Recaps

Kenichi showed Shinnosuke and Inoue Ryushi around the dojo, where they met several of his formidable masters and witnessed their unusual habits and skills. After Sakaki Shio’s lesson about controlling power left Shinnosuke thinking about his own instincts, Kōetsuji Akisame approached and squeezed his muscles.

• Kenichi introduced Apachai Hopachai, whose excitement led him to smash nearby buildings, and Ma Kensei, who drew the visitors into a discussion of his perverted interests.
• Shinnosuke, Inoue Ryushi, and Kenichi accidentally saw Kōsaka Shigure bathing, narrowly dodged her thrown weapons, and watched her disappear after recognizing Kenichi.
• Inoue Ryushi angrily put Kenichi in a headlock over the dojo’s beautiful female master, and Shinnosuke stopped him from taking it further.
• Sakaki Shio invited Shinnosuke to punch thick bamboo, demonstrated how to concentrate and spread power at the moment of impact, and told the young men they lacked control over their strength.
• Kōetsuji Akisame recognized Shinnosuke, strode over, and squeezed his muscles.

After meeting the masters at Ryozanpaku, Shinnosuke tried to apply Sakaki Shio’s advice and injured his wrist, then struggled to figure out how to finish his mission to conquer Aofuji High. Inoue Ryushi told him that student council president Shinomiya Kai ruled the third year and stood in his way.

• Kōetsuji Akisame praised Shinnosuke’s strength and resolved to intensify Kenichi’s training.
• Shinnosuke tried concentrating his strength into one punch against a tree, sprained his wrist, and went to the hospital.
• Inoue Ryushi noticed Shinnosuke’s cast and chased him through an unusually exhausting morning run.
• Shinnosuke asked Inoue which strong delinquents remained at Aofuji High, and Inoue identified Shinomiya Kai as the third-year leader and main obstacle to conquering the school.

After Go and Horii Naruya were beaten by yakuza, Inoue Ryushi tracked down their assailants and led his group to the gang’s hideout. There, he found the scarred leader and more than a dozen armed men, then tried to retreat.

• Inoue Ryushi warned that Shinomiya Kai might challenge Shinnosuke because his arrival disrupted the school’s balance.
• Go and Horii Naruya told Inoue Ryushi that yakuza had beaten them, and they described their leader as a man in a red plaid shirt with a cross-shaped scar.
• Inoue Ryushi led his group in search of the attackers, and Taro found a convenience store clerk who had seen a suspicious man.
• The group caught one of the punks, who revealed the gang’s hideout before Inoue Ryushi knocked him unconscious and took his money.
• Inoue Ryushi and the others entered an abandoned warehouse, saw the scarred leader and more than a dozen tattooed men with bags of white powder, and tried to leave.

Inoue Ryushi, Go, and Horii Naruya were cornered by Scarface’s gang after witnessing their secret and were beaten until they could no longer fight. As the thugs approached with blades, a sudden arrival knocked one of them down.

• Scarface’s gang trapped Inoue Ryushi, Go, Horii Naruya, and their companions inside the warehouse.
• Inoue Ryushi, Go, and Horii fought the thugs but were overwhelmed by their numbers and beaten down.
• Scarface ordered his underlings to kill them because they had seen his secret, and Inoue Ryushi realized it involved white powder that might be drugs.
• As a thug approached Inoue Ryushi with a blade, someone struck the thug down from behind and called out that the protagonist had made his entrance last.

Shinnosuke rescued Inoue Ryushi and his companions by defeating Scarface and his gang, then helped them recover ten kilograms of drugs. The group decided to report the gang anonymously to protect their families from the powerful force behind the drug operation.

• Shinnosuke arrived and mocked Inoue Ryushi and Scarface before introducing himself as Nohara Goemon.
• Shinnosuke defeated the gang’s men, then knocked Scarface unconscious with a single punch.
• Shinnosuke tied up the gang while Inoue Ryushi and the others recovered ten kilograms of drugs.
• Inoue Ryushi suggested killing the gang, but the group decided to turn them over to the police instead.
• Shinnosuke urged them to report the gang anonymously, warning that publicity could expose their families to danger.

After learning that police were investigating the dock fight for fingerprints and DNA, Shinnosuke gathered Inoue Ryushi, Go, and Horii to decide how to protect themselves and their families. He left them resolved to search for clues, while noting that eight days remained until his mission deadline.

• A news report revealed that police had found the gangsters beaten and tied up at the dock and were investigating evidence, including blood and fingerprints.
• Shinnosuke told Inoue Ryushi, Go, and Horii that they had to wait and gamble that the gangsters had no police connections.
• Go asked what they would do if the gangsters had someone inside the police, and Shinnosuke said they would strike first.
• Shinnosuke ordered them to send their people to search for clues, then scolded them for regretting their actions instead of finding a way to make amends.
• Inoue Ryushi, Go, and Horii watched Shinnosuke leave and bowed toward the rooftop door.
• Shinnosuke checked his system panel and saw that eight days remained until the mission deadline.

Shinnosuke searched the third-year classrooms for Shinomiya Kai, then used the school PA to challenge him to a fight in the schoolyard. As the crowd gathered, a furious group of third-years came after Shinnosuke, who spat at them.

• Shinnosuke entered several third-year classrooms looking for Shinomiya Kai, and fought off the students who attacked him.
• Shinnosuke used the classroom speaker to ask Shinomiya Kai to meet him in the schoolyard for a challenge.
• Eikichi Onizuka heard the announcement and worried that Shinnosuke was being reckless.
• Kinoshita Hideyoshi, Seki Kiriko, Sugihara Kei, and Inoue Ryushi reacted to Shinnosuke's challenge, while Shinomiya Kai watched from a sofa.
• Shinnosuke told the schoolyard onlookers to leave, then faced a crowd of angry third-years who demanded to know which one of them was Shinnosuke Nohara.
• Shinnosuke stared at the approaching crowd and spat.

Shinnosuke Nohara confronted Shinomiya Kai, who tried to recruit him by boasting about his father’s position in the Kyokusei Association. They fought, and after Kai slammed Shinnosuke to the ground, Shinnosuke retaliated with a powerful punch that sent Kai tumbling across the ground.

• Shinnosuke Nohara’s taunt angered the third-years, who parted to let Shinomiya Kai approach him.
• Shinomiya Kai recognized Shinnosuke and offered him a place in his inner circle, revealing that his father chaired the Kyokusei Association.
• Shinnosuke rejected Kai’s offer, and the two began trading punches and kicks.
• Kai caught Shinnosuke and slammed him headfirst into the ground, leaving him dazed and bleeding.
• Shinnosuke charged back, endured Kai’s kick, then grabbed Kai by the ankle and struck him in the face, sending him rolling across the ground.

Shinnosuke and Shinomiya Kai continued their brutal fight while a crime boss named Tsukikawa raged over lost drugs and demanded answers from his subordinate. After taking a soda break to drain blood from his swollen eyelid, Shinnosuke returned to face Shinomiya Kai for another round.

• Shinomiya Kai flew into a rage after Shinnosuke suggested he seek psychiatric help, then attacked him with a powerful series of blows.
• In Chiba, Boss Tsukikawa smashed up his office over losing drugs worth two hundred million yen and threatened his battered subordinate until he found out what had happened.
• Shinnosuke and Shinomiya Kai traded savage punches until Shinomiya Kai grabbed Shinnosuke's hand and kicked him in the chin, sending him crashing to the ground.
• Shinnosuke got back up to the crowd's cheers, then walked over to a spectator and drank his soda.
• Shinnosuke used the soda can's pull tab to slash his swollen eyelid and drain the pooled blood before telling Shinomiya Kai the next round was beginning.

Shinnosuke defeated Shinomiya Kai with a German suplex after enduring Kai’s attacks and fighting through his injuries. As Kai came to, he accepted the loss and began to believe Shinnosuke might defeat the powerful man he feared.

• Shinomiya Kai charged at Shinnosuke, but Shinnosuke caught his fist and counterattacked despite his impaired vision.
• Shinomiya Kai struck Shinnosuke in the abdomen, but Shinnosuke recovered and charged again with a powerful punch that cracked Kai’s arm.
• Shinnosuke hooked Kai’s foot, punched his lower back, and used a German suplex to slam him onto the back of his head.
• While unconscious, Shinomiya Kai recalled being defeated by Takiya Genji, rebuilding his confidence at Aofuji High, and fearing another powerful fighter at Suzuran.
• Shinomiya Kai woke, acknowledged his defeat, and smiled at Shinnosuke as he wondered whether Shinnosuke could defeat the man he feared.

After defeating Shinomiya Kai, Shinnosuke received a major physique boost and a single-use damage-immunity bandage, then accepted the attention of his new followers while asking Kai to investigate the yakuza. He left Inoue Ryushi, Go, and Horii trusting that Kai would help determine whether the Kyokusei Association was behind their troubles.

• Shinnosuke's mission to dominate Aofuji High was completed, granting him ten physique points and a damage-immunity bandage, and his injuries stopped hurting.
• Shinnosuke helped Shinomiya Kai to his feet and asked him for a favor; Kai agreed to help if he could, then angrily insisted he was not beaten for good.
• The third-years mourned Shinomiya Kai's defeat until he told them he was still alive, while Shinnosuke slipped away from students calling him their boss.
• Kinoshita Hideyoshi brought Shinnosuke a hamburger steak bento, and Shinnosuke ate while Hideyoshi left him to collect the lunchbox later.
• Shinnosuke warned Inoue Ryushi, Go, and Horii to stay out of the yakuza matter and said he would ask Shinomiya Kai to investigate whether the Kyokusei Association was involved.
• Horii doubted Shinomiya Kai would help, but Shinnosuke insisted that he would, and the three left trusting him.

Shinnosuke asked Shinomiya Kai to investigate the drug traffickers behind the recent police seizure, and Kai reluctantly agreed to accompany him. On the way out, Shinnosuke watched a blond delinquent knock a man unconscious and warn him never to return to Chiba.

• Shinnosuke visited Shinomiya Kai in the hospital and asked him to investigate the people behind the drug shipment and where they were.
• Shinomiya Kai refused at first, warning that the traffickers likely had guns, but agreed after Shinnosuke threatened to bring him a bag of poop every day.
• Shinomiya Kai insisted on going along when the time came, and Shinnosuke left the hospital after questioning whether Kai was well enough.
• Shinnosuke found a crowd by the riverside and watched a blond delinquent disarm a man with a broken bottle and knock him unconscious with an uppercut.
• The blond delinquent told the unconscious man never to come to Chiba again, then left with his sea urchin-haired companion.

Shinnosuke ran into Nanako Ohara, the woman he had adored as a child, while following Go and was overwhelmed by their reunion. He brought Nanako to the Nohara home, where Misae and Hima-chan welcomed her and Misae teased them about Nanako having once been Shinnosuke’s bride.

• Shinnosuke followed Go and Nanako Ohara through the shopping street until Seki Kiriko called out and exposed him.
• Shinnosuke recognized Nanako, and they greeted each other emotionally after ten years apart.
• Shinnosuke and Nanako walked by the river, learned that Go was her nephew, and spoke awkwardly about their lives and relationships.
• Shinnosuke invited Nanako to the Nohara home, where Misae welcomed her warmly.
• Misae introduced Nanako to Hima-chan as Shinnosuke’s childhood bride, leaving Nanako and Shinnosuke embarrassed.

Hiroshi Nohara welcomed Nanako and saw her off with Shinnosuke, who revealed that his grueling workouts were meant to help him survive. The next morning, classmates confronted Shinnosuke about his connection to Go’s beautiful aunt, Miss Ohara, and Go said he would accept Shinnosuke marrying her.

• Hiroshi Nohara came home, recognized Nanako, and drew Misae’s reprimand when he looked at her lecherously.
• Shinnosuke walked Nanako home while dragging tires for his workout, and told her he trained to stay alive.
• Shinnosuke slapped himself and continued his workout after walking Nanako home.
• At school, Inoue Ryushi confronted Shinnosuke about how he knew Go’s aunt, and Shinnosuke explained their history.
• Go said he would not object if Shinnosuke married Miss Ohara, making Inoue Ryushi jealous.

Sugihara Kei challenged Shinnosuke to a fight under Shibukawa Bridge, where the two exchanged punishing techniques. Shinnosuke adapted to Sugihara Kei’s moves, defeated him, and left him wondering how Inoue Ryushi tolerated his arrogance.

• Sugihara Kei told Shinnosuke to meet him under Shibukawa Bridge, and Shinnosuke accepted.
• Sugihara Kei attacked first, landing kicks and striking Shinnosuke hard enough to make him bleed.
• Sugihara Kei dislocated Shinnosuke’s right arm, but Shinnosuke painfully reset it and continued fighting.
• Sugihara Kei tried to dislocate Shinnosuke’s arm again, but Shinnosuke resisted and knocked him down with a punch.
• Sugihara Kei admitted defeat, and Shinnosuke claimed his personal charm was why Inoue Ryushi put up with him.

Shinnosuke learned that the Silver Dragon Society in Chiba was behind the drug shipments and decided to attack them that night. He set out with Inoue Ryushi, the two little guys, and Shinomiya Kai, while Inoue discovered Shinnosuke had taken his last cigarette.

• Shinnosuke went to Shinomiya Kai for an update on the yakuza investigation.
• Shinomiya Kai identified the Silver Dragon Society and its leader, Tsukikawa, as the people behind the drugs.
• Shinnosuke decided to head to Chiba that night and said they would destroy the gang’s operation without killing anyone.
• Shinnosuke brought Inoue Ryushi and the two little guys to Shibukawa Bridge, where Shinomiya Kai arrived in a car and joined them.
• During the drive to Chiba, Inoue found that Shinnosuke had taken his last cigarette and grabbed him in anger.

Shinnosuke and Shinomiya Kai's group reached the Silver Dragon Society's building, where they found Tsukikawa facing the strange pair Shinnosuke had met before. The blond man challenged Tsukikawa, pretended to fight with only his left hand, then struck him with his right.

• Shinnosuke made Shinomiya Kai pay for his ramen, then persuaded the group that they could win money by squeezing the Silver Dragon Society.
• The five marched to the Silver Dragon Society's building and found several thugs unconscious inside.
• Shinnosuke recognized the blond man and Ito, the sea urchin-headed man, in the meeting room with Tsukikawa.
• Tsukikawa and the blond man argued, and Tsukikawa attacked him with a punch.
• The blond man caught Tsukikawa's punch, claimed he would use only his left hand, then hit Tsukikawa in the face with his right.

Mitsuhashi and Ito defeated Tsukikawa, who drew a gun but backed down when Mitsuhashi covered him in gasoline. Shinnosuke revealed that his group had destroyed Tsukikawa’s two hundred million and came to borrow money, then ordered his men to beat him.

• Mitsuhashi repeatedly knocked Tsukikawa down while taunting him, and Tsukikawa eventually pulled a handgun.
• Mitsuhashi pressed his forehead against the gun and splashed gasoline over Tsukikawa, forcing him to lower the weapon.
• Ito held back from striking Tsukikawa and left with Mitsuhashi.
• Tsukikawa confronted Shinnosuke and his companions, and Shinnosuke admitted they were the people Tsukikawa had been looking for in Tokyo.
• Shinnosuke said they had come to borrow money, then ordered his four men to pin Tsukikawa down and beat him.

After robbing Tsukikawa, Shinnosuke and his friends split the money, and Shinnosuke decided to buy a motorcycle. He pressured Eikichi Onizuka into taking him to see a used bike after school.

• Inoue Ryushi and the others forced Tsukikawa to reveal his money and safe combination, then took several million R-yen from him.
• Shinnosuke argued with his friends over the loot, and they each went home with 700,000.
• Shinnosuke asked Shinomiya Kai about motorcycle shops, but learned the ones he knew were too expensive.
• Inoue Ryushi suggested that Shinnosuke ask Eikichi Onizuka, whose friend sold used motorcycles.
• Shinnosuke found Onizuka's porn magazines in his office, then blackmailed him into taking him to see a used motorcycle after school.

Shinnosuke bought a motorcycle from Ryuji Danma and brought it home, where Hiroshi crashed it into a wall during his first ride. Shinnosuke checked the motorcycle before showing concern for his father.

• Shinnosuke walked with Eikichi Onizuka to Ryuji Danma's repair shop to buy a motorcycle.
• Ryuji Danma showed Shinnosuke a restored cruiser without papers and sold it to him for seven hundred thousand.
• Shinnosuke took the motorcycle home, where Misae and Hima-chan saw it in the yard.
• Hiroshi returned from work, took the key from Shinnosuke, and started riding the motorcycle.
• Hiroshi crashed into the wall and fell, while Shinnosuke rushed to check the motorcycle before checking on him.

Shinnosuke took Inoue Ryushi to school, where Ryushi fell off the motorcycle and later ended up hospitalized. Shinomiya Kai told Shinnosuke that the Silver Dragon Society had been destroyed, and they planned to return to Chiba that night to investigate.

• Shinnosuke and Inoue Ryushi rode to school, but Ryushi fell off the motorcycle at the gates.
• Shinnosuke ate lunch with Kinoshita Hideyoshi and spent the afternoon alone on the rooftop.
• Shinomiya Kai told Shinnosuke that the Silver Dragon Society's building had burned down and Tsukikawa had died in the fire.
• Shinomiya Kai said witnesses and surveillance footage linked them to the Silver Dragon Society, and he proposed returning to Chiba to follow his clues.
• Shinnosuke agreed to go with Shinomiya Kai that night on his unregistered motorcycle.
• Inoue Ryushi passed out again when a glucose bottle and IV stand fell onto his head.

Shinnosuke and Shinomiya Kai traced the attack on the Silver Dragon Society to Takeshi Sagara and his Kaikyu followers, then began investigating their plans against Nanko. They checked into an expensive hotel for the night, with Shinomiya Kai grumbling over the cost.

• Shinomiya Kai showed Shinnosuke evidence linking Takeshi Sagara to the Silver Dragon Society and explained Sagara's feud with Mitsuhashi and Ito.
• Shinnosuke and Shinomiya Kai went to the burned-out Silver Dragon Society site but found no useful clues.
• The pair followed a Kaikyu student to an apartment and overheard Sagara's followers discussing protection money, an attack on Nanko, and their plan to take down Mitsuhashi.
• Shinnosuke and Shinomiya Kai booked one hotel room, and Shinomiya Kai reluctantly paid twelve thousand yen.

Shinnosuke and Shinomiya Kai joined forces with Mitsuhashi and Ito to confront Kaikyu's Takeshi Sagara, who was suspected of destroying the Silver Dragon Society. The newly formed Green Leaf Alliance stormed Kaikyu, where Sagara ordered his men to attack.

• Shinnosuke and Shinomiya Kai arrived at Kaikyu and asked its students where Takeshi Sagara was.
• Mitsuhashi and Ito arrived with Imai, and Mitsuhashi and Shinnosuke argued before Ito explained that Kaikyu students had attacked and extorted their schoolmates.
• Shinomiya Kai told them the Silver Dragon Society had been burned down and that surveillance footage showed Takeshi Sagara entering the building.
• The two groups formed the Green Leaf Alliance, while Imai complained that his school, Beniko, was missing from the name.
• The alliance entered Kaikyu's building, where Sagara ordered his men to attack, and Shinnosuke charged into the crowd.

Shinnosuke used the Aura Wind Chime to overwhelm Kaikyu’s 300 fighters, leaving the gang in disarray while Mitsuhashi and the others watched. As exhaustion began to catch up with him, he called on his allies to stop watching and help.

• Shinnosuke, Ito, Mitsuhashi, Imai, and Shinomiya Kai fought Kaikyu’s men, with Mitsuhashi using chili powder and Imai charging into the crowd.
• Takeshi Sagara urged Kaikyu’s 300 fighters to keep attacking, while Shinnosuke and Shinomiya Kai protected Ito.
• Shinnosuke activated the Aura Wind Chime, gained a terrifying aura, and began knocking Kaikyu fighters down as they lost the will to fight.
• A group of reinforcements arrived, but Ito pulled their leader aside and told him not to interfere while Mitsuhashi recovered.
• Shinnosuke drove the Kaikyu fighters back and knocked 40 unconscious, but the effort left him panting, so he shouted at his allies to help.

Shinomiya Kai forced the exhausted Shinnosuke back into the fight while Mitsuhashi’s apparent defeat turned out to be a trick. Mitsuhashi knocked out Takeshi Sagara and recovered the stolen money, and the group prepared to make Sagara confess before leaving.

• Shinomiya Kai pulled the exhausted Shinnosuke up and urged him to keep fighting because the Kaikyu main force and Mitsuhashi were still unaccounted for.
• Two Kaikyu students dragged in an apparently bloodied Mitsuhashi and told Takeshi Sagara they had found him unconscious.
• Mitsuhashi sprang up, struck Takeshi Sagara unconscious with San-chan's Iron Fist, and revealed that the blood on his face was ketchup.
• Mitsuhashi stopped the Kaikyu students from fighting, demanded the money back, and received it from a trembling student.
• Shinnosuke grabbed the unconscious Takeshi Sagara and insisted the group make him confess before they left.
• Mitsuhashi persuaded Imai to carry Takeshi Sagara by calling it a task for the strongest man.