Hachiro Kurogane, a high school graduate catcher, joined the Carbons, a very weak baseball team, as the 8th overall pick in the draft. When he was asked about his goal at the team's press conference, he declared, "I will win the championship in my first year and win the MVP. He caused a stir! That was the "marriage condition" given to Hachiro by his childhood friend, Suzu Domon, whom he had fallen in love with.... more>>

Hachiro's tremendous challenge has begun as he aims to make the starting lineup for the season opener! <<less

A trio of teenage boys taken straight from a classic retro-looking gag manga jump through dimensions to a hyper realistic modern sci-fi world Gantz-style in... more>> order to save one of the boy's little sister. <<less

A story about a boy and a girl who spend their youth excavating dinosaurs in their high school's paleontology club. Kaoru Kikumoto, a high school... more>> boy who transferred to a school in a country town for some reason, meets a mysterious girl, Kaba Shiraishi, who is looking for fossils on a mountain. Kaba, who is the head of the paleontology club at Kaoru's high school, invites him to join the club. <<less

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The manga centers on Murabito, who runs an item shop in a world where the hero has defeated the demon lord. In a world that's... more>> too peaceful, people are not really coming to his shop, which worries Murabito. Then one day, a young woman shows up, whose true identity is unknown. <<less

Shinichi and Ichigo, who are childhood friends among their neighbors, are first-year high school students in the middle of their youth. There was a longing... more>> person who had a feeling for each of them! They couldn't get close to each other just by looking at their favorite person from a distance, but one day in early summer, a bitter gourd-related incident changed their daily lives. <<less

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About a middle-school girl and her super aging pills.

Age! tells the story of Takano Eiji, a tennis player who was unable to defeat Saki at the finals of the regional championships the previous... more>> year. His problem? He doesn't know how to hit any spin and grows incredibly violent when he loses a match. Read this manga for a great combination of humor and sports. Think Prince of Tennis except much much funnier. <<less

The story starts with three friends, they all do art together, trying their hardest, but as the story progresses, the narrator begins to think that... more>> life isn't worth it and he doesn't need to try hard anymore. <<less

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This is a collection of three stories from 1969 anchored by the tale of a runaway ship.

Akiyama Youichi is a high-school boy who adores the cute Nana-chan from afar but he's clueless about girls and terrified of asking her out on... more>> a date. He discovers in a very peculiar manner that he has a love rival for Nana-chan's affections in the curvy and sexy shape of Natsuhara Yuri, a classmate and (platonic) best friend of Nana-chan. The battle for Nana-chan's affections is joined with Youichi trapped in Yuri's body and Yuri using Youichi's body to ask Nana-chan out on a date. May the best, umm, person win! <<less

Don’t mess with Ayu – she’s one of the top-ranked Karate club members in the region, although she does have one weakness; snakes. After one... more>> fight where she is unconscious because her opponent knows her weakness, and old friend shows up, a young man named Shunpei. He used to be a weakling, but now he may be even stronger than Ayu! <<less

Mingchao, Chinese youth and orphan, travels through the "Old West" with the hope of gaining glory and fame. She rapidly joins up with a suspicious priest, Baskerville, and together they head for Hollywood.... more>>

Throughout their journey, they are harassed by tricksters and bandits. Mingchao's only memory of her late grandfather, one "Eto gun," appears to be on the minds of the troublemakers and supposedly gives significant power to the one that controls it. <<less

The encounter between Itto Ippongi, a high schooler who blunders no matter what he does, and a road race bike.... more>>

Riding a bike might very well be the way for him to change himself.

Thinking he might actually be able to achieve something great,

Itto joins Team CycleOn which Subara Miyata, his classmate, is a member of...

A genuine cycling road race manga that will lit fire in your heart and make you want to go to the distant Alpe d'Huez has come!! <<less

The story follows Soujiro Okita, a nine year old boy. One day, he meets a mysterious man by the river. He soon after meets his... more>> friend's new father. However, during a walk, he discovers that his friend's father is the leader of a group and is planning to set fire to the village to create confusion to steal gold. While he was running to the village to warn people, he meets the mysterious man once again. <<less

Maguma is obsessed with baseball; in fact, his dream is to hit all the strong fastballs on earth. However, Maguma isn?t a good team player... more>> and doesn?t actually have any interest in joining the baseball team! Now, Meguma no longer gets a thrill of hitting a baseball at 140 KPH, so he decides to take up tennis, where balls can fly over 160 KPH! Will Meguma be able to handle this new speed, and will he be able to conquer such a different game? <<less

Tamasaburou has finally gotten up the courage to ask out Kanako, and to his surprise she said yes! But then a freak accident happens and... more>> he takes the classic injury to the groin. However, because this is a manga, you can expect something strange to have happened. Sure enough, Tamasaburou’s accident has turned him into a girl! So now what can he do? <<less

One day a high-school student named Haruhiko who is aiming for Tokyo University has discovered a very important secret. From the closet, appeared a beautiful... more>> girl with a black pony tail, Utsuki who came from "Moon Village" with her Ninja Troop said to him, "It's been seven years, master." <<less

Ignacio DaSilva is a world famous Brazilian karate expert turned soccer player who has been making headlines. His giant body and unusual speed has made him the number one player in the world by far. During his post game interview, he stated that there was someone with more talent than him and that he was coming back from Brazil any time soon. This left the media in a frenzy to find who this player was that was better than the great Ignacio.... more>>

Kensho is the son of a karate master who grew up with his next door neighbor, Satsuka, who was the daughter of a soccer coach. As fate may have it, Kensho became a great soccer player and moved to Brazil for 3 years while Satsuka stayed in Japan and became the scholastic champion in her division. Kensho comes back to Japan and attends the same high school as Satsuka. Little does the world know about the tornado that was about to hit the soccer community with the return of Kensho. <<less

Tetsu Otani is a junior high school student with a weak heart. Despite the hardships of being so meek at school, he has an intense crush on one of his teachers: Reiko Mizushima. However, one of his least favorite teachers, Kito, intends to propose to her. Since Kito is very violent and often pushes Tetsu around, the thought of him and Reiko together infuriates Tetsu. Before him appears a ghostly white horse, and the next day, Kito is found dead.... more>>

Tetsu realizes that this horse is the ghost of Bomba, a horse Tetsu's father told him he was charged to take care of during the Pacific War. Now, whenever Tetsu feels intense hatred for someone, Bomba will appear and cause that person to die.

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Also includes the 1972 oneshot, "Ma no Yama" or "Devil's Mountain" at the end of the volume as a bonus. <<less

High-school student Hoshino Fuzuki once experienced a weird phenomenon when she was in 3rd grade. Now, it has come up again...... more>>

She can 'get into' an animal, thus gaining the ability to see the world from its viewpoint. Hoshino soon realizes that her 'animal sense' is not limited to sight. What is this power? What will she do with it? <<less

With its long-awaited freshman/student athletes aboard, Mizuho High's basketball team practices with a hope to play in the national tournaments. In the prefectural preliminary games, the young athletes compete with their rivals at Shonandai-Sagami, Honmoku-Higashi and Yokohama Gakuen Highs. Will Mizuho compete in the national tournaments and once again confront Narita-Chuo and Meiwadai-Hitachi Highs? And finally how will the players fare in a game against the high school basketball champion team at Tendoji? The struggles of the newly reborn Mizuho basketball team to become the national champion begin!... more>>

Won the 31st Kodansha Manga Award for shounen in 2007 (shared with ). <<less