History VisualNovel / YoJinBo

%%* WhipItGood: Kasumimaru uses a whip against Jin.

* TheChick: Sayori

* ArmorPiercingSlap: Sayori does this to Ittosai when he gets to be a real jerk. He doesn't react much other than to complain about being hit. She also does it to Mon-Mon when he feigns a fatal injury to gain sympathy, though it's less surprising that he doesn't strike back.

* BigBad: Harumoto.

* {{Bishonen}}: All the guys, but ''especially'' Bo. Shoot, even Harumoto is an evil pretty boy.

* DarkSkinnedRedhead: Jin.

* BigDamnHeroes: Sayori trips and falls as she and Muneshige are running to first escape the castle. The ninjas have her surrounded and are about to kill her. Enter five [[CasualDangerDialog wise-cracking heroes]]. Those poor ninjas never regain their competence.

* CasualDangerDialog: Plenty of it.

* ShoutOut: To ''everything''. ''Franchise/StarWars'', ''Franchise/StarTrek'', ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'', ''{{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'', ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'', ''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/OdaNobunaga.

* KnifeNut: Yo.

** There is also a shot up Sayori's skirt in the opening chapter.

** There is also a [[PantyShot shot up Sayori's skirt]] in the opening chapter.

* WhipItGood: Kasumimaru uses a whip against Jin.
* WhiteHairBlackHeart: Kasumimaru.
* WickedCultured: Harumoto.

* YouALLLookFamiliar / OnlySixFaces: Despite the numbers of ninja who attack you, there are only two faces. Despite the number of samurai, there are ''also'' only two faces. It gets especially funny when evil samurai and good samurai ''share the two faces''.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Muneshige, Bo, and even one of the unnamed ninja all have blue hair; Yo's is light green, and Harumoto's is purple.

--> '''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 [[BespectacledBastardBoyfriend glasses-wearing]] [[AllGirlsWantBadBoys sociopath]]."

* BespectacledBastardBoyfriend: Ittosai, at least for a while. His abusive behavior is an effort to drive Sayori away from him, and is thus abandoned completely once he finally accepts the idea that she has feelings for him.

* 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'', ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'', ''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/OdaNobunaga.

* NotSoDifferent: Kasumimaru tells Yo and Ittosai this. Ittosai also gets it from Nobumasa, leading to IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim.

* 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 does not have a full-body sprite, only a small portrait (although she does appear in a couple of [=CGs=]). She's also unvoiced.

* 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 her father for a week or two in order to convince him that it would be alright for the princess to marry a vasal.]]

* 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'', ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'', ''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.

* LeetLingo: Mon-Mon has one line traslated into 1337: $7|=U NOO|3!!!1! ([=STFU=] you noob!) [[spoiler: Jin also has one in Muneshige's Good end: j00 h4><><0r3d |V|y <3!!11! (You hacked my heart!)]]

* NoExportForYou: The [=PS2=] version, which includes extra romance paths for Kasumimaru and Harumoto not available in the PC version, is only available in Japanese.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Bo even reminds them to watch what they say, because they have to be on the lookout for the ESRB.

* TalkingInYourSleep: Both Yo and Ittosai do it during their BadDreams, mistaking Sayori for the people they are dreaming about (Yo's mother, Ittosai's father).

* BadDreams: [[spoiler: Stay in the cave with Yo or Ittosai and you'll get to watch one of these. Yo dreams of when he accidentally hurt his mother as a child. Ittosai dreams of his father, causing him to flip out and hold a knife to Sayori's throat.]]

* VagueAge: Everybody. Sayori is a high school student, and says that Yo is younger than her - but he claims he's over the age of consent in Europe, Canada, and most of the southern US. Muneshige says he's "middle aged", which could be anywhere from 35-50 (he looks the younger end of that), and Mon-Mon is described as older in relation to Yo...which is [[SarcasmMode extremely helpful, since he's the youngest one there]]. [[spoiler: Jin claims to be a teenager in the unlockable content.]] No mention of how old everyone else is, other than "adult".

* VagueAge: Everybody. Sayori is a high school student, and says that Yo is younger than her - but he claims he's [[LegalJailbait over the age of consent in Europe, Canada, and most of the southern US]]. Muneshige says he's "middle aged", which could be anywhere from 35-50 (he looks the younger end of that), and Mon-Mon is described as older in relation to Yo...which is [[SarcasmMode extremely helpful, since he's the youngest one there]]. [[spoiler: Jin claims to be a teenager in the unlockable content.]] No mention of how old everyone else is, other than "adult".

* EveryGirlIsCuterWithHairDecs: Hatsuhime has a big red bow in her hair.

* EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses

* JerkassFacade: [[spoiler: It's suggested that Ittosai deliberately drives people away due to his father's upbringing.]]

* YeGoodeOldeDays: Sayori never comments on the lack of modern comforts. In fact, she complains about the heat more in the first chapter, while she's still in the modern day, than she does after she's stuck in the past where nobody has air conditioning.
* YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe: Upon realizing she's trapped in the 1850's, Sayori's first line is "I doth appologizeth." Muneshige is rather confused.

* PurpleEyes: Ittosai, Bo.

* EverythingsBetterWithSpinning: Yo's special attack, Whirlwind Revolution Kick.

** In Jin's Good ending, [[spoiler: Mon-Mon mentions "that bit of fanservice in SpaceBattleshipYamato [[OutOfClothesExperience where all the women lose their clothes after they warp]]." They can't even keep it out of the shoutouts.]].