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* CareerEndingInjury: [[spoiler: Ken ends up making his pinky finger injury stick around long term, which is why he both quits boxing as well as avoids hanging out with the gang unless absolutely necessary.]]

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* CareerEndingInjury: [[spoiler: Ken ends up making his pinky finger injury stick around long term, which is why he both quits boxing as well as and avoids hanging out with the gang unless absolutely necessary.]]
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* YourCheatingHeart: Ringo discusses the validity of the motivations of such a character with Yuna after reading Literature/AnnaKarenina.



* YourCheatingHeart: [[spoiler:She cheats on Shiro with a member of the Nakazawa gang, leading to disastrous results for Ringo's crew.]]
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: When he hears that Ringo is uncertain about rejoining the karate team, he encourages him to drop by and talk to him and the other members.
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* EveryoneHasStandards: Warns Ringo against going to see Ken if he's there to train at the gym, given that he knows of his delinquent activities.
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* NerdsAreVirgins: Admits as much to Ringo.
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* CelibateHero: In spite of his apparent cluelessness towards romance, averted. When Noboru asks him about his experience with women, Ringo admits that he has been with them before. He refers to it as "Nothing special."
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* FatalFlaw: [[WideEyedIdealist Idealism]], for Ringo. Especially a poor combination with his {{Wrath}}.

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* FatalFlaw: [[WideEyedIdealist Idealism]], for Ringo. Especially a poor combination with his {{Wrath}}.[[SevenDeadlySins wrathfulness]].
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* FatalFlaw: [[WideEyedIdealist Idealism]], for Ringo.

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* FatalFlaw: [[WideEyedIdealist Idealism]], for Ringo. Especially a poor combination with his {{Wrath}}.
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* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: After [[spoiler: Nakazawa's gang puts Goro into a coma, Ringo cannot be dissuaded from taking out every last one of them.]]
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* LetsFightLikeGentlemen: This is how he challenges Ken to a battle.
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* Determinator: While he might seem like a slacker, when Ringo is incited to act, ''nothing'' will stop him. [[spoiler: Not even the prospect of taking on an entire school gang without anyone to back him up.]]

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* Determinator: {{Determinator}}: While he might seem like a slacker, when Ringo is incited to act, ''nothing'' will stop him. [[spoiler: Not even the prospect of taking on an entire school gang without anyone to back him up.]]
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* Determinator: While he might seem like a slacker, when Ringo is incited to act, ''nothing'' will stop him. [[spoiler: Not even the prospect of taking on an entire school gang without anyone to back him up.]]
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* BloodKnight: Ringo plays it straight. [[spoiler:For instance, he has no qualms on allowing Shiro to take on Nakazawa's gang for one of them dated his girlfriend and tags along with him in a fight.]]

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* BloodKnight: Ringo plays it straight. [[spoiler:For instance, he has no qualms on allowing against encouraging Shiro to take on Nakazawa's gang in vengeance for one of them dated his girlfriend their members' dating Shiro's girlfriend, and Ringo tags along with him in a for the fight.]]
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* AntiHero: Willing—and eager—to use violence to achieve his aims. Comes with the territory of being a gang leader. However, towards his classmates and friends, he's surprisingly altruistic.

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* AntiHero: Willing—and eager—to use violence to achieve his aims. Comes Melancholic, apathetic, and even comes off as lazy to his peers and teachers. It comes with the territory of being a gang leader. However, towards his classmates and friends, he's surprisingly altruistic.
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* Anti-Hero: Willing—and eager—to use violence to achieve his aims. Comes with the territory of being a gang leader. However, towards his classmates and friends, he's surprisingly altruistic.

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* Anti-Hero: AntiHero: Willing—and eager—to use violence to achieve his aims. Comes with the territory of being a gang leader. However, towards his classmates and friends, he's surprisingly altruistic.
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* Anti-Hero: Willing—and eager—to use violence to achieve his aims. Comes with the territory of being a gang leader. However, towards his classmates and friends, he's surprisingly altruistic.


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* MrViceGuy: ''Very'' wrathful. His knee-jerk reaction to any slight against him or his friends is to commit violence. If not for this, he'd be a fairly heroic, decent person.
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* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: Implied to be the source of Ringo's perpetual melancholy. Because he also has an antipathy towards following through with any such purpose, he is stymied and unfulfilled.

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* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: Implied to be the source of Ringo's perpetual melancholy. Because he also has an antipathy towards following through with any such purpose, he purpose—for reasons that have to do with his own personal philosophy and experiences—he is stymied and unfulfilled.
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* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: Implied to be the source of Ringo's perpetual melancholy. Because he also has an antipathy towards following through with any such purpose, he is stymied and unfulfilled.
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* KnightOfCerebus: Once he starts taking a more active role in the plot, events take a much darker turn, much faster, for the protagonists.
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* ThePerilsOfBeingTheBest: He's conscious of them, and they are his primary source of {{Dismotivation}}.
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* TheBigGuy: Goro, who is also the most violent of the gang.

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* TheBigGuy: Goro, who is also the most violent of the gang. At the start of the game, he has the highest health stat.
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[[folder:In General]]
* AlwaysChaoticEvil: They are allied with no other school and are always hostile to Ringo. And the other schools.
* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: They wear red. This coincides with their perpetual hostility.
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* CurbStompBattle: His battle against Ken is completely one-sided, in Ken's favor. Ken [[spoiler: fractures his wrist in the process of punching him, not because Hattori managed to get any kind of offense against him.]]

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* CurbStompBattle: His battle against Ken is completely one-sided, in Ken's favor. Ken [[spoiler: fractures his own wrist in the process of punching him, not because Hattori managed to get any kind of offense against him.]]

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