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Type
Manga
Volumes
14
Chapters
107
Status
Completed
Published
2004-12-03 to 2010-09-03
Genres
Comedy
School
Sports
Seinen
Combat Sports
Serializations
Young Gangan
Authors
Masahiro Totsuka (Story)
Aguri Igarashi (Art)
Bamboo Blade
Kojiro is an impoverished young teacher and the supervisor of his high school’s kendo club. He doesn’t have the leeway to spend time on his students–he can barely feed himself as it is. So when an old friend makes him a bet with an entire year’s worth of deluxe sushi on the line, Kojiro finds a new purpose in life: to beat his friend’s kendo team! But before he can arrange a kendo meet for both schools’ kendo teams, he needs to actually put together a five-woman squad–and the first girl he needs is Tamaki Kawazoe, kendo athlete extraordinaire and daughter of an elite kendo dojo master. The problem is, she isn’t really interested in doing kendo for fun. What can Kojiro do to convince her to join the team? (Source: Yen Press) Note: Originally published with 117 chapters, but was collected into 102 chapters in the tankoubons. There are also 5 special stories, which makes the total chapter count - 107.
Characters
Tamaki Kawazoe
Main
Kirino Chiba
Main
Miyako Miyazaki
Main
Sayako Kuwahara
Main
Danjuurou Eiga
Main
Satori Azuma
Main
Toraji Ishida
Main
Yuuji Nakata
Main
Kenzaburou Ishibashi
Supporting
Yuuri Andou
Supporting
Reimi Odajima
Supporting
Maya Yoko
Supporting