Line #169 Characters/SamuraiMaiden


1	!VideoGame/SamuraiMaiden
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5	[[foldercontrol]]
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7	!Tsumugi Tamaori And Her Party
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9	[[folder:In General]]
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11	[[quoteright:350: https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/31b600df_8ee6_4230_96b7_a65f81bd89fe.jpeg]]
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13	* AmazonBrigade: Tsumugi’s party is entirely comprised of women.
14	* BadassCrew: Every member of the team can kick ass.
15	* BattleHarem: The kunoichi trio seem to serve as this to Tsumugi.
16	* IntimateHealing: The Devoted Heart Technique involves a ninja and a samurai kissing to increase their powers.
17	* LuminescentBlush: When they preform the Devoted Heart Technique, Tsumugi and Komimi mutually blush when they kiss and just Tsumugi blushes when she and Hagane kiss.
18	* {{Ninja}}: Iyo, Komimi and Hagane are all kunoichi.
19	* PowerTrio: Iyo, Komimi and Hagane are three powerful Sengoku-era kunoichi.
20	[[/folder]]
21
22	[[folder:Tsumugi Tamaori]]
23
24	!Tsumugi Tamaori
25	!!!Voiced By: Yuki Yomichi
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27	[[quoteright:350: https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/6ef0c038_87d8_4f75_a9bd_829df94731c4.jpeg]]
28	[[caption-width-right:350: ''"Where am I? ''"]]
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30	TheHeroine. Before the game began, Tsumugi was a high school MasterSwordsman in the 21st century. She finds herself in the Sengoku period and allies herself with three kunoichi to defeat Oda Nobunaga.
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32	* ACupAngst: During her first Bubble Encounter with Hagana, she expresses jealousy over how big Hagana's boobs are compared to her own.
33	* AlliterativeName: '''T''' sumugi '''T''' amaori.
34	* BigEater: Tsumugi eats quite a lot and uses her sword training to keep off the pounds.
35	* ChickMagnet: Over the course of the game, even without the Album events, Tsumugi handily charms Iyo, Komimi and Hagane to her side without really trying.
36	* CluelessChickMagnet: Her profile notes that she’s popular with others but is unaware of it.
37	* IdiotHair: Tsumugi has a very prominent ''ahoge'', but does not seem particularly unintelligent.
38	* HeirToTheDojo: Tsumugi’s swordplay is so skilled that it is a given that she will succeed her grandfather in his dojo. Somewhat deconstructed, as Tsumugi notes that said dojo hasn't had any students in a long time, so she would have to work to find students.
39	* TheHeroine: Tsumugi Tamaori serves as the AudienceSurrogate as well as TheProtagonist for this game.
40	* KatanasAreJustBetter: Tsumugi’s weapon is a katana.
41	* LuminescentBlush: Tsumugi blushes when she performs the Devoted Heart technique with Komimi and Hagane in the trailer.
42	* MasterSwordsman: Tsumugi was already one before being sent back in time.
43	* MundaneUtility: Tsumugi uses her sword training as a dieting method.
44	* ObliviousToLove: At least according to her profile she is.
45	* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: Before the events of the game, Tsumugi was just a schoolgirl.
46	* SchoolUniformsAreTheNewBlack: Tsumugi’s SailorFuku serves as her main outfit.
47	* SailorFuku: This appears to be her IconicOutfit.
48	* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Her profile specifies that she prefers crepes above all else.
49	* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: The history book that she accidentally brought with her when she traveled back in time is what convinced Nobunaga to become the Demon Lord after her learned about his death and all the wars that the world suffers over the centuries.
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51	[[/folder]]
52
53	!!The Gokage
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55	[[folder:Iyo]]
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57	!Iyo
58	!!!Voiced By: Creator/MikuItou
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60	[[quoteright:350: https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/c392a683_0ffa_4db9_bb0f_2689a02cb46b.jpeg]]
61	[[caption-width-right:350: ''"I can do anything if it’s for Tsumugi Onee-sama! ''"]]
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63	Already living in the Sengoku period, Iyo joins Tsumugi’s BattleHarem and takes up the fight against the Demon Lord.
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65	* BrokenPedestal: Towards [[spoiler:Nobunaga once he decides to fuse with the Demon Lord and she starts questioning her view of him as a heroic, benevolent, if eccentric leader who only wants what's best for the world.]]
66	* CartoonBomb: She's capable of carrying two different varieties of them. First she gets time bombs, which explode a short time after being placed, then she gets contact bombs that explode after being struck by an attack or thrown by Komimi.
67	* DarkAndTroubledPast: She was orphaned by the constant fighting of the Sengoku Period, her parents being killed and her village razed until Nobunaga stumbles upon her and adopts her to become part of his ninjas.
68	* FirstNameBasis: Iyo calls Tsumugi “Tsumugi Onee-''sama''.
69	* HeroicSelfDeprecation: Iyo has low self-esteem despite her talents.
70	* HighlyVisibleNinja: Iyo already visually stands out, but on top of that she cannot mask her presence well.
71	* {{Irony}}: Despite being a ninja, Iyo is bad at stealth.
72	* UsefulNotes/JapaneseHonorifics: Onee-''sama'' can be an extremely formal way to refer to one’s older sister, but in this it is used to address an older woman you very much respect.
73	* {{Ninja}}: She is a Sengoku era kunoichi.
74	* RedIsHeroic: Iyo is garbed in mostly red and fights alongside the other heroes.
75	* ScarfOfAsskicking: Iyo is adorned in a sizable scarf and is no slouch in combat.
76	* WalkingArmory: Iyo is covered in hidden bombs, ninja tools, and kunai. Though she can only stock a handful of them per mission, their sheer size when deployed makes you wonder how she ever stores them so discreetly.
77	[[/folder]]
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79	[[folder:Hagane]]
80
81	!Hagane
82	!!!Voiced By: Creator/SumireUesaka
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84	[[quoteright:350: https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/0d5f45b7_e5af_45ba_924b_0a82bd839dc2.jpeg]]
85	[[caption-width-right:350: ''"I do adore girls who can express their feelings so openly.''"]]
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87	Hagane is another kunoichi, sent from a highly technologically-advanced parallel dimension to Iyo's world in order to prevent the resurrection of the Demon Lord. Aside from offering her cybernetics to aid in combat and traversal, Hagane also offers advice, emotional support, and pampering as the team's CoolBigSis.
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89	* ArtificialLimbs: Has this on her right arm, bionically weaponized and bigger than her other arm. Not only can it be used as a grappling hook to be able to move herself and Tsugumi across gaps, but can also be used as an ArmCannon.
90	* ArtificialLimbsAreStronger: Hagane’s arm is definitely an upgrade from a human one.
91	* BridalCarry: Hagane carries Tsumugi like this while swinging with her arm at one point.
92	* CoolBigSis: Hagane strongly gives off this impression. During her private conversations with Komimi later in the game, she explicitly says she's satisfied playing the role of an older woman who guides and supports the younger Tsumugi.
93	* {{Cyborg}}: Hagane has a visibly metal arm and drinks oil. She also mentions that many other parts of her have been replaced to be mechanical.
94	* TheCynic: Hagane is not an optimistic person. [[spoiler:This is because her world have predictive algorithms so advanced they can basically accurately predict the future and the entire society is based around mitigating the effects of these inevitable events, such as preemptively transforming someone into a cyborg before organs start to fail or become diseased.]]
95	* EatingMachine: Hagane can consume food and prefers oil. She's also quite the cook, despite the limited selection of ingredients in the underworld.
96	* ExtendableArms: Hagane can extend her arm great distances, both in battle and to move around.
97	* FrothyMugsOfWater: Though Hagane explicitly, literally consumes oil, because she's part machine, the game and dialog treats it no differently than her being addicted to alcohol. Tsumugi is shocked at how much Hagane can consume in a single sitting, Hagane uses it to cope with the stress of her job (similar to an alcohol addiction in real life), and she mentions waking up at noon everyday due to drinking the whole night, ''and then'' going straight back to drinking after she's awake.
98	* GoodProstheticEvilProsthetic: Hagane is an example of “Good Prosthetic”, using her prosthetic arm for good by assisting Tsumugi in her quest to prevent the resurrection of the Demon Lord and the subsequent destruction of Io's world and the parallel worlds that rely on it as a foundation.
99	* HiddenDepths: Underneath her mature and slightly playful demeanor lies a cynical and jaded heart.
100	* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: As Tsumugi's action begins to change Hagane's cynical, fatalistic outlook in life, [[spoiler:Hagane starts to fall in love with Tsumugi but, realizing that Tsumugi will likely have to return to her original timeline and they can never exist in the same plane, satisfies herself with playing the older sister and never telling anyone except Komimi about the truth of her feelings. While Hagane does kiss her for their ultimate Devoted Heart technique, it's not as explicit of a declaration of love as it is with Iyo and Tsumugi.]]
101	* KimonoFanservice: Hagane’s kimono is not at all modest. Kenshin particularly chides her about it, calling her a promiscuous woman with dubious morals whose outside matches her insides.
102	* LadyDrunk: Due to the stresses of being an overworked, underappreciated cyborg ninja who always gets her budget requests denied by her employers, Hagane has taken to consuming ''vast'' sums of oil, which is analogous to alcohol. She often talks about waking up every day around noon because she'd been too busy drinking the entire night, then goes right back to drinking even ''more'' in the afternoon, which makes the use of FrothyMugsOfWater very blatant and barely disguises her substance addiction. If you perform exceptionally well in combat and get an S-rank, Hagane gleefully mentions celebrating with "vintage oil" much like how someone would bust out vintage wine to commemorate a special occasion.
103	* LuminescentBlush: {{Averted}}. She is the only one not to blush when using the Devoted Heart technique in the trailer. This is likely due to her grown-up personality.
104	* ShockAndAwe: Hagane can electrify her arm to augment her attacks. She can either extend her arm and electrify the cable, or smash down in an area and call down lightning bolts around her for incredible damage.
105	* TeamChef: Downplayed. She only cooks for Tsumugi once in the game, but with the questionable ingredients of the Underworld, Hagane proves she wasn't lying when she said she wasn't a professional chef but did know her way around a kitchen.
106	* ThirdPersonPerson: She often refers to herself as Onee-''san'' in the Japanese dialog.
107	* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Hagane is noted to specifically like oil. The game treats is as no different than alcohol, as in the safe-to-drink ethanol.
108	* VictoriasSecretCompartment: When Tsumugi's smartphone inevitably runs out of battery, Hagane manages to recharge it by doing some intense exercise, raising her core temperature, then sticking the phone into her cleavage whereupon it successfully wirelessly recharges. One has to assume her mechanical arm just has too strong a voltage for delicate devices.
109	* YouCantFightFate: Hagane believes so. Her universe has created a "fortune teller" of sorts that analyzes data to completely accurately predict the future, up till the point of what diseases someone will contract and the affected organs will be replaced preemptively with cyborg replacements before they have to suffer. [[spoiler:After seeing how far Tsumugi will go to fight fate and change what Hagane's people believe to be immutable pasts and subsequent futures, Hagane begins to have hope for the future again.]]
110	* YouWillNotEvadeMe: She can grab a human-sized enemy and pull them to her with her Ninja Skill, though this [[AwesomeButImpractical doesn't have much practical use]].
111	[[/folder]]
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113	[[folder:Komimi]]
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115	!Komimi
116	!!!Voiced By: Creator/MiyuTomita
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118	[[quoteright:350: https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/0b633345_bca3_4e9c_b850_e729ac725922.jpeg]]
119	[[caption-width-right:350: ''"I’ll show you my Onmyōji!''"]]
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121	A kunoichi who has fox ears and a tail, thanks to her Divine Beast ancestry. According to herself, she can perform Onmyōji, casts spells on Tsumugi to enhance her abilities, and is generally a wellspring of knowledge about the Underworld and the supernatural. Komimi joins Tsumugi’s fight against the Demon Lord in order to claim his head for unknown reasons.
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123	* DarkAndTroubledPast: [[spoiler:Born a rare prodigy in intelligence and power, an existence that's only once in every few thousand years, Komimi quickly found herself in the midst of a brutal power struggle in her clan that ended up distancing her from her family and any potential friends. Ultimately, she was passed on the a ''shinobi'' branch family to get her away from the power struggles and potential assassinations, though Komimi only realizes all of this in hindsight after finally meeting Tsumugi and having someone who empathizes with her loneliness and desire to belong.]]
124	* GadgeteerGenius: Komimi is noted to a technological genius.
125	* GlacierWaif: Komimi easily wields a hammer larger than herself.
126	* FamousAncestor: In her timeline, she is descended from the Divine Beast Tamamo-no-Mae, as evidenced by her fox ears and tail.
127	* FriendlessBackground: [[spoiler:Because she was so much more advanced, skilled, and intelligent than her peers, everyone ended up distancing themselves from her or being distanced from Komimi so she could better focus on her studies. While Komimi claims that it was all for the better, it's very easy to see past the strong, mature, aloof facade she puts up.]]
128	* AnIcePerson: Komimi can encase her hammer in an icy air. Later, she can also spin it around and create an icy tornado.
129	* LittleBitBeastly: Komimi has a fox’s ears and a tail. These are a result of her descending from Tamamo-no-Mae, a fox Divine Beast.
130	* LuminescentBlush: She blushes when she and Tsumugi perform the Devoted Heart technique.
131	* NoSenseOfDirection: Without someone else, Komimi will quickly become lost. Hagane notes that Komimi was almost in tears at Honno-ji and if Hagane hadn't run into her then, she probably would have never met up with the others. This is also the in-universe justification of why Komimi is the last party member to be recruited after they get separated entering the Underworld.
132	* NoSocialSkills: Komimi can come across as arrogant despite meaning well
133	* OverlyLongName: Komimi Misakino Koya Hime Okasuga. There's a ''very'' good reason everyone is on a FirstNameBasis with her.
134	* ParentalAbandonment: [[spoiler:As a result of her incredible intelligence and skill that far surpassed her siblings and her parents were ill-equipped to deal with, Komimi's entire family ended up disowning her and leaving her with a temple that could better train her incredible magical capability. Komimi only realizes later on that they were just trying to protect her from the brutal power struggles of the clan, who wanted her to become the new head against the original succession order thanks to her incredible intelligence and power.]]
135	* PintSizePowerhouse: She's the smallest of the protagonists and physically the strongest, able to lift and throw objects larger than she is with ease as well as swinging around her massive hammer.
136	* PunnyName: “Mimi” translates into “ears”, which references her extremely prominent fox ears.
137	* ScienceWizard: Komimi is both a master of Onmyōji and a scientific powerhouse. Her specialty is in the Underworld and other parallel dimensions, specifically the prevention of any serious, world-ending anomalies like the Demon Lord reviving. She also is the one who casts or informs Tsumugi about spells and other supernatural goings on in the game.
138	* SweetTooth: She adores sweets and carries a massive trove of them wherever she goes. One of Komimi's Album events is Tsumugi failing to pass her training but Komimi sneaking sweets into her pockets anyway, as a show of camaraderie to a fellow sweets-enthusiast.
139	* TokenNonHuman: No other character seen so far is LittleBitBeastly. Komimi explains this as her parallel dimension having Divine Beasts, sacred animals akin to gods who granted their descendants these animal features.
140	[[/folder]]
141
142	!Antagonists
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144	[[folder:Oda Nobunaga]]
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146	!Oda Nobunaga
147	!!!Voiced By: Creator/TakayaKuroda
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149	[[quoteright:350: https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/8d56fb54_49c6_425e_9141_418ba3e73957.jpeg]]
150	[[caption-width-right:350: ''"I will slay all who oppose my rule!''"]]
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152	''The'' UsefulNotes/OdaNobunaga.
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154	* AmbiguouslyBrown: Nobunaga has a very noticeable tanned complexion.
155	* BadassBoast: Nobunaga declares he will slay all who opposes his rule in the trailer.
156	* BadassCape: Nobunaga is adorned with a high collared red cape.
157	* BigBad: Nobunaga is the primary antagonist of VideoGame/SamuraiMaiden.
158	* BeardOfEvil: Nobunaga sports a well-grown beard and is not exactly morally ambiguous.
159	* DemonKingNobunaga: Nobunaga is imagined as a villainous character here and this is not the [[Manga/TonoToIssho first]] time his seiyuu Creator/TakayaKuroda has played the character.
160	* NightOfTheLivingMooks: He commands a [[WarriorUndead undead army]].
161	* SamuraiPonytail: Nobunaga has his hair styled in such a manner.
162	* TattooedCrook: Mysterious tattoos cloak his arms.
163	* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:After reading Tsumugi's history book where wars continue on after he dies, he decides to become the Demon Lord to end wars.]]
164	[[/folder]]
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166	[[folder:Uesugi Kenshin]]
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168	!Uesugi Kenshin
169	!!!Voiced By: Emi Uema
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171	[[quoteright:350: https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/d196b555_59d1_4a85_8955_da4c3374febd.jpeg]]
172	[[caption-width-right:350: ''"Have you grown tired of living?''"]]
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174	''The'' UsefulNotes/UesugiKenshin.
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176	* AnimalMotifs: Kenshin is associated with dragons and utilizes them in her attacks.
177	* CloudCuckoolander: Kenshin is... dense. She seeks to stop the Demon Lord from being freed, but she isn't all there upstairs and makes up nonsense reasons about Tsumugi and the others are trying to free him (like deciding that Hagane wants the Demon Lord to wake her up in the morning) while refusing to listen to their protests that they're trying to ''stop'' the Demon Lord from being awoken. Komimi explains that it's a side effect of her having died with a strong enough obsession that her soul remained in order to continue seeking it.
178	* HistoricalGenderFlip: Kenshin was a man in real life, but a [[https://youtu.be/T-jmdxacY3w promotional trailer]] (jokingly) states that this game is actually the accurate representation of the warlord.
179	* RedBaron: Uesugi is well known as '' “The Dragon of Echigo” ''.
180	[[/folder]]
181
182	[[folder:Takeda Shingen]]
183
184	!Takeda Shingen
185	!!!Voiced By: Shuka Saito
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187	[[quoteright:350: https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/7d731960_de66_4802_be42_9850d8d91a22.jpeg]]
188	[[caption-width-right:350: ''"Shingen-chan is the strongest!''"]]
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190	''The'' UsefulNotes/TakedaShingen.
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192	* AnimalMotifs: Shingen is referred to as and associated with tigers.
193	* HistoricalGenderFlip: Shingen was a man in real life, but a [[https://youtu.be/T-jmdxacY3w promotional trailer]] (jokingly) states that this game is actually the accurate representation of the warlord.
194	* RedBaron: Is famously known as '' “The Tiger of Kai” ''.
195	* ThirdPersonPerson: Shingen refers to herself as Shingen-''chan'', as especially female, children do in Japan to sound cute.
196	* TokenMiniMoe: Shingen has the appearance of a child and behaves accordingly.
197	[[/folder]]
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