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In Teirin High School, you are either part of a gang or an elite sports player. Sousuke Youki, called 'the predator,' is an undefeated master at fighting. One morning, as he finishes up a fight, Kazumi, a prodigy amateur golf player, took a look at Sousuke, ignored him, and walked right by. Infuriated, Sousuke sets out to get revenge on Kazumi for dissing him but Sousuke's revenge takes a detour as he gets himself involved in playing golf by the thuggish golf coach. Will this delinquent break legends and become "the King of Golf"? King Golf also won the 56th Shogakukan Manga Award in January 2011 in the boys category.

It's about a girl, often called as Zawa (short for her surname, Miyakozawa), in a high-school baseball team. She's talented, but being a girl, she doesn't get to participate in any official matches, and yet she trains just as hard as the rest of the team anyway, just for her own personal satisfaction. Nominated for the 3rd Manga Taisho Award (2010).

A spin-off of the manga Akagi depicting Washizu Iwao in the pre- and early post-war period.

There lives a man who has lost his memory and can’t remember where he’s from, and who he is, including his name. He just goes by the name Matsumoto and the one and only thing he remembers is how to play soccer. However, the one thing he does remember, he does exceptionally well, even better than the professionals. He sells his ridiculous soccer skills to teams and guarantees them goals and, even more important, wins. As he travels from city to city, country to country playing for money, he hopes that he regains his memory.

The story revolves around a 202-pound, 18-year old girl named Okome Akino (whose name is a pun of \"autumn rice\"). After Okome enters a sumo match and wins against a male amateur fighter by a landslide, a trainer named Akane scouts her, and she enters the world of women\'s boxing.

In Giant Killing a ragtag bunch from East Tokyo are struggling in Japan's top football league. The team is going through an abysmal spell right now where they are nearing the bottom of the table and have lost five matches in a row. Losing hasn't done much to team morale, because it was already at a low. Fan support, on the other hand, is also looking bleak. In the world of football, once the fans turn on a team, the end is near. The team doesn't recover, coaches are fired, players are sold, and the team drops to lower divisions. In a situation where profits often prevent them from ever being successful again against even the mediocre top division programs... ETU, East Tokyo United, has only their coach to blame. ETU hires a new coach that once played in ETU. This coach wishes to prove to his ex-players and fans that even against the biggest clubs in the nation, he can make the team win. In 2010, this manga received the 34th Annual Kodansha Manga Award for General Manga.

The climax of the Baki series, \"Hanma Baki\", newly re-edited! Hanma Yuujirou, the world\'s strongest creature, vs. Hanma Baki, the world\'s strongest high schooler... A spat between father and son on an unprecedented scale begins here!

Miyanaga Saki is a high school freshman who doesn’t like mahjong. Ever since she was a child, she would lose her New Year’s gift money during her family mahjong game. If she won, her parents would be upset, and if she lost, well, she lost. As a result, she’s learned to play in such a way that her score always remains plus/minus zero: not good enough to win, but not bad enough to lose. When we meet her, she’s being dragged to her school’s mahjong club by an old friend. How will a girl who hates mahjong, yet has become adept at the game as a result of her upbringing, survive in this environment?

Believing himself to be useless at football, Aizawa Kakeru opts to become the manager of his school's football team, while his brother Suguru is its ace, and is even good enough to represent Japan. However, Kakeru may be harbouring a strong talent within himself that only Suguru can see, and the two often get into arguments over Kakeru's denial of his skills. Things are made more complicated with the return of Seven, an old playmate of theirs that Kakeru has a crush on. Join the brothers in their journey to the national and even international championships! -----from ANN

The climax of the Baki series, \"Hanma Baki\", newly re-edited! Hanma Yuujirou, the world\'s strongest creature, vs. Hanma Baki, the world\'s strongest high schooler... A spat between father and son on an unprecedented scale begins here!

The sequel series to \"Kinnikuman ii sei\". A new threat appears to defeat the Legends, known only as the \'Time Chojin\'. These mysterious villains travel through time, in their quest to eradicate the Justice Chojin. If their plan succeeds, they will erase the New Generation from history and usher in a new era of evil domination over the humans. The New Generation must travel through time to stop the Time Chojin. In the process, they earn the distrust of the Legends. The ensuing conflict triggers the start of the \'Ultimate Chojin Tag Tournament\', which will pit Legends against New Generation, and Justice Chojin vs Evil Chojin. The winners will determine the future of the planet as we know it and reign supreme over Earth.

From Endless Abyss: Hatogaya, a man who used to love base ball and gave up on it, gets set up to take the fall for his company and gets sent to prison. a high school principal and his former coach, who's school is about to lose its baseball program bails hatogaya out, but in exchange for getting him out of jail he has to coach the schools not so great baseball team.