- Anti-Climax Boss: A non-Videogame example: the second time Kotaro shows up in order to face Yaiba, he's bisected by Rokuemon Ishida's attack. Justified, because Kotaro was totally unaware of his plans.
- Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: the whole segment with the Arabian King is easly this. Also, any of the Filler stories can count. And the story of the Giant Electrical Eel.
- Ensemble Dark Horse:
- Emerald appeared briefly, but she's the third most popular character, right behind Sayaka and Yaiba.
- Nadeshiko has only one appearance in a filler chapter late in story, but she still manages to be 10th in the popular poll. In the 2025 remake, she shows up at the end of the first arc and has a much more prominent role as a member of Yaiba's group. Fans were not complaining about this in the slightest.
- Bat-Guy, appeared very briefly but is well-remembered for breaking the trend of being an Animal-based gimmick of the other Hakki members by being a surprisingly competent swordsman that forced Yaiba into a corner.
- Hilarious in Hindsight: Miyamoto Musashi is often compared to Kame-Senn'in/Mutenroshi (Master Roshi) from Dragon Ball, from Dragonball Z Kai onwards, Masaharu Sato, who voiced Musashi in the 1993 TV anime, is now Kame-Senn'in's current voice actor note
- A certain bald superhero looks very similar to Onimaru, which retroactively makes it hard to take Onimaru seriously. To make this even more funnier in hindsight, the production team behind the first season of One Punch Man and its sister series, Mob Psycho 100 would end up helming the 2025 adaptation of the series.
- The First Class Soldiers from The Pyramid Arc were females with names based on precious stones, created personalised weapons, and could fuse into a stronger form. Two decades later...
- A Shōnen series starring a knuckleheaded, pointy-haired Kid Hero ends with a Princess Kaguya-themed Big Bad? Hmmm...
- Nightmare Fuel: Here is the link.
- Unintentionally Sympathetic: Onimaru was seen by Yaiba as an annoying rival, but initially it's Yaiba that was instigating the conflict with Onimaru trying to be the reasonable one to refuse what appeared to be a junior. It's only after Yaiba almost got him killed that Onimaru was justifiably angry enough to try and fight him for almost doing him in. However, when Onimaru becomes demonic with aspirations of world conquest, this trait dissipates.
- The new adaptation lessens this, as while Yaiba does the same things, Onimaru also attacked Kagetora while Shinosuke attacked his pidgeons to get at their food, making it mutually personal on both fronts.
- Viewer Gender Confusion: Jewel is quite androgynous, but is supposedly male (even though he was composed of female cyborgs...). Also Rain. She's totally androgynous, but she refers to herself as female.
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