History Manga / XBlade

Not to be confused with the action-adventure game ''VideoGame/XBlades'', or the χ-blade, a MacGuffin from ''Franchise/KingdomHearts''

Not to be confused with the action-adventure game ''VideoGame/XBlades.''

Story ends at 12 volumes and continues into the sequel ''[=XBlade=] Cross''.

Story ends at 12 volumes and continues into the sequel XBlade Cross.

Not to be confused with the action-adventure game VideoGame/XBlades.

This series provides examples of:

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* WhatYearIsThis Mana asks this once she wakes up fully, having been asleep for 360 years

* CainAndAbel: The last time Haru saw his sister Aki she seemingly fell to her death during the disaster that devastated Tokyo. [[spoiler:She's become an Anathema and is working for the villains, wielded by the now AxCrazy Kuushirou.]]

* BigBad: Jin Estaku is an alchemist who created the Anathema and is the true main antagonist of the series.

* ActionGirl: (Despite spending most battles as a sword, Mana is more than capable of holding her own in a fight)
* BattleCouple: (pretty much every Anathemea and their wielder to various extents)
* BulletTime: (Haru has the ability to perceive movements as much slower than they are. However, he can't move any faster, meaning if he can't tell where it will go, he can't avoid an attack. Whether it's a trait of his own, or a result of Kuushirou is debatable.)
* ConvenientlyAnOrphan: (Haru lost his immediate family four years prior.)

* EmpathicWeapon: (The Anathemea or 'Guardian Blades')
* GrandTheftMe: (Kuushirou, Mana's previous wielder, inhabits Haru's body. More than once he's fully taken over. Unfortunately for Haru, Mana sees this as the preferential outcome.)
* LivingWeapon: (The Guardian Blades)
** WreckedWeapon: (If their owners die or they get killed their blades shatter and they die as well.)
* LovesMyAlterEgo: (Mana is very much still in love with Kuushirou, and openly prefers him to Haru)
* NakedFirstImpression: (Mana, when she first wakes up. Also NakedOnArrival, since it's the first time the audience sees her as well.)
* NebulousEvilOrganisation (Hollyhock)
* PoweredByAForsakenChild (The Anathema were once people, sacrificed to create the weapons. Worth mentioning most were voluntary)
* SanitySlippage: (Kazunari suffers this as the first story continues.)
* WhatYearIsThis (Mana, once she wakes up fully, having been asleep for 360 years)

Not to be confused with the action-adventure game VideoGame/XBlades

* ActionGirl (Despite spending most battles as a sword, Mana is more than capable of holding her own in a fight)
* BattleCouple (pretty much every Anathemea and their wielder to various extents)
* BulletTime (Haru has the ability to perceive movements as much slower than they are. However, he can't move any faster, meaning if he can't tell where it will go, he can't avoid an attack. Whether it's a trait of his own, or a result of Kuushirou is debatable.)
* ConvenientlyAnOrphan (Haru lost his immediate family four years prior.)
* Determinator Although a less extreme example as some others, Kaori refuses to miss school for a cold because "For 3 years I've never been late or absent! My willpower will get me through!"

* EmpathicWeapon (The Anathemea or 'Guardian Blades')
* GrandTheftMe (Kuushirou, Mana's previous wielder, inhabits Haru's body. More than once he's fully taken over. Unfortunately for Haru, Mana sees this as the preferential outcome.)
* LovesMyAlterEgo (Mana is very much still in love with Kuushirou, and openly prefers him to Haru)
* NakedFirstImpression (Mana, when she first wakes up. Also NakedOnArrival, since it's the first time the audience sees her as well.)

* HotChickWithASword (Several of them. The rest ARE swords)

* {{Meido}} (Sanae)

* PrettyFreeloader (Mana)
* TheTokyoFireball (The incident four years ago,)
* TheOjou (Mana)
* {{Tsundere}} (Again, Mana)
* VoluntaryShapeshifter