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Makina Hoshimura is a Corpse Princess ("Shikabane Hime") -- an undead girl who must earn her way into Heaven by
Things get complicated a year after she returns from the dead when Ouri, the adopted brother of her contracted monk, starts stumbling across her missions and taking an interest in the whole thing. Makina insists he doesn't get involved, but to no avail.
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Meanwhile, a renegade monk is using Shikabane to fuel his own power and direct it towards evil...
The '''''Corpse Princess''''' [[
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* [[Accidental Pervert]]: Ouri, a couple of times. Surprisingly, little to no attention is paid to him doing this.
* [[Action Girl]]: The Shikabane Hime, even though their Contractors generally kick-ass big time as well.
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* [[Anyone Can Die]]
* [[Attack Reflector]]: One episode featured a shikabane who could make his opponent take any damage they try to inflict on him. When Minai hit him in the face, she got thrown back as if she was the one who got hit, with a bruise on her face in the same spot she hit the shikabane.
* [[Author Appeal]]: At least one person involved with making the anime adaptation must have thought this; compare Rika in the [http://www.mangathat.com/mangas/Shikabane_Hime/5/18_shikabane_hime.jpg manga]{{Dead link}} to the [https://web.archive.org/web/20111205032533/http://cdn.myanimelist.net/images/characters/11/40204.jpg anime version].
* [[Bare-Fisted Monk]]: Minai's perfered fighting style is unarmed with only her spiked gauntlets.
* [[Beauty Equals Goodness]]: A Shikabane is fairly ordinary looking/attractive until it goes all crazy and stuff, at which point they turn into horrible monsters for more power. [[Justified Trope]]? Maybe.
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* [[Blood Brothers]]: Ouri and Keisei become some sort of this, because {{spoiler|to contract a Shikabane, the Contractor must have his own blood written in his palm by his Shikabane. This contract is transferable. Before Keisei died, he transferred the glowing red seal of Makina to Ouri.}}
* [[Boobs of Steel]]: While it is true that some of the series' [[Action Girl|Action Girls]] are quite buxom, this trope is really more inverted than played straight. Itsuki and Freshe are by far the bustiest Shikabane Hime, but they are relatively weak fighters compared to Makina and Kamika, both of whom have fairly modest assets, not to mention [[Cute Bruiser|Saki]], who's too young to have developed breasts at all. And Nozomi, one of the bustiest girls in the series, is just an ordinary high school student with no real fighting ability whatsoever.
* [[Bottomless Magazines]]: Makina fires something like 500 rounds each from her dual [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAC-11 machine guns] before changing magazines.
* [[Brainwashed and Crazy]]: Nozomi in episode 19 and 20
* [[Buxom Is Better]]: this is the opinion of Ouri's friend Ushijima. He openly complains about the lack of busty women in their class and obsesses over Nozomi because of her breasts, calling her "Omune-sama" ("Breast Goddess" in the dub).
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* [[Creepy Child]]: Ouri was like this, and also a [[Emotionless Girl|death-obsessed boy]]. He got better...maybe. Also Hokuto.
* [[Cute Bruiser]]: Saki.
* [[Daiju]]: The first anime was this until Akasha showed up.
* [[Dangerous Sixteenth Birthday]]: Ouri's 16th birthday is when he has to take over for Keisei {{spoiler|after the latter's death}}.
* [[Deus Ex Machina]]: {{spoiler|The Shikabane Hime restore their connection to their contracted monks through [[The Power of Friendship]].}}
* [[Domestic Abuse]]: Minai's backstory. Her boyfriend beat her and she eventually snapped and killed him then commited suicide.
* [[Dragon Ascendant]]: {{spoiler|Akasha.}}
* [[Drop the Hammer]]: Saki in the anime; in the manga, she has [[An Axe to Grind]]. In both cases, they are [[BFS|ludicrously oversized]], and apparently stored in [[Hammerspace]].
* [[Dual-Wielding]]: Kamika wields two katanas.
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* [[Foreign Fanservice]]: Fleshe.
* [[Gainaxing]]: It ''is'' made by [[Gainax]].
* [[Gender
* [[Good Old Fisticuffs]]: Minai. In the DVD bonus episode, Minai says she knows some boxing, which is what she uses to fight Shikabane.
* [[The Grim Reaper]]: Hokuto is as close as possible to being an embodiment of Death, {{spoiler|and it's the fault of Makina's ancestors}}.
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* [[Healing Factor]]: All the Shikabane and Shikabane Hime to some degree, but especially {{spoiler|Makina after Keisei's death, due to the curse she acquires because of her attachment to him}}.
* [[The Heartless]]: Shikabane
* [[Hot Chick
* [[Hot Librarian]]: Kamika, high priest Sougen's Shikabane Hime.
* [[Hot Springs Episode]]
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* [[Master Swordsman]]: Kamika. She even has the title "Sword Princess" due to her skills.
* [[Maybe Ever After]]: Despite the cliffhanger ending, the last dialogue between Ouri and Makina before the cliffhanger scene implies this:
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'''Makina:''' Monks aren't here for the dead.
'''Ouri:''' You're not dead. That's why you fight, isn't it? To stay alive. That's not something a dead person does.
And cue cheesy smile. And this is to say nothing of their dialogue before this one. }}
* [[More Dakka]]: Makina. Prefers [[wikipedia:Ingram MAC-11|MAC-11]] machine pistols.
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* [[Our Zombies Are Different]]: Shikabane are the supernaturally powerful undead forms of people who die harboring intense regrets or obsessions, which enable them to possess their bodies and return to a pseudo-life.
* [[Playing Against Type]]: In the dub, Akasha, Ena, and the black cat are played by actors who are more known for lead heroes than villains.
* [[Power Fist]]: Minai's spiked gauntlets.
* [[Razor Floss]]: Rika.
* [[Recap Episode]]: Episode 13.
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* [[Synchronisation]]: A Shikabane Hime can heal most wounds very quickly if her Contracted Monk is nearby, but the wounds pass to the monk. Conversely, if a Contracted Monk is severely wounded it causes great trauma for his Shikabane Hime, and if he is killed then usually the Shikabane Hime, being cut off from his Rune, dies as well.
* [[They Call Him "Sword"]]: Kamika has the title/nickname "Sword Princess".
* [[Took a Level
* [[Training
* [[Vapor Wear]]: Though it is confirmed late in the series that Makina does wear a bra, we never see any sign of panties. If she does wear anything under that skirt, it has to be a thong.
* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: Sadahiro.
* [[What Have I Become?]]: All Shikabane are this way.
* [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?]]
* [[Zettai Ryouiki]]: Makina, of course.
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