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Street Punk Serenade: Delinquent Days

@Dead Cruiser Unfortunately, if we're in junior high then we're still at least one full year away from being able to get the Class A motorbike license and putt around on a 50cc scooter

Street Punk Serenade: Delinquent Days

I'm here for that ａｎｇｓｔ

Street Punk Serenade: Delinquent Days

@Dead Cruiser I don't think so but you wouldn't be the first actually!

Also been looking at tribal/clansman-based systems like Kingdom and Hillfolk, too

Street Punk Serenade: Delinquent Days

@Noblebandit IRL there weren't really female gangsters (outside of the all-girl sukeban groups, that is) until the boys started bringing their girlfriends along to rallies and New Year's parties at gang hangouts. This was around the early 80's.

But it's a fictional anime and I suspect OP doesn't care about "realism" if it excludes half the human population in this case

Street Punk Serenade: Delinquent Days

Our story starts with a ragtag group of delinquents coming together to represent their school - Sarayashiki Junior High.

@Courtaud

So we're anywhere from 12 to 14 years old at the start of the school year, right?

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@rocketrobie2 When I become the banchou of the school, your loyalty will not go unremembered. ;)

Street Punk Serenade: Delinquent Days

Oh yeah, one point I forgot to add in the other post, OP: in the 70's there were more (smaller) street gangs in Japan, and violent clashes between them were very frequent. In the 80's, most of these gangs had formed larger rengō (alliances); battles between these rengō were rarer, but when they happened they involved far more participants, often numbering in the hundreds. And finally, the decline of Japanese street gangs began in the 90's and continues well into the 2020's. There are still gangs kicking around Japan, but very few of them, and even then some of them just like the fashion and have turned the tokkō-fuku, the tobi pants, and misc. delinquent fashions into innocuous streetwear, representing no allegiances or deliquency. Four digits at most of gang membership these days, whereas the bōsōzoku (e.g.) hit an all-time membership around 43,000 (forty three THOUSAND) members nationwide in 1983.

So in addition to the reasons already given, the decade you choose also determines both the culture and the relative danger of the gangster lifestyle in Japan. Both from cops and from other groups.

I recommend watching Godspeed You! Black Emperor for a taste of what it looked like in the 70's. Sayonara Speed Tribes for the 80's.

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Oh yeah no sorry I've been neck-deep in this subculture for a coupla years now. I failed to get a very similar game off the ground, so I've been doing creative writing and a 1x1 in the (Nerima City ca. 1983) instead. Requiring a lot of research, for sure. But I love it, it's a refreshing departure from the Hell's Angels zeitgeist over here in the States.

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Absolutely fuckin' rad.

I'll be honest OP I've got so many ideas for this you could tell me what you need to round out your cast and I'd strongly consider just going for it.

Or I could send you a list and you could handpick what you like/need most.

Or I could just play ten characters idk

I'll narrow it down somehow.

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And it would take place in the modern day is what I was thinking, unless people would want to play in a different decade?

@Courtaud

I mean I'm still signing up no matter what, but here are a couple of reasons you may consider placing it in a different decade instead. And mind you I'm going full bōsōzoku with my character idea, but this'll affect troublemakers of any stripe, really. Just stuff to think about:

1. Japan didn't start passing its anti-association laws until the early 00's or so. Before then it was much easier to wear gang colors, assemble in groups of fifteen or more, and get away with more shit without getting arrested. Definitely a struggle for underagers looking for trouble. Arrest and juvenile prison is an underwhelming end to any disturbed character's story.

2. Either the bubble of the 80s or the financial collapse of the 90s would not only make for interesting settings, but also go a long way in explaining away any expensive toys or legally questionable activities in our teenagers' recent purview. Motorcycles? Affordable to teens in the eighties. Sneaking into bars while underaged? Who cares it was the eighties. Hell we might be able to afford an actual clubhouse or hideout somewhere if we all chipped in. Conversely the nineties created a huge ennui via homelessness, joblessness, stress, uncertainty ... all delicious ingredients for creating a troubled home life for a fiery young kid full of piss and vinegar.

3. The chad gakuran and seira fuku vs. the virgin blazer.