Requiem from the Darkness

Counterclockwise from the upper-left: Nagamimi, Momosuke, Mataichi, Ogin.

Requiem from the Darkness (Kousetsu Hyaku Monogatari, Hundred Stories) is a series of novels; these novels were adapted into an anime and a Live Action show. The anime especially is known for it's rather bizarre plot-lines and story elements; said story follows Momosuke as he travels around Feudal Japan in a search for one hundred ghost stories. But while doing this, he runs across a Ragtag Bunch of Misfits. They fight evil; well, kind of, anyway. Think Darker and Edgier Scooby Doo. The series is also known for making lazy animation an artform, seriously they turn it into an advantage.

Examples Include

• Absurdly Sharp Blade
• Anti-Hero: Mataichi, Ogin and Nagamimi are all Type V.
• Ax Crazy: Most of the sinners that the group encounters will either be this already or will devolve into this once their sins are revealed.
• The Beast Master: Nagamimi can control animals.
• Bittersweet Ending: Although they win in the end, Mataichi, Nagamimi, and Ogin all die, leaving poor Momosuke alone, just as Ogin finally says his name instead of referring to him as "author." However, it does leave open the possibility that they may still be alive after Momosuke publishes his book.
• Big Bad: Kyogoku Tei
• Black and Grey Morality: While some of the work they do is explicitly good, Nagamimi, Mataichi, and Ogin have been known to enter this realm when it comes to punish sinners.
• The Blank: see No Mouth.
• Broken Bird: Ogin has shades of it, mostly thanks to her horrible backstory.
• Catapult Nightmare: more than once.
• The Chessmaster: Kyogoku Tei
• Conspicuous CG
• Deranged Animation: Just look at several of the "people" in the crowd scenes, and then watch some of the action scenes and you'll know why this trope is almost omnipresent here.
• The Dragon: Tatsuha
• Eye Scream: a lot!
• Giggling Villain: Tatsuta.
• Half the Man He Used To Be: Men, Women, Children The Absurdly Sharp Blade makes no distiction
• Humans Are Bastards: The final episode has shades of it at the beginning, but overall the show has a bit of an optimistic approach to this trope.
• Jade Coloured Glasses: Momosuke dones these near the end of the series.
• Kabuki Sounds
• Knight Templar: The Three Protagonists.
• Mind Screw: Sometimes it's very difficult to understand just what the heck is going on here, thanks to long bouts of Exposition on things that may have been mentioned once in the episode in question. Of course Your Mileage May Vary.
• Mr. Exposition: Mataichi is just about this trope personified.
• Ms. Fanservice: Ms. Ogin, of course.
• No Mouth: Most of the minor characters. The pic on that page is from this series.
• Norio Wakamoto: As Nagamimi.
• Tears of Blood
• The Noseless: see No Mouth.
• Omnicidal Maniac: Kyogoku Tei
• Scooby-Doo Hoax: A fair few of the sinners operate under this idea.
• Wasn't Made On Drugs : Everything from the story to the animation. Houses bend and twist, Character designs lack facial features. Hell, Momosuke falls a sleep with a frog man sitting on his head...smoking a pipe.
• Weirdness Magnet: Momosuke can't go five steps without running into some demon or serial killer. Then again, it is mostly his fault for actively seeking these things for his book.
• When Trees Attack: Two for one special; decapitates a woman holding a baby. The women drops the baby. Then she falls on and crushes the baby.
• Wide-Eyed Idealist: Momosuke, initially at least.