Funny / Karate Shoukoushi Kohinata Minoru

• The first time Minoru spars with Mutou; after being unable to hit the gorilla, he decides that a jumping kick will work. Mutou's response? He easily avoids it, grabs Minoru's leg, and throws him onto his back, and then says this:
  Mutou: Something like that isn't going to hit me, stupid.
• The Pedro arc—if you can get past its many, many horrific and unfortunate implications —is rather hilarious. A serial molester is on the loose on campus, and since he wears a wrestling mask in order to avoid being recognized, everyone assumes that Mutou is the one to blame. All of this comes after Minoru nearly becomes a victim. This completely enrages Mutou so he tries to make himself bait. Only for Pedro to still persist on going after Minoru, so Mutou eventually challenges Pedro to a fight in order to get him to turn himself in and uses Minoru as collateral.
• At the club's party following the Kaburagi Ryu preliminaries, Minami finds out that none of the girls he invited are able, or willing, to attend. After seeing Kohinata and Mutou with their respective girls, he loses it, proceeding to chug down a bottle of booze and start doing a nude Happa Dance, decking Minoru when he tries to calm him down, before being joined by Pedro and Saizou. The girls all freak out except for Haruka, who's seen casually sipping her drink at the end of the chapter.
• "What would you do if his seed becomes bad afterwards?!"
• Minami during the Kaburagi Ryu Nationals, after his consumption of some very unique mushrooms.
  • Minami during the Kaburagi Ryu Nationals after the mushrooms wear off, making his opponent look like an utter fool.
• Before the lightweight finals of the Kaburagi Ryu Nationals, Pedro decides to injure Minoru's opponent (the reigning champion) and puts on a wrestling mask. He's promptly spotted by the security and chased off as they try to apprehend the deviant.
  • Saizou calling Pedro a fool for what he tried to pull... While wearing his full ninja outfit. Because Minami, having to be hospitalized for his injuries against Bertrand in the quarterfinals, told him to support Minoru, and so he decided to hit Minoru's final opponent with a poisoned shuriken. Then the security spots him too.
    "THERE'S ANOTHER ONE HERE!"
• At the Kaburagi Ryu Nationals, Hamada, the reigning lightweight champion, enters the mat for the finals... With an entrance theme. And it's "Hearts on Fire".
  "Isn't he overacting a bit...?"
  • Then Minoru comes in too... To the notes of "Eye of the Tiger", courtesy of Saizou (that has escaped the security, differently from Pedro). And he was supposed to play it for Minami if he got to the finals.
    Minoru: "Why do I have an entrance theme as well...?"
    Saizou: "Hu hu... I was entrusted with an MD by my liege."
  • Hamada being introduced by "Hearts on Fire" eventually becomes a Running Gag.
• Minami finding out that his job interview was with an AV company.
  • And the next applicant after him? Nozomi. Who also has no idea where she's being hired.
  • Then Nozomi gets talked into posing for some pictures... And insanity breaks loose. It has to be seen... But we can anticipate you one thing: Minami using vibrator nunchaku. Seriously.
  • The punchline to the whole mess: Minami and Nozomi give up on that job... But the AV company hires Saizou. And he learns Brazilian Ju-Jitsu there.
• Chapter 178: Minoru takes Nana out for Christmas Eve, but it becomes a textbook example of a Bad Date. They go to a Thai restaurant, rather than a more upscale place. Then it turns out that Minoru didn't even know that it was Christmas. Then it turns out that he's more interested in the Muay Thai matches that take place in the restaurant, especially when one of the fighters turns out to be Hamada in disguise. Then it turns out that he only brought Nana along to take advantage of the couples discount the restaurant offers. By this point, one of the restaurant's employees has to physically stop a furious Nana (who in the meantime used wine to cope with the whole situation but is a lightweight) from bludgeoning Minoru with a wine bottle.
• In chapter 199, the director of Shiryuu-kan sends in the tournament their Gatekeeper (the incredibly strong but plain-looking guy tasked with taking out all challengers to his dojo while leaving the impression they were mauled by someone weak), confident his ability to fight without looking his opponent in the eye and to throw up to three feints before attacking will carry him to win the entire match. Problem is, his opponent is Hayama, whose immense intuition allows him to neatly anticipate and counter the real attack and makes short work of him. Cue his hilarious Oh, Crap! looks, both when Hayama first counters him and when he outright punches him out.
• The battle between Saizou and Carlos Jiraya, Brazilian Ninja. All of it, starting from the build-up:
  • Said build-up: Akiko's growing dread as she picks up hints he's trained in her family's ninjutsu, Saizou showing up in full ninja get up (and actually expecting to fight in it), and Akiko and Saizou's grandfather and ninja teacher showing up and announcing the reason he disappeared for eight years was to train him as his successor.
    • Nobody realizing that Saizou, her grandfather, and Carlos are serious about Ninjitsu. Or rather, "Brazilian Ninjutsu".
  • The brief flashback of Saizou and Akiko, then 14 and 11 respectively, training as ninjas under their grandfather until their father (a civil servant, but ninja trained) chases the crazy old man away for fear he'll get the kids fixated on being ninjas in the modern world.
    • How the training ended: the two ninjas-in-training were on a tree in a forest, ready to jump their grandfather, when he smoked them out with the Katon: Mafuuba. That is, he breathed fire at the tree. In a forest. It's one of the things the middle Takakura calls him out for.
  • Saizou goes on the ring dressed as a ninja. The face of the referee as he tells him to take it off is priceless, and only made funnier when Saizou is surprised.
  • For a while, Saizou had wanted Carlos dead for no apparent reason. The grandfather suddenly reveals why: he betrothed Carlos and Akiko... But Saizou, being a Knight Templar Big Brother, constantly looks in his sister's mail, so he intercepted the letter that should have informed Akiko of that. Knowing her brother, Akiko is horrified.
  • After barely dodging Saizou's "Optical-Magnetized Light Vacuum Fist", Carlos gets behind him for a choke hold... And finds out the hard way the Gratuitous Ninja spent the whole night soaking his hair into "a poisonous liquid produced by mixing together all sorts of stimulants". Said "stimulants" include a sweaty Kendo glove and a mystery bottle identified only by a question mark. End result: Carlos' eyes are too teary for him to function well anymore.
    • Minoru's face as he cheers on Saizou for downing Carlos, as he's the only one of the Team Reinan who knows Saizou is serious about being a ninja and has realized he pulled some dirty trick.
  • Put on the ropes by Carlos' counterattack, Saizou decides to use his secret technique... And we see he has some fish-like squirt toys hidden in his gloves.
    • Minoru's face when he sees Saizou is doing some strange gestures with his hand.
  • The conclusion: Saizou uses the Katon: Mafuuba, that is he BREATHES FIRE IN THE MIDDLE OF A MATCH!!! Cue massive expressions of shock and disbelief on the faces of Minoru, Pedro, Akiko, Shiryu Kai's head, the referee and Carlos... And while everyone's distracted, Saizou follows that up with a full body straight punch... right to Carlos' nuts. And he apparently broke them. He's immediately disqualified and almost drags the team with him.
    • The Groin Attack is actually a secret ninja technique, the "Takakura Ryu Ninpo Taijutsu, Ultimate Mystery: Optical-Magnetized Light Vacuum Fist"... And it was actually the second attack Saizou launched in the match. Suddenly, Carlos' utter horror when Saizou tried that and the relief after dodging it make sense.
    • The (obvious) anger at Saizou from the rest of the team for the stunt he just pulled (as Tachibana still hasn't convinced the Shiryuu-kan director to disqualify only him). On the other hand, his grandfather approves-and decides to make him his successor.
  • The discussion between the Shiryuu-kan's director, who quite justifiably wants the Team Reinan kicked out, and Tachibana, who's trying to keep at least the others in.
    Tachibana: "C... Come now. That was just some kind of accident..."
    Shiryuu-kan's director: "YOU DON'T BLOW FIRE OUT OF YOUR MOUTH BY ACCIDENT!"
    • How Tachibana succeeds: the Shiryuu-kan's director says that all of the Kaburagi-ryu fighters are disqualified... And Tachibana points out that means Minami and Ibuki are disqualified too, as while they've been rented to Koudan Kaikan they're actually Kaburagi-ryu, thus if all Kaburagi fighters are disqualified the Shiryuu-kan's event will also lose the two individual matches. That, combined with Ryuu demanding to complete the team fight, gets the Shiryuu-kan's director to relent.
  • In the aftermath of the above insanity Carlos vs Saizou fight, we have Nana getting ready to rumble with several Ryuu fans,
• Pedro's Kingdom, which is a description of how he sees everyone in the group.
• The Unsettling Gender-Reveal.
• During the GENESIS Tournament, Minami's semi-finals opponent is being hyped as a terrifying fighter, everyone wonders what will be his strategy... Then Minami shows up with Nozomi in maid outfit as one of his seconds. And it actually throws his opponent off.
  • During the fight, the cover page of chapter 352: Minami in Nozomi's maid outfit.
  • Then it backfires, as the maid costume and other tricks are what make Izumi realize that Minami's coach Mai Penrai was actually the supposedly dead Kaburagi Juzou... Who, back in the day, was infamous for this kind of tricks.
• During the fight between Minami and Douglas Perry, Saizou reveals that Minami finally had surgery to deal with his hemorrhoids and thus has no weak spots anymore... So of course Nozomi gives him a toe kick right there to get him to stop acting cool and back to fighting as usual.
  • Mutou's comment on the action: "She's a fine woman". Sure, he did need a kick in the pants, but still...
• The entirety of chapter 464:
  • At the start of the chapter we once again see how Pedro sees things. Not only it's just as deranged as Pedro's Kingdom back in chapter 243, there's also captions pointing out he's just seeing things as they were not.
  • After that we cut to Saizou and Asahi spying on Narumi, Minoru's next opponent. Eventually, Saizou reveals he discovered Narumi's secret: he washes his hair with soap. His face as he says it sells it... Alongside Asahi giving Hamada a compilation of all of Narumi's fights.
    • The fact that to Saizou, who for his first (and only) professional fight soaked his hair in "a poisonous liquid produced by mixing together all sorts of stimulants" (really mostly harmless and stinky things) for a whole night in case his opponent got him behind, it makes sense.
  • At the start of the chapter, Pedro had claimed that he was helping Minoru's progress, and his victories would be thanks to his "rod of good fortune". It seemed just his usual delusions, but then Minoru asked him to do "THAT" again. After the part with Saizou's surveillance, we see what is "THAT": human sandbag, thanks to Pedro's tough body, plenty of protective equipment, and Minoru's ability to go all out with him. In the meantime, Pedro is utterly terrified and can barely move...
• In chapters 499 and 500, the Kaburagi-ryu Karate Association gets a chance to return being a club and take back their old dojo, but in pure Reinan tradition they will have to win a tournament against other clubs. The line-up is: Ippei for the Kaburagi; a Masked Luchador from the Reinan Uni Pro Wrestling Federation; for the Suit Actor Association, a guy in a Tokusatsu-style spandex outfit; a very bemused Akiko for the Naginata Club; a girl from the New Sumo Club; for the Catfight Association, "the Legendary Catfighter Cacaoball Saizou", that is a man wearing lingerie and a creepy dog mask (as his first opponent is the girl from the New Sumo Club, the spectators shout her to run); for the Yabusame (horse archery) Club the Yabusame Brothers, that is a glasses-wearing guy with the bow riding a large and muscular dark-skinned guy wearing a horse mask and no shirt; and for the Ninjutsu Club, a Sarutobi Tobizaru.
  • When one takes a second look at the line-up, they may realize that Cacaoball Saizou, the Yabusame Brothers, and Tobizaru, are actually Kasumi Saizou, Asahi Tayou, Pedro Barboza, and Kohinata Minoru. The latter of which is using the alias Saizou had given him back when he had blackmailed him into the Ninjutsu Club (that had disbanded for lack of members early in the manga). And indeed, after the tournament it's revealed Saizou and Asahi took advantage of Reinan's regulations to fill the tournament with their members representing zombie clubs.
  • After being defeated in the first round, Minoru goes watching the rest of the tournament... Still wearing the ninja disguise.
  • The final match is Ippei versus the "Yabusame Brothers", with all attacks allowed. Ippei takes the chance to beat the crap out of Pedro.
  • After so many chapters, the Second Karate Club is back and has their dojo, they're doing a practice with Minami, Mutou and Ibuki coming back for the occasion... Then the last panel of the entire manga has Akiko saying the land the dojo is on has been sold for condos, while Nozomi adds Reinan University itself is in serious financial straits due to Japan’s low birth rates - and telling her friend to keep quiet about it for now.