History Manga / Adekan

* BloodBrothers: This series loves this trope. Kojiro has this with Saburouta, and Shiro has this with Anri.

* {{Bishounen}}: Anri and Shiro, beautiful and effeminate.

* AnythingThatMoves: Anri, and he makes no secret of it. An extra chapter has him trying to seduce a [[spoiler: panda.]]

* OverprotectiveDad: Kusuko's father would do anything for her. He would even lock her inside a box for the entirety of her life, just to shield her from outside influences. [[spoiler: This backfires on him ''horrifically'' and he snaps.]]

%%* GirlInABox: Quite literally.

** Saotome does [[Franchise/JojosBizarreAdventure Johnathan's]] [[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventurePhantomBlood infamous pose]] as he's absconding from a scene. Kojiro responds with his own ''[=JoJo=]'' styled face.

* GodivaHair: When [[spoiler: Kusuko]] beckons to her father and asks him to [[IsThatWhatTheyreCallingItNow "learn with her"]], stark naked.

Twelve volumes have been released in Japan as of Spring 2018. A [[https://www.clie.asia/adekan/ stage play series]] produced by CLIE has been active since 2016, with four installments as of 2019.

** At one point later in the manga, a famous novelist dismisses the work of a friend of his who wrote a story about a HiddenElfVillage AncientConspiracy, calling it ridiculous and unreadable. [[spoiler: That ridiculous unreadable story is about the Ha Organization, the shadowy group that's been chasing Shiro and pulling the strings behind the scenes through the whole manga.]] Ouch.

* SelfDeprecation: Shiro's method of umbrella-making, his unsuccessful attempts to sell his over-the-top creations, and how easily flattered he gets when Wakabayashi notes that he's put a tremendous amount of work into minute details that very few people will notice. Now look at the amount of elabourate work Tsukiji Nao puts into her art, backgrounds, and tiny details that very few people will notice...

* BloodyEucharist: As shown in "Tales from Other People", Shiro. [[spoiler: The Ha clan suffers from a short lifespan, and the only way to delay it is the opiate drug they consume or by consuming the flesh and blood of a certain human. [[MacGuffinGirl Shiro]] is that human.]]

* {{Yandere}}: Anri flip-flops between this and CuteButPsycho. [[spoiler: Sakura, on the other hand, turns out to be a cut-glass example to his "big brother".]]

* MessianicArchetype: The symbolism is certainly present for Shiro, as shown in "Tales from Other People"; [[spoiler: The Ha clan suffers from a short lifespan, and the only way to delay it is the opiate drug they consume or by consuming the flesh and blood of a certain human. [[MacGuffinGirl Shiro]] is that human.]]

* ShoutOut: Saburouta's distinctive hairstyle is a homage to Goku from ''Anime/DragonBallZ''.

Twelve volumes have been released in Japan as of Spring 2018.

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* TallDarkAndHandsome: Both Shiro and Kojiro could qualify as this.

''Adekan'' is especially notable for its impossibly detailed art, as well as the sheer quantity of {{Fanservice}} and innuendo. It's so blatant that the series could almost be considered [[BoysLoveGenre BL]], but it never really crosses the line and as far as one's aware, both main characters are canonically heterosexual.

There are ten volumes released in Japan as of November 2016.

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''Adekan'', by Tsukiji Nao, is a [[PeriodPiece historical]] {{shoujo}} manga set in the Meiji era, featuring Yoshiwara Shiro, a sexy umbrella maker with a distinct hatred of underwear, and Yamada Kojiro, an uptight but kind-hearted police officer.

Kojiro makes it his life's goal to teach Shiro the concept of basic decency, and they become unlikely friends along the way. Nevertheless, hitches arrive in the form of gruesome murders, abductions and other strange occurrences, and Kojiro and Shiro must solve each mystery and resolve their conundrums together.

* InfantImmortality: Averted in the first chapter; all of the babies that the culprit had taken to care for were killed and buried by her with the exception of one.

'''Shiro:''' WellDuh. Because I'm horny.

* InfantImmortality: Averted very hard in the first chapter; all of the babies that the culprit had taken to care for were killed and buried by her with the exception of one.

* MonsterOfTheWeek: Or Villain/Problem Of The Chapter, as each chapter is a mini self-enclosed arc, with the main issue usually resolved before the chapter closes. Also means that there are quite a few {{One Shot Character}}s.

* * BewareTheSillyOnes:

'''Shiro:''' Well, duh. Because I'm horny.

* ImAManICantHelpIt: How Shiro sums up an encounter with a dead woman in "Tales from Other People":