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“High school girl joins gym to lose weight, meets muscle-obsessed classmate and hot trainer.”
How Heavy Are the Dumbbells You Lift?
ダンベル何キロ持てる？
7.27
5,722 rank · 19,517 readers · 184 favorites
Comedy
Ecchi
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Synopsis
High school girl joins gym to lose weight, meets muscle-obsessed classmate and hot trainer.
Sakura Hibiki is your average high school girl, with a voracious appetite. Noticing her clothes tightening in lieu of her slowly expanding waistline she decides to look into enrolling in the nearby gym. There she runs into a girl from her grade named Souryuuin Akemi. Akemi, who has a muscle fetish tries to get Hibiki to enroll in the gym despite its high ratio of macho men. Thankfully a beautiful trainer, Machio, appears and unknowingly convinces her to enroll and start her quest to a great body. (Source: MU, edited)
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 6 sampled reviews
7.0
/10
What 6 readers settled on.
100%
recommend
Score distribution
median 7
mode 5
σ 1.73
Agreement
Mostly aligned
σ 1.73 · some divergence
The polarity gap
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Not enough recommend signal yet
Score over time
↓ 1.00
Running avg · Aug 2017 → Jun 2025
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 10 “A manga about a girl who's a foodie, who then worries about her weight, so she works out while continuing to be a foodie? It's surprisingly good. The art is done wonderfully, with special attention...”
- 7 “Sup fellow Gymcels are you looking for something to read between crushing reps and box at the gym? Well look no further. Here we have a manga that is just mindless fun, no story no end goal, no...”
- 7 “There is not too much to say about this manga since there is basically no story, or character development, or anything you can usually find in a manga. I would call this not a manga, but a training...”
Verbosity
Short · 33%
Medium · 50%
Long · 17%
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A Manga Publication
- Published Aug 2016 – ongoing
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M40457 catalog