Battle Club
Battle Club is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yuji Shiozaki. The series follows Mokichi and Tamako, two high school students who are members of the Swan Academy Wrestling Club. This manga is well-known for its extensive amount of fan service.Storyline
Battle Club had six volumes. Each volume is subdivided into Rounds. After volume six, the manga was followed by a sequel called Battle Club 2nd Stage, which ran for three volumes.Volume 1
Mokichi attempts to become the "dominant male" at Swan Academy Senior High School by beating everyone with a baseball bat. Unimpressed, a senior student punches him, causing him to collide with Tamako. Mokichi challenges Tamako, who soundly beats him, after which he is stripped of his pants and tied to a fence half-naked. Embarrassed, he enters the Swan Wrestling Club where he witnesses Tamako being punished for failing an errand. Seeing the girl who beat him be beaten, he requests to join the club.
To join the Swan Wrestling Club, Mokichi must move Tamako, who is in a lying position. Unable to move her with traditional means, he strips her panties, startling Tamako, and then flips her.
Mokichi is beaten-up in a bathroom by a group of students. He is saved by Rentarou Taki, the president of the Wrestling Club. Taki challenges Mokichi to train harder if he ever wants to truly be strong.
Tamako is late getting to school to take an exam. She decides to run rather than take the train. She strips off extra weight and clothes to become more aerodynamic. She witnesses Mokichi being beaten once again and comes to his rescue, losing even more clothes in the process.
With Tamako unconscious from the previous fight, Mokichi is at the mercy of the school Karate Club. Vice-Captain, Higuchi, comes to his rescue this time. After defeating the Karate Club, she takes her aggression out on Tamako for failing.
Unable to concentrate on his training with Tamako, Mokichi goes to the bathroom to masturbate. While there, he witnesses the Karate Club being punished by their leader, Shiba. After beating her fellow club members, she declares war on the Wrestling Club. Mokichi decides to warn the others.
Shiba discovers Mokichi and begins to fight him. Tamako discovers the two of them and is challenged by Shiba. Shiba's attacks have no effect on Tamako. Shiba uses the forbidden "kamehamehou" move and exhausts her ki. Shiba is left defeated.
Shiba experiences sexual lesbian fantasies with Tamako. Not being able to control these feelings, she meets up with Tamako. She sees that Mokichi is also attracted to Tamako and she runs off, where she meets up with the Karate Club. They expel her for the unauthorized war, unauthorized move and her defeat. Shiba then beats up the Karate Club.
The Wrestling Club conducts training at the beach. Tamako is scared of the water, so Mokichi declares he will swim his own portion as well as hers. While swimming, he is chased by a shark. Tamako calls the shark to her, catches it, and performs a suplex move on it. The volume ends with the team eating the shark at a team meal.Volume 2
Tamako has lost 3000 yen. She enters a curry eating contest for 5000 yen. While there, a mysterious dark-skinned girl with large breasts keeps up with plate-for-plate. Tamako gets the 5000 yen and earns another handed to her by the girl, after which the girl runs away. Meanwhile, the Wrestling Club is training. The mystery girl appears and announces herself as Kuniko Mukoda, a member of the Black Dragon Wrestling Club, the team that made it as finalists during the preceding year's interhigh wrestling tournament. She has been hired by Tondemon to challenge the club, and even proudly states that "she's more than enough" for the whole club. In a match, she immediately proves herself capable of living up to this claim, easily outclassing Vice-Captain Higuchi and winning in points.
Mukoda pins Higuchi, forcing the latter to contemplate the skills her opponent has shown so far, as well as her physique. Higuchi suddenly breaks free of Mukoda's pin, followed by a quick maneuver in an attempt to suplex the latter. Mukoda uses her leg to effectively counter Higuchi's suplex, and Higuchi is pinned again, with her face near Mukoda's crotch. Positioned for a fall, Higuchi becomes desperate. She attempts to destabilize Mukoda by jamming her index finger through Mukoda's anus, a trick which was used against Tamako much earlier. Mukoda was unfazed, however, saying that she's "had bigger things up her 'back door'". She proceeds to finish Higuchi off while simultaneously telling her that she's the weakest member of Black Dragon Academy Club, completely ignoring Tondemon's protests. Mukoda ultimately defeats Higuchi, and soon after, Tamako arrives.
Tamako challenges Mukoda to a match to avenge her teammates. As a gesture of fair play, Mukoda proposes that Tamako only needs to score one point to win. A battle ensues where Tamako experiences more difficulty against Mukoda than Higuchi did. During the match, she learns that Mukoda, even while in a casual stance, has little to no weak spots, so Tamako resorts to a feint and manages to penetrate Mukoda's defenses enough to lift Mukoda off her feet. Before she could complete the move, Mukoda jams her finger in Tamako's anus, a move that was previously used against her in the previous round. Tamako yelps in pain, as Mukoda is also gripping her posterior with one of her fingers, stabbing Tamako's anus. Mukoda is thankful for being subjected to the same humiliation before by Higuchi; otherwise, she'd have lost to Tamako by now. She proceeds to further penetrate Tamako's anus, causing the humiliated girl incapacitating pain. Mukoda then proceeds to use one finishing move after another against Tamako, who shows intense stamina and endurance. This forces Mukoda to apply a butterfly suplex, causing a significant amount of damage to the gym. Mukoda leaves victorious with Tondemon, who thanks her for helping him demonstrate to the club that they need to take training more seriously, when Mukoda suddenly trips. This reveals that she was somewhat fatigued from her match with Tamako.
Higuchi is demoralized and contemplating quitting the Wrestling Club. Tondemon is telling stories of the club's past. Tamako is inspired to get stronger for the sake of Higuchi and she sets off with Mokichi to find Higashi, the coach of the club, at Ihi Peak. They set off for the mountains of Shinshuu to find him. Tamako braves several challenges and eventually finds Higashi, who is revealed to be Tondemon Sensai.
Tamako and Mokichi are working Higashi's field as part of their training. Higashi then presents them with a challenge. They must simply touch a panda he claims to have raised for 20 years. Mokichi gives up easily, but Tamako does not and eventually plucks a few hairs from the panda before she collapses unconscious. The panda is revealed to be Captain Taki, who was naked inside a panda suit. Meanwhile, Higuchi is challenged to a fight, but backs down in fear. A side-ef ect of her loss to Kuniko, Higuchi gets beaten up as a result.
Mokichi and Tondemon are watching the girls naked in a hot spring. Taki wrestles with Tamako naked. Shiba is also at the hot spring with the Wrestling Club. In a flashback we find she had saved Higuchi from her challenge in the previous chapter, and Higuchi teases Shiba about her infatuation with Tamako. The naked girls find only Mokichi watching them and give him a serious pounding. Later, Tondemon tells the club about secret scrolls guarded by four guardians that reveal secret martial arts training. Tamako and Mokichi set off to get the scrolls.
Tamako has charged off in search of the scrolls. She and Mokichi are attacked by dogs and Mokichi is already willing to give up. Here they meet Jikoku, one of the four kings of heaven. He places a key in the middle of an unstable foot bridge. Tamako and Mokichi must get the key in order to win the challenge. Mokichi charges towards the key, but breaks a board and falls through. He is hung up on a splinter of wood. Tamako begins on the bridge to save Mokichi, but she is too heavy on the unstable bridge. To lighten herself, she strips all of her clothes except her underpants It works.
Tamako is still naked and still moving towards Mokichi and finally saves him. Jikoku had not moved from his place on the bridge out of fear of breaking it. Therefore, Tamako is declared the winner of the challenge. Jikoku goes to give Tamako the key, but the bridge now breaks. Mokichi is safe, but Tamako and Jikoku fall. Tamako grabs Jikoku and somehow grow butterfly wings and flies Jikoku to safety. She continues to fall and lands in the water below. She awakens at the bottom on land to be greeted by a small girl in a bathing suit. She is Koumoku, another of the four kings.Volume 3
Koumoku challenges Tamako to find the next key at the bottom of the river she has just thrown it into. Tamako makes several attempts, but fails. On land, she learns from Kongoa that Koumoku has become like a fish because of an event with her father and an axe that holds his spirit. Koumoku had lost her father's axe in the river attempting to lift it. For some reason, Koumoku's father does not wear pants. Tamako had seen the axe while looking for the key and dives in to retrieve it.
Tamako guides Koumoku to the axe, but while attempting to lift it, Koumoku becomes pinned underneath the axe. Koumoku now realizes that it was not the axe her father care about, but her. Tamako dives again and saves Koumoku, but passes out when she has freed Koumoku. Now, Koumoku saves Tamako and brings her to the surface. Because Tamako saved Koumoku, she admits defeat and awards Tamako the key.
Tamako, finally with a shirt, has returned to Mokichi who has been battling the third of the elite four, Zouchou. Zouchou attacks Tamako and Shiba steps in to the fight. Shiba becomes distracted when she inadvertently sees Tamako's nipples. Mokichi throws Shiba onto Zouchou. Tamako takes this opportunity to run up to the shrine. Shiba continues to fight Zouchou and ultimately passes out. Higuchi appears and is now ready to fight Zoucho, but still afraid, she cowers. Molkichi takes the opportunity to sneak attach Zouchou and takes a beating. Higuchi now becomes brave and challenges Zouchou, who she now has recognized as Sensai Tondemon.
Flashback to when Higuchi was new to the school. Higuchi beats up boys and the president of the Kendo Club. She also challenged Tondemon, whom she mistook for a janitor. He beats her and forces her to join the Wrestling Club by blackmailing her with a compromising picture he took of her while unconscious. Back to the present, Higuchi is battling Tondemon. Her bravery against him awards them the victory. Meanwhile, Tamako has climbed to the top of the mountain.
On top of the Mount Ibuki, Tamako is face to face with herself in a wrestling ring. They begin to battle. Below, Mokichi becomes overcome and gropes Higuchi thinking it is Tamako. He is overcome by gas emitted from the mountain, which is what is causing Tamako to also hallucinate. The final of the elite four is Tamon, her own heart. She continues to fight herself, questioning why she fights and why she likes it. She flashes back to her own mother, Tamami, as a wrestler. She sees her mother win a championship match and her decision to retire from the sport.
Still in the flashback/hallucination, it is revealed Tamami has heart disease and must retire or die. She is also revealed to be pregnant and the doctors are not sure the fetus will survive. Tamami decides not to abort the unborn child, which will be Tamako. She dies in child birth. Back to the present, Tamako now realizes that she was meant to live and that she does have purpose. However, she has fallen from the tower and grabs a small ledge on the side of a cliff and catapults herself back to the top to finish the fight. She wins the fight in a tremendous explosion that destroys the tower. She finds the shrine, but leaves the key in front of the lock.
Back at the school, Mokichi continues his training but is frustrated and threatens to quit. He is bullied once again by classmates. A fight starts and Mokichi realizes that he has indeed become stronger, but immediately cowers when a thug reveals a dagger and intimidated him with it. A mysterious girl wearing a hat and a bracelet reading N.O.B. joins the fight and beats up the boy harassing Mokichi. Mokichi becomes infatuated with her.