Thoroughbred to Yobanai de

Author: Kohei Fujino, Hisayo Hasegawa

Run: 2003–2004

Chapters: 13

Genres: Sports, Martial Arts

Taisei Maki, a junior-high boy whose parents are both Olympic judo medalists, hates judo and being treated as a 'thoroughbred'; when his homeroom teacher — an old rival of his father's — challenges him to a judo bout right after he enters school, he reluctantly steps onto the path of judo.