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* {{Gonk}}: He has a huge forehead, multiple missing teeth, glaring eyes, and a crooked nose. Subverted when he makes a HeelFaceTurn, as he looks more normal, although still somewhat intimidating.

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* {{Gonk}}: He has a huge forehead, multiple missing teeth, beady, constantly glaring eyes, and a crooked nose. Subverted when he makes a HeelFaceTurn, as he looks more normal, although still somewhat intimidating.


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* SignatureMove: He has two.
** His first is his "Hell Dropper" an attack that makes full use of his height and strength, where he grabs somebody by their face, covering their nose and mouth with a hand and suffocating them as he holds them in the air.
** His other, and much more powerful, is his "Six Hit Thrust" which is just him hitting his enemy six times in rapid succession. It's extremely effective even if he wasn't such a huge, strong, guy, as it's a high-level technique in Karate that requires a lot of stamina and training.

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!Other Students, Delinquents & Characters
[[folder:Tofukuji]]
A transfer student at KFTH who tried to take over the position as head of the school. He's a user of Jing-lin Temple Kung Fu, a form of Kung Fu that centers around defensive fighting and counter attacks. He makes an enemy out of Takagi quickly and actually manages to beat him the first time, but later loses to him when Takagi tricks him into thinking he'll use Jing-lin Temple Kung-fu as well in their rematch before defeating in one hit with a headbutt.

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!Other Students, Delinquents & Characters
[[folder:Tofukuji]]
A transfer student at KFTH who tried
[[folder:Ueda Hiroshi]]
The captain of KFTH's Rugby Club, and a friend of Takagi. He recruits Takagi, Matsuhita, and Saitou
to take over help his club defeat JNU's own Rugby Club in the position as head of the school. He's a user of Jing-lin Temple Kung Fu, a form of Kung Fu that centers around defensive fighting and counter attacks. He makes an enemy out of Takagi quickly and actually manages to beat him the first time, but later loses to him when Takagi tricks him into thinking he'll use Jing-lin Temple Kung-fu as well in their rematch before defeating in one hit with a headbutt.National High School Rugby Osaka Regional Tournament.



* AnimeHair: He has a buzzcut with multiple circular bald spots that invoke the incense dots of a monk.
* CounterAttack: His specialty.
* GlassCannon: His Jing-lin Temple Kung-fu is very powerful, as it's throws can dislocate the limbs of his opponents very easily, but he goes down in just three good hits from Takagi.
* SpectacularSpinning: His counter-attack throws involve a lot of spinning motions.

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* AnimeHair: He has NiceGuy: He's a buzzcut very friendly, respectful person who tries to get along with multiple circular bald spots that invoke the incense dots of a monk.
* CounterAttack: His specialty.
* GlassCannon: His Jing-lin Temple Kung-fu is very powerful, as it's throws can dislocate the limbs of his opponents very easily, but he goes down in
just three good hits from Takagi.
* SpectacularSpinning: His counter-attack throws involve a lot of spinning motions.
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[[folder:The Grand Master]]
The successor of the Hago Shinmei branch of Karate and the master of Gantetsu. He's a cruel and violent old man who makes Gantetsu look reasonable in comparison. In fact, that's exactly what he does, as his idea of training and his violent nature cause Gantetsu to actually be scared and concerned for his students wellbeing.

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[[folder:The Grand Master]]
The successor
!Other Students, Delinquents & Characters
[[folder:Tofukuji]]
A transfer student at KFTH who tried to take over the position as head
of the Hago Shinmei branch of Karate and the master of Gantetsu. school. He's a cruel user of Jing-lin Temple Kung Fu, a form of Kung Fu that centers around defensive fighting and violent old man who counter attacks. He makes Gantetsu look reasonable in comparison. In fact, that's exactly what he does, as his idea an enemy out of training Takagi quickly and his violent nature cause Gantetsu to actually be scared and concerned for his students wellbeing.manages to beat him the first time, but later loses to him when Takagi tricks him into thinking he'll use Jing-lin Temple Kung-fu as well in their rematch before defeating in one hit with a headbutt.



* AnimeHair: He has a buzzcut with multiple circular bald spots that invoke the incense dots of a monk.
* CounterAttack: His specialty.
* GlassCannon: His Jing-lin Temple Kung-fu is very powerful, as it's throws can dislocate the limbs of his opponents very easily, but he goes down in just three good hits from Takagi.
* SpectacularSpinning: His counter-attack throws involve a lot of spinning motions.
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[[folder:The Grand Master]]
The successor of the Hago Shinmei branch of Karate and the master of Gantetsu. He's a cruel and violent old man who makes Gantetsu look reasonable in comparison. In fact, that's exactly what he does, as his idea of training and his violent nature cause Gantetsu to actually be scared and concerned for his students wellbeing.
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* TheCameo: He appears next to Gantetsu during the Rugby arc.



* LaserGuidedKarma: He winds up getting the shit beating out of him by Takagi and never reappears except for a cameo near the end of the story.

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* LaserGuidedKarma: He winds up getting the shit beating out of him by Takagi and never reappears except for a cameo in the Rugby arc, and another one near the end of the story.


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[[folder:Andre Oda]]
The captain of JNU's Rugby Club. He's a massive young man who has a resemblance to FrankensteinsMonster, minus the bolts, as well as the rival of Ueda Hiroshi.
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* {{Jerkass}}: Andre Oda is a mean man! He spends most of his time taunting Ueda Hiroshi and calling him and his Rugby Club weak.
* SmugSuper: He's huge and strong, and has a big ego and a nasty attitude because of this.
* SuperStrength: He's strong enough to send Takagi flying by smacking him in the face.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: He can pass for an adult, but he's a teenager in high school.
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[[folder:The Female Delinquents]]
A group of female delinquents who harass and bully Momochiyo in her own mini-arc. Their leader is a large girl who wields a chain.

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[[folder:The Female Delinquents]]
A group of female delinquents who harass and bully Momochiyo in her own mini-arc. Their leader

[[folder:Bunta Yamaguchi]]
A.K.A. Yamaguchi the Manslayer. He
is a large girl who wields former alumnus of KFTH's Karate Club whose quite familiar with Takagi. He's completely crazy and obsessed with the Yakuza after being released from Juvenile Hall, but aside from that, he's relatively decent as long as you don't provoke him, although he has a chain.problem where he gets ''really'' bad whenever he drinks alcohol.


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* AffablyEvil: Downplayed. He beats up a student for bumping into him and in general is easily provoked into violence, but is actually somewhat reasonable and polite as long as he's not drunk.
* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: Alcohol causes him to go even crazier and makes him start wandering around aimlessly while searching for more, attacking anything or anyone that upsets him.
* CloudCuckoolander: He's obsessed with the Yakuza and thinks he's one, which results in him acting like an overly stereotypical one.
* PsychoKnifeNut: Played for Laughs. He's under the delusion that he's a Yakuza and carries around a long dagger.
* {{Yakuza}}: Subverted. He's not actually a Yakuza, but instead is merely convinced that he's one.
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A group of female delinquents who harass and bully Momochiyo in her own mini-arc. Their leader is a large girl who wields a chain.
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* {{Expy}}: He looks like a human version of [[Manga/DragonBallZ Frieza]] with the almond shape of his eyes and his black lips, and also having a similar personality, reserved and calm, yet haughty and incredibly cruel, but also possessing a violent, bloodthirsty, and psychotic side that emerges when he's pushed too much.




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* OlderThanTheyLook: He's 18 years old but he looks half that age due to his height and outfit.

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* OlderThanTheyLook: He's 18 years old but he looks half that age 8 due to his height and outfit.


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* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: He's shown to be blue on the mangas covers.


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* SimpleYetAwesome: Unlike the previous bodyguards before him, Shigeru Kiryuin has no true gimmicks. He's just a very strong and highly skilled man who has the best attributes of a masters of multiple martial arts. He gives Takagi a hell of a fight and is the penultimate opponent in the manga.
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* GoodOldFisticuffs: Like Retsu, he's a brawler, although his fighting style is actually so refined that it's hard to refer to it as ''just'' brawling, given that he's deeveloped various advanced techniques such as his iconic RapidFireFisticuffs.

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* GoodOldFisticuffs: Like Retsu, he's a brawler, although his fighting style is actually so refined that it's hard to refer to it as ''just'' brawling, given that he's deeveloped developed various advanced techniques such as his iconic RapidFireFisticuffs.
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* MultiEthnicName: Justified. One of his parents must've been an American.
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* NightmareFace: As he powers up, the blood vessels on his face all pop up and give him a burnt appearance that is compared to [[Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Krueger]]. His forehead then starts swelling and he gains BlackEyesOfEvil.

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* NightmareFace: As he powers up, the blood vessels on his face all pop up and give him a burnt appearance that is compared to [[Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Krueger]]. His forehead then starts swelling and he gains BlackEyesOfEvil.
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* PrettyBoy: Not effeminate enough to be a {{Bishonen}} but he still has beautiful eyes and a handsome face, and he's also a fashionable person as well.



* {{Bishonen}}: He's incredibly effeminate in appearance.



* {{Bishonen}}: He has a very pretty and effeminate face.

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* SignatureWeapon: His Jericho 941.



* WeaponBasedCharacterization: He wields a Jericho 941, reflecting his pragmatic views on fighting, as he'll gladly gun down an unnarmed enemy without a second thought.



* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:He might be an irredeemable monster but he winds up being incredibly pitiful when he dies, due to him begging Goki Akamatsu not to kill him and solemnly yelling that he doesn't want to die after he blows his brains out.]]

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* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:He might be an irredeemable monster monster, but he winds up being incredibly pitiful when he dies, due to him in his last moments, as he's crying and begging for Goki Akamatsu not to kill him and solemnly yelling that he doesn't want to die after he blows gets his brains out.blown out by Goki.]]
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* BaldOfEvil: He he has his head shaven down to a buzzcut, and was so bad that

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* BaldOfEvil: He he has his head shaven down to a buzzcut, and was so bad that he got sent to Wailing Demon Island.
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* TheAce: A rare villainous example. Not only is he as good of a martial artist as he is powerful, he's also dangerously intelligent and clever, too, and has plenty of connections thanks to being the son of Gonosuke Akamatsu, the Prime Minister of Japan in Osu! Karate Club's setting. [[spoiler:That being said. It's subverted when it's revealed he's an utterly broken, sad, and lonely man who was essentially corrupted by multiple factors such as the broken home he was raised in, such as his neglectful father, crazed, heartless mother, his abusive tutor, and Jin Zhouyin, his martial arts teacher, teaching him to use ThePowerOfHate, and finding out that his father was more interested in Takagi, his half-brother, than he ever was in him, in spite of Goki Akamatsu trying incredibly hard and succeeding at many things just so that Gonosuke would pay attention to him out of pride.]]

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* VillainForgotToLevelGrind: Subverted with a delightful vengeance. After being being defeated by Takagi once, he leaves for Tibet to train himself, and returns stronger than ever before and with a bunch of new techniques and abilities.



A member of the Freedom Revolutionary Party, who has it out for Gonosuke Akamatsu, as well as a mysterious ally of Takagi and friends who seems to be more than meets the eye. [[spoiler:In actuality, he is Yoshitaka Takagi, Takagi's biological father, who is against Gonosuke Akamatsu out of a sense of relatively petty revenge, not caring that Yukiko genuinely loved Akamatsu and only became a shut-in to the point where she was instintutionalized out of shame and guilt from the affair they were having.]]

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A member of the Freedom Revolutionary Party, who has it out for Gonosuke Akamatsu, as well as a mysterious ally of Takagi and friends who seems to be more than meets the eye. [[spoiler:In actuality, he is Yoshitaka Takagi, Takagi's biological true father, who is against Gonosuke Akamatsu out of a sense of relatively petty revenge, not caring that Yukiko genuinely loved Akamatsu and only became a shut-in to the point where she was instintutionalized out of shame and guilt from the affair they were having.]]



* UnreliableNarrator: Gonosuke never raped Yukiko like Jindo said he did, though she was still broken by stress from the nature of their affair.

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* UnreliableNarrator: Gonosuke [[spoiler:Gonosuke never raped Yukiko like Jindo said he did, though she was still broken by stress from the nature of their affair.]]

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[[folder:Kikumaru Nishijin, Hikosuke Endo and Maki Tendo]]
A trio of fighters who fight Takagi for the right to obtain the Rising Dragon scrolls.

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The 1st
of fighters who the 3 disciples of Liu-yung Huang sent to fight Takagi for the right to obtain see if he's worthy of the Rising Dragon scrolls.Dragon. He is from the Kyoto prefecture, and fights using a katana which he's able to transmit his own ki through.



* FauxActionGirl: Maki is said to be the strongest of the trio, but it unfortunately is a trio of jobbers and she in particular practically does nothing on-panel because Takagi refuses to fight her and then she's beaten up offscreen by Ton-Ton and Gen-Gen.
* HighHeelFaceTurn: Takagi doesn't feel like fighting a woman for the keys to the Rising Dragon and just walks off after beating her comrades, but Maki gets a crush on him and hands them out anyway.
* InASingleBound: Maki is capable of very high and floaty jumps that make it seem like she's flying.
* TheWorfEffect: They show up looking all high and mighty and berate Takagi for losing badly to Keiji. Not only are the two men in the group beaten up by Takagi, but all of them lose pathetically and ''offscreen'' to Ton-Ton and Gen-Gen while attempting to take the Rising Dragon scrolls away.

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* FauxActionGirl: Maki is said to be the strongest of the trio, but it unfortunately is {{Bishonen}}: He has a trio of jobbers very pretty and she in particular practically does nothing on-panel because Takagi refuses to fight her and then she's beaten up offscreen by Ton-Ton and Gen-Gen.
effeminate face.
* HighHeelFaceTurn: Takagi doesn't feel KiAttacks: His specialty.
* SwordBeam: The way he uses his ki functions
like fighting a woman for the keys to the Rising Dragon and just walks off after beating her comrades, but Maki gets a crush on this, enabling him and hands them out anyway.
* InASingleBound: Maki is capable of very high and floaty jumps that make it seem like she's flying.
* TheWorfEffect: They show up looking all high and mighty and berate Takagi for losing badly
to Keiji. Not only are the two men in the group beaten up by Takagi, but all of them lose pathetically and ''offscreen'' to Ton-Ton and Gen-Gen while attempting to take the Rising Dragon scrolls away.cut from a distance.




[[folder:Tian-sheng Huang]]
The father of Liu-yung, Chen-chen, and An-hai Huang, as well as their master.

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\n[[folder:Tian-sheng Huang]]\n[[folder:Hikosuke Endo]]
The father 2nd of Liu-yung, Chen-chen, the 3 disciples of Liu-yung Huang holding the keys to the Rising Dragon. He is an incredibly strong fighter from the Nara prefecture, who uses a fictious martial art called the Heijo Style, which was invented to protect the Emperor, and An-hai Huang, as well as their master.thus, uses extremely lethal techniques meant to kill in a single hit.



* HeroicSacrifice: Tian-sheng teaches the true nature of the Rising Dragon to Takagi in the afterlife and ultimately sacrifices his soul to him after a duel so that the hero may resurrect and put an end to An-hai.
* SpiritAdvisor: Tian-sheng isn't truly erased after being absorbed by Takagi and can communicate with him whenever he is in a near-death state.

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* HeroicSacrifice: Tian-sheng teaches the true nature TheBigGuy: The physically largest of the Rising Dragon three disciples who focuses on incredibly powerful techniques.
* StrongAndSkilled: He's strong enough
to Takagi in the afterlife lift up a boulder and ultimately sacrifices throw it at Takagi, but his soul to him after a duel so that the hero may resurrect fighting style, is quite advanced and put an end to An-hai.
* SpiritAdvisor: Tian-sheng isn't truly erased after being absorbed by Takagi and can communicate
technical, as it makes use of grappling techniques, counter attacks, as well as striking with him whenever he is in just two fingers like a near-death state.bullet.




!Saga of Good and Evil
[[folder:Goki Akamatsu]]
A sociopathic gang leader whose the son of Gonosuke Akamatsu, that wants to sink Japan into hell by all means necessary after obtaining the huge stash of drugs connected to the Rising Dragon scrolls.

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[[folder:Goki Akamatsu]]
A sociopathic gang leader whose
strongest of the son trio of Gonosuke Akamatsu, disciples of Liu-yung Huang sent to fight Takagi so that wants to sink Japan into hell by all means necessary after obtaining the huge stash he can prove he's worthy of drugs connected to the Rising Dragon scrolls.Dragon. She is from the Wakayama prefecture, and practices a martial art called the Chinese Imperial Style of the Flower Fist, which involves incredibly high and powerful jumps and equally strong kicks giving her superior mobility.


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* KickChick: Her Chinese Imperial Style of the Flower Fist revolves around incredibly powerful kicks.
* InASingleBound: She can jump so high that it looks as if she's floating through the air.
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[[folder:Tian-sheng Huang]]
The father of Liu-yung, Chen-chen, and An-hai Huang, as well as their master.
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* HeroicSacrifice: Tian-sheng teaches the true nature of the Rising Dragon to Takagi in the afterlife and ultimately sacrifices his soul to him after a duel so that the hero may resurrect and put an end to An-hai.
* SpiritAdvisor: Tian-sheng isn't truly erased after being absorbed by Takagi and can communicate with him whenever he is in a near-death state.
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!Saga of Good and Evil
[[folder:Goki Akamatsu]]
A sociopathic gang leader whose the son of Gonosuke Akamatsu, that wants to sink Japan into hell by all means necessary after obtaining the huge stash of drugs connected to the Rising Dragon scrolls.
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* CharacterDevelopment: Takagi starts out as a BookDumb delinquent who is kind of an asshole to his disciples and isn't above killing to avenge something like friends being raped and murdered. Throughout the series, he evolves into something of a GeniusBruiser who is merciful and forgiving to MessianicArchetype levels [[GoodIsNotSoft despite beating the tar out of his enemies]] all the same.



* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:He's rendered harmless once his snake is killed, and then Dark Takagi takes a sum of money from him in exchange for sparing his life. It's only after this exchange that Gonosuke orders Anglwal to be killed for his failure. ]]

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* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:He's rendered harmless once his snake is killed, and then Dark Takagi takes a sum of money from him in exchange for sparing his life. It's only after this exchange that Gonosuke orders Anglwal to be killed for his failure. The ending emphasizes the tragedy of his death by showing all the other bodyguards, including a somehow still living Shigeru, went on to become better people.]]



* NotQuiteDead: He cuts his lifespan while fighting Takagi and is defeat is dramatically and clearly portrayed as him dying from the injuries. But then the DistantFinale reveals he survived somehow and went on to live a peaceful life.



* ThisCannotBe: Although Shigeru [[GracefulLoser seems to smile]] at his mortal defeat, his dying words are of regret and disbelief that his lifetime of efforts couldn't defeat Takagi in the end. The hero ultimately [[AlasPoorVillain expresses pity]] and [[WorthyOpponent gratefulness]] as he covers the corpse with a blanket.

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* ThisCannotBe: Although Shigeru [[GracefulLoser seems to smile]] at what ''appeared'' to be his mortal defeat, his dying words are of regret and disbelief that his lifetime of efforts couldn't defeat Takagi in the end. The hero ultimately [[AlasPoorVillain expresses pity]] and [[WorthyOpponent gratefulness]] as he covers the (not quite) corpse with a blanket.
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* GracefulLoser: The moment Sabu loses to Takagi, he admits to having lost his morals over time and that he had been waiting for a righteous opponent like him. He then gifs Takagi his late leader's jacket as a sign of goodwill, remarking that Tokyo will be fine under his leadership.

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* GracefulLoser: The moment Sabu loses to Takagi, he admits to having lost his morals over time and that he had been waiting for a righteous opponent like him. He then gifs gifts Takagi his late leader's jacket as a sign of goodwill, remarking that Tokyo will be fine under his leadership.



* TheWorfEffect: Averted. He loses repeatedly to characters other than Takagi, such as Sabu Majima.

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* TheWorfEffect: Averted. He loses repeatedly to characters other than Takagi, such as Sabu Majima.Majima, while the rest of the Kanto Slaughter Union have an easy time crushing Takagi and his allies to demonstrate their superior strength.



A member of the Freedom Revolutionary Party, who has it out for Gonosuke Akamatsu, as well as a mysterious ally of Takagi and friends who seems to be more than meets the eye. [[spoiler:In actuality, he is Yoshitaka Takagi, Takagi's biological father, who is against

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A member of the Freedom Revolutionary Party, who has it out for Gonosuke Akamatsu, as well as a mysterious ally of Takagi and friends who seems to be more than meets the eye. [[spoiler:In actuality, he is Yoshitaka Takagi, Takagi's biological father, who is against Gonosuke Akamatsu out of a sense of relatively petty revenge, not caring that Yukiko genuinely loved Akamatsu and only became a shut-in to the point where she was instintutionalized out of shame and guilt from the affair they were having.]]



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[[folder:Lupan]][[folder:Lupan [[spoiler:Jin Zhouyin]]]]



* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: His backstory is remarkably similar to a school shooting, although replace guns and bullets with bugs carrying diseases.

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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: His backstory is remarkably similar to a school shooting, although due him being repeatedly bullied until he snapped and went on a dangerous rampage against those who picked on him, except replace guns and bullets with bugs carrying diseases.disease.
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** In a more comedic example, he is revealed to be [[SurprisinglyGoodEnglish surprisingly good at speaking english]], to the point where it shocks his classmates.

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* AnArmAndALeg: When a badly injured Ryuuryuu greets Takagi in the hospital after being rescued from Goki's henchmen, he seems completely oblivious to having lost his right leg.

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* AnArmAndALeg: When [[spoiler:When a badly injured Ryuuryuu greets Takagi in the hospital after being rescued from Goki's henchmen, he seems completely oblivious to having lost his right leg. leg and even tells the hero he looks foward to fighting alongside him again.]]

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* FauxActionGirl: The three assassins are a legitimately fearsome threat when they're first introduced, but as soon as Takagi realizes they're women he can't take them seriously anymore. He just scares them off while saying they should leave the life of violence to men, and when they try to help him against Katsunari they end up outnumbered and in need of saving from the villain and his henchmen. Then in the DistantFinale, they're said to have settled down as ordinary housewives.



* RapidAging:Both Gen-Gen and Takagi are also affected in a following clash, with the villain going fully bald as a result.
* WouldHitAGirl: After Takagi had refused to fight Maki, those two villains don't hesitate to pummel the girl and leave her all bloody with her chest exposed.

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* RapidAging:Both RapidAging: Both Gen-Gen and Takagi are also affected in a following clash, negatively by the Rising Dragon, with the villain going fully bald as a result.
* WouldHitAGirl: After Takagi had refused to fight Maki, those two villains don't neither him or Ton-Ton hesitate to pummel the girl and leave her all bloody with her chest exposed.



A trio of fighters who fight Takagi for the right to obtain the Rising Dragon scrolls.



* FauxActionGirl: Maki is said to be the strongest of the trio, but it unfortunately is a trio of jobbers and she in particular practically does nothing on-panel.

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* MentorOccupationalHazard: Jinrai, the protagonist's first mentor figure, is assassinated by regular thugs while researching the Rising Dragon scrolls.

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* MentorOccupationalHazard: Jinrai, [[spoiler:Jinrai, the protagonist's first mentor figure, is assassinated by regular thugs while researching the Rising Dragon scrolls.]]



* SpiritAdvisor: When Takagi is killed by Gen-Gen, Jinrai's spirit convinces Tian-sheng to teach the hero about the Rising Dragon. After a duel between Takagi and Tian-sheng, both mentors sacrifice their souls to let Takagi return to life.

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* SpiritAdvisor: When [[spoiler:When Takagi is killed by Gen-Gen, Jinrai's spirit convinces Tian-sheng to teach the hero about the Rising Dragon. After a duel between Takagi and Tian-sheng, both mentors sacrifice their souls to let Takagi return to life.]]



* TheWorfEffect: Out of all the characters, he arguably gets hit with this the worst, due to getting pushed around like he's nothing by the rest of the Great Tokyo Alliance and then held hostage by them.



* AmbiguouslyJewish: Aside from his first name and curly hair, he embodies other Jewish stereotypes by being [[JewishAndNerdy absurdly smart]], as well as carrying around an Israeli-made Jericho 941.

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* AmbiguouslyJewish: Aside from his first name and curly hair, he embodies other Jewish stereotypes by being [[JewishAndNerdy absurdly smart]], as well as carrying around an Israeli-made Jericho 941.941, which he is incredibly proud of.



* TrainingFromHell, He puts Takagi through this in order to learn the Divine Fist. First he starts out

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* TrainingFromHell, He puts Takagi through this in order to learn the Divine Fist. First he starts outmakes him run around on an incredibly uneven and bumpy flat of land, which he figures out by punching the ground to keep his momentum and prevent himself from falling over, and then, he makes him crack walnuts with one hand by punching a tree, and even then, once Takagi figures out how to break the walnuts, he has to knock over the tree itself, which he then figures out by crushing the walnuts the exact moment he hits the tree itself.

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* HeroicBastard: In the final saga, Takagi is said to be the son of Prime Minister Gonosuke, who kidnapped and raped Yukiko, the wife of Jindo Tenba, until she was driven to madness. The last few chapters reveal Jindo lied about the rape part to get Takagi to hate his father, and that Gonosuke and Yukiko loved each other but both them and Jindo ended up as broken people thanks to their tragic circumstances.

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* HeroicBastard: In [[spoiler:In the final saga, Takagi is said to be the son of Prime Minister Gonosuke, who kidnapped and raped Yukiko, the wife of Jindo Tenba, until she was driven to madness. The last few chapters reveal Jindo lied about the rape part to get Takagi to hate his father, and that Gonosuke and Yukiko loved each other but both them and Jindo ended up as broken people thanks to their tragic circumstances.]]



A politician who wants to sink Japan into hell by all means necessary after obtaining the huge stash of drugs connected to the Rising Dragon scrolls.

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A politician who sociopathic gang leader whose the son of Gonosuke Akamatsu, that wants to sink Japan into hell by all means necessary after obtaining the huge stash of drugs connected to the Rising Dragon scrolls.



A corrupt Prime Minister who is Goki's father.

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A The corrupt Prime Minister of Japan who is Goki's father.



[[folder:Jindo Tenba]]

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[[folder:Jindo Tenba]]Tenba [[spoiler:Yoshitaka Takagi]]]]
A member of the Freedom Revolutionary Party, who has it out for Gonosuke Akamatsu, as well as a mysterious ally of Takagi and friends who seems to be more than meets the eye. [[spoiler:In actuality, he is Yoshitaka Takagi, Takagi's biological father, who is against



* TheAtoner: In the DistantFinale, Jindo reunites with Yukiko and opens an orphanage with her.
* EvilAllAlong: The final veredict on Takagi's past is that Gonosuke did not rape Yukiko but later stalked her into insanity and this drove Jindo mad with vengeance. Jindo hated the infant Takagi, left him to an orphanage and apparently manipulated the events of the series specifically to pit father and son against each other.
* GivenNameReveal: His true name is Yoshitaka Takagi.

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* TheAtoner: In [[spoiler:In the DistantFinale, Jindo reunites with Yukiko and opens an orphanage with her.
her, to make up for abandoning Takagi and using him as a weapon of vengeance.]]
* EvilAllAlong: The [[spoiler:The final veredict on Takagi's past is that Gonosuke did not rape Yukiko but later stalked her into insanity and this drove Jindo mad with vengeance. Jindo hated the infant Takagi, left him to an orphanage and apparently manipulated the events of the series specifically to pit father and son against each other.
other.]]
* GivenNameReveal: His [[spoiler:His true name is Yoshitaka Takagi.]]


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* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:Deconstructed. His motivation is genuinely sympathetic, as Gonosuke Akamatsu is by all means, an awful person, but it's then revealed that the suffering he went through arguably outweighs Yoshitaka's own, and all Gonosuke Akamatsu truly did to him was accidentally drive his wife, Yukiko, crazy due to the stress of the affair they were having with each other behind his back, and that Gonosuke and Yukiko genuinely had feelings for each other as their relationship was completely consensual, and he is called out on this in the narrative, yet is also forgiven by Takagi due to all the different people he met and discovering his purpose in life because he was abandoned and secretly groomed as a tool of vengeance against Gonosuke Akamatsu.]]

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* AmbiguouslyJewish: Aside from his first name and curly hair, he embodies other Jewish stereotypes by being [[JewishAndNerdy absurdly smart]].

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* AmbiguouslyJewish: Aside from his first name and curly hair, he embodies other Jewish stereotypes by being [[JewishAndNerdy absurdly smart]].smart]], as well as carrying around an Israeli-made Jericho 941.


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* SignatureWeapon: His Jericho 941.
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* HeroicSacrifice: He sacrifices himself by detonating a grenade on a squad of yakuza while his friends escape.

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* HeroicSacrifice: He [[spoiler:He sacrifices himself by detonating a grenade on a squad of yakuza while his friends escape.]]



* CombatPragmatist: He fights Takagi while wielding a chinese broadsword, and later uses two of them, and he even has his younger brother Boku activate his club's stereo system to have it play music at harmful volumes, forcing Takagi to cover his ears, leaving him defensless.

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* CombatPragmatist: He fights Takagi while wielding a chinese broadsword, while the latter is unarmed, and later even uses two of them, and he even later on. He also has his younger brother Boku activate his club's stereo system to have it play music at harmful volumes, forcing Takagi to cover his ears, leaving him defensless.

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The captain of the Kanto Union. He is famed for his unprecedented strength, which allowed him to singlehandedly defeat all of the delinquents from all prefectures in the Kanto region, and bring peace to it, although he has fallen from his strength, but not in his spirit, due to getting cancer.



* HeroOfAnotherStory: He is responsible for uniting the Kanto region, mainly by going on an epic adventure where he fought ''all'' of the delinquents from every prefecture, and put them all in their place, all by himself.
* HowTheMightyHaveFallen: He's stated to have legendary, god-like strength, enough for him to singlehandedly defeat all of the delinquents from all of the prefectures in the entire Kanto region, but his cancer has reduced him to a shadow of himself, at least in terms of strength and fighting ability.



The Prince of Kanagawa.

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The Prince of Kanagawa.Kanagawa, as well as the leader of the Kanagawa Union.



* AlliterativeName: '''K''oichi '''K'''imura.

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* AlliterativeName: '''K''oichi '''K'''oichi '''K'''imura.



The youngest of the Huang brothers, and the only one of them to be evil, as well as the inventor of the Wicked Fist, a martial art he taught to Keiji Gaoh, Ton-Ton, and Gen-Gen

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The youngest of the Huang brothers, and the only one of them to be evil, as well as the inventor of the Wicked Fist, a martial art he taught to Keiji Gaoh, Ton-Ton, and Gen-GenGen-Gen.



* BewareTheSillyOnes: He and Gen-Gen have silly names, comically ugly appearances, and speak with stereotypically broken grammar, but easily defeat the three fighters who were protecting the Rising Dragon scrolls. They are portrayed as being so, ''so'' strong that the previous ArcVillain Seiichi means nothing to them. Takagi has to acquire the Rising Dragon technique to even dare to challenge the duo.



* {{Gonk}}: He looks like a goblin or a sphynx cat.

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* {{Gonk}}: He Not as much as Ton-Ton, but he's still incredibly weird and unattractive looking, as he has a face that looks like a goblin or a sphynx cat.



* HateSink: He's a cartoonishly evil [[TheAggressiveDrugDealer drug dealer]] who has no qualms about using his heavily armed forces to murder any of the teenage delinquent cast or cause unrelated casualties. He's eventually killed in a gruesome way and Takagi is practically thankful for it.

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* HateSink: He's a cartoonishly evil [[TheAggressiveDrugDealer drug dealer]] who has no qualms about using his heavily armed forces to murder any of the teenage delinquent cast or cause unrelated casualties. He's [[spoiler:He's eventually killed in a gruesome way and Takagi is practically thankful for it.]]



The father of Liu-yung, Chen-chen, and An-hai Huang, as well as their master.



* TheAtoner: In the DistantFinale, he calms down and goes back to Tibet to work on it becoming an independent nation from China.
* BornWinner: Goki brags about having been born to a powerful family and was raised with all good things in life simply granted to him. He also despises anyone who is hard-working. However, the ending reveals him to be a BrokenAce who was never loved by his parents no matter what he achieved.
* CainAndAbel: He sees his half-brother Takagi as his equal in fighting and hates him for having a better upbringing than himself.

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* TheAtoner: In [[spoiler:In the DistantFinale, he calms down and goes back to Tibet to work on it becoming an independent nation from China.
China.]]
* BaldHeadOfToughness[=/=]BaldMystic:[[spoiler:He's shaved his head bald as part of his training as a Tibetan monk, and has gained mystical powers and become even stronger than he already was.]]
* BornWinner: Goki brags about having been born to a powerful family and was raised with all good things in life simply granted to him. He also despises anyone who is hard-working. However, [[spoiler:However, the ending reveals him to be a BrokenAce who was never loved by his parents no matter what he achieved.
achieved.]]
* CainAndAbel: He [[spoiler:He sees his half-brother Takagi as his equal in fighting and hates him for having a better upbringing than himself.]]



* LukeIAmYourFather: After researching Takagi's background, Goki realizes they are half-brothers.
* HateSink: He wants Japan corrupted to the core, drops napalm bombs on a island of prisoners that Takagi was trying to evacuate and attempts to cripple all of Takagi's old allies, inflicting some of them with drug addictions and permanent injuries. However, the story turns this around by the end, revealing him and his father to be utterly broken men whom Takagi should ultimately forgive.
* HumiliationConga: Even though Goki is able to beat Takagi to a pulp in the final battle, he ends up killing his own father by accident and then his body breaks down by itself due to being too used to the harsh cold and low oxygen he endured at Tibet. Morigami even points the irony of Goki's own hard work leading to his downfall. Takagi doesn't want to harm his half-brother at that point, but is forced to strike him with a painful string of the Fa Jin, Universal Light and Rising Dragon punches that leaves him buried under rubble.
* MakeWayForTheNewVillains: Minutes after Takagi beats Gen-Gen, this guy shows up from out of left field and turns both Shuzo and An-hai into paste before kicking Takagi into next tuesday and getting all the good guys arrested.
* MyKungFuIsStrongerThanYours: The moment Koichi gets out of drug rehabilitation with neat God-like powers, it's just to job against this guy who claims to have had an worse experience training on the mountains.

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* LukeIAmYourFather: After [[spoiler:After researching Takagi's background, Goki realizes they are half-brothers.
half-brothers.]]
* HateSink: He wants Japan corrupted to the core, drops napalm bombs on a island of prisoners that Takagi was trying to evacuate and attempts to cripple all of Takagi's old allies, inflicting some of them with drug addictions and permanent injuries. However, [[spoiler:However, the story turns this around by the end, revealing him and his father to be utterly broken men whom Takagi should ultimately forgive.
forgive.]]
* HumiliationConga: Even [[spoiler:Even though Goki is able to beat Takagi to a pulp in the final battle, he ends up killing his own father by accident and then his body breaks down by itself due to being too used to the harsh cold and low oxygen he endured at Tibet. Morigami even points the irony of Goki's own hard work leading to his downfall. Takagi doesn't want to harm his half-brother at that point, but is forced to strike him with a painful string of the Fa Jin, Universal Light and Rising Dragon punches that leaves him buried under rubble. \n]]
* MakeWayForTheNewVillains: Minutes [[spoiler:Minutes after Takagi beats Gen-Gen, this guy shows up from out of left field and turns both Shuzo and An-hai into paste before kicking Takagi into next tuesday and getting all the good guys arrested.
arrested.]]
* MyKungFuIsStrongerThanYours: The [[spoiler:The moment Koichi gets out of drug rehabilitation with neat God-like powers, it's just to job against this guy who claims to have had an worse experience training on the mountains.]]



* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: The story insinuates Goki has raped Momochiyo for some time after drugging her, making him seem utterly unredeemable. However, this plot point is glossed over and Momochiyo later briefly states that Goki actually didn't have it in him to rape her and didn't care if she was faking being brainwashed by the drug injections she had.
* TrainingFromHell: After being defeated by Takagi, Shigeru travels to Tibet to train in the harsh and freezingly cold mountains. He returns as an incredibly powerful monk with supernatural powers.
* UseYourHead: When Goki's arms are disabled from blocking a maxed-out Rising Dragon, he can still instantly kill people by headbutting them like a maniac. Takagi overcomes this with Arithmetics: if the hero breaks his own goddamn arms to crack Goki's skull, then he's the one left with the ability to use headbutts in the end.
* VillainousBreakdown: After accidentally killing his own father, Goki falls into despair and throws punches around wildly until Takagi throughly beats him to the ground.

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* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: The [[spoiler:The story insinuates Goki Gouki has raped Momochiyo for some time after drugging her, making him seem utterly unredeemable. However, this plot point is glossed over and Momochiyo later briefly states that Goki actually didn't have it in him to rape her and didn't care if she was faking being brainwashed by the drug injections she had.
had.]]
* TrainingFromHell: After being defeated by Takagi, Shigeru Gouki travels to Tibet to train in the harsh and freezingly cold mountains. He [[spoiler:He returns as an incredibly powerful monk with supernatural powers.
powers.]]
* UseYourHead: When Goki's [[spoiler:When Gouki's arms are disabled from blocking a maxed-out Rising Dragon, he can still instantly kill people by headbutting them like a maniac. Takagi overcomes this with Arithmetics: if the hero breaks his own goddamn arms to crack Goki's skull, then he's the one left with the ability to use headbutts in the end.
end.]]
* VillainousBreakdown: After [[spoiler:After accidentally killing his own father, Goki falls into despair and throws punches around wildly until Takagi throughly beats him to the ground.]]



* DarkAndTroubledPast: Upon being cornered by Takagi and Morigami, Gonosuke goes on a rant about the miserable life he's had to get to where he is. A disgusted Takagi [[NoSympathy just wonders out loud]] if raping his mother was hard work, though it is later revealed that the villain didn't stoop that low.
* HeroicSacrifice: He takes a mortal blow from Goki to keep his sons from fighting each other, [[RedemptionEqualsDeath earning Takagi's forgiveness]] due to this.
* LukeIAmYourFather: Takagi is his bastard son.

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* DarkAndTroubledPast: Upon being cornered by Takagi and Morigami, Gonosuke goes on a rant about the miserable life he's had to get to where he is. A disgusted Takagi [[NoSympathy just wonders out loud]] if raping his mother was hard work, though [[spoiler:though it is later revealed that the villain didn't stoop that low.
low.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: He [[spoiler:He takes a mortal blow from Goki to keep his sons from fighting each other, [[RedemptionEqualsDeath earning Takagi's forgiveness]] due to this.
this.]]
* LukeIAmYourFather: Takagi [[spoiler:Takagi is his bastard son.]]



* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Jindo claims that Gonosuke has a fetish for randomly kidnapping women and raping them after beating them into submission. However, this is revealed to be a lie to make Takagi believe he's a ChildOfRape and hate his father over it.
* TragicVillain: In the end, he was an unfortunate soldier who commited numerous sins as he clawed his way to the top but never achieved any happiness and ended up ruining the lives of both the woman he actually loved and his first-born son.

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* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Jindo claims that Gonosuke has a fetish for randomly kidnapping women and raping them after beating them into submission. However, [[spoiler:However, this is revealed to be a lie to make Takagi believe he's a ChildOfRape and hate his father over it.
it.]]
* TragicVillain: In [[spoiler:In the end, he was an unfortunate soldier who commited numerous sins as he clawed his way to the top but never achieved any happiness and ended up ruining the lives of both the woman he actually loved and his first-born son.]]

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