History Manga / TheFiveStarStories

* TheStraightWillAndGrace: Subverted with Decors Weissmel and his Fatima Est. Est is programmed to pair with a knight best suited to pilot her bonded MH Vattshu, who just happens to be [[JerkWithTheHeartOfAJerk Weissmel]], instead of her [[DidNotGetTheGirl would-be boyfriend Jhon Weinzel]]. So she does spend most of her story together with him, but while it is common for a knight and his/her Fatima to have a relationship, in this case both sides are thoroughly indifferent to each other. There isn't even friendship, much less attraction: Est still loves Jhon, while Weissmel... well, he just isn't attracted to Fatimas at all. In fact, he consistently complains about Joker's fashion in Fatimas, who are commonly made small, skinny and somewhat {{Lolicon|AndShotacon}}ish, [[EvenEvilHasStandards which he finds disgusting]].

* SdrawkcabName: Both Amaterasu's alter egos, sort of. There's the obvious mel Rince Usaretama, but Ladios Sopp is also one. His name is a corruption of Lladiesop, from Poseidall, the name of the character from ''L-Gaim'' that Amaterasu's imposter Upandla from the Colus VI arc is based on.
* {{Seppuku}}: Seems to be a fairly common practise among the Fillmore Empire's Kneue Syltiss Knights. Blreno Canzian, sole survivor of the aforementioned A CHAR's Boowray Battalion who backed the losing side in 2990's Colus/Hagooda conflict attempts to gut himself in a bout of survivor guilt during an audience with the Emperor to explain how he screwed up, only for the Emperor to stop him. Years later, Blreno acts as ''kaishakunin'' for fellow Kneue Syltiss Barbaluse V who had suffered a string of career-derailing humiliations, culminating in his young daughter Christine misusing her headdliner powers to murder a school bully.

* AllThereInTheManual: Many details about the setting and characters are only made explicit in various supplementary materials, some of which is published, including illustrations in glorious full-color in the backs of the English issues.
** What's unusual is that not only are elements of the BackStory like this, but the future of the story as well, as each volume is printed with a tentative timeline of the series that goes all the way up to the year 7777 and the character notes often describe things they will do in the future. Odd as that they may seem, it actually underscores the true purpose of the manga quite well: FSS is an ''experience''. It's not about knowing what's going to happen next, but about seeing it happen.

* CharClone: Vralgo "Testarossa" Kentauri fits this trope perfectly. Appropriately enough, his MH, Boowray (actually a Siren frame with different armor and weapons) is based on a rejected design Mamoru Nagano did for ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamCharsCounterattack'''s Sazabi.

** Buster Launchers aren't energy weapons, they are [[MagneticWeapon railguns]] that fire enormous (and often nuclear tipped) projectiles with muzzle velocities measuring in kilometers per second.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: There are numerous possible romanizations for most characters' names. Amusingly, the English version often switches between them freely, occasionally even in the same speech bubble.

* CloningBlues: Mostly averted. If you were to make a copy of someone who is currently alive the psychic resonance created by having the exact same brain existing in two places at once would kill both the clone and the original. Rogner uses a special piece of LostTechnology that clones him whenever he dies and transplants his personality into the new body, who then has to grow up all over again, but unfortunately he's the only one who can use it.

** The fifth star, Stant, is also referred to in sourcebooks as "a large comet" despite having it's own planets, including at least one with an earthlike environment.

** Douglas Kaien is one of such aristocrats, with his alter ego of a [[RichIdiotWithNoDayJob deadly playboy]] Hugh von Hitter.