| Rokudenashi Blues | |
 33rd tankōbon volume cover, featuring Onizuka (left), Taison "Tyson" Maeda (center) and Katsuji Yamashita (right) | |
| ろくでなし BLUES (Rokudenashi Burūsu) | |
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| Genre | |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Masanori Morita |
| Published by | Shueisha |
| Imprint | Jump Comics |
| Magazine | Weekly Shōnen Jump |
| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Original run | May 30, 1988 – February 17, 1997 |
| Volumes | 42 |
| Anime film | |
| Directed by | Takao Yoshisawa |
| Studio | Toei Animation |
| Released | July 11, 1992 |
| Runtime | 30 minutes |
| Anime film | |
| Rokudenashi Blues 1993 | |
| Directed by | Hiroyuki Kakudō |
| Written by |
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| Studio | Toei Animation |
| Released | July 24, 1993 |
| Runtime | 85 minutes |
| Live-action film | |
| Directed by | Hiroyuki Nasu |
| Studio | TV Tokyo, Pony Canyon |
| Released | February 24, 1996 |
| Runtime | 100 minutes |
| Live-action film | |
| Rokudenashi Blues 2 | |
| Directed by | Muroga Atsushi |
| Studio | TV Tokyo, Pony Canyon |
| Released | 1998 |
| Runtime | 100 minutes |
| Television drama | |
| Studio | Nippon TV |
| Original run | July 6, 2011 – September 28, 2011 |
| Episodes | 12 |
Rokudenashi Blues (Japanese: ろくでなし BLUES, Hepburn: Rokudenashi Burūsu, lit. "Good-for-Nothing Blues") is a Japanese boxing-themed yankī[3] manga series written and illustrated by Masanori Morita. It was serialized in Shueisha's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump from May 1988 to February 1997, with its chapters collected in 42 tankōbon volumes. Rokudenashi Blues had over 60 million copies in circulation by August 2013, making it one of the best-selling manga series.
- ^ Loo, Egan (May 16, 2011). "Rokudenashi Blues Boxing Manga Gets Live-Action Show". Anime News Network. Retrieved April 19, 2019.
- ^ a b "The best of the best of manga: Shonen Jump's 20 best sellers of all-time". Japan Today. March 6, 2013. Retrieved April 19, 2019.
- ^ Chavez, Ed (February 7, 2008). "Yanki Doodle Dandy!". Otaku USA Magazine. Retrieved April 30, 2020.
The yanki ideal made popular by titles Be-Bop High School, Shounan Bakusouzoku, Bukkomi no Taku, and Rokudenashi Blues was especially appealing to me. Yanki are basically Japanese juvenile delinquents, prone to fighting over turf, foxy girls, and imitating the honor-bound world of the yakuza on their own troubled-teen terms