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* TrustPassword: Kota indirectly develops one with Ozaki: "A man's fist is his resume." [[spoiler:He talks Ozaki down after stopping him from assassinating the cabin attendant who was killed by Naomi in a previous timeline, and he indirectly tells Ozaki that there's a trap in Babel's lobby by saying he's "unable to make a fist".]]

The sequel, ''Golden Boy: Babel the 2nd'' (sometimes stylized ''GOLDEN BOY: BABEL THE 2ND'' and ''GOLDENBOY: BABEL THE 2ND''), is set five years later and stars high school student Riku on a mission to buy world peace by amassing all the money in the world. It ran in Shogakukan's ''Hero's Comics'' magazine from September 1, 2017 to September 1, 2018, and was collected in two volumes.

* SomeoneToRememberHimBy: In the ending of ''Golden Boy'', [[spoiler:Himari reveals to Tony that she's pregnant with Ozaki's child, while Ozaki is implied to have passed away]].

** Kota can use Yang's antique pocket watch to control his powers by focusing on the watch's hands, and picturing time turning back. [[spoiler:In ''Golden Boy'', Kota no longer needs the watch when he rewinds time; considering even Yang relied on the watch in his old age and the watch had been destroyed on New Year's Eve, it's implied that Kota's mastered his powers.]]
** The final rule is that Kota must never give up. He must make time work for him, even down to the last second. [[spoiler:In the climax, he realizes that Isoda's Hammer of Judgment can't be undone by his own powers alone; ''Riku's powers are also needed''.]]

* EvilAllAlong: In the climax of ''Babel'', [[spoiler:Kota is devastated to learn that Yukiko has been Isoda's willing concubine for a ''long'' time]].

* MarkedToDie: It turns out that [[spoiler:Yukiko kissed Ozaki in the original timeline because he would've disrupted the Evil Eye Organization. She also [[PreClimaxClimax sleeps with Kota in the final timeline]] for that reason]].

** The employers of the cabin attendant who was seduced by Ozaki had her murdered for stumbling onto something as a "courier".

** StarterVillain Oil Baron Hamdan sets up a game with Riku to make Riku his subordinate if he wins.
** HeroAntagonist Ishigami is on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge against the Kabukicho syndicate, whose leaders are the bosses of the yakuza Ihara Group, the Chinese mafia Meiguibang, the Russian mafia Sestra, and the Kabukicho-native Triple Six.

* BigBadEnsemble: ''Golden Boy'' has a number of antagonists to Riku's mission, but two of them are the most prominent:
** The StarterVillain is Oil Baron Hamdan, who sets up a game with Riku to make Riku his subordinate if he wins.

** Zhang Zhifei is the Don of the Meiguibang. He injures a fellow restaurant patron for her innocuous comment by shoving chopsticks up her nose and making her bleed, just before Ishigami attacks him.

* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Despite being a major character in ''Babel'', Akiyoshi makes no appaearance in ''Golden Boy''.

* NoNameGiven: The cabin attendant who sleeps with Ozaki on Christmas Eve before [[spoiler:being killed off]] is never named.

The sequel, ''Golden Boy: Babel the 2nd'' (sometimes stylized ''GOLDEN BOY: BABEL THE 2ND'' and ''GOLDENBOY: BABEL THE 2ND''), is set five years later and stars high school student Riku on a mission to amass all the money in the world to buy world peace. It ran in Shogakukan's ''Hero's Comics'' magazine from September 1, 2017 to September 1, 2018, and was collected in two volumes.

** The employers of the cabin attendant who was seduced by Ozaki had her murdered for stumbling onto something as a "courier". [[spoiler:She originally died by Naomi strangling her in an elevator before it was undone by Yang's time rewind, and Kota saves her from both Ozaki (who was taking Naomi's place in a later timeline) and the Concierge (who was trying to finish the job). Despite Kota's efforts, she's ultimately killed in Narita Airport by another assassin sent by Isoda.]]

** Zhang Zhifei is the Don of the Meiguibang. He injures a fellow retaurant patron for her innocuous comment by shoving chopsticks up her nose and making her bleed, just before Ishigami attacks him.

* BeenThereShapedHistory: In this series, [[spoiler:Yang's the reason the 9/11 attacks didn't outright start World War III, but it wasn't enough to avert it entirely]].

** Aging is the price Kota pays to control time. Yang looks eighty but is almost forty.

** The final rule is that Kota must never give up. He must make time work for him, even down to the last second.

** In ''Golden Boy'', [[spoiler:Riku looks like a high schooler but is actually five years old, and Kota has significantly aged in the five-year interim]].
* SequelHook: The final pages of ''Babel'' show [[spoiler:Riku five years later, and has somehow aged up from an infant to a ''high school boy'']].

* SequelHook: The final pages of ''Babel'' show [[spoiler:Riku, who has somehow aged up from an infant to a high school boy ''in only five years'']].

** A man named Hiro first appears as a corpse, having already been killed by Ishigami. He's later revealed to have been the NumberTwo of the Ihara Group under Ihara Noriki, who had Ishigami's wife and daughter raped.

* DistantFinale: The final pages of ''Golden Boy'' are eighteen months later, showing [[spoiler:the main cast's lives in Riku's Kabukicho. Kota and Ozaki's absence implies that [[DeadlyDistantFinale they died offscreen]]]].