History Manga / CryingFreeman

* AerithAndBob: The plot is relocated from Japan to Canada, but the majority of character's names are unchanged. While Emu (絵霧) and Netah (新田) arhttps://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/wysiwyg_source_editor.php?groupname=Manga&title=CryingFreeman&load=sourcee fairly normal names in Japanese, they're more than a little unusual in the film's new setting, especially considering the characters AdaptationalNationality.

* AerithAndBob: The plot is relocated from Japan to Canada, but the majority of character's names are unchanged. While Emu (絵霧) and Netah (新田) are fairly normal names in Japanese, they're more than a little unusual in the film's new setting, especially considering the characters AdaptationalNationality.

* AerithAndBob: The plot is relocated from Japan to Canada, but the majority of character's names are unchanged. While Emu (絵霧) and Netah (新田) are fairly normal names and Japanese, there more than a little unusual in the film's new setting, especially considering the characters AdaptationalNationality.

* DirtyCop: Netah's is so obsessed with killing Yo, [[spoiler:he's willing to work side-by-side with the Yakuza and murder innocent bystanders.]]
* InterplayOfSexAndViolence: Yo fends off an army of hitmen while making love to Emu.
* MarkOfTheBeast: Yo has a dragon tattoo along his chest and back to symbolize his servitude to the Sons of the Dragon.

* WorthyOpponent: Kimie seems to consider Yo this, admitting defeat and saving him from Netah's treachery.

* PragmaticAdaptation: The film is generally well-regarded for its faithfulness to the story and tone of the original work, despite some name changes and making Yoh more expendable in the eyes of his gang.

* AdaptationNationality: Emu and Netah are changed from Japanese to caucasian Canadians, and the primary setting relocated from Tokyo to British Columbia.

* AdaptationNationalityChange: Emu and Netah are changed from Japanese to caucasian Canadians, and the primary setting relocated from Tokyo to British Columbia.

!! ''Crying Freeman'' contains examples of the following tropes:

* PragmaticAdaptation: The French-Canadian live-action film is generally well-regarded for its faithfulness to the story and tone of the original work, despite some name changes and making Yoh more expendable in the eyes of his gang.

''Crying Freeman'', a 1986 manga illustrated by Ryouichi Ikegami and written by Kazuo Koike, follows the story of Yoh Hinomura, an internationally-renowned potter from Japan. A Chinese triad organization known as "The 108 Dragons" kidnapped Yoh and turned into an unwilling assassin: after sticking acupuncture needles in him and implanting post-hypnotic suggestions, Yoh became one of their best assassins, killing for the group whenever he is ordered to. Whenever Yoh kills, he [[ManlyTears cries out of remorse for his victims]] (hence the name of the series). When solitary artist Emu Hino witnesses one of Yoh's assassinations, the Dragons order him to eliminate her -- but Yoh's love for Hino [[LoveRedeems could become his salvation]]...

* ChristmasCake: Emu.

* HandyFeet: One of Freeman's skills, and makes him especially deadly with a knife. [[WholeEpisodeFlashbacl The training sequence explaining Freeman's proficiency with his feet ]] is rather amusing.

** Oral sex, at least. If anything, Yoh made no moves whatsoever in his backstory, [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation so in his mind it probably doesn't count.]]

* AManIsNotAVirgin: Seemingly averted, when Emu reveals she's never been with a man, she's surprised to hear Yoh make a similar confession, and amused when he gets a little flustered about her undressing. However, this is contradicted by a later chapter detailing more of his backstory, where the tattoo artist that puts the clan markings on him has sex with him.

'''''Crying Freeman''''', a 1986 manga illustrated by Ryouichi Ikegami and written by Kazuo Koike, follows the story of Yoh Hinomura, an internationally-renowned potter from Japan. A Chinese triad organization known as "The 108 Dragons" kidnapped Yoh and turned into an unwilling assassin: after sticking acupuncture needles in him and implanting post-hypnotic suggestions, Yoh became one of their best assassins, killing for the group whenever he is ordered to. Whenever Yoh kills, he [[ManlyTears cries out of remorse for his victims]] (hence the name of the series). When solitary artist Emu Hino witnesses one of Yoh's assassinations, the Dragons order him to eliminate her -- but Yoh's love for Hino [[LoveRedeems could become his salvation]]...

No relation to [[VideoGame/HalfLife a bespectacled, alien fighting scientist]] [[note]]Who doesn't cry by the virtue of being a HeroicMime[[/note]]. It was adapted on live action film in 1995 by director Christophe Gans (''Film/BrotherhoodOfTheWolves'').

No relation to [[VideoGame/HalfLife a bespectacled, alien fighting scientist]] [[note]]Who doesn't cry by the virtue of being a HeroicMime[[/note]].

No relation to [[HalfLife a bespectacled, alien fighting scientist]] [[note]]Who doesn't cry by the virtue of being a HeroicMime[[/note]].

** Not only women, but several men come under this also; including getting killed ''mid-coitus'', also ''coitus interruptus'', and one ambushed while in afterglow with his mistress (she get's spared).

** Then subverted again with Kimie Hanada, whose "''involvement''" is far more graphic then every other female character in the manga, even Emu, but she is spared to the manga's end.

* DoubleStandard: Pretty heavy on this -- and ''really'' unapologetic about it.

* AManIsNotAVirgin: Seemingly averted, when Emu reveals she's never been with a man, she's surprised to hear Yoh make a similar confession, and amused when he gets a little flustered about her undressing. However, this is contradicted by a later chapter detailing more of his backstory, where the tattoo artist that puts the clan markings on him has sex with him.
** Oral sex, at least. If anything, Yoh made no moves whatsoever in his backstory, [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation so in his mind it probably doesn't count.]]