History Manga / TokyoCrazyParadise

The year is 2020 A.D., and the once-peaceful city of Tokyo is now a [[ViceCity crime-infested wasteland]]. Kozuki Tsukasa - who was [[SweetPollyOliver raised as a boy]] by her police parents to avoid being the victim of the shockingly common crime of sexual assault – has been thrown out on the streets with her three brothers in the aftermath of her [[ConvenientlyAnOrphan parents' death]] in an internal dispute of a Yakuza clan. In order to feed her family, she decides to scam a rich classmate whose father was also killed in the dispute by promising information on the murderer in exchange for a high-class meal. The classmate, however, turns out to be none other than [[TheDon Shirogami Ryuji]], heir to Kuryugumi, the largest crime syndicate in the Kanto region – and he doesn't take kindly to being fooled. Upon discovering Tsukasa's lies, he saddles her family with an enormous debt in order to pay for the food they ate, [[WorkOffTheDebt forcing Tsukasa to work as a bodyguard in order to pay it off]].

* AttackAnimal: [[spoiler:Garyukai]]'s drugged civilians sct as attack animals.

* GoodCopBadCop: Akira and Munakata – while Akira is interested in reforming criminals, Munakata just wants to kill them in as brutal a manner as possible.

* NoNewFashionsInTheFuture: Despite taking place in 2020 A.D., everybody dresses like it's still 1997.
** Accidentally averted when a flashback to the year 2011 shows [[spoiler:Wakasa]] wearing skinny jeans, which were back in style by that point.

* RecursiveCrossdressing: Tsukasa does this on many an occasion - because very few people know that she is a girl, she disguises herself as a female when undercover (often complaining that she feels like a transvestite when she does so).
* ShameIfSomethingHappened: Asago, in an attempt to seperate Ryuji and Tsukasa, reminds the protagonist that her brothers happen to work in a very...dangerous part of Tokyo. Demonstrated when one of them is shot in the leg on the way home from work one day - ostensibly as a warning.

* TheDon: Shirogami acts as a don when conducting business.
* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: Kuryugumi doesn't deal drugs, kidnap, demand ransoms, participate in human trafficking, gamble illegally, or manage prostitution rings. One wonders what exactly it is they do that makes them the largest syndicate in Tokyo...
* TheRival: Asago and Tsukasa are rivals.

* VariableLengthChain: Tsukasa's usual weapon is a chain with convenientally varying length.

* AndIMustScream: Display cases that keep real people [[spoiler:Including, briefly, Tsukasa]] alive and paralyzed as "living art". [[note]]Botticelli's ''Birth of Venus''[[/note]] Overlaps with HandOrObjectUnderwear and GodivaHair, also taken from the original.

* ACupAngst: Asago. Sadly, not her only source of insecurity.
* AgeGapRomance: With an even ten-year age difference, [[spoiler:Asago]] and [[spoiler:Munakata]] are this.

* AttackAnimal: [[spoiler:Garyukai]]’s drugged civilians.
* BattleAura: When Tsukasa gets serious, she radiates terror. [[spoiler: Apparently she gets this from her biological mother, Wakasa]]

* BodyguardCrush: Tsukasa and Ryuji.
* ClingyJealousGirl: Asago is this for Ryuji.

* DarkerAndEdgier

* HugeGuyTinyGirl: [[spoiler:Asago]] and [[spoiler:Munakata]] are this at the end of the series

* LukeIAmYourFather: In a bizarre twist of fate, [[spoiler:Tsukasa, sworn enemy of most Yakuza, is the daughter of Wakasa, the iconic second wife of a once-powerful syndicate]].
* NoNewFashionsInTheFuture: Despite taking place in 2020 A.D., everybody dresses like it’s still 1997.

* PsychoSerum: The drug that the later storylines revolve around.

* ShipperOnDeck: Kamojima and Bun-san for Ryuji and Tsukasa. Oh, so very much.

* SweetOnPollyOliver, with MistakenForGay
* SweetPollyOliver: Tsukasa was raised as a boy to prevent her from being a target for assault [[spoiler: and to keep her resemblance to Wakasa to a minimum]].
* TheDon: Shirogami counts as this when conducting business.
* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: Kuryugumi doesn’t deal drugs, kidnap, demand ransoms, participate in human trafficking, gamble illegally, or manage prostitution rings. One wonders what exactly it is they do that makes them the largest syndicate in Tokyo…
* TheRival: Asago and Tsukasa.

* {{Tsundere}}: Asago.So Much. Strong Type-A especially around Munakata.
* VariableLengthChain: Tsukasa's usual weapon.

* WorkOffTheDebt: pretty much the entire premise of the series.
* [[MafiaPrincess Yakuza Princess]]: Asago.

''Tokyo Crazy Paradise'' is a {{shoujo|Demographic}} manga by Yoshiki Nakamura, who would later go on to create the long-running ''Manga/SkipBeat''. It was serialized in ''Magazine/HanaToYume'' from 1996 to 2002.

* DarkAndEdgier:

* AndIMustScream: Display cases that keep real people [[spoiler:Including, briefly, Tsukasa]] alive and paralyzed as "living art". [[http://mangafox.me/manga/tokyo_crazy_paradise/v04/c017/17.html See here. Link NSFW due to nudity, though no more so than the original painting.]] [[note]]Botticelli's ''Birth of Venus''[[/note]] Overlaps with HandOrObjectUnderwear and GodivaHair, also taken from the original.

* BrickJoke: The author states that [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/tokyo_crazy_paradise/v04/c022/29.html Azumi]] is supposed to [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/tokyo_crazy_paradise/v04/c022/30.html look like a male transvestite.]] [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/tokyo_crazy_paradise/v13/c072/3.html This]] is Ryuji in drag several volumes later.

* MayDecemberRomance: with an even ten-year age difference, [[spoiler:Asago]] and [[spoiler:Munakata]] are this.
* {{Moe}}: Copious amounts, but of special note is the incident with the poisoned bullet Tsukasa took for Ryuji. (See BeachEpisode above.)

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The year is 2020 A.D., and the once-peaceful city of Tokyo is now a [[ViceCity crime-infested wasteland]]. Kozuki Tsukasa - who was [[SweetPollyOliver raised as a boy]] by her police parents to avoid being the victim of the shockingly common crime of sexual assault – has been thrown out on the streets with her three brothers in the aftermath of her [[ConvenientlyAnOrphan parents’ death]] in an internal dispute of a Yakuza clan. In order to feed her family, she decides to scam a rich classmate whose father was also killed in the dispute by promising information on the murderer in exchange for a high-class meal. The classmate, however, turns out to be none other than [[TheDon Shirogami Ryuji]], heir to Kuryugumi, the largest crime syndicate in the Kanto region – and he doesn’t take kindly to being fooled. Upon discovering Tsukasa’s lies, he saddles her family with an enormous debt in order to pay for the food they ate, [[WorkOffTheDebt forcing Tsukasa to work as a body guard in order to pay it off]].

* AndIMustScream: Display cases that keep real people [[spoiler:Including, briefly, Tsukasa]] alive and paralyzed as "living art". [[http://mangafox.me/manga/tokyo_crazy_paradise/v04/c017/17.html See here. Link NSFW due to nudity, though no more so than the original painting.]] [[hottip:*:Botticelli's ''Birth of Venus'']] Overlaps with HandOrObjectUnderwear and GodivaHair, also taken from the original.

* AndIMustScream: Display cases that keep real people [[spoiler:Including, briefly, Tsukasa]] alive and paralyzed as "living art". [[http://mangafox.me/manga/tokyo_crazy_paradise/v04/c017/17.html See here. Link NSFW due to nudity, though no more so than the original painting.]] [[hottip:*:Botticelli's ''Birth of Venus'']] Overlaps with HandOrObjectUnderwear, also taken from the original.

* LivingWeapon: [[spoiler:Garyukai]]’s drugged civilians.