History Manga / KongohBancho

* {{Expy}}: Hikyou Banchou looks like [[Franchise/TheGreenHornet Kato]] with [[BareYourMidriff shorter shirt]].

** By the last arc of the series this trope becomes ridiculously prevalent. It butchers evolution, paleontology, cellular biology and everything else inbetween.

* BadassLongcoat: Bancho are known for wearing longcoats, and Kongoh is no exception.

** Kongoh's "That wasn't very smart at all..."[[note]]Future translations reveal that this is actually supposed to be a callback to his mother's last words to him about "doing the right thing/finishing things properly"; since the sentence was unusual to the point of nearly being untranslatable, it was changed by the original translators to compensate.[[/note]], which is used to precede a righteous asskicking. Also, "I don't care!"

* ContestWinnerCameo: The author holds contests for original characters, redraws his favorites in his own style, and puts them on chapter covers. So far, a lot of different ones have made it into the story, three as part of a FiveBadBand and others to [[WorfEffect lose]] to new villains. [[spoiler:Though it seems like the Dark Student Council is composed of contest winners that weren't part of the Twenty-Three District Project.]]

* FanNickname: One of the translation groups refers to Hikyou Bancho as "Gay Batman" on account of him being an otherwise [[BadAssNormal mundane human]] with a tendency towards trickery and being CrazyPrepared, combined with his [[BareYourMidriff midriff-baring]] outfit and [[WhipItGood whip]].

** TheBrute: Kangoku Bancho. Interchangeabbe with {{The Dragon}}

** Tag line for the chapter 38, Bakunetsu VS Kongoh

* SavageWolves: Despite being human (or maybe not?), [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Ourou Banchou (King Wolf Banchou)]] is definitely lupine, and projects a wolfish fear aura that would make {{Toriko}} proud.

** [[spoiler: Even if there isn't, there's still KamenRider.]]

* ExactWords: Kongoh likes to show how {{Badass}} he is by following this trope.

* {{Action Hero}: '''[[CaptainObvious KONGOH]]''', among others.

* {{Badass}}: '''[[CaptainObvious KONGOH]]''', among others.
** For those who don't understand much about Japan or the Japanese language, calling someone a Bancho is basically the same as saying that they are the most badass person in their school and/or school district. And the only way to get this title is [[AsskickingEqualsAuthority by kicking the ass of anyone and everyone who tries to take it.]] Basically, anyone who holds the title of Bancho has already established themselves thoroughly as the most badass individual in their district before even arriving on the scene, so just by hearing their name, you can expect moments of unrivaled badassery from them.

* BishonenLine: Lampshaded in a bit of [[GenreSavvy genre savvyness]] by Nenbutsu Bancho in his fight against [[spoiler:Nenchaku]] Bancho, and is then subverted when this second form is every bit as [[{{Squick}} squicky]] as the first.

* UseYourHead: In two different situations, Kongou was blackmailed into staying still while his opponent beat him, due to them holding one of his friends hostage. The first time this happened, the blackmailer specified "Don't move your arms or legs". Kongou used this trope and reminded them afterwards [[CatchPhrase "That wasn't very smart at all"]]. However, the second time this happened the blackmailer was GenreSavvy enough to tell him not to move his head either.

* ImprobableWeaponUser: Almost Always subverted with kongou,except [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/kongou_banchou/c001/30.html here]]

* ImplausibleFencingPowers: Iai Bancho does this first. Later, Shirobara Bancho leaves a remarkably detailed [[ZorroMark rose emblem]] on Hikyou Bancho's bare chest in an instant.

* [[spoiler:ArchnemesisDad]]: Kongoh's father.

The manga ended with 114 chapters and 12 volumes

* NeedsMoreLove: The manga's full of {{Badass}}, but unfortunately, it was rushed to an early conclusion and not even recognized by most of the Japanese media

** Played straight with Kongoh [[spoiler: first after dying against Machine Bancho and secondly against Ousama Banchp]]

* CrazyPrepared: Hikyou Banchou takes the cake here. Seriously this guy is like a Japanese Batman. Before a fight he ends up giving a guy diarrhea by poisoning his food HOURS before the fight! Not to mention how much he is prepared to protect those he cares about [[spoiler: He makes the orphans swallow pills that will nullify poison, has a freaking machine gun under his own fake arm (which a lot of people had assumed was real for quite some time) oh and he has a bomb in the shape of a kid just in case his enemy will take hostages. This guy is Batman with a pension for using guns and explosives on people!]]

* SerialEscalation: The main character starts off chapter one by saving a jerkass from falling steel girders with his body, attacking a yakuza compound while carrying a car, getting stabbed with knives and breaking the blades off eith just his back muscles, then breaking a sword in midswing with his bare hands. Oh, and those last three items? He did them just to get a yakuza underling to apologize for ripping up a little girl's drawing. And it only escalates from there.

* BigBadassWolf: Despite being human (or maybe not?), [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Ourou Banchou (King Wolf Banchou)]] is definitely lupine, and projects a wolfish fear aura that would make {{Toriko}} proud.

* ButtMonkey: Nenbutsu Banchou tends to get this treatment within the FiveManBand.

* FiveManBand: When Kongoh teams up with some other Bancho, they form a five person band.
** TheHero: Kongou Bancho. Leader simply for never having been beaten. And being a total {{Badass}}.
** TheLancer: Iai Bancho. A level-headed and honorable swordsman.
** TheSmartGuy: Hikyou Bancho: Uses trickery and deception. Fights smarter, not harder.
** TheBigGuy: Gouriki Bancho. Considering the fact that she swings around two iron balls on sticks that are as big as she is, it counts.
** TheChick: Nenbutsu Bancho. Only gets here by being a psuedo-Buddhist priest. Does however cover the philosophical side.
** SixthRanger: Sasori Bancho
* ForTheEvulz: Apparently the reason why Hikyou Banchou [[spoiler:transferred the rest of the FiveManBand into Kongou's class]].

* HugeGuyTinyGirl: Kongoh and the Sakura sisters, Gouriki Bancho and her [[strike:minion]] sidekick Kairiki (she's also the shortest member of the FiveManBand by ''far''). Also the Kongou siblings' parents. Their dad is a man-mountain and their mom was normal-sized. It's best not to think how all 3 were conceived.

* NobleDemon: Since his HeelFaceTurn, Hikyou Banchou takes every opportunity he can to remind everyone that he's only part of the FiveManBand as part of his plan to be the last man standing. Even if there's some truth to it, there's the matter of [[spoiler: going into a TranquilFury when Kongoh is killed by Machine Banchou, going so far as to take the latter on all by himself.]]

** Kongoh's "That wasn't very smart at all..."[[hottip:*:Future translations reveal that this is actually supposed to be a callback to his mother's last words to him about "doing the right thing/finishing things properly"; since the sentence was unusual to the point of nearly being untranslatable, it was changed by the original translators to compensate.]], which is used to precede a righteous asskicking. Also, "I don't care!"

* BearsAreBadNews: An interesting case with the "Mountain Destroyer", a ''cow'' that, when first seen, [[NightmareFuel has a bear impaled on one horn and is chewing on another.]]

* DeceptivelyHumanRobots: Inverted; you realize Machine Bancho is a robot before you see his body, [[NightmareFuel which freaks his opponents out even more]] when they start thinking they're fighting a human, and he's, well, not. Is possibly a RidiculouslyHumanRobot, due to his musings about [[spoiler: the nature of death in living creatures]], as well as his flashbacks to one "Dr. Tsukina".

* YouFailBiologyForever: A couple of Bancho, such as Kangoku Bancho and Nenchaku Bancho]]\\. Machine Bancho's minions, on the other hand, [[CrowningMomentOfFunny are extremely confused when]] [[LampshadeHanging this trope goes into full effect]].
** By the last arc of the series this trope becomes ridiculously prevalent. It butchers evolution, paleontology, cellular biology and everything else inbetween.
* YouFailHistoryForever: I was not aware America played a game with Britain so that they could declare their independence.
** Pretty much anytime there's a panel explaining the "history" of something, you can almost guarantee this trope is in full effect. It's probably a RunningGag more than anything else.
* YouFailPhysicsForever: The final battle of the series breaks all of the laws of thermodynamics. Hell, the final climax involves [[spoiler:punching the Earth's core back into position!]]. On that note, one could argue it is also ArtisticLicenseGeology...

* TalkToTheFist: Nenbutsu Bancho is quite surprised when Kongoh doesn't even let him [[HannibalLecture finish speaking]], [[http://www.onemanga.com/Kongoh_Bancho/10/05/ let alone call his attacks]].

* NeedsMoreLove

A shonen manga currently being published in ''Shonen Sunday'' magazine. It stars high school student Akira Kongoh, a ten-to-twelve-foot-tall mountain of muscle with incredibly spiky AnimeHair, mile-wide shoulders, and a stare that could cut bread.