History VideoGame / LapisReLights

* ShoutOut: In Episode 8 and just before becoming [=LiGHTs=], one of names that the main cast had rejected for their idol group was [[Anime/YesPrettyCure5 Pretty Five GOGO]].

* SurpriseCreepy: Episode 6 has the Doll scene in the haunted mansion. The faces of the dolls themselves are incredibly, intentionally disturbing with how realistic they are compared to the much more cartoonish, stylized characters. Champe seems unaffected by one mysteriously crying and sets it back on the shelf... then one falls on the piano, she looks up, and sees ''dozens'' of them hanging from the ceiling from rope.

* BalefulPolymorph: A rare board game Lucifer acquires in Episode 5 can transform people against their will, usually into various costumes with changes in personality. Some examples include getting put into a Playboy bunny outfit and acting like a real rabbit, becoming a bizarre mix of Red Riding Hood and the Little Match Girl, and somehow being put into a giant yellowtail mackerel costume. The game can also force people to do things like 1,000 push-ups.

* ItMakesSenseInContext: In Episode 5, Tiara is in a Chinese ''cheongsam'' and Ashley is in a [[https://i.imgur.com/31VYzTe.png yellowtail mackerel costume]]. This is because they are playing a magical boardgame that has BalefulPolymorph effects if it isn't giving the players random orders like naming all 3-digit prime numbers.

** Waleland, where Flora Girls' Academy is built, seems to be equivalent to Britain with its architecture, people, and the names. Tiara also traveled there from a region called Bristol. The latter takes it UpToEleven with many of its backgrounds, setpieces, and designs lifted straight from Libson, Portugal.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: If we're only talking about members of named and currently active witch units that appear across all mediums, you would have a total of ''20 characters'' across 6 groups. Include Ray, a now-disbanded unit, and you'd have 24.

* SpiritualSuccessor: The game is widely considered to be this to ''VideoGame/BattleGirlHighSchool'', due to the numerous similarities in the plot, setting, and the PlayerCharacter's interactions with the girls.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Almost all of the cast have bright, attention-grabbing hair colors. Of the main group, [=LiGHTs=], only two have realistic or semi-realistic hair colors (Lavie and Tiara, blonde and redhead respectively). It's even more jarring with ''Konohana wa Otome'', who all have wildly different hair colors from each other, despite being sisters. The majority of the student body's hair have hues ranging from blue, purple, green, orange, and anything else you can imagine.

* TheChosenOne: In the game, the player character's arrival was foretold by a prophecy, which is what allows him to be put in charge of the special class of witches despite having no credentials and no experience, and being ''a male'' on top of that. [[DoesNotLikeMen Emilia]] takes quite a while to accept it, but everyone else in the academy accepts it right away.

* ImprobablyFemaleCast: Witches are exclusively female and the characters all go to an all-girls academy. While that does make sense for the professors and the administrators are also witches and thus female, one has to wonder why one never sees any male staff doing more mundane, less magical duties. (At least, before the PlayerCharacter for the game gets transported there.)

* TheChosenOne: In the game, the player character's arrival was foretold by a prophecy, which is what allows him to be put in charge of the special class of witches despite having no credentials and no experience, and being ''a male'' on top of that. [[DoesNotLikeMen Emilia]] takes quite a while to accept it.

* AdaptationalWimp: In the game, the characters in the main units fight magical monsters directly and are playable in such battles. In the anime, they really ever come into contact with the monsters, and are ultiamtely relegated to providing support in the form of performing orchestras at the Ceaster Festival to amass mana for knights and more experienced witches, who do the actual fighting.