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8 | ''Blood Ninja'' is a 2009 action-fantasy novel written by Nick Lake. |
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10 | The novel starts with young [[TheHero Taro's]] sickly father's death at the hands of ninja. Another ninja immediately pays a visit and assassinates the other ninja. He then convinces Taro's mother to fake her death and flee, giving her a messenger pigeon. Taro's own escape isn't easy, though - a horde of the first ninja's allies come to take him by force, and even with the backup of his [[HeterosexualLifePartners best friend Hiro]], [[WhamEpisode Taro ends up dying in the fray]]. |
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12 | Immediately the "good" ninja takes Taro and [[OurVampiresAreDifferent bites into his neck]], effectively bringing him BackFromTheDead, just in time to start the story. This ninja, named [[TheMentor Shusaku,]] proceeds to explain how all [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot ninja are vampires]] and, since Taro has been turned, he will also become a ninja. Together with Hiro, they will journey to the home base of Shusaku's ninja clan and later, find Taro's mother. |
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14 | A sequel, ''Blood Ninja II: The Revenge of Lord Oda'', was released in 2010. A second sequel will be released in 2012. |
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16 | Do not confuse with [[RobeAndWizardHat bloodninja]]. |
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18 | !! The novel and its sequel contain the following tropes |
19 | %%* {{Acrofatic}}: Hiro. |
20 | * BackFromTheDead: Taro, as outlined on the back of the novel. In the sequel, [[spoiler:Kenji Kira]]. |
21 | * BadassNormal: [[TheBigGuy Hiro,]] [[ActionGirl Yukiko,]] [[LadyOfWar Heiko.]] |
22 | %%* HandicappedBadass:[[spoiler:Shusaku]] in book two. |
23 | * BadBoss: Oda Nobunaga kills and maims those in his employ for the most insignificant reasons. |
24 | * BerserkMode: Taro gets locked into this after [[spoiler:passing the DespairEventHorizon in a fight]], and again after passing it halfway through the sequel. He snaps out of it both times. |
25 | * BigBad: UsefulNotes/OdaNobunaga gets this again. |
26 | * BlindWeaponmaster: [[spoiler:Shusaku]], after getting burned virtually everywhere. |
27 | * BloodlessCarnage: Averted. For a young adult novel, ''Blood Ninja'' can be quite bloody and gory at times. |
28 | %%* BowAndSwordInAccord: Taro. |
29 | %%* BoisterousBruiser: Hiro. |
30 | * BookEnds: Literally. The first novel's prologue and epilogue both describe [[spoiler:Yukiko's FaceHeelTurn]], from two different points of view. |
31 | * BunnyEarsLawyer: Tokugawa is... rather odd, but extremely intelligent. |
32 | %%* ChekhovsGun: The Buddha Ball |
33 | * TheChessmaster: Tokugawa's said to be not just two steps ahead - he's playing a whole different game. |
34 | %%* CrazyPrepared - UsefulNotes/TokugawaIeyasu. |
35 | %%* DeadpanSnarker: Hiro, sometimes. |
36 | %%* DefeatEqualsFriendship: [[spoiler:Little Kawabata]]. |
37 | %%* DemBones: [[spoiler:Looks like Kenji Kira got what he wanted]]. |
38 | * DrivenByEnvy: The male Kawabatas. Kawabata-''tousan'' [[spoiler:killed Shusaku's love because he wanted her]] and the son has burning desire to beat and kill Taro. |
39 | %%* DualWielding: Yukiko, by book two. |
40 | * EscapedFromHell: Subverted with [[spoiler:Kenji Kira]], who ''does'' escape from hell, but by sneaking out through a door someone left open. |
41 | %%* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:Yukiko.]] |
42 | * HealingFactor: Vampires heal really quickly. |
43 | * HighPressureBlood: The ending of the second novel has someone literally explode into blood. Yes, that's right. |
44 | * HeroicSacrifice: Both [[spoiler:Shusaku and Heiko]], until [[spoiler:Shusaku comes back]]. |
45 | * HonorBeforeReason: Taro holds this sort of mentality, but Shusaku repeatedly [[{{Deconstructed}} warns him of its impracticality]]. |
46 | * IAmNotLeftHanded: Oda ruined his right arm in a former battle, but regained his sword-saint status by training his left arm, except that he found out that while his right arm is weak, it's still ''fast''... |
47 | * InstantExpert: ''Everyone'' - or at least, all the ninja students - are said to "progress to the sword ... naturally, as if they hand spent their early childhoods wielding katana". |
48 | * {{Invisibility}}: Shusaku is [[spoiler:BlessedWithSuck]] - he had the Heart Sutra tattooed over his body, rendering him inivsible to other ninja. However he has to remove his clothes for it to work...and ninja burn in sunlight. |
49 | * IronicEcho: "''You told me there was no honor in this [[spoiler: .... Do you believe it still?]]''" |
50 | %%* JidaiGeki |
51 | * KingIncognito: [[spoiler: Taro is Tokugawa's son, hidden in the village he grew up in.]] And [[spoiler: Endo Shusaku was a former lord of Tokugawa's]]. |
52 | * LifeDrinker: ''Gaki'', or hungry ghosts, maintain form and presence by feeding off the life of others. Taro can see them, humans can't. |
53 | * MasterOfUnlocking: Taro takes Heiko on a mission with him specifically because she is this. |
54 | * NeverLearnedToRead: Both Taro and Hiro. They were peasants, after all. In the sequel, Hana teaches Taro to read. |
55 | * NinjaPirateZombieRobot: All you really need to know about the novel is that it features vampire ninjas. |
56 | * {{Orochi}}: Taro draws inspiration from this for a particular revenge scheme. |
57 | * OurVampiresAreDifferent: Well, for starters, they're ninjas. |
58 | %%* PeriodPiece |
59 | * PurpleProse: The author gets pretty florid describing Hana's beauty. |
60 | * PutOnABus: Taro's mom for book one. She returns in book two. |
61 | %%* RebelliousPrincess: Oda no Hana. |
62 | * RescuedFromTheUnderworld: Taro pulls off a rescue in the second novel. |
63 | * RevengeBeforeReason: Yukiko, in the sequel, tries to squeeze as much pain out of Taro as possible... which ultimately [[spoiler:blows up in her face]]. |
64 | * TechnicalPacifist: The Buddha Ball itself. Sure, it won't harm things directly, but... |
65 | %%* TheRival: "Little" Kawabata, to Taro. For a while, anyway. |
66 | * TheUndead: We've got vampires, ghosts that feed off your life force, and walking skeletons by the end of the second novel. |
67 | %%* ToHellAndBack: In the sequel. |
68 | * TomboyPrincess: Hana, said to have "the soul of a man". |
69 | %%* TwistEnding: A MASSIVE ONE, for the first novel. |
70 | %%* WarriorMonk: More than one sect of them, even, in book two. |
71 | * WeakenedByTheLight: The sun has this effect on vampires. |
72 | * WeatherControlMachine: The Buddha Ball can control nature. |
73 | %%* WellDoneSonGuy: Little Kawabata, very, very much. |
74 | * WhamLine: |
75 | ** "The truth is, Taro...[[spoiler:you are Lord Tokugawa's son.]]" closely followed by "[[spoiler:Lord]] Endo Shusaku at your service." |
76 | * WholesomeCrossdresser: Heiko briefly [[spoiler:pretends to be Taro so they kill her instead of him.]] |
77 | * YouKilledMyFather: Oda sent the ninjas who killed Taro's dad. [[spoiler:Well, not his ''biological'' father, but still...]] |
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