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[[File:rsz_holyland_8625.jpg|frame|Kamishiro Yuu]]

 

 

Meet Kamishiro Yuu, a young high school student who was bullied during middle school. The harassment gets to the point he stops going to school and starts secretly training to fight. A year later, disconnected from life around him, he has taken to roaming the streets looking for a place to belong.

He unleashes his secret left-right combo on random street thugs and in doing so gains a reputation as a thug hunter. He ends up fighting increasingly strong opponents as everyone wants to test his skill. Though the series deals a little with the reality of gang violence, people beaten into comas are usually out of the hospital in a few chapters.

 

* [[Acrofatic]]: Iwado. Notes mention how most people underestimate the speed of judoka.

* [[Almighty Janitor]]: Many gangsters who know karate won't take the black belt test even if they can fight at that level. Justified as having a black belt gives police more ammunition against them.

** Yuu has admited several times that he doesn't know if he's on the "good" side, there's a time when he recognizes that even those who picked fights on him where posibly "protecting their holyland". This goes to the point that Izawa comments on how stupid is to gather up to just "commit crimes".

** Yuu admits that [[Sympathy for the Devil|he is similar to them]]; they too are just looking for a place to belong to and protecting that place. The biggest difference between him and them is that due to him being bullied, he developed a shy, timid, humble, and more considerate personality, which is the opposite of most of the hot-headed, conceited, jackass thugs.

*** [[Invoked Trope|Yuu knows it,]] too, and swings between acceptance and fear of becoming this. More towards acceptance in recent chapters.

* [[Book Ends]]: The series both starts and ends with a rookie entering the world of the back-alley street fighting and thug scene in the hope of finding a place he can 'belong' to. {{spoiler|Only in the ending, the [[Naive Newcomer]] has the Thug Hunter still around and looking out for him.}}

* [[But I Read a Book About It]]: Yuu first learnt boxing through a book.

* [[Clark Kent Outfit]]: Later volumes when Yuu gets quite muscle bound, while in his school uniform, t-shirts or wearing long sleeve shirts his muscles are barely notable. Only in a normal shirt you can see how far his body has developed.

* [[Conservation of Ninjutsu]]: Averted as Yuu can win one-on-one duels, but usually does poorly in a target-rich environment.

* [[Combat Pragmatist]]: Several times, the narration will point out the differences between sparring and street fighting and the no-holds-barred nature of the latter.

* [[Hope Spot]]: The ending. {{spoiler|Yuu has beaten King and had his final showdown with Masaki, where he admits Yuu's the better fighter. Then, on the way back from his final fight in the series, [[Dropped a Bridge on Him|Yuu is stabbed with a knife by a nobody and left to die alone in an alleyway]]. The final [[Time Skip]] volume plays with whether or not he's really dead, as nobody has seen him in the interim and they [[Never Found the Body]], [[Subverted Trope|until Yuu finally shows up alive in the last two pages]].}}

* [[I Just Want to Be Normal]]: Yuu, often.

* [[Informed Ability]]: Yoshii's knife-fighting, considering that he gets demolished by an injured Masaki immediately afterwards.

* [[Invulnerable Knuckles]]: Averted. Yuu breaks or otherwise injures his knuckles a few times and takes to wearing protective gear.

* [[Pay Evil Unto Evil]]: Invoked by Yuu in his speech before he {{spoiler|fights Taka}}. "All I know is that I will answer malice... with violence."

* [[Poor Communication Kills]]: Another common theme, and a serious source of drama.

* [[The Red Baron]]: Yuu, "the Thug Hunter". Masaki, "the Charisma of the Streets".

* [[The Resenter]]: {{spoiler|Shougou eventually becomes this.}}