Osu!! Karatebu
- Volume 23Chapter 244-245
- Ch 245 Jun 17, 2024 Ch 244 Jun 17, 2024
- Volume 22Chapter 229-241
- Ch 241 Apr 13, 2024 Ch 240 Mar 28, 2024 Ch 239 Mar 16, 2024 Ch 238 Mar 2, 2024 Ch 237 Feb 15, 2024 Ch 236 Sep 17, 2021 Ch 235 Aug 27, 2021 Ch 234 Aug 20, 2021 Ch 233 Aug 13, 2021 Ch 232 Aug 6, 2021 Ch 231 Jul 30, 2021 Ch 230 Jul 23, 2021 Ch 229 Jul 23, 2021
- Volume 21Chapter 217-228
- Ch 228 Jul 23, 2021 Ch 227 Jul 23, 2021 Ch 226 Jul 23, 2021 Ch 225 Jul 23, 2021 Ch 224 Jul 23, 2021 Ch 223 Jul 23, 2021 Ch 222 Jul 23, 2021 Ch 221 Jul 23, 2021 Ch 220 Jul 23, 2021 Ch 219 Jul 23, 2021 Ch 218 Jul 23, 2021 Ch 217 Jul 23, 2021
- Volume 20Chapter 206-216
- Volume 19Chapter 197-205
- Volume 18Chapter 181-196
- Volume 17Chapter 169-180
- Volume 16Chapter 157-168
- Volume 15Chapter 146-156
- Volume 14Chapter 137-1372
- Volume 13Chapter 123-136
- Volume 12Chapter 112-122
- Volume 11Chapter 101-111
- Volume 10Chapter 90-100
- Volume 09Chapter 79-852
- Volume 08Chapter 69-78
- Volume 07Chapter 58-68
- Volume 06Chapter 47-57
- Volume 05Chapter 39-46
- Volume 04Chapter 28-38
- Volume 03Chapter 18-27
- Volume 02Chapter 10-17
- Volume 01Chapter 1-9
The series began as a fairly humorous and lighthearted satire of Japan's teenage delinquent-gang subculture told from the perspective of Matsushita Tadashi (who also narrates these early Karate Bu stories), a 2nd year student at Kangokou High and a constant target of Kangokou's numerous bullies who beat him up routinely after school. He is almost always accompanied by his best friend Saitou Takaki, who is also constantly harassed.
As the pair grow increasingly tired of being victimized they decide to join the titular Karate Club, which is notorious throughout Osaka's youth gangs for training and producing the city's most hardened and toughest teenage thugs while maintaining the facade of a legit school sports club. But when they join the club, they find themselves picked on just as much if not worse by the club's current members. But as the story progresses they grow to be increasingly capable fighters.
Along with the manga's change in attitude and central character, the various teenage fighters throughout the series grew increasingly stronger and even began to tap into superhuman ki abilities, putting Osu!! Karate Bu in the company of other similar epic Shōnen fighting manga such as Yu Yu Hakusho, Dragon Ball, and Fist of the North Star.
Osu!! Karate Bu was wildly popular in its native Japan, but is otherwise almost completely unknown in most other countries. It spawned a four episode OVA mini-series released over a period of two years from 1990-1992, a 1990 live action movie, and a 1994 Super Famicom fighting game.