why are delinquents such a prominent part of anime culture?

>>138426528
They were extremely popular for a time. Unfortunately, things have changed.

>>138426528
Great variety and straight male bonding. It's basically the male version of cute girls doing cute things. Badass guys doing badass things

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New Bakuon Rettou chapter was posted a couple days ago. I just caught up recently and am still in shock over what happened. Though I must say, going the delivery truck route was a bit contrived.

>>138426528

Because they are the realest of niggas in Japan

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Because they're the only non betas in Japan.

>>138428483
>>138429273

by from what I can tell they're played for laughs in pretty much every anime I've seen them in.

>>138429724
Because the only time you can still act like a fool is during middleschool.

>>138429724
They either the comic relief, the stereotypical bad guy or the delinquent with a heart of gold. It's gotten stale, really.

>>138429724
That's because most authors add a single delinquent caricature to fill out the cast. It's very different when the entire cast is a delinquent.

>>138429960

so what youre telling me is theyre the token black guy of chinese cartoons

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xy1rqaru_jQ

The Japanese love James Dean.

>>138430162
He looked straight up like a Takehiko Inoue character.

>>138429991
It's more like adding the Fonz in places he doesn't belong.

>>138429724
It's because of what >>138428385 said. It basically goes: Delinquent characters played straight -> become more popular -> become a cliche -> parody of cliche -> parody becomes cliche -> no longer popular

>>138429991
Every school has delinquent

>>138430612
What do they even do, aside from occasionally skipping classes, wearing clothes purposely wrong and having silly haircuts?

>>138430798
that´s a big deal in japan since everyone wears those gay ass uniforms.

>>138426528
Every culture has their delinquents, and every culture has the deliquent-with-a-heart-of-gold cliché.
Japan is just much better at it.

To this day Angel Densetsu is one of my all-time favorite manga.

>>138432281
This was such a better series before yusuke learned he was a halfdemon fuccboi

>>138432903
Should have ended with the Dark Tournament.