Akai Katana: Difference between revisions

* [[Absolute Cleavage]] -- Nazuna, the boss of stage 5 (''Akai Katana Shin'' only), wears an outfit with this.

* [[Archnemesis Dad]] -- Emperor Basho Saionji is this to Kikyou and Botan

* [[The Atoner]] -- All of the rebels.

* [[Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever]] -- In-game, the 'human' half of the player's team appears larger than the plane half and the boss models are giants as well. This is '''not''' [[Gameplay and Story Segregation]].

* [[BFG]] -- The spirit ninjas carry big guns, even relative to the size of their bodies.

* [[BFS]] -- Part of some of the new game modes in Shin. Killing things while being in Ninja mode summons giant blades around your character that are unleashed when the player switches back to the plane (but ''not'' when the green bar runs out).

* [[Blind Weaponmaster]] -- Botan Saionji is this for not just katana, but also ''piloting a fighter plane''.

* [[Butterfly of Death and Rebirth]] -- Shumeigiku, the boss of stage 2, wears a butterfly in her hair.

* [[Cast From Lifespan]] -- Shion Kobayakawa, the pilot of the third set of characters, bonded with a Blood Katana but lost her youth in the process.

** Also part of the game system. Having fewer lives will increase the length of the spirit bar, i.e. let you stay in Ninja mode for longer.

* {{spoiler|[[Cute Is Evil]] -- ''All'' of the cute child-like characters are evil, including Suzuran.}}

* [[Darker and Edgier]] -- It might be the darkest game CAVE put out since [[Do Don Pachi|DaiOuJou]]. Doesn't help that [[Treasure]] of [[Gunstar Heroes]] fame was involved in it as well...

* [[Dieselpunk]] -- The game's setting has the visual aesthetic and technology level of [[World War Two]].

** {{spoiler|Tsubaki kills herself with the Blood Katana in order to bring Sumire back to life, but then Sumire decides to kill herself because she doesn't want to live without Tsubaki.}}

** {{spoiler|Suzuran crushes Shion to death so that she can have the Blood Katana all to herself, but she ends up losing her youth to it just like Shion had.}}

* [[Drunk on the Dark Side]] -- For starters Emperor Basho killed his own wife just to get his own Blood Katana. {{spoiler|This also happens to Suzuran.}}

* [[Dual-Wielding]] -- The final boss does it - one Blood Katana made from his wife, and one made from himself.

* [[Evil Mentor]] -- Hiiragi is this to Sumire.

* [[Flower Motifs]] -- The three planes are named after flowers. Marigold, Sakura (Cherry Blossoms) and Orchid.

* [[Human Sacrifice]] -- The Blood Katana require these to be created.

* [[Imperial Japan]] -- The empire is explicitly described as similar to Taisho-era Japan.

* [[Katanas Are Just Better]] -- As if the title of the game was not enough, all of the player characters also carry one inside of their airplanes.

* {{spoiler|[[Mismatched Eyes]] -- Botan has a red eye and a blue eye.}}

* [[More Dakka]] -- This goes with the genre, but is made even more explicit in this particular game because the spirit ninjas also carry massive rotary cannons.

* [[Our Ghosts Are Different]] -- These ghosts are humongous phantoms with massive weapons, including chainguns that are the size of trains.

* [[Pinball Scoring]] -- Maybe not on the same level as [[Giga Wing]], but in some modes, it's possible to reach the first extend in Stage 1.

* [[Recurring Boss]] -- Hiiragi is fought twice.

* [[Spiritual Successor]] -- To [[Progear]].

* [[Summon Magic]] -- The bosses use this to summon ''mundane'' things like battleships, aircraft carriers, hordes of fighter planes, and so on.

* [[Supporting Protagonist]] -- The first pair of characters, the ones initially highlighted upon game start-up. The box art for the Xbox360 port features the second pair of characters. It's sort of ironic when you read the trope directly below.

* [[Tank Goodness]] -- Yep, goes with the typical [[CAVE]] enemy design.

* [[Tier-Induced Scrappy]] -- The second pair of characters probably is, as they're little videos of them actually being played.