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Rounding out the cast are Flandre (a diminutive android maid who can only say "fugah"), Riza (a werewolf halfbreed who originally comes in search of the Princess for revenge), Reiri (a local vampire who just likes stirring up trouble), and occasionally the Princess' sister, Sherwood.

An OVA of Princess Resurrection has been [http://kc.kodansha.co.jp/kaibutsu/ announced.] It seems this time there will be blood.

 

 

 

* [[Action Girl]]: Hime and Riza Wildman. Reiri and Nakua too, when they actually bother.

** Though it should be noted that Hiro is, understandably, utterly confused by Reiri's request.

* [[Afterlife Express]]: Chapter 39, "Princess Express".

* [[Anachronic Order]]: The manga generally moves forward in a linear fashion, but between major arcs the chapters jump around in non-linear fashion (and some minor but long arcs are interleaved with one another and random [[Monster of the Week]] chapters). This gets more pronounced the later in the series you go.

* [[Art Evolution]]: The character designs get a little looser as the manga goes along.

* [[Authority Equals Asskicking]]: How werewolf society works.

* [[Badass Family]]: Riza, her brother and her father. Also from what we see in the 2nd and 3rd OVA, Hime came upon her fighting skills honest. Her brothers (excluding Severin) and sisters all kick ass.

* [[Badass Princess]]: Oh yes.

* [[Bad Future]]: One chapter has a disaster happening; and Hime (and Reiri) surviving in a hostile future long enough to tell the present how to prevent it.

* [[Barehanded Blade Block]]

* [[Bare Your Midriff]]: Riza Wildman

* [[Beach Episode]]: A boat episode, actually.

* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: Hiro turns from spinless unkillable wimp into badass later on in the manga, not quite awesome badass just badass enough to get the job done.

* [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing]]: Oh ''Man'', SILVIA.

* [[Blood Knight]]: Riza.

** All werewolves. It's mentioned they view close-quarters combat as "play".

* [[Bodyguard Crush]]: Hiro shows signs of this towards Hime, although it could just be the blood warrior part of him getting clingy.

** When he was dying in the opening pages and he sees Hime for the first time he thinks on how beautiful she is. So there is at least a physical attraction before the whole Blood Warrior thing.

* [[Butt Monkey]]: Hiro early chapters in manga and episodes in anime is this.

* [[Cain and Abel]]: The royal siblings are awfully competitive.

* [[Captain Ersatz]]: The very ''concept'' of Blood Warriors is a blatant take-off of the Wu from ''[[Sazan Eyes|3x3Eyes]]'', with Hiro standing in as a younger, wimpier Yakumo.

* [[Captain Obvious]]: Bucchi, Hiro's friend from school.

'''Bucchi''':"Oh no! One of our guides has gotten stuck in a bottomless swamp!" }}

** And she also appears on the first volume of the manga with one. Overall chainsaws seem to be her iconic weapon, despite her using them only occasionally in battle.

*** In the anime, chainsaws are heavily used to symbolize Hime herself. There's even a skull-and-crossbones in the EP, with a feminine skull (really!) and two chainsaws as the crossbones.

* [[Character Tics]]: Hime likes to wrap a lock of hair around her finger when she speaks.

* [[Charge Into Combat Cut]]: Done ''frequently'', mostly because the group has to figure out exactly what they are fighting. By the time they do, the chapter nearly over.

** {{spoiler|[[Future Badass]]: His older self actually comes out of nowhere and saves Hime from getting killed by Silvia in the future. Easily beating her subordinates in the process. Considering how Silva seems to be on top of everything. Him actually throwing her off guard is a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]].}}

* [[Cute Little Fangs]]: Hime, Sherwood, Riza and Reiri.

* [[Didn't Think This Through]]: Riza's invasion of {{spoiler|Duken}}'s mansion would have gone a lot smoother if she had stopped to listen to ''anything'' that [[The Smart Guy|Reiri]] said.

* [[Dirty Coward]]: Severin. Just seeing that his sister is willing to stand up to him is enough to make him panic.

* [[Elegant Gothic Lolita]]: Hime and Sherwood.

* [[Emergency Transformation]]: Hiro, and later, {{spoiler|the mermaid girl}}.

* [[Ephebophile]]:The hospital director has some shades of this to Hime.

* [[The Empath]]: Partially averted in that Sawawa regularly gets a sense of foreboding when her brother is in danger, then promptly ignores it and eats some more ice cream.

* [[Even the Girls Want Her]]: Reiri.

* [[Eviler Than Thou]]: Vampires and Nobles who think nothing of feasting on humans are ''[[Even Evil Has Standards|horrified]]'' that anyone would think of unleashing the [[Zombie Apocalypse]].

** Justified; after all, if their food source is gone, what are they suppose to eat?

** Also justified in that monster could turn into zombies with a scratch, see Hime disallowing hand to hand combat see {{spoiler|Hime's city destruction}}. As if normal is not bad enough imagine vampire/werewolf/minotaur/giant spider zombies, or even a Cthulu zombie.

** Hiro: normally a wimp. {{spoiler|appear Badass on anything related to Hime, and when his hair turns white and his pupils turn [[Hellish Pupils|hellish]] and eyes became [[Glowing Eyes of Doom]], run.}}

** Flandre: Fuga(Normally my eyes are [[Mind Control Eyes]] but while starting up they are [[Electronic Eyes]].)

** It should be noted that Riza's brother was willing to give his life for her, and that the only werewolves shown to be cruel to her were the trio who broke the taboo about becoming Blood Warriors, and a group in a monster prison [[Defeat Equals Friendship|whose respect she quickly earned.]]

** Maybe Reiri is also a victim of [[Fantastic Racism]]?: the Werewolf men always recriminate Riza that she is allied to a vampire, Sherwood exclaimed that she cannot believe she was helping a vampire, and Gilliam mocked Hime because she chose Reiri as a servant. Keiza claimed that supremacist vampires, if not controlled by blood, are not only incompatible as servants but dangerous to royalty. Riza, who knows Hime and Reiri relationship, calls Hime “eccentric”. It seems that in the Monster Kingdom, everyone think of vampires as selfish jerks who only look after themselves. To be just, all the vampires characters that we have seen so far (Zeppeli, Duke Kiniski and Caroline Lugosh) were portrayed like that, but Reiri has been kind with the school girls even before she met Hime, (she doesn’t want to transform them into vampires, and when the old spider deity threatened them, Reiri defended them).

** [[The Hero]]: Hime.

** [[The Lancer]]: Riza.

* [[Future Badass]]: Hiro.

* [[Gag Boobs]], [[Gainaxing]]: Sawawa and Sylvia.

* [[Happiness in Slavery]]; Basically becoming a bloodwarrior means this one way or another.

* [[Headless Horseman]]: There is a headless horseman in both the manga and the anime. Both were a result of an empty suit of armor/ghostly horseman getting it's head stolen and running amuck looking for it.

* [[Hellish Pupils]]: Hime, and all the other Royals. Blood Warriors, and notably Hiro, also get them when entering a combat trance (triggered by their master/mistress being in mortal danger).

* [[Horse of a Different Color]]: Our heroes ride ''undead pandas''.

* [[How We Got Here]]

* [[Humongous Mecha]]: Flanders.

* [[Hyperspace Mallet]]: Various articles in Hime's arsenal of often-unconventional weapons.

** It seems all werewolves do this as an introduction.

* [[Idiosyncratic Episode Naming]]: "Princess This-Or-That". The pun is more obvious in Japanese, since Hime's name means "princess".

* [[Immortal Life Is Cheap]]: Hiro dies. ''A lot.''

* [[Improbable Weapon User]]: Hime. Rapiers and flails are archaic, but relatively normal. Chainsaws are less so. Jackhammers and candelabra are ''much'' less so and a hospital defibrillator attached to a robot girl's battery are in a whole other ball park.

* [[Kaiju]]: The Godzilla-like monster that attacks the Professor's lab in Chapter 32.

* [[Kuudere]]: Hime. Stoic and cool-headed but not above helping or saving her subjects. Excluding Severin, the affection she displays to her siblings is also genuine.

** Averted twice with Hime in the first of the new Ovas.

** Played with with Riza's skirt. Though we haven't seen anything, she's had two [[Panty Shots]] observed in-universe.

* [[The Man Behind the Man]]: The hospital director is a subordinate of {{spoiler|Zeppeli}}.

* [[Meido]]: Hiro's sister, Sawawa. The trope's invocation is even pointed out in the translation notes of the first volume of the manga, as she goes to a cafe on her downtime while still in her costume. Also, Flandre and her sisters.

* [[Mind Screw]]: Whatever it was that happened to {{spoiler|Emil}}. Seriously, what the hell?

* [[Mistress and Servant Boy]]: Hime and Hiro.

* [[Monster Mash]]: Practically every known monster in the book and then some. One chapter even dealt with [[Invasion of the Body Snatchers|''pod people''.]])

* [[Monster Lord]]: The entire Royal Family.

* [[Mooks]]: A typical tactic of the villains is to swarm their adversaries with mooks, whether of the mummy, zombie, or vampire variety.

* [[Our Souls Are Different]]: Literally for Royals. It's not the [[Blood Magic|blood and flesh]] that makes a Royal special but the [[Soul Power|Royal themselves]] that make it special.

* [[Our Vampires Are Different]]: They seem very old school, but not everything is known about them yet. They don't like sunlight, but it only seems to weaken them at most. The same goes for water, though they can't cross it. They can be killed with a stake, but crosses and churches have no influence over them. Biting infects the victim, who behaves more like a zombie than a vampire. They like blood, but it doesn't seem that they need much of it. They can fly, and they can turn into a swarm of bats, as well as communicate with regular bats.

* [[Our Mermaids Are Different]]

* [[Panty Shot]]: Reiri again, mostly whenever she takes flight.

** Riza, accidentally, to Hiro.

* [[Proud Warrior Race Guy]]: Riza, who wears her father's race and name as a badge of honor in spite of being a "filthy half-human". Most if not all werewolves also seem to fit this trope.

* [[Psychic Link]]: Subverted with Sawawa and Hiro; see [[The Empath]].

** Played straight with the royals and blood warriors. When their master is in danger, they will know.

* [[Refuge in Audacity]]: How does Reiri get away with sucking her classmates' blood? She just calls it a "special ceremony" and sucks it from their fingers. One of her "victims" even inadvertently lampshades it. She does this in front of Hiro no less, who is shocked and amazed.

* [[Resurrective Immortality]] / [[Immortality Inducer]]: The blood warriors, most noticeably the protagonist Hiro. When a person die, one of the royal siblings can bring them back to life with their blood. This makes the blood warriors semiimmortal. When killed they will come back to life and when just hurt, their wounds will heal quick. However, there is a price to pay: the blood warriors have to drink royal blood every few days or they will die for real. So they have to follow and fight for one of the royal siblings to survive. And of course, they have to die, before they can become semiimmortal to begin with.

* [[Ridiculously Human Robot]]: Flandre and her siblings. Emile's android Flanders is not subject to this because he's a [[Humongous Mecha]].

* [[Robot Girl]]: Again, Flandre and her siblings.

* [[Shotacon]]: Might be one reason why Hime brought Hiro back to life.

** Riza's two werewolf friends attempt to play this straight before Reiri stops them. It turns out they just wanted to fight him. See [[Blood Knight]] above.

** A bug-headed scientist, a la the original ''[[The Fly]]''; [[The Day of the Triffids|Triffids]], IIRC; The aforementioned Pod People; the series LOVES referencing classic sci-fi/horror. Chapter 13 even features a monster designed along the same lines as the imfamous Rat-Bat-Spider from ''[[Angry Red Planet]]''. How's that for obtuse references!

*** Later it's even worse: An old member off the [[Cthulhu Mythos|Great Race of Yith]] appears in one chapter as an assasin, and a squid creature judge in chapter 23 bears an uncanny resemblense to the Venusian from ''[[It Conquered the World]]''.

** [[Return of the Living Dead|Trioxin]] is used to reanimate very dangerous zombies.

** Chapter 32 features a classic [[Godzilla]] style [[Kaiju]].

** Chapter 59 has [[The Evil Dead|a tape recorder and possessed bodies]].

** Chapter 70 has a [[Silent Hill 2|Pyramid Head]] [[Captain Ersatz]].

** In chapter 72, there's mention of a [[Cthulhu Mythos|Shoggoth]] and what appears to be a [[Star Wars|Saarlac.]]

* [[The Slow Path]]: Flandre stays behind when the crew goes to the past and deactivates. Back in the present, they find her and take her to her creator to be repaired.

** When Hime is trapped in the [[Bad Future]]; Reiri decides simply to survive long enough to find her and tell her what happened, so they could tell their present selves.

* [[Smug Snake]]: Severin. Hime calls him out on it.

* [[Stable Time Loop]]: One chapter had Hiro test for a time travel experiment and ended up in the past as a ghost as a side effect. {{spoiler|Despite being told not to interfere with anything (even though it seem he couldn't anyway since he was a ghost.) He manages to save a young Hime from an assassination attempt by her older brother. Ironiclly the older Hime actully remembers the encounter.}}

** Additionally, Hiro plants the idea in past-The Professor's head to make a time machine and will thus choose Hiro to take the test in the future. Stable time loop indeed.

* [[Succession Crisis]]: Hime and her siblings are fighting each other to see who will take the throne.

** Well the rest of her siblings are. Hime wants nothing to do with it. Unfortunately that doesn't stop some of her more determined siblings from coming after her.

** Justifed in that the androids were built SPECIFICALLY for heavy combat. The maid part is secondary, and Flanders subverts the trope all together being a [[Humongous Mecha]]

* [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]]: All the Gillmen. Lampshaded at least once.

** Hime too, despite being blonde.

* [[The One Guy]]: Hiro is the only guy who lives in Hime's mansion, because the other occupants are his sister, Hime, Flandre, Riza, occasional visits from Reiri, as well as Sherwood and her team. Would be good for him except for the fact he's just their [[Chew Toy]].

* [[This Is a Drill]]: Francette, one of Flandre's sisters, loses an arm. Due to a lack of appropriate replacement android parts, she now has a drill for an arm. This doesn't seem like a bad thing.

* [[Time Travel]]: Hime and her retainers get sent 2,000 years in the past by a revengeful spider deity. {{spoiler|They manage to go back to the present thanks to Flandre, who however has to stay behind. When they are back, they see a shrine that wasn't there before: it was erected to house the powered-out Flandre.}}

* [[Vampire Invitation]]: Reiri required an invitation to enter Hime's home, but was free to enter at will once that invitation was given. This trope also came to [[Incredibly Lame Pun|bite Duke Kinski]] in the butt, {{spoiler|when he seeks to replenish his supply of Royal Blood using Hime's corpse, only to find out that she's alive and well, and denying him entry to her home.}}

** Even needed an invitation to enter a long-abandoned cabin that obviously had no inhabitants or owners.

* [[Weapon of Choice]]: Both played straight and subverted. Hiro usually prefers an axe (and you can bet he knows how to use it!). Hime, on the other hand seems to find a new weapon for each occasion: rapier, chainsaw, pistol, hammer, chandelier... (no, I am not making this up!)

** Her standby tends to be a [[Chainsaw Good|chainsaw,]] though.

** She did seem to think something was strange when Reiri licked up her blood after she cut her finger.

* [[Weirdness Magnet]]: Being around Hime means that Hiro has to deal with an endless stream of supernatural interlopers.

** Riza and Reiri, [[Subtext|according]] [[Shipping|to the]] [[Yuri Fan|fans.]]

** Chapter 58: {{spoiler|The [[Energy Being|soul of Emil]] <s>asks</s> tells Hime to become the next ruler.}}

** Chapter 70: {{spoiler|The truth of the previous round of fighting is revealed and that there's a new royal sibling in the mix, one more powerful than all of them and who's already wiped out one generation of opponents.}}