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Fighting Tournaments are a common trope in shonnen manga such as Dragon Ball, Yu Yu Hakusho, Naruto and Boku no Hero Academia. What was the first manga to use this plot device? What influences did it have from other types of media of japanese pop culture?

by /u/IlSaggiatore420 in /r/AskHistorians

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