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* VaporWear: Ogin doesn't wear much, if anything, under her kimono.
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* WhenTreesAttack: Two for one special; decapitates a woman holding a baby. The women drops the baby. Then she falls on and ''crushes'' the baby.



* WhenTreesAttack: Two for one special; decapitates a woman holding a baby. The women drops the baby. Then she falls on and ''crushes'' the baby.

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* HumansAreBastards: The entire point of the show, though "bastards" might be too kind a term.

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* HumansAreBastards: HumansAreBastards:
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The entire point of the show, though "bastards" might be too kind a term.
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* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs : Everything from the story to the animation. Houses bend and twist, Character designs lack facial features. Hell, Momosuke falls a sleep with a frog man sitting on his head...smoking a pipe.
** Incidentally, the frog man is his ''publisher''.
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''Requiem From The Darkness'' (KyogokuNatsuhikoKosetsuHyakuMonogatari, Hundred Stories) is a series of novels; these novels were adapted into an anime and a Live Action show. The anime especially is known for it's rather bizarre plot-lines and story elements; said story follows [[{{Narrator}} Momosuke]] as he travels around FeudalJapan in a search for one hundred ghost stories. But while doing this, he runs across a RagtagBunchOfMisfits. They fight evil; well, kind of, anyway. Think DarkerAndEdgier ScoobyDoo. The series is also known for making lazy animation an artform, seriously they turn it into an [[{{DisabilitySuperpower}} advantage.]] Also has a page under KyogokuNatsuhikoKosetsuHyakuMonogatari.

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''Requiem From The Darkness'' (KyogokuNatsuhikoKosetsuHyakuMonogatari, (Anime/KyogokuNatsuhikoKosetsuHyakuMonogatari, Hundred Stories) is a series of novels; these novels were adapted into an anime and a Live Action show. The anime especially is known for it's rather bizarre plot-lines and story elements; said story follows [[{{Narrator}} Momosuke]] as he travels around FeudalJapan in a search for one hundred ghost stories. But while doing this, he runs across a RagtagBunchOfMisfits. They fight evil; well, kind of, anyway. Think DarkerAndEdgier ScoobyDoo. The series is also known for making lazy animation an artform, seriously they turn it into an [[{{DisabilitySuperpower}} advantage.]] Also has a page under KyogokuNatsuhikoKosetsuHyakuMonogatari.

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* TheNoseless: see NoMouth.



* {{Squick}}: I wouldn't know where to start.



* TheNoseless: see NoMouth.



* WasntMadeOnDrugs : Everything from the story to the animation. Houses bend and twist, Character designs lack facial features. Hell, Momosuke falls a sleep with a frog man sitting on his head...smoking a pipe.

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* WasntMadeOnDrugs WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs : Everything from the story to the animation. Houses bend and twist, Character designs lack facial features. Hell, Momosuke falls a sleep with a frog man sitting on his head...smoking a pipe.
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* AntiHero: Mataichi, Ogin and Nagamimi are all [[SlidingScaleofAntiheroes Type V]].
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* LaserGuidedKarma: Mataichi & Co.'s mission. Mataichi is even called a "karmic enforcer" at one point!
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* BloodFromTheMouth: Happens during a few death scenes.
* BodyHorror: My word yes.
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* AbnormalAmmo: A slightly less fantastic case than the norm, the Nodeppou gun can fire any normal rock like a musket ball.


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** And the Nodeppou gun.

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* MindScrew: Sometimes it's very difficult to understand just what the heck is going on here, thanks to long bouts of {{Exposition}} on things that may have been mentioned once in the episode in question.

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* MindScrew: Sometimes it's very difficult to understand just what the heck is going on here, thanks to long bouts of {{Exposition}} on things that may have been mentioned once in the episode in question. question.
* MorphicResonance: No matter what form he takes, Nagamimi can't change his unusual ears.
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* OffModel: Used to [[TropesAreNotBad great effect]]. Some characters' proportions are drawn radically different from scene to scene, or even ''within'' a scene. This technique usually highlights the characters' mental instability.
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* ILoveTheDead: "Katabira Crossroads".
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** Incidentally, the frog man is his ''publisher''.

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* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: Men, Women, Children The AbsurdlySharpBlade makes no distiction

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* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: Men, Women, Children The women, children... the AbsurdlySharpBlade makes no distiction


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* OnlySixFaces: There are a limited number of models for background characters and other "extras", all of them quite surreal.
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* NeverMyFault: A few sinners desperately try to use scapegoats to absolve themselves. Mataichi and Co. are never impressed.
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* {{Adorkable}}: Momosuke, especially early on.
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* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: Now and then.
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* HumansAreBastards: The entire point of the show, though "bastards" might be [[CompleteMonster too kind a term]].

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* HumansAreBastards: The entire point of the show, though "bastards" might be [[CompleteMonster too kind a term]].term.

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''Requiem From The Darkness'' (KyogokuNatsuhikoKosetsuHyakuMonogatari, Hundred Stories) is a series of novels; these novels were adapted into an anime and a Live Action show. The anime especially is known for it's rather bizarre plot-lines and story elements; said story follows [[{{Narrator}} Momosuke]] as he travels around FeudalJapan in a search for one hundred ghost stories. But while doing this, he runs across a RagtagBunchOfMisfits. They fight evil; well, kind of, anyway. Think DarkerAndEdgier ScoobyDoo. The series is also known for making lazy animation an artform, seriously they turn it into an [[{{DisabilitySuperpower}} advantage.]]
Also has a page under KyogokuNatsuhikoKosetsuHyakuMonogatari.

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''Requiem From The Darkness'' (KyogokuNatsuhikoKosetsuHyakuMonogatari, Hundred Stories) is a series of novels; these novels were adapted into an anime and a Live Action show. The anime especially is known for it's rather bizarre plot-lines and story elements; said story follows [[{{Narrator}} Momosuke]] as he travels around FeudalJapan in a search for one hundred ghost stories. But while doing this, he runs across a RagtagBunchOfMisfits. They fight evil; well, kind of, anyway. Think DarkerAndEdgier ScoobyDoo. The series is also known for making lazy animation an artform, seriously they turn it into an [[{{DisabilitySuperpower}} advantage.]]
]] Also has a page under KyogokuNatsuhikoKosetsuHyakuMonogatari.
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''Requiem From The Darkness'' (KyogokuNatsuhikoKosetsuHyakuMonogatari, Hundred Stories) is a series of novels; these novels were adapted into an anime and a Live Action show. The anime especially is known for it's rather bizarre plot-lines and story elements; said story follows [[{{Narrator}} Momosuke]] as he travels around FeudalJapan in a search for one hundred ghost stories. But while doing this, he runs across a RagtagBunchOfMisfits. They fight evil; well, kind of, anyway. Think DarkerAndEdgier ScoobyDoo. The series is also known for making lazy animation an artform, seriously they turn it into an [[{{DisabilitySuperpower}} advantage.]]

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''Requiem From The Darkness'' (KyogokuNatsuhikoKosetsuHyakuMonogatari, Hundred Stories) is a series of novels; these novels were adapted into an anime and a Live Action show. The anime especially is known for it's rather bizarre plot-lines and story elements; said story follows [[{{Narrator}} Momosuke]] as he travels around FeudalJapan in a search for one hundred ghost stories. But while doing this, he runs across a RagtagBunchOfMisfits. They fight evil; well, kind of, anyway. Think DarkerAndEdgier ScoobyDoo. The series is also known for making lazy animation an artform, seriously they turn it into an [[{{DisabilitySuperpower}} advantage.]]]]

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Also has a page under KyogokuNatsuhikoKosetsuHyakuMonogatari

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* DarkIsNotEvil: Mataichi, Ogin and Nagamimi.
* DarkWorld



* EyeScream: a lot!

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* EyeScream: a lot!A particularly squirmy example in "Floating Head."
* GainaxEnding



* {{Gorn}}: There's even an episode concerning a series of pornographic scrolls detailing the various stages of corpse decay.
* {{Gonk}}: ''100 Stories'' features an ''extremely'' bizarre art style, particularly notable in its depiction of villagers and other incidental characters.



* HumansAreBastards: The final episode has shades of it at the beginning, but overall the show has a bit of an optimistic approach to this trope.

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* HelloNurse: Ogin. Which is a bit creepy, considering she's dead. ''This does not deter Momosuke.''
* HumansAreBastards: The entire point of the show, though "bastards" might be [[CompleteMonster too kind a term]].
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The final episode has shades of it at the beginning, but overall the show has a bit of an optimistic approach to this trope.trope.
* IJustWantToBeSpecial: Despite his efforts to join Mataichi and the gang, Momosuke is repeatedly told to turn back before it's too late.
* [[ImAHumanitarian I'm A Humanitarian]]: "Salty Choji."
* InfantImmortality: Sickeningly averted in several episodes, including the first two.



* MarshmallowHell: Ogin does this to Momosuke in the first episode.
* MeaningfulName: Nagamimi ("Long Ears").
* TheMessiah: Momosuke, who repeatedly believes the best of the worst people and usually ends up almost being killed because of it.



* NorioWakamoto: As Nagamimi.
* TearsOfBlood
* TheNoseless: see NoMouth.

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* NorioWakamoto: As Nagamimi.
* TearsOfBlood
* TheNoseless: see NoMouth.
Nagamimi.



* ParentalIncest: "Floating Head."
* PerversePuppet: Ogin's puppet, which is very pretty...until it looks at you.
* PowersThatBe: Kyougokutei and the White and Black Hags.
* {{Pyromaniac}}: Shiragiku [[spoiler:(actually Tatsuta impersonating her)]]
* SchizoTech: Momosuke's goggles.



* ShapeShifter: Nagamimi.
* SickSadWorld: And how.
* {{Squick}}: I wouldn't know where to start.
* {{Transvestite}}: "The Willow Woman."
* TearsOfBlood
* TheNoseless: see NoMouth.
* TheTrickster: The entire crew, but especially Mataichi.
* TooDumbToLive: Momosuke is Too Well-Meaning To Live. Luckily Mataichi's team is there to save his ass.
* VerbalTic: Quite a few. Mataichi's speech is highly archaic, and Nagamimi...well, Nagamimi is NorioWakamoto.



* WeaponOfMassDestruction: A mystical WMD ''powered by human atrocity'', no less. Becomes the focus of the final two episodes.



* WideEyedIdealist: Momosuke, initially at least.



* WideEyedIdealist: Momosuke, initially at least.

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* WideEyedIdealist: Momosuke, initially at least.WritersSuck: Poor Momosuke is ''everyone's'' ButtMonkey.
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''RequiemFromTheDarkness'' (Kousetsu Hyaku Monogatari, Hundred Stories) is a series of novels; these novels were adapted into an anime and a Live Action show. The anime especially is known for it's rather bizarre plot-lines and story elements; said story follows [[{{Narrator}} Momosuke]] as he travels around FeudalJapan in a search for one hundred ghost stories. But while doing this, he runs across a RagtagBunchOfMisfits. They fight evil; well, kind of, anyway. Think DarkerAndEdgier ScoobyDoo. The series is also known for making lazy animation an artform, seriously they turn it into an [[{{DisabilitySuperpower}} advantage.]]

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''RequiemFromTheDarkness'' (Kousetsu Hyaku Monogatari, ''Requiem From The Darkness'' (KyogokuNatsuhikoKosetsuHyakuMonogatari, Hundred Stories) is a series of novels; these novels were adapted into an anime and a Live Action show. The anime especially is known for it's rather bizarre plot-lines and story elements; said story follows [[{{Narrator}} Momosuke]] as he travels around FeudalJapan in a search for one hundred ghost stories. But while doing this, he runs across a RagtagBunchOfMisfits. They fight evil; well, kind of, anyway. Think DarkerAndEdgier ScoobyDoo. The series is also known for making lazy animation an artform, seriously they turn it into an [[{{DisabilitySuperpower}} advantage.]]
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* MindScrew: Sometimes it's very difficult to understand just what the heck is going on here, thanks to long bouts of {{Exposition}} on things that may have been mentioned once in the episode in question. Of course YourMileageMayVary.

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* MindScrew: Sometimes it's very difficult to understand just what the heck is going on here, thanks to long bouts of {{Exposition}} on things that may have been mentioned once in the episode in question. Of course YourMileageMayVary.

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* AntiHero: Mataichi, Ogin and Nagamimi are all Type V.

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* AntiHero: Mataichi, Ogin and Nagamimi are all [[SlidingScaleofAntiheroes Type V.V]].


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* {{The BeastMaster}}: Nagamimi can control animals.
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RequiemFromTheDarkness (Kousetsu Hyaku Monogatari, Hundred Stories) is a series of novels; these novels were adapted into an anime and a Live Action show. The anime especially is known for it's rather bizarre plot-lines and story elements; said story follows [[{{Narrator}} Momosuke]] as he travels around FeudalJapan in a search for one hundred ghost stories. But while doing this, he runs across a RagtagBunchOfMisfits. They fight evil; well, kind of, anyway. Think DarkerAndEdgier ScoobyDoo. The series is also known for making lazy animation an artform, seriously they turn it into an [[{{DisabilitySuperpower}} advantage.]]

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RequiemFromTheDarkness ''RequiemFromTheDarkness'' (Kousetsu Hyaku Monogatari, Hundred Stories) is a series of novels; these novels were adapted into an anime and a Live Action show. The anime especially is known for it's rather bizarre plot-lines and story elements; said story follows [[{{Narrator}} Momosuke]] as he travels around FeudalJapan in a search for one hundred ghost stories. But while doing this, he runs across a RagtagBunchOfMisfits. They fight evil; well, kind of, anyway. Think DarkerAndEdgier ScoobyDoo. The series is also known for making lazy animation an artform, seriously they turn it into an [[{{DisabilitySuperpower}} advantage.]]
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* CompleteMonster: It's a guarantee that the evil people in this anime will always end up like this.

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* CatapultNightmare: more than once.
* ChaoticEvil: Practically, all of the sinners and ESPECIALLY Kyogoku Tei.
* ChaoticNeutral: The RagTagBunchofMisfits protagonists, Mataichi, Ogin and Nagamimi.

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* CatapultNightmare: more than once. \n* ChaoticEvil: Practically, all of the sinners and ESPECIALLY Kyogoku Tei.\n* ChaoticNeutral: The RagTagBunchofMisfits protagonists, Mataichi, Ogin and Nagamimi.



* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: Anything and everything, including the "good guys".



* NeutralGood: Momosuke, occasionally crossing with StupidGood.
* NightmareFuel : Murder, rape, people being burned at the stake in ''graphic'' detail, yeah, not a show to watch with the kids.



* CrowningMusicOfAwesome : [[http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=4543354 The opening]]

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