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[[File:Angel_Densetsu_8968.jpg|frame|Kitano, the scariest looking [[Nice Guy]] ever.]]
''[[Angel Densetsu]]'' (エンジェル伝説 , Legend of Angel) is a [[Shonen]] manga created by Norihiro Yagi (who also created ''[[Claymore]]''). Serialized in Shonen Jump, the story spanned 15 volumes.
It has [[Up to Eleven|more]] [[Trope Tropes]] than [[Tropes]].
''Angel Densetsu'' is a story about Seiichirou Kitano, a kind and naive boy with the [[The Messiah|heart of an angel]], but [[Face of a Thug|the sinister looks of a devil]]. This causes many (hilarious) misunderstandings, leading people to assume that he is a [[Complete Monster|villain]] or heroin addict, and results in him unknowingly receiving the title of being the head thug, or "school guardian" at his new school. This causes him to become [[Shrouded in Myth|a legend]] that brings many thugs to challenge him (which leads to [[It Got Worse|even more misunderstandings]] that further his [[Badass]] image). Kitano, for pretty much all of the series, remains [[Selective Obliviousness|blissfully unaware]] of his reputation, and is frequently confused by the odd behavior of his classmates and teachers around him.
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* [[Abusive Parents]] - Ikuno's father is implied to be one, at the ''very'' least of the [[Training
** Ryoko's father isn't a sterling example of parenthood either.
* [[Accidental Hero]] - Although Kitano is genuinely heroic, his rumored fighting prowess comes from this.
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* [[Actual Pacifist]] - Kitano, which makes all the rumors around him all the more ironic.
* [[All Amazons Want Hercules]] - It's not that Ryoko doesn't like men, it's just that [[Best Her to Bed Her|she can't fall in love with anyone weaker than she is, in body or in spirit]]. Kitano turns out to meet her criteria in both areas, albeit not in the manner she was expecting.
* [[Art Evolution]] - Done in a very big way as Norihiro develops his style.
** One of the most significant changes is that Kitano looks NOWHERE as horrifying as he used to as the art is refined, by the end of the series, his face is completely unrecognizable from the beginning. It may be a case of [[Fridge Brilliance]], as more people grow to know and accept Kitano, he looks less and less like a devil both to the cast AND the Readers. However, [[The Dreaded]] Kitano from the beginning could be considered ''much'' funnier.
* [[Art Shift]] - Used at a point in Ikuno's {{spoiler|rampage through the school}} to...disturbing effect.
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* [[Ax Crazy]] - Ikuno, after {{spoiler|her first "defeat" at Kitano's hands}}, goes on a rampage.
** Everyone who meets Kitano pretty much assumes that he's Ax Crazy, much to his chagrin.
* [[Back for
* [[Badass Decay]] - [[In
** During the last battle, he realized that realistically, he's just a badass amongst comparatively uber-strong people. He settles to be "Hekikuu's #8", and proceeds to kick ass.
* [[Badass in
* [[Badass in Distress]] - Ryoko has gotten into fights she couldn't handle on her own exactly twice: once when Katayama took her down with a cheap shot, and once when she twisted her ankle while dispensing her third consecutive beatdown to a group of obnoxiously persistent thugs. Both times, Kitano was there to bail her out.
* [[Battle Cry]] - Everyone interprets Kitano's "KIIIEEEEE!!" as being this. Same with his father's "GOOOOOOOOHHH!"
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* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Kitano, often.
* [[Combat Pragmatist]] - Katayama may not be the guardian of Hirin, but the fact that he is this trope incarnate is what makes him ''really'' dangerous.
* [[Comically Missing the Point]] - Kitano asks Takehisa to stop getting into fights because he's afraid that he'll get hurt. Takehisa says he understands, he'll just get stronger so he can fight without getting hit once.
** Also, people completely miss the point of mostly EVERYTHING Kitano does or says. Which makes most of the plot happen.
*** A certain amount of [[Fridge Brilliance]] applies as well; since people assume Kitano is a junkie, anything that seems strange or is a non sequitor is put down as the ramblings of a guy high on drugs.
* [[Complete Monster]] - Almost everyone [[In
* [[Confusion Fu]] - Trained fighters have a hard time fighting Kitano because he often reacts to their attacks in a completely unexpected
* [[Covers Always Lie]] - Kitano does not have ''actual'' angel wings.
** Then there's this which seems to depict the student council president and his flunkie as the heroes.
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* [[Delinquent Hair]] - Takehisa's spiked blond hair and complete lack of eyebrows, and Ogisu's bright red pompadour. Kitano gels his naturally-spiky hair down in an attempt to avoid being seen as a delinquent; a quick gander at some of the other tropes on this page can tell you how well ''that'' works.
* [[Determinator]] - Not only Kitano has put up with this treatment for so long, he's actually developing rapid reflexes from being hit so often. And this is only for him to be able to [[Turn the Other Cheek]].
** Put this into perspective, a kid thinks Kitano is a demon (as usual), and asks his [[Action Girl]] friend Ikuno to beat him up. Kitano doesn't know why Ikuno's beating him, but he specifically tells that ''unless I know why I'm getting beaten up, I will always rise again.''<ref>Why? Because otherwise it would be ''rude to the person doing the beating.'' Even most messiahs aren't ''that'' dedicated to turning the other cheek.</ref>
* [[Digging Yourself Deeper]]:
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'''[[Those Two Guys|Kuroda's Lackeys]]''': (''What the hell is he saying?'') }}
* [[Dogged Nice Guy]] - Kitano
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* [[Even the Guys Want Him]]: Kitano. Also overlaps with [[Chick Magnet]].
* [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"|Every One Calls Her Friend #A]]: Ikuko, until her name's revealed. Some still call her so even then.
* [[Evil Cannot Comprehend Good]]: Inverted. [[The Messiah|Kitano]] cannot follow the conversation of the people around him about 80% of the time because they are talking about doing bad things, or fighting. He just cannot understand that anyone would ever want to do either of those things. People can be actively attacking him and he will still not get the point.
* [[Face of a Thug]] - [[media:
** Lampshaded by [[The Ditz|Hishida Haruka]], who tries to make him less scary. She succeeds... for several panels (Kitano does look like a normal person with his hair down). What she doesn't know that his hair, when not secured with his hair gel, tends to go up, and this makes him ''scarier''. See Looks Like Cesare entry below.
* [[Finishing Move]] - Whenever Kitano uses what Ikuno dubs as his "double palm strike", that usually means the fight is over and he wins. Two things about it: it's a standard shove, yet it's just that strong, so strong it makes people '''fly'''.
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** Kitano himself, as he often thinks that school thugs are nice people, and mistakes normal people for hoodlums.
** Student Saeki Yumi subverts this by seeing a hint of the real Kitano, then exemplifies the trope when something hilarious and terrifying happens to reset her option of him. Twice.
* [[Hot Shounen Mom]] - Midori Kitano, in a [[The Addams Family
* [[Huge Guy, Tiny Girl]] - Kitano's dad is ludicriously buff and gigantic, while his mom is normal-sized. Kitano himself is [[One Head Taller]] than Ryoko.
* [[Idiot Ball]] - Kuroda's is [[Too Dumb to Live|permanently glued to him]], but Kitano's is [[Selective Obliviousness|pretty sticky too]].
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*** It's more that Kitano shows a natural ability to either avoid or minimize damage by retreating at the instant of impact (a skill doubtlessly acquired by years of people attacking him based on his appearance) and mistake it for a honed martial arts technique. His "finishing move" aside, how many of his opponents end up on the ground generally ''is'' a total fluke, depending on the circumstances and often, Kitano is the only one around to see it, causing people to make the usual assumptions.
* [[I Know Mortal Kombat]] - Kiyomi Kaburagi is a pretty convincing ninja, considering her training is in ''photography''. She even has <s>[[Hammerspace|Hammer]]</s> [[Hammerspace|Camera Space]].
* [[In Love
** Yuji is initially this way with Kitano.
** Ryoko too has her moments.
** Ikuno too. She even said it outright more than once.
* [[Insane Troll Logic]] - Kitano is very guilty of this, but Kuroda takes the cake trying to explain why old Russian spies posing as teenagers are throwing stones at him (It still makes NO sense whatsoever, [[Makes Sense in Context|even in context]]).
* [[I See London]] - [[Halfbreed|Sana Halford]] accidentally gives her father and brother a look up her skirt after she collapses in shock from seeing Kitano through their home's window.
* [[It Got Worse]] - The myths circulating about Kitano. Anything he does, no matter how innocent, ends with more people worshiping and fearing him.
* [[It Runs in The Family]] - Apparently Kitano's incredibly scary looks were inherited from his father (who looks like a [[Yakuza]]) and his mother (who is so abnormally beautiful that it ''scares people'').
* [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy]] - while Ikuno is interested in Kitano, she'd prefer that he and Ryoko to get together... so she can become Kitano's mistress and they'd ''[[
* [[Japanese Delinquents]] - A ''lot'' of them. Of course, the character that everyone thinks is the evilest delinquent of them all turns out to be a [[The Messiah|wonderful person]].
* [[Kissing Cousins]] - Midori Asai (AKA the future Mrs. Kitano) and her cousin Chuji in the Days of Our Youth arc. Neither of them is particularly dedicated to the relationship, however: Chuji sees Midori as just another girl in his harem, and Midori is... well, [[Foregone Conclusion|the future Mrs. Kitano]].
* [[Kissing Discretion Shot]] - {{spoiler|The conclusion to 15 volumes of sexual tension.}}
* [[Kubrick Stare]] / [[Slasher Smile]]- Basically Kitano's default expression.
* [[Lampshade Hanging]] - Lots and lots of it, especially when the [[Large Ham]] is around.
** "You are a very loud person."
** And to the Shonen genre: "Who do you think you are? An enemy character in a fighting manga?"
* [[Large Ham]] - Kuroda. He usually addresses Ryoko by screaming her full name, gives a passionate monologue about the personal sacrifices that Soviet spies have to make after he saw a girl he didn't recognize, and is prone to maximum volume declarations of his plans to elope with Ryoko. Kikuchi of the photography club doesn't get a lot of page-time, but he seems to have similar tendencies. In the course of two pages he tells Kitano that that he'll give him an ass-whupping with the [[Power of Friendship]] and then makes the case for being a [[Knight Templar]]. One of the other photography club members hangs a lampshade on it.
* [[Lightning Bruiser]] - Takes hit after hit and keeps getting up, moves faster than most people can follow, and if pushed, hits hard enough to literally send humans flying. If Kitano wasn't an [[Actual Pacifist]], he'd be this.
* [[Looks Like Cesare]] - Kitano is unnaturally pale; when his hair stands up, he "looks like [[Death Note
* [[Loud of War]] - Kuroda, without any kind of amplification device... and without any clue he's actually doing it. (Not that he usually has any clue whatsoever, mind you.)
** Ryoko's father does this quite a bit too.
* [[Love Triangle]] - There's one between Kitano, Ryoko, and Kuroda. Later, there's one between Kitano, Ryoko, and Ikuno.
** Evolves into a (luckily toned down) [[Love Dodecahedron]] later on. Kitano is [[The Messiah]] and loves everyone, Ryoko loves him and they're the [[Official Couple]]. Kuroda cannot wrap his brain around this and continues to hit on Ryoko despite being routinely kicked in the face. [[Ho Yay|Yuji]] and Ikuno have a crush on Kitano and start to be [[Foe Yay]] for each other. Ikuno gets a shota admirer and Kitano a loli one (who are brother and sister). Leo appreciates Kitano, but Sana really dislikes/is jealous of Ikuno. Oh, and Kitano gets a [[Stalker
** Ikuno takes the cake; she openly states that she supports Kitano and Ryoko's relationship and thinks they should get married... so that she can move in with them as Kitano's mistress.
* [[Love You and Everybody]] - Ikuno likes Kitano... and Ryoko, and Ryoko's friend #A, and Takehisa, and Kuroda, and Ogisu, and....
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* [[Nightmare Fetishist]] - Ikuno and Ryoko.
* [[Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant]] - Kitano
* [[No Ending]] - The protagonists were getting totally out of hand for the author by the end of the series, so he tied up what he could and left us with a "the manga stops here, but they're going on with their lives" message. However the very end does feature a great [[Grand Finale]].
* [[No Name Given]] - Ryoko's petite, short-haired friend is this during the first part of the manga. We eventually learn her given name is Ikuko about halfway through, but her family name ({{spoiler|Hirayama}}) isn't made explicit until the final volume.
* [[Oh Crap]] - Asai's expression, during the Days of Our Youth arc of Kitano's parents when they were young.
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** [[Manly Tears]]
** [[Slasher Smile]]
* [[The Dreaded]] - Subverted hilariously. Most of the [[Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant|insanely nightmare-ish looking drawings of Kitano]] would normally scare the shit out of readers if they were present in a [[Horror]] manga - the only thing is that his kindly thoughts and good hearted intentions are shown clearly to the reader, making it funny instead. Of course, that doesn't prevent him from being [[The Dreaded]] to the other characters [[In
* [[The Power of Love]] - [[Invoked]] and [[Subverted]] oh so much during the time when the local [[Schemer]] convinces Kuroda that he must save Ryoko from Kitano using [[The Power of Love]]. Too bad for him that she doesn't ''want'' to be rescued.
* [[The Power of Friendship]]: [[Invoked]] and [[Subverted]]. Nothing resists the aura of Kitano.
* [[Punch-Punch-Punch Uh-Oh]]: Most fights against Kitano look like this to the outside observer.
* [[The Renfield]] - Vice-President Koide. [[Student Council President|Sudo]] even bemoans the fact that his only "pawn" is a bumbling moron that can't seem to get things right.
* [[Sadist Teacher]] - Well, actually the principal - he's constantly hiring thugs and correctional teachers to try to get Kitano expelled (because Kitano "is a demon!"). In a kind of subversion, most of the teachers in the series are ''afraid'' to pick on Kitano.
** Further subversion in that the one who causes the most trouble for Kitano actually has truly good intentions... but is going about it all wrong and said poor efforts only do further damage.
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* [[Those Two Guys]] - The guys who are always with Kuroda. [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] hilariously in a discussion between the [[Student Council President]] and the vice-president on how there's not much info on those two and that it was a miracle to get their full names at all.
* [[Too Dumb to Live]] - Kuroda; his [[Idiot Ball]] is so big it powers a good third of the story. (We even have [[Word of God]] he has that specific role.)
* [[Took a Level
* [[Transfer Student Uniforms]] - Due to transferring to so many schools (her father is a guidance counselor), Ikuno refuses to change her uniform again.
* [[Turn the Other Cheek]] - When [[Axe Crazy|Ikuno]] beats Kitano because of a promise she made to a boy, he kept rising until the boy told her to stop out of grief. Upon being told by Ikuno that [[It's All My Fault]] that she beats him, he promptly collapses. Why? ''Because he thinks he made her so angry that he deserved every punch and kicks Ikuno threw at her''. He collapses in relief because that meant their friendship would now not be in trouble as he didn't do anything wrong. My God...
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* [[Unexplained Recovery]] - Parodied. Kitano was thought to have died fighting a Yakuza (his father) earlier. His classmates were absolutely terrified when he came to school later that day.
* [[The Un-Smile]]: Oh GOD Kitano...
* [[Unknown Rival]] - The first time that Sudo tried to antagonize Kitano, Kitano genuinely had no idea of who he was or what he was doing here. Being thoroughly ignored was a pretty low blow for someone [[Smug Snake|as full of himself as]] Sudo.
* [[Unwanted Rescue]] - Kuroda's idea of "rescuing" Ryoko from Kitano with his [[Power of Love]]. Of course, not only is Kitano a kind-hearted and wonderful person who would never do anything bad to her (or anyone), Ryoko doesn't ''want'' to be rescued, because she likes Kitano.
* [[Used to Be
* [[Villain Sue]]: [[In
* [[Violently Protective Girlfriend]] - Ryoko.
* [[Waif Fu]] - Ryoko, partially justified because she's a martial artist and everything, but she's 1.67 meters tall and weighs ''49 kilos'' (just a bit under 5'6" and a bit over 100 pounds, for the metrically challenged).
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