“Elite 6th grader Isamu meets his match in new transfer student Moka, a boxing prodigy who outshines him.”
Buyuden
武勇伝
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Synopsis
Elite 6th grader Isamu meets his match in new transfer student Moka, a boxing prodigy who outshines him.
Take Isamu is an elitist 6th grader who looks down at his peers because he is the best at everything he does at school, from looks and smarts, to his luck with girls and his abilities as an athlete. He considers himself to be in the top percent of his age group and is incredibly bored with interacting with the so called normal people. A new student, Kaname Moka, transfers into his school and as she is fairly pretty, Isamu asks her out. Moka mishears what he says and thinks he wants to challenge her, as she grew up boxing. In fact, Moka is an amazing fighter and can even take down 5 middle school boys at once. Although Isamu can’t stand her violent personality and she can’t stand him for having so much pride, they start to grow attracted to each other. But then Isamu finds out that not only is Moka more athletic than him from all her years of boxing, she's also much smarter than him. Will he able to get over his overly sensitive pride and dive into a romantic relationship? (Source: MangaHelpers)
What people say
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Derived from 6 sampled reviews
What 6 readers settled on.
Mostly aligned
σ 1.25 · some divergence
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Not enough recommend signal yet
↓ 2.33
Running avg · Jan 2012 → Feb 2023
- 7 “The story is typical, weak boy, meets girl, event, boy wants to get stronger(Nartuo smile with hands behind head). Art is similar to Ippo, it has got this old fashioned style. Not as dated as...”
- 7 “Probably the only one where I will give it an even rating across the board but I think this is accurate. The story is actually quite cool, being a fan of boxing myself it was nice seeing a newer...”
- 9 “I have never felt atractted to any boxing theme mangas. However Buyuden was different. The story begins in a simple way (boy meet girl and later he follow the girl's doing beacause he likes her and...”
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A Manga Publication
- Format 134 × 13 ch × vol
- Total read 17h 52m approx
- Published Mar 2011 – Jan 2014
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M15881 catalog