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* SleepCute: Manji and Rin, after she smacks him in the face for teasing her. They switch to each other's futons and hold hands as they fall asleep.
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* CallingYourAttacks: "Flight of the Golden Wasps!", which everyone points out is a stupid name and a stupid move altogether.
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* DoingInTheWizard: The arc where Manji is captured by the bakufu and experimented on by MadScientist Burando dabbles with this, as Burando finally traces down the source of the ''kessen-chu'' within Manji (a network of six small additional organs implanted into his body) and deduces how they work, as well as the limits of Manji's immortality and how he can actually be killed. However it's never fully explained ''how'' Yaobikuni created them, or managed to implant them in Manji.
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* ActuallyThatsMyAssistant: When Habaki assigns the shogun's feared executioner Yamada Asaemon to assist Burando with his experiments, Burando meets the arrival of an enormous, intimidating and ornately-dressed swordsman accompanied by a small, plainly-dressed, withered-looking man with a blank expression, who discusses the nature of the job with Burando... before turning to the small man and confirming things with his master. [[BewareTheSillyOnes The tiny man is much more than he appears.]]
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* BewareTheSillyOnes: Both Yamada Asaemon and his apprentice Benki qualify big-time. They're introduced through an ActuallyThatsMyAssistant moment where TheDreaded "Kubikiri Asa", the Shogun's executioner, is revealed to be the small, withered-looking man with the strange expressionless face rather than the huge, hulking mountain of muscle, but the eccentric Asaemon proves to be one of the deadliest swordsmen in the series despite his bizarre mannerisms (he rates himself as better than Habaki Kagimura), capable of striking multiple times with impeccable accuracy faster than the eye can follow and slicing through metal with no more than a shift of his wrist. Benki also qualifies, despite being set up to look like a comical buffoon (his name is a play on the famous warrior monk Benkei, only shortened to mean "toilet")- while quirky, [[LargeHam bombastic and overdramatic]], he is also just as strong as his size suggests (not as strong as the monolithic Isaku or Arashino, but strong enough to bend metal bars with his bare hands) and we get to hear his thought when he's attempting to stop Rin from rescuing Manji, revealing him to actually be surprisingly astute, sensible and calculating.
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In May 2019, a new anime was announced, [[https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2019-05-22/kodansha-confirms-new-blade-of-the-immortal-anime-as-complete-adaptation/.146989 which will adapt the entire manga]].
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* AnachronismStew: Dialogue ranges from period appropriate to totally modern, the various weapons and techniques range from primitive to steampunk.
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A sequel manga titled ''Blade of the Immortal: The Bakumatsu Arc'' has been announced. As it name implies, the series will take place during the turbulent Bakumatsu era during the last days of the Tokugawa Shogunate. Samura is a collaborator, but it will be written by Kenji Takigawa and illustrated by Ryu Suenobu
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* DistantFinale: [[spoiler:The final chapter leaps ''ninety years'' into the future, to the time of the Meiji restoration. Manji is still around, of course, and Yaobikuni recruits him to protect Rin's granddaughter.]]
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* DistantFinale: [[spoiler:The final chapter leaps ''ninety years'' into the future, to the time of the Meiji restoration. Manji is still around, of course, and Yaobikuni recruits him to protect Rin's granddaughter.granddaughter Fuyu.]]
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* TooLongDidntDub: The English manga keeps certain things in Japanese, most commonly "kenshi" (swordsman) "toshu" (boss) and the titles of various officials and officers. There's a glossary in the back, and occasionally footnotes. The middle volumes, however (when Dana Lewis became sole translator) change "certain" to "a hell of a lot" including perfectly translatable words like "kachi" (soldier) "washi" (Japanese person) and even ''japanese pronunciations of English words'' like "kirishitan" (Christian) requiring frequent flips to the glossary, even when there was clearly room on the page for a footnote. The end volumes fortunately get a new translator who dials it back.
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* AntiClimax: When the long-awaited final duel between [[spoiler:Manji and Anotsu]] finally happens, [[spoiler:Anotsu is [[DentedIron already so worn-down and injured from his just-finished epic duel with Habaki]] (and Manji is, of course, [[HealingFactor Manji]]) that it's not even a contest- while Anotsu is a far superior swordsman to Manji on a technical level, Manji just smacks him around with ease and hacks off his sword arm]].
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* AntiClimax: When the long-awaited final duel between [[spoiler:Manji and Anotsu]] finally happens, [[spoiler:Anotsu is [[DentedIron already so worn-down and injured from his just-finished epic duel with Habaki]] (and Manji is, of course, [[HealingFactor Manji]]) that it's not even a contest- while Anotsu is a far superior swordsman to Manji on a technical level, Manji just smacks him around with ease and hacks off his sword arm]]. Many consider this to be a PostClimaxConfrontation, with the real FinalBattle being [[spoiler: Anotsus vs. Kagimura.]]
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* GagBoobs: Tanpopo. At one point they help save her life when she gets stabbed in the chest.
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* GagBoobs: Tanpopo. At one point they help save her life when she gets stabbed in the chest. Downplayed however, in that though she is the bustiest woman in the cast, they're not ''that'' big.
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* HandicappedBadass: Sosuke Abayama, second in command of the Ittō-ryū.
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* WrongGenreSavvy: Meguro and Tanpopo, who act more like characters from a shonen harem comedy than a dark blood seinen samurai manga.
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review stuff goes in reviews.
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A {{Samurai}} epic with vividly realistic art and well-crafted characters, ''Blade of the Immortal'' by Creator/HiroakiSamura also explores many thoughtful issues relating to death, immortality, revenge, forgiveness, and redemption.
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* BadassGrandpa: Sosuke Abayama.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards
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* EvenEvilHasStandards EvenEvilHasStandards: Unless you're talking about Shira.
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed / MusicalThemeNaming / NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: The villains in the first volume are named Gyobutsu Johnny ([[SexPistols Johnny Rotten]]), Shido Hishiyasu ([[SexPistols Sid Vicious]]) and Kuroi Sabato (Music/BlackSabbath). Doubles as ShoutOut given Hiroaki Samura's taste for these bands.
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed / MusicalThemeNaming / NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: The villains in the first volume are named Gyobutsu Johnny ([[SexPistols ([[Music/SexPistols Johnny Rotten]]), Shido Hishiyasu ([[SexPistols ([[Music/SexPistols Sid Vicious]]) and Kuroi Sabato (Music/BlackSabbath). Doubles as ShoutOut given Hiroaki Samura's taste for these bands.
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** Magatsu has a complex about this too, thanks to his DeadLittleSister.
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* AntiClimax: When the long-awaited final duel between [[spoiler:Manji and Anotsu]] finally happens, [[spoiler:Anotsu is [[DentedIron already so worn-down and injured from his just-finished epic duel with Habaki]] (and Manji is, of course, [[HealingFactor Manji]]) that it's not even a contest- while he's a far superior swordsman to Manji on a technical level, Manji just smacks him around with ease and hacks off his sword arm]].
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* BadassAndChildDuo: At the end of the series Manji gets assigned to [[spoiler:bodyguard Rin's adorable granddaughter Fuyu]].
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone While dwelling on the atrocities he's committed trying to find a way to transfer Manji's immortality]], Dr. Burando mentions [[spoiler:that he successfully transferred it to one patient]] before abandoning the goal entirely. Some twenty chapters later, [[spoiler:Shira's not just back from the apparent dead: he's immortal]].
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone While dwelling on the atrocities he's committed trying to find a way to transfer Manji's immortality]], Dr. Burando mentions [[spoiler:that he successfully transferred it to one patient]] some of his patients, as long as they have Manji's limbs attached]] before abandoning the goal entirely. Some twenty chapters later, [[spoiler:Shira's not just back from the apparent dead: he's immortal]].
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* KnightOfCerebus: Every time [[spoiler: Shira]] shows up, the series' tone darkens considerably.
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* MohsScaleOfViolenceHardness: A fluctuating Level 8 for most of its run, though later arcs ''definitely'' peak at Level 9.
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** Possibly Dr. [[MarlonBrando Brando]][=/=] [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Burando/Blando]].
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** Possibly Dr. [[MarlonBrando [[Creator/MarlonBrando Brando]][=/=] [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Burando/Blando]].
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* MixedMetaphor: Doma of the Rokki-dan mentally drops a rather random one near the end of the series while Habaki Kagimura is proclaiming death sentences on their adversaries after [[MoralMyopia casually dismissing]] Anotsu's claims that [[NotSoDifferent they're all murderers here]].
-->'''Doma:''' Sheesh, he's like a black pot in a glass house...
-->'''Doma:''' Sheesh, he's like a black pot in a glass house...
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* [[spoiler:ImperialJapan: The setting of the DistantFinale.]]
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* BadAss: Manji, Magatsu, Makie, Anotsu, Giichi... hell, nearly every other fighter in the series.
** Even Rin has her moments despite being a mediocre fighter.
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* [[spoiler:PregnantBadass]]: Hyakurin, after [[spoiler:being gang raped]] in "Beasts".
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* [[spoiler:PregnantBadass]]: PregnantBadass: Hyakurin, after [[spoiler:being gang raped]] in "Beasts".
