Hey everyone! You might wonder why the voiceover starting at 11:06 sounds like it was recorded with a calculator! Well, due to a copyright claim I had to remove the music for that part of the video :( better than losing all my ad revenue for this one over a 2-minute long song, though! Hope you enjoy the video regardless!
In fact, the manga "BE-BOP-HIGHSCHOOL" is modeled after the real Fukuoka Daiichi High School. It's quite different now, but back in the 1970s and 1980s, high schools with low academic scores often attracted delinquents, and at the time there were about three notorious delinquent schools in Fukuoka city, competing for supremacy.
I had a homie named Hans from Japan in the 90s and he told me his dad was a gangster like my dad and said the Japanese gangs loved the style and lowriders of the Mexican ZuitSuits and Cholos
@@raider_reaper_4194 There is actually a Cholo subculture in Japan inspired by westcoast-American cholo/latino culture. There are videos about it on youtube, it's quite fascinating.
To everyone who likes this japanese subculture i really recomend: ''GodspeedYou Black Emperor'' Documentary about bosozoku gang ''Blue Spring'' Film made based on a manga about a school gang ''Bad Company'' manga, GTO and shonan jun ai gumi prequel, great story and the beginning Onizuka and ryuichi's friendship. ''Rokudenashi Blues'' manga, ''the good for nothing blues'' tells the story of a young delinquent that becomes a boxer ''Crows'' 90's manga, this is popular but in the original manga you can even find music recommended by the mangaka and he explains a little bit of himself and what inspires him. Those are some of my favorites that i can remember right now
Will add Blazing Familigia, it's a drama which revolves around reminiscing their Bosozoku days and on how that affected their adulthood and it's somewhat a revenge film also. Pacchigi - story about Korean-Japanese yankii's.. Sorta comedy, action drama movie and has a movie sequel when they are adults Waruboro - an average Highschool guy has had enough of his yankii friend and he became one too. Go!! - Third-generation Korean, Sugihara, is a student at a Japanese high school after graduating from a North Korean junior high school in Japan. Bad Boys (2010) - Has a remake j-drama called Bad Boys J Majisuka Gakuen - AKB48 J-drama centered around Sukebans Rookies - Baseball Yankii J-drama My Boss, My Hero - A heir to the Yakuza must hide his identity and become a highschool graduate to inherit the position. He is an Idiot and he uses his brawn rather than his brains. Holyland (J-drama) - don't watch the k-drama version because it sucks Demekin (Movie) Drop (Movie and J-drama) Hard Romanticker Will Update once i remember all the stuff i watched through the years. Just add a comment so that it will notify me.
My moms best friend was a Marine aid de camp Lt. second grade something or other, stationed in Okinawa. Or maybe a captain, whatever. She was telling us about this motorcycle gang on Okinawa that was obsessed with Elvis from "Jailhouse Rock", trying to style their hair,dress, look and talk the same way as Elvis in Jailhouse Rock. She said it was the most surreal thing she saw on Okinawa.
@@willflint8443 I remember seeing them in 2008 too. In the 90s it was more dirt bikes than scooters, so it really caught me offguard. Back then there was also a magazine called Teens Road (ティーンズロード ) that used to document all the Yanki, Furyou, and Bosozoku stuff. Still have a couple issues. It's weird to hear that it died out in the 70s (note: haven't finished watching the video yet).
Your channel was one of the most fun things I discovered this year. You picked all things I really like to dig in about Japanese history and make such a cool content that I can't stop watching. Congratulations!
I only knew of these two through Japanese pop culture, so your video is greatly appreciated as it’s fascinating to glimpse the reality that inspired the entertainment. Subscribed!
I always wondered why Sailor Jupiter/Makoto, contrary to the others, was wearing a longer school skirt . She is also fighting back boys and a "tougher character" in general. Interesting to see that this is a reference to the sukeban 😲🤩
Yeah, it's brought up in the early arcs. Makoto had trouble in her previous school because people assumed she was a "bad girl" (presumably meaning sukeban) since she was larger than most girls and knew how to fight, even though she actually only fought to protect innocent kids. Her longer skirt was undoubtedly meant to reference that.
@@jasonblalock4429 I thought her different outfit was something about her not being able to fit the sizing for the regular one? It's been years since I watched/read it though so I might totally be misremembering that
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought of that. Sure some would say yusuke but look at his face. He looks more like a live action kuwabara. Something the live action netflix series couldn't do
The greatest piece of information i learned from this is that the hairstyles in jojos bizarre adventure werent some insane imagination, but insane real life hairstyles 😂
Have to say, of all your videos I’ve watched so far, this is by far my favourite. Very informative about a part of Japanese subculture I knew nothing about. Thank you.
My dad told me so many stories, they were seriously bad ass. The way they used to walk around and people used to part around them. But my father ended up joining the military and retiring from there. He said the military straightened him out. He really didn’t and still does not like Americans as they bombed his home Hiroshima and killed older siblings. I think he was a bancho.
I still despite the yanks for all the atrocities especially committing genocide on millions of my people in my country during their colonization of 48 years. They never offer any sincere public apology and never pay reparations. Even after our so called independence, they are still meddling with our internal government, dictating us what to do, coercing and threatening us with sanctions if we don't obey them! Last but not the least, they are using us a proxy for their their proxy wars to generat profits for the military industrial complex, Wall Street and politicians, and to maintain their number 1 empire and world control through authoritarian, dictatorship, tyranny, imperialism under the guise of democracy! In short, forgiveness is not an option!
It's weird to think there's probably an American with the exact mirror story to your dad. Bad kid who joined the military, and hates the Japanese for WW2, I swear I've heard the story a million times😂. Tell your dad he's badass
Bruh that sht does not look a bit “badass” at all with that goofy Elvis hairstyle.. No way they remind me of those “bad guys” in anime that’s just a mad disrespectful joke to the one’s who would be cruel demons compared to these goofs if you think they’re “badass”
Bancho also had a big influence on video games via the Kunio Kun series, which gave birth to the "beat em up" genre. The first game, Nekketsu Renegade Kunio-kun.. localized in the West as "Renegade" and was given a "Warriors" movie makover, which then spun off to the Double Dragon series. The whole "take their lunch money" and "bicycle chain / metal pipe" thing was brought into the series with "Downtown Nekketsu Monogatari" (River City Ransom in the West)... and years later the Scott Pilgrim comic and film used the whole "beat em up, get money" as part of that universe, though the original "delinquent" intent had been lost.
And don't forget Capcom's "Rival Schools: United By Faith" on PS1 back in '97/'98, that was (and still is) one of my favorite fighting game of all time, for it also had a Bancho/Sukeban anesthetic to it! 🤘🏾🤘🏾🤘🏾
There's a more recent beat up game called "The Friends of Ringo Ishikawa" on steam. It was released 6 years ago. It's propably inspired also by the Kunio Kun series. It has pretty cool pixel art. Also i'm playing Shenmue nowadays and both Boncho and Sukeban is in the game and you fight against them sometimes. The hairstyle of the bonchos the long skirt of Sukebans, it's all there!
Just to toss in, there's also the cult classic Kenka Bancho: Badass Rumble on PSP, which plays kind of like a mix of Kunio-Kun and Like A Dragon, but geared around replayability and meta-progression. And I wish we could get more games from the series in the west. All the other entries don't even have fan translations, much less official releases.
As an american this is very interesting. I grew up around gangs and became friend with a good amount of gang members. Of course Japanese delinquent gangs are on a MUCH smaller scale than American gangs (I mean they're school kids) but I see patterns of behavior between them and the people I knew growing up
Yea American gangs started off being more the Japanese gangs, it wasnt until the 70's and 80's that the biker and street gangs turned more militant. Its also almost impossible to grow up in America without meeting a gang member, i had a friend who's father was a hells angel and many of my school friends went on to join street gangs.
Based off my own experiences as an American that grew up in a gang heavy town these Japanese school groups also seem a lot less harmful and much more organized and strict with their rules. I remember growing up in school you could be shot or stabbed just for saying the wrong thing to the wrong kid and selling heroin, meth, and xanax were big things
@@yuyutubee8435anti socials dont tend to mix with a bunch of guys, they mostly sit alone or with another friend max. Totally different from the average gang member...
@@Yo_Vuzzen777 oh yeah his name is Yoshihisa Kishimoto. And he claim he was a "Delinquent" and a troublemaker in his younger days. So Kunio from River City Ransom was sort of based of himself
This was a cool video. On the surface I see similarities between Japanese school gangs and American school gangs. But when you go into details I see how unique the history and dynamic is.
Back in the early nineties I used to battle with the local bancho and his crew. I shut them down and eventually we showed each other respect. The bancho eventually died on a motorcycle in 95.He was the baddest bancho ever and his name was Yasuto. I was truly sad to hear about his passing.
Other factor on why Japan saw organized crimes skyrocketed in 50s was because the abolition of Kempeitai(Japanese secret police) and militarism in general. The allied occupation didn't really do much about its replacement which creates higher rates of organized crimes even among school children up to 90s.
we had a Catholic boys school next door and we used to have regular meetings with 'Holy Joe's' aka St Joseph's boys. Nowadays in my city there are two secondary schools back to back. They let out at different times to try to avoid this issue.
Yes! I remember kids climbing into our school to fight. We’d do the same (but after school). Still no idea what the beef was about. Later I think knives got too prominent, now things are very different.
Man even Japanese delinquents respect structure and authority. I can kinda admire that. Given how anywhere else in the world its a constant cloak and dagger affair where betrayal for profit is so normalised.
Meh....that may of been back then but let's not forget japan specializes in predatory loan scams or credit scams now. Most of the crime now committed is white collar non violent and young 18 to 30s. Study just came out about South Korea and I'm adamant there will be parallels to that abd japan.
@paulvon2378 your average Jin wu or yakuza member or associate will never look like they did before. Sad cause it's lost its luster and is now just about MONEY/Greed. Why alot of the old guard walked away and are now struggling to eat cause of barbaric laws. Did you know ex gang members can't get an ID
@@ceresbane absent fathers and stressed out moms tend to make not so great next gen models unfortunately. I will never say it's all the parents fault especially with the amount of freedom/choice we have today make it extra harder now. Why a part of me thinks why alot of my generation does not want kids.
Theres a similar culture of teenage delinquents in Korea called 'yangachi' where the leader is known as a 'jjang'. They would form in schools, bully classmates for money, fight other yangachis from different schools, hang out, smoking, dancing, drinking and singing. Theres a movie called 'Beat' that shows their lifestyle in the 90s.
great video man, i was also wondering if the bansho/sukeban gangs have unique and nuanced encounters with bosozoku gangs? since all of these forms of gangs and their subcultures are very similar but distinct at the same time, it could be interesting....
I think Banchō and Bōsōzoku might have some close ties, since the Bōsōzoku were usually pretty young and got their members from high school. Pretty sure they had some beef occasionally as well 😬
Not gonna lie, I clicked on this video by mistake when it, for some reason, showed up in my recommended feed, Was about to close out and delete from my history but since I have an interest Japanese culture I decided to give the benfit of the doubt and stay for a bit (Video was only 16 minutes long afterall). Glad I did, you got yourself a new sub.
IDK why but i always feel so Nostalgic and Melancholic when i see stuff from Japan between 50s-90s, as if i lived there, but i didnt x) Great Video man, thanks for that, after that i see the Influence Clearly in anime xD
Aniki, this was a pithy mini-doc about postwar youth gangs which I found fascinating, owing to the organized hierarchy of their members. You might know that the 1975 manga "Sukeban Deka"(Undercover Gang Girl), about a sukeban who uses a lethal yo-yo move against her enemies, was adapted into anime about 15 years later, and released subtitled here in the USA by AD Vision, Inc. (Defunct since 2007 due to a financial shortfall.) Domo arigato for sharing this informative and insightful posting. 🤓😺
Just found this channel and instantly subbed, shocked at how small you are with this quality! Also, love Persona 5, happy any time I hear a track from that ost.
Dude I’m late for this and I’m sorry but this is so informative for us Americans who are interested in gang culture in general (not a member, i just grew up around it with my family) if you plan on making more I’m sure a lot of people would be interested as well. Thank you for this 🎉
Don’t know if anyone mentioned it in the comments but Great Teacher Onizuka (GTO): Shonan Juni Gumi (The Early Years), is a hilarious manga and anime series revolving around school gangs, motorcycle gangs and the yakuza at times. Amazing series to read and watch plus it’s a prequel to Great Teacher Onizuka which is legendary in its own right as both an anime and manga.
Great video and very informative. I recently got into the high school delinquent genre of manga and anime after watching the High and Low and Crows movies. It amazes me to see how much things change when it comes to criminal organizations structurally. It seems no matter the country you reside in every 5-10 years a new generation comes along and implements changes.
I second that. It has been done to an extent concerning style but wouldn't it be interesting to begin historically with exposure/origins and evolution/development then to explore resulting subgenres?
Oh wow that seems super interesting. Glad to have people in the comments supply me with these great topics, I'll look into it at some point for sure! 🔥
The manga Bakuon Rettou by Tsutomu Takahashi is a work of art and shows in a realistic and raw way about the bosozoku gangs in Japan, and is also practically a biography of the author himself, along with crows it is the best manga of this subculture
I had been a fan of pinky violence films for a while so your video detailing the subcultures that influenced their style was great for me to watch and gain a better understanding of them.
that's a great video, very informative. always wondered why they never showed girls in Banchō groups. i have the basic consept of the thing, but never tought about how deep it could be. now it made me think again and do a proper research, since i'm creating a story and Banchō & Sukeban themes will appear at some points.
My mom was a sukeban back in the 70s. Also, the Crows Zero series is a modern take on bancho. I grew up reading Rokudenashi Blues. A manga about a bancho in Kichijyoji Tokyo.
Crows Zero, Crows zero 2 and Crows zero 3 is a great movie about Bancho schools. We got such much inspired that we even had our own class gangs competing with each other😂.
I may be asking a lot, but could you provide some of the names to the films that you used. I'm a big manga delinquent fan, so I would really appreciate some more media.
Be bop highschool is a good one i think the live action movie of it showed on the vid but theres like 160+ chapters online, 7 50 minute episodes and a few live actions (i think)
This is still deeply deeply embedded in anime. Character design to this day will still use icon things from this era. So so many character designs make more sense to me now. Thank you.
Eastern Europe had a similar thing so it isn't just Japan's phenomenon. We used to have this this thing where it was school against school thing which was dumb as shit. Odd thing I remember was that someone in school could be bullied really badly but if someone from the outside even tried to touch that bullied person they would get jumped.
Existed in eastern europe too. The Git People(children of career criminals, oddly enough a lot of them ended in mechanized riot militia units). Banana Youth (gangs made out of children of party dignitaries), Pig Skins (called like that because of "expensive" pig skin shoes, wore jackets and listened to banned western music like jazz . Existed in big capital cities and ports). The Wood People , (young People who fought in WWll as kids or young teens, post war turned in to looters and smuglers). All of them were between 14-20+ , went to schools or universities. There were also old XIXth century groups like football hooligans. In the 70-80s , hipps(drssed like hippis but nit about love&Peace. Very militant , bit like Black Panthers) , Punks and Skins (often overlaped with hooligans and gits memberships). And thst us just my country.
Started watching Tokyo Revengers a month ago and fell in love, it tells a story that has heavy delinquent gang inspiration in it. So good, I recommend to anyone who likes anime!
Overall, I really like your presentation, and I appreciate how you display the sources of your information, but man, where are the sources for the video footage used? I'm really curious in watching the films you used!
That was interesting. I never thought that Naoko Takeuchi was inspired by sukeban for the making of Sailor Moon and Sailor V. Thinking about it explained the behavior of the character in the series.
I recommend the manga Crows which talk alot about delinquents and just shows in between fighting and gangs there is also comrade and journey of being a man in terms just guys being guys
It's worth to mention there's great video game series called Kenka Bancho. One of them even got English translation: Kenka Bancho Badass Rumble. They're available on PS2, PSP & 3DS
I am a big fan of “Aui Haru” (Blue Spring) 2006 film. This a great explanation of such school gangs that the film centers around, and other medias including Japanese adolescent gangs. Haven’t seen anything like this documentary. ✨ 🌸
Suzuran highschool is by far is the most gangsta school in japan, the biker gang like Tokyo Manji with proximity 1000 members couldn't even beat them...
good video with nice production love hearing about things like this i'd love a video about modern day yakuza and what has changed, merry christmas and happy new year aniki ps: the yakuza ost fits really well in these videos keep using it
Hey everyone! You might wonder why the voiceover starting at 11:06 sounds like it was recorded with a calculator! Well, due to a copyright claim I had to remove the music for that part of the video :( better than losing all my ad revenue for this one over a 2-minute long song, though! Hope you enjoy the video regardless!
Take the time out of your day and rerecord it maybe?
what was the song though?
In fact, the manga "BE-BOP-HIGHSCHOOL" is modeled after the real Fukuoka Daiichi High School.
It's quite different now, but back in the 1970s and 1980s, high schools with low academic scores often attracted delinquents, and at the time there were about three notorious delinquent schools in Fukuoka city, competing for supremacy.
But was cool the MGS3 OST from the begin
That gangster hairstyle is so prominent in the 80/90s anime😂. Yuyu hakusho is one of them
I had a homie named Hans from Japan in the 90s and he told me his dad was a gangster like my dad and said the Japanese gangs loved the style and lowriders of the Mexican ZuitSuits and Cholos
You’re a good cat
@@raider_reaper_4194 There is actually a Cholo subculture in Japan inspired by westcoast-American cholo/latino culture. There are videos about it on youtube, it's quite fascinating.
@@raider_reaper_4194that's the most German sounding Japanese I've ever heard
@@koraegi lol what? How? Where? When? Why? How? 😂
15-17yo in 1970's... Now they are 65+... Crazy.
It'll happen to you before you realize it, too
And probably the same bullies, because you don't suddenly unlearn bullying.
To everyone who likes this japanese subculture i really recomend:
''GodspeedYou Black Emperor'' Documentary about bosozoku gang
''Blue Spring'' Film made based on a manga about a school gang
''Bad Company'' manga, GTO and shonan jun ai gumi prequel, great story and the beginning Onizuka and ryuichi's friendship.
''Rokudenashi Blues'' manga, ''the good for nothing blues'' tells the story of a young delinquent that becomes a boxer
''Crows'' 90's manga, this is popular but in the original manga you can even find music recommended by the mangaka and he explains a little bit of himself and what inspires him.
Those are some of my favorites that i can remember right now
Will add Blazing Familigia, it's a drama which revolves around reminiscing their Bosozoku days and on how that affected their adulthood and it's somewhat a revenge film also.
Pacchigi - story about Korean-Japanese yankii's.. Sorta comedy, action drama movie and has a movie sequel when they are adults
Waruboro - an average Highschool guy has had enough of his yankii friend and he became one too.
Go!! - Third-generation Korean, Sugihara, is a student at a Japanese high school after graduating from a North Korean junior high school in Japan.
Bad Boys (2010) - Has a remake j-drama called Bad Boys J
Majisuka Gakuen - AKB48 J-drama centered around Sukebans
Rookies - Baseball Yankii J-drama
My Boss, My Hero - A heir to the Yakuza must hide his identity and become a highschool graduate to inherit the position. He is an Idiot and he uses his brawn rather than his brains.
Holyland (J-drama) - don't watch the k-drama version because it sucks
Demekin (Movie)
Drop (Movie and J-drama)
Hard Romanticker
Will Update once i remember all the stuff i watched through the years. Just add a comment so that it will notify me.
Doroppu (2009)
@@Yo_Vuzzen777 Yeah, it's on the list. There's a 2023 J-drama version
High and Low the Story of SWORD is my fav
Oh Crows was amazing. Only manga real life film adaption I ever liked.
That photo on the right just made the past two or three decades of watching anime make all new sense to me.
Dude looks like kuwabara 😅
@toxicwx7701 you mean kuwabara looks like him lol
If I make fun of his hair, will his stand fuse me into a rock?
i thought of Hanamichi Sakuragi from Slam Dunk LMAO
Mamoru Takamura from Hajime no Ippo for me.
My moms best friend was a Marine aid de camp Lt. second grade something or other, stationed in Okinawa. Or maybe a captain, whatever. She was telling us about this motorcycle gang on Okinawa that was obsessed with Elvis from "Jailhouse Rock", trying to style their hair,dress, look and talk the same way as Elvis in Jailhouse Rock. She said it was the most surreal thing she saw on Okinawa.
The New Vegas Kings before there was Fallout?
Check out the Tokyo Rockabilly Club :D
Lived on Okinawa, saw those guys. The rockabilly/greaser scene was still pretty big in the 90s too.
I remember seeing scooter gangs around 2008ish, never got to meet any of them.@@choukichigaijin
@@willflint8443 I remember seeing them in 2008 too. In the 90s it was more dirt bikes than scooters, so it really caught me offguard. Back then there was also a magazine called Teens Road (ティーンズロード ) that used to document all the Yanki, Furyou, and Bosozoku stuff. Still have a couple issues. It's weird to hear that it died out in the 70s (note: haven't finished watching the video yet).
Your channel was one of the most fun things I discovered this year. You picked all things I really like to dig in about Japanese history and make such a cool content that I can't stop watching. Congratulations!
yes! japanese street culture or delinquent culture is something i've been searching information since i was a kid, love this content! thanks ANIKI
I only knew of these two through Japanese pop culture, so your video is greatly appreciated as it’s fascinating to glimpse the reality that inspired the entertainment. Subscribed!
0:49 i just love how Jojo portrayed the look so accurately lol
Oi, Josuke! You're real!
I always wondered why Sailor Jupiter/Makoto, contrary to the others, was wearing a longer school skirt . She is also fighting back boys and a "tougher character" in general. Interesting to see that this is a reference to the sukeban 😲🤩
Very interesting. I didn't make that connection. I thought it was because she went to a different school, but yeah, that makes sense.
Yeah, it's brought up in the early arcs. Makoto had trouble in her previous school because people assumed she was a "bad girl" (presumably meaning sukeban) since she was larger than most girls and knew how to fight, even though she actually only fought to protect innocent kids. Her longer skirt was undoubtedly meant to reference that.
@@jasonblalock4429 I thought her different outfit was something about her not being able to fit the sizing for the regular one? It's been years since I watched/read it though so I might totally be misremembering that
@@mezi99360 I think that was the in-universe explanation, but most likely the design was chosen IRL to suggst a sukeban.
Nah in the manga they all wearing the normal size
Lower knee so not really just Makoto
All of them,, it change after Usagi being senior highschool,
This guy from the thumbnail is real life Kwabara from Yuyu Hakusho. This explains a lot about his gang and Yusuke's.
Thats what i was thinking too lol
That a movie?
@@serbonkers4130 Anime TV Show
Its from the highschool bebop live action
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought of that. Sure some would say yusuke but look at his face. He looks more like a live action kuwabara. Something the live action netflix series couldn't do
Thank you SO much for an early holiday gift, I love delinquent manga/anime so much so this is right up my alley ^_^
And thank you for tuning in, glad you liked it 😬 and happy holidays!
Which one were you part of aniki?
I'll reveal that when I reach a million subs 👀
@@anikihistory do you really believe i will wait 7 months until you reach 1 mil and tell us?
@@anikihistorybe careful. It might happen sooner than you expect it.
Maybe.. a gyaru
Hahahahahaha
Happy holidays ANIKI, still loving your videos man. Keep it up! You are doing awesome.
Happy holidays! Glad you're still watching mate 😬
The greatest piece of information i learned from this is that the hairstyles in jojos bizarre adventure werent some insane imagination, but insane real life hairstyles 😂
Rockabillies also wore this hairstyle as well
Yu yu hakusho as well
Have to say, of all your videos I’ve watched so far, this is by far my favourite. Very informative about a part of Japanese subculture I knew nothing about. Thank you.
Well deserved number of viewers for this video. Love your channel, I hope that it continues to grow 😊
My dad told me so many stories, they were seriously bad ass. The way they used to walk around and people used to part around them. But my father ended up joining the military and retiring from there. He said the military straightened him out.
He really didn’t and still does not like Americans as they bombed his home Hiroshima and killed older siblings. I think he was a bancho.
I still despite the yanks for all the atrocities especially committing genocide on millions of my people in my country during their colonization of 48 years. They never offer any sincere public apology and never pay reparations.
Even after our so called independence, they are still meddling with our internal government, dictating us what to do, coercing and threatening us with sanctions if we don't obey them!
Last but not the least, they are using us a proxy for their their proxy wars to generat profits for the military industrial complex, Wall Street and politicians, and to maintain their number 1 empire and world control through authoritarian, dictatorship, tyranny, imperialism under the guise of democracy!
In short, forgiveness is not an option!
It's weird to think there's probably an American with the exact mirror story to your dad. Bad kid who joined the military, and hates the Japanese for WW2, I swear I've heard the story a million times😂. Tell your dad he's badass
Bruh that sht does not look a bit “badass” at all with that goofy Elvis hairstyle.. No way they remind me of those “bad guys” in anime that’s just a mad disrespectful joke to the one’s who would be cruel demons compared to these goofs if you think they’re “badass”
Weren't they also harassing a lot of girls and overall making the streets less safe for everyone? That doesn't sound badass at all
@@troub.The Japanese did way worse in ww2.
Bancho also had a big influence on video games via the Kunio Kun series, which gave birth to the "beat em up" genre. The first game, Nekketsu Renegade Kunio-kun.. localized in the West as "Renegade" and was given a "Warriors" movie makover, which then spun off to the Double Dragon series. The whole "take their lunch money" and "bicycle chain / metal pipe" thing was brought into the series with "Downtown Nekketsu Monogatari" (River City Ransom in the West)... and years later the Scott Pilgrim comic and film used the whole "beat em up, get money" as part of that universe, though the original "delinquent" intent had been lost.
I loved those games but only played Nekketsu Kuniokun on an emulator a decade later.
A couple of them are listed at Home of the Underdogs.
And don't forget Capcom's "Rival Schools: United By Faith" on PS1 back in '97/'98, that was (and still is) one of my favorite fighting game of all time, for it also had a Bancho/Sukeban anesthetic to it! 🤘🏾🤘🏾🤘🏾
There's a more recent beat up game called "The Friends of Ringo Ishikawa" on steam. It was released 6 years ago. It's propably inspired also by the Kunio Kun series. It has pretty cool pixel art. Also i'm playing Shenmue nowadays and both Boncho and Sukeban is in the game and you fight against them sometimes. The hairstyle of the bonchos the long skirt of Sukebans, it's all there!
Just to toss in, there's also the cult classic Kenka Bancho: Badass Rumble on PSP, which plays kind of like a mix of Kunio-Kun and Like A Dragon, but geared around replayability and meta-progression. And I wish we could get more games from the series in the west. All the other entries don't even have fan translations, much less official releases.
River City Ransome was epic.
This was fantastic. Really informative. Icing on the cake is was the use of Persona, MGS2 and Yakuza/Ryu Ga Gotoku tunes!
I love this channel! It explains so many aspects of what I've seen in my favourite anime shows.
As an american this is very interesting. I grew up around gangs and became friend with a good amount of gang members. Of course Japanese delinquent gangs are on a MUCH smaller scale than American gangs (I mean they're school kids) but I see patterns of behavior between them and the people I knew growing up
Yea American gangs started off being more the Japanese gangs, it wasnt until the 70's and 80's that the biker and street gangs turned more militant. Its also almost impossible to grow up in America without meeting a gang member, i had a friend who's father was a hells angel and many of my school friends went on to join street gangs.
I agree to be honest it looks awesome
Based off my own experiences as an American that grew up in a gang heavy town these Japanese school groups also seem a lot less harmful and much more organized and strict with their rules. I remember growing up in school you could be shot or stabbed just for saying the wrong thing to the wrong kid and selling heroin, meth, and xanax were big things
Antisocial personality disorder is not limited by culture or location.
@@yuyutubee8435anti socials dont tend to mix with a bunch of guys, they mostly sit alone or with another friend max. Totally different from the average gang member...
Thank you so much for this great production. Guess gangs are in every country.
Yeah no doubt! Thanks for watching 🙏🏼
So this explains all those early Nintendo games with the guys dressed like this and having brawls behind high schools.
River City is an old Nintendo game that has two juvenile characters to pick and beat up folks in the game.
@@Thollis1987 River City Ransom. I have found 3 or 4 other games in that vain on emulator that did not get an English language release.
I recall the guy who created Double Dragon and River City Ransom used to be one of this gangs.
That makes a lot of sense haha
@@Yo_Vuzzen777 oh yeah his name is Yoshihisa Kishimoto. And he claim he was a "Delinquent" and a troublemaker in his younger days. So Kunio from River City Ransom was sort of based of himself
I love the way you tell a story, your comedic timing and dry tone are so perfect.
This was a cool video. On the surface I see similarities between Japanese school gangs and American school gangs. But when you go into details I see how unique the history and dynamic is.
Great video
The persona sound track just make’s it better 😎
Back in the early nineties I used to battle with the local bancho and his crew. I shut them down and eventually we showed each other respect. The bancho eventually died on a motorcycle in 95.He was the baddest bancho ever and his name was Yasuto. I was truly sad to hear about his passing.
Other factor on why Japan saw organized crimes skyrocketed in 50s was because the abolition of Kempeitai(Japanese secret police) and militarism in general. The allied occupation didn't really do much about its replacement which creates higher rates of organized crimes even among school children up to 90s.
After this video I'm totally in the mood to watch again some Yuyu Hakusho 🤩😁
I'm from the UK, and we had inter-school fights back in the 1970s... kids, will be kids and rebellion is a core feeling.
Nowadays, in the US, rebellious kids turned into out of control kids in public schools
we had a Catholic boys school next door and we used to have regular meetings with 'Holy Joe's' aka St Joseph's boys.
Nowadays in my city there are two secondary schools back to back. They let out at different times to try to avoid this issue.
Yes! I remember kids climbing into our school to fight. We’d do the same (but after school). Still no idea what the beef was about. Later I think knives got too prominent, now things are very different.
but by the 90s that was no longer such a thing because never knew it even happen in the UK until I saw your comment.
you deserve a million subs dude
I'll try my best to get there! 😬 Thanks for watching 🙏🏼
I love the Persona background music, this really adds to the video!
great to learn about the subculture which this iconic aesthetic comes from. Great use of Persona 5 soundtrack too!
Great video!! And I loved you used the persona 5 songs 😃✌️
Man even Japanese delinquents respect structure and authority. I can kinda admire that. Given how anywhere else in the world its a constant cloak and dagger affair where betrayal for profit is so normalised.
there are Asians and then there are Japanese.
Meh....that may of been back then but let's not forget japan specializes in predatory loan scams or credit scams now. Most of the crime now committed is white collar non violent and young 18 to 30s. Study just came out about South Korea and I'm adamant there will be parallels to that abd japan.
@paulvon2378 your average Jin wu or yakuza member or associate will never look like they did before. Sad cause it's lost its luster and is now just about MONEY/Greed. Why alot of the old guard walked away and are now struggling to eat cause of barbaric laws. Did you know ex gang members can't get an ID
@@matty92k the pattern seems to always be the 2nd generation fails to inherit the ideals of the founding generation.
@@ceresbane absent fathers and stressed out moms tend to make not so great next gen models unfortunately. I will never say it's all the parents fault especially with the amount of freedom/choice we have today make it extra harder now. Why a part of me thinks why alot of my generation does not want kids.
Theres a similar culture of teenage delinquents in Korea called 'yangachi' where the leader is known as a 'jjang'. They would form in schools, bully classmates for money, fight other yangachis from different schools, hang out, smoking, dancing, drinking and singing. Theres a movie called 'Beat' that shows their lifestyle in the 90s.
Doesn’t sound as cool tbh
@@localmilfchaser6938There are very strong links between Korean and Japanese culture, so I disagree, lol
Sadly, most everything in Korea is a degraded copy from Japan.
@@JK-pf3tjEXACTLY!! We don’t eat dogs in Japan.
@@gn7867wait korean still eat dogs?
great video man, i was also wondering if the bansho/sukeban gangs have unique and nuanced encounters with bosozoku gangs? since all of these forms of gangs and their subcultures are very similar but distinct at the same time, it could be interesting....
I think Banchō and Bōsōzoku might have some close ties, since the Bōsōzoku were usually pretty young and got their members from high school. Pretty sure they had some beef occasionally as well 😬
The front of armament is bosozoku gang right
@@anikihistory there are close ties since some Bosozoku members are still in school.
Thank you! Great content.
Loved the video. Your channel has been very informative and the videos are top-notch.
Delinquent mangas from 80-90s are the some of the best I’ve ever read
Not gonna lie, I clicked on this video by mistake when it, for some reason, showed up in my recommended feed, Was about to close out and delete from my history but since I have an interest Japanese culture I decided to give the benfit of the doubt and stay for a bit (Video was only 16 minutes long afterall). Glad I did, you got yourself a new sub.
IDK why but i always feel so Nostalgic and Melancholic when i see stuff from Japan between 50s-90s, as if i lived there, but i didnt x)
Great Video man, thanks for that, after that i see the Influence Clearly in anime xD
Aniki, this was a pithy mini-doc about postwar youth gangs which I found fascinating, owing to the organized hierarchy of their members.
You might know that the 1975 manga "Sukeban Deka"(Undercover Gang Girl), about a sukeban who uses a lethal yo-yo move against her enemies, was adapted into anime about 15 years later, and released subtitled here in the USA by AD Vision, Inc. (Defunct since 2007 due to a financial shortfall.)
Domo arigato for sharing this informative and insightful posting.
🤓😺
Just found this channel and instantly subbed, shocked at how small you are with this quality! Also, love Persona 5, happy any time I hear a track from that ost.
Dude I’m late for this and I’m sorry but this is so informative for us Americans who are interested in gang culture in general (not a member, i just grew up around it with my family) if you plan on making more I’m sure a lot of people would be interested as well. Thank you for this 🎉
So Japanese kids in the 70’s were just tougher and more bad ass than the wimpy kids now. Glad Crows was actually a thing.
This was really interesting. I'm always happy to see a new ANIKI upload.
I love how in anime world this school gang problem seem to be permanently in the rise
I like how well put together your video is, I'll be coming back for more great videos
海外の人達がこんな日本ローカルな事にまで興味をくれるなんて、
インターネットの時代とはいえ
不思議な話です
一部誤解があるようにも感じますが…
こういうタイプの若者は80〜90年代にはなぜかヤンキーと呼ばれてました。
語源がアメリカにあるかはわかりません
90年代にはチーマーというもうちょっとおしゃれなのもでて
その後
アメリカ映画「colors」の影響で
カラーギャングというのも流行りました
クリップスやブラッズやチカーノの人達の真似ですかね？
今や日本のヤンキーの格好でアメリカの90年代スタイルの音楽やるフランスのメタルバンドもあるし
インドの近くの国ブータンでは日本のヤンキー映画の影響で
暴れる若者が問題になったとか…
メディアの影響ってすごいですね
Wow thank you for the history fact 😮🙂 I'm amazed that gangs still exist today, Japan seems to be a peaceful country.
@@airplanes7204Japanese gangs are not as violent as gangs in the West. They're more like a bunch of badly bred boys
Bro no doubt this channel have future! Olease keep uo the good effort
I love the fact you got Persona 5 music playing, MGS2 and nujabes 😂❤ we could be friends 😊
Subscribed. Love the video 😄
Great video! Love the Persona 5 and MGS2 music btw
Don’t know if anyone mentioned it in the comments but Great Teacher Onizuka (GTO): Shonan Juni Gumi (The Early Years), is a hilarious manga and anime series revolving around school gangs, motorcycle gangs and the yakuza at times. Amazing series to read and watch plus it’s a prequel to Great Teacher Onizuka which is legendary in its own right as both an anime and manga.
Yes dude GTO is like my all time favourite 90's anime , can watch it again and again, really good!!!
@@wendyu5076 Yup I feel that! Need to do a re-watch again, been too long for me. Need that Teacher Banzai in my life haha.
Great video and very informative. I recently got into the high school delinquent genre of manga and anime after watching the High and Low and Crows movies. It amazes me to see how much things change when it comes to criminal organizations structurally. It seems no matter the country you reside in every 5-10 years a new generation comes along and implements changes.
i just finished the anime, “ Tokyo revengers.” and this vid popped up. thank you for this!
How about a video on the Japanese Chicano subculture?
I second that. It has been done to an extent concerning style but wouldn't it be interesting to begin historically with exposure/origins and evolution/development then to explore resulting subgenres?
Oh wow that seems super interesting. Glad to have people in the comments supply me with these great topics, I'll look into it at some point for sure! 🔥
The manga Bakuon Rettou by Tsutomu Takahashi is a work of art and shows in a realistic and raw way about the bosozoku gangs in Japan, and is also practically a biography of the author himself, along with crows it is the best manga of this subculture
I saw ur comment and then started reading this manga and now I love it ...thanks mate
And is it really based on the true events ??
@@GilaSabun the author says that several things in the manga were taken from his own life, I don't know if everything is, but many things are
@@paivalge yeah I was thinking the same lol
Dat cb 400 is sweet
i honestly love these japanese subcultures along with the "gal". thanks for the vid man.
Someone’s grandpa and grandmas be wildin back then
I had been a fan of pinky violence films for a while so your video detailing the subcultures that influenced their style was great for me to watch and gain a better understanding of them.
that's a great video, very informative. always wondered why they never showed girls in Banchō groups. i have the basic consept of the thing, but never tought about how deep it could be. now it made me think again and do a proper research, since i'm creating a story and Banchō & Sukeban themes will appear at some points.
Totally not about the video topic but I can't help but appreciate the intelligent Dnb in the background, hahaha.
My mom was a sukeban back in the 70s.
Also, the Crows Zero series is a modern take on bancho. I grew up reading Rokudenashi Blues. A manga about a bancho in Kichijyoji Tokyo.
Crows Zero, Crows zero 2 and Crows zero 3 is a great movie about Bancho schools. We got such much inspired that we even had our own class gangs competing with each other😂.
I may be asking a lot, but could you provide some of the names to the films that you used. I'm a big manga delinquent fan, so I would really appreciate some more media.
Yea I would appreciate the source of the films also
Adding to this comment chain because I am interested as well
Be bop highschool is a good one i think the live action movie of it showed on the vid but theres like 160+ chapters online, 7 50 minute episodes and a few live actions (i think)
The thumbnail on the right and some of the clips i noticed was from Bebop Highschool live action.
This is still deeply deeply embedded in anime. Character design to this day will still use icon things from this era. So so many character designs make more sense to me now. Thank you.
Being a big fan of Tokyo Revengers, this was a great watch!
real fr
Brings tokyo revengers vibes
The Bancho haircut is 👍. I love thq 50s esque look of the pompadour and the outfit.
Fantastic video, can someone provide the source of the movies that were used int he background?
This was a really good one ty. You've got a really good narration style.
Their pomade game is on point.
I'm amazed that you haven't gotten any flack for using music from such a popular videogame series 😂 that aside great video
This is such a strange phenomenon that seems to have only existed in Japan. A very interesting and kind of entertaining phenomenon.
lol no its not at all read some American history about youth gangs. Many books and movies have been made about them.
Eastern Europe had a similar thing so it isn't just Japan's phenomenon. We used to have this this thing where it was school against school thing which was dumb as shit. Odd thing I remember was that someone in school could be bullied really badly but if someone from the outside even tried to touch that bullied person they would get jumped.
lol my bullies used to fight for me when i get my ass whooped by other school students or even senior class man@@gandalainsley6467
school gang is common thing dude.
Existed in eastern europe too. The Git People(children of career criminals, oddly enough a lot of them ended in mechanized riot militia units). Banana Youth (gangs made out of children of party dignitaries), Pig Skins (called like that because of "expensive" pig skin shoes, wore jackets and listened to banned western music like jazz . Existed in big capital cities and ports). The Wood People , (young People who fought in WWll as kids or young teens, post war turned in to looters and smuglers). All of them were between 14-20+ , went to schools or universities. There were also old XIXth century groups like football hooligans. In the 70-80s , hipps(drssed like hippis but nit about love&Peace. Very militant , bit like Black Panthers) , Punks and Skins (often overlaped with hooligans and gits memberships). And thst us just my country.
Started watching Tokyo Revengers a month ago and fell in love, it tells a story that has heavy delinquent gang inspiration in it. So good, I recommend to anyone who likes anime!
Overall, I really like your presentation, and I appreciate how you display the sources of your information, but man, where are the sources for the video footage used? I'm really curious in watching the films you used!
That was interesting. I never thought that Naoko Takeuchi was inspired by sukeban for the making of Sailor Moon and Sailor V. Thinking about it explained the behavior of the character in the series.
The Hair styles alone are note worthy
This is just irl anime haha great content!
I recommend the manga Crows which talk alot about delinquents and just shows in between fighting and gangs there is also comrade and journey of being a man in terms just guys being guys
these pictures looks badass and really stylish
I absolutely love the live-action series of Sukeban Deka!
This is really interesting context for westerners like myself who love films like Akira ... thank you!
It's worth to mention there's great video game series called Kenka Bancho. One of them even got English translation: Kenka Bancho Badass Rumble. They're available on PS2, PSP & 3DS
Very interesting and informative video…and well done too. Thank you and look forward to future ones. Subscribed!
I am a big fan of “Aui Haru” (Blue Spring) 2006 film. This a great explanation of such school gangs that the film centers around, and other medias including Japanese adolescent gangs. Haven’t seen anything like this documentary. ✨ 🌸
I love that you used the MGS Sound Track! also great Vid!
what is name of bancho movie you showed clips from? thank you!
be-bop-high school
Holy pho new content…..thank you sir
TH-cam is dry and boring
Based on topic of this video, I recommend the films crows zero & crows zero 2
Suzuran highschool is by far is the most gangsta school in japan, the biker gang like Tokyo Manji with proximity 1000 members couldn't even beat them...
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good video with nice production love hearing about things like this i'd love a video about modern day yakuza and what has changed, merry christmas and happy new year aniki ps: the yakuza ost fits really well in these videos keep using it
Not a lot of info on these groups to be found in english. Thanks for this vid!
RIP Junko Furuta
When I saw the thumbnail:
"5 Seconds of Summer - Youngblood starts playing"
That classic school gang hairstyle.
Organized delinquency is such a funny concept, definitely a "only in Japan" type thing.