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is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Takao Aoyagi. It was serialized in Shogakukan's Monthly Shōnen Sunday from May 2009 to August 2013, with its chapters collected in seven tankōbon volumes. It was adapted into a Japanese television drama series that premiered on TV Tokyo in 2011. The opening of the series is "Ready Go" by 4Minute. Summary A young man wakes up one day to find himself in El-Palacio, a dwindling all-female professional wrestling organization which currently houses five wrestlers. He learns that he was nearly killed in a traffic accident, but was saved by Ouka Shumisen, one of the wrestlers, but thanks to the rough nature of the rescue suffered a blow to the head and developed amnesia, rendering him unable to remember his identity. Ouka declares that the young man is now her manservant, naming him "Tadasuke Ooka" after the legendary samurai and magistrate, and can stay at El-Palacio to serve as their referee and perform general tasks while he tries to recover his memory. Characters Suffering from amnesia, he does not remember anything about his past identity and lives at El-Palacio performing menial jobs such as cleaning and laundry as well as serving as the referee during matches. Ouka gave him his current name, which comes from a historical samurai revered for being a fair and just magistrate. Though good-natured and reliable, he is often put at wit's end by Ouka's antics, and starts off not understanding many of the conventions of pro wrestling. However, he takes to his job with a passion and strives to live up to his adopted name, officiating matches honestly even if he does not personally care for the results. The primary example of this comes from the match between Ouka and Azumi, where "ownership" of Tadasuke himself was at stake; the owners of Azumi's wrestling organization H·E·At offer Tadasuke the opportunity to rig the match and stay with El-Palacio, but he refuses and oversees the match fairly. At one point he recovers a dream-like memory of being saved from bullies by a young girl, who is strongly implied to be Ouka.