Change!

A manga about a high school girl who gets draw into the world of freestyle rap battles.

While it actually isn’t that unique as a subject for manga, I’m pretty impressed with how rap battles are treated seriously here. I like how Change! follows the growth of the protagonist Shiori as she starts from the bottom and it motivates her to grow and builds her own rapping style.

Masahito Soda has done a lot of different manga and I was a big fan of his racing series Capeta. His artwork works well to capture the kinetic energy of a crowd at a rap battle.

It’s currently running in Monthly Shonen Magazine.

~dakazu