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[[File:rsz_holyland_8625.jpg|frame|Kamishiro Yuu]]
''[[Holyland]]'' is a 2000-2008 manga by Kōji Mori, who also did ''[[Suicide Island]]'' and was a close friend of the late [[Kentaro Miura]]. It is a fairly realistic martial arts-based series with footnotes on how any used or subverted trope fits in with how martial arts really work.▼
▲''[[Holyland]]'' is a fairly realistic martial arts-based series with footnotes on how any used or subverted trope fits in with how martial arts really work.
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.
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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.
Complete at 182 chapters in 18 volumes in Japan. The series was adapted into a Live-Action TV Drama in 2005
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* [[Acrofatic]]: Iwado. Notes mention how most people underestimate the speed of judoka.
* [[Adults Are Useless]]: A major theme in the series, the teenager characters live in a total alien world to adults; the night streets, the fighting, their Holyland, adults make no part of it and the teens don't miss their company.
* [[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.
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** 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.
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* [[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.
* [[Reality Ensues]]:
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**Katou may be a tough cookie because he's drugged up to the point that he can [[Feel No Pain]], but he's still human and thus subject to the same biomechanics and needs as anyone else. He gets beaten when one of King's MMA fighter bodyguards twists him into a pretzel and then chokes him out.
**In the penultimate chapter, after two climactic battles, {{spoiler|Yuu gets stabbed out of nowhere by a nobody. He doesn't die, but it leaves his fate in doubt long enough that people start asking questions. No matter how good one is at powering through blunt force trauma, getting stabbed is a whole different matter, not something that can be shrugged off.}}
* [[The Red Baron]]: Yuu, "the Thug Hunter". Masaki, "the Charisma of the Streets".
* [[The Resenter]]: {{spoiler|Shougou eventually becomes this.}}
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