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{{Short description|Japanese manga series}}
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{{Infobox animanga/Header
{{Infobox animanga/Header
| name = Fighting Beauty Wulong
| image = Fighting Beauty Wulong 1.png
| image =
| caption = First {{Transl|ja|[[tankōbon]]}} volume cover
| caption =
| ja_kanji = 格闘美神 武龍
| ja_kanji = 格闘美神武龍
| ja_romaji = Kakutō Bishin Ūron
| ja_romaji = Kakutō Bishin Ūron
| genre = <!-- Note: Use and cite reliable sources to identify genre/s, not personal interpretation. Please don't include more than three genres (per [[MOS:A&M]]). -->
| genre = [[Action genre|Action]], [[Comedy]], [[Slice of life story]]
}}
}}
{{Infobox animanga/Print
{{Infobox animanga/Print
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| author = [[Yūgo Ishikawa]]
| author = [[Yūgo Ishikawa]]
| publisher = [[Shogakukan]]
| publisher = [[Shogakukan]]
| demographic = ''[[Seinen manga|Seinen]]''
| demographic = {{Transl|ja|[[Seinen manga|Seinen]]}}
| magazine = [[Weekly Young Sunday]]
| magazine = [[Weekly Young Sunday]]
| first = December 26, 2002
| first = August 1, 2002
| last = 2007
| last = May 10, 2007
| volumes = 19
| volumes = 18 + 1 ''gaiden'' volume
| volume_list =
| volume_list = List of Fighting Beauty Wulong chapters
}}
}}
{{Infobox animanga/Video
{{Infobox animanga/Video
| type = tv series
| type = tv series
| director = [[Yoshio Suzuki]]
| director = Yoshio Suzuki
| producer =
| producer =
| writer =
| writer =
| music =
| music = [[Daisuke Ikeda (arranger)|Daisuke Ikeda]]
| studio = [[TMS Entertainment]]
| studio = [[TMS Entertainment]]
| network = [[BS Japan]], [[TV Aichi]], [[TV Osaka]], [[TV Tokyo]]
| network = [[TV Tokyo]]
| first = November 1, 2005
| first = October 2, 2005
| last = March 25, 2006
| last = March 26, 2006
| episodes = 25
| episodes = 25
| episode_list =
| episode_list =
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| type = tv series
| type = tv series
| title = Fighting Beauty Wulong Rebirth
| title = Fighting Beauty Wulong Rebirth
| director = [[Yoshio Suzuki]]
| director = Yoshio Suzuki
| producer =
| producer =
| writer =
| writer =
| music =
| music = Daisuke Ikeda
| studio = [[TMS Entertainment]]
| studio = TMS Entertainment
| network = [[TV Tokyo]]
| network = TV Tokyo
| first = April 1, 2006
| first = April 2, 2006
| last = September 30, 2006
| last = October 1, 2006
| episodes = 25
| episodes = 25
| episode_list =
| episode_list =
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{{Infobox animanga/Footer}}
{{Infobox animanga/Footer}}


{{nihongo|'''''Fighting Beauty Wulong'''''|格闘美神武龍|Kakutō Bishin Ūron}} is a [[seinen]] [[manga]] series by [[Yūgo Ishikawa]]. There are currently 19 volumes. The story has been adapted into an [[anime]] which spans two series. Both anime series cover volumes 00–18. The first series is ''Fighting Beauty Wulong'' and the second is '''''Fighting Beauty Wulong: Rebirth'''''. Both series have approximately 25 episodes apiece.
{{nihongo|'''''Fighting Beauty Wulong'''''|格闘美神 武龍|Kakutō Bishin Ūron|lead=yes}} is a Japanese [[manga]] series written and illustrated by [[Yūgo Ishikawa]]. It was serialized in [[Shogakukan]]'s [[Seinen manga|{{Transl|ja|seinen}} manga]] magazine ''[[Weekly Young Sunday]]'' from August 2002 to May 2007, with its chapters collected in 18 {{Transl|ja|[[tankōbon]]}} volumes and additional prequel {{Transl|ja|[[gaiden]]}} volume. The series was adapted into a two-season of 25 episodes each, animated by [[TMS Entertainment]] and broadcast on [[TV Tokyo]] from October 2005 to October 2006.


==Story==
The lead character, Mao Ran, a person of Chinese origin born and raised in Japan, has been trained in the secret [[martial art]] of her family by her drunken [[lust|lecherous]] grandfather Master Mao Hung. Her grandfather has promised her that he'll tell her what happened to her parents to encourage her to train and fight. Without her knowledge, her grandfather signs her up to participate in a televised martial arts competition between female martial artists known as "Prime Mat". During the course of the manga and anime it is revealed that Ran's mother married Cao Da Hen and gave birth to Ran's step sister Rin Shen.
Mao Lan, a [[Chinese people in Japan|person of Chinese origin born and raised in Japan]], has been trained in the secret [[martial art]] of her family by her drunken lecherous grandfather Master Mao Hung. Her grandfather has promised her that he'll tell her what happened to her parents to encourage her to train and fight. Without her knowledge, her grandfather signs her up to participate in a televised martial arts competition between female martial artists known as "Prime Mat". During the course of the series it is revealed that Lan's mother married Cao Da Hen and gave birth to Lan's step-sister Ling-Shen.


==Characters==
==Characters==
;Mao Lan ({{zh|t=毛蘭|p=Máo Lán}})
'''Mao Ran'''(毛蘭) (Mao Lan in Mandarin) (17 yrs old)
:{{Anime voice|[[Wakana Yamazaki]]}}
{{Anime voice|[[Wakana Yamazaki]]}}. Is the main protagonist of the series. She tries to act as typical teenage girl with little results. She has been trained since she could walk in the Mao's family style called Mao Juhe Kenpo. The form takes characteristics from sword techniques and incorporates them into an empty handed fighting style. From the start of both the manga and anime Mao Ran demonstrates almost complete mastery of this form. Through flash backs it is shown that she develops skills and abilities that only a master should be capable of.
:Mao tries to act a typical teenage girl with little results. She has been trained since she could walk in Mao's family style called Mao Family [[Iaido|Juhe]] Fist (毛家居合拳). The form takes characteristics from sword techniques and incorporates them into an empty-handed fighting style. From the start of both the manga and anime, Mao Lan demonstrates almost complete mastery of this form. Through flashbacks it is shown that she develops skills and abilities that only a master should be capable of.
;Mao Hun ({{zh|t=毛混|p=Máo Hùn}})
:{{Anime voice|[[Takeshi Aono]]}}
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:Grandfather to Mao Lan and grandmaster and creator of Mao Family Juhe Fist. After moving from China with his friend and rival Cao Fusheng. He develops a style of Kenpo based on the fighting style of the samurai sword techniques. He teaches Mao Lan to fight using various odd and sometimes dangerous tests like fighting a bear or fighting a gang of thugs.
;{{nihongo|Masao Oba|大場 政夫|Ōba Masao}}
:{{Anime voice|[[Shūhei Sakaguchi]]}}
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:Bullied by boys who are stronger than him, he sees Mao Lan defeat a group of bullies and wishes to become her student. He learns to use some of the basic techniques and can defend himself from normal fighters.
;Cao Fusheng ({{zh|t=曹福生|p=Cáo fú shēng}})
:{{Anime voice|Eiji Maruyama}}
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:Fu Shen is the true master of Cao Family [[Bajiquan]] (曹家八極拳), the rival of Mao Family Juhe Fist. In both the manga and anime he is extremely ill. He is also upset that his son Cao Da-Hen has taken the family-style kenpo and turned it into a product for money. At the start of the series, he asks Mao Hun to have Mao Lan stop his granddaughter Cao Chunyang by killing her (actually by the end you realize it is not a literal death, but by Chun Yan's defeat his style will die with him.)
;Cao Da-Hen ({{zh|t=曹德興|p=Cáo Dé xīng|j=Cou4 Dak1 Hing1}})
:{{Anime voice|[[Unshō Ishizuka]]}}
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:Father of Chunyang and Ling-Shen. Uses his family's martial arts style for profit. Creates the Prime Mat competition to showcase Chun Yan's fighting skills to prove his family is the strongest.
;Cao Ling-Shen ({{zh|t=曹鈴音|p=Cáo Líng yīn}})
:{{Anime voice|[[Risa Hayamizu]]}}
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:Actually Mao Lan's younger sister whose step-sister Chun Yan uses her as a sparring dummy. Rin Shen runs away from the Xao temple to learn Mao Juhe style under Lan in hopes of defeating her step sister Chun Yan one day.
;Cao Chunyang ({{zh|t=曹春揚|p=Cáo Chūn yáng}})
:{{Anime voice|[[Junko Minagawa]]}}
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:Lan's strongest opponent. She is extremely vain and arrogant. She hates her younger step-sister to the point of almost killing her by using her as a sparring dummy. Chun Yan is secretly trained in Mao style by Gangli who was a former student of Mao Hun, so she can counter Lan's Fajing technique. She is beaten by Lan at the end of the first series, then at a train station she's talking to Lan saying she has a lot more to learn and hopes to have a rematch sometime in the future.
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;{{Nihongo|Yagi Megumi|八木 めぐみ|Megumi Yagi}}
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:{{Anime voice|[[Wasabi Mizuta]]}}. Megumi is a member of the Naniwa Women's Wrestling she helps train Mao Lan in the beginning. Her fighting style combines elements of judo and professional wrestling, but later implements some of Mao's basic fighting techniques into her own style. She is then chosen to compete in the Prime Mat competition and is beaten twice once by Mao Lan then by Cao Rin Shen.
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;{{Nihongo|Lucky Shimoda|ラッキー 下田|Rakkī Shimoda}}
:Shimoda, like Megumi, is a member of the Naniwa wrestling team and is considered as their most skilled pro-wrestler, specializing in grapples and throws. When fighting in the ring, she is a flamboyant attention-seeker who has a strong tendency for humiliating her opponents during matches.


==Media==
'''Mao Hung'''(毛混) (Mao Hun in Mandarin) (75 yrs old)
===Manga===
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{{Anime voice|[[Takeshi Aono]]}}. Grandfather to Mao Ran and grandmaster and creator of Mao Juhe Kenpo. After moving from China with his friend and rival Cao Fu Shen. He develops a style of Kenpo based on the fighting style of the samurai sword techniques. He teaches Mao Ran to fight using varies odd and sometimes dangerous tests like fighting a bear or fighting a gang of thugs.
{{Main|List of Fighting Beauty Wulong chapters{{!}}List of ''Fighting Beauty Wulong'' chapters}}
Written and illustrated by [[Yūgo Ishikawa]], ''Fighting Beauty Wulong'' was serialized in [[Shogakukan]]'s [[Seinen manga|{{Transl|ja|seinen}} manga]] magazine ''[[Weekly Young Sunday]]'' from August 1, 2002,<ref>{{cite web|script-title=ja:ヤングサンデー ２００２年３５号|url=http://www.s-book.com/plsql/sbc_mag2k_code?sha=1&sho=086235&type=c|publisher=[[Shogakukan]]|access-date=January 10, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020830050407/http://www.s-book.com/plsql/sbc_mag2k_code?sha=1&sho=086235&type=c|archive-date=August 30, 2002|language=ja}}</ref> to May 10, 2007.{{efn|Finished in the magazine's 23rd issue of 2007,<ref>{{cite web|script-title=ja:格闘美神 武龍|url=https://mangapedia.com/格闘美神武龍-f4l96e6za|website={{ill|Mangapedia|ja|マンガペディア}}|publisher=Voyage Group|access-date=January 10, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201031193727/https://mangapedia.com/格闘美神武龍-f4l96e6za|archive-date=October 31, 2020|language=ja|url-status=live|quote={{lang|ja|「週刊ヤングサンデー」2002年35号から2007年23号にかけて連載された作品。}}}}</ref> released on May 10 of that same year.<ref>{{cite web|script-title=ja:2007年05月10日のアーカイブ|url=http://manganohi.jp/2007/05/10/|website=manganohi.jp|access-date=January 10, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080516101855/http://manganohi.jp/2007/05/10/|archive-date=May 16, 2008|language=ja|date=May 10, 2007|quote={{lang|ja|【 ヤングサンデー】 ヤングサンデー23号 発売}}}}</ref>}} Shogakukan collected its chapters in 18 {{Transl|ja|[[tankōbon]]}} volumes, with an additional prequel {{Transl|ja|[[gaiden]]}} volume (numbered 0), from December 26, 2002, to June 5, 2007.<ref>{{cite web|script-title=ja:格闘美神 武龍 19件中1～19件|url=http://www.s-book.com/plsql/com2_series?tid=17605|website=s-book.com|publisher=[[Shogakukan]]|access-date=January 10, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080921063531/http://www.s-book.com/plsql/com2_series?tid=17605|archive-date=September 21, 2008|language=ja}}</ref>


===Anime===
'''Masao Oba'''(大場政夫) (17 yrs old)
A 25-episode [[anime]] television series adaptation by [[TMS Entertainment]] was broadcast on [[TV Tokyo]] from October 2, 2005, to March 26, 2006.<ref>{{cite web |script-title=ja:格闘美神 武龍［ウーロン］ |url=https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C11197 |website=Media Arts Database |publisher=[[Agency for Cultural Affairs]] |access-date=January 10, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220110074448/https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C11197 |archive-date=January 10, 2022 |language=ja |url-status=live}}</ref> A second 25-episode season, titled ''Fighting Beauty Wulong Rebirth'', was broadcast from April 2 to October 1, 2006.<ref>{{cite web |script-title=ja:格闘美神 武龍[ウーロン] REBIRTH |url=https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C12365 |website=Media Arts Database |publisher=[[Agency for Cultural Affairs]] |access-date=January 10, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220110074654/https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C12365 |archive-date=January 10, 2022 |language=ja |url-status=live}}</ref>
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{{Anime voice|[[Shuuhei Sakaguchi]]}}. Bullied by boys who are stronger than him, he sees Mao Ran defeat a group of bullies and wishes to become her student. He learns to use some of the Basic techniques and can defend himself from normal fighters.


===Video game===
'''Cao Fu Shen'''(曹福生) (Fu Sheng in Mandarin) (75 yrs old)
A [[PlayStation 2]] [[fighting game]], developed by [[DreamFactory (game company)|DreamFactory]] and published by [[Bandai]], was released on June 22, 2006.<ref>{{cite web |script-title=ja:武龍ガール・松山まみさんも登場！『格闘美神武龍』ファンイベント |url=https://dengekionline.com/data/news/2006/6/21/4d93e07226ae648afe9f886f22aacd3a.html |website=Dengeki Online |publisher=[[Kadokawa Corporation|Kadokawa Game Linkage]] |access-date=January 10, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220110075250/https://dengekionline.com/data/news/2006/6/21/4d93e07226ae648afe9f886f22aacd3a.html |archive-date=January 10, 2022 |language=ja |date=June 21, 2006 |url-status=live}}</ref>
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{{Anime voice|[[Eiji Maruyama]]}}. Fu Shen is the true master of Cao Eight point Fist Kenpo the rival of Mao Juhe Kenpo. In both the manga and anime he is extreme ill. He is also upset that his son Cao Da Hen has taken the family style kenpo and turned it into a product for money. At the start of the series he asks Mao Hun to have Mao Ran stop his granddaughter Cao Chun Yan by killing her (actually by the end you realize it is not a literal death, but by Chun Yan's defeat his style will die with him.)


==Notes==
'''Cao Da Hen'''(曹德興) (De Xing in Mandarin) (47 yrs old)
{{Notelist}}
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{{Anime voice|[[Unshou Ishizuka]]}}. Father of Chun Yan and Rin Shen. Uses his families martial arts style for profit. Creates the Prime Mat competition to show case Chun Yan's fighting skills to prove his family is the strongest.

'''Cao Rin Shen'''(曹鈴音) (Ling Shen in Mandarin) (15 yrs old)
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{{Anime voice|[[Risa Hayamizu]]}} Actually Mao Ran's younger sister who's step sister Chun Yan uses her as a sparring dummy. Rin Shen runs away from the Xao temple to learn Mao Juhe style under Ran in hopes of defeating her step sister Chun Yan one day.

'''Cao Chun Yan'''(曹春揚) (Chun Yang in Mandarin) (20 yrs old)
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{{Anime voice|[[Junko Minagawa]]}}. Main antagonist of the series and Ran's strongest opponent. She is extremely vain and arrogant. She hates her younger step sister to the point of almost killing her by using her as a sparring dummy. Chun Yan is secretly trained in Mao style by Gangli who was a former student of Mao Hun, so she can counter Ran's Fajing technique. She is beaten by Ran at the end of the first series, then at a train station she's talking to Ran saying she has a lot more to learn and hopes to have a rematch sometime in the future.

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'''Yagi Megumi'''(八木めぐみ) (19 yrs old)
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{{Anime voice|[[Wasabi Mizuta]]}}. Megumi is a member of the Naniwa Women's Wrestling she helps train Mao Ran in the beginning. Her fighting style combines elements of judo and professional wrestling, but later implements some of Mao's basic fighting techniques into her own style. She is then chosen to compete in the Prime Mat competition and is beaten twice once by Mao Ran then by Cao Rin Shen.

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'''Lucky Shimoda'''(ラッキー下田) (20 yrs old)
Shimoda, like Megumi, is a member of the Naniwa wrestling team and is considered as their most skilled pro-wrestler, specializing in grapples and throws. She is also their sexiest most buxom member. When fighting in the ring, she is a flamboyant attention-seeker who has a strong tendency for humiliating her opponents during matches. By the time Mao made her debut in her "Mao Tiger" pro-wrestler persona, Lucky Shimoda was already the defending champion in women's wrestling. Shimoda first met Mao when the latter accompanied her grandfather's entourage to the wrestling gym where the Naniwa Women's Wrestling team were practicing in the hopes of preparing Mao for Primat. Initially antagonistic to both Mao and Megumi, she saw Mao as a strict competition upon seeing her enter the gym, and challenged her afterwards to decide whether or not Mao deserves to wear the mantle of the Mao Tiger, only to be miserably defeated by Mao's family style brand of martial arts. Humiliated, Shimoda seek to return the favor by participating as Mao's opponent in her debut as Mao Tiger; this was easily consented as she was the reigning female wrestling champion at that time. It is also for this reason why Cao presented her with a bouquet of flowers as a special guest audience, right before proceeding to shake Mao's hand. But Shimoda, impatient to start the match, quickly strode over to Mao's corner and used the bouquet Cao just gave her to whack Mao over the head. Lucky Shimoda began the match with her inexperienced foe at an obvious disadvantage, since the it was pro-wrestling and thus, Mao could not resort into using the style her grandfather taught her. That, along with the fact that Shimoda witnessed Mao's training with Megumi enabled the much experienced wrestler to see through Mao's pattern of attacks allowed Shimoda to effectively counter them. After hitting Mao with the bouquet, Shimoda quickly followed with a descending elbow to Mao's lower back, doubling her over even more, before pinning her to the nearest corner post with her forearm choking Mao's neck. She then whispers some words audible only to Mao, saying that "even though she's (Mao) garbed in a revealing pro-wrestler's outfit, she is no wrestler and that she will meet a brand new Lucky Shimoda in this ring - one who won't lose so easily in this match, and she (Mao) shall be the stepping stone to her (Shimoda) success". She soon becomes a sort of cheerleader, when Mao and Megumi compete in Prime Mat.

==Other media==
A [[PlayStation 2]] [[fighting game]] based on ''Fighting Beauty Wulong'' was developed by [[Dream Factory (game developer)|Dream Factory]] and published by [[Bandai]] in 2006.<ref>{{cite web | title=Kakutou Bijin Wulong | url=http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/ps2/data/931994.html | accessdate=2007-09-08}}</ref>
The game was given a 17 out of 40 by ''[[Famitsu]]'' magazine.<ref>{{cite web | author=Fassino, Justin | date=June 15, 2006 | title=GAF - News - Latest Famitsu review scores - Valkyrie Profile 2, Magical Vacation 2 | url=http://www.gamesarefun.com/news.php?newsid=5902 | work=GamesAreFun.com | accessdate=2008-12-24 | deadurl=yes | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110612140315/http://www.gamesarefun.com/news.php?newsid=5902 | archivedate=June 12, 2011 | df= }}</ref>


==References==
==References==
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==External links==
==External links==
* {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090721082049/http://www.youngsunday.com/rensai/comics/wooron.html|title=''Fighting Beauty Wulong'' official manga website at ''Weekly Young Sunday''}} {{in lang|ja}}
*[http://www.tv-tokyo.co.jp/anime/wulong/ Official Site] at TV Tokyo (anime)
* {{Official website|http://www.tv-tokyo.co.jp/anime/wulong/|''Fighting Beauty Wulong'' official anime website at TV Tokyo}} {{in lang|ja}}
*[http://www.youngsunday.com/rensai/comics/wooron.html Official Site] at Young Sunday magazine (manga)
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* {{Anime News Network|manga|6532}}
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Fighting Beauty Wulong
First tankōbon volume cover
格闘美神 武龍
(Kakutō Bishin Ūron)
Manga
Written byYūgo Ishikawa
Published byShogakukan
MagazineWeekly Young Sunday
DemographicSeinen
Original runAugust 1, 2002 – May 10, 2007
Volumes18 + 1 gaiden volume (List of volumes)
Anime television series
Directed byYoshio Suzuki
Music byDaisuke Ikeda
StudioTMS Entertainment
Original networkTV Tokyo
Original run October 2, 2005 – March 26, 2006
Episodes25
Anime television series
Fighting Beauty Wulong Rebirth
Directed byYoshio Suzuki
Music byDaisuke Ikeda
StudioTMS Entertainment
Original networkTV Tokyo
Original run April 2, 2006 – October 1, 2006
Episodes25

Fighting Beauty Wulong (Japanese: 格闘美神 武龍, Hepburn: Kakutō Bishin Ūron) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yūgo Ishikawa. It was serialized in Shogakukan's seinen manga magazine Weekly Young Sunday from August 2002 to May 2007, with its chapters collected in 18 tankōbon volumes and additional prequel gaiden volume. The series was adapted into a two-season of 25 episodes each, animated by TMS Entertainment and broadcast on TV Tokyo from October 2005 to October 2006.

Story

[edit]

Mao Lan, a person of Chinese origin born and raised in Japan, has been trained in the secret martial art of her family by her drunken lecherous grandfather Master Mao Hung. Her grandfather has promised her that he'll tell her what happened to her parents to encourage her to train and fight. Without her knowledge, her grandfather signs her up to participate in a televised martial arts competition between female martial artists known as "Prime Mat". During the course of the series it is revealed that Lan's mother married Cao Da Hen and gave birth to Lan's step-sister Ling-Shen.

Characters

[edit]
Mao Lan (Chinese: 毛蘭; pinyin: Máo Lán)
Voiced by: Wakana Yamazaki
Mao tries to act a typical teenage girl with little results. She has been trained since she could walk in Mao's family style called Mao Family Juhe Fist (毛家居合拳). The form takes characteristics from sword techniques and incorporates them into an empty-handed fighting style. From the start of both the manga and anime, Mao Lan demonstrates almost complete mastery of this form. Through flashbacks it is shown that she develops skills and abilities that only a master should be capable of.
Mao Hun (Chinese: 毛混; pinyin: Máo Hùn)
Voiced by: Takeshi Aono
Grandfather to Mao Lan and grandmaster and creator of Mao Family Juhe Fist. After moving from China with his friend and rival Cao Fusheng. He develops a style of Kenpo based on the fighting style of the samurai sword techniques. He teaches Mao Lan to fight using various odd and sometimes dangerous tests like fighting a bear or fighting a gang of thugs.
Masao Oba (大場 政夫, Ōba Masao)
Voiced by: Shūhei Sakaguchi
Bullied by boys who are stronger than him, he sees Mao Lan defeat a group of bullies and wishes to become her student. He learns to use some of the basic techniques and can defend himself from normal fighters.
Cao Fusheng (Chinese: 曹福生; pinyin: Cáo fú shēng)
Voiced by: Eiji Maruyama
Fu Shen is the true master of Cao Family Bajiquan (曹家八極拳), the rival of Mao Family Juhe Fist. In both the manga and anime he is extremely ill. He is also upset that his son Cao Da-Hen has taken the family-style kenpo and turned it into a product for money. At the start of the series, he asks Mao Hun to have Mao Lan stop his granddaughter Cao Chunyang by killing her (actually by the end you realize it is not a literal death, but by Chun Yan's defeat his style will die with him.)
Cao Da-Hen (Chinese: 曹德興; pinyin: Cáo Dé xīng; Jyutping: Cou4 Dak1 Hing1)
Voiced by: Unshō Ishizuka
Father of Chunyang and Ling-Shen. Uses his family's martial arts style for profit. Creates the Prime Mat competition to showcase Chun Yan's fighting skills to prove his family is the strongest.
Cao Ling-Shen (Chinese: 曹鈴音; pinyin: Cáo Líng yīn)
Voiced by: Risa Hayamizu
Actually Mao Lan's younger sister whose step-sister Chun Yan uses her as a sparring dummy. Rin Shen runs away from the Xao temple to learn Mao Juhe style under Lan in hopes of defeating her step sister Chun Yan one day.
Cao Chunyang (Chinese: 曹春揚; pinyin: Cáo Chūn yáng)
Voiced by: Junko Minagawa
Lan's strongest opponent. She is extremely vain and arrogant. She hates her younger step-sister to the point of almost killing her by using her as a sparring dummy. Chun Yan is secretly trained in Mao style by Gangli who was a former student of Mao Hun, so she can counter Lan's Fajing technique. She is beaten by Lan at the end of the first series, then at a train station she's talking to Lan saying she has a lot more to learn and hopes to have a rematch sometime in the future.
Yagi Megumi (八木 めぐみ, Megumi Yagi)
Voiced by: Wasabi Mizuta. Megumi is a member of the Naniwa Women's Wrestling she helps train Mao Lan in the beginning. Her fighting style combines elements of judo and professional wrestling, but later implements some of Mao's basic fighting techniques into her own style. She is then chosen to compete in the Prime Mat competition and is beaten twice once by Mao Lan then by Cao Rin Shen.
Lucky Shimoda (ラッキー 下田, Rakkī Shimoda)
Shimoda, like Megumi, is a member of the Naniwa wrestling team and is considered as their most skilled pro-wrestler, specializing in grapples and throws. When fighting in the ring, she is a flamboyant attention-seeker who has a strong tendency for humiliating her opponents during matches.

Media

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Manga

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Main article: List of Fighting Beauty Wulong chapters

Written and illustrated by Yūgo Ishikawa, Fighting Beauty Wulong was serialized in Shogakukan's seinen manga magazine Weekly Young Sunday from August 1, 2002,[1] to May 10, 2007.[a] Shogakukan collected its chapters in 18 tankōbon volumes, with an additional prequel gaiden volume (numbered 0), from December 26, 2002, to June 5, 2007.[4]

Anime

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A 25-episode anime television series adaptation by TMS Entertainment was broadcast on TV Tokyo from October 2, 2005, to March 26, 2006.[5] A second 25-episode season, titled Fighting Beauty Wulong Rebirth, was broadcast from April 2 to October 1, 2006.[6]

Video game

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A PlayStation 2 fighting game, developed by DreamFactory and published by Bandai, was released on June 22, 2006.[7]

Notes

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  1. ^ Finished in the magazine's 23rd issue of 2007,[2] released on May 10 of that same year.[3]

References

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  1. ^ ヤングサンデー ２００２年３５号 (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Archived from the original on August 30, 2002. Retrieved January 10, 2022.
  2. ^ 格闘美神 武龍. Mangapedia [ja] (in Japanese). Voyage Group. Archived from the original on October 31, 2020. Retrieved January 10, 2022. 「週刊ヤングサンデー」2002年35号から2007年23号にかけて連載された作品。
  3. ^ 2007年05月10日のアーカイブ. manganohi.jp (in Japanese). May 10, 2007. Archived from the original on May 16, 2008. Retrieved January 10, 2022. 【 ヤングサンデー】 ヤングサンデー23号 発売
  4. ^ 格闘美神 武龍 19件中1～19件. s-book.com (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Archived from the original on September 21, 2008. Retrieved January 10, 2022.
  5. ^ 格闘美神 武龍［ウーロン］. Media Arts Database (in Japanese). Agency for Cultural Affairs. Archived from the original on January 10, 2022. Retrieved January 10, 2022.
  6. ^ 格闘美神 武龍[ウーロン] REBIRTH. Media Arts Database (in Japanese). Agency for Cultural Affairs. Archived from the original on January 10, 2022. Retrieved January 10, 2022.
  7. ^ 武龍ガール・松山まみさんも登場！『格闘美神武龍』ファンイベント. Dengeki Online (in Japanese). Kadokawa Game Linkage. June 21, 2006. Archived from the original on January 10, 2022. Retrieved January 10, 2022.
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