Manga / Kagetora

A Ninja and his master.

In modern day Japan, Kagetora is a young ninja with a "duty". His current master offers a new duty, something he is not familiar with at all. Instead, of the usual bodyguard duty, he is the martial arts instructor of his master's daughter, Yuki. Being both her protector and instructor, Kagetora trains the "Hime" Yuki. Unfortunately, for Kagetora Yuki is not only cute but also very inept at martial arts. Nevertheless Kagetora decides to complete his duty, despite her distractions. Very early on in the series, Kagetora falls in love with Yuki. Of course, this is a problem.

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Kagetora provides examples of:

• A-Cup Angst: Yuki seems to be jealous of Sakuya's....assets.
• Abandoned Hospital: Chapter 6 has the main cast go to explore a haunted abandoned hospital.
• Accidental Pervert: Kagetora, in the very first volume stumbles upon both Yuki and Akino in a bath...
• Action Mom: Yuki's mother is actually very skilled with weapons.
• Affectionate Gesture to the Head: Yuki pat Kagetora's head once.
• Affectionate Nickname: Sakuya calls Kagetora "Tora".
• Aloof Older Brother: Kagetora's older brother, Shiroumaru, is more skilled than Kagetora at everything.
• Amusement Park: Quite a few chapters take place here.
• Art Evolution
• Babies Ever After: The final chapter shows Kagetora and Yuki's children.
• Badass Adorable: Yuki, Sakuya, and even Kosuke.
• Battle Harem: Most of the girls in Kagetora's harem are basically Action Girls.
• Beach Episode: In the third chapter of the first volume, the main cast go to have fun at the beach.

• Beware the Nice Ones:
  • Taka is revealed to have wished for a decisive kill on Tanabata.
  • He also seems to have punished Kagetora so much it gives him shivers.
  • There's also Sakuya, a pleasant girl that happens to have a huge Berserk Button when it comes to other girls with Kagetora.
• Big Brother Worship: Natsume secretly thinks of Kagetora as an older brother, whom she respects.
• Black Comedy Rape: Quite possibly. Satsuki is always using blow darts to try and knock Kagetora unconscious....
• Blatant Lies: Kagetora is not very skilled at hiding his feelings...
• Bodyguard Crush: Kagetora's first excuse for staying near Yuki is that he's her Ninja bodyguard.
• Bonding over Missing Parents: It's revealed that Kagetora and Kosuke both lost their mothers and feel a bond between each other because of it.

• Bratty Half-Pint: Natsume, a girl who always challenges Kagetora to fights and loves playing pranks.
• Brutal Honesty: When Yuki gets angry with Kagetora she's pretty blunt about their relationship.
• Calling Your Attacks: Hurai style! + Attack name. Parodied when Kosuke actually does this.
  Hurai Style: Monkey Punch!
• Can't Act Perverted Toward a Love Interest: Kagetora resists acting on most of his thoughts about Yuki and usually makes them go away. Or Kosuke slaps them away.
• Can't Hold Her Liquor: Yuki can get drunk from the smallest amounts of alcohol. Kagetora on the other hand, averts this.
• Censor Steam: The whole manga would end up being Seinen or Hentai without it, considering all the bathing scenes.
• Character Focus: Akino gets a few and the same goes for Sakuya.

• Childhood Friend Romance: Kagetora and Sakuya grew up in the same village. Sakuya is in love with him, but he doesn't reciprocate.
• Childhood Friends: Yuki and Akino have been friends since childhood.
• Childhood Marriage Promise: Kagetora to Sakuya.

• Clingy Jealous Girl: Most of Kagetora's harem tend to get very jealous. Even Yuki eventually becomes this, she even becomes a verbal type B Tsundere because of this.
• Clothing Damage: Happens when Sakuya's wind ninjutsu only cuts up bathing suit tops...
• Clueless Chick-Magnet: Kagetora. Most of the time if a girl isn't flat out forward and confesses to him, he doesn't know her feelings. Possibly justified though, since he lived in a ninja village most of his life.
• Comically Missing the Point: Satsuki doesn't understand that Kagetora was calling Yuki a princess.
• Creepy Monotone: Yuki apparently in one of her Tsundere moments.
• Crush Blush:
  • Happens very often to Kagetora towards Yuki.
  • Satsuki gets this when Kagetora is around.

• Diving Save: Kagetora and Yuki first meet when he saves her from getting run over by a truck.
• Does This Remind You of Anything?:
  • The title of a Christmas chapter is A Christmas Virgin. It just so happens Yuki is also wearing a rather revealing Sexy Santa Dress.
  • In one chapter Kagetora's shirt gets tea on it, and Satsuki tries to tear his shirt off, and what's Yuki's reaction? "Let me help!" While pulling his shirt.
  • Also Yuki's outfit looks rather soaked...
• Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male: Akino often beats or attempts to heavily injure Kagetora multiple times. Kagetora simply runs or away or uses a Ninja Log to escape from her.
• Drunken Master: Yuki. The smallest bit of alcohol makes her this to the point that Kagetora has trouble restraining her.
• Emotion Suppression: Most of the plot revolves around the fact that Kagetora tries very to not look at Yuki, but sometimes he can't help it.
• Emotionally Tongue-Tied: Kagetora tends to stutter fairly often when flustered.
• Even the Girls Want Her: Yuki. Sakuya seems to enjoy poking her, and Akino's friendship towards her can come off as a crush.
• Everyone Can See It: Nearly everyone can tell Kagetora is in love with Yuki. The only problem is Yuki doesn't know his feelings for her and he doesn't realise that she loves him.
• Fanservice: A good amount from Yuki, Akino, and Sakuya thanks to lots of indoor and outdoor bathing scenes.

• Friend Versus Lover: Akino versus Kagetora. The fight is over Yuki.

• Genki Girl: Yuki when she's not sad.
• Girls Stare at Scenery, Boys Stare at Girls: Yuki admires the fireworks while Kagetora can only think about how cute Yuki is.
• The Glomp: In the first volume Kagetora does this to Yuki.
• Go Through Me: The main reason Satsuki manages to hold off Sakuya is because of all her bodyguards protecting her.
• Happily Ever After: The series ends with Kagetora and Yuki getting married and having children together.
• Harem Genre: The series introduces a new girl that almost always falls in love with Kagetora every few chapters.

• I Didn't Mean to Turn You On: Yuki to Kagetora very often.
• I'm Taking Him Home with Me!: Satsuki does this to Kagetora.

• Idiots Cannot Catch Colds: Kosuke claims Kagetora can't be sick because of this.
• Inner Monologue: Kagetora has this but his thoughts are usually interrupted by Yuki.
• Inconvenient Attraction: A recurring struggle Kagetora has to face is his growing feelings for Yuki and how troublesome it's for him, since falling in love with his master is a betrayal of his duty as a ninja.
• Instant Sedation: When Satsuki shoots a Tranquillizer Dart at Kagetora and misses, a male student is seen instantly unconscious.
• Kaleidoscope Hair: The author can't seem to decide what color Yuki's hair should be on covers.
• Lady and Knight: Yuki and Kagetora.
• Lampshade Hanging:
  • Kosuke is a master at these.
  • Yuki: You're really popular aren't you, Kagetora?
  • Kagetora's monologue: For some reason, Hime is extraordinarily clumsy.
• Leave Me Alone!: Yuki says this Kagetora when she wants to get stronger by herself.
• Legacy of Service: The duty of the Fuurai clan is to protect the head of the Toudou family from the shadows.
• Love at First Sight: Reiziien to Kagetora.

• Luminescent Blush:
  • Kagetora, Yuki, and even Akino get these.
  • Satsuki is always blushing near Kagetora.
• Made a Slave: Satsuki believes Kagetora is unable to even speak his mind in front of Yuki. She's wrong.
• Male Gaze: Most of the Fanservice is targeted towards males, which reminds you it's actually considered Shounen.
• Marshmallow Hell:
  • Yuki does this unintentionally to Kagetora.
  • Sakuya also does this, once again, not on purpose.
• Meido: Yuki while cleaning Kagetora's house.
• Mistress and Servant Boy: Subverted. Most people in-universe mistake Yuki and Kagetora's relationship as this.

• Ms. Fanservice: Yuki, Akino, and Sakuya each supply a healthy dose of fanservice.
• Mundane Made Awesome: Sakuya decides to cut vegetables with a kunai.
• New Year, Same Class: Played with. Although they do change class, the same characters are together.

• No Sense of Personal Space: Yuki gets very close to Kagetora's face often.
• No Guy Wants to Be Chased: As Kagetora puts it, "Instead of being liked, it's like I'm being hunted."
• Non-Human Sidekick: Kosuke is a monkey.
• Nosebleed: Subverted very much. Since these are non existent in the manga the males end up blushing much more often than the girls.

• Oh, Crap!:
  • When Kagetora realizes Kosuke bought a semi alcoholic drink and Yuki drank some.
  • In the Christmas chapter Yuki's face looks like this when she thinks Kagetora went through all the trouble to get Sakuya a present.
• Oblivious to Love: Yuki and Kagetora are this. It takes practically the whole series for Yuki to realize Kagetora's feelings. Once she does it takes time for Kagetora to recognize her feelings. In one chapter Kagetora simply shrugs off Yuki's actions and attempts to rationalize them. As it turns out he was right.
• Official Couple: Kagetora and Yuki.
• Ojou:
  • Satsuki has enough money to hire a butler, and bodyguards.
  • Subverted with Yuki.
• Older Than They Look: Yuki's age is questioned by Kagetora, and even after the Time Skip nearly every character becomes this since they look exactly the same.
• Otaku: Issei is a ninja otaku. The scene that displays Issei's ninja tools says it all. It's even said by Kagetora.
• Patient Childhood Love Interest: Sakuya has been pretty much in love with Kagetora forever.
• Pervert Revenge Mode: Akino to Kagetora.
• Playboy Bunny: Both Yuki and Sakuya dress up as this.
• Poor Communication Kills: Most of the plot is because Kagetora Cannot Spit It Out and neither can Yuki.
• Pre-Meeting: Kagetora first bumps into Yuki when he saves her from getting run over by a truck. Later, he goes to her family dojo and finds out she's the heir of the Toudou family he must protect and teach martial arts to.
• Pretty Boy: Kagetora's older brother Taka is considered very pretty. As the other characters put it, he "takes after his mother".
• Primal Fear: Yuki is afraid of heights and Kagetora is very afraid of ghosts.
• Protagonist Title: The manga is named after its main character.

• Rescue Romance: How Satsuki falls in love with Kagetora.
• The Rival:
  • Yuki and Satsuki have a rivalry.
  • Kagetora and Akino also count.
  • The same goes for Sakuya and Yuki.
• Santa Claus: Or as Yuki calls him: Santa-san.
• Security Cling: Yuki to Kagetora, mostly only on the covers.

• The Scream: When Yuki goes on a roller coaster despite her fear of them.
• Selective Obliviousness: Satsuki refuses to believe Kagetora doesn't want to date her. Most of her theories end up becoming illogical attempts to justify his actions.
• She Is Not My Girlfriend:
  • Kagetora denies his feelings because he feels it's not right for a ninja to feel that way towards his master.
  • Yuki also does this to Kagetora when she's upset.
• Sick Episode: Quite a few.
• Single-Target Sexuality: Kagetora seems to be Yuki-sexual for the most part.
• Smoke Out:
  • Used by Kagetora to hide Yuki when her bikini top comes off.
  • Used again by Natsume.
• Snarky Non-Human Sidekick: Kosuke is this minus the sociopath part. He's always pointing everything out.
• Stalker with a Crush: Reizeiin Satsuki to Kagetora. She claims to have done research on him after only meeting him once.
• Stealth Hi/Bye: The series practically runs on this. Yuki does this all the time to Kagetora of all people, to the point that you'd think she is the Ninja. Possibly because Kagetora is constantly talking to himself. Sakuya is probably even more skilled at this, since she manages to sneak behind him even on guard.
• Stringy-Haired Ghost Girl: One appears in the haunted hospital chapter.
• Sugar-and-Ice Personality: Kiritani usually acts cold and somewhat cruel, yet occasionally shows a warmer side.
• Supporting Harem: It's very obvious the One True Love in Kagetora's life is Yuki. A new girl who falls in love with Kagetora is introduced nearly every chapter, but they're often Put on a Bus so the manga doesn't have to keep reminding us they don't have a chance.
• Teacher/Student Romance: Technically Kagetora is Yuki's teacher. Her mother assigned Kagetora the duty to teach Yuki martial arts.
• Thinking Out Loud: Kagetora does this all the time. Usually right before Yuki sneaks up on him.
• Threesome Subtext: Yuki and Satsuki have a rather strange scene with Kagetora where he gets tea spilled on him and both of them try and tear his shirt off.
• Tiger Versus Dragon: When they start fighting over which of them has the right to protect Yuki, Kagetora and Akino have a tiger and dragon Animal Battle Auras behind them respectively.
• Token Mini-Moe: Yuki.
• Tranquilizer Dart: Satsuki's weapon when attempting to capture Kagetora.
• Tsundere: Yuki may also count as a non-violent Type B. A kind, sweet girl, but when Kagetora shows no interest in her he gets the cold shoulder.
• Twice Shy: Yuki and Kagetora could've resolved most of the plot much quicker if they weren't this.
• Unwanted Harem: Unfortunately, Kagetora attracts a few girls, a stalker, and quite a few clingy girls.
• Uptown Girl: Yuki is the daughter is the prestigious Toudou family. She falls in love with Kagetora, who is a member of a ninja clan with the duty to serve and protect her family.
• Verbal Tic: Kagetora says "Fuu" fairly often.
• World of Action Girls: You've got Sakuya, Natsume, Akino, and eventually Yuki.
• Yamato Nadeshiko: Kagetora imagines Yuki this way, but boy was he wrong. Played straight with her mother, though.

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