History Manga / Teppu

* RealityEnsues: The results of Ringi's televised spar with Takenaka. Ringi actually defeats Takenaka, a near superhuman feat for an underage girl to manage against a male adult pro, but it's heavily implied (all but stated) that the loss was faked to promote Ringi at the cost of a retired fighter's reputation.
** Zig-zagged, as while the loss was scripted, Takenaka's broken rib was ''not''.

* GenkiGirl: Yuzuko. It's part of why Natsuo dislikes her so much. Also Ringi.
* HardWorkHardlyWorks: Averting this trope is the foundation of the story: Natsuo has the ability to excel at any of the sports offered by her high school without even trying. MMA is the first sport she's encountered she actually has to work at, and despite having TheGift she's still a small fry with lots of hard work and disappointment ahead of her if she wants to excel at it. And she loves it.

* InnocentlyInsensitive: Deconstructed. Growing up, Natsuo was naturally skilled, so when people were in awe of her accomplishments she would react in surprise that they couldn’t do something so simple. After awhile of seeing their negative reactions, she began to realize how insulting her words were. Now she is just being deliberately insulting. It is also shown that it’s more this them her coming to his rescue that breaks her brother’s spirit.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Natsuo is defeated by Yuzuko during the final round of the qualifier, making all of her hard work for nothing. Still, she considers it something of a moral victory, and she is able to tell Yuzuko that they're nothing alike. Though Yuzuko's MMA career continues to take off thanks to her tournament victory, Natsuo makes it clear that she still intends to one day defeat her and those like her]].

* VictoryIsBoring: Natsuo. She doesn't bother joining any sports club despite excelling at it, instead using her gifts to beat up and humiliate 'strong' people in those sports. Once she's won, she quickly loses interest, and actually losing to Yuzuko gives her her impetuous to actually train in something in years.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Natsuo is defeated by Yuzuko during the final round of the tournament, making all of her hard work for nothing. Still, she considers it something of a moral victory, and she is able to tell Yuzuko that they're nothing alike. Though Yuzuko's MMA career continues to take off thanks to her tournament victory, Natsuo makes it clear that she still intends to one day defeat her and those like her]].

* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Yuzuko and Natsuo are deconstructions of the StockShonenHero and the StockShonenRival: Yuzuko's implacable joy and determination is not liked by anybody (in fact, [[InUniverse it's seen]] [[UncannyValley as creepy]]) and Natsuo's life doesn't revolves around trying to crush Yuzuko to the degree, say, [[Anime/DragonBallZ Vegeta]] does [[spoiler:and in the end she doesn't wants to be friends with Yuzuko and finds her defeat humiliating.]]

* BigOlEyebrows: Yuzuko's most notable feature, besides her (short) height. To the point where they're referenced in the titles of ''nine chapters''.

* SchoolgirlLesbians: It's heavily implied that Sanae's friend Mai is in love with her. At one point Mr. Kanno flat out says this is the case, causing Mai to blush and claim that it's not what it looks like.

* BlandNameProduct: [[http://mangafox.me/manga/teppuu/v01/c004/10.html Googlu]]

** In a Bonus Chapter after Chapter 26, Manami actually does sport some cat ears, as a [[spoiler:punishment when she, Natsuo, and Haruka lose a game of dodgeball]], [[http://www.mangahere.co/manga/teppuu/c026.5/12.html but she doesn't seem to mind at all.]]

* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler: Seeing her match against Yuzuko makes Natsuo's brother realize she isn't as perfect as he resented her for supposedly being, especially when she breaks down crying when she gets home, devastated that all her hard work was not enough to beat Yuzuko. This makes him actually reach out to her for reconciliation, and for the first time in years he comes out of his room and interacts with both her and their mother]].

Teppu can be best thought of as an inverted {{Shounen}} manga. Natsuo, instead of being a happy and well-balanced young male, is an easily irritated and arrogant young female. Instead of starting off relatively weak and working her way up, Natsuo is already one of the best; Yuzuko is her first real challenge in ages. Instead of losing her first fight and learning some lesson about hard work, she wins it handily, through a cheap tactic. Really, Natsuo acts as an [[VillainProtagonist antagonist]] to Yuzuko, having all the characteristics TheRival would have in a regular Shounen work. The best part is that this is all lampshaded by various characters, often Natsuo, who sees the whole situation as irritating, though also accepts being a VillainProtagonist rather easily.

* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Yuzuko and Natsuo are deconstructions of the StockShonenHero and the StockShonenRival: Yuzuko's implacable joy and determination is not liked by anybody (in fact, [[InUniverse it's seen]] [[UncannyValley as creepy]]) and Natsuo's life doesn't revolves around trying to crush Yuzuko to the degree, say, [[Anime/DragonBallZ Vegeta]] does [[spoiler:and in the end she doesn't wants to be friends with Yuzuko and finds her defeat humiliating, but a rematch is still secondary.]]

* MartialArtsDoNotWorkThatWay: Averted big-time. In terms of the niche, one of the most realistic ones around.

* BossInMookClothing: Park Du-na doesn't seem like much at first glance, but she's actually the favorite to win the G-Girl preliminary tournament. [[spoiler:Yuzuko struggles against her for most of their fight before finally getting her in a Guillotine Choke.]]

* [[spoiler:TheBadGuyWins]]: Well, more like [[spoiler:The Good Guy Wins since Natsuo is basically the {{villain|Protagonist}} of the story.]]

Actually she's just a [[JerkAss sadistic bitch]] of a high-school girl. When she finally meets someone, Yuzuko Mawatari, who's much better at her in a sport she can't effortlessly excel at, MixedMartialArts, ''and'' who is happy and well-balanced, she makes it her mission in life to ''[[TallPoppySyndrome run Yuzuko into the ground.]]''

* CurbStompBattle: Natsuo versus Mai in Chapter 2 cuts quickly from cuts from the rest of the karate club [[{{OhCrap}} realizing Natsuo may have the bite to back up her bark]] to Mai laying on the ground in pain. The full fight is shown in Chapter 3, but it's not much longer.

* CurbStompBattle: [[spoiler:Natsuo vs. Hisako Sogabe in the first round of the G-Girl tournament. A good chunk of the chapter is spent talking up Hisako's strength, stamina, and the fact that she's a ''very'' dangerous opponent. Natsuo knees her in the face and wins the fight within seconds of the match starting.]]
** [[spoiler:Curbstomp Battles seem to be the name of the game with G-Girl. Sanae and a new character, Park Doona, win their first fights incredibly easily as well. In-universe the number of quick knock outs is treated as incredibly surprising.]]

* ShoutOut: The cover to Chapter 24 has Natsuo dressed in Meiko Kaji's iconic black raincoat and hat from the ''Film/JoshuuSasori'' movies.

* ShoutOut: The cover to Chapter 24 has Natsuo dressed in Creator/MeikoKaji's iconic black raincoat and hat from the ''Film/JoshuuSasori'' movies.