Kami-sama wa Southpaw Diamond

A boxing manga about a man who enters the world of boxing randomly to discover his talents make him a diamond in the rough.

I like this manga. The art was decent but the boxing scenes never had a sense of fluidity to the motion. The story was also pretty rote but it was enjoyable enough that I kept reading. Too bad the series ended prematurely with only 3 volumes.

Interesting note is that creator Shinji Imaizumi made another boxing called Kami-sama wa Southpaw in 1988. The adopted son of the protagonist from that series appears as the Japan Featherweight champion in this manga so I guess this is considered a sequel series. Maybe he wanted to tap into old nostalgia for another shot at a boxing series but it looks like that didn’t help him. A shame.

~dakazu