The Abashiri Family

The Abashiri Family (あばしり一家) is a manga series by Go Nagai that ran in Shōnen Champion. After the series' four-year run, some of its characters returned with different names as part of the shorter-lived Cutie Honey series and its successors.

The series was remade by Studio Pierrot into a four-episode OVA in 1992, and released in North America by ADV Films.

Anime plot
The most famous and terrible family of gangsters in the whole world is about to dissolve, once it's revealed the mysterious secret of the third member, Kikunosuke, the most powerful member of the Abashiri. However, the almost pacific life of the Abashiri family gets complicated when Kikunosuke enters in one of the most prestigious elite schools, where instead of learning about art and culture, students must learn the most dangerous techniques for fighting and murdering, at the hands of cruel psychopath teachers. Only a few students manage to survive this hell of a school... but of course, in this occasion, the new student will be most terrible of the Abashiri, and things will no longer will be the same.

Live-action
A live-action film titled Abashiri Ikka: The movie (あばしり一家 ＴＨＥ ＭＯＶＩＥ), starring actress Erika Tonooka (member of the group Idoling!!!) and directed by Teruyoshi Ishii, will be released in Tokyo on November 21, 2009.

Legacy
The characters Daemon, Kichiza, Naojiro, and Goemon would all appear in Go Nagai's later series Cutie Honey. In it, Daemon became Hayami Danbei and Kichiza became Hayami Junpei. Naojiro later appeared as Danbei's nephew, and boss of Paradise School. Goemon appeared with Naojiro as a teacher of Paradise School. Kikunosuke appears in the Mazinger Angels manga as the pilot for Iron Z (which is in fact a new name for Energer Z, the Mazinger Z prototype.) As well as traditional Mazinger and Grendizer characters Sayaka Yumi, Grace Maria Fleed, Hikaru Makiba and Jun Hono as they fight the Vegan Empire (the greatest foe of Duke Fleed in the Grendizer series). In Shin Mazinger, Cross is a cyborg similar to Naojiro and their 'robot' form has the same appearance.