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[[caption-width-right:240: No, it's not a ReverseHarem series]]
''Brave 10'' is a JidaiGeki fantasy anime, originated from the similarly named manga. It follows the lives of those that would be known as Sanada Ten Braves, ten loyal ninjas serving under UsefulNotes/SanadaYukimura, although rather than going for historical route, they go for a more mystic-based approach.
The main protagonist is an Iga ninja named Saizou, who meets an Izumo priestess called Isanami on the run from the ninjas who destroyed her temple and protects her on her short journey to Sanada Yukimura's castle. Sanada wants to gather 10 warriors, a party unrivaled in skill and power, to set his still secret plan into action...
The author, Kairi Shimotsuki, is well known for her {{Yaoi}} work, but she has also worked on the ''VideoGame/SengokuBasara'' franchise and this series clearly follows the latter. [[SpiritualAdaptation Very much so]], though with a heavy, DarkerAndEdgier {{Seinen}} slant.
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!!This series provides examples of:
* AcquiredPoisonImmunity: Demonstrated by Anastasia in the manga during the KnockoutGas attack.
* AdaptationDyeJob: Isanami's hair is dark green in the manga at first. She gets later recolored to cyan, and becomes almost white in the anime.
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: No matter how aloof and gruff Saizou acts, Isanami still calls him her shining knight.
* AllStarCast: Oh boy, we've got some pretty big names for this anime. See the Trivia section.
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Saizou's skill was famous until he met Hattori Hanzo, who proved more than his match.
* AmbiguousGender: [[spoiler: Kamanosuke's time in the LotusEaterMachine and reluctance to bathe with the rest of the guys in the HotSpringsEpisode suggests that she might be a girl, after all. Or really, really confused.]]
* AnachronismStew: For some reason, Isanami is at the center of most anachronisms, what with her biker shorts, ballet moves and lollipops.
* AntiHero: Kamanosuke and Anastasia are not really heroes, they simply are in the side of good - Kamanosuke in fact is the TokenEvilTeamMate. Saizou is in the other hand your average bad boy with rough habits but goodie instincts awakened by Isanami.
* AssassinOutclassin: How Anastasia ended up working for Sanada Yukimura. [[spoiler: Or so she told Saizou. She's actually TheMole for Hanzo.]]
* AttackReflector: One of Saizo's many techniques, seen in the first episode against Isanami pursuers.
* AttemptedRape: Happens a few times in the manga, to Juuzo, Isanami and Anastasia to be precise.
* AxCrazy: Kamanosuke Yuri tells Isanami he's a bandit for the chance of people resisting being held up. Becomes more of a BloodKnight later [[spoiler: after joining the team.]]
* BackForTheFinale: Hanzo vanished and practically unheard of after Kamanosuke joining, but he'll be back in the episode after [[spoiler:Anastasia betraying the team]], turns out HesJustHiding. This is also the focus of his Episode 11 preview. [[DragonLady Oukatsu]] [[KilledOffForReal isn't so lucky, though]].
* BareYourMidriff: Anastasia's bodice doesn't cover much of her torso. Also Rokuro and Kamanosuke.
* BarbieDollAnatomy: Even when not covered by CensorSteam there is a lack of detail in the nudity.
* TheBeastmaster: Sasuke. He likes all kind of animals, but birds in particular.
* BedmateReveal: Isanami likes to sneak up into Saizou's bed. But she's a priestess, don't think wrong.
* BeforeAndAfter: Seikai was just another pretty boy before becoming a musclebound bruiser.
* BigBad: UsefulNotes/TokugawaIeyasu.
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler: In the manga, Juuzou arrives just in time to drive Hanzo out. Kamanosuke does the same later. And Seikai, Sasuke and Kamanosuke later as they face Benmaru's DeathCourse. Sort of a habit]]
* BigEater: Isanami. And she has a SweetTooth, too.
* BigNo: Sasuke after Kamanosuke asks him if he could skin his weasel Amaharu.
* {{Bishonen}}: Handsome guys galore. AuthorAppeal.
* {{BFS}}
** Saizo has one.
** Also Date
* BlackSwordsAreBetter: [[HeroesPreferSwords Saizou]] wields one.
* BladeLock: As usual, an excuse during fights to keep on the TrashTalk and exchanging dialogue, as seen in Hanzo and Saizou's second fight.
* BleachedUnderpants: The anime removes the instances of AttemptedRape and nudity the manga has (so, no naked Anastasia during the HotSpringsEpisode, not even with BarbieDollAnatomy).
* BloodLust: In Kamanosuke's strange HoYay way, he says he wants to see Saizou cut and bleeding.
* BloodSplatteredInnocents: During the second ninja attempt in the first episode, Isanami's face gets bloodied by a dying ninja.
* BloodyMurder: Kuchiba's other skill, aside of LotusEaterMachine, as Kamanosuke found out.
* BlowYouAway: Kamanosuke's elemental specialty is wind.
* BoobsOfSteel: Anastasia fighting prowess rivals her bust size.
* BottomlessMagazines: And [[ICallItVera Saaya]], Juuzos' musket, doesn't even have a magazine!
* BreadEggsMilkSquick: While Saizo is complaining about the other braves goofing off images show Sasuke hanging out with his animals, Anastasia sitting by a river and Kamanosuke threatening a villager.
* BrokenBird: Anastasia is tough, self-reliant and ''cold'', and chafes at the safety of Yukimura's castle. Don't expect her to [[DefrostingIceQueen defrost]] easily. [[spoiler:Though if her fight with Jinpachi is any indication, it could be nearer than we thought.]]
** [[spoiler:She got better and stops being a villainess, but she still is in an IceQueen, not giving in to Jinpachi's sexual advances]].
* CallingYourAttacks: Saizou, Seikai, Anastasia, Hanzo, Kaio can't apparently use their techniques without informing everyone of their names. The rest of the Braves are more discreet.
* CastFromHitpoints: Juuzo's killing shot on [[spoiler: Oukatsu]].
* CensorSteam: Even Yukimura complains about the obscuring steam in the HotSpringsEpisode.
* ChainedHeat: Yukimura and Rokurou get bound into a compromising position during Hanzo's attack in Ueda, much to the delight of every [[YaoiFangirl Fujoshi]] watching.
* ChildhoodFriends: Anastasia and Saizo.
* ClingyJealousGirl: Isanami as soon as Anastasia appears.
* ClothingDamage: Mostly on guys. [[MsFanservice Anastasia]] gets her time to shine, too.
* ColdSniper: Juuzo. Not exactly cold, but very proper.
* CombatPragmatist: When Isanami isn't around to stop them the ninja side of the team delivers ''{{coup de grace}}s'' and does whatever it takes to win the fights. They are not samurai, after all.
* CompressedAdaptation: After the first episode of the anime, which covers slightly past the first chapter of the manga, the anime races through the source material, covering over 120 pages worth of manga each episode: most of the cut material featured ThoseTwoBadGuys, who were left out of the anime adaptation and are pretty much nothing but comic relief. See PragmaticAdaptation.
* CoolBigSis: Anastasia becomes Isanami's sister figure after she rescues her from Date. With a hint of GoodBadGirl in the way she flirts with Yukimura and Saizou. [[spoiler:Bad idea, because Ana actually hates familial concept, and it was all an act, probably devised by Hanzo to eventually break Isanami.]]
* CraterPower: When Isanami uses her power she is left standing in a shallow crater.
* CrossdressingVoice: Young Seikai is actually voiced by a ''female''. It's a wonder how his vocal evolved that his current voice is done by a male, and a non-androgynous voice at that.
* CryIntoChest: Isanami breaks down on Saizou after Yukimura refuses to help her early in the story.
* DareToBeBadass: Anastasia tells Isanami to live up to the rest of the team during her UnwantedRescue.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: [[spoiler:Anastasia saw her family dead in Japan and have been left alone since little, and while looking for the last heirloom of her family, there came Hanzo holding it and blackmails her to join, shaping her into a cold hearted woman. This is also why 'family' was some sort of BerserkButton for her and what made her hate the rest of the Braves.]]
* DarkIsNotEvil: Isanami's DefenceMechanismSuperpower is basically holy darkness.
* DarkestHour: By the end of episode 11, the bad guys have won. Or they have been successful at BullyingADragon.
* DCupDistress: Being a practical woman, Anastasia would rather be small breasted because it's less of a burden. Isanami being self conscious about [[ACupAngst her own]] thinks she should be happy about it.
* DecoyDamsel: [[spoiler: Sort of. It turned out to be Kamanosuke who despite looks, is a guy. Or is she?]]
* DefeatMeansFriendship: [[spoiler: Kamanosuke]], Seikai and Benmaru join the team after fighting the Braves.
* DeliberatelyDistressedDamsel: [[spoiler: both Kamanosuke and Anastasia have used this trick.]]
* DesignatedGirlFight: AvertedTrope! Anastasia doesn't get paired with a female opponent until the second attack on Ueda castle, and never again after that.
* {{Determinator}}: Saizo, of course. Dude has been slashed and bleeding how many times against Hanzo, and he's still standing up and fighting rather than being down for count.
* DistressedDamsel: Isanami is continuously being pursued and kidnapped. Get her distressed enough at your own peril, though, and...
** DefenceMechanismSuperpower: ...Hope you like getting vaporized.
* DoomedHometown: Isanami's shrine was burned to the ground.
* TheDragon: UsefulNotes/HattoriHanzo is Tokugawa's main enforcer.
** [[spoiler:DragonWithAnAgenda: Unfortunately for Ieyasu, Hanzo has his own plans for capturing Isanami, and pretty much cares less about the upcoming Tokugawa vs Toyotomi clash, his team would be the one ruling from the shadow... or so he claims.]]
* DragonLady: Oukatsu; open kimono, humongous cleavage, hidden blade, snake powers. Succeeded by Kaio, her sister.
* DudeLooksLikeALady: Kamanosuke has to do very little to look feminine [[spoiler: something he used to ambush people during her times as a bandit. Although maybe it's just that ''she'' looks masculine, as seen in the LotusEaterMachine.]].
* TheDulcineaEffect: The first time he saves Isanami was just self-defense. And the second time, too. And the third...
* EpiphanyComeback: During his fight with renegade Iga ninja Goemon, Saizou is thoroughly beaten until Goemon tells him he's no longer an Iga ninja. Saizou realizes he should think like a one of Yukimura Braves. Cue fight reversal.
* EtTuBrute: [[spoiler: Isanami didn't take well to Ana being a FalseFriend all along. Neither does Sasuke.]]
* {{Expy}}: It's hard not to see Anastasia as a DarkerAndEdgier [[VideoGame/SengokuBasara Kasuga]]. Also, Isanami looks a lot like [[LightNovel/FullMetalPanic Kaname]].
** Also, Anastasia can also be seen as a DarkerAndEdgier [[Anime/{{Gravion}} Mizuki Tachibana]], being that they're both the resident blonde, ponytailed MsFanservice CoolBigSis with [[YuuAsakawa the same voice to boot]], as well as [[spoiler:being TheMole]].
** The author draws UsefulNotes/DateMasamune ''exactly'' as she did in her ''VideoGame/SengokuBasara'' works.
* EvilRedheads: Hanzo is revealed to have one beneath his ninja mask, it's AnimeHair too.
* EyepatchOfPower: Rokurou hides his right eye [[spoiler:until he loses it to Anastasia in episode nine]] .
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler: Anastasia is actually working for Hanzo.]]
** [[spoiler:HeelFaceTurn: Or Neutral Turn. Once Hanzo is dead, Ana already claimed that she can't come back to Yukimura for being a traitor. The good thing is, Jinpachi is there to offer her a place to stay, and he doesn't seem to be interested in staying in Ueda all the time.]]
* FauxAffablyEvil: Hanzo is 100% evil, but he's quite a polite talker in describing on how much he's killing people. Also exemplified in his monologue for Episode 11 preview.
* FiveBadBand: Five Iga Ninjas. Subject to change depending on the last reveal:
** BigBad: Hanzo
** TheDragon: Kuchiba
** TheBrute: Byakugun
** TheEvilGenius: Kaio (formerly Oukatsu)
** TheDarkChick: [[spoiler:Anastasia]]
* FlatCharacter: Unfortunately, most of Hanzo's five (including Hanzo himself) has very little background and look like they're just in for simple megalomania, aside of [[spoiler:Anastasia, who's shown to have DarkAndTroubledPast and had other goal unlike them]]
* FlechetteStorm: A trademark of Hanzo that can be seen in the opening.
* ForcedIntoEvil: Zig-zagged. [[spoiler:Turns out, the reason why Anastasia joined Hanzo was because Hanzo was holding her family heirloom that she's been searching since little. However, given enough time she spent with Hanzo, she turned into a cold-hearted BrokenBird IceQueen who's just as bad as Hanzo is. But, even Jinpachi could see her slowly being [[DefrostingIceQueen defrosted]] despite her insisting otherwise.]]
* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: Saizou need Sasuke to give him a pep talk after being thouroughly beaten by Hanzo during their first fight (or getting Isanami captured by Masamune in the anime).
* GenderBlenderName: 'Yuri' Kamanosuke. Hmm, any wonder why [[DudeLooksLikeALady he's often thought as a lady]]?
* GildedCage: Date is a good host for Isanami, besides the chain spiked to the ground
* TheGlomp: Isanami is fond of jumping onto Saizou and not letting go.
* GodInHumanForm: [[spoiler: Isanami is an incarnation of Izanami, goddess of the Japanese Underworld.]]
* GoodOldWays: Juuzo is prone to reminding Saizou of the proper ways.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: Juuzo has a fashionable scar on his jaw. Oukatsu has scars, too, but aren't obvious until she gets comfortable.
* GrievousHarmWithABody: While being tightly tied and weaponless, Rokurou decides to use Yukimura as an improvised weapon
* GrinOfAudacity
* HairDecoration: A jade headpiece that it's clearly more than for looks. [[spoiler: Its name is the Kushimitama.]]
* HappyFlashback: During the Back to Izumo arc Isanami remembers how the temple was before the ninja attack.
** Also, [[spoiler:Anastasia had one in the middle of fighting Jinpachi.]]
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: Kamanosuke tag-teams Hanzo with Saizou during the Izumo arc and joins the team afterwards.]]
* HeroicComedicSociopath: Kamanosuke's penchant for mixing bloody murder and affection is usually PlayedForLaughs.
* HeroicSacrifice: Nearly attempted by Rokuro, who revealed that the prophecy was about [[spoiler:having the ten braves sacrifice their lives to stop Izanami no Mikoto.]] Saizo will have none of that shit.
* HighPressureBlood: Every big slash is marked by a brief blood spurt.
* HighlyVisibleNinja: It has to be tough to be a blonde, blue-eyed infiltrator in 16th Century Japan, Anastasia.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: UsefulNotes/SanadaYukimura is the strategist version, more of a GuileHero like the gender-flipped ''LightNovel/HyakkaRyouranSamuraiGirls'' version than HotBlooded as in ''VideoGame/SengokuBasara''. And older than those versions, too.
** The sequel manga, ''Brave 10 S'' features several others not seen in the anime/1st manga, including Yukimura's brother Sanada Nobuyuki, along with HondaTadakatsu and his daughter Komatsu ([[VideoGame/SamuraiWarriors Ina]])
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: Well, it's an anime about UsefulNotes/SanadaYukimura. Of course UsefulNotes/TokugawaIeyasu and his men HAD to be villainized!
** In particular, Hanzo probably got it the worst. At most, Ieyasu is depicted as an incompetent SmugSnake (which is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by Masamune). Hanzo goes beyond being 'loyal' to Ieyasu into [[spoiler:having probably different goals than Ieyasu]] and being much more sadistic and quite making his way to HeroKiller.
** Though there could be some good justification on this. 'UsefulNotes/HattoriHanzo' is a title passed down through Iga ninja leaders, this Hanzo may not be the same with the same Hanzo that escorted Ieyasu through Iga after Nobunaga's death (Hattori Masanari). In fact, there is a Hanzo that is really mean even to his own kinsmen.
* HopeSpot: Kamanosuke just broke down Kuchiba's LotusEaterMachine and cut him in half! Finally there's one Brave who survived -- NotSoFastBucko Kuchiba reveals his [[BloodyMurder other ability]] and finishes off Kamanosuke... [[DoubleSubversion Until the end.]]
* HotSpringsEpisode: Second half of episode six in the anime. In the manga, it comes as a brief respite after the second assault on Ueda.
* HowToGatherCharacters: Isanami gets rescued by Saizou and then starts to add more and more protectors in a DebutQueue.
* ICallItVera: Saizo's sword is called Maribouchou and Juuzo's gun Saaya.
* IHaveYouNowMyPretty: Equal opportunities for getting abused (as Juuzo can attest during his fight with Oukatsu), but Anastasia gets most, even in her introduction (manga only).
* AnIcePerson: Anastasia can turn water to ice with her Iga techniques, and she also prides herself on being cold in other senses of the word [[spoiler: as she shows when she betrays the team]].
* IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim: Isanami stops Saizou from killing a beaten Kamanosuke when he has him in a SwordOverHead situation.
* ImplausibleHairColor: There are three redheads in the series (Benmaru, Yuri and Hanzo). Not exactly common in XVII century Japan.
* InASingleBound: Typical ninja fare.
* InLoveWithYourCarnage: Kamanosuke gets fascinated by Saizo's killing intent.
* InSeriesNickname: She is known as Anastasia of the Glacier, but everyone calls her Ana.
* InstantRunes
* ItsAllMyFault: Isanami come to this conclusion after the second fight with Hanzo and briefly gives up. She's then goaded by Hanzo during the fight against the Five into another breakdown [[spoiler:that pulls out her SuperpoweredEvilSide.]]
* IWasOnlyPretendingToLikeYou: [[spoiler: Anastasia upon her FaceHeelTurn.]]
* JapanesePronouns: For 'I', Juuzou used 'Soregashi' while Seikai used 'Sessho'.
* JerkassFacade: By the end of the first episode, he totally hasn't saved the girl three times and definitely isn't working for Yukimura. Really.
** HitmanWithAHeart
* JidaiGeki: HistoricalFantasy set in 1599.
* KickThemWhileTheyAreDown: Anastasia is a CombatPragmatist, after all, and will hit a helpless enemy [[spoiler: or former ally. Ask Sasuke]].
* KidSamurai: Benmaru.
* KnockoutGas: Used during Goemon's attack on Ueda castle. Too bad some Braves have AcquiredPoisonImmunity.
* LeaveNoWitnesses: Silly ninjas, they got Saizou involved in protecting Isanami because of being overly thorough.
* LightIsNotGood: Saizo's ninja tricks are themed after Marishiten, Shinto goddess of Light.
* LimitBreak: Looks like Isanami has one (being depressed or afraid will do the trick).
* LiveActionEscortMission: Juuzo and Saizo escort Isanami back to Izumo.
* LivingEmotionalCrutch: Saizo for Isanami. After watching her home being burned to the ground and almost everyone she knew being killed, she adopts Saizou as "her light".
* TheLoad: Isanami's role in the team is just being there to be protected.
* LongLostRelative: [[spoiler: Seikai is Isanami's elder adoptive brother. Sort of.]]
* LotusEaterMachine: Kamanosuke faces one in the fight with Hanzo's Five.
* MakeMeWannaShout: Rokurou uses sonic attacks in the rare instances he gets to fight.
* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Saizo is pretty much being dragged around by Isanami.
* McNinja: Russian ninja with appropriate Ice powers!
* MeaningfulName
** With a name like 'Kamanosuke', it's pretty appropriate that he'd be fighting with a 'kama'/sickle chain.
** Also, Isanami no miko for [[spoiler:I'''z'''anami-no-Mikoto.]]
* MeetCute: Saizo meets Isanami and within a day they are already in bickering mode.
* {{Miko}}: Isanami, priestess of Izumo.
* ModestyShorts: Isanami under her {{miko}} attire.
* MoeStare: Isanami is usually seen smiling, eyes wide open. It's as if she got lost in the way to another series.
* TheMole: [[spoiler: Anastasia works for Hanzo.]]
* MoralityPet: Isanami for Saizo. Were not for her intercession, Kamanosuke wouldn't have lived to join the Braves. And in turn, Kamanosuke behaves while Saizou is around.
* MsFanservice: Anastasia. Her outfit is already revealing, and she's prone to not wearing it.
* MySisterIsOffLimits: Seikai will smash you if you don't comply.
* MysteriousWaif: Why is Isanami, a simple miko, so important? Why was her temple destroyed? What is the source of her DefenceMechanismSuperpower?
* {{Ninja}}: Well, that is what the "historical" Brave Ten were, isn't it?
* NinjaLog: Saizou uses this substitution trick on Sasuke during their fight.
* NotGoodWithPeople: Sasuke is quite shy.
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Kamanosuke's reason to help Saizou and join the Braves.
* OnTheNextEpisodeOfCatchPhrase: Saizo's "Bring it on!"
* [[NotInThisForYourRevolution Only In It For The Hottie]]: Jinpachi agreed to help Juuzou and eventually join Yukimura on the fact that there's [[MsFanservice one certain busty blonde named Anastasia]] in Yukimura's entourage. [[spoiler:And kinda true too. Once he's done redeeming Anastasia, he just stops sticking with the Braves.]]
* OrphansPlotTrinket: The only thing Isanami keeps from Izumo. It looks like a ProtectiveCharm.
* OverTheShoulderCarry: Saizou just slings Isanami on his shoulder to get away during their first meeting.
* PhenotypeStereotype: Russian = blonde hair and blue eyes.
* ThePollyanna: Isanami comes across as this, but there is a lot of StepfordSmiler in her.
* PowerLimiter: [[spoiler: The Kushimitama isn't the source of Isanami's PowerOfTheVoid: it's keeping it at bay.]]
* ThePowerOfTheVoid: Isanami's power is darkness that rusts and rots everything it touches into dust.
* PragmaticAdaptation: Because of time constraints, in the anime some characters dissappear and others take their roles in some arcs, some fights and events are cut and some villains are somewhat weakened. And because of MoralGuardians, a general helping of BleachedUnderpants.
* PursuedProtagonist: Isanami is on the run from Tokugawa the whole series.
* RadialAssKicking
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech
** [[spoiler:Anastasia]] will gladly tell you while you are helpless how being sentimental and idealistic makes you weak and only power matters.
** Hanzo loves to tease opponents about how they fail to live up to the hype or victims about how they're the cause of everyone's trouble.
* RealMenWearPink: Date said so about his PimpedOutDress.
* RedEyesTakeWarning
* RedOniBlueOni: Saizou and Sasuke.
* ReligiousBruiser: Seikai.
* RivalDojos: Koga and Iga ninjas don't get along too well. Sasuke is a Koga, Saizou is from the Iga.
* RopeBridge: The setting for Kamanosuke and Saizou's first fight.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Saizo almost does this after being curb-stomped by Hanzo and fearing he CantCatchUp. The anime replaces this with Saizo doing it after Masamune captures Isanami.
* {{Seinen}}: That means violence and nudity.
* SensualSlavs: Anastasia.
* SequelHook: Yes, Izanami is calmed down, and Hanzo and his five [[spoiler:except Anastasia]] are dead. However, there's still Masamune and Ieyasu (whose casualties are probably just missing out Hanzo), all ready to wage war.
* ShaggyDogStory: It turns out, [[spoiler:the heirloom Anastasia is looking for which was in Hanzo's hand was fake]].
** [[spoiler:ShootTheShaggyDog: If you're a history maniac, you'll know. No matter how badass the Braves got, they're destined to die with Yukimura during the Siege of Osaka.]]
* SleepCute: On a horse!
* SphereOfPower: The form Isanami's DefenceMechanismSuperpower takes is a growing black energy sphere emanating from her, first seen during the first episode.
* StandardFemaleGrabArea: Anastasia puzzlingly lets some joke villains almost rape her during her first appearance in the series just because they caught her by her wrist?!
* StockNinjaWeaponry: Knives, poisons, throwing daggers... the usual. Not many throwing stars, though.
* SuperpoweredEvilSide: The Goddess of the Underworld is, well, not nice.
* SuperStrength: Seikai and Byakugun.
* SurvivorsGuilt: Isanami is weighed down by the destruction of her temple (being her adoptive family, too), but she rarely lets on it, like when she did to Saizou after believing Yukimura wouldn't help her.
* SwordPointing:
* TakingTheBullet: The Head Priest of Izumo to save Isanami at the opening of the series.
* TerseTalker: Sasuke finds easier to talk with animals than with people.
* TheseHandsHaveKilled: While trapped with Isanami after the fight with the giant snake, Saizou tells Isanami he's just a killer and cannot be anybody's shining knight.
* ThoseTwoBadGuys: Ichimaru and Niko, fairly ineffective ninja villains and comic relief who first appeared attempting to rape Anastasia during her introduction. They are absent from the anime adaptation except for a brief cameo in episode five.
* ThroughHisStomach: Get a bodyguard for a soba bowl!
* ThrowDownTheBomblet: Part of Benmaru's bag of tricks are grenades enough for carpet bombing.
* TokenGoodTeammate: See FlatCharacter.
* TokenReligiousTeammate: Seikai left the Izumo temple to pursue his own brand of Buddhism.
* TotalEclipseOfThePlot: An eclipse marks [[spoiler: Isanami's]] SuperpoweredEvilSide appearance.
* TrashTalk: Hanzo teases Saizou continously on the gap between his fame and his actual skill during their first fight.
* TraumaCongaLine: This is actually an omnipresent presence in-story too, according to Yukimura. [[spoiler:Any time Isanami fell into some trauma or sadness, the power of Izanami spreads out and kills everything nearby, and Kushimitama is only surpressing the power. And making matters worse, Isanami overheard this while trying to recover from the trauma of Ana's betrayal. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Nice job being a Mr. Exposition in the wrong time, Yukimura]]]]
* UnusualWeaponMounting: Oukatsu has a [[StockNinjaWeaponry kunai-like razor blade]] in [[spoiler:her tongue]].
* UnwantedRescue: Isanami gets scared of being fought over, claims ItsAllMyFault and just gives up and resigns herself to being a prisoner of Date.
* UnwillingSuspension: Isanami gets to hang over a precipice courtesy of Kamanosuke before he joins the Braves, and Anastasia gets hung up upside down while prisoner of Date.
* [[spoiler:UsedToBeASweetKid: Little-Anastasia is ''adorable''. She turns out real cold when she became an adult. [[SarcasmMode Thank you, Hanzo]].]]
* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: The Brave 10 are based on ''some'' historical figures, but mostly they are as real as RobinHood's Merry Men (on top of the KiAttacks and MagicAndPowers). Also unlike even the existing stories, Anastasia is an OriginalCharacter amongst the Braves, although only a little bit since if her name is to be taken note, she'd more likely be a GenderFlip version of '''Ana'''yama Kousuke (who's 100% Japanese unlike Ana who's [[SensualSlavs a foreigner]]). [[Manga/SamuraiDeeperKyo Not that this is the first time Anayama got genderflipped anyway]]. Same with Isanami, who's mostly based on Seikai's historical ''brother'' Miyoshi Isa.
* VillainousBreakdown: Hanzo learns the hard way how to [[spoiler:control darkness with darkness]].
* VillainousCrossdresser: [[spoiler:Goemon. Since his whole family was targeted to be exterminated, he had to disguise himself as a girl. Also, Kamanosuke Yuri would use this to trick people while he was a bandit.]]
* WhamEpisode: Hoo boy, episode 9. What would be a good night sleep went downhill when [[spoiler:Ana is revealed as TheMole for someone who's presumed to be Hanzo, goes on to cripple Rokurou (and forced him to sacrifice an important information on his eye) and Sasuke, and Yukimura reveals the reason why he wanted to gather the Brave 10... Surpress the power of Japanese Death Goddess Izanami... incarnated into ''Isanami''. And she overheard that too.]]
-->[[spoiler:[[WhamLine "Kushimitama is not protecting Isanami. Kushimitama is protecting ''us'' from Isanami."]]]]
* WarriorTherapist: Hanzo uses her SurvivorGuilt against Isanami and Jinpachi guesses his opponent isn't actually above it all against [[spoiler: Anastasia.]]
* WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove: Kamanosuke doesn't get what love/affection is and it confuses him, so he approximates it to what he likes most: killing. His relationship with Saizou is colored by this.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Isanami literally shuts down near snakes.
* WithMyHandsTied: Anastasia can easily clean a room full of guards with her hands tied and ''hanging upside down''.
* WorldOfBadass: Everyone kicks ass in this series. Only Isanami is an exception, and not quite [[spoiler: since she is a GodInHumanForm]].
* WouldHitAGirl: Ninjas are professional killers , after all, and they don't hesitate in hitting female opponents or even old women as Hanzo did during his attack on Ueda.
* WouldntHitAGirl: Juuzo, not being a ninja and a pretty old fashioned gentleman, won't fight women. That doesn't prevent women from fighting him as seen in episode four.
* [[YouKilledMyFather You Killed My Sister]]: Kaio is pretty pissed at Juuzo killing Oukatsu.
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[[caption-width-right:240: No, it's not a ReverseHarem series]]
''Brave 10'' is a JidaiGeki fantasy anime, originated from the similarly named manga. It follows the lives of those that would be known as Sanada Ten Braves, ten loyal ninjas serving under UsefulNotes/SanadaYukimura, although rather than going for historical route, they go for a more mystic-based approach.
The main protagonist is an Iga ninja named Saizou, who meets an Izumo priestess called Isanami on the run from the ninjas who destroyed her temple and protects her on her short journey to Sanada Yukimura's castle. Sanada wants to gather 10 warriors, a party unrivaled in skill and power, to set his still secret plan into action...
The author, Kairi Shimotsuki, is well known for her {{Yaoi}} work, but she has also worked on the ''VideoGame/SengokuBasara'' franchise and this series clearly follows the latter. [[SpiritualAdaptation Very much so]], though with a heavy, DarkerAndEdgier {{Seinen}} slant.
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!!This series provides examples of:
* AcquiredPoisonImmunity: Demonstrated by Anastasia in the manga during the KnockoutGas attack.
* AdaptationDyeJob: Isanami's hair is dark green in the manga at first. She gets later recolored to cyan, and becomes almost white in the anime.
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: No matter how aloof and gruff Saizou acts, Isanami still calls him her shining knight.
* AllStarCast: Oh boy, we've got some pretty big names for this anime. See the Trivia section.
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Saizou's skill was famous until he met Hattori Hanzo, who proved more than his match.
* AmbiguousGender: [[spoiler: Kamanosuke's time in the LotusEaterMachine and reluctance to bathe with the rest of the guys in the HotSpringsEpisode suggests that she might be a girl, after all. Or really, really confused.]]
* AnachronismStew: For some reason, Isanami is at the center of most anachronisms, what with her biker shorts, ballet moves and lollipops.
* AntiHero: Kamanosuke and Anastasia are not really heroes, they simply are in the side of good - Kamanosuke in fact is the TokenEvilTeamMate. Saizou is in the other hand your average bad boy with rough habits but goodie instincts awakened by Isanami.
* AssassinOutclassin: How Anastasia ended up working for Sanada Yukimura. [[spoiler: Or so she told Saizou. She's actually TheMole for Hanzo.]]
* AttackReflector: One of Saizo's many techniques, seen in the first episode against Isanami pursuers.
* AttemptedRape: Happens a few times in the manga, to Juuzo, Isanami and Anastasia to be precise.
* AxCrazy: Kamanosuke Yuri tells Isanami he's a bandit for the chance of people resisting being held up. Becomes more of a BloodKnight later [[spoiler: after joining the team.]]
* BackForTheFinale: Hanzo vanished and practically unheard of after Kamanosuke joining, but he'll be back in the episode after [[spoiler:Anastasia betraying the team]], turns out HesJustHiding. This is also the focus of his Episode 11 preview. [[DragonLady Oukatsu]] [[KilledOffForReal isn't so lucky, though]].
* BareYourMidriff: Anastasia's bodice doesn't cover much of her torso. Also Rokuro and Kamanosuke.
* BarbieDollAnatomy: Even when not covered by CensorSteam there is a lack of detail in the nudity.
* TheBeastmaster: Sasuke. He likes all kind of animals, but birds in particular.
* BedmateReveal: Isanami likes to sneak up into Saizou's bed. But she's a priestess, don't think wrong.
* BeforeAndAfter: Seikai was just another pretty boy before becoming a musclebound bruiser.
* BigBad: UsefulNotes/TokugawaIeyasu.
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler: In the manga, Juuzou arrives just in time to drive Hanzo out. Kamanosuke does the same later. And Seikai, Sasuke and Kamanosuke later as they face Benmaru's DeathCourse. Sort of a habit]]
* BigEater: Isanami. And she has a SweetTooth, too.
* BigNo: Sasuke after Kamanosuke asks him if he could skin his weasel Amaharu.
* {{Bishonen}}: Handsome guys galore. AuthorAppeal.
* {{BFS}}
** Saizo has one.
** Also Date
* BlackSwordsAreBetter: [[HeroesPreferSwords Saizou]] wields one.
* BladeLock: As usual, an excuse during fights to keep on the TrashTalk and exchanging dialogue, as seen in Hanzo and Saizou's second fight.
* BleachedUnderpants: The anime removes the instances of AttemptedRape and nudity the manga has (so, no naked Anastasia during the HotSpringsEpisode, not even with BarbieDollAnatomy).
* BloodLust: In Kamanosuke's strange HoYay way, he says he wants to see Saizou cut and bleeding.
* BloodSplatteredInnocents: During the second ninja attempt in the first episode, Isanami's face gets bloodied by a dying ninja.
* BloodyMurder: Kuchiba's other skill, aside of LotusEaterMachine, as Kamanosuke found out.
* BlowYouAway: Kamanosuke's elemental specialty is wind.
* BoobsOfSteel: Anastasia fighting prowess rivals her bust size.
* BottomlessMagazines: And [[ICallItVera Saaya]], Juuzos' musket, doesn't even have a magazine!
* BreadEggsMilkSquick: While Saizo is complaining about the other braves goofing off images show Sasuke hanging out with his animals, Anastasia sitting by a river and Kamanosuke threatening a villager.
* BrokenBird: Anastasia is tough, self-reliant and ''cold'', and chafes at the safety of Yukimura's castle. Don't expect her to [[DefrostingIceQueen defrost]] easily. [[spoiler:Though if her fight with Jinpachi is any indication, it could be nearer than we thought.]]
** [[spoiler:She got better and stops being a villainess, but she still is in an IceQueen, not giving in to Jinpachi's sexual advances]].
* CallingYourAttacks: Saizou, Seikai, Anastasia, Hanzo, Kaio can't apparently use their techniques without informing everyone of their names. The rest of the Braves are more discreet.
* CastFromHitpoints: Juuzo's killing shot on [[spoiler: Oukatsu]].
* CensorSteam: Even Yukimura complains about the obscuring steam in the HotSpringsEpisode.
* ChainedHeat: Yukimura and Rokurou get bound into a compromising position during Hanzo's attack in Ueda, much to the delight of every [[YaoiFangirl Fujoshi]] watching.
* ChildhoodFriends: Anastasia and Saizo.
* ClingyJealousGirl: Isanami as soon as Anastasia appears.
* ClothingDamage: Mostly on guys. [[MsFanservice Anastasia]] gets her time to shine, too.
* ColdSniper: Juuzo. Not exactly cold, but very proper.
* CombatPragmatist: When Isanami isn't around to stop them the ninja side of the team delivers ''{{coup de grace}}s'' and does whatever it takes to win the fights. They are not samurai, after all.
* CompressedAdaptation: After the first episode of the anime, which covers slightly past the first chapter of the manga, the anime races through the source material, covering over 120 pages worth of manga each episode: most of the cut material featured ThoseTwoBadGuys, who were left out of the anime adaptation and are pretty much nothing but comic relief. See PragmaticAdaptation.
* CoolBigSis: Anastasia becomes Isanami's sister figure after she rescues her from Date. With a hint of GoodBadGirl in the way she flirts with Yukimura and Saizou. [[spoiler:Bad idea, because Ana actually hates familial concept, and it was all an act, probably devised by Hanzo to eventually break Isanami.]]
* CraterPower: When Isanami uses her power she is left standing in a shallow crater.
* CrossdressingVoice: Young Seikai is actually voiced by a ''female''. It's a wonder how his vocal evolved that his current voice is done by a male, and a non-androgynous voice at that.
* CryIntoChest: Isanami breaks down on Saizou after Yukimura refuses to help her early in the story.
* DareToBeBadass: Anastasia tells Isanami to live up to the rest of the team during her UnwantedRescue.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: [[spoiler:Anastasia saw her family dead in Japan and have been left alone since little, and while looking for the last heirloom of her family, there came Hanzo holding it and blackmails her to join, shaping her into a cold hearted woman. This is also why 'family' was some sort of BerserkButton for her and what made her hate the rest of the Braves.]]
* DarkIsNotEvil: Isanami's DefenceMechanismSuperpower is basically holy darkness.
* DarkestHour: By the end of episode 11, the bad guys have won. Or they have been successful at BullyingADragon.
* DCupDistress: Being a practical woman, Anastasia would rather be small breasted because it's less of a burden. Isanami being self conscious about [[ACupAngst her own]] thinks she should be happy about it.
* DecoyDamsel: [[spoiler: Sort of. It turned out to be Kamanosuke who despite looks, is a guy. Or is she?]]
* DefeatMeansFriendship: [[spoiler: Kamanosuke]], Seikai and Benmaru join the team after fighting the Braves.
* DeliberatelyDistressedDamsel: [[spoiler: both Kamanosuke and Anastasia have used this trick.]]
* DesignatedGirlFight: AvertedTrope! Anastasia doesn't get paired with a female opponent until the second attack on Ueda castle, and never again after that.
* {{Determinator}}: Saizo, of course. Dude has been slashed and bleeding how many times against Hanzo, and he's still standing up and fighting rather than being down for count.
* DistressedDamsel: Isanami is continuously being pursued and kidnapped. Get her distressed enough at your own peril, though, and...
** DefenceMechanismSuperpower: ...Hope you like getting vaporized.
* DoomedHometown: Isanami's shrine was burned to the ground.
* TheDragon: UsefulNotes/HattoriHanzo is Tokugawa's main enforcer.
** [[spoiler:DragonWithAnAgenda: Unfortunately for Ieyasu, Hanzo has his own plans for capturing Isanami, and pretty much cares less about the upcoming Tokugawa vs Toyotomi clash, his team would be the one ruling from the shadow... or so he claims.]]
* DragonLady: Oukatsu; open kimono, humongous cleavage, hidden blade, snake powers. Succeeded by Kaio, her sister.
* DudeLooksLikeALady: Kamanosuke has to do very little to look feminine [[spoiler: something he used to ambush people during her times as a bandit. Although maybe it's just that ''she'' looks masculine, as seen in the LotusEaterMachine.]].
* TheDulcineaEffect: The first time he saves Isanami was just self-defense. And the second time, too. And the third...
* EpiphanyComeback: During his fight with renegade Iga ninja Goemon, Saizou is thoroughly beaten until Goemon tells him he's no longer an Iga ninja. Saizou realizes he should think like a one of Yukimura Braves. Cue fight reversal.
* EtTuBrute: [[spoiler: Isanami didn't take well to Ana being a FalseFriend all along. Neither does Sasuke.]]
* {{Expy}}: It's hard not to see Anastasia as a DarkerAndEdgier [[VideoGame/SengokuBasara Kasuga]]. Also, Isanami looks a lot like [[LightNovel/FullMetalPanic Kaname]].
** Also, Anastasia can also be seen as a DarkerAndEdgier [[Anime/{{Gravion}} Mizuki Tachibana]], being that they're both the resident blonde, ponytailed MsFanservice CoolBigSis with [[YuuAsakawa the same voice to boot]], as well as [[spoiler:being TheMole]].
** The author draws UsefulNotes/DateMasamune ''exactly'' as she did in her ''VideoGame/SengokuBasara'' works.
* EvilRedheads: Hanzo is revealed to have one beneath his ninja mask, it's AnimeHair too.
* EyepatchOfPower: Rokurou hides his right eye [[spoiler:until he loses it to Anastasia in episode nine]] .
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler: Anastasia is actually working for Hanzo.]]
** [[spoiler:HeelFaceTurn: Or Neutral Turn. Once Hanzo is dead, Ana already claimed that she can't come back to Yukimura for being a traitor. The good thing is, Jinpachi is there to offer her a place to stay, and he doesn't seem to be interested in staying in Ueda all the time.]]
* FauxAffablyEvil: Hanzo is 100% evil, but he's quite a polite talker in describing on how much he's killing people. Also exemplified in his monologue for Episode 11 preview.
* FiveBadBand: Five Iga Ninjas. Subject to change depending on the last reveal:
** BigBad: Hanzo
** TheDragon: Kuchiba
** TheBrute: Byakugun
** TheEvilGenius: Kaio (formerly Oukatsu)
** TheDarkChick: [[spoiler:Anastasia]]
* FlatCharacter: Unfortunately, most of Hanzo's five (including Hanzo himself) has very little background and look like they're just in for simple megalomania, aside of [[spoiler:Anastasia, who's shown to have DarkAndTroubledPast and had other goal unlike them]]
* FlechetteStorm: A trademark of Hanzo that can be seen in the opening.
* ForcedIntoEvil: Zig-zagged. [[spoiler:Turns out, the reason why Anastasia joined Hanzo was because Hanzo was holding her family heirloom that she's been searching since little. However, given enough time she spent with Hanzo, she turned into a cold-hearted BrokenBird IceQueen who's just as bad as Hanzo is. But, even Jinpachi could see her slowly being [[DefrostingIceQueen defrosted]] despite her insisting otherwise.]]
* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: Saizou need Sasuke to give him a pep talk after being thouroughly beaten by Hanzo during their first fight (or getting Isanami captured by Masamune in the anime).
* GenderBlenderName: 'Yuri' Kamanosuke. Hmm, any wonder why [[DudeLooksLikeALady he's often thought as a lady]]?
* GildedCage: Date is a good host for Isanami, besides the chain spiked to the ground
* TheGlomp: Isanami is fond of jumping onto Saizou and not letting go.
* GodInHumanForm: [[spoiler: Isanami is an incarnation of Izanami, goddess of the Japanese Underworld.]]
* GoodOldWays: Juuzo is prone to reminding Saizou of the proper ways.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: Juuzo has a fashionable scar on his jaw. Oukatsu has scars, too, but aren't obvious until she gets comfortable.
* GrievousHarmWithABody: While being tightly tied and weaponless, Rokurou decides to use Yukimura as an improvised weapon
* GrinOfAudacity
* HairDecoration: A jade headpiece that it's clearly more than for looks. [[spoiler: Its name is the Kushimitama.]]
* HappyFlashback: During the Back to Izumo arc Isanami remembers how the temple was before the ninja attack.
** Also, [[spoiler:Anastasia had one in the middle of fighting Jinpachi.]]
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: Kamanosuke tag-teams Hanzo with Saizou during the Izumo arc and joins the team afterwards.]]
* HeroicComedicSociopath: Kamanosuke's penchant for mixing bloody murder and affection is usually PlayedForLaughs.
* HeroicSacrifice: Nearly attempted by Rokuro, who revealed that the prophecy was about [[spoiler:having the ten braves sacrifice their lives to stop Izanami no Mikoto.]] Saizo will have none of that shit.
* HighPressureBlood: Every big slash is marked by a brief blood spurt.
* HighlyVisibleNinja: It has to be tough to be a blonde, blue-eyed infiltrator in 16th Century Japan, Anastasia.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: UsefulNotes/SanadaYukimura is the strategist version, more of a GuileHero like the gender-flipped ''LightNovel/HyakkaRyouranSamuraiGirls'' version than HotBlooded as in ''VideoGame/SengokuBasara''. And older than those versions, too.
** The sequel manga, ''Brave 10 S'' features several others not seen in the anime/1st manga, including Yukimura's brother Sanada Nobuyuki, along with HondaTadakatsu and his daughter Komatsu ([[VideoGame/SamuraiWarriors Ina]])
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: Well, it's an anime about UsefulNotes/SanadaYukimura. Of course UsefulNotes/TokugawaIeyasu and his men HAD to be villainized!
** In particular, Hanzo probably got it the worst. At most, Ieyasu is depicted as an incompetent SmugSnake (which is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by Masamune). Hanzo goes beyond being 'loyal' to Ieyasu into [[spoiler:having probably different goals than Ieyasu]] and being much more sadistic and quite making his way to HeroKiller.
** Though there could be some good justification on this. 'UsefulNotes/HattoriHanzo' is a title passed down through Iga ninja leaders, this Hanzo may not be the same with the same Hanzo that escorted Ieyasu through Iga after Nobunaga's death (Hattori Masanari). In fact, there is a Hanzo that is really mean even to his own kinsmen.
* HopeSpot: Kamanosuke just broke down Kuchiba's LotusEaterMachine and cut him in half! Finally there's one Brave who survived -- NotSoFastBucko Kuchiba reveals his [[BloodyMurder other ability]] and finishes off Kamanosuke... [[DoubleSubversion Until the end.]]
* HotSpringsEpisode: Second half of episode six in the anime. In the manga, it comes as a brief respite after the second assault on Ueda.
* HowToGatherCharacters: Isanami gets rescued by Saizou and then starts to add more and more protectors in a DebutQueue.
* ICallItVera: Saizo's sword is called Maribouchou and Juuzo's gun Saaya.
* IHaveYouNowMyPretty: Equal opportunities for getting abused (as Juuzo can attest during his fight with Oukatsu), but Anastasia gets most, even in her introduction (manga only).
* AnIcePerson: Anastasia can turn water to ice with her Iga techniques, and she also prides herself on being cold in other senses of the word [[spoiler: as she shows when she betrays the team]].
* IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim: Isanami stops Saizou from killing a beaten Kamanosuke when he has him in a SwordOverHead situation.
* ImplausibleHairColor: There are three redheads in the series (Benmaru, Yuri and Hanzo). Not exactly common in XVII century Japan.
* InASingleBound: Typical ninja fare.
* InLoveWithYourCarnage: Kamanosuke gets fascinated by Saizo's killing intent.
* InSeriesNickname: She is known as Anastasia of the Glacier, but everyone calls her Ana.
* InstantRunes
* ItsAllMyFault: Isanami come to this conclusion after the second fight with Hanzo and briefly gives up. She's then goaded by Hanzo during the fight against the Five into another breakdown [[spoiler:that pulls out her SuperpoweredEvilSide.]]
* IWasOnlyPretendingToLikeYou: [[spoiler: Anastasia upon her FaceHeelTurn.]]
* JapanesePronouns: For 'I', Juuzou used 'Soregashi' while Seikai used 'Sessho'.
* JerkassFacade: By the end of the first episode, he totally hasn't saved the girl three times and definitely isn't working for Yukimura. Really.
** HitmanWithAHeart
* JidaiGeki: HistoricalFantasy set in 1599.
* KickThemWhileTheyAreDown: Anastasia is a CombatPragmatist, after all, and will hit a helpless enemy [[spoiler: or former ally. Ask Sasuke]].
* KidSamurai: Benmaru.
* KnockoutGas: Used during Goemon's attack on Ueda castle. Too bad some Braves have AcquiredPoisonImmunity.
* LeaveNoWitnesses: Silly ninjas, they got Saizou involved in protecting Isanami because of being overly thorough.
* LightIsNotGood: Saizo's ninja tricks are themed after Marishiten, Shinto goddess of Light.
* LimitBreak: Looks like Isanami has one (being depressed or afraid will do the trick).
* LiveActionEscortMission: Juuzo and Saizo escort Isanami back to Izumo.
* LivingEmotionalCrutch: Saizo for Isanami. After watching her home being burned to the ground and almost everyone she knew being killed, she adopts Saizou as "her light".
* TheLoad: Isanami's role in the team is just being there to be protected.
* LongLostRelative: [[spoiler: Seikai is Isanami's elder adoptive brother. Sort of.]]
* LotusEaterMachine: Kamanosuke faces one in the fight with Hanzo's Five.
* MakeMeWannaShout: Rokurou uses sonic attacks in the rare instances he gets to fight.
* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Saizo is pretty much being dragged around by Isanami.
* McNinja: Russian ninja with appropriate Ice powers!
* MeaningfulName
** With a name like 'Kamanosuke', it's pretty appropriate that he'd be fighting with a 'kama'/sickle chain.
** Also, Isanami no miko for [[spoiler:I'''z'''anami-no-Mikoto.]]
* MeetCute: Saizo meets Isanami and within a day they are already in bickering mode.
* {{Miko}}: Isanami, priestess of Izumo.
* ModestyShorts: Isanami under her {{miko}} attire.
* MoeStare: Isanami is usually seen smiling, eyes wide open. It's as if she got lost in the way to another series.
* TheMole: [[spoiler: Anastasia works for Hanzo.]]
* MoralityPet: Isanami for Saizo. Were not for her intercession, Kamanosuke wouldn't have lived to join the Braves. And in turn, Kamanosuke behaves while Saizou is around.
* MsFanservice: Anastasia. Her outfit is already revealing, and she's prone to not wearing it.
* MySisterIsOffLimits: Seikai will smash you if you don't comply.
* MysteriousWaif: Why is Isanami, a simple miko, so important? Why was her temple destroyed? What is the source of her DefenceMechanismSuperpower?
* {{Ninja}}: Well, that is what the "historical" Brave Ten were, isn't it?
* NinjaLog: Saizou uses this substitution trick on Sasuke during their fight.
* NotGoodWithPeople: Sasuke is quite shy.
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Kamanosuke's reason to help Saizou and join the Braves.
* OnTheNextEpisodeOfCatchPhrase: Saizo's "Bring it on!"
* [[NotInThisForYourRevolution Only In It For The Hottie]]: Jinpachi agreed to help Juuzou and eventually join Yukimura on the fact that there's [[MsFanservice one certain busty blonde named Anastasia]] in Yukimura's entourage. [[spoiler:And kinda true too. Once he's done redeeming Anastasia, he just stops sticking with the Braves.]]
* OrphansPlotTrinket: The only thing Isanami keeps from Izumo. It looks like a ProtectiveCharm.
* OverTheShoulderCarry: Saizou just slings Isanami on his shoulder to get away during their first meeting.
* PhenotypeStereotype: Russian = blonde hair and blue eyes.
* ThePollyanna: Isanami comes across as this, but there is a lot of StepfordSmiler in her.
* PowerLimiter: [[spoiler: The Kushimitama isn't the source of Isanami's PowerOfTheVoid: it's keeping it at bay.]]
* ThePowerOfTheVoid: Isanami's power is darkness that rusts and rots everything it touches into dust.
* PragmaticAdaptation: Because of time constraints, in the anime some characters dissappear and others take their roles in some arcs, some fights and events are cut and some villains are somewhat weakened. And because of MoralGuardians, a general helping of BleachedUnderpants.
* PursuedProtagonist: Isanami is on the run from Tokugawa the whole series.
* RadialAssKicking
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech
** [[spoiler:Anastasia]] will gladly tell you while you are helpless how being sentimental and idealistic makes you weak and only power matters.
** Hanzo loves to tease opponents about how they fail to live up to the hype or victims about how they're the cause of everyone's trouble.
* RealMenWearPink: Date said so about his PimpedOutDress.
* RedEyesTakeWarning
* RedOniBlueOni: Saizou and Sasuke.
* ReligiousBruiser: Seikai.
* RivalDojos: Koga and Iga ninjas don't get along too well. Sasuke is a Koga, Saizou is from the Iga.
* RopeBridge: The setting for Kamanosuke and Saizou's first fight.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Saizo almost does this after being curb-stomped by Hanzo and fearing he CantCatchUp. The anime replaces this with Saizo doing it after Masamune captures Isanami.
* {{Seinen}}: That means violence and nudity.
* SensualSlavs: Anastasia.
* SequelHook: Yes, Izanami is calmed down, and Hanzo and his five [[spoiler:except Anastasia]] are dead. However, there's still Masamune and Ieyasu (whose casualties are probably just missing out Hanzo), all ready to wage war.
* ShaggyDogStory: It turns out, [[spoiler:the heirloom Anastasia is looking for which was in Hanzo's hand was fake]].
** [[spoiler:ShootTheShaggyDog: If you're a history maniac, you'll know. No matter how badass the Braves got, they're destined to die with Yukimura during the Siege of Osaka.]]
* SleepCute: On a horse!
* SphereOfPower: The form Isanami's DefenceMechanismSuperpower takes is a growing black energy sphere emanating from her, first seen during the first episode.
* StandardFemaleGrabArea: Anastasia puzzlingly lets some joke villains almost rape her during her first appearance in the series just because they caught her by her wrist?!
* StockNinjaWeaponry: Knives, poisons, throwing daggers... the usual. Not many throwing stars, though.
* SuperpoweredEvilSide: The Goddess of the Underworld is, well, not nice.
* SuperStrength: Seikai and Byakugun.
* SurvivorsGuilt: Isanami is weighed down by the destruction of her temple (being her adoptive family, too), but she rarely lets on it, like when she did to Saizou after believing Yukimura wouldn't help her.
* SwordPointing:
* TakingTheBullet: The Head Priest of Izumo to save Isanami at the opening of the series.
* TerseTalker: Sasuke finds easier to talk with animals than with people.
* TheseHandsHaveKilled: While trapped with Isanami after the fight with the giant snake, Saizou tells Isanami he's just a killer and cannot be anybody's shining knight.
* ThoseTwoBadGuys: Ichimaru and Niko, fairly ineffective ninja villains and comic relief who first appeared attempting to rape Anastasia during her introduction. They are absent from the anime adaptation except for a brief cameo in episode five.
* ThroughHisStomach: Get a bodyguard for a soba bowl!
* ThrowDownTheBomblet: Part of Benmaru's bag of tricks are grenades enough for carpet bombing.
* TokenGoodTeammate: See FlatCharacter.
* TokenReligiousTeammate: Seikai left the Izumo temple to pursue his own brand of Buddhism.
* TotalEclipseOfThePlot: An eclipse marks [[spoiler: Isanami's]] SuperpoweredEvilSide appearance.
* TrashTalk: Hanzo teases Saizou continously on the gap between his fame and his actual skill during their first fight.
* TraumaCongaLine: This is actually an omnipresent presence in-story too, according to Yukimura. [[spoiler:Any time Isanami fell into some trauma or sadness, the power of Izanami spreads out and kills everything nearby, and Kushimitama is only surpressing the power. And making matters worse, Isanami overheard this while trying to recover from the trauma of Ana's betrayal. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Nice job being a Mr. Exposition in the wrong time, Yukimura]]]]
* UnusualWeaponMounting: Oukatsu has a [[StockNinjaWeaponry kunai-like razor blade]] in [[spoiler:her tongue]].
* UnwantedRescue: Isanami gets scared of being fought over, claims ItsAllMyFault and just gives up and resigns herself to being a prisoner of Date.
* UnwillingSuspension: Isanami gets to hang over a precipice courtesy of Kamanosuke before he joins the Braves, and Anastasia gets hung up upside down while prisoner of Date.
* [[spoiler:UsedToBeASweetKid: Little-Anastasia is ''adorable''. She turns out real cold when she became an adult. [[SarcasmMode Thank you, Hanzo]].]]
* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: The Brave 10 are based on ''some'' historical figures, but mostly they are as real as RobinHood's Merry Men (on top of the KiAttacks and MagicAndPowers). Also unlike even the existing stories, Anastasia is an OriginalCharacter amongst the Braves, although only a little bit since if her name is to be taken note, she'd more likely be a GenderFlip version of '''Ana'''yama Kousuke (who's 100% Japanese unlike Ana who's [[SensualSlavs a foreigner]]). [[Manga/SamuraiDeeperKyo Not that this is the first time Anayama got genderflipped anyway]]. Same with Isanami, who's mostly based on Seikai's historical ''brother'' Miyoshi Isa.
* VillainousBreakdown: Hanzo learns the hard way how to [[spoiler:control darkness with darkness]].
* VillainousCrossdresser: [[spoiler:Goemon. Since his whole family was targeted to be exterminated, he had to disguise himself as a girl. Also, Kamanosuke Yuri would use this to trick people while he was a bandit.]]
* WhamEpisode: Hoo boy, episode 9. What would be a good night sleep went downhill when [[spoiler:Ana is revealed as TheMole for someone who's presumed to be Hanzo, goes on to cripple Rokurou (and forced him to sacrifice an important information on his eye) and Sasuke, and Yukimura reveals the reason why he wanted to gather the Brave 10... Surpress the power of Japanese Death Goddess Izanami... incarnated into ''Isanami''. And she overheard that too.]]
-->[[spoiler:[[WhamLine "Kushimitama is not protecting Isanami. Kushimitama is protecting ''us'' from Isanami."]]]]
* WarriorTherapist: Hanzo uses her SurvivorGuilt against Isanami and Jinpachi guesses his opponent isn't actually above it all against [[spoiler: Anastasia.]]
* WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove: Kamanosuke doesn't get what love/affection is and it confuses him, so he approximates it to what he likes most: killing. His relationship with Saizou is colored by this.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Isanami literally shuts down near snakes.
* WithMyHandsTied: Anastasia can easily clean a room full of guards with her hands tied and ''hanging upside down''.
* WorldOfBadass: Everyone kicks ass in this series. Only Isanami is an exception, and not quite [[spoiler: since she is a GodInHumanForm]].
* WouldHitAGirl: Ninjas are professional killers , after all, and they don't hesitate in hitting female opponents or even old women as Hanzo did during his attack on Ueda.
* WouldntHitAGirl: Juuzo, not being a ninja and a pretty old fashioned gentleman, won't fight women. That doesn't prevent women from fighting him as seen in episode four.
* [[YouKilledMyFather You Killed My Sister]]: Kaio is pretty pissed at Juuzo killing Oukatsu.
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[[caption-width-right:240: No, it's not a ReverseHarem series]]
''Brave 10'' is a JidaiGeki fantasy anime, originated from the similarly named manga. It follows the lives of those that would be known as Sanada Ten Braves, ten loyal ninjas serving under UsefulNotes/SanadaYukimura, although rather than going for historical route, they go for a more mystic-based approach.
The main protagonist is an Iga ninja named Saizou, who meets an Izumo priestess called Isanami on the run from the ninjas who destroyed her temple and protects her on her short journey to Sanada Yukimura's castle. Sanada wants to gather 10 warriors, a party unrivaled in skill and power, to set his still secret plan into action...
The author, Kairi Shimotsuki, is well known for her {{Yaoi}} work, but she has also worked on the ''VideoGame/SengokuBasara'' franchise and this series clearly follows the latter. [[SpiritualAdaptation Very much so]], though with a heavy, DarkerAndEdgier {{Seinen}} slant.
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!!This series provides examples of:
* AcquiredPoisonImmunity: Demonstrated by Anastasia in the manga during the KnockoutGas attack.
* AdaptationDyeJob: Isanami's hair is dark green in the manga at first. She gets later recolored to cyan, and becomes almost white in the anime.
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: No matter how aloof and gruff Saizou acts, Isanami still calls him her shining knight.
* AllStarCast: Oh boy, we've got some pretty big names for this anime. See the Trivia section.
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Saizou's skill was famous until he met Hattori Hanzo, who proved more than his match.
* AmbiguousGender: [[spoiler: Kamanosuke's time in the LotusEaterMachine and reluctance to bathe with the rest of the guys in the HotSpringsEpisode suggests that she might be a girl, after all. Or really, really confused.]]
* AnachronismStew: For some reason, Isanami is at the center of most anachronisms, what with her biker shorts, ballet moves and lollipops.
* AntiHero: Kamanosuke and Anastasia are not really heroes, they simply are in the side of good - Kamanosuke in fact is the TokenEvilTeamMate. Saizou is in the other hand your average bad boy with rough habits but goodie instincts awakened by Isanami.
* AssassinOutclassin: How Anastasia ended up working for Sanada Yukimura. [[spoiler: Or so she told Saizou. She's actually TheMole for Hanzo.]]
* AttackReflector: One of Saizo's many techniques, seen in the first episode against Isanami pursuers.
* AttemptedRape: Happens a few times in the manga, to Juuzo, Isanami and Anastasia to be precise.
* AxCrazy: Kamanosuke Yuri tells Isanami he's a bandit for the chance of people resisting being held up. Becomes more of a BloodKnight later [[spoiler: after joining the team.]]
* BackForTheFinale: Hanzo vanished and practically unheard of after Kamanosuke joining, but he'll be back in the episode after [[spoiler:Anastasia betraying the team]], turns out HesJustHiding. This is also the focus of his Episode 11 preview. [[DragonLady Oukatsu]] [[KilledOffForReal isn't so lucky, though]].
* BareYourMidriff: Anastasia's bodice doesn't cover much of her torso. Also Rokuro and Kamanosuke.
* BarbieDollAnatomy: Even when not covered by CensorSteam there is a lack of detail in the nudity.
* TheBeastmaster: Sasuke. He likes all kind of animals, but birds in particular.
* BedmateReveal: Isanami likes to sneak up into Saizou's bed. But she's a priestess, don't think wrong.
* BeforeAndAfter: Seikai was just another pretty boy before becoming a musclebound bruiser.
* BigBad: UsefulNotes/TokugawaIeyasu.
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler: In the manga, Juuzou arrives just in time to drive Hanzo out. Kamanosuke does the same later. And Seikai, Sasuke and Kamanosuke later as they face Benmaru's DeathCourse. Sort of a habit]]
* BigEater: Isanami. And she has a SweetTooth, too.
* BigNo: Sasuke after Kamanosuke asks him if he could skin his weasel Amaharu.
* {{Bishonen}}: Handsome guys galore. AuthorAppeal.
* {{BFS}}
** Saizo has one.
** Also Date
* BlackSwordsAreBetter: [[HeroesPreferSwords Saizou]] wields one.
* BladeLock: As usual, an excuse during fights to keep on the TrashTalk and exchanging dialogue, as seen in Hanzo and Saizou's second fight.
* BleachedUnderpants: The anime removes the instances of AttemptedRape and nudity the manga has (so, no naked Anastasia during the HotSpringsEpisode, not even with BarbieDollAnatomy).
* BloodLust: In Kamanosuke's strange HoYay way, he says he wants to see Saizou cut and bleeding.
* BloodSplatteredInnocents: During the second ninja attempt in the first episode, Isanami's face gets bloodied by a dying ninja.
* BloodyMurder: Kuchiba's other skill, aside of LotusEaterMachine, as Kamanosuke found out.
* BlowYouAway: Kamanosuke's elemental specialty is wind.
* BoobsOfSteel: Anastasia fighting prowess rivals her bust size.
* BottomlessMagazines: And [[ICallItVera Saaya]], Juuzos' musket, doesn't even have a magazine!
* BreadEggsMilkSquick: While Saizo is complaining about the other braves goofing off images show Sasuke hanging out with his animals, Anastasia sitting by a river and Kamanosuke threatening a villager.
* BrokenBird: Anastasia is tough, self-reliant and ''cold'', and chafes at the safety of Yukimura's castle. Don't expect her to [[DefrostingIceQueen defrost]] easily. [[spoiler:Though if her fight with Jinpachi is any indication, it could be nearer than we thought.]]
** [[spoiler:She got better and stops being a villainess, but she still is in an IceQueen, not giving in to Jinpachi's sexual advances]].
* CallingYourAttacks: Saizou, Seikai, Anastasia, Hanzo, Kaio can't apparently use their techniques without informing everyone of their names. The rest of the Braves are more discreet.
* CastFromHitpoints: Juuzo's killing shot on [[spoiler: Oukatsu]].
* CensorSteam: Even Yukimura complains about the obscuring steam in the HotSpringsEpisode.
* ChainedHeat: Yukimura and Rokurou get bound into a compromising position during Hanzo's attack in Ueda, much to the delight of every [[YaoiFangirl Fujoshi]] watching.
* ChildhoodFriends: Anastasia and Saizo.
* ClingyJealousGirl: Isanami as soon as Anastasia appears.
* ClothingDamage: Mostly on guys. [[MsFanservice Anastasia]] gets her time to shine, too.
* ColdSniper: Juuzo. Not exactly cold, but very proper.
* CombatPragmatist: When Isanami isn't around to stop them the ninja side of the team delivers ''{{coup de grace}}s'' and does whatever it takes to win the fights. They are not samurai, after all.
* CompressedAdaptation: After the first episode of the anime, which covers slightly past the first chapter of the manga, the anime races through the source material, covering over 120 pages worth of manga each episode: most of the cut material featured ThoseTwoBadGuys, who were left out of the anime adaptation and are pretty much nothing but comic relief. See PragmaticAdaptation.
* CoolBigSis: Anastasia becomes Isanami's sister figure after she rescues her from Date. With a hint of GoodBadGirl in the way she flirts with Yukimura and Saizou. [[spoiler:Bad idea, because Ana actually hates familial concept, and it was all an act, probably devised by Hanzo to eventually break Isanami.]]
* CraterPower: When Isanami uses her power she is left standing in a shallow crater.
* CrossdressingVoice: Young Seikai is actually voiced by a ''female''. It's a wonder how his vocal evolved that his current voice is done by a male, and a non-androgynous voice at that.
* CryIntoChest: Isanami breaks down on Saizou after Yukimura refuses to help her early in the story.
* DareToBeBadass: Anastasia tells Isanami to live up to the rest of the team during her UnwantedRescue.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: [[spoiler:Anastasia saw her family dead in Japan and have been left alone since little, and while looking for the last heirloom of her family, there came Hanzo holding it and blackmails her to join, shaping her into a cold hearted woman. This is also why 'family' was some sort of BerserkButton for her and what made her hate the rest of the Braves.]]
* DarkIsNotEvil: Isanami's DefenceMechanismSuperpower is basically holy darkness.
* DarkestHour: By the end of episode 11, the bad guys have won. Or they have been successful at BullyingADragon.
* DCupDistress: Being a practical woman, Anastasia would rather be small breasted because it's less of a burden. Isanami being self conscious about [[ACupAngst her own]] thinks she should be happy about it.
* DecoyDamsel: [[spoiler: Sort of. It turned out to be Kamanosuke who despite looks, is a guy. Or is she?]]
* DefeatMeansFriendship: [[spoiler: Kamanosuke]], Seikai and Benmaru join the team after fighting the Braves.
* DeliberatelyDistressedDamsel: [[spoiler: both Kamanosuke and Anastasia have used this trick.]]
* DesignatedGirlFight: AvertedTrope! Anastasia doesn't get paired with a female opponent until the second attack on Ueda castle, and never again after that.
* {{Determinator}}: Saizo, of course. Dude has been slashed and bleeding how many times against Hanzo, and he's still standing up and fighting rather than being down for count.
* DistressedDamsel: Isanami is continuously being pursued and kidnapped. Get her distressed enough at your own peril, though, and...
** DefenceMechanismSuperpower: ...Hope you like getting vaporized.
* DoomedHometown: Isanami's shrine was burned to the ground.
* TheDragon: UsefulNotes/HattoriHanzo is Tokugawa's main enforcer.
** [[spoiler:DragonWithAnAgenda: Unfortunately for Ieyasu, Hanzo has his own plans for capturing Isanami, and pretty much cares less about the upcoming Tokugawa vs Toyotomi clash, his team would be the one ruling from the shadow... or so he claims.]]
* DragonLady: Oukatsu; open kimono, humongous cleavage, hidden blade, snake powers. Succeeded by Kaio, her sister.
* DudeLooksLikeALady: Kamanosuke has to do very little to look feminine [[spoiler: something he used to ambush people during her times as a bandit. Although maybe it's just that ''she'' looks masculine, as seen in the LotusEaterMachine.]].
* TheDulcineaEffect: The first time he saves Isanami was just self-defense. And the second time, too. And the third...
* EpiphanyComeback: During his fight with renegade Iga ninja Goemon, Saizou is thoroughly beaten until Goemon tells him he's no longer an Iga ninja. Saizou realizes he should think like a one of Yukimura Braves. Cue fight reversal.
* EtTuBrute: [[spoiler: Isanami didn't take well to Ana being a FalseFriend all along. Neither does Sasuke.]]
* {{Expy}}: It's hard not to see Anastasia as a DarkerAndEdgier [[VideoGame/SengokuBasara Kasuga]]. Also, Isanami looks a lot like [[LightNovel/FullMetalPanic Kaname]].
** Also, Anastasia can also be seen as a DarkerAndEdgier [[Anime/{{Gravion}} Mizuki Tachibana]], being that they're both the resident blonde, ponytailed MsFanservice CoolBigSis with [[YuuAsakawa the same voice to boot]], as well as [[spoiler:being TheMole]].
** The author draws UsefulNotes/DateMasamune ''exactly'' as she did in her ''VideoGame/SengokuBasara'' works.
* EvilRedheads: Hanzo is revealed to have one beneath his ninja mask, it's AnimeHair too.
* EyepatchOfPower: Rokurou hides his right eye [[spoiler:until he loses it to Anastasia in episode nine]] .
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler: Anastasia is actually working for Hanzo.]]
** [[spoiler:HeelFaceTurn: Or Neutral Turn. Once Hanzo is dead, Ana already claimed that she can't come back to Yukimura for being a traitor. The good thing is, Jinpachi is there to offer her a place to stay, and he doesn't seem to be interested in staying in Ueda all the time.]]
* FauxAffablyEvil: Hanzo is 100% evil, but he's quite a polite talker in describing on how much he's killing people. Also exemplified in his monologue for Episode 11 preview.
* FiveBadBand: Five Iga Ninjas. Subject to change depending on the last reveal:
** BigBad: Hanzo
** TheDragon: Kuchiba
** TheBrute: Byakugun
** TheEvilGenius: Kaio (formerly Oukatsu)
** TheDarkChick: [[spoiler:Anastasia]]
* FlatCharacter: Unfortunately, most of Hanzo's five (including Hanzo himself) has very little background and look like they're just in for simple megalomania, aside of [[spoiler:Anastasia, who's shown to have DarkAndTroubledPast and had other goal unlike them]]
* FlechetteStorm: A trademark of Hanzo that can be seen in the opening.
* ForcedIntoEvil: Zig-zagged. [[spoiler:Turns out, the reason why Anastasia joined Hanzo was because Hanzo was holding her family heirloom that she's been searching since little. However, given enough time she spent with Hanzo, she turned into a cold-hearted BrokenBird IceQueen who's just as bad as Hanzo is. But, even Jinpachi could see her slowly being [[DefrostingIceQueen defrosted]] despite her insisting otherwise.]]
* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: Saizou need Sasuke to give him a pep talk after being thouroughly beaten by Hanzo during their first fight (or getting Isanami captured by Masamune in the anime).
* GenderBlenderName: 'Yuri' Kamanosuke. Hmm, any wonder why [[DudeLooksLikeALady he's often thought as a lady]]?
* GildedCage: Date is a good host for Isanami, besides the chain spiked to the ground
* TheGlomp: Isanami is fond of jumping onto Saizou and not letting go.
* GodInHumanForm: [[spoiler: Isanami is an incarnation of Izanami, goddess of the Japanese Underworld.]]
* GoodOldWays: Juuzo is prone to reminding Saizou of the proper ways.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: Juuzo has a fashionable scar on his jaw. Oukatsu has scars, too, but aren't obvious until she gets comfortable.
* GrievousHarmWithABody: While being tightly tied and weaponless, Rokurou decides to use Yukimura as an improvised weapon
* GrinOfAudacity
* HairDecoration: A jade headpiece that it's clearly more than for looks. [[spoiler: Its name is the Kushimitama.]]
* HappyFlashback: During the Back to Izumo arc Isanami remembers how the temple was before the ninja attack.
** Also, [[spoiler:Anastasia had one in the middle of fighting Jinpachi.]]
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: Kamanosuke tag-teams Hanzo with Saizou during the Izumo arc and joins the team afterwards.]]
* HeroicComedicSociopath: Kamanosuke's penchant for mixing bloody murder and affection is usually PlayedForLaughs.
* HeroicSacrifice: Nearly attempted by Rokuro, who revealed that the prophecy was about [[spoiler:having the ten braves sacrifice their lives to stop Izanami no Mikoto.]] Saizo will have none of that shit.
* HighPressureBlood: Every big slash is marked by a brief blood spurt.
* HighlyVisibleNinja: It has to be tough to be a blonde, blue-eyed infiltrator in 16th Century Japan, Anastasia.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: UsefulNotes/SanadaYukimura is the strategist version, more of a GuileHero like the gender-flipped ''LightNovel/HyakkaRyouranSamuraiGirls'' version than HotBlooded as in ''VideoGame/SengokuBasara''. And older than those versions, too.
** The sequel manga, ''Brave 10 S'' features several others not seen in the anime/1st manga, including Yukimura's brother Sanada Nobuyuki, along with HondaTadakatsu and his daughter Komatsu ([[VideoGame/SamuraiWarriors Ina]])
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: Well, it's an anime about UsefulNotes/SanadaYukimura. Of course UsefulNotes/TokugawaIeyasu and his men HAD to be villainized!
** In particular, Hanzo probably got it the worst. At most, Ieyasu is depicted as an incompetent SmugSnake (which is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by Masamune). Hanzo goes beyond being 'loyal' to Ieyasu into [[spoiler:having probably different goals than Ieyasu]] and being much more sadistic and quite making his way to HeroKiller.
** Though there could be some good justification on this. 'UsefulNotes/HattoriHanzo' is a title passed down through Iga ninja leaders, this Hanzo may not be the same with the same Hanzo that escorted Ieyasu through Iga after Nobunaga's death (Hattori Masanari). In fact, there is a Hanzo that is really mean even to his own kinsmen.
* HopeSpot: Kamanosuke just broke down Kuchiba's LotusEaterMachine and cut him in half! Finally there's one Brave who survived -- NotSoFastBucko Kuchiba reveals his [[BloodyMurder other ability]] and finishes off Kamanosuke... [[DoubleSubversion Until the end.]]
* HotSpringsEpisode: Second half of episode six in the anime. In the manga, it comes as a brief respite after the second assault on Ueda.
* HowToGatherCharacters: Isanami gets rescued by Saizou and then starts to add more and more protectors in a DebutQueue.
* ICallItVera: Saizo's sword is called Maribouchou and Juuzo's gun Saaya.
* IHaveYouNowMyPretty: Equal opportunities for getting abused (as Juuzo can attest during his fight with Oukatsu), but Anastasia gets most, even in her introduction (manga only).
* AnIcePerson: Anastasia can turn water to ice with her Iga techniques, and she also prides herself on being cold in other senses of the word [[spoiler: as she shows when she betrays the team]].
* IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim: Isanami stops Saizou from killing a beaten Kamanosuke when he has him in a SwordOverHead situation.
* ImplausibleHairColor: There are three redheads in the series (Benmaru, Yuri and Hanzo). Not exactly common in XVII century Japan.
* InASingleBound: Typical ninja fare.
* InLoveWithYourCarnage: Kamanosuke gets fascinated by Saizo's killing intent.
* InSeriesNickname: She is known as Anastasia of the Glacier, but everyone calls her Ana.
* InstantRunes
* ItsAllMyFault: Isanami come to this conclusion after the second fight with Hanzo and briefly gives up. She's then goaded by Hanzo during the fight against the Five into another breakdown [[spoiler:that pulls out her SuperpoweredEvilSide.]]
* IWasOnlyPretendingToLikeYou: [[spoiler: Anastasia upon her FaceHeelTurn.]]
* JapanesePronouns: For 'I', Juuzou used 'Soregashi' while Seikai used 'Sessho'.
* JerkassFacade: By the end of the first episode, he totally hasn't saved the girl three times and definitely isn't working for Yukimura. Really.
** HitmanWithAHeart
* JidaiGeki: HistoricalFantasy set in 1599.
* KickThemWhileTheyAreDown: Anastasia is a CombatPragmatist, after all, and will hit a helpless enemy [[spoiler: or former ally. Ask Sasuke]].
* KidSamurai: Benmaru.
* KnockoutGas: Used during Goemon's attack on Ueda castle. Too bad some Braves have AcquiredPoisonImmunity.
* LeaveNoWitnesses: Silly ninjas, they got Saizou involved in protecting Isanami because of being overly thorough.
* LightIsNotGood: Saizo's ninja tricks are themed after Marishiten, Shinto goddess of Light.
* LimitBreak: Looks like Isanami has one (being depressed or afraid will do the trick).
* LiveActionEscortMission: Juuzo and Saizo escort Isanami back to Izumo.
* LivingEmotionalCrutch: Saizo for Isanami. After watching her home being burned to the ground and almost everyone she knew being killed, she adopts Saizou as "her light".
* TheLoad: Isanami's role in the team is just being there to be protected.
* LongLostRelative: [[spoiler: Seikai is Isanami's elder adoptive brother. Sort of.]]
* LotusEaterMachine: Kamanosuke faces one in the fight with Hanzo's Five.
* MakeMeWannaShout: Rokurou uses sonic attacks in the rare instances he gets to fight.
* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Saizo is pretty much being dragged around by Isanami.
* McNinja: Russian ninja with appropriate Ice powers!
* MeaningfulName
** With a name like 'Kamanosuke', it's pretty appropriate that he'd be fighting with a 'kama'/sickle chain.
** Also, Isanami no miko for [[spoiler:I'''z'''anami-no-Mikoto.]]
* MeetCute: Saizo meets Isanami and within a day they are already in bickering mode.
* {{Miko}}: Isanami, priestess of Izumo.
* ModestyShorts: Isanami under her {{miko}} attire.
* MoeStare: Isanami is usually seen smiling, eyes wide open. It's as if she got lost in the way to another series.
* TheMole: [[spoiler: Anastasia works for Hanzo.]]
* MoralityPet: Isanami for Saizo. Were not for her intercession, Kamanosuke wouldn't have lived to join the Braves. And in turn, Kamanosuke behaves while Saizou is around.
* MsFanservice: Anastasia. Her outfit is already revealing, and she's prone to not wearing it.
* MySisterIsOffLimits: Seikai will smash you if you don't comply.
* MysteriousWaif: Why is Isanami, a simple miko, so important? Why was her temple destroyed? What is the source of her DefenceMechanismSuperpower?
* {{Ninja}}: Well, that is what the "historical" Brave Ten were, isn't it?
* NinjaLog: Saizou uses this substitution trick on Sasuke during their fight.
* NotGoodWithPeople: Sasuke is quite shy.
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Kamanosuke's reason to help Saizou and join the Braves.
* OnTheNextEpisodeOfCatchPhrase: Saizo's "Bring it on!"
* [[NotInThisForYourRevolution Only In It For The Hottie]]: Jinpachi agreed to help Juuzou and eventually join Yukimura on the fact that there's [[MsFanservice one certain busty blonde named Anastasia]] in Yukimura's entourage. [[spoiler:And kinda true too. Once he's done redeeming Anastasia, he just stops sticking with the Braves.]]
* OrphansPlotTrinket: The only thing Isanami keeps from Izumo. It looks like a ProtectiveCharm.
* OverTheShoulderCarry: Saizou just slings Isanami on his shoulder to get away during their first meeting.
* PhenotypeStereotype: Russian = blonde hair and blue eyes.
* ThePollyanna: Isanami comes across as this, but there is a lot of StepfordSmiler in her.
* PowerLimiter: [[spoiler: The Kushimitama isn't the source of Isanami's PowerOfTheVoid: it's keeping it at bay.]]
* ThePowerOfTheVoid: Isanami's power is darkness that rusts and rots everything it touches into dust.
* PragmaticAdaptation: Because of time constraints, in the anime some characters dissappear and others take their roles in some arcs, some fights and events are cut and some villains are somewhat weakened. And because of MoralGuardians, a general helping of BleachedUnderpants.
* PursuedProtagonist: Isanami is on the run from Tokugawa the whole series.
* RadialAssKicking
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech
** [[spoiler:Anastasia]] will gladly tell you while you are helpless how being sentimental and idealistic makes you weak and only power matters.
** Hanzo loves to tease opponents about how they fail to live up to the hype or victims about how they're the cause of everyone's trouble.
* RealMenWearPink: Date said so about his PimpedOutDress.
* RedEyesTakeWarning
* RedOniBlueOni: Saizou and Sasuke.
* ReligiousBruiser: Seikai.
* RivalDojos: Koga and Iga ninjas don't get along too well. Sasuke is a Koga, Saizou is from the Iga.
* RopeBridge: The setting for Kamanosuke and Saizou's first fight.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Saizo almost does this after being curb-stomped by Hanzo and fearing he CantCatchUp. The anime replaces this with Saizo doing it after Masamune captures Isanami.
* {{Seinen}}: That means violence and nudity.
* SensualSlavs: Anastasia.
* SequelHook: Yes, Izanami is calmed down, and Hanzo and his five [[spoiler:except Anastasia]] are dead. However, there's still Masamune and Ieyasu (whose casualties are probably just missing out Hanzo), all ready to wage war.
* ShaggyDogStory: It turns out, [[spoiler:the heirloom Anastasia is looking for which was in Hanzo's hand was fake]].
** [[spoiler:ShootTheShaggyDog: If you're a history maniac, you'll know. No matter how badass the Braves got, they're destined to die with Yukimura during the Siege of Osaka.]]
* SleepCute: On a horse!
* SphereOfPower: The form Isanami's DefenceMechanismSuperpower takes is a growing black energy sphere emanating from her, first seen during the first episode.
* StandardFemaleGrabArea: Anastasia puzzlingly lets some joke villains almost rape her during her first appearance in the series just because they caught her by her wrist?!
* StockNinjaWeaponry: Knives, poisons, throwing daggers... the usual. Not many throwing stars, though.
* SuperpoweredEvilSide: The Goddess of the Underworld is, well, not nice.
* SuperStrength: Seikai and Byakugun.
* SurvivorsGuilt: Isanami is weighed down by the destruction of her temple (being her adoptive family, too), but she rarely lets on it, like when she did to Saizou after believing Yukimura wouldn't help her.
* SwordPointing:
* TakingTheBullet: The Head Priest of Izumo to save Isanami at the opening of the series.
* TerseTalker: Sasuke finds easier to talk with animals than with people.
* TheseHandsHaveKilled: While trapped with Isanami after the fight with the giant snake, Saizou tells Isanami he's just a killer and cannot be anybody's shining knight.
* ThoseTwoBadGuys: Ichimaru and Niko, fairly ineffective ninja villains and comic relief who first appeared attempting to rape Anastasia during her introduction. They are absent from the anime adaptation except for a brief cameo in episode five.
* ThroughHisStomach: Get a bodyguard for a soba bowl!
* ThrowDownTheBomblet: Part of Benmaru's bag of tricks are grenades enough for carpet bombing.
* TokenGoodTeammate: See FlatCharacter.
* TokenReligiousTeammate: Seikai left the Izumo temple to pursue his own brand of Buddhism.
* TotalEclipseOfThePlot: An eclipse marks [[spoiler: Isanami's]] SuperpoweredEvilSide appearance.
* TrashTalk: Hanzo teases Saizou continously on the gap between his fame and his actual skill during their first fight.
* TraumaCongaLine: This is actually an omnipresent presence in-story too, according to Yukimura. [[spoiler:Any time Isanami fell into some trauma or sadness, the power of Izanami spreads out and kills everything nearby, and Kushimitama is only surpressing the power. And making matters worse, Isanami overheard this while trying to recover from the trauma of Ana's betrayal. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Nice job being a Mr. Exposition in the wrong time, Yukimura]]]]
* UnusualWeaponMounting: Oukatsu has a [[StockNinjaWeaponry kunai-like razor blade]] in [[spoiler:her tongue]].
* UnwantedRescue: Isanami gets scared of being fought over, claims ItsAllMyFault and just gives up and resigns herself to being a prisoner of Date.
* UnwillingSuspension: Isanami gets to hang over a precipice courtesy of Kamanosuke before he joins the Braves, and Anastasia gets hung up upside down while prisoner of Date.
* [[spoiler:UsedToBeASweetKid: Little-Anastasia is ''adorable''. She turns out real cold when she became an adult. [[SarcasmMode Thank you, Hanzo]].]]
* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: The Brave 10 are based on ''some'' historical figures, but mostly they are as real as RobinHood's Merry Men (on top of the KiAttacks and MagicAndPowers). Also unlike even the existing stories, Anastasia is an OriginalCharacter amongst the Braves, although only a little bit since if her name is to be taken note, she'd more likely be a GenderFlip version of '''Ana'''yama Kousuke (who's 100% Japanese unlike Ana who's [[SensualSlavs a foreigner]]). [[Manga/SamuraiDeeperKyo Not that this is the first time Anayama got genderflipped anyway]]. Same with Isanami, who's mostly based on Seikai's historical ''brother'' Miyoshi Isa.
* VillainousBreakdown: Hanzo learns the hard way how to [[spoiler:control darkness with darkness]].
* VillainousCrossdresser: [[spoiler:Goemon. Since his whole family was targeted to be exterminated, he had to disguise himself as a girl. Also, Kamanosuke Yuri would use this to trick people while he was a bandit.]]
* WhamEpisode: Hoo boy, episode 9. What would be a good night sleep went downhill when [[spoiler:Ana is revealed as TheMole for someone who's presumed to be Hanzo, goes on to cripple Rokurou (and forced him to sacrifice an important information on his eye) and Sasuke, and Yukimura reveals the reason why he wanted to gather the Brave 10... Surpress the power of Japanese Death Goddess Izanami... incarnated into ''Isanami''. And she overheard that too.]]
-->[[spoiler:[[WhamLine "Kushimitama is not protecting Isanami. Kushimitama is protecting ''us'' from Isanami."]]]]
* WarriorTherapist: Hanzo uses her SurvivorGuilt against Isanami and Jinpachi guesses his opponent isn't actually above it all against [[spoiler: Anastasia.]]
* WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove: Kamanosuke doesn't get what love/affection is and it confuses him, so he approximates it to what he likes most: killing. His relationship with Saizou is colored by this.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Isanami literally shuts down near snakes.
* WithMyHandsTied: Anastasia can easily clean a room full of guards with her hands tied and ''hanging upside down''.
* WorldOfBadass: Everyone kicks ass in this series. Only Isanami is an exception, and not quite [[spoiler: since she is a GodInHumanForm]].
* WouldHitAGirl: Ninjas are professional killers , after all, and they don't hesitate in hitting female opponents or even old women as Hanzo did during his attack on Ueda.
* WouldntHitAGirl: Juuzo, not being a ninja and a pretty old fashioned gentleman, won't fight women. That doesn't prevent women from fighting him as seen in episode four.
* [[YouKilledMyFather You Killed My Sister]]: Kaio is pretty pissed at Juuzo killing Oukatsu.
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* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: The Brave 10 are based on ''some'' historical figures, but mostly they are as real as RobinHood's Merry Men (on top of the KiAttacks and MagicAndPowers). Also unlike even the existing stories, Anastasia is an OriginalCharacter amongst the Braves, although only a little bit since if her name is to be taken note, she'd more likely be a GenderFlip version of '''Ana'''yama Kousuke (who's 100% Japanese unlike Ana who's [[SensualSlavs a foreigner]]). [[SamuraiDeeperKyo Not that this is the first time Anayama got genderflipped anyway]]. Same with Isanami, who's mostly based on Seikai's historical ''brother'' Miyoshi Isa.
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* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: The Brave 10 are based on ''some'' historical figures, but mostly they are as real as RobinHood's Merry Men (on top of the KiAttacks and MagicAndPowers). Also unlike even the existing stories, Anastasia is an OriginalCharacter amongst the Braves, although only a little bit since if her name is to be taken note, she'd more likely be a GenderFlip version of '''Ana'''yama Kousuke (who's 100% Japanese unlike Ana who's [[SensualSlavs a foreigner]]). [[SamuraiDeeperKyo [[Manga/SamuraiDeeperKyo Not that this is the first time Anayama got genderflipped anyway]]. Same with Isanami, who's mostly based on Seikai's historical ''brother'' Miyoshi Isa.
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The author, Kairi Shimotsuki, is well known for her {{Yaoi}} work, but she has also worked on the ''VideoGame/SengokuBasara'' franchise and this series clearly follows the latter. [[SpiritualLicensee Very much so]], though with a heavy, DarkerAndEdgier {{Seinen}} slant.
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The author, Kairi Shimotsuki, is well known for her {{Yaoi}} work, but she has also worked on the ''VideoGame/SengokuBasara'' franchise and this series clearly follows the latter. [[SpiritualLicensee [[SpiritualAdaptation Very much so]], though with a heavy, DarkerAndEdgier {{Seinen}} slant.
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** Also, Anastasia can also be seen as a DarkerAndEdgier [[{{Gravion}} Mizuki Tachibana]], being that they're both the resident blonde, ponytailed MsFanservice CoolBigSis with [[YuuAsakawa the same voice to boot]], as well as [[spoiler:being TheMole]].
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** Also, Anastasia can also be seen as a DarkerAndEdgier [[{{Gravion}} [[Anime/{{Gravion}} Mizuki Tachibana]], being that they're both the resident blonde, ponytailed MsFanservice CoolBigSis with [[YuuAsakawa the same voice to boot]], as well as [[spoiler:being TheMole]].
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* HistoricalDomainCharacter: UsefulNotes/SanadaYukimura is the strategist version, more of a GuileHero like the gender-flipped ''HyakkaRyouran'' version than HotBlooded as in ''VideoGame/SengokuBasara''. And older than those versions, too.
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* HistoricalDomainCharacter: UsefulNotes/SanadaYukimura is the strategist version, more of a GuileHero like the gender-flipped ''HyakkaRyouran'' ''LightNovel/HyakkaRyouranSamuraiGirls'' version than HotBlooded as in ''VideoGame/SengokuBasara''. And older than those versions, too.
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** The sequel manga, ''Brave 10 S'' features several others not seen in the anime/1st manga, including Yukimura's brother Sanada Nobuyuki, along with HondaTadakatsu and his daughter Komatsu ([[VideoGame/SamuraiWarriors Ina]])
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* {{Expy}}: It's hard not to see Anastasia as a DarkerAndEdgier [[SengokuBasara Kasuga]]. Also, Isanami looks a lot like [[LightNovel/FullMetalPanic Kaname]].
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* {{Expy}}: It's hard not to see Anastasia as a DarkerAndEdgier [[SengokuBasara [[VideoGame/SengokuBasara Kasuga]]. Also, Isanami looks a lot like [[LightNovel/FullMetalPanic Kaname]].
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* ChainedHeat: Yukimura and Rokurou get bound into a compromising position during Hanzo's attack in Ueda.
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* ChainedHeat: Yukimura and Rokurou get bound into a compromising position during Hanzo's attack in Ueda.Ueda, much to the delight of every [[YaoiFangirl Fujoshi]] watching.
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* HistoricalDomainCharacter: UsefulNotes/SanadaYukimura is the strategist version, more of a GuileHero like the gender-flipped ''HyakkaRyouran'' version than HotBlooded as in ''VideoGame/SengokuBasara''. And older than those versions, too.
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* SanadaYukimura: The strategist version, more of a GuileHero like the gender-flipped ''HyakkaRyouran'' version than HotBlooded as in ''SengokuBasara''. And older than those versions, too.
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* BigBad: TokugawaIeyasu.
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** Though there could be some good justification on this. 'HattoriHanzo' is a title passed down through Iga ninja leaders, this Hanzo may not be the same with the same Hanzo that escorted Ieyasu through Iga after Nobunaga's death (Hattori Masanari). In fact, there is a Hanzo that is really mean even to his own kinsmen.
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''Brave 10'' is a medieval fantasy anime, originated from the similarly named manga. It follows the lives of those that would be known as Sanada Ten Braves, ten loyal ninjas serving under SanadaYukimura, although rather than going for historical route, they go for a more mystic-based approach.
The main protagonist is an Iga ninja named Saizou, who meets an Izumo priestess called Isanami on the run from the ninjas who destroyed her temple and protects her on her short journey to Sanada Yukimura's castle. SanadaYukimura is a powerful warlord in the Sengoku era. Sanada wants to gather 10 warriors, a party unrivaled in skill and power, to set his still secret plan into action...
The main protagonist is an Iga ninja named Saizou, who meets an Izumo priestess called Isanami on the run from the ninjas who destroyed her temple and protects her on her short journey to Sanada Yukimura's castle. SanadaYukimura is a powerful warlord in the Sengoku era. Sanada wants to gather 10 warriors, a party unrivaled in skill and power, to set his still secret plan into action...
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''Brave 10'' is a medieval JidaiGeki fantasy anime, originated from the similarly named manga. It follows the lives of those that would be known as Sanada Ten Braves, ten loyal ninjas serving under SanadaYukimura, UsefulNotes/SanadaYukimura, although rather than going for historical route, they go for a more mystic-based approach.
The main protagonist is an Iga ninja named Saizou, who meets an Izumo priestess called Isanami on the run from the ninjas who destroyed her temple and protects her on her short journey to Sanada Yukimura's castle. SanadaYukimura is a powerful warlord in the Sengoku era. Sanada wants to gather 10 warriors, a party unrivaled in skill and power, to set his still secret plan into action...
The main protagonist is an Iga ninja named Saizou, who meets an Izumo priestess called Isanami on the run from the ninjas who destroyed her temple and protects her on her short journey to Sanada Yukimura's castle.
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* BloodOnTheseHands: While trapped with Isanami after the fight with the giant snake, Saizou tells Isanami he's just a killer and cannot be anybody's shining knight.
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* DateMasamune: The author draws him ''exactly'' as she did in her ''SengokuBasara'' works (it's the WhiteHairedPrettyBoy in the picture above, by the way).
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* WhiteHairedPrettyBoy: This series' version of DateMasamune.
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* OwlBeDamned: One of Sasuke's named pets, Ageha.
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* CoolBigSis: Anastasia becomes Isanami's sister figure after she rescues her from Date. With a hint of GoodBadGirl in the way she flirts with Yukimura and Saizou.
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* CoolBigSis: Anastasia becomes Isanami's sister figure after she rescues her from Date. With a hint of GoodBadGirl in the way she flirts with Yukimura and Saizou. [[spoiler:Bad idea, because Ana actually hates familial concept, and it was all an act, probably devised by Hanzo to eventually break Isanami.]]
