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Aiming for unity of man and hawk! Living with a goshawk "master", hunting and tasting the prey. A four-panel essay on falconry that teaches the traditions of falconry and nature.Its partner falcon "Donko", his hound Mira and a variety of wild birds! Meet lots of animals!

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.

Ako Doumoto's an everyday gal, she likes shopping and has no big aspirations since her exams are a ways away. That all changes when she meets Katayose-sensei, a teacher and coach of the boys basketball team at Ako's school. Head over heels, she chops off her hair and decides to become the manager of the basketball club in order to win his heart.Will he open to her will or is her close friend Taiji more for her?

Taken from ANN:Aozora Yell centers on Tsubasa, a girl who saw an inspirational brass band performance at the finals of the Japanese high school baseball championships one summer. Tsubasa vows to join the band when she enters high school, and she happens to meet a certain boy there.New Series from the mangaka of Koukou Debut

Prequel to the Gundam Build Fighters TV anime, covering how Yuuki Tatsuya got into Gunpla Battle.

Walkure Romanze's story revolves around Takahiro Mizuno, a student studying at an academy with jousting as its main focus for sport. Takahiro acts as an advisor to the riders of the sport. Takahiro goes through each day tediously until the time of the annual competition draws near. Due to some odd circumstances, his childhood friend Mio Kisaki is enrolled into the competition. As she has never even rode a horse once in her life, Takahiro senses the fear in his friend and becomes Mio's coach.--------------From MangaHelpers:This manga is based on the adult visual novel of the same name. The characters all go to a school that revolves around the sport of jousting. The main character, Mizuno Takahiro, was once a skilled jouster, but he is now out of the sport due to an injury. Each knight still needs an advisor, however, and many of the cute female knights are asking Takahiro to join them for the upcoming annual school competition. However, before he decides who to advise, a series of events ends up throwing his close friend Kisaki Mio into competition jousting. Mio has never jousted before, and can't even ride a horse, so Takahiro decides he really needs to be her advisor. Will Takahiro be able to get Mio shaped up into a skilled knight in time for her jousting? [tethysdust]

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.

Ichijou Murasaki is a girl with dreams of entering the world of interpretative dance - but she knows she hasn't got the charisma, the fitness, or the commitment to do it. Watching on the sidelines, she eyes her classmate, the naturally brilliant Sumire Sora with envy until a chance encounter with dancing prodigy (and absolute complete weirdo) Shounosuke makes her finally get the resolve needed to dance out her dreams! Fuelled by grudges, anger, and pure energy, Murasaki will dance!!

The popular cross-media content "Uma Musume Pretty Derby" features "Uma Musume" who have inherited the names and souls of numerous racehorses! A new legend begins with the indomitable horse girl "Sakura Laurel" as the main character.---- (https://shonenjumpplus.com/episode/4856001361118480104)

Akane Tachibana is a freshman high school student who, despite his talent for basketball, decides to abandon sports clubs due to the pressure put on him by them. Once he arrives at Kouzu High, however, he meets the only other basketball player who has ever caught his eye on the courts and decides to join the team. The first match of the season is an exhibition game against the league's strongest team, Hyamazakithe team that Hiiragi's father coaches and in which his older brother plays for. Hiiragi ends up playing in the second half of the game, and they seem to not be working well together on the court, losing the game, until unintentionally one of the senior players on the team challenges them to beat him. They join forces, inspiring the team to victory. Thus starts the story of a group of teenagers working to reach the top, fighting tooth and nail the entire way.

Akira always recklessly runs head-first at any problem. Having just transferred into Nanjou High's part-time evening classes, he picks a fight with the full-time students' baseball club, a favorite for Koushien who are monopolizing the playing grounds. In order to challenge the full-time baseball club on equal footing, Akira will aim for Jinguu, the home of "the other Koushien" for part-time high school students!Volume 2 includes the oneshots Inochi no Mound and Mou Hitotsu no Koushien.

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From MangaHelpers:Second baseman Kaizu Chiaki is a normal senior high schooler who aims to reach the Koshien with his teammates and worries about his future career. One day, a new teacher arrives at his school. Her name is Takamine Touko. Crossing the boundaries between teacher and student, Chiaki and Touko find themselves gradually attracted to each other. [DrCoke]

The series starring one of illegitimate children of Kiryu Miyazawa, Ryuusei Nakamura. Years after Kiibo founded the new dojo, both him and Kiryu mysteriously disappeared. Ryuusei, after losing his mother to cancer, is set to find out about his birth father and his destiny as the evil dragon's heir, but he is not the only one.

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?

The story about the living legend of Fighting Games, Daigo Umehara is now in comic form!The year is 1996. Shinya Oonuki is another gifted gamer living in the same era as Umehara. This man encounters the glamor of fighting games which leads him towards the path of obsession. This story covers the raging battles between Umehara and Nuki, two players who have carved their names into the history of fighting games!

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"My name is Gen Kurosu, and as long as I stand, the Victory Flag will never fly over the heads of the Red Army! The machines roar and blood sprays! My name is Gen Kurosu!"Motocross is a sport in which contestants race for fame on steel horses through rugged, rough terrain. The essence of motocross is the struggle against the harsh nature and oneself. This is the story of a lone warrior who, despite being called "Stupid Don Quixote," stands in the way of the "Red Army," the most powerful motocross team in Japan, which has achieved an undefeated record of 150 victories in a single year. This is the memorable first serial publication of manga master Tetsuo Hara!

From MegKF: Despite repeated rejections, Shinatsu fell in love at first sight with the most popular boy in school, Yoshiyuki-sempai (a member of the tennis club). After unhesitatingly joining the team, she gets rejected by her sempai. On top of that, she is bullied by his girlfriend. However, as her childhood friend Iku, says, "Things that are too easy to obtain aren't amusing at all." Right?

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.Read Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Jan - Tsubamegaeshi-hen on mangabuddy+

Rambunctious high school student Hayate is the lone girl in an all-boys soccer club. One day, honors student Yuuto suddenly asks her out, starting a cute opposites-attract romance.

Story about Makoto Osawa, a university student on the regatta (rowing) team. He and his friend have dominated the intercollegiate competition for the double scull. Along with his friend's girlfriend (and team manager) Misao , the team has dreams of participating in an Olympic competition. But his friend's death in a racing accident leaves Makoto broken up, and he has to deal with pulling himself together as well as facing the trials of love and friendship.

A collection of short stories: Boketsu Taikutsu na Tsuki Johnny kara no Dengon Round Girl Nade-shiko Chinpa Jinsei Kaya no Soto (Kari)

Hungry for a teacher and student relationship? Nope, it's not about love or romance. It's all about sport! Find out what happens if both the teacher and student, who have nothing in common and hate each other in the beginning, are connected with hockey as their life.(Source: Doko Demo Doa Manga Scanlations)

Sakuraba Taiko has been into ballet since she was a kid. Her mother also used to dance, although she gave it up to take a more traditional life path. Therefore, she was eagerly supportive of Taiko's interest in ballet. Taiko's life was staggered by the death of her mother in a car accident, but she has continued to dance, although her heart is no longer in it. Her remaining family and childhood friends support her as she chases her dream to become a famous dancer.Her latest role is in the ballet "Giselle" as Myrta, the queen of the Wilis, spirits of young, virginal women who died before their wedding day. One day when she comes to the studio, she meets a beautiful, famous male ballet dancer, Mikami Akira, and she instantly crushes on him. Will she be able to dance well enough in her role to impress him and live up to the expectations of the whole ballet group? Will she be able to sort out her own feelings towards ballet and her mother's death?

Diamond Cutter is a shonen action epic, half giant robots, half ninjitsu dodgeball! It's officially published on planetlandcomics.com, where you can read the whole series up to date! Read Left to Right. Contact Planet Land Comics if you're interested in translating Diamond Cutter.

(from ebookjapan):Joining the Rhythmic Gymnastics Club, a fateful encounter ensues! Hikaru Kamijo transfers to Aika Junior High School, where he fatefully meets the next Rhythmic Gymnastics Queen, Hazuki Shiina, and the Gymnastics Club's Hope, Takaaki Oishi!In the midst of a crowd of top athletes, Hikaru faces an athlete selection test to compete in a national junior high school competition....This is the first volume of the rhythmic gymnastics manga that was a big hit in Weekly Margaret in the 80's, depicting the agony and love of an athlete with a flexible brush stroke!

Japan has entered a new era called "Reiwa", after moving past the Hesei Era on April 30th 2019. It is in this era, past the time of people like the legendary Akagi Shigeru and others like him who gambled on mahjong for a living, that a new gambler has arisen known only as "Yami-ma no Mamiya", which in English might translate to "Mamiya of Mahjong's Darkness".

A manga part of the Uma Musume Project by Cygames, a game and an anime. It follows Special Week, an aspiring horsegirl athlete-idol, as she transfers in to the Traincent Academy to follow her dreams.

An official *Inazuma Eleven* spin-off manga focusing on the casual daily life of Gouenji Shuuya, known as the "Flame Ace Striker" and shows what the cool collected Gouenji is thinking about.

Noboru Takizawa is your normal student. However upon being transferred to a new school the first thing that happens is that he steps on a land mine! From that point on, he fights against the hall monitor and gets past him. In the turmoil of it all, he meets the lovely Yukari and befriends her. Later on, he meets Ibuki, who later becomes his rival to win Yukari's heart.It turns out that the school Takizawa has transferred to is trying to tyrannize the students of the class he's entered. It is now his job to try and help them out and keep their class! He does this by trying his best in showing the class has potential in a sports festival at the school. Meanwhile in the background, Takizawa's father is setting the teacher's straight and making them stop their evil ways.The basic plot is that Takizawa transfers to schools where the teachers have messed up methods to deal with students, or schools where there are obscure and crazy rules. His father accompanies him and pretends to be one of the teachers to try and sneak up on the evil or corrupt teachers and end their tyranny.

In the Future Century (F.C.), humans have ruined the Earth. Much of mankind has abandoned Earth for space colonies, with each country on Earth having a corresponding space colony. Instead of having wars, a "Gundam Fight" is held every four years, where a representative will pilot a Mobile Fighter and compete with other Gundams until only one is left. The winning country is allowed to rule the Earth for four years until the next Gundam Fight.

From JShoujo Scans:When Ageha was younger, she watched a tennis game and was affected by a passionate young tennis player. Years later she was determined to become the number one tennis player and to join the tennis club in her new high school.

Silpheed is a horse born on a small horse ranch. Even though he is named for a fairie wind he must overcome the handicap of having been born with tendinitis of the leg, and the loss of his mother in his birth. Hayao, the young boy who loves horses, is determined to see Silpheed grow up healthy and become a top racer like his mother once was - with him as the jockey, even when Hayao's dad does not allow him to be so. However, the odds are stacked against the orphaned foal and the young boy.This story is not only about racing - and it is recommended to all manga fans out there

How strong are you? In this manga, the hero is an idiotic little boy who has a frightening style of fighting. But he isn't the only fighting monster. Sumeragi Sen will discover people that are stronger than him, and maybe even the limits of his strength.

In this remote seaside town, different people meet with their own confusions and misgivings. In the face of the deep blue sea, everyone can find their own answers. The Deep Blue journey of scuba diving and ordinary youth begins!

It's a story about an impulsive yet conscientious policewoman who got the talent on car racing and depending on which enables her to catch lots of criminials of the city. It's a story about a police couple acting against each other at first and fall in love with each other in the end. It's a story about speed and furious...

Easy victory even real opponents would fight!!Remember the arms of "evil" gather " the strongest army in the prefecture" and thus begins the story of the Lanshan High School soccer's miracle...Reclaim the heart's spirit!! Great high school soccer novel!!

Ash gets invited to participate in the World Champion Tournament that Cynthia mentioned back in DP, but he has a lot of work ahead if he hopes to make it to the top!Old friends, rivals, and enemies from Kanto all the way into Alola appear in this doujin created by Akiko in this story of the Pokemon anime 5 years later into the future.We hope you all enjoy another adventure following Ash and Pikachu in the fantastic world of POKEMON!Author's Pixiv: https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/6232128Author's Twitter: https://twitter.com/pikasato_akiko

Due to family circumstances, a boy Gouhara Youhei has to transfer from a powerhouse school to a remote island with a memberless baseball club.There he meets Kaneko Rui, a boy who has been hurt by baseball.Even though he's hurting, if he can take the hand extended to him, he'll still have the strength to chase his dreams once more...!!On this remote island, the boys will clash with each other, but will slowly become comrades.High School boys X Baseball X Coming-of-age drama, start!-- Translated from Comic-Brise

Ignacio DaSilva is a world famous Brazilian karate expert turned soccer player who has been making headlines. His giant body and unusual speed has made him the number one player in the world by far. During his post game interview, he stated that there was someone with more talent than him and that he was coming back from Brazil any time soon. This left the media in a frenzy to find who this player was that was better than the great Ignacio.Kensho is the son of a karate master who grew up with his next door neighbor, Satsuka, who was the daughter of a soccer coach. As fate may have it, Kensho became a great soccer player and moved to Brazil for 3 years while Satsuka stayed in Japan and became the scholastic champion in her division. Kensho comes back to Japan and attends the same high school as Satsuka. Little does the world know about the tornado that was about to hit the soccer community with the return of Kensho.

Amidst the surging popularity of women's professional baseball, Narin, a retired player who once poured her youth into the sport only to face failure in realizing her dream, emerges as a promising talent. However, her career in baseball ends prematurely. One day, a chance to begin anew unexpectedly comes knocking at her door...

Everyone wants a fresh start in high school and that applies ten fold for Toujima Asahi. She hopes that she can create a new image of coolness at Futatsuzaka High School; a school that used to be all girls until recently, which explains the female population being 5 times that of the male and the extracurricular activities being female oriented. Change isnt as easy as Asahi thought and she is introduced to Maharu, a strong minded girl, and to Naginata, a sport similar to kendo. Asahi realizes that Naginata is what she needs in order to become a new person, as the sport allows those who are not the most athletical to shine even on a national level.

A single encounter with a card will take you to the skies!The Card Game that Soars through the Skies, this is Vanguard's New series, 'SkyRide'!

Kakeru, a former elite runner at high school, is chased for stealing food. He is saved by a Kansei University student Haiji, who is also a runner. Haiji persuades Kakeru to live in the old apartment 'Chikuseisou' where he plans to team up with fellow residents to enter Hakone Ekiden Marathon, one of the most prominent university races in Japan. Kakeru soon finds out that all of the residents except for Haiji and himself are complete novices.

Kiriya Rinji, an online mahjong player, neglected his life in order to become good at it, which ended in his wife divorcing him. In order to pay the child support for his daughter, Koume, he goes to the seedy Kabukichou district and starts playing east-only games. Barely surviving thanks to his online experience, he decides to adjust his playing style for real mahjong. At that time, his ex-wife, Hanako, suddenly collapses and Rinji has to take care of his daughter Koume. Not being able to pay for the living expenses he decides to feed himself and his daughter with mahjong. However, Hanako's colleague from work, Arino, confronts Rinji telling him he proposed to Hanako and asking if his mahjong is strong enough to feed and protect a family. Arino challenged Rinji in a mahjong match for the right of protecting Hanako and Koume, with two mahjong pros, Gouno and Hira, participating. It became an intense match with Gouno and Hira betting their pride, Arino thinking of a family life with Hanako, and similar motives clashing, however, Rinji proved his determination and ability to take care of his family and was the overall winner of the night.

Translated Official description:During elementary school, it was competitive karuta that Arata, Chihaya, and Taichi were tied together with a strong bondthe new trio. Arata went to a different middle school returning to Fukui, while Taichi attended a prestigious school that's hard to get into. Even when they're all scattered apart, Chihaya continues playing karuta alone. However, Taichi said he "stopped playing karuta".Delicately swaying, a fully spirited middle schooler Chihaya and the others presents a new spinoff comic!MangaUpdates Description:"If we continue karuta, we'll definitely meet again." With that promise to the distant Arata in their hearts, Chihaya and Taichi enter middle school. Chihaya tries to find friends to play karuta with her, but her effort is fruitless. Taichi realizes his limits at Kaimeisei Middle School, where only prodigies gather, and loses his fervour for karuta. The distance between Chihaya and Taichi slowly grows...Important Note: The manga-ka (Artist) of this spinoff series, is credited as TOODA Oto on MangaUpdates, but credited as Onda Oto on CDJapan.The artists's Twitter: @10da010: https://twitter.com/@10da010