History VisualNovel / CiconiaWhenTheyCry

* AmbiguousGender: [[SplitPersonality Split personalities]] Miyao and Meow have very clear gender identities, but their biological sex remains a mystery. Despite identifying as a male, several scenes shows Miyao having discomfort with Jayden flirting with him, and the fact that he has a small and frail body as acknowledged by both Miyao and Meow. While Meow promised Jayden to reveal the truth to him during their date, the events in ''Phase 1'' prevented her to do so.

* UterineReplicator: One method of birth used in the world following WorldWarIII, in order to restore the population to its pre-war level. How moral it is depends on the faction − the AOU (northern countries) and ACR (Africa) now produced babies in factories and raise them in state institutions, while in the COU (South-East Asia and Middle East), ABN (Western Europe and Western Asia) and LATO (Latin America), people still give birth naturally. It is mentioned, however, than even men can technically get pregnant now.

* SuppressedHistory: Despite being mentioned a few times by the Gauntlet Knights, no information can be found about the exact causes or unfolding of WorldWarIII. Reseach about it is forbidden by an international treaty, explicitly to prevent countries to each create conflicting versions of the war's history that could spark future conflicts.

* ArcWords: "All is in the name of guiding humanity down the right path." The phrase is uttered by several characters more or less related to the AncientConspiracy; the thing is, not all of those character seem to agree on what the "right path" ''is'', which blurs its meaning.

* HyperspaceArsenal: The Gauntlet's Dimensional Container System, as explained in the prologue, allows a single soldier to carry as much weaponry as a warship. It's not perfectly safe, as the prologue explains, as many Gauntlet Knights have accidentally died when they tried to access it only for something inside to explode.

** The Arctic Ocean Union, which the main characters represent, covers Northern Japan, Russia, Northern Europe and North America.
** The Central Ocean Union covers South and South-East Asia, much of the Middle East and Madagascar.
** The Africa Commonwealthrealm covers the entire African continent.
** The Abrahamic Brother Nations cover Central and Southern Europe, as well as the Mediterranean Middle-East.
** The Latin American Treaty Organization covers all of Latin America [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers plus Azerbaijan]] due to some political circumstances.

** The Latin American Treaty Organization covers all of Latin America [[OddOneOut plus Azerbaijan]] due to some political circumstances.

* UterineReplicator: One method of birth used in the world following WorldWarIII, in order to restore the population to its pre-war. How moral it is depends on the faction − the AOU (northern countries) and ACR (Africa) now produced babies in factories and raise them in state institutions, while in the COU (South-East Asia and Middle East), ABN (Western Europe and Western Asia) and LATO (Latin America), people still give birth naturally. It is mentioned, however, than even men can technically get pregnant now.

* SocialMediaIsBad: Subverted, social media allows the characters to communicate across languages and cultures.

* ApocalypseHow: Several methods are used in the story… ''[[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill simultaneously.]]''

* BrainComputerInterface: The "selcom", used by every character. Supposedly it is safe by only accessing unused areas of the brain.

* ChildProdigy: Invoked and deconstructed. The GK raising system picks out talented children early on... and pits them against low-performing students in order to build the confidence of the "talented" children.

* DoomsdayClock: After the end of each chapter, it slowly approaches midnight as the plot advances, which is heavily implied to be World War IV.

* BalkanizeMe: During the events of WorldWarIII, Japan was split in two following the fall of a bomb right in the middle of Kyoto. Afterwards, Northern and Southern Japan were eventually merged in the AOU and COU respectively.
* BrainComputerInterface: Used by every character. Supposedly it is safe by only accessing unused areas of the brain.

The usual team will return, with regulars like Dai and Xaki composing the music and [=Ryuukishi07=] writing the story and drawing the character sprites in his amateurish artstyle fans have come to know and love. The English translation will be officially handled by Witch Hunt, the team who already translated ''Umineko'' and ''VisualNovel/RoseGunsDays'' − the English and Japanese versions will be released simultaneously.

* ReusedCharacterDesign: The game perpetuates the tradition in 07th Expansion games of featuring an [[VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry Okonogi]] lookalike, just like ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'' and ''VisualNovel/RoseGunsDays'' before it. MadScientist Vier Dreissig is also a spitting image of Takano from ''Higurashi'' and ''[[Manga/HotarubiNoTomoruKoroNi Hotarubi]]'' ([[BilingualBonus her name actually comes from "vier-und-dreissig", which means 34 in German]], a number associated with Takano in ''Higurashi'').

* SuppressedHistory: Despite being mentioned a few times by the Gauntlet Knights, no information can be found about the exact causes or unfolding of WorldWarIII. Reseach about it is forbidden by an international treaty, explicitly to prevent

!! ''Ciconia no Naku Koro ni'' features the following tropes: (CAUTION: Spoilers are unmarked.)

* AmbiguousGender: Miyao.
* ApocalypseHow: Several methods in story:

* CrapSaccharineWorld: Despite huge progresses in technology, quality of life and averted environmental crises, the wealth disparity between people still exists, and many corrupted people of the generation of old routinely continue their dirty business.

* CastOfSnowflakes: The first teaser and opening movie of ''Ciconia'' shows us the various Gauntlet Knights, with distinctive faces, costumes, and ethnicities.

* ImprobablyFemaleCast: The vast majority of Gauntlet Knights appearing in the story are female, justified in story by females having a larger chance for traits allowing them to be Gauntlet knights.

* ReusedCharacterDesign: The game perpetuates the tradition in 07th Expansion games of featuring an [[VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry Okonogi]] lookalike, just like ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'' and ''VisualNovel/RoseGunsDays'' before it. The opening clip also shows a spitting image of Takano from ''Higurashi'' and ''[[Manga/HotarubiNoTomoruKoroNi Hotarubi]]'' and Tomitake from ''Higurashi''. All of them are confirmed to be expies of them in the story proper.
* SpeakingSimlish: The military communication in the teaser is delivered in a garbled speech… except for the main character's name.

* SuppressedHistory: Despite being mentioned a few times by the Gauntlet Knights, no information can be found about WorldWarIII, as if it had never happened at all.
* UterineReplicator: The main method of birth in the world following WorldWarIII, used in order to restore the population to previous amount before the war. How moral it is depends on the faction.

** World war 4.

** Hate virus.
* BalkanizeMe: During the events of WorldWarIII, Japan was split in two following the fall of a bomb right in the middle of Kyoto. Following that event, Northern and Southern Japan were eventually merged in the AOU and COU respectively.

* DoubleReverseQuadrupleAgent: Miyao's dad, Mitake Toujirou, is a part of multiple groups with contrasting goals.
* DownerEnding: The ending of phase 1. While World War IV is on a temporary halt, the earth is still on road for extinction if nothing is done. The heroes still have no clue for the groups trying to bring WW4 and are forced to kill some of their friends or be killed for treason.

* UterineReplicator: The main method of birth in the world following World War 3, used in order to restore the population to previous amount before the war. How moral it is depends on the faction.

* ImprobablyFemaleCast: Although the protagonist is male, the vast majority of Gauntlet Knights appearing in the story are female, which is quite unusual for a military-themed story.

!! ''Ciconia no Naku Koro ni'' features the following tropes:

* NoodleIncident: Despite being mentioned a few times by the Gauntlet Knights, no information can be found about WorldWarIII, as if it had never happened at all.

* ReusedCharacterDesign: The game perpetuates the tradition in 07th Expansion games of featuring an [[VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry Okonogi]] lookalike, just like ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'' and ''VisualNovel/RoseGunsDays'' before it. The opening clip also shows a spitting image of Takano from ''Higurashi'' and ''[[Manga/HotarubiNoTomoruKoroNi Hotarubi]]'' and Tomitake from ''Higurashi''.
* SpeakingSimlish: The military communication in the teaser is delivered in a garbled speech… except for the main character's name.

* DoomsdayClock: After the end of each chapter, it slowly approach midnight as the plot advances, which is heavily implied to be World War IV.

* DoomsdayClock: After the end of each chapteer, it slowly approach midnight as the plot advances, which is heavily implied to be World War IV.