History Manga / WashizuLordOfMahjongHell

* RatedMForManly: Unbelievably so, for a series about Washizu Iwao.

* FiveManBand:
** TheHero: Washizu, though he's more of the SociopathicHero variety.
** TheLancer: Hayabusa. Interestingly this role should technically go to the Secretary, who is the second-in-command at Kyousei, but Hayabusa spends more time with Washizu and is generally a better fit.
** TheSmartGuy: The Literary Man. He was educated at Kyoto university and has a PhotographicMemory.
** TheChick: The Secretary spends most of his time [[JamesBondage getting kidnapped]] or hovering anxiously in the background while Hayabusa and Washizu do all the work.
*** Hilariously Lampshaded by the Secretary himself, who laments that he gets stuck with all the paperwork while Washizu and Hayabusa galavant off having adventures.

* LargeHam: Washizu himself.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Mahjong}}''
* TheMole: [[spoiler: Koshiba.]]

* {{Badass}}: The entire series. At one point Washizu is encased in concrete and still manages to maim and kill several people. ''Without'' being broken out first.
** The Washizu Copter.

** [[TwoWordsObviousTrope Two words: Washizu Copter.]]

!!'''This manga provides examples of:'''

Prequel manga to ''{{Akagi}}''. In 1945 post-war Tokyo is a city of ruin to Washizu Iwao, a man returning to Japan after mysteriously leaving the country and the police force in the middle of the Second World War, and he has taken it upon himself to reshape it in his image. Founding the financial consultation firm 'Kyousei' three years later, he begins a fierce crusade to take over Japan from the shadows using his greatest asset: his skill at mahjong. That, and the healthy dose of coersion, brute force and blackmail, of course.

See also ''{{Akagi}}''

* {{Badass}}: The 'entire series'. At one point Washizu is encased in concrete and still manages to maim and kill several people. ''Without'' being broken out first.

* Expy: The Secretary is visually a reference to Taizo of ''{{TheLegendOfKoizumi}}'', and earlier volumes of the manga are very similar in tone.

* ''{{Mahjong}}''

* TheReveal: Hayabusa's real name is [[spoiler: Suzuki, making him Washizu's right-hand man in ''Akagi''.]]

** What's the correct way to deal with the man you just beat at mahjong? [[spoiler: Ram mahjong tiles into his eyes, of course!]]

* InstantPlunderJustAddPirates: Volumes three and four can largely be summarised as Washizu vs Pirates.

** TheHero: Washizu, though he's more of the HeroicSociopath variety.

What follows is a [[BetterThanItSounds surprisingly good]] and downright bizarre spin-off manga about Washizu's sociopathic exploits with his trusty underlings, Hayabusa and his Secretary, as they battle the stock market, pirates, yakuza and everything in between in the seventeen years before the start of Akagi. The series was neither written nor illustrated by Fukumoto, who is instead credited as an assistant.

* BeyondTheImpossible: The 'entire series'. At one point Washizu is encased in concrete and still manages to maim and kill several people. ''Without'' being broken out first.

* InstantPlunderJustAddPirates: Volumes three and four can largely be summarised as [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome Washizu vs Pirates]].