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.
Kohinata Minoru is a college student at a college that is popular for its sports rather than academic orientation. He starts out as a gymnast alongside his friend, Nana, but is bullied by his gymnast seniors. One evening, a karate student at the college, Mutou Ryuuji, witnesses Minoru being bullied and comes to his rescue and drags him into the world of karate. Minoru makes new friends and learns some of their dark pasts, including a shocking death that reveals motives for revenge.
Two boys met on a stormy night: Tsukushi, a boy with no special traits at all, and Jin, a soccer genius. On that night, Jin drags Tsukushi into the world of high-school soccer. It was nominated for Best Shōnen Manga at the 39th Kodansha Manga Awards. The series was number twelve in the Nationwide Bookstore Employees' Recommended Comics of 2014.
A graveyard in contemporary Israel has an unlikely visitor. The elderly gentleman from Japan, a former news correspondent, lays a bouquet of flowers at the tomb of one Adolf Kamil. For he remembers the tale of three Adolfs: Kamil, a Jew who grew up in Kobe, Japan, the son of a baker; Kaufmann, only child of a German consul stationed at that port city and his Japanese wife; and the Fuhrer with whom the Far Eastern nation made common cause. ---- **Won the 10th Kodansha Manga Award for General Manga in 1986, shared with Makoto Kobayashi's What's Michael?**---**Volumes 372-376 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**
Volleyball teammates Yuichi and Ryo have great chemistry together on the court and were considered the best combo on the team. Underclassman Ryo even went as far as to express his aspiration to follow Yuichi after graduation. What transpires thereafter complicates their dreams of playing together on the court and so much more.
Book with manga & illustrations from Japanese and international artists for the FIFA World Cup 2002. Content: 1. Otomo Katsukiro ・・・・・ Cover Illustration 2. Inoue Takehiko ・・・・・・ I love this game 3. Kamijo Atsushi ・・・・・・ Kaerenai ko hito (Those Who Will Never Return) About a girl name Tchie as she reminsces the time she had with her two best friends. 4. Matsumoto Taiyou ・・・・・・ Mie ken no shounen 5.«Mizugame 3» Lust for Life ・・・・・・ Tajima Sho-u (Gorilla Kick), Obata Takeshi (Morning Kong) and Asada Hiroyuki (Utan Chop) About a tale of a football shoes as it is used/travelled from one user to the next. 6. Illust Gallery Araki Hirohiko Yazawa Ai Yamada Yoshihiro Nishimura Shinobu Okano Reiko 7. Kusumoto Maki ・・・・・・ Netsu 8. Yoshino Sakumi ・・・・・・ GOAL!! 9. François Boucq ・・・・・・ Sekai wa mawaru 10. Yasuhiko Yoshikazu ・・・・・・ Bateren Nanban Hei Yuuki joshou 11. penthon ・・・・・・ A fantastic dream 12. Nicolas de Crécy ・・・・・・ Montceau-les-Mines VS Pont-à-Mousson 13. Frédéric Boilet ・・・・・・ 2002 FIFA WORLD TEA CUP 14. Nicolas de Crécy ・・・・・・ Soccer no dendou 15. Yokoyama Hiroshi ・・・・・・ Robot Battle VI 16. D[di:] ・・・・・・ Fire Star Man 17. Taniguchi Jiro ・・・・・・ Fuka 18. Emile Bravo ・・・・・・ Shinpan wa 12 hitome no senshu! 19. Max Cabanne ・・・・・・ Penalty area 20. Kuroda Iou ・・・・・・ Schweitzer 21. Terada Katsuya ・・・・・・ Box! 22. Benoît Peeters & François Schuiten ・・・・・・ 23. Young Soon Yang ・・・・・・ 24. Gyoubu Ippei ・・・・・・ football image visual
Satsuki met Kazuya once at local rink and he taught her jumping. Knowing what school Kazuya attends she aims to get there to meet him again. Will she meet him and get to skate with him again?
Harutaka Kato, a 1st year student in Kakegawa high school with the extraordinary ability to jump. After seeing his ability, Maiko the volleyball club manager kept urging him to join the team. Finally, Harutaka was persuaded to enter the club. However, the volleyball club had another star, Yuta Kaneko! Harutaka was upset and tried to show off but all of his smash was blocked by Yuta!! So, what will Harutaka do!?
Itsuki Minami needs no introduction – everybody’s heard of the “Babyface” of the Eastside. He’s the toughest kid at Higashi Junior High School, easy on the eyes but dangerously tough when he needs to be. Plus, Itsuki lives with the mysterious and sexy Noyamano sisters. Life is never dull, but it becomes dangerous when Itsuki leads his school to victory over some vindictive Westside punks with gangster connections. Now he stands to lose his school, his friends, and everything he cares about. But in his darkest hour, the Noyamano girls come to Itsuki’s aid. They can teach him a powerful skill that will save their school from the gangsters’ siege and introduce Itsuki to a thrilling and terrifying new world. Note: Won the 2006 Kodansha Manga Award in the shōnen category. A new edition named Air Gear Unlimited was released in 2014. The format is bigger and it contains some coloured pages.
Takane Kiku and Takane Ryuji are the children of a legendary world contender boxer. Kiku, the daughter seems to have inherited her father's boxing sense and tries to teach Ryuji to become a world contender. However, Ryuji hates boxing and gets picked on. After Kiku and Ryuji leave their hometown for Tokyo, Ryuji eventually learns to discover a passion for boxing after an encounter with a boxing prodigy, Kenzaki Jun. This will eventually lead him to learn crazy moves and out of the world opponents to become one of Japan's top junior boxers. (Source: ANN)
Noritaka Sawamura is a teenager; until this day, everybody has been making fun of him. Now he enters the high school which is an opportunity for him to restart a new life! He loves a girl of his school, but he needs to be a little bit stronger to be recognized by everybody. So he joins the Thai boxing section. His entertainment is very special, due to his master who seems to be a little mad. Noritaka will make you laugh, for sure! Note: My favorite passage is when Sawamura spins through a window with a helmet, his trousers missing, with crap coming out of his ass, and everybody looking at him. He is the most ridiculous man in the world at this moment!