Imanari Roll!!!!!!
Awwwww yeah! MMA manga with yuri undertones? Could this get any better? The great thing about reading MMA it seems is that the ground action progresses as fast as the striking. I can get used to this.
Now we've seen a kickboxing type striker (the typical good southpaw with a demon left leg), and a leg locker who uses the Imanari Roll. I wonder what other kind of techniques we'll see. There has yet to be any mention of styles outside of the discussion of strikers vs. grapplers. This worries me because I want to see so many different things beyond these broad distinctions. I'm tired of the typical fighter: a brawler with decent a left hook, double leg, thai clinch, and a workable ground game (Which sadly, is what the main character seems to be). Give me more! More! Still, with the way things are going now, it's not a big deal.
Why is a toe hold called an ankle hold? An ankle lock and a toe hold are different things. The toe hold and heel hook attacks the knee joint. An ankle hold attacks the ankle. Is that a translation error?
It's amazing how accurate the transitions are portrayed. Imanari roll to inside ashi to heel hook to toe hold finish. And the reason Shinobu had to transition from heel hook to toe hold was because her opponent was defending correctly by rolling with the torque on the heel! This manga is pretty good.
last edited at Dec 13, 2017 3:47AM