Im going to start this review by saying that I am not good at this but this manga was just too good I had to try and that Im going to be 100 biased so dont expect objectivity. Keijo Hip Whip Girl is an action sport shounen manga about a fictional sport called Keijo where girls fight each other using only their breasts and butts if they use her limbs fall into the water or fall to the ground they lose. Of course they all do this wearing swimsuits. Sounds like a great ecchi concept right? On paper yes. The thing is Keijos sex appeal is pretty much only there as bait it worked on me after all. The girls are hot and they got nice swimsuits but it really focuses on the action and character motivations that theres no room for ecchi besides some comedy scenes. Dont go in expecting that itll focus on showing how hot they are. I want to talk about 3 aspects: plot characters and setting. Theres probably going to be spoilers here so be careful. The story is about Nozomi Kaminashi a girl who falls in love with the sport Keijo and wants to become a pro to earn a lot of money so that she and her family wont be poor anymore. She meets a girl named Sayaka Miyata who will become her rival and main motivation to keep getting stronger. Both of them enroll in the Setouchi Academy to learn how to play properly and graduate so they can be real players. They eventually get to their graduation event which is a competition against East Japans Suruga Academy where they are victorious and become Bclass players rather than starting at Cclass. Nozomi realizes during her first official match that out there in the real world its not going to be easy if she wants to get promoted to Aclass. After a lot of practice with her new senpai she gets to Aclass and gets involved in a series of problems that end up with Nozomi saying shell beat the top 5 players in Japan: The Goketsu. This is a pretty simplified version of the story but its quite nice in my opinion. Might be the standard shounen formula but it has more than enough to compensate for that. The last third does feel rushed but thats what Ill talk about later. Next is the characters. The main characters are as previously mentioned Nozomi Kaminashi and Sayaka Miyata with more focus on the former. Those 2 aside there are plenty of supporting characters of course some more important than others like Maya Sakashiro or Sumire Sakuragi who are all relevant to Nozomi and Sayakas growth as players and they all play an important part in their respective arcs. Theres not much for me to say here besides mentioning that most if not all of them are pretty likable in their own ways and that the author doesnt forget them later on like what happens with a lot of manga. Nozomi Kaminashi is one of my favorite protagonists of all time. Then comes the setting. Keijo is set during 2003 Japan where Keijo is legalized as a gambling sport like horse races. Most of the action happens on the Lands which are the floating platforms in the Keijo stadiums. Theres a nice variety some of them got environmental hazards and others are the standard flat land but the most exciting races happen in the lands that have special qualities. The stadiums always get filled with people cheering on the players I wish I could be there. As for the sport itself I really love the bizarre and ridiculous aspect it has. The players techniques are quite fun to see and they are crazy as if magic was real. I never got bored with this setting. The bad thing about Keijo is that it wasnt popular so it had low sales. This eventually caused the anime to flop + the bad advertising resulting on Sorayomis editor telling him it had to get cancelled. Add that Sorayomi had asked for more assistants multiple times since he had one and Shogakukan denying them it ended up in the story getting rushed at the end since the manga got axed. I think it had a lot of potential to continue especially with the final race but it just didnt happen. In the end I can only be grateful to Sorayomisensei for creating such a masterpiece.