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The [[Yakuza]], Japan's indigenous organized crime syndicates, tend to have very little respect for delinquents. In their eyes, they're ''professional'' criminals with a sense of tradition, whereas yankis are just young punks with an attitude.
For delinquents in general, including the Western types, see [[Delinquents]] and [[Lower Class Lout]]. See [[Former Teen Rebel]] for when this is a part of an adult character's history,
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* The Capsules, Kenda's bousouzoku gang from ''[[Akira]]'', and many of their classmates.
* In [[Fruits Basket]], there was a trio of middle school aged yanki wannabes who tried to pick a fight with Uotani after stalking her for over an hour. Uotani is easily able to talk some sense into them.
* ''[[Blassreiter]]'' features a particularly [[Complete Monster]] (specifically [[Teens Are Monsters]]) group of delinquents who terrorize everyone in their path from fellow schoolmates to [[Adults Are Useless|Useless Adults]] with no fear of reprisal (their ability to manipulate characters and to escape karmic retribution is rage-inducing, but largely for how obvious a rage plant they are). Physical and verbal [[Kick the Dog|dog kicking]] abound, in addition to {{spoiler|[[Driven to Suicide|driving a major character's friend to suicide]]}}. These three school kids seem to run their neighborhood, and for all we know the entire country of Japan, with an iron fist {{spoiler|until their reign eventually comes to an end as they are fittingly murdered during the second arc of the series, but}} the sour taste of their deeds doesn't wash out right away, as much a result of the implausibility of their overblown [[Kick the Dog|dog kicking]] as the heinousness of it.
* Subverted for multiple times in ''[[Daily Lives of High School Boys]]''. Motoharu is ''called'' one and looked like one, but he's more a [[Nice Guy]]. This goes with most of the Sanada North's School Council sans the [[School Council President]]; all of them have a serious case of [[Face of a Thug]] despite being actually sensible and well-mannered guys. [[Lampshaded]] when the other school's Student Council arrives at the council room and first thought they went into a delinquents' office by mistake.
* Some minor annoyances in ''[[Urusei Yatsura]]'' are delinquents who are too stupid to stay away from Tomobiki High.
** [[Hokuto no Ken|Kenshiro]] [[The Cameo|showed up]] in one episode as the school banchou.
* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V]]''; the main character's [[Beware the Quiet Ones| ''mother'' used to be a ''leader'' of a group like this.]]
* Scud and his gang from ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! The Dark Side of Dimensions]]'', although Scud is, unlike Jonouchi's former gang, very much a [[Miles Gloriosus]].
* Played with in Minowa Hijiri from ''[[Bakuon!!]]'', a a very proper and polite [[Lonely Rich Kid]] who wants ''terribly'' to be a delinquent, and thinks that by joining her high school's motorcycle club (and beating everyone at a game of "chicken" while riding in the sidecar of a motorcycle driven by her ''butler'') that she is finally a "bad girl". She ''isn't'', not by any measure, but she takes such an innocent delight in thinking that she's now a delinquent that no one else in the club seems inclined to disabuse her of the notion.
=== [[Live-Action TV]] ===
* In episode 30 of ''[[Engine Sentai Go-onger]]'', Sousuke and Ren get brainwashed into baddies; while Sousuke wears the jacket and pants, Ren goes the 'yankii' route with a Hawaiian shirt.
** A similar example in the previous year's ''[[Juken Sentai Gekiranger]]'', with Ran being turned into a ''sukeban''. {{spoiler|Then they learn that their mentor Miki ''used to be a real one''.}}
=== [[Video Games]] ===
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* The main cast in ''[[Angel Densetsu]]''. The [[Face of a Thug|scariest looking]] of the bunch, however is [[The Messiah]], and manages to mellow them all down. (Kuroda and Ogisu remain totally useless people, so they do not count). <s> Most</s>All of the guidance counsellors too.
* Naruto Uzumaki from ''[[Naruto]]'', at the beginning of the series. He even gets the standard ''yankii'' uniform during the [[High School AU]] ending credits.
* Joey Wheeler/Katsuya Jounouchi from ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'', before the show begins. Some episodes of the manga featured his old gang as antagonists.
* [[Yandere Kanojo]] has several, most prominently the female lead, Reina Ryuuzaki, as well as some of her old delinquent friends and rivals as minor characters. The title of the manga is even a pun on Reina's nature as Manabu Tanaka's yankee but dere dere girlfriend ([[I Thought It Meant|rather than her going]] [[
* ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]] [[Spin Offspring|ViVid]]'' has Hallie Tribeca, one of Vivio and Einhart's rivals in the [[Tournament Arc|Inter-Middle Tournament]] and the leader of a small gang of female delinquents.
* ''Shounan Bakusozoku'' (aka ''Bomber Bikers of Shonan'') is one of the most popular entries into the Delinquent genre (in Asia anyway). It's premise is a parody of the trope (Eguchi isn't only the leader of the Biker gang but also of the school's handicraft club), but the series plays it straight quite often.
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