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* [[Anyone Can Die]]: Several, including a prostitute who dies despite Jin's best efforts to save her (but does so with a dignity she would not otherwise have had), and {{spoiler|Ogata-sensei, when his tuberculosis finally kills him}}.

* [[Arc Words]]: See the page quote.

* [[Cow Tools]]: While some of the tools of modern surgery already exist in recognizable form in 1860s Edo, the ones that Jin must have made often garner this reaction from both his associates and the craftsmen hired to create them -- at least initially.

* [[The Confidant]]: Saki, whom Jin tells of his origins and sometimes uses as a sounding board for his concerns about changing history.

* [[Deal with the Devil]]:

** The loan Ryoma arranges with the abortionist.

* [[Disney Death]]: {{spoiler|Ryoma, who falls into a river and is nearly washed out to sea during an assassination attempt. His friends and enemies believe him dead for several weeks before he makes his way back to Edo}}

* [[Dorama]]

* [[Fan Girl]]: Hatsune is the very-restrained 19th-century version, with her worship of an actor in an Edo theatre company.

* [[Fetus Terrible]]/[[Undead Child]]: The preserved fetus in a jar that doesn't seem to be quite as dead as it should be, and which also seems to have ''something'' to do with Jin's time travel.

* [[Jerkass]]: Jin, for most of the back end of season one, as he offends friends and colleagues, alienates the women who love him, and violates his oaths as a doctor in his desperation to ensure that Miki still gets born (and by implication, remains his fiancee).

* [[Jidai Geki]]: In-universe, Jin speculates that he's fallen into one (or a dream of one), until he is splattered by the blood of a murdered man.

* [[The Medic]]: Jin, who finds himself called upon for emergency medical treatment several times.

* [[Meganekko]]: Hatsune, a nearsighted prostitute given glasses by Kyotaro. Somewhat subverted in that she only wears them regularly for him.

** Toward the end of the first season, {{spoiler|the preserved fetus seems to open its eyes ''at least'' once an episode}}.

* [[Period Piece]]

* [[Please, I Will Do Anything!]]: Kyotaro, to an actor who can help rescue Jin (and the penicillin) from the machinations of a con-man.

* [[Read the Fine Print]]: The loan contract from the abortionist, who wrote in a repayment period of seven days while verbally promising it would be seven years.

* [[Samurai]]: The Tachibana are a samurai clan. And there are samurai extras almost everywhere.

* [[Screw Destiny]]: What several characters plus most of the audience are practically screaming at Jin toward the end of the first season.

** The fetus in formaldehyde which seems to be somehow key to the time travel -- {{spoiler|particularly whenever it opens its eyes}}.

* [[Steampunk]]: Probably the best description of the ''extremely'' low-tech production system for penicillin that Miki designed in order to show up Jin early in their relationship.

* [[Time Travel]]

* [[Victorian Novel Disease]]: Ogata-sensei's tuberculosis, which while more realistic than the usual implementation of this trope is still rather underplayed.

 

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