Dogs and Punching Bags
"From Kaori Ozaki, author of the gods lie. and Mermaid Prince, comes another poignant exploration of love, family, and belonging. After leaving her isolating life in Tokyo, 34-year-old Nichiko returns to her remote island hometown for her estranged alcoholic father’s final days. There she meets Chimaki, an eccentric young man who stirs up old memories—and feelings Nichiko had all but decided she no longer deserved. But despite his puppy-like enthusiasm for life, Chimaki’s almost obsessive need to help those around him seems to be compensating for an unspeakable past…"
Like the title implies, features some scenes of the main heroine working a punching bag.
There’s a manga called Rain, Fists, and Soft Cream by Keira Kagemachi. Only volume 1 is available in English while the rest are Japanese. I don’t know if thr author plans to translate that rest or not. It’s about an aimless young woman named Amane Tsukihara, an aimless young woman who visits a talent agency hoping to become an influencer, but ends up as a professional boxer instead with an emphasis on her left jab: https://x.com/ametokobushitos/status/1870473267288715294?s=46&t=HxHnTHsxDVS8RgdVyeZZtA
ReplyDeleteThere is also Rice Shoulder, which follows a story plus sized young woman named Okome Akino Okome enters a sumo match before taking up boxing: https://mangadex.org/title/3c5fa016-8050-4fae-bb1d-48ea0b6b15b9