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"Magic" is a product of neither legends nor fairy tales. It has get a technology of reality for about a century. Various countries in the world are locked in a race in nurturing "Magicians".

Tatsuya Shiba is a reserve student without magic capability at Outset High School, a magic high school, along with his sister Miyuki, who happens to be the superlative student amongst the freshmen. What volition happen to him, and how will he live his school life where he is one of the many reserves in the school looked down upon by the called magical students?

The Irregular at Magic Loftier Schoolhouse is a Japanese light novel series written past Tsutomu Satou with illustration by Kana Ishida . The novel began as a web novel serialization in "Let'south Go a Novelist" on October 12, 2008. It so became the second web novel after Sword Art Online to be commercialized and published past Dengeki in July 2011. The serial would be released 4 years later past Yen Press in North America. The light novel series received positive disquisitional attention from both Japanese and American critics.

The web novel consisted of only half-dozen web chapters written covering the First Year arc completed on March 21, 2011, and the author has already planned for a full of 15 web chapters to cover the entire three years of Magic High School. Included also is a series of side stories, Mahouka Koukou no Shounen Shoujo (loosely, The Boys and Girls at Magic High School).

It has been adapted into a manga past Hayashi Fumino with Kitaumi Tsuna as the artist. The light novel is published by ASCII Media Works in Dengeki Bunko while the manga is published by Square Enix in GFantasy.

An anime adaptation by Madhouse began airing in the Leap 2014 Anime season. A second flavour began in Fall 2020, covering the Visitors Arc.

Other media includes:

Anime & Manga

• The Honour Student at Magic High Schoolhouse/Mahouka Koukou no Yuutousei (JP:2012-, EN: 2015-): A manga spin-off focusing on Miyuki that began serialization in Dengeki Daioh with Mori Yu as the artist. Like the parent series, the spinoff and its main character received huge praise from American and Japanese critics.
• The Irregular at Magic Loftier School: Get to Know Magic Studies! (2014): A webseries of Chibi shorts from Aniplex.
• The Irregular at Magic High School: Yonkoma-hen (2014-): A Yonkoma Parody serial.
• The Irregular at Magic High School The Movie: The Girl Who Calls the Stars (2017): A movie released past 8bit. A manga adaptation was serialized in Dengeki Daioh from July 2017, and ran for 12 chapters until June 2018.

Light Novels

• The Irregular at Magic Loftier Schoolhouse SS (2016): A collection of 4 Short Stories previously released in Dengeki Bunko Magazine besides as a new brusk story, "Temptation of a Rose".
• Plan to Assassinate Tatsuya Shiba (2018-): A web novel serial that focuses on Hashibami Yuki.
• Maidens of Cygnus (2020-): A spinoff serial that focuses on the Muggle-raised friends Iba Alisa and Tookami Marika.
• Magian Company (2020-): A sequel of the main lite novels later on graduating from High School.

Video Games

• Dengeki Bunko: Fighting Climax (2014): A Crossover Fighting Game from Sega. Miyuki was called to represent The Irregular At Magic High School, where she by and large casts ice spells to fight (Except when she performs Inferno); her brother Tatsuya was afterwards introduced in the Ignition Updated Re-release, from that moment, both characters can be chosen as playables, or support characters.
• The Irregular at Magic High School: Schoolhouse Magicus Battle (2014): A Japanese part-playing game for mobile past Mobage.
• The Irregular at Magic High School: Lost Cypher (2014): A card battle mobile RPG adult by BeXide and published by Square Enix.
• The Irregular at Magic High Schoolhouse: Out of Society (2014): A 3D Fighting Game for the PlayStation Vita by Bandai Namco Amusement.
• Dengeki Bunko Crossing Void (JP:2018, EN:2019): A plow-based RPG developed by Sega.

Other

• The Irregular at Magic High School Spider web Radio Full Bloom! Blossom Dissemination Committee (2014): An net radio evidence hosted by Sora Amamiya and Yuiko Tatsumi.
• The Irregular at Magic Loftier School (2014): An Sound Drama based on the Recollection Arc.

All spoilers for volumes 1-11 are unmarked and all grapheme tropes should exist moved to the proper grapheme page.

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The Irregular at Magic Loftier School provides examples of:

• Absurdly Powerful Student Council: Their only real limitation is that they tin can't recruit course 2 students. Played straight after the student council president election, when this limitation is removed as Mayumi's final human action as president.
• Actionized Sequel: While the original Tv set series is based on the novel and is more inclined to multiple conversations and politics, the film sequel is a total-fledged action pic with a minimum of dialogue.
• All Honey Is Unrequited: Miyuki is deeply in love with her blood brother Tatsuya, but he sees her only as his younger sister, albeit in a rather peculiar way. At the same time, Masaki is in love with Miyuki, but she is completely indifferent to him. Mayumi, Honoka, Ayako and perhaps Erika are also in beloved with Tatsuya, only for a number of reasons, he is unable to reciprocate their feelings.
  • Of all of those, Miyuki'due south the merely one with a risk. Not only she is engaged to Tatsuya, but he has promised to learn to dearest her equally a adult female and, in the sequel serial, he kisses her casually on the lips.
• The Ace: Miyuki and Tatsuya to damn near everyone who isn't already an experienced, certified badass.
• Aren't You Going to Ravish Me?: At the start of anime episode 20, flirtatious Mayumi keeps Tatsuya company in an archives cubicle and gets more than or less dejected by him not making any motility on that forepart. Cue loads of blush and blunder when Tatsuya promises all the difference should her offer ever come up in a place not watched by security cameras.
• Asskicking Equals Authority: Magic ordinarily trumps combat, magic is determined by ane's genes, and the setting is a futuristic one where genetic applied science and soldiers bred from birth are entirely acceptable if one has the right connections. The event is a society with an arms race, Arranged Marriages and aloof cold war.
• Badass Family: In Japan exists the "Numbers": families who bear the character for a number in their proper name. They're ancient clans of magicians who specialize in diverse forms of magic, and were rewarded with a proper noun and with recognition for their success. To wit, there's two strata of these "Numbers":
  • The beginning Twenty 8 Families, whose surname contains a number from 1 to x. They are the greatest results of the man experiments carried out in the ten most advanced and of import magic inquiry institutes, which is from where their number comes from. Every so many years, x of those families are called by committee to represent all families, and those ten are known for a period of fourth dimension as the Ten Primary Clans. It's normal for some numbers to be missing or for numbers to repeat; the electric current set up of clans already in identify at the beginning of the serial is the first time all numbers have been represented in the X Main Clans.
  • Each of the Ten Master Clans is an example, just one of the 2 strongest is the Yotsuba clan. Information technology has i of the strongest magicians in the earth, Yotsuba Maya, and Miyuki. Tatsuya, being her brother and bodyguard, counts as well. His case is a bit muddier though. ^notation Tatsuya is a Yotsuba past blood, but he doesn't think of himself as part of the clan, and nor does most of the clan. This is because Tatsuya was originally unable to use truthful magic. (Which turned out to be a rather arbitrary standard that was patently incorrect, especially in Tatsuya'southward case.) His family rejected him for this reason and many retrieve of him every bit a fake magician.
  • The other numbers are the Hundred Families—families who bear numbers greater than ten. Their skills and abilities are generally no match for accomplished members of the Twenty Eight Families, but their lineage and those trained past them are all the same superior to near magicians from exterior the Numbers.
  • The number has absolutely no relevance to power level—clans with the first number, like Ichijou, are not the strongest association (that would be the Yotsuba), just like clans with the grapheme for 1000 are not stronger than i with the graphic symbol for i hundred.
• Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work: Quite oft happens in the series because of the rather strongly cynical personality of the protagonist. For example, it is because of the villainous plan that their aunts Tatsuya and Miyuki go at least formally romantically involved, beingness a biological brother and sister, and precisely because of the aggressive deportment of Americans and Chinese, the beginning is forced to be in the middle of a morally contradictory national disharmonize.
• Balkanize Me: Like Expanded States of America, a outcome of Earth State of war three. Happened mostly in Africa and Due south America (except for Brazil).
• The Baroness: Maya Yotsuba, Tatsuya and Miyuki's aunt, the devilish current caput of the Yotsuba family who has her finger on the pulse of the world, but quietly sips tea most of the time.
• Beauty, Brains, and Brawn: First High's student government has this dynamic. Diplomatic Student Council President Mayumi serves every bit Dazzler, Mari the ambitious strategist who heads the Disciplinary Commission is the Brains and the intimidating Lodge Group Leader Katsuto is the Brawn.
• Be Careful What You lot Wish For: After the events of Dahan, the Yotsuba wished for the birth of a wizard so powerful none would e'er exist able to threaten them again. Such a one was born, namely Tatsuya, and they were so terrified of him that well-nigh of them argued in favor of killing him while they still could. Information technology took Maya and Miya'south staunch refusal to preclude information technology. They still devised other ways to control him.
• Embankment Episode: During summer interruption. It didn't make information technology into the anime, probable due to time constraints, but by and large, the only affair non-readers of the Low-cal Novel missed out on, aside from the obvious Fanservice, is Honoka'southward Love Confession to Tatsuya and subsequent rejection.
• The Beautiful Elite: Most young people who study in a magical school are beautiful boys and girls with a bunch of talents, so their nativity is the result of almost a century of positive eugenics and genetic manipulation. It especially concerns children from ten leading magical clans like Mayumi, Masaki or Miyuki. Tatsuya was also supposed to be ane of them, but because of his disability to control magic and having the usual advent, the clan perceives him as a "broken tool".
• BFS: Some of the Chiba family unit'south underground techniques require these for their best performance. ^note A shining example is Orochimaru, which was made specifically then Erika, the but member who can actually use the secret technique Yamatsunami ("Landslide"), could bring out the technique'due south full power to bear.
• Large, Screwed-Up Family: The Yotsuba clan. They are extremely wealthy and incredibly powerful. They are known for being prone to going on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge confronting anyone who crosses their family, which earned the unabridged family unit the nickname "The Untouchables". ^annotation This behavior is noted because of the incident known as "The Nightmare of 2063", where the electric current head of the association, Yotsuba Maya, was kidnapped past the Dahan government in guild to experiment on her and produce strong magicians. Amid other things, they devastated her... in many ways. The subsequent rampage resulted in the deaths of several Yotsuba clansmen. Yet, Dahan equally a country collapsed due to the sheer number of casualties, "mysterious disappearances", assassinations, and murders, and after floundering and struggling, was reannexed into the Bang-up Asian Alliance.
• Brother–Sister Incest: Heavy Incest Subtext. Miyuki is serious almost her complete want for Tatsuya. It'due south often lampshaded by those around them and they fifty-fifty play with it for fun at times. Information technology becomes reality when they get engaged in Volume sixteen and in the first volume of the sequel series, Tatsuya casually kisses her on the lips. ^note Given Tatsuya's emotions have been nearly wiped and the simply true feelings he has left are his beloved and treat Miyuki, this may exist Enforced.
• Character Shilling: Virtually every character in the serial has at least one scene with this when it appears in the story, merely the Shiba siblings themselves take such huge doses of this that each new volume has several scenes where their friends praise and protect their talents, and the enemies discuss how much they are dangerous.
• Chekhov'south Gun: During the first 15 volumes, the writer regularly draws attention to the fact that although Miyuki and Tatsuya are certainly blood brother and sister, they are externally completely different from each other, and some features of Miyuki have no analogues among their relatives. After, in the 16th book, it turns out that she was created artificially and her torso was genetically modified and then that she could restrain her brother'southward forcefulness and, if necessary, end him. Thus, since their genes are different, Tatsuya and Miyuki can theoretically get a couple and take normal offspring, fifty-fifty remaining at the aforementioned time fully blood-related siblings.
• Cardinal Theme: Has a few. First of all, this is the study of the social and philosophical aspects of genetic modifications and social Darwinism, especially on the example of how club and family relations will develop because of this in the future. And of grade, the main focus of the series is the idea that a talented person can be underestimated by other people due to the fact that the existing organization simply tin can non measure his unique talents.
• Cool Guns: "Silvery Horn" ^annotation dual wielded past Tatsuya. Optimized for his general utilise, these two are Tatsuya'south chief CADs, "Trident" ^annotation So named because its three activation sequences are purely optimized for the sole purpose of using Decomposition. In other words, Tatsuya volition only utilize this CAD knowing that he'll walk into a boxing to the decease. and "Tertiary Eye" ^note An experimental sniper-shaped CAD with a superior targeting system and visual augmentation than almost CADs. Information technology'southward sole apply is facilitate Tatsuya's utilize of Material Burst on targets at long-range. Because of its purpose, never mind Tatsuya, the CAD itself is normally sealed away. Basically, if Tatsuya is actually deployed with "Third Eye", information technology'southward because things have gone ten different ways to hell, and something, or someone, needs to die right now, in the most violently explosive fashion possible. , gun-shaped Specialized CADs that Tatsuya uses.
• Coming-of-Age Story: Each volume shows how Tatsuya and Miyuki study at the Magical High School, try to solve the old problems of their childhood, sympathize their feelings and relationships with their overbearing family, get adults and discover their place in life. Moreover, through the whole piece of work runs the theme "Should parents determine the future for their kid, or does he have the right to determine himself when he becomes an adult?", which is frequently relevant for Japanese youths.
• Dangerous Forbidden Technique: "Regrowth". It allows its user to contrary any injury that has occurred within the past 24 hours, in substitution for experiencing all the previous pain that injury caused in a fraction of a 2d.
• Disintegrator Ray: Decomposition magic, which is Dispersal-type magic that breaks down matter to the molecular level. Magic that works on the information torso and the physical airplane to this degree is possible in theory, but is actually impossible for anyone to perform due to the extreme requirements in calculation power information technology would demand from the magician—1 would accept to take been born with the specific power to use Decomposition at the expense of practically everything else. It just so happens that this is the case for Tatsuya—it's his ability to use "Decomposition" and its counterpart magic "Regrowth" that renders him unable to properly wield magic similar other magicians do; the magics are and so stupidly circuitous and difficult to perform that information technology'due south just with the add-on of an artificial magic adding zone that he tin barely wield "proper" magic.
• Decon-Recon Switch: The author beginning deconstructs the standard settings of Wizarding School and Boxing Harem (The value of magical talent becomes the reason for the emergence of positive eugenics, and the school literally prepares children of wizards for a future military career and deadly danger), putting the traditionally optimistic genre in a conditionally realistic Crapsack World, and then reconstructs information technology, filling the classical tropes with a more than serious rationale or playing with them.
• Terminate of an Age: The narration makes clear that the events of "Scorched Halloween" signify the turning signal in history where nations acknowledge that the power of Strategic Grade Magicians has surpassed that of conventional Weapons Of Mass Destruction. Every bit a upshot, a new artillery race appears to have begun, with magicians increasingly being seen as weapons rather than soldiers or fifty-fifty people.
• Anybody Can See It: The Incest Subtext betwixt Tatsuya and Miyuki is so damn obvious it might as well be text, even before information technology becomes text in the sequel.
• Evolving Credits: In episode xix, after Erika ties part of her pilus back, the ending credits reflect this new hairstyle.
• Expanded States of America: One of the consequences of Globe War 3.
• Fantastic Nuke: The magical equivalent of these are the Strategic-Grade Magicians. They are People Of Mass Destruction who have the ability to cast a specific magic with extremely destructive capabilities—plenty to serve every bit deterrents against state of war and/or invasion towards other nations. Examples include Angelina Sirius' "Heavy Metal Burst" ^note Which breaks down metals into a super-condensed, continuous and malleable stream of plasma , Itsuwa Mio's "Abyss" ^note Which manipulates bodies of h2o in order to generate a localized whirlpool capable of extending upward to several kilometers in radius—essentially creating a gaping abyss on the sea. This may also be used on underground bodies of h2o to directly affect the earth above, provided prior knowledge of the trunk of h2o and its exact coordinates are known. and Tatsuya'southward "Textile Outburst" ^note which takes the target's mass and converts information technology to energy co-ordinate to Einstein's E = mc^2 formula. The resulting emission of energy—that is, a GINORMOUS explosion— utterly destroys everything in range. Its target can be anything. Anything at all. Something as pocket-sized as a l mg water droplet on the outer hull of a send thousands of miles away was enough to destroy it and devastate much of the surrounding terrain, too as create tsunami aftershocks. Since we oasis't been told the limits of its capabilities, it is possible that Tatsuya could potentially DESTROY THE World on a whim if he actually cared plenty to practise it.
• Fantastic Prejudice: The form ane students in general view the course 2 students with a lot of contempt, and feel they're leagues to a higher place the latter group. While 1'south are mostly considered pretty powerful, Tatsuya is considered a 2, yet manages to defeat the Vice President in the blink of an heart during a mock battle.
• Fantastic Slurs: The class ii reserve students are referred to equally "Weeds" past some course i students. Equally it turns out, the only real difference was a mistake in their uniforms when the school doubled in size and they didn't change them.
• Family unit Relationship Switcheroo: The Maya plan in Volume 16 is substantially a simulation of this.
• Foregone Decision: Vice President Hattori feels his mock boxing with Tatsuya is going to be this, with him defeating the lowly class 2 student and putting that guy in his identify. Then he gets knocked out by the latter in less than a second after the boxing starts...
• For Scientific discipline!: Yotsuba and other Master Clans. And Tatsuya. Too Miyuki, all he ever thinks near is how to make new applications of magic and invent new magics while he's at it. Just read ix-school contest arc for more than details. Which is hilariously lampshaded when Erika notes he'd exist a corking Mad Scientist.
• Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: Averted in the case of Shiba siblings, when Tatsuya turns out to be a genius, despite the fact that others regard him as but a stupid older brother of an ideal younger sister. At the same time, it is played more direct in the instance of Kuroba twins, when Ayako is portrayed equally more wise and mature than her more naive and simple twin brother Fumiya.
• 4 Is Decease: The Fourth Institute of Magician Development was the Establish least concerned with human life and magicians' rights. By extension, the Yotsuba family, who ran the plant and take the number four in their proper name.
• Functional Magic
• The Gadfly: Tatsuya has his moments of trolling people. Mayumi shares this trait, which leads to hilarious exchanges where they effort to out-troll one another.
• Gambit Pile Upwardly: The entire Company arc. Allow's simply say anybody wants a piece of the Parasites.
• Gorn: The anime is largely devoid of this... until the final battle, when Tatsuya and Masaki defend themselves confronting the terrorists in an incredibly cruel fashion.
• Gory Discretion Shot: Despite the rather dark tone of the serial, the bulk of Gorn unremarkably remains behind the scenes and the reader learns about them from the author or characters. Subverted in the anime.
• Republic of guinea Grunter Family: Every Principal Clan came from a (now-defunct) national inquiry laboratory about magic and genetics.
  • Tatsuya's female parent and aunt experimented on him to see if they could brand him into an "artificial magician". It had the unintended side effect of removing his stronger emotions, except for congenial beloved. It worked... but not very well.
• Hand Behind Caput: Done past Kirihara, when he'southward released from hospital with Sayaka Mibu and she basically confesses her romantic feelings (courtesy of Erika).
• Hard Truth Aesop: The master thought of the serial is the worldview of Tatsuya. In particular, according to his philosophy, if a person does not have a clear talent in the chosen field, then he must compensate for this weakness with achievements in other areas, as he himself did in his time, cocky-educating in many other areas except for the modern magic that he has trouble using. On the other hand, people who practice non brand an endeavour to improve themselves, but only mutter about their own plight, are perceived by the author and Tatsuya every bit only having themselves to blame for their issues.
  • In addition, the serial teaches that people should not exist used as tools to achieve any goals, but at the aforementioned time that people who take chances their lives and health should receive a full reward and privileges for this.
• Detest at Get-go Sight:
  • How Form ane students typically view Course 2 students. They fifty-fifty label them equally "weeds", while considering themselves "blooms". In the anime a lot of Course ane students openly display scorn and antipathy when they see Course 2 students effectually and can't effigy out why Miyuki, a "bloom", wants to hang out with lowly "weeds" such as Tatsuya.
  • Downplayed with Erika and Leo, who instantly dislike each other when they're first introduced. They nearly go into a fight until the bell rings and others inquire them to back down. Ultimately, they discover some common ground and their animosity never goes beyond witty banter.
• Hidden Depths: Everyone. If you have a name, you have your own goals and agenda.
• Hypocritical Humour: Miyuki bluntly asking Erika if the latter has a blood brother circuitous in the fourth novel.

  Erika: I don't want to hear that from you! Y'all bro-con queen!

• I Am Non Left-Handed: At the starting time of the novel, Tatsuya was shown as a badass who could read the Activation Sequence of magic (thus assuasive him to counter them) and employ multiple CADs to fight. These abilities are amazing in-universe, yep, but nowhere most as powerful as what he's concealing.
• Incest Subtext: Often parodied by Tatsuya in the background of openly one-sided incestuous feelings Miyuki has. At the aforementioned fourth dimension his is besides tender in his demonstrations of "brotherly" feelings toward Miyuki, often getting labeled by others equally having a defiant sister complex. Together with that, his regular thoughts of her outstanding beauty and willingness to become her married man for the sake of her happiness, even if he does not see her as a woman on this moment, can be labeled equally a big subtext or even as a text by many fans.
• Instant Runes: A signature of Mod Magic.
• Invincible Hero: Played with and then subverted: While Tatsuya is exceptionally powerful, he fully understands he is nowhere near invincible and makes up for it by being crazy-prepared. This also shows in his reluctance to take over the Yotsuba family by force, which would get out him, and by extension Miyuki, vulnerable, instead preferring to create his own spider web of allies like his regular army connections.
• Kissing Cousins:
  • Ayako, the second cousin of Tatsuya and Miyuki, has quite obvious unrequited love for him.
  • Afterwards, in 16th volume, Maya claims that Tatsuya is her own son, and so that through this charade he could marry Miyuki, nominally becoming his sis'south cousin. Thus, to the people around them, their engagement looks similar this trope.
• Loads and Loads of Characters: There are quite a few named characters just attending First High School. And then in that location are the students at the other magic schools...
• Loophole Abuse: Miyuki insists that Tatsuya exist brought onboard on the student council besides when she's offered a spot. However, she's told that at that place's a rule that Course ii students aren't able to bring together the student quango unless the entire student body votes for that. Which considering how Grade 1 students view Course two students with a lot of contempt, isn't likely to happen. However, Mari states that there'southward no rule that a Course 2 couldn't exist appointed to the disciplinary committee, and asks that he join. Even Mayumi idea that was a squeamish loophole they should exploit.
• Lost in Translation: Each of "Numbers" badass families' name starts with a kanji of a number. "Shi" is both the reading of "Manager" kanji in Shiba, and an alternative reading of Japanese kanji for "Four" in "Yotsuba". Knowing that much provides a solid mnemonic to Shiba siblings' state of affairs — they're removed, only not very far, from the Yotsuba family unit. It'due south as well far-fetched for villains investigating the siblings at i signal in the story to consider.
• Love Confession
  • Honoka to Tatsuya. Tatsuya turned her down sincerely considering he tin't return her beloved with his lack of nearly all "strong" emotions (strong emotions but. She says she'll like him until she finds someone better.
  • Miyuki to Tatsuya afterwards on in Volume 16. Although he does not see a adult female in her and initially finds the idea of ​​their engagement unpleasant, after her recognition, Tatsuya "accepts" her feelings, alert her that he does non love her and sees her simply as his sister, only he volition endeavour to fall in love with her for her happiness.
• Piffling Sister Heroine \ Cool Big Sis: Miyuki and Mayumi are fairly classic case of the use of this trope, especially in the context of their interaction with the principal character.
• Mad Scientist: His friends and acquaintances occasionally joke that Tatsuya is one. His habit of creating new weapons "for fun" and solving impossible magical conundrums out of colorlessness helps. He may be this trope for existent, given that when he was thirteen, he field-experimented a new magic theory (Material Burst) and vaporized thousands of armed troops.
• Magical Accessory: The CAD (Casting Assistant Device). ^notation Also known as Device, Assistance, Houki. They vary profoundly and exist in 2 types: general purpose and specialized. Activated in social club to cast incantations and charms, mudrā, magic spells; an alternative to the traditional techniques and means plant in magic textbooks, it's an essential device required in gild to master modern day magic. Activation ritual speed, and amount of information deploy-able, is decided by the CAD's hard disk ability; but how much the refinement and effectiveness of activation can be expanded by is dependent on the functioning of the software congenital into the CAD. Fifty-fifty an inferior performance CAD, by simplifying the activation ritual, tin increase the power of the magic processing section, but that is a high level skill and in general, the processing power of the CAD is the primary constraint on how fast magic tin can be activated. The general purpose CAD places accent on diversity; regardless of the combination of systems it tin can install up to 99 kinds of activation rituals. The bracelet form is the most widely used, but mobile reckoner type ones are also in circulation, and they are preferred past senior magic masters who dislike having both hands occupied while operating. Specialized CADs emphasizes speed at the expense of diversity, and aiming back up integrated subsystems are mainstream. The specialized blazon allows activation sequences for 9 dissimilar rituals of similar archetype to be stored. They often accept the course of handguns and rifles. In the barrel where ammunition would normally go auxiliary sighting systems are incorporated, and CADs with extended "barrels" take had their auxiliary sighting function enhanced. The one possessed by Tatsuya Shiba, a tuned up Argent Horn model "Trident", is one of these.
• Magitek: Of which Tatsuya is a world-renowned pioneer, under the alias of Taurus Silver.
• Meaningful Proper noun
  • 'Miyuki' means 'deep snowfall'. She specializes in magics that involve creating ice and freezing things. Although it is but her derived power.
  • 'Tatsuya' means 'master' but can be written to mean 'dragon'. His JSDF codename, Ogura Ryuuya, means "Great Black Dragon". Wonder where they got that from...
• Meganekko: Mizuki Shibata wears them to reduce her magical sensitivity to tolerable levels. ^annotation Due to magic, wearing glasses is rare. It'due south hinted that those wearing them mostly do and so for the aforementioned reason Mizuki does.
• Mundane Utility:
  • Using magic, Miyuki cleans clay off herself and Tatsuya in the aftermath of his martial arts training.
  • Using magic to make ice for iced coffee, then casting a pocket of cold air on the loving cup to prevent the scent from escaping.
  • Using "Mist Dispersion" to get rid of sweat on a hot day, or to remove dirt from clothing.
• Named Afterward Somebody Famous: Gyobu Shoujo Hanzou Hattori, the vice-president of the student council.
• Names to Run Away from Actually Fast:
  • Tatsuya:
    • "Mahesvara": Given by soldiers of the Great Asian Alliance after the Okinawa incident. Refers to the Hindu deity Shiva said to be the god of destruction and reforming. ^{Novel Quotes} "Three years ago, an unidentified demon smashed them at Okinawa. Among the soldiers who returned through prisoner exchange, none dared to utter that title ("Mahesvara"). The upper echelons of the Great Asian Alliance armed forces officially denied his existence. They forbade the soldiers from mentioning that proper noun. Information technology was a nightmare better left buried. However, no matter how they denied him with their lips, the nightmare had become reality and was baring its fangs at them." | "Three years ago, soldiers from Hong Kong used English language phrases to get around the gag lodge from above. Today, that term spread like wildfire through the invading forces. — Mahesvara! — Their morale drowned in a rising tide of horror."
    • "Oguro Ryuuya": Tatsuya'southward JSDF Code Name. Ways "Great Black Dragon".
  • Lu Gonghu: Ameliorate known by his nickname "The Homo-Eating Tiger", Kokonoe. He's on par with his teacher in not-magical martial arts, merely his instructor still wins with Supernatural Martial Arts. Kokonoe is one of just two people shown who's able to do so.
• Non So Stoic: Happens for both of stoics. Shizuku is adorable. Tatsuya is scary.
• Numerical Theme Naming: Magicians with numbers in their family name are of superior magic bloodline, they are known as "Numbers."

• Person of Mass Devastation: The Strategic-Class magicians, who can cast at least one spell equivalent in power to a nuke. In that location are more than l; those publicly known are called the Thirteen Apostles.
• Post Mod Magick: The ascendant (or "Modern") magical system of the setting is this, crossed with Platonicism considering of its utilize of words like Eidos (Idea) and Psions. Even so, modern magic isn't the only Functional Magic; Ancient Magic notwithstanding exists, and is actually more than powerful than mod magic, but takes longer to cast.
• Power Incontinence: When Miyuki gets emotional, sometimes the surroundings get frozen over. Explained farther in the LN: Miyuki is using l% of her power to suppress Tatsuya's magic. The moment she releases the seal, she gains full control on her magic.
• Properly Paranoid: In the contempo volumes, everyone is this to the Yotsuba Clan.
• Protagonist-Centered Morality: Anything Tatsuya says and does is right by virtue of him being the protagonist. Anyone who disagrees with him is either mistaken and volition come up around before long or is a bad guy and must be stopped. In detail, in one of the scenes, Tatsuya is persuaded Lina to leave the American army while he remaining the agile Japanese military, despite the fact that earlier he had spoken directly about how enemies employ pacifism to weaken someone else's military defenses and this was portrayed equally a very vile and insidious action.
• Putting on the Reich: One of the students in the Pillars Intermission contest wears a Nazi stormtrooper outfit.
• Quick Draw: The Morisaki family unit is famous for this.
• Rapid-Burn Typing: Tatsuya's preferred method of manual input.
• Royal Inbreeding: Maya is going to arrange a spousal relationship betwixt Tatsuya and his sis Miyuki so that he volition remain forever in the clan every bit a powerful magician, and Miyuki's offspring, along with the platonic set of the female parent's genes, will also receive the father's unique abilities.
• Red Baron: Tatsuya, who's besides The Dreaded and has various terrifying monikers. More than directly played with "Cerise Prince" Masaki, who is a model young magican from a good family. Red is even his trademark color.
• Reddish Oni, Bluish Oni:
  • Blue-eyed, gentle "Snowfall Queen" Miyuki is contrasted with the red-eyed, cheerful and frivolous Mayumi.
  • The anime version uses information technology for confrontation betwixt the common cold, stoic and rational "blue" Tatsuya and the competitive, quick-tempered "crimson" Masaki.
• Replacement Goldfish: Miyuki was this for the clan: being a perfect magician and ideal lady, she literally replaced the "lacking" Tatsuya as the heir of Yotsuba. Tatsuya notes that members of the clan volition no doubt support his sister over him.
• Rule of Symbolism: The ten primary magical clans are an allusion to the mafia, and more specifically the Yakuza. In particular, the author and the characters repeatedly hint that these families were initially used by politicians and businessmen to secretly and illegally solve their problems. In particular, the family of Kuroba from the Yotsuba association take outstanding magical espionage skills including the instantaneous and secretive killing of witnesses. However, they Turned Against The Masters with manipulation, magic and blackmail, then that the yakuza are now their puppets.
• Science Wizard: In this setting, magic is a form of applied science pregnant that anyone who uses magic could qualify as a Scientific discipline Sorcerer. Tatsuya is a world-renowned pioneer of Magitek nether the alias of Taurus Silverish.
• Scientifically Understandable Sorcery : Modern freezing spells work by slowing down molecules, and heat spells work the opposite way.
• Secret Test: The patriarch of the 10 families does this to the students competing in the upcoming events. Tatsuya notices that something might exist off earlier he first appears when a young lady appears on the stage. Then when the human being finally shows up, he says that he bandage a wide-area, low level spell in the room, and says that only five of the students seem to have noticed it. And if he were a terrorist with sick intentions, merely those five would take been able to do anything, while the residuum would either get killed, or at to the lowest degree incapacitated. He then points out that magic is just a means, and shouldn't exist used solely as an ends.
• Infinite-Filling Empire: A consequence of World War Three is that the Mahouka Earth is covered with those. The U.s.a. are at present the United States of '''North''' America, there is a ''New'' Soviet Spousal relationship, mod solar day China devolved into a Cracking Asian Alliance subsequently conquering most of Asia, India and Iran have united Central Asia, at that place'southward a League of Arabian Nations... Europe is a strange mix of this trope and Balkanize Me: while The European Union is now an united federated entity, it splits into an eastern and western halves along the Franco-High german border. The just countries mentioned to have stayed more or less the same are Turkey, Australia (which is in isolationism), Brazil, and Japan.
• Sufficiently Analyzed Magic: How magic is treated in this world.
• Superpowerful Genetics:
  • Magic talent is inherited. All the magicians who vest to the Ten Principal Clans have very practiced genetic makeup. Accordingly, level of magical talent is often a parameter for dividing people into capable and useless. This trope is averted in the instance of Tatsuya, who is past bookish standards a Muggle Born of Mages.
  • Since the development and cultivation of magical genes has been associated for 100 years with genetic experiments on Designer Babies, magic talent has become firmly tied to concrete attraction, and information technology is believed that the stronger the person'southward magical talent, the more than physically healthy and attractive he is.
• Superpower Lottery: While virtually magicians have varying bandage speeds or Mana pool sizes, in that location are also "Born-Specialized Magicians", who are built-in with unique abilities.
  • Tatsuya was born with the power to create unique destruction and healing magics that limit his capacity to use other magical abilities.
  • Ono Haruka was born with a unique affinity for stealth magic.
• Supporting Harem: You understand how footling chance the other girls have when Miyuki is on 90% of the covers. At the same time, although he does not see a woman in her, she is literally the only person to whom Tatsuya can experience real emotions.
• Something Completely Dissimilar: The Maidens of Cygnus spinoff is a more archetypal fantasy story, beginning with an ignorant nevertheless plucky Heroic Bastard receiving the Call to Run a risk.
• Take That, Audience!: In 1 of the arcs, the writer introduces Minoru Kudou, a genetically modified mage who was built-in from parents that were full siblings. Although he is also incredibly beautiful and strong in magic, incest has made his genes unstable, and his health is extremely weak. At this time none of the fans shipping Miyuki/Tatsuya knew near the genetic modifications that protect whatsoever children they might have from defects.
• Teen Genius: Tatsuya and Kichijouji both fit this.
  • Tatsuya is the "Argent" half of the genius magic engineer known as "Taurus Silver". He's constantly tinkering, investing, theorizing, or discovering things. He was the starting time to make Flying Magic using Modern Magic. During the Nine Schools Competition. he created haemorrhage edge CADs, new magic spells, and calibrated competitor equipment so well well-nigh said it felt like they suddenly improved a lot in their magic. His long-term pet project is creating a functional magic thermonuclear reactor.
  • Kichijouji's moniker is "Cardinal George", due to his research and discovery of ane of the legendary Cardinal Codes idea only to exist in theory. He's Masaki'south primary strategist.

  Tatsuya: There'southward not a single person who studies Elemental Magic sequences who doesn't know his name.

• Training from Hell: Tatsuya had his strong emotions (merely strong emotions, not all emotions) erased from his mind and was subject to experiments run on his body. During the Beach Episode it's told he is covered with scars, except for his head. The narrator lampshades this in volume x, even calling what he'due south been through "preparation from hell".
• Troll: Miyuki sometimes does this; Tatsuya and Mayumi do it constantly, often to each other.
• Trouble Entendre: Subsequently the school archway ceremony, Mizuki concludes that top freshman Miyuki is likely related to Tatsuya. Tatsuya replies that Mizuki must have very good eyes to meet such things, startling the girl. Her eyes are subsequently revealed to exist quite special, a sought-afterwards asset in magic guild, and not something Mizuki always intended to flaunt.
• The United nations Favourite: The Shiba/Yotsuba family unit in regards to Miyuki and Tatsuya. It's revealed in volume sixteen why the family hates Tatsuya and so much: he has the power to destroy the world. The true objective behind Tatsuya's operation was to remove his emotions, lest he destroy the world in a tantrum.
• Umbrella of Togetherness: Tatsuya shares an umbrella with Mayumi in vol 18.
• Vigilante Execution: Tatsuya drops by the "No-Head Dragon" criminal syndicate jail cell to cantankerous it out, and he couldn't intendance less about their reasons for sabotaging the Nine School Competition. Ane of their members offers valuable info on a crime lord, but to no avail, every bit is clear to the military operative witnessing Tatsuya'south wrath.
• Will They or Won't They?: The whole romantic line of the series, especially afterwards the 16th volume, is built around the question: "Is the strong incest subtext betwixt Shiba siblings the usual fan-service and temporary deception, or slowly developing mutual dearest?". They Do in the sequel series.
• Wish-Fulfillment: The series is noted in Japan for containing a big dose of this trope, even among current trends in light novels. Our protagonist is only a poor student because the system refuses to recognize how awesome he is. In fact, he is so good at everything, it comes up that the school has goose egg to teach him while he revolutionizes every bailiwick he touches. If terrorists attack, the troops and police will be unavailable, and then he will solve the problem, even if it is an entire country. All while single-handedly advancing science in multiple fields, charming girls, and proving his political views correct.
• Wizarding School: There are ix in Japan.
• World War III: 1 of the main events of the 21st century, lasting almost twenty years (2045-2064). 1 of the greatest consequences of information technology was the ascension of Magicians equally an anti-nuclear force.
• Yamato Nadeshiko: Miyuki acts like ane because Tatsuya admires refined people.

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Alternative Championship(s): Mahouka Koukou No Rettousei, The Irregular At Magic High School

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