Dumbbell Nan Kilo Moteru? (How Heavy Are the Dumbbells You Lift?)

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Synonyms: How Many Kilograms are the Dumbbells You Lift?

Japanese: ダンベル何キロ持てる？

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Type: Manga

Volumes: Unknown

Chapters: Unknown

Status: Publishing

Published: Aug 12, 2016 to ?

Genres: Comedy, Ecchi

Serialization: Ura Sunday

Authors: Sandrovich, Yabako (Story), MAAM (Art)

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Score: 7.27¹ (scored by 4,076 users)

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Ranked: #5704²

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Popularity: #1142

Members: 19,543

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MangaUra SundaySandrovich, Yabako (Story), MAAM (Art)

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Sakura Hibiki is your average high school girl, with a voracious appetite. Noticing her clothes tightening in lieu of her slowly expanding waistline she decides to look into enrolling in the nearby gym. There she runs into a girl from her grade named Souryuuin Akemi.

Akemi, who has a muscle fetish tries to get Hibiki to enroll in the gym despite its high ratio of macho men. Thankfully a beautiful trainer, Machio, appears and unknowingly convinces her to enroll and start her quest to a great body.

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BackgroundDumbbell Nan Kilo Moteru? has been published in English as How Heavy Are the Dumbbells You Lift? by Seven Seas Entertainment since November 26, 2019.

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Sakura, Hibiki

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Souryuuin, Akemi

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Machio, Naruzou

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Sekibayashi, Jun

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Boyd, Gina

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Tachibana, Satomi

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Uehara, Ayaka

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Shortsinator, Barnold

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Gerson, Kristal

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Aina, Rumika

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Mar 22, 2018

HunTyson

Recommended

Preliminary (39/? eps)

There is not too much to say about this manga since there is basically no story, or character development, or anything you can usually find in a manga. I would call this not a manga, but a training manual which looks like a manga. If we watch from this aspect than it is a decent one.
I like training, and it is also my job, that's why this manga was recommended to me. I have to say I am not disappointed. The techniques, the training methods, and the general concept of training are well introduced, with enough time spent on proper forms. Even risks of ...

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Feb 17, 2019

Mywifesson

Recommended

Preliminary (54/? eps)

Sup fellow Gymcels are you looking for something to read between crushing reps and box at the gym? Well look no further.

Here we have a manga that is just mindless fun, no story no end goal, no character development, just a gag manga about working out. There is no real through line, each story can just be taken as an excuse to insert some kind of work out knowledge into the weeb population which we will need when we rise up.

The jokes are a bit samey as there is only so much material you can cover but the art and the ridiculousness keeps ...

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Apr 28, 2025

GathererOfPain

Mixed Feelings

Preliminary (64/? eps)

5/10

This manga is incredibly average in most ways. It’s average as an ecchi, average as CGDCT, and it’s average as slice of life.

Characters: The characters are all fun and likable with well-defined personalities.

Art: The art is great, with a lot of attention paid to anatomy. Something that I like is that while there are some absurd bodies meant to be unrealistic and exaggerated, many of the bodies depicted look within the realm of realism. An example of this is the women’s breasts, which have a pretty realistic size and shape rather than looking like someone with watermelons under their shirt. We ecchi enjoyers love ... a good unrealistic, sexy, bombshell anime body, but I think that the choice to make the women sexy but not absurdly unrealistic was a fantastic choice for something centered around real exercise.

Writing: This is where it really suffers. I enjoy manga that is chill slice of life with no real plot development, so when I criticize the writing, I am doing it in comparison to other similar aimless manga, not against plot and character-heavy works. I read 7 volumes of this manga, and just a few volumes in I was already thinking “is every single chapter going to be the same?” Don’t get me wrong, there are new locations, new characters, etc., but it all feels the same. Every chapter is like “I wish my boobs were perkier!” “Oh, you know what’s good for that? Exercises that target the upper pectorals!” followed by several pages explaining how to do something like incline bench presses, how to hold the bar, how to sit on the bench, etc. I get that explaining exercises is a core concept of the manga, but it gets tedious to have every chapter grind to a halt so that they can do a lifting tutorial that you would just google if you ever wanted to do it in real life, followed by a high-effort full-page ecchi drawing that is admittedly quit sexy. And while some of the exercise advice is good, some of it is iffy (there’s even a chapter I saw where the exercise is accompanied by a note that says “This is an outdated approach, consult a trainer”. Okay… so if it’s bad advice that people don’t use anymore, why is it in the manga? Just because the author couldn’t think of another useful exercise?

Overall, I don’t think that this manga is bad. It just feels very same-y all the way through, in a way that I found boring and shallow rather than comforting and chill. If you’ve read a couple volumes, then you’ve essentially read as much of it as I have because every subsequent chapter will feel exactly the same except for they might go to the beach or a haunted house occasionally or something like that. If you like no plot slice of life ecchi with cute girls, you might like this. If you’re into exercise and weight lifting in real life, you might find it fun to find that in a manga. But as an avid lifter and dumb manga fan I love both of those things and still couldn’t find anything particularly fun or interesting here, and there are a ton of series that will offer much better ecchi, much better slice of life, and much better CGDCT, although I can’t think of another that will give you the weightlifting focus. Give it a shot to see if it’s for you, but I would suggest taking an afternoon to watch the short anime adaptation and skipping the manga.

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