Genres:Seinen(M),Action,Comedy,Martial Arts,School Life
🇬🇧English
Publication:Original Publication:Ongoing
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00.0%The series began as a fairly humorous and lighthearted satire of Japan’s teenage delinquent-gang subculture told from the perspective of Matsushita Tadashi (who also narrates these early Karate Bu stories), a 2nd year student at Kangokou High and a constant target of Kangokou’s numerous bullies who beat him up routinely after school. He is almost always accompanied by his best friend Saitou Takaki, who is also constantly harassed.
As the pair grow increasingly tired of being victimized they decide to join the titular Karate Club, which is notorious throughout Osaka’s youth gangs for training and producing the city’s most hardened and toughest teenage thugs while maintaining the facade of a legit school sports club. But when they join the club, they find themselves picked on just as much if not worse by the club’s current members. But as the story progresses they grow to be increasingly capable fighters.
Along with the manga’s change in attitude and central character, the various teenage fighters throughout the series grew increasingly stronger and even began to tap into superhuman ki abilities, putting Osu!! Karate Bu in the company of other similar epic Shōnen fighting manga such as Yu Yu Hakusho, Dragon Ball, and Fist of the North Star.
Osu!! Karate Bu was wildly popular in its native Japan, but is otherwise almost completely unknown in most other countries. It spawned a four episode OVA mini-series released over a period of two years from 1990-1992, a 1990 live action movie, and a 1994 Super Famicom fighting game.
As the pair grow increasingly tired of being victimized they decide to join the titular Karate Club, which is notorious throughout Osaka’s youth gangs for training and producing the city’s most hardened and toughest teenage thugs while maintaining the facade of a legit school sports club. But when they join the club, they find themselves picked on just as much if not worse by the club’s current members. But as the story progresses they grow to be increasingly capable fighters.
Along with the manga’s change in attitude and central character, the various teenage fighters throughout the series grew increasingly stronger and even began to tap into superhuman ki abilities, putting Osu!! Karate Bu in the company of other similar epic Shōnen fighting manga such as Yu Yu Hakusho, Dragon Ball, and Fist of the North Star.
Osu!! Karate Bu was wildly popular in its native Japan, but is otherwise almost completely unknown in most other countries. It spawned a four episode OVA mini-series released over a period of two years from 1990-1992, a 1990 live action movie, and a 1994 Super Famicom fighting game.
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Chapter 37: Leave the School Festival to Us!!
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Chapter 40: The Secret of Takagi's Hair, Part 2
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Chapter 42: One Year Ago...
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Chapter 48: The Raid on Jnuaffiliated!!
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Chapter 58: Rosary of Hell!!
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Chapter 60: White Christmas
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Chapter 81: Cliff
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Chapter 86: The Immobile Takagi
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Chapter 91: The Mysterious New Seven
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Chapter 93: Secret of the Bat
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Chapter 94: Hanna on Fire!?
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Chapter 98: Game Is Over!?
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Chapter 100: Forever and Ever
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Chapter 101: Invitation to Hell
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Chapter 105: Decision
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Chapter 107: The Great War of Osaka
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Chapter 118: Destiny
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Chapter 119: Power and Heart
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Chapter 121: Cry of the Heart
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Chapter 122: Shikoku is Coming
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Chapter 125: The Red Lightning
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Chapter 133: Counterattack
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Chapter 134: The Four Secrets of Captain!!
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Chapter 137: Dance of Death
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Chapter 138: End of the Duel...
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Chapter 140: Phantom
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Chapter 143: The Power of God
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Chapter 145: Fist of the Last Stand
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Chapter 147: The Impending Storm
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Chapter 148: Like Fire...
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Chapter 149: Takagi Defeated!?
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Chapter 151: Secret of the Fa Jin
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Chapter 155: A Sorrowful Heart
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Chapter 156: Setting Out
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Chapter 157: Coming to Tokyo
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Chapter 158: A Painful Ceremony
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Chapter 160: Declaration of War!?
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Chapter 161: Conclusion of Negotiations!?
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Chapter 163: Guts Killing
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Chapter 164: Before the Showdown!!
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Chapter 165: Exhibition Match
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Chapter 166: The Pet Dog Strikes Back
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Chapter 167: Trump Card
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Chapter 168: Marimo in Danger+
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Chapter 170: The Karate Club's SOS!!
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Chapter 171: Point fo Death
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Chapter 172: Common Point
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