Tokyo Tribe
Encyclopedia
is a single-volume Seinen
manga by Santa Inoue
originally published in 1993. His later series Tokyo Tribe 2
includes characters and settings from this story.
Seinen
is a subset of manga that is generally targeted at a 20–30 year old male audience, but the audience can be older with some manga aimed at businessmen well into their 40s. In Japanese, the word Seinen means "young man" or "young men" and is not suggestive of sexual matters...
manga by Santa Inoue
Santa Inoue
is a Japanese manga artist and owner of the Santastic! clothing line. Inoue's manga series are greatly influenced by hip hop culture, with some of the characters being modeled after rappers.- Biography :...
originally published in 1993. His later series Tokyo Tribe 2
Tokyo Tribe 2
Tokyo Tribes is English title of the Seinen manga series by Santa Inoue. Tokyo Tribes was originally serialized from 1997 to 2005 in the urban fashion magazine boon...
includes characters and settings from this story.
Characters
- Nagisa -- the protagonist and a member of the Shivuya (an alteration of "Shibuya") Saru gang.
- Megane (Specs) -- Nagisa's friend and a member of Shivuya Saru.
- Totoro -- Nagisa's friend and a member of Shivuya Saru.
- Otogiri -- Shivuya Saru member who lives in Shivuya Mansion. The Saru are often seen at his apartment.
- Fujio -- Nagisa's girlfriend.
- Iwao -- leader of Saru's rival gang, the Shinjuku (written in katakana differently than the actual place) Hands.
- Yama-Chan -- Shivuya Saru member who is attacked by the Hands in Shinjuku.