Aoi Shiro: Difference between revisions

* [[Ax Crazy]]: The result of using too much power from the cursed sword.

* [[Back From the Dead]]: Kaya, {{spoiler|AKA Natsu-nee-san.}}

* [[Badass Normal]]: Syouko, but especially Munetsugu, an old man with the swordsmanship to behead bulls in a single stroke and take on superpowered oni moving at speeds even ''he'' can't follow. Only twice is he ever defeated in one-on-one combat: the first time is in the climactic fight against {{spoiler|Kaya in her good end}} ({{spoiler|for all of two minutes, after which [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|he continues kicking ass]]}}); the second is in {{spoiler|the Grand Route}} ([[Offscreen Moment of Awesome|entirely offscreen]] {{spoiler|by Kaya, quite quickly}}).

* [[Barehanded Blade Block]]: {{spoiler|Syouko in the Grand Route. It helps that her right hand was actually the <<Sword>>}}.

* [[Cute Sports Club Manager]]: Yasumi.

* [[Demon Slaying]]: Migiwa. Not demons but rather oni. Whatever.

** Also, the stretching scene between Syouko and Yasumi.

** A non-erotic appearance of this trope is during {{spoiler|Yasumi's Happy End: <s>Shurelia</s>Nami/Yasuhime appears and sings <s>EXEC_SUSPEND/.</s>Umi Tsunami to <s>seal Mir</s>close the <<Gate>>. EXEC_SUSPEND/. and Umi Tsunami are strikingly similar, and both are sung by Noriko Mitose.}}

* [[Good Is Not Nice]]: In Yasumi's route mostly, Kohaku has a nasty habit of needlessly killing (directly or indirectly) Syouko, Yasumi, and anyone else who gets between her and the <<Sword>>. (Her way of dealing with a sinister ritual of human sacrifice, for example, is... to kill the sacrifices first.) Turns out in other routes that she's actually {{spoiler|Migiwa's backup}}. Both Kohaku and Migiwa have their [[Kick the Dog]] moments, as well.

* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: Several endings, like Munetsugu in {{spoiler|Kaya's good end}} and Yasumi in one of her ends.

* [[Hide Your Lesbians]]: Despite advertising and playing up its [[Girls Love]], the game does play itself fairly coy regarding any relationship confirmation. Yasumi's feelings for Syouko are blatant, and all of the main characters have ''some'' suggestive interactions with Syouko, but the closest Syouko ever approaches to romantic attraction is {{spoiler|with Kohaku}} of all people!

* [[Hime Cut]]: Ayashiro. She's even nicknamed Hime by the other kendo team members.

* [[Hot Chick With a Sword]]: Kaya is a textbook example.

* [[How Would You Like to Die]]: {{spoiler|To Syouko and Yasumi, Kohaku gives two options: crushed by Oniwaka or cut down by her}}.

* [[Ill Girl]]: Yasumi; {{spoiler|turns out simple anemia is not the issue}}.

* [[Idiot Ball]]: Not by her own fault, but rather that of the player, Syouko holds this quite often. She wanders around on sinking rocks, runs about in raging storms, and falls into the ocean... many, many times.

* [[Impaled With Extreme Prejudice]]: {{spoiler|Ba Ryouryuu}}, complete with lots of blood.

* [[Improbably Female Cast]]: There are only ''five'' male characters in the entire game; two of them are rarely seen, one is only heard, one of them is a [[Cool Old Guy]], and the final one is the [[Big Bad]].

* [[Indirect Kiss]]

* [[Kissing Cousins]]: {{spoiler|Syouko and Kaya, a.k.a. 'Natsu-neesan'}}

* [[Kendo Team Captain]]: Syouko

* [[Lesbian Vampire]]: Well considering it is in the same universe as ''[[Akai Ito]]''...

* [[Let's You and Him Fight]]: Expect to be killed by good-intentioned, but misdirected, characters. A lot.

* [[Little Miss Badass]]: Kohaku

* [[Male Gaze]]: One of the beach scenes spends an awful lot of time zoomed in on Yasumi's breasts.

* [[The Man Behind the Man]]

* [[Mini Game]] - Getting the final happy ending unlocks a 2D [[Hack and Slash]] minigame in the main menu that has [[Guide Dang It|no apparent connection]] whatsoever to the main story.

* [[Mismatched Eyes]]: {{spoiler|Kenki Kaya.}}

* [[The One Guy]]: Monk Yuukai

* [[Our Vampires Are Different]]

* [[The Promise]]: Syouko's promise in Yasumi's route to protect her. It's brought up quite a bit.

* [[Pinky Swear]]

* [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]]: {{spoiler|Kohaku, Yasuhime, and Nami}}

* [[Red Eyes Take Warning]]: {{spoiler|Ba Rouryuu}}. Subverted with {{spoiler|Kohaku}}, who we're led to believe is a baddie for quite a while.

* [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]: {{spoiler|Kaya is really pissed off since she thinks Syouko is dead}}; her mission is to kill those who she deems responsible. {{spoiler|Kohaku also in one bad end after finding out Yasuhime and Oyasu are one and the same decides to take revenge on the Nekatas and anyone in her way. Bad end, so that means you, too.}}

* [[Rules Lawyer]]: Yuukai. Hence, being able to drink alcohol and eat meat in a Buddhist temple while technically not doing anything prohibited.

* [[Scary Shiny Glasses]]: Aoi-sensei is prone to these when she's in the midst of a talking about a particularly gory legend or ghost story.

* [[Secret Test of Character]]: {{spoiler|Kohaku eggs Syouko (wielding the <<Sword>>) into a duel to see if she is capable of wielding it without losing her sense of self}}.

* [[Single Stroke Battle]]: Munetsugu is fond of this.

* [[Smashing Watermelons]]: According to Momoko a trip to the beach just isn't complete without it.

* [[Spoiler Opening]]: In case you never bothered to watch it, in order (and not comprehensive): {{spoiler|Kaya is not dead, there is a forest of red tsubaki that will scatter, Nami is Yasuhime, Yasumi is Syouko's childhood friend, Nekata killed Kaya, various bad ends, and the appearance of the big bad}}.

* [[Summon Magic]]: [[Goddamn Bats]] and a [[Giant Mook]].

* [[Taking You With Me]]: {{spoiler|Ba Rouryuu summons a nasty entity that consumes him in the process after Syouko stabs out his mystic eye.}}

* [[Talking Is a Free Action]] - During Kaya/Munetsugu's final fight in Kaya's route.

* [[The Many Deaths of You]]

* [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]]: Most notably used in Yasumi's route with Syouko/Yasumi.

* [[Tsurime Eyes]]: Fittingly, Kaya and Kohaku; also, much less fittingly, Ayashiro.

** More than one bad ending is a result of making some completely unrelated choice earlier in the game.

* [[Villains Out Shopping]]: Syouko and friends meet a fairly-friendly Ba Rouryuu in the shopping district, though they don't know who he is at that point.

* [[Wet Sari Scene|Wet Kimono Scene]]

* [[Wingding Eyes]]: Momoko

* [[Wistful Amnesia]]: Syouko in the normal end {{spoiler|"The Gap in the Shape of You in My Heart" in Yasumi's route}}, though "''[[Big No|despairing]]'' amnesia" is probably a better term.