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Reading a boxing manga called Rice Shoulder and they actually put Camden, NJ in the manga but they show the Ben Franklin bridge from the Philly side.
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Reading a boxing manga called Rice Shoulder and they actually put Camden, NJ in the manga but they show the Ben Franklin bridge from the Philly side.
Rice Shoulder
A 18 volumes long boxing manga by Nakaima Tsuyoshi, that ran from 2007 to 2013.
Okome Akino is a really big and strong 18 years old girl who gets scouted by Akane, an ex female boxer now coach trying to recruit promising newbies.
There's a bit of hesitation from Okome, who doesn't know anything about this sport and has a bit of a complicated family life but after talking about it with her dad and siblings, she decides to give boxing a try.
The manga gives us the kind of shippiness that comes in a lot of sports manga, with deep rivalries, friendships and admiration between fellow boxers.
Other female characters include Ishimatsu, a young woman who joins the gym at the same time as Okome and is a huge fan of boxing and Akane, quick on her feet but with weak punches, kinda the opposite of our protagonist. We also have two Japanese world champs with pretty opposite personalities (Ruby is agressive and passionate, while Kikuichi is more pragmatic and closed-off) and they develop a neat bond while the first helps the second for a match against Okome. In the latest chapters I've read, two Korean boxers seem to have a bit of an uneven relationship, with one of them admiring the other to an extreme point.
The artstyle showcases a nice variety of distinctive designs that we don't get to see too often for female characters, together with dynamic and readable fights.
On the other hand though, the narration isn't always kind to its female characters' unusual looks: it has some pretty annoying running gags about Okome's big size or Ishimatsu not looking very feminine.
The comedy in general can be hit or miss for me. Some good-hearted humor but also jokes involving perverted male coaches that get grating fast. I'm also not the most confident about how the series will do overall, regarding the nuance in its writing of foreign boxers and countries.
It is an entertaining sports manga from what I've read of it and I'm there for the female characters beating the shit out of each other and having neat tension together.
if your sports manga doesnt feature a magic nun screaming MOONLIGHT and advising your butch protagonist then youre losing
Rice Shoulder
A manga about a giant woman who gets scouted to become a professional boxer. This was a good sports manga! I’ve read Tsuyoshi Nakaima‘s golf series Ougon no Rough before and I’ve enjoyed his cartoony art work. Even though boxing is represented well through the action, this is filled with comical scenes that give it a whimsical feel. A solid and fun read! ~dakazu
A number of manga do the "old sensei is a peeping tom" bit and it's basically never funny to me, but here the old sensei is a genuine at deaths door geriatric and is peeping on just about one of the most genuinely butch women I have ever seen in manga that don't go into exaggerate amazon territory. There's some weird tonality there that actually made me laugh.