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* MegaCrossover: So far, the stories have featured characters, ideas, and groups from MahouSenseiNegima, {{Tsukihime}}, and LoveHina, with hints of things from other continuities as well.

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* MegaCrossover: So far, the stories have featured characters, ideas, and groups from MahouSenseiNegima, {{Tsukihime}}, Manga/MahouSenseiNegima, VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}, and LoveHina, Manga/LoveHina, with hints of things from other continuities as well.
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** Guy Sculler's character design is very similar to Dante from DevilMayCry.

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** Guy Sculler's character design is very similar to Dante from DevilMayCry.Franchise/DevilMayCry.
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* OurDragonsAreDifferent: They are separated into two main types: Common Dragons and True Dragons. Common Dragons are the sort found everywhere in Mundus Magicus which are not sentient, while True Dragons are extremely rare, highly intelligent, and capable of great magic. The ancient dragon riders are thought to have ridden True Dragons, though the more modern version rides purpose-bred dragons that are a pale imitation of the real thing.

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* OurDragonsAreDifferent: They are separated into two main types: Common Dragons and True Dragons. Common Dragons (further subdivided into Greater and Lesser Dragons) are the sort found everywhere in Mundus Magicus which are not sentient, while True Dragons are extremely rare, highly intelligent, and capable of great magic. The ancient dragon riders are thought to have ridden True Dragons, though the more modern version rides purpose-bred dragons that are a pale imitation of the real thing.
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* OurDemonsAreDifferent: They mostly resemble those appearing in the manga, though youkai and oni are differentiated from actual demons, though they all have common roots. Demon society, based in Mundus Diabolicus, is ruled by a Demon King and features an extensive class system based on lineage, though anyone with the will and the power can try to depose the current Demon King and take his/her place. Youkai society is similar, but looser and based on Mundus Magicus. The oni are a dying race and have very little cohesion at this point in time. They are based in the region known as 'The Oni Lands' in the south of Mundus Magicus, though there is also a sizable population in Kyoto and several other areas on Earth.
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: They are separated into two main types: Common Dragons and True Dragons. Common Dragons are the sort found everyone in Mundus Magics which are not sentient, while True Dragons are extremely rare, highly intelligent, and capable of great magic. The ancient dragon riders are thought to have ridden True Dragons, though the more modern version rides purpose-bred dragons that are a pale imitation of the real thing.

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* OurDemonsAreDifferent: They mostly resemble those appearing in the manga, though youkai and oni are differentiated from actual demons, though they all have common roots. Demon society, based in Mundus Diabolicus, is ruled by a Demon King and features an extensive class system based on lineage, though anyone with the will and the power can try to depose the current Demon King and take his/her place. Youkai society is similar, but looser and based on in Mundus Magicus. The oni are a dying race and have very little cohesion at this point in time. They are based in the region known as 'The Oni Lands' in the south of Mundus Magicus, though there is also a sizable population in Kyoto and several other areas on Earth.
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: They are separated into two main types: Common Dragons and True Dragons. Common Dragons are the sort found everyone everywhere in Mundus Magics Magicus which are not sentient, while True Dragons are extremely rare, highly intelligent, and capable of great magic. The ancient dragon riders are thought to have ridden True Dragons, though the more modern version rides purpose-bred dragons that are a pale imitation of the real thing.
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** Max's "Hero Unit" costume in the festival, first mentioned in Chapter 10, is based heavily on the character Balmung from the DotHack series, complete with wings. Max's reaction? "I look ridiculous."

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** Max's "Hero Unit" costume in the festival, first mentioned in Chapter 10, is based heavily on the character Balmung from the DotHack Franchise/DotHack series, complete with wings. Max's reaction? "I look ridiculous."

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* BattleHarem

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* BattleHaremBattleHarem: Pretty much every girl Negi has ever taught has been part of his massive battle harem at one point or another, though few have grown as close as the first class he taught.



* HaremHero: Negi

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* AmplifierArtifact: The pactio artifacts.

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* AmplifierArtifact: The pactio artifacts.artifacts, as well as the occasional magic item such as the mask from the story The Ace of Spades.



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* MagicalIncantationMagicalIncantation: More implied than shown; the author tends to only use the name of the spell when characters cast magic for the sake of ease of reading.


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*ThouShaltNotKill: The vast majority of characters are definitely ''not'' comfortable with killing their enemies if at all possible.


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**The Rosario Family: Liliana's been training in Eva's resort for at least three years, and her older brother was a local superhero based in Mahora.
**The Cade Family: Lucy and Possum Cade have basically lived by themselves since early childhood, living off the land, both of them know hoodoo, and both of them are quite good in a fight.
**The Yamamoto Family: Kimi Yamamoto, a middle school student, is already a good enough swordswoman to beat up a powerful youkai girl, and has since begun training in Eva's resort. Her mother was a secret member of the Shinmeiryu, who are badass by default.
**The Miyoshi Family: Miyoshi Youko's mother held the title of Youkai King for a very long time, while Youko herself helped saved the Shinmeiryu from the brink of annihilation centuries ago, and her son from that era grew up to be a near-legendary warrior who died on the battle while over a century old.
**The Yoshida Family: Yoshida Ume's mother is the former leader of an infamous all-female biker gang, while her father was a lieutenant in another gang. Ume herself, when angry enough, can face down just about anybody with a glare.
**The Mochizuki Family: The Mochizukis are a yakuza family. Mochizuki Kagami is an extremely powerful mage, while her brother leads his own yakuza group, prefers a shotgun for inter-group diplomacy, and is only in his early twenties.
**The Blight Family: The Blights of the Black Fox Tribe of youkai are known as highly skilled bounty hunters and mercenaries.
**The Urashima Family: They are an ancient family considered the equal of the Aoyamas in some circles.
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*ActionGirl: Too many to count; virtually every girl in the series with any decent amount of screen time tends to fall into this.


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*RescueArc: There are several of these.
**Akira in Still Waters 1.
**Several characters in Still Waters 2.
**Aiko in Still Waters 3 Book 1 during the Kyoto trip.
**Ako in Still Waters 3 Book 2 and 3.


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*BigBrotherIsWatching: Subverted; while security cameras are in place all over Mahora, the constant good-natured conflict that takes place there leaves few of them active for long.


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*BridalCarry: Eva forces Negi to do this with an unconscious Misa in the first chapter of Book 1 when she notices him checking Misa out.


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*EveryoneCanSeeIt: Cyrr and Anya.


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*FightsLikeANormal: The majority of those who have trained in Eva's resort tend to hold back on the heavy duty magic and ki, preferring instead to take care of problems with the least amount of force necessary.


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*ImprobableAge: Everyone Negi's involved with is extremely skilled for their age due to all the training and everything they're exposed to.


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*LivingShadow: Jonus Hart's shadow servants are like this.


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*ParentalFavoritism: Makie and Rina's mom seems to favor Makie over Rina...no mention whatsoever is made of their brother.
*PlotRelevantAgeUp: All of the old class is older than they technically should be (twenty or twenty one) due to all the time they spent in Eva's resort. This goes especially for Negi, who looks as old as the students from his first class when he should be only sixteen. Kotarou seems to have undergone the same thing at some point after he ran away from Mahora; while he should be sixteen like Negi, he's obviously older.


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** Misa, Madoka, and Sakurako support Ako/Rale. Or did, anyway.
*SiblingRivalry: Makie and Rina have this. Rina resents Makie and has trouble catching up to her, while Makie isn't above teasing her little sister and intentionally doing things to annoy her.
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*BadassFamily: There are several of them.
**The Springfield Family: Prominent members are Negi and Nagi Springfield.
**The Stride Family: They're all well trained in swordplay and have bloodline abilities that allow them to use MagicMusic and CharmPerson.
**The Konoe Family: Eishun and now Konoka are both trained in Shinmeiryu swordsmanship, and Konoka is also a tremendously powerful mage.
**The Aoyama Family: While it's a large family in a much larger organization, that doesn't stop anyone with the name 'Aoyama' from being considered an instant threat within the Shinmeiryu.


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*BarBrawl: A rather spectacular example between the local mafia and the local bar toughs occurs during Misora's Arc in Book 1.


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*EasyAmnesia: Due to it's nature outside of reality, any normal person who enters Hodge's Bar instantly forgets that they ever entered it once they leave.


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*PossessionBurnout: Negi suffers from this after a ghost tries to channel shadow elemental magic through his body.


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*ShipperOnDeck: There are several of these.
**Reiko supports Negi/Ku Fei.
**Kamo and Asuna both support Negi/Nodoka.
**Chachazero supports Negi/Asuna.
**Eva supports Negi/Misa.
**Pretty much everybody supports Anya/Cyrr.


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*TastesLikeFriendship: Caro and Zazie share a riceball during their first meeting, and become fast friends.
*TeacherStudentRomance: Since Negi's been teaching for five out of the previous six years and matured fast due to time spent training in Eva's resort, he's had to deal with dozens upon ''dozens'' of former students trying to get in his pants.


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*WrestlerInAllOfUs: A variety of professional wrestling moves such as the Huricanrana, various submission holds, and even moves like the Frankensteiner and Power Bomb show up from time to time.
*YearOutsideHourInside: A special variety of Atlantean magic circle provides this effect, used by both Jonus Hart and Hasegawa Chisame.


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*YouShallNotPass: This happens from time to time, such as the time when Max Linell and Liliana Rosario defended the girls' dorm from mind controlled thugs in the Intruder arc in Book 1.
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** Eva pulls the same thing during a training exercise in SW3 Book 2, Chapter 28.

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* PsychicLink: This is a big part of how Negi's enormous group of followers (dozens upon dozens of girls by the time SW3 rolls around) coordinate their actions; it's all set by Nodoka and her pactio artifact.

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* PsychicLink: This is a big part of how Negi's enormous group of followers (dozens upon dozens of girls by the time SW3 [=SW3=] rolls around) coordinate their actions; it's all set by Nodoka and her pactio artifact.
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**Eva pulls the same thing during a training exercise in SW3 Book 2, Chapter 28.


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*LetsSplitUpGang: Misora's group decides to do this in the oni capital of Vairocana during Misora's Arc in Book 1. It goes about as well as you'd expect.


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*NoArcInArchery: Chizuru has a shadow-based spell that creates a magic bow and arrow; being made of magical energy, gravity doesn't affect the arrow.


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*PublicDomainArtifact: The three youkai treasures are the Imperial Regalia of Japan.
*PsychicLink: This is a big part of how Negi's enormous group of followers (dozens upon dozens of girls by the time SW3 rolls around) coordinate their actions; it's all set by Nodoka and her pactio artifact.

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* BearsAreBadNews: Just ask Ayaka.



* EverythingsWorseWithBears: Just ask Ayaka.
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* EveryoneRemembersTheStripper: Takane suffers from this. Again.
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In addition to these, there are a number of shorter stories and story collections (found along with the main stories of the series on the [[http://www.fanfiction.net/u/761097/RedPBass author's profile page]] at fanfiction.net) taking place during and between the three main entries in the series.

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In addition to these, there are a number of shorter stories and story collections (found along with the main stories of the series on the [[http://www.fanfiction.net/u/761097/RedPBass author's profile page]] at fanfiction.net) taking which take place during and between the three main entries in the series.
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* RobotMaids: Chachamaru's sisters, as well as Chachamaru and Rally sometimes.

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* RobotMaids: RobotMaid: Chachamaru's sisters, as well as Chachamaru and Rally sometimes.

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* BreakingTheHaughty: Happens to both [[spoiler: Ayumi and Masashi]], the latter ''twice''.

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* BreakingTheHaughty: BreakTheHaughty: Happens to both [[spoiler: Ayumi and Masashi]], the latter ''twice''.


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*ComedicUnderwearExposure: Happens to Asuna several times.
*CoolAirship: Fate's experimental high speed airship, the ''Dart''.
*CoolBoat: The ''Stalker Judith''


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*DarkIsNotEvil


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*HarmfulToMinors: There are quite a few examples, especially among the new class.


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*HesBack: Happens with Negi during the Intruder arc, after [[spoiler: he has a minor breakdown after letting his student Possum get kidnapped]].
*HorseOfADifferentColor: The "riding lizards" in the magic world.


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*NakedApron: Youko tries this once; it doesn't have the intended effect.


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*PowerLevels: Kamo is mentioned as having prepared charts showing this in the past.


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*LoveChart: Kamo prepares one of these in ''Meet The New Class''.
*OldSchoolBuilding: Taro and Sachiko find one of these out in the woods; they proceed to have a spar session in front of it.

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*BadassBystander: Mahora seems to be full of these by the time Still Waters 3 starts.



*BigDamnHeroes: This happens during the Kyoto arc with [[spoiler: Sachiko, Gin, Kai, Mako, and Kimi to save their classmate Abe Aiko]], and during the Intruder arc when [[spoiler: Negi arrives to fight Jonus Hart along with the team Eva was training, Sachiko, Kagmi, and Taro]].
*BreakingTheHaughty: Happens to both [[spoiler: Ayumi and Masashi]], the latter ''twice''.
*BucketBoobyTrap: It's done with an eraser rather than a bucket.



* ClassTrip: In Book 1. They go to Kyoto. Again.

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*ClassReunion: Book 1 serves as this for the old class.
* ClassTrip: In Book 1. They go to Kyoto. Again. They visit a lot of [[MuseumOfBoredom shrines and museums]].


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*DeadlyTrainingArea: Yuuna trains Possum in one in Eva's resort, chosen specifically by Yuuna for how dangerous it is.
*EasingIntoTheAdventure: Book 1 and most of Book 2 serve this purpose.


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*GraduationForEveryone: Everyone in Negi's old class graduated high school together. Justified, since the Mahora school system is an ElevatorSchool.


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*OneRiotOneRanger: This is pretty much how Negi's group deals with the various incidents that take place; it's pretty rare for them to send more than one person to any particular place, unless the extra is a supporter rather than a fighter.


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*SchoolFestival: It has its own arc in Book 2.


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*TournamentArc: It takes place during the SchoolFestival arc in Book 2.


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*BucketBoobyTrap: Rosemary muses about the pitfalls of this sort of thing in her character story.
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*PersonOfMassDestruction
*PlaceOfPower: Mahora, among others.
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*OfficialCouple: Natsumi and Kotaoru, and Konoka and Setsuna.
*OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Six years' worth between Still Waters 1 and 2, and Still Waters 3.


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*ParentalAbandonment: It'd be easier to count the characters with normal families than to list those who fit this trope.

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* AmplifierArtifacts: The pactio artifacts.

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*ForWantOfANail: This is basically how the Still Waters series works; Max Linell's arrival in Still Waters 1 is enough to distort the timeline to the point where they never even go to the magic world.


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*HaremHero: Negi
*ImprobablyFemaleCast


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*InTheHood: This is very common among the mages.


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*MacrossMissileMassacre: Done with magic arrows.
*MadeOfIron: Some characters who really should be dead after the damage they've taken walk out of it without any major injuries.
*AMagicContractComesWithAKiss
*MagicContractRomance: Implied
*MagicalIncantation
*MagicLand
*{{Magitek}}


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*MonsterMash: Vampires, Demons, Oni, Youkai, Ghosts...
*MundaneUtility
*MusclesAreMeaningless: Very few characters actually ''look'' as strong as they are.
*MutuallyExclusiveMagic: Different magic styles are extremely difficult to learn due to the way magic works; using ki is a totally different thing as well.
*MyKungFuIsStrongerThanYours
*MythArc
*{{Nosebleed}}


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*RobotMaids: Chachamaru's sisters, as well as Chachamaru and Rally sometimes.


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*{{Yakuza}}: They show up from time to time.
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*AlwaysInClass1
*AmplifierArtifacts: The pactio artifacts.


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*{{Badass}}: Mahora seems to be filled with these.
*BadassCrew: Everyone gathered around Negi, basically.


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*BattleAura: This is pretty common among the ki-users.
*BattleCouple: There are several of these: Konoka and Setsuna, Max and Akira and Jennifer, Natsumi and Kotarou...
*BattleHarem


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*{{BFS}}: Almost anyone who uses a sword that's not a katana uses one of these.
*BlackMagic: This is generally illegal among the mage community due to the danger it represents to both the user and those around him.
*BoardingSchool
*BreatherEpisode: When you see one of these, something seriously bad has just gone down, or will shortly.
*ByThePowerOfGreyskull: The magic activation keys, as well as "Adeat", the word used to activate a pactio card.
*CardsOfPower: The pactio cards.
*CharacterMagneticTeam: Negi has over sixty pactios by Still Waters 3, and picks up new friends and allies with every class he teaches. It's gotten to the point where the group actively tries to get people to go to other places, creating connections to quite a large number of places and organizations.
*CityOfWeirdos
*ClothingDamage: This happens from time to time when a battle gets particularly rough.


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*DefeatMeansFriendship: Assuming the enemy survives or was a complete monster.


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*{{Ecchi}}: Not as much as in the manga.
*ElaborateUniversityHigh


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*ElevatorSchool
*{{Expy}}: Several characters are expies of characters from other shows.
*FantasticFightingStyle: The Shinmeiryu and Urashima-ryu fighting styles.


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*FloatingContinent: Ostia. It is rumored that the Oni have their own version, but nobody's ever seen it.


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*PoliceAreUseless


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*WackyHomeroom
*YearInsideHourOutside: Eva's resort works this way.
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*RightManInTheWrongPlace: This happens ''very'' often.
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** '''Friend Group 2''': Miyoshi Youko, Suzuki Keiko, and Endo Haru
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* GenericCuteness: This is in effect, and even lampshaded in a way when, in the first chapter of ''Meet The New Class'', Haruna makes a comment about how all of Negi's students are attractive.

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*BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Averted. While most of the female characters stay out of physical fights, those who do get in them often end up with bruises, cuts, scrapes, and other injuries, though they are usually quickly tended to by healing magic.
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*WhyIsntItAttacking: This happens during Book 1, when Akira, Taro, and Kagami [[spoiler: meet Bud, a freakish vaguely humanoid creature, in Reiko's house]].
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* Timeskip: There are several time skips throughout the series, but the two major ones occur between SW1 and SW2 which spans a couple months, and SW2 and SW3, which spans six ''years''.

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*Timeskip: There are several time skips throughout the series, but the two major ones occur between SW1 and SW2 which spans a couple months, and SW2 and SW3, which spans six ''years''.

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* SpellBook: Chizuru is seen flipping through one of these in the magic shop in Book 1 when Eva takes Kagami, Taro, and Sachiko to buy supplies for their vampire hunt.



* TomeOfEldritchLore: Chizuru is seen flipping through one of these in the magic shop in Book 1 when Eva takes Kagami, Taro, and Sachiko to buy supplies for their vampire hunt.

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