History Manga / Majinden

** One of the most odd and jarring examples of this is a freakin' Franchise/FelixTheCat poster on the bedroom wall of the girl with the killer teddy bear.

* AmazonianBeauty: The final form the Fairy Master takes during the climax is that of a buff nude version of her regular self. That is to say, she becomes buff, muscular and still pretty hot while also being fairly intimidating.

** The whole plot point of a boy being possessed by a demon yet ultimately being the one in control of its power, who is also forced to face demon hunters and other demons (among them a blue-colored female demon with something personal against him), comes likely from Creator/GoNagai's ''Manga/{{Devilman}}''.

Riki Hyoudo is your typical highschool slacker and UsefulNotes/{{Karate}} genius who spends his free time conducting martial challenges under a pro wrestling mask. However, unbeknownst to him, he's also the cosmic doppelganger of dimensional devil king lord Byoudo, who learns about a mysterious prophecy related to this oddity and travels to our world to investigate. Byoudo absorbs Riki to get his power, but instead he gets himself absorbed into the boy, and that soon becomes only the first of their problems, as his treacherous lieuetenant Fairy Master Kain initiates a demonic invasion of Earth to kill Byoudo and conquer the plane. Riki and his alter ego will have to team up with aloof demon slayer Toshimitsu Yuuki and Space-Time Continuum inspector Zankan in order to stop the disaster and the rest that will come.

* BigBad: Initially it looks like Byodo fulfills this role, but it turns out [[spoiler:Kain]] is the most evil there.

''Majinden'' ("The Legend of the Devil") is a horror/martial arts manga from TheEighties, written and drawn by Shinichi Kuruma. Published between 1986 and 1989, it was the first major work published by Kuruma under his real name, as he would went to have a career under the pen name Kyoma Aki.

Riki Hyoudo is your typical highschool slacker and UsefulNotes/{{Karate}} genius who spends his free time conducting challenges under a pro wrestling mask. However, unbeknownst to him, he's also the cosmic doppelganger of dimensional devil king lord Byoudo, who learns about a mysterious prophecy related to this oddity and travels to our world to investigate. Byoudo absorbs Riki to get his power, but instead he gets himself absorbed into the boy, and that soon becomes only the first of their problems, as his treacherous lieuetenant Fairy Master Kain initiates a demonic invasion of Earth to kill Byoudo and conquer the plane. Riki and his alter ego will have to team up with aloof demon slayer Toshimitsu Yuuki and Space-Time Continuum inspector Zankan in order to stop the disaster and the rest that will come.

* ActionGirl: Ryouko is fearless karateka, and although we don't ser her fight the bear demon, she is shown completely ready to engage.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Riki and his friends are alive and Kain has been defeated, but a lot of people have died in the invasion, an important demon hunter among them, and the still evil Byoudo remains within Riki.]]

** The tall karate club leader named Baba is probably a reference to Japanese wrestling legend Wrestling/GiantBaba.

** The leopard mask used by Riki during his challenges is a clear reference to ''Manga/TigerMask''. He even wears FingerlessGloves and footguards similar to those popularized by Wrestling/SatoruSayama, the first wrestler that portrayed Tiger Mask in real life, who later became a UsefulNotes/MixedMartialArts pioneer.

* BitteesweetEnding: [[spoiler:Riki and his friends are alive and Kain has been defeated, but a lot of people have died in the invasion, an important demon hunter among them, and the still evil Byoudo remains within Riki.]]

* ChallengeSeeker: Riki is obssessed with beating martial artists, the stronger, the better.
* ClothingDamage: Clothes are constantly destroyed in order to show the wearer's nice bodies, both male and female.

** The leopard mask used by Riki during his challenges is a clear reference to ''Manga/TigerMask''. He even wears FingerlessGloves and footguards similar to those popularized by Wrestling/SatoruSayama, the first wrestler who portrayed Tiger Mask in real life, who later became a UsefulNotes/MixedMartialArts pioneer.

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Riki Hyoudo is your typical highschool slacker and karate genius who spends his free time conducting challenges under a pro wrestling mask. However, unbeknownst to him, he's also the cosmic doppelganger of dimensional devil king lord Byoudo, who learns about a mysterious prophecy related to this oddity and travels to our world to investigate. Byoudo absorbs Riki to get his power, but instead he gets himself absorbed into the boy, and that soon becomes only the first of their problems, as his treacherous lieuetenant Fairy Master Kain initiates a demonic invasion of Earth to kill Byoudo and conquer the plane. Riki and his alter ego will have to team up with aloof demon slayer Toshimitsu Yuuki and Space-Time Continuum inspector Zankan in order to stop the disaster and the rest that will come.

* ShoutOut: The leopard mask used by Riki during his challenges is a clear reference to ''Manga/TigerMask''. He even wears FingerlessGloves and footguards similar to those popularized by Wrestling/SatoruSayama, the first wrestler who portrayed Tiger Mask in real life, who later became a UsefulNotes/MixedMartialArts pioneer.