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[[File:Lady-snowblood-01.jpg|thumb|280px|"Bloody Vengeance"]]
{{quote|"I am a vehicle of retribution who roams in search of my mother's sworn enemies"|'''Lady Snowblood'''}}
The '''Lady Snowblood''' manga series was created by Kazuo Koike while the artwork was drawn by Kazuo Kamimura. First published and serialized in 1973 in the ''Weekly Playboy'' magazine in Japan. The manga series didn't get translated into English until 2005 by Dark Horse Comics.
The story begins with the birth of the protagonist, Oyuki. She was born on a snowy day inside a woman's prison. Before her mother passed away due to complications with childbirth, she entrusted a prison cellmate to look after Oyuki while reminding her that she has a task to fulfill -- her last wish: to seek vengeance against her enemies, who slaughtered her family and raped her brutally in the past.
After years of [[Training
The manga itself was popular enough to be adapted later into a live-action film of the same name starring Meiko Kaji as Oyuki. The film created a cult following, resulting in a sequel. Quentin Tarantino was inspired by the film, which resulted in the creation of ''[[Kill Bill]]''.
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* [[A Date
* [[Attempted Rape]]: [[Mugging the Monster|Several times]].
* [[Author Avatar]]: Gaikotsu Miyahara. He ''actually'' writes Oyuri's story down as she progresses. Try not to think about it too much: the [[Fourth Wall]] seems to warp recursively around this guy.
* [[Batman Gambit]]: Oyuki does this ''all the time''.
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* [[Dark Action Girl]]: Oyuki could be classed as one.
* [[Even the Girls Want Her]]: Oyuki gets more than her fair share of indecent proposals from women, and she's [[Les Yay|quite happy to oblige]].
* [[Fan Disservice]]: Okono's "''[[A Date
* [[Fan Service]]: Why else would Oyuki get naked at least once every chapter?
* [[Femme Fatale]]: Oyuki.
** At first she seems to be a [[Femme Fatale]], but if you look closely she is a real [[The Vamp|Vamp]]. Ok most people she kills deserve their demise, but she [[Moral Event Horizon|went too far]] when she {{spoiler|forced a chauffeur to rape his employer's daughter, then killed the girl in order to blackmail the hapless man into becoming an accomplice to another murder. Although she promised to let him go free, she kills him anyway.}}
* [[Girl
* [[Groin Attack]]: "Unveiling of a Pretty Woman"
* [[Ill Girl]]: One of Oyuki's plots involves seducing one.
* [[Important Haircut]]: After Oyuki finally starts on the active phase of her revenge, she cuts her long hair short.
* [[Instant Expert]]: Oyuki takes a month to master her pickpocketing skills.
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'''Oyuki:''' I'll do whatever it takes, but I must master it in a month. }}
** Of course when you have revenge as your fuel you can do wonders!
* [[Lady of War]]: Oyuki
* [[Lipstick Lesbian]]: At one point, a lesbian character tells Oyuki: "I knew you were one of us." And indeed she is: Oyuki has sex with at least four women over the course of the story, of whom only one had anything to do with her current assignment. And the only sex a guy ever has with Oyuki (excluding [[Mugging the Monster|universally disastrous rape attempts]]) is intercrural. This may have [[Rape
* [[Mugging the Monster]]: As a beautiful woman in a crime-ridden and crapsack feudal Japan, Oyuki is targeted a lot by would-be rapists. They very quickly (and fatally) learn the error of their ways.
* [[Never Mess
* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]: Oyuki sometimes does this to get her job done.
* [[Parasol of Pain]]: Oyuki's signature weapon, with a hidden sword inside.
* [[Pet the Dog]]: Oyuki gets several moments, such as generously sparing a thieving employee from being punished Auntie Kiku, and saving {{spoiler|her victim's daughter from being forced into a life of prostitution}} in the last chapter.
* [[Psycho Lesbian]]: Quite a few, resulting in [[Girl
* [[Rape
* [[Rape and Revenge]]: One of the classics.
* [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]: The whole premise of the series.
* [[Training
** Her pickpocketing training as well.
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