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(From MangaDownloads): Rough is a romance/sports story by the great Adachi, and this time he seems to have been inpired by Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet: Yamato Keisuke, a promising freestyle swimmer, and Ninomiya Ami, a talented diver, are the offsprings of two rival families owners of confectionery shops. Two generations ago, Grandfather Ninomiya came up with an idea for an owl-shaped cake, but Grandfather Yamato quickly raised to the challenge and thought of a similar cake--but in Yamato's the owl had ears. Because they're priced the same, Yamato's extra ears were crucial, and that made the business of the Ninomiya confectionery suffered. Grandfather Ninomiya then fell ill worrying about his shop. Before his death, his last words were "I was killed by the Yamatos", and since that moment the two families have been sworn rivals.
In Himi city, where handball is the most popular sport and famous schools come to scout the players, there's Hinezumi High School, the only public school. After going to the inter high 4 years ago, they want to come back there and recover their glory. And for that they have established a height rule, preventing small players to enter the club since height equals power and they don't want small players who can do nothing against bigger opponents. Now Shiguma Eito, small first year who came from Tokyo, is fixated on joining the club since handball is the thing he wants to do...
Jane (Jae-in) is an irrepressible girl who aims to be a champion, and Tae-jin is the innocent boy who loves her. This is the story of their challenges on the road to the championships, and an unlikely summer-time love. Original webcomic
Satoyama Katsuki is a carefree 15 year-old high school kid, and a pretty lazy one at that. However, he secretly has a crush on a girl who happens to share his name: Mizutani Katsuki. Upon finding out that Mizutani's father used to be a pro-boxer, and she herself infatuated with the sport, he reluctantly joins a boxing gym in order to impress Mizutani. Satoyama is quick to find out he may have the blood of a genius boxer running through his veins...
A regular school boy, Hikaru Shindo stumbles upon an old GO board while looking through his grandpa's old storage room for something worth money. From inside the board came an old spirit named Sai who once dedicated his life to GO. Together, Sai continues to search for the move people call "The god's hand" while Hikaru slowly began interest in this ancient game and walks down the road of GO. Hikaru no GO received the Shogakukan Manga Award in 2000 and creators received Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2003 for the series.
A karate practitioner who has been transferred to another world refuses the cheat skills given by the goddess and he pursues his own karate in another world. Note: The title, Karate Baka Isekai, is a parody of the Manga, Karate Master (Karate Baka Ichidai). It doesn't mean he's an idiot. Original WN (Kakuyomu):
From TokyoPop (based on volume 1): The World at the Brink of Self-Annihilation The nuclear age has brought with it the arms race, which has led to the advent of weapons powerful enough to destroy the world itself several times over. Unwilling to take the plunge into Armageddon, the world powers, in league with a group known only as the Black Ghost, have developed super soldiers known as the Cyborgs, designed to fight the wars of the world in space. Unfortunately, the Black Ghost didn't ask the Cyborgs how they felt about their role in the new world order. This classic work from manga legend Shotaro Ishinomori (Masked Rider) not only told a thrilling tale set against a backdrop of Cold War tensions, but it also helped define the genre of super team stories such as Battle of the Planets, Voltron, and The Power Rangers.
From SRoMU: A lone boy standing on the beach. A loss of memories. The death of a great friend. A soccer club that had fallen apart. Mysteriously overwhelming skill. The name of the young man is Amakusa Kain. A new kind of feeling of soccer suspense begins here.
[From Nakama] Sugiki, a standard ballroom dancer, offers to teach Suzuki, a latin american dancer, ballroom in exchange for Suzuki to teach him in return. Their names are similar, but their personalities are totally opposite, just like their dance. When the two meet, something's bound to happen!
"Hard working" or "passionate" was not in Sakurai’s vocabulary and joining a team sports in school was out of the question. But one day, he accidentally walks in on his female classmate Toyoguchi naked in the locker room and in return for keeping it a secret from everyone else, he is forced to become the manager for the female lacrosse team. Toyoguchi is passionate about lacrosse and was responsible for creating the team for the school. Sakurai reluctantly begins his role as manager but is slowly drawn into Toyoguchi’s personality and begins researching and enjoying the sport. The once lazy Sakurai who was scared of failure now learns to put himself out there and put serious effort into something worthwhile.
Max Ke may be a baseball prodigy, but he’s just your typical high school student. He’s not out for fame, nor grades really. No, what really brings Max to the ballpark is the same great dream that all young men share…to have a cute girlfriend! Can the baseball star hit a home run and get the girl or will he strikeout and lose the game of high school romance?
From Fujoshi Spirit: Sekiya never really had a problem with his kyuudo club teammates. Until one day he overhears fellow club mate Nagashima saying that he doesn't approve of Sekiya. Aggravated by it, neither of them can concentrate on archery practice, and so the cheerful club president Tatsumi-senpai tells them to become friends by holding hands on their way from school every day.
