Delinquent manga are my bread and butter, so naturally I was not going to pass up on a new one. I love how it starts out like your normal delinquent mangas, a boy who is shunned by society and turns to fighting his way through life, but then completely throws you into left field by making the story focus on how this small little town has turned the local delinquents into heroes who save them from other delinquents who come to town to cause trouble. This is such a unique and fresh take on this genre and I am here for it. One of the many reasons why this is my favorite genre of manga is because at the heart of them it's all about acceptance, friendship, brotherhood and finding ones place where they belong,

Wind Breaker doesn't take its time setting these themes into place with Sakura's character, right from the start we learn how he feels towards people and how this town and its patrons are different from what he is used too, and it throws him off. This volumes establishes Sakura's past, as well as what kind of people he is going to be dealing with and how his life is in for a change that is completely unexpected for him, I will say I feel like Nirei's past was explored too quickly, I wish we had been given a bit more time with him and been allowed to see more moments of his attempts to be the hero he wants to be before we got his "sad" backstory. I felt we didn't get to know him well enough to feel the impact of that moment.

The tone of the manga is a bit more playful and silly then majority of other mangas in this genre but I think it works for the type of story that Satoru Nii is telling, but it's also early so this could change as it progresses. The comedic timing is perfect! A lot of new mangaka struggle to get comedy right in their stories but Satoru Nii truly has it down to a science, and I loved all the little comedy bits. The action scenes are entertaining and well drawn out, also easy to follow and understand, the art is very clean and does a good job of imitating that classic wild character style.

Im looking forward to reading more of Wind Breaker and seeing what's in store for Sakura and his fellow classmates.