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->''SACRIFICE FOR THE REPOSE OF SOULS''
->''THIRTEEN''
->''MAIDENS''

Written by Taida Kikuhiko and illustrated Hanao Sutaro, ''Bloody Maiden: Juusanki no Shima'' is a horror manga which was serialized in ''Dragon Age'' from 2010 to 2012 and compiled into two volumes.

It is the 16th century. A group of bandits known as the Kidoshu wander Japan, plundering and storing their vast treasures on Toomariki Island. However, they don’t escape the law for long, and eventually are caught, crucified, and burned alive. Over time, their legend fades, leaving the island and the museum on it as the only monument to them.

Flash forward a few centuries. Onitsuka Miaki and Koizumi Suzuka, along with the ten other girls in their naginata club and their advisor, go to Toomarimiki for a retreat to hone their skills. However, the gruesome past of the island rapidly catches up, and as one after another gets brutally offed, they have to band together to find who the killer is, and fast.

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!!Provides Examples Of:
* {{Action Girl}}s: With a naginata club, one would expect this trope to be in the cards, [[SubvertedTrope but not so much]]. [[spoiler: Some of the girls do try and manage to pull off a fight before getting killed.]]
* {{Action Survivor}}s: [[spoiler: [[FinalGirl Miaki]], Koizumi, and Yuri are the only survivors.]]
* ACupAngst: Kaizawa. The others don’t fail to bring this up.
* AmbiguouslyGay: Miaki has a very flirty relationship with Koizumi, and also asks [[TeamMom Risa]] to marry her in an early chapter. How much of this is playful teasing as opposed to genuine feelings is unknown.
* AnyoneCanDie
* {{Blackmail}}: [[spoiler: Kotone is revealed to be a victim of this in Chapter 10.]]
* BigEater: Suzuka. She devours almost all of Risa’s rice and immediately asks for seconds.
* BittersweetEnding: In typical slasher fashion. [[spoiler: All but three of the girls are dead by the end of the manga.]]
* BlamingTheVictim: Kaizawa's response to [[spoiler: Kotone revealing her sexual relationship with a man far older than herself, and that he took and [[{{Blackmail}} threatened to release]] explicit photos of her if she didn't bring her club to the island to be killed,]] is to blame her and [[MisplacedRetribution threaten her]].
* BreakTheCutie: Overall, all the characters via the killer. Specifically, Miaki right after [[spoiler:seeing Risa, her big sister figure, killed and thrown off a windmill as the fifth sacrifice.]]
* BuryYourGays: [[spoiler:Hoshino and Tachibana, the second and third sacrifices. They get axed right after making out.]]
* TheCanKickedHim: [[spoiler:Imobuki, the sixth sacrifice, is killed on the toilet.]]
* ChildhoodFriends: Risa and Kotone.
* CloudCuckooLander: Suzuka, combined with GenkiGirl.
* DemonicPossession: It's implied to be why the killer’s been doing what he does.
* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler: Risa, though able to fend the killer, is slashed and falls to her death off the windmill tower. Koizumi, later on, is knocked off the cliff by the cave, but is found to be alive]] when the remaining survivors search for Kotone and Miaki.
* {{Ecchi}}
* {{Fanservice}}: Coupled heavily with FanDisservice, since many of the girls are stripped before being killed. However, Hitoe-sensei in a bikini in the first chapter is [[MaleGaze very easy on the eyes...]]
* FeminineWomenCanCook: Risa. Justified, because she has younger siblings and no mother to look after them.
* FinalGirl: Miaki is set up to be this from the very beginning, as an innocent NiceGirl and the main character. Ultimately Zig-zagged, though, as [[spoiler: Miaki is involved in the final confrontation, but doesn't kill the killer herself, nor is she the SoleSurvivor, as Koizumi and Yuri both survive too.]]
* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Miaki, Sanguine. Kaizawa, Choleric. Risa, Phlegmatic. Kotone, Melancholic.
* FuroScene
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: Imobuki. She...doesn’t take the deaths too well.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Kotone.]]
* HiddenDepths: [[spoiler: Kotone is indirectly responsible for the murders. Kaizawa does ''not'' take this well.]]
* HotBlooded: Kaizawa.
* LadyOfWar: Kotone is an confusing example; she suffers from FauxActionGirl syndrome [[spoiler:and has done some things a LadyOfWar would never do.]]
* MissingMom: Risa, whose mother had passed away.
* {{Ojou}}: Kotone Igasaki, whose parents own a major corporation. [[spoiler: Turns out she's done some things a princess wouldn't do.]]
* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler: Chapters 7-9 is a rather complicated example.]]
* OffWithHerHead: [[spoiler: Kaizawa in Chapter 10.]]
* PaedoHunt: [[spoiler: Maebara, the first killer, was in a relationship with Kotone when she was a child and took pornographic pictures of her. It's hard to feel bad for him when he dies, even if TheReveal came after the fact.]]
** [[spoiler: Tsuyoshi Arima forces a kiss onto Kotone and tries to pressure her into marriage before taking on the mantle as the killer. His KarmicDeath comes shortly after.]]
* PseudoRomanticFriendship: Miaki and Koizumi, if not [[AmbiguouslyGay more]].
** Downplayed, Miaki and Koizumi's friendships with Risa and Kotone have shades of this, but not as much as with each other.
** For that matter, Risa and Kotone have it with each other too.
* [[spoiler:{{Reincarnation}}?]]: Miaki bears a striking similarity to [[spoiler:Benihime]], with some implication of this trope.
** Ultimately subverted. [[spoiler: Miaki is revealed to be a direct descendant of Benihime as opposed to a reincarnation.]]
* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler: Risa]].
* SecretUndergroundPassage: Where it leads to, though, hasn't yet been revealed.
* SexSignalsDeath: [[spoiler:Hoshino and Tachibana are killed just after [[BuryYourGays having sex with each other]].]]
* ShoutOut: Primarily to ''Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre'', with the killer being nicknamed “Leatherface.”
** The killer’s [=MP3=] player has Music/AliceCooper and Music/IronMaiden on it, among others.
** The poem used to enumerate the deaths bears striking similarity to that in ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry''.
* SkinshipGrope: Miaki and Suzuka to Kotone and Risa, respectively.
* SixthRanger: Tsuyoshi Arima, Hitoe-sensei’s fiancé. He appears on the island after the fifth sacrifice, and is notable for being the only man among the main characters.
** Later [[spoiler: subverted when it's [[TheReveal revealed]] that Arima was never truly an ally, as he had been trying to pressure Kotone into a marriage, forcibly kissing her at one point, and then trying to kill Miaki when Kotone rejects him.]]
* SlashedThroat: [[spoiler: Yuu gets her throat cut open right in front of Risa as the fourth sacrifice.]]
* SlasherMovie: More like slasher ''manga''.
* TeamMom: Risa.
* TooDumbToLive: [[spoiler: Mochikida. She becomes the seventh sacrifice when she tries to run onto the supply boat, despite the others warning her it’s a bit too suspicious.]]
* TreasureRoom: The limestone cave, which is where Yuu finds the first pieces of gold from the bandit’s hoard and [[spoiler:the bodies of the island’s employees. The killer ends up finding her]].
* WeHardlyKnewYe: The first few sacrifices get little character development, especially [[spoiler:Hitoe-sensei, the first one.]]
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