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Cross Game is a moving drama that is heartfelt and true, yet in the brilliant hands of manga artist Mitsuru Adachi, delightfully flows with a light and amusing touch. The series centers around a boy named Ko, the family of four sisters who live down the street and the game of baseball. This poignant coming-of-age story will change your perception of what shonen manga can be. (Source: VIZ Media)
Volume 1: 1. Kinkyou 2. Kousaten mae 3. Short Program 4. Take off 5. Change 6. Plus one 7. Murasaki 8. Nani ga nandaka Volume 2: 1. Haru ga Kuru Mae ni... 2. Wakaba Maaku (Subject - Wakaba) 3. Tochuugesha 4. 5×4P 5. Shindo Yon 6. Eesu o Tsubuse! 7. Spring Call 8. Yuku Haru 9. Kaeri Michi 10. Sayonara Game Volume 3: 1. Clogs and Diamond 2. Where the Wind Blows 3. Angel's Hammer 4. Memory Off (part1) 5. Memory Off (part2) 6. White Summer / Shiroi Natsu Follow the friendship of Tetsu and Gorou from the Koushien to adulthood. 7. Square Ocean 8. Idol A 1 9. Idol A 2 10. Idol A 3 Idol Ace is a Japanese short manga written by Mitsuru Adachi about a high school girl who wishes to play on the high school baseball team, but can not due to the rules. Fortunately, her father is the team's coach, and her best friend happens to look very much like her, so she is able to do a swap with him during games and meet her dream. (Source: Wikipedia) 11. Running God 12. Short Mail
Five intimate magical-realist tales from manga legend Rumiko Takahashi! A supernatural mirror compels a teenager to draw out and destroy the evil lurking within others. But will his duty destroy him? A has-been manga creator acquires the power to curse his competition. Is it worth it? A pet cat possesses a human—warning, side effects may include partial transmogrification... And more! Plus, a rare behind-the-scenes autobiographical story about Takahashi’s lifelong love affair with manga (and friendship with manga creator Mitsuru Adachi)! (Source: VIZ Media)
Play Ball! A collection of shorts from the hand of the legendary mangaka, Mitsuru Adachi, previously found in the pages of Superior, Spirits and Sunday...each focusing on a common theme--high school baseball. This book also features a rare appearance from a super-short last seen in the 80's era Shonen Sunday Graphic Touch! (Source: Denpa) 1. **Relief** (コリーフ, Relief) 2. **Yuugengaisha Adachi Pro** (有限会社あだちプロ, Adachi, Pro Ltd.) 3. **Dou-Kyou-Sei** (同球生, Team Reunion) 4. **Meitantei Go Page** (名探偵ゴーページ, Detective Fivepages) 5. **Full Count** (フルカウント, Full Count) 6. **Tori no Ichi** (とりの市, Squawks the Parrot) 7. **Asaoka Koukou Yakyuubu Nisshi: Over Fence** (浅丘高校野球部日誌 オーバーフェンス, Over the Fence: Asoaka High School Baseball Club Diary) 8. **Gag Touch** (ギャグタッチ, Touch: Gag Edition) 9. **Yuku Toshi Kuru Toshi** (ゆく年くる年, Years Come and Go) 10. **Ame Ni Mo Make Zu** (雨にも負けズ, No Rainouts) 11. **Yonpeji no Mirai** (ヨンペイジの未来, Four-Page Future)
Minori is the manager of her high school's baseball club, which has been defunct up until five years ago. Even now, it's a little rough, since there currently are no seniors in the club at all! None of the second year players know why the club closed so many years ago, or about the baseball history all their fathers share... (Source: MangaHelpers)
Hirahira-kun is a boy that likes helping the most weak, and for that he uses his creativity to think up plans to defeat his corrupted senpais and so to maintain the entirety of his colleagues of class.
Hiro has two loves: baseball and porn. But due to an elbow injury he gives up baseball choosing a school with no baseball team. His childhood friend Hikari attends a different school with baseball ace Hideo and the two wish Hiro had not given up baseball. Hiro joins the soccer team but meets Haruka, a very clumsy girl, who is manager of the unofficial baseball club. When the soccer team challenges the baseball club to a game, with hopes of humiliating them, the baseball club nearly loses until Hiro, disgusted by the soccer team`s arrogance, switches to the baseball club.
The story centers around three characters - Uesugi Kazuya, his twin older brother Tatsuya, and Asakura Minami. Kazuya is the darling of his town as he's talented, hardworking, and the ace pitcher for his middle school baseball team. Tatsuya is a hopeless slacker who's been living the life of giving up the spotlight to Kazuya, despite the fact that he may be more gifted than him. Minami is the beautiful childhood girlfriend and for all intents, sister from next door who treats both of them as equals. Society largely assumes Kazuya and Minami will become the perfect couple, including Tatsuya. Yet as time progresses, Tatsuya grows to realize that he's willing to sacrifice anything for the sake of his brother, except at the expense of giving up Minami to Kazuya. And thus the story is told of Tatsuya trying to prove himself over his established younger brother, how it affects the relationship between the three, and both brothers' attempts to make Minami's lifelong dreams come true.
Yamato Keisuke, a promising freestyle swimmer, and Ninomiya Ami, a talented diver, are the offspring of two rival families owners of confectionery shops. Two generations ago, Grandfather Ninomiya came up with an idea for an owl-shaped cake, but Grandfather Yamato quickly raised to the challenge and thought of a similar cake--but in Yamato's the owl had ears. Because they're priced the same, Yamato's extra ears were crucial, and that made the business of the Ninomiya confectionery suffered. Grandfather Ninomiya then fell ill worrying about his shop. Before his death, his last words were "I was killed by the Yamatos", and since that moment the two families have been sworn rivals.
Satoyama Katsuki and his best friend Kawakami Kyouta, both age 15, enrolls in Mizutani Boxing Gym to get close to their tomboyish crush, Mizutani Katsuki, whose father owns it. However, Satoyama soon finds out that she is distant from her father. Worse, it turns out that she hates boxing. In a sparring match, everyone including Mizutani soon discovers Satoyama's hidden yet unpolished skill in boxing. Satoyama soon learns that Mizutani is really in love with boxing, but disdains it because its a man's sport of which she cannot join. Mizutani then takes it upon herself to be Satoyama's trainer/manager to reach the championship belt. Satoyama complies to be closer to his crush. As the story progresses, we soon find out that Satoyama has a hidden past and lineage, one that would give him the necessary skill and talent to be a legendary oriental pro-boxing champion. (Source: Wikipedia)
The story is set in a place very similar in appearance to Earth in the Edo period. However, Adachi (the mangaka) regularly reminds the reader all throughout the series that the setting is another planet in the distant future which just happens to look like Earth. After the death of his mother, Shichimi sets out to join his step-brothers and -sister who live together in Karakuri Tenement, a place provided by the father they have never met. He finds out that each of them had different mothers (all of whom have died), but were fathered by the same man. Not long after Shichimi's arrival, the siblings decide to journey to visit the graves of each of their mothers. On this journey, they encounter many dangers. (Source: Wikipedia)
