Manga like TOUGH

Genres: Action Sports

What is TOUGH about?

Status: Finished

This is a continuation of Koko Tekken-den Tough which ran for 42 volumes and followed the main character, Kiichi, when he was younger and was training under his father Seiko Miyazawa. This is a mixed martial arts fighter manga about the Miyazawa school of martial arts. Initially, it is about Kiichi trying to heal his father after he was nearly killed by his brother Kiryu but it then goes on to be less about that as his father recovers and some tournament style fighting begins.

Tags: Martial Arts , Seinen
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Hanma Baki

Hanma Baki

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Sports

Baki trains for the the final showdown between him and his father.

Tags: Martial Arts , Shounen , Gore , Boxing , Primarily Male Cast , Demons , Cultivation , Dinosaurs , Crime , Military , Cannibalism ,
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Shamo

Shamo

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Psychological , Sports

At the age of sixteen Ryo Narushima was a genius and looked to have no trouble of getting into Tokyo University and joining the elite of society. However, that summer something cracked inside Ryo's head. With a small knife he brutally murdered both of his parents only leaving his sister alive and cowering in a corner. It is at this grotesque incident that our story begins.

Note: At volume 20, the series changed publishers, which created a restart of the chapter numbers. Starting from chapter 61 in volume 26, the first chapter from when the series returned from a long hiatus, the series has been completely written & drawn by Tanaka Akio. While Hashimoto Izou did write the series in the beginning, he had been doing less and less work starting from volume 4. Tanaka and Hashimoto reached a settlement and Shamo continued.

Tags: Martial Arts , Anti-Hero , Rehabilitation , Seinen , Tragedy , Male Protagonist , Survival , Gore , Boxing , Coming of Age , Prison , Yakuza , Gangs , Swordplay , Delinquents , Drugs , Bullying , Triads
Garouden

Garouden

Status: Finished
Genres: Action

The central plot revolves around a man named Bunshichi Tanba, a dojo-crasher who seeks stronger fighters to prove his strength to himself. While traveling to several schools and challenging the best each had to offer, Tanba came to the FAW (a gym that trains pro-wrestlers) and is pitted against T. Kajiwara. Tanba is defeated and humiliated after realizing that he is not strong enough and disappears for 3 years. Upon his return, he has become nearly unbeatable.

Tags: Seinen , Martial Arts , Nudity , Gore , Boxing
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Kizu Darake no Jinsei

Kizu Darake no Jinsei

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

Nagai Jinsei, aka "Bare-Knuckles Jinsei". Born in a dumpster, raised in an orphanage, living as a yakuza, he is tough enough that he fights all his fights bare-handed, and is covered with countless knife and bullet scars from his battles. But his life changes when he saves the five-year-old Ayumi, daughter of the new police chief, Enjoji Masayoshi, and befriends their family. For the first time in his life, Jinsei feels like he's found a family of his own, and decides to start his life over, but his past and his ties to the yakuza keep getting in the way.

Tags: Tragedy , Crime , Seinen , Police , Yakuza , Gore
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Riki-oh

Riki-oh

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure

In the late 1990s, society is descending into ecological collapse and totalitarianism. Saiga Rikioh, 21, finds himself in jail.

Set in the near future, at the privately-owned Tokyo State Prison. Like the chilling wind of the end of a century, a mysterious man with a six-pointed star on his fist entered the pen.

Saiga Riki-Oh--serving a term of three years, due to assault, his first offense. Riki-Oh openly antagonizes The Four Emperors, four powerful prisoners that control the prison and keep the rest of the inmates in line.

Tags: Seinen , Gore , Prison , Super Power , Body Horror , Male Protagonist , Primarily Male Cast , Martial Arts
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