Buyuden

Buyuden
Cover of Buyuden volume 1 by Takuya Mitsuda
武勇伝
GenreSports (boxing)[1]
Manga
Written byTakuya Mitsuda
Published byShogakukan
ImprintShōnen Sunday Comics
MagazineWeekly Shōnen Sunday
DemographicShōnen
Original runMarch 16, 2011 – January 29, 2014
Volumes13 (List of volumes)

Buyuden (Japanese for 武勇伝 buyūden, "A Heroic Story") is a Japanese sports manga series written and illustrated by Takuya Mitsuda. It was serialized in Shogakukan's Weekly Shōnen Sunday, from March 2011 to January 2014. Its chapters were collected in thirteen tankōbon volumes.

Plot

Isamu Take is an elitist 6th grader who looks down at his peers because he is the best at everything he does at school, from looks and smarts, to his luck with girls and his abilities as an athlete. He considers himself to be in the top percent of his age group and is incredibly bored with interacting with the so called normal people. A new student, Moka Kaname, transfers into his school and as she is fairly pretty, Isamu asks her out.

Moka mishears what he says and thinks he wants to challenge her, as she grew up boxing. In fact, Moka is an amazing fighter and can even take down 5 middle school boys at once. Although Isamu can’t stand her violent personality and she can’t stand him for having so much pride, they start to grow attracted to each other. But then Isamu finds out that not only is Moka more athletic than him from all her years of boxing, she's also much smarter than him.

Characters

Isamu Take (武 勇, Take Isamu)
An arrogant boy that sees himself above anyone and is the top student in his elementary school. After getting saved and humiliated in front of Moka Kaname, a boxer girl that he confessed to, he gets into some incidents that makes him really fall in love with Moka and start boxing to spend more time with her.
Moka Kaname (要 萌花, Kaname Moka)
A boxer girl that recently transferred from Kansai. When Isamu confessed to her, she misunderstood him and thought he wanted to have a boxing match with her. After saving Isamu from getting picked on, and a few other incidents, she accepts him as her friend to box with.
Hyoma Hoshi (星 明奈, Hoshi Hyōma)
A sixth grader who goes to the same school as Isamu and Moka. He is the son of a boxing coach who runs Star Gym, and his older sister is a professional female boxer. He doesn't have much confidence in himself because of a boxing loss when he was younger, and he feels that he is no good at boxing compared to his sister.

Manga

Buyuden is written and illustrated by Major and Major 2nd author Takuya Mitsuda. The series ran in Shogakukan's Weekly Shōnen Sunday from March 16, 2011 to January 29, 2014.[2][3] The series was collected into thirteen tankōbon volumes released from July 15, 2011 to June 30, 2014.[4][5]

Volume list

No. Release date ISBN
1 July 15, 2011[4]978-4-09-123178-9
2 December 16, 2011[6]978-4-09-123369-1
3 January 18, 2012[7]978-4-09-123517-6
4 April 18, 2012[8]978-4-09-123646-3
5 January 20, 2014[9]978-4-09-123792-7
6 January 20, 2014[10]978-4-09-123889-4
7 February 10, 2014[11]978-4-09-124185-6
8 February 10, 2014[12]978-4-09-124303-4
9 February 10, 2014[13]978-4-09-124362-1
10 March 17, 2014[14]978-4-09-124455-0
11 April 28, 2014[15]978-4-09-124521-2
12 May 21, 2014[16]978-4-09-124558-8
13 June 30, 2014[5]978-4-09-124585-4

References

  1. ^ MAJORの満田拓也がボクシング描く「BUYUDEN」完結. Natalie (in Japanese). January 29, 2014. Retrieved October 23, 2020.
  2. ^ "Fullmetal Alchemist's Arakawa Starts New Series in April (Updated)". Anime News Network. Retrieved 2020-11-19.
  3. ^ "Major's Takuya Mitsuda Ends Buyuden Boxing Manga". Anime News Network. Retrieved 2020-11-19.
  4. ^ a b BUYUDEN 1 (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Retrieved November 19, 2020.
  5. ^ a b BUYUDEN 13 (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Retrieved November 19, 2020.
  6. ^ BUYUDEN 2 (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Retrieved November 19, 2020.
  7. ^ BUYUDEN 3 (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Retrieved November 19, 2020.
  8. ^ BUYUDEN 4 (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Retrieved November 19, 2020.
  9. ^ BUYUDEN 5 (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Retrieved November 19, 2020.
  10. ^ BUYUDEN 6 (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Retrieved November 19, 2020.
  11. ^ BUYUDEN 7 (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Retrieved November 19, 2020.
  12. ^ BUYUDEN 8 (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Retrieved November 19, 2020.
  13. ^ BUYUDEN 9 (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Retrieved November 19, 2020.
  14. ^ BUYUDEN 10 (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Retrieved November 19, 2020.
  15. ^ BUYUDEN 11 (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Retrieved November 19, 2020.
  16. ^ BUYUDEN 12 (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Retrieved November 19, 2020.