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Kowloons' Ball Parade

Also known as Nine Dragons' Ball Parade.

Status: Finished
Genres: Sports

Hakuo Gakuin's mighty baseball team consistently makes it to Koshien, and Tamao Azukida dreams of making the team. To achieve his goal, Tamao does extensive research and undergoes a strict daily training regimen. But at tryouts, Tamao meets the enigmatic genius pitcher Tao Ryudo, and the course of his destiny may be forever changed! If people aren't laughing, then you're not dreaming big enough! A new baseball tale for the era begins!



Note: Includes 2 extra chapters.

Tags: Baseball , Primarily Male Cast , School Club , Shounen , Primarily Teen Cast , Male Protagonist

Aoashi

Also known as Aoashi.

Status: Finished
Genres: Sports

Ashito Aoi, a third year middle school student from Ehime, meets Fukuda Tatsuya, a J Youth League coach. Even though he's still rough around the edges, Ashito has such amazing potential that he gets invited by coach Fukuda to participate in his team's try-outs in Tokyo. The story of a boy who will revolutionize Japanese football begins to unfold.

Notes:
Nominated for the 2017 Manga Taishou Award.
Winner of the 65th Shogakukan Manga Award for "Best General Manga" category in 2019.

Tags: Football , Male Protagonist , School Club , Primarily Male Cast , Coming of Age , Ensemble Cast , Primarily Teen Cast , Heterosexual , Seinen , School , Bullying , Love Triangle

Boukyaku Battery

Also known as Oblivion Battery.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Sports

The monster battery duo, once feared by all, turns up at...an ordinary public school?! A group of genius baseballers cross paths in the most unlikely of places...!



Tags: Baseball , School Club , Primarily Male Cast , Primarily Teen Cast , Male Protagonist , Amnesia , Shounen , Rehabilitation , School

Sankyuu Pitch

Also known as Strikeout Pitch.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Sports

From the author of "Hyperinflation," Kyu Sumiyoshi, comes a baseball story unlike anything you've ever read before!!



Tags: Baseball , Shounen , Primarily Teen Cast , Male Protagonist , School Club , School

Diamond no Ace

Also known as Ace of the Diamond.

Status: Finished
Genres: Sports

Eijun Sawamura had his heart set on the middle-school national baseball championships. But his team is eliminated thanks to a wild pitch thrown by Eijun himself. He’s planning to go to high school with his teammates and try again next year when he’s scouted by the famous Seido High School baseball team. When he goes for a campus visit, he finds himself on the receiving end of a baptism by fire! His experience forming a battery with up-and-coming catcher Miyuki rekindles his passion for baseball!!



Note: Includes six extra chapters.

Tags: Baseball , Shounen , Male Protagonist , School Club , Primarily Teen Cast , School

Mr. FULLSWING

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Sports

Saruno Amakuni feels as though he is the last high school boy on earth without a girlfriend and it's not looking like things are going to improve any time soon. He's not the brightest crayon in the box, has a knack for getting into trouble, and the only way he can get a girl to so much as look at him is by watching her undress in the locker room - and earning a smack in the process. He comes to a wild conclusion that maybe, perhaps maybe what girls really want is a guy who is in a sports club. He eventually settles on the baseball clubs in hopes of winning the heart of the manager, Nagi Torii, but despite his incessant bragging, he's a total beginner!

Tags: Baseball , Male Protagonist , Shounen

Rookies

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Sports

Koichi Kawato is the new Japanese teacher at the ill-famed Futakotamagawa high school, whose baseball club is composed of thugs and bullies who have been suspended for a year from all school competitions, for causing a brawl during an official match. The newly appointed teacher finds that the club members left are only interested in women, smoking and doing nothing until, under Kawato's guidance, they discover a new dream called the Koshien. However, the road to the Koshien is far from easy as many obstacles await them.

Tags: Baseball , Delinquents , Coming of Age , Shounen , Teacher , School , Ensemble Cast

Play Ball

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Sports

After fracturing a finger in a junior high school game, Takao Taniguchi is unable to play baseball. After entering Sumitani High School, he is constantly watching the baseball club even though he is unable to play. He catches the eye of the captain of the soccer club, and while he still has lingering hopes of joining the baseball club, he decides to join the soccer club. While he's a complete beginner, Taniguchi developed a strong spirit of hard work while in junior high school and his new teammates begin to see his potential. While he focuses all of his energy on soccer, he is unable to forget his youthful zeal for baseball and he begins umpiring baseball games in secret.



Tags: Baseball , Shounen , School Club

Major

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Sports

The story of Major follows the life of Goro Honda, from kindergarten to being a professional baseball player, seeking and overcoming tremendous challenges.

Tags: Baseball , Coming of Age , Male Protagonist , Heterosexual , Shounen , School Club , Primarily Male Cast , Foreign , Adoption , Tragedy

Embers

Also known as Embers.

Status: Finished
Genres: Sports

Middle school brawler Noboru Haitani has never lost a fight. But the bitter taste of a soccer defeat gradually warms him up to the sport, until one day Haitani finds himself in a match against a team featuring middle school soccer prodigy Takami. An outlaw fights his way into the world of soccer!



Tags: Football , Shounen , Delinquents , School , Male Protagonist