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*** TruthInTelevision: Larger ships often do have similar recreational areas for personnel to relax and blow off steam due to the relative isolation. Soyokaze's fighters and marines are analogous to the seaplanes and marines carried by WW2 destroyers and cruisers.
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*** TruthInTelevision: Larger ships often do have similar recreational areas for personnel to relax and blow off steam due to the relative isolation. Soyokaze's fighters and marines are analogous to the seaplanes and marines carried by WW2 destroyers and cruisers.
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** The ship name "Soyokaze" literally means "gentle breeze", and seems very out of place in the military. What better place to put all of the Space Force's misfits than a ship with a misfit name?
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** The ship name "Soyokaze" literally means "gentle breeze", and seems very out of place in the military. [[hottip:note:though the Japanese have traditionally given their destroyers weather-related names, which is why so many of them end in ''kaze''(wind)m though "Soyokaze" is pushing it.]] What better place to put all of the Space Force's misfits than a ship with a misfit name?
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** Notably, no one is ever able to figure out ''why'' he has this reaction [[spoiler: to the death of a man he met exactly twice.]] Some fans speculate that [[spoiler: Tylor is upset by the shabby treatment of Admiral Hanner by the UPSF despite his years of dedicated service and doesn't want to see himself end up the same way.]]
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*** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamikaze_class_destroyer_(1922)#Naming_History Who would namee a ship "Gentle Breeze?" Glad you asked!]]
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*** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamikaze_class_destroyer_(1922)#Naming_History Who would namee name a ship destroyer "Gentle Breeze?" Glad you asked!]]
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*** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamikaze_class_destroyer_(1922)#Naming_History Who would namee a ship "Gentle Breeze?" Glad you asked!]]
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* UnresolvedSexualTension: See UnwantedHarem below. [[spoiler:Tylor gets close to Azalyn, but while she loves him, he sees her as a [[AllLoveIsUnrequited friend.]] However, in the final episode, he and Yuriko share a drink and practically cuddle, and both are clearly smitten. Nothing goes further between them, however.]]
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* BrattyHalfPint: Azalyn only starts acting this way [[spoiler:when she's taken prisoner on the ''Soyokaze.'']], and usually when it involves Tylor.
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* TechnologyMarchesOn: The setting's mostly futuristic, but there are some blips of older technology showing here and there, namely a VHS tape of [[spoiler:a pornographic movie]] in episode 20.
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* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: A lot of colonies, countries, and members of the United Planet Space Force have a mostly Japanese aesthetic - most of the characters on that side have some sort of Japanese name, there are a lot of Japanese-titled drinks and signs everywhere, and the UPSF's emblem is basically the real-life Japanese flag with a green star on the upper-right part of it.
** Either that, or the emblem is [[EpilepticTrees a tomato.]]
** Either that, or the emblem is [[EpilepticTrees a tomato.]]
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* CasanovaWannabe: Tylor -- certainly.
** But then see The Charmer below; he tends to turn away girls who do show interest openly. If you go for the magnificent bastard interpretation, he's deliberately pushing most women he meets away while pursuing the one who's least hospitable towards him.
** But then see The Charmer below; he tends to turn away girls who do show interest openly. If you go for the magnificent bastard interpretation, he's deliberately pushing most women he meets away while pursuing the one who's least hospitable towards him.
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* CasanovaWannabe: Tylor -- certainly.
** But then see The Charmer below; heSubverted; While this tends to turn away be the impression Tylor gives, hitting on every girl he encounters and usually coming off as something of a bumbling idiot. He not only eventually wins over all the girls who do show interest openly. If you go for the magnificent bastard interpretation, he's deliberately pushing he encounters [including non-humans], he actually turns away most women he meets away while pursuing the one who's least hospitable towards him.of them.
** But then see The Charmer below; he
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**By the end it seems like it has to be a little bit of both. Even if he were a genius, Tylor stumbles onto situations powered by sheer blind luck while enough hints are dropped that it's hard to buy into him just being a lucky idiot.
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**But then see The Charmer below; he tends to turn away girls who do show interest openly. If you go for the magnificent bastard interpretation, he's deliberately pushing most women he meets away while pursuing the one who's least hospitable towards him.
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* BookEnds: Tylor's command to the crew to "Do what they want."
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* PeripheryDemographic: JohnRingo apparently loved the series so much as to write[[hottip:*:Together with one Victor Mitchell]] an even more insane parody of it, a short story "A Ship Named Francis", for one of the ''{{Honorverse}}'' anthologies. On the other hand it was a ''much'' crazier and less adjusted ship this time.
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Tropes cannot be averted/subverted/whatever \"hard\"
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* ShoutOut: The Soyokaze's shuttle is named Galileo, a name that sticks out in a space force that's in many respects the IJN in space. The Galileo is actually a reference to the shuttle of the same name that appeared several times in StarTrek.
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* ShoutOut: The Soyokaze's shuttle is named Galileo, a name that sticks out in a space force that's in many respects the IJN in space. The Galileo is actually a reference to the shuttle of the same name that appeared several times in StarTrek.Franchise/StarTrek.
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Lolicon does not mean little girl.
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* AdaptationDistillation: The TV series apparently, according to the box set liner notes, cleaned up some KudzuPlot, and got rid of one squick-inducing plot point -- apparently the producers weren't keen on the light novels' original depiction of the romance between Tylor and Azalyn, not when Tylor was close to 30 and Azalyn was [[{{Lolicon}} 10]]... one of the demands by the producers was that Tylor's age was to be reduced to 20, and Azalyn's was to be increased to 16. This is a textbook example of why ExecutiveMeddling is '''not''' always bad.
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* AdaptationDistillation: The TV series apparently, according to the box set liner notes, cleaned up some KudzuPlot, and got rid of one squick-inducing plot point -- apparently the producers weren't keen on the light novels' original depiction of the romance between Tylor and Azalyn, not when Tylor was close to 30 and Azalyn was [[{{Lolicon}} 10]]...10... one of the demands by the producers was that Tylor's age was to be reduced to 20, and Azalyn's was to be increased to 16. This is a textbook example of why ExecutiveMeddling is '''not''' always bad.
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* StrategySchmategy: The less charitable interpretation of Tylor's antics is that he honestly ''doesn't'' know what he's doing, and therefore people can't predict his next action because he doesn't know "The Rules" that everyone else follows implicitly.
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* HeroicBSOD: Tylor, surprisingly enough; you'd think he'd be immune to such a thing, but after [[spoiler: Admiral Hanner's death]], he goes on autopilot for a little while, utterly disinterested in (and walking out on) a ceremony in his honor. It takes him a while to snap out of it, at which point [[spoiler: he decides to leave the UPSF. [[TenMinuteRetirement It doesn't stick.]]]]
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* TenMinuteRetirement: [[spoiler: Tylor, after Admiral Hanner's death]]. Goes hand-in-hand with the BaitAndSwitch ending, when we're led to believe [[spoiler: Yamamoto's reunited the rest of the crew aboard the ''Aso'', until he steps out of the way]]....
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* RammingAlwaysWorks: In one episode, the Soyokaze rams clean through a much smaller enemy vessel.
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* JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind: Episode 19 - The [[{{Psychonauts}} Meat Circus]] has nothing on Tylor's subconscious.
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* JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind: Episode 19 - The [[{{Psychonauts}} [[VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}} Meat Circus]] has nothing on Tylor's subconscious.
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* GuileHero: Weather or not you believe him to be a MagnificentBastard, you have to admit he's got a bit of a silver tongue.
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*** TruthInTelevision: Larger ships often do have similar recreational areas for personnel to relax and blow off steam due to the relative isolation
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* BrickJoke: The [spoiler]bomb[/spoiler] that Tylor receives early in Episode Three bails them out late in Episode Four--long enough to be forgotten by everyone present, except for Tylor.
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* BrickJoke: The [spoiler]bomb[/spoiler] that Tylor receives early in Episode Three bails them out late in Episode Four--long enough to be forgotten by everyone present, except for Tylor.
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I\'ve no idea how people see sexual tension in the interactions between those two.
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* PointyHairedMilitaryBoss: The two admirals, Mifune and Fuji. Mifune has a tendency of trying to commit seppuku after every setback, and their arguments always end with them trying to kill each other. ([[BelligerentSexualTension But they're really friends]])
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* PointyHairedMilitaryBoss: The two admirals, Mifune and Fuji. Mifune has a tendency of trying to commit seppuku after every setback, and their arguments always end with them trying to kill each other. ([[BelligerentSexualTension ([[VitriolicBestBuds But they're they really are friends]])
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* PointyHairedMilitaryBoss: The two admirals. Their arguments always end with them trying to kill each other. ([[BelligerentSexualTension But they're really friends]])
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* PointyHairedMilitaryBoss: The two admirals. Their admirals, Mifune and Fuji. Mifune has a tendency of trying to commit seppuku after every setback, and their arguments always end with them trying to kill each other. ([[BelligerentSexualTension But they're really friends]])
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* InvincibleIncompetent: Nobody can decide if Tylor is an example of this trope, or if he's just that good but prefers to ''[[ObfuscatingStupidity look]]'' like it.
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* TheComicallySerious: Lieutenant Yamamoto.
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* SoldiersAtTheRear: Tylor joined the military to get a cushy day job in the Pension Office. It doesn't go as planned.
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