Catch These Hands! (Japanese: 私の拳をうけとめて, Hepburn: Watashi no Kobushi wo Uketomete) is a yurimanga series by murata. It was serialized in Young Ace Up from January 2018 to October 2020, and is licensed and published in English by Yen Press.
Plot
Ayako Takebe, a young woman in her early twenties, intends to leave behind her history as a delinquent leader in high school and reform her image. By chance she encounters her high-school rival, Kirara Soramori. Soramori reveals that she has had a long-standing crush on Takebe, and challenges her to a fight, on the condition that if she wins, she and Takebe will begin dating.
Publication
In Japan, Watashi no Kobushi wo Uketomete was serialized in Young Ace Up [ja] from January 2, 2018,[2] to October 13, 2020,[3] and was published in a total of four tankōbon volumes.[4]
In August 2021, Yen Press announced that they had licensed the manga for publication in English, under the localized title Catch These Hands!.[5][6] The first volume was released in March 2022.[7]
Writing for Anime News Network, Christopher Farris gave the manga's first volume a positive review, praising the art, story, and humor in contrasting the plot element of the characters' delinquent past with the romantic comedy genre.[16] Ian Wolf of Anime UK News, by contrast, gave a mixed review, praising the "slapstick" fight scenes and the comedy in Takebe and Soramori's "social misunderstandings," but overall deemed the first volume "not that gripping".[17] Erica Friedman of Okazu praised the translation and lettering of the English release,[18] and the character development of later volumes.[19]
References
^Murata (2022). Catch These Hands!, Vol. 1 (Catch These Hands!, 1). Yen Press. ISBN978-1975340056.