History VisualNovel / MagicalDiary

* YourCheatingHeart: In Minnie's route, [[spoiler: the player may pursue Pastel's side route (and even sleep with her) even if he is currently dating Minnie. She doesn't take it well. Muddying the waters, she'll react the same way even if Gary is only platonic friends with her.]]

** Horse Hall: If you fail the Final Exam and are brought down to 50 or more demerits, you can choose to go to Summer School instead of being expelled. You get to keep your magic, but you can never see your family again, and they will be made to forget you even existed.

* BittersweetEnding: The protagonist is only in the country for a single year, meaning that most relationships will have to end. [[spoiler: Though the main routes tend to carry on correspondence with the possibility of meeting again later, and William's romantic ending defies this completely.]]

* DownerEnding: A few, but as in ''Horse Hall'', Damien's route offers one of the worst ones by far. [[spoiler:If the protagonist tries to attack Damien on a crowded street, he ends up stripped of his magic and his memories, utterly discarded by his parents, and left alone and adrift in regular human society as an amnesiac orphan.]]

----> '''Professor Potsdam:''' Today you're going to learn about Green Magic - the magic of life. This is a very important skill for any witch or wizaard to have, especially when you get to a certain age.\\
[[spoiler:Your body is a garden to be cared for. Wuth proper tending, it could last you for centuries]].

----> '''Professor Potsdam:''' Please, kts and cubs, take your seats. There are some things we should talk about before your magical education progresses any further.\\

* CanonName: The ''Horse Hall'' protagonist has a default name, Mary Sue. Likewise, the default name for the ''Wolf Hall'' protagonist is Gary Stu.

* CanonName: The ''Horse Hall'' protagonist has a default name, MarySue. Likewise, the default name for the ''Wolf Hall'' protagonist is Gary Stu.

* UnequalPairing: William is worried about this occuring if he dates the protagonist, thanks to both the age gap between them and because he's technically supposed to be the protagonist's mentor figure during his time at Iris Academy. In order to initate the romance the protagonist needs to have taken steps to prove that they're both mature and assertive enough to enter a relationship with him on somewhat equal terms, otherwise William becomes convinced that he's taking advantage of them and turns them down.

* TheTalk: Something of a RunningGag in ''Horse Hall''. Professor Potsdam will sometimes open a class sounding like she's about to lead into [[TheTalk the talk]], only for it to turn out to be something unrelated. She does eventually get round to it, kinda. Apparently, there are no rules against any kind of love in Iris Academy, but no student is allowed to cause or carry a pregnancy.

!!Both versions of ''Magical Diary'' contains the following tropes:

* ParentalAbandonment and ParentalNeglect: The {{Masquerade}} reinforcement causes your parents - and the parents of ''every other Wildseed'' - to forget that their kids are magical. In some cases, the spell hits so hard that the adults in question actually forget so hard that, at best, they forget why they care about the kid... and Ellen suspects that this is what's happened to her family. [[spoiler:She later has Potsdam make them forget her completely and elects to stay at the school over the summer in ''Horse Hall''; if you've become close friends with her or are pursuing her romantically, you can offer to let her stay at your home during the summer - otherwise, you never even find out about the situation.]] Moreover, it's implied from the way Virginia tells you this, that this is considered ''completely normal and justified'' by the born-witches.

* IHaveThisFriend: Kyo talks about his problems [[spoiler:with Minnie]] this way the first time he asks you about it in Gym Class. Similarly, if Minnie brings up her relationship issues with the protagonist, she'll start the conversation by saying she's asking for advice on behalf of a friend.

* SufficientlyAnalyzedMagic: [[spoiler: Ellen starts to work on developing this on her route. It scares the crap out of the professors.]]
** It's possible to determine that the real issue is her [[spoiler: use of electronics]].
* TheTalk: Something of a RunningGag. Professor Potsdam will sometimes open a class sounding like she's about to lead into [[TheTalk the talk]], only for it to turn out to be something unrelated. She does eventually get round to it, kinda. Apparently, there are no rules against any kind of love in Iris Academy, but no student is allowed to cause or carry a pregnancy.
* TroubledButCute: Damien. Donald to a lesser extent.

* AttemptedRape: [[spoiler:Damien threatens to have his way with the protagonist if he kidnaps them while they're on William's romance path, purely as another way to hurt William.]]

* GhostAmnesia: [[spoiler:Musette]] has very spotty memories of their life, which frustrates Ellen to no end. It's eventually revealed that [[spoiler:she's the [[LivingMemory physical amalgamation of a very specific set of memories - so she didn't forget, but just didn't possess any of the 'lost' memories in the first place.]]

* OnlyChildSyndrome: Most non-Wildseed magical users are only children. The reason why this is the case is discussed in Ellen's route; most adult magical users tend to take up full time residence in the Otherworld, which is a very, very dangerous place for magical children, and so tend avoid having kids all together or chose to have only one, which is raised in the Low World until they can safely enter the Otherworld. The Dasons are the exception to the norm, with their three kids being attributed to the fact that they've chosen to settle down and raise a family in the much safer muggle world. Meanwhile, mixed species couples can physically only produce one child, thanks to magical influence.

* IfYouEverDoAnythingToHurtHer: Kyo can deliver one to the protagonist if the latter becomes co-presidents with Minnie. Though this leaves the protagonist more baffled than anything else, as [[MistakenForRomance at that he and Minnie are purely platonic acquaintances.]]

* LivingMemory: [[spoiler:The 'Musette' the protagonist and Ellen interacts with turns out to be the spiritual imprint of the memories stored in the original Musette's audio diary, given physical form thanks to being exposed to the protagonist's {{WildMagic}}.]]

* IfYouEverDoAnythingToHurtHer: Kyo can deliver one to the protagonist if the latter becomes co-presidents with Minnie. Though this leaves the protagonist more baffled than anything else, as when [[MistakenForRomance at that point in time he and Minnie are purely platonic acquaintances.]]

* ILLKILLYOU: Grabiner makes it quite clear to the protagonist that he'll happily finish them off if their careless actions wind up endangering any of his students. During their first meeting, no less.

** There are a couple of references to Webcomic/Homestuck, including the name of an achievement in ''Horse Hall'', the name and appearance of Blaise Beshli, and Suki's outfit for the May Day Ball.

* AmnesiacHero: The magical world has a strict policy of wiping the memories of people who get kicked out of their society, which happens if the person either chooses to reject their powers, fails magic school, or somehow loses them (usually by breaking a magic oath). [[spoiler:So, you become this in most of the bad endings.]]

* BecomingTheMask: Probably the case with [[spoiler:Damien]], although [[ManipulativeBastard it's hard to be entirely sure]]. Casting Spirit Sight and/or Empathy at plot-relevant moments proves that, if nothing else, he's definitely struggling with some very uncomfortable and conflicting feelings.

* {{Magitek}}: [[spoiler: Utterly forbidden. Ellen tries to experiment and it nearly gets her expelled.]]

* ObviouslyEvil: If they meet during the first week, the protagonist lampshades the unfortunate fact that Damien looks ''suspiciously'' like a stereotypical evil demon. He comments that she shouldn't judge by appearances. [[spoiler:Though in his case, his appearance is pretty much bang on the money.]]

* TheTalk: Something of a RunningGag. Professor Potsdam will sometimes open a class sounding like she's about to lead into [[TheTalk the talk]], only for it to turn out to be something unrelated. She does eventually get round to it, kinda. Apparently, there are no rules against any kind of love in Iris Academy, but no student is allowed to carry children.

* TheUnFavourite: Ellen's comments to Donald, when the topic of sibling rivalry comes up, suggest that she either was this or at least feels like she's this. Coming to Iris Academy doesn't seem to have improved matters much - her family tells her not to come home for Thanksgiving. [[spoiler:She eventually has Potsdam just make them forget her entirely.]]

* YouLoseAtZeroTrust: If you have any remaining personal issues with your roommates going into the final exam, you can instantly fail unless you're able to hash things out then and there.

** YouDidntAsk: When trying to find a loophole in a MagicallyBindingContract, nobody thinks to ask [[TheSmartGuy Ellen]] for help. It's first mentioned to her after a solution is worked out, and she (of course) saw it instantly.

* YouDidntAsk: When trying to find a loophole in a MagicallyBindingContract, nobody thinks to ask [[TheSmartGuy Ellen]] for help. It's first mentioned to her after a solution is worked out, and she (of course) saw it instantly.

* SecondLove: It's left open for interpretation, [[spoiler:but the player may become this for Grabiner if she successfully sees his romance path through to the end.]]