Kongoh Bancho

Kongoh Bancho
The cover of Kongoh Bancho volume 1
金剛番長 (Kongō Banchō)
Genre	Action
Manga
Written by	Nakaba Suzuki
Published by	Shogakukan
Demographic	Shōnen
Magazine	Weekly Shōnen Sunday
Original run	2007 – 2010
Volumes	12

Kongoh Bancho (Japanese: 金剛番長, Hepburn: Kongō Banchō) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Nakaba Suzuki. The manga began its serialization in Shōnen Sunday from 2007 and ended at 12 volumes in 2010.

Akira Kongoh 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 Kiryu 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 banchō, 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 Kiryu 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 taken a turn for the better.