©Hiroki Endou

18th Manga Division Jury Selections

All-rounder Meguru

ENDO Hiroki [Japan]

Outline

An ambitious work portraying with painful reality the daily lives of high school students involved in Shooto, mixed martial arts. The main character TAKAYANAGI Meguru is reunited in the ring of a tournament with SEGAWA Takashi, a close friend from his elementary school days who he hasn’t met in seven years. But after a long time apart, they feel estranged from one another and, without sharing the joy of reunion, the match begins. A tale of youth about friends devoted to martial arts.