
Being a martial arts media fan SUCKS!!!
MY DAYS its sucks to be a consumer of fictional matial arts media. Don't get me wrong, there's many great Manga/Manhwa and the like out there, but after 6 years of being an dedicated reader, I can effectively say, I've run out.
Yes I've read/am reading all the big ones; the Baki series, KENGAN ASHURA and the rest of the Sandroverse, Garouden, Tough, Hajime no Ippo, All Rounder Meguru, RedBlue, Little Karate Prince, Lookism and the Rest of the PTJ verse, Study Group, How to Fight, King of the Octagon, God of Highschool and so much more...
I've come to read the more obscure but amazing manga/manhwa like; Bataque, RRR, Rikudou, Taekwondo Kid and the Breakers to name a few.
And that's where the real martial arts series end. I've become a big fan of **some** Isekai and Murim(a type of martial arts hero story) manhwa, bit good Lord to they Oversaturate what the genre of "Martial Arts" is, mind you Isekai and Murim manhwa don't even have proper displays of martial arts in the first place, it'll be some mf using the "18 methods destroying Sword" and all they do is throw energy beams everywhere. So the genre is, to say the least, lost.
Its come to the point where I've finally read stories with only like 30 chapters, The manga in the picture provide, is a Shotokan Karate story called Hanza Sky, in the 30ish chapters translated, its shown beautiful displays of Karate and the people that follow it. BUT IT ONLY HAS 30 CHAPTERS TRANSLATED, **MIND YOU** the story is apparently fully complete like 6 years ago and no ones picked it up since.
All in all, the genre right now isn't in a good state, there are new and good stories coming out like Invincible Meguru and Mumumu. But I don't know man, I'm just tired of seeing the genre taken over by the equivalent of action movies like Fast and Furious in the same category as Best of the Best, I just hope for actual martial arts series.
Thank you for reading.