History Anime / FenaPiratePrincess

* CharClone: Abel is this, what with being a handsome blonde man with a tragic past who is in conflict with the main characters, but his British royalty clothing and his obsession with a long-haired blonde woman of European-style royalty are a bit closer to [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing Zechs Marquise]]. This is fitting, given what [[Creator/{{Toonami}} television block]] the series was created for.

* AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler:Abel and Yukimaru's final fight ends this way, with Yukimaru managing to bait him into firing his [[CoolGun Tri-barrelled revolver]] at close range so he can slice the extended limb clean off in a counter-attack. Despite Abel [[MajorInjuryUnderreaction not caring about the loss in the slightest]] and [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice majorly damaging]] Yukimaru in turn, the bleeding that results from his severed limb ultimately ends up killing him.]]

** They favour contrasting anachronistic weapons, with Yukimaru favouring katanas despite being in a seafaring age where cutlasses and muskets are far more commonly used, while Abel has a [[RevolversAreJustBetter tri-barrelled]] [[CoolGuns Flintlock pistol]] as his personal weapon.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Abel might be obsessed with hoarding Fena all to himself, but he genuinely cares about her safety and will do whatever it takes to ensure that safety, even if that means [[spoiler:completely destroying a ship full of pirates willing to hurt women and children just for money.]] After preforming this, Abel [[WickedCultured quotes a passage from the bible]] to the extent of "sewing a patch of cloth into a garment to mend a tear merely detracts from the beauty of the original, and it is better to leave it unfixed", as if to mock [[spoiler:[[WomanScorned O'Malley]] for thinking any relationship they shared could equal what feelings he possesses towards Fena's mother, and accordingly, [[ReplacementGoldfish towards Fena herself]]]].

** The crew that rescue Fena are known as the [[Film/SevenSamurai Samurai Seven]] in the Japanese version. In the English dub, they're known as the [[LightNovel/GoblinSlayer Goblin Knights]].

* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: Fena is just as much a target of AmusingInjuries as the rest of the crew. She can't escape being kicked out of the ''Bonito II'', even. Karin also gets her share, usually because of Fena accidentally screwing up.

* LivingMacGuffin: Despite having kept the clear block for generations, Sanada states clearly that they cannot uncover the mystery behind it without Fena, whose buried memories are apparently the key to figuring out its purpose, imploring her to go on her journey to solve its mystery and find out why her father was killed because of Eden. [[spoiler:This gets proven when Fena is somehow able to lead the Samurai Seven through the winding maze at the abandoned dig site to find the cave where the clear block can be used to form the coordinates to Eden, without taking a wrong turn once and able to perfectly open a combination lock sealing the entrance to the cave almost on instinct. However, it's shortly afterwards {{subverted|Trope}} once they have the coordinates, as Shitan informs the others that Sanada instructed him to return immediately to Goblin Island once they had either some sort of coordinates or a physical map to search for Eden by themselves, with the implication that Fena had [[YouHaveOutlivedYourusefulness served her purpose to them by then]]. It's implied that both Sanada and Shitan are wary of Fena's MagneticHero qualities, and concerned about the effect she'd have on the loyalty of the Samurai Seven the more time she spent with them, leading them to be unwilling to abandon her once they could search for Eden on their own.]]

* MrsRobinson: Shitan and the twins troll Fena by painting Arya as one of these towards Yukimaru.

** [[spoiler:It only gets worse as Fena remembers what the British did to the transport ship and sees soldiers indiscriminably murder the crew she was with. For those who haven't taken a history lesson; Britian was an incredibly dangerous force during the Age of Piracy and had [[AristocratsareEvil little sense of humanity in themselves]]. Combined with Abel's position of the next heir of Britian, that shows deep, DEEP worry for the audience of the universe's future?]]

* PirateGirl: Fena is a FriendlyPirate. O’Malley and her crew are more straightforward examples of the trope.
* PiratesVersusNinjas: In Episode 3, the Goblin Knights is beset by a group of female pirates in town. The pirates become regular antagonists.

** In Episode 5, the Rumble Rose pirates are able to trap the Samurai Seven inside a cave by igniting a PowderTrail [[spoiler: whilst they have Fena hostage]], blasting the entrance to pieces and burying them alive. In episode 6, the Seven are able to escape because not all the explosives detonated, leaving some gunpowder behind that they're able to use to blast a strategically placed exit. A large mass of explosives are used in such situations to guarantee that at lease one of them will go off, because there might be a misfire or complication with the others the prevent some of them from detonating. The explosives coming packaged in sturdy crates and gunpowder barrels for safe transport can also protect their contents from the shock of the blast, even if they're right next to it, allowing the samurai to scavenge enough usable gunpowder to suit their purposes from one such container.
** In Episode 7, [[spoiler:the Rumble Rose pirates end up turning against Abel and the British when Abel refuses to pay them for kidnapping Fena and delivering her and the coordinates to Eden to them, all because O'Malley and her crew [[DisproportionateRetribution got a small cut on Fena's neck]] in the process. The Rumble Rose have been shown in past episodes to be a skilled group of quirky individuals whose talents put them on par combat-wise with Yukimaru and the others, whereas Abel only has [[{{Mooks}} uniform soldiers]] with inferior fighting skills to face her. However, despite the pirates having better fighting skills, they still needs to get close to Abel's ship to board them, and they're nothing more than a motley RagtagBunchOfMisfits against members of a trained, disciplined, and well-funded British army. Abel simply uses the superior resources on his ship to blast the Rumble Rose before they can ever close the distance on them, though the [[NoKillLikeOverkill extent of the firepower]] he brings to bear borders on absolute overkill. Nonetheless, when the Samurai Seven are able to sneak in closer to the ship, their skills allow them to begin overwhelming the soldiers in close combat, showing that the British are a serious threat, but only so long as they have adequate distance to their foe to use their greater resources]].

** Yukimaru is shown to be a skilled and dangerous fighter, capable of blitzing through multiple foes, especially if he has the element of surprise on his side, but in a pitched and chaotic battlefield where he's right in the thick of the action, it's impossible for him to keep track of every single threat around him, especially when he's distracted making sure that Fena is safe from those targeting her. He's twice injured from bullets striking him from unseen angles in combat against the Rumble Rose and [[spoiler:[[TheRival Abel]]]] and both Shitan and Makaba comment that the former's [[ColdSniper role in combat]] is primarily to look after Yukimaru to make sure that he doesn't get blindsided when he's taking on entire forces single-handedly.

* EyepatchOfPower: O'Malley wears one over her right eye. [[spoiler: In episode 7, it's blasted off her face in slow motion as her ship is being blown out from beneath her feet by Abel's artillery, showing that the eye beneath isn't apparently damaged, but merely kept closed. This implies that, sure to real-life pirates who wore patches, O'Malley isn't wearing it to cover up a disfiguring injury, but to protect her night vision in one eye for when the lighting gets poor.]]

* EyepatchOfPower: O'Malley wears one over her right eye. [[spoiler: In episode 7, it's blasted off her face in slow motion as her ship is being blown out from beneath her feet by Abel's artillery, showing that the eye beneath isn't apparently damaged, but merely kept closed. This implies that, [[AluminiumChristmasTrees sure to real-life pirates who wore patches]], O'Malley isn't wearing it to cover up a disfiguring injury, but to protect her night vision in one eye for when the lighting gets poor.]]

* DarkSkinnedBlonde: Mary has blonde hair and slightly tanned skin.

* AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler:Abel and Yukimaru's final fight ends this way, with Yukimaru managing to bait him into firing his [[CoolGun Tri-barrelled revolver]] at close range so he can slice the extended limb clean off in a counter-attack. Despite Abel [[MajorInjuryUnderreaction not caring about the loss in the slightest]] and [[ImplaedWithExtremePrejudice majorly damaging]] Yukimaru in turn, the bleeding that results from his severed limb ultimately ends up killing him.]]

* UndyingLoyalty: The rest of the Samurai Seven quickly fall into this regarding Fena, but Yukimaru takes it UpToEleven, telling Fena in Episode 8 that he will always be by her side, supporting whatever decision she makes regarding Eden, sealing it with a kiss to her hand. Given he was down on one knee when making said speech, he essentially gave Fena a marriage proposal in all but name. [[spoiler:Notably, the elders of Goblin Island were afraid this exact thing would happen and ordered Shitan to kill Fena, if necessary, once they got the coordinates to Eden, with Kei being deliberately kept back as a fallback option.]]

--> "I am the observer of your story."

--> [[spoiler:"I love you, Fena"]]

* NoNonsenseNemesis: Abel does ''not'' screw around when it comes to combat, maintaining focus on efficiency combined with maximum possible force wherever possible to utterly obliterate all opposition to his goals. [[spoiler:In Episode 7, when the Rumble Rose decide to attack his ship for breaking their deal over Fena-- and [[WomanScorned breaking O'Malley's heart]] as well-- he orders that the Wellington Cannon be used to retaliate on them, a BFG designed to be used to blast down ''fortified locations'', combined with an explosive round to boot. The shell basically tears O'Malley's ship in half just from the initial shot, and the resulting explosion once the shell detonates reduces the entire vessel to kindling. When Yukumaru storms the ship and prepares to cut down as many soldiers as he has to to save Fena, Abel remains quiet and unnoticed and shoots him twice InTheBack when he's distracted by the soldiers in front of him, coldly ordering him to be finished off afterwards without a hint of emotion on his face. It's noticeable that both encounters had the offending parties standing [[CrazyJealousGuy between him and Fena]], as well as also threatened to indirectly harm her in the crossfire, which is hinted to [[TranquilFury motivate]] his excessive yet pragmatic use of force in taking them down. In the final fight with both himself and Yukimaru, He keeps trying to just shoot Yukimaru in the face and primarily uses his own sword for defence, rather than attempting to attack Yukimaru with his own sword skills, refusing to face Yukimaru on fair terms. Even when Yukimaru is able to cut off his arm, [[MajorInjuryUnderreaction he never loses focus for a moment]] and uses the momentary lapse in Yukimaru's concentration to impale him in the chest, which puts Yukimaru in serious danger of bleeding out if he keeps fighting back and further exacerbates the wound]].

* LivingMacGuffin: Despite having kept the clear block for generations, Sanada states clearly that they cannot uncover the mystery behind it without Fena, whose buried memories are apparently the key to figuring out its purpose, imploring her to go on her journey to solve its mystery and find out why her father was killed because of Eden. [[spoiler:This gets proven when Fena is somehow able to lead the Samurai Seven through the winding maze at the abandoned dig site to find the cave where the clear block can be used to form the coordinates to Eden, without taking a wrong turn once and able to perfectly open a combination lock sealing the entrance to the cave almost on instinct. However, it's shortly afterwards {{subverted|Trope}} once they have the coordinates, as Shitan informs the others that Sanada instructed him to return immediately to Goblin Island once they had either some sort of coordinates or a physical map to search for Eden by themselves, with the implication that Fena had [[YouHaveOutlivedYourusefulness served her purpose to them by then]]. It's implied that both Sanada and Shitan are wary of Fena's MagneticHero qualities, and concerned about the effect she'd have on the loyalty of the Samurai Seven the more time she spent with them, leading them to be wiling to abandon her once they could search for Eden on their own.]]

* MagneticHero: In spite of basically being TheLoad when it comes to practical or combat skills whilst on the Seven's ship, Fena's one true demonstrated talent is the ability to earn the UndyingLoyalty of those around her, from Otto and Salman in her youth to Yukimaru, who remains as devoted to her as he was in his childhood, even if he obscures it with his current [[TheStoic characterisation]]. [[spoiler:This is actually {{deconstructed|Trope}} as the series goes on, as Episode 6 reveals that the Seven's real orders were to follow Fena until she could provide them physical coordinates or a map to allow them to search for Eden on their own, then immediately return to Goblin Island, with the implication being that Fena was to remain behind once [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness she'd served her purpose]]. This fact that this was hidden from all but one of the Seven, who were all on board with rescuing Fena up to that point, as well as Shitan calling her "a witch who charms those around her", implies that both Shitan and Sanada were deeply concerned and wary of her spending too much time around the Seven in case [[ConflictingLoyalty they became more loyal to her than to their mission]]. The fact that the other members, save Yukimaru, who had already left to pursue Fena, all unanimously decide to join in on his RoaringRampageOfRescue shows their fears weren't unfounded. Episode 8 even reveals that Sanada ordered Shitan to kill Fena out of concern that she would drive Yukimaru and the others mad with her charms, citing that he knows of another man who was similarly driven insane by her mother in the same fashion.]]

** [[spoiler:The Rumble Rose pirates are a quirky crew of named individuals, and have an important antagonistic role in the story, having aided Abel in attacking Fena's ship in her youth and being the main forces pursuing her in his stead. At the same time, however, they're merely human beings, and not protected by any kind of supernatural luck or such. When Abel blasts their ship with the Wellington Cannon, despite the possibility being open that the named crew could have survived the blast and returned for revenge on Abel, they're effectively removed from the story by that point onwards. Even when the epilogue reveals that at least three crew members ''did'' survive, O'Malley herself isn't amongst them. Just because you're a named character with an established backstory and personality of your own won't protect you from being [[SurprisinglySuddenDeath unceremoniously killed]], especially not with the sheer firepower Abel used against them. However, the end of episode 12 shows [[NoOneCouldSurviveThat a few, but not all, of their members somehow survived.]]]]

** [[spoiler:The Rumble Rose pirates are a quirky crew of named individuals, and have an important antagonistic role in the story, having aided Abel in attacking Fena's ship in her youth and being the main forces pursuing her in his stead. At the same time, however, they're merely human beings, and not protected by any kind of supernatural luck or such. When Abel blasts their ship with the Wellington Cannon, despite the possibility being open that the named crew could have survived the blast and returned for revenge on Abel, they're effectively removed from the story by that point onwards. Even when the epilogue reveals that at least three crew members ''did'' survive, O'Malley herself isn't amongst them. Just because you're a named character with an established backstory and personality of your own won't protect you from being [[SurprisinglySuddenDeath unceremoniously killed]], especially not with the sheer firepower Abel used against them. However, the end of episode 12 shows [[NoOneCouldSurviveThat they somehow survived.]]]]

** The crew that rescue Fena are known as the [[Film/SevenSamurai Samurai Seven]] in the Japanese version. In the English dub, they're known as the [[Anime/GoblinSlayer Goblin Knights]].

** [[spoiler:The Rumble Rose pirates are a quirky crew of named individuals, and have an important antagonistic role in the story, having aided Abel in attacking Fena's ship in her youth and being the main forces pursuing her in his stead. At the same time, however, they're merely human beings, and not protected by any kind of supernatural luck or such. When Abel blasts their ship with the Wellington Cannon, despite the possibility being open that the named crew could have survived the blast and returned for revenge on Abel, they're effectively removed from the story by that point onwards. Even when the epilogue reveals that at least three crew members ''did'' survive, O'Malley herself isn't amongst them. Just because you're a named character with an established backstory and personality of your own won't protect you from being [[SurprisinglySuddenDeath unceremoniously killed]], especially not with the sheer firepower Abel used against them.]]

* AnArmAndAleg: [[spoiler:Abel and Yukimaru's final fight ends this way, with Yukimaru managing to bait him into firing his [[CoolGun Tri-barrelled revolver]] at close range so he can slice the extended limb clean off in a counter-attack. Despite Abel [[MajorInjuryUnderreaction not caring about the loss in the slightest]] and [[ImplaedWithExtremePrejudice majorly damaging]] Yukimaru in turn, the bleeding that results from his severed limb ultimately ends up killing him.]]

* AnArmAndAleg: [[spoiler: Abel and Yukimaru's final fight ends this way, with Yukimaru managing to bait him into firing his [[CoolGun Tri-barrelled revolver]] at close range so he can slice the extended limb clean off in a counter-attack. Despite Abel [[MajorInjuryUnderreaction not caring about the loss in the slightest]] and [[ImplaedWithExtremePrejudice majorly damaging]] Yukimaru in turn, the bleeding that results from his severed limb ultimately ends up killing him]].

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