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Shiki Tohno was involved in a major accident in his childhood. Miraculously, he survived, albeit with a weakened body and no memory of the incident or much of the rest of his past. However, when he awoke in the hospital, crooked lines covered everything, from his own body to his bed to the other doctors. He quickly discovered that anything could be destroyed with ease, simply by cutting along those lines. It seemed like the world was in danger of crumbling around him... He would have gone insane had he not come across a mysterious self-styled sorceress, who gave him glasses that hid the "lines of death" and allowed him to live a normal life. Following the incident, Shiki was sent away from the main household to live with a branch family, while his sister was raised as the new heir.
Now a high school student, Shiki suddenly receives word from the Tohno estate. The family head, his father, has died, and he is to return at once to the main household. Meanwhile, strange murders have begun to occur in the city, the victims drained of their blood. Shiki doesn't pay so much interest to those news, until one day he feels compelled to follow a strange woman, and dismember her in her appartment... only for said woman to reappear in front of him the following day, not that much worse for the wear, demanding his help on stopping the blood draining monster that has been decimating the town.
Originally a [[Visual Novel]], with [https://web.archive.org/web/20120622120145/http://mirrormoon.org/projects/tsukihime a fan-translation patch available from Mirror Moon.] There is also a manga adaptation (released in English as "Lunar Legend Tsukihime"), an anime adaptation (''Shingetsutan Tsukihime''), a pseudo-sequel game of short stories (''Kagetsu Tohya''), and a series of fighting games (''[[Melty Blood]]'') that takes some liberties with the paths from the original game.
A remake was announced in April 2008, reportedly finally containing the Satsuki Yumizuka/Sacchin route, one of the running jokes of the franchise
Takes place in the [[Nasuverse]].
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* [[Action Girlfriend]]: Arcueid.
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** Hell, just name a character. Most likely that character does [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|something incredibly badass]] at some point in the Tsukihime-Kagetsu Tohya-[[Melty Blood]] timeline. Not even [[Unlucky Childhood Friend|Satsuki]] is immune. Hell, even ''[[Those Two Guys|Arihiko]]'' arguably manages this in ''Kagetsu Tohya''.
** Akira was ballsy enough to criticize potential serial killers in public, and Souka proved herself completely immune to the [[Chick Magnet|Tohno gland]]. That's gotta count for something.
* [[Badass Abnormal]] [[Badass Family|Family]]: The Nanaya clan,
* [[Badass Normal]]: in ''Kagetsu Tohya'' with [[Enemy Without|Nanaya Shiki]] (the Shiki who would have been had ''[[Tsukihime]]'''s events not occured), an incredibly badass knife fighter that Tohno Shiki cannot defeat ''even once'', despite Nanaya not sharing Tohno Shiki's [[Evil Eye|Mystic Eyes]].
** {{spoiler|Tohno Shiki lacks the ability to perceive those lines during each of those fights, though.}}
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* [[Brother-Sister Incest]]: (game) Akiha has a very strong [[Big Brother Attraction]] (and can be scarily possessive), more or less obvious depending on the route. {{spoiler|Granted, [[Not Blood Siblings|Shiki is adopted]], surprise! ...Not.}}
** In Akiha's own route, after {{spoiler|she and Shiki sleep together}}, {{spoiler|her jealous ''blood-related'' big brother SHIKI decides he wants to take over that relationship}}... and [[Squick|apparently changes the unconscious Akiha's clothes offscreen]].
* [[Chaos Entity]]: Subverted with Nrvnqsr Chaos, a Dead Apostle who is a living mass of chaos and doesn't identify himself as a physical being. This chaos allows him to birth various organisms and makes Nrvnqsr difficult to kill under normal conditions. Despite being ''made'' of chaos, he is not a ''being'' of chaos; otherwise, Nrvnqsr couldn't be killed at all.
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: {{spoiler|That Ribbon, that damned ribbon.}}
** Also, {{spoiler|the game where Shiki and Akiha wrote their names on things in the mansion to "claim" them. It's unlikely many people thought Shiki and SHIKI would mean two different people.}}
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** Justified in {{spoiler|SHIKI's case as Makihisa [[Mind Rape|brainwashed]] Shiki into forgetting him}}
*** Shiki ''does'' remember Kohaku and Hisui. After you finish the first set of routes you get the option to think about them in your next game, including the fact that it was the memories of {{spoiler|the twin he thinks is Kohaku}} that helped Shiki for all those years.
* [[Future Badass]]: The official side stories released have Shiki somehow becoming ''[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/melty_blood_act_2/c007.8/13.html even more badass]'' - with his eyes having gone out of control (making him put bandages over them) and his previous physical limitations surpassed, he's taken on the name [[Meaningful Name|Satsujinki]] and spends his time hunting down and assassinating the Dead Apostle Ancestors. [https://web.archive.org/web/20100502184416/http://www2.ocn.ne.jp/~typemoon/tsukihime/prelude/01.htm It gets even better].
* [[Harem Genre]]: Eight girls confirmed, and maybe Len considering by preference she wants to sleep with him rather than get his blood, either of which work. Lampshaded by Arihiko who is [[Unwanted Harem|frustrated at how suddenly no girls are interested in him]] yet Shiki has about... well, eight or nine hanging around him all the time.
** The harem feeling is, for the most part, absent in the orignal game.
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* [[In-Joke]]: Combined with [[Title Drop]], one of Akiha's friends who appears in Kagetsu Tohya is named Tsukihime Souka. Her name would make her seem important, but she's completely mundane and only appears twice...
** ...though her background and history are greatly expanded in one of the "Ten Nights of Dream" sidestories.
* [[Interplay of Sex and Violence]]: The scene where Shiki sees Arcueid for the first time and is seized with an incredible urge to **** her (as the game puts it) which takes the ambiguity over what four letter word Shiki wants to do to her to the further possible extreme before he finally {{spoiler|kills}} her
:Aside from that rather well-known scene, first-person descriptions of characters committing murder tend to include mention of getting sexually excited and even ''ejaculating'' upon doing the deed. On the other side of the coin, Shiki is rather notorious among the fandom for not being the most gentle lover.
* [[Intimate Healing]]: Synchronizers have the ability to share [[Life Energy|life force]] and power up others through "fluid exchange" (typically via [[Intercourse with You|horizontal tango]]). Notably, this is how {{spoiler|Hisui and Kohaku save Shiki's life in their respective routes}}. More disturbingly, {{spoiler|Makihisa (and likely SHIKI)}} took advantage of this ability by {{spoiler|raping Kohaku [[Break the Cutie|(repeatedly, for * years* )]], in order to avoid [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity|inverting]]}}.
** Other, minor examples: Ciel's route with her "healing" Shiki (when, due to Roa's influence, he...er...can't come down). Also, reversed in Kohaku's route, with Shiki as the "healer" (though in a metaphorical sense). Oh, and Len ([[Lolicon|the less said, the better]]).
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* [[Right Through His Pants]]: With the exception of one H-scene (Akiha's), Shiki has an odd aversion to taking off his pants. Also, a rare gender inversion: Kohaku proves that it ''is'' possible to have sex while wearing a kimono.
* [[Running Gag]]: A rather minor one in Arcueid's route - Shiki will say (or want to say) something, Arcueid will complain that she can't hear him and so lean in closer, only for him to yell what he wants to say into her ears as loud as possible.
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* [[Science Destroys Magic]]: While Tsukihime doesn't focus on magic very much, it establishes the idea that where magic and fantasy was once powerful, it now has to hide from society at large or risk destruction.
* [[Second Year Protagonist]]
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* [[Suspiciously Vague Age]]: So close to an aversion you almost want to hand it to them, but you can't. Kohaku and Hisui don't really have a defined age or grade level, Arcueid is hundreds of years old, Ciel is about 25 but looks younger. Len's age is confirmed at being in the Arcueid tier... but then you get to Shiki himself and Akiha, and the aversion falls flat.
* [[Sweater Girl]]: Arcueid. Because not all vampires have to wear black leather to be sexy.
* [[Subordinate Excuse]]: Much of the reason Akiha has Kohaku attend to her as her maid is to try and treat her well and show her friendship, so as to {{spoiler|atone for her father's abuse.}} She's rather rude to her sometimes in spite of that, but [[Tsundere|Akiha's short tempered with everybody.]] This trope also comes into play more explicitly in Kohaku's route, when Kohaku and Hisui switch places so that Kohaku is Shiki's maid due to their growing relationship
:Hisui also has some elements of this with Shiki due to the fact that she often helps Shiki more than is strictly necessary, and has a crush on him that's more or less obvious depending on the route.
* [[Super-Powered Evil Side]]: (game) Nanaya, the amoral super-assassin who ''really'' [[Psycho for Hire|enjoys what he does]], but to be fair, he only targets demons...
** Not the [[Melty Blood|TATARI-spawned]] [[Enemy Without|Nightmare Nanaya]], who pretty much makes it his goal to kill anyone he comes across, human or demon. He even describes himself as something that exists only to kill whoever summoned him (Or {{spoiler|[[It's Personal|Kishima Kouma.]]}}) Of course, Nightmare Nanaya is the worst possibility on purpose, he's the feared ''perception'' that Shiki has of his other self; which wasn't helped by {{spoiler|a telepathic link with SHIKI or Kohaku's drugs.}}
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* [[Throwing Your Sword Always Works]]: Justified with Ciel's black keys, magic swords which are explicitly mentioned to be designed for throwing or melee combat.
* [[Title Drop]]: Arc's True End is titled "Tsukihime." There is also one in ''[[Melty Blood]]'', also relating to Arc, but that goes on the ''[[Melty Blood]]'' page.
* [[Took a Level
** Special mention, however, goes to Roa. In the Visual Novel he was [[Anticlimax Boss]] who never did much in his appearances. In the manga, he's been upgraded to a credible threat, with his mastery of magic allowing him to defeat Ciel, Shiki and (an admittedly badly-wounded) Arcueid in their battles against him.
* [[Tragic Dream]]
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* [[You Are Not Alone]]: Shiki delivers this to Arcueid near the climax of the storyline, which segues into his [[Anguished Declaration of Love]].
* [[Younger Than They Look]]: Tohno Shiki, {{spoiler|or at least his current personality}}. He's seventeen years old, chronologically, but only has memories of the last eight years due to trauma and mindscrewing by Makihisa. {{spoiler|At one point, he meets the child version of Nanaya Shiki from the prologue in his mindscape who points out that he's actually a year older than Tohno Shiki}}.
** Could also apply, to an extent, to his physical
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