History Manga / MagicKnightRayearth

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* AmazonBrigade: All of Chizeta's soldiers appear to be female and wear BellyDancer-ish outfits like their princesses.

Other media include ''Anime/RayearthOVA'', a UsefulNotes/SuperFamicom game and two Game Boy games developed by Tomy, and a UsefulNotes/SegaSaturn version also developed by Sega and released in the United States by Creator/WorkingDesigns. The latter version is noteworthy not so much for the actual game, but for the DevelopmentHell that it went through - it was delayed for so long that it ended up as the final title ever released for the Saturn in the U.S. In 2019, it would become the first MagicalGirl[=/=]{{Shojo}} series to embrace the ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'' series (that [[OddballInTheSeries isn't]] ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsXOmega'') via ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsT''.

* GaidenGame: The first UsefulNotes/GameBoy title is a sidestory set in the anime continuity shortly after the anime begins. The girls are traveling through a forest when they're sucked into a magical painting, and separated in different locations.

->''Tomaaaaaranai!/Hold on to that dream!\\
Mirai wo mezashite.../Tomorrow knows where and when...''

* OneHeadTaller: Taken to new heights. The adult men are usually one head taller (at least) than the women, as well as some of the other men, and the women already tower over the girls because TeensAreShort. Which means that in Part II, Hikaru barely even comes up to the waist of either of her love interests.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Between the two manga translations, the video games, and the anime, there's quite a lot of this.
** Seres/Celes/Selese/Ceres and more for Umi's Mashin. Its official name is Selece.
** The manga calls the HumongousMecha "Mashin", but it's rendered as "Rune God" in the anime (despite the Japanese dialogue clearly using the word Mashin).
** Tarta/Tata.
** Lafarga/Rafarga/Rafalga.
** Autozam/Othsam, for some manga translations.
** The Sega Saturn game called Emeraude "Emerald" and Zagato "Zagat", and renamed Hikaru's dog from Hikari to Flash.

* TeensAreShort: The girls don't even come up to the chests of the adult male cast (barring Clef and Ferio, who appear younger than they are) and just barely do for the women.

* AliensSpeakingEnglish: The girls take it for granted that the Cephirans are speaking Japanese, ''until'' they meet Caldina and her KansaiRegionalAccent. Then they start wondering how two different worlds have the same linguistic history.

* KansaiRegionalAccent: People from Chizeta speak with this. LampShaded in the anime.

* TheThingThatGoesDoink: Hikaru's home, a kendo dojo, has one of these.

* OffModel: Few bits here and there in the anime, but the quality really decreases in episode 17.
** Made intentionally funny when recycled animation appears and the difference is night and day.

* TriangRelations: Type 8 with maybe a hint of 9, between [[spoiler:Hikaru, Lantis, and Eagle]]. There might be some love for everyone on [[spoiler:Hikaru's]] end, too, though she says the ones she wants to marry are the other two.

* TriangRelations: Type 8 with maybe a hint of 9, between [[spoiler:Hikaru, Lantis, and Eagle]]. There might be some LoveYouAndEverybody on [[spoiler:Hikaru's]] end, too, though she says the ones she wants to marry are the other two.

* AntiVillain: [[spoiler: Basically every single one of them aside from Lady Debonair. Zagato, Emeraude and Eagle especially.]]

* BackupTwin: [[spoiler: When Presea is killed in the anime, a HUGE plot hole appeared since she was alive in the manga. CLAMP fixed it by introducing Sierra, Presea's twin younger sister, who pretends to be Presea so she and Clef can keep the girls under a sort-of illusion that Emeraude revived Presea as her last wish, lest they'll be even more broken]].

** Justified with Debonair because [[spoiler: she is the manifestation of Cephiro's fear, sorrow, and despair after Emeraude's death]].

* BodyguardCrush: One of the most tragic cases ever in CLAMP manga and anime: [[spoiler: Zagato and Emeraude]].

* CreatorCameo: Mokona is named after CLAMP artist Mokona Appapa.)
* CrossPoppingVeins: Umi and Clef. (Often caused by each other.)

* CuteGiant: Great Sanyun, one of Aska's illusion spells. (Everyone who sees it, however, is very weirded out.)

** The second half of the story, where Cephiro is mostly falling apart and there are invasion forces from another world, and each of them are not exactly cookie-cutter MonsterOfTheWeek, instead having their own justified reasons why they wanted to invade (mostly for the betterment of their own homelands). The anime version ups the darkness by adding the sadistic villains Nova and Debonair (Which didn't exist in the manga), causing more moments of angst and despair for Hikaru. The anime version also showed scenes of innocent civilians in danger, including ''small children'' and even [[spoiler: kills off Eagle Vision]].

* DiedHappilyEverAfter: [[spoiler: At the end of part 1, Emeraude and Zagato are finally together after the Magic Knights have killed them both.]]

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: The end of Part I, both manga and anime. The girls are forced to kill Emeraude after she fights them in a LastStand, leaving Cephiro without its Pillar and seemingly dooming the world and its people to a slow and agonizing death. Hikaru, Umi and Fū are utterly devastated over Emeraude and Zagato's tragic fate and break down when they return to Earth.]]

* TheHeartless: Most monsters in Cephiro are created from negative emotions. [[spoiler: So is the BigBad of the second season]].

* HoneyTrap: Seen in episode 15 with Sarah, who turns out to be [[spoiler: a disguised Inouva]].

* HugeGuyTinyGirl: [[spoiler: Lafarga and Caldina]], Hikaru and either Lantis or Eagle, Ascot and Umi (though Umi is quite tall, Ascot towers over her.) Genderflipped (and the romance/platonic nature a bit more debatable) with Clef and either Umi and Presea [[spoiler: or Sierra]].

* LoveRuinsTheRealm: [[spoiler: Princess Emeraude]] again.
* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler: Ferio, Princess Emeraude is your older sister]].

* NoBodyLeftBehind: Perhaps as a nod to the series' JRPG influences, monsters vaporize into ash when killed. Stronger "boss" monsters like Ascot's summons, the light monster and [[spoiler: Inouva]] get [[TechnicolorDeath more elaborate death animations.]]

* OlderThanTheyLook: Anyone in Cephiro can invoke this trope. But poor Hikaru is mistaken for a ''grade schooler'', both by her schoolmates as well as Umi and Fuu when they first meet her, because she's so short and innocent. [[spoiler: Princess Emeraude's childlike appearance fools the audience just as much as it does the heroes; who would guess that an apparent "little girl" would fall desperately in love?]]

* PowerGivesYouWings: All Rune Gods change into HumongousMecha forms with themed wings. The Knights, who had traversed the whole of Cephiro on foot, even comment on how this allows them to reach the VeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon at the end of the first season.

* PrecisionFStrike: The English dub of the anime "cleans up" most of the profanity used in the subtitled version, but there were two specific exceptions in the second season. The first was in episode 35 when Tarta still calls Umi a "jackass" and the second was in episode 47 when Geo shouted, "Are you trying to piss me off or something!?"
** And at one point in the Saturn game, Hikaru called Innouva a "bastard" after he [[spoiler: killed Caldina.]]

* SchrodingersCast: Some characters who the anime killed off but were alive and well in the manga had to be "brought back" in the second season because they were needed for the plot. There's just one problem... [[UniverseBible it goes against CLAMP rules, you know]]. [[spoiler: And some of these resurrections turned out to be complete lies.]]
** SparedByTheAdaptation: And some were killed in the manga but not in the anime. [[spoiler: Until much later.]]

* ShootTheDog: Played completely straight with [[spoiler: the Magic Knights themselves. They aren't here to save the Princess, they were summoned to destroy her because since she had fallen in love, she could no longer function as the Pillar.]]

* StarCrossedLovers: [[spoiler: Emeraude and Zagato.]]

* WhiteAndGreyMorality: The {{Magic Knight}}s themselves [[KidHero are definitely good guys]], but [[spoiler: Season 1 BigBad Zagato is an Anti-Villain]]. Plus, the Autozam, Chizeta, and Fahren factions are {{Anti Villain}}s as well. And in anime season 2, Nova is also a more sympathetic character. The only completely villainous villain is the anime-only Debonair.

* DarkSkinnedRedhead: People from Chizeta have this phenotype.