Tsuyoshi: Daremo Katenai, Aitsu ni wa

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TL;DR If you enjoy the zany pendulum swing between serious battle manga and absurdist self referential parody you will love this manga. Its like the Gintama of hyper masculine martial arts manga like Baki or Tough.

First off, I will say I completely understand why people would be frustrated with this manga. If you go in expecting the power fantasy of an unassuming guy beating up people way above his presumed level you get that in spades...in the beginning. However, if thats all you like out of manga then it becomes less and less satisfying to see the protagonist beat people up. And thats the ... point.

I don't want to assume whats going on in the mangaka's head, maybe One Punch Man's DNA worked its way into the creation of this series. But this is the more entertaining work for me at least. Every story arc is deflated in a way that makes you laugh both at the characters and with them. The training arcs are so absurd that they make you look forward to the fights...which are somehow even more absurd. Even the setting is so stupid it wraps back around to being genuinely interesting.

I made the comparison to Gintama, this is because in both series there is this A plot, the plot that we and the characters are supposed to take seriously. And in a typical shounen battle manga we would progressively work our way towards conquering whatever antagonist is responsible for the manga's inciting incident.

Tsuyoshi is about how absolutely annoying the A plot is. And if you come in with that perspective this manga is magical as a direct result. The cast is on Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia levels of scummy but because they are so utterly humiliated for their scheming its less annoying and more hilarious. This is especially the case when the "serious" moments occur. The main character is constantly weighed down by how absurd his surroundings are, and we watch his psyche unravel as a result.

This is slowly becoming one of my favorite manga. Because of how dedicated it is to derailing the main plot point every chance it gets it just makes way for an even crazier main plot point in the future. Character development is less an arc shape and more a scatterplot.

As stated earlier, I understand why people hate this manga. But if you are absolutely bored with popular shounen battle tropes, check this out.

It's a good manga. It definitely reminds me of One Punch Man. We got Tsuyoshi, who is super strong in martial art, and everyone who asks to fight him will be defeated. He is the MC, but the manga also focuses on one more character. He's more like Genos in OPM. He wants the MC to make him his disciple and want to know his secret of how he became so strong or what training he went through...that kind of stuff. So, basically, the MC is overpowered (which is a huge plus). If you want to know if there is a story, I'm not sure ... yet because so far, at this time, there aren't even 20 chapters yet. All I know is that every martial artist wants to know how and what training the MC went through. Basically, what's his secret to his martial art? That seems to be what the story is going to be. Honestly, the manga isn't bad. It might lack excitement, but it was quite enjoyable because it was funny to see those martial art guys getting their asses kicked. Plus, it's similar to OPM (one of my favorite top manga on my list). I recommend you try it out for the first few chapters, and you can decide if you want to continue.

If you like one punch man, or any strong guy without knowing why manga. you will have a good 70/30 chance of liking this manga.

Ok. 46 chapters in. I can safely say this is very average overall. Started great, but the story is now boring with 3-6 pages of back stories for every main organisation's fighter shoved in the middle of a 2 page fight. Art is very good. Pacing is fast and enjoyable for the most part.

Starts with a great premise of a super strong MC in normal day japan that fights a variety of different people who wield different martial arts. Compared to ... other stories in the same vein where they are in a mystical world where monster fighting is necessary. Fantastic premise. With very solid art and an enjoyable sidecast and a funnily weird/outcast type MC.

The writing is so iffy. Most times it feels like the author is going in the absolute most perfectionist direction it can, and then it falls terribly flat. Not to say that there are moments where it was very solid. The start when the main character was actually the main character was fantastic. And then it turned into a side character focused story about building strength rather than watching the strong one figure out how to live normal, which usually would be fine, but when you try to write the main mc in a deep way but don't follow through it makes it feel terrible to watch the side characters for so so so long. Imagine OPM but you followed Saitama for 8 chapters and then you saw him once every 2-3 chapters after that.

To compare it to OPM again because that seems like what it wanted to emulate. It tries to do all the things that make OPM great but over does it, besides the fighting. When it tries to subvert expectations it just bombs us with random interjections that try to be funny that just destroys the feel of the story. They overuse the “haha funny face panel” way too often.

Overall. What could've and should've been a 8-9/10 manga has been dropped to a 5/10 because the bad outweighs the good severely. It simply turned into shounen slop with a side of slapstick comedy. This could have easily turned into why OPM is so great because this manga does everything OPM does, but worse.