Not just a pure action manga, Rokudenashi Blues is filled with humor and well-crafted story arcs about honor, friendship, and the pressures of being a delinquent student in Japan.

They each come from a separate district and often come into contact with each other throughout the later half of the manga, which often result in bloody, drawn out dog fights between the schools involved.

At the start of the manga most of the action that takes place involves the different schools from the area such as Yonekura Industrial before branching off into the other districts of Tokyo and even to the south of Japan.

[11] A live-action film produced by Pony Canyon, TV Tokyo and Pal Entertainments Production was released on February 16, 1996.

[14][15] A video game entitled Rokudenashi Blues, produced by Bandai and developed by Tose, was released for the Family Computer in 1993.

Five characters from Rokudenashi Blues appear in the Nintendo DS battle royale game Jump Ultimate Stars.