These are, as best as I am able to make them, literally true descriptions, and I have made some effort to keep any single one of them from being too spoilery. 


Bildungsroman:

I'm pretty sure that this is the story of some of the cast moving from sixteen year olds who are a little short of being able to do everything an adult needs to do to adults able to stand on their own and perform the duties they will have as adults.

Ninja Scrolls:

A master ninja, two of his adult students, and two of his highschool students are involved in various shadow wars.

Assassins:

The Cloverleaf organization (totally different from the one in triangle hearts) has long had a solid business in wetwork. One of its specially trained killers carries out various missions for various clients.

Horatio Alger:

A boy who works, in secret, for his family serving his family's interests wrangles himself into the Magic Highschool program, to get the formal education he needs to advance skills his family can use to the level that will serve his own ends.

Thriller:

Thirty years after the last big war, tensions are rising. The various powers, which are by sheer coincidence apparently cognate to the cold war ones, are facing off against each other, and feeling each other out. A series of crises has the potential to escalate into something further.

Romcom:

Everyone agrees that the brother and sister seem a little too into each other. What's this, another girl has a crush on him? How will he respond?

R&D:

Special Lieutenant Ryuuya Ooguro studies military and civilian applications of magic. Magic Highschool and Magic University have libraries with access to restricted information on magic research.

The Obvious:

Tatsuya and Miyuki Shiba are same year not-twin brother and sister, attending their first year of Magic Highschool.

Obvious Bullshit:

In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only solar for baseline power, somehow, supposedly. There is much discussion of green energy sources, the tech and comfort level seems to be at least modern level, and I dunno.

The second fusion power experiment mentions that it is more inherently commercially feasible than the first one, and that such is far better than what they have been using, but other than that, I have some reservations about this aspect of the story.

My apologies for not being able to turn thermodynamic improbabilities into a more compelling story.

Politics:

For various reasons, the part of the population that practices magic is permitted a certain amount of self governance. There are essentially three sub populations. Those families not particularly notable or trusted by the government. Those families that are particularly noted and trusted by the government. Then there is a council of ten or so families which are extremely powerful, and have a certain amount of discretion in ruling the rest. One of these families is the Yotsuba.

The Yotsuba have certain ambitions and interests. Secretive, paranoid, and ruthless, they, and their major rivals the Saegusa, struggle through the crises of the day.

Psychological:

In the middle of the twenty first century, decades of war left a third of humanity alive. Now, at the end of the century, a generation which hasn't seen that war is being raised by the survivors.

The future is a different country, with a different culture.

During that war, there was a pressing need to develop magical ability. Now, things have relaxed significantly.

Human rights are mostly respected, a magician might choose how they want to live their life, and life might be pretty good.

Mysteries of the Ancients:

There might be some lost secrets of the ancients, but it isn't clear what will be recovered in the future, or how significant it it will be.

A certain authority thinks alchemic transmutation of elements is likely a pipe dream.

Certain militarly significant sources of antimagic most likely have ties to ancient secrets. There is likely greater potential left untapped.


Fourth Institute:

There were several institutes set up by Japan for the development of Magicians. They were eventually shut down for human rights reasons.

The fourth might have been one of the worse ones, was taken over by its subjects, and might still be operational to some degree.

Products of the fourth often seem to use death themed names, mythological or otherwise.

Taurus Silver:

Starting ten years ago, developments in magical technology changed some of the criteria for a solid combat effective magician. A party known as Taurus Silver, with a certain FLT company, is in particular responsible for some of particularly rapid increases in the past few years.

How many of the three great problems of a certain area of gravity magic will remain unsolved in the three years after 2095?

What is Man?:

A humanoid weapon interacts with various other products of his generation as he thinks about and discusses some of the thinking behind his way of life.

Childhood Trauma:

A certain product was processed in a special way during early childhood.  As a result, he thinks this means he isn't capable of all a normal human might be capable of.  He may have significantly overestimated the amount his humanity was diminished.

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