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* ShapeShifter: Nagamimi has the ability to change his shape, and often assumes other forms in order to get his team closer

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* ShapeShifter: Nagamimi has the ability to change his shape, and often assumes other forms in order to get his team ~~closer~~closer.
* ShipTease: Numerous between Momosuke and Ogin. [[spoiler: While they don’t get together at the end, there’s a chance they may reunite one day.]]

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* SurrealHoror:: Bizarre visuals, deranged characters and weird stories, all played to scare and shock.

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* ~~SurrealHoror::~~ SurrealHorror:: Bizarre visuals, deranged characters and weird stories, all played to scare and shock.

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~~%%* AbsurdlySharpBlade~~* AbsurdlySharpBlade: Sword blades can often cleave through human bodies as if they were made of wet tissue paper. "The Shibaemon Raccoon Dog" is a particular example, where the villain, a [[spoiler:insane samurai]] cleaves people in half at the waist as neatly as if they were paper dolls.

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%%* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: Now and then.

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%%* * AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: ~~Now~~ Characters often display unnatural and ~~then.~~otherworldly coloration, especially if they are just background characters, which only adds to the surreal and mystical air that the animation is trying to cultivate.

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%%* BigBad: Kyogoku Tei

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%%* * BigBad: ~~Kyogoku Tei~~[[spoiler:Kyogoku Tei, the patron of Maitaichi, Nagamimi and Ogin's group, turns out to be creating a mystical superweapon literally powered by human atrocity with which to destroy Japan.]]

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%%* BodyHorror: My word, yes.

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%%* * BodyHorror: ~~My word, yes.~~Many, ''many'' characters suffer horrific physical mutilation and distortion, usually to fatal results, over the course of the series. "Salty Choji", for example, has the titular character as a morbidly obese and repulsive figure, whose rippling skin strains to cover his flabby body, with bulging bloodshot eyes and dripping with sweat.

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%%* CatapultNightmare: More than once.
%%* TheChessmaster: Kyogoku Tei

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%%* * CatapultNightmare: More than once.
%%* If a DreamSequence turns up in this show
* TheChessmaster: ~~Kyogoku Tei~~[[spoiler:Kyogoku Tei]], the series' BigBad, who is manipulating events from behind the scenes to achieve his ultimate goal.

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%%* DarkIsNotEvil: Mataichi, Ogin and Nagamimi.

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%%* * DarkerAndEdgier: Amazingly, some of the stories in this series are far more grisly and gruesome than the mythical stories they are based on! A good example is "Salty Choji": [[spoiler:in the myth, this story revolves around a gluttonous man who devours an entire herd of horses 300 strong, whereupon the last horse's spirit tortures him to death over 100 nights -- in the series, this story revolves around a fratricidal cannibal who is trying to slake his lust for human meat by eating horseflesh instead.]]
* DarkIsNotEvil: Mataichi, Ogin and ~~Nagamimi.~~Nagamimi are supernatural beings who seek out evil-doers and expose their sins before ensuring they die and their souls are dragged off to hell. Despite this, they are not cruel or malicious, and they do not wish to harm the innocent -- merely to punish the guilty.

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%%* ILoveTheDead: "Katabira Crossroads".

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%%* * ILoveTheDead: "Katabira ~~Crossroads".~~Crossroads" revolves around a series of pornographic scrolls... the subject of which are corpses in varying states of decay.

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%%* KabukiSounds
%%* KnightTemplar: The Three Protagonists.

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%%* KabukiSounds
%%* * KabukiSounds: The anime's soundtrack makes heavy use of traditional Kabuki sounds to add to the surreality of everything.
* KnightTemplar: ~~The Three Protagonists.~~Mataichi, Nagamimi and Ogin don't care about excuses, they don't care about justifications, all they care about is that those who have committed evil are found out and brought to justice... at least, to ''their'' version of justice.

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%%* MrExposition: Mataichi is just about this trope personified.
%%* MsFanservice: Ms. Ogin, of course.

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%%* * MrExposition: Mataichi is just about this trope personified.
%%* personified. Expect him to explain what is going on or reveal the relevant backstory whenever he shows up.
* MsFanservice: ~~Ms. Ogin, of course.~~Being incredibly beautiful and prone to wearing very little clothing, Ogin naturally serves this role in the series.

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%%* TheNoseless: see NoMouth.

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%%* * TheNoseless: ~~see NoMouth.~~Most of the minor characters lack a nose for the same reason they tend to [[NoMouth lack a mouth]].

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%%** And the Nodeppou gun.
%%** And the Flame Lance

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%%* SchizoTech:
%%** * SchizoTech: Despite the series being set in Feudal Japan, several items show up that are far too technologically advanced to be there. Prominent examples are Momosuke's goggles.
%%** And goggles, the stone-shooting Nodeppou gun.
%%** And gun, and the Flame ~~Lance~~Lance, a weapon of mass destruction powered by human evil.

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%%* ShapeShifter: Nagamimi.
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%%* * ShapeShifter: Nagamimi.
%%* SickSadWorld: And how.Nagamimi has the ability to change his shape, and often assumes other forms in order to get his team closer
* ShoutOut: Many of the stories in this series are based on real Japanese folklore tales and myths.

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%%* SurrealHoror
* {{Tanuki}}: "The Shibaemon Raccoon Dog" revolves around an alleged one of these.
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~~%%* SurrealHoror~~
* SurrealHoror:: Bizarre visuals, deranged characters and weird stories, all played to scare and shock.
* {{Tanuki}}: "The Shibaemon Raccoon Dog" revolves around ~~an alleged one~~ a series of ~~these.~~murders allegedly done by a tanuki hungry for human livers.
%%* * {{Transvestite}}: [[spoiler: The titular villain of "The Willow ~~Woman."~~Woman" is a insane man who dresses as a woman to commit murder.]]

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%%* WideEyedIdealist: Momosuke, initially at least.

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%%* * WideEyedIdealist: Momosuke, initially at ~~least.~~least, is a caring, loving, compassionate soul who genuinely believes the world is full of good people and more good than evil.

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''The Wicked and the Damned: A Hundred Tales of Karma'' (''Kōsetsu Hyaku Monogatari'', meaning "Hundred Stories") is a series of novels by Natsuhiko Kyogoku. These novels were adapted into an anime titled ''Requiem from the Darkness'' (''Kyōgoku Natsuhiko Kōsetsu Hyaku Monogatari'', "Natsuhiko Kyogoku's Hundred Stories") and a live-action show. The anime especially is known for its rather bizarre plot-lines and story elements; said story follows [[CharacterNarrator 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 ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo''. The series is also known for making lazy animation an artform; seriously, they turn it into an [[DisabilitySuperpower advantage]].

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''The Wicked and the Damned: A Hundred Tales of Karma'' (''Kōsetsu Hyaku Monogatari'', meaning "Hundred Stories") is a series of novels by Natsuhiko Kyogoku. These novels were adapted into an anime titled ''Requiem from the Darkness'' (''Kyōgoku Natsuhiko Kōsetsu Hyaku Monogatari'', "Natsuhiko Kyogoku's Hundred Stories") and a live-action ~~show.~~ show.

The anime especially is known for its rather bizarre plot-lines and story elements; said story follows [[CharacterNarrator 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,~~ evil...

...Well, kind of, anyway. Think DarkerAndEdgier ~~''Franchise/ScoobyDoo''.~~ ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo''.

The series is also known for making lazy animation an artform; seriously, they turn it into an [[DisabilitySuperpower advantage]].

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* DeathOfAChild: In several episodes, including the first two.

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* InfantImmortality: Sickeningly averted in several episodes, including the first two.

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* ArmorPiercingResponse: [[spoiler:When Mataichi's group is forced to "exorcise" an innocent person to stop a disaster, Momosuke calls them a bunch of murderers. Mataichi points out that the author himself participated in a number of exorcisms, sometimes directly killing the murderers himself. Momosuke is speechless]].

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%%* * TheBlank: ~~see~~ As a stylistic choice, unimportant side characters tend to be drawn with few features. See NoMouth.

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* GenreBlind: It takes a remarkably long amount of time for the Momosuke to realize that his new friends aren't exactly "heroes".

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* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: [[spoiler:Kyogokutei serves as the boss of Mataichi's crew for most of the series, but turns out to have been planning to cover the world in darkness and evil all along. Naturally, our team of anti-heroes won't stand for that]].

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* FreudianExcuse: It's established that many of the "monsters" and murderers in this series come about because of the cruelties they faced as once-innocent children...
* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: ...But that doesn't make it okay to murder people, as is ''also'' made clear.

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

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* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: Men, women, children... the AbsurdlySharpBlade makes no ~~distiction~~distinction.
** [[spoiler:This is particularly prominent in "The Shibaemon Raccoon Dog", where the young samurai cuts people in half at the waist, as he killed his mother long ago. This happens to coincide with a legend where tanukis split people in half at the waist to eat their livers]].

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* HiddenBackupPrince: [[spoiler:"The Shibaemon Raccoon Dog" revolves around a young samurai, the son of one of the Emperor's mistresses, who was raised to take over the throne when the ill emperor died. However, the emperor managed to produce a legitimate heir, and so the child became useless. His own mother attempted to poison him, but he switched the cups. As she cursed him, he struck her down, starting a lifetime of berserk rages he had no control over]].

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* {{Tanuki}}: "The Shibaemon Raccoon Dog" revolves around an alleged one of these.

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%%* EyeScream: A particularly squirmy example in "Floating Head."

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%%* * EyeScream: A particularly squirmy example in "Floating Head."", [[spoiler:when Oyoshi kills Otama]].

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%%* JadeColouredGlasses: Momosuke dones these near the end of the series.

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%%* * JadeColouredGlasses: ~~Momosuke dones these near~~ By the end of the ~~series.~~series, Momosuke has had most of his idealism worn away by the very human monsters he's run into.

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* MercyKill: [[spoiler:By the end of "Floating Head" Oyoshi has gone completely insane, and Momosuke requests that Mataichi grant her peace, however possible. He does]].

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* MummiesAtTheDinnerTable: [[spoiler:In "Floating Head" Oyoshi refuses to believe that Otama is dead, killed by her own hand, no less, and claims that she's only ill]].

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%%* * ParentalIncest: [[spoiler:In "Floating Head."" Oyoshi's father Matajuro Ishikawa committed this against her from a young age, making her mentally unstable. She eventually used his passion for her to convince him to kill her mother]].

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* PrimalScene: [[spoiler:In "Floating Head", Otama sees the ParentalIncest she and Oyoshi's father is committing upon Oyoshi and is too young to understand it, thinking their heads are dancing. Wehen she talks to Oyoshi about it, Oyoshi kills her]].

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* HeroicSacrifice: Momosuke chooses to sacrifice his life to save Yasuku, even knowing that the man's he's saving is a remorseless serial murderer, purely because Yasuku was more passionate about living than he ever was. (Mataichi saves him.)

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* SplitPersonality: [[spoiler: In "Willow Woman", the titular lady is one of these for the owner of the inn, driven insane by his greedy relatives, who only saw him as a means to carry on the family's ownership of the inn by having an heir--hence the murders of his wives and children]].

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''Requiem from the Darkness'' (''Kyogoku Natsuhiko Kosetsu Hyaku Monogatari'', aka ''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 its 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 Franchise/ScoobyDoo. The series is also known for making lazy animation an artform; seriously, they turn it into an [[DisabilitySuperpower advantage]].

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[[caption-width-right:299:Counterclockwise from the upper-left: Nagamimi, Momosuke, Mataichi, Ogin.]]

''The Wicked and the Damned: A Hundred Tales of Karma'' (''Kōsetsu Hyaku Monogatari'', meaning "Hundred Stories") is a series of novels by Natsuhiko Kyogoku. These novels were adapted into an anime titled ''Requiem from the Darkness'' ~~(''Kyogoku~~ (''Kyōgoku Natsuhiko ~~Kosetsu~~ Kōsetsu Hyaku Monogatari'', ~~aka ''Hundred Stories'') is a series of novels; these novels were adapted into an anime~~ "Natsuhiko Kyogoku's Hundred Stories") and a live-action show. The anime especially is known for its rather bizarre plot-lines and story elements; said story follows ~~[[{{Narrator}}~~ [[CharacterNarrator 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 ~~Franchise/ScoobyDoo.~~''Franchise/ScoobyDoo''. The series is also known for making lazy animation an artform; seriously, they turn it into an [[DisabilitySuperpower advantage]].

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%%* CatapultNightmare: more than once.

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%%* CatapultNightmare: ~~more~~ More than once.

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%%* {{Adorkable}}: Momosuke, especially early on.

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''Requiem from the Darkness'' (''Kyogoku Natsuhiko Kosetsu Hyaku Monogatari'', aka ''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 its 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 Franchise/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'' (''Kyogoku Natsuhiko Kosetsu Hyaku Monogatari'', aka ''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 its 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 Franchise/ScoobyDoo. The series is also known for making lazy animation an ~~artform, seriously~~ artform; seriously, they turn it into an [[DisabilitySuperpower advantage]].

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!!''Requiem from the Darkness'' provides examples of:

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!!''Requiem from the Darkness'' provides examples of:

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* WritersSuck: Poor Momosuke is ''everyone's'' ButtMonkey.

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* WritersSuck: Poor Momosuke is ''everyone's'' ~~ButtMonkey.~~ButtMonkey.
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''Requiem from the Darkness'' (''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 its 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 Franchise/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 ''Anime/KyogokuNatsuhikoKosetsuHyakuMonogatari''.

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''Requiem from the Darkness'' ~~(''Anime/KyogokuNatsuhikoKosetsuHyakuMonogatari'',~~ (''Kyogoku Natsuhiko Kosetsu Hyaku Monogatari'', aka ''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 its 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 Franchise/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 ''Anime/KyogokuNatsuhikoKosetsuHyakuMonogatari''.~~
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* HelloNurse: Ogin. Which is a bit creepy, considering she's dead. ''This does not deter Momosuke.''

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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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* OffModel: Used to ~~[[TropesAreNotBad~~ [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools 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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''Requiem from the Darkness'' (''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 Franchise/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 ''Anime/KyogokuNatsuhikoKosetsuHyakuMonogatari''.

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''Requiem from the Darkness'' (''Anime/KyogokuNatsuhikoKosetsuHyakuMonogatari'', ''Hundred Stories'') is a series of novels; these novels were adapted into an anime and a ~~Live Action~~ live-action show. The anime especially is known for ~~it's~~ its 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 Franchise/ScoobyDoo. The series is also known for making lazy animation an artform, seriously they turn it into an [[DisabilitySuperpower ~~advantage.]]~~ advantage]]. Also has a page under ''Anime/KyogokuNatsuhikoKosetsuHyakuMonogatari''.

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* {{The BeastMaster}}: Nagamimi can control animals.

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* ~~{{The BeastMaster}}:~~ TheBeastmaster: Nagamimi can control animals.

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''Requiem from the Darkness'' (''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 ''Anime/KyogokuNatsuhikoKosetsuHyakuMonogatari''.

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''Requiem from the Darkness'' (''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.~~Franchise/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 ''Anime/KyogokuNatsuhikoKosetsuHyakuMonogatari''.

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''Requiem From The Darkness'' (''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 ''Anime/KyogokuNatsuhikoKosetsuHyakuMonogatari''.

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''Requiem ~~From The~~ from the Darkness'' (''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 ''Anime/KyogokuNatsuhikoKosetsuHyakuMonogatari''.

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!!Examples Include

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~~!!Examples Include~~
!!''Requiem from the Darkness'' provides examples of:

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''Requiem From The Darkness'' (''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 ''Anime/KyogokuNatsuhikoKosetsuHyakuMonogatari''.

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''Requiem From The Darkness'' (''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}}~~ [[DisabilitySuperpower advantage.]] Also has a page under ~~''Anime/KyogokuNatsuhikoKosetsuHyakuMonogatari''.~~''Anime/KyogokuNatsuhikoKosetsuHyakuMonogatari''.

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* {{Adorkable}}: Momosuke, especially early on.
* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: Now and then.

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* %%* {{Adorkable}}: Momosuke, especially early on.
* %%* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: Now and then.

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* TheBlank: see NoMouth.

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* BodyHorror: My word yes.

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* %%* BodyHorror: My word yes.

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* CatapultNightmare: more than once.
* TheChessmaster: Kyogoku Tei
* ConspicuousCG
* DarkIsNotEvil: Mataichi, Ogin and Nagamimi.
* DarkWorld

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* %%* CatapultNightmare: more than once.
* %%* TheChessmaster: Kyogoku Tei
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* TheDragon: Tatsuha
* EyeScream: A particularly squirmy example in "Floating Head."
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* GigglingVillain: Tatsuta.

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* %%* EyeScream: A particularly squirmy example in "Floating Head."
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* ILoveTheDead: "Katabira Crossroads".

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* JadeColouredGlasses: Momosuke dones these near the end of the series.
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* MrExposition: Mataichi is just about this trope personified.
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* PowersThatBe: Kyougokutei and the White and Black Hags.

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* SchizoTech: Momosuke's goggles.
** And the Nodeppou gun.
** And the Flame Lance

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* ShapeShifter: Nagamimi.
* SickSadWorld: And how.
* {{Transvestite}}: "The Willow Woman."
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* %%* SickSadWorld: And how.
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* [[spoiler:BittersweetEnding]]: [[spoiler:Although they win in the end, Mataichi, Nagamimi, and Ogin all die, leaving poor Momosuke alone, just as Ogin finally says his name instead of referring to him as "author." However, it does leave open the possibility that they may still be alive after Momosuke publishes his book.]]

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* ~~[[spoiler:BittersweetEnding]]:~~ BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Although they win in the end, Mataichi, Nagamimi, and Ogin all die, leaving poor Momosuke alone, just as Ogin finally says his name instead of referring to him as "author." However, it does leave open the possibility that they may still be alive after Momosuke publishes his book.]]

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* VerbalTic: Quite a few. Mataichi's speech is highly archaic, and Nagamimi...well, Nagamimi is NorioWakamoto.

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* VerbalTic: Quite a few. Mataichi's speech is highly archaic, and Nagamimi...well, Nagamimi is ~~NorioWakamoto.~~Creator/NorioWakamoto.

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''Requiem From The Darkness'' (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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''Requiem From The Darkness'' ~~(Anime/KyogokuNatsuhikoKosetsuHyakuMonogatari, Hundred Stories)~~ (''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.~~''Anime/KyogokuNatsuhikoKosetsuHyakuMonogatari''.

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* [[ImAHumanitarian I'm A Humanitarian]]: "Salty Choji."

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** The subplot between Momosuke and Ogin, since Ogin is pretty blatantly stated to be a ghost.
* [[ImAHumanitarian I'm A Humanitarian]]: "Salty Choji."" [[spoiler: TheReveal is that the house-owner is actually the real owner's twin brother, who was forced to eat his brother's corpse when they fell down a ravine together and who has been obsessed with the taste of human flesh ever since.]]

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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.

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* WhenTreesAttack: Two for one special; a possessed tree decapitates a woman holding a baby. The women drops the baby. Then she falls on and ''crushes'' the baby. [[spoiler: Only it turns out there's no ghost involved at all and she was actually murdered by her insane husband.]]

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* TheMessiah: Momosuke, who repeatedly believes the best of the worst people and usually ends up almost being killed because of it.

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