The Abashiri Family

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Abashiri Family
Cover for Abashiri Family Volume 1, 1977 edition.
あばしり一家 (Abashiri Ikka)
Genre	Action, Comedy
Manga
Author	Go Nagai
Publisher	Akita Shoten
Demographic	Shōnen
Magazine	Weekly Shōnen Champion
Original run	1969-08-10 – 1973-04-09
Volumes	15
OVA
Director	Takashi Watanabe
Writer	Go Nagai, Takashi Watanabe
Studio	Studio Pierrot
Licensor	ADV Films
Episodes	4
Released	1992

The Abashiri Family (あばしり一家, Abashiri Ikka^?) is a manga series by Go Nagai that ran in Shōnen Champion.^[1] It was remade into a four-episodes OVA in 1992, and released by ADV Films.^[2]

[edit] Anime plot

The most famous and terrible family of gangsters in the whole world is about to dissolve, once it's revealed the mysterious secret of the third member, Kikunosuke, the most powerful member of the Abashiri. However, the almost pacific life of the Abashiri family gets complicated when Kikunosuke enters in one of the most prestigious elite schools, where instead of learning about art and culture, students must learn the most dangerous techniques for fighting and murdering, at the hands of cruel psychopath teachers. Only a few students manage to survive this hell of a school... but of course, in this occasion, the new student will be most terrible of the Abashiri, and things will no longer will be the same.