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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!!



Notes:
Chapter count includes 6 extra chapters.

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

Diamond no Ace Act II

Also known as Ace of the Diamond Act II.

Status: Finished
Genres: Slice of Life , Sports

Sequel to Diamond no Ace

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

BE BLUES!: Ao ni Nare

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life , Sports

Ryuu Ichijou, a boy who dreams of joining Japan's national soccer team. Ryuu is called a genius soccer player, and his aspirations seem within his reach, but when he is in elementary school he gets hit by a car while protecting his friend, and must face two years of grueling rehabilitation. Story focuses on Ryuu as he joins high school soccer club and works through the remnants of his injuries to achieve his goal.

Tags: Football , School , Primarily Male Cast , Shounen , School Club , Coming of Age , Ensemble Cast , Male Protagonist , Time Skip , Tragedy , Female Harem , Love Triangle

H2

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

Hiro has two loves: baseball and porn. But due to an elbow injury he gives up baseball choosing a school with no baseball team. His childhood friend Hikari attends a different school with baseball ace Hideo and the two wish Hiro had not given up baseball. Hiro joins the soccer team but meets Haruka, a very clumsy girl, who is manager of the unofficial baseball club. When the soccer team challenges the baseball club to a game, with hopes of humiliating them, the baseball club nearly loses until Hiro, disgusted by the soccer team`s arrogance, switches to the baseball club.

Tags: Baseball , Shounen , School , Love Triangle , School Club , Coming of Age , Heterosexual , Tragedy , Primarily Teen Cast , Archery , Football

Ookiku Furikabutte

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Sports

Mihashi moves on to high school convinced he is a lousy baseball pitcher. There he meets the catcher Abe and the team manager Momoe who together work to make Mihashi and the team shine.



Notes:
Winner of Tezuka Osamu Cultural Award for best creative work in 2006.
Winner of Kodansha Manga Award for general manga in 2007.

Tags: Baseball , School Club , Seinen , Primarily Male Cast , Primarily Teen Cast , Male Protagonist , School , Boys' Love

Abu-san

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Sports

Abu-san is a baseball manga that tells the story of fictional baseball player Kageura Yasutake.

Tags: Seinen , Baseball

Haikyuu!!

Also known as Haikyu!!.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Sports

Shouyou Hinata is out to prove that in volleyball you don’t need to be tall to fly!

After losing his first and last volleyball match against Tobio Kageyama, “the King of the Court,” Shouyou Hinata swears to become his rival after graduating middle school. But what happens when the guy he wants to defeat ends up being his teammate?!



Notes:
Winner of the 61st Shogakukan Manga Award in the Shounen Category in 2017.
Includes two extra chapters.

Tags: Volleyball , Male Protagonist , Shounen , Coming of Age , School Club , Primarily Male Cast , Ensemble Cast , Primarily Teen Cast , Time Skip , Philosophy , School , Twins

Dorabase: Doraemon Super Baseball Gaiden

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Sports

This comic follows the story of other robotic cats that form a baseball club. Though it shows Doraemon in the beginning, it doesn't focus on Doraemon itself (because Doraemon must go back to the past to help Nobita). The group is led by Kuroemon, a cat that looks like Doraemon, only it has ears and black fur. It features a lot of imaginary ability, and in the baseball game, is allowed to use up to 3 gadgets.



Tags: Baseball , Robots , Kids

Ashita no Joe

Also known as Ashita no Joe: Fighting for Tomorrow.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life , Sports

Joe Yabuki is a troubled young man who runs away from an orphanage. Wandering through the Tokyo slums, he meets former boxing trainer Danpei. Joe is later arrested and goes to a temporary jail where he fights Nishi, his future best friend, ​and leader of a group of hooligans. He and Nishi then go to a juvenile prison miles away from Tokyo. There Joe meets Rikiishi, a former boxing prodigy, and a rivalry develops between them. They face each other in a match in which Rikiishi dominates Joe until the latter hits him with a cross-counter, resulting in both being knocked out. This inspires the other prison inmates to take up boxing. Joe and Rikiishi vow to fight again.



Tags: Boxing , Tragedy , Coming of Age , Male Protagonist , Rehabilitation , Class Struggle , Anti-Hero , Orphan , Urban , Athletics , Shounen , Primarily Male Cast , Delinquents , Prison , Foreign , Yakuza , War

Dokaben

Status: Finished
Genres: Sports

Dokaben is a baseball manga by Shinji Mizushima, serialized in Weekly Shōnen Champion magazine from April 24, 1972 to March 27, 1981. It was later made into an anime by the same name. It was immensely popular in Japan during its original release, and in sports manga of all time it likely ranks second only to Slam Dunk by Takehiko Inoue.

A dokaben is a kind of bento box which the protagonist, Taro Yamada, likes to eat.



Tags: Shounen , Baseball