History Main / HeirToTheDojo

A weaker form occasionally crops up in more Western works: an unlikely character ends up wiping out someone or two, and explains that their * insert relative here* is a sensei/boxing trainer/wrestling coach/gunslinger, and he/she's always grown up learning karate/boxing/wrestling/marksmanship.

* Sakura Oogami from VisualNovel/{{Danganronpa}}, heiress of a famous UsefulNotes/MixedMartialArts dojo. [[spoiler: And Monobear forces her to be TheMole via threatening it.]]

* ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'' has an interesting take on this; Ryo Marufuji, outside of being the best duelist out of Duel Academy, is also the heir to the "Cyber Legacy", essentially the {{Tykebomb}} of the "Cyber-Style" of dueling that incorporates his legendary Cyber Dragon cards (and even has its own dojo in the mountains for teaching duelists how to use the style). This becomes a plot point in two ways: first, when he went back to the dojo and faced off with his former teacher (Duel Academia's ''principal'') for the dark half of the Legacy (the Cyberdark monsters he uses as Hell Kaiser), and in Season 4, when the heir to a rival "Psycho-Style" dueling school challenges him to determine which dueling style will remain in practice.

* Kenshiro of ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'' is probably one of the oldest examples. He is the legitimate heir of Hokuto Shinken, the most powerful martial art seen in the series, and regularly challenges the successors of others martial arts styles (mainly heirs to the different branches of Nanto Seiken, the 'rival' school of Hokuto Shinken).

* Tyson/Takao of ''Anime/{{Beyblade}}''

* Aoyama Motoko in ''Manga/LoveHina'', after [[spoiler:her sister Tsuruko decides to get married instead of inheriting the family dojo]].

* ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'' has an interesting take on this; Ryo Marufuji, outside of being the best duelist out of Duel Academy, is also the heir to the "Cyber Legacy", essentially the {{Tykebomb}} of the "Cyber-Style" of dueling that incorporates his legendary Cyber Dragon cards (and even has its own dojo in the mountains for teaching duelists how to use the style). This becomes a plot point in two ways: first, when he went back to the dojo and faced off with his former teacher (Duel Academy's ''principal'') for the dark half of the Legacy (the Cyberdark monsters he uses as Hell Kaiser), and in Season 4, when the heir to a rival "Psycho-Style" dueling school challenges him to determine which dueling style will remain in practice.
** ''Anime/YuGiOhArcV'' has Gongenzaka, who is both the heir to his father's dojo and to the "Steadfast Dueling" style.

* Sakura Oogami from VisualNovel/{{Danganronpa}}, heiress of a famous MixedMartialArts dojo. [[spoiler: And Monobear forces her to be TheMole via threatening it.]]

* In the "MarvelMangaverse" AlternateUniverse - a series of comics with Marvel characters re-imagined manga-style - [[SpiderMan Peter Parker]] is secretly the last ninja of the Spider Clan.

* Jack in ''KickinIt'' is a textbook example of the Western variant mentioned above. His grandfather taught the former ChopSockey movie actor that the [[TheMall strip-mall]] dojo he, Jack, now trains at was named for.

** A {{Fanon}} theory states Kenichi one day might become a heir to the BadassGrandpa Hayato Furinji as the head of the Ryozanpaku dojo. This trope is, however, played (almost) straight in the case of the EvilMentor organization Yami: some disciples of Yami masters are candidates to become the heir to the BigBad, the problem is that the masters [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/history_s_strongest_disciple_kenichi/v29/c266/13.html cannot]] [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/history_s_strongest_disciple_kenichi/v29/c266/14.html agree]] [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/history_s_strongest_disciple_kenichi/v29/c266/15.html which]] one is the best candidate.

* In ''KenichiTheMightiestDisciple''

* Ken Wakashimazu from ''Manga/CaptainTsubasa'' is heir to a karate dojo, and a good part of his early CharacterDevelopment has him tyring to ''not'' be heir anymore. He loves karate, yes, but loves soccer even more, and his dad gives him [[YouHave48Hours a year of probatory]] to prove this to him.

* In ''KenichiTheMightiestDisciple'', there is a {{Fanon}} theory that Kenichi one day might become a heir to the BadassGrandpa Hayato Furinji as the head of the Ryozanpaku dojo. This trope is, however, played (almost) straight in the case of the EvilMentor organization Yami: some disciples of Yami masters are candidates to become the heir to the BigBad, the problem is that the masters [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/history_s_strongest_disciple_kenichi/v29/c266/13.html cannot]] [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/history_s_strongest_disciple_kenichi/v29/c266/14.html agree]] [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/history_s_strongest_disciple_kenichi/v29/c266/15.html which]] one is the best candidate.

** Being the most {{Badass}} MagicalGirl who ever lived and coming from a family of swordsmen, you'd expect this to apply to Nanoha, right? [[AvertedTrope Wrong]]. Nanoha sucked at sports as a child, has never been shown to use a sword, and is weak at close range ([[TheAce relatively speaking]]). She does play it straight in ''[[Manga/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaInnocent Nanoha INNOCENT]]'', but that's an alternate reality spin-off.

The ''dojo'' itself is generally part of a BigFancyHouse compound that features TheThingThatGoesDoink. Challengers frequently arrive to test the skills of the ''dojo'''s style... and the HeirToTheDojo is generally put forward as the school's champion.

* Saeko Busujima in ''HighSchoolOfTheDead''.

* In addition to being a MagicalGirl, Nanoha of ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'' also comes from a family with its own martial arts style and dojo; her two elder siblings are quite proficient at the style.
** And Kyouya's (and Miyuki's) mastery of the Mikami-Fuwa-ryuu style figures prominently into ''VisualNovel/TriangleHeart3SweetSongsForever''.

* Tyson/Takao of ''{{Beyblade}}''

* Gangryong from ''{{Veritas}}'' is heir to the Enlightenment Of Thunder and Lightning (EOTL) school of Korean martial arts. This is subverted a bit that Gangryong didn't know he was the heir to this until he was told that his master was killed.

* Subverted in ''SoulEater'', where there is the [[HighlyVisibleNinja Higly Visible Ninja]] Black Star, last heir of the Boshi Clan, which was destroyed when he was a newborn, so he didn't learn anything from it, but is anyway very powerful

* Ryo Hazuki from ''{{Shenmue}}''.

** And Kyouya's (and Miyuki's) mastery of the Mikami-Fuwa-ryuu style figures prominently into ''TriangleHeart3SweetSongsForever''.

* In the arthouse documentary ''Film/JiroDreamsOfSushi'', the titular Jiro's eldest son Yoshikazu is ''forced'' more or less by his father to become this, essentially being conscripted into learning how to be one of the world's greatest sushi chefs from a young age. In his youth, he could make sushi to compete with anyone in Japan--except for his father. He states in the film that after his father passes, [[AlwaysSomeoneBetter everyone will regard him as a mere shadow]] unless he makes his father's already-perfect sushi ''twice'' as good.

* Ichikun Ichinohei (a.k.a Itchy Koo) from ''{{Ninja High School}}''

* In addition to being a MagicalGirl, Nanoha of ''MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'' also comes from a family with its own martial arts style and dojo; her two elder siblings are quite proficient at the style.

* [[TenchiMuyo Masaki Tenchi]] seems to have this as a reason for his skills with a sword, although his teacher hangs out at a shrine instead of a dojo. This doesn't explain other issues, just the thing with the sword. Makes more or less sense, since his teacher and grandfather ''used'' to be a mighty swordsman ''before'' he came to Earth and became the owner and priest of the shrine.

* Tamaki Kawazoe of ''BambooBlade'' is the heir to her father's kendo dojo.

* Subverted in ''ThePrinceOfTennis'': Rikkai sub-captain and star tennis player [[TheStoic Sanada Genichirou]] is actually heir of a famous kendo dojo, but tennis is his main activity. Same goes to martial artist Wakashi Hiyoshi from the Hyoutei team.

* While Azumi Kiribayashi from ''RealBoutHighSchool'' is the heir to her family's dojo, it's pretty far from her motivation as a fighter, in a bit of a subversion.

* Ken Wakashimazu from ''CaptainTsubasa'' is heir to a karate dojo, and a good part of his early CharacterDevelopment has him tyring to ''not'' be heir anymore. He loves karate, yes, but loves soccer even more, and his dad gives him [[YouHave48Hours a year of probatory]] to prove this to him.

* When Fumio's grandfather in ''SaitamaChainsawShoujo'' handed down his [[ChainsawGood Chainsaw Martial Art]] to his granddaughter, it was presumably to make things easier when she took over the family lumber business rather than for ''slicing up her classmates''.

* Jin from ''{{Samurai Champloo}}'' used to be one of these.
* Miko Mido in ''LaBlueGirl''. The kunoichi of the Mido clan not only learn ninjutsu, but [[DeusSexMachina sexual spells.]] Miko is the heir to the Mido clan, and has been training. (Even though, especially in the anime/OVA adaptation, [[IJustWantToBeNormal she'd rather just be a normal teenage girl leading a normal life.]])