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* DancePartyEnding: The Battle of Unato ends with the main and notable characters from the Koutetsujou being on stage and doing a happy dance.
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* {{BFG}}: The Hayajiro, ''Koutetsujou'' has a cannon turret that can expose the Black Smoke's heart, this was recovered from Yashiro station and appears originally to be part of the fortress. There are also other train guns, with the biggest one being the self-propelled mortar Narukami which was legendary for blasting through thousands of Kabane. Narukami was to be the backbone of the attack on Unato castle had the plan worked.

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* {{BFG}}: The Hayajiro, ''Koutetsujou'' has a cannon turret that can expose the Black Smoke's heart, this was recovered from Yashiro station and appears originally to be part of the fortress. There are also other train guns, with the biggest one being the self-propelled mortar Narukami which was legendary for blasting through thousands of Kabane. once having killed 3000 Kabane at Musashi. Narukami was to be the backbone of the attack on Unato castle had the plan worked.it not been destroyed in an ambush.



* ItCanThink: Wazatori are Kabane that have either retained enough tactical intelligence to use weapons with maximum effectiveness while hunting, or older infected who have learned how to fight (some unarmed) after observing skirmishes between Kabane and the remains of humanity.

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* ItCanThink: Wazatori are Kabane that have either retained enough tactical intelligence to use weapons with maximum effectiveness while hunting, or older infected who have learned how to fight (some unarmed) after observing skirmishes between Kabane and the remains of humanity. The Kabane of Unato Castle were capable of building traps, setting up ambushes and aim to kill enemies quickly rather than try and feed on them first. This is because those Kabane are being guided the the previous lord of Unato, who has since become a renegade Kabaneri.
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* {{BFG}}: The Hayajiro has a cannon turret that can expose the Black Smoke's heart.

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* {{BFG}}: The Hayajiro Hayajiro, ''Koutetsujou'' has a cannon turret that can expose the Black Smoke's heart.heart, this was recovered from Yashiro station and appears originally to be part of the fortress. There are also other train guns, with the biggest one being the self-propelled mortar Narukami which was legendary for blasting through thousands of Kabane. Narukami was to be the backbone of the attack on Unato castle had the plan worked.
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* MistakenlyAttackedMole: * In Episode 10, the cast is shown to have been captured by the villains, with one of the characters having performed a FaceHeelTurn. Most of the cast believed the betrayal was genuine, due to his previous status as the AloofAlly. So when the prisoners finally retaliate, the "traitor" is also attacked. It's up to the main character to intervene and explain that the "traitor" had spent the entire time passing him information about the villain's lair
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** Mumei saves a mother and her child from the Kabane, only to be horrifed to see the mother readying a suicide pack to her daughters heart; her daughter had been bitten and she could not bear to go on without her, and both dies from the same pack.

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** Mumei saves a mother and her child from the Kabane, only to be horrifed to see the mother readying a suicide pack to her daughters heart; her daughter had been bitten and she could not bear to go on without her, and both dies die from the same pack.
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* OurZombiesAreDifferent: They follow [[PlagueZombie traditional infection rules]] and have the uncommon SuperStrength, but also have VolcanicVeins and are particularly agile. Also they can apparently can only be killed by destroying their iron-sheathed heart or decapitation but the latter method is exceptionally difficult. They also show signs of being intelligent than your average zombie as they can wield weapons, [[spoiler: operate the Fusoujou and ram it into Aragane]], and as well as use sneak attacks. They also crave blood, pushing them closer to Vampires.

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* OurZombiesAreDifferent: They follow [[PlagueZombie traditional infection rules]] and have the uncommon SuperStrength, but also have VolcanicVeins and are particularly agile. Also they can apparently can only be killed by destroying their iron-sheathed heart or decapitation but the latter method is exceptionally difficult. They also show signs of being intelligent than your average zombie as they can wield weapons, [[spoiler: operate the Fusoujou and ram it into Aragane]], and as well as use sneak attacks. They also crave blood, pushing them closer to Vampires. Some scenes have them operating machinery. In other scenes they can employ actual fighting skills. Essentially, the weakest members in their rank is more than a match for even a moderately armed human.
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Amazon Prime has the exclusive worldwide streaming rights to the series. Website/{{Crunchyroll}} acquired the home video license for the series (along with merchandising rights), and released it on Blu-ray and DVD with an English dub via their partnership with Creator/{{Funimation}}.

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Amazon Prime has simulcasted the exclusive series worldwide streaming rights to the series. as part of a deal with Fuji TV's Noitamina programming block. Website/{{Crunchyroll}} acquired the home video license for the series (along with merchandising rights), and released it on Blu-ray and DVD with an English dub via their partnership with Creator/{{Funimation}}.
Creator/{{Funimation}}. Crunchyroll would later [[https://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2019/10/31/kabaneri-of-the-iron-fortress-anime-speeds-over-to-crunchyroll add the series to their service on November 1, 2019]], including the aforementoned dub.


* SpoiledSweet: Ayame, the daughter of the man in charge of the station Ikoma lives in, is polite and doesn't seem to be too fond of the guards' hair-trigger temper.
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A sequel film titled ''The Battle of Unato'' released on May 10, 2019 in Japanese cinemas. Creator/{{Netflix}} has [[ChannelHop picked up the exclusive streaming rights]] for the film and [[https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2019-08-22/netflix-adds-kabaneri-of-the-iron-fortress-the-battle-of-unato-anime-film-on-september-13/.150330 will release it worldwide on September 13, 2019.]]

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A sequel film titled ''The Battle of Unato'' released on May 10, 2019 in Japanese cinemas. Creator/{{Netflix}} has [[ChannelHop picked up the exclusive streaming rights]] for the film and [[https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2019-08-22/netflix-adds-kabaneri-of-the-iron-fortress-the-battle-of-unato-anime-film-on-september-13/.150330 will release released it worldwide on September 13, 2019.]]
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* BodyguardCrush: Episode 7 heavily implies that Kurusu has one on Ayame.

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* BodyguardCrush: Episode 7 heavily implies that Kurusu has one on Ayame. By ''The Battle of Unato'' it is more-or-less confirmed.
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* CoolTrain: The Hayajiro, giant armored trains that are the only way of communication between the station-cities. Moreover, the elaborate boiler startup sequence in Episode 2, with key-driven security interlocks and boiler core installation, implies that the engine's boiler is actually ''nuclear''.

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* CoolTrain: The Hayajiro, giant armored trains that are the only way of communication between the station-cities. Moreover, the elaborate boiler startup sequence in Episode 2, with key-driven security interlocks and boiler core installation, implies that the engine's boiler is actually ''nuclear''. This is further supported in a scene in ''The Battle of Unato'' where a train is destroyed on-screen and lets out a distinctive mushroom cloud as it blows up.
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A sequel film titled ''The Battle of Unato'' released on May 10, 2019 in Japanese cinemas. Creator/{{Netflix}} has picked up the exclusive streaming rights for the film and [[https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2019-08-22/netflix-adds-kabaneri-of-the-iron-fortress-the-battle-of-unato-anime-film-on-september-13/.150330 will release it worldwide on September 13, 2019.]]

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A sequel film titled ''The Battle of Unato'' released on May 10, 2019 in Japanese cinemas. Creator/{{Netflix}} has [[ChannelHop picked up the exclusive streaming rights rights]] for the film and [[https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2019-08-22/netflix-adds-kabaneri-of-the-iron-fortress-the-battle-of-unato-anime-film-on-september-13/.150330 will release it worldwide on September 13, 2019.]]
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A sequel film titled ''The Battle of Unato'' released on May 10, 2019 in Japanese cinemas.

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A sequel film titled ''The Battle of Unato'' released on May 10, 2019 in Japanese cinemas.
cinemas. Creator/{{Netflix}} has picked up the exclusive streaming rights for the film and [[https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2019-08-22/netflix-adds-kabaneri-of-the-iron-fortress-the-battle-of-unato-anime-film-on-september-13/.150330 will release it worldwide on September 13, 2019.]]

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* BalkanizeMe: In ''The Battle of Unato'', the fall of Kongokaku and along with it, the collapse of the Amatori Shogunate, have fractured Hinomoto. Stations have now become countries unto themselves as they attempt to hold off the Kabane. The ''Koutetsujou'' and its crew are so powerful that they can be considered a ''mobile country''.



* {{Bookends}}: The series begins with [[spoiler: the crew of the ''Kotetsujou'' making a narrow escape from a Kabane-infested station. The final episode ends the same way [[AndTheAdventureContinues as they ride off into the distance to more parts unknown.]]]]

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* {{Bookends}}: The series begins with [[spoiler: the crew of the ''Kotetsujou'' ''Koutetsujou'' making a narrow escape from a Kabane-infested station. The final episode ends the same way [[AndTheAdventureContinues as they ride off into the distance to more parts unknown.]]]]
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Amazon Prime has the exclusive worldwide streaming rights to the series. Creator/{{Crunchyroll}} acquired the home video license for the series (along with merchandising rights), and released it on Blu-ray and DVD with an English dub via their partnership with Creator/FunimationEntertainment.

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Amazon Prime has the exclusive worldwide streaming rights to the series. Creator/{{Crunchyroll}} Website/{{Crunchyroll}} acquired the home video license for the series (along with merchandising rights), and released it on Blu-ray and DVD with an English dub via their partnership with Creator/FunimationEntertainment.
Creator/{{Funimation}}.
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Amazon Prime has the streaming rights to the series. Crunchyroll acquired the home video license for the series (along with merchandising rights), and plans to release it on Blu-ray and DVD with an English dub.

A sequel titled ''The Battle of Unato'' released in May 2019.

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Amazon Prime has the exclusive worldwide streaming rights to the series. Crunchyroll Creator/{{Crunchyroll}} acquired the home video license for the series (along with merchandising rights), and plans to release released it on Blu-ray and DVD with an English dub.

dub via their partnership with Creator/FunimationEntertainment.

A sequel film titled ''The Battle of Unato'' released in on May 2019.
10, 2019 in Japanese cinemas.
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** ''The Battle of Unato'' begins with Mumei using her dual pistols to slaughter a room full of Kabane in total darkness without moving, exactly like [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPuAKVnqJdk&t=0m52s John Preston]] in ''Film/{{Equilibrium}}''.

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** ''The Battle of Unato'' begins with Mumei using her dual pistols to slaughter a room full of Kabane in total darkness without moving, exactly like [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPuAKVnqJdk&t=0m52s com/watch?v=pPuAKVnqJdk&t=1m10s John Preston]] in ''Film/{{Equilibrium}}''.
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** ''The Battle of Unato'' begins with Mumei using her dual pistols to slaughter a room full of Kabane in total darkness without moving, exactly like [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPuAKVnqJdk&t=0m52s John Preston]] in ''Film/{{Equilibrium}}''.

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A sequel movie titled ''The Battle of Unato'' is set to premiere in 2019.

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A sequel movie titled ''The Battle of Unato'' is set to premiere released in May 2019.



* BodyguardCrush: Episode seven heavily implies that Kurusu has one on Ayame.

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* BodyguardCrush: Episode seven 7 heavily implies that Kurusu has one on Ayame.



** Averted in ''The Battle of Unato'', where a new Wazatori mutation is a serious threat and almost kills Mumei on its own.



* ItCanThink: Wazatori are sword-wielding Kabane that have either retained enough tactical intelligence to use their blades to maximum effectiveness while hunting, or older infected who have learned how to swordfight after observing skirmishes between Kabane and the remains of humanity.

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* ItCanThink: Wazatori are sword-wielding Kabane that have either retained enough tactical intelligence to use their blades to weapons with maximum effectiveness while hunting, or older infected who have learned how to swordfight fight (some unarmed) after observing skirmishes between Kabane and the remains of humanity.



* PovertyFood: The ZombieApocalypse hasn't reduced the population to a DogFoodDiet, but they're clearly hurting for food. Meals are just a leaf-wrapped roll of something that might not be rice (the rice paddies outside the fortresses have all been abandoned). Mumei's fondest wish is to eat her fill of rice and Ayame at one point hopes to eat a cookie (Kurusu embarasses Ayame by walking into her...not naked...but gorging on snacks during a meeting with a local lord).

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* PovertyFood: The ZombieApocalypse hasn't reduced the population to a DogFoodDiet, but they're clearly hurting for food. Meals are just a leaf-wrapped roll of something that might not be rice (the rice paddies outside the fortresses have all been abandoned). Mumei's fondest wish is to eat her fill of rice and Ayame at one point hopes to eat a cookie (Kurusu embarasses Ayame by walking into her... not naked...naked... but gorging on stuffing her face with sweet snacks during a meeting with a local lord).



* ShoutOut: Seems to be the one to ''VideoGame/Metro2033'' (in addition to the inevitable ''[[Franchise/AttackOnTitan Titans]]'' comparison), as the series follows basically the same premise, only with subway replaced by the overland railroad and the mutants with the iron-hearted zombies. The comparison becomes even stronger with the reveal of the third game in the series, ''Metro: Exodus'', which devotes much more of its time to the surface and use of trains to travel across Russia.

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* ShoutOut: Seems to be the one to ''VideoGame/Metro2033'' (in addition to the inevitable ''[[Franchise/AttackOnTitan Titans]]'' comparison), as the series follows basically the same premise, only with subway replaced by the overland railroad and the mutants with the iron-hearted zombies. The comparison becomes even stronger with the reveal of the third game in the series, ''Metro: Exodus'', ''VideoGame/MetroExodus'', which devotes much more of its time to the surface and use of trains to travel across Russia.



* VillainDecay: The Kabane themselves start posing less and less of a threat once the main characters get their MidSeasonUpgrade, to the point that they become a total sideshow by the time the show ends.

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* VillainDecay: The Kabane themselves start posing less and less of a threat once the main characters get their MidSeasonUpgrade, to the point that they become a total sideshow by the time the show ends. Reversed in ''The Battle of Unato'' where Kabane are once again the major threat.



** [[spoiler: This concept is used to devastating effect when Biba infects his father with a needle in the handle of a blade, then incites a riot by implying anyone can be infected among the populous and are just waiting to turn. This ends up causing the Bushi of the Station to turn on each other when a few of them are similarly infected by Biba's men.]]

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** [[spoiler: This concept is used to devastating effect when Biba infects his father with a needle in the handle of a blade, then incites a riot by implying anyone can be infected among the populous and are just waiting to turn. This ends up causing the Bushi bushi of the Station to turn on each other when a few of them are similarly infected by Biba's men.]]
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* CastingGag: It's not the first time Creator/YuukiKaji has voiced someone named [[VideoGame/FireEmblemFates Takumi]] who also came from a [[{{Wutai}} fantasy version of Japan]].
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* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Mumei does this to some Kabane after she manages to find a spear. [[spoiler:She would does this to Biba in the finale.]]

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* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Mumei does this to some Kabane after she manages to find a spear. [[spoiler:She would also does this to Biba in the finale.]]
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''Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress'' (甲鉄城のカバネリ Kōtetsujō no Kabaneri) is an anime series produced by [[Creator/ProductionIG Wit Studio]]. The series is directed by Tetsurō Araki (''Manga/DeathNote'', ''Manga/HighschoolOfTheDead'', ''Anime/GuiltyCrown'', ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'') and written by Ichirō Ōkouchi (''Anime/BerserkTheGoldenAgeArc'', ''Anime/CodeGeass''), with music by Creator/HiroyukiSawano (''Anime/MobileSuitGundamUnicorn'', ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'', ''Anime/KillLaKill'', ''Anime/AldnoahZero'') and original character designs by Haruhiko Mikimoto (''Anime/{{Macross 7}}''). The series debuted on Fuji TV's Creator/{{Noitamina}} block in [[Spring2016Anime April 2016]]. A prologue for the anime premiered for a week in theaters across Japan beginning on March 18.

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''Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress'' (甲鉄城のカバネリ Kōtetsujō no Kabaneri) is an anime series produced by [[Creator/ProductionIG Wit Studio]]. The series is directed by Tetsurō Araki (''Manga/DeathNote'', ''Manga/HighschoolOfTheDead'', ''Anime/GuiltyCrown'', ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'') and written by Ichirō Ōkouchi (''Anime/BerserkTheGoldenAgeArc'', ''Anime/CodeGeass''), with music by Creator/HiroyukiSawano Music/HiroyukiSawano (''Anime/MobileSuitGundamUnicorn'', ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'', ''Anime/KillLaKill'', ''Anime/AldnoahZero'') and original character designs by Haruhiko Mikimoto (''Anime/{{Macross 7}}''). The series debuted on Fuji TV's Creator/{{Noitamina}} block in [[Spring2016Anime April 2016]]. A prologue for the anime premiered for a week in theaters across Japan beginning on March 18.

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* AMillionIsAStatistic: [[spoiler:Two full stations of people, brutally murdered by having Kabane unleashed on them. Everyone shrugs. Several of the men serving under Biba and implicit in the massacre are accepted on the escaping train, no questions asked.]]



* AMillionIsAStatistic: [[spoiler:Two full stations of people, brutally murdered by having Kabane unleashed on them. Everyone shrugs. Several of the men serving under Biba and implicit in the massacre are accepted on the escaping train, no questions asked.]]

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** [[spoiler: When the Hunters bring the Kabane into one of the cities their train and the Koutetsujou stopped at, one of the boys on the Koutetsujou is bitten. His mother is restrained by the Hunters as they gun down her boy in cold blood.]]

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** [[spoiler: When the Hunters bring the Kabane into one of the cities their train and the Koutetsujou stopped at, one of the boys on the Koutetsujou is bitten. His mother sister is restrained by the Hunters as they gun down her boy brother in cold blood.]]


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** Could be a subversion as the actual voice actor is an American speaking Japanese, not a Japanese actor using English words.
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* GatlingGood: Averted. In the scene where Kurusu fights the hunters on their Hayajiro, the head scientist gets a gatling gun and fires away. It's used too close and uncontrolled, so Kurusu was easily able to dodge where the scientist would be pointing. Kurusu was then able to tackle the scientist and knock both of them into the sea.
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* HollywoodTactics: Averted by Biba's hunters. A defining moment is when they go out to face an incoming Kabane horde. From their Hayajiro, they bombard the Kabane with mortars and incendiary rounds, after that they snipe the Kabane with deliberate shots before slowly closing in for a mop up. Because of this, only one mook gets bitten when he didn't see a Kabane lying down.
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* CoolBike: Biba's hunters use steam-powered motorcycles when they need to go somewhere quickly and the bikes are tough enough to handle some stunt-driving.


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* PovertyFood: The ZombieApocalypse hasn't reduced the population to a DogFoodDiet, but they're clearly hurting for food. Meals are just a leaf-wrapped roll of something that might not be rice (the rice paddies outside the fortresses have all been abandoned). Mumei's fondest wish is to eat her fill of rice and Ayame at one point hopes to eat a cookie (Kurusu embarasses Ayame by walking into her...not naked...but gorging on snacks during a meeting with a local lord).
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** [[spoiler:Mumei reveals near the end of episode 3 that kabaneri do have a taste for (human) blood.]]

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** [[spoiler:Mumei reveals near the end of episode 3 that kabaneri do have a taste for (human) blood.]]
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* AdultFear: This show is not shy about showing what happens to the children.
** Mumei saves a mother and her child from the Kabane, only to be horrifed to see the mother readying a suicide pack to her daughters heart; her daughter had been bitten and she could not bear to go on without her, and both dies from the same pack.
** [[spoiler: When the Hunters bring the Kabane into one of the cities their train and the Koutetsujou stopped at, one of the boys on the Koutetsujou is bitten. His mother is restrained by the Hunters as they gun down her boy in cold blood.]]

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