Aoko is noted to be an actual masterpiece in terms of both craftsmanship and magical fidelity that people regardless of know-how would spend an astronomical sum to obtain. It's expertly crafted for the precise purpose of killing her sister.
* MickeyMousing: The [[spoiler:Kitsy Land amusement park starting up sequence is timed in sequence to have the roller coaster lights ascending upwards light up as the music reaches its crescendo and reveal just how much Alice has turned the tables on Aoko and Soujuurou]].
* MickeyMousing: The [[spoiler:Kitsy Land amusement park starting up sequence is timed in sequence to have the roller coaster lights ascending upwards light up as the music reaches its crescendo and reveal just how much Alice has turned the tables on Aoko and Soujuurou]].
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* TheEighties: The setting of the story. The exact year is never specified but the descriptions of Kitsy Land's sordid history date it to 1988 at the earliest. Frequent reference is made to the fact that Japan was in an economic bubble at the time in the narration and how the economic prosperity slowly built up over the past decade is sure to crash in the next decade with Tokitsu's doomed venture as a microcosm of what happened to the nation.
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** Franz Liszt's "Nocturne", Erik Satie's "Gymnopedies", and Joseph Hadyn's "Serenade" frequently play as a secondary {{Leitmotif}} for Alice or the trio when relaxing at the Kuonji mansion.
** Adalgiso Ferraris' "Dark Eyes" plays when the puppet attacks Aoko in the house of mirrors.
** Tchaikovsky's "Romeo and Juliet" is referenced when [[spoiler:Flat Snark is released and turns Kitsy Land into its domain]].
** Vivaldi's "Winter" was used for the trailer for the original version, which was included in the soundtrack album.
** Franz Liszt's "Nocturne", Erik Satie's "Gymnopedies", and Joseph Hadyn's "Serenade" frequently play as a secondary {{Leitmotif}} for Alice or the trio when relaxing at the Kuonji mansion.
** Adalgiso Ferraris' "Dark Eyes" plays when the puppet attacks Aoko in the house of mirrors.
** Tchaikovsky's "Romeo and Juliet" is referenced when [[spoiler:Flat Snark is released and turns Kitsy Land into its domain]].
** Vivaldi's "Winter" was used for the trailer for the original version, which was included in the soundtrack album.
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* SituationalSword: The [[spoiler:Flat Snark can only weaponize the image of creatures or non-modern items]], so Aoko realizes that an ordinary modern food stall with no mascot imagery is the one environment [[spoiler:in Kitsy Land that Flat Snark can't convert into its minions.]]
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* SituationalSword: The [[spoiler:Flat Snark can only weaponize the image of creatures or non-modern items]], so Aoko realizes that an ordinary modern food stall with no mascot imagery is the one environment [[spoiler:in Kitsy Land that Flat Snark can't convert into its minions.minions to attack her and Soujuurou.]]
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* GratuitousLatin: The puppet that chases down Aoko and Soujuurou in chapter 5 speaks exclusively in Latin. This isn't just for showy effect, it needs to constantly incant a stream of curses in order to keep itself going. It extends to its theme in the soundtrack, which is the only one titled in Latin as ''Judicare tibi''.
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* PerpetualMotionMonster: The puppet that comes after Aoko uses {{Curse}}s to power itself and can curse itself as well, meaning it would never run out of power.
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* OminousMusicBoxTune: The puppet chasing Aoko is cued by a minor key music box that plays within it.
* PerpetualMotionMonster: The puppet that comes after Aoko uses {{Curse}}s to power itself and can curse itself as well, meaning it would never run out of power. [[spoiler:Except using its six-legged mode, firing Finn Shots, and casting curses all at the same time causes its energy consumption to exceed its energy production, negating this trope.]]
* PerpetualMotionMonster: The puppet that comes after Aoko uses {{Curse}}s to power itself and can curse itself as well, meaning it would never run out of power. [[spoiler:Except using its six-legged mode, firing Finn Shots, and casting curses all at the same time causes its energy consumption to exceed its energy production, negating this trope.]]
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* IHaveToGoIronMyDog: The student body is pointedly unenthused about Aoko and Tobimaru's Winter Cleaning project because it's three days of forced labor with no compensation at the old schoolhouse, so they resort to excuses like sudden anemia breaking out and they'll die if they don't eat some fruit to avoid interacting with them on their recruiting drive.
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* ItOnlyWorksOnce: [[spoiler:Flat Snark, Alice's most powerful ploy, can never be used again after Aoko beats it, according to WordOfGod.]]
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* ItOnlyWorksOnce: [[spoiler:Flat Snark, Alice's most powerful ploy, can never be used again after Aoko beats it, according to WordOfGod.]]
** This is]] Though this probably because comes down to Aoko blew [[spoiler:blew it to pieces pieces]] rather than some innate quality.
** This is
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* StalkerWithACrush: Aoko tried to politely decline any suitor asking to date her in high school as a freshman, but the old third-year student council president was very persistent to the point of stalking her home to keep asking her out. Aoko caved in his face with a kick for this and established herself as the most feared student at Misaki High as a result.
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* BlandNameProduct: The TV Aoko bought is prominently labelled "Sany".
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* ShoutOut: Nasu notes in character commentary that Tobimaru's coat is specifically modelled after the signature coat of ''Series/{{Columbo}}''.
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* InnocentCohabitation: Soujuurou begins to reside with Aoko and Alice, two girls, in their mansion starting from Chapter 6.
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A movie adaptation by longtime Type-Moon collaborator Creator/{{ufotable}} was announced in December 2021, targeting a late 2023 release. A fully voice-acted version of the visual novel, complete with subtitles in Traditional/Simplified Chinese and English, came out on December 8, 2022 for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 and UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch. Aniplex of America published the title internationally, making this the first Type-Moon visual novel to be officially translated and made available for non-Japanese audiences. Watch the English release announcement trailer [[https://youtu.be/KVmyDtQ9Pr0 here]].
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A movie adaptation by longtime Type-Moon collaborator Creator/{{ufotable}} was announced in December 2021, targeting a late 2023 release. A fully voice-acted version of the visual novel, complete with subtitles in Traditional/Simplified Chinese and English, came out on December 7, 8, 2022 for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 and UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch. Aniplex of America published the title internationally, making this the first Type-Moon visual novel to be translated and made available for non-Japanese audiences. Watch the English release announcement trailer [[https://youtu.be/KVmyDtQ9Pr0 here]].
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A movie adaptation by longtime Type-Moon collaborator Creator/{{ufotable}} was announced in December 2021, targeting a late 2023 release. A fully voice-acted version of the visual novel, complete with subtitles in Chinese and English, came out on December 7, 2022 for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 and UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch, with UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch. Aniplex of America publishing published the title internationally, making this the first Type-Moon visual novel so to be translated and made available for non-Japanese audiences. Watch the English release announcement trailer [[https://youtu.be/KVmyDtQ9Pr0 here]].
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Unlike other Type-Moon visual novels, ''Witch on the Holy Night'' is a linear novel with no branching plot lines. It is also Type-Moon's first all-ages visual novel.
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Unlike other Type-Moon Creator/TypeMoon visual novels, ''Witch on the Holy Night'' is a linear novel with no branching plot lines. It is also Type-Moon's first all-ages visual novel.
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A movie adaptation by longtime Type-Moon collaborator Creator/{{ufotable}} was announced in December 2021, targeting a late 2023 release. A fully voice-acted version of the visual novel is planned for release novel, complete with subtitles in Chinese and English, came out on December 7, 2022 for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 and UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch. It UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch, and was announced in April 2022 that the port would also come with translations in Traditional and Simplified Chinese, and English, made available internationally courtesy of Aniplex of America, making it this the first Type-Moon visual novel with an official translation in all three languages. Furthermore, Aniplex of America will give it an official release at the same time in the US in English, making it the first Type-Moon visual novel to get an international release outside of Japan.so be translated and made available for non-Japanese audiences. Watch the English release announcement trailer [[https://youtu.be/KVmyDtQ9Pr0 here]].
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* {{Bowdlerise}}: Oddly, the boxart for the North American release of the game removes Touko's cigarette she was holding despite both her being a grown adult and the game receiving an [[UsefulNotes/EntertainmentSoftwareRatingBoard M-rating]].
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* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: [[spoiler:Soujuurou takes down Lugh, a two thousand year old NatureSpirit whom not even Aoko could defeat, by punching him in the heart and hitting his back with an elbow blow, which freaks Lugh out due to it being a new experience and actually getting beaten in fisticuffs.]]
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* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: [[spoiler:Soujuurou takes down Lugh, a two thousand year old NatureSpirit whom not even Aoko could defeat, by punching him in the heart and hitting his back with an elbow blow, which freaks Lugh out due to it being a new experience and actually getting beaten in fisticuffs.fistcuffs.]]
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* HypnoticEyes: Alice's left eye is a mystic eye of enchantment, a powerful type of mystic eye usually only found in vampires/dead apostle. It typically glows an ominous crimson when activated. [[spoiler:Touko's left eye is also one, although unlike Alice's, hers shine blue when activated. [[UpToEleven Then]] it's quickly revealed that she had even modified it like the rest of her body, making it powerful enough to easily overcome Alice's eye and capable of rapidly casting layers of illusions to cripple her victims. This finally explained what the eye is after the casual mention in ''LightNovel/TheGardenOfSinners'' that Touko had Mystic Eyes.]]
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* HypnoticEyes: Alice's left eye is a mystic eye of enchantment, a powerful type of mystic eye usually only found in vampires/dead apostle. It typically glows an ominous crimson when activated. [[spoiler:Touko's left eye is also one, although unlike Alice's, hers shine blue when activated. [[UpToEleven Then]] Then it's quickly revealed that she had even modified it like the rest of her body, making it powerful enough to easily overcome Alice's eye and capable of rapidly casting layers of illusions to cripple her victims. This finally explained what the eye is after the casual mention in ''LightNovel/TheGardenOfSinners'' that Touko had Mystic Eyes.]]
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A movie adaptation by longtime Type-Moon collaborator Creator/{{ufotable}} was announced in December 2021, targeting a late 2023 release. A fully voice-acted version of the visual novel is planned for release on December 2022 for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 and UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch. It was announced in April 2022 that the port would also come with translations in Traditional and Simplified Chinese, and English, making it the first Type-Moon visual novel with an official translation in all three languages. Furthermore, Aniplex of America will give it an official release at the same time in the US in English, making it the first Type-Moon visual novel to get an international release outside of Japan.
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A movie adaptation by longtime Type-Moon collaborator Creator/{{ufotable}} was announced in December 2021, targeting a late 2023 release. A fully voice-acted version of the visual novel is planned for release on December 2022 for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 and UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch. It was announced in April 2022 that the port would also come with translations in Traditional and Simplified Chinese, and English, making it the first Type-Moon visual novel with an official translation in all three languages. Furthermore, Aniplex of America will give it an official release at the same time in the US in English, making it the first Type-Moon visual novel to get an international release outside of Japan.
Japan. Watch the English release announcement trailer [[https://youtu.be/KVmyDtQ9Pr0 here]].
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''Mahou Tsukai no Yoru - Witch on the Holy Night'' is a VisualNovel set in the {{Franchise/Nasuverse}}, serving as {{prequel}} to both ''LightNovel/TheGardenOfSinners'' and ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}''. Originally a five-hundred-page novel penned by Kinoko Nasu, it was never publicly released and only a handful of copies were distributed. It was announced for a visual novel remake in 2008, but it got stuck in DevelopmentHell several times before finally being released on April 12, 2012.
Unlike other Type-Moon visual novels, ''[=MahoYo=]'' is a linear novel with no branching plot lines. It is also Type-Moon's first all-ages visual novel.
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''Witch on the Holy Night'', known as ''Mahou Tsukai no Yoru - Witch on the Holy Night'' in Japan, is a VisualNovel set in the {{Franchise/Nasuverse}}, serving as {{prequel}} to both ''LightNovel/TheGardenOfSinners'' and ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}''. Originally a five-hundred-page novel penned by Kinoko Nasu, it was never publicly released and only a handful of copies were distributed. It was announced for a visual novel remake in 2008, but it got stuck in DevelopmentHell several times before finally being released on April 12, 2012.
Unlike other Type-Moon visual novels,''[=MahoYo=]'' ''Witch on the Holy Night'' is a linear novel with no branching plot lines. It is also Type-Moon's first all-ages visual novel.
Unlike other Type-Moon visual novels,
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-> ''It was said'' --\\
''There was a mansion that rested on top of a hill, and within it there lived two witches.''
It is the late 1980s. Rumors of a witch living inside an old mansion circulate in the city. Unbeknownst to observers, living inside the mansion is an actual witch, Alice Kuonji, a stoic woman and a magus hiding in the present day. Under her tutelage studies [[VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}} Aoko Aozaki]], a high school student studying magecraft as the head of the Aozaki family. As magi, the two of them secretly fight any threat that enters their town.
Things start to change when a young man unfamiliar with city life, Soujuurou Shizuki, enters their lives. Slowly, he affects the lives of these two magi. And so their story begins...
''Mahou Tsukai no Yoru - Witch on the Holy Night'' is a VisualNovel set in the {{Franchise/Nasuverse}}, serving as {{prequel}} to both ''LightNovel/TheGardenOfSinners'' and ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}''. Originally a five-hundred-page novel penned by Kinoko Nasu, it was never publicly released and only a handful of copies were distributed. It was announced for a visual novel remake in 2008, but it got stuck in DevelopmentHell several times before finally being released on April 12, 2012.
Unlike other Type-Moon visual novels, ''[=MahoYo=]'' is a linear novel with no branching plot lines. It is also Type-Moon's first all-ages visual novel.
The game has two sequels planned, but WordOfGod is that serious production won't start until the ''Tsukihime'' remake is finished. [[DevelopmentHell Here we]] [[{{Vaporware}} go again.]]
A movie adaptation by longtime Type-Moon collaborator Creator/{{ufotable}} was announced in December 2021, targeting a late 2023 release. A fully voice-acted version of the visual novel is planned for release on December 2022 for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 and UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch. It was announced in April 2022 that the port would also come with translations in Traditional and Simplified Chinese, and English, making it the first Type-Moon visual novel with an official translation in all three languages. Furthermore, Aniplex of America will give it an official release at the same time in the US in English, making it the first Type-Moon visual novel to get an international release outside of Japan.
Not to be confused with a manga called ''[[Manga/TheAncientMagusBride Mahou Tsukai no Yome]]''.
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!!This visual novel contains examples of:
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Lugh's backstory.
* AmusementParkOfDoom: The main setting of Chapter 5 and where the climactic magic clash between Aoko and [[spoiler:Alice with Flat Snark]] takes place in. Also, the dissidents of the park are [[EverythingIsTryingToKillYou constantly out trying to kill]] both Aoko and Soujuurou there.
* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: The story constantly switches between the points of view of different characters, though [[TheProtagonist Aoko]] and [[{{Deuteragonist}} Soujuurou]] still retain the main focus. In the bonus chapter included in the visual novel, [[ADayInTheLimelight Kojika]] replaces them as the protagonist.
* {{Animorphism}}: Lugh can take either the form of a pretty boy or a wolf.
* {{Backstory}}: The entire novel revolves around the high school life of Aoko, a major character in ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'' and ''VideoGame/MeltyBlood''.
* BackToBackBadasses: Aoko and Soujuurou in Chapter 5.
* BadassNormal: Soujuurou.
* BigFancyHouse: The Kuonji Mansion, the house Alice, Aoko, and later, Soujuurou reside in.
* BrickJoke: Aoko notes that the puppet looks like her. Afterwards, Soujuurou says that [[NightmareFace its face looked scary]], which Aoko sarcastically thanks him for.
* BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu: [[spoiler:Soujuurou literally breaks his arm punching Lugh.]]
* CallForward:
** The soundtrack piece "Gekka Bijin" is a remix of the ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'' theme with parts that sound similar to "Ever-present Feeling"/"Feeling That Won't Disappear" from ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight''.
** Aoko's hand-to-hand combat skills in ''VideoGame/MeltyBlood'' gain more context when you realize she likely took a page or two from Soujuurou.
* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler:Touko]] shows up as early as Chapter 2 but only as a brief cameo and doesn't get to take a more major role until further chapters later.
* ChildSoldier: [[spoiler:Soujuurou]] came from the same organization as Souichirou, from ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight''.
* ChurchMilitant: Eiri Fumizuka, the priest in charge of the local church in the story, is an Executor who was said to have killed a witch in the past.
* ContinuityNod:
** At one point, Aoko thinks about how she would reveal to a random stranger that she's a mage just to see their reaction... which is what she does to Shiki at the beginning of ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}''.
* CountryMouse: Soujuurou, who lived in the mountains and moved to the city. Evidently, he has no idea how society works.
** NaiveNewcomer: Because of this, he readily accepts the existence of magic as just another wonder of the city.
* CreepyDoll: More like creepy puppet, but Aoko and Soujuurou encounter one in the hall of mirrors. Its purposeful resemblance to Aoko and its strange bodily proportions and [[NightmareFace creepy face]] land it a place in the UncannyValley territory.
* DeathIsCheap: [[spoiler: Just when everyone thought that Soujuurou is going to be KilledOffForReal, Aoko activates Blue for the first time and reverses his death.]]
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: [[spoiler:Soujuurou takes down Lugh, a two thousand year old NatureSpirit whom not even Aoko could defeat, by punching him in the heart and hitting his back with an elbow blow, which freaks Lugh out due to it being a new experience and actually getting beaten in fisticuffs.]]
* TheEighties: The setting of the story.
* EmotionControl: [[spoiler:Using a suggestion spell, Aoko can remove fear from Soujuurou.]]
* EntropyAndChaosMagic: [[spoiler:Aoko displacing Soujuurou's death by moving it into the future using Fifth Magic also means the displacement of energy in the universe, which makes the heat death of the universe more inevitable, which Touko lols Aoko out on. Aoko intends on dealing with the problem when it comes around, but she's not sure what her plan is right now. As it so happens, Aoko is also known for being chaotic and destructive in her use of magic.]]
* EldritchAbomination: While nearly all of Alice's Ploys count as this, [[spoiler: Flat Snark]] takes the cake for its overall creepiness, level of power, and [[spoiler: for being the only Ploy to act independently and outright disobey Alice.]]
* EldritchLocation: After [[spoiler: Flat Snark]] does its magic, the entire park of Kitsy Land gets transformed into this, with the place being constantly warped and expanded at every turn to completely screw with Aoko and Soujuurou. Not only that, but they have to deal with its residents trying to kill them on the spot. Heck, it was even sadistic enough to give them a brief [[HopeSpot hope spot]] by showing them the exit...''which was transformed into multiple gates leading into more gates that stretched on for miles.''
* EyeScream: [[spoiler: Touko's Mystic Eyes explode during her climactic clash with Aoko.]]
* FairyTaleMotifs: Alice's magic revolves around fairy tales and nursery rhymes.
* {{Familiar}}: Lugh to Touko.
* FromBadToWorse: ''Chapter 5: Night of the Witches''. It starts with Aoko hunting down [[spoiler:Soujuurou]] through a hall of mirrors. When she has them at her mercy and is about to kill them, both of them are suddenly attacked by [[spoiler:a mannequin modeled to look just like Aoko, wielding curse magic and arms it can shoot out like harpoons, and because it landed a sneak attack and jammed Aoko's magic circuits, she can no longer cast spells]]. After escaping this certain death, they're both about to call it a night when [[spoiler:Alice appears, intending to make sure Aoko finishes her task of killing Soujuurou]]. They get into a fight, and the latter immediately pulls out her trump card, [[spoiler:The Flat Snark]], and it transforms the abandoned amusement park into a world of living nightmares. They learn the hard way that the only way to escape is to locate the source and destroy it, but Aoko has no idea where the source could possibly be or what it looks like. And even after they get out of ''that'' situation unscathed, [[spoiler:the mannequin reappears, ''still'' not destroyed, even after Aoko damaged its power source and collapsed the entire building onto it, and it tries to finish Aoko off while she's completely exhausted and can no longer move.]]
* {{Golem}}: Alice has one. Touko has... some.
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: [[spoiler:Soujuurou, courtesy of Touko. But he got better.]]
* HeKnowsTooMuch: Soujuurou witnesses Alice and Aoko using magic, and per Mage law, they're supposed to kill him since ordinary people aren't supposed to know about magic. After he helps Aoko fight the puppet, however, she chooses to spare him. In the mean time, Alice and Aoko have him stay at the manor until they can find a spell that can wipe his memory, [[spoiler:which they do at the end of the story, but they decide to not use it.]]
* HomeFieldAdvantage: [[spoiler:The Flat Snark is a barrier-erecting ploy that brings abandoned things to life as fairy tales. In an abandoned amusement park based on fairy tales, it is at its most powerful.]]
* HotBlooded: Aoko.
* HypnoticEyes: Alice's left eye is a mystic eye of enchantment, a powerful type of mystic eye usually only found in vampires/dead apostle. It typically glows an ominous crimson when activated. [[spoiler:Touko's left eye is also one, although unlike Alice's, hers shine blue when activated. [[UpToEleven Then]] it's quickly revealed that she had even modified it like the rest of her body, making it powerful enough to easily overcome Alice's eye and capable of rapidly casting layers of illusions to cripple her victims. This finally explained what the eye is after the casual mention in ''LightNovel/TheGardenOfSinners'' that Touko had Mystic Eyes.]]
* IdiotHero: Soujuurou. The guy is just plain clueless. This is more or less due to being raised with NoSocialSkills.
* InnocentCohabitation: Soujuurou begins to reside with Aoko and Alice, two girls, in their mansion starting from Chapter 6.
* ItOnlyWorksOnce: [[spoiler:Flat Snark, Alice's most powerful ploy, can never be used again after Aoko beats it, according to WordOfGod.]]
** This is probably because Aoko blew it to pieces rather than some innate quality.
* KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade: Aoko explains that this is usually done, not to avoid [[BurnTheWitch persecution]], but because the more people know about sorcery, the weaker it gets as a whole. So to preserve it, they keep it a secret.
* KungFuWizard: Aoko. AllThereInTheManual also mentions that this is something she improves on later, courtesy of Soujuurou.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: There is a Rune of Oblivion that can do this, but neither Alice nor Aoko know it by heart and require three months to utilize it, hence why they didn't lead with it instead of trying to [[spoiler:kill Soujuurou.]]
* LeaveNoWitnesses: [[spoiler:Soujuurou stumbling through Alice's barrier leads to both Aoko and Alice trying to kill him a different points. Aoko decides against it and defeats Alice to ensure that this trope is [[AvertedTrope averted]].]]
* LighterAndSofter: Compared to ''LightNovel/TheGardenOfSinners'', ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'', and ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'', ''Mahoyo's'' story is pretty lighthearted in tone, has more SliceOfLife scenarios compared to the Nasuverse works mentioned above, and has almost zero deaths and angst in it. In fact, [[spoiler:the only major death here didn't even stick long]]. May count as CerebusSyndrome for the Nasuverse as a whole, since ''Mahou Tsukai no Yoru'' was the first entry written.
* MagicMirror: Alice has one that she uses to look over the city or manor.
* MagicPrerequisite: Alice requires certain things for her ploys to work properly, including a vessel. The Thames Troll requires a river nearby to come out, for example. [[spoiler:The Flat Snark brings things that are abandoned to life as fairy tales, so in a business district it was virtually harmless.]]
* MarionetteMaster: Touko.
* MonsterClown: One appears in Chapter 5 and this gives both Aoko, Soujuurou ''and'' the reader a chance to react with an appropriate OhCrap face. The JumpScare that involves its appearance doesn't help.
* MythologyGag:
** In one chapter, our resident {{Tsundere}} mage from a relatively well-known magus family chases the local [[NiceGuy nice]] IdiotHero who is new at the whole magic business down a corridor and attempts to blast him with her magic in an attempt to kill him, only for her not to go through with it thanks to a long-haired enemy's sudden interference in her assault coupled with the {{Tsundere}}'s own hesitation towards killing the guy. [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight Sound]] [[Anime/FateStayNightUnlimitedBladeWorks familiar?]]
** Exposition states that Alice goes to school at [[LightNovel/TheGardenOfSinners Reien Girls' Academy]].
* NighInvulnerability: Lugh {{No Sell}}s a kick that could break a tree in half.
** Alice's fairytale familiars are all invulnerable to modern tech.
* NurseryRhyme: Alice uses these as incantations for her magic.
* PerpetualMotionMonster: The puppet that comes after Aoko uses {{Curse}}s to power itself and can curse itself as well, meaning it would never run out of power.
* PlayboyBunny: Aoko gets to use one in an Extra Scene. Maybe a compensation for the lack of H.
* PowerDyesYourHair: Aoko's use of the [[spoiler:Fifth Magic to fast-forward her own time]] resulted in her hair turning red.
* {{Prequel}}: To ''LightNovel/TheGardenOfSinners'' and ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'' (but [[AlternateContinuity not at the same time]] since only either Shiki Ryougi or Shiki Tohno can have the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception at a time), as it provides backstory for the Aozaki sisters. Although since ''Mahou Tsukai no Yoru'' was written first, it may be more accurate to say that ''Kara no Kyoukai'' and ''Tsukihime'' are the {{sequel}}s [[SequelFirst instead]].
* ResetButton: [[spoiler:Aoko uses her time-manipulating Fifth Magic to make so that Soujuurou's death never occurred by basically ripping the minutes of his death out of the timeline and flinging them into the distant future.]]
* SecondaryCharacterTitle: While Aoko is the visual novel's main protagonist, the second heroine Alice is the titular "Witch on the Holy Night".
* ShipTease: Soujuurou has some moments with both [[RedHeadedHeroine Aoko]] and [[SugarAndIcePersonality Alice]].
* SiblingRivalry: A very ugly one between Aoko and [[LightNovel/TheGardenOfSinners Touko]] over the succession of the family magecraft.
* SpottingTheThread: The fight against [[spoiler:The Flat Snark]] comes down to this. The only way to escape it is to figure out its true form, something that shouldn't exist, and taking it down. Aoko has given up on this because [[spoiler:[[NeedleInAStackOfNeedles they're trapped in an amusement park where everything is coming to life as living nightmares]]]], but Soujuurou has already noticed that [[spoiler:[[ThatsNoMoon the moon in the sky is full]], when it was a new moon earlier that night]].
* TheStoic: Alice is described as such. She barely shows any emotion, but [[DefrostingIceQueen seems to have warmed up]] to Aoko and Soujuurou.
* TimeMaster: Whoever controls the Fifth Magic.
* {{Tsundere}}: Aoko to Soujuurou.
* TwoGirlsAndAGuy: Aoko, Alice, and Soujuurou respectively.
* WeCanRuleTogether: Touko offers something akin to this to Soujuurou. In a bit of a subversion, however, Touko states that he would not be so much her equal, but more her [[FriendsWithBenefits mook with benefits]].
* WhatTheHellHero: [[spoiler: The nature of the fifth magic, blue, has some side effects due to the laws of thermodynamics. In the process of rescuing Soujuuro Aoko basically removes a large amount of energy and flings them into the future, requiring the world to correct itself. Touko is mortified at the potential consequences of moving, removing and using up the amount of energy Blue does and she calls her out on it.]]
* WholesomeCrossdresser: Ritsuka enjoys crossdressing as a hobby, [[spoiler:and Aoko's first crush being on Ritsuka-in-drag mortified her so much that she now has a lot of antipathy for romance in general]].
* WithAFriendAndAStranger: Aoko is the protagonist, Alice is her childhood friend and close confidant, and Soujuurou is the stranger whose meeting with Aoko changes both their lives on the get go.
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-> ''It was said'' --\\
''There was a mansion that rested on top of a hill, and within it there lived two witches.''
It is the late 1980s. Rumors of a witch living inside an old mansion circulate in the city. Unbeknownst to observers, living inside the mansion is an actual witch, Alice Kuonji, a stoic woman and a magus hiding in the present day. Under her tutelage studies [[VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}} Aoko Aozaki]], a high school student studying magecraft as the head of the Aozaki family. As magi, the two of them secretly fight any threat that enters their town.
Things start to change when a young man unfamiliar with city life, Soujuurou Shizuki, enters their lives. Slowly, he affects the lives of these two magi. And so their story begins...
''Mahou Tsukai no Yoru - Witch on the Holy Night'' is a VisualNovel set in the {{Franchise/Nasuverse}}, serving as {{prequel}} to both ''LightNovel/TheGardenOfSinners'' and ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}''. Originally a five-hundred-page novel penned by Kinoko Nasu, it was never publicly released and only a handful of copies were distributed. It was announced for a visual novel remake in 2008, but it got stuck in DevelopmentHell several times before finally being released on April 12, 2012.
Unlike other Type-Moon visual novels, ''[=MahoYo=]'' is a linear novel with no branching plot lines. It is also Type-Moon's first all-ages visual novel.
The game has two sequels planned, but WordOfGod is that serious production won't start until the ''Tsukihime'' remake is finished. [[DevelopmentHell Here we]] [[{{Vaporware}} go again.]]
A movie adaptation by longtime Type-Moon collaborator Creator/{{ufotable}} was announced in December 2021, targeting a late 2023 release. A fully voice-acted version of the visual novel is planned for release on December 2022 for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 and UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch. It was announced in April 2022 that the port would also come with translations in Traditional and Simplified Chinese, and English, making it the first Type-Moon visual novel with an official translation in all three languages. Furthermore, Aniplex of America will give it an official release at the same time in the US in English, making it the first Type-Moon visual novel to get an international release outside of Japan.
Not to be confused with a manga called ''[[Manga/TheAncientMagusBride Mahou Tsukai no Yome]]''.
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!!This visual novel contains examples of:
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Lugh's backstory.
* AmusementParkOfDoom: The main setting of Chapter 5 and where the climactic magic clash between Aoko and [[spoiler:Alice with Flat Snark]] takes place in. Also, the dissidents of the park are [[EverythingIsTryingToKillYou constantly out trying to kill]] both Aoko and Soujuurou there.
* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: The story constantly switches between the points of view of different characters, though [[TheProtagonist Aoko]] and [[{{Deuteragonist}} Soujuurou]] still retain the main focus. In the bonus chapter included in the visual novel, [[ADayInTheLimelight Kojika]] replaces them as the protagonist.
* {{Animorphism}}: Lugh can take either the form of a pretty boy or a wolf.
* {{Backstory}}: The entire novel revolves around the high school life of Aoko, a major character in ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'' and ''VideoGame/MeltyBlood''.
* BackToBackBadasses: Aoko and Soujuurou in Chapter 5.
* BadassNormal: Soujuurou.
* BigFancyHouse: The Kuonji Mansion, the house Alice, Aoko, and later, Soujuurou reside in.
* BrickJoke: Aoko notes that the puppet looks like her. Afterwards, Soujuurou says that [[NightmareFace its face looked scary]], which Aoko sarcastically thanks him for.
* BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu: [[spoiler:Soujuurou literally breaks his arm punching Lugh.]]
* CallForward:
** The soundtrack piece "Gekka Bijin" is a remix of the ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'' theme with parts that sound similar to "Ever-present Feeling"/"Feeling That Won't Disappear" from ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight''.
** Aoko's hand-to-hand combat skills in ''VideoGame/MeltyBlood'' gain more context when you realize she likely took a page or two from Soujuurou.
* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler:Touko]] shows up as early as Chapter 2 but only as a brief cameo and doesn't get to take a more major role until further chapters later.
* ChildSoldier: [[spoiler:Soujuurou]] came from the same organization as Souichirou, from ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight''.
* ChurchMilitant: Eiri Fumizuka, the priest in charge of the local church in the story, is an Executor who was said to have killed a witch in the past.
* ContinuityNod:
** At one point, Aoko thinks about how she would reveal to a random stranger that she's a mage just to see their reaction... which is what she does to Shiki at the beginning of ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}''.
* CountryMouse: Soujuurou, who lived in the mountains and moved to the city. Evidently, he has no idea how society works.
** NaiveNewcomer: Because of this, he readily accepts the existence of magic as just another wonder of the city.
* CreepyDoll: More like creepy puppet, but Aoko and Soujuurou encounter one in the hall of mirrors. Its purposeful resemblance to Aoko and its strange bodily proportions and [[NightmareFace creepy face]] land it a place in the UncannyValley territory.
* DeathIsCheap: [[spoiler: Just when everyone thought that Soujuurou is going to be KilledOffForReal, Aoko activates Blue for the first time and reverses his death.]]
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: [[spoiler:Soujuurou takes down Lugh, a two thousand year old NatureSpirit whom not even Aoko could defeat, by punching him in the heart and hitting his back with an elbow blow, which freaks Lugh out due to it being a new experience and actually getting beaten in fisticuffs.]]
* TheEighties: The setting of the story.
* EmotionControl: [[spoiler:Using a suggestion spell, Aoko can remove fear from Soujuurou.]]
* EntropyAndChaosMagic: [[spoiler:Aoko displacing Soujuurou's death by moving it into the future using Fifth Magic also means the displacement of energy in the universe, which makes the heat death of the universe more inevitable, which Touko lols Aoko out on. Aoko intends on dealing with the problem when it comes around, but she's not sure what her plan is right now. As it so happens, Aoko is also known for being chaotic and destructive in her use of magic.]]
* EldritchAbomination: While nearly all of Alice's Ploys count as this, [[spoiler: Flat Snark]] takes the cake for its overall creepiness, level of power, and [[spoiler: for being the only Ploy to act independently and outright disobey Alice.]]
* EldritchLocation: After [[spoiler: Flat Snark]] does its magic, the entire park of Kitsy Land gets transformed into this, with the place being constantly warped and expanded at every turn to completely screw with Aoko and Soujuurou. Not only that, but they have to deal with its residents trying to kill them on the spot. Heck, it was even sadistic enough to give them a brief [[HopeSpot hope spot]] by showing them the exit...''which was transformed into multiple gates leading into more gates that stretched on for miles.''
* EyeScream: [[spoiler: Touko's Mystic Eyes explode during her climactic clash with Aoko.]]
* FairyTaleMotifs: Alice's magic revolves around fairy tales and nursery rhymes.
* {{Familiar}}: Lugh to Touko.
* FromBadToWorse: ''Chapter 5: Night of the Witches''. It starts with Aoko hunting down [[spoiler:Soujuurou]] through a hall of mirrors. When she has them at her mercy and is about to kill them, both of them are suddenly attacked by [[spoiler:a mannequin modeled to look just like Aoko, wielding curse magic and arms it can shoot out like harpoons, and because it landed a sneak attack and jammed Aoko's magic circuits, she can no longer cast spells]]. After escaping this certain death, they're both about to call it a night when [[spoiler:Alice appears, intending to make sure Aoko finishes her task of killing Soujuurou]]. They get into a fight, and the latter immediately pulls out her trump card, [[spoiler:The Flat Snark]], and it transforms the abandoned amusement park into a world of living nightmares. They learn the hard way that the only way to escape is to locate the source and destroy it, but Aoko has no idea where the source could possibly be or what it looks like. And even after they get out of ''that'' situation unscathed, [[spoiler:the mannequin reappears, ''still'' not destroyed, even after Aoko damaged its power source and collapsed the entire building onto it, and it tries to finish Aoko off while she's completely exhausted and can no longer move.]]
* {{Golem}}: Alice has one. Touko has... some.
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: [[spoiler:Soujuurou, courtesy of Touko. But he got better.]]
* HeKnowsTooMuch: Soujuurou witnesses Alice and Aoko using magic, and per Mage law, they're supposed to kill him since ordinary people aren't supposed to know about magic. After he helps Aoko fight the puppet, however, she chooses to spare him. In the mean time, Alice and Aoko have him stay at the manor until they can find a spell that can wipe his memory, [[spoiler:which they do at the end of the story, but they decide to not use it.]]
* HomeFieldAdvantage: [[spoiler:The Flat Snark is a barrier-erecting ploy that brings abandoned things to life as fairy tales. In an abandoned amusement park based on fairy tales, it is at its most powerful.]]
* HotBlooded: Aoko.
* HypnoticEyes: Alice's left eye is a mystic eye of enchantment, a powerful type of mystic eye usually only found in vampires/dead apostle. It typically glows an ominous crimson when activated. [[spoiler:Touko's left eye is also one, although unlike Alice's, hers shine blue when activated. [[UpToEleven Then]] it's quickly revealed that she had even modified it like the rest of her body, making it powerful enough to easily overcome Alice's eye and capable of rapidly casting layers of illusions to cripple her victims. This finally explained what the eye is after the casual mention in ''LightNovel/TheGardenOfSinners'' that Touko had Mystic Eyes.]]
* IdiotHero: Soujuurou. The guy is just plain clueless. This is more or less due to being raised with NoSocialSkills.
* InnocentCohabitation: Soujuurou begins to reside with Aoko and Alice, two girls, in their mansion starting from Chapter 6.
* ItOnlyWorksOnce: [[spoiler:Flat Snark, Alice's most powerful ploy, can never be used again after Aoko beats it, according to WordOfGod.]]
** This is probably because Aoko blew it to pieces rather than some innate quality.
* KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade: Aoko explains that this is usually done, not to avoid [[BurnTheWitch persecution]], but because the more people know about sorcery, the weaker it gets as a whole. So to preserve it, they keep it a secret.
* KungFuWizard: Aoko. AllThereInTheManual also mentions that this is something she improves on later, courtesy of Soujuurou.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: There is a Rune of Oblivion that can do this, but neither Alice nor Aoko know it by heart and require three months to utilize it, hence why they didn't lead with it instead of trying to [[spoiler:kill Soujuurou.]]
* LeaveNoWitnesses: [[spoiler:Soujuurou stumbling through Alice's barrier leads to both Aoko and Alice trying to kill him a different points. Aoko decides against it and defeats Alice to ensure that this trope is [[AvertedTrope averted]].]]
* LighterAndSofter: Compared to ''LightNovel/TheGardenOfSinners'', ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'', and ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'', ''Mahoyo's'' story is pretty lighthearted in tone, has more SliceOfLife scenarios compared to the Nasuverse works mentioned above, and has almost zero deaths and angst in it. In fact, [[spoiler:the only major death here didn't even stick long]]. May count as CerebusSyndrome for the Nasuverse as a whole, since ''Mahou Tsukai no Yoru'' was the first entry written.
* MagicMirror: Alice has one that she uses to look over the city or manor.
* MagicPrerequisite: Alice requires certain things for her ploys to work properly, including a vessel. The Thames Troll requires a river nearby to come out, for example. [[spoiler:The Flat Snark brings things that are abandoned to life as fairy tales, so in a business district it was virtually harmless.]]
* MarionetteMaster: Touko.
* MonsterClown: One appears in Chapter 5 and this gives both Aoko, Soujuurou ''and'' the reader a chance to react with an appropriate OhCrap face. The JumpScare that involves its appearance doesn't help.
* MythologyGag:
** In one chapter, our resident {{Tsundere}} mage from a relatively well-known magus family chases the local [[NiceGuy nice]] IdiotHero who is new at the whole magic business down a corridor and attempts to blast him with her magic in an attempt to kill him, only for her not to go through with it thanks to a long-haired enemy's sudden interference in her assault coupled with the {{Tsundere}}'s own hesitation towards killing the guy. [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight Sound]] [[Anime/FateStayNightUnlimitedBladeWorks familiar?]]
** Exposition states that Alice goes to school at [[LightNovel/TheGardenOfSinners Reien Girls' Academy]].
* NighInvulnerability: Lugh {{No Sell}}s a kick that could break a tree in half.
** Alice's fairytale familiars are all invulnerable to modern tech.
* NurseryRhyme: Alice uses these as incantations for her magic.
* PerpetualMotionMonster: The puppet that comes after Aoko uses {{Curse}}s to power itself and can curse itself as well, meaning it would never run out of power.
* PlayboyBunny: Aoko gets to use one in an Extra Scene. Maybe a compensation for the lack of H.
* PowerDyesYourHair: Aoko's use of the [[spoiler:Fifth Magic to fast-forward her own time]] resulted in her hair turning red.
* {{Prequel}}: To ''LightNovel/TheGardenOfSinners'' and ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'' (but [[AlternateContinuity not at the same time]] since only either Shiki Ryougi or Shiki Tohno can have the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception at a time), as it provides backstory for the Aozaki sisters. Although since ''Mahou Tsukai no Yoru'' was written first, it may be more accurate to say that ''Kara no Kyoukai'' and ''Tsukihime'' are the {{sequel}}s [[SequelFirst instead]].
* ResetButton: [[spoiler:Aoko uses her time-manipulating Fifth Magic to make so that Soujuurou's death never occurred by basically ripping the minutes of his death out of the timeline and flinging them into the distant future.]]
* SecondaryCharacterTitle: While Aoko is the visual novel's main protagonist, the second heroine Alice is the titular "Witch on the Holy Night".
* ShipTease: Soujuurou has some moments with both [[RedHeadedHeroine Aoko]] and [[SugarAndIcePersonality Alice]].
* SiblingRivalry: A very ugly one between Aoko and [[LightNovel/TheGardenOfSinners Touko]] over the succession of the family magecraft.
* SpottingTheThread: The fight against [[spoiler:The Flat Snark]] comes down to this. The only way to escape it is to figure out its true form, something that shouldn't exist, and taking it down. Aoko has given up on this because [[spoiler:[[NeedleInAStackOfNeedles they're trapped in an amusement park where everything is coming to life as living nightmares]]]], but Soujuurou has already noticed that [[spoiler:[[ThatsNoMoon the moon in the sky is full]], when it was a new moon earlier that night]].
* TheStoic: Alice is described as such. She barely shows any emotion, but [[DefrostingIceQueen seems to have warmed up]] to Aoko and Soujuurou.
* TimeMaster: Whoever controls the Fifth Magic.
* {{Tsundere}}: Aoko to Soujuurou.
* TwoGirlsAndAGuy: Aoko, Alice, and Soujuurou respectively.
* WeCanRuleTogether: Touko offers something akin to this to Soujuurou. In a bit of a subversion, however, Touko states that he would not be so much her equal, but more her [[FriendsWithBenefits mook with benefits]].
* WhatTheHellHero: [[spoiler: The nature of the fifth magic, blue, has some side effects due to the laws of thermodynamics. In the process of rescuing Soujuuro Aoko basically removes a large amount of energy and flings them into the future, requiring the world to correct itself. Touko is mortified at the potential consequences of moving, removing and using up the amount of energy Blue does and she calls her out on it.]]
* WholesomeCrossdresser: Ritsuka enjoys crossdressing as a hobby, [[spoiler:and Aoko's first crush being on Ritsuka-in-drag mortified her so much that she now has a lot of antipathy for romance in general]].
* WithAFriendAndAStranger: Aoko is the protagonist, Alice is her childhood friend and close confidant, and Soujuurou is the stranger whose meeting with Aoko changes both their lives on the get go.
