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* ShameIfSomethingHappened: Inverted when Mizu first starts hiding in Swordfather's home after he's sent her away. Realizing that she never left, he starts saying "would be nice if someone made tea" and "would be nice if someone built up the fire", prompting Mizu's hands to appear from offscreen offering whatever he's talking about.
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** Swordfather gives young Mizu a rap with his tongs whenever she messes up. However he always explains what she did wrong and it teaches her the precision needed for his craft. In one scene he goes to hit her but she immediately corrects the mistake, [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure so he doesn't]].
* YourCheatingHeart: Taigen is celebrating his impending nuptials with sake and prostitutes, until Mizu interrupts the celebration.

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** Swordfather gives young Mizu a rap with his tongs whenever she messes up. However he always explains what she did wrong and it teaches her the precision needed for his craft. In one scene he goes to hit her but she immediately corrects the mistake, [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure so he doesn't]].
* YourCheatingHeart: Taigen is celebrating his impending nuptials with sake and prostitutes, until Mizu interrupts the celebration.
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* WaterWakeup: Mizu rubs snow on her face to revive herself after Taigen knocks her down.
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* IneffectualDeathThreat: Three members of the Shindo school are glad when Mizu refuses to leave, because now they have an excuse to kill her. SmashCut to being tossed through the shōji by Mizu, who isn't even holding a weapon.

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* IneffectualDeathThreat: Three members of the Shindo school are glad when Mizu refuses to leave, because now they have an excuse to kill her. SmashCut to all three being tossed through the shōji by Mizu, who isn't even holding a weapon.
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** Swordfather gives young Mizu a rap with his tongs whenever she messes up. However he always explains what she did wrong and it teaches her the precision needed for his craft. In one scene he goes to hit her but she immediately corrects the mistake, [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure so he doesn't]].

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** Swordfather gives young Mizu a rap with his tongs whenever she messes up. However he always explains what she did wrong and it teaches her the precision needed for his craft. In one scene he goes to hit her but she immediately corrects the mistake, [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure so he doesn't]].doesn't]].
* YourCheatingHeart: Taigen is celebrating his impending nuptials with sake and prostitutes, until Mizu interrupts the celebration.
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* IneffectualDeathThreat: Three members of the Shindo school are glad when Mizu refuses to leave, because now they have an excuse to kill her. SmashCut to being tossed through the shōji by Mizu, who isn't even holding a weapon.


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* WhoDares: Mizu cops a lot of this from the students and teachers at the Shindo dojo. Unfortunately for them, she does.
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* IneffectualDeathThreat: Three members of the Shindo school are glad when Mizu refuses to leave, because now they have an excuse to kill her. SmashCut to being tossed through the shōji by Mizu, who isn't even holding a weapon.


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* WhoDares: Mizu cops a lot of this from the students and teachers at the Shindo dojo. Unfortunately for them, she does.
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* BlindAndTheBeast: Mizu feels guilty about receiving the blind Swordfather's hospitality and tutelage, and blurts out the truth about her mixed blood, but he refuses to send her away. Before departing as an adult, Mizu also tries to tell him that she's a SweetPollyOliver but Swordfather cuts her off, implying that he's either guessed the truth or simply doesn't want to know anything that might affect how he regards his apprentice.
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** Young Mizu gets beaten up by the other village boys, lead by Taigen.

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** Young Mizu gets beaten up by the other village boys, boys lead by Taigen.Taigen, who it's implied was going to kill her before the meteorite impact scares him off.
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* HardWorkHardlyWorks: Averted. After discovering Mizu making a kitchen knife, Swordfather tells her to make a thousand more, and then she might be ready to start on swords. By the time Mizu leaves she's SurpassedTheTeacher, having forged the ThunderboltIron that Swordfather was unable to melt down into her own sword.
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* TraumaticHaircut: Mizu cuts off Taigen's topknot after he insults her about her ethnicity, leaving him with a large bald patch. Afterward, his fellow trainees turn away from him, since honor is stored in the topknot.

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* TraumaticHaircut: Mizu cuts off Taigen's topknot after he insults her about her ethnicity, leaving him with a large bald patch. Afterward, his fellow trainees turn away from him, since honor is stored in the topknot.topknot.
* WouldHurtAChild:
** Young Mizu gets beaten up by the other village boys, lead by Taigen.
** Swordfather gives young Mizu a rap with his tongs whenever she messes up. However he always explains what she did wrong and it teaches her the precision needed for his craft. In one scene he goes to hit her but she immediately corrects the mistake, [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure so he doesn't]].
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* CommonalityConnection: Lord Daichi is NouveauRiche and is considering marrying his daughter to a nobleman who will add to the family's wealth and status, but Akemi and Seki convince him to accept Taigen instead, whose rise to greatness from a lowly position, solely due to his skill as a samurai, is similar to Daichi's own rise to lord from the mere son of a pig farmer.
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* TrainingMontage: Mizu to Tomoyasu Hotei's theme from Film/BattlesWithoutHonorAndHumanity no less!

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* TrainingMontage: Mizu Mizu, to Tomoyasu Hotei's theme from Film/BattlesWithoutHonorAndHumanity ''Film/BattlesWithoutHonorAndHumanity'' no less!
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* HearTheMoney: Swordfather raps the meteorite with his tongs; hearing the ring of ThunderboltIron he muses that "the heavens throw treasure."

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* HearTheMoney: HearMeTheMoney: Swordfather raps the meteorite with his tongs; hearing the ring of ThunderboltIron he muses that "the heavens throw treasure."
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* HearTheMoney: Swordfather raps the meteorite with his tongs; hearing the ring of ThunderboltIron he muses that "the heavens throw treasure."

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* PetTheDog: Upon leaving Kyoto, Mizu throws the hair comb that she got from cutting off Taigen's topknot to the mother and girl huddled outside the gates, so that they sell it or bribe the guards to let them in.

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* PetTheDog: PetTheDog:
** Mizu is shown praying for aid in her quest for vengeance, but then she smiles and also asks that Swordfather be protected "from time and harm."
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Upon leaving Kyoto, Mizu throws the hair comb that she got from cutting off Taigen's topknot to the mother and girl huddled outside the gates, so that they sell it or bribe the guards to let them in.
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* SnowMeansDeath: Subverted; Mizu is introduced walking through the snow before meeting Hachiman, and then Taigen is told by his dojo master to kill Mizu, it cuts to them facing each other outside in the snow. But in neither case does she actually kill anyone.

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* SnowMeansDeath: Subverted; Mizu is introduced walking through the snow before meeting Hachiman, and then when Taigen is told by his dojo master to kill Mizu, it cuts to them facing each other outside in the snow. But in neither case does she actually kill anyone.
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* SnowMeansDeath: Subverted; Mizu is introduced walking through the snow before meeting Hachiman, and then Taigen is told by his dojo master to kill Mizu, it cuts to them facing each other outside in the snow. But in neither case does she actually kill anyone.
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* BrickJoke: While schooling the virgin Ringo in lovemaking, the prostitutes tell him that breasts are like peaches. At the end of the episode Ringo catches Mizu SkinnyDipping and can only say, "Peaches..."

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