“Transfer student Akira Kongou becomes Shiritsu Raimei's gang leader, battling 23 rival schools' delinquents.”
Kongou Banchou
金剛番長
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Synopsis
Transfer student Akira Kongou becomes Shiritsu Raimei's gang leader, battling 23 rival schools' delinquents.
The "Diamond Delinquent" Akira Kongou transfers to Shiritsu Raimei High School and despite his insistence that he isn't a banchou (a Japanese student delinquent and gang leader), he quickly rises in the ranks of Shiritsu Raimei's gang until he becomes the leader. Now Akira takes part in schoolyard battles against the bullies and punks from the twenty-three neighboring schools. (Source: MU)
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A Manga Publication
- Format 115 × 12 ch × vol
- Total read 15h 20m approx
- Published Oct 2007 – Mar 2010
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M7583 catalog