Baki OVA - Recommendations

• Vol: 3; Ch: 23
• 2016

"All you need is the floor and your body. Then all that's left is to make a fist." Shinya Kinoshita, a boy with incredible posture, and Takumi Yanagiya, the 6-time elementary school national champion meet one day by chance … but surely it's fate. As the two laugh and are drawn to each other, the stage is set for this story of the Kawasaki Ukishima Junior High School Karate Club—a fun-filled martial-arts journey full of friendship and smiles begins now! 

• Vol: 31; Ch: 320
• 1987 - 1996

The story is about Mutsu Tsukumo, a young and normal looking youth who challenges great foes to prove that his style of fighting is the best in the world. His Ryuha, or fighting style is called Mutsu Enmei Ryu. A style that is said to have never lost in its 1000 year history. Tsukumo not yet a perfect fighter also increases his strength as the story progresses.

• Vol: 29
• 1971 - 1977

• Vol: 5
• 2005

• Vol: 4; Ch: 32
• 2023 - 2024

Nito is living a quiet high school life while taking care of his disabled grandpa, but thanks to an encounter with a schoolmate striving to be a pro female MMA fighter, his life is about to flip. Sometimes, you just have to fight! This serious MMA story is an all-out battle!

• Vol: 2; Ch: 10
• 1986 - 1987

Don’t mess with Ayu; she’s one of the top-ranked Karate club members in the region, although she does have one weakness; snakes. After one fight where she is unconscious because her opponent knows her weakness, and old friend shows up, a young man named Shunpei. He used to be a weakling, but now he may be even stronger than Ayu!

• Vol: 7
• 1996

Morio Tatsuo got hooked on martial arts through his admiration for Bruce Lee. But when he meets a certain girl, he's no longer satisfied with just watching, and wants to be a fighter himself.

• Vol: 3; Ch: 21
• 1993

• Vol: 2; Ch: 12
• 2007 - 2008

Tobi Shima Sen lost his father and lives with his mother. He is a scrapper but his mother has no authority over him. In order to educate him, she decides to send him to a kickboxing coach during the holidays/vacation.

• Vol: 9+; Ch: 107+
• 2022 - ?

Aoba Suzuki is a gloomy first-year high schooler who walks the path of a social outcast. Despite constantly being pulverized by his classmate Sannosuke Iwase under the pretense of "play-fighting", he was still satisfied with his school life. One day, Aoba gets rescued from his "play-fighting" by Kenshin Akazawa - a young man in the class next to his, and a superstar of the world of martial arts... But when Kenshin tells him, "You're completely hollow", Aoba wants to make him pay, and declares that he's going to give Kenshin a pounding. Thus begins the social outcast's new journey into sports as he tackles mixed martial arts!