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“Small but fierce Ushio Hinomaru leads Oodachi High's weak sumo club toward the ultimate Yokozuna title.”
Hinomaru Sumo
火ノ丸相撲
7.77
1,607 rank · 14,964 readers · 187 favorites
Shounen
Combat Sports
Sports
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Synopsis
Small but fierce Ushio Hinomaru leads Oodachi High's weak sumo club toward the ultimate Yokozuna title.
It is a divine ritual, a martial art, a combat sport—it's sumo!! A "small" new student, Ushio Hinomaru, appears before the weak little sumo club of Oodachi High School! The words "big" and "heavy" are the rules to this sport, which does not fit this newbie any inch, but this guy goes and does what...!? Ushio and the small sumo club climbs its way to the top! The goal is Hinoshita Kaisan (a title for the highest rank in professional sumo, equivalent of Yokozuna)! A fired up high school sumo tale—no retakes allowed!! (Source: MangaHelpers) Included one-shot: Volume 8: Kiseki no Mattanashi Taiketsu!! (Crossover one-shot between "Kuroko no Basket" and "Hinomaruzumou")
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 13 sampled reviews
8.3
/10
What 13 readers settled on.
100%
recommend
Score distribution
median 8
mode 8
σ 1.26
Agreement
Mostly aligned
σ 1.26 · some divergence
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Not enough recommend signal yet
Score over time
↑ 0.31
Running avg · Dec 2014 → Aug 2022
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 8 “Awesome title. Let me see... A lot of cool fights without magical powers (until now at least - chapter 13 released this week xD), a truly original theme (sumō), the super nice cliches of boy's...”
- 9 “Seeing sumo as a main sport in a manga is original and something really different to see. At first I was a little skeptical because it's Sumo and never really seeing the sport gave me low...”
- 9 “Do you know anything about Sumo? Do you like Sumo? Neither do I. But that doesn't stop this manga from being any less enjoyable to read. The story isn't groundbreaking. It's your standard sports...”
Verbosity
Short · 46%
Medium · 38%
Long · 15%
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A Manga Publication
- Format 252 × 28 ch × vol
- Total read 33h 36m approx
- Published May 2014 – Jul 2019
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M30188 catalog