Now, for the crucial part of your search: acquiring the complete 18-volume set in French, and ensuring you get the "better" deal. Since the series was published from 1996 to 1999, finding new copies is rare. Your best bet is to search on second-hand marketplaces.
If you need a specific chapter breakdown, price check, or scanlation warning (there are fan translations online, but none legal), let me know. manga noritaka le roi de la baston tome 1 a 18 22 better
: In its original Japanese publication by Kodansha , the series was compiled into 18 tankōbon volumes between 1991 and 1994. There is no widely documented 22-volume "better" edition of the original series, though digital platforms or different bunkobon (smaller, thicker editions) sometimes vary in volume count. Now, for the crucial part of your search: