History Manga / AkaneBanashi

* ReferenceOverdosed: Akane's performance of "Tanuki Dice" ends up becoming this this when she geys into the zone. She incorporates references and jokes from the other rakugo tales she's practiced. Played with in that the audience loves it because of her delivery, but all it does is pad out time and overshadow the actual reason she's there.

* CallBack: During Tohru's promotional performance, he gets his second wind by hearing a young Akane sneezing in the audience. Years later, Akane performs for Kaisei's Zenza promotion and gets way too into her story, only being pulled back by hearing her dad sneezing in the audience.

* [[spoilerWhamEpisode: Chapter 93 adds a reveal concerning "Shiguma's Art", something mentioned or alluded multiple times in the series. Namely that it is an unfinished story held by the previous carrier of the name Shiguma, and not by the Shiguma that's been a part of the story since the beginning. This adds a wrinkle to the mass expulsion committed by Issho Arakawa 6 years before the story begins.]]

* [[WhamEpisode: Chapter 93 adds a reveal concerning "Shiguma's Art", something mentioned or alluded multiple times in the series. Namely that it is an unfinished story held by the previous carrier of the name Shiguma, and not by the Shiguma that's been a part of the story since the beginning. This adds a wrinkle to the mass expulsion committed by Issho Arakawa 6 years before the story begins.]]

* [[spoiler WhamEpisode: Chapter 93 adds a reveal concerning "Shiguma's Art", something mentioned or alluded multiple times in the series. Namely that it is an unfinished story held by the previous carrier of the name Shiguma, and not by the Shiguma that's been a part of the story since the beginning. This adds a wrinkle to the mass expulsion committed by Issho Arakawa 6 years before the story begins.]]

* Wham Episode: Chapter 93 adds a reveal concerning "Shiguma's Art", something mentioned or alluded multiple times in the series. Namely that it is an unfinished story held by the previous carrier of the name Shiguma, and not by the Shiguma that's been a part of the story since the beginning. This adds a wrinkle to the mass expulsion committed by Issho Arakawa 6 years before the story begins.

The manga can be read for free on the [=MangaPlus=] or Shonen Kump Apps.

The manga can be read for free on the [=MangaPlus=] App.

* BreakingTheFourthWall: At one point, Koguma gives an explanation to Akane about the levels of Futatsume, she picks up one of the manga panels that showed his explanations to question about the presence of Makieru in that one.
* CastingGag: For the V-Comic, Tohru is played by Creator/KappeiYamaguchi, a professional Rakugo artist IRL. Akane meanwhile is voiced by Yamaguchi's own daughter [[TheDanza Akane]], who is ''also'' a Rakugo artist.

* CurbStompBattle: Akane's victory in the Karaku's cup comes up as one, since it is supposed to be an amateur tournament, but Akane has received formal training by a Rakugo master. On top of it, she won it with a handicap.

* DoubleMeaning: After Akane's final performance in the Karakus cup, Issho Arakawa's only remark is a livid "You know this isn't where you belong, don't you?". He acknowledges her skills, but is angry at her for participating in an amateur competition despite having years of training under a master.

* ShoutOut: Chapter 37 opens with a colored page of a pastiche of ''Franchise/DragonQuest'', with Akane dressed as the hero.

* UnknownRival: Hikaru sees Akane as this after learning some parts about Akane's past (Akane's dad was a rakugoka and her training under a master) and is motivated with anger to beat Akane. Meanwhile while Akane herself is cordial towards Hiraku (as Hiraku gets the information from Akane herself), she's more focused on winning the competition to get an opportunity to question Issho Arakawa about her dad's expulsion.
* UntranslatedTitle: ''Akane-banashi'' would translate to "The Akane Stories", but the official English release keeps the original title. This may be due to its ties to ''rakugo'' terminology, where different styles are called ''-banashi''.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Rokuro is often seen listening to music on his headphones whenever he isn't talking to anyone. It is later shown that he regards Rakugo as something similar to music, and uses his own voice, as well as the characters' intonations, to make something like a song out of the stories he tell.

* TheComicallySerious: Kyoji Arakawa is a very straight-laced and dedicated ''rakugoka'', so when he's performing he exaggerates those traits to the point where he can't be taken seriously.

* DontCallMeSir: Zigzagged. When Akane meets Kaichi and Tama for the first time, she assumes that the former is a master and bows to him. However, he clarifies that, despite being much older, he actually joined the school later than her, making him her junior. Afterwards, Kaichi starts calling Akane "nee-san" (as is the custom for apprentices to refer to their seniors), to her discomfort. She then asks him to stop calling her "nee-san"

** A key issue is not that she upstaged her superior but rather that she did it with rakugo. One senior who refuses to teach her specifically states that he doesn't mind that she insulted the guy, but using rakugo to do it is disrespecting the art.

[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/media_flfozd9xwakte5c.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:The Art of Rakugo]]

After seeing her father get expelled from rakugo school, Akane sets out to become a rakugoka in her own right and confront the one who expelled him.

''Akane-banashi'' (あかね噺, literally: "Akane's Discourse")is a Japanese manga series written by Suenaga Yuuki and illustrated by Moue Takamasa. It began serialization in ''[[Magazine/ShonenJump Weekly Shonen Jump]]'' in February 2022.

* TechnicalEuphemism: Nerimaya tells a SettingUpdate variant of the rakugo story "Tenshiki". The lord and vassal are replaced with a researcher and his assistant discussing livestock management, the former whom was asked how they'll handle the issue of "BM". While he pretends he knows what it means, he's shocked at the end to figure out it refers to bowel movements.

* UntranslatedTitle: ''Akane-banashi'' would translate to "Akane's discourse", but the official English release keeps the original title. This may be due to its ties to ''rakugo'' terminology, where different styles are called ''-banashi''.