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Teppuu (鉄風
?) (lit. Iron Wind, also known as Teppu
or Tetsufuu) is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by
Futada Moare. The manga has been serialized in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Good!
Afternoon since 2008.
Plot
The plot revolves around Natsuo Ishido, a freshman in high
school. She has a natural talent for everything she does, and as a
result becomes bored with doing anything. She is often praised (and
occasionally hated) for her incredible talent, but in reality she
feels lonely, so she is often looking for more and more things to
occupy her time. As she fails to find anything that is sufficiently
challenging, her loneliness and boredom reach a bottomed-out
state.
One day, after a volleyball practice, she meets Yuzuko Mawatori
advertising for the mixed martial arts club, and
although at the time she is uninterested, the idea stays with her
for the rest of the day. She learns that Yuzuko and one other girl
are the sole members of the club, and as such isn't an official
club yet, so she decides to investigate. She meets the two members
and challenges Yuzuko to a spar, in which the two of them exchange
glancing blows. When Sanae Sawamura, the captain of the karate team, shows up, Natsuo
decides to leave. After she has left, she realises her nose and lip
are bleeding, and she resolves that she hates Yuzuko, and later
returns to challenge her to another spar. She loses the spar, but
gains a solid interest in MMA to the point where she quits the
volleyball team.
Characters
- Natsuo Ishido
- Natsuo Ishido is the series' main protagonist. She is naturally
talented at everything she does. Having lived with this ability her
whole life, she cannot understand why other people cannot do things
which she can do. This has given her a condescending attitude
against her opponents, who she goads and teases during their match
and after Natsuo's inevitable victory. She is also ruthless when
fighting, whether or not the fight is a serious one (she once
defeated Mai by swiftly kicking her in the stomach, knocking her to
the ground and rendering her unable to move).
- Natsuo has come to the realization that people with the ability
to be the best without even trying have the hardest time, since
they don't have anyone to bond with and their whole life is one big
competition. She is lonely and yearns for someone who can defeat
her and give her something to actually work for. This is all
hidden, however.
- Yuzuko Mawatori
- Yuzuko is the captain of the budding MMA club,
which at the beginning of the series had only two members (one
short of being an official club) and no adviser. She is constantly
advertising the club and recruiting anyone who will join, even
going so far as to challenge Natsuo to a fight, where both girls
fought evenly, but had to be broken up by Sanae's unexpected
arrival. On their second sparring session (where Natsuo intended to
lose), Yuzuko, having fought Natsuo beforehand, now knows what to
do this time around, and proceeded to seal Natsuo's movements by
pinning her to the ground, winning the match. This spurns Natsuo
more than ever, having finally met someone with the capacity to
defeat her
- Sanae Sawamura
- Sanae is the captain of the karate team. In the year previous to the events
of the series, she went to the National Karate Competition and
placed second, raising the near-defunct karate team into
recognition. She has declared an unofficial war on the MMA club,
and has convinced the other karate team members to do the same. She
and Natsuo were childhood friends, but ever since Natsuo left the
karate team on the basis that no one on the team was good enough,
she has acted cold toward Natsuo. This feeling accentuated after
she saw Natsuo fighting with Yuzuko and drew the conclusion that
Natsuo had joined the MMA club.
- Ringi Cordiero
- Ringi is the daughter of world-renowned MMA champion Mario
Cordiero. She has lived in Brazil for most of her life, but returned to Japan to visit Yuzuko, her
childhood friend. She is an amazing fighter, even to the point that
Yuzuko suggested that Natsuo would be a good match for her. When
fighting, she maintains an air of naivete, blurting false
weaknesses to get her opponent into an opportune position. She
oversaw the sparring rematch between Nasuo and Yuzuko, immdiately
seeing Natsuo's natural talent in the sport. Ringi has then been
eager to have her sparring match with Natsuo ever since
- Mario Cordiero
- Mario is the father of Ringi Cordiero.
- Risuke Tanenaka
- Mai Ganeko
- Mai is a member of the karate team. She claims to be the only
person who knows Sanae's dark past, and she hates Natsuo with a
passion.
- Kei
- Kei is Natsuo's friend from the volleyball team, and possibly
Natsuo's only friend.
- Kotani Karin
- Kirido Haruka
- A trainee also learning MMA at Tanekada's gym under the the
tutelage of Karin. Also a freshman like Natsuo, Kirido was
originally trained for Judo before
shifting to MMA, and she and Natsuo first met in chapter 6 where
they were formerly introduced to each other by Karin, as well as
the rest of the trainees. Physically, she is almost as tall as
Natsuo (who stands 182cm), and stands at a height of 177cm (5'10),
making her the only person in the gym to rival Natsuo as far as
height is concerned. Somewhat fond of teasing people, she left
quite an impression upon Natsuo when she referred to her as
"Goliath", causing the latter to immediately view Kirido as a
rival. Halfway through the chapter, Kirido ends up paired with
Natsuo in a practice sparring match, where she shows the latter a
fair bit of grappling, making Natsuo realize that more physical
contact is required in MMA than it was in Karate
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