Cestvs: The Roman Fighter (Japanese: セスタス -The Roman Fighter-, Hepburn: Sesutasu -Za Rōman Faitā-) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Shizuya Wazarai. The first series, Kentō Ankoku Den Cestvs, was serialized in Hakusensha's Young Animal from 1997 to 2009. A second series, Kendo Shitō Den Cestvs, was serialized in Young Animal from 2010 to 2014, later transferred to Young Animal Arashi, where it ran from 2014 to 2018, when the magazine ceased its publication it is currently published on Manga Park web platform. An anime television series adaptation produced and animated by Bandai Namco Pictures (with 3D animation by Logic&Magic) aired on Fuji TV's +Ultra late-night anime block from April to June 2021.
Cestvs: The Roman Fighter has provided examples of:
- Food Porn: A particular moment where the Boxing slave band travels to Pompeii and they are given food to luxurious for their status, beef with fish sauce.
- Fragile Speedster: Cestvs is forced into fighting with an evasive style given that he's a small kid, he keeps his fighting style well into his young adult years.
- Tricked-Out Gloves: Competing boxers fight with what is called the "Cestus". Leather gloves studded with metal nails around the knuckles.
