Batuque (manga)
Batuque is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by. It was serialized in Shueisha's manga magazine Weekly Young Jump from July 2018 to June 2020, and later moved to the Tonari no Young Jump website and the Young Jump app, where it ran from July 2020 to February 2024. Its chapters were collected into 18 volumes.
Plot
Ichiri Sanjou is a skate-boarding high-schooler who struggles with the limitations imposed on her by her parents. One day, she meets a man in a park and gets caught up in a convenience store robbery. The man, who appears homeless, is a Brazilian who practices Capoeira. Ichiri and her friends start learning Capoeira from him, and Ichiri quickly becomes good at it, enjoying both the fighting and the idea of freedom it represents. However, there is more going on beneath the surface than she realizes, as Ichiri begins to uncover secrets from her past, realizing that her family has hidden important truths about their origins.Characters
;Ichiri Sanjou;Aruna
;Pedro
;Isao Sanjou
;Bernardo Joker / B.J.
;Aguri