Sword of Heaven



In an Alternate Universe Earth, there are two types of men: those who seek and gain power, and those who get their asses kicked thanks to a lack thereof. Some speak of a mystical artifact called the Power Drive, which can supposedly grant incredible power to the one who holds it. Enter Hotaru Myoujou; renegade, Ronin, and total jerk. Loads of mindless violence and action abound as he searches for the Power Drive.

This is a webcomic created by troper User:Blackmoon. Operates on the principle of Rule of Cool, and frequently suffers from Schedule Slip. Especially after the project was abandoned in 2009.

You can read what there is of it here.


 * Affectionate Parody
 * Animesque
 * Anachronism Stew: Aside from the modern slang in a fantasy-based milieu, the most recent chapter features two men with swords being attacked by a man with an alchemically-powered chaingun.
 * Art Shift: A random shift to a black and white page to emphasize change in location.
 * Captain Ersatz: Qingting for Ling.
 * Career Killer: Qingting and Karasu.
 * Deconstructor Fleet
 * Did Not Do the Research: Subverted; research is often done, but scrapped in favor of Artistic License.
 * Ensemble Darkhorse: Komadori proved surprisingly popular with the female readership.
 * Epic Flail: Flotsam wields a Meteor Hammer, a gigantic ball on a chain.
 * Five-Man Band
 * Hotaru, Komadori, Jetsam, Flotsam, . Note that the characters don't fall precisely into those roles- Hotaru is more of a Lancer, and Komadori more heroic, among other differences.
 * Gatling Good: The aforementioned alchemic chaingun.
 * Gratuitous Japanese: Parodied with Flotsam's weapon; its name is Japanese, but was intended to translate to Gratuitous Japanese Name.
 * The Rival: The Mongoose to Hotaru.
 * Ronin
 * Rule of Cool: Basically the whole point of the series.
 * Schedule Slip
 * Shout-Out: Oh god so many.
 * Blade of the Immortal: A discussion held in this page.
 * Ace Attorney: A one-shot character the page before that bears a remarkable resemblance to a witness in the first game's first case.
 * Naruto: Another one-shot character in the second chapter is visually based off of Lady Tsunade.
 * Not to mention all the chapter titles are based off of song titles.
 * Stealth Hi Bye: In their first confrontation, Furet manages to pull this off in plain view of Hotaru.