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From Viz: When Maya Kurinoki takes her little brother to the local ice-skating rink for the first time, she's got her hands full just trying to get him to let go of the bar. To inspire a bit of bravery in him, she attempts a double axel--and lands it! Maya never imagined that this jump would change her life...or that a coach named Eishi Todo would vow to make her a figure skating "princess"! Now all Maya has to do is convince famous skater Shun Kano to become her partner. Too bad Shun doesn't want to have anything to do with her! [On Hiatus]

Yuto works as a waiter at the Rainbow Forest Cafe. One day he sees a guy who looked like he wants to throw himself from a bridge. Yuto tries to save him and finds out he's none other than the famous former baseball player, Esaki.-- Manga Updates--Vol.01: Gokuraku Cafe revolves around Yuuto Takanashi, a young cafe part-time worker. Naturally enthusiastic and helpful, Yuuta often gets involved with the personal lives and problems of people. Usually most of the (male) customers begin falling for him! Such incidents, added to the overprotectiveness of his best friend Souhei, only make Yuuto's life more complicated. Then one day he sees a guy who looked like he wants to throw himself from a bridge. Yuto tries to save him and finds out he's none other than the famous former baseball player, Esaki.vol.02: For some reason, everyone who attempts to woo cafe waiter Yuuto is a man. One day, a hotshot director from Hollywood, Jack, comes to Japan. Jack, whom Yuuto admires, is actually the cafe owner's son and the two of them have been isolated from each other for 6 years. Yuuto goes to see Jack in an effort to convince his two beloved friends to make up. But he ends up being overpowered and pushed down by Jack and...!?from Forever-MoreSequel: Yakyuu Tengoku

From BLU:Get ready for hot tea and hotter action in this tale of opposites attracting on the tatami mats. Poor Tokumaru Madoka is just a regular energetic guy that can't seem to go even five minutes without breaking something. One day his hapless sister has had enough, and she forces him to join their high school's Tea Ceremony Club, hoping to instill a little discipline in her hopeless klutz of a brother. Tea Ceremony Club president Hasune Kazuma is Tokumaru's complete opposite. The tall, dark president is the pinnacle of restraint, having been taught from a young age how to uphold his family's traditions. The sophisticated president and his awkward pupil conceal a brewing attraction, but they can't avoid steaming each other up. But even full to the brim with passion, will the two of them be able to bridge their differences and get along with each other?

From Peccatore Sanctuary:The cheerful and open high school freshman, Nakazato Haruka has fallen in love! With his classmate - basketball's club Tajima Kaoru. Haruka started his fierce attacks, and also declared "You will like me for sure!" How will the cool and quiet Kaoru react after knowing about Haruka's feelings?

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 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...

From Shogakukan:Ping pong. Table tennis. Fast, furious. You might have seen it, even played it, but you've never seen it like this! The action centers around "Smile" Tsukimoto and "Peco" Hoshino, two high school students in the midst of adolescence and out to prove they've got what it takes in the cool, cruel world of sports.This manga even got adapted into a live-action movie.

From Bado-Scans:Smash! is about two childhood friends (Shouta and Miwa) who share a common love for Badminton. Miwa, who's in love with Shouta, tries to persuade Shouta to apply to the same badminton school as her but the latter being of a carefree, easy-going and dense nature, brushes her away and states that he only plays badminton for fun.However, Shouta's perspective of badminton quickly changes after a fateful encounter with Yuuhi (a mute girl). In his search for his badminton goddess Yuuhi, Shouta met Anan and thereafter, decides that he's going to pursue badminton more seriously...

From ShoujoMagic:The beautiful, genuine pearls we lust after belong in a chain... because that is how they bind our hearts. Hisa, the newest manager of her high school's soccer club, has a secret: a part-time job. If anyone knew, she would either have to quit the job she needs to survive or the sport that she loves. Sakyou, one of the team's most talented and anti-social members, finds out about Hisa's secret... so it's a good thing for Hisa that the handsome and high-handed Sakyou wants to keep her close to him! Or is it?Vol. 1, Side Story 1: A "Girlfriend" with SubstanceMinami Kanan's debut work. Sachi was so determined to become Takanori's girlfriend that there was no way he could say "no." Literally, no way. She's the girlfriend he was forced to have, and he treats her as such. They go out together, but it seems obvious that Takanori hates every moment of it. When Sachi finally has enough of his unaffected attitude, will it make Takanori happy to be alone again?Vol. 2, Side Story 2: Unconditional Love FormulaTachibana Kouya is a whiz kid, while Ayumi barely passed the entrance exams. They're at opposite ends of the spectrum, but Ayumi is determined to win Kouya's love by having him tutor her -- then, when she passes the physics exam, she's going to confess. Why would Kouya want to tutor such a poor student, though? Ayumi's love rival discovers that Ayumi had to bribe Kouya to do it, and so she feels no remorse when she ruthlessly foils our heroine's efforts to succeed in physics and love...!Vol. 2, Side Story 3: The Rumored Natori-kunHigh school freshman Ai just found out that the stranger she fell in love with at first sight is the notorious Natori-kun, who goes to her school and is rumored to ditch every girl he agrees to date. That doesn't discourage Ai, though, because he's been nothing but nice to her so far. What will it take to become Natori's girlfriend, or is Ai doomed to become just another rumor?

Kyo Aizawa's father is a basketball devotee but has been forced to quit playing his precious sport because of an injury. Instead of himself working his way up to the NBA, he feels that Kyo, his daughter should fulfill his dream. To give Kyo a good start in her career of basketball he enrolls her in Seishu High School which is known for two things: its extremely cute girls' uniforms and their boys' basketball team. Not only does unhappy Kyo have to pretend to be a boy during the day (the basketball team members all live at the school to boost the team spirit), she has to do it day and night. The super-star of the team, Chiharu Eniwa, may be a good-looking, basketball champion, but his attitude towards Kyo is hostile from their very first meeting. Poor Kyo ends up roommates with the evil Chiharu. As they get to know one another, both sense that the other has a secret.

Being the daughter of a dojo manager, Oosawa Masaki has been practising nothing but karate. Her chance encounter with a certain young man sparks her interest in figure skating. Can a mannish Masaki transform into a sweet, lovely girl on the skating rink?Included one-shot:Volume 2: Megu Raian no Kimi

From Fujoshi Bitches:After being abandoned by the Goddess of Victory, Hayase Mahiro, the genius racer, was unable to win any more. Right when he was at the end of his rope with financing his team, a suspicious man dressed in a black suit appeared before him. His identity? The owner of a private, exclusive club, to which only the chosen ones have access. Mahiro begun working there and with his inherent, unyielding spirit as his weapon, started climbing up the ladder of this gorgeous world. But...?

SERIES 7: Steel Ball Run This is basically just another story arc of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure except that it has a different title. It is the seventh installment in the JoJo saga and takes place in the wild west in 1890 (about the same time period as the first arc of JoJo).

1) Love missionTomoe Karuma is an up-and-coming mangaka whose supervisor is Ero Magazine's Tanaka Atsuki. Though he imagined a cute girl named Tomoe, Tanaka is surprised to learn that in actual fact, Tomoe is a very geeky boy. Tomoe is a professional when it comes to creating sex scenes, but turns into a fish out of water when it comes to love. Tanaka offers to teach Tomoe all about love, but can the awkward mangaka learn about love in time to write about it? (From Blissful Sin)2) Estranger!Ichi fall in love in pro wrestling because he fall in love in the wrestler Hawk. He doesn't have the physique to be wrestler himself so he is training his body while he's acting as a manager slash servant to the demanding & childish Hawk.3) Tasogare Bayside CityChako was tired, hungry and bitten was he was picked up by Makoto and his father Yayoi like a stray cat, but will he become housetrained or will he go back to his old habits?4) Sting & SlangKoutaro met Neko in his sister's photographing class. The good looking model and the cute boy became good friends but is there more than that?5) On a SlaveKind and good hearted Kei could never ditch a friend in distress, that's his greatest virtue but also his Achilles' heel.6) Just Us - Not scanlated7) Freetalk & Omake - Not scanlated

The continuation of Captain Tsubasa after "Road to 2002". Are they now aiming for the World Cup, Tsubasa's dream? No, Misaki has also a dream: win the golden medal in the olympics, and Tsubasa promised to help him.

From Moi-xRyu Scanlations:Every morning high-school student Nanami catches sight of this one surfer he secretly begins to admire. Incidentally, however, it is later on a certain day that they reunite in a classroom! Turns out that this one-year-older senpai, named Shuu, is in fact one who, while characteristically mature, is unsociable to the extent that hes even notorious for being someone difficult to approach. Even so, for some reason, Nanami becomes the sole person that he can smile at and laugh with, over and over again As they repeatedly spend more time together after school, by midsummer, Nanami finds himself receiving a kiss near the seaside?! And so, a story of dazzling first love ensues.

As a child Tanabe was always tagging behind Haruyama, but in high-school after he became a ping-pong ace their relationship is gradually getting worse. Who is the one tagging along for real and why is Tanabe always so quiet? A touching and yet funny story with ping-pong as its background.This volume also contains a one-shot about one very interesting hairdresser and a two-chapter story about a dentist and his fated client.

From Fantasyshrine:Kabutani is a "man-eater" who lives off human energy. One day, he becomes "in-heat" for his classmate, Kiriyama. Though he didn't believe when his kindred said, "Nothing compares to the taste of the human' you love!", he couldn't resist a "taste" of Kiriyama And once he had, he became addicted to that tantalizing taste only Kiriyama can provide. What would a hungry and ruthless Kabutani do to curb his craving!?

From acme: Dame BL is "a collection of BL oneshots written by some of the lesser-known participants in the genre (and some you may be familiar with already), with a focus on less conventional settings and characters. We're very far away from high school here, which hopefully you'll agree makes a pleasant change of pace." 1. Be Here to Love Me (KUMOTA Haruko) The relationship of a foot-fetishist and his cunning colleague. 2. Kou no Kawa (MOROZUMI Sumitomo) Set in ancient times, a village is near starvation due to a bad harvest. For some reason, the young chief takes care of a cursed man he finds lying in the river... 3. Khaa Thoong (Est Em) Can the young Thai kick-boxer rekindle the thirst for competion in a senior boxer after his devastating defeat? Column 1 (AOYAMA Toomi) Useless Side Characters Column 2 (Kashima) Obsession/Favoritism Column 3 (KUSAMA Sakae) Terror! Kappa Lake 4. Natsu no Saigo ni Yosete (UMEMATSU Machie) Two elderly men reminisce about their lives together over a bowl of peaches. 5. Locas! (OKADAYA Tetuzoh) Jean-Luc fell in love through correspondence in a chat with Al. What will occur, when he will decide to meet off-line? Is it really Al that wrote to him in chat? 6. And Robo (CHIBA Ryouko) A touching tale of robot clones... or something. 7. Shinumade BL Shindemo BL (Takeuchi Sachiko) 8. Tonari wa Nani wo Suru Hito zo (UNO Jinia) The unusual love a man has for his fan in the hot summer. 9. Soldier (Zin) A nazi sadist and a prisoner in camp. Excitement, desire, but... what about love? Attachment? Column 4 (KEVIN Komine) Column 5 (COTORINO Deathco) Eronashi BL Column 6 (PSYCHE Delico) Column 7 (YONEDA Kou) 10. Muhou no Shounen (Mochimeko) A story involving a Reckless Young Man and some scary faced gangsters. 11. Ima Doushiteru (ROTTA Ikumi) The funny relationship between a man who has a fetish for soft/chubby things and his fatty otaku-friend. 12. It Must Be (MOMOYAMA Naoko) A story about two professional cyclists and their travails.

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]

From Hochuuami:Kimi ga Koi ni Ochiru (You Fall in Love) by Takanaga Hinako starts when Mochizuki Haru has subbed in to teach and is made student advisor of the Archery club and is forced to deal with painful memories involving one of the students (Tsukasa) and the student's brother (Reiichirou).

The main character wants to be a hero, but his father is a bum that loses all of their money in gambling, but he was once the ace of the japanese team in handball. He goes to a coach and asks him to take care of his son, because he got into a debt and is running from the yakuza. The coach thinks he's an outstanding talent that has been given to him to coach, and he sends his daughter to pick him. Daigo (the main character) then ends up living with them.

In the Middle Ages, jousting was a duel between knights who put their prides on the line in an effort to take down their opponent in one sweeping blow. Even with the changing of time, jousting is still being done. In one country it has gone from "duel" to "sport" and everyone, girls as well, is encouraged to become knights and take up the sport. One girl, Celia, is no exception. It was through jousting that she met her first love, a jousting student named Takahiro in her youth. However, before she could talk with him, tragedy struck in the form of a jousting accident and he returned to his country before she could approach him. Years pass and Celia has become a strong young woman. Attending Winford Academy, she studies the art of jousting as well as how to become a knight. It is a new school year and she sees Takahiro among the new students. Will she be able to approach Takahiro this time? Will she become a knight? Only time will tell as the story unfolds.

1-2. End Love3. First Love4-5. Mata Asu Choushoku nite (See You Tomorrow)6. Takao Mitsuru no Nyuuinki (Takao Mitsuru's Hospital Record)

This spring, Tokyo TV's newly employed announcer Fukuro was given the task to gather information & do a close report on the infamous hunk of the professional baseball world; Shiratori Reiichi. Given this important opportunity Fukuro is determined to do his best! However, the following morning he wakes up to a stark naked Shiratori sleeping beside him, trouble ensues!The demanding and selfish Shiratori with the hard working and Timid Fukuro! Watch as their love story unfolds.

Iseya Shou is the captain of the kendo club which is about to be shut down due to insufficient members. How far could he go to recruit additional members? Enters the charismatic student council president, Yagami Keishi. How does the manipulative strategist finally capture his guileless target?

summary by Divine SanctuaryAsahi is a 7th grade student who's very bad at sports. She joined the volleyball club when she entered junior high school, only to quit it one month later because she couldn't keep up with practice. Feeling discouraged from all kinds of sports, Asahi was reluctent to join the badminton club, will she just be the laughing stock of the class again, or will she find some new hidden talent? Read on to find out!

Misono who falls in love with a handsome "boy" one day as she was taking a break from her running. She believes that she shall never meet this "boy" ever again, but after warnings about problems with her foot, Misono decides to not run for a while and help out with the drama club. There she meets her "handsome prince" once again, but it turns out "he" is not who she thought he was...

Short Program is a collection of short stories compiled 4 volumes. The stories are all unrelated and vary in length and genre, from Shonen, Shojo, Seinen, and Josei. Many of the stories were previously published as one-shots in various manga magazines, the earliest being from 1978.Release Dates:Short Program Vol.1 - November 1988Short Program Vol.2: -June 1996Short Program Vol.3: - July 2007Short Program: Girl's Type - May 2009

[Summary By: Love_Blossom]Wakatsuki Ran is a swimming prodigy. Every girl adores him but the only thing he loves is swimming.Ageha bumps into Ran, one day, and she tells him that he is just an obsessed swimmer. But when he shows her how good he is, she gapes at him and asks, "Please teach me how to swim!"Ran finally agrees and the swimming romance begins.

All Miki Koishikawa wanted was an ordinary family and that's exactly what she had until her parents decided to move in with another couple and turned Miki's world upside down. Now she lives in a house with four parents and her totally cute stepbrother Yuu. It's bad enough being brought into her parents' strange soap opera, but Miki will star in a soap of her own as she deals with friends having affairs, trying to survive in school and ending up torn between her long-time crush, Ginta, and her new stepbrother!

It is the 23rd century, an age of science and technology, where sex is no longer required to reproduce.However, humanity has not forgotten sex!Sex has evolved to become a form of martial arts, and those who practice it are known throughout the world as BattleSexers!

Ryoma Echizen just joined the Seishun Academy's tennis team, which is known for being one of the most competitive teams in Japan. Its members are incredibly talented, gifted, and athletic. With rigorous and extremely intense practices, the upperclassmen of the team expect the very best from themselves and they expect even more from the new members of the team. While most of the freshmen are on pins and needles hoping they won't get cut from the team, Ryoma Echizen is confident, cool, and collected. Some might even say he's cocky, but at least he's got the skills to back up his attitude. With his virtually unreturnable "twist serve," Ryoma is sure to make the starting team. Join Ryoma and the other first years, as they train hard, make friends, and try to find a place for themselves on the team. Ryoma Echizen is the Prince of Tennis. He may be ready for the Seishun Academy tennis team, but are THEY ready for HIM? By the way, the Tennis skills in this series is completely beyond normal human standards and includes but is not limited to burning holes in your opponents rackets, striking your opponent so hard he flies several dozen meters, travelling in a spiral in mid air and even shutting down your opponents senses so that they cannot see, hear or feel (somehow) and therefore, has been put under the "Fantasy" genre. NOTE: It has been announced that these 379 chapters serve as a prologue to a new series currently in the works. See "Shin Tennis no Oujisama" for continuation. ANOTHER NOTE: Also, there is a short collection of 4 panel comics under the name of "Houkago no Oujisama", or "Prince of Afterschool" featuring characters and inside jokes from this manga.

17 year old exemplary student Bae Sugu lives alone with his father, the vice principal of his school. Weighed down by his father's expectations, Sugu has to hide his one true passion: swimsuits. He does not know where it comes from, but his passion is pure and genuine - and often misunderstood. But one day, when Sugu is secretly taking pictures of swimsuits by the pool, he is caught by his homeroom teacher who forces him into something ridiculous. Can Sugu find something to get out of the standstill his life has come to? Can his heart beat again? Webtoon from Naver

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

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 schooler, but don't be fooled - despite the fact of being all-freshman brand new team in a brand new high school, those guys made it to the best 4 of Chiba Prefecture last year! Their newest recruit is an almost 2m high guy, who is surprisingly bad at headings (despite having a height advantage). Fortunately the chibi-captain notices his potential as an attacking midfielder... How far can this team possibly go in this year's tournament? (From:MyAnimelist.net)

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

Ji Eun, a young woman who writes fairy tales, goes to a friend's wedding in Guam. There she discovers the underwater world by accident and decides to become a diver to explore it. She meets a new world, people who love the sea, new creatures, and even finds love!

From Mangashare.comOur Hero is aspiring to be a basketball player since his childhood. Although being short, Haruyoshi joins the basketball club in his school, but always was just the 'errand boy' for the rest. Running... into a girl changes his destiny. She, being the clubs manager, investigates a scouting note which leads her back to him after their first encounter. Will she turn Haruyoshi into a great basketball player?From SCX-ScansHaruyoshi, who has always been stuck as a benchwarmer, plans to start fresh at his new school. Luckily, Haruyoshi runs, literally, into the basketball club manager, Hadzuki, who sees potential in him. However, things won't be a smooth sailing from there...

From Tenshi-Tachi:Tsukasa Miyu's life revolved around only one thing--swimming. She gets admitted to Tenkai Academy on a swimming scholarship. However, before the start of high school, she encounters Suzuki Aoi and gets drawn into a world that doesn't involve just swimming anymore...

A collection of seven short stories and a collection of color pages from Rokudenashi Blues from Morita Masanori's career.- Suberu o Itowazu (Setting Up to Fail)A story of two stand-up comedians preparing to participate in a school festival.- Bachi-Atari RockThe pilot oneshot that would eventually lead to the creation of the one volume series under the same name, Bachi-Atari Rock.- Let's Spend The Night TogetherThe story of Tatsumi Shindo, a wrestler coming from a Yakuza family. While he has no interest of having the life of a Yakuza, Tatsumi is stuck having his matches watch by his father and the rest of the yakuza and scaring his opponents. He hopes to be able to prove himself as a strong wrestler and not someone whose family intimidates the opponent.- Jumpin' Jack Flash- Synchronicity- Mysterious Kid- Stay Here

Miyuki Umino was a senior in high-school. Although Miyuki, her two younger brothers and her younger sister were poor, they were happy living together. But, one day all of a sudden her older brother's debt of 250 million yen fell upon them. To pay back the debt Miyuki quit school. What was the incredible choice she took to do this?

From For The Halibut:The Otohime Private All-Girls High School is a very prestigious school and full of pretty girls. However, there is one male student attending the school, the director's son Ouji. Ouji is a creepy pervert who can get away with anything because his father doesn't punish him. He's got video cameras all over the school to get footage of his classmates naked or near-naked and constantly sneaks around with cameras to get photos of them. The school is his paradise.All this will change in the coming year, though. His father has decided to make the school co-ed, but with only baseball players so that they can aim for winning the National High School Baseball Championship at Koshien Stadium. In preparation for this grand dream, the director insists that the girls of the school establish a cheerleading squad. Seeing his glorious world collapsing around him, Ouji latches on to the most hopeful thing he can find: the cheerleading squad. Now he and the reluctant student council president, Itsuki, are going to recruit members and try to get this team going!

From ryColaa:Our hero who doesn't know how to swim joins his school swimming club and begins to learn from their star swimmer who loves swimming more than anything. Good thing she's cute and nice to boot!

Leesu came from a poor family but he didn't mind at all not having any money or status. Being the school's strongest fighter made him feel as if he was on top of the world in his eyes. But alas, a car accident made him lose what was most precious to him; His ability to fight! Crarving for his past glorious days he turns to fencing with the hope to regain what he once had

From Yen Press: Poor, in debt, and living on instant noodles, high school kendo instructor Kojiro makes a bet with an old friend on a practice meet between the all-girls' teams of their respective schools. The prize: a year's worth of free sushi! It's too good for the desperate Kojiro to pass up! But with only one active member on the kendo team, Korjio must move quickly to put together a squad before the meet. He's got his eye on Tamaki, the daughter of a kendo master and a skilled swordswoman herself. The only trouble isshe's not interested. Kojiro's willing to try anything, but what will it take to win her over?

Toshihiko Tanaka is a boy who entered Kakegawa High School with his friends Kenji & Kazuhiro, in order to play soccer with Yoshiharu Kubo, a great soccer player whom they have idolized. While his other two friends were reluctant to play again, "Toshi" eventually convinces them to play for the team. The team soon find themselves in the midst of a quest to the All-Japan High School Championship, while overcoming obstacles along the way.