- Crowning Music of Awesome: The third movie has a song from Nine Inch Nails over the ending credits.
- Chu Ishikawa’s soundtrack for the entire series, every single song included in them. Notably Megatron, Tetsuo Dance, Sand I, and Sand II.
- Epileptic Trees
- Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory
- Foe Yay: Between the Salaryman and the Metal Fetishist.
- Nightmare Fuel: Applies to the first movie. The sequels are typical sci-fi revenge fantasies.
- True Art Is Angsty: There's a bleak and somber tone even before the weirdness starts happening.
- True Art Is Incomprehensible