| Diamond Delinquent | |
The cover of Kongō Banchō |
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| 金剛番長 (Kongō Banchō) |
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| Genre | Action |
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| Written by | Nakaba Suzuki |
| Published by | Shogakukan |
| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Magazine | Weekly Shōnen Sunday |
| Original run | 2007 – 2010 |
| Volumes | 12 |
Diamond Delinquent (金剛番長 Kongō Banchō) is a shōnen manga by Nakaba Suzuki. The manga began its serialization in Shōnen Sunday from 2007 vol. 47 and has recently finish its serialization.
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Akira Kongou is looking to take down the "23 district project" which involves "banchou" from 23 districts of Tokyo fighting for the right to control Japan. Without meaning to, he becomes a participant with the alias Kongou Banchou and must take down other banchou while searching for the leaders of the project.
The main character is a large man with an even larger heart. He remains calm and only loses his cool when his friends are hurt. When he speaks most people can't help but feel overwhelmed and see the error of their ways. He saved Hinako from Kiriu Touya and became the banchō of Chiyoda district. He helps the little guy and doesn't care about being powerful or rich. Besides his desire to destroy the District Plan he seems happy just enjoying the simple things. He goes to Raimei Senior High School, and follows what he calls simple logic (someone hurts your friend you hurt them back). Besides his fighting knowledge and schoolwork Akira isn't very knowledgeable of technology. His strength and massive build makes delicate work hard for him. Besides taking down other Banchos Akira also helps those in his district with their problems.
Sisters who are Akira's friends, Hinako is the older of the two she keeps an unusual memo picture collection on her phone to show her sister when she picks her up from kindergarten, she is in the same class as Akira. When Akira first told her about the District Plan she laughed and reported to a cop, said cop was in on the plan and captured her after which Akira beat Kiriu Touya who was holding her. Tsukimi is the kid sister she likes being with Hinako and Akira who she calls "big brother". Akira treats her like a father would his daughter. Akira took down a whole yakuza group just to get one of them to apologize for ripping Tsukimi's drawing
He is the son of the school's chairman. Because of his father's status Hikaru got away with everything from eating during class to openly undressing girls and still have the entry to the best universities. He gets everyone to do what he wants by promising them recommendations. He tried to get Akira to be his bodyguard and after Akira refused and embarrassed him he tried to get the Takeshi to beat up Akira. After all failed and Akira giving him advice about not depending on others power he has taking a turn for the better.
The school's boxing champ and apparently the only member of the boxing club. His left straight punch is said to have 900 kg of power, when Akira took his punch without any defence, Takeshi saw the kind of person Akira was and admitted defeat.
He doesn't go to Akira's school he seems slightly crazy he wears and umpiers mask and wields a steel bat with spikes hidden in the tip. He was sent to get rid of Akira after Hinako was captured, he said Akira couldn't use his hands or feet in his Home-run game (pretty much telling Akira to stand still and let him hit the tar out of him), Akira responded be doing just one knock out head-butt.
The Chiyoda District Bancho also known as the Iai Bancho, he is what some would call a bishōnen and he is seems very cultured and calm. He is defeated by Akira and since it was taped Akira has taken Touya's place as the district's banchou. He later returned with a group of other banchos (all of who were defeated by Akira) to assist Akira against the Five Dark Vows, his reason is that all those in the world are just talk where as Akira could back up his. During which he and the others were enrolled in Akira's class, here he shows that he can't take girls dressing in short skirts (his school required girls to wear pants) he is also very pure-hearted and follows a samurai code of honor. This is also his biggest weakness since he can't take scantily clad women, seeing this causes him to have large nosebleeds. Touya fully believes that Akira has what it takes to be the winner of the District Project and is willing to die to help Akira succeed. During his battle against the Five Dark Vows, he cuts across his eyes to prevent being distracted, temporarily blinding himself, but later regains his sight.
The bancho of the Sumida District. He is known as the Nenbutsu (Buddhist Prayer) Banchou. He acts like buddha and had brainwashed all the students in Kouji Senior High to be his followers of his cult. He also seems greedy and partly narcissistic since he had his followers buy many key chains, charms, etc. with his image on it. He seems to have the power to blast anyone and move while sitting with some kind of psychic force but it is shown to be a trick when Akira sees Raionji use it underwater. His power is his abnormally large sized diaphragm that he keeps covered with his coat. Akira defeats him, he loses his followers (who believe Akira to be the reincarnation of Acala) and then has to pay for all the merchandise with his face on it. He later returns with a group of bancho (all defeated by Akira) to assist him against the Five Dark Vows his reason is since Akira took on his 1000 followers to avenge just one friend, he now truly believes in Buddha and he fully believes that Akira is the reincarnation of Acala. He is now enrolled in Akira's school where he acts like a real priest saying that the joining of the former banchos was an act of Buddha, but there are times when his former greedy self appears trying to sell his merchandise. He is shown to be more cowardly in battles but will fight nonetheless. He gets very annoyed when people call him bald. He victory phase is "The afterlife is always open for business."
Raionji's two underlings Seitaka is a wall-sized man and Kongara is extremely flexible and has a steel hard garb. Both of them fight be Kangara bending himself into a ball and Seitaka throwing him. Both are defeated by just one of Akira's punches. When Raionji is defeated they give him the bill for all his merchandises.
She is the Gouriki (Herculean Strength) Banchou. She appears to be a sweet young tomboyish looking girl and attends St. Veronica Academy she comes from a very rich family, despite her petit size she can eat an entire Chanko Nabe by herself this is due to her body's Hyperion Constitution (a rare medical condition that makes her muscle a dozen times denser, more flexible and her organs can keep up with it, with the drawback being a super increased metabolism). She fancies herself a warrior of justice and went around destroying areas of her district that she considered evil or that were used be those who are evil (she destroyed an entire street since a biker gang used it frequently which was disrupting the peace). She tried to destroy a chemical plant since it was polluting the air without thinking about the hazardous chemicals she could release onto the surrounding area. Akira stopped her also during their fight. He showed her that she was acting without any forethought, when defeated she says she's not fit to be a banchou Akira disagreed and called her a splendid banchou since she was willing to risk her life for her underling. She later returns part of the group of banchos that support Akira.
The family butler and Kobushi's private cook who supports her completely. He is a very fast cook able to make a Chanko Nabe in seconds and also he is protective of Kobushi as a father would be. He also seems to have extreme combat ability, able to defeat several of Machine Banchou's robot underlings easily, something that interests Akira.
He is Kobushi's underling and went to request that Akira stop her from destroying more areas in they district. He is twice as big as Akira but nowhere near as strong. He admires Kobushi to the point of someone confusing it for love.
He is the Shirobara (White Rose) Banchou. He is a bishōnen and is narcissistic he wants to fill the world with things he deems beautiful. When he first meet Akira he had his underlings spread white rose petals all over the street while he requested a fair duel with Akira (he was tricked into believing that Akira was gravely wounded so he would have had an advantage). Akira defeated him with one normal punch and told him not to litter the streets. Later back at his base his underlings betrayed him because they were tricked by the Hikyou Bancho, the same man who told him the lie about Akira's wound. He was forced to withdraw when his elderly parents were threatened. He later returned, interrupting the fight Yuu and Akira where he used one of Yuu's little brothers as a shield. There he revealed Yuu's past and tried to get them to kill each other. This backfires with both of them attacking him.
He is the Hikyou (Cowardly) Bancho. His catch phase is "lets fight in a fair, cowardly way" He will use anything to win (lies, sneak attacks, covert weapons, kidnapping, etc.) he attacks Akira with a seris of traps. Using a cell phone shaped pistol on a train to injury his leg, blowing up and office to temporally blinding him, tricking a semi-blind Akira to jump into traffic using a ball (lying to Akira saying it was a grenade) breaking his right arm, kidnapping Tsukimi so that when he finally fights Akira has to hold still. He was defeated when he tried to use a wrecking ball on Akira and was sent back at him. Akira was ready to deliver the final blow when Yuu's underling (Kouta one of his little brother) intervened stopping Akira, Harito appears and uses Kouta as shield telling Yuu to stab Akira. Yuu does so then fake stabs himself trying to save Kouta in the end Akira saved both of them since the knife had no effect on him. His reason for helping Akira is so that Akira will be indebted to help him when needed and he plans to back-stab Akira when he wins control over all the districts (the real reasons is most likely that he is thankful to Akira who worried about his (Yuu's) family even if he tried to kill him). He grew up in an orphanage where he has 13 little brothers and sisters (no blood relation) to support the orphanage (after the owners lost they money to gambling debts) he would do any dirty job for money (blackmail, fraud, stealing, etc.) He wears a burglar mask and cap when he fights so others don't know what he looks like, so they don't set traps for him and also so his family won't be put in danger, he states "if it's for the sake of my precious brothers and sisters I'll be as cowardly as it takes".
Yuu's little brother, he tried to attack Aikra to save his big brother. He is one of 13 little brothers and sisters (not by blood) he knows of Yuu's misdeeds but is still proud of him for what he does to protect and provide for his family.
She is the Sasori (Scorpion) Banchou. She is the former 2nd generation leader of the all-female motorcycle gang 'Red Scorpio'. The first generation leader, who took her in as a mentor, was Kongou Takeshi's (Akira'a Brother) wife and mother to Kongou Rai (Takeshi's son and Akira's nephew). Ever since her death, Sasori Banchou has taken in Rai as some sort of adoptive son for her and has sworn to get revenge on Kongou Takeshi. Due to the similarity between Akira and Takeshi, she mistakes the former for the latter and mercilessly goes after him. The way she puts it, a woman's grudge is worse than the depths of hell and her lethal fighting style and strength seem to support that a big deal. During her fight with Akira she was shown that she was attacking the wrong guy and now she and Akira agreed to share information in order to find Takeshi. Her ponytail curves upward and has a tip making it look like a scorpion's tail. She returns to help fight against Gaugau Banchou. She appears to have a crush on Yuu Akayama, whom she doesn't know is Hikyou Banchou.
Takeshi's son who looks like a mini version of him. He is friends with Tsukimi and acts like Akira. He uses Takeshi's phase "Don't sweat the small stuff". Rai can also use the Double Hammer but his is far weaker than Akira's since he is still a kindergardener.
The Shageki (Gunshot) Banchou.
The Machine Banchou. He was created as an intelligent weapon to singlehandedly stop armed conflicts and military crisises. As a good battle machine, he follows his orders which are to defeat the Banchou in the 23 District Project and gain control over Japan to transform it into a country where everyone follows a strict order under Dr. Kagimiya's rule.
The Dokusen (Monoploy) Banchou.
The both of them are the Doukke (Clown) Bancho. The two sisters were raised as heirs to the best magician known to the world. Before they could talk they were trained to perform magic tricks and at the age of 3 they had already mastered more than one hundred. Doukke Banchou's greatest skill is diversion. They are such a great trickster that few people even notice they are dealing with two people in the disguise of one. Doukke Banchou also is skilled in the use of bladed weapons of all sorts and have the trained bodies of a martial artist or acrobat. They are pretty opportunistic, however not to the point that they would use any means available. They just like to perform magic tricks and fool around with people, not even hesitating to use their own attractive features to confuse the enemy. They controlled 200 underlings.
The Nenchaku (Adhesion) Banchou. He is a freak of nature having the body of a child hidden under thick layers of a slimy, sticky mucus that is covering every little bit of him, he is still far from normal even if he gets rid of that slimy shell. His tongue is extremely long and super sticky while being sharp enough to cut like a knife. His philosophy is "Eat bugs even to survive" meaning he believes in endurance and being persistent about life. Before his defeat he had 100 underlings.
The Kabuki Banchou. He wears kabuki make up and wants everything he does to appear "flashy" and with style. He is the son of the president of the Kaburagi, his favorite food is mitarashi dango with roosted green tea. He does everything using kabuki poses and stances referring to what he does as performances he hates cowards and cowardly moves which is ironic since his fighting style revolves around using hidden puppet-like arms to attack and keep his enemy at bay rather than fight himself. His loathing of cowards made him single out Hikyou Banchou as his opponent, the arena he picked was the simplest since it didn't give Hikyou Banchou any cover to set up any kind of trap or counter attack, He was beating Hikyou Banchou when his stomach started acting up which made him realize the 10 dangos he had before the battle were given to him by Hikyou Banchou (he didn't know since only a very few people know what Hikyou Banchou looks like outside of his banchou clothes) were laced with a very powerful laxative making him abandon the fight to rush to the bathroom which to his horror didn't have any toilet paper (which might have also been planned by Hikyou Banchou). After he tried to kill Akira's group and his own he tried to escape when he found a taxi and asked the driver to take him home when the driver offered him roasted green tea he happily accepted, only after he hearing the driver say it was his favorite he became afraid and realised it was Hikyou Banchou driving the taxi and had drugged his tea. Afterwards he never left home again and is now afraid of his favorite food. He had 300 underlings.
The Kangoku (Prisoner) Banchou. He is a very large and muscular man who wears a small circular cage around his head. His biggest concern is the shortage of housing in Japan to which he says that when he is in control of Japan he would give everyone portable homes much like his steel box (which would require everyone to learn Sahaslare Mudra) which would settle the housing problem since the homes/boxes can be stacked or lined up creating in his words "a fashionable and innovated lifestyle". He is furious about the fact that Shirayukinomiya Kobushi's (Gouriki Banchou) family mansion is four time the size of tokyo dome leading him to say she douesn't the pain of Japan's poor housing situation. He had 400 underlings
The Bakunetsu (Heat Burst) Banchou. His motto is "anyone whose not hot-blooded should die!" Due to him always being hot-blooded he is always yelling when he speaks, due to his weapon of choice he has quite a bit of heat resistance. He is a man that never backs down and can only 'explode' into battle, since backing down to him means defeat and those who are defeated aren't hot-blooded. To him hot-blooded means "To live life facing your goals with unwavering effort and bursting forward with fighting spirit" since many people in Japan look back they are not hot-blooded to him and to him have no value. He admitted defeat when he backs away from Akira during their fight.
The Ourou (King Wolf) Banchou. Similarly to Kongou Banchou, has built up his own group of followers, the 'Wolf Fang', six powerful Banchous who have sworn their loyalty to him, they bow before him like subjects to a king and follow him everywhere.
A group of banchous that have already won their respective district war in the different sections of Japan and are the ones that are supposed to lead Japan when the project is completed. They are highly reconizible because they wear white banchou uniforms instead of the normal black ones. They are proceeding with the Damocles Project (destruction and rebirth of Japan) which is the next step of the district wars even after the tokyo district project was cancelled.
The Nippon (All Japan) Banchou. Takeshi is Akira's older brother and has been a competitor in the 23 Districts Project his father established from the very start. However, he has only recently shown to become active after Akira had interferred with the plans of the project and managed to 'conquer' half of Tokyo's districts on his own. Despite Akiras claims to go and defeat both his father and brother, Takeshi has always been the stronger of the two brothers and moved up the ladder of success at an astonishing rate. After the efforts of the 23 Districts Project were crippled by Akira and forced to a standstill, Takeshi founded the Dark Student Council and changed the Organisations plans to a nation-wide battle. Each Banchou that manages to gain control over one of the remaining 46 prefectures outside of Tokyo is automatically appointed a seat in the Dark Student Council. Members wear white banchou uniforms and their plan is to destroy the civilisation in Japan under Takeshi's lead and the rebuild and restructure the country according to his will.
The Bungaku (Literature) Banchou. Kamitsu is Kongou Takeshi's private secretary. She is also one of the 4 Emperors which stand at the top of the Dark Student Council and all have exceptionally high stats, exceeding those of any other Banchou. Being extremely sharp minded, talented, strong and perceptive, as well as an advanced shapeshifter, she is the perfect person for coordinating all of Nippon Banchou's plans.
In the final page of the last volume she was revealed to have been the (different looking) woman who worried greatly about, and was later extremely upset after the death of, Sayuri Kongou, Akira's and Takeshi's mother, but she did not recognise the children when she first saw them, so whether she was the sister or best friend, their relationship was estranged at the time. Regardless, she is considerably older than she affects, apparently felt the obligation to take care of Takeshi under different guises, fell in love with him at some point (unknown whether this included "Aiko Tsukishima", the mother of his son), helped him with his endeavours, mourned and placed his name on Sayuri's gravestone after his death, and was shown to work as a news anchor in the epilogue.
He is the Kenpei (Military Police) Banchou. Isaki is the executioner among the Four Emperors and he commands over most other, lower Banchous of the Dark Student Council. He is a psychotic yet very level-headed fighter who is obsessed with making his custom-made sword, Canaria, 'sing' in battle by cutting, smashing and gouging his opponents to death. He is quickly disappointed by weak opponents because they can't satisfy his blade and his own hunger for power. He and Iai Banchou once attended the same swordmanship dojo under Isaki Kenji's father, who was the master at that time. Kenpei Banchou killed his own master and father as he saw that he had surpassed him in terms of skill and power even in his teens.
He is the Gedou (Heretic) Banchou. His codename is also his testament to the world; he can best be described as a ruthless coward who did all things from bullying and blackmailing as he grew up to now fighting dirty (but effectively) and taking hostages. He is in that aspect very similar to Hikyou Banchou however unlike Hikyou Banchou who fights for his siblings, Mudou fights for himself and truly is an evil coward. Mudou apparently is also prominent within the Dark Student Council for leading some sort of martial arts division. As one of the Four Emperors, he is right at the top of the Council and a very dangerous man who doesn't hesitate to exploit any weakness of his opponents.
He is the Ousama (Majesty) Banchou. He was originally a scientist who worked for the secret government organization Yatakarasu under whose project also Gokurou and Kongou Hamura participated to train to become the perfect supersoldier for Japan during World War II. Obsessed with the idea of creating a warrior that exceeds the limitations of the Kongou genes, Ousama Banchou did and still does cruel genetic experiments. Originally being small, feisty and weak, he even experimented on himself causing his torso and general body size to alter as he infused himself with the Kongou genes.
The Gau Gau (Chomp Chomp) Banchou.
He is the Drill Banchou. One of the strongest fighters within the Dark Student Council, Drill Banchou is a fairly well-rounded Banchou with a unique set of tools and skills. His left arm is equipped with a drill which he uses for close-combat fighting and his right has an excatavtion machine that adds edge to his fighting style. Despite working for the Dark Student Council, Drill Banchou is a very honorable, friendly, and relaxed person who likes children.
The Unabara (Sea) Banchou looks like a giant, prehistorical shark, easily the largest Bancou seen in the series so far, he had a group of followers which were swordfish.
The Gisou (Disguise) Banchou.
He is the Hakai (Destruction) Banchou. Destruction Banchou was created during the Pacific War during the Second World War as the ultimate supersoldier and secret weapon to defeat the Americans with. He is created with genes of the Kongou-lingeage, thus inheriting all their physical traits and more such as extreme durability, hardened skin and regeneration. Kongou Hamura's father sacrificed his life to seal this dangerous weapon which was supposed to be dropped in America and destroy the country deep into the earth, binding him by wrapping his body around him. Due to him being man made he has the power of regeneration, he doesn't feel fatigue or pain, also he doesn't require food, water or air (he was sealed in tightly-packed earth for more than 60 years) and he does not age.