Takahashi Kouji

Osaka Tsutenkaku University is a prestigious school with a deviation score of 70. Yoshinari Takagi, the captain of the "Mahjong Club," which stands out from the rest of the school, puts his intellect, strength, luck, spirit, and guts into the game of mahjong in this drama of the soul!

Kaminari Seijuro is a fearsome Yakuza of the Jinbo unit, who operate in the Roppongi Red Light District of Tokyo. But what Kaminari really longs for is the Game of Kings, Golf. If he can survive the violent competition over control of Tokyo's night life, hopefully he can fit in 18 holes.

Gripping the wheel of a monster truck with a displacement of 30,000cc and 1,000 horsepower, Hanamaru Bakuzo drives down the road of justice! Together with new delivery driver Kuriyama, he takes on deliveries more dangerous than the next.

The story follows Tachibana Misaki, a 15-year-old girl who's bullied at school. In her quest to become stronger, she decides to enter the delinquent path, aiming for a shinny tomorrow.

The series began as a fairly humorous and lighthearted satire of Japan's teenage delinquent-gang subculture told from the perspective of Matsushita Tadashi (who also narrates these early Karate Bu stories), a 2nd year student at Kangokou High and a constant target of Kangokou's numerous bullies who beat him up routinely after school. He is almost always accompanied by his best friend Saitou Takaki, who is also constantly harassed. As the pair grow increasingly tired of being victimized they decide to join the titular Karate Club, which is notorious throughout Osaka's youth gangs for training and producing the city's most hardened and toughest teenage thugs while maintaining the facade of a legit school sports club. But when they join the club, they find themselves picked on just as much if not worse by the club's current members. But as the story progresses they grow to be increasingly capable fighters. Along with the manga's change in attitude and central character, the various teenage fighters throughout the series grew increasingly stronger and even began to tap into superhuman ki abilities, putting Osu!! Karate Bu in the company of other similar epic Shōnen fighting manga such as Yu Yu Hakusho, Dragon Ball, and Fist of the North Star. Osu!! Karate Bu was wildly popular in its native Japan, but is otherwise almost completely unknown in most other countries. It spawned a four episode OVA mini-series released over a period of two years from 1990-1992, a 1990 live action movie, and a 1994 Super Famicom fighting game.