#title: teppuu

[havewereadthis]

"Perpetually bored, Natsuo Ishidou has been physically adept for as long as she can remember. Her ability to almost instantly pick up any kind of sport has left her constantly searching for any kind of challenge. However, because she rarely finds anything difficult, she has developed a narcissistic and apathetic attitude toward everyone around her.

One day, Natsuo sees a fellow student trying to advertise a mixed martial arts club. When the girl, named Yuzuko Mawatari, targets Natsuo from the crowd and extends an invitation to her, she becomes irritated with her demeanor and accepts the request in an attempt to discover why Yuzuko seems to be so carefree.

But while Natsuo participates in the mixed martial arts club, people from her past still have a bone to pick with her. Can she deal with the consequences of her poor attitude while rising to the challenge of someone who may actually be stronger than her?"

[yuripoll]

Propaganda Tags Used

Not tagging every alternate title and the like on propaganda posts, so here's a list of the tags I'm using for each series, for easier browsing :P

(25/02/24: updated to include season 3)

(10/10/24: due to tumblr's pesky 100 link limit, check the pinned for tags past season 3)

Season 3 Contestants:

2DK, G-Pen, Aftertime. || A Kiss and a White Lily || A Lady's Table || Aoi Hana || Ayaka is in Love with Hiroko! || Because You Are a Red Rose || Blooming Sequence || Composing Spring in This Room Where Cherry Blossoms Bloom || Dark Forest, White Road || Destroy It All and Love Me In Hell || Handsome Girl and Sheltered Girl || I Married My Best Friend to Shut My Parents Up || I'm Not Cut Out to Be a Princess, so I'll Elope With the Villainess! || Indigo Blue || Kakegurui || Kanojo ni Naritai Kimi to Boku || Mahou Josei Chimaka || Makoto no Momoka || Maria-sama ga Miteru || Muted || Netsu wo Obiru Veil || Ohana Holoholo || Sakura Namiki || Savior || Serendipity || Soulmate || That Time I Was Blackmailed By The Class's Green Tea Bitch || The Girl That Can't Get a Girlfriend || The Moon On A Rainy Night || To Die in June || You Are My Angela || Yuki and the Authoress

Season 2 Contestants:

2DK, G-Pen, Alarm Clock || Always Human || An Absurd Relationship || Asagao to Kase-san || Asumi-chan is interested in lesbian brothels || Can't Defy the Lonely Girl || Cirque Arachne || Even the introverted gals wanna get out there! || Fly By || Futari Escape || Gunjou || Hana to Hoshi || Hard Lacquer || Her Tale of Shim Chong || Himitsu no Hanazono || I Love Amy || I See You, Aizawa-san! || I won 300 million yen in a lottery so I started raising a freeloader pretty girl || Lonely Wolf, Lonely Sheep || Love My Life || Mai no Mushigurashi || Nomura Nao to Kyougaku Hina || Pink Ribbon || Sexual Education 120% || Tamen de Gushi || Teppuu || The Ends of a Dream || The guy she was interested in wasn't a guy at all || There's weird voices coming from the room next door! || Yoru to Umi || Young Ladies Don't Play Fighting Games || Yuri Espoir

Season 1 Contestants:

A Monster Wants to Eat Me || Black & White: Tough Love in the Office || Bloom into You || The Blue Star On That Day || Can I kiss you? || Catch These Hands || Doughnuts under a Crescent Moon || Goodbye My Rose Garden || Hana ni Arashi || Hanamonogatari || Hello, Melancholic! || How Do I Get Together with My Childhood Friend♀️? || How Do We Relationship? || I'm in Love with the Villainess || It would be great if you didn't exist! || Liar Satsuki Can See Death || Love Allergy Syndrome || Moonlight Flowers || My wish is to fall in love until you die || Not So Shoujo Love Story || Rock it, GiRL!! || Run Away With Me, Girl || Octave || Oniisama e... || Otherside Picnic || Pietà || Sasameki Koto || She loves to cook, and she loves to eat || Shiroi Heya no Futari || SHWD || Still Sick || Yuri Kuma Arashi

[deluscar]

Teppuu Review

Teppuu is a manga about women’s MMA. It was written and illustrated by Oota Moare and was completed just around mid-2015. I had been looking for a MMA manga at the time and this title was the very first recommended to me. Now how does it hold up? (more…)

[recentanimenews]

The Badminton Anime You Didn't Know You Needed

Just a couple of years ago, one of the golden rules of the English anime licensing scene was that sports anime was dead on arrival in North America. Happily, though, that has changed for the better in recent times. Masaaski Yuasa's masterful Ping Pong the Animation, popular franchises like Yowamushi Pedal and Haikyu!!, and recent hit boxing anime MEGALOBOX have shown that there is room in anime for sports series at long last.

  Despite this, there are very few series that take girls' sports seriously. There was the fantastically entertaining fanservice series Keijo!!!!!!!! and the comedic action of Scorching Ping Pong Girls but nothing that took womens' sports seriously in the same way as the "hard work and guts" classic Aim for the Ace! Directed by the legendary Osamu Dezaki of Ashita no Joe and Rose of Versailles fame, Aim for the Ace! was an operatic, hyperdramatic shojo tennis anime that defined sports anime of the 1970s and inspired countless homages. One such tribute, Gunbuster: Aim for the Top! was influential in its own right. But the "ganbatte" spirit of girls' sports anime seems to have to disappeared in recent years.

That's about to change with Hanebado!, a sports anime about girls playing badminton, which will be airing this summer!

    Serialized in good!Afternoon, home of beloved girls' mixed martial arts manga Teppuu!, as well as Maria the Virgin Witch, A-Jin, Sweetness and Lightning, and Witch Craft Works, Hanebado! (written by mangaka Kousuke Hamada) has been collected in eleven volumes. It tells the story of badminton natural Ayano Hanasaki, who exhibits excellent athletic ability climbing a large tree on school grounds. Coach Kentaro Tachibana, whose badminton team has so few players it cannot enter official competitions, approaches Ayano about joining the team, but she refuses. She says she hates badminton, but Tachibana refuses to give up, eventually convincing Ayano to join the team. The title is an abbreviation of the name Hanasaki and the word badminton, so it basically means "The Badminton of Ayano Hanasaki."

  The show features incredible animation from Studio LIDEN Films and is directed by Shinpei Ezaki (ERASED, Space Brothers). Taku Kishimoto, who has done series composition for all three seasons of Haikyu!!, as well as ERASED, is doing writing work for this series as well. His experience in pacing out sports stories over a long season will be sure to help Hanebado!'s flow.

    Rounding out the staff is character designer Satoshi Kimura (Akashic Records of Bastard Magical Instructor, TERRAFORMARS), Kazuhiro Wakabayashi as sound director (Bungo Stray Dogs, Princess Mononoke), and Tatsuya Katou (Free!, Love Live! Sunshine!!) is composing the music.

  What makes Hanebado! look uniquely promising is the focus on the sport, competition, and characters as an end in itself, rather than using the setup for jokes, healing comedy, or fanservice gags. The series also promises an international cast of characters and fierce rivalries as Hanasaki's passion for the sports is slowly kindled by her teammates. The trailer also hints at a past tragedy for Hanasaki that caused her to turn against the sport, something that she will need to overcome in order to reach her true potential. This kind of character drama drives all of the best sports anime, imbuing the competition with personal meaning and growth beyond the simple scoring of points.

    We've seen many tennis anime before, but few about badminton, which makes Hanebado! unique even among the rare company of female-centric sports stories. One of the ways badminton is distinct from tennis in its use of a shuttlecock instead of a ball. Also called a bird, the shuttlecock has higher drag than a typical spherical ball due to its feathers or plastic netting. The result is a projectile that can reach much higher speeds than a typical ball, but which decelerates much more quickly. This unusual flight pattern of the shuttlecock defines much of the way badminton is played. You can see the lavish attention paid to the feathers on the shuttlecock in the trailer, making it clear that a ton of research into the physics of the game has made its way into the anime.

With a novel new sport that hasn't seen anime adaptations before, fantastic animation, strong source material, and a neglected genre, Hanebado! looks to be one of the most exciting titles of the summer. Girls' sport anime is back, and it's more cutthroat than ever. Are you ready?

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Thomas Zoth is a features writer for Crunchyroll, blogs occasionally at Hungry Bug Diner, and appears on podcasts at Infinite Rainy Day. You can follow him on Twitter at @ABCBTom.

By: news+feed@crunchyroll.com

[yuripoll]

making good headway in reading (or rereading) everything for propaganda collection & rec writing, but @whysapphics suggested posting the list of titles for season 3 in case anyone wants to read things beforehand

still subject to change if i end up quibbling over what to include, but here's the current roster (under the cut)

dark forest, white road <- yoshida chiyu (high school drama including a blind girl)

ayaka is in love with hiroko <- sal jiang (silly office romcom)

the moon on a rainy night <- kuzushiro (high school drama including a deaf girl)

serendipity <- mimiyori (webcomic about an overworked magical girl)

handsome girl and sheltered girl <- majoccoid & mocha au lait (silly miscommunication romcom)

aoi hana <- takako shimura (classic schoolgirl yuri)

composing spring in this room where cherry blossoms bloom <- tokuwotsumu (angst. ough.)

makoto no momoka <- sumiko arai (oneshot)

i decided to fake a marriage with my junior to shut my parents up <- kodama naoko (exactly what it says on the tin)

sakura namiki <- takahashi makoto (OLD old. proto-yuri)

i'm not cut out to be a princess, so i'll elope with the villainess <- yamagata atsuka (isekai oneshot)

netsu wo obiru veil <- sakura togane (oneshot about unrequited love)

muted <- miranda mundt (fantasy webcomic)

the girl that can't get a girlfriend <- mieri hiranishi (autobiographical lesbian dramady)

a lady's table <- hwemi (girl dinner <3)

because you are a red rose <- mokuzuko (oneshot about unrequited love... again. im not having issues i prommy)

that time i was blackmailed by the class's green tea bitch <- xian jun (silly high school romcom)

2dk gpen aftertime <- yayoi ohsama (anthology including an epilogue to 2dk gpen alarm clock)

kanojo ni naritai kimi to boku <- takase umi (kind of a stretch to call it yuri (for spoiler reasons) but about a girls crush on her childhood friend who recently came out as trans)

indigo blue <- yamaji ebine (down to earth josei drama about a writer cheating on her bf with a woman)

destroy it all and love me in hell <- kuwabara tamotsu (so THIS is the toxic yuri ive heard so much about)

mahou josei chimaka <- kaiju (webcomic turned real comic about an ex-magical girl who needs to save the world again; no longer available online which unfortunately means i wont be able to read this one at the moment... hmu if anyone knows of an ebook sale for it ToT EDIT: oh im dumbbb i looked at the submission to double check for content warnings and its on IA)

savior <- junqi & jo9 (vampire yuri)

to die in june <- kuragenanami (alternate history where young girls were recruited to the jp army in ww2)

soulmate <- wenzhi lizi & ke ran bing (woman gets bodyswapped with her 17 year old self)

yuki and the authoress <- nagori yu (historical romance)

blooming sequence <- lee eul (college student romance)

you are my angela <- murasakino (short romance about an angel)

maria-sama ga miteru <- konno oyuki & nagasawa satoru (classic schoolgirl yuri)

a kiss and a white lily for her <- canno (modern schoolgirl yuri)

ohana holoholo <- torino shino (gay josei family drama)

kakegurui <- kawamoto homura & naomura tooru (not strictly yuri but, like teppuu, ive been led to believe its homoerotic enough to break that barrier)