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I LOVE sports anime (YURI ON ICE LORD JESUS PLS, also Haikyuu!! and Hanebado!) so I was super looking forward to this one. I loved the m/m themes and relationships. The author employed some typical sports manga tropes, namely the underdog story, but I love a good underdog story and learning more about fencing.

There are characters of all races and a character that defies stereotypical gender expression. The overachieving East Asian stereotype was used; however it’s not that stereotypes are bad or untrue. It’s just that they don’t allow readers to see a large range of stories (Cue: mention of my favorite Ted Talk by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie called The Danger of a Single Story), so I may have liked to see another role for the East Asian character.

Very enjoyable and I already put the second volume on hold!