The Janitor's Forbidden Kata
A School Battle Manga

About this book:

Kenji Sato is a fist-first delinquent with a rap sheet longer than his suspension record. Master Jin is a five-foot-nothing custodian who smells of lemon wax and cigarettes, wields a push broom like a bo staff, and claims the linoleum is a battlefield. When Vice Principal Moriyama sentences Kenji to a month of "custodial remediation," he expects mop buckets and humiliation. He gets Suikyo Ryu—the Water-Mirror Style—a three-hundred-year-old martial art born in imperial storehouses where weapons were forbidden and only rags, buckets, and the floor itself stood between attendants and death.

The South Ward Ironworks Academy sends enforcers with steel pipes and corporate backing. The Board of Education sends hitmen with demolition orders. Oakhaven High is rotting from the inside out, and the only thing holding the line is an old man who can drop a two-hundred-pound judo captain with a damp mop head and a half-turn of the hips. Now Kenji has to learn the Figure Eight, the Squeegee Deflection, the Forbidden Kata—and fast. Because the grime goes deeper than the tiles, and the next strike isn't coming from a hallway brawler. It's coming from the boiler room.

Gritty, kinetic, and utterly unlike any school battle manga you've read, *The Janitor's Forbidden Kata* turns sweeping into spearmanship, mopping into water-bending, and a cursed detention into a war for the soul of a dying school. The floor is flat, heavy, and patient. The question is: are you?