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Katanagatari

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Katanagatari	comment	Katanagatari is a Light Novel series by written by NisiOisiN and illustrated by Take, which was first published in 2007 and ran for 12 volumes (one volume was released per month throughout the year). It was later adapted into a 12-Episode Anime in 2010. Despite the similar name, it is not related to Isin's other work Bakemonogatari. A spin off, Maniwagatari, was released in 2008.The legendary swordsmith Kiki Shikizaki made 1000 swords in his career. His skill was such that entire wars were decided by how many of his swords each side had. When the Shogun emerged victorious, he collected the first 988 of those swords... but those were just practice for Shikizaki.The final twelve swords were the pinnacle of the swordsmith's career. Each of them has powers so extraordinary that just a single man could defeat small armies while wielding one of them.Shogunate strategist Togame has been ordered to recover them. She first hired a Ninja...but the worth of the swords is so great that the entire ninja clan defected the moment they recovered one. Then she hired a swordsman... but he kept the sword for himself after finding it and went rogue.Her last hope is Shichika Yasuri, the seventh head and last practitioner of Kyotouryuu, the No Sword School. He and his elder sister live on an island cut off from civilization, and as such they need no money. His fighting style doesn't use a sword, so the famous weapons are useless to him.So why should he agree to help? Only one option remains — they must fall in love.The anime adaptation is notable for its highly unusual approach. Not only does it use a very stylized, angular Thick-Line Animation visual style rooted in the light novels' equally stylized illustrations, but its episodes are fifty minutes each and were aired monthly over the course of a year, as opposed to the industry standard of 22-minute weekly episodes. It also has a prequel Drama CD series by the author bundled with the DVD/BDs.
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Katanagatari / int_1237828f	type	Anyone Can Die
Katanagatari / int_1237828f	comment	Anyone Can Die: This series is absolutely brutal with its character mortality. The body count includes the entire Maniwa Corps, seven of the twelve Deviant Blade wielders (not counting one who has been dead for centuries and the autonomous blade that gets destroyed), countless mooks, most of Shogun Owari's elite forces and the Shogun himself. Even Togame isn't immune. In the end, aside from Hitei and Shichika, only two little girls, a shogi player, a hermit and a pirate are spared.
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Katanagatari / int_125e12c4	type	Second-Hand Storytelling
Katanagatari / int_125e12c4	comment	Second-Hand Storytelling: The fight with Sabi Hakuhei, the strongest swordsman in Japan, is given massive buildup across multiple episodes, then played this way as a joke.
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Katanagatari / int_141f6a73	type	Artistic License â€“ Martial Arts
Katanagatari / int_141f6a73	comment	Artistic License – Martial Arts: Many a Martial Arts Movie tends to show martial arts just as a way to obtain different superpowers. Nanami reminds us that true martial arts seek two Simple, yet Awesome things: to teach a technique that improves the student's self-worth by patience and practice, and to give the students at the school a sense of community and pertinence. Those were the very things being Blessed with Suck denied her. That is what makes the moment before her Final Battle a true tearjerker:
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Katanagatari / int_143939c1	type	Trailers Always Spoil
Katanagatari / int_143939c1	comment	Trailers Always Spoil: TOTALLY averted with the end of Episode 3/beginning of Episode 4. If you've read down this far, you'll have a good idea of what happens, but... yeah. This is, however, played straight in the preview of Episode 11, which clearly shows Emonzaemon shooting Togame, thus spoiling the otherwise surprising ending of that episode.
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Katanagatari / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
Katanagatari / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: The back massage in Episode 5, among other things. Played for Laughs.
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Katanagatari / int_14fbe67f	type	Godiva Hair
Katanagatari / int_14fbe67f	comment	Godiva Hair: First with Koumori's doppelganger ability to impersonate Togame; we then get to see the real thing in Episode 4.
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Katanagatari / int_15da4941	type	Badass Adorable
Katanagatari / int_15da4941	comment	Badass Adorable: Konayuki, the opponent from Episode 6. Extra points on the badass for being the first person to wound Shichika through the journey, while being a complete amateur.
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Katanagatari / int_174d487f	type	Dull Eyes of Unhappiness
Katanagatari / int_174d487f	comment	Dull Eyes of Unhappiness: When Shichika storms the Shogun's castle after Togame dies, in the last episode, his eyes turn dull and grey.
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Katanagatari / int_19ebe383	type	Never Trust a Trailer
Katanagatari / int_19ebe383	comment	Never Trust a Trailer: The next-episode preview in the third episode shows snippets of the battle between Shichika and Sabi Hakuhei... which then happens entirely offscreen in the fourth.
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Katanagatari / int_1e7487cd	type	Breaking the Fourth Wall
Katanagatari / int_1e7487cd	comment	Breaking the Fourth Wall: During one of the dialogues between Princess Hitei and Emonzaemon in Episode 10, she stops him after he's about to reveal her motivation for collecting the swords. She then puts her fan over her mouth, looks at the camera, and says "I don't know who might be listening, so refrain from saying anything careless."
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Katanagatari / int_1ec3eb0a	type	Take Our Word for It
Katanagatari / int_1ec3eb0a	comment	Take Our Word for It: The fight between Shichika and Sabi Hakuhei was apparently 11 different kinds of epic. Of course, this all happened off-screen...
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Katanagatari / int_203141e3	type	Cute and Psycho
Katanagatari / int_203141e3	comment	Cute and Psycho: That sweet ill girl of an older sister we meet in Episode 1? She's a powerful martial arts prodigy who even scared her father and forced her brother out of his nail-biting habit by tearing them off when they were children. In Episode 4 she eliminates the unlucky Quirky Miniboss Squad sent to capture her without remorse. Then she goes on a little tour of Japan, leaving a bloody trail in her wake.
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Katanagatari / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Katanagatari / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: On Hitei's mantle lies a matching handgun and revolver set. At first they look like decorative pieces when in reality, they're Deviant Blades, and actual working guns. The poison on Mitsubachi's caltrops is not fatal. However the hidden poison, which Nanami took from Kamakiri's molar earlier, must be fatal, right? It's for suicide after all. The map shown during the narrations about the main characters' travel around the country significantly differs from the real map of Japan. It turns out no accurate map of Japan exist in-universe, and Togame plans to be the first person ever to compose one.
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Katanagatari / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
Katanagatari / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo: Shichika's Catchphrase, especially the first time it was used, but also for a few jokes. The context tends to change its meaning completely. Also, Togame's jokey death speech from Episode 6, which she repeats almost verbatim in Episode 12 when she actually dies.
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Katanagatari / int_269e82c1	type	Death of a Child
Katanagatari / int_269e82c1	comment	Death of a Child: Episode 11 looks like this is going to be avoided with Pengin. Then he gets a gun shoved into his mouth.
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Katanagatari / int_27074b46	type	Holding Hands
Katanagatari / int_27074b46	comment	Holding Hands: Togame and Shichika do this in Episode 11, against the sunset. Which makes what happens next all the more heartwrenching.
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Katanagatari / int_29292e6d	type	Walking the Earth
Katanagatari / int_29292e6d	comment	Walking the Earth: Shichika and Princess Hitei in the end, to draw a map of the country.
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Katanagatari / int_2a090d00	type	Lampshade Hanging
Katanagatari / int_2a090d00	comment	Lampshade Hanging: Many examples: When Dokutou Mekki is first encountered, before they know about the memory effect, Shichika and Togame mock it for actually being a katana, saying stuff like "At this point, I was expecting a liquid sword or something, that blade is way too normal".
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Katanagatari / int_2ae81019	type	Stronger Sibling
Katanagatari / int_2ae81019	comment	Stronger Sibling: Nanami to Shichika. The last time they had a match, Shichika was battered and bruised and Nanami wasn't even scratched. It was only a "draw" because she gave up on account of her low endurance as an ill girl. Shichika even thinks that Sabi Hakuhei, the "strongest swordsman in Japan" who wielded one of the 12 swords and could supposedly cut the moon in half, wasn't as strong as Nanami.
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Katanagatari / int_2f329e3c	type	Tomato in the Mirror
Katanagatari / int_2f329e3c	comment	Tomato in the Mirror: In Episode 10 Kyotou Yasuri is revealed to be the completed Thirteenth Deviant Blade.
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Katanagatari / int_2f36d97	type	Older Than They Look
Katanagatari / int_2f36d97	comment	Older Than They Look: Togame, who is around Shichika's age (24) but looks much younger. Hitei even mocks Togame relentlessly for this after her Traumatic Haircut. Nanami is an even worse example - she's pushing 30 but looks even younger and smaller than Togame.
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Katanagatari / int_2fdfbdaf	type	Close-Call Haircut
Katanagatari / int_2fdfbdaf	comment	Close-Call Haircut: Nanami deliberately does this to Togame, as a warning shot.
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Katanagatari / int_308a5ff0	type	Strange Minds Think Alike
Katanagatari / int_308a5ff0	comment	Strange Minds Think Alike: Both Shichika and his sister decide to call the Maniwa corps "Maniwani" completely independently of each other.
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Katanagatari / int_309b8806	type	Cursed with Awesome
Katanagatari / int_309b8806	comment	Cursed with Awesome: Nanami feels this way. She claims to envy people who have to actually put in effort to learn abilities (she can learn a skill by seeing it once and master it after seeing it twice) and she hates that her body won't allow her to die no matter how much suffering she endures as a chronically ill girl (she's pretty much immune to most poisons as a result and doesn't even flinch as she rips a hooked caltrop out of her back).
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Katanagatari / int_30e222a1	type	Censor Steam
Katanagatari / int_30e222a1	comment	Censor Steam: Always a staple of hotsprings, and the ending of the soak in Episode 5 portraying Togame is no exception.
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Katanagatari / int_359e8b6b	type	YouWillBeAssimilated
Katanagatari / int_359e8b6b	comment	You Will Be Assimilated: Maniwa Houou's ability. He could learn other people's abilities by grafting part of their bodies to his own. Did this to Maniwa Kawauso's arm and implied to be done to Emonzaemon's FACE. It is implied as well that he could potentially gain immortality by repeatedly replacing his body parts like this.
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Katanagatari / int_36ae9f5d	type	Traumatic Haircut
Katanagatari / int_36ae9f5d	comment	Traumatic Haircut: Togame. AND HOW. It's a Berserk Button for Shichika.
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Katanagatari / int_36c94bed	type	Person of Mass Destruction
Katanagatari / int_36c94bed	comment	Person of Mass Destruction: Nanami killed an entire city in half an hour. Maniwa Houou when he's possessed by Shikizaki Kiki. Togame even points out the fact that Nanami isn't the only one capable of such a thing when she and Shichika come upon the aftermath. Shichika himself. Or at least, if not an entire city, dozens (if not hundreds) of soldiers, plus eleven Elite Mooks, plus a Dragon. And at the very end, he punches a castle in half.
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Katanagatari / int_37499c8	type	OnceAnEpisode
Katanagatari / int_37499c8	comment	Once an Episode: Each episode ends with the narration "the story of Katanagatari, on this month and this evening, has come to an end".
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Katanagatari / int_37cb353b	type	Ate His Gun
Katanagatari / int_37cb353b	comment	Emonzaemon has no problem feeding Maniwa Pengin a gun.
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Katanagatari / int_396e1c2a	type	Face Death with Dignity
Katanagatari / int_396e1c2a	comment	Face Death with Dignity: Hida Takahito calmly awaits Yasuri Mutsue in his burning castle and, when he arrives, gently tells his daughter that he loves her and goes out to greet the man he knows will probably kill him with a polite smile. Many years later Takahito's daughter does the same. Hitei also seems prepared to do this; her tone of voice doesn't change when she tells Shichika he is welcome to kill her now. Mitsubachi chooses to die by the sword rather than succumb to poison, since he thinks it's more dignified.
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Katanagatari / int_3bc88a7f	type	Foregone Conclusion
Katanagatari / int_3bc88a7f	comment	Foregone Conclusion: The narration at the end of Episode 6 tells the audience exactly how Episode 7 is going to end.
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Katanagatari / int_3c5ae1a1	type	Schizo Tech
Katanagatari / int_3c5ae1a1	comment	Schizo Tech: Other than the third and ninth blades, the 12 blades are quite weird and unnaturally powerful for pre-18th century mechanics and forging skills. In the second to last episode it is revealed that Kiki utilized his soothsayer abilities to find new blade-making techniques, essentially making all the blades weapons from the far future.
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Katanagatari / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
Katanagatari / int_3d699462	comment	Curb-Stomp Battle: Never attempt to fight Nanami. Shichika mops the floor with every last one of the Shogun's bodyguards in his Roaring Rampage of Revenge after Togame bites the dust. Bonus points for the fact that they are wielding the Deviant Blades. Emonzaemon is the only one to put up a decent fight.
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Katanagatari / int_3f7a958b	type	Secret Test of Character
Katanagatari / int_3f7a958b	comment	Secret Test of Character: Higaki Rinne's way of determining whether Shichika and Togame are worthy of taking his Deviant Blade.
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Katanagatari / int_3fb6b526	type	Delayed Reaction
Katanagatari / int_3fb6b526	comment	Delayed Reaction: Togame carries on monologuing as if Shichika had agreed with her after asking if he wanted to rule the country, or has heard of Shikizaki Kiki. It takes a minute to sink in because she just can't believe he's so dense and demotivated. Also her Freak Out after discovering the true meaning of "Cheerio".
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Katanagatari / int_40cad744	type	Flower Motifs
Katanagatari / int_40cad744	comment	Flower Motifs: Shichika's design has them all over the place: His hair looks like a maple leaf, and his hakama, gloves, and even his sandals have the same leaf motif on them. Not to mention the fact that all Kyotouryuu techniques are named after flowers. Nanami has a theme of pink carnations (she wears one in her hair), and Hitei covers her room and outfit with pink roses. Flowers of different seasons are a key element of the light novel artwork too.
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Katanagatari / int_411a35bd	type	Body Surf
Katanagatari / int_411a35bd	comment	Body Surf: Maniwa Kyouken's ability. Only it has to be a female.
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Katanagatari / int_41a894d2	type	Voodoo Shark
Katanagatari / int_41a894d2	comment	Voodoo Shark: Togame reasons that the Perfected Deviant Blades can't really be magic or violate the laws of physics, so they must be technology copied from the future using Shikizaki Kiki's magical abilities. Wha?
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Katanagatari / int_443b78cd	type	Tranquil Fury
Katanagatari / int_443b78cd	comment	Tranquil Fury: Shichika after Togame's death.
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Katanagatari / int_44606d14	type	Becoming the Mask
Katanagatari / int_44606d14	comment	Becoming the Mask: Shichika and Togame really do fall in love. But on the other hand, at least according to her, it didn't make a difference — she still would have killed him in the end.
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Katanagatari / int_479d4e5a	type	Would Hurt a Child
Katanagatari / int_479d4e5a	comment	Would Hurt a Child: Emonzaemon has no problem feeding Maniwa Pengin a gun. This is at least implied for Shichika when Togame asks if he will be able to fight Konayuki despite her age. He replies that a child opponent would be easy.note ironcially, she turns out to be one of the more difficult opponents he's faced to date, and is the first of the sword wielders to injure him in battle
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Katanagatari / int_49fb5ccb	type	Combat Pragmatist
Katanagatari / int_49fb5ccb	comment	Combat Pragmatist: To Emonzaemon's surprise, he's actually completely unable to get through Oshidori's attacking whips/barrier combo. When she decides to stop playing around and go on the attack, he... shoots her to death.
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Katanagatari / int_4a3e547f	type	Leaning on the Fourth Wall
Katanagatari / int_4a3e547f	comment	Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Togame tends to make comments that'd be fourth wall breaking if it weren't for the fact that she's writing everything down for publication. Shichika in Episode 11 too, when the pair are speaking to Maniwa Houou/Shikizaki Kiki. The light novel sometimes comments on or references the genre savviness of characters, and starts hanging lampshades around.
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Katanagatari / int_4c24a9ed	type	Power Copying
Katanagatari / int_4c24a9ed	comment	Power Copying: Nanami can learn other people's techniques after seeing them once and master them after seeing them twice. She does this in order to become weaker. Her instinctive skills are so perfect that anything she might learn can only be called a step down.
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Katanagatari / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Katanagatari / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: Hitei's "If you don't die, this won't end", revealing that her family's plan had been to destroy the Shogunate all along.
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Katanagatari / int_4ef92d0b	type	The Atoner
Katanagatari / int_4ef92d0b	comment	The Atoner: Meisai gave up the bandit life to care for the girls of the Sanzu Shrine after the previous Meisai Tsuruga used his dying breath, not to curse her, but to beg her to forgive the broken girls of the shrine. Because of this, she uses Tsurugi as a healing agent for the girls. Suffice to say, this is an incredibly unusual use for a spiritually poisonous Deviant Blade, and it's unclear how helpful Tsurugi even is for this purpose. But as Meisai is bound by the taint of the sword, this was likely the only way she could go on living without having to continue to kill people. Also, Shichika for Togame at the end. He denies it, however.
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Katanagatari / int_4f6d87f7	type	Huge Guy, Tiny Girl
Katanagatari / int_4f6d87f7	comment	Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: Shichika and Togame in particular. Also Togame and Kanara, if it had ever worked out.
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Katanagatari / int_504a1991	type	Body Horror
Katanagatari / int_504a1991	comment	The same could also be said for Nanami, who manages to continue fighting her brother after they remove the sword from her body. If you're wondering why that fight would fit this trope, she had a gaping hole in her chest.
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Katanagatari / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
Katanagatari / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: When you think about it, it's not the Shogun's fault that Togame wasted her life on pointless revenge; he didn't even know who she was. It seems Shichika just wanted to make a really big example of using "Cheerio!" as war cry - to grant Togame's dying wish.
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Katanagatari / int_519f108a	type	Throwing Your Sword Always Works
Katanagatari / int_519f108a	comment	Throwing Your Sword Always Works: Subverted hilariously in the final episode. Saraba, the wielder of Seitou Hakari decides to just chuck the weapon at Shichika, who proceeds to knock it back at her. At least she's the only one of the Boss Rush who doesn't die.
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Katanagatari / int_52d1f46e	type	Not What It Looks Like
Katanagatari / int_52d1f46e	comment	Not What It Looks Like: A running gag between Togame and Shichika. Episode 9 is full of this once Togame's imagination runs away with her.
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Katanagatari / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
Katanagatari / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: The BGM "Togame" plays during Togame and Shichika's first meeting, and its near-identical twin "Is It All Right to Fall for You?" plays as Togame says her last words to Shichika 12 episodes later.
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Katanagatari / int_5345de5	type	Strange-Syntax Speaker
Katanagatari / int_5345de5	comment	Strange-Syntax Speaker: "'Shirasagi talk-reverse' me call people." Much, much worse in the Japanese version, where the kana as a whole are reversed, as opposed to neat words in backwards order. He speaks normally after Ginkaku cuts him in half, however.
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Katanagatari / int_537dd8fe	type	Affably Evil
Katanagatari / int_537dd8fe	comment	By Episode 6 the Maniwa have cemented themselves as near Anti-Villains, being very Affably Evil, and mostly neutral. Houou takes alliances seriously, and the remaining Maniwa (except for one) all understand the path of the shinobi well enough to know that revenge will not prosper.
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Katanagatari / int_53f5119f	type	The Dragon
Katanagatari / int_53f5119f	comment	Every member of Kyotouryuu. Shichika takes down dozens or hundreds of the Shogun's warriors, then his bodyguards, each wielding one of the Deviant Blades, and Hitei's Dragon with relative ease.
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Katanagatari / int_550754dc	type	Improbable Infant Survival
Katanagatari / int_550754dc	comment	Improbable Infant Survival: Played straight with Konayuki and Saraba. Though Shichika probably would have killed them if he thought it fair.
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Katanagatari / int_56c55ed8	type	I Am Not Left-Handed
Katanagatari / int_56c55ed8	comment	I Am Not Left-Handed: Shichika, no longer bound by orders such as "don't destroy the swords" and "protect yourself", proceeds to completely curb stomp just about everyone in Episode 12.
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Katanagatari / int_582564f5	type	The Gadfly
Katanagatari / int_582564f5	comment	The Gadfly: There is a non-comedic example with Higaki Rinne. While he does have a fairly trollish personality thanks to Togame, his life is based around pointing out uncomfortable truths and things people would rather avoid.
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Katanagatari / int_5a5de5ca	type	Boss Rush
Katanagatari / int_5a5de5ca	comment	Boss Rush: The final episode has Shichika carving his way through the Shogun's retainers wielding the Deviant Blades, with Emonzaemon as the Final Boss.
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Katanagatari / int_5e7eb915	type	Clarke's Third Law
Katanagatari / int_5e7eb915	comment	Clarke's Third Law: The Deviant Blades are not magical, they're made using future techniques discovered through Kikizaki's seer powers. Most literally seen with the last "sword" Entou Jyuu.
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Katanagatari / int_5f146203	type	Dissonant Serenity
Katanagatari / int_5f146203	comment	Dissonant Serenity: Even in the midst of fighting/torturing Maniwa Corps, Nanami maintains her soft-spoken and polite disposition.
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Katanagatari / int_5fcedca	type	Big Eater
Katanagatari / int_5fcedca	comment	Big Eater: Shichika and Togame consume at least several thousand calories worth of rice dumplings and red bean soup while recapping the awesome battle they had with Sabi Hakuhei in Episode 4.
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Katanagatari / int_64c8eea8	type	Wolverine Claws
Katanagatari / int_64c8eea8	comment	Wolverine Claws: Nanami learns how to grow long fingernails for this purpose after seeing a (male) ninja attempt the technique against her. Hers aren't quite as powerful since she only saw the technique once — not that it matters.
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Katanagatari / int_676e942c	type	We Hardly Knew Ye
Katanagatari / int_676e942c	comment	We Hardly Knew Ye: A few of the Maniwani, namely Shirasagi, Kuizame and Kawauso, are killed off without being developed. Also goes for the shogun's Twelve Guardians, aside from Emonzaemon.
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Katanagatari / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
Katanagatari / int_6b2b3b59	comment	The Reveal in Episode 12 retroactively makes Togame a protagonist example.
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Katanagatari / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Katanagatari / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Inverted in that Shikizaki Kiki's sense of irony made him name some of his swords for what they are not, e.g: Zettou Kanna, Plane the Absolute for the sword that cannot bend or be broken. Zantou Namakura, Blunt the Decapitator for the sword that can cut anything. Pretty much every character is carefully named after one of his characteristics. For instance, the strategian's nickname, "Togame", refers to her peculiar left eye, basically meaning "cross-shaped eye" in very irregular Japanese. When Togame swore vengeance against the Shogunate she threw away everything, including her original name, Yousha, which means "forgiveness" or "mercy" in Japanese. So in her quest for revenge she threw those things away too. You will never get a straight answer out of Hitei, this is largely because hitei means "to deny" in Japanese.
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Katanagatari / int_6d7026fa	type	Punny Name
Katanagatari / int_6d7026fa	comment	Punny Name: The title is a pun on the katanagari ("sword hunt") issued by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, which stripped peasants of their weapons to prevent an uprising. However, in this case, Shichika and Togame are literally hunting for a group of swords. There's also the fact that gatari can be read as "story" (making the title literally mean Sword Story), similar to Isin's other series Bakemonogatari.
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Katanagatari / int_707193f6	type	Aloof Big Brother
Katanagatari / int_707193f6	comment	Aloof Big Brother: Nanami is a female example, but she fits the trope to a T, especially in Episode 7.
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Katanagatari / int_71bd62b9	type	Calling Your Attacks
Katanagatari / int_71bd62b9	comment	Calling Your Attacks: Sometimes followed by the attack names getting their own screen, written in badass calligraphy.
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Katanagatari / int_7276d0de	type	Mugging the Monster
Katanagatari / int_7276d0de	comment	Mugging the Monster: The Insect Squad attack Nanami thinking she is at best a "mere" Kyotouryuu practitioner weaker than her brother (who is technically the head of the family) — a fatal mistake.
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Katanagatari / int_7289b368	type	Idiot Hero
Katanagatari / int_7289b368	comment	Idiot Hero: Shichika plays this up, especially in the first episode, but he doesn't actually come across as an idiot so much as he has No Social Skills because of his upbringing. He still finds it troublesome to give more than minimal thinking effort.
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Katanagatari / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
Katanagatari / int_7317b97d	comment	Awakening the Sleeping Giant: The Maniwa really shouldn't have sent the Insect Squad to attack Nanami. This allowed her to have both the motivation and the means (thanks to her newly acquired walk-on-water technique) to get involved in the sword hunt — which spelled trouble for Shichika and Togame. Certain events that transpire towards the end of the series make Shichika a prime example of this. Perhaps quite literal considering his stature.
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Katanagatari / int_7335ffa9	type	Grey-and-Gray Morality
Katanagatari / int_7335ffa9	comment	Grey-and-Gray Morality: None of the characters are really good, but none of them are really evil either and their motivations, if not sympathetic, are at least understandable.
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Katanagatari / int_73641290	type	The Strategist
Katanagatari / int_73641290	comment	Togame's status as The Strategist at first appears this way but fortunately later on she does show skill in coming up with clever schemes.
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Katanagatari / int_77b009ea	type	Phrase Catcher
Katanagatari / int_77b009ea	comment	Sabi Hakuhei's: "I'll make you fall for me." To which the guys he kills respond: "So... cool..."
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Katanagatari / int_780a078e	type	Self-Made Orphan
Katanagatari / int_780a078e	comment	Self-Made Orphan: Shichika admits in Episode 3 that he killed his own father, the previous Kyotouryuu master. In Episode 7, Nanami tells Togame that her father might have killed her mother to show Togame that it's not unusual for members of the Yasuri family to kill each other.
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Katanagatari / int_7bb844ec	type	Villain Decay
Katanagatari / int_7bb844ec	comment	Villain Decay: It gets harder to take the Maniwa ninjas seriously as threats with each new episode. The first one was a skilled assassin who made good use of disguises and trickery and only lost due to bad luck. The second and third are one-shotted by the real antagonists of episodes 2 and 3. Then there's the Insect Squad... poor bastards had the bad luck of going up against Nanami. The Insect Squad even lampshade the Villain Decay; noting that the Maniwa Corp is being seen as the underdogs now. Averted with their Leader Houou who's making up for their apparent weakness by himself. However, by the end of episode 10, every single Maniwa Corp head besides Houou and one seriously wounded member is dead. Lampshaded by Shichika in the final episode, when he kills the Maniwa ninja wielding Soutou Kanazuchi, he says that there wasn't really any Maniwa ninja weaker than that one — if you listen closely, you can hear him laughing as he says it.
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Katanagatari / int_7ef728b1	type	Tsundere
Katanagatari / int_7ef728b1	comment	Tsundere: Parodied with Togame, who tries to act tsun-tsun towards Shichika every once in a while, but Shichika is simply too oblivious for it to work.
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Katanagatari / int_7f8fd503	type	Lonely at the Top
Katanagatari / int_7f8fd503	comment	Lonely at the Top: Essentially how Nanami feels.
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Katanagatari / int_7fbe9a30	type	Freak Out
Katanagatari / int_7fbe9a30	comment	Also her Freak Out after discovering the true meaning of "Cheerio".
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Katanagatari / int_83856158	type	Worthless Yellow Rocks
Katanagatari / int_83856158	comment	Worthless Yellow Rocks: While digging for the swordsmith's hidden workshop, Shichika finds a locked box that Togame yells to just toss aside. It breaks open, spilling its abandoned contents of gold bars.
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Katanagatari / int_86940567	type	Field of Blades
Katanagatari / int_86940567	comment	Field of Blades: Meisai lures Shichika into a Forest Of Blades to give herself the advantage in their duel. Shichika just runs back out, forcing her to follow him. The Shôgun's retainer Akatsuki Tomoe who is given Sentou Tsurugi plays it straight, though. Given, she did it indoors, and Shichika just carves through it and hits her into the wall. Fat lot of good it did her to "master" the fighting style Meisai used.
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Katanagatari / int_8ace85ef	type	Audience Surrogate
Katanagatari / int_8ace85ef	comment	Audience Surrogate: Shichika, during Episode 11 due to a few fourth wall leaning comments.
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Katanagatari / int_8fac4a3a	type	Superpower Lottery
Katanagatari / int_8fac4a3a	comment	Superpower Lottery: The power level of the swords varies wildly, ranging from some that are unbreakable or can cut through anything, to one that's a gun on one end of the spectrum... all the way down to a sword whose "power" is that it's made of glass and breaks if swung anything less than perfectly, and a "sword" that's nothing but a useless hilt with no apparent powers.
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Katanagatari / int_912b24c4	type	Art Shift
Katanagatari / int_912b24c4	comment	Art Shift: The entire seventh episode. It just keeps outdoing itself. Done absurdly for Togame's fantasies in Episode 9.
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Katanagatari / int_9203bf6	type	Arc Number
Katanagatari / int_9203bf6	comment	Arc Number: 12. There are twelve swords, the story takes place over roughly twelve months, and is comprised of twelve volumes/episodes. Also, there are 12 Maniwani leaders and 12 Shogunate guards. 7 might also be a character oriented number: Shichika is the 7th Kyotouryuu head, Shichi in Shichika and Nana in Nanami are both 7 in Japanese. Also, his ultimate move has 7 components and he battles his sister for the 7th sword in Episode 7.
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Katanagatari / int_92a642f1	type	Credits Jukebox
Katanagatari / int_92a642f1	comment	Credits Jukebox: The anime has one ending theme per episode.
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Katanagatari / int_9303d6d1	type	Battle Amongst the Flames
Katanagatari / int_9303d6d1	comment	Battle Amongst the Flames: The battle with Shichika's father that ended Togame's father's rebellion took place inside a burning castle.
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Katanagatari / int_96f6335d	type	Bodyguard Crush
Katanagatari / int_96f6335d	comment	Bodyguard Crush: Invoked. And perhaps played straight with Emonzaemon.
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Katanagatari / int_97d54bb0	type	Tragic Keepsake
Katanagatari / int_97d54bb0	comment	Tragic Keepsake: In Episode 12, Shichika keeps a lock of Togame's beautiful hair which he loved so much. Princess Hitei also starts wearing Emonzaemon's mask when she leaves with Shichika.
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Katanagatari / int_97d97c28	type	Revenge Before Reason
Katanagatari / int_97d97c28	comment	Revenge Before Reason: Togame was going to kill Shichika after their journey was over to avenge her father's death at the hands of Shichika's father. She admitted that she would have gone through with this even though she truly loved Shichika if she hadn't been mortally wounded. To her, everything — people, swords, even her own heart — were tools for her vengeance. When Shichika calls her an idiot for wasting her entire life on revenge like this, she readily agrees with him.
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Katanagatari / int_982037d0	type	Tickle Torture
Katanagatari / int_982037d0	comment	Tickle Torture: Togame's collarbones. Highly suggestive of arousal too, from her Luminescent Blush. Tickling also proves enough to make her reveal her schemes. In both cases it was just Shichika being silly though.
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Katanagatari / int_9cbf01d6	type	Stay in the Kitchen
Katanagatari / int_9cbf01d6	comment	Stay in the Kitchen: Subverted with Nanami. Her father refused to teach her Kyotouryuu and decided to make Shichika the next head of the Yasuri clan — not because she was a woman, and not because she was an ill girl, but because she was too powerful for him to properly train. Not that it mattered — she mastered Kyotouryuu anyway by simply watching her father train her brother.
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Katanagatari / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Katanagatari / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: In Episode 2, Shichika asks whether Zantou Namakura, the sword that can cut anything, would be able to cut Zettou Kanna, the invulnerable sword, and Togame says that since it was made later she supposes it could. Sure enough, in the last episode, Shichika is able to break Zettou Kanna using Kyotouryuu, the final perfected Deviant Blade. Even further, pretty early on the idea is introduced that the first hundreds of swords were simply practice for forging the final twelve Deviant blades. In the end, even they weren't the final product. Kyotouryu was.
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Katanagatari / int_9dadfaee	type	Fetish
Katanagatari / int_9dadfaee	comment	Fetish: Togame frequently wraps Shichika in her hair as "training" to help him learn to distinguish people. Lampshaded when she accuses him of having a hair fetish. Togame has her own fetish moments at least every episode.
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Katanagatari / int_9df812ad	type	Tiny Guy, Huge Girl
Katanagatari / int_9df812ad	comment	Tiny Guy, Huge Girl: Oshidori and Chocho. He's the size of a child, and she's about six-foot-tall.
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Katanagatari / int_9e943076	type	One-Man Army
Katanagatari / int_9e943076	comment	One-Man Army: Every member of Kyotouryuu. Shichika takes down dozens or hundreds of the Shogun's warriors, then his bodyguards, each wielding one of the Deviant Blades, and Hitei's Dragon with relative ease. And then he punches the Shogun's castle (keep) in half. Mind you, with a single blow.
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Katanagatari / int_9edbda07	type	Elite Mooks
Katanagatari / int_9edbda07	comment	Shichika himself. Or at least, if not an entire city, dozens (if not hundreds) of soldiers, plus eleven Elite Mooks, plus a Dragon. And at the very end, he punches a castle in half.
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Katanagatari / int_a0d9c2f3	type	Final Speech
Katanagatari / int_a0d9c2f3	comment	Also, in Episode 11 Togame talks about going on a sight-seeing journey with Shichika after all the action is over, then is shot to death one minute before the credits roll. Subverted when she admits in her Final Speech that it was all a lie; she was planning to kill Shichika to avenge her father.
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Katanagatari / int_a43a691b	type	Finishing Move
Katanagatari / int_a43a691b	comment	This carries over into the names of their techniques as well, simple strikes having names like "Dandelion", and the big Finishing Moves full on plant/flower yojijukugo.
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Katanagatari / int_a5e02e9e	type	Infinity +1 Sword
Katanagatari / int_a5e02e9e	comment	Infinity +1 Sword: Kyotou Yasuri in its "complete" form.
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Katanagatari / int_a6bd0685	type	Died in Your Arms Tonight
Katanagatari / int_a6bd0685	comment	Died in Your Arms Tonight: Togame in Shichika's arms. Doubles as a Dying Declaration of Love.
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Katanagatari / int_a86069f	type	Alternate History
Katanagatari / int_a86069f	comment	Alternate History: The Yanari Shogunate, rather than the Tokugawa, unified Japan to end the Sengoku Period and established a capital at Owari rather than Edo. This is because Shikizaki Kiki foresaw the Tokugawa's rise to power and stopped it, only for a different family to seize power in a similar way.
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Katanagatari / int_a8c6a317	type	Super-Strength
Katanagatari / int_a8c6a317	comment	And then Nanami learns the Super-Strength of a fully grown warrior of the Itezora Clan.
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Katanagatari / int_a939a527	type	Red Eyes, Take Warning
Katanagatari / int_a939a527	comment	Red Eyes, Take Warning: Houou when he's possessed by Dokutou Mekki. Also Glowing Eyes of Doom. Inverted with Togame - it's when one of her normally red eyes turns purple that you should look out.
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Katanagatari / int_abc55125	type	Character Filibuster
Katanagatari / int_abc55125	comment	Character Filibuster: Everyone, bordering on World of Ham since it's the sole reason that the episodes are longer than a usual anime.
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Katanagatari / int_ac09dc0f	type	Alas, Poor Villain
Katanagatari / int_ac09dc0f	comment	Alas, Poor Villain: A number of Deviant Blade wielders and Maniwa Corps members have redeeming qualities or backstories that make you genuinely sympathize with them when they die.
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Katanagatari / int_ac4ac8e5	type	Idiosyncratic Episode Naming
Katanagatari / int_ac4ac8e5	comment	Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: Every volume/episode is named after one of the 12 swords.
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Katanagatari / int_aed65980	type	All for Nothing
Katanagatari / int_aed65980	comment	All for Nothing: Invoked in the final episodes. Hitei's machinations and Shichika's decisive kill amount to literally nothing, because the son of one of Masatsuna's descendants succeeded the seat of the 9th Shogun. History was not falsified in the end.
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Katanagatari / int_af3ea0e3	type	Faceâ€“Heel Turn
Katanagatari / int_af3ea0e3	comment	Face–Heel Turn: Everybody that worked with Togame before Shichika betrayed her the moment they got their hands on a sword.
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Katanagatari / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
Katanagatari / int_b01abe4f	comment	Shichika's Catchphrase, especially the first time it was used, but also for a few jokes. The context tends to change its meaning completely.
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Katanagatari / int_b121a71e	type	Unstoppable Force Meets Immovable Object
Katanagatari / int_b121a71e	comment	Unstoppable Force Meets Immovable Object: Kanna, the first sword, is said to be unbreakable, but Namakura, the second, is said to be able to cut anything. Shichika points this out in the second episode, and asks what would happen if they were to meet in battle. Togame acknowledges the paradox, but offers that, since they are actual objects and not abstracts, one of the two must yield. She chooses Kanna, since logically Shikizaki's craft would improve with each sword, meaning Namakura is slightly closer to perfection. By that logic, the even later Yoroi, also touted as a perfect defense, would be impregnable to Namakura. Both Kanna and Yoroi are ultimately destroyed using the thirteenth, Kyotouryuu.
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Katanagatari / int_b252f072	type	Megaton Punch
Katanagatari / int_b252f072	comment	And then he punches the Shogun's castle (keep) in half. Mind you, with a single blow.
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Katanagatari / int_b2c15631	type	"No More Holding Back" Speech
Katanagatari / int_b2c15631	comment	"No More Holding Back" Speech: When they start travelling together Shichika is given a set of rules by Togame. Towards the end of the story when he no longer is bound by them, he calmly explains to his opponents how each of the rules were holding him back, and demonstrates just exactly how powerful he really is when going all out.
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Katanagatari / int_b2cdd776	type	Bottomless Magazines
Katanagatari / int_b2cdd776	comment	Bottomless Magazines: Entou Jyuu, which were created by Shikizaki Kiki using future technology.
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Katanagatari / int_b5619979	type	Was It All a Lie?
Katanagatari / int_b5619979	comment	Was It All a Lie?: Shichika asks a dying Togame if their plans to travel together were just a lie, desperately trying to convince her to hold on to life. It was all a lie. She was planning to kill him to complete her lifelong mission of vengeance.
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Katanagatari / int_b588a9b6	type	Too Dumb to Fool
Katanagatari / int_b588a9b6	comment	Too Dumb to Fool: A villain in the first season uses a complicated technique to take Togame's form... only to get foiled by the fact that Shichika can't distinguish between people at all anyway.
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Katanagatari / int_b7e7ff52	type	TyingUpRomanticLooseEnds
Katanagatari / int_b7e7ff52	comment	Tying Up Romantic Loose Ends: Shichika and Hitei, possibly.
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Katanagatari / int_b85c06f2	type	Glowing Eyes of Doom
Katanagatari / int_b85c06f2	comment	Houou when he's possessed by Dokutou Mekki. Also Glowing Eyes of Doom.
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Katanagatari / int_b8d93317	type	12-Episode Anime
Katanagatari / int_b8d93317	comment	12-Episode Anime: Averted. The twelve episodes here are some 45-minutes-long and they premiered at the pace of one episode per month, making an initial run of it last one year. The plot unfolds in full.
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Katanagatari / int_bd0d6395	type	No Social Skills
Katanagatari / int_bd0d6395	comment	No Social Skills: Shichika. Being raised on an island with just his family members, he is only able to tell people apart by height at first, and has little sense of when it's appropriate to kill people.
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Katanagatari / int_beb9a361	type	Anti-Hero
Katanagatari / int_beb9a361	comment	Anti-Hero: Shichika has no hesitation whatsoever about killing any foe on his path (even if they are likeable, or women and children). It should be noted that this is because of his upbringing but still...
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Katanagatari / int_bef696dd	type	Mind Screw
Katanagatari / int_bef696dd	comment	Mind Screw: Episode 4... Just... Episode 4. This series is seriously playing mind games with us.
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Katanagatari / int_c0e3994b	type	Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male
Katanagatari / int_c0e3994b	comment	Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male: Hilariously subverted. Togame hurts herself more than the oblivious, insanely tough Shichika. And in many cases, Shichika teases Togame quite a bit, sometimes forgetting his super-strength which gets her hurt and tossed around from time to time. Particularly in Episode 5, where he even states they were getting even. This is all played for laughs.
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Katanagatari / int_c2cedc1c	type	Big "NO!"
Katanagatari / int_c2cedc1c	comment	Big "NO!": Togame lets one out when she discovers the true meaning of her Catchphrase.
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Katanagatari / int_c3b32bf1	type	Rōnin
Katanagatari / int_c3b32bf1	comment	Rōnin: Uneri Ginkaku, the owner of Zantou Namakura. Also technically Sabi Hakuhei, since he defected from the shogunate.
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Katanagatari / int_c6102eb0	type	Grand Theft Me
Katanagatari / int_c6102eb0	comment	Grand Theft Me: Anyone who draws Dokutou Mekki is possessed by Shikizaki Kiki's memories. Maniwa Houou is on the receiving end of this. It is hinted that this may be because he caught it with the hand of his trusted ally Maniwa Kawauso, who could read the past of objects as he touched them. How that is? Houou grafted that hand onto his body, of course.
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Katanagatari / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Katanagatari / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Episode 7 has a scene where Nanami's attack on the monks in an overhead view very similiar to the game Pocky and Rocky (Kiki Kaikai) for the SNES and GBA. Earlier in the episode there's a conversation between three portraits of the characters as if it were a Visual Novel. The few seconds before the meeting with Emonzaemon in the same episode may possibly be a shoutout to Muramasa: The Demon Blade, as the way the map is shown is similar to how the map is displayed when moving between areas in the game, and the exclamation mark and sound effect that accompanies it as they encounter Emonzaemon is the exact same thing that happens in the game right before an enemy encounter. Not to mention the side scrolling view it shifts to as they get off the boat. Episode 11 has Shikizaki Kiki mention a sword stance that has a simultaneous three pronged attack.
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Katanagatari / int_c7aa8090	type	Hairstyle Inertia
Katanagatari / int_c7aa8090	comment	Hairstyle Inertia: Both Shichika and Nanami.
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Katanagatari / int_c82e751f	type	Unspoken Plan Guarantee
Katanagatari / int_c82e751f	comment	Unspoken Plan Guarantee: Yeah, like the technique they carefully discuss and demonstrate in advance in Episode 5 is really going to work...
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Katanagatari / int_c868a42a	type	Freudian Excuse
Katanagatari / int_c868a42a	comment	Freudian Excuse: Nanami's life is one of continuous pain, alienation from her Martial Arts School, existential frustration and continued assassinations attempts (even from her own family!) that she is understandably desperate for success.
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Katanagatari / int_c8a8c595	type	Retirony
Katanagatari / int_c8a8c595	comment	Retirony: Used in Episode 4, where Chouchou goes on for several minutes about his plans to go home and get married after this last mission. Mitsubachi even starts to interrupt and tell him that saying all that is a bad idea... then stops, since there's a strong sense that they both know he won't survive. Also, in Episode 11 Togame talks about going on a sight-seeing journey with Shichika after all the action is over, then is shot to death one minute before the credits roll. Subverted when she admits in her Final Speech that it was all a lie; she was planning to kill Shichika to avenge her father.
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Katanagatari / int_c93a6560	type	Impaled with Extreme Prejudice
Katanagatari / int_c93a6560	comment	Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Delivered to multiple opponents by Shichika.
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Katanagatari / int_c978ad0b	type	Magic Skirt
Katanagatari / int_c978ad0b	comment	Magic Skirt: Togame's impossibly tiny, decoratively torn skirt is nothing short of miraculous in its ability to conceal the goodies. It fails in a few frames if you look closely enough.
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Katanagatari / int_ca04edd6	type	Charles Atlas Superpower
Katanagatari / int_ca04edd6	comment	The slender Shichika fends off a full blown charge from Kanara and Zokutou Yoroi, crashing through the ring's boundaries... and LIFTS both the armor and its occupant over his head for a good long while, finishing with a free trip into the air, crashing back down with great force. Togame puts this down to him having trained virtually his entire life to hone his muscle strength.
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Katanagatari / int_ca3a6dbd	type	Informed Ability
Katanagatari / int_ca3a6dbd	comment	Informed Ability: Sabi Hakuhei is apparently the strongest swordsman in Japan. It is rumoured that he could even slice the sun in half. Then he gets killed off-screen by Shichika... Togame's status as The Strategist at first appears this way but fortunately later on she does show skill in coming up with clever schemes. The ninth deviant blade, Outou Nokogiri, is said to be able to cure the poison of the other deviant blades off the wielder. While we actually see what it does to regular people, it was never used on people who used the other swords.
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Katanagatari / int_ca4e037	type	Dude Looks Like a Lady
Katanagatari / int_ca4e037	comment	Dude Looks Like a Lady: Sabi Hakuhei, according to Togame, could be mistaken for a woman.
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Katanagatari / int_cd682fe1	type	Dodge the Bullet
Katanagatari / int_cd682fe1	comment	Dodge the Bullet: Emonzaemon is mystified as to how he could completely fail to hit Shichika with Entou Jyuu. Shichika explains that he didn't miss - he took the wounds in order to get close enough to break the gun barrels. After an impressive display of speed to keep Emonzaemon from actually aiming those shots at anything vital.
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Katanagatari / int_ce75a983	type	Screw Destiny
Katanagatari / int_ce75a983	comment	Screw Destiny: Shikizaki Kiki forged the Deviant Blades for this purpose.
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Katanagatari / int_ceec4df5	type	Roaring Rampage of Revenge
Katanagatari / int_ceec4df5	comment	Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Subverted in the last episode with Shichika against Emonzaemon and the Shogun. He says that he's not doing it for revenge, instead he's rebelling against Togame's last order and harboring a deathwish.
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Katanagatari / int_d001c42c	type	Anti-Villain
Katanagatari / int_d001c42c	comment	Anti-Villain: All of the non-Maniwani villains, and even then the Insect Squad isn't too bad. By Episode 6 the Maniwa have cemented themselves as near Anti-Villains, being very Affably Evil, and mostly neutral. Houou takes alliances seriously, and the remaining Maniwa (except for one) all understand the path of the shinobi well enough to know that revenge will not prosper. The Reveal in Episode 12 retroactively makes Togame a protagonist example.
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Katanagatari / int_d302b1c5	type	Run the Gauntlet
Katanagatari / int_d302b1c5	comment	Run the Gauntlet: Shichika goes through this fighting eleven Shogunate warriors equipped with Shikizaki Kiki's swords in the last episode.
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Katanagatari / int_d4fce3d7	type	Visual Novel
Katanagatari / int_d4fce3d7	comment	Episode 7 has a scene where Nanami's attack on the monks in an overhead view very similiar to the game Pocky and Rocky (Kiki Kaikai) for the SNES and GBA. Earlier in the episode there's a conversation between three portraits of the characters as if it were a Visual Novel.
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Katanagatari / int_d5bc3bb9	type	Skintone Sclerae
Katanagatari / int_d5bc3bb9	comment	Skintone Sclerae: Several characters, noticeably Shichika, have this.
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Katanagatari / int_d72b162f	type	Technicolor Eyes
Katanagatari / int_d72b162f	comment	Technicolor Eyes: Lots of characters demonstrate this, but Konayuki, Meisai, Zanki and Pengin are perhaps most prevalent.
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Katanagatari / int_d9c47a6e	type	Ojou Ringlets
Katanagatari / int_d9c47a6e	comment	Ojou Ringlets: Togame goes for broke by combining these with a Hime Cut and long hair. Now what do you think the odds are she's a high status/important character? Also followed by her rival, Princess Hitei. Halfway through the series, Togame gets a Close-Call Haircut. Hitei cuts hers too, although not until the very end.
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Katanagatari / int_dd3272bb	type	What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?
Katanagatari / int_dd3272bb	comment	What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?: Lampshaded with bladeless sword Seitou Hakari in the final fight sequence; all the other fighters find at least some way to use their sword, but the little girl who gets Seitou Hakari can only say "this thing is kind of useless..." and is reduced to relying on Shichika for an idea on how to attack him with itnote It "does" save her life, though, since Shichika killed all the other fighters..
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Katanagatari / int_dfb71617	type	Male Gaze
Katanagatari / int_dfb71617	comment	Male Gaze: In the first opening, the camera slides from Shichika's face to Togame's... then to her chest and things for no apparent reason than fanservice before moving to the sword. Her behind and legs also get plenty of focus later on.
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Katanagatari / int_e0c00a95	type	Absurdly Sharp Blade
Katanagatari / int_e0c00a95	comment	Absurdly Sharp Blade: The power of the Zantou Namakura is being this.
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Katanagatari / int_e50818aa	type	Normally, I Would Be Dead Now
Katanagatari / int_e50818aa	comment	Normally, I Would Be Dead Now: Shichika when fighting Emonzaemon. Despite being shot countless times and slashed to bits, he manages to come out of the fight victorious with only a few scars. Let's not forget, he purposely went to the castle to die. The same could also be said for Nanami, who manages to continue fighting her brother after they remove the sword from her body. If you're wondering why that fight would fit this trope, she had a gaping hole in her chest.
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Katanagatari / int_e5457b65	type	Miko
Katanagatari / int_e5457b65	comment	Miko: Plenty about in the Sanzu Shrine, whose Shrine Maidens each own a Sentou Tsurugi. When Togame dresses up in their clothes however, the narrator comments that Shichika isn't attracted to "miko moe". Konayuki too, after she drops off Kanazuchi at the capital and joins the shrine.
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Katanagatari / int_e61d9a3c	type	Clothing Damage
Katanagatari / int_e61d9a3c	comment	Clothing Damage: Ginkaku takes a swipe at Togame and luckily Shichika steps in and prevents the damage from being worse. All that is damaged is the top layer on Togame's bust area.
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Katanagatari / int_e624f0e8	type	Suspiciously Specific Denial
Katanagatari / int_e624f0e8	comment	Suspiciously Specific Denial: Princess Hitei in Episode 10. May be a mockery of this trope.
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Katanagatari / int_e71283f5	type	NeverBringAKnifeToAFistfight
Katanagatari / int_e71283f5	comment	Never Bring A Knife To A Fistfight: Defied by Emonzaemon, who kills Oshidori with a barrage of bullets from Entou Jyuu.
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Katanagatari / int_e936704c	type	The Greatest Style
Katanagatari / int_e936704c	comment	The Greatest Style: Shichika gets scouted for the big artifact-sword-retrieval mission of the story after previous-attempt helpers had helped themselves to the swords they were supposed to recover. Shichika is a safe choice because his sword(s)manship-style has no need for swords, and he does prove himself capable to hold his own against the sword-wielders and more. The latter fact would later prove to have been a foreshadowing.
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Katanagatari / int_eb5b71fe	type	Clingy Jealous Girl
Katanagatari / int_eb5b71fe	comment	Clingy Jealous Girl: Togame shows signs of this in Episode 8 and it becomes blatantly obvious in Episode 9.
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Katanagatari / int_ef2582c3	type	Named Weapons
Katanagatari / int_ef2582c3	comment	Named Weapons: All of the Deviant Blades.
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Katanagatari / int_f42f96fa	type	Would Hit a Girl
Katanagatari / int_f42f96fa	comment	Would Hit a Girl: Shichika had no real qualms with killing Meisai in order to get one of the Deviant Blades. Togame later makes an observation about how he doesn't distinguish between men and women.
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Katanagatari / int_f5afa308	type	Hard-Drinking Party Girl
Katanagatari / int_f5afa308	comment	Hard-Drinking Party Girl: Meisai wields a BIG bottle of sake at that.
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Katanagatari / int_fb914165	type	I Was Just Passing Through
Katanagatari / int_fb914165	comment	I Was Just Passing Through: Togame gives Shichika the order to protect himself, stipulating that she's not giving this order because she cares if he gets hurt, but because she can't gather the swords if he dies... she then immediately gives him a second order to protect himself, stipulating that this one is because she cares if he gets hurt.
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Katanagatari / int_fbd285b7	type	Comically Missing the Point
Katanagatari / int_fbd285b7	comment	Comically Missing the Point: Several of the swordsmen in the boss rush in the final episode completely miss the point of the swords they're supposed to be wielding and end up using them in an ineffective fashion as a result, especially the Maniwa ninja who negates the weight of the sword whose special power is supposed to be its weight.
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Katanagatari / int_fccd06b6	type	Beware the Nice Ones
Katanagatari / int_fccd06b6	comment	Beware the Nice Ones: Dear God, Nanami!
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Katanagatari / int_fd94c4ac	type	Theme Naming
Katanagatari / int_fd94c4ac	comment	Theme Naming: Members of the Yasuri family have names which combine numbers (depending on their generation) and plant aspects. Shichika means "seventh flower", Nanami means "seventh fruit", Mutsue means "sixth branch", and Kazune means "first root". This carries over into the names of their techniques as well, simple strikes having names like "Dandelion", and the big Finishing Moves full on plant/flower yojijukugo. Every Maniwa ninja is named after an animal (divided into bird, insect, fish, and beast squads), starting with Koumori meaning "bat" and Shirasagi meaning "white heron".
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Katanagatari / int_fe614133	type	Beauty Is Never Tarnished
Katanagatari / int_fe614133	comment	Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Nanami didn't even get her kimono dirty the last time she fought Shichika to a "draw". In Episode 4 the last Insect Corp ninja actually hits her with two barbed caltrops, but she simply digs them out without even flinching. There's surprisingly little blood too. How about when Nanami slices off Togame's hair in Episode 7? A hair cut like that should have left it frayed, but somehow it's a perfect bob. Shichika even comments that his sister is pretty good at it. Averted in Episode 10, which Togame spends covered in mud while digging.
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Katanagatari / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Katanagatari / int_ff5a74c8	comment	Talking Is a Free Action: A lot of the dialogue in this series is held in mid-air, or while descending at breakneck speed towards an opponent. Lampshaded somewhat by Shichika in Episode one, who explains his inability to wield a sword to Koumori — while the latter is in midair, descending, about to drive a sword through his head — with a casual "by the way".
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Katanagatari / int_fff371b4	type	Death Seeker
Katanagatari / int_fff371b4	comment	Shichika when fighting Emonzaemon. Despite being shot countless times and slashed to bits, he manages to come out of the fight victorious with only a few scars. Let's not forget, he purposely went to the castle to die.
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