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Lucky for her, six highly skilled body guards arrive to help her make it back to her castle safely.
One of the [[No Export for You|few officially translated Japanese]] [[Visual Novel|Visual Novels]] without any [[Hentai]] content. An [[Sliding Scale of Silliness Versus Seriousness|extremely silly]], [[Rule of Funny|extremely funny]] romp through medieval Japan.
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* [[Dark-Skinned Redhead]]: Jin.
* [[Dead Little Sister]]: Brother, actually. {{spoiler|Mon-Mon's younger brother was killed in retaliation for Mon-Mon defeating a street thug. Worse, it was set up to look like he did it.}}
* [[David Versus Goliath]]: Nobumasa is bigger than anyone else in the game, but this is especially noticeable if he's facing Yo.
* [[Deathbed Confession]]: Picking an option that ends with Hatsuhime being killed may get you one of these.
* [[Defrosting Ice Queen|Defrosting Ice King]]: Ittosai in his route.
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* [[Dramatic Wind]]: normally cues the beginning of a big fight scene.
* [[The Drifter]]: Ittosai, the loner.
* [[Drop the Cow]]: Sometimes, the silliness just gets ''random''.
* [[Dual-Wielding]]: Muneshige does this.
* [[Dude Looks Like a Lady]]: Bo claims he should be allowed to guard the Princess during her bath because he "looks androgynous" with his long hair and wouldn't disturb her as much as the other guys. (Nobody else is buying it.)
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* [[Eek! a Mouse!]]: Sayori and Hatsuhime both agree that mice, cockroaches, spiderwebs, and other such nasties are abhorrent.
* [[Enemy Mine]]: Ittosai was a former adversary to Yo, Jin, and Bo. ''Especially'' Jin.
* [[Epunymous Title]]: "Yojinbo" (more commonly romanized as "yojimbo") is a Japanese word meaning "bodyguard." The three main characters are called Yo, Jin, and Bo. The official English title is "Yo-Jin-Bo: [[Department of Redundancy Department|the Bodyguards]]," making it a combination of this and [[You Are the Translated Foreign Word]].
* [[Even the Guys Want Him]]: Bo laments a crossdresser hitting on him in the opening at the festival.
* [[Every Girl Is Cuter With Hair Decs]]: Hatsuhime has a big red bow in her hair.
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* [[Festival Episode]]: The opening of the game.
* [[Finger-Lickin' Evil]]: One of Ittosai's sprites has him licking his own forearm.
* [[First Kiss]]: Sayori's a bit of a quiet sort, so she's never kissed a guy before. It's uncertain if any of the guys have any experience.
* [[Fish Out of Temporal Water]]: Subverted, mostly thanks to the [[Purely Aesthetic Era]]: Sayori has no trouble fitting in since everyone else is constantly making modern pop culture references and such anyhow.
* [[Foe Yay]]: Jin ''really'' hates Ittosai. So of course the moment he shows any concern about why he's not back from fighting off ninjas, Bo asks if he's worried about him and Yo pipes up with, "Are you saying the more they fight, the closer they are? Are you...slashing them?" [[Literal
** Also, in every guy's Good ending, Harumoto mocks them for being weak enough to love a woman. He takes this to a whole different level in Yo's end, in which he claims that "the friendship between men" is what truly matters. [[wikipedia:Shudo|Considering what real samurai often thought of this "friendship"...]]
* [[Freudian Excuse]]: {{spoiler|Ittosai takes this up to eleven.}}
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* [[Headbutt Thermometer]]: Sayori does this to Yo as he's sleeping.
* [[Hell-Bent for Leather]]: Ittosai wears leather pants and boots, and a long strip of leather wrapped around his upper body.
* [[Heroic BSOD]]:
** Jin around girls. {{spoiler|Both Jin and Muneshige in Ittosai's good end, when Hatsuhime/Sayori says she's dating him.}}
** In a much more serious example, {{spoiler|Ittosai mentally checks out completely for a few minutes thanks to a round of [[Armor-Piercing Question|Armor Piercing Questions]] from Bo. He comes out of it to some extent in order to protect Sayori, but remains pretty shaken.}}
* [[Heroic Resolve]]: Happens occasionally towards the end of the game, but ''especially'' in the guys' Good endings.
** [[Heroic Second Wind]]: Often part of the above.
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* [[Idiot Hair]]: Bo's hair is sleek and well-behaved, except for one strand that hangs in his face. It doesn't have anything to do with his intelligence, though.
* [[If You Ever Do Anything to Hurt Her...]]: Yahei invokes this in Mon-Mon's Good ending.
* [[If You Kill Him You Will Be Just Like Him]]: Mostly the reason that, of all the guys, Ittosai is the only one who doesn't kill Nobumasa himself.
* [[I Just Want to Be Loved]]: Possibly Ittosai's entire problem. {{spoiler|Bo certainly thinks it is.}}
* [[I Kiss Your Hand]]: Bo does this at various times.
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* [[No Export for You]]: The PS2 version, which includes extra romance paths for Kasumimaru and Harumoto not available in the PC version, is only available in Japanese.
* [[No Guy Wants an Amazon]]: Played with by Muneshige in his Good ending. {{spoiler|He claims that, though he cared for Hatsuhime, he never felt romantically about her until her personality changed when Sayori took over (then he fell head-over-heels in less than a week). Remember that Hatsuhime was a brash tomboy, and Sayori is much quieter and more traditional - he often praises how refined and elegant she is suddenly behaving. [[Unfortunate Implications]] or just [[Values Dissonance]]? Or maybe a bit of both.}}
* [[Not Quite Dead]]: Ittosai's backstory. Jin stabbed him, thought he was dead. Turns out, his sword was too dull to actually kill him
* [[Not So Different]]: Kasumimaru tells Yo and Ittosai this. Ittosai also gets it from Nobumasa, leading to [[If You Kill Him You Will Be Just Like Him]].
* [[Not What It Looks Like]]: Several times, both visual and auditory. For example, spy on Muneshige and Mon-Mon in the hot spring and you'll get a scene where Sayori thinks they're doing something and is highly disturbed. Follow Jin and Muneshige's path, and Muneshige will think Jin is doing something when he treats Hatsuhime's snakebite. Etc., etc., etc..
* [[Oddly Visible Eyebrows]]
* [[Onee-Sama]]: Yo addresses Sayori as ''onee-chan''. The English subtitles translate this into "miss" when he's speaking to her and "the lady" when speaking about her to others.
* [[One Head Taller]]: Most of the guys are.
* [[Only a Flesh Wound]]: Yo says this when {{spoiler|he's shot in the stomach.}}
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* [[Schrodinger's Butterfly]]: Referenced. Sayori once says that Hatsuhime's timeline felt more real to her than her own.
* [[Schrodinger's Gun]]: The exact natures of both Harumoto's plot and the power that brought Sayori to the past vary depending on which ending you get. Furthermore, Ittosai {{spoiler|becoming [[The Mole]] for Kasumimaru only seems to happen in his and Bo's paths}}.
* [[School Uniforms Are the New Black]]: Thanks to [[Economy Cast|economy art]], Sayori's sprites show her in her school uniform even when she's taking a shower.
* [[Security Cling]]: Happens a couple times.
* [[Self-Disposing Villain]]: {{spoiler|Kasumimaru jumps off the edge of a cliff after his arm is severed to avoid capture. Harumoto planted gunpowder in the watchtower specifically so that he could go out in a blaze of glory, rather than imprisoned and then sentenced to death.}}
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* [[Shonen Hair]]: Jin's hair is a mess. It does seem to obey gravity, though, so it's mostly a mess in his face.
* [[Shirtless Scene]]: The hot springs.
* [[Shock and Awe]]:
** Kasumimaru is capable of electrifying his sword. He uses it against Ittosai. {{spoiler|In Yo's Good ending, Hatsuhime delivers an electric shock from inside the pendant to snap Yo out of his zombie-like state.}}
** Ittosai himself also gets sparks around himself when using his special attack, Bare Blade Indiscriminate Slaughter. Nobumasa's attack is called Tiger's Roar Electric Shock. However, neither seems to actually cause electrocution to the victim of the attack.
* [[Shout-Out]]: To ''everything''. ''[[Star Wars]]'', ''[[Star Trek]]'', ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'', ''[[Superfriends]]'', ''[[Back to the Future (film)|Back to The Future]]'', ''[[Men in Black (film)|Men in Black]]'', ''[[Mad Max]]'', ''[[Con Air]]'', ''[[Howl's Moving Castle (anime)|Howl's Moving Castle]]'', [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmtzQCSh6xk the Numa Numa song], [http://www.hampsterdance.com/classics/originaldance.htm the hamster dance website], "[[Hansel and Gretel]]", [[Mr. T]], ''[[A Dog of Flanders]]'', ''[[Dragonball Z]]'', ''[[Lord of the Rings]]'', ''[[Toy Story]]'', ''[[Peter Pan]]'', ''[[The Flying Nun]]'', [[Game Show|Game Shows]], ''[[Stargate]]'', ''[[Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within|Final Fantasy the Spirits Within]]''... not to mention more expected things, like Japanese historical figures [[wikipedia:Abe no Seimei|Abe no Seimei]], [[wikipedia:Minamoto no Yoshitsune|Minamoto Yoshitsune]], and [[wikipedia:Nobunaga Oda|Nobunaga Oda]].
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* [[Smooch of Victory]]: Very often discussed by the guys. In certain instances, they actually get one.
* [[Sparkling Stream of Tears]]: Sayori does it a few times.
* [[Stable Time Loop]]: Arguably all the endings, but especially Ittosai's Good ending. {{spoiler|He rips through the side of the watchtower with his sword, and Sayori recalls seeing a battered sword in a history exhibit with the story of a split tower. However, in the original time line, Hatsuhime died long before, and so the watchtower would not have been blown up with Ittosai standing on top of it.}}
* [[Standard Hero Reward]]: Considering that the Good endings have {{spoiler|Sayori, usually still stuck in Hatsuhime's body, marrying or at least getting together with the guy}}, yeah. In Muneshige's Good ending, {{spoiler|Hatsuhime's spirit must haunt Yahei for a week or two in order to convince him that it would be alright for the princess to marry a vasal.}}
* [[Star-Crossed Lovers]]: {{spoiler|The Bad endings often have Sayori mentioning how her love for the guy was never meant to be.}}
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* [[Story to Gameplay Ratio]]: Heavy on the story end. Actual gameplay is minimal, limited to occasional opportunities for Sayori to make decisions on what to do.
* [[Stout Strength]]: Nobumasa is built like a sumo.
* [[Straight Man and Wise Guy]]: Some of the gags involve this, with roles exchanged frequently. Mon-Mon twice compliments Ittosai for providing perfect straight lines, to Ittosai's irritation.
* [[Stuff Blowing Up]]: {{spoiler|The watchtower, in the guys' Good endings.}}
* [[Suck Out the Poison]]: Jin does this when Hatsuhime is bitten by a snake.
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* [[Variable Terminal Velocity]]: In the Good endings, {{spoiler|jump off of the watchtower and enjoy being able to banter several witty lines and even make out before the fall ends.}}
* [[Soft Water]]: {{spoiler|Muneshige's Good ending has you jumping into the moat together. Possibly justified, since it's never said exactly how tall the watchtower is.}}
* [[Visionary Villain]]: In most routes, Harumoto's main reason for wanting to take over the clan is that Hatsuhime will ''ruin it'' if she inherits.
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* [[Walking the Earth]]: Aside from Muneshige, ''all'' the guys are wanderers.
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