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Rookies

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Sports

Koichi Kawato is the new Japanese teacher at the ill-famed Futakotamagawa high school, whose baseball club is composed of thugs and bullies who have been suspended for a year from all school competitions, for causing a brawl during an official match. The newly appointed teacher finds that the club members left are only interested in women, smoking and doing nothing until, under Kawato's guidance, they discover a new dream called the Koshien. However, the road to the Koshien is far from easy as many obstacles await them.

Tags: Baseball , Delinquents , Coming of Age , Shounen , Teacher , School , Ensemble Cast

Crows

Status: Finished
Genres: Action

Harumichi Bouya transfers to Suzuran High mid-year, but this isn't just any school, it is know as the Crows School where the rotten of the rotten students go to. Bouya becomes the number one fighter in the school and in doing so he sets off a chain of events of high school gang warfare in the area.

Crows is the prequel of the manga "Worst", and it a story occurring in Suzuran two years before the story of "Worst."

Tags: Delinquents , Shounen , School , Coming of Age , Primarily Male Cast

Shonan Junai Gumi!

Also known as GTO: The Early Years - Shonan Junai Gumi.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Drama , Ecchi , Romance

Before Eikichi Onizuka would become the "greatest teacher in the world," he and Ryuji Danma were members of the infamous biker gang, Oni Baku. When they weren't out riding around and getting into trouble, this duo could be found in school. Doing what you ask? Picking up young women of course!



Tags: Delinquents , Shounen , Male Protagonist , Gangs , Heterosexual , Slapstick , Urban , Motorcycles , Age Gap , Dissociative Identities , Transgender , School , Female Harem , Nudity

Bakuon Rettou

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Psychological

In the 80s, the parents of Kaze Takashi move to a quiet area of ​​Tokyo in order to save the young man from the bad influence of his friends. In class, Takashi does not take long to make new friends and they soon invite him to meet with their gang, the Zeros. Takashi comes to love motorcycles and gets involved with the gang. What has he got himself into and is he ready to face the consequences?

Tags: Gangs , Coming of Age , Delinquents , Motorcycles , Seinen , Autobiographical , Tragedy , Yakuza , School , Revenge , Drugs , Criminal Organization , Bullying , Prison , Anti-Hero , Class Struggle

BE-BOP-HIGHSCHOOL

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama

The story revolves around the lives of two rough-and-tumble high school friends, Hiroshi Kato and Toru Nakama, who frequently cause trouble and start fights. In keeping with the spirit of the manga, Toru and Hiroshi style their hair in punch perms and also adopt exaggerated swaggering gaits. The manga also features an assortment of outlandish characters who also sport unusual fashions and hairdos.



Note: Won the 12th Kodansha Manga Award for general manga in 1988.

Tags: School , Delinquents , Shounen , Bullying , Nudity

OUT

Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Adventure , Slice of Life

17-year-old Iguchi Tatsuya has just been released from juvenile detention and is on probation. He's been relocated to a new area, away from the bad influence of his old friends, and is under the care of his aunt. He is determined not to be sent back to lockup, and he works hard in his aunt's restaurant. However, he still has the same personality, the same tendency to violence, and still falls in with the same sort of people. It's going to be difficult for him to stay out of trouble.

Tags: Delinquents , Seinen , Gangs , Autobiographical , Gore , Conspiracy , Philosophy

Worst

Also known as Worst.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Drama

Worst is the definitive tale about "high school fighting" which takes place in chaos-ridden Suzuran High School for Boys that has a notorious reputation of having the worst kind of students ranging from thugs to delinquents.

The main character, Hana Tsukishima, a freshman at Suzuran, comes from a very distant countryside in Japan. Although gentle and warm hearted, Hana is a tough fighter who has no problem facing several opponents at one time. His ambition is to claim the "bancho" status (the head) and unify/bring order to Suzuran by defeating whomever comes in his way with the support of both his friends and upperclassmen who are drawn to his strength and character. At other times, he must fight thugs from rival schools and gangs.



Tags: Delinquents , Primarily Male Cast , Shounen , Coming of Age , School

SLAM DUNK

Also known as Slam Dunk.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Sports

Hanamichi Sakuragi's got no game with girls--none at all! It doesn't help that he's known for throwing down at a moment's notice and always coming out on top. A hopeless bruiser, he's been rejected by 50 girls in a row! All that changes when he meets the girl of his dreams, Haruko, and she's actually not afraid of him! When she introduces him to the game of basketball, his life is changed forever...



Tags: Basketball , Male Protagonist , Ensemble Cast , Primarily Male Cast , Shounen , School , Primarily Teen Cast , Delinquents , Philosophy , Rehabilitation , Tragedy

Clover

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Slice of Life

Misaki Hayato returns to his hometown and enrolls in the same high school as his two childhood friends. A lot has changed in the years he has been gone, his former best friends are seemingly distant from each other and leading relatively normal high school lives. Hayato's sudden arrival soon changes that and sends shockwaves through the entire town's delinquent population with his willingness to do anything for his friends and his love for a good fight.

Tags: Delinquents , Shounen , Coming of Age , Primarily Male Cast , School , Fishing

Otoko Ippiki Gaki Daishou

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama

This monumental manga became the driving force behind Shonen Jump, the tough kid boss of the neighborhood, Mankichi Togawa, uses his fighting skills and charm to find friends as he takes on the bad guys and the big shots who control Japan's financial world. This series, which was followed enthusiastically by the youth of the time, blazed the trail for a new class of readers. This work embodies the spirit of the magazine Shonen Jump. It had a major influence on the authors who followed. In 1969, it became the first Shonen Jump work to be turned into animation, and in 1971 it was turned into a live action film.



Tags: Delinquents , Gangs , Shounen , Male Protagonist , Coming of Age , Rehabilitation , Economics