An anthology for the Hanshin Tigers' 80th anniversary.
Released in 1983 by Shueisha, this volume brings together two special one-shots of Masami Kurumada published in previous years. The manga also includes six chapters of Sukeban Arashi, which had not been added to the previously released two volumes of this series.
A love story between two dancers: Junaque, a relative of the Belgian royal family and Shara, a Japanese transfer student. The story begins at St. Maria's, a private Catholic school in Belgium, but later the action switches to the show business life in New York. In "Bruges," the prequel to Ariyoshi Kyouko's Applause, a mystery game gets out of hand. Bruges can be found in Princess Supplement 1991.
I thought the distance between us would stay like this?" A love story between a cool catcher and a stupid baseball pitcher, childhood friends and battery-mates. The pitcher Yuudai and Shoutarou, the catcher, have been childhood friends and a battery since they can remember. The third year baseball players retired and now it's time for the the second year players to start aiming for the Koushien! However, before the autumn tournament, Yuudai suddenly starts to have the yips, which leads to an unexpected change in their lives. After embracing the same dream and chasing the white ball for 10 years, the distance between the two swayed... What will become of them?
From PDH: This series is about a girl who plays baseball. No not softball, BASEBALL. It's really cute though. ^^
Japan, 1996. After graduating from high school, Ito Kaiji moves to Tokyo to get a job, but he fails to find steady employment because the country is mired in its first recession since World War II. Depressed, he festers in his apartment, biding the time with cheap pranks, gambles, liquor and cigarettes. Kaiji is always thinking about money and his perpetual poverty frequently brings him to tears. Kaiji's unrelenting misery continues for two years until he is paid an unexpected visit from a man named Endo, who wants to collect an outstanding debt owed to him in Kaiji's name. Endo gives Kaiji two options - either spend ten years to repay this outstanding debt, or board the gambling ship Espoir ("hope" in French) for one night to clear the debt. Using a con, Endo pressures Kaiji into accepting the deal, believing he will never come back from the voyage.
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
Yuko Sawaki wishes for her prince from the sunset and he arrives from the ocean. Kenichi Katsuragi, prince charming, is as close to perfect as you can come with one major flaw. The second tankoubon in the original edition also contains a short story entitled: Nakayoshi Uta.
High School Musical Manga is the same as the movie, High School Musical 3. From Baka-Updates: Troy and the gang of East High School are going through their senior year, facing graduating and going their separate ways. Coming to terms with the reality of it all, Troy wants to attend the nearby University of New Mexico next year on a basketball scholarship, but Gabriella wants to attend Julliard School of Arts in New York to set her sights on becoming an artist. Meanwhile, Sharpay, the school's shallow and spoiled rich girl, plots to go all out planning the school's final musical show with the idea to add music to her hopes and fears about the future. While Sharpay takes an up-and-coming British exchange student under her wing, her flamboyant fraternal twin brother, Ryan, has his sights set on something different after school. In addition, Troy's best friend and basketball teammate Chad, and Garbiella's best friend Taylor, all have their sights set on their plans after high school and come to terms with the reality of the real world.
Vyalen, the main character in the story, is a graduating high school student from their school.Their school was pretty known as one of the best athletic and academic breeding students. In other words, only those who have special talents, elite minds, and abilities could only enter the school. Each of the students were categorized according to their major fields-- like being an elite, academic, and athletic. But, for the school's first in history they were not able to categorize Vyalen for whom he has this unknown ability that allows him to "artificially" use or create talents that he's not even used to... Moving on, within only 12 twelve days he will be graduating from his high school. That's why he is in a hurry for confessing his love to her long beloved crush, Trixy. But suddenly one morning, on his way to school, he suddenly bumped into a puny little nerdy girl named Lnear. having the thought that he had heard this name somewhere... later on. He finally realized that it was a classmate of his that must be sitting next to him that never came to school since the first day of class...
