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A fourteen year-old girl challenges the shogi competitive scene. (Source: MU)

From Fate: Entirely unknown nationwide is a high school student named Shino Ryuuji. At a national convention in his last year of junior high, he was allowed to go to a U-16 training camp as a Japanese representative candidate; that was to show a single part. In a friendly match against the U-17 Spain representative, Ryuuji was selected as one of the chosen to bathe in the severe baptism of the world! In the overwhelming reality, many soccer fans were fascinated by Japan's first-of-its-kind genuine story, the long-awaited serialization!

In search of her mother Nagi, a girl from a desolate country village, comes to a big city and enters Swimming Suieikyou High School. Shortly after joining the swimming club, Nagi finds out that the pool is actually completely overtaken by boys! But in this never-practicing so-called swimming club Nagi finds something...

All begins when Soga Naoaki went to complain to the president of the student counsil, Yoshizumi Sekai, about the reducing of his volleyball team's bookings. By coincidence, Naoaki becomes the vice-president of the student counsil because of the health of the current one. He and Sekai don't get along, but what happens when they have to organise the school festival?

Six years ago, following a crushing defeat, a group of friends promised that they will one day take their friend Suzuo to the Koshien. Now in their first year of high school, the friends have reunited behind the pitcher Kitaro Kitaoji to keep their promise. With Suzuo as their manager and Kitaro's signature left-handed, underhand "Submarine Pitch," they may just go all the way.

Heroine, Sakuragi Mayu, is a 2nd-year at Kantojo Gakuin. One day she decides to give up gyaru lifestyle and return to baseball she loved so much. What kind of pitching will be shown by Mayu, rumoured to be a genius pitcher!?

Miyanaga Saki is a high school freshman who doesn’t like mahjong. Ever since she was a child, she would lose her New Year’s gift money during her family mahjong game. If she won, her parents would be upset, and if she lost, well, she lost. As a result, she’s learned to play in such a way that her score always remains plus/minus zero: not good enough to win, but not bad enough to lose. When we meet her, she’s being dragged to her school’s mahjong club by an old friend. How will a girl who hates mahjong, yet has become adept at the game as a result of her upbringing, survive in this environment?

This collaborative project involves the well-known game FFXIV and traces the adventure of Saki, Nodoka, and Tacos as they explore the realm of FFXIV through their game avatars and participate in an exciting game of mahjong.

A new Saki spinoff that retells the story of the Saki cast… If all of them were boys!

The Achiga Girls' Academy in Nara once defeated regional mahjong powerhouse Bansei High School. It advanced into the national team semifinals but lost to the eventual champion, and the mahjong club was later disbanded. Six years later, elementary school student Shizuno Takakamo befriends transfer student Nodoka Haramura. The two eventually enter Achiga Girls', but Nodoka transfers out of the school in the second year. When Shizuno sees Nodoka on television the following year as the national middle school individual mahjong champion, she decides to revive Achiga's mahjong club.

Sakura Kousuke is a boy who strives to throw away a past mired in regret. He transfers to a new school for his second year of high school, believing it will give him a chance to come clean. Unbeknownst to him, however, the appearance of five other "Sakura"s in his class will bring the past to his present, forcing him to come to terms with himself, his old friends, and a girl who, though being Kousuke's complete opposite in terms of personality, also knows him better than anyone else.

This manga is quite old--it's from 1957. It centers around three members of the table tennis club at an all-girl school. Though it may not quite be yuri, it's a precursor to current yuri manga.