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* DarkIsNotEvil: [[spoiler: The original Kurohime was basically formulating a ZeroApprovalGambit to draw humanity's ire toward her, similar to [[CodeGeass Lelouch.]] Her intention was to both distract people from aiming for godhood and to accumulate the power to kill the gods herself.]]

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* DarkIsNotEvil: [[spoiler: The original Kurohime was basically formulating a ZeroApprovalGambit to draw humanity's ire toward her, similar to [[CodeGeass [[Anime/CodeGeass Lelouch.]] Her intention was to both distract people from aiming for godhood and to accumulate the power to kill the gods herself.]]
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* PrettyBoy: Zero, Saika, Darkray, [[spoiler:and Dark Zero]] all fit this category, being handsome, young-looking men.
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* {{Bishounen}}: Zero, Saika, Darkray, [[spoiler:and Dark Zero]] all fit this category, being handsome, young-looking men.

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* BoobBasedGag: Given to a pub-full of self-proclaimed badasses thanks to a GenderBender spell, which gave everyone else a hankering for BrainBleach.



* GagBoobs: Given to a pub-full of self-proclaimed badasses thanks to a GenderBender spell, which gave everyone else a hankering for BrainBleach.
** Queen Enma, the ruler of the prison dimension where Himeko was first banished [[spoiler:after being split from Shirohime and cursed into her child form.]] They're literally her source of power.

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* AGodAmI: Yashahime already has this complex, but it gets worse in chapter 74: [[spoiler: As an [[DishingOutDirt earth goddess]] and a part of Yamato, she is literally everywhere in the country. And by sealing Yamatohime into Mt. Fuji, which is in Yamato, and destroying every other landmass, Yashahime is now DIRECTLY channelling Yamatohime's power. This bites Yashahime in the ass when Yamatohime sacrifices herself to aid Kurohime, as Yashahime is then cut off from Yamato's power, and split in half with a slash of Kurohime's sword--along with the entire planet.]]


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* AGodAmI: Yashahime already has this complex, but it gets worse in chapter 74: [[spoiler: As an [[DishingOutDirt earth goddess]] and a part of Yamato, she is literally everywhere in the country. And by sealing Yamatohime into Mt. Fuji, which is in Yamato, and destroying every other landmass, Yashahime is now DIRECTLY channelling Yamatohime's power. This bites Yashahime in the ass when Yamatohime sacrifices herself to aid Kurohime, as Yashahime is then cut off from Yamato's power, and split in half with a slash of Kurohime's sword--along with the entire planet.]]
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* TheFourGods: [[ThePhoenix Yamatohime,]] [[TurtlePower Genbu,]] [[PantheraAwesome Byakko]] and [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Seiryuu,]] the Spirit Kings.

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* TheFourGods: [[ThePhoenix Yamatohime,]] [[TurtlePower Genbu,]] Genbu, [[PantheraAwesome Byakko]] and [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Seiryuu,]] the Spirit Kings.
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* JerkassGods: Pretty much the main reason the series' events are happening in the first place. Not all of them are so unfeeling, but a majority of them pretty much have no regard for life. Kurohime's grudge is specifically because they turned her spite on her [[spoiler:for attempting to kill them]], and expresses this ire by planning to KillEmAll.

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* JerkassGods: Pretty much the main reason the series' events are happening in the first place. Not all of them are so unfeeling, but a majority of them pretty much have no regard for life. Kurohime's grudge is specifically because they turned her spite on her [[spoiler:for attempting to kill them]], and expresses this ire by planning to KillEmAll.kill them all.

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* ThePowerOfLove: Due to the initial curse laid on Kurohime, love is quite literally central to the plot, as it is the only way Kurohime can temporarily/permanently break the curse. [[spoiler:It reaches new heights when the Sanzu River makes its first appearance, though, as Kurohime declares her love for Zero and unleashes a can of whoop-ass onto Dark Ray to protect him and continue her fight against the gods.]] Additionally, Himeko only agrees to assist Asura's cause on the condition that Yamatohime [[spoiler:resurrects Zero.]]



* TakingOverHeaven: In {{Backstory}}, Kurohime completed a Tower of Babel-like stairway to heaven and attempted to overthrow the JerkassGods for humanity's sake, but was defeated and split into Shirohime, Goddess of Mercy, and the capricious little girl Himeko.



* ThePowerOfLove: Due to the initial curse laid on Kurohime, love is quite literally central to the plot, as it is the only way Kurohime can temporarily/permanently break the curse. [[spoiler:It reaches new heights when the Sanzu River makes its first appearance, though, as Kurohime declares her love for Zero and unleashes a can of whoop-ass onto Dark Ray to protect him and continue her fight against the gods.]] Additionally, Himeko only agrees to assist Asura's cause on the condition that Yamatohime [[spoiler:resurrects Zero.]]
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** A mysterious [[http://www.onemanga.com/Kurohime/58/15/ shinigami]] looks a lot like, well, [[Manga/DeathNote a mysterious Shinigami]].

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** Asura: a distant, dismissive fire spirit [[spoiler:born as a HalfHumanHybrid replacement sacrifice to the Ultimate Sword in Yamatohime's place, raised in an iron cage by a distant mother that only admitted how much she loved Asura when the world was literally about to end.]]
** Sword: A loyal Death Angel for the God of Death, Darkray, [[spoiler:who was nearly killed at his hands, lost her closest friends because he didn't give a damn about them or her, and had to endure his mocking when she admitted her love for him. Vengeance becomes the only reason she has to live.]]

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** Asura: a distant, dismissive fire spirit [[spoiler:born as a HalfHumanHybrid replacement sacrifice to the Ultimate Sword in Yamatohime's place, raised in an iron cage by a distant mother who ''told her about her destiny when she was a small child'' that only admitted how much she loved Asura when the world was literally about to end.]]
** Sword: A loyal Death Angel for the God of Death, Darkray, [[spoiler:who was who basically had to stand by and watch the man she loves fawn over someone she hates for [[spoiler:defying the gods and still getting rewarded for it. On top of that, Sword is nearly killed at his hands, lost her closest friends ''to him'' because he didn't give a damn about them or her, and had to endure his mocking when she admitted her love for him. Vengeance becomes the only reason she has to live.]]



* CentralTheme: What does it truly mean to love someone? And are you willing to love that person even when LoveHurts? Even when the world challenges your love, will you continue to love them all the same?



** [[spoiler: Zero's scarf, initially owned by Marco Bolo. Himeko later wears it as a TragicKeepsake until Zero takes it back as Dark Zero. It later turns out that Zero feels the same attachment to it, as it was given to him by the person he loved the most in the world--none other than Himeko, who got one more chance to travel back to the past and give it to him.]]

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** [[spoiler: Zero's scarf, initially owned by Marco Bolo.Polo. Himeko later wears it as a TragicKeepsake until Zero takes it back as Dark Zero. It later turns out that Zero feels the same attachment to it, as it was given to him by the person he loved the most in the world--none other than Himeko, who got one more chance to travel back to the past and give it to him.]]



* CruelAndUnusualDeath: There's a few: [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown the mountain god's death]], [[spoiler:Zero dissolving in the waters of the Sanzu to save Kurohime from death, Ogre Mother Goddess Saiyuki's death via [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impalement]], Dan of the Bullet Blade Brigade's death via dismemberment and FlechetteStorm, and real!Zero being chopped apart by the Death Angel Squad like his mother. Himeko herself is impaled and dismembered by Yashahime, though this is reversed via TimeTravel and she later dies in Zero's arms via self-dissolution in the Sanzu River.]]

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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: There's a few: [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown the mountain god's god Moai's death]], [[spoiler:Zero dissolving in the waters of the Sanzu to save Kurohime from death, Ogre Mother Goddess Saiyuki's death via [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impalement]], Dan of the Bullet Blade Brigade's death via dismemberment and FlechetteStorm, taking a huge crystal InTheBack, and real!Zero being chopped apart by the Death Angel Squad like his mother. Himeko herself is impaled and dismembered by Yashahime, though this is reversed via TimeTravel and she later dies in Zero's arms via self-dissolution in the Sanzu River.]]
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* ActionDad: In "Aohime," Dan, a member of the Bullet Blade Brigade turned father. He took on his former comrades after they came after him and his "daughter", [[spoiler: [[OneManArmy cutting through waves of Mooks]] with only two swords and after they manage to cut off his arm, he takes out a few more by stealing a tank. He only died because of an opponent he knew nothing about.]]

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* ActionDad: In the side story "Aohime," Dan, a member of the Bullet Blade Brigade turned father. He Brigade, winds up becoming a "father" to the titular character Aohime. [[spoiler:He took on his former comrades after they came after him and his "daughter", [[spoiler: [[OneManArmy cutting through waves of Mooks]] with only two swords and after they manage to cut off his arm, he takes out a few more by stealing a tank. He only died dies because of an opponent he knew nothing about.]]

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* BookEnds:[[spoiler:The series began with Kurohime rescuing Two from bandits when he was young; it ends billions of years later on another planet, [[ReincarnationRomance where a gunslinging man that resembles Kurohime rescues a girl that strongly resembles Rei.]]]]

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* BookEnds:[[spoiler:The series began with Kurohime rescuing Two "Zero"/Rei from bandits when he was young; it ends billions of years later on another planet, [[ReincarnationRomance where a gunslinging man that resembles Kurohime rescues a girl that strongly resembles Rei.]]]]


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* VitriolicBestBuds: Himeko and Asura gradually develop this type of relationship with each other over the course of the manga, to the degree that Himeko will throw Tsucchi at Asura whenever Asura pisses her off.
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* BookEnds:[[spoiler:The series began with Kurohime rescuing zero when he was young it ends billions of years later in the far future in another planet where the future reincarnation of Kurohime who is male rescues a little girl who is the reincarnation of zero]]

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* BookEnds:[[spoiler:The series began with Kurohime rescuing zero Two from bandits when he was young young; it ends billions of years later in the far future in on another planet planet, [[ReincarnationRomance where the future reincarnation of a gunslinging man that resembles Kurohime who is male rescues a little girl who is the reincarnation of zero]]that strongly resembles Rei.]]]]
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* Bookends :[[spoiler:The series began with Kurohime rescuing zero when he was young it ends billions of years later in the far future in another planet where the future reincarnation of Kurohime who is male rescues a little girl who is the reincarnation of zero]]

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* Bookends :[[spoiler:The *BookEnds:[[spoiler:The series began with Kurohime rescuing zero when he was young it ends billions of years later in the far future in another planet where the future reincarnation of Kurohime who is male rescues a little girl who is the reincarnation of zero]]
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* Bookends :[[spoiler:The series began with Kurohime rescuing zero when he was young it ends billions of years later in the far future in another planet where the future reincarnation of Kurohime who is male rescues a little girl who is the reincarnation of zero]]
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* InstantAwesomeJustAddDragons: Kurohime is legendary because she can make witch-bullets that can summon dragon-golems at will. She once turned an ENTIRE castle into one such dragon.
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* AbnormalAmmo: [[http://www.mangareader.net/423-27287-15/kurohime/chapter-7.html Giant knives shaped like sharks]] is just the start of it.

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* AbnormalAmmo: [[http://www.mangareader.net/423-27287-15/kurohime/chapter-7.html Giant knives shaped like sharks]] sharks is just the start of it.



* FanService: And [[http://www.mangareader.net/423-27288-36/kurohime/chapter-8.html H]][[http://www.mangareader.net/423-49912-4/kurohime/chapter-62.html O]][[http://www.mangareader.net/423-32434-1/kurohime/chapter-49.html W]]. Special mention [[http://www.mangareader.net/423-27289-16/kurohime/chapter-9.html goes]] [[http://www.mangareader.net/423-27289-17/kurohime/chapter-9.html goes to]] [[http://www.mangareader.net/423-27289-24/kurohime/chapter-9.html the]] [[http://www.mangareader.net/423-27289-25/kurohime/chapter-9.html Shinigami]] [[http://www.mangareader.net/423-27289-26/kurohime/chapter-9.html Angel]] [[http://www.mangareader.net/423-27289-27/kurohime/chapter-9.html Brigade]].

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* FanService: And [[http://www.mangareader.net/423-27288-36/kurohime/chapter-8.html H]][[http://www.mangareader.net/423-49912-4/kurohime/chapter-62.html O]][[http://www.mangareader.net/423-32434-1/kurohime/chapter-49.html W]]. HOW. Special mention [[http://www.mangareader.net/423-27289-16/kurohime/chapter-9.html goes]] [[http://www.mangareader.net/423-27289-17/kurohime/chapter-9.html goes to]] [[http://www.mangareader.net/423-27289-24/kurohime/chapter-9.html the]] [[http://www.mangareader.net/423-27289-25/kurohime/chapter-9.html Shinigami]] [[http://www.mangareader.net/423-27289-26/kurohime/chapter-9.html Angel]] [[http://www.mangareader.net/423-27289-27/kurohime/chapter-9.html Brigade]].to the Shinigami Angel Brigade.



* {{Stripperiffic}}: The "outfits" of the [[http://www.mangareader.net/423-27289-16/kurohime/chapter-9.html Shinigami]] [[http://www.mangareader.net/423-27289-17/kurohime/chapter-9.html Tenshi-dan]] (the Death Angels). Kurohime [[LampshadeHanging even points it out when she confronts Sword, their leader.]]

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* {{Stripperiffic}}: The "outfits" of the [[http://www.mangareader.net/423-27289-16/kurohime/chapter-9.html Shinigami]] [[http://www.mangareader.net/423-27289-17/kurohime/chapter-9.html Tenshi-dan]] Shinigami Tenshi-dan (the Death Angels). Kurohime [[LampshadeHanging even points it out when she confronts Sword, their leader.]]
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* AGodAmI: Yashahime already has this complex, but it gets worse in chapter 74: [[spoiler: As an [[RockSteady earth goddess]] and a part of Yamato, she is literally everywhere in the country. And by sealing Yamatohime into Mt. Fuji, which is in Yamato, and destroying every other landmass, Yashahime is now DIRECTLY channelling Yamatohime's power. This bites Yashahime in the ass when Yamatohime sacrifices herself to aid Kurohime, as Yashahime is then cut off from Yamato's power, and split in half with a slash of Kurohime's sword--along with the entire planet.]]

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* AGodAmI: Yashahime already has this complex, but it gets worse in chapter 74: [[spoiler: As an [[RockSteady [[DishingOutDirt earth goddess]] and a part of Yamato, she is literally everywhere in the country. And by sealing Yamatohime into Mt. Fuji, which is in Yamato, and destroying every other landmass, Yashahime is now DIRECTLY channelling Yamatohime's power. This bites Yashahime in the ass when Yamatohime sacrifices herself to aid Kurohime, as Yashahime is then cut off from Yamato's power, and split in half with a slash of Kurohime's sword--along with the entire planet.]]
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* AbsurdlySharpBlade: The Kokushinbokuto, despite being made of ''wood'' (holy wood, true, but ''wood'' nevertheless), has been shown to cut through almost ANYTHING. The same goes for the blades Yamatohime fashions from the gods' White God Tree.

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* AbsurdlySharpBlade: The Kokushinbokuto, despite being made of ''wood'' (holy wood, true, but ''wood'' nevertheless), has been shown to cut through almost ANYTHING. The same goes for the blades Yamatohime Yashahime fashions from the gods' White God Tree.

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* BeautifulAllAlong: Yeti isn't so bad-looking after a transformation haircut.

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* BeautifulAllAlong: Yeti isn't so bad-looking after a transformation haircut.Yukio turns into quite the hunk when he takes on his true form to fight Himeko.



* BigBadDuumvirate: Yashahime [[spoiler:and Dark Zero]] split the BigBad role for the final arc of the manga, though at the last minute Yashahime takes precedence

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* BigBadDuumvirate: Yashahime [[spoiler:and Dark Zero]] split the BigBad role for the final arc of the manga, though at the last minute Yashahime takes precedenceprecedence.



** Kurohime: [[spoiler:a war orphan that hardened her heart against others to gain the power to kill gods, unite humanity, and commit full deicide, accepting the curses and spite of all she killed and betrayed on the way, only to fail at her ultimate goal and be reincarneated as literally half of herself with no memories and an inability to love.]]
* Asura: a distant, dismissive fire spirit [[spoiler:born as a HalfHumanHybrid replacement sacrifice to the Ultimate Sword in Yamatohime's place, raised in an iron cage by a distant mother that only admitted how much she loved asura when the world was literally about to end.]]
* Sword: A loyal Death Angel for the God of Death, Darkray, [[spoiler:who was nearly killed at his hands, lost her closest friends because he didn't give a damn about them or her, and had to endure his mocking when she admitted her love for him. Vengeance becomes the only reason she has to live.]]
* Ouka: a young princess [[spoiler:whose father was killed by Kurohime during the wars 10 years before the start of the series. She attempts to kill Kurohime for revenge, but fails, and spends the next decade training to become strong enough to get her revenge. When she winds up in the past and gets a chance to avenge her father, she is unable to change fate and winds up being responsible for killing him instead.]]
* The goddess Yukionna: [[spoiler:freezes every man she meets, save for Yukiotoko, and is so desperate for love that she uses his feelings for her to manipulate him into bringing her handsome men to freeze, unable to fill the loneliness in her heart.]]
* CassandraTruth: No one would believe Doc when said that Onimaru was passed out beside him for the entire battle against the Mate Clan and the Lion Castle, mostly because he’s such a huge {{ Jerkass }} but also because Onimaru has a reputation of always fighting with his men. In the end even Doc started to believe the hype though he couldn’t figure out how Onimaru did it.

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** Kurohime: [[spoiler:a war orphan that hardened her heart against others to gain the power to kill gods, unite humanity, and commit full deicide, accepting the curses and spite of all she killed and betrayed on the way, only to fail at her ultimate goal and be reincarneated reincarnated as literally half of herself with no memories and an inability to love.]]
* ** Asura: a distant, dismissive fire spirit [[spoiler:born as a HalfHumanHybrid replacement sacrifice to the Ultimate Sword in Yamatohime's place, raised in an iron cage by a distant mother that only admitted how much she loved asura Asura when the world was literally about to end.]]
* ** Sword: A loyal Death Angel for the God of Death, Darkray, [[spoiler:who was nearly killed at his hands, lost her closest friends because he didn't give a damn about them or her, and had to endure his mocking when she admitted her love for him. Vengeance becomes the only reason she has to live.]]
* ** Ouka: a young princess [[spoiler:whose father was killed by Kurohime during the wars 10 years before the start of the series. She attempts to kill Kurohime for revenge, but fails, and spends the next decade training to become strong enough to get her revenge. When she winds up in the past and gets a chance to avenge her father, she is unable to change fate her father's fate, she inadvertently becomes his killer instead, traumatizing both herself and winds up being responsible for killing him instead.her younger self.]]
* ** The goddess Yukionna: [[spoiler:freezes every man she meets, save for Yukiotoko, and is so desperate for love that she uses his feelings for her to manipulate him into bringing her handsome men to freeze, take advantage of him, unable to fill the loneliness in her heart.heart or even acknowledge how much he cares for her.]]
* CassandraTruth: No one would believe Doc when said that Onimaru was passed out beside him for the entire battle against the Mate Clan and the Lion Castle, mostly because he’s such a huge {{ Jerkass }} JerkAss but also because Onimaru has a reputation of always fighting with his men. In the end even Doc started to believe the hype hype, though he couldn’t figure out how Onimaru did it.



** [[spoiler: Zero's scarf, initially owned by Marco Bolo. Himeko intially wears it as a TragicKeepsake, and treats it as a precious memento and link to him until he takes it back as Dark Zero. It later turns out that Zero feels the same way about it, as it was given to him by the person he loved the most in the world--none other than Himeko, who got one more chance to travel back to the past and give it to him.]]
** Yamatohime's power is mentioned to be strong enough to revive the dead, [[spoiler:which is Himeko's initial motivation for agreeing to form the Ultimate Blade and break Yamatohime out of Mt. Fuji. Later on, Yamatohime uses this revival power on ''Himeko'' instead, reviving her into Kurohime for good and enabling her to put and end to Yashahime forever.]]

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** [[spoiler: Zero's scarf, initially owned by Marco Bolo. Himeko intially later wears it as a TragicKeepsake, and treats it as a precious memento and link to him TragicKeepsake until he Zero takes it back as Dark Zero. It later turns out that Zero feels the same way about attachment to it, as it was given to him by the person he loved the most in the world--none other than Himeko, who got one more chance to travel back to the past and give it to him.]]
** Yamatohime's power is mentioned to be strong enough to revive the dead, [[spoiler:which is Himeko's initial motivation for agreeing to form the Ultimate Blade and break Yamatohime out of Mt. Fuji. Later on, Yamatohime uses this revival power on ''Himeko'' instead, reviving her into Kurohime for good and enabling her to put and an end to Yashahime forever.]]



** [[spoiler:Ouka appears in the climax of the first arc as a young girl that tries to kill past!Kurohime; Ouka is then properly introduced in the second arc as a member of the Kurohime Punishment Squad, and exactly ''why'' she hates Kurohime so much is quickly revealed.]]

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** [[spoiler:Ouka appears in the climax of the first arc as a young girl that tries to kill past!Kurohime; past!Kurohime, when Shirohime explains Kurohime's past; Ouka is then properly introduced in the second arc as a member of the Kurohime Punishment Squad, and exactly ''why'' she hates Kurohime so much is quickly revealed.]]



* CruelAndUnusualDeath: There's a few: [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown the mountain god's death]], [[spoiler:[Zero dissolving in the waters of the Sanzu to save Kurohime from death, Ogre Mother Goddess Saiyuki's death via [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impalement]], Dan of the Bullet Blade Brigade's death via dismemberment and FlechetteStorm, and real!Zero being chopped apart by the Death Angel Squad like his mother. Himeko herself is impaled and dismembered by Yashahime, though this is reversed via TimeTravel and she later dies in Zero's arms via self-dissolution in the Sanzu River.]]

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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: There's a few: [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown the mountain god's death]], [[spoiler:[Zero [[spoiler:Zero dissolving in the waters of the Sanzu to save Kurohime from death, Ogre Mother Goddess Saiyuki's death via [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impalement]], Dan of the Bullet Blade Brigade's death via dismemberment and FlechetteStorm, and real!Zero being chopped apart by the Death Angel Squad like his mother. Himeko herself is impaled and dismembered by Yashahime, though this is reversed via TimeTravel and she later dies in Zero's arms via self-dissolution in the Sanzu River.]]



* TheDogBitesBack: Sword, to Darkray, though she hadn't meant to. [[spoiler:When he dismisses the deaths of the Death Angel Squad that ''he'' caused and mocks the very idea of love, Sword reflexively attacks him, losing herself to both emotional pain and grief.

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* TheDogBitesBack: Sword, to Darkray, though she hadn't meant to. [[spoiler:When he dismisses the deaths of the Death Angel Squad that ''he'' caused and mocks the very idea of love, Sword reflexively attacks him, losing herself to both emotional pain and grief.]]



** After being depowered [[spoiler:by the absorption of souls that died during her fight with the goddess Venus]], past!Kurohime, now in the form of a child, gets assistance from Sword and Ouka, who were formerly cursed into the forms of a wolf and past!Kurohime's clothing respectively. They continue this when they return to the present and must help defend the humans from [[spoiler:Dark Zero]] and Yashahime.

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** After being depowered [[spoiler:by the absorption of souls that died during her fight with the goddess Venus]], past!Kurohime, now in the form of a child, gets assistance from Sword and Ouka, who were formerly cursed into the forms of a wolf and past!Kurohime's clothing respectively. respectively, to finish Venus off. They continue this when they return to the present and must help Himeko and Asura defend the last humans from [[spoiler:Dark Zero]] and Yashahime.



* FanDisservice: The group of StrawMisogynist bar patrons whom Kurohime turned into woman. AttractiveBentGender they were not



** Queen Enma, the ruler of the prison dimension where Himeko was first banished [[spoiler:after being split from Shirohime and cursed into her childform.]] They're literally her source of power.

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** Queen Enma, the ruler of the prison dimension where Himeko was first banished [[spoiler:after being split from Shirohime and cursed into her childform.child form.]] They're literally her source of power.



* HalfIdenticalTwins: Rei and Zero. Rei is older, but his sad lifestyle stunted his growth.

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* HalfIdenticalTwins: Rei and Zero. Rei is older, but the trauma of his sad lifestyle stunted life has affected his growth.physical development significantly.



* HeroicBSOD: Hime [[spoiler:when Rei and Zero die.]] And again, when [[spoiler:faced with having to [[ShootTheDog take Asura into Senryuu.]]]]
* HeroicSacrifice: Being a series themed around love, this comes up often.

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* HeroicBSOD: Hime [[spoiler:when [[spoiler:Himeko has several when Rei and Zero die.]] And again, when [[spoiler:faced die. When faced with having to [[ShootTheDog take Asura into Senryuu.]]]]
Senryuu]], she freezes up completely and refuses to hit the shot, resulting in her painful death by dismemberment shortly afterward.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: Being a series themed around love, this comes up often.often, often out of the love the sacrifice holds for the recipient.



** [[spoiler:Once she's realized that her life has always had meaning and that she always had a friend in Himeko, Asura ensures that Himeko completes the Ultimate Sword by going back in time and letting herself get shot by the Yamato Senryuuhou.]]

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** [[spoiler:Once she's realized that her life has always had meaning and that she always had was the only one who saw herself as a friend in Himeko, mere replacement for Yamatohime, Asura ensures that Himeko completes the Ultimate Sword by going back in time and letting herself get shot by the Yamato Senryuuhou.]]



** The village elder, Himiko, is a somewhat crotchety old woman with a stiff upper lip. [[spoiler: That is, until Kurohime dies, whereupon she runs off to make up with Asura, her ''daughter.'' At that point, the world was more or less doomed, and though she sincerely loved Asura, the elder had spent all of her "life" treating Asura like a tool.]]
* HistoryRepeats: [[spoiler:With a side of GenderFlip, this is how Kurohime and Zero [[LoveAtFirstSight meet up in their next life]]--male!Kurohime rescues female!Zero from a bandit at gunpoint.]]

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** The village elder, Himiko, is a somewhat crotchety old woman with a stiff upper lip. [[spoiler: That is, until Kurohime Himeko dies, whereupon she runs off to make up with Asura, her ''daughter.'' At that point, the world was more or less doomed, and though she sincerely loved Asura, the elder had spent all of her "life" treating Asura like a tool.]]
* HistoryRepeats: [[spoiler:With a side of GenderFlip, this is how Kurohime and Zero [[LoveAtFirstSight meet up in their next life]]--male!Kurohime another life]] at the end of the manga--male!Kurohime rescues female!Zero from a bandit at gunpoint.]]



** [[spoiler:Her very absorption of the planet rendered Yashahime vulnerable to the most outrageous form of death--splitting the planet in ''half'']]

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** [[spoiler:Her very absorption of [[spoiler:Binding herself to the planet in order to devour it rendered Yashahime vulnerable to the most outrageous form of death--splitting a final death she couldn't possibly escape--Kurohime ''literally splitting the planet in ''half'']]apart'' with the Ultimate Sword.]]



* IHateYouVampireDad: [[spoiler: Asura resents being a HalfHumanHybrid, but more than that, she resents that humans, specifically her mother, will sacrifice her without a thought of her feelings. Her resentment over this bubbles over until she lashes out against friend and foe indiscriminately in her true form. Making up with her mother and realizing who her true friends are snaps her out of it.]]

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* IHateYouVampireDad: [[spoiler: Asura resents being a HalfHumanHybrid, but more than that, HalfHumanHybrid primarily because she resents that humans, specifically her mother, will was only born to be a sacrifice (at least from her without a thought of her feelings.perspective), and because humans are so callously selfish toward the spirits, weakening them. Her resentment over this bubbles over until she lashes out against friend and foe indiscriminately in her true form. Making up with her mother and realizing who that her true friends are never saw her as anyone but herself snaps her out of it.]]



** Rei's not much of a charmer either. [[spoiler:Being subordinate to the man that killed his mother and later turning into the host of a vengeful and hateful artificial Death god isn't helping.]] Still, despite kicking her in the shins, calling her a hag and ''almost shooting her in the face'', he grew on Himeko.

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** Rei's not much of a charmer either. [[spoiler:Being subordinate to the man that killed his mother and later turning into the host of a vengeful and hateful artificial Death god isn't helping.]] Still, despite kicking her in the shins, calling her a hag and ''almost shooting her in the face'', he grew on Himeko.Himeko, and vice versa.



* KilledOffForReal: Maya and the other riders of the Ghost Carriage, (the Death Angel Squad kills them when Kurohime revives them), [[spoiler: [[DarkIsEvil Darkray]] (killed by Kurohime, then soul-erased by Yashahime), and both Zero and Rei's mother and the real Zero (revived by Himeko to help Rei on two separate occasions, and also killed by the Death Angel Squad). In all cases, their souls were so thoroughly destroyed that there was no bringing them back again.]]

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* KilledOffForReal: Maya and the other riders of the Ghost Carriage, (the Death Angel Squad kills them when Kurohime revives them), [[spoiler: [[DarkIsEvil Darkray]] (killed by Kurohime, then soul-erased by Yashahime), and both Zero and Rei's mother and mother, followed the real Zero (revived by Himeko to help Rei on two separate occasions, and also killed by the Death Angel Squad). In all cases, their souls were so thoroughly destroyed that there was no bringing them back again.]]



** [[spoiler:Surprisingly, Igudo the Head God follows this line of thought. Her response to [[WarGod Tor's]] suggestion to avenge Yashahime's death is essentially stating that it'd be a waste of time when there are other planets to head to.]]

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** [[spoiler:Surprisingly, Igudo the Head God follows this line of thought. Her response to [[WarGod Tor's]] suggestion to avenge Yashahime's death is essentially stating that it'd be a waste of time when there are other planets to head to.seek out for sustenance.]]



* LightIsNotGood: The goddess of nature, Yashahime, has white (or at least light-colored) clothes, beautiful hair ornaments, and white Holy Wood. She is also [[InLoveWithYourCarnage deeply infatuated]] with the GrimReaper (in both incarnations), and is [[AxCrazy completely]] [[CuteAndPsycho NUTS]]. The all-white ensemble underscores just how very deadly she is, since white means death in Japan.
* LiteralSplitPersonality: [[spoiler:This is what happens to Kurohime when she challenges the gods ten years before the start of the series; her compassion and love is incarnated as the goddess Shirohime, while her rage and hatred are sent to a prison-dimension as Himeko.]]

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* LightIsNotGood: The goddess of nature, Yashahime, has white (or at least light-colored) clothes, beautiful hair ornaments, and white Holy Wood.a White God Tree. She is also [[InLoveWithYourCarnage deeply infatuated]] with the GrimReaper (in both incarnations), and is [[AxCrazy completely]] [[CuteAndPsycho NUTS]]. The all-white ensemble underscores just how very deadly she is, since white means death in Japan.
* LiteralSplitPersonality: [[spoiler:This is what happens to Kurohime when she challenges the gods ten years before the start of the series; her compassion and love is incarnated as the goddess Shirohime, while her rage and hatred are sent to a prison-dimension as Himeko.Himeko, a child-cursed form of Kurohime.]]



* LoveHurts: Zero and Himeko both suffer a lot for love, both physically and emotionally. [[spoiler:Zero's death almost completely breaks Himeko, and though they do eventually reunite, it takes several fights, a lot of soul-searching, and Himeko's death before they finally get back together in relative safety.]]

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* LoveHurts: Zero and Himeko both suffer a lot for love, both physically and emotionally. [[spoiler:Zero's death almost completely breaks Himeko, and though they do eventually reunite, it takes several fights, a lot of soul-searching, and Himeko's death before they finally get back together in relative safety.for good.]]



** After this, Ouka kicks off part of another one by [[spoiler:telling past!Kurohime about how Himeko is formed and falls in love with "Zero". Though amused by this notion, Kurohime chooses to belive in this salvation for her reincarnation, and seeks him out, saves him, and helps him justify his MeaningfulRename.]]
** [[spoiler:Rei only became the Zero that Himeko knows because he met her via TimeTravel, and she was the one to give him his scarf with one last time travel jaunt during the last battle, which is what leads him to believe that it's his link to the woman he loves.]]
* StepfordSmiler: [[spoiler: Zero has been one of these all along, since his true identity is Zero's embittered older brother Rei.]]

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** After this, Ouka kicks off part of another one by [[spoiler:telling past!Kurohime about how Himeko is formed and falls in love with "Zero". Though amused by this notion, Kurohime chooses to belive in this salvation for her reincarnation, and seeks him out, saves out to save him, ensuring that he in turn will idolize Kurohime and helps him justify his MeaningfulRename.accept Himeko as her once they meet.]]
** [[spoiler:Rei only became the Zero that Himeko knows because he they met her via TimeTravel, and she was the one to give him his scarf with one last time travel jaunt during the last battle, which is what leads him to believe that it's his link to the woman he loves.]]
* StepfordSmiler: [[spoiler: Zero has been one of these all along, since his true identity is Zero's embittered embittered, self-loathing older brother Rei.]]



* ThePowerOfLove: Due to the initial curse laid on Kurohime,love is quite literally central to the plot, as it is the only way Kurohime can temporarily/permanently break the curse. [[spoiler:It reaches new heights when the Sanzu River makes its first appearance, though, as Kurohime declares her love for Zero and unleashes a can of whoop-ass onto Dark Ray to protect him and continue her fight against the gods.]] Additionally, Himeko only agrees to assist Asura's cause on the condition that Yamatohime [[spoiler:resurrects Zero.]]

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* ThePowerOfLove: Due to the initial curse laid on Kurohime,love Kurohime, love is quite literally central to the plot, as it is the only way Kurohime can temporarily/permanently break the curse. [[spoiler:It reaches new heights when the Sanzu River makes its first appearance, though, as Kurohime declares her love for Zero and unleashes a can of whoop-ass onto Dark Ray to protect him and continue her fight against the gods.]] Additionally, Himeko only agrees to assist Asura's cause on the condition that Yamatohime [[spoiler:resurrects Zero.]]



* TimeTravel: The focus of the Past arc. [[spoiler: Himeko has gone back in time to discover why Zero is "full of darkness", and must make peace with the Kurohime Punishment Squad before she can return to her own time. To make matters even more complicated, Zero must not find out that she is Kurohime (since their first meeting wouldn't have occurred yet, or so it appears at first), [[RetGone or she will cease to exist]].]]
* TomatoSurprise: There are three major ones that come up in the series.

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* TimeTravel: The focus of the Past arc. [[spoiler: Himeko has gone back in time to discover why Zero is "full of darkness", and must make peace with the Kurohime Punishment Squad before she can return to her own time. To make matters even more complicated, Zero must not find out that she is Kurohime (since their first meeting wouldn't have occurred yet, or so it appears at first), Kurohime, [[RetGone or she will cease to exist]].exist]]. As it turns out, though, she was already destined to go back into the past, as the only reason Kurohime saved Rei was because she learned of Himeko and Zero's history from Ouka, who also traveled back in time.]]
* TomatoSurprise: There are three A few major ones that come up in the series.series.
** [[spoiler:Shirohime and Kurohime are the LiteralSplitPersonality of the original Kurohime--Shirohime is all the compassion and love for humans, while Kurohime is the rage and hatred against the gods.]]



** Better yet, the cloaked man (Kandata) that saved "Zero" and Kurohime from the River Styx and followed them back to the past? [[spoiler: He's Doc, Rei and Zero's JerkAss foster father.]]

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** Better yet, Kandata, the cloaked man (Kandata) ferryman of the Sanzu River that saved "Zero" Zero and Kurohime from the River Styx and followed them back to the past? [[spoiler: He's Doc, Rei and the real Zero's JerkAss foster father.]]



* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: [[spoiler:Kurohime will do anything to achieve peace. If that means she kills entire castles of people and absorbs their souls to fight the gods on even footing, or betrays everyone that ever believed in her so that she can get to the gods and face them one-on-one? She'll do it without a moment's hesitation.]]

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* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: [[spoiler:Kurohime will do anything to achieve peace. If that means she kills entire castles scores of people and absorbs their souls to fight the gods on even footing, or betrays everyone that ever believed in her so that she can get to the gods and face them one-on-one? She'll do it without a moment's hesitation.]]



* WishfulProjection: Zero's image of Kurohime isn't a particularly good match for reality; he remembers her as being kind and gentle to him, but as Himeko and Kurohime both, she treats him very badly. [[spoiler:However, considering that as Rei, he was doted on by a much kinder and mature Himeko as well as a past!Kurohime that knew about his role in her future as Himeko, it makes sense that he thinks about her this way.]]

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* WishfulProjection: Zero's image of Kurohime isn't a particularly good match for reality; he remembers her as being kind and gentle to him, but as Himeko and Kurohime both, she treats him very badly. [[spoiler:However, considering that as Rei, he was doted on by a much kinder and mature Himeko (essentially a reincarnation of Kurohime), as well as a past!Kurohime that knew about his role in her future as Himeko, it makes sense that he thinks about her this way.]]



** Chapter 59 kicks off one for the Past arc; [[spoiler:Zero is gravely wounded, partially thanks to Doc, and Rei snaps, becoming a Death God not long afterward. Himeko dies briefly, but Kandata's interference gives her one more shot at rectifying the situation--which unfortunately ends with Zero dying to ensure Rei revives.]]

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** Chapter 59 kicks off one for the Past arc; [[spoiler:Zero is gravely wounded, partially thanks to Doc, and Rei snaps, becoming a Death God again not long afterward. Himeko dies briefly, but Kandata's interference gives her one more shot at rectifying the situation--which unfortunately ends with Zero dying to ensure Rei revives.]]

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** [[spoiler:Surprisingly, Igudo the Head God follows this line of thought. [[spoiler:Wer response to [[WarGod Tor's]] suggestion to avenge Yashahime's death is essentially stating that it'd be a waste of time when there are other planets to head to.]]

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** [[spoiler:Surprisingly, Igudo the Head God follows this line of thought. [[spoiler:Wer Her response to [[WarGod Tor's]] suggestion to avenge Yashahime's death is essentially stating that it'd be a waste of time when there are other planets to head to.]]



* LaserGuidedKarma: All of the gods do something that COMPLETELY justifies Kurohime killing them in one way or another. [[spoiler:Considering that the Greater Gods are literal planet eaters and were planning on doing the same to the planet, they generally deserve it.

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* LaserGuidedKarma: All of the gods do something that COMPLETELY justifies Kurohime killing them in one way or another. [[spoiler:Considering that the Greater Gods are literal planet eaters and were planning on doing the same to the planet, they generally deserve it.]]



** Himeko herself. Learning to love again not only makes her nicer to Zero, but to other people too, [[spoiler:even after he dies the first time]]
** Yuki-onna recognizes Yuki-otoko's love and through it finally confronts her own cruelty to humans and renounces it.
* LoveHurts: Zero and Himeko both suffer a lot for love, both physically and emotionally. [[spoiler:Zero's death almost completely breaks Himeko, and though they do eventually reunite, it takes several fights, a lot of soul-searching, and Himeko's death before they finally get back together in relatively safety.]]

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** Himeko herself. Learning to love again not only makes her nicer to Zero, but to other people too, [[spoiler:even after he dies the first time]]
time.]]
** Yuki-onna recognizes Yuki-otoko's love love, and through it it, finally confronts her own cruelty to humans and renounces it.
* LoveHurts: Zero and Himeko both suffer a lot for love, both physically and emotionally. [[spoiler:Zero's death almost completely breaks Himeko, and though they do eventually reunite, it takes several fights, a lot of soul-searching, and Himeko's death before they finally get back together in relatively relative safety.]]



* MindScrew: Most of chapter 67. [[spoiler: [[{{God}} Igudo]] eats the ''SUN'' for starters...]]



* MsFanservice: Most of the women in the setting, especially Kurohime. They're often very shapely with well-defined bodies

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* MsFanservice: Most of the women in the setting, especially Kurohime. They're often very shapely with well-defined bodiesbodies.



* MyMasterRightOrWrong: This is what the members of the Wolf Brigade feel about Doc, but especially Raida. [[spoiler:After the events of the Lion Castle, this is not the case, and most of them leave him behind; once Rei and Raida split up after Real Zero's death, Raida also abandons Doc, but not before killing him.]]
* NietzscheWannabe: [[spoiler:Dark Zero, whose frustration over the cruelty of humans and their unconscious rule ins securing the gods' control over the world leads him to decide to destroy ''everything.'']]

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* MyMasterRightOrWrong: This is what how most the members of the Wolf Brigade feel about Doc, but especially Raida. [[spoiler:After the events of the Lion Castle, this is not the case, and most of them they all leave him behind; save Raida, Rei, and Zero; once Zero is dead and Rei and Raida split up after Real Zero's death, is gone, Raida also abandons Doc, but not before killing him.]]
* NietzscheWannabe: [[spoiler:Dark Zero, whose frustration over the cruelty of humans and their unconscious rule ins role in securing the gods' control over the world leads him to decide to destroy ''everything.'']]



* OneWingedAngel: Yashahime's final form [[spoiler:is the planet itself,
** [[spoiler: Rei,]] when he finally awakens the [[spoiler: Shinigami in his body.]]
** [[spoiler:Asura,]] as [[spoiler: the weight of her destiny]] and her own resentment begin to grow.

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* OneWingedAngel: Yashahime's final form [[spoiler:is the planet itself,
** [[spoiler: Rei,]] when he finally awakens the [[spoiler: Shinigami in his body.
itself.]]
** [[spoiler:Asura,]] as [[spoiler: Rei, when he finally awakens the Shinigami in his body out of rage and heartache over what he thinks is Zero's betrayal.]]
** [[spoiler:Asura, as
the weight of her destiny]] destiny and her own resentment toward it and humans begin to grow.grow, eventually locks herself into a very burning version of her true form, indiscriminately attacking anyone that comes near her.]]



* PleaseDontLeaveMe: [[spoiler:Rei to Himeko when they meet one last time in the past, coupled with the fact that both know she can't stop herself from leaving. Naturally, he calls Himeko out on this when he gets a chance. [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice Very violently.]]]

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* PleaseDontLeaveMe: [[spoiler:Rei to Himeko when they meet one last time in the past, coupled with the fact that both know she can't stop herself from leaving. Naturally, he calls Himeko out on this when he gets a chance. [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice Very violently.]]]]]]]



* TimeStandsStill: [[Seiryuu, the Spirit King of Air, can control the air to simulate this effect. It's also the source of his time travel powers as the Sea Dragon]]

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* TimeStandsStill: [[Seiryuu, [[spoiler:Seiryuu, the Spirit King of Air, can control the air to simulate this effect. It's also the source of his time travel powers as the Sea Dragon]]Dragon.]]



* WishfulProjection: Zero's image of Kurohime isn't a particularly good match for reality; he remembers her as being kind and gentle to him, but as Himeko and Kurohime both, she treats him very badly. [[spoiler:However, considering that as Rei, he was doted on by a much kinder and mature Himeko as well as a past!Kurohime that knew about his role in her futre as Himeko, it makes sense that he thinks about her this way.]]

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* WishfulProjection: Zero's image of Kurohime isn't a particularly good match for reality; he remembers her as being kind and gentle to him, but as Himeko and Kurohime both, she treats him very badly. [[spoiler:However, considering that as Rei, he was doted on by a much kinder and mature Himeko as well as a past!Kurohime that knew about his role in her futre future as Himeko, it makes sense that he thinks about her this way.]]



** Chapter 71 more or less begins with [[spoiler:[[CruelAndUnusualDeath Kurohime's death and the near end of everything, only reversed when Asura uses the next chapter to step back in time and get absorbed into the Yamato Senryuutou.]]]]
** Chapter 73: [[spoiler: Dark Zero shows up again for a final showdown with Hmeko.]]

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** Chapter 71 more or less begins with [[spoiler:[[CruelAndUnusualDeath Kurohime's Himeko's death and the near end of everything, only reversed when Asura uses the next chapter to step back in time and get absorbed into the Yamato Senryuutou.]]]]
** Chapter 73: [[spoiler: Dark Zero shows up again for a final showdown with Hmeko.Himeko.]]



* WorldHalfFull: [[spoiler:By the manga's end, the world is literally destroyed and Asura's been sealed into the Ultimate Sword. However, some remnant of humanity ultimately survives and populates a new planet free of the gods, while Ouka gets her father back and Doc is revived as a much better person than he was when he died.]]

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* WorldHalfFull: [[spoiler:By the manga's end, the world is literally destroyed and Asura's been sealed into the Ultimate Sword. However, some remnant of humanity ultimately survives survives, the Kurohime Punishment Squad disbands, the souls trapped in Kurohime's Black God Tree are revived to live normal lives, and populates humans find a new planet free of the gods, while Ouka gets her father back and Doc is revived as a much better person than he was when he died.gods.]]
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* AvengingTheVillain: Sword's primary motivation boils down to this: [[spoiler:she already disliked Kurohime due to her resemblance to Shirohime and Kurohime's constant flouting of divine law, but once the Death Angel Squad wound up dying as a direct result of the fight that Kurohime picked with Darkray, things became [[ItsPersonal ''very'' personal.]]

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* AvengingTheVillain: Sword's primary motivation boils down to this: [[spoiler:she already disliked Kurohime due to her resemblance to Shirohime and Kurohime's constant flouting of divine law, but once the Death Angel Squad wound up dying as a direct result of the fight that Kurohime picked with Darkray, things became [[ItsPersonal ''very'' ''[[ItsPersonal very personal.]]]]'']]
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* [[spoiler:BackFromTheDead: Himeko has done this three times; first, Kandata convinced the Sea Dragon to rewind time for her in the Past Arc when she was too shocked to fight against Rei when he became a Death God. Then, she was revived as a side effect of the TimeTravel scheme that Asura pulled to make the Ultimate Sword. Finally, she appears as a crude facsimile that looks like the Black God Tree; this is less than ten pages after committing suicide in Zero's arms by letting herself boil away in the Sanzu River.]]

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* [[spoiler:BackFromTheDead: Himeko BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:Himeko has done this three times; first, Kandata convinced the Sea Dragon to rewind time for her in the Past Arc when she was too shocked to fight against Rei when he became a Death God. Then, she was revived as a side effect of the TimeTravel scheme that Asura pulled to make the Ultimate Sword. Finally, she appears as a crude facsimile that looks like the Black God Tree; this is less than ten pages after committing suicide in Zero's arms by letting herself boil away in the Sanzu River.]]

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* ActionDad: In "Aohime," Dan, a member of the Bullet Blade Brigade turned father. He took on his former comrades after they came after him and his "daughter."[[spoiler: [[OneManArmy Cuts through waves of Mooks]] with only two swords and after they manage to [[HandicappedBadass cut off his arm,]] he takes out a few more by stealing a tank. He only died because of [[DidntSeeThatComing an opponent he knew nothing about.]]]]
* [[spoiler:AfterTheEnd]]
* [[spoiler: AllYourPowersCombined: While Kurohime does have her own abilities, her near godlike power level comes from the Black God Tree. Which in turn gets its power from all of the dead souls she's absorbed, who really and truly HATE her.]]
* AlwaysChaoticEvil: The Great Gods are pretty much this.
* AmazonBrigade: Who else, but the Death Angels?
* [[spoiler:{{Anticlimax}}[=/=]GainaxEnding: Depending on how much you think Kurohime's final resurrection was AssPull and whether or not you wanted to see her fight the other High Gods.]]
* [[spoiler:ApocalypseWow:]] Chapter 67. '''[[MindScrew DAMN.]]'''
** Chapter 80. '''[[CrazyAwesome WOW.]]'''
* ArtEvolution

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* ActionDad: In "Aohime," Dan, a member of the Bullet Blade Brigade turned father. He took on his former comrades after they came after him and his "daughter."[[spoiler: "daughter", [[spoiler: [[OneManArmy Cuts cutting through waves of Mooks]] with only two swords and after they manage to [[HandicappedBadass cut off his arm,]] arm, he takes out a few more by stealing a tank. He only died because of [[DidntSeeThatComing an opponent he knew nothing about.]]]]
* [[spoiler:AfterTheEnd]]
* [[spoiler: AllYourPowersCombined: While Kurohime does have her own abilities, her near godlike power level comes from the Black God Tree. Which in turn gets its power from all of the dead souls she's absorbed, who really and truly HATE her.
]]
* AlwaysChaoticEvil: The Great Gods are pretty much this.
* AmazonBrigade: Who else, but
AllYourPowersCombined: [[spoiler:While Kurohime does have her own abilities, the Death Angels?
* [[spoiler:{{Anticlimax}}[=/=]GainaxEnding: Depending on how much you think Kurohime's final resurrection was AssPull
Black God Tree that provides her with some of her highest raw offense and whether or not you wanted to see her fight defense is powered by all of the other High Gods.dead souls she's absorbed, who really and truly HATE her.]] This is also the basis of the power of the Ultimate Sword; it is crafted by [[spoiler:permanently absorbing the souls of the four Spirit Kings.]]
* [[spoiler:ApocalypseWow:]] Chapter 67. '''[[MindScrew DAMN.]]'''
** Chapter 80. '''[[CrazyAwesome WOW.]]'''
AlwaysChaoticEvil: The Great Gods fit this to a tee: they generally don't give a damn about what happens to humans, save that enough of them need to survive [[spoiler:to pollute the earth and enable them to draw power away from the Spirit Kings.]]
* ArtEvolutionAmazonBrigade: The Death Angel Squad fits this to a tee, as all their members are women.
* ApocalypseHow: [[spoiler:All the time Himeko spends exploring Zero's past history leaves Yashahime and Dark Zero enough time to nearly engulf the entire world in the Sanzu River's waters, leaving only one part of Yamato near Mount Fuji untouched.]]



* TheAtoner: Himeko, sort of, in regards to Sword and Ouka.
** [[spoiler: "Zero" AKA Rei.]]
** [[spoiler: Kandata AKA Doc.]]
** The village elder [[spoiler:AKA Asura's ''mother.'']]
* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: A good number of the gods Kurohime runs into. Not that it stops her from cutting 'em down.
* AvengingTheVillain: Sword lost many friends in her quest for vengeance against Kurohime while a few were merely in Kurohime’s way quite a bit such as Barahime fall into this category.
* AxCrazy: [[CuteAndPsycho Yashahime.]] Good lord, what is '''WRONG''' with that woman?!?
** Even worse since [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt these days,]] she's not even bothering with the [[AffablyEvil facade.]]
* [[spoiler:BackFromTheDead: Himeko has done this twice; first, she was revived as a side effect of the TimeTravel scheme that Asura pulled to make the Ultimate Sword. In chapter 79, she appears as a crude facsimile that looks like the Black God Tree; this is less than ten pages after committing suicide in Zero's arms.]]
* BadassNormal: Zero, who can fire ''four'' guns with ImprobableAimingSkills, Kazuma, who can cut pretty much anything with his [[KatanasAreJustBetter katana]], and Rider, who wields a gun-hammer and was the single most effective fighter in the Wolf Brigade.

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* TheAtoner: Himeko, sort of, in regards to Sword. Though she is unable to remember what specifically she did to Sword [[spoiler:due to the trauma of Zero's death]], she acknowledges that she's done her some grave injustices and Ouka.
that her grudge is completely justified.
** [[spoiler: Rei, the "Zero" AKA Rei.that the readers have known for the majority of the manga, is desperately trying to live up to the person he believed the real Zero would've become.]]
** [[spoiler: Kandata AKA Doc.Kandata, the ferryman for the Sanzu River. Formerly Doc, Rei and Zero's abusive foster father and the man that murdered their mother, he was spared by Rei but killed by Raida; he then became the ferryman of the Sanzu River to try and discover why Rei spared his life, and in the process, earned redemption by helping Zero get Kurohime out of the Sanzu River and guiding Himeko into the past to learn more about Zero.]]
** The village elder [[spoiler:AKA Asura's ''mother.'']]
* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: A good number of the gods Kurohime runs into. Not into are gigantic in their true forms, not that it stops her from cutting 'em down.
* AvengingTheVillain: Sword lost many friends in her quest for vengeance against Sword's primary motivation boils down to this: [[spoiler:she already disliked Kurohime while a few were merely in Kurohime’s way quite a bit such due to her resemblance to Shirohime and Kurohime's constant flouting of divine law, but once the Death Angel Squad wound up dying as Barahime fall into this category.
* AxCrazy: [[CuteAndPsycho Yashahime.]] Good lord, what is '''WRONG'''
a direct result of the fight that Kurohime picked with that woman?!?
** Even worse since [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt these days,]] she's not even bothering with the [[AffablyEvil facade.
Darkray, things became [[ItsPersonal ''very'' personal.]]
* AxCrazy: Yashahime, through and through. She actively stabs herself to calm down when she gets too excited about killing Himeko, and the longer the manga goes, the more she lets her AffablyEvil facade slip, especially as the manga hits its final arc.
* [[spoiler:BackFromTheDead: Himeko has done this twice; three times; first, Kandata convinced the Sea Dragon to rewind time for her in the Past Arc when she was too shocked to fight against Rei when he became a Death God. Then, she was revived as a side effect of the TimeTravel scheme that Asura pulled to make the Ultimate Sword. In chapter 79, Finally, she appears as a crude facsimile that looks like the Black God Tree; this is less than ten pages after committing suicide in Zero's arms.arms by letting herself boil away in the Sanzu River.]]
* BadassNormal: Zero, who can fire ''four'' guns with ImprobableAimingSkills, Kazuma, who can cut pretty much anything with his [[KatanasAreJustBetter katana]], katana at the same wild speed that Zero shoots at, and Rider, who wields a gun-hammer and was the single most effective fighter in the Wolf Brigade.



* BecauseDestinySaysSo: [[spoiler: the deaths of Ouka's father and the entirety of Rei and Zero's backstory, including Zero's death and Rei's decade of solitude, are predetermined events. Also Asura was gifted with her powers to become part of the Yamato Senryuutou in place of Yamatohime.]]
** ScrewDestiny: In a way. While the past may be inevitable, you can make small changes about how or why it happens. Not to mention the future is a bit more open-ended. [[spoiler: For instance, Himeko is able to avoid sacrificing Asura to the Yamato Senryuutou, but dies in the process. Ouka, on the other hand, was much less fortunate, as she only changed ''why'' her father died, not the ''fact'' that he died.]]

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* BecauseDestinySaysSo: [[spoiler: the The deaths of Ouka's father and the entirety of Rei and Zero's backstory, including Zero's death and Rei's decade of solitude, are predetermined events. Also When Ouka tries to save her father, her witch-beast winds up killing him instead of Kurohime, and Himeko's attempt to save both Rei and Zero fails miserably, ''forcing'' her to save Rei by sacrificing Zero. Asura was also gifted with her powers to become part of the Yamato Senryuutou in place of Yamatohime.]]
** ScrewDestiny: In a way. While the past may be inevitable, you can make small changes about how or why it happens. Not to mention the future is a bit more open-ended. [[spoiler: For instance,
Yamatohime, and though Himeko is able to avoid sacrificing initially defies fate for a while, Asura ultimately ''has to the Yamato Senryuutou, but dies in the process. Ouka, on the other hand, was much less fortunate, as she only changed ''why'' her father died, not the ''fact'' that he died.sacrifice herself'' or everything is lost.]]



* BigBad: Yashahime.
* BigDamnHeroes: Himeko is quite fond of these; amongst her many exploits are [[spoiler: saving Sara from Asura in Chapter 68, almost killing Yashahime in Chapter 73, and sort of coming back from the dead in Chapter 79 to save her friends from being killed by Yashahime.]]
** [[spoiler:Asura]] at the end of Chapter 71.
** [[spoiler:[[LifeEnergy Yamato]][[OurSoulsAreDifferent hime]] herself]] in 80.

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* BigBad: Yashahime.
BigBadDuumvirate: Yashahime [[spoiler:and Dark Zero]] split the BigBad role for the final arc of the manga, though at the last minute Yashahime takes precedence
* BigDamnHeroes: Himeko is quite fond of these; amongst her many exploits are [[spoiler: saving these maneuvers. Some notable examples: [[spoiler:saving Sara from Asura in Chapter 68, almost killing Yashahime in Chapter 73, 72 with one slash from the Ultimate Sword, and sort of coming back from the dead in Chapter 79 to save her friends from being killed by Yashahime.]]
** [[spoiler:Asura]] [[spoiler:Asura at the end of Chapter 71.
chapter 71, allowing the humans to escape to Mount Fuji, followed by her time travel to let Himeko obtain the Ultimate Sword.]]
** [[spoiler:[[LifeEnergy Yamato]][[OurSoulsAreDifferent hime]] herself]] [[spoiler: Yamatohime saves everyone from the brink of destruction in 80.the last chapter of the manga by giving her life to revive Himeko--who comes back as Kurohime and a Black God Tree purified into the divine ''White God Tree''.]]



* {{Bishounen}}: Future!Zero, Darkray, Saika, Dark Zero.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: In the end Yashahime grows so powerful that she literally becomes the planet. The only way to stop her is for Kurohime to cut the planet in half with power given to her by Yamatohime which ''finally'' kills Yashahime. The surviving characters are whisked away on an ark made of whale bones with Kurohime managing to resurrect a few of the characters that were killed. Sword ultimately buries her vendetta with Kurohime, Kurohime is reunited with her Zero and the ark goes on to find another planet to inhabit with hopefully no interference from the gods this time (the one remaining decide it's not worth fighting Kurohime anymore and seek sustenance elsewhere). A million years later supposedly on the planet known as Earth, a gender flipped version of Kurohime and Zero meet each other as they once did before.]]
* BrokenBird: Kurohime, Asura, Sword, Ouka and O-yuki. Yashahime seems to ''think'' she's this.
* CassandraTruth: No one would believe Doc when said that Onimaru was passed out beside him for the entire battle against Materen. Mostly because he’s such a huge {{ Jerkass }} but also because Onimaru has a reputation of always fighting with his men. In the end even Doc started to believe the hype though he couldn’t figure out how Onimaru did it
* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler:[[RedStringOfFate Zero's scarf.]]]]
* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler: Saika, Kandata, Ouka, [[PunnyName Marco Bolo,]] [[MyHeroZero Zero, Rei]], Raida...there's quite a lot of these people running around.]]
* CheerfulChild: Sara.
* ClingyJealousGirl: Sword and Yashahime, to Darkray. Again, Yashahime stands out here; it was shown that she was extremely hateful of Sword and the rest of Darkray's LivingWeapon AmazonBrigade. The only reason she never killed any of them is they never acted out in front of her. She feels the same hatred towards Himeko because Dark Zero, her current crush/obsession, [[spoiler: still cares about Himeko.]]
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: There's a few: [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown the mountain god's death]], [[{{Determinator}} Zero]] [[AcidPool dissolving in a river of acid blood]], [[CuteMonsterGirl Saiyuki's]] death via [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impalement]], Dan [[RasputinianDeath who dies from a combination of dismemberment]] and FlechetteStorm, [[spoiler: [[KilledOffForReal real!Zero]] has [[DeathOfAThousandCuts his soul chopped into pieces by the DeathAngels]], Hime is impaled and dismembered by Yashahime ([[RetGone but that fight didn't count]]) and later [[DiedInYourArmsTonight she dissolves in that same river of blood that claimed Zero's life the first time]].]]

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* {{Bishounen}}: Future!Zero, Zero, Saika, Darkray, Saika, [[spoiler:and Dark Zero.
Zero]] all fit this category, being handsome, young-looking men.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: In the end Though Yashahime grows so powerful that she literally becomes the planet. The only way to stop her is for Kurohime to cut the planet in half with power given to her by Yamatohime which ''finally'' kills Yashahime. The surviving characters are whisked away on an ark made of whale bones with Kurohime managing to resurrect a few of the characters that were killed. Sword ultimately buries her vendetta with Kurohime, defeated, "Zero"/Rei is freed from the Death God's powers, and Kurohime is reunited restored to her normal form, this comes at the cost of the planet, which has to be wiped out completely when Yashahime merges with it. Yamatohime had to give up the last dregs of her Zero life to revive Himeko as Kurohime, and though Asura and the ark goes on other Spirit Kings are alive within the Ultimate Blade, they're still unable to physically manifest anymore. The souls absorbed by Kurohime's Black God Tree are reborn through her White God Tree provided from Yamatohime's power, but the real Zero, and Rei's mother, cannot be revived. All the surviving humans find another planet world to inhabit with hopefully no interference from settle on, undisturbed by the gods this time (the one remaining decide it's not worth fighting Kurohime anymore and who choose to seek sustenance elsewhere). A million other planets for sustenance, and many millions of years later supposedly on the planet known as Earth, a gender flipped version later, gender-flipped versions of Kurohime and Zero meet each other as they once did before.again to potentially begin a ReincarnationRomance.]]
* BrokenBird: Kurohime, Asura, Sword, Ouka and O-yuki. Yashahime seems to ''think'' she's this.
* CassandraTruth: No one would believe Doc when said
A good few members of the female cast fit this trope this in some form or another.
** Kurohime: [[spoiler:a war orphan
that Onimaru was passed out beside him for the entire battle hardened her heart against Materen. Mostly because he’s such a huge {{ Jerkass }} but also because Onimaru has a reputation others to gain the power to kill gods, unite humanity, and commit full deicide, accepting the curses and spite of always fighting all she killed and betrayed on the way, only to fail at her ultimate goal and be reincarneated as literally half of herself with his men. In the end even Doc started no memories and an inability to believe the hype though he couldn’t figure out how Onimaru did it
* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler:[[RedStringOfFate Zero's scarf.]]]]
* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler: Saika, Kandata, Ouka, [[PunnyName Marco Bolo,]] [[MyHeroZero Zero, Rei]], Raida...there's quite a lot of these people running around.
love.]]
* Asura: a distant, dismissive fire spirit [[spoiler:born as a HalfHumanHybrid replacement sacrifice to the Ultimate Sword in Yamatohime's place, raised in an iron cage by a distant mother that only admitted how much she loved asura when the world was literally about to end.]]
* Sword: A loyal Death Angel for the God of Death, Darkray, [[spoiler:who was nearly killed at his hands, lost her closest friends because he didn't give a damn about them or her, and had to endure his mocking when she admitted her love for him. Vengeance becomes the only reason she has to live.]]
* Ouka: a young princess [[spoiler:whose father was killed by Kurohime during the wars 10 years before the start of the series. She attempts to kill Kurohime for revenge, but fails, and spends the next decade training to become strong enough to get her revenge. When she winds up in the past and gets a chance to avenge her father, she is unable to change fate and winds up being responsible for killing him instead.]]
* The goddess Yukionna: [[spoiler:freezes every man she meets, save for Yukiotoko, and is so desperate for love that she uses his feelings for her to manipulate him into bringing her handsome men to freeze, unable to fill the loneliness in her heart.]]
* CassandraTruth: No one would believe Doc when said that Onimaru was passed out beside him for the entire battle against the Mate Clan and the Lion Castle, mostly because he’s such a huge {{ Jerkass }} but also because Onimaru has a reputation of always fighting with his men. In the end even Doc started to believe the hype though he couldn’t figure out how Onimaru did it.
* ChekhovsGun: There are several things mentioned idly early in the series that become vitally important later on.
** [[spoiler: Zero's scarf, initially owned by Marco Bolo. Himeko intially wears it as a TragicKeepsake, and treats it as a precious memento and link to him until he takes it back as Dark Zero. It later turns out that Zero feels the same way about it, as it was given to him by the person he loved the most in the world--none other than Himeko, who got one more chance to travel back to the past and give it to him.]]
** Yamatohime's power is mentioned to be strong enough to revive the dead, [[spoiler:which is Himeko's initial motivation for agreeing to form the Ultimate Blade and break Yamatohime out of Mt. Fuji. Later on, Yamatohime uses this revival power on ''Himeko'' instead, reviving her into Kurohime for good and enabling her to put and end to Yashahime forever.]]
* ChekhovsGunman: Several.
** Kandata, the ferryman of the Sanzu River. He seems mysterious, but helps out Himeko and Zero a few times over the course of the story. [[spoiler:He's Rei and Zero's foster father Doc, attempting to understand why Rei spared his life 10 years ago despite how terrible a person he was.]]
** [[spoiler:Ouka appears in the climax of the first arc as a young girl that tries to kill past!Kurohime; Ouka is then properly introduced in the second arc as a member of the Kurohime Punishment Squad, and exactly ''why'' she hates Kurohime so much is quickly revealed.]]
** [[PunnyName Marco Bolo,]] an explorer that was locked up with Himeko [[spoiler:in the prison where the gods threw her after splitting her in half and deifying her good half as Shirohime, reappears in the final arc with Zero's trademark one-of-its-kind scarf--it winds up being the final link to prove to Zero that Himeko, Himekojo, and Kurohime are all the same person.]]
** Rei, [[spoiler:Zero's older brother, turns out to actualy be the "Zero" that Himeko fell in love with, not the Zero that she first meets during the Past arc.]]
* CheerfulChild: Sara.
Sara, the little girl Asura befriends in the city of Oedo.
* ClingyJealousGirl: Sword and Yashahime, to Darkray. Again, Sword simply disliked the way Darkray would focus on Shirohime, but Yashahime stands out here; it was shown so psychotically focused on Darkray that she was extremely hateful of would've taken any excuse to kill Sword and the rest of Darkray's LivingWeapon AmazonBrigade. The only reason AmazonBrigade if she never killed any of them is they never acted out in front of her. She had the chance, and feels the same even more hatred towards Himeko because Dark Zero, her current crush/obsession, [[spoiler: still cares about Himeko.]]
she killed Darkray.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: There's a few: [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown the mountain god's death]], [[{{Determinator}} Zero]] [[AcidPool [[spoiler:[Zero dissolving in a river the waters of acid blood]], [[CuteMonsterGirl Saiyuki's]] the Sanzu to save Kurohime from death, Ogre Mother Goddess Saiyuki's death via [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impalement]], Dan [[RasputinianDeath who dies from a combination of dismemberment]] the Bullet Blade Brigade's death via dismemberment and FlechetteStorm, [[spoiler: [[KilledOffForReal real!Zero]] has [[DeathOfAThousandCuts his soul and real!Zero being chopped into pieces apart by the DeathAngels]], Hime Death Angel Squad like his mother. Himeko herself is impaled and dismembered by Yashahime ([[RetGone but that fight didn't count]]) Yashahime, though this is reversed via TimeTravel and she later [[DiedInYourArmsTonight she dissolves dies in that same river of blood that claimed Zero's life arms via self-dissolution in the first time]].Sanzu River.]]



* DarkIsNotEvil: [[spoiler: The original Kurohime was basically formulating a [[ZeroApprovalGambit Lelouch plot]] to unite humanity.]]
* DefrostingIceQueen: Asura fits into this. At first her only real goal is to free her master Yamatohime, and the other spirits, from the servitude of the gods. Over time she becomes much warmer towards people, starting with Zero, as opposed to her initial disregard of him and other humans. {{Yukionna}} is [[IncrediblyLamePun a more literal example.]]
* {{Determinator}}: Zero, of course. In the past, Rei fulfills this role in a dark way.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Often. More or less the point of the series.
* [[spoiler:DiedInYourArmsTonight: After combining with Sword one more time and beating Dark Zero, Himeko hugs him, and drags them both into the waters of Hell. After telling him that she's happy simply dying in his arms, she dissolves into a skeleton; Zero, being immune, is left to grasp at her bones.]]
** A {{callback}} to chapter 14 when [[spoiler:Kurohime said [[{{Foreshadowing}} "I don't mind being killed if it's by you, Zero.]]"]]
* DirtyCoward: The prisoner who betrayed Yuka immediately pleaded for her to save him when he was rewarded as a trader deserves
* DishingOutDirt: Yashahime, Byakko, Spirit King of Earth.
* TheDogBitesBack: Sword, to Darkray, though she hadn't meant to.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: When Kurohime is [[spoiler: absorbing the dead to power up the Black God Tree]], doesn't that scene look a bit like a, well, [[spoiler: gang rape?]]
* [[spoiler:DragonWithAnAgenda: Dark Zero. Aside from destroying humanity and finding out who's on the other end of his RedStringOfFate, he has absolutely no interest in the world.]]

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* DarkIsNotEvil: [[spoiler: The original Kurohime was basically formulating a [[ZeroApprovalGambit Lelouch plot]] ZeroApprovalGambit to unite humanity.draw humanity's ire toward her, similar to [[CodeGeass Lelouch.]] Her intention was to both distract people from aiming for godhood and to accumulate the power to kill the gods herself.]]
* DefrostingIceQueen: Asura fits into this. At first her only real goal is to free her master Yamatohime, and the other spirits, from the servitude of the gods. Over time she becomes much warmer towards people, starting with Zero, as opposed to her initial disregard of him and other humans. {{Yukionna}} Yukionna is [[IncrediblyLamePun a more literal example.example]], as she becomes much more open and kind after nearly melting.
* {{Determinator}}: Zero will ''never'' give up if it means innocents or Himeko will come to harm, to the point that [[spoiler:he dies pushing her out of an acidic river on sheer willpower.]]
** In the Past arc, Rei fulfills this role in a dark way; [[spoiler:he is determined to make sure Doc pays for killing his mother.
]]
* {{Determinator}}: Zero, of course. In the past, Rei fulfills this role in a dark way.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Often. More or less the point of the series.
Happens often, mostly whenever Kurohime takes on a god, corners them, and smashes them apart.
* [[spoiler:DiedInYourArmsTonight: After DiedInYourArmsTonight: [[spoiler:After combining with Sword one more time and beating Dark Zero, Himeko hugs him, and drags them both into the waters of Hell. After telling him that she's happy simply dying in his arms, she dissolves into a skeleton; Zero, being immune, is left to grasp at her bones.]]
** A {{callback}}
bones, calling back to chapter 14 when [[spoiler:Kurohime Kurohime said [[{{Foreshadowing}} "I don't mind being killed if it's by you, Zero.]]"]]
"]]]]
* DirtyCoward: The prisoner who betrayed Yuka Yuuka in prison during the Past Arc immediately pleaded for her to save him when he was rewarded as a trader deserves
deserves.
** Doc is an scheming opportunist who will grovel at the feet of anyone that he thinks will either benefit him or kill him.
* DishingOutDirt: Yashahime, Both Yashahime and Byakko, Spirit King of Earth.
Earth, share this domain.
* TheDogBitesBack: Sword, to Darkray, though she hadn't meant to.
to. [[spoiler:When he dismisses the deaths of the Death Angel Squad that ''he'' caused and mocks the very idea of love, Sword reflexively attacks him, losing herself to both emotional pain and grief.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: When Kurohime is [[spoiler: absorbing the dead to power up the Black God Tree]], doesn't that the scene look bears a bit like a, well, [[spoiler: gang rape?]]
very graphic and uncomfortable reference to something else.
* [[spoiler:DragonWithAnAgenda: Dark DragonWithAnAgenda:[[spoiler:Dark Zero. Aside from destroying humanity and finding out who's the woman on the other end of his RedStringOfFate, he has absolutely no interest in the world.]]



* DyingMomentOfAwesome: A few over the course of the manga, often overlapping with HeroicSacrifice including:
** Zero pushing an unconscious Kurohime across the Sanzu river in the ferry despite the blood painfully dissolving his entire body.

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* DyingMomentOfAwesome: A few over the course of the manga, often overlapping with HeroicSacrifice including:
HeroicSacrifice.
** Zero [[spoiler:Zero pushing an unconscious Kurohime across the Sanzu river River in the ferry despite the blood painfully dissolving his entire body.]]



** [[spoiler:Rei has been pulling one of these since ''the beginning of the manga.'' See TomatoSurprise below.]]
** [[spoiler: Kairyu. Turns out some of OurDragonsAreDifferent. That is to say, some of them are whales...]]
* [[spoiler:EarthShatteringKaboom: The world ([[PlanetLooters and Yashahime]]) is sliced in [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe half]].]]
* EldritchAbomination: Plenty.
* ElephantInTheLivingRoom: [[spoiler:When it's revealed that humans were created for the sole purpose of destroying the planet, Sword, O-yuki and Yukio all look very uncomfortable, [[YouDidntAsk implying that they knew this from beginning.]]]]
* EnemyMine: After being depowered [[spoiler:by the absorption of souls that died during her fight with the goddess Venus]], past!Kurohime, now in the form of a child, recieves assistance from Sword and Ouka, who were formerly cursed into the forms of a wolf and past!Kurohime's clothing respectively. It takes a good hard fight [[spoiler:[[FusionDance a three-way fusion between them]]]] in order to take the enemy down.
** Sword and Ouka are adhering to this in the current situation against [[spoiler:Dark Zero and Yashahime.]]
* {{Evil God}}s
* EyepatchOfPower: Sword starts wearing one of these when [[SleepModeSize she loses a good foot or two of height in the aftermath of the battle at the River Styx.]] It is also the only thing keeping her vampiric werewolf powers under control.

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** [[spoiler:Rei has been pulling one of these since ''the beginning of the manga.'' See TomatoSurprise below.manga''--he's ALWAYS been the Zero that the readers were introduced to.]]
** [[spoiler: Kairyu. Turns The Sea Dragon turns out some of OurDragonsAreDifferent. That is to say, some of them are whales...have been Seiryuu, the third Spirit King that Himeko needed for the Ultimate Sword's completion.]]
* [[spoiler:EarthShatteringKaboom: The EarthShatteringKaboom: [[spoiler:The world ([[PlanetLooters and Yashahime]]) is sliced in [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe half]].]]
* EldritchAbomination: Plenty.
All the gods fit this in some way or another, especially those higher up in the hierarchy of power. Though most appear human, they have some form of bestial or otherwise odd appearance.
* ElephantInTheLivingRoom: [[spoiler:When it's revealed that humans were created for the sole purpose of destroying the planet, Sword, O-yuki Yuki and Yukio all look very uncomfortable, [[YouDidntAsk implying that they knew this from beginning.]]]]
* EnemyMine: EnemyMine:
** When forced into battle against an artificial Death God during the Past Arc, Himeko and the Kurohime Death Squad call a cease-fire to stop the process before they're all killed.
**
After being depowered [[spoiler:by the absorption of souls that died during her fight with the goddess Venus]], past!Kurohime, now in the form of a child, recieves gets assistance from Sword and Ouka, who were formerly cursed into the forms of a wolf and past!Kurohime's clothing respectively. It takes a good hard fight [[spoiler:[[FusionDance a three-way fusion between them]]]] in order to take the enemy down.
** Sword and Ouka are adhering to
They continue this in when they return to the current situation against present and must help defend the humans from [[spoiler:Dark Zero Zero]] and Yashahime.]]
Yashahime.
* {{Evil God}}s
God}}s: With the exception of Shirohime, Yukionna, and Yukio, every god shown in the series is capricious and completely uncaring about their subjects.
* EyepatchOfPower: Sword starts wearing one of these when [[SleepModeSize [[spoiler: she loses a good foot or two of height in the aftermath of the battle at the River Styx.]] Styx. It is also the only thing keeping her vampiric werewolf powers under control.]]



* [[spoiler:FissionMailed: After Himeko's death at the hands of Yashahime, Asura leads the remaining living villagers to the entrance to Mt. Fuji. Shortly after that, Asura convinces the spirits to rewind time so that she can sacrifice herself to the Yamato Senryuutou and turn it into the Ultimate Sword.]]

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* [[spoiler:FissionMailed: After FissionMailed: [[spoiler:After Himeko's death at the hands of Yashahime, Asura leads the remaining living villagers to the entrance to Mt. Fuji. Shortly after that, Asura convinces the spirits to rewind time so that she can sacrifice herself to the Yamato Senryuutou and turn it into the Ultimate Sword.]]



** Queen Enma they were literally her source of power
* GainaxEnding: [[spoiler:[[ApocalypseWow Apocalypse WTF]] leading into mass-resurrection onboard an interstellar ark made of the bones of a time-eating whale, then a 4.6 billion year TimeSkip, and finally a gender-swapped BookEnds revisit of the [[TimeyWimeyBall first (or second or Nth)]] meeting between Zero and Hime]]
* GrandTheftMe: Happens to an innocent girl known as Yuka not once, but twice, thanks in no small part to Kurohime's UnknownRival Barahime. As a result of both possessions, [[TouchedByVorlons Yuka gains the power to make magical bullets.]]
* GrimReaper: During the Time Travel arc, Zero's brother Rei [[spoiler:gets cursed by a Shinigami, which will overtake him if he experiences large amounts of hatred.]]
* TheGunslinger: Excluding the obvious, Zero and Rider.

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** Queen Enma they were Enma, the ruler of the prison dimension where Himeko was first banished [[spoiler:after being split from Shirohime and cursed into her childform.]] They're literally her source of power
power.
* GainaxEnding: [[spoiler:[[ApocalypseWow Apocalypse WTF]] leading into mass-resurrection onboard an interstellar ark made of the bones of a time-eating whale, then a 4.6 billion year TimeSkip, and finally a gender-swapped BookEnds revisit of the [[TimeyWimeyBall first (or second or Nth)]] meeting between Zero and Hime]]
* GrandTheftMe: Happens to an innocent girl known as Yuka not once, but twice, thanks in no small part to Kurohime's UnknownRival Barahime. As a result of both possessions, [[TouchedByVorlons Yuka gains the power to make magical bullets.
Kurohime.]]
* GrandTheftMe: Happens to an innocent girl known as Yuuka not once, but twice, thanks in no small part to Kurohime's UnknownRival Barahime. [[spoiler:As a result of both possessions, [[TouchedByVorlons Yuka gains the power to make magical bullets.]]]]
* GrimReaper: During the Time Travel Past arc, Zero's brother Rei [[spoiler:gets cursed by a Shinigami, which will overtake him if he experiences large amounts of hatred.hatred. He succumbs to it twice, both times requiring Himeko to revive and esssentially sacrifice someone close to him to snap him out of it.]]
* TheGunslinger: Excluding Every witch in the obvious, series utilizes their magic through magic guns. A good few regular characters also carry pistols, but Zero and Rider.Raida are the most prolific normal humans.



* [[spoiler:[[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe Half The Woman She Used To Be:]] Yashahime is the first victim of the Ultimate Sword at the end of chapt. 72. [[NighInvulnerability Yashahime being Yashahime, it didn't stick.]]]]
** [[spoiler: Finally did in Chapter 80 when Kurohime ''slices the entire planet in half'' to beat her.]]

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* [[spoiler:[[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe Half The Woman She Used To Be:]] Yashahime [[spoiler:Yashahime is the first victim of the Ultimate Sword at the end of chapt. 72. [[NighInvulnerability Yashahime being Yashahime, it didn't stick.]]]]
** [[spoiler: Finally did in Chapter 80 when
]] When Kurohime ''slices repeats the entire planet trick in half'' to beat her.the final chapter, Yashahime doesn't get nearly so lucky again.]]



* HeroicSacrifice: Zero puts an injured Kurohime onto Kandata's boat and pushes towards safe land, being dissolved alive by the waters of Hell. A villainous example would be the Death Angels giving their life-force to ensure Sword's survival.
** [[spoiler:Zero again, for [[TomatoSurprise Rei/"Zero."]]]]
** [[spoiler:Once she's realized that her life has meaning, Asura ensures that Himeko completes the Ultimate Sword by going back in time and letting herself get shot by the Yamato Senryuuhou.]]

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* HeroicSacrifice: Zero Being a series themed around love, this comes up often.
** [[spoiler:The Death Angels give up what remains of their life-force to ensure Sword's survival when Darkray indiscriminately skewers all of them.]]
** [[spoiler:Zero
puts an injured Kurohime onto Kandata's boat and pushes towards safe land, being allowing himself to be dissolved alive by the waters of Hell. A villainous example would be Hell.]]
** [[spoiler:The real Zero allows Himeko to resurrect him so he can absorb the essence of the Death God out of Rei; the revival calls down
the Death Angels giving to kill him immediately, much like what happened when Himeko revived their life-force mother to ensure Sword's survival.
** [[spoiler:Zero again, for [[TomatoSurprise Rei/"Zero."]]]]
calm Rei down the first time the Death God took him over.]]
** [[spoiler:Once she's realized that her life has meaning, always had meaning and that she always had a friend in Himeko, Asura ensures that Himeko completes the Ultimate Sword by going back in time and letting herself get shot by the Yamato Senryuuhou.]]



** The village elder is a somewhat crotchety old woman with a stiff upper lip. [[spoiler: That is, until Kurohime dies, whereupon she runs off to make up with Asura, her ''daughter.'' At that point, the world was more or less doomed, and though she sincerely loved Asura, the elder had spent all of her "life" treating Asura like a tool.]]
* [[spoiler:HistoryRepeats: With a side of GenderFlip, this is how Hime and Zero [[LoveAtFirstSight meet up in their next life]].]]
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Darkray might have survived if he hadn't been so quick to [[KickThemWhileTheyAreDown berate his angels]] after impaling them.

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** The village elder elder, Himiko, is a somewhat crotchety old woman with a stiff upper lip. [[spoiler: That is, until Kurohime dies, whereupon she runs off to make up with Asura, her ''daughter.'' At that point, the world was more or less doomed, and though she sincerely loved Asura, the elder had spent all of her "life" treating Asura like a tool.]]
* [[spoiler:HistoryRepeats: With HistoryRepeats: [[spoiler:With a side of GenderFlip, this is how Hime Kurohime and Zero [[LoveAtFirstSight meet up in their next life]].life]]--male!Kurohime rescues female!Zero from a bandit at gunpoint.]]
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Darkray HoistByHisOwnPetard:
** [[spoiler:Darkray
might have survived if he hadn't been so quick to [[KickThemWhileTheyAreDown berate his angels]] after impaling them.]]
** [[spoiler:Her very absorption of the planet rendered Yashahime vulnerable to the most outrageous form of death--splitting the planet in ''half'']]



* IHateYouVampireDad: [[spoiler: Asura resents being a HalfHumanHybrid, but more than that, she resents that humans, specifically her mother, will sacrifice her without a thought of her feelings. Making up with her mother finally allows her to regain control of her transformations.]]
* [[spoiler:ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Kurohime on three separate occasions: once by Darkray for [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu killing a god]], next by Yashahime for [[MurderTheHypotenuse existing]], and once again by Dark Zero for being the ''[[LoveHurts worst girlfriend]] [[WhatTheHellHero EVER.]]'']]
* [[ImplacableMan Implacable Woman:]] Goodness, past!Kurohime.
** [[NighInvulnerability Yasha]][[DeTerminator hime.]]
* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: Onimaru. He and his gang helped Kurohime ten years ago by building the tower that would allow a human to become a god, only to be betrayed by her at the last moment (and branded with the kanji for 'dog', no less). As a result, he carries a large grudge against Kurohime for most of the manga. After his gang's encounter with the Death Angels (which leaves him as a...miniature snake-man thing) Kurohime's real motives are explained to him by the goddess Shirohime, and he gradually regains the respect he had for Kurohime as she undergoes her own emotional development.

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* IHateYouVampireDad: [[spoiler: Asura resents being a HalfHumanHybrid, but more than that, she resents that humans, specifically her mother, will sacrifice her without a thought of her feelings. Her resentment over this bubbles over until she lashes out against friend and foe indiscriminately in her true form. Making up with her mother finally allows and realizing who her to regain control of true friends are snaps her transformations.out of it.]]
* [[spoiler:ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Kurohime ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:Himeko, both as herself and Kurohime, goes through this on three separate occasions: once by Darkray for [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu killing a god]], next by Yashahime for [[MurderTheHypotenuse existing]], and once again by Dark Zero for being the ''[[LoveHurts worst girlfriend]] [[WhatTheHellHero EVER.]]'']]
* [[ImplacableMan Implacable Woman:]] Goodness, past!Kurohime.
** [[NighInvulnerability Yasha]][[DeTerminator hime.]]
Kurohime, especially in the period of war 10 years prior to the series, and Yashahime. They've both been dismembered, shot, and generally manhandled by their opponents, but neither of them will back down even once.
* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: Onimaru. He and his gang helped Kurohime ten years ago by building the tower that would allow a human to become a god, only to be betrayed by her at the last moment (and branded with the kanji for 'dog', no less). As a result, he carries a large grudge against Kurohime for most of the manga. After [[spoiler:After his gang's encounter with the Death Angels (which leaves him as a...miniature snake-man thing) Kurohime's real motives are explained to him by the goddess Shirohime, and he gradually regains the respect he had for Kurohime as she undergoes her own emotional development.]]



* JerkAss: Himeko/Kurohime, as noted at the top of the page. This isn't entirely her fault, though, as the gods removed her ability to love when they first imprisoned her, by turning her compassion and love into a god that looks exactly like her, Shirohime. And thanks to CharacterDevelopment, she gradually grows out of this, becoming a JerkWithAHeartOfGold.
** Rei's not much of a charmer either, having been treated as punching-bag his whole life and now [[spoiler: being possessed by a Shinigami]] isn't helping. Still, despite kicking her in the shins, calling her a hag and ''almost shooting her in the face'', he grew on Himeko.
* JerkassGods: Pretty much the main reason the series events are happening in the first place. Not all of them are so unfeeling, but a majority of them pretty much have no regard for life. Kurohime will have [[KillEmAll NONE of this]].
* KickThemWhileTheyAreDown: Darkray was fond of doing this, insulting Hime and Zero for their love and later impaling and killing most of his [[AmazonBrigade loyal weapons.]] His reasoning is that as humans [[OurAngelsAreDifferent and angels]] respectively, they are simply not as awesome as he is, so why ''should'' he care what happens to them?
** Yashahime tries this and fails, not taking into account that [[PluckyGirl Hime may be less emotionally fragile than she thought.]][[spoiler: [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown Nearly succeeded the second time though...]]]]
* KilledOffForReal: [[OurGhostsAreDifferent Maya and her friends]], [[DarkIsEvil Darkray]], [[spoiler: Zero and Rei's mother and [[TomatoSurprise real!Zero]].]]
** DeaderThanDead: All of the above had their souls destroyed.
* [[spoiler:KnowWhenToFoldEm: Yashahime ultimately succeeds in taking over the world. Realizing that, [[HeroicSacrifice Yamatohime decides to use the last of her life to resurrect Kurohime]], since saving the planet is now a moot point.]]
** [[spoiler:Surprisingly, Igudo the Head God as well. Her response to [[WarGod Tor's]] suggestion to avenge Yashahime's death via Kurohime is essentially "Eh, I didn't like her ''THAT'' much."]]
* LaserBlade:[[spoiler:The Ultimate Sword.]]
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Himeko begins suffering from this during the Yamato arc. As a side effect of Zero's death, Himeko's been re-cursed. By giving up a memory of Zero, she clears part of the mental block that's keeping her from her powers; if she wants to get back into top form, she has to give up every single memory she has of him. At present, she has almost no memories of anything that has occurred since the start of her journey with Zero.
* LaserGuidedKarma: All of the gods do something that COMPLETELY justifies Kurohime killing them.
** With [[WhamEpisode Chapter 74]] out, it turns out, [[JustifiedTrope yes,]] most of them [[PlanetEater HAVE]] done something to justify Kurohime killing them.
** Also seen in Kurohime/Himeko. All of the things she's done for either peace or Zero are quickly catching up with her.

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* JerkAss: Himeko/Kurohime, as noted at the top of the page. This isn't entirely her fault, though, as the gods removed her ability to love when they first imprisoned her, by [[spoiler:by turning her compassion and love into a god that looks exactly like her, Shirohime. And thanks Shirohime.]] Thanks to CharacterDevelopment, she gradually grows out of this, becoming a JerkWithAHeartOfGold.
** Rei's not much of a charmer either, having been treated as punching-bag either. [[spoiler:Being subordinate to the man that killed his whole life mother and now [[spoiler: being possessed by later turning into the host of a Shinigami]] vengeful and hateful artificial Death god isn't helping. helping.]] Still, despite kicking her in the shins, calling her a hag and ''almost shooting her in the face'', he grew on Himeko.
* JerkassGods: Pretty much the main reason the series series' events are happening in the first place. Not all of them are so unfeeling, but a majority of them pretty much have no regard for life. Kurohime will have [[KillEmAll NONE of this]].
Kurohime's grudge is specifically because they turned her spite on her [[spoiler:for attempting to kill them]], and expresses this ire by planning to KillEmAll.
* KickThemWhileTheyAreDown: Darkray was fond of doing this, insulting Hime Himeko and Zero for their love and later impaling and killing most of his [[AmazonBrigade loyal weapons.]] His reasoning is that as humans [[OurAngelsAreDifferent and angels]] respectively, they are simply not as awesome as he is, so why ''should'' he care what happens to them?
** Yashahime tries this and fails, not taking into account that [[PluckyGirl Hime may be less emotionally fragile than she thought.]][[spoiler: [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown Nearly succeeded the second time though...]]]]
* KilledOffForReal: [[OurGhostsAreDifferent KilledOffForReal: Maya and her friends]], the other riders of the Ghost Carriage, (the Death Angel Squad kills them when Kurohime revives them), [[spoiler: [[DarkIsEvil Darkray]], [[spoiler: Darkray]] (killed by Kurohime, then soul-erased by Yashahime), and both Zero and Rei's mother and [[TomatoSurprise real!Zero]].the real Zero (revived by Himeko to help Rei on two separate occasions, and also killed by the Death Angel Squad). In all cases, their souls were so thoroughly destroyed that there was no bringing them back again.]]
** DeaderThanDead: All of the above had their souls destroyed.
* [[spoiler:KnowWhenToFoldEm: Yashahime KnowWhenToFoldEm: [[spoiler:Yashahime ultimately succeeds in taking over the world. Realizing that, [[HeroicSacrifice Yamatohime decides to use the last of her life to resurrect Kurohime]], since saving the planet is now a moot point.]]
** [[spoiler:Surprisingly, Igudo the Head God as well. Her follows this line of thought. [[spoiler:Wer response to [[WarGod Tor's]] suggestion to avenge Yashahime's death via Kurohime is essentially "Eh, I didn't like her ''THAT'' much."]]
stating that it'd be a waste of time when there are other planets to head to.]]
* LaserBlade:[[spoiler:The LaserBlade: [[spoiler:The Ultimate Sword.Sword manifests like this.]]
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Himeko begins suffering from this during the Yamato arc. As a side effect of [[spoiler:With the curse lifted, the only thing holding her back is her own grief over Zero's death, Himeko's been re-cursed. By giving up a memory of Zero, death; whenever she clears part of the mental block that's keeping her from her powers; if pushes hard enough, she wants to get back can transform into top form, she has to give up every single memory she has of him. At present, she has almost no Kurohime on her own, but her memories are devoured when she does. When Zero is revived as Dark Zero, he callously rips apart almost the entirety of anything the flower in her soul that has occurred since represents these memories, erasing pretty much every memory that Himeko made with him from the start of her journey with Zero.
the manga up till that point.]]
* LaserGuidedKarma: All of the gods do something that COMPLETELY justifies Kurohime killing them.
** With [[WhamEpisode Chapter 74]] out, it turns out, [[JustifiedTrope yes,]] most of
them [[PlanetEater HAVE]] done something to justify Kurohime killing them.
** Also seen
in Kurohime/Himeko. All of one way or another. [[spoiler:Considering that the Greater Gods are literal planet eaters and were planning on doing the same to the planet, they generally deserve it.
** Himeko has to contend with her own share of this as the series goes on, for
things she's done for either peace or both to save Zero are quickly catching up with her.and in her fight against the gods. Her actions have repeately caused her to [[CreateYourOwnVillain draw the ire of her persistent enemies]] and suffer an extraordinary amount of emotional suffering for what she's done.



* LiteralSplitPersonality: This is what happens to Kurohime when she challenges the gods ten years before the start of the series; her compassion and love is incarnated as the goddess Shirohime, while her rage and hatred are sent to a prison-dimension as Himeko/Kurohime.
* LoveRedeems: Yuki-onna and Yuki-otoko, and Himeko herself.
** LoveHurts: Zero. [[PleaseDontLeaveMe Oh,]] [[TraumaCongaLine Zero.]]
*** [[spoiler: [[DiedInYourArmsTonight And]] [[HeroicSacrifice yet]][[LoveRedeems ...]]]]
* MakingASplash: Genbu, Spirit King of Water.
* MamaBear: There are very few things Himeko won't do for Zero and Rei.
* [[spoiler:MaybeEverAfter]]

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* LiteralSplitPersonality: This [[spoiler:This is what happens to Kurohime when she challenges the gods ten years before the start of the series; her compassion and love is incarnated as the goddess Shirohime, while her rage and hatred are sent to a prison-dimension as Himeko/Kurohime.
* LoveRedeems: Yuki-onna and Yuki-otoko, and Himeko herself.
** LoveHurts: Zero. [[PleaseDontLeaveMe Oh,]] [[TraumaCongaLine Zero.
Himeko.]]
*** [[spoiler: [[DiedInYourArmsTonight And]] [[HeroicSacrifice yet]][[LoveRedeems ...]]]]
* LoveRedeems: A recurring theme in the series.
** Himeko herself. Learning to love again not only makes her nicer to Zero, but to other people too, [[spoiler:even after he dies the first time]]
** Yuki-onna recognizes Yuki-otoko's love and through it finally confronts her own cruelty to humans and renounces it.
* LoveHurts: Zero and Himeko both suffer a lot for love, both physically and emotionally. [[spoiler:Zero's death almost completely breaks Himeko, and though they do eventually reunite, it takes several fights, a lot of soul-searching, and Himeko's death before they finally get back together in relatively safety.]]
* MakingASplash: Genbu, as the Spirit King of Water.
* MamaBear: There are very few things Himeko won't do for Zero and Rei.
* [[spoiler:MaybeEverAfter]]
Rei, especially after [[spoiler:their mother entrusts her with their care.]]



** [[ThemeTwinNaming Zero and Rei]] have names that pun off of each other, as "Rei" can also mean zero. [[spoiler:This is possibly foreshadowing the fact that "Zero" is in fact Rei, having taken on his younger brother's name after the events of the Past Arc.]]

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** [[ThemeTwinNaming Zero and Rei]] have names that pun off of each other, as "Rei" can also mean zero. [[spoiler:This is possibly foreshadowing the fact that "Zero" is in fact Rei, having taken on his younger brother's name after the events of the Past Arc.]]



* MistakenForBadass / StableTimeLoop Onimaru was knocked out early in the battle against Materen when he finally woke up Tsuki-Onimaru lead him to the passed out Marion. Not realizing who she was he attempted to revive her. When one of his soldiers found him holding Marions unconscious body he and the rest of the Onimaru gang along with the Wolf brigade and freedom alliance all assumed that he defeated her. And so, the warrior legend of Onimaru was born. After this Onimaru’s influence continued to expand eventually becoming the Onimaru empire.
* MsFanservice: Most of the women in this setting, especially Kurohime.
* MultiArmedAndDangerous: Darkray, Dark Zero and Yashahime.
* MyHeroZero and Rei
* MyMasterRightOrWrong: This is what the members of the Wolf Brigade feel about Doc.
* NietzscheWannabe: Dark Zero.
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: After Sword meets up with the rest of the Kurohime Punishment Squad, she makes herself into one of these on purpose, getting bitten by a vampire ''and'' a werewolf. [[UnstoppableRage The results are]] [[TransformationTrauma NOT pretty.]]
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: The first [[spoiler:and third]] time that Himeko faced Yashahime.
* OhCrap:[[spoiler:Yashahime after the Ultimate Sword [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe bisects her.]]]]
** [[spoiler:Everyone else, when it turns out she's STILL alive.]]
* OneWingedAngel: Yashahime, surprisingly.

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* MistakenForBadass / StableTimeLoop Onimaru MistakenForBadass: Past!Onimaru was knocked out early in the battle against Materen when siege on the Lion Castle. When he finally woke up Tsuki-Onimaru up, [[spoiler:his future self, in the form of Tsucchi]], lead him to Marion, the passed out Marion. passed-out castellan of the castle. Not realizing who she was was, he attempted to revive her. When her, and when one of his soldiers found him holding Marions Marion's unconscious body he and body, all the rest of the Onimaru gang along with the Wolf brigade and freedom alliance all armies present [[FakeUltimateHero assumed that he defeated her. And so, the warrior legend of Onimaru was born. After this Onimaru’s influence continued to expand eventually becoming the Onimaru empire.
her.]]
* MsFanservice: Most of the women in this the setting, especially Kurohime.
Kurohime. They're often very shapely with well-defined bodies
* MultiArmedAndDangerous: Darkray, Dark Zero [[spoiler:Dark Zero]] and Yashahime.
Yashahime all have their ways of pulling this off.
* MyHeroZero and Rei
MyHeroZero: Zero's name says it all. [[spoiler:His older brother Rei also fits since Rei means "zero" in Japanese.]]
* MyMasterRightOrWrong: This is what the members of the Wolf Brigade feel about Doc.
Doc, but especially Raida. [[spoiler:After the events of the Lion Castle, this is not the case, and most of them leave him behind; once Rei and Raida split up after Real Zero's death, Raida also abandons Doc, but not before killing him.]]
* NietzscheWannabe: Dark Zero.
[[spoiler:Dark Zero, whose frustration over the cruelty of humans and their unconscious rule ins securing the gods' control over the world leads him to decide to destroy ''everything.'']]
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: After [[spoiler:To restore her missing powers after Darkray's death, Sword meets up with the rest of the Kurohime Punishment Squad, she makes herself into one of these on purpose, getting bitten by a vampire ''and'' a werewolf. [[UnstoppableRage The results are]] [[TransformationTrauma NOT pretty.]]
]]]]
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: The first [[spoiler:and third]] time that Himeko faced Yashahime.
Yashahime, she got her ass completely handed to her.
* OhCrap:[[spoiler:Yashahime after the Ultimate Sword [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe bisects her.]]]]
** [[spoiler:Everyone else,
]] Everyone else has a collective one when it turns out she's STILL alive.alive from that, but she tops that reaction with her horrified screaming as Kurohime bisects the entire planet to wipe her out.]]
* OneWingedAngel: Yashahime, surprisingly.Yashahime's final form [[spoiler:is the planet itself,



* [[spoiler: PainfulTransformation, BodyHorror: As revealed by Sword, the Black God Tree that Kurohime uses to block attacks and form the Kokushinbokuto is meant to absorb hatred as its power-up method. Because the tree is actually bonded to Kurohime's body, becoming more powerful effectively means that she has to absorb the spirits of the people she kills. After the souls eat holes in Kurohime's body during the absorption, she has to deal with a rejection that makes her spew up blood and literally shreds her down to what looks like a rotting corpse.]]
* PapaWolf: In the sidestory "Aohime," Dan. Takes badass and {{Determinator}} to new levels. [[TearJerker Sniffle.]]
* [[spoiler:PlanetEater: The High Gods get that strong by eating the LifeEnergy of planets. Then they take the [[AssimilationPlot dead planets as host bodies.]]]]

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* [[spoiler: PainfulTransformation, BodyHorror: PainfulTransformation: As revealed by Sword, the Black God Tree that Kurohime uses to block attacks and form the Kokushinbokuto Black God Tree Sword is meant to absorb hatred as its power-up method. Because [[spoiler:Because the tree is actually bonded to Kurohime's body, becoming more powerful effectively means that she has to absorb the spirits of the people she kills. [[BodyHorror After the souls eat holes in Kurohime's body during the absorption, she has to deal with a rejection that makes her spew up blood and literally shreds her down to what looks like a rotting corpse.]]
]]]]
* PapaWolf: In the sidestory "Aohime," Dan. Takes badass and {{Determinator}} main character Dan fights like hell to new levels. [[TearJerker Sniffle.]]
protect his adopted daughter, even when it ultimately results in his death.
* [[spoiler:PlanetEater: PlanetEater: The High Gods get that strong by [[spoiler:by eating the LifeEnergy of planets. Then they take the [[AssimilationPlot dead planets as host bodies.]]]]



* PleaseDontLeaveMe: [[spoiler:Rei]] to [[spoiler:Himeko]], coupled with the fact that both know [[TearJerker they can't stop it from happening.]] [[LaserGuidedKarma Naturally,]] [[spoiler:he]] [[WhatTheHellHero calls]] [[spoiler:Himeko]] on this when [[spoiler:he]] has a chance. [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice Violently.]]
* PlotRelevantAgeUp: Occurs twice for Himeko--the first after her battle with the death god Dark Ray and the second following her encounter with Zero once he is reborn as the death god. Each one further boosts her ability, though neither one brings her close to her full power as Kurohime. As of the end of the Past Arc, it happened again, and she displayed the ability [[spoiler: to use at least the Genbu armor without her powers as Kurohime.]]
* PlotTumor: The "Journey To The Past" arc, which initially appeared to be a pointless segue; it actually revealed a large amount of backstory, some bits of which were quite shocking.
* PluckyGirl: Kurohime for the good side. Sword and Kurohime again, for the bad side.
* PoweredByAForsakenChild:[[spoiler: The Black God Tree. Many, many, MANY children. Adults as well.]] The Yamato Senryuutou is also this, but tends to be forgotten since [[spoiler:most of]] those who power it are more bothered by for whom the sword would be used by, and for, rather than what powers it up.
** The High Gods. [[PlanetEater All of them.]]

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* PleaseDontLeaveMe: [[spoiler:Rei]] [[spoiler:Rei to [[spoiler:Himeko]], Himeko when they meet one last time in the past, coupled with the fact that both know [[TearJerker they she can't stop it herself from happening.]] [[LaserGuidedKarma Naturally,]] [[spoiler:he]] [[WhatTheHellHero calls]] [[spoiler:Himeko]] leaving. Naturally, he calls Himeko out on this when [[spoiler:he]] has he gets a chance. [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice Violently.]]
Very violently.]]]
* PlotRelevantAgeUp: Occurs twice multiple times for Himeko--the first after her battle with the death god Dark Ray and the Ray, [[spoiler:the second following her encounter with Dark Zero once he is reborn as and his callous removal of almost all her flower petal memories]], and the death god. third at the end of the Past arc. Each one further boosts her ability, though neither one brings her close with the last being the closest she's ever been to her full power as Kurohime. As of the end of the Past Arc, it happened again, and she displayed the ability [[spoiler: to use at least the Genbu armor without her powers as Kurohime.]]
* PlotTumor: The "Journey To The Past" arc, which initially appeared to be a pointless segue; it actually revealed a large amount of backstory, some bits of which were quite shocking.
Kurohime.
* PluckyGirl: Kurohime for Himeko's CharacterDevelopment leads her into this on the good protagonist side. On the antagonist side, Sword and Kurohime again, for the bad side.
* PoweredByAForsakenChild:[[spoiler: The Black God Tree. Many, many, MANY children. Adults as well.]] The Yamato Senryuutou
is also this, but tends to be forgotten since [[spoiler:most of]] those who power it are a more bothered by for whom the sword would be used by, and for, rather than what powers it up.
** The High Gods. [[PlanetEater All
subuded version of them.]]this trope.



* RageAgainstTheHeavens: Ten years before the series starts, Kurohime becomes involved with the battle to become a god to get revenge on the gods for even creating the contest; not only did it send the world into a mass war, but it's implied that she grew up seeing the carnage that it wrought first-hand.

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* RageAgainstTheHeavens: Ten years before the series starts, Kurohime becomes involved with the battle to become a god to [[spoiler:to get revenge on the gods for even creating the contest; not only did it send the world into a mass war, but it's contest. It's implied that she grew up seeing the carnage that it wrought first-hand.war and suffering caused by the battle orphaned her.]]



* [[spoiler:ResetButton: After [[GetAHoldOfYourselfMan getting her mind right,]] Asura sends her consciousness back in time to SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong when Himeko refuses to ShootTheDog. As a result, Himeko's death at the hands of Yashahime is undone entirely.]]
* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: This is what the warden of Alcatraz did to the prisoner that sold Kurohime and the others out.
* SecretTestOfCharacter: All of the Spirit Kings put Himeko through this. [[spoiler: Kairyuu AKA [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Seiryuu]]]] even lampshades it; they all agree, himself included, that [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold she's a bit of a bitch but generally worth putting up with.]] (Of course, you'd want the person wielding your [[OurSoulsAreDifferent soul]] like a sword to ''NOT'' be a [[PsychoForHire psychotic maniac.]] Or Yashahime.)

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* [[spoiler:ResetButton: After ResetButton: [[spoiler:After [[GetAHoldOfYourselfMan getting her mind right,]] Asura sends her consciousness back in time to SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong when Himeko refuses to ShootTheDog. As a result, Himeko's death at the hands of Yashahime is undone entirely.]]
* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: This is what the warden of Alcatraz did to the prisoner that sold Kurohime Himeko and the others out.
* SecretTestOfCharacter: All of the Spirit Kings put Himeko through this. [[spoiler: Kairyuu AKA [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Seiryuu]]]] Seiryuu, being the most familiar with her of all of them since he's been observing her as the Sea Dragon, even lampshades it; they all agree, himself included, that [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold she's a bit explicitly acknowledges this as part of a bitch but generally worth putting up with.]] (Of course, you'd want the person wielding your [[OurSoulsAreDifferent soul]] like a sword to ''NOT'' be a [[PsychoForHire psychotic maniac.]] Or Yashahime.)why he's trusting her with his power.]]



* StableTimeLoop[=/=]YouCantFightFate: Ouka triggers one of these when she [[spoiler:attempts to kill the past version of Kurohime in order to save her father from dying at Kurohime's hands. However, Ouka's use of witch-gunslinger magic convinces Ouka's father that older!Ouka is an enemy, and attacks her; subsequently, Ouka's witch-beast attacks and kills him right in front of the young!Ouka's eyes.]] Surprisingly, [[spoiler:past!Kurohime takes the blame for it anyway, effectively giving young!Ouka a reason to chase after Kurohime for revenge.]]
* StepfordSmiler: [[spoiler: Zero has been one of these all along.]]

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* StableTimeLoop[=/=]YouCantFightFate: StableTimeLoop: A few of these start to pile up in the back half of the manga.
**
Ouka triggers one of these when she [[spoiler:attempts to kill the past version of Kurohime in order to save her father from dying at Kurohime's hands. However, Ouka's use of witch-gunslinger magic convinces Ouka's father that older!Ouka is an enemy, and attacks her; subsequently, Ouka's witch-beast attacks and kills him right in front of the young!Ouka's eyes.]] Surprisingly, [[spoiler:past!Kurohime Past!Kurohime takes the blame for it anyway, effectively giving young!Ouka a reason to chase after Kurohime for revenge.]]
** After this, Ouka kicks off part of another one by [[spoiler:telling past!Kurohime about how Himeko is formed and falls in love with "Zero". Though amused by this notion, Kurohime chooses to belive in this salvation for her reincarnation, and seeks him out, saves him, and helps him justify his MeaningfulRename.]]
** [[spoiler:Rei only became the Zero that Himeko knows because he met her via TimeTravel, and she was the one to give him his scarf with one last time travel jaunt during the last battle, which is what leads him to believe that it's his link to the woman he loves.]]
* StepfordSmiler: [[spoiler: Zero has been one of these all along.along, since his true identity is Zero's embittered older brother Rei.]]



* StockholmSyndrome: Everyone believed that this was the reason why Rei was so loyal to Doc.
** Turns out to be a subversion Rei watched doc kill his mother and stays with him specifically so he can get revenge

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* StockholmSyndrome: Everyone believed that this was the reason why Rei was so loyal to Doc.
** Turns out to be a subversion
Doc. [[spoiler: As it turns turns out, Rei watched doc Doc kill his mother and stays with him specifically so he can get revengerevenge.]]



* TeamPet: Tsucchi aka Onimaru.
* ThePowerOfLove: Due to the initial curse laid on Kurohime,love is quite literally central to the plot, as it is the only way Kurohime can temporarily/permanently break the curse. It reaches new heights when the River Styx makes its first appearance, though, as Kurohime declares her love for Zero and unleashes a can of whoop-ass onto Dark Ray to protect him and continue her fight against the gods. Additionally, Himeko only agrees to assist Asura's cause on the condition that Yamatohime resurrects Zero.
* ThemeTwinNaming: Zero and Rei.
* ThisIsADrill: When Kurohime manifests Byakko's power in Senryu, she shoots metal drill bullets. [[RuleOfCool Nice.]]
* ThouShaltNotKill: Like a certain [[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist fire alchemist]] no one argued the fact that Doc deserves to die but if Rei killed him in revenge he would be consumed by the darkness in his soul
* TimeStandsStill: Kairyu. [[spoiler: Who is, in actuality, [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Seiryu,]] Spirit King of [[BlowYouAway Air.]]]]

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* TeamPet: Tsucchi aka Onimaru.
Tsucchi, [[spoiler:aka Onimaru.]]
* ThePowerOfLove: Due to the initial curse laid on Kurohime,love is quite literally central to the plot, as it is the only way Kurohime can temporarily/permanently break the curse. It [[spoiler:It reaches new heights when the Sanzu River Styx makes its first appearance, though, as Kurohime declares her love for Zero and unleashes a can of whoop-ass onto Dark Ray to protect him and continue her fight against the gods. gods.]] Additionally, Himeko only agrees to assist Asura's cause on the condition that Yamatohime resurrects Zero.
* ThemeTwinNaming: Zero and Rei.
* ThisIsADrill: When Kurohime manifests Byakko's power in Senryu, she shoots metal drill bullets. [[RuleOfCool Nice.
[[spoiler:resurrects Zero.]]
* ThemeTwinNaming: Zero and Rei, both sharing the meaning of "Zero."
* ThisIsADrill: When Kurohime manifests Byakko's power in Senryu, she shoots metal drill bullets.
* ThouShaltNotKill: Like a certain [[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist fire alchemist]] no No one argued really argues the fact that Doc deserves to die but if Rei killed him in revenge he would be consumed by deserve his death, but avoiding [[spoiler:setting off the darkness Death God in his soul
Rei's body is the biggest concern about stopping him from pulling it off. Rei himself later tries to adhere to this when he takes on Zero's name.]]
* TimeStandsStill: Kairyu. [[spoiler: Who is, in actuality, [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Seiryu,]] [[Seiryuu, the Spirit King of [[BlowYouAway Air.]]]]Air, can control the air to simulate this effect. It's also the source of his time travel powers as the Sea Dragon]]



** Better yet, the cloaked man (Kandata) that saved "Zero" and Kurohime from the River Styx and followed them back to the past? [[spoiler: [[JerkAss He's Doc.]]]]
** [[spoiler:The Spirit King of Wind, Seiryu? It was the SEA DRAGON THE WHOLE TIME.]]
* TooDumbToLive: After Wolf Brigade captain Rider found out that they were wanted for steeling the troop’s money. He suggested since they were unknown in the town they should lay low. In walks Doc after buying every beautiful woman in town. Who all turned out to be bounty hunters.
* TraumaCongaLine: [[spoiler:The more we learn about [[HarmfulToMinors Rei/"Zero"'s childhood,]] the less surprising it is about the way he [[SuperpoweredEvilSide turned]] [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds out.]]]]
* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: Kurohime will do anything to achieve peace. ''''[[NobleDemon ANY]][[RageAgainstTheHeavens TH]][[KillEmAll ING.]]''''

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** Better yet, the cloaked man (Kandata) that saved "Zero" and Kurohime from the River Styx and followed them back to the past? [[spoiler: [[JerkAss He's Doc.]]]]
** [[spoiler:The Spirit King of Wind, Seiryu? It was the SEA DRAGON THE WHOLE TIME.
Doc, Rei and Zero's JerkAss foster father.]]
** [[spoiler:The Spirit King of Wind, Seiryuu, has always been the Sea Dragon.]]
* TooDumbToLive: After Wolf Brigade captain Rider found In the past arc, Raida finds out that they were he and the rest of the team are wanted for steeling stealing money from the troop’s money. armies at the Lion Castle. He suggested since they were unknown in the town they should lay low. In low--and in walks Doc after buying with practically every beautiful woman in town. Who town on his arms. [[spoiler:They're all turned out to be bounty hunters.
hunters to boot.]]
* TraumaCongaLine: [[spoiler:The more we learn about [[HarmfulToMinors Rei/"Zero"'s childhood,]] Rei's childhood, the less surprising it is about to realize how the way trauma shaped him into the version of "Zero" he [[SuperpoweredEvilSide turned]] [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds out.]]]]
tries to live as by the start of the manga.]]
* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: Kurohime [[spoiler:Kurohime will do anything to achieve peace. ''''[[NobleDemon ANY]][[RageAgainstTheHeavens TH]][[KillEmAll ING.]]''''If that means she kills entire castles of people and absorbs their souls to fight the gods on even footing, or betrays everyone that ever believed in her so that she can get to the gods and face them one-on-one? She'll do it without a moment's hesitation.]]



* WishfulProjection: Zero's image of Kurohime isn't a particularly good match for reality; he remembers her as being kind and gentle to him, but as Himeko and Kurohime both, she treats him very badly.

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* WishfulProjection: Zero's image of Kurohime isn't a particularly good match for reality; he remembers her as being kind and gentle to him, but as Himeko and Kurohime both, she treats him very badly. [[spoiler:However, considering that as Rei, he was doted on by a much kinder and mature Himeko as well as a past!Kurohime that knew about his role in her futre as Himeko, it makes sense that he thinks about her this way.]]



** Chapter 59 seems to serve as such for the Past arc; [[spoiler:Zero is gravely wounded, partially thanks to Doc, and Rei snaps, becoming a Death God.]]
** Chapter 71 more or less begins with [[spoiler:[[CruelAndUnusualDeath Kurohime's death.]]]]
** Chapter 73: HOLY HELL, [[spoiler:[[GrimReaper ZERO'S]] [[DarkIsEvil BACK!!!]]]]

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** Chapter 59 seems to serve as such kicks off one for the Past arc; [[spoiler:Zero is gravely wounded, partially thanks to Doc, and Rei snaps, becoming a Death God.God not long afterward. Himeko dies briefly, but Kandata's interference gives her one more shot at rectifying the situation--which unfortunately ends with Zero dying to ensure Rei revives.]]
** Chapter 71 more or less begins with [[spoiler:[[CruelAndUnusualDeath Kurohime's death.death and the near end of everything, only reversed when Asura uses the next chapter to step back in time and get absorbed into the Yamato Senryuutou.]]]]
** Chapter 73: HOLY HELL, [[spoiler:[[GrimReaper ZERO'S]] [[DarkIsEvil BACK!!!]]]][[spoiler: Dark Zero shows up again for a final showdown with Hmeko.]]



* WhatTheHellHero: In chapter 77, Zero calls Himeko on [[UnwantedAssistance her various attempts to save his life.]]
* [[spoiler:WorldHalfFull: The world is literally destroyed but humanity ultimately survives and populates a new planet.]]

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* WhatTheHellHero: In [[spoiler:In chapter 77, Zero calls Himeko on [[UnwantedAssistance her various attempts to save his life.life]], especially since her interference only made his life worse in a lot of ways.]]
* [[spoiler:WorldHalfFull: The WorldHalfFull: [[spoiler:By the manga's end, the world is literally destroyed but and Asura's been sealed into the Ultimate Sword. However, some remnant of humanity ultimately survives and populates a new planet.planet free of the gods, while Ouka gets her father back and Doc is revived as a much better person than he was when he died.]]



* YouCantFightFate: Yashahime and Sword are huge believers in the power of predestination.

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* YouCantFightFate: Yashahime and Sword are huge believers A major recurrence in the power Past Arc. [[spoiler:In the end, despite her best efforts, Himeko is unable to do this for Rei and Zero, resulting in the latter's death and a ''lot'' of predestination.suffering for the former; Ouka accidentally compounds her own trauma by accidentally killing her father in front of her younger self's eyes.]]

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Now with a [[Characters/{{Kurohime}} character page.]] In terms of spoilers, if it's been published in the English manga already, it's probably not a spoiler anymore.

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Now with a [[Characters/{{Kurohime}} character page.]] In terms of spoilers, if it's been published in the English manga already, it's probably not a spoiler anymore.
]]



* WishfulProjection: Zero's image of Kurohime isn't a particularly good match for reality.



* [[spoiler:TomatoSurprise, with a touch of MindScrew: The Zero that Himeko knows is ''Rei.'' Before the Past arc, Himeko had never met the actual Zero.]]

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* [[spoiler:TomatoSurprise, with a touch of MindScrew: The TomatoSurprise: There are three major ones that come up in the series.
** [[spoiler:The
Zero that Himeko knows is ''Rei.'' Before the Past arc, Himeko had never met the actual Zero.]]



** And to up the ante: [[spoiler:The Spirit King of Wind, Seiryu? It was the SEA DRAGON THE WHOLE TIME.]]

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** And to up the ante: [[spoiler:The Spirit King of Wind, Seiryu? It was the SEA DRAGON THE WHOLE TIME.]]



** Then there was his plan to turn Rei into a shinigami
* TraumaCongaLine: The more we learn about [[HarmfulToMinors Zero's childhood,]] the less surprising it is about the way he [[SuperpoweredEvilSide turned]] [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds out.]]
* TroubledButCute: Zero, Rei, Rider and Kazuma.

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** Then there was his plan to turn Rei into a shinigami
* TraumaCongaLine: The [[spoiler:The more we learn about [[HarmfulToMinors Zero's Rei/"Zero"'s childhood,]] the less surprising it is about the way he [[SuperpoweredEvilSide turned]] [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds out.]]
* TroubledButCute: Zero, Rei, Rider and Kazuma.
]]]]



* WhamEpisode: Shit gets real after Zero dies.
** Chapter 59 seems to serve as such for the Past arc.

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* WishfulProjection: Zero's image of Kurohime isn't a particularly good match for reality; he remembers her as being kind and gentle to him, but as Himeko and Kurohime both, she treats him very badly.
* WhamEpisode: Shit gets real after Zero dies.
[[spoiler:Zero dies saving Kurohime from the Sanzu River.]]
** Chapter 59 seems to serve as such for the Past arc.arc; [[spoiler:Zero is gravely wounded, partially thanks to Doc, and Rei snaps, becoming a Death God.]]



** Chapter 74: [[spoiler:[[PlanetEater Gods used to be planets?]] What do you mean, YASHAHIME [[ImplacableMan IS STILL RUNNING AROUND?!??!?]]]]

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** Chapter 74: [[spoiler:[[PlanetEater Gods [[spoiler:Two major reveals come out of this chapter: [[PlanetEater gods used to be planets?]] What do you mean, YASHAHIME [[ImplacableMan IS STILL RUNNING AROUND?!??!?]]]]planets]], and literally exist by eating them. On top of that, Yashahime ''[[ImplacableMan still isn't dead.]]'']]



** And the [[OurMermaidsAreDifferent merfolk]] that kidnapped Kazuma?
** Has anyone seen [[AnIcePerson Yukio and O-yuki?]]

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** And the [[OurMermaidsAreDifferent merfolk]] that kidnapped Kazuma?
** Has anyone seen [[AnIcePerson
Yukio and O-yuki?]]O-yuki also seem to vanish after a certain point in time.



* {{Yandere}} / CuteAndPsycho: Lord love a duck, Yashahime.
* YouCantFightFate: Yashahime and Sword are huge believers in this.

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* {{Yandere}} / CuteAndPsycho: Lord love a duck, Yashahime.
{{Yandere}}: Yashahime fits this perfectly. She's monomanically focused on Darkray and will kill literally ''anyone'' that she thinks is getting too close to him.
* YouCantFightFate: Yashahime and Sword are huge believers in this.the power of predestination.
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* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: Kurohime will do anything to achieve peace. ''''[[NobleDemon A]][[JerkassFacade NY]][[RageAgainstTheHeavens TH]][[KillEmAll ING.]]''''

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* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: Kurohime will do anything to achieve peace. ''''[[NobleDemon A]][[JerkassFacade NY]][[RageAgainstTheHeavens ANY]][[RageAgainstTheHeavens TH]][[KillEmAll ING.]]''''



* ZeroApprovalGambit: See JerkassFacade.
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* HiddenHeartOfGold: Kurohime is well known for her cruelty and arrogance...[[spoiler: but as it turns out, she purposely earned herself the reputation to give humanity something else to focus on besides the race to become a god.]]
** The village elder is a somewhat crotchety old woman with a stiff upper lip. [[spoiler: That is, until Kurohime dies, whereupon she runs off to make up with Asura, her ''daughter.'' At that point, the world was more or less doomed, and though she sincerely loved Asura, the elder had spent all of her "life" treating Asura like a tool.]]



* JerkassFacade: Kurohime is well known for her cruelty and arrogance...[[spoiler: but as it turns out, she purposely earned herself the reputation to give humanity something else to focus on besides the race to become a god.]]
** The village elder is a somewhat crotchety old woman with a stiff upper lip. [[spoiler: That is, until Kurohime dies, whereupon she runs off to make up with Asura, her ''daughter.'' At that point, the world was more or less doomed, and though she sincerely loved Asura, the elder had spent all of her "life" treating Asura like a tool.]]


* ActionDad: In "Aohime," Dan, a member of the Bullet Blade Brigade turned father. He took on his former comrades after they came after him and his "daughter."[[spoiler: [[OneManArmy Cuts through waves of Mooks]] with only two swords and after they manage to [[HandicappedBadass cut off his arm,]] he takes out a few more by [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome stealing a tank.]] He only died because of [[DidntSeeThatComing an opponent he knew nothing about.]]]]

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* ActionDad: In "Aohime," Dan, a member of the Bullet Blade Brigade turned father. He took on his former comrades after they came after him and his "daughter."[[spoiler: [[OneManArmy Cuts through waves of Mooks]] with only two swords and after they manage to [[HandicappedBadass cut off his arm,]] he takes out a few more by [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome stealing a tank.]] tank. He only died because of [[DidntSeeThatComing an opponent he knew nothing about.]]]]
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When a young child known only as Zero is saved from certain death by a [[ActionGirl powerful, beautiful witch-gunslinger known as Kurohime,]] he dedicates himself to justice in her name, and begins training to become a gunman himself. Ten years later, still in search of a now-missing Kurohime, Zero stumbles across a young girl calling herself Himeko, running away from the nefarious bandit Onimaru. As it turns out, Himeko, despite appearances, is much more than she seems--as evidenced by the legendary gun in her possession, Senryuu (lit., Tornado Dragon), she is actually the legendary Kurohime, turned into a child by the gods after a failed attempt to defeat them ten years ago.

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When a young child known only as Zero is saved from certain death by a [[ActionGirl powerful, beautiful witch-gunslinger known as Kurohime,]] he dedicates himself to justice in her name, and begins training to become a gunman himself. Ten years later, still in search of a now-missing Kurohime, Zero stumbles across a young girl calling herself Himeko, running away from the nefarious bandit Onimaru. As it turns out, Himeko, despite appearances, is much more than she seems--as evidenced by the legendary gun in her possession, Senryuu (lit., Tornado Dragon), Senryuu, she is actually the legendary Kurohime, turned into a child by the gods after a failed attempt to defeat them ten years ago.

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