Fighting Beauty Wulong


Fighting Beauty Wulong is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yūgo Ishikawa. It was serialized in Shogakukan's manga magazine Weekly Young Sunday from August 2002 to May 2007, with its chapters collected in 18 volumes and additional prequel volume. The series was adapted into a two-season of 25 episodes each, animated by TMS Entertainment and broadcast on TV Tokyo from October 2005 to October 2006.

Story

Mao Lan, a person of Chinese origin born and raised in Japan, has been trained in the secret martial art of her family by her drunken lecherous grandfather Master Mao Hung. Her grandfather has promised her that he'll tell her what happened to her parents to encourage her to train and fight. Without her knowledge, her grandfather signs her up to participate in a televised martial arts competition between female martial artists known as "Prime Mat". During the course of the series it is revealed that Lan's mother married Cao Da Hen and gave birth to Lan's step-sister Ling-Shen.

Characters

;Mao Lan
;Mao Hun
;Masao Oba
;Cao Fusheng
;Cao Da-Hen
;Cao Ling-Shen
;Cao Chunyang
;Yagi Megumi
;Lucky Shimoda

Media

Manga

Written and illustrated by Yūgo Ishikawa, Fighting Beauty Wulong was serialized in Shogakukan's manga magazine Weekly Young Sunday from August 1, 2002, to May 10, 2007. Shogakukan collected its chapters in 18 volumes, with an additional prequel volume, from December 26, 2002, to June 5, 2007.

Anime

A 25-episode anime television series adaptation by TMS Entertainment was broadcast on TV Tokyo from October 2, 2005, to March 26, 2006. A second 25-episode season, titled Fighting Beauty Wulong Rebirth, was broadcast from April 2 to October 1, 2006.

Video game

A PlayStation 2 fighting game, developed by DreamFactory and published by Bandai, was released on June 22, 2006.