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Daria is a college student with a body-image complex as swole as he is skinny. His cool exterior is a shield to protect his soft heart, even though he has a lot of love to give—and he’d love to give it to his crush, Ruby, his gentle giant neighbor. After encouragement from a friend, he might finally get closer to Ruby by…working out with her?! Can Daria find the strength of heart to tell Ruby how he feels?

This manga tells the legacy of Mitsuyo Maeda a Brazilian naturalized as Otávio Maeda, who was a Japanese judōka (judo expert) and prizefighter in no holds barred competitions. He was also known as Count Combat or Conde Koma in Spanish and Portuguese, a nickname he picked up in Spain in 1908. Along with Antônio Soshihiro Satake (another naturalized Brazilian), he pioneered judo in Brazil, the United Kingdom, and other countries. Maeda was fundamental to the development of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, including through his teaching of Carlos Gracie and others of the Gracie family. He was also a promoter of Japanese emigration to Brazil. Maeda won more than 2,000 professional fights in his career. His accomplishments led to him being called the "toughest man who ever lived" and being referred to as the father of Brazilian Jiu-jitsu.

This story tells of a child who wants to try to recover from his first defeat which makes him mentally down, but he tries to get back up again and again.

Friendship. Effort. Victory!The story centers around the life of a young boxer named Ryuji Takane and his sister Kiku, who is his coach. Ryuji and his sister both inherited their father's talent for boxing with Ryuji inheriting his strength and techniques while Kiku picked up his talent for analysis and strategy. In the past, their father was a famous boxer. Ryuji and Kiku went away from home to train and become famous in order to help their lonely mother. On the way to stardom, they have to defeat the strongest challengers all over the world.The work that solidified the themes of Weekly Shonen Jump. Those themes being Friendship, Effort, and Victory!

High school senior Aihara Kotoko has had a crush on Irie Naoki since freshman year. But she's been discouraged from confessing to him by a few things: he's a member of "Class A," the top ranking class in school, whereas she's in "Class F"; he gets the top score on every exam; and he's so smart, popular, and handsome that he's been class president every year. When Kotoki finally musters up the courage to present him with a love letter, though, Naoki outright refuses it, telling her point blank–with a look of disgust and boredom–that he doesn't like "stupid girls." Poor Kotoko's worst nightmare! Her heart is broken, but then a change in circumstance forces Naoki and Kotoko to be together every day…!? Itazura na Kiss is a gem to the shoujo demographic, as it is the mother of a lot of cliches found in today's shoujo series. Despite the fact that it is 2 decades old, it still stands out as unique for it has the series follow the main characters well into their life, over a span of 10 years. It was so popular it inspired popular series like Marmalade Boy and Fruits Basket. However, the author had an accident while she was moving homes with her son and husband, and passed away a few months later, leaving her popular manga forever uncompleted. It was adapted into a popular Taiwanese drama under the title "It Started With a Kiss", and it even earned sequel. It was also adapted as a short Japanese drama in 1996, and an anime series in 2008, with the anime portraying the author's planned ending.

Heisuke just came into town and the first thing on his to-do list is chasing pretty girls, which causes him to get punched in the process. After reaching the house he'll be staying at he sees a girl trying to sneak inside. Seeing this as a perfect opportunity to legitimately grope a girl, he attempts to stop this intruder only to find out that it's the same girl who punched him earlier; not only that, but her name is Umi and she just happens to be one of the three sisters who live in that house along with their mother. The next day Umi finds out that Heisuke is a boxer whose skill is only eclipsed by his lecherousness. Follow Heisuke as he tries to find out which desire is stronger, his desire for boxing or his desire for girls!

Fighting manga

Diamond Cutter is a shonen action epic, half giant robots, half ninjitsu dodgeball! It's officially published on planetlandcomics.com, where you can read the whole series up to date! Read Left to Right. Contact Planet Land Comics if you're interested in translating Diamond Cutter.

From Selene Scans: New school, new teachers, a new class, new friends... and basketball. All these things that Ishizuka Sakura are looking forward to are rudely interrupted by the fact that she's running late on her first day of high school! Everything is a mess with her being told the wrong directions to the auditorium, and after school when she looks to relax and play some basketball... she meets the legendary Miyamoto Hayato and Tadashi twins. She wants to team up with them, but will they accept...?! Read and find out!

A manga part of the Uma Musume Project by Cygames, a game and an anime. It follows Special Week, an aspiring horsegirl athlete-idol, as she transfers in to the Traincent Academy to follow her dreams.

After retiring from gymnastics, Han Jiwon thought his biggest challenges were behind him. Turns out, winning Olympic medals was easy compared to surviving university as a painfully shy ex-superstar. Enter Kwon Jungwoo—campus heartthrob, basketball star, and a whole new world of trouble wrapped up in a perfect smile. But just when Jiwon thinks he has Jungwoo figured out, he discovers a surprisingly sweet side beneath that cold exterior. Can this unlikely duo overcome their differences and stick the landing on their budding romance?

Hikari Kohinata is a cheerful 15-year-old girl who lives near the ocean and she spends much of her time diving as a result. On her first day of high school, she meets a teacher who also likes scuba diving. There's also a 16-year-old classmate, Futaba, who gets dragged along in Hikari's maelstrom as soon as they meet at school.