Bamboo Blade

BAMBOO BLADE · ばんぶーぶれーど

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Year? 〜 2010

Volumes14

Latest volumeVol. 14 2010-11

Estimated circulation~0.5M est.

DemographicSeinen

StatusCompleted

Publisherスクウェア・エニックス

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TV animeBAMBOO BLADE

Overview

Kojiro is an impoverished young teacher and the supervisor of his high school’s kendo club. He doesn’t have the leeway to spend time on his students–he can barely feed himself as it is. So when an old friend makes him a bet with an entire year’s worth of deluxe sushi on the line, Kojiro finds a new purpose in life: to beat his friend’s kendo team! But before he can arrange a kendo meet for both schools’ kendo teams, he needs to actually put together a five-woman squad–and the first girl he needs is Tamaki Kawazoe, kendo athlete extraordinaire and daughter of an elite kendo dojo master. The problem is, she isn’t really interested in doing kendo for fun. What can Kojiro do to convince her to join the team? (Source: Yen Press) Note: Originally published with 117 chapters, but was collected into 102 chapters in the tankoubons. There are also 5 special stories, which makes the total chapter count - 107.

Source: AniList

Synopsis 日本語

室江高校の剣道部顧問、「コジロー」こと石田虎侍は、愛車購入のためにかけたローンの支払いで、その日の食事にも困る貧乏生活の日々を送っていた。そんなある日、高校時代の先輩であり、同様に剣道の指導者となっていた石橋賢三郎から「自分が顧問を務めている町戸高校の剣道部に勝てたら、実家の寿司屋で1年間食べ放題」という条件で、女子剣道部の対外試合を持ちかけられる。条件に目がくらみ即諾したコジローだが、現在ほとんどの部員が受験引退もしくは幽霊部員と化している室江高校剣道部は、事実上の部員が部長の千葉紀梨乃ただ1人という有様で、5対5の練習試合をするには頭数がまったく足りなかった。コジローは翌日から早速、5名の女子部員を揃えようとアテを探していたところ、ある女生徒が竹ぼうきで難無く複数のボール（と教頭）を打ち返すのを目撃。何としてでもその女生徒を剣道部に入部させようと試みる。

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Volumes

ヤングガンガンコミックス First edition 14vols · 2005-10〜2010-11

#	Release	ISBN	Buy	Pages
Vol. 1	2005-10	4757515308	Rakuten · Amazon PR	220
Vol. 2	2006-02	4757516118	Rakuten · Amazon PR	223
Vol. 3	2006-08	4757517238	Rakuten · Amazon PR	219
Vol. 4	2007-01	4757518382	Rakuten · Amazon PR	219
Vol. 5	2007-05	9784757519978	Rakuten · Amazon PR	220
Vol. 6	2007-10	9784757521223	Rakuten · Amazon PR	223
Vol. 7	2008-01	9784757521858	Rakuten · Amazon PR	199
Vol. 8	2008-04	9784757522411	Rakuten · Amazon PR	204
Vol. 9	2008-10	9784757523852	Rakuten · Amazon PR	201
Vol. 10	2009-02	9784757524774	Rakuten · Amazon PR	204
Vol. 11	2009-07	9784757525955	Rakuten · Amazon PR	205
Vol. 12	2009-11	9784757527300	Rakuten · Amazon PR	189
Vol. 13	2010-05	9784757528802	Rakuten · Amazon PR	169
Vol. 14	2010-11	9784757530744	Rakuten · Amazon PR	164