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* TheResolutionWillNotBeTelevised: A WebSerialNovel titled ''Gen'ei ni Mau Hakugin'' (The Silver That Dances in the Illusion) will serve as an epilogue to the series, and it focuses on Silvia Leonhart, wielder of the Justice card.
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* PeekABangs: Akari in her MagicalGirl state.
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Akari Taiyo is an aspiring fortuneteller following in the footsteps of her late mother. She is very interested in tarot cards and her fortunes have an uncanny accuracy. When she's attacked by monsters, her mother's tarot deck releases its hidden power and Akari transforms by using The Sun card.
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Akari Taiyo is an aspiring fortuneteller fortune teller following in the footsteps of her late mother. She is very interested in tarot cards and her fortunes have an uncanny accuracy. When she's attacked by monsters, her mother's tarot deck releases its hidden power and Akari transforms by using The Sun card.
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* MegaTwintails: Etia. Combined, they're larger than she is.
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''Day Break Illusion'' (''il sole penetra le illusioni ~ Day Break Illusion'' [[note]]幻影ヲ駆ケル太陽 transliterated as ''Gen'ei o Kakeru Taiyou''[[/note]]) is a dark [[TarotMotifs tarot-themed]] MagicalGirlWarrior anime by Creator/{{AIC}} released in the [[Main/Summer2013Anime Summer of 2013]].
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''Day Break Illusion'' (''il sole penetra le illusioni ~ Day Break Illusion'' [[note]]幻影ヲ駆ケル太陽 transliterated as ''Gen'ei o Kakeru Taiyou''[[/note]]) is a dark [[TarotMotifs tarot-themed]] MagicalGirlWarrior anime by Creator/{{AIC}} released in the [[Main/Summer2013Anime Summer of 2013]].
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* RapunzelHair: Most MagicalGirl forms. Seira and Hinata qualify even in their normal forms.
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* AdultFear:
** The Daemonia seem to be designed to invoke this. Most strikingly, the one in the third episode goes after children.
** The fifth episode brings AdultFear to the front: being bankrupt, driven to suicide from mounting debt, being unable to be a proper parent to your child, and losing your most loyal friend. If this anime is meant to be a {{Seinen}}, it hits right in the feels.
** The Daemonia seem to be designed to invoke this. Most strikingly, the one in the third episode goes after children.
** The fifth episode brings AdultFear to the front: being bankrupt, driven to suicide from mounting debt, being unable to be a proper parent to your child, and losing your most loyal friend. If this anime is meant to be a {{Seinen}}, it hits right in the feels.
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* {{Mundanger}}: being bankrupt, driven to suicide from mounting debt, being unable to be a proper parent to your child, and losing your most loyal friend. If this anime is meant to be a {{Seinen}}, it hits right in the feels.
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* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Seira and Etia have the actual blue hair. Luna has green, Ariel pink, and Meltina lavender.
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* MulticolouredHair: Tenebrae forms have gradient hair.
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* ApologeticAttacker: Quite a few Daemonia are like this.
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* AsLongAsThereIsEvil: [[spoiler: Cerebrum says the Daemonia are this. [[UnreliableExpositor It's not clear how right he is.]]]]
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* AsLongAsThereIsEvil: [[spoiler: Cerebrum [[spoiler:Cerebrum says the Daemonia are this. [[UnreliableExpositor It's not clear how right he is.]]]]
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* CheekyMouth: An unfortunate effect of the art style.
* ChildSoldiers: Akari and Luna are twelve, and Seira and Ginka are thirteen, and they all must fight Daemonia.
** ChildrenForcedToKill: And defeating Daemonia means killing the humans they've possessed.
* ChildSoldiers: Akari and Luna are twelve, and Seira and Ginka are thirteen, and they all must fight Daemonia.
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** TentacleRope: Said tentacles are usually used for binding and squeezing.
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* ExtranormalInstitute: Sephiro Fiore basically operates as a school in addition to a MagicalGirl base.
** WizardingSchool: It takes the guise of a fortune-telling school. That said, they don't actually teach magic.
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* ExtraStrengthMasquerade: Dead Daemonia are RetGone, getting rid of the most obvious evidence.
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* FourGirlEnsemble: Not as light-hearted a show as you'd normally expect from this trope, but it more-or-less fits.
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* GetOutOfJailFreeCard: The RetGone effect is surprisingly convenient for all main characters, allowing them to kill their targets with no legal consequences. Akari would have been institutionalized for psychotic murder in the first episode without this effect (because who would have believed that her cousin turned into a murderous demon?).
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* GreenEyedMonster: The plot of episode 4. See also: Fuyuna.
* GroundhogDayLoop: [[spoiler: Cerebrum traps Akari in one in Episode 12, forcing her to relive the day she killed Fuyuna again and again.]]
* GroundhogDayLoop: [[spoiler: Cerebrum traps Akari in one in Episode 12, forcing her to relive the day she killed Fuyuna again and again.]]
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* {{Kimodameshi}}: Episode 7. [[LampshadeHanging Even though the girls are fighting Daemonia all the time.]]
* LateArrivalSpoiler: Cerebrum was only added to the website's character page when the last episode came out. When he was added [[spoiler: the page shows his Diablos card is the Sun.]]
* LateArrivalSpoiler: Cerebrum was only added to the website's character page when the last episode came out. When he was added [[spoiler: the page shows his Diablos card is the Sun.]]
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* MagicalGirl: Not particularly emphasized, but...
** MagicalGirlWarrior: All the elements are there.
* MagicalGirlGenreDeconstruction: Angst-filled. The fact the girls have to kill is just the start.
** MagicalGirlWarrior: All the elements are there.
* MagicalGirlGenreDeconstruction: Angst-filled. The fact the girls have to kill is just the start.
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* PhantomZone: Where the fights seem to take place.
** LayeredWorld: The Daemonia seem to roughly correspond to whatever it's controlling in the real world.
* {{Planimal}}: Fuyuna's Daemonia.
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** GetOutOfJailFreeCard: Which is however surprisingly convenient for all main characters, allowing them to kill their targets with no legal consequences. Akari would have been institutionalized for psychotic murder in the first episode without this effect (because who would have believed that her cousin turned into a murderous demon?).
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* [[spoiler:RunningBothSides: Leguzario funds Sephiro Fiore and orders Cerebrum about, although they seem rather dismissive of his goals.]]
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* SequelHook: The anime ends with enough mysteries to leave open the possibility of a continuation.
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* ShownTheirWork: There's some perfectly accurate discussions of tarot in-show, and the OnTheNext previews even go into detail about the symbolism of the Major Arcana cards. There's still some small errors though, like calling the Magician the first card in Tarot and standing for infinite possibilities. Well no, that would be the Fool.
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* TarotMotifs: Yes.
** ShownTheirWork: There's some perfectly accurate discussions of tarot in-show, and the OnTheNext previews even go into detail about the symbolism of the Major Arcana cards. There's still some small errors though, like calling the Magician the first card in Tarot and standing for infinite possibilities. Well no, that would be the Fool.
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* TragicMonster: Victims of the Diablos Tarot.
* TransformationSequence: This wouldn't be a magical girl anime without one.
** HellGate: The portal that sends them to action disturbingly resembles one.
** [[TakeOffEveryZig Take Off Every Magical Girl]]: The main characters transform as they are deployed from the Sephiro Fiore base to the premise.
* TransformationSequence: This wouldn't be a magical girl anime without one.
** HellGate: The portal that sends them to action disturbingly resembles one.
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** Episode 12: [[spoiler: Luna returns to normal, and Ginka makes a seemingly UnexplainedRecovery. (Said recovery is explained next episode.)]]
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''il sole penetra le illusioni ~ Day Break Illusion'' (幻影ヲ駆ケル太陽 transliterated as ''Gen'ei o Kakeru Taiyou'') is a dark [[TarotMotifs tarot-themed]] MagicalGirlWarrior anime by Creator/{{AIC}} released in the [[Main/Summer2013Anime Summer of 2013]].
Akari Taiyo is an aspiring fortuneteller following in the footsteps of her late mother. She is very interested in tarot cards and her fortunes have an uncanny accuracy. When she's attacked by monsters, her mother's tarot deck releases its hidden power and Akari transforms by using The Sun card.
Later, she's contacted by the secret magical organization Sephiro Fiore. As it turns out, Akari is from one of the twenty-two bloodlines that wield the power of the Elemental Tarot, magical cards that gain their power from nature. These girls use their powers to protect the balance of the world from the Diabolos Tarot, evil cards that feed on the souls of humans and create monsters called Daemonia.
Unfortunately, those who wield the power of the Elemental Tarot bear a horrible burden, [[FirstEpisodeTwist for they are both saviors]] [[ShootTheDog and executioners]]...
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!! Tropes associated with the anime:
* AdultFear:
** The Daemonia seem to be designed to invoke this. Most strikingly, the one in the third episode goes after children.
** The fifth episode brings AdultFear to the front: being bankrupt, driven to suicide from mounting debt, being unable to be a proper parent to your child, and losing your most loyal friend. If this anime is meant to be a {{Seinen}}, it hits right in the feels.
* AllLowercaseLetters: The Italian part of the title is officially written as such.
* AllThereInTheManual: [[http://www.geneitaiyo.com/ The website]] includes a fair amount of useful information not in the show, like [[http://www.geneitaiyo.com/worldword/word.html a glossary]], [[http://www.geneitaiyo.com/worldword/daemonia.html a bestiary]], and [[http://www.geneitaiyo.com/story/ episode previews]].
* AndIMustScream: It appears that the hosts are still conscious after being turned into puppets of the Daemonia.
* AndTheAdventureContinues: [[spoiler: But see SequelHook.]]
* AnimeHair: Oh yeah. Most striking are Akari's hair crescent and Luna's hair strips, but none of the major characters really have plausible styles.
* ApologeticAttacker: Quite a few Daemonia are like this.
* ArtStyleDissonance: Cute characters, dark plot.
* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: Foreign characters' names aren't particularly plausible.
* AsLongAsThereIsEvil: [[spoiler: Cerebrum says the Daemonia are this. [[UnreliableExpositor It's not clear how right he is.]]]]
* AssholeVictim: From episode 4, Yume isn't a particularly pleasant person. And then her killer goes on to be an even bigger example.
* AttackItsWeakPoint: Daemonia can only be defeated by destroying their tarot card, which is protected by a sphere somewhere in their body.
* BarbieDollAnatomy: Everybody, but most notably [[spoiler:Luna, who goes topless as a Daemonia]].
* BecauseDestinySaysSo: A major theme.
* BigCreepyCrawlies: The third Daemonia seen. The smaller insects it creates are also about the size of a bird.
* BigDamnHeroes:
** Seira, Luna, and Ginka save Akari from being killed by a Daemonia in episode 1.
** Priscilla and Meltina step in to save Akari in episode 3.
* BillionsOfButtons: The device used to send the girls into combat has a particularly MadScience-looking take on this trope.
* BlackCloak: Cerebrum wears this. It has some blue parts, but is very much in the spirit of the trope.
* BodyHorror: How does Kiyone turn full Daemonia? Cerebrum's ''torso splits open and releases the nascent Daemonia'', which eats her.
* BreatherEpisode: Episode 7 is mostly light and comedic SliceOfLife, with no Daemonia battles, horrific deaths, or any of the other nasty things that took up most of the preceding screentime.
* CheekyMouth: An unfortunate effect of the art style.
* ChildSoldiers: Akari and Luna are twelve, and Seira and Ginka are thirteen, and they all must fight Daemonia.
** ChildrenForcedToKill: And defeating Daemonia means killing the humans they've possessed.
* CombatTentacles: Common. The plant Daemonia uses vines, the ship Daemonia uses anchors, Luna has ''her'' vines...
** TentacleRope: Said tentacles are usually used for binding and squeezing.
* TheCorrupter: Cerebrum works by telling people that they should give in to their negative emotions, and giving them a Diablos Tarot card to "help".
* CostumePorn: Low level, but there's a number of detailed outfits.
* CrapsackWorld: Anyone can become a Daemonia, even the magical girls who fight them.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:How Seira's best friend Manami died. A Daemonia sucked her toward it like a vacuum cleaner, impaling her through one of its many nails. The worst part? It was the blunt end of the nail, which means her internals are likely splattered everywhere through the air from the sheer impact. The audience gets a GoryDiscretionShot, Seira... not so fortunate.]]
* DarkerAndEdgier: Compared to the average MagicalGirl series. For one, the magical girls actually have to kill the monster-possessed humans.
* DarkestHour: The end of episode 10. [[spoiler:Luna's been turned into wolf-Daemonia, Seira, Meltina, and Priscilla are unable to fight, leaving Akari to fight Daemonia alone, and then their school is set on fire by an angry mob manipulated by Cerebrum. And then, next episode, Akari learns the AwfulTruth about her birth and is cornered by Cerebrum.]]
* DealWithTheDevil: Daemonia make contracts with their victims in exchange for granting a wish that they may not actually fulfill. Then the contractee goes nuts.
* DemonicPossession: The monsters called Daemonia latch onto the souls of people who undergo extreme negative emotions, such as jealousy or grief.
* DownerBeginning: In the first episode, Fuyuna is possessed by a Daemonia and Akari accidentally kills her when her powers awaken. [[DarkerAndEdgier This sets the tone for the rest of the series.]]
* EldritchAbomination: All of the Daemonia.
* ElegantGothicLolita: Etia and Ariel are the most obvious (Etia even has a ParasolOfPrettiness!), and Akari's and Luna's fashions draw inspiration from gothic lolita as well.
* ElementalPowers: Less common than you'd think, what with the girls being empowered by the "Elemental Tarot", but still present.
* EmbarrassingOldPhoto: The girls' prize for winning a treasure hunt in episode 7 is an embarrassing picture of Akari sleeping as a toddler.
* EmotionsVsStoicism: The main conflict between Akari and Seira. Seira thinks it's a hindrance to listen to the [[TragicMonster Daemonia]], as it causes hesitation in battle. [[spoiler:Later, Seira seems to prove her own point when she hesitates against a Daemonia possessing a person she knew. Akari then turns Seira's logic around by claiming that the inability to kill a Daemonia after hearing it is caused by a lack of resolve.]]
* EvilKnockoff: If episode 8 is anything to go by, [[spoiler:the original Daemonia of each Diablos Tarot is an exact replica of the current user of their Elemental counterpart, sporting a negative color scheme]].
* ExtranormalInstitute: Sephiro Fiore basically operates as a school in addition to a MagicalGirl base.
** WizardingSchool: It takes the guise of a fortune-telling school. That said, they don't actually teach magic.
* EyeTake: The very last thing we see in episode 2 is Akari's eyes widening in horror as a father and son nearly get crushed.
* FightWoosh: Right before the second fight, the screen twists into a fancy vortex, and Akari finds herself up against a monster.
* ForDoomTheBellTolls: The opening song begins with disembodied bell tolling and a shot of the heroines on a graveyard, then suddenly turns into a HeavyMetal guitar riff solely because of RuleOfCool. The effect is really stunning.
* ForgottenFirstMeeting: The DVD bonus episode reveals Luna rescued Akari from a Daemonia before the events of the series, and she passes by Fuyuna when leaving the library. Fuyuna was retrieving a book she left there, which Luna had read and was inspired by.
* FortuneTeller: Some of the characters are one. The main character Akari, her late mother Hinata, as well as the three women who were Hinata's colleagues and are now Akari's mentors. All of them use tarot.
* FourGirlEnsemble: Not as light-hearted a show as you'd normally expect from this trope, but it more-or-less fits.
* FutileHandReach: A fireman does this as Akari runs towards a burning building. He ''could'' have stopped her, but instead he just stands there with an outstretched arm.
* GenericCuteness: Episode 4 has a certain character being particularly attractive as a minor plot point. It's unlikely viewers would notice if it hadn't been pointed out.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: Seen on the possessed people.
* GreenEyedMonster: The plot of episode 4. See also: Fuyuna.
* GroundhogDayLoop: [[spoiler: Cerebrum traps Akari in one in Episode 12, forcing her to relive the day she killed Fuyuna again and again.]]
* HalfHumanHybrid: [[spoiler:Akari's dad was a Daemonia.]]
* HarmfulToMinors: The main four characters are all around 12-13 years old. ''They have to kill people''.
* TheHeartless: The Daemonia, more or less.
* HereditaryHairstyle: Akari has Hinata's [[BuffySpeak hair crescent thing]].
* HeroicLineage: Inherent, as the Elemental Tarot powers are hereditary.
* HeroicSacrifice: In episode 8, [[spoiler:Ginka battles and defeats her own Diablos counterpart, causing both to disappear]].
* HollywoodFire: The fire in episode one fits every point listed.
* IBelieveICanFly: Regardless of the card or the transformation, it appears that all the {{magical girl}}s can fly, at least when they're fighting Daemonia.
* ICannotSelfTerminate: Several of the Daemonia the heroines talk to beg to be killed.
* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: The episode titles themselves are normal, but they're referred as "episodio", and numbered with roman numerals.
* InTheBlood: If you're not of proper bloodline, you simply can't use Elemental tarot.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:Manami, Seira's friend, in a flashback]]. Done with a GoryDiscretionShot, but [[NothingIsScarier this doesn't really help]].
* IWasToldThereWouldBeCake: Episode 7. Finish the ''kimodameshi'', and the Tarot ladies will give you cake. This being a BreatherEpisode, the cake is ''not'' a lie. [[PetTheDog Thankfully.]]
* {{Kimodameshi}}: Episode 7. [[LampshadeHanging Even though the girls are fighting Daemonia all the time.]]
* LateArrivalSpoiler: Cerebrum was only added to the website's character page when the last episode came out. When he was added [[spoiler: the page shows his Diablos card is the Sun.]]
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Sephiro Fiore will administer it to people who are caught up in the Daemonia incidents. [[NecessarilyEvil This is generally in the interest of said people]].
* LuxuryPrisonSuite: Sephiro Fiore's "dungeon" is fairly comfortable. Probably because it's mostly for holding rebellious newbies they want to calm down.
* MagicalGirl: Not particularly emphasized, but...
** MagicalGirlWarrior: All the elements are there.
* MagicalGirlGenreDeconstruction: Angst-filled. The fact the girls have to kill is just the start.
* MalevolentMaskedMen: The humanoid part of Kiyone's Daemonia has a Jason mask.
* MarkedChange: As of episode 12, [[spoiler:Luna can access the remnants of her Daemonia powers]] which appears as red tattoos.
* TheMasquerade: Normal humans are completely unaware of what's going on.
** ExtraStrengthMasquerade: Dead Daemonia are RetGone, getting rid of the most obvious evidence.
* MatchCut: Episode 4, 4:15. Smeared paint turns into city lights.
* MeaningfulName: Akari Taiyo, [[UsefulNotes/NamesInJapanese in Japanese name order]], literally means "Sunlight". Other characters have similar names, like ''Sei''ra ''Hoshi''kawa (Star), ''Luna'' ''Tsuku''yomi (Moon), etc.
* MegaTwintails: Etia. Combined, they're larger than she is.
* MercyKill: How Akari treats exterminating Daemonia after overcoming her HeroicBSOD.
* MonsterOfTheWeek: More so early on, and never particularly the focus.
* MookMaker: The insect Daemonia releases swarms of smaller insects.
* MotiveDecay: Most obvious in episode 4, but Daemonia possession seems to cause this in general.
* MulticolouredHair: Tenebrae forms have gradient hair.
** PowerDyesYourHair
* NeckLift: Akari's neck seems to have a strange attractive force; both enemies in the first episode try to strangle her.
* NiceHat: Luna.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: [[spoiler:Cerebrum trapping Akari in a GroundhogDayLoop and forcing her to relive the day she killed Fuyuna over and over was meant to break her spirit, but in the last loop Fuyuna reaches out to Akari instead and they have a heart-to-heart talk, finally allowing Akari to understand why Fuyuna became a Daemonia and to come to terms with her cousin's death, and that grants Akari the power to break free of Cerebrum's illusions and finally defeat him.]]
* NoBodyLeftBehind: A step further than usual; Daemonia hosts are outright RetGone after death. Though the corpse sticks around long enough to guilt whoever killed them.
* NoOntologicalInertia: [[spoiler:If a Diablos "counterpart card" is annihilated, all Daemonia that came from that Diablos card will vanish. The only way to annihilate a counterpart card is if the card's corresponding Elemental Tarot user defeats the counterpart, causing both user and Elemental Tarot card to be annihilated as well.]]
* NoodlePeople: Everyone is so spindly.
* OlderAlterEgo: Most of the {{Magical Girl}}s--especially Akari--take on a somewhat older, more mature appearance when they transform.
* OmniscientCouncilOfVagueness: [[spoiler: Leguzario, the indeterminate entity/entities in charge of the Elemental Tarot users. They only communicate with humans indirectly through Laplace and Schrodinger, and as far as we've seen all ''they'' ever see of Leguzario is what appears to be a room full of talking pillars. Also, they're RunningBothSides.]]
* PaintingTheMedium: Static appears when there's a Daemonia nearby.
** OminousVisualGlitch
* PeekABangs: Akari in her MagicalGirl state.
* PhantomZone: Where the fights seem to take place.
** LayeredWorld: The Daemonia seem to roughly correspond to whatever it's controlling in the real world.
* {{Planimal}}: Fuyuna's Daemonia.
* RapunzelHair: Most MagicalGirl forms. Seira and Hinata qualify even in their normal forms.
** PowerMakesYourHairGrow
* RetGone: The fate of all those taken over by Daemonia; once they're destroyed, all evidence of their existence disappears for those who knew them in life.
** GetOutOfJailFreeCard: Which is however surprisingly convenient for all main characters, allowing them to kill their targets with no legal consequences. Akari would have been institutionalized for psychotic murder in the first episode without this effect (because who would have believed that her cousin turned into a murderous demon?).
* RippleEffectProofMemory: Only Elemental Tarot users remember the victims of the Daemonia.
* [[spoiler:RunningBothSides: Leguzario funds Sephiro Fiore and orders Cerebrum about, although they seem rather dismissive of his goals.]]
* SadisticChoice: Cerebrum forces Seira to choose whether to [[spoiler:kill the Daemonia-fied Luna, or to never get her powers back (and probably get killed by Luna). Akari [[TakeAThirdOption takes a third option]], giving herself up to save them both.]]
* SceneryPorn: The city setting itself can be considered as one.
* SeaMonster: The Daemonia in the thirst episode initially takes the form of a giant mass of flesh and tentacles attached to a ship.
* SequelHook: The anime ends with enough mysteries to leave open the possibility of a continuation.
** [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2014-12-15/day-break-illusion-anime-gets-epilogue-web-novel/.82171 Indeed, the show is getting a sequel]] in WebSerialNovel format.
* ShaggyDogStory: Episode 3. Akari, who for some reason is able to listen to the remaining humanity inside a Daemonia, tries to find a way to reverse the transformation. She doesn't find a way. She gives up, and accepts the burden of killing people.
* ShooOutTheClowns: [[spoiler: Ginka is the most lighthearted of the four girls, and makes a HeroicSacrifice in episode 8 to seal the Temperance Diablos Tarot. This marks the start of an already dark show getting even darker, though fortunately [[BackFromTheDead she does come back]].]]
* ShootTheDog: The only cure for being possessed by a Daemonia is death.
* ShowerOfAngst: Seira and Luna have one after killing the Daemonia in the second episode. Ginka is a bit more accepting about it.
* SwordDrag: Akari often does this.
* {{Synchronization}}: [[spoiler:The Diablos "counterpart cards" have this relationship to the user of their Elemental Tarot counterpart.]]
* TalkingAnimal: Laplace and Schrodinger. Can't have a MagicalGirl series without the mascots.
* TarotMotifs: Yes.
** ShownTheirWork: There's some perfectly accurate discussions of tarot in-show, and the OnTheNext previews even go into detail about the symbolism of the Major Arcana cards. There's still some small errors though, like calling the Magician the first card in Tarot and standing for infinite possibilities. Well no, that would be the Fool.
* TarotTroubles: Just before things start to go downhill for Akari, her readings show TheTower ([[ShownTheirWork an ill omen]], [[ViewersAreGeniuses if you didn't know]]).
* ThemeNaming: Aside from the {{meaningful name}}s mentioned above, the {{talking animal}}s are both named after physics thought experiments on the nature of causality.
* TheResolutionWillNotBeTelevised: A WebSerialNovel titled ''Gen'ei ni Mau Hakugin'' (The Silver That Dances in the Illusion) will serve as an epilogue to the series, and it focuses on Silvia Leonhart, wielder of the Justice card.
* TheseHandsHaveKilled: Such is the burden faced by wielders of the Elemental Tarot: they can't kill Daemonia without killing the humans they possess, and only they remember anything about those people while everyone else forgets about them.
* ThirteenEpisodeAnime: With a bonus episode added to the home release.
* TorchesAndPitchforks: [[spoiler:The angry mob that destroys Sephiro Fiore's base in episode 10]]. No pitchforks, but there did appear to be torches.
* TragicKeepsake: Several--Akari's tarot cards from her mother, [[spoiler:Seira's stuffed alpaca that her brutally-murdered friend Manami wanted, and Minori's second star hairclip, which belonged to her Daemonia-fied friend Hanae [[RetGone (though Minori doesn't remember she existed)]]]].
* TragicMonster: Victims of the Diablos Tarot.
* TransformationSequence: This wouldn't be a magical girl anime without one.
** HellGate: The portal that sends them to action disturbingly resembles one.
** [[TakeOffEveryZig Take Off Every Magical Girl]]: The main characters transform as they are deployed from the Sephiro Fiore base to the premise.
* TreeOfLife: In-universe speculation is that everyone has a connection to the Tree Of Life, which represents fate. Daemonia work by taking over a person's Tree Of Life, essentially [[ScrewDestiny changing their fate]]. The Tree Of Life is also said to be the origin of the Aeon Tarot, predecessor of the Elemental and Diablos Tarots.
* TsurimeEyes: Everyone gets sharper eyes after transforming. Kind of scary in the case of Seira, who has tsurime to begin with.
* UnnecessarilyLargeInterior: Sephiro Fiore's base mostly has reasonable dimensions (if designed for more people), but the hall leading to the portal is absurd. That room itself is quite large, but that could be down to needing room for the machinery.
* VaguenessIsComing: The Tarot reading in episode 7 foretells a difficult future awaiting the girls.
* VillainTeleportation: Cerebrum can teleport even outside of Daemonia space.
* TheVirus: The Daemonia are explicitly compared to a disease.
* WhamEpisode: Episode 8 ends with [[spoiler:Ginka performing a MutualKill on her counterpart card, [[HeroicSacrifice resulting in both disappearing]]]].
** Episode 9 follows this up with [[spoiler:Cerebrum turning Luna into a Daemonia]].
** Episode 12: [[spoiler: Luna returns to normal, and Ginka makes a seemingly UnexplainedRecovery. (Said recovery is explained next episode.)]]
* WhamLine: Cerebrum has one near the start at episode 12: [[spoiler:"I want to mate with you."]]
* WholeEpisodeFlashback: The DVD bonus episode takes place before the beginning of the first episode.
* XtremeKoolLetterz: The title is written using [[UsefulNotes/JapaneseRomanization katakana rather than hiragana]] in Japanese.
* YouCantFightFate: Before her death, Hinata tried to keep Akari away from the fate of their bloodline. But the Wheel of Fortune can't be stopped.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Seira and Etia have the actual blue hair. Luna has green, Ariel pink, and Meltina lavender.
* YourSoulIsMine: Cerebrum gets payed in souls.
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