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'''''Yo-Jin-Bo''''' ("The Bodyguards") is an [[Otome Game]] by Two-Five, available in English from Hirameki International. [[Ordinary High School Student]] Sayori finds a pendant while exploring a castle's ruins with her history club. She takes the pendant home with her. That night the ghost of a long-dead princess appears and gives Sayori a vision of how she, Princess Hatsuhime, died. Sayori then wakes up, in Hatsuhime's body.
Lucky for her, six highly skilled body guards arrive to help her make it back to her castle safely.
One of the [[No Export for You|few officially translated Japanese]] [[Visual Novel|Visual Novels]] without any [[Hentai]] content. An [[Sliding Scale of Silliness Versus Seriousness|extremely silly]], [[Rule of Funny|extremely funny]] romp through medieval Japan.
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* [[All-Encompassing Mantle]]: Bo's cape almost completely covers his body...except for [[Fan Service|that strip of bare chest that his kimono can't seem to cover, either]].
* [[All Girls Want Bad Boys]]: The reason for including Ittosai.
* [[All Just a Dream]]: {{spoiler|The Forgotten Dream endings, natch.}}
* [[All Men Are Perverts]]: In case you don't pick up on it, go watch the hot spring scene again.
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* [[Alternate Character Reading]]: Bo's nickname comes from an alternate reading of the characters that spell Tainojo. He says it annoys him a bit, but everybody continues to call him Bo, even Sayori.
* [[Always Save the Girl]]: Given that they're your bodyguards, it's not entirely without justification.
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* [[Arranged Marriage]]: Hatsuhime was going to be married off to a ''ten-year-old'' by her retainer.
* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: A variant when Harumoto is listing off his reasons for getting rid of the princess: She's irresponsible, she'd weaken the clan, her presence ruins the chance for a more suitable heir to take power (and thus for Harumoto to control the puppet heir)... and then he starts going on about how Hatsuhime makes a fuss over yakiniku.
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* [[Badass Cape]]: Yo and Bo wear capes "because they are cool".
* [[Badass Crew]]: ''Any one'' of the six guys is a match for a whole team of ninja.
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* [[Bishie Sparkle]]: Some of the more painterly scenes have an accompaniment of these.
* [[Blade Brake]]: Ittosai {{spoiler|saves Sayori from the fall off the watchtower this way in his Good ending, pretty much destroying both his sword and the watchtower in the process}}.
* [[Blade
* [[Blatant Lies]]: A prominent feature of Yo and Sayori's confrontations with Nobumasa, who believes every word even when they're claiming that Sayori is Yo's mother or that they're escaping from a witch who lives in a [[Gingerbread House]].
* [[Blonde, Brunette, Redhead]]: Yo, Bo, and Jin are a male version, with some allowances made for [[Anime Hair]] - Yo's hair is light green and Bo's is blue, but they fill the roles of blond and brunet perfectly.
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* [[Cast Full of Pretty Boys]]: The only girl who appears onscreen besides yourself is Hatsuhime (who kinda is still you, in a way). A couple of maids may speak during the endings, but they never get to be in the picture.
* [[Casual Danger Dialog]]: Plenty of it.
* [[Caught the Heart
* [[The Cavalry]]: The samurai and archers from the castle.
* [[Celibate Hero]]: Muneshige spent his entire adult life protecting Hatsuhime, so he never had time to find a wife of his own. He complains a bit about this in the beginning.
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* [[Dark-Skinned Redhead]]: Jin.
* [[Dead Little Sister]]: Brother, actually. {{spoiler|Mon-Mon's younger brother was killed in retaliation for Mon-Mon defeating a street thug. Worse, it was set up to look like he did it.}}
* [[David Versus Goliath]]: Nobumasa is bigger than anyone else in the game, but this is especially noticeable if he's facing Yo.
* [[Deathbed Confession]]: Picking an option that ends with Hatsuhime being killed may get you one of these.
* [[Defrosting Ice Queen|Defrosting Ice King]]: Ittosai in his route.
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* [[Dirty Old Man]]: Yahei likes to watch Hatsuhime in the bath.
* [[Disney Villain Death]]: {{spoiler|In all routes, Kasumimaru falls to his death before the bloodloss gets to him. In all but Ittosai's Good ending, Harumoto falls from the top of the watchtower before it collapses.}}
* [[
* [[Don't You Dare Pity Me!]]: If Ittosai has a [[Berserk Button]], this is it.
* [[Double Entendre]]: A couple of the jokes. Actually, ''a lot'' of the jokes.
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* [[Dramatic Wind]]: normally cues the beginning of a big fight scene.
* [[The Drifter]]: Ittosai, the loner.
* [[Drop the Cow]]: Sometimes, the silliness just gets ''random''.
* [[Dual-Wielding]]: Muneshige does this.
* [[Dude Looks Like a Lady]]: Bo claims he should be allowed to guard the Princess during her bath because he "looks androgynous" with his long hair and wouldn't disturb her as much as the other guys. (Nobody else is buying it.)
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* [[Eek! A Mouse!]]: Sayori and Hatsuhime both agree that mice, cockroaches, spiderwebs, and other such nasties are abhorrent.
* [[Enemy Mine]]: Ittosai was a former adversary to Yo, Jin, and Bo. ''Especially'' Jin.
* [[Epunymous Title]]: "Yojinbo" (more commonly romanized as "yojimbo") is a Japanese word meaning "bodyguard." The three main characters are called Yo, Jin, and Bo. The official English title is "Yo-Jin-Bo: [[Department of Redundancy Department|the Bodyguards]]," making it a combination of this and [[You Are the Translated Foreign Word]].
* [[Even the Guys Want Him]]: Bo laments a crossdresser hitting on him in the opening at the festival.
* [[Every Girl Is Cuter With Hair Decs]]: Hatsuhime has a big red bow in her hair.
* [[Everything's Better
* [[Everything's Better
* [[Everything's Better
* [[Everything's Better
* [[Everything Sounds Sexier in French]]: The English subtitles convert most of Bo's [[Gratuitous English]] into [[Gratuitous French]]; this is presumably why.
* [[Evil Eye]]: Kasumimaru's artificial left eye, which is key to the spell he uses to blind his opponents.
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* [[Eyes of Gold]]: Kasumimaru and Mon-Mon, evil and non-evil examples respectively.
* [[Face Heel Turn]]: Making the ''very'' wrong choice on the road in the last day can result in {{spoiler|Ittosai handing Sayori over to Nobumasa, reminding her that he warned her not to trust him}}.
* [[Face Palm]]: Ittosai has not one, but ''two'' facepalming sprites, due to the fact that he feels he's [[Surrounded
* [[Fake-Out Make-Out]]: In Bo and Muneshige's paths, this nearly happens when Nobumasa demands proof that Sayori is her chosen bodyguard's wife and not Hatsuhime. Nobumasa always interrupts before they can actually kiss, however.
* [[Family-Unfriendly Death]]: There are six guys. {{spoiler|Nobumasa}} gets himself killed six spectacular different ways.
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* [[Festival Episode]]: The opening of the game.
* [[Finger-Lickin' Evil]]: One of Ittosai's sprites has him licking his own forearm.
* [[First Kiss]]: Sayori's a bit of a quiet sort, so she's never kissed a guy before. It's uncertain if any of the guys have any experience.
* [[Fish Out of Temporal Water]]: Subverted, mostly thanks to the [[Purely Aesthetic Era]]: Sayori has no trouble fitting in since everyone else is constantly making modern pop culture references and such anyhow.
* [[Foe Yay]]: Jin ''really'' hates Ittosai. So of course the moment he shows any concern about why he's not back from fighting off ninjas, Bo asks if he's worried about him and Yo pipes up with, "Are you saying the more they fight, the closer they are? Are you...slashing them?" [[Literal
** Also, in every guy's Good ending, Harumoto mocks them for being weak enough to love a woman. He takes this to a whole different level in Yo's end, in which he claims that "the friendship between men" is what truly matters. [[wikipedia:Shudo|Considering what real samurai often thought of this "friendship"...]]
* [[Freudian Excuse]]: {{spoiler|Ittosai takes this up to eleven.}}
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* [[Headbutt Thermometer]]: Sayori does this to Yo as he's sleeping.
* [[Hell-Bent for Leather]]: Ittosai wears leather pants and boots, and a long strip of leather wrapped around his upper body.
* [[Heroic BSOD]]:
** Jin around girls. {{spoiler|Both Jin and Muneshige in Ittosai's good end, when Hatsuhime/Sayori says she's dating him.}}
** In a much more serious example, {{spoiler|Ittosai mentally checks out completely for a few minutes thanks to a round of [[Armor-Piercing Question|Armor Piercing Questions]] from Bo. He comes out of it to some extent in order to protect Sayori, but remains pretty shaken.}}
* [[Heroic Resolve]]: Happens occasionally towards the end of the game, but ''especially'' in the guys' Good endings.
** [[Heroic Second Wind]]: Often part of the above.
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* [[Hurricane Kick]]: Yo's special attack, Whirlwind Revolution Kick. So fast it can remove body parts.
* [[Hurricane of Puns]]: Often.
* [[Hurt
* [[I Choose to Stay]]: The Good endings. {{spoiler|Like you didn't see that coming.}} Additionally, in Muneshige and Ittosai's Good endings, {{spoiler|Hatsuhime is thrilled to be able to stay in the modern era, which she has been enjoying immensely while inhabiting Sayori's body.}}
* [[Idiot Hair]]: Bo's hair is sleek and well-behaved, except for one strand that hangs in his face. It doesn't have anything to do with his intelligence, though.
* [[If You Ever Do Anything to Hurt Her...]]: Yahei invokes this in Mon-Mon's Good ending.
* [[If You Kill Him You Will Be Just Like Him]]: Mostly the reason that, of all the guys, Ittosai is the only one who doesn't kill Nobumasa himself.
* [[I Just Want to Be Loved]]: Possibly Ittosai's entire problem. {{spoiler|Bo certainly thinks it is.}}
* [[I Kiss Your Hand]]: Bo does this at various times.
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* [[Jerkass]]: Ittosai.
* [[Jerkass Facade]]: {{spoiler|It's suggested that Ittosai deliberately drives people away due to his father's upbringing.}}
* [[Jerk
* [[Jidai Geki]]: Japan, "150 years ago". 150 years ago ''from when'' isn't specified, but you can probably assume early 2000s.
* [[Joshikousei]]: Sayori.
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* [[No Export for You]]: The PS2 version, which includes extra romance paths for Kasumimaru and Harumoto not available in the PC version, is only available in Japanese.
* [[No Guy Wants an Amazon]]: Played with by Muneshige in his Good ending. {{spoiler|He claims that, though he cared for Hatsuhime, he never felt romantically about her until her personality changed when Sayori took over (then he fell head-over-heels in less than a week). Remember that Hatsuhime was a brash tomboy, and Sayori is much quieter and more traditional - he often praises how refined and elegant she is suddenly behaving. [[Unfortunate Implications]] or just [[Values Dissonance]]? Or maybe a bit of both.}}
* [[Not Quite Dead]]: Ittosai's backstory. Jin stabbed him, thought he was dead. Turns out, his sword was too dull to actually kill him
* [[Not So Different]]: Kasumimaru tells Yo and Ittosai this. Ittosai also gets it from Nobumasa, leading to [[If You Kill Him You Will Be Just Like Him]].
* [[Not What It Looks Like]]: Several times, both visual and auditory. For example, spy on Muneshige and Mon-Mon in the hot spring and you'll get a scene where Sayori thinks they're doing something and is highly disturbed. Follow Jin and Muneshige's path, and Muneshige will think Jin is doing something when he treats Hatsuhime's snakebite. Etc., etc., etc..
* [[Oddly Visible Eyebrows]]
* [[Onee-Sama]]: Yo addresses Sayori as ''onee-chan''. The English subtitles translate this into "miss" when he's speaking to her and "the lady" when speaking about her to others.
* [[One Head Taller]]: Most of the guys are.
* [[Only a Flesh Wound]]: Yo says this when {{spoiler|he's shot in the stomach.}}
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* [[Outdoor Bath Peeping]]: You have the option of either spying on the guys, or just quietly hanging out in the bath all by yourself. (To get the good endings, peeking is the correct choice.)
* [[Papa Wolf]]: Muneshige is normally a nice guy. Do not threaten Hatsuhime and all will be well.
* [[Perma
* [[Please Don't Leave Me]]: In pretty much all of the Bad Endings, either the guy to Sayori or, in Jin's Bad Ending, Sayori to Jin.
* [[Please Put Some Clothes On]]: Sayori's reaction to the guys undressing before getting in the hot spring. Then she spies on them.
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* [[Post-Kiss Catatonia]]: To help his "motivation", Sayori gives Ittosai a kiss on the cheek. It has the humorous effect of turning not only the recipient into a "moaning zombie", but ''the other guys present as well''.
* [[The Power of Love]]: is capable of bending the puny space-time continuum to its will!
* [[The Power of Trust]]: Key to [[Defrosting Ice Queen|defrosting]] Ittosai.
* [[Power Trio]]: Yo, Jin, Bo. Who'd you expect?
* [[Pretty in Mink]]: Ittosai's jacket has a fur trim.
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* [[Say My Name]]: Ittosai's Bad ending is called "Call My Name" for this exact reason.
* [[Scenery Censor]]: During the hot springs scene, the four guys who ''don't'' wear [[Modesty Towel|Modesty Towels]] have their naughty bits hidden from camera view by bowls, stray not-so-naughty body parts, or convenient camera angles.
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* [[
* [[School Uniforms Are the New Black]]: Thanks to [[Economy Cast|economy art]], Sayori's sprites show her in her school uniform even when she's taking a shower.
* [[Security Cling]]: Happens a couple times.
* [[Self
* [[Set Right What Once Went Wrong]]: Hatsuhime originally died before she ever escaped Kitahama Castle. When Sayori finds her pendant 150 years later, she is given the chance to save her.
* [[Shonen Hair]]: Jin's hair is a mess. It does seem to obey gravity, though, so it's mostly a mess in his face.
* [[Shirtless Scene]]: The hot springs.
* [[Shock and Awe]]:
** Kasumimaru is capable of electrifying his sword. He uses it against Ittosai. {{spoiler|In Yo's Good ending, Hatsuhime delivers an electric shock from inside the pendant to snap Yo out of his zombie-like state.}}
** Ittosai himself also gets sparks around himself when using his special attack, Bare Blade Indiscriminate Slaughter. Nobumasa's attack is called Tiger's Roar Electric Shock. However, neither seems to actually cause electrocution to the victim of the attack.
* [[Shout-Out]]: To ''everything''. ''[[Star Wars]]'', ''[[Star Trek]]'', ''[[Pokémon (
* [["Shut Up" Kiss]]: In Jin's Good ending, {{spoiler|Jin does this when Sayori says she's not as pretty as Hatsuhime.}}
* [[Single-Stroke Battle]]: Occasionally. A particularly notable example occurs when {{spoiler|Ittosai faces down Kasumimaru. The other guys have to spend a bit of time defending and getting their bearings after Kasumimaru's spell blinds them, but Ittosai, still partly in the throes of a [[Heroic BSOD]] anyhow, isn't fazed for a moment.}}
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* [[Smooch of Victory]]: Very often discussed by the guys. In certain instances, they actually get one.
* [[Sparkling Stream of Tears]]: Sayori does it a few times.
* [[Stable Time Loop]]: Arguably all the endings, but especially Ittosai's Good ending. {{spoiler|He rips through the side of the watchtower with his sword, and Sayori recalls seeing a battered sword in a history exhibit with the story of a split tower. However, in the original time line, Hatsuhime died long before, and so the watchtower would not have been blown up with Ittosai standing on top of it.}}
* [[Standard Hero Reward]]: Considering that the Good endings have {{spoiler|Sayori, usually still stuck in Hatsuhime's body, marrying or at least getting together with the guy}}, yeah. In Muneshige's Good ending, {{spoiler|Hatsuhime's spirit must haunt Yahei for a week or two in order to convince him that it would be alright for the princess to marry a vasal.}}
* [[Star-Crossed Lovers]]: {{spoiler|The Bad endings often have Sayori mentioning how her love for the guy was never meant to be.}}
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* [[Story to Gameplay Ratio]]: Heavy on the story end. Actual gameplay is minimal, limited to occasional opportunities for Sayori to make decisions on what to do.
* [[Stout Strength]]: Nobumasa is built like a sumo.
* [[Straight Man and Wise Guy]]: Some of the gags involve this, with roles exchanged frequently. Mon-Mon twice compliments Ittosai for providing perfect straight lines, to Ittosai's irritation.
* [[Stuff Blowing Up]]: {{spoiler|The watchtower, in the guys' Good endings.}}
* [[Suck Out the Poison]]: Jin does this when Hatsuhime is bitten by a snake.
* [[Super Senses]]: Most of the guys are pretty good at sensing when a person is near, but Yo especially. He claims he trained to be able to sense people, but it's unclear if it's a case of hightened natural senses or mild [[Psychic Powers]].
* [[Surrounded
* [[Sword Fight]]: Lots of them.
* [[Sword Lines]]: make everything look more dramatic.
* [[Take My Hand]]: Used several times, as Hatsuhime is a great deal slower than the guys. {{spoiler|Happens on top of the watchtower quite a bit, too.}}
* [[Take That]]: A few, including a gentle one that involves a [[Lampshade Hanging]].
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* [[Taking the Bullet]]: Mon-Mon does this with kunai in one scene. {{spoiler|[[Bulletproof Vest|He was wearing chain mail.]]}} Yo does this with real bullets in another. {{spoiler|He gets better.}} And Bo puts himself in front of Nobumasa's spear if you make the worst choice on the last day, not that it helps anything.
* [[Taking You
* [[Talking in Your Sleep]]: Both Yo and Ittosai do it during their [[Bad Dreams]], mistaking Sayori for the people they are dreaming about (Yo's mother, Ittosai's father).
* [[Talking Is a Free Action]]: No one is ''ever'' too busy to talk, regardless of whether they're fighting, running for their lives, or [[Variable Terminal Velocity|falling off a building]].
* [[Talking the Monster
* [[Technicolor Eyes]]
* [[Tender Tears]]: Sayori occasionally gets a little weepy.
* [[Thanks for
* [[Theme Music Power-Up]]: Each of the guys has two image songs. In all but one case, hearing one of these songs is a clue that the guy in question is about to do major damage. (The exception is Bo's "Oh My Love," a love song which plays during his Bad Ending.)
* [[They Call Me Mister Tibbs]]: "Call me...MON-MON!"
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* [[Too Slow]]: Yo's response to Nobumasa attempting to skewer him. Also, Ittosai to Harumoto when the latter {{spoiler|tries to hit him with that [[Mushroom Samba|Western hallucinogen]].}}
* [[Trademark Favorite Food]]: Hatsuhime loves mango pudding.
* [[Training
* [[Troubled but Cute]]: Ittosai.
* [[True Companions]]: At the start of the game, Yo, Jin, Bo, and Mon-Mon. By the end of the game, all six guys plus you.
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* [[Variable Terminal Velocity]]: In the Good endings, {{spoiler|jump off of the watchtower and enjoy being able to banter several witty lines and even make out before the fall ends.}}
* [[Soft Water]]: {{spoiler|Muneshige's Good ending has you jumping into the moat together. Possibly justified, since it's never said exactly how tall the watchtower is.}}
* [[Visionary Villain]]: In most routes, Harumoto's main reason for wanting to take over the clan is that Hatsuhime will ''ruin it'' if she inherits.
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* [[Walking the Earth]]: Aside from Muneshige, ''all'' the guys are wanderers.
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* [[Wicked Cultured]]: Harumoto.
* [[Wife Husbandry]]: Hatsuhime jokes that if she can't find a suitable husband herself, she'll marry Muneshige, who took care of her since she was a little girl. And, of course, following Muneshige's path ends up this way, though it's Sayori's mind that falls for him. {{spoiler|Mon-Mon's Bad ending has the ''real'' Hatsuhime marrying Muneshige.}}
* [[Write Back to
* [[Worthy Opponent]]: The guys sometimes praise one another for being this; Nobumasa may also call them such.
* [[Yamato Nadeshiko]]: Sayori.
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* [[You Fail Your Medical Boards Forever]]: {{spoiler|When Yo is shot, Mon-Mon sews the wound shut in a cave (at least he did have the sense to sterilize the needle in the fire first...). And Hatsuhime gets hit over the head, knocked unconcious, and wakes up with little more than a slight headache.}}
* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]: Muneshige, Bo, and even one of the unnamed ninja all have blue hair; Yo's is light green, and Harumoto's is purple.
* [[You Wanna Get Sued?]]: Muneshige makes a joke involving Pikachu, and Yo tells him not to do that, because it's too close to copyright infringement.
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