History Manga / SamuraiDeeperKyo

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[[caption-width:256:That's just the ''main cast''.]]

!!This series provides examples of:
* AGodAmI: The vast majority of the Mibu think like this. And in truth, no one really disputes them on that.

* GoodScarsEvilScars: Subverted with Yuya, who has a hideous scar on her stomach

* [[ImAHumanitarian]]: The real Haira

* AdaptationDecay: The anime. ''Very'' loosely based on the first sixteen volumes, and everything from the story to the character designs suffers. Most fans concur that the only good things to come of it were the outtakes.

* PaintingTheFourthWall: Kyoshiro vs Benitora: "Can we just pretend the last 5 pages didn't happen?"

''SamuraiDeeperKyo'' is a thirty-eight volume manga about the exploits of Shiina Yuya, a sixteen year old [[BountyHunter bounty hunter]] seeking revenge for her older brother's death, who meets [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass Mibu Kyoshiro]], a medicine peddler, and [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Demon Eyes Kyo]], who is trapped in Kyoshiro's body.

Kyo and friends appear in the MassiveMultiplayerCrossover game, VideoGame/SundayVSMagazineShuuketsuChoujouDaikessen.

Please feel free to edit the [[Characters/{{SamuraiDeeperKyo}} the Samurai Deeper Kyo character sheet]]

** In the manga at least. In the anime, there's only [[spoiler: Yuya's crush on Kyo/Kyoshiro and their growing feelings for her. [[spoiler:They are shown to have gotten together in the epilogue in the last episode -- where Kyo and Kyoshiro have been reunited into a single individual -- which takes place years later. Also Benitora and Mahiro in the ending of the anime as well.]]

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[[caption-width:256:And that's just the ''main cast''.]]

* YamatoNadeshiko

* HeyItsThatVoice: [[{{Yu-Gi-Oh}} Dan]] [[SonicTheHedgehog Frickin']] [[FourKidsEntertainment Green]] is the main character.

* FourIsDeath: The Shiseiten are frequently described as being gods of death. The Taishiro are possibly even more lethal

* ImplausibleFencingPowers: To the nth degree. Apparently, a sword stroke from Kyo has enough power to give truckload of high explosives a run for its money

* {{Badass}} - A massive majority of the cast fills this trope, though Kyo, Kyoshiro, Akira, [[spoiler: The Former Crimson King]], Hishigi and Shinrei are this troper´s candidates for most badass.

* {{Badass}}

* OddFriendship: Benitora and Akira, who progress from [[WorthyOpponent Worthy Opponents]] to {{Nakama}}

* {{Nakama}}

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: Every major character gets one, or several
* CrowningMomentOfFunny: See the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hSGQmsooTY bloopers]] of the English dub on YouTube. DanGreen has one you need to hear to believe, at around 3:40:
--> First thing I'm going to do is get laid, then I'm gonna get laid again, then do some crack and get laid some more. Because that's what I'm all about. Getting fucked.

* HoYay: Oh, where do I start...?
** How about with Akira's Man Crush on Kyo?
** Or perhaps Hishigi and Fubuki?

* MagnificentBastard: The Former Crimson King, certainly. Others may qualify.
* MisaimedFandom: [[BigBad The Former Crimson King]], despite his Magnificent Bastardry, is referred to as Aka-chan by most of the fandom

* MoralEventHorizon: The Former Crimson King has plenty of these moments.
** [[spoiler:Upon Tokito's reunion with her father, Fubuki, she begs the Former Crimson King to save him. The Former Crimson King, instead, attempts to kill her, but Fubuki, already half-dead, [[RedemptionEqualsDeath takes the fall.]]]]
** [[spoiler:He orders Kyoshiro--through Chinmei--to kill Sakuya's brother, and then arranges for Sakuya to watch.]]

* TheWoobie: Tons of characters, but most notably [[EstrogenBrigadeBait Yukimura]]

* TheDragon: In the manga, OdaNobunaga (In the anime, he's the Big Bad).

* ArtificialHumans: [[spoiler: The ''entire'' Mibu tribe in the manga, who are revealed to actually be the Battle Dolls of the True Mibu. Except Kyo, the last of The True Mibu. Flipped in the manga, where it's only Kyo who's The Battle Doll.]]

* BadassNormal: Yukimura and the Ten, minus Sasuke. Bontenmaru fills this role in the Shiseiten

* BladeRun: Sasuke has one of these early on

* BloodKnight

* BodyguardCrush: Go ahead, try to name a single time when a Kyo [[UnstoppableRage Killing Rampage]] isn't triggered by Yuya being directly threatened

* BrotherSisterIncest - anime only, betweeen Nobunaga Oda and Shatora.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Julian and Shihoudou: even Kyo admits to the latter's {{Badass}}itude

* ChildrenAreInnocent: Subverted with every character shown as a child except Yuya and flashback Tokito

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Hotaru. It may just be ObfuscatingStupidity, as he proves many times that he's smarter than he seems
* CombatCommentator: Akira and Bon serve as this at turns for Yuya. Averted in the Akira-Tokito fight, as Yuya isn't around for that one

* CooldownHug: Played straight during Kyo's SuperPowerMeltdown: Yuya runs through the mess he's making to bring him back
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Kyoshiro, though it's ''really'' hidden. The Former Crimson King is more overt about it all being just ObfuscatingStupidity

* AGodAmI: The vast majority of the Mibu think like this. And in truth, no one really disputes them on that

* AxCrazy (Ninety percent of the main cast is like this, including the title character)

* TheDoctorDolittle: Muramasa

* StaffChick: Akari. Except, you know

* LadyOfWar (Saisei)
* LargeHam (Bontenmaru)
* LastOfHisKind [[spoiler:Kyo, the last True Mibu. Averted in the case of the Former Crimson King, who it turns out, is just merely the first Battle Doll.]]

* LukeIAmYourFather [[spoiler:Kyo, the final direct descendant of the ''Original Crimson King''.]]
* MagnificentBastard ''Every single major male warrior''. This is a samurai/shinobi shonen manga after all.
* MisaimedFandom BigBad (The Former Crimson King, despite his Magnificent Bastardry, is referred to as Aka-chan by most of the fandom)
* TheMedic (Akari)
* MismatchedEyes Migeira in the anime
* TheMole (Yukimura)

* MyNameIsInigoMontoya (Every fight in the series goes this way. Every. Single. One)

* NamesToKnowInAnime (Excluding the big names in the anime, some other veterans do voice the manga-only characters, whether in games or drama [=CDs=]. Examples include NorioWakamoto as Bontenmaru, Kotono Mitsuishi as Akari, [[CodeGeass Jun Fukuyama]] as the Sendai Aka no Ou, aka the former Crimson King. And you thought Lelouch was a PlayingAgainstType character for Fukuyama...)
* ObfuscatingStupidity (Hotaru is a good example, but the real winner is [[spoiler:the Former Crimson King, who acts like a nearsighted buffoon who's BlindWithoutEm. Tokito, who got taken in by the facade, actually starts plotting to overthrow him until the Former scared the living daylights out of her with murderous intent, showing Tokito and readers the true nature of the Former Crimson King]].)
* TheObiWan (Muramasa)
* OddFriendship (Benitora and Akira, who progress from [[WorthyOpponent Worthy Opponents]] to {{Nakama}})
* OfficialCouple (Kyo and Yuya, Kyoshiro and Sakuya)

* OneManArmy (It would be easier to list the characters who AREN'T one.)
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou Yukimura towards Kyo.
* PaintingTheFourthWall: Kyo vs. Red tiger: "can we just pretend the last 5 pages didn't happen?"
* ParentalAbandonment (Tokito and Hotaru)

* PlayingAgainstType (Megumi Ogata voices both Yukimura and Kosuke. While Yukimura sounds like her usual voice, this troper was a little surprised at how well she can do a gentle voice)

* PromotionToParent (Anna, Yuan's sister. Technically, their father isn't dead, but it's implied that he's not around often)

* QuirkyMinibossSquad (Taken to ridiculous extremes. You know they're overdoing it when even the main character gets one.)

* RedOniBlueOni (Kyo and Kyoshiro, Benitora and Akira)

* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld (All of the Mibu)
* RetiredBadass (Shihoudou, Anri, Muramasa)
* ReverseMole ([[spoiler:Kyoshiro]])

* RunningGag (Hotaru trying to move caterpillars out of the way so they don't get crushed during fights)
* SamusIsAGirl ([[spoiler:Tokito, who stops Bontenmaru's fists with three fingers and actually ''punches through him, '' despite the fact that one of his biceps is bigger around than her waist, not to mention that she completely pwns the crap out of Akira for most of their fight.]])

* SayItWithHearts (Or in Chinmei's case, glasses-wearing smiley faces)

* ScaryShinyGlasses (Inverted in that Chinmei looks his most sinister when we can see what's behind those dark lenses)

* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend (Kyo's lack of reaction whenever someone tries to taunt him about Yuya)

* ShowerOfAngst (Yuya has a few of these)

* SinisterSilhouettes (Full of them)
* SlipknotPonytail (Shinrei, during his fight with Fubuki)

* StaffChick (Akari. Except, you know)
* TheStoic (Hishigi)

* TheThingThatGoesDoink (There is one at the end of chapter 12)
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou Yukimura tells Kyo not to die, as he is the only one who gets to kill him.
* TimeToUnlockMoreTruePotential (Kyo's training with Muramasa. The TrainingFromHell is offscreen)
* TookALevelInBadass (Yukimura, Benitora)
* {{Transsexual}} (Akari, though she's played more as the WholesomeCrossdresser)

* {{Tykebomb}} (Santera and Tokito)
* UnstoppableRage (Kyo, after Nobunaga almost fatally wounds Yuya. This troper was a little freaked out)
* WalkOnWater (Shinrei)

* TheWoobie (Tons of characters, but most notably [[EstrogenBrigadeBait Yukimura]])
* WhiteHairedPrettyBoy (Eventually averted with Shinrei, Yuan, and Anthony, but played mostly straight with Fubuki)
* WholesomeCrossdresser Yukimura during the Tokugawa tournament. Everyone fell for it except Kyo.
* WholeEpisodeFlashback (Well, chapters)

* WouldntHitAGirl (Subverted, as the gentlemen of the cast have no problem hitting their female enemies)

* YouKilledMyFather (Subverted)

* AGodAmI (The vast majority of the Mibu think like this. And in truth, no one really disputes them on that)
* AllYourPowersCombined (The Former Crimson King)
* AnAesop (Played poker-face straight countless times)
* AnachronismStew (Shameless and blatant)

* AntiHero (If Kyo, who got his nickname for perpetrating mass-murder on a ridiculous scale doesn't count, then there is no such thing)

* ArtificialHumans: The ''entire'' Mibu tribe in the manga, who are revealed to actually be the Battle Dolls of the True Mibu. [[spoiler: Except Kyo, the last of The True Mibu. Flipped in the manga, where it's only Kyo who's The Battle Doll.]]

* BackToBackBadasses (The Shiseiten's special attack. Hotaru and Shinrei also do one of these, and it comes close to a CrowningMomentOfAwesome)
** It clearly was one

* BadassNormal (Yukimura and the Ten, minus Sasuke. Bontenmaru fills this role in the Shiseiten)
* {{BFS}} (Kyo's Tenro)

* BladeRun (Sasuke has one of these early on)

* BodyguardCrush (Go ahead, try to name a single time when a Kyo [[UnstoppableRage Killing Rampage]] isn't triggered by Yuya being directly threatened)
** In the anime, it's strongly implied Saizō has a crush on Yukimura. It's not helped by Yukimura teasing him ([[spoiler: "What are you, my wife?". Then there's Saizō blushing and his comment when Yukimura disguises himself as a woman, the kimono "really suits you" indeed.]])

* BunnyEarsLawyer (Julian and Shihoudou: even Kyo admits to the latter's {{Badass}}itude)
** These two nearly cross the line into CrazyAwesome territory.
* ChekhovsGun ([[spoiler:Toward the end of the manga, Yukimura uses the kodachi that Muramasa gave Yuya to kill Chinmei.]]

* TheChick (Yuya)
* ChildrenAreInnocent (Subverted with every character shown as a child except Yuya and flashback Tokito)

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}} (Hotaru. It may just be ObfuscatingStupidity, as he proves many times that he's smarter than he seems)
* CombatCommentator (Akira and Bon serve as this at turns for Yuya. Averted in the Akira-Tokito fight, as Yuya isn't around for that one)

* ConservationOfNinjitsu (Both played straight and inverted)
* ContractualImmortality (Can anyone name a non-villain who died at the end of the series? Sure, everyone gets badly beaten up, but...)
* CooldownHug (Played straight during Kyo's SuperPowerMeltdown: Yuya runs through the mess he's making to bring him back)
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass (Kyoshiro, though it's ''really'' hidden. The Former Crimson King is more overt about it all being just ObfuscatingStupidity)
* CrowningMomentOfAwesome (Every major character gets one, or several)
* CrowningMomentOfFunny (See the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hSGQmsooTY bloopers]] of the English dub on YouTube. DanGreen has one you need to hear to believe, at around 3:40:)
--> First thing I'm going to do is get laid, then I'm gonna get laid again, then do some crack and get laid some more. Because that's what I'm all about, getting fucked.
* CuteBruiser (Antera)

* DepravedHomosexual Bikara ([[spoiler: what he says to Kyo during their fight: "Getting distracted by a woman while a beautiful man like me is standing in front of your eyes." and "The suffering face of a good-looking man is dreamy."]])
* DiagonalCut (Taken to its logical extreme, thanks to the RuleOfCool)

* TheDoctorDolittle (Muramasa)
* TheDragon In the manga, OdaNobunaga (In the anime, he's the Big Bad).
* {{Dojikko}} (Sakuya)
* DoppelgangerAttack (Benitora, in a rare Non-{{Ninja}} example)

* DrivenToSuicide (Hishigi, until Fubuki tells him that [[HoYay he isn't allowed to die until Fubuki says he can]])

* ElementalPowers (Subverted. Hotaru, the fire user, is calm, while the ice user, Akira, appears calm on the surface, but push a few buttons and he loses his head. Not to mention that Shinrei, the water guy, loses his cool so easily that it's kind of hilarious)
* ElementalRockPaperScissors (Averted; It's demonstrated over the course of the series that the superiority depends on the wielder, rather than the element they are using. Hotaru initially wins out against Shinrei, but only because he's using [[spoiler: His Honoo Chikewai, which gives him a huge boost of power, but can cause damage over time]], but Shinrei ultimately comes out on top because Hotaru's boost wears off. And of course, ''both'' of them get mercilessly [[CurbStompBattle curbstomped]] by [[spoiler: Fubuki.]])
* EmpathicWeapon (The Muramasa demon blades)
* EnfanteTerrible (Tokito, in the beginning)
* EstrogenBrigadeBait (Yukimura)
* EyepatchOfPower (Hishigi)

* FakeMemories ([[spoiler:Tokito]])
* TheFogOfAges ([[spoiler:Chinmei]])
* TheFourGods (Kyo's sword techniques)
* FourIsDeath (The Shiseiten are frequently described as being gods of death. The Taishiro are possibly even more lethal)
* GentleGiant (Bontenmaru. Sure, he has the whole "god of war" thing going on, complete with a berserker mode and everything, but he has a soft spot--not like that--for little girls, even ones that punch holes in him and torture him; and Akari reveals that he [[AnachronismStew likes shoujo manga]]). As for Bontenmaru's reason for taking over the entirety of Japan? He wants to take it over so people can live their lives in peace.
* GoodScarsEvilScars (Subverted with Yuya, who has a hideous scar on her stomach)

** Played straight with Hishigi, who is covered in rather disgusting scars ([[spoiler: after the Devil Eyes that were keeping him alive die]])

* GunsAreWorthless (Yuya)

* HeWhoMustNotBeSeen ([[TheFaceless Sakuya]] spends 32 volumes hidden behind her bangs, and the manga-ka is fond of "lighting" characters whose faces we aren't to see yet from the back, or putting them in elaborate, face-covering costumes)

* HighSchoolAU (The author wrote one as an extra in the fanbook, and liked it so much that s/he wrote two "Samurai High School" drama [=CDs=])

* HomageShot (The manga opens with a lay-out and narration content ridiculously reminiscent of the first page of RurouniKenshin, which was still running at the time. The series probably originated as an attempt to cash in on [[FanNickname Ruro Ken's]] popularity as historical drama with legendary swordsman incognito, but found its own very weird voice pretty quickly.)

* HoYay (Oh, where do I start...?)

* HugeGuyTinyGirl (Bontenmaru and [[spoiler:Tokito]]. She can ride around on his shoulder)
* [[ImAHumanitarian I'm A Humanitarian]]

* ImportantHaircut (Okuni)
* ImplausibleFencingPowers (To the nth degree. Apparently, a sword stroke from Kyo has enough power to give truckload of high explosives a run for its money)

* IncurableCoughOfDeath (The Death Disease)
* InLoveWithYourCarnage (Izumo no Okuni is this way for Demon Eyes Kyo.)
* JekyllAndHyde - Kyo and Kyoshiro: subverted in the manga, played straight in the anime [[spoiler: In the AlternateUniverse of the anime, Devil Eyes Kyo is actually the Id of Kyoshiro which he split from himself and placed in an ArtificialHuman body; they later reunite in their original body after Kyoshiro defeats Kyo, but this time as split personalities.]]

* KickTheDog (Every minor villain that the heroes have to kill off has one of these moments. Every single one)

* {{Nakamania}} (Gratuitous)

* LucaBrasiSleepsWithTheFishes