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Legend tells of the swordsmith Muramasa Senji, whose blades, though unparalleled in quality, carry with them a terrible curse. Though these 'Demon Blades' can cut through anything, they compel their wielders to uncontrollable bloodlust, and they must draw blood before being resheathed... whether that blood is from an enemy or the swordsman himself.
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* [[108]]: The total number of blades to obtain and forge.
* [[Absurdly Sharp Blade]]:
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* [[Ambidextrous Sprite]]: Tries to justify it for characters in curscenes by giving them turning animations in which they swap whatever they're holding to their other hand. Out of cutscenes, though, everyone does this, with few exceptions.
* [[Anti-Hero]]: Kisuke. He's the nicer of the two, by the way - Momohime is virtuous enough, but Jinkuro, a master swordsman, possesses her. He's not kind.
* [[Arranged Marriage]]: Momohime has one with Yukinojyo. Though it's purely political on his side, she doesn't seem to mind the idea.
* [[The Archer]]: Torahime
* [[Army of the Dead]]: Torahime's undead bushi.
* [[Attack of the 50
** And then there's the giant centipede, the second boss in Kisuke's story.
* [[Awesome but Impractical]]: A ''lot'' of the Secret Arts take a long time to figure out how to use right.
* [[Big Bad]]: {{spoiler|Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, the Shogun, was the one who was ultimately behind the attack on the Kagami clan and the theft of the Kuzuryu Muramasa, which kicks off the plot for both Momohime and Kisuke.}}
* [[
* [[Black and Grey Morality]]: It can hardly be said that any of the characters are particularly nice people. [[Sympathetic POV|It's pretty easy to forgive them, though]].
* [[Bonus Boss]]
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* [[Cute Monster Girl]]: We're talking a game set in [[Feudal Japan]]. [[Kitsune|Kongiku and Yuzuruha]] are standouts here. Raijin ([[Beastess|who resembles an oni]]) is quite attractive, but her beauty is mostly overshadowed by her brash and aggresive nature (almost to [[The Ladette|Ladette]] levels, [[Tsundere|go figure]]). The only times it surfaces is when she's knocked out of the sky (she lands on her rump and takes a moment to tend to her rear in a typical [[Dojikko]] fashion; notably, her voice raises from sultrily deep and tough to innocuously cute) and briefly after the [[Boss Battle]] with her when Fujin calms her down. And once you beat her, she is just adorable.
** [[Gender Flip|Gender Flipped]] with Fujin, [[Cute Shotaro Boy|a small and adorable imp]], not to mention Raijin's more laid-back [[God Couple|romantic partner]].
* [[Damage Sponge Boss]]: Several.
* [[Death Is a Slap
* [[Demonic Possession]]: Jinkuro accidentally possesses Momohime while trying to possess Yukinojyo. {{spoiler|Kisuke is possessed by Jinkuro's master, Senjyu.}}
* [[Doppelganger Attack]]: Kisuke's Haze and Phantom Secret Arts and Momohime's Flash Secret Art.
* [[Eldritch Abomination]]: The fight with {{spoiler|Inugami}} has this in spades. The entire battle is incredibly disturbing, with organic wound-like holes appearing midair to stab you with skeletal swords, the boss's body distorting disturbingly, and with one attack involving him becoming something that resembles an near-infinite spear of teeth and mouth.
* [[Every Japanese Sword Is a Katana]]: Averted. The [[Gotta Catch Em All|many, many swords]] Muramasa can forge for the heroes are pretty evenly split between katana and nodachi, which are longer.
* [[Everything's Better
* [[Faux Action Girl]]: Possibly Torahime. We get told that she's a [[Informed Ability|fearsome warrior]], but her main role in Kisuke's story is to be the love interest and [[
* [[Food Porn]]: The food that you can buy at any of the restaurants or cook yourself. [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|And then eat via repeated presses of the A button.]] This game will make you ''hungry.''
* [[Foot Focus]]: [http://img840.imageshack.us/img840/6564/momohime.jpg Momohime in this artwork] that comes with the official soundtrack. Also includes [[Naughty Tentacles]].
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* [[Gainaxing]]:
** Kongiku wobbles a great deal, whether she's moving or not.
** The snow maidens.
* [[Gender Bender]]:
** Jinkuro possessing Momohime.
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* [[Giant Space Flea From Nowhere]]: Many of the bosses, such as both characters' first ones, come out of nowhere.
** In particular, Momohime's final boss. {{spoiler|The story goes from storming main adversary Rankai's base (thought process: the final fight might be against Rankai, and perhaps he'll even pull a [[One-Winged Angel]]), to Yukinojyo showing up with the blade that Jinkuro's been searching for the whole game (thought process: a rematch for the blade), to two random Gods appearing due to your [[Rage Against the Heavens]], taking the blade, and forcing you to fight them and a giant statue.}}
*** {{spoiler|Another possibility was Amaterasu, who was the one who sealed the gate to Heaven in Ise after Jinkuro beat Raijin. You'd expect the Sun Goddess to take matters in her own hands when Jinkuro tries to enter Heaven again, but unfortunately you do not get to battle her.}}
* [[Giant Spider]]: Tsuchigumo.
* [[Going Commando]]: Momohime was stated in an interview to not be wearing underwear.
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* [[Henohenomoheji]]: Scarecrows have these on their faces.
* [[Here We Go Again]]: Momohime's second ending basically puts her in the same position Kisuke was in at the start of his story.
* [[Hellish Horse]]: Torahime rides atop a phantom horse with its skeleton visible.
* [[Hot God]]: Raijin. Fujin is more a "Cute God" than anything, but he still counts. The two double as a [[God Couple]].
* [[Hot Springs Episode]]: The protagonists can talk to monkeys, who lead them to a hot spring in the mountains. It serves as a healing pool, a place to resharpen any broken blades, and a [[Fan Service]] opportunity.
* [[Tiny Guy, Huge Girl]]: Fujin and Raijin. Raijin is a hulking, muscular woman while Fujin is tiny (and green). To a lesser extent, Kisuke and Torahime as well.
* [[Hyperactive Metabolism]]: Eating restores health and grants you "Spirit," necessary for forging swords. Subverted in that you do need to wait in between eating anything for them to get hungry again, but it never takes you any longer than maybe 30 seconds to digest a whole bowl of noodles and be ready to keep eating (and the Mad Tummy skills given by certain swords and accessories can further reduce that time).
* [[Idiosyncratic Difficulty Levels]]: "Muso" for "Easy" and "Shura" for "Hard." The creators describe Muso as being more RPG-like, while Shura is more arcade-like. Then there's the unlockable "Shigurui" mode, which has the same difficulty as Shura, [[One-Hit-Point Wonder|but also permanently keeps your Life Flame at 1.]]
* [[Implausible Fencing Powers]]: The Oboro Style both characters use is all about this. They explicitly state that mastering it not only makes you immune to the bloodlust that wielding Muramasa blades normally causes (and by that extension, the insanity caused by the {{spoiler|countless angry recently-dead spirits wandering a battlefield Kisuke visits}}), but also allows you to battle the God(dess?) of Thunder [[Violation of Common Sense|with a metal blade]]. And those are just the side effects of the actual purpose of the fighting style, which is of course being able to easily kick metric fucktonnes of ass.
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* [[Mirror Boss]]: {{spoiler|Kisuke}} acts as this for Momohime, and {{spoiler|Momohime}} for Kisuke. And at the end of Total Pandemonium you face [[Dual Boss|both of them together]].
* [[Modesty Towel]]: Momohime's "attire" at the mountain hot spring.
* [[Money for Nothing]]: While you'll be running low on cash for most of your initial playthrough, it's not much of a problem since [[Death Is a Slap
* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: Momohime, Yuzuruha, Kongiku...
* [[Multiple Endings]]: Three each for both characters. The second ending for both characters involves {{spoiler|fighting the other character to more or less a stalemate instead of their usual final boss}}, while the third {{spoiler|uses the ultimate sword's ability to "cut even fate itself" to return both characters back to the moment in time when their story would've normally begun, but with all their memories up until that point intact as well as carrying the eponymous Oboro Muramasa. For Jinkuro, this isn't a particulary good deal, since the reason he used the body possession skill to begin with was because his own body was close to dying anyway...which he does soon afterwards.}}{{spoiler|But it is heavily implied that he took over Yagyu's body before he died to be married to Momohime. Between him acting differently, all the sudden disagreeing with his father, and naming his "new" fighting style (which is actually just Oboro style) Izuna style, Izuna being Jinkuro's last name. In the end he fooled EVERYONE, even most gamers. Not bad for an old guy.}}
* [[Narrator]]: In any given ending. [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|Breaks the fourth wall]] ''[[Breaking the Fourth Wall|hard]]''.
* [[Naughty Tentacles]]: [[Fanservice Cover|The infamous]] ''Play Magazine'' [{{[http|//img840.imageshack.us/img840/6564/momohime.jpg cover}} that had "suspiciously positioned" tentacles covering Monohime. Of course, there was nothing of the sort actually happening in the game.
* [[Ninja]]: Kisuke is a ninja. Some of the [[Mooks]] are ninja as well.
* [[
* [[Obake]]: The ''kitsune'' that serve Inarimyojin assist Kisuke and Momohime, with Yuzuruha and Kongiku taking human form to serve as guides; ''tengu'' and ''kappa'' are common enemies, as are the ''karakasa''-type Obake, although they look slightly different from their usual form (that being a one-legged umbrella monster with a single eye and a mouth with a long tongue). Every boss (other named characters like Kurozaru and Torahime) are based on famous Yokai and legends.
* [[One-Winged Angel]]: {{spoiler|Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, after being defeated, is taken over by the spirit of the Inugami (literally "dog god") inside the Kuzuryu Muramasa and transforms into a huge demon dog.}}
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* [[Scenery Porn]]: To be expected of rural Japan.
** Then again, this is by the same developers as ''[[Odin Sphere]].''
* [[Sealed Evil in
* [[Secret AI Moves]]: The attack {{spoiler|both characters rarely use on you when you fight against them in the second ending}}, which is unblockable and works more or less like a melee version of the spam attack described below. Considering how few human-sized opponents with large amounts of HP the game has (and the few it does fall easily to repeated spamming of the [[Game Breaker]] special attacks described above the second you knock them down), being unable to use it isn't that much of a loss from gameplay perspective. Not that it wouldn't be nice if you could...
* [[Shoryuken]]: The Phantom and Meteor series of specials. The former is of the normal, single-hit sword variety with an increasing amount of shadow clones for higher levels of the move performing it simultaneously, up to covering pretty much the entire screen horizonally with them, while Meteor is a quickly repeated multihit variety that also creates a geyser of energy with each attack.
* [[Shout
* [[Slap Slap Kiss]]: If you take Kisuke's second ending as canon, the protagonists' interactions in the hot spring can be taken as this... or, if you squint, as [[She Is Not My Girlfriend]].
* [[Smoke Out]]: The some of the aforementioned Mook ninja do this, although they usually use it to reappear back to their original spawning location on the screen. Those same ones also tend to carry regular bombs. Can be done by yourself to escape battles you don't feel like fighting.
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* [[Sword Beam]]: Not quite as many types as others, mostly limited to the Cresent type specials as others generally take the form of projectiles and shockwave.
* [[Sword of Plot Advancement]]: The Oboro Muramasa, only forgable once you've collected every other sword in the game and required to unlock the last two endings. Unusually, it is also the game's strongest weapon and there is no [[Infinity+1 Sword]] to eclipse it.
* [[Taking You
* [[The Unfought]]: {{spoiler|Fudo-Myou and Amitabha. For the first, you only get to tear up a statue of him, and when the real one shows up he immediately overpowers Jinkuro in a cutscene. For the second, Kisuke targets him at the end of the game, but gives up the idea once he realizes just what he's up against.}}
* [[Theme Naming]]: Some of the barrier-breaking swords you get from bosses are named after them or something related to them (the boss fight in Iga nets you the '''Iga'''nokami Kanemichi, defeating the [[Giant Spider|Tsuchigumo]] earns you the Kumokiri (literally "spider slicer"), etc.)
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