Comical 4-koma sports manga based on a real-life baseball player. Was a mega-hit in Japan in the 70s and has actually aged quite well if you like baseball and slightly mean humor!
Nine is the number of the best striker in soccer. Given the number 9 in the Megumi High soccer team, Fujiyama Kazuya, is a striker with a parallel belief that a draw in a game has no meaning. To him, if you don't win then there's no sense at playing at all. Despite that kind of mentality, their team has never won a game as of yet. How far forward will the boy who has never been victorious but even so is determined to win reach when a mysterious man called Kuniyoshi Utagawa, who has a liking for the number 9, makes his appearance? Goal Den Age is a manga that was published in serial SPECIAL soccer cartoon. (info from HATENA Diary / summary by kiumi from The Evil Empire
Kentarou's former shogi teacher taught him to (metaphorically) dive into the 81 squares of the shogi board. Thus, his nickname is "81 Diver". He has failed to enter the professional league of shogi competition. However, he continues to play the game for a living by gambling at amateur shogi clubs.
This is the story of Aoi Kamiya, a goalkeeper from Japan. After a super safe he made as a substitute player, he was called to play for a club in Germany. How will he deal with this when he's just 20 years old and with only 3 years of professional career as a goalkeeper?
Collection of oneshot stories: 1. Is love between adults and high school girls really taboo? Ritsuko's boyfriend, Yuuji, is an outstanding office worker who works in a foreign company. He always treats Ritsuko like a little kid just because he is seven years her senior. Does Yuuji really like me? Ritsuko is always insecure. Do I really like Yuuji? Can we really be together? 2. Taiyou and Daichi are twin brothers, who have been Aya's childhood friends but.... 3.Minori is a shy girl who has a black cat she named Night, whom she loves very much. One day Night runs off. Will she ever find him and bring him home?
A new story of a love-triangle and four oneshots, including an extra sixteen pages; all found in this comic filled with the honest love and desires of men! 1) Bachi Bachi Tsudanuma, the captain of the soccer club and Toui, the vice captain, keep their feelings for one another hidden in their hearts. Their kouhai, Ichita, discovers their secret and decides to support them. But one day, they both end up confessing to him?! (From Blissful Sin) 2) Youth, the color of sunset A scruffy man dragged by his tough daughter to Akino's hair salon. 3) Samurai Honeybee Takasugi Encountered an interesting guy at a karate lesson. 4) 723-122 (Nanai-san's woof woof - meow meow) Science fiction story about a clone and his Hybrids pets lovers 5) Hatagaya Lullaby A story about an old fashioned writer and an Visual Kei singer. 5.5) Extra - Depression. the color blue A continuation for the second story - Youth, the color of sunset.
The story about the living legend of Fighting Games, Daigo Umehara is now in comic form! The year is 1996. Shinya Oonuki is another gifted gamer living in the same era as Umehara. This man encounters the glamor of fighting games which leads him towards the path of obsession. This story covers the raging battles between Umehara and Nuki, two players who have carved their names into the history of fighting games!
It's about a girl, often called as Zawa (short for her surname, Miyakozawa), in a high-school baseball team. She's talented, but being a girl, she doesn't get to participate in any official matches, and yet she trains just as hard as the rest of the team anyway, just for her own personal satisfaction. Nominated for the 3rd Manga Taisho Award (2010).
Karin has been turned down several times after doing all her best for the guys she liked to like her back. How can a single poem and destroyed skirt bridge her to the great Christmas present waiting her? Keep on the beat as she Break Dance on the music! A prologue to the manga Dancing Baby Karin.
A collection of short stories the centers on what else but volleyball!
Ever since middle school, Takahiro Ozu was famous in the world of track and field as the "long jump specialist”. But after losing his final competition in high school, he hung up his track shoes for good. Now in college, having taken up smoking, he just wants to get a girlfriend and lead a normal student life. Noriko Watsuki has had a crush on Takahiro since she first saw him jump and wants him to join the college track team so she can get close to him. Yuki "The Headphone Girl" Hoguchi, a high school student who likes to hang out at the university, claims Takahiro took her virginity 13 years ago when he was in kindergarten. She considers him her property to do with as she pleases. Throw in a full cast of zany and unique characters, sprinkle with fan service, and you have the world of Inu Neko Jump. From Animewaves
From Midnight Scans: Ayumi became the manager of Oumi High School's kendo club. The powerful team has fallen, and the continuing of the club is in dispute. Ayumi tries to make the invincible swordsman, Mutou Hajime join the club to settle it, but all he says is: "Who are you?" "So troublesome." "Don't look down on kendo." etc. His attitude is also invincible and Ayumi falls in love with this problematic man? Also Included: + Rain Colored Love + I'm no Match for You
