“Stylish bodybuilding high-schooler Ranko hosts her cram-school cousin Souichirou in Tokyo.”
Shape Up Ran
シェイプアップ乱
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Stylish bodybuilding high-schooler Ranko hosts her cram-school cousin Souichirou in Tokyo.
Ranko Kotobuki is a highschool girl with excellent style and superpowers from her bodybuilding training. Souichirou, her relative who has come from Okayama to attend a cram school in Tokyo, is staying at her house...? (Source: Shueisha, translated)
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A Manga Publication
- Format 123 × 14 ch × vol
- Total read 16h 24m approx
- Published May 1983 – Dec 1985
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M72404 catalog