Death Seeker: She's fighting because SOMEONE HAS TO, not because she actually wants to. It makes it very difficult for Sword and Ouka to deal with her.
Fashionable Asymmetry: About half her outfits, she pulls this even in a Prisoner-Uniform
Hand Cannon: Senryu does damage even without magic.
Handicapped Badass: While her arm DID grow back after the battle, losing it didn't slow her down in the least.
Helpless Good Side: Subverted. Despite all that she does, her love of humanity is so great the gods themselves think it's godlike and make it the goddess of mercy. So while Shirohime may be Kurohime's love and kindness personified, when they are split, she's the one left with the powers.
Powered by a Forsaken Child: The Black God Tree ever present on her. It feeds on the rage of the people she's killed. Implied to be the reason why she can't willingly stop fighting; if she does, it means they all died for nothing.
Zero Approval Gambit: Developed the personality of a stone-cold bitch and warmonger so that humanity would focus on that rather than attaining godhood.
Back from the Dead: Twice. The first time is involuntary, as it's a side effect of Asura's time reversal scheme. The second time occurs after she commits suicide in Zero's arms; however, she's effectively a Black God Tree skeleton.
Earn Your Happy Ending: Yamatohime's power purifies the Black God Tree and those absorbed within it, Kurohime is able to resurrect those people, Zero and the rest of her Nakama live and the human race lives to see a few more billion years. This comes at the expense of the planet, Yamatohime... and Yashahime. Win some, lose the rest.
Healing Hands: The most common bullet she uses is the Healing Bullet.
Lack of Empathy: Early on in the story, genuinely. It became a god.
Laser-Guided Amnesia: In the first arc, as a result of losing her ability to love, she can't recall just why she hates the gods. In the current arc, her memories act as a self-inflicted curse, since the pain of losing Zero keeps her from using her full potential. If she loses her final memory of Zero, she will become Kurohime for good.
A good-hearted young man with fast hands and a strong sense of idealism and justice. Kurohime saved his life as a child, and he dedicated himself to fighting for justice afterwards.
Badass Normal: Keeps abreast of Kurohime thanks to his incredibly itchy trigger fingers.
Bishōnen: Very much so, especially after becoming the next Death God.
Face Heel Turn: When Yashahime transforms him into the Death God. Does a Heel Face Turn once Himeko manages to convince him of her love again, though it costs her her life.
Heroic BSOD: He began showing signs of it in chapter 76. It finally hits in 79 after Hime dies trying to convince of his worth to her.
Love Hurts: Oh yes. All of his pain and suffering can be traced to either love of his family or love of Kurohime.
Love Redeems: After Himeko willingly commits suicide in his arms, he is able to believe in love again, and rejects the powers of the Death God entirely.
Manipulative Bastard: Temporarily brings his better nature to the surface to make Kurohime flinch in impaling him. You Monster!.
Pure Is Not Good: Himeko cites this as the reason Zero wants to end the world. He is a problem solver and an innocent, seeing the world in black and white. By his logic, if humans cause the world's strife and the world is going down in flames in some thousand years anyway, why not just cut out the middleman and put the world out of its misery now?
Shallow Love Interest: Lampshaded in comic by Himeko herself when she realizes that next to his being in love with her and her with him, she knows nothing about him.
The Atoner: "Zero" took on his brother's name in order to make up for the part that his own anger and irresponsibility played in the real Zero's death.
Because Destiny Says So: Her fate is to complete Yamato Senryuuto. She's NOT pleased with this plan at first, but thanks to The Power of Friendship and her mother's apology, she comes to realize that she was the only one that was devaluing her life.
Defrosting Ice Queen: Her opinion of humans raises over the course of the series, to the point she is willing to risk her life saving one. It did drop again for a short time, but she was able to reconcile her views once she got a hold of herself again.
Heroic Sacrifice: She convinces the Spirit Kings to send her consciousness back in time and takes the bullet that Himeko refused to shoot at her, completing the Ultimate Blade.
Half-Human Hybrid: According to the elder of Asura's village, Asura is actually a human "blessed" with the power of Yamatohime. This is why she can serve as Yamatohime's sacrifice for the Yamato Senryuuto.
The former leader of the Onimaru Brigade and Kurohime's former Dragon. Was betrayed by her and branded with the kanji for "dog." Has sworn vengence on her but funnily enough is still attracted to her. Sword attempted to turn him into a snake minion, but his willpower enabled him to resist the change, causing him to turn into Tsucchi, a small, mute, lizard-like...thing.
What the Hell, Hero?: Points out to Shirohime that she has strayed from her path of helping humans.
Kazuma
The son of the shogun of Oedo. Decides to assist Hime and Asura in their quest to free the Spirit Kings after they save him from mermaids. Also in love with Hime.
Power at a Price: The gems he keeps on him drain his lifeforce for their power.
Replacement Goldfish: He looks and behaves a lot like Zero. It's implied that should Kurohime lose her final memories of Zero that she could fall for Kazuma.
Collector of the Strange: O-yuki used to collect bishounen as a hobby. Considering her own previous thoughts to do so, even Himeko comments on how creepy it is.
Sleep Mode Size: Their bodies are mostly hard-impacted snow, so after Kurohime melted them using Asura, they take the form of small children. They can Fusion Dance to take on a teenaged form of whoever's in control.
The Grim Reaper and High God. Colossal asshole. Zero takes his place after his death.
Artifact of Doom/Soul Jar: This is truly what the God Of Death is: a large dark one-eyed skull shaped core that when placed in someone's soul turns them into the Grim Reaper.
Kick Them While They Are Down: Uses the souls of the dead and the living as shields, mocks Kurohime and Zero, impales her and tells his most loyal follower to her face that her love for him means absolutely nothing to him, after impaling her as well.
The last one could count as his Moral Event Horizon since until then it was understood that gods cared about each other.
Dark Is Not Completely Evil: With the exception of going after Kurohime (who did provoke her) she never seemed interested in doing anything other than her job.
Heel Face Turn: Kind of. It remains to be seen what her grudge against Kurohime comes to, but she is willing to leave her be if Kurohime living will help solve the more IMMEDIATEproblems at the moment.
Never My Fault: As much as she has a grudge against Kurohime, alot of it was due to her own stupid actions as she decided by herself to kill Kurohime while she was in her Himeko form just because she was interfering in her work to reap souls (and this was only the second occurrence). She stubbornly refused to give up the fight when it was obvious she and her fellow angels were outmatched by Kurohime and it was Darkray that killed her friends, Kurohime didn't expect him to implale them when she made them look like her to get him to stop. Say the least her "revenge" is more of a matter of pride then anything.
Pet the Dog: Their sacrifice for Sword. Also, Lance admits that she finds Zero's affection for Himeko to be genuinely sweet... not that it changes what she plans to do to him.
Complexity Addiction: It's pointed out over and over that Yashahime could kill almost anyone who's appeared in the manga so far. Yet when faced with the prospect of doing just that to Kurohime, she has to devise some sort of scheme and draw it out, which ends with Kurohime either escaping or getting stronger.
Amusingly enough, the one time she decides to just kill Kurohime would have ended with her OWN death, if it wasn't for the fact that she just doesn't die.
Evil Counterpart: To Kurohime and Sword. Like them, she is an incredibly powerful woman empowered by her emotions. While the former is motivated by love of humanity and later Zero and the latter is motivated by love of Darkray, Yashahime's real motivations are madness and love of killing.
Stabbed herself to keep her from killing Kurohime and then claiming the resulting scar is Kurohime's fault.
Claimed that the God of Death isn't supposed to be concerned about anything or anyone and then blushing because he asked if her wounds had healed.
It's All About Me: Initially, she comes into the plot because Ghandara was killed. But eventually, her revenge against Kurohime becomes less to avenge Darkray and more Kurohime took her favorite stalkee away from her and HOW DARE SHE. Even with The End of the World as We Know It going on, she still doesn't see much outside of "Kill Kurohime for killing Darkray."
Satellite Character: Take away her love of Darkray and she's a just violent maniac with way too much time on her hands. Not that she isn't still creepy as hell.
Wrong Genre Savvy: Believes herself to be a Broken Bird trying to avenge her beloved's death. No, Yasha, the woman you're thinking of is Sword.
Also, she assumed that Dark Zero MUST want to be a High God and rule the heavens with her. After all, why else would he just destroy the world? Because he hates the world and really DOES want nothing more than to watch it burn.
Yamato Nadeshiko: She looks the part with the kimono and katana and sometimes even acts the part with a polite and calm demeanor, but she's actually a cruel and jealous bitch.
Yandere / Cute and Psycho: Not necessarily a most triumphant example, but very much textbook; she would have murdered Sword just because Sword was standing next to Darkray when he turned down Yashahime's offer to spend time together.
Heel Face Turn: In a similar vein to Sword. As Ouka sees it though, nothing they could do to Kurohime could be worse than what she's doing to herself, which generally takes the wind out of revenge's sails.
Stable Time Loop/You Can't Fight Fate: When Ouka tries to save her father from dying in the past, he attacks her and her witch-beast kills him in her defense. In front of her younger self's eyes.
Clingy Jealous Girl: Despite knowing Saika wasn't genuinely interested in Kurohime, Aika castrates him and joins the Squad to kill Kurohime.
Disabled Love Interest: Aika is blind. She was often accosted and attacked because of it. Saika counts this as a plus since she will love him no matter what he looks like.
One-Winged Angel: Apparently all Death Gods must be male, as the Materen decide to turn Saika into a Shinigami in the Past Arc. Kurohime and co. manage to turn him back though.
Tsundere/Yandere: Aika is normally rather polite and well-behaved. However, she won't tolerate any cheating and her response to the "other woman" is to kill her.
Meaningful Name: "Rei," which means "soul." However, Rei can also mean "zero", which is a nice bit of foreshadowing.
Please Don't Leave Me: His mother's soul. And later, when Hime returns to bring him his iconic scarf. An even bigger Tear Jerker because this is the moment that Hime (and the reader) realizes that after she leaves him this time, Rei will be alone for the next ten years.He brings it up the next time he sees her.
Zero and Rei's foster father, after their mother died. The greedy leader of the Wolf Brigade.
The Atoner: After he is killed, he becomes Kandata, the ferryman of the Styx, to try and figure out why Rei spared him. In the process, he makes up for his misdeeds by helping out Himeko and the others, not only at the river Styx but also by turning back time to let Himeko get a second shot at saving Rei.
Big Damn Heroes: Made an ark out of his and Kairyu's bones to help save the last living humans.
My God, What Have I Done?: After death, it finally hits him how horrible a person he was, especially when Rei admits to him (as Kandata) that as horrible as Doc was, there was still something likable in him.
The Power of Love: Himeko cites this as the reason why Rei spared him. Even as horrible as he was, he was still counted as a father figure to Rei, if only because Rei and Zero never KNEW their REAL father. Yup, Doc won simply by default.
Too Dumb to Live: It's easy to count on one hand the things in the Past arc that aren't his fault.
Raida
A member of the Wolf Brigade alongside Doc, Rei and Zero.
Asskicking Equals Authority: Yamatohime. While it's doubtful we'll ever see them take on the gods, this trope still seems to be in effect, since the spirit the gods are the most afraid of escaping is Yamatohime and it seems everyone defers to her.
