History Literature / Kurozuka

%%* CloningBlues: [[spoiler:Kuon is a clone.]]

* CloningBlues: [[spoiler:The current White King, No.49 Izana, is a clone of Kurou. So is No.13 Tetsuya. And Kurou's "perfect" clone Kuon. No.78 Shera is a clone of Kuromitsu. There is also the unnamed clone of Benkei.]]

* CurbStompBattle: A trio of nameless bounty hunters are sent after Kurou in volume 3 but despite the build up, Kurou easily kills one with RazorFloss and the other two are slaughtered by Kuon ''offscreen''.

* TheWorfEffect: A trio of nameless bounty hunters are sent after Kurou in volume 3 but despite the build up, Kurou easily kills one with RazorFloss and the other two are slaughtered by Kuon ''offscreen''.

** In chapter 22, a female guard is brutally beaten to death by an imprisoned Kuromitsu, [[MuggedForDisguise stripped of her clothes]] and left nude inside the cell.

* SlidingBikeStop: The anime homages the bike slide during an action scene in episode 10, where Kuro, wielding a sword while on his motorcycle battles one of Hasegawa's gunship during a chase scene, which leads from a highway overpass to the top of a collapsing building, with Kuro sliding down the building's side before hitting the asphalt, skidding sideways across the road where Kuro is prominently featured in the center of the screen.

* ActionGirl[=/=]BikerBabe: Rai of the Haniwa movement.

* BadassLongcoat: Arashiyama of the Red Imperial Army.
* CoolOldLady: Saniwa, leader of the Haniwa movement.
* CloningBlues: [[spoiler:Kuon is a clone.]]
* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: Kuromitsu.
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:Benkei.]]

* MadScientist: Hasegawa

* NarratorAllAlong

Its story opens with the famous 12th-century Japanese historical figure UsefulNotes/MinamotoNoYoshitsune. After losing to the forces of his brother Minamoto no Yoritomo, who in the wake of his victory would rise to become [[UsefulNotes/KamakuraShogunate the first Shogun to rule all of Japan]], Yoshitsune discards his name for the pseudonym "Kurou" and flees into the mountains with his retainer UsefulNotes/MusashiboBenkei. History records that Yoshitsune [[{{Seppuku}} committed suicide]] after being cornered by Yoritomo's forces. [[WellThisIsNotThatTrope But in this version of events]], Kurou and Benkei instead find a mountain hermitage inhabited by a strange, beautiful priestess with a [[CreepyCoolCrosses Christian cross necklace centuries before Christianity should have reached Japan]] named Kuromitsu. Eventually, Kurou and Kuromitsu fall in love, and Kuromitsu reveals her greatest secret to him: she is an immortal vampire. Soon after Yoritomo's forces catch up with Kurou and Benkei, and in an attempt to save Kurou's life Kuromitsu shares her blood with Kurou. However, before Kurou's vampiric transformation can be completed, someone beheads him.

Its story opens with the famous 12th-century Japanese historical figure UsefulNotes/MinamotoNoYoshitsune. After losing to the forces of his brother Minamoto no Yoritomo, who in the wake of his victory would rise to become [[UsefulNotes/KamakuraShogunate the first Shogun to rule all of Japan]], Yoshitsune discards his name for the pseudonym "Kurou" and flees into the mountains with his retainer UsefulNotes/MusashiboBenkei. History records that Yoshitsune [[{{Seppuku}} committed suicide]] after being cornered by Yoritomo's forces. [[WellThisIsNotThatTrope But in this version of events]], Kurou and Benkei instead find a mountain hermitage inhabited by a strange, beautiful priestess with a [[CreepyCoolCrosses Christian cross necklace centuries before Christianity should have reached Japan]] named Kuromitsu . Eventually, Kurou and Kuromitsu fall in love, and Kuromitsu reveals her greatest secret to him: she is an immortal vampire. Soon after Yoritomo's forces catch up with Kurou and Benkei, and in an attempt to save Kurou's life Kuromitsu shares her blood with Kurou. However, before Kurou's vampiric transformation can be completed, someone beheads him.

Its story opens with the famous 12th-century Japanese historical figure UsefulNotes/MinamotoNoYoshitsune. After losing to the forces of his brother Minamoto no Yoritomo, who in the wake of his victory would rise to become [[UsefulNotes/KamakuraShogunate the first Shogun to rule all of Japan]], Yoshitsune going under the pseudonym "Kurou" flees into the mountains with his retainer UsefulNotes/MusashiboBenkei. History records that Yoshitsune [[{{Seppuku}} committed suicide]] after being cornered by Yoritomo's forces. [[WellThisIsNotThatTrope But in this version of events]], Kurou and Benkei instead find a mountain hermitage inhabited by a strange, beautiful priestess with a [[CreepyCoolCrosses Christian cross necklace centuries before Christianity should have reached Japan]] named Kuromitsu . Eventually, Kurou and Kuromitsu fall in love, and Kuromitsu reveals her greatest secret to him: she is an immortal vampire. Soon after Yoritomo's forces catch up with Kurou and Benkei, and in an attempt to save Kurou's life Kuromitsu shares her blood with Kurou. However, before Kurou's vampiric transformation can be completed, someone beheads him.

But instead of dying, Kurou finds himself waking up again and again centuries apart, with he himself seemingly not aged a day, his memory in shambles, and one all-consuming desire filling his mind: find Kuromitsu. Thus begins Kurou's journey through the ages of Japan, from the 12th-century to Main/PresentDay, through [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt an apocalypse]], into the [[AfterTheEnd post-apocalypse]], and beyond, all to find the woman he once loved.

* OffWithHisHead: There's a lot of beheading in the story to multiple characters, including who the protagonist, who gets his head cut off at the end of the opening prologue, only to awaken still alive and with his body centuries later.

-->'''Kurou''' [[DontMakeMeDestroyYou Move, humans!]]
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Benkei's]] death does not stop Kurou and Kuromitsu from being hunted by humans want their immortal blood, nor those who want to MurderTheHypotenuse and have Kurou or Kuromitsu's love for themselves. The two will be forced to flee forever. But at least now [[spoiler:Kurou has regained his full memories and personality after having his head transplanted onto a perfect copy of his original body, and Kurou and Kuromitsu will be able to truly be together from now till the end of their days.]]

Its story opens with the famous 12th-century Japanese historical figure UsefulNotes/MinamotoNoYoshitsune. After losing to the forces of his brother to his brother Minamoto no Yoritomo, who in the wake of his victory would rise to become [[UsefulNotes/KamakuraShogunate the first Shogun to rule all of Japan]], Yoshitsune going under the psuedonym "Kurou" flees into the mountains with his retainer UsefulNotes/MusashiboBenkei. History records that Kurou [[{{Seppuku}} committed suicide]] after being cornered by Yoritomo's forces. [[WellThisIsNotThatTrope But in this version of events]], Kurou and Benkei instead meet a strange, beautiful preistess with a [[CreepyCoolCrosses Christian cross necklace centuries before Christianity should have reached Japan]] named Kuromitsu in her mountain hermitage. Eventually, Kurou and Kuromitsu fall in love, and Kuromitsu reveals her greatest secret to him: she is an immortal vampire. Soon after Yoritomo's forces catch up with Kurou and Benkei, and in an attempt to save Kurou's life Kuromitsu shares her blood with Kurou. However, before Kurou's vampiric transformation can be completed, someone beheads him.

* ResetButtonEnding: Sort of. Despite the original mastermind behind Kurou and Kuromitsu suffering being dealt with in this latest cycle, Kurou himself is still not complete. [[spoiler:After Kuromitsu again severs his head to transfer him to a new, potentially better body]], Kurou temporarily remembers the endless number of times this same story has repeated itself, and then wakes up once more in a new age, his memory in shambles once more, but with the same overwhelming desire to find Kuromitsu. And as he encounters new versions of the characters he met before, and a new version of the story plays out once again, it is unclear if anything will ever truly change, and if he and Kuromitsu will ever be able to truly be together.

* AndTheAdventureContinues: Humans will continue to chase after Kurou and Kuromitsu for their immortal blood. As will clones [[spoiler:like Izana and Shera]], driven by the shared obsessions from a partial GeneticMemory to be with Kurou or Kuromitsu themselves. And Kurou or Kuromitsu will continue to flee. [[spoiler:But at least now Kurou has regained his full memories thanks to gaining a perfect cloned vampire body, and Kuromitsu and Kuro will at last be together until the end of time.]]

* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: Played with. On top of UsefulNotes/MinamotoNoYoshitsune becoming an immortal vampire instead of dying in the 12th-century, and Kuromitsu being the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ningyo Yao Bikuni]] myth as a vampire, the source of Kuromitsu's vampirism is revealed in the finale to be [[Literature/TheBible Judas Iscariot]], who was cursed for betraying Jesus and attempting to take Jesus's divine abitilies by consuming his blood.

* OffWithHisHead: Happens to several characters. [[spoiler:One of them is Kurou, who survives because he's ingested Kuromitsu's blood.]]
* OneWingedAngel: Arashiyama does this during his fight with Kurou. [[spoiler:[[OffWithHisHead It doesn't work.]]]]
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Kuromitsu and Kurou possess the desire to drink blood.

* ResetButtonEnding: Sort of. Despite the original mastermind behind Kurou and Kuromitsu suffering is dealt with in this latest cycle, Kurou himself is still not complete. [[spoiler:After Kuromitsu again severs his head to transfer him to a new, potentially better body]], Kurou temporarily remembers the endless number of times this same story has repeated itself, and then wakes up once more in a new age, his memory in shambles once more, but with the same overwhelming desire to find Kuromitsu. And as he encounters new versions of the characters he met before, and a new version of the story plays out once again, it is unclear if anything will ever truly change, and if he and Kuroumitsu will ever be able to truly be together.

* ResetButtonEnding: [[spoiler: Sort of. Time still passes, but in the end it's shown that the events of the story continually repeat themselves, even down to the characters involved and that it's likely that nothing will ever change.]]