Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Karate Baka Ichidai
This passes . Not only was this a manga that was adopted into an anime and then two films (one in 1977http://eiga.com/movie/68661/, another in 2002-2003 (a two-part filmhttp://www.cinematopics.com/cinema/works/output2.php?oid=3790)), it's even become a pachinko gamehttp://www.dailymotion.com/video/xfk9yc_%E3%83%91%E3%83%81%E3%82%B9%E3%83%ADpv-%E7%A9%BA%E6%89%8B%E3%83%90%E3%82%AB%E4%B8%80%E4%BB%A3_lifestyle. Searches of article databases find pieces on the manga in such popular magazines as Shincho 25, Shukan Sankei and Shukan Asahi. Standard reference books have entries on both the manga and the animehttp://kotobank.jp/word/%E7%A9%BA%E6%89%8B%E3%83%90%E3%82%AB%E4%B8%80%E4%BB%A3. Frankly, especially since it was written by Ikki Kajiwara, the most famous manga gensakusha in the 60s and 70s, this was a big hit and sparked a boom in interest in the martial art (one of the major karate schools cites this in their history:http://kyokushin-kansai.com/union/history3.html
— User:Michitaro, 02:17, 8 May 2014 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:GNG (Wikipedia:Notability)