History Manga / NanamaruSanbatsu

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[[caption-width-right:180:[[Series/{{Jeopardy}} Ken Jennings]] exists. [[MemeticMutation And he's a Japanese]] [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent high school student]]!]]

-> '''''Question''''': ''What is the format of competitive quiz bowls, called "golden rule" by truly able players?''
-> '''''Answer''''': ''[[TitleDrop 7 Right 3 Wrong]]''
-> '''''Explanation''''': ''It means that one wins when he gets seven correct answers, or gets disqualifed when he gives three incorrect answers. It's a standard rule loved by competitive quiz bowl players.''

''Nanamaru Sanbatsu (Seven Right, Three Wrong)'' is a {{seinen}} School Life manga by Ikura Sugimoto and serialized monthly by ''Young Ace''.

On his second day as a senior high school student, Shiki Koshiyama [[DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife is yet uncertain which school club will he join]], until [[TheCall he got himself invited]] to Buzou High School's Quiz Club, which he refused initially because he felt it was too {{nerd}}y. Or so it seems.

He found a copy of the quiz club's campaign pamphlet: a 100-item questionnaire based on quiz shows, and answered them quite easily. Then he met [[NerdsAreSexy Mari Fukami]], a classmate of his who is actually an expert quizzer known as "[[RedBaron The Buzzer Queen]]" in a rather [[PantyShot odd circumstance]], and quiz club captain [[BunnyEarsLawyer Gakuto Sasajima]], who saw his potential to become a great quizzer.

It was only until then that Shiki realized he had such great potential as a quizzer, but needs to hone himself in the art of [[MundaneMadeAwesome buzzer-pressing]] as knowing the answer to every question is not everything in quizzes, but rather the ability to answer every question ''ahead'' of the others is what makes one '''''[[ToBeAMaster The King of Quizzes]]'''''.

''Nanamaru Sanbatsu'' offers a good break from the usual {{Shonen}} action stuff by featuring a natural bookworm for a hero competing in an event usually reserved for geniuses, where knowledge literally ''is'' power.

[[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2016-12-19/nana-maru-san-batsu-manga-about-high-school-quiz-club-gets-tv-anime/.110101 An anime series has been green-lit]], and premiered as part of the Summer2017Anime lineup. Website/{{Crunchyroll}} has the rights to airing the series under the title ''7O3X: Fastest Finger First''.

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!!''Nanamaru Sanbatsu'' provides examples of:

* ADayInTheLimelight: Chapter 34 is this for Daisuke Inoue.
* [[ArrogantKungFuGuy Arrogant Quiz Bowl Guy]]: Seiji Fukami is incredibly smug with his quiz bowl skills so high no one else except Gakuto and Okura can match.
* AwesomenessByAnalysis: [=7o3x=] runs on this trope, as quizzers are often required to have good analytical abilities to recognize the clues necessary to answer the questions.
** In Chapter 14, Shiki got the correct answer to one of the puzzles in the arcade quiz by looking into which Japanese kanji words occupy the ''least space'' in their respective boxes.
* {{Bookworm}}: This is how Shiki gets the immense knowledge that gives him the edge in paper-and-pen quizzes. He only needs to master the art of "buzzing in and answer questions correctly before anyone else" to turn his book-smarts into a real advantage in oral quizzes.
** BlessedWithSuck: He's an avid reader of ''classical literature'', which means ''he cannot do squat on pop culture stuff'' which happens to appear every so often.
* BunnyEarsLawyer
** Gakuto, the highly eccentric team captain of Buzou High's Quiz Club. But he's actually a legendary quizzer from Kaijou who ditched it for Buzou for unknown reasons. In the Asagaoka Quiz Bowl, he tied with Kunimitsu Okura, Kaijou's current team captain, and he was Gakuto's ''senpai'' to boot!
** Akira has little respect for Quiz, but that, along with his natural gifts with games, allows him to come up with innovative ways to take various quiz rules to his advantage.
* ChekhovsArmoury: Any GenreSavvy quizzer knows that ''everything'' and ''anything'' under the sun can be asked in an official quiz bowl tournament. [[{{Bookworm}} Shiki]] in particular has a really big stash of [[ChekhovsGun Chekhov's Guns]] that he uses to his advantage in Literature questions.
* ChekhovsLecture: Mari gives Shiki a quick lesson in pop culture before their first meet. This comes in incredibly handy when ZettaiRyouiki is the answer to the question where only one word was uttered, "mini-skirt", and he's forced to give an answer after accidentally pressing the button too soon.
* CloudCuckooLander: Gakuto's sister Jinko.
* {{Cosplay}}: Akira Sonohara's first appearance. [[spoiler: Leads to his UnsettlingGenderReveal.]]
* CrocodileTears: Akira starts crying after being told by his club president to go home for displaying such poor sportsmanship and being rude to the other players. He claims that he's still new to quiz bowl, and didn't understand all of the rules. After the president rescinds his threat, Akira immediately does a SillyMeGesture, revealing that he had been faking his tears and crying.
* DareToBeBadass: In the second round of the Asagaoka quiz bowl, Mari was paired with [[ShrinkingViolet Yagi]] from Kannami. Mari carried her throughout the round, until this happened:
--> '''''Yagi''''': ''What if I don't get the correct answer?''
--> '''''Mari''''': ''If you don't get the correct answer'', '''''you're not going anywhere!'''''
* DoubleEntendre: Akira telling Shiki to "push his button" in episode nine gets a [[HoYay secondary meaning]] from several of the girls present.
* EatingLunchAlone: Shiki does this in the library. Until Jinko came along and [[EnemyEatsYourLunch ate his lunch]].
* FragileSpeedster: Mari Fukami, Buzou High's Buzzer Queen. She's fast with the buzzer and pop culture questions but she has nowhere near Shiki's immense stock knowledge crucial for the end-game.
* GadgeteerGenius: Jinko Sasajima. She is currently learning how to create a cost-effective buzzer.
* [[GenderBlenderName Gender Blender]] EmbarrassingFirstName: '''Chisato''' Mikuriya has a reason why he doesn't just [[HoYay exchange phone numbers]] with his [[FoeYay self-proclaimed rival]].
* GenkiGirl: Jinko.
* GlassCannon: Chisato Mikuriya, the ace player of Miyaura Quiz Bowl Team. He can buzz in the correct answer faster than anyone else, but only if he can recognize it right off the first clue. Otherwise, he tends to stumble as more and more clues pile up, making it more difficult for him to piece them together to get the correct answer.
* GoodWithNumbers: Daisuke, who also picks up Science later on.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Mari and Yuki, even when they're now in different schools.
* IdiotHair: Shiki.
* ImportantHaircut: Mari cut her hair short after recovering from a cold and making amends with her brother Seiji thanks to Gakuto and the rest of the team.
* JackOfAllStats: While Daisuke is the best Math and Science quizzer on his team and is better at toss-ups than [[MightyGlacier Shiki]], he lacks the latter's stock knowledge, [[LightningBruiser Gakuto]]'s range of fields, and [[FragileSpeedster Mari]]'s buzzing speed. As a result, he ends up picking fields his teammates do not pick up nor particularly excel in.
* KansaiRegionalAccent: Jinko's accent is the entire reason why people think of her and Gakuto as NotBloodSiblings.
* LightningBruiser: Gakuto and Seiji have a wider range of knowledge than [[MightyGlacier Shiki]] and are even faster than [[FragileSpeedster Mari]] and [[GlassCannon Mikuriya]] with the buzzer.
* LoopholeAbuse: Akira does this several times in episode nine. In one incident, he buzzes in after the announcer mentions just two words. This throws everyone off, including the announcer, who then continues to read the question until a second buzzer comes in. He immediately says that until two buzzers are pressed, the question continues to get read. He later tells Shiki to push both buttons by putting his on top of the other one so both would go off at the same time. Though it goes against the spirit of the game, Akira asks if there was a rule against it, forcing them to allow him to do it.
* MeaningfulName: Gakuto's name in kanji literally means ''student''.
* {{Meido}}: Mari and Yuki's outfits as part of their part-time work at Akihabara.
* MightyGlacier: Shiki's voracious reading appetite gives him immense knowledge in a wide range of fields, especially classical literature. However, as a newbie in quiz bowls he tends to stumble in toss-ups where speed is more important than accuracy.
* MundaneMadeAwesome: Quiz bowls are no ordinary school quizzes, but this is the game everyone knows how to play!
* NerdsAreSexy: Gee, sure they are sexy, especially the girls [[AndZoidberg and Seiji]]. Taken UpToEleven with the all-girls Asagaoka Quiz Bowl Club.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Niina Takumi's default look is normally EyesAlwaysShut. However, after seeing one of his junior members talking trash about the other players, and showing incredibly poor sportsmanship, he opens his eyes, and tells Akira to go home. Akira then starts crying and claims he didn't know about the rules of the game, and just wanted to play with other people. After Niina rescinds his demand, Akira then reveals it was just CrocodileTears.
* OohMeAccentsSlipping: Sasajima occasionally slips into a Kansai accent since he originally lived in Kyoto and only moved to the Kanto region a year and a half ago.
* PantyShot: Mari accidentally serves it to Shiki, so she forces him to become a quiz bowl player as retribution.
* RedBaron: Mari, Buzou High's Buzzer Queen. [[TheWorfEffect Seems to get downplayed later, though]].
* TheRival: Akira becomes one to Shiki after he gets a question right that stumped the former.
* SecondPlaceIsForLosers: Seiji's general mentality in quiz bowls. [[spoiler: The reason why he quit from the Kaijou quiz bowl team to focus on his university studies is his inability to handle the prospect of losing to someone in quiz bowls, particularly Gakuto.]]
* SiblingYinYang
** Gakuto is a ''very'' eccentric master quizzer, while Jinko is a GenkiGirl GadgeteerGenius.
** Seiji is a quiz bowl ''monster'' both [[TheJuggernaut literally]] and [[SmugSnake figuratively]], while Mari is a kind-hearted relative newbie.
* TalkingIsAFreeAction: Several questions are treated in this manner when Shiki is answering them. While he doesn't always get it right, it does show how much thought many quizzers go through to answer some of the more difficult questions.
* TeenGenius: Pretty much ''everyone'' here. [[GameBreaker Especially the one who can answer very difficult questions in less than a second]].
* TheWorfEffect: [[spoiler: In full effect during the Asagaoka Arc, where [[TheJuggernaut Gakuto]] curb-stomped pretty much ''everyone''.]]
* ZettaiRyouiki: Mari wears a Grade A on their quiz bowl event at Akihabara. The trope becomes a ChekhovsGun for Shiki later on.

** Seiji is a quiz bowl ''monster'' both [[TheJuggernaut literally]] and [[SmugSnake figuratively]], while Mari is a [[SpoiledSweet kind-hearted]] [[NerdsAreSexy relative newbie]].

[[caption-width-right:180:[[{{Jeopardy}} Ken Jennings]] exists. [[MemeticMutation And he's a Japanese]] [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent high school student]]!]]

--> '''''Question''''': ''What is the format of competitive quiz bowls, called "golden rule" by truly able players?''
--> '''''Answer''''': ''[[TitleDrop 7 Right 3 Wrong]]''
--> '''''Explanation''''': ''It means that one wins when he gets seven correct answers, or gets disqualifed when he gives three incorrect answers. It's a standard rule loved by competitive quiz bowl players.''

* TalkingIsAFreeAction: Several questions are treated in this manner when Shiki is answering them. While he doesn't always get it right, it does show how much thought many of them go through to answer some of the more difficult questions.

[[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2016-12-19/nana-maru-san-batsu-manga-about-high-school-quiz-club-gets-tv-anime/.110101 An anime series has been green-lit]].

* {{Bishounen}}: Seiji, Mari's older brother.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Gakuto, the very eccentric team captain of Buzou High's Quiz Club. But he's actually a legendary quizzer from Kaijou who ditched it for Buzou for unknown reasons. [[spoiler: In the Asagaoka Quiz Bowl Arc, he tied with Okura, Kaijou's current team captain, and he was Gakuto's ''senpai'' to boot!]]

* NerdsAreSexy: Gee, sure they are sexy, especially the girls. Taken UpToEleven with the Asagaoka Quiz Bowl Club.

* JackOfAllStats: While Daisuke is the best Math (and later, Science) quizzer on his team and is better at toss-ups than Shiki, he lacks the latter's stock knowledge and Mari's buzzing speed. As a result, he ends up picking fields his teammates do not pick up nor particularly excel in.

* GoodWithNumbers: Daisuke.
* IdiotHair: Shiki.
* ImportantHaircut: Mari cut her hair short after recovering from a cold and making amends with her brother Seiji thanks to Gakuto and the rest of the gang.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Mari and Yuki, even when they're now in different schools.

* LightningBruiser: Gakuto and Seiji have a wider range of knowledge than Shiki and are even faster than both Mari and Mikuriya with the buzzer.

* SiblingYinYang: Gakuto is a '''very''' eccentric master quizzer, while Jinko is a GenkiGirl GadgeteerGenius.

* LightningBruiser: Gakuto and Seiji have knowledge in a wide range of topics and are even faster than both Mari and Mikuriya with the buzzer.

* LightningBruiser: [[TheJuggernaut Gakuto]] and Seiji have knowledge in a wide range of topics and are even faster than Mari and Mikuriya with the buzzer.

* LightningBruiser: [[TheJuggernaut Gakuto]] and Seiji have knowledge in a wide range of topics and are fast with the buzzer.

* LightningBruiser: [[TheJuggernaut Gakuto]] and Seiji.

On his second day as a senior high school student, Shiki Koshiyama [[DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife is yet uncertain which school club will he join]], until he got [[TheCall himself invited]] to Buzou High School's Quiz Club, which he refused initially because he felt it was too {{nerd}}y. Or so it seems.

* {{Cosplay}}: Akira Sonohara's first appearance. [[spoiler: Leads to his {{UnsettlingGenderReveal}}]]

* SweetPollyOliver: [[spoiler: Akira Sonohara disguised as a male student from Sekigahara for the Asagaoka Quiz Bowl.]]

* TheWorfEffect: [[spoiler: In full effect during the Asagaoka Arc, where [[TheJuggernaut Gakuto]] and [[GenderBender Akira]] curb-stomped pretty much ''everyone''.]]

* FiveManBand
** TheHero: [[{{Bookworm}} Shiki]] [[MightyGlacier Koshiyama]]
** TheLancer: [[NerdsAreSexy Mari]] [[FragileSpeedster Fukami]]
** TheBigGuy: [[{{Gonk}} Daisuke]] [[GoodWithNumbers Inoue]]
** TheSmartGuy: [[TheAce Gakuto]] [[TheObiWan Sasajima]]
** TheChick: [[GadgeteerGenius Jinko]] [[CloudCuckooLander Sasajima]]

''Nanamaru Sanbatsu'' offers a good break from the usual {{Shonen}} action stuff by featuring a natural bookworm for a hero competing in an event usually reserved for geniuses, where knowledge literally ''is'' power. Definitely {{needs more love}}.