History VisualNovel / YoJinBo

* ShoutOut: To ''everything''. ''Franchise/StarWars'', ''Franchise/StarTrek'', ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'', ''{{WesternAnimation/Superfriends}}'', ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture'', ''Film/MenInBlack'', ''Film/MadMax'', ''Film/ConAir'', ''Anime/HowlsMovingCastle'', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmtzQCSh6xk the Numa Numa song]], [[http://www.hampsterdance.com/classics/originaldance.htm the hamster dance website]], "Literature/HanselAndGretel", Creator/MrT, ''Literature/ADogOfFlanders'', ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', ''LordOfTheRings'', ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'', ''Literature/PeterPan'', ''Series/TheFlyingNun'', [[GameShow Game Shows]], ''Franchise/StargateVerse'', ''Anime/FinalFantasyTheSpiritsWithin''... not to mention more expected things, like Japanese historical figures [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abe_no_Seimei Abe no Seimei]], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minamoto_no_Yoshitsune Minamoto Yoshitsune]], and UsefulNotes/NobunagaOda.

* GreenEyes
** Hatsuhime, who is always sneaking out of the castle and can be a sharp-tongued spitfire.
** Jin, who is occasionally hotheaded and tempermental.
** Sayori, who doesn't fit the stereotype at all.

* YouFailYourMedicalBoardsForever: [[spoiler: When Yo is shot, Mon-Mon sews the wound shut in a cave (at least he did have the sense to sterilize the needle in the fire first...). And Hatsuhime gets hit over the head, knocked unconcious, and wakes up with little more than a slight headache.]]

* TryingToCatchMeFightingDirty: Kasumimaru. The guys call him a coward for not facing them head-on; he says that's just how a ninja fights.

* ShoutOut: To ''everything''. ''Franchise/StarWars'', ''Franchise/StarTrek'', ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'', ''{{WesternAnimation/Superfriends}}'', ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture'', ''Film/MenInBlack'', ''Film/MadMax'', ''Film/ConAir'', ''Anime/HowlsMovingCastle'', [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmtzQCSh6xk the Numa Numa song]], [[http://www.hampsterdance.com/classics/originaldance.htm the hamster dance website]], "Literature/HanselAndGretel", Creator/MrT, ''Literature/ADogOfFlanders'', ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', ''LordOfTheRings'', ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'', ''PeterPan'', ''Series/TheFlyingNun'', [[GameShow Game Shows]], ''Franchise/StargateVerse'', ''Anime/FinalFantasyTheSpiritsWithin''... not to mention more expected things, like Japanese historical figures [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abe_no_Seimei Abe no Seimei]], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minamoto_no_Yoshitsune Minamoto Yoshitsune]], and UsefulNotes/NobunagaOda.

* ToiletHumour: One PeterPan reference is lampooned into [[spoiler: Peter Pancreas, from Sometimes But Only Very Occasionally Land, who fights Captain Hookworm.]]

* BodyguardCrush: The game is called "The Bodyguards". What do you ''think'' it's about?

* {{Fanservice}}: Six guys + hot spring. You do the math.

** HeroicSecondWind: Often part of the above.

* BrownEyes: Muneshige, who is stable and loyal.

* RedheadedHero: Jin.

Not to be confused with the similarly titled Creator/AkiraKurosawa film ''Film/{{Yojimbo}}''

One of the [[NoExportForYou few officially translated Japanese]] {{Visual Novel}}s without any {{hentai}} content. An [[SlidingScaleOfSillinessVersusSeriousness extremely silly]], [[RuleOfFunny extremely funny]] romp through medieval Japan.

* BlondGuysAreEvil: Ittosai.

* InstantAwesomeJustAddNinja: [[spoiler: In Yo's Good ending, Sayori herself even decides to become a ninja.]]

* ShoutOut: To ''everything''. ''Franchise/StarWars'', ''Franchise/StarTrek'', ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'', ''SuperFriends'', ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture'', ''Film/MenInBlack'', ''Film/MadMax'', ''Film/ConAir'', ''Anime/HowlsMovingCastle'', [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmtzQCSh6xk the Numa Numa song]], [[http://www.hampsterdance.com/classics/originaldance.htm the hamster dance website]], "Literature/HanselAndGretel", Creator/MrT, ''Literature/ADogOfFlanders'', ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', ''LordOfTheRings'', ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'', ''PeterPan'', ''Series/TheFlyingNun'', [[GameShow Game Shows]], ''Franchise/StargateVerse'', ''Anime/FinalFantasyTheSpiritsWithin''... not to mention more expected things, like Japanese historical figures [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abe_no_Seimei Abe no Seimei]], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minamoto_no_Yoshitsune Minamoto Yoshitsune]], and UsefulNotes/NobunagaOda.

One of the [[NoExportForYou few officially translated Japanese]] [[VisualNovel Visual Novels]] without any {{hentai}} content. An [[SlidingScaleOfSillinessVersusSeriousness extremely silly]], [[RuleOfFunny extremely funny]] romp through medieval Japan.

* JapaneseHonorifics: Heard in the voiceovers, but rarely translated. One particular annoyance is for the subtitles to render ''Hatsuhime'' as "Princess Hatsuhime", as if the title were part of her name.
* JapanesePronouns: Heard in the voiceovers. Being samurai, most of the guys use ''sessha,'' excepting only Yo (''boku'') and Jin (''ore''); Bo sometimes uses ''watashi'' as well.

* ShoutOut: To ''everything''. ''StarWars'', ''Franchise/StarTrek'', ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'', ''SuperFriends'', ''Film/BackToTheFuture'', ''Film/MenInBlack'', ''Film/MadMax'', ''Film/ConAir'', ''Anime/HowlsMovingCastle'', [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmtzQCSh6xk the Numa Numa song]], [[http://www.hampsterdance.com/classics/originaldance.htm the hamster dance website]], "Literature/HanselAndGretel", Creator/MrT, ''Literature/ADogOfFlanders'', ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', ''LordOfTheRings'', ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'', ''PeterPan'', ''TheFlyingNun'', [[GameShow Game Shows]], ''Franchise/StargateVerse'', ''Anime/FinalFantasyTheSpiritsWithin''... not to mention more expected things, like Japanese historical figures [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abe_no_Seimei Abe no Seimei]], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minamoto_no_Yoshitsune Minamoto Yoshitsune]], and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobunaga_Oda Nobunaga Oda]].

* ShoutOut: To ''everything''. ''StarWars'', ''Franchise/StarTrek'', ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'', ''SuperFriends'', ''Film/BackToTheFuture'', ''Film/MenInBlack'', ''Film/MadMax'', ''Film/ConAir'', ''Anime/HowlsMovingCastle'', [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmtzQCSh6xk the Numa Numa song]], [[http://www.hampsterdance.com/classics/originaldance.htm the hamster dance website]], "Literature/HanselAndGretel", Creator/MrT, ''Literature/ADogOfFlanders'', ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', ''LordOfTheRings'', ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'', ''PeterPan'', ''TheFlyingNun'', [[GameShow Game Shows]], ''{{Stargate}}'', ''Anime/FinalFantasyTheSpiritsWithin''... not to mention more expected things, like Japanese historical figures [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abe_no_Seimei Abe no Seimei]], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minamoto_no_Yoshitsune Minamoto Yoshitsune]], and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobunaga_Oda Nobunaga Oda]].

* NoGuyWantsAnAmazon: Played with by Muneshige in his Good ending. [[spoiler: He claims that, though he cared for Hatsuhime, he never felt romantically about her until her personality changed when Sayori took over (then he fell head-over-heels in less than a week). Remember that Hatsuhime was a brash tomboy, and Sayori is much quieter and more traditional - he often praises how refined and elegant she is suddenly behaving. UnfortunateImplications or just ValuesDissonance? Or maybe a bit of both.]]

* EvilEye: Kasumimaru's artificial left eye, which is key to the spell he uses to blind his opponents.

* WhiteHairedPrettyBoy: Kasumimaru. Mon-Mon's hair is also white (or silver, as he insists), but he's quite masculine and also entirely a nice person.

* GenerationXerox: [[spoiler: In Mon-Mon's Bad ending, Sayori meets a man who is the decendant of Yahei. He looks ''exactly'' like Yahei. And in Mon-Mon's Good ending, Hatsuhime says she and Sayori are probably related by blood due to the fact that she could summon her through the pendant. You'd think the identical face would've given it away...]]

* BishieSparkle: Some of the more painterly scenes have an accompaniment of these.

* HeWhoMustNotBeSeen: And she. Any of Sayori's modern-day history club members and any servant girls or vasals in the castle will not have any face at all. Sayori herself is never shown in a full-body shot (outside of special painterly images), but only as a small face beside her speech. She's also unvoiced.

* TheComicallySerious: The guys often try to get Ittosai in on their jokes. He wants none of it.

* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: The reason for including Ittosai.

* GuideDangIt: Your ability to progress down certain characters' paths are dependent upon seemingly meaningly ButThouMust choices in the beginning of the game, before you have even meet said characters.

--> '''Monzan:''' "They said, 'Oh, all I want is a gentle man," but what they're really after is some [[{{Bishounen}} frouffy]] [[DefrostingIceQueen ice queen]] or a [[AllGirlsWantBadBoys glasses-wearing sociopath]]."

* StandardHeroReward: Considering that the Good endings have [[spoiler: Sayori, usually still stuck in Hatsuhime's body, marrying or at least getting together with the guy]], yeah. In Muneshige's Good ending, [[spoiler: Hatsuhime's spirit must haunt Yahei for a week or two in order to convince him that it would be alright for the princess to marry a vasal.]]

* BodySnatcher: Sayori is kinda forced to be one, since she's suddenly thrust into Hatsuhime's body, but some endings later reveal Hatsuhime was still in the back of her mind watching everything. Other endings establish that Hatsuhime has snatched Sayori's body in the meantime and has been enjoying herself immensely. [[spoiler: Yo's Good ending has Hatsuhime and ''Mon-Mon'' switching bodies, so that Sayori is in Hatsuhime's body, Hatsuhime is in Mon-Mon's body, and Mon-Mon is in Sayori's body back in the present. No mention of what Sayori thinks of having a perverted monk inhabiting her body...]]

* ArrangedMarriage: Hatsuhime was going to be married off to a ''ten-year-old'' by her retainer.