| Yuuyake Banchō | |
| Ja Kanji: | 夕やけ番長 |
| Type: | manga |
| Author: | Ikki Kajiwara |
| Illustrator: | Toshio Shouji |
| Publisher: | Akita Shoten |
| Demographic: | Shōnen |
| Magazine: | Bōken Ō Weekly Shōnen Champion |
| First: | 1967 |
| Last: | 1971 |
| Volumes: | 17 |
| Type: | tv series |
| Director: | Renzo Kinoshita Yoshiyuki Tomino |
| Studio: | Tokyo TV Doga |
| Network: | Nippon Television |
| First: | September 30, 1968 |
| Last: | March 29, 1969 |
| Episodes: | 26 |
is a Japanese manga series written by Ikki Kajiwara and illustrated by Toshio Shoji. The term "banchō" refers to the leader of youth delinquents in Japan.
Chuuji Akagi has just transferred to a new school and soon discovers it's overrun by a youth gang. Akagi has a strong sense of justice and fights the gang leader through various sports in order to protect the school. As he wins, he slowly begins to reform the school.
Chuuji Akagi
Voiced by: Midori Katō
The protagonist, and a first grader in middle school (7th grade) at the time of the story. While he is of short stature, he is actually quite athletic and muscular. Despite Akagi's great athleticism, he lacks in academics and gets poor grades. He holds a strong sense of justice and loyalty to his friends. Because of his parents' death, he loses the willingness to fight at sunset.
Teruo Aoki
Voiced by: Kiyoshi Komiyama
Akagi's classmate, his nickname is . He also plays a narrator role to the series. Contrary to Akagi, he has amazing grades, but lacks athletic ability. Nonetheless he joins the kickboxing club by Akagi's encouragement. He later becomes the captain of the table tennis club. He has romantic feelings for Yoko, but is aware that she loves Akagi and stays her friend instead.
Yoko Mizunoe
Voiced by: Tomoko Watanabe
Akagi's classmate, she excels in academics and athletics, in addition to being beautiful. She joins the volleyball clubs and later becomes captain. She has romantic feelings for Akagi.
Kojiro Kose
Akagi's classmate, he is originally the banchou of the school. His fighting ability is about the same as Aoki's, but he is a genius of social skill and scouts various people to fight against Akagi. After being inspired by the morals of Akagi, he becomes captain of the soccer club after initially enrolling in the kickboxing department. Kose proves tough to truly change as he continues to produce enemies of Akagi by performing misbehaving.
Mr. Araki
Akagi's teacher. He is in love with the professional wrestler "Atomic Rosa" and almost confesses his love to her.
Kantaro
An elementary school student who lives next door to Akagi. He admires Akagi who he thinks is a fighting genius and calls him "boss", much to Akagi's dismay.
Takeshi Akagi
Chuuji's grandfather whom he lives with. He is a master of Jiu-Jitsu.
Hiroshi Kosai
A student at the neighboring school, Hakua Gakuen. He is the only son of a wealthy man and on the surface seems well-manner, but in actuality is malicious and is a banchou in the shadows. In his first battle with Akagi, he nearly blinds Akagi. After a second fight with Akagi, he becomes more reformed and becomes good friends with Akagi.Yusuke Kurobe
The first enemy who was scouted by Kose. Although he is in the second grade, he 4 years older because he was in a juvenile training school. In front of Akagi he fights against Red Shodo, the great leader of the shadow, and comes out victorious, even though he cannot use one arm. Because of this, his fight against Akagi is postponed. After finally fighting Akagi, they become friends. He participates in the Kickboxing Division along with the former Bayer Association, and then become the captain of his school's baseball club.Saburo Tenma
He formerly worked at a circus and has excellent motor skills and grip strength. In their fight, Tenma grabs Akagi's arms with both hands and cannot escape due to his strong grip and thus loses. Akagi liked Tenma's older sister, but because the circus she was in with Tenma moves, he does not romantically pursue her.Kyogei Samegawa
A genius in high school karate, he has a physique comparable to a heavyweight boxer. He is called "Frankenstein's monster" and the like. After Akagi started the kickboxing club along with the former head coach, Samegawa caused trouble and the kickboxing club versus the karate club led by Samegawa. In the match against Samekawa, Akagi was initially disadvantageous at the beginning, but wins.Suzumu Hayate
One of Akagi's rivals who participates in a non-fighting sport, he is in the baseball club at Hakua Gakuen. He confront against Akagi who became a supporter of the baseball club. In his fight with Akagi, they play baseball instead of physically fighting. Akagi initially loses, but wins after learning how to hit a breaking ball.
The episodes of the anime ran for 10 minutes. The anime has never been released on home video format.The manga has been reissued twice, as 7 volumes and as 15 volumes.