Bouryoku Banzai - Ch. 29 - Gamble

[misopogon]

Don't know how to feel about this. Glad our boy won, but feels like he shouldn't have. Training or not, he's new to violence in general, old guy was a professional (I'm going to assume his skills have deteriorated from the injury and beating up unskilled hoodlums). Just feels like our boy should've lost here, and come back stronger later, or faced the old guy much later.

I don't remember the stakes for these fights, i.e. if it's a knockout tournament.

Just turn off your brain and enjoy the people beating up and the crazy hot girl

Don't think about what's possible and what's not

 

[Kababman]

The sacrificial roundhouse kick as a way to effectively pull guard is pretty clever tbh.
The old man saw he was prepared for a sacrifice technique, so when Akita threw some goofy karate shit, old man was completely distracted from the possibility of a triangle and fell into his trap.
The only asspull-y thing is the roundhouse kick actually landing, but that doesn't really change the story of the fight.

 

[SYLOK]

Y'all saying roundhouse kick is an ass pull never played Disco Elysium

 

[Ukiyokun]

I agree, but even if he drew it better it's still weak that the kid would land a low-percentage acrobatic kick that, unless I'm forgetting, he never practiced before.
Also, those kinds of spinning ticks are really easy to see coming for an experienced fighter if you just do them from a crouched over stance . the only way those kicks land is if you disguise them with another attack

Remember the technique that our assault prone best girl mentioned? That was the roundhouse kick. It was used to bait the guy into the punch so mc could get the choke off

 

[Joe17mama]

That was great Akira, that's my boy!

Now, I'm sure Rikudou is psyched to see him win and for all their training to pay off in a proper submission move. She better offer him something nice for his trouble. Time for Rikudou Reward!

Or at least, that's what the perv/romantic (both?) in me hoped for. Too bad this isn't that kind of series, and has practically no romantic undertones/development between the MC and FMC at all lol.

 

[AnimationDude]

Don't know how to feel about this. Glad our boy won, but feels like he shouldn't have. Training or not, he's new to violence in general, old guy was a professional (I'm going to assume his skills have deteriorated from the injury and beating up unskilled hoodlums). Just feels like our boy should've lost here, and come back stronger later, or faced the old guy much later.

I don't remember the stakes for these fights, i.e. if it's a knockout tournament.

Can’t say I blame you. The fight kind of suffers from being a GREAT idea from a tactical and choreography standpoint, but not so much from a believability standpoint.

That kick he used to set this all up, came out of almost nowhere as we never SEE it practiced, he had just learned the triangle choke recently, and since he copied his other moves instantly like a video game character with relative ease? I don’t think it’s crazy for it to end up feeling unearned or unsatisfying. Especially considering this is his second major fight and he’s already putting a veteran to sleep.


In my opinion, this confrontation should’ve ended in a “draw” where he runs away, reevaluates, and rematches later once there are only around 30 to 20 participants left to show his graduation from Rookie to legitimate threat AFTER bringing down several other participants with increasingly shrewd tactics. Still entertaining if you turn your brain off but sadly falls short of its full potential imo but that’s just me. Other people seemed to enjoy it

 

[Big_Boss]

lol, isn't that kick minoru kohinata's signature move from Karate Shoukoushi Kohinata Minoru?

Yeah, glad that some people remember that manga, its Do Mawashi Kaiten Geri, Minoru used it few times.
Thanks for translation!