Manga like Jinbe

Bouken Shounen

Status: Finished
Genres: Slice of Life

The only common feature running through these stories is a grown-up protagonist somehow coming face-to-face with his childhood past, in a testament to the loss of youth, the disillusionment of growing old, and nostalgia for better times. In the Adachi pantheon, this is a rare diametric view of his eternal theme of "youth," in this case youth as seen through the lens of the past. It's a powerful statement from Adachi that might even be an acknowledgment of his steadily-creeping age. What is impressive about these stories is not the plots or characters themselves, but the absolutely perfect way he tells them, another facet of experience that comes with age. Most of the stories may require multiple readings to fully appreciate the airtightness of the plot and visual motifs.

Tags: Seinen , Baseball , Anthology , Time Manipulation

Q and A

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance , Sports , Supernatural

The Ando family has just moved back into town after a six year absence. Atsushi finds he is now dealing of living in the specter of his big brother, being known in town as Big Brother's Little Brother. But he wakes up one morning to find quite literally being haunted by the ghost of his brother who died six years ago.

Tags: Athletics , Ghost , Shounen , School , Time Manipulation , Meta

Slow Step

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance , Sports

High school romance, softball and boxing story. This manga focuses on the love triangle between Nakasato Minatsu, Akiba Shuu and Kadomatsu Naoto. Due to a strange set of circumstances, Minatsu (a softball player) is disguised as another girl when she bumps into Naoto (a boxer), who falls in love with this "version" of Minatsu.



Tags: School , Love Triangle , Heterosexual , Shoujo , Age Gap , Boxing , Tomboy , Baseball