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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.
* [[Always Chaotic Evil]]: Majority of [[Delinquents]] and other gangsters seem to exist only to cause trouble.
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*** [[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.}}
* [[Broken Ace]]: Masaki. He is at first presented as everything Yuu is not: Calm, experienced, self-confident, an expert fighter and a martial arts prodigy in both karate and boxing, and highly respected. Eventually, his backstory reveals he's basically a two year older Yuu who went through even worse things (including a suicide attempt), came out broken and cynical, and has basically given up on trying to move forward after reaching his current slump.
* [[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.
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* [[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.
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* [[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.
* [[I Am Not Left-Handed]]: {{spoiler|King, who appeared to be just a drug trafficking boss, is quite the fighter, he is disciplined in Chinese Kenpo and even managed to strike fear in Shougo's heart}}.
* [[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.
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