Flunk Punk Rumble, known in Japan as Yankee-kun to Megane-chan (ヤンキー君とメガネちゃん), is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Miki Yoshikawa. It was serialized in Kodansha's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Magazine from October 2006 to May 2011, with its chapters collected in 23 tankōbon volumes. The manga was released in English by Chuang Yi in Singapore; only three volumes were released. A 10-episode television drama adaptation was broadcast from April to June 2010. A crossover anime short with Yoshikawa's other series, Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches, titled Yamada-kun to 7-nin no Majo x Yankee-kun to Megane-chan, was released in August 2015.

Plot

Daichi Shinagawa was just a yankī (Japanese term for delinquent) who wanted nothing to do with his high school life. Hana Adachi, the dedicated class representative, however would not allow it and constantly bothers him to be involved in school life. Shinagawa is first confused on why she keeps pestering him until he discovers her secret. While she may look like a typical class representative stereotype, Adachi is actually not very smart and lacks common sense, and Shinagawa eventually learns that Adachi is a former delinquent. Regretting being a yankee during her middle school years, Adachi decides to change her ways to achieve her dream of becoming the best class representative. She decides to help Shinagawa so he will not continue to make the same mistake that she did. Thus begins the adventures of these two unlikely friends and their classmates at Mon Shiro High School.

Characters

Main characters

Other Mon Shiro students

Other characters

Media

Manga

Written and illustrated by Miki Yoshikawa, Flunk Punk Rumble started as a three-part one-shot story published in Kodansha's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Magazine from June 21 to July 5, 2006; it was later developed into a full series, published in the same magazine from October 18, 2006, to May 18, 2011. Kodansha collected its chapters in 23 tankōbon volumes, released from February 16, 2007, to June 17, 2011. The manga was released in English by Chuang Yi in Singapore. Three volumes were published from March 4, 2008, to January 20, 2009.

Drama

A 10-episode television drama adaptation was broadcast on TBS from April 23 to June 25, 2010. The series' theme song is "Loose Leaf" (ルーズリーフ) by Hilcrhyme.

Other media

A crossover one-shot chapter with Fairy Tail, titled Fairy Megane (FAIRY メガネ), was published in Weekly Shōnen Magazine on November 19, 2008, and released in the 11th volume of the manga. An official guidebook was released by Kodansha on March 17, 2010. includes detailed information about the characters and production of the series, illustrations, and an interview between Yoshikawa and Hiro Mashima, for whom Yoshikawa previously worked as an assistant. A crossover anime short with Yoshikawa's other series, Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches, titled Yamada-kun to 7-nin no Majo x Yankee-kun to Megane-chan (山田くんと7人の魔女×ヤンキー君とメガネちゃん 夢の共演コラボアニメーション), was included on the first DVD and Blu-ray Disc box sets of the Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches anime television series, released on August 26, 2015.