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Chapter 1 till 62 English

Yamashita Kazuo is a 56 year old underachieving salesman from Nogi Incorporated. His wife divorced him and left, his oldest son is a shut-in and his second son dropped out from school and steals from him after joining a gang. Kazuo is an unhappy man who can’t help but to constantly lower his head as everything around him seems to be above in rank and status.

Tokita Ohma is a mysterious young man presumably in his late 20s who lives an ascetic life, living only to satisfy his base desires for picking fights, he seems to be looking for something, someone, by picking these fights, reasoning that sooner or later he will find it.

These complete opposite individuals meet by chance one day when Kazuo was traversing the night streets and Ohma was picking yet another fight in a dark corner; Kazuo witnesses the average built Ohma easily take down the muscle fortress that was his opponent, Kazuo becomes completely enchanted by Ohma’s feral nature, feeling compelled to ask his name, Ohma bluntly introduces himself and asks the same, Kazuo feels power in Ohma’s words and quickly shouts his own name. This first encounter became the bridge for this unnatural duo.

The following day Kazuo is summoned by the Nogi Incorporated’s CEO, Nogi Hideki. Wondering what he had done wrong Kazuo goes to meet the boss. Hideki instead introduces Kazuo to the story of Kengan Matches, fighting matches that have been organized since the Edo Period, a concept built to end conflict between merchants of that era so it wouldn’t end in mass scale bloodbaths, business owners would choose and appoint top fighters to represent them in these Kengan Matches, the winner would automatically win whatever was the source of conflict between the opposing parties (market share, market reach, locations for subsidiaries, etc.).

Hideki states that Kengan Matches are still going to this day, regulated by the Kengan Association, and the Nogi Incorporated Group is a registered participant, a match is about to break soon and Hideki appoints Kazuo as the manager for their new fighter, the previous one was beat down senseless by some stranger, Ohma is the man in both cases. So it begins Kazuo and Ohma’s initiation in many Kengan Matches.