Royoko Mitsurugi, the Samurai Girl, is the top fighter and best student at Daimon High where martial arts is standard curriculum. When Shizuma Kusanagi transfers to the school, Royoko's top place is challenged.

The girls don't turn up to the contest at Dragon Land - what is the problem?

Physical education is supreme at Daimon High School, and the K-Fight program is used to settle disputes. Even Ryoko gets involved in a brawl or two as she secretly pines for Tatsuya.

Ryoko Mitsurugi and Shinsengumi are expected to kick some serious ass at Dragon Land, but they're nowhere to be found. All wait in baited anticipation: the K-fight news team, the Daimon High School student body, Principal Todo, the Isozaki triplets, and the ominous "G" who has already given Ryoko one thorough pummeling and now plans to video tape her K-fight matches to sell ont he black market. With the arena set and the opponents ready to rumble, all Shinsengumi has to do now is show up! -- VIZ Media

Ryoko Mitsurugi, the Samurai Girl, is the top fighter and the most popular girl at her martial arts high school until bad boy Shizuma Kusanagi transfers in from Kansai and turns the school into a non-stop battleground.

Royoko Mitsurugi is having trouble with being motivated to fight.

The daughter of a Chinese mother and a Japanese father, Gail Tsukiyama's The Samurai's Garden uses the Japanese invasion of China during the late 1930s as a somber backdrop for this extraordinary story. A 20-year-old Chinese painter named Stephen is sent to his family's summer home in a Japanese coastal village to recover from a bout with tuberculosis. Here he is cared for by Matsu, a reticent housekeeper and a master gardener. Over the course of a remarkable year, Stephen learns Matsu's secret and gains not only physical strength, but also profound spiritual insight. Matsu is a samurai of the soul, a man devoted to doing good and finding beauty in a cruel and arbitrary world, and Stephen is a noble student, learning to appreciate Matsu's generous and nurturing way of life and to love Matsu's soulmate, gentle Sachi, a woman afflicted with leprosy.