Katanagatari: Difference between revisions

* [[Calling Your Attacks]]: Sometimes followed by the attack names getting their own screen, written in badass calligraphy.

* [[Catch Phrase]]: Togame will make you think that [[Catch Phrase|Catch Phrases]] are [[Serious Business]] in the world of ''Katanagatari''.

** ''"However, by that point you'll have been torn to pieces."'' Picked almost at random due to Togame's demanding he get one, and by the end of the episode Shichika managed to make it badass.

** Sabi Hakuhei's: ''"I'll make you fall for me."'' To which the guy he kills responds: ''[[Phrase Catcher|"So... cool..."]]''

** {{spoiler|The poison on Mitsubachi's caltrops is not fatal. However the hidden poison, which Nanami took from Kamakiri's molar earlier, must be fatal, right? It's for suicide after all}}.

* [[Clingy Jealous Girl]]: Togame shows signs of this in episode 8 and it becomes blatantly obvious in episode 9.

* [[Clothing Damage]]: Subverted - Ginkaku takes a swipe at Togame and luckily Shichika steps in and prevents the damage from being ''worse''. All that is damaged is the top layer on Togame's bust area.

* [[Combat Pragmatist]]: To Emonzaemon's surprise, he's actually {{spoiler|completely unable to get through Oshidori's attacking whips/barrier combo. When she decides to stop playing around and go on the attack, he... shoots her to death}}.

** {{spoiler|Shichika in ep 12}}. It doesn't work out for him.

* [[Delayed Reaction]]: Togame carries on monologuing as if Shichika had agreed with her after asking if he wanted to rule the country, or has heard of Shikizaki Kiki. It takes a minute to sink in because she just can't believe he's so dense and demotivated.

* [[Detached Sleeves]]: Shichika wears them. They don't seem to do anything except cover some part of his top half.

* [[Died in Your Arms Tonight]]: {{spoiler|Togame in Shichika's arms}}. Doubles as a [[Dying Declaration of Love]].

* [[Holding Hands]]: Togame and Shichika do this in episode 11, against the sunset. {{spoiler|Which makes what happens next all the more heartwrenching.}}

* [[Huge Guy, Tiny Girl]]: Shichika and Togame in particular. Also Togame and Kanara, if it had ever worked out. Oshidori and Chocho are an example of [[Huge Girl Tiny Guy]].

* [[Idiosyncratic Episode Naming]]: Every volume/episode is named after one of the 12 swords.

* [[Idiot Hero]]: Shichika plays this up, especially in the first episode, but he doesn't actually come across as an idiot so much as he has [[No Social Skills]] because of his upbringing. He still finds it troublesome to give more than minimal thinking effort.

** {{spoiler|Shichika himself}}. Or at least, if not an entire city, dozens (if not hundreds) of soldiers, plus eleven [[Elite Mooks]], plus a [[The Dragon|Dragon]]. And at the very end, he ''{{spoiler|punches a castle in half}}''.

* [[Princess Curls]]: Togame goes for broke by combining these with a [[Hime Cut]] and [[Rapunzel Hair]] with some shots of [[Godiva Hair]], even. Oh, she's also a [[White-Haired Pretty Girl]]. Now what do you think the odds are she's a main character? Also followed by her rival, Princess Hitei.

* [[Punny Name]]: The title is a pun on the ''katanagari'' ("sword hunt") issued by [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi]], which stripped peasants of their weapons to prevent an uprising. However in this case, Shichika and Togame are hunting for a group of swords. There's also the fact that ''gatari'' can be read as "story", similar to Isin's other series ''[[Bakemonogatari (Light Novel)|Bakemonogatari]]''.

* [[Rapunzel Hair]]: Almost every plot-significant character in the series has hair down to their ankles.

* [[Retirony]]: Used ''hard'' in ep4, where one of the ninjas goes on for several minutes about his plans to go home and get married after this last mission. His companion even starts to interrupt and tell him that saying all that is a bad idea... then stops, since there's a strong sense that they both know he won't survive.

** Also, in a rare {{spoiler|protagonist}} example, {{spoiler|in episode 11, Togame talks about going on a sight-seeing journey with Shichika after all the action is over, she is shot to death one minute before the credits roll}}. Cruelly subverted when {{spoiler|she admits in her [[Final Speech]] that it was all a lie; she was planning to ''kill'' Shichika to avenge her father}}.

** Inverted with Togame - it's when one of her normally red eyes turns purple that you should look out.

* [[Revenge Before Reason]]: {{spoiler|Togame was going to kill Shichika after their journey was over to avenge her father's death at the hands of Shichika's father. She admitted that she would have gone through with this even though she truly loved Shichika if she hadn't been mortally wounded. To her, everything -- people, swords, even her own heart -- were tools for her vengeance. When Shichika calls her an idiot for wasting her entire life on revenge like this, she readily agrees with him}}.

* [[Ronin]]: Uneri Ginkaku, the owner of Zantou Namakura. Also technically Sabi Hakuhei, since he defected from the shogunate.

* [[Run the Gauntlet]]: Shichika goes through this fighting {{spoiler|eleven Shogunate warriors equipped with Shikizaki Kiki's swords}} in the last episode.

* [[Screw Destiny]]: {{spoiler|Shikizaki Kiki forged the Deviant Blades}} for this purpose.

* [[Second Hand Storytelling]]: The fight with {{spoiler|Sabi Hakuhei, the ''strongest swordsman in Japan''}}, is given massive buildup across multiple episodes, then played this way as a joke.

* [[Secret Test of Character]]: Higaki Rinne's way of determining whether Shichika and Togame are worthy of taking his Deviant Blade.

* {{spoiler|[[Shaggy Dog Story]]}}: {{spoiler|The entire series.}} Lampshaded by the narrator at the very end.

** Subverted {{spoiler|when you consider the Aesop qualities of the ending.}}

** The few seconds before the meeting with Emonzaemon in the same episode may possibly be a shoutout to ''[[Muramasa the Demon Blade]]'', as the way the map is shown is similar to how the map is displayed when moving between areas in the game, and the exclamation mark and sound effect that accompanies it as they encounter Emonzaemon is the exact same thing that happens in the game right before an enemy encounter. Not to mention the side scrolling view it shifts to as they get off the boat.

* [[Skintone Sclerae]]: Several characters, noticeably Shichika, have this.

* [[Villainous Valor]]: Almost the entirety of the fourth episode. Nanami is scary.

* [[Walking the Earth]]: {{spoiler|Shichika and Princess Hitei in the end}}, to draw a map of the country.

* [[We Hardly Knew Ye]]: A few of the Maniwani, namely Shirasagi, Kuizame and Kawauso, are killed off without being developed. Also goes for the shogun's Twelve Guardians, aside from Emonzaemon.

* [[White-Haired Pretty Boy]]: Sabi Hakuhei, partially.

* [[White-Haired Pretty Girl]]: Togame, Hiteihime, and Kousha Saraba.