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[[folder:Makoto Ando]]
The captain of the Boxing Club. He initially appears as an antagonist to Takagi, defeating him in their first fight, allowing his club to take over the school's social hierarchy, but winds up getting defeated. After this, he continues to appear, either as an enemy or an ally.
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* {{Catchphrase}}: The word "Youth" itself is this for him as he mentions it in nearly every sentence he speaks.
* CloudCuckoolander: From the way he dresses to his obsession over youth, he is an incredibly eccentric man.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Parodied. Him merely '''attacking''' Takagi caused the latter to be sent into a berserker state, which caused him to easily beat up Gantetsu.
* TookALevelInKindness: He mellows out in his later appearances and his tendency to put the Karate Club members through TrainingFromHell is no longer mentioned.
* SadistTeacher: He made Matsuhita and Saitou do stretches over a bunch of thumb tacks for
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[[folder:Makoto Ando]]
The captain of the Boxing Club. He initially appears as an antagonist to Takagi, defeating him in their first fight, allowing his club to take over the school's social hierarchy, but winds up getting defeated. After this, he continues to appear, either as an enemy or an ally.
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* CloudCuckoolander: From the way he dresses to his obsession over youth, he is an incredibly eccentric man.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Parodied. Him merely '''attacking''' Takagi caused the latter to be sent into a berserker state, which caused him to easily beat up Gantetsu.
* TookALevelInKindness: He mellows out in his later appearances and his tendency to put the Karate Club members through TrainingFromHell is no longer mentioned.
* SadistTeacher: He made Matsuhita and Saitou do stretches over a bunch of thumb tacks for
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[[folder:Makoto Ando]]
The captain of the Boxing Club. He initially appears as an antagonist to Takagi, defeating him in their first fight, allowing his club to take over the school's social hierarchy, but winds up getting defeated. After this, he continues to appear, either as an enemy or an ally.
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The four strongest combatants in the Shikoku Alliance aside from Isao Jinrai himself. They are Takanuki Katsumi of the Tokushima Prefecture, who wields a strange combination beteween a flail, a staff, and a chain (which he upgrades to a three-sectioned staff version of it), Nakai Toru of the Kagawa Prefecture, who wields a claw (he later upgrades it by equipping another claw), Tanaka Hiroyuki of the Ehime Prefecture, who wields a large wooden mallet (later upgrading to a flail), and Asakura Atsushi of the Kochi Prefecture, who wields a dagger (which he upgrades into a dual-bladed version of it (think [[Film/ThePhantomMenace Darth Maul's]] double-bladed lightsaber) with longer blades.)
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The four strongest combatants in the Shikoku Alliance aside from Isao Jinrai himself. They are Takanuki Katsumi of the Tokushima Prefecture, who wields a strange combination beteween a flail, a staff, and a chain (which he upgrades to a three-sectioned staff version of it), Nakai Toru of the Kagawa Prefecture, who wields a claw (he later upgrades it by equipping another claw), Tanaka Hiroyuki of the Ehime Prefecture, who wields a large wooden mallet (later upgrading to a flail), mace), and Asakura Atsushi of the Kochi Prefecture, who wields a dagger (which he upgrades into a dual-bladed version of it (think [[Film/ThePhantomMenace Darth Maul's]] double-bladed lightsaber) with longer blades.)
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* SuperMode: They do a more mundane version of this trope by releasing their true power, which Jinrai somehow suppressed, and also equipping more deadly versions of their signature weapons, Takagi even notes that they're a lot faster in this state, and they actually give him a hard time, although they do continue ganging up on him like before.
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* FatBastard: Takanuki and Tanaka, but don't let the latter hear that.
* SuperMode: They do a more mundane version of this trope by releasing their truepower, power which Jinrai somehow suppressed, and also as well as equipping more deadly versions of their signature weapons, Takagi even notes that they're a lot faster in this state, and they actually manage to collectively give him a hard time, although they do continue ganging up on him like before.at least until he whips out the Fa-jin.
* SuperMode: They do a more mundane version of this trope by releasing their true
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* AllForNothing: He trained valiantly in the time between his first appearance and his reappearance in the tournament to decide the Fourth Soul of Osaka, yet he winds up getting defeated by Takagi, even more effortlessly than last time.
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* AllForNothing: He trained valiantly in the time between his first appearance and his reappearance in the tournament to decide the Fourth Soul of Osaka, yet he winds up getting defeated by Takagi, even more effortlessly than Takagi without any difficulty whatsoever, while the last time.time they faced, Takagi struggled due to having the Mumps but was able to beat him anyways.
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[[folder:Kitamura Takeshi]]
The captain of Shinobugaoka Academy's Sumo Club, and an enemy of Kansai Fifth Technical High as a whole. He once kidnapped Matsuhita and Saitou to get Takagi to fight him so that he and Shinobugaoka Academy could get authority of KFTH, but was defeated by Takagi even though the latter was weakened by having the Mumps. He later reappeared as one of the candidates for the Fourth Soul of Osaka, and even managed to make it to the tournament, but was trounced yet again by Takagi.
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* AllForNothing: He trained valiantly in the time between his first appearance and his reappearance in the tournament to decide the Fourth Soul of Osaka, yet he winds up getting defeated by Takagi, even more effortlessly than last time.
* ButtMonkey: He has ''never'' won a fight on-screen.
* FatBastard: PlayedWith. He '''is''' an asshole and a villain, but the fat part merely comes from him being a Sumo Wrestler, and having the StoutStrength build one would expect from it.
* FoeTossingCharge: His favorite move is to try and charge into his enemies.
* StoutStrength: He's a strong, hefty fella, although his strength doesn't do him any good as he frequently finds himself being defeated all the time.
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[[folder:Kitamura Takeshi]]
The captain of Shinobugaoka Academy's Sumo Club, and an enemy of Kansai Fifth Technical High as a whole. He once kidnapped Matsuhita and Saitou to get Takagi to fight him so that he and Shinobugaoka Academy could get authority of KFTH, but was defeated by Takagi even though the latter was weakened by having the Mumps. He later reappeared as one of the candidates for the Fourth Soul of Osaka, and even managed to make it to the tournament, but was trounced yet again by Takagi.
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* AllForNothing: He trained valiantly in the time between his first appearance and his reappearance in the tournament to decide the Fourth Soul of Osaka, yet he winds up getting defeated by Takagi, even more effortlessly than last time.
* ButtMonkey: He has ''never'' won a fight on-screen.
* FatBastard: PlayedWith. He '''is''' an asshole and a villain, but the fat part merely comes from him being a Sumo Wrestler, and having the StoutStrength build one would expect from it.
* FoeTossingCharge: His favorite move is to try and charge into his enemies.
* StoutStrength: He's a strong, hefty fella, although his strength doesn't do him any good as he frequently finds himself being defeated all the time.
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[[folder:Andou Hiroaki]]
The captain of the Boxing Club. He initially appears as an antagonist to Takagi, defeating him in their first fight, allowing his club to take over the school's social hierarchy, but winds up getting defeated. After this, he continues to appear, either as an enemy or an ally.
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* AscendedExtra: He gets to be one of the palyable characters in the SNES fighting game.
* BigOlEyebrows: His eyebrows are even more impressive than Takagi's and that's saying something, because the latter's already got quite the impressive pair of eyebrows himself!
* BoxingBattler: Duh.
* DelinquentHair: One of his most notable features is his Punch Perm haircut.
* ExtremityExtremist: He only uses his fists to fight, although this is justified due to him being a boxer and all.
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: His relationship with Takagi tends to switch from friendly to antagonistic a whole lot.
* LightningBruiser: He is a very fast fighter due to using boxing as his fighting style of choice.
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The captain of the Boxing Club. He initially appears as an antagonist to Takagi, defeating him in their first fight, allowing his club to take over the school's social hierarchy, but winds up getting defeated. After this, he continues to appear, either as an enemy or an ally.
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* AscendedExtra: He gets to be one of the palyable characters in the SNES fighting game.
* BigOlEyebrows: His eyebrows are even more impressive than Takagi's and that's saying something, because the latter's already got quite the impressive pair of eyebrows himself!
* BoxingBattler: Duh.
* DelinquentHair: One of his most notable features is his Punch Perm haircut.
* ExtremityExtremist: He only uses his fists to fight, although this is justified due to him being a boxer and all.
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: His relationship with Takagi tends to switch from friendly to antagonistic a whole lot.
* LightningBruiser: He is a very fast fighter due to using boxing as his fighting style of choice.
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** TheBusCameBack: The two reappear after Takagi defeats the Great Tokyo Alliance captains, alongside Momochiyo.
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* GoodScarsEvilScars: Has a slash scar over the right side of his face, compared to Jinrai's acidic burn one over his right.
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* GoodScarsEvilScars: Has a slash scar over the right side of his face, compared to Jinrai's acidic burn one over his right.left.
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[[folder:Liu-yun]]
The master of Ryuuryuu and Koryuu. Aside from teaching Tai Chi Chuan to those two, he also taught it to Isao Jinrai and later Takagi, and winds up bestowing the secret of the Fa jin upon Takagi.
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* AscendedExtra: He's a playable character in the SNES fighting game.
* EyesAlwaysShut: He pretty much opens his eyes only once.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Downplayed. His role of teaching Takagi the Fa jin so that he's able to defeat Isao Jinrai is a pretty big role all things considered, but he stops being relevant tot he story outside of a flashback during Takagi's battle with Sato Souji.
* PerpetualSmiler: Like how his eyes rarely open, he also doesn't frown that much, and his standard expression is a smile.
* OldMaster: He's a Tai Chi Chuan master.
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The master of Ryuuryuu and Koryuu. Aside from teaching Tai Chi Chuan to those two, he also taught it to Isao Jinrai and later Takagi, and winds up bestowing the secret of the Fa jin upon Takagi.
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* AscendedExtra: He's a playable character in the SNES fighting game.
* EyesAlwaysShut: He pretty much opens his eyes only once.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Downplayed. His role of teaching Takagi the Fa jin so that he's able to defeat Isao Jinrai is a pretty big role all things considered, but he stops being relevant tot he story outside of a flashback during Takagi's battle with Sato Souji.
* PerpetualSmiler: Like how his eyes rarely open, he also doesn't frown that much, and his standard expression is a smile.
* OldMaster: He's a Tai Chi Chuan master.
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The four strongest combatants in the Shikoku Alliance aside from Isao Jinrai himself. They are Takanuki Katsumi of the Tokushima Prefecture, who wields a strange combination beteween a flail, a staff, and a chain (which he upgrades to a three-sectioned staff version of it), Nakai Toru of the Kagawa Prefecture, who wields a claw (he later upgrades it by equipping another claw), Tanaka Hiroyuki of the Ehime Prefecture, who wields a large wooden mallet (later upgrading to a flail), and Asakura Atsushi of the Kochi Prefecture, who wields a dagger (which he upgrades into a dual-bladed version of it (think [[Film/The Phantom Menace Darth Maul's]] double-bladed lightsaber) with longer blades.)
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The four strongest combatants in the Shikoku Alliance aside from Isao Jinrai himself. They are Takanuki Katsumi of the Tokushima Prefecture, who wields a strange combination beteween a flail, a staff, and a chain (which he upgrades to a three-sectioned staff version of it), Nakai Toru of the Kagawa Prefecture, who wields a claw (he later upgrades it by equipping another claw), Tanaka Hiroyuki of the Ehime Prefecture, who wields a large wooden mallet (later upgrading to a flail), and Asakura Atsushi of the Kochi Prefecture, who wields a dagger (which he upgrades into a dual-bladed version of it (think [[Film/The Phantom Menace [[Film/ThePhantomMenace Darth Maul's]] double-bladed lightsaber) with longer blades.)
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[[folder:Zaoh Rikizan]]
The captain of the Mino Kumayama High School Judo Club, also known as the Bear of Mino. His fighting style is Judo, obviously, and he is blessed with having an absolutely titanic body, although he is a gentle and kind person.
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* BerserkButton: Don't call Tanaka Hiroyuki a pig if you don't want him to beat you up.
* EliteFour: They're the four strongest combatants in the Shikoku Alliance.
* SuperMode: They do a more mundane version of this trope by releasing their true power, which Jinrai somehow suppressed, and also equipping more deadly versions of their signature weapons, Takagi even notes that they're a lot faster in this state, and they actually give him a hard time, although they do continue ganging up on him like before.
* WolfpackBoss: They all end up fighting Takagi at the same time before he's able to fight Jinrai.
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[[folder:Zaoh Rikizan]]
The captain of the Mino Kumayama High School Judo Club, also known as the Bear of Mino. His fighting style is Judo, obviously, and he is blessed with having an absolutely titanic body, although he is a gentle and kind person.
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* EliteFour: They're the four strongest combatants in the Shikoku Alliance.
* SuperMode: They do a more mundane version of this trope by releasing their true power, which Jinrai somehow suppressed, and also equipping more deadly versions of their signature weapons, Takagi even notes that they're a lot faster in this state, and they actually give him a hard time, although they do continue ganging up on him like before.
* WolfpackBoss: They all end up fighting Takagi at the same time before he's able to fight Jinrai.
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[[folder:Zaoh Rikizan]]
The captain of the Mino Kumayama High School Judo Club, also known as the Bear of Mino. His fighting style is Judo, obviously, and he is blessed with having an absolutely titanic body, although he is a gentle and kind person.
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* CombatParkour: His brawling fighting style incorporates flips and jumps, giving him a superior degree of mobility to other fighters.
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* HiddenEyes: His eyes are portrayed as two shadowy lines, giving him a very sinister appearance.
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[[folder:Shinozuki Katsuo]]
The Captain of the Yao Higashimachi Technical High School's Cheering Squad. He's notable for his aviator shades and light-colored hair, presumably dyed blond.
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* BadGuysPlayPool: He's a sinister individual who's okay with using a sword on an unarmed opponent and at one point, he is shown playing pool.
* CombatPragmatist: He wields a Katana against the unarmed Sakuma Jujiro.
* DisproportionateRetribution: He brutally beats up a guy for bumping into him while playing pool
* SunglassesAtNight: He's never seen without his trademark pair of sunglasses and wears them at all times.
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[[folder:Imura Toru]]
The Muay Thai Warrior of Benten-cho Nakadai Academy. As his title indicates, he is a practitioner of Muay Thai. He fights Asao Sagawa in the tournament to declare the Fourth Soul of Osaka,
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* BadassBoast: He claims that his kicks travel at the speed of light and have the force of steel, and that there's no way to guard against them.
* BaldOfEvil: He doesn't have a single hair on his head aside from his eyebrows.
* ExtremityExtremist: He fights using only kicks and knee strikes.
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[[folder:Oki Naoji]]
The Caltrop Devil of Kishiwada South Agricultural High School. His gimmick is that the fingerless gloves he wears have very hard studs on them, which he refers to as caltrops. These severely enhance the strength of his punches to the point where he can crack concrete with them. Unlike the other candidates for the Fourth Soul of Osaka, he winds up being defeated by Takagi before the battle can even be started.
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* CurbstompBattle: Downplayed. He manages to get at least one hit on Takagi, but get's defeated in just three hit's by Takagi.
* DelinquentHair: He styles his hair into a rooster-like crest of a Mohawk.
* VeryPunchableMan: This guy is obnoxiously violent and egocentrical to the point where it just makes him completely hateable, and it doesn't help that he's depicted as beating up the already injured Jujiro and Rikizan after he defeated them.
* VillainousBreakdown: He winds up freaking out when Takagi tanks his punches.
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[[folder:Shinozuki Katsuo]]
The Captain of the Yao Higashimachi Technical High School's Cheering Squad. He's notable for his aviator shades and light-colored hair, presumably dyed blond.
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* BadGuysPlayPool: He's a sinister individual who's okay with using a sword on an unarmed opponent and at one point, he is shown playing pool.
* CombatPragmatist: He wields a Katana against the unarmed Sakuma Jujiro.
* DisproportionateRetribution: He brutally beats up a guy for bumping into him while playing pool
* SunglassesAtNight: He's never seen without his trademark pair of sunglasses and wears them at all times.
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[[folder:Imura Toru]]
The Muay Thai Warrior of Benten-cho Nakadai Academy. As his title indicates, he is a practitioner of Muay Thai. He fights Asao Sagawa in the tournament to declare the Fourth Soul of Osaka,
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* BadassBoast: He claims that his kicks travel at the speed of light and have the force of steel, and that there's no way to guard against them.
* BaldOfEvil: He doesn't have a single hair on his head aside from his eyebrows.
* ExtremityExtremist: He fights using only kicks and knee strikes.
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[[folder:Oki Naoji]]
The Caltrop Devil of Kishiwada South Agricultural High School. His gimmick is that the fingerless gloves he wears have very hard studs on them, which he refers to as caltrops. These severely enhance the strength of his punches to the point where he can crack concrete with them. Unlike the other candidates for the Fourth Soul of Osaka, he winds up being defeated by Takagi before the battle can even be started.
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* CurbstompBattle: Downplayed. He manages to get at least one hit on Takagi, but get's defeated in just three hit's by Takagi.
* DelinquentHair: He styles his hair into a rooster-like crest of a Mohawk.
* VeryPunchableMan: This guy is obnoxiously violent and egocentrical to the point where it just makes him completely hateable, and it doesn't help that he's depicted as beating up the already injured Jujiro and Rikizan after he defeated them.
* VillainousBreakdown: He winds up freaking out when Takagi tanks his punches.
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* HeartbrokenBadass: His first girlfriend Yuuko was raped and then accidentally killed by being dropped [[LookBothWays on the middle of the road]] while in shock, just for knowing him. Asuka initially couldn't confront Takagi over Yuuko's murder when she saw such a hardened delinquent like him driven to BrokenTears. Her sister Megumi then also gets StuffedInTheFridge in the exact same circunstances for trying to help Takagi after he was starting to warm up to her, leading to him beating the one responsible half-dead and not daring to defend himself when Asuka later does take a misplaced revenge on him for their deaths.
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* HeartbrokenBadass: His first girlfriend Yuuko was raped and then accidentally killed by being dropped [[LookBothWays on the middle of the road]] while in shock, just for knowing him. Asuka initially couldn't confront Takagi over Yuuko's murder when she saw such a hardened delinquent like him driven to BrokenTears. Her sister Megumi then also gets StuffedInTheFridge killed in the exact same circunstances for trying to help Takagi after he was starting to warm up to her, leading to him beating the one responsible half-dead and not daring to defend himself when Asuka later does take a misplaced revenge on him for their deaths.
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* StayInTheKitchen: He views women as fragile beings who must be protected by men and tries to prevent them from getting involved in the delinquent gang culture. The two girls he was in love with being StuffedInTheFridge because of that doesn't help matters. Even so, Momochiyo is the first person who we see him actually teaching self-defense to in the story.
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* StayInTheKitchen: He views women as fragile beings who must be protected by men and tries to prevent them from getting involved in the delinquent gang culture. The two girls he was in love with being StuffedInTheFridge killed because of that doesn't help matters. Even so, Momochiyo is the first person who we see him actually teaching self-defense to in the story.
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* BadassMustache: Adding to his unruly student appearance. The farther the series goes, the thicker it gets.
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[[folder:Sotogawa Tetsuya]]
The Captain of Imamiya University Affilated High's Amateur Wrestling Club, and a candidate for the Fourth Soul of Osaka. He fights using Pro Wrestling moves and holds, such as dropkicks, suplexes, and armbars.
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* BadassInANiceSuit: He stands out among the other Candidates for the Fourth Soul of Osaka in that his school uniform's a suit, rather than the Gakuran that every other candidate's wear.
* {{Irony}}: Attempts to invoke this trope by defeating Zaoh with an Armbar, a move that originated from Judo. [[spoiler:This amusingly ends up turning on him when Zaoh lifts him up, slams him against the wall while he's still in armbar position, and proceeds to instantly break Tetsuya's arm with his own armbar.]]
* PintsizedPowerhouse: He's very short, but also has an incredibly muscular body and can lift and throw around people many times his size. He even winds up facing the gigantic Zaoh Rikizan in the battle to decide the Fourth Soul of Osaka and winds up smacking him around for a while.
* SuplexFinisher: His fighting prowess is displayed by him instantly defeating a GiantMook with a German Suplex.
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[[folder:Sotogawa Tetsuya]]
The Captain of Imamiya University Affilated High's Amateur Wrestling Club, and a candidate for the Fourth Soul of Osaka. He fights using Pro Wrestling moves and holds, such as dropkicks, suplexes, and armbars.
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* BadassInANiceSuit: He stands out among the other Candidates for the Fourth Soul of Osaka in that his school uniform's a suit, rather than the Gakuran that every other candidate's wear.
* {{Irony}}: Attempts to invoke this trope by defeating Zaoh with an Armbar, a move that originated from Judo. [[spoiler:This amusingly ends up turning on him when Zaoh lifts him up, slams him against the wall while he's still in armbar position, and proceeds to instantly break Tetsuya's arm with his own armbar.]]
* PintsizedPowerhouse: He's very short, but also has an incredibly muscular body and can lift and throw around people many times his size. He even winds up facing the gigantic Zaoh Rikizan in the battle to decide the Fourth Soul of Osaka and winds up smacking him around for a while.
* SuplexFinisher: His fighting prowess is displayed by him instantly defeating a GiantMook with a German Suplex.
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[[folder:Zaoh Rikizan]]
The captain of the Mino Kumayama High School Judo Club, also known as the Bear of Mino. His fighting style is Judo, obviously, and he is blessed with having an absolutely titanic body, although he is a gentle and kind person.
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* TheBigGuy: Joins Takagi's side in The Battle For Osaka.
* CharacterTics: He tends to raise an eyebrow, that, combined with his smile, makes him look like he's making the DreamWorksFace before it was even a thing.
* GentleGiant: He's EXTREMELY tall, yet also a friendly and altruistic man who's introduced as helping Takagi save a little girl from a fire.
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: [[spoiler:He was initially known as the Devil Bear of Mino due to his violent and cruel nature, but repented after Jinrai saved him from getting beaten to death by the many people he terrorized, and then he faces off Takagi because of loyalty to Jinrai, and winds up rejoining Takagi's side alongside the rest of the candidates for the Fourth Soul of Osaka to fight against the forces of Jinrai.]]
* UsefulNotes/{{Judo}}: His fighting style, although he's more than willing to use his massive strength to hit and crush his opponents.
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[[folder:Sakuma Jujiro]]
The Tenth-Rank Brawler of Thirteenth Northwest Highschool. He fights using an absolutely unpredictable form of brawling that involves the use of acrobatics, constant movement, and rapid dodging, as well as being able to do everything it takes to win a fight. Like Zaoh Rikizan, he's one of the few osakian delinquents to be on Takagi's side during The Battle for Osaka arc.
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* ConfusionFu: His fighting style's even described as being something that nobody can predict.
* DistinguishedGentlemansPipe: One of the most notable things about him is that he's usually seen smoking a Kiseru.
* GoodOldFisticuffs: He doesn't practice ''any'' martial art, and instead just uses his natural strength, agility, and experience in fighting to win.
* MulticoloredHair: The lower parts of his hair are a lighter color than his dark hair, suggesting he uses dye.
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[[folder:Zaoh Rikizan]]
The captain of the Mino Kumayama High School Judo Club, also known as the Bear of Mino. His fighting style is Judo, obviously, and he is blessed with having an absolutely titanic body, although he is a gentle and kind person.
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* TheBigGuy: Joins Takagi's side in The Battle For Osaka.
* CharacterTics: He tends to raise an eyebrow, that, combined with his smile, makes him look like he's making the DreamWorksFace before it was even a thing.
* GentleGiant: He's EXTREMELY tall, yet also a friendly and altruistic man who's introduced as helping Takagi save a little girl from a fire.
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: [[spoiler:He was initially known as the Devil Bear of Mino due to his violent and cruel nature, but repented after Jinrai saved him from getting beaten to death by the many people he terrorized, and then he faces off Takagi because of loyalty to Jinrai, and winds up rejoining Takagi's side alongside the rest of the candidates for the Fourth Soul of Osaka to fight against the forces of Jinrai.]]
* UsefulNotes/{{Judo}}: His fighting style, although he's more than willing to use his massive strength to hit and crush his opponents.
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[[folder:Sakuma Jujiro]]
The Tenth-Rank Brawler of Thirteenth Northwest Highschool. He fights using an absolutely unpredictable form of brawling that involves the use of acrobatics, constant movement, and rapid dodging, as well as being able to do everything it takes to win a fight. Like Zaoh Rikizan, he's one of the few osakian delinquents to be on Takagi's side during The Battle for Osaka arc.
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* ConfusionFu: His fighting style's even described as being something that nobody can predict.
* DistinguishedGentlemansPipe: One of the most notable things about him is that he's usually seen smoking a Kiseru.
* GoodOldFisticuffs: He doesn't practice ''any'' martial art, and instead just uses his natural strength, agility, and experience in fighting to win.
* MulticoloredHair: The lower parts of his hair are a lighter color than his dark hair, suggesting he uses dye.
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* BigOlEyebrows: He sports an impressive pair of eyebrows. They're especially noticable in flashbacks to when he was just a little kid, as they make up over half of his face.
* StoutStrength: He has a rounder face as well as a more stocky build compared to other characters, and is a strong fighter.
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The brutal Icy Wind Of Rokkou Mountain who challenged Takagi for supremacy over the Kansai area.
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The brutal Icy Wind Of Rokkou Mountain who challenged Takagi for supremacy over the Kansai area. His weapon of choice is a collar of praying beads made out of incredibly hard stones that he uses as a cross between a whip and a flail, as well as a defensive tool.
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* SinisterMinister: Sort of. He dresses up as a monk and wields a collar of prayer beads as a weapon.
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* SinisterMinister: Sort of. He dresses up as a monk and wields a collar of prayer beads as a weapon.weapon, but it isn't know if he's ''actually'' a monk and not just dressing up as one to go with his collar of praying beards, it doesn't help that he doesn't display any signs of religion aside from said outfit and prayer beads.
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The Black Devil of Kobe who faces Takagi at the climax of the Hanshin war.
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The Black Devil of Kobe who faces Takagi at the climax of the Hanshin war. The least gimmicky of the Three Pillars of Kobe, with his sole gimmick being he uses his incredible muscular control to flex and concentrate his muscles to defend himself against the attacks of his opponents.
* ParentalSubstitute: He's essentially one to Takagi, given that he took care of him when Takagi was just a child, as well as looking out for him and emotionally supporting him.
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* TheWorfEffect: He nearly gets beaten by Katsunari and Taro and forces Takagi to defeat him again to prove he can take on the Great Tokyo Alliance gangs alone.
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* TwoFaced: The acid burn he has on the side of his face gives him this look.
* TheWorfEffect: He nearly gets beaten by Katsunari andTaro Taro, and forces Takagi to defeat him again to prove he can take on the Great Tokyo Alliance gangs alone.
* TheWorfEffect: He nearly gets beaten by Katsunari and
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* StrongAndSkilled: He looks like a guy who relies exclusively on his great strength, but his gimmick actually revolves around his incredible muscle control, which allows him to flex and concentrate his muscles to effectively reduce the damage he would attack from his enemies attacks to nothing.
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* StrongAndSkilled: He looks like a guy who relies exclusively on his great strength, but his gimmick actually revolves around his incredible muscle control, which allows him to flex and concentrate his muscles to effectively reduce the damage he would attack take from his enemies attacks to nothing.
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* BaldOfEvil: He doesn't have a single hair on his head.
* BeardOfEvil: He also has a bushy looking beard.
* BigOlEyebrows: He sports an impressive pair of them.
* BeardOfEvil: He also has a bushy looking beard.
* BigOlEyebrows: He sports an impressive pair of them.
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* [[ChekhovsGunman Chekhov's Gunmen]]: They return in the Battle for Osaka arc to introduce Takagi to their master Liu-yun, who teaches Takagi various Tai Chi Chuan techniques, as well as the Fa jin.
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* StrongAndSkilled: He looks like a guy who relies exclusively on his great strength, but his gimmick actually revolves around his incredible muscle control, which allows him to flex and concentrate his muscles to effectively reduce the damage he would attack from his enemies attacks to nothing.
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* BreakoutCharacter: Takagi started out as the tritagonist after Matsushita and Saitou, but the series became more and more centered on him as his popularity grew until he became the protagonist and his underclassmen were DemotedToExtra.
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* BreakoutCharacter: Takagi started out as the tritagonist after Matsushita and Saitou, but the series became more and more centered on him as his popularity grew until he became the protagonist and his underclassmen were outright DemotedToExtra.
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* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Takagi is much more of a jerkass early on with his bullying of the Karate Club's underclassmen, which doesn't add up to how he's later established to have been TheParagon of Osaka since Morigami recruited him. He actually [[CheracterCheck lampshades]] this after defeating Jinrai, pointing out how much things have changed and asking if he can go back to torturing Matsushita and Saitou again.
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* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Takagi is much more of a jerkass early on with his bullying of the Karate Club's underclassmen, which doesn't add up to how he's later established to have been TheParagon of Osaka since Morigami recruited him. He actually [[CheracterCheck [[CharacterCheck lampshades]] this after defeating Jinrai, pointing out how much things have changed and asking if he can go back to torturing Matsushita and Saitou again.
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* BreakoutCharacter: Takagi started out as the tritagonist after Matsushita and Saitou, but the series became more and more centered on him as his popularity grew.
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* BreakoutCharacter: Takagi started out as the tritagonist after Matsushita and Saitou, but the series became more and more centered on him as his popularity grew.grew until he became the protagonist and his underclassmen were DemotedToExtra.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Takagi is much more of a jerkass early on with his bullying of the Karate Club's underclassmen, which doesn't add up to how he's later established to have been TheParagon of Osaka since Morigami recruited him. He actually [[CheracterCheck lampshades]] this after defeating Jinrai, pointing out how much things have changed and asking if he can go back to torturing Matsushita and Saitou again.
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* TheWorfBarrage: Takagi grazes and misses ''several'' Fa jin shots out of fear of killing anyone. This can come off as a rather [[IdiotBall unnecessary conflict]] because when he does land a blast head-on it still doesn't kill since it's not like he can't control its power output.
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* TheWorfBarrage: TheWorfBarrage:
** Takagi grazes and misses ''several'' Fa jin shots out of fear of killing anyone. This can come off as a rather [[IdiotBall unnecessary conflict]] because when he does land a blast head-on it still doesn't killsince because it's not like he can't control its power output.output.
** The Explosive Fa jin also gets thwarted by David Furuta and his Jericho 941 gun, averting the GunsAreWorthless trope.
** Takagi grazes and misses ''several'' Fa jin shots out of fear of killing anyone. This can come off as a rather [[IdiotBall unnecessary conflict]] because when he does land a blast head-on it still doesn't kill
** The Explosive Fa jin also gets thwarted by David Furuta and his Jericho 941 gun, averting the GunsAreWorthless trope.
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* SinisterMinister: Sort of. He dresses up as a monk and wields a collar of prayer beads as a weapon.
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* TwoferTokenMinority: He's the only black member of the Three Pillars of Kobe as well as the only one who isn't from Japan.
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* CombinationMove: Their Four Hands of Death Tiger Strike, which is them simultaneously striking with both fists.
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* CombinationMove: CombinationAttack: Their Four Hands of Death Tiger Strike, which is them simultaneously striking with both fists.
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* CombinationMove: Their Four Hands of Death Tiger Strike, which is them simultaneously striking with both fists.
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* SimpleYetAwesome: The aformentioned Four Hands of Death Tiger Strike. It's literally just them punching their opponents with both hands simultaneously, but it has a lot of power.
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* BerserkButton: Merely hearing the reputation of either the Karate Club or Kangokou High being challenged causes Takagi to recklessly take on challenges he would otherwise prefer to avoid. And people whom he's sworn to protect being threatened naturally nets a much more violent response from him.
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* BerserkButton: BerserkButton:
** Merely hearing the reputation of either the Karate Club or Kangokou High being challenged causes Takagi to recklessly take on challenges he would otherwise prefer to avoid. And people whom he's sworn to protect being threatened naturally nets a much more violent response from him.
** Once he sets his mind to it, Takagi will never back out of a fight no matter how injured he is and he gets real annoyed when his allies discourage him from doing so.
--->''(Marimo has been impaled by Boku [[TakingTheBullet to save Takagi]], and he promises to finish the fight for her)''
--->Otake: Takagi!! Don't push yourself! We'll take all the responsibility from here!
--->Takagi: *pulling Otake by his scarf* ''[[DontMakeMeDestroyYou I thought I told you to get back!]]''
--->Otake: [[OhCrap ......]]
** Merely hearing the reputation of either the Karate Club or Kangokou High being challenged causes Takagi to recklessly take on challenges he would otherwise prefer to avoid. And people whom he's sworn to protect being threatened naturally nets a much more violent response from him.
** Once he sets his mind to it, Takagi will never back out of a fight no matter how injured he is and he gets real annoyed when his allies discourage him from doing so.
--->''(Marimo has been impaled by Boku [[TakingTheBullet to save Takagi]], and he promises to finish the fight for her)''
--->Otake: Takagi!! Don't push yourself! We'll take all the responsibility from here!
--->Takagi: *pulling Otake by his scarf* ''[[DontMakeMeDestroyYou I thought I told you to get back!]]''
--->Otake: [[OhCrap ......]]
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* KiAttacks: The Fa Jin, which enpowers his punches with a deadly blast radius. The Super Famicom fighting game even portrays it as a Hadouken.
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* KiAttacks: The Fa Jin, jin, a Tai Chi technique which enpowers his punches with a deadly blast radius. The Super Famicom fighting game even portrays it as a Hadouken.
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* SignatureMove: The Five-hit Thrust he steals from Sagawa, as well as his version of the Fa Jin.
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* ThouShaltNotKill: Refuses to kill anyone and is discouraged by Liu-yun from using his advanced Fa Jin on people.
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* ThouShaltNotKill: Refuses He mostly refuses to kill anyone and is discouraged by Liu-yun from using his advanced Fa Jin jin on people.people, but if he's on his way to [[PayEvilUntoEvil avenge a murder]] then he simply tosses his code of honor outta the window. As he states when he avenges Megumi and later when he nearly kills Sayuri:
-->"Bitch, if saying "sorry" could resolve a murder... THEN WE WOULDN'T NEED THE POLICE!!"
-->"Bitch, if saying "sorry" could resolve a murder... THEN WE WOULDN'T NEED THE POLICE!!"
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* TheWorfBarrage: Takagi grazes and misses ''several'' Fa Jin shots out of fear of killing anyone. This can come off as a rather [[IdiotBall unnecessary conflict]] because when he does land a blast head-on it still doesn't kill since it's not like he can't control its power output.
* WouldntHitAGirl: Refuses to harm women even if they're out to kill him and if he invokes ExactWords on saying his ''fists'' aren't meant for that, he still does nothing but scare them off. However, he slams Sayuri on a wall and nearly crushes her head as revenge for her hiring Boku to assassinate Retsu.
* WouldntHitAGirl: Refuses to harm women even if they're out to kill him and if he invokes ExactWords on saying his ''fists'' aren't meant for that, he still does nothing but scare them off. However, he slams Sayuri on a wall and nearly crushes her head as revenge for her hiring Boku to assassinate Retsu.
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* TheWorfBarrage: Takagi grazes and misses ''several'' Fa Jin jin shots out of fear of killing anyone. This can come off as a rather [[IdiotBall unnecessary conflict]] because when he does land a blast head-on it still doesn't kill since it's not like he can't control its power output.
* WouldntHitAGirl: Refuses to harm women even if they're out to kill him and if he invokes ExactWords on saying his ''fists'' aren't meant for that, he still does nothing but scare them off.However, he slams He does slam Sayuri on a wall and nearly crushes her head as revenge for her hiring Boku to assassinate Retsu. Retsu, but once she offers to donate her blood to save Retsu and his sister, Takagi relents and admits he treated her too harshly.
* WouldntHitAGirl: Refuses to harm women even if they're out to kill him and if he invokes ExactWords on saying his ''fists'' aren't meant for that, he still does nothing but scare them off.
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* KiAttacks: They introduce Tai Chi Chuan to the story and are able to add a blast radius of Ki to their attacks, though they cannot use the Fa Jin.
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* KiAttacks: They introduce Tai Chi Chuan to the story and are able to add a blast radius of Ki to their attacks, though they cannot use the complete Fa Jin.jin.
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* KiAttacks: He's a practitioner of Tai Chi Chuan and can perform the Fa Jin, though he didn't actually master the technique and only emulated it through his abnormal innate strength.
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* KiAttacks: He's a practitioner of Tai Chi Chuan and can perform the Fa Jin, jin, though he didn't actually master the technique and only emulated it through his abnormal innate strength.
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* MadeOfIron: He suffers massive internal damage from Takagi's Fa Jin and yet he survives, as Takagi puts it, "thanks to the strong body he was born with".
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Jinrai overhears Itsuki confessing to Morigami but getting rejected because he wanted him to have her, so Jinrai ends up raping her out of frustration and spite despite getting splashed with acid. He's even amused to see her declaring her hatred for him despite conceiving a ChildByRape and acting like she wanted him to redeem himself.
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Jinrai overhears Itsuki confessing to Morigami but getting rejected because he wanted him to have her, so Jinrai ends up raping her out of frustration and spite despite getting splashed with acid. He's even amused to see her declaring her hatred for him despite conceiving a ChildByRape and acting like she wanted him to redeem himself.
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* MadeOfIron: He suffers massive internal damage from Takagi's Fa Jin jin and yet he survives, as Takagi puts it, "thanks to the strong body he was born with".
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Jinrai overhears Itsuki confessing to Morigami but getting rejected because he wanted him to have her, so Jinrai ends up raping her out of frustration and spite despite getting splashed with acid. He's even amused to later see her declaring her hatred for him despite conceiving a ChildByRape and acting like she wanted him to redeem himself.
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Jinrai overhears Itsuki confessing to Morigami but getting rejected because he wanted him to have her, so Jinrai ends up raping her out of frustration and spite despite getting splashed with acid. He's even amused to later see her declaring her hatred for him despite conceiving a ChildByRape and acting like she wanted him to redeem himself.
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* WouldntHitAGirl: Refuses to harm women even if they're out to kill him. Even if he invokes ExactWords on saying his ''fists'' aren't meant for that, he still does nothing but scare them off.
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* WouldntHitAGirl: Refuses to harm women even if they're out to kill him. Even him and if he invokes ExactWords on saying his ''fists'' aren't meant for that, he still does nothing but scare them off.off. However, he slams Sayuri on a wall and nearly crushes her head as revenge for her hiring Boku to assassinate Retsu.
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* PutOnABus: Despite becoming Takagi's girlfriend, even Momochiyo goes OutOfFocus once the Tokyo Arc starts. She does come back later on and eventually marries him.
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* PutOnABus: Despite becoming Takagi's girlfriend, even Momochiyo goes OutOfFocus once the Tokyo Arc starts. She does come back later on reunite with Takagi after he becomes the Soul of Tokyo and eventually marries him.
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* TheWorfEffect: He nearly gets beaten by Katsunari and Taro and forces Takagi to defeat him again to prove he can take on the Great Tokyo Alliance gangs alone.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: He's sent to juvy after being defeated by Takagi... but Takagi is 17 and flashbacks show Jinrai was already an young adult when Takagi was a little kid, so how does this make any sense?
* YoungerThanTheyLook: He's sent to juvy after being defeated by Takagi... but Takagi is 17 and flashbacks show Jinrai was already an young adult when Takagi was a little kid, so how does this make any sense?
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* BreakingTheFourthWall: Starts making meta jokes after putting up a [[TitleDrop "Go!! Karate Club"]] signboard on his new Karate Club at Tokyo.
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* BreakingTheFourthWall: Starts making meta jokes after putting up a [[TitleDrop "Go!! Karate Club"]] signboard on his new Karate Club at Tokyo.Tokyo, though even before that one volume cover had him asking the viewer to purchase it.
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* TheIdiotFromOsaka: He's a fun-loving walking Osakan stereotype that obliviously gets a ton of cold stares from the Tokyo citizens.
-->How to use a wet towel, Kansai style -- Step 1: make noise with the packet; Step 2: wipe your face; Step 3: wipe your armpit; Step 4: wipe your shoes. This was a gag people on Tokyo can't get...
-->How to use a wet towel, Kansai style -- Step 1: make noise with the packet; Step 2: wipe your face; Step 3: wipe your armpit; Step 4: wipe your shoes. This was a gag people on Tokyo can't get...
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!Students and Staff of Kangokou High
[[folder:Yoshiyuki Takagi]]
The outrageously macho, tough, wisecracking captain of Kangokou High's Karate Club. He holds the title of Third Soul of Osaka, meaning that all the student gangs and hooligans in Osaka are under his direct control. A honourable delinquent, he loves freedom and will never fight women.
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* BadassMustache: Adding to his unruly student appearance. The farther the series goes, the thicker it gets.
* BerserkButton: Merely hearing the reputation of either the Karate Club or Kangokou High being challenged causes Takagi to recklessly take on challenges he would otherwise prefer to avoid. And people whom he's sworn to protect being threatened naturally nets a much more violent response from him.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: Starts making meta jokes after putting up a [[TitleDrop "Go!! Karate Club"]] signboard on his new Karate Club at Tokyo.
* BreakoutCharacter: Takagi started out as the tritagonist after Matsushita and Saitou, but the series became more and more centered on him as his popularity grew.
* BigOlEyebrows: His thick brows curve around his eyes.
* ButNowIMustGo: The first part of the series ends with Takagi faking his death to start anew on Tokyo. The DistantFinale reveals that after he was last seen being arrested to parts unknown, he was released and hired to fight criminal groups in African conflict zones.
* CowardlyLion: He doesn't reaaaally enjoy violence and obviously doesn't like getting hurt, so he'll try to pick his fights and attempt peaceful solutions whenever possible before inevitably being forced to lay the smackdown anyway.
* CutenessProximity: Subverted; at one point he purchases a few chicks and protects them from a blow at his own detriment but this is just to cook them later. Afterwards, a chick standing over his head or shoulder in various scenes becomes a RunningGag. This is never commented on by him or anyone else, even as the chick does play a role in helping Takagi during the Tokyo Saga.
* TheDreaded: He's known as the biggest badass in Osaka, but this turns badly once he saves both it and Kobe from Jinrai [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished just to end up]] expelled from school as well as impersonated and hunted even more by thugs who are out for fame.
* DumbMuscle: It's an occasional gag that he starts nosebleeding if he reads for too long or for him to get history facts and vocabulary wrong, but he ''did'' score an A in Home Economics.
* FakingTheDead:
** After a thug Takagi was trying to help spitefully stabs him, he decides to fake his own death and start a new life on Tokyo... not that he ever gets a break from fighting or changes his name or anything.
** Takagi plays possum at one point to deceive his enemies and [[CallingYourAttacks calls it]] an "Academy Award for Best Actor".
* GratuitousEnglish: Likes making engrish puns that only he finds hilarious.
* HeartbrokenBadass: His first girlfriend Yuuko was raped and then accidentally killed by being dropped [[LookBothWays on the middle of the road]] while in shock, just for knowing him. Asuka initially couldn't confront Takagi over Yuuko's murder when she saw such a hardened delinquent like him driven to BrokenTears. Her sister Megumi then also gets StuffedInTheFridge in the exact same circunstances for trying to help Takagi after he was starting to warm up to her, leading to him beating the one responsible half-dead and not daring to defend himself when Asuka later does take a misplaced revenge on him for their deaths.
* HeroicBSOD: Takagi loses all confidence when he learns his mentor and brother figure Jinrai has turned evil and leaves with Momochiyo to take a break on Kobe, where the Pillars of Kobe start beating him up. They see Takagi hasn't turned so depressed that he'll let them harm Momochiyo as well, so they apologize and take him to Liu-yun, who trains him to face Jinrai on equal grounds.
* HopeBringer: The student gangs in Osaka all look up to the Third Soul of Osaka and more often than not even enemies beaten by him are inspired to turn over a new leaf and [[DefeatMeansFriendship help him in times of need]].
* IJustWantToBeFree: Takagi was taught by Jinrai all about granting freedom to the helpless, and losing his own after becoming "The Hero of Osaka" is why he fakes his death to start over on Tokyo. Ironically, he just gets dragged into [[FightMagnet more and more conflicts]] until he ends up as a mercenary in Africa with only Momochiyo for company.
* ImportantHaircut: He gave up his punch perm for Morigami's star-shaped shave after losing a duel to him and befriending him. This hairsyle marks him as a Soul of Osaka like Morigami and Jinrai.
* KiAttacks: The Fa Jin, which enpowers his punches with a deadly blast radius. The Super Famicom fighting game even portrays it as a Hadouken.
* LastNameBasis: People only ever call him by his family name.
* MadeOfIron: Takagi takes a truly absurd amount of damage throughout the series, sometimes on purpose to intimidate foes or avoid escalating conflicts, but he always recovers to save the day. When he does get incapacitated for a certain amount of time, it typically is out of TheWorfEffect so the supporting cast can have some spotlight holding the line for him.
* ManlyTears: He cries BerserkerTears when he learns Megumi was raped and killed and later on, once Asuka is introduced, he also sheds TenderTears for how she's lashing at him out of grief for her sister's death.
* MegatonPunch: His punches don't quite blast people into orbit like he brags, but still send them quite a distance into the air.
* OneManArmy: The early chapters have Takagi claiming he picks his fights to avoid getting overwhelmed, but he's well powerful enough to take on multiple opponents by himself. This escalates until he's performing feats like knocking out fifty men in a row while enduring harsh injuries including a broken arm.
* ThePowerOfFriendship: Whenever Takagi is badly knocked down or even defeated and hospitalized, it is the support and cheering of his allies that get him back on his feet.
* RapidFireFisticuffs:
** Learns to instantly punch [[DownplayedTrope five times]] in a row after enduring Sagawa's four-hit combo technique.
** The OVA cuts Sagawa out and has Takagi defeat Ootsuka with a more standard "Cannonball" barrage, but afterwards the Five-Hit Thrust is used in later scenes as in the manga.
* RedBaron: Is known as Takagi the Villain, the Third Soul of Osaka and the First Soul of Tokyo.
* SignatureMove: The Five-hit Thrust he steals from Sagawa, as well as his version of the Fa Jin.
* StayInTheKitchen: He views women as fragile beings who must be protected by men and tries to prevent them from getting involved in the delinquent gang culture. The two girls he was in love with being StuffedInTheFridge because of that doesn't help matters. Even so, Momochiyo is the first person who we see him actually teaching self-defense to in the story.
* ThouShaltNotKill: Refuses to kill anyone and is discouraged by Liu-yun from using his advanced Fa Jin on people.
* UsedToBeASweetKid: Takagi once was a very shy boy with a bowl cut hairstyle.
* TheWorfBarrage: Takagi grazes and misses ''several'' Fa Jin shots out of fear of killing anyone. This can come off as a rather [[IdiotBall unnecessary conflict]] because when he does land a blast head-on it still doesn't kill since it's not like he can't control its power output.
* WouldntHitAGirl: Refuses to harm women even if they're out to kill him. Even if he invokes ExactWords on saying his ''fists'' aren't meant for that, he still does nothing but scare them off.
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[[folder:Tadashi Matsushita and Takaaki Saitou]]
Matsushita and Saitou are ordinary students of Kangokou High who after being harassed and bullied by their classmates decide to join the Karate Club but end up bullied even worse by their crazy upperclassmen.
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* BadassOnPaper: They're able to intimidate the KFTH students who used to bully them just by being members of the infamous Karate Club, when in truth they aren't very strong.
* ButtMonkey: Both of them frequently get their asses kicked by enemies and upperclassmen alike, even when they're trying their best to be heroic. Still, their big hearts and determination endear them to Takagi, who eventually makes them the vice captains of the Karate Club.
* DemotedToExtra: Matsushita starts as the protagonist before being hijacked by Takagi and during the Tokyo Saga he goes out of focus with the rest of the cast.
* TheNarrator: Matsushita is this for the first few arcs.
* PutOnABus: When Takagi moves to Tokyo, the entire supporting cast including them is replaced.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Rarely seen apart, provide minor help and commentary for fights and are increasingly sidelined as the story gets serious.
* TookALevelInBadass: Matsushita and Saitou do get a bit tougher as the story goes on and they always put up a resistance even against impossible odds to HoldTheLine for Takagi. Matsushita in particular eventually becomes a tough-looking physical education teacher.
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[[folder:Momochiyo Honda]]
A gentle girl who enters the Karate Club as their manager to be close to her crush Takagi.
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* ActionGirl: Downplayed; she has a little arc early on about Takagi encouraging her to beat up her delinquent classmates but afterwards she sits out of conflict except for cheering Takagi on and helping him train.
* AdaptationalBadass: In the Super Famicom fighting game she is the final boss of arcade mode and a secret playable character who can beat up anyone in the cast from Takagi to Jinrai.
* BattleCouple: In the ending, she travels to some region in Africa with Takagi once he's hired to battle criminal groups and is shown to always be by his side.
* CuteBruiser: She's actually quite strong on her own right, far more so than the male newcomers at the Karate Club.
* DamselOutOfDistress: Subverted when she fights off Ootsuka and his goons just to suffer from a StaircaseTumble while fleeing. Luckily she survives and Takagi arrives right afterwards to bring her to a hospital.
* FirstNameBasis: People usually call her by given name.
* HugeGuyTinyGirl: She's very short compared to Takagi, who straight up looks like a giant in the last time the two are seen together.
* MakeMeWannaShout: Her crying can damage ears and [[GlassShatteringSound shatter windows]]. Only ever PlayedForLaughs in the series proper, but it is her super move in the fighting game.
* PutOnABus: Despite becoming Takagi's girlfriend, even Momochiyo goes OutOfFocus once the Tokyo Arc starts. She does come back later on and eventually marries him.
* ShooOutTheClowns: She's oddly absent from the story when Kobe invades Osaka, though she does appear in the OVA adaptation looking after Takagi while he is recovering in secret -- the belt Takagi uses in the end of the fight against Rick is her gift in that version.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Momo makes Takagi promise to not fight until a party on Christmas Eve, which he tries to uphold even as he's hunted by Suenaga of the Three Pillars of Kobe. This leaves him in a very bad shape to try to prevent the invasion of Osaka that comes afterwards.
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[[folder:Inasaku Kabata]]
The vice-captain of the Kangokou Karate Club. He is mean and sadistic, but also very weak and overweight.
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* BerserkButton: He finally grows the courage to lead his underclassmen against an enemy gang when they were about to set the jacket he was gifted by Morigami on fire.
* TheBully: Typically vents his stress on the Club underclassmen when Takagi isn't around.
* HeroWorshipper: Kabata became friends with Morigami after being saved by him from bullies and for that he wouldn't bring dare shame to him or the Club despite his flaws.
* SketchySuccessor: He's this to former vice captain Takagi. Morigami knew Kabata wasn't very strong and that he didn't have people and leadership skills but nevertheless appreciated his perfect attendance record and loyalty to the Karate Club. After Takagi moves to Tokyo, he promotes Kabata as the new captain.
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[[folder:Shingo Morigami]]
The previous Karate Club captain before Takagi, as well as the Second Soul of Osaka. Unlike his underclassman, Morigami is a calm and level-headed fighter.
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: He's an overall NiceGuy, but if pushed and hurt enough to the point of being barely conscious he goes into a berserk mode that unlike Takagi's isn't PlayedForLaughs at all. In this state Morigami starts seriously trying to murder his opponents while punching aside any allies who get in the way.
* DemotedToExtra: The OVA introduces Morigami via Kabada's backstory, omitting his shared past with both Takagi and Jinrai. Furthermore, his first fight against the Twin Grim Reapers of Kobe is offscreened and the rematch is abridged.
* DisneyDeath: He's horribly injured by Jinrai and appears to flatline during surgery, appearing as a spirit before Takagi to ask him to save Jinrai from the path of evil. Matsushita tells Takagi that... he forgot to ask if Morigami made it, and then Takagi is told that Morigami survived after all.
* EyeScream: Both of his eyes are damaged during his battles against Jinrai.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: Has a slash scar over the right side of his face, compared to Jinrai's acidic burn one over his right.
* HeroWorshipper: No matter how ruthless Jinrai became and despite his despicable rape of Itsuki, Morigami could never truly hate him. Even on the brink of death his spirit begs Takagi to somehow redeem his Brother of Soul.
* ImportantHaircut: He styled his buzz cut after Jinrai's and made it a thing by requesting Takagi to use it as well.
* SignatureMove: Thrusting both of his open palms into the opponent's chest.
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!The Three Pillars of Kobe
[[folder:General]]
* HeelFaceTurn: The three of them help Takagi in his fight against Jinrai, and it is noted they hold no grudge towards Takagi [[DefeatMeansFriendship for defeating them]].
* QuirkyMinibossSquad: They are the first team of major antagonists faced by Takagi and come with oddball skills.
* TheWorfEffect: All of them are beaten by Jinrai like they're nothing.
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[[folder:Zen Suenaga]]
The brutal Icy Wind Of Rokkou Mountain who challenged Takagi for supremacy over the Kansai area.
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* ImprobableWeaponUser: Fights with a collar of praying beads.
* KnightOfCerebus: Takagi's encounter with Suenaga leads to Kobe's invasion of Osaka and the manga going on a darker direction with Takagi as the definite protagonist.
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[[folder:Ryuuryuu and Koryuu]]
The Twin Reapers of Kobe. They are practitioners of Tai Chi Chuan.
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* DemotedToExtra: They do appear in the OVA but both of their fights against Morigami are heavily rushed, in contrast to the other two Pillars getting fully adapted in that version.
* TheDividual: One always stands behind the other, fighting in such a way that if one is evaded or hit the other will quickly react with a counter attack.
* KiAttacks: They introduce Tai Chi Chuan to the story and are able to add a blast radius of Ki to their attacks, though they cannot use the Fa Jin.
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[[folder:Rick Powered]]
The Black Devil of Kobe who faces Takagi at the climax of the Hanshin war.
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* NoSell: He can ignore most attacks by concentrating and flexing his muscles.
* NotSoInvincibleAfterAll: Takagi gets both of them hanging by the side of a cliff, making Rick too scared to use his defense technique.
* ScaryBlackMan: He's portrayed as a very muscular and intimidating foreign black man.
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!The Battle For Osaka
[[folder:Isao Jinrai]]
The First Soul of Osaka who was friends with Morigami and mentored both Takagi and Kira before falling to evil.
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* FallenHero: He was the original Soul of Osaka who held the respect of all the gangs in Osaka, until people turned on him for what he did to Itsuki and Morigami.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: Itsuki splashed the left side of his face with sulphuric acid to prevent his assault on her, but he didn't stop.
* HeelFaceTurn: He reappears later in the story to save Takagi from certain death and tries to atone for what he did to Itsuki.
* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: Morigami's modesty and admiration for Jinrai, to the point of yielding everything including Itsuki to him just for being sworn brothers, wounded his pride so much that it drove him mad.
* KiAttacks: He's a practitioner of Tai Chi Chuan and can perform the Fa Jin, though he didn't actually master the technique and only emulated it through his abnormal innate strength.
* LoveMakesYouCrazy: After Itsuki told Jinrai she liked powerful men, he became obssessed with viciously claiming territories to earn her approval no matter how much she said that wasn't what she meant.
* LukeIAmYourFather: Takagi is horrified to learn his master and brother figure is the masked gangster who's out to take over Osaka.
* MadeOfIron: He suffers massive internal damage from Takagi's Fa Jin and yet he survives, as Takagi puts it, "thanks to the strong body he was born with".
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Jinrai overhears Itsuki confessing to Morigami but getting rejected because he wanted him to have her, so Jinrai ends up raping her out of frustration and spite despite getting splashed with acid. He's even amused to see her declaring her hatred for him despite conceiving a ChildByRape and acting like she wanted him to redeem himself.
* RapidFireFisticuffs: His punches are so fast and powerful they are depicted as lightning and compared to drills.
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!Students and Staff of Kangokou High
[[folder:Yoshiyuki Takagi]]
The outrageously macho, tough, wisecracking captain of Kangokou High's Karate Club. He holds the title of Third Soul of Osaka, meaning that all the student gangs and hooligans in Osaka are under his direct control. A honourable delinquent, he loves freedom and will never fight women.
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* BadassMustache: Adding to his unruly student appearance. The farther the series goes, the thicker it gets.
* BerserkButton: Merely hearing the reputation of either the Karate Club or Kangokou High being challenged causes Takagi to recklessly take on challenges he would otherwise prefer to avoid. And people whom he's sworn to protect being threatened naturally nets a much more violent response from him.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: Starts making meta jokes after putting up a [[TitleDrop "Go!! Karate Club"]] signboard on his new Karate Club at Tokyo.
* BreakoutCharacter: Takagi started out as the tritagonist after Matsushita and Saitou, but the series became more and more centered on him as his popularity grew.
* BigOlEyebrows: His thick brows curve around his eyes.
* ButNowIMustGo: The first part of the series ends with Takagi faking his death to start anew on Tokyo. The DistantFinale reveals that after he was last seen being arrested to parts unknown, he was released and hired to fight criminal groups in African conflict zones.
* CowardlyLion: He doesn't reaaaally enjoy violence and obviously doesn't like getting hurt, so he'll try to pick his fights and attempt peaceful solutions whenever possible before inevitably being forced to lay the smackdown anyway.
* CutenessProximity: Subverted; at one point he purchases a few chicks and protects them from a blow at his own detriment but this is just to cook them later. Afterwards, a chick standing over his head or shoulder in various scenes becomes a RunningGag. This is never commented on by him or anyone else, even as the chick does play a role in helping Takagi during the Tokyo Saga.
* TheDreaded: He's known as the biggest badass in Osaka, but this turns badly once he saves both it and Kobe from Jinrai [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished just to end up]] expelled from school as well as impersonated and hunted even more by thugs who are out for fame.
* DumbMuscle: It's an occasional gag that he starts nosebleeding if he reads for too long or for him to get history facts and vocabulary wrong, but he ''did'' score an A in Home Economics.
* FakingTheDead:
** After a thug Takagi was trying to help spitefully stabs him, he decides to fake his own death and start a new life on Tokyo... not that he ever gets a break from fighting or changes his name or anything.
** Takagi plays possum at one point to deceive his enemies and [[CallingYourAttacks calls it]] an "Academy Award for Best Actor".
* GratuitousEnglish: Likes making engrish puns that only he finds hilarious.
* HeartbrokenBadass: His first girlfriend Yuuko was raped and then accidentally killed by being dropped [[LookBothWays on the middle of the road]] while in shock, just for knowing him. Asuka initially couldn't confront Takagi over Yuuko's murder when she saw such a hardened delinquent like him driven to BrokenTears. Her sister Megumi then also gets StuffedInTheFridge in the exact same circunstances for trying to help Takagi after he was starting to warm up to her, leading to him beating the one responsible half-dead and not daring to defend himself when Asuka later does take a misplaced revenge on him for their deaths.
* HeroicBSOD: Takagi loses all confidence when he learns his mentor and brother figure Jinrai has turned evil and leaves with Momochiyo to take a break on Kobe, where the Pillars of Kobe start beating him up. They see Takagi hasn't turned so depressed that he'll let them harm Momochiyo as well, so they apologize and take him to Liu-yun, who trains him to face Jinrai on equal grounds.
* HopeBringer: The student gangs in Osaka all look up to the Third Soul of Osaka and more often than not even enemies beaten by him are inspired to turn over a new leaf and [[DefeatMeansFriendship help him in times of need]].
* IJustWantToBeFree: Takagi was taught by Jinrai all about granting freedom to the helpless, and losing his own after becoming "The Hero of Osaka" is why he fakes his death to start over on Tokyo. Ironically, he just gets dragged into [[FightMagnet more and more conflicts]] until he ends up as a mercenary in Africa with only Momochiyo for company.
* ImportantHaircut: He gave up his punch perm for Morigami's star-shaped shave after losing a duel to him and befriending him. This hairsyle marks him as a Soul of Osaka like Morigami and Jinrai.
* KiAttacks: The Fa Jin, which enpowers his punches with a deadly blast radius. The Super Famicom fighting game even portrays it as a Hadouken.
* LastNameBasis: People only ever call him by his family name.
* MadeOfIron: Takagi takes a truly absurd amount of damage throughout the series, sometimes on purpose to intimidate foes or avoid escalating conflicts, but he always recovers to save the day. When he does get incapacitated for a certain amount of time, it typically is out of TheWorfEffect so the supporting cast can have some spotlight holding the line for him.
* ManlyTears: He cries BerserkerTears when he learns Megumi was raped and killed and later on, once Asuka is introduced, he also sheds TenderTears for how she's lashing at him out of grief for her sister's death.
* MegatonPunch: His punches don't quite blast people into orbit like he brags, but still send them quite a distance into the air.
* OneManArmy: The early chapters have Takagi claiming he picks his fights to avoid getting overwhelmed, but he's well powerful enough to take on multiple opponents by himself. This escalates until he's performing feats like knocking out fifty men in a row while enduring harsh injuries including a broken arm.
* ThePowerOfFriendship: Whenever Takagi is badly knocked down or even defeated and hospitalized, it is the support and cheering of his allies that get him back on his feet.
* RapidFireFisticuffs:
** Learns to instantly punch [[DownplayedTrope five times]] in a row after enduring Sagawa's four-hit combo technique.
** The OVA cuts Sagawa out and has Takagi defeat Ootsuka with a more standard "Cannonball" barrage, but afterwards the Five-Hit Thrust is used in later scenes as in the manga.
* RedBaron: Is known as Takagi the Villain, the Third Soul of Osaka and the First Soul of Tokyo.
* SignatureMove: The Five-hit Thrust he steals from Sagawa, as well as his version of the Fa Jin.
* StayInTheKitchen: He views women as fragile beings who must be protected by men and tries to prevent them from getting involved in the delinquent gang culture. The two girls he was in love with being StuffedInTheFridge because of that doesn't help matters. Even so, Momochiyo is the first person who we see him actually teaching self-defense to in the story.
* ThouShaltNotKill: Refuses to kill anyone and is discouraged by Liu-yun from using his advanced Fa Jin on people.
* UsedToBeASweetKid: Takagi once was a very shy boy with a bowl cut hairstyle.
* TheWorfBarrage: Takagi grazes and misses ''several'' Fa Jin shots out of fear of killing anyone. This can come off as a rather [[IdiotBall unnecessary conflict]] because when he does land a blast head-on it still doesn't kill since it's not like he can't control its power output.
* WouldntHitAGirl: Refuses to harm women even if they're out to kill him. Even if he invokes ExactWords on saying his ''fists'' aren't meant for that, he still does nothing but scare them off.
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[[folder:Tadashi Matsushita and Takaaki Saitou]]
Matsushita and Saitou are ordinary students of Kangokou High who after being harassed and bullied by their classmates decide to join the Karate Club but end up bullied even worse by their crazy upperclassmen.
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* BadassOnPaper: They're able to intimidate the KFTH students who used to bully them just by being members of the infamous Karate Club, when in truth they aren't very strong.
* ButtMonkey: Both of them frequently get their asses kicked by enemies and upperclassmen alike, even when they're trying their best to be heroic. Still, their big hearts and determination endear them to Takagi, who eventually makes them the vice captains of the Karate Club.
* DemotedToExtra: Matsushita starts as the protagonist before being hijacked by Takagi and during the Tokyo Saga he goes out of focus with the rest of the cast.
* TheNarrator: Matsushita is this for the first few arcs.
* PutOnABus: When Takagi moves to Tokyo, the entire supporting cast including them is replaced.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Rarely seen apart, provide minor help and commentary for fights and are increasingly sidelined as the story gets serious.
* TookALevelInBadass: Matsushita and Saitou do get a bit tougher as the story goes on and they always put up a resistance even against impossible odds to HoldTheLine for Takagi. Matsushita in particular eventually becomes a tough-looking physical education teacher.
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[[folder:Momochiyo Honda]]
A gentle girl who enters the Karate Club as their manager to be close to her crush Takagi.
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* ActionGirl: Downplayed; she has a little arc early on about Takagi encouraging her to beat up her delinquent classmates but afterwards she sits out of conflict except for cheering Takagi on and helping him train.
* AdaptationalBadass: In the Super Famicom fighting game she is the final boss of arcade mode and a secret playable character who can beat up anyone in the cast from Takagi to Jinrai.
* BattleCouple: In the ending, she travels to some region in Africa with Takagi once he's hired to battle criminal groups and is shown to always be by his side.
* CuteBruiser: She's actually quite strong on her own right, far more so than the male newcomers at the Karate Club.
* DamselOutOfDistress: Subverted when she fights off Ootsuka and his goons just to suffer from a StaircaseTumble while fleeing. Luckily she survives and Takagi arrives right afterwards to bring her to a hospital.
* FirstNameBasis: People usually call her by given name.
* HugeGuyTinyGirl: She's very short compared to Takagi, who straight up looks like a giant in the last time the two are seen together.
* MakeMeWannaShout: Her crying can damage ears and [[GlassShatteringSound shatter windows]]. Only ever PlayedForLaughs in the series proper, but it is her super move in the fighting game.
* PutOnABus: Despite becoming Takagi's girlfriend, even Momochiyo goes OutOfFocus once the Tokyo Arc starts. She does come back later on and eventually marries him.
* ShooOutTheClowns: She's oddly absent from the story when Kobe invades Osaka, though she does appear in the OVA adaptation looking after Takagi while he is recovering in secret -- the belt Takagi uses in the end of the fight against Rick is her gift in that version.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Momo makes Takagi promise to not fight until a party on Christmas Eve, which he tries to uphold even as he's hunted by Suenaga of the Three Pillars of Kobe. This leaves him in a very bad shape to try to prevent the invasion of Osaka that comes afterwards.
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[[folder:Inasaku Kabata]]
The vice-captain of the Kangokou Karate Club. He is mean and sadistic, but also very weak and overweight.
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* BerserkButton: He finally grows the courage to lead his underclassmen against an enemy gang when they were about to set the jacket he was gifted by Morigami on fire.
* TheBully: Typically vents his stress on the Club underclassmen when Takagi isn't around.
* HeroWorshipper: Kabata became friends with Morigami after being saved by him from bullies and for that he wouldn't bring dare shame to him or the Club despite his flaws.
* SketchySuccessor: He's this to former vice captain Takagi. Morigami knew Kabata wasn't very strong and that he didn't have people and leadership skills but nevertheless appreciated his perfect attendance record and loyalty to the Karate Club. After Takagi moves to Tokyo, he promotes Kabata as the new captain.
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[[folder:Shingo Morigami]]
The previous Karate Club captain before Takagi, as well as the Second Soul of Osaka. Unlike his underclassman, Morigami is a calm and level-headed fighter.
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: He's an overall NiceGuy, but if pushed and hurt enough to the point of being barely conscious he goes into a berserk mode that unlike Takagi's isn't PlayedForLaughs at all. In this state Morigami starts seriously trying to murder his opponents while punching aside any allies who get in the way.
* DemotedToExtra: The OVA introduces Morigami via Kabada's backstory, omitting his shared past with both Takagi and Jinrai. Furthermore, his first fight against the Twin Grim Reapers of Kobe is offscreened and the rematch is abridged.
* DisneyDeath: He's horribly injured by Jinrai and appears to flatline during surgery, appearing as a spirit before Takagi to ask him to save Jinrai from the path of evil. Matsushita tells Takagi that... he forgot to ask if Morigami made it, and then Takagi is told that Morigami survived after all.
* EyeScream: Both of his eyes are damaged during his battles against Jinrai.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: Has a slash scar over the right side of his face, compared to Jinrai's acidic burn one over his right.
* HeroWorshipper: No matter how ruthless Jinrai became and despite his despicable rape of Itsuki, Morigami could never truly hate him. Even on the brink of death his spirit begs Takagi to somehow redeem his Brother of Soul.
* ImportantHaircut: He styled his buzz cut after Jinrai's and made it a thing by requesting Takagi to use it as well.
* SignatureMove: Thrusting both of his open palms into the opponent's chest.
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!The Three Pillars of Kobe
[[folder:General]]
* HeelFaceTurn: The three of them help Takagi in his fight against Jinrai, and it is noted they hold no grudge towards Takagi [[DefeatMeansFriendship for defeating them]].
* QuirkyMinibossSquad: They are the first team of major antagonists faced by Takagi and come with oddball skills.
* TheWorfEffect: All of them are beaten by Jinrai like they're nothing.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Zen Suenaga]]
The brutal Icy Wind Of Rokkou Mountain who challenged Takagi for supremacy over the Kansai area.
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* ImprobableWeaponUser: Fights with a collar of praying beads.
* KnightOfCerebus: Takagi's encounter with Suenaga leads to Kobe's invasion of Osaka and the manga going on a darker direction with Takagi as the definite protagonist.
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[[folder:Ryuuryuu and Koryuu]]
The Twin Reapers of Kobe. They are practitioners of Tai Chi Chuan.
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* DemotedToExtra: They do appear in the OVA but both of their fights against Morigami are heavily rushed, in contrast to the other two Pillars getting fully adapted in that version.
* TheDividual: One always stands behind the other, fighting in such a way that if one is evaded or hit the other will quickly react with a counter attack.
* KiAttacks: They introduce Tai Chi Chuan to the story and are able to add a blast radius of Ki to their attacks, though they cannot use the Fa Jin.
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[[folder:Rick Powered]]
The Black Devil of Kobe who faces Takagi at the climax of the Hanshin war.
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* NoSell: He can ignore most attacks by concentrating and flexing his muscles.
* NotSoInvincibleAfterAll: Takagi gets both of them hanging by the side of a cliff, making Rick too scared to use his defense technique.
* ScaryBlackMan: He's portrayed as a very muscular and intimidating foreign black man.
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!The Battle For Osaka
[[folder:Isao Jinrai]]
The First Soul of Osaka who was friends with Morigami and mentored both Takagi and Kira before falling to evil.
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* FallenHero: He was the original Soul of Osaka who held the respect of all the gangs in Osaka, until people turned on him for what he did to Itsuki and Morigami.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: Itsuki splashed the left side of his face with sulphuric acid to prevent his assault on her, but he didn't stop.
* HeelFaceTurn: He reappears later in the story to save Takagi from certain death and tries to atone for what he did to Itsuki.
* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: Morigami's modesty and admiration for Jinrai, to the point of yielding everything including Itsuki to him just for being sworn brothers, wounded his pride so much that it drove him mad.
* KiAttacks: He's a practitioner of Tai Chi Chuan and can perform the Fa Jin, though he didn't actually master the technique and only emulated it through his abnormal innate strength.
* LoveMakesYouCrazy: After Itsuki told Jinrai she liked powerful men, he became obssessed with viciously claiming territories to earn her approval no matter how much she said that wasn't what she meant.
* LukeIAmYourFather: Takagi is horrified to learn his master and brother figure is the masked gangster who's out to take over Osaka.
* MadeOfIron: He suffers massive internal damage from Takagi's Fa Jin and yet he survives, as Takagi puts it, "thanks to the strong body he was born with".
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Jinrai overhears Itsuki confessing to Morigami but getting rejected because he wanted him to have her, so Jinrai ends up raping her out of frustration and spite despite getting splashed with acid. He's even amused to see her declaring her hatred for him despite conceiving a ChildByRape and acting like she wanted him to redeem himself.
* RapidFireFisticuffs: His punches are so fast and powerful they are depicted as lightning and compared to drills.
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