While Yu climbs up the ranks, another boxer Jean Pierre Manuel; also known as The Lightweight King, fixates on Yu. As he is obsessed with perfection, he wants to go up against Yu in the pursuit of that and the feeling of his life being in legitimate danger.
There are other boxers also working their way up the roster with Yu but while we get a little time with them, the main focus is how Jean Pierre wants to fight Yu so badly and how he thinks Yu is the ultimate example of the perfection he seeks. A lot of the characters in this series so far have all this drive and ambitions while Yu is just unbothered by all of it. He’s a blank slate that is pointed in a direction and told to hit something as hard as he can. I hope we learn more about him to find out why he’s like this. 4 out of 5.
