Manga like Kowloons' Ball Parade

also known as Nine Dragons' Ball Parade

Genres: Sports

What is Nine Dragons' Ball Parade about?

Status: Finished

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 , School Club , Primarily Male Cast , Shounen , Primarily Teen Cast , Male Protagonist

Here is a list of Manga similar to Kowloons' Ball Parade

Ace of the Diamond

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!!



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

Haikyuu!!

Also known as Haikyu!!.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Sports

A chance event triggered Shouyou Hinata's love for volleyball. His club had no members, but somehow persevered and finally made it into its very first and final regular match of middle school, where it was steamrolled by Tobio Kageyama, a superstar player known as "King of the Court." Vowing revenge, Hinata applied to the Karasuno High School volleyball club...only to come face-to-face with his hated rival, Kageyama! A tale of hot-blooded youth and volleyball from the pen of Haruichi Furudate!!



Notes:
Winner of the 61st Shogakukan Manga Award in the Shounen Category in 2017.
Chapter count includes 2 extra chapters.

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

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 , Seinen , School Club , Primarily Male Cast , Primarily Teen Cast , Male Protagonist , School , Boys' Love
Mr. FULLSWING

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
Over Time

Over Time

Status: Finished
Genres: Sports , Supernatural

This is about a lazy ass kind of a baseball player, Taro, and A very serious crazy baseball player, Takami, that want to make it to the top. They cross paths on a bus that crashes. Takami dies and Taro lives. Taro visits Takami's grave and sees Takami's ghost. His ghost tells Taro to take him to the koshien and fulfill his dream. Think of it as Taro no Baseball.

Included one-shots: Usagi to Kame to Strike, Cross Beat, Live Alive

Tags: Baseball , School , Shounen
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Strikeout Pitch

Thank You 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 , School Club , School , Shounen , Primarily Teen Cast , Male Protagonist
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Boukyaku Battery

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Sports

The baseball manga follows Haruka, a strong pitcher praised as perfect, and Kei, a skilled catcher known as the "General" who has lost his memory due to amnesia. The talented pair were hard to defeat in junior high, and they crushed other players' dreams. They both enroll in the no-name Kotesashi High School in Tokyo, where they encounter other baseball players who had quit after losing to Haruka and Kei.



Tags: Baseball , School Club , Primarily Male Cast , Primarily Teen Cast , Male Protagonist , Amnesia , Shounen , School
Kuroko's Basketball

Kuroko no Basket

Also known as Kuroko's Basketball.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Sports

When incoming first-year student Taiga Kagami joins the Seirin High basketball team, he meets Tetsuya Kuroko, a mysterious boy who’s plain beyond words. But Kagami’s in for the shock of his life when he learns that the practically invisible Kuroko was once a member of “the Miracle Generation”— the undefeated legendary team—and he wants Kagami’s help taking down each of his old teammates!



Note: Chapter count includes Chapter 62.5 "Tip Off."

Tags: School , Basketball , Shounen , Super Power , School Club , Male Protagonist , Tomboy , Primarily Teen Cast , Primarily Male Cast , Tragedy , Found Family
Rookies

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
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Nine

Nine

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance , Sports

Right before track star Katsuya Nimi and judo champion Susumu Karasawa enter high school, they see a pretty girl crying as the school's baseball team loses yet another game. It turns out that she's Yuri Nakao, the baseball coach's beautiful daughter, who is worried because the team is in danger of closing down if the streak continues. Katsuya and Susumu decide to join the baseball team in hopes of helping them make it to Koshien. Things get more complicated, however, when Katsuya starts to fall for Yuri... but their budding romance is interrupted by a few potential rivals. Can Katsuya learn both how to win at baseball and at romance?

Note: Includes one-shots "Zoku Isourou yori Hitokoto" (続・居候よりひとこと) and "Koibito Sengen" (恋人宣言)

Tags: Shounen , Baseball , Love Triangle , School , School Club , Athletics
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