BAMBOO BLADE TP VOL 01

(W) Masahiro Totsuka (A) Aguri Igarashi A wager between rivals pushes the high school kendo (fencing) club to new heights in this new martial arts series. Kojiro is an impoverished young teacher and the supervisor of his high school's kendo club. He doesn't have the leeway to spend time on his students; he can barely feed himself as it is. So when an old friend makes him a bet with an entire year's worth of deluxe sushi on the line, Kojiro finds a new purpose in life: beat his friend's kendo team! But before he can arrange a kendo meet for both schools' woman's kendo teams, he needs to actually put a team together. The problem is his top choice Tamaki Kawazoe is not interested in doing kendo for fun. What can Kojiro do to convince her to join the team?