Golf.. A sport where the prizes are really large. Meet Tadamichi Aoba also called Dandoh. A normal kid who's still in elementary school, he also really likes baseball. But because of a clash with his principal over golf, Dandoh switches to golf when he hears that he can earn about 30 million yen if he can win a tournament. When he was young, Dandoh lost his mother due to money problems. This is why Dandoh really wants to play golf, so he can bring his mother back. Under the guidance of a famous ex golfer, Dandoh aims for one thing !! To master golf and win a championship so that he can bring his mother back !!
Rikitaro is a musician whose dream is to become a rock star just like Jimi Hendrix or Jim Morrison, but at the age of 27 that dream is fading away rapidly. Ooishi is a 3 time world boxing champion who recently retired and is now in the entertainment world, shooting a boxing reality show. These two unlikeliest of people cross paths one day but both of them think nothing of it until weeks later. Rikitaro is given one last shot by a record label to sign a deal but before that, they need him to get into better shape so that he is easier to sell. He stumbles upon a boxing gym which also happens to be the same gym Ooishi is filming his show. As fate’s wheels start to turn, neither man realizes that they will work together to train the best boxer ever, even better than Ooishi himself.
This manga is quite old--it's from 1957. It centers around three members of the table tennis club at an all-girl school. Though it may not quite be yuri, it's a precursor to current yuri manga.
Hisui used to live on Kohaku Island, where she lived by the ocean and loved life. However, she's changing schools and thus has to leave her best friend, Kairi the dolphin, behind... It's at that time, Hisui meets the swim team's hot Minato by chance...! Could this be a blooming love for the attractive boy, or a replacement for her dolphin Kairi?
Ootome Hime’s father was a jockey who dreamed of winning the Japanese Derby. One year, when Hime went to watch him race in the Derby, he died in a horrible racing accident. The man responsible retired in guilt from being a jockey. 10 years later, Hime is in high school, and she has heard that Arakawa Jin, the son of the man who killed her father, is debuting in the Derby as a jockey. She went to see him race, and was outraged to see him win! Now Hime has decided to quit high school and go to a special school for jockeys, in hopes of being able to beat Jin in a race one day. She has met a new friend and aspiring jockey along the way, a boy called Tadano Ryouhei, but she can’t let him stand in the way of her revenge!
In the manga and anime, Tiger Mask (whose real name was Naoto Date) was a feared heel wrestler in America who was extremely vicious in the ring. However, he became a face after returning to Japan when a young boy said that he wanted to be a villain like Tiger Mask when he grew up. The boy resided in an orphanage, the same one that Tiger Mask grew up in during his childhood. Feeling that he did not want the boy to idolize a villain, Tiger was inspired to be a heroic wrestler. The main antagonists in the manga and anime was Tiger's Cave, a mysterious organization that trained young people to be villainous heel wrestlers on the condition that they gave half of their earnings to the organization. Tiger Mask was once a member of Tiger's Cave but no longer wanted anything to do with them, instead donating his money to the orphanage. This infuriated the leader of the organization and he sent numerous assassins, including other professional wrestlers, to punish him. Most of the environment and characters were fictitious, but real-life pro wrestlers Antonio Inoki and Giant Baba were included in the manga and anime as well.
From Bado-Scans: Daichi Yonekawa thinks that badminton is a girl's sport and is forced to practice with his twin sister, Yuki. Daichi finds himself playing Taka Tsubahara, the Japanese Junior Champion, because he is too bored "practicing" with his sister. He soon discovers the thrill of playing badminton and even quits his soccer team to practice badminton full time. He now aims to play against Taka Tsubahara once again but this time on equal grounds...
This spring, Tokyo TV’s newly employed announcer Fukuro was given the task to gather information & do a close report on the infamous hunk of the professional baseball world; Shiratori Reiichi. Given this important opportunity Fukuro is determined to do his best! However, the following morning he wakes up to a stark naked Shiratori sleeping beside him, trouble ensues! The demanding and selfish Shiratori with the hard working and Timid Fukuro! Watch as their love story unfolds.
An anthology for the Hanshin Tigers' 80th anniversary.
This is the tale of how Adachi Mitsuru went from being an assistant artist on a weekly manga to the superstar manga-ka we know him to be today. But it’s told (and written by) Mitsuru’s older brother Tsutomu, who was also an assistant artist early on in their careers…
Sam is a young boy in Thailand. Not like other kids who can play happily, Sam has to train everyday at a Thai Boxing gym because when he was small his parents sold him to that gym for money. Everyday Sam undergoes a tough training. But Sam also has a wish. To become a champion so he can taste a happy life. It sounds impossible but a few years later due to an accident he finally gets the chance to meet the champion, who also happens to be his idol !!
Miiko is a girl with a problem. She's passed all the tests and become a Mahjong Pro, but she stinks at Mahjong! She was starting to even hate the game, but then she runs into a man who used to be a Top-Tier Mahjong Pro named Namidame in a parlor and asks him to teach her how to play right! The two strike a connection and Namidame vows to help Miiko work her way up to the top leagues. He gives her a new lesson each chapter, and we as the readers also learn along with Miiko! This "Mahjong for Dummies" series by prestigious Mahjong Mangaka, Katayama Masayuki, is a must-read for anyone who wants to get better at Japanese Mahjong! Let's learn together!
