Sessa Takuma! is a manga series created by Kazuma Kodaka

Kazuma Kodaka

is a Japanese manga artist. Kodaka made her debut in 1989 in the magazine Weekly Shōnen Champion with Sessa Takuma!. She mainly writes manga in the Boys Love genre, featuring homosexual relationships between men for women, and has been described as "a pioneer and top-ranked artist" in the genre...

. Originally published in 1989 in Weekly Shōnen Champion

Weekly Shonen Champion

is a weekly shōnen manga magazine published by Akita Shoten.- History :Shōnen Champion was first published 15 July 1969. It has had numerous popular series by manga artists such as Osamu Tezuka, Go Nagai, Shinji Mizushima, and Keisuke Itagaki...

, it later was published as a single volume in 1993 by Biblos. This short series is most often cited as Kodaka's breakout series, later spawning its better known and more popular spin-off yaoi

Yaoi

In careful Japanese enunciation, all three vowels are pronounced separately, for a three-mora word, . The English equivalent is . also known as Boys' Love, is a Japanese popular term for female-oriented fictional media that focus on homoerotic or homoromantic male relationships, usually created by...

 series Kizuna: Bonds of Love

Kizuna: Bonds of Love

is a yaoi manga, authored by Kazuma Kodaka. Released in 1994 and ending with the release of the final volume in 2008, it was one of the first and most popular manga to feature a homosexual relationship....

. The title, "sessa takuma," is a Japanese idiom meaning "working together to polish one another."

Plot

Takuma Ban is the first male heir born to the Ban family of Hokkaido. A carefree and good-natured boy, he travels to Tokyo with his servant Jii and his cow Mary to find himself a beautiful bride to take home with him. Not long after his arrival he literally runs into Yuki Samejima, a freshman in high school, and falls madly in love with her within moments of their meeting.

Declaring that Yuki is the bride he's sought after, Takuma gleefully chases her around with Mary, trying to convince her to go home with him and marry him. What he didn't realize is that Yuki's older brother was Ranmaru Samejima, the head of the kendo

Kendo

, meaning "Way of The Sword", is a modern Japanese martial art of sword-fighting based on traditional Japanese swordsmanship, or kenjutsu.Kendo is a physically and mentally challenging activity that combines strong martial arts values with sport-like physical elements.-Practitioners:Practitioners...

club with a fierce attitude to match his pretty features and a sister complex. Declaring no man good enough for Yuki, Ranmaru stops at nothing to thwart Takuma's efforts to win Yuki's heart. All the same, Takuma stops at nothing to win Yuki, and Mary stops at nothing to win Ranmaru.

Sessa Takuma ties into Kizuna very closely. Not only are Kizuna's heroes Ranmaru and Kei Enjouji present (though Enjouji starts off more as a background character), but both Yuki and Takuma appear and are mentioned from time to time in Kizuna. The final story in Sessa Takuma follows Ranmaru and Enjouji years later as the care for Takumi, Yuki and Takuma's baby son.