History VisualNovel / WitchOnTheHolyNight

* 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.

* 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.]]

** 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 a direct year from Winter 1988 to Winter 1989 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.

* 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.

* 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.]]

''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.

* 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. 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.]]

** Exposition states that Alice goes to school at [[LightNovel/TheGardenOfSinners Reien Girls' Academy]].

* {{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]].

* SiblingRivalry: A very ugly one between Aoko and [[LightNovel/TheGardenOfSinners Touko]] over the succession of the family magecraft.

* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: [[spoiler:Flat Snark feels this way towards Aoko and Soujuurou to the point it's dpwnright ''offended'' when Alice chooses to employ Scratch Dumpty as well. It silently expresses to her that it could've easily killed them both without any help.]]

** In the bonus 'Anyone Can Sleep, But Not Laugh' scenario, Kojika packs [[{{LotsOfLuggage}}an entire wok into her bag]] to bring to the Kuonji Mansion, ostensibly in case she gets the craving to cook fried rice while she's there. At the end of the scenario, she uses the wok as a weapon against the murderer.
* BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu: [[spoiler:Soujuurou literally breaks his left arm punching Lugh, to the point it's completely soaked red in his blood.]] In addition, that very same scene has [[spoiler:him shatter his other arm's elbow in a follow-up attack, as well as his leg and a good chunk of his internal organs from the force he has to endure.]]

** Touko in the bonus 'Anyone Can Sleep, But Not Laugh' scenario taking place nearly a year after the events of the main game is mentioned to have [[spoiler:circumvented Aoko's curse on Touko's body preventing her from entering Misaki for the next decade by just switching to another body entirely, which is something she often does to the point of becoming a habit by the time of ''LightNovel/TheGardenOfSinners''.]]

** The end of chapter 10 continuing into most of chapter 11. [[spoiler:Alice and Aoko been violently defeated by Touko and Beowulf, Touko's month of preparations means it'll only take 2 days before she assumes control of Misaki's jurisdiction, at which point the Church will no longer have a reason to aid Alice and Aoko since they're no longer the local landowners.]] Not only are they on a strict time limit, at this point in time, [[spoiler:they also have no more trump cards or aces up their sleeve as Beowulf had effortlessly destroyed Alice's Thames Troll and is able to NoSell anything else they throw at him. The Suse sisters and Father Eiri outright tells Soujuurou that Alice and Aoko have no chance of victory against Touko]]

* 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.
** Even the 'Anyone Can Sleep, But Not Laugh' bonus scenario which ''does'' feature lots of death and traditional Nasuverse [[{{EarnYourBadEnding}} bad ends]] counts as this. The deaths don't stick, and the characters die via laughing at anything whether it's bad jokes or funny sights. [[spoiler:Soujuurou and Alice]] each kills [[spoiler:May with laughter]] on separate occasions, [[spoiler:Kinomi]] and [[spoiler:Yuika]] both self-destruct, and [[spoiler:Father Eiri]] inadvertently almost kills the whole group with his jokes; which are all treated as gags. The only deaths that aren't comedic are [[spoiler:Tokitsu]] and Kojika's in the scenario's bad ends, as [[spoiler:Tokitsu is assumed to be the victim of conventional murder with a disfigured corpse before Sweets Hearts is revealed to be involved]] while Kojika's deaths are violent in nature and resembles standard Nasuverse bad ends.

** Touko sends a small army of puppet mooks against Aoko and Alice during their return from the aquarium, which Alice easily handles in a matter of minutes without Aoko's assistance before the train they were waiting for arrives at their station.

* 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 Winter 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.
** Alice has a trio of Ploys called the Great Three that are the strongest among her arsenal. Flat Snark and the Thames Troll shows up, but the third is unseen and unnamed. In the final two Wonderful World of Ploys segments where she introduces her Ploys, she mentions her third great Ploy at the end but avoids naming or showing it, only suggesting that it might be seen someday.

* UnexpectedGameplayChange: The 'Anyone Can Sleep, But Not Laugh' bonus scenario unlocked at the end of the game is the only chapter that presents the player with choices that branch the story, with several leading to violent [[{{EarnYourBadEnding}} bad ends]] like the ones previously seen in ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'' and ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight''. The end of the scenario also tasks the player with identifying the culprit behind the murder mystery via a group shot selection screen rather than standard visual novel choice boxes.

** Yuika is this to an even greater degree than Alice and in contrast to her cheerful twin sister Ritsuka, to the point the cast considered her the most helpful person in the 'Anyone Can Sleep, But Not Laugh' scenario due to her being incredibly unlikely to laugh at anything. In the main story, she's stoic and precise while performing [[fast emergency operations on a critically wounded Aoko]], a scene where the usually nonplussed Soujuurou faints in disgust and even Alice shows mild discomfort.

** Even the 'Anyone Can Sleep, But Not Laugh' bonus scenario which ''does'' feature lots of death and traditional Nasuverse [[{{EarnYourBadEnding}} bad ends]] counts as this. The deaths don't stick, and the characters die via laughing at anything whether it's bad jokes or funny sights. [[spoiler:Soujuurou and Alice]] each kills [[spoiler:May with laughter]] on separate occasions, [[spoiler:Kinomi]] and [[spoiler:Yuika]] both self-destruct, and [[spoiler:Father Eiri]] inadvertently almost kills the whole group with his jokes; which are all treated as gags. The only deaths that aren't comedic are [[spoiler:Tokitsu]] and Kojika's in the scenario's bad ends, as [[spoiler:Tokitsu is assumed to be the victim of conventional murder with a disfigured corpse before Sweets Hearts is revealed to be involved]] while Kojika's deaths are violent in nature.

* {{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]].

* NaiveNewcomer: Soujuurou readily accepts the existence of magic as just another wonder of the city.

%%* NurseryRhyme: Alice uses these as incantations for her magic.

* 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.

* EmotionControl: [[spoiler:Using a suggestion spell, Aoko can remove fear from Soujuurou.]]

* 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.]]

* IdiotHero: Soujuurou. The guy is just plain clueless. This is more or less due to being raised with NoSocialSkills.

* 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.]]

%%* {{Tsundere}}: Aoko to Soujuurou.
* TwoGirlsAndAGuy: Aoko, Alice, and Soujuurou respectively among the main cast.
* UnexpectedGameplayChange: The 'Anyone Can Sleep, But Not Laugh' bonus scenario unlocked at the end of the game is the only chapter that presents the player with choices that branch the story, with several leading to violent bad ends like the ones previously seen in ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'' and ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight''.

* BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu: [[spoiler:Soujuurou literally breaks his arm punching Lugh.]]

%%* TwoGirlsAndAGuy: Aoko, Alice, and Soujuurou respectively.

%%* PlayboyBunny: Aoko gets to use one in an Extra Scene. Maybe a compensation for the lack of H.

* 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.

* TheGhost The third-year cheer captain Yoshitsune Mino never shows up in the visual novel proper, only namedropped by Aoko at a few points. This is mostly notable because he does appear in a Nasu-written short story with a character design as a major supporting character.

* 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.

* DidntSeeThatComing: Absolutely none of the mages present in the story expected [[spoiler:Soujuurou to come in and take down a 1000 year old nature spirit, with the latter to just accede loss after two blows]].

** Aoko is an exception because nothing she could make would be more efficient at destroying things than her.

* 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.

* TheVoice: Aoko's grandfather talks to various characters, including Soujuurou on-screen, and is alluded to at various points in the backstory but is never shown. [[spoiler:Soujuurou can only perceive a vague smoke-like appearance from which his voice comes from, indicating that the Aozaki grandfather has shed his humanity to some extent in his quest for a suitable heir]].

* 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]].

* 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''.

** A blonde European mystical non-human being a thousand years old who is perfect from birth and all-powerful that no one could realistically contend with it on a magical scale comes to Japan, only to be [[spoiler:completely blindsided by a human student with a power that they never ever expected to bring them down. They then become completely affectionate for said human for being the first person to defeat them]]. Swap "werewolf" from this game for "True Ancestor" and you have the plot of ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}''.

* {{Familiar}}: The concept of a familiar is discussed frequently as most mages rely on them to some degree to further their work. The Wonderful World of Ploys segments are entirely dedicated to further explaining them in detail by specifying that familiars are a magical equivalent to robots meant for labor and other work, incapable of growth because they are created fully-formed.

** Touko has her puppets, but it's also noted that she makes them with such intricate detail and fills them with various techniques that they tend to be combat automata more than anything else.

** Aoko jokingly threatens Kinomi with the same fate as the informant in ''Film/AFewDollarsMore'' when she finds out he apparently recommended Soujuurou to work at a pyramid scheme.

* BrickJoke: Aoko notes that the puppet looks like her. Afterwards, Soujuurou says that [[NightmareFace its face looked scary]], which Aoko sarcastically thanks him for.

* 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.

* DramaticIrony: Aoko and Alice state that the mage intruding on the city must be some third-rate small fry mage who's come to take their land since nobody really cares that much about the Aozaki bloodline and the land is fairly minor overall. [[spoiler:The intruder is Aoko's sister, Touko, who is the only known highest-ranked mage in TheVerse of the Mage's Association as a Grand and is instigating a feud with Aoko over the family's lineage]].

%%* {{Familiar}}: Lugh to Touko.