Tough (manga)

Tough
Cover of the first volume
高校鉄拳伝タフ/タフ (Kōkō Tekken-den Tafu)
Genre	Martial arts[1]
Manga
High School Exciting Story: Tough
Written by	Tetsuya Saruwatari
Published by	Shueisha
English publisher	NA: Viz Media
Imprint	Young Jump Comics
Magazine	Weekly Young Jump
Demographic	Seinen
Original run	1993 – 2003
Volumes	42
Manga
Oton
Written by	Tetsuya Saruwatari
Published by	Shueisha
Imprint	Young Jump Comics
Magazine	Young Jump Zōkan Mankaku (2001–2008) Monthly Young Jump [ja] (2009) Grand Jump (2021)
Demographic	Seinen
Original run	2001 – 2021
Volumes	2
Original video animation
Shootfighter Tekken
Directed by	Yukio Nishimoto
Written by	Jin Munesue
Studio	AIC
Licensed by	NA: Central Park Media
Released	January 31, 2002 – December 7, 2004
Episodes	3
Manga
Tough
Written by	Tetsuya Saruwatari
Published by	Shueisha
Imprint	Young Jump Comics
Magazine	Weekly Young Jump
Demographic	Seinen
Original run	July 31, 2003 – July 19, 2012
Volumes	39
Manga
Tough: Ryū wo Tsugu Otoko
Written by	Tetsuya Saruwatari
Published by	Shueisha
Imprint	Young Jump Comics
Magazine	Weekly Playboy
Demographic	Seinen
Original run	December 21, 2015 – present
Volumes	29

Tough, known in Japan as High School Exciting Story: Tough (Japanese: 高校鉄拳伝タフ, Hepburn: Kōkō Tekken-den Tough, lit. 'Tough: High School Iron Fist Legend'), is a Japanese martial arts manga series written and illustrated by Tetsuya Saruwatari. It was serialized in Shueisha's seinen manga magazine Weekly Young Jump from 1993 to 2003, with its chapters collected in 42 tankōbon volumes. A sequel series, titled Tough (Latin-script title in the original release), was published in the same magazine from 2003 to 2012, with its chapters collected in 39 volumes. The first series was licensed in North America by Viz Media, who only published the first six volumes from 2005 to 2006.

A three-episode original video animation (OVA) series adaptation was released in 2002, and released in North America, as Shootfighter Tekken, by Central Park Media in 2004; the third episode was only released in North America. A spin-off series, titled Oton, has been irregularly published across three Shueisha's magazines from 2001 to 2008, in 2009, and in 2021. Another series, titled Tough: Ryū wo Tsugu Otoko, started in Shueisha's Weekly Playboy in 2015.