Chinmi's new arc, he along with his disciple Gunte are involved in an incident where a princess from neighboring country is kidnapped by bandits and... more>> brought to a bandit town inhabited by anti-government scoundrels. <<less

In ancient China a young fighter named Chinmi goes to the Dairin temple for advanced training. He eventually must leave Dairin temple to go on a pilgrimage where he meets many challenges to test his skills.... more>>

Won the 11th Kodansha Manga Award for shounen in 1987. <<less

Contains a short story called 3000 Bath no Sam (Sam the 3000 Bath) in volume one.

Chinmi, an orphan who lost his parents in a tidal wave, is a promising sumo wrestler. Even though he did very well in the junior... more>> championships, none of the sumo scouts were interested in signing him because of his body, which is unsuitable for sumo wrestling, and also because of his weird sumo style. But luck comes his way when a small sumo school owner shows an interest in him and decides to take Chinmi into his school. There Chinmi begins his training to become a yokozuna... <<less

A boy named Oda Nobusuke is very infatuated with billiards. Problems arise when a new student body president, Mako, suddenly decided to cut the funding... more>> for his billiards club. Unhappy with that, Oda wants to convince Mako that his billiards club is worthy of the funding. He decided to challenge a two-time former national billiards champion. Will Oda be able to defend his club? <<less

At Jinpu mountain, Tao Ryuen is a student at the Korin temple. Every one at the temple sees him as the weakest, even the younger students don't show any respect for him and make fun of him as soon as they get the chance. But when he suddenly is in the Bout challange (this Bout of the champions is intended to choose the best student to receive a special lesson later on) and the other challanger is the powerful Kuen.... more>>

After a shocking oneside fight Tao wins. After the fight, Tao is called to see the master, and receives shocking news about what is happening in the country... <<less