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Asafuji Taisei was in a car crash that killed both of his parents and left him severely injured. Despite a miraculous recovery, the prospect of a long rehabilitation process has Taisei feeling hopeless about returning to baseball. However, one day he turns on an old CRT TV that his parents had given him, and while watching the static he remembers that he promised to take his parents to Koushien. It's the spark that finally motivates him, but can Taisei really make it to Koushien after being out of baseball for two years?

High school student Kimichika Haijima moves back to his hometown, Fukui, after causing trouble in the Tokyo Junior High School volleyball club. There, he is reunited with his childhood friend, Yunii Kuroba, who possesses outstanding physical abilities, but is vulnerable under pressure. Haijima, with his overwhelming passion and talent for volleyball, forms an ace combination with Kuroba. The two enroll at Seiin High School, where they join the volleyball club. Awaiting them are the 163 cm hot-blooded captain Shinichirou Oda, the talented and sharp-tongued vice-captain Misao Aoki and his third-year pair, and second-year students, including Akito Kanno, who is always wearing long sleeves due to his allergy to sunlight. The newborn team breaks its former shell of weakness and becomes Fukui's rising star. This is a certain team's journey to victory, with a series of fascinating rivals standing in their way. (Source: MAL News)

In football, an agent handles contracts and transfers on behalf of pro players. For their ability to move astronomical amounts of money, these agents are known as alchemists. This one has a notorious name: Kyousuke Senzaki. With him is Risa Natsume, a college student tracing her missing brother's footsteps. The lives of pro players and their complex world of money and power are realistically rendered by a sports writer and a football manga artist. (Source: Japan Media Arts Festival)

Gang Chan, a young man from a rural village, dreams of becoming a boxing champion. He trains relentlessly every day to repay the elders who raised him. One day, men in black suits arrive, threatening the villagers with a shady urban redevelopment project. Gang Chan steps forward to protect them, but the odds are overwhelming. In despair, he breaks down, blaming himself for failing his people—until a mysterious figure appears, changing his fate forever. (Source: Naver, translated)

A transfer student from Okinawa comes to a small and normal middles school called Towadai. Wataru, the transfer student, was an exceptionally gifted athlete but was a problem child. His behaviour was the cause of him to transfer from school to school. He first participated in baseball practice for fun but was heavily recruited by the Towadai team but initially he refused to join. Until he fell in love with the team manager Seki Wakaba. The manga follows Wataru and the Towadai middle school through regional tournaments and then evnetually the national stage. The entire manga depicts one summer but lasted 20 years and has about 58 volumes. The author includes a lot of Okinawan words making it a very unique baseball manga.

Nanashima's high school baseball team missed going to the nationals by one heartbreaking game during his 2nd year in school. Now as a 3rd year and team captain, he sees that the team is nothing compared to last year. The all star starters from last year have graduated and Nanashima is left with unskilled and, more importantly, unmotivated players that have no shot at making the nationals. That is when Mr. Toku, an old man in the neighborhood who has watched every practice and every game the school has ever played for the past few decades, secretly entrusts Nanashima with 1.000.000 yen. Mr. Toku wants Nanashima to use the money however he wants to ensure the team makes it to the nationals. But that large of an untraceable fund is too big of a responsibility for a high school teenager and even a goodhearted kid like Nanashima might fall into its temptation. (Source: MU)

Albert and Nicol are siblings and both experienced ice skaters, although Nicol, the younger of the two, gets more attention, much to Albert's jealousy. Their parents die and Nicol is blinded in an accident, but never looses his will to skate.

Four Seasons Grand Prize winner of Summer 1989.

A teenager's life is anything but a bed of roses and Yuan Jianping will be the first person to affirm that. A Pre-U freshman with a nose for trouble, Jianping begins his hectic misadventures on the first day of school. Meeting the girl he considers as the love of his life, hitting off with buddies who bring their own share of problems into the equation and rubbing the local school gang the wrong way only promises to liven up Jianping's school experience. But what happens when things get too hot to handle? (Source: MU)

Shirakawa Yui is one of the most brilliant junior youth soccer players in the country. The players of the junior youth team are recruited from a young age and trained to become a professional player and even some will be the next soccer superstar. But when the company sponsor of the team goes bankrupt, Yui and his teammates, Naria and Urata, find themselves without a team to practice on. His two friends completely dismiss the school soccer team as the competition is laughable, but Yui finds something in a troublemaker named Genya. Eventually, all three of them join the school team and build it from the ground up only to find that there is incredible talent hidden. Will Yui, nicknamed the soccer magician for his ability to manipulate the playing field, be able to compete with the top schools in the nation? (Sorurce: vyc)

At the 2014 Winter Olympics, Kitahara Yuki is watched over by two men as she begins her routine. But this story really begins when they were 10 years old, when they first met. It is a story of the trials and joys of figure skating and the "moment" when you fly. (Source: MU)

Ban Bamba is an insolent wild boy who was raised on the rough sea in Tosa, southern Japan. He joined the Tokyo Yomiuri Giants in Japanese pro baseball league such a baseball pitcher noted for the blazing fastball and the worst control. He fights hard battles against his rival batters, developing his incredible pitching magics.

Umeboshi Kinya lives only for the sole purpose to fight and become stronger. But since he became the king of the baston, nobody dares to be measured. Kinya so bored and depressed... It takes the hair of the beast and heard talk of a potential adversary that it will be a pleasure to go cause! He landed in a boxing hall where it does not happen as it really would have thought... So? Who is the strongest now?!

Heart-throbbing first love story of a baseball club's hard-working manager Aoi and its ace Kanzaki!

Koitarou Samejima is the only child of the Karyuu, a sumo wrestler infamous for being foul-mouthed and vicious in the ring. Koitarou took pride in his father's strength and attitude, but one event changed it all. His father got involved in a bar fight, injuring multiple people. This led to him being expelled from the sumo league. Since the incident, his father was no longer the proud and strong sumo wrestler that Koitarou always admired. Years have past since his father died by challenging a truck in a tackling match. Now, Koitarou can't resist entering the sumo world and challenging all who stand in his way to become the next champion. (Source: MangaHelpers)

Two professional wrestlers are rivals in the ring but lovers at home.

A collection of romantic short stories.