Mabataki Yori Hayaku, the game karate manga by Funatsu Kazuki, completed in 2025 after 12 volumes. It’s a collection that I had been having fun with an amazing deal due to its ensemble of characters at various talent ranges and every with a singular relationship to karate, in addition to the stable art work that communicates the motion and depth of a match on each a bodily and a psychological degree. Whereas MYH was clearly pressured to finish just a little abruptly, I nonetheless suppose it’s a enjoyable learn total and concludes in a satisfying method.
Kohanai Himari, a slipshod woman who will get impressed to study karate after being saved by an upperclassman, is the principle character of the story. Regardless of a case of mistaken identification the place she confuses two twin sisters raised on karate (one smitten by it and the opposite chilly), Himari joins the college membership, which is small and missing in members. And whereas she appears ill-suited for any type of athletics, the extra practiced palms understand that she has unusually sharp and perceptive eyes. Quickly, she’s training day by day, rising alongside her teammates, and even gaining just a few rivals, all whereas she and the opposite characters navigate the varied types of karate-centered drama.
Up till the tip, the MYH could be very constant when it comes to its sports activities manga attraction, and all the things I wrote about it earlier than nonetheless holds true. Seeing Himari come into her personal as a competitor is fantastic, and studying the reality concerning the rift between the twins is satisfying. Within the closing quantity, nevertheless, the story abruptly strikes at a breakneck tempo with the intention to wrap up all the things and transfer all of the characters into their supposed positions. The climax of the collection occurs at an enormous karate match (naturally), and the outcomes are satisfying when it comes to the women’ character arcs. The epilogue then places them a few years into the longer term to reply the query of “The place are they now?” I actually do want I may have seen the collection get there at its regular tempo.
