Isshou Senkin
ST✰R: Strike It Rich

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it's peak... it's just so peak...

WHY YOU SHOULD READ IT:
the fights are amazing, the narrative is amazing, there's high stakes and you love every single character. it also takes place in the same universe as the kengan and dumbbell series so there might be some overlap in the future. this is unironically better than kengan omega. great art too
here's how i would rate each aspect:
ART: 8/10 very creative, gives a feeling of impact, high quality in general.
PLOT: 9/10 well thought out and not at all predictable I would say. if it is predictable, it's only to some small extent.
CHARACTERS: 8/10 they're all unique and likeable ... in some way, and have well written dynamics between each other.
ACHILLES HEEL: the writer Sandrovich has some kind of lingering fetish for tournament arcs and whilst that's not necessarily a bad thing, he does it a lot in his works, so get ready for that.

This is definitely an anime material manga, a perfect martial art manga, so to speak. Each panel expresses an excellent sense of weight, movement, and impact.

The story lowkey is like Baki but female, with a slight sense of humour. The cute/stylized line art complements the manga itself to be more compelling.

The plot is interesting and quite unpredictable. Character designs are mint. The visuals of the manga are a mix of [Dumbbell Nan Kilo Moteru?] and [Record of Ragnarok] if you know what I mean.

I highkey couldn't wait for this to actually be made into an anime.

Plot 9/10
Visuals 10/10

First off, its not my way to write a review for something I have not finished and isn't done releasing. But I feel I have to write this as a warning for those who like me got introduced to Isshou Senkin as a replacement for another women's MMA manga series called Teppu.

This is nothing like Teppu.

Teppu had a huge focus on the unqiue mental head space of a prize fighter, that almost evil downright sinister willingness to hurt another person and the kind of dark places you have to enter to cultivate it. Isshou has absolutely NONE of that. It reads like a tottally ... different thing. The first chapter is all about setting up an MMA organization, then the second is about chemical weapons???

I'll probably keep reading it, but I'm not really sure who this appeals to. It's a tottaly different beast than what I was expecting, I don't even feel fair to give it a numerical rating. Its just so different from what I came in expecting.


I take back every nice thing I implied, chapter 12 has an Asian steryotype using chi manipulation BS to launch her opponent across the ring. This isn't even a baki rip off, this is some Frank Dux tier nonsense.