Sun-Ken Rock

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Synonyms: Trigun: The Lost Plant, Yumin, Dango Knight: Awaking

Japanese: サンケンロック

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Type: Manga

Volumes: 25

Chapters: 181

Status: Finished

Published: Apr 24, 2006 to Feb 22, 2016

Genres: Action, Comedy, Drama, Ecchi

Demographic: Seinen

Serialization: Young King

Authors: Boichi (Story & Art)

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Score: 7.92¹ (scored by 40,980 users)

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Ranked: #952²

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Popularity: #115

Members: 112,214

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Ranked #952Popularity #115Members 112,214

MangaYoung KingBoichi (Story & Art)

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The story revolves around Ken, a man from an upper-class family that was orphaned young due to his family's involvement with the Yakuza; he became a high school delinquent known for fighting. The only thing that motivates him to take action is through his romantic affections for a classmate, Yumi. After learning she decided to move to Korea to become a police officer, Ken leaves his life in Japan behind and tries to follow in Yumi's footsteps; due to unforeseen circumstances, he incidentally becomes the head of a local gang and tries to hide it from Yumi. As the leader, the gang is renamed the Sun-Ken Rock Group.

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Included one-shot:
Volume 12: Trigun: The Lost Plant

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Sun-Ken Rock was published digitally in English through Crunchyroll. It was also published by Shonen Gahosha through Manga Planet from May 21, 2020 to July 1, 2021.

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Spin-off:

Yumin ni Gohan wo Tabesasetai: Yumin to Issho ni Taberu Kankoku Ryouri, Wallman

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Kitano, Ken

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Tae-Soo, Park

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Yoshizawa, Yumi

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Yang, San-dae

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Chang, Do-Heun

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Kim, Kae-Lyn

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Lee, San-ki

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Armani, Benito

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Ban-Phuong, Kim

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Nami

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Feb 19, 2021

A-B-C-D

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I never have written a review to a manga before and I never tought that I would write one, but after i finished sun ken rock i felt like I have to.
The art of the manga is just incredible and I liked the story overall. There was an arc which I didn't really liked but that was compensated with the arc that followed.
BUT the ending was just insanely bad (in my opinion). I felt like this manga was a waste of time afterwards. But I still give it a 7/10 because of the art and the beginning which I really liked.

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Jan 24, 2023

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I've never seen any Japaneese work where the main location is South Korea. Boichi (the author) is from South Korea, so he had much experience with the environment. When I first saw the Genres, I was pretty confused with the Drama, Ecchi combo, I couldn't imagine this 2 genres can work alongside, and as I speculated, they couldn't. The only time when this could be alongside with themself, when Ken had sex. But apart from that, there was always a situation where one genre overpowered the other one in a scene. And thanks to the ecchi, the female characters are pretty shitty, they have 2D ... personality. Every single female characters! There is no exception! This genre is spoils their personality and the only interesting thing about them is their breast, and sometimes they give blowjob to our mc. But let me tell you the basic setting of the story.

So the main protagonist decides to confess his love to his classmate, Yumi. She rejected him, because she wants to go to South Korea to become a police officer. As he heard her dream, he decides to go after her, and with some incidents he happened to become a leader of a gang.

This sounds interesting isn't it? What can go wrong? Well, the story and the action part of this manga is pretty good. There are a lot of beatiful panels, and the story leading is also good. It can be always exciting. Almost the best thing in this manga is this is a seinen. The problem is the manga is trying to be very cool, and this has an impact of the action scenes, and some other more. The characters suddenly changes personality, and having unpredictable nature wich would be okay, if this would be once or twice in the whole series even without any racional explanation, but the writer do this every time. This is usually because the gang is just a status symbol. We just see how they raid buildings and after that we can read informations about the band's status, but we never see them. I didn't get what I expect to get. I thought this was gonna be an empire builder-like manga just like the overlord, but as I wrote before, the band is just a cover name for making a protagonist to symbolize a king of the underworld, whose to face you can only kneeling before him. Not gonna lie, these looks pretty awesome, but apart from that, this has no other function. It's like the One Piece crew, but the leader has more prestige...

Well, I complained quite a bit, but let me say more positive sides of the manga. Besides the art, story, and the action scenes, there are a lot of interesting things in the series. For example the places. As I wrote before the main location is South Korea, but we visit Japan, and even Europe. I grumbled about the characters a lot but there was a character whom was quite interesting. Tae-Soo Park. I don't want to spoil from those wasn't reading the manga yet, I'm just saying that he did a lot of things in the background for the benefit of the band. He's the brain on the team.

Overall, this is a fun manga, but far from a masterpiece. whether you will enjoy it or not is a matter of perspective. if you want some cool stuff and not overthinking things like I used to do, not complicating, just enjoy this manga, then I recommend it.
If you want to read story centered manga then I don't recommend this. Read the Overlord LN instead :)

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Dec 1, 2020

Ascendiium

Not Recommended

This story has a simple enough plot , it´s about a guy that confesses to the girl he likes ,and after kinda getting rejected learns that she is going to Korea to become a cop.
He goes after her and by accident becomes a gang member.

It´s actually embarassing how bad the overall story is , character motivations change out of nowhere and it´s overall just made so that Boichi can flex his 10/10 art ,If you want to read a good manga with a very strong story this isn´t it.

The characters in here are mediocre , there is 0 development and they stay has simple stereotypical ...

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