Rokudenashi Blues
| Rokudenashi Blues | |
Cover art from volume 16 of the Rokudenashi Blues manga
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| ろくでなしBLUES | |
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| Genre | Sports, Action, Drama |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Masanori Morita |
| Published by | Shueisha |
| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Magazine | Weekly Shōnen Jump |
| Original run | 1988 – 1997 |
| Volumes | 42 |
| Anime film | |
| Directed by | Takao Yoshisawa |
| Studio | Toei Animation |
| Released | July 11, 1992 |
| Runtime | 30 minutes |
| Anime film | |
| Rokudenashi Blues 1993 | |
| Directed by | Hiroyuki Kakudō |
| Written by |
Shun'ichi Yukimuro Yoshiyuki Suga |
| Studio | Toei Animation |
| Released | July 24, 1993 |
| Runtime | 50 minutes |
| Live-action film | |
| Directed by | Hiroyuki Nasu |
| Studio | TV Tokyo, Pony Canyon |
| Released | February 24, 1996 |
| Live-action film | |
| Rokudenashi Blues 2 | |
| Directed by | Muroga Atsushi |
| Studio | TV Tokyo, Pony Canyon |
| Released | 1998 |
| Television drama | |
| Studio | Nippon Television |
| Original run | July 6, 2011 – September 28, 2011 |
Rokudenashi Blues (ろくでなしBLUES?, lit. "Good-for-Nothing Blues") is a boxing-themed manga series authored by Masanori Morita that was serialized in the Weekly Shōnen Jump from 1988 to 1997.
The story stars Taison Maeda (前田太尊 Maeda Taison?), delinquent student of Teiken High (帝拳高校?) who wishes to become the world boxing champion. The manga follows Maeda (and his friends and rivals) as he struggles through three years of high school while becoming one of the strongest and best known high school fighters in all of Tokyo. Not just a pure action manga, Rokudenashi Blues is filled with humor and well-crafted story arcs about honor, friendship, and the pressures of being a delinquent student in Japan. Short gag-stories with chibi versions of characters are published as "Rokudenashi Buru-chu".
Rokudenashi Blues has a wide-arching cast of characters that live in and go to school around Tokyo that must deal with the pressures and struggles that come from being involved in the delinquent struggles of honour and strength.
The 4 Heavenly Kings are what the students of Tokyo consider the strongest fighters in Tokyo. They each come from a separate district and often come into contact with each other throughout the later half of the manga, which often result in bloody, drawn out dog fights between the schools involved.
Kichijōji is the area of Tokyo that Maeda and his friends are from. At the start of the manga most of the action that takes place involves the different schools from the area such as Yonekura Industrial before branching off into the other districts of Tokyo and even to the south of Japan.
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