History YMMV / HoushinEngi

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* AngstWhatAngst - Taikoubou rarely angsts seriously or for very long
* CompleteMonster: Ryogaku injects the heroes with a virus in order to make them surrender. By their next fight, he has a monster experiment try to kill Nataku's father with his mother inside its belly in order to prevent attacks. The monster is actually [[spoiler: his own son, Bagen]], who he made into a mindless monster by falsely assuring that [[spoiler:Bagen]] would be made stronger. Ryogaku shows no concern when [[spoiler:Bagen’s dying]].
* EnsembleDarkhorse: Chokomei is so over the top, he could not be more noticeable.
** Judging by the amount of fanart dedicated to her, Kinkouseiba also counts.
* MoralEventHorizon: Dakki in the anime crosses it when [[spoiler: she turns Zhou into a monster and has him kill the entire population of Yin ForTheEvulz]]
* NightmareFuel - [[spoiler:Dakki and Kibi making Hakuyūkō into hamburgers (in cooking show format, no less) and then feeding him to his own father.]] This becomes a plot point when [[spoiler: Ki Shou eventually dies of malnourishment after he refuses to eat anything after that incident]].
** Also a shot of her eating the flesh of corpses of the snake pit victims, looking like she was in ecstasy.
** Dakki's torture devices, such as the Houraku.
** Although played for comedy, the talking sword can feel pain. Think about it.
** Bagen the human paopei's appearance will give you nightmares.
** Zhou's enhanced appearance, unlike the manga where it was a rock gorilla, is a demonic looking monster completely mindless
** Jyoka has been shaping the world according to her wishes and mercilessly destroying it every time something goes in a slightly different direction. And she has been doing it for ''millions of years.''
* TearJerker- Despite being a light hearted story with plenty of comedy,the entire second half of Houshin Engi fits this trope.
* WhatAnIdiot: Kishou gives his youngest son Raishinshi to a sennin who shows up from nowhere and of whom he knows nothing about. The aforementioned sennin proves to be an abusive MadScientist who puts young Raishinshi through hell and practically imprisons him in the floating sennin world, cutting off any means of escape or contact with his family and ultimately feeds him a fruit which changes his biological makeup, causing him to grow fangs and wings. Raishinshi escapes, but is so ashamed of his new body that he feels he cannot return home like that.
** So Go, the real Dakki's father, leaves his rather plain daughter with the "palace beauticians" (Kijin and Kibi in disguise). After the fox sennyo possesses So Dakki's body, the girl becomes completely unrecognizable. So Go marvels at the transformation, but ends up actually believing that a woman who looks and acts absolutely nothing like So Dakki (even her voice is different) is in fact his daughter.
* TooCoolToLive: [[spoiler: Bunchu, Hiko, most of the 12 Elite Sennin, Tsuten Kyoshu, Hakuyuko, Cho Komei Tenko and Ki Sho]], basically anyone who overshadows Taikobou as a hero.
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* CompleteMonster: Ryogaku, the first thing he does is inject the heroes with a virus in order to make them surrender, but he really crosses into this by their next fight, when he has a monster experiment try to kill Nataku's father with his mother inside its belly in order to prevent attacks. The kicker, [[spoiler: the monster is actually his own son, Bagen, who he made into a mindless monster in the false assurance that he'd be made stronger and shows no concern when he's dying]]. He gets one of a KarmicDeath from his own monster who squashes him like a bug.

** Ryukan, a {{Yandere}} with a unhealthy fixation to Sengyoku, stalking her in the bathroom and such, but then we learn '''he sicced a phoenix to chase her around''' causing her phobia of birds when she refused him which is played straight and [[TakingYouWithMe tried to do a double suicide]] when outmatched by Ryukitsu, but it's the psychological trauma that stands out.
** Dakki in the anime at least, having no justifications for her disturbing acts other than ForTheEvulz, understandably she gets a KarmicDeath by the end of the series

* Zhou's enhanced appearance, unlike the manga where it was a rock gorilla, is a demonic looking monster completely mindless

* TooCoolToLive: [[spoiler: Bunchu, Hiko, most of the 12 Elite Sennin, Tsuten Kyoshu, Hakuyuko, Cho Komei and Ki Sho]], basically anyone who overshadows Taikobou as a hero.

* CompleteMonster: Ryogaku, the first thing he does is inject the heroes with a virus in order to make them surrender, but he really crosses into this by their next fight, when he has a monster experiment try to kill Nataku's father with his mother inside its belly in order to prevent attacks. The kicker, [[spoiler: the monster is actually his own son, Bagin, who he made into a mindless monster in the false assurance that he'd be made stronger and shows no concern when he's dying]]. He gets one of a KarmicDeath from his own monster who squashes him like a bug.

** Bagen the human paopei will give you nightmares.

** Although played for comedy, the talking sword can feel pain. Think about it..

* TooCoolToLive: [[spoiler: Bunchu, Hiko, most of the 12 Elite Sennin, Tsuten Kyoshu, Hakuyo, Cho Komei and Ki Sho]], basically anyone who overshadows Taikobou as a hero.

** So Go, the real Dakki's father, leaves his rather plain daughter with the "palace beauticians" (Kijin and Kibi in disguise). After the sennyo possesses So Dakki's body, the girl becomes completely unrecognizable. So Go marvels at the transformation, but ends up actually believing that a woman who looks and acts absolutely nothing like So Dakki (even her voice is different) is in fact his daughter.

* TooCoolToLive: [[spoiler: Bunchu, Hiko, most of the 12 Elite Sennin, Tsuten Kyoshu, Hakuyo, Cho Komei and Ki Sho]], basically anyone that overshadows Taikobou as a hero

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Chokomei is so over the top. He could not be more noticeable.

** Also a shot of her eating the flesh of corpses of the snake pit victims, looking like she was ecstasy

** Ryukan, a {{Yandere}} with a unhealthy fixation to Sengyoku, stalking her in the bathroom and such, but then we learn '''he sicced a phoenix to chase her around''' causing her phobia of birds when she refused him which is played straight and [[[TakingYouWithMe tried to a double suicide]] when outmatched by Ryukitsu outmatched him, but it's the psychological trauma that stands out.

** Ryukan, a {{Yandere}] with a unhealthy fixation to Sengyoku, stalking her in the bathroom and such, but then we learn '''he sicced a phoenix to chase her around''' causing her phobia of birds when she refused him which is played straight and [[[TakingYouWithMe tried to a double suicide]] when outmatched by Ryukitsu outmatched him, but it's the psychological trauma that stands out.

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel - [[spoiler:Dakki and Kibi making Hakuyūkō into hamburgers (in cooking show format, no less) and then feeding him to his own father.]] This becomes a plot point when [[spoiler: Ki Shou eventually dies of malnourishment after he refuses to eat anything after that incident]].

* TearJerker- Despite being a light hearted story with plenty of comedy,the entire second half of Houshin Engi fits this trope.

** Although played for comedy, the talking sword can feel pain. Think about it..