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Monday Night Casino

**Monday Night Casino** is a series of special events of APW.

The first edition, 2021, featured two championship matches and allowed the crowd to bet their newly earned Luchacoins. This event aired the week after MNL #171.

The second *casino night*, on 2022, came with even more Luchacoins betting and, special matches, such as the Casino Rumble and an epic steel cage match, in adition to traditional championship matches! This event aired the week after MNL #219.

## About

*On these special nights the arena becomes a casino, but not any casino... The Monday Night Casino!*

Spend your shiny *Luchacoins* and bet on your favorite superstars. Predict well and be rewarded!

Every *casino night* will be full of special matches, surprise appearances and guaranteed championship main events.
Kishihara

**Kishihara** is the young leader of the drug-smuggling Noma Group. He lives in Akasaka in central Fukuoka, but his office and most business dealings take place in the nightlife area of Nakasu.

## Characteristics

### Appearance

Kishihara is described as a young man with a small build who wears gaudy suits. He is in good shape and works out at a gym every night.

### Personality

Kishihara is a pompous and haughty man. He often hangs out with hostesses and holds meetings in a private room at the club 10thousand. As a young yakuza boss, he is a sharp and merciless businessman, and he keeps close ties to several bribed police officers.

## Synopsis

### Cartel Arc

Kishihara is under stress from the recent arrest of one of his couriers and the resulting loss of product, on top of the prior murders of two Noma Group members and a dealer by Méqué. Through contact with Enokida, he hires José Martínez to torture a member of the rival Chinese drug-pushing group that has been dealing on Noma Group turf in Nakasu. When he learns that the Chinese group has hired a professional hitman, he hires Sayuri to be his bodyguard, but she pushes the job onto Zenji Banba, who successfully protects Kishihara from an attempted abduction by Lin and the Chinese gang members.

When he is visited again by Martínez, Kishihara allows the torturer to buy some of the group's drugs for distribution, but they are later ambushed by the Chinese group during the trade, and one of Kishihara's subordinates is killed. Martínez lodges a complaint with the executive, who informs him that the Noma Group has recently allied itself with a Mexican cartel and will be expanding business. The alliance goes south when Banba and Lin attack the Nomu Group members and the cartel members are arrested by the American DEA, and Kishihara is left with a smaller, weakened organization that is being closely monitored by the police.
Gonzales

**Gonzales** is a Washington, D.C.-based member of the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and Ricardo Seiya Ortega's superior.

## Characteristics

### Personality

Gonzales is a crooked, profit-seeking agent who turns traitor against the DEA. Tires of risking his life while the cartel members he investigates wear fine clothes, drive luxury cars, and live in mansions, Gonzales approaches the large and influential Veracruz cartel, seeking compensation for handing over the information he and other investigators collect. He works as a spy for nine years, never feeling a shred of guilt, even when the information he provides results in the torture and death of his colleagues.

## Background

Gonzales studied abroad in Japan during college and is able to speak basic Japanese.

Nine years prior to the main events of the series, Gonzales was assigned to investigate the Veracruz cartel operating in Mexico under the leadership of Ramiro Sanchez. Tired of his lifestyle, he approached Sanchez and revealed the true identity of Ricardo, who had infiltrated the cartel under an alias. Once he had gained the don's trust, Gonzales became the cartel's well-compensated spy, helping the successors in Los Eses by providing them intelligence on active DEA investigations.

## Synopsis

### Cartel Arc

Ricardo reports his activities in Fukuoka to Gonzales. As Ricardo believes the Noma Group is growing suspicious of him, Gonzales recommends he return to America and volunteers to take his place in Japan, arriving in Fukuoka shortly after.

When the Los Eses members' first major drug deal is broken up by the arrival of Ricardo, Uno calls Gonzales for help dealing with the rogue DEA agent. Gonzales arrives and panics at the sight of Martínez, who knows him to be a traitor. He shoots Martínez, pointing out the Veracruz cartel tattoo on his arm, and orders Ricardo to handcuff him. Unbeknownst to him, Martínez is conscious enough to tip Ricardo off, and as the pair of DEA agents walk away and Gonzales turns his gun on Ricardo, Martínez, with both handcuffs attached to one arm, knocks him into the sea. Ricardo fishes him out and restrains him.
Manabu Kuroiwa

**Manabu Kuroiwa** (黒岩学, *Kuroiwa Manabu*) is a hacker known online as **macro-hard**. He collects information on public figures to use for extortion. One of the politicians he looks into is supported by the international cyber-terrorist group .mmm, putting a target on his back.

## Background

Prior to the start of the story, Kuroiwa began looking into the backgrounds and private affairs of numerous politicians and influential figures, digging up secrets of corruption and using them for blackmail. Kuroiwa keeps all of the information he collects on his targets in a large list of named files on his hard drive.

## Synopsis

### .mmm Arc

Seeking to extort public figures, Kuroiwa sends a threat to Kazuo Matsuda threatening to expose his secrets. Without knowing what secrets the hacker has uncovered and will reveal to the public, Kazuo entrusts his butler and personal hitman Yagi with taking care of the matter.

At the same time, an executive of the international cyber-terrorist group .mmm tasks his subordinate Chegar with finding and eliminating the hacker known as macro-hard. Chegar's employees, Siva and Irasawa, are excited by the prospect of getting to kill someone and find his personal information quickly. The following day, when the group arrives at his apartment dressed as movers, Kuroiwa opens the door to them and is quickly overpowered and drugged. They carry Kuroiwa and his computers out without arousing suspicion and drop him off at Irasawa's home. When Kuroiwa awakens inside the fenced enclosure in the garage used for Irasawa's boxing matches, the former boxer begins beating him to death. He attempts to fight back but eventually dies from stab wounds, and the video recording of his brutal death is send to Chegar by email.

Shortly after, Yagi hires Enokida to look into the threats sent to Kazuo Matuda, and he later sets off to Kuroiwa's house to copy the data on his computers and confirm whether or not he is macro-hard. That evening, Genzo Gohda gives Zenji Banba the job to assassinate Kuroiwa, who has been a nuisance for several people lately. When his body is delivered to Saeki's Cosmetic Surgery Clinic via courier, Shinichi Saeki and Xianming Lin examine it. Saeki finds Irasawa's blond hair on Kuroiwa's clothes and nails, and his smartphone and wallet reveal his identity and address. Lin heads to his apartment, encountering Enokida and Banba, and the three watch surveillance footage from a hidden camera before splitting up to search for his abductors.

## Trivia

* Kuroiwa lives in Yakuin, a neighborhood of Chuo Ward.
Ramiro Sanchez

**Ramiro Sanchez**, referred to by his followers as **Don Ramiro**, was the leader of the Veracruz cartel. He is currently in prison. Though the Veracruz cartel fell after his arrest, several of his most loyal followers created a new cartel in his name, called Los Eses (The S's), standing for the last initial of their former boss.
Hakata Tonkotsu Ramens Anime

The ***Hakata Tonkotsu Ramens* anime** is the TV animation adaptation of the *Hakata Tonkotsu Ramens* light novels. The 12-episode TV series aired from January 12 to March 30, 2018, covering the events of the first four light novels and the story's first four arcs. The animated series' opening theme is "Stray" by Kishida Kyoudan & The Akeboshi Rockets, and the ending theme is "DIRTY BULLET" by the jazz band TRI4TH.

## Plot Overview

The anime adapts the first four light novels:

* Episodes 1-4: Mayor Harada Scandal Arc (light novel 1)
* Episodes 5-6: Niwaka Samurai Impersonator Arc (light novel 2)
* Episodes 7-8: .mmm Arc (light novel 4)
* Episodes 9-12: Shou Wang Arc (light novel 3)

## Gallery

### Images

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## Navigation

 2. Irregular
 3. Teamwork
  5. Tryouts
 6. Pinch-Hitter
 7. Lead-off Hitter
  9. Hit and Run
 10. Shortstop
 11. Brawl
 12. Walk-off Home Run
Shoutarou Harada

**Shoutarou Harada** (原田正太郎, *Harada Shoutarou*) is a corrupt mayor of Fukuoka at the start of the series.

## Characteristics

### Appearance

As a former actor, Shoutarou has a handsome face despite being in his fifties. He is noted to look increasingly tired as a result of his job.

### Personality

As mayor of a large city, Shoutarou has a reputation to uphold. He is a shady politician who builds connections with crime syndicates, and he exhibits ambition and ruthlessness in hiring killers to ensure the safety of his position. Toward his son, Yusuke, Shoutarou is critically honest yet forgiving. He understands that his son is twisted, yet he cares about his son and their family's appearances enough to bribe Yusuke's way through college and allow the purchase of trafficked women to keep his son's urges satisfied.

## Background

Shoutarou worked as an actor in his younger years, eventually marrying and having a son, Yusuke. After becoming mayor, Shoutarou hires Munakata, Reiko Asakura, Shinohara, and Hisashi Ivanov, professional killers who will undertake the dirty yet necessary work to protect his position. Shortly before the start of the series, the mayor met with Zhang of the Kakyuu Association, a new and quickly growing crime syndicate in Fukuoka. The meeting was photographed, and the detective Takeda began looking into his connections to the underground. In the anime, he met with the Kakyuu Group's president, Long Fang Wang, rather than Zhang.

## Synopsis

### Mayor Harada Scandal Arc

Shoutarou is first seen giving a speech in Kego Park. Zenji Banba and Shigematsu meet nearby, and the police officer asks Banba to look into the events surrounding the death of his senior, a detective named Takeda. He gives Banba a photo of the mayor with an unknown man and woman, and Banba notices the woman standing by Shoutarou in the park. Banba pops a child's balloon and observes Reiko's reaction, suspecting that the mayor has professional killers working for him.

After the speech, Shoutarou retires to a hotel in the company of Shinohara and his regular bodyguards. Munakata enters and makes his report, and Shoutarou makes light of his son's behavior before tasking them with keeping Yusuke's misdeeds from the public.

After Yusuke is kidnapped by Zenji Banba and Jiro Tanaka, he confesses his crimes of the rape and murder of five women, including Qiaomei Lin, and his father's knowledge and covering up of these crimes with money. His recorded confession is edited by Enokida and broadcast around Fukuoka via an electromagnetic wave hijack. Shortly after, news of Shoutarou's connections with various underground organizations is leaked, and he loses his position.
Hakata Tonkotsu Ramens Manga Chapter 03

## Chapter Navigation

"**3rd up to Bat**" is the third chapter in volume 1 of the *Hakata Tonkotsu Ramens* manga.

## Synopsis

Saitoh meets his new boss, who gives him a new alias and tasks him with killing a university student named Jun Murase by 9pm that evening.

Meanwhile, Zenji Banba meets up with Enokida in order to find out more information about the killer who is working under the mayor. They that Reiko Asakura is a former Murder, Inc., and deducing that she is most likely not responsible for Takeda's death, Banba requests that Enokida search for a killer who specializes in strangulation. They discover that another former Murder, Inc. employee, Hisashi Ivanov, is the most likely culprit.

After leaving the internet cafe, Banba bumps into and recognizes his friend, the professional pickpocket Yamato. When Banba receives his wallet back from the thief, he is surprised to find Yamato had also grabbed the Shigematsu's photo. Yamato immediately recognizes the young man in the back of the photo, a waiter named Takashi who had recently been killed, and informs Banba of the high-class Club Miroir, describing it as a dangerous organization. After paying Yamato for the information, Banba heads straight to Club Miroir.

In the meantime, Reiko is sent to deal with the mayor's son, Yusuke Harada, who is casually watching television in spite of the grisly scene Reiko discovers in his bedroom. Although she is disgusted by his actions, Reiko scolds Yusuke for not thinking about his position as the mayor's son and for not properly disposing of the bodies of the women he has killed. As she turns away, Reiko notices the video Yusuke is watching, a recording of his friends beating up a foreigner. Furious, she demands the names of the people in the video with intent to eliminate them.

At the same time, Saitoh heads to Jun Murase's apartment and wonders whether or not he can really go through with killing him.

## Character Debuts

* Enokida
* Yamato
* Yusuke Harada
* Jun Murase (on video)
* Tatsuya Yamashiro (on video)
* Masaki Yoshida (on video)
Takashi Kitaguchi

**Takashi Kitaguchi** (北口隆司, *Kitaguchi Takashi*) is a member of a yakuza organization who has been fighting with Yasukuni Shindou for succession since their previous boss' death.

## Characteristics

### Personality

Kitaguchi is a ruthless and ambitious man with a character befitting a member of the yakuza. Unlike Shindou, he gives little thought to the lives of his subordinates.

## Background

Prior to the start of the story, the head of Kitaguchi's syndicate died, and the matter of succession was left undecided between him and Shindou. While the pair struggled for leadership, Kitaguchi hired Abe and Yamamoto to kill some of his own men in order to turn the tables on his competitor.

## Synopsis

### Niwaka Samurai Impersonator Arc

Though Kitaguchi himself never makes an appearance, he is mentioned and alluded to in the story. After hiring Abe and Yamamoto, the pair watch an apartment until a group of men enter. They follow the group inside and kill all but one witness, asking him, "Where is Kitaguchi?" The question makes it appear that Shindou has sent the killers to eliminate his competition and justifies Kitaguchi's aggressive pursuit of him.

Kitaguchi hires the Niwaka Samurai to finish Shindou off in apparent revenge for the murder of his subordinates. Shindou attempts to hire the Niwaka Samurai, but Xianming Lin takes the place of his bodyguard instead. Lin sends Shindou ahead of himself during a fight, and the Niwaka Samurai kills Shindou before he can make his escape. It can be assumed after his death that Kitaguchi steps up as the next boss of their yakuza outfit.
Hakata Tonkotsu Ramens Manga Chapter 02

## Chapter Navigation

"**2nd Up to Bat**" is the second chapter in volume 1 of the *Hakata Tonkotsu Ramens* manga.

## Synopsis

A nervous Kazuki Saitoh arrives in Fukuoka, wondering how his life has led to this point.

His job now completed, Xianming Lin enthusiastically helps himself to the women's clothes in Takashi's apartment. After leaving, he receives a call from his boss, Zhang, who tasks him with killing a detective named Takeda. As he makes his way to Takeda's apartment, Lin looks at an old family photo he keeps on him and remembers life with his mother and little sister ten years prior, when he lived with them in China. They were a very poor family; his father had run off and left them with a lot of debt, and eventually Lin was sold to human traffickers for money, but with his debt nearly paid off, he promises to rejoin his family soon. When Lin reaches Takeda's apartment building, he learns that the detective is already dead.

In Kego Park, Detective Shigematsu meets up with his friend Zenji Banba during a speech by Mayor Harada. There, Shigematsu requests that Banba investigate the death of his colleague, Takeda. Upon seeing photos of the detective's body, Banba swiftly concludes it was not suicide, as officially ruled, but the work of a professional killer.

Shigematsu gives Banba a photo that had been sent to him by Takeda just prior to his death. The photo, depicting Mayor Harada with two unknown men and a woman, leads the pair to quickly deduce that the detective was killed for conducting an investigation into the mayor. Banba's interest turns to the woman in the photo, who is currently with the mayor in the park. In order to gauge her reaction, Banba pops a balloon to replicate the sound of a gunshot. His suspicions are confirmed when he sees her stance - she is certainly a killer hired by the mayor.

The woman, Reiko Asakura, later meets up with her colleagues Ryuuji Munakata, Hisashi Ivanov, and Shinohara. Ivanov reports that he has successfully taken care of the troublesome detective, Takeda, and made his death look like suicide.

## Character Debuts

* Zhang
* Takeda (mention only)
* Qiaomei Lin (flashback)
* Shoutarou Harada
* Reiko Asakura
* Hironobu Shigematsu
* Zenji Banba
* Ryuuji Munakata
* Hisashi Ivanov
* Shinohara
Hakata Tonkotsu Ramens Manga Chapter 05

## Chapter Navigation

"**5th Up to Bat**" is the fifth chapter in volume 1 of the *Hakata Tonkotsu Ramens* manga.

## Synopsis

Jiro Tanaka drops off Misaki and her rescued cat and brings Kazuki Saitoh to a warehouse, where he reawakens and finds himself bound to a chair. He is forced to watch José Martínez brutally beat Shota Yamazaki, a high school student, at the request of the owner of a cat the boy had tortured and killed. The torture only ends when Shota is decapitated, and Martínez accepts a request from Jiro and leaves. Saitoh hurries to work the tape off of his mouth and explain that he is not Jun Murase, getting Jiro to believe him after showing him his Murder, Inc. business card. Saitoh explains his situation, and Jiro apologizes for the misunderstanding, untying him and offering his business card.

The next morning, Xianming Lin wakes up to a call from Zhang, who tells Lin to kill Zenji Banba that day. However, Lin refuses to complete the job until he is paid properly for Takeda's death. Zhang refuses to back down and tells Lin that he will just send other killers to do the job, to which Lin strengthens his resolve to defy his boss and makes plans to kill any other killers who are sent to kill the private detective Banba.

## Character Debuts

* José Martínez
* Shota Yamazaki
APW Women's Championship

The **APW Women's Championship** *(or Women's Championship for short)* is one of the championships of APW, which can only be competed among female wrestlers. Held this title represents being the top and the representative of the *Women's division*.

## Regulations Edit

1. The champion must defend her title frequently.
2. Championships matches for this title must be competed on Singles Match with no time limit.
3. Only the female wrestlers on the APW roster can qualify to compete for this title.
4. If a challenger fails to win the title on her title match, she must wait for at least 2 other challengers to get their opportunity first, before getting another title shot.
5. In case of the champion being absent due injuries, leaves the company or any other reasons, the title will become vacant.

## Championship History Edit

### Current Champion:

* **Angie chan**, won against Mayel West *(and Paulina)*. Successful Title Defenses: n/a.

### Former Champions:

*(From recent to oldest)*

* *3°*- **Mayel West**, won against Lady Pigaza. Successful Title Defenses: 6. Lost against Angie chan.
* *2°-* **Lady Pigaza**, won against Rainbow Nazz. Successful Title Defenses: 0. Lost against Mayel West.
* *1°* - **Rainbow Nazz**, First Champion, won against Great Romilda. Successful Title Defenses: 6. Lost against Lady Pigaza.
Ricardo Seiya Ortega

**Ricardo Seiya Ortega** (リカルド・聖也・オルテガ, *Rikarudo Seiya Orutega*) is an undercover agent with the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). His work involves infiltrating dangerous organizations known to manufacture and distribute drugs and sending information to his superiors in the United States. He is currently assigned to work in Fukuoka, where he is tracking the movements of the Noma Group using the alias **Murakami**.

## Characteristics

### Personality

Ricardo is a man with a strong sense of both justice and self-preservation. He holds a strong stance against drugs and criminal activity, even if his job as an undercover agent often forces him to break the law himself. He was bold and reckless in his youth, infiltrating organizations and working his way inside, but he carries trauma from being discovered and tortured in the past and so now works more passively to collect information. In addition to the trauma from his torture, he carries a deep-rooted hatred of José Martínez specifically, though this hatred eventually turns into trust and respect.

## Background

Though his nationality is American, Ricardo is ethnically half-Mexican and half-Japanese, and he was born and raised in Japan. He has been an undercover DEA agent since his 20s, and went by the name **Richard Louis** during his infiltration of the Veracruz cartel nine years prior to the sixth light novel. After his identity was revealed, he was tortured by the cartel leader's right-hand man, Alex. Though Alex ultimately left him alive and allowed him to escape, the trauma of his torture left Ricardo unable to infiltrate organizations or even contact members of cartels directly, and nightmares of his torture haunt him to the present. Ricardo now works to fight drug trafficking by gathering information and drug samples on the sidelines, largely through surveillance and making contact with information brokers. As soon as he believes the Noma Group is growing suspicious of his presence in the city, he requests a reassignment.

## Synopsis

### Cartel Arc

Ricardo meets his drug dealer Yakuin in a bar in JR Hakata City to buy some stimulants procured from the Noma Group. After a few drinks, Yakuin begins filling him in on news regarding the drug organizations in Fukuoka. When Ricardo gets home, he calls his superior in the DEA in Washington, D.C. to fill him in on the latest news, including that the Noma Group is growing suspicious of him. The news that the dealers are looking for the mole in their organization causes him anxiety and nightmares of his own torture nine years prior, and he gladly accepts an offer to return to the States.

Later, when he heads to the Noma Group's headquarters to meet with their boss, Ricardo is shocked to find José Martínez with them.

## Quotes

"*I occasionally forget who I am.*" (Volume 6, 7th Inning)

"*I don't like running away and hiding.*" (Volume 6, Hero Interview)
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Kunio Yamazaki

**Kunio Yamazaki** (山崎邦夫, *Yamazaki Kunio*) is the president of Yamazaki Transportation and business partner of the Mutagawa Group, offering his company's services to help with their smuggling business.

## Characteristics

### Appearance

Kunio is noted to be a short man with a protruding stomach. He dresses formally, usually seen in a suit with his company seal embroidered on his work shirt.

### Personality

Having run a business for most of his career and collaborating with local gangs, Kunio acts as a composed, cold, authoritative figure. Unlike his daughter Mieko, he maintains a realistic outlook and does not let emotion cloud his judgment, acknowledging that his grandson was not the ideal child everyone made him out to be. Despite the wrongdoings his grandson had committed, he still cares about his family enough to request the Mutagawa Group avenge his grandson and put his daughter's mind at ease.

## Synopsis

### Avengers Arc

Kunio meets with Sanjou in a cafe to discuss their business deals. Upon seeing the news of another child abduction, Kunio is reminded of his grandson's disappearance a year prior and requests Sanjou find Shota's killer, giving him a photo and URL to lead his search.

The business partners meet again two days later, where Sanjou reports to him the events of the previous night, in which several of his men were killed. Kunio grants him permission to hire a new hitman, involving one more person in the human trafficking business the two organizations are establishing.

Kunio is enraged when the attempt at human smuggling goes badly and the children are rescued by the police, having to pay a small fortune to cover up his company's involvement in the operation. In order to attempt to fix their damaged relationship, Sanjou offers to present Kunio's daughter with the daughter of the avenger who killed his grandson Shota, offering the Yamazaki family a chance at revenge. Kunio approves of Sanjou's plan to pose as a potential foster parent and adopt the avenger's daughter, though he is not without doubts that the plan will go smoothly.
Takashi Unoyama

**Takashi Unoyama** (宇野山 隆司, *Unoyama Takashi*) is an executive of the Kakyuu Association. He runs an office in Hakozaki with a small number of subordinates. He is targeted and killed by Zenji Banba.

## Characteristics

### Personality

While Unoyama's position as an executive in an organized crime syndicate and his practice of extorting unaffiliated citizens for money indicate that he is exploitative and immoral, he is courteous and pleasant toward his lawyers. He is very proud of his antique Edo era sword and knows its full history, implying he has an interest in the period.

## Background

Some time before the start of the story, Unoyama had purchased data on five hundred ordinary citizens from a registry broker, and his office made small money by calling people on the list and extorting them. Unoyama also had an unspecified incident with an ordinary bystander and hired Tatsurou Myouken to settle the dispute out of court.

## Synopsis

### Shou Wang Arc

Tony Lau meets with Naoya Nitta and provides him with Unoyama and Byeong-Hee Kim's personal data. Shunsuke Saruwatari is ordered to kill the two men as an employment exam for the Shou Wang. Zenji Banba receives files on Kakyuu Association members from Sayuri the same day. That evening, he takes Xianming Lin to Unoyama's office. Banba impersonates the lawyer Tatsurou Myouken, and Lin plays the role of his secretary.

Unoyama graciously invites them into his office. Banba compliments the antique Japanese sword on display in the corner of the office and asks for a closer look. With Unoyama's permission, he approaches and examines the sword, and in the next moment, unsheathes it and runs Unoyama through. Lin quickly dispatches the two bodyguards in the room, and they handle Unoyama's remaining three underlings quickly.

Shortly after Banba and Lin depart, Saruwatari arrives at Unoyama's office door. He enters to find splattered blood and bodies on the floor moments before the real Tatsurou Myouken arrives for his appointment. Myouken flees in fright, and Saruwatari misses him with a shuriken.

Suzuki learns of the murders later that night and has Ruixi Li moved to a safer location. The shuriken left in Unoyama's office and Myouken's eyewitness testimony leave Saruwatari credited for the assassination. Desperate for a killer who can match Saruwatari in strength, Suzuki hires Zhao. The next day, Suzuki provides Zhao with Unoyama's personal data files, and Zhao uses the list to target men in Fukuoka named Hiyashi Noriaki.
Chromartie

**Chromartie** (クロマティ), nicknamed **Kuro** (クロ), is Misaki Tanaka's cat. He is adopted during the first light novel when Misaki saves him from being tortured and killed.

## Characteristics

Chromartie is an all-black cat, befitting his nickname. He is medium-sized, wary of people, and is affectionate toward Jiro and Misaki. When they find him, he is slightly dirty, leading them to believe he is a stray.

## Synopsis

### Mayor Harada Scandal Arc

Jiro and Misaki pay a visit to Shota Yamazaki, a teen who has made a hobby of torturing and killing cats and posting the video footage online. They find a black cat in his home, surrounded by knives, hammers, and other tools for torture. Revealing that they are avengers sent to avenge a beloved pedigree cat he had killed, the pair abducts him, taking the rescued stray with them. While Jiro brings Shota to a warehouse to be tortured and killed, Misaki brings Chromartie home to get acquainted with her new pet. At some later point, the family has to move into an apartment that allows pets in order for her to keep him.

### Avengers Arc

Jiro finds Chromartie at home and hungry after Misaki runs away. His defenselessness proves to Jiro that their home has not had an intruder and that Misaki has run away on her own.

## Trivia

* Chromartie may be named after American football player Antonio Chromartie.
Queen Anabel

The King Jonas's wife and the former queen of Fiscotopia.

## Role in the history

Anabel was the former queen of Fiscotopia. She was the wife of King Jonah and had two children: Pietro and Dolores. Some time after Pietro had been, Anabel was the victim of a witch, who cursed her with sterility for reasons as yet unknown. Estériel, Anabel was devastated, because he wanted very much to have another child, preferably, a daughter. So when her son was 8 years old, she decided to take a radical attitude towards her sterility: without anyone knowing, not even her husband, she appealed to the Herobrine.

"Hero of mines, I know the power you have, remove this sterility from me."
Yakuin

**Yakuin** is a freelance drug dealer who purchases drugs from various organizations to sell to his clients. He acts as Ricardo Seiya Ortega's middle man by procuring him drugs from the Noma Group, and with deep knowledge of the many yakuza groups and current events in the city is also Ricardo's greatest information source.

## Characteristics

### Appearance

He is described as an ordinary-looking middle-aged man. He carries his goods with him in a black handbag.

### Personality

Yakuin is a sociable person, convenient in his line of work. He is sharp and easily influenced by alcohol, becoming more agreeable and talkative with many drinks. In the past, Yakuin has filled Ricardo in on multiple drug-dealing organizations' warehouse locations, trade routs, and meeting dates, unaware that Ricardo has been handing that information over to the DEA.

## Synopsis

### Cartel Arc

Yakuin meets Ricardo in a bar in JR Hakata City, where his client treats him. He gives Ricardo 100 grams of stimulants produced by the Noma Group in exchange for 7 million Japanese yen. By his fifth drink, Yakuin is filling Ricardo in on news about various organizations in Fukuoka, including a new Chinese group that is dealing in Nakasu on Noma Group turf, and that the Noma Group has figured out they have a traitor and are desperate to catch him, information that makes Ricardo anxious.

Days later, Yakuin meets with Uno, Ocho, and Treinta, three foreigners introduced to him through the Chinese dealers, who inform him that they intend to start distributing high-quality Australian-made marijuana in Japan. The slow legalization of marijuana worldwide and the high demand in the West for low-quality marijuana from Central American is inspiring the Mexico-based Los Eses drug cartel to open a trade route in Japan and Eastern Asia using Fukuoka as its base, an idea Yakuin sees merit in. Though they have already formed connections with the Chinese group the Noma Group are at odds with, the men agree with Yakuin's idea to break ties with the Chinese, and Yakuin acts as their mediator with the Noma Group, who have greater influence in the city and ties to the police.
Renyi Li

**Renyi Li** (李仁壱, *Li Renyi*) is the older half-brother of Ruixi Li and Suzuki's first employer. He was killed five years prior to the start of the story.

## Characteristics

### Appearance

Renyi had a large build and broad shoulders. He and his younger brother had different mothers and looked nothing alike.

### Personality

Like his brother, Renyi was a habitual smoker with an addictive personality. He had always been fond of his younger brother and spoke about him often.

## Background

At some point in the past, Renyi saw something in Suzuki, a self-described "nobody," and took the man under his wing as his personal driver and bodyguard. Suzuki was entirely devoted to his boss, and Renyi would speak highly of him to his younger brother. On a cold, snowy day, Renyi exited his car to routinely buy cigarettes. While walking across the parking lot, he spotted a young man with a gun and stopped. The man shot him through the heart and fled, while Renyi died and grew cold in Suzuki's arms.

Renyi's body was taken to a hospital and several of his other subordinates beat Suzuki in the hospital room for allowing their boss to be murdered under his watch. Suzuki was ordered to cut off his pinky finger, and internally he admitted that this punishment was not enough. He was stopped by Ruixi Li, however, who was impressed with his devotion to his brother and hired him as a driver on the spot. Suzuki cried on Renyi's chest as he recalled what an incredible man his former boss was.

## Synopsis

### Shou Wang Arc

While Li hopes that Suzuki will eventually forget about Renyi, Renyi's death has had a profound impact on Suzuki, to the point that he will not let Li purchase his own cigarettes. He protects and obeys his employer earnestly and frequently has flashbacks about Renyi throughout the story. Suzuki is eventually shot through the heart, and as he bleeds out, Renyi's face comes to mind. Suzuki is content with dying in the same manner as his former boss.
Hakata Tonkotsu Ramens Light Novel Volume 03

## Volume Navigation

***Hakata Tonkotsu Ramens 3*** is the third light novel of the series. It covers the events of the Shou Wang arc.

## Synopsis

There is an outbreak of conflict among an underground organization waiting to for their opportunity to attack the Kakyuu Association that had recently been bested by the killer-of-killers, the Niwaka Samurai. Zenji Banba, wanting to protect his friend Xianming Lin, makes preparations to annihilate the Kakyuu Association with his rival Shunsuke Saruwatari also in pursuit. And while Lin is caught up in the nightmares of his past a string of murders of other people with his name occur.
Lady Madonna

**Lady Madonna** (レディ•マドンナ, *Lady Madonna*) is a darts bar in Kokura. The owner of the bar is a beautiful but unapproachable woman who mediates jobs to killers.

## General Information

Lady Madonna blends into a shady neighborhood with a vibrant nightlife and is surrounded by cabaret clubs, host clubs, and brothels. Described as an "indecent bar," the space contains three dartboards and is lit with red and blue neon lights.

In the center of the bar is a metal door with a sign reading "Authorized personnel only." The stairs behind the door lead to a basement, a space provided for the bar's contracted killers to meet and practice. The space has the same layout as the bar's first floor, with booths and stools at the counter, but in place of dartboards, the basement contains three human dummies. An intimidating Venezuelan man tends the basement bar.

## Synopsis

### Niwaka Samurai Impersonator Arc

Shunsuke Saruwatari visits Lady Madonna, the last place on the list of killer mediation agencies in Fukuoka Prefecture given to him by Nguyen. The owner of the bar hears him out but quickly dismisses him for his lack of experience in Kyushu. Frustrated and angry, Saruwatari slams the door on his way out, where he is reached out to by Naoya Nitta.

After signing a contract with Nitta, Saruwatari returns to Lady Madonna. The owner shows him to the door leading to the basement. Killers are using the human dummies to practice knife throwing and shooting with suppressors, and weapons dealers are discussing terms in the booths. Saruwatari joins Nitta, who pulls out a bag filled with the weapons he wants Saruwatari to use. Saruwatari has trained in nearly every modern weapon used by killers, but he is unprepared for a ninja sword, kunai, and shuriken. When pressured into practicing throwing the shuriken at the dummies, he misses his target's vital spots completely. Though Nitta's goal is to make Saruwatari famous as a killer ninja, Saruwatari is already regretting signing on with him.

### Shou Wang Arc

After building a fearsome reputation for himself in the Fukuoka area as the Submarine Ninja, Saruwatari is hired by the Shou Wang syndicate. Lady Madonna still serves as his base of operations and practice grounds. Frustrated by his recent encounter with the Niwaka Samurai at a batting center, Saruwatari returns to the bar to hone his shuriken pitches. He informs Nitta, who is watching him from a booth, that he was unable to kill the Kakyuu Association executive Kubota but dispatched the Murder, Inc. killer waiting in his house.

## Trivia

* In the novels, the bar is located on the first floor. In the manga, the bar is on the building's second floor.
Hospital

Sempre lotado o Hospital da ***Crimcity*** é lá que voçe encontra todo bandido que no calor da noite na ***Vida noturna*** abusou
 de sua sorte, seja por overdose ou sendo morto por um pistoleiro desenfreado. Também podendo visitar as urgências por serviços extra.​

## Serviços extra

No Hospital voçe pode encontrar vários serviços extra, como comprar stats para subir sua conta, curar seu vicio e até ajudar pagar conta de um amigo que está sem crédito para sair rápido das urgências. ​

## Emergências

Sempre que vai parar nas urgências fica sem poder jogar alguns minutos, se voçe não quiser esperar terá de pagar a conta usando créditos, seja por overdose ou morto por um outro jogador.

Dependendo da forma como voçe foi parar na ala de emergência, assim será o tempo que la irá passar. Por norma, voçe irá ficar mais tempo na ala de emergência se morrer de **overdose 1hora real** e se for **morto por outro jogador 30 minutos**.

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## Ajudando seu amigo pagar HP

**Pagando contas de hospital do seu pobre amigo**

Se seu amigo estiver na ala de emergência voçe pode pagar a conta dele e tirar lhe a agonia de esperar. Basta que voçe tenha créditos na sua conta e o cirurgião fará seu amigo ficar como novo!

## Evento

Esporadicamente acontece o evento de medicamentos mais baratos, "***Drogas baratas para pagar as dividas do Hospital"*** e ai voçe pode comprar com algum desconto.​
Mari Aikawa

**Mari Aikawa** (藍川真理, *Aikawa Mari*) is the step-mother of Rena Aikawa. When her daughter disappears, she takes the case to a private detective rather than the police out of fear that the police will discover her abusive habits.

## Characteristics

### Personality

Mari is a cruel woman who abuses her step-daughter Rena Aikawa and dotes on her biological daughter, Arisu. She views Arisu as her real child and Rena only as the child of her husband's annoying ex-wife. When Rena goes missing, Mari secretly hopes the girl is never found so that she can put the money spent on Rena toward her own daughter.

## Background

Mari remarried three years prior to the start of the story and had Arisu, a child of her own with her new husband. At some point during their marriage, a neighbor, hearing yelling and crying, reported the family to Child and Family Welfare Services, who found Rena's face bruised and took Mari into custody. Rena refused to tell the agency the truth, so they had to let Mari go.

## Synopsis

### Avengers Arc

Mari visits the Banba Detective Agency for help locating her step-daughter, Rena Aikawa. When asked why she has not gone to the police, she lies and tells Zenji Banba and Xianming Lin that she received threats from Rena's kidnapper. Banba and Lin see through her story and realize that she is hiding something from the police.

That afternoon, Mari is waiting at home for her daughter Arisu to return from kindergarten when the door opens and Méqué enters instead. Mari is seized by fear at the sight of the clown invading her home and grabs a kitchen knife as he approaches. Méqué easily dodges the knife, laughing as he strikes her in the head with his metal clubs, and he beats her until her head splits open. Her body is found hanging upside down by Arisu and her death is reported in the news the following morning.

## Etymology

* The name Mari means "truth," with the characters meaning "true, real, genuine" (真, *ma*) and "reason, principle" (理, *ri*).
* Mari's surname Aikawa means "indigo" (藍, *ai*) and "river, stream" (川, *kawa*).
Hakata Tonkotsu Ramens Manga Chapter 10

## Chapter Navigation

"**10th Up to Bat**" is the tenth chapter of the *Hakata Tonkotsu Ramens* manga and the fourth chapter in volume 2.

## Synopsis

Ryuuji Munakata and Reiko Asakura inspect Hisashi Ivanov's body in the Kakyuu Association offices in disbelief, while behind them, Zhang expresses his disappointment. By reviewing security camera footage, they see Xianming Lin leaving with Zenji Banba.

After loading Ivanov's body into their car, Munakata receives a call from Yusuke Harada, who wants another girl. Noting her partner's mood, Reiko handles him before Munakata explodes.

When Lin wakes up in the Banba Detective Office, he has been patched up, and Banba is watching him closely. Hironobu Shigematsu visits the office, and Banba shows him the similarities between Lin's bruising and the marks on Detective Takeda's neck in his autopsy photos. They both conclude that the strangulation was performed by the same man, and Shigematsu hands them information on Qiaomei's supposed killer, Kazuki Saitoh.

After Shigematsu departs, Enokida pays Banba a visit and shows the pair hotel camera footage from the night before of Reiko, dressed like a hostess, half-carrying a drunk Saitoh to a hotel room. They recognize her as one of the mayor's hitmen, and not long after the pair are out of sight, Munakata exits the hotel elevator with a suitcase large enough for a grown human. Lin is becoming increasingly enraged by the mounting evidence, but Banba and his fresh wounds prevent him from moving. They conclude that Saitoh was framed for the rape and murder and deduce that the real culprit is likely the mayor's son, Yusuke Harada. Banba promises to help Lin in avenge his sister in exchange for five years' worth of pollock roe.
Hakata Tonkotsu Ramens Light Novel Volume 10

## Hakata Tonkotsu Ramens 10

* Cover
* Title page

## Volume Navigation

***Hakata Tonkotsu Ramens 10*** is the tenth light novel of the series. It was published on February 25, 2021.

## Synopsis

Zenji Banba is discharged and returns to his office when he is tasked with conducting a probity check on a female university student. This small job leads Banba and Lin to something even bigger, when they catch glimpses of their friend Martínez pairing up with the narcotics investigator - Ricardo - at work. The curtain opens on the evening of Halloween, unveiling a battle of wits among miscreants.
Hakata Tonkotsu Ramens Manga Chapter 12

## Chapter Navigation

"**12th Up to Bat**" is the twelfth chapter of the *Hakata Tonkotsu Ramens* manga and the sixth and final chapter in volume 2, concluding the first story arc of the series.

## Synopsis

Zhang greets the killer of killers and begins to beat Xianming Lin, while Lin is too shocked to speak or react. Zhang gives the killer permission to cut off Lin's head, while Lin finally finds his voice and angrily asks the head how it could back out on its promise to help him.

The room is shocked as the Niwaka Samurai beheads Zhang instead, and the killer flies through the room, dodging bullets and eliminating the Kakyuu subordinates. Shinohara lobs a small grenade at him, but the killer hits it back like a baseball. Ryuuji Munakata overcomes his traumatic flashbacks in time to block the samurai's sword, but the killer pulls out another, smaller blade and runs Munakata through. With all of the mafia and hitmen in the room wiped out, the samurai cuts Lin's ties and removes his own mask, revealing his identity as Zenji Banba.

Hironobu Shigematsu enters the room, and his subordinates in the police force begin cleaning up. Together, Banba and Lin leave for Yusuke Harada's apartment, where they meet up with Jiro Tanaka and Kazuki Saitoh.

Banba calls Reiko with Hisashi Ivanov's cellphone, giving her a warning that he is coming. She finds a spider communication device planted on her clothing by Enokida and realizes that information who sold out his friends has sold her out as well. Reiko gives Yusuke a quick word of warning, shakes him off, and flees, but Jiro and Saitoh are waiting for her at the front door. When Banba and Lin enter the apartment, Yusuke bursts out of a doorway with a gun, and overcoming his fear of pitching, Saitoh grabs a signed baseball on display and hits Yusuke with it. Banba and Jiro are amazed by his pitch and enthusiastically invite him to join their baseball team, the Hakata Tonkotsu Ramens.

In a warehouse, Yusuke is bound to a chair. Lin beats him until his anger subsides, and his recorded confession is broadcast on public televisions. As José Martínez prepares to complete Yusuke's fatal torture, Lin's wounds reopen, and Banba carries him away.

Later, Saitoh has cosmetic surgery performed to hide his face, enabling him to escape from both Murder, Inc. and the news broadcasts that had painted him as a murderer. In the news are reports of Reiko's arrest and Mayor Harada's shameful resignation. After his face heals, Saitoh attends a grasslot baseball practice game as the Ramens' pitcher, and as he steps up to bat, the opposing team's pitcher hits him with a ball. Saitoh notices Jiro smiling nearby and notes the resemblance between the pitcher and the batter he had once hit in high school, ending his ability to pitch.