Kitamura Koh has known the Tsukishima family for years. One of the Tsukishima daughters was even born on the exact same date as Koh! What will become of Koh when his best friend is no longer around?... more>>

Cross Game received the 54th Shogakukan Manga Award for shōnen manga in 2009. <<less

Touch is a shounen story about two twin brothers, a pretty girl next door, and that good old pastime of baseball.... more>>

Won the 28th Shogakukan Manga Award in the Shounen category. <<less

Atsushi Ando (15) moves back to his home town with his family after 6 years. The story focuses on the fortunes and misfortunes he encounters in this town mostly due to pranks pulled by the ghost of his older brother, Hitsushi Ando, AKA Q-Chan, whose death prompted the family to move away in the first place. ... more>>

The catch is, only Atsushi can see his brother's ghost. <<less

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Minori is the manager of her high school's baseball club, which has been defunct up until five years ago. Even now, it's a little rough,... more>> since there currently are no seniors in the club at all! None of the second year players know why the club closed so many years ago, or about the baseball history all their fathers share... <<less

Kunimi Hiro and his best friend Hideo were baseball wonders... Until Hiro found out his arm was permanently damaged, rendering him unable to play anymore.... more>> A frustrated Hiro goes through the trouble of specifically finding a high school with no baseball team... Only to later on find out the doctor who examined him was a quack and his arm is perfectly fine. Hiro is quick to reinstate his dream: Creating a baseball team for his school and getting to face off against Hideo in the Koshien. The number one premier league for high school baseball. <<less

The story of Mix takes place in the same Meisei Gakuen high school as Touch, only it is set 26 years later. Like Touch, Mix... more>> revolves around brothers and baseball. <<less

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... more>> 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 suffer. 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. <<less

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... more>> 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... <<less

Jinbe is a very subtle and soft tale by Adachi, and certainly it'a story that deals a theme a bit more conflicting than most of his other works.... more>>

At first sight, Jinbe is the story of a young 17 years old girl, Miku Takanashi, who lives alone with her stepfather Jinpei Takanashi (nicknamed Jinbe or shark).

Jinbe has been living with Miku since his marriage 4 years ago, and considers Miku a God's sent gift from his high school sweet heart late wife. While Jinpei does his best as an overprotective and jealous father, we have that Miku holds feelings for Jinbe which are much stronger than the ones an adopted daughter is supposed to have. The main core of the story is to deal how the strong, tender and unrequited feelings of the young Miku put to test their stepfather and stepdaughter bonds, without jeopardizing any of the happiness that she feels by being close to him as a proper daughter. <<less

Wakamatsu Masato lives with his step-sister, Miyuki, whom he does not have blood relationship with. Their father is always working oversea (in fact, he has not appeared in the manga at all...) and left the two of them living by themselves in Toukyou. Miyuki is cute, nice, sensitive and very popular among guys around Masato. Masato has a girlfriend at school whose name is Kajima Miyuki, who is pretty and gentle, the ideal dream of every high school boy. It took years for Masato and his sister to realize whom they love and care most after a lot of events.... more>>

This manga was very popular in Japan and was one of the winners of the 1982 Shogakukan Manga Award for shōnen or shōjo manga, along with Adachi's . <<less

Niimi Katsuya and his best friend Karasawa Susumu, star sportsmen in track & field and judo respectively, spot a beautiful girl, Nakao Yuri, at their... more>> new high school. When they find out that she is the daughter of the baseball team's coach, they immediately volunteer to join the failing team in order to try and get closer to her. But as they learn more about baseball, they start to understand what it means to be one of the nine players on the team, and dream of entering Koshien. <<less

Satomi Azusa is a popular teenage gravure idol. She's also a highly talented baseball player, but, as a girl, she can't play on her school's team. Her father happens to be the coach of the team, and he concocts a scheme to allow her to play. His scheme involves Hirayama Keita, Azusa's childhood friend, a teenager of no particular talent. Keita's redeeming feature is that he looks a lot like Azusa. In fact, after putting Keita in a wig and girl's clothes, not even their parents can tell the two of them apart. To help Azusa's (and her father's) dream come true, Keita agrees to trade places with her during the baseball games. Soon "Hirayama... more>> Keita" becomes a popular player, and "he" begins to move towards a career in pro baseball. How long can Keita and Azusa keep up the act? What will happen when people find out?

Volume 1 also contains . <<less

Slow Step follow the adventures of school girl Minatsu as she looks for a man and tries to stay on top at school. She's got... more>> the school bully to worry about, two potential suitors, a pervert for a PE teacher, and a gang of criminals in hot pursuit. <<less

We start with our main protagonist, Shichimi, bidding farewell as he readies for his journey into Edo (on our Earth, Edo was the old name... more>> of Tokyo before it became the capital of Japan). His mother has just died, only leaving him a walnut and a request for him to go to his half-siblings. Shichimi bids farewell to a sternly old man, who is a firefighter. We can tell this from the symbol on his cloak. This symbol is also on Shichimi's cloak. Upon reaching the town of Edo, Shichimi meets a mysterious man, who ridicules the peace of the world as an illusion. <<less

Kasumi Kishimoto is 15. Having arranged to stay with her aunt, she is surprised to learn that the other four people in the house are... more>> all male. <<less

The only common feature running through these stories is a grown-up protagonist somehow coming face-to-face with his childhood past, in a testament to the loss of youth, the disillusionment of growing old, and nostalgia for better times.... more>>

In the Adachi pantheon, this is a rare diametric view of his eternal theme of "youth," in this case youth as seen through the lens of the past. It's a powerful statement from Adachi that might even be an acknowledgment of his steadily-creeping age.

What is impressive about these stories is not the plots or characters themselves, but the absolutely perfect way he tells them, another facet of experience that comes with age. Most of the stories may require multiple readings to fully appreciate the airtightness of the plot and visual motifs." <<less

While on a field trip in the 3rd grade a group of six students rescue an artifact from a burning temple. The God of the... more>> shrine grants them special powers that will come to life when they turn 13 years old. Reunited by chance in Junior High the six students are each bestowed with a single unusual power and struggle to find the proper use of the power both alone and with each other. But time is running out because they are not the only ones granted powers by the God of the shrine... <<less

New releases of old Kodama Shuppan books from Adachi Mitsuru.... more>>

Volume #1:

- (including Inochi no Mound and Mou Hitotsu no Koushien)

Volume #2:

- (including Isourou wa Tsurai yo and Kimagure Punch)

Volume #3:

- (including Teens and Aoba ni Kaze)

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This collection, titled simply Short Program, collected stories by Adachi published between 1985 and now.... more>>

1. Kinkyou "Recent Times" [1987]

2. Kousaten mae (Before the junction) "The Intersection" [1986]

3. Shooto Puroguramu "Short Program" [1987]

4. Teiku ofu (Take off) [1988]

5. Chenji (Change) [1985]

6. Purasu 1 (Plus one) [1986]

7. Murasaki (1985)

8. Nani ga nandaka (What is what?) Part 1 [1985]

9. Nani ga nandaka (What is what?) Part 2

Story 1 - Change

Story 2 - Take Off

Story 3 - Short Program

Story 4 - What's Going On!? (Part 1)

Story 5 - What's Going On!? (Part 2)

Story 6 - At the Intersection

Story 7 - The Current State of Affairs

Story 8 - Plus 1

Story 9 - Purple

Volume 2:

Story 1 - Before Spring Comes

Petit Comic April 1992

Story 2 - Subject - Wakaba

Weekly Young Sunday January 1995

Story 3 - A Stop on the Way

Shōnen Sunday September 1994

Story 4 - 5X4P

Big Comic Superior July 1992 - September 1992

Story 5 - 4 on the Richter Scale

Shōnen Sunday July 1988

Story 6 - Aim At the Ace

Shōgaku Shinen Sei June 1986

Story 7 - Spring Call

Shōnen Sunday April 1993

Story 8 - Spring Passes

Big Comic Spirits May 1993

Story 9 - The Road Home

Young Sunday October 1989 - November 1989

Story 10 - Sayonara Game

Big Comic 1991 Summer Special

Volume 3:

Story 1 - Clogs and Diamond

Story 2 - Where the Wind Blows

Story 3 - Angel's Hammer

Story 4 - Memory Off (part1)

Story 5 - Memory Off (part2)

Story 6 - White Summer

Story 7 - Square Ocean

Story 8 - Idol A (part 1)

Story 9 - Idol A (part 2)

Story 10 - Idol A (part 3)

Story 11 - Running God

Story 12 - Short Mail

Volume 4: Girl's type

1. Short story of a parasite (part 1)

2. Short story of a parasite (part 2)

3. Harsh life of a parasite

4. Love confession

5. Season

6. Two champions

7. Capricious Punch Kimagure Punch <<less

Enter our hero Wakadaishou! He doesn't have much interest in school; he saves his energy for all the excitement he can stir up after school. This is an early Adachi Mitsuru 'youth manga', filled with engaging characters, comic scenes, and a young hero with a zest for life.... more>>

Also included are the following stories:

• Isourou wa tsurai yo (Being a Freeloader Is Tough!, sequel to Isourou yori hitokoto included in Yuuhi yo nobore!! V.1) (V. 1)

• Kimagure Punch (Whimsical Punch) (V. 2)

Is all still fair in love when friendship is at stake?

Three friends, one childhood promise, and a boxing match that might just be instrumental in untangling a tricky love triangle.

May the best man win! <<less

From the creator of Touch and Nine, enter the world of Hirahira-kun Seishun Jingi! One of Adachi-sensei's lesser known works, it follows 7th grader, Hirahira-kun... more>> as he deals with the 8th grade bully, Daimyoujin and tries to gain the affection of his fellow classmate, Yocchin! <<less