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** Reno's bisexuality is very slightly implied (she calls Mina "girlfriend" at one point), but was confirmed by WordOfGod.
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* AdjectiveNounFred: Well, this book's title fits that pattern.
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* BadAss: Pointe, Shiro, and Mina all have a case.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Sometimes I worry I’m not a people person. Hell, even my cat doesn’t like me. ]]''Asshole ]]
->''"Shut up, Johnny. I had a late night, and I’m not in the mood. Hangover’s working me over like George Foreman’s speedbag, I barely slept, and worst of all I’m harboring half a crush on a good for nothing yakuza leg-breaker."''
-->-- '''Mina Davis'''
''Asshole Yakuza Boyfriend'' is the second Mina Davis book by Nick Feldman (after Literature/HungoverAndHandcuffed), and the first novel-length Mina story. This time, Mina's looking for an abducted teenage girl and instead finds a badly wounded yakuza thug, whom she hides from both the police and the yakuza in the hopes that he'll lead her to the girl. Mostly, though, he just watches her TV and drinks her booze until the plot catches up with them.
->''"Shut up, Johnny. I had a late night, and I’m not in the mood. Hangover’s working me over like George Foreman’s speedbag, I barely slept, and worst of all I’m harboring half a crush on a good for nothing yakuza leg-breaker."''
-->-- '''Mina Davis'''
''Asshole Yakuza Boyfriend'' is the second Mina Davis book by Nick Feldman (after Literature/HungoverAndHandcuffed), and the first novel-length Mina story. This time, Mina's looking for an abducted teenage girl and instead finds a badly wounded yakuza thug, whom she hides from both the police and the yakuza in the hopes that he'll lead her to the girl. Mostly, though, he just watches her TV and drinks her booze until the plot catches up with them.
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--> '''Pointe''': Just because I’m a bad guy doesn’t mean I can’t be a good guy. Really, kinda makes it easier.
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* BavarianFireDrill: Mina attempts several of these against lower-level yakuza, mostly successfully.
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* HiddenDepths: A recurring theme. Shiro, Pointe, Rose, and Matsunaga are all much more than Mina initially assumes. That Kawada isn't is part of what makes him so dangerous.
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* MoralityPet: [[spoiler: Rose]] becomes one of these for Mina, who is somewhat less than thrilled about it.
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* ReluctantHero: Mina, from [[spoiler: when she saves Rose]] until [[spoiler: Shiro dies,]] at which point she turns into TheDeterminator.
* ReplacementGoldfish: For Mina, [[spoiler: Shiro may be one of these for Nice Guy. Both are good-hearted mobsters who care way more about another woman than that woman cares about them, and both of them ultimately die for it.]]
* ReplacementGoldfish: For Mina, [[spoiler: Shiro may be one of these for Nice Guy. Both are good-hearted mobsters who care way more about another woman than that woman cares about them, and both of them ultimately die for it.]]
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* IndyPloy: Both of Mina's rescue attempts turn pretty quickly into these. [[spoiler: Both also work.]]
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* PetTheDog: The first sign that Shiro isn't really a bad guy is the way he takes to Mina's cat, who otherwise hates everyone but *loves* Shiro.
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* BatmanGrabsAGun: [[spoiler: Shiro refuses to turn on the yakuza even after they shoot him, but he kills three members after they bury Mina alive.]]
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* WillTheyOrWontThey: Shiro and Mina. [[spoiler: They will.]]
** Also Linda and Mina. [[spoiler: They won't. Yet.]]
** Also Linda and Mina. [[spoiler: They won't. Yet.]]
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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: The normally dour Mina ends up laughing at [[spoiler: Rose's]] parody of her.
* AFatherToHisMen: Matsunaga is a rare female example.
* AFatherToHisMen: Matsunaga is a rare female example.
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Mina feels this way about Reno, and resents her for it.
** Matsunaga may be one of these as well. She's a murderous yakuza kingpin, but she's a pragmatic, polite murderous yakuza kingpin who is disgusted by the sex trade and gives Mina a lot of slack when she can.
*** She also goes way out of her way to save Shiro's life, despite him technically betraying the organization.
* AssholeVictim: Johnny Nagasaki gets it pretty bad, but he has it coming.
*** She also goes way out of her way to save Shiro's life, despite him technically betraying the organization.
* AssholeVictim: Johnny Nagasaki gets it pretty bad, but he has it coming.
* BiTheWay: Mina. While most of the romantic plot of the story revolves around her relationship with Shiro, her internal monologue makes her orientation clear with regards to Linda. She also makes a reference to Rose potentially being her type if Mina were much younger and more optimistic, and describes Reno's voice as "sex and honey."
** Reno's bisexuality is very slightly implied (she calls Mina "girlfriend" at one point), but was confirmed by WordOfGod.
* BitterSweetEnding: [[spoiler: Kawada is dead and the girls are safe, but Shiro died in the process and Mina had to spend most of the money she made on the case to stop him. Worse, she owes Matsunaga a favor. On the upside, Linda forgives her and both Linda and Rose refuse to allow her to sulk alone.]]
** Reno's bisexuality is very slightly implied (she calls Mina "girlfriend" at one point), but was confirmed by WordOfGod.
* BitterSweetEnding: [[spoiler: Kawada is dead and the girls are safe, but Shiro died in the process and Mina had to spend most of the money she made on the case to stop him. Worse, she owes Matsunaga a favor. On the upside, Linda forgives her and both Linda and Rose refuse to allow her to sulk alone.]]
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* BuriedAlive: [[spoiler: Happens to Mina, who gets out of it, and Kawada, who does not.]]
* BuriedAlive: [[spoiler: Happens to Mina, who gets out of it, and Kawada, who does not.]]
* TheCynic: Mina. Rose calls her out on it.
* DistressedDamsel: Subverted. Rose is made out to be one of these, but [[spoiler: is already deep into her own escape attempt when Mina shows up.]]
** The other abducted girls are a straighter example.
** The other abducted girls are a straighter example.
* GoodIsNotNice: Mina's a complete and total jerk, but she's ultimately a hero.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Shiro makes one near the end of the book.]]
* HeroOfAnotherStory: Reno is chasing a Turkish assassin around the globe trying to stop him from killing the Italian Prime Minister. She's in one scene.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: Reno is chasing a Turkish assassin around the globe trying to stop him from killing the Italian Prime Minister. She's in one scene.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler: Kawada ends up buried alive in the grave he dug for Shiro, which is incidentally the same grave he tried to buy Mina alive in.]]
** [[spoiler: Matsunaga is neutralized at the end of the story by a record of her own ExactWords manipulated to make it seem like she killed Kawada.]]
** [[spoiler: Matsunaga is neutralized at the end of the story by a record of her own ExactWords manipulated to make it seem like she killed Kawada.]]
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* DestructoNookie: [[spoiler: Shiro and Mina destroy her coffee table while fucking on it.]]
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* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: Shiro and Pointe are both debatable cases, as Shiro's never *really* a full heel, and Pointe only ends up on the right side of things thanks to a combination of money and blackmail. Still, both start off on the side of the villains, and both end up helping Mina take down Kawada.]]
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* ActionGirl: Mina and kinda Rose. Linda is pretty obviously one as well, but doesn't get to show it off.
** Reno Bangs is apparently the most extreme version of this, parachuting out of a jet to fight an assassin in her only scene.
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* SlapSlapKiss: Mina and Shiro.
** To a lesser extent, Mina and Linda.
** To a lesser extent, Mina and Linda.
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''Asshole Yakuza Boyfriend'' is available [[http://www.amazon.com/Asshole-Yakuza-Boyfriend-Mina-Davis-ebook/dp/B00MY1OKCW/ref=pd_sim_351_1?ie=UTF8&dpID=515c1oltI2L&dpSrc=sims&preST=_UX300_PJku-sticker-v3%2CTopRight%2C0%2C-44_OU01_AC_UL320_SR246%2C320_&refRID=1Z80REVZSFZSVB20MM58 here.]]
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* TheAce: Reno is this to Mina. Mina tries really hard to hate her for it.
* AffablyEvil: Pointe, if you count him as evil. Matsunaga is also always polite and respectful, though usually still pretty terrifying.
* AntiHero: Mina's still intensely negative, mean spirited, judgmental, and a borderline alcoholic... and she's still the hero.
** Shiro's an even more extreme example, bordering on VillainProtagonist, but ultimately heroic thanks to his weird code of honor.
* AntiVillain: John Pointe is mostly a really good dude who loves his daughter. He's also complicit in some pretty heinous shit.
* BadAss: Pointe, Shiro, and Mina all have a case.
* CastFullOfGay: Mixed with EveryoneIsBi. Linda is openly gay, Mina is queer, and Rose makes some comments that paint her as at least bi-curious (though WordOfGod claims that Rose is straight in the writer's head, he's also not going to write anything that screws up anybody's head canon of her as bi.)
** WordOfGod confirms that Reno is bi and Matsunaga is gay, the author just didn't have a good occasion to bring up their sexuality in the story. .
* CompleteMonster: Kawada.
* CruelAndUnusualPunishment: Kawada threatens Rose with a particularly sadistic package of these, including [[spoiler: road-hauling her ex-boyfriend and leaving the remains in her bed while she sleeps.]]
* DeathSeeker: Mina might be one of these. Shiro shows signs as well.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The first thing Mina does in the story is rescue Shiro- a mobster- but she does it to help someone else and/or herself, not out of any desire to actually help Shiro. She also chooses not to involve the police for reasons both defensible (they won't get anything out of him) and selfish (she won't get paid).
** We've already heard a lot about Rose before we meet her, but when we do [[spoiler: she's already pretty far along in her own escape attempt.]]
* FilmNoir: Not actually a film, but consciously invoking the genre at every available opportunity.
* GenderFlip: Less dramatic than in the previous book, but still present for several traditional film noir archetypes. Mina is the traditionally male HardboiledDetective and Linda is the FriendOnTheForce, while Shiro fills the role of FemmeFatale, and Matsunaga is TheDon. Reno's also implied to be a DistaffCounterpart to JamesBond.
* TheGhost: Many. Nice Guy, Callet, Linda, and Jasmine don't appear, but the four of them are all mentioned and Nice Guy especially looms over the story.
** Jack Darwin and Matamoros are both mentioned, and Mina's victory over Jack is the reason Reno knows her name and agrees to help.
*** They both also loom over the story in other ways, as Mina's scars from Jack are a plot point and her attraction to Matamoros is contrasted with her dynamic with Shiro.
* HardboiledDetective: Mina, right down to the trench coat and fedora.
* IronicEcho: Mina's big monologue near the end liberally quotes from a similar speech delivered earlier by [[spoiler: Kawada.]]
** Mina's tells Rose at one point to "Get tough." She does not explain that that sentence was [[spoiler: the last thing Nice Guy ever said to her.]]
* KnightInSourArmor: Mina.
* MagnificentBastard: Mina has a moment or two.
* MurderByInaction: Mina doesn't kill anyone, but she does [[spoiler: help Pointe capture Kawada, before watching him bury him alive.]]
* NobleDemon: Matsunaga is as good as her word.
** Shiro's extremely noble as well, if you consider him a villain.
** Also Pointe.
* PoliceAreUseless: Mina feels this way, though she thinks Linda is the exception.
* PrivateDetective: Mina.
* PrivateEyeMonologue: The entire book, from Mina.
* PunchClockVillain: Pointe. As far as he's concerned, he's a loving father and all-around decent guy who just happens to have an evil job.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: A rare villainous example in the form of Matsunaga.
* SmugSnake: Kawada.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: What Jack thinks he is.
* WhatTheHellHero: Linda gives Mina a very angry one, and decks her to emphasize it.
* WorldOfSnark: Mina's the best at it, but Rose, Linda, and Shiro are all pretty snarky themselves.
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* TheAce: Reno is this to Mina. Mina tries really hard to hate her for it.
* AffablyEvil: Pointe, if you count him as evil. Matsunaga is also always polite and respectful, though usually still pretty terrifying.
* AntiHero: Mina's still intensely negative, mean spirited, judgmental, and a borderline alcoholic... and she's still the hero.
** Shiro's an even more extreme example, bordering on VillainProtagonist, but ultimately heroic thanks to his weird code of honor.
* AntiVillain: John Pointe is mostly a really good dude who loves his daughter. He's also complicit in some pretty heinous shit.
* BadAss: Pointe, Shiro, and Mina all have a case.
* CastFullOfGay: Mixed with EveryoneIsBi. Linda is openly gay, Mina is queer, and Rose makes some comments that paint her as at least bi-curious (though WordOfGod claims that Rose is straight in the writer's head, he's also not going to write anything that screws up anybody's head canon of her as bi.)
** WordOfGod confirms that Reno is bi and Matsunaga is gay, the author just didn't have a good occasion to bring up their sexuality in the story. .
* CompleteMonster: Kawada.
* CruelAndUnusualPunishment: Kawada threatens Rose with a particularly sadistic package of these, including [[spoiler: road-hauling her ex-boyfriend and leaving the remains in her bed while she sleeps.]]
* DeathSeeker: Mina might be one of these. Shiro shows signs as well.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The first thing Mina does in the story is rescue Shiro- a mobster- but she does it to help someone else and/or herself, not out of any desire to actually help Shiro. She also chooses not to involve the police for reasons both defensible (they won't get anything out of him) and selfish (she won't get paid).
** We've already heard a lot about Rose before we meet her, but when we do [[spoiler: she's already pretty far along in her own escape attempt.]]
* FilmNoir: Not actually a film, but consciously invoking the genre at every available opportunity.
* GenderFlip: Less dramatic than in the previous book, but still present for several traditional film noir archetypes. Mina is the traditionally male HardboiledDetective and Linda is the FriendOnTheForce, while Shiro fills the role of FemmeFatale, and Matsunaga is TheDon. Reno's also implied to be a DistaffCounterpart to JamesBond.
* TheGhost: Many. Nice Guy, Callet, Linda, and Jasmine don't appear, but the four of them are all mentioned and Nice Guy especially looms over the story.
** Jack Darwin and Matamoros are both mentioned, and Mina's victory over Jack is the reason Reno knows her name and agrees to help.
*** They both also loom over the story in other ways, as Mina's scars from Jack are a plot point and her attraction to Matamoros is contrasted with her dynamic with Shiro.
* HardboiledDetective: Mina, right down to the trench coat and fedora.
* IronicEcho: Mina's big monologue near the end liberally quotes from a similar speech delivered earlier by [[spoiler: Kawada.]]
** Mina's tells Rose at one point to "Get tough." She does not explain that that sentence was [[spoiler: the last thing Nice Guy ever said to her.]]
* KnightInSourArmor: Mina.
* MagnificentBastard: Mina has a moment or two.
* MurderByInaction: Mina doesn't kill anyone, but she does [[spoiler: help Pointe capture Kawada, before watching him bury him alive.]]
* NobleDemon: Matsunaga is as good as her word.
** Shiro's extremely noble as well, if you consider him a villain.
** Also Pointe.
* PoliceAreUseless: Mina feels this way, though she thinks Linda is the exception.
* PrivateDetective: Mina.
* PrivateEyeMonologue: The entire book, from Mina.
* PunchClockVillain: Pointe. As far as he's concerned, he's a loving father and all-around decent guy who just happens to have an evil job.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: A rare villainous example in the form of Matsunaga.
* SmugSnake: Kawada.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: What Jack thinks he is.
* WhatTheHellHero: Linda gives Mina a very angry one, and decks her to emphasize it.
* WorldOfSnark: Mina's the best at it, but Rose, Linda, and Shiro are all pretty snarky themselves.
