History Anime / SamuraiSeven

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Kikuchiyo gets the same brutal speech he did in [[SevenSamurai the source material]].

* AudibleSharpness
* BadassLongcoat: Kyuzo.

* {{Bishonen}}
* [[spoiler:BittersweetEnding]]. [[spoiler:Most of the samurai die and Kirara finds that her pure soul has been tainted by the battles, making her unfit to continue as a water priestess. Not only that, Katsushiro rejects her, as the war has hardened him too far for him to love... and Kanbei adds yet another defeat to his already long list. On the other hand, the village is saved, Ukyo is defeated and killed and the villagers celebrate their victory with the surviving samurai. Kanbei, Katsushiro, and Shichiroji manage to move on with their own lives, which isn't too bad.]]
* [[spoiler:BlackDudeDiesFirst]]: This despite the fact the first to die in the original film was [[spoiler:Heihachi]]

* BringMyRedJacket

* ComingOfAgeStory: For Katsushiro, as well as Kirara.

* [[spoiler:DeathByAdaptation]]: [[spoiler:Gorobei]] is a very clear-cut Type II, presumably because the samurai [[spoiler:who was supposed to die first]] was also one with tech skills that are necessary later.
* DebutQueue

* DiagonalCut
* [[spoiler: DidNotGetTheGirl: Kirara develops feelings for Kambei, but though he silently acknowledges their existence he rejects her by interrupting her confession of love and stating that his heart is too barren and dried up to accept it. Katsushiro has feelings for Kirara, but it's never made clear how much of their ShipTease is her returning those feelings and how much is simply her feeling guilty over dragging him into the battle. In the end, Katsushiro rejects her as well for similar reasons as Kambei's.]]

* EyesAlwaysShut: Heihachi.

* FirstGirlWins: [[spoiler: Subverted]] and gender-flipped.

* GadgeteerGenius: Heihachi.
* GasMaskMooks: The Guardians/Shikimoribito.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Kikuchiyo.

* KidSamurai: Katsushiro.
* KidWithTheLeash

* MiniatureSeniorCitizens: primarily found in Kanna Village like the elder, who is shorter than Kiara and only a head taller than her sister.

* [[RecycledInSpace Recycled In The Future!]] It's the traditional story but set in age with cyborgs and airships.

* RuleOfCool:
** The last third of the series is full of this. They [[DiagonalCut cut]] mecha in half with [[KatanasAreJustBetter katanas]] and [[spoiler: Katsushiro stops a blast of the Imperial Capital's [[WaveMotionGun main cannon]] with his katana.]]
* {{Samurai}}: Naturally.
* SchizoTech

* SteppingStonesInTheSky

* VariableTerminalVelocity

* [[spoiler:BittersweetEnding]]. [[spoiler:Most of the samurai die and Kirara finds that her pure soul has been tainted by the battles, making her unfit to continue as a water priestess. Not only that, Katsushiro rejects her, as the war has hardened him too far for him to love... and Kanbei adds yet another defeat to his already long list. On the other hand, but the village is saved and villagers celebrate their victory with the surviving samurai. Kanbei, Katsushiro, and Shichiroji manage to move on with their own lives, which isn't too bad.]]

* ChronicBackstabbingSyndrome: [[spoiler:Ukyo makes this his standard M.O. First, by assassinating the imperial envoy as a favor to the Prime Minister, he's able to replace his father as city governor. Following that, in the same episode that the Emperor formally recognizes him as a worthy heir to the throne, Ukyo murders him and takes his place.]]

* HeyItsThatVoice:
** In the Funimation english dub, Komachi is voice by [[Anime/AbenobashiMahouShoutengai Sashi]], her sister is voiced by [[Manga/DetectiveConan Rachel Moore]] and Shichiroji is Creator/ChuckECheese.
** Kikuchiyo [[Creator/ChristopherSabat is]] [[DragonBallZ Vegeta and Piccolo]] in English, and in Japanese he is... [[FatalFury GEESE]] [[KingOfFighters HOWARD]]?!
*** Christopher Sabat is playing a [[CasshernSins big robot who has a cute relationship with a little girl]].
** It's hard to catch, but in the English dub, Kyuzo is...waitaminnit [[OnePiece Usopp]], is that really you?!

%%* AdaptationExpansion

%%* {{Bishonen}}

* BrattyHalfPint: There's two, though Okara is more of a brat than Komachi
%%* BringMyRedJacket

%%* CatchAFallingStar: [[spoiler: Kambei's rescue of Kirara]]

%%* DebutQueue

%%* DiagonalCut

%%* EyesAlwaysShut: Heihachi.

%%* GadgeteerGenius: Heihachi.

%%* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Kikuchiyo.

%%* KidSamurai: Katsushiro.
%%* KidWithTheLeash

%%* MyMasterRightOrWrong: Tessai in respect to Ukyo.

** Averted in episode 2, by grabbing a falling elevator.

%%* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler: Heihachi and to some extent Kyuzo, although he never mentions his past.]]

%%* SchizoTech

%%* SteppingStonesInTheSky

%%* VariableTerminalVelocity

%%* AudibleSharpness
%%* BadassLongcoat: Kyuzo.

%%* BareYourMidriff: Both Kirara's ceremonial garments and her day-to-day wear show off quite a lot of skin for a priestess.

%%* BareYourMidriff: Kirara
* BarehandedBladeBlock: This is justified and plausible since Kikuchiyo's sword is so wide Kambei can catch it without cutting his hands.

* NamesToKnowInAnime:
** [[Creator/RomiPark Romi Paku]] as Katsushiro, TakehitoKoyasu as Ukyo, FumikoOrikasa as Kirara.
** As for the dub, we've got RBruceElliot as Kambei, GregAyers as Heihachi, ChristopherRSabat as Kikuchou, ColleenClinkenbeard as Kirara, LuciChristian as Komachi, Creator/JMichaelTatum as Rikichi

** Christopher Sabat is playing a [[CasshernSins big robot who has a cute relationship with a little girl]].

* [[spoiler:BittersweetEnding]]. [[spoiler:Most samurai die, finds that her pure soul has been tainted by the battles, making her unfit to continue as a water priestess, Katsushiro rejects her, as the war has hardened him too far for him to love... and Kanbei adds yet another defeat to his already long list. On the other hand, but the village is saved and villagers celebrate their victory with the surviving samurai. Kanbei, Katsushiro, and Shichiroji move on with their own lives, which isn't too bad.]]

* TheStoic: Kyuzo. It takes something seriously out of the ordinary to throw him off.

** Kikuchiyo [[ChristopherSabat is]] [[DragonBallZ Vegeta and Piccolo]] in English, and in Japanese he is... [[FatalFury GEESE]] [[KingOfFighters HOWARD]]?!

** As for the dub, we've got RBruceElliot as Kambei, GregAyers as Heihachi, ChristopherRSabat as Kikuchou, ColleenClinkenbeard as Kirara, LuciChristian as Komachi, JMichaelTatum as Rikichi

** RomiPaku as Katsushiro, TakehitoKoyasu as Ukyo, FumikoOrikasa as Kirara.

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* AdaptationExpansion
* AffablyEvil: Ukyo kind of qualifies. He makes some pretty amusing comments and has a certain foppish style and seems liked by his PaidHarem [[spoiler: and he turns out to be a quite cunning villain]]

* AgentPeacock: Ukyo is one of these of TheChessmaster variety.

* AudibleSharpness
* BadassLongcoat: Kyuzo.
* BambooTechnology: Heihachi's massive battleship-piercing crossbow. [[YourSizeMayVary How did they find a tree so big to make the "arrow", it's not our business.]]
* BareYourMidriff: Kirara
* BarehandedBladeBlock: This is rather justified and plausible since Kikuchiyo's sword is so wide Kambei can catch it without cutting his hands.

* BecauseImJonesy: How [[spoiler: Ukyo]] knew Kanbei wasn't the one who killed the imperial envoy.

* BerserkButton: Normally, Heihachi is a happy-go-lucky pacifistic guy, but he really hates traitors [[spoiler: because he was one during the recently ended war, and it resulted in his whole unit being killed]].
** Given that he used to be one,[[spoiler: Kikuchiyo]] is infuriated whenever anyone acts oppressive or inconsiderate toward peasants
** Ukyo really hates machine samurai. The viewer is led to believe this is because Kikuchiyo nearly cuts him in half in an early episode, creating a bit of a phobia, but in reality it's because [[spoiler:Ukyo grew up a peasant on a farm and thus lived for years under the heel of the Nobuseri.]]
* {{BFG}}: The Benigumo (red ones) have shoulder compartments with basically a shotgun, with eight barrels. Four rows of two. And even the man portable ones are shoulder mounted and look more like WWII artillery.
* {{BFS}}: Even those gundam sized mechs use both hands to use a large handle. About 40% of the sword is the handle. The red ones have a shield and a smaller sword, but it's still huge.

* {{Bishonen}}
* [[spoiler:BittersweetEnding]]. [[spoiler:Most samurai die, but the village is saved and villagers celebrate their victory with the surviving samurai and Kanbei, Katsushiro, and Shichiroji move on with their own lives, which isn't too bad. Also, Kirara finds that her pure soul has been tainted by the battles, making her unfit to continue as a water priestess. Katsushiro rejects her, as the war has hardened him too far for him to love... and Kanbei adds yet another defeat to his already long list.]]

* BloodLessCarnage: Most of the battles are like this due to the majority of the bandits being full body converted mecha. Even when human pilots are cut into pieces, the explosion of the mecha usually mask all the gore.
** (Intentionally) subverted when [[spoiler:Katsushiro takes his first life]] and is completely drenched in a shower of blood and oil from the victim and his mech suit, and later when he [[spoiler:accidentally kills Kyuzo.]] It seems the amount of blood shown is directly proportionate to the emotional impact each death has on the killer.

* BringMyRedJacket
* BrokenAesop: Kambei's famous last line, "The farmers have won. Not us." is said at the end with only a small fraction of the gravitas of the original, due to the differing characterisation of the villagers (who are shown to genuinely care for the samurai) and the overall shift in the tone of the story that places the samurai in a much more heroic light.
** That line also serves to call back to the often-quoted claim that Kambei has never actually fought in a winning battle in this version.
* BulletProofHumanShield: Subverted [[spoiler: Katsushiro accidentally kills Kyuzo when firing a machinegun at a soldier in front of him, as the bullets go right through the soldier into Kyuzo]].

* CallingYourAttacks: Mocked by Heihachi.
** Allow me to introduce you to WOODCUTTER STYLE!

* CampStraight: Ukyo
* CatchAFallingStar: [[spoiler: Kambei's rescue of Kirara]]
* TheChessmaster: Ukyo

* ChronicBackstabbingSyndrome: [[spoiler:Ukyo makes this his standard M.O. First, by assassinating the imperial envoy as a favor to the Prime Minister, he's able to replace his father as city governor. Following that, the same episode that the Emperor formally recognizes him as a worthy heir to the throne, Ukyo murders him and takes his place.]]

* CurbStompBattle: Early attempts of the farmers to fight mecha with pitchforks and firewood axes result in this. Also leading to prime examples of ThereIsNoKillLikeOverKill as the mecha respond by smashing the farmers with swords the size of your average train car.
* TheDandy: Ukyo.
* DeadpanSnarker: Okara.
* [[spoiler:DeathByAdaptation]]: [[spoiler:Gorobei]] is a very clear-cut Type II, presumably because the samurai [[spoiler:who was supposed to die first]] was also one with tech skills that are arguably necessary later.
* DeathSeeker: Kambei
* DebutQueue
* DefectorFromDecadence: It's never stated outright, but besides seeing Kambei as a WorthyOpponent, Kyuzo seems to have joined the heroes based on disgust for the dishonorable behavior of his fellow samurai under Ukyo. Also, in a way the [[spoiler: Guardians]] qualify as well, since they turn out to be former samurai who chose a less villainous path than the Nobuseri.
* DiagonalCut
* [[spoiler: DidNotGetTheGirl: Kirara develops feelings for Kambei, but though he silently acknowledges their existence he rejects her, interrupting her confession of love by stating that his heart is too barren and dried up to accept it. Katsushiro has feelings for Kirara, but it's never really made clear how much of their ShipTease is her returning those feelings and how much is simply her feeling guilty over dragging him into the battle. In the end, Katsushiro rejects her as well for similar reasons as Kambei's.]]
* DisguisedInDrag: Gorobei, Heihachi and Rikichi disguise themselves as "female" traveling performers. Heihachi actually kinda makes a cute girl, but the other two its more like PaperThinDisguise.

* EyesAlwaysShut: Heihachi.

* FantasticFruitsAndVegetables: The group happens upon a bumper crop of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durian Durian]] much to Kikuchiyo's delight and everyone else's discomfort. The durian found are ground plants, while ones in real life are tree-borne fruits.
* FieldOfBlades: Used in two different ways. First, Kambei makes one with swords that they had captured from Nobuseri in the Kanna village square so that any of the samurai whose swords broke during battle could rearm quickly. In the end, the [[spoiler:four samurai who died have their swords stuck in their graves as headstones.]]

** Biggest subversion is in the bandit assault on the village, where [[spoiler:Heihachi, the first to die in the film, is heavily wounded, but ends up surviving the fight while Gorobei is killed instead.]]

* GadgeteerGenius: Heihachi.

* GrapesOfLuxury: Ukyo does this a lot.
* GunsVsSwords: Villains (Bandits [[spoiler: and Hyogo]]) use guns while the samurai use swords. Kambei, at one point, does point out that being on the "sword" side of that fight is not fun.
** The one time any of the main characters DOES use a gun, [[spoiler:he accidentally kills Kyuzo with it.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: Several, but most notably [[spoiler: Kikuchiyo, who'd been able to survive all previous injuries due to his mechanical body. After the flying-battleship Imperial Capital is disabled and crashes to earth, Kiku prevents it from careening into Kanna Village by picking up one of the giant Nobuseri swords and ''standing in front of it to slow it down.'' His ultimate fate? Being melted down into near-nothingness; only his feet remain.]]
* HeyItsThatVoice: In the Funimation english dub, Komachi is voice by [[Anime/AbenobashiMahouShoutengai Sashi]], her sister is voiced by [[Manga/DetectiveConan Rachel Moore]] and Shichiroji is Creator/ChuckECheese.

*** Not to mention Christopher Sabat is playing a [[CasshernSins big robot who has a cute relationship with a little girl]].
** It's hard to catch, but in the English dub, Kyuzo is...waitaminnit, are you kidding? [[OnePiece Usopp]], is that really you?!

* ImplausibleFencingPowers: To the max and beyond; samurai can slice ''anything'', and deflect ''energy beams''.

* ItsNotYouItsMe: At least two. [[spoiler:Kirara manages to be on the wrong end of both.]]
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Kikuchiyo.
* [[KatanasAreJustBetter Katanas Are Awesome]]: Ironically, this is the exact opposite of the film the show was loosely based on where no amount of skill with a katana helped anyone against guns at range.
** Played so straight that in the final battle, the villain's ship has to stop using their massive laser cannons after realizing how easily and precisely the samurai katanas can DEFLECT THEM.
* KidSamurai: Katsushiro.
* KidWithTheLeash
* KnightOfCerebus: [[MagnificentBastard Ukyo]], once revealed as[[spoiler: the emperor's clone]] and the series true BigBad.

* MagnificentSeven
* MasterSwordsman
* MayDecemberRomance: Averted in the case of Kirara & Kambei. May or may not be the case with Kikuchiyo and Komachi, though we never get a chance to find out and don't know Kiku's true age since he's a cyborg.
* MiniatureSeniorCitizens: primarily found in Kanna Village.
* {{Miko}}: Kirara.
* MyMasterRightOrWrong: Tessai in respect to Ukyo.
* NamesToKnowInAnime: RomiPaku as Katsushiro, TakehitoKoyasu as Ukyo, FumikoOrikasa as Kirara.

* NeutralFemale: Kirara.
* NoTranshumanismAllowed: Very much averted, although the thinking behind the trope is in play. The bandits have totally altered themselves and the mooks hunting the protagonists in early episodes also have significant (although much less) body modification. Pretty much, outside of Kikuchiyo, anyone with significant mechanization is probably a bad guy, although Shichiroji does have a [[ArtificialLimbs robotic hand]].
* NotTheFallThatKillsYou: Averted in episode 2, by grabbing a falling elevator.

* OffModel: Conspicuously episode 7.
** Episode 17 as well
* OneManArmy: Most of the samurai.

* PrecociousCrush: Komachi on Kikuchiyo, which also has elements of CargoShip.

* [[RecycledInSpace Recycled In The Future!]]
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler: Heihachi and to some extent Kyuzo, although he never mentions his past.]]
* {{Retirony}}: Subverted with [[spoiler: Shichiroji, whose introduction gives ''all'' of the classic signs of retirony -- he goes on one last mission with his old friend before returning home to get married. Surprisingly, he survives.]]

* TheRival: Kyuzo, to Kanbei.

** the last third of the series is full of this, best exemplified by [[spoiler: Katsushiro stopping a blast of the Imperial Capital's [[WaveMotionGun main cannon]] with only his katana.]]
** "They also [[DiagonalCut cut]] mecha in half with [[KatanasAreJustBetter katanas]]."

* SchizoTech
* SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler: The Village Elder and Sanai]]
** Subverted with [[spoiler: Heihachi. Surpising fans of the movie, he was spared from being the first samurai to die, but he finally meets his end in episode 25.]]
* SteppingStonesInTheSky
* StockholmSyndrome: Rikichi's wife and [[spoiler: Ukyo's predecessor.]]
* SurvivorGuilt: Kambei appears to have a nasty case of it. At the end of the series, he does ask Katsushiro if he feels guilty that he survived while [[spoiler:four of the others died,]] but Katsushiro replies that [[spoiler:rather than feeling guilty that he survived and they died, he'd live so that he'd bring honor to the names of the fallen.]]
* TheStoic: Kyuzo. It takes something seriously out of the ordinary to throw him off... or to get more than four or five consecutive syllables out of him.
* TakeALevelInBadass: Rikichi goes from a somewhat pathetic, sniveling guy to a much more confident individual, who while no where near the samurai in fighting prowess, is a very effective part of the peasant rebellion.

*** Katsushiro in particular both after his first kill and [[spoiler: after kambei punishes him for following him to the capital.]] at the beginning of the series he's a young ronin who had never killed and was unable to beat even a single mook.
* TakeUpMySword: Kambei gives Katsushiro his sword as the two part ways.
* TrainingThePeacefulVillagers

* TrojanHorse: used when some of the samurai hide in rice bales to sneak into an enemy base.

* VariableTerminalVelocity

* VillainWithGoodPublicity: [[spoiler: Ukyo's whole plan involves becoming one of these, which he starts doing once he reveals his true intelligence/becomes Emperor]], complete with some good use of the NewEraSpeech.
* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler: Ukyo]] in the final episode, although unusually, this moment of insane ranting and violence is followed by him immediately returning to being [[DissonantSerenity eerily calm]]. And then, goes right back to crazy.

* WeaponTombstone

* YouShallNotPass: Kikuchiyo's last moment in the series. Beaten, battered, and mostly broken he grabs a massive mecha sword the size of a small building and slams it into the front of the [[AirborneAircraftCarrier Capital]].
-->Kikuchiyo: "You're not getting one inch closer to those rice fields!"

* WellDoneSonGuy: Ayamaro treats Ukyo like the worthless fop he seems to be... [spoiler:until Ukyo has an Imperial envoy assassinated so that he can replace his father as governor.]] By contrast, the Emperor [[spoiler:acts quite proud and pleased to finally have an heir worth his time, for the twenty minutes that lasts before Ukyo kills him off and takes his place.]]

* UnrequitedLoveSwitcheroo

* HeyItsThatVoice: In the Funimation english dub, Komachi is voice by [[Anime/AbenobashiMahouShoutengai Sashi]], her sister is voiced by [[Manga/DetectiveConan Rachel Moore]] and Shichiroji is ChuckECheese.
** Kikuchiyo [[ChristopherSabat is]] [[DragonBallZ Vegeta and Piccolo]] in English, and in Japanese he is...[[FatalFury GEESE]] [[KingOfFighters HOWARD]]?!

** As for the dub, we've got RBruceElliot as Kambei, GregAyers as Heihachi, ChristopherRSabat as Kikuchou, ColleenClinkenberd as Kirara, LuciChristian as Komachi, JMichaelTatum as Rikichi

* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Kyuzo's only known motivation for joining the group is making sure Kambei lives long enough to finish their score.

* HumongousMecha: The Nobuseri [[strike: use]] [[WasOnceAMan are]] mechs ranging from "bigger than a man" to "{{Gundam}}-sized".

* BeleagueredAssistant: Tessai to Ukyo who treats him like dirt.

** Given that he used to be one,[[spoiler: Kikuchiyo]] is infuriated whenever anyone acts oppresive or inconsiderate toward peasants
** Ukyo really hates machine samurai.

* [[spoiler:BittersweetEnding]]. [[spoiler:Most samurai die, but the village is saved and villagers celebrate their victory with the survivng samurai and Kanbei, Katsushiro, and Shichiroji move on with their own lives, which isn't too bad. Also, Kirara is written off as unfit for being a priestess, Katsushiro is alienated from her and Kanbei adds yet another defeat to his already long list.]]

* ChainsawGood: Kikuchiyo's sword occasionally crosses into this.

* [[spoiler:DeathByAdaptation]]: [[spoiler:Gorobei]] is a very clear-cut Type II

* [[spoiler: DidNotGetTheGirl: Though Kambei silently acknowledges Kirara's love for him, it's never outright stated, and she remains in the village while he leaves for further adventures. Katsushiro fills Kambei's role in the original, but in this adaptation it is left ambiguous to what extent Kirara returned his feelings.]]
* DisguisedInDrag: Gorobei, Heihachi and Rikichi disguise themselves as "female" traveling performers. Heihachi actually kinda makes a cute girl, but the other two its more like PaperThinDisguise

* EnigmaticMinion

* EvilPlan: The plot is started by the bandit's plan of 'regular rice extortion' from villagers but [[spoiler: Ukyo's]] plan later drives the story.

* FieldOfBlades

* GunsVsSwords: Villains (Bandits [[spoiler: and Hyogo]]) use guns while the samurai use swords.

* ImmortalityInducer: The throne that preserves the user's life.
* ItsNotYouItsMe: At least two.

* {{Losing Your Head}}: Kikuchiyo.

* MayDecemberRomance: Averted in the case of Kirara & Kambei.

* SurvivorGuilt: Kambei
* TheStoic: Kyuzo. It takes something seriously out of the ordinary to throw him off.

* WellDoneSonGuy

-> ''Before the ears of rice begin to bend, bring us samurai who can defend us. Our hopes...now rest...on that.''
-->-- The show's opening narration on '''{{Toonami}}'''

Now with a [[Characters/SamuraiSeven character page]] that needs some love. The series is currently on American television on Creator/{{Toonami}} at 1:30am Eastern.