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 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!
Description from AnimeNFO: Taira Capeta was a 4th grader boy. He had lost his mother when he had been very little. Although he pretended to be tough in front of his father, actually he felt lonely. One day, his father brought junk parts home from his workplace and made a racing cart. Soon, they went to a circuit to drive the cart. However, Capeta found that its frame was bent and it could hardly run straight. But, with his technique he managed the cart. Furthermore, he followed soon after the fast cart and he could nearly leave it behind. The driver in the cart was Minamoto Naomoi, the champion of the East Japan Junior Cart. Looking at their chase, Naomi’s mother, Minamoto Nanako, advised Capeta to take part in the official race. This manga won the Kodansha Manga Award for sh?nen in 2005.
Manga adaptation of the Kuroko no Basket -Replace- novels, mainly focusing on the Generation of Miracles during their Teikou days. Summary from BAP Scans In a certain powerhouse team from Teiko middle school’s basketball club, there was a 5-man group of prodigies called “Generation of Miracles.” And then, there was one more player, highly esteemed by those prodigies, a phantom sixth man – Kuroko Tetsuya. They managed to pull off the outstanding achievement of three consecutive championship wins. Afterwards, a certain incident took place and the team ended up collapsing. This story happens while they’re still in middle-school, before each of them went their separate ways. Episodes featuring Kise and the crew and also the cast from Teiko High-school are included. This is an adaptation for the “Replace” novel series, stepping into the court!
In June 1983, Maebara Keiichi moved to Hinamizawa Village and was enjoying his peaceful life with his friends. In the midst of this, Keiichi encounters mahjong and falls in love with the game.However, the enigma of the mysterious deaths that occur in Hinamizawa village and his consecutive losses in mahjong begin to eat away at Keiichi's mind... Is this defeat a conspiracy, a coincidence, or a curse?From the moment he grabs a mahjong tile, his peaceful life begins to go awry.
After the loss of his leg, Kikuzato's dream of becoming a soccer ace comes to an end. But with use of a prosthetic leeg, he finds a new goal to become a track star and win gold at the Tokyo Paralympics! [Yen Press]
Tadatoshi Komine, who enrolled in the prestigious Ogami Gakuen in order to aim for the NBA, suffered a serious injury immediately after enrolling and was cut off from his life as a player. Nine years later, Tadatoshi, who gave up his dream, learns that his former teammate Okido made his NBA debut. “If I had to get seriously injured that day”, he thinks. Mulling over his regrets one night, Tadatoshi suffers a traffic accident and is shocked to find that the impact has sent him to a time in high school before he was injured! In order to pursue the dream that he gave up on once, Tadatoshi starts marching again with the knowledge of the future as a weapon!
Akari couldn't think less of her school's karate champ, Abe-kun, despite him being the national champion. He's giant, uncouth, and couldn't be more different than her sweet angel and childhood friend, Takuto. But when Abe-kun injures his arm protecting her, she takes it upon herself to get him healed—after all, the school's pride is at stake—but finds the tables suddenly turned when he confesses to her! Now she's the goal he's aiming for, and she'll soon find out how driven a national champion can be!
Teppei Sakamoto is a boy living in the countryside. He loves soccer, and all his soccer skills were taught to him by his sister. Finally, his sister wants him to join in Mizumoto High School soccer team. Teppei's turn in life has come!! How will this soccer newbie fare in the new environment?
It's about a girl, often called as Zawa (short for her surname, Miyakozawa), in a high-school baseball team. She's talented, but being a girl, she doesn't get to participate in any official matches, and yet she trains just as hard as the rest of the team anyway, just for her own personal satisfaction. Nominated for the 3rd Manga Taisho Award (2010).
The manga won the Shogakukan Manga Award for Best Shōnen Manga at the 60th Shogakukan Manga Awards.
Kokura Hikari is a first-year high school girl who loves rifle shooting. She entered Chidori High School because it had a shooting club, but finds that the club had been disbanded. She had only one day to find enough members to reform the club, but luckily was able to find three other first-year girls who she had met at a competition in middle school. Thus begins the daily activities of the Chidori High Shooting Club.
