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* NoExportForYou: For the Anglosphere, this is the last of Toriyama's long-form narrative series without an official release.[[note]]''Neko Majin'' is a series of one-shots rather than a single cohesive story[[/note]] The way Creator/VizMedia has seemingly gone out of its way to ignore the pleas of the fandom for ''over two decades'' has nearly become a RunningGag.
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* NoExportForYou: For the Anglosphere, this is the last of Toriyama's long-form narrative series not to receive an official release. The way Creator/VizMedia has seemingly gone out of its way to ignore the pleas of the fandom for ''over two decades'' has nearly become a RunningGag.

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* NoExportForYou: For the Anglosphere, this is the last of Toriyama's long-form narrative series not to receive without an official release. release.[[note]]''Neko Majin'' is a series of one-shots rather than a single cohesive story[[/note]] The way Creator/VizMedia has seemingly gone out of its way to ignore the pleas of the fandom for ''over two decades'' has nearly become a RunningGag.
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* NoExportForYou: For the Anglosphere, this is the last of Toriyama's long-form narrative series not to receive an official release. The way Creator/VizMedia has seemingly gone out of its way to ignore the pleas of the fandom for ''over two decades'' has nearly become a RunningGag.

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* PowerLimiter: Kajika's powers are limited due to Gigi's curse, he can only return to normal if he saves the life of 1000 life forms, and if he endangers anything (for example, killing some bugs to feed a dragon), the count will decrease. Izasa notices he has great potential but isn't using his full power.



* PowerLimiter: Kajika's powers are limited due to Gigi's curse, he can only return to normal if he saves the life of 1000 life forms, and if he endangers anything (for example, killing some bugs to feed a dragon), the count will decrease. Izasa notices he has great potential but isn't using his full power.
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''Kajika'' is a twelve chapter-long manga created by Creator/AkiraToriyama and published in [[Magazine/ShonenJump Weekly Shonen Jump]]'' in 1998.


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''Kajika'' is a twelve chapter-long manga created by Creator/AkiraToriyama and published in [[Magazine/ShonenJump ''[[Magazine/ShonenJump Weekly Shonen Jump]]'' in 1998.

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''Kajika'' (published in 1998) is a twelve chapter-long manga created by Creator/AkiraToriyama and published on the weekly Magazine/ShonenJump magazine.


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''Kajika'' (published in 1998) is a twelve chapter-long manga created by Creator/AkiraToriyama and published on the weekly Magazine/ShonenJump magazine.

in [[Magazine/ShonenJump Weekly Shonen Jump]]'' in 1998.

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** [[spoiler: Once transformed in a dragon hybrid, Gibachi]] during ends dislocating Isaza's arm during their fight.

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** [[spoiler: Once transformed in a dragon hybrid, Gibachi]] during ends dislocating Isaza's arm during their fight.
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* ActionGirl: Haya, who unlike other female protagonists in Toriyama's works, is a ninja that fights with her sword and a thief that stole the dragon egg from Gibachi. Kajika still has to save her, though.

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* ChekhovsGun: In chapter 2, Kajika offers Haya the Life Pill, a very rare medicine capable of healing anyone. He will use it later to revive Donko.

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* ChekhovsGun: In chapter 2, Kajika offers Haya the Life Pill, a very rare medicine capable of healing anyone. He will use it later to revive Donko.the baby dragon shot by Isaza.



* FamilyUnfriendlyViolence: The first sight of Izasa's ruthlessness as a profesional killer is to dislocate some crook's forearm and then kill him and his crew with his ''Soaring winds'' to their heads, this last one looking like gunshots.

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* FamilyUnfriendlyViolence: FamilyUnfriendlyViolence:
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The first sight of Izasa's ruthlessness as a profesional killer is to dislocate some crook's forearm and then kill him and his crew with his ''Soaring winds'' to their heads, this last one looking like gunshots.gunshots.
** [[spoiler: Once transformed in a dragon hybrid, Gibachi]] during ends dislocating Isaza's arm during their fight.
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* CampGay: Gibashi is a very open queer man who [[AllGaysArePedophiles at one point calls Kajika his type]], wearing revealing clothing.
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* HalfBreedDiscrimination: Isaza is a member of the Kowa clan, but he looks nothing like one of them due to his blond hair and blue eyes. He and his mother were banished from the clan because of it, as his father is Riiba.

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* HalfBreedDiscrimination: Isaza is a member of the Kowa clan, but he looks nothing like one of them due to his blond hair and blue eyes. He and his mother were banished from the clan because of it, as his father is Riiba.a Riiba (a foreigner, although the text is vague if it means a race or a country).



* PowerLimiter: Kajika's powers are limited due to Gigi's curse. Izasa notices he has great potential but isn't using his full power.

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* PowerLimiter: Kajika's powers are limited due to Gigi's curse.curse, he can only return to normal if he saves the life of 1000 life forms, and if he endangers anything (for example, killing some bugs to feed a dragon), the count will decrease. Izasa notices he has great potential but isn't using his full power.
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* SuperSpeed: Donko claims to be the world's fastest guy, and his speed is certainly impressive to both Kajika and Isaza.

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* SuperSpeed: Donko claims to be the world's fastest guy, and his speed is certainly impressive to both Kajika and Isaza.Isaza, as he manages to outrun Isaza's airplane.
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* SuperSpeed: Donko claims to be the world's fastest guy, and his speed is certainly impressive to both Kajika and Isaza.
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* ChekhovsGun: In chapter 2, Kajika offers Haya the Life Pill, a very rare medicine capable of healing anyone. He will use it later to revive his friend.

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* ChekhovsGun: In chapter 2, Kajika offers Haya the Life Pill, a very rare medicine capable of healing anyone. He will use it later to revive his friend.Donko.

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* CombatPragmatist: Despite being a superior fighter to Kajika, Izasa kicks sand into Kajika's eyes to gut punch him and take him out.
--> '''Izasa''': There are no rules in a fight between outlaws. Only live or die.
* HalfBreedDiscrimination: Isaza is a member of the Kowa clan, but he looks nothing like one of them due to his blond hair and blue eyes. He and his mother were banished from the clan because of it, as his father is Riiba.



* FamilyUnfriendlyViolence: The first sight of Izasa's ruthlessness as a profesional killer is to dislocate some crook's forearm and then kill him and his crew with his attacks to their heads looking like gunshots.

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* FamilyUnfriendlyViolence: The first sight of Izasa's ruthlessness as a profesional killer is to dislocate some crook's forearm and then kill him and his crew with his attacks ''Soaring winds'' to their heads heads, this last one looking like gunshots.


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* PowerLimiter: Kajika's powers are limited due to Gigi's curse. Izasa notices he has great potential but isn't using his full power.

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''Kajika'' (published in 1998) is a twelve chapter-long manga written by Creator/AkiraToriyama.


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''Kajika'' (published in 1998) is a twelve chapter-long manga written created by Creator/AkiraToriyama.

Creator/AkiraToriyama and published on the weekly Magazine/ShonenJump magazine.




* HeelFaceBrainwashing: Kajika has the ability to literally punch the evil out of people, which he does to a few villains who offend him. A couple of secondary characters who get caught up in the events see him do this, and he politely asks if they want him to help them get rid of their evil, too, but they nervously turn down the offer.

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* HeelFaceBrainwashing: Kajika has the ability to literally punch the evil out of people, which he does to a few villains who offend him. A him.
** He uses the technique against Gibachi's henchmen, and to also purify an evil sheriff who was friends with a
couple of secondary characters who get caught up in the events see him do this, and crooks Kajika was handing over, because he politely asks if they didn't want to pay the reward.
* FamilyUnfriendlyViolence: The first sight of Izasa's ruthlessness as a profesional killer is to dislocate some crook's forearm and then kill
him and his crew with his attacks to help them get rid of their evil, too, but they nervously turn down the offer.heads looking like gunshots.


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* SuperHearing: Kajika has an incredible sense of hearing thanks to his pointy ears. He obtained these ears when he was turned into a Fox-man by Gigi's curse.
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* CheknovGun: In chapter 2, Kajika offers Haya the Life Pill, a very rare medicine capable of healing anyone. He will use it later to revive his friend.

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* CheknovGun: ChekhovsGun: In chapter 2, Kajika offers Haya the Life Pill, a very rare medicine capable of healing anyone. He will use it later to revive his friend.

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* CheknovGun: In chapter 2, Kajika offers Haya the Life Pill, a very rare medicine capable of healing anyone. He will use it later to revive his friend.



* ThemeNaming: A number of characters in ''Kajika'' are named after Japanese names for fish, for the sole reason that Toriyama had multiple tanks full of tropical fish in his workroom at the time he was drawing it.

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* ThemeNaming: A number of The characters in ''Kajika'' are named after Japanese names for fish, for the sole reason that Toriyama had multiple tanks full of tropical fish in his workroom at the time he was drawing it.
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* HeelFaceBrainwashing: Kajika has the ability to literally punch the evil out of people, which he does to a few villains who offend him. A couple of secondary characters who get caught up in the events see him do this, and he politely asks if they want him to help them get rid of their evil, too, but they nervously turn down the offer.
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''Kajika'' (published in 1998) is a twelve chapters manga written by Creator/AkiraToriyama.


Kajika was a malicious boy who was cursed to live as a half-box after cruelly killing an innocent fox. In order to purify himself of the curse from the fox he killed, he has to save 1000 lives. After achieving to save 900 lives, he saves professional thief Haya who was being chased by mob boss Gibachi for stealing a precious dragon egg, which legends have that drinking from a young dragon's blood will give you strange abilities.

Haya gives Kajika the dragon egg for its protection, as Gibachi sents a professional assassin to kill him named Isaza, who is a member of Kajika's extinct tribe.

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''Kajika'' (published in 1998) is a twelve chapters chapter-long manga written by Creator/AkiraToriyama.


Kajika was a malicious boy who was cursed to live as a half-box half-fox after cruelly killing an innocent fox. In order to purify himself of the curse from the fox he killed, he has to save 1000 lives. After achieving to save 900 lives, he saves professional thief Haya who was being chased by mob boss Gibachi for stealing a precious dragon egg, which legends have that drinking from a young dragon's blood will give you strange abilities.

Haya gives Kajika the dragon egg for its protection, as Gibachi sents sent a professional assassin to kill him named Isaza, who is a member of Kajika's extinct tribe.
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[[caption-width-right:197: [[ABoyAndHisX A boy and the spirit of the fox he killed.]]]]

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[[caption-width-right:197: [[ABoyAndHisX A boy fox-boy and the spirit of the fox he killed.]]]]
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[[caption-width-right:197: [[ABoyAndHisX A boy and the spirit of the fox he killed.]]]]


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* ABoyAndHisX: ''Kajika'' is the story of a boy and the spirit of the fox he cruelly killed. After 5 years together, however, they became friends. [[spoiler: So much so that after the cursed was lifted and the two were revived, Gigi killed himself to stay with him for long, much to Kajika's dismay.]]

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''Kajika'' (published in 1999) is a twelve chapters manga written by Creator/AkiraToriyama.


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''Kajika'' (published in 1999) 1998) is a twelve chapters manga written by Creator/AkiraToriyama.




Haya gives Kajika the dragon egg for its protection, as Gibachi sents a professional assassin to kill him named Izashi, who is a member of Kajika's extinct tribe.

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Haya gives Kajika the dragon egg for its protection, as Gibachi sents a professional assassin to kill him named Izashi, Isaza, who is a member of Kajika's extinct tribe.



* LastOfHisKind: Kajika and Izashi come from the Kowa clan, who were wiped out by a volcano four years before the events of the story. They are known for having strange abilities.

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* LastOfHisKind: ActionGirl: Haya, who unlike other female protagonists in Toriyama's works, is a ninja that fights with her sword and a thief that stole the dragon egg from Gibachi. Kajika still has to save her, though.
* LastOfHisKind:
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Kajika and Izashi Isaza come from the Kowa clan, who were wiped out by a volcano four years before the events of the story. They are known for having strange abilities.abilities, like telekinesis and stripping away the evil of someone's heart.
** The two remaining dragons of Ronron Island were killed in a giant storm, making the dragon egg the only survivor of that race.
* ThemeNaming: A number of characters in ''Kajika'' are named after Japanese names for fish, for the sole reason that Toriyama had multiple tanks full of tropical fish in his workroom at the time he was drawing it.
** Kajika is named after the Cottus pollux fish.
** Gigi is named after Tachysurus nudiceps.
** Haya is a Proxinus fish.
** Isaza is named after Leucopsarion petersi.
** Donko is named after Odontobutis obscura.
** Gibachi is named after Pseudobagrus tokiensis.
** Yugoi is named after Kuhliidae fishes.
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''Kajika'' (published in 1999) is a twelve chapters manga written by Creator/AkiraToriyama.


Kajika was a malicious boy who was cursed to live as a half-box after cruelly killing an innocent fox. In order to purify himself of the curse from the fox he killed, he has to save 1000 lives. After achieving to save 900 lives, he saves professional thief Haya who was being chased by mob boss Gibachi for stealing a precious dragon egg, which legends have that drinking from a young dragon's blood will give you strange abilities.

Haya gives Kajika the dragon egg for its protection, as Gibachi sents a professional assassin to kill him named Izashi, who is a member of Kajika's extinct tribe.

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* LastOfHisKind: Kajika and Izashi come from the Kowa clan, who were wiped out by a volcano four years before the events of the story. They are known for having strange abilities.

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