Manga like Bamboo Blade

What is Bamboo Blade about?

Status: Finished

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?

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.

Tags: School , Female Protagonist , Seinen , Martial Arts

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Kurogane

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Supernatural

Kurogane Hiroto is in high school, where he is academically the top of his class but literally the worst in physical activity. Born with a weak body, he has no endurance, speed nor strength and Hiroto wants nothing more than to be a hero. Fate teases him by giving him phenomenal eye sight, which allows him to see well beyond anyone else in sports, but his body is not able to react to any of it.

He learns from his friend Shiratori, who wants to recruit him for the Kendo team, about a rumor about a ghost named Tojo Sayuri, who wields a katana and haunts an ally in the city. Half curious, Hiroto goes there only to find that the ghost is real and that Tojo Sayuri has been looking for a successor to her Sakura sword style for 150 years. Sayuri chooses him as the successor after being able to dodge her attack and forces him to learn the Sakura style. Even with the help of the ancient swordsman ghost, Hiroto has to overcome his poor motor skills in order to be the hero he always wanted to be.

Tags: School , Shounen

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Soredemo Ayumu wa Yosetekuru

Also known as When Will Ayumu Make His Move?.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance , Slice of Life

Ayumu is in love with his senpai Yaotome, but he's sworn not to confess his feelings until he can beat her at the board game shogi… The problem is, his love is obvious to Yaotome, and she can't stop trying to trick him into breaking his vow!

Notes:
Includes 15 extra chapters.
The manga is based on a series of comics the author previously released on Twitter.
Ranked third place in the 2020 Tsugi ni Kuru Manga Awards comic category.

Tags: Heterosexual , Male Protagonist , School Club , Shounen , Female Protagonist , Shogi , Slapstick , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Primarily Teen Cast , School , Tsundere , Love Triangle , Board Game

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