History Manga / BIchi

* FanTranslation: A French one recently started. Curiously, the English version never went through this stage and was directly published by Yen Press.

* MinimalistCast: Roughly fifteen named characters, half of which appear only in one or two chapters. It allows the story to move on with a fast pace, but said fast pace ends up being detrimental to the deepening of the few recurring characters.

* StaticCharacter: Almost everyone, including Showtaro, which may have been what doomed the series' chances of success. The only character who gets any significant change in his behavior is Yowhey.

* MinimalistCast: Roughly fifteen named characters, half of which appear only in one or two chapters. It allows the story to move on with a fast pace, but said fast pace is also detrimental [[StaticCharacter to the development of said characters.]]

* MinimalistCast: Roughly fifteen named characters, half of which appear only in one or two chapters. It allows the story to move on with a fast pace, but said fast pace is also detrimental to the development of said characters, which was likely one of the reasons for the series' failure.

* MinimalistCast: Barely more than a dozen named characters, most of whom appear only in one or two chapters. It allows the story to move one with a fast pace, but said fast pace is also detrimental to the development of said characters, which was likely one of the reasons for the series' failure.

* MinimalistCast: Barely more than a dozen named characters, many of whom appear only in one or two chapters. It allows the story to move on with a fast pace, though that apparently wasn't enough to save the series.

Published between 2002 and 2003, ''B.Ichi'' is the first, not so successful manga of Atsushi Ookubo. You could say ''B.Ichi'' was to him what ''Manga/ZombiePowder'' was to TiteKubo. After Ookubo went and wrote ''Manga/SoulEater'', a much longer and much more successful series, this one fell into oblivion and is almost unknown even in Japan, but you could already find a few of the recurring graphic motifs of ''Soul Eater'' (like the skull). The series's characters, technology and environments have a rather peculiar design, and it doesn't take itself too seriously most of the time.

* PintSizedPowerhouse: GET, the small robot designed by Yowhey for Mana, can pack enough punch to demolish robots twice its size in the Robot Fight Tournament.

* SuperpowerLottery: Not only the powers, but also the conditions can pretty much anything. It can range from cool ("one good deed a day") to mundane ("regularly bathing in sunlight") to funny ("breathing in a ridiculous way") to thoroughly life-ruining ("one evil deed a day").

* {{Puns}}: Tons of them, from various characters, and often untranslatable.

* {{Expospeak}}: An extensive one happens between Lin and Lodigy in the second volume, explaining the links between underground Clown organizations, among other things.

Published between 2002 and 2003, B.Ichi is the first, not so successful manga of Atsushi Ookubo. You could say B.Ichi was to him what ''ZombiePowder'' was to TiteKubo. After Ookubo went and wrote [[SoulEater a much longer and much more successful series]], this one fell into oblivion and is almost unknown even in Japan, but you could already find a few of the recurring graphic motifs of ''SoulEater'' (like the skull). The series' characters, technology and environments have a rather peculiar design, and it doesn't take itself too seriously most of the time.

Published between 2002 and 2003, B.Ichi is the first, not so successful manga of Atsushi Ookubo. You could say B.Ichi was to him what ''ZombiePowder'' was to TiteKubo. After Ookubo went and wrote [[SoulEater a much longer and much more successful series]], this one fell into oblivion and is almost unknown even in Japan, but you could already find a few of the recurring graphic motifs of ''SoulEater'' (like the skull). The series' characters, robots and environments have a rather peculiar design, and it doesn't take itself too seriously most of the time.

Now with a character sheet.

* ExplainingYourPowersToTheEnemy: Usually averted, except with Lin and Shinoda in the fourth volume. [[spoiler:Not that it prevents them from crushing the vice-president effortlessly.]]

* TheSmurfettePrinciple: There are exactly 3 female characters, and one of them has only a few pages of screen time.

Published between 2002 and 2003, B.Ichi is the first, not so successful manga of Atsushi Ookubo. You could say B.Ichi was to him what ''ZombiePowder'' was to TiteKubo. After Ookubo went and wrote [[SoulEater a much longer and much more successful series]], this one fell into oblivion and is almost unknown even in Japan, but you could already find a few of the recurring graphic motifs of ''SoulEater'' (like the skull). The series' characters, robots and enviornments have a rather peculiar design, and it doesn't take itself too seriously most of the time.

* ImprobablyMaleCast: There are exactly 3 female characters, and one of them has only a few pages of screen time.