After years of tension, the Osaka’s Somei and Tokyo’s Miyama yakuza families have called a truce, one built on the engagement between the grandchildren of their leaders. For 17-year-old Yoshino Somei, she is forced to move to Tokyo to live with Kirishima Miyama where she will attend school with her new fiance. While Kirishima is […]
Tanaka Ayano is a teacher at Takebe Gakuen High School, and she has a problem. Her second-year student Murai, who is enrolled in her college preparatory course, has declared that his plan for the future is to marry her. Tanaka firmly rejects him, stating that she could never be interested in a boy with long
Due to his unconventional appearance and lacking social skills, Haruka Sakura was an outcast at school. However, his status as an outsider and a target made him into a scrappy fighter that he now takes pride in. As such, he enrolls in Furin High School, a school more known for its tough delinquents than its
Tousuke Rokudo is a first year in Aomori High, a school that is full of delinquents. While he has two good friends, he is frequently bullied by the thugs that run rampant at school. After Rokudo receives a package from his grandfather with a scroll that is said to be able to protect him from
Like sumo wrestling, the katana, and geisha, the yakuza are just one of those iconic things about Japan. Certainly every country has its underground criminal element that is both respected and feared by those withing their territory, but few are known for their strict code of conduct and ritualized practices like the yakuza are. That
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Nagomi Wahira has always admired the cute girls who work in maid cafes, and as such, she has decided to move to Akihabara to become a maid! While she gets a job at the Ton Tokoton maid cafe, she discovers that after one normal day with her more mature and also newly employed co-worker Ranko
You know what they say, everyone loves a thug. Or is it everyone hates a thug? Well, whatever. Sometimes you just want to watch tough people act disrespectfully to authority. However, not all anime delinquents are assholes. In fact, most of them are just misunderstood and have their reasons for skipping school or acting violently.
After becoming reformed from his rough and tumble past as a bike gang leader, Onizuka is looking for a new ambition in life. After witnessing a hot girl falling for her ugly teacher, he decides to become a teacher himself. However, instead of hot girls draping themselves all over him, he just has a group
After the lackluster Netflix Death Note live action and other live action series on the horizon that have the potential to be insulting to the source material (looking at you specifically Fullmetal Alchemist), things are keeping the status quo of “all live action anime adaptations are terrible.” However, it is simply not true. The real
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Mafia, Yakuza, No-Good-Nicks – They are all drawn to one thing – the safety and brotherhood of a gang. Everyone loves a good gang story, even if gangs in real life are a bit of a hassle, to say the least. Gang anime has all the camaraderie and the good times of a group of
