History Manga / TheHuntersGuildRedHood

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''The Hunters Guild: Red Hood'' (''レッドフード'', ''Reddo Fūdo'') is a manga by former Creator/KoheiHorikoshi assistant Yuki Kawaguchi currently serialized in ''Weekly Magazine/ShonenJump''.

* AndTheAdventureContinues: [[spoiler: The book that dictates the world is destroyed and the world's fate is left to whatever it's inhabitants make it out to be. But werewolves are still a thing, so Grimm and Velou get ready to go on the hunt.]]

* FairytaleMotifs: The series is based on ''Literature/LittleRedRidingHood'' as the title and main antagonists being (were)wolves makes clear. Time will tell what other fairy tales get brought in - though with a protagonist named Grimm, a person named Red Hood who founded the Hunters Guild, and a witch named Cinderella in it so far, it's fair to assume other works of {{Creator/The Brothers Grimm}} will get into this manga.

* TalkingIsAFreeAction: In the middle of a fight with a werewolf, Grimm and Velou discussed a plan of how to defeat it in which they exchanged well over 240 words. What makes it even more ridiculous is that the werewolf has SuperHearing, [[ForgotAboutHisPowers yet didn't hear any of this.]] It could be slightly justified in that Doudou implies that he needs to focus to use his hearing to it's full potential, and he was too distracted by the smoke fouling up his eyes and nose to listen properly until he'd calmed down a little from losing sight of his prey along with some of his senses. This is the same reason why Velou was able to sneak into the house beneath him to fill it up with gas long enough to blast him with-- just because he has super-hearing, doesn't mean that he's ''using'' it all the time, especially if his focus isn't on listening.

* AnAxeToGrind: Mayor Horlock's WeaponOfChoice was a Small hatchet that he used to chop wood and apparently kill the werewolf that ate Velou's parents. He would often let Velou use it to help him chop wood blocks for the village, and when grimm is swallowed by the Granny werewolf, Velou seizes the Axe after blasting her through the roof of her mouth as a distraction and splits her stomach open chest to groin in a single blow to pull Grimm free, [[TragicKeepsake taking it as his own weapon]] going forward. [[spoiler: Grimm is surprised how effective the axe was in hurting the werewolf, given how tough the beasts are, and later figures out that the head is made of [[AchillesHeel wolfonium]], and that the wood-chopping exercises Velou did with the Mayor were actually secretly training his body up to be capable of wielding the axe in battle, motivating her to bring Velou along with her to the hunter's guild to figure out what's going on with [[MysteriousPast him]]]].

Sadly the series was canceled in November 2021 due to low readership, ending at a paltry 18 chapters.

* AdaptationalVillainy: As seems to be increasingly common in modern media, Literature/{{Cinderella}} gets this treatment, here portrayed as an evil witch

* AdaptationalVillainy: As seems to be increasingly common in modern media, Cinderella gets this treatment, here portrayed as an evil witch

* GiantEnemyCrab: While en route to Hunter's HQ in Chapter 6, Velou and Grimm are attacked by an armored crab that wears a tank as a shell.

* TalkingIsAFreeAction: In the middle of a fight with a werewolf, Grimm and Velou discussed a plan of how to defeat it in which they exchanged well over 240 words. What makes it even more ridiculous is that the werewolf has SuperHearing, [[ForgotAboutHisPowers yet didn't hear any of this.]] It could be slightly justified in that Doudou implies that he needs to focus to use his hearing to it's full potential, and he was too distracted by the smoke fouling up his eyes and nose to listen properly until he'd calmed down a little from losing sight of his prey along with some of his senses. This is the same reason why Velou was able to sneak into the house beneath him to fill it up with gas long enough to blast him with-- just because he has super-hearing, doesn't mean that he's ''using'' it all the time, especially if his focus isn't on using his hearing.

* TalkingIsAFreeAction: In the middle of a fight with a werewolf, Grimm and Velou discussed a plan of how to defeat it in which they exchanged well over 240 words. What makes it even more ridiculous is that the werewolf has SuperHearing, [[ForgotAboutHisPowers yet didn't hear any of this.]] It could be slightly justified in that Doudou implies that he needs to focus to use his hearing to it's full potential, and he was too distracted by the smoke fouling up his eyes and nose to listen properly until he'd calmed down a little from losing sight of his prey along with some of his senses.

* TalkingIsAFreeAction: In the middle of a fight with a werewolf, Grimm and Velou discussed a plan of how to defeat it in which they exchanged well over 240 words. What makes it even more ridiculous is that the werewolf has SuperHearing, [[ForgotAboutHisPowers yet didn't hear any of this.]]

* ArtisticLicensePhysics: The Ironworks is a giant box-shaped building sitting on top of a train car. The building is supported entirely by beams, and there's even a gap in between the building and the car. Somehow, it doesn't collapse under its own weight, it doesn't capsize when it makes a turn, and the giant box doesn't appear to have any aerodynamic issues.
** In Chapter 8, the Ironworks is briefly shown crossing a high railway bridge without any problems.

* {{ChekhovsGun}}: ''Literally''. The gun series that's powerful enough to fire the [[AchillesHeel wolfonium]] bullets needed to kill werewolves is called the Chekhov series, making them literally Chekhov's Guns. For a more trope-specific example, the gas shells Grimm uses as a smokescreen to blind Dodou's eyes and nose in chapter 3 get used to turn a nearby house's chimney into an improvised cannon to blast Dodou with in Chapter 4.

* TheHerosJourney: Chapter 8 reveals that [[spoiler: This is apparently being {{invoked}} by Mayor Horlock in conjunction with Lycaon and Cinderella, in order to achieve a shared goal that apparently requires Velou to join the hunter's guild. They even use terms like 'editing the script' 'adjusting the story for coherence' and 'wasting precious page space' to refer to Horlock's actions in modifying Velou's origin story to include Dodou and the other werewolves, which was apparently not the plan they had before hand, and Cinderella outright asks Horlock what he's trying to do with Velou's 'story' outright implying that they're intentionally manipulating Velou into becoming a standard fairytale fantasy hero for their own ends]].

* DiabolusExNihilo: Cinderella and Lycaon suddenly show up at the end of the fourth chapter and attack Kasoka Village. [[spoiler: Chapter 8 revealed they intentionally {{Invoked}} this to achieve the DoomedHometown portion of Velou's tale necessary to galvanise him to join the hunter's guild, as whatever changes Horlock made to their plans by including Dodou and the rest in the tale ended up leaving all 3 werewolves dead and nobody else from the village harmed, saved the Mayor, who had faked his death at that point, thus Veou had no reason to start his journey]].

* AnAxeToGrind: Mayor Horlock's WeaponOfChoice was a Small hatchet that he used to chop wood and apparently kill the werewolf that ate velours parents. He would often let velour use it to help him chop wood blocks for the village, and when grimm is swallowed by the Granny werewolf, Velou seizes the Axe after blasting her through the roof of her mouth as a distraction and splits her stomach open chest to groin in a single blow to pull Grimm free, [[TragicKeepsake taking it as his own weapon]] going forward. [[spoiler: Grimm is surprised how effective the axe was in hurting the werewolf, given how tough the beasts are, and later figures out that the head is made of [[AchillesHeel wolfonium]], and that the wood-chopping exercises Velou did with the Mayor were actually secretly training his body up to be capable of wielding the axe in battle, motivating her to bring Velou along with her to the hunter's guild to figure out what's going on with [[MysteriousPast him]]]].

* RefusalOfTheCall: Velou initially refuses to go with Grimm to join the Hunters Guild because he wants to stay and protect the hamlet and he doesn't believe the Hunters Guild's plan to exterminate all the werewolves is even possible. [[spoiler: Chapter 8 reveals that Cinderella and Lycaon's subsequent attack was specifically to motivate Velou to accept the call, destroying the Hamlet to give velour no choice but to accept Grimm's offer]].

* {{ChekovsGun}}: ''Literally''. The gun series that's powerful enough to fire the [[AchillesHeel wolfonium]] bullets needed to kill werewolves is called the Chekhov series, making them literally Chekhov's Guns. For a more trope-specific example, the gas shells Grimm uses as a smokescreen to blind Dodou's eyes and nose in chapter 3 get used to turn a nearby house's chimney into an improvised cannon to blast Dodou with in Chapter 4.

* ChekovsGun: Literally. The gun series that's powerful enough to fire the [[AchillesHeel wolfonium]] bullets needed to kill werewolves is called the Chekhov series, making them literally Chekhov's Guns. For a more trope-specific example, the gas shells Grimm uses as a smokescreen to blind Dodou's eyes and nose in chapter 3 get used to turn a nearby house's chimney into an improvised cannon to blast Dodou with in Chapter 4.

* TheHerosJourney: Chapter 8 reveals that [[spoiler: This is apparently being {{invoked}} by Major Horlock in conjunction with Lycaon and Cinderella, in order to achieve a shared goal that apparently requires Velou to join the hunter's guild. They even use terms like 'editing the script' 'adjusting the story for coherence' and 'wasting precious page space' to refer to Horlock's actions in modifying Velou's origin story to include Dodou and the other werewolves, which was apparently not the plan they had before hand, and Cinderella outright asks Horlock what he's trying to do with Velou's 'story' outright implying that they're intentionally manipulating Velou into becoming a standard fairytale fantasy hero for their own ends]].

* TheHerosJourney: Chapter 8 reveals that [[spoiler: This is apparently being {{Invoked}} by Major Horlock in conjunction with Lycaon and Cinderella, in order to achieve a shared goal that apparently requires Velou to Join the hunter's guild. They even use terms like 'editing the script' 'adjusting the story for coherence' and 'wasting precious page space' to refer to Horlock's actions in modifying Velou's origin story to include Dodou and the other werewolves, which was apparently not the plan they had before hand, and Cinderella outright asks Horlock what he's trying to do with Velou's 'story' outright implying that they're intentionally manipulating Velou into becoming a standard fairytale fantasy hero for their own ends]].