History Anime / Noein

* TheMultiverse: With each alternate reality being caused by a ForWantOfANail situation.

* AfterTheEnd: La'Cryma.
* AlienBlood: The Dragon Knights bleed blue.

* AntagonistTitle

** "Blue snow?"

* BloodyHandPrint: The last we see of [[spoiler:Haruka in Noein's past]].

* CatFight: Haruka gets into one with Ai, who is jealous over what she believes to be a budding romantic relationship between Haruka and Isami, despite Haruka's attempts to explain. The audience knows from the get-go that it's not too serious, though, as it's accompanied by playful, cheerful background music (and they make up at the end of the episode).
** {{Lampshaded}} by a cut to a pair of lazy cats observing the proceedings.

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Shinohara, the head of the Magic Circle Project.

* CreepyCemetery: Both in Japanese and Western varieties.

* {{Dubtitle}}: In the UK release.

* LightIsNotGood / DarkIsNotEvil: While [[FutureMeScaresMe Karasu]] slings dark lightning bolts around in their duel, AxCrazy Atori throws white lightning. Noein, similarly, decorates his realm like a Buddhist paradise and is clad in pure white.

* MeaningfulName: "Noein" is Greek (νοεῖν), which roughly translates to "I think/I know". More specifically, it refers to something that is known, but not through the traditional senses of the human body, only in thought. In other words, an existence defined solely by thought.

* MergedReality: Noein's goal.
* MyFutureSelfAndMe

* ParentalObliviousness: It takes the ''house disappearing'' before Haruka's mother realizes something strange might be going on.

* ThePowerOfFriendship: One of the important points of the series.
* ThePowerOfLove: This is what ultimately allows [[spoiler:Karasu and Yuu to defeat Noein]].

* RealityWarper: %%Haruka.
** Noein has some elements of this. Unlike the Dragon Knights, whose bizarre powers are explained as being the result of Sufficiently Advanced Technology, Noein doesn't seem to use machinery at all, and can just ''do'' things. [[spoiler:He started off as an ordinary human. How did he become the dimension-hopping HumanoidAbomination he is now? No one knows.]]

* TheShangriLa: Shangri'La, obviously.

* SkintoneSclerae: Kōriyama has this.

** CastAsAMask: [[spoiler: In the dub, Noein is initially voiced by Creator/RichardEpcar. When he's unmasked, he's instead voiced by Karasu's dub voice actor Creator/CrispinFreeman.]]

* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Kosagi is the only female among the Dragon Knights.
** TwoGirlsToATeam: With [[ShesAManInJapan Tobi]] in the English dub.

* StalkerWithACrush / {{Yandere}}: Kosagi followed Karasu to Haruka's dimension in order [[spoiler: to kill ''both'' of them, after realizing her feelings for Karasu were unrequited]].

* ThemeNaming: The Dragon Knights are all named after birds; ''Karasu'' is the Japanese word for crow, for example. Also the names of two of the futures: Shangri-La is a fictional {{utopia}} in the novel ''Literature/LostHorizon'' (as well as a term for utopias in general). As for La'Cryma, the word "lacrima" means "tear," "weeping," or "dirge" in Latin.

* DoesNotLikeShoes: Haruka spends more time barefoot than with shoes on, even in situations when it would be practical for her to wear them.

* PeekABangs: Karasu. Sometimes Atori, too.

%%* AmbiguouslyBrown: Tobi.
%%* {{Amnesiac Dissonance}}: Atori.

%%* ArtificialLimbs: Kuina.

%%* BadassCape: The Dragon Knights.

%%* BigBad: The title Noein.
%%* BigFriendlyDog: Baron.

** And finally we have [[spoiler: Noein, who...[[OmnicidalManiac really didn't take it very well]] after the death of ''his'' own dimension's Haruka in a car crash.]]
%%* DamselInDistress: Haruka.

%%** Also, Noein.

%%* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler: Yuu in episode 20, and Kōriyama in the final episode.]]

* AlienBlood: The Dragon Knights bleed blue Layze/Reizu.
animators, so only two styles.

* AmicableExes: Haruka's parents, although it took them a long time after a very bitter divorce to get to that point, and even in the present tempers can sometimes flare up. Despite this, near the end Haruka's father asks her mother to "bring Haruka to the park together, like old times," possibly implying an attempt to reconcile with her for good.
* ArtShift: An intentional example. Alternates per episode; only two animators, so only two styles.

* DanBrowned: Quantum physics don't work this way. It's all for [[MST3KMantra the sake of the story]], though, so we forgive it.

* AmbiguouslyBrown: Tobi.
* {{Amnesiac Dissonance}}: Atori.

* ArtificialLimbs: Kuina.

* BadassCape: The Dragon Knights.

* BigBad: The title Noein.
* BigFriendlyDog: Baron.

* BodyHorror: The Dragon Knights' powers involve some very uncomfortable transformations of their physical selves. [[PsychoElectro Atori's]] power-up mode in particular is disturbing, given how [[AxCrazy unstable]] he is.

* CharacterDevelopment: Yuu and Atori, and in varying doses the entire cast.

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Miho.

* CynicismCatalyst: [[spoiler: Yuu's mother, Miyuki, was hit pretty hard by the death of her sister Emi when they were teenagers. It didn't help that their parents seemed to favor Emi for her better grades and achievements. This is the main reason she's pushing her son to get a good education.]]

* DamselInDistress: Haruka.

** Also, Noein.

* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler: Yuu in episode 20, and Kōriyama in the final episode.]]

* EldritchAbomination: Shangri-La's ships

* FuroScene: Haruka gets several.
* FutureBadass: Karasu and Fukuro.

* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: Kōriyama and Shinohara, repectively.

* HarmfulToMinors: [[spoiler: Atori's backstory. As a child, he was from a war-torn country and watched his friend be blown apart after coming into contact with a landmine. According to him, this is also how his sister died.]]

* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Atori and Kosagi]].
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Future Haruka]].
** [[spoiler: Also Atori, in the finale.]]

* InterruptedSuicide: [[spoiler:Ai, in the alternative BadFuture shown by Noein. Isami arrives JustInTime.]]

* LargeHam: Atori, Kuina

* PowerTattoo: The Dragon Knights.

* PunctuationShaker

* RealityWarper: Haruka.
** Noein has some elements of this as well. Unlike the Dragon Knights, whose bizarre powers are explained as being the result of Sufficiently Advanced Technology, Noein doesn't seem to use machinery at all, and can just ''do'' things. [[spoiler:He started off as an ordinary human. How did he become the dimension-hopping HumanoidAbomination he is now? No one knows.]]

* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:Atori]].

* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong

* SoleSurvivor: Noein's backstory: [[spoiler: Yuu was the only one to survive a car crash that killed Haruka and his friends, so he was driven insane with grief and became Noein.]]

** The song over the ending credits, too, could fall into this.

* TheStoic: Karasu, at least whenever Haruka ''isn't'' in danger...

* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt
* TheHeartless: The forces of Shangri'La are people who surrendered their humanity to go along with Noein's plans.
* TheMole: [[spoiler:Kuina]].

* TheMultiverse: With each alternate reality being caused by a ForWantOfANail situation.
* TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness: One of these rules La'Cryma.
* ThePowerOfFriendship: One of the important points of the series.
* ThePowerOfLove: This is what ultimately allows [[spoiler:Karasu and Yuu to defeat Noein]].

* TimeTravel

* {{Tsundere}}: Ai for Isami.

* VillainousValor: Atori is at first unlikable, yet eventually his steadfast determination turns out to be quite an admirable trait. [[spoiler: Even if you don't consider him a villain at the end, the trope still rings true in retrospect.]]

* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Noein and Kuina.
* YouShallNotPass: [[spoiler:Atori]], in a SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome.