Mai Kisaragi was born as a shy, and cowardly person; always allowing people to take advantage of her. The object of her affection is the... more>> school's basketball star, Takumi Kai. This is where the story might have begun and ended... if something strange hadn't happened. Tired of being mocked one day, she suddenly gains a supernatural power during basketball practice. And soon, she is visited by a fox spirit named Ran who informs her that she is infact part fox spirit. At first, she doesn't believe him... until she transforms into a fox herself. <<less

Nanase Haruka is a sixth-grade elementary school student who loves connecting with the water and feeling the water as he swims, and he attends a local swim club together with his childhood best friend Tachibana Makoto and Hazuki Nagisa, one year younger than the both of them. Then, one winter’s day as graduation draws near, Matsuoka Rin transfers into Haruka and the others’ school from another swim club. Through swimming, Haruka strengthens his bonds with Makoto and Nagisa, as well as with Rin–at which point Rin, with his passion for the medley relay, suggests they form a team together and enter a tournament.... more>>

This is the novel that the anime Free! is based on in manga form at last! (September Scans) <<less

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Six years ago, following a crushing defeat, a group of friends promised that they will one day take their friend Suzuo to 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.... more>>

Won the Kodansha Manga Award for Shounen in 2008. <<less

Tsujido Rintaro is an up and coming professional cyclist that has his very first race at the lowest rank, the A3 division. Trained by the... more>> famous Akiya, Rintaro’s name has already spread throughout the country and there are people that have it out for him because they have ill feelings towards the once hated Akiya. Rintaro doesn’t just have his career and passion riding on each race but after his father became brain dead from a horrific car accident, he has been paying for the expensive hospital bill. With a life on the line, Rintaro races with everything he’s got but he's about to learn the harsh world of professional cycling. <<less

Akaboshi Taka is a 16-year-old boy who loves to play soccer. After being abandoned by his father, he tries to find a job to support... more>> himself. His dream is to become a professional soccer player and he goes to every professional club in Japan to try his luck. <<less

Mizuno Kaori attends an all-girls high school and likes to spend time with her friends after class playing soccer. They'd like to create a club,... more>> but they're one member short of creating a team and people think it's foolish for girls to play soccer. Studying at the same high school, Umezawa Hikari is very popular among the boys but doesn't talk much. What most people don't know is that she plays soccer pretty well and dreams of becoming a national player competing in the World Cup. She then joins Kaori's group with plans to challenge a boy's soccer team from another high school. If they can defeat the boy's team, then they can let people know that they really mean business and this will also serve as a small step towards her dream. <<less

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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... more>> again. Will she meet him and get to skate with him again? <<less

Haku Yaesaki is a bored high school student with no direction in life. Right as he starts noticing how all his friends have dreams they... more>> are striving for, he meets pro golfer hopeful Nadeshiko Oga and his empty life begins to change. Now, it's time to find a whole new you as this golfing adventure tees off! <<less

Tenjou Kouga is blessed with an affluent family, a famous former soccer player as a father, and an unyielding spirit. Kurose Takumi is a reticent... more>> and detached boy who has endured past hardships. When they meet, a new soccer legend will begin. <<less

Racing cars are machines made purely for power and speed and, even from a young age, Manaka Mao has always had a fascination with them. When Mao was 5, fate brings him together with Tsuji Yoshiki, the best F1 racer in Japan where Mao gets his first look at a F1 car and, right then and there, he decides that professional racing is where his life is. Tsuji takes a special interest in him because of his exceptional concentration skills and observation capabilities, both crucial for the best racers.... more>>

Several years later, Mao gets an invite from Tsuji to apply for FRS, a training camp school for young racers where only the most talented racers are even accepted. There, Mao starts his journey of being nothing less than number 1 and becoming the first Japanese F1 champion. <<less

The manga follows Ami Kurata, a first year college student with no special qualities. One day she happens to notice someone riding a folding bike,... more>> immediately falls in love with it, and uses all her savings to buy one. She eventually gets introduced to the world of long-distance bicycling and road racer bikes, and she forms a cycling team called Fortuna with four other female college students from the same school. Their goal is to ride in a "brevet" or long-distance event called "Fresh."[ANN] <<less

Shuuhei, Harumi and Daiki start their second year of high school with an absolute goal: Getting at least two new members for their swimming club... more>> to keep its position as a club. This is the daily struggles and shenanigans of a high-school boys' swimming club! <<less

Chiba Osamu and Arikawa Madoka are in the same middle school class and in the same swimming school on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Although they have many opportunities to talk to each other, they never have for years now. They barely acknowledge each other, even though they have met hundreds of times. But when Osamu learns that Madoka is going to quit swimming school when she starts high school, something emotional starts to grow inside of Osamu. First, it began with nothing more than curiosity, but soon it blossomed into something more real. He has to tell Madoka what he is feeling before he never sees her again.... more>>

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Not every girl has the misfortune to see the boy she likes confess to the most beautiful girl on the tennis team--or the luck to see him get rejected! Unfortunately for Kazusa, her beloved Kurosaki has absolutely no interest in dating her even after he's been turned down, and a confession from another upperclassmen only serves to make this "love game" even crazier.... more>>

Includes the one-shots: "Tsukinami Rose" and "Princess Ship". (NOT scanlated) <<less

Momoko is a shy girl who spends all her time reading girly novels. She longs to fall in love like the heroines in the stories she reads, and one day her dream seems to come true! After a fateful encounter worthy of a novel, Momoko decides she's in love with Oshima, her school's ace baseball player. But how can she get closer to him?... more>>

After consulting her precious books, she eventually ends up helping to revive the unpopular traditional Japanese cheering club to cheer at the school's baseball games. However, they've only got just enough members to keep it from being abolished, and none of them seem to know exactly what they're doing. Their first performance is so dreadful that people even blame them for the baseball team's defeat! Their ragtag cheer squad will have to get its act together if Momoko is to have any chance of realizing her fiction-worthy romance! <<less

A teenager's life is anything but a bed of roses and Yuan Jianping will be the first person to affirm that. A Pre-U freshman with... more>> a nose for trouble, Jianping begins his hectic misadventures on the first day of school. Meeting the girl he considers as the love of his life, hitting off with buddies who bring their own share of problems into the equation and rubbing the local school gang the wrong way only promises to liven up Jianping's school experience. But what happens when things get too hot to handle? <<less

In the Nacchan no Romantic Love series:... more>>

V.1 - Kimi wa Ima mo Kimi o (僕は今も君を)

V.2 - Naisho de Kiss o Shiyou (内緒でキスをしよう)

V.3 - Nigeru Natsu (逃げる夏) (Summer of Escape)

A collection of short stories.

The title story focuses around Chihaya, who has a crush on Morisaki. However, the flower arranging school she inherited from her father isn't doing well, and her step-mother wants her to marry into another school to revitalize it. Chihaya disobeys her step-mother and runs away, only to be later rescued by Morisaki. Unwilling to go back home, Chihaya starts to spend the summer at Morisaki's place, painfully aware of the situation... though Morisaki doesn't even seem to notice.

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Not the life story of Vaslav Nijisky, but the "spirit of Nijinsky’s dancing" through her characters – Lucifer and Jean.... more>>

Lucifer was a ballet genius, "a creature of God" who, like the real life Nijinsky, sought to dance as if he had "connected his soul to God."

Jean, however a critically-acclaimed ballet choreographers he already was when he met Lucifer, was still searching for "the soul" who would be able carry out his vision and the perfections he was seeking in his ballet.

When not dancing, Lucifer demonstrated his innate shyness and introversion; Jean, on the other hand, was a lonesome genius whose visions of arts would always require a higher plane of understanding and appreciation of others. <<less

Jeff has been called the 'future star of tennis' from when he was young. However, after a traumatic loss in his childhood, it seems impossible for him to win ever since. Even though he has mastered all of the techniques- serve, smash, volley, footwork- the goal of victory always seems distant. ... more>>

Tennis is supposed to be about the enjoying the game, not the result. But will Jeff ever overcome his habit of losing at the crucial moment, and achieve victory? <<less

Persistent mediocrity hasn't dissuaded Fukutsu Toshi, captain of a lame high school baseball team, from his love of the game. But when the principal, dissatisfied... more>> with their winless performances, threatens to take away their playing field, Toshi is forced into action to turn things around with all out effort. But facing him at every turn is endless adversity. Nothing is ever easy for him, but luckily, Toshi has the determination to beat it all. <<less

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A Japanese that has no fame, rises to the NBA—. The protagonist, Takamido Hai, who's challenging for a spot in the NBA, as if a... more>> powerless Japanese would be good enough... However, he never knows when to give up, and soon, with his reckless mindset, climbs over walls called races, and leaves a mark on NBA history—. His dream is to become an NBA player, to become a world's top player, and to meet his missing father! He steps into the door of the NBA, Las Vegas' Summer League! <<less