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| 3 | Otokojuku: headed by its principal, [[LargeHam Heihachi Edajima]], who was himself a war hero during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, it is an infamous private school long since [[DustbinSchool known to harbor the worst delinquents ever imaginable in history]] and transform them into [[TestosteronePoisoning the manliest of men]] through rigorous (and highly unorthodox) training methods of both mind and body, in order to prepare them for the hardships of Japanese society. |
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| 5 | Unfortunately, the latest freshman class consists of nothing but spineless tough-guy wannabes [[GreatEscape just aching to escape]]...until a delinquent named [[TheHero Tsurugi Momotaro]] comes to attend. What follows is a [[CharacterDevelopment gradual change]] for the freshman class as they struggle under Momotaro's leadership to [[HilarityEnsues overcome anything and everything that stands before them]], be it the [[AdultsAreUseless incompetent and]] [[{{Hypocrite}} hypocritical teachers]], or worse... |
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| 7 | ''Sakigake!! Otokojuku'' (Charge!! Men's Private School) is a comedy martial arts manga series created by Akira Miyashita that ran in [[Magazine/ShonenJump Weekly Shonen Jump]] from 1985 to 1991, focusing on the absurdities of the titular school at large, as well as its awkward place in modern Japanese society. As the genre indicates, not only are there plenty of [[HilarityEnsues crazy things happening in each story]], but there is also no shortage of amazing moments from many of the main characters, both expected and [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass unexpected]]. Note that these moments often intersect in this series. |
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| 9 | It received an anime adaptation of 34 episodes in 1988, and is quite a watch if only to hear voice actors such as the legendary Creator/DaisukeGori simply act [[WorldOfHam as outrageously as possible]]. |
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| 11 | Miyashita later returned to the world of Otokojuku in a number of other mangas, the two main ones being ''Akatsuki!! Otojokuku'', which takes place 20 years after the original series and features a new generation of Otokojuku students, including a few children of the original cast; and ''Peerless: The Legend of Edajima Heihachi'', a prequel which tells the story of Edajima's childhood, education and other experiences, featuring many of the parents of later Otokojuku students. There was also ''Date Omito Gaiden'' and ''Daigouin Jaki Gaiden'' prequels focusing on the characters in question, where Miyashita wrote the script but brought in other artists: Chiwa Omatsu for ''Date Omito Gaiden'' and Toichiro Yanagida for ''Daigouin Jaki Gaiden''. There's also the somewhat unexpected ''Kurenai!! Onnajuku'', drawn by Michi Saitou, which effectively is a GenderFlip of the original series. |
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| 13 | [[DidntSeeThatComing It also got a PS3 game released in Japan in February 2014, and Momotaro and Heihachi show up in]] VideoGame/JStarsVictoryVs. |
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| 15 | !!This is Otokojuku's specialty, trope examples: |
| 16 | * EightiesHair: Among the main characters, Senkuu and Manjimaru. Hilariously, Manjimaru's haircut is the same as his kenpou master's. |
| 17 | * AbortedArc: The series actually became notable for doing this, especially towards the end. |
| 18 | ** In the begining of the Seven Tusks arc, we were shown a bunch of mobsters who were running the tournament, and even had a guy gunned down in cold blood to be replaced by someone else, but after the Todo reveal, they are never shown again. |
| 19 | ** Later during that same arc we have Wang Ta-Ren show up at the Shen-Quan Temple, it's revealed Todo is forcing the Temple to participate in the fight by holding the wife of the Head of the Temple (and Wang Ta-Ren's old unrequited love interest) hostage. Wang Ta-Ren swears to save her "even if it costs his life" but she is never seen, heard from or even mentioned again after this point. |
| 20 | ** Before the begining of the Seven Tusks arc, the leader of the Gandhara team from the previous tournament, as well as a new, extremely cocky student challenging Momo the moment he's admitted, join in and are chosen as fighters for the tournament yet the new kid has only about one fight very early on against a random mook and the guy from the Gandhara team never gets a fight at all. |
| 21 | ** The same thing happens in ''Akatsuki!! Otokojuku'' as well, with twelve previous opponents joining Otokojuku for their current mission in the Sodom World Council arc. While Yuan-Shao and Wukong get elevated to main cast pretty much right away, the rest aren't so lucky. Singh and Cyrano de Besson get a single fight each in that arc, and Zedang Lama uses his skills to treat the injured during the arc as well. Those three, as well as the remaining seven who didn't get to do anything at all during that arc, are completely relegated to being background characters for the rest of the series. |
| 22 | ** Related to DefeatMeansFriendship: by the Heaven-Challenging Olympic Tournament arc, the Otokojuku representation assimilated everyone they had fought in the past two tournaments, so Miyashita set up the Tournament as a 16 on 16 team competition to include all of them. Not only did some of the lesser ranked members start dropping off quickly, but after the preliminaries, the Otokojuku fighters never encounter a full team consisting of 16 other fighters. While each matchup features a bunch of lower-ranked fighters before the leaders step up, this never amounted to facing a full team of 16. It's hilarious when they are fighting Gouki's team and Date says that he thinks the "final boss" is coming out soon, despite them having fought way less than 16 opponents. It could be inferred that some teams had lost fighters in prior matches, but there seems to always be some unnamed characters in the background of every team that never gets to do anything... |
| 23 | ** A variation on the above in ''Akatsuki!! Otokojuku'', in the Armageddon arc. The tournament is ''supposed'' to consist of battles between teams of five, though a team is given the win if they get the medallion from the other team (that the active fighter has to carry). However, in the first battle, after taking out the first enemy, one of the Otokojuku fighters blocks the remaining opponents from coming out, leaving only their leader for one more battle, and the remaining two teams in the tournament only have three fighters each, without much explanation. And then Otokojuku ends up having six on their team anyway... |
| 24 | * AbsurdlyPowerfulStudentCouncil: While never refered to as a student council in the original manga, Otokojuku's third-year students are more similar to this than an actual school grade, being noted to have more influence than even the instructors. Part of the reason seems to be Jaki using Otokojuku as his base, but there are definitely implications it was the case before him too, since the Four Lords were already established as the strongest of Otokojuku and had gone on missions together even before Jaki showed up. Edogawa ''does'' mention an Otokojuku student council in ''Akatsuki!! Otokojuku'', and being president of it also makes you the supreme head of Otokojuku, so it could be presumed this was the case in Jaki's time too. |
| 25 | * TheAce: |
| 26 | ** Tsurugi Momotaro is a man who remains calm no matter the situation and who always has a way to get his classmates out of deadly trouble. He's powerful, skilled in hand-to-hand and bladed combat, fluent in English and can casually tame beasts like lions or even Moby Dick. |
| 27 | ** Date Omito. While he was at Otokojuku, he excelled at everything he did, and Edajima says that if he had not been expelled he would have been the greatest man in Otokojuku's history. |
| 28 | * AdaptationalBadass: A rather [[DownplayedTrope downplayed]] example with Tsubakiyama in the live-action movie. In the original manga and anime, he's rather cowardly, though shows that he does have at least a bit of StoutStrength. In the live-action movie, his only scene has him very confidently step up to try to raise Otokojuku's Flag of the Shouting Soul... and failing immediately. |
| 29 | * AdaptationDistillation: While ''Kurenai!! Onnajuku'' is basically a retelling of the original series but with every character (except for Edajima) as a girl instead, it does compress and rearrange some things. The three islands in the early summer camp arc are replaced with only Demon's Corpse island, and instead of being let out of prison and recruited just before the Trials of Terror, Toramaru Ryuuko is found on the same island (having been exiled there instead of imprisoned), adding her to the cast earlier. J's granddaughter JK joins prior to the summer camp as well. |
| 30 | * AdaptationalHeroism: Oni-Hige is markedly more competent and caring in the live action movie, even taking out a few Great Student Alliance {{Mook}}s. |
| 31 | * AdaptationDyeJob: Several characters got a different hair colour in the anime from what they were shown with on the colour manga covers: |
| 32 | ** Akashi Gouji: White to black. |
| 33 | ** Henshouki: Black to white. |
| 34 | ** J: Brown to blonde. |
| 35 | ** Manjimaru: Light yellow to dark blue. |
| 36 | ** Hien: Orange to pink (though an early manga cover does show Hien with light pink hair rather than orange, and a later one shows him as blonde, so maybe he was getting actual dye jobs) |
| 37 | ** Many characters who were shown with brown hair on the covers also got black hair for the anime instead. |
| 38 | * AdaptationNameChange: In the anime, Hikoubou's name was changed to Rankiryuu, and looks more like a monk instead of a soldier. Tetsu Kabuto's name was changed to Ninja, and he has a very different face. |
| 39 | * AdaptedOut: J and Raiden don't appear in the live action movie, so the Four Great Trials of Terror become the Three Great Trials of Terror instead. Edogawa, Hikoubou and Gonda Omanosuke don't show up either. |
| 40 | * ADayInTheLimelight: Hayashi is the main protagonist of an arc towards the end of ''Akatsuki!! Otokojuku'', after having been a supporting character from the start. |
| 41 | * AffectionateParody: This series is pretty much "what if ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'' was a comedy". |
| 42 | ** ''Kurenai!! Onnajuku'' in many ways reads like one of the original series. |
| 43 | * TheAlcatraz: |
| 44 | ** Alcatraz itself makes an appearance in the Tusks arc, as one of the battlegrounds. However, it is misplaced (here, it's located off the East coast, instead of the West coast). |
| 45 | ** In ''Daigouin Jaki Gaiden'', a prison named Aruka-Torazu shows up, said to have been the inspiration for the American Alcatraz. |
| 46 | * AnIcePerson: Shai Khan. |
| 47 | * AntagonistInMourning: In ''Akatsuki!! Otokojuku'', Todo Hyoei shows up to Edajima's [[spoiler:fake]] funeral, and although he takes the opportunity to gloat that since he still lives he's the winner of their decades-long conflict, he does still appear genuinely sad at the loss of his greatest enemy. |
| 48 | * AntiHero: Date becomes this after HeelFaceTurn. He remains arrogant and haughty, often insulting or taunting his opponents. He also has little respect for authority, and would even kill an instructor who is taking advantage of him. |
| 49 | * AscendedExtra: Hidemaro is given ''a lot'' more focus in the live action movie, to the point where he's effectively the main character for the first half of it. Even when the focus shifts to the fighters in the Trials of Terror for the other half of the movie, Hidemaro's scenes from the original during them are all included and even expanded upon. |
| 50 | * AwesomeButImpractical: Tougou Souji's motorcyle-fu. His motorcycle gets destroyed after his Tusks arc fight. |
| 51 | * AwesomeMcCoolname: It is very difficult, if not straight up impossible, for a character name to be as awesome as [[spoiler: King Battler, Jr.]] |
| 52 | * AuthorAppeal: Miyashita seems to '''LOVE''' him some Music/JimiHendrix, given that there are multiple references to him throughout the series, such as a character who has a similar name to him in the Seven Tusks of Darkness Arc (James Hendrix), and the character Ah Fu-lo in ''Akatsuki!! Otokojuku'', who resembles him visually, down to wearing a headband and an outfit with tasseled sleeves, and in ''Goku!! Otokojuku'', a character transforms into a rockstar similar to Jimi Hendrix in appearance and uses a musical attacks called "Purple Haze" and "Wild Thing". ''Sora Yori Takaku'' also has a character named Zhi Mi-Hen, who transforms to look like Hendrix and directly states that "Jimi Hendrix is even greater than a god to me." |
| 53 | * BadassLongcoat: Part of Otokojuku's uniform. |
| 54 | * BadassNormal: Genji Togashi, by the virtue of not having any martial arts training in a setting full of martial artists or even any abilities achieved through [[CharlesAtlasSuperPower bizarre and rigorous training methods]] or even the ability to [[KiManipulation manipulate Ki]] at all. He can still take [[MadeOfIron an absurd amount of punishment]] and [[{{Determinator}} never gives up]], even when he's clearly outclassed. |
| 55 | * BackFromTheDead: A lot of characters "die" just to come back at the end of the arc (and sometimes during the same arc), and it's usually made clear that they didn't ''really'' die, they were saved and given treatment at the last moment. |
| 56 | ** The only one for who this seems to have actually happened is [[spoiler:Daigouin Kouki in ''Akatsuki!! Otokojuku'']], who when he shows up again states that he really ''did'' die but was revived. |
| 57 | * BattleBoomerang: Manjimaru has one concealed in his hair. Eikei used crystal boomerangs in his first fight, but they never showed up again in the original series. They made a return (albeit chronologically earlier) in ''Daigouin Jaki Gaiden''. BoomerangComeback also shows up, performed by unlikely weapons. |
| 58 | * BattleTops: Senkuu and Liu-yan use them. |
| 59 | ** Senkuu's Thousand-Streak Stormy Array has him setting up a net of sharp wires on the battlefield followed by spinning a number of spiky tops on them, which he can then make jump at the enemy from any direction. |
| 60 | ** Taiketsu has a technique which allows him to become a human top. |
| 61 | ** Liu-Yan in ''Akatsuki!! Otokojuku'' manages to block the Deadly Wind Vacuum Wave by spinning. |
| 62 | * BearsAreBadNews: In the live action movie, Toramaru is briefly shown training against an actual bear. |
| 63 | * TheBeastMaster: Henshouki (bats), Enpou (monkeys)[[note]]Raiden later takes the custody of 3 of them[[/note]], Centaur and Suiketsu (a horse), Shu (mice), Baron Deino (some sort of bird), Koushuushi (a giant eagle), Fuuketsu (snakes), Horus (crows), Pharaoh (fireflies), Houketsu (bees), Raja Mahal (an elephant), Gobarski (wolves), Qubilai Khan (piranas)[[note]]subversion, he doesn't actually control them[[/note]], Clinsman (crocodiles), Gishou (a spider). |
| 64 | * BerserkButton: Isa Takemitsu (later Todo Hyoei) makes a habit of finding and pressing any of Edajima's he can find in ''The Legend of Edajima Heihachi''. Combined with his actions in the war, he just ended up making himself Edajima's biggest one. |
| 65 | * {{BFS}}: Akashi Gouji, Akashi Juzo, Daigouin Jaki and Song Jiang all use some manner of oversized blades. Momo breaks Jaki's in their first encounter, though. |
| 66 | * BigBad: Todo Hyoei is this of the Heaven-Challenging Tournament arc. [[spoiler:And the Tusks arc. Effectively making him the BigBad of the whole manga. Even returns as one in ''Akatsuki!! Otokojuku''.]] |
| 67 | * BigEater: Toramaru Ryuuji, as well as his granddaughter Ryuuko in ''Kurenai!! Onnajuku''. Ryuuko might even be the bigger example of the two, eating a giant tuna, a wild mouse, a wild rabbit, parts of the Kraken, and a ''rock'' in her introduction chapter. |
| 68 | * BigOlEyebrows: Most of the characters in the story have caterpillars for eyebrows, adding to their manly appearance. |
| 69 | * [[spoiler:{{Bifauxnen}}: Jinshou.]] |
| 70 | * BitchInSheepsClothing: Edogawa. At a shallow glance he would look like a BigFun type character due to his standard expression being a cheerful smile and him coming across as being jolly due to his laid back and casual way of speaking as well as his warm and kindly tone of voicef, but he's actually just as much of a bully as the rest of the second years. |
| 71 | * BlindIdiotTranslation: The original English-language scanlations, that's so far the only way to read to the end in English. It's not as bad as, say, ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' part 4, but it definitely needed improving. There's another group currently working through the series that is doing a much better job with it. |
| 72 | ** And there's an in story version of this trope. And HOW. |
| 73 | * BlowYouAway: |
| 74 | ** Jaki's favourite attacks, overlapping with PaperMaster. |
| 75 | ** Kennou's main (only?) style of fighting is creating tornadoes. |
| 76 | ** J's Spiral Hurricane Punch. |
| 77 | * BluffTheImpostor: Twice. |
| 78 | ** First in the Seven Tusks arc of the original manga, when a ninja appears who can impersonate anyone. He first appears impersonating Toramaru, so Momo asks them to recite the three instructions of Otokojuku. Only one of them answers correctly, which makes Momo declare ''that'' Toramaru is the impostor—because the real Toramaru wouldn't remember those things. |
| 79 | ** Similarily in ''Akatsuki!! Otokojuku'', Date Omito appears as an underling of Todo Hyoei. Edajima asks him to recite the only textbook of Otokojuku, mentioning that the real Date would have it memorized. When Date does so successfully, Edajima calls him out for being a fake, since the real Date didn't study with books. |
| 80 | * BookEnds: Both the first and last chapter of the original manga have Momo heading into and taking on a Yakuza base alone. Both chapters also end with Edajima's famous [[CharacterCatchphrase catchphrase]]. Additionally, both the first and the last major fight in the manga has Momo dueling another katana user, with Akashi Gouji in the Killoseum and Yukinojou in Bugen Castle of the Seven Tusks (technically, the final opponent that appears is Shikibu, but there's never a real battle against him). As a bonus, Momo is using Akashi's sword in said duel. |
| 81 | %%* BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler:Gekkou in the final battle of the Second Tusk.]] |
| 82 | * BrosBeforeHoes: After Momo defeated J.J George, his Japanese girlfriend immediately dumped him to try to hit on Momo, impressed with his strength. Momo responds by giving her the 'sweat on his hand' to her face, not impressed with such display of disloyalty to one's partner and shallow taste. Momo exits the scene with his friends/bros stating that such kind of shallow women wouldn't be welcome in Otokojuku (even if it's an all-boys school.) |
| 83 | * BunnyEarsLawyer: Hakuhou. |
| 84 | * CallingYourAttacks: |
| 85 | ** Parodied by some of Togashi and Toramaru's tag team attacks, where at one point Togashi praised Toramaru for remembering the name of the attack, and another time is told to ''not'' call the attack name as it would give away how the attack worked. |
| 86 | ** Also played with when Date calls out a fake attack to trick Shiran into copying it. |
| 87 | * CanonForeigner: In the live action movie, Hidemaro's mother and her assistant, as well as Erika, a girl that Togashi goes on a date with. In the anime, Edajima's secretary. |
| 88 | * CantCatchUp: Togashi and Toramaru. After starting out as half of Otokojuku's main fighting force alongside Momo and J, and Togashi even pulling out a win against Senkuu, as more new fighters get added to their roster, they're pretty much left in the dust once the Heaven-Challenging Tournament comes around. Each of them only gets one solo fight in the tournament, plus one two-on-two fight with both of them and Toramaru getting to be Manjimaru's partner in another two-on-two fight (where he didn't get to do a lot). Even in the Great Trembling Conquest, Toramaru didn't do a lot in his tag team fight—but with Date Omito as your partner, that might be expected. Even if Toramaru usually was the one to finish off the second opponent alone in his tag team fights with Togashi, given Togashi's tendency to "die" while taking out the first one, Toramaru really only has two solo fights in the whole series—against Gekkou and Kyrgyz Khan, over 20 volumes apart. Several characters get more than that in a single volume. |
| 89 | * CarFu: Souji, with a motorcycle. |
| 90 | * CharacterCatchphrase: |
| 91 | ** Heihachi's [[MemeticMutation undoubtedly memetic]] "'''''I AM THE PRINCIPAL OF OTOKOJUKU, EDAJIMA HEIHACHI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!'''''". In the early chapters, this was just about the ONLY thing he said. In ''Kurenai!! Onnajuku'', he's added the new school name, turning it into "'''''I AM THE PRINCIPAL OF OTOKOJUKU AND ONNAJUKU, EDAJIMA HEIHACHI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!'''''" even though Otokojuku no longer exists (other than as the predecessor to Onnajuku). |
| 92 | ** Matsuo's "I have a bad premonition." |
| 93 | ** J's "You are not my match." Spoken in English. Inherited by his granddaughter JK in ''Kurenai!! Onnajuku''. |
| 94 | ** Akashi Gouji has "Straight-Line Style Rock-Slicing Sword! There's not a thing in this world my sword can't cut!!", which is inherited by his son Akashi Juzo. |
| 95 | * ChokepointGeography: |
| 96 | ** [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] with Hades Phoenix Island, having been shaped into a tournament bracket for the Great Heaven-Challenging Tournament. |
| 97 | ** That said, the geography of it makes little actual sense when considering how the Otokojuku team advance through it. The establishing shot makes it clear how it's ''supposed'' to work—the teams meet at the arenas in the three-way junctions, fight it out, and the winner advances to the next tier of the bracket. But the supposed third path leading "upwards" is never shown to exist at any of the arenas, so it's not entirely clear where they're actually going when they advance through the bracket. |
| 98 | * ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Tougou Souji just disappears after his one fight in the Tusks arc. |
| 99 | * CombatCommentator: |
| 100 | ** Togashi and Toramaru mostly take this role after the Great Trembling Conquest, often reacting in shock to a dire situation before Momotaro states their teammate still has an ace up his sleeve. Whenever some old fighting style is shown off, it's primarily Raiden that gets to explain it in addition to a Minmei entry. |
| 101 | ** Pharaoh and Hakuhou in the Seven Tusks arc take over while Togashi and Toramaru are unavailable. |
| 102 | * CombatPragmatist: Characters who are this are often [[DirtyCoward portrayed negatively]], and tend to die horrible deaths. On Otokojuku's side, Togashi and Toramaru fight somewhat like this, as none of them really have a defined style. |
| 103 | * CompositeCharacter: |
| 104 | ** In the live action movie, Tange is essentially a mix of Edogawa and Maruyama. |
| 105 | ** With Raiden AdaptedOut, some of his traits were transferred to Gekkou instead. |
| 106 | ** ''Kurenai!! Onnajuku'' doesn't add any female counterparts for Hikoubou or Tetsu Kabuto, leaving Oni-Hige's counterpart Oni-Momiage as the only instructor shown. Consequently, she takes the place of whichever of the other two instructors did something in the original. |
| 107 | * CrazyEnoughToWork: |
| 108 | ** Heihachi is able to fool the police when they call him out for driving a tank in the middle of the city or running a deadly fighting match by pretending he's an actor in the middle of recording a film. |
| 109 | ** During the Great Heaven-Challenging Tournament, Edajima arrives to help his students by piloting an old Zero airplane. When he patches up the plane and leaves, he actually doesn't have enough fuel for the return trip and laments he can't literally fly it with just his ''[[JapaneseSpirit Yamato Damashii]]'' powers. Not to worry, though, as he steals a jet from one of Toudo's henchmen midflight and later crashes it against the villain's escape helicopter at the end of the tournament. |
| 110 | ** On the Seven Tusks arc, Toudo imprisons Edajima inside a satellite that will only return to Earth once the Otokojuku students obtain a set of floppy disks. By chance, an American shuttle flies by and Edajima goes swimming in the cold vacuum of space to it. He breaks into the shuttle, gathers himself a suit and oxygen tanks and asks the crew to return to Earth while he waits tethered to the ship as if to not upset the weight calculations for landing. He safely lands on the ocean, captures an orca and rides it back to Japan. |
| 111 | * {{Crossover}}: Sora Yori Takaku, also by Miyashita, takes place between ''Sakigake'' and ''Akatsuki'' in the same universe and some characters appear in both. For instance, the sumo wrestler Gokaimaru in ''Akatsuki!! Otokojuku'' originated in ''Sora Yori Takaku''. In the other direction, it features a retired Edajima with Togashi as his assistant, and Momo shows up as well. |
| 112 | * CurbStompBattle: |
| 113 | ** Edajima vs. Zuiki. A single punch from Edajima sent Zuiki flying. To a lesser extent, Edajima vs. Zuikyou. |
| 114 | ** Also, Edajima vs. Jaki. |
| 115 | ** J vs. the Phantom Lizard Style Sixteen. |
| 116 | ** Jaki vs. those guys from the Olympus Fighting Gods that weren't Zeus. |
| 117 | ** Wang Ta-Ren vs. Chishou. |
| 118 | ** Kouki vs. Yin-Ren. And Kouki wasn't even using his arms. |
| 119 | ** For non-Otokojuku-aligned fighters, Shoutian Tongzi of Wolf Skull Castle vs. the Luxuriant Gong Style Knights, and Achilles of the Olympus Fighting Gods vs. their opponents before Otokojuku. |
| 120 | * CutShort: The Seven Tusks arc's interruption led straight to a short ending arc that left many plot points unadressed and the main cast with a utterly uneventful third year at Otokojuku. To make matters worse, the anime was cancelled [[MoralGuardians due to the protests of the Parent-Teacher Association]] in Japan. In detail: |
| 121 | ** The penultimate arc, the Seven Tusks, might be the most glorious example of invoking this trope ever put to paper. In short: Edajima gets captured, and is imprisoned in a satellite in orbit around Earth. To get him back, the Otokojuku team has to collect seven floppy disks by going through seven "battlegrounds", the Tusks. They proceed through the first four, losing [[spoiler:Akashi Gouji (though ''Akatsuki!! Otokojuku'' shows that he survived)]] at the end of the fourth. Then [[spoiler:Todo Hyoei]] shows up and splits the team into three, each one supposed to take on one of the remaining tusks. The group headed by Momo travels to Bugen Castle, where they're supposed to fight four opponents. Momo defeats the first one, though not before [[spoiler:Gobarski]] gets killed. They are attacked by the next opponent, a ninja who can disguise himself as anyone... [[spoiler:and then the castle is destroyed [[DidntSeeThatComing entirely out of nowhere.]] While Otokojuku was fighting, Edajima had actually managed to ''rescue himself'' from his space prison, by ''breaking out'' of the satellite and boarding an American space shuttle that happened to pass by and go with them to Earth. Then he gathered all of Otokojuku's instructors and students, including those who were supposed to be fighting in the other tusks and the Four Lords, and traveled to Bugen Castle with a bunch of wrecking ball cranes, demolishing the whole thing and getting his students back himself, thereby completely annulling the point of the whole arc.]] |
| 122 | ** Then in the final volume came the Fu'un Rakanjuku arc, where Otokojuku and Rakanjuku were supposed to compete in a series of five matches. [[spoiler:Then the fourth match, between Momo and the Rakanjuku main representative, consists of stealing crests from local Yakuza gangs. The gang that the Rakanjuku representative heads to believe he is from the other gang, so they capture him and call the other gang about it, which leads to Momo going to rescue him, with all of Otokojuku and Rakanjuku showing up as backup. Edajima and Kumada, the Rakanjuku principal, conclude that there's no longer any point in finishing the competition, as the final match was meant to be about team spirit, and both sides had already joined together as one with the same goal.]] This arc lasted 10 chapters. One can assume the manga was dropping in popularity and simply got cancelled. This ''is'' ''Magazine/ShonenJump'' after all. |
| 123 | ** The anime adaptation ends after the Great Trembling Conquest, and doesn't even include all of it. Togashi, Date, Toramaru and Gekkou's battles are all relegated to a short recap by Edajima. |
| 124 | * TheDandy: |
| 125 | ** Among the opponents of Otokojuku: Horus, Michele and Giger. |
| 126 | ** Hilariously, ''Manjimaru'' of all people has a shade of it too, being more concerned with his hairstyle than getting medical treatment after his fight with Gemini, where he took a lot of damage and lost a lot of blood. |
| 127 | ** Date invokes it when fighting Long-Bao to provoke him, by cutting off Long-Bao's hair knot and using it to brush his shoes while mentioning "a man's dandyism". |
| 128 | * DangerousForbiddenTechnique: Lots of them. But despite the users often calling them their final attacks in this world, they rarely actually die from it. |
| 129 | * DarkHorseVictory: Toramaru's and Togashi's fights. |
| 130 | * DeathIsCheap: Several characters have dramatic deaths only to turn out to have been patched up offscreen by the end of a story arc. |
| 131 | * DefeatMeansFriendship: |
| 132 | ** Fighting being what creates true bonds between men is a recurring theme. The earliest example in the manga is Akashi Gouji, who after his duel with Momo starts advising and assisting him (even if it's in the Otokojuku way), and the anime goes one further by not even having Momo and Togashi be friends at first. After the Great Trembling Conquest, all of Otokojuku's fighters are on friendly terms with each other. |
| 133 | ** This trope became abused as hell by Miyashita. For example, fan favourites like Hien or Raiden weren't even part of the school until after the end of the first tournament. It became so bad that the group selected for tournament fights assimilated all of the opponents faced in the previous tournaments (even if they supposedly fell into acid that we saw was, in fact, real acid). This lead to the third tournament starting out with a 16 on 16 team match setup, to incorporate all these characters. And of course one of them, Dokugantetsu, dies immediately and rather unceremoniously, with the author only adding in reasons why we should care about the guy in an exposition dump from Edajima, seeing how we never saw this supposed "kindness" he was said to posses. |
| 134 | ** Miyashita took this to its logical extreme in the Armageddon arc of ''Akatsuki!! Otokojuku'', when [[spoiler:an at first disguised ''Todo Hyoei'']] joins the Otokojuku force. |
| 135 | * DeliberateValuesDissonance: Themes like militarism, xenophobia, isolationism are all PlayedForLaughs. However, it is also a major point of the story that for all the faults of Otokojuku, only its methods can create true men in post-war Japan. |
| 136 | * {{Determinator}}: Many of the first years eventually become this at LEAST when the first year is over. This is Togashi's EstablishingCharacterMoment by successfully taking an Oil Bath, which only five people had successfully completed. |
| 137 | * DigAttack: Suiketsu has two whips that can bury into the ground and attack opponents from below. |
| 138 | * DiegeticSoundtrackUsage: The first years sing the anime opening tune, en route to the safari park in episode 8. |
| 139 | * DisappearedDad: [[spoiler:J's dad was a boxing champion who died while saving him from a fire, using a fist that creates hurricanes. J inherited this from him, which wins him the fight against Hakuhou.]] |
| 140 | * DisneyDeath: This has happened a lot in the series. For example, J, Togashi, and Toramaru were said to have died in the first, second and third rounds of the Four Great Trials of Terror but were saved by the 3rd years. Raiden, Hien and Gekkou "died" in both the Four Great Trials and the Trembling Conquest. |
| 141 | * DittoFighter: Shiran fights by copying everything his opponent does. |
| 142 | * DumbMuscle: The Otokojuku students are all burly but are so dumb that even the nerdy Tazawa can't uphold stereotypes of Japanese being good at math. He claims to know English but only strings random words together and recites basic time tables like it's something impressive. |
| 143 | * DustbinSchool: The setting. |
| 144 | * DynamicEntry: Edajima lands on Hades Phoenix Island by taking a World War II plane and smashing it into a mountain, and then coming out of the wreckage alive. And when he finishes his business he still leaves in it and takes down another, newer plane. Like a boss, indeed. |
| 145 | * {{Eagleland}}: Features both types. Early on, it portrays Americans as brutish thugs who have no respect for women. Then came one arc where Otokojuku receives American exchange students, among whom is J, who is portrayed almost in the same light as Momotaro. |
| 146 | * EarlyBirdCameo: In the anime, Momo gets sent to the Prison of Penitence for a short period early on, and while there he hears Toramaru in an adjacent cell. Toramaru himself is shown very briefly, but the two don't communicate with each other. |
| 147 | * EasilyForgiven: Zong Ling-Yan. While there's a lot of DefeatMeansFriendship even after [[BackFromTheDead seemingly deadly]] duels, and nearly all of Otokojuku's new recruits are people they've fought in those duels before, Ling-Yan is the only one who had actually killed someone on the Otokojuku side prior to joining. |
| 148 | * EliteFour: The Otokojuku Four Lords of Death[[note]]"Otokojuku Shitennou" in Japanese[[/note]] Manjimaru, Senkuu, Rasetsu, and Eikei. |
| 149 | * EncyclopediaExposita |
| 150 | * EverybodyWasKungFuFighting: Pretty much every character is shown as using some form Kung Fu, with the exception of Genji Togashi, who doesn't have any martial art experience whatsoever, and even when they're not a Kung Fu user, a lot of their fighting styles ends up related to Kung Fu anyways. |
| 151 | * EvilWeapon: Yukinojou's sword Shiranui. One scratch drives people insane. While he at first claims it's due to the blade being cursed, it's actually laced with a poison. |
| 152 | * ExcitedTitleTwoPartEpisodeName: Most if not all of the anime episodes. |
| 153 | * {{Expy}}: |
| 154 | ** Momotaro is basically [[Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar Kenshiro]] with the appearance of [[Anime/GreatMazinger Tetsuya Tsurugi]]. |
| 155 | ** Niu-Bao of Gandhara is a clear one of [[Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar Heart]], having a near-identical body and face. His opponent is even Rasetsu, who fights with finger thrusts that are ineffective against Niu-Bao's body. Niu-Bao's fighting style and eventual demise are quite different, though. |
| 156 | * ExtremeOmnisexual: Gokaimaru. In ''Sora Yori Takaku'', he has been shown doing it with women, men, [[BestialityIsDepraved a fish]], and [[{{Squick}} a glass jar filled with earthworms]]. |
| 157 | * EyepatchOfPower: Suiketsu. |
| 158 | * EyeScream: Suiketsu attacks Baron Deino's eyes with alcohol and then needles. |
| 159 | * FakeSpecialAttack: |
| 160 | ** Edogawa's Face Reversal "Technique". It's just him slowly raising his hands over his face and making a scary, angry face at his opponent and nothing less. Despite this, the other second years treat it like a special attack anyways. |
| 161 | ** Also Date's "Uro Yakenuma", which just consists of throwing away [[spoiler:half of]] his weapon. It serves its purpose, which is to disarm his DittoFighter opponent Shiran to provide an opening, but the named technique itself doesn't exist. |
| 162 | * FakeUltimateMook: Edogawa himself is this. He's an incredibly burly fellow who's probably one of Otokojuku's tallest students, which makes him an imposing person by build alone, and he becomes downright demonic whenever he uses his "Face Reversal" technique, as he gets a look of pure murderous rage on his face, with his veins bulging from his head, his eyes wide open in fury, and his teeth bared like a wild animal, something that the anime makes even more intimidating by being him glowing red eyes when he does so, making him look like extremely dangerous to fight. However he is just as much of a pushover as most of the Second Years. |
| 163 | * FakingTheDead: [[spoiler:After being ordered by Edajima to do it, Eikei "dies" in the preliminaries of the Heaven-Challenging Tournament so he can assist the team and save some of their lives while hidden.]] |
| 164 | * FearfulSymmetry: Shiran uses a style where he mimicks every move of his opponent. |
| 165 | * FeatherFlechettes: Red Thunder. |
| 166 | * FightingFingerprint: The main reason that everyone on the Otokojuku team can tell Shoukaku is really [[spoiler: Eikei]] with a PaperThinDisguise even during his debut battle is due to him displaying his unmistakably distinctive fighting style. |
| 167 | * TheFightingNarcissist: |
| 168 | ** Horus puts make-up in the middle of a fight. |
| 169 | ** Hien started out as this, getting angry at Togashi scarring his face in their Trials of Terror fight, but by the next arc he had already lost that trait, and he doesn't have it in the prequel either. |
| 170 | * FictionalDocument: The books from the fictional Minmei Publishing. Miyashita invents other sources, later on, such as Shinnosuke Morita, which is actually just the author with a wig. |
| 171 | * FightingSeries: Starts as a comedy with the students getting in all sorts of trouble before Momotaro saves them but develops into a series of tournament arcs. The story's tone becomes serious, but several characters have oddball skills and dramatic deaths are often reversed later. |
| 172 | * ForegoneConclusion: The point of ''Peerless: The Legend of Edajima Heihachi''. No matter how overpowered Edajima Heihachi is, the fact remains that Japan will lose World War II, and [[spoiler:he ends up single, due to Sakko being one of the casualties of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.]] |
| 173 | * FourTemperamentEnsemble: Momotaro is phlegmatic, Togashi is choleric, Toramaru is sanguine and J is melancholic. |
| 174 | * {{Fundoshi}}: Mandatory for Otokojuku's dress code. Remains so even when it becomes Onnajuku. |
| 175 | * FunWithAcronyms: Most of J's attack names. |
| 176 | * FullyAbsorbedFinale: [[ZigZaggingTrope Zig-zagged]] and ultimately [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] by ''Sora Yori Takaku'', which started four years after ''Sakigake!! Otokojuku'' ended and six years before ''Akatsuki!! Otokojuku'' began. It appears to initially have been meant as this, since many Otokojuku characters appear as adults showing that they really did go on to become important members of society, and Edajima shows up as well, now retired and refering to himself as the ex-principal of Otokojuku. While certain things did carry over to ''Akatsuki'', such as Momo having become the prime minister and Date being a yakuza don, there's no real way both can be canon in the same continuity. There's no indication in ''Akatsuki'' that Edajima ever had any break from being the principal, and it reaffirms in no uncertain terms that a character who was KilledOffForReal in ''Sakigake'' but showed up alive in ''Sora Yori Takaku'' really died. |
| 177 | * FusionDance: The Three Fists fuse into a single being in ''Date Omito Gaiden''. |
| 178 | * GagSeries: The first few chapters feature the students suffering from some comical yet deadly torture from their teachers until Momotaro helps them out. |
| 179 | * {{Gasshole}}: |
| 180 | ** Toramaru got imprisoned inside a torture room in the school for doing a massive fart on one of the instructors who were humiliating each student by hitting their asses with a paddle. [[{{Fartillery}} He even weaponizes it!]] |
| 181 | ** Kurosu Nobunaga uses one of Toramaru's fart moves in ''Akatsuki!! Otokojuku''. |
| 182 | ** In ''Kurenai!! Onnajuku'', Toramaru's granddaughter Ryuuko has turned the Great Fart Cannon into a localized ''explosion'', without even lighting the fart on fire first. |
| 183 | * GenderBender: Benzaiten in ''Akatsuki!! Otokojuku''. Of course, this is an [[RunningGag ancient Chinese fighting style]]. |
| 184 | * GenderFlip: The basic premise of ''Kurenai!! Onnajuku'', featuring largely the same story as the original manga. Although it is canonically a sequel, taking place two generations later, with the girls being implied or stated to be the granddaughters of the original cast. |
| 185 | * GenerationXerox: As seen in the prequel ''Peerless: The Legend of Edajima Heihachi'', Tazawa, Matsuo, J, Jaki and Edogawa are practically identical to their fathers when they were of similar age. |
| 186 | ** Less so in ''Akatasuki!! Otokojuku'', as while it's clear some characters are the children of others, they don't look like carbon copies. Kiyomoto Atsushi looks ''very'' similar to J... but [[AvertedTrope they're not related]]. |
| 187 | * GeniusBruiser: Students of Otokojuku will end up in this position. Then there's Edajima Heihachi, which as the prequel shows, was a university student [[ImprobableAge AT AGE ELEVEN]]! |
| 188 | * GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: |
| 189 | ** [[spoiler: Jaki punches Momo]] right before the former dies during his battle against Spartacus. |
| 190 | ** [[spoiler:Akashi does the same thing to Toramaru when Togashi]] dies in the fight against Kintan and Gintan. |
| 191 | * GiantSpider: Chougi, Gishou's spider. |
| 192 | * GiantSquid: One called a [[KrakenAndLeviathan Kraken]] shows up in ''Kurenai!! Onnajuku's'' summer camp arc. |
| 193 | * GoingCommando: During the "underwear inspection", a couple of students in the background don't seem to have any underwear. |
| 194 | * GoodIsNotSoft: All the students are selfless heroes, but they don't take ANY crap from evil. |
| 195 | * GoodScarsEvilScars: Togashi, Date, probably more. |
| 196 | * GoofyPrintUnderwear: During the "underwear inspection" in the first episode of the anime, one student is wearing heart-print boxers and another had briefs with a bunny on them. |
| 197 | * GracefulLoser: Happens as often as DirtyCoward. |
| 198 | * GratuitousEnglish : Definitely one of the iconic part of the show. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqbtbTSeai0 Look for it.]] |
| 199 | * {{Hachimaki}}: Momotaro. |
| 200 | ** [[spoiler:ImprobableWeaponUser]] |
| 201 | * HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: |
| 202 | ** Momo cuts [[spoiler: Todo Hyoei]] in half, vertically. [[spoiler: He ''survives''.]] |
| 203 | ** In ''Akatsuki!! Otokojuku'', Akashi Gouji and [[spoiler:the Date clone]] does it to Hotei. |
| 204 | * HandicappedBadass: |
| 205 | ** [[spoiler:Gekkou]] is revealed to have been blind his whole life when Centaur tries to blind him. |
| 206 | ** [[spoiler:Yuan-Shao's blindness]] in ''Akatsuki!! Otokojuku'' is revealed when someone tries to blind him, though he lost his eyesight due to a disease. |
| 207 | ** A number of characters only have one eye too, such as Dokugantetsu and Akashi Juzo. |
| 208 | ** One of Henshouki's hands is fake, something that only shows up in his battle against Raiden and is never mentioned again. |
| 209 | * HeroicSacrifice: Usually in the form of someone blocking a deadly blow aimed for someone else, or taking one enemy with himself. |
| 210 | * HighPressureBlood |
| 211 | * HistoryRepeats: ''Kurenai!! Onnajuku'' sees the same events taking place two generations later, only with a female cast this time. There are some differences, some events are compressed and combined, a small number of entirely new things happen, and also some changes like the Rugby game against the Kanto Great Student Alliance becoming a Lacrosse game with exploding balls instead of the poison. |
| 212 | * HoistByHisOwnPetard: |
| 213 | ** Houketsu is stung and defeated by his own bees. Same thing with Qubilai and his piranas. |
| 214 | ** Red Thunder is struck by lightning. |
| 215 | ** In the final fight of the Great Trembling Conquest, Momo beats Date by making lightning strike Date's wire that he used to show how much more ki he had. |
| 216 | * HollywoodAcid: A common ring out hazard in the fights. An animal will always get tossed into the acid to demonstrate just how acidic it is, but only for any fighters who fall into the pit on-panel to somehow be rescued offscreen. |
| 217 | * HotBloodedSideburns: Oni-Hige's counterpart Oni-Momiage in ''Kurenai!! Onnajuku'' has them as her defining feature (indeed, "momiage" translates to "sideburns"), but they generally only cause her problems. |
| 218 | * IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: In ''The Legend of Edajima Heihachi'' and ''Akatsuki!! Otokojuku'', every chapter is named something like ''This is ___!!'' or ''I am ___!!'' (or plurals thereof). |
| 219 | * InformedAbility: Tazawa, known as the Brain of the first years. He is the same person who gives the iconic in series BlindIdiotTranslation. Subverted since he is quite a genius, and everyone in Otokojuku is a genius by the end. |
| 220 | * ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Common OhCrap moment. Even though almost no one dies from this. |
| 221 | * ImprobableAimingSkills: Souketsu shows off his abilities by shooting and overlapping several arrows into the badge of Togashi's hat. Gekkou does the same thing, killing a horse with two golf balls. |
| 222 | * ImprobableWeaponUser: While there's a lot of fighting styles based on odd things, including pogo sticks, Kurosu Nobunaga in ''Akatsuki!! Otokojuku'' uses this (called "Infinite Life-Death Style") as his primary fighting style—while he usually puts his getas on his hands for it, the style is based entirely on being able to use anything within reach as a weapon. |
| 223 | * IntentionalEngrishForFunny: Tazawa's attempt at speaking English to intimidate J.J. George. |
| 224 | * InstantChucks: Eikei uses ax-chucks. |
| 225 | * IronicName: Big Morgan in the anime movie, who is the ''smallest'' member of his team. |
| 226 | * JapaneseDelinquents: Serves as the TropeCodifier. |
| 227 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Oni-Hige is a coward and a hypocrite, but he cares about his students. |
| 228 | * {{Keet}}: Toramaru and Hakuhou. |
| 229 | * {{Kiai}}: The Great Chime Yell of Otokojuku. |
| 230 | * KilledOffForReal: |
| 231 | ** Lots of opponents in the Heaven-Challenging Tournament and Seven Tusks arcs. Out of Otokojuku students, [[spoiler:Dokugantetsu, Henshouki, Jaki and Gobarski]] had unambiguous onscreen deaths. [[spoiler:Akashi Gouji]] and [[spoiler:Baron Deino]] were never seen again after their final "deaths" in the original manga either, but theirs were a bit less definite. |
| 232 | *** ''Akatsuki!! Otokojuku'' muddles things a bit by having [[spoiler:Dokugantetsu, Gobarski, Deino and Gouji]] show up 20 years later, although the first three only appear in a chapter announcing the release of the live-action Otokojuku movie and could thus be considered of dubious canonicity. [[spoiler:Akashi Gouji]] survived for real, though, since his son—who is clearly less than 20 years old—is a primary character. |
| 233 | ** In ''Akatsuki!! Otokojuku'', not counting antagonists, [[spoiler:Gunpei]], [[spoiler:Ah Fu-Lo]] and [[spoiler:Liu-Yan]] die and ''actually'' stay dead. A bunch of other characters ''appear'' to die, sometimes graphically so on-screen... but, this being Otokojuku, of course they come back at the end of the arc. |
| 234 | * KnightOfCerebus: Akashi Gouji, the head of the Second Years, due to being the harbinger of the series going from pure comedy series to an action-comedy fighting series. |
| 235 | * LanternJawOfJustice: Edajima had a well-defined but pretty normal-sized jawline in the original manga, but by the time of ''Akatsuki!! Otokojuku'', his chin had grown quite a few sizes. Around the Brahman Temple arc, it goes back to a more reasonable size. |
| 236 | * LargeHam: Principal Heihachi, but many of the students and enemies have their moments as well. |
| 237 | ** WorldOfHam |
| 238 | * LazyArtist: [[ZigZaggingTrope Zig-zagged]] by Toichiro Yanagida, the artist of ''Daigouin Jaki Gaiden''. While the fight scenes are dynamic enough and the art style works well for the Otokojuku designs, for any panels where characters are just standing around or are being shown reacting to something, there's a ''lot'' of obvious copy-pasting of only a few drawings of the character. Some pages can have the same image being pasted multiple times in separate panels, just with different levels of zoom. |
| 239 | * LegacyCharacter: |
| 240 | ** The Three Fists, having a 2000-year history. Each generation has the same faces, names, and general techniques, and are found through phrenology. The Three Fists in ''Sakigake!! Otokojuku'' are the 152nd Three Fists, while ''Akatsuki!! Otokojuku'' features an appearance of the 153rd, and ''Date Omito Gaiden'' the 151st. |
| 241 | ** TokenEvilTeammate: The 151st Raiden is the only one to have been expelled from the Three Fists due to this. The 153rd Three Fists also count, as they're working for the villainous Sodom World Council. |
| 242 | ** The War Gods of Olympus appear to follow this as well, being a team of hand-picked soldiers of exceptional skill who are granted relevant names from mythology. Most of them are names of gods, like their leader Zeus, but there's also a Centaur, and both names show up on different characters in both ''Sakigake'' and ''Akatsuki''. |
| 243 | * LikeFatherLikeSon: Tsurugi Shishimaru and Akashi Juzo take after their dads in many ways. In ''The Legend of Edajima Heihachi'', Toramaru's father is introduced just like Toramaru, holding up the ceiling in a prison cell. |
| 244 | * LightIsNotGood: Pharaoh. |
| 245 | * LighterAndSofter: |
| 246 | ** To an extent, the anime adaptation. As an example, the guillotine that Togashi and Edogwa are put in by Akashi is a real guillotine in the manga, but a "rock guillotine" in the anime. Which does allow Togashi to show his guts more by simply breaking the rock with his head when it gets dropped, whereas in the manga he was saved by Momo. |
| 247 | ** ''Kurenai!! Onnajuku'' is this art-wise, being drawn way softer, [[AvertedTrope but only barely content-wise.]] There are some instances, like girl-Togashi stabbing a jar of strawberry jam when faking seppuku instead of a cat like her predecessor did, but largely Onnajuku is as brutal and hellish as Otokojuku was. |
| 248 | * MagicalNativeAmerican: Red Thunder. |
| 249 | * ManlyFacialHair: Raiden takes this trope literally, as he makes a martial art style out of his mustache. |
| 250 | * MasterOfIllusion: Gemini. |
| 251 | * MenDontCry: The author can't seem to make up his mind about which one is ideal: that or ManlyTears. |
| 252 | * MultinationalTeam: |
| 253 | ** The Hades Phoenix Island Warriors. |
| 254 | ** The Otokojuku team for the Seven Tusks, when they were joined by several former opponents from the Heaven-Challenging Tournament. |
| 255 | ** Even more so in ''Akatsuki!! Otokojuku'', when many of those they had formerly competed against in the Man Cup join up with them. Even if they do end up enrolling in Otokojuku, it's somewhat more justified here, as they originally teamed up due to running into each other when they were all going after the same target. |
| 256 | * MundaneMadeAwesome: |
| 257 | ** Edajima Heihachi manages to make the statement "'''''I AM THE PRINCIPAL OF OTOKOJUKU, EDAJIMA HEIHACHI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!'''''" into a very BadassBoast. |
| 258 | ** The very first time we see Momotaro angry and overexerting himself in a fight is when he's in the middle of a ''handshake'' with a jerkass American transfer student. Momotaro puts so much strength into it that his ''headband'' rips in half as an analogue to shirt-ripping and Kong's hand is crushed. |
| 259 | * MyHovercraftIsFullOfEels: Tazawa when trying to speak English. |
| 260 | * TheNapoleon: Koushuushi. |
| 261 | * NoAnimalsWereHarmed: Averted. Among other things, a guy eats a little bird just to spite its owner, and rabbits are constantly being thrown into sulfuric acid pits. In fact pretty much every new arena warrants some asshole coming on stage and murdering an innocent animal, sometimes quite cruely, like when a goat gets impaled just to show that the spikes are, in fact, spiky. |
| 262 | * NoShirtLongJacket: Most Otokojukians, really. |
| 263 | * OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: For quite a while, J. It's halfway through the manga we learn that his real name is [[spoiler:King Battler Junior]]. |
| 264 | ** Half-averted by his granddaughter JK in ''Kurenai!! Onnajuku''. It's immediately revealed that her actual name is Karen, but no hints for what the J stands for in her case. |
| 265 | * PaperFanOfDoom: Sanen. |
| 266 | * PaperThinDisguise: Everyone on the Otokojuku team can tell that Shoukaku is really [[spoiler: Eikei]] after his first fight. Jaki even confirms it. There's still some surprise when it actually is revealed. |
| 267 | * PaperTiger: The second years are this, as they bully the first years in confidence due to them being unable to fight back due to the Dark Law of Otokojuku making it so, but when Momotaro exploits a loophole by using kicks and leg attacks, they make specific complaints about how they themselves can't fight back, such as feeling ill, or having a headache. Their leader, Akashi Gouji however, is a bonafide threat. |
| 268 | * PassingTheTorch: Jaki gives Momo the symbol for leadership of Otokojuku before Jaki fights Spartacus. Akashi Gouji also gives Momo his sword, after Akashi's last battle in the Seven Tusks. |
| 269 | * PhenotypeStereotype: A good majority of the Americans are either blonds, like J, or African-American, like J.J. George. However, there are some native characters, such as one of the students in a crowd shot of Annapolis Academy's students, and there is also Red Thunder of the Hades Phoenix Island 16 Warriors, as well as Geronimo in ''Akatsuki!! Otokojuku''. |
| 270 | * PintSizedPowerhouse: |
| 271 | ** Hidemaro, when needed. Hakuhou is a straight example. |
| 272 | ** Zhang Wukong in ''Akatsuki!! Otokojuku''. |
| 273 | * PlayingWithFire: Ryuuhou and Shai Khan. |
| 274 | * PoisonousPerson: |
| 275 | ** Eikei with his poison fist. Other characters use techniques with poison, but none fit the trope as perfectly as Eikei. |
| 276 | ** Venom Viper in ''Date Omito Gaiden'', true to his name. His blood is venomous. |
| 277 | ** Ako in ''Daigouin Jaki Gaiden'' expels a poisonous mist from his body. Only his older brother Aryu is immune to it. And that really means ''only'' Aryu—''Ako himself'' isn't immune to his own poison, so Aryu has to stay close to his brother to prevent him from killing himself with his own mist. No prize for guessing how Jaki defeats the duo. |
| 278 | * PrehensileHair: Raja Mahal. |
| 279 | * RainOfBlood: Chapter 59. |
| 280 | * RaisedByWolves: Literally with Gobarski. All Rousouken practicioners have to be raised by wolves from a very early age. |
| 281 | * RapidFireFisticuffs: J's signature move is the Flash Piston Mach Punch combo, which starts out at a relatively humble 5 instant punches and with a potential for a chain of 10, though performing that much could destroy the muscles on his arm. Of course, he's just so determined and tough that he avoids getting crippled upon being forced to throw 10 punches for the first time ''twice'' in a row. And it only improves from there, starting out Otokojuku's first round in the Great Heaven-Challenging Olympic Tournament by demonstrating a sixteen-hit version. There are other characters with rapid flurries of hand attacks in their repertoires as well, but J is by far the most prominent example. |
| 282 | ** His granddaughter JK uses the Flash Piston Mach Punch as well, having mastered it already before she came to Onnajuku. |
| 283 | * RatedMForManly: The outrageous badassery of the Otokojuku students and the psycho teaching methods of the school is played straight just as much as it is PlayedForLaughs, if not more. |
| 284 | * RazorFloss: Used by a number of characters, but most prominently by Senkuu. |
| 285 | * RecapEpisode: The final episode of the anime basically consisted of a recap of the prior 33 episodes. |
| 286 | * RecycledPlot: Oi. Miyashita ''loved'' recycling concepts, sometimes with small changes, sometimes to the point of plagiarising himself. A few examples: |
| 287 | ** The Straight March from the first chapter of ''Sakigake!! Otokojuku'' is retooled into the Straight Dash in ''Akatsuki!! Otokojuku''. |
| 288 | ** The Spirit Cannonballs from the Four Great Trials of Terror show up again (and chronologically earlier) in ''Date Omito Gaiden'', in a challenge that's also suspiciously similar to The Great Trembling Conquest of the Unified Eight, featuring the Life-Entrusting Stone with 2-on-2 battles. |
| 289 | ** The Four Great Trials of Terror themselves become the Three Great Trials of Terror in ''Akatsuki!! Otokojuku'', with Shura, Fuukai and Rinkai returning... but Miyashita put it on the [[SeriesContinuityError wrong mountain]]. |
| 290 | ** In ''The Legend of Edajima Heihachi'', Toramaru's father was sentenced to holding up the ceiling in a prison, just like Toramaru. When Edajima breaks him and several other prisoners out of the prison, they do so by way of a 1000-man bridge, like the first-years did in ''Sakigake!! Otokojoku''. |
| 291 | ** The entire preimse of ''Kurenai!! Onnajuku'' is recycling the basic plot of the original manga, only with a female cast this time. |
| 292 | ** Throughout the series, at least three different organizations got described as having been in the shadows of every major bad event like wars and terrorist attacks the world has seen. |
| 293 | * RefugeInAudacity: Edajima once destroyed a university building with a real tank. The cops were convinced that it was just a movie set because there's no way anyone would be driving a tank around in broad daylight. |
| 294 | * RemakeCameo: Oni-Hige's anime VA Creator/ShigeruChiba narrates the Minmei entries in the live action movie. |
| 295 | * RetCon: When Eikei first uses his poison fist, it's as a final move by pouring a deadly poison on his hand, which is supposed to slowly kill him as well. By the time his first fight in the Heaven-Challenging Tournament comes around, it's become his primary fighting style, and is now explained to come from sticking your hand into a pot full of poisonous substances, plants and insects over the course of a long time. Interestingly, both variants are later confirmed to exist in ''Akatsuki!! Otokojuku''—one character uses the "pour poison on the hands" version, and it's mentioned that it's a way to obtain it instantly while killing the user as opposed to using the pot. |
| 296 | * ReusedCharacterDesign: Happens a lot in ''Date Omito Gaiden'', especially after the Viper Brothers arc (and even then, Bat Viper was a very obvious Henshouki expy). Characters looking nigh identical to Senkuu and Akashi Gouji show up before the next tournament begins, and in that tournament, not one but two copies of Dokugantetsu show up, followed in the next round by a Manjimaru clone. The last one is given an in-series justification by stating that he copied the haircut and outfit from a martial artist (heavily implied but not outright confirmed to have been Manjimaru) who had defeated him in the past. By the time copies of Momo and J show up, it's been established that [[spoiler:a parallel world exists, and they actually ''are'' alternate versions of the same characters.]] |
| 297 | * RightHandCat: Todo Hyoei. |
| 298 | * RockPaperScissors: In ''Kurenai!! Onnajuku'', Momoko and Togashi play Rock-Paper-Scissors of Death for the position of head of the first-years. Of course, it's an Onnajuku specialty. |
| 299 | * RunningGag: |
| 300 | ** Absolutely everything, including rugby, pogo sticks, ice skating and ping pong are derived from ancient Chinese fighting styles. Except for a few that's Greek. Every time any of this is explained, it comes with a wall of text from the narrator and an in-universe literary source for the information. |
| 301 | ** ''Everything'' ever mentioned by anyone is a "Otokojuku's specialty". |
| 302 | ** In the Great Heaven-Challenging Tournament, Togashi and Toramaru try to take the stage for the fight, but are inevitably stopped by one of the others on their team. And when they finally ''do'' get to take their turn, they're surprised that nobody's stopping them. |
| 303 | * TheRival: Fuun Rakanjuku is the Western Japan counterpart to Otokojuku, with Kumada, its principal, being the rival to Edajima. |
| 304 | * ScarsAreForever: ''Extremely'' [[ZigZaggingTrope zig-zagged.]] If a character has some kind of scars or damage on their body in their initial appearance, they will have it forever and it will never fade at all, such as Togashi's and Date's facial scars. Any damage taken ''during'' the many fights in the series will be completely patched up and never hinted at again, which in at least one gratuitous case includes a lost ''limb'' being reattached to the character in their next appearance with no mention of the event ever again. |
| 305 | ** Any scars (or tattoos, for that matter) introduced in backstory after the character's initial arc will only ever show up when relevant to the scene. In the Great Heaven-Challenging Tournament arc, Edajima shows that he has some very prominent scars on his chest from machine gun fire in the war, but any shirtless scenes he has prior to or after that arc—and even some ''during'' it, after they've been well established—show him completely spotless. In ''Akatsuki!! Otokojuku'', he also shows several scars from cuts across his belly, which he states are from all the times in his life he has committed seppuku, which of course never worked on him, and they're only ever seen in that one scene. |
| 306 | * SdrawkcabName: To throw off DittoFighter Shiran, Date uses a move that he calls "Uro Yakenuma". It doesn't actually exist—when read backwards, it spells "manuke yarou", which can translate to "stupid guy". |
| 307 | * {{Seppuku}}: Togashi fakes one in an early chapter. Later, some characters do it for real, but don't die. |
| 308 | * SeriesContinuityError: |
| 309 | ** There's several references to Otokojuku having a 300 year long history, with students having been sent to fight in World War II. But in the final arc and later in ''Akatsuki!! Otokojuku'', it's said that Edajima founded it, even giving the number of 13 years ago in the final volume of the original manga. Gets weird when you remember that the Four Great Trials of Terror were supposed to be Otokojuku's greatest specialty, and Edajima himself was the only one who had survived it, 50 years prior. And that Jaki had ruled Otokojuku for ''14'' years. |
| 310 | ** In ''The Legend of Edajima Heihachi'', Togashi's father Togashi Genzo shows up. So does his wife and ''one'' child, but in ''Sakigake!! Otokojuku'' it was established that Togashi enrolled in Otokojuku to find out the truth about his older brother's death. |
| 311 | ** A slightly modified versions of the Four Great Trials of Terror show up in ''Akatsuki!! Otokojuku'', with only two participants taking on one trial each, battling Fuukai and Rinkai at the Burning Sulphur Vein and Midair Cliff respectively before continuing. Shishimaru even comments that he's moving through the same tunnel as his father... except that they're on Mount Hakone, whereas the Four Great Trials of Terror in the original manga happened at Mount Fuji. |
| 312 | ** A small one regarding Edogawa: In ''Akatsuki'', he states that he's in his twentieth year at Otokojuku. Since ''Akatsuki'' takes place twenty years after ''Sakigake'', when Edogawa was a second-year, he should have been at Otokojuku for at least 21 years, even if he somehow started out as a second-year. |
| 313 | * SeriesMascot: Edajima Heihachi himself is one to the series as a whole. |
| 314 | * ShirtlessScene: Actually pretty frequent. You'd think that the author was actively trying to get female readers into this manga. |
| 315 | * ShockAndAwe: Red Thunder. |
| 316 | * ShoutOut: |
| 317 | ** Matsuo's haircut is that of ''Manga/SazaeSan''. |
| 318 | ** Michele (that's a guy, by the way) looks way too much like [[Manga/TheRoseOfVersailles Lady Oscar]] to be a coincidence. And he's French to boot. Toramaru and Togashi even mock him, saying "He looks like he came out straight of a Shoujo manga!" |
| 319 | ** Momotaro's father in ''The Legend of Edajima Heihachi'' is named Tsurugi [[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders Jotaro]]. |
| 320 | ** The female pirate captain's flashback in ''Kurenai!! Onnajuku'' has her and her crew standing with their backs to the camera and their right arms raised in a fist, identical to the Straw Hat crew's pose when leaving Alabasta in ''Manga/OnePiece''. |
| 321 | ** The Minmei entry for the Kraken in the same chapter has one to ''Manga/SquidGirl'', of all things. |
| 322 | * SignatureMove: Actually averted for a lot of the cast, given that the series is more into TimeToUnlockMoreTruePotential, so most fights involve entirely new moves being pulled out rather than going with ol' reliable. But there are some that arguably fit the bill, and some that absolutely do: |
| 323 | ** The two biggest examples among the cast are definitely J with his ''Mach Punch'' and its upgraded version ''Flash Piston Mach Punch'', and Akashi Gouji with his ''Straight Line-Style Rock-Slicing Sword'' (also the signature move of his son Juzo). |
| 324 | ** Hien's ''Thousand Cranebeak Needles'', Eikei's ''Strike of the Poisoned Hand'', and Jaki's ''Deadly Wind Vacuum Wave'' are also clear examples. |
| 325 | ** Momo himself never really gets one, given that most of his swordplay is done without any special moves, and the ones he actually uses aren't frequent enough to qualify. The closest thing would be his ''Rising Ki Tiger Spirit'', which shows up a bit too late to really count—but in ''Akatsuki!! Otokojuku'', it ''is'' the legitimate signature move of his son Shishimaru. |
| 326 | ** Also from ''Akatsuki!! Otokojuku'' is Yuan-Shao's ''Mirror of Water''. |
| 327 | * SmarterThanYouLook: Pretty much everyone that enrolls at Otokojuku, since they are given hard training in both physical and educational side. Theres a reason why the show informs the reader early on that the alumni of the school will become a huge part of the country. |
| 328 | * SnakeWhip: Fuuketsu uses the [[TheBeastMaster living, venomous snakes that he has high affinity with]] as whip-like weapons. |
| 329 | * SpectacularSpinning: Senkuu's battle techniques. Gekkou, Momo and Date have spinning moves as well, but Senkuu uses it the most. |
| 330 | * SplitPersonality: Edogawa with his Special Face Reversal. Explained in ''Akatsuki!! Otokojuku'' as coming from that he used to have a more aggressive twin brother, but when both were near-fatally wounded in an accident the doctors managed to save one of them by using parts of them both, and his brother's mind still [[SharingABody lives inside him]]. It should perhaps be mentioned that his father shows up in ''The Legend of Edajima Heihachi'' and has the Face Reversal as well, so it might in part be hereditary, too. |
| 331 | * StockSoundEffects: [[Creator/SoundRing E&M Planning Center]] handled the sound effects for ''Otokojuku'' and as a result, you'll hear sound effects from ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'' and ''Manga/{{Kinnikuman}}'' throughout the show. |
| 332 | * TheStoic: Too many examples, one of the most important being Momotaro himself. |
| 333 | * StoryBreakerPower: Edajima Heihachi himself in the prequel. He's by far the strongest person in the world, both physically and intellectually, on top of having a ridiculous amount of luck. As a result, Edajima is far ahead of everyone else and is very much in control of the direction that World War II is taking in the story. |
| 334 | * SuckMyRose: Senkuu and Michele (in Michele's case, they're poisoned). |
| 335 | * SuplexFinisher: In the animated movie, [[spoiler: Togashi does this to a ''horse''.]] |
| 336 | * TagTeam: Every so often. |
| 337 | * TagTeamTwins: Gemini of the 16 Olympus Gods, Amon and Unmon; Kintan and Gintan. |
| 338 | * TakingTheBullet: |
| 339 | ** Happens a few times, but the straightest example is when the four Lords of Death form an advancing human wall for Momo and the rest of the surviving team after the final battle of the Heaven-Challenging Olympic Tournament, protecting them from machine gun fire so they can reach Todo. This being Otokojuku, the Lords of Death are said to have survived afterwards, but had no appearances for the rest of the manga (save for one silent cameo at the end of the Seven Tusks). |
| 340 | ** In ''The Legend of Edajima Heihachi'', the commander of the Japanese navy protects Edajima in this way against an elite mercenary sent to kill him. |
| 341 | * TakingYouWithMe: Oh, yes. In the Four Great Trials, J, Togashi and Toramaru all finish their fights like this (they survive, and so do their opponents). In the Great Trembling Conquest, Togashi intends to finish Senkuu this way, but Senkuu saves him (Senkuu survives). In the Heaven-Challenging Tournament, Baron Deino does it to Suiketsu (Deino survives). Both Akashi Gouji and Akashi Juzo (in ''Akatsuki!! Otokojuku'') have finished opponents by stabbing their sword through themselves (they always survive). |
| 342 | * TalkingIsAFreeAction: Fighters on both sides always take the time to let the opponent name and sometimes explain their fighting styles. Hilariously [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] when Edajima knocks his first opponent in the Heaven-Challenging Tournament out with one punch while they were in the middle of naming their technique. |
| 343 | * TankGoodness: |
| 344 | ** Edajima has a tank from the war locked away in a storehouse on the Otokojuku campus. He brings it out to attack the Rakkyo cheering squad when they take Oni-hige, Tazawa, Matsuo and Hidemaro hostage. |
| 345 | ** Later in ''Akatsuki!! Otokojuku'', Kurosu Nobunaga uses a tank, presumably the same one as it was said it was one stored at Otokojuku, to attack an American army base. |
| 346 | * TenPacesAndTurn: One of Akashi's opponents in the Seven Tusks arc is TheGunslinger who proposes to fight him after both turn to face each other trekking the ten steps in a show of fairness, to which Akashi agrees. They turn around... and TheGunslinger finds out the hard way that he should NeverBringAGunToAKnifeFight. |
| 347 | * TestosteronePoisoning: The heavy emphasis on [[RatedMforManly classical masculinity]] combined with the frequently over-the-top and silly nature of the series can lead to this. |
| 348 | * ThemeNaming: |
| 349 | ** Except for the leaders, everybody in the Ryouzanpaku has "-ketsu" in their name.[[note]]In Japanese, the name of the team is "Ryozanpaku 16-ketsu".[[/note]] |
| 350 | ** The Three Fists are all named after Japanese World War II fighter planes. |
| 351 | * ThoseTwoGuys: Togashi and Toramaru are relegated into this trope as the manga goes on. They do most of the [[CombatCommentator commentary]], dramatically announce the name of the next battler, and such. Lampshaded quite a few times. |
| 352 | * ThoseWackyNazis: |
| 353 | ** Doctor Eberstein, who looks like Hitler and is possibly based on Josef Mengele. Hitler himself is mentioned. |
| 354 | ** In ''The Legend of Edajima Heihachi'', Göring and Hitler himself ([[BodyDouble or is it?]]) shows up. Not very surprising, since the story takes place during World War II, Japan was allied with Germany and Edajima is part of the Japanese force. |
| 355 | * TigerVersusDragon: Momo vs. Gouki. |
| 356 | * TimeToUnlockMoreTruePotential: |
| 357 | ** [[ZigZaggingTrope Zig-zagged.]] Many established characters show off some new move or style in each of their battles, which doesn't always stick. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] with characters like Raiden, who are explicitly stated to know several different kinds of martial arts. For some characters the new move becomes a returning staple for them (such as J's Flash Piston Mach Punch) and others are never heard of again (like any of Togashi and Toramaru's tag team attacks). |
| 358 | ** Baron Deino is perhaps the most jarring example, as most characters who show off something new does it as an extension of their established style. Not so for Deino—partway through the Great Heaven-Challenging Tournament, he switches to "Hell's Magician" style, using a deck of cards, misdirection and sleight of hand—which doesn't have ''any'' resemblance to the way he fought prior to that. Henshouki also switches to using bats, which hadn't been seen before then, even if his name does translate to "bat demon". |
| 359 | ** [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] with Manjimaru, who could create 10 images of himself when fighting J in the Great Trembling Conquest, but says he can do at most 5 when fighting Gemini in the Heaven-Challenging Tournament. And then is able to do 10 again in the chronologically earlier ''Daigouin Jaki Gaiden''. |
| 360 | * ToiletHumor: Raiden's monkeys sometimes throw poo, Pharaoh drinks a chimpanzee's pee, etc. |
| 361 | * TookALevelInBadass: If there are any inappropriate students in Otokojuku, most of the time, they are going to have tons of this in short time. And by most, we mean everyone but one person. |
| 362 | ** Edogawa finally comes around to it in ''Akatsuki!! Otokojuku'', allowing him to graduate after 20 years at Otokojuku. |
| 363 | * TournamentArc: Pretty much ''every'' arc once the comedy chapters stop. |
| 364 | ** The Tusks Arc is both this and a RescueArc, as Edajima was kidnapped and needs to be saved. |
| 365 | * TragicKeepsake: |
| 366 | ** Togashi's hat, passed down from his older brother who perished in the Great Trembling Conquest. |
| 367 | ** In the live action movie, Oni-Hige gives Togashi his brother's dagger the night before the Three Great Trials of Terror, though it only makes one appearance and Togashi never even uses it in his battle. |
| 368 | * TrainingFromHell: Daily activity of Otokojuku. To put it simply, the only subject that matters in Otokojuku is this, both educational and (especially) physical. |
| 369 | ** Various forms show up in the backstories of various characters, but the most hellish of them all is likely the ''Lone Slaughter Battle'', where a hundred orphans are put in an inescapable ravine and forced to fight each other to the death until there's only one left, who's then subjected to even more harsh training. Date Omito, Shiran, and the Eight Tusks went through it. Date rebelled against the masters he was meant to have become a pawn for after finishing his training, killing them all and ending the practice of the Lone Slaughter Battle. |
| 370 | * {{Tsundere}}: JK in ''Kurenai!! Onnajuku'' likes having her abilities praised, but doesn't like showing that she does. It's often in these situations she pulls out her grandfather's catchphrase, on one occasion specifially noted to have the underlying meaning of the classic "It's not like I did it for you". |
| 371 | * UnexplainedRecovery: |
| 372 | ** Several times throughout this series characters "die" only to come back without explanation. For example, several people fall into acid but then are just somehow alive by the begining of the next arc, often with no explanation given. If there's anything said about it, it's usually related to Wang Ta-Ren and "3000 years of Chinese medicine". In fact Miyashita made it worse by using his thin-worn trope of having someone demonstrate that the hazards in the fight are real, so one couldn't even assume it wasn't actually acid. |
| 373 | ** Rasetsu cuts off his own arm in his fight against Sanen, but the next time he shows up he has both of his arms again. |
| 374 | * UnreliableNarrator: The narrator of this series is a lying, cheating bastard who only cares to make you invested in a fight by making it "for real", so he goes on and on about how this or this character just "died", in no uncertain terms. But then it's revealed all of the characters survived despite the narrator clearly saying otherwise. Togashi actually "died" three times during the course of the series, and was twice confirmed dead by the narrator. |
| 375 | * UnskilledButStrong: |
| 376 | ** Toramaru is this more than anything else. While he does pull some tricks, his "Fierce Tiger" style is entirely invented by himself, and he's essentially the ''only'' fighter in the entire series without ''any'' kind of gimmicks, relying on brute strength first and foremost. |
| 377 | ** In a sense, for most of their fights, this also applies to the protagonists in general when compared to their opponents. First Momo, Togashi, J and Toramaru in the Four Great Trials of Terror, then when they're joined by Date and the Three Fists in the Great Trembling Conquest, and then all of Otokojuku in the Heaven-Challenging Tournament. Usually, their opponents are presented as much stronger, with better training, and should logically be outclassing them. It's even brought up when they are about to fight Gandhara in the preliminaries of the tournament—Otokojuku has already suffered two casualties and most of the rest of the team is pretty beat up, whereas the Gandhara team doesn't even have a scratch. But Otokojuku still powers through everything and pull out a lot of their wins from their unparalleled sheer tenacity, guts and ''never staying down'', no matter how much of a beating they take. Date Omito is the shining exception even in the Great Trembling Conquest, probably being the best fighter on the Otokojuku team—often having more conclusive victories than even Momo. In addition to the Otokojuku tenacity, of course. Jaki seems like he would be an exception as well and is most likely stronger than Date, but his only two fights after the Great Trembling Conquest are against extremely strong opponents in what's among the most evenly matched and violent fights in the series. |
| 378 | * UseYourHead: |
| 379 | ** How Togashi crushes the ball holding the antidote during his fight with Michele. |
| 380 | ** The entire fight between Edajima and Zuikyou. |
| 381 | * WhereItAllBegan: The final arc was something of a 'return to roots', as it was set in the actual school, relied more on gags and gave the spotlight back to Tazawa and Hidemaro (not really [[NonActionGuy Matsuo]], though). |
| 382 | * WolverineClaws: Horus (they're poisoned), Raja Mahal. |
| 383 | * WordSaladHumor: Tazawa's attempt at speaking English is this. Matsuo even notes that Tazawa is just stringing together every word he knows. |
| 384 | * WorldOfActionGirls / ImprobablyFemaleCast: ''Kurenai!! Onnajuku'' has every main character except for Edajima be female. See the next entry for why. |
| 385 | * WorldWarIII: Stated to have concluded 30 years before ''Kurenai!! Onnajuku'', during which a bomb was dropped on Japan that "restructured men's DNA", weakening the male population, which was why the somehow unaffected and somehow still alive Edajima decided to train the girls of Japan instead, turning Otokojuku into Onnajuku. |
| 386 | * YouKilledMyFather: Why Manjimaru wants to fight Taiketsu and Touketsu. |
| 387 | * YoungerThanTheyLook: Almost every student looks at least 30. They're 16-18. |
| 388 | ** In a subversion, Jaki is at least 28 years old and he's a third-year. Wrap your head around THAT one. |
| 389 | ** All the named third-years may really be a subversion, as they seem to be more like an organization than a grade. Wang Ta-Ren mentions that Togashi will face the same opponents as his older brother did in the Great Trembling Conquest, meaning that Dokugantetsu and Senkuu had been third-years for a minimum of three years. ''Daigouin Jaki Gaiden'' confirms that the Corridor Trio and the Four Lords were already third-year students and looked essentially the same when Jaki arrived at Otokojuku, which was more than ''ten'' years before ''Sakigake''. |
| 390 | ** Edajima is said to be over 150 years old in ''Kurenai!! Onnajuku'', but doesn't look any older than he did in the time of ''Akatsuki!! Otokojuku''. |
| 391 | * YourSizeMayVary: Huge opponents are frequent, in a similar fashion as ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar''. Momo even lampshades it during the final battle of the anime. |
| 392 | ** The huge form Jaki takes when he first shows up is later HandWaved as simply ''appearing'' huge due to his aura. In a flashback later on, it's shown that Edajima did the same to Jaki back in the day. |
| 393 | ** Yin-Ren in ''Akatsuki!! Otokojuku'' can change the size of his body at will. |
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