I love it for its martial arts...... but the story has a lot of duds.
To start off with its positives:
As you'd expect from my first sentence, the martial arts display is simply fantastic. While the art style isn't anything groundbreaking (though, I think it's good and consistent for the most part) the fights are amazingly well drawn as well as symbolic imagery for the fights to add even more visual variety (see Minoru's fight vs Ojima with Ojima's vision of the ring as a war zone.) Poses are very strong and the contact of hits have extreme impact which increases the satisfaction.
The characters aren't ...
Alternative TitlesSynonyms: Karate Shoukoushi Kohinata Kairyuu Japanese: 空手小公子小日向海流 InformationType: Manga Volumes: 50 Chapters: 500 Status: Finished Published: Mar 27, 2000 to Aug 27, 2012 Theme: Combat Sports Demographic: Seinen Serialization: Young Magazine (Weekly) Authors: Baba, Yasushi (Story & Art) StatisticsScore: 7.501 (scored by 8,361 users) 1 indicates a . Ranked: #29542 2 based on the top manga page. Please note that 'R18+' titles are excluded. Popularity: #947 Members: 19,328 Favorites: 248 Available AtResources |
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