Teppu

It was serialized in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Good!

Natsuo Ishidou is so amazingly awesome it's a burden. She can beat anyone in any sport, effortlessly, but in doing so drives everyone away, and so she is desperately lonely. Actually she's just a sadistic bitch of a high-school girl. When she finally meets someone, Yuzuko Mawatari, who's much better at her in a sport she can't effortlessly excel at, Mixed Martial Arts , and who is happy and well-balanced, she makes it her mission in life to run Yuzuko into the ground. A Seinen manga series written by Oota Moare, serialized in a small magazine Good! It ran for 32 chapters from to

Teppu

After seven years, eight volumes, a one-and-a-half-year-long hiatus, and seven scanlation teams that have taken over the task time and again, the last chapter of Teppu has just been released by Waterflame Scanlations. Not an underdog, but an acknowledged genius, and one who is petty, envious of others, and committed to bringing down an innocent girl at that, Natsuo is everything the average sports protagonist is not. In fact, when the author mangaka Oota Moare-sensei explained his vision of Teppu in an interview, he characterized Natsuo as an A-blood-type getting her revenge on B-blood-types blood type is apparently a thing in Japan — that is, Teppu is a rebellion of sorts. Given the limitations of mainstream sports manga, especially martial arts manga such as All Rounder Meguru and Holyland, it is easy to understand the need for alternative narratives such as Teppu. The hard work doctrine not only makes little sense at best and comes off as insulting as worst, it tyrannically papers over reality with a false utopian meritocratic fiction, because these manga are often nothing more than power fantasies. Thus Natsuo fights a two-front insurrection: against the establishment in her own reality which she perceives is antagonistic to her personal expression — that which makes her human, and against a meta-enemy: the hard work doctrine. These entities coalesce into the figure of Mawatari Yuzuko, who fights incredible odds, being the same age as her, less gifted than her, and more hated than her, using a method which is denied to her, to the heights of martial arts and inexplicably remains well-adjusted all the meanwhile. What is perhaps mentioned less often is that Teppu is in a way one of the best sports manga. Each fight is unique, exciting, with awesome moments that are surprising and genuinely clever and fitting for the psychologies and styles of the characters involved — especially if one of those characters is Natsuo because she is badass. My favorite fight is the final? In any case, the fight is an awesome and perfect clash of personalities, with all the histories entailed, which is incredible given that pure grappling matches are not traditionally the most exciting. Well okay, just a little something from that match.

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I just love it that much. It made me happy. I loved how it ended, I loved how it was presented, against all odds. No, Natsuo changed a lot. Before the story began, Natsuo had destroyed her most important friendship from her childhood and now had Kei as only friend. At the end of the series, her relationship with Kei had grown much closer, becoming an important source of support for Natsuo, along with Natsuo allowing herself to be kinder and open up more with Kei. While the gym serves as a tool to get to continue fighting, meaning Natsuo could be continuing just in order to keep doing MMA, the very fact that she still wants to continue MMA is positive.

Natsuo Ishido is the series' main protagonist. She cannot understand why other people cannot do things which she can do and that is because she is naturally talented at everything she does. This has given her a condescending attitude against her opponents, who she goads and teases during their match and after Natsuo's inevitable victory. She is also ruthless when fighting, whether or not the fight is a serious one. Natsuo has come to the realization that people with the ability to be the best without even trying have the hardest time, since they don't have anyone to bond with and their whole life is one big competition. She is lonely and yearns for someone who can defeat her and give her something to actually work for. This is all hidden, however.

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Natsuo Ishido. Her first "real" fight was won easily, and she kicks everyone's ass at anything that isn't MMA. Poll: Teppuu Chapter 15 Discussion jacobpaige - Jul 22, Jerk with a Heart of Gold : She can be rather mean and petty when pushed, especially when Natsuo gets on her bad side, but she just wants the women she trains to succeed. It just so happens Natsuo is an ace at every sport, and rarely fails at what she does. Especially with the UFC crowd. Some lame quotes like, "I want to protect my friends, and I want to get stronger! It's all about MC being so good at everything, treating others badly with impunity for dozens of scenes, She is encouraged by her instructor to inflate her own ego, defeats girls in less than 1 minute in a row with the plot armor explication: you're good huh! The loveble; -Natsou, even though had a shit personality, was enjoyable character to love. The Garbage: -Yuzuko is the worst character in Teppuu. Teppuu knows what it is, what it does to change the formula and prides itself on it to the point that we can only marvel at how interesting, and surprisingly simple it is.

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She loses the spar, but gains a solid interest in MMA to the point where she quits the volleyball team. Retrieved July 1, For Natsuo, MMA is simply a way for her to take out her bitterness on the world and nothing more, even to the very end. Poll: Teppuu Chapter 15 Discussion jacobpaige - Jul 22, Download as PDF Printable version. It's honestly something I would expect from a younger person and surprise surprise, it made me understand the MC's point of view. In fact, there are pretty much only two named male fighters, Mario and Risuke. Also that is even impossible as time between fights would have to be like a week or two. Now, unfortunately because there are so many subplots flying every which way in the background and with the series being the short length that it is, because we also have A lot of characters in this series, by the time the story is over not everything Moare set into motion gets settled and even those events that cause Natsuo to become the way she is get rushed a bit in the finale. The character art is beautiful and all But I have to be honest here on behalf of my soul. The consistency to which every part of every character was maintained to hold a perfect idea of how they work.