History Manga / NanamaruSanbantsu

[[redirect:Manga/NanamaruSanbatsu]]

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[[caption-width-right:180:[[{{Jeopardy}} Ken Jennings]] exists. [[MemeticMutation And he's a Japanese]] [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent high school student]]!]]

--> '''''Question''''': ''What is the format of competitive quiz bowls, called "golden rule" by truly able players?''
--> '''''Answer''''': ''[[TitleDrop 7 Right 3 Wrong]]''
--> '''''Explanation''''': ''It means that one wins when he gets seven correct answers, or gets disqualifed when he gives three incorrect answers. It's a standard rule loved by competitive quiz bowl players.''

''Nanamaru Sanbantsu (Seven Right, Three Wrong)'' is a {{seinen}} School Life manga by Ikura Sugimoto and serialized monthly by ''Young Ace''.

On his second day as a senior high school student, Shiki Koshiyama [[DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife is yet uncertain which school club will he join]], until he got [[TheCall himself invited]] to Buzou High School's Quiz Club, which he refused initially because he felt it was too {{nerd}}y. Or so it seems.

He found a copy of the quiz club's campaign pamphlet: a 100-item questionnaire based on quiz shows, and answered them quite easily. Then he met [[NerdsAreSexy Mari Fukami]], a classmate of his who is actually an expert quizzer known as "[[RedBaron The Buzzer Queen]]" in a rather [[PantyShot odd circumstance]], and quiz club captain [[BunnyEarsLawyer Gakuto Sasajima]], who saw his potential to become a great quizzer.

It was only until then that Shiki realized he had such great potential as a quizzer, but needs to hone himself in the art of [[MundaneMadeAwesome buzzer-pressing]] as knowing the answer to every question is not everything in quizzes, but rather the ability to answer every question ''ahead'' of the others is what makes one '''''[[ToBeAMaster The King of Quizzes]]'''''.

''Nanamaru Sanbantsu'' offers a good break from the usual {{Shonen}} action stuff by featuring a natural bookworm for a hero competing in an event usually reserved for geniuses, where knowledge literally ''is'' power. Definitely {{needs more love}}.

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!!''Nanamaru Sanbantsu'' provides examples of:

* AwesomenessByAnalysis: [=7o3x=] runs on this trope, as quizzers are often required to have good analytical abilities to recognize the clues necessary to answer the questions.
** In Chapter 14, Shiki got the correct answer to one of the puzzles in the arcade quiz by looking into which Japanese kanji words occupy the ''least space'' in their respective boxes.
* {{Bookworm}}: This is how Shiki gets the immense knowledge that gives him the edge in paper-and-pen quizzes. He only needs to master the art of "buzzing in and answer questions correctly before anyone else" to turn his book-smarts into a real advantage in oral quizzes.
** BlessedWithSuck: He's an avid reader of ''classical literature'', which means ''he cannot do squat on pop culture stuff'' which happens to appear every so often.
* {{Bishounen}}: Seiji, Mari's older brother.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Gakuto, the very eccentric team captain of Buzou High's Quiz Club. But he's actually a legendary quizzer from Kaijou who ditched it for Buzou for unknown reasons. [[spoiler: In the Asagaoka Quiz Bowl Arc, he tied with Okura, Kaijou's current team captain, and he was Gakuto's ''senpai'' to boot!]]
* ChekhovsArmoury: Any GenreSavvy quizzer knows that ''everything'' and ''anything'' under the sun can be asked in an official quiz bowl tournament. [[{{Bookworm}} Shiki]] in particular has a really big stash of [[ChekhovsGun Chekhov's Guns]] that he uses to his advantage in Literature questions.
* CloudCuckooLander: Gakuto's sister Jinko.
* DareToBeBadass: In the second round of the Asagaoka quiz bowl, Mari was paired with [[ShrinkingViolet Yagi]] from Kannami. Mari carried her throughout the round, until this happened:
--> '''''Yagi''''': ''What if I don't get the correct answer?''
--> '''''Mari''''': ''If you don't get the correct answer'', '''''you're not going anywhere!'''''
* EatingLunchAlone: Shiki does this in the library. Until Jinko came along and [[EnemyEatsYourLunch ate his lunch]].
* FiveManBand
** TheHero: [[{{Bookworm}} Shiki]] [[MightyGlacier Koshiyama]]
** TheLancer: [[NerdsAreSexy Mari]] [[FragileSpeedster Fukami]]
** TheBigGuy: [[{{Gonk}} Daisuke]] [[GoodWithNumbers Inoue]]
** TheSmartGuy: [[TheAce Gakuto]] [[TheObiWan Sasajima]]
** TheChick: [[GadgeteerGenius Jinko]] [[CloudCuckooLander Sasajima]]
* FragileSpeedster: Mari Fukami, Buzou High's Buzzer Queen. She's fast with the buzzer and pop culture questions but she has nowhere near Shiki's immense stock knowledge crucial for the end-game.
* GadgeteerGenius: Jinko Sasajima. She is currently learning how to create a cost-effective buzzer.
* [[GenderBlenderName Gender Blender]] EmbarrassingFirstName: '''Chisato''' Mikuriya has a reason why he doesn't just [[HoYay exchange phone numbers]] with his [[FoeYay self-proclaimed rival]].
* GenkiGirl: Jinko.
* GoodWithNumbers: Daisuke.
* IdiotHair: Shiki.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Mari and Yuki, even when they're now in different schools.
* GlassCannon: Chisato Mikuriya, the ace player of Miyaura Quiz Bowl Team. He can buzz in the correct answer faster than anyone else, but only if he can recognize it right off the first clue. Otherwise, he tends to stumble as more and more clues pile up, making it more difficult for him to piece them together to get the correct answer.
* KansaiRegionalAccent: Jinko's accent is the entire reason why people think of her and Gakuto as NotBloodSiblings.
* LightningBruiser: [[TheJuggernaut Gakuto]] and Seiji.
* MeaningfulName: Gakuto's name in kanji literally means ''student''.
* {{Meido}}: Mari and Yuki's outfits as part of their part-time work at Akihabara.
* MightyGlacier: Shiki's voracious reading appetite gives him immense knowledge in a wide range of fields, especially classical literature. However, as a newbie in quiz bowls he tends to stumble in toss-ups where speed is more important than accuracy.
* MundaneMadeAwesome: Quiz bowls are no ordinary school quizzes, but this is the game everyone knows how to play!
* NerdsAreSexy: Gee, sure they are sexy, especially the girls. Taken UpToEleven with the Asagaoka Quiz Bowl Club.
* PantyShot: Mari accidentally serves it to Shiki, so she forces him to become a quiz bowl player as retribution.
* RedBaron: Mari, Buzou High's Buzzer Queen. [[TheWorfEffect Seems to get downplayed later, though]].
* SiblingYinYang: Gakuto is a '''very''' eccentric master quizzer, while Jinko is a GenkiGirl GadgeteerGenius.
* SweetPollyOliver: [[spoiler: Akira Sonohara disguised as a male student from Sekigahara for the Asagaoka Quiz Bowl.]]
* TeenGenius: Pretty much ''everyone'' here. [[GameBreaker Especially the one who can answer very difficult questions in less than a second]].
* TheWorfEffect: [[spoiler: In full effect during the Asagaoka Arc, where [[TheJuggernaut Gakuto]] and [[GenderBender Akira]] curb-stomped pretty much ''everyone''.]]
* ZettaiRyouiki: Mari wears a Grade A on their quiz bowl event at Akihabara. The trope becomes a ChekhovsGun for Shiki later on.

* TheFatGuy: Daisuke Inoue.

* FragileSpeedster: Mari Fukami, Buzou High's Buzzer Queen. She's fast with the buzzer and pop culture questions but she has nowhere near Shiki's immense stock knowledge which crucial for the end-game.

''Nanamaru Sanbantsu'' is a [[OvershadowedByAwesome relatively obscured by the more mainstream ones]] because [[ViewersAreMorons quiz bowls are often dismissed]] as [[LogicBomb an overly intellectual event]] that requires the brain of ''Stephen Hawking'' to even recognize. Nonetheless, it gave the [[GameShow Competitive Quiz Bowl Genre]] a manga representation which [[IKnewIt more or less surprised the quizzer community]] who thought such a venture impossible.

Time will tell if it will finally undergo the TournamentArc.

** BlessedWithSuck: He's an avid reader of ''classical literature'', which means ''he cannot do squat on pop culture stuff'' which happens to appear ''[[OhCrap very often]]'' [[OhCrap in]] ''[[OhCrap every]]'' [[OhCrap quiz bowl]] ''[[OhCrap ever]]''.

** Needless to say, [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Yagi got the round-clinching question right and she and Mari were the first to qualify in for the third round]] outside of [[TheAce the top ten finishers of Round 1 who qualified outright]].

* {{Gonk}}: Daisuke Inoue.

* LightningBruiser: [[TheJuggernaut Gakuto]] and Mari's brother Seiji.

* MightyGlacier: Shiki's voracious reading appetite gives him immense knowledge in a wide range of fields, especially classical literature, but as a newbie in quiz bowls, he tends to stumble in toss-ups where speed is more important than accuracy.

* NerdsAreSexy: Gee, sure they are sexy, especially the girls. Taken UpToEleven with an all-girl team Shiki met at Akihabara.

It was only until then that Shiki realized he had such great potential as a quizzer, but needs to hone himself in the art of [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome buzzer-pressing]] as knowing the answer to every question is not everything in quizzes, but rather the ability to answer every question ''ahead'' of the others is what makes one '''''[[ToBeAMaster The King of Quizzes]]'''''.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome: Quiz bowls are no ordinary school quizzes, but this is the game everyone knows how to play!

* {{Bookworm}}: This is how Shiki gets the immense knowledge that gives him the edge in paper-and-pen quizzes. He only needs to master the art of "[[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome buzzing in and answer questions correctly before anyone else]]" to turn his book-smarts into a real advantage in oral quizzes.

* {{Bishounen}}: Seiji, Mari's older brother. And he looks like [[PrinceOfTennis Tezuka]] as well.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Gakuto

* CloudCuckooLander: Gakuto is ''really'' into quizzes. Jinko is pretty much air-headed ''all the time''.

* KansaiRegionalAccent: The entire reason why people think of Gakuto and Jinko as NotBloodSiblings.
* LightningBruiser: Gakuto could be one, and so are the members of the [[IncrediblyLamePun god-tier]] Kaijou Academy quiz team.
** LightningBruiser -> GlassCannon: Mikuriya. He can buzz in the correct answer faster than anyone but only if he can recognize it right off the first clue. Otherwise, he tends to stumble as more and more clues pile up, making it more difficult for him to piece them together to get the correct answer.
* MeaningfulName: Gakuto's name in kanji literally means "school-man", the closest equivalent being ''"student"''.

* MightyGlacier: Shiki's voracious reading appetite gives him immense knowledge in a wide range of fields, but as a newcomer in the game, he tends to stumble in toss-ups where speed is a more important aspect than accuracy. [[CaptainObvious After all, you lose if somebody buzzes in the correct answer before you can even react]].

* PantyShot: Mari accidentally serves it to Shiki, so she forces him to become a quizzer as retribution.
* RedBaron: Mari (The Buzzer Queen)

--> ''Yagi: What if I don't get the correct answer?''
--> ''Mari: If you don't get the correct answer, you're not going anywhere!''

Apparently, the author is now bumping a little {{Fanservice}} so it doesn't get blown out of the water by the more popular, less intellectual mangas of today.

* {{Bishounen}}: Seiji, Mari's older brother.

* GlassCannon: Mikuriya. He can buzz in the correct answer faster than anyone but only if he can recognize it right off the first clue. Otherwise, he tends to stumble as more and more clues pile up, making it more difficult for him to piece them together to get the correct answer.

* MightyGlacier: Shiki is a quiz example. His voracious reading appetite gave him immense knowledge in a wide range of fields, but as a newcomer in the game, he tends to stumble in toss-ups where speed is a more important aspect than accuracy. [[CaptainObvious After all, you lose if somebody buzzes in the correct answer before you can even react]].

* TeenGenius: Pretty much ''everyone'' here. [[GameBreaker Especially one who can answer very difficult questions in less than a second]].

[[caption-width-right:180:[[{{Jeopardy}} Ken Jennings]] exists. [[MemeticMutation And he's Japanese]]!]]

** TheHero: [[{{Bookworm}} Shiki Koshiyama]]
** TheLancer: [[NerdsAreSexy Mari Fukami]]

* {{Meido}}: Mari and Yuki's outfits as part of their part-time work at Akihabara.

He found a copy of the quiz club's campaign pamphlet: a 100-item questionnaire based on quiz shows, and answered them quite easily. Then he met [[NerdsAreSexy Mari Fukami]], a classmate of his who is actually an expert quizzer known as "[[RedBaron The Buzzer Queen]]" in a rather [[PantyShot odd circumstance]], and quiz club captain [[CloudCuckooLander Gakuto Sasajima]], who saw his potential to become '''''The King Of Quizzes'''''. It was only then that he realized he had such great potential as a quizzer, but needs to hone himself in the art of [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome buzzer-pressing]] as knowing the answer to every question is not everything in quizzes, but rather the ability to answer every question ''ahead'' of the others is what makes one '''''[[ToBeAMaster The King of Quizzes]]'''''.

* TheAce: Gakuto

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome: Admit it, you didn't expect [[GameShow Competitive Quiz Bowls]] to have a manga, right?