History Anime / NappingPrincess

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Isshin Shijima just wanted [[spoiler: to honor his late daughters work and had no idea of the lengths that Watanabe would go to get her research.]]

* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Mr. Saijima is unaware of Watanabe's shady actions to acquire[[spoiler: his late daughter's research.]]

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Watanabe[[spoiler: is never seen after the climax of the film, but given his actions he was fired at the very least if not outright arrested for endangering Kokone.]]

* PoliceAreUseless: A justified example. Early in the story, you have a senior member of a respected company claiming corporate espionage against a down on his luck guy who doesn't have much of a defense and his young daughter who seems to be obstructing justice. As the plot unfolds and the events become more ambiguous, the police develop more doubt and wonder why the executive is treating them like his personal henchmen. In the end, the police still don't get to do much, but it's simply because the hero already had all of the pieces they needed to resolve things.

* WhatDidIDoLastNight: Most action scenes happen in Heartland... and Kokone often awakes confused in a different location.

* RealPlaceBackground: Kokone's hometown is based on Kojima, a town in Japan's Okayama prefecture famous for its jeans industry. It also offers access to the Great Seto Bridge, the world's longest two-tiered bridge system, which appears in several key shots and promotional materials.

* RealPlaceBackground: Kokone's hometown is based on Kojima in Japan's Okayama prefecture, a town mostly known for its extensive jeans production. It also offers access to the Great Seto Bridge, the world's longest two-tiered bridge system, which appears in several key shots and also features extensively in the movie's promotional materials.

* RealPlaceBackground: Kokone's hometown is based on Kojima in Japan's Okayama prefecture, a town mostly known for its extensive jeans production. It also offers access to the Great Seto Bridge, the world's largest longest two-tiered bridge system, which appears in several key shots and also features extensively in the movie's promotional materials.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: All of Ancien's precarious parkour ultimately [[spoiler:gets her killed when she falls from an [[HumongousMecha Enginehead]]]].

* RealityEnsues: All of Ancien's precarious parkour ultimately [[spoiler:gets her killed when she falls from an [[HumongousMecha Enginehead]]]].

* RealPlaceBackground: Kokone's hometown is based on Kojima in Japan's Okayama prefecture, which is mostly known for its extensive jeans production. It also offers access to the Great Seto Bridge, the world's largest longest two-tiered bridge system, which appears in several key shots and also features extensively in the movie's promotional materials.

* RealPlaceBackground: Kokone's hometown is based on Kojima in Japan's Okayama prefecture, which mostly known for its extensive jeans production. It also offers access to the Great Seto Bridge, the world's largest longest two-tiered bridge system, which appears in several key shots and also features extensively in the movie's promotional materials.

* EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses: Kokone's persona in Heartland is the land's princess (and where the movie gets its name). However, it ends up plot relevant in two different ways. Since the characters in Heartland have parallels in real life, it turns out the real Ancien actually does [[spoiler:have an important family]]. Also, Ancien being the daughter of the king, is a hint that [[spoiler:she's not Kokone after all, but her mother]].

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[[caption-width-right:300: Wands are lame, use a tablet.]]

* FridgeBrilliance: It seems as if Kokone's dreams give her information she shouldn't have about things she doesn't know in the real world. However, after it's revealed that [[spoiler:Heartland was based on stories of her mother]], it suddenly becomes likely that she really ''had'' been given that information about the real world, and just never realized it.
** Ancien's friendship with Peach, despite her not being related to him in Heartland like Kokone is in real life, makes a lot more sense when you discover [[spoiler:Ancien was her young adult mother, not a little girl. Kokone just imagined herself in the role when ''she'' was a little girl]].
** The revelation that the stories of Heartland were about [[spoiler:Kokone's parents]] explains why Morio didn't have a role in them (and there wasn't as easy of a role for him [[spoiler:to project himself onto like Kokone did Ancien]]).
* FridgeLogic: Based on the scenes we get from the real world and where the real world picks back up, Kokone had to have fallen asleep in one of two places. Either while [[spoiler:talking to the Chairman]], and then dragged up to a high floor in the Shijima Motors building for some reason, or she was still partially awake while going to that spot, and fell asleep after [[spoiler:diving for the tablet]]. Either way, her waking up while [[spoiler:falling and most of the Heartland climax having no parallel in real life]] makes it the strangest place she fell asleep all movie.

* PoliceAreUseless: A justified example. Early in the story, you have a senior member of a respected company claiming corporate espionage against a down on his luck guy who doesn't have much of a defense, and his young daughter who seems to be obstructing justice. As the plot unfolds and the events become more ambiguous, the police develop more doubt and wonder why the executive is treating them like his personal henchmen. In the end, the police still don't get to do much, but it's simply because the hero already had all of the pieces they needed.

* GogglesDoNothing: In her pirate outfit, Ancien has a pair of goggles. When she climbs to the outside of a towering Enginehead, she actually ''discards'' them (and her pirate hat), despite it seeming like the high altitude would make the goggles useful.

* KeepTheReward: Kokone's father Momotaro likes to do extra work on his jobs, like transforming an old vehicle into a self-driving one during a job to fix a tire, but refuses to be paid extra for it (although he will take food instead of money). This annoys Kokone and is one of the reasons they seem to be in some level of PerpetualPoverty (leading her to win money playing Mahjong against her father's friends).

* GogglesDoNothing: In her pirate outfit, Ancient has a pair of goggles. When she climbs to the outside of a towering Enginehead, she actually ''discards'' them (and her pirate hat), despite it seeming like the high altitude would make the goggles useful.

* EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses: Kokone's persona in Heartland is the land's princess (and where the movie gets its name). Ends up plot relevant as well, in two different ways. Since the characters in Heartland have parallels in real life, it turns out the real Ancien actually does [[spoiler:have an important family]]. Also, Ancien being the daughter of the king, is a hint that [[spoiler:she's not Kokone after all, but her mother]].

* KeepTheReward: Kokone's father Momotaro likes to do extra work on his jobs, like transforming an old vehicle into a self-driving one during a job to fix a tire, but refuses to be paid extra for it (although he will take food instead of money). This annoys Kokone and is one of the reasons they seem to be in some level of PerpetualPoverty.

* SchoolUniformsAreTheNewBlack: Kokone wears her uniform throughout most of the movie. Justified in that she is tired and falls asleep immediately after school, and once she wakes up is forced to hide and spends essentially the rest of the story on the run.

* CoolCar: Heart, the Heartland counterpart of Kokone's father's motorcycle, can fly, transform into a rideable robot, and was brought to life by Ancien's magic.

* LivingToys: Ancien's stuffed toy is brought to life in Heartland using her magic.

* HumongousMecha: The Engineheads in Heartland are towering mechs built to stop elemental {{Kaiju}} from destroying the city.