Characters / Ninja Blade

Ken Ogawa

• Cool Mask: One that shows his face and conceals it all at once.
• Cool Sword: He has several of them, in fact.
  • Ancestral Weapon: The Ninja Blade, a katana that remains sealed for much of the game. When finally unlocked, it provides Power at a Price.
• BFS: The Stonerender Sword, a massive claymore-esque blade capable of cutting through heavy armor.
• Dual Wielding: The Twin Falcon Knives, a pair of kodachi (short swords) with high-tensile wires in the blades that let them double as whips/grappling hooks.
• Elemental Weapon: His various shurikens, which can be infused with wind, fire, and lightning, respectively.
• Fuma Shuriken: With Tron Lines that show which element it's currently infused with.
  • Katanas Are Just Better: The Oni Slayer sword, his default weapon.
• The Hero: An upright and outstanding ninja who retains his humanity instead of being tempted with power.
• Multi-Melee Master: He's equally proficient with several kinds of swords.
• Ninja: No, really???

Kuroh Sakamoto

• Always Second Best: The reason Kuroh Sakamoto let himself be infected was because he always felt inferior to Ken and wanted to use the parasites to surpass him.
• And Then Kuroh Was A Mutant
• Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy: Kuroh Sakamoto...who, unsurprisingly, turns out to be evil by the end of the first chapter.
• Face–Heel Turn: He becomes a host for the parasites. Unlike Kanbe, he did it willingly.
• More than Mind Control: Kuroh surrendered himself to the infection to attain more power.
• Tragic Monster: Subverted. Kuroh actually accepted the infection to become more powerful.

Kanbe Ogawa

• And Then John Was a Zombie: He becomes one of the mutants. The host for their core consciousness, in fact.
• Archnemesis Dad He's Ken's father, and the main antagonist. It's all part of a Batman Gambit to find the core of the parasites' consciousness.
• Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: The form he takes for the final boss fight. At least, the first stage of it.
• Batman Gambit: He used his status as a ninja master to make himself a host for the parasite queen, trusting his own toxic blood to weaken the monster to the point where his son could finish the job.
• Face–Heel Turn: By the end of the first chapter, he's become the human face of the parasite outbreak.
• The Heavy: The parasites are the real menace, but Kanbe is their most powerful human vector.