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In Kyoto, Japan, near the end of the [[JidaiGeki Edo period]], a young boy is being chased through the streets at night by a pair of revolutionaries loyal to the Emperor. Hiding in an alley, the boy is horrified to witness his pursuers' brutal murder at the hands of demonic looking men with [[RedEyesTakeWarning glowing red eyes]], who laugh maniacally as they hack their victims to pieces. When the fiends turn their attention to the boy, his life is only spared by the timely appearance of two samurai belonging to a group of powerful warriors loyal to the Shogun, known as the {{Shinsengumi}}. Unsure just where the boy's loyalties lie, the Shinsengumi take him into custody and return him to their headquarters.
The next day, they are shocked to discover that the "boy" being held prisoner is, in fact, a ''girl'' named Chizuru Yukimura. Chizuru came to Kyoto in search of her missing father, an accomplished doctor of western medicine who she suddenly lost contact with several months ago. When the Shinsengumi reveal that they too have been in search of Dr. Yukimura in relation to the strange attacks that have been plaguing the city, they allow Chizuru to remain under their care and assist with the search. Agreeing to continue living as a boy so as not to distract the men who serve her new benefactors, Chizuru quickly becomes acclimated to their lifestyle and grows to genuinely care for each of them.
Her life soon becomes anything but peaceful, as the Shinsengumi's enemies seek to overthrow the Shogun and those loyal to him at any cost. At the same time, both the numbers and ferocity of the crazed men that Chizuru's protectors cryptically refer to as "failed soldiers" continue to increase. In the midst of one of the most chaotic eras in Kyoto's history, Chizuru grows determined to do everything she can to protect the lives of her new comrade.
''Hakuouki'' is an anime series based on a set of [[RomanceGame otome games]] [[AnimeOfTheGame of the same name]]. The anime is split into two seasons, ''Hakuouki Shinsengumi Kitan'' which ran for twelve episodes beginning in April of 2010, and ''Hakuouki Hekketsuroku'' set to premiere in October 2010, which picks up where the first season left off. Both seasons are produced by StudioDeen.
A character sheet is now under construction [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/Hakuouki here]]
[[http://www.siliconera.com/2011/07/02/hakuoki-demon-of-the-fleeting-blossom-will-be-north-americas-first-otome-game/ Aksys also has plans releasing the game to the US in 2012.]]
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!! ''Hakuouki'' contains examples of:
* AdaptationDistillation/ AdaptationExpansion: The anime mainly follows Hijikata's route in the game but adds important scenes from other routes as well as anime-original endings for [[spoiler:Okita and Sanosuke]] who simply disappear in Hijikata's game route.
* AlternativeEndings: Like the NeoRomance series, a number of OVAs are being realeased that will focus on the game ending of Okita, Sanosuke etc.
* TheAnimeOfTheGame
* [[spoiler:AnyoneCanDie: Played to the extreme in Season 2. Don't get too attached to the characters...]]
** [[spoiler: Chizuru doesn't die, and it's debatable whether or not Hijikata actually does. Considering what else has happened, it wouldn't be a surprise for him to actually end up having died, but it's rather vague; it can easily be interpreted that he did indeed survive.]]
* {{Bishonen}}: EVERYWHERE.
* BetterThanItSounds: This is basically an [[TheAnimeOfTheGame anime]] based on a RomanceGame that combines {{Shinsengumi}} [[XMeetsY with]] [[Literature/{{Twilight}} bishonen vampires and a useless female lead]] produced by StudioDeen. Yet it more than makes up with its excellent execution and excellent fights.
* BladeOnAStick: Sanosuke's preferred weapon is a spear.
* BlondGuysAreEvil: Kazama.
* BloodLust: The Rasetsu often expressed cravings for blood. Just ask Hijikata!
* CastFromHitPoints: Rasetsus gains SuperStrength, lightening reflexes and a HealingFactor at the cost of shortening their lives.
* CastFullOfPrettyBoys: Justified since this is about a [[{{Shinsengumi}} military sect]], though the presence of Chizuru makes this more of a ReverseHarem situation.
* TheChick: Chizuru quickly becomes this for the Shinsengumi, and the feminine touch she adds to the group is welcomed by most of its members.
* CherryBlossom: Both in the title and the final scene of the anime.
* {{Determinator}}:All of the Shinsengumi members, but especially Okita.
* [[spoiler:DownerEnding]]: The WHOLE of ''Hekketsuroku'', minus the first 2 or 3 episodes, is basically one long carthartic trip.
* DroppedABridgetOnHim: Nagumo Kaoru to Okita and the viewers. Can't be helped since he looks identical to [[spoiler: Chizuru, his twin sister]].
* EnsembleDarkHorse: Hajime in the Japanese fandom.
* EstrogenBrigadeBait: Nearly all of the high ranking members of the Shinsengumi are {{bishonen}}, though given the [[RomanceGame source material]] this shouldn't come as a surprise.
* FiringOneHanded: Whenever Kyou shoots his gun.
* FoeYay: Probably unintentional but [[http://randomc.net/image/Hakuouki/Hakuouki%20Hekketsuroku%20-%20ED%20-%20Large%2003.jpg this]] picture from the second season ED
* GenkiGirl: Sen-hime.
* TheGoodCaptain: Kondou.
* GraspTheSun: Souji in the second OP
* HalfIdenticalTwin: [[spoiler: Chizuru and Kaoru.]]
* HealingFactor: The Rasetsu [[spoiler: also Chizuru due to her Oni blood.]]
* [[spoiler: HeroicSacrifice]]: Most of the shinsengumis, apart from Hijikata
* HeyItsThatVoice/ NamesToKnowInAnime: Plenty, considering the [[OtomeGame source]].
** Chizuru is HoukoKuwashima.
** Hijikata is ShinichiroMiki.
** Okita is ShowtaroMorikubo.
** Hajime is KosukeToriumi.
** Kondou is TohruOokawa.
** Sanosuke is KojiYusa.
** Heisuke is HiroyukiYoshino.
** Kazama is KenjiroTsuda.
** Yamanami is NobuoTobita.
** Ryuunosuke, the protagonist of the prequel game is none other than TomokazuSeki.
** Serizawa, who also appears on the prequel game is voiced by JojiNakata.
* HistoricalBeautyUpdate
* HistoricalFiction
* HonorBeforeReason: All of the Shinsengumis, in fact probably the whole point of the story.
* [[IllGirl Ill Boy]]: [[spoiler: Okita from round episode 8.]]
* ImplausibleFencingPowers: Whenever [[DodgeTheBullet Sanosuke fights Kyou]].
* IneffectualDeathThreat: Okita to Chizuru several time throughout the series.
* IncurableCoughOfDeath: Three guesses who.
* TheInfiltration: [[spoiler:When Hajime leaves the Shinsengumi for Itou's group in the anime]].
** Also when [[spoiler:Sannan-san "joins forces" with Koudou]].
* ItGotWorse: Season 1 of the anime follows the Shinsengumi as they gain power but season 2 show their decline and remains quite [[AnyoneCanDie faithful]] [[ForegoneConclusion to]] [[KillThemAll history]].
** For greater detail of the descent: Due to circumstances [[spoiler: Souji, Sannan/Keisuke and Heisuke find themselves figuratively stuck between a rock and a hard place -- ultimately choosing to become Rasetsu in order to fight, or continue being useful to the Shinsengumi. That's great and all, but it's essentially a death sentence and they're liable to go crazy with boodlust]]. Towards the end middle-to-end of season 1, Chizuru finds out [[spoiler: she's an Oni. Being a female Oni, she's highly sought after by other Oni -- particularly by Chikage, who torments the Shinsengumi and Chizuru in order to get Chizuru. It was Amagiri, one of Chikage's followers, who hurt Heisuke so badly that the latter had to become a Rasetsu or face immediate death]]. Then [[spoiler: we find that Chizuru's long lost twin brother, Kaoru, wants to enact revenge of sorts against his sister. He tricked Souji into becoming a Rasetsu, telling him it would cure his tuberculosis -- persumably to simply hurt Chizuru by hurting her friends]]. And then [[spoiler: the Imperial court essentially throws the Shogunate under the bus, abandoning them (and by extension the Shinsengumi), garnering the support of many clans alongside the original support of Choushuu and the Satsuma clan. In addition, the Shogunate and the Shinsengumi suffer heavy losses]]. Not to mention [[spoiler: Kondou is severely wounded from an assasination attempt, one encouraged by Kaoru, and Souji has been shot with silver bullets -- which negates the super healing Rasetsu have]]. [[ItGotWorse Then season 2 starts]].
* [[spoiler: KillEmAll: The anime's second season.]]
* KidHero: Heisuke.
* LastStand: [[spoiler: Okita.]]
* LimitedWardrobe: Chizuru really doesn't wear anything else but that pink hakamata (worn over with a white hakama) since she became the Shinsengumi's tag-along.
* MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter: As of the 2nd episode of Hakuouki - Hekketsu-Roku, [[spoiler: Koudou]] certainly qualifies as a Mad Scientist. Despite crossdressing as a boy, Chizuru is admittedly [[BeautifulAllAlong beautiful]].
** [[spoiler:Then comes the wall-banger: Chizuru isn't Koudou's daughter at all! She's adopted! Whatever.]]
* ManlyTears: Hijikata for both [[spoiler: Kondou and Okita]].
* NerdsAreSexy: Yamanami (Sannan-san).
* NoBodyLeftBehind: Rasetsu crumbles into dust when their lifeforce is used up. This happens to [[spoiler:Heisuke and Sannan-san]] and is implied to have happened to [[spoiler: Okita]].
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: They are called Rasetsu and are turned through drinking a red liquid, resulting in their hair turning white. They still lust for blood, can't stand the sun and are [[MadeOfIron ridiculously hard to kill]].
* PaperThinDisguise: Most of the Shinsengumi realized Chizuru was a girl straight away.
* PeripheryDemographic: Two groups. The male fanbase who are here for the sword and history and the {{YaoiFangirl}}s who ignore Chizuru and ship the Shinsengumis with each other instead.
* PsychoSerum: The Ochimizu, which has its major [[HealingFactor pros]] and [[OurVampiresAreDifferent cons]].
* PurpleEyes: Hijikata and Yamazaki.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Played straight with the Rasetsu, who are most certainly [[AxCrazy psychotic]]. Slightly subverted with Kazama, who is not that evil but still dangerous.
* RomanticPlotTumor: [[AvertedTrope Surprisingly averted]] in the anime considering it's RomanceGame origin. Hijikata and Chizuru didn't become an OfficialCouple till the second-to-last episode and the plot just marched right on after that and kicked the romance aside.
** Exactly why Hakuouki is awesome. It's a non romance reverse harem anime, how cool is that!
* TheScrappy: [[TheChick Chizuru]] is this to quite a lot of people, probably not helped by the fact that [[FauxActionGirl she never uses the sword she carries.]]
* ShirtlessScene: A [[{{Fanservice}} gratituitous]] Shinsengumi health inspection that even involved a [[PecFlex flex-off]]!
* TheStoic: Hajime definitely. Hijikata to some extent.
** Also Amagiri Kyuuju, who always fights rather grudgingly.
* SweetPollyOliver: Chizuru.
* SwordFight: The bread and butter of the series. One of [[HistoricalFiction two reasons]] why this actually has a male fanbase as well.
* TalkingIsAFreeAction: Almost everyone gets one last speech, be they a speech before a HeroicSacrifice in the middle of battle with explosions all around stopping for the speech, or the FinalSpeech after being mortally wounded.
* TearJerker: Hijikata's speech in episode 16 [[spoiler: after Kondou was taken by the enemy]].
** Episode 18 is a triple T-T combo - starts badly with [[spoiler:a flashback of Kondou being executed]], follows with [[spoiler: Harada dying from a wound he sustained in a battle against Koudou]] and tops it off with [[spoiler: Okita's HeroicSacrifice as he uses up his life force to defend a wounded Hijikata from an assassin squad...then crumbles into dust]].
* TitleDrop: In the final episode, it is revealed that Hakuoki is actually [[spoiler: the name Chikage gives Hijikata as acknowledgement that Hijikata is worthy of being called an oni]].
* TooDumbToLive: Chizuru. I've lost count of how many times she has willingly put herself in danger, knowing [[FauxActionGirl she can't handle it herself]]. Not to mention the time she picked up broken pottery and cut herself, ''right after'' finding out [[spoiler: Heisuke was a Rasetsu]].
* WhiteHairedPrettyBoy: Whenever any of the Shinsengumi [[spoiler:go into Rasetsu mode]].
* WholesomeCrossdresser: 19 episodes, and we have only seen Chizuru in anything remotely feminine twice.
* WorthyOpponent: Hijikata for Kazama
* {{Yandere}}: Okita for [[HoYay Kondou]].
* YouShallNotPass: Invoked by [[spoiler: Hajime in episode 19]].
* YouWouldntHitAGuyWithGlasses: Subverted with Yamanami many times [[spoiler:after he turns Rasetsu]].
[[caption-width-right:350:[[FanGirl Yes girls]], [[CastFullOfPrettyBoys this is heaven]]...[[PsychoSerum for a while, anyway.]]]]
In Kyoto, Japan, near the end of the [[JidaiGeki Edo period]], a young boy is being chased through the streets at night by a pair of revolutionaries loyal to the Emperor. Hiding in an alley, the boy is horrified to witness his pursuers' brutal murder at the hands of demonic looking men with [[RedEyesTakeWarning glowing red eyes]], who laugh maniacally as they hack their victims to pieces. When the fiends turn their attention to the boy, his life is only spared by the timely appearance of two samurai belonging to a group of powerful warriors loyal to the Shogun, known as the {{Shinsengumi}}. Unsure just where the boy's loyalties lie, the Shinsengumi take him into custody and return him to their headquarters.
The next day, they are shocked to discover that the "boy" being held prisoner is, in fact, a ''girl'' named Chizuru Yukimura. Chizuru came to Kyoto in search of her missing father, an accomplished doctor of western medicine who she suddenly lost contact with several months ago. When the Shinsengumi reveal that they too have been in search of Dr. Yukimura in relation to the strange attacks that have been plaguing the city, they allow Chizuru to remain under their care and assist with the search. Agreeing to continue living as a boy so as not to distract the men who serve her new benefactors, Chizuru quickly becomes acclimated to their lifestyle and grows to genuinely care for each of them.
Her life soon becomes anything but peaceful, as the Shinsengumi's enemies seek to overthrow the Shogun and those loyal to him at any cost. At the same time, both the numbers and ferocity of the crazed men that Chizuru's protectors cryptically refer to as "failed soldiers" continue to increase. In the midst of one of the most chaotic eras in Kyoto's history, Chizuru grows determined to do everything she can to protect the lives of her new comrade.
''Hakuouki'' is an anime series based on a set of [[RomanceGame otome games]] [[AnimeOfTheGame of the same name]]. The anime is split into two seasons, ''Hakuouki Shinsengumi Kitan'' which ran for twelve episodes beginning in April of 2010, and ''Hakuouki Hekketsuroku'' set to premiere in October 2010, which picks up where the first season left off. Both seasons are produced by StudioDeen.
A character sheet is now under construction [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/Hakuouki here]]
[[http://www.siliconera.com/2011/07/02/hakuoki-demon-of-the-fleeting-blossom-will-be-north-americas-first-otome-game/ Aksys also has plans releasing the game to the US in 2012.]]
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!! ''Hakuouki'' contains examples of:
* AdaptationDistillation/ AdaptationExpansion: The anime mainly follows Hijikata's route in the game but adds important scenes from other routes as well as anime-original endings for [[spoiler:Okita and Sanosuke]] who simply disappear in Hijikata's game route.
* AlternativeEndings: Like the NeoRomance series, a number of OVAs are being realeased that will focus on the game ending of Okita, Sanosuke etc.
* TheAnimeOfTheGame
* [[spoiler:AnyoneCanDie: Played to the extreme in Season 2. Don't get too attached to the characters...]]
** [[spoiler: Chizuru doesn't die, and it's debatable whether or not Hijikata actually does. Considering what else has happened, it wouldn't be a surprise for him to actually end up having died, but it's rather vague; it can easily be interpreted that he did indeed survive.]]
* {{Bishonen}}: EVERYWHERE.
* BetterThanItSounds: This is basically an [[TheAnimeOfTheGame anime]] based on a RomanceGame that combines {{Shinsengumi}} [[XMeetsY with]] [[Literature/{{Twilight}} bishonen vampires and a useless female lead]] produced by StudioDeen. Yet it more than makes up with its excellent execution and excellent fights.
* BladeOnAStick: Sanosuke's preferred weapon is a spear.
* BlondGuysAreEvil: Kazama.
* BloodLust: The Rasetsu often expressed cravings for blood. Just ask Hijikata!
* CastFromHitPoints: Rasetsus gains SuperStrength, lightening reflexes and a HealingFactor at the cost of shortening their lives.
* CastFullOfPrettyBoys: Justified since this is about a [[{{Shinsengumi}} military sect]], though the presence of Chizuru makes this more of a ReverseHarem situation.
* TheChick: Chizuru quickly becomes this for the Shinsengumi, and the feminine touch she adds to the group is welcomed by most of its members.
* CherryBlossom: Both in the title and the final scene of the anime.
* {{Determinator}}:All of the Shinsengumi members, but especially Okita.
* [[spoiler:DownerEnding]]: The WHOLE of ''Hekketsuroku'', minus the first 2 or 3 episodes, is basically one long carthartic trip.
* DroppedABridgetOnHim: Nagumo Kaoru to Okita and the viewers. Can't be helped since he looks identical to [[spoiler: Chizuru, his twin sister]].
* EnsembleDarkHorse: Hajime in the Japanese fandom.
* EstrogenBrigadeBait: Nearly all of the high ranking members of the Shinsengumi are {{bishonen}}, though given the [[RomanceGame source material]] this shouldn't come as a surprise.
* FiringOneHanded: Whenever Kyou shoots his gun.
* FoeYay: Probably unintentional but [[http://randomc.net/image/Hakuouki/Hakuouki%20Hekketsuroku%20-%20ED%20-%20Large%2003.jpg this]] picture from the second season ED
* GenkiGirl: Sen-hime.
* TheGoodCaptain: Kondou.
* GraspTheSun: Souji in the second OP
* HalfIdenticalTwin: [[spoiler: Chizuru and Kaoru.]]
* HealingFactor: The Rasetsu [[spoiler: also Chizuru due to her Oni blood.]]
* [[spoiler: HeroicSacrifice]]: Most of the shinsengumis, apart from Hijikata
* HeyItsThatVoice/ NamesToKnowInAnime: Plenty, considering the [[OtomeGame source]].
** Chizuru is HoukoKuwashima.
** Hijikata is ShinichiroMiki.
** Okita is ShowtaroMorikubo.
** Hajime is KosukeToriumi.
** Kondou is TohruOokawa.
** Sanosuke is KojiYusa.
** Heisuke is HiroyukiYoshino.
** Kazama is KenjiroTsuda.
** Yamanami is NobuoTobita.
** Ryuunosuke, the protagonist of the prequel game is none other than TomokazuSeki.
** Serizawa, who also appears on the prequel game is voiced by JojiNakata.
* HistoricalBeautyUpdate
* HistoricalFiction
* HonorBeforeReason: All of the Shinsengumis, in fact probably the whole point of the story.
* [[IllGirl Ill Boy]]: [[spoiler: Okita from round episode 8.]]
* ImplausibleFencingPowers: Whenever [[DodgeTheBullet Sanosuke fights Kyou]].
* IneffectualDeathThreat: Okita to Chizuru several time throughout the series.
* IncurableCoughOfDeath: Three guesses who.
* TheInfiltration: [[spoiler:When Hajime leaves the Shinsengumi for Itou's group in the anime]].
** Also when [[spoiler:Sannan-san "joins forces" with Koudou]].
* ItGotWorse: Season 1 of the anime follows the Shinsengumi as they gain power but season 2 show their decline and remains quite [[AnyoneCanDie faithful]] [[ForegoneConclusion to]] [[KillThemAll history]].
** For greater detail of the descent: Due to circumstances [[spoiler: Souji, Sannan/Keisuke and Heisuke find themselves figuratively stuck between a rock and a hard place -- ultimately choosing to become Rasetsu in order to fight, or continue being useful to the Shinsengumi. That's great and all, but it's essentially a death sentence and they're liable to go crazy with boodlust]]. Towards the end middle-to-end of season 1, Chizuru finds out [[spoiler: she's an Oni. Being a female Oni, she's highly sought after by other Oni -- particularly by Chikage, who torments the Shinsengumi and Chizuru in order to get Chizuru. It was Amagiri, one of Chikage's followers, who hurt Heisuke so badly that the latter had to become a Rasetsu or face immediate death]]. Then [[spoiler: we find that Chizuru's long lost twin brother, Kaoru, wants to enact revenge of sorts against his sister. He tricked Souji into becoming a Rasetsu, telling him it would cure his tuberculosis -- persumably to simply hurt Chizuru by hurting her friends]]. And then [[spoiler: the Imperial court essentially throws the Shogunate under the bus, abandoning them (and by extension the Shinsengumi), garnering the support of many clans alongside the original support of Choushuu and the Satsuma clan. In addition, the Shogunate and the Shinsengumi suffer heavy losses]]. Not to mention [[spoiler: Kondou is severely wounded from an assasination attempt, one encouraged by Kaoru, and Souji has been shot with silver bullets -- which negates the super healing Rasetsu have]]. [[ItGotWorse Then season 2 starts]].
* [[spoiler: KillEmAll: The anime's second season.]]
* KidHero: Heisuke.
* LastStand: [[spoiler: Okita.]]
* LimitedWardrobe: Chizuru really doesn't wear anything else but that pink hakamata (worn over with a white hakama) since she became the Shinsengumi's tag-along.
* MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter: As of the 2nd episode of Hakuouki - Hekketsu-Roku, [[spoiler: Koudou]] certainly qualifies as a Mad Scientist. Despite crossdressing as a boy, Chizuru is admittedly [[BeautifulAllAlong beautiful]].
** [[spoiler:Then comes the wall-banger: Chizuru isn't Koudou's daughter at all! She's adopted! Whatever.]]
* ManlyTears: Hijikata for both [[spoiler: Kondou and Okita]].
* NerdsAreSexy: Yamanami (Sannan-san).
* NoBodyLeftBehind: Rasetsu crumbles into dust when their lifeforce is used up. This happens to [[spoiler:Heisuke and Sannan-san]] and is implied to have happened to [[spoiler: Okita]].
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: They are called Rasetsu and are turned through drinking a red liquid, resulting in their hair turning white. They still lust for blood, can't stand the sun and are [[MadeOfIron ridiculously hard to kill]].
* PaperThinDisguise: Most of the Shinsengumi realized Chizuru was a girl straight away.
* PeripheryDemographic: Two groups. The male fanbase who are here for the sword and history and the {{YaoiFangirl}}s who ignore Chizuru and ship the Shinsengumis with each other instead.
* PsychoSerum: The Ochimizu, which has its major [[HealingFactor pros]] and [[OurVampiresAreDifferent cons]].
* PurpleEyes: Hijikata and Yamazaki.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Played straight with the Rasetsu, who are most certainly [[AxCrazy psychotic]]. Slightly subverted with Kazama, who is not that evil but still dangerous.
* RomanticPlotTumor: [[AvertedTrope Surprisingly averted]] in the anime considering it's RomanceGame origin. Hijikata and Chizuru didn't become an OfficialCouple till the second-to-last episode and the plot just marched right on after that and kicked the romance aside.
** Exactly why Hakuouki is awesome. It's a non romance reverse harem anime, how cool is that!
* TheScrappy: [[TheChick Chizuru]] is this to quite a lot of people, probably not helped by the fact that [[FauxActionGirl she never uses the sword she carries.]]
* ShirtlessScene: A [[{{Fanservice}} gratituitous]] Shinsengumi health inspection that even involved a [[PecFlex flex-off]]!
* TheStoic: Hajime definitely. Hijikata to some extent.
** Also Amagiri Kyuuju, who always fights rather grudgingly.
* SweetPollyOliver: Chizuru.
* SwordFight: The bread and butter of the series. One of [[HistoricalFiction two reasons]] why this actually has a male fanbase as well.
* TalkingIsAFreeAction: Almost everyone gets one last speech, be they a speech before a HeroicSacrifice in the middle of battle with explosions all around stopping for the speech, or the FinalSpeech after being mortally wounded.
* TearJerker: Hijikata's speech in episode 16 [[spoiler: after Kondou was taken by the enemy]].
** Episode 18 is a triple T-T combo - starts badly with [[spoiler:a flashback of Kondou being executed]], follows with [[spoiler: Harada dying from a wound he sustained in a battle against Koudou]] and tops it off with [[spoiler: Okita's HeroicSacrifice as he uses up his life force to defend a wounded Hijikata from an assassin squad...then crumbles into dust]].
* TitleDrop: In the final episode, it is revealed that Hakuoki is actually [[spoiler: the name Chikage gives Hijikata as acknowledgement that Hijikata is worthy of being called an oni]].
* TooDumbToLive: Chizuru. I've lost count of how many times she has willingly put herself in danger, knowing [[FauxActionGirl she can't handle it herself]]. Not to mention the time she picked up broken pottery and cut herself, ''right after'' finding out [[spoiler: Heisuke was a Rasetsu]].
* WhiteHairedPrettyBoy: Whenever any of the Shinsengumi [[spoiler:go into Rasetsu mode]].
* WholesomeCrossdresser: 19 episodes, and we have only seen Chizuru in anything remotely feminine twice.
* WorthyOpponent: Hijikata for Kazama
* {{Yandere}}: Okita for [[HoYay Kondou]].
* YouShallNotPass: Invoked by [[spoiler: Hajime in episode 19]].
* YouWouldntHitAGuyWithGlasses: Subverted with Yamanami many times [[spoiler:after he turns Rasetsu]].
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In Kyoto, Japan, near the end of the Edo period, a young boy is being chased through the streets at night by a pair of revolutionaries loyal to the Emperor. Hiding in an alley, the boy is horrified to witness his pursuers' brutal murder at the hands of demonic looking men with [[RedEyesTakeWarning glowing red eyes]], who laugh maniacally as they hack their victims to pieces. When the fiends turn their attention to the boy, his life is only spared by the timely appearance of two samurai belonging to a group of powerful warriors loyal to the Shogun, known as the {{Shinsengumi}}. Unsure just where the boy's loyalties lie, the Shinsengumi take him into custody and return him to their headquarters.
In Kyoto, Japan, near the end of the Edo period, a young boy is being chased through the streets at night by a pair of revolutionaries loyal to the Emperor. Hiding in an alley, the boy is horrified to witness his pursuers' brutal murder at the hands of demonic looking men with [[RedEyesTakeWarning glowing red eyes]], who laugh maniacally as they hack their victims to pieces. When the fiends turn their attention to the boy, his life is only spared by the timely appearance of two samurai belonging to a group of powerful warriors loyal to the Shogun, known as the {{Shinsengumi}}. Unsure just where the boy's loyalties lie, the Shinsengumi take him into custody and return him to their headquarters.
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** [[spoiler: Chizuru doesn't die, and it's debatable whether or not Hijikata actually does. Considering what else has happened, it wouldn't be a surprise for him to actually end up having died, but it's rather vague; it can easily be interpreted that he did indeed survive.]]
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** For greater detail of the descent: Due to circumstances [[spoiler: Souji, Sannan/Keisuke and Heisuke find themselves figuratively stuck between a rock and a hard place -- ultimately choosing to become Rasetsu in order to fight, or continue being useful to the Shinsengumi. That's great and all, but it's essentially a death sentence and they're liable to go crazy with boodlust]]. Towards the end middle-to-end of season 1, Chizuru finds out [[spoiler: she's an Oni. Being a female Oni, she's highly sought after by other Oni -- particularly by Chikage, who torments the Shinsengumi and Chizuru in order to get Chizuru. It was Amagiri, one of Chikage's followers, who hurt Heisuke so badly that the latter had to become a Rasetsu or face immediate death]]. Then [[spoiler: we find that Chizuru's long lost twin brother, Kaoru, wants to enact revenge of sorts against his sister. He tricked Souji into becoming a Rasetsu, telling him it would cure his tuberculosis -- persumably to simply hurt Chizuru by hurting her friends]]. And then [[spoiler: the Imperial court essentially throws the Shogunate under the bus, abandoning them (and by extension the Shinsengumi), garnering the support of many clans alongside the original support of Choushuu and the Satsuma clan. In addition, the Shogunate and the Shinsengumi suffer heavy losses]]. Not to mention [[spoiler: Kondou is severely wounded from an assasination attempt, one encouraged by Kaoru, and Souji has been shot with silver bullets -- which negates the super healing Rasetsu have]]. [[ItGotWorse Then season 2 starts]].
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* TooDumbToLive: Chizuru. I've lost count of how many times she has willingly put herself in danger, knowing [[FauxActionGirl she can't handle it herself]]. Not to mention the time she picked up broken pottery and cut herself, ''right after'' finding out [[spoiler: Heisuke was a Rasetsu]].
