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* MulticoloredHair: His hair is mostly blue with a few streaks of black in his front bangs. [[spoiler:That bit of black showing up in Rei's hair after the Death God is purged from Rei is the proof that "Zero" was Rei all along.]]
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* BeautyMark: She has two, one under the outside corner of each eye. [[spoiler:In keeping with the tragic life that this implies in most Japanese media, Kurohime has suffered immensely in her lifetime, growing up alone in a war-torn era that probably resulted in the deaths of everyone close to her as a child, and enduring great physical and emotional anguish to achieve her goals, only to fail miserably at the end of her first life and get split apart and effectively reincarnated against her will. As Himeko, this trend continues: she falls in love with Zero despite her curse and is only able to admit her love for him shortly before he dies, then loses most of her memories of him. She is later forced to kill one of her closest allies, realizes that she abandoned Zero ''twice'' at the lowest points of his life, and nearly dies for good trying to save Zero from the worst parts of himself.]]
* MeaningfulAppearance: She has two moles, one under the outside corner of each eye. [[spoiler:In keeping with the tragic life that this implies in most Japanese media, Kurohime has suffered immensely in her lifetime, growing up alone in a war-torn era that probably resulted in the deaths of everyone close to her as a child, and enduring great physical and emotional anguish to achieve her goals, only to fail miserably at the end of her first life and get split apart and effectively reincarnated against her will. As Himeko, this trend continues: she falls in love with Zero despite her curse and is only able to admit her love for him shortly before he dies, then loses most of her memories of him. She is later forced to kill one of her closest allies, realizes that she abandoned Zero ''twice'' at the lowest points of his life, and nearly dies for good trying to save Zero from the worst parts of himself.]]
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* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: With a [[MulticoloredHair black tuft]]. [[spoiler:That bit of black showing up in Rei's hair after the Death God is purged from Rei is the proof that "Zero" was Rei all along.]]
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* WizardBeard: Genbu's spirit form sports the long, white variant of this.
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* BadassBeard: Genbu's spirit form sports a long, white WizardBeard.
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* BrokenBird: [[spoiler:The original Kurohime's backstory isn't elaborated on, but it's implied that she was orphaned as a result of the wars and saw her fair share of bloodshed and killing as she grew up. After that, to amass the power to meet the gods and kill them, she killed ''a lot'' of people and ate their souls for strength, then ultimately betrayed her most loyal followers and the rest of the world in order to shift focus away from the contest of the gods. By the time Ouka and Sword meet Kurohime in the Past Arc, she hasn't yet begun her final push toward reaching and killing the gods, but is otherwise weighed down by the lives she's taken and the monstrous things she's done. Even after being reincarnated as Himeko, there are shades of this that return to her life, especially after Zero has died and she faces more and more difficult challenges to bring him back to life.]]
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* BrokenBird: [[spoiler:The original Kurohime's backstory isn't elaborated on, but it's implied that she was orphaned as a result of the wars and saw her fair share of bloodshed and killing as she grew up. After that, to amass the power to meet the gods and kill them, she killed ''a lot'' of people and ate their souls for strength, then ultimately betrayed her most loyal followers and the rest of the world in order to shift focus away from the contest of the gods. By the time Ouka and Sword meet Kurohime in the Past Arc, she hasn't yet begun her final push toward reaching and killing the gods, but is otherwise weighed down by the lives she's taken and the monstrous things she's done. Even after being reincarnated as Himeko, there are shades events like the deaths of this that return Zero and other people close to her life, especially after Zero has died and she faces more and more difficult challenges to bring him back to life.clearly leave their mark.]]
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* HandCannon: Senryuu, her magic gun of choice, does extreme damage even without normal bullets.
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* HandCannon: Senryuu, her magic gun of choice, does can fire both normal and magical bullets with extreme damage even without normal bullets.power and force.
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* ByronicHero: [[spoiler:She fits this mold pretty much perfectly: she's amazingly charismatic and powerful, but also extremely standoffish and distant from people with very rare exceptions. While she has the capability to be quite compassionate and does occasionally show that compassion to others, she also staunchly refuses to compromise on her goals or the methods she uses to accomplish them, no matter how much suffering it causes herself or other people, which ultimately leads to her death.]]
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* ByronicHero: [[spoiler:She fits this mold pretty much perfectly: she's amazingly charismatic and powerful, but also extremely standoffish and distant from people with very rare exceptions. most of the time. While she has the capability to can be quite compassionate compassionate, she rarely shows it to other people and does occasionally show that compassion to others, she also staunchly refuses to compromise on her goals or the methods she uses her means to accomplish achieving them, no matter how much suffering it causes to herself or other people, which others. This ultimately leads to her death.]]
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* HandicappedBadass: While her arm she lost ''DID'' grow back after the battle, losing it didn't slow her down in the least.
* HiddenHeartOfGold: [[spoiler:Her real personality is much more subdued and less cruel than her reputation suggests. When her backstory is revealed by Shirohime, it becomes evident that while she was ruthless, she still had enough compassion for the very young and for people that suffered under war; she allows a young Ouka to stab her and leave without repercussion and mourns a baby that dies during the construction of her tower to heaven. Her later conversations with an adult Ouka during the Past Arc bear this out, as she demonstrates that she is perfectly aware of how cruel she is and how much she ''hates'' the fact that she has to be to meet her goals. There's also the fact that she rescued, renamed, and gave a bit of maternal comfort to a nearly suicidal Rei.]]
* OrphansOrdeal:[[spoiler:Very heavily implied in her backstory, though not outright stated; the first time we see a young Kurohime, she is wet-eyed in front of covered-up bodies, and her parents are nowhere to be seen.]]
* HiddenHeartOfGold: [[spoiler:Her real personality is much more subdued and less cruel than her reputation suggests. When her backstory is revealed by Shirohime, it becomes evident that while she was ruthless, she still had enough compassion for the very young and for people that suffered under war; she allows a young Ouka to stab her and leave without repercussion and mourns a baby that dies during the construction of her tower to heaven. Her later conversations with an adult Ouka during the Past Arc bear this out, as she demonstrates that she is perfectly aware of how cruel she is and how much she ''hates'' the fact that she has to be to meet her goals. There's also the fact that she rescued, renamed, and gave a bit of maternal comfort to a nearly suicidal Rei.]]
* OrphansOrdeal:[[spoiler:Very heavily implied in her backstory, though not outright stated; the first time we see a young Kurohime, she is wet-eyed in front of covered-up bodies, and her parents are nowhere to be seen.]]
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* HandicappedBadass: While her the arm she lost ''DID'' grow back after the battle, losing it didn't slow her down in the least.
* HiddenHeartOfGold: [[spoiler:Her real personality is much more subdued and less cruel than her reputation suggests. When her backstory is revealed by Shirohime, it becomes evident that while she was ruthless, she still had enough compassion for the very young and forpeople that suffered under war; war victims: she allows a young Ouka to stab her and leave without repercussion repercussion, and mourns a baby that dies during the construction of her tower to heaven. Her later conversations When Ouka tells Kurohime about the future and explains how her own future self, as Himeko, fell in love with an adult Ouka during the Past Arc bear this out, as she demonstrates Zero, Kurohime takes it seriously enough that she is perfectly aware of how cruel she is rescues, renames, and how much she ''hates'' the fact that she has to be to meet her goals. There's also the fact that she rescued, renamed, and gave gives a bit of maternal comfort to a nearly suicidal Rei.Rei when she realizes he's actually the Zero that Himeko will come to fall in love with.]]
*OrphansOrdeal:[[spoiler:Very OrphansOrdeal: [[spoiler:Very heavily implied in her backstory, though not outright stated; the first time we see a young Kurohime, she is wet-eyed in front of covered-up bodies, and her parents are nowhere to be seen.]]
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* StealthMentor: To [[spoiler: Ouka in the Past Arc, albeit indirectly--by taking Ouka along with her into her battles and letting Ouka witness the price and the pain Kurohime goes through to fight, Kurohime basically proves to Ouka that chasing vengeance will only turn Ouka into another Kurohime.]]
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* StealthMentor: To [[spoiler: [[spoiler:She acts as one to Ouka in the Past Arc, albeit indirectly--by taking Ouka along with her into her battles and letting Ouka witness the price and the pain Kurohime goes through to fight, Kurohime basically proves to Ouka that chasing vengeance will only turn Ouka into another Kurohime.]]
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* WouldNotHurtAChild: [[spoiler:Her refusal to hurt young!Ouka when Ouka stabs her and her tears for an infant mortality during the building of her tower both indicate that Kurohime thinks of children as precious; this is unfortunately used against her when Darkray takes that infant's soul as a human shield during their battle 10 years before the start of the series, which allows him to get in a fatal attack with Sword.]]
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* WouldNotHurtAChild: [[spoiler:Her refusal to hurt young!Ouka when Ouka stabs her and her, her tears for an infant mortality during the building of her tower tower, deliberately taking the blame for Ouka's father dying in both the original and altered timelines, and the way she treats a young, abandoned Rei all indicate that Kurohime thinks of children as precious; this precious. This is unfortunately used against her when Darkray takes that infant's soul as a human shield during their battle 10 years before the start of the series, which allows him to get in a fatal attack with Sword.]]
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* LackOfEmpathy: Having her ability to love cursed out of her [[spoiler:and being the incarnation of one person's single-minded hatred for gods]] has completely screwed her up emotionally. Traveling with Zero eventually helps her regain it, and by the end of the manga she's become a kind-hearted young woman.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: In the first arc, as a result of losing her ability to love, she can't recall just why she hates the gods. [[spoiler:It doesn't help that she's only half of the original Kurohime, either; Shirohime kept all their original memories. Later on, Zero's death forms a psychological block on her full power, and though she no longer needs to feel love to transform into Kurohime, doing so and maintaining her uncursed form erases more memories of him in order to "heal the wound" in her heart caused by his death. This only gets worse when Dark Zero himself removes the majority of her memories himself after his revival; after that incident, pretty much all of the memories she's made from the start of the series involving him are outright gone, leaving only a strong love for him.]]
* LaserGuidedKarma: A metric-fuck-ton of it from her pre-curse life. [[spoiler:Her original self killed countless people in her quest to become a god, and the price was losing her power, being forced into a child's body, and being stripped of her memories on top of losing her ability to love AND half her personality to boot. Worse yet, not long after fully realizing love after being selfish and self-absorbed for so long, the man she loves sacrifices himself to protect her and he dies in front of her very eyes.]]
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: In the first arc, as a result of losing her ability to love, she can't recall just why she hates the gods. [[spoiler:It doesn't help that she's only half of the original Kurohime, either; Shirohime kept all their original memories. Later on, Zero's death forms a psychological block on her full power, and though she no longer needs to feel love to transform into Kurohime, doing so and maintaining her uncursed form erases more memories of him in order to "heal the wound" in her heart caused by his death. This only gets worse when Dark Zero himself removes the majority of her memories himself after his revival; after that incident, pretty much all of the memories she's made from the start of the series involving him are outright gone, leaving only a strong love for him.]]
* LaserGuidedKarma: A metric-fuck-ton of it from her pre-curse life. [[spoiler:Her original self killed countless people in her quest to become a god, and the price was losing her power, being forced into a child's body, and being stripped of her memories on top of losing her ability to love AND half her personality to boot. Worse yet, not long after fully realizing love after being selfish and self-absorbed for so long, the man she loves sacrifices himself to protect her and he dies in front of her very eyes.]]
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* LackOfEmpathy: Having her ability to love cursed out of her [[spoiler:and being the incarnation of one person's single-minded hatred for gods]] has completely screwed her up emotionally. Traveling with Zero eventually helps her regain it, her compassion, and by the end of the manga she's become a kind-hearted young woman.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: In the first arc, as a result of losing her ability to love, she can't recall just why she hates the gods. [[spoiler:It doesn't help that she's only half of the original Kurohime, either; Shirohime kept all their original memories. Later on, Zero's death forms a psychological block on her fullpower, and power: though she no longer needs to feel love to transform into Kurohime, doing so and maintaining her uncursed form erases more memories of him in order to "heal the wound" in her heart caused by his death. This death, which only gets worse when the longer she holds onto the transformation. Dark Zero himself then removes the majority of her memories himself after his revival; after that incident, pretty much all of the memories she's made from the start of the series involving him are outright gone, leaving only a strong love for him.Zero.]]
* LaserGuidedKarma: A metric-fuck-ton of it from her pre-curse life. [[spoiler:Her original self killed countless people in her quest to become a god, and the price was losing her power, being forced into a child's body, and being stripped of her memories on top of losing her ability to love AND half her personality to boot. Worse yet, not long after fully realizing love after beingselfish and self-absorbed for so long, the man she loves sacrifices himself to protect her and he dies in front of right before her very eyes.]]
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: In the first arc, as a result of losing her ability to love, she can't recall just why she hates the gods. [[spoiler:It doesn't help that she's only half of the original Kurohime, either; Shirohime kept all their original memories. Later on, Zero's death forms a psychological block on her full
* LaserGuidedKarma: A metric-fuck-ton of it from her pre-curse life. [[spoiler:Her original self killed countless people in her quest to become a god, and the price was losing her power, being forced into a child's body, and being stripped of her memories on top of losing her ability to love AND half her personality to boot. Worse yet, not long after fully realizing love after being
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* NayTheist: Though she doesn't quite remember what happened to get her cursed, Kurohime still hates the gods with a passion. When she gets a chance to fight one in her un-cursed form, she [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown beats him to death with her bare hands, laughing and grinning as she rips him apart.]] [[spoiler:This is due to being the original Kurohime's personified hatred of gods and instinctively remembering that even with her memories goene.]]
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* NayTheist: Though she doesn't quite remember what happened to get her cursed, Kurohime still hates the gods with a passion. When she gets a chance to fight one in her un-cursed form, she [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown beats him to death with her bare hands, laughing and grinning as she rips him apart.]] [[spoiler:This is due to being the original Kurohime's personified hatred of gods and instinctively remembering that even with her memories goene.gone.]]
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* PowerAtAPrice: [[spoiler:After killing Darkray and losing Zero, the only way for her to use her full power as Kurohime is to give up memories of Zero, since his death is a psychological block on her power; the longer she stays transformed, the more memories of him she loses to fuel her transformation. Once Dark Zero removes almost all her memories himself, this boosts her power by a lot, but effectively soft-locks her out of becoming Kurohime again (at least, by herself) until the very end of the manga.]]
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* PowerAtAPrice: [[spoiler:After killing Darkray and losing Zero, the only way for her to use her full power as Kurohime is to give up memories of Zero, since his death is a psychological block on her power; the power. The longer she stays transformed, the more memories of him she loses to fuel her transformation. Once transformation; once Dark Zero removes almost all her memories himself, this boosts her power by a lot, tremendously but effectively soft-locks also locks her out of becoming Kurohime again (at least, by herself) until the very end of the manga.]]
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* BadassNormal: Keeps abreast of Kurohime thanks to his incredibly itchy trigger fingers; he is capable of drawing and firing his four guns both rapidly and accruately.
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* BadassNormal: Keeps abreast of Kurohime thanks to his incredibly itchy trigger fingers; he is capable of drawing and firing his four guns both rapidly and accruately.accurately.
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* ButtMonkey: Amusing things happen to Onimaru. Often. This includes getting branded by Kurohime, getting beat up by Himeko whenever she breaks her curse long enough to regain her power, [[spoiler:getting turned into Tsucchi,]] and generally finding himself in a whole lot of trouble.
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* ButtMonkey: Amusing things happen to Onimaru. Often. This includes getting branded by Kurohime, getting beat up by Himeko whenever she breaks her curse long enough to regain her power, [[spoiler:getting turned into Tsucchi,]] a weird, mini-snake mutant,]] and generally finding himself in a whole lot of trouble.
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* HeroicWillpower: [[spoiler:He resists becoming a snake thanks to this, but turns into a weird mini snake thing instead.]]
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* HeroicWillpower: [[spoiler:He resists becoming a snake thanks to this, but turns into a weird mini snake thing instead.instead, gaining the nickname Tsucchi (from "tsuchinoko").]]
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* ThePeepingTom: He wanted to be a god so he could peep at girls.
* TheSmartGuy: He knows a lot of what's going on due to following Himeko around. [[spoiler:Too bad he can't talk by the time he does.]]
* TheSmartGuy: He knows a lot of what's going on due to following Himeko around. [[spoiler:Too bad he can't talk by the time he does.]]
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* ThePeepingTom: He wanted to be become a god in the past so that he could peep at on girls.
* TheSmartGuy: He knows a lot of what's going on due to following Himeko around. [[spoiler:Too bad he can't talk by the time hedoes.learns this stuff.]]
* TheSmartGuy: He knows a lot of what's going on due to following Himeko around. [[spoiler:Too bad he can't talk by the time he
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* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:Ultimately, she serves as one during the climax of the story in order to complete the Ultimate Sword in Yamatohime's place. By the time she does so, she's been one of the longest surviving member of Kurohime's group of friends from the early parts of the story, and the closest one that hasn't become her enemy.]]
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* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:Ultimately, she serves as one during the climax of the story story, willingly offering her life in order to complete the Ultimate Sword in Yamatohime's place. By the time she does so, dies, she's been one of the longest surviving member few remaining members of Kurohime's group of friends and allies from the early parts pre-Yamato section of the story, and the closest one she has left that hasn't become her enemy.enemy like Rei has.]]
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* VitriolicBestBuds: Develops this relationship with Kurohime over time, bickering freely with her at a moment's notice. Despite that, though, they truly become friends, enough so that [[spoiler:Asura goes back in time and sacrifices herself to make the Ultimate Sword when Kurohime initially refuses to sacrifice Asura to it.]]
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* VitriolicBestBuds: Develops this relationship with Kurohime over time, bickering freely with her at a moment's notice. Despite that, though, they truly become friends, enough so friends. [[spoiler:This reaches the point that [[spoiler:Asura goes back in time Asura's HeroicSacrifice is meant to both save the world and sacrifices herself to make the Ultimate Sword when Kurohime initially refuses to sacrifice Asura to it.revive Kurohime.]]
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* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:She dies to protect Kurohime and Zero once Onimaru (as Tsucchi) reminds her of the true meaning of compassion and determination that she lost when she became a goddess.]]
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* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:She dies to protect Kurohime and Zero once Onimaru (as Tsucchi) Tsucchi-Onimaru reminds her of the true meaning of compassion and compassionate determination that she lost when she became a goddess.]]
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* PowerNullifier: Is the one responsible for doing this to Kurohime, sealing her into Himeko's form.
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* PowerNullifier: Is the one responsible for doing this to Kurohime, sealing her into Himeko's form. [[spoiler:Her death also undoes this, allowing Himeko to use her full power as Kurohime unrestricted for her fight with Darkray.]]
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* ArtifactOfDoom: [[spoiler:What actually turned him into the Grim Reaper: a large one-eyed skull shaped core. His death to Kurohime caused the core to leave his body, and Yashahime takes possession of it and uses it to turn Zero into the Grim Reaper instead.]]
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* ArtifactOfDoom: [[spoiler:What actually turned him into the Grim Reaper: a large one-eyed skull shaped core. His death to When Kurohime killed him, it caused the core to leave his body, and Yashahime takes possession of it and uses it to turn Zero into the Grim Reaper instead.]]
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* DirtyCoward: [[spoiler:Proves himself as this twice over, first by trying to hold Zero's soul hostage when he fights Kurohime, then begging Yashahime to revive him.]]
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* DirtyCoward: [[spoiler:Proves himself as this twice over, first three times over: first, he uses the soul of a dead child as shield and hostage both when Kurohime confronts him before the start of the series, then repeats the tactic when Kurohime fights him ten years later by trying to hold Zero's soul hostage when he fights Kurohime, hostage. After his death, his weakened, shriveled spirit then begging begs Yashahime to revive him.]]
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* AmazonBrigade: The Death Angels are an all-female group, and she's the one in charge of them. They're her closest friends and TrueCompanions. [[spoiler:She creates and personally leads a second example of this with the Kurohime Punishment Squad.]]
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* AmazonBrigade: The Death Angels are an all-female group, all women, and she's the one in charge of them. They're her closest friends and TrueCompanions. [[spoiler:She creates and personally leads a second example of this with the Kurohime Punishment Squad.]]
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* AvengingTheVillain: [[spoiler:This is what motivates her to continue her grudge against Kurohime after the Death Angel Squad and Darkray both die when Kurohime decides to pick a fight with Darkray.]]
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* AvengingTheVillain: [[spoiler:This is what motivates her to continue her grudge against Kurohime after [[spoiler:After the Death Angel Squad and Darkray both die when Kurohime decides to pick a fight with Darkray.Darkray, Sword's primary driver is revenge for both Darkray and her comrades.]]
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* BrokenBird: [[spoiler:Kurohime's war against the gods brings a much more personal stake to Sword's dislike of Kurohime when it results in Darkray and the rest of the Death Angel Squad all dying in a fight with Kurohime. The trauma from this loss, coupled with Sword's projected resentment of Shirohime onto Kurohime, has left her with both a deep desire for revenge against Kurohime and a broken heart.]]
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* BrokenBird: [[spoiler:Kurohime's war against [[spoiler:Sword's life takes a sharp turn for the gods brings a much more personal stake to Sword's dislike of worse when Kurohime when it results in winds up being responsible for the deaths of both Darkray and the rest of (indirectly) the Death Angel Squad all dying in a fight with Kurohime. Squad. The trauma from this loss, these losses, coupled with Sword's projected resentment of Shirohime onto Kurohime, has left her with both a deep desire for revenge against Kurohime and Darkray cruelly mocking Sword's affection for him, leaves her with a broken heart.heart and a deep, unrelenting hatred for Kurohime.]]
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* ClingyJealousGirl: She strongly disliks how much attention Darkray spent on Shirohime. Shirohime implies that this jealousy is part of why Sword hates Kurohime so much:
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* ClingyJealousGirl: She strongly disliks how much attention Darkray spent spends on Shirohime. Shirohime, and Shirohime implies that this jealousy is part of why Sword hates Kurohime so much:has a grudge against Kurohime:
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* TrueCompanions: The Death Angels [[spoiler:and the Kurohime Punishment Squad]] are this for her.
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* TrueCompanions: The Death Angels [[spoiler:and the Kurohime Punishment Squad]] are this for her. [[spoiler:It's losing the Death Angels that caused her to crack as stupendously as she did after Darkray's death.]]
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* ComplexityAddiction: 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 [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim 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. [[spoiler: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 [[NighInvulnerability she just]] [[DeTerminator doesn't die.]]]]
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* ComplexityAddiction: It's pointed out over and over that Yashahime could kill almost anyone who's appeared in the manga so far.that opposes her. Yet when faced with the prospect of [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim 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. [[spoiler: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 [[NighInvulnerability she just]] [[DeTerminator doesn't die.]]]]
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* TheDreaded: With the exception of Igudo (who might not HAVE emotions), the other gods and supernatural creatures react with fear when and wherever she shows up, if not [[TheFriendNobodyLikes complete disdain.]] [[spoiler: The surviving gods quickly write off her death and move on to another galaxy rather than avenge her.]]
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* TheDreaded: With the exception of Igudo (who might not HAVE emotions), the other gods and supernatural creatures react with fear when and wherever she shows up, if not [[TheFriendNobodyLikes complete disdain.]] [[spoiler: The surviving gods quickly write off her death and move on to another galaxy rather than avenge her.]]
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* EvilIsPetty: It's usually not petty to want to exact vengeance for the death of one's beloved. However, Yashahime takes it to new levels; she deliberately tortures Kurohime by beating her bloody and reveling in her pain. [[spoiler:It gets even worse: Yashahime turns Zero into the God of Death just to torment Kurohime for getting the love she never had, and before that she killed a depowered Darkray herself simply because he became too pathetic to live in her eyes.]]
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* EvilIsPetty: It's usually not petty to want to exact vengeance for the death of one's beloved. However, Yashahime takes it to new levels; she deliberately tortures Kurohime by beating her bloody and reveling in her pain. [[spoiler:It gets even worse: [[spoiler:Even Darkray himself isn't immune to this, as Yashahime kills his remnant shade because of how pathetic he became after dying, and to add insult to injury, turns Zero into the God of Death afterward, just to torment Kurohime for getting the love she Yashahime never had, and before that she killed a depowered Darkray herself simply because he became too pathetic to live in her eyes.had.]]
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* HoistByHerOwnPetard: [[spoiler:Yashahime captures Yamatohime in her weakened state and links her powers with her own, becoming the planet itself and beginning to evolve into a High God. Because of this, though, Yashahime is now bound to the planet like Yamatohime was, meaning that if the planet goes, so does Yashahime. Once Yamatohime sacrifices herself to bring Himeko back to life as Kurohime, Kurohime uses the Ultimate Sword to split the ENTIRE PLANET IN HALF, killing Yashahime permanently.]]
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* HoistByHerOwnPetard: [[spoiler:Yashahime captures Yamatohime in her weakened state and links her Yamatohime's powers with her own, becoming the planet itself and beginning to evolve into a High God. Because of this, though, Yashahime is now bound to the planet like Yamatohime was, meaning that if the planet goes, so does Yashahime. Once Yamatohime sacrifices herself to bring Himeko back to life as Kurohime, Kurohime uses the Ultimate Sword to split the ENTIRE PLANET IN HALF, killing Yashahime permanently.]]
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* ItsAllAboutMe: Initially, she comes into the plot because Ghandara was killed. [[spoiler:But eventually, her revenge against Kurohime becomes more about satisfying her own desire to kill Kurohime for killing Darkray. Even with TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt going on, her main motivation is "get enough power to kill Kurohime for killing Darkray."]]
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* ItsAllAboutMe: Initially, she comes into the plot because Ghandara was killed. [[spoiler:But eventually, killed, and states that she'll get her revenge against on Kurohime becomes for killing other gods. [[spoiler:However, this is revealed to be more about satisfying her own desire to kill Kurohime for killing Darkray. Even with TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt going on, her main motivation is "get enough Darkray, and even that gets abandoned once the final chapters of the manga come around, as she's perfectly willing to abandon Dark Zero once she gets the power to kill Kurohime for killing Darkray."]]become a High God and he's no longer willing to hold the mantle of Death God.]]
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* SelectiveObliviousness: She seems to be completely incapable of thinking that the Death God is not in love with her despite saying herself that the Death God cares for no one, which would logically include her.
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* SelectiveObliviousness: She seems to be completely incapable of thinking that the Death God is not in love with her despite saying herself that the Death God cares for no one, which would logically include her.one.
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* YamatoNadeshiko: 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}}: Not necessarily a most triumphant example, but very much textbook; anyone that tries to steal Darkray's attention from her is an obstacle she intends to kill and remove. [[spoiler:Her tendency to psychologically torture Himeko only increases after Yashahime turns Zero into the new Death God; her hatred of Kurohime becomes a twisted reflection of her jealousy that Zero is still thinking of her even as a Death God.]]
* {{Yandere}}: Not necessarily a most triumphant example, but very much textbook; anyone that tries to steal Darkray's attention from her is an obstacle she intends to kill and remove. [[spoiler:Her tendency to psychologically torture Himeko only increases after Yashahime turns Zero into the new Death God; her hatred of Kurohime becomes a twisted reflection of her jealousy that Zero is still thinking of her even as a Death God.]]
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* YamatoNadeshiko: She Subverted: she looks the part with the kimono and katana kimono, and sometimes even acts the part with a polite and calm demeanor, but she's actually a cruel and jealous bitch.brute that lives to make others suffer.
* {{Yandere}}: Not necessarily a most triumphant example, but very much textbook; anyone that tries to steal Darkray's attention from her is an obstacle she intends to kill and remove. [[spoiler:Her tendency to psychologically torture Himeko only increases after Yashahime turns Zero into the new Death God; her hatred of Kurohime becomes a twisted reflection of her jealousy that Zero is still thinking of her even as a DeathGod.God when Darkray wouldn't give her any attention.]]
* {{Yandere}}: Not necessarily a most triumphant example, but very much textbook; anyone that tries to steal Darkray's attention from her is an obstacle she intends to kill and remove. [[spoiler:Her tendency to psychologically torture Himeko only increases after Yashahime turns Zero into the new Death God; her hatred of Kurohime becomes a twisted reflection of her jealousy that Zero is still thinking of her even as a Death
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* DiedInYourArmsTonight: [[spoiler:How she chooses to die once she's made up with Asura.]]
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* DiedInYourArmsTonight: [[spoiler:How she chooses to die once she's made up with Asura.Asura, hugging Asura and allowing Asura's flames to scorch her to ash.]]
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* JerkAss: Is generally cold and unfriendly, but is exceptionally so to Asura, referring to her as "it", and factually explains to Kurohime [[spoiler:that Asura is meant to be Yamatohime's substitute sacrifice to create the Ultimate Sword. There are shades of JerkassFacade here, as it's implied and later outright stated that she treated Asura this way to try and lessen the pain of Asura's sacrifice, and she did at least care enough to make sure Asura had (iron) toys to play with as a child.]]
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* JerkAss: Is generally cold and unfriendly, but is exceptionally so to Asura, referring to her as "it", and factually explains to Kurohime [[spoiler:that Asura is meant to be Yamatohime's substitute sacrifice to create the Ultimate Sword. There are shades of JerkassFacade here, as it's implied and later outright stated that she treated Asura this way to try and lessen the pain of she felt about Asura's sacrifice, and she did at least care enough to make sure Asura had (iron) toys to play with as a child.]]
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* KnowWhenToFoldEm: [[spoiler:The other reason for her HeroicSacrifice above: knowing that there was nothing to be gained by trying to conserve her power anymore once Yashahime merged with the planet, she decieds to gamble everything on Kurohime one last time instead, giving up the planet as a lost cause int he process.]]
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* KnowWhenToFoldEm: [[spoiler:The other reason for her HeroicSacrifice above: knowing that there was nothing to be gained by trying to conserve her power anymore once Yashahime merged with the planet, she decieds to gamble everything on Kurohime one last time instead, giving up the planet as a lost cause int he in the process.]]
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to fight this time around. See Barahime's folder in the Other Witches section above.
to fight this time around. See Barahime's folder in the Other Witches section above.
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host to fight this time around. See Barahime's folder in the Other Witches section above.
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* {{Forgiveness}}: [[spoiler:She ultimately decides to forgive Kurohime for killing her father, though only after realizing [[RageAgainstTheHeavens the karmic burden that Kurohime is shouldering by way of how she's trying to unite the world]] as well as Korohime's own immense self-hatred.]]
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* {{Forgiveness}}: [[spoiler:She ultimately decides to forgive Kurohime for killing her father, though only after realizing [[RageAgainstTheHeavens the karmic burden that partially because she realizes she might have originally done it herself and Kurohime is shouldering by way of how she's trying just chose to unite take the world]] as well as Korohime's own blame and partially because she realizes that Kurohime's immense self-hatred.self-hatred and self-punishment makes revenge pointless.]]
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* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Ouka eventually gives up on her grudge against Kurohime after teaming up with her and Sword to kill the goddess Venus. As Ouka sees it, nothing they could do to Kurohime could be worse than what she's already suffering through.]]
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* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Ouka eventually gives up on her grudge against Kurohime after teaming up with her and Sword to kill the goddess Venus. As Ouka sees it, nothing they could do to Kurohime could be worse than what she's already suffering through.Kurohime's choosing to do to herself.]]
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* StableTimeLoop: [[spoiler: When Ouka tries to save her father from dying in the past, he attacks her, mistaking her for an enemy, and her witch-beast kills him in her defense. In front of her younger self's eyes.]]
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* StableTimeLoop: [[spoiler: When [[spoiler:When Ouka tries to save her father from dying in order to change the past, he attacks her, mistaking her for an enemy, and her witch-beast kills him in her defense. In front of her Her younger self's eyes.self sees this, and Kurohime takes the blame for killing him anyway, motivating the young Ouka to seek out Kurohime for revenge as an adult.]]
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* YouKilledMyFather: To Kurohime. [[spoiler: The second time around, Ouka's witch-beast does it instead when her father attacks her, mistaking her for an enemy. It's implied by the narration that this is a result of [[YouCantFightFate his death being fated and predetermined.]]]]
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* YouKilledMyFather: To Kurohime. [[spoiler: The second time around, source of her grudge against Kurohime: she states flat-out that Kurohime killed her father. [[spoiler:YouCantFightFate comes into effect when she tries to save his life, only for Ouka's witch-beast does it to kill him instead when her father attacks her, mistaking her for an enemy. It's implied by the of Kurohime as Ouka remembers--the narration implies that this is a result of [[YouCantFightFate his death being fated and predetermined.]]]]he was destined to die either way.]]
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* EyepatchOfPower: [[spoiler:When he reappears in the present-day.]]
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* EyepatchOfPower: [[spoiler:When he reappears in the present-day.present-day, he's wearing one of these.]]
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* WaifProphet: Her role in the story when she's intrduced, and the source of her fame. [[spoiler:She warns Kurohime that she'll have to choose between Zero and Rei, as one of them will die very soon, and she's right. She also does this when she reappears as a young woman in the final chapters of the series, predicting Kurohime's ultimate victory.]]
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* WaifProphet: Her role in the story when she's intrduced, introduced, and the source of her fame. [[spoiler:She warns Kurohime that she'll have to choose between Zero and Rei, as one of them will die very soon, and she's right. She also does this when she reappears as a young woman in the final chapters of the series, predicting Kurohime's ultimate victory.]]
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* PeepingTom: He wanted to be a god so he could peep at girls.
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* PeepingTom: ThePeepingTom: He wanted to be a god so he could peep at girls.
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* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: She wears two ornaments in her sidelocks of hair. [[spoiler:When she's grown older, they're gone.]]
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* HairDecorations: She wears two ornaments in her sidelocks of hair. [[spoiler:When she's grown older, [[ExpositoryHairstyleChange they're gone.]]]]
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* BrokenBird: [[spoiler:The original Kurohime's backstory isn't elaborated on, but it's implied that she was orphaned as a result of the wars and saw her fair share of bloodshed and killing as she grew up. After that, to amass the power to meet the gods and kill them, she killed ''a lot'' of people and ate their souls for strength, then ultimately betrayed her most loyal followers and the rest of the world in order to shift focus away from the contest of the gods. By the time Ouka and Sword meet Kurohime in the Past Arc, she hasn't yet begun her final push toward reaching and killing the gods, but is otherwise weighed down by the lives she's taken and the monstrous things she's done. Even after being reincarnated as Himeko, she gradually reaches this point again, especially after Zero has died and she faces more and more difficult challenges to bring him back to life.]]
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* BrokenBird: [[spoiler:The original Kurohime's backstory isn't elaborated on, but it's implied that she was orphaned as a result of the wars and saw her fair share of bloodshed and killing as she grew up. After that, to amass the power to meet the gods and kill them, she killed ''a lot'' of people and ate their souls for strength, then ultimately betrayed her most loyal followers and the rest of the world in order to shift focus away from the contest of the gods. By the time Ouka and Sword meet Kurohime in the Past Arc, she hasn't yet begun her final push toward reaching and killing the gods, but is otherwise weighed down by the lives she's taken and the monstrous things she's done. Even after being reincarnated as Himeko, she gradually reaches there are shades of this point again, that return to her life, especially after Zero has died and she faces more and more difficult challenges to bring him back to life.]]
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* ByronicHero: [[spoiler:She fits this mold very well; while she has the capability to be quite compassionate and does occasionally show that compassion to others, she also staunchly refuses to compromise on her goals or the methods she uses to accomplish them, no matter how much suffering it causes herself or other people; it ultimately leads to her death.]]
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* ByronicHero: [[spoiler:She fits this mold pretty much perfectly: she's amazingly charismatic and powerful, but also extremely standoffish and distant from people with very well; while rare exceptions. While she has the capability to be quite compassionate and does occasionally show that compassion to others, she also staunchly refuses to compromise on her goals or the methods she uses to accomplish them, no matter how much suffering it causes herself or other people; it people, which ultimately leads to her death.]]
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* DeathOfPersonality: [[spoiler:When she is split into her hatred and her compassion, the original Kurohime effectively dies right then and there, as both halves are missing too much of the other to really represent the whole woman anymore.]]
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* DeathOfPersonality: [[spoiler:When she is split into her hatred and her compassion, the original Kurohime effectively dies right then and there, as both halves are missing too much of the other to really represent the whole woman anymore.anymore and never reunite.]]
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* BlackMagicianGirl: Bratty and snide, much like the trope requires, but lacking the power to back it up initially. As she gets stronger, she resembles the trope much better.
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* BlackMagicianGirl: Bratty and snide, much like the trope requires, but lacking the power to back it up initially. As she gets stronger, she resembles the trope much better.better in power level, if not personality.
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* LaserGuidedAmnesia: In the first arc, as a result of losing her ability to love, she can't recall just why she hates the gods. [[spoiler:It doesn't help that she's only half of the original Kurohime, either; Shirohime kept all their original memories. Later on, Zero's death forms a psychological block on her full power, and though she no longer needs to feel love to transform into Kurohime, doing so and maintaining her uncursed form erases more memories of him in order to "heal the wound" in her heart caused by his death. This only gets worse when Dark Zero himself removes the majority of her memories himself after his revival; after that incident, it's ambiguous how much she remembers except for her single-minded love of Zero but at the very least most if not all of the memories she's made from the start of the series involving him are outright gone.]]
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* LaserGuidedAmnesia: In the first arc, as a result of losing her ability to love, she can't recall just why she hates the gods. [[spoiler:It doesn't help that she's only half of the original Kurohime, either; Shirohime kept all their original memories. Later on, Zero's death forms a psychological block on her full power, and though she no longer needs to feel love to transform into Kurohime, doing so and maintaining her uncursed form erases more memories of him in order to "heal the wound" in her heart caused by his death. This only gets worse when Dark Zero himself removes the majority of her memories himself after his revival; after that incident, it's ambiguous how pretty much she remembers except for her single-minded love of Zero but at the very least most if not all of the memories she's made from the start of the series involving him are outright gone.gone, leaving only a strong love for him.]]
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* PowerAtAPrice: [[spoiler:After killing Darkray and losing Zero, the only way for her to use her full power as Kurohime is to give up memories of Zero, since his death is a psychological block on her power. The longer she stays transformed, the more memories of him she loses; once Dark Zero removes almost all her memories himself, this effectively soft-locks her out of becoming Kurohime again (at least, by herself) until the very end of the manga.]]
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* PowerAtAPrice: [[spoiler:After killing Darkray and losing Zero, the only way for her to use her full power as Kurohime is to give up memories of Zero, since his death is a psychological block on her power. The power; the longer she stays transformed, the more memories of him she loses; once loses to fuel her transformation. Once Dark Zero removes almost all her memories himself, this boosts her power by a lot, but effectively soft-locks her out of becoming Kurohime again (at least, by herself) until the very end of the manga.]]
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* DefrostingIceQueen: Her opinion of humans raises over the course of the series, to the point she is willing to risk her life saving one. [[spoiler:She reverts a bit while Kurohime is time-traveling, becoming a flaming ball of hatred due to her unresolved issues with her past, but Kurohime's refusal to kill Asura and finish the Ultimate Sword finishes the process.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:She convinces Seiryuu to send her consciousness back in time, then willingly moves herself to take the bullet that Kurohime refused to shoot at her, getting absorbed into the Yamato Senryuuto and completing the Ultimate Blade.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:She convinces Seiryuu to send her consciousness back in time, then willingly moves herself to take the bullet that Kurohime refused to shoot at her, getting absorbed into the Yamato Senryuuto and completing the Ultimate Blade.]]
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* DefrostingIceQueen: Her opinion of humans raises over the course of the series, to the point she is willing to risk her life saving one. [[spoiler:She reverts a bit while Kurohime is time-traveling, becoming a flaming ball of hatred due to her unresolved issues with her past, but Kurohime's refusal to kill Asura and finish the Ultimate Sword finishes the defrosting process.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:She convinces Seiryuu to send her consciousness back in time, then willingly movesherself her body to take the bullet that Kurohime refused to shoot at her, getting absorbed her. This absorbes her into the Yamato Senryuuto and completing completes the Ultimate Blade.Blade, allowing Kurohime to cut Yashahime in half.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:She convinces Seiryuu to send her consciousness back in time, then willingly moves
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* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:Ultimately, she serves as one during the climax of the story in order to complete the Ultimate Sword in Yamatohime's place; by the time she does so, she's been the longest surviving member of Kurohime's group of friends, and one of her closest ones left.]]
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* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:Ultimately, she serves as one during the climax of the story in order to complete the Ultimate Sword in Yamatohime's place; by place. By the time she does so, she's been one of the longest surviving member of Kurohime's group of friends, friends from the early parts of the story, and one of her the closest ones left.one that hasn't become her enemy.]]
A grouchy witch that is terrorizing a small town.
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* BalefulPolymorph: She dishes this fate out to her victims, turning them into furniture.
* EvilOldFolks: She's old and wizened but profoundly cruel, shattering and otherwise breaking rebellious "furniture" if it doesn't meet her needs.
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* BalefulPolymorph: She dishes this fate out to her victims, turning them into furniture.
* EvilOldFolks: She's old and wizened but profoundly cruel, shattering and otherwise breaking rebellious "furniture" if it doesn't meet her needs.
The keeper of the prison dimension that Himeko is banished to before meeting Zero.
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* GagBoobs: Her breasts are ''huge'' and are apparently also the source of her power.
* MeaningfulName: Shares one with Enma, the judge of the dead in Japanese Buddhism.
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* GagBoobs: Her breasts are ''huge'' and are apparently also the source of her power.
* MeaningfulName: Shares one with Enma, the judge of the dead in Japanese Buddhism.
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* TheBerserker: [[spoiler:After becoming a vampire-werewolf-angel hybrid, she gains access to a powerful transformation that completely removes all her self-control in exchange.]]
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* TheBerserker: [[spoiler:After becoming a vampire-werewolf-angel hybrid, she gains access to a powerful transformation that completely removes all her self-control in exchange.when she unleashes its power.]]
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* BrokenBird: [[spoiler:Kurohime's war against the gods brings a much more personal stake to Sword's dislike of Kurohime when it results in Darkray and the rest of the Death Angel Squad all dying. The trauma, coupled with Sword's projected resentment of Shirohime onto Kurohime, has left her with both a deep desire for revenge against Kurohime and a broken heart.]]
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* BrokenBird: [[spoiler:Kurohime's war against the gods brings a much more personal stake to Sword's dislike of Kurohime when it results in Darkray and the rest of the Death Angel Squad all dying. dying in a fight with Kurohime. The trauma, trauma from this loss, coupled with Sword's projected resentment of Shirohime onto Kurohime, has left her with both a deep desire for revenge against Kurohime and a broken heart.]]
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* ItsPersonal: Though Sword already disliked Kurohime for defying the will of the gods and constantly resurrecting dead people, [[spoiler:it becomes much more serious for her after Darkray and the rest of the Death Angel Squad all die due to Kurohime's fight with Darkray. She forms the Kurohime Punishment Squad explicitly to make sure Kurohime pays for the deaths of Darkray and the Death Angel Squad.]]
* LoveMartyr: To Darkray. She's completely devoted to him, but he doesn't give a damn about her. [[spoiler:In fact, he nearly killed her along with the other Death Angels when Kurohime started *really* going all out against him.]]
* LoveMartyr: To Darkray. She's completely devoted to him, but he doesn't give a damn about her. [[spoiler:In fact, he nearly killed her along with the other Death Angels when Kurohime started *really* going all out against him.]]
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* ItsPersonal: Though Sword already disliked Kurohime for defying the will of the gods and constantly resurrecting dead people, [[spoiler:it becomes much more serious for her after Darkray and the rest of the Death Angel Squad all die due to Kurohime's fight with Darkray. She forms the Kurohime Punishment Squad explicitly to make sure Kurohime pays for the deaths of Darkray and the Death Angel Squad.Angels.]]
* LoveMartyr: To Darkray. She's completely devoted to him, but he doesn't give a damn about her. [[spoiler:In fact, he nearly killed her along with the other Death Angels when Kurohime started*really* ''really'' going all out against him.]]
* LoveMartyr: To Darkray. She's completely devoted to him, but he doesn't give a damn about her. [[spoiler:In fact, he nearly killed her along with the other Death Angels when Kurohime started
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* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: [[spoiler:The Kurohime Punishment Squad]] tends to refer to her as Captain or Commander, and most other characters address her primarily as "Sword", but her "real" name (only revealed in [[AllThereInTheManual author's notes]]) is Reikahime.
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* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: [[spoiler:The Most other characters address her primarily as "Sword", and [[spoiler:the Kurohime Punishment Squad]] tends to refer to her as Captain or Commander, and most other characters address her primarily as "Sword", but her "real" name (only revealed in [[AllThereInTheManual author's notes]]) is Reikahime.
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* [[JerkassGod Jerkass Goddess]]: Yashahime is completely incapable of compassion or mercy. All she cares about is the Death God and her own power.
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* [[JerkassGod [[JerkassGods Jerkass Goddess]]: Yashahime is completely incapable of compassion or mercy. All she cares about is the Death God and her own power.
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!!!! Characters from the manga Manga/{{Kurohime}}. Per wiki policy, trope names are not in spoilers, and there may be spoilers for characters' individual plotlines in their summaries. Read at your own risk.
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!!!! Characters from the manga Manga/{{Kurohime}}.''Manga/{{Kurohime}}''. Per wiki policy, trope names are not in spoilers, and there may be spoilers for characters' individual plotlines in their summaries. Read at your own risk.
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* JerkassGod: He doesn't give a damn about his subordinates, or anyone in particular beyond himself.
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* JerkassGod: JerkassGods: He doesn't give a damn about his subordinates, or anyone in particular beyond himself.
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[[folder:Saika and Aika]]
Two lovers who are the final members of the Kurohime Punishment Squad. Saika was once an accomplice of Onimaru.
Two lovers who are the final members of the Kurohime Punishment Squad. Saika was once an accomplice of Onimaru.
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A former accomplice of Onimaru's, and
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* ButtMonkey: Saika has been subjected to a number of humiliations over the course of the series; Kurohime defeats him handily, and then Aika castrates him because he's been cheating on her with other women.]]
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* ButtMonkey: Saika has been subjected to a number of humiliations over the course of the series; Kurohime defeats him handily, and then Aika [[spoiler:Aika castrates him because he's been cheating on her with other women.]]
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* ClingyJealousGirl: Despite knowing Saika wasn't genuinely interested in Kurohime, Aika castrates him and joins the Squad to kill Kurohime.
* DisabledLoveInterest: Aika is blind. She was often accosted and attacked because of it, but compensated with her magic power. Saika counts this as a plus since she will love him even as he grows old, unlike most of the other women that he's attracted.
* DisabledLoveInterest: Aika is blind. She was often accosted and attacked because of it, but compensated with her magic power. Saika counts this as a plus since she will love him even as he grows old, unlike most of the other women that he's attracted.
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* EarlyBirdCameo: Saika appears in the early chapters as an accomplice of Onimaru that attempts to get Himeko to fall in love with him. He fails miserably.
* GroinAttack: As a result of his cavorting with Kurohime (nothing happened) and her jealous nature, Aika takes Saika's [[IsThatWhatTheyreCallingItNow "most precious thing"]] from him, and won't return it until Kurohime is killed.
* HandicappedBadass: Aika. Being blind doesn't affect the fact that she's perfectly capable of taking care of herself in a fight.
* HotWitch: Aika can fire magic bullets.
* GroinAttack: As a result of his cavorting with Kurohime (nothing happened) and her jealous nature, Aika takes Saika's [[IsThatWhatTheyreCallingItNow "most precious thing"]] from him, and won't return it until Kurohime is killed.
* HandicappedBadass: Aika. Being blind doesn't affect the fact that she's perfectly capable of taking care of herself in a fight.
* HotWitch: Aika can fire magic bullets.
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* HandicappedBadass: Aika. Being blind doesn't affect the fact that she's perfectly capable of taking care of herself in a fight.
* HotWitch: Aika can fire magic bullets.
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* {{Tsundere}}: 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.
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A young, angry boy from the past, and Zero's older twin brother.
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* ClingyJealousGirl: Despite knowing Saika wasn't genuinely interested in Kurohime, Aika castrates him and joins the Squad to kill Kurohime.
* DisabledLoveInterest: Aika is blind. She was often accosted and attacked because of it, but compensated with her magic power. Saika counts this as a plus since she will love him even as he grows old, unlike most of the other women that he's attracted.
* HandicappedBadass: Aika. Being blind doesn't affect the fact that she's perfectly capable of taking care of herself in a fight.
* HotWitch: Aika can fire magic bullets.
* {{Tsundere}}: 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.
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[[folder:Rei]]
A young, angry boy from the past, and Zero's older twin brother.
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* DisabledLoveInterest: Aika is blind. She was often accosted and attacked because of it, but compensated with her magic power. Saika counts this as a plus since she will love him even as he grows old, unlike most of the other women that he's attracted.
* HandicappedBadass: Aika. Being blind doesn't affect the fact that she's perfectly capable of taking care of herself in a fight.
* HotWitch: Aika can fire magic bullets.
* {{Tsundere}}: 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.
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!Past Arc Characters
[[folder:Rei]]
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* WouldHurtAChild: Nearly shoots Aohime *twice* when he thinks he won't be able to get away with her, even if in both situations he winds up not doing it.
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* WouldHurtAChild: Nearly shoots Aohime *twice* ''twice'' when he thinks he won't be able to get away with her, even if in both situations he winds up not doing it.
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* HairDecorations: She wears two ornaments in her sidelocks of hair. [[spoiler:[[ExpositoryHairstyleChange When she's grown older, they're gone.]]]]
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* HairDecorations: She wears two ornaments in her sidelocks of hair. [[spoiler:[[ExpositoryHairstyleChange When [[spoiler:When she's grown older, [[ExpositoryHairstyleChange they're gone.]]]]
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* LaserGuidedAmnesia: In the first arc, as a result of losing her ability to love, she can't recall just why she hates the gods. [[spoiler:It doesn't help that she's only half of the original Kurohime, either; Shirohime kept all their original memories. Later on, Zero's death forms a psychological block on her full power, and forcing herself to use her full power erases more memories of him in oder to "heal" the wond. This only gets worse when Dark Zero himself removes the majority of her memories; by the end, it's ambiguous how much she remembers except for her single-minded love of Zero.]]
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* LaserGuidedAmnesia: In the first arc, as a result of losing her ability to love, she can't recall just why she hates the gods. [[spoiler:It doesn't help that she's only half of the original Kurohime, either; Shirohime kept all their original memories. Later on, Zero's death forms a psychological block on her full power, and forcing herself though she no longer needs to use feel love to transform into Kurohime, doing so and maintaining her full power uncursed form erases more memories of him in oder order to "heal" "heal the wond. wound" in her heart caused by his death. This only gets worse when Dark Zero himself removes the majority of her memories; by the end, memories himself after his revival; after that incident, it's ambiguous how much she remembers except for her single-minded love of Zero.Zero but at the very least most if not all of the memories she's made from the start of the series involving him are outright gone.]]
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* AntiVillain: For all that she can be relatively ruthless when she's on the job, she only takes things personally when her comrades are put at risk or when someone interferes in her job. Kurohime doing the latter is what drew her ire. [[spoiler:This continued interference from Kurohime leads to a sequence of events that got all the other Death Angels and Darkray himself killed.]]
* AvengingTheVillain: This is what motivates her to continue her grudge against Himeko [[spoiler:after the Death Angel Squad dies]].
* AvengingTheVillain: This is what motivates her to continue her grudge against Himeko [[spoiler:after the Death Angel Squad dies]].
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* AntiVillain: For all that she can be relatively ruthless when she's on the job, she only takes things personally when her comrades are put at risk or when someone interferes in her job. Kurohime doing the latter is what drew her ire. [[spoiler:This continued interference from Kurohime leads to a sequence of events that got all the other Death Angels and Darkray himself killed.]]
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* AvengingTheVillain:This [[spoiler:This is what motivates her to continue her grudge against Himeko [[spoiler:after Kurohime after the Death Angel Squad dies]].and Darkray both die when Kurohime decides to pick a fight with Darkray.]]
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* BrokenBird: [[spoiler:Losing her close comrades because of Darkray (which in turn only happened because Kurohime insisted on making war against the gods) has left her with both a deep desire for revenge against Kurohime and a broken heart.]]
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* BrokenBird: [[spoiler:Losing her close comrades because of Darkray (which in turn only happened because Kurohime insisted on making [[spoiler:Kurohime's war against the gods) gods brings a much more personal stake to Sword's dislike of Kurohime when it results in Darkray and the rest of the Death Angel Squad all dying. The trauma, coupled with Sword's projected resentment of Shirohime onto Kurohime, has left her with both a deep desire for revenge against Kurohime and a broken heart.]]
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* ClingyJealousGirl: She was very attached to her boss and strongly disliked how much attention Darkray spent on Shirohime. Shirohime implies that this jealousy is part of why Sword hates Kurohime so much:
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* ClingyJealousGirl: She was very attached to her boss and strongly disliked disliks how much attention Darkray spent on Shirohime. Shirohime implies that this jealousy is part of why Sword hates Kurohime so much:
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* DarkIsNotEvil: With the exception of going after Kurohime (who did provoke her) she never seemed interested in doing anything other than her job.
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* DarkIsNotEvil: With the exception of going after Kurohime (who did provoke her) Kurohime, she never seemed interested in doing anything other than her job.
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* ItsPersonal: Though Sword already disliked Kurohime for defying the will of the gods and constantly resurrecting dead people, it becomes much more serious [[spoiler:after Darkray and the rest of the Death Angel Squad all die due to Kurohime's fight with Darkray]].
* LoveMartyr: To Darkray. She was completely devoted to him, but he didn't give a damn about her.
* LoveMartyr: To Darkray. She was completely devoted to him, but he didn't give a damn about her.
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* ItsPersonal: Though Sword already disliked Kurohime for defying the will of the gods and constantly resurrecting dead people, it [[spoiler:it becomes much more serious [[spoiler:after for her after Darkray and the rest of the Death Angel Squad all die due to Kurohime's fight with Darkray]].
Darkray. She forms the Kurohime Punishment Squad explicitly to make sure Kurohime pays for the deaths of Darkray and the Death Angel Squad.]]
* LoveMartyr: To Darkray.She was She's completely devoted to him, but he didn't doesn't give a damn about her.her. [[spoiler:In fact, he nearly killed her along with the other Death Angels when Kurohime started *really* going all out against him.]]
* LoveMartyr: To Darkray.
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* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:For Sword, since Darkray kills the entire squad to counter their unwilling involvement in Kurohime's DoppelgangerSpin. They transfer all their life force to Sword so that she can live, and die as a result.]]
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* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:For Sword, since Darkray kills impales the entire squad squad, Sword included, to counter their unwilling involvement in Kurohime's DoppelgangerSpin. They transfer all their life force to Sword so that she can live, and die as a result.]]
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* BrokenBird: [[spoiler:The original Kurohime's backstory isn't elaborated on, but it's implied that she was orphaned as a result of the wars and saw her fair share of bloodshed and killing as she grew up. After that, to amass the power to meet the gods and kill them, she killed ''a lot'' of people and ate their souls for strength, then ultimately betrayed her most loyal followers and the rest of the world in order to shift focus away from the contest of the gods and onto her. By the time Ouka and Sword meet Kurohime in the Past Arc, she hasn't yet begun her final push toward reaching and killing the gods, but is otherwise weighed down by the lives she's taken and the monstrous things she's done. Even after being reincarnated as Himeko, she has shades of this, especially after Zero has died and she faces more and more difficult challenges to bring him back to life.]]
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* BrokenBird: [[spoiler:The original Kurohime's backstory isn't elaborated on, but it's implied that she was orphaned as a result of the wars and saw her fair share of bloodshed and killing as she grew up. After that, to amass the power to meet the gods and kill them, she killed ''a lot'' of people and ate their souls for strength, then ultimately betrayed her most loyal followers and the rest of the world in order to shift focus away from the contest of the gods and onto her.gods. By the time Ouka and Sword meet Kurohime in the Past Arc, she hasn't yet begun her final push toward reaching and killing the gods, but is otherwise weighed down by the lives she's taken and the monstrous things she's done. Even after being reincarnated as Himeko, she has shades of this, gradually reaches this point again, especially after Zero has died and she faces more and more difficult challenges to bring him back to life.]]
* OrphansOrdeal:[[spoiler:Very heavily implied in her backstory, though not outright stated; the first time we see a young Kurohime, she is wet-eyed in front of covered-up bodies, and her parents are nowhere to be seen.]]
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* KnowWhenToFoldEm: [[The other reason for her HeroicSacrifice above: knowing that there was nothing to be gained by trying to conserve her power anymore once Yashahime merged with the planet, she decieds to gamble everything on Kurohime one last time.]]
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* KnowWhenToFoldEm: [[The [[spoiler:The other reason for her HeroicSacrifice above: knowing that there was nothing to be gained by trying to conserve her power anymore once Yashahime merged with the planet, she decieds to gamble everything on Kurohime one last time.time instead, giving up the planet as a lost cause int he process.]]
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* BlowYouAway: Seiryuu's control over the wind amounts to this. [[spoiler: Actually, from what he says, his power, TimeStandsStill, also encompasses void.]]
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* BlowYouAway: Seiryuu's control over the wind amounts to this. [[spoiler: Actually, from what he says, his power, TimeStandsStill, also encompasses void.[[spoiler:As seen in TimeStandsStill below, this can even extend further on a conceptual level.]]
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* TimeStandsStill: [[spoiler:This is how Seiryuu uses wind and air, which explains his powers as the Sea Dragon; by stilling it, he stops time, and can in fact reverse time by reversing the flow of air.]]
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* TimeStandsStill: [[spoiler:This is how Seiryuu uses wind and air, which explains his powers as the Sea Dragon; by stilling it, the flow of the wind, he stops time, and can in fact reverse time by reversing the wind's flow of air.to reverse time.]]
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* TheGunslinger: A skilled sniper, witch and generally capable of handling other guns.
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* TheGunslinger: A skilled sniper, witch sniper and generally witch, and capable of handling other guns.
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* RedemptionEarnsLife:[[spoiler:He's revived after Yashahime is defeated, via the White God Tree.]]
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* RedemptionEarnsLife:[[spoiler:He's revived from his form as Kandata after Yashahime is defeated, via the White God Tree.]]
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* SheIsAllGrownUp: [[spoiler:She reappears as a young woman in the final chapters of the series, predicting Kurohime's ultimate victory.]]
* WaifProphet: Her role in the story, for the most part. [[spoiler:She warns Kurohime that she'll have to choose between Zero and Rei, as one of them will die very soon, and she's right.]]
* WaifProphet: Her role in the story, for the most part. [[spoiler:She warns Kurohime that she'll have to choose between Zero and Rei, as one of them will die very soon, and she's right.]]
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* {{Foil}}: He's one to Zero: neither of them have magic power at all, and are both incredibly badass for normal people, but where Zero is a NiceGuy and all around softie that gets Kurohime to gradually become kinder, Dan is a bit of a JerkAss until Aohime defrosts him enough to get him to give a damn about something aside from fighting. Addiitonally, unlike Zero being (some degree of) younger than Kurohime, Dan is definitely older than Aohime.
* MeaningfulName: His name is part of the Japanese word "dangan", or bullet; fitting for someone who uses a gun and becomes the father figure of a witch, as witches primarily use guns in this setting.
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* BabiesEverAfter: [[spoiler:Dan's HeroicSacrifice enables her to get away from the Bullet Blade Brigade and the Majura Clan, and it's implied on the last page of the sidestory that she settled down somewhere and had two children.]]
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* BabiesEverAfter: [[spoiler:Dan's HeroicSacrifice enables her to get away from the Bullet Blade Brigade and the Majura Clan, and it's implied on the last page of the sidestory that she settled down somewhere and had with two children.]]
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* HairDecorations: She wears two ornaments in her sidelocks of hair. [[spoiler:[[ExpositoryHairstyleChange When she's grown older and had children, they're gone.]]]]
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* {{Foil}}: She serves as one to Kurohime: they're both powerful witch-gunslingers with white hair, but Aohime is more than capable of loving Dan unconditionally from the moment they meet, while Kurohime's curse prevents her from feeling love at all and it is Zero who accepts Kurohime unconditionally instead. Aohime is also visibly younger than Dan, while Kurohime (at least uncursed) is older than Zero.
* HairDecorations: She wears two ornaments in her sidelocks of hair. [[spoiler:[[ExpositoryHairstyleChange When she's grownolder and had children, older, they're gone.]]]]
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* MeaningfulName: The ''Ao'' of her name can be a reference to either the color blue or the color green, giving the meanings ''Blue Princess'' or ''Green Princess''; green would fit the plants she's distantly associated with due to her growth from a Black God Tree, while blue fits her calm, tranquil personality.
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* MysticalWhiteHair: Though she's never shown in a color spread, it appears that her hair is pure white.
* PowerGivesYouWings: She demonstrates the ability to grow large, feathered wings out of her back [[spoiler:as she descends on the mage that killed Dan, and then as she flies away from the town where Dan died.]]
* PowerGivesYouWings: She demonstrates the ability to grow large, feathered wings out of her back [[spoiler:as she descends on the mage that killed Dan, and then as she flies away from the town where Dan died.]]
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* ByronicHero: [[spoiler:She fits this mold very well; while she has the capability to be quite compassionate and does occasionally show that compassion to others, she also staunchly refuses to compromise on her goals or the methods she uses to accomplish them, no matter how much suffering it causes herself or other people; it ultimately leads to her death.]]
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* DeathSeeker: [[spoiler:She's more than happy to die for all she's done, after she's accomplished her mission. This is part of why Sword and Ouka gradually lose interest in taking revenge against her.]]
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* DeathSeeker: [[spoiler:She's more than happy to die for all she's done, done after she's accomplished her mission. This is part of why Sword and Ouka gradually lose interest in taking revenge against her.]]
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* PoweredByAForsakenChild: [[spoiler: The Black God Tree bound to her. It feeds on the rage and hatred of the people she's killed; her guilt over taking their lives and her need to make their deaths worth something is her primary motivation to fight.]]
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* PoweredByAForsakenChild: [[spoiler: The Black God Tree bound to her. It feeds on the rage and hatred of the people she's killed; her guilt over taking their lives and her need to make their deaths worth something is her primary motivation to fight.fight next to her desire for revenge against the gods.]]
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* StealthMentor: To [[spoiler: Ouka in the Past Arc, albeit indirectly--by taking Ouka along with her into her battles, Kurohime demonstrates to Ouka what will happen if Ouka lets her hatred for Kurohime consume her.]]
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* StealthMentor: To [[spoiler: Ouka in the Past Arc, albeit indirectly--by taking Ouka along with her into her battles, battles and letting Ouka witness the price and the pain Kurohime demonstrates goes through to Ouka what will happen if Ouka lets her hatred for fight, Kurohime consume her.basically proves to Ouka that chasing vengeance will only turn Ouka into another Kurohime.]]
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* AllLoveIsUnrequited: [[spoiler:She's heartbroken that her abandonment of Zero in the Past Arc has resulted in him spurning her love. With a little help from Sword, Onimaru reminds her that that isn't important--if she cares about him, then she needs to save him, and that's all that matters.]]
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* AllLoveIsUnrequited: [[spoiler:She's heartbroken that her abandonment of Zero in the Past Arc has resulted in him spurning her love. With a little help from Sword, Onimaru reminds her that that isn't important--if if she cares about him, then she needs to save him, and that's all that matters.]]
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* IHaveManyNames: She's generally just called "Hime" as a nickname, but is known as Himeko (initial cursed form), Momohime (second cursed form, during the Yamato Arc), and Himekojo (third cursed form, during the Past Arc). Generally speaking, though, she asserts that her true name is Kurohime unless she has a reason to hide her identity.
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* IHaveManyNames: She's generally just called "Hime" as a nickname, but is known as Himeko (initial cursed form), Momohime (second cursed form, during the Yamato Arc), and Himekojo (third cursed form, during the Past Arc). Generally speaking, though, speaking she asserts that her true name identity is Kurohime unless she has a reason to hide her identity.
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* LaserGuidedAmnesia: In the first arc, as a result of losing her ability to love, she can't recall just why she hates the gods. [[spoiler:It doesn't help that she's only half of the original Kurohime, either; Shirohime kept all their original memories. Later on, Zero's death forms a psychological block on her full power, and the more times she has to fight with her full power as Kurohime, the more amnesia she inflicts on herself. This only gets worse when Dark Zero himself removes the majority of her memories; by the end, it's ambigious how much she remembers except for her single-minded love of Zero.]]
* LaserGuidedKarma: A metric-fuck-ton of it. [[spoiler:Her original self killed countless people in her quest to become a god, and the price was being cursed into a child's body and being stripped of her memories and half of her very personality on top of losing her ability to love. Worse yet, not long after fully realizing love, the man she loves sacrifices himself to protect her and he dies in front of her very eyes.]]
* LaserGuidedKarma: A metric-fuck-ton of it. [[spoiler:Her original self killed countless people in her quest to become a god, and the price was being cursed into a child's body and being stripped of her memories and half of her very personality on top of losing her ability to love. Worse yet, not long after fully realizing love, the man she loves sacrifices himself to protect her and he dies in front of her very eyes.]]
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* LaserGuidedAmnesia: In the first arc, as a result of losing her ability to love, she can't recall just why she hates the gods. [[spoiler:It doesn't help that she's only half of the original Kurohime, either; Shirohime kept all their original memories. Later on, Zero's death forms a psychological block on her full power, and the more times she has forcing herself to fight with use her full power as Kurohime, the erases more amnesia she inflicts on herself. memories of him in oder to "heal" the wond. This only gets worse when Dark Zero himself removes the majority of her memories; by the end, it's ambigious ambiguous how much she remembers except for her single-minded love of Zero.]]
* LaserGuidedKarma: A metric-fuck-ton ofit. it from her pre-curse life. [[spoiler:Her original self killed countless people in her quest to become a god, and the price was losing her power, being cursed forced into a child's body body, and being stripped of her memories and half of her very personality on top of losing her ability to love. love AND half her personality to boot. Worse yet, not long after fully realizing love, love after being selfish and self-absorbed for so long, the man she loves sacrifices himself to protect her and he dies in front of her very eyes.]]
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* NayTheist: Though she doesn't quite remember what happened to get her cursed, Himeko still hates the gods with a passion. When she gets a chance to fight one in her un-cursed form, she [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown beats him to death with her bare hands, laughing and grinning ferally as she rips him apart.]] [[spoiler:This is due to being the original Kurohime's personified hatred of gods.]]
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* NayTheist: Though she doesn't quite remember what happened to get her cursed, Himeko Kurohime still hates the gods with a passion. When she gets a chance to fight one in her un-cursed form, she [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown beats him to death with her bare hands, laughing and grinning ferally as she rips him apart.]] [[spoiler:This is due to being the original Kurohime's personified hatred of gods.gods and instinctively remembering that even with her memories goene.]]
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* PowerAtAPrice: [[spoiler:After killing Darkray and losing Zero, the only way for her to use her full power as Kurohime is to give up memories of Zero, since his death is a psychological block on her power. The longer she stays transformed, the more memories she loses; once Dark Zero removes almost all her memories himself, this effectively soft-locks her out of becoming Kurohime again (at least, by herself) until the very end of the manga.]]
* ThePowerOfLove: The only way to even temporarily break the curse, and what ultimately breaks it permanently at the climax of the first arc, when she fully accepts that she does love Zero. [[spoiler:Also, she only agrees to help Asura and free Princess Yamato if, and only if, Princess Yamato resurrects Zero.]]
* ThePowerOfLove: The only way to even temporarily break the curse, and what ultimately breaks it permanently at the climax of the first arc, when she fully accepts that she does love Zero. [[spoiler:Also, she only agrees to help Asura and free Princess Yamato if, and only if, Princess Yamato resurrects Zero.]]
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* PowerAtAPrice: [[spoiler:After killing Darkray and losing Zero, the only way for her to use her full power as Kurohime is to give up memories of Zero, since his death is a psychological block on her power. The longer she stays transformed, the more memories of him she loses; once Dark Zero removes almost all her memories himself, this effectively soft-locks her out of becoming Kurohime again (at least, by herself) until the very end of the manga.]]
* ThePowerOfLove: The only way to even temporarily break the curse, and what ultimately breaks it permanently at the climax of the first arc, when she fully accepts that she does love Zero. [[spoiler:Also, she only agrees to help Asura and freePrincess Yamato Yamatohime if, and only if, Princess Yamato Yamatohime resurrects Zero.]]
* ThePowerOfLove: The only way to even temporarily break the curse, and what ultimately breaks it permanently at the climax of the first arc, when she fully accepts that she does love Zero. [[spoiler:Also, she only agrees to help Asura and free
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* TakeOverTheWorld: [[spoiler: Decides to do this as the new Death God. In an interesting parallel to the original Kurohime, the world-takeover part is more a side goal--he would honestly prefer to completely destroy it.]]
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* TakeOverTheWorld: [[spoiler: Decides to do this as the new Death God. In an interesting parallel to the original Kurohime, Kurohime's goals, the world-takeover part is more a side goal--he isn't really his main objective--he would honestly prefer to completely destroy it.]]
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* ButtMonkey: Amusing things happen to Onimaru. Often. This includes getting branded by Kurohime, getting beat up by Himeko, [[spoiler:getting turned into Tsucchi]], and generally finding himself in a whole lot of trouble.
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* ButtMonkey: Amusing things happen to Onimaru. Often. This includes getting branded by Kurohime, getting beat up by Himeko, Himeko whenever she breaks her curse long enough to regain her power, [[spoiler:getting turned into Tsucchi]], Tsucchi,]] and generally finding himself in a whole lot of trouble.
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* BecauseDestinySaysSo: [[spoiler: Her fate is to complete the Ultimate Sword by sacrificing herself to the Yamato Senryuutou. She's not pleased with being born to die and keeps her resentment about it bottled up until she literally can't contain it anymore and loses control of her powers. After her mother apologizes to her with a FinalFirstHug and [[ThePowerOfFriendship Kurohime chooses to die instead of shooting Asura]], Asura realizes that she was the only one thinking of herself as "merely" a substitute for Yamatohime, and willingly chooses to embrace her fate instead of running from it.]]
* BrokenBird: [[spoiler:She was born as a substitute for Yamatohime's sacrifice--should it be needed--and was raised being perfectly aware of this. She lived in an iron cage for the majority of her childhood, with similarly-fashioned toys, so that she wouldn't burn anything else down. Her own mother raised her coldly, unwilling to bond with a half-human daughter that was meant to die, and outright told a young Asura the purpose of her birth and the sacrifice she would be called on to make. That, combined with her own knowledge that humans were created to weaken the spirits and subjugate the planet, explains a lot of her bitterness when she's introduced.]]
* DefrostingIceQueen: Her opinion of humans raises over the course of the series, to the point she is willing to risk her life saving one. [[spoiler:She reverts a bit while Kurohime is time-traveling, becoming a flaming ball of hatred, but Kurohime's refusal to kill Asura and finish the Ultimate Sword finishes the process.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:She convinces Seiryuu to send her consciousness back in time and willingly moves herself to take the bullet that Kurohime refused to shoot at her, completing the Ultimate Blade.]]
* BrokenBird: [[spoiler:She was born as a substitute for Yamatohime's sacrifice--should it be needed--and was raised being perfectly aware of this. She lived in an iron cage for the majority of her childhood, with similarly-fashioned toys, so that she wouldn't burn anything else down. Her own mother raised her coldly, unwilling to bond with a half-human daughter that was meant to die, and outright told a young Asura the purpose of her birth and the sacrifice she would be called on to make. That, combined with her own knowledge that humans were created to weaken the spirits and subjugate the planet, explains a lot of her bitterness when she's introduced.]]
* DefrostingIceQueen: Her opinion of humans raises over the course of the series, to the point she is willing to risk her life saving one. [[spoiler:She reverts a bit while Kurohime is time-traveling, becoming a flaming ball of hatred, but Kurohime's refusal to kill Asura and finish the Ultimate Sword finishes the process.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:She convinces Seiryuu to send her consciousness back in time and willingly moves herself to take the bullet that Kurohime refused to shoot at her, completing the Ultimate Blade.]]
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* BecauseDestinySaysSo: [[spoiler: Her fate is to complete the Ultimate Sword by sacrificing herself to the Yamato Senryuutou.Senryuutou in Yamatohime's place. She's not pleased with being born to die and keeps her resentment about it bottled up until she literally can't contain it anymore and loses control of her powers. After her mother apologizes to her with a FinalFirstHug and [[ThePowerOfFriendship Kurohime chooses to die instead of shooting Asura]], Asura and finishing the Ultimate Sword]], Asura realizes that she was the only one thinking of herself as "merely" a substitute for Yamatohime, and willingly chooses to embrace her fate instead of running from it.]]
* BrokenBird: [[spoiler:She was born as a substitute for Yamatohime's sacrifice--should it be needed--and was raised being perfectly aware of this. She lived in an iron cage for the majority of her childhood, with similarly-fashioned toys, so that she wouldn't burn anything else down. Her own mother raised her coldly, unwilling to bond with a half-human daughter that was meant to die, and outright tolda young Asura her the purpose of her birth and the sacrifice she would be called on to make. That, combined with her own knowledge that humans were created to weaken the spirits and subjugate the planet, explains a lot of her bitterness when she's introduced.]]
* DefrostingIceQueen: Her opinion of humans raises over the course of the series, to the point she is willing to risk her life saving one. [[spoiler:She reverts a bit while Kurohime is time-traveling, becoming a flaming ball ofhatred, hatred due to her unresolved issues with her past, but Kurohime's refusal to kill Asura and finish the Ultimate Sword finishes the process.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:She convinces Seiryuu to send her consciousness back intime and time, then willingly moves herself to take the bullet that Kurohime refused to shoot at her, getting absorbed into the Yamato Senryuuto and completing the Ultimate Blade.]]
* BrokenBird: [[spoiler:She was born as a substitute for Yamatohime's sacrifice--should it be needed--and was raised being perfectly aware of this. She lived in an iron cage for the majority of her childhood, with similarly-fashioned toys, so that she wouldn't burn anything else down. Her own mother raised her coldly, unwilling to bond with a half-human daughter that was meant to die, and outright told
* DefrostingIceQueen: Her opinion of humans raises over the course of the series, to the point she is willing to risk her life saving one. [[spoiler:She reverts a bit while Kurohime is time-traveling, becoming a flaming ball of
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:She convinces Seiryuu to send her consciousness back in
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* ObiWanMoment: She spends a little time calmly comforting Sara, the little girl she made friends with, and assuring her that she'll live on as a spirit, [[spoiler:before sending her consciousness back in time to her old body for her HeroicSacrifice.]]
* PlayingWithFire: In her true form, she can fling fire around, and actively burns hotly enough to scorch flesh.
* PlayingWithFire: In her true form, she can fling fire around, and actively burns hotly enough to scorch flesh.
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* ObiWanMoment: She spends a little time calmly comforting Sara, the little girl she made friends with, and assuring her that she'll live on as a spirit, [[spoiler:before sending getting Seiryuu to send her consciousness back in time to her old body for her HeroicSacrifice.]]
* PlayingWithFire: In her true form, she can fling fire around, and actively burns hotly enough to scorchflesh.flesh and bone.
* PlayingWithFire: In her true form, she can fling fire around, and actively burns hotly enough to scorch
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* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:Ultimately, she serves as one during the climax of the story in order to complete the Ultimate Sword in Yamatohime's place. An added wrinkle to this is the fact that she has always been aware that she would play this role for Yamatohime, and it is only because Kurohime refused to do it at first that she calms down enough to go through with it.]]
* TheLancer: Her eventual role in Himeko's group, acting as the cynical, sharper foil to Himeko's optimism.
* TheLancer: Her eventual role in Himeko's group, acting as the cynical, sharper foil to Himeko's optimism.
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* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:Ultimately, she serves as one during the climax of the story in order to complete the Ultimate Sword in Yamatohime's place. An added wrinkle to this is place; by the fact that time she has always does so, she's been aware that she would play this role for Yamatohime, the longest surviving member of Kurohime's group of friends, and it is only because Kurohime refused to do it at first that she calms down enough to go through with it.one of her closest ones left.]]
* TheLancer: Her eventual role inHimeko's Kurohime's group, acting as the cynical, sharper foil to Himeko's optimism.
* TheLancer: Her eventual role in
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* AntiVillain: For all that she can be relatively ruthless when she's on the job, she only takes things personally when her comrades are put at risk or when someone interferes in her job. Kurohime doing the latter is what drew her ire. [[spoiler:This continued interference leads to a sequence of events that got all the other Death Angels and Darkray himself killed.]]
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* AntiVillain: For all that she can be relatively ruthless when she's on the job, she only takes things personally when her comrades are put at risk or when someone interferes in her job. Kurohime doing the latter is what drew her ire. [[spoiler:This continued interference from Kurohime leads to a sequence of events that got all the other Death Angels and Darkray himself killed.]]
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* BrokenBird: [[spoiler:Losing her close comrades because of Darkray has left her with both a deep desire for revenge against Kurohime and a broken heart.]]
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* BrokenBird: [[spoiler:Losing her close comrades because of Darkray (which in turn only happened because Kurohime insisted on making war against the gods) has left her with both a deep desire for revenge against Kurohime and a broken heart.]]
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* ClingyJealousGirl: She was very attached to her boss and strongly disliked how much Darkray seemed to dote on Shirohime. Shirohime implies that this jealousy is part of why Sword hates Kurohime so much:
--> '''Shirohime:''' In reality, you wanted to kill me instead...It must be hard on Kurohime...who became a sacrifice for you jealous heart to vent on.
--> '''Shirohime:''' In reality, you wanted to kill me instead...It must be hard on Kurohime...who became a sacrifice for you jealous heart to vent on.
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* ClingyJealousGirl: She was very attached to her boss and strongly disliked how much attention Darkray seemed to dote spent on Shirohime. Shirohime implies that this jealousy is part of why Sword hates Kurohime so much:
--> '''Shirohime:''' In reality, you wanted to kill me instead...It must be hard on Kurohime...who became a sacrifice foryou your jealous heart to vent on.
--> '''Shirohime:''' In reality, you wanted to kill me instead...It must be hard on Kurohime...who became a sacrifice for
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* EnemyMine: [[spoiler:Has some of these moments with both past and present Kurohime separately during the Past and Final Arcas, realizing that they have mutual enemies to destroy or defend their loved ones against.]]
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* EnemyMine: [[spoiler:Has some of these moments with both past and present Kurohime separately during the Past and Final Arcas, Arcs, realizing that they have mutual enemies to destroy or defend their loved ones against.]]
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* ItsPersonal: Though Sword already disliked Himeko for several reasons to begin with, it becomes much more serious [[spoiler:after Darkray and the rest of the Death Angel Squad all die]].
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* ItsPersonal: Though Sword already disliked Himeko Kurohime for several reasons to begin with, defying the will of the gods and constantly resurrecting dead people, it becomes much more serious [[spoiler:after Darkray and the rest of the Death Angel Squad all die]].die due to Kurohime's fight with Darkray]].
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* SleepModeSize: [[spoiler:After Darkray's death, she can't maintain her normal size and appearance, shrinking her to a FunSize child form. Once she turns into a vampire, ingesting blood allows her to grow to full size..]]
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* SleepModeSize: [[spoiler:After Darkray's death, she can't lacks the strength to maintain her normal size and appearance, shrinking her to a FunSize child form. Once she turns into a vampire, ingesting blood allows her to grow to full size..size again.]]
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* TurnTheOtherCheek: [[spoiler:Admits that she will NEVER truly forgive Kurohime for everything that happened between them, but decides that if they should somehow meet in another life, they will try to get along.]]
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* TurnTheOtherCheek: [[spoiler:Admits [[spoiler:She admits that she will NEVER truly forgive Kurohime for everything that happened between them, but decides that if they should somehow meet in another life, they will try to get along.]]
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[[folder:Yukionna and Yukiotoko]]
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[[folder:Yukionna (Yuki) and Yukiotoko]]Yukiotoko (Yukio)]]
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* SleepModeSize: Their bodies are mostly hard-impacted snow, so after Kurohime melted them using [[PlayingWithFire Asura,]] they take the form of small children. They can FusionDance to take on a teenaged form of whoever's in control.
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* SleepModeSize: Their bodies are mostly hard-impacted snow, so after Kurohime melted them using [[PlayingWithFire Asura,]] Asura, they take the form of small children. They can FusionDance to take on a teenaged form of whoever's in control.
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* AllLoveIsUnrequited: She's deeply in love with the Death God (and quite literally that, uncaring of the actual person behind the title). Unlike everyone else, [[SelectiveObliviousness she hasn't realized it yet.]]
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* AllLoveIsUnrequited: She's deeply in love with the Death God (and quite literally that, uncaring of the actual person behind the title). Unlike everyone else, [[SelectiveObliviousness else who observes her behavior, she hasn't realized it yet.]]or chooses to ignore that the Death God doesn't like her back.
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* ClingyJealousGirl: She is single-mindedly fixated on Darkray and hates the idea that anyone else might feel attachment to him. Darkray once had to tell Sword not to look back at Yashahime after he declined an invitation to spend time with her, as she '''would have killed Sword on the spot''' just for being next to Darkray.
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* ClingyJealousGirl: She is single-mindedly fixated on Darkray and hates the idea that anyone else might feel attachment to him. Darkray once had to tell Sword not to look back at Yashahime after he declined an invitation to spend time with her, as she '''would have killed Sword on the spot''' just for being next to Darkray.him.
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* TheDreaded: With the exception of Igudo (who might not HAVE emotions), the other gods and supernatural creatures react with fear when and wherever she shows up.[[spoiler: The surviving gods quickly write off her death and move on to another galaxy rather than avenge her.]]
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* TheDreaded: With the exception of Igudo (who might not HAVE emotions), the other gods and supernatural creatures react with fear when and wherever she shows up.up, if not [[TheFriendNobodyLikes complete disdain.]] [[spoiler: The surviving gods quickly write off her death and move on to another galaxy rather than avenge her.]]
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** She one stabbed herself to keep her from killing Kurohime and then later claimed that the resulting scar is Kurohime's fault.
** Claimed that the [[GrimReaper God of Death]] isn't supposed to be concerned about anything or anyone, then blushed because he asked if her wounds had healed.
** Claimed that the [[GrimReaper God of Death]] isn't supposed to be concerned about anything or anyone, then blushed because he asked if her wounds had healed.
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** She At one point, she stabbed herself to keep her from killing Kurohime and then later claimed said that the resulting scar is Kurohime's fault.
**Claimed She once claimed that the [[GrimReaper God of Death]] isn't supposed to be concerned about anything or anyone, then blushed because he asked if her wounds had healed.
**
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* OhCrap:[[spoiler:When she realizes that, yes, Kurohime really IS going to [[EarthShatteringKaboom ''SLICE THE ENTIRE WORLD IN HALF'']] and [[ShootTheDog no]], [[ShutUpHannibal she will ''NOT'' be talked out of it]].]]
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* OhCrap:[[spoiler:When she realizes that, yes, Kurohime really IS going to [[EarthShatteringKaboom ''SLICE ''[[EarthShatteringKaboom SLICE THE ENTIRE WORLD IN HALF'']] HALF]]'' and [[ShootTheDog no]], [[ShutUpHannibal she will ''NOT'' NOT be talked out of it]].]]
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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.
* AllLoveIsUnrequited: He really likes Himeko, but she's attached to Zero too tightly to really consider it.
* AllLoveIsUnrequited: He really likes Himeko, but she's attached to Zero too tightly to really consider it.
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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.
mermaids.
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* AllLoveIsUnrequited: He really likes Himeko, and actually falls in love with her eventually, but she's attached to Zero too tightly to really consider it.
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* AllLoveIsUnrequited: He really likes Himeko, and actually falls in love with her eventually, but she's attached to Zero too tightly to really consider it.
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* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:He uses the last of the Spirit King jewels and his lifeforce to save Himeko from Dark Zero and Yashahime.]]
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* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:He uses the last of the Spirit King jewels and his lifeforce to save Himeko from Dark Zero and Yashahime.]]
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* PowerDyesYourHair: The Spirit King Jewels dye his hair white [[spoiler:It's closer to DiseaseBleach, though, given that he's dying to power the Jewels.]]
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* PowerDyesYourHair: The Spirit King Jewels eventually dye his hair white white. [[spoiler:It's closer to DiseaseBleach, though, given that he's dying to power the Jewels.]]
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* JerkAss: Is generally cold and unfriendly, but is exceptionally so to Asura, referring to her as "it" and factually explaining to Kurohime [[spoiler:that Asura is meant to be Yamatohime's substitute sacrifice to create the Ultimate Sword. There are shades of JerkassFacade here, as it's implied and later outright stated that she treated Asura this way to try and lessen the pain of Asura's sacrifice, and she did at least care enough to make sure Asura had (iron) toys to play with as a child.]]
* LivingOnBorrowedTime: [[spoiler:Giving birth to Asura basically immolated her; the only thing still keeping her alive is Yamatohime's blessing, given that Yamatohime was the one that made it possible to give birth to Asura in the first place. Once she goes to make her peace with Asura, that runs out, and she dies.]]
* LivingOnBorrowedTime: [[spoiler:Giving birth to Asura basically immolated her; the only thing still keeping her alive is Yamatohime's blessing, given that Yamatohime was the one that made it possible to give birth to Asura in the first place. Once she goes to make her peace with Asura, that runs out, and she dies.]]
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* JerkAss: Is generally cold and unfriendly, but is exceptionally so to Asura, referring to her as "it" "it", and factually explaining explains to Kurohime [[spoiler:that Asura is meant to be Yamatohime's substitute sacrifice to create the Ultimate Sword. There are shades of JerkassFacade here, as it's implied and later outright stated that she treated Asura this way to try and lessen the pain of Asura's sacrifice, and she did at least care enough to make sure Asura had (iron) toys to play with as a child.]]
* LivingOnBorrowedTime: [[spoiler:Giving birth to Asurabasically completely immolated her; her body below the head; the only thing still keeping her alive is Yamatohime's blessing, given that Yamatohime was the one that made it possible to give birth to Asura in the first place. Once she goes to make her peace with Asura, that blessing runs out, and she dies.]]
* LivingOnBorrowedTime: [[spoiler:Giving birth to Asura
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* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: Yamatohime. Though she's chained up, the spirit the gods are the most afraid of escaping is Yamatohime, and it seems everyone on her side defers to her.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Yamatohime gives the last of her power and life to resurrect Kurohime for the last time, since at that point Yashahime had succeeded in taking over the planet and [[KnowWhenToFoldEm there was nothing to be gained by holding onto it anymore]].]]
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Yamatohime gives the last of her power and life to resurrect Kurohime for the last time, since at that point Yashahime had succeeded in taking over the planet and [[KnowWhenToFoldEm there was nothing to be gained by holding onto it anymore]].]]
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* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: Yamatohime. Though she's chained up, the spirit the gods are the most afraid of escaping is Yamatohime, and it seems everyone on her side defers to her.
* HeroicSacrifice:[[spoiler:Yamatohime [[spoiler:Seeing that even in death, Kurohime is unwilling to stop fighting against Yashahime, Yamatohime gives the last of her power and life to resurrect Kurohime for the last time, since at time.]]
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: [[The other reason for her HeroicSacrifice above: knowing thatpoint Yashahime had succeeded in taking over the planet and [[KnowWhenToFoldEm there was nothing to be gained by holding onto it anymore]].trying to conserve her power anymore once Yashahime merged with the planet, she decieds to gamble everything on Kurohime one last time.]]
* HeroicSacrifice:
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: [[The other reason for her HeroicSacrifice above: knowing that
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* {{BFS}}: His sword is taller than him.
* MightyGlacier: His armor's heavy enough that once it rusts with him in it, he can't move. However, once it's oiled up, he's lumbering but terrifyingly tough and powerful for a human soldier.
* MightyGlacier: His armor's heavy enough that once it rusts with him in it, he can't move. However, once it's oiled up, he's lumbering but terrifyingly tough and powerful for a human soldier.
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* AnimatedArmor: [[spoiler:What he basically actually is; his desire for vengeance for his dead lord as well as the nature of his sword basically kept him alive in his armor despite being dead.]]
* {{BFS}}: His sword is taller thanhim.
him. [[spoiler:It also doubles as an ArtifactOfDoom, as it's bound his soul to his armor despite the fact that he's dead.]]
* MightyGlacier: His armor's heavy enough that once it rusts with him in it, he can't move. However, once it's oiled up, he's lumbering but terrifyingly tough and powerful for a human soldier. [[spoiler:Part of this is because he's already dead and his body is flat out gone, so he feels no pain anymore.]]
* {{BFS}}: His sword is taller than
* MightyGlacier: His armor's heavy enough that once it rusts with him in it, he can't move. However, once it's oiled up, he's lumbering but terrifyingly tough and powerful for a human soldier. [[spoiler:Part of this is because he's already dead and his body is flat out gone, so he feels no pain anymore.]]
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* ActionDad: Where he effectively lands thanks to accepting Aohime's title of "father".
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* ActionDad: Where he effectively lands thanks to accepting Aohime's title of once he accepts Aohime calling him "father".
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* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Dan becomes so protective of Aohime because of her unconditional kindness to him.
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* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Dan becomes so protective of Aohime because of her unfailing, unconditional kindness to him.
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* BloodKnight: Of sorts; in his own words, he really only lived to fight until he met Aohime, and largely thought of himself as a weapon that only lived to take orders.
* DiedStandingUp: [[spoiler:He props himself up using his gun as a cane, and gives one [[GoOutWithASmile last smile and some gentle words]] to Aohime before dying.]]
* DiedStandingUp: [[spoiler:He props himself up using his gun as a cane, and gives one [[GoOutWithASmile last smile and some gentle words]] to Aohime before dying.]]
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* BloodKnight: Of sorts; in In his own words, he really only lived to fight until he met Aohime, and largely thought of himself as a weapon that only lived to fight and take orders.
* DiedStandingUp: [[spoiler:He props himself up using his gun as a cane, and givesone [[GoOutWithASmile one last smile smile]] and some gentle words]] words to Aohime before dying.]]
* DefectorFromDecadence: [[spoiler:After seeing Aohime get thrown into a tank and hearing about how she was experimented on by his own side--compounded by her still calling out for him, her "father", while contained in said tank--Dan breaks her out and runs off with her.]]
* DiedStandingUp: [[spoiler:He props himself up using his gun as a cane, and gives
* DefectorFromDecadence: [[spoiler:After seeing Aohime get thrown into a tank and hearing about how she was experimented on by his own side--compounded by her still calling out for him, her "father", while contained in said tank--Dan breaks her out and runs off with her.]]
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* FamilyOfChoice: What Aohime ultimately winds up being to him when all's said and done, which he acknowledges out loud to her face.
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* FamilyOfChoice: What Aohime ultimately winds up being to him when all's said and done, which he acknowledges out loud is finally able to admit to her face.[[spoiler:as he's dying.]]
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* MadeOfIron: He takes an absurd amount of punishment both when he retrieves Aohime and [[spoiler:when he fights off the Bullet Blade Brigade members sent to retrieve her.]]
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* MadeOfIron: He takes an absurd amount of punishment both when he retrieves Aohime (a broken arm and leg) and [[spoiler:when he fights off the Bullet Blade Brigade members sent to retrieve her.]]
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* PapaWolf: [[spoiler:He finds himself moved into saving Aohime when he hears her calling out for him after being thrown in a tube and experimented on repeatedly, killing a good chunk of the Bullet Blade Brigade soldiers sent to retrieve her.]]
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* PapaWolf: [[spoiler:He finds himself moved into saving Aohime when he hears her calling out for him after being thrown in a tube and experimented on repeatedly, repeatedly. After their escape, he later spends a fair amount of time killing a good chunk of the Bullet Blade Brigade soldiers sent to retrieve her as well as the Majura Clan members looking for her.]]
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: [[spoiler:After seeing Aohime get thrown into a tank and hearing about how she was experimented on by his own side--compounded by her still calling out for him, her "father", while contained in said tank--Dan breaks her out and runs off with her.]]
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* BabiesEverAfter: [[spoiler:Dan's HeroicSacrifice enables her to get away from the Bullet Blade Brigade and the Majura Clan, and it is implied she settled down somewhere and had two children, a boy and a girl.]]
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Aohime herself is not exceptionally violent if unprovoked, but she ''will not hesitate'' to do whatever it takes to protect Dan; she summoned a witch beast to kill a dragon attacking her and Dan without even hesitating, demonstrates a willingness to fire on anyone that seems like a remote threat to Dan, [[spoiler:actively tries to fight alongside him when the Bullet Blade Brigade targets the both of them, and she kills Dan's killer herself from above]].
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Aohime herself is not exceptionally violent if unprovoked, but she ''will not hesitate'' to do whatever it takes to protect Dan; she summoned a witch beast to kill a dragon attacking her and Dan without even hesitating, demonstrates a willingness to fire on anyone that seems like a remote threat to Dan, [[spoiler:actively tries to fight alongside him when the Bullet Blade Brigade targets the both of them, and she kills Dan's killer herself from above]].
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* BabiesEverAfter: [[spoiler:Dan's HeroicSacrifice enables her to get away from the Bullet Blade Brigade and the Majura Clan, and it is it's implied on the last page of the sidestory that she settled down somewhere and had two children, a boy and a girl.children.]]
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Aohime herself isnot exceptionally violent if unprovoked, a kind, swet-natured girl, but she ''will not hesitate'' to do whatever it takes to protect Dan; Dan. On their first meeting, she summoned a witch beast to kill a dragon attacking her and Dan without even hesitating, then later demonstrates a willingness to fire on anyone that seems like a remote threat to Dan, [[spoiler:actively tries to fight alongside him when the Bullet Blade Brigade targets the both of them, and she ultimately kills Dan's killer herself from above]].before taking his gun and flying away]].
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Aohime herself is
* HairDecorations: She wears two ornaments in her sidelocks of hair. [[spoiler:[[ExpositoryHairstyleChange When she's grown older and had children, they're gone.]]]]
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* MoralityPet: Serves as one to Dan, due to how she's single-mindedly devoted to him and how willing she is to protect him. [[spoiler:This is what eventually spurs him to flee with her.]]
* SheIsAllGrownUp: [[spoiler:By the time she has kids, she's become an adult, still as gentle and kind as she was when Dan was alive.]]
* SheIsAllGrownUp: [[spoiler:By the time she has kids, she's become an adult, still as gentle and kind as she was when Dan was alive.]]
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* MoralityPet: Serves as one to Dan, due to how she's single-mindedly devoted to him and how willing she is to protect him. stay by his side, whether as protection or simply because he's there. [[spoiler:This is what eventually spurs him to take her from the Bullet Blade Brigade and flee with her.]]
*SheIsAllGrownUp: [[spoiler:By RapunzelHair: Her hair is long enough to reach the time she has kids, she's become an adult, still as gentle and kind as she was when Dan was alive.]]middle of her back.
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* TragicKeepsake: [[spoiler: Dan's gun serves as one for her; in her new home some indeterminate amount of time later, she's hung it up above her fireplace in memory of him.]]
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* TragicKeepsake: [[spoiler: Dan's gun serves as one for her; in her new home some indeterminate amount of time later, after Dan's death, she's hung it up above her fireplace in memory of him.]]
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* PluckyGirl: She, Himeko, and Kurohime are NotSoDifferent in this regard; no matter what they go through, they refuse to ever give up.
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* PluckyGirl: She, Himeko, and Kurohime are NotSoDifferent similar in this regard; no matter what they go through, they refuse to ever give up.
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A rough soldier from the Bullet Blade Brigade. He is sent on a mission against the Majura Clan to recover their latest weapon.
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A rough soldier from the Bullet Blade Brigade.Brigade and the main protagonist of the ''Witch Aohime'' sidestory. He is sent on a mission against the Majura Clan to recover their latest weapon.
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* BadassNormal: He has no magic skills to speak of but has held his own on multiple battlefields with his gun and armor, [[spoiler:and ultimately decimated the Bullet Blade Brigade forces that came after him to reclaim Aohime with a broken arm and 'none' of that armor.]]
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* BadassNormal: He has no magic skills to speak of at all, but has held his own on multiple battlefields with his gun and armor, [[spoiler:and ultimately decimated the Bullet Blade Brigade forces that came after him to reclaim Aohime with a broken arm and 'none' ''none'' of that armor.]]
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* DiedStandingUp: [[spoiler:He props himself up using his sword as a cane, and gives one [[GoOutWithASmile last smile and some gentle words to Aohime before dying.]]]]
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* DiedStandingUp: [[spoiler:He props himself up using his sword gun as a cane, and gives one [[GoOutWithASmile last smile and some gentle words words]] to Aohime before dying.]]]]]]
* GuileHero: [[spoiler:He stays multiple steps ahead of both the Majura Clan and the Bullet Blade Brigade during his OneManArmy stand against them; first, he uses the dust cover from the cannon shot ''that removes his arm'' as well as the arm itself to fool the Brigade into thinking he's died while he uses a grappling hook to reposition himself. Then, he uses a lookalike soldier to get into a tank and instigate a fight between the Clan and the Brigade so that he can get away while they decimate each other.]]
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* LightningBruiser: His armor helps facilitate this, as it lets him rocket down and attack people, but even without it, he's incredibly fast and quite strong, capable of moving incredibly fast and jumping incredibly high in addition to cleaving through people.
* LoveRedeems: Aohime's unwavering love and attachment to him changed him from a brutal, business-minded soldier to a man determined to protect the only family he had.
* LoveRedeems: Aohime's unwavering love and attachment to him changed him from a brutal, business-minded soldier to a man determined to protect the only family he had.
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* LightningBruiser: His armor helps facilitate this, as it lets him it's self-propelled and shaped like a bullet in such a way that he can rocket down and attack people, but even people. Even without it, he's incredibly fast and quite strong, capable of moving incredibly fast and jumping incredibly high high, sprinting across a field while using his sword to deflect attacks and bullets in addition to cleaving through people.
* LoveRedeems: Aohime's unwavering love and attachment to him changed him from a brutal, business-minded soldier to a man determined to protect the only family hehad.has, [[spoiler:even at the cost of his own life.]]
* LoveRedeems: Aohime's unwavering love and attachment to him changed him from a brutal, business-minded soldier to a man determined to protect the only family he
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: After seeing Aohime get thrown into a tank and experimented on by his own side, Dan eventually breaks her out and runs off with her.
* StabTheScorpion: When it looks like he's going to kill Aohime for a second time, Dan actually shoots an enemy behind her with his last bullet.
* WouldHurtAChild: Nearly shoots Aohime *twice* when he thinks he won't be able to get away with her.
* StabTheScorpion: When it looks like he's going to kill Aohime for a second time, Dan actually shoots an enemy behind her with his last bullet.
* WouldHurtAChild: Nearly shoots Aohime *twice* when he thinks he won't be able to get away with her.
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* RasputinianDeath: [[spoiler:He's still going relatively strong even after losing his arm to a cannon shot, taking numerous wounds as a result of ''that'' shot, and actively bleeding out from the tied-off stump of his arm. He has to be literally run through by a crystal in order to die, and even then he has enough energy to get up out of Aohime's arms and prop himself up using his gun to die on his feet.]]
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere:After [[spoiler:After seeing Aohime get thrown into a tank and hearing about how she was experimented on by his own side, Dan eventually side--compounded by her still calling out for him, her "father", while contained in said tank--Dan breaks her out and runs off with her.
her.]]
* StabTheScorpion: When it looks like he's going tokill shoot Aohime for a (for the second time, time in only so many minutes), Dan actually shoots an enemy behind her with his last bullet.
* WouldHurtAChild: Nearly shoots Aohime *twice* when he thinks he won't be able to get away withher.her, even if in both situations he winds up not doing it.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere:
* StabTheScorpion: When it looks like he's going to
* WouldHurtAChild: Nearly shoots Aohime *twice* when he thinks he won't be able to get away with
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A young girl born from a Black God Tree. She is the Majura Clan's "weapon" that Dan's mission centered on.
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A young girl born from a Black God Tree.Tree and the titular character of the ''Witch Aohime'' sidestory. She is the Majura Clan's "weapon" that Dan's mission centered on.
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* ArtificialHuman: She was basically created as a pure magic weapon by the Majura Clan and grew out of a Black God Tree; her artificial nature shows again when she's put in a tank by the Bullet Blade Brigade's doctors and more Black God Tree branches grow around her. She also has mental conditioning protocols that made her imprint on the first person she saw, and a failsafe that would kill her if her imprinted person died.
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* ArtificialHuman: She was basically created as a pure magic weapon by the Majura Clan and grew out of a Black God Tree; her artificial nature shows again when she's put in a tank by the Bullet Blade Brigade's doctors and more Black God Tree branches grow around her. She also has mental conditioning protocols that made her imprint on the first person she saw, and a failsafe that would kill her if her imprinted person died.
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: Aohime herself is not exceptionally violent if unprovoked, but she ''will not hesitate'' to do whatever it takes to protect Dan; she shot an enemy aerial unit out of the sky with a witch bullet when he couldn't move, demonstrates a willingness to fire on anyone that seems like a remote threat to Dan, [[spoiler:and kills Dan's killer herself]].
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: Aohime herself is not exceptionally violent if unprovoked, but she ''will not hesitate'' to do whatever it takes to protect Dan; she shot an enemy aerial unit out of the sky with summoned a witch bullet when he couldn't move, beast to kill a dragon attacking her and Dan without even hesitating, demonstrates a willingness to fire on anyone that seems like a remote threat to Dan, [[spoiler:and [[spoiler:actively tries to fight alongside him when the Bullet Blade Brigade targets the both of them, and she kills Dan's killer herself]].herself from above]].
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* FamilyOfChoice: Mental conditioning aside, this is how she views Dan, calling him father unfailingly [[spoiler:even after he's died and her mental conditioning is broken.]]
* LivingWeapon: She was designed as one, and is capable of using witch dances and firing magic bullets.
* MoralityPet: Serves as one to Dan, due to how she's single-mindedly devoted to him and how willing she is to protect him. This is what eventually spurs him to flee with her.
* LivingWeapon: She was designed as one, and is capable of using witch dances and firing magic bullets.
* MoralityPet: Serves as one to Dan, due to how she's single-mindedly devoted to him and how willing she is to protect him. This is what eventually spurs him to flee with her.
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* FamilyOfChoice: Mental conditioning aside, this is how she views Dan, calling him father unfailingly [[spoiler:even unfailingly. [[spoiler:This persists even after he's died and her mental conditioning is broken.]]
* LivingWeapon: She was designed as one, and is capable ofusing witch dances and firing powerful magic bullets.
bullets and creating wings to fly even without using a magic bullet.
* MoralityPet: Serves as one to Dan, due to how she's single-mindedly devoted to him and how willing she is to protect him.This [[spoiler:This is what eventually spurs him to flee with her.]]
* LivingWeapon: She was designed as one, and is capable of
* MoralityPet: Serves as one to Dan, due to how she's single-mindedly devoted to him and how willing she is to protect him.
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* TogetherInDeath: She states multiple times that she wouldn't mind dying as long as she's with Dan.
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* UndyingLoyalty: To Dan, as a result of being programmed to imprint on the first person she saw when she came out of the bamboo. [[spoiler:When Dan dies, his final assertion to her that they're a family and that he wants her to live for herself breaks the failsafe, but she still loves him and thinks of him as her father all the same.]]
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* UndyingLoyalty: To Dan, as a result of being programmed to imprint on the first person she saw when she came out of the bamboo. Black God Tree. [[spoiler:When Dan dies, his final assertion to her that they're a family and that he wants her to live for herself breaks the failsafe, all her conditioning, but she still loves him and thinks of him as her father all the same.]]
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* BecauseDestinySaysSo: [[spoiler: Her fate is to complete the Ultimate Sword by sacrificing herself to the Yamato Senryuutou. She's not pleased with being born to die and keeps her resentment about it bottled up until she literally can't contain it anymore and loses control of her powers. After her mother apologizes to her and [[ThePowerOfFriendship Kurohime chooses to die instead of shooting Asura]], Asura realizes that she was the only one thinking of herself as "merely" a substitute for Yamatohime, and willingly chooses to embrace her fate instead of running from it.]]
* BrokenBird: [[spoiler:She was born as a substitute for Yamatohime's sacrifice--should it be needed--and was raised being perfectly aware of this. She lived in an iron cage for the majority of her childhood, with similarly-fashioned toys, so that she wouldn't burn anything else down. Her own mother raised her coldly, unwilling to bond with a non-human daughter that was meant to die. Needless to say, the severe emotional isolation did no favors for her feelings toward humanity.]]
* BrokenBird: [[spoiler:She was born as a substitute for Yamatohime's sacrifice--should it be needed--and was raised being perfectly aware of this. She lived in an iron cage for the majority of her childhood, with similarly-fashioned toys, so that she wouldn't burn anything else down. Her own mother raised her coldly, unwilling to bond with a non-human daughter that was meant to die. Needless to say, the severe emotional isolation did no favors for her feelings toward humanity.]]
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* AntagonisticOffspring: [[spoiler:Asura absolutely ''hates'' her mother, and rightfully so due to the isolation and other alienating behaviors that she had to grow up under.]]
* BecauseDestinySaysSo: [[spoiler: Her fate is to complete the Ultimate Sword by sacrificing herself to the Yamato Senryuutou. She's not pleased with being born to die and keeps her resentment about it bottled up until she literally can't contain it anymore and loses control of her powers. After her mother apologizes to her with a FinalFirstHug and [[ThePowerOfFriendship Kurohime chooses to die instead of shooting Asura]], Asura realizes that she was the only one thinking of herself as "merely" a substitute for Yamatohime, and willingly chooses to embrace her fate instead of running from it.]]
* BrokenBird: [[spoiler:She was born as a substitute for Yamatohime's sacrifice--should it be needed--and was raised being perfectly aware of this. She lived in an iron cage for the majority of her childhood, with similarly-fashioned toys, so that she wouldn't burn anything else down. Her own mother raised her coldly, unwilling to bond with anon-human half-human daughter that was meant to die. Needless to say, die, and outright told a young Asura the severe emotional isolation did no favors for purpose of her feelings toward humanity.birth and the sacrifice she would be called on to make. That, combined with her own knowledge that humans were created to weaken the spirits and subjugate the planet, explains a lot of her bitterness when she's introduced.]]
* BecauseDestinySaysSo: [[spoiler: Her fate is to complete the Ultimate Sword by sacrificing herself to the Yamato Senryuutou. She's not pleased with being born to die and keeps her resentment about it bottled up until she literally can't contain it anymore and loses control of her powers. After her mother apologizes to her with a FinalFirstHug and [[ThePowerOfFriendship Kurohime chooses to die instead of shooting Asura]], Asura realizes that she was the only one thinking of herself as "merely" a substitute for Yamatohime, and willingly chooses to embrace her fate instead of running from it.]]
* BrokenBird: [[spoiler:She was born as a substitute for Yamatohime's sacrifice--should it be needed--and was raised being perfectly aware of this. She lived in an iron cage for the majority of her childhood, with similarly-fashioned toys, so that she wouldn't burn anything else down. Her own mother raised her coldly, unwilling to bond with a
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* HalfHumanHybrid: [[spoiler:According to her mother, 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 in Yamatohime's place, completing the Ultimate Sword without killing Yamatohime.]]
* MultiArmedAndDangerous: Much like her namesake, her true form has six arms.
* ObiWanMoment: She spends a little time calmly comforting Sara, the little girl she made friends with, [[spoiler:before sending her consciousness back in time to her old body for her HeroicSacrifice.]]
* MultiArmedAndDangerous: Much like her namesake, her true form has six arms.
* ObiWanMoment: She spends a little time calmly comforting Sara, the little girl she made friends with, [[spoiler:before sending her consciousness back in time to her old body for her HeroicSacrifice.]]
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* HalfHumanHybrid: [[spoiler:According to her mother, 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 in Yamatohime's place, completing the Ultimate Sword without killing Yamatohime. This leads to some subtle InternalizedCategorism due to her strong hatred of humans.]]
* MultiArmedAndDangerous: [[MeaningfulName Much like hernamesake, namesake]], her true form has six arms.
* ObiWanMoment: She spends a little time calmly comforting Sara, the little girl she made friends with, and assuring her that she'll live on as a spirit, [[spoiler:before sending her consciousness back in time to her old body for her HeroicSacrifice.]]
* MultiArmedAndDangerous: [[MeaningfulName Much like her
* ObiWanMoment: She spends a little time calmly comforting Sara, the little girl she made friends with, and assuring her that she'll live on as a spirit, [[spoiler:before sending her consciousness back in time to her old body for her HeroicSacrifice.]]
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* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:Ultimately, she serves as one during the climax of the story in order to complete the Ultimate Sword. An added wrinkle to this is the fact that she has always been aware that she would play this role for Yamatohime, and it is only because Kurohime refused to do it at first that she calms down enough to go through with it.]]
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* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:Ultimately, she serves as one during the climax of the story in order to complete the Ultimate Sword.Sword in Yamatohime's place. An added wrinkle to this is the fact that she has always been aware that she would play this role for Yamatohime, and it is only because Kurohime refused to do it at first that she calms down enough to go through with it.]]
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The priestess of the village where Asura was born.
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* AbusiveParent: [[spoiler:She raised Asura in an iron cage with iron toys, treated her like a creature instead of a daughter, and generally isolated her from people.]]
* DiedInYourArmsTonight: [[spoiler:How she chooses to die once she's made up with Asura.]]
* FinalFirstHug: [[spoiler:She deliberately allows a berserk Asura to immolate her and ends her life while hugging Asura and apologizing to her for how badly she treated her as a child.]]
* JerkAss: Is generally cold and unfriendly, but is exceptionally so to Asura, referring to her as "it" and factually explaining to Kurohime [[spoiler:that Asura is meant to be Yamatohime's substitute sacrifice to create the Ultimate Sword. There are shades of JerkassFacade here, as it's implied and later outright stated that she treated Asura this way to try and lessen the pain of Asura's sacrifice, and she did at least care enough to make sure Asura had (iron) toys to play with as a child.]]
* LivingOnBorrowedTime: [[spoiler:Giving birth to Asura basically immolated her; the only thing still keeping her alive is Yamatohime's blessing, given that Yamatohime was the one that made it possible to give birth to Asura in the first place. Once she goes to make her peace with Asura, that runs out, and she dies.]]
The priestess of the village where Asura was born.
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* AbusiveParent: [[spoiler:She raised Asura in an iron cage with iron toys, treated her like a creature instead of a daughter, and generally isolated her from people.]]
* DiedInYourArmsTonight: [[spoiler:How she chooses to die once she's made up with Asura.]]
* FinalFirstHug: [[spoiler:She deliberately allows a berserk Asura to immolate her and ends her life while hugging Asura and apologizing to her for how badly she treated her as a child.]]
* JerkAss: Is generally cold and unfriendly, but is exceptionally so to Asura, referring to her as "it" and factually explaining to Kurohime [[spoiler:that Asura is meant to be Yamatohime's substitute sacrifice to create the Ultimate Sword. There are shades of JerkassFacade here, as it's implied and later outright stated that she treated Asura this way to try and lessen the pain of Asura's sacrifice, and she did at least care enough to make sure Asura had (iron) toys to play with as a child.]]
* LivingOnBorrowedTime: [[spoiler:Giving birth to Asura basically immolated her; the only thing still keeping her alive is Yamatohime's blessing, given that Yamatohime was the one that made it possible to give birth to Asura in the first place. Once she goes to make her peace with Asura, that runs out, and she dies.]]
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* {{BFS}}: His sword is taller than him.
* MightyGlacier: His armor's heavy enough that once it rusts with him in it, he can't move. However, once it's oiled up, he's lumbering but terrifyingly tough and powerful for a human soldier.
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* {{BFS}}: His sword is taller than him.
* MightyGlacier: His armor's heavy enough that once it rusts with him in it, he can't move. However, once it's oiled up, he's lumbering but terrifyingly tough and powerful for a human soldier.
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An explorer that Himeko meets after being banished to Hell.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: At the end of the second omake chapter where he appears, he states that he'll be traveling to other lands in the east. [[spoiler:This sets up the pretext for why he's in Yamato by the time the story starts to wrap up.]]
* TheBusCameBack: [[spoiler:He reappears in the final chapters of the manga with the very same scarf that Rei's been carrying since he took on the name "Zero".]]
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: At the end of the second omake chapter where he appears, he states that he'll be traveling to other lands in the east. [[spoiler:This sets up the pretext for why he's in Yamato by the time the story starts to wrap up.]]
* TheBusCameBack: [[spoiler:He reappears in the final chapters of the manga with the very same scarf that Rei's been carrying since he took on the name "Zero".]]
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* ActionDad: Where he effectively lands thanks to accepting Aohime's title of "father".
* AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler:He loses his broken arm while fighting off the Bullet Blade Brigade forces sent to recapture Aohime.]]
* BadassNormal: He has no magic skills to speak of but has held his own on multiple battlefields with his gun and armor, [[spoiler:and ultimately decimated the Bullet Blade Brigade forces that came after him to reclaim Aohime with a broken arm and 'none' of that armor.]]
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Dan becomes so protective of Aohime because of her unconditional kindness to him.
* {{BFG}}: His gun is one, doubling as an odd sword due to the three fangs on its underside.
* BloodKnight: Of sorts; in his own words, he really only lived to fight until he met Aohime, and largely thought of himself as a weapon that only lived to take orders.
* DiedStandingUp: [[spoiler:He props himself up using his sword as a cane, and gives one [[GoOutWithASmile last smile and some gentle words to Aohime before dying.]]]]
* {{Expy}}: He very strongly resembles a less scarred [[{{Manga/Berserk}} Guts]] in looks and personality, [[spoiler:especially after losing his arm.]]
* FamilyOfChoice: What Aohime ultimately winds up being to him when all's said and done, which he acknowledges out loud to her face.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:He fights and dies to try and buy time for Aohime to get away from the Majura Clan and the Bullet Blade Brigade.]]
* InTheBack: [[spoiler:His fatal wound comes when he's skewered from behind by a huge crystal.]]
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Despite his rough behavior and single-minded focus on fighting, he does have a softer side awakened by Aohime's love for him.
* LightningBruiser: His armor helps facilitate this, as it lets him rocket down and attack people, but even without it, he's incredibly fast and quite strong, capable of moving incredibly fast and jumping incredibly high in addition to cleaving through people.
* LoveRedeems: Aohime's unwavering love and attachment to him changed him from a brutal, business-minded soldier to a man determined to protect the only family he had.
* MadeOfIron: He takes an absurd amount of punishment both when he retrieves Aohime and [[spoiler:when he fights off the Bullet Blade Brigade members sent to retrieve her.]]
* ParentalSubstitute: To Aohime, albeit against his will (at first).
* PapaWolf: [[spoiler:He finds himself moved into saving Aohime when he hears her calling out for him after being thrown in a tube and experimented on repeatedly, killing a good chunk of the Bullet Blade Brigade soldiers sent to retrieve her.]]
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: After seeing Aohime get thrown into a tank and experimented on by his own side, Dan eventually breaks her out and runs off with her.
* StabTheScorpion: When it looks like he's going to kill Aohime for a second time, Dan actually shoots an enemy behind her with his last bullet.
* WouldHurtAChild: Nearly shoots Aohime *twice* when he thinks he won't be able to get away with her.
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* ActionDad: Where he effectively lands thanks to accepting Aohime's title of "father".
* AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler:He loses his broken arm while fighting off the Bullet Blade Brigade forces sent to recapture Aohime.]]
* BadassNormal: He has no magic skills to speak of but has held his own on multiple battlefields with his gun and armor, [[spoiler:and ultimately decimated the Bullet Blade Brigade forces that came after him to reclaim Aohime with a broken arm and 'none' of that armor.]]
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Dan becomes so protective of Aohime because of her unconditional kindness to him.
* {{BFG}}: His gun is one, doubling as an odd sword due to the three fangs on its underside.
* BloodKnight: Of sorts; in his own words, he really only lived to fight until he met Aohime, and largely thought of himself as a weapon that only lived to take orders.
* DiedStandingUp: [[spoiler:He props himself up using his sword as a cane, and gives one [[GoOutWithASmile last smile and some gentle words to Aohime before dying.]]]]
* {{Expy}}: He very strongly resembles a less scarred [[{{Manga/Berserk}} Guts]] in looks and personality, [[spoiler:especially after losing his arm.]]
* FamilyOfChoice: What Aohime ultimately winds up being to him when all's said and done, which he acknowledges out loud to her face.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:He fights and dies to try and buy time for Aohime to get away from the Majura Clan and the Bullet Blade Brigade.]]
* InTheBack: [[spoiler:His fatal wound comes when he's skewered from behind by a huge crystal.]]
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Despite his rough behavior and single-minded focus on fighting, he does have a softer side awakened by Aohime's love for him.
* LightningBruiser: His armor helps facilitate this, as it lets him rocket down and attack people, but even without it, he's incredibly fast and quite strong, capable of moving incredibly fast and jumping incredibly high in addition to cleaving through people.
* LoveRedeems: Aohime's unwavering love and attachment to him changed him from a brutal, business-minded soldier to a man determined to protect the only family he had.
* MadeOfIron: He takes an absurd amount of punishment both when he retrieves Aohime and [[spoiler:when he fights off the Bullet Blade Brigade members sent to retrieve her.]]
* ParentalSubstitute: To Aohime, albeit against his will (at first).
* PapaWolf: [[spoiler:He finds himself moved into saving Aohime when he hears her calling out for him after being thrown in a tube and experimented on repeatedly, killing a good chunk of the Bullet Blade Brigade soldiers sent to retrieve her.]]
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: After seeing Aohime get thrown into a tank and experimented on by his own side, Dan eventually breaks her out and runs off with her.
* StabTheScorpion: When it looks like he's going to kill Aohime for a second time, Dan actually shoots an enemy behind her with his last bullet.
* WouldHurtAChild: Nearly shoots Aohime *twice* when he thinks he won't be able to get away with her.
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* ArtificialHuman: She was basically created as a pure magic weapon by the Majura Clan and grew out of a Black God Tree; her artificial nature shows again when she's put in a tank by the Bullet Blade Brigade's doctors and more Black God Tree branches grow around her. She also has mental conditioning protocols that made her imprint on the first person she saw, and a failsafe that would kill her if her imprinted person died.
* BabiesEverAfter: [[spoiler:Dan's HeroicSacrifice enables her to get away from the Bullet Blade Brigade and the Majura Clan, and it is implied she settled down somewhere and had two children, a boy and a girl.]]
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Aohime herself is not exceptionally violent if unprovoked, but she ''will not hesitate'' to do whatever it takes to protect Dan; she shot an enemy aerial unit out of the sky with a witch bullet when he couldn't move, demonstrates a willingness to fire on anyone that seems like a remote threat to Dan, [[spoiler:and kills Dan's killer herself]].
* ColdBloodedTorture: One of the Bullet Blade Brigade's doctors implies he put her through this, saying that he tried multiple ways to break the mental conditioning that has her see Dan as her father.
* CuteWitch: Qualifies as one due to her youthful looks and natural ability to make witch bullets.
* FamilyOfChoice: Mental conditioning aside, this is how she views Dan, calling him father unfailingly [[spoiler:even after he's died and her mental conditioning is broken.]]
* LivingWeapon: She was designed as one, and is capable of using witch dances and firing magic bullets.
* MoralityPet: Serves as one to Dan, due to how she's single-mindedly devoted to him and how willing she is to protect him. This is what eventually spurs him to flee with her.
* SheIsAllGrownUp: [[spoiler:By the time she has kids, she's become an adult, still as gentle and kind as she was when Dan was alive.]]
* SkilledButNaive: Despite being an extremely powerful witch, she doesn't know anything about normal people or the real world, leaving Dan to teach her most of it; for instance, she saw people eating with utensils and nearly shot them, assuming they were using weapons.
* SmallGirlBigGun: What it looks like whenever she uses Dan's gun, but she can handle the recoil fairly well.
* TogetherInDeath: She states multiple times that she wouldn't mind dying as long as she's with Dan.
* TragicKeepsake: [[spoiler: Dan's gun serves as one for her; in her new home some indeterminate amount of time later, she's hung it up above her fireplace in memory of him.]]
* UndyingLoyalty: To Dan, as a result of being programmed to imprint on the first person she saw when she came out of the bamboo. [[spoiler:When Dan dies, his final assertion to her that they're a family and that he wants her to live for herself breaks the failsafe, but she still loves him and thinks of him as her father all the same.]]
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* ArtificialHuman: She was basically created as a pure magic weapon by the Majura Clan and grew out of a Black God Tree; her artificial nature shows again when she's put in a tank by the Bullet Blade Brigade's doctors and more Black God Tree branches grow around her. She also has mental conditioning protocols that made her imprint on the first person she saw, and a failsafe that would kill her if her imprinted person died.
* BabiesEverAfter: [[spoiler:Dan's HeroicSacrifice enables her to get away from the Bullet Blade Brigade and the Majura Clan, and it is implied she settled down somewhere and had two children, a boy and a girl.]]
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Aohime herself is not exceptionally violent if unprovoked, but she ''will not hesitate'' to do whatever it takes to protect Dan; she shot an enemy aerial unit out of the sky with a witch bullet when he couldn't move, demonstrates a willingness to fire on anyone that seems like a remote threat to Dan, [[spoiler:and kills Dan's killer herself]].
* ColdBloodedTorture: One of the Bullet Blade Brigade's doctors implies he put her through this, saying that he tried multiple ways to break the mental conditioning that has her see Dan as her father.
* CuteWitch: Qualifies as one due to her youthful looks and natural ability to make witch bullets.
* FamilyOfChoice: Mental conditioning aside, this is how she views Dan, calling him father unfailingly [[spoiler:even after he's died and her mental conditioning is broken.]]
* LivingWeapon: She was designed as one, and is capable of using witch dances and firing magic bullets.
* MoralityPet: Serves as one to Dan, due to how she's single-mindedly devoted to him and how willing she is to protect him. This is what eventually spurs him to flee with her.
* SheIsAllGrownUp: [[spoiler:By the time she has kids, she's become an adult, still as gentle and kind as she was when Dan was alive.]]
* SkilledButNaive: Despite being an extremely powerful witch, she doesn't know anything about normal people or the real world, leaving Dan to teach her most of it; for instance, she saw people eating with utensils and nearly shot them, assuming they were using weapons.
* SmallGirlBigGun: What it looks like whenever she uses Dan's gun, but she can handle the recoil fairly well.
* TogetherInDeath: She states multiple times that she wouldn't mind dying as long as she's with Dan.
* TragicKeepsake: [[spoiler: Dan's gun serves as one for her; in her new home some indeterminate amount of time later, she's hung it up above her fireplace in memory of him.]]
* UndyingLoyalty: To Dan, as a result of being programmed to imprint on the first person she saw when she came out of the bamboo. [[spoiler:When Dan dies, his final assertion to her that they're a family and that he wants her to live for herself breaks the failsafe, but she still loves him and thinks of him as her father all the same.]]
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* BecauseDestinySaysSo: [[spoiler: Her fate is to complete the Ultimate Sword by sacrificing herself to the Yamato Senryuutou. She's not pleased with being born to die and keeps her resentment about it bottled up until she literally can't contain it anymore and loses control of her powers. Thanks to her mother's apology and some deep reflection on her own thoughts, she comes to realize that [[ThePowerOfFrienship Kurohime cared too much about her to willingly kill her, seeing her as far more than just some tool]], and willingly chooses to embrace her fate instead of running from it.]]
* BrokenBird: [[spoiler:She was born as a substitute for Yamatohime's sacrifice--should it be needed--and was raised being perfectly aware of this. She lived in a heat-proof cage for the majority of her childhood, with similarly-fashioned toys. Her own mother raised her coldly, unwilling to bond with a daughter that was meant to die, which left Asura emotionally isolated. Needless to say, this did no favors for her feelings toward humanity.]]
* DefrostingIceQueen: Her opinion of humans raises over the course of the series, to the point she is willing to risk her life saving one. [[spoiler: It did drop again for a short time, but she was able to reconcile her views once she got a hold of herself again.]]
* BrokenBird: [[spoiler:She was born as a substitute for Yamatohime's sacrifice--should it be needed--and was raised being perfectly aware of this. She lived in a heat-proof cage for the majority of her childhood, with similarly-fashioned toys. Her own mother raised her coldly, unwilling to bond with a daughter that was meant to die, which left Asura emotionally isolated. Needless to say, this did no favors for her feelings toward humanity.]]
* DefrostingIceQueen: Her opinion of humans raises over the course of the series, to the point she is willing to risk her life saving one. [[spoiler: It did drop again for a short time, but she was able to reconcile her views once she got a hold of herself again.]]
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* BecauseDestinySaysSo: [[spoiler: Her fate is to complete the Ultimate Sword by sacrificing herself to the Yamato Senryuutou. She's not pleased with being born to die and keeps her resentment about it bottled up until she literally can't contain it anymore and loses control of her powers. Thanks After her mother apologizes to her mother's apology and some deep reflection on her own thoughts, she comes to realize that [[ThePowerOfFrienship [[ThePowerOfFriendship Kurohime cared too much about her chooses to willingly kill her, seeing her die instead of shooting Asura]], Asura realizes that she was the only one thinking of herself as far more than just some tool]], "merely" a substitute for Yamatohime, and willingly chooses to embrace her fate instead of running from it.]]
* BrokenBird: [[spoiler:She was born as a substitute for Yamatohime's sacrifice--should it be needed--and was raised being perfectly aware of this. She lived ina heat-proof an iron cage for the majority of her childhood, with similarly-fashioned toys. toys, so that she wouldn't burn anything else down. Her own mother raised her coldly, unwilling to bond with a non-human daughter that was meant to die, which left Asura emotionally isolated. die. Needless to say, this the severe emotional isolation did no favors for her feelings toward humanity.]]
* DefrostingIceQueen: Her opinion of humans raises over the course of the series, to the point she is willing to risk her life saving one.[[spoiler: It did drop again for [[spoiler:She reverts a short time, bit while Kurohime is time-traveling, becoming a flaming ball of hatred, but she was able Kurohime's refusal to reconcile her views once she got a hold of herself again.kill Asura and finish the Ultimate Sword finishes the process.]]
* BrokenBird: [[spoiler:She was born as a substitute for Yamatohime's sacrifice--should it be needed--and was raised being perfectly aware of this. She lived in
* DefrostingIceQueen: Her opinion of humans raises over the course of the series, to the point she is willing to risk her life saving one.
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* UnstoppableRage: [[spoiler:After TakingTheBullet for an innocent little girl named Sara and fighting against undead warriors from hell during Kurohime's time travel trip, her resentment towards her own fate and her hatred of humanity's complicity in current events drive her into a berserk state where she attacks friend and foe indiscriminately.]]
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* UnstoppableRage: [[spoiler:After TakingTheBullet for an innocent little girl named Sara and fighting against undead warriors from hell during Kurohime's time travel trip, her resentment towards her own fate and her hatred of humanity's complicity in current events drive her into a berserk state where she attacks friend and foe indiscriminately.]]
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* HazyFeelTurn: [[spoiler:Effectively works her way into one of these as the manga nears its conclusion. She doesn't "forgive" Himeko per se, but ultimately she quits holding her grudge in such high priority since Kurohime living will help solve the more ''[[ApocalypseWow IMMEDIATE]] [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt problems]]'' at the moment.]]
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* HazyFeelTurn: [[spoiler:Effectively works her way into one of these as the manga nears its conclusion. She doesn't "forgive" Himeko Kurohime per se, but ultimately she quits holding her grudge in such high priority since Kurohime living will help solve the more ''[[ApocalypseWow IMMEDIATE]] [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt problems]]'' at the moment.]]
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* BeautifulAllAlong: Yukio--he initially appears to be very yeti-like, but actually looks like a handsome man when using his full power.
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* BeautifulAllAlong: Yukio--he Yukiotoko--he initially appears to be very yeti-like, but actually looks like a handsome (if intensely hairy) man when using his full power.
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* ImplacableMan: for the sake of her vengeance and spite, she will endure literally anything without stopping; she's very, very bad at staying down for more than a few moments at any given time.
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* ImplacableMan: for For the sake of her vengeance and spite, she will endure literally anything without stopping; she's very, very bad at staying down for more than a few moments at any given time.
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* RussianRoulette: Basically the way her predictions work. Her gun has two bullets in it; one will let the person see the future if they're shot with it (and leave them unharmed), but the other will kill them.
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* RussianRoulette: Basically the way her predictions work. Her gun has two bullets in it; it, and the people coming to her for divinations have to fire it at themselves; one will let the person see the future if they're shot with it (and leave them unharmed), but the other will kill them. them.
* SheIsAllGrownUp: [[spoiler:She reappears as a young woman in the final chapters of the series, predicting Kurohime's ultimate victory.]]
* SheIsAllGrownUp: [[spoiler:She reappears as a young woman in the final chapters of the series, predicting Kurohime's ultimate victory.]]
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* MeaningfulName: Himeko means "young princess" or "child princess". Her second alias, Momohime, is a play off of [[Literature/{Momotaro} Momotarō the Peach Boy]], since she arrived in a village via a peach on the river.
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* MeaningfulName: Himeko means "young princess" or "child princess". Her second alias, Momohime, is a play off of [[Literature/{Momotaro} [[{{Literature/Momotaro}} Momotarō the Peach Boy]], since she arrived in a village via a peach on the river.river. Her third, Himekojou, basically just means "Miss Himeko", but the "jou" is often used to refer to teenage girls, fitting her apparent age at the time.
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* LaserGuidedAmnesia: In the first arc, as a result of losing her ability to love, she can't recall just why she hates the gods. [[spoiler:It doesn't help that she's only half of the original Kurohime, either; Shirohime kept all their original memories. Later on, Zero's death forms a psychological block on her full power, and the more times she has to fight with her full power as Kurohime, the more amnesia she inflicts on herself. This only gets worse when Dark Zero himself removes the majority of her memories; by the end, it's ambigious how much she remembers except for her single-minded love of Zero]]
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* LaserGuidedAmnesia: In the first arc, as a result of losing her ability to love, she can't recall just why she hates the gods. [[spoiler:It doesn't help that she's only half of the original Kurohime, either; Shirohime kept all their original memories. Later on, Zero's death forms a psychological block on her full power, and the more times she has to fight with her full power as Kurohime, the more amnesia she inflicts on herself. This only gets worse when Dark Zero himself removes the majority of her memories; by the end, it's ambigious how much she remembers except for her single-minded love of Zero]]Zero.]]
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* ObiWanMoment: Has one of these
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* ObiWanMoment: Has one of these She spends a little time calmly comforting Sara, the little girl she made friends with, [[spoiler:before sending her consciousness back in time to her old body for her HeroicSacrifice.]]
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* BrokenBird: O-yuki had a lot of trouble with making friends in the past due to the strength of her powers, and is very bitter about it.
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* BrokenBird: O-yuki Yukionna had a lot of trouble with making friends in the past due to the strength of her powers, and is very bitter about it.
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* TheFourGods: Their namesakes and mythological bases. Yamatohime is a slight variant; she represents Suzaku in the group despite not using the name.
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* TheFourGods: Their namesakes and mythological bases. Yamatohime is a slight variant; though she represents Suzaku in the group despite is not using the name.normally addressed as Suzaku, it is one of her alternate names.
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* ThePhoenix: Yamatohime's motif, due to being associated with both fire and life.
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* ThePhoenix: Yamatohime's motif, due to being associated with both fire and life.life; it's mostly seen in the shape of her FlamingHair.
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* WouldNotHurtAChild: [[spoiler:Her refusal to hurt young!Ouka when Ouka stabs her and her tears for an infant mortality during the building of her tower both indicate that Kurohime thinks of children as precious; this is unfortunately used against her when Darkray takes that infant's soul as a human shield during their battle 10 years before the start of the series, which allows him to get in an attack with Sword.]]
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* WouldNotHurtAChild: [[spoiler:Her refusal to hurt young!Ouka when Ouka stabs her and her tears for an infant mortality during the building of her tower both indicate that Kurohime thinks of children as precious; this is unfortunately used against her when Darkray takes that infant's soul as a human shield during their battle 10 years before the start of the series, which allows him to get in an a fatal attack with Sword.]]
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* CameBackWrong: [[spoiler:She lets herself dissolve in the Sanzu River during the last chapter to prove that she truly loves Rei, but when she does so her Black God Tree eats her soul and turns her into a gnarled, wood-shaped skeleton for one last attack against Yashahime and quickly crumbles after that.]]
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* CameBackWrong: [[spoiler:She lets herself dissolve in the Sanzu River during the last chapter to prove that she truly loves Rei, but when she does so her Black God Tree eats her soul and turns her into a gnarled, wood-shaped skeleton for one last attack against Yashahime and quickly crumbles starts to crumble after that.]]
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* IHaveManyNames: She's generally just called "Hime" as a nickname, but is known as Himeko (initial cursed form), Momohime (second cursed form, during the Yamato Arc), and Himekojo (third cursed form, during the Past Arc). Generally speaking, though, she believes and states that she is Kurohime unless she has a reason to hide her identity.
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* IHaveManyNames: She's generally just called "Hime" as a nickname, but is known as Himeko (initial cursed form), Momohime (second cursed form, during the Yamato Arc), and Himekojo (third cursed form, during the Past Arc). Generally speaking, though, she believes and states asserts that she her true name is Kurohime unless she has a reason to hide her identity.
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* LaserGuidedAmnesia: In the first arc, as a result of losing her ability to love, she can't recall just why she hates the gods. [[spoiler:It doesn't help that she's only half of the original Kurohime, either; Shirohime kept all their original memories. Later on, Zero's death forms a psychological block on her full power, and the more times she has to fight with her full power as Kurohime, the more amnesia she inflicts on herself. This only gets worse when Dark Zero himself removes all but one of her memories.]]
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* LaserGuidedAmnesia: In the first arc, as a result of losing her ability to love, she can't recall just why she hates the gods. [[spoiler:It doesn't help that she's only half of the original Kurohime, either; Shirohime kept all their original memories. Later on, Zero's death forms a psychological block on her full power, and the more times she has to fight with her full power as Kurohime, the more amnesia she inflicts on herself. This only gets worse when Dark Zero himself removes all but one the majority of her memories.]]memories; by the end, it's ambigious how much she remembers except for her single-minded love of Zero]]
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* MeaningfulName: Himeko means "young princess" or "child princess". Her second alias, Momohime, is a play off of [[Literature/Momotaro Momotarō the Peach Boy]], since she arrived in a village via a peach on the river.
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* MeaningfulName: Himeko means "young princess" or "child princess". Her second alias, Momohime, is a play off of [[Literature/Momotaro [[Literature/{Momotaro} Momotarō the Peach Boy]], since she arrived in a village via a peach on the river.
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* DeathOfIdentity: [[spoiler:When she is split into her hatred and her compassion, the original Kurohime effectively dies right then and there, as both halves are missing too much of the other to really represent the whole woman anymore.]]
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* DeathOfIdentity: DeathOfPersonality: [[spoiler:When she is split into her hatred and her compassion, the original Kurohime effectively dies right then and there, as both halves are missing too much of the other to really represent the whole woman anymore.]]
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The most powerful witch of all time. Well-known for her power, beauty and cruelty, she emerged during an era of war to be the sole person capable of meeting the challenge of the gods to become a god herself, gathering the power of several factions to do so. However, she disappeared once the tower to reach the gods was complete, only for a young girl named Himeko to appear 10 years later, claiming to be Kurohime under a curse from the gods that removed her ability to love and sealed her power. When that curse is relaxed, Himeko indeed transforms into Kurohime, complete with overwhelming magical power.
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The most powerful witch of all time. Well-known for her power, beauty and cruelty, she emerged during an a thousand-year era of war to be the sole person capable of meeting the challenge of the gods to become a god herself, gathering the power of several factions to do so. herself. However, she disappeared once the tower to reach the gods was complete, only for a young girl named Himeko to appear 10 years later, claiming to be Kurohime under a curse from the gods that removed her ability to love and sealed away her power. When that curse is relaxed, Himeko indeed transforms into Kurohime, complete with overwhelming magical power.
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!!! Tropes that apply to both her cursed and un-cursed selves:
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* AbsoluteCleavage: Quite a few of her outfits that she wears over the course of the manga, both as her original and reincarnated selves, expose a good bit of her chest.
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* AbsoluteCleavage: Quite a few of her outfits that she wears over the course of the manga, both as her original and reincarnated selves, manga expose a good bit of her chest.
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* BeautyMark: She has two, one under the outside corner of each eye. [[spoiler:In keeping with the tragic life that this implies in most Japanese media, Kurohime has suffered immensely in her lifetime, growing up alone in a war-torn era that probably resulted in the deaths of everyone close to her as a child, and enduring great physical and emotional anguish to achieve her goals, only to fail miserably at the end of her first life and get split apart and effectively reincarnated against her will. As Himeko, this trend continues: she falls in love with Zero despite her curse and is only able to admit her love for him shortly before he dies, then loses most of her memories of him. She is later forced to kill one of her closest allies, realizes that she abandoned Zero ''twice'' at the loweest points of his life, and nearly dies for good trying to save Zero from the worst parts of himself.]]
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* BeautyMark: She has two, one under the outside corner of each eye. [[spoiler:In keeping with the tragic life that this implies in most Japanese media, Kurohime has suffered immensely in her lifetime, growing up alone in a war-torn era that probably resulted in the deaths of everyone close to her as a child, and enduring great physical and emotional anguish to achieve her goals, only to fail miserably at the end of her first life and get split apart and effectively reincarnated against her will. As Himeko, this trend continues: she falls in love with Zero despite her curse and is only able to admit her love for him shortly before he dies, then loses most of her memories of him. She is later forced to kill one of her closest allies, realizes that she abandoned Zero ''twice'' at the loweest lowest points of his life, and nearly dies for good trying to save Zero from the worst parts of himself.]]
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* BrokenBird: [[spoiler:The original Kurohime's backstory isn't elaborated on, but it's implied that she was orphaned as a result of the wars and saw her fair share of bloodshed and killing as she grew up. After that, to amass the power to meet the gods and kill them, she killed ''a lot'' of people and ate their souls for strength, then ultimately betrayed her most loyal followers and the rest of the world in order to shift focus away from the contest of the gods and onto her. By the time Ouka and Sword meet Kurohime in the Past Arc, she hasn't yet begun her final push toward reaching and killing the gods, but is otherwise weighed down by the lives she's taken and the monstrous things she's done. Even as Himeko she has shades of this, especially after Zero has died and the heartbreak from it continues to drive many of her decisions and she has to weigh the risks of trading memories of him to get the power to fight.]]
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* BrokenBird: [[spoiler:The original Kurohime's backstory isn't elaborated on, but it's implied that she was orphaned as a result of the wars and saw her fair share of bloodshed and killing as she grew up. After that, to amass the power to meet the gods and kill them, she killed ''a lot'' of people and ate their souls for strength, then ultimately betrayed her most loyal followers and the rest of the world in order to shift focus away from the contest of the gods and onto her. By the time Ouka and Sword meet Kurohime in the Past Arc, she hasn't yet begun her final push toward reaching and killing the gods, but is otherwise weighed down by the lives she's taken and the monstrous things she's done. Even after being reincarnated as Himeko Himeko, she has shades of this, especially after Zero has died and the heartbreak from it continues to drive many of her decisions she faces more and she has more difficult challenges to weigh the risks of trading memories of bring him back to get the power to fight.life.]]
* GunAndSword: In some of her fights, she'll wield the Black God Tree in the shape of a sword while also using Senryuu.
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* DeathOfIdentity: [[spoiler:When she is split into her hatred and her compassion, the original Kurohime effectively dies right then and there, as both halves are missing too much of the other to really represent the whole woman anymore.]]
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* PhysicalGod: [[spoiler:Once she met and attempted to fight the gods 10 years before the story started, she was split into two separate aspects of herself as punishment for her defiance; her kindness and love for people became the goddess Shirohime, while her rage and hatred for the gods is cursed into Himeko's childlike form. While Shirohime isn't *quite* Kurohime (and thus has her own set of tropes), she does contain all of the original Kurohime's memories and as such is effectively Kurohime given a god's power.]]
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* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:Happens to her a few times. The first time is involuntary, as Kandata reverses time so that she can try to save Zero and Rei after Rei becomes a Death God. The second time, it's a side effect of Asura's scheme to complete the Ultimate Sword, as Seiryuu's time reversal prevents the event that got Himeko killed. The third and final time occurs after Himeko commits suicide in Zero's arms, but she comes back as a walking Black God Tree skeleton until she's properly revived by Yamatohime.]]
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* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:Happens to her a few times. The first time is involuntary, as Kandata reverses time so that she can try to save Zero and Rei after Rei becomes a Death God. The second time, it's a side effect of Asura's scheme to complete the Ultimate Sword, as Seiryuu's time reversal prevents the event that got Himeko Kurohime killed. The third and final time occurs after Himeko Kurohime commits suicide in Zero's arms, but she comes back as a walking Black God Tree skeleton until she's properly revived by Yamatohime.]]
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* BoyishShortHair: In her younger cursed forms, in contrast to the long hair of her un-cursed self.
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* BoyishShortHair: In her younger first two cursed forms, in contrast to the long hair of her un-cursed self.
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* CameBackStrong: [[spoiler:Yamatohime sacrifices her life to restore Himeko to normal after Himeko's suicide via Sanzu River in the final chapters. Not only does this turn her back into Kurohime, but it purifies the Black God Tree into a White God Tree, allowing it to revive all the people whose souls she'd trapped in it.]]
* CameBackWrong: [[spoiler:Her revival after her suicide mentioned above? She's basically a walking Black God Tree skeleton when she comes back, gnarled wood shaped vaguely like a person.]]
* CharacterDevelopment: Hints of it start to show up when Zero shoots himself to appease a couple of angry ghosts--she transforms into Kurohime, ''punches him in the face'', and cries a little as she tells him off for needlessly harming himself (though she frames it as him needing her permission to die). Shortly after that, she realizes that she really and truly does love Zero, because he refused to abandon her even at her worst, which gives her the power to break the curse herself ''and'' dispel it for good. [[spoiler:Zero's death in front of her very eyes only continues this, as it forces her to become self-reliant and actively seek her own way back into power to revive him.]] These events lead to her developing an upbeat, hotblooded, and kind personality that's the literal opposite of her BrattyHalfPint behavior [[spoiler:and markedly different from the original Kurohime's dour, reserved nature.]]
* CuteBruiser: When she finally gets enough of her powers back, she maintains a cuter and lighter personality than she did as Kurohime, but is no less capable of handing her enemies a beatdown if they get in her way, with her bare hands if need be via the Hulk Bullet.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:She suffers one to try and get Dark Zero back to normal, dissolving in the waters of the Sanzu in order to reach him.]]
* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler:Yamatohime's power purifies the Black God Tree and those absorbed within it, Himeko returnes to her form as Kurohime for good to permanently resurrect those souls, Zero returns to normal, 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.]]
* FusionDance: Does this occasionally to avoid [[spoiler:losing her last memory of Zero after he removed them from her as Dark Zero.]]
* CameBackWrong: [[spoiler:Her revival after her suicide mentioned above? She's basically a walking Black God Tree skeleton when she comes back, gnarled wood shaped vaguely like a person.]]
* CharacterDevelopment: Hints of it start to show up when Zero shoots himself to appease a couple of angry ghosts--she transforms into Kurohime, ''punches him in the face'', and cries a little as she tells him off for needlessly harming himself (though she frames it as him needing her permission to die). Shortly after that, she realizes that she really and truly does love Zero, because he refused to abandon her even at her worst, which gives her the power to break the curse herself ''and'' dispel it for good. [[spoiler:Zero's death in front of her very eyes only continues this, as it forces her to become self-reliant and actively seek her own way back into power to revive him.]] These events lead to her developing an upbeat, hotblooded, and kind personality that's the literal opposite of her BrattyHalfPint behavior [[spoiler:and markedly different from the original Kurohime's dour, reserved nature.]]
* CuteBruiser: When she finally gets enough of her powers back, she maintains a cuter and lighter personality than she did as Kurohime, but is no less capable of handing her enemies a beatdown if they get in her way, with her bare hands if need be via the Hulk Bullet.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:She suffers one to try and get Dark Zero back to normal, dissolving in the waters of the Sanzu in order to reach him.]]
* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler:Yamatohime's power purifies the Black God Tree and those absorbed within it, Himeko returnes to her form as Kurohime for good to permanently resurrect those souls, Zero returns to normal, 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.]]
* FusionDance: Does this occasionally to avoid [[spoiler:losing her last memory of Zero after he removed them from her as Dark Zero.]]
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* CameBackStrong: [[spoiler:Yamatohime sacrifices her life to restore Himeko to normal after Himeko's suicide via CameBackWrong: [[spoiler:She lets herself dissolve in the Sanzu River in during the final chapters. Not only last chapter to prove that she truly loves Rei, but when she does this turn so her back into Kurohime, but it purifies the Black God Tree eats her soul and turns her into a White God Tree, allowing it to revive all the people whose souls she'd trapped in it.gnarled, wood-shaped skeleton for one last attack against Yashahime and quickly crumbles after that.]]
* CameBackWrong: [[spoiler:Her revival after ** CameBackStrong: [[spoiler:Yamatohime then sacrifices her suicide mentioned above? She's basically a walking life to revive Kurohime, and even with what little power Yamatohime has left, it's so potent that Kurohime permanently retakes her adult form AND purifies the Black God Tree skeleton when she comes back, gnarled wood shaped vaguely like into a person.White God Tree, allowing it to revive all the people whose souls she'd trapped in it.]]
* CharacterDevelopment: Hints of it start to show up when Zero shoots himself to appease a couple of angry ghosts--she transforms intoKurohime, her un-cursed form, ''punches him in the face'', and cries a little as she tells him off for needlessly harming himself (though she frames it as him needing her permission to die). Shortly after that, she realizes that she really and truly does love Zero, because he refused to abandon her even at her worst, which gives her the power to break the curse herself ''and'' dispel it for good.herself. [[spoiler:Zero's death in front of her very eyes only continues this, as it forces her to become self-reliant and actively seek her own way back into power to revive him.]] These events lead to her developing an upbeat, hotblooded, and kind personality that's the literal opposite of her earlier BrattyHalfPint behavior [[spoiler:and markedly different from the original Kurohime's dour, reserved nature.]]
nature]].
* CuteBruiser: When she finally gets enough of her powers back, she maintains a cuter and lighter personality than she didas Kurohime, before her curse, but is no less capable of handing her enemies a beatdown if they get in her way, with her bare hands if need be via the Hulk Bullet.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:She suffers one to try and get Dark Zero back to normal, dissolving herself in the waters of the Sanzu River to prove that she meant it when she said [[CallBack she wouldn't mind dying inorder to reach him.]]
his arms.]]]]
* EarnYourHappyEnding:[[spoiler:Yamatohime's power purifies the Black God Tree and those absorbed within it, Himeko returnes to her form as Kurohime for good to permanently resurrect those souls, Zero returns to normal, and the human race lives to see a few more billion years. This [[spoiler: Though it comes at the expense of the planet, Yamatohime...planet and Yashahime. Win some, lose Yamatohime, Kurohime eventually manages to save Zero, kill Yashahime, and even resurrect all the rest.souls that her Black God Tree had devoured.]]
* FusionDance: Does this occasionally to avoid [[spoiler:losing her lastmemory memories of Zero after he forcibly removed them from her as Dark Zero.]]
* CharacterDevelopment: Hints of it start to show up when Zero shoots himself to appease a couple of angry ghosts--she transforms into
* CuteBruiser: When she finally gets enough of her powers back, she maintains a cuter and lighter personality than she did
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:She suffers one to try and get Dark Zero back to normal, dissolving herself in the waters of the Sanzu River to prove that she meant it when she said [[CallBack she wouldn't mind dying in
* EarnYourHappyEnding:
* FusionDance: Does this occasionally to avoid [[spoiler:losing her last
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* GunAndSword: As Kurohime, Himeko can wield the Black God Tree as a sword while also using Senryuu.
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* IHaveManyNames: Aside from being called Himeko or Kurohime, she's also been called Hime, Himekojo, and Momohime. Generally speaking, though, she thinks of and addresses herself as Kurohime.
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* IHaveManyNames: Aside from being She's generally just called "Hime" as a nickname, but is known as Himeko or Kurohime, she's also been called Hime, Himekojo, (initial cursed form), Momohime (second cursed form, during the Yamato Arc), and Momohime. Himekojo (third cursed form, during the Past Arc). Generally speaking, though, she thinks of believes and addresses herself as Kurohime.states that she is Kurohime unless she has a reason to hide her identity.
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* LackOfEmpathy: Having her ability to love cursed out of her [[spoiler:and being the incarnation of one person's single-minded hatred for gods]] has completely screwed her up emotionally. Traveling with Zero eventually helps her regain it, and by the end of the manga she's become a kind and empathetic young woman.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: In the first arc, as a result of losing her ability to love, she can't recall just why she hates the gods. [[spoiler:It doesn't help that she's only half of the original Kurohime, either; Shirohime appears to have kept all their original memories. Later on, Zero's death forms a psychological block on her full power, and the more times she has to fight with her full power as Kurohime, the more amnesia she inflicts on herself. This only gets worse when Dark Zero himself removes all but one of her memories.]]
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: In the first arc, as a result of losing her ability to love, she can't recall just why she hates the gods. [[spoiler:It doesn't help that she's only half of the original Kurohime, either; Shirohime appears to have kept all their original memories. Later on, Zero's death forms a psychological block on her full power, and the more times she has to fight with her full power as Kurohime, the more amnesia she inflicts on herself. This only gets worse when Dark Zero himself removes all but one of her memories.]]
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* LackOfEmpathy: Having her ability to love cursed out of her [[spoiler:and being the incarnation of one person's single-minded hatred for gods]] has completely screwed her up emotionally. Traveling with Zero eventually helps her regain it, and by the end of the manga she's become a kind and empathetic kind-hearted young woman.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: In the first arc, as a result of losing her ability to love, she can't recall just why she hates the gods. [[spoiler:It doesn't help that she's only half of the original Kurohime, either; Shirohimeappears to have kept all their original memories. Later on, Zero's death forms a psychological block on her full power, and the more times she has to fight with her full power as Kurohime, the more amnesia she inflicts on herself. This only gets worse when Dark Zero himself removes all but one of her memories.]]
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: In the first arc, as a result of losing her ability to love, she can't recall just why she hates the gods. [[spoiler:It doesn't help that she's only half of the original Kurohime, either; Shirohime
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* MeaningfulName: Himeko means "young princess" or "child princess."
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* MeaningfulName: Himeko means "young princess" or "child princess."princess". Her second alias, Momohime, is a play off of [[Literature/Momotaro Momotarō the Peach Boy]], since she arrived in a village via a peach on the river.
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* RedStringOfFate: Zero believes in this. [[spoiler:He thinks it's his embodied by his scarf, and he's so attached to it because Himeko gave it to him in the first place, even though he doesn't know she did until she admits that she was the Himekojo that he knew in the past.]]
* ReincarnationRomance: [[spoiler:Has one with Himeko in the last chapter of the manga, where he's reborn as a woman and she's reborn as a man.]]
* SatelliteLoveInterest: 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.
* ReincarnationRomance: [[spoiler:Has one with Himeko in the last chapter of the manga, where he's reborn as a woman and she's reborn as a man.]]
* SatelliteLoveInterest: 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.
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* RedStringOfFate: Zero believes in this. [[spoiler:He thinks it's his embodied by his scarf, and he's so attached to it because Himeko gave it to him in the first place, even though he doesn't know she did until she admits that she was the Himekojo Himeko that he knew in the past.]]
* ReincarnationRomance: [[spoiler:Has one withHimeko Kurohime in the last chapter of the manga, where he's reborn as a woman and she's reborn as a man.]]
* SatelliteLoveInterest: Lampshaded in comic byHimeko Kurohime herself when she realizes that next to his being in love with her and her with him, she knows nothing about him.
* ReincarnationRomance: [[spoiler:Has one with
* SatelliteLoveInterest: Lampshaded in comic by
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[[folder:Asura]]
A fire spirit trying to rescue her master. Has contempt for gods and humans.
A fire spirit trying to rescue her master. Has contempt for gods and humans.
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A fire spirit trying
The former leader of the Onimaru Brigade and Kurohime's former [[TheDragon second-in-command.]] Before she left to
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:All his time spent off screen after the Past Arc was him helping Kandata find people for the Sea Dragon ark.]]
* ButtMonkey: Amusing things happen to Onimaru. Often. This includes getting branded by Kurohime, getting beat up by Himeko, [[spoiler:getting turned into Tsucchi]], and generally finding himself in a whole lot of trouble.
* FakeUltimateHero: His legend as the leader of the Onimaru Brigade began when he defeated a powerful member of the dangerous Mate Clan and destroyed the fearsome Lion Castle 10 years before the start of the story. [[spoiler:However, it turns out that Kurohime and the Kurohime Punishment Squad were the real heroes, he just unintentionally cribbed their credit.]]
* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: He does this for Himeko in Chapter 78 [[spoiler:after Sword changes him back into his true form, telling her to stop despairing about Zero and fight to save him instead.]]
* HeroicWillpower: [[spoiler:He resists becoming a snake thanks to this, but turns into a weird mini snake thing instead.]]
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: [[spoiler:Though it takes him a while, he eventually lets go of his remaining resentment toward Kurohime and encourages her to save Rei from himself as proof of her love for him.]]
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Though he can be rough-mannered and brash, he always looks out for his men, and his experiences [[spoiler:traveling with Himeko as Tsucchi]] soften him some more. [[spoiler:He eventually becomes one of Kurohime's biggest supporters as a result of seeing her growth from the woman that abandoned him.]]
* PeepingTom: He wanted to be a god so he could peep at girls.
* TheSmartGuy: He knows a lot of what's going on due to following Himeko around. [[spoiler:Too bad he can't talk by the time he does.]]
* TeamPet: [[spoiler:Takes on this role when he's turned into Tsucchi.]]
* WhatTheHellHero: Points out to Shirohime that she has strayed from her path of helping humans, and that in turn she's stagnated and lost her own sense of willpower since becoming a goddess. [[spoiler:After he regains human form, he does this again for Kurohime, telling her to save Rei for his own sake if she truly loves him.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Asura]]
A fire spirit trying to rescue her master. She has deep contempt for gods and humans both, but allies with Kurohime because her power will be enough to accomplish Asura's goals.
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* ButtMonkey: Amusing things happen to Onimaru. Often. This includes getting branded by Kurohime, getting beat up by Himeko, [[spoiler:getting turned into Tsucchi]], and generally finding himself in a whole lot of trouble.
* FakeUltimateHero: His legend as the leader of the Onimaru Brigade began when he defeated a powerful member of the dangerous Mate Clan and destroyed the fearsome Lion Castle 10 years before the start of the story. [[spoiler:However, it turns out that Kurohime and the Kurohime Punishment Squad were the real heroes, he just unintentionally cribbed their credit.]]
* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: He does this for Himeko in Chapter 78 [[spoiler:after Sword changes him back into his true form, telling her to stop despairing about Zero and fight to save him instead.]]
* HeroicWillpower: [[spoiler:He resists becoming a snake thanks to this, but turns into a weird mini snake thing instead.]]
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: [[spoiler:Though it takes him a while, he eventually lets go of his remaining resentment toward Kurohime and encourages her to save Rei from himself as proof of her love for him.]]
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Though he can be rough-mannered and brash, he always looks out for his men, and his experiences [[spoiler:traveling with Himeko as Tsucchi]] soften him some more. [[spoiler:He eventually becomes one of Kurohime's biggest supporters as a result of seeing her growth from the woman that abandoned him.]]
* PeepingTom: He wanted to be a god so he could peep at girls.
* TheSmartGuy: He knows a lot of what's going on due to following Himeko around. [[spoiler:Too bad he can't talk by the time he does.]]
* TeamPet: [[spoiler:Takes on this role when he's turned into Tsucchi.]]
* WhatTheHellHero: Points out to Shirohime that she has strayed from her path of helping humans, and that in turn she's stagnated and lost her own sense of willpower since becoming a goddess. [[spoiler:After he regains human form, he does this again for Kurohime, telling her to save Rei for his own sake if she truly loves him.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Asura]]
A fire spirit trying to rescue her master. She has deep contempt for gods and humans both, but allies with Kurohime because her power will be enough to accomplish Asura's goals.
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* BecauseDestinySaysSo: [[spoiler: Her fate is to complete Yamato Senryuuto by sacrifing herself to it. She's not pleased with being born to die and keeps her resentment bottled up about it until she literally can't contain it anymore and loses control. Thanks to ThePowerOfFriendship and her mother's apology, she comes to realize that she was the only one that assumed no one cared about her as more than a sacrifice, and willingly chooses to embrace her fate instead of running from it.]]
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* BecauseDestinySaysSo: [[spoiler: Her fate is to complete Yamato Senryuuto the Ultimate Sword by sacrifing sacrificing herself to it. the Yamato Senryuutou. She's not pleased with being born to die and keeps her resentment about it bottled up about it until she literally can't contain it anymore and loses control. control of her powers. Thanks to ThePowerOfFriendship and her mother's apology, apology and some deep reflection on her own thoughts, she comes to realize that she was the only one that assumed no one [[ThePowerOfFrienship Kurohime cared too much about her to willingly kill her, seeing her as far more than a sacrifice, just some tool]], and willingly chooses to embrace her fate instead of running from it.]]
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* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:She convinces the Spirit Kings to send her consciousness back in time and willingly moves herself to take the bullet that Himeko refused to shoot at her, completing the Ultimate Blade.]]
* HalfHumanHybrid: [[spoiler:According to her mother, the elder priestess 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 in Yamatohime's place, completing the Ultimate Sword without killing Yamatohime.]]
* HalfHumanHybrid: [[spoiler:According to her mother, the elder priestess 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 in Yamatohime's place, completing the Ultimate Sword without killing Yamatohime.]]
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* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:She convinces the Spirit Kings Seiryuu to send her consciousness back in time and willingly moves herself to take the bullet that Himeko Kurohime refused to shoot at her, completing the Ultimate Blade.]]
* HalfHumanHybrid: [[spoiler:According to her mother,the elder priestess 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 in Yamatohime's place, completing the Ultimate Sword without killing Yamatohime.]]
* HalfHumanHybrid: [[spoiler:According to her mother,
* ObiWanMoment: Has one of these
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* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:Ultimately, she serves as one during the climax of the story in order to complete the Ultimate Sword. An added wrinkle to this is the fact that she has always been aware that she would play this role for Yamatohime, and it takes her a while to stop being bitter about it.]]
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* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:Ultimately, she serves as one during the climax of the story in order to complete the Ultimate Sword. An added wrinkle to this is the fact that she has always been aware that she would play this role for Yamatohime, and it takes her a while is only because Kurohime refused to stop being bitter about do it at first that she calms down enough to go through with it.]]
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* UnstoppableRage: [[spoiler:After TakingTheBullet for an innocent little girl named Sara, her resentment towards her own fate and humanity drive her into a berserk state where she attacks friend and foe indiscriminately.]]
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* UnstoppableRage: [[spoiler:After TakingTheBullet for an innocent little girl named Sara, Sara and fighting against undead warriors from hell during Kurohime's time travel trip, her resentment towards her own fate and humanity her hatred of humanity's complicity in current events drive her into a berserk state where she attacks friend and foe indiscriminately.]]
* VitriolicBestBuds: Develops this relationship with Kurohime over time, bickering freely with her at a moment's notice. Despite that, though, they truly become friends, enough so that [[spoiler:Asura goes back in time and sacrifices herself to make the Ultimate Sword when Kurohime initially refuses to sacrifice Asura to it.]]
* VitriolicBestBuds: Develops this relationship with Kurohime over time, bickering freely with her at a moment's notice. Despite that, though, they truly become friends, enough so that [[spoiler:Asura goes back in time and sacrifices herself to make the Ultimate Sword when Kurohime initially refuses to sacrifice Asura to it.]]
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[[folder:Onimaru]]
The former leader of the Onimaru Brigade and Kurohime's former [[TheDragon second-in-command.]] At some point, he was betrayed by her, and branded with the kanji for "dog" on his back; he swore vengeance on her shortly afterward, but despite his grievances with her, he's still unable to resist her beauty. [[spoiler:Sword attempted to turn him into a snake minion to kill Kurohime, but his willpower enabled him to resist the change, causing him to turn into Tsucchi, a small, mute, lizard-like...thing that accompanies Himeko for most of the rest of the manga.]]
The former leader of the Onimaru Brigade and Kurohime's former [[TheDragon second-in-command.]] At some point, he was betrayed by her, and branded with the kanji for "dog" on his back; he swore vengeance on her shortly afterward, but despite his grievances with her, he's still unable to resist her beauty. [[spoiler:Sword attempted to turn him into a snake minion to kill Kurohime, but his willpower enabled him to resist the change, causing him to turn into Tsucchi, a small, mute, lizard-like...thing that accompanies Himeko for most of the rest of the manga.]]
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The former leader
[[folder:Barahime]]
An old rival of
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* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:All his time spent off screen after the Past Arc was him helping Kandata find people for the Sea Dragon ark.]]
* ButtMonkey: Amusing things happen to Onimaru. Often. This includes getting branded by Kurohime, getting beat up by Himeko, [[spoiler:getting turned into Tsucchi]], and generally finding himself in a whole lot of trouble.
* FakeUltimateHero: He took the credit for defeating a powerful member of the dangerous Mate Clan and destroying the fearsome Lion Castle 10 years before the start of the story. [[spoiler:However, it turns out that Himeko and the Kurohime Punishment Squad were the real heroes, he just unintentionally cribbed their credit.]]
* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: He does this for Himeko in Chapter 78 [[spoiler:after Sword changes him back into his true form, telling her to stop despairing about Zero and fight to save him instead.]]
* HeroicWillpower: Resists becoming a snake thanks to this, but [[spoiler:turns into a weird mini snake thing instead.]]
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Though it takes him a while, he eventually lets go of his remaining resentment toward Himeko, and cedes her to Zero, [[spoiler:encouraging her to save Zero from himself as proof of her love for him.]]
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Though he can be rough-mannered and brash, he always looks out for his men, and his experiences traveling with Himeko [[spoiler:as Tsucchi]] soften him some more. He eventually becomes one of her biggest supporters as a result of seeing her growth from the woman that abandoned him.
* PeepingTom: He wanted to be a god so he could peep at girls.
* TheSmartGuy: He knows a lot of what's going on due to following Himeko around. [[spoiler:Too bad he can't talk by the time he does.]]
* TeamPet: [[spoiler:Takes on this role when he's turned into Tsucchi.]]
* WhatTheHellHero: Points out to Shirohime that she has strayed from her path of helping humans, and that in turn she's stagnated and lost her own sense of willpower since becoming a goddess. [[spoiler:After he regains human form, he does this again for Himeko.]]
[[/folder]]
!Other Witches
[[folder:Barahime]]
An old rival of Kurohime's. Initially, Himeko and Zero seek her out for help breaking Himeko's curse, but they instead get into a fierce fight with her, as Kurohime stole her youth 50 years ago.
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* ButtMonkey: Amusing things happen to Onimaru. Often. This includes getting branded by Kurohime, getting beat up by Himeko, [[spoiler:getting turned into Tsucchi]], and generally finding himself in a whole lot of trouble.
* FakeUltimateHero: He took the credit for defeating a powerful member of the dangerous Mate Clan and destroying the fearsome Lion Castle 10 years before the start of the story. [[spoiler:However, it turns out that Himeko and the Kurohime Punishment Squad were the real heroes, he just unintentionally cribbed their credit.]]
* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: He does this for Himeko in Chapter 78 [[spoiler:after Sword changes him back into his true form, telling her to stop despairing about Zero and fight to save him instead.]]
* HeroicWillpower: Resists becoming a snake thanks to this, but [[spoiler:turns into a weird mini snake thing instead.]]
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Though it takes him a while, he eventually lets go of his remaining resentment toward Himeko, and cedes her to Zero, [[spoiler:encouraging her to save Zero from himself as proof of her love for him.]]
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Though he can be rough-mannered and brash, he always looks out for his men, and his experiences traveling with Himeko [[spoiler:as Tsucchi]] soften him some more. He eventually becomes one of her biggest supporters as a result of seeing her growth from the woman that abandoned him.
* PeepingTom: He wanted to be a god so he could peep at girls.
* TheSmartGuy: He knows a lot of what's going on due to following Himeko around. [[spoiler:Too bad he can't talk by the time he does.]]
* TeamPet: [[spoiler:Takes on this role when he's turned into Tsucchi.]]
* WhatTheHellHero: Points out to Shirohime that she has strayed from her path of helping humans, and that in turn she's stagnated and lost her own sense of willpower since becoming a goddess. [[spoiler:After he regains human form, he does this again for Himeko.]]
[[/folder]]
!Other Witches
[[folder:Barahime]]
An old rival of Kurohime's. Initially, Himeko and Zero seek her out for help breaking Himeko's curse, but they instead get into a fierce fight with her, as Kurohime stole her youth 50 years ago.
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[[folder:Himiko]]
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* LiteralSplitPersonality: [[spoiler:Of the original Kurohime. She's the embodiment of that Kurohime's kindness and love toward humans.]]
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* LightIsGood: Dresses in all white and wields the divine White God Tree, and is probably the most benevolent god encountered in the series.
* LiteralSplitPersonality: [[spoiler:Of the original Kurohime. She's the embodiment of that Kurohime'skindness and love compassion toward humans.]]]]
* PhysicalGod: As the goddess of compassion, she fits this role.
* LiteralSplitPersonality: [[spoiler:Of the original Kurohime. She's the embodiment of that Kurohime's
* PhysicalGod: As the goddess of compassion, she fits this role.
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* PowerNullifier: Can act as one to Kurohime, forcing her to take up Himeko's form once again.
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* PowerNullifier: Can act as Is the one responsible for doing this to Kurohime, forcing sealing her to take up into Himeko's form once again.form.
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* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Most of the time he's referred to by title, and more rarely as Darkray. However, Yashahime addresses him as "Master Durint" [[spoiler:shortly before killing him.]]
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* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Most of the time he's referred to by title, and more rarely as Darkray. However, Yashahime addresses him as "Master Durint" [[spoiler:shortly before killing him.]]him]].
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* TallDarkAndSnarky: He has a very gothic, well-groomed style him and tends to be condescendingly smug when talking to his subordinates and enemies alike.
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* TallDarkAndSnarky: He has a very gothic, well-groomed style him style, is incredibly handsome, and tends to be condescendingly smug when talking to his subordinates and enemies alike.
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* ClingyJealousGirl: She was very attached to her boss and strongly disliked Shirohime's closeness with Darkray. Shirohime implies that this jealousy is part of why Sword hates Kurohime so much:
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* ClingyJealousGirl: She was very attached to her boss and strongly disliked Shirohime's closeness with Darkray.how much Darkray seemed to dote on Shirohime. Shirohime implies that this jealousy is part of why Sword hates Kurohime so much:
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* EnemyMine: [[spoiler:Has some of these moments with Himeko and Kurohime separately during the Past Arc and the Final Arc, realizing that they have mutual enemies to destroy or defend their loved ones against.]]
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* EnemyMine: [[spoiler:Has some of these moments with Himeko both past and present Kurohime separately during the Past Arc and the Final Arc, Arcas, realizing that they have mutual enemies to destroy or defend their loved ones against.]]
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* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Effectively works her way into one of these as the manga nears its conclusion. She doesn't "forgive" Himeko per se, but ultimately she quits holding her grudge in such high priority since Kurohime living will help solve the more ''[[ApocalypseWow IMMEDIATE]] [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt problems]]'' at the moment.]]
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* HeelFaceTurn: HazyFeelTurn: [[spoiler:Effectively works her way into one of these as the manga nears its conclusion. She doesn't "forgive" Himeko per se, but ultimately she quits holding her grudge in such high priority since Kurohime living will help solve the more ''[[ApocalypseWow IMMEDIATE]] [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt problems]]'' at the moment.]]
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* OurAngelsAreDifferent: She's a Death Angel, responsible for serving Darkray, that has bat-like wings and can turn into a sword. [[spoiler:She later hybridizes herself with the powers of a vampire and a werewolf, retaining her original powers and combining her inherited strengths into a powerful berserker form.]]
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: [[spoiler:The Kurohime Punishment Squad]] tends to refer to her as Captain or Commander, but (potentially non-canon) author's notes refer to her as "Reikahime".
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: [[spoiler:The Kurohime Punishment Squad]] tends to refer to her as Captain or Commander, but (potentially non-canon) author's notes refer to her as "Reikahime".
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* OurAngelsAreDifferent: She's a Death Angel, responsible for serving Darkray, that has bat-like wings and can partially or completely turn herself into a sword. [[spoiler:She later hybridizes herself with the powers of a vampire and a werewolf, retaining her original powers and combining her inherited strengths into a powerful berserker form.]]
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: [[spoiler:The Kurohime Punishment Squad]] tends to refer to her as Captain or Commander, and most other characters address her primarily as "Sword", but(potentially non-canon) her "real" name (only revealed in [[AllThereInTheManual author's notes refer to her as "Reikahime".notes]]) is Reikahime.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: [[spoiler:The Kurohime Punishment Squad]] tends to refer to her as Captain or Commander, and most other characters address her primarily as "Sword", but
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* PowerDyesYourHair: Her dark-colored hair becomes pure white [[spoiler:once she hybridizes herself with a werewolf]].
* SleepModeSize: [[spoiler:After becoming a vampire, she can't maintain her normal size and appearance without blood, and often is found in a FunSize child form.]]
* SleepModeSize: [[spoiler:After becoming a vampire, she can't maintain her normal size and appearance without blood, and often is found in a FunSize child form.]]
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* PowerDyesYourHair: Her [[spoiler:Her dark-colored hair becomes pure white [[spoiler:once once she hybridizes herself with a werewolf]].
werewolf.]]
* SleepModeSize: [[spoiler:Afterbecoming a vampire, Darkray's death, she can't maintain her normal size and appearance without blood, and often is found in appearance, shrinking her to a FunSize child form.form. Once she turns into a vampire, ingesting blood allows her to grow to full size..]]
* SleepModeSize: [[spoiler:After
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* TurnTheOtherCheek: [[spoiler:Admits that she will NEVER truly forgive Himeko for what she has done to her (both as Kurohime and Himeko), but decides that if they should somehow meet in another life, they will try to get along.]]
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* TurnTheOtherCheek: [[spoiler:Admits that she will NEVER truly forgive Himeko for what she has done to her (both as Kurohime and Himeko), for everything that happened between them, but decides that if they should somehow meet in another life, they will try to get along.]]
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The High Goddess of earth and Darkray's obssesive, creepy stalker.
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The High Goddess of earth Earth and Darkray's obssesive, creepy stalker.
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* DishingOutDirt: Her primary domain is the earth, and anything related to it, including wood and trees.
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* DishingOutDirt: Her primary domain is the earth, and anything related to it, including [[GreenThumb wood and trees.]]
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* EvilGloating: She likes to indulge in this a lot, especially when she has Himeko on the back foot.
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* EvilGloating: She likes to indulge in this a lot, especially when she has Himeko Kurohime on the back foot.
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!Kurohime Punishment Squad
A group that's gathered up to enact punishment against Kurohime for wrongs she dealt them in the past.
[[folder:The Leader]]
After Zero's death and the subsequent loss of her team to Darkray, Sword gathers up the members of--and becomes leader of--the Kurohime Punishment Squad to take revenge on Kurohime. See Sword's folder in the God Clan section above.
A group that's gathered up to enact punishment against Kurohime for wrongs she dealt them in the past.
[[folder:The Leader]]
After Zero's death and the subsequent loss of her team to Darkray, Sword gathers up the members of--and becomes leader of--the Kurohime Punishment Squad to take revenge on Kurohime. See Sword's folder in the God Clan section above.
to:
A group that's gathered up to enact punishment against Kurohime for wrongs she dealt
[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The four kings of the spirits]], scattered across the land of Yamato. By enslaving them and harnessing their powers, the gods became all powerful. They are Yamatohime, Genbu, Byakko and Seiryuu.
[[folder:General Tropes]]
* BenevolentBoss: All of the Spirit Kings react favorably to Asura, another younger spirit, and her forthright nature.
* {{BFG}}: As they join their powers into [[HandCannon Senryuu]], it gets even '''BIGGER.'''
* ElementalPowers: Each King is associated with a different element: fire and life for Yamatohime, water, ice, and mist for Genbu, earth and metals for Byakko, and wind [[spoiler:space, and time]] for Seiryuu.
* HumansAreBastards: [[spoiler:The humans corrupting the land and polluting it hurts the Spirit Kings like hell, and they all dislike humans because of it save perhaps Yamatohime.]]
* LifeEnergy: Collectively, they ''are'' the world's life energy, especially Yamatohime. [[spoiler:If she dies or is subsumed, the planet goes with her.]]
* KingInTheMountain: Literally in two cases (Yamatohime and Byakko are both sealed inside of mountains), and one where he kind of ''[[TurtleIsland is]]'' the mountain (Genbu).
* PetTheDog: All four eventually come to Himeko's aid in different ways, acknowledging the depth of her feelings for Zero and wanting to support her, sometimes even before they realize what she's up to. Genbu actually doubles his moment by also helping out for the sake of Asura.
* SealedGoodInACan: All four Kings serve as this to the planet at large, as their lives sustain it.
* SecretTestOfCharacter: They each put Himeko through one of these in order to test if she's worthy of taking their power. She passes all of them.
* TheFourGods: Their namesakes and mythological bases. Yamatohime is a slight variant; she represents Suzaku in the
[[folder:The Leader]]
After Zero's death and
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[[folder:The Rival]]
Barahime returns as a member of the Punishment Squad, completely stealing the body of her previous host
to fight this time around. See Barahime's folder in the Other Witches section above.
Barahime returns as a member of the Punishment Squad, completely stealing the body of her previous host
to fight this time around. See Barahime's folder in the Other Witches section above.
to:
Barahime returns as a member of
* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: Yamatohime. Though she's chained up, the
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Yamatohime gives the last of her
* ThePhoenix: Yamatohime's motif, due to being associated with both fire and life.
* PlayingWithFire: Yamatohime's associated element is flame.
* SleepModeSize: [[spoiler:As a result of sealing her powers even further and Yashahime's encroachment on the planet, Yamatohime shrinks into a child-like form.]]
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[[folder:Ouka]]
A member of the Kurohime Punishment Squad. She desires to take Kurohime's place as the world's most powerful witch.
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* BalefulPolymorph: [[spoiler:Past!Kurohime turns her into a kimono for a brief time, after defeating her in a magical gun duel.]]
* BrokenBird: Due to the loss of her father as a child, Ouka is cold and standoffish, even to her allies, and is the person that is the most opposed to letting go of her grudge against Kurohime next to Sword herself.
* ColdSniper: Can shoot with a level of precision that Kurohime flatly admits she can't match. [[spoiler:It impresses past!Kurohime as well.]]
* EarlyBirdCameo: [[spoiler:Ouka appears during the first arc before being introduced in the second. When Shirohime explains Kurohime's motivations, Ouka is shown attempting to stab and kill Kurohime for killing her father, and it's implied that Kurohime recognized Ouka's OrphanOrdeal due to her own DarkAndTroubledPast.]]
* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler:In the final chapter, the souls in the Black God Tree are all purified and resurrected, including Ouka's father.]]
* {{Forgiveness}}: [[spoiler:She ultimately decides to forgive Kurohime for killing her father, though only after realizing [[RageAgainstTheHeavens the karmic burden that Kurohime is shouldering by way of how she's trying to unite the world]] as well as Korohime's own immense self-hatred.]]
* TheGunslinger: A skilled sniper, witch and generally capable of handling other guns.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Ouka eventually gives up on her grudge against Kurohime after teaming up with her and Sword to kill the goddess Venus. As Ouka sees it, nothing they could do to Kurohime could be worse than what she's already suffering through.]]
* HotWitch: She's able to create and use magic bullets, and is an attractive young woman.
* OrphanOrdeal: [[spoiler:Kurohime killed her father when she was a child, and she wants revenge.]]
* StableTimeLoop: [[spoiler: When Ouka tries to save her father from dying in the past, he attacks her, mistaking her for an enemy, and her witch-beast kills him in her defense. In front of her younger self's eyes.]]
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Her hair is literally blue with dark tips.
* YouKilledMyFather: To Kurohime. [[spoiler: The second time around, Ouka's witch-beast does it instead when her father attacks her, mistaking her for an enemy. It's implied by the narration that this is a result of [[YouCantFightFate his death being fated and predetermined.]]]]
A member of the Kurohime Punishment Squad. She desires to take Kurohime's place as the world's most powerful witch.
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* BalefulPolymorph: [[spoiler:Past!Kurohime turns her into a kimono for a brief time, after defeating her in a magical gun duel.]]
* BrokenBird: Due to the loss of her father as a child, Ouka is cold and standoffish, even to her allies, and is the person that is the most opposed to letting go of her grudge against Kurohime next to Sword herself.
* ColdSniper: Can shoot with a level of precision that Kurohime flatly admits she can't match. [[spoiler:It impresses past!Kurohime as well.]]
* EarlyBirdCameo: [[spoiler:Ouka appears during the first arc before being introduced in the second. When Shirohime explains Kurohime's motivations, Ouka is shown attempting to stab and kill Kurohime for killing her father, and it's implied that Kurohime recognized Ouka's OrphanOrdeal due to her own DarkAndTroubledPast.]]
* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler:In the final chapter, the souls in the Black God Tree are all purified and resurrected, including Ouka's father.]]
* {{Forgiveness}}: [[spoiler:She ultimately decides to forgive Kurohime for killing her father, though only after realizing [[RageAgainstTheHeavens the karmic burden that Kurohime is shouldering by way of how she's trying to unite the world]] as well as Korohime's own immense self-hatred.]]
* TheGunslinger: A skilled sniper, witch and generally capable of handling other guns.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Ouka eventually gives up on her grudge against Kurohime after teaming up with her and Sword to kill the goddess Venus. As Ouka sees it, nothing they could do to Kurohime could be worse than what she's already suffering through.]]
* HotWitch: She's able to create and use magic bullets, and is an attractive young woman.
* OrphanOrdeal: [[spoiler:Kurohime killed her father when she was a child, and she wants revenge.]]
* StableTimeLoop: [[spoiler: When Ouka tries to save her father from dying in the past, he attacks her, mistaking her for an enemy, and her witch-beast kills him in her defense. In front of her younger self's eyes.]]
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Her hair is literally blue with dark tips.
* YouKilledMyFather: To Kurohime. [[spoiler: The second time around, Ouka's witch-beast does it instead when her father attacks her, mistaking her for an enemy. It's implied by the narration that this is a result of [[YouCantFightFate his death being fated and predetermined.]]]]
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A member of
* BadassBeard: Genbu's spirit form sports a long, white WizardBeard.
* GrumpyOldMan: Genbu's personality, due to the fickleness of humans and his general distrust of them.
* AnIcePerson: When Kurohime
* InstantArmor: Genbu's bullets can also be used to
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* BalefulPolymorph: [[spoiler:Past!Kurohime turns her into a kimono for a brief time, after defeating her in a magical gun duel.]]
* BrokenBird: Due to the loss of her father as a child, Ouka is cold and standoffish,
*
* EarlyBirdCameo: [[spoiler:Ouka appears during the first arc before being introduced
* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler:In the final chapter, the souls in the Black God Tree are
* {{Forgiveness}}: [[spoiler:She ultimately decides to forgive Kurohime for killing her father, though only after realizing [[RageAgainstTheHeavens the karmic burden that Kurohime is shouldering by way of how she's trying to unite the world]] as well as Korohime's own immense self-hatred.]]
* TheGunslinger: A skilled sniper, witch
*
* HotWitch: She's able to create and use magic bullets, and
* OrphanOrdeal: [[spoiler:Kurohime killed her father when she was a child, and she wants revenge.]]
* StableTimeLoop: [[spoiler: When Ouka tries to save her father from dying in the past, he attacks her, mistaking her for an enemy, and her witch-beast kills him in her defense. In front of her younger self's eyes.]]
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Her hair is
* YouKilledMyFather: To Kurohime. [[spoiler: The second time around, Ouka's witch-beast does it instead when her father attacks her, mistaking her for
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[[folder:Saika and Aika]]
Two lovers who are the final members of the Kurohime Punishment Squad. Saika was once an accomplice of Onimaru.
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* {{Bishounen}}: Saika is portrayed this way, and has women swooning over him with his good looks.
* ButtMonkey: Saika has been subjected to a number of humiliations over the course of the series; Kurohime defeats him handily, and then Aika castrates him because he's been cheating on her with other women.]]
* TheCasanova: Saika has a well-earned reputation as a playboy, and often gets the attention of women wherever he goes. Unfortunately, he forgot his girlfriend is a ClingyJealousGirl.
* ClingyJealousGirl: Despite knowing Saika wasn't genuinely interested in Kurohime, Aika castrates him and joins the Squad to kill Kurohime.
* DisabledLoveInterest: Aika is blind. She was often accosted and attacked because of it, but compensated with her magic power. Saika counts this as a plus since she will love him even as he grows old, unlike most of the other women that he's attracted.
* DudeLooksLikeALady: At first glance, it's easy to mistake Saika for a woman.
* EarlyBirdCameo: Saika appears in the early chapters as an accomplice of Onimaru that attempts to get Himeko to fall in love with him. He fails miserably.
* GroinAttack: As a result of his cavorting with Kurohime (nothing happened) and her jealous nature, Aika takes Saika's [[IsThatWhatTheyreCallingItNow "most precious thing"]] from him, and won't return it until Kurohime is killed.
* HandicappedBadass: Aika. Being blind doesn't affect the fact that she's perfectly capable of taking care of herself in a fight.
* HotWitch: Aika can fire magic bullets.
* LoveRedeems: Ultimately, Saika becomes a better person by sincerely falling in love with Aika. For a given value of better, anyway.
* OneWingedAngel: Apparently all Death Gods must be male, as the Mate Clan decides to turn Saika into a {{Shinigami}} in the Past Arc. Kurohime and co. manage to turn him back though.
* {{Tsundere}}: 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.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Saika disappears from the story entirely after the failed attempt to turn him into a Death God.
Two lovers who are the final members of the Kurohime Punishment Squad. Saika was once an accomplice of Onimaru.
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* {{Bishounen}}: Saika is portrayed this way, and has women swooning over him with his good looks.
* ButtMonkey: Saika has been subjected to a number of humiliations over the course of the series; Kurohime defeats him handily, and then Aika castrates him because he's been cheating on her with other women.]]
* TheCasanova: Saika has a well-earned reputation as a playboy, and often gets the attention of women wherever he goes. Unfortunately, he forgot his girlfriend is a ClingyJealousGirl.
* ClingyJealousGirl: Despite knowing Saika wasn't genuinely interested in Kurohime, Aika castrates him and joins the Squad to kill Kurohime.
* DisabledLoveInterest: Aika is blind. She was often accosted and attacked because of it, but compensated with her magic power. Saika counts this as a plus since she will love him even as he grows old, unlike most of the other women that he's attracted.
* DudeLooksLikeALady: At first glance, it's easy to mistake Saika for a woman.
* EarlyBirdCameo: Saika appears in the early chapters as an accomplice of Onimaru that attempts to get Himeko to fall in love with him. He fails miserably.
* GroinAttack: As a result of his cavorting with Kurohime (nothing happened) and her jealous nature, Aika takes Saika's [[IsThatWhatTheyreCallingItNow "most precious thing"]] from him, and won't return it until Kurohime is killed.
* HandicappedBadass: Aika. Being blind doesn't affect the fact that she's perfectly capable of taking care of herself in a fight.
* HotWitch: Aika can fire magic bullets.
* LoveRedeems: Ultimately, Saika becomes a better person by sincerely falling in love with Aika. For a given value of better, anyway.
* OneWingedAngel: Apparently all Death Gods must be male, as the Mate Clan decides to turn Saika into a {{Shinigami}} in the Past Arc. Kurohime and co. manage to turn him back though.
* {{Tsundere}}: 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.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Saika disappears from the story entirely after the failed attempt to turn him into a Death God.
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Two lovers who are the final members of the Kurohime Punishment Squad. Saika was once an accomplice of Onimaru.
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* {{Bishounen}}:
* DishingOutDirt: Byakko grants control over
* ButtMonkey: Saika has been subjected to a number of humiliations over the course of the series; Kurohime defeats him handily, and then Aika castrates him because
*
*
* DisabledLoveInterest: Aika is blind. She was often accosted and attacked because of it, but compensated with her magic power. Saika counts this as a plus since she will love him even as he grows old, unlike most of the other women that he's attracted.
* DudeLooksLikeALady: At first glance, it's easy to mistake Saika for a woman.
* EarlyBirdCameo: Saika appears in the early chapters as an accomplice of Onimaru that attempts to get Himeko to fall in love with him. He fails miserably.
* GroinAttack: As a result of his cavorting with
* HandicappedBadass: Aika. Being blind doesn't affect the fact that she's perfectly capable of taking care of herself
* HotWitch: Aika can fire magic bullets.
* LoveRedeems: Ultimately, Saika becomes a better person by sincerely falling in love with Aika. For a given value of better, anyway.
* OneWingedAngel: Apparently all Death Gods must be male, as the Mate Clan decides to turn Saika into a {{Shinigami}} in the Past Arc. Kurohime and co. manage to turn him back though.
* {{Tsundere}}: Aika is normally rather polite and well-behaved. However,
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Saika disappears from the story entirely after the failed attempt to turn him into a Death God.
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!Past Arc Characters
[[folder:Rei]]
A young, angry boy from the past, and Zero's older twin brother.
[[folder:Rei]]
A young, angry boy from the past, and Zero's older twin brother.
to:
[[folder:Rei]]
A young, angry boy
* BlowYouAway: Seiryuu's control over the wind amounts to this. [[spoiler: Actually, from what he says, his power, TimeStandsStill, also encompasses void.]]
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Seiryuu's oddly goofy for a fountain of wind power, speaking relatively casually and otherwise acting very unlike a deity.
* EarlyBirdCameo: [[spoiler:The Sea Dragon that allows time travel is the
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: [[spoiler:The Sea Dragon that he first appears as is more like a giant whale than a dragon.]]
* PowerGivesYouWings: Seiryuu sports a pair on his spirtual form as [[spoiler:the miniaturized Sea Dragon.]]
* SleepModeSize: [[spoiler:His spirit body is way smaller than his physical form as the Sea Dragon.]]
* TimeStandsStill: [[spoiler:This is how Seiryuu uses wind and air, which explains his powers as the Sea Dragon; by stilling it, he stops time, and can in fact reverse time by reversing the flow of air.]]
[[/folder]]
!Kurohime Punishment Squad
A group that's gathered up to enact punishment against Kurohime for wrongs she dealt them in the past.
[[folder:The Leader]]
After Zero's
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Rival]]
Barahime returns as a member of the Punishment Squad, completely stealing the body of her previous host
to fight this time around. See Barahime's folder in the Other Witches section above.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Ouka]]
A member of the Kurohime Punishment Squad. She desires to take Kurohime's place as the world's most powerful witch.
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* DefrostingIceKing: Spends most of the Journey To The Past arc warming up to Hime. [[spoiler: [[LoveRealization Then falling for her.]]]]
* {{Determinator}}: He's willing to put up with a huge amount of abuse for his goal: [[spoiler: Killing Doc.]]
* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler:Rei kills himself when he realizes that Zero was trying to get him to run away, not abandon him, during an invansion. Zero [[HeroicSacrifice has Hime resurrect him so that he can sacrifice his body and soul]] to keep the shinigami from possessing the barely living Rei again.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Believing that RedemptionEqualsDeath, he tries to kill himself as penance for killing Zero.]]
* FreudianExcuse: [[spoiler: Saw his mother die at an early age and swore he would have his vengeance.]] Is [[{{Jerkass}} angry and bitter]] as a result.
* HalfIdenticalTwins: [[spoiler:With Zero, which helps sell the TwinSwitch a lot more effectively once it happens.]]
* HiddenDepths: He seems like just a grouchy kid, but he has a surprisingly cynical worldview [[spoiler:and obscene amounts of hatred in his heart.]]
* JerkassWoobie: He's a gigantic brat and a general pain in the ass, but it's clear that this is the product of his rough life, his mother's death, and Doc's abuse.
* LoveEpiphany: [[spoiler:He falls in love with Hime over the course of the Past Arc, despite his resistance to her at first.]]
* LoveHurts: [[spoiler: And though the two of them get their happy ending, it takes a lot of fighting and misunderstanding for them to reach that point, all of it kicked off by the fact that Himeko was forced to abandon Rei at the end of the Past Arc.]]
* MeaningfulName: "Rei," which means "soul." [[spoiler: However, Rei can also mean "zero", which is a nice bit of foreshadowing.]]
* MySiblingWillLiveThroughMe: [[spoiler:He chooses to honor Zero's memory by taking on his name and personality.]]
* OlderThanHeLooks: Rei is actually older than Zero, but all of the psychological trauma he's been through stunted his growth.
* PleaseDontLeaveMe: [[spoiler:He begs his mother's revived soul to stay with him and Zero, but instead, she flings herself into a chasm so that he and Zero don't have to see the Death Angel squad tear her body apart. Later, when Hime returns to bring him his iconic scarf, he begs her to stay with him, but she sadly declines, given that she was only able allowed to travel back in time one last time. [[WhatTheHellHero He brings it up]] the next time [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice he sees her.]]]]
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:Realizes that past!Zero, in the last moments of his life, was trying to direct Rei from danger, not ask for his help. [[DrivenToSuicide He then shoots himself through the stomach]] when he realizes [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone he left his younger brother to die for no reason.]]]]
* SealedEvilInACan: [[spoiler:A piece of the Mate Clan's artificial Death God attached itself to his body. His anger [[OneWingedAngel eventually released it not just once, but twice,]] and both times someone he loved (first, his mother's revived soul, then Zero's) had to die in his place in order to make sure that Rei didn't destroy the world right then and there.]]
* TakeUpMySword: [[spoiler:To honor his brother's death and all he stood for, Rei resolves to become the new Zero.]]
* TraumaCongaLine: Whoo, boy, Rei's been through it. Dead mother, abuse from his foster father, [[spoiler:indirectly getting his mother killed again, lost his brother via HeroicSacrifice directly because of his recklessness and rage, and being unwillingly abandoned for over 10 years by the girl he fell in love with]]...
* TroubledButCute: Even as a child, he's fairly cute, but he's dealing with a ''lot'' of emotional baggage.
* TwinSwitch: [[spoiler:What effectively happens when Rei decides to take up Zero's name.]]
* YouKilledMyFather: Killing [[spoiler: Doc]] is the only thing that keeps him going.
* {{Determinator}}: He's willing to put up with a huge amount of abuse for his goal: [[spoiler: Killing Doc.]]
* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler:Rei kills himself when he realizes that Zero was trying to get him to run away, not abandon him, during an invansion. Zero [[HeroicSacrifice has Hime resurrect him so that he can sacrifice his body and soul]] to keep the shinigami from possessing the barely living Rei again.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Believing that RedemptionEqualsDeath, he tries to kill himself as penance for killing Zero.]]
* FreudianExcuse: [[spoiler: Saw his mother die at an early age and swore he would have his vengeance.]] Is [[{{Jerkass}} angry and bitter]] as a result.
* HalfIdenticalTwins: [[spoiler:With Zero, which helps sell the TwinSwitch a lot more effectively once it happens.]]
* HiddenDepths: He seems like just a grouchy kid, but he has a surprisingly cynical worldview [[spoiler:and obscene amounts of hatred in his heart.]]
* JerkassWoobie: He's a gigantic brat and a general pain in the ass, but it's clear that this is the product of his rough life, his mother's death, and Doc's abuse.
* LoveEpiphany: [[spoiler:He falls in love with Hime over the course of the Past Arc, despite his resistance to her at first.]]
* LoveHurts: [[spoiler: And though the two of them get their happy ending, it takes a lot of fighting and misunderstanding for them to reach that point, all of it kicked off by the fact that Himeko was forced to abandon Rei at the end of the Past Arc.]]
* MeaningfulName: "Rei," which means "soul." [[spoiler: However, Rei can also mean "zero", which is a nice bit of foreshadowing.]]
* MySiblingWillLiveThroughMe: [[spoiler:He chooses to honor Zero's memory by taking on his name and personality.]]
* OlderThanHeLooks: Rei is actually older than Zero, but all of the psychological trauma he's been through stunted his growth.
* PleaseDontLeaveMe: [[spoiler:He begs his mother's revived soul to stay with him and Zero, but instead, she flings herself into a chasm so that he and Zero don't have to see the Death Angel squad tear her body apart. Later, when Hime returns to bring him his iconic scarf, he begs her to stay with him, but she sadly declines, given that she was only able allowed to travel back in time one last time. [[WhatTheHellHero He brings it up]] the next time [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice he sees her.]]]]
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:Realizes that past!Zero, in the last moments of his life, was trying to direct Rei from danger, not ask for his help. [[DrivenToSuicide He then shoots himself through the stomach]] when he realizes [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone he left his younger brother to die for no reason.]]]]
* SealedEvilInACan: [[spoiler:A piece of the Mate Clan's artificial Death God attached itself to his body. His anger [[OneWingedAngel eventually released it not just once, but twice,]] and both times someone he loved (first, his mother's revived soul, then Zero's) had to die in his place in order to make sure that Rei didn't destroy the world right then and there.]]
* TakeUpMySword: [[spoiler:To honor his brother's death and all he stood for, Rei resolves to become the new Zero.]]
* TraumaCongaLine: Whoo, boy, Rei's been through it. Dead mother, abuse from his foster father, [[spoiler:indirectly getting his mother killed again, lost his brother via HeroicSacrifice directly because of his recklessness and rage, and being unwillingly abandoned for over 10 years by the girl he fell in love with]]...
* TroubledButCute: Even as a child, he's fairly cute, but he's dealing with a ''lot'' of emotional baggage.
* TwinSwitch: [[spoiler:What effectively happens when Rei decides to take up Zero's name.]]
* YouKilledMyFather: Killing [[spoiler: Doc]] is the only thing that keeps him going.
to:
* DefrostingIceKing: Spends most of the Journey To The Past arc warming up to Hime. [[spoiler: [[LoveRealization Then falling BalefulPolymorph: [[spoiler:Past!Kurohime turns her into a kimono for her.]]]]
* {{Determinator}}: He's willing to put up witha huge amount of abuse for his goal: [[spoiler: Killing Doc.brief time, after defeating her in a magical gun duel.]]
*DisneyDeath: [[spoiler:Rei kills himself when he realizes BrokenBird: Due to the loss of her father as a child, Ouka is cold and standoffish, even to her allies, and is the person that Zero was trying is the most opposed to get him letting go of her grudge against Kurohime next to run away, not abandon him, during an invansion. Zero [[HeroicSacrifice has Hime resurrect him so Sword herself.
* ColdSniper: Can shoot with a level of precision and at a range thathe can sacrifice his body and soul]] to keep the shinigami from possessing the barely living Rei again.Kurohime flatly admits she can't match. [[spoiler:It impresses past!Kurohime as well.]]
*DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Believing that RedemptionEqualsDeath, he tries EarlyBirdCameo: [[spoiler:Ouka appears during the first arc before being introduced in the second. When Shirohime explains Kurohime's motivations, Ouka is shown attempting to stab and kill himself as penance Kurohime for killing Zero.her father, and it's implied that Kurohime recognized Ouka's pain due to her own DarkAndTroubledPast.]]
*FreudianExcuse: [[spoiler: Saw his mother die at an early age EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler:In the final chapter, the souls in the Black God Tree are all purified and swore he would have his vengeance.]] Is [[{{Jerkass}} angry and bitter]] as a result.
* HalfIdenticalTwins: [[spoiler:With Zero, which helps sell the TwinSwitch a lot more effectively once it happens.resurrected, including Ouka's father.]]
*HiddenDepths: He seems like just a grouchy kid, but he has a surprisingly cynical worldview [[spoiler:and obscene amounts {{Forgiveness}}: [[spoiler:She ultimately decides to forgive Kurohime for killing her father, though only after realizing [[RageAgainstTheHeavens the karmic burden that Kurohime is shouldering by way of hatred in his heart.how she's trying to unite the world]] as well as Korohime's own immense self-hatred.]]
*JerkassWoobie: He's a gigantic brat TheGunslinger: A skilled sniper, witch and a general pain in the ass, but it's clear that this is the product generally capable of his rough life, his mother's death, and Doc's abuse.
handling other guns.
*LoveEpiphany: [[spoiler:He falls in love HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Ouka eventually gives up on her grudge against Kurohime after teaming up with Hime over her and Sword to kill the course of the Past Arc, despite his resistance goddess Venus. As Ouka sees it, nothing they could do to her at first.Kurohime could be worse than what she's already suffering through.]]
*LoveHurts: [[spoiler: And though the two of them get their happy ending, it takes a lot of fighting HotWitch: She's able to create and misunderstanding for them to reach that point, all of it kicked off by the fact that Himeko use magic bullets, and is an attractive young woman.
* OrphansOrdeal: [[spoiler:Kurohime killed her father when she wasforced to abandon Rei at the end of the Past Arc.a child, and she wants revenge.]]
*MeaningfulName: "Rei," which means "soul." StableTimeLoop: [[spoiler: However, Rei can also mean "zero", which is a nice bit of foreshadowing.]]
* MySiblingWillLiveThroughMe: [[spoiler:He choosesWhen Ouka tries to honor Zero's memory by taking on his name and personality.]]
* OlderThanHeLooks: Rei is actually older than Zero, but all of the psychological trauma he's been through stunted his growth.
* PleaseDontLeaveMe: [[spoiler:He begs his mother's revived soul to stay with him and Zero, but instead, she flings herself into a chasm so that he and Zero don't have to see the Death Angel squad tearsave her body apart. Later, when Hime returns to bring him his iconic scarf, he begs her to stay with him, but she sadly declines, given that she was only able allowed to travel back in time one last time. [[WhatTheHellHero He brings it up]] the next time [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice he sees her.]]]]
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:Realizes that past!Zero,father from dying in the last moments of his life, was trying to direct Rei from danger, not ask past, he attacks her, mistaking her for his help. [[DrivenToSuicide He then shoots himself through the stomach]] when he realizes [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone he left his an enemy, and her witch-beast kills him in her defense. In front of her younger brother to die for no reason.]]]]
self's eyes.]]
*SealedEvilInACan: [[spoiler:A piece of the Mate Clan's artificial Death God attached itself to his body. His anger [[OneWingedAngel eventually released it not just once, but twice,]] and both times someone he loved (first, his mother's revived soul, then Zero's) had to die in his place in order to make sure that Rei didn't destroy the world right then and there.]]
* TakeUpMySword: [[spoiler:To honor his brother's death and all he stood for, Rei resolves to become the new Zero.]]
* TraumaCongaLine: Whoo, boy, Rei's been through it. Dead mother, abuse from his foster father, [[spoiler:indirectly getting his mother killed again, lost his brother via HeroicSacrifice directly because of his recklessness and rage, and being unwillingly abandoned for over 10 years by the girl he fell in love with]]...
* TroubledButCute: Even as a child, he's fairly cute, but he's dealingYouGottaHaveBlueHair: Her hair is literally blue with a ''lot'' of emotional baggage.
* TwinSwitch: [[spoiler:What effectively happens when Rei decides to take up Zero's name.]]
dark tips.
* YouKilledMyFather:Killing To Kurohime. [[spoiler: Doc]] is The second time around, Ouka's witch-beast does it instead when her father attacks her, mistaking her for an enemy. It's implied by the only thing narration that keeps him going.this is a result of [[YouCantFightFate his death being fated and predetermined.]]]]
* {{Determinator}}: He's willing to put up with
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* ColdSniper: Can shoot with a level of precision and at a range that
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* HalfIdenticalTwins: [[spoiler:With Zero, which helps sell the TwinSwitch a lot more effectively once it happens.
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*
*
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* OrphansOrdeal: [[spoiler:Kurohime killed her father when she was
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* MySiblingWillLiveThroughMe: [[spoiler:He chooses
* OlderThanHeLooks: Rei is actually older than Zero, but all of the psychological trauma he's been through stunted his growth.
* PleaseDontLeaveMe: [[spoiler:He begs his mother's revived soul to stay with him and Zero, but instead, she flings herself into a chasm so that he and Zero don't have to see the Death Angel squad tear
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:Realizes that past!Zero,
*
* TakeUpMySword: [[spoiler:To honor his brother's death and all he stood for, Rei resolves to become the new Zero.]]
* TraumaCongaLine: Whoo, boy, Rei's been through it. Dead mother, abuse from his foster father, [[spoiler:indirectly getting his mother killed again, lost his brother via HeroicSacrifice directly because of his recklessness and rage, and being unwillingly abandoned for over 10 years by the girl he fell in love with]]...
* TroubledButCute: Even as a child, he's fairly cute, but he's dealing
* TwinSwitch: [[spoiler:What effectively happens when Rei decides to take up Zero's name.]]
* YouKilledMyFather:
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Zero and Rei's foster father, after their mother died. The greedy leader of the Wolf Brigade.
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* TheAtoner: [[spoiler: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 by giving Zero the means to rescue Kurohime from the Sanzu River, but also by turning back time to let Himeko get a second shot at saving Rei and saving almost all the humans Himeko met on her journeys in the present day.]]
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:Made an ark out of his and the Sea Dragon's bones to help save the last living humans.]]
* EarlyBirdCameo: [[spoiler: Every time Kandata appears prior to Doc's introduction in the Past arc, we're seeing Doc.]]
* {{Greed}}: His motive for just about everything he does. If it makes him money or gets him power, he's on it.
* KarmicDeath: He is killed by one of his foster sons for being a monstrous father. No, not [[spoiler:Rei. Raida.]]
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler: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.]]
* ThePowerOfLove: [[spoiler: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.
* RedemptionEarnsLife:[[spoiler:He's revived after Yashahime is defeated, via the White God Tree.]]
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:Made an ark out of his and the Sea Dragon's bones to help save the last living humans.]]
* EarlyBirdCameo: [[spoiler: Every time Kandata appears prior to Doc's introduction in the Past arc, we're seeing Doc.]]
* {{Greed}}: His motive for just about everything he does. If it makes him money or gets him power, he's on it.
* KarmicDeath: He is killed by one of his foster sons for being a monstrous father. No, not [[spoiler:Rei. Raida.]]
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler: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.]]
* ThePowerOfLove: [[spoiler: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.
* RedemptionEarnsLife:[[spoiler:He's revived after Yashahime is defeated, via the White God Tree.]]
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* TheAtoner: [[spoiler:After he {{Bishounen}}: Saika is killed, he becomes Kandata, portrayed this way, and has women swooning over him with his good looks.
* ButtMonkey: Saika has been subjected to a number of humiliations over theferryman course 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 by giving Zero the means to rescue series; Kurohime from the Sanzu River, but also by turning back time to let Himeko get a second shot at saving Rei defeats him handily, and saving almost all the humans Himeko met then Aika castrates him because he's been cheating on her journeys in the present day.with other women.]]
*BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:Made an ark out TheCasanova: Saika has a well-earned reputation as a playboy, and often gets the attention of women wherever he goes. Unfortunately, he forgot his girlfriend is a ClingyJealousGirl.
* ClingyJealousGirl: Despite knowing Saika wasn't genuinely interested in Kurohime, Aika castrates him and joins theSea Dragon's bones Squad to help save kill Kurohime.
* DisabledLoveInterest: Aika is blind. She was often accosted and attacked because of it, but compensated with her magic power. Saika counts this as a plus since she will love him even as he grows old, unlike most of thelast living humans.]]
other women that he's attracted.
* DudeLooksLikeALady: At first glance, it's easy to mistake Saika for a woman.
* EarlyBirdCameo:[[spoiler: Every time Kandata Saika appears prior in the early chapters as an accomplice of Onimaru that attempts to Doc's introduction get Himeko to fall in love with him. He fails miserably.
* GroinAttack: As a result of his cavorting with Kurohime (nothing happened) and her jealous nature, Aika takes Saika's [[IsThatWhatTheyreCallingItNow "most precious thing"]] from him, and won't return it until Kurohime is killed.
* HandicappedBadass: Aika. Being blind doesn't affect the fact that she's perfectly capable of taking care of herself in a fight.
* HotWitch: Aika can fire magic bullets.
* LoveRedeems: Ultimately, Saika becomes a better person by sincerely falling in love with Aika. For a given value of better, anyway.
* OneWingedAngel: Apparently all Death Gods must be male, as the Mate Clan decides to turn Saika into a {{Shinigami}} in the Pastarc, we're seeing Doc.]]
* {{Greed}}: His motive for just about everything he does. If it makesArc. Kurohime and co. manage to turn him money or gets him power, he's on it.
back though.
*KarmicDeath: He {{Tsundere}}: Aika is killed by one of his foster sons for being a monstrous father. No, not [[spoiler:Rei. Raida.]]
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:After death, it finally hits him how horrible a person he was, especially when Rei admitsnormally rather polite and well-behaved. However, she won't tolerate any cheating and her response to him (as Kandata) that as horrible as Doc was, there was still something likable in him.]]
* ThePowerOfLove: [[spoiler:Himeko cites this asthe reason why Rei spared him. Even as horrible as he was, he was still counted as a father figure "other woman" is to Rei, if only because Rei and Zero never KNEW their REAL father.]] Yup, Doc won simply by default.
kill her.
*RedemptionEarnsLife:[[spoiler:He's revived WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Saika disappears from the story entirely after Yashahime is defeated, via the White God Tree.]]failed attempt to turn him into a Death God.
* ButtMonkey: Saika has been subjected to a number of humiliations over the
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* ClingyJealousGirl: Despite knowing Saika wasn't genuinely interested in Kurohime, Aika castrates him and joins the
* DisabledLoveInterest: Aika is blind. She was often accosted and attacked because of it, but compensated with her magic power. Saika counts this as a plus since she will love him even as he grows old, unlike most of the
* DudeLooksLikeALady: At first glance, it's easy to mistake Saika for a woman.
* EarlyBirdCameo:
* GroinAttack: As a result of his cavorting with Kurohime (nothing happened) and her jealous nature, Aika takes Saika's [[IsThatWhatTheyreCallingItNow "most precious thing"]] from him, and won't return it until Kurohime is killed.
* HandicappedBadass: Aika. Being blind doesn't affect the fact that she's perfectly capable of taking care of herself in a fight.
* HotWitch: Aika can fire magic bullets.
* LoveRedeems: Ultimately, Saika becomes a better person by sincerely falling in love with Aika. For a given value of better, anyway.
* OneWingedAngel: Apparently all Death Gods must be male, as the Mate Clan decides to turn Saika into a {{Shinigami}} in the Past
* {{Greed}}: His motive for just about everything he does. If it makes
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:After death, it finally hits him how horrible a person he was, especially when Rei admits
* ThePowerOfLove: [[spoiler:Himeko cites this as
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* BadassNormal: He has no powers, just natural strength and his gun-hammer, but still manages to kick incredible amounts of ass when he fights.
* BigBrotherMentor: Acts as one of these to Rei and Zero.
* EyepatchOfPower: [[spoiler:When he reappears in the present-day.]]
* TheGunslinger: He uses regular guns in addition to his gunhammer.
* InTheHood: He's wearing a hood when he leaves Doc and the Wolf Brigade behind.
* MrFanservice: He's tall, muscular, and wears an outfit that shows off those attributes well. [[spoiler:Ten years later, he's grizzled, with a beard and missing an eye, but still hot.]]
* UglyGuysHotDaughter: Doc is short and generally unattrative. Raida is tall, well-built, and handsome.
* BigBrotherMentor: Acts as one of these to Rei and Zero.
* EyepatchOfPower: [[spoiler:When he reappears in the present-day.]]
* TheGunslinger: He uses regular guns in addition to his gunhammer.
* InTheHood: He's wearing a hood when he leaves Doc and the Wolf Brigade behind.
* MrFanservice: He's tall, muscular, and wears an outfit that shows off those attributes well. [[spoiler:Ten years later, he's grizzled, with a beard and missing an eye, but still hot.]]
* UglyGuysHotDaughter: Doc is short and generally unattrative. Raida is tall, well-built, and handsome.
to:
* BadassNormal: He has no powers, just natural strength and DefrostingIceKing: Spends most of the Journey To The Past arc warming up to Hime. [[spoiler: [[LoveRealization Then falling for her.]]]]
* {{Determinator}}: He's willing to put up with a huge amount of abuse for hisgun-hammer, but still manages to kick incredible amounts of ass when he fights.
* BigBrotherMentor: Acts as one of these to Rei and Zero.
* EyepatchOfPower: [[spoiler:When he reappears in the present-day.goal: [[spoiler: Killing Doc.]]
*TheGunslinger: He uses regular guns in addition to his gunhammer.
* InTheHood: He's wearing a hoodDisneyDeath: [[spoiler:Rei kills himself when he leaves Doc and the Wolf Brigade behind.
* MrFanservice: He's tall, muscular, and wears an outfitrealizes that shows off those attributes well. [[spoiler:Ten years later, he's grizzled, with a beard Zero was trying to get him to run away, not abandon him, during an invansion. Zero [[HeroicSacrifice has Hime resurrect him so that he can sacrifice his body and missing an eye, but still hot.soul]] to keep the shinigami from possessing the barely living Rei again.]]
*UglyGuysHotDaughter: Doc is short DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Believing that RedemptionEqualsDeath, he tries to kill himself as penance for killing Zero.]]
* FreudianExcuse: [[spoiler: Saw his mother die at an early age andgenerally unattrative. Raida is tall, well-built, swore he would have his vengeance.]] Is [[{{Jerkass}} angry and handsome.bitter]] as a result.
* HalfIdenticalTwins: [[spoiler:With Zero, which helps sell the TwinSwitch a lot more effectively once it happens.]]
* HiddenDepths: He seems like just a grouchy kid, but he has a surprisingly cynical worldview [[spoiler:and obscene amounts of hatred in his heart.]]
* JerkassWoobie: He's a gigantic brat and a general pain in the ass, but it's clear that this is the product of his rough life, his mother's death, and Doc's abuse.
* LoveEpiphany: [[spoiler:He falls in love with Hime over the course of the Past Arc, despite his resistance to her at first.]]
* LoveHurts: [[spoiler: And though the two of them get their happy ending, it takes a lot of fighting and misunderstanding for them to reach that point, all of it kicked off by the fact that Himeko was forced to abandon Rei at the end of the Past Arc.]]
* MeaningfulName: "Rei," which means "soul." [[spoiler: However, Rei can also mean "zero", which is a nice bit of foreshadowing.]]
* MySiblingWillLiveThroughMe: [[spoiler:He chooses to honor Zero's memory by taking on his name and personality.]]
* OlderThanHeLooks: Rei is actually older than Zero, but all of the psychological trauma he's been through stunted his growth.
* PleaseDontLeaveMe: [[spoiler:He begs his mother's revived soul to stay with him and Zero, but instead, she flings herself into a chasm so that he and Zero don't have to see the Death Angels tear her body apart. Later, when Hime returns to bring him his iconic scarf, he begs her to stay with him, but she sadly declines, given that she was only able allowed to travel back in time one last time. [[WhatTheHellHero He brings it up]] the next time [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice he sees her.]]]]
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:Realizes that past!Zero, in the last moments of his life, was trying to direct Rei from danger, not ask for his help. [[DrivenToSuicide He then shoots himself through the stomach]] when he realizes [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone he left his younger brother to die for no reason.]]]]
* SealedEvilInACan: [[spoiler:A piece of the Mate Clan's artificial Death God attached itself to his body. His anger [[OneWingedAngel eventually released it not just once, but twice,]] and both times someone he loved (first, his mother's revived soul, then Zero's) had to die in his place in order to make sure that Rei didn't destroy the world right then and there.]]
* TakeUpMySword: [[spoiler:To honor his brother's death and all he stood for, Rei resolves to become the new Zero.]]
* TraumaCongaLine: Whoo, boy, Rei's been through it. Dead mother, abuse from his foster father, [[spoiler:indirectly getting his mother killed again, lost his brother via HeroicSacrifice directly because of his recklessness and rage, and being unwillingly abandoned for over 10 years by the girl he fell in love with]]...
* TroubledButCute: Even as a child, he's fairly cute, but he's dealing with a ''lot'' of emotional baggage.
* TwinSwitch: [[spoiler:What effectively happens when Rei decides to take up Zero's name.]]
* YouKilledMyFather: Killing [[spoiler: Doc]] is the only thing that keeps him going.
* {{Determinator}}: He's willing to put up with a huge amount of abuse for his
* BigBrotherMentor: Acts as one of these to Rei and Zero.
* EyepatchOfPower: [[spoiler:When he reappears in the present-day.
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* InTheHood: He's wearing a hood
* MrFanservice: He's tall, muscular, and wears an outfit
*
* FreudianExcuse: [[spoiler: Saw his mother die at an early age and
* HalfIdenticalTwins: [[spoiler:With Zero, which helps sell the TwinSwitch a lot more effectively once it happens.]]
* HiddenDepths: He seems like just a grouchy kid, but he has a surprisingly cynical worldview [[spoiler:and obscene amounts of hatred in his heart.]]
* JerkassWoobie: He's a gigantic brat and a general pain in the ass, but it's clear that this is the product of his rough life, his mother's death, and Doc's abuse.
* LoveEpiphany: [[spoiler:He falls in love with Hime over the course of the Past Arc, despite his resistance to her at first.]]
* LoveHurts: [[spoiler: And though the two of them get their happy ending, it takes a lot of fighting and misunderstanding for them to reach that point, all of it kicked off by the fact that Himeko was forced to abandon Rei at the end of the Past Arc.]]
* MeaningfulName: "Rei," which means "soul." [[spoiler: However, Rei can also mean "zero", which is a nice bit of foreshadowing.]]
* MySiblingWillLiveThroughMe: [[spoiler:He chooses to honor Zero's memory by taking on his name and personality.]]
* OlderThanHeLooks: Rei is actually older than Zero, but all of the psychological trauma he's been through stunted his growth.
* PleaseDontLeaveMe: [[spoiler:He begs his mother's revived soul to stay with him and Zero, but instead, she flings herself into a chasm so that he and Zero don't have to see the Death Angels tear her body apart. Later, when Hime returns to bring him his iconic scarf, he begs her to stay with him, but she sadly declines, given that she was only able allowed to travel back in time one last time. [[WhatTheHellHero He brings it up]] the next time [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice he sees her.]]]]
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:Realizes that past!Zero, in the last moments of his life, was trying to direct Rei from danger, not ask for his help. [[DrivenToSuicide He then shoots himself through the stomach]] when he realizes [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone he left his younger brother to die for no reason.]]]]
* SealedEvilInACan: [[spoiler:A piece of the Mate Clan's artificial Death God attached itself to his body. His anger [[OneWingedAngel eventually released it not just once, but twice,]] and both times someone he loved (first, his mother's revived soul, then Zero's) had to die in his place in order to make sure that Rei didn't destroy the world right then and there.]]
* TakeUpMySword: [[spoiler:To honor his brother's death and all he stood for, Rei resolves to become the new Zero.]]
* TraumaCongaLine: Whoo, boy, Rei's been through it. Dead mother, abuse from his foster father, [[spoiler:indirectly getting his mother killed again, lost his brother via HeroicSacrifice directly because of his recklessness and rage, and being unwillingly abandoned for over 10 years by the girl he fell in love with]]...
* TroubledButCute: Even as a child, he's fairly cute, but he's dealing with a ''lot'' of emotional baggage.
* TwinSwitch: [[spoiler:What effectively happens when Rei decides to take up Zero's name.]]
* YouKilledMyFather: Killing [[spoiler: Doc]] is the only thing that keeps him going.
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!The Spirit Kings
[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The four kings of the spirits]], scattered across the land of Yamato. By enslaving them and harnessing their powers, the gods became all powerful. They are Yamatohime, Genbu, Byakko and Seiryuu.
[[folder:General Tropes]]
* BenevolentBoss: All of the Spirit Kings react favorably to Asura, another younger spirit, and her forthright nature.
* {{BFG}}: As they join their powers into [[HandCannon Senryuu]], it gets even '''BIGGER.'''
* ElementalPowers: Each King is associated with a different element: fire and life for Yamatohime, water, ice, and mist for Genbu, earth and metals for Byakko, and wind [[spoiler:space, and time]] for Seiryuu.
* HumansAreBastards: [[spoiler:The humans corrupting the land and polluting it hurts the Spirit Kings like hell, and they all dislike humans because of it save perhaps Yamatohime.]]
* LifeEnergy: Collectively, they ''are'' the world's life energy, especially Yamatohime. [[spoiler:If she dies or is subsumed, the planet goes with her.]]
* KingInTheMountain: Literally in two cases (Yamatohime and Byakko are both sealed inside of mountains), and one where he kind of ''[[TurtleIsland is]]'' the mountain (Genbu).
* PetTheDog: All four eventually come to Himeko's aid in different ways, acknowledging the depth of her feelings for Zero and wanting to support her, sometimes even before they realize what she's up to. Genbu actually doubles his moment by also helping out for the sake of Asura.
* SealedGoodInACan: All four Kings serve as this to the planet at large, as their lives sustain it.
* SecretTestOfCharacter: They each put Himeko through one of these in order to test if she's worthy of taking their power. She passes all of them.
* TheFourGods: Their namesakes and mythological bases. Yamatohime is a slight variant; she represents Suzaku in the group despite not using the name.
[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The four kings of the spirits]], scattered across the land of Yamato. By enslaving them and harnessing their powers, the gods became all powerful. They are Yamatohime, Genbu, Byakko and Seiryuu.
[[folder:General Tropes]]
* BenevolentBoss: All of the Spirit Kings react favorably to Asura, another younger spirit, and her forthright nature.
* {{BFG}}: As they join their powers into [[HandCannon Senryuu]], it gets even '''BIGGER.'''
* ElementalPowers: Each King is associated with a different element: fire and life for Yamatohime, water, ice, and mist for Genbu, earth and metals for Byakko, and wind [[spoiler:space, and time]] for Seiryuu.
* HumansAreBastards: [[spoiler:The humans corrupting the land and polluting it hurts the Spirit Kings like hell, and they all dislike humans because of it save perhaps Yamatohime.]]
* LifeEnergy: Collectively, they ''are'' the world's life energy, especially Yamatohime. [[spoiler:If she dies or is subsumed, the planet goes with her.]]
* KingInTheMountain: Literally in two cases (Yamatohime and Byakko are both sealed inside of mountains), and one where he kind of ''[[TurtleIsland is]]'' the mountain (Genbu).
* PetTheDog: All four eventually come to Himeko's aid in different ways, acknowledging the depth of her feelings for Zero and wanting to support her, sometimes even before they realize what she's up to. Genbu actually doubles his moment by also helping out for the sake of Asura.
* SealedGoodInACan: All four Kings serve as this to the planet at large, as their lives sustain it.
* SecretTestOfCharacter: They each put Himeko through one of these in order to test if she's worthy of taking their power. She passes all of them.
* TheFourGods: Their namesakes and mythological bases. Yamatohime is a slight variant; she represents Suzaku in the group despite not using the name.
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[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin
Zero and Rei's foster father, after their mother died. The
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* TheAtoner: [[spoiler:After he is killed, he becomes Kandata, the
[[folder:General Tropes]]
* BenevolentBoss: All
* {{BFG}}: As they join their powers into [[HandCannon Senryuu]], it gets even '''BIGGER.'''
* ElementalPowers: Each King is associated with a different element: fire
* HumansAreBastards: [[spoiler:The
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* SealedGoodInACan: All four Kings serve as this to the planet at large, as their lives sustain
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler: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
* ThePowerOfLove: [[spoiler: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
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* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: Yamatohime. Though she's chained up, the spirit the gods are the most afraid of escaping is Yamatohime, and it seems everyone on her side defers to her.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Yamatohime gives the last of her power and life to resurrect Kurohime for the last time, since at that point Yashahime had succeeded in taking over the planet and [[KnowWhenToFoldEm there was nothing to be gained by holding onto it anymore]].]]
* ThePhoenix: Yamatohime's motif, due to being associated with both fire and life.
* PlayingWithFire: Yamatohime's associated element is flame.
* SleepModeSize: [[spoiler:As a result of sealing her powers even further and Yashahime's encroachment on the planet, Yamatohime shrinks into a child-like form.]]
* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: Yamatohime. Though she's chained up, the spirit the gods are the most afraid of escaping is Yamatohime, and it seems everyone on her side defers to her.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Yamatohime gives the last of her power and life to resurrect Kurohime for the last time, since at that point Yashahime had succeeded in taking over the planet and [[KnowWhenToFoldEm there was nothing to be gained by holding onto it anymore]].]]
* ThePhoenix: Yamatohime's motif, due to being associated with both fire and life.
* PlayingWithFire: Yamatohime's associated element is flame.
* SleepModeSize: [[spoiler:As a result of sealing her powers even further and Yashahime's encroachment on the planet, Yamatohime shrinks into a child-like form.]]
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* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: Yamatohime. Though she's chained up,
A member of the
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* BadassNormal: He has no powers, just natural strength and his gun-hammer, but still manages to kick incredible amounts of ass when he fights.
* BigBrotherMentor: Acts as one of these to Rei and Zero.
* EyepatchOfPower: [[spoiler:When he reappears in the
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Yamatohime gives the last of her power and life to resurrect Kurohime for the last time, since at that point Yashahime had succeeded in taking over the planet and [[KnowWhenToFoldEm there was nothing to be gained by holding onto it anymore]].
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* InTheHood: He's wearing a hood when he leaves Doc and the Wolf Brigade behind.
* MrFanservice: He's tall, muscular, and wears an outfit that shows off those attributes well. [[spoiler:Ten years later, he's grizzled, with
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* SleepModeSize: [[spoiler:As a result of sealing her powers even further
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* BadassBeard: Genbu's spirit form sports a long, white WizardBeard.
* GrumpyOldMan: Genbu's personality, due to the fickleness of humans and his general distrust of them.
* AnIcePerson: When Kurohime manifests Genbu in Senryuu, she shoots ice dragons.
* InstantArmor: Genbu's bullets can also be used to manifest thick, scaled armor. Not even Yashahime can pierce his shell.
* MakingASplash: Genbu has control over water in all its form, including regular water and mist.
* TurtleIsland: Genbu is very literally an island-sized turtle.
* BadassBeard: Genbu's spirit form sports a long, white WizardBeard.
* GrumpyOldMan: Genbu's personality, due to the fickleness of humans and his general distrust of them.
* AnIcePerson: When Kurohime manifests Genbu in Senryuu, she shoots ice dragons.
* InstantArmor: Genbu's bullets can also be used to manifest thick, scaled armor. Not even Yashahime can pierce his shell.
* MakingASplash: Genbu has control over water in all its form, including regular water and mist.
* TurtleIsland: Genbu is very literally an island-sized turtle.
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* BadassBeard: Genbu's spirit form sports
A young girl that uses a
* GrumpyOldMan: Genbu's personality, due
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* AbusiveParents: Her mother was using her as a free meal ticket, and at one point chained her up at home to keep her "safe".
* DisappearedDad: The reason why she lets her mother use her divinations to make them money.
* RussianRoulette: Basically the
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* InstantArmor: Genbu's bullets can also be used
* MakingASplash: Genbu has control over water in all its form, including regular water
* TurtleIsland: Genbu is
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* {{Bishounen}}: Byakko's spiritual form is a tall, fit, and well-muscled man.
* DishingOutDirt: Byakko grants control over earth, but especially powerful steel, once he's incarnated into Senryuu.
* PantheraAwesome: Byakko's chosen physical form is a tiger.
* ThisIsADrill: When Kurohime manifests Byakko in Senryuu, she shoots drill bullets.
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[[folder:Seiryuu]]
* BlowYouAway: Seiryuu's control over the wind amounts to this. [[spoiler: Actually, from what he says, his power, TimeStandsStill, also encompasses void.]]
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Seiryuu's oddly goofy for a fountain of wind power, speaking relatively casually and otherwise acting very unlike a deity.
* EarlyBirdCameo: [[spoiler:The Sea Dragon that allows time travel is the physical incarnation of Seiryuu.]]
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: [[spoiler:The Sea Dragon that he first appears as is more like a giant whale than a dragon.]]
* PowerGivesYouWings: Seiryuu sports a pair on his spirtual form as [[spoiler:the miniaturized Sea Dragon.]]
* SleepModeSize: [[spoiler:His spirit body is way smaller than his physical form as the Sea Dragon.]]
* TimeStandsStill: [[spoiler:This is how Seiryuu uses wind and air, which explains his powers as the Sea Dragon; by stilling it, he stops time, and can in fact reverse time by reversing the flow of air.]]
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* {{Bishounen}}: Byakko's spiritual form is a tall, fit, and well-muscled man.
* DishingOutDirt: Byakko grants control over earth, but especially powerful steel, once he's incarnated into Senryuu.
* PantheraAwesome: Byakko's chosen physical form is a tiger.
* ThisIsADrill: When Kurohime manifests Byakko in Senryuu, she shoots drill bullets.
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[[folder:Seiryuu]]
* BlowYouAway: Seiryuu's control over the wind amounts to this. [[spoiler: Actually, from what he says, his power, TimeStandsStill, also encompasses void.]]
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Seiryuu's oddly goofy for a fountain of wind power, speaking relatively casually and otherwise acting very unlike a deity.
* EarlyBirdCameo: [[spoiler:The Sea Dragon that allows time travel is the physical incarnation of Seiryuu.]]
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: [[spoiler:The Sea Dragon that he first appears as is more like a giant whale than a dragon.]]
* PowerGivesYouWings: Seiryuu sports a pair on his spirtual form as [[spoiler:the miniaturized Sea Dragon.]]
* SleepModeSize: [[spoiler:His spirit body is way smaller than his physical form as the Sea Dragon.]]
* TimeStandsStill: [[spoiler:This is how Seiryuu uses wind and air, which explains his powers as the Sea Dragon; by stilling it, he stops time, and can in fact reverse time by reversing the flow of air.]]
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!!!! Characters from the manga Manga/{{Kurohime}}. Please be aware that there are unmarked spoilers in these examples.
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!!!! Characters from the manga Manga/{{Kurohime}}. Please be aware that Per wiki policy, trope names are not in spoilers, and there are unmarked may be spoilers for characters' individual plotlines in these examples.their summaries. Read at your own risk.
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!! Kurohime
The most powerful witch of all time. Well-known for her power, beauty and cruelty, she disappeared years before the start of the story, in the middle of a quest to meet the challenge of the gods and become a god herself; she disappeared 10 years before the start of the story, having ascended to meet the gods themselves.
[[spoiler:In reality, Kurohime's real goal was to become a god and kill the rest of them, due to their cruelty and callousness towards humans and the years of warring that gods' contest gaused, with the incidental effect of making herself a villain so that humans would stop fighting to become gods themselves. Her disappearance is the result of her separation and reincarnation/deification by the gods.]]
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[[folder:Kurohime/Himeko]]
The most powerful witch of all time. Well-known for her power, beauty and cruelty, she
[[spoiler:In reality, Kurohime's real goal was to become a god and kill the rest of them, due to their cruelty and callousness towards humans and the years of warring
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!!! Tropes that
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* BeautyMark: She has two, one under the outside corner of each eye. [[spoiler:In keeping with the tragic life that this implies in most Japanese media, Kurohime has suffered immensely in her lifetime, growing up alone in a war-torn era that probably resulted in the deaths of everyone close to her as a child, and enduring great physical and emotional anguish to achieve her goals, only to fail miserably at the end of her first life.]]
* BoobsOfSteel: Her bust size matches the ridiculous amount of magical power she has at hand.
* BrokenBird: [[spoiler:Her backstory before becoming Kurohime isn't much elaborated on, but it's implied that she was orphaned as a result of the wars and saw her fair share of bloodshed and killing as she grew up. After that, to amass the power to meet the gods and kill them, she killed ''a lot'' of people and ate their souls for strength, then ultimately betrayed her most loyal followers and the rest of the world in order to shift focus away from the contest of the gods and onto her. By the time Ouka and Sword meet Kurohime in the past, she hasn't done the last part yet but is otherwise weighed down by the lives she's taken and the monstrous things she's done.]]
* DarkActionGirl: By her own admission, she's "a witch right out of a fairy tale," and won't hesitate to get her hands dirty to kill her opponents.
* DarkIsNotEvil: [[spoiler:She's earned her bad reputation, but a lot of what she's done is focused on trying to free humanity from the yoke of the gods.]]
* DeathSeeker: [[spoiler:She's more than happy to die for all she's done, after she's accomplished her mission. This is part of why Sword and Ouka gradually lose interest in taking revenge against her.]]
* BoobsOfSteel: Her bust size matches the ridiculous amount of magical power she has at hand.
* BrokenBird: [[spoiler:Her backstory before becoming Kurohime isn't much elaborated on, but it's implied that she was orphaned as a result of the wars and saw her fair share of bloodshed and killing as she grew up. After that, to amass the power to meet the gods and kill them, she killed ''a lot'' of people and ate their souls for strength, then ultimately betrayed her most loyal followers and the rest of the world in order to shift focus away from the contest of the gods and onto her. By the time Ouka and Sword meet Kurohime in the past, she hasn't done the last part yet but is otherwise weighed down by the lives she's taken and the monstrous things she's done.]]
* DarkActionGirl: By her own admission, she's "a witch right out of a fairy tale," and won't hesitate to get her hands dirty to kill her opponents.
* DarkIsNotEvil: [[spoiler:She's earned her bad reputation, but a lot of what she's done is focused on trying to free humanity from the yoke of the gods.]]
* DeathSeeker: [[spoiler:She's more than happy to die for all she's done, after she's accomplished her mission. This is part of why Sword and Ouka gradually lose interest in taking revenge against her.]]
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* AbsoluteCleavage: Quite a few of her outfits that she wears over the course of the manga, both as her original and reincarnated selves, expose a good bit of her chest.
* ActionGirl: Zig-zagged a bit: Kurohime is more than a capable combatant, but as Himeko, she is initially completely powerless and quite useless to boot. As Himeko gains more power, she demonstrates a marked increase in self-reliance; by the end of the story, she's capable of fighting Yashahime almost toe-to-toe without her power as Kurohime.
* BeautyMark: She has two, one under the outside corner of each eye. [[spoiler:In keeping with the tragic life that this implies in most Japanese media, Kurohime has suffered immensely in her lifetime, growing up alone in a war-torn era that probably resulted in the deaths of everyone close to her as a child, and enduring great physical and emotional anguish to achieve her goals, only to fail miserably at the end of her firstlife.life and get split apart and effectively reincarnated against her will. As Himeko, this trend continues: she falls in love with Zero despite her curse and is only able to admit her love for him shortly before he dies, then loses most of her memories of him. She is later forced to kill one of her closest allies, realizes that she abandoned Zero ''twice'' at the loweest points of his life, and nearly dies for good trying to save Zero from the worst parts of himself.]]
* BoobsOfSteel: Her bust size matches the ridiculous amount of magical power she has athand.
hand. This doesn't apply to her cursed form.
* BrokenBird:[[spoiler:Her [[spoiler:The original Kurohime's backstory before becoming Kurohime isn't much elaborated on, but it's implied that she was orphaned as a result of the wars and saw her fair share of bloodshed and killing as she grew up. After that, to amass the power to meet the gods and kill them, she killed ''a lot'' of people and ate their souls for strength, then ultimately betrayed her most loyal followers and the rest of the world in order to shift focus away from the contest of the gods and onto her. By the time Ouka and Sword meet Kurohime in the past, Past Arc, she hasn't done yet begun her final push toward reaching and killing the last part yet gods, but is otherwise weighed down by the lives she's taken and the monstrous things she's done.done. Even as Himeko she has shades of this, especially after Zero has died and the heartbreak from it continues to drive many of her decisions and she has to weigh the risks of trading memories of him to get the power to fight.]]
*DarkActionGirl: By CuteWitch: In her own admission, younger Himeko forms, she's "a witch right out of a fairy tale," and won't hesitate to get her hands dirty to kill her opponents.
* DarkIsNotEvil: [[spoiler:She's earned her bad reputation, but a lot of what she's done is focused on trying to free humanity from the yoke of the gods.]]
* DeathSeeker: [[spoiler:She's more than happy to die for all she's done, after she's accomplished her mission. This is part of why Sword and Ouka gradually lose interest in taking revenge against her.]]very much this.
* ActionGirl: Zig-zagged a bit: Kurohime is more than a capable combatant, but as Himeko, she is initially completely powerless and quite useless to boot. As Himeko gains more power, she demonstrates a marked increase in self-reliance; by the end of the story, she's capable of fighting Yashahime almost toe-to-toe without her power as Kurohime.
* BeautyMark: She has two, one under the outside corner of each eye. [[spoiler:In keeping with the tragic life that this implies in most Japanese media, Kurohime has suffered immensely in her lifetime, growing up alone in a war-torn era that probably resulted in the deaths of everyone close to her as a child, and enduring great physical and emotional anguish to achieve her goals, only to fail miserably at the end of her first
* BoobsOfSteel: Her bust size matches the ridiculous amount of magical power she has at
* BrokenBird:
*
* DarkIsNotEvil: [[spoiler:She's earned her bad reputation, but a lot of what she's done is focused on trying to free humanity from the yoke of the gods.]]
* DeathSeeker: [[spoiler:She's more than happy to die for all she's done, after she's accomplished her mission. This is part of why Sword and Ouka gradually lose interest in taking revenge against her.]]
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* ClothingDamage: In her fight against [[spoiler:Ouka]], she loses a good chunk of her outfit. It doesn't bother her a bit.
* GodhoodSeeker: Initially thought to be her goal. [[spoiler:It's not, at least not in the way that people think it is, but it happens anyway.]]
* GodhoodSeeker: Initially thought to be her goal. [[spoiler:It's not, at least not in the way that people think it is, but it happens anyway.]]
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* HandicappedBadass: While her arm she lost ''DID'' grow back after the battle, losing it didn't slow her down in the least.
* HiddenHeartOfGold: [[spoiler:Her real personality is much more subdued and less cruel than appearances suggest. When her backstory is revealed by Shirohime, it becomes evident that while she was ruthless, she still had enough compassion for the very young and for people that suffered under war; she allows a young Ouka to stab her and leave without repercussion and mourns a baby that dies during the construction of her tower to heaven. Her later conversations with an adult Ouka during the Past Arc bear this out, as she demonstrates that she is perfectly aware of how cruel she is and how much she ''hates'' the fact that she has to be to meet her goals. There's also the fact that she rescued, renamed, and gave a bit of maternal comfort to a nearly suicidal Rei.]]
* HotWitch: She has repeatedly been called the most beautiful witch in the world.
* HiddenHeartOfGold: [[spoiler:Her real personality is much more subdued and less cruel than appearances suggest. When her backstory is revealed by Shirohime, it becomes evident that while she was ruthless, she still had enough compassion for the very young and for people that suffered under war; she allows a young Ouka to stab her and leave without repercussion and mourns a baby that dies during the construction of her tower to heaven. Her later conversations with an adult Ouka during the Past Arc bear this out, as she demonstrates that she is perfectly aware of how cruel she is and how much she ''hates'' the fact that she has to be to meet her goals. There's also the fact that she rescued, renamed, and gave a bit of maternal comfort to a nearly suicidal Rei.]]
* HotWitch: She has repeatedly been called the most beautiful witch in the world.
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* HandicappedBadass: While her arm she lost ''DID'' grow back after the battle, losing it didn't slow her down in the least.
* HiddenHeartOfGold: [[spoiler:Her real personality is much more subdued and less cruel than appearances suggest. When her backstory is revealed by Shirohime, it becomes evident that while she was ruthless, she still had enough compassion for the very young and for people that suffered under war; she allows a young Ouka to stab her and leave without repercussion and mourns a baby that dies during the construction of her tower to heaven. Her later conversations with an adult Ouka during the Past Arc bear this out, as she demonstrates that she is perfectly aware of how cruel she is and how much she ''hates'' the fact that sheHealingShiv: She has to be to meet her goals. There's also the fact that she rescued, renamed, and gave a bit of maternal comfort access to a nearly suicidal Rei.]]
healing bullet and often uses it in her battles.
* HotWitch: She has repeatedly been called the most beautiful witch in the world. Himeko averts this at first, but it shows whenever she transforms into Kurohime.
* HiddenHeartOfGold: [[spoiler:Her real personality is much more subdued and less cruel than appearances suggest. When her backstory is revealed by Shirohime, it becomes evident that while she was ruthless, she still had enough compassion for the very young and for people that suffered under war; she allows a young Ouka to stab her and leave without repercussion and mourns a baby that dies during the construction of her tower to heaven. Her later conversations with an adult Ouka during the Past Arc bear this out, as she demonstrates that she is perfectly aware of how cruel she is and how much she ''hates'' the fact that she
* HotWitch: She has repeatedly been called the most beautiful witch in the world. Himeko averts this at first, but it shows whenever she transforms into Kurohime.
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* {{Jerkass}}: She's arrogant, cold, and merciless, especially to her opponents. [[spoiler:This turns out to be a JerkassFacade, as implied under HiddenHeartOfGold above.]]
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* {{Jerkass}}: She's arrogant, cold, and merciless, especially to her opponents. [[spoiler:This [[spoiler:For the original Kurohime, this turns out to be a JerkassFacade, as implied under HiddenHeartOfGold above.JerkassFacade.]]
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* MsFanservice: She dresses to accentuate her good looks 24-7-365.
* NayTheist: She knows the gods exist, and [[spoiler:is all too happy to remind them that they're not immortal.]]
* PhysicalGod: [[spoiler:Became this 10 years before the start of the story, when her battle against the gods ends in failure. She's split in half, and her compassion and kindness are deified as Shirohime while the castoffs of her negative emotions are turned into Himeko.]]
* PoweredByAForsakenChild: [[spoiler: The Black God Tree bound to her. It feeds on the rage and hatred of the people she's killed; her guilt over taking their lives and her need to make their deaths worth something is her primary motivation to fight.]]
* RageAgainstTheHeavens: [[spoiler:She cites the gods' cruelty as the primary reason that she's fighting to become one--so that she can kill all of them.]]
* NayTheist: She knows the gods exist, and [[spoiler:is all too happy to remind them that they're not immortal.]]
* PhysicalGod: [[spoiler:Became this 10 years before the start of the story, when her battle against the gods ends in failure. She's split in half, and her compassion and kindness are deified as Shirohime while the castoffs of her negative emotions are turned into Himeko.]]
* PoweredByAForsakenChild: [[spoiler: The Black God Tree bound to her. It feeds on the rage and hatred of the people she's killed; her guilt over taking their lives and her need to make their deaths worth something is her primary motivation to fight.]]
* RageAgainstTheHeavens: [[spoiler:She cites the gods' cruelty as the primary reason that she's fighting to become one--so that she can kill all of them.]]
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* MsFanservice: She dresses to accentuate her good looks and body 24-7-365.
* NayTheist: She knows the gods exist, and[[spoiler:is is all too happy to remind them that they're not immortal.]]
* PhysicalGod: [[spoiler:Became this 10 years before the start of the story, when her battle against the gods ends in failure. She's split in half, and her compassion and kindness are deified as Shirohime while the castoffs of her negative emotions are turned into Himeko.]]
* PoweredByAForsakenChild: [[spoiler: The Black God Tree bound to her. It feeds on the rage and hatred of the people she's killed; her guilt over taking their lives and her need to make their deaths worth something is her primary motivation to fight.]]
* RageAgainstTheHeavens: [[spoiler:She cites the gods' cruelty as the primary reason that she's fighting to become one--so that she can kill all of them.]]immortal by violently tearing them apart.
* NayTheist: She knows the gods exist, and
* PhysicalGod: [[spoiler:Became this 10 years before the start of the story, when her battle against the gods ends in failure. She's split in half, and her compassion and kindness are deified as Shirohime while the castoffs of her negative emotions are turned into Himeko.]]
* PoweredByAForsakenChild: [[spoiler: The Black God Tree bound to her. It feeds on the rage and hatred of the people she's killed; her guilt over taking their lives and her need to make their deaths worth something is her primary motivation to fight.]]
* RageAgainstTheHeavens: [[spoiler:She cites the gods' cruelty as the primary reason that she's fighting to become one--so that she can kill all of them.]]
!!! Tropes that apply to the uncursed Kurohime:
* ClothingDamage: In her fight against [[spoiler:Ouka]], she loses a good chunk of her outfit. It doesn't bother her a bit.
* DarkActionGirl: By her own admission, she's "a witch right out of a fairy tale," and won't hesitate to get her hands dirty to kill her opponents.
* DarkIsNotEvil: [[spoiler:She's earned her bad reputation, but a lot of what she's done is focused on trying to free humanity from the yoke of the gods and get her vengeance on them for what they've done to her and to others.]]
* DeathSeeker: [[spoiler:She's more than happy to die for all she's done, after she's accomplished her mission. This is part of why Sword and Ouka gradually lose interest in taking revenge against her.]]
* GodhoodSeeker: Initially thought to be her goal. [[spoiler:It's not, at least not in the way that people think it is, but it happens anyway.]]
* HandicappedBadass: While her arm she lost ''DID'' grow back after the battle, losing it didn't slow her down in the least.
* HiddenHeartOfGold: [[spoiler:Her real personality is much more subdued and less cruel than her reputation suggests. When her backstory is revealed by Shirohime, it becomes evident that while she was ruthless, she still had enough compassion for the very young and for people that suffered under war; she allows a young Ouka to stab her and leave without repercussion and mourns a baby that dies during the construction of her tower to heaven. Her later conversations with an adult Ouka during the Past Arc bear this out, as she demonstrates that she is perfectly aware of how cruel she is and how much she ''hates'' the fact that she has to be to meet her goals. There's also the fact that she rescued, renamed, and gave a bit of maternal comfort to a nearly suicidal Rei.]]
* PoweredByAForsakenChild: [[spoiler: The Black God Tree bound to her. It feeds on the rage and hatred of the people she's killed; her guilt over taking their lives and her need to make their deaths worth something is her primary motivation to fight.]]
* PhysicalGod: [[spoiler:Once she met and attempted to fight the gods 10 years before the story started, she was split into two separate aspects of herself as punishment for her defiance; her kindness and love for people became the goddess Shirohime, while her rage and hatred for the gods is cursed into Himeko's childlike form. While Shirohime isn't *quite* Kurohime (and thus has her own set of tropes), she does contain all of the original Kurohime's memories and as such is effectively Kurohime given a god's power.]]
* RageAgainstTheHeavens: [[spoiler:She cites the gods' cruelty as the primary reason that she's fighting to become one--so that she can kill all of them.]]
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!! Himeko
TheHero of the story, a little girl who meets Zero while running away from bandits. She claims to be Kurohime, cursed by the gods into her current form and unable to feel love for others; when she feels love, she transforms into Kurohime, complete with immense magical power. [[spoiler:While this is true, it's more accurate to say that she's actually the "leftovers" from the deification of Kurohime into Shirohime, namely all of Kurohime's hatred and rage directed at the gods.]]
* AbsoluteCleavage: Her second outfit as Kurohime, as well as a few others that she wears over the course of the manga, expose a good bit of her chest.
* ActionGirl: As she gains more power, she demonstrates a marked increase in self-reliance; by the end of the story, she's capable of fighting Yashahime almost toe-to-toe without her power as Kurohime.
TheHero of the story, a little girl who meets Zero while running away from bandits. She claims to be Kurohime, cursed by the gods into her current form and unable to feel love for others; when she feels love, she transforms into Kurohime, complete with immense magical power. [[spoiler:While this is true, it's more accurate to say that she's actually the "leftovers" from the deification of Kurohime into Shirohime, namely all of Kurohime's hatred and rage directed at the gods.]]
* AbsoluteCleavage: Her second outfit as Kurohime, as well as a few others that she wears over the course of the manga, expose a good bit of her chest.
* ActionGirl: As she gains more power, she demonstrates a marked increase in self-reliance; by the end of the story, she's capable of fighting Yashahime almost toe-to-toe without her power as Kurohime.
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TheHero of
* AbsoluteCleavage: Her second outfit as Kurohime, as well as a few others that she wears over the course of the manga, expose a good bit of her chest.
* ActionGirl: As she gains more power, she demonstrates a marked increase in self-reliance; by the end of the story, she's capable of fighting Yashahime almost toe-to-toe without her power as Kurohime.
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* BeautyMark: Like Kurohime, she has two, one under the outside corner of each eye. Aside from being obvious proof that she really is Kurohime like she claims, [[spoiler:they act as {{Foreshadowing}} for the many difficulties in her life, for the same reason as her previous existence as Kurohime--she falls in love with Zero and is only able to admit her love for him shortly before he dies, then loses most of her memories of him. She is later forced to kill one of her closest allies, realizes that she abandoned Zero ''twice'' at the loweest points of his life, and nearly dies for good trying to save Zero from the worst parts of himself.]]
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* BoyishShortHair: In her first cursed form, in contrast to the long hair of her un-cursed self.
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* BoyishShortHair: In her first younger cursed form, forms, in contrast to the long hair of her un-cursed self.
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* HealingShiv: She has access to a healing bullet and often uses it in her battles.
* TheHero: Though it starts as a secondary role, she moves to primary hero [[spoiler:after Zero dies.]]
* IcyBlueEyes: Her eyes are this color, the same as her older, un-cursed form.
* IHaveManyNames: Aside from being called Himeko or Kurohime, she's also been called Hime, Himekojo, and Momohime.
* TheHero: Though it starts as a secondary role, she moves to primary hero [[spoiler:after Zero dies.]]
* IcyBlueEyes: Her eyes are this color, the same as her older, un-cursed form.
* IHaveManyNames: Aside from being called Himeko or Kurohime, she's also been called Hime, Himekojo, and Momohime.
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* LaserGuidedKarma: A metric-fuck-ton of it. She killed countless people in her quest to become a god, and the price was being cursed into a child's body [[spoiler:and being stripped of her memories and half of her very personality]] on top of losing her ability to love. Worse yet, [[spoiler:not long after fully realizing love, the man she loves sacrifices himself to protect her and he dies in front of her very eyes.]]
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* LaserGuidedKarma: A metric-fuck-ton of it. She [[spoiler:Her original self killed countless people in her quest to become a god, and the price was being cursed into a child's body [[spoiler:and and being stripped of her memories and half of her very personality]] personality on top of losing her ability to love. Worse yet, [[spoiler:not not long after fully realizing love, the man she loves sacrifices himself to protect her and he dies in front of her very eyes.]]
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* PowerAtAPrice: [[spoiler:After killing Darkray and losing Zero, the only way for her to use her full power as Kurohime is to give up memories of Zero, since his death is a psychological block on her power. The longer she stays transformed, the more memories she loses; once Dark Zero removes almost all her memories himself, this effectively soft-locks her out of becoming Kurohime again until the very end of the manga.]]
* ThePowerOfLove: The only way to even temporarily break the curse, and what ultimately breaks it permanently at the climax of the first arc, when she fully accepts that she does love Zero. [[spoiler:Also, she only agrees to help Asura if Princess Yamato resurrects Zero.]]
* ShootTheDog: [[spoiler:Despite not wanting to, Himeko, after regaining her form as Kurohime, ultimately ends the world by using the Ultimate Sword to split it in half, with Yashahime still bound to it.]]
* ThePowerOfLove: The only way to even temporarily break the curse, and what ultimately breaks it permanently at the climax of the first arc, when she fully accepts that she does love Zero. [[spoiler:Also, she only agrees to help Asura if Princess Yamato resurrects Zero.]]
* ShootTheDog: [[spoiler:Despite not wanting to, Himeko, after regaining her form as Kurohime, ultimately ends the world by using the Ultimate Sword to split it in half, with Yashahime still bound to it.]]
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* PowerAtAPrice: [[spoiler:After killing Darkray and losing Zero, the only way for her to use her full power as Kurohime is to give up memories of Zero, since his death is a psychological block on her power. The longer she stays transformed, the more memories she loses; once Dark Zero removes almost all her memories himself, this effectively soft-locks her out of becoming Kurohime again (at least, by herself) until the very end of the manga.]]
* ThePowerOfLove: The only way to even temporarily break the curse, and what ultimately breaks it permanently at the climax of the first arc, when she fully accepts that she does love Zero. [[spoiler:Also, she only agrees to help Asuraif and free Princess Yamato if, and only if, Princess Yamato resurrects Zero.]]
* ShootTheDog: [[spoiler:Despite not wanting to,Himeko, after regaining her form as Kurohime, she ultimately ends the world by using the Ultimate Sword to split it in half, with Yashahime still bound to it.]]
* ThePowerOfLove: The only way to even temporarily break the curse, and what ultimately breaks it permanently at the climax of the first arc, when she fully accepts that she does love Zero. [[spoiler:Also, she only agrees to help Asura
* ShootTheDog: [[spoiler:Despite not wanting to,
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* SmallGirlBigGun: As the smallest Himeko, Senryuu's size as compared to her
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* SmallGirlBigGun: As the smallest Himeko, Senryuu's size as compared to herher body.
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!! Zero
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; he meets Himeko being chased by Onimaru, and upon breaking her curse (temporarily) for the first time, he devotes himself to staying by her side.
[[spoiler:He dies pushing Himeko out of the Sanzu River, breaking her heart and starting her on the road to becoming a better person. The goddess Yashahime resurrects him as the new Death God, Dark Zero, whereupon he reveals that he always had "a darkness in his heart". Himeko goes to the past to learn more about this darkness, and meets Zero and his older brother Rei. A series of events nearly leads to Rei becoming a Death God not once, but twice; during the second incident, Zero sacrifices his life to save Rei from this fate...which eventually reveals that the Zero Himeko knows is in fact ''Rei''.]]
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[[folder:Zero]]
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; he meets Himeko being chased by Onimaru, and upon breaking her curse (temporarily) for the first time, he devotes himself to staying by her
[[spoiler:He dies pushing Himeko out of the Sanzu River, breaking her heart and starting her on the road to becoming a better person. The goddess Yashahime resurrects him as the new Death God, Dark Zero, whereupon he reveals that he always had "a darkness in his heart". Himeko goes to the past to learn more about this darkness, and meets Zero and his older brother Rei. A series of events nearly leads to Rei becoming a Death God not once, but twice; during the second incident, Zero sacrifices his life to save Rei from this fate...which eventually reveals that the Zero Himeko knows is in fact ''Rei''.]]
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* DeadPersonImpersonation: [[spoiler:Has been doing one of his younger brother Zero for the entirety of the manga, due to intense regret over how his own actions resulted in the real Zero's death.]]
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* DeadPersonImpersonation: [[spoiler:Has [[spoiler:The Zero introduced at the start of the story is actually named "Rei", and he's been doing one of using his younger brother Zero Zero's name for the entirety of the manga, manga that he's been a main character, due to intense regret over how his own actions resulted in the real Zero's death.]]
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* GenderBender: [[spoiler:Was reincarnated as a woman on the new planet many milion years after the end of the manga.]]
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* GenderBender: [[spoiler:Was reincarnated as a woman on the new planet many milion millions of years after the end of the manga.]]
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* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Makes one to get Himeko out of the Sanzu River, pushing her to shore as the waters boil him down to his skeleton. His past self makes another one to save his older brother Rei--except that as it turns out, since the Zero the readers know is actually Rei...]]
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* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Makes one to get Himeko out of the Sanzu River, pushing her to shore as the waters boil him down to his skeleton. His past self makes another one to save his older brother Rei--except that Rei, permanently damning his soul--except, as it turns out, since the Zero the readers know have known for all this time is actually Rei...''Rei'', pretending to be his younger brother.]]
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* ReincarnationRomance: [[spoiler:Has one with Himeko in the last chapter of the manga, where he's reborn as a princess and she's reborn as a male gunslinger.]]
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* ReincarnationRomance: [[spoiler:Has one with Himeko in the last chapter of the manga, where he's reborn as a princess woman and she's reborn as a male gunslinger.man.]]
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* TroubledButCute: [[spoiler:Considering that he's really Rei, his life has been a total shitshow--his mother was killed by the man that "adopted" him and his younger brother after the fact and physically abused him. Then, his mother sacrificed her soul to restore him to normal after that foster father attempted to use his Death God infection to his advantage. After that, his brother died to save his life from the Death God infection ''again'', and the one person left that unconditionally loved him wound up abandoning him twice in short order, albeit against her will.]]
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* TroubledButCute: [[spoiler:Considering that he's really Rei, his life has been a total shitshow--his mother was killed by the man that "adopted" him and his younger brother after the fact fact, and that man physically abused him. him and used him as child labor. Then, his mother sacrificed her soul to restore him to normal after that foster father attempted to use his Rei's Death God infection to his advantage. After that, his Rei's brother died to save his life from the Death God infection ''again'', and the one person left that unconditionally loved him wound up abandoning him twice in short order, albeit against her will.]]
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!! Asura
A fire spirit trying to rescue her master. Has contempt for gods and humans, though the former more than the latter.
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[[folder:Asura]]
A fire spirit trying to rescue her master. Has contempt for gods and
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[[folder:Onimaru Brigade]]
!! Onimaru
!! Onimaru
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!! Onimaru
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[[folder:Other Witches]]
!!Barahime
An old rival of Kurohime's. Initially, Himeko and Zero seek her out for help breaking Himeko's curse, but they instead get into a fierce fight with her, as Kurohime stole her youth 50 years ago. [[spoiler:After her first defeat, she repossesses her original host, Yuuka, and becomes the second member of the Kurohime Punishment Squad.]]
* GrandTheftMe: She pulls this on Yuuka two times; the first time was 50 years before the start of the story, after Kurohime steals her youth. [[spoiler:The second is so that she can avenge her defeat in the early chapters of the story, but on a far more complete level to the point that she can use Yuuka's body to fire magic bullets.]]
!!Barahime
An old rival of Kurohime's. Initially, Himeko and Zero seek her out for help breaking Himeko's curse, but they instead get into a fierce fight with her, as Kurohime stole her youth 50 years ago. [[spoiler:After her first defeat, she repossesses her original host, Yuuka, and becomes the second member of the Kurohime Punishment Squad.]]
* GrandTheftMe: She pulls this on Yuuka two times; the first time was 50 years before the start of the story, after Kurohime steals her youth. [[spoiler:The second is so that she can avenge her defeat in the early chapters of the story, but on a far more complete level to the point that she can use Yuuka's body to fire magic bullets.]]
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!!Barahime
[[folder:Barahime]]
An old rival of Kurohime's. Initially, Himeko and Zero seek her out for help breaking Himeko's curse, but they instead get into a fierce fight with her, as Kurohime stole her youth 50 years
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* GrandTheftMe: She pulls this on
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* KickTheDog: Before Kurohime stole her youth, she had no compunctions luring people to her to steal their youth. On top of that, she used Yuuka's body to prepare for her revenge on Kurohime, devouring the youth of anyone that got close to Yuuka for 50 years. [[spoiler:And she goes right back to stealing bodies as soon as Sword gives her the chance for revenge against Kurohime, this time actively controlling Yuuka's body completely and possessing child!Zero as a HumanShield during her fight with Himeko.]]
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* KickTheDog: Before Kurohime stole her youth, she had no compunctions luring people to her to steal their youth. On top of that, she used Yuuka's an innocent girl's body to prepare for her revenge on Kurohime, devouring the youth of anyone that got close to Yuuka her host for 50 years. [[spoiler:And she goes right back to stealing bodies as soon as Sword gives her the chance for revenge against Kurohime, this time actively controlling Yuuka's body completely and possessing child!Zero as a HumanShield during her fight with Himeko.]]
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* PoweredByAForsakenChild: She used Yuuka's beauty to lure unsuspecting men to her cottage to drain their lifeforce and fuel her [[ImmortalityImmorality immortality.]]
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* PoweredByAForsakenChild: She used Yuuka's [[spoiler:Yuuka's]] beauty to lure unsuspecting men to her cottage to drain their lifeforce and fuel her [[ImmortalityImmorality immortality.]]
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!! Yuuka
A young woman that Himeko and Zero run into in the woods. Later on, she and Hime become good friends.
* CuteWitch: [[spoiler:Once she gains magic she falls into this category, having a gentle nature and keeping Barahime's rose motifs.]]
* DistressedDamsel: She was held hostage by Barahime for 50 years, and everyone that got near her eventually had their lives stolen away to fuel Barahime's life force. [[spoiler:She's subjected to a round 2 after the Punishment Squad is formed, which lasts until Himeko kills Barahime.]]
* GreenThumb: [[spoiler:Gains plant-based magic because Barahime possessed her for 50 years.]]
* NiceGirl: She's polite and kind to everyone she meets.
* RapunzelHair: Her hair is long enough to reach near to the ground, even with some of it bound into long braids.
* RedOniBlueOni: She's the blue to Himeko's red; Yuuka is calm, pleasant and gentle to Himeko's brash selfishness and higher energy.
* {{Sidekick}}: She served as Himeko's in the Journey To The Past arc, doubling as TheConscience.
* TouchedByVorlons: [[spoiler:Gains the ability to shoot magic bullets as a result of Barahime's repeated possessions.]]
!! Kashihime
!! The Kyo-Kyo Witch
!! Himiko
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[[folder:Yamato Characters]]
!! 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.
* AllLoveIsUnrequited: He really likes Himeko, but she's attached to Zero too tightly to really consider it.
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:After being absorbed by the Black God Tree, Himeko, restored to her full power as Kurohime after destroying Yashahime, revives him.]]
* BadassNormal: Pray you are never on the other end of his sword.
* BigGood: The remains of the forces of Oedo, plus Yuki, Yukio and Asura [[spoiler: before she loses it]] are under his command so he qualifies.
* TheChewToy: In short order, he [[spoiler:loses his father, his kingdom, and his life to protect everything he cares about.]]
* TheChick: He's easily the most awed by the things happening around him, and while he has some fighting ability it doesn't measure up to the rest of the team.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:He uses the last of the Spirit King jewels and his lifeforce to save Himeko from Dark Zero and Yashahime.]]
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: He knows he has no chance with Himeko, but does his best to assist her cause.
* JamesBondage: He's first introduced as a captive of a group of mermaids.
* PowerAtAPrice: [[spoiler:The gems he keeps on him drain his lifeforce for their power.]]
* PowerDyesYourHair: The Spirit King Jewels dye his hair white [[spoiler:It's closer to DiseaseBleach, though, given that he's dying to power the Jewels.]]
* ReplacementGoldfish: 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.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: When shit hits the fan in Oedo, he and his family fly into action.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: To Zero, but he eventually becomes his own character.
* WarriorPrince: The prince of Oedo, and a skilled fighter and strategist to boot.
* YouAreInCommandNow: And he does fairly well, [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt considering the situation.]]
!! Kazushi
Kazuma's little sister.
!! Himiko, The Village Elder
!! 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.
* AllLoveIsUnrequited: He really likes Himeko, but she's attached to Zero too tightly to really consider it.
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:After being absorbed by the Black God Tree, Himeko, restored to her full power as Kurohime after destroying Yashahime, revives him.]]
* BadassNormal: Pray you are never on the other end of his sword.
* BigGood: The remains of the forces of Oedo, plus Yuki, Yukio and Asura [[spoiler: before she loses it]] are under his command so he qualifies.
* TheChewToy: In short order, he [[spoiler:loses his father, his kingdom, and his life to protect everything he cares about.]]
* TheChick: He's easily the most awed by the things happening around him, and while he has some fighting ability it doesn't measure up to the rest of the team.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:He uses the last of the Spirit King jewels and his lifeforce to save Himeko from Dark Zero and Yashahime.]]
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: He knows he has no chance with Himeko, but does his best to assist her cause.
* JamesBondage: He's first introduced as a captive of a group of mermaids.
* PowerAtAPrice: [[spoiler:The gems he keeps on him drain his lifeforce for their power.]]
* PowerDyesYourHair: The Spirit King Jewels dye his hair white [[spoiler:It's closer to DiseaseBleach, though, given that he's dying to power the Jewels.]]
* ReplacementGoldfish: 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.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: When shit hits the fan in Oedo, he and his family fly into action.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: To Zero, but he eventually becomes his own character.
* WarriorPrince: The prince of Oedo, and a skilled fighter and strategist to boot.
* YouAreInCommandNow: And he does fairly well, [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt considering the situation.]]
!! Kazushi
Kazuma's little sister.
!! Himiko, The Village Elder
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!! 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.
* AllLoveIsUnrequited: He really likes Himeko, but she's attached to Zero too tightly to really consider it.
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:After being absorbed by the Black God Tree, Himeko, restored to her full power as Kurohime after destroying Yashahime, revives him.]]
* BadassNormal: Pray you are never on the other end of his sword.
* BigGood: The remains of the forces of Oedo, plus Yuki, Yukio and Asura [[spoiler: before she loses it]] are under his command so he qualifies.
* TheChewToy: In short order, he [[spoiler:loses his father, his kingdom, and his life to protect everything he cares about.]]
* TheChick: He's easily the most awed by the things happening around him, and while he has some fighting ability it doesn't measure up to the rest of the team.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:He uses the last of the Spirit King jewels and his lifeforce to save Himeko from Dark Zero and Yashahime.]]
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: He knows he has no chance with Himeko, but does his best to assist her cause.
* JamesBondage: He's first introduced as a captive of a group of mermaids.
* PowerAtAPrice: [[spoiler:The gems he keeps on him drain his lifeforce for their power.]]
* PowerDyesYourHair: The Spirit King Jewels dye his hair white [[spoiler:It's closer to DiseaseBleach, though, given that he's dying to power the Jewels.]]
* ReplacementGoldfish: 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.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: When shit hits the fan in Oedo, he and his family fly into action.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: To Zero, but he eventually becomes his own character.
* WarriorPrince: The prince of Oedo, and a skilled fighter and strategist to boot.
* YouAreInCommandNow: And he does fairly well, [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt considering the situation.]]
!! Kazushi
Kazuma's little sister.
!! Himiko, The Village Elder
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[[folder:God Clan Members]]
!! Shirohime
The goddess of Love and Kindness that bears a remarkable resemblance to Kurohime. [[spoiler:She's the "positive" half of the original Kurohime, embodying all of her positive feelings toward humanity.]]
* HelplessGoodSide: Played with. In terms of magical power, she and Himeko (in her Kurohime form) are roughly even. However, lacking [[spoiler:the aggression from her darker half, Himeko]], her personality doesn't quite follow through.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:She dies to protect Himeko and Zero once Onimaru (as Tsucchi) reminds her of the true meaning of compassion and determination that she lost when she became a goddess.]]
* LiteralSplitPersonality: [[spoiler:Of the original Kurohime. She's everything good and positive about the original Kurohime, which is the reason why Himeko initially can't feel anything but negative emotions.]]
!! Shirohime
The goddess of Love and Kindness that bears a remarkable resemblance to Kurohime. [[spoiler:She's the "positive" half of the original Kurohime, embodying all of her positive feelings toward humanity.]]
* HelplessGoodSide: Played with. In terms of magical power, she and Himeko (in her Kurohime form) are roughly even. However, lacking [[spoiler:the aggression from her darker half, Himeko]], her personality doesn't quite follow through.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:She dies to protect Himeko and Zero once Onimaru (as Tsucchi) reminds her of the true meaning of compassion and determination that she lost when she became a goddess.]]
* LiteralSplitPersonality: [[spoiler:Of the original Kurohime. She's everything good and positive about the original Kurohime, which is the reason why Himeko initially can't feel anything but negative emotions.]]
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[[/folder]]
[[folder:Himiko]]
[[/folder]]
!God Clan
!! Shirohime
[[folder:Queen Enma]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Shirohime]]
The goddess of Love and Kindness that bears a remarkable resemblance to
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* HelplessGoodSide: Played with. In terms of magical power, she and
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:She dies to protect
* LiteralSplitPersonality: [[spoiler:Of the original Kurohime. She's
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* PowerNullifier: Can act as one to Himeko, sealing her ability to become Kurohime.
!! Darkray
The GrimReaper and High God. Colossal asshole. [[spoiler:Thanks to Yashahime's vengeance fetish, he is eventually permanently killed and Zero is forced to replace hi.]]
* ArtifactOfDoom: [[spoiler:This is truly what the God Of Death is: a large one-eyed skull shaped core that when placed in someone's soul turns them into the GrimReaper.]]
!! Darkray
The GrimReaper and High God. Colossal asshole. [[spoiler:Thanks to Yashahime's vengeance fetish, he is eventually permanently killed and Zero is forced to replace hi.]]
* ArtifactOfDoom: [[spoiler:This is truly what the God Of Death is: a large one-eyed skull shaped core that when placed in someone's soul turns them into the GrimReaper.]]
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* PowerNullifier: Can act as one to Himeko, sealing Kurohime, forcing her ability to become Kurohime.
!! Darkray
take up Himeko's form once again.
* SecretTestOfCharacter: [[spoiler:She poses as a boy named Shin when Kurohime is first thrown into Queen Enma's hell, and uses the time to see if Kurohime is capable of feeling enough love toward someone to break her curse. Sure enough, the affection that Himeko expresses toward "Shin" is enough to temporarily break the curse not just once, but twice.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Darkray]]
The GrimReaper and a High God.Colossal asshole. [[spoiler:Thanks to Yashahime's vengeance fetish, he is eventually permanently killed He commands a brigade of angels known as the Death Angels, and Zero is forced to replace hi.]]
has a fascination with Shirohime.
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* ArtifactOfDoom:[[spoiler:This is truly what [[spoiler:What actually turned him into the God Of Death is: Grim Reaper: a large one-eyed skull shaped core. His death to Kurohime caused the core that when placed in someone's soul turns them to leave his body, and Yashahime takes possession of it and uses it to turn Zero into the GrimReaper.Grim Reaper instead.]]
!! Darkray
* SecretTestOfCharacter: [[spoiler:She poses as a boy named Shin when Kurohime is first thrown into Queen Enma's hell, and uses the time to see if Kurohime is capable of feeling enough love toward someone to break her curse. Sure enough, the affection that Himeko expresses toward "Shin" is enough to temporarily break the curse not just once, but twice.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Darkray]]
The GrimReaper and a High God.
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* ArtifactOfDoom:
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* PetTheDog: It seems even Darkray would think twice about leaving someone to [[spoiler:[[AxCrazy Yashahime.]]]]
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* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Most of the time he's referred to by title, and more rarely as Darkray. However, Yashahime addresses him as "Master Durint" [[spoiler:shortly before killing him.]]
* PetTheDog: It seems even Darkray would think twice about leaving someone to[[spoiler:[[AxCrazy [[AxCrazy Yashahime.]]]]]]
* PetTheDog: It seems even Darkray would think twice about leaving someone to
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!! Sword
The leader of the Death Angels and TheDragon to Darkray. [[spoiler:After Zero's death and the subsequent loss of her team to Darkray, she becomes leader of the Kurohime Punishment Squad.]]
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[[folder:Sword]]
The leader of the Death Angels and TheDragon to Darkray.
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* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: [[spoiler:The Kurohime Punishment Squad]] tends to refer to her as Captain or Commander, but (potentially non-canon) author's notes refer to her as "Reikahime".
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!! The Death Angel Squad
A group of five angels that serve Darkray. Their names are Axe, Mace, Hammer, Dagger and Lance. Their captain was Sword.
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[[folder:The Death Angel
A group of five angels that serve Darkray. Their names are Axe, Mace, Hammer, Dagger and
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!!Yuki and Yukio
A pair of snow gods from Mt. Oosore who decide to tag along on Himeko's quest.
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[[folder:Yuki and
A pair of snow gods from Mt.
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!! Yashahime
The High Goddess of earth and Darkray's psychotic stalker.
* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Unlike everyone else, [[SelectiveObliviousness she hasn't realized it yet.]]
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[[folder:Yashahime]]
The High Goddess of earth and Darkray's
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* AllLoveIsUnrequited: She's deeply in love with the Death God (and quite literally that, uncaring of the actual person behind the title). Unlike everyone else, [[SelectiveObliviousness she hasn't realized it yet.]]
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* DishingOutDirt: Her primary domain is the earth, and anything related to it.
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* DishingOutDirt: Her primary domain is the earth, and anything related to it.it, including wood and trees.
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* EvilIsPetty: It's usually not petty to want to exact vengeance for the death of one's beloved. However, Yasha [[IdiotBall could have easily saved Darkray]] and while the other gods want Kurohime dead for more pragmatic reasons, she rarely gets beyond "Kill Darkray's [[{{Hypocrite}} murderer]]." Even [[BrokenPedestal her reason for killing Darkray]] is petty.
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* EvilIsPetty: It's usually not petty to want to exact vengeance for the death of one's beloved. However, Yasha [[IdiotBall could have easily saved Darkray]] and while the other gods want Yashahime takes it to new levels; she deliberately tortures Kurohime dead for more pragmatic reasons, she rarely by beating her bloody and reveling in her pain. [[spoiler:It gets beyond "Kill Darkray's [[{{Hypocrite}} murderer]]." Even [[BrokenPedestal even worse: Yashahime turns Zero into the God of Death just to torment Kurohime for getting the love she never had, and before that she killed a depowered Darkray herself simply because he became too pathetic to live in her reason for killing Darkray]] is petty.eyes.]]
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* {{Hypocrite}}: She has:
** Killed Darkray--whom she claims to be madly in love with--while holding the MacGuffin that would save his life. Why? [[BrokenPedestal Seeing his soul in such a wretched state breaks her cool perception of him.]] Her grudge against Kurohime derives almost entirely from the fact that Kurohime murdered him in the first place.
** Stabbed herself to keep her from killing Kurohime and then claiming the resulting scar is Kurohime's fault.
** Claimed that the [[GrimReaper God of Death]] isn't supposed to be concerned about anything or anyone, then blushing because he asked if her wounds had healed.
** Killed Darkray--whom she claims to be madly in love with--while holding the MacGuffin that would save his life. Why? [[BrokenPedestal Seeing his soul in such a wretched state breaks her cool perception of him.]] Her grudge against Kurohime derives almost entirely from the fact that Kurohime murdered him in the first place.
** Stabbed herself to keep her from killing Kurohime and then claiming the resulting scar is Kurohime's fault.
** Claimed that the [[GrimReaper God of Death]] isn't supposed to be concerned about anything or anyone, then blushing because he asked if her wounds had healed.
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* {{Hypocrite}}: She has:
In all shapes and flavors.
**Killed [[spoiler:First, she killed Darkray--whom she claims to be madly deeply in love with, and who is the basis of her grudge against Kurohime to begin with--while holding the MacGuffin that would save his life. Why? [[BrokenPedestal Seeing his soul in such a wretched state breaks her cool perception of him.]] Her grudge against Kurohime derives almost entirely from the fact that Kurohime murdered him in the first place.
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**Stabbed She one stabbed herself to keep her from killing Kurohime and then claiming later claimed that the resulting scar is Kurohime's fault.
** Claimed that the [[GrimReaper God of Death]] isn't supposed to be concerned about anything or anyone, thenblushing blushed because he asked if her wounds had healed.
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** Claimed that the [[GrimReaper God of Death]] isn't supposed to be concerned about anything or anyone, then
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* ItsAllAboutMe: Initially, she comes into the plot because Ghandara was killed. But eventually, her revenge against Kurohime becomes more about satisfying her own desire to kill Kurohime for killing Darkray. Even with TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt going on, her main motivation is "get enough power to kill Kurohime for killing Darkray."
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* ItsAllAboutMe: Initially, she comes into the plot because Ghandara was killed. But [[spoiler:But eventually, her revenge against Kurohime becomes more about satisfying her own desire to kill Kurohime for killing Darkray. Even with TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt going on, her main motivation is "get enough power to kill Kurohime for killing Darkray.""]]
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* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:She wants to become one with the planet and use its power for her own goals. Ultimately, she does. [[EarthShatteringKaboom Just in time to get split in half with the rest of the planet when Kurohime swings the Ultimate Sword at it.]]]]
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* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:She wants to become one with the planet and use its power for her own goals. Ultimately, she does. [[EarthShatteringKaboom Just in time to get split in half with the rest of the planet when Kurohime swings the Ultimate Sword at her AND it.]]]]
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* KickThemWhileTheyAreDown: Yashahime loves to do to this to her enemies, but especially Himeko, oftentimes by stabbing her when she's already weakened or otherwise mocking her.
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* KickThemWhileTheyAreDown: Yashahime loves to do to this to her enemies, but especially Himeko, oftentimes by stabbing her when she's already weakened been beaten to a bloody pulp or otherwise mocking her.
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* LightIsNotGood: She dresses in all white, but is the most sadistic antagonist in the series by far.
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* LightIsNotGood: She dresses in all white, but is the most sadistic antagonist in the series by far.series.
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* WhiteHairBlackHeart: She has white hair and at first seems like a really angry AntiVillain before revealing herself to be [[TheSociopath the most evil creature in the manga.]]
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* WhiteHairBlackHeart: She has white hair and at first seems like a really angry AntiVillain before revealing herself to be [[TheSociopath the most evil creature in the manga.]]
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[[folder:Kurohime Punishment Squad]]
A group that's gathered up to enact punishment against Kurohime for wrongs she dealt them in the past. [[spoiler:Their leader is Sword, former head of the Death Angel Squad.]]
!! Ouka
A group that's gathered up to enact punishment against Kurohime for wrongs she dealt them in the past. [[spoiler:Their leader is Sword, former head of the Death Angel Squad.]]
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[[folder:Kazuma Tokugawa]]
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.
* AllLoveIsUnrequited: He really likes Himeko, but she's attached to Zero too tightly to really consider it.
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:After being absorbed by the Black God Tree, Himeko, restored to her full power as Kurohime after destroying Yashahime, revives him.]]
* BadassNormal: Pray you are never on the other end of his sword.
* BigGood: The remains of the forces of Oedo, plus Yuki, Yukio and Asura [[spoiler: before she loses it]] are under his command so he qualifies.
* TheChewToy: In short order, he [[spoiler:loses his father, his kingdom, and his life to protect everything he cares about.]]
* TheChick: He's easily the most awed by the things happening around him, and while he has some fighting ability it doesn't measure up to the rest of the team.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:He uses the last of the Spirit King jewels and his lifeforce to save Himeko from Dark Zero and Yashahime.]]
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: He knows he has no chance with Himeko, but does his best to assist her cause.
* JamesBondage: He's first introduced as a captive of a group of mermaids.
* PowerAtAPrice: [[spoiler:The Spirit King Jewels let him use any one of the powers of the Four Spirit Kings, but each use drains more of his lifeforce.]]
* PowerDyesYourHair: The Spirit King Jewels dye his hair white [[spoiler:It's closer to DiseaseBleach, though, given that he's dying to power the Jewels.]]
* ReplacementGoldfish: 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.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: When shit hits the fan in Oedo, he and his family fly into action.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: To Zero, but he eventually becomes his own character.
* WarriorPrince: The prince of Oedo, and a skilled fighter and strategist to boot.
* YouAreInCommandNow: And he does fairly well, [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt considering the situation.]]
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[[folder:Kazushi Tokugawa]]
Kazuma's little sister.
* IllGirl: She's introduced as a sickly girl, which is why Kazuma was seeking out the merpeople so that he could get some of their flesh to cure her sickness. After a different incident involving an oni attack, she's cured of this.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Himiko, The Village Elder]]
[[/folder]]
!Kurohime Punishment
A group that's gathered up to enact punishment against Kurohime for wrongs she dealt them in the
[[folder:The Leader]]
After Zero's death and the subsequent loss of her team to Darkray, Sword gathers up the members of--and becomes leader
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Rival]]
Barahime returns as a member of the
!! Ouka
to fight this time around. See Barahime's folder in the Other Witches section above.
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[[folder:Ouka]]
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* BrokenBird: Due to the loss of her father as a child, Ouka is cold and standoffish, even to her allies, and is the person that is the most opposed to letting go of her grudge against Kurohime.
* ColdSniper: Can shoot with a level of precision that Himeko flatly admits she can't match. [[spoiler:It impresses past!Kurohime as well.]]
* ColdSniper: Can shoot with a level of precision that Himeko flatly admits she can't match. [[spoiler:It impresses past!Kurohime as well.]]
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* BrokenBird: Due to the loss of her father as a child, Ouka is cold and standoffish, even to her allies, and is the person that is the most opposed to letting go of her grudge against Kurohime.
Kurohime next to Sword herself.
* ColdSniper: Can shoot with a level of precision thatHimeko Kurohime flatly admits she can't match. [[spoiler:It impresses past!Kurohime as well.]]
* ColdSniper: Can shoot with a level of precision that
* OrphanOrdeal: [[spoiler:Kurohime killed her father when she was a child, and she wants revenge.]]
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[[folder:Saika and
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Saika disappears from the series after the failed attempt to turn him into a Death God.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Saika disappears from the series story entirely after the failed attempt to turn him into a Death God.
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[[folder:Past Arc Characters]]
!! Rei
A young, angry boy from the past. [[spoiler: Zero's older twin brother.]]
!! Rei
A young, angry boy from the past. [[spoiler: Zero's older twin brother.]]
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!! Rei
[[folder:Rei]]
A young, angry boy from the
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!!Doc
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[[folder: Doc]]
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!!Raida
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[[folder:Raida]]
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[[folder:The Spirit Kings]]
[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The four kings of spirits.]] By enslaving them and harnessing their powers, the gods became all powerful. They are [[TheFourGods Yamatohime, Genbu, Byakko and Seiryuu.]]
!! General tropes
[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The four kings of spirits.]] By enslaving them and harnessing their powers, the gods became all powerful. They are [[TheFourGods Yamatohime, Genbu, Byakko and Seiryuu.]]
!! General tropes
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[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The four kings of
!! General tropes
[[folder:General Tropes]]
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!! Yamatohime
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[[/folder]]
[[folder:Yamatohime]]
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!! Genbu
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[[folder:Genbu]]
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[[folder:Byakko]]
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[[folder:Seiryuu]]
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!Other Characters
[[folder:Yuuka]]
A young woman that Himeko and Zero run into in the woods.
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* CuteWitch: [[spoiler:Once she gains magic she falls into this category, having a gentle nature and keeping Barahime's rose motifs.]]
* DistressedDamsel: She was held hostage by Barahime for 50 years, and everyone that got near her eventually had their lives and youth stolen away to fuel Barahime's life force. [[spoiler:She's subjected to a round 2 after the Punishment Squad is formed; Barahime fully possess her, which lasts until Himeko kills Barahime.]]
* GreenThumb: [[spoiler:Gains plant-based magic because Barahime possessed her for 50 years.]]
* NiceGirl: She's polite and kind to everyone she meets.
* RapunzelHair: Her hair is long enough to reach near to the ground, even with some of it bound into long braids.
* RedOniBlueOni: She's the blue to Himeko's red; Yuuka is calm, pleasant and gentle to Himeko's brash selfishness and higher energy.
* {{Sidekick}}: She serves as Himeko's in the Journey To The Past arc, doubling as TheConscience.
* TouchedByVorlons: [[spoiler:Gains the ability to shoot magic bullets as a result of Barahime's repeated possessions.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Kaon]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Marco Bolo]]
[[/folder]]
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* AntiVillain: For all that she can be relatively ruthless when she's on the job, she only takes things personally when her comrades are put at risk or when someone interferes in her job. Kurohime doing the latter is what drew her ire, especially because it led to a sequence of events [[spoiler:that got all the other Death Angels and Darkray himself killed.]]
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* AntiVillain: For all that she can be relatively ruthless when she's on the job, she only takes things personally when her comrades are put at risk or when someone interferes in her job. Kurohime doing the latter is what drew her ire, especially because it led ire. [[spoiler:This continued interference leads to a sequence of events [[spoiler:that that got all the other Death Angels and Darkray himself killed.]]]]
* AvengingTheVillain: This is what motivates her to continue her grudge against Himeko [[spoiler:after the Death Angel Squad dies]].
* AvengingTheVillain: This is what motivates her to continue her grudge against Himeko [[spoiler:after the Death Angel Squad dies]].
* TheBerserker: [[spoiler:After becoming a vampire-werewolf-angel hybrid, she gains access to a powerful transformation that completely removes all her self-control in exchange.]]
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--> Shirohime: In reality, you wanted to kill me instead...It must be hard on Kurohime...who became a sacrifice for you jealous heart to vent on.
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--> Shirohime: '''Shirohime:''' In reality, you wanted to kill me instead...It must be hard on Kurohime...who became a sacrifice for you jealous heart to vent on.
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* EnemyMine: [[spoiler:Has several with Himeko during the Past Arc and the Final Arc, realizing that they have mutual enemies to destroy or defend their loved ones against.]]
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* EnemyMine: [[spoiler:Has several some of these moments with Himeko and Kurohime separately during the Past Arc and the Final Arc, realizing that they have mutual enemies to destroy or defend their loved ones against.]]
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* ItsPersonal: Though Sword already disliked Kurohime to begin with due to interfering with her work, it becomes a much more personal grievance [[spoiler:once the rest of the Death Angel Squad dies as a result of Kurohime picking a fight with Darkray]].
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* ItsPersonal: Though Sword already disliked Kurohime Himeko for several reasons to begin with due to interfering with her work, with, it becomes a much more personal grievance [[spoiler:once serious [[spoiler:after Darkray and the rest of the Death Angel Squad dies as a result of Kurohime picking a fight with Darkray]].all die]].
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* OurAngelsAreDifferent: She's a Death Angel, responsible for serving Darkray, that has bat-like wings and can turn into a sword. [[spoiler:She later hybridizes herself with the powers of a vampire and a werewolf.]]
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* OurAngelsAreDifferent: She's a Death Angel, responsible for serving Darkray, that has bat-like wings and can turn into a sword. [[spoiler:She later hybridizes herself with the powers of a vampire and a werewolf.werewolf, retaining her original powers and combining her inherited strengths into a powerful berserker form.]]
* PowerDyesYourHair: Her dark-colored hair becomes pure white [[spoiler:once she hybridizes herself with a werewolf]].
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* TurnTheOtherCheek: [[spoiler:Admits that she will NEVER truly forgive Kurohime for what she has done but decides that if they should somehow meet in another life, they will try to get along.]]
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* TurnTheOtherCheek: [[spoiler:Admits that she will NEVER truly forgive Kurohime Himeko for what she has done to her (both as Kurohime and Himeko), but decides that if they should somehow meet in another life, they will try to get along.]]
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!!!! Characters from the manga Manga/{{Kurohime}}.
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!!!! Characters from the manga Manga/{{Kurohime}}. Please be aware that there are unmarked spoilers in these examples.
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The most powerful witch of all time. Well-known for her power, beauty and cruelty, she disappeared years before the start of the story, in the middle of a quest to meet the challenge of the gods and become a god herself. The last time anyone saw her was when she rescued a young boy named Zero from bandits, ten years before the start of the story.
[[spoiler:Her real goal was to become a god and kill the rest of them, due to their cruelty and callousness towards humans, with the incidental effect of making herself a villain so that humans would stop fighting to become gods themselves. Her disappearance is the result of her deification by the gods.]]
[[spoiler:Her real goal was to become a god and kill the rest of them, due to their cruelty and callousness towards humans, with the incidental effect of making herself a villain so that humans would stop fighting to become gods themselves. Her disappearance is the result of her deification by the gods.]]
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The most powerful witch of all time. Well-known for her power, beauty and cruelty, she disappeared years before the start of the story, in the middle of a quest to meet the challenge of the gods and become a god herself. The last time anyone saw her was when herself; she rescued a young boy named Zero from bandits, ten disappeared 10 years before the start of the story.
[[spoiler:Herstory, having ascended to meet the gods themselves.
[[spoiler:In reality, Kurohime's real goal was to become a god and kill the rest of them, due to their cruelty and callousness towardshumans, humans and the years of warring that gods' contest gaused, with the incidental effect of making herself a villain so that humans would stop fighting to become gods themselves. Her disappearance is the result of her deification separation and reincarnation/deification by the gods.]]
[[spoiler:Her
[[spoiler:In reality, Kurohime's real goal was to become a god and kill the rest of them, due to their cruelty and callousness towards
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* BeautyMark: She has two, one under the outside corner of each eye. [[spoiler:In keeping with the tragic life that this implies in most Japanese media, Kurohime has suffered immensely in her lifetime, growing up in a war-torn era, losing her parents to it, and enduring great physical and emotional anguish to achieve her goals, only to fail miserably at the end of her first life.]]
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* BeautyMark: She has two, one under the outside corner of each eye. [[spoiler:In keeping with the tragic life that this implies in most Japanese media, Kurohime has suffered immensely in her lifetime, growing up alone in a war-torn era, losing era that probably resulted in the deaths of everyone close to her parents to it, as a child, and enduring great physical and emotional anguish to achieve her goals, only to fail miserably at the end of her first life.]]
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* BrokenBird: [[spoiler:It's implied that she was significantly impacted by the wars to become a god, witnessing a large degree of bloodshed as she grew up and possibly being orphaned as a result of the fighting.]]
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* BrokenBird: [[spoiler:It's [[spoiler:Her backstory before becoming Kurohime isn't much elaborated on, but it's implied that she was significantly impacted by the wars to become a god, witnessing a large degree of bloodshed as she grew up and possibly being orphaned as a result of the fighting.wars and saw her fair share of bloodshed and killing as she grew up. After that, to amass the power to meet the gods and kill them, she killed ''a lot'' of people and ate their souls for strength, then ultimately betrayed her most loyal followers and the rest of the world in order to shift focus away from the contest of the gods and onto her. By the time Ouka and Sword meet Kurohime in the past, she hasn't done the last part yet but is otherwise weighed down by the lives she's taken and the monstrous things she's done.]]
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* HiddenHeartOfGold: [[spoiler:Her real personality is much more subdued and less cruel than appearances suggest. When her backstory is revealed by Shirohime, it becomes evident that while she was ruthless, she still had enough compassion for the very young and for people that suffered under war. Her later conversations with Ouka bear this out, as she demonstrates that she is perfectly aware of how cruel she is and how much she ''hates'' the fact that she is. There's also the fact that she rescued, renamed, and gave a bit of maternal comfort to a nearly suicidal Rei.]]
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* HiddenHeartOfGold: [[spoiler:Her real personality is much more subdued and less cruel than appearances suggest. When her backstory is revealed by Shirohime, it becomes evident that while she was ruthless, she still had enough compassion for the very young and for people that suffered under war. war; she allows a young Ouka to stab her and leave without repercussion and mourns a baby that dies during the construction of her tower to heaven. Her later conversations with an adult Ouka during the Past Arc bear this out, as she demonstrates that she is perfectly aware of how cruel she is and how much she ''hates'' the fact that she is.has to be to meet her goals. There's also the fact that she rescued, renamed, and gave a bit of maternal comfort to a nearly suicidal Rei.]]
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* PhysicalGod: [[spoiler:Became this 10 years before the start of the story, when her battle against the gods ends in failure. She's split in half, and her compassion and kindess are deified as Shirohime while the castoffs of her negative emotions are turned into Himeko.]]
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* PhysicalGod: [[spoiler:Became this 10 years before the start of the story, when her battle against the gods ends in failure. She's split in half, and her compassion and kindess kindness are deified as Shirohime while the castoffs of her negative emotions are turned into Himeko.]]
* WouldNotHurtAChild: [[spoiler:Her refusal to hurt young!Ouka when Ouka stabs her and her tears for an infant mortality during the building of her tower both indicate that Kurohime thinks of children as precious; this is unfortunately used against her when Darkray takes that infant's soul as a human shield during their battle 10 years before the start of the series, which allows him to get in an attack with Sword.]]
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* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:Happens to her a few times. The first time is involuntary, as Kandata reverses time so that she can try to save Zero and Rei after Rei becomes a Death God. The second time, it's a side effect of Asura's scheme to complete the Ultimate Sword. The third and final time occurs after she commits suicide in Zero's arms, but she comes back as a walking Black God Tree skeleton until she's properly revived by Yamatohime.]]
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* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:Happens to her a few times. The first time is involuntary, as Kandata reverses time so that she can try to save Zero and Rei after Rei becomes a Death God. The second time, it's a side effect of Asura's scheme to complete the Ultimate Sword. Sword, as Seiryuu's time reversal prevents the event that got Himeko killed. The third and final time occurs after she Himeko commits suicide in Zero's arms, but she comes back as a walking Black God Tree skeleton until she's properly revived by Yamatohime.]]
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* CameBackStrong: [[spoiler:Yamatohime sacrifices her life to restore her to normal after her suicide via Sanzu River. Not only does this turn her back into Kurohime, but it purifies the Black God Tree into a White God Tree, allowing it to revive all the people whose souls she'd trapped in it.]]
* CameBackWrong: [[spoiler:Her revival after her suicide mentioned above? She's basically a walking Black God Tree skeleton.]]
* CameBackWrong: [[spoiler:Her revival after her suicide mentioned above? She's basically a walking Black God Tree skeleton.]]
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* CameBackStrong: [[spoiler:Yamatohime sacrifices her life to restore her Himeko to normal after her Himeko's suicide via Sanzu River.River in the final chapters. Not only does this turn her back into Kurohime, but it purifies the Black God Tree into a White God Tree, allowing it to revive all the people whose souls she'd trapped in it.]]
* CameBackWrong: [[spoiler:Her revival after her suicide mentioned above? She's basically a walking Black God Treeskeleton.skeleton when she comes back, gnarled wood shaped vaguely like a person.]]
* CameBackWrong: [[spoiler:Her revival after her suicide mentioned above? She's basically a walking Black God Tree
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* FusionDance: Does this occasionally to avoid [[spoiler:losing her last memory of Zero.]]
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* FusionDance: Does this occasionally to avoid [[spoiler:losing her last memory of Zero after he removed them from her as Dark Zero.]]
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* LoveEpiphany: She has one near the end of the first arc when she realizes that no matter how badly she's treated him, Zero has always stood by her side to defend him, and that she's actually hurt by the idea of him falling in love with anyone else. Not only does she break the curse without needing Zero to do something self-sacrificing for her, she shares a FirstKiss with him, while professsing her love for him.
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* LoveEpiphany: She has one near the end of the first arc when she realizes that no matter how badly she's treated him, Zero has always stood by her side to defend him, and that she's actually hurt by the idea of him falling in love with anyone else. Not only does she break the curse without needing Zero to do something self-sacrificing for her, she shares a FirstKiss with him, while professsing confessing her love for him.
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* ManipulativeBitch: She tends to play this heavily in the first arc, continually manipulating Zero into doing what she wants by playing on his feelings for her. [[spoiler:Dark Zero calls on her this with regard to the Past Arc: he feels as if she used him primarily because she essentially abandoned him twice after getting him to fall in love with her.]]
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* ManipulativeBitch: She tends to play this heavily in the first arc, continually manipulating Zero into doing what she wants by playing on his feelings for her. [[spoiler:Dark Zero eventually calls on her this with regard to the Past Arc: he feels as if she used him primarily because she essentially abandoned him twice (albeit against her will) after getting spending so much time convincing him to fall in love with her.that she really loved him (which she does, and did back then too).]]
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* NayTheist: Though she doesn't quite remember what happened to get her cursed, Himeko still hates the gods with a passion. When she gets a chance to fight one in her un-cursed form, she [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown beats him to death with her bare hands, laughing and grinning like a maniac.]] [[spoiler:This is due to being the original Kurohime's personified hatred of gods.]]
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* NayTheist: Though she doesn't quite remember what happened to get her cursed, Himeko still hates the gods with a passion. When she gets a chance to fight one in her un-cursed form, she [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown beats him to death with her bare hands, laughing and grinning like a maniac.ferally as she rips him apart.]] [[spoiler:This is due to being the original Kurohime's personified hatred of gods.]]
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** [[spoiler:Her decision to avoid killing Asura to complete the Ultimate Sword results in her own death, forcing Seiryuu to rewind time to let Asura undo the mistake.]]
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* PowerAtAPrice: [[spoiler:After killing Darkray and losing Zero, the only way for her to use her full power as Kurohime is to give up memories of Zero, since his death is a psychological block on her power. The longer she stays transformed, the more memories she loses.]]
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* PowerAtAPrice: [[spoiler:After killing Darkray and losing Zero, the only way for her to use her full power as Kurohime is to give up memories of Zero, since his death is a psychological block on her power. The longer she stays transformed, the more memories she loses.loses; once Dark Zero removes almost all her memories himself, this effectively soft-locks her out of becoming Kurohime again until the very end of the manga.]]
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* ShootTheDog: [[spoiler:Hime ultimately ''DOES'' end the world by using the Ultimate Sword to split it in half, with Yashahime still bound to it.]]
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* ShootTheDog: [[spoiler:Hime [[spoiler:Despite not wanting to, Himeko, after regaining her form as Kurohime, ultimately ''DOES'' end ends the world by using the Ultimate Sword to split it in half, with Yashahime still bound to it.]]
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* BecauseDestinySaysSo: [[spoiler: Her fate is to complete Yamato Senryuuto by sacrifing herself to it. She's not pleased with being born to die, but thanks to ThePowerOfFriendship and her mother's apology, she comes to realize that she was the only one that assumed no one cared about her as more than a sacrifice.]]
* BrokenBird: [[spoiler:She was born as a substitute for Yamatohime's sacrifice, should it be needed, was raised being perfectly aware of this, and lived in a heat-proof cage for the majority of her childhood. Her own mother raised her coldly, unwilling to bond with a daughter that was meant to die. Needless to say, this did no favors for her feelings toward humanity.]]
* BrokenBird: [[spoiler:She was born as a substitute for Yamatohime's sacrifice, should it be needed, was raised being perfectly aware of this, and lived in a heat-proof cage for the majority of her childhood. Her own mother raised her coldly, unwilling to bond with a daughter that was meant to die. Needless to say, this did no favors for her feelings toward humanity.]]
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* BecauseDestinySaysSo: [[spoiler: Her fate is to complete Yamato Senryuuto by sacrifing herself to it. She's not pleased with being born to die, but thanks die and keeps her resentment bottled up about it until she literally can't contain it anymore and loses control. Thanks to ThePowerOfFriendship and her mother's apology, she comes to realize that she was the only one that assumed no one cared about her as more than a sacrifice.sacrifice, and willingly chooses to embrace her fate instead of running from it.]]
* BrokenBird: [[spoiler:She was born as a substitute for Yamatohime'ssacrifice, should sacrifice--should it be needed, needed--and was raised being perfectly aware of this, and this. She lived in a heat-proof cage for the majority of her childhood. childhood, with similarly-fashioned toys. Her own mother raised her coldly, unwilling to bond with a daughter that was meant to die.die, which left Asura emotionally isolated. Needless to say, this did no favors for her feelings toward humanity.]]
* BrokenBird: [[spoiler:She was born as a substitute for Yamatohime's
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* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: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.]]
* HalfHumanHybrid: [[spoiler:According to her mother, the elder priestess 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 in Yamatohime's place.]]
* HalfHumanHybrid: [[spoiler:According to her mother, the elder priestess 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 in Yamatohime's place.]]
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* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:She convinces the Spirit Kings to send her consciousness back in time and takes willingly moves herself to take the bullet that Himeko refused to shoot at her, completing the Ultimate Blade.]]
* HalfHumanHybrid: [[spoiler:According to her mother, the elder priestess 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 in Yamatohime'splace.place, completing the Ultimate Sword without killing Yamatohime.]]
* HalfHumanHybrid: [[spoiler:According to her mother, the elder priestess 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 in Yamatohime's
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* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:For Yamatohime, to complete the Ultimate Sword. And it takes her a while to stop being bitter about it.]]
* TheLancer: Her eventual role in Himeko's group, acting as the more cynical, sharper foil to Himeko's optimism.
* TheLancer: Her eventual role in Himeko's group, acting as the more cynical, sharper foil to Himeko's optimism.
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* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:For Yamatohime, [[spoiler:Ultimately, she serves as one during the climax of the story in order to complete the Ultimate Sword. And An added wrinkle to this is the fact that she has always been aware that she would play this role for Yamatohime, and it takes her a while to stop being bitter about it.]]
* TheLancer: Her eventual role in Himeko's group, acting as themore cynical, sharper foil to Himeko's optimism.
* TheLancer: Her eventual role in Himeko's group, acting as the
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* LovableSexManiac: He wanted to be a god so he could peep at girls.
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* LovableSexManiac: PeepingTom: He wanted to be a god so he could peep at girls.
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* WhatTheHellHero: Points out to Shirohime that she has strayed from her path of helping humans.
!! Saika
!! Saika
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* WhatTheHellHero: Points out to Shirohime that she has strayed from her path of helping humans.
!! Saikahumans, and that in turn she's stagnated and lost her own sense of willpower since becoming a goddess. [[spoiler:After he regains human form, he does this again for Himeko.]]
!! Saika
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Kazuma's little sister.
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* MsExposition: She briefly takes this role to explain to Onimaru what happened to Kurohime when she first fought against the gods 10 years before the story started.
* PowerNullifier: Can act as one to Himeko, sealing her ability to become Kurohime.
* PowerNullifier: Can act as one to Himeko, sealing her ability to become Kurohime.
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The GrimReaper and High God. Colossal asshole. [[spoiler:Thanks to Yashahime's vengeance fetish, Zero takes his place after his death.]]
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The GrimReaper and High God. Colossal asshole. [[spoiler:Thanks to Yashahime's vengeance fetish, he is eventually permanently killed and Zero takes his place after his death.is forced to replace hi.]]
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* BalefulPolymorph: [[spoiler:Past!Kurohime turns her into a wolf for a short period of time during the Past arc.]]
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* BalefulPolymorph: [[spoiler:Past!Kurohime turns her into a wolf for a short period of time during the Past arc.Arc.]]
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* BrokenBird: [[spoiler:Losing her close comrades because of Darkray has left her with both a deep desire for revenge and a broken heart.]]
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* BrokenBird: [[spoiler:Losing her close comrades because of Darkray has left her with both a deep desire for revenge against Kurohime and a broken heart.]]
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* ClingyJealousGirl: She was very attached to her boss and never liked Shirohime.
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* ClingyJealousGirl: She was very attached to her boss and never liked Shirohime.strongly disliked Shirohime's closeness with Darkray. Shirohime implies that this jealousy is part of why Sword hates Kurohime so much:
--> Shirohime: In reality, you wanted to kill me instead...It must be hard on Kurohime...who became a sacrifice for you jealous heart to vent on.
--> Shirohime: In reality, you wanted to kill me instead...It must be hard on Kurohime...who became a sacrifice for you jealous heart to vent on.
* ItsPersonal: Though Sword already disliked Kurohime to begin with due to interfering with her work, it becomes a much more personal grievance [[spoiler:once the rest of the Death Angel Squad dies as a result of Kurohime picking a fight with Darkray]].
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* NeverMyFault: Though Kurohime did interfere with her work, there are certain things [[spoiler:(specifically, the death of her teammates) that Kurohime was absolutely not responsible for that she holds a grudge over anyway. Shirohime's apology to Sword during the fight against Darkray implies that this is mostly an outlet for Sword's resentment of Shirohime.]]
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* {{Fanservice}}: They're all young women with shapely builds, though Lance and Dagger are both closer to teenagers.
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* {{Fanservice}}: They're all young women with (mostly) shapely builds, though Lance and builds: Dagger are both closer to teenagers.looks more like a teenager and Lance resembles either a child or a preteen.
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* AxCrazy: Has to stab herself to keep from killing Himeko outright, and has a savage temper when provoked.
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* AxCrazy: Has to stab herself to keep from killing Himeko outright, and has a savage brutally animalistic temper when provoked.
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* ClingyJealousGirl: [[http://www.mangareader.net/423-52696-28/kurohime/chapter-70.html These]] [[http://www.mangareader.net/423-52696-29/kurohime/chapter-70.html links]] should tell you ALL you need to know.
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* ClingyJealousGirl: [[http://www.mangareader.net/423-52696-28/kurohime/chapter-70.html These]] [[http://www.mangareader.net/423-52696-29/kurohime/chapter-70.html links]] should She is single-mindedly fixated on Darkray and hates the idea that anyone else might feel attachment to him. Darkray once had to tell you ALL you need Sword not to know.look back at Yashahime after he declined an invitation to spend time with her, as she '''would have killed Sword on the spot''' just for being next to Darkray.
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* EarthShatteringKaboom: [[spoiler:Her '''FINAL''' death, via Ultimate Sword.]]
* EvilCounterpart: 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 and her companions, Yashahime's real motivations are madness, power-lust, and [[OmnicidalManiac love of killing.]]
* EvilCounterpart: 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 and her companions, Yashahime's real motivations are madness, power-lust, and [[OmnicidalManiac love of killing.]]
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* EarthShatteringKaboom: [[spoiler:Her '''FINAL''' death, via Ultimate Sword.Sword; she has become part of the planet by then and so explodes with it once Kurohime splits it apart.]]
* EvilCounterpart: 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 and her companions, Yashahime's real motivations aremadness, power-lust, obssession over the God of Death, and [[OmnicidalManiac love of killing.]]
* EvilCounterpart: 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 and her companions, Yashahime's real motivations are
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* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: [[spoiler:Thanks to the [[LaserBlade Ultimate Sword.]] Sadly, it didn't take. [[EarthShatteringKaboom The first time, anyway.]]]]
* HoistByHerOwnPetard: [[spoiler:She captures Yamatohime in her weakened state and links her powers with her own, becoming the planet itself and beginning to evolve into a High God. Because of this, though, she is now bound to the planet like Yamatohime was, meaning that if the planet goes, so does she. Once Yamatohime sacrifices herself to bring Himeko back to life as Kurohime, Kurohime takes advantage of this bond with the planet and uses [[LaserSword the Ultimate]] [[{{BFS}} Sword]] to split the ENTIRE PLANET IN HALF, killing Yashahime permanently.]]
* HoistByHerOwnPetard: [[spoiler:She captures Yamatohime in her weakened state and links her powers with her own, becoming the planet itself and beginning to evolve into a High God. Because of this, though, she is now bound to the planet like Yamatohime was, meaning that if the planet goes, so does she. Once Yamatohime sacrifices herself to bring Himeko back to life as Kurohime, Kurohime takes advantage of this bond with the planet and uses [[LaserSword the Ultimate]] [[{{BFS}} Sword]] to split the ENTIRE PLANET IN HALF, killing Yashahime permanently.]]
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* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: [[spoiler:Thanks to [[spoiler:Himeko uses the [[LaserBlade Ultimate Sword.]] Sword]] to split her in half. Sadly, it didn't take. take...[[EarthShatteringKaboom The the first time, anyway.]]]]
* HoistByHerOwnPetard:[[spoiler:She [[spoiler:Yashahime captures Yamatohime in her weakened state and links her powers with her own, becoming the planet itself and beginning to evolve into a High God. Because of this, though, she Yashahime is now bound to the planet like Yamatohime was, meaning that if the planet goes, so does she. Yashahime. Once Yamatohime sacrifices herself to bring Himeko back to life as Kurohime, Kurohime takes advantage of this bond with the planet and uses [[LaserSword the Ultimate]] [[{{BFS}} Sword]] Ultimate Sword to split the ENTIRE PLANET IN HALF, killing Yashahime permanently.]]
* HoistByHerOwnPetard:
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* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:She wants to become one with the planet. She does. [[EarthShatteringKaboom Just in time to get split in half with it.]]]]
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* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:She wants to become one with the planet. She planet and use its power for her own goals. Ultimately, she does. [[EarthShatteringKaboom Just in time to get split in half with the rest of the planet when Kurohime swings the Ultimate Sword at it.]]]]
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* KickThemWhileTheyAreDown: Tries this and fails against Kurohime. Not that Yasha has given up trying.
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* KickThemWhileTheyAreDown: Tries Yashahime loves to do to this and fails against Kurohime. Not that Yasha has given up trying.to her enemies, but especially Himeko, oftentimes by stabbing her when she's already weakened or otherwise mocking her.
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* NoblewomansLaugh: Whenever she laughs, it's one of these, though sometimes it devolves into just mad laughter in general.
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* NoblewomansLaugh: Whenever she laughs, it's one of these, though sometimes it devolves into just mad uncontrolled laughter in general.
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* PsychopathicManchild: Type C and D. She appears to be saintly and calm on the outside, but this masks a deep psychosis and obsession with power and death.
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* PsychopathicManchild: Type C and D. She appears to be saintly and calm on the outside, but this masks a deep psychosis and obsession with power power, death, and death.a pointedly vicious tendency toward both violence and vengeance on those that impede her.
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* TheSociopath: She has no empathy for anyone, not even the man she claims to love, and will not hesitate to backstab, murder, or otherwise butcher her wy to her goals.
* TemptingFate: [[spoiler:''Fools! I'm already one with this planet! Ultimate Sword or whatever, there's NO way to kill me!!'' [[ShutUpHannibal Guess]] [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe what]] [[EarthShatteringKaboom happened]] [[KarmicDeath next]]?]]
* TemptingFate: [[spoiler:''Fools! I'm already one with this planet! Ultimate Sword or whatever, there's NO way to kill me!!'' [[ShutUpHannibal Guess]] [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe what]] [[EarthShatteringKaboom happened]] [[KarmicDeath next]]?]]
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* TheSociopath: She has no empathy for anyone, not even the man she claims to love, and will not hesitate to backstab, murder, or otherwise butcher her wy way to her goals.
* TemptingFate: [[spoiler:''Fools! I'm already one with this planet! Ultimate Sword or whatever, there's NO way to kill me!!''[[ShutUpHannibal Guess]] [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe what]] Shortly afterward? [[EarthShatteringKaboom happened]] [[KarmicDeath next]]?]]The planet]]--including her--is split entirely in half.]]
* TemptingFate: [[spoiler:''Fools! I'm already one with this planet! Ultimate Sword or whatever, there's NO way to kill me!!''
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* {{Yandere}}: 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.
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* {{Yandere}}: Not necessarily a most triumphant example, but very much textbook; anyone that tries to steal Darkray's attention from her is an obstacle she would have murdered Sword just because Sword was '''standing''' next intends to Darkray when he turned down Yashahime's offer kill and remove. [[spoiler:Her tendency to spend time together.psychologically torture Himeko only increases after Yashahime turns Zero into the new Death God; her hatred of Kurohime becomes a twisted reflection of her jealousy that Zero is still thinking of her even as a Death God.]]
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* EarlyBirdCameo: Saika appears in the early chapters as an accomplice of Onimaru. No one took him seriously then either.
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* EarlyBirdCameo: Saika appears in the early chapters as an accomplice of Onimaru. No one took him seriously then either.Onimaru that attempts to get Himeko to fall in love with him. He fails miserably.
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* InstantAwesomeJustAddDragons: Most of her bullets take the forms of dragons.
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* InstantAwesomeJustAddDragons: Kurohime often turns her into a dragon for extra bite.
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* HiddenHeartOfGold: [[spoiler:Her real personality is much more subdued and less cruel than appearances suggest. When her backstory is revealed by Shirohime, it becomes evident that while she was ruthless, she still had enough compassion for the very young and for people that suffered under war. Her later conversations with Ouka bear this out, as she demonstrates that she is perfectly aware of how cruel she is and how much she ''hates'' the fact that she is.]]
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* HiddenHeartOfGold: [[spoiler:Her real personality is much more subdued and less cruel than appearances suggest. When her backstory is revealed by Shirohime, it becomes evident that while she was ruthless, she still had enough compassion for the very young and for people that suffered under war. Her later conversations with Ouka bear this out, as she demonstrates that she is perfectly aware of how cruel she is and how much she ''hates'' the fact that she is. There's also the fact that she rescued, renamed, and gave a bit of maternal comfort to a nearly suicidal Rei.]]
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* {{Jerkass}}: She's arrogant, cold, and merciless, especially to her opponents.
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* {{Jerkass}}: She's arrogant, cold, and merciless, especially to her opponents. [[spoiler:This turns out to be a JerkassFacade, as implied under HiddenHeartOfGold above.]]
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* PoweredByAForsakenChild: [[spoiler: The Black God Tree bound to her. It feeds on the rage and hatred of the people she's killed; her guilt over taking their lives is her primary motivation to fight, and her refusal to stop fighting stems from that.]]
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* PoweredByAForsakenChild: [[spoiler: The Black God Tree bound to her. It feeds on the rage and hatred of the people she's killed; her guilt over taking their lives and her need to make their deaths worth something is her primary motivation to fight, and her refusal to stop fighting stems from that.fight.]]