User blog:Self-Proclaimed King/Theory on Kiyokata's martial past

Disclaimer: ''I do not own this or personally wrote it myself. I stumbled upon this a while ago and felt like it's something need to be shared.''

Licenseless Rider comments on Episode 2:

The moment Suzune-kun mentioned the musculature structure of Ayanokōji-kun's arm (specificily his forearms), his stock went up in my book and promised a glimmer of hope to see some martial arts in this anime. And nearing the end of this episode my hopes where answered; this protagonist isn't a wimp.

Now, since Suzune-kun pointed out the forearms in particular it is heavily implied that Ayanokōji's fighting background is a grappling based martial arts. This is further proven with the finishing move he wanted to attempt before the villainous elder Horikita sibling quickly created some distance between them.



Take note of Ayanokōji-kun's left hand gripping Horikita-kun's right arm, before moving his entire body closer and twisting it around.



While also perfectly setup for a devastating uppercut or upward elbow, in my opinion he was setting up for a judo/jiu-jitsu style throw. As mentioned earlier, Suzune-kun made a point to notice Ayanokōji's forearms specifically. Due to the vast amount of actual grabbing and gripping involved in judo/jiu-jitsu or other grappling based martial arts, the forearms tend to develop. Not only in size, but also in vascularity, the increase of veins visible on the forearms. In contrast to a striking based martial arts, lets take boxing as an example here, where more development is mostly visible in the shoulders.

In short I'd like to speculate that Ayanokōji-kun's martial arts background is a form of jiu-jitsu, which could also be one of its derivatives: Judo or Aikido (while I would like to include BBJ, Bartitsu and Sambo, these more developed in the western world. And considering this take place in Japan, it is more likely to be a Japanese variant).

My apologies for the rant. As martial arts enthusiast I couldn't help but analyze this brief fighting scene. And while fighting isn't what makes this an interesting and entertaining anime, I wouldn't mind to sporadically see some more.