{"id":1313,"date":"2019-03-25T22:00:05","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T13:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/biggestinjapan.com\/?p=1313"},"modified":"2019-03-25T22:57:50","modified_gmt":"2019-03-25T13:57:50","slug":"female-boxer-deals-with-live-and-love-in-athlete-saotome-cover-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biggestinjapan.com\/index.php\/2019\/03\/25\/female-boxer-deals-with-live-and-love-in-athlete-saotome-cover-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Female Boxer Deals with Life and Love in Athlete Saotome, Cover Up<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"

In recent months, I\u2019ve been getting back into manga. Most I read once\u2014catch up to the latest issue, and then forget about completely. But every once in a while, there\u2019s a manga that so captures my attention, I make it a point to pick it up week after week (or month after month as the case may be). And I figure that if I enjoy a manga that much, you all might too. So without further ado, here is my first manga recommendation for you all: Saotome Senshu, Hitakakusu\u2014lit. \u201cAthlete Saotome, Cover Up<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

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First, the set up: Satoru loves boxing. He\u2019s been obsessed with the sport since he was little. He eats, breathes, and sleeps it. Yet there\u2019s just one problem. Despite his immense knowledge of everything boxing, he\u2019s not very good at it. Having never won a match in his high school career, he\u2019s thinking of quitting the sport.<\/p>\n

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Yae Saotome is another member of the same boxing club. But Yae isn\u2019t your average boxer. While she had never boxed at all before high school, within three months she had not only won the regional championship but came in second in the national inter-high school championships. Now in her second year like Satoru, people are already whispering her name as one of the favorites to join Japan\u2019s 2020 Olympic boxing team.<\/p>\n

Yet there\u2019s one thing that Yae loves even more than boxing: Satoru himself.<\/p>\n

But when she confesses her feelings, he rejects her\u2014but not because he doesn\u2019t like her. In fact, he idolizes her. He just doesn\u2019t want to get in the way of her Olympic dreams. And that\u2019s not to mention the troubles that would come from her rabid fanclub or their principal who wants to use Yae to put their school on the map.<\/p>\n

Figuring out what is going on\u2014and knowing how the rejection will affect Yae as a boxer\u2014their coach comes up with a plan. She orders Satoru to become Yae\u2019s trainer and boyfriend. However, if anyone finds out that they are dating, she\u2019ll make it her mission in life to keep the two apart. Thus begins the cute love story of two meat-heads trying to make their way through their first serious relationship.<\/p>\n