Onda Nozomi is in her second year on the middle school soccer team but has yet to play a single game because she is a girl. Growing up playing soccer, she has the technical skills, endurance and the elegance. However, as a girl, she can't overcome the physical difference and she can see all her male teammates that she grew up playing soccer with get further and further away from her. Even her younger brother, Junpei, who is also on the team, is starting to rise above her. Coach Samejima sees that Nozomi is an amazing player but because soccer is such a physical sport, he can't let her play. Nozomi isn't the kind of girl that just gives up so she practices harder than anyone and drives the team in the hopes of one day playing in a game.
In Ome, a city in northern Tokyo, the adventures of four different characters of different mentality and cultural background will take place. The only common interest they share is their love for sports and parkour. The heroes are four children that destiny brought together to enable them not only to help each other but also to achieve their personal goals. Tension, competiveness, humour, friendship, intrigues and lots of parkour are the main elements of the world of R.u.N. Are you ready to Remember ur Nature?
From Fujoshi Spirit: Sekiya never really had a problem with his kyuudo club teammates. Until one day he overhears fellow club mate Nagashima saying that he doesn't approve of Sekiya. Aggravated by it, neither of them can concentrate on archery practice, and so the cheerful club president Tatsumi-senpai tells them to become friends by holding hands on their way from school every day.
Katsuragi Anna used to be a Prima Ballerina. Now, she leads a normal high school life. Her friend tells her to join the archery club and she accepts the offer. Right when she opens the door, she finds a guy stringing the bow, when he turns around, she is astounded to see Jinnai, her childhood rival!!
When 10-year-old Kaneda Shota was involved in a car accident that claimed the life of his father, it changed the course of his life forever. Even though his mother got a job and tried her best to support her son, money was always tight. Now, unable to afford college, Shota works a part-time job, in addition to his full-time job at his uncle's factory. He dreams of one day saving enough money to go to college. He lives alone, on the second floor of one of his uncle's warehouses, and doesn't have any friends. Everywhere he goes, he rides a bicycle, with headphones to block out the flashback-inducing sounds of the cars. His quiet way of life is about to be interrupted. Due to pressures from the economy, Shota's job at his uncle's factory is going to be cut to half-time/half-pay for a while. In addition, Shota's uncle has agreed to lend the first floor of Shota's warehouse to a college club. This club is building a solar car to enter in a race, and they're hoping to get Shota to lend them his mechanical expertise. Will Yazaki Junko and the other club members be able to handle Shota's anger and bitterness, and draw him out of his self-imposed isolation?
Mika is a regular girl who just goes day to day without any concrete dreams for her future. Until one day, when she sees her classmate Kaede playing pool in a billiards lounge. Kaede is a boy who hides many secrets...whose personality seems to change when he plays billiards. Entranced by the smile Kaede wears when he plays, Mika soon finds herself immersed in the game...! Also contains the following short stories: • Platinum in vol. 1 • Ichigo Namida (Strawberry Tears) in vol.2 • Wakasama no Jijou (The Youth's Circumstance) in vol. 2
On the first day of high school Nohara Tama - who is just a plain, ordinary girl - gets herself involved in a heated argument between two baseball fans. As a result, Saitama White Cats fan Nishitake Reona and Fukuoka Falcons fan Daiei Haruko drag her to the baseball stadium. How will the fate of Tama - who doesn't know the first thing about baseball - play out!?
By Shoujo Crusade: Sugimura Nozomi made a pact with her childhood friend Hyoudo Rei who both have a passion for ice-skating that when they grow up, they will both pair up to get into the Olympics. But then Rei moves away. Years later, Nozomi transfers to a school famous for its students' emphasis on ice skating. There she unexpectantly meets up with Rei only to find him indifferent to ice skating. But Nozomi will not give up on her dream even if Rei has and she's determined to make it to the school ice-skating club and bring Rei with her as her partner. Read this manga from right to left
Shizuku has a unrequited love for Ichinomiya-sensei. But since the sensei is her sister’s boyfriend, it’s a love that definitely won’t come true... She's trying hard to quickly find a new love, and she's been rushing to search for her soul mate within 10 years! When she went out searching for that fated person, she had a horrible meeting with Hatori from her club. Read this manga from right to left
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!
Tenjou Kouga is a 6th grader at Musashinomori elementary with a good sense for soccer. However everything around him is starting to change when a soccer genius named Kurose Takumi transfers to his school and sparks a new passion for soccer inside Kouga!
