Fanfic / Akko Kagari Universe

The Akko Kagari Universe is a fanfic series by Red Reef that reimagines Harry Potter using the characters and mythology of Little Witch Academia, with the characters and lores of various other works crossing over into it.

The series so far:

• Akko Kagari and the Seven Stars: Akko Kagari has never raced on a broomstick. She's never worn an amulet of invisibility, befriended a shape-shifting cat, or helped hatch a dragon. All Akko knows is her average, normal life with her normal parents and her less than normal group of friends. She had never known for eleven years that she was not normal, never knew that she was special. But all that is about to change when a mysterious letter arrives on her doorstep: a letter with an invitation to a wonderful place she never dreamed existed. There she finds not only new fiends, aerial sports, and magic around every corner, but a great destiny that's been waiting for her...if Akko can survive the encounter. (Complete)
• Akko Kagari and the Evil Within: Ever since Akko Kagari had come home for the summer, so many questions plagued her mind that all Akko wanted was to get back to the Luna Nova Academy for answers. But just as she's packing her bags, Akko receives a warning from a strange ninja who says that if Akko returns to Luna Nova, disaster will strike. And strike it does. For in Akko's second year at Luna Nova, fresh torments and horrors arise, including a cold and distant new professor and a creepy girl who haunts the abandoned tower. But then the real trouble begins — someone is attacking Luna Nova students. Could it be Diana Cavendish, a more poisonous rival than ever? Could it possibly be Croix, whose past has come back to haunt her? Or could it be the one everyone at Luna Nova most suspects...Akko Kagari herself! (Complete)
• Akko Kagari and the White Witch: For twelve long years, the dread fortress of Dol Guldur held an infamous prisoner known as Izetta the White Witch. Convicted for killing hundreds of people, she was said to be the right hand to the Eclipse Queen, Aradia. Now she had escaped, leaving only two clues as to where she might be headed: Akko Kagari's defeat of the Eclipse Queen was Izetta's downfall as well. And the Dol Guldur guards heard Izetta muttering in her sleep, "Must get to Luna Nova...Must get to Luna Nova..." Akko Kagari isn't safe, not even within the walls of her magical school, surrounded by her friends. Because on top of it all, there may well be a traitor in their midst. (Complete)
• Akko Kagari and the Contest of Champions: An event that happens only once every seven years has finally come to Luna Nova, and once again, Akko Kagari finds herself thrust into the actions. But this year, Akko has more to worry about then a friendly competition. A centuries-old conspiracy comes to light and Akko finally confronts her true enemy. (Complete)
• Akko Kagari and the Gospel of Aradia: Akko has a lot on her mind this year: A wicked new teacher; the upcoming Standard Testing and Aptitude Results; hope of finding her lost mother, Shiny Chariot; and her complicated love life with Diana Cavendish. But all these pale next to the threat of the Great Witch Jennifer. (Ongoing)
• Akko Kagari and the Blue Moon Abyss
• Akko Kagari and A Believing Heart

Red Reef is also responsible for Trigger Quartet; the Studio TRIGGER equivalent to the Isekai crossover series, Isekai Quartet. It, however, takes place in its own continuity and has nothing to do with the Akko Kagari Universe.

This page is a work in progress.

---

Akko, you're a Troper!

• Absent-Minded Professor: Akane Kowata, much to her sister, Makoto's chagrin.
• Absolute Xenophobe: The Purifiers want to wipe out all Demi-Humans for no reason other than because they're not humans. At least until Contest of Champions, which reveals that they have been brainwashed by Amon's organization into assisting in Jennifer's Assimilation Plot.
• Academy of Adventure: Luna Nova is already this in canon. But this fic makes it out to be as elaborate as Hogwarts.
• Adaptational Badass: Multiple examples. For instance, Shiny Chariot is better known for her role in stopping Aradia than as a performer, and Lotte's parents are elite government agents here, instead of simple shopkeepers. There are many more examples in the series.
• Adaptational Dumbass: The Grandmaster in Contest of Champion turns out to be an even bigger buffoon than the version of him seen in Thor: Ragnarok, where he's already this trope compared to his comics self). To elaborate, he made, and lost, bets with Amanda (and then keep dodging the topic when she reminds him of it), then Wangari's father (presumably for the reporting crew's contract for broadcasting the Contest of Champions, and then an extremely disadvantageous one (against him) with Paul Hanbridge which backfired against him big time when he lost the bet (he bet on Akko grabbing the Champions Cup alone, but Akko and Nico both grabbed it at the same time)...
• Adaptational Heroism: In canon, Croix harbors resentment toward Chariot for alledgely abandoning her duty of unlocking the Grand Triskellion for her job as a performer, and did all sorts of morally ambiguous things just to spite her. Here, as Chariot did indeed unlock the Grand Triskellion prior to the events of the series, Croix hold no such resentment toward her, and is generally a decent person to Akko and gang.
  • Hex is a villain in his home series, and is in fact part of the hero's Rogues Gallery. Here, he is simply a professor of Potions class who is somewhat strict and looks weird. ^note  Although he is fully reformed and in fact a teacher by the end of Omniverse
• Adaptational Jerkass: Downplayed with Annabel Creme. She is capable of trash talking, but is otherwise no different in personality than she does in the anime.
• Adaptational Job Change: In the anime, Bernadette and Daryl Cavendish are (implied to be) a doctor and a rich man with no real job respectively. In this fic's universe, they are both representatives of the Magic Council.
  • There's also Akane Kowata, Kiki, Hex, and Ymir being Luna Nova professors instead of whatever jobs they had in their respective home franchises. Although in Kiki's case, she's still a part-time delivery girl.
  • Shiny Chariot and Lotte's parents are secret government agents here. Though in Chariot's case, she still has stage performer as her part-time job.
• Adaptational Late Appearance: Fred and George Weasley's roles are filled by Garie and Sabi in Contest of Champions. Before that, their roles were filled by Amanda's group as Luna Nova's most notorious troublemakers.^note  Although Blair's "official Luna Nova toilet seat" joke is meant to be a perfect recreation of their "official Hogwarts toilet seat" joke.
• Adaptational Nationality: Izetta's home country in her home series is a Fantasy Counterpart Culture of Austria. Here, her nationality is indirectly changed to French as she's made into the sister of Chariot, who is French.
• Adaptational Nice Guy: Susan Mambavaran (Sucy's mom) is rather nice here, unlike in her appearance in an official manga where she's intimidating enough to scare Sucy into obedience.
• Adaptational Personality Change:
  • As of Gospel of Aradia, Akko Kagari is not the same as the loud and hyperactive girl we know from any canon materials. In fact, she is so different she's practically Akko Kagari In Name Only.
  • If Shooting Star can be considered as a character, then it is this. In canon, it would rather fly under its own absolute freedom than have anyone riding it. But here, it is willing to let Akko ride it after she impressed it with her determination.
  • Headmistress Holbrooke is an example that overlapped with Early-Installment Weirdness. She is initially portrayed as a slight Cloudcuckoolander not unlike Dumbledore in Harry Potter, but later in the series, she became just like she is in Little Witch Academia.
• Adaptational Sexuality: Bernadette Cavendish (Diana's mom) is 100% confirmed gay in this series (in canon, Mr. Cavendish is a case of Disappeared Dad).
• Adaptational Species Change: Jasminka is a Titan Shifter here.
• Adaptational Superpower Change: Downplayed. While Cinder Fall is stated to be able to use magic (of the Harry Potter variety), she can still use her canon ability of fire manipulation.
• Adaptational Villainy: Who'd have thought that the true Big Bad of Seven Stars is Barbara, of all people?! She gets better, though.
  • Paul Hanbridge is merely an Obstructive Bureaucrat in the anime. Here, he's a downright corrupt politician who is willing to resort to blackmail to get what he wants.
  • Izetta was the heroine of her own series, but here she's a deranged criminal wanted for mass murder. Actually Subverted. Since Izetta took Sirius Black's role in this series, it is pretty much a Foregone Conclusion that she is really innocent, and that someone else is responsible for the crimes she allegedly committed.
  • Possibly the most unexpected instance of this trope is the Great Witch Jennifer being revealed as the true head of Amon's organization in Contest of Champions.
• Adaptational Wimp:
  • Despite being directly responsible for the creation of the Hive Virus, Albert Wesker's only appearance in Evil Within is in a Pensieve Flashback, as he's been long dead since then. The story also left it ambiguous as to whether he has any of the superpowers he has in the games.
  • Downplayed with the Xenomorphs, who are ruthless killing machines with high body counts in their home franchise...because they've only ever come up against ordinary humans and androids. In Contest of Champions, they die in droves without much of a fight because they're up against people with magic capabilities and superpowers.
• Adapted Out: Professors Nelson, Lukic, and Badcock doesn't exist in this series. Their roles are instead taken by Kiki, Hex, and Ymir respectively.
  • Badcock did eventually appear as the librarian that constantly kicks Akko out. But that about summarizes her role in the series.
  • Akko doesn't encounter any language barriers with Professor Pisces because she is able to take on a human form in this series.
• Admiring the Abomination: Izetta (who's a terrorist figutive in this setting) isn't ugly or eldritch-looking per se, but when she shows up in Luna Nova (having properly cleaned herself up and had decent meals beforehand, in contrast to the messy-haired and heavily malnourished hag that Akko met her as in Japan), Akko thought that were it not for the fact that Izetta is a remorseless mass murderer, she'd have thought of her as looking cute.
• Age Lift:
  • Played with in regards to Akko and her friends. As the series is an retelling of Harry Potter, like the cast in that series and unlike in Little Witch Academia ( in which they're already teenagers by the start), Akko and her friends start off the story at the age of 11 and grow into teenagers as the series goes on.
  • Kiki is a preteen in her source material, but is a full-grown adult here.
  • Inverted with Bayonetta and Lightning, who are fully grown adults in their respective source materials, but deaged into teenagers here.
• The Alcatraz: Dol Guldur, a prison for Demi-Humans that served the same purpose Azkaban did in Harry Potter.
• All for Nothing: Played for Laughs in Contest of Champions when The Grandmaster reveals that the score tally in the titular contest exists just to make it more intense to the audiences, and that every single contestants risked their lives for something that ultimately does not contribute to whether their school wins. Naturally, Team Luna Nova does not take it well.
  • Turned into Crosses the Line Twice later when Evelyn revealed that part of her plans, which involved making sure Team Luna Nova has the highest score so Akko and Nico can grab the Champions Cup in the final round, had been a waste of effort as the score tally serves no purpose in determining who wins, meaning that Akko and Nico would've been able to get close to the Champions Cup regardless of whether she interfered or not.
• Anti-Magic: The Purifiers specialize in this in their quest to exterminate all Demi-Humans.
• Aroused by Their Voice: When Sucy's mother Susan calls Akko's stepparents so they'd let her go to the International Chariot Race with them, Akko is instantly smitten by her sexy voice.
• Armor-Piercing Question: Akko recives on in Gospel of Aradia, when during an argument about her tendencies to blindly rush into problems, her girlfriend Diana asks her if she knows how much this behaviour worries her and how she would feel if she or any of her friends did the same. The question leaves Akko speechless, as she realises how stupid her previous choices and attitude have been.
• Ascended Extra: Annabel Creme has a much bigger role in this series, unlike in canon where she is just a one-shot character whose only second appearance is a Back for the Finale cameo.
  • The same can be applied to Akko's parents (appeared in exactly one panel in an official manga), Lotte's parents , Amanda's family (only mentioned by Word of God in canon), and Garie and Sabi (Sucy's sisters). Although they're still side characters here and in Lotte's parents' case, Posthumous Characters.
  • The Ninja Witch turned out to be Marianna from the Chamber of Time video game, who is a major character here instead of a background character.
  • Gora-Chan, the mandrake that Akko and friends fought in Seven Stars, and is then resurrected and planted by Sucy (taking the Whomping Willow's place in the story), is originally from the first chapter of the Teri Terio Little Witch Academia manga, where it was pulled out and promptly turned into soup to be consumed by Akko.
  • Contest of Champions is possibly the first Little Witch Academia fanwork to depict the Great Witch Jennifer. As a villain, no less!
  • Within this series itself: Jellal Fernandez, after spending the entirety of Seven Stars as merely a name, finally appears in person in Gospel of Aradia.
• Ascended Fanboy: As with the anime, Annabel Creme is actually the 12th person to hold that pen name, and she was originally a Nightfall fan herself.
  • Again as with the anime, Defied by Lotte, who rejected the offer to become the next Annabel Creme.
• Assimilation Plot: The Great Witch Jennifer's ultimate goal, is this.
• An Astral Projection, Not a Ghost: Alessa Gillespie isn't a poltergeist, she's alive, in a cryogenic sleep chamber and the "Hive Queen" of the "Hive Mind virus" and the apparition people including herself mistook for a ghost is actually an astral projection.
• Ax-Crazy: Sumireko Hanabusa certainly enjoyed torturing the Xenomorphs.
• Bait-and-Switch: Michael Myers himself shows up in the doorsteps of Akko and friends in White Witch in his iconic hockey mask... just to give them Halloween candies. Turns out, he in this universe is a Nice Guy janitor, and his Iconic Outfit is just his Halloween costume. The same goes for Freddy Krueger and Jason Vorhees.
• Bathos
  • Donald Trump being listed as a member of the Purifiers, when all the names preceding him belonged to real historical tyrants, certainly qualifies.
  • In Evil Within, the Ninja Witch giving Akko warnings about the titular evil is a totally serious moment filled with suspense...which is then ruined when she tries to commit Seppuku because Akko disagreed with her, and the latter then trying to stop her.
  • In White Witch Izetta's description of her time in Dol Guldur is 100% grimdark and horrifying. But then she reveals how she was able to hold on to one of the Seven Stars by swallowing it and then got it out via a method best left unmentioned here. Akko reacts to that with total disgust in the most hilarious way possible.
  • In Contest of Champions, Evelyn, possessing Mato, gives her Evil Speech Of Evil about how she manipulated Akko into doing Amon's work, rigged the titular Contest to make sure Akko and Nico gets selected to represent Luna Nova in it, and did everything to make sure Team Luna Nova gets the highest score in the Contest as their victory is crucial in Amon's plans. That's all terrifying, but the funny part about it is the way Evelyn talked about the last one: she's basically ranting about how the score tally turned out to be completely worthless in determining who wins, and her efforts has mostly been pointless because of it.
  • In Gospel of Aradia, Akko and gang discuss about Jennifer's return and Crawford Seam's ego-motivated attacks and blackmails on them, all while under an intense atmosphere. Then when Akko asks what everyone has been doing (due to being denied participation in the Celestial Sphere's meetings), Amanda complains that everyone's been forced by Diana to... do their Summer homework.
    • The brief exchange about Summer homework is then interrupted by Garie and Sabi blowing up a wall in order to sneak into the aforementioned meeting. Except they got the wrong wall because Sabi held her crudely-drawn map (of the Cavendish Manor) upside down.
• Been There, Shaped History: In Sucy's introductory scene in Seven Stars, Lotte recognizes Sucy as the one whose ancestor was able to come up with a cure for the Black Death. Sucy adds that the same ancestor was responsible for accidentally creating the Black Death in the first place.
• Beethoven Was an Alien Spy: Played for Laughs with Elvis, who is actually a girl using magic to make herself look like a guy.
  • Florence Nightingale is actually of Cavendish descent.
  • David Copperfield was the Chair of the Magic Council before Crawford Seam.
  • A more serious example in Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin, Kim Il-Sung, Ayatollah Khomeni, and Donald Trump being members of the Purifiers.
• Bland-Name Product: A video sharing platform for/by witches is called WitchTube. YouTube itself does exist in this universe for Humans - Akko learned about Shiny Chariot by watching videos of her performances there.
• Boring, but Practical: It turns out that Woodward has "off-switches" (in the form of cancellation spells for each of the Stars) installed into the Shiny Rod/Claiomh Solais in the event that someone, namely Jennifer, decides to use its powers for malicious purposes.
• Breaking the Fourth Wall:
  • Mr. Mxyzptlk mentions at one point that the author wouldn't let him see the fic's future chapters.
  • Eruna and her classmates break the fourth wall so often that they are compared to Deadpool.
  • In Contest of Champions Akko complains about how every year of her and her friends in school "always seem to have an unnecessarily overcomplicated plotline".
• Brick Joke: The toilet seat gag from Philosopher's Stone is replicated in Seven Stars, in exactly the same manner.
• Buxom Beauty Standard: Akko is extremely impressed by the big boobs and shapely figure of Sucy's mother Susan (she even starts to drool in trance during their first meeting) in Contest of Champions.
• Casting Gag: Possibly a coincidence on the author's part, but Kiki taking Nelson's role as Broom Flight Instructor is this, due to the two characters being voiced by the same VA in their respective source materials.
• Celebrity Paradox: The Harry Potter books exist in the fic's universe. Yet, Harry himself has had several cameos (without being namedropped) through the story, making the existence of the series somewhat odd.
  • Studio Trigger, the company behind Little Witch Academia exists in this universe. This despite the fact that aside from LWA, the cast members of Space Patrol Luluco and Kill la Kill also exist. So what series did Trigger create in this universe? Space Patrol Luluco at least gets handwaved as a Very Loosely Based on a True Story series sponsored by Luluco herself.
    • However, the fact that Space Patrol Luluco exists as a series in-universe creates an even bigger paradox, since Sucy had an appearance in its 8th episode, and Akko appeared in The Stinger of its final episode.
  • Several elements from the Marvel comics are real in the fic's universe, such as the Runaways, Vibranium and Wakanda. Yet Deadpool comics (and by extension Marvel itself) still exist.
• Characterization Marches On: Susan Manbavaran's brief cameo in Seven Stars establishes that she has as much love for poisoning unsuspecting individuals as Sucy. Yet when she's properly introduced in Contest of Champions, she reveals herself to be a doctor who would cure people instead of deliberately poisoning them For the Lulz.
• Chekhov's Gun:
  • Early in Seven Stars, Professor Ursula tells the first-year students that Mr. Mxyzptlk can be temporarily banished by tricking him into saying his own name backwards. Later on, when Akko and gang needs to sneak through the corridor of Luna Nova, Akko does just that to get rid of him.
  • Amanda's Salem heritage, which was just exposition in Seven Stars, turned out to be useful to Team Luna Nova in Contest of Champion. Unfortunately, it also gets used against them by one of the opposing teams.
  • Early in White Witch, Izetta disables the Shiny Rod by casting "Nix", causing Akko to be unable to fight back with it. Nothing is said about how she did that for the rest of the book, until Contest of Champions revealed that "Nix" was a deactivation phrase Woodward installed into the Rod just in case Jennifer decided to use it for malicious purposes.
• Chekhov's Gunman:
  • Nico Minoru shows up in Seven Stars as merely a background character, but became a major character from Contest of Champions onwards.
  • Two from Evil Within:
    • Evie Winters seemed like an uninteresting Original Character, with her role being borderline nonexistent at first. Turns out she is Evelyn, the anthromorphication of the Hive Virus.
    • Alessa Gillespe initially appeared to be just a poltergeist that likes to hang out near the New Moon Tower, chatting with anyone that wandered by. Turns out her original body played a role in the creation of the Hive Virus.
• Closet Geek: Diana is a Shiny Chariot fan, to the surprise of Akko and gang (but to none of the readers).
• Cloudcuckoo Lander
  • Headmistress Holbrooke gets this treatment in order to enforce the fact that she is taking Dumbledore's role in this series. Subverted as this only applies in Seven Stars, and her personality from Evil Within onwards is reverted back to the way it was in canon.
  • Angela Parker, Barbara's mother, as introduced in Gospel of Aradia, appears to be this, if Izetta's description of her is anything to go by.
• Comic-Book Movies Don't Use Codenames: The staff and students of UA Academy uses only their real names in Contest of Champions, and never their code names. The exception being All Might, who's only ever called that.
  • Nico and her friends aren't called The Runaways because this version of them aren't even runaways to begin with, and even then, they weren't called that in their source comics (and Hulu series) either.
  • Averted with Aquaman who in his one-sentence cameo in Contest of Champions is called exactly that.
  • Inverted with The Grandmaster, who like in Thor: Ragnarok is only referred to by his title, and never his real name (En Dwi Gast).
• Composite Character:
  • Unsurprisingly, Diana here is a combination of Hermione's The Ace status and Draco Malfoy's Academic Alpha Bitch behavior. This is particularly notable in White Witch which has Diana becoming exhausted by taking too many classes and then geting hurt by an animal - problems that are experienced by Hermione and Draco respectively in both the book and film of Prisoner of Azkaban (with Daryl suing the animal's caretaker for Diana much like Lucius did for Draco). She also took Ginny Weasley's role as the eventual Damsel in Distress in Evil Within.
  • In a way, the Devil's Snare and the Whomping Willow are composited into a single creature: Gora-Chan, the mandrake that Sucy grew and kept as a pet.
  • Cross-franchise example: the Seven Stars of the Shiny Rod/ Claiomh Solais have been altered so that they are more like the Infinity Gems^note  or Infinity Stones if you're more of a MCU guy in terms of their powers and functions.
• Conqueror from the Future: Inverted, Jennifer is bought into the present day from the past to fulfill her plans of removing all senses of individuality.
• "Could Have Avoided This!" Plot: The events of Evil Within could have all but been avoided if Akko had not screwed up her teleportation, causing her to end up in Silent Hill and spilling the jar containing the Hive Virus onto herself.
• Creator's Culture Carryover:
  • Early in Seven Stars, Akko has bacon and eggs for breakfast. Japanese people don't usually have bacon and eggs for breakfast.
  • Akko's legal full name is Atsuko Rukia Kagari. Which is odd, as Japanese naming convention does not allow room for middle names, unlike Western naming conventions.
  • A weird multinational example: the very definitely Filipino Sucy calls her pet mandrake Gora-Chan. "-chan" is actually a Japanese suffix. Though to be fair, this is what she actually calls it in the Teri Terio manga due to Cultural Translation.
• Crippling Overspecialization: The Powered Armors worn by the Purifiers during their attack on the International Chariot Race Tournament only protects against magic, and nothing else. The crowd was able to bring them down by Zerg Rushing them with physical attacks.
• Crossover: Taken up to eleven. This fic crosses too many separate works of all genres and mediums to count them all individually, even if we exclude those done for the sake of cameos or one-off gags.
  • Ironically, it is NOT a Harry Potter / Little Witch Academia crossover despite being labelled as such. It just retells the HP saga with LWA characters.
• Crossover Relatives: As you might expect from Red Reef, every time we delve into a family tree it includes several names from various franchises that rarely affect the overall story. Here the examples that involve characters, who actually appear in the story:
  • Chariot du Nord has siblings. They are Izetta and the Master (who's named Orion in this story). On account of Chariot being Akko's mother this also makes them her aunt and uncle respectively.
  • Members of the Cavendish family include Blair and Cinder Fall (the latter is only adopted).
• Darker and Edgier: The Akko Kagari Universe already is this trope compared to Little Witch Academia by virtue of it being "Harry Potter with LWA characters".
• Dark Messiah: Aradia, the Eclipse Queen. Turns out she's a fake person created by the Magic Council to cover up whatever Chariot was sent to do at the Grand Triskellion. Then the Great Witch Jennifer is introduced, who plays the trope completely straight.
• Damsel in Distress: Happens to Diana, of all people in Evil Within.
• Death by Adaptation: Lotte's parents, on account of being elite government agents who went after a group of superpowerful evil wizards and got butchered in the ensuing fight.
  • The Shooting Star gets torn to shreds after an attack by the Heartless during a relay race.
• Decomposite Character: Severus Snape's role is divided between Professors Finnelan and Croix.
  • Lucius Malfoy's role is divided between Paul Hanbridge (in attempting to get Hogwarts/ Luna Nova shut down by blackmailing council members and using the attacks by the Basilisk/ Hive Virus as the excuse) and Daryl Cavendish (in ordering the execution of Buckbeak/ Qing the Qilin after it had harmed Draco/ Diana).
  • Voldemort's role is divided between two Walking Spoiler characters: Aradia the Eclipse Queen who turns out to be fictional, and the Great Witch Jennifer.
  • If you count Tom Riddle as a separate character from Voldemort, then he also went through this, with his role divided between Albert Wesker and Evelyn ^note  who incidentally is a Composite Character of The Basilisk and Barty Crouch Junior.
  • In an organizational example, the Death Eaters are decomposited into the Purifiers (a terrorist organization motivated entirely by Fantastic Racism) and Amon's organization (a secret society led by a Dark Messiah). Ironically, the two organizations oppose each other as much as they oppose the heroes. Eventually subverted in Contest of Champions, where the former get brainwashed into becoming minions for the latter.
• Demonic Possession: Evelyn, making a surprise comeback in Contest of Champion after being presumed dead at the end of Evil Within, took control of Mato and has been manipulating events in the Contest the whole time. She then makes her getaway via doing the same thing to all of Team Black Star at once.
• Demoted to Extra
  • Professor Badcock is the only member of the Luna Nova faculty other than Holbrooke, Finnelan, and Ursula who isn't completely Adapted Out. However, with her position taken by Ymir, Badcock herself is reduced to a mere background character, where the only thing she does is constantly kicking Akko out of the library.
  • The second cour of the anime focuses on the attempt to unlock the Grand Triskellion and restore magic all over the world. Here, the Grand Triskellion has already been unlocked before Akko was even born, and aside from a few mentions of how Chariot did it upon defeating Aradia, is mostly treated as an afterthought. Though the fact that Believing Heart, the planned adaptation of Deathly Hallows, is originally called Akko Kagari and the Grand Triskellion indicates that it will become relevant again in the future.
  • Taken up to eleven with Verde Shidariza. She's a minor NPC in Chamber of Time whose sole purpose in the game is to just stand there and say some things. Here, she is only mentioned exactly once during the sorting ceremony in Seven Stars just to let you know that she exists at all, and doesn't even get mentioned in the series ever again.
• Dies Differently in Adaptation: In canon, Bernadette Cavendish died of an unspecified terminal illness. Here, her illness is actually the result of being put through a Cold-Blooded Torture that left her severely weakened and with a frail body.
• Dismantled Macguffin: The Shiny Rod, as with canon. Unlike canon, however, it is physically dismantled here, with the seven gems on it (the titular Seven Stars of Seven Stars) removed from it and hidden in several different locations.
• Does This Remind You of Anything?: Sucy's very first scene in Seven Stars has her sniffing some poisonous mushrooms and, well...
• Doing in the Scientist: The Xenomorphs were aliens from outer space in their home franchise, but here they were magical beasts instead. Although they're still referred to as aliens in Contest of Champions.
• Dramatic Irony: Diana is a Shiny Chariot fan. It's a major surprise for Akko and co, but the readers already saw this coming from miles away due to it being literally canon.
  • Ursula and Chariot being the same person is also seen from miles away by the readers due to it being also canon. However, the only people in Luna Nova who are aware of this are Croix, Blair, Holbrooke, and Finnelan.
• Dude, Not Funny!:
  • In-Universe in White Witch. For some reason, Hannah and Barbara thought it was a good idea to prank Akko by dressing up as Heartless, which have attacked her with intentions worse than to kill on multiple occasions. They get blasted for their troubles, and are later chewed out by Diana for this.
  • Another in-universe example occurs in Contest of Champions. Garie and Sabi thought it'd be funny to release a colony of spiders that can weave webs really fast into the Kagari residence. The resulting incident stirs up so much trouble with Akko's parents that the Manbavarans decide to GTFO. Even Sucy thinks it's too much, and the twins end up getting grounded by Susan for that stunt.
• Early-Installment Weirdness:
  • Seven Stars is a straight-up Young Adult Fantasy story where the only scientific elements are Croix's Magitronics and a brief, unnamed cameo by Tracer and Winston. Evil Within onwards started throwing in elements that wouldn't look out of place in a Hard Sci-Fi setting, such as the titular Evil Within being a bioweapon of purely scientific origins.
• Enemy Mine: In Contest of Champions, it is briefly mentioned that Aradia once teamed up with the Magic Council in fighting the Purifiers.
• Establishing Character Moment:
  • Sucy is first introduced in Seven Stars to be sniffing a poison mushroom and reacting with utmost ecstacy to it. Although this one is a subversion, as this side of her was never mentioned again, and her scene on the train later does not establish much of her personality. Played Straight a few days later in Luna Nova, where she tells Akko and Lotte that she'd like to harvest their body parts for her experiments and acting indifferently when called out on it.
  • Diana's first appearance has her telling Akko with utmost Brutal Honesty that she considers Shiny Chariot as a fraud. Of course, given events established by both canon and later in the story, we all know that she didn't actually mean it...
  • Professor Finneran doesn't do much when she first appeared to greet the new students at Luna Nova. However, that scene is all it takes to tell everyone that she is not to be messed around with.
  • Akko's first class with Croix has the Magitronics professor establishes her innovative approach at doing things when compared to her more traditionalist peers (and Diana), such as using her cellphone to take attendance of the class, and how she is good at it. This one is more noteworthy than the other examples due to Croix's personality and background being altered in this story's universe.
• Establishing Series Moment: Seven Stars opens with an average Japanese Salary Man and his wife (who would become Akko's adoptive parents) going about in their usual daily lives, making it seems like it's going to be a straight up retelling of the Harry Potter saga with Little Witch Academia characters. But then the sight of Demi-Humans just casually appearing on the streets tells readers that this setting will not be having have a masquerade. And then the inexplicable appearance of Kobayashi and Tohru, as well as another couple talking about their daughter Nanoha Takamachi accidentally unleashing her "Pink Beam of Death" ^note  possibly referring to her famous "Befriend" attack , makes it clear that this series is more than simply putting Akko in Harry's role and position.
• Even Evil Has Standards: The Curse of Souls is considered so evil and horrific by everyone, even the series' Big Bad Jennifer is horrified by it.
• Even the Girls Want Her: It's either that Akko's stepmother was impressed by the spectacularly good looks of Sucy's mother or that she was shocked by them coming out of a wall due to a slight teleporter mishap (they had to blast the wall open to get out of there).
• Everyone Has Standards: In Contest of Champions, Garie and Sabi decides to prank the Kagaris by releasing a colony of spiders that can produce webs really fast (tangling up Mr. Kagari in the process). It got so out of control that the Manbavarans decide to get the hell out of Dodge. Immediately afterwards, even Sucy, who otherwise has no issues poisoning and disembowelling others For the Lulz, expresses that the twins' prank is too much.
• Everyone Is Related: In Gospel of Aradia we learn that just like in Harry Potter all the pure-blood magic families, which include the Du Nords, Manbavarans, O'Neills and Cavendishes, are interrelated to some degree.
• The Evils of Free Will: After years of attempting to create peace between the humans & Demi-Humans and failing due to the rampant bigotry, The Great Witch Jennifer seeks to use the Claiomh Solais to destroy all individuality and bring all of mankind under one mind.
• Facial Horror: Jennifer has half of her face scarred beyond recognition.
• Fallen Hero: The Great Witch Jennifer, who went down the dark path because she got fed up by the rampant bigotry all over the world.
• Fantastic Racism: There are some humans who hate Demi-Humans for a variety of reasons, but mostly due to prejudice.
  • The Purifiers want to exterminate all Demi-Humans simply because of this trope. They ended up being brainwashed into working for Jennifer, who wants to eliminate this trope altogether.
  • Some witches, especially those from old families, look down on those raised by or descended from baseline humans, mirroring pureblood supremacy ideology from the Harry Potter source material to some degree.
  • Arrancar, Titan Shifters and the like are ostracized by other demi-humans.
• Fantastic Slurs:
  • "Half-breed" (first seen in Contest of Champions) is a highly offensive slur against those raised by or descended from baseline humans (likely based off the slur "mudblood" from the Harry Potter source material).
  • Also, "Duds" for pureblood wizards and witches who have no magic powers, based off of "Squib", which is also from the Potterverse.
• Fate Worse than Death:
  • The "Curse of Souls" is a horrible piece of dark magic that somehow affects the soul of the victim, causes great pain and has highly deletrious effetcs on the body, as well (the curse is, judging by its effects, the history of its use and the universal revulsion felt towards people using it based on the Cruciatus/Torture curse from the Harry Potter source material). Known victims are Diana's mother Bernadette, who was subjected to this curse by this story's Bellatrix Lestrange stand-in Cinder Fall who wanted to torture Akko's location out of her and Akko, who was acidentially hit by the curse when Nico Minoru wanted to use it agaist the Big Bad Jennifer, but was saved by the spirit of Finnelan's daughter who gave her life to save a newborn Akko from Amon's. Its use is considered a sacrilege to the point that even the series' Big Bad is terrified and disgusted by it.
  • Being turned into a Heartless (the process itself is called "Heart of Darkness").
• Fictional Country: Many of them, though none are created specifically for this series, and some of them actually have their home franchises taking place in a different time period or even in Constructed Worlds. Examples include Amestris, Arendelle, Wakanda, etc.
• Flying Broomstick: This is of course, the staple for witches all over the world. As with the anime, Akko is initially unable to fly without the Shooting Star, but she eventually gains the ability to do so in White Witch.
• Foregone Conclusion:
  • Croix took Snape's role in being mistaken for a servant of Aradia (who takes Voldermort's place) in Seven Stars. That alone should clue you in to the fact that Croix is actually innocent. The twist being that since Seven Stars didn't have any professors taking Quirrel's place, the true culprit is replaced by a student, specifically Barbara.
  • Likewise, Izetta took Sirius Black's role in White Witch, and that should immediately clue you in to the fact that she is framed. That is indeed true, but who framed her is the surprising bit.
  • Averted in Contest of Champions with Nico Minoru, who took Cedric Diggory's role. Unlike Cedric, Nico actually survives its events, even despite getting struck in the throat by a dagger thrown by Ruvik.
• Foreshadowing
  • In Evil Within, the shop that Akko ends up in due to her screwed-up teleportation is called Biohazard, and one of the mishaps that happens to her in there is her knocking over a jar and spilling its contents on herself. Much later, we find out that Albert Wesker has a hand in creating the Hive Virus. Now what is Wesker's home franchise called in Japan?
  • Three in White Witch, all pertaining to Izetta:
    • According to official Magic Council reports, Izetta not only appeared to be horrified by her alleged terrorist attack on Zurich, she doesn't even try to resist as the authorities arrested her for it. If she really is a remorseless mass murderer like the aforementioned reports said, then why would she behave as described? That was because she was unwittingly manipulated into committing the atrocity.
    • When Izetta first showed up in Luna Nova, she seems to be fixated on attacking Master Noah, with such fury that suggests they may have met before, and that she has unsettled scores with him. Turns out, it was Master Noah, aka Amon, that made her blow up Zurich all those years ago.
    • A Luna Nova student suggested that Izetta could've gotten into the school by disguising herself as someone's pet. as it turns out, she was right: Izetta had disguised herself as Mikko, Lotte's fox familiar.
• Full-Name Ultimatum: Evil Within ends with Mrs. Kagari loudly calling Akko "Atsuko Rukia Kagari"
• Good Scars, Evil Scars: Akko has the Mark of the Seven Stars, seven four-pointed stars arranged in the shape of the Big Dipper.
  • As noted in Facial Horror above, Jennifer has half of her face scarred beyond recognition.
• Goth Girls Know Magic: Nico Minoru is a student in Luna Nova, and her gothic appearance is noted early on in her brief cameo in Seven Stars.
• Government Conspiracy: Like Cornelius Fudge silencing Harry about everything related to Voldemort's return in Order of the Phoenix, Crawford Seam tries to silence Akko about everything related to Jennifer's extremist views. Though whereas Fudge did it because he wanted to avoid public chaos, Seam did it all out of personal ego.
• Gratuitous Japanese: Completely Averted, even when Akko is talking to her parents and Japanese friends (Not counting the use of Japanese Honorifics). But briefly Played Straight in Contest of Champions where Andrew of all people speaks in Japanese when asking Akko for a dance.
• Greater-Scope Villain: Albert Wesker in Evil Within. He's been dead for years as of the events of the story. Yet it's him and his sect of Purifiers that's the root cause of the plague attacking Luna Nova.
• Half the Man He Used to Be: Referenced in Contest of Champions. Susan Manbavaran mentions having to put back together two guys who accidentally did this to themselves after using a Sling Ring incorrectly.
• Heroic Willpower: Rare example of the hero doing this unconsciously. The Hive Virus has been taking refuge inside Akko the entire time in Evil Within, but is unable to control her body for as long as she is awake.
• Hidden Depths: Contest of Champions reveals that Amanda endulges in ballet practices.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: In Gospel of Aradia, Crawford Seam is forced to concede in the Kangaroo Court he set up for Akko's conviction and clear her of all her charges that he engineered because convicting her under the circumstances given and the evidences of her innocence provided will lead to the violation of a law that he himself had enacted previously.
• I Don't Like the Sound of That Place: What is the name of the shop where Akko ended up in after her screwed-up teleportation in Evil Within? Biohazard. Approprately enough, it turns out to be where Akko accidentally released the Hive Virus, which is created by Albert Wesker. ^note In addition, Resident Evil is called Biohazard in Japan.
  • Also, the town where the shop in question is called? Silent Hill.
• If Jesus, Then Aliens: Because all sorts of magical creatures and phenomenon exists in the world, Akko does not question the existence of aliens at all when she sees Luluco and her friends arriving in a spaceship.
• Implausible Deniability: Averted. Izetta doesn't even bother to prove that she was manipulated by Amon into blowing up Zurich, as the whole world saw her do it.
• Improbably Female Cast: This is a fan fic of Little Witch Academia, which by itself already has an overly female cast list. Although the female/male ratio is balanced out by having male characters from other franchises crossing over into the fic.
  • The fact that Professor Hex is the only male in Luna Nova's staff is immediately pointed out in the same sentence that introduced him.
• Informed Ability: Akko mentions how Blair can not only transform into a cat, but also into a "miqo'te" (the Final Fantasy version of a cat girl).
• In Name Only: Akko's characterization is radically different a few volumes in compared to the anime.
• Interface Spoiler: Non-video game example. The AO3 version of Seven Stars gave away a major reveal in its tag list. The tag in question is "Chariot is Akko's mom".
• Invisibility: The Ring of Gyges grants this ability to its wearer and anyone the wearer is holding hands with.
  • In Contest of Champions, Quattro Scaglietti gets past Luna Nova using a stealth cloak she stole from the US Military years ago. Unlike the Ring of Gyges, the stealth cloak is a completely scientific piece of technology.
• Ironic Fear: Sucy Manbavaran, who loves poisons and some other morbid stuff, has a fear of snakes. ^note It gets even funnier when you realize that in the Teri Terio LWA manga, she ended up having a snake as a familiar.
• It Can Think: The Hive Virus in Evil Within actually recognizes when Akko is trying to figure out what is going on, and tries (but thankfully failing) to take her out for it. The climax reveals that it isn't merely intelligent, it has its own sadistic personality and even gloats about it.
• Jerkass Has a Point: Although his refusal to believe in the Great Witch Jennifer turning out to be a villain is entirely due to his political ego, Crawford Seam does give a valid point about his opinion - Jennifer has always been known in history as the Big Good, so such a sudden reveal of her having villainous motives is very hard to believe, especially when it came from the mouth of a teenage girl who couldn't prove it.
• Kangaroo Court: Crawford Seam has one set up for convicting Akko of "crimes" that he himself engineered in Gospel of Aradia. It fails and he is forced to drop all charges as all the evidences provided against his case meant that he is in danger of violating a law that he himself enacted, which would cause his already terrible reputation to tank even further.
• Late-Arrival Spoiler:
  • Chariot is Akko's mom. It's only revealed at the end of Seven Stars, but the rest of the series kept pointing this out. This gets even more blatant in the Archive of Our Own version, where "Chariot is Akko's mom" is outright tagged in the tag list for Seven Stars, and is also mentioned in the summary of Gospel of Aradia.
  • The twist of Jennifer the Great Witch being the real Big Bad is only revealed late into Contest of Champions. But Gospel of Aradia casually mentions it right within the summary.
• Letter Bomb: When Marito wouldn't go to a school his penfriend did, the latter got mad and send Marito a letter bomb destructive enough to destroy the entire north wing of their house.
• Love Triangle: The complicated Akko/Andrew/Diana relationship. Akko likes Diana, who's expected to end up with Andrew. However, it's revealed in Contest of Champions that both Andrew & Diana are in love with Akko. This results in a lot of tension between the two, whenever they're in the same room, and leaves Akko in the difficult situation of who to choose.
• Magic Versus Science: Evil Within pits the staff and students of Luna Nova against a bioweapon of completely scientific origins.
  • A non-violent example occurs in Contest of Champions. Quattro Scaglietti was able to get past Luna Nova's magical security system by using an experimental stealth cloak that she stole from the US Military years ago.
• Making a Splash: Master Noah in White Witch is capable of this. It turns out that he is in fact Amon from The Legend of Korra, who is also capable of Bloodbending.
• The Masquerade: Defied. Unlike most settings with a secret world of magic-users and mythical creatures, the wizarding world here never even bothered with a masquerade, as they casually advertised their existence to the general public as soon as Chariot unsealed the Grand Triskellion and spread magic all over the world.
  • Even nations like Atlantis and Wakanda, as well as secret government organizations such as the TSAB, which definitely had masquerades in their respective home franchises, didn't bother with one, preferring to show their existence to the general public instead.
  • Played very straight using the idea of Aradia, who turns out to be a fake person created by the Magic Council to cover up the secret missions that Chariot was sent to do around the world.
• Massive Multiplayer Crossover: Although the focus is on the Little Witch Academia cast and setting, it also incorporates characters and lore from a wide plethora of other works.
• McNinja: Marianna is definitely not Japanese. Yet not only does she act like a stereotypical Ninja, she even uses archaic Japanese pronouns.
• Meaningful Name: Evie Winters from Evil Within. Try saying her name multiple times and see what else it sounded like to you...
• Mêlée à Trois: The Purifiers and Amon's organization oppose each other just as much as they oppose Akko & friends. Although in the formers' case, they just oppose all things magic in general. Subverted when the Purifiers end up getting brainwashed into working for Amon's organization.
  • In Gospel of Aradia, one of the Magic Council's plans to shut Akko up about Jennifer's return is to send some Heartless to attack her in Shibuya, so she either dies in the attack or defend herself with magic and lose her rights to use magic forever for alledgely "using magic illegally". But as Jennifer's plans require Akko to be alive and continue using magic, this indirectly puts her at odds with Crawford Seam.
• Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: Evelyn reveals that the Purifiers who created her killed and remade her over 70 times until they are satisfied with how she became, which caused her to eventually betray them and start working for Amon's organization. She even pointed out that they totally had it coming.
• Morton's Fork: Like Ministry of Magic sending Dementors to attack Harry in Privet Drive in Order of the Phoenix, the Magic Council sends Heartless to attack Akko in Shibuya in Gospel of Aradia. Like Harry, Akko has a choice of doing nothing and get killed or use magic to repel the attackers which would then get her expelled from Luna Nova for "illegal use of magic". Thankfully like Harry, Akko still "wins" the unfair situation due to third party intervention.
• Muggles Do It Better: The Purifiers are a group of human supremacists obsessed with exterminating all Demi-Humans from the face of the planet, and they are actually pretty competent at what they do, making them a huge threat to the Demi-Humans. Subverted when they later got brainwashed by Amon's organization into working for them.
• Mukokuseki: The end of Seven Stars explicitly points out that Akko is the daughter of Chariot, which meant that she is French instead of Japanese in this fic's universe and therefore should look like a European. How none of the people she meets noticed this is a riddle for the ages.
• Mythology Gag: see its own page.
• Naked People Are Funny: Blair. Repeatedly.
• Named by the Adaptation
  • Downplayed by Akko's parents, whose first names (Shiuchi and Kaori) are mentioned only when they're talking to each other. Otherwise, they are referred to exclusively as Mr. and Mrs. Kagari.
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Akko's stepaunt, who is some kind of religious fundamentalist and racist and hates demi-humans, Akko and her brother-in-law with the fire of a thousand suns, is called "Kirai", the Japanese word for "hate".
• Narrative Profanity Filter: This excerpt from chapter 9 of White Witch:

Amanda caught up with them five minutes later, in a towering rage.

"Do you know what that – " (she called Finnelan something that, for the sake of the rating, had to be censored from this book) – "is making me do? I've got to scrub all the toilets in the castle. Without magic!"

• A Nazi by Any Other Name: In an unusual Inverted example of this trope, Amon's organization turns out to be working for the Great Witch Jennifer, who wants to enact an Assimilation Plot with the intention of wiping out bigotry instead of fuelling it.
• Nebulous Evil Organization: The Purifiers, a group of human supremacists obsessed with wiping out all Demi-Humans from the face of the planet. They don't appear to have any motivations beyond that.
• Never Shall The Selves Meet: Enforced in regards to Time Travel in White Witch.
• No Periods, Period: In the earlier chapters of White Witch, Blair scoffs at the idea of the main characters being a threat to Izetta by reminding them that they're young enough that their periods have started only recently.
• No Ontological Inertia: In Evil Within, killing the Hive Queen is the only way to kill the Hive Virus for good.
• Noodle Incident:
  • That time when Mrs. Kagari punched a cop.
  • The various troubles that Chariot and Blair have gotten themselves into during their school years.
  • Two Noodles for the price of one: Luluco and her gang have arrested Vegeta and Kakarot aka Son Goku for "disturbing the peace" prior to them stumbling upon Akko. We don't hear exactly what they did that got them arrested, nor how Luluco was even able to arrest them considering the power levels they demonstrated in their home franchise.
• Not His Sled: Many of the twists from the Harry Potter books are either partially or completely altered due to them being too easy to predict for anyone familiar with the books. For example, the Big Bad of Seven Stars (the Philosopher's Stone counterpart) becoming a student instead of a teacher.
  • The Great Witch Jennifer turning out to be the real Big Bad, in contrast to her being a Greater-Scope Paragon in canon. You definitely did not expect that.
  • Nico Minoru took Cedric Diggory's role in Contest of Champions. Unlike Cedric, however, Nico survives its events.
• Not Me This Time: Amon's organization has nothing to do with the events of Evil Within. Save for one of their agents collecting the remains of the Hive Virus in The Stinger.
• Not So Above It All
  • The usually stoic Diana Screams Like a Little Girl when Akko & gang catches her playing Shiny Chariot in Seven Stars.
  • Professor Hex, the strict Potions teacher, acts like an infatuated drunkard in the Valentines Banquet in Seven Stars. Though it may have something to do with a Love Potion...
• Once Done, Never Forgotten: Mr. Kagari reprimands Mrs. Kagari for always punching cops in the face, causing Mrs. Kagari to protest that it was just one time, and the cop at that time was basically undressing her with his eyes.
• One-Steve Limit
  • Played Straight:
    • Little Witch Academia has a background character named Blair. But she got Adapted Out as Blair from Soul Eater exists in this continuity. Eventually averted when the former Blair was referenced in Gospel of Aradia, much to Akko's confusion.
  • Averted:
    • There are two completely unrelated characters called Chariot: Chariot Du Nord and just Chariot. Although the former is a given name, and the latter is a Code Name. In addition, there's also the Chariot Races, although that was because the earliest iteration of the races were played with actual chariots before switching to brooms in the 1800s.
    • Two completely different species called Titans exists in this fic's world: The Kaiju-esque humanoids from Attack on Titan, and a certain Mad Titan who famously wanted to literally court Death (thankfully he's a Post Humous Character who has no importance to the plot).
    • Person and location example: Izuku Midoriya who appears in Contest of Champions, and a cafe called Midori-Ya in Seven Stars. Simultaneously Played Straight though, as the two names are written with completely different characters in Japanese.
    • Nico Minoru and Mineta Minoru, which is definitely a coincidence as the two characters are from completely unrelated franchises made in two separate countries.
    • Kagari Izuriha and Atsuko "Akko" Kagari. Although there is still a distinction in that the former Kagari is a given name, and the latter is a surname.
    • Two Chloes: Chloe Price from Life Is Strange who makes an appearance in Contest of Champions, and a "Dubois, Chloe" who enrolled into Luna Nova at the same time as Akko in Seven Stars. While LWA canon does have a character named Chloe, she is just a background character in the anime and an NPC in the Chamber of Time game, and it is unknown if "Dubois, Chloe" is meant to be her.
• One-Man Army: Played for Laughs. Arnold Schwarzenegger is cited by a news report as one of the "armed forces" deployed to hunt down Izetta in White Witch.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Diana getting impatient and raising her voice in frustration in White Witch is an indication that something's not right with her. Turns out (as with Hermione in Prisoner of Azkaban) taking too many classes in the semester (to the point of using the Chrono Accelerator just to make sure she can attend all of them on time) did a number on her mental health.
  • Finnelan herself knows full well that Akko hates her. So when Akko comes to her begging to be tutored in Contest of Champions, she takes it seriously and agrees to offer help.
• The Order: Gospel of Aradia introduces the Celestial Sphere, which serves the same role as the Order of the Phoenix.
• Original Character: Athena Metis-Cavendish is created specifically for this series, and did not exist in any other works.
• Our Zombies Are Different: Those who have been infected by the Hive Virus in Evil Within alternates between acting like Romero-style zombies and being used as puppets by the Virus itself.
• Outside-Context Problem
  • Evil Within has the staff and student of Luna Nova, a Wizarding School, getting menaced by the Hive Virus, a sentient bioweapon with a purely scientific origin. Said bioweapon eventually returns in Contest of Champions, having allied herself with Jennifer and her acolytes.
  • And then there's the matter of the Great Witch Jennifer turning out to be the leader of Amon's Nebulous Evil Organization...
• Outside-Genre Foe: A bioweapon with a purely scientific origins is surely something you'd have never expected to see in a Wizarding School setting.
• Papa Wolf: After being begged for assistance, Akko's real father couldn't care less about what happens to Croix and any member of the group that put him away, including his (former?) wife, Chariot. However upon learning that Akko is in danger, he immediately joins forces to protect his daughter from Jennifer.
• Persona Non Grata: Quattro Scaglietti is banned from stepping foot into Luna Nova after her publishing a tabloid about the Akko/Andrew/Diana Love Triangle in Contest of Champions. However, that didn't stop her from continuously infiltrating Luna Nova (despite the tightened security measures) to gather more tabloid materials.
• The Plague: The Hive Virus in Evil Within.
• Politically Correct Villain: Jennifer turns out to be this. Unlike most example, however, being politically correct is Jennifer's entire motivation for her extreme views.
• Portal Cut: In Contest of Champions, Susan Manbavaran mentions that she once had to stitch back together the bodies of two guys who bisected themselves due to incorrect usage of a Sling Ring.
• Post-Modern Magik: Unlike Harry Potter and other wizarding world stories, the wizarding world here has fully intergrated muggle technology into their lives.^note  Though some hardliners like Finnelan continues to reject technology to this day
  • And of course, there is Croix's Magitronics.
  • As of Gospel of Aradia, the membership of Amon's organization includes a Waterbender, a dark sorcerer, the greatest witch ever existed in history, and... a sentient bioweapon with a completely scientific origin.
• Post-Stress Overeating: When Akko ran away from home in White Witch, her stepmother ate more than usual as a stress relief and then went on a draconian diet to loose these unwanted pounds (and forced the rest of the familiy on the diet with her).
• Powered Armor: The Purifiers shows up with these when they attack the International Chariot Race Tournament. They grant their wearers immunity to magic, but offers absolutely no defense against physical attacks.
• Precision F-Strike
  • Chapter 9 of White Witch has Amanda, when complaining about the detention Finnelan gave her, let out one so explicit that it was actively censored by the Fourth Wall.
  • Chapter 5 of Gospel of Aradia has Diana let out a "What the bloody hell are you doing?!" at Garie and Sabi when they blew up a wall in her family's manor. The first time in the series Diana swore.
• Public Domain Artifact: The Ring of Gyges.
• Race Lift: Akko is noted early in Seven Stars to have pale skin. Readers will initially assume this is due to her being the Star-Born Child, but it is later revealed that it is due to Akko being Chariot's daughter in this continuity, making her French instead of Japanese.
• Readings Blew Up the Scale: In Evil Within, Mrs. Kagari radiates so much rage in her video recording for Akko that the Sorcery Unit playing it blew up before it can finish the recording.

Croix: Huh, I guess the Sorcery Unit can only transmit so much rage.

• Red Herring
  • Croix is not the villain of Seven Stars despite all the clues pointing her out to be one. Then again, you have already saw this coming from miles away due to her basically doing what Snape did in Philosopher's Stone.
  • As he took Remus Lupin's role in White Witch, you'd have expected Master Noah to have some kind of Superpowered Evil Side that Akko & friends will have to fight or run from. But nope, his similarities with Remus comes to a complete halt just before that. Turns out he has more in common with Wormtail and Bellatrix Lestrange instead.
  • The entire character of Aradia the Eclipse Queen turns out to be one big Red Herring, both in and out of universe. She doesn't even exist.
• Recursive Fiction: The events of Evil Within inspired Annabel Creme to start a new book series titled Little Witch Academia, which is then adapted into an anime by Studio Trigger and released on Netflix...
• Recycled In Space: It's Harry Potter with Little Witch Academia characters.
• Related in the Adaptation:
  • Headmistress Holbrooke is Lotte's grandmother.
  • Chariot is Akko's biological mom.
  • Due to all pure-blood magic families being interrelated, this applies to Chariot, Diana, Amanda, Sucy and Akko. Particularly we learn that Diana and Sucy are second-cousins, while Akko and Amanda are second- or third-degree cousins.
• Rewatch Bonus: Who is the creator of the Hive Virus in Evil Within? Albert Wesker of Resident Evil fame, of course! Now take a look at the shop where the Hive Virus was sealed in, but is accidentally released by Akko. What is the shop's name? Biohazard, which is also what Resident Evil is called in Japan. Subtle Foreshadowing there...
• Riddling Sphinx: One of the many obstacles of the final game, is to solve a Sphinx's riddle. It begrudgingly allows Akko & Hōka Inumuta to pass, after the latter easily solves it.
• Running Gag: The Ninja Witch continuously trying to commit Seppuku whenever she screws up something in Evil Within.
  • Blair showing up totally naked (and then gets told to put some clothes on), much to Akko's (and sometimes her parents') chagrin.
• Sadly Mythtaken: Gora-Chan, who is referred to as a mandrake, is nothing like a mandrake here, where it is a Composite Character of the Devil's Snare and the Whomping Willow. Strangely enough, the manga where Gora-Chan came from did correctly depict it as a mandrake. ^note Little Witch Academia's canon depiction of a Mandrake
• Salem Is Witch Country: Amanda's ancestors are originally from Salem, but moved away after the Witch Trials happened.
• Science Fantasy: Well, sure, this is a story about a witch attending a witch school in a fantasy setting. However, sci-fi elements exists in the world as well, making it this trope.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: The Grandmaster does this twice in Contest of Champions. First after the Purifiers' attack on the International Chariot Race Tournament, and once again after losing a bet against Paul Hanbridge that bankrupted him..
• Seppuku: Played for Laughs in Evil Within whenever the Ninja Witch threatens to do this upon believing that she screwed up something.
• Setting Update: The Harry Potter books and films took place in the 1990s. Here, the presence of modern technology such as smartphones and drones tells the readers that it takes place in the 2010s. However, the commonplace existence of technology that are more advanced than what currently exist in real life indicates that it could be set 20 Minutes into the Future instead.
• Shout-Out:
  • Akko thinks that Croix holographic diary about her creating the virus in Evil Within is a time portal that will change history and make "monkeys take over the world" (in the next story, Ursula makes the reference when talking about Croix' time machine).
  • Before they met Akko, Luluco and the rest of the gang arrested Vegeta and Kakarot resp. Son Goku for "disturbing the peace".
  • The magic menagerie in White Witch had, among other creatures, a Hypno Toad, tribbles and chibi version of a squid girl.
  • The groups called on to help in apprehending Izetta in White Witch are, among others, the Strike Witches, the Fleet Girls, the Custody Enforcement Unit, the Frame Arms Girls and, for whatever reason, Arnold Schwarzenegger.
  • When Sucy's cousin Marito accidentally teleports himself to Italy during a teleportation exam, he landed on top of a plumber chasing a gorilla throwing barrels.
  • One of the security personnel at the campgrounds for the International Chariot Race is a certain Agent J with a neuralyzer.
• Slashed Throat: In a last ditch attempt to prevent Akko and Nico from escaping from Jennifer's grasps near the end of Contest of Champions, Ruvik throws a dagger at the duo which hits Nico in her throat the exact moment they teleport away. Thankfully, Nico survives and recovers.
• Spared by the Adaptation: in a sense:
  • Evelyn survives the events of Evil Within and manages to get away after Contest of Champions despite the characters she is a composite of - the Basilisk and Barty Crouch Junior - not surviving the events of the books/ films that they respectively appeared in. ^note  Though Crouch Junior's death in the book is only inferred to, and isn't mentioned at all in the film
  • Nico Minoru, who takes Cedric Diggory's role, survives the events of Contest of Champions. There is a point after the climax where Ruvik manages to hit her throat with a thrown dagger, and Nico looks like she might bleed out or drown in her own blood, but she survives and recovers anyway.
• The Stinger
  • Seven Stars: The leader of an unknown organization gets informed about the Shiny Rod, which Barbara (revealed to be brainwashed by them here) failed to acquire. The leader smirks by saying that everything is going according to planned, before closing the book he is reading, revealing its title to be Aradia: the Series.
  • Evil Within: A surviving fragment of the Hive Queen tries to wriggle its way out of Croix's lab, only to be captured by someone, possibly from the same unknown organization from the Stinger of Seven Stars.
  • White Witch: Amon arrives at an American town that was recently devastated by a tornado, seemingly to meet up with someone.
  • Contest of Champions: Croix goes to Dol Gudur to talk to a prisoner in the Maximum Security Wing, requesting him to help her in the fight against Jennifer. The prisoner initially refuses for reasons unknown, until Croix tells him that Jennifer is targeting Akko, to which he responds by revealing himself to be Akko's biological father...
• Super-Strength: Jasminka handily stops the Minotaur mid-charge with her bare hands. This is because she's actually a Titan Shifter.
• Super Supremacist: Inverted by the Purifiers, who are a bunch of Muggle Supremacists.
  • Averted and defied by Jennifer, who seeks to eliminate the very concept of bigotry by uniting all life in the world under one mind.
  • Played Straight in Gospel of Aradia which reveals that there are pureblood supremacists in the wizarding community, just like in Harry Potter.
• Synthetic Plague: The Hive Virus in Evil Within. It turned out to be sentient too.
  • Sucy reveals in Seven Stars that one of her ancestors was responsible for accidentally creating the Black Death.
• Take That!:
  • Harry Potter gets roasted several times in the series, both in- and out-of-universe.
  • Twilight meets the same fate in White Witch, where Amanda jokingly mentions watching Twilight as a possible punishment handed out by Elma.
  • In the prologue of Seven Stars, the news report talking about the emergence of Demi-Humans mentioned, of all things, "Americans electing a competent president" as though it is something the whole world should be surprised about.
  • In Evil Within, Akko scoffs at Amanda's idea that Croix's video diary of how she was duped by Albert Wesker into creating the Hive Virus may lead to a "nuclear monster missile". This is referring to the final episode of the anime, where the Noir Rod did go on to hijack a nuclear ICBM for the final phase of the fight against it.
  • In Contest of Champions, Sucy's mother claims that "no-one likes those damn hobbits".
  • Also in Evil Within, one of the victims of Garie and Sabi's previous pranks is Mary Poppins.
  • In Contest of Champions, people tend to call Facebook "Buttbook".
  • Constanze calls Tony Stark "some stupid American billionaire with an ugly goatee" in the same story.
• Tank Goodness: Instead of Flying Broomsticks, Pravda employs flying tanks for the International Chariot Race Tournament. Akko wonders if that's even legal.
• Teleporter Accident: A thankfully very mild one: When Sucy's mother and her daughters teleport to Akko to take her to the International Chariot Race, they get the coordinates not quite right, teleport into a wall and have to blast their way out.
  • Later, Susan also mentioned having to once put back together two guys who got a particularly nasty instance of this trope (they were saved by the wonders of magic medicine, though, and their biggest problem afterwards was a hefty fine just like in the Harry Potter source material the incident was taken from).
• Theme Naming: Amanda and her sisters all have their first names begin and end with the letter "A".
  Akko: So...all of you have names that begin and end with the letter "A"?
  Amelia (one of Amanda's sisters): Our mom has a weird sense of humor.
• Those Two Guys: Garie and Sabi Manbavaran, taking on Fred and George Weasley's roles from Contest of Champions onwards.
• Translation Convention: Every single piece of dialogue are in English, even the ones occurring between non-English speakers such as Akko's parents and her Japanese friends. The only exception is when Andrew tries to ask Akko for a dance in Contest of Champions where his request is legitimately spoken (and even written as such in narration) in Japanese.
• Troll: Professor Pisces' first appearance has her playing a prank on Akko by playing dead, causing the latter to panic.
• Truth Serum: It's not an actual "serum", it's a magic spell called "Veritas Curse".
• Try to Fit That on a Business Card: Eco Aurora-Christa Pendragon Lena Anherusu-Ilya Roransu Liliane-Muriel-Octavia-Robertine de la Rosa Resuperansu van de Compostela Avalon, Princess of the Avalon's Holy Dragon Imperial Family.
• Unfortunate Names: Diana's middle name is "Isabella", making her initials, to Akko's amusement, "D.I.C.".
• Unrelated in the Adaptation: It has been made clear early on that Akko's parents are not her biological parents here.
• Villain: Exit, Stage Left: Evelyn does this at the end of Contest of Champions.
• Walking Spoiler: There is just no way you can even mention the Great Witch Jennifer without giving away nearly the entire plot from Gospel of Aradia onwards.
• Wham Episode: The series has several that surprises the readers by altering the twists from the Harry Potter books.
  • In Seven Stars, although it's clear that Professor Croix is not the Big Bad (due to her taking Snape's role), it's still surprising that Barbara is the Big Bad.
  • In Evil Within, the true culprit of the Purifiers' attacks on Luna Nova isn't even on Akko's list of suspects: herself.
  • White Witch reveals that Aradia is not a real person, and that Chariot is doing something else on behalf of the Magic Council at the Grand Triskellion.
  • Contest of Champions has the biggest one of them all: Jennifer the Great Witch is Amon's boss.
• Wham Line: Contest of Champions has a really big one.

Jennifer: "I've been looking forward to this meeting for a while, Atsuko Kagari. We've never met before, but I know you've heard of me. My name is... the Great Witch Jennifer.

• What Happened to the Mouse?: Wangari is first introduced in Seven Stars, showing the contents of her trunk (something with a long, hairy leg) to some people. Said trunk and its contents are never mentioned again.
• What the Hell, Hero?: In Gospel of Aradia, Akko complains about why the Sphere wouldn't tell her about Jennifer seeking the Book of Dusk, Diana and her friends side against her on the matter, calling Akko out on her tendency to rush into situations blindly, and thus endangering herself and her friends.
  Diana: I think they had a very good reason to keep you in the dark on this subject. I’m sorry, Akko, you have a terrible habit of running into trouble without thinking things through. Look at your track record. In our first year, you went running after the Shiny Rod because you thought someone was going to steal it. But it was only in danger when you showed up.”
  Barbara: It’s true, I would never have gotten my hands on it if you hadn’t turned up.
  Akko: But-
  Diana: And in our second year, you went straight for Professor Croix’s lab instead of seeking help from the teachers, who had vastly more power and experience than you. You rushed in without thinking and allowed Eveline to claim Alessa’s body and regain full power.
  Akko: It worked out in the end-
  Diana: And then there was our third year, when you went chasing after Izetta, blatantly ignoring the warnings of everyone who were risking their lives to protect you!
  Akko: Izetta wouldn’t hurt me!
  Diana: We didn’t know that at the time! If the circumstances were different, she very well could’ve killed you! Do you understand how much that worries me?! Knowing the person I love could’ve died at any moment because she was too reckless to stop and just think for a moment?! How would you feel if myself or any of the others just ran into a life-or-death situation without saying anything?!
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Because of a bad encounter with her mother's familiar Lamia, a giant anaconda, Sucy developed an extreme phobia of snakes.
• With Catlike Tread: In Gospel of Aradia, Garie and Sabi blows up a wall in order to, ahem, "sneak" into a covert meeting between the higher-ups of the Celestial Sphere. The attempt fell flat because they got the wrong wall.
• Wrongfully Attributed: Jennifer didn't actually write the Aradia prophetic books, actually hated the subject of Foretelling and never made a prediction once in her life; The real author was another one of the Nine Olde Witches: An unnamed witch known by the moniker "Witch of Time".
• Your Days Are Numbered: In White Witch it's revealed that Ursula suffers from a yet-to-be-revealed lethal disease and has, if she's unlucky, only a few years to live, but keeps it secret from her students and Akko.
• Your Mom:
  • Professor Kiki is on the receiving end of this in Seven Stars.
  Kiki: *to an angry customer through her cellphone* "Hello, sir, how may I – well, I'm sorry if – no, I just haven't delivered it yet – Yes, I know you paid for overnight shipping – it doesn't have to be there until the end of – okay, now there's no need to be rude, I - you leave my mother out of this!"
  • Akko's nasty stepaunt Kirai claimed that, among other very insulting lies, Akko's birth mother was a street whore who got knocked up on the job and abandoned Akko on her sister's doorstep (mirroring the incident from the source material, where Vernon's horrible sister insulted Harry's parents).

---