Manga Summaries: Punch!! Volume 1 (part 1) By Rie Takada

Total Volumes: 3

Licensed by: Viz Media, LLC through Shojo Beat

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Punch is a 3 volume series by Rie Takada. This has been translated and published in English by Viz Media through Shojo Beat Manga.

Chapter Sections:

Volume 1  Chapter 1-5
Volume 2  Chapter 6-13
Volume 3  Chapter

Characters (Main)

Elle Nagahara
The spunky girl coming from a martial arts family

Kazuki Shindo
The love interest. Former bad-boy. All bluster but definitely fluffy.

The Story

The story begins when our heroine, Elle Nagahara was dumped by her boyfriend. Apparently, this is not the first time this has happened.

Elle’s family is popular in the boxing world. Her mother is a wrestling champion, her father is a lightweight world boxing champion and her grandfather is a world champion in Muay Thai. Both her parents are deceased and she lives with her grandfather who runs a boxing gym. And that’s where Elle’s dilemma comes from. The guys who train at her grandfather’s gym always scare her boyfriends and they end up leaving her. (If you ask me, that’s a pretty good way to find out if the guy is up to snuff. )

Elle’s grandfather, (Gigi) and his bestfriend are both boxers and they talked about letting their children marry. However, since they both had sons. They decided that their grandchildren would marry. So, that’s how Ruo became Elle’s fiancée. Problem is, Elle doesn’t feel anything romantic for Ruo. More like siblings. Ruo is older than Elle and has been in love with her for the longest time.

Elle eats and breathes normal. She wants a normal life. She wants an ordinary boyfriend. Someone who will not in any way be related to boxing. Unfortunately for her, life has something in store for her.

Elle, decides to shop around and decides to go to a music store to get an MD player. While she was there, she meets a guy (yes, he’s the hero of the story) and apparently they want the same MD player. >_< since there was only one MD player, you would think that they guy would give in. But no, he hold on to that player to Elle’s consternation.

While going to the cashier, the “guy”, (let’s say his name is Kazuki Shindo.) bumped into some people. We’ll Kazuki has a certain look on him. It’s positively looks like trouble. So, those people who bumped into him want some sort of apology. Being the apathetic person that he is, Kazuki decides to ignore them. Those guys dragged Kazuki to the rest room to beat him up. Elle seeing this decides to get some help. But to her surprise, its Kazuki who beats everyone up.

Yingying's note: I will add a few pictures of the characters here next and continue on with the summary of the next chapters. I thinking of doing per chapter summaries but i think that would take too long. Also adding pictures when time permits.