SPORTS

Speed Racer Mach Go Go Go!

2011-01-27

Plot: A young man named Speed Racer wants to become a professional racer, despite the lack of approval from his father, Pops Racer. When Pops reluctantly quits his job after the corporate company he was working for had declined the production of a modified engine for his new racing car, the Mach 5, he later thinks of creating his own family owned company, Racer Motors. He realizes that he would need a great amount of money to make his idea work. Speed, who values the welfare of his family, decides to take it upon himself to obtain the money for Pops. In hopes of using his unique driving skills to do so, Speed decides to do what he does best and enters a race. Pops tells Speed to quit racing, but Speed, who is confident enough to ignore Pops, drives away into many different adventures that come towards him and his friends.

Ganbare!! Tabuchi-kun!!

2014-05-26

Comical 4-koma sports manga based on a real-life baseball player. Was a mega-hit in Japan in the 70s and has actually aged quite well if you like baseball and slightly mean humor!

Windup Idol

2014-09-11

Haikyuu!!

2014-02-04

Hinata is full of enthusiasm for volleyball, and he's determined to become the ace of the volleyball team as he enters high school! Unfortunately, due to having too few players and no real teachers, his middle school volleyball team just kind of casually played around. He has no real experience or skill with the game and only has the ability to jump really high and spike the ball. The real first-year ace, the super-serious, highly-skilled, irritable Kageyama, has no patience for clueless Hinata's ambition. Will Hinata be able to find a useful place on his new team?

Magico( Magic Soccer)

2011-10-20

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One Outs

2011-01-14

Plot: The story starts in Okinawa, in a training camp-- the ace batter of the Lycaons, a notoriously weak professional baseball team with a record of losses, Hiromichi Kojima, is trying to find out just why his team can never make it to the championships. During his training, he discovers the game of One Outs, a gambling derivative of baseball, and the game's champion, Toua Tokuchi.The rule of the game is simple: if the pitcher can strike the batter out in three pitches, the pitcher wins.No one had ever been able to get a hit from Toua.This is the Lycaons' and Toua's fateful meeting, and it's here that the story begins.

Sangatsu No Lion

2011-01-14

From Wikipedia.org,The protagonist is Rei, a 17-year old sh?gi player. He lives by himself, not having a family, and does not go to school and has scarcely any friends. Among his acquaintances is a family, which consists of a young woman, Akari, and two young girls, Momo and Hinata, and who also keep a numerous number of cats.

The!! Beach Stars

2011-01-14

The following content is intended for mature audiences and may contain sexual themes, gore, violence and/or strong language. Discretion is advised. N/APrequel: Beach Stars

Ballroom E Youkoso

2013-10-25

An ordinary middle school student, Fujita Tatara couldn't find any objective in life and spent his days idly.One day, a group of delinquents picks a fight with him and he is saved by a mysterious man. After that, the man surprisingly takes him to a ballroom dancing class!While being inspired by a girl dancer who goes to that school, Hanaoka Shizuku, and her partner, a genius dancer, Hyoudou Kiyoharu, Tatara starts decicating his youth to dancesport!!2nd place in the 2013 Manga Taisho Awards.

Diamond no Ace

2011-01-14

It is a manga of high school baseball. The main character, who is a pitcher from a country high school, accidentally gets teamed up with a catcher from a school with an elite baseball team. He decides to quit his school to attend the school that this catcher plays.....(summary by Hooligan at Jcafe)Winner of the 53rd Annual Shogakukan Manga award (2008)

New Prince Of Tennis

2011-01-14

The purported advertisement from the Jump Square issue says that everything in The Prince of Tennis up to now has been "prologue" and that "a new legend for [the main character] Ryoma and the others will begin."Silvermagic:This continues what happened in the "Prince of Tennis ", after the end of the tournament . In "The New Prince of Tennis," Ryoma and the others (team members and teams they faced) begin a new adventure when they are the only 50 middle school students to be invited to the Japanese High School Representatives Selection Camp where only the top potentials in the Japanese tennis world train.What will happen now?

No Side

2011-01-14

The following content is intended for mature audiences and may contain sexual themes, gore, violence and/or strong language. Discretion is advised. From Tama-Chan Scan's Site:This manga is really weird, but funny. It's about a guy named Yuuji, who love to play rugby. One day he just up and dies, in the middle of a Rugby match. His spirit is unable to rest, because his team has never gotten a try. So what does he do? Take over someone else's body to accomplish this goal. But...the body turns out to be a girl's!

Captain Tsubasa - Rising Sun

2014-01-06

Kuroko No Basuke - Extra Game

2014-12-29

Kuroko and his team square off American street basketball challengers.

Hikari no Densetsu

2015-04-30

Hikari Kamijo is the young hope of rhythmic gymnastics. Despite her inexperience which often leads her to make mistakes, she's capable of delivering amazing performances. Her creative figures, full of energy, leave everyone in awe. But the path to the Olympic gold medal is long and troublesome, especially when love starts meddling in an already complicated young girl's life.

Baby Steps

2011-01-14

E-chan is a perfectionist honor student, known as the "class's reference book" because he fills up so many notebooks with class material. Getting involved in tennis was simply a way for him to move his body, he never thought that it would become his passion. With keen eyes, LOTS of notebooks, and beyond diligent training, E-chan will continue to move forward in the world of tennis one step at a time.

Giant Killing

2011-01-14

In Giant Killing a ragtag bunch from East Tokyo are struggling in Japan's top football league. The team is going through an abysmal spell right now where they are nearing the bottom of the table and have lost five matches in a row. Losing hasn't done much to team morale, because it was already at a low. Fan support, on the other hand, is also looking bleak.In the world of football, once the fans turn on a team, the end is near. The team doesn't recover, coaches are fired, players are sold, and the team drops to lower divisions. In a situation where profits often prevent them from ever being successful again against even the mediocre top division programs... ETU, East Tokyo United, has only their coach to blame.ETU hires a new coach that once played in ETU. This coach wishes to prove to his ex-players and fans that even against the biggest clubs in the nation, he can make the team win.In 2010, this manga received the 34th Annual Kodansha Manga Award for General Manga.

Rrr

2011-04-12

Rikitaro is a musician whose dream is to become a rock star just like Jimi Hendrix or Jim Morrison, but at the age of 27 that dream is fading away rapidly. Ooishi is a 3 time world boxing champion who recently retired and is now in the entertainment world, shooting a boxing reality show. These two unlikeliest of people cross paths one day but both of them think nothing of it until weeks later. Rikitaro is given one last shot by a record label to sign a deal but before that, they need him to get into better shape so that he is easier to sell. He stumbles upon a boxing gym which also happens to be the same gym Ooishi is filming his show. As fate’s wheels start to turn, neither man realizes that they will work together to train the best boxer ever, even better than Ooishi himself.

Area No Kishi Bangai Hen – Enokou Early Days

2014-02-14

Namaikizakari

2014-07-17

Upon first sight Machida Yuki knows that she doesn’t want anything to do with Naruse Shou, but how can she keep her cool when he is a part of the basketball club she manages?

Chihayafuru

2011-01-14

From J-SiS:All her life, Chihaya's dream was to see her model sister become Japan's best... That is, until a quiet, unassuming transfer student named Arata tells her otherwise. A dream, he explains to her, is something she needs to work at herself.Arata plays a competitive version of a traditional Japanese card game--known as Hyakunin Isshu--in a way Chihaya has never seen before. After taking Arata's place in a game, Chihaya discovers she has a passion for it. Now Chihaya wants to become number one in the world, the Queen of Karuta.Â

Rough

2011-01-14

(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 offsprin

Touch

2011-01-14

Uesugi Tatsuya and his twin brother Kazuya have both fallen in love with their childhood friend, Asakura Minami. But whereas Kazuya is a talented baseball pitcher, planning on fulfilling Minami's dreams of entering Koushien, Tatsuya always seems to mess up - perhaps deliberately giving in to his younger brother. But then, a life- changing event happens, and Tatsuya begins to work his way up to earn Minami's love and fulfill her dreams.

Mix

2012-06-18

From ANN: 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 revolves around brothers, and promotional images indicate that Mix will also have the sport of baseball as a theme.

Sekai de Ichiban Tsuyoku Naritai!

2013-11-05

The following content is intended for mature audiences and may contain sexual themes, gore, violence and/or strong language. Discretion is advised. Hagiwara Sakura and Miyazawa Elena are the leading members of a popular idol group "Sweet". One day, Elena is injured by the attack of a female pro-wrestler Kazama Ruo during the recording of a TV program. Sakura gets mad at Ruo and gives her a dropkick. To avenge Elena, Sakura enters the female pro-wrestling matches.

Harigane Service

2014-07-24

Hinomaru Zumou

2015-01-20

It is a divine ritual, a martial art, a combat sport—it's sumo!!A "small" new student, Ushio Hinomaru, appears before the weak little sumo club of Oodachi High School! The words "big" and "heavy" are the rules to this sport, which does not fit this newbie any inch, but this guy goes and does what...!?Ushio and the small sumo club climbs its way to the top!The goal is *Hinoshita Kaisan!A fired up high school sumo tale—no retakes allowed!!*Hinoshita Kaisan - A title for the highest rank in professional sumo, equivalent of Yokozuna.From Mangahelpers

Major 2nd

2015-03-14

A sequel to the successful baseball manga MAJOR by the same author. The series follows Gorou's son Daigo.

H2

2011-01-14

Hiro has two loves: baseball and porn. But due to an elbow injury he gives up baseball choosing a school with no baseball team. His childhood friend Hikari attends a different school with baseball ace Hideo and the two wish Hiro had not given up baseball. Hiro joins the soccer team but meets Haruka, a very clumsy girl, who is manager of the unofficial baseball club. When the soccer team challenges the baseball club to a game, with hopes of humiliating them, the baseball club nearly loses until Hiro, disgusted by the soccer team's arrogance, switches to the baseball club.

High School Debut

2011-01-14

From Viz:Back in junior high, Haruna Nagashima was only interested in two things: softball and manga. Now that she's starting high school, Haruna's focus has changed--she wants to snag a boyfriend and have the romance of her dreams! However, she has o

Houkago No Oujisama

2011-01-14

Our Prince of Tennis is back! This is just a few 'one-shots' or comic strips and not the sequel, but enjoy it!

J-dream Hishouhen

2011-01-14

Main chara is originally the Japanese country voted as a talented player red star hawk. After leaving national sports team for period of time, he joined the youth army once more for the world blue cup. Facing powerful enemy from various countries, how to overcome the difficulty and obtain the world blue cup?

major

2011-01-14

Shigeharu Honda is a Japanese League batter on the rise. His son Goro is a Little League pitcher who one day hopes to follow in his father's footsteps. Momoko Hoshino, Goro's schoolteacher, is the first woman Shigeharu has been interested in since the death of Goro's mother. The destinies of these three individuals will become intertwined as father and son experience both heartbreak and triumph on the baseball diamond. But when an unspeakable tragedy visits the family, it will take everything they have to pick up the pieces and reclaim their dreams.Won the 41st Shogakukan Manga Award in the Shounen category.

Noririn

2011-01-14

Plot: Mariko Kazunori ("Nori") is a 28-year man who hated bicycles until he almost runs over roadracer Oda Rin.

Shinyaku "kyojin No Hoshi" Hanagata

2011-01-14

Hyuma Hoshi is an aspiring pitcher who wants to be a star like his father. The commitment of the pair to their sport and to one another is almost unbearable in its intensity. The down-to-earth realism of this series with its insights into baseball strategy has delighted generations of adults and children alike.

You're Under A Blue Sky

2011-01-14

From PDH:This series is about a girl who plays baseball. No not softball, BASEBALL. It's really cute though. ^^

Hayate X Blade

2011-01-24

Kurogane Hayate finds herself in a dilemma. Her twin sister, Nagi, is recovering from an injury and needs someone to go to school in her place. Little did she know, the school was based on a -Swordswoman League,- where everyone participates in what are called Duels for Stars with their sisters-in-arms, yuujin, in order to gain prestige, money, and power. Her first encounters with the students at this new school range from intimidating, such as with the Student Council President, Amachi Hitsugi and her yuujin, Miyamoto Shizuku, to completely awestruck, such as the hot-headed but extremely experienced (and without a yuujin) Mudou Ayana. At first Hayate thinks she can get away without participating in the Duels for Stars, but the first day she comes home, the orphanage she cares for deeply is a complete wreck...

Kurogane (kezawa Haruto)

2011-08-20

Kurogane Hiroto is in high school, where he is academically the top of his class but literally the worst in physical activity. Born with a weak body, he has no endurance, speed nor strength and Hiroto wants nothing more than to be a hero. Fate teases him by giving him phenomenal eye sight, which allows him to see well beyond anyone else in sports, but his body is not able to react to any of it.He learns from his friend Shiratori, who wants to recruit him for the Kendo team, about a rumor about a ghost named Tojo Sayuri, who wields a katana and haunts an ally in the city. Half curious, Hiroto goes there only to find that the ghost is real and that Tojo Sayuri has been looking for a successor to her Sakura sword style for 150 years. Sayuri chooses him as the successor after being able to dodge her attack and forces him to learn the Sakura style. Even with the help of the ancient swordsman ghost, Hiroto has to overcome his poor motor skills in order to be the hero he always wanted to be.

Nanamaru Sanbatsu

2011-09-01

Question: What is the format of competitive quiz bowls, called "golden rule" by truly able players?Answer: 7 Right 3 WrongExplanation: It means that one wins when he gets seven correct answers, or gets disqualifed when he gives three incorrect answers. It's a standard rule loved by competitive quiz bowl players.

Keijo!!!!!!!!

2013-12-12

The following content is intended for mature audiences and may contain sexual themes, gore, violence and/or strong language. Discretion is advised. From MangaHelpers:Kaminashi Nozomi (17) is an exceptional gymnast. So much so that colleges with some of the best gymnastic programs are trying to recruit her. Unfortunately for them, she has other plans. Due to her family being extremely poor, money is everything to her. That's why she wants to step into the world of "Keijo." "Keijo" is a type of gambling sport where girls stand on a small floating platform and compete against one another. The aim is to push the other contestant off of the platform into the water, but they are only allowed to use their butt or breasts to push the others off. Will Nozomi be able to compete in the intense world of "Keijo" and bring wealth and fortune for her family? [DrCoke]

Area no Kishi

2011-01-14

Plot: Believing himself to be useless at football, Aizawa Kakeru opts to become the manager of his school's football team, while his brother Suguru is its ace, and is even good enough to represent Japan. However, Kakeru may be harbouring a strong talent within himself that only Suguru can see, and the two often get into arguments over Kakeru's denial of his skills. Things are made more complicated with the return of Nana, an old playmate of theirs, that likes Suguru and that Kakeru has a crush on.

Fight No Akatsuki

2011-01-14

Akatsuki and his good friend Kiyoharu (called Kiyo-chan by Akatsuki) have been playing 'two player' basketball for quite sometime. Unfortunately, things started to change after they have joined in a very strong basketball team in their new school. Both of them were forced to separate into two groups: Kiyoharu was in the 'B' group and poor Akatsuki was put under 'F' group, which is known as the 'Failure' group. However, Akatsuki was not discouraged at all. He continues to train hard and always has a smile on his face. Will Akatsuki succeeded in his promise to Kiyoharu to become an official player? And what is blocking the path towards reaching his goal?

Initial D

2011-01-14

Plot: Only the fearless survive in the white-hot world of street racing, as teams take on dangerous roads in the shadow of Mt. Akina. Behind the wheel of the mysterious "Ghost of Akina" is Takumi, on his way to becoming the greatest racer ever.

All Out!!

2014-04-16

Gion Kenji is short and perpetually pissed off about it. Iwashimizu Sumiaki is tall but timid. Although it's bullies that bring this unlikely pair together on the first day of high school, it's the rugby club that will make them friends.

Rikudou

2014-08-20

Riku experienced a lot of pain and tragedy in his early life. After his father's death, a former-boxer Yakuza man taught him how to do a basic punch, and that punch saved his life when he had to defend himself from his mom's drug dealer. He ended up taking the drug dealer's life, marking him as a killer. Criminals continued to come after him, leading to more tragedy for the people who attempted to care for him. All of this drove him to ask that same former boxer to teach him to become stronger, which led him to a rundown gym, his door to the world of pro boxing!

Sesuji wo Pin! to ~Shikakou Kyougi Dance-bu e Youkoso~

2015-05-22

Masaharu Tsuchiya has just become a freshman in high school and he’s looking to make a change in his life. He wants to be more active and more involved in school life, since the only club he was a part of in middle school he just coasted through. He’d also like to get over his lack of social skills when it comes to women. However, in his future, he’ll soon be tossed into a strange and magical world full of dancing after he witnesses his school’s competitive dance club in action…

All Rounder Meguru

2011-01-14

New Series by Hiroki Endo, about a young man training in Shooto style MMA.

Break Shot

2011-01-14

A boy named Chinmi is very infatuated with billiards. Problems arise when a new student body president, Olive, suddenly decided to cut the funding for his billiards club. Unhappy with that, Chinmi wants to convince Olive that his billiards club is worthy of the funding. He decided to challenge a two-time former national billiards champion. Will Chinmi be able to defend his club?

Crimson Hero

2011-01-14

All that matters to 15-year-old Nobara Sumiyoshi is volleyball-she is an awesome player with big-time ambitions. But sometimes it seems like a girl just can not get a break in the competitive world of high school volleyball.Nobara s family wants her to inherit the role of "young mistress, serving rich patrons at her family s old-fashioned Japanese restaurant. No thanks! When Nobara transfers to Crimson Field High School, known for its top-notch volleyball team, it turns out that her mother will stoop to dirty tricks to keep her off the court. With assistance from her feisty Aunt Momoko, who is got some connections at Crimson Field, Nobara decides to start playing offense.

Goal Den Age

2011-01-14

Nine is the number of the best striker in soccer. Given the number 9 in the Megumi High soccer team, Fujiyama Kazuya, is a striker with a parallel belief that a draw in a game has no meaning. To him, if you don't win then there's no sense at playing at all. Despite that kind of mentality, their team has never won a game as of yet. How far forward will the boy who has never been victorious but even so is determined to win reach when a mysterious man called Kuniyoshi Utagawa, who has a liking for the number 9, makes his appearance?Goal Den Age is a manga that was published in serial SPECIAL soccer cartoon.(info from HATENA Diary / summary by kiumi from The Evil Empire

Koko Ga Uwasa No El Palacio

2011-01-14

The following content is intended for mature audiences and may contain sexual themes, gore, violence and/or strong language. Discretion is advised. A kid is hit by a truck and when he wakes up he is in a house with some crazy girls who call themselves El-Palacio? And he has to be a manservant?!

Meister

2011-01-14

Satomi High's Football Club members are bunch of weirdos, there's a former yankee (delinquent), a former Hikikamori, one short-tempered guy and on top of that their captain is a 'chibi' (shorty), who looks more like primary schooler than a 2nd year high s

Shion no Ou

2011-01-14

Yasuoka Shion lost her parents, and her voice, when she was young...in a murder.She was found amidst a blood-soaked room, and the only hint for the suspect was a Shougi board and one piece: the King. Now, Shion steps into the world of female professional Shougi players. As her popularity and fame slowly rises, so do the questions about her past, particularly the murder case that was never solved.

Get Love!!

2011-01-24

The following content is intended for mature audiences and may contain sexual themes, gore, violence and/or strong language. Discretion is advised. [From Condensation]:Sagara Yuki is a high school student who's shorter than all the other guys in his class. Moriyama Miki is the girl who admires him despite his small stature. Follow the hijinks and the romance between Sagara and Moriyama as they become closer and conquer the obstacles to their love! Was soccer mentioned?This is a super cute and funny manga. Volume 01 is a prequel to the actual series which begins in Volume 02.