✦A bullied teenager begins training at a dojo shared by six martial arts masters, making painful instruction and persistence the basis of his growth.
Synopsis
Kenichi is routinely bullied and has few friends willing to defend him. Meeting Miu leads him to the dojo where she lives with six martial arts masters. He hopes their training will help him survive school. They respond with hard-core instruction and an enthusiasm that should concern him. Self-defense begins through the repeated discovery that masters define reasonable effort differently.
Bullied student Kenichi meets Miu, who lives at a dojo with six martial arts masters. Hoping to protect himself at school, he begins their hard training. The instructors have skill. Kenichi has motivation and a strong desire to remain intact. Progress depends on enduring another lesson and returning afterward.
Kenichi begins as the kid everybody picks on, then Miu leads him to a dojo packed with six martial arts masters! He does not receive easy strength. He gets brutal training and the chance to keep showing up. That is why the underdog setup works. Every lesson connects directly to his hope of surviving another day at school.
The marketed description spends too much energy reducing Kenichi to a wimp and Miu to motivation. The training premise is better than that framing. A bullied student enters a dojo run by six masters because he needs enough strength to survive school. His ordinary vulnerability gives every hard lesson a concrete reason to matter.