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Status: Finished
Genres: Sports

Tired of constantly being compared to his prodigious older sibling Riku, Raimu decides to take him head-on by surpassing him in the field of basketball.

Included one-shot:
Volume 15: Trick Shot

Note: Includes 3 extra chapters.

Tags: Basketball , Shounen , Male Protagonist , Primarily Male Cast , School , School Club , Tragedy

Shoot!

Status: Finished
Genres: Sports

Toshihiko Tanaka is a boy who entered Kakegawa High School with his friends Kenji & Kazuhiro, in order to play soccer with Yoshiharu Kubo, a great soccer player whom they have idolized. While his other two friends were reluctant to play again, "Toshi" eventually convinces them to play for the team. The team soon find themselves in the midst of a quest to the All-Japan High School Championship, while overcoming obstacles along the way.

Tags: Football , School Club , Shounen , Tragedy , Love Triangle , Primarily Male Cast

Whistle!

Also known as Whistle!.

Status: Finished
Genres: Sports

Everybody has a dream, and for Sho Kazamatsuri, that dream is simple: he wants to be the best soccer player he can possibly be. He's the spirited leader of the Josui Junior High team and everyone looks up to him. In turn, he tries to keep the team together at any cost!



Tags: Football , Shounen , Male Protagonist , Primarily Male Cast , School

Oretachi no Field

Status: Finished
Genres: Sports

A soccer loving boy Takasugi Kazuya dreams of playing soccer with his Japan League star father at the National Yoyogi Stadium. The story follows Kazuya's life as he travels to Argentina, plays for Yamaki, and goes to the 1998 World Cup in France.


Tags: Shounen , Football , Foreign , Coming of Age

Blue Lock

Also known as Blue Lock.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Drama , Sports

After a disastrous defeat at the 2018 World Cup, Japan's team struggles to regroup. But what's missing? An absolute Ace Striker, who can guide them to the win. The Japan Football Union is hell-bent on creating a striker who hungers for goals and thirsts for victory, and who can be the decisive instrument in turning around a losing match...and to do so, they've gathered 300 of Japan's best and brightest youth players. Who will emerge to lead the team...and will they be able to out-muscle and out-ego everyone who stands in their way?



Note: Winner of the 45th Kodansha Manga Award in the Shounen Category in 2021.

Tags: Football , Battle Royale , Athletics , Male Protagonist , Primarily Male Cast , Primarily Teen Cast , Ensemble Cast , Shounen , Fitness , Super Power , Foreign , Augmented Reality , Language Barrier , Tragedy , Suicide

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 , Seinen , Primarily Teen Cast , Heterosexual , School , Bullying , Love Triangle

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

Hungry Heart

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Sports

Kyosuke Kano has lived under the shadow of his successful brother Seisuke all his life who is a professional soccer player. Tired of being compared and downgraded at, he abandoned playing soccer until a boy from his new high school discovered him and asked him to join their team. Kyosuke joins it and befriends two other first year players named Rodrigo and Sakai with the dream of becoming professional soccer players themselves.

Tags: Football , Shounen , School , School Club , Primarily Male Cast

Sayonara Football

Also known as Sayonara, Football.

Status: Finished
Genres: Romance , Sports

14-year-old Nozomi Onda has only one thing on her mind: playing beautiful soccer. There's just one problem: no matter how much she longs to participate in official matches, she'd have physically superior boys as opponents. But when a boy from her past confronts her on the street, she decides she can't wait any longer.



Tags: Football , Female Protagonist , School Club , Primarily Teen Cast , Shounen , School

DAYS

Also known as DAYS.

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

During his last spring break before starting high school, Tsukushi Tsukamoto meets Jin Kazama, who invites him to a pick-up soccer game. Their chance meeting, and his first-ever experience with soccer, move kind-hearted, timid Tsukushi to enroll in his new high school's soccer club, which is among the strongest in all of Japan. Unbeknownst to the rest of the world, there's something amazing hidden inside Tsukushi's heart … and through his trials and tribulations in the soccer club, it's beginning to blossom!



Note: Won the 40th Kodansha Manga Award for Shounen in 2016.

Tags: Shounen , School Club , Male Protagonist , Primarily Male Cast , Ensemble Cast , Football , School