Hanakaku

Among all the pros and cons within this manga, the more evident and big weakness is the fact that is a very short story that deserve more. And the strong aspect, living in the shadow of that weakness, is the amount of potention that is put on the table.

The presentation is not strong, aside from the main character and her rival in the 2 late books. Again the fault falls on how short this manga is. I can see the build up for the allies, for the future rivals, for the protagonist future and mma universe. Those 21 chapters really make me want more.

I enjoy the fighting scenes and the characters desings (simple, but straight). If i have to choose a flaw it would be the lack of muscular evidence on their body desing, aside for some really beefy, big characters.

With you want a good story to pass time, give it a shoot because is worth it, but be aware that the feeling of incompliteness will expect you in the end.

Seemed like a promising counterpoint to Teppuu. Then the mangaka solved the lack of a concrete antagonist by inserting one of my least favorite archetypes, The Walking Bitch Toggle, into the story. You may have seen this archetype before. Seems like a normal person until five pages later when someone does something minor that pisses them off and suddenly The Walking Bitch Toggle's sole purpose in life is dedicated to destroying that person and everything they love. Creating a character who is ridiculously hateable is not how you make a good antagonist. Even Nintendo walked it back with Lusamine. But I digress. My enjoyment of the manga plummeted with the introduction of a single character and if I hadn't picked this for the 2018 Manga Reading Challenge, I wouldn't have read it.

The major problem with this manga is the fact that the short chapter length makes it feel like a new promising serialization that just abruptly got the axe just after it got started. It's like if you ended history's greatest disciple Kenichi at chapter 21. I weep for what could have been but celebrate what I did get the pleasure of reading. Some may find the main villains campy as hell and walking 80s anime tropes, but I find them charming all the same. You really want to fucking stab this bitch, in fact when I read this I fantasized about poking this bitch's eyes out in anger while imagining what the MC was feeling. Another negative is that since the story is so short and it's a fighting manga you never really see the MC's talent and potential fully bloom and transform into a monster that can't be stopped like in other long form sports manga like prince on tennis or major. I highly recommend basically every manga I mentioned in my review and of course the titular manga in which this review is of. Art might as well be a ten because it serves it's purpose just fine. Good translation as well although the cat girl is a demerit for sure lol.