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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.
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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* [[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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